Patents Assigned to A & A Corporation
  • Patent number: 10071680
    Abstract: An evacuation travelling control device has an evacuation direction judgment section for detecting an evacuation direction of an own vehicle during an evacuation travelling mode of the own vehicle and a light switching pattern generation section for generating a light pattern which relates to one or more combinations of lit and unlit states of lamps including direction indicators mounted on the own vehicle when informing the evacuation direction of the own vehicle detected by the evacuation direction judgment section to drivers of other vehicles and pedestrians around the own vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masao Oooka
  • Patent number: 10073309
    Abstract: A lateral electric field type liquid crystal display device having a curved display surface, comprises: a curved first substrate including a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, a pixel electrode, and a common electrode; a curved second substrate that is disposed opposite to the first substrate, the second substrate including a polarizing plate; a liquid crystal layer disposed therebetween; a sealing material bonding the first substrate and the second substrate together; and a driver that outputs a drive signal to at least the plurality of gate lines or the plurality of data lines. In the polarizing plate, at least a part of a side near the driver overlaps the sealing material or is disposed outside the sealing material in planar view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignees: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD., PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu Abe, Naotoshi Sumiya, Akira Ishikawa, Yoshiki Nakano, Tsutomu Arihara, Masami Yoda
  • Patent number: 10073866
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for prioritizing test cases for relational database systems. The method includes identifying one or more data tables within a relational database. The method further includes identifying an exclusivity value for each of the one or more identified data tables. The method further includes calculating a table weight for each of the one or more identified data tables. The method further includes prioritizing the one or more identified data tables based on the respective calculated table weights. The method further includes identifying one or more sequences of database statements corresponding to the prioritized data tables, wherein a database statement is a command executed on one of the prioritized data tables. The method further includes prioritizing the one or more identified sequences based on the corresponding database statements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Pedro M. Barbas
  • Patent number: 10071738
    Abstract: A vehicle system includes a driving condition sensor mounted in a subject vehicle, the driving condition sensor detecting a driving condition related to the subject vehicle, a human-machine interface mounted in the subject vehicle, the human-machine interface configured to receive, from a user, a user preference input indicating a lane change parameter corresponding to the driving condition, and a processor coupled to the driving condition sensor and the human-machine interface. The processor is programmed to receive the user preference input from the human-machine interface, determine the driving condition from the driving condition sensor, and determine whether the assisted lane change should be performed based on the driving condition and the lane change parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignees: DENSO International America, Inc., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Vikas Upmanue
  • Patent number: 10075812
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for dynamically adjusting a location based geo-fence based on current or predicted weather is provided. The method includes determining a target number of users to be reached for an area using a geo-fence and receiving an indication of a predicted meteorological event for the area covered by the geo-fence. The method further includes generating a predicted number of users that will trigger the geo-fence based on: a desired location, a current size, and a predicted effect the predicted meteorological event will have on the number users that trigger the geo-fence. The method further includes, responsive to the predicted number of users being below a threshold, increasing the size of the geo-fence such that the predicted number of users at least meets the threshold and sending a notification to a given user of the number of users in response to the given user triggering the geo-fence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Jeremy A. Greenberger, Nicholas R. Sandonato
  • Patent number: 10075940
    Abstract: Provided are a method for transmitting a buffer status report (BSR), and a device thereof, and to: a method by which a first terminal transmits and receives a BSR required for performing device-to-device communication with a second terminal in order to efficiently allocate a wireless resource to be used for the device-to-device communication; and a device therefor. Specifically, provided are a method and a device by which the first terminal performs device-to-device communication with the second terminal. Such a method includes triggering a BSR for the device-to-device communication with the second terminal, transmitting the BSR to a base station or a wireless resource allocation entity, and receiving wireless resource allocation information for the device-to-device communication with the second terminal from the base station or the wireless resource allocation entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: KT CORPORATION
    Inventors: KyungJun Lee, Seunghyun Kang, Kyujin Park, Woo-jin Choi
  • Patent number: 10073834
    Abstract: There is provided a computer-implemented method for outputting one or more cross-layer patterns to identify a target semantic phenomenon in text, the method comprising: extracting, for each word of at least some words of each training text fragment of training text fragments designated as representing a target semantic phenomenon, feature-values defined by respective layers; statistically analyzing the feature-values identified for the training text fragments to identify one or more cross-layer patterns comprising layers representing a common pattern for the training text fragments, the common cross-layer pattern defining one or more feature-values of a respective layer of one or more words and at least another feature-value of another respective layer of another word; and outputting the identified cross-layer pattern(s) for identifying a text fragment representing the target semantic phenomenon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ran Levy, Eyal Shnarch, Noam Slonim
  • Patent number: 10071774
    Abstract: Not only a reduction in the load resistant performance of a structural member in a vehicle body having a quenched portion with a tensile strength of 1,470 MPa or greater, but also a reduction in the shock absorbing performance associated with the HAZ softening by welding are suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michitaka Yoshida, Atsushi Tomizawa, Kazuo Uematsu
  • Patent number: 10072475
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a telescoping marine riser action and one of a rotating control device and an annular blow out preventer. The telescoping marine riser section comprises an inner barrel and an outer barrel. The one of a rotating control device and an annular blow out preventer is disposed inside the outer barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Bastiaan Liezenberg
  • Patent number: 10073640
    Abstract: In one embodiment a plurality of open channel solid state drives (SSDs) are implemented over a network comprised of a network switch having a plurality of nodes, a remote host connected to a first node of the network switch, a metadata server connected to a second node of the network switch, and an abstracted memory structure comprised of at least part of one of the plurality of open channel SSDs. In one embodiment, the remote host is configured to communicate with the metadata server by issuing a command identifying data related to the abstracted memory structure. In another embodiment, the metadata server is configured to communicate with the remote host by responding to the command and identifying a physical address corresponding to the identified data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventor: Yaron Klein
  • Patent number: 10074041
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for deep learning and classifying images of objects by receiving images of objects for training or classification of the objects; producing fine-grained labels of the objects; providing object images to a multi-class convolutional neural network (CNN) having a softmax layer and a final fully connected layer to explicitly model bipartite-graph labels (BGLs); and optimizing the CNN with global back-propagation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Feng Zhou, Yuanqing Lin
  • Patent number: 10074708
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a transistor, a light reflection layer, a first insulation layer that includes a first layer thickness part, a second layer thickness part, and a third layer thickness part, a pixel electrode that is provided on the first insulation layer, a second insulation layer that covers a peripheral section of the pixel electrode, a light emission functional layer, a facing electrode, and a conductive layer that is provided on the first layer thickness part. The pixel electrode includes a first pixel electrode which is provided in the first layer thickness part, a second pixel electrode which is provided in the second layer thickness part, and a third pixel electrode which is provided in the third layer thickness part. The first pixel electrode, the second pixel electrode, and the third pixel electrode are connected to the transistor through the conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Koshihara, Ryoichi Nozawa
  • Patent number: 10074003
    Abstract: This application is directed to dynamic control for data capture. A device may comprise a capture logic module to receive at least one of biometric data from a biometric sensing module, context data from a context sensing module or content data from a content sensing module. The capture logic module may determine if a capture scenario exists based on at least one of the biometric data and context data. The determination may be weighted based on an operational mode. If a capture scenario is determined to exist, the capture logic module may then determine whether to capture data based on at least the content data. Captured data may be stored in a capture database in the device (e.g., along with enhanced metadata based on at least one of the biometric data, the context data or the content data). The device may also comprise a feedback database including feedback data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Yan Xu, Maha El Choubassi, Joshua Ratcliff
  • Patent number: 10072155
    Abstract: A coating composition capable of forming an acrylic hard coat film contains (A) an acrylate component and (B) a metal oxide, wherein a mass ratio (B)/(A) of (B) the metal oxide to (A) the acrylate component is from 0.1 to 1.5, (A) the acrylate component comprises components (a-1), (a-2) and (a-3), and a content ratio X of the component (a-1), a content ratio Y of the component (a-2) and a content ratio Z of the component (a-3) satisfies the following conditions (1) and (2). Condition (1): in (A) the acrylate component, X is from 40 to 60% by mass, and a total of Y and Z is from 60 to 40% by mass, and condition (2): in the total of Y and Z, Z is 0% by mass or more and less than 100% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsushi Hamakubo, Kae Ito
  • Patent number: 10072772
    Abstract: A setting/operating device including: a sun gear that is rotated by a rotational force from a drive motor; a fixed internal gear fixedly disposed to surround the sun gear and having teeth on an inner peripheral surface; a plurality of planetary gears disposed between the sun gear and the fixed internal gear that rotate in engagement with the sun gear and the fixed internal gear while revolving around the sun gear; a movable internal gear disposed coaxially with the fixed internal gear, having teeth that come into engagement with the planetary gear on an inner peripheral surface, and provided so as to be rotatable; an output shaft coupled to the movable internal gear and configured to rotate the valve stem of the regulating valve; and a manual operation mechanism that rotates the sun gear or the planetary gear by a force applied from the outside of a housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Azbil Corporation
    Inventor: Tomofumi Ohashi
  • Patent number: 10074562
    Abstract: Embodiments of present invention provide a method of forming a semiconductor structure. The method includes forming a semiconductor structure having a first metal layer and a plurality of dielectric layers on top of the first metal layer; creating one or more openings through the plurality of dielectric layers to expose the first metal layer underneath the plurality of dielectric layers; causing the one or more openings to expand downward into the first metal layer and expand horizontally into areas underneath the plurality of dielectric layers; applying a layer of lining material in lining sidewalls of the one or more openings inside the plurality of dielectric layers; and filling the expanded one or more openings with a conductive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rosa A. Orozco-Teran, Ravikumar Ramachandran, John A. Fitzsimmons, Russell H. Arndt, David L. Rath
  • Patent number: 10074575
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods of fabricating nanosheet channel field effect transistors. An example method includes forming a first sacrificial nanosheet and forming a first nanosheet stack over the first sacrificial nanosheet, wherein the first nanosheet stack includes alternating channel nanosheets and sacrificial nano sheets. The method further includes exposing a surface area of the first sacrificial nanosheet and exposing surface areas of the alternating channel nanosheets and sacrificial nanosheets, wherein the exposed surface area of the first sacrificial nanosheet is greater than each of the exposed surface areas of the alternating channel nanosheets and sacrificial nanosheets. The method further includes applying an etchant to the exposed surface areas, wherein the etchant is selective based at least in part on the amount of surface area to which the etchant is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael A. Guillorn, Nicolas J. Loubet, Muthumanickam Sankarapandian
  • Patent number: 10072569
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes an engine static structure housing that includes a compressor section and a turbine section. A combustor section is arranged axially between the compressor section and the turbine section. A core nacelle encloses the engine static structure to provide a core compartment. An oil tank is arranged in the core compartment and is axially aligned with the compressor section. A heat exchanger is secured to the oil tank and arranged in the core compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Gabriel L. Suciu, Nathan Snape, Christopher M. Dye
  • Patent number: 10072970
    Abstract: An imaging device includes a detector array and an aperture disposed along an optical path, with an array of filter elements disposed in the optical path therebetween. The detector array has a plurality of detector elements that are sensitive to a wavelength spectrum of interest, such as, for example, the visible spectrum and/or the infrared (IR) spectrum. Each filter element is configured to filter out energy within the wavelength spectrum of interest that is in a wavelength band of interest to form filtered energy within the wavelength spectrum of interest that is outside the wavelength band of interest. The filtered energy is passed by each filter to at least one corresponding detector element, which generates one or more detector values based on the received energy. The detector values may be processed to determine an intensity value for the wavelength band of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: David R. Twede, Johann M. Veras
  • Patent number: D828348
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Kwan Lee, Horng Jaan Lin