Patents Issued in July 30, 2019
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Patent number: 10365050Abstract: A cooling tower by using a valve with an adjustable disk. Thus, a cooling tower flow control inlet valve for modulating the flow of return water entering a cooling tower by using a valve with an adjustable disk. The cooling tower flow control inlet valve includes a valve body assembly, a valve stem assembly, a backplate assembly, and a valve and permits regulated flow through the spatial rotational placement along the valve stem of the adjustable disk.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Inventor: Carl Hare
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Patent number: 10365051Abstract: This microchannel heat exchanger includes: a heat exchanger body including a channel layer stack formed in such a manner that a plurality of high-temperature channel layers provided with a channel for a high-temperature fluid and a plurality of low-temperature channels layers provided with a channel for a low-temperature fluid are alternately stacked, an inlet and an outlet for the high-temperature fluid, and an inlet and an outlet for the low-temperature fluid; and a control board that is fixed in a stacking direction of the heat exchanger body, and that at least installs a plurality of temperature sensors that are inserted in the stacking method of the heat exchanger body in such a manner that a sensing point is arranged near each of the inlet and the outlet for the high-temperature fluid and the inlet and the outlet for the low-temperature fluid.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITEDInventor: Kaijian Wang
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Patent number: 10365052Abstract: The present application provides a heat exchange assembly for exchanging heat between a coolant and a gaseous medium. The heat exchange assembly may include an outer jacket, a number of gas tubes positioned within the outer jacket, and a self-cleaning system positioned about the gas tubes. The self-cleaning system may include a number of chains extending through the gas tubes.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventor: Henrik Tobias Anderson
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Patent number: 10365053Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed that is designed to be able to clean HVAC condensers. The apparatus comprises a plurality of pipes that facilitates the passage of water through them allowing water and/or a cleaning solution to clean the condenser by spraying the condenser with sprayers without having to move the apparatus. The apparatus is designed so as to be able to spray every part of the condenser without having to move the apparatus. The apparatus may also have a timer associated with it that allows the condenser to be cleaned at periodic intervals.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Inventor: Danny Billings
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Patent number: 10365054Abstract: An emergency stop device for a weapon with a drive for transporting a breech block of the weapon. At least one guide, at least one connecting rod guided in the guide, and at least one lever are provided. When a shot is not being fired, the kinematic system is deactivated. When a shot is being fired, the at least one guide is moved rearwards, and the at least one connecting rod is guided upwards along the guide such that the lever exerts a lever movement, by means of which the transport of the breech block is made possible. The weapon drive has a complete control slide for transporting the breech block of the weapon. A bolt is laterally embedded in the transverse slide, said bolt being integrated below the complete control slide of the drive in a movable manner in the slide.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: RHEINMETALL WAFEE MUNITION GMBHInventor: Hubert Schneider
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Patent number: 10365055Abstract: This disclosure describes a device that can removably restrain multiple magazines of bullets for a firearm. A preferred embodiment teaches a main body where the locking plate boss of a magazine can be locked and unlocked on either side of the main body; thereby allowing a user to “attach” two magazines of bullets to his/her firearm, and when one magazine is exhausted of bullets, merely pull that magazine out, flip it over, and insert the second magazine. Several means of locking and unlocking are contemplated, including having a removable drive shaft that can rotate a paddle, additionally providing a drive shaft with a wedge-shaped face, and additionally providing a shaft with a key built into it.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2018Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Inventor: Wes Cross
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Patent number: 10365056Abstract: A magazine for a firearm is formed by a magazine box with a spring therein. A magazine follower in the magazine box is urged toward an open end thereof by the spring, and is formed by a base member extending along a longitudinal axis of the magazine box, and slide stop actuating and cartridge engaging structures extending outwardly from the base member. The slide stop actuating and/or the cartridge engaging structures are resiliently biased in a lateral direction away from a longitudinal axis of the base member to be movable between: (1) a compressed position wherein a longitudinal axis of the slide stop and/or the cartridge engaging structures are laterally perpendicular with the longitudinal axis of the base member, and (2) an uncompressed position where the longitudinal axis of the slide stop actuating and/or the cartridge engaging structures are not laterally perpendicular with the longitudinal axis of the base member.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Wilson's Gun Shop, Inc.Inventor: Michael L. McCormick
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Patent number: 10365057Abstract: Systems and methods to use, monitor, and control a firearm technology including smart components embedded into a portion of the firearm and communicatively coupled to the firearm, are disclosed. Use of such smart components may permit the firearm to display and/or send alerts regarding status updates (such as power levels of a battery, indication of need of maintenance, or status of enablement or disablement). Further, use of such smart components may permit the firearm to recognize authorized users to permit one or more firearm operations, to be tracked via inventory control tags, to communicate with remote devices such as a cell phone, to charge an internal power supply, to prevent unauthorized tampering of the device, to enable voice control operations, and/or to inject a destructive solution into the firearm based on unauthorized use, wherein the solution may permanently destroy the firearm functionality.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Safearms LLCInventors: Terrell C. Black, Kevin S. Weaver, Ronald J. Miller, Sr., Arijit Sengupta, James A. Good
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Patent number: 10365058Abstract: A magazine release assembly includes a first component. The first component includes at least one interlocking protrusion of an interlocking assembly and a button with a sloped surface. The first component is insertable into a first opening within a receiver frame of a handgun. The magazine release assembly includes an additional component. The additional component includes at least one interlocking recess of the interlocking assembly and a catch spring slot. The additional component is insertable into an additional opening with the receiver frame of the handgun. The at least one interlocking recess is configured to rotatably couple with the at least one interlocking protrusion within the receiver frame. The catch spring slot is configured to receive a catch spring following the rotatable coupling of the at least one interlocking recess and the at least one interlocking protrusion.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2018Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Inventor: Nathan Miller
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Patent number: 10365059Abstract: A pistol having a pistol slide with apertures for receiving finger grips. The finger grips have an attachment scheme for slideably securing a striker housing inside the pistol slide. The striker housing retains a striker and a striker block, such that intricate machining is no longer required on the interior portions of the pistol slide to hold the striker or striker block. The striker housing has a planar protuberance that forms a ridge for being slidably received by corresponding wedges on the finger grip interior portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Taurus International Manufacturing, Inc.Inventors: Dustin Sroufe, Jesse Peyton, Kathryn Hack, Robert Miller
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Patent number: 10365060Abstract: A mount part for a weapon barrel in a weapon barrel holder having a tubular inner diameter which comprises a first section and an encircling ring-shaped second section which is of greater outer diameter than the first section and than a following third section. The third section has at least one slot. The at least one slot runs substantially perpendicular to the second section. In a particular usage situation, the ring-shaped section has circumferential bevels. This permits usage in a barrel mounting of a multi-barrelled weapon having multiple weapon barrels mounted in a common barrel mounting.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION GMBHInventor: Hubert Schneider
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Patent number: 10365061Abstract: A firearm barrel with non-metal outer sleeve preferably includes an elongated tube, a first non-metal tube, a second non-metal tube, a sleeve nut and a coupler bushing. A first raised sleeve support section and a raised coupler section are formed on the elongated sleeve. The raised coupler section is formed in substantially a middle of the elongated tube. The bushing inner diameter is sized to slidably receive an outer diameter of the raised coupler section. The first and second non-metal tubes include a tube inner diameter and a plurality of openings formed through a wall thereof. The tube inner diameters are sized to slidably receive an outer diameter of the first raised sleeve support section and each end of the coupler bushing. The sleeve nut retains the first and second non-metal tubes and the coupler bushing on the elongated tube.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Inventor: Aaron E. Painter
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Patent number: 10365062Abstract: A modular protective system (MPS) Expedient Guard Tower and Fighting Position meeting multiple criteria for deployment and re-deployment in austere combat environments is disclosed as well as methods of assembly. The MPS Expedient Guard Tower and Fighting Position is lightweight such that it can be easily deployed by helicopter, requires no tools or equipment to assemble, and can be assembled very quickly by a team of four to six soldiers. The Modular Protective System (MPS) Expedient Guard Tower and Fighting Position can be easily recovered, i.e., disassembled and redeployed to a different location and as the title of the invention suggests, it is capable of being constructed in a non-elevated position or an elevated position. Accordingly, it may be used either as a guard tower, a fighting position, or an inspection station, etc., depending upon the particular need.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMYInventors: Tyler S. Oesch, Matthew S. Holmer, Bradford A. Steed, Amy M. Allen, Andrew B. Edwards
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Patent number: 10365063Abstract: In some embodiments, an archery bow comprises a riser, a first limb supported by the riser and a second limb supported by the riser. A first rotatable member is supported by the first limb and arranged to rotate on a first axis and a second rotatable member is supported by the second limb and arranged to rotate on a second axis. The first rotatable member comprises a first bowstring track comprising a first portion and a second portion, the first portion having a constant radius and a center located on the first axis, the second portion having a varying radius. A bowstring comprises a first end attached to the first rotatable member and a second end attached to the second rotatable member.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2018Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: MCP IP, LLCInventors: Mathew A. McPherson, Gary L. Simonds
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Patent number: 10365064Abstract: A system and apparatus for mounting accessory devices on projectile launching devices is described. Particularly, a mounting system for rangefinders which facilitates rotary movement of mounting elements about multiple axes and linear movement of mounting elements along multiple paths is described. In the case of a device for mounting rangefinders on shooting devices, the mounting device enables the position of the rangefinder to be fixed prior to mounting the rangefinder on the shooting device so that the rangefinder when mounted is aligned and calibrated to the viewfinder of the shooting device. This enables a user to compensate for the trajectory of a projectile over the range or distance between the user and the target.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Explore Scientific, LLCInventor: John Christopher Klein
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Patent number: 10365065Abstract: A gun sighting assembly for training aiming a gun includes a front sight block that is mountable to a top of a gun. A rear sight block is mounted to the top of the gun. The rear sight block has a pair of alignment slots extending therethrough and each of the alignment slots passes light therethrough. The rear sight block has an elevation slot extending therethrough and the elevation slot passes light therethrough. A plurality of lenses is each coupled to the rear sight block and each of the lenses is aligned with a respective one of the alignment slots and the elevation slot. Each of the lenses is visible to a user when the user properly aims the gun. In this way each of the lenses communicates a visual cue to the user that the user is aiming the gun properly.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Inventor: Benjamin Smith
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Patent number: 10365066Abstract: A precise photoelectric sighting system that is simple in shooting calibration, quick and accurate in sighting, adapts to any environmental factor, and may greatly reduce the use of sensors and realize binocular sighting. The system includes a field-of-view acquisition unit, a display unit, a ranging unit and a sighting circuit unit; and precise shooting under any environment is realized by applying the integrated precise photoelectric sighting system. The calibration method of the photoelectric sighting system enables quick and precise calibration.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2018Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: HUNTERCRAFT LIMITEDInventors: Lin Zhang, Chunhua Shi, Sang Su
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Patent number: 10365067Abstract: A system for aligning a weapon to a high-performance target sensor. A reference measurement sensor installed on the target sensor measures the direction and range to each of several references points on the weapon. From these measurements, and measurement by the target sensor of target states, a processing circuit calculates the states of the target in a coordinate system of the weapon. Each reference point may be a retroreflector; the reference measurement sensor may include an imaging sensor to measure direction, and a laser range finder to measure range.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANYInventors: Sean D. Keller, Michael S. Cherry
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Patent number: 10365068Abstract: A laser system operationally coupled to an aimable device having a Line of Sight (LOS), and adapted for providing a graphic laser display, including: at least one laser source adapted to generate: a first laser output, displaying a fixed pattern at a hit point having a fixed orientation relative to an axis of the LOS of the aimable device, and a second laser output, forming the graphic laser display; a motion control mechanism adapted to direct at least the second laser output; a tracking system configured to track at least one target; and a processing unit, configured to receive tracking data relating to a location of the at least one target relative to the LOS of the aimable device and instruct the motion control mechanism to direct the second laser output to display the graphic laser display on the at least one target.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: SMART SHOOTER LTD.Inventor: Avshalom Ehrlich
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Patent number: 10365069Abstract: Firearm accessories and associated methods. A firearm accessory includes a mount for mounting the firearm accessory on a firearm. The mount can be adjustable to customize the mounting of the firearm accessory on the firearm. Electronic firearm accessories can include a longitudinally extending circuit structure having one or more electronic switches thereon facing laterally. A switch assembly can include a push member and a finger extending therefrom for actuating an associated electronic switch. Battery compartment features are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Battenfeld Technologies, Inc.Inventors: James Tayon, Matthew Kinamore, James Gianladis, Michael Cottrell, Tim Kinney, Dennis W. Cauley, Jr., Mark Dalton, Justin Burke, Anthony Vesich, Erik S. Helland, Chad M. Thackeray, Yu King Wai
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Patent number: 10365070Abstract: A ballistic resistant article includes at least one consolidated composite, wherein the at least one consolidated composite includes a layer A and a layer B bonded to one another. Each, layer A and B exhibits a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a cross-section extending from the first surface to the second surface, and includes a network of fibers having a strength of at least 800 mN/tex (1100 MPa), and the fibers in each layer A and B are impregnated with a matrix material. The matrix material is distributed along the cross-section of each layer in a concentration gradient in which the concentration starts with a maximum value on the first surface, decreases along the cross-section and reaches a minimum value on the second surface. The matrix material includes a mixture of a polychloroprene, and a random copolymer of vinyl chloride and an acrylic ester.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2014Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignees: TEIJIN ARAMID B.V., BARRDAY INC.Inventors: Jan Grossman, Marc-Jan De Haas, Nektarios Poulopoulos, Alicia Williams, Jason Wilson
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Patent number: 10365071Abstract: An anti-ballistic chair having a chair frame, a seat member secured to the frame, the seat member having an anti-ballistic core portion, and a back support section secured to the frame, the back support member having an anti-ballistic core portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2013Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: SHIELDPRO, LLCInventors: Fred E. Peters, Jens Wemhoener
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Patent number: 10365072Abstract: A trap wobbler includes a base with an inclined bearing seat and a bearing supported on the inclined bearing seat, a trap frame connector pivotally coupled to the bearing of the base for enabling the trap frame connector to be biased relative to the base, and a throwing trap fastened to the trap frame connector. When the throwing arm of the throwing trap is rotated to throw a clay, the inertia force thus generated causes the throwing trap and the trap frame connector to swing left and right. As long as the throwing arm is continuously controlled to continue throwing a clay before stopping of the swinging action of the throwing trap, the left and right swinging motions and amplitudes of the throwing trap is continuously increased.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Inventor: Cheh-Kang Liu
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Patent number: 10365073Abstract: An extraction charge for threats buried underground includes a housing, a shaped charge disposed in the housing at one end thereof, and a canister disposed in the housing and spaced apart from the shaped charge. The canister defines an open-ended tubular pathway and includes an explosive material housed in a region of the canister that circumscribes the tubular pathway. A delay detonator is coupled to the shaped charge and to the explosive material.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Lee Foltz, Angel Diaz, Dennis Askin, Herman Wallace, Daniel McCarthy
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Patent number: 10365074Abstract: The present invention provides polymeric ammunition cartridge having a generally cylindrical neck having a projectile aperture at a first end, an outer shoulder surface that extends from the generally cylindrical neck, an outer shoulder angle defined by the outer shoulder surface, an inner shoulder surface on the inside of the polymer nose opposite the outer shoulder surface, an inner shoulder angle defined by the outer shoulder surface, a skirt surface extending from the inner shoulder surface, a skirt angle defined by the skirt surface, and a nose junction that extends from the outer shoulder surface to the skirt surface, wherein the nose junction is adapted to mate to a polymer cartridge.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2018Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: True Velocity IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Lonnie Burrow, Christopher William Overton
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Patent number: 10365075Abstract: A training aid for use in training canines to detect an explosive material includes an explosive material adsorbed in the pores of a high surface area mesoporous or nanoporous host material. By adjusting the surfaces of the pores of the substrate material, the substrate can accommodate various types of explosive materials in a non-detonable and non-flammable manner, including nitroaromatics, nitroamines, nitrate-based explosives, and peroxide-based explosives. When the training aid is in an unsealed condition, a continuous flux of explosive material is released without providing any explosive or flame hazard to the trainer and canine.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: XploSafe, LLCInventors: Allen W. Apblett, Nicholas F. Materer, Shoaib Shaikh
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Patent number: 10365076Abstract: An ammunition case primer pocket swager and associated methods. An actuator of the primer pocket swager may be operatively connected to a swage head for driving the swage head to a swaging position to swage the primer pocket, and may be operatively connected to a case holder for moving the case holder from a loading position to an operational position to hold the case to be swaged. Lost motion in a drive train of the primer pocket swager can be used to position the case holder in the operational position before the swage head reaches the swaging position. A primer pocket swager can include an adjustable case holder stop, a pivot mount guide, and/or a case aligner.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2018Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Battenfeld Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Dennis W. Cauley, Jr., James Tayon, Michael Cottrell, Timothy Kinney, James Gianladis, Michael Poehlman, Mark Dalton, Matthew Kinamore
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Patent number: 10365077Abstract: A detonator arrangement (10) comprising a detonator (1) having an initiation charge (2) and a base charge (3), which initiation charge (2) is arranged to initiate a detonation of said base charge (3), characterized in that the said detonator arrangement (10) comprises a securement device (5, 72, 64) movable in relation to the detonator (1), which securement device (5, 72, 64) can be disposed in a first position arranged to prevent a transfer of the detonation of the initiation charge (2) to the base charge (3), whereby the detonation of the base charge is avoided, and in a second position arranged to allow the transfer of the detonation of the initiation charge (2) to the base charge (3), whereby the detonation of the base charge is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: LIFE TIME ENGINEERING ABInventors: Ulf Borgstöm, Lars-Erik Pettersson
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Patent number: 10365078Abstract: According to an aspect a bulkhead assembly is provided having particular application with a downhole tool, in particular for oil well drilling applications. The bulkhead assembly includes a bulkhead body and an electrical contact component disposed within the bulkhead body, wherein at least a portion of the electrical contact component is configured to pivot about its own axis, without compromising its ability to provide a pressure and fluid barrier. In an embodiment, a ground apparatus is provided to provide an electrical connection for at least one ground wire. The ground apparatus may be positionable on the bulkhead body of the bulkhead assembly. In an aspect, a downhole tool including the bulkhead assembly and ground apparatus is also generally described.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2018Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: DynaEnergetics GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Christian Eitschberger
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Patent number: 10365079Abstract: A downhole setting tool having a first housing, a second housing having a chamber connected to the first housing, a power charge positioned within the chamber, an igniter connected to a portion of the power charge, and an ignition device connected to the igniter. The ignition device is configured to actuate upon receipt of an electrical signal. The ignition device is configured to ignite the igniter. The ignition device may rapidly heat up or apply a voltage or current to the igniter. The igniter is configured to cause the detonation of the power charge to set a device within a wellbore. The igniter may be embedded into the power charge with the ignition device positioned within a cavity in the igniter. The igniter may be a pyrotechnic material or may release high energy heat upon application of voltage or current.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Kevin Edgar Harrington, Larry Palmer, Zhiyue Xu, YingQing Xu, Lei Zhao, Kent Meyer
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Patent number: 10365080Abstract: A method for automatically receiving a sensor head of a coordinate measuring machine. The sensor head comprises a first changing interface for coupling the sensor head with a carrier structure of the coordinate measuring machine, and a second changing interface for coupling a cable element with the carrier structure. The second changing interface of the sensor head is arranged on an end of the cable element distal to the sensor head, and is spatially separated from the first changing interface. The sensor head is initially provided in a magazine location of the coordinate measuring machine. The sensor head is received with the first changing interface in a first receiver of the magazine location, and the second changing interface is received in a second receiver of the magazine location.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: CARL ZEISS INDUSTRIELLE MESSTECHNIK GMBHInventors: Otto Ruck, Peter Mueller
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Patent number: 10365081Abstract: A checking tool for measuring a distance between adjacent sinking grooves in an inner hole of a mechanical part, including: a gage block, end cover, sliding piece, pin, base, pin seat, support, measuring rod, spring, barrel, and dial indicator. An inner end face of the base is provided with the sliding piece, at least three concentric circular arc grooves are on the end face, paired eccentric arc grooves are on the sliding piece, the pin connected to the pin seat runs through the base and sliding piece, which is axially limited by the end cover, and the seat rotates relative to the base to realize radial expansion displacement of the sliding piece. A measuring head is formed by the dial indicator, measuring rod, spring and barrel. By positioning the edges of adjacent sinking grooves in an inner hole, measurement for a distance between the grooves is converted into depth measurement.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignees: PACIFIC PRECISION FORGING CO., LTD., PACIFIC PRECISION POWERTRAIN CO., LTD.Inventors: Hanguan Xia, Jun Qin, Hongjun Zhao, Yi Dong, Yong Zhang
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Patent number: 10365082Abstract: An angular position sensor can include a magnetic device from which a magnetic field emanates, and multiple magnetometers, whereby each magnetometer senses a varying strength of the magnetic field due to relative rotation between components of a well tool. A method of determining an azimuthal position of a shaft which rotates relative to an outer housing can include securing a selected one of at least one magnetic device and at least one magnetometer to the shaft, securing the other of the magnetic device and the magnetometer to the outer housing, a fluid motor rotating the shaft relative to the outer housing in the well, and the magnetometer sensing a varying strength of a magnetic field emanating from the magnetic device as the shaft rotates relative to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2012Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Clint P. Lozinsky, Jonathan P. Zacharko
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Patent number: 10365083Abstract: A motor control system includes a motor, a rotational angle sensor that detects a rotational angle of a motor shaft of the motor, a torque sensor that detects shaft torsion torque between the motor shaft, and an output shaft fixed to a load member driven by the motor, and a motor controller that controls the motor. The motor controller estimates a rotational angle of the output shaft, based on the rotational angle of the motor shaft, the shaft torsion torque, and torsional rigidity obtained in advance with respect to a region between the motor shaft and the output shaft, and controls the motor, using the estimated rotational angle of the output shaft.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Taro Takahashi
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Patent number: 10365084Abstract: The current embodiments provide a system for determining a parameter of a tire component. The system may have a background surface, a first measurement device configured to measure a dimension with respect to the reference surface and a support surface located at least partially between the first measurement device and the reference surface, where the support surface is configured to support the tire component. The parameter may correspond to the dimension on the background surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Bartell Machinery Systems, L.L.C.Inventors: Nathan Jeremy Little, Douglas Maxwell Sassaman, Collin McLaughlin Sears
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Patent number: 10365085Abstract: A method for measuring a thickness of a thin film includes: a step of basing on a training database to establish an artificial neural network, the training database including a plurality of modified spectra and a plurality of film thicknesses corresponding individually to the plurality of modified spectra; a step of measuring a sample having a coated film so as to obtain a spectrum; and, a step of running the artificial neural network already trained by the plurality of modified spectra so as to use the spectrum to estimate a thickness of the coated film on the sample. In addition, a system related to the method for measuring a thickness of a thin film is provided to include a measuring unit, a spectrometer and a processing unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH, ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL, EXECUTIVE YUAN, R.O.C.Inventors: Tzong-Daw Wu, Jiun-Shen Chen, Ching-Pei Tseng, Cheng-Chang Hsieh
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Patent number: 10365086Abstract: Line scanning of a radiated and defined strip pattern (2) facilitates determining a position of an edge of each strip (5) by taking images of the line pattern (2) from a different viewing angle and determining an elevation profile along an image line (3) therefrom and by concatenating determining the 3-D elevation profile over a surface (1).Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2014Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Gerhard Schubert GmbHInventors: Karl-Ludwig Schinner, Abdelmalek Nasraoui
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Patent number: 10365087Abstract: An orthogonal state measuring device includes a measurement table and a CCD camera displacing in X, Y, and Z directions relative to the measurement table and measuring a work piece placed on the measurement table. The orthogonal state measuring device further includes a wide angle surveillance camera, a computer main body, and a display. The wide angle surveillance camera captures in one pass an image that is capable of configuring a bird's-eye image of the work piece, the bird's-eye image encompassing an entire field over which the CCD camera is capable of relative displacement. The computer main body generates the bird's-eye image based on the image and defines a position of the CCD camera on the bird's-eye image, then configures navigation maps in which the position of the CCD camera is composited on the bird's-eye image. The display displays the navigation maps.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2013Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Saeki, Hiroshi Sakai
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Patent number: 10365088Abstract: The present invention discloses a distributed device for simultaneously measuring strain and temperature based on optical frequency domain reflection, comprising a tunable laser, a 1:99 beam splitter, a main interferometer system, a light source phase monitoring system based on an auxiliary interferometer, an acquisition device and a computer processing unit, wherein the main interferometer system comprises two Mach-Zehnder interferometers, and two optical fibers having different cladding diameters are arranged in parallel as sensing fibers. Due to the difference in temperature and strain coefficients of optical fibers of the same diameter, the temperature and strain values during changing the temperature and strain simultaneously can be obtained by matrix operation, thereby achieving an effect of eliminating cross sensitivity of temperature and strain sensing in optical frequency domain reflection.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Tianjin UniversityInventors: Zhenyang Ding, Di Yang, Tiegen Liu, Yang Du, Zhexi Xu, Kun Liu, Junfeng Jiang
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Patent number: 10365089Abstract: Exemplary practice of the present invention provides an air vehicle and at least one interferometric double-path fiber optic sensor connected with the air vehicle. Each fiber optic sensor includes a pair of optical fibers, viz., an optical sensing fiber and an optical reference fiber, in a parallel and propinquus relationship. The paired optical fibers of each fiber optic sensor are attached to the air vehicle either (i) circumferentially around the fuselage or (ii) lengthwise along the fuselage or (iii) span-wise along the wings and across the fuselage, and are configured whereby the sensing fiber is exposed to the atmosphere and the reference fiber is not. Each fiber optic sensor senses atmospheric infrasound but does not sense atmospheric wind noise, which is negated by incoherency associated with design lengthiness of the optical fiber pair. Noise and strain due to temperature, vibration, and propulsion are neutralized via interferometric common mode rejection.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventor: Alexey Titovich
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Patent number: 10365090Abstract: In an aspect of the invention, first and second images having parallax are acquired by an imaging unit (202) including a first imaging part (202A) and a second imaging part (202B), and an angle between an imaging direction of the imaging unit (202) and a normal direction of a flat surface of an object to be inspected having the flat surface is calculated on the basis of the acquired first and second images. The pan/tilt of the imaging unit (202) are controlled by a pan/tilt control unit (210), but images for inspection showing the object to be inspected are taken and acquired by the imaging unit in a case in which the calculated angle is controlled to an angle within an allowable angle range.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Mikio Watanabe, Fuminori Irie
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Patent number: 10365091Abstract: An electronic angle measuring device for a bending machine for measuring the bending angle between the legs (4) of a sheet (5) using a sensor element (7) is described, which supplies angle-equivalent signals in a contactless manner to a signal processing unit (9), which has a microprocessor and a memory unit and is connected to a digital display (10). To provide simple measuring conditions, it is proposed that the sensor element (7), the signal processing unit (9), and the display (10) form an angle measuring device (6) which is fastenable on the upper tool (1) of the bending machine and is usable as a handheld encoder, and which has a motion sensor (11), which is connected to the signal processing unit (9) and detects the lowering and/or raising movement of the upper tool (1), for triggering the measuring procedure.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: KEBA AGInventors: Johann Wögerbauer, Andreas Wögerbauer
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Patent number: 10365092Abstract: An electronic angle measuring device for measuring the bending angle between the legs (4) of a metal sheet (5) having a sensor element (7) which delivers angle-equivalent signals in a contact-free manner to a signal processing device (9) comprising a microprocessor and a memory unit which is connected to a digital display (10) is described. In order to create advantageous measurement conditions, it is proposed that a sensor element (7) which deflects a laser beam through a rotating mirror onto the two legs (4) of the metal sheet (5) and which forms a measured value from the reflection beam received in the emission direction, the signal processing device (9) with the microprocessor and the memory unit as well as the digital display (10) form an angle measuring device (6) which can be fastened to an upper tool (1) of a bending machine and which can be used as a manual measuring device (6).Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: KEBA AGInventors: Johann Wögerbauer, Andreas Wögerbauer
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Patent number: 10365093Abstract: The invention relates to a system and to a method for determining the displacement of two bodies relative to each other, wherein the system comprises a first camera, a second camera, a first lamp, and a second lamp, wherein both the first camera and the second camera comprise an objective and an image sensor having a sensor surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Prüftechnik Dieter Busch AGInventor: Heinrich Lysen
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Patent number: 10365094Abstract: A method for aligning wheels of a vehicle is described herein. In an implementation, a plurality of images of a wheel of the vehicle is captured. The plurality of images comprises a LED image of the wheel, a laser image of the wheel, and a control image of the wheel. The method further comprises identifying, automatically, a rim coupled to the wheel based on the plurality of images. Further, the wheel is aligned based on the identified rim.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2014Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Inventors: Pooja Arora, Mannu Arora
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Patent number: 10365095Abstract: A vehicle wheel alignment system and method is provided for performing a rolling wheel axis of rotation and wheel spindle point calculation every time an alignment is performed. Embodiments include an aligner having a target fixedly attachable to a wheel of the vehicle; a camera for viewing the target and capturing image data of the target; and a data processor. The data processor receives the image data from the camera, and determines a vector pointing from the target origin to a wheel spindle point based on the captured target image data, when the vehicle is rolled while the wheel is on a substantially flat surface such that the wheel and target rotate a number of degrees. The data processor is further adapted to calculate an alignment parameter for the vehicle based at least in part on the wheel axis of rotation and the coordinates of the wheel spindle point.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: SNAP-ON INCORPORATEDInventors: Robert J. D'Agostino, Michael G. Fuhrman
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Patent number: 10365096Abstract: A bale measuring method for a rectangular baler having a bale chamber in which bales are formed. The bale measuring method includes steps of measuring a movement of crop material downstream of the bale chamber as the crop material moves backward in the baler, using the measured movement of the crop material downstream of the bale chamber to calibrate a measurement and calculation tool for measuring a movement of crop material in the bale chamber and for calculating a length of a bale being formed in the bale chamber based on the measurement, and determining the length of the bale being formed in the bale chamber using the calibrated measurement and calculation tool as the bale moves backward in the baler.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2014Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Didier Verhaeghe, Tom Coen
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Patent number: 10365097Abstract: Provided herein are sondes having a pressure sensor that is separated from active sensing portions of the other sonde sensor or sensors by a longitudinal distance along the sonde. The pressure sensor may be positioned in the base portion of the sonde, with removable sensors connected thereto with a sensor plane at a distal end of the sensors that measures any number of parameters associated with the liquid in which the sonde is immersed. An orientation sensor positioned in the base portion determines an orientation angle of the sonde that, in combination with the depth determined at the pressure sensor location by the pressure sensor, provides the ability to determine the actual depth of the sensor plane, irrespective of orientation angle. Accordingly, improved depth measurement is achieved, without having to confine placement of the pressure sensor at the sensor plane.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: IN-SITU, INC.Inventors: Ashley Steinbach, Duane B. McKee
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Patent number: 10365098Abstract: A terminal device having a rotatable image capture component, including a magnetic body and a sensor. A change in the magnetic flux caused by rotation of the magnetic body is identified by the sensor, and used to identify whether the image capture component is in a front-facing state or a rear-facing state. The magnetic body is mounted in a connector of the image capture component or at an end of the connector. The sensor is mounted on a circuit board using a bottom surface perpendicular to a Z-axis of the sensor. When the image capture component is at a front-facing position and a rear-facing position, an angle between a connection line, which connects a south pole and a north pole of the magnetic body, and a radial line of an image capture unit included in the image capture component is less than a preset value in a rotation direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Quancheng Han, Wei Wang, Baicai Wang, Zhengping Tan
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Installation space exploration method for a substance and readable media having the program therefor
Patent number: 10365099Abstract: A method for exploring an installation space of an article includes acquiring a point cloud of an indoor space including a number of point data with three-dimensional scanning. The method also includes acquiring obstacle data and passage data from the point cloud. The method further includes exploring an installation space of the article to determine a space where an obstacle is placed in the obstacle data and a space where a passage is present, as a space where the article is allowed to be installed.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: GWANGJU INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Kyoung-Seok Noh, Yong-Gu Lee