Patents Issued in March 19, 2019
  • Patent number: 10234362
    Abstract: The invention relates to a collection device (10) that comprises a plurality of collection containers (12A, 12B, 12C) suitable for receiving rainwater, each collection container (12A. 12B, 12C) comprising a circumferential wall (14) and a lower wall (16). The collection containers (12A, 12B, 12C) are stacked so as to form a stack along a vertical axis (Z). Each container (12A, 12B) arranged above another, adjacent container (12B, 12C) comprises a water flow opening (18) that is provided in the lower wall (16) thereof and leads into said other, adjacent container (12B, 12C). Each container (12B, 12C) that is arranged below another, adjacent container (12A, 12B) houses a buoyant closure element (20) that is movable along the vertical axis (Z) between a lower position and an upper position depending on the amount of water in said container (12B, 12C) and closes the flow opening (18) in the upper position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SURETE NUCLEAIRE
    Inventors: Denis Maro, Philippe Laguionie
  • Patent number: 10234363
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically purging by pneumatic ejection with a select pressurized media, gravity-accumulated hydrocarbon liquid dropout from a retrograde vapor waste liquid collection containment reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Mustang Sampling LLC
    Inventor: Micah A. Curtis
  • Patent number: 10234364
    Abstract: First and second racks each has fixed positions to hold sample tubes. First and second drawers slide into and out of the case, and that support the first and second racks, respectively. A tube set unit is provided in an area close to the first rack in the case. A tube transfer unit removes sample tubes from the first and second racks in the case and a controller that controls a transfer operation of the tube transfer unit. The first rack is supported by the first drawer such that the first rack leaves a transit location in the case behind the first drawer in the direction of the first drawer movement into the case. The controller controls the tube transfer unit to remove at least one sample tube from the second rack and transfers the tube to the tube set unit via a path traversing the transit location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: SYSMEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaaki Nagai, Daigo Fukuma, Mitsuo Yamasaki, Noriyuki Nakanishi, Syunsuke Yao, Tomonori Okazaki, Takahiro Saino
  • Patent number: 10234365
    Abstract: The present invention provide for solutions of a defined composition useful in a staining protocol, such as a hematoxylin and eosin staining protocol, when used at certain points of the staining protocol. The formulations of these defined solutions are such that carry-over of the solutions will not negatively impact, or preferably, will stabilize or favorably modify staining reagent solutions coming in contact with the solutions. In certain embodiments of the invention, solutions are buffered to maintain a specific pH that when carried-over—such as carried-over into hematoxylin—will not significantly influence the pH of the next staining reagent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: LEICA BIOSYSTEMS RICHMOND, INC.
    Inventors: Stanley E. Hansen, Russell Myers, Ronald Paul, Audra Rasmussen, Kate Taylor
  • Patent number: 10234366
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a rotatable sample introducing device for a trace detecting instrument including: a rotating rod, a sample introducing body and a rotating rod bracket, wherein the sample introducing body may be positioned inside the rotating rod bracket, the rotating rod passing through the rotating rod bracket and the sample introducing body may be fixed to the sample introducing body by a fastener, and the rotating rod may be rotatable. The rotatable sample introducing device for the trace detecting instrument provided by the disclosure has the following advantages in comparison with the prior art: simple structure, convenient operation, lower requirement for machine process, easy maintenance in later period and low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Hua Peng, Yi Xiao, Yuanjing Li, Jianhua Liu, Wangyang Wu, Haichao Zhou
  • Patent number: 10234367
    Abstract: A water hydraulic test on test pipes having a wide range of sizes is conducted accurately, efficiently, and economically, by using a plurality of booster cylinders arranged in parallel with respect to a test pipe and having respective boosting ratios increasing in stages. A plurality of servo motor driven pumps arranged in parallel is used as a drive source for the plurality of booster cylinders. Before a water pressure on an output side of the booster cylinder reaches a pressure near a test pressure, the plurality of servo motor driven pumps operates simultaneously. Then, the plurality of servo motor driven pumps stops operating except one and the water pressure on the output side of the booster cylinder is increased to the test pressure by the one servo motor driven pump. During pressure increase, the plurality of booster cylinders is used in turn in order of increasing boosting ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: NAKATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Tsuruta, Katsuhiko Morisaki, Mitsuru Nakata, Katsumi Ishigaki
  • Patent number: 10234368
    Abstract: A load verification system and method may be used to assess the loading of material from a loading work vehicle having a load bucket to a haulage work vehicle having a load bin. The system includes at least one volume sensor coupled to the loading work vehicle that observes a volume of material in at least one of the load bucket and the load bin and generates a corresponding volume data signal. The system also includes a first controller onboard the loading work vehicle and a second controller onboard the haulage work vehicle. At least one of the first and second controllers: receives the volume data signal from the at least one volume sensor; receives a unique haulage work vehicle identifier; associates volume data of the corresponding volume data signal with the unique haulage work vehicle identifier; and stores in memory the associated volume data and haulage work vehicle identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventor: Mark J. Cherney
  • Patent number: 10234369
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of analysis including at least one microscope means operable to characterize the surface of a sample in use, at least a first conduit to convey one or more solvents to the sample and a further conduit to convey at least part of the solution from the sample. At least one pump means delivers solvent to the sample and/or removes solution from the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: University of Hudderfield
    Inventor: Michael Reading
  • Patent number: 10234370
    Abstract: To provide a particle size measuring device that enables simple in-line measurement of the particle size even in a case of nano-sized particles during dispersion. Provided is a particle size measuring device which measures the particle size of particles that perform Brownian motion in a dispersion medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Haruhisa Kato, Naoko Oouchi, Ayako Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10234371
    Abstract: An open flow area test apparatus and test method for characterizing the performance of a sand control insert, such as slotted liner or wire-wrapped screen or other sand control apparatus. A sand control insert is set at or near the base of a pressure tight body, a sand pack is provided above the sand control insert, and a piston head applies a simulated overburden pressure to the sand pack. A test fluid is pumped through the sand control insert and differential pressures and sand flow through measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: RGL Reservoir Management Inc.
    Inventor: Michael O'Hara
  • Patent number: 10234372
    Abstract: Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) simulations of a porous medium are provided based on physical data such as CT images. A method of evaluating the surface relaxation of the porous medium based on random-walk NMR simulations includes a novel algorithm to derive the absorption probabilities of the random walkers, and algorithms that can evaluate more accurately the surface area and reduce the voxel discretization effect. The methods can be applied to conventional porous media as well as unconventional porous media such as reservoir rocks with high surface-to-volume ratios, for example tight sandstones or shale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: IROCK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Danyong Li
  • Patent number: 10234373
    Abstract: A resistive type particle detection device includes a cathode, an amplification micro-gate, and an anode composed of a flat insulator including resistive tracks arranged on a face of the flat insulator facing the amplification micro-gate and reading tracks arranged on the opposite face of the flat insulator, the reading tracks being connected to a reading system. In a non-limiting embodiment, the resistive type particle detection device further includes a conductive track positioned between two resistive tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventor: Stephan Aune
  • Patent number: 10234374
    Abstract: A method is used for selecting a boundary sample. The method includes acquiring a deterioration trend of a new device by performing a deterioration acceleration treatment to the new device, acquiring deterioration trends of a plurality of repaired devices which have been repaired after long-term use by performing a deterioration acceleration treatment to the plurality of repaired devices, calculating an upper limit of deterioration of the repaired device based on the deterioration trend of the new device, and selecting a boundary sample indicating a limit state in which the device can be reused as a standard of reuse of the device by specifying a repaired device having the largest deterioration among the repaired devices having a deterioration not larger than the upper limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Incorporated
    Inventors: Noboru Kobayashi, Tamotsu Ogawa, Chikara Morooka, Yuki Matsuoka, Hideharu Oniki
  • Patent number: 10234375
    Abstract: This application discloses integrated probes and probe systems, which can be attached to the robotic arms of a remotely operated vehicle to perform both cathodic protection (CP) voltage measurements and ultrasonic testing (UT) thickness measurements at an underwater surface. In some embodiments, the integrated probe system couples an inner and outer gimbal together such that one or more electrically conductive legs pass from the outer gimbal through the inner gimbal. These legs are arranged about an ultrasonic sensor which extends from the front surface of the inner gimbal. When the integrated probe contacts the underwater surface, both the ultrasonic sensor and at least one leg contact the surface, thereby providing substantially simultaneous CP and UT measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Fadl Abdellatif, Hamad Al-Saiari, Ali Outa, Ayman Amer, Sahejad Patel, Ameen Obedan, Hassane Trigui
  • Patent number: 10234376
    Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring microorganisms on a surface are provided. In particular, a flat, patterned sensing electrode can be positioned proximate a surface in non-contact relationship with the surface. The sensing electrode can include a working electrode and a counter electrode. The surface and the sensing electrode can be submerged in an aqueous medium. An alternating current signal can be applied at the working electrode. The signal can propagate through the aqueous medium and can be measured at the counter electrode. The presence of microorganisms on the surface can cause changes in the signal as the signal propagates through the aqueous medium. Such changes in the signal can be used to determine impedance parameters, which can correspond to microbial characteristics associated with the surface. For instance, the microbial characteristics can be associated with a biofilm, corrosion and/or bio-corrosion on the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: SAVANNAH RIVER NUCLEAR SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Charles E. Turick, Charles E. Milliken, Hector Colon-Mercado, Scott D. Greenway
  • Patent number: 10234377
    Abstract: Described is a system for remote analysis of spectral data. A set of measured spectral mixtures are separated using a blind demixing process, resulting in demixed outputs. A demixed output is selected for further processing, and a spectral library is selected from a set of spectral libraries that is specialized for the selected demixed output. Individual components in the selected demixed output are classified via a non-blind demixing process using the selected spectral library. Trace chemical residues are detected in the set of measured spectral mixtures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Yuri Owechko, Shankar R. Rao
  • Patent number: 10234378
    Abstract: A method and system for reducing the effect of distortions on the baseline signal in an absorption spectroscopy system used for the detection or measurement of chemical species in a medium, whereby one or more correlations or convolutions are performed on the signal using a kernel function. The shape of the kernel function is chosen to reduce the influence of the baseline distortions on the processed measurand determination. The kernel function may also be chosen to enhance the absorption signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Servomex Group Limited
    Inventors: Bahram Alizadeh, James Hobby, Martin Lopez, Ian Gaskin
  • Patent number: 10234379
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave detector that selectively detects electromagnetic waves of wavelength ?A includes a temperature detection unit that includes: a substrate including a cavity portion; a wavelength selection structure that generates a surface plasmon resonance with an electromagnetic wave of a predetermined wavelength ?A for converting to heat and absorbing, and a detection film that detects the absorbed heat; and a support structure that retains the temperature detection unit above the cavity portion; wherein the support structure further includes a reflection structure that reflects the electromagnetic waves of the absorption wavelength of the support structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shimpei Ogawa, Daisuke Fujisawa
  • Patent number: 10234380
    Abstract: A gas concentration-length quantification method may include acquiring a first image including a gas plume with a camera; identifying and segmenting pixels corresponding to the gas plume in the first image; creating a mask image corresponding to the first image, where only pixels of the mask image corresponding to the gas plume in the first image have non-zero values; generating a background image corresponding to the first image using an image inpainting algorithm with the first image and the mask image as inputs; calculating a gas concentration-length for each pixel corresponding to the gas plume in the first image, based on the first image and the background image data; and triggering an alert when the gas concentration-length for at least one pixel exceeds a threshold level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventors: Leiming Wang, Ting Xu
  • Patent number: 10234381
    Abstract: Method of measuring a ratio of concentrations of two isotopologues of a chemical species in a first gas mixture using an optical absorption spectroscopy based gas analyzer; the method includes measuring the line intensity of a rotational-vibrational line of one isotopologue and the line intensity of another rotational-vibrational line of another isotopologue. The method also includes determining the ratio of two line intensities and comparing it with another ratio measured using another gas analyzer for a gas mixture with known concentration of isotopologues. The second ratio can be measured for the same pair of lines or for different pair of lines. The second ratio can be measured at the same gas temperature or at different gas temperature. The method includes determining a ratio of concentrations of two isotopologues based on two ratios of line intensities and two temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Inventor: Serguei Koulikov
  • Patent number: 10234382
    Abstract: A method and kit are provided for diagnosing and monitoring the progress of COPD using FTIR spectral analysis of sputum samples where spectral data is obtained and used to monitor the progression of the disease over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: PULMONIR LIMITED
    Inventor: Paul Lewis
  • Patent number: 10234383
    Abstract: A terahertz (THz) spectral imaging system includes a THz 2D imaging camera, a tunable THz bandpass filter before the THz camera, and a broadband THz light source. The tunable THz bandpass filter includes a visible or infrared laser source, a spatial light modulator modulating the light to generate a spatially structured light pattern, and a semiconductor plate onto which the light pattern is projected. The light pattern generates carriers in the semiconductor plate to turn it into a metamaterial THz bandpass filter, which is tunable by changing the light patterns. A controller controls the light patterns and the THz camera in a timing sequence to acquire multiple 2D THz images at different THz frequencies. Such THz spectral image data can be further combined with visible images and LiDAR images in a security surveillance system to automatically detect security threats using image fusion and deep learning techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA LABORATORY U.S.A., INC.
    Inventors: Leiming Wang, Jun Amano
  • Patent number: 10234384
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of obtaining data describing an object structure. The method comprising the steps of: (a) illuminating the object structure with illuminating radiation; (b) modulating the phase of the illuminating radiation after scattering by the object structure, the modulation comprising applying a first phase factor dependent upon at least one controllable parameter and an aberration function having a form of a subadditive function of a vector norm; (c) capturing a plurality of intensity patterns, wherein each intensity pattern corresponds to a unique value of the at least one controllable parameter; and (d) reconstructing the data describing the object structure based on the plurality of intensity patterns. Also disclosed are corresponding inspection and lithographic apparatuses, a method of manufacturing devices and a computer program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Willem Marie Julia Marcel Coene, Alexander Prasetya Konijnenberg
  • Patent number: 10234385
    Abstract: An optical fiber having at least one fiduciary mark is provided. The at least one fiduciary mark is located at one or more axial positions along the optical fiber. The at least one fiduciary mark is configured to produce at least one change in a backscattering signal in the optical fiber. The at least one change in a backscattering signal may be an abrupt change in the backscattering signal. The abrupt change in the backscattering signal occurs over a length of the optical fiber that is of the order of or less than a spatial resolution of an interrogation system employed to detect the backscattering signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: OFS FITEL, LLC
    Inventor: Paul S Westbrook
  • Patent number: 10234386
    Abstract: A nephelometer for determining the turbidity of a body of fluid in which a light beam is directed as an angled beam through the body and two light detectors measure the intensity of light scatter at two points in the beam. The two measurements are divided and scaled, and then the result is logarithmically amplified and displayed as the turbidity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Inventors: Hannu Harjunmaa, Enni Harjunmaa
  • Patent number: 10234387
    Abstract: The invention optically analyzes a component in a sample having a material suspended. An optical analysis system that irradiates a liquid sample with light and analyzes a component of the sample using transmitted light transmitted through the sample includes a container accommodating the sample and an ultrasonic irradiation unit irradiating an ultrasonic wave for exciting the sample. The container includes a pair of light transmission wall portions between which the sample is disposed and which has light transmissivity, and one of the light transmission wall portions and the other of the light transmission wall portions are disposed to be separated from each other at a distance shorter than a wavelength of the ultrasonic wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya Kanbayashi, Shinichi Taniguchi, Akihiro Nojima, Yusuke Kaga
  • Patent number: 10234388
    Abstract: A system including a first information acquisition unit configured to acquire first information indicating a detection value of a first physical quantity in a monitored area, a second information acquisition unit configured to acquire second information indicating a detection value of a second physical quantity different from the first physical quantity, in the monitored area, and a determination unit configured to determine whether an abnormality has occurred in the monitored area, based on the detection value of the first physical quantity indicated by the first information, the detection value of the second physical quantity indicated by the second information, a first coefficient corresponding to the detection value of the first physical quantity and the detection value of the second physical quantity, and a first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: HOCHIKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromichi Ebata, Atsushi Mammoto
  • Patent number: 10234389
    Abstract: A method for inspecting an article containing a target material is provided. A sampling position of the article is illuminated by a beam of laser light having a wavelength ?. Illumination focus to a focal point at the sampling position of the article to produce molecular excitation of the target material by simultaneous absorption of n incident photons of the beam of laser light, wherein n is equal to or greater than two. An output light exited from the article is analyzed by a detector, wherein the output light is of a wavelength range between 0.8? and 1.2?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: CM VISUAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wang-Yang Li, Ming-Che Chan, Hsiang-Ning Chen
  • Patent number: 10234390
    Abstract: Provided herein is an optical biosensor for detecting a target bioanalyte in a sample. The biosensor includes: a porous silicon or alumina substrate having a surface and a detection agent immobilised on the surface. The detection agent includes a sensing domain and a signaling domain, the sensing domain having a linker capable of interacting with the target bioanalyte and the signaling domain having a luminescence donor and a luminescence acceptor wherein the luminescence donor and the luminescence acceptor are connected by the linker and are optically coupled in the absence of the target bioanalyte. Emission of light from the luminescence donor is substantially quenched by the luminescence acceptor, and interaction of the target bioanalyte with the linker results in optical un-coupling of the luminescence donor and the luminescence acceptor to thereby result in light emission from the luminescence donor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Inventor: Nicolas H. Voelcker
  • Patent number: 10234391
    Abstract: A biological substance quantitation method includes the following. A fluorescent image is input, which represents an expression of a specific biological substance in a sample stained with a fluorescent substance by a fluorescent bright spot. A quantitative evaluation value of the fluorescent bright spot is calculated. A standard fluorescent image of a standard sample stained under a same condition as the sample and representing an expression of the biological substance in a standard sample, is input under a same condition as the fluorescent image. A quantitative evaluation value in the standard fluorescent image is calculated under a same condition as the fluorescent image. Based on a correlation between an expression amount of the biological substance in a standard sample measured in advance and the evaluation value in the standard fluorescent image, the evaluation value in the fluorescent image is converted to an expression amount of the biological substance in the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hideki Gouda, Kensaku Takanashi, Kohsuke Gonda, Noriaki Ohuchi, Mika Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10234392
    Abstract: An optical engine for use in a bench top flow cytometer, the optical engine comprising a set of lasers; a different set of beam shaping optics for each laser, wherein each set comprises two lenses to adjustably focus light horizontally along an x-axis to a same horizontal position and vertically along a y-axis to a different vertical position along a same plane; collection optics for collecting fluorescence from the flow cell; filtration optics that filter the collected fluorescence from the flow cell into different detection channels according to wavelength ranges; and a detector for each detection channel that converts the filtered fluorescence to electrical signals, wherein electrical signals are processed so that the fluorescence from each laser at the different vertical positions is distinguished at the same detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Nan Li, Ye Chen, Hyunsun Chung, Zengqiang Li, Xiaobo Wang
  • Patent number: 10234393
    Abstract: Arrays of integrated analytical devices and their methods for production are provided. The arrays are useful in the analysis of highly multiplexed optical reactions in large numbers at high densities, including biochemical reactions, such as nucleic acid sequencing reactions. The devices allow the highly sensitive discrimination of optical signals using features such as spectra, amplitude, and time resolution, or combinations thereof. The devices include an integrated diffractive beam shaping element that provides for the spatial separation of light emitted from the optical reactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
    Inventors: Annette Grot, Ravi Saxena, Paul Lundquist
  • Patent number: 10234394
    Abstract: This disclosure provides, among other things, a nanosensor comprising a substrate and one or a plurality of pillars extending from a surface of the substrate, where the pillars comprise a metallic dot structure, a metal disc, and a metallic back plane. The nanosensor comprises a molecular adhesion layer that covers at least a part of the metallic dot structure, the metal disc, and/or the metallic back plane and a capture agent bound to the molecular adhesion layer. The nanosensor amplifies a light signal from an analyte, when the analyte is specifically bound to the capture agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: The Trustees of Princeton University
    Inventors: Stephen Y. Chou, Liang-Cheng Zhou
  • Patent number: 10234395
    Abstract: Provided herein is an apparatus, including an excitation arm including excitation optics; a collection arm including collection optics, wherein the excitation arm and the collection arm are geometrically off-axis from one another for independent control of the excitation optics or the collection optics; and a full-surface spectroscopic analyzer to analyze a thin-film over an article from Raman-scattered light collected by the collection optics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Daniel J. Gargas, David M. Tung, Travis W. Grodt, Joachim W. Ahner
  • Patent number: 10234396
    Abstract: A device for analyzing the material composition of a sample via plasma spectrum analysis includes a laser assembly configured to emit a beam for plasma spectrum analysis and an optical assembly configured to direct the beam towards a target for plasma spectrum analysis of the target. The optical assembly is configured to collect a plasma emitted light emitted from a plasma and provide the plasma emitted light to a dispersion module. The dispersion module includes a first and second diffraction gratings. The first diffraction grating and second diffraction grating are positioned within the dispersion module such that light received from the optical assembly contacts the first diffraction grating at least two times before being directed out of the dispersion module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: RIGAKU RAMAN TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Scott Charles Buchter, Michael Anthony Damento, Stanislaw Piorek
  • Patent number: 10234397
    Abstract: A reagent for detection of urine monophenolic metabolites and a method for preparing the reagent are disclosed, in which the monophenolic metabolites, for example, tyrosine, p-hydroxyphenyl alanine, tryptophan and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid can serve as tumor markers. The reagent for detection of urine monophenolic metabolites is an aqueous solution containing nitric acid, sulfuric acid, mercuric sulfate, mercurous nitrate, nickel nitrate, phosphomolybdic acid and cobalt sulfate. The preparation method includes preparation of solutions A, B, C, D and E, and mixing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: JIANGSU DONGBO BIO-PHARMACEUTICAL CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Liu, Lei Li, Mingbin Zheng
  • Patent number: 10234398
    Abstract: A deformation verification system of a vehicle body includes a dip tank in which fluid is contained. The dip tank has a transparent window from the outside to see the inside. A moving device is configured to lower the vehicle body into the fluid, to move the vehicle body in the fluid and to raise the vehicle body. A camera is installed to detect the form of the vehicle body through the transparent window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Kyoung Hye Kim
  • Patent number: 10234399
    Abstract: An apparatus (1) for optical inspection of plastic parisons (2) intended to be blow molded to form containers, comprises a conveyor (3) for transporting corresponding parisons (2) along a predetermined path; at an inspection station along the path, each parison (2) is positioned with its axis (208) aligned with a longitudinal reference axis. A stationary camera (7) is provided, with its viewing axis (8) coincident with the longitudinal reference axis, to view the interior of the parison (2); an illuminator (9) is positioned around the viewing axis (8) of the camera (7), to irradiate the outside surface of a mouth end (202) of the parison (2). The camera (7) has a wide-angle lens, to capture an image of an inside surface of the mouth end (202) of the parison (2), representing a screw thread (205) and the identification code (207) of the parison (2), shown in transparency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: SACMI COOPERATIVA MECCANICI IMOLA SOCIETA' COOPERATIVA
    Inventor: Donato Laico
  • Patent number: 10234400
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting surface features is disclosed. The apparatus may include a plurality of strands configured to contain light and further configured to transmit light from a light source to a surface of an article. The apparatus may also include a detector configured to receive light reflected from the surface of the article via the plurality of strands, wherein the detector is further configured to detect features associated with the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Joachim Walter Ahner, Florin Zavaliche, David M. Tung, Samuel Kah Hean Wong, Maissarath Nassirou, Henry Luis Lott, Stephen Keith McLaurin
  • Patent number: 10234401
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing semiconductor devices includes defining a sampling plan that contains position information about metrology sites on process wafers. A first property of the process wafers is measured to obtain measurement values at measurement points, wherein a quantity of the measurement points per process wafer is at least tenfold a quantity of the metrology sites. A sampling model that includes at least a wafer model is updated on the basis of the measurement values. The sampling plan is updated on the basis of an assessment of deviations of the measurement values from a current sampling model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: QONIAC GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Buhl, Martin Roeßiger, Georg Erley, Boris Habets
  • Patent number: 10234402
    Abstract: A inspection system includes an illumination source to generate an illumination beam, focusing elements to direct the illumination beam to a sample, a detector, collection elements configured to direct radiation emanating from the sample to the detector, a detection mode control device to image the sample in two or more detection modes such that the detector generates two or more collection signals based on the two or more detection modes, and a controller. Radiation emanating from the sample includes at least radiation specularly reflected by the sample and radiation scattered by the sample. The controller determines defect scattering characteristics associated with radiation scattered by defects on the sample based on the two or more collection signals. The controller also classifies the one or more particles according to a set of predetermined defect classifications based on the one or more defect scattering characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: KLA-Tencor Corporation
    Inventors: Guoheng Zhao, J. K. Leong, Michael Kirk
  • Patent number: 10234403
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure, provides a method of optical inspection on a carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP) component in which performs an inspection, by maintaining the focal distance for a surface of an object to be inspected, and making a light axis of an image device and a normal line of the surface of the object to be inspected to be identical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Industrial Technology
    Inventors: Hyo Young Kim, Tae Gon Kim, Seok Woo Lee
  • Patent number: 10234404
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for interrogating a liquid in a container. The liquid sample, such as drugs in a liquid base, is identified based on a radio frequency and/or ultrasonic measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Wesley C. Pirkle, Richard L. Shoaf, Raphael J. Welsh
  • Patent number: 10234405
    Abstract: A system for measuring steam wetness, including: a plurality of microwave sensors for detecting microwave signals passing through a supply of steam flowing through a cavity; a calibration system for calibrating the plurality of microwave sensors; a film measurement system for measuring a characteristic of a film flowing along an inner surface of the cavity; a system for determining a characteristic of the steam flowing through the cavity based on data provided by the plurality of microwave sensors; and a system for determining a wetness of the steam flowing through the cavity based on the characteristic of the steam flowing through the cavity and the characteristic of the film flowing along the inner surface of the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Scott Anthony Barham
  • Patent number: 10234406
    Abstract: A radiation image acquisition system of an aspect of the present invention includes a radiation source emitting radiation toward an object, a holding unit holding the object, a wavelength conversion member generating scintillation light in response to incidence of the radiation emitted from the radiation source and transmitted through the object, a first imaging means condensing and imaging scintillation light emitted from an incidence surface of the radiation of the wavelength conversion member, a second imaging means condensing and imaging scintillation light emitted from a surface opposite to the incidence surface of the wavelength conversion member, a holding unit position adjusting means adjusting the position of the holding unit between the radiation source and the wavelength conversion member, and an imaging position adjusting means adjusting the position of the first imaging means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Mototsugu Sugiyama, Toshiyasu Suyama
  • Patent number: 10234407
    Abstract: The present invention improves the precision in observing cracks in rocks during a hydraulic fracturing test, improving a scientific understanding of the regular pattern of development cracks in of hydraulically fractured rocks. The technical solution includes: hydraulically fracturing the rock with aqueous solutions containing an interventional contrast-enhanced agent, forming hydraulically fractured cracks, wherein the difference in a mass attenuation coefficient ?/? of x-rays between the cracks and the rock is improved by the interventional contrast-enhanced agent in the cracks, moreover, the difference in mass energy absorption coefficient ?en/? of x-rays between the cracks and the rock is improved, then the linear attenuation coefficient of the reception of the detector is changed, improving the imaging resolution for hydraulically fractured cracks in the rock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Shouding Li, Zhongming Zhou, Xiao Li, Jianming He, Yanhui Liu
  • Patent number: 10234408
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for analyzing the length of sulfur crosslinking bonds in a vulcanized rubber using NMR spectrum. In some embodiments, the method comprises obtaining, independently, a carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance (13C NMR) spectrum of a standard substance, wherein the standard substance containing carbon atoms, and a 13C NMR spectrum of the vulcanized rubber, wherein the 13C NMR spectrum of the standard substance and the 13C NMR spectrum of the vulcanized rubber are obtained under the same conditions; obtaining, independently, free induction decay (FID) amplification values of characteristic peaks in the 13C NMR spectrum of the standard substance, and FID amplification values of characteristic peaks in the 13C NMR spectrum of the vulcanized rubber; and measuring the length of sulfur crosslinking bonds in the vulcanized rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee Yong Park, Yu Ra Lee, Hye Sung Cho
  • Patent number: 10234409
    Abstract: A test equipment arrangement includes a superheat controller configured for connection to a unit under test, and further configured to test at least one operational parameter of the unit under test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: DunAn Microstaq, Inc.
    Inventors: Arvind Rao, Chen Yang, Jennifer O'Keefe, Buu Chung
  • Patent number: 10234410
    Abstract: Identifying a stable phase of a binary alloy comprising a solute element and a solvent element. In one example, at least two thermodynamic parameters associated with grain growth and phase separation of the binary alloy are determined, and the stable phase of the binary alloy is identified based on the first thermodynamic parameter and the second thermodynamic parameter, wherein the stable phase is one of a stable nanocrystalline phase, a metastable nanocrystalline phase, and a non-nanocrystalline phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Heather A. Murdoch, Christopher A. Schuh
  • Patent number: 10234411
    Abstract: A method and system for calorimetrically measuring the temperature-dependent absorptivity of a homogeneous material dimensioned to be thin and flat with a predetermined uniform thickness and a predetermined porosity. The system includes a material holder adapted to support and thermally isolate the material to be measured, an irradiation source adapted to uniformly irradiate the material with a beam of electromagnetic radiation, and an irradiation source controller adapted to control the irradiation source to uniformly heat the material during a heating period, followed by a cooling period when the material is not irradiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Rubenchik, Ilya V. Golosker, Mary M. LeBlanc, Scott C. Mitchell, Sheldon S. Wu