Patents Issued in November 6, 2018
  • Patent number: 10118785
    Abstract: A feed assembly for transferring an uncoiled sheet material to a downstream material forming operation. The assembly includes upper and lower feed rolls between which the sheet material passes, the upper roll being actuated between engaging or disengaging positions relative to an upper surface of the sheet material. At least one continuous force applying component is provided for exerting a hold down force against the upper feed roll and, in combination, a programmable counterbalance component is calibrated to counter the hold down force exerted by the force applying component and in order to cycle the upper roller between the engaged and disengaged positions during advance cycling of the uncoiled material to the downstream forming operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: CHS AUTOMATION
    Inventors: Dave Reiman, Eric Werner
  • Patent number: 10118786
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus with automatic belt tensioning. A winding seat includes a first gear and a winding portion fixed at the first gear. A belt is windable around the winding portion, and the first elastic element is connected with the winding portion thus to wind the belt around the winding portion. A rotation preventing element includes a protrusion. When the protrusion retains the first gear, the winding portion is locked to prevent the belt being wound. When the belt is pulled, it drives the protrusion to be separated from the first gear and drives the winding portion to rotate. When the belt is released and the winding speed of the belt is decreased to a certain degree, the protrusion retains the first gear to prevent the belt being wound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignees: Maintek Computer (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., Pegatron Corporation
    Inventors: Meng-Bin Qiu, Ming-Ta Chiu
  • Patent number: 10118787
    Abstract: In a sheet discharge device, upon a discharge of a sheet bundle onto a discharge tray, a lowering control portion lowers the discharge tray by a predetermined lowering distance. After the discharge tray is lowered by the lowering control portion, a lifting control portion waits until a front end of an initial sheet of a next sheet bundle becomes in a state of protruding from a discharge port, and then lifts the discharge tray until an upper-surface detection sensor detects that an upper surface of sheet bundles stacked on the discharge tray has reached a predetermined height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi Kotani
  • Patent number: 10118788
    Abstract: Provided is a print medium finishing apparatus including a print medium stacking plate; a stacker tray; and a print medium discharging apparatus configured to discharge, to the stacker tray, print media on the print medium stacking plate, wherein the print medium discharging apparatus includes at least one driving gear that is rotatable; a moving member configured to move linearly and curvilinearly with respect to the at least one driving gear and including a motion converting gear configured to engage the at least one driving gear and convert rotation of the at least one driving gear into a linear motion and a curvilinear motion; and a grip member configured to be moved linearly and curvilinearly by the moving member while holding the print media on the print medium stacking plate, and to place the print media on the stacker tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: S-PRINTING SOLUTION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Fukasawa, Tae-hong Kim, Tae-jin Baek, Min-gi Kim, Joon-sik An, Jin-soo Lee, Hae-seog Jo
  • Patent number: 10118789
    Abstract: A tape product dispenser and method of using a tape product dispenser are provided. The tape product dispenser includes a reel member comprising an internal loading surface for loading a tape product and a housing. The housing comprises a lower portion and a housing port disposed at a radially outer end of the housing. The lower portion is coupled to the reel member for rotation of the reel member relative to the lower portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Geek Wraps, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Calman, Kathryn S. Calman
  • Patent number: 10118790
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a stack portion on which sheets conveyed in a conveying direction are stacked, a first regulating portion regulating a position of a sheet bundle stacked on the stack portion in a crossing direction crossing the conveying direction by contacting an end of the sheet bundle in the crossing direction, a second regulating portion regulating a position of the sheet bundle in the conveying direction by contacting an end of the sheet bundle in the conveying direction, a first binding device which moves in the crossing direction and binds by a staple, a second binding device which moves and binds without a staple, and a controller which controls the first and second binding devices. The first and second binding devices bind the corner portion of the sheet bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: CANON FINETECH NISCA INC.
    Inventors: Satoru Matsuki, Daiki Komiya, Kazuhito Shimura
  • Patent number: 10118791
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a sheet processing apparatus includes a transport unit and a holding unit. The transport unit transports a first sheet to a first position. The transport unit transports a second sheet, which is transported after the first sheet, to a second position displaced to the upstream side of a sheet transport direction relative to the first position. The transport unit transports a third sheet, which is transported after the second sheet, to a third position displaced to the downstream side of the sheet transport direction relative to the second position. In the case where the second sheet is transported to the second position, the holding unit holds the first sheet at the first position. In the case where the third sheet is transported to the third position, the holding unit holds the second sheet at the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Taki, Yasunobu Terao
  • Patent number: 10118792
    Abstract: Unwinding systems and methods are provided for unwinding a fiber from a bobbin. The unwinding system can include an axle defining a first axis extending an axial direction, a bobbin rotatably mounted around the axle, a pulley positioned to receive the fiber from the bobbin, wherein the pulley is rotatable around a second axis, and a sensor positioned between the bobbin and the pulley. The bobbin is moveable along the axial direction, and wherein the fiber extends tangentially from a surface of the bobbin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Theodore Robert Grossman, Roger Antonio Aparicio, Martin Peter Gill, Steven Robert Hayashi, Andrew William Miller
  • Patent number: 10118793
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a base, a first clamp, a second clamp, a first post, a first slot, a second post, a second slot, a rod, a catch and a channel. The first clamp may be attached to a first end of the base and configured to secure a first chord. The second clamp may be attached to a second end the base and configured to secure a second chord. The first post may be attached to the first end of the base. The first slot may reside in the first post opposite the base. The second post may be attached to the second end of the base. The second slot may reside in the second post opposite the base. The rod may be rigidly attached to the first post. The catch may be attached to the rod opposite the first post. The channel may reside in the catch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Inventor: Wolfgang Jochum
  • Patent number: 10118794
    Abstract: A header cover encloses an end of an unwoven material cylinder to protect the unwoven material from damage or debris during storage or transportation. Unwoven material cylinders are commonly used to produce products such as clean suits, baby diapers, absorbent material, etc. The header cover includes a cover disc, a plurality of lateral-interfacing flaps, and a tethering ring. The cover disc and the plurality of lateral interfacing flaps encapsulate an end of the unwoven material cylinder. The plurality of lateral-interfacing flaps is perimetrically and foldably connected to the cover disc to allow the header cover to fold over an edge of the unwoven material cylinder. The tethering ring is adjacently connected to each lateral-interfacing flap of the plurality of lateral-interfacing flaps, such that as one lateral-interfacing flap is folded, every lateral interfacing flap is folded in the same direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: SUPPLYONE
    Inventor: Myron Bostian
  • Patent number: 10118795
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a reconveying unit including a reconveying roller; and a second transmission mechanism. The second transmission mechanism transmits a drive force to the reconveying roller and includes an input gear; an output gear; an intermediate gear including first and second gears; and first and second swinging gears. The first toothless part of the first gear and the second toothless part of the second gear are provided at such a position that, when the intermediate gear is rotated by a drive force transmitted from the input gear through the second swinging gear while the second swinging gear meshes with the second toothed part of the second gear and the output gear meshes with the first toothed part of the first gear, the first toothless part reaches a position confronting the output gear and then the second toothless part reaches a position confronting the second swinging gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomonori Watanabe, Hideaki Yoshimune, Yurimi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10118796
    Abstract: Systems and Methods for controlling a movement of cars of an elevator system. A processor determines for each car an individual waiting time of each hall call. Determines for each pair of hall calls assigned for each car, a pairwise delay over the individual waiting time of each hall call in the pair caused by a joint assignment of the car to the pair of the hall calls. Approximate a cumulative waiting time of an assignment of the cars to the hall calls as a sum of individual waiting times for each hall call with the assigned car and a sum of all pairwise delays determined between all pairs of hall calls assigned to the same car. Determine the assignment of the cars using a greedy optimization algorithm that greedily assigns hall calls to the cars to minimize the approximated cumulative waiting time, and control the movement of the cars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Nikolaev Nikovski, Arvind U Raghunathan, Srikumar Ramalingam
  • Patent number: 10118797
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a computing device comprising a processor, registration information associated with a tenant of a building and at least one user device, determining, by the computing device, that the at least one user device is within a threshold distance of the building, causing, by the computing device, an identity of the tenant to be provided by the at least one user device based on the determination that the at least one user device is within the threshold distance of the building, and causing, by the computing device, an elevator car to be dispatched to a floor of the building on which the tenant is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventor: Adam Keser
  • Patent number: 10118798
    Abstract: According to few examples a safety system, a method and a computer program for an elevator safety system is provided. A first switch configured to detect a first position of a safety device of an elevator. A second switch configured to detect a second position of the safety device. A controller configured to monitor a change of a state of the first switch and a change of a state of the second switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: KONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ari Kattainen
  • Patent number: 10118799
    Abstract: An elevator system includes a first hoistway; a second hoistway; and a structural member disposed between the first hoistway and the second hoistway; the structural member supporting a first stationary portion of a propulsion system for the first hoistway; the structural member supporting a first guide surface for an elevator car in the first hoistway; the structural member supporting a second stationary portion of the propulsion system for the second hoistway; the structural member supporting a second guide surface for an elevator car in the second hoistway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventor: Zbigniew Piech
  • Patent number: 10118800
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and arrangement for closing doors of an elevator that comprises at least an elevator shaft, a car running along guide rails, in the shaft and equipped with a car door, landing doors at each landing floor, a hoisting machinery, a necessary roping system and shaft equipment, and a control system for controlling the activities of the elevator. According to traffic situations controlled by the control system of the elevator the door open time of the car doors and landing doors is reduced by speeding up the closure of the doors, and at the same time the passengers are informed about the speed-up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: KONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Marja-Liisa Siikonen, Janne Sorsa, Pentti Alasentie
  • Patent number: 10118801
    Abstract: A direct-drive system for a passenger transportation apparatus, and a passenger transportation apparatus having same. The direct-drive system comprises: a motor comprising a motor output shaft, for providing power; a main drive shaft for transmitting the power to a passenger transportation portion of the passenger transportation apparatus; and a gear box comprising an input end connected to the motor output shaft and an output end connected to the main drive shaft respectively, and being used for transmitting the power, provided by the motor, to the main drive shaft, wherein the gear box comprises a plurality of gear pairs, and each of the gear pairs has a progressively decreasing gear slope along the direction from the input end of the gear box to the output end thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Otis Elevator Company
    Inventors: Jiangxing Huang, Fengshu Yue, Shimao Chen, Jie Hu, Jianguo Li, Hongmin Zhu, Jianye Yang, Jiawei Wu, Bingyin Cheng, Jinqi Yang, Yunyun Zhao
  • Patent number: 10118802
    Abstract: A structural health monitoring system is provided. The system includes a drive system having a first drive member a second drive member 38 operationally connected to the first drive member, and a tension member 39 operationally connecting the first drive member to the second drive member. At least one sensor 50 is configured to monitor a characteristic of at least one of the first drive member and the second drive member. A processor 54, in communication with the at least one sensor, is configured to determine if the structural health of the tension member is compromised based on the monitored characteristic. The processor is further configured to perform a safety response action when the structural health of the tension member is determined to be compromised.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Soumitra Borthakur, Randall Keith Roberts
  • Patent number: 10118803
    Abstract: A system and method for simultaneously cleaning riser and step portions of movable stairs in an escalator is disclosed. The system includes a frame comprising a set of guide arms, a set of first service systems movably connected to the frame, and a set of second service systems removably mounted to the frame. The first service system includes a set of interchangeable servicing units. The set of second service systems is optionally interchangeable. The method including the steps of engaging the set of second service systems with each movable stair of the set of movable stairs and simultaneously engaging the set of first service systems with a riser portion of each movable stair of the set of movable stairs and a step portion of each movable stair of the set of movable stairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Inventor: Thomas Walker Hengst
  • Patent number: 10118804
    Abstract: Device (1) for carrying an object (2) having a smooth surface, which device comprises a first frame (3) that is arranged to be able to manipulate the device and the object to be carried, as well as a second frame (5) onto which a number of suction cups (6) is attached. The second frame is planar rotatably with respect to the first frame. Furthermore a number of vacuum sources (8, 9) is provided for evacuating the suction cups. The vacuum sources and suction cups are interconnected by means of at least one spiral-shaped hose assembly (10) of which the hoses (11), each being connected to a vacuum source (8) and a suction cup (6), are in the same spiral plane (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Vacuum Lifting Holland Beheer B.V.
    Inventor: Steven Van Den Brink
  • Patent number: 10118805
    Abstract: Battery gripper (12), for attracting by suction and handling starter batteries (26) of, in particular, motor vehicles, having a housing (56), in which a vacuum chamber which can be loaded with vacuum is provided and which has suction openings (84, 84) on the suction side thereof (54) which faces the starter battery to be attracted by suction, wherein the suction side is assigned a flexible lining (82) for contact with the starter battery, wherein the housing has a T-shaped cross section which runs parallel to the suction side, wherein the cross section has a bar section (64) and a web section (66) which extends transversely from the bar section, in such a way that the web section extends between the battery poles (68, 70) of the starter battery when the starter battery is attracted by suction to the battery gripper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: J. Schmalz GmbH
    Inventors: Benedikt Mueller, Andreas Steinbach, Norman Paul
  • Patent number: 10118806
    Abstract: Mobile plant stabilizer (2) including an extendible leg (4) and a load distributing foot (12) connected to the extendible leg (4), wherein the foot (12) includes a primary part (14) and an extension part (18) connected to the primary part (14) by a hinge (20) enabling the extension part (18) to rotate relative to the primary part (14) to and from a deployed position in which the extension part (18) extends laterally outwardly from the primary part (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Inventor: Gordon Charles Leicester
  • Patent number: 10118807
    Abstract: A winch system 10 coupled to a processor energy source 12 having one or more processor driving rollers 14. The processor 12 provides energy to the winch system 10. Multiple driven winch drive rollers 32 are supported by the body 18. A horizontally-oriented winch drum 36 is attached to the body 18. A drum gear 38 in communication with the driven rollers 32 and the winch drum 38 transfers rotational energy about the vertical axis from the processor driving rollers 14 to rotational energy about the axis of rotation of the winch drum 38. Attached to the winch drum is a cable 40 having a proximal end 42 region and a distal end region that is detachably attachable to an object 46 to be retrieved by the winch system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: GSE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Glen Raymond Simula, David Jon McKinstry
  • Patent number: 10118808
    Abstract: The invention relates to a load-compensating rope sheave arrangement for drum winders, comprising at least two rope sheaves which are vertically guided in sliding frames and mounted on hydraulically short-circuited cylinders. Multiply redundant monitoring of the different sheave loads acting upon the rope sheaves is carried out via the hydraulic cylinders which are connected to the system control of the drum winder for communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: SIEMAG TECBERG GMBH
    Inventors: Hubert Sunderhaus, Marc Roman Buedenbender, Peter Boerner
  • Patent number: 10118809
    Abstract: A manipulator for transporting a load laterally with respect to a vehicle includes a support frame adapted for mounting on a vehicle. A movable guide is supported by the support frame for lateral translation with respect to the support frame. A carriage which is capable of supporting a load engaging attachment for supporting a load is supported by the guide for translation with respect to the guide in the lengthwise direction of the guide. The carriage can translate with respect to the guide in the lengthwise direction of the guide at the same time that the guide is translating laterally with respect to the support frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Tygard Machine & Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Edward Tygard
  • Patent number: 10118810
    Abstract: A method and system for a scissors lift vehicle are provided. The scissors lift vehicle includes a carriage including a plurality of independently steerable wheels configured to engage a travel surface, the wheels including an axis of rotation and a circular profile having a radius R, the wheels spaced apart in a fore/aft direction and in a right/left direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Xtreme Manufacturing, LLC
    Inventors: Don Francis Ahern, Ronald Lee Fifield
  • Patent number: 10118811
    Abstract: An eccentric loading adjusting mechanism (5) and method for a parallel suspension platform. The adjusting mechanism (5) comprises a rotary platform (5-2) and a support guide frame (5-3) disposed on the rotary platform (5-2), wherein the base of the rotary platform (5-2) is fixedly connected to a suspension platform (4); a circular guide rail (5-8) is provided around the rotary platform (5-2); the support guide frame (5-3) is provided with two counterweight guide rails (5-15) and is connected to a rotary table of the rotary platform (5-2) by means of a rotary plate (5-17) on the support guide frame (5-3); and an electric drive pusher (5-6) drives a counterweight means (5-9) to move along the two counterweight guide rails (5-15), thereby eliminating eccentric loading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Zhencai Zhu, Guohua Cao, Naige Wang, Lu Yan, Lei Wei, Lei Wang, Weihong Peng, Wei Li, Gongbo Zhou, Yuxing Peng
  • Patent number: 10118812
    Abstract: A hanger system including a body having opposing body first and second faces; a hanger element coupled to the body, the hanger element configured to facilitate hanging of the hanger system; a first support element coupled to the body, the first support element configured to support a first article; and an aperture element disposed within the body, the aperture element having an aperture element edge defining an aperture element opening which communicates between the body first and second faces; whereby the aperture element opening is configured to receive at least a portion of a bottle cap removably coupled to a bottle; and whereby the aperture element edge is configured to engage the bottle cap to facilitate removal of the bottle cap from the bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: S9, LLC
    Inventor: Matthew Ochipa
  • Patent number: 10118813
    Abstract: Provided is a connector including a plug and a socket. The socket includes: a socket body in which a second liquid outflow passage and a second liquid inflow passage are formed; a ball lock mechanism that is attached to the socket body and fixes the socket body to a key ring; and a switching mechanism that switches an open state and a closed state of a rotary valve. The switching mechanism includes an opening/closing arm that regulates releasing of the fixation of the socket body to the key ring by the ball lock mechanism in the open state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: SURPASS INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masamichi Kobayashi, Masahiro Hasunuma
  • Patent number: 10118814
    Abstract: Automated systems and processes may provide fuel dispenser management. In one aspect, a system for managing a fuel dispenser may include a dispenser manager, a display, a user input device, a fuel controller, and a management module at the fuel dispenser. The dispenser manager may be operable to control electronic functions of the fuel dispenser. The display may be coupled to the dispenser manager and operable to visually present fueling session data, and the user input device may also be coupled to the dispenser manager and operable to detect user indications during a fueling session. The fuel controller may be coupled to the dispenser manager and operable to control fuel flow operations. The management module may be associated with the dispenser manager and operable to generate operational commands for the dispenser manager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Wayne Fueling Systems
    Inventor: Daniel C. Harrell
  • Patent number: 10118815
    Abstract: A filling adapter for a container to be filled with media, in particular for the filling of containers on assembly lines for the production of motor vehicles where the filling adapter is equipped with a hose pack, electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic lines. An electronic assembly (ID chip) for a maintenance check is integrated in the adapter head of the filling adapter, which assembly detects the number of use cycles of the filling adapter and compares said number with parameters which can be set in advance in such a way that when said parameters are approached, at least one prior warning is triggered, and when said parameters are reached, an associated controller is informed about the maintenance which is now due.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: DÜRR SOMAC GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Achatz, Eric Selbmann, Frank Wieland, André Grimm
  • Patent number: 10118816
    Abstract: A packaged includes a flip-chip assembly. The flip-chip assembly includes a first semiconductor substrate having at least one integrated semiconductor device, and a second substrate connected to the first substrate. A main surface of the first semiconductor substrate faces and is spaced apart from the second substrate. The packaged semiconductor device further includes a parylene coating covering outer surfaces of the first semiconductor substrate and the second substrate. A first section of the main surface is exposed from the parylene coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Klaus Elian, Horst Theuss
  • Patent number: 10118817
    Abstract: This application relates to MEMS transducer having a membrane layer (101) and at least one variable vent structure (301). The variable vent structure has a vent hole for venting fluid so as to reduce a pressure differential across the membrane layer and a moveable vent cover (302a, 302b) which, at an equilibrium position, at least partly blocks the vent hole. The vent cover is moveable from its equilibrium position in response to a pressure differential across the vent cover so as to vary the size of a flow path through the vent hole. In various embodiments the vent cover comprises at least a first flap section (302a) and a second flap section (302b), the first flap section being hingedly coupled to the side of the vent hole and the second flap section being hingedly coupled to the first flap section so as to be moveable with respect to the first flap section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Lyall Cargill, Marek Sebastian Piechocinski
  • Patent number: 10118818
    Abstract: A controller for a micromechanical actuator, and corresponding actuating system, micro-mirror system and method, including a first input for a reference signal, a second input for a measuring signal denoting a recorded response to a control signal, a first controller element to filter/attenuate predefined frequency modes and/or predefined frequency components in the received reference signal and to output a filtered/attenuated reference signal, a second controller element to modify the received measuring signal to minimize the quality of the first/further modes by processing the received measuring signal and to output a modified measuring signal, a third controller element to minimize deviation between the filtered/attenuated reference and received measuring signals and to output a minimized reference signal, a fourth controller element to rotate the phase of the difference between the minimized reference and modified measuring signals for at least one predefined frequency and to transmit the modified referen
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Mohamad Iyad Al Dibs
  • Patent number: 10118819
    Abstract: A system for driving a MEMS array having a number of MEMS structures, each defining at least one row terminal and one column terminal, envisages: a number of row driving stages, each for supplying row-biasing signals to the row terminal of each MEMS structure associated to a respective row; a number of column driving stages, each for supplying column-biasing signals to the column terminal of each MEMS structure associated to a respective column; and a control unit, for supplying row-address signals to the row driving stages for generation of the row-biasing signals and for supplying column-address signals to the column driving stages for generation of the column-biasing signals. The control unit further supplies row-deactivation and/or column-deactivation signals to one or more of the row and column driving stages, for causing deactivation of one or more rows and/or columns of the MEMS array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Alberto Cattani, Alessandro Gasparini, Federico Guanziroli, Pierangelo Confalonieri
  • Patent number: 10118820
    Abstract: Membrane transducer structures and thin-film encapsulation methods for manufacturing the same are provided. In one example, the thin film encapsulation methods may be implemented to co-integrate processes for thin-film encapsulation and formation of microelectronic devices and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) that include the membrane transducers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL (SHANGHAI) CORPORATION
    Inventors: Emmanuel P. Quevy, Jeremy R. Hui, Carrie Wing-Zin Low
  • Patent number: 10118821
    Abstract: A method of and apparatus for efficient on-demand production of H2 and O2 from water and heat using environmentally safe metals are disclosed. In one aspect, the apparatus for the hydrogen generation through water decomposition reaction includes a main reactor, an oxidizer reactor, and a computer controlling system. The main reactor contains a hydrogen generating substance, such as aluminum hydroxide. In some embodiments, the main reactor includes hydroxide shuttles, such as Cu ion and Ag ion. In another aspect, the system for hydrogen generation through water decomposition includes the steps of (1) REDOX reaction, (2) pre-generation reaction, (3) generation reaction, (4) regeneration reaction, (5) second hydrogen reaction, and (6) oxygen reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Marine Power Products Incorporated
    Inventor: Jeff Carey
  • Patent number: 10118822
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to hydrogen production systems and methods of using same. The systems support a hydrogen production reaction that comprises aluminum and a catalyst or wool and van produce hydrogen on-demand. The hydrogen and the heat produced by the systems can be used for many applications, including to power vehicles, heat homes, or power electricity-producing power plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: CLEAN WAVE ENERGY CORP
    Inventor: Gavin Macrae
  • Patent number: 10118823
    Abstract: A method of operating an oxygen transport membrane based reforming system employing one or more packs of thermally coupled panels of reformer tubes and oxygen transport membrane (“OTM”) reactors close to thermo-neutral point is provided. The method produces syngas by converting a hydrocarbon-containing feed, such as natural gas in the reformer tubes of a pack by endothermic steam reforming reactions. The heat required for endothermic reforming reactions is provided by exothermic oxidizing reactions occurring inside the OTM reactors of the pack. At a thermo-neutral point the heat released by exothermic reactions matches the heat required to support endothermic reactions and heat losses in the pack. The method modulates the flow rate of hydrocarbon-containing feed and/or steam-to-carbon ratio of the combined feed to the pack to maintain the surface temperature of oxygen transport membrane reactors below a target maximum temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: PRAXAIR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Sean M. Kelly, Sadashiv M. Swami, John D. Peck
  • Patent number: 10118824
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for purifying synthesis gas, comprising at least one stage for separating the crude synthesis gas to be treated into at least two effluents, namely a first part and a complementary part, in which the said first part is subjected to a carbon monoxide conversion stage with steam and the said complementary part is subjected to a COS and HCN catalytic hydrolysis stage, the two gas flows, namely the first part and complementary part, are then each treated separately in two stages intended to remove acid gases such as CO2 and H2S, by washing with aqueous solutions of specific amines, before a recombination stage of the two treated effluents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignees: AVRIL, AXENS, IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES, BIONEXT, THYSSENKRUPP INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS AG, TOTAL RAFFINAGE CHIMIE, COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: David Chiche, Anne Claire Pierron, Norbert Ullrich
  • Patent number: 10118825
    Abstract: An oxygen generator comprising a housing and a chemical core within the housing, the chemical core being capable on ignition of producing oxygen by chemical reaction. An ignition apparatus within the housing is for igniting the chemical core, and a collection apparatus within the housing collects oxygen produced by the chemical core. The ignition apparatus comprises an ignition handle accessible from outside the housing, the ignition handle being arranged to be rotatable by hand, and an ignition block disposed within the housing, the ignition block being arranged, when rotated in contact with the chemical core, to ignite the chemical core. A thermal isolator between the ignition handle and the ignition block is arranged to transmit rotational force from the ignition handle to the ignition block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignees: Molecular Oxygen Limited, Molecular Products Limited
    Inventors: Mandy Humphreys, Peter Hutchinson
  • Patent number: 10118826
    Abstract: An oxygen generator comprising a housing and a chemical core within the housing, the chemical core being capable on ignition of producing oxygen by chemical reaction. An ignition apparatus within the housing is for igniting the chemical core, and a collection apparatus within the housing collects oxygen produced by the chemical core. The collection apparatus comprises a cooling chamber having an inlet through which oxygen produced by the chemical core enters into the cooling chamber, and an outlet through which oxygen in the cooling chamber leaves the cooling chamber. The interior of the cooling chamber has at least one wall arranged in the path of oxygen flowing from the inlet to the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignees: Molecular Oxygen Limited, Molecular Products Limited
    Inventors: Mandy Humphreys, Peter Hutchinson
  • Patent number: 10118827
    Abstract: The invention relates to a synthetic bone material and a process for making the same. The synthetic bone material may comprise multiple phases of calcium phosphate. Another aspect of the invention is a porous filter, and the method of making the same, and wherein the porous filter is substantially similar to the process for forming the synthetic bone material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Inventors: Reed A. Ayers, Nina L. Vollmer
  • Patent number: 10118828
    Abstract: Aluminum (Al) hydrocarbon precursor compositions are provided that can be used for vapor deposition of transition metal carbide thin films, for example aluminum-doped transition metal carbide thin films such as Al-doped titanium carbide thin films. In some embodiments, the precursor compositions comprise one or more isomers of tritertbutyl aluminum (TTBA). In some embodiments the precursor compositions comprise at least 50% of Isomer 1 of TTBA, at least 50% of Isomer 2 of TTBA, or at least 20% of a combination of Isomer 1 and Isomer 2, where Isomer 1 has the formula Al(tert-Bu)2(iso-Bu) and Isomer 2 has the formula Al(tert-Bu)(iso-Bu)2. A container containing a precursor composition comprising at least 50% of Isomer 1 or Isomer 2 or at least 20% of a combination of Isomer 1 and 2 of TTBA can be attached to a vapor deposition reactor and used to deposit transition metal carbide thin films such as Al-doped titanium carbide thin films by atomic layer deposition or chemical vapor deposition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: ASM IP HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Eric J. Shero, Mohith E. Verghese
  • Patent number: 10118829
    Abstract: Silicon is produced by magnesiothermic reduction of silicon dioxide, wherein to achieve magnesiothermic reduction a reactant mixture is employed which contains silicon dioxide (SiO2) and magnesium (Mg) and, as moderators, magnesium oxide (MgO) and silicon (Si), and optionally further moderators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: WACKER CHEMIE AG
    Inventors: Peter Gigler, Juergen Stohrer
  • Patent number: 10118830
    Abstract: Segregation of silicon granules in the fluidized bed production of polycrystalline silicon is achieved by successively transferring granular polycrystalline silicon through a plurality of vessels designed for funnel flow of granular material. The transfers may occur prior to introduction of feed particles into the reactor, or the enlarged granules from the reactor may be thus transferred to improve product size uniformity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: WACKER CHEMIE AG
    Inventors: Rainer Hauswirth, Robert Enggruber
  • Patent number: 10118831
    Abstract: The invention provides for a method of making a magnesium aluminate spinel including an alumina compound and a magnesium compound, the method including the steps of; dispersing the alumina compound by dispersing it in a aqueous solution, to form an alumina dispersion, the aqueous solution having a pH of between 2 and 5; preferably between 2 and 4, flocculating the alumina by increasing the pH of the alumina dispersion to a pH of between 8 and 10 by adding a base; adding the alumina dispersion to an aqueous dispersion of the magnesium compound to form a slurry; drying the slurry to produce a dried spinel precursor; and calcining the dried spinel precursor to produce the magnesium aluminate spinel. Dispersing at such a low pH results in a conversion to spinel as well as allows for the control of the surface area of the spinel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Sasol (USA) Corporation
    Inventors: Brian C. Peoples, Allison L. Hann
  • Patent number: 10118832
    Abstract: A composition comprising an aluminum chlorohydrate salt, the aluminum chlorohydrate salt having at least 50 mole % Al30 polyhydroxyoxoaluminum cation of all polyhydroxyoxoaluminum cations detectable by quantitative 27Al NMR within the aluminum chlorohydrate salt, and a buffer. The composition can optionally include zirconium. Also disclosed are a method of making an aluminum salt using an increased molar concentration of a starting aluminum salt with a buffer, a method of reducing perspiration with the aluminum chlorohydrate salt, and a method of treating water with the aluminum chlorohydrate salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Iraklis Pappas, John Vaughn, Long Pan
  • Patent number: 10118833
    Abstract: A methodology for synthesizing a nanoparticle batch, such as but not limited to a metal chalcogenide nanoparticle batch and further such as but not limited to a metal sulfide nanoparticle batch is predicated upon an expectation and observation that at elevated concentrations of at least one reactant material within a heat-up nanoparticle batch synthesis method, the resulting nucleated batch comprises nanoparticles that may be dimensionally focused to provide a substantially monodisperse nanoparticle batch. The embodied methodology is also applicable to a continuous reactor. The embodied methodology also considers viscosity as a dimensionally focusing result effective variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Cornell University
    Inventors: Richard D. Robinson, Tobias Hanrath, Curtis Williamson, Douglas Nevers
  • Patent number: 10118834
    Abstract: Monodisperse colloidal nanocrystal clusters of magnetite (Fe3O4) with tunable sizes from about thirty to about three hundred nanometers have been synthesized using a high-temperature hydrolysis process. The colloidal nanocrystal clusters are capped with polyelectrolytes, and highly water soluble. Each cluster is composed of many single magnetite crystallites, thus retaining the superparamagnetic behavior at room temperature. The combination of superparamagnetic property, high magnetization, and high water dispersibility makes the colloidal nanocrystal clusters ideal candidates for various important biomedical applications such as drug delivery and bioseparation. The present invention is further directed to methods for forming colloidal photonic crystals from both aqueous and nonaqueous solutions of the superparamagnetic colloidal nanocrystal clusters with an external magnetic field applied thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Yadong Yin, Jianping Ge