Patents Issued in February 19, 2019
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Patent number: 10209066Abstract: An arrangement includes an installation platform arranged to be movable upwards and downwards in a first direction in the elevator shaft, and two laser transmitters arranged at a bottom of the elevator shaft. Each of the two laser transmitters produce a vertical upwards directed laser plane in the elevator shaft, the laser planes being perpendicular to each other. At least four primary light sensitive detectors are attached to the installation platform so that they are visible to the laser transmitters, each of the primary light sensitive detectors being positioned on a respective side of a rectangle. The position of the installation platform in relation to the elevator shaft can be measured from the hitting points of the laser planes on the primary light sensitive detectors.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: KONE CORPORATIONInventor: Pekka Kilpeläinen
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Patent number: 10209067Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a device for a compass, the device comprising a support comprising a magnetic field detection means being mounted via a conical pivot bearing on a tip of a shaft, wherein the detection means is capable of rotating in at least a plane which is perpendicular to the direction of the shaft, a direction indicator device connected to the magnetic field detection means, and wherein the support comprises an upper portion, a middle portion and a lower portion, the direction indicator device comprises an elongate plate with a direction indicator, wherein the middle portion of said support extends through an opening in the plate, the upper portion of said support comprises opposite first members extending over the top surface of said plate, and the lower portion of said support comprises opposite second members extending under the bottom surface of said plate, and said first and second members are vertically and pairwise aligned to form a first fType: GrantFiled: May 31, 2018Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Suunto OyInventors: Henrik Palin, Tuomo Nousiainen, Matti Muhonen
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Patent number: 10209068Abstract: A strapdown heading sensor includes an elongated housing and a compass module at least partially positioned within an inner cavity of the elongated housing. The compass module is cantilevered within the inner cavity of the elongated housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2014Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: TIAX LLCInventors: J. Thomas Fowler, Matthew C. Wiggins, Vernon E. Shrauger
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Patent number: 10209069Abstract: An offset calculation circuit comprising a data obtaining unit for sequentially obtaining two-axis or three-axis magnetic detection data as a set of data points of a two-axis coordinate system or a three-axis coordinate system; an offset recording unit for recording offset components of the magnetic detection data as an offset point of the two-axis coordinate system or the three-axis coordinate system; and an offset calculation unit for calculating a first reference line or a first reference plane put between first and second data points among the set of data points, and subsequently moving the offset point recorded in the offset recording unit in a direction toward the first reference line or the first reference plane to calculate a first offset candidate point.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2015Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.Inventor: Koji Saito
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Patent number: 10209070Abstract: A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) gyroscope device includes a substrate having a surface parallel to a plane; first and second proof masses driven to slide back and forth past one another in a first directional axis of the plane, where the first and second proof masses respectively have a first and second recess in a respective side closest to the other proof mass; a pivot structure coupled to the first proof mass within the first recess and to the second proof mass within the second recess; an anchor between the first and second recesses and coupled to a mid-point of the pivot structure; and third and fourth proof masses driven to move toward and away from one another in a second directional axis of the plane that is perpendicular to the first directional axis; where the proof masses move in response to angular velocity in one or more directional axes.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.Inventor: Aaron A. Geisberger
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Patent number: 10209071Abstract: An integrated MEMS structure includes a driving assembly anchored to a substrate and actuated with a driving movement. A pair of sensing masses suspended above the substrate and coupled to the driving assembly via elastic elements is fixed in the driving movement and performs a movement along a first direction of detection, in response to an external stress. A coupling assembly couples the pair of sensing masses mechanically to couple the vibration modes. The coupling assembly is formed by a rigid element, which connects the sensing masses and has a point of constraint in an intermediate position between the sensing masses, and elastic coupling elements for coupling the rigid element to the sensing masses to present a first stiffness to a movement in phase-opposition and a second stiffness, greater than the first, to a movement in phase, of the sensing masses along the direction of detection.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.R.L.Inventors: Luca Coronato, Gabriele Cazzaniga
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Patent number: 10209072Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for making and using accelerometers. Some such accelerometers include a substrate, a first plurality of electrodes, a second plurality of electrodes, a first anchor attached to the substrate, a frame and a proof mass. The substrate may extend substantially in a first plane. The proof mass may be attached to the frame, may extend substantially in a second plane and may be substantially constrained for motion along first and second axes. The frame may be attached to the first anchor, may extend substantially in a second plane and may be substantially constrained for motion along the second axis. A lateral movement of the proof mass in response to an applied lateral acceleration along the first or second axes may result in a change in capacitance at the first or second plurality of electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2015Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: SNAPTRACK Inc.Inventors: Philip Jason Stephanou, David William Burns, Ravindra Vaman Shenoy
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Patent number: 10209073Abstract: The invention relates to a location-determining device in a motor vehicle which comprises at least one receiver device for receiving position signals and time signals for a multiplicity of satellites assigned to a global navigation system and a location-calculating module for calculating location information on the basis of received position data and time data. The location-Determining device is distinguished by the fact that the at least one receiver device is structurally integrated into the housing of an optical sensor unit, wherein the housing is arranged in a passenger compartment in a region of an upper edge of a windscreen, and wherein the housing does not have more than a single connection to a vehicle data bus and not more than a single connection to a vehicle energy supply.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2011Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHGInventor: Ulrich Stahlin
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Patent number: 10209074Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining position of a mobile device using magnetic beacons including detecting, by a sensor in the mobile device, a magnetic signal having a unique signature associated with a given magnetic beacon; storing location and an associated signature for each of a plurality of magnetic beacons in a data store of the mobile device, where each of the magnetic beacons is assigned a different signature; extracting the unique signature from the magnetic signal; comparing the extracted signature to each of the signatures stored in the data store; identifying a given magnetic beacon from the plurality of magnetic beacons, where signature for the given beacon matches the extracted signature; and retrieving the location for the given magnetic beacon for the data store and correlating location of the mobile device with the location of the given magnetic beacon.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: The Regents of The University of MichiganInventors: Arie Sheinker, Mark B. Moldwin
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Patent number: 10209075Abstract: A mechanism is provided to determine orientation of a device that includes sources of electromagnetic interference. Data generated by one or more gyroscopes in the device, in conjunction with data generated by one or more accelerometers, can be used to generate an estimate of the change of orientation of the device from the time of a last accurate magnetometer reading. In one embodiment, in order to conserve system power, the gyroscope is kept powered down or in a stand-by state until receiving a control signal to power up. The control signal is provided in advance of the source of electromagnetic interference being powered up, thereby providing an accurate starting point from which magnetometer orientation estimates may be calculated during such interference.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.Inventor: Michael E. Stanley
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Patent number: 10209076Abstract: Systems and a related method for internally monitored navigation replace one or more inertial reference units (IRU) of an aircraft navigation system with GNSS-assisted multi-mode receivers (MMR) including dual-antenna receivers. Each MMR may validate inertial position data generated by a remaining IRU by detecting drift errors in the inertial position data or latent faults in the IRU. The system may include, in place of one or more IRUs, attitude heading and reference systems (AHRS) incorporating lower-grade high-performance inertial sensors. Internal monitoring of the remaining IRUs or the inertial position data generated thereby may alternatively be carried out by the AHRS. Based on internal monitoring by the MMRs and/or AHRS, user display and flight control systems of an aircraft can exclude a faulty IRU, preventing the use of position solutions incorporating erroneous inertial data.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey B. McNamara, James H. Doty, Vladislav Gavrilets, Jesse W. Oltrogge
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Patent number: 10209077Abstract: A method for primarily sensor-based navigation includes: in a first time period, collecting geophysical position data using a GPS receiver of a navigation device; in the first time period, collecting a first set of accelerometer data using an accelerometer of the navigation device; analyzing the first set of accelerometer data to produce a first set of vertical vehicular motion data; generating a mapping association between the first set of vertical vehicular motion data and the geophysical position data; in a second time period after the first time period, collecting a second set of accelerometer data using the accelerometer; analyzing the second set of accelerometer data to produce a second set of vertical vehicular motion data; and calculating an estimated location of the vehicle by analyzing the second set of vertical vehicular motion data in light of the mapping association.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Zendrive, Inc.Inventors: Romit Roy Choudhury, Jayanta Pal, Pankaj Risbood, Jonathan Matus
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Patent number: 10209078Abstract: A system, a method and a computer program product are provided for local perturbation immunity in a vector-based sensing device. Measurement data from at least one vector-based sensing device is evaluated at a given time using a heuristic to identify an occurrence of a perturbing event, wherein the at least one vector-based sensing device includes either a magnetometer or an accelerometer, or both the magnetometer and the accelerometer. A time-shifting component is provided to reject the perturbing event for a duration of the perturbing event and use measurement data from a gyroscope to construct vector-based sensing device measurement data unaffected by the perturbing event.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Yost Labs Inc.Inventor: Paul Yost
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Patent number: 10209079Abstract: Routing information (e.g., routing information displayed in an electronic map or provided as verbal travel directions) is generated and presented to a user in a tailored manner. A request for routing information is received from a user. Spatial data, temporal data, social data, or topical data is retrieved that is related to the user and/or to a location or change of location of the user. Based on the retrieved data and the routing information, information display data is generated, and is provided to an electronic device of the user to generate an information display. An attribute of the information display is configured/modified based on the location information and/or on the spatial data, temporal data, social data, and/or topical data. For example, a display attribute and/or an audio attribute of the information display may be modified.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2009Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: EXCALIBUR IP, LLCInventors: Christopher Higgins, Marc E. Davis, Ronald Martinez, Joseph O'Sullivan, Christopher Paretti, Athellina Athsani, Chris Kalaboukis
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Patent number: 10209080Abstract: A robotic cleaning device having a body, and an obstacle detecting device configured to obtain data from a vicinity of the robotic cleaning device. The robotic cleaning device further has a propulsion system configured to drive the robotic cleaning device across a surface to be cleaned, and a cleaning member. The device also has a processing unit arranged to extract at least one feature from data obtained by the obstacle detecting device, compare the attained feature with stored features and when the attained feature matches one of the stored features, deduce a position of the robotic cleaning device.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2013Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Aktiebolaget ElectroluxInventors: Magnus Lindhé, Anders Haegermarck, Petter Forsberg
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Patent number: 10209081Abstract: A method for localization and mapping, including recording an image at a camera mounted to a vehicle, the vehicle associated with a global system location; identifying a landmark depicted in the image with a landmark identification module of a computing system associated with the vehicle, the identified landmark having a landmark geographic location and a known parameter; extracting a set of landmark parameters from the image with a feature extraction module of the computing system; determining, at the computing system, a relative position between the vehicle and the landmark geographic location based on a comparison between the extracted set of landmark parameters and the known parameter; and updating, at the computing system, the global system location based on the relative position.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Nauto, Inc.Inventors: Vaibhav Ghadiok, Michael Gleeson-May
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Patent number: 10209082Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to match probe points to road segments utilizing a trajectory identifier, thereby increasing the accuracy with which probe points, such as probe points in ambiguous locations, are matched to road segments. For a probe point having a respective trajectory identifier (ID) and associated with an ambiguous link tuple, the method identifies each probe point having the respective trajectory ID that is unambiguously matched to first or second branches. The method separately determines a number of probe points having the respective trajectory ID that are unambiguously matched to the first and second branches. The method matches the probe point having the respective trajectory ID and associated with the ambiguous link tuple to either the first branch or the second branch based upon the number of probe points having the respective trajectory ID that are unambiguously matched to the first and second branches.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: HERE Global B.V.Inventor: Ole Henry Dorum
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Patent number: 10209083Abstract: An approach is provided for node-based map matching. The approach involves processing probe data to sort a plurality of probe points according to sessions keys. The approach also involves selecting a subset of the plurality of probe points within a threshold distance of a node of a map representation of a transportation network. The approach further involves initiating a map matching of the probe points of each session key to the map representation by, for said each session key: (1) determining a closest probe point to the node; (2) determining another closest probe point to a neighboring node, wherein the neighboring node is connected to the node by at least one link; and (3) projecting the plurality of probe points between the closest probe point to the node and the another closest probe point to the neighboring node onto the link.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: HERE Global B.V.Inventor: Dongwook Jang
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Patent number: 10209084Abstract: A method for recommending a route includes obtaining a first start point and a first end point relating to a road network. The method also includes obtaining a route recommendation model. The method further includes determining a recommendation route from the first start point to the first end point based on the route recommendation model.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: BEIJING DIDI INFINITY TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Rui Pan, Zheng Wang
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Patent number: 10209085Abstract: Examples provided herein describe a navigation system to identify routes that take safety considerations into account. The system accesses safety data from various sources and computes safety data for individual road segments of a map database at multiple times for each road segment. The road segment safety data is used when determining routes for requested trips, including estimating the times that the various road segments on the route will be traversed and determining the safety of each road segment at that time.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2018Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Karna Chokshi, Meron Alon, Sangick Jeon
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Patent number: 10209086Abstract: Route search systems, methods, and programs acquire movement paths of a plurality of users, and acquire difference values for a plurality of characteristics. The difference values each indicate a difference between a characteristic of a reference route and a characteristic of the movement paths of the plurality of users. Systems, methods, and programs classify the movement paths of each of the users into a plurality of types such that movement paths with a plurality of similar difference values belong to a same type, set a cost of a road for each of the types; and search for a route on the basis of the set cost.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2015Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsuhiko Mutsuga, Atsushi Mochizuki
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Patent number: 10209087Abstract: According an aspect of the present invention there is provided a navigation system for a vehicle comprising: a communication module arranged to receive event information regarding a plurality of events, wherein the plurality of events are each associated with a location; a processor arranged to determine whether any of the plurality of events could affect a user of the navigation system; and an output arranged to inform the user of any determined events.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2015Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Jaguar Land Rover LimitedInventors: Naseem Akhtar, Brian Gerrard
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Patent number: 10209088Abstract: An approach is provided for route calculation using a navigation system by considering potential mistakes. Using the navigation system, at least one route is calculated. A map database is queried to identify intersections along the at least one route. A predicted probability of a user making a routing mistake at the intersections is calculated. A travel time, travel distance, or a combination thereof that is predicted to result from the routing mistake is calculated. The travel time, the travel distance, or a combination thereof represents a predicted severity of the routing mistake. At least one route is recalculated to accept or avoid the intersections based on the predicted probability and the predicted severity of the routing mistake. The recalculated route is presented in a user interface as an optimal route.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: HERE Global B.V.Inventor: Wanli Cheng
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Patent number: 10209089Abstract: A method and system for navigating a vehicle using automatically labeled images. The system includes a camera configured to capture an image of a roadway and an electronic processor communicatively connected to the camera. The electronic processor is configured to load a map that includes a first plurality of features and receive the image. The image includes a second plurality of features. The electronic processor is further configured to project the map onto the image; detect the second plurality of features within the image; and align the map with the image by aligning the first plurality of features with the second plurality of features. The electronic processor is further configured to copy a label describing one of the first plurality of features onto a corresponding one of the second plurality of features to create a labelled image and to use the labelled image to assist in navigation of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Karsten Behrendt, Jonas Witt
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Patent number: 10209090Abstract: A network of collection, charging and distribution machines collect, charge and distribute portable electrical energy storage devices (e.g., batteries, supercapacitors or ultracapacitors). To charge, the machines employ electrical current from an external source, such as the electrical grid or an electrical service of an installation location. By default, each portable electrical energy storage device is disabled from accepting a charge unless it receives authentication information from an authorized collection, charging and distribution machine, other authorized charging device, or other authorized device that transmits the authentication credentials. Also, by default, each portable electrical energy storage device is disabled from releasing energy unless it receives authentication information from an external device to which it will provide power, such as a vehicle or other authorization device.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2013Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Gogoro Inc.Inventors: Hok-Sum Horace Luke, Matthew Whiting Taylor
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Patent number: 10209091Abstract: A measurement tool includes a first member and a measurement member. The first member has a surface including a chart to be used for calibration of a stereo camera. The measurement member is arranged on the surface of the first member. The measurement member includes a light source and a second member. The light source is configured to emit light with a uniform intensity regardless of a position on the surface. The second member is configured to cover the light source and radiate the light from a plurality of first holes and a plurality of second holes having a size larger than the first hole.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Katsunobu Yoshida, Shin Aoki
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Patent number: 10209092Abstract: Mobile units moving in a local network environment and at times in the vicinity of meters of the network, at least temporarily bypass relay functions of a concentrator operated in a stationary manner, if the relay function is not yet available, for instance during construction, for radio communication of data packets of the meter linked into the smart-metering network to a center. The mobile units are persons and/or vehicles with communication devices such as smartphones for long-distance links over the Internet or in the mobile radio standard. The communication devices, as modified mobile radio telephones, receive data packets from meters by using hardware or a software app over a short-distance link to the mobile unit being accidentally temporarily located in the vicinity of the meter. Long-distance communication of packets from mobile unit to center then takes place over the Internet or the mobile radio standard.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Diehl Metering Systems GmbHInventors: Hristo Petkov, Thomas Lautenbacher, Thomas Kauppert, Klaus Gottschalk
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Patent number: 10209093Abstract: A device sod a method for measuring servo gear idle position are provided. The method includes: outputting a start-up fixed force of a first rotation direction to an output shall of a servo under test, and recording a value of a start-up position of the output shaft when a position of a rotor of the servo under test changes for the first time; outputting a counterrotation force of a second rotation direction for rotating the output shaft to the output shaft, and recording a value of an counterrotation position of the output shaft when the rotor is in a stop status after a predetermined interval; and calculating a value of a servo gear idle position in a current measuring point, the value of the idle position is the absolute value of the difference between the value of the start-up position and the value of the counterrotation position.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP.Inventors: Youjun Xiong, Lifu Zhang, Wenhua Fan, Zhongliang Wang
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Patent number: 10209094Abstract: Provided is a rotation detection sensor and a resin molding die for the sensor, with which manufacturing cost can be readily reduced. The sensor includes an assembly type sensor body having a sensor element and a cable electrically connected to the sensor element. A curved portion is formed at a portion of the cable extending from the sensor body. There is provided a resin sheath portion molded to sheath a portion of the sensor body and the curved portion integrally with resin.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2014Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuhiro Adachi, Koji Kawasaki
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Patent number: 10209095Abstract: The present invention provides an eddy current sensor, comprising: a housing; a plurality of probes which are all disposed inside the housing, probing ends of the probes being all disposed at inner side of an exterior surface of the housing to avoid the probing ends of the probes from protruding out of the exterior surface of the housing. Because the probing ends of the plurality of probes are all located at the inner side of the exterior surface of the housing, the housing will protect the probes when the eddy current sensor is hit by an external force, thereby avoiding damage of the probes due to the impact, which reduces fault rate of the probes, enhances use reliability of the eddy current sensor, and prolongs service life of the eddy current sensor.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2015Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Gree Green Refrigeration Technology Center Co., Ltd. of ZhuhaiInventors: Yusheng Hu, Weicai Huang, Jiqing Geng, Zhichang Liu
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Patent number: 10209096Abstract: A rotation detecting device includes a plurality of magnetic field generating portions; a magnetic member; a coil wound around the magnetic member; and a magnetic field introducing portion. The magnetic field introducing portion introduces a magnetic flux generated by the magnetic field generating portion to pass through the magnetic member when the magnetic field generating portion passes through a specific location.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Shoji Oyama, Atsushi Kasuga
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Patent number: 10209097Abstract: In an inductive displacement measuring sensor for measuring the distance, the spatial orientation, the thickness, the material properties or the like of a target object, which sensor has a transmitter element which emits a pulsed signal and a receiver element for detecting a pulse response caused by the emitted pulsed signal in the target object, provision is made, in particular, for the detected pulse response to be immediately evaluated using an artificial neural network.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2013Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Balluff GmbHInventors: Zoltán Pólik, Zoltán Kántor
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Patent number: 10209098Abstract: A radial position sensor that measures a radial position of a rotor within a stator is provided. The radial position sensor provides measures the radial position of the rotor along a first axis radial to a rotation axis of the rotor and along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis. The radial position sensor includes four magnetic poles, among which two poles are diametrically opposed along the first axis and two other poles are diametrically opposed along the second axis.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: SKF Magnetic MechatronicsInventors: Yves Dupuis, Joaquim Da Silva
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Patent number: 10209099Abstract: In a device and a method for monitoring a clock signal of a position measuring device, which is connected to sequential electronics via a data transmission channel, and the data transmission channel has a data line, via which data signals are transmittable from an interface unit of the position measuring device to an interface unit of the sequential electronics, the interface unit of the position measuring device including a pulse generation unit, by which a test pulse is able to be generated based on the time pattern of the clock signal, and is transmittable via the data line to the interface unit of the sequential electronics. The interface unit of the sequential electronics includes a pulse measuring unit, by which a pulse duration of the test pulse in the time pattern of a clock signal of the sequential electronics is measurable in a functionally reliable manner and by which a measured value representing the pulse duration is able to be output to a control unit for analysis.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2015Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GMBHInventor: Martin von Berg
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Patent number: 10209100Abstract: A fiber measurement device for measuring a physical quantity by a fiber and a method for shaping a pulse of electromagnetic radiation are disclosed. The fiber measurement device comprises an electromagnetic radiation source and an adjustment unit. The electromagnetic radiation source generates at least one pulse of electromagnetic radiation as primary electromagnetic radiation to be coupled into the fiber, and an adjustment unit. The adjustment unit, prior to, during or after application of the primary electromagnetic radiation to the fiber, adjusts a shape of the at least one pulse for at least partially compensating a deviation between a target shape and an actual shape of the at least one pulse.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: AiQ Dienstleistungen UG (haftungsbeschränkt)Inventors: Gregor Cedilnik, Thomas Lauber, Alf Clement, Markus van Riesen
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Patent number: 10209101Abstract: A rotation detection apparatus, including: a beam source for emitting a beam of polarized light; a decohering arrangement for eliminating or reducing the degree of coherence between first and second independent polarization components of the polarized light to produce a decohered beam of polarized light; a detector for outputting a signal in dependence on the intensity of light incident thereupon, the detector arranged so that the decohered beam of polarized light is incident upon it; a polarizer for location in the path of the decohered beam of polarized light such that rotation of the polarizer relative to the decohered beam of polarized light results in a variation of the intensity of light incident upon the detector from the beam source and a corresponding variation in the signal output from the detector; and a processor for detecting the relative rotation based on the variation of the signal output from the detector.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2014Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: RENISHAW PLCInventors: Anas F Jarjour, Alan J Holloway
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Patent number: 10209102Abstract: A position detection apparatus (100) includes a scale (20) including a reference position grating (22), a detector (10), a detection grating (19), and a signal processor (10), the signal processor acquires a relative reference position between the scale and the detector by using a light intensity distribution of a divergent light beam obtained via the reference position grating and the detection grating, the detection grating has a first spatial frequency that is offset by a predetermined frequency offset amount with respect to a local spatial frequency of an interference image from the reference position grating, the detection grating is provided in an optical path between the scale and a light receiver of the detector, and the light receiver detects a component of a second spatial frequency that is lower than the first spatial frequency in the light intensity distribution transmitting through the detection grating.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Chihiro Nagura
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Patent number: 10209103Abstract: A linear encoder includes a scale disposed within a housing and a scanning unit that is displaceable in a measuring direction relative to the scale. The scanning unit includes a scanning head disposed inside of the housing opposite to the scale such that the scale is scannable by the scanning head, as well as a mount to which the scanning head is fastened, and a driving component, via which the mount is coupled to a mounting base disposed outside of the housing. A vibration damper suppresses vibrations transversely to the measuring direction. The vibration damper is disposed on the mount or on the scanning head, and includes a damping mass and an elastic element. The damping mass is fastened by the elastic element to an attachment surface of the mount or of the scanning head.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GMBHInventors: Daisuke Shimoda, Katsumi Motoyuki, Yoshio Watanabe
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Patent number: 10209104Abstract: An absolute encoder includes a scale having a sequence of marks, a detector configured to detect a signal corresponding to a plurality of marks of the scale, and a processor configured to obtain an absolute position corresponding to the signal. The processor is configured to select code sequences, from a group of code sequences corresponding to absolute positions, as a candidate group for a code sequence corresponding to the signal, and to select the code sequence corresponding to the signal from the candidate group.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2015Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Makiko Ogasawara
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Patent number: 10209105Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a retractable assembly for immersion, flow and attachment measuring systems in analytical process technology that includes an essentially hollow cylindrically shaped housing having a service chamber formed in its interior, where the housing includes an encircling groove open to its interior, where the groove includes an expansion space expanding the groove, where the expansion space is arranged on the side of the groove facing away from the interior, and where the housing includes a leakage path, which connects the expansion space with the environment.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KGInventors: Felix Schneider, Thomas Pfauch
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Patent number: 10209106Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with environmental sensors. Environmental sensors may include one or more environmental sensor components and one or more acoustic components. Acoustic components may include a speaker or a microphone. Environmental sensor components may include a temperature sensor, a pressure sensor, a humidity sensor, a gas sensor, or other sensors or combinations of sensors for sensing attributes of the environment surrounding the device. The environmental sensor may have an enclosure with an opening. The enclosure may be formed from a rigid support structure and a portion of a printed circuit. The opening may be formed in the rigid support structure or the printed circuit. The opening in the enclosure for the environmental sensor may be aligned with an opening in an outer structural member for the device. The outer structural member may be a housing structure or a cover layer for a device display.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Henry H. Yang
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Patent number: 10209107Abstract: A geometric error identification method of multi-axis machine tool includes a measuring step of indexing a position of a target ball mounted on one of a main spindle and a table into a plurality of angles around an rotation axis, and measuring the position of the target ball at respective indexed positions by using a touch probe mounted on the other one of the main spindle and the table, a geometric error calculation step of calculating a geometric error from the measured position of the target ball, an ellipse-expression calculation step of calculating an ellipse approximate expression by an arc trajectory measured by operating the rotation axis, and an error correcting step of calculating and correcting a scaling error of translation axes from the calculated ellipse approximate expression.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2014Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Okuma CorporationInventor: Tadahiro Oki
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Patent number: 10209108Abstract: A flow measuring device for measuring flow of a fluid. A housing has a passage which extends between an inlet and an outlet. A shaft is disposed within the housing and is rotatable about a central axis. A flow detector is mounted on the shaft and disposed at least partially within the passage. The flow detector includes a rotatable, generally cylindrical body that rotates about a central axis as the fluid flows. A magnet is disposed within the housing such that the central axis extends through it, and is configured to rotate simultaneously with the body about the central axis. A magnetic encoder is disposed within the housing and configured to sense rotation of the magnet as the flow detector angularly displaces about the central axis so as to detect angular displacement of the flow detector.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Lincoln Industrial CorporationInventors: Viktor Alekseyev, Nathan David Donovan, Eric Krassinger, Canlong He, Brad Allen Edler, Paul G. Conley
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Patent number: 10209109Abstract: A nuclear flowmeter for measurements in multiphase flows consisting of up to three main phases that is connected in series in the output flow in a production line of an oil well, that includes a “U” shaped arrangement formed by an input branch and an output branch placed at both sides of the “U” shaped arrangement, where the input branch is connected to the production line of the oil well through an input pipe section (1) and the output branch is connected to the line of production of the oil well through an output pipe section (21) placed respectively at both ends of the “U” shaped arrangement; the input branch includes a pipe section with section reduction that forms a Venturi (3) while in the output branch includes a pipe section with possible section reduction (5) where the nuclear measurements are made, is provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Inventors: Juan Bautista Emanuel Gimenez, Miguel Ángel Nicolás Gimenez
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Patent number: 10209110Abstract: This application discloses a new ultrasonic measurement technique to measure the velocity and displacement of the objects. Minimizing the effect of amplitude modulation from ultrasonic phase and amplitude extraction system, is a novel approach to significantly improve the accuracy and precision of the measurements. The possibility of the measurements using a single ultrasonic transducer functioning as a transmitter and receiver in continuous measurement, may be a significant advantage of this measurement technique over conventional methods. The ability of doing measurement on the objects much smaller than the wave wavelength may be an advantage of this innovative measurement technique comparing with contemporary ultrasonic measurement systems that are limited by the wavelength of the sound. Applications for this novel measurement system are also disclosed in this application.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Inventor: Javad Rezanezhad Gatabi
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Patent number: 10209111Abstract: An agricultural sprayer arrangement includes a chassis; a ground engaging traction member carried by the chassis; a liquid tank carried by the chassis; a boom carried by the chassis; a conduit associated with the boom in fluid communication with the liquid tank that acts as a fluid flow path; a nozzle having an inlet in fluid communication with the conduit; a first flow sensor placed upstream of the inlet in the fluid flow path that provides a first flow signal; a second flow sensor placed downstream of the inlet in the fluid flow path that provides a second flow signal; and an electrical processing circuit coupled to the first flow sensor and the second flow sensor that is configured to compare the first and second flow signals to determine a flow rate decrease and issue an alarm if the flow rate decrease is less than a predetermined threshold level.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventor: Bingcheng Ni
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Patent number: 10209112Abstract: A flowmeter is provided that includes a sensor assembly and meter electronics. The flowmeter comprises two or more flow tubes, a driver coupled to the flow tubes that is oriented to induce a drive mode vibration in the flow tubes. Two or more strain gages are coupled to the two flow tubes and oriented to detect the phase of the drive mode vibration. One or more bridge circuits is in electrical communication with the two or more strain gages, wherein the bridge circuits are configured to output a signal indicating an asymmetric flow between the two flow tubes.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2014Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Micro Motion, Inc.Inventor: Martin Andrew Schlosser
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Patent number: 10209113Abstract: An integrated flow meter includes a support and one or more flow sensitive member(s) integrated with the support. The support is formed by using an injection molding process that overmolds material over an outer surface of the flow sensitive member(s). The materials for the support and for the flow sensitive member(s) preferably are polymeric materials.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Malema Engineering CorporationInventors: Alan M. Young, Jianren Lin
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Patent number: 10209114Abstract: Disclosed is a water meter including: a reading unit provided in a meter body to display a flow of water supplied through a water pipe; a sensing unit provided in the meter body to detect vibrations transmitted through the water pipe; a conversion unit for converting the vibrations detected by the sensing unit into electric signals; a frequency analysis unit for analyzing frequency components of the electric signals converted by the conversion unit; a comparison-processing unit for comparing each of the frequency components of the analyzed electric signals to a predetermined set-up level, and identifying whether each of the frequency components exceeds the predetermined set-up level; a determination-control unit for calculating a leakage probability on a basis of results from the comparison-processing unit; and an output unit for outputting a determination result of the determination-control unit as at least one of a video signal and an audio signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: USOL CO., LTD.Inventor: Kwang Suhk Oh
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Patent number: 10209115Abstract: Apparatus, systems and methods are provided for monitoring yield while harvesting grain. Grain released from paddles on the clean grain elevator chain of a harvester contacts a flow sensor which reports the rate of grain flow through the clean grain elevator. In some embodiments a brush is mounted to the chain and disposed to clean the flow sensor surface. In other embodiments a bucket mounted to the clean grain elevator chain releases grain against the flow sensor at a rate dependent on a grain property.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2018Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Precision Planting LLCInventors: Justin Koch, Michael Strnad