US10720821B2
A direct drive rotary generator formed of an elongate cylindrical series of stator annuli and a coaxial elongate cylindrical series of armature annuli and mounted for relative rotational movement around their common axis, the series of stator annuli interleaving the series of armature annuli, and either of the armature/stator annuli having a contiguous or substantially contiguous sequence of coils around its circumference, and the other of the armature/stator annuli having a corresponding sequence of permanent magnets of alternating polarity spaced around its circumference and at the same pitch as that of the coils, the arrangement being such that lines of magnetic flux passing across the air gap between one magnet carrying annulus to the next cut the turns of the coils of the corresponding interleaved coil carrying annulus, and thus induce in the coils electromagnetic forces as the armature is caused to rotate relative to the stator.
US10720816B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing a laminated core for stably fixing a thin core piece while suppressing reduction in production efficiency, and an inner core and an outer core with core pieces stably fixed. A method of manufacturing a laminated core for manufacturing an inner core 10 includes: a step A of laminating a plurality of core pieces 11 and temporarily fixing each of the core pieces to another core piece 11 to obtain a core piece group 16; a step B of fitting the core piece group 16 to a holder 17; a step C of applying an uncured curable resin P to an outer peripheral region of the core piece group 16; and a step D of curing the curable resin P applied to the core piece group 16 and fully fixing each of the core pieces 11 to another core piece 11.
US10720812B2
Provided is an electric motor assembly and method for assembling an electric motor assembly within an appliance. The electric motor assembly eliminates the use of a rigid or flexible circuit board. It also eliminates the need for soldering contacts between the electrical switches, circuit board and motor which can increase the possibility of operational failures. The electric motor assembly further provides a single power point wiring connection between the switch and motor terminals and connector port allowing the motorized device to communicate with an appliance controller. Furthermore, by positioning certain mechanical components for operating electrical switches on the baseplate of the electric motor assembly and eliminating secondary components on adjacent brackets, a reduction in the dimensional tolerance stack-up among the electrical switches can be obtained.
US10720807B2
Provided is a permanent magnet-type rotary electric machine which reduces torque ripples which are generated when powered up and cause noises and vibrations of a rotary electric machine. The rotary electric machine includes a stator having a stator winding and a rotor which is rotatably disposed to the stator and provided with a plurality of magnets. In a magnetic auxiliary salient pole formed between poles of the magnets provided in the rotor, a cogging torque is reduced and torque ripples generated when powered up are reduced by combining a magnetic cavity provided on a q axis passing through the center of the salient pole and a skewing in which a plurality of block cores are stacked and connected as a unit while deviating by a predetermined angle in a peripheral direction of the axis of the rotor.
US10720795B2
An electrical power unit is positionable at a work surface and includes an upper housing including an upper surface and a lower surface spaced below the upper surface to define an upper housing chamber. A wireless power transmitter is disposed in the upper housing chamber and is operable to convey electrical energy to a wireless power receiver positioned at or above the upper surface. A base is coupled to the upper housing and extends downwardly therefrom, the base being configured for insertion into an opening formed in the work surface or into a space defined between two adjacent work surfaces. The base is further configured to facilitate securing the electrical power unit to the work surface or the adjacent work surfaces.
US10720789B2
A wireless charging system including a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter is formed of a coil of wire that includes a first loop portion, a second loop portion, and a crossing portion. The crossing portion electrically couples the first loop portion and the second loop portion such that when current is generated in the coil, electrical current flows through the first loop portion in a different rotational direction than in the second loop portion. The receiver is formed of a ferromagnetic core and multiple (e.g., three) coils disposed about the ferromagnetic core. Each coil may be disposed about a different axis of the core such that current may be induced in at least one of the coils by a magnetic field in any direction.
US10720787B2
An apparatus and method employs a rectifier, switches, and power converter that comprises a first stage, a second stage and a direct current (DC) bus between the first and second stages, to: in a first state supply rectified DC current to the first stage and a voltage adjusted current from the second stage to a load, for example a power storage device (e.g., secondary battery, ultra-capacitor(s)) at a relatively high voltage (e.g., 48 V for traction motor), and in a second state supply DC current to the first stage from the power storage device and supply a voltage adjusted current from the second stage, for example to a lower voltage DC bus or load (e.g., 12 V). The rectifier can, for example, receive grid or mains AC power.
US10720781B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a cell protection system that may be employed in high voltage systems such as grid scale energy storage systems. In some embodiments, the advanced cell protection system includes a proactive balancing system for balancing one or more battery units of the energy storage systems. In some embodiments, the advanced cell protection system includes a switching protection system for safely connecting and disconnecting the one or more battery units of the energy storage systems to other systems. In some embodiments, the advanced cell protection system includes an isolated communication system for allowing the one or more battery units to safely communicate with each other and at least one controller of the energy storage system.
US10720777B2
A power generation system is disclosed that includes a photovoltaic (PV) array having a number of strings of PV modules switchably connected to a respective input node, an inverter comprising a plurality of inputs each coupled to each respective input node, each respective input node being coupled to a respective input of a DC-to-DC converter. An output of the DC-to-DC converter is switchably connected to an energy storage source, wherein the DC-to-DC converter charges the energy storage source with a portion of an output power of the PV array that exceeds a maximum inverter power. A controller incrementally disconnects subsets of the plurality of strings of PV modules from the respective input nodes to decrease an input current and input power to the inverter in response to an output voltage or output current of the PV array exceeding a threshold and the energy storage source being un-chargeable or unavailable.
US10720776B2
A control apparatus controls an optimizer that steps up a DC input voltage from a solar photovoltaic power generation panel to a predetermined DC high voltage and converts the stepped-up DC voltage into a grid connection voltage, and includes a microprocessor; a sensor group; and a MOS driver group. The microprocessor includes: a control logic unit; a maximum power point tracking control unit; a PWM control unit; a PFM control unit; an I/O port; a timer control unit; and an initial measurement unit. The sensor group includes a solar photovoltaic panel voltage detection circuit; a solar photovoltaic panel current detection circuit; an optimizer output voltage detection circuit; and an optimizer output current detection unit. Thus, even when the solar photovoltaic power generation panel is at a low power in a low output state, stable operation can be continued, and transistors can be protected from a surge voltage.
US10720771B2
A current/voltage control apparatus capable of following power changes in a DC system. A current/voltage control apparatus includes a central monitoring control device that controls V-I characteristics of a terminal converter based on power consumption consumed by a load facility and generated power generated by a power generation facility, and the central monitoring control device includes a load state setting unit that predicts a change range of the power consumption in a predetermined period and also predicts a change range of the generated power in the period and a V-I characteristic determination unit that determines the V-I characteristics of the terminal converter based on the change range of the power consumption and the change range of the generated power predicted by the load state setting unit.
US10720766B2
A vehicle is provided with a storage device for electrical energy that can be recharged from an external power supply and with a body which has at least one body opening that can be closed by a body flap, wherein a charging cable is provided, connected or connectable in an electrically conducting manner to the storage device and running at least partly inside the body. The body opening is a luggage-compartment opening or a door opening of the vehicle and the body flap is respectively a luggage-compartment lid or a door of the vehicle. The charging cable is formed as a flexible ribbon cable or has at least one flexible ribbon cable portion. The flexible ribbon cable or the at least one flexible ribbon cable portion can be led through a body gap present between a periphery of the body opening and the body flap. The ribbon cable or the at least one flexible ribbon cable portion has current-carrying conductors that are arranged next to one another, are designed as flat conductors of a ribbon form and are surrounded by a common, electrically insulating sleeve.
US10720763B2
A distribution panel contains a housing defining a hollow interior having a back panel with a plate configured to be mounted thereto, where the frame is either slidable relative to the back panel and has an open position and a closed position, or includes a portion of a wire-holding mechanism and is configured to be coupled to the back panel, which includes another portion of the wire-holding mechanism.
US10720762B2
A connection mechanism for connecting electronic devices to each other, includes piping connectors, on which flange portions and guide hole portions are formed, and a piping clamp, which has arm portions having a groove formed to allow the flange portions to be fitted therein and a mechanism for fastening and fixing the arm portions to each other. The connection mechanism enhances workability when an electronic device, which requires an angular adjustment about on an axis of a connection portion thereof, is fixedly connected to another electronic device.
US10720753B2
A mount connects a light emitting device, such as a laser diode assembly, to an optical bench. The mount may include a thermoelectrical module coupled to a sub-element of a heat exchanger extending through an opening formed in the optical bench. The thermoelectrical module acts as a heat sink to draw heat outwardly from the laser diode and cool the same. The heat sink enables the laser diode to transmit heat thereto such that substantially all of the heat generated by the laser diode sinks to the heat exchanger. As such, the laser diode transfers virtually no heat to the optical bench so the optical bench is free of deflections or distortions resultant from the heat generated during generation of the laser beam.
US10720748B2
In one embodiment, a laser system includes a seed laser diode configured to produce a free-space seed-laser beam and a seed-laser focusing lens configured to focus the seed-laser beam. The laser system also includes a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) that includes a front facet, a back facet, and a waveguide extending from the front facet to the back facet. The SOA is configured to: receive, at the front facet, light from the focused seed-laser beam; amplify the received light as the received light propagates along the SOA waveguide from the front facet to the back facet; and emit, from the back facet, an amplified free-space beam that includes the amplified received light. The laser system further includes a mounting platform, where one or more of the seed laser diode, the seed-laser focusing lens, and the SOA are mechanically attached to the mounting platform.
US10720747B2
A resonator is provided that includes opposing mirrors arranged substantially parallel to each other and separated to confine reflections for gain. A gain medium is between the opposing mirrors. A pump pumps the gain medium. At least one microrefractive element, or tens, hundreds, thousands, millions or more, stabilizes the resonator. The refractive element is disposed between the opposing mirrors and is configured to support a laser beam at a position of the refractive element. A method for producing laser light directs pump light onto one or a plurality of microrefractive elements. Reflections from the one or a plurality of microrefractive elements are confined in a resonator volume. Gain is provided in the resonator volume. Laser energy is emitted from the resonator volume.
US10720735B2
An interconnection system with a compliant shield between a connector and a substrate such as a PCB. The compliant shield may provide current flow paths between shields internal to the connector and ground structures of the PCB. The connector, compliant shield and PCB may be configured to provide current flow in locations relative to signal conductors that provide desirable signal integrity for signals carried by the signal conductors. In some embodiments, the current flow paths may be adjacent the signal conductors, offset in a transverse direction from an axis of a pair of conductors. Such paths may be created by tabs extending from connector shields. A compliant conductive member of the compliant shield may contact the tabs and a conductive pad on a surface of the PCB. Shadow vias, running from the surface pad to internal ground structures may be positioned adjacent the tip of the tabs.
US10720712B2
An electronically tunable metasurface whose reflective phase can be electronically reconfigured to allow effective antenna beam steering. First and second double sided substrates define an intermediate region between them containing liquid crystal in a nematic phase. A first microstrip patch array of the first substrate and a second microstrip patch array of the second substrate are aligned to form a two dimensional array of cells, Each cell comprises a microstrip patch of the first microstrip patch array arranged in spaced apart opposition to a microstrip patch of the second microstrip patch array with a volume of the liquid crystal located therebetween. Each control terminal to the microstrip patch of the second array permits a control voltage to be applied to the cell to control a dielectric value of the volume of the liquid crystal, thereby permitting a reflection phase of the cell to be selectively tuned.
US10720708B2
An antenna device includes a first dielectric substrate, a first radiator disposed on the first dielectric substrate, a second dielectric substrate disposed on the first radiator, a second radiator disposed between the first dielectric substrate and the second dielectric substrate, a main radiator, disposed on the second dielectric substrate, and a modulation structure located between a first radiation portion of the first radiator and a second radiation portion of the second radiator. The first radiation portion, the modulation structure, and the second radiation portion are located in a central area.
US10720701B2
A scanning antenna is a scanning antenna in which antenna units U are arranged, and includes a TFT substrate including a first dielectric substrate, TFTs, a plurality of gate bus lines, source bus lines, and patch electrodes; a slot substrate including a second dielectric substrate, and a slot electrode formed on a first main surface of the second dielectric substrate; a liquid crystal layer LC provided between the TFT substrate and the slot substrate; and a reflective conductive plate provided opposing a second main surface of the second dielectric substrate opposite to the first main surface via a dielectric layer. The slot electrode includes slots arranged in correspondence with the plurality of patch electrodes, and each of the patch electrodes is connected to a drain of a corresponding TFT and is supplied with a data signal from a corresponding source bus line while selected by a scanning signal supplied from the gate bus line of the corresponding TFT. The frequency at which the polarity of the voltage applied to each of the plurality of patch electrodes is inverted is greater than or equal to 300 Hz.
US10720691B2
Provided is an antenna device which is less prone to deterioration in radiation characteristics and which can be mounted in a small space. A second antenna element (13) includes a first portion (13a) and a second portion (13b). A first antenna element (12) is disposed on a first plane (P1), the first portion (13a) is disposed on a second plane (P2), and the second portion (13b) is disposed on a third plane (P3). When viewed in a direction orthogonal to the first plane (P1), the second portion (13b) does not overlap the first antenna element (12) except at an end region (13c).
US10720685B2
A metal air battery according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a pair of air cathodes having planar shapes respectively, which have a first bonding portion bonded along edges of the pair of the air cathodes and are disposed to face each other; a pair of separators disposed in contact with the pair of the air cathodes; an anode having a planar shape disposed between the pair of the separators and electrically insulated from the pair of the air cathodes; and then a zinc gel disposed in an accommodation space between the pair of the air cathodes. The accommodation space is a space formed by elastic deformation of the pair of the air cathodes.
US10720684B2
A thermal management system for batteries may include a battery where a coolant circulates through a battery coolant line; a cooling apparatus that circulating a coolant cooled in a radiator through a radiator coolant line; and a centralized energy (CE) module which is connected to the battery through the battery coolant line, connected to the cooling apparatus through the radiator coolant line, performs thermal exchange between thermal energy generated from condensation and evaporation of a refrigerant circulating in the CE module and the coolant, and selectively supplies a high-temperature coolant or a low-temperature coolant that has been thermally exchanged to the battery.
US10720668B2
An electrolyte composition (A) containing at least one aprotic organic solvent and at least one compound of formula (I) wherein A+ is selected from Li+, Na+, K+, Cs+, and ammonium; is a bidentate radical derived from a (hetero)aromatic 1,2-, 1,3- or 1,4-diol, from a (hetero)aromatic 1,2-, 1,3- or 1,4-dicarboxylic acid or from a (hetero)aromatic 1,2-, 1,3- or 1,4-hydroxycarboxylic acid by abstracting the two H atoms of pairs of adjacent OH groups; and R1 and R2 are organic substituents.
US10720660B2
A fuel cell stack includes a coolant channel provided between a first separator of a first power generation cell among power generation cells and a second separator of a second power generation cell among the power generation cells which is adjacent to the first power generation cell. A coolant manifold is connected to the coolant channel. A coolant manifold end member is connected to the coolant manifold. The coolant manifold end member includes an air vent wall having an opening provided at an uppermost position of the coolant manifold end member in a height direction of the fuel cell stack. The coolant manifold end member includes a wall which surrounds the air vent wall and which is thinner than the air vent wall. The air vent pipe protrudes from the air vent wall. The air vent pipe and the coolant manifold end member are integrally made.
US10720658B2
A fuel cell vehicle according to the present disclosure includes an insulation voltage detector provided in a coolant circuit; and an ECU having a storage unit that stores an insulation voltage value detected by the insulation voltage detector. The ECU determines a coolant leak when the insulation voltage value detected by the insulation voltage detector is larger than the insulation voltage value that is obtained when an ignition was turned off a last time, the s insulation voltage values obtained when the ignition was turned off the last time being stored in the storage unit.
US10720657B2
A fuel cell system includes: a pressure regulating valve that reduces a pressure of a fuel gas; a fuel gas supply passage having a first passage extending between a fuel cell and the pressure regulating valve and a second passage extending from the pressure regulating valve via a cutoff valve to a fuel gas supply source; a pressure sensor that detects a pressure of the fuel gas inside the first passage; and a controller to which the cutoff valve and the pressure sensor are connected. When a pressure value detected by the pressure sensor is an abnormal value, the controller closes the cutoff valve and performs pressure reduction processing for the first passage. Thereafter, the controller judges that the pressure regulating valve has failed when the pressure value detected by the pressure sensor has lowered, whereas the controller judges that the pressure sensor has failed when the pressure value detected by the pressure sensor has not lowered.
US10720655B2
A system includes a fuel cell stack having a plurality of fuel cells and designed to receive a fluid and to heat the fluid. The system also includes an actuator to increase or decrease a fluid temperature of the fluid and an ECU. The ECU can determine a temperature control signal corresponding to a desired temperature of the fluid and perform a feedforward control of the actuator to increase or decrease the fluid temperature towards the desired temperature. The ECU can also determine a temperature difference between the fluid temperature and the desired temperature, and can determine a sensitivity that corresponds a change in a parameter value or the actuator position to a change in the fluid temperature. The ECU can also apply the sensitivity to the temperature difference to determine an error signal, and control the actuator based on the error signal.
US10720654B2
A battery is provided which includes at least one pair of cell frames stacked together and each including a frame body and a bipolar plate, the frame body having a manifold serving as a flow path for a battery fluid, the bipolar plate being disposed inside the frame body; a positive electrode and a negative electrode; and a membrane having a through hole corresponding to the manifold. The battery includes a sealing member including an annular base portion and bifurcated annular leg portions. The annular base portion is disposed along an inner periphery of the through hole, and the bifurcated annular leg portions extend from the annular base portion toward the outside of the through hole in such a manner that the membrane is sandwiched therebetween. The sealing member is interposed between the frame bodies stacked together.
US10720651B2
A cathode electrode for a fuel cell, includes a conductive carrier having pores and a catalyst having a platinum alloy supported in the pores of the conductive carrier, wherein the catalyst has in a pore diameter range of 2 to 6 nm when diameters of the pores is plotted in relation with volumes of the pores a peak value of more than 1 cm3/g and also a BET specific surface area of 1300 m2/g.
US10720650B2
A fuel cell includes a catalyst layer containing a polymer electrolyte and catalyst-carrying carbon. A value of an initial weight ratio of the polymer electrolyte to the catalyst-carrying carbon in the catalyst layer is set to a value that is smaller by 0.1 to 0.2 than a value of a weight ratio of the polymer electrolyte to the catalyst-carrying carbon in the catalyst layer which maximizes a maximum output of the fuel cell in a state where the polymer electrolyte is not swollen.
US10720645B2
An objet of the invention is to provide a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery superior in input-output characteristics even at a low temperature. To achieve the object, hybrid particles (carbon material) satisfying certain conditions, and composed of graphite particles and carbon particles with a primary particle size from 3 nm to 500 nm, preferably as well as amorphous carbon, are used as a negative electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, so that the input-output characteristics of a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery at a low temperature can be improved remarkably.
US10720643B2
The present invention provides a positive electrode material for a lithium ion battery including a nickel-containing positive electrode material and a coating layer coated on the nickel-containing positive electrode material, wherein the nickel-containing positive electrode material has a chemical formula of LiNixM1-xO2, 0.5≤x≤1, M is at least one of Co, Mn and Al, and the coating layer contains lithium vanadium phosphate and silica. Compared with the prior art, the coating layer containing lithium vanadium phosphate and silica coated on the nickel-containing positive electrode material of the present invention can remarkably improve the dynamic performances and the cycle performances at high voltage of the lithium ion battery. In addition, the present invention also provides a method for preparing the positive electrode material a lithium ion battery containing the positive electrode material.
US10720635B2
An article having a continuous network of zinc and a continuous network of void space interpenetrating the zinc network. The zinc network is a fused, monolithic structure. A method of: providing an emulsion having a zinc powder and a liquid phase; drying the emulsion to form a sponge; annealing and/or sintering the sponge to form an annealed and/or sintered sponge; heating the annealed and/or sintered sponge in an oxidizing atmosphere to form an oxidized sponge having zinc oxide on the surface of the oxidized sponge; and electrochemically reducing the zinc oxide to form a zinc metal sponge.
US10720634B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for producing a positive electrode for a secondary battery, the method including applying a composition for forming a positive electrode on a positive electrode current collector to form a positive electrode mixture layer, and rolling the positive electrode mixture layer such that the elongation of the positive electrode current collector is less than 1%, to produce a positive electrode.
US10720628B2
Provided is a battery module including a battery cell laminate and a cooling pin. The battery cell laminate includes a plurality of battery cells are arranged adjacent to each other, each of the battery cells having a structure in which an electrode assembly is sealed together with an electrolytic solution, within a battery case. The cooling pin is interposed between the battery cells, the cooling pin having a plate-shaped structure and including a plurality of fixing protrusions that are locally inserted into an outer surface of the battery case of the battery cell that faces the cooling pin and fixed in position with respect to the battery cell.
US10720627B2
An external connection bus bar holding module includes: a first external connection bus bar, a second external connection bus bar, a first protector portion that holds a first electrode connection portion of the first external connection bus bar, a second protector portion that is arranged at an interval from the first protector portion and holds the first external connection portion of the first external connection bus bar, and an intermediate protector portion. The intermediate protector portion is located between the first protector portion and the second protector portion and holds an intermediate portion of the first external connection bus bar between the first protector portion and the second protector portion.
US10720625B2
A lithium-sulfur battery separator includes a PSL and a FL. The FL is located on a surface of the PSL. The FL comprises carbon nanotube structure and a plurality of MoP2 nanoparticles. The carbon nanotube structure defines a plurality of micropores. The plurality of MoP2 nanoparticles is located on surface of the carbon nanotube structure and filled in micropores in the carbon nanotube structure.
US10720621B2
A battery module has a cell unit including battery cells and a battery monitoring element attached to the cell unit. The battery cells are arranged in a first direction. The battery cell includes pressure release section for releasing a pressure in the battery cell. The cell unit has side surfaces including at least one internal pressure release section surface which is a surface where the internal pressure release section is disposed. The battery monitoring element is disposed on a non internal pressure release section surface which is different from the internal pressure release section surface.
US10720617B2
The present disclosure relates to a composite end plate for a battery module, comprising: a rigid substrate comprising a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other in a thickness direction of the rigid substrate, wherein the first surface can be provided to face a battery of the battery module, and the rigid substrate comprises two ends opposite to each other in a width direction of the rigid substrate; and a rigid connecting cylinder extending along a height direction of the rigid substrate and made of different material from that of the rigid substrate, wherein two ends of the rigid substrate are connected and fixed to two respective rigid connecting cylinders, and a portion of the rigid connecting cylinder exposed at a side where the second surface is located is connected and fixed to an external structural member.
US10720614B2
In one embodiment, a system for deploying batteries, for example in an electric vehicle, includes a battery belt for mechanically linking multiple batteries together, a conduit having one or more operational zones each with an output, the operational zones each establishing an electrical connection between the output and batteries in the operational zone, and an actuator for selectively moving batteries into and out of the operational zones. Resting zones may also be provided. The batteries can be connected in series or in parallel and can be individually removed and replaced by an exchanger.
US10720609B2
A display substrate including: a base substrate; a thin film transistor provided on a side of the base substrate; a planarization layer provided on a side of the thin film transistor away from the base substrate; a pixel defining layer provided on a side of the planarization layer away from the base substrate, defining a plurality of pixel regions arranged in a matrix, an orthographic projection of the pixel defining layer on the base substrate covering an orthographic projection of the thin film transistor on the base substrate; an organic light emitting diode provided in the pixel region, a recess being provided at a side of the planarization layer away from the base substrate, located at a boundary between the pixel defining layer and the pixel region and located between the thin film transistor and the organic light emitting diode, and a light blocking structure being provided in the recess.
US10720608B2
A lighting device includes a substrate including a display area and a non-display area and an organic light emitting layer disposed in the display area. A first electrode is disposed on the organic light emitting layer and a second electrode is disposed below the organic light emitting layer. A phase change material layer is disposed below the second electrode and a plurality of third electrodes is disposed between the substrate and the phase change material layer. Therefore, a pattern having various colors of light and various shapes may be implemented based on a shape of the plurality of third electrodes, a phase change of the phase change material layer, and a color of light emitted from the organic light emitting layer.
US10720606B2
A display device includes: a substrate including a pixel region and a peripheral region; a plurality of pixels provided in the pixel region, the plurality of pixels including first, second, and third sub-pixels each including a light emitting region; a light emitting element disposed in the light emitting region of each of the first, second, and third sub-pixels; a pixel circuit disposed in each of the first, second, and third sub-pixels, the pixel circuit configured to drive the light emitting element, wherein each pixel includes a first region in which the pixel circuit is disposed and a second region except the first region, wherein the light emitting element disposed in the first sub-pixel overlaps with the pixel circuit, and the light emitting element disposed in the second sub-pixel is disposed in the second region.
US10720603B2
A thin film encapsulation structure included in an organic EL display apparatus includes a first inorganic barrier layer, an organic barrier layer in contact with the inorganic barrier layer, and a second inorganic barrier layer in contact with the organic barrier layer. The thin film encapsulation structure is formed on an active region and the active region side portion of a plurality of lead wires extending from the active region to a terminal. Each of the lead wires at least partially includes, at at least the lowermost portions of two side surfaces thereof in contact with the first inorganic barrier layer, a forward tapering side surface portion having a tapering angle smaller than 90 degrees in a cross-section parallel to a line width direction thereof. The thin film encapsulation structure includes an inorganic barrier layer joint portion in which the organic barrier layer is not present, and the first inorganic barrier layer and the second inorganic barrier layer are in direct contact with each other. On the respective portions, of the lead-out wires, having the forward tapered side surface portions, the inorganic barrier layer joint portion is formed and the active region is completely enclosed by the inorganic barrier layer joint portion.
US10720602B2
A display unit includes a flexible substrate, a display device layer, a polarizer, a first moisture barrier film, and a second moisture barrier film. The display device layer is provided on the flexible substrate. The polarizer is provided over the flexible substrate with the display device layer being interposed between the flexible substrate and the polarizer and has a first surface opposed to the flexible substrate, a second surface facing the first surface, and an end surface connecting the first surface and the second surface. The first moisture barrier film covers the first surface of the polarizer. The second moisture barrier film covers the second surface and the end surface of the polarizer, and is in contact with the first moisture barrier film.
US10720595B2
An organic EL element includes a pixel electrode, a light emitting function layer that is formed on the pixel electrode, an electron injection layer formed on the light emitting function layer, and a counter electrode that is formed on the electron injection layer and that has semi-transmissive reflectivity, in which the counter electrode contains a reductive material that reduces material of the electron injection layer and Ag with atomic ratio of 75% or more, and an adsorption layer is formed on the counter electrode.
US10720594B2
A light emitting device includes a substrate and a light emitting unit over the substrate. The light emitting unit includes a first electrode, an organic emissive layer over the first electrode, a first electron transportation layer over the organic emissive layer, and a metal-containing layer over the first transportation layer. An end of the first electron transportation layer meets the organic emissive layer and the metal-containing layer at a first meeting point, the organic emissive layer has an end which is close to the first meeting point meets the metal-containing layer at a second meeting point, the second meeting point is spaced apart from the first meeting point and away from the first electron transportation layer. Further, at least one of the first electron transportation layer and the metal-containing layer includes transitional metal or alkali metal.
US10720591B2
A light-emitting device includes an anode; a cathode; and an emissive layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, the emissive layer including quantum dots dispersed in a crosslinked matrix formed from one or more crosslinkable charge transport materials. A method of forming the emissive layer of a light-emitting device includes depositing a mixture including quantum dots and one or more crosslinkable charge transport materials on a layer; and subjecting at least a portion of the mixture to UV activation to form an emissive layer including quantum dots dispersed in a crosslinked matrix.
US10720589B2
The present disclosure relates to a flexible display device, including at least two non-bending regions and at least one bendable region configured between the two adjacent non-bending regions. A stress buffering layer is configured on the bendable region. The stress buffering layer is configured to buffer a stress generated from the flexible display device when the flexible display device is in a bending state to maintain the flexible display device to be in a stable state, so as to simplified the structure of the flexible display device. The present disclosure further relates to a manufacturing method of the flexible display device.
US10720586B2
An organic electroluminescent element comprising a substrate; a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode, disposed on the substrate; and at least one organic layer including a light emitting layer, disposed between the electrodes, wherein the light emitting layer includes a compound represented by the following general formula: wherein: R1, R3, and R19; R11 to R18; and A1 to A4 are as defined in the specification.
US10720583B2
An organic solar cell includes a substrate; a first electrode; a second electrode disposed opposite the first electrode; a photoactive layer that is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and that comprises n-type organic semiconductor material and p-type organic semiconductor material; and an intermediate layer that is disposed on at least one surface of the photoactive layer and that contains a compound represented by Formula 1 below: where R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are each independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen atoms, a carbonyl group, a hydroxyl group, a nitro group, an amino group, a sulfonyl group, a phosphoryl group, straight-chain or branched C1-C7 alkyl groups, and straight-chain or branched C8-C20 alkyl groups, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are not all the same. The organic solar cells have enhanced photostability due to introduction of the intermediate layer.
US10720580B2
A device including a reduced top RRAM electrode structure, and method of production thereof. Embodiments include a bottom resistive random-access memory (RRAM) electrode structure over a plurality of lower metal level contacts formed laterally separated in a substrate; a resistive switching structure over the bottom RRAM electrode structure; a top RRAM electrode structure over the resistive switching structure; a protective structure over the top RRAM electrode structure; an encapsulation structure over the bottom RRAM electrode structure and on sidewalls of the resistive switching structure, the top RRAM electrode structure and the protective structure; and an Nblock layer over the substrate.
US10720571B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure, including an Nth metal layer over a transistor region, where N is a natural number, and a bottom electrode over the Nth metal layer. The bottom electrode comprises a bottom portion having a first width, disposed in a bottom electrode via (BEVA), the first width being measured at a top surface of the BEVA, and an upper portion having a second width, disposed over the bottom portion. The semiconductor structure also includes a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) layer having a third width, disposed over the upper portion, a top electrode over the MTJ layer and an (N+1)th metal layer over the top electrode. The first width is greater than the third width.
US10720568B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure, including an Nth metal layer, a bottom electrode over the Nth metal layer, a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) over the bottom electrode, a top electrode over the MTJ, and an (N+M)th metal layer over the Nth metal layer. N and M are positive integers. The (N+M)th metal layer surrounds a portion of a sidewall of the top electrode. A manufacturing method of forming the semiconductor structure is also provided.
US10720565B2
The present disclosure relates to piezoelectric compositions of Formula I comprising Lead Zirconate—Lead Titanate solid solution. The disclosure further relates to a method of obtaining said composition, method of preparing/fabricating piezoelectric component(s) and piezoelectric component(s)/article(s) obtained thereof. The piezoelectric composition and articles of the present disclosure show excellent electromechanical characteristics along with very large insulation resistance (IR).
US10720563B1
A quantum processor includes: a first chip comprising a qubit array, in which a plurality of qubits within the qubit array define an enclosed region on the first chip, in which each qubit of the plurality of qubits that define the enclosed region is arranged to directly electromagnetically couple to an adjacent qubit of the plurality of qubits that define the enclosed region, and in which each qubit of the qubit array comprises at least two superconductor islands, and a second chip bonded to the first chip, the second chip including one or more qubit control elements, in which the qubit control elements are positioned directly over the enclosed region of the first chip.
US10720558B2
A light emitting diode chip and a light emitting diode display apparatus comprising the same, are disclosed in which a screen defect caused by a defect of the light emitting diode chip is minimized. The light emitting diode chip comprises a semiconductor substrate; first and second light emitting diodes provided on the semiconductor substrate in parallel with each other while having first and second pads; a first electrode commonly connected to the first pad of each of the first and second light emitting diodes; and a second electrode commonly connected to the second pad of each of the first and second light emitting diodes, wherein the first and second light emitting diodes are electrically connected to each other in parallel.
US10720545B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a mounting surface, a plurality of internal terminals disposed on the mounting surface, a light-receiving element mounted on the mounting surface, a light-emitting element mounted on the mounting surface, a first bonding wire and a light-transmitting element. The light-receiving element has a light-receiving region that detects light and a plurality of element pad portions. At least one of the plurality of element pad portions is electrically connected to the light-receiving region. The light-emitting element is spaced apart from the light-receiving element along a first direction perpendicular to a thickness direction of the substrate. The first bonding wire connects one of the plurality of element pad portions of the light-receiving element to one of the plurality of internal terminals. The first bonding wire is located on a side of the light-receiving element opposite the light-emitting element along the first direction.
US10720544B2
This disclosure is directed to devices and systems and methods comprising virtual negative beveled facets including to isolate adjacent devices from one another. Aspects hereof are directed to integrated photon detectors or photodetector devices incorporating implant isolation mesas and resistors, and in particular to methods and structures for isolating such detectors or devices from neighboring detectors or devices.
US10720541B2
A solar tracking assembly includes a spine and a plurality of paired brackets connected to the spine. The brackets are positioned on opposite sides of the spine and at least one of the paired brackets includes wheels to allow rolling movement of the spine. An array arm is attached to each bracket and is moveable from a shipping position to a deployed position, and at least one solar array panel is secured to each array arm. A method of installing a solar panel assembly includes assembling in a secondary automated process at least one solar panel assembly in an offsite location, loading the solar panel assembly in the shipping position on a truck, transporting the truck to a deployment site, and off-loading the solar panel assembly from said truck.
US10720539B2
An improved backsheet used in the construction of solar panels is disclosed. A method of manufacturing the backsheet and solar panel comprising the backsheet, including coextrusion processes are also disclosed. Additionally, a photovoltaic solar panel module comprising the backsheet of the invention is disclosed. The backsheet of the instant invention may comprise an exterior layer having inner and outer surfaces, a middle layer, having inner and outer surfaces, and an interior layer having inner and outer surfaces. In one embodiment of the invention, the outer surface of the middle layer may be adjoined to the inner surface of the exterior layer, and the inner surface of the middle layer may be adjoined to the outer surface of the interior layer. The exterior layer, middle layer, and interior layer may be adjoined via a co-extrusion process, thereby eliminating the need for the use of adhesives for bonding the layers of the backsheet together. The backsheet of the invention improves upon the efficiency, strength, weather resistance, cost, and useful life of the solar panels in which the backsheet is incorporated.
US10720538B2
An encapsulated integrated photodetector waveguide structures with alignment tolerance and methods of manufacture are disclosed. The method includes forming a waveguide structure bounded by one or more shallow trench isolation (STI) structure(s). The method further includes forming a photodetector fully landed on the waveguide structure.
US10720529B2
A method includes forming a first channel region and a first gate structure formed over the first channel region. A first source/drain region is formed adjacent the first channel region and the first source/drain region includes a crystalline structure doped with a first dopant. A first silicide is formed over the first source/drain region. The first source/drain region includes a first concentration of the first dopant between 2.0×1021 atoms per centimeter cubed and 4.0×1021 atoms per centimeter cubed at a depth of 8 to 10 nanometers.
US10720526B2
A method includes etching a first portion and a second portion of a dummy gate stack to form a first opening and a second opening, respectively, and depositing a silicon nitride layer to fill the first opening and the second opening. The deposition of the silicon nitride layer comprises a first process selected from treating the silicon nitride layer using hydrogen radicals, implanting the silicon nitride layer, and combinations thereof. The method further includes etching a third portion of the dummy gate stack to form a trench, etching a semiconductor fin underlying the third portion to extend the trench down into a bulk portion of a semiconductor substrate underlying the dummy gate stack, and depositing a second silicon nitride layer into the trench.
US10720525B2
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor layer of a first conductive type having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a body region of a second conductive type selectively formed on the first surface of the semiconductor layer; a source region of the first conductive type formed inside the body region; a gate electrode opposing part of the body region via a gate insulating film; a column layer of the second conductive type formed at the second surface side with respect to the body region; an embedded electrode embedded in the column layer such that the embedded electrode is electrically isolated from the column layer; and a first electrode electrically connected to the embedded electrode.
US10720513B2
Methods of forming a compact FDSOI OTP/MTP cell and a compact FinFET OTP/MTP cell and the resulting devices are provided. Embodiments include forming a SOI region or a fin over a BOX layer over a substrate; forming a first and a second gate stack, laterally separated, over respective portions of the SOI region or the fin; forming a first and a second liner along each first and second sidewall and of the first and the second gate stack, respectively, the second sidewall over respective portions of the SOI region or the fin; forming a spacer on each first and second liner; forming a S/D region in the SOI region or the fin between the first and the second gate stack; forming a CA over the S/D region; utilizing each gate of the first gate stack and the second gate stack as a WL; and connecting a BL to the CA.
US10720509B1
The present application discloses a method for preparing a semiconductor device structure. The method includes: forming a ring structure over a substrate; performing an etching process to form an annular semiconductor fin under the ring structure; forming a processed area on a top portion of the substrate exposed by the annular semiconductor fin; selectively forming a spacer on a side surface of the annular semiconductor fin; forming a lower source/drain region on the surface of the substrate in contact with a bottom portion of the annular semiconductor fin; forming an inner gate structure in contact with an inner sidewall of the annular semiconductor fin and forming an outer gate structure in contact with an outer sidewall of the annular semiconductor fin; and forming an upper source/drain region on an upper portion of the annular semiconductor fin.
US10720507B2
A semiconductor device includes a fin extending from an upper surface of a substrate, a gate stack disposed over the fin, a first dielectric material disposed on a sidewall of the gate stack, an epitaxy region disposed adjacent the fin, a second dielectric material disposed on the epitaxy region and on a sidewall of the first dielectric material, wherein the second dielectric material has a greater thickness in a first portion over the epitaxy region than in a second portion over the epitaxy region disposed closer to the substrate than the first portion, a third dielectric material disposed on the second dielectric material, and a conductive feature extending through the third dielectric material and the second dielectric material to contact the epitaxy region.
US10720494B2
Structures that integrate airgaps with a field-effect transistor and methods for forming a field-effect transistor with integrated airgaps. A first semiconductor layer is formed on a substrate, and a second semiconductor layer is formed over the first semiconductor layer. A source/drain region of a field-effect transistor is formed in the second semiconductor layer. An airgap is located in the first semiconductor layer, The airgap is arranged in a vertical direction between the source/drain region and the substrate.
US10720493B2
Intervals of the frame portion and the p type guard ring on a cell portion side are made narrower than other parts, and the narrowed part provides a dot line portion. By narrowing the intervals of the frame portion and the p type guard ring on the cell portion side, the electric field concentration is reduced on the cell portion side, and the equipotential line directs to more outer circumferential side. By providing the dot line portions, the difference in the formation areas of the trench per unit area in the cell portion, the connection portion and the guard ring portion is reduced, and the thicknesses of the p type layers formed on the cell portion, the connection portion and the guard ring portion are uniformed. Thereby, when etching-back the p type layer, the p type layer is prevented from remaining as a residue in the guard ring portion.
US10720490B2
A trench capacitor includes at least one epitaxial semiconductor surface layer on a semiconductor substrate having a doping level that is less than a doping level of the semiconductor substrate. A plurality of trenches are formed through at least one half of a thickness of the epitaxial semiconductor surface layer. The epitaxial semiconductor surface layer is thicker than a depth of the plurality of trenches. At least one capacitor dielectric layer lines a surface of the trenches. At least one trench fill layer on the dielectric layer fills the trenches.
US10720486B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate, a display unit disposed on the substrate, an insulating layer disposed on the substrate, a power supply wire disposed on the insulating layer outside the display unit, and a cladding layer. The display unit includes a pixel circuit and a display element electrically connected to the pixel circuit. The insulating layer extends from the display unit to an edge of the substrate. The power supply wire is electrically connected to the display element and includes an alignment pattern that exposes at least a portion of the insulating layer. The cladding layer covers an inner surface of the alignment pattern and contacts the at least a portion of the insulating layer.
US10720481B2
Disclosed are a pixel arrangement structure, an organic light-emitting diode display panel, a fine metal mask, and a display device, and in the pixel arrangement structure, first sub-pixels are located at the centers of first virtual quadrilaterals, and four corners of the first virtual quadrilaterals; second sub-pixels are located at the middles of sides of the first virtual quadrilaterals; third sub-pixels are located in second virtual quadrilaterals, and four second virtual quadrilaterals constitute a first virtual quadrilateral; and in each second virtual quadrilateral, the distances between the center of a third sub-pixel, and the centers of two first sub-pixels are equal; and/or in each second virtual quadrilateral, the distances between the center of a third sub-pixel, and the centers of two second sub-pixels are equal.
US10720480B2
A display device serving as a mirror in a non-display state is provided. The display device may include a reflective pattern and a half-mirror layer which are disposed on an upper substrate opposite to a lower substrate. The half-mirror layer may be disposed side by side with the reflective pattern. Thereby, a discontinuous appearance of the reflective image may be reduced, and the degradation of the reflective image due to the diffraction of the light may be prevented or reduced.
US10720476B2
A method of manufacturing a flexible display device includes forming a base substrate on a first sacrificial layer formed on a first supporting substrate, forming a display device array on the base substrate, forming a second sacrificial layer on a second supporting substrate, forming a touch array on the second sacrificial layer, adhering the first supporting substrate onto the second supporting substrate using an adhesive, irradiating laser energy onto the first sacrificial layer to remove the first sacrificial layer and separate the first supporting substrate from the base substrate, and irradiating laser energy onto the second sacrificial layer to separate interfaces of the second supporting substrate and the second sacrificial layer from each other, such that the second sacrificial layer is fixed on the touch array. The second sacrificial layer includes at least one of oxidized molybdenum, lead zirconate titanate, gallium nitride, and an amorphous silicon based inorganic material.
US10720475B2
A touch display device includes substrate; TFT layer positioned on substrate, and the TFT layer comprising TFT; anode positioned on TFT layer and contacting with source or drain of the TFT; first touch electrode structure positioned on TFT and insulating with the anode; first planar layer positioned on first touch electrode structure, TFT and anode, the first planar layer has a first hole for exposing the anode; second touch electrode structure positioned on first planar layer; OLED element positioned on anode; cathode positioned on first planar layer and insulating with second touch electrode structure, cathode is filled first hole for connecting with the OLED element; and packaging layer positioned on cathode and first planar layer. The invention is embedded the touch electrode structure in the OLED display device, achieves highly touch accuracy and sensitivity In-cell touch OLED display device.
US10720472B2
An X-ray detector, particularly a pixelated flat panel X-Ray detector using semiconducting perovskites as direct converting layer, has a top electrode, a photoactive layer containing at least one perovskite, and a bottom electrode, wherein the X-ray detector additionally has an electron blocking interlayer and/or a hole blocking interlayer containing an adhesion promoting additive, which can be one or more of saccharides and derivatives thereof, amino resins, epoxy resins, natural resins, and acrylic based adhesives.
US10720456B1
Methods of fabrication and monolithic integration of a polycrystalline infrared detector structure deposit Group III-V compound semiconductor materials at a low deposition temperature within a range of about 300° C. to about 400° C. directly on an amorphous template. The methods provide wafer-level fabrication of polycrystalline infrared detectors and monolithic integration with a readout integrated circuit wafer for focal plane arrays.
US10720452B2
To provide a circuit used for a shift register or the like. The basic configuration includes first to fourth transistors and four wirings. The power supply potential VDD is supplied to the first wiring and the power supply potential VSS is supplied to the second wiring. A binary digital signal is supplied to each of the third wiring and the fourth wiring. An H level of the digital signal is equal to the power supply potential VDD, and an L level of the digital signal is equal to the power supply potential VSS. There are four combinations of the potentials of the third wiring and the fourth wiring. Each of the first transistor to the fourth transistor can be turned off by any combination of the potentials. That is, since there is no transistor that is constantly on, deterioration of the characteristics of the transistors can be suppressed.
US10720436B2
An embodiment is an integrated circuit structure including a static random access memory (SRAM) cell having a first number of semiconductor fins, the SRAM cell having a first boundary and a second boundary parallel to each other, and a third boundary and a fourth boundary parallel to each other, the SRAM cell having a first cell height as measured from the third boundary to the fourth boundary, and a logic cell having the first number of semiconductor fins and the first cell height.
US10720432B2
A complementary transistor is constituted of a first transistor TR1 and a second transistor TR2, active regions 32, 42 of the respective transistors are formed by layering first A layers 33, 43 and the first B layers 35, 45 respectively, surface regions 201, 202 provided in a base correspond to first A layers 33, 43 respectively, first B layers 35, 45 each have a conductivity type different from that of the first A layers 33, 43, and extension layers 36, 46 of the first B layer are provided on insulation regions 211,212 respectively.
US10720425B2
Laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor device integrated with vertical field effect transistor
An electrical device that in some embodiments includes a substrate including a lateral device region and a vertical device region. A lateral diffusion metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) device may be present in the lateral device region, wherein a drift region of the LDMOS device has a length that is parallel to an upper surface of the substrate in which the LDMOS device is formed. A vertical field effect transistor (VFET) device may be present in the vertical device region, wherein a vertical channel of the VFET has a length that is perpendicular to said upper surface of the substrate, the VFET including a gate structure that is positioned around the vertical channel.
US10720419B2
A layout modification method for fabricating a semiconductor device is provided. Uniformity of critical dimensions of a first portion and a second portion in a patterned layer is calculated by using a layout for an exposure manufacturing process to produce the semiconductor device. The second portion is adjacent to the first portion, and a width of the second portion equals a penumbra size of the exposure manufacturing process. The penumbra size is utilized to indicate which area of the patterned layer is affected by light leakage exposure from another exposure manufacturing process. Non-uniformity between the first and second portions of the patterned layer is compensated according to the uniformity of critical dimensions to generate a modified layout.
US10720416B2
A semiconductor device includes a bottom package, a top package, and a heat dissipating structure. The bottom package includes a redistribution structure, and a die disposed on a first surface of the redistribution structure and electrically connected to the redistribution structure. The top package is disposed on a second surface of the redistribution structure opposite to the first surface. The heat dissipating structure is disposed over the bottom package, and includes a thermal relaxation block. The thermal relaxation block contacts the redistribution structure and is disposed beside the top package.
US10720413B2
Disclosed is an LED package, an LED module and a method for manufacturing the LED package. The LED package includes a lead frame comprising an insulating substrate and a plurality of first pins to a plurality of fourth pins formed on the insulating substrate, a plurality of first bonding pads to a plurality of fourth bonding pads, and a plurality of first wires to a plurality of fourth wires; a plurality of pixel units, each of which includes a first LED element, a second LED element and a third LED element; and an encapsulating composition covering the lead frame and allowing light to transmit. The LED package includes the plurality of LED elements of pixel units and implements internal interconnection with additional wires, thereby reducing the number of bonding pads of the LED package, and thus the manufacturing cost is reduced and the product reliability is improved.
US10720408B2
A semiconductor module, comprising: a module substrate with an electric connection element; at least one semiconductor package provided on the module substrate, the at least one semiconductor package including a plurality of semiconductor chips; and a connection region electrically connecting the semiconductor package to the module substrate, wherein the connection region comprises: a first region electrically connected between data signal terminals of a first chip of the semiconductor chips of the semiconductor package and the module substrate; a second region electrically connected between data signal terminals of a second chip of the semiconductor chips of the semiconductor package and the module substrate; and a third region electrically connected between command/address signal terminals of both the first and second chips of the semiconductor package and the module substrate, wherein the first region is closer to the electric connection element of the module substrate, compared with the third region.
US10720393B2
An electronic device may include a semiconductor die. The electronic device may include a first routing layer. The first routing layer may be coupled to the semiconductor die. A first plurality of routing traces may be in electrical communication with the semiconductor die. The first plurality of routing traces may be positioned within a first routing footprint. The first routing footprint may have a width greater than a width of the semiconductor die.A second routing layer may be coupled to the first routing layer. A second plurality of routing traces may be in electrical communication with the first plurality of routing traces. The second plurality of routing traces may be positioned within a second routing footprint. The second routing footprint may have a width greater than the width of the first routing footprint.
US10720387B2
A tank circuit structure includes a first gate layer, a first substrate, a first shielding layer, a first conductive line and a first inter metal dielectric (IMD) layer. The first substrate is over the first gate layer. The first shielding layer is over the first substrate. The first conductive line is over the first shielding layer. The first IMD layer is between the first substrate and the first conductive line.
US10720370B2
A sensor package structure includes a substrate, an electronic chip fixed on the substrate by flip-chip bonding, a sealant disposed on the substrate and embedding the electronic chip therein, a sensor chip with a size larger than that of the electronic chip, a light-permeable sheet, a plurality of metal wires electrically connected to the substrate and the sensor chip, and a package body. A bottom surface of the sensor chip is disposed on the sealant to be spaced apart from the electronic chip. A lateral surface of the sensor chip is horizontally spaced apart from that of the sealant by a distance less than or equal to 3 mm. The package body is disposed on the substrate and covers the metal wires as well as the lateral sides of the sealant and the sensor chip. The light-permeable sheet is fixed above the sensor chip through the package body.
US10720368B2
A semiconductor device includes: an insulating substrate having an upper surface on which a semiconductor element is mounted; a base plate joined to a lower surface of the insulating substrate; a case member that surrounds the insulating substrate and that is in contact with a surface of the base plate to which the insulating substrate is joined; a sealing resin provided in a region surrounded by the base plate and the case member; a cover member facing a surface of the sealing resin and fixed to the case member; and a holding plate, a lower surface of the holding plate and a portion of a side surface of the holding plate being in close contact with the surface of the sealing resin, an upper surface of the holding plate being fixed to and protruding from a surface of the cover member facing the surface of the sealing resin.
US10720367B2
A method for process analysis includes acquiring first inspection data, using a first inspection modality, with respect to a substrate having multiple instances of a predefined pattern of features formed thereon using different, respective sets of process parameters. Characteristics of defects identified in the first inspection data are processed so as to select a first set of defect locations in which the first inspection data are indicative of an influence of the process parameters on the defects. Second inspection data are acquired, using a second inspection modality having a finer resolution than the first inspection modality, of the substrate at the locations in the first set. The defects appearing in the second inspection data are analyzed so as to select, from within the first set of the locations, a second set of the locations in which the second inspection data are indicative of an optimal range of the process parameters.
US10720365B2
A method of measuring misalignment of chips, a method of fabricating a fan-out panel level package using the same, and a fan-out panel level package fabricated thereby are provided. The measuring method may include obtaining images by scanning chips on a substrate, obtaining absolute offsets of reference chips with respect to the substrate in the images, obtaining relative offsets of subordinate chips with respect to the reference chips in the images, and calculating misalignments of the chips based on the absolute offsets and the relative offsets.
US10720364B2
A method of forming a fin field effect transistor circuit is provided. The method includes forming a plurality of vertical fins on a substrate, and forming a protective liner having a varying thickness on the substrate and plurality of vertical fins. The method further includes removing thinner portions of the protective liner from the substrate to form protective liner segments on the plurality of vertical fins. The method further includes removing portions of the substrate exposed by removing the thinner portions of the protective liner to form trenches adjacent to at least one pair of vertical fins and two substrate mesas. The method further includes laterally etching the substrate mesa to widen the trench, reduce the width of the substrate mesa to form a supporting pillar, and undercut the at least one pair of vertical fins, and forming a first bottom source/drain layer in the widened trench.
US10720344B2
A method includes forming a semiconductor fin on a semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor fin comprising germanium, silicon, silicon germanium or any of III-V elements; forming a mask layer on a top portion of the semiconductor fin; and trimming the semiconductor fin, wherein trimming the semiconductor fin comprises: immersing the semiconductor substrate in a first electrolyte bath; and laterally removing a first portion of the semiconductor fin by supplying a first voltage to a counter electrode in the electrolyte bath and a second voltage to the semiconductor substrate, wherein the second voltage is negative.
US10720343B2
An apparatus for processing wafer-shaped articles comprises a rotary chuck and a heating assembly that faces a wafer-shaped article when positioned on the rotary chuck. A liquid dispenser positioned so as to dispense liquid onto a surface of a wafer-shaped article that faces away from the rotary chuck when positioned on the rotary chuck. The heating assembly comprises an array of radiant heating elements distributed among at least five individually controllable groups. The liquid dispenser comprises one or more dispensing orifices configured to move a discharge point from a more central region of the rotary chuck to a more peripheral region of the rotary chuck. A controller controls power supplied to each of the at least five individually controllable groups of radiant heating elements based on a position of the discharge point of the liquid dispenser.
US10720339B2
A fan-out wafer-level packaging method and the package produced thereof are provided in the present application. The method comprises steps including: providing a silicon substrate layer having a first thickness; forming one or more active/passive devices comprising at least sources and drains and one or more diffusion layers adjoining the sources and drains, wherein forming the one or more active/passive devices comprises forming the sources and the drains in a front-end-of-line (FEOL) layer on a first side of the silicon substrate layer while forming the one or more diffusion layers at locations in the silicon substrate layer adjoining the sources and the drains; forming a redistribution layer (RDL) over the FEOL layer by copper damascene formation of multiple metallization layers for connecting the one or more active/passive devices to the one or more IC dies when the one or more IC dies are mounted on a side of the RDL opposite the FEOL layer; thinning the silicon substrate layer to a second thickness to form a thinned silicon substrate, the thinned silicon substrate comprising at least the one or more diffusion layers; and patterning the thinned silicon substrate to form one or more silicon regions, each of the one or more silicon regions comprising the one or more diffusion layers.
US10720336B2
A mask structure and a method for manufacturing a mask structure for a lithography process is provided. The method includes providing a substrate covered with an absorber layer on a side thereof; providing a patterned layer over the absorber layer, the patterned layer comprising at least one opening; and forming at least one assist mask feature in the at least one opening, wherein the at least one assist mask feature is formed by performing a directed self-assembly (DSA) patterning process comprising providing a BCP material in the at least one opening and inducing phase separation of a BCP material into a first component and a second component, the first component being the at least one assist mask feature and being periodically distributed with respect to the second component.
US10720331B2
Methods for forming a transition metal nitride film on a substrate by atomic layer deposition and related semiconductor device structures are provided. In some embodiments, methods may include contacting a substrate with a first vapor phase reactant comprising a transition metal precursor and contacting the substrate with a second vapor phase reactant comprising an alkyl-hydrazine precursor. In some embodiments, related semiconductor device structures may include a PMOS transistor gate structure, the PMOS transistor gate structure including a transition metal nitride film and a gate dielectric between the transition nitride film and a semiconductor body. The transition metal nitride film includes a predominant (200) crystallographic orientation.
US10720330B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first-conductivity-type drift layer including a first-conductivity-type impurity, vacancy-oxygen-hydrogen complex defects each caused by a vacancy, an oxygen atom, and a hydrogen atom, divacancy-and-vacancy-phosphorus complex defects, having a trap density level lower than a trap density level of the vacancy-oxygen-hydrogen complex defect, and third complex defects; a plurality of donor layers provided at different depths in a depth direction of the first-conductivity-type drift layer, wherein each of the plurality of donor layers includes donors caused by the vacancy-oxygen-hydrogen complex defects, and each of the plurality of donor layers has an impurity concentration distribution that includes a first portion with a maximum impurity concentration and a second portion with a concentration gradient in which the impurity concentration is reduced from the first portion to both main surfaces of the first-conductivity-type drift layer; and a second-conductivity-type semiconductor region provided on one main surface of the first-conductivity-type drift layer.
US10720327B2
This disclosure provides a method and a device for manufacturing a semiconductor substrate. The method for manufacturing a semiconductor substrate comprises the following steps: heating a semiconductor material to a molten state to obtain a molten semiconductor material; thermally spraying the molten semiconductor material onto a baseplate by using a thermal spraying gun, then cooling to solidify the molten semiconductor material on the baseplate to obtain the semiconductor substrate. The disclosed method offers, when manufacturing the semiconductor substrate, high material utilization, low manufacturing cost, and the ability to manufacture larger semiconductor substrate, with controllable thickness and high purity, providing broad application prospects.
US10720325B2
Provided is a technique which includes forming on a substrate an oxide film containing silicon or a metal element and doped with a dopant by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times, wherein the cycle includes sequentially and non-simultaneously performing: (a) supplying a first gas to the substrate wherein the first gas is free of chlorine and contains boron or phosphorus as the dopant; (b) supplying a second gas to the substrate wherein the second gas contains silicon or the metal element; and (c) supplying a third gas to the substrate wherein the third gas contains oxygen.
US10720317B2
Among other things, we describe methods and apparatus for the ionization of target molecular analytes of interest, e.g., for use in mass spectrometry. In some implementations, a thin molecular stream is emitted in either single or a split mode and encounters both an electron-impact ion source and trochoidal electron monochromator placed sequentially or coincidentally. The first ion source emits high-energy electrons (˜70 eV) to generate characteristic positively-charged mass fragment spectra while the second source emits low-energy electrons in a narrow bandwidth to generate negative molecular ions or other ions via electron capture ionization. The dual ion source may be coupled to analytical instruments such as a gas chromatograph and to any number of mass analyzers such as a polarity switching quadrupole mass analyzer or to multiple mass analyzers.
US10720308B2
A plasma apparatus includes a remote plasma source, a substrate processing chamber, and a connector which connects the remote plasma source to the substrate processing chamber. The remote plasma source includes a continuous peripheral wall structure that surrounds an inner channel, and that includes an electrode structure that defines at least a part of an internal channel extending internally within the continuous peripheral wall structure in which the inductively coupled plasma can be sustained. The remote plasma source also includes an electrical signal supply device for supplying an electrical signal that drives the electrode structure, and a plasma outlet which is in communication with the internal channel. The connector is in connection with the plasma outlet of the remote plasma source and the substrate processing chamber so that at least some components of the inductively coupled plasma sustained in the internal channel can be introduced to the substrate processing chamber.
US10720303B2
An object of the invention relates to the fact that the alignment of the sample stage and the optical image can be adjusted with high accuracy, good operability, and high throughput by utilizing a low magnification optical image and a high magnification optical image. The invention relates to the fact that an alignment adjustment by a sample table alignment can be performed using a first processed optical image obtained by enlarging or reducing or changing a visual field of the optical image of the sample table holding the sample by digital processing, and that an alignment adjustment by an alignment point designation can be performed using a second processed optical image different from the first processed optical image. According to the invention, it is possible to adjust the alignment of the sample stage and the optical image with reference to the outer shape of the sample table and the feature points on the sample without taking out the sample table holding the sample from the sample chamber.
US10720297B2
Disclosed embodiments include vacuum electronics devices and methods of fabricating a vacuum electronics device. In a non-limiting embodiment, a vacuum electronics device includes: an electrode; a first film layer disposed on the electrode about a periphery of the electrode; and a second film layer disposed on the first film layer, the second film layer including a plurality of electrically conductive grid lines patterned therein that are supported only at the periphery of the electrode by the first film layer.
US10720294B2
An electromagnetic relay is provided with a housing; a first fixed contact terminal and a second fixed contact terminal secured to the housing; a movable contact accommodated in a chamber in the housing; a movable shaft with one end connected to the movable contact, and a solenoid configured to drive the movable shaft in a contact movement direction. The contact terminals including contact arrangement portions to which a first fixed contact point and a second fixed contact point are secured; and external terminals arranged outside the housing; and intermediate portions connecting the contact arrangement portions and the external terminals and held by the housing; the housing includes a pair of supports each supporting the first fixed contact point and the second fixed contact point.
US10720289B1
A light emitting keyboard includes a bottom board, keyswitches, and a lighting board. The lighting board is disposed between the bottom board and the keyswitches or under the bottom board and includes a flexible substrate having a first hole, multiple-light emitting diodes corresponding to the keyswitches, first and second silver-paste circuit layers formed on upper and lower surfaces of the flexible substrate respectively, a via pillar formed in the first hole to be coupled to the first and second silver-paste circuit layers, a copper layer plated on the first and second silver-paste circuit layers, and a first protection layer coated on the copper layer and having second holes. Each multiple-light emitting diode is disposed on the copper layer plated on the first silver-paste circuit layer through the corresponding second hole to be coupled to the first silver-paste circuit layer.
US10720283B2
A solid electrolytic capacitor that comprises an anode that comprises a porous anode body and a dielectric layer is provided. The anode body is formed from a pressed and sintered valve metal powder having a specific charge of about 200,000 μF*V/g or more and a phosphorous content of about 150 parts per million or less. A solid electrolyte overlies the anode.
US10720274B2
A control device includes a moving portion, a magnetic element coupled to the moving portion, at least one magnetic sensing circuit responsive to magnetic fields, and at least one magnetic flux pipe structure. The magnetic element may comprise alternating positive and negative sections configured to generate a magnetic field. The magnetic element may be any shape, such as circular, linear, etc. The magnetic sensing circuit may be radially offset from the magnetic element, and the magnetic flux pipe structure may be configured to conduct the magnetic field generated by the magnetic element towards the magnetic sensing circuit. The magnetic element may generate the magnetic field in a first plane, and the magnetic sensing may be responsive to magnetic fields in a second direction that is angularly offset from the first plane. The magnetic flux pipe structure may redirect the magnetic field towards the magnetic sensing circuit in the second direction.
US10720262B2
A polymer matrix film useful in the preparation of a polymer absorption sensor. The polymer matrix film includes at least one first polymeric material which is elastomeric in nature, at least one second polymeric material which is crystalline and/or glassy in nature, and at least one conductive material.
US10720260B2
A paste for solar cell electrodes includes a conductive powder, a glass frit, and an organic vehicle. The glass frit includes bismuth (Bi), tellurium (Te), and antimony (Sb), and has a mole ratio of bismuth (Bi) to tellurium (Te) of about 1:1 to about 1:30.
US10720256B2
Provided is an electron beam irradiating device capable of emitting an electron beam from an electron beam generation source surrounded by a vacuum chamber to outside of the vacuum chamber through an electron beam exit window. The electron beam exit window includes: a grid; a window foil allowing the electron beam to pass therethrough; and a frame-shaped pressing member pressing the window foil against the grid. The surface of the grid has a groove section having an annular shape. A metal gasket is pressed between the groove section and the window foil.
US10720251B2
A method for inspecting a nuclear reactor part includes placing an optical sensor (38) in front of the part to be inspected using a carrier (40); acquiring at least a first image of at least a reference portion of the part using the optical sensor (38), the or each first image being taken with a first magnification; reconstituting a three-dimensional model of said reference portion of the part using the or each first acquired image; calculating the position of an area to be inspected relative to the optical sensor (38) using the three-dimensional model; acquiring at least a second image of the area to be inspected using the optical sensor (38), the or each second image of the area to be inspected being taken with a second magnification higher than the first magnification.
US10720248B2
In a pressurized water reactor (PWR), emergency core cooling (ECC) responds to depressurization due to a vessel penetration break at the top of the pressure vessel by draining water from a body of water through an injection line into the pressure vessel. A barrier operates concurrently with the ECC to suppress flow of liquid water from the pressure vessel out the vessel penetration break. The barrier may comprise one or more of: (1) an injection line extension passing through the central riser to drain water into the central riser; (2) openings in a lower portion of a central riser to shunt some upward flow from the central riser into a lower portion of the downcomer annulus; and (3) a surge line providing fluid communication between a pressurizer volume at the top of the pressure vessel and the remainder of the pressure vessel which directs water outboard toward the downcomer annulus.
US10720246B2
An improved retention system for retaining fuel rods in a fuel assembly is disclosed. The retention system includes a plurality of first engagement surfaces on the bottom nozzle of a fuel assembly. There is at least one engagement surface for each fuel rod. A second engagement surface is formed on the bottom end plug of each fuel rod. The first and second engagement surfaces are configured for engagement with each other for axially and laterally retaining each fuel rod within the fuel assembly. Debris deflectors may also be provided to deflect debris from coolant channels surrounding the fuel rods.
US10720241B2
A medication risk mitigation method utilizing three interventions: a prospective intervention performed by a prescriber, a concurrent intervention performed by a pharmacist and a retroactive intervention performed by a pharmacist. At each intervention, the system of the instant invention utilizes a computer program to compare each prescribed medication to a series of intrinsic and extrinsic data sources in order to identify potential contraindications and, if necessary, modify a prescription. The system also permits secure messaging between prescribers and pharmacists, each with access to the computer program, so as to facilitate communication and reduce medication risks. The system of this invention also permits modeling for hypothetical medication modifications based on the same intrinsic and extrinsic data sources.
US10720236B2
The present disclosure provides components, systems, and methods for predictive maintenance of medical diagnostic machine components.
US10720234B1
A system, apparatus, and method are disclosed for account reconciliation based on dispensing medication under a drug discount program. The example embodiments may include receiving prescription claims that each identify a first medication being dispensed and an amount being dispensed. The example embodiments may further include identifying a subset of the prescription claims that are eligible for a drug discount program, aggregating the dispensation amounts to determine an aggregate amount of the first medication dispensed, instructing a distributor to credit a drug discount account of a covered entity in response to determining that the aggregate amount meets a dispensation requirement, and instructing a distributor to ship an amount of the first medication to a contract pharmacy.
US10720230B2
Techniques for determining whether a subject is likely to respond to an immune checkpoint blockade therapy. The techniques include obtaining expression data for the subject, using the expression data to determine subject expression levels for at least three genes selected from the set of predictor genes consisting of BRAF, ACVR1B, MPRIP, PRKAG1, STX2, AGPAT3, FYN, CMIP, ROBO4, RAB40C, HAUS8, SNAP23, SNX6, ACVR1B, MPRIP, COPS3, NLRX1, ELAC2, MON1B, ARF3, ARPIN, SPRYD3, FLI1, TIRAP, GSE1, POLR3K, PIGO, MFHAS1, NPIPA1, DPH6, ERLIN2, CES2, LHFP, NAIF1, ALCAM, SYNE1, SPINT1, SMTN, SLCA46A1, SAP25, WISP2, TSTD1, NLRX1, NPIPA1, HIST1H2AC, FUT8, FABP4, ERBB2, TUBA1A, XAGE1E, SERPINF1, RAI14, SIRPA, MT1X, NEK3, TGFB3, USP13, HLA-DRB4, IGF2, and MICAL1; and determining, using the determined expression levels and a statistical model trained using expression data indicating expression levels for a plurality of genes for a plurality of subjects, whether the subject is likely to respond to the immune checkpoint blockade therapy.
US10720214B2
A memory unit includes a substrate and a floating gate memory cell. The floating gate memory cell includes an erase gate structure disposed on the substrate, floating gate structures select gates, a common source and drains. The common source is disposed in the substrate, and the erase gate structure is disposed on the common source. The floating gate structures protrude from recesses of the substrate at two opposite sides of the erase gate structure. A method for controlling the memory unit includes applying an erase gate programming voltage on the erase gate structure, applying a control gate programming voltage on the common source, applying a bit line programming voltage on the drains, and applying word line programming voltage on the select gates, in which the control gate programming voltage is greater than the erase gate programming voltage.
US10720209B2
A resistive memory element or device includes: a first, main, memory cell area including a plurality of first resistive memory cells; and a second, buffer, memory cell area including a plurality of second resistive memory cells. The first resistive memory cells of the main memory cell area are configured to store data therein, and the second resistive memory cells of the buffer memory cell area are configured to temporarily store portions of the data therein for at least a stabilization time period while the portions of the data stabilize in the main memory cell area.
US10720203B2
A semiconductor device is provided that operates at improved write speeds without an increase in area. The semiconductor device according to the invention includes a plurality of memory cells arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, a plurality of word lines provided to each row of the memory cells, a plurality of bit line pairs provided to each column of the memory cells, sense amplifiers that amplify the potential difference in the bit line pairs, data line pairs that transfer data to the bit line pairs, column selection circuits that permit receiving the data from the data line pairs, a column decoder that transmits column selection signals to the column selection circuits, and a sense amplifier control circuit that activates the sense amplifiers after the column decoder transmits the column selection signals to the column selection circuits.
US10720202B2
An apparatus for memory control includes a data storage area configured to store data indicative of a distribution of total current consumption required for a write operation as measured with respect to one or more nonvolatile memory devices of a first type, and a control apparatus configured to evaluate, based on the data indicative of the distribution, a degree to which a total amount of current consumption required for a write operation with respect to a memory area in a nonvolatile memory device of the same first type, regarding a current flowing from a power supply to the nonvolatile memory device during the write operation, is deviated toward larger total current consumptions in the distribution, thereby determining whether the memory area is satisfactory.
US10720200B2
An exemplary data refresh method disclosed herein reading data into volatile memory from a first storage region using a read element controlled by a first actuator assembly and writing the data from the volatile memory to a second storage region using a write element controlled by a second actuator assembly, where the first actuator assembly and the second actuator assembly are configured to receive data from control circuitry via independent read/write communication channels.
US10720198B1
A semiconductor device includes a control circuit configured to receive a clock and generate first to fourth internal clocks which have different phases, and generate first to fourth masking clocks from a latency signal in synchronization with the first internal clock and the second internal clock depending on a mode signal; and a signal mixing circuit configured to output the first to fourth internal clocks as first to fourth strobe signals during enable periods of the first to fourth masking clocks.
US10720185B2
A system and method for simple video editing and playback is disclosed. A platform implementing the described system and method allows users to edit videos including by clipping, combining and annotating, without requiring local video storage. Rather, edited videos are represented by metadata enabling playback of the edited videos directly from embedded video players. Playback directly accesses the original content owners' source files, increasing their video views and watch time, and minimizing risk of inadvertent copyright infringement. A control loop switches between identically located visible and hidden pre-loaded embedded video players in order to present seamless playback. A transparent annotation layer in a substantially identical location as the embedded video players allows for annotations to be mapped onto video playback.
US10720179B1
Exemplary methods and apparatus are disclosed for a head assembly of a hard disk drive. In one example, a tilt-preventing standoff or datum is formed on a flexure cover layer of a head assembly of the hard disk drive to prevent tilting of a slider of the head assembly relative to the flexure cover layer during fabrication. The flexure cover layer may be, e.g., a laminate cover layer that covers and protects the flexure of the head assembly. In some examples, a primary standoff (or adhesive limitation) is formed on the flexure layer and shaped to limit the spread of an adhesive. The tilt-preventing standoff is a secondary standoff or datum that is sized and positioned to prevent tilting of the slider relative to the flexure cover layer during mounting of the slider to the flexure cover layer. The primary and secondary standoffs may be formed, for example, of polyamide.
US10720178B2
A magnetoresistance effect element has a first ferromagnetic metal layer, a second ferromagnetic metal layer, and a tunnel barrier layer that is sandwiched between the first and second ferromagnetic metal layers, and the tunnel barrier layer has a spinel structure represented by a composition formula AGa2Ox (0
US10720174B2
There is provided a sound source separation method of carrying out sound source separation of an audio signal inputted from an input device by using a modeled sound source distribution, by an information processing apparatus provided with a processing device, a storage device, the input device, and an output device. In this method, as a condition followed by the model, sound sources are independent of one another, powers which the sound sources have are modeled for each of frequency bands obtained through band division, a relationship among the powers for the frequency bands different from each other is modeled by nonnegative matrix factorization, and components obtained through the division of the sound source follow a complex normal distribution.
US10720164B2
Systems and methods of diarization using linguistic labeling include receiving a set of diarized textual transcripts. A least one heuristic is automatedly applied to the diarized textual transcripts to select transcripts likely to be associated with an identified group of speakers. The selected transcripts are analyzed to create at least one linguistic model. The linguistic model is applied to transcripted audio data to label a portion of the transcripted audio data as having been spoken by the identified group of speakers. Still further embodiments of diarization using linguistic labeling may serve to label agent speech and customer speech in a recorded and transcripted customer service interaction.
US10720133B2
A stringed instrument pickup with multiple selectable coils can be utilized in a system to provide a diverse range of sound characteristics from at least one moving string under tension. A first wire can be connected to a first terminal of a first bobbin body prior to the first wire being wound around the first bobbin body a first number of times and then connecting the first wire to a second terminal of the first bobbin body. A second wire may be connected to the second terminal of the first bobbin body before winding the second wire around the first bobbin body a second number of times and then connecting the second wire to a third terminal of the first bobbin body. The first bobbin body is subsequently mounted onto a stringed instrument.
US10720131B2
A switching device includes: an actuator that is rotatable; and a contact member including an upper surface section having a flat portion and is movable in a vertical direction according to rotation of the actuator, and a deformation section disposed between a support member and an end portion of the upper surface section and deformed according to movement of the upper surface section. A chamfer portion interconnecting a contact surface contacting with the contact member and a side surface, of the actuator, is provided between a virtual plane containing an end portion, in an extending direction of the rotary shaft, of the upper surface section, and is perpendicular to the upper surface section and a virtual plane containing an end portion, in the extending direction of the rotary shaft, of a portion where the deformation section makes contact with the support member, and is perpendicular to the upper surface section.
US10720122B2
There is provided an image processing apparatus including an image processing unit which combines a virtual object with a captured image. The image processing unit determines the virtual object based on a state or a type of an object shown in the captured image.
US10720120B2
A source driver and a display device including the same includes a latch unit to store data, a digital-to-analog conversion (DAC) unit to convert the stored data into an analog signal, amplifiers to amplify or buffer the analog signal, output pads, output switches between the DAC unit and the output pads corresponding to the amplifiers, and an output controller to generate switch control signals that control the output switches based on/in response to a source output enable signal. The amplifiers and the output switches include a plurality of groups. The switch control signals to the output switches of each group may have different delay times based on the source output enable signal. Delay times between contiguous switch control signals to at least one group may be different from delay times between contiguous switch control signals to one or more other groups.
US10720114B2
A display apparatus includes a display, a frequency compensator, a frequency adjuster, and a driver. The display includes first, second, and third pixels to display an image having color information. The frequency compensator receives first, second, and third pixel data respectively corresponding to the first, second, and third pixels, converts the first, second, and third pixel data to hue data, and outputs a frequency control signal to change a current driving frequency of the display based on the hue data. The frequency adjuster changes the driving frequency to a predetermined compensation frequency in response to the frequency control signal and changes a frequency of image data and an image control signal such that the display is driven at the predetermined compensation frequency. The driver receives the changed image data and the changed image control signal and drives the display at the predetermined compensation frequency.
US10720112B2
The present disclosure provides method and device for dimming the backlight of an LCD. A number of pixels at each grayscale level of an input image is determined. The determined number of pixels at each grayscale level is accumulated to generate an accumulated distribution of the number of pixel and the accumulated distribution is filtered. A threshold grayscale level at which the filtered accumulated distribution exceeds a threshold value is determined. A scaling factor is determined based on the threshold grayscale level. The grayscale level of pixels of the input image having a grayscale level lower than or equal to the threshold grayscale level are up-scaled based on the scaling factor, the grayscale value of pixels of the input image having a grayscale level greater than the threshold grayscale level are set to have a predetermined clipping grayscale level, and the LCD backlight is dimmed based on the scaling factor.
US10720092B2
An optical axis of a light emitting element is inclined against a normal line of a light emitting surface of the light emitting element to a central side of a display area in a row direction according to positions of subpixels in the row direction, and the optical axis is inclined against the normal line of the light emitting surface to the central side of the display area in a column direction according to the positions of the subpixels in the column direction. A range of inclination of the optical axis is different in the row direction and the column direction. In the row direction and the column direction, the subpixels are disposed such that color filters of the same color are arranged in a direction in which the range of inclination becomes larger, and color filters of colors which are different from each other are arranged in another direction.
US10720090B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel including a display area and a non-display area, in which an image is displayed in the display area and a peripheral area is disposed adjacent to the display area in the non-display area. The display panel includes a plurality of gate lines extending in a first direction, a plurality of data lines extending a second direction which crosses the first direction, and a plurality of unit pixels which are electrically connected to each of the gate lines and the data lines. A gate driver generates a clock signal, and a gate signal generator receives the clock signal and outputs a generated gate signal to the gate line. A clock line transmits the clock signal to the gate signal generator, and a flexible film disposed adjacent to the gate signal generator in the first direction is connected to the display panel in the peripheral area. At least a portion of the clock line is formed on the flexible film.
US10720089B2
An attenuation portion is to illuminate first and second display objects while attenuating light. A display element causes light to enter the attenuation portion to illuminate the first display object in a display region. A light source irradiates light to illuminate the second display object in the display region. A display forming member has a light-blocking layer and an attenuation layer. The light-blocking layer has a light-transmitting portion defining a shape of the second display object. The attenuation layer covers the light-blocking layer from a display region side to attenuate light, which is from the light source and passes through the light-transmitting portion. The display forming member indicates the second display object in the display region with emission of light which is attenuated through the attenuation layer and enters the attenuation portion.
US10720085B2
Sign and display systems including a faceplate, lens, backing plate, and at least one magnet are described. In some embodiments, the faceplate includes a viewing aperture and the back of the faceplate includes a recess in which the at least one magnet is mounted. The recess in the faceplate is configured to receive the lens and backing plate. In some embodiments, the faceplate includes two recesses in the back surface, where the first level recess is configured to receive a backing plate and the second lower level recess is configured to receive the lens. The at least one magnet can be mounted in either a first recessed surface of the first level recess or the backing plate. When the lens and backing plate are positioned in the faceplate, the one or more magnets exert a force to secure the faceplate, lens, and backing plate together.
US10720082B1
A method includes capturing, by a camera coupled to a computing device, a video of an experimental platform device having a designated area for an experiment and displaying, by the computing device, the video of the experimental platform device. The method further includes superimposing, in the video, an overlay animation on the designated area of the experimental platform device, the overlay animation corresponding to an environment of the experiment. The method further includes receiving, by the computing device from the experimental platform device, independent variable data corresponding to manipulations of a sensor of the experimental platform device by a user. The method further includes modifying, in the video, the overlay animation superimposed on the designated area based on the independent variable data.
US10720069B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to ranging object(s) nearby an aircraft using triangulation of pulses of linearly-patterned light projected upon and reflected by the object(s). A light projector projects the pulses of linearly-patterned light in a controllable direction onto the scene external to the aircraft. A reflected portion of the projected pulses is focused onto a selected row or column of light-sensitive pixels of a two-dimensional array, thereby forming a row or column of image data. The direction of projected light and the row or column of pixels selected are coordinated so that the portion of the projected pulses reflected by the scene is received by the camera and focused on the selected one of the rows or columns of light-sensitive pixels. Location(s) and/or range(s) of object(s) in the scene are calculated, based on a projector location, a camera location, and the row or column of image data.
US10720068B2
Embodiments described herein include a delivery system having unmanned aerial delivery vehicles and a logistics network for control and monitoring. In certain embodiments, a ground station provides a location for interfacing between the delivery vehicles, packages carried by the vehicles and users. In certain embodiments, the delivery vehicles autonomously navigate from one ground station to another. In certain embodiments, the ground stations provide navigational aids that help the delivery vehicles locate the position of the ground station with increased accuracy.
US10720065B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for generating a digital flight path within complex mission boundaries. In particular, in one or more embodiments, systems and methods generate flight legs that traverse a target site within mission boundaries. Moreover, one or more embodiments include systems and methods that utilize linking algorithms to connect the generated flight legs into a flight path. Moreover, one or more embodiments include systems and methods that generate a mission plan based on the flight path. In one or more embodiments, the generated mission plan enables a UAV to traverse a flight area within mission boundaries and capture aerial images with regard to the target site. Furthermore, in one or more embodiments, systems and methods capture digital aerial images of vertical surfaces of a structure by generating a reference surface and flight legs corresponding to the reference surface.
US10720062B2
Systems and methods for automated vehicle guidance based on coded lighting to enable automated vehicle following and/or regrouping. Systems use projectors to project temporal identifiers for space partitioned by pixel projections. Different space partition is associated with a different identifier. By using simple light sensors mounted on the vehicles, and decoding the sensed light signal, the vehicle can determine its precise location in the space relative to the coded light projector. This information may be used for precise vehicle guidance to enable vehicle following and/or regrouping. For vehicle following, the coded light projector is placed on a moving vehicle. For vehicle regrouping, the coded light projector may be placed on a ground or on a pole. Depending on the guidance precision requirements, the coded light precision may be adjusted by using light projectors with different resolutions.
US10720061B2
A vehicle location tracking system comprises a plurality of transceivers, a coordinator, and a plurality of identification tags. The plurality of identification tags are coupled to a fleet of vehicles to be tracked. The transceivers measure the strength of a signal emitted by an identification tag coupled to a vehicle and communicate the measured signal strength to the coordinator. The indoor vehicle location tracking system estimates the location of the vehicle based on the measured signal strength.
US10720059B2
A system for an autonomous vehicle can receive profile data of a passenger of the autonomous vehicle, the profile data indicating a need of the passenger for audio assistance. Based on the profile data, the system can execute a set of configurations to assist the passenger over a trip duration between a pick-up location and a destination. Execution of the set of configurations can include dynamically monitoring the passenger to determine a state of the passenger, and based on the state of the passenger, output the audio assistance to at least aid the passenger in entering and exiting the autonomous vehicle.
US10720058B2
The present invention provides an on-board vehicle system and method for camera or sensor-based parking spot detection and identification. Advantageously, this system and method utilizes a standard front (or side or rear) camera or sensor image to detect and identify one or more parking spots at a distance via vector or like representation using a deep neural network trained with data annotated using an annotation tool, without first transforming the standard camera or sensor image(s) to a bird's-eye-view (BEV) or the like. The system and method can be incorporated in a driver-assist (DA) or autonomous driving (AD) system.
US10720047B2
An electronic apparatus and a method for controlling the same are provided. More particularly, an electronic apparatus controlled by a first remote controller for a first electronic apparatus, and a method for controlling the same are provided. The y embodiments provide an electronic apparatus controlled by a selection of one button positioned in a first remote controller for a first electronic apparatus, and a method for controlling the same.
US10720046B2
A method of controlling an external apparatus includes receiving a user input information; obtaining apparatus information regarding a plurality of external apparatuses; selecting one or more external apparatuses, from the plurality of external apparatuses, which is communicable with and controllable based on the user input information; generating a control information for controlling the one or more external apparatuses based on a user's input and the apparatus information; and transmitting a control command to the one or more external apparatuses, the control command being generated based on the received control information.
US10720044B2
A headwear device for detecting an electrical signal generated by an ingestible event marker is disclosed. The headwear device includes a detection subsystem to receive an electrical signal generated by an ingestible event marker from a detection arrangement. A processing subsystem is coupled to the detection subsystem to decode the electrical signal. A radio subsystem is configured to transmit the decoded electrical signal to a wireless node. A system includes the headwear device and the detection arrangement. A method includes receiving the electrical signal generated by the ingestible event marker at the headwear device, decoding the electrical signal to extract information associated with the ingestible event marker, and transmitting the information to a wireless node.
US10720030B2
A connectible component is connected to a housing. A sensor of the housing is utilized to detect an identity element of the at connectible component. The connectible component is identified utilizing the at least one sensor. In some implementations, identification of the connectible component may identify whether or not a connectible component is connected to the housing. In other implementations, identification of the connectible component may identify the type of connectible component that is connected. In such implementations, the housing may house an electronic device and the electronic device may be configured based on the type of connectible component that is connected.
US10720018B2
A computer-implemented method of operating a regulated gaming machine may comprise accepting, in the regulated gaming machine, funds from a player and enabling the player to play a wager-based game having a plurality of stages and enabling, for a game session, game play and wagers at a current stage of the game. A determination may then be made whether game play has reached a stage complete state in which all requirements necessary for transitioning game play to a next or another stage of the plurality of stages, as may be a determination whether this is a first time, during the game session, that the game play has reached the stage complete state for the current stage. An incentive may be offered to the player to transition game play to the next or another stage when game play has reached the stage complete state for the first time and not offering the player the incentive otherwise. The offered incentive may be rewarded when a player interaction is received in the regulated gaming machine that causes game play to transition to a next or another stage of the plurality of stages. Continued game play may be enabled in the current stage of the game when a player interaction received in the regulated gaming machine causes game play to remain in the current stage of the plurality of stages. When a determination is made that game play has previously reached the stage complete in the current stage in the game session, the offering and rewarding the incentive to transition the game to the next or another stage is disallowed.
US10720017B1
An automated teller machine (ATM) server includes a processor circuit and a memory including machine-readable instructions that cause the server processor circuit to, based on receipt transaction request messages, cause a transaction fee to be debited from a credit account that is associated with an account identifier contained in the transaction request message. A portion of the transaction fee is credited to a prize pool for a progressive jackpot, and the ATM server determines when a triggering condition has been satisfied by content of one of the transaction request messages for one of the ATM transactions. When the triggering condition has been satisfied for a particular one of the transaction request messages, an award message is transmitted including an instruction to award a portion of the prize pool to a user associated with the transaction request message.
US10720000B2
A door lock mechanism is disclosed that includes door lock end alarm features. The mechanism includes a controller and a sensor useful to detect motions that are representative of attempted access through a door to which the door lock mechanism is attached. The controller can set an alarm condition if a measured motion, such as a measured acceleration, meet and/or exceeds a threshold. If an appropriate access control credential is provided through a user device then the alarm condition may not be set by the controller. The door lock mechanism can be coupled to a remote station via a communications link if needed, such as a radio frequency link. The remote station can additionally be in communication with the door lock mechanism via a network. The remote station can be used to send and receive messages regarding door lock mechanism status, configuration, etc.
US10719991B2
A position and posture acquisition unit of an image generation apparatus acquires position information relating to a point of view of a user. A viewscreen setting unit sets a viewscreen. An original image operation unit calculates a correction amount for a pixel from parallax values of pixels of an original image and an amount of movement of the point of view such that an object looks fixed. Then, an image reference vector map in which an image reference vector that refers to a position before correction from coordinates of each pixel after correction is stored for each pixel is generated. A display image generation unit specifies an image reference vector corresponding to each pixel of the viewscreen and generates, based on the image reference vectors, a color value by filtering pixel values of reference destinations in the original image. An outputting unit outputs a display image.
US10719989B2
In one embodiment, a method includes rendering an augmented-reality environment on a display associated with a first computing device associated with a first user; identifying one or more objects within the augmented-reality environment; determining a suggested augmented-reality content item based on social-networking information associated with the first user, and further based on characteristics associated with the identified objects; and presenting the suggested augmented-reality content item on a display associated with the first computing device.
US10719987B1
Methods, systems, and techniques for projecting streamed video are provided. An Example Surround Video Projection System (SVPS) provides support for displaying augmented reality elements in a virtual reality environment such that the AR elements appear inside the target viewing environment upon which the virtual reality environment is rendered. Also, the SVPS may change the displayed VR environment responsive to attributes and/or characteristics of the user. In one example, the SVPS comprises a real time, interactive rendering system, a display system, and one or more display units. The rendering system comprises a high resolution graphics engine capable of generating high resolution video. The projection system comprises video capture cards to capture the generated video stream and forward it to a projection mapping engine. The projection mapping engine consolidates and stitches together the received video stream as appropriate to render the video stream over display units to the target viewing environment.
US10719981B2
Systems and methods are provided for navigating a three-dimensional model using deterministic movement of an electronic device. An electronic device can load and provide an initial display of a three dimensional model (e.g., of an environment or of an object). As the user moves the electronic device, motion sensing components can detect the device movement and adjust the displayed portion of the three-dimensional model to reflect the movement of the device. By walking with the device in the user's real environment, a user can virtually navigate a representation of a three-dimensional environment. In some embodiments, a user can record an object or environment using an electronic device, and tag the recorded im and orientation of the programmable device relative to the three-dimensional object at the first time responsive to detection of movement ages or video with movement information describing the movement of the device during the recording. The recorded information can then be processed with the movement information to generate a three-dimensional model of the recorded environment or object.
US10719978B2
A non-limiting example game apparatus includes a display device, and a game screen is displayed on the display device. For example, a player character, a non-player character, a background object, etc. are displayed in the game screen. When finishing the drawing of a game image corresponding to the game screen, the smallest value of a Z value is acquired from a Z buffer. If the smallest value is less than a predetermined threshold value, when drawing a game image of a next frame, a target object that is near to a virtual camera is detected, and transparency of the target object that is nearer than a predetermined criterion is made to be increased.
US10719966B1
Systems, devices, and methods provide an augmented reality visualization of a real world accident scene. The system may comprise an augmented reality visualization device in communication with a display interface. The display interface may be configured to present a graphical user interface including an accident scene that corresponds to a real world location. The augmented reality visualization device (and/or system) may comprise one or more data stores configured to store accident scene information corresponding to the real world location, such as vehicles, motorcycles, trees, road objects, etc. Additionally, the one or more data stores may also store participant information corresponding to details about other multiple participants, such as witnesses, other drivers, and/or police officers.
US10719957B2
Provided herein are methods for calibrating a camera. The method may include capturing an image that includes at least a traffic sign. The location of the traffic sign using the image may then be determined, which may include taking as input the location and direction of the vehicle and the location and the direction of the camera relative to the vehicle. The method may also include obtaining an actual location of the traffic sign. The camera may be determined to require recalibration if the determined location is different from the actual location.
US10719951B2
Disclosed herein is a wearable display system for capturing retraining eye images of an eye of a user for retraining a neural network for eye tracking. The system captures retraining eye images using an image capture device when user interface (UI) events occur with respect to UI devices displayed at display locations of a display. The system can generate a retraining set comprising the retraining eye images and eye poses of the eye of the user in the retraining eye images (e.g., related to the display locations of the UI devices) and obtain a retrained neural network that is retrained using the retraining set.
US10719931B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for assessing the quality of medical images of at least a portion of a patient's anatomy, using a computer system. One method includes receiving one or more images of at least a portion of the patient's anatomy; determining, using a processor of the computer system, one or more image properties of the received images; performing, using a processor of the computer system, anatomic localization or modeling of at least a portion of the patient's anatomy based on the received images; obtaining an identification of one or more image characteristics associated with an anatomic feature of the patient's anatomy based on the anatomic localization or modeling; and calculating, using a processor of the computer system, an image quality score based on the one or more image properties and the one or more image characteristics.
US10719919B1
An information processing apparatus includes: an imaging unit configured to acquire an RGB image of an imaging target, and to output either a captured image in which a background area determined to be the background in the RGB image is subjected to blur processing based on the depth information, or a captured image in which the blur processing is not performed on the RGB image; an authentication processing section configured to execute authentication processing based on the captured image output from the imaging unit; a login processing section configured to execute login processing to log in based on the authentication result by the authentication processing section; and a blur processing control section configured to instruct the imaging unit not to perform the blur processing at least during a period in which the authentication processing section executes the authentication processing.
US10719911B2
A method includes defining a virtual space including a virtual camera; an operation object; and a target object. The method includes detecting a position of a head-mounted device and a position of a part of a body other than a head. The method includes moving the virtual camera in accordance with movement of the head-mounted device. The method includes moving the operation object in accordance with movement of the part of the body. The method includes selecting the target object in accordance with movement of the operation object. Selecting the target object includes correcting a direction or a position of the target object based on a positional relationship between the operation object and the target object; and associating the target object, the corrected direction or the corrected position, with the operation object. The method includes moving the target object in accordance with movement of the operation object.
US10719910B2
Customizing virtual assets is disclosed, including: transforming each of a plurality of initially identical copies of a virtual asset or a portion thereof to isolate a feature of the virtual asset or portion thereof; and enabling the isolated feature to be changed by a user in at least one of the transformed copies. In some embodiments, customizing virtual assets includes: receiving a three-dimensional model associated with the virtual asset; receiving an indication to save a two-dimensional virtual asset based on the 3D model with a 2D image wrapped on it; and using the 3D model with the 2D image wrapped on it to generate the 2D virtual asset.
US10719900B2
A method and apparatus to perform actions in public safety incidents based on actions performed in prior incidents are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a first set of incident information associated with the public safety incident, receiving a second set of responder information associated with at least one public safety personnel, correlating, by using a public safety recommendation engine, the first set of incident information and the second set of responder information with one or more other sets of public safety incident information and responder information associated with prior incidents, identifying, by the public safety recommendation engine, at least one correlated mobile device action from mobile device actions associated with a subset of prior public safety incidents, and causing the correlated mobile device action to be at least one of presented as a recommendation on the corresponding mobile device and performed by the corresponding mobile device.
US10719897B2
The disclosure relates to a computer-based system for managing just-in-time preparation and delivery of food products. In the system, customers can build, place, and pay for their order. Once the order is placed, the system will track the users location, only starting to prepare their food when the customer is within a specific proximity to the retail location. The proximity will be dynamic and expand and contract with the customer's movements. Finally, the system will coordinate the preparation, assembly and packaging of the order to provide just-in-time delivery of the customer's order, thereby reducing food waste and enhancing the freshness and taste of the product delivered to improve the customer experience.
US10719887B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions. A processor of a server connected to a network executes the instructions to obtain expense data from a terminal device via the network, store the specific user ID, the image data, the receipt information data and expense identification information in a first storage in an associated manner. The processor identifies service identification information stored in a second storage and associated with the specific user ID stored in the first storage. The second storage is configured to store the service information including at least service identification information and user identification information. The service identification information is used for a series of data processing regarding a specific business process. The processor further stores the service identification information identified in the service identifying operation in the first storage so as to be associated with the expense identification information associated with the specific user identification information.
US10719879B1
Methods and systems for offering and providing trip-based vehicle insurance are provided. Information is received regarding a vehicle operator and a vehicle, and trip-based insurance policies including quantities of vehicle use units are offered to the customer. Based on selected coverage types, the insurance provider may generate an insurance quote for a policy having an amount of the vehicle use units and may facilitate a purchase transaction with the customer for the insurance policy. Once a policy is selected and purchased, the system and method monitor vehicle use to determine each use of a vehicle use unit. Each vehicle use unit generally corresponds to one vehicle trip, but additional vehicle trip limitations may be added that may result in additional charges when exceeded during the course of a vehicle trip.
US10719872B2
Techniques facilitating advising bid values for usage of resource in a resource allocation data analytics framework are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method can include generating, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, one or more performance models. A performance model of the one or more performance models is associated with respective service classes for a resource of a computing infrastructure associated with a provider network and comprising one or more resources available for allocation. A service class of the respective service classes represents a performance differentiation compared to other ones of the respective service classes. The computer-implemented method can also include determining, by the system, a suggested bid value for the resource. The suggested bid value represents an expected performance metric of the resource as a function of a bid value and is based on the one or more performance models.
US10719869B1
A data processing system generates recommendations for on-line shopping by scoring recommendations matching the customer's cart contents using by assessing and ranking each candidate recommendation by the expected incremental margin associated with the recommendation being issued (as compared to the expected margin associated with the recommendation not being issued) by taking into consideration historical associations, knowledge of the layout of the site, the complexity of the product being sold, the user's session behavior, the quality of the selling point messages, product life cycle, substitutability, demographics and/or other considerations relating to the customer purchase environment. In an illustrative implementation, scoring inputs for each candidate recommendation (such as relevance, exposure, clarity and/or pitch strength) are included in a probabilistic framework (such as a Bayesian network) to score the effectiveness of the candidate recommendation and/or associated selling point messages by comparing a recommendation outcome (e.g., purchase likelihood or expected margin resulting from a given recommendation) against a non-recommendation outcome (e.g., the purchase likelihood or expected margin if no recommendation is issued). In addition, a probabilistic framework may also be used to select a selling point message for inclusion with a selected candidate recommendation by assessing the relative strength of the selling point messages by factoring in a user profile match factor (e.g., the relative likelihood that the customer matches the various user case profiles).
US10719868B2
The present invention is a system and application that is engineered to “learn” the current location and/or activity of a user by tracking, monitoring, recording, analyzing, etc. where that user goes, as well as what that user is doing, in order to determine if they may be in an area deemed to be a “high touch surface” location and therefore more susceptible to germs and bacteria. If it is the present invention will then utilize artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithms in order to recommend to said user a variety of cleaning, sanitizing, disinfecting, and other such products and services for their mobile device, person, vehicle, or other such items.
US10719863B2
Embodiments of this specification disclose systems and methods for automotive part recognition based on a vehicle damage assessment image. A method includes: obtaining a damage assessment image of a target vehicle; obtaining an automotive part list of the target vehicle based on a vehicle identification code of the target vehicle, wherein the automotive part list comprises customized configuration information of automotive parts of the target vehicle; and determining a damaged automotive part of the target vehicle from the damage assessment image based on the customized configuration information of the automotive parts of the target vehicle and an image recognition algorithm, to obtain an automotive part identification serial number of the determined damaged automotive part.
US10719853B2
To provide an advertisement distribution method of determining a distribution destination of an advertisement of a product that has a low direct relevance to execution pieces of information collected from home appliances. The advertisement distribution method includes: a collecting step of collecting, from each of one or more of home appliances owned by each of users, one or more pieces of execution information each indicating a function that has been executed by the home appliance; a detecting step of, with respect to each user, detecting an unused function that has not been used in each home appliance by analyzing the collected pieces of execution information and functions of the home appliance; and a transmitting step of extracting a user who is expected to purchase a product based on a detection result, and transmitting an advertisement to one or more of the home appliances owned by the extracted user.
US10719848B2
Media monitoring and measurement systems and methods are disclosed. Some embodiments of the present invention provide a media measurement system and method that utilizes audience data to enhance content identifications. Some embodiments analyze media player log data to enhance content identification. Other embodiments of the present invention analyze sample sequence data to enhance content identifications. Other embodiments analyze sequence data to enhance content identification and/or to establish channel identification. Yet other embodiments provide a system and method in which sample construction and selection parameters are adjusted based upon identification results. Yet other embodiments provide a method in which play-altering activity of an audience member is deduced from content offset values of identifications corresponding to captured samples. Yet other embodiments provide a monitoring and measurement system in which a media monitoring device is adapted to receive a wireless or non-wireless audio signal from a media player, the audio signal also being received wirelessly by headphones of a user of the monitoring device.
US10719835B2
Embodiments of the disclosed technology include systems and methods that can establish a communication link with a customer device, can receive call information from the customer device, can retrieve a customer profile based on a comparison of the call information to stored call information, and can save the customer profile as temporary profile data. Embodiments can receive identifying information from the customer device and, responsive to determining, based on a comparison of the identifying information to the temporary profile data, that the communication link is authenticated, connect the communication link to an authenticated call path. Responsive to determining that a predetermined amount of time has elapsed without determining that the communication link is authenticated, embodiments can determine that the communication link is unauthenticated and can connect the communication link to an unauthenticated call path and delete the temporary profile data.
US10719833B2
A device with one or more processors, memory, and two or more communication capabilities obtains, from a payment module, an authorization request via a first communication capability (e.g., Bluetooth). The device sends, to a server, the authorization request via a second communication capability distinct from the first communication capability (e.g., cellular or WiFi technology). In response to sending the authorization request, the device obtains, from the server, authorization information via the second communication capability. After obtaining the authorization information, the device detects a trigger condition to perform a transaction with a payment accepting unit associated with the payment module. In response to detecting the trigger condition, the device sends, to the payment module, at least a portion of the authorization information via the first communication capability.
US10719830B1
An example computing device is programmed to: (a) detect an attempt to secondarily access a user account, the user account being involved in an ongoing primary financial session with a primary device; (b) raise the level of authentication required to secondarily access the user account beyond that which was required to access the account for the primary financial session; (c) when successful authentication at the raised level is achieved, permit secondary access to the user account through a secondary financial session and compare one or more user activities occurring during the secondary financial session to a plurality of fraud profiles; and (d) indicate fraud when comparison of the user activity is consistent with one or more of the plurality of fraud profiles.
US10719818B2
Systems and methods for generating proposed budget amounts by a budget tool are provided. A budget system identifies a budget category for a user. Information associated with one or more payees of the user and payment history information associated with one or more payments made to a payee included in the one or more payees is obtained from a bill payment system. Based at least in part on the obtained information, the payee is identified by the budget system as a budget payee associated with the budget category. Based at least in part on the identified payment history information, a proposed budget amount for the budget payee is calculated. A presentation is generated that includes an indication of the budget category, an indication of the budget payee, and an indication of the proposed budget amount. The generated presentation is transmitted by the budget system for display to the user.
US10719812B2
A notifying system for notifying a user is provided. The system comprises an apparatus (1; 21) arranged to perform a task. The apparatus may for example be a kitchen appliance such as an oven, where its task is heating food. The apparatus may also be a ticket machine of a public transport service. The system further comprises a mobile notifying device (2; 22; 40) for notifying the user about a task of the apparatus. The apparatus may be arranged to automatically detect the mobile notifying device if the mobile notifying device is in the vicinity of the apparatus once the task is initiated by a user, and to associate the task with the mobile notifying device. The apparatus and notifying device are arranged to communicate a notification message via a wireless communication network. This notification message comprises information related to the task, such as a message telling the user that the food is cooked. By automatically detecting the mobile notifying device, the apparatus is able to send a message to a person which has (most probably) initiated the task.
US10719808B2
Methods, systems, and devices for implementing video assisted hiring using a web-based job posting platform are disclosed, including receiving a first set of data relating to a position including one or more of a job description, job title, salary, location, job type, schedule, travel requirements, and benefits, sending a request for video messages relating to the position to one or more of a hiring manager, a supervisor, a direct report, and a colleague, receiving a second set of data including additional information relating to the position, receiving an input as to whether the received video messages should be included in the job posting, and in response to an approval of the video messages, sending the job posting, including the first and second sets of data and the video messages, to a server to be made available for viewing by applicants.
US10719807B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for managing projects using references between the project and project items. Project items can be, for example, synchronized content items, collaborative content items, other projects, folders, tasks, user accounts, etc. The content management system can create a project identifier for managing data and/or people associated with a project. In various implementations, the content management system can store references between the project and project items in one or more folders associated with the project, in a database, in content item metadata, etc. In some implementations, the storage location of a content item does not affect whether it is associated with the project. When a project is selected by a user, the content management system can generate project view that presents various project items associated with the project in a convenient and easy to access graphical user interface.
US10719794B2
An operation support apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives a file and environment information from a terminal, the file pertaining to operation support received by a user of the terminal, the environment information indicating an operation environment of the terminal, a screen generator that generates image data of a screen referenced when performing the operation support based on the received file and environment information, and an output unit that outputs the generated image data.
US10719792B2
A rideshare system including: a memory including executable instructions; a controller to execute the executable instructions; one or more mobile computing devices configured to transmit pickup location data and drop-off location data to the controller; a rideshare vehicle configured to transmit vehicle location data to the controller; and where the executable instructions enable the controller to: receive the pickup location data from the one or more mobile computing devices; receive the drop-off location data from the one or more mobile computing devices; receive vehicle location data from the rideshare vehicle; based on the pickup location data, drop-off location data, and vehicle location data, calculate rideshare service priority variable data for each of the one or more mobile computing devices; transmit, to the rideshare vehicle, the rideshare service priority variable data, pickup location data, and drop-off location data for at least one of the one or more mobile computing devices.
US10719790B2
A system and associated method are provided for maintenance of a plurality of washroom facilities by maintenance personnel, wherein each of the washroom facilities has one or more consumable product dispensers that require periodic refill. For each of the washroom facilities, the product dispensers are configured with a sensor that detects a product level or amount condition of the product dispenser, the sensors in communication with a monitoring station assigned to the washroom facility. A set of instructions unique to each of the washroom facilities is generated based upon the detected product level or amount conditions of the dispensers in the respective washroom facility, the set of instructions including instructions as to the amount of product refill to be added to the dispensers. With an identification (ID) system configured within each washroom facility, maintenance personnel that enter the washroom facility are identified and provided with the unique set of instructions in a message via a mobile smart device carried by the maintenance personnel or an audio or visual display device within the washroom facility.
US10719787B2
Systems and methods for generating crop yield maps are provided, in one example embodiment, a method can include accessing, by one or more processors, data indicative of crop yield for a field area; and accessing, by the one or more processors, one or more data types associated with the field area. Each of the data types can provide a geospatial distribution of data associated with vegetation across the field area. The method can further include determining, by the one or more processors, a crop yield distribution for the field area based at least in part on the data indicative of crop yield and the one or more data types; and generating, by the one or more processors, a yield map for the field area based at least in part on the crop yield distribution.
US10719785B2
A system, method, apparatus and computer program product for improved vehicle late return prediction and detection. A computer system determines an end return time by which a vehicle is to be returned by a user or member to a return location. The system receives current vehicle location data at a first predetermined time before the end return time, and the distance between the current vehicle location and return location is combined with a vehicle velocity to calculate an expected return time of the vehicle. The expected return time is compared to the end return time to determine if there will be a potential late return.
US10719777B2
A method, computer-readable medium, and apparatus for modeling data of a service for providing a policy are disclosed. For example, a method may include a processor for generating a first policy for a first service by a first policy model using machine learning for processing first data of the first service, determining whether the first policy is to be applied to a second service, applying the first policy to the second service when the first policy is deemed to be applicable to the second service, wherein the applying the first policy provides the first policy to a second policy model using machine learning for processing second data of the second service, generating a second policy for the second service, and implementing the second policy in the second service, wherein the first service and the second service are provided by a single service provider.
US10719773B2
A method described herein includes an act of receiving data that is indicative of predicted weather conditions for a particular geographic region, wherein the particular geographic region has an energy generation system therein, and wherein the energy generation system utilizes at least one renewable energy resource to generate electrical power. The method also includes the act of scheduling a computational workload for at least one computer in a data center based at least in part upon the data that is indicative of the predicted weather conditions for the particular geographic region.
US10719761B2
A system includes a neural network that includes a Mixture of Experts (MoE) subnetwork between a first neural network layer and a second neural network layer. The MoE subnetwork includes multiple expert neural networks. Each expert neural network is configured to process a first layer output generated by the first neural network layer to generate a respective expert output. The MoE subnetwork further includes a gating subsystem that selects, based on the first layer output, one or more of the expert neural networks and determine a respective weight for each selected expert neural network, provides the first layer output as input to each of the selected expert neural networks, combines the expert outputs generated by the selected expert neural networks in accordance with the weights for the selected expert neural networks to generate an MoE output, and provides the MoE output as input to the second neural network layer.
US10719725B2
Systems and methods monitor driver behavior for vehicular fleet management in a fleet of vehicles using driver-facing imaging device. The systems and methods herein relate generally to vehicular fleet management for enhancing safety of the fleet and improving the performance of the fleet drivers, and further relate to monitoring the operation of fleet vehicles using one or more driver-facing imaging devices disposed in the fleet vehicles for recording activities of the fleet drivers and their passengers, storing information relating to the monitored activities, selectively generating warnings related to the monitored activities, and reporting the monitored activities to a central fleet management system for use in enhancing the safety of the vehicles of the fleet and for helping to improve the performance of the fleet drivers.
US10719719B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for determining whether probe data points are map-matched or non-map-matched such that the probe data can be processed and analyzed appropriately without introducing bias into the analysis which may be caused by map-matching ahead of analysis. A mapping system includes a memory having map data stored therein, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry may be configured to receive probe data points associated with a plurality of vehicles. Each probe data point is received from a probe apparatus of a plurality of probe apparatuses. The probe apparatus includes a plurality of sensors and being onboard a respective vehicle. Each probe data point includes location information associated with the respective probe apparatus.
US10719713B2
A process identifies participants in a communication session, the participants including a first user and a second user. The process analyzes digital images of a scene and extracts image features relating to the second user. The process accesses a classification of past digital communications involving the second user and to which the second user has reacted with positive sentiment, and determines comment(s) to which the second user is expected to react with positive sentiment if provided by the first user. The comment(s) are determined based on correlating the image features to the classification of past digital communications to which the second user has reacted with positive sentiment. The comment(s) are then provided, during the real-time communication session and as suggestions for the first user to make to the second user, for overlay on a display through which the first user views the scene including the second user.
US10719710B2
Various systems and methods for capturing media moments are described herein. An autonomous camera system for capturing media moments includes a configuration module to receive configuration parameters; a flight control module to autonomously maneuver the autonomous camera system over a crowd of people; a search module to search for a subject in the crowd of people based on the configuration parameters; and a control module to perform an action when the subject is found in the crowd of people.
US10719700B1
Techniques for optical character recognition improvement based on inline location determination is provided. The techniques include receiving a digital data stream containing a digital image. As the digital data stream arrives, a determination is made whether a number of received bytes associated with a header portion of the digital image has reached a target number. In response to determining that the number of received bytes associated with the header portion of the digital image has reached the target number, the bytes associated with the header portion of the digital image are cloned. While the digital data stream is received, location data from the cloned bytes associated with the header portion are determined. After the digital image has been received, text in the digital image is caused to be recognized by an optical character recognition system based, at least in part, on the location data.
US10719698B2
Systems and methods are directed toward occupancy detection in a predefined space including one or more sub-zones. Occupancy of the predefined space can be determined by determining the occupancy of an outer zone comprising the predefined space, and determining the occupancy of individual sub-zones to the outer zone. Occupancy values of the individual sub-zones can be rescaled such that the sum of the individual sub-zones occupancies sum to the already determined outer zone occupancy. The occupancy of the predefined space then may be determined using the rescaled occupancies of the various sub-zones included in the predefined space. Such processes can be repeated for individual sub-zones, which may be treated as a separate outer zone including one or more sub-zones.
US10719688B2
The device provides an optical coherence tomography system; a first bank of light emitting diodes emitting light centered about a first wavelength; a second bank of light emitting diodes, emitting light centered about a second wavelength; a prism, said prism including a first surface transmissive of the wavelength of the probe beam of the optical coherence tomography system, and a second surface which is also transmissive of the wavelength of the probe beam, and where the second is surface coated from a first edge to a midpoint so to be reflective of light at the first wavelength and transmissive of light at the second wavelength, and from the midpoint to a second edge transmissive of light at the first wavelength and reflective of light at the second wavelength; and one or more detector arrays. Alternate embodiments are taught.
US10719685B2
A papillary print sensor comprising in superposition a contact surface to which the print to be imaged is intended to be applied, an array optical sensor and illuminating device. The illuminating device is arranged between the contact surface and a detecting surface of the array optical sensor, and consists of a plurality of organic light-emitting diodes, referred to as OLEDs. Each OLED extends uninterruptedly over more than a third of a width (L1) of the detecting surface, and the OLEDs extend together along one or two series of patterns that are parallel to one another and distributed along the length (L2) of the detecting surface. This configuration of the OLEDs allows in particular the transistors for controlling the OLEDs to be placed off the detecting surface (125).
US10719683B2
A hybrid capacitive and optical fingerprint sensor system includes: capacitive sensor electrodes; an optical image sensor having a plurality of image sensor pixels; light conditioning elements, configured to condition light from a sensing region of the hybrid capacitive and optical fingerprint sensor for detection by the optical image sensor; and a processing system having one or more controllers, configured to operate the capacitive sensor electrodes in a low-power mode of operation for the hybrid capacitive and optical fingerprint sensor, and to operate the optical image sensor to acquire an image from the sensing region of the hybrid capacitive and optical fingerprint sensor.
US10719678B2
A device for checking access authorizations stored on data carriers is provided, having a reading unit, arranged in the access region, for the data carrier, said reading unit actuating a signaling means and/or a blocking means, wherein the reading unit includes a housing having an insertion region for the data carrier and the insertion region having an upper first wall with a reading module sensing the insertion region, a lower second wall of the insertion region be fastened detachably and/or pivotably to the housing, that the reading unit can be changed from a first state to a second state in a predefinable manner by pivoting and/or removing the lower second wall, wherein in the first state of the reading unit, the second wall, together with the first wall, forms a U- or V-shaped insertion region and in the second state, the insertion region is L-shaped and open towards the bottom.
US10719674B2
A scalable tag detection, location, tracking, recovery, and data collection system uses a social network of mobile devices, such as smartphones, as readers, to find lost or stolen goods that are tagged, or to read data or sensor values from tags at remote locations. A network service apparatus compiles IDs of tags of interest into a data structure representing a subset of all tagged items, and transmits the data structure information to the participating mobile devices. Each mobile device application can receive tag transmissions when in proximity to any tag. The mobile device processes received tags with the filter to determine if they are part of the composition of the data structure and thus a tag of interest. If so, the mobile device location, time, and tag ID, are relayed to the network service for additional analysis. The short range tag emits a low power, low duty factor signal.
US10719673B2
A system may comprise: an information storage device; RFID tags that are placed in different physical locations and contain information relating to a corresponding object, including at least identification information of the corresponding object; and provided at a physical location which facilitates access to the information by a user interested in the corresponding object; a mobile device configured to: select one or more objects of interest by establishing communication with one or more of the corresponding RFID tags; extract information relating to the one or more objects of interest from the one or more of the RFID tags corresponding to the one or more objects of interest; and send the extracted information to the information storage device via a wireless network, wherein the information storage device is configured to store the extracted information in association with an access code that enables access to the extracted information.
US10719672B2
An asset tag apparatus and methods of monitoring assets with an asset tag are provided. The asset tag apparatus includes a housing and a wireless transmitter located within the housing. A processor is located within the housing, wherein the processor is in communication with the wireless transmitter. An accelerometer is positioned within the housing, wherein the accelerometer is in communication with the processor, wherein a wake-up signal is transmitted from the accelerometer to the processor in response to an activation of the accelerometer, and wherein the wireless transmitter transmits a signal externally from the housing in response to the wake-up signal received by the processor.
US10719662B2
Knowledge map-based question-answer method, server, and storage medium are provided. The method includes obtaining a natural query sentence inputted by a user, and identifying a globally unique identifier, with respect to the knowledge map, of an entity in the natural query sentence. The knowledge map includes attributes and attribute values of entities and relationships thereof. The method also includes according to a context-free grammar rule, parsing the natural query sentence into a syntax tree, and according to the syntax tree, obtaining a logical expression corresponding to the natural query sentence. Moreover, the method includes according to the logical expression and the globally unique identifier of the entity, generating a machine query sentence corresponding to the knowledge map. Further, the method includes according to the machine query sentence, querying a question-answer result corresponding to the machine query sentence in the knowledge map, and feeding back the question-answer result to the user.
US10719658B2
A method of presenting axes of documents along timelines on a display is displaying pluralities of documents with a plurality of time-spaces on a display, the documents being displayed along axes of documents adjacently displaying documents in a substantially rectilinear fashion on the display along a chronological order including a respective timelines representing a chronological order including a plurality of time units in respective time-spaces along the chronological order over a plurality of time units including a non-linear timescale and a time distribution that is substantially variable, with equal lengths of time not being visually represented with equal lengths of distance along the axes of documents, wherein the units of time of the plurality of time-spaces are chronologically of a different durations and at least one unit of time can be absent from the timelines.
US10719654B2
A method for processing design data for a semiconductor circuit may be provided. The design data describe a signal line and related physical characteristics. The method comprises receiving the design data for the signal line, receiving constraint data describing a blockage area, and determining a segment of the signal line that would overlap with the blockage area assuming a direct path from the source to the sink. The method comprises further determining for the segment, based on the length of the segment, whether the segment is route-able without inserting a buffer while meeting the timing constraints, and modifying, in case a segment is not route-able without inserting a buffer, the physical characteristics of the signal line. Thereby, the determining the segment, the determining whether the segment length is route-able, and the modifying the physical characteristics is performed before placing buffers in the signal line and routing the signal line.
US10719652B2
The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to an electromigration sign-off tool. The tool includes electronic memory configured to store an integrated chip design and an environmental temperature having a same value corresponding to a plurality of interconnect wires within the integrated chip design. An adder is configured to add the environmental temperature to a plurality of real temperatures to determine a plurality of actual temperatures having different values corresponding to different ones of the plurality of interconnect wires. The plurality of real temperatures account for Joule heating on the plurality of interconnect wires. An average current limit calculation element is configured to determine an average current limit at a first one of the plurality of actual temperatures. A comparator is configured to determine an electromigration violation on a first interconnect wire by comparing the average current limit to an average current of the first interconnect wire.
US10719648B2
A method is disclosed that includes providing an IP bank, an application bank, and a technology bank; generating a hierarchical table based on the IP bank and the application bank; performing an estimation of at least one of a performance value, a power value, an area value and a cost value, which corresponds to the hierarchical table, by using the technology bank, to output an result data as a basis of fabrication of a system.
US10719644B2
The independent claims of this patent signify a concise description of embodiments. Each component of a testbench configured to test a DUT is associated at compile time with a different hardware transactor. The testbench is partitioned at compile time into a plurality of independent partitioned testbenches, where each independent partitioned testbench comprises at least one component of the testbench. At run time, each of the plurality of partitioned testbenches is simulated in parallel. The simulating of a partitioned testbench includes execution of its at least one component on its at least one associated hardware transactor using the hardware emulation system. This Abstract is not intended to limit the scope of the claims.
US10719641B2
A non-transitory processor-readable medium includes code to cause a processor to receive aerial data having a plurality of points arranged in a pattern. An indication associated with each point is provided as an input to a machine learning model to classify each point into a category from a plurality of categories. For each point, a set of points (1) adjacent to that point and (2) having a common category is identified to define a shape from a plurality of shapes. A polyline boundary of each shape is defined by analyzing with respect to a criterion, a position of each point associated with a border of that shape relative to at least one other point. A layer for each category including each shape associated with that category is defined and a computer-aided design file is generated using the polyline boundary of each shape and the layer for each category.
US10719639B2
According to some embodiments, system and methods are provided comprising: receiving data; providing a simulation model for the data; generating one or more simulations via a Bayesian module based on the data, wherein the simulation includes one or more nodes in a chain; executing the Bayesian module to determine the acceptability of the nodes in the simulation based on a Bayesian rule, wherein execution of the Bayesian module further comprises: generating a binary decision tree representing the chain in the simulation, wherein the chain includes one or more nodes; prioritizing which nodes in the tree to simulate; generating one or more simulations; executing the simulation model with data associated with the prioritized nodes in the tree in parallel to determine a posterior probability for each prioritized node; and determining whether each prioritized node is accepted or rejected based on the posterior probabilities. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US10719637B2
Methods and systems for model discovery include forming a mathematical program based on a set of observational data to generate an objective function and one or more constraints. The mathematical program represents a model space as an expression tree comprising operators and operands. The mathematical program is solved by optimizing the objective function subject to the one or more constraints to determine a model in the model space that best fits the set of observational data.
US10719636B1
Gross energy load can be determined by combining periodic net load statistics, such as provided by a power utility or energy agency, with on-site power generation, such as photovoltaic power generation, as produced over the same time period. The gross energy load provides an indication upon which other types of energy investment choices can be evaluated. These choices can include traditional energy efficiencies, such as implementing electrical efficiency measures, which includes cutting down on and avoiding wasteful energy use and switching to energy efficient fixtures, and improving the thermal efficiency and performance of a building. The choices can also include non-traditional energy efficiencies, such as replacing a gasoline-powered vehicle with an electric vehicle, fuel switching from a water heater fueled by natural gas to a heat pump water heater, and fuel switching from space heating fueled by natural gas to a heat pump space heater.
US10719634B2
A method for optimizing a cracking efficiency with which a pyrolysis tube of a deposition apparatus cracks a precursor material into reactive species is disclosed, including measuring an input pressure at an entrance to the pyrolysis tube, outside of the pyrolysis tube; measuring an output pressure at an exit from the pyrolysis tube, outside of the pyrolysis tube; measuring a pyrolysis temperature within the pyrolysis tube; calculating a cracking efficiency based on the input pressure, the output pressure and the pyrolysis temperature; and determining an adjustment to be made to at least one of the input pressure, the output pressure and the pyrolysis temperature to increase the cracking efficiency.
US10719626B2
In an example embodiment, submitted confidential data of a certain cohort (e.g., title, region, organization) is augmented by modeling confidential data of a more generalized cohort based on peer organizations. The modeling may be performed using Bayesian modeling and the results used to infer confidential data values for the original cohort. The inferred confidential data values can then be used to generate statistical insights for display in a graphical user interface.
US10719621B2
In one embodiment, a method comprises creating and storing, one or more data objects; wherein a first plurality of the data objects is associated with a base set of data representing data shared across a plurality of users; wherein a second plurality of the data objects is associated with one or more child sets of data, wherein each of the child sets of data represents data local to a project, wherein each of the users is associated with one or more of the child sets of data; wherein each data object is associated to an identifier value and to a version identifier value for a plurality of versions of the data object, wherein each of the versions represents a change to the data object by any of a plurality of users; receiving a request from a first user to view a third plurality of data objects; selecting, based on the base set of data, the particular set of data, the version identifier value for the data objects in the third plurality, and one or more rules associated with the particular set of data and the first user, data objects in the third plurality that can be viewed by the first user; creating a particular data view that includes only the selected data objects; and providing a display of the particular data view to the first user.
US10719619B1
Systems and methods for managing a list of huddle board participants are disclosed. The huddle collaboration system includes a huddle management system having an authentication module, a data processing module, a huddle board management module, and a module manager, among other suitable components. The system runs an automatic process to update a list of huddle boards and huddle board participants, which includes the process of adding or eliminating team members from the list of participants of one or more huddle boards and/or modifying a dotted line member's permissions within one or more huddle boards. The huddle board management module enables the automatic update of permissions assigned to a team member in one or more huddle boards, in a faster and more accurate manner; therefore enhancing the productivity of the huddle and leveraging the human and information technology resource of the company.
US10719611B2
An example embodiment may involve a remote network management platform including a computational instance hosting a particular application. The particular application may be based on a unit of program code, use one or more database tables, and define one or more user roles with respect to accessing the program code and the database tables. A scanner application may be configured to: receive, from a client device, a request to scan the particular application; retrieve the particular application; conduct a static security scan by applying a set of rules that define security vulnerabilities, where the rules take into account (i) relationships between the user roles and the unit of program code, and (ii) relationships between the user roles and the database table; and transmit, to the client device, a representation of a web page that contains observed security vulnerabilities of the particular application.
US10719610B2
Systems, methods, and software can be used to generating security manifests for software components using binary static analysis. In some aspects, one computer-implemented method includes performing a binary static analysis of a binary software component to determine one or more security characteristics of the binary software component; generating a security manifest for the binary software component including the determined one or more security characteristics of the binary software component; and providing the security manifest to a software management system configured to determine whether to deploy the binary software component based on the security manifest.
US10719599B2
A verification request is received. In response to receiving the verification request, a first character string is obtained. The first character string comprises one or more variable characters. At least one of the one or more variable characters in the first character string is replaced with at least one backup character to generate a second character string based on multiple pre-established corresponding relationships. A verification code is generated based on the second character string. A user corresponding to the verification request is verified based on a user input corresponding to the verification code.
US10719595B2
According to at least one example embodiment of the present invention, provided is a face authentication system including: a criterion setting unit that sets a criterion of face authentication performed on a user so as to be different in accordance with a state of an access target system accessed by the user; and a face authentication unit that performs face authentication of the user based on the criterion.
US10719579B2
A method for validating quantification of biomarkers, the biomarkers being quantified using a quantification technique of a selected type, and the method including determining a plurality of biomarker values, each biomarker value being indicative of a value measured or derived from a measured value, for at least one corresponding biomarker of the biological subject and being at least partially indicative of a concentration of the biomarker in a sample taken from the subject, determining at least one control value by determining a combination of biomarker values, comparing each control value to a respective control reference and determining if the biomarker values are valid using results of the comparison.
US10719573B2
Systems and methods for retrieving data of a web page are described herein. In one broad aspect, there is provided a method comprising: requesting the data of the web page from a browser application instance in accordance with a protocol capable of remotely instructing behavior of the browser application instance; in response to the requesting, receiving the data of the web page; instructing a server-side parser to retrieve at least one data item from the data of the web page; and transmitting the at least one data item to a requestor.
US10719566B1
An online system generates a model for determining quality scores for content items by presenting content items to a group of users who provide ratings for the content items. Based on ratings received from various users of the group, the online system generates the model. To mitigate bias from ratings received from different users of the group, the online system generates a distribution of ratings received from users of the group within a time interval and generates a cumulative distribution function by integrating the distribution. For a user of the group, the online system generates a user distribution of rankings received from the user. Additionally, for a rating received from the user, the online system determines a percentage of ratings received from the user less than the rating. Based on the cumulative distribution function and the percentage, the online system generates a normalized rating corresponding to the rating from user.
US10719563B2
A method for providing information to a mobile handheld device from a database system is provided. The method embodiment includes receiving by a node hosting an information management service a request for data. The request is received from a network enabled mobile handheld device that has intermittent network connectivity. The information management service is configured for identifying unrequested anticipated data based on the requested data. In an embodiment, the anticipated data is identified based on a data request pattern associated with the requested data. Once identified, the requested data and the anticipated data is retrieved from a database system. The requested data and at least a portion of the anticipated data is sent to the network enabled mobile handheld device via a network. By providing anticipated data along with requested data, a mobile user has direct access to unrequested anticipated data when network connectivity is interrupted.
US10719557B2
Techniques for improving database searches are described herein. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented data processing method comprises receiving a request to store a digital data object in a non-graph data repository, the data object comprising one or more first properties, the data object conforming to a first schema of the non-graph data repository; in response to the initiating, concurrently: digitally storing the data object in the non-graph data repository; transforming the data object into one or more nodes and edges of a graph; storing the one or more nodes and edges of the graph in a graph data repository that is separate from the non-graph data repository; electronically receiving a search query that specifies a path-based search; in response to receiving the search query: transforming the search query into a graph search query; submitting the graph search query to the graph data repository; receiving a result set of nodes from the graph data repository; transforming the result set of nodes into a set of corresponding data objects in the non-graph data repository; providing the set of corresponding data objects as output in a computer display.
US10719556B2
When a control unit performs a first operation on a data group, the control unit registers operation information corresponding to the data group in transfer control information. When the control unit extracts the data group as a transfer target, the control unit temporarily stores the corresponding operation information as stored information and transfers the data group to a storage apparatus. When the control unit performs a second operation on the data group while the data group is being transferred, the control unit updates the operation information registered in the transfer control information. When the transfer of the data group is completed, the control unit compares the operation information registered in the transfer control information with the stored information. If these items of information do not match, the control unit retransfers the data group to the storage apparatus.
US10719548B2
A method for territorial filtering, streaming, and downloading media files over a client-server network with local read-write execution capabilities enables application of digital rights management data across batches of media files without admin having to alter each file, or metadata associated with each file, individually. Media files stored remotely in memory associated with a server are batch-handled for application of digital rights management data. Digital rights management data is applicable to batched files by assignation to particular directories wherein media files stored within a particular directory are associable with particular digital rights management data. Territorial filtering is applied to exclude media files from display as part of a selectable menu whereby users requesting access from certain locations are denied access to media files restricted from playback in that location. Media files transferred to user peripheral devices for offline playback are automatically deleted when an associated end time is clocked.
US10719544B2
A system includes a computing device including a processor programmed to receive data identifying a mental state of a user, the data including at least one of a user physical condition and a user communication. Based on the mental state data, the processor is programmed to assign one or more stored keywords to the user, and provide media content to the user based on the keywords assigned to the user based on the mental state data.
US10719542B1
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology can be used in combination with composable communication goal statements and an ontology to facilitate a user's ability to quickly structure story outlines in a manner usable by an NLG narrative generation system without any need for the user to directly author computer code. This AI technology permits NLG systems to determine the appropriate content for inclusion in a narrative story about a data set in a manner that will satisfy a desired communication goal. The AI NLG computer system can also build and update the ontology concurrently with a user's composition of communication goal statements.
US10719537B2
A large number of objects, such as objects representing beams and columns in an object-oriented enterprise engineering system, may be geometrically transformed in a model database by dividing the objects according to criteria into a number of ordered partitions and transforming the objects in each partition as an atomic operation. The number of objects that may be transformed is not constrained by the amount of memory available in the system. Objects that are to be transformed are organized into the ordered partitions, and the partitions are transformed in sequential order, such that all predecessors of a given object are transformed before, or in the same operation as, the given object. If a large transformation operation abnormally terminates before all the small transformation operations have been completed, the model database is, nevertheless, left in a consistent state. The transformation operation may be resumed from the point of interruption.
US10719536B2
A method, system and computer program product for finding groups of potential duplicates in attribute values. Each attribute value of the attribute values is converted to a respective set of bigrams. All bigrams present in the attribute values may be determined. Bigrams present in the attribute values may be represented as bits. This may result in a bitmap representing the presence of the bigrams in the attribute values. The attribute values may be grouped using bitwise operations on the bitmap, where each group includes attribute values that are determined based on pairwise bigram-based similarity scores. The pairwise bigram-based similarity score reflects the number of common bigrams between two attribute values.
US10719519B2
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: determining a search context with a control unit for identifying the search context where a search request is made; determining a result pattern including a word complete over an autosuggestion based on the search context; and generating a search result including a suggestive component based on the result pattern for displaying on a device.
US10719516B2
A method and system for processing database queries containing aggregate functions. The query may specify fewer groups than there are processes available to process the queries. Further, the queries may target a set of rows and specify a sort-by key and a group-by key. The method and system further includes determining that the queries specify application of the aggregate function to each of a plurality of groups that may correspond to a plurality of distinct values of the group-by key and determining that plurality of processes are available to process the queries. The method and system also includes determining the plurality of ranges of a composite key that may be formed by combining the group-by key and the sort-by key and assigning each range of the plurality ranges to a corresponding process to calculate the aggregate function.
US10719513B2
Salient sampling for query size estimation includes identifying two or more columns in a database table that have corresponding columns in one or more other tables. One or more hash functions are applied to domains of each of the identified columns. A first hash function is applied to a domain of the first column and a second hash function to a domain of the second column. A subset of the rows in the database table is selected. The selecting includes selecting rows in the database table where results of the first hash function meet a first numeric threshold and selecting rows in the database table where results of the second hash function meet a second numeric threshold. A sample database table corresponding to the database table is created. The sample database table includes the selected subset of the rows in the database table.
US10719506B2
Various examples are directed to converting a natural language query to a structured query. The natural language query may comprise a plurality of terms. A natural language system may generate a set of operators and a set of operands based at least in part on the plurality of terms and a metadata dictionary. The natural language system may generate an expression tree based at least in part on the set of operators and the set of operands. The expression tree may comprise a plurality of interconnected nodes. A first node may be associated with a first function corresponding to a first operator of the set of operators and a second node may be associated with a first argument of the first function corresponding to a first operand of the set of operands. The natural language system may generate a query based at least in part on the expression tree.
US10719500B2
A method for capturing evolving data, comprising observing a data graph, identifying a first entity within the graph, defining a first property of the first entity, and identifying a first data value corresponding to the property and the entity. The method further comprises associating a second entity with the first entity at first data value, and forming a dimension of the first entity with associations to other entities within the graph for different data values of the first property. Identifying the first entity comprises identifying a property of the first entity representing a dimension but the property does not relate to other entities through the dimension. Defining the first property comprises identifying an attribute of the first entity that will not change; establishing the attribute as the first property.
US10719492B1
The present application is directed to a network-enabled method and system for consolidating disparate repositories and for reconciling records into a common platform. In particular, the method and system in the present application can be used to automate the migration or importation of legacy repositories into newer schemaless repositories or metadata management platforms and to perform a comparison of data extracted from the legacy repository to data contained in the records residing on the metadata management platform.
US10719486B1
Systems and methods for granularly recovering a backup are provided. An image of a backup is mounted as a file system such that the files can be granularly restored. Image-level recovery and file-level recovery can be achieved from the same backup. The backup may also be de-duplicated.
US10719484B2
Metadata of a root node from a serialized representation of a file system metadata tree data structure is obtained. A representation of the root node that references a stub intermediate node that is a placeholder for an intermediate node stored in the serialized representation is created. A request to access data of a leaf node in a tree path including the intermediate node is received. In response to the request, metadata of the intermediate node is obtained from serialized metadata representation.
US10719482B2
In one implementation, a test data comparison system can include a history engine to gather test data and maintain a log of test data based on element identifiers of a user interface, a comparison engine to identify a degree of diversity from a comparison of a first data and a second data and determine a second data entered at a first location is diverse from a first data entered at the first location when the degree of diversity achieves a diversity level of a diversity rule, and a suggestion engine to cause a message to be generated based on the comparison.
US10719481B1
Access to historical data of a file system in a data storage environment is provided, wherein the historical data corresponds to one or more points in time occurring in the past. The historical data of the file system is modified, wherein the historical data comprises at least one of a component from a replica of the file system and an element of an activity log of the file system.
US10719478B2
A method and system is provided for enabling real-time availability of accessible format of a published document such as book, journal, newspapers etc. to the print disabled users using the technology platform, at the same time ensuring the interest of various stakeholder such as print disabled users, publishers, NGOs, universities, libraries etc. The technology platform is creating an eco-system in a particular country which can be integrated with an international eco-system of digital accessible publishing. The technology platform provides facility to the end user to access the book online or even request the library to provide the book offline and if any of desired books not available in the platform the same can also be requested by users for production by libraries. The accessible format can also be provided in various forms such online, audio, through post etc. as per the requirement of the user.
US10719475B2
Methods and systems are disclosed which may consolidate a flash management entity using IO virtualization. The consolidation may occur in a centralized location. Furthermore, a boot strap may be created to allow booting of the micro server from a virtualized firmware management entity.
US10719469B2
A method implemented by a system on a chip (SOC) system executing an enhance serial peripheral interconnect (eSPI) master. The method to receive an alert from an eSPI slave, send a get out of band message to the eSPI slave, and receive an out of band message from the eSPI slave including a connection or disconnection command. The method enabling the SOC to include an embedded multiplexor for managing the role of a universal serial bus (USB) Type-C connector.
US10719456B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for accessing private data in a physical memory of an electronic device, wherein the method includes: receiving a request for accessing private data in the physical memory from a process running in the electronic device; and accessing private data in a particular physical address interval of the physical memory through a secure memory access interface added to a virtual machine monitor of the electronic device, wherein a mapping relationship for the particular physical address interval is not established in a memory management unit of the electronic device, and the secure memory access interface is pre-designed to realize access to the private data in the particular physical address interval of the physical memory. The method and the apparatus of the present application can enhance security of private data in a physical memory.
US10719451B2
A processor includes a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) comprising a plurality of ways, wherein each way is associated with a respective page size, and a processing core, communicatively coupled to the TLB, to execute an instruction associated with a virtual memory page, identify a first way of the plurality of ways, wherein the first way is associated with a first page size, determine an index value using the virtual memory page and the first page size for the first way, determine, using the index value, a first TLB entry of the first way, and translate, using a memory address translation stored in the first TLB entry, the first virtual memory page to a first physical memory page.
US10719450B2
A system in which a volatile random access memory stores first header data, second header data, a first logical array in a first contiguous memory block and a second logical array in a second contiguous memory block. Each array position of the first logical array stores a database column value, and each array position of the second logical array stores an indication of a number of consecutive occurrences of a database column value. The first header data includes a first pointer to the first memory block, and the second header data includes a second pointer to the second memory block. A memory size is determined associated with the first header data, the second header data, the first memory block, and the second memory block, a first memory block of the non-volatile random access memory is allocated based on the determined memory size, an address of the random access memory associated with the allocated first memory block is determined, and a portion of the first header data, a portion of the second header data, a binary copy of the first memory block and a binary copy of the second memory block are written at the address of the random access memory.
US10719446B2
A method and apparatus for implementing a buffer cache for a persistent file system in non-volatile memory is provided. A set of data is maintained in one or more extents in non-volatile random-access memory (NVRAM) of a computing device. At least one buffer header is allocated in dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) of the computing device. In response to a read request by a first process executing on the computing device to access one or more first data blocks in a first extent of the one or more extents, the first process is granted direct read access of the first extent in NVRAM. A reference to the first extent in NVRAM is stored in a first buffer header. The first buffer header is associated with the first process. The first process uses the first buffer header to directly access the one or more first data blocks in NVRAM.
US10719445B1
Systems and methods for permitting flexible use of volatile memory for storing read command prediction data in a memory device, or in a host memory buffer accessible by the memory device, while preserving accuracy in predicting read commands and pre-fetching data are disclosed. The read command prediction data may be in the form of history pattern match table having entries indexed to a search sequence of one or more commands historically preceding the read command in the indexed table entry. A host trigger requesting the limited volatile memory space, a lower power state that is detected, or a memory device-initiated need may trigger generation of and subsequent use of a smaller table for the prediction process while the larger table is released. The memory device may later regenerate the larger table when more space in the volatile memory becomes available.
US10719444B2
The disclosure provides for a reactive cache coherence protocol that has efficiencies over proactive approaches. Rather than proactively performing remediation when a data item is invalidated, a destination endpoint checks cache coherence upon receiving an indication of a cache hit, and based at least on detecting a lack of coherence, performs a reactive remediation process. For example, the incoherence may be fixed by replacing, as a cached data item, a data block indicated by the cache hit with a replacement data block that triggered the cache hit.
US10719440B2
Regarding association between an area where compressed data is stored and an area where auxiliary information required to access the compressed data is stored, it is necessary to manage the association by software for each processing unit, so that the processing becomes complicated. A management unit memory area including a compressed data storage area and an auxiliary information storage area including auxiliary information are defined on a memory space. By calculating an auxiliary information address from an address indicating a location on a memory where a management unit memory space is set, an address of the auxiliary information storage area, and an address of the compressed data, the compressed data and the auxiliary information are associated with each other and the auxiliary information is read.
US10719435B2
A storage device includes nonvolatile memory devices, a connector that includes connection terminals, and a controller that communicates with an external host device through the connector and to control the nonvolatile memory devices. The connector provides the external host device with detection information in response to the connector being connected with the external host device. Power is supplied from the external host device to the controller and the nonvolatile memory devices through the connector in response to the providing of the detection information. The connector provides the external host device with information of a communication type in which the controller communicates with the external host device, after the power is supplied. The communication type is one of a first communication type and a second communication type. The controller configures the connection terminals to correspond to a single or dual port based on a signal received from the external host device.
US10719423B2
An apparatus and associated method are provided for application deployment assessment. In use, a plurality of deployment parameters associated with one or more applications, and a workload profile are received. Further, an application deployment specification is generated, based on the workload profile and the deployment parameters. Still yet, a type of one or more orchestrators on one or more systems is identified. The application deployment specification is processed, based on the identified type of the one or more orchestrators on the one or more systems. Further, the one or more processors execute the instructions to deploy, via an application program interface (API), the one or more applications to the one or more orchestrators on at least one of the one or more systems, and at least one workload generator to at least one of the one or more systems, utilizing the processed application deployment specification. Operational data is collected from one or more monitoring agents on the one or more systems. One or more statistics are generated for assessing the deployment of the one or more applications, based on the operational data.
US10719418B2
Embodiments for disaster recovery in a disaggregated computing system. A memory is allocated at a secondary, disaster recovery site for data received from a primary site. A degree of resiliency is defined for respective workloads associated with the data at the primary site to specify how critical each respective workload is to execute in case of disaster, and the data is replicated to the allocated memory at the disaster recovery site according to the degree of resiliency.
US10719417B2
A hierarchical multi-level heterogeneous cluster data system having processing nodes at each of a plurality of cluster levels configured for different data tiers having different availability, accessibility and protection requirements. Each cluster level comprises groups of processing nodes arranged into a plurality of failover domains of interconnected nodes that exchange heartbeat signals to indicate that the nodes are alive and functioning. A master node of each failover domain is connected to a master node of a parent failover domain for exchanging heartbeat signals to detect failures of nodes at lower cluster levels. Upon a network partition, the nodes of the failover domain may be merged into another failover domain at the same or a higher cluster level to continue providing data services. The cluster has a global namespace across all cluster levels, so that nodes that are moved to different failover domains can be accessed using the same pathname.
US10719416B2
A method/device for recognizing a microprocessor hardware error, including comparing a first application's first result, running on a first microprocessor, with a second application's second result, running on the first/second microprocessor, with a microcontroller, providing comparison strategies, the hardware error being recognized as a function of the comparison, the microcontroller receiving a first message from the first microprocessor, and receiving a second message from the first microprocessor if the second application runs on the first microprocessor, or receives a first message from the second microprocessor if the second application runs thereon, the first message containing first comparison strategy information and first result information of a first function calculation, the second message containing second comparison strategy information and second result information of a second function calculation, the first and second strategy information being compared, the first and second result information being compared if the information about the comparative strategy coincides.
US10719412B2
An image forming apparatus capable of automatically rolling back the system to an appropriate state. The image forming apparatus updates system data set therein. History information of the system data is managed, and execution of rollback processing for replacing the system data by system data which was set before the system data is controlled based on the history information of the system data.
US10719407B1
Backing up availability group databases configured on multi-node virtual servers is described. A system identifies an availability group scheduled for backup. The system determines whether the availability group is configured on at least one virtual server in a cluster of nodes associated with the availability group. If the availability group is configured on at least one virtual server in the cluster of nodes, the system retrieves information from a server in the cluster of nodes. The system uses the retrieved information to identify a database replica that is preferred for backing up the availability group. The system identifies a virtual server, in the cluster of nodes, that is associated with the identified database replica. The system identifies a node for backing up the availability group by identifying an active node from the nodes in the identified virtual server. The system backs up the availability group via the identified node.
US10719404B2
Techniques to back up data are disclosed. In various embodiments, a shadow copy of a source volume is created. An excluded file is deleted from the shadow copy. One or more blocks modified in the shadow copy in connection with deleting the excluded file from the shadow copy are tracked.
US10719401B2
A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: receiving a write request which includes data, and allocating an inode entry in a central inode list, such that the inode entry corresponds to the data received. The data is allocated to a block of storage space in memory. Moreover, one or more instructions to write the data to the block of storage space are sent. A determination is also made as to whether the data fills a threshold amount of a last block of storage space. In response to determining that the data does not fill the threshold amount of the last block of storage space, one or more instructions to create an identifier at an end of the data are sent. Furthermore, one or more instructions to store a copy of the inode entry after the identifier in the last block of storage space are sent.
US10719398B1
Each SSD in an array is divided into splits that are contiguous LBA ranges of equal capacity. The splits are managed as if they were sub-drives or logical drives and used in RAID groups or other forms of redundancy schemes. A processor external to the SSD collects pending defect data log from the SSDs and determines which splits are associated with reported defects. Failed splits are rebuilt in spare splits using RAID or another redundancy scheme. Repaired splits are returned to service as spare splits. Irreparable splits are marked as lost. In the case of SSD failure the data splits of the SSD are rebuilt to a spare SSD. If enough failed splits of the failed SSD can be repaired then the repaired SSD may be returned to service.
US10719394B2
Systems, apparatus and methods are provided for providing fast non-volatile storage access with ultra-low latency. A method may comprise receiving data pieces from a plurality of channels of a non-volatile storage device, assembling the data pieces into one or more error correction code (ECC) encoded codewords, and triggering an ECC engine to decode a codeword to generate decoded data to be returned to a host when the codeword is assembled. Each codeword may have data pieces retrieved from different channels. Thus, a data unit containing one or more ECC codewords may be spread into multiple channels of a non-volatile storage device and access latency may be improved by accessing multiple channels in parallel. An averaging effect may be achieved for an ECC codeword and ECC failures may be reduced. Fast NANDs implementing the techniques disclosed herein may achieve ultra-fast access and response time while maintaining a high throughput.
US10719389B2
A method of operating a storage controller is provided. The method includes determining encoded data to be written to a storage media by applying at least an initial encoding comprising a first error correcting code type and a subsequent encoding comprising a second error correcting code type. The method further includes writing the encoded data to the storage media, and responsive to reading the encoded data from the storage media, processing the encoded data into primary decoded data using one or more primary decoders employing the second error correcting code type and detecting when data errors arise in the decoded data. The method also includes based at least on detecting one or more data errors in the decoded data, processing the encoded data into secondary decoded data using one or more secondary decoders employing the first error correcting code type.
US10719373B1
Some embodiments provide a method for distributing a set of parameters associated with policies for authorizing Application Programming Interface (API) calls to an application. For a previously stored hierarchical first document that comprises a first set of elements in a first hierarchical structure, the method receives a hierarchical update second document that comprises a second set of elements in a second hierarchical structure corresponding to the first hierarchical structure, wherein at least a subset of elements in the first and the second documents correspond to the set of parameters for evaluating API calls. The method receives a first set of hash values for elements of the first document that are not specified in the second document, and generates a second set of hash values for a set of elements specified in the second document. The method generates an overall hash for the second document by using the received first set of hash values and the generated second set of hash values. The method uses the overall hash to validate a signature from an entity that is authorized to specify the set of parameters.
US10719365B2
Technical solutions are described for a machine-assisted workflow execution. An example method includes selecting a workflow for interactive execution, the workflow includes a sequence of workflow steps, and responsively, identifying a preliminary update for the workflow from a data source. The method further includes authenticating the data source, and if the data source is a trusted data source, pulling the preliminary update from the data source and modifying the workflow dynamically. The method further includes selecting a workflow step for execution, and responsively, pulling an updated information for the workflow step from the data source. The method further includes executing the workflow step using the pulled updated information, the execution including changing a target system. The method further includes accumulating execution information and pushing the execution information to the data source upon completion of the workflow step.
US10719362B2
A method may include generating, for a host application, an image including an image heap including objects and a writeable object partition including a subset of the objects. The method may further include initializing, by executing the image in a process of a computer system, a first isolate including a first address space and a first read-only map of the image heap. The first read-only map may designate the writeable object partition of the image heap as copy-on-write. The method may further include initializing, by executing the image in the process, a second isolate including a second address space and a second read-only map of the image heap. The method may further include performing, in the first isolate and using the first read-only map, a first task that accesses an object, and performing, in the second isolate and using the second read-only map, a second task that accesses the object.
US10719353B2
In one respect, there is provided a distributed database system that includes a first local scheduler node and a second local scheduler node. The first local scheduler node can be configured to coordinate a performance of a first task and a second task by a first worker node associated with the first local scheduler node. The second local scheduler node can be configured to respond to a defect at the first local scheduler node by at least: collecting, from the first worker node, a log indicating one or more tasks completed by the first worker node prior to the defect at the first local scheduler node; determining, based at least on the log, that the first worker node has completed the first task but not the second task; and coordinating a performance of the second task by the first worker node. Related methods and articles of manufacture are also provided.
US10719349B2
Aspects of peripheral device sharing for virtual machines are described. In some aspects, a virtual machine requires access to a peripheral device. The virtual machine is executed in a first host computing system. A table is accessed, and includes a list of peripheral devices, an indication that the peripheral device is connected to a second host computing system, a bandwidth requirement of the peripheral device, and a network bandwidth allocated to the virtual machine. The virtual machine is provided with access to the peripheral device based on a comparison between the bandwidth requirement of the peripheral device, and a threshold percentage of the network bandwidth allocated to the virtual machine.
US10719340B2
Disclosed in some examples, are methods, systems, GUIs, and machine-readable mediums for providing an improved command bar interface that assists a user in entering commands by implementing a scope operator to specify a command scope and also visual controls for entering parameters of commands. The command bar may have a default global scope that may be modified by users by entering a scope operator and a scope identifier. The command bar may render a set of parameter segments to assist users in entering parameters for the commands.
US10719337B2
Embodiments include a code loader method for loading attributes corresponding to an isolated method by a container-based language runtime. The attributes are received by the container-based language runtime without any specified container for storage of the isolated method attributes. The attributes received as parameters of code loader method and include instructions, live objects, and parameter types corresponding to the isolated method. The container-based language runtime selects a first-order container for storing the attributes of the isolated method.
US10719317B2
Methods and apparatuses relating to a vector instruction with a register operand with an elemental offset are described. In one embodiment, a hardware processor includes a decode unit to decode a vector instruction with a register operand with an elemental offset to access a first number of elements in a register specified by the register operand, wherein the first number is a total number of elements in the register minus the elemental offset, access a second number of elements in a next logical register, wherein the second number is the elemental offset, and combine the first number of elements and the second number of elements as a data vector, and an execution unit to execute the vector instruction on the data vector.
US10719314B2
Embodiments construct a precise and scalable call graph that models potentially incomplete object-oriented program code, including libraries. The call graph encodes the probabilities of call relationships in the graph, where the probabilities are based on context information from the program, and are adjusted based on client configurations. Embodiments derive topics to associate with unknown elements, as well as probabilities for those topics, from declared types of the unknown elements. Configuration information encodes sets of feature conditions that direct the weighting of the unknown element types. As embodiments propagate type tuples through the graph, the probabilities of the types for each node are recalculated based on the type/probability information for the predecessors of the node. Type/probability information joins are necessary for nodes with multiple dependencies, where the manner of the join is configurable by the client.
US10719313B2
An apparatus, and a method, performed by one or more processors are disclosed. The method may comprise receiving a build request associated with performing an external data processing task on a first data set, the first data set being stored in memory associated with a data processing platform to be performed at a system external to the data processing platform. The method may also comprise generating a task identifier for the data processing task, and providing, in association with the task identifier, the first data set to an agent associated with the external system with an indication of the data processing task, the agent being arranged to cause performance of the task at the external system, to receive a second data set resulting from performance of the task, and to provide the second data set and associated metadata indicative of the transformation. The method may also comprise receiving the second data set and metadata from the agent associated with the external system and storing the second data set and associated metadata.
US10719308B1
Described herein are features pertaining to generating and presenting a log entry based upon configuration data received from a monitoring service of an electronic health record application (EHR) executing at a server computing device. A monitoring application can receive configuration data from the server computing device that hosts a feature of an EHR that is implemented in a healthcare enterprise, wherein the configuration data comprises an indication of a modification to the server computing device, and further wherein the monitoring application is configured to facilitate presenting the modification to an EHR support engineer. Exemplary modifications to the server computing device can be: a hardware change to the server computing device (e.g., replacement of a processor, addition of RAM, etc.), an upgrade to a feature hosted by the EHR on the server computing device, etc.
US10719306B2
Particular embodiments provide a plurality of host machines, one or more virtual disks comprising a plurality of storage devices, and a virtualized file server (VFS) comprising a plurality of file server virtual machines (FSVMs), wherein each of the FSVMs is running on one of the host machines and conducts I/O transactions with the one or more virtual disks. A distributed health monitoring service (HMS) may be running on each of the host machines running a FSVM. The HMS may monitor the FSVMs to determine whether any of the FSVMs has failed or is having problems. The HMS may detect that a plurality of the FSVMs have failed, wherein the failed FSVMs form a portion of the FSVMs comprising the VFS. For each of the failed FSVMs, the HMS may reassign an IP address corresponding to the failed FSVM to a live one of the FSVMs.
US10719305B2
In one embodiment, a system for managing a virtualization environment comprises a plurality of host machines, one or more virtual disks comprising a plurality of storage devices, a virtualized file server (VFS) comprising a plurality of file server virtual machines (FSVMs), wherein each of the FSVMs is running on one of the host machines, and a backup system configured to, in response to a request to access a data item, determine an access frequency for the data item. The backup system is further configured to, in response a request to store a data item, determine a storage tier at which the data item is to be stored in a cloud storage service, wherein the tier is determined based on the access frequency associated with the data item, and store the data item at the determined tier of the cloud storage service.
US10719304B2
A method of generating computer-readable code may include receiving multiple user functions as designated by a user. The method may also include, for each of the user functions, locating at least one library associated with a given user function within a domain interface file (DIF), where the at least one library identifies a constructor of the given user function. The method may additionally include, based on the constructor, identifying one or more constructor libraries in the DIF that include functions that yield the constructor when executed. The method may additionally include retrieving code from the libraries associated with the user functions and the one or more constructor libraries that include functions that yield the constructor when executed. The method may also include combining the retrieved code into a single program, and providing the single program such that the single program is accessible by an end-user different from the user.
US10719296B2
A device for generating sum-of-products data includes an array of variable resistance cells, variable resistance cells in the array each comprising a programmable threshold transistor and a resistor connected in parallel, the array including n columns of cells including strings of series-connected cells and m rows of cells. Control and bias circuitry are coupled to the array, including logic for programming the programmable threshold transistors in the array with thresholds corresponding to values of a weight factor Wmn for the corresponding cell. Input drivers are coupled to corresponding ones of the m rows of cells, the input drivers selectively applying inputs Xm to rows m. Column drivers are configured to apply currents In to corresponding ones of the n columns of cells. Voltage sensing circuits operatively coupled to the columns of cells.
US10719295B2
An execution unit is described. The execution unit includes an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) circuit having a first input to receive a first value and a second input to receive a second value. The ALU circuit includes circuitry to determine an absolute value of the first value and to add the absolute value to the second value. The first input is coupled to a first data path having register space and an output of another ALU of the execution unit circuit as alternative sources of the first value. The second input is coupled to a second data path having the register space as a source for the second value.
US10719292B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for a sound enhancement system coupled to a mobile device. In one aspect, the present disclosure includes the system having first bidirectional communication link configured to receive an audio signal, transmit an audio signal, and receive configuration parameters. The system also includes a memory configured to store the configuration parameters. Additionally, the system has an audio input configured to receive ambient audio. Yet further, the is configured to operate in one of two operation modes. In the first mode, the system is configured to receive an audio signal from the bidirectional communication link and output an audio signal based on the received audio signal by way of the audio output pathway, and in the second mode, the system is configured to process the ambient audio signal by the audio processor based on stored configuration parameters and create an output audio signal.
US10719291B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate the processing and output of multiple audio streams associated with a piece of content. A multimedia device may identify and notify a user of multiple audio stream languages available for a received multimedia stream. Based upon user input, the multimedia device may identify a plurality of audio streams that are associated with user-selected languages, decode the identified audio streams, and output the decoded audio streams to one or more audio devices. The multimedia device may determine, for each audio stream, an audio device to which the audio stream is to be delivered. The multimedia device may output a video stream associated with the audio streams to a display device while outputting each respective audio stream of the multiple audio streams to the audio device designated for the respective audio stream.
US10719287B2
A vehicle and a method of operating the vehicle may include activating a first touch screen, mounted on an exterior of the vehicle, illustrating a keypad and activating a first privacy screen in the first touch screen; and activating a second touch screen, mounted on the vehicle exterior, displaying information without activating a second privacy screen in the second touch screen. The touch screens may have built-in heaters, produce ads based on user distance from the vehicle and provide countdown timers for ride-share vehicle departure time.
US10719285B2
A display device, an operating method thereof, and a display system are provided. The display device includes a first display panel, a second display panel and an intermediate panel; wherein the intermediate panel has a transparent state and a non-transparent state, the intermediate panel includes a first side and a second side which are disposed opposite to each other, and a first surface and a second surface, which are transflective and disposed opposite to each other, the first display panel is connected to the first side of the intermediate panel and the second display panel is connected to the second side of the intermediate panel.
US10719283B2
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer readable instructions that are executable by a computer in an information processing apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus has a display interface, an operation interface, and a communication interface, and is connected with a printer through the communication interface. The computer readable instructions, when executed by the computer, causing the computer to control the display interface to display a setting screen to accept entry of print settings applicable to the printer, including a first special setting which is feasible to a first channel but infeasible to a second channel, and in response to a specific operation related to the first special setting to the setting screen through the operation interface, determine the first channel to be a processing channel to be used to cause the printer to print the image.
US10719280B2
A communication device may receive a specific signal from a first external device; after the specific signal has been received from the first external device, cause an output unit of the communication device to output specific information obtained by using a public key; after the specific information has been outputted, receive an authentication request in which the public key is used from the first external device; in a case where the authentication request is received from the first external device, send an authentication response to the first external device; after the authentication response has been sent to the first external device, receive connection information from the first external device; and in a case where the connection information is received from the first external device, establish, by using the connection information, a wireless connection between the communication device and a second external device.
US10719279B2
An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a server, and a terminal device, all of which perform data communication with each other via a network. In the image forming apparatus, when a third communication unit receives input information written into a format, a third controller obtains on a basis of the input information written into the format an available capacity that can further write the input information into the format, compares the available capacity with a preset threshold value, and switches the image forming apparatus from a power saving state to a driving state on a basis of a comparison result.
US10719274B2
Virtual computing instance data that are stored across multiple storage volumes are replicated in a manner such that the write order is maintained. The frequency of the replication is set so that the recovery point objective defined for the VM data can be satisfied. The replication includes the steps of determining a set of logical storage volumes across which the virtual computing instance issues dependent write IOs, issuing a first command to the virtual computing instance to block new IOs and to block receipt of IO acknowledgements, issuing a command to create replicas of all the logical storage volumes in the set, and then issuing a second command to the virtual computing instance to unblock new IOs and unblock receipt of IO acknowledgements.
US10719271B2
Various examples are directed to systems and methods of managing a memory device. The memory device may receive a read request describing a logical address at the memory device. The memory device may obtain a table entry associated with the logical address. The table entry comprises a physical address corresponding to the logical address and a write temperature data indicating a write temperature for the logical address. The memory device may determine a corrected threshold voltage for reading the physical address based at least in part on the write temperature data and read the physical address using the corrected threshold voltage.
US10719268B2
Methods and devices for managing first-in first-out (FIFO) queues in graphics processing are described. A write operation can be executed by multiple write threads on a graphics processing unit (GPU) to write data to memory locations in the multiple pages of memory. Similarly, and/or simultaneously, a read operation can be executed by multiple read threads to read data from the memory locations. The write and read operations include updating a pointer or multiple pointers indicating the point at which all preceding data has been fully written, or fully read. The read and write operations can also include maintaining and advancing one or more allocation pointers, and performing comparisons with the read and write done pointers, and/or various methods of synchronization, to handle overflow and underflow scenarios, to ensure read operations only read valid data, and write operations do not attempt to write to locations which are already in use.
US10719267B2
Technology is described herein that provides a partial reset of a non-volatile memory controller. In one aspect, a non-volatile memory controller persists memory addresses of I/O queues across a partial reset of the non-volatile memory controller. The non-volatile memory controller may also persist a mapping between each I/O submission queue and a corresponding I/O completion queue across the partial reset. Persisting the addresses of the I/O queues and/or mappings alleviates the need for a host system and non-volatile memory controller to perform a lengthy process of sharing the addresses of the I/O queues and/or mappings.
US10719259B2
A memory management method for a rewritable non-volatile memory module is provided according to an exemplary embodiment of the disclosure. The memory management method includes: recording sorting information corresponding to a plurality of first physical units of the rewritable non-volatile memory module according to a data storage status of the first physical units; receiving at least one command, and the command is configured to change the data storage status of the first physical units; updating the sorting information according to the command; and copying data stored in at least one physical unit among the first physical units to at least one second physical unit of the rewritable non-volatile memory module according to the updated sorting information.
US10719258B2
An information security management system and a multifunction printer thereof are provided. The multifunction printer includes an image capturing module, an image processing module, an output module and a transmission module. The image capturing module captures a data image of a document paper. The image processing module is coupled to the image capturing module and encodes the data image to generate first encoded data. The output module is coupled to the image processing module and prints second encoded data related to the data image. The transmission module is coupled to the image processing module and transmits one of the first and second encoded data. The multifunction printer deletes the first encoded data from a memory after transmitting the first encoded data, and deletes the second encoded data from the memory after transmitting/outputting the second encoded data.
US10719249B1
In one aspect, extent lock resolution for storage devices includes designating one of the storage devices as a lock winner, which takes priority over another storage device over a lock. An aspect also includes receiving a replication request issued, by a host during active/active replication, determining an extent of pages to be modified by the request, locking the extent in local storage device, and executing the request at the local device. An aspect also includes sending a write request to a remote device. If the remote device is the designated lock winner, and an attempt to lock the extent is unsuccessful, the remote device waits for the lock to become available. If the remote device is not the designated lock winner, and an attempt to lock the extent is unsuccessful, the remote device rejects the write request and sends a request to the local device to resend the write request.
US10719248B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for counter update operations. An example apparatus comprises a memory including a managed unit that includes a plurality of first groups of memory cells and a second group of memory cells, in which respective counters associated with the managed unit are stored on the second group of memory cells. The example apparatus further includes a controller. The controller includes a core configured to route a memory operation request received from a host and a datapath coupled to the core and the memory. The datapath may be configured to issue, responsive to a receipt of the memory operation request routed from the core, a plurality of commands associated with the routed memory operation request to the memory to perform corresponding memory operations on the plurality of first groups of memory cells. The respective counters may be updated independently of the plurality of commands.
US10719246B2
A memory system that has a multi-channel volatile memory subsystem is coupled to a non-volatile memory subsystem to provide independent, configurable backup of data. The volatile memory subsystem has one or more main memory modules that use a form of volatile memory such as DRAM memory, for which the NV subsystem provides selective persistent backup. The main memory modules are dual in-line memory modules or DIMMs using DDR SDRAM memory devices. The non-volatile memory subsystem (NV backup) includes an NV controller and non-volatile memory NVM. The NV backup can also include a memory cache to aid with handling and storage of data. In certain embodiments, the NV controller and the non-volatile memory are coupled to the one or more DIMM channels of the main memory via associated signal lines. Such signal lines can be, for example, traces on a motherboard, and may include one or more signal buses for conveying data, address, and/or control signals. The NV controller and the non-volatile memory can be mounted on the motherboard.
US10719241B2
Disclosed is a power management integrated circuit with embedded address resolution protocol functionality. In one embodiment, a device is disclosed comprising a data storage device; and an address resolution protocol (ARP) state machine communicatively coupled to the data storage device and included within a power management integrated circuit (PMIC), the ARP state machine configured to assign an address to the data storage device and validate requests for data stored in the data storage device received over a bus.
US10719234B2
In one embodiment, a method includes providing for display a first set of touch-screen keys corresponding to a first set of symbols; providing for display, at least partially underneath the first set of touch-screen keys the first set of touch-screen keys, a second set of touch-screen keys corresponding to a second set of symbols; detecting a touch gesture by a user over the first and second sets of keys intending to input a first symbol; determining, based on an amount of lapsed time between the detected touch gesture and a previous touch gesture, a context associated with the detected touch gesture; and selecting, based at least in part on the context, a symbol in the first set of symbols or a symbol in the second set of symbols as the first symbol that the user intended to input.
US10719220B2
A method, system, and computer program product provide the ability to structure an interactive and dynamic display of hierarchically organized media content. A library of the media content is acquired. The hierarchical structure of the content is graphically represented utilizing text corresponding to the hierarchical levels with a child level represented below and indented from a parent level. The content is graphically represented using (thumbnail) images that are left justified with respect to a highest hierarchical level, and directly below the text corresponding to the containing level. As scrolling of the media content is performed, the display is dynamically updated by sliding the images until all of the representative images have slid off, at which point, the text for the containing level slides under its own parent, leaving text corresponding to sibling levels of the containing level displayed.
US10719214B2
Operating a computerized system includes presenting user interface elements on a display screen. A first gesture made in a three-dimensional space by a by a distal portion of an upper extremity of a user is detected while a segment of the distal portion thereof rests on a surface. In response to the first gesture, an area of the display screen selected by the user is identified, and a corresponding user interface element is displayed. After displaying the corresponding user interface element, a second gesture made by the distal portion is detected while the segment continues to rest on the surface so as to select one of the user interface elements that appears in the selected area.
US10719213B2
The present invention provides a sewing machine that enables to switch frequently used functions during the sewing work with good usability, validate only the indicator related to the work among a plurality of indicators, and enables GUI operations by a screen display unit. Thus, high operability can be achieved. The sewing machine includes: a setting unit for setting operation buttons related to desired sewing work; an operation display unit for displaying the operation buttons set by the setting unit, the operation display being arranged at an arm part; and a screen display unit arranged at a position different from the operation display unit.
US10719209B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory, a display, and a processor electrically connected to the memory and the display. The processor is configured to transparently output a first screen related to a first application, if receiving a user input, change a transparency of at least a partial area of the first screen in correspondence to the user input, and output the first screen on the display.
US10719205B2
A webpage display method performed by a terminal device includes displaying a webpage on a screen, receiving a selection by a user with respect to an image included in the webpage displayed on the screen, and displaying, on the screen, a dynamic object responsive to the user selection of the image. The method further includes performing a predetermined function corresponding to the image while displaying the dynamic object on the screen. The dynamic object floats on the screen independently from the movement of the webpage on the screen, and is not displayed on the screen while the webpage is displayed on the screen, until the selection of the image. The dynamic object is removed from the screen while the webpage is still displayed on the screen when the predetermined function corresponding to the image is completed.
US10719192B1
A media universe (MU) system may leverage network-based resources to store and maintain a database of content for a world encompassed by the media universe. One or more layers of content including a client layer may be overlaid on a base or canonical layer of content in the MU database to enable an immersive client experience within the media universe. Clients may participate within the media universe via the MU system, for example to create customized digital assets. Client-generated content or other content may be dynamically integrated into digital media based within the media universe, for example by leveraging the repository to store and access the client-generated content, and network-based computing resources to dynamically insert the content into digital media for streaming to the clients. Client-generated content may be promoted to intermediate layers and/or to canon within the MU database, for example by community voting, popularity, and so on.
US10719190B2
A display apparatus includes an object display unit that displays in a display region an object including a content, and a stroke drawn on the content in an overlaid fashion, and a visibility balance setting unit that sets a visibility balance of the displayed content. The visibility balance setting unit includes a content transparency setting unit that sets content transparency serving as transparency of the content, and a stroke background transmittance setting unit that sets stroke background transmittance that is transmittance of a background of the drawn stroke.
US10719187B2
Some embodiments relate to resource usage tracking. A resource monitor may monitor resources of a network. A database may record resource usage. A client program may provide resource in a graphical display at a variety of specificity levels. A user may select portions of the graphical display to adjust information presented.
US10719185B2
A wiring board includes a substrate, a wire formed on a surface of the substrate, an inner-layer-side wire forming part forming the wire and made of a conductive material, and an outer-layer-side wire forming part forming the wire, disposed on an outer layer side relative to the inner-layer-side wire forming part and made of a conductive material different from and higher in light absorptance than the material of the inner-layer-side wire forming part.
US10719160B2
A display device includes a bracket, a display panel, a first force sensor, and a main circuit board. The display panel is disposed on the bracket. The first force sensor is disposed between the display panel and the bracket, the first force sensor being adjacent to a first edge of the display panel. The main circuit board is disposed below the bracket such that the bracket is disposed between the display panel and the main circuit board. The bracket includes a first hole exposing the main circuit board. The first force sensor is connected to the main circuit board through the first hole.
US10719157B2
A display panel and a display module are provided. The display panel includes a display area, a driving chip on a side of the display area, and a fan-out wiring area connecting the display area and the driving chip. The driving chip includes a first side and two second sides respectively connected perpendicularly to both ends of the first side. The fan-out wiring area includes a plurality of first fan-out traces connected to the first side and a plurality of second fan-out traces respectively connected to the two second sides. A part of signals in the driving chip can be transmitted from the second sides of the driving chip to the display area through the second fan-out traces. This increases a total width of the fan-out wiring area and a trace width in the fan-out wiring area, avoids a risk of wire breakage, and reduces an impedance of the traces.
US10719155B2
The present disclosure provides a touch display panel or a touch display device and a gate driving circuit included in the touch display panel or the touch display device. The gate driving circuit includes a shift register group outputting scan signals during a display driving period and a dummy shift register group outputting dummy signal during a touch driving period. The gate driving circuit transmits a signal output immediately before a display driving period before a touch driving period ends, through dummy shift registers during the touch driving period such that the signal is used for outputting a first scan signal in the next display driving period. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent output reduction of a scan signal at the boundary between the touch driving period and the display driving period and prevent defect in an image due to the output reduction.
US10719152B2
Disclosed are a display device that enables reduction in thickness and weight and a method of manufacturing the same. The display device having a touch sensor includes a touch sensing line and a touch driving line, which are formed on an encapsulation unit and intersect each other with a touch insulation layer interposed therebetween. The touch insulation layer intersects with any one of the touch sensing line and the touch driving line, which may result in the simplified structure. In addition, touch electrodes are disposed on the encapsulation unit, which may make a separate attachment process be unnecessary, resulting in a simplified manufacturing process and reduced costs.
US10719151B2
The present disclosure discloses a display screen and a manufacturing method thereof. The display screen includes: a TFT (thin film transistor) array substrate; a first planarization layer deposited on the TFT array substrate; a combining-structure layer deposited on the first planarization layer, the combining-structure layer includes a layer of first touch electrodes, a second planarization layer, and a layer of anode electrodes, the layer of the first touch electrodes and the layer of the anode electrodes are two different layers; an organic light emitting layer deposited on the combining-structure layer; a patterned cathode layer deposited on the organic light emitting layer includes a number of cathode electrodes used as second touch electrodes; and an encapsulation layer formed on the patterned cathode layer.
US10719145B1
Touchscreen computing device having support for interference-free operation of one or two active pens. A dedicated screen ID and pen ID establish a one-to-one pairing between an active pen and a touchscreen of a single-screen or dual-screen device, thereby rejecting interference from additional pens or screens. For a dual-screen device, the screen-specific uplink signals are synchronized using master-slave, interlaced timing to avoid mutual interference and to support simultaneous operation of two active pens—one on each screen. The downlink signals from two active pens occur during the same timeslots, whereas the two uplinks—one from each of the two screens—are interleaved with two timeslots for pen downlinks. Screen-specific screen ID-twin parameter is created for each screen of a dual-screen device to alert a pen to send its downlink signals in the interleaved manner. For a dual-screen device, the uplink signals for single-pen or dual-pen configuration are activated based on the device orientation/orientation.
US10719144B2
Devices and methods are disclosed for determining relative motion. In one implementation, an interferometer is provided. The interferometer may include a body, a light source configured to project a coherent light to an opposing surface, a plurality of pairs of light detectors configured to convert reflections of the coherent light into photocurrents, and a processor. The processor may be configured to detect changes in the photocurrents, wherein a first change in the photocurrents, which occurs in response to a relative motion between the body and the opposing surface, represents a motion signal, and a second change in the photocurrents represents a noise signal. The processor may also determine the relative motion between the body and the opposing surface based on the first change in the photocurrents when a ratio between a power of the motion signal and a power of the noise signal is below about 10.
US10719143B2
In some embodiments, a stylus device can be configured for use in an augmented/virtual (AR/VR) reality environment and can include a first portion and a second portion, where the first portion of the housing is substantially linear and can be configured to be held by a user's hand while the stylus device is in use. The first portion may include a tip configured to operate as an interface between the stylus device and objects within the AR/VR environment. The second portion of the housing may be non-linear and bent to traverse three dimensions including a section of the second portion that is bent longitudinally toward a line co-linear with the first portion of the housing. In some cases, the second portion of the housing may include a plurality of emitters or sensors configured for facilitating a tracking of the stylus device in three-dimensional space within the AR/VR environment.
US10719140B2
Provided is an input assistance device that generates multiple signals without removal of a hand from a rotating body. This input assistance device 10 is equipped with: an operation unit having a shaft 2 that tilts in multiple directions from a neutral position and a rotating body 3 that rotates with respect to the shaft 2; a first sensor 5 that detects the tilt direction of the shaft 2; a second sensor 6 that detects the rotational angle of the rotating body 3; and a signal generation unit 9 that generates signals using the detection result from the first sensor 5 and the detection result from the second sensor 6. Multiple signals can be generated by means of the signal generation unit 9 by selecting the type of signal on the basis of the tilt direction of the shaft 2 as detected by the first sensor 5 and adjusting the size of the signal on the basis of the rotational angle of the rotating body 3 as detected by the second sensor 6.
US10719139B2
A sensing system and method are provided. The sensing system includes a sensor unit that is configured to output a voltage having a magnitude that corresponds to a detected physical quantity and an amplification unit that is configured to amplify a magnitude in the output of the sensor unit to a constant gain. An offset removal unit is configured to remove a direct current (DC) offset from an output amplified by the amplification unit to generate a first detection signal. An inversion circuit unit is configured to invert the first detection signal to generate a second detection signal. A microcomputer is configured to then calculate the physical quantity detected by the sensor unit based on the first detection signal and the second detection signal.
US10719136B2
A resilient element and a keyboard structure are disclosed. The resilient element has a top surface, a dent portion and a conducting post. The dent portion is located on the top surface and has an accommodating space. The conducting post has a post volume and is located beneath the dent portion. When the conducting post is pressed, at least a portion of the post volume enters the accommodating space.
US10719134B2
A mirror-display is taught for use in a destination such as a theme park or hotel that allows a guest to move an article such as a wand in front of the mirror-display, where the movements are tracked and interpreted as commands. Visual movement feedback of the article is provided to help train the guests. The mirror-display can act as a full mirror, but then switch into a half-mirror mode where the guest sees their partial reflection along with output from the display, or a transparent mode where the guest does not see their reflection. Output includes secret messages only viewable to guests wearing glasses that are controllably detected and synchronized with the display output. The mirror-display comprises means for automatically determining guest identity and for exchanging commands and information with either or both of a local or global eco-system.
US10719127B1
A system may include a display, an eye tracking system, and a processor. The processor may be configured to receive eye tracking data. The processor may be further configured to determine a foveal region of interest of the display based on the eye tracking data. The processor may be further configured to perform a display modification operation configured to a) reduce a brightness profile for at least some of pixels outside of the foveal region of interest, wherein the reduced brightness profile is less than a foveal region brightness profile for foveal region pixels corresponding to the foveal region of interest, and/or b) modify a non-foveal region image portion. The processor may be further configured to generate image data indicative of the performed display modification operation. The processor may be further configured to output the image data to the display.
US10719125B2
One disclosed example provides a head-mounted device configured to control a plurality of light sources of a handheld object and acquire image data comprising a sequence of environmental tracking exposures in which the plurality of light sources are controlled to have a lower integrated intensity and handheld object tracking exposures in which the plurality of light sources are controlled to have a higher integrated intensity. The instructions are further executable to detect, via an environmental tracking exposure, one or more features of the surrounding environment, determine a pose of the head-mounted device based upon the one or more features of the surrounding environment detected, detect via a handheld object tracking exposure the plurality of light sources of the handheld object, determine a pose of the handheld object relative to the head-mounted device based upon the plurality of light sources detected, and output the pose of the handheld object.
US10719123B2
Multiparty object recognition systems and methods are disclosed. A method of interactively manipulating virtual object data, wherein an object database is configured to store first party object data that corresponds to a first real-world object and is further configured to store second party object data that corresponds to a second real-world object, includes obtaining the first party object data and the second party object data for storage within the object database. Access to the object database is controlled such that the first party object data and the second party object data is accessible to the first party and the second party. Modification of the first party object data by the second party is facilitated to generate modified first party object data that is in accordance with at least one context parameter of the second party object data, and the modified first party object data is communicated to the first party.
US10719120B2
A spare capacity status of each of multiple computing systems in a data center is monitored. Temporary workloads are assigned to these computing systems if there exists sufficient additional electrical power supply and capacity on power distribution lines. Thus, computing systems that are typically not productively used, such as those that are about to be decommissioned, have not yet been assigned for normal servicing, are reserved for special circumstances, or that are assigned to services that are currently in low demand, are temporarily used for productive data center purposes.
US10719117B2
The present control apparatus includes a timer for measuring a predetermined time and a clock generation circuit for supplying a clock to a peripheral device. Furthermore, the control apparatus includes a CPU for alternatingly stopping and restarting driving of the clock generation circuit based on the measuring of the predetermined time performed by the timer. On the other hand, the peripheral device includes an interrupt mask that restricts output of an interrupt signal to the control apparatus via the peripheral bus. When the driving of the clock generation circuit is to be stopped, the control apparatus sets the interrupt mask, and when the driving of the clock generation circuit is to be restarted, the control apparatus cancels the interrupt mask.
US10719106B2
A factory reset apparatus includes a reset switch, a first power supply module, a flip-flop, and a CPU. The flip-flop includes a data input pin, a clock pin, and a true flip-flop output pin. The reset switch is connected to the data input pin, the first power supply module is connected to the clock pin, and the true flip-flop output pin is connected to the CPU. The reset switch generates a low-level reset signal when being pressed; the flip-flop receives an electrical signal from the clock pin. A rising edge of the electrical signal triggers the flip-flop to latch a low-level state of the reset signal. The flip-flop outputs a low-level reset request signal from the true flip-flop output pin according to the latched low-level state of the reset signal. The CPU starts a factory reset operation according to the reset request signal.
US10719098B2
A system for providing on-demand renewable energy. The system includes at least one power unit for converting environmental energy into electrical power; a global positioning system (GPS) unit that provides current location coordinates for the system; and a regulator for controlling an amount of the electrical power drawn from the at least one power unit based on a first authorization rule and at least one second authorization rule, wherein the first authorization rule is a misuse event requirement for detecting that the current location coordinates indicate that the system has not been moved from an authorized location; wherein the system is independent from any grid and is initially installed at the authorized location; wherein failure to meet the misuse event requirement results in a denial of supply of electrical power by the regulator; and wherein the at least one second authorization rule is a purchase requirement.
US10719096B2
A reference generator provides a reference output voltage that is continuously available while providing certain efficiencies of a duty-cycled voltage regulator. The reference output voltage is generated by a sample-and-hold circuit that is coupled to a voltage regulator. On command, the sample-and-hold circuit samples a low dropout voltage regulator that may be referenced by a bandgap circuit. During hold periods of the sample-and-hold circuit, the voltage regulator, in particular the bandgap circuit, may be disabled in order to conserve power. A sample cycle by the sample-and-hold circuit may be triggered by a signal received from a configurable finite state machine. The reference generator is effectively duty cycled in a manner that conserves available battery power, while still providing a constant reference output that is always available. The reference generator is especially suited for low-power, battery operated applications.
US10719087B2
The embodiments of the present invention disclose a target tracking method. The method includes: generating, by the unmanned aerial vehicle, an outer frame according to location information of the at least two targets. At least two targets that need to be tracked are located within the outer frame. The unmanned aerial vehicle adjusts a flight parameter, so that the outer frame falls within a vision angle range of the unmanned aerial vehicle. In this way, multiple targets are converted to a “single target”, to find an optimal location for observing all the multiple targets, and it is ensured that the multiple targets are tracked with robustness for maximum duration.
US10719083B2
A system to use submaps to control operation of a vehicle is disclosed. A storage system may be provided with a vehicle to store a collection of submaps that represent a geographic area where the vehicle may be driven. A programmatic interface may be provided to receive submaps and submap updates independently of other submaps.
US10719082B2
The guidepath includes: a magnet guide tape which carries S pole, and guides a carrier vehicle in a first direction by the S pole by being arranged on a floor so as to extend in the first direction; a magnet guide tape which carries S pole, and guides the carrier vehicle in a second direction by the S pole by being arranged on the floor so as to extend in a second direction which intersects the first direction; and a magnetic body tape which is arranged at a side of the magnet guide tape at a position above which a marker sensor passes upon the carrier vehicle being guided by the magnet guide tape, and suppresses N pole.
US10719077B2
Many different types of systems are utilized and tasks are performed in a marine environment. The present invention provides various configurations of castable devices that can be operated and/or controlled for such systems or tasks. One or more castable devices can be integrated with a transducer assembly, such as a phased array, that emits sonar beams and receives sonar returns from the underwater environment. Processing circuitry may receive the sonar returns, process the sonar returns, generate an image, and transmit the image to a display.
US10719074B2
Disclosed embodiments include a method and apparatus for controlling system energy saving in an unmanned vehicle. In some embodiments, the method comprises: determining, via a sensing device and a high-precision map, whether the unmanned vehicle is in a stop-and-wait state; positioning the unmanned vehicle system in a standby state if the unmanned vehicle is in the stop-and-wait state. Some embodiments lower wear and loss of the unmanned vehicle system, improve the continued travel capacity of the unmanned vehicle and make the design of the unmanned vehicle more green and environment-friendly.
US10719070B2
A system and method for generating a behavior model for simulating an automation system, wherein signal flows between components of the automation system are simulated. The system comprises a CAD application for developing CAD drawings of the components of the automation system, where the CAD application comprises first modules for defining a geometric scope of application for the data interfaces of the components, second modules for defining at least one signal transmission prerequisite, which marks at least one relative position of two scopes of application relative to each other, at which signal transmission is possible between associated data interfaces, third modules for verifying the compatibility of the data interfaces at which the signal transmission prerequisite is met, and fourth modules for generating the behavior model such that a signal flow between the data interfaces at which the signal transmission prerequisite and compatibility are met is modeled in the simulation.
US10719067B2
A method is disclosed that includes the operations below: comparing an arrival time of a lot arrived at a process stage of N process stages with a processing time, determining whether one of tools at the process stage has a remain operation time which is equal to, or less than and closest to the arrival time, when a first tool of the tools has a first remain operation time which is equal to, or less than and closest to the arrival time, processing the lot with the first tool of the tools in the process stage after dispatching the lot to the processing stage, and generating at least one semiconductor device from the lot based on the comparing, determining and processing.
US10719066B2
A system for performing industrial automation control may include an audio device that receives audio data from an element in an industrial automation system. The audio device may determine orientation data based on the audio data. In addition, the audio device may determine an automation command to control a machine in the industrial automation system based on the audio data and the orientation data. After determining the automation command, the audio device may implement a first control action for the machine based at least in part on the automation command, where the first control action causes the machine to adjust an operation.
US10719060B2
A method for optimizing at least one motion profile, a computer program product for performing the method and a related control device for this purpose, wherein commencing from a master motion profile, at least one slave motion profile describes a motion of an actuator, the respective slave motion profile being connected via a cam disk function and/or a kinematic transformation, where the motion profiles are divided into areas, based constraints of slave motion profiles, the maximum speed of the master motion profile is computed for each area, a difference between the highest and the lowest maximum speed is selected, the area having the highest maximum speed is subsequently reduced, and the area having the lowest maximum speed is enlarged, until the difference between the two maximum speeds is less than a tolerance.
US10719058B1
A system and method are provided for memory control, having selectively distributed power-on processing. A memory controller executes responsive to a master control operation to actuate a plurality of operational tasks on a memory device. The memory controller includes a first power-on block executable to actuate one or both of initialization and training operations corresponding to the memory device. A PHY portion coupled to the memory controller portion executes to adaptively configure control, address, and data signals for physically compatible passage between the controller portion and memory device. The PHY portion includes a second power-on block executable to actuate one or both of an initialization operation and a training operation corresponding to the memory device. The PHY portion is configured according to the initialization and training operations, wherein each of the initialization and training operations are selectively actuated responsive to one of the power-on blocks.
US10719057B2
A method for suppressing a non-periodic random event in a proximity system includes: receiving an output signal generated by a proximity sensor in the proximity system and monitoring at least a magnitude of the output signal; determining whether a spike having a magnitude exceeding a prescribed threshold value has occurred in the output signal; when a spike in the output signal is detected, setting an output of the proximity system to a prescribed level for a prescribed duration of time; when the prescribed duration of time has elapsed, determining whether the output signal meets one or more prescribed criteria indicative of a shutdown condition; when it is determined that the output signal meets the prescribed criteria, setting the output of the proximity system to a level exceeding an alarm threshold; and when it is determined that the output signal fails to meet at least one of the prescribed criteria, releasing suppression of the output of the proximity system.
US10719044B1
An image forming apparatus includes a sensor configured to detect a remaining amount of a recording agent in a cartridge mounted in the image forming apparatus, an output device configured to output at least one of visual and audio information, and a controller. The controller is configured to, upon a first cartridge being dismounted, store, as a previous remaining amount, a remaining amount of a recording agent in the first cartridge detected by the sensor. The controller is also configured to, upon a remaining amount of a recording agent in a second cartridge that has been mounted in the image forming apparatus after the first cartridge is dismounted decreasing to or below a first threshold value as detected by the sensor, control the output device to output information that varies based on a value of the previous remaining amount.
US10719037B2
Example implementations provide a method of controlling an ink developer used in electro-photography; the method comprising, following cessation of printing, varying a plurality of voltages associated with movement of ink within the ink developer at temporally disparate times.
US10719036B2
In a case that a toner concentration of a liquid developer in a mixer is high and a liquid amount is small, when a supply flow rate of a carrier liquid by a carrier supplying pump is set, a “carrier amount for concentration adjustment” is preferentially assigned. Then, a remaining one is assigned to a “carrier amount for liquid amount adjustment”. By doing so, by a non-interacting function, a supply agent can be supplied to the mixer. That is, the carrier liquid can be supplied by decreasing the supply agent so that a liquid amount can be easily satisfied while improving followability of a toner concentration.
US10719022B2
An electrostatic charge image developing toner has a surface property index value represented by Formula S of 2.0 to 2.8, an electrostatic charge image developing toner has a surface property index value represented by Formula S of more than 2.8 and 3.5 or less, and an electrostatic charge image developing toner has a surface property index value represented by Formula S of more than 1.0 and less than 2.0 and a calculated value of a specific surface area in Formula S of 0.70 to 1.3: (Surface property index value)=(Measured value of specific surface area)/(Calculated value of specific surface area) Formula S wherein (Calculated value of specific surface area)=(Sum of surface areas calculated from equivalent circle diameters of 4,500 toner particles in flow particle image analysis)/{(Specific gravity of toner)×(Sum of volumes calculated from equivalent circle diameters of 4,500 toner particles in flow particle image analysis)}.
US10719019B2
There is disclosed a substrate holder, a method of manufacturing a substrate holder, a lithographic apparatus comprising the substrate holder, and a method of manufacturing devices using the lithographic apparatus. In one arrangement, there is provided a substrate holder for use in a lithographic apparatus. The substrate holder supports a substrate. The substrate holder comprises a main body. The main body has a main body surface. A plurality of burls are provided projecting from the main body surface. Each burl has a burl side surface and a distal end surface. The distal end surface of each burl engages with the substrate. The distal end surfaces of the burls substantially conform to a support plane and support the substrate. A layer of carbon based material is provided in a plurality of separated regions of carbon based material. The layer of carbon based material provides a surface with a lower coefficient of friction than a part of the main body surface outside the plurality of separated regions of carbon based material. The layer of carbon based material covers only part of the distal end surface of at least one of the burls. Alternatively, the layer of carbon based material covers the distal end surface and at least a portion of the burl side surface of at least one of the burls.
US10719015B2
A laminate comprising a thermoplastic film and a positive resist film is provided, the positive resist film comprising (A) a novolak resin-naphthoquinone diazide (NQD) base resin composition, (B) a polyester, and (C) 3-30 wt % of an organic solvent. The resist film may be transferred to a stepped support without forming voids.
US10719009B2
A photo mask includes a transparent substrate, a transflective member, and a light shielding member. The transparent substrate has a transflective region including a first region, a second region located in opposing lateral portions of the first region, and an edge region located adjacent to the first and second regions, and a light shielding region surrounding the transflective region. The transflective member is disposed in the first, second and edge regions under the transparent substrate, and has a different light transmittance in each of the first, second and edge regions. The light shielding member is disposed in the light shielding region under the transparent substrate, and defines an opening which exposes the transflective region. The light shielding member includes a long side extending in a first direction parallel to an upper surface of the transparent substrate and a short side extending in a second direction.
US10719008B2
A phase-shift mask for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography may be provided. The phase-shift mask may include a substrate, a reflection layer on the substrate, and phase-shift patterns including at least one metal nitride on the reflection layer. The at least one metal nitride may include at least one of TaN, TiN, ZrN, HfN, CrN, VN, NbN, MoN, WN, AlN, GaN, ScN, and YN.
US10719007B2
[Solving Means] A composite-optical-system unit includes a polarization beam splitter and a thermal conduction member. The polarization beam splitter includes a first prism including a first surface, a second prism including a second surface having an area different from an area of the first surface, and an overlap interface on which the first surface is attached to and overlaps the second surface. The thermal conduction member is thermally connected to a connection region being a region other than the overlap interface of the first surface or the second surface having an area larger than an area of the other surface.
US10719004B2
A dome screen for preventing generation of a missing part of a star projected on the dome screen is provided. A dome screen 10 capable of projecting an image includes a dome portion 11 and a sheet portion 12. The dome portion 11 has a plurality of holes and is formed in a hemispherical shape. The sheet portion 12 is arranged on an outer side of the dome portion 11 so as to overlap with the dome portion 11 and has light reflectivity.
US10718997B2
A tripod with modular arm segments capable of coupling with each other. The three arm segments may simultaneously attach with a mount to form a tripod. Ends of the arm segments are coupling elements. Two of the arm segments may detach from the plate and couple with the arm segment remaining coupled to form an articulating extension arm for the mount.
US10718993B2
An effect that drive of one of a first magnetic driving unit and a second magnetic driving unit prevents a movement of the other magnetic driving unit is not generated to appropriately control movements of first opening and closing blades and second opening and closing blades. A blade opening and closing device includes a base body which includes an opening for transmitting light, a first magnetic driving unit which includes a first magnet and a first coil, a second magnetic driving unit which includes a second magnet and a second coil, first opening and closing blades which are moved by the first magnetic driving unit relative to the base body and to open and close the opening, and second opening and closing blades which are moved by the second magnetic driving unit relative to the base body and to open and close the opening. A magnetic flux direction of the first magnetic driving unit is opposite to a magnetic flux direction of the second magnetic driving unit.
US10718992B2
A camera module includes a lens barrel, a driving coil disposed to face a target detection unit prepared on one side of the lens barrel, a driving device configured to provide a driving signal to the driving coil, and a position calculating unit including a first capacitor, configured to provide a ground for an alternating current (AC) signal to the driving coil, a second capacitor, connected to the driving coil to constitute oscillation circuit together with the driving coil, and a position calculating circuit configured to calculate a position of the lens barrel from a frequency of the oscillation circuit.
US10718980B2
The present invention relates to a liquid crystal window, a method of manufacturing the same, an optical element comprising the liquid crystal window, and a use thereof. The liquid crystal window of the present invention and its manufacturing method have excellent fixing property of a spacer and thus excellent cell gap maintaining characteristics, and can effectively prevent thermal damage of a base layer and be economical in manufacturing processes.
US10718979B2
The in-cell touch display panel has a display area and a non-display area. Display IC bounding pads and touch pads are disposed in the non-display area. A touch electrode corresponds to more than one pixel structures. A touch sensing line is electrically connected to the touch electrode and one of the touch pads. A data line is electrically connected to a thin film transistor and one of the display pads. At least one of the display pads is disposed between two of the touch pads, and at least one of the touch pads is disposed between two of the display pads.
US10718978B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for improving optical alignment of panels manufactured on a same mother substrate. The technical defect in the prior art which affects product quality can be eliminated. The apparatus for improving optical alignment of panels manufactured on a same mother substrate includes a mother substrate (1), N columns of chips in a first group (2), N columns of chips in a second group (3), and a photomask (4). The N columns of chips in the first group (2) and the N columns of chips in the second group (3) are arranged in an alternate manner and are arranged on the mother substrate (1). An area of the chips in the second group (3) is larger than an area of the chips in the first group (2). The photomask (4) covers the N columns of chips in the first group (2) and the N columns of chips in the second group (3) so that ultraviolet irradiates the N columns of chips in the first group (2) and the N columns of chips in the second group (3) after passing through the photomask (4). N is a positive integer. The apparatus can be used in manufacturing of TFT-LCD.
US10718977B2
A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present system and method includes a first insulation substrate, a thin film transistor disposed on the first insulation substrate, a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor, a protrusion disposed on the pixel electrode, a second insulation substrate facing the first insulation substrate, a common electrode disposed on the second insulation substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode, wherein one pixel includes a thin film transistor formation region where the thin film transistor is disposed and a display area where the pixel electrode is disposed, and the protrusion is disposed to overlay at least a portion of edges of the display area.
US10718975B2
A backlight unit includes an optical filter made of at least two or more filters. A first filter of the at least two or more filters reflects light within a first wavelength range, and a second filter of the at least two or more filters reflects light within a second wavelength range. The backlight unit has a structure that can prevent or reduce an effect on display performance, which would otherwise be caused by degradations in uniform color impression due to characteristics of light sources or a backlight structure.
US10718970B2
A display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, a display panel, and a display device are disclosed. The display substrate includes a display region and a non-display region located around the display region, the display substrate includes: a base substrate and a black matrix located in the non-display region on the base substrate; at least one concave portion is located in the black matrix, and the at least one concave portion is filled with a non-transparent insulating material.
US10718964B2
An array substrate for a display device includes a substrate including a display area displaying an image, and a non-display area surrounding the display area; a data driving IC mounted at the non-display area and outputting an image data voltage to the display area; a first pad corresponding to an input pin of the data driving IC and formed at the non-display area; a second pad corresponding to an output pin of the data driving IC and formed at the non-display area; a first conductive bar formed between the first pad and the second pad; and a second conductive bar extending from an end portion of the first conductive bar to a peripheral end portion of the non-display area.
US10718962B2
The present invention provides a method of making a mask for patterning a three-dimensional substrate. A mandrel includes a form machined in a surface corresponding to a shape of the substrate. A layer of material is deposited in a first region of the form and a metal layer is deposited in a second region of the form. A portion of the mandrel is subsequently removed. The present invention also provides a method of patterning a three-dimensional substrate with a mask.
US10718956B2
In an eyeglass lens, an edge adjustment between an incoupling segment and an outcoupling structure can be provided by shaping of the inner surface. In the region of the eyeglass lens through which the eye looks for straight-ahead viewing, the inner surface substantially has a curvature that approximates the curvature of a typical inner surface of an eyeglass lens to such an extent that no perceptible optical imaging errors are induced by the inner surface when straight-ahead viewing. In the region of the edge adjustment, the inner surface has a shape that deviates to a greater extent from the curvature of the typical inner surface, which shape enables an imaging beam path coupled into the eyeglass lens by the incoupling segment to be directed to the outcoupling structure by reflections between the inner surface and the outer surface of the eyeglass lens.
US10718953B2
A substrate laminating apparatus, including a first vacuum chamber including a first opening; a first table provided inside the first opening for holding a first substrate; a second vacuum chamber including a second opening; a second table provided inside the second opening for holding a second substrate, wherein the substrates are laminated by reducing a pressure in a closed space formed by having the first opening faced with the second opening. The apparatus also includes a vacuum evacuation unit connected to the first vacuum chamber or the second vacuum chamber and performs reduced-pressure evacuation of the closed space. When there is a direction along which priority is given on lamination precision when laminating the first and second substrates, and the direction is defined as a lamination precision priority direction, a reduced-pressure evacuation direction done by the vacuum evacuation unit is a direction different from the lamination precision priority direction.
US10718952B2
An optical image anti-shake device, defined with an X-axis, a Y-axis and a Z-axis, includes a casing, a movable member and a base. A suspension mechanism furnished inside the optical image anti-shake device includes a movable-member support and a suspension module. A first surface of the movable-member support is connected to the movable member. The suspension module suspends the movable-member support together with the movable member inside an inner compartment formed between the casing and the base.
US10718946B2
An optical guide for a near-eye display device includes a first guide element having a light input zone and a second guide element having an output zone. The first guide element is superimposed on the second guide element. The optical guide also includes an optical coupling system between the first guide element and the second guide element, and the first and second guide elements have, on the first part of their length, a mutual spacing so as to delimit a thin layer of air between said guide elements extending between a first longitudinal end of the guide elements and the optical coupling system. The optical coupling system, located at a second longitudinal end of the first and second guide elements, includes a single-piece portion of the guide elements, associated with an optical reflection member to propagate the beams of light from the input zone toward the output zone.
US10718944B2
A near-eye display device including a display panel, a liquid crystal layer, and a lens element is provided. The liquid crystal layer is disposed adjacent to the display panel and disposed between the display panel and the lens element. The display panel is configured to provide an image light beam to pass through the liquid crystal layer. At least a portion of the liquid crystal layer is configured to modulate the image light beam according to the phase modulation. Phase modulation occurs to at least a portion of the liquid crystal layer to modulate the image light beam, and the lens element is a micro lens array.
US10718934B2
Certain aspects pertain to epi-illumination Fourier ptychographic imaging systems and methods for high resolution imaging of thick samples.
US10718933B2
An optics arrangement for a solid immersion lens (SIL) is disclosed. The arrangement enables the SIL to freely tilt. The arrangement includes a SIL having an optical axis extending from an engaging surface and a rear surface of the SIL; a SIL housing having a cavity configured to accept the SIL therein while allowing the SIL to freely tilt within the cavity, wherein the cavity includes a hole positioned such that the optical axis passes there-through, to thereby allow light collected by the SIL to propagate to an objective lens; and, a SIL retainer attached to the SIL housing and configured to prevent the SIL from exiting the cavity.
US10718927B2
A lens moving mechanism includes a lens mount unit on which a lens for projecting light is mounted, a lens guide unit which supports the lens mount unit and guides the lens mount unit in at least one axis direction among three orthogonal axis directions including an optical axis direction of the light, and a lens guide fixing unit to which the lens guide unit is fixed. The lens guide unit includes a plurality of linear motion guide devices each including a track body fixed to the lens guide fixing unit and a moving body moving along the track body. A plurality of track bodies are coaxially disposed in the lens guide fixing unit.
US10718924B2
A lens module with auto-focusing mechanism includes a plastic lens barrel, a lens assembly, an auto-focusing mechanism and a coil regulating structure. The plastic lens barrel includes a front end portion, a rear end portion and an outer side portion, wherein the front end portion includes a front end surface and a front end hole, the rear end portion includes a rear end opening, the outer side portion connects the front end portion and the rear end portion. The lens assembly is disposed in the plastic lens barrel, and includes a plurality of lens elements. The auto-focusing mechanism is connected to the plastic lens barrel, and includes a coil being polygon. The coil regulating structure is located on the outer side portion of the plastic lens barrel, and is integrated with the plastic lens barrel, wherein the coil is connected and positioned to the coil regulating structure.
US10718923B2
A thermally tunable optoelectronic module includes a light emitting assembly operable to emit light of a particular wavelength or range of wavelengths. The light emitting assembly is disposed to a temperature-dependent wavelength shift. The thermally tunable optoelectronic module further includes an optical assembly aligned to the light emitting assembly, and separated from the light emitting assembly by an alignment distance. The thermally tunable optoelectronic module further includes a thermally tunable spacer disposed between the optical assembly and the light-emitting assembly, the thermally tunable spacer is operable to counteract the temperature-dependent wavelength shift.
US10718922B2
The present disclosure describes subassemblies and optoelectronic modules in which an optics system, or a spacer laterally surrounding a cover glass, includes a flange which facilitates mechanical attachment of the optics system to the spacer.
US10718921B2
A modular optical fiber distribution unit and related distribution system is provided. The distribution unit includes a shifted fiber arrangement that allows for modular network assembly. For example, the distribution unit includes a distribution body including a plurality of body optical fibers and a field optical fiber leg including a plurality of field optical fibers including at least one active field optical fiber and at least one inactive field optical fiber. Each active field tether optical fiber is optically coupled to one of the body optical fibers and at least one body optical fiber is not coupled to an active field optical fiber. The positioning of the active and inactive field tether optical fibers in a predetermined manner disclosed herein allows for modular network assembly.
US10718919B2
A cable adapter module includes a cable tray that holds a plurality of cables and an adapter tray removably attached to the cable tray. The adapter tray includes a plurality of adapters configured to connect the plurality of cables. The cable adapter module may also include a plurality of cable clips configured to secure the plurality of cables to the cable tray. The cable tray of the cable adapter module may also include a plurality of steps configured to hold the plurality of cables. The cable tray of the cable adapter module may also include a plurality of splice slots extending from the base wall towards the top of the cable tray, and at least one splice holder removably attached to the plurality of splice slots.
US10718918B1
A cable may include a include an inner conductor and an outer conductor coaxially arranged around the inner conductor. A dielectric strength member may be positioned between the inner and outer conductors. The dielectric strength member may have a tensile strength of at least 10,000 MPa. Additionally, a jacket may be formed around the outer conductor.
US10718917B2
An optical fiber cable includes a plurality of flexible ribbons, a plurality of first bonding regions and a second bonding region. Each of the plurality of flexible ribbons includes a plurality of optical fibers. Adjacent ones of the plurality of optical fibers are attached to each other by one of the plurality of first bonding regions. The second bonding region joins a first one of the plurality of flexible ribbons with a second one of the plurality of flexible ribbons.
US10718916B2
A fastening member is configured to be removably attached to an optical fiber connector including a supporting member supporting an optical fiber and a flange part expanding outward in a radial direction. The fastening member includes a base portion and an engaging portion. The base portion defines a slit having a width smaller than a diameter of the flange part of the optical fiber connector and greater than a diameter of the supporting member of the optical fiber connector. The engaging portion extends from the base portion perpendicularly to the base portion. The engaging portion includes a spring portion at a tip portion of the engaging portion.
US10718911B2
An optical connector holding two or more LC-type optical ferrules is provided. The optical connector includes an outer body, an inner front body accommodating the two or more LC-type optical ferrules, ferrule springs for urging the optical ferrules towards a mating receptacle, and a back body for supporting the ferrule springs. The outer body and the inner front body are configured such that four LC-type optical ferrules are accommodated in a small form-factor pluggable (SFP) transceiver footprint or eight LC-type optical ferrules are accommodated in a quad small form-factor pluggable (QSFP) transceiver footprint. A connector is released by pulling distally on boot assembly until receptacle hook is displaced from receptacle hook recess at a proximal end of connector.
US10718907B2
A holding member is configured to hold an optical fiber of which an end connects to an optical circuit formed on a semiconductor substrate, the holding member includes a first surface configured to surround an exposed end of the held optical fiber, a second surface configured to be bonded to the semiconductor substrate to surround the first surface, and a groove configured to be formed along an edge of the first surface and provided between the edge of the first surface and an edge of the second surface.
US10718901B2
Photonic device having a photonic crystal lower cladding layer provided on a semiconductor substrate
An integrated photonic device is provided with a photonic crystal lower cladding on a semiconductor substrate.
US10718898B1
An optical device comprises first, second and third elements fabricated on a common substrate. The first element comprises an active waveguide structure supporting a first optical mode, the second element comprises a passive waveguide structure supporting a second optical mode, and the third element, at least partly butt coupled to the first element, comprises an intermediate waveguide structure. If the first optical mode differs from the second optical mode by more than a predetermined amount, a tapered waveguide structure in at least one of the second and third elements facilitates efficient adiabatic transformation between the first optical mode and the second optical mode. Mutual alignments of the first, second and third elements are defined using lithographic alignment marks.
US10718896B2
A display device includes: a display panel that displays an image on a front thereof; a light-guiding plate placed opposite to a back of the display panel; a storage container in which the light-guiding plate is stored, the storage container having a dish shape; a light-emitting element that supplies the display panel with light; and a light source substrate having a short side part on a first surface of which the light-emitting element is mounted and a long side part projecting inward from the first surface of the short side part, the first surface of the short side part being disposed to face a peripheral edge of the light-guiding plate, the light source substrate having a shape of letter L in cross section. In the display device, the long side part of the light source substrate and a bottom plate of the storage container are thermally connected to each other.
US10718890B2
A lightguide includes features for extracting light that would otherwise be confined and propagate within the lightguide primarily by total internal reflection. A first portion of light propagating within the lightguide and extracted exits the lightguide through a first area of the lightguide having an optical reflectance of at least 30% and an optical transmittance of at least 5% for normally incident light at a wavelength of the extracted light. A second portion of light propagating within the lightguide and extracted exits the lightguide through a different second area of the lightguide having an optical transmittance of at least 80% for normally incident light at the wavelength of the extracted light.
US10718888B2
Provided is a laminate including a first polarizer, a first patterned optical anisotropic layer, a second patterned optical anisotropic layer, and a second polarizer in this order and an optically anisotropic layer disposed between the second polarizer and the second patterned optical anisotropic layer, in which an angle formed between an absorption axis of the first polarizer and an absorption axis of the second polarizer is 90°±5°; each of the first patterned optical anisotropic layer and the second patterned optical anisotropic layer has a plurality of phase difference regions having different slow axis directions in a plane of the first patterned optical anisotropic layer or the second patterned optical anisotropic layer; a white display state and a black display state are switched with each other; none of the slow axis directions of first phase difference regions and the slow axis directions of second phase difference regions are parallel or orthogonal to the absorption axes and transmission axes of the two sheets of polarizers; and the optically anisotropic layer has Re_off(550) of 240 to 310 nm and Rth_off(550) of −50 to 50 nm. Also provided is a window.
US10718882B2
Disclosed is an electronic device and a method for sensing proximity in an electronic device, which reduces an error in sensing a proximity distance by considering a color of an object when sensing the proximity distance to the object based on an amount of light reflected from the object.
US10718871B2
A mobile terminal control method includes receiving N direction-finding signals that are respectively sent by a multiple-antenna node at N moments, where the multiple-antenna node is located in an indoor-outdoor critical area. The method includes obtaining N pieces of location relationship information between a mobile terminal and the multiple-antenna node at the N moments according to the N direction-finding signals, where the N moments and the N pieces of location relationship information are in a one-to-one correspondence. The method includes determining location relationship change information between the mobile terminal and the multiple-antenna node according to at least M of the N pieces of location relationship information, where 2≤M≤N. The method includes controlling the mobile terminal by matching the location relationship change information and according to the location relationship change information.
US10718868B2
The purpose of the present invention is to achieve highly accurate detection of obstacles even in adverse weather environments, particularly environments in which a scatter phenomenon caused by fog or the like occurs. A target signal processing unit 51 calculates a cross-correlation function between split reference light from a light source unit 201, and reflected light from a target T, said reflected light being obtained using split signal light from the light source unit 201. An estimation unit 52 estimates scattering characteristics of propagation paths of the signal light and the reflected light. A correction processing unit 53 executes, on the basis of the scattering characteristics estimated by the estimation unit 52, prescribed correction processing of the cross-correlation function calculated by the target signal processing unit 51.
US10718866B2
A distance measuring method and an electronic laser distance measuring module, in particular for use in a distance measuring apparatus, especially configured as a laser tracker, tachymeter, laser scanner, or profiler, for fast signal detection with an analog-to-digital converter, wherein conversion errors that arise in the context of a signal digitization, in particular timing, gain and offset errors of the ADC, are compensated for by means of variation of the sampling instants.
US10718859B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relates to a radar device, and more particularly, to a radar device having a structure that reduces the influence of an internal reflected wave, which is capable of preventing a target sensing performance from being deteriorated by a reflected wave reflected within the radar device, while having a cover structure that is capable of protecting an antenna from the outside.
US10718858B2
An echo measuring apparatus has: a transmission signal forming unit for forming a transmission signal by a pseudo noise sequence signal; a transmitting unit for transmitting the transmission signal as an ultrasonic wave into the water; a receiving unit for receiving an echo of the ultrasonic wave; and a correlator for discriminating the echo corresponding to the transmission signal by executing a correlating process to the echo by the pseudo noise sequence signal and measuring a distance to a measurement target on the basis of a time difference between the transmission signal and the echo, wherein assuming that a velocity of a sound wave in the water is equal to Vu and the distance to the measurement target is equal to D, a period of the transmission signal includes a case where it is equal to or less than (2D/Vu).
US10718856B2
A vehicle sensor calibration system for self-driving vehicles can include a turntable on which a sensor system including a LIDAR sensor is positioned. A plurality of fiducial targets can be positioned around the turntable to enable calibration of the sensor system, and a control mechanism can automatically rotate the turntable when the sensor system is positioned on the turntable. The system can include one or more computing systems that receive a data log corresponding to sensor data recorded by the sensor system as the sensor system rotates on the turntable, and analyze the sensor data to determine a set of calibration parameters to calibrate the sensor system.
US10718852B2
An integrated circuit (IC) is provided with a plurality of diode based mm-wave peak voltage detectors (PVD)s. During a testing phase, a multi-point low frequency calibration test is performed on one or more of the PVDs to determine and store a set of alternating current (AC) coefficients. During operation of the IC, a current-voltage sweep is performed on a selected one of the PVDs to determine a process and temperature direct current (DC) coefficient. A peak voltage produced by the PVD in response to a high frequency radio frequency (RF) signal is measured to produce a first measured voltage. An approximate power of the RF signal is calculated by adjusting the first measured voltage using the DC coefficient and the AC coefficient.
US10718847B2
A beacon system includes a controller, a laser module operably connected to the controller, and at least one sensor operably connected to the controller. In such a system, the controller is configured to receive a signal from the at least one sensor, and to determine whether a response to the signal is required.
US10718843B2
A device and a method for detecting a spike during a magnetic resonance scan are provided. The device has a first receiver with a first signal connection for connecting a local coil and a second receiver with a second signal connection for connecting a reference antenna. The device is configured to compare a first signal received by the first receiver via the first signal connection with a second signal received by the second receiver via the second signal connection and, in the event of a predetermined deviation, to emit a warning signal.
US10718842B2
Some aspects include a method of determining change in size of an abnormality in a brain of a patient positioned within a low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device. The method comprises, while the patient remains positioned within the low-field MRI device, acquiring first and second magnetic resonance (MR) image data of the patient's brain; providing the first and second MR image data as input to a trained statistical classifier to obtain corresponding first and second output; identifying, using the first output, at least one initial value of at least one feature indicative of a size of the abnormality; identifying, using the second output, at least one updated value of the at least one feature; determining the change in the size of the abnormality using the at least one initial value of the at least one feature and the at least one updated value of the at least one feature.
US10718839B2
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for correcting a uniformity of a magnetic resonance image, the method including: acquiring a first uniformity enhancement image by a phased-array uniformity enhancement method; and dividing the first uniformity enhancement image by a receiving sensitivity distribution value of a body coil in a magnetic resonance imaging device, so as to acquire a second uniformity enhancement image. The method further includes: dividing the second uniformity enhancement image by a spatial signal distribution value resulting from a field strength distribution of a transmitting radio-frequency field, so as to acquire a third uniformity enhancement image.
US10718830B2
A magnetoresistive sensor is provided. The magnetoresistive sensor comprises a magnetic sensing layer, a magnetic reference layer, and a tunnel barrier layer between the magnetic sensing layer and the magnetic reference layer. The magnetoresistive sensor also comprises a sensing exchange layer having a layer of anti-ferromagnetic material. The sensing exchange layer is exchange coupled with the magnetic sensing layer. Also, the magnetoresistive sensor still further comprises a reference exchange layer having a layer of anti-ferromagnetic material. The reference exchange layer is exchange coupled with the magnetic reference layer. Moreover, the magnetoresistive sensor is configured such that in the absence of an external magnetic field, an exchange bias pinning the reference layer lies along a reference direction, an exchange bias pinning the sensing layer lies along a first direction that is orthogonal to the reference direction, and a magnetic anisotropy of the sensing layer is parallel to the first direction.
US10718829B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for optimizing utilization of a wireless position sensor are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a controller of the wireless position sensor receives output from a magnetic-field-dependent sensor of the wireless position sensor. The magnetic-field-dependent sensor is configured to register the strength of a magnetic field of a magnet attached to a mechanical component. In this example, the registered strength corresponds to a position of the mechanical component along a directional path. According to this embodiment, the controller generates a comparison of the output to one or more predefined movement signatures and based on the comparison, determines whether to change an operating state of one or more components of the wireless position sensor.
US10718823B2
A device for open load diagnosis of a signal line in a digital system in which a logic state is represented by a band of voltages lying between first and second voltage limits is described. The device is configured to cause the signal line to reach a first, stable voltage lying in the band, to apply a second, different voltage to the signal line lying in the band and without leaving the band, to perform a time constant dependent measurement so as to determine a value of a parameter which is or depends on resistance of a load between the signal line and a reference line, to compare the value of the parameter with a reference value of the parameter and, in dependence on comparison, to signal the result.
US10718817B2
A battery state estimating apparatus is provided with: an acquirer configured to obtain a plurality of complex impedances of a battery at a plurality of different temperatures; a calculator configured to calculate a slope of a straight line connecting values of the obtained plurality of complex impedances at a first predetermined frequency on a complex plane having an axis that is a real component of the complex impedance and an axis that is an imaginary component of the complex impedance, as a slope of the complex impedance; a storage configured to store in advance a relation between the slope of the complex impedance and a battery state associated with the battery; and an estimator configured to estimate the battery state on the basis of the calculated slope of the complex impedance and the stored relation.
US10718814B2
A battery testing apparatus including a memory unit configured to store profile data of a battery; an interface unit configured to receive a signal designating a specific future date after the beginning of life of the battery at which a lowest SOC according to degradation of the battery is to be predicted; and a processor connected to the memory and interface units to communicate therewith. The profile data includes first, second and third look-up tables in which open circuit voltages for each SOC from the battery in the beginning of life, closed and open circuit voltages for each SOC from an equivalent circuit of the battery in the beginning of life, and resistance increase rates predetermined for each use period, are respectively recorded. The processor predicts the lowest SOC at the specific date according to the degradation of the battery with reference to the first, second and third look-up tables.
US10718811B2
A jitter measurement circuit includes an addition circuit to add a digital rectangular signal to an adjustment signal generated by a circuit that generates a first error signal based on a phase difference between a first clock signal or a data signal on which the first clock signal is superimposed and a second clock signal and generates the adjustment signal by filtering the first error signal, and a calculation circuit to calculate a first correlation value for representing an autocorrelation of the first error signal when the rectangular signal is not added to the adjustment signal, and a second correlation value for representing the autocorrelation when the rectangular signal is added to the adjustment signal, based on the first error signal and a second error signal obtained by delaying the first error signal by a variable delay amount, and output the first correlation value and the second correlation value.
US10718805B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to test devices, for example testing devices by measuring signals emitted by a device. One example apparatus can include a first portion including a number of sidewalls positioned to at least partially surround a device under test; and a second portion electrically coupled to the first portion, wherein the second portion is configured to move in the x-direction, the y-direction, and z-direction.
US10718800B2
A method for determining the energy consumption of a production system such that the production system can be planned and operated more efficiently in terms of energy, where a load profile of the production system is determined, an energy requirement of the production system is estimated, an energy model of the production system is determined and the energy consumption of the production system is determined.
US10718784B2
The present invention is inter alia concerned with a method of diagnosing Alzheimer's disease in a patient, wherein said method is based on determining the amount of at least one premature mitochondrial protein. Further, the present invention relates to the use of such a protein as marker for Alzheimer's disease. Accordingly, antibodies binding to such a preprotein may be used for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease. The present invention is based on the finding that premature mitochondrial proteins accumulate in Alzheimer's disease.
US10718778B2
The present invention relates to methods for detecting sulfenylation within thiol groups in proteins, metabolites, or materials. Protein sulfenylation (Cys-SOH) describes the reversible post-translational modification of protein thiols by hydrogen peroxide, and plays a central role in oxidative signaling (see, e.g., Paulsen, C. E. & Carroll, K. S. 2013 Chemical Reviews 113, 4633-679). Growth factor stimulation activates NADPH oxidase enzymes, releasing a local burst of hydrogen peroxide, which transiently oxidizes the nuclcophilic cysteine of protein phosphatases and other proximal redox active thiols (see, e.g., Paulsen, C. E. et al., 2012 Nature Chemical Biology 8, 57-64). In addition to masking functional cysteine's, sulfenylation is also a critical intermediate towards irreversible cysteine oxidation.
US10718776B2
A method of detecting a biological substance, including introducing a first substance dispersed in a solvent into a flow channel formed between a first substrate and a second substrate such that the first substance is placed in a first well formed in the first substrate, and detecting the first substance. The first well is formed such that the first well has an open side which faces downwards and is communicated with the flow channel, and the solvent has a specific gravity larger than a specific gravity of the first substance.
US10718758B2
The present invention relates generally to the field of microelectronics, and more particularly to a structure and method of forming a biosensor having a nucleotide attracting surface tailored to reduce false detection of nucleotides and enabling optical detection of nucleotides. The biosensor may include an analyte-affinity layer on an upper surface of a dielectric layer. The analyte-affinity layer may include a plurality of cylindrical gold portions with dimensions tailored for a target analyte. A distance between adjacent portions of the plurality of portions may range from approximately 50% of a length of a target analyte to approximately 300% of a length of a target analyte. The plurality of portions of the analyte-affinity layer have an upper surface with a diameter ranging from approximately 3 nm to approximately 20 nm.
US10718750B1
Devices and methods for detection of evidence of life or ore bodies on or near the surface of extraterrestrial bodies (e.g., Mars) are described. In particular, a ground penetrating probe capable of s conducting life detection or other experiments and transmitting the data from the experiments to a satellite relay is described. Methods of use for such devices and apparatus are described.
US10718743B2
A liquid chromatography (LC) column includes a wall having a length along a central axis from the inlet end to the outlet end, the wall enclosing a column interior and having a column radius relative to the central axis, the wall comprising a structured portion configured such that the column radius varies along the length; and a plurality of particles packed in the column interior, wherein at least some of the particles are in contact with the structured portion.
US10718737B2
A nanopore based sequencing system includes a plurality of nanopore sensors. Each nanopore sensor has a portion for receiving a fluid. The nanopore based sequencing system includes a fluid chamber configured to guide the fluid over the plurality of nanopore sensors and an inlet configured to deliver the fluid into the fluid chamber. At least a portion of the fluid chamber is made of a material that has been molded around at least a portion of an electrode.
US10718727B2
The claimed method and system develops accelerated aging test protocols for a component of a process control device, such as a polymeric component of a valve assembly, where the accelerated aging test protocol is specifically developed in response to expected operating conditions to be used during operation of the process control device in a process plant installation. Test data from the developed accelerated aging tests is analyzed to determine a projected lifetime profile of the component that profiles the component through failure under those expected operating conditions. Particular profiling for polymeric features includes oxidation failure profiling and other fatigue conditions.
US10718720B2
A method of evaluating a semiconductor wafer, which has a polished surface, by using a laser surface-inspection device including light-incident and light-receiving systems, includes evaluating the semiconductor wafer by detecting, as a light point defect, an abnormality of a process-induced defect and a surface-adhered foreign matter present on the polished surface of the semiconductor wafer, on the basis of measurement result obtained by directing incident light to the polished surface of the semiconductor wafer from one light-incident system and receiving, with a first light-receiving system, radiation light which has been radiated by the incident light being reflected or scattered by the polished surface, measurement result obtained by receiving the radiation light with a second light-receiving system, and measurement result obtained by receiving the radiation light with a third light-receiving system, and at least one of a light-receiving angle and polarization selectivity differs among the first, second and third light-receiving systems.
US10718719B2
Embodiments include devices and methods for detecting particles in a wafer processing tool. In an embodiment, a particle monitoring device having a wafer form factor includes several micro sensors capable of operating in all pressure regimes, e.g., under vacuum conditions. The particle monitoring device may include a clock to output a time value when a parameter of a micro sensor changes in response to receiving a particle within a chamber of the wafer processing tool. A location of the micro sensor or the time value may be used to determine a source of the particle. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US10718718B2
A single-shot metrology for direct inspection of an entirety of the interior of an EUV vessel is provided. An EUV vessel including an inspection tool integrated with the EUV vessel is provided. During an inspection process, the inspection tool is moved into a primary focus region of the EUV vessel. While the inspection tool is disposed at the primary focus region and while providing a substantially uniform and constant light level to an interior of the EUV vessel by way of an illuminator, a panoramic image of an interior of the EUV vessel is captured by way of a single-shot of the inspection tool. Thereafter, a level of tin contamination on a plurality of components of the EUV vessel is quantified based on the panoramic image of the interior of the EUV vessel. The quantified level of contamination is compared to a KPI, and an OCAP may be implemented.
US10718716B2
An embodiment of a laser induced breakdown system is described that comprises a portable device that includes: a laser configured to produce a beam comprising a plurality of repeating pulses; a processor configured to open a data acquisition window after a delay period, wherein the delay period begins upon production of one of the pulses; one or more optical elements configured to direct the beam at a sample and collect emitted light from a plasma continuum; and an optical detector configured to produce a plurality of signal values from the emitted light from the plasma continuum collected during the data acquisition window, wherein the processor is configured to identify an element from the signal values.
US10718710B2
A water analysis device having a light source and a light detector for detecting an optical parameter of a water sample in a transparent measuring cell is disclosed. A ventilation circuit for ventilating a cell chamber is provided, wherein there is a differential pressure of at least 2.0 mbar between the cell chamber and the atmosphere when a ventilation pump is operated. The device housing forms the cell chamber which is fluidically sealed by a cover assembly. The cover assembly and the device housing have a mechanism that mimics the sealing action of a turn-lock fastener, such that the cover assembly can be secured to and/or released from the device housing by means of a rotational movement. The cover assembly and the device housing form an annular ring seal which is coaxial with the rotational movement and which is formed by an elastic sealing body having a circular sealing lip and a correspondingly circular shoulder seat on which the sealing lip is pressed due to the atmospheric differential pressure. Other aspects are disclosed and claimed.
US10718708B2
An object is to provide a technique that can evaluate biological tissues such as cartilage tissue and regenerated tissues such as regenerated cartilage. A method for observing a dynamic physical property of a biological tissue according to the present invention is that a biological tissue is irradiated with a pulsed light having a wavelength of a far-infrared wavelength region modulated into circular polarized lights by applying bias voltages to a radiation means (3) having an antenna electrode films of orthogonal (2)-axis structure with phases shifted using high-voltage high-speed modulation means (13), and dynamic physical property of the biological tissue is observed on the basis of a spectrum obtained by vibration optical activity spectroscopy.
US10718699B2
A Fatigue Performance Test induces a traffic analogous, 60 cycle, stress-strain environment into a road pavement cross section through a rolling cyclic fatigue platform. Data from the encounter dynamic reveals where strain build-up is occurring well before external, visually detectable evidence of fatigue failure is present in the pavement sample from cracks or permanent deformation. Responsive tuning of the embedded, sensor firmware establishes a baseline status for the sample whereupon incoming data gathered during the stress-strain encounter dynamic reveals details of fatigue build-up.
US10718697B2
A method for estimating a stiffness of a deformable part of a system including a four-photodiode detector for analyzing at least one characteristic of a sample. The method includes receiving the signals recorded by the four photodiodes, calculating the resultant signals from the recorded signals, calculating a cross-correlation of the resultant signals calculated for obtaining an intercorrelated signal, estimating the stiffness of the deformable part depending on the intercorrelated signal.
US10718686B2
An exemplary method for determining rattle noise of a vehicle steering system includes providing an intermediate shaft assembly including a first shaft member coupled to a second shaft member by a first joining member, a third shaft member coupled to the second shaft member by a second joining member, the first shaft member coupled to a first motor and the third shaft coupled to a second motor, providing a first sensor coupled to the first joining member and a second sensor coupled to the second joining member, sensors configured to measure an acceleration of the first joining member and the second joining member, applying a first torque and a second torque to the intermediate shaft assembly, receiving first acceleration data from the first sensor and second acceleration data from the second sensor, and analyzing the first and second acceleration data to determine a rattle noise of the intermediate shaft assembly.
US10718685B2
A device for the measurement of electrical properties on a surface. Sensor consists of several conductive elements arranged at vertices of a three-dimensional geometry. As such, the device achieves a favorable sensing configuration regardless of initial orientation. The device includes circuitry for interfacing with the conductive elements. This circuitry determines the electrical properties of the surface. The measurement has many uses, one of which is to discriminate between dry and wet surfaces. This patent presents various analysis methods to determine the electrical property.
US10718678B2
An aircraft engine pressure transducer includes a first pressure transducer channel and a second pressure transducer channel. The first pressure transducer channel is configured to sense a pressure of the aircraft engine over a first pressure range and a first temperature range. The second pressure transducer channel is configured to sense the pressure of the aircraft engine over a second pressure range and a second temperature range, the second pressure range being a subset of the first temperature range, and the second temperature range being a subset of the first temperature range.
US10718652B2
An apparatus comprises a detector, a pressure sensor and a processor. The detector is operable to detect light that is scattered by an aerosol that is associated with a pressure. The pressure sensor is operable to measure the pressure. The processor is coupled to the detector and to the pressure sensor, and is configured to receive at least a signal from the detector and the pressure sensor. The processor is further configured to use the received signals to calculate a volume of the first aerosol, and to output an output signal associated with the calculated volume. The various measurements can be repeated and compared, and the output signal can be a feedback signal for metering subsequent amounts of the aerosol, based on the comparison.
US10718647B2
A thermal flowmeter includes: a sub-passage (307) that takes a part of a gas (30) to be measured flowing through a main passage; and a flow measurement unit (451) disposed inside the sub-passage (307). The sub-passage (307) includes: a first passage (351) provided on a measurement surface (451a) side of the flow measurement unit (451); a second passage (352) provided on a back surface (451b) side of the flow measurement unit (451); and an inclined passage (361) provided on an upstream side of an inlet (351a) of the first passage in a forward flow direction F of the gas (30) to be measured in the first passage (351).
US10718642B2
A method for checking an operability of two-wire measuring transducers in automation technology which output a measurement signal as an impressed loop direct current via a two-wire line and active assemblies of which are supplied with electrical energy via the two-wire line includes: measuring the loop direct current and an input voltage of the measuring transducer; increasing the loop direct current in a range from a minimum value to a maximum value independently of the measured value, while measuring the input voltage of the measuring transducer; storing the measured values of the input voltage at selected measuring points of the loop direct current as an individual signature of the measuring transducer; and, during ongoing operation, measuring the input voltage at connection terminals of the two-wire line via an internal resistance of the measuring transducer at a prevailing loop direct current and recursively comparing that with the signature.
US10718630B2
A hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) that includes a communication unit configured to periodically respond to a charge signal, and to adjust a travel route and charge waypoint, according to an estimated charge station travel route and waypoint charge time received from a remote fleet server. The estimates are received in response to periodic operating conditions that are generated and communicated to the server. The operating conditions include one or more of charge station, environment, and location data, vehicle data, and battery performance data, among other data. The controller further configured to respond to travel route and/or charge complete signals, and to generate and store an estimate error as a difference between the actual and estimated optimal charge route and charge time. The controller readjusts at least one of the travel route and charge waypoint, responsive to the updated estimated optimal charge route and waypoint charge time received from the server.
US10718617B2
The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for measuring a posture angle of an object. The method comprises the following steps: arranging a sensor in a measured object, the sensor being used for measuring characteristic quantities of magnetic field in three dimensional directions; actuating the sensor at the beginning of the measurement, and acquiring, by using the sensor, a current measured value of the characteristic quantity of magnetic field of the measured object in a carrier coordinate system; acquiring reference values of the characteristic quantities of magnetic field of the measured object in a geographic coordinate system; and calculating a current posture angle of the measured object according to numerical values of the characteristic quantities of magnetic field indicated by the reference value and the measured value in each direction respectively.
US10718616B2
A patrol route setting apparatus includes a cell divider, a probability distribution setter, a random number generator, a destination setter, a route setter, and a probability distribution updating unit. The cell divider divides map information into cells. The probability distribution setter sets, for each cell, a probability distribution of a presence probability of a capturing target in the cell. The destination setter that sets, as a destination, any, of the cells, that has a greatest first value, of the presence probability, corresponding to a random number generated by the random number generator, on the basis of the probability distributions. The probability distribution updating unit updates, on the basis of presence information of the capturing target acquired by an information acquiring unit, the probability distributions of the presence probability of the capturing target, when the movable body travels along the traveling route to the destination set by the route setter.
US10718612B2
A strain detector is interposed between a base and an attachment member in a structure body having the base, the attachment member, and the stainless bolts fixed the base to the attachment member. The strain detector includes an elastic member and a heat flux sensor. The elastic member is provided to compress or extend in accordance with a deformation of the stainless bolts, and the elastic member generates heat based on the compression and absorbs heat based on the extension. The heat flux sensor is deformed in accordance with the compression or the extension of the elastic member and the heat in the elastic member is transferred to the heat flux sensor. The heat flux sensor can detect a magnitude of the heat flux Fh1 as a heat stream between the inside of the elastic member and the outside, generated by the compression or the extension of the elastic member.
US10718610B2
Roughness measurement probe (15) for scanning a surface (F), comprising an integratingly operating device (20) and an optical scanning device (30), wherein the optical scanning device (30) is arranged directly on or in the integratingly operating device (20), wherein the integratingly operating device (20) is designed, when scanning the surface (F), to predetermine a mean distance between the roughness measuring probe (15) and a larger region of the surface (F), and wherein the optical scanning device (30) is designed, when scanning the surface (F), to optically scan a smaller region of the surface (F) in a contactless manner, wherein the integratingly operating device (20) comprises an optical arrangement which is designed as a virtual skid in such a way that it images a light spot (LF) on the surface (F).
US10718607B2
Illustrative embodiments of determining geometric characteristics of reflective surfaces are disclosed. In at least one illustrative embodiment, a method of determining geometric characteristics of reflective surfaces includes sensing electromagnetic waves with a sensor, where the electromagnetic waves have been reflected off a reflective surface of a specimen from a target structure including a feature point. The method further includes determining a displacement of the feature point of the target structure indicated by the sensed electromagnetic waves relative to reference data indicating a reference location for the feature point and determining a surface slope of a point of the reflective surface based on the determined displacement of the feature point of the target structure.
US10718604B2
A diffraction measurement target that has at least a first sub-target and at least a second sub-target, and wherein (1) the first and second sub-targets each include a pair of periodic structures and the first sub-target has a different design than the second sub-target, the different design including the first sub-target periodic structures having a different pitch, feature width, space width, and/or segmentation than the second sub-target periodic structure or (2) the first and second sub-targets respectively include a first and second periodic structure in a first layer, and a third periodic structure is located at least partly underneath the first periodic structure in a second layer under the first layer and there being no periodic structure underneath the second periodic structure in the second layer, and a fourth periodic structure is located at least partly underneath the second periodic structure in a third layer under the second layer.
US10718603B2
A positioning unit mountable on a moving object includes at least one light source measuring unit and a processor. The light source measuring units have high directional sensitivity along a first axis and low directional sensitivity along a second axis orthogonal to the first axis to capture relative angular information of the moving object with respect to a plurality of stationary light sources in a space. The processor determines positioning information of the moving object at least from the output of the at least one light source measuring unit. Each light source measuring unit includes an optical arrangement and a linearly configured imaging sensor to receive light from the stationary light sources through the optical arrangement.
US10718602B2
A coordinate positioning apparatus comprising first and second relatively moveable bodies, at least the first body comprising at least one sheet or plate of material arranged to provide a load-bearing structure comprising a plurality of planar load-bearing members and on which at least one member is mounted to the first body via a mount which is coupled to at least three, non-parallel planar load-bearing members of the first body, such that the planes of said at least three non-parallel planar load-bearing members intersect each other at a common point.
US10718593B2
The present disclosure relates to a firearm which may include a frame with a first outer wall, and a second outer wall opposite the first outer wall. A laser module may be disposed between the first and second outer walls. An alignment pin may be in communication with the first outer wall and may be configured to move the laser module relative to the frame.
US10718588B2
An extension system is disclosed for a gun support attached to a gun having a barrel with an effective muzzle. The extension system includes: a fore-end attached to the gun adjacent to the barrel; a telescopic assembly having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end telescopically coupled to the fore-end, the distal end coupled to the gun support, where the telescopic assembly includes one or more telescopic portions; one or more clamps to selectively fix the first telescopic portions to the fore-end to provide an adjustable length of the telescopic assembly, which is then capable of positioning the gun support at or ahead of the effective muzzle and adjacent to the barrel as provided by the fore-end.
US10718580B2
A feeder and delinker for use in a gatling gun, the gatling gun comprising a plurality of gun barrels rotatably mounted in a ring, the feeder and delinker comprising: a housing, a drive gear rotationally coupled to the gun barrels rotatably mounted in the ring, the drive gear extending through the housing; a push rod guide and a plurality of push rods oriented parallel to the gun barrels rotatably mounted in the ring. The push rods being slidably received within a corresponding plurality of longitudinal grooves within the push rod guide, the push rod guide being rotationally coupled to the drive gear, at least one of the push rod guide or push rods comprising a friction reducer located between the push-rod and push rod guide, the push rod guide and the plurality of push rods and the shaft being mounted within the housing.
US10718559B2
A refrigerator including a cabinet, a liner defining a compartment within the cabinet, a fan to move cooled air, and an air tower positioned adjacent the liner and provided in fluid communication with the compartment via a plurality of primary exhaust openings. The refrigerator further includes an air filter bracket separate from and located adjacent to the air tower and provided in fluid communication with both the air tower and the compartment. The air filter bracket includes a duct positioned adjacent the flow path of the air tower to be in fluid communication with a secondary exhaust opening of the air tower.
US10718552B2
Provided is a refrigerator. The refrigerator includes a main body defining a storage space, a cryogenic freezing compartment provided in the storage space, and a thermoelectric module assembly disposed at one side of the cryogenic freezing compartment so that the cryogenic freezing compartment is cooled to a temperature less than that of the storage space. The cryogenic freezing compartment includes a cryogenic case into which an insulation material is filled to be thermally insulated from the storage space and in which a cryogenic freezing space is defined, a case door opening and closing the cryogenic case, and a rail assembly connecting the cryogenic case to the case door and extending and contracted in multi-stages to allow the case door to be slid to be inserted and withdrawn. The rail assembly is mounted on the cryogenic case outside the cryogenic freezing space.
US10718544B2
A reinforcing assembly for air ducts includes a helical reinforcement with an outer circumference and at least one connecting element for fixing a pitch of a helix formed by the helical reinforcement. The at least one connecting element may be fixed to the helical reinforcement by a plurality of joints with mutually arranged spacing. The reinforcing assembly may be combined with an air duct to form a duct system for transmitting and distributing air that retains its shape regardless of the system's internal air pressure.
US10718540B2
The control section implements: a utilization cooling operation in which the thermal storage medium absorbs heat from the refrigerant and in which the refrigerant evaporates in the indoor heat exchanger, when the receiving section receives a first signal indicating a request for reduced use of power during an operation in which the room is cooled by the refrigerant evaporating in the indoor heat exchanger; and a cooling and cold thermal energy storage operation in which the refrigerant absorbs heat from the thermal storage medium and in which the refrigerant evaporates in the indoor heat exchanger, when the receiving section receives a second signal indicating a request for accelerated use of power during the operation in which the room is cooled by the refrigerant evaporating in the indoor heat exchanger.
US10718535B2
Provided is a humidification and air cleaning apparatus. The humidification and air cleaning apparatus includes a water tank storing water; a visual body forming at least a portion of the water tank and formed of a transparent material; a watering housing disposed in the water tank, drawing water stored in the water tank to pump water to an upper side, and spraying the pumped water; a nozzle disposed in the watering housing and spraying the pumped water; and a watering motor rotating the watering housing. Here, when the watering housing rotates, water sprayed from the nozzle forms at least one spray line on an inner side surface of the visual body.
US10718532B2
An apparatus for use with a fan coil cabinet occluded by a releasably secured baffle having intake and discharge vents communicating with the cabinet and containing a coil which water passes and a fan which forces air past the coil for conditioning, wherein the fan has an outlet and a coil. The apparatus comprises a housing with the fan and coil mounted thereto, and a support mounted to the cabinet wherein the housing slides for movement between a retracted position, within the cabinet, and an extended position, protruding from the cabinet. The housing has a port with the fan coupled thereto for sealed communication between the port and the outlet. The coil and the housing define a cavity with which the port communicates. The housing defines an aperture and a door releasably secured in occluding relation to the aperture to provide access to the cavity for maintenance of the coil.
US10718531B2
A residential and commercial hot water and steam boiler safety system and device that includes at least one hollow pipe, with one plugged or sealed end and a fitting on the other end for connecting the pipe in a substantially vertical mounting position, and at least one two float switch disposed in the pipe and electrically connected in series with a limit switch in the boiler, where the pipe is adopted for the flow and accumulation of water, so that float switch activates as the pipe fills with water and shuts off the boiler by turning off the gas valve, promoting safer boiler and steam boiler operation. Additional float switches positioned above or below in the hollow pipe may provide additional functions, such as a warning light and sound to the owner, or a notification via a telephone or cell phone system or through the home network or Wi-Fi system.
US10718530B2
Provided is a hot water distribution system comprising a water heater, a water pump, a controller, a temperature sensor, a point-of-use, and a diverting valve capable of directing water from the water heater to either the point-of-use or back to the water heater.
US10718525B2
Systems and methods for dual-fuel operation of a gas turbine combustor are provided. An exemplary gas turbine combustor may comprise one or more components, such as a cylindrical combustion liner, a flow sleeve, a main mixer, a radial inflow swirler, a combustor dome, and a fuel cartridge assembly, one or more of which may be configured to supply either a gaseous or a liquid fuel to the combustion liner, depending on whether gaseous fuel operation or liquid fuel operation of the combustor is desired.
US10718524B2
A mixer assembly for a gas turbine engine is provided, including a main mixer with fuel injection holes located between at least one radial swirler and at least one axial swirler, wherein the fuel injected into the main mixer is atomized and dispersed by the air flowing through the radial swirler and the axial swirler.
US10718521B2
A combustor for a gas turbine engine includes a support shell; a first liner panel mounted to the support shell via a multiple of studs, the first liner panel including a first rail that extends from a cold side of the first liner panel; and a second liner panel mounted to the support shell via a multiple of studs, the second liner panel including a second rail that extends from a cold side of the second liner panel adjacent to said first rail, the second rail includes a discontinuous rail end surface.
US10718519B2
A heat shield panel for use in a gas turbine engine combustor is disclosed. The heat shield panel includes a hot side, a cold side and at least one attachment mechanism having a stud and a central axis extending through the stud and a plurality of standoff pins positioned circumferentially around the stud, the standoff pins having a radial extent, a circumferential extent that is greater than the radial extent, a radially outer surface having a radially convex shape and a radially inner surface having a radially concave shape.
US10718517B2
A gas appliance includes a burner, a gas valve, an ignitor, a thermocouple, and a control device, wherein the control device is adapted to execute a control method comprising the following steps: controlling the ignitor to ignite and the gas valve to open; receiving a sensing voltage output from the thermocouple; stop the ignitor from igniting and controlling the gas valve to keep a gas pipe be in an open state when the sensing voltage increases to a first voltage; receiving the sensing voltage output from the thermocouple continuously, and controlling the gas valve to block the gas pipe when the sensing voltage decreases from higher than a second voltage to lower than the second voltage, wherein the second voltage is higher than the first voltage. Whereby, an ignition procedure could be speeded up and the gas could be blocked earlier as the flames are extinguished.
US10718515B2
A process for capturing undesirable combustion products produced in a high temperature combustion system in which a carbonaceous fuel is utilized. Very finely sized particles of alkaline earth carbonates or hydroxides, with or without added ground ash, are provided in slurry form, are dried and milled to provide unagglomerated, sub-micron-sized particles that are injected along with pulverized coal and an oxidizing agent into the high temperature combustion zone of a furnace. The particles capture and neutralize the gases that result in condensable acids, including SOx, NOx, HCL, and HF, as well as capturing toxic metals that are present in the combustion products, they mitigate ash fouling and slagging, and they facilitate economic heat exchange that permits fuel savings and recovery of water for use in other processes.
US10718506B2
A luminaire includes a housing assembly, a spacer, and a globe optic. A collar may be included on the spacer such that the luminaire can accommodate different sizes of globe optics without requiring complete replacement of the luminaire. The spacer may include airflow apertures that promote air circulation within the luminaire when the luminaire is assembled. A wireless node may be included with the luminaire. In some examples, the wireless node may be positioned on at least one of the housing assembly, the spacer, or the globe optic.
US10718504B1
A lamp holder for an LED string light includes a lamp housing, an LED lighting module, a plug, and a socket. An open end of the lamp housing is pre-sintered with an encapsulation layer. The LED lighting module is disposed in the lamp housing, and has a cathode pin and an anode pin extending out from the encapsulation layer. Because the LED lighting module is pre-encapsulated in the lamp housing, when installed, only the LED lighting module and the plug need to be assembled so as to complete the assembly of the lamp housing, the LED lighting module and the plug. This reduces the assembly steps for production.
US10718497B2
An electronic product with a light emitting function is provided. The electronic product includes a supporting structure, a light emitting structure and a cavity. The light emitting structure is bonded on the supporting structure. The light emitting structure includes a film, a conductive circuit and a light emitting device. The conductive circuit is formed on the film. The conductive circuit is enclosed between the supporting structure and the film. The light emitting device is disposed on the conductive circuit. The cavity is formed between the supporting structure and the light emitting structure, and the light emitting device is received in the cavity.
US10718496B2
The invention relates to a switch cabinet light for illuminating the interior of a switch cabinet, comprising a light-emitting circuit board that has at least a first and a second orientation relative to a translucent light cover of the switch cabinet light in order to vary the beam direction of the switch cabinet light, wherein a light-emitting side of the light-emitting circuit board faces toward a first wall section of the translucent light cover in a first orientation of the light-emitting circuit board and toward a second wall section of the translucent light cover in a second orientation of the light-emitting circuit board.
US10718492B2
An illumination apparatus comprises a plurality of LEDs aligned to an array of directional optical elements wherein the LEDs are substantially at the input aperture of respective optical elements. An electrode array is formed on the array of optical elements to provide at least a first electrical connection to the array of LED elements. Advantageously such an arrangement provides low cost and high efficiency from the directional LED array.
US10718488B2
The invention relates to a projector (1) for light signalling, comprising—a conical mirror (16) having a truncated-cone shape (6), a plurality of laser diodes (5) emitting a light intensity towards the conical mirror (16), the inclination of the laser diodes (5) with respect to the conical surface (9) is such that the light projector (1) reflects the light intensity of the plurality of diodes (5) perpendicular to the axis (Z) of the cone, such that the conical mirror (16) reflects all of the light intensity of the plurality of laser diodes (5).
US10718481B2
Provided is a vehicular illumination device capable of increasing a degree of design freedom in designing a vehicle having enhanced design. An illumination device is provided on a front portion of a vehicle. The illumination device includes a headlight, a light guide, and an outer glass. The light guide has an annular shape in such a way as to surround a periphery of the headlight. The outer glass includes a front surface portion for covering a front surface of the headlight, and a perimeter portion for covering a periphery of the headlight. The light guide is disposed along an imaginary plane inclined with respect to a tubular axis of the perimeter portion.
US10718480B2
A light device for a motor vehicle lighting and/or signaling device includes a flexible surface light source a housing arranged to conform at least a part of the flexible surface light source according to a predetermined form a cap arranged to press said part of the flexible surface light source against the housing the housing and/or the cap being capable of allowing light emitted by the flexible surface light source to pass.
US10718479B2
A daylight illumination system for integration into a building or larger vehicle comprises a translucent facade element (800) containing a glass sheet and a light redirection element (302 or 708), and a light transport channel (801) for guiding light about horizontally into an interior of the building, the light transport channel comprising one opening attached to the interior side of said facade element and at least one opening towards the interior of the building, characterised in that the light redirection element (302 or 708) is formed as a structured polymer film or sheet attached to a glass sheet of the facade element (800) and is configured for changing the direction of incident light into the about horizontal light transport channel.
US10718477B2
A simulating electronic candle, includes a first light body and a second light body, wherein the first light body and the second light body are light-guiding bodies or light-emitting bodies, and a surface portion of the second light body is provided with a light-blocking body; and there is a preset angle between the first light body and the second light body, so that light from the first light body and light from the second light body cooperate with each other to produce an effect of a real flame being divided into three layers. With this simulating electronic candle, it is possible to simulate a situation when a real flame is burning.
US10718476B2
An LED light fixture is disclosed with an elongated housing that forms a open lower light channel and an upper light channel that is juxtaposed to the open lower light channel with electronics cavity or conduit positioned there between. The LED light fixture preferably has an elongated reflective insert that extends through the open lower light channel and creates a reflection channel from which the indirect and reflected light is emitted and a detachable cover structure that includes a diffusion lens and a removable baffle structure that attaches to side walls of the upper light channel.
US10718475B2
A tangle-resistant decorative lighting assembly, comprising: a main portion including a plurality of wires and connectors, including first and second connectors and first and second lighted-extension portions extending transversely from the main portion. The first lighted extension portion including: a first connector configured to detachably connect to the first connector of the main portion, a first plurality of wires connected to the first connector, and a first plurality of lamp assemblies connected to the first plurality of wires. The second lighted-extension portion including: a second connector configured to detachably connect to the second connector of the main portion, a second plurality of wires connected to the second connector, and a second plurality of lamp assemblies connected to the second plurality of wires. The first connector of the main portion comprises a lock portion configured to engage with a lock portion of the first connector of the first lighted-extension portion.
US10718471B1
The present invention provides an LED light bulb comprising a transparent lampshade, a base, a transparent stem, a transparent seat, a power supply board fixedly mounted on the transparent seat, a first rigid conductive wire passing through the transparent stem, second rigid conductive wires passing through the transparent stem and connecting to the power supply board, and LED filaments fixedly connected to the first rigid conductive wire and the second rigid conductive wires. The second rigid conductive wires are two in number. The LED filaments are two or more in number. Each of the LED filaments are evenly distributed around the transparent stem, and each of the second rigid conductive wires is connected to at least one of the LED filaments.
US10718469B2
Methods and systems for modular fuel storage and transportation are provided. In an embodiment, a fuel storage system includes one or more fuel containers each supported by a fuel container support assembly. The fuel storage system may be mounted to a transportation device such as a vehicle or used in a stand-alone fashion. Each support assembly may include a plurality of detachable end support members such as end support members configured to support the end portions of the fuel container and side support members configured to support the body portion of the fuel container. Some of the end support members may include neck grooves such that when the end support members are coupled, the neck grooves form an enclosure around the neck portion of the fuel container. In an embodiment, the support assembly is configured to facilitate release of excess pressure in the fuel container.
US10718464B2
The present disclosure provides a tripod head. The tripod head comprises a support frame, a support plate connected with the support frame, a rotating plate having a first surface and a second surface, and a clamping plate connected with a second end of the rotating plate, wherein a first end of the rotating plate is rotationally connected with the support plate; and the clamping plate is located on the second surface and forms a clamping mechanism for clamping a first electronic device with the support plate when the rotating plate rotates corresponding to the support plate to form a certain angle. The clamping mechanism of the present disclosure can be folded so as to reduce the space.
US10718457B2
An apparatus for connecting a first wellsite tube to a second wellsite tube includes a collar configured to engage with outer conduits of the first and second wellsite tubes. A coupling is disposed inside the collar and includes a first end axially disposed from a second end. A first structure is configured to provide sliding engagement between the first end of the coupling and an inner conduit of the first wellsite tube. A second structure is configured to provide threaded engagement between the second end of the coupling and an inner conduit of the second wellsite tube. A plurality of radially extending ribs are disposed between the opposing ends of the collar and support the coupling inside the collar.
US10718453B2
A hose assembly is formed with a flexible helical hose body, a termination ring secured to an end, and over-molded plastic. The termination ring includes a main ring, a secondary ring, and connector members, each configured to span between and be integrally connected with the main and secondary rings. The main ring has an inside surface formed to threadably couple to a corresponding helical portion of the hose body, and be positioned at least two to three turns away from the hose end. The length of the connector members positions the secondary ring at least two turns closer to the hose end. Each connector member has outwardly protruding ridges. Plastic is over-molded to encapsulate the first end of the hose body, to encapsulate the secondary ring and each connector member, and to encapsulate a portion of the main ring, while extending beyond the hose end to form a soft cuff.
US10718450B2
A flange joint assembly includes a first structure including a first flange and a second structure including a second flange coupled to the first flange to form a joint therebetween. The second flange includes a radially outer surface. The flange joint assembly also includes a compression ring coupled to at least the radially outer surface and configured to apply a compressive force to the radially outer surface to reduce an amount of tension stress within said second flange.
US10718440B2
A check valve for a vessel having at least one port for a buoyancy chamber. The check valve having a valve body fitted to sealingly engage the port and a stopper retained within the valve body and be moveable from a closed position limiting water from entering the port to an open position permitting drainage of water from the port.
US10718438B2
To provide a fluid control valve for use under high-temperature conditions and capable of achieving high durability and Cv value stability even with many operations, and a method of assembling the fluid control valve, a fluid control valve includes an annular valve seat provided inside a body having an inflow port and an outflow port and a diaphragm opposed to the annular valve seat to be in contact therewith or away therefrom by an ascending/descending motion of an actuator rod or a manual rod. A contact surface, which is an upper surface of the annular valve seat, to be in contact with and away from the diaphragm has a tapered surface formed along a centripetal direction of the annular valve seat.
US10718433B2
A wear ring for a piston of a die-casting apparatus comprises an annular body having a gap extending therethrough, the gap being configured to define at least two circumferentially offset pairs of circumferentially spaced apart facing surfaces. The annular body comprises an axial end face having at least one arc-shaped recess formed therein.
US10718425B2
In a brake device of a transmission, rotation side friction plates are engaged with a cylindrical part of a rotation side holding member, and fixed side friction plates are engaged with a spline part that is provided on an outer peripheral surface of an inner cylindrical part of a fixed side holding member opposed to a cylindrical part of the rotation side holding member. The fixed side holding member includes an inflow oil passage that supplies lubricating oil from the outside to the inside of the radial direction thereof. An annular space communicating with an inflow oil passage is provided on the inside of the cylindrical part of the fixed side holding member. Oil discharge holes supplying lubricating oil, which was flowed into the annular space, to the rotation side and fixed side friction plates are provided on the cylindrical part of the fixed side holding member.
US10718423B2
A wheel hub transmission includes an outer surface configured as an end face. The end face has a plurality of radially oriented cooling fins at regular spaced-apart relationship. A cover is provided to cover the cooling fins at the end face. The cover has a central opening and forms with pairs of adjacent ones of the cooling fins a plurality of radially oriented cooling ducts.
US10718422B2
A threaded fastener actuator that includes a worm-gear used to transfer rotational power to an impeller gear. The impeller gear includes a polygonal channel for receiving an actuator feature included in a threaded fastener. As the worm-gear is rotated, the impeller gear rotates about a vertical movement axis, which causes the threaded fastener contained in polygonal channel to also rotate and engage with a corresponding threaded coupler.
US10718418B2
A method of driving an integrated drive generator is provided. The method includes driving a carrier shaft of an epicyclic differential and a variable component of a hydraulic trimming device that is operably coupled to a sun gear of the epicyclic differential. The method also includes driving a generator with an output ring gear that is maintained at a constant output frequency. The method further includes maintaining the constant output frequency by controllably manipulating the speed of the sun gear that is in operable communication with the output ring gear.
US10718413B2
An assembly of a robot includes a first member, a second member rotatably connected to the first member to construct a robot joint structure, a driving assembly arranged within the first member, a speed reducer assembly to rotatably connect the first member to the second member, and a belt drive assembly connected to the driving assembly and the speed reducer assembly. The belt drive assembly is used to transmit rotary motion from the driving assembly to the speed reducer assembly, thereby rotating the first member with respect to the second member.
US10718410B2
A belt tensioner for a belt drive of a motor vehicle engine, comprising: a fixed part configured to be fixed with respect to the engine and provided with a pivot defining a rotation axis; an arm having a connection portion hinged to the pivot and rotatable about the rotation axis and an opposite portion rotatably supporting a pulley configured to cooperate with a belt of the drive; a main spring interposed between the fixed part and the arm to exert thrust on the arm such as to rotate said arm towards the belt; and at least one rolling bearing interposed between the arm and the pivot to support the arm and ensure the alignment thereof.
US10718402B2
A self-adaptive torsional vibration reducer is provided, which includes an inner casing, an outer casing and resonance bodies provided between the inner casing and the outer casing. Each of the resonance bodies includes a mass-block and constraining springs supporting the mass-block between the inner casing and the outer casing. The resonance bodies are provided in pairs and are symmetrically distributed around a center of the rotating shaft. In a case that a frequency of an excitation force on the rotating shaft is coincided with the resonance frequency, the resonance bodies absorb torsional vibration energy at the frequency to reduce vibration. A diesel engine including the self-adaptive torsional vibration reducer is also provided.
US10718400B2
The invention relates to an anti-vibration support, comprising first, second and third frames, which are metallic, accessible from the outside and separate from one another, at least one part made of elastomer. The invention is characterized in that the support also comprises a member made of thermoplastic material comprising at least one reinforcement, which has continuous-fibers and which is a prefabricated part, to reinforce the mechanical strength of the anti-vibration support, the first and second frames being far from one another in a first, substantially horizontal, direction, are intended to be fixed to a body of a motor vehicle and are connected one to another by means of the member made of thermoplastic material, the member made of thermoplastic material being over-molded with respect to at least a portion of at least one surface of the reinforcement, with respect to first and second surfaces of the first and second frames and with respect to at least one surface of the part made of elastomer supporting the third metal frame intended for the suspension of a vibrating portion of the vehicle, for damping and filtering mechanical vibrations between the body and the vibrating portion.
US10718395B2
A bearing bushing, for example, for a motor vehicle. The bearing bushing is switchable between a first and a second stiffness stage. The bearing bushing has a first elastomer ring, which is arranged rotationally fixedly on an outer circumferential surface of an inner ring, and a second elastomer ring, which is arranged rotationally fixedly on an inner circumferential surface of an outer ring. Radially between the two elastomer rings, an intermediate ring makes contact in a rotationally fixed manner with the two elastomer rings. To change in stiffness of the bearing bushing, the first elastomer ring can be bridged by the intermediate ring and at least one blocking ring which is arranged on the bearing bushing at an end side.
US10718391B1
A caliper brake featuring a hydraulic piston assembly includes a housing, a movable piston within a chamber of the housing, a first port providing a first fluid pathway into the chamber, and a redundant seal assembly. The redundant seal assembly may include a first pressure seal disposed about a first interior circumference of the chamber disposed above the first port, a second pressure seal disposed about a second interior circumference of the chamber disposed above the first pressure seal, and a second port disposed between the first pressure seal and the second pressure seal, the second port providing a second fluid pathway from inside of the chamber to outside of the chamber, and the second port establishing a bleed-off for fluid traversing above the first pressure seal such that the second pressure seal experiences a lower fluid pressure than the first pressure seal during normal operation of the caliper brake.
US10718386B2
A basic pulse time setting section determines a basic pulse time for initial invalid stroke elimination by applying current values of oil temperature and throttle opening to the basic pulse time map. A subtraction time setting section determines a subtraction time by applying current values of oil temperature and clutch oil pressure to the subtraction time map. A pulse time determining section determines a predetermined initial invalid stroke elimination pulse time by subtracting the subtraction time from the basic pulse time. An initial invalid stroke elimination permission/inhibition determination section, at a starting timing of initial invalid stroke elimination, inhibits this-time initial invalid stroke elimination if the elapsed time from the execution timing of the preceding initial invalid stroke elimination is within the predetermined inhibition period.
US10718379B2
A sliding member (1) is formed of a sintered compact. The sintered compact includes: a base layer (3), which mainly contains an Fe-based structure and further contains 1.0 wt % to 5.0 wt % of Cu, a metal having a melting point lower than a melting point of Cu, and C; and a sliding layer (2), which is sintered together with the base layer (3) in a state of being held in contact with the base layer (3) and has a sliding surface (A). The sliding layer (2) mainly contains an Fe-based structure containing at least one kind of alloy element selected from Ni, Mo, Mn, and Cr and further contains Cu and C, and the content of Cu in the sliding layer (2) is larger than the content of Cu in the base layer.
US10718375B2
A maintenance-free bearing system having self-lubricating features, seals, grooves and slots for use in a cushion hitch assembly for a hitch pull scraper vehicle. An interconnected bearing linkage system having two or more horizontal two-axis combined journal and thrust bearings with self-lubricating liners therein, two or more vertical single-axis sleeve bearings with self-lubricating liners therein and one or more vertical thrust bearing with self-lubricating liners therein, that cooperate with one another to accommodate vertical and horizontal angular movement relative to one another.
US10718365B2
A clamp device (100) for mounting equipment to a support structure (200) including a base (105) and a slider (110). The base (105) includes a first trough (155) formed in the front side (140) of the base (105) and a second trough (160) formed in the back side (145) of the base (105) and a first coupling element located on the first lateral side (130) and a second coupling element located on the second lateral side (135) of the base (105). Each of the first and second coupling elements extend from near the top end (120) of the base (105) towards the bottom end (125) of the base (105) at an angle relative to the first trough (155). The slider (110) includes a channel (185) on a back side (145) of the slider (110) and corresponding coupling elements within the channel (185) configured to slidingly engage the first and second coupling elements upon association of the slider (110) with the base (105).
US10718362B2
A vortex control device for modifying a vortex in a fluid stemming from a wall is disclosed. The device includes a rotatable hub disposed within an opening in the wall. The device also includes an inlet port and an outlet port in the rotatable hub. The inlet port forms a suction port to suction fluid from or about the vortex, and the outlet port forms an injection port to inject fluid into or about the vortex.
US10718361B2
In order to arrange a sensor unit completely in an interior e.g. of a cylinder of a piston cylinder unit and in order to be able to use a tension element sensor as a sensor the sensor unit is configured so that it includes a pressure tight wall through which a magnetic field sensitive sensor is configured to detect a magnetic field of an encoder magnet that moves on another side of the pressure tight wall and represents a rotational position and rotations of the winding drum whereas a housing of the sensor unit is sealed relative to an interior of the cylinder so that the sensor cavity in which the sensor is arranged represents a low pressure cavity which is advantageously only subjected to ambient pressure. This avoids hollow boring of the piston rod and no magnetic field permeable window has to be fabricated in a wall or in a base of the cylinder.
US10718360B2
A hydraulic fluid cylinder is equipped with a cylinder tube, a piston unit, and a piston rod. The piston unit has a piston body provided with a gasket-mounting groove. A gasket member is mounted in the gasket mounting groove. The gasket member has a gasket body provided with a magnet-mounting groove exhibiting groove depth in the axial direction of the piston unit, and also has a magnet mounted in the magnet-mounting groove.
US10718356B2
An aspirator may comprise an aspirator body defining an air channel and an inlet at a proximate end of the aspirator, and an inflatable barrel coupled to the aspirator body and defining an outlet at a distal end of the aspirator, wherein the inflatable barrel comprises a helical coil having a first interior volume and coupled about a barrel liner, wherein the barrel liner defines a second interior volume, wherein the air channel and the second interior volume define an airflow path extending from the air channel through the second interior volume the inflatable barrel.
US10718339B2
Electronic devices have peripheral drive centrifugal fans having smaller hubs and increased air flows to manage heat levels within the electronic device. A peripheral drive centrifugal fan includes a fan housing, an impeller including a plurality of blades, and a plurality of stacked inductor groups radially disposed about the impeller. Some of the blades have magnetically active portions. Each stacked inductor group includes first and second coils configured to impart a variable magnetic force to the magnetically active portion of a blade to drive the impeller along a rotational direction. The first and second coils can be selectively energizable independently from each other to provide greater control of the impeller.
US10718338B2
A system and method for a battery-operated back-up sump pump. The method includes providing a back-up sump pump kit including the back-up sump pump, a first check valve, a second check valve, and a joint. The method also includes cutting a discharge pipe extending from a primary sump pump in a sump pit in order to create a first end open toward the primary sump pump that remains in the sump pit and a second end open toward the discharge pipe leading out of the sump pit. The method further includes installing the first check valve at the first end of the cut discharge pipe, installing the second check valve downstream from the battery-operated back-up sump pump, coupling the first check valve and the second check valve to the joint, and coupling the joint to the second end of the cut discharge pipe.
US10718332B2
A water lubrication air compression system disposes an lubricant heat dissipation system at a bearing chamber close to the high pressure end of the compressor for cooling and circulating lubricant due to the rise of temperature during operation of the compressor, hence enhancing the ability and stability of the compressor. On the other hand, a negative pressure system is connected to the air chambers between the oil lubrication and the water lubrication of the compressor in order to provide a negative pressure. If any leak of water vapor at the compressor chamber or oil vapor at the bearing chamber, the negative pressure system is able to produce a negative pressured condition toward the sealing structure so that the oil lubrication can be effectively isolated from the water lubrication and inter-contamination between the lubricant and water can be avoided.
US10718328B2
A threaded spindle machine includes a metal middle housing part (12) arranged between housing end caps (24) and forming a fluid chamber (16) for receiving a plurality of threaded spindles rotatably supported in the housing end caps (24); an insert (18) adhered into the middle housing part, which insert forms a wear-resistant running surface for the threaded spindles on the inner wall of the fluid chamber (16) and defines an adhesive gap (20) with the inner surface of the middle housing part (12); and at least one filling channel (26) leading from an outer surface of the middle housing part (12) to the adhesive gap (20), and the filling channel (26) extends from an end of the middle housing part (12) which is adjacent to a housing end cap (24).
US10718322B1
A manual pumping means is capable of engaging an oil fill port of a vehicle motor so as to pressurize internal portions of the motor and thus propel the motor oil contained within the motor out of a drain portion and into a receiving vessel. The pump would allow extraction of the oil in an expeditious manner, therefore reducing the time required to perform an oil change upon the vehicle.
US10718319B2
An electric power supply system for a Hall effect electric thruster. The Hall effect electric thruster includes an anode, a cathode, a heater for the cathode and an igniter. The electric power supply system includes a first power supply source to power the anode, a second power supply source to power the heater and a power supply unit to electrically supply the igniter. The power supply unit includes a third power supply source and a passive electric circuit. The third power supply source powers the passive electric circuit and is configured to generate a voltage in the form of at least one pulse.
US10718315B2
The invention provides a lightning receptor arrangement (11, 12) for a wind turbine blade (10) comprising at least a self-threading screw (21) having a head (23) and a threaded shaft (25) as a the external metallic receptor element for receiving a lightning strike in one side of the wind turbine blade (10) and an internal element comprising an electrically conductive block (20) configured with at least an unthreaded hole (41) for cooperating with said threaded shaft (25) and connected to a down conductor (18) of a grounding arrangement. The internal element is joined to at least a shell (17) of the wind turbine blade (10) with an adhesive force capable of withstanding the torque applied to the self-threading screw (21) for threading it to the unthreaded hole (41).
