Patents Assigned to A & A Company
  • Image forming device, computer-readable recording medium, and image forming method
    Patent number: 10182171
    Abstract: An image forming device includes: a reader configured to generate an image of a document; a setting receiving circuit configured to receive a plurality of set values on a print setting when test printing is executed for confirming a test result; an area dividing circuit configured to divide an area of an image on the read document based on number of the set values; an image processing circuit configured to perform image processing corresponding to each of the set values, on each of the divided areas; a combined image generating circuit configured to generate a combined image acquired by combining the areas of the image on the document to which the image processing corresponding to each of the set values is performed; and a printer configure to print the combined image generated by the combined image generating circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuya Monden
  • Regeneration method for purifying exhaust gas
    Patent number: 10180097
    Abstract: An apparatus of purifying an exhaust gas may include a catalytic converter which is disposed on an exhaust pipe and has a lean NOx trap (LNT) device in which a first LNT catalyst is coated and a catalyzed particulate filter (CPF) in which a second LNT catalyst is coated, and a regeneration method of the apparatus of purifying the exhaust gas may include determining whether a nitrogen oxide (NOx) amount absorbed in the LNT device is greater than a threshold NOx amount, determining whether a temperature of the LNT device is higher than a first predetermined temperature when the NOx amount absorbed in the LNT device is greater than the threshold NOx amount, and regenerating, both of the LNT device and the CPF or only the LNT device according to a temperature of the CPF when the temperature of the LNT device is higher than the first predetermined temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: ChangHo Jung, Pyung Soon Kim
  • Corrosion resistant article and methods of making
    Patent number: 10179943
    Abstract: An article and method of forming the article are disclosed. The article has a surface comprising a nanostructured ferritic alloy. The surface includes a plurality of nanofeatures that include complex oxides of yttrium and titanium disposed in an iron-bearing alloy matrix. The iron-bearing alloy matrix at the surface includes about 5 weight percent to about 30 weight percent of chromium, and about 0.1 weight percent to about 10 weight percent of molybdenum. Further, a concentration of a chi phase or a sigma phase in the nanostructured ferritic alloy at the surface is less than about 5 volume percent. The method generally includes the steps of milling, thermo-mechanically consolidating, annealing, and then cooling at a rate that hinders the formation of chi and sigma phases in the nanostructured ferritic alloy at the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Shenyan Huang, Richard Didomizio, Raul Basilio Rebak
  • Additively manufactured bladed disk
    Patent number: 10180072
    Abstract: A bladed disk for a gas turbine engine is provided. The bladed disk includes a rotor disk, a plurality of rotor blades, and an interlocking transition zone. The rotor disk includes a plurality of fused layers of a first material formed via additive manufacturing and defines an outer rim. The plurality of rotor blades includes a plurality of fused layers of a second material formed via additive manufacturing. The interlocking transition zone includes a plurality of projections alternately extending from the outer rim of the rotor disk and the plurality of rotor blades, respectively, to undetachably couple the rotor disk and the plurality of rotor blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Herbert Chidsey Roberts, Richard William Albrecht, Jr., Michael John McCarren, Peter Andrew Flynn, Michael Francis Xavier Gigliotti, Jr., Eric Alan Estill
  • Data transfer method and system
    Patent number: 10181963
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for transferring data between multiple clients and a destination node. The method includes: receiving request data sent by the plurality of clients, adding a unique label to the request data sent by each client, and sending the labeled request data to the second node; removing the labels from the request data, and sending the request data with the labels removed to the destination node for processing; receiving processing result data returned by the destination node, adding unique labels to the processing result data, and returning the processing result data with the labels to the first node; removing the labels from the processing result data and returning the processing result data with the labels removed to the clients corresponding to the labels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Feihu Zhou, Liqiang Xie, Yingpai Song
  • Dual regulator print module
    Patent number: 10179455
    Abstract: A print module includes a printhead die, an input regulator to regulate input fluid pressure to the die, and an output regulator to regulate output fluid pressure from the die. A method includes receiving fluid at an input regulator to a print module, creating a fluid pressure differential within the print module between the input regulator and an output regulator, flowing fluid from the input regulator through a printhead die and to an output regulator using the pressure differential, and drawing fluid from the output regulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Brian J. Keefe, Joseph E. Scheffelin, James W. Ring, Mark A. Devries
  • Efficient cloning and migration of data objects
    Patent number: 10180790
    Abstract: A technique for copying a source data object within a data storage system to a destination includes ingesting data portions of the source object into respective pages of a cache. The cache associates the pages with respective descriptors and writes into the descriptors locations of storage elements that have been provided for storing the respective data portions at the destination. When later flushing these cache pages, each page is flushed to the location at the destination that is provided in the respective descriptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Alan L. Taylor, David Haase, Michael C. Brundage, Somnath A. Gulve
  • Mobile telecommunications routing
    Patent number: 10182004
    Abstract: A telecommunications mobility management system is arranged to allocate a mobile unit to different switching routes for different classes of service, for example to allow services capable of operation over packet-switched and circuit-switched to be managed separately. Separate location updates are transmitted to a register, and flagged for selective retrieval by a routing function when an incoming connection request is made, the appropriate switch ID being selected according to the class of service to which the connection request relates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Maria Cuevas Ramirez, Scott Bailey
  • Drying media
    Patent number: 10179468
    Abstract: A drying apparatus usable with a printing system includes a housing, a first set of radiative heating elements, a second set of radiative heating elements, and an air handling device. The housing includes a front region and a rear region adjacent to the front region. The front region includes an inlet to receive media. The rear region includes an outlet to pass media there through. The first set of radiative heating elements is disposed within the front region to heat the media. The second set of radiative heating elements is disposed within the rear region to heat the media. The air handling device is disposed across from the second set of radiative heating elements to jet air within the rear region to cool the media prior to the media being passed through the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Gary Tarver, Jayanta C Panditaratne, Jason Cassidy Hower, Hua Tan, James Kearns
  • Pressure device, image forming apparatus, and method of controlling pressure device
    Patent number: 10180642
    Abstract: A pressure device applies pressure to a sheet medium on part of a surface of which an image bearer is formed. The pressure device includes: a driving unit that changes a distance between a first pressing unit and a second pressing unit; a control unit that controls the driving unit such that the distance between the first pressing unit and the second pressing unit becomes a set target value; and a target setting unit that sets the target value to a first distance that is larger than a thickness of the sheet medium when the sheet medium is not present between the first pressing unit and the second pressing unit, and sets the target value to a second distance for applying a target pressure to the sheet medium when the sheet medium and the image bearer are present between the first pressing unit and the second pressing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Ken Oikawa, Minoru Takahashi
  • Systems and methods for gesture based biometric security
    Patent number: 10181020
    Abstract: A system receives a source and a metadata layer that describes the source. The source may comprise source records with fields containing source data, and the metadata layer may include metadata comprising at least one of a field data type, a field data length, a field description, or a record length. The processor may further validate the metadata layer against the source and write results to a log. The processor may further be configured for transforming the source records into transformed records for a load ready file. The processor may further balance a number of records in the source against a number of transformed records in the load ready file to generate a transformation failure rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Upendra Mardikar, Wael Ibrahim
  • CMAS resistant thermal barrier coatings
    Patent number: 10179945
    Abstract: The present application provides Calcia-Magnesia-Alumina-Silica (CMAS) (or molten silicate) resistant thermal barrier coatings (TBC). The coatings include elongate growth domains of non-equiaxed, randomly arranged overlapping grains or splats. The elongate growth domains include overlapping individual, randomly distributed splats of tough and soft phases. In some embodiments, the elongate growth domains are formed via air plasma spray. In some embodiments, the tough phases are at least partially stabilized zirconia and/or hafnia compositions, and the soft phases are CMAS (or molten silicate) reactive or resistant compositions. Within each elongate growth domain, the mixture of the tough and soft phases act together to limit penetration of CMAS and also provide sufficient domain toughness to minimize cracking forces produced during crystallization of infiltrated CMAS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Larry Steven Rosenzweig, James Anthony Ruud, Shankar Sivaramakrishnan
  • Magnetoresistive random access memory structure and method of forming the same
    Patent number: 10181558
    Abstract: A magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) structure includes a bottom electrode structure. A magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) element is over the bottom electrode structure. The MTJ element includes an anti-ferromagnetic material layer. A ferromagnetic pinned layer is over the anti-ferromagnetic material layer. A tunneling layer is over the ferromagnetic pinned layer. A ferromagnetic free layer is over the tunneling layer. The ferromagnetic free layer has a first portion and a demagnetized second portion. The MRAM also includes a top electrode structure over the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chern-Yow Hsu, Wei-Hang Huang, Shih-Chang Liu, Chia-Shiung Tsai
  • Wool dryer ball and method of manufacturing same
    Patent number: 10179968
    Abstract: A dryer ball is provided for use in a clothes dryer to reduce clothes drying time. The dryer ball has a substantially spherical wool body and a substantially uniform distribution of wool fibers therethrough. The body has a volume in the range of about 600 cm3 to 930 cm3. A method of manufacturing the dryer ball includes providing a piece of wool material weighing in the range of 54 g to 60 g, folding the piece of wool material into a substantially spherical wool ball having a circumference in the range of 43 cm to 53 cm, sealing the wool ball in a porous bag, washing the wool ball in the bag, removing the wool ball from the bag, and allowing the wool ball to air dry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Talu Specialty Imports Company Limited
    Inventors: Jennifer Anne LeBrun, Koichi Suzuki
  • Apparatus and method for estimating direction of vehicle
    Patent number: 10180335
    Abstract: An apparatus for estimating a direction of a vehicle includes: a vehicle position calculator calculating a current position of the vehicle and a current time using a received satellite signal; a satellite candidate predictor predicting satellite candidates that are observable at the calculated current position of the vehicle using ALMANAC data in which information about positions and azimuths of satellites is included and using the calculated current position of the vehicle and current time; a road candidate searcher searching road candidates positioned around the vehicle based on the calculated current position of the vehicle; and a direction estimator estimating the direction of the vehicle using information about the predicted satellite candidates and the searched road candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Kyung Ho Yoo
  • System and method for operating a gas turbine
    Patent number: 10180108
    Abstract: A system for operating a gas turbine includes a controller configured to execute logic stored in a memory that causes the controller to determine two or more of a frequency, a coherence, a phase, and an amplitude, of a combustion instability; to compare two of more of the frequency, the coherence, the phase, and the amplitude of the combustion instability to a respective predetermined limit; and to adjust at least one parameter of the gas turbine if two or more of the frequency, the coherence, the phase, and the amplitude of the combustion instability are actionable relative to their respective predetermined limits. A related method of operating the gas turbine is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Sarah Lori Crothers, Scott Arthur Day
  • Conduction cooled module
    Patent number: 10182515
    Abstract: In one aspect, conduction cooled modules are described herein. In some implementations, a conduction cooled module comprises first and second external support structures arranged in facing opposition to one another, forming a component envelope therebetween. In some implementations, the modules are configured to contact at least one cold plate and to retain at least one printed wiring board in the component envelope in between the first external support structure and the second external support structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Charles E. Kusuda, Jeffrey W. Glasnovich, Erik L. Godo, Roy D. Nye, Namsoo P. Kim
  • Crystalline forms of S-[4-(3-fluoro-3-methylbutyryloxy)but-2-ynyl] 6-?,9-?-difluoro-17-?-(furan-2-yl)carbonyloxy-11-?-hydroxy-16-?-methyl-3-oxoandrosta-1,4-diene-17-?-carbothioate
    Patent number: 10179800
    Abstract: The present invention relates to crystalline forms of S-[4-(3-fluoro-3-methylbutyryloxy)but-2-ynyl] 6?,9?-difluoro-17?-(furan-2-yl)carbonyloxy-11?-hydroxy-16?-methyl-3-oxoandrosta-1,4-diene-17?-carbothioate, an anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic glucocorticoid compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Sun Pharma Advanced Research Company Limited
    Inventors: Jiten Ranchhodbhai Patel, Gopalkumar Chimanlal Patel, Gaurav Sanjivkumar Sheth, Trinadha Rao Chitturi
  • Cap for a container
    Patent number: D838166
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Michael J. Rust, Patrick R. McKellips
  • Sensor cover
    Patent number: D838231
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam, Saied Nusier, Swadad A. Carremm