Patents Issued in December 4, 2018
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Patent number: 10145747Abstract: Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for detection of undesirable forces on one or more surgical robotic arms. In one aspect, there is provided a system including a robotic arm, including: two linkages, a joint, a torque sensor, and an instrument device manipulator (IDM). The system may further include a processor configured to measure a first torque value at the joint based on an output of the torque sensor and determine a second torque value at the joint based on a position of the robotic arm. The second torque value may be indicative of a gravitational component of the torque between the two linkages. The processor may be further configured to determine a force at the IDM based a difference between the first and second torque values and determine whether the robotic arm has collided with an object or misaligned based on the force at the IDM.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Auris Health, Inc.Inventors: Jiayi Lin, Shu-Yun Chung
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Patent number: 10145748Abstract: Pressure indicator comprising a base, a deformable membrane fixed to the base in a fluid-tight manner according to a closed contour, and a body fixed to the base, delimiting a hollow volume covering the deformable membrane on the side opposite the base, while encompassing at least the closed contour, at least one inlet for a fluid the pressure of which is to be measured in a pressure range, wherein the deformable membrane is such that the expansion thereof for said pressure range is sufficient to be visible to the naked eye and to allow a direct display indicative of the pressure, in that the base is drilled with at least one first hole a first end of which emerges between the deformable membrane and the base in the closed contour, in that the body is drilled with at least one second hole a first end of which emerges into said hollow volume, in that the other end of the first hole is linked to the inlet respectively to the open air, in that the other end of the second hole is linked to the open air, respectivType: GrantFiled: June 11, 2012Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: AMBU A/SInventors: Pascal Lucchina, Stéphane Checcaroni, Gilles Dhonneur
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Patent number: 10145749Abstract: A physical quantity measuring device includes: a sensor module provided with a diaphragm; a joint to which the sensor module is attached, the joint including a pressure inlet for delivering fluid to be measured to the sensor module. The joint is made of a synthetic resin and includes a joint body and an elastically deformable claw provided to the joint body and configured to lock the sensor module. Since the claw keeps the sensor module to be held by virtue of the elastic force of the claw, a further attachment process such as welding for attaching the sensor module to the joint is unnecessary. Since the joint body and the claw are integrally made of synthetic resin, it is not necessary to separately manufacture the joint body and the claw.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: NAGANO KEIKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Abe, Shuji Tohyama, Haruhiko Sekiya
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Patent number: 10145750Abstract: An MEMS pressure sensing element is disclosed, comprising a substrate with a groove; a pressure-sensitive film on the substrate for sealing an opening of the groove to form a sealed cavity body; and a pressure-sensitive beam suspended in the sealed cavity body and parallel with the pressure-sensitive film provided with varistors, wherein a center of the pressure-sensitive beam is fixedly connected to that of the pressure-sensitive film, and a periphery is fixedly connected to a bottom wall of the groove of the substrate, such that the pressure-sensitive film drives the pressure-sensitive beam to bending deformation under an external pressure.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: GOERTEK. INC.Inventor: Guoguang Zheng
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Patent number: 10145751Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sensor includes a deformable film portion, a first sensing element and a second sensing element. The first sensing element is fixed to the film portion, and includes a first magnetic layer of a first material, a first opposing magnetic layer, and a first intermediate layer. The first intermediate layer is provided between the first magnetic layer and the first opposing magnetic layer. The second sensing element is fixed to the film portion, and includes a second magnetic layer of a second material, a second opposing magnetic layer, and a second intermediate layer. The second material is different from the first material. The second intermediate layer is provided between the second magnetic layer and the second opposing magnetic layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yoshihiko Fuji, Michiko Hara, Kei Masunishi, Yoshihiro Higashi, Shiori Kaji, Akiko Yuzawa, Akio Hori, Tomohiko Nagata, Kazuaki Okamoto, Kenji Otsu, Shotaro Baba
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Patent number: 10145752Abstract: The data-accepting part accepts normal time information data and non-normal time information data, which are outputted from measurement equipment connected to the management apparatus, the data-identifying part identifies the normal time information data and the non-normal time information data based on the difference in the transmission path of the data, or based on identification information given to the data, and the data-output part outputs the above-mentioned normal time information data and the non-normal time information data, such that an operator identifies the information data.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventor: Ritsuko Kamezaki
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Patent number: 10145753Abstract: A rotor is statically or dynamically balanced by driving the rotor to rotate at a desired speed, measuring an imbalance in the rotor, calculating an adjustment to be made in a mass distribution of the rotor based on the measured imbalance, and adjusting the mass distribution to reduce the imbalance. Mass adjustment is done by operating a laser to ablate material from the rotor according to operating parameters based on the adjustment calculated. The foregoing is done while the rotor is rotating.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gershon Perelman, Bartly Carlson
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Patent number: 10145754Abstract: A method for detecting gas leakage from a radioactive material sealed container includes measuring a temperature at a bottom portion of a metallic sealed container. A feeding air temperature of external air passing between the metallic sealed container and a concrete-made storage container is also measured. Presence of leakage of inactive gas is determined by comparing the temperatures or by utilizing a physical amount calculated by using the temperatures.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Central Research Institute of Electric Power IndustryInventor: Hirofumi Takeda
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Patent number: 10145755Abstract: An objective of this invention is to provide an apparatus and method to more accurately determine the parameters of a storage cavern before and during use, including fluid filled storage caverns. Another object of this invention is to provide a granular inspection of the storage cavern. Another object of this invention is to provide precision positioning information of sample points.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Sonasearch, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Edward Walker, Sheldon Rubin
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Patent number: 10145756Abstract: An embodiment of a method and system for inspecting clear and printed contact lenses is provided. A contact lens is inspected by illuminating the contact lens using bright-field illumination and low-angle dark-field illumination simultaneously, when the contact lens is disposed in a cavity between a male mold and a female mold. Further, the light emerging from the contact lens is received by an imaging optical system, and a camera uses the light received by the imaging optical system to capture an image of the contact lens. Further, a data processing system is configured to identify dark defects in the image that are in a first portion of a dynamic range of brightness, and to identify bright defects in the image that are in a second portion of the dynamic range of brightness.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2011Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: VisionXtreme Pte LtdInventors: Victor Vertoprakhov, Soon Wei Wong, Tian Poh Yew
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Patent number: 10145757Abstract: The system and methods are made to apply interferometry to ophthalmic applications. The system makes use of a low-coherence interferometer to obtain a plurality of measurements of a contacts lens. The system and methods characterizes the surface profile of both surfaces of a contact lens, a thickness profiles, and combines these measurements with an index information to reconstruct a complete model of the contact lens.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2018Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.Inventors: John E. Greivenkamp, Jr., James William Haywood, Kyle C. Heideman, Russell T. Spaulding, Gregory Allen Williby
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Patent number: 10145758Abstract: Embodiments herein describe techniques for testing optical components in a photonic chip using a testing structure disposed in a sacrificial region of a wafer. In one embodiment, the wafer is processed to form multiple photonic chips integrated into the wafer. While forming optical components in the photonic chips (e.g., modulators, detectors, waveguides, etc.), a testing structure can be formed in one or more sacrificial regions in the wafer. In one embodiment, the testing structure is arranged near an edge coupler in the photonic chip such that an optical signal can be transferred between the photonic chip and the testing structure. Moreover, the testing structure has a grating coupler disposed at or near a top surface of the wafer which permits optical signals to be transmitted into, or received from, the grating coupler when an optical probe is arranged above the grating coupler.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Matthew J. Traverso, Ravi S. Tummidi, Mark A. Webster, Sandeep Razdan
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Patent number: 10145759Abstract: Disclosed herein is a combustion oscillation estimating apparatus which estimates combustion oscillation in a combustion chamber connected with a burner so that a flame is injected by the burner, the combustion oscillation estimating apparatus including an input unit which receives data including an inlet pressure of the burner, and a control unit which detects a pressure in the combustion chamber based on a shape from the burner to the combustion chamber, a temperature distribution in the combustion chamber, and a shape of the flame. The combustion oscillation estimating apparatus may improve estimation accuracy of the combustion oscillation in the combustion chamber.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: DOOSAN HEAVY INDUSTRIES & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.Inventors: Sung Jong Ahn, Jin Woong Ha, Young Ho Ju, Cheol Hong Kim
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Patent number: 10145760Abstract: A pump, including a compression compartment configured to receive, between first and second sides of the compartment, a flexible container holding a fluid and having an outlet; The pump also has a pump mechanism that is coupled to drive the first and second sides of the compartment together so as to force the fluid out of the container through the outlet. There are first and second electrodes the are fixed respectively to the first and second sides. The pump also includes a processor that is coupled to measure a capacitance between the first and second electrodes and to estimate, responsively to the capacitance, a volume of the fluid remaining in the container.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.Inventor: Assaf Govari
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Patent number: 10145761Abstract: A system and method are provided for equipment sound monitoring. The system includes an electromechanical device having at least one cavity defined therein. A dampening tube is such that at least a portion of the dampening tube is received within the at least one cavity without contacting a surface of the electromechanical device. A transducer box includes an opening defined therein, the opening configured to receive at least a portion of the dampening tube. The transducer box further includes a sound detection module configured to detect at least one of audio and vibration associated with the electromechanical device. A method of connecting and using the equipment sound monitoring system are provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Discovery Sound Technology, LLCInventors: John Jenkins, Mike Stumpf
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Patent number: 10145762Abstract: A trace evidence material (TEM) collection device is disclosed that enables crime scene investigators to quickly and easily collect, analyze, annotate, securely store and electronically distribute images of large amounts of trace evidence materials and related crime scene information while also helping to comply with required trace evidence recovery procedures and documentation requirements. The TEM collection device includes a reusable handle and cassette drive mechanism, which may be used with a plurality of single-use cassettes. Each cassette includes a TEM collection media (such as a collection tape or swabbing pads attached to a substrate) that when moved across a surface is capable of collecting TEMs located on the surface. Preferably, each cassette also includes a sealing assembly that seals the TEM collection media after collection of the TEMs so as to preserve the collected TEMs.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: AARDVARK FORENSICS, LLCInventor: James David Taylor
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Patent number: 10145763Abstract: A tool and a method are provided, for applying a correction on a resection margin of a tissue block, in order to align the resection margin with the cutting plane of a microtome. The correction is determined using an embedding block having been cut by the microtome. The tool comprises a base, a chuck receiver, a positioning assembly comprising a flat surface and a bi-axial pivoting assembly operatively connected to one of the chuck receiver and the positioning assembly. The positioning assembly and the chuck receiver are movable one relative to the other for pressing the embedding block between said flat surface of the positioning assembly and the top surface of the chuck, for tilting the bi-axial pivoting assembly according to a compensating angle indicative of the correction to make.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Inventor: Kurt Hemmings
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Patent number: 10145764Abstract: A flow-through sampling apparatus for sampling a bulk solid mixture includes a main body forming an opening. A screen is located in the opening and forms a plurality of sample zones within the main body. The apparatus further includes a first slide door that is movable above the screen so as to close one side of the opening. Further, the apparatus includes a second slide door that is movable below the screen so as to close the other side of the opening.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: LINCOLN GLOBAL, INC.Inventors: David J. Snell, Eric A. Gulliver
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Patent number: 10145765Abstract: A method is provided for suppressing, in a color reagent solution which is used to measure a component within a sample and which contains an oxidative color reagent dissolved therein, a background rise that occurs when the color reagent solution is stored. The method includes adjusting a hydrogen ion exponent (pH) of the color reagent solution so as to be strongly acidic. The hydrogen ion exponent is preferably adjusted to 2.9 or below or to 2.1 or below. The color reagent solution is preferably used to measure the degree of oxidative stress. The oxidative color reagent is preferably a phenylenediamine derivative.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc.Inventors: Kazuhiro Omiya, Toshihiro Imai
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Patent number: 10145766Abstract: A smear preparing apparatus of an embodiment includes: a transportation part that holds and transports a microscope slide; a housing defining a room therein, the housing including: an insertion opening through which the microscope slide transported by the transportation part is to be inserted, and a feed opening through which air is to be fed; and a blower configured to feed the air through the feed opening to the microscope slide housed in the housing. The housing further includes a discharge opening through which the air fed from the blower through the feed opening is discharged.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: SYSMEX CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo Kubota, Seiya Shinabe, Kenji Kondo
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Patent number: 10145767Abstract: A sample processing assembly for treatment of a sample on a substrate includes a mounting surface for the substrate and a closure body configured to releasably retain a cover member. The closure body is movable between an open position and a substantially closed position. When a substrate is placed in the assembly and the closure body is in the substantially closed position while retaining a cover member, a reaction chamber is formed for processing a sample. A cover member for use with the sample processing assembly is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2013Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: LEICA BIOSYSTEMS MELBOURNE PTY LTDInventors: Kenneth Heng-chong Ng, Mark Brian Dockrill, Peter Toogood, Martin Limon, Daniel Dobrogorsky, Mark Wilcock, Greg Boyes, Brendyn Rodgers, Stephen John Bagnato, Ashan Chiranga Perera
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Patent number: 10145768Abstract: The time period necessary for a staining process is shortened, and the apparatus is downsized. This smear preparation apparatus includes: a staining vessel for storing a staining liquid therein so as to allow a plurality of glass slides each having a sample smeared thereon to be immersed therein; and a transfer unit for holding and transferring each glass slide. The staining vessel includes a plurality of first holders configured to hold the glass slides. The staining vessel is configured such that a plurality of glass slides held by a plurality of the first holders are immersed in the stored staining liquid, and the transfer unit is configured to put in/take out the glass slides one by one with respect to a plurality of the first holders of the staining vessel.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: SYSMEX CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichiro Ohmae, Seiya Shinabe, Kosuke Sekizuka
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Patent number: 10145769Abstract: A dilution and filtration device comprises: a sampling member comprising a suspension collecting chamber having at least one suspension collecting window disposed at a side surface of the suspension collecting chamber; a top cap having a through hole at a center portion of the top cap; a connecting cylinder disposed at a top end of the sampling member and mounted to the through hole of the top cap such that the connecting cylinder is concentric with the through hole and is rotatable; and a specimen tube connected to the top cap and accommodating the sampling member. An apparatus of preparing excrement detection solutions comprising the dilution and filtration device and a method of preparing excrement detection solutions using the dilution and filtration device are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: AVE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Jianwen Ding
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Patent number: 10145770Abstract: A conveyor or drive chain wear monitor includes two sensors spaced apart from one another a predetermined distance which is less than the distance between the two selected measuring points on a chain. Two timers are provided, one of which is a chain speed timer and the other of which is the chain wear timer. The two timers are both controlled by the spaced sensors. The problem of sensor beams being broken by irrelevant beam breaking obstacles located between the successive spaced measuring points is solved by providing an ignore obstacle software routine in the wear monitor computer. The ignore obstacle software routine allows a user to program the monitor to ignore any number of irrelevant obstacles which might occur between two spaced measuring points on a chain.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Frost Tech LLCInventors: Charles C. Frost, James A. Mitchell
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Patent number: 10145771Abstract: A method and a measuring device determine the density of liquids. The measuring device has a flexural resonator, at least one sensor for at least one environmental parameter that influences a measurement to be performed and a condition monitoring unit. The measured values from the respective sensor are fed to the condition monitoring unit. The condition monitoring unit has a memory unit with stored forecasts for environmental parameters to be expected in the course of the measurement, and that, by using the condition monitoring unit, on the basis of the stored forecasts and the initial measured values selected for the measurement, it is determined whether the planned measurement can be carried out under the selected trial conditions without any impairment or with a permissible impairment by the forecast changes in the environmental parameters.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Anton Paar GmbHInventors: Robert Breidler, Gerald Steiner, Rupert Gruellenberger
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Patent number: 10145772Abstract: The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer program products for measuring the density of a material. According to one aspect, a material property gauge includes a nuclear density gauge for measuring the density of a material. A radiation source adapted to emit radiation into a material and a radiation detector operable to produce a signal representing the detected radiation. A first material property calculation function may calculate a value associated with the density of the material based upon the signal produced by the radiation detector. The material property gauge includes an electromagnetic moisture property gauge that determines a moisture property of the material. An electromagnetic field generator may generate an electromagnetic field where the electromagnetic field sweeps through one or more frequencies and penetrates into the material.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Troxler Electronic Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Robert Ernest Troxler, Wewage Hiran Linus Dep
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Patent number: 10145773Abstract: A system and method for measuring the deformation over time of the surface of a non-Newtonian fluid in a sampling container in response to an airjet that is applied for a specified time are disclosed. The change is the sample surface displacement is measured quantitatively by means of optical triangulation or other similar optical or electronic distance measuring device. After cessation of the airjet, gravitational forces cause the sample material to flow back to its original surface profile. Both the amplitude of the deformation displacement due to the force of the airjet and the recovered displacement, within specific time periods are characteristic of asphalt binder material with varying amounts of polymer or other additives used to control the ultimate properties and performance of the material. As a result, comparison of the quantitative measurements of control samples can allow discrimination from samples with different properties and hence different formulations.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2013Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Inventor: John W. Newman
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Patent number: 10145774Abstract: Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) gas isotherm techniques to evaluate wettability of porous media, such as hydrocarbon reservoir rock, can include constructing a NMR gas isotherm curve for a porous media sample gas adsorption under various pressures. A hydrophobic or hydrophilic nature of the porous media sample can be determined using the NMR gas isotherm curves. A wettability of the porous media sample can be determined based on the NMR gas isotherm curve. The wettability can be determined for porous media samples with different pore sizes. In the case of reservoir rock samples, the determined wettability can be used, among other things, to model the hydrocarbon reservoir that includes such rock samples, to simulate fluid flow through such reservoirs, or to model enhanced hydrocarbon recovery from such reservoirs.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Hyung Tae Kwak, Ahmad Mubarak Al-Harbi
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Patent number: 10145775Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for determining the swell of a subterranean formation sample when contacted with a fluid at subterranean conditions.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2013Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Sharath Savari, Bhargav Gajji, Somesh Kurella
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Patent number: 10145776Abstract: A system for analyzing fluid includes a housing having first and second opposing surfaces spaced to form a fluid chamber, a light source disposed to direct light at the first surface of the housing; and a digital imaging circuit disposed to detect light at the second surface of the housing. The digital imaging circuit includes a pixel array configured to capture one or more digital images of an illuminated fluid. The system also includes a processor configured to: capture multiple digital images of the fluid at different camera exposure levels, calculate a net radiant energy value at a plurality of different integration times within at least two images, calculate a slope of the net radiant energy value with respect to integration time in a selected image, and determine size distribution and volume fraction of particles within the fluid based on the calculated slope.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Pranay Jain, Sanjay E. Sarma
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Patent number: 10145777Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for testing filters. In an exemplary embodiment, a method is provided for testing a filter within a duct system that includes mounting a port to a wall of a duct of the system, positioning a section of tubing within the duct from the port until an outlet end of the tubing is disposed adjacent a filter, connecting a source of test media to the port; delivering test media from the source through the port and tubing into the duct to the filter, and scanning the filter for test media.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Inventor: Wayne A. Copeland
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Patent number: 10145779Abstract: Perturbed oscillatory kinetics electrochemistry methods include methods of determining an electrochemical response of a test coupon to a mechanical load. Such methods include applying a cell of electrolyte solution to a test region on a test coupon, contacting the electrolyte solution with a counter electrode, and applying a mechanical load to the test coupon to produce a deflection event. Additionally, methods include measuring a pre-event value of an electrical parameter of the test coupon, before applying the mechanical load, and measuring a post-event value of the electrical parameter, after applying the mechanical load. Methods include determining an electrochemical response of the test coupon to the mechanical load based on the post-event value and the pre-event value.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Erik David Sapper, Erica Nicole Bilodeau
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Patent number: 10145780Abstract: A thread gauge, which allows to reliably know the time for replacement by visual checking and improves the predetermined dimensional accuracy of a thread product has a go-side thread measuring portion extending from one side of a shank portion coaxially with the shank portion or a not-go-side thread measuring portion extending from an other side of the shank portion coaxially with the shank portion, a wear checking gauge line having a predetermined length and a predetermined depth formed on male thread portions and female thread portions formed on the go-side thread measuring portion or the not-go-side thread measuring portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: NIIGATA SEIKI CO., LTD.Inventor: Toshiyuki Igarashi
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Patent number: 10145781Abstract: A method of estimating a frictional resistance of a ship bottom coating film, the method including measuring any one of Rz (maximum height roughness), Rc (mean height of roughness profile elements), Ra (arithmetic mean roughness), Rq (root mean square roughness) and RZJIS (ten-point mean roughness) as a roughness height R in a mean length RSm of roughness profile elements in the range of 2,000 to 10,000 ?m according to JIS B 0601:2001 (ISO4287:1997) on a coating film formed by applying a ship bottom coating paint on a substrate and calculating a frictional resistance increase rate FIR (%) from a mirror surface by the following formula (1), wherein coefficient C is a constant depending on the kind of the roughness height R and a frictional resistance testing method, and is previously determined in such a manner that plural ship bottom coating films each having different roughness are subjected to a roughness measurement and a frictional resistance test in a definite evaluation length, and then the coefficientType: GrantFiled: March 4, 2013Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: CHUGOKU MARINE PAINTS, LTD.Inventor: Hirohisa Mieno
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Patent number: 10145782Abstract: The mechanical testing apparatus comprises a wheel and a platform. The wheel is configured to hold a first specimen and rotate relative to a second specimen to apply torque to the second specimen using the first specimen. The platform is biased towards the wheel and configured to hold the second specimen.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Timothy John Franklin Luchini
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Patent number: 10145783Abstract: An infusion set and an intravenous bag adapter constructed of ultraviolet transmissive thermoplastic is used in spectroscopic validation of pharmaceuticals. The described hardware allows for qualitative and quantitative assurance of medications and is used to prevent medication errors. The thermoplastic is transmissive in the range of 240 to 315 nanometers.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2013Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Inventor: Dean O. Allgeyer
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Patent number: 10145784Abstract: An infusion set and an intravenous bag adapter constructed of ultraviolet transmissive thermoplastic are used in spectroscopic validation of pharmaceuticals. The described hardware allows for qualitative and quantitative assurance of medications and is used to prevent medication errors. The thermoplastic is transmissive in the range below 315 nanometers. In one embodiment, the invention comprises a spectrometer and a test chamber that are unaffected by the presence of ambient light. The spectrometer includes an unshielded slot or receptacle into which the test chamber is easily fitted. This embodiment can function well in drug diversion programs for which unused post-op narcotics can be tested.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Inventor: Dean O. Allgeyer
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Patent number: 10145785Abstract: Provided is an optical element rotation type Mueller-matrix ellipsometer for solving a problem of measurement accuracy and measurement precision occurring due to residual polarization of a light source, polarization dependence of a photo-detector, measurement values of Fourier coefficients of a high order term in dual optical element rotation type Mueller-matrix ellipsometers according to the related art capable of measuring some or all of components of a Mueller-matrix for any sample.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and ScienceInventors: Yong Jai Cho, Won Chegal, Hyun Mo Cho
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Patent number: 10145786Abstract: A bonded structure includes a first member, a second member, an adhesive that bonds the first member and the second member together, and an optical fiber sandwiched between the first member and the second member. When pressure is applied to the optical fiber only from a predetermined direction, the sectional shape of the optical fiber changes to an elliptical shape, so that birefringence occurs, whereby the shape of the light spectrum changes so as to have multiple peaks. The optical fiber is used as a sensor for detecting the bonding condition between the first member and the second member based on the birefringence.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignees: MISTUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYOInventors: Nozomi Saito, Takayuki Shimizu, Toshio Abe, Nobuo Takeda, Shu Minakuchi, Keigo Uhira
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Patent number: 10145787Abstract: This invention discloses an excreta occult blood inspection method and the apparatus thereof. The inspection method comprises the following steps. At least one light source is provided to emit at least one light to illuminate excreta to produce at least one specimen light. At least one photo-sensitive unit is provided to receive the specimen light and generate a detected data. An analysis processor is provided to receive and analyze the detected data to produce an analysis data. Above-mentioned method and apparatus can make excreta occult blood inspection become efficient and convenient.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: WELLYSUN INC.Inventor: Shuo-Ting Yan
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Patent number: 10145788Abstract: An image processing device for gas detection performs image processing on infrared images obtained by shooting an object to be monitored for a gas leak at a plurality of time points. The image processing device for gas detection includes an image processing unit that performs a process of removing, from image data indicating the infrared images, second frequency component data that is lower in frequency than first frequency component data indicating a temperature change caused by the leaking gas, and indicates a background temperature change of the object to be monitored.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Motohiro Asano, Takashi Morimoto, Rui Watanabe
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Patent number: 10145789Abstract: A device for measuring the absolute value of the refractive index of a liquid by immersion uses the optical properties of a cylindrical waveguide with a solid core and normal angle of incidence of the light source. The device consists of a transparent tube forming the enclosure of the waveguide, impervious to the surrounding liquid and partially filled with a transparent solid or liquid material of appropriate index of refraction, a fiber optic means of inputting light via a LED or laser and fiber optic means of coupling emerging light to a photodetector. The emerging light intensity is a function of the index of refraction of the surrounding liquid.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Inventor: Joseph Samuel Accetta
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Patent number: 10145790Abstract: An attempt is made to suppress the processing load while securing real-time properties of the image processing to improve visual recognizability of a captured image whose visual recognizability has been reduced by the influence of fine particle components. An image processing apparatus including: an extraction unit configured to extract an atmospheric light component from a captured image including an influence of fine particles in the atmosphere; and a removal processing unit configured to generate an image from the captured image, in which the influence of fine particles has been removed, based on the extracted atmospheric light component, and the extraction unit performs the extraction based on data of the captured image and data of an exposure value at the time of photographing the captured image.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yasuhiro Itoh
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Patent number: 10145791Abstract: To minimize or prevent obstruction by a surface-mounted part or disturbance to an object to be visually observed, an electric field sensor is placed at a predetermined distance from a surface of the object to be visually observed, and a two-dimensional distribution of a high-frequency electric field is detected. Considering that the measured electric field distribution is due to an electrostatic field from the electric field distribution at the surface of the visually observed object, the electric field distribution at the surface is back-calculated from Gauss' flux theorem or the like, and the obtained electric field distribution is displayed or outputted. Thus, the electric field distribution at a position closer to the surface of the visually observed object is imaged while obstruction by a surface-mounted part or disturbance to the visually observed object is suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGYInventor: Masahiro Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 10145792Abstract: A multi-cell apparatus and method for single ion addressing are described herein. One apparatus includes a first cell configured to set a frequency, intensity, and a polarization of a laser and shutter the laser, a second cell configured to align the shuttered laser to an ion in an ion trap such that the ion fluoresces light and/or performs a quantum operation, and a third cell configured to detect the light fluoresced from the ion.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Matthew Edward Lewis Jungwirth, James Goeders
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Patent number: 10145793Abstract: Methods and systems for operating a flow cytometer can include forward scatter values, side scatter values, and fluorescence intensity values for events of an unstained sample and associating the fluorescence intensity values with forward scatter-side scatter side scatter plot regions. Methods and systems for operating a flow cytometer can also include measuring forward scatter values, side scatter values, and fluorescence intensity values for events of a stained sample, determining forward scatter-side scatter plot locations for the events of the stained sample, and for each event of the stained sample, subtracting the fluorescence intensity value associated with the forward scatter-side scatter plot region that contains the forward scatter-side scatter plot location of the stained sample event from the measured fluorescence intensity value of the stained sample event at that forward scatter-side scatter plot location.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventor: Heng Xu
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Patent number: 10145794Abstract: A cell information obtaining method comprises causing a plurality of fluorescent substances having different fluorescence wavelengths from each other to be bound to a test substance contained in a cell, applying light to the cell to cause fluorescences having different wavelengths and intensities to be generated from the plurality of fluorescent substances, and obtaining a first fluorescence information and a second fluorescence information on the basis of the generated fluorescences.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: SYSMEX CORPORATIONInventor: Keiko Yoshikawa
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Patent number: 10145795Abstract: First and second filter magazines in each of which plural filters having different transmission wavelengths from each other are arranged in a row are provided, and the first and second filter magazines are arranged next to each other in one direction. A light detection unit in which plural photomultipliers of first and second photomultipliers, each of which detects light that has passed through at least one of the filters included in the first and second filter magazines, are arranged in the arrangement direction of the filters is provided, and the light detection unit is placed in the one direction in such a manner to be parallel to the first and second filter magazines. The apparatus is configured in such a manner that the first and second filter magazines and the light detection unit are movable in the arrangement direction of the filters.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Masato Saitou
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Patent number: 10145796Abstract: The invention relates to an illumination filter (36, 44) for an illumination filter system (2) for medical imaging, in particular multispectral fluorescence imaging, as performed e.g. in a microscope (1) or endoscope, in particular a multispectral fluorescence microscope. The present invention provides an illumination filter for medical imaging, in particular a multispectral fluorescence imaging, that is capable of capturing simultaneously more than one fluorescence signal, and allow a homogeneous illumination for obtaining different images from the object illuminated by comprising a spatial filter pattern (43) masking a defined filtering fraction of a first illumination path (47) on the filter and masking a defined filtering fraction of a second illumination path (48, 49, 50) on the filter, wherein the filtering fraction of the first and the second illumination paths (47, 48, 49, 50) are different.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Leica Instruments (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Manfred Kuster, George Themelis
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Patent number: 10145797Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for detecting single molecule. The method includes: providing a carrier; detection disposing a single molecule sample on the carrier, and detecting the single molecule sample with a detector. The carrier includes a substrate and a metal layer on the substrate, wherein the substrate includes a base and a patterned bulge located on a surface of the base, the patterned bulge includes a number of strip-shaped bulges intersected with each other to form a net and define a number of holes, and the metal layer is located on the patterned bulge. The method is more accurate because the carrier has a relative higher SERS and can enhance the Raman scattering.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignees: Tsinghua University, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuan-Hao Jin, Qun-Qing Li, Shou-Shan Fan