Patents Examined by Pascal M. Bui-Pho
  • Tissue localization device and method of use thereof
    Patent number: 10524875
    Abstract: Tissue localization devices and methods of localizing tissue using tissue localization devices are disclosed. The tissue localization device can comprise a handle comprising a delivery control, a delivery needle extending out from the handle, and a localization element within the delivery needle. The localization element can be deployed out of the delivery needle or retracted back into the delivery needle when the delivery control is translated in a first direction or a second direction, respectively. The localization element can be coupled to a flexible tracking wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: FOCAL THERAPEUTICS INC.
    Inventors: George D. Hermann, Jonathan M. Olson, Michael J. Drews, Gail S. Lebovic, David B. Willis
  • Tissue characterization in medical diagnostic ultrasound
    Patent number: 10512452
    Abstract: For estimating attenuation in ultrasound imaging, displacements at different locations along an acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) beam are used measured. The on-axis displacements and displacements from a phantom using a same ARFI focus as a reference are used to cancel out focusing effects. A single ARFI beam may be used to estimate the attenuation for a location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Yassin Labyed, Liexiang Fan
  • Vital sign detection system with random body movement cancellation
    Patent number: 10506981
    Abstract: A vital sign detection system includes a radar device, a nonreciprocal network, a first antenna and a second antenna. An output signal from the radar device is delivered to the first antenna via the nonreciprocal network and then transmitted to a first side of a biological subject via the first antenna. A first reflection signal from the first side of the biological subject is received by the first antenna and then delivered to the second antenna via the nonreciprocal network and then transmitted to a second side of the biological subject via the second antenna. A second reflection signal from the second side of the biological subject is received by the second antenna and then delivered to the radar device via the nonreciprocal network for vital sign detection with random body movement cancellation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: NATIONAL SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tzyy-Sheng Horng, Fu-Kang Wang, Mu-Cyun Tang
  • Ultrasound apparatus and information providing method of the ultrasound apparatus
    Patent number: 10413277
    Abstract: An information providing method which is implementable by using an ultrasound apparatus includes obtaining ultrasound image data which relates to an object; displaying, on a first area of a screen, a gain setup window for setting a gain of the obtained ultrasound image data; receiving a gain which is set by a user on the gain setup window; and displaying, on a second area of the screen, an ultrasound image of the object to which the set gain is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SAMSUNG MEDISON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun-ho Yang, Hyoung-jin Kim, Jin-young Choi
  • Interactive device and method
    Patent number: 10398367
    Abstract: A mood-conscious interaction device detects at least one physiological data of a user, and turns on a light with a color which corresponds to the physiological data. Thus, other users can know a mood or emotion of the user according to the color of the light, and the moods or emotion of the other users can be made known to the user during communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hung-Yu Pan, Fu-Yen Hsieh
  • Ultrasound diagnostic device, sound velocity derivation method and program
    Patent number: 10349920
    Abstract: An estimated value of sound velocity of a subject interior is derived more stably and with higher accuracy. A phasing processing section provides, to each of received signals that were generated by piezoelectric elements respectively, respective delay times that were computed on the basis of each of plural set sound velocities, and phases the received signals per set sound velocity. A degree of similarity deriving section derives, for each of the set sound velocities, a degree of mutual similarity among received signals that were phased by the phasing processing section. An optimal set sound velocity deriving section derives, as an optimal set sound velocity, an estimated value of sound velocity of the subject interior on the basis of the degree of mutual similarity among the received signals of each of the set sound velocities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kimito Katsuyama
  • Object information acquiring apparatus and method of controlling object information acquiring apparatus
    Patent number: 10314494
    Abstract: An object information acquiring apparatus applying light to an object, receiving an acoustic wave generated inside the object, and acquiring information on an inside of the object on the basis of the acoustic wave comprises a light source configured to selectively emit irradiation light with at least two kinds of wavelengths; a wavelength switching unit for instructing the light source to implement switching between the wavelengths of the irradiation light; an illumination optical system guiding the irradiation light to the object; and a light irradiation limiting unit for limiting irradiation of the light to the object during a period from when the wavelength switching unit provides an instruction on wavelength switching of the light to when the light source completes the wavelength switching of the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akira Sato
  • Power gearbox pin arrangement
    Patent number: 10267365
    Abstract: A planet gearbox has a planet gear rotatable on a planet bearing that includes an inner ring that is mounted to a carrier of an epicyclic gearing arrangement. A respective cylindrical inner surface of each opposite respective end of the inner ring is non-rotatably connected to a respective cylindrical outer surface of a respective one of a pair of support plugs that are fixed to the carrier of the epicyclic gearing arrangement. A gas turbine engine includes a fan and LP shaft, which couples a compressor to a turbine. An epicyclic gearing arrangement has a single input from the LP shaft coupled to a sun gear, a single output coupled to the fan's shaft, and at least one planet bearing as described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: William Howard Hasting
  • Imaging system for imaging a periodically moving object
    Patent number: 10251629
    Abstract: The invention relates to an imaging system for imaging a periodically moving object. An assigning unit (18) assigns ultrasound signals like A-lines to motion phases based on a provided phase signal, wherein an ultrasound images generation unit (19) generates several ultrasound images like gated M-mode images for the different motion phases based on the ultrasound signals assigned to the respective motion phase. A selecting unit (20) is used to select an ultrasound image from the generated ultrasound images, wherein a display unit (21) displays the selected ultrasound image. The selected ultrasound image corresponds therefore to a single motion phase only such that motion artifacts in the displayed ultrasound image are reduced. The imaging system is particularly useful for, for instance, monitoring cardiac ablation procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Harm Jan Willem Belt, Steven Antonie Willem Fokkenrood, Fei Zuo, Alexander Franciscus Kolen, Szabolcs Deladi, Godefridus Antonius Harks
  • Apparatus and process for converting an aero gas turbine engine into an industrial gas turbine engine for electric power production
    Patent number: 10151211
    Abstract: An apparatus and a process for converting a twin spool aero gas turbine engine to an industrial gas turbine engine, where the fan of the aero engine is removed and replaced with an electric generator, a power turbine is added that drives a low pressure compressor that is removed from the aero engine, variable guide vanes are positioned between the high pressure turbine and the power turbine, and a low pressure compressed air line is connected between the outlet of the low pressure compressor and an inlet to the high pressure compressor, where a hot gas flow produced in the combustor first flows through the high pressure turbine, then through the low pressure turbine, and then through the power turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph D Brostmeyer, Russell B Jones
  • Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus, image processing apparatus, and image processing method
    Patent number: 10143439
    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes: a transmitting and receiving unit that transmits and receives an ultrasound wave to and from a subject; a first image data generating unit that generates first image data based on a first parameter, from a reception signal received by the transmitting and receiving unit; a second image data generating unit that generates second image data having an image taking region of which at least a part overlaps with that of the first image data and being based on a second parameter that is different from the first parameter, from a reception signal received by the transmitting and receiving unit; and an image processing unit that calculates a feature amount from at least such a part of the second image data that overlaps with the first image data and corrects the overlapping part of the first image data on a basis of the calculated feature amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Ryota Osumi, Tetsuya Kawagishi
  • Dual fuel gas turbine thrust and power control
    Patent number: 10100748
    Abstract: An aircraft, controller, and method for simultaneously using a liquid fuel and a gaseous fuel. The use of natural gas and other similar fuels in gas turbines engines can enable an aircraft to operate less expensively. However, aircraft often use liquid fuels en route to the gas turbine engine burners for secondary purposes, such as oil cooling and hydraulic pressure. The aircraft, controllers, and methods described herein feed a minimal quantity of liquid fuel to an engine to satisfy the secondary purposes while simultaneously feeding a quantity of gaseous fuel to the engine to satisfy a thrust command for the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Ronald T. Kawai, Michael K. Kisska
  • Active cooling of grommet bosses for a combustor panel of a gas turbine engine
    Patent number: 10088159
    Abstract: A liner assembly for a combustor of a gas turbine engine according to one disclosed non-limiting embodiment of the present disclosure includes a grommet with a multiple of grommet cooling passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Nurhak Erbas-Sen, James B. Hoke, John S. Tu, Monica Pacheco-Tougas
  • Ultrasonic scanning system
    Patent number: 10085715
    Abstract: An ultrasonic scanning system includes a host device, an ultrasonic probe, and at least two electrodes. The ultrasonic probe is electrically connected to the host device for performing an ultrasonic scanning operation toward a detecting region to generate a scanning signal and to transmit the scanning signal to the host device. The at least two electrodes are disposed on the ultrasonic probe and are connected to the host device for detecting a physiological signal of the detecting region and transmitting the physiological signal to the host device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Qisda Corporation
    Inventor: Chun-Cheng Liu
  • Spline ring for a fan drive gear flexible support
    Patent number: 10087848
    Abstract: A gear assembly support for a gas turbine engine includes a spline ring configured to fit into a case of the gas turbine engine and a flex support. The flex support includes splines for engaging the spline ring and an inner portion attachable to a portion the gear assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Brian P. Cigal, John R. Otto
  • Cooling system for gas turbine
    Patent number: 10072576
    Abstract: A gas turbine cooling system efficiently cools a first-stage turbine wheel and attachment portions of first-stage turbine blades. The gas turbine cooling system includes a group of impingement cooling holes provided in a partition wall as a stationary component that separates an exit space of a compressor and a wheel space located upstream of a turbine wheel for ejecting compressed air in the exit space toward the turbine wheel and attachment portions of the turbine blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Matsui, Hayato Maekawa, Ryo Kawai
  • Hybrid diffuser case for a gas turbine engine combustor
    Patent number: 10060631
    Abstract: A hybrid diffuser case for a gas turbine engine includes an outer diffuser case wall that extends downstream from an annular outer pre-diffuser case shroud. An inner diffuser case wall extends downstream from an annular inner pre-diffuser case shroud. A multiple of struts extend between the annular outer pre-diffuser case shroud and the annular inner pre-diffuser case shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher B. Lyons, Alexander W. Williams, Alexander Broulidakis
  • System and method for high efficiency power generation using a nitrogen gas working fluid
    Patent number: 10054046
    Abstract: A method of power production using a high pressure/low pressure ratio Brayton Power cycle with predominantly N2 mixed with CO2 and H2O combustion products as the working fluid is provided. The high pressure can be in the range 80 bar to 500 bar. The pressure ratio can be in the range 1.5 to 10. The natural gas fuel can be burned in a first high pressure combustor with a near stoichiometric quantity of pressurized preheated air and the net combustion gas can be mixed with a heated high pressure recycle N2+CO2+H2O stream which moderates the mixed gas temperature to the value required for the maximum inlet temperature to a first power turbine producing shaft power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: 8 Rivers Capital, LLC
    Inventors: Miles Palmer, Rodney John Allam, Jeremy Eron Fetvedt
  • System and method for air extraction from gas turbine engines
    Patent number: 10041407
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method that allows air to be extracted from a plurality of gas turbine engines and fed to a downstream process, even in situations in which one or more of the gas turbine engines are operating in a part load condition. For example, in an embodiment, a method includes monitoring signals representative of a header pressure of a header, or a pressure of extraction air flow from one or more gas turbine engines to the header, or both, and maintaining substantially continuous flows of extraction air from the gas turbine engines to the header. The substantially continuous flows are maintained when the gas turbine engines are under symmetric and asymmetric load conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Vijay Anand Raghavendran Nenmeni, Michael Joseph Alexander, Paul William Plummer, Timothy Lee Janssen
  • Inner diffuser case cone and skirt
    Patent number: 10041364
    Abstract: An inner diffuser case for a gas turbine engine may include a pre-diffuser including a plurality of struts. At least one of the struts may include an aperture therethrough. A cone may have a downstream end coupled to the pre-diffuser downstream of, and proximate to, the aperture. A skirt may have a forward end coupled to the pre-diffuser downstream of, and proximate to, the aperture. The forward end of the skirt may be axially aligned with the downstream end of the cone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan Jeffery Eastwood, Dave J. Hyland, Timothy Dale