Patents Issued in September 17, 2019
  • Patent number: 10415923
    Abstract: A device for launching a projectile along an intended flight trajectory includes a launching mechanism. The launching mechanism includes first and second pairs of supports supporting a launching cord. A projectile having a longitudinal axis is disposed in the launching cord in a launch position prior to launch such that the projectile's longitudinal axis is perpendicular to a plane in which the launching cord is disposed. As the projectile is launched by the launching mechanism, the projectile rotates such that the projectile's longitudinal axis is parallel to the plane in which the launching cord was disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Inventor: Richard T. Fields
  • Patent number: 10415924
    Abstract: A three axis adjustable arrow rest preferably includes a front bracket, a bow mounting bracket, a pair of guide rods, a linear carriage, a lateral carriage and an arrow support frame. One end of the pair of guide rods are retained in the front bracket. The linear carriage is adjustably retained on the pair of guide rods by rotation of a linear adjustment screw. An opposing end of the pair of guide rods are retained by the bow mounting bracket. The lateral carriage is adjustable retained by the linear carriage with a lateral adjustment screw. A vertical stem is adjustably retained in the lateral carriage with a vertical adjustment screw. The arrow support frame is attached to a top of the vertical stem. The arrow support frame includes a plurality of arrow shaft adjustment screws for supporting an arrow shaft of an arrow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Inventor: Dorge O. Huang
  • Patent number: 10415925
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for accelerating projectiles at high velocity. A barrel may include one or more heaters configured to heat a bore of the barrel prior to launch of a projectile. The barrel bore may be formed in a tungsten sleeve and may be heated to high temperatures. Heat from the barrel bore may be transferred to expanding propellant behind a projectile as it travels through the barrel bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Science Applications International Corporation
    Inventor: Gary David Warren
  • Patent number: 10415926
    Abstract: A novel converter unit, system, and method of use with a firearm are disclosed. The converter unit may comprise a grip, pivot, and linkage. The grip is rotatably attached to the pivot, which in turn is attached to a receiver of a firearm. The linkage is in communication with the grip and a magazine release of the firearm such that rotation of the grip causes the linkage to slide toward or away from a muzzle of the firearm. The linkage and magazine release are preferably configured wherein the magazine release is not functional when the grip is angled away from the axis of the firearm. Conversely, when the axis of the grip is parallel to the axis of the firearm, the magazine release is functional.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Inventor: Jeff Schroeder
  • Patent number: 10415927
    Abstract: A holster comprising a body portion, the body portion comprising a port shell and a starboard shell that cooperate to define a cavity for receiving and holding the handgun. The holster comprising a pair of flat ears, the ears including a forward ear extending forward of the cavity and a rearward ear extending rearward of the cavity. The forward ear defining a forward slot and the rearward ear defining a rearward slot, each slot having a forward edge and a rearward edge. Each slot being configured and dimensioned to receive one of a belt and a clip. Each ear having changes in thickness adjacent the forward and rearward edges of each slot. The changes in thickness defining multiple discrete positions for receiving a holster body attachment portion of the clip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Vista Outdoor Operations LLC
    Inventors: Brian Shults, Robert Kincaid, Liam Yarbrough
  • Patent number: 10415928
    Abstract: A convertible holster system having a bare holster sleeve that accommodates an external left or right belt carry, a left or right internal or external waistband/boot/pocket carry, a left or right dual underarm carry with adjustable holster cant, a removable left or right thumb break, an ammo clip pocket or shoulder harness stabilizer strap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Inventor: Gabor Jwszenski
  • Patent number: 10415929
    Abstract: A breakdown rifle holder for transport and storage includes an upper body having an upper surface, where the upper surface is configured to slide into an upper receiver of a rifle. The holder also includes a lower body having a first end and a second end, where the first end is connected to a lower surface of the upper body and extends perpendicularly away from the lower surface of the upper body and forms an “L” shape. The second end of the lower body is configured to slide into a lower receiver of the rifle and retain the lower receiver by friction fit. In addition, a magazine receiver is connected to the lower surface of the upper body adjacent to the lower portion, where the magazine receiver is configured to receive an open end of a magazine and retain the magazine by friction fit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Inventor: Bryan Hurley
  • Patent number: 10415930
    Abstract: A gun sight assembly includes a housing with an inner bore and a sleeve. The sleeve has an axial cavity in which a luminescent source may be housed. The sleeve is press-fit into the bore such that complementary engagement features of the bore and the sleeve engage each other to lock the sleeve in place within the bore. In one version, the sleeve can be first received within an adapter configured for press-fit into the bore of the gun sight blank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Harrison Reed Inc.
    Inventor: Jesse A. Erdle
  • Patent number: 10415931
    Abstract: An illuminable device configured to be worn by a mammal and provide visibility to the mammal includes a thermoelectric module and a light source. The illuminable device is configured to be mounted onto a mammal by an article worn by the mammal such that the thermoelectric module is in thermal contact with the mammal's body. The thermoelectric module generates electricity from a thermal gradient, produced from a mammal's body heat that is transferred to the module. The electricity generated by the thermoelectric module powers the light source to illuminate the article worn by the mammal. Related methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Grace Engineering Corp.
    Inventor: Louis Grace, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10415932
    Abstract: A rotatably adjustable mount for removably mounting an NV monocular onto a weapon is disclosed. The mount has a base and a rotatable side fixture. The base is configured to clip onto a rail on the weapon. The side fixture has a battery section, an electronics section and a lever section. The battery section supports a battery. The electronics section is electrically connected to the battery section and includes power-management electronics. The lever section locks and unlocks the NV goggle to the side fixture. The side fixture has a slot configured to receive an NV mounting fixture of the NV monocular and establish electrical contact between the electronics section and the NV monocular. The side fixture is rotatable between an in-line position and an out-of-line position of a downstream day sight supported by the weapon. A night-vision weapon sight that employs the mount is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Knight Vision LLLP
    Inventors: Kenneth R. Greenslade, Nathan M. Adair
  • Patent number: 10415933
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for determining an aiming adjustment amount, in terms of both vertical and horizontal aiming adjustments, to shoot a target at a target range by iteratively solving for the projectile trajectory (e.g., projectile drop or path and deflection) such that the iteratively calculated projectile trajectory is determined to pass through the target location within a predetermined threshold amount (e.g., at a projectile path calculation of about zero). Also disclosed are techniques for indicating whether a projectile has supersonic, transonic, or subsonic speed at a given range. Additionally, techniques are disclosed for iteratively determining an aiming adjustment amount that compensates for a moving target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Leupold & Stevens, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Kleck, Eric Tyler Overstreet, Victoria J. Peters
  • Patent number: 10415934
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a mounting ring and a collar. The mounting ring includes an upper ring portion and a lower ring portion secured to the upper ring portion. Each of the upper ring portion and the lower ring portion has an inner ring surface defined by a plurality of radii. The collar is disposed in the mounting ring and includes a substantially cylindrical outer collar surface. The substantially cylindrical outer collar surface is disposed proximate the inner ring surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: BURRIS COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Lee Babbitt, Matthew Travis White
  • Patent number: 10415935
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a blast-resistant bulletproof window and a corresponding apparatus, in particular for use in a motor vehicle, which comprises a ballistic block having a peripheral edge and a plurality of panes of glass, ceramic or plastic material bonded to each other over their surfaces in a layered composite, and interposed bonding interlayers plastic material or adhesive, wherein at least one edge groove with particularly rectangular cross section is provided on and along at least a part of the peripheral edge, and an edge recess is provided on an inside surface of the ballistic block or window on and along at least a part of the peripheral edge of the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: ISOCLIMA S.P.A.
    Inventor: Alberto Bertolini
  • Patent number: 10415936
    Abstract: A modular armor system configured to be readily attached and detached from a frame surrounding a window in a vehicle or other structure, such as a building. The modular armor system may be configured to provide any desired ballistics protection rating. In one embodiment, the modular armor system includes a ballistics-grade armor panel having an outer strike face and an inner surface opposite the outer strike face. The modular armor system also includes a fastener coupled to the ballistics-grade armor panel. The fastener is configured to detachably couple the ballistics-grade armor panel to the frame surrounding the window in the vehicle or other structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: PPG INDUSTRIES OHIO, INC.
    Inventors: Carlo A. Scarinci, David Palermo
  • Patent number: 10415937
    Abstract: An electromagnetic mobile active system for fitting in a missile with a detonation-operated magnetic field compressor. The magnetic field compressor has at least one stator coil and at least one armature casing, which is at least partially surrounded by the stator coil and kept at a radial distance. The magnetic field compressor has at least one explosive charge embedded in the armature casing. The magnetic field compressor has at least one power source. For activating the detonation of the explosive charge, a trigger system is provided. The trigger system can be controlled by a pulse of current from the power source, depending on a signal supplied by the missile. A great amount of electrical energy can be generated in the stator coil by the detonation. For the directional radiation of the electrical energy generated by the detonation of the explosive charge, the active system has at least one directional antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: TDW Gesellschaft für verteidigungstechnische Wirksysteme mbH
    Inventors: Markus Graswald, Raphael Gutser
  • Patent number: 10415938
    Abstract: A propellant in the form of a pellet includes adjoining pellet sections. Each pellet section includes a smokeless powder, a burnable metal, and a polymer. The smokeless powder in each pellet section will in many examples be different from the burn rate of the smokeless powder in other pellet sections. A nonignitable tube passes through the center of the pellet. When the pellet is used within a firearm cartridge, the ignition products from the primer travel through the nonburnable tube, igniting the pellet sections sequentially from the front to the rear of the cartridge. The pressure generated by the propellant within a cartridge casing can be maximized and controlled through the selection of the burn rate for each pellet section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: SPECTRE ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Mohler, Timothy Mohler, Daniel Yates
  • Patent number: 10415939
    Abstract: The invention relates to a projectile (1), which has a projectile body (2) featuring a recess (5) for receiving an explosive, wherein the projectile body (2) has a rotation-symmetrical shell surface (7), at least in sections, which is surrounded, at least in sections, by several ring-shaped elements (8) provided with predetermined break points, wherein fragments (12) formed upon breakup of the elements (8) are predefined via the predetermined break points, said fragments (12) being connected to one another in a ring-shaped connecting portion (11) for forming the ring-shaped element (8), and the freely projecting ends (13) of the fragments (12) being at least partially arranged in a common orthogonal plane (13?) to a longitudinal axis (8?) of the ring-shaped element (8), wherein this orthogonal plane (13?) is arranged diverging from an orthogonal plane (11?) defined by the ring-shaped connecting portion (11), as well as to a corresponding ring-shaped element (8) for the projectile (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Hirtenberger Defence Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Pichler, Christian Müller, Martin Emsenhuber, Bernhard Mayer
  • Patent number: 10415940
    Abstract: Improvements in an expanding arrowhead where the initial launching thrust of launching an arrow keeps the blades retracted within the head of the arrow. The blades remain retracted because the center of mass of the blades is on the opposite side of the rotational pivoting axis of the blades. When the blades contact a target a wing tip on the blades pull the blades open. There are two or three blades that can be retained within the head of the arrow. The blades are loosely retained in a retracted orientation for transportation. The retention is sufficient to overcome the forces or gravity yet release with slight force on then ends of the blades. When the arrow is pulled through the wound track the blades fold back into the head or body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Inventors: Brian E. Sullivan, George Eurick
  • Patent number: 10415941
    Abstract: A visual obscurant system for obscuring object from an observer having a field of view (FOV) is disclosed. The system comprises a sensor for detecting characteristics that indicate a presence of the object, a light source for emitting light in an electromagnetic spectrum, a source, and a controller. The source releases an obscurant into atmosphere to create a cloud. The obscurant attenuates a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. The cloud is positioned within the FOV of the observer so as to obscure the object when the light emitted from the light source is directed towards the cloud. The controller is in communication with at least the sensor and the source. The controller modulates the light source at a frequency sufficient such that the observer interprets the light as being constant when energized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Mark J. Clemen, Jr., Donald V. Drouin, Jr., Stephen N. Provost, Roger D. Bernhardt
  • Patent number: 10415942
    Abstract: An ammunition cartridge for a gun is optically initiated by a mechanism wholly within the cartridge case itself. The case has as optical primer initiation means producing light fluence to ignite a primer, which ignited primer may in turn ignite into a flashtube, and which ignited flashtube may in turn ignite a bed of propellant in said cartridge. The optical primer initiation means may be an LED, a laser diode, a VCSEL, or some other light emitting device in general. The cartridge optically initiated primer package is so sized and made electrically and mechanically seamlessly physically compatible with current ammunition cartridges such that these new cartridges are completely interchangeable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Secretery of the Army
    Inventors: Stephen Redington, Gregory Burke, John Hirlinger
  • Patent number: 10415943
    Abstract: The present invention provides a polymeric ammunition cartridge comprising: a three piece primer insert; a substantially cylindrical polymeric middle body extending about the three piece primer insert, wherein the substantially cylindrical polymeric middle body comprises: a substantially cylindrical polymeric bullet-end coupling element at a first end of the substantially cylindrical polymeric middle body opposite a substantially cylindrical polymeric coupling end connected by a powder chamber, wherein the substantially cylindrical polymeric coupling end extends over the substantially cylindrical coupling element and covers an circumferential surface of the primer flash hole aperture; and a substantially cylindrical polymeric bullet-end upper portion comprising a bullet-end coupling element connected to the substantially cylindrical polymeric bullet-end coupling element opposite a projectile aperture adapted to engage a bullet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: TRUE VELOCITY IP HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventor: Lonnie Burrow
  • Patent number: 10415944
    Abstract: The invention relates to a primer cap for small-caliber ammunition, having an outer metallic cup in which is arranged a priming composition which generates hot combustion gases following initiation. To enable more versatile control of the initiation process in the weapon, it is proposed that a resistance bridge which can be initiated electrically, and an electrically conductive pole piece, are additionally arranged in the primer cap, wherein the first pole of the resistance bridge is connected to the cup and the second pole is connected to the cup and the second pole is connected to the pole piece, which protrudes out of the cup and is electrically insulated from the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: RUAG AMMOTEC GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Winter, Wolfgang Mosig, Ulrich Bley, Aleksej Hoschenko, Martin Liebl
  • Patent number: 10415945
    Abstract: An assembly can include solid-state overvoltage firing switch operable to control an explosive device. The solid-state overvoltage firing switch can include a substrate layer. The solid-state overvoltage firing switch can also include a conductive anode and a conductive cathode positioned on the substrate layer. A gap can physically separate the conductive anode from the conductive cathode. The conductive anode can be operable to receive a voltage from a power source. The solid-state overvoltage firing switch can further include an insulator layer adjacent to the conductive anode and the conductive cathode. At least part of the insulator layer can fill the gap. The insulator layer can cover a first portion of the conductive anode and a second portion of the conductive cathode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Earl Burky, Thomas Jeffrey Wuensche
  • Patent number: 10415946
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wheel center hole size qualification detection device. The upper ends of large guide posts are connected with an upper cross beam, the lower ends of the large guide posts are connected with a lower cross beam, a frame is fixed on a foundation via bases, the large guide posts are arranged in large guide sleeves on the frame, a large cylinder is fixed on the foundation and connected with the lower cross beam, the large cylinder drives an overall framework formed by the upper cross beam, the lower cross beam and the large guide posts to move up and down, small guide posts are respectively fixed on two sides of the center of the upper cross beam and inside the large guide posts, small cylinders are fixed below the frame, and clamping jaws are connected with the small cylinders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: CITIC Dicastal CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinling Yang, Li Yang, Weidong Liu
  • Patent number: 10415947
    Abstract: A probe includes a movable plate to which a stylus capable of contacting a measurable object is mounted, the movable plate displaceable in an X direction; a static plate arranged to overlap with the movable plate; a counter plate facing the movable plate and the static plate; an elastic movable side connection plate, the movable side connection plate connecting the counter plate at at least three places with each of a first end connector positioned toward a first end of the movable plate in the X direction and second end connectors positioned toward a second end in the X direction; and a static side connection plate which connects the static plate and the counter plate. An entire length of the first end connector in a Y direction orthogonal to the X direction is the same size as the entire length of the second end connectors in the Y direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Arai, Kazuya Iwasaki, Minoru Tanaka, Shuichi Kamiyama, Kazuhiko Hidaka
  • Patent number: 10415948
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a touch sensor and, more particularly, to a touch sensor having a solenoid provided therein, wherein the touch sensor: after a plunger is pushed out of a main body case thereof when a detected start command is input, detects the plunger being pushed into the main body case by means of a detected object (bed) and generates a detection signal; and when a detection end command is input, allows the plunger to be pushed in, thereby removing hindering elements that arise and solving spatial limitations while 3D printing or operating machine tools. Also, the touch sensor is capable of carrying out a detecting function quickly and at a low power consumption and enables manpower to be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Inventors: Kyung Yeon Lee, Chul Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 10415949
    Abstract: A measuring probe includes two supporting members, each having a rotationally symmetric shape and allowing for an attitude change of a stylus, in an axial direction of a probe housing. Four detection elements are disposed at fourfold symmetric positions in one of the two supporting members that includes four deformable arm parts. A signal processing circuit includes a first processing part that processes outputs of the detection elements to output three displacement signals representing displacement components of a contact part in mutually perpendicular three directions, respectively. The measuring probe capable of reducing measurement directional dependency of sensitivity with a simple configuration while maintaining high sensitivity is thus provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Koga, Akinori Saito, Hiroyuki Kanamori, Yutaka Kuriyama, Nobuhiro Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 10415950
    Abstract: A system is provided for communicating between a 3D metrology instrument and a portable computing device via near field communications. In one embodiment, the metrology device is an articulated coordinate measurement machine (AACMM), a laser tracker, a laser scanner or a triangulation scanner, and the portable communications device is a cellular phone or a tablet. The portable device may use the NFC to retrieve data stored on a circuit associated with an object to be inspected and use the data to perform an inspection on the object using the metrology device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: FARO TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Yu Gong
  • Patent number: 10415951
    Abstract: Systems and methods for estimating standoff and/or caliper in a wellbore for oil-based mud drilling are provided. The systems include a sensor having a primary electrode and at least two secondary electrodes, and an electronics subsystem having a controller and a processor for driving the system and correlating current measurements with standoff and/or caliper. The electrodes are positioned relative to one another such that there is a distinct flow of current between the primary electrode and each secondary electrode. In operation, a single excitation frequency is applied to the primary electrode and a simultaneous measurement of current flowing between the primary electrode and each secondary electrode is obtained. Standoff is estimated from the measurements. The estimations can be independent of formation properties when an appropriate excitation frequency is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Emmanuel Legendre
  • Patent number: 10415952
    Abstract: An angular position sensor comprising at least one planar excitation coil and at least two planar sensing coils positioned within an interior of the at least one planar excitation coil, each of the at least two planar sensing coils comprising a clockwise winding portion positioned opposite a counter-clockwise winding portion and a rotatable inductive coupling element comprising a sector aperture, the rotatable inductive coupling element positioned in overlying relation to the at least one planar excitation coil and separated from the at least one planar excitation coil by an air gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Microsemi Corporation
    Inventors: Battu Prakash Reddy, Ganesh Shaga
  • Patent number: 10415953
    Abstract: Length metrology apparatuses and methods are disclosed for measuring both specular and non-specular surfaces with high accuracy and precision, and with suppressed phase induced distance errors. In one embodiment, a system includes a laser source exhibiting a first and second laser outputs with optical frequencies that are modulated linearly over large frequency ranges. The system further includes calibration and signal processing portions configured to determine a calibrated distance to at least one sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Bridger Photonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Thorpe, Aaron Kreitinger, Randy Reibel
  • Patent number: 10415954
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are described for determining tomographic and/or topographic data relating to an object. The object is illuminated with at least one wave packet from light generated by a multi-spectral light source. The wave packet is split into two split wave packets, and an optical path difference (OPD) is introduced between the two split wave packets, that is smaller than the coherence length of the wave packet. The two split wave packets are combined to generate a 2D image of the illuminated object, and the data relating to the object is determined by processing the 2D image using long coherence phase shift interferometry algorithms, by analyzing the 2D image as if the 2D image was generated using monochromatic light having a wavelength that is equal to a mean wavelength of the wave packet. Other applications are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: ADOM, ADVANCED OPTICAL TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventors: Yoel Arieli, Yoel Cohen
  • Patent number: 10415955
    Abstract: A measuring system for dimensionally measuring an object, comprising an object carrier, a plurality of optical markers, which are arranged at the object carrier and/or the object, and a first sensor for a tactile, optical and/or tomographic scanning of the object. The first sensor generates a first measuring signal. A second optical sensor captures a spatial orientation and position of the object with the help of optical markers. The second sensor generates a second measuring signal that contains information relating to the position and spatial orientation of the optical markers. The second sensor is connected to the first sensor via a mechanically rigid connection. An evaluation unit is configured to determine, from the second measuring signal, the position and spatial orientation of the object relative to the first sensor and to determine, from the first measuring signal, a geometry of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS INDUSTRIELLE MESSTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventor: Nils Haverkamp
  • Patent number: 10415956
    Abstract: To provide an optical-scanning-height measuring device capable of reducing an unmeasurable region on the surface of a measurement object. Light emitted from a light emitting section is deflected by a deflecting section according to designation of a measurement point. Measurement light is sequentially irradiated on a plurality of portions P in a partial region PA including or surrounding a part of a measurement object S corresponding to the measurement point. A deflecting direction of the deflecting section corresponding to the partial region PA or an irradiation position of the measurement light corresponding to the partial region PA are detected by a detecting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Keyence Corporation
    Inventor: Yuji Akishiba
  • Patent number: 10415957
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an error correction method for an FPP system. Implementation steps are as follows: first, collecting deformed fringes affected by an object using a camera; then, calculating the fringe modulation I? by using the collected images, and normalizing the modulation; setting a segmentation threshold T, and for all pixels of which modulation I?<T, dividing them into several categories and pixels within each category having close I? values; for all pixels in each category, acquiring multiple groups of N intensity values, and averaging these groups of intensity values to obtain a set of averaged intensity value curves; and finally, replacing the corresponding N intensity values of all the pixels in the category with the set of averaged intensity values, to complete image correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Feipeng Da, Li Rao
  • Patent number: 10415958
    Abstract: Provided is a measuring device that can easily and accurately measure a shape at a desired point of a measuring object. A stage is held on an installation part. A head unit including a light projecting unit and a light receiving unit and the installation part are fixedly coupled together by a stand. An effective region is set to a space on the stage. Point cloud data corresponding to the effective region is obtained as measurement data from the generated point cloud data. Designation of a point to be measured in the measuring object is received, and a measurement value at the designated point is calculated based on the obtained measurement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Keyence Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Nakatsukasa
  • Patent number: 10415959
    Abstract: A method for calibrating an augmented reality visual rendering system comprising at least one display device partially transparent with respect to the user thereof, comprises carrying out the steps of: displaying a two-dimensional calibration curve on a partially transparent display device of the partially transparent display device; recording a three-dimensional curve described by the user by a three-dimensional pointing device so that the trajectory described by the three-dimensional pointing device is aligned, according to the viewpoint of the user, with the two-dimensional calibration curve displayed on the display device; and matching the three-dimensional curve and the two-dimensional calibration curve displayed on the display device; and comprising a step of calibrating the augmented reality visual rendering system by determining the parameters of a model to represent the set comprising the eye of the user 1 and the partially transparent display device of the partially transparent display device at whi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventor: Steve Bourgeois
  • Patent number: 10415960
    Abstract: A system and a method for estimating the elevation angle of one or more objects surrounding a user terminal include a camera device for capturing an image of the sky and a display device for displaying the image of the sky captured by the camera device. One of the camera device and the display device generates an elevation limit marking in the image of the sky displayed by the display device. The elevation limit marking in the image of the sky defines an elevation angle above a horizon of the earth that all the one or more objects in a field of view of the camera device must remain below so that the user terminal has an unobstructed view of the sky in all azimuthal directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: WorldVu Satellites Limited
    Inventor: Melvin S. Ni
  • Patent number: 10415961
    Abstract: A measuring apparatus for measuring a winding angle of a carbon fiber wound on a base material with respect to the base material includes a light source configured to radiate light to a target region on the base material serving as a measuring target for the winding angle, a diffusion plate configured to suppress linear transmission of reflected light from the target region and form an image constituted by the reflected light, an imaging device configured to capture the image formed by the diffusion plate to obtain a captured image, and a winding angle calculation unit configured to calculate an angle formed between a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of an image constituted by the reflected light in the captured image and a reference direction in the base material as the winding angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshimasa Hakozaki
  • Patent number: 10415962
    Abstract: A non-contact and optical measuring automation system, configured to electrically connect to a computer to measure the profile accuracy of a disk cam, includes a base, a rotating chuck, a moving stage module and a laser displacement meter. The rotating chuck is disposed for clamping the disk cam. The moving stage module includes a first linear motion stage movable relative to the base in a first direction and a second linear motion stage movable relative to the first linear motion stage in a second direction. The computer is able to control the rotation of the rotating chuck and the movement of the moving stage module, and is able to control a beam emitted from the laser displacement meter projecting onto a profile surface of the disk cam so as to obtain a profile deviation value of the disk cam by using the laser triangulation method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: National Taiwan Ocean University
    Inventors: Wen-Tung Chang, Chun-Cheng Lu, Hsiang-Lun Kao
  • Patent number: 10415963
    Abstract: Metrology methods and targets are provided, for estimating inter-cell process variation by deriving, from overlay measurements of at least three target cells having different designed misalignments, a dependency of a measured inaccuracy on the designed misalignments (each designed misalignment is between at least two overlapping periodic structures in the respective target cell). Inaccuracies which are related to the designed misalignments are reduced, process variation sources are detected and targets and measurement algorithms are optimized according to the derived dependency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: KLA-Tencor Corporation
    Inventors: Tal Marciano, Eran Amit, Barak Bringoltz, Nuriel Amir, Amit Shaked
  • Patent number: 10415964
    Abstract: Methods for manufacturing passive strain indicator on turbine components include providing a turbine component comprising an exterior surface, and, depositing a ceramic material onto a portion of the exterior surface to form a passive strain indicator comprising at least two reference points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: John David Ward, Jr., Bryan Joseph Germann, Jason Lee Burnside, Gregory Lee Hovis
  • Patent number: 10415965
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods are presented for sensing or estimating a tilt angle, in which a current flowing in an eccentric mass motor is sensed, and a detector circuit assesses the amplitude of a synchronous component of the motor current and provides an output signal or value indicating a tilt angle relative to a gravitational axis at least partially according to the amplitude of the synchronous component of the motor current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Stephen John Fedigan
  • Patent number: 10415966
    Abstract: An identification unit obtains a plurality of photographic images including two or more markers. The makers are placed on a different object, respectively. The identification unit identifies, from the plurality of photographic images thus obtained, three-dimensional positions of the two or more markers. A generating unit transforms coordinate system of the plurality of photographic images into a common coordinate system. Relative positions of the two or more markers based on a specific location are indicated in the common coordinate system. The generating unit generates map data which associates the positions of the two or more markers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Sato
  • Patent number: 10415967
    Abstract: A system for determining a position of a light fixture that projects a beam of light on to a stage to form a first beam pattern on the stage includes an observing device located at a predetermined position relative to the stage to observe the first beam pattern. The system also includes a controller in communication with the observing device. The controller is configured to capture from the observing device an image of the first beam pattern on the stage, determine a major dimension and a minor dimension of the first beam pattern from the image, and calculate a position of the light fixture based on the major dimension and the minor dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy P. Nolan, Jonathan Kemble, Mathias Wolf
  • Patent number: 10415968
    Abstract: Micromachined inertial devices are presented having multiple linearly-moving masses coupled together by couplers that move in a linear fashion when the coupled masses exhibit anti-phase motion. The couplers move in opposite directions of each other, such that one coupler on one side of the movable masses moves in a first linear direction and another coupler on the opposite side of the movable masses moves in a second linear direction opposite the first linear direction. The couplers ensure proper anti-phase motion of the masses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Igor P. Prikhodko, John A. Geen, Jeffrey A. Gregory
  • Patent number: 10415969
    Abstract: A detection device includes: a detection circuit that performs detection processing based on a signal from a physical quantity transducer and outputs detection data; an interface that has communication connection with an external device and outputs the detection data to the external device; and a processing circuit. The processing circuit outputs the detection data acquired from the detection circuit at a common acquisition timing common to at least one other detection device and the own detection device, to the interface in a data transmitting order of own detection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Sudo, Katsuhiko Maki
  • Patent number: 10415970
    Abstract: A chip-scale ultrasensitive ring laser gyroscope that utilizes the physics of exceptional points. By exploiting the properties of such non-Hermitian degeneracies, the rotation-induced frequency splitting becomes proportional to the square root of the gyration speed (?1/2), thus enhancing the sensitivity to low angular rotations by orders of magnitudes. At its maximum sensitivity limit, the measurable spectral splitting is independent of the radius of the cavity rings involved. Binary and ternary systems and associated methods are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventors: Mercedeh Khajavikhan, Demetrios Christodoulides, Hossein Hodaei, Mohammad Soltani
  • Patent number: 10415971
    Abstract: Bias error in a resonant fiber optic gyroscope (RFOG) is diminished by reducing polarization mismatch between a polarization Eigenstate of optical signals propagating inside of a resonator of the RFOG and the polarization of optical signals being injected into the resonator of the RFOG. The polarization mismatch is reduced by filtering the optical signals circulating in the resonator and the optical signals injected into the resonator with common polarizers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Krueger, Mary Salit, Barbara Vizenor, Glen A. Sanders, Lee K. Strandjord, Tiequn Qiu
  • Patent number: 10415972
    Abstract: The present invention is an information processing device which registers in a map database, a charging point in which charging equipment is located at the time of charging of an electric vehicle, including a registration section that, in a case where the charging point is located within a facility area registered in the map database, registers in the map database, the charging point in association with positional information of the facility area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koji Sagata