Patents Issued in September 17, 2019
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Patent number: 10415973Abstract: Techniques for watching a location of a device with respect to a destination target include obtaining a current location of a device from a localization operation, calculating an interval, and performing a next localization operation after the interval has expired. The interval may be calculated based on a velocity and a distance from the current location to a destination target. The techniques may also include calculating a displacement distance from the current location and adjusting the interval based on the displacement distance to thereby adjust a time for performing the next localization operation. The techniques may include performing state detection to determine a motion state of the device and performing the next localization operation based on the determined motion state.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Guo Bin Shen, Zheng Zhang
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Patent number: 10415974Abstract: A method includes collecting site specific data, collecting field data at a site of an array of photovoltaic members, determining a current tracked irradiance of the array of photovoltaic members, calculating predicted irradiance for multiple orientations based on the site specific data and the sensed field data, or sensing an actual irradiance for multiple orientations. The method further includes determining a maximum predicted irradiance from the calculated predicted irradiance or a maximum actual irradiance from the sensed irradiance. The method further includes comparing the maximum predicted irradiance or the maximum sensed irradiance with the current tracked irradiance, and re-orienting the array of photovoltaic members to an orientation having the maximum predicted or actual irradiance if the maximum predicted or actual irradiance is greater than the current tracked irradiance.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: SUNPOWER CORPORATIONInventor: Zachary Judkins
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Patent number: 10415975Abstract: A method of tracking the motion of a moving object having a plurality of linked segments is provided. The method uses a limited set of sensing units that are coupled to one or more of the segments to receive one or more sensor signals from the sensing units. Based on the sensor signals, the method estimates a 3D orientation and predicts a 3D position of the segments at a tracking module. The method further communicates the 3D orientation and the 3D position of the segments to a database module, and associates a pose of the object to the 3D orientation and the 3D position of the segments.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2014Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: XSENS HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Giovanni Bellusci, Hendrick J. Luinge, Jeroen D. Hol
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Patent number: 10415976Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing a wearing state of a wearable device. Embodiments of the present invention achieve the purpose of obtaining an actual wearing state of the wearable device by obtaining a space quaternion parameter of the wearable device worn by the user, then obtaining a posture angle of the wearable device according to the space quaternion parameter, and then obtaining a measurement wearing state of the wearable device according to the posture angle of the wearable device.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: BEIJING GALAXY RAINTAI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Lingxiao Ou, Wenwen Yan
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Patent number: 10415977Abstract: A method of compensating for signal error is described, comprising: receiving a first signal from a first sensor, said first signal indicative of a movement characteristic; applying an error compensation to said first signal to produce an output signal; applying a variable gain factor to said error compensation; receiving a second signal from a second sensor indicative of said movement characteristic; wherein said error compensation is calculated using the difference between said output signal and said second signal, and said variable gain factor is calculated using said first signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: ATLANTIC INERTIAL SYSTEMS LIMITEDInventors: John Keith Sheard, Nicholas Mark Faulkner
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Patent number: 10415978Abstract: In one aspect, a method for determining a location of a landmark using a map is described. Trajectory data is obtained indicating movement of a device at an area. The trajectory data indicates a landmark. A map is obtained of the area. At least a portion of the trajectory data is compared and/or matched with at least a portion of the map. Based on the matching, a location of the landmark is determined in the map. Various implementations involve system, devices and software relating to the above method.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Yang, Dongfang Zheng, Jasvinder Singh, Koichi Mori
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Patent number: 10415979Abstract: An apparatus for alerting a parking floor includes an electronic control unit configured to: determine an entrance of a parking lot; measure a slope of a vehicle; perform wireless communication with an external device through a wireless communication network; determine a current location of the vehicle; determine a gear stage of the vehicle; and compare the slope of the vehicle with a first setup value corresponding to an underground parking lot or a second setup value corresponding to a ground parking lot when the vehicle enters the entrance of the parking lot to determine movement of the vehicle to each floor and determine a parking floor value corresponding to a floor at which the vehicle reaches.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANYInventor: June Ha Park
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Patent number: 10415980Abstract: Methods and apparatus for communicating information to a visitor of a site, e.g., a theme park, historical site, zoo, etc., providing mementoes of the visit and/or communicating information encouraging future, e.g., repeat, visits are described. In various embodiments costumed characters, vending carts and/or other items of interest may move around a site and thus be at different locations at different times of the day. In some embodiments beacon transmitters are inserted in the costumes of the characters, on the vending carts and/or on other moveable items. Each beacon transmitter transmits a unique wireless signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: CECELUMEN, LLCInventors: James S. Buscemi, Jim Webster, Justin Maestri
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Patent number: 10415981Abstract: An anomaly estimation apparatus includes a collection section that collects vehicle data, a feature amount calculation section that calculates a feature amount from the vehicle data and stores the feature amount and a place corresponding thereto, an anomaly determination section that determines whether an anomaly occurrence point is present based on the feature amount, an accumulation section that, if the anomaly occurrence point is present, uses the vehicle data at the anomaly occurrence point and an anomaly periphery point to generate estimation data, an information generation section that uses the estimation data to generate causality information representing causality between an anomaly caused at the anomaly occurrence point and an anomaly caused at the anomaly periphery point, and an estimation section that, if the anomaly occurrence point is present, uses the causality information to estimate transition of the anomaly from the anomaly occurrence point to the anomaly periphery point.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hideaki Misawa, Masumi Egawa, Utsushi Sakai, Kentaro Hitomi, Yuki Shinohara, Kazuhito Takenaka, Masataka Mori
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Patent number: 10415982Abstract: A vehicle may include a display configured to provide a user interface to enable a user to input a schedule; a communication module configured to receive information about a schedule from an external terminal; and a controller configured to calculate a first driving route including a stop, based on a place and time included in the schedule input through the display or received through the communication module, to decide a second driving route including a gas station as a new stop based on a Distance To Empty (DTE) of the vehicle and map information of navigation system, and to display the second driving route on the display.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Dae Sun Park
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Patent number: 10415983Abstract: A system and method for sharing passengers among vehicles includes one or more circuits, in an electronic control unit (ECU) of a first vehicle in a plurality of vehicles, configured to communicate a vehicle sharing request including first seat mapping information and first route information associated with the first vehicle to at least one remaining vehicle of the plurality of vehicles. A second vehicle is identified among the at least one remaining vehicle for sharing passengers based on a comparison of the first route information and the first seat mapping information with second route information and second seat mapping information received from the at least one remaining vehicle. A target vehicle is selected from the second vehicle or the first vehicle to allow one or more first passengers of the first vehicle and one or more second passengers of the second vehicle to share travel in the target vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Prabakaran Ramalingam
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Patent number: 10415984Abstract: A transport service system determines the accuracy of a map matched trajectory using a forward probability algorithm. A transport vehicle on a trip relays location data to the system. The system uses a map of the corresponding area and the location data to calculate an emission probability, the likelihood of a candidate road being associated with a location data point, and a transition probability, the likelihood of a second state occurring after a first state. The joint probability of the emission and transition probabilities is used to determine a total number of zero forward probability occurrences and an average forward probability associated with the trip. These metrics are used to measure the accuracy of the map matching algorithm for the trip.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Xiao Cai, Shijing Yao, Thi Duong Nguyen
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Patent number: 10415985Abstract: Systems and methods for generating alternate navigation directions for vehicles are provided. According to certain aspects, image sensor data of a vehicle operator may be used to determine the emotional state of vehicle operators in a plurality of vehicles in proximity to each other. The plurality of vehicles in proximity to each other may be considered to be a group of vehicles. If it is determined that more than one vehicle operator in the group of vehicles is frustrated, the electronic device of a vehicle operator of an approaching vehicle may notify the vehicle operator that there is a nearby group of vehicles with frustrated vehicle operators. The electronic device of the vehicle operator of the vehicle approaching the group of vehicles with frustrated vehicle operators may generate and provide alternate navigation directions to the vehicle operator in order to avoid the group of vehicles with frustrated vehicle operators.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANYInventors: Aaron Scott Chan, Kenneth J. Sanchez
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Patent number: 10415986Abstract: A vehicle may include: at least one power source; a plurality of wheels; a motor configured to drive at least one of the plurality of wheels with energy stored in the power source; and at least one processor configured to: break a received route into a plurality of segments; and calculate a route energy consumption rate correction factor (RECF) of a current segment as a function of the following received values: a RECF of a previous segment, an observed energy consumption rate, and an estimated energy consumption rate.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Jason Meyer, Sangeetha Sangameswaran
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Patent number: 10415987Abstract: Presented are techniques of identifying, processing and displaying data point clusters (850, 851) associated with map information (200) in an efficient manner. Methods and systems are disclosed which process map information (200) to identify clusters (850, 851) of requested data points for display (1020), based on iterative clustering and filtering of the data points. Methods and systems are also disclosed which generate polygons (1860, 1861, 1901-05) representing the clusters. The amount of data to be processed and/or displayed can be reduced, without loss of any associated information content in a displayed map.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Steve Chien, Mark Yinan Li, Marc Schaub, Benjamin Anderson, James Aspinall, Zhou Bailiang, Ruwen Hess
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Patent number: 10415988Abstract: In an example system, an hours of service system may be integrated with a navigation system and configured to dynamically change a driver's route based on changing real time conditions and remaining hours of service. This system may then automatically route a driver to a new, e.g. closer, stop when necessary so that the driver and his carrier may comply with an hours of service requirement.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: OMNITRACS, LLCInventors: Gene Emory, Jon Van Winkle
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Patent number: 10415989Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for personalizing a navigation route. The method includes receiving a request from a user for a navigation route between two or more points. The method further includes accessing navigation data and services, creating a generic navigation route, accessing route history and related data for the user, creating a personalized navigation route for the user, and displaying the personalized navigation route.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Rinkesh I. Bansal, Sanjay B. Panchal, Chintan Thaker, Vinod A. Valecha
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Patent number: 10415990Abstract: A system and method for providing location-based personalized information by using user location history information, whereby battery consumption of a computing device is reduced. The computing device includes: a location finder configured to obtain user location information of a user of the computing device; a display configured to display information indicating a route of the user of the computing device; and a controller configured to track a location of the user by controlling the location finder as the controller senses a change in the location of the user based on the obtained user location information, obtain information corresponding to an initial route of the user based on the tracked location of the user, detect a predicted route of the user from user location history information based on the information corresponding to the initial route of the user, and display on the display unit the predicted route.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ho-sik Cho, Jeong-jin Song, Il-kang Na, Sun-eung Park, Hyun-cheol Park, Tae-kwang Um, Cheol-ju Hwang, Ji-won Yang
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Patent number: 10415991Abstract: An information processing system includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquires position information indicating a position of a vehicle, sensor performance information indicating the performance of a sensor mounted on the vehicle, and weather information corresponding to the position of the vehicle; and a database creation unit configured to creates correlation data indicating a correlation between the weather information and the sensor performance information on the basis of the information acquired by the acquisition unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takuro Masuda, Takamichi Shimada
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Patent number: 10415992Abstract: Systems and methods for mapping trip trajectories include identifying one or more vehicle trips (e.g., aircraft flights). One or more trajectory configurations associated with at least a portion of each vehicle trip can be identified, and location data associated with the one or more vehicle trips can be requested. Trip trajectory data based at least in part from the location data associated with the one or more vehicle trips and the one or more trajectory configurations associated with at least a portion of each vehicle trip can be generated. The trip trajectory data can be provided for display on a map of a geographic area including one or more locations defined by the location data associated with the one or more vehicle trips.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Richard Eddy Pineo, Kyle James Pope, Megan Zoe Potter, Austin David McDaniel, Kristopher Evans Adler
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Patent number: 10415993Abstract: A method for augmenting a synthetic vision system of a vehicle includes receiving, with a processor, signals indicative of real-time sensor data of a terrain for the vehicle via one or more acquisition devices; creating, with the processor, a terrain mesh of the terrain in response to the receiving of the sensor data; correlating, with the processor, the terrain mesh with preloaded terrain data of the terrain; creating, with the processor, a multispectral image of the terrain in response to the correlating the terrain mesh with the preloaded data; and texturing, with the processor, the terrain mesh for display on a display device.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Igor Cherepinsky, Jason C. Derenick, Christopher Stathis
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Patent number: 10415994Abstract: A self-test method by rotating the proof mass at a high frequency enables testing the functionality of both the drive and sense systems at the same time. In this method, the proof mass is rotated at a drive frequency. An input force which is substantially two times the drive frequency is applied to the actuation structures to rotate the proof mass of the gyroscope around the sensitive axis orthogonal to the drive axis. An output response of the gyroscope at the drive frequency is detected by a circuitry and a self-test response is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: INVENSENSE, INC.Inventors: Ozan Anac, Joseph Seeger
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Patent number: 10415995Abstract: An inertial measurement system for aircraft, the system comprising at least one processor unit connected to at least two inertial units, namely at least one inertial unit of a first type having at least three angular sensors and three linear sensors aligned on three substantially distinct sensing axes, and an inertial unit of a second type comprising at least four angular sensors and four linear sensors aligned on four substantially distinct sensing axes. The system is arranged to calculate one piece of inertial data from the six sensors of the inertial unit of the first type and four pieces of inertial data from four distinct combinations of three angular sensors and three linear sensors selected from the sensors of the inertial unit of the second type, and the processor unit is arranged to compare the four pieces of inertial data from the measurements of the inertial unit of the second type with one another so as to determine whether the inertial unit of the second type has failed.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSEInventors: David Roberfroid, Jean-Francois Keiffer
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Patent number: 10415996Abstract: The invention relates to a universal interface (INT) arranged to be positioned between a detector (D) and a monitoring-control unit of equipment and comprising: a connector (40) with at least four input connection points configured for being connected to the detector (D) and notably comprising a connection point designed to be connected to a first output of the detector for receiving a first detector output signal (S1_D) and another connection point designed to be connected to a second output of the detector for receiving a second detector output signal (S2_D), a processing unit (UC) arranged for converting each detector output signal (S1_D, S2_D) into binary information to be sent to the monitoring-control unit of equipment and which is representative of a switched status or of a non-switched status of each output of the detector (D).Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SASInventors: Loic Caseras, Mireille Roger, Alain Tardivon
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Patent number: 10415997Abstract: A method of determining a position of a sensor device relative to an external magnetic field, comprises: providing currents to conductors to generate an internal magnetic field that will superimpose with the external magnetic field, measuring field components of the combined magnetic field, calculating a position based on the applied currents and/or on the measured residual magnetic field. A position sensor is provided for performing the method.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES SAInventors: Samuel Huber Lindenberger, Javier Bilbao De Mendizabal
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Patent number: 10415998Abstract: A method for operating a rotation sensor comprising at least four magnetoresistive sensor elements is described. Each sensor element comprises a packet of a ferromagnetic reference layer and a sensitive ferromagnetic layer and a non-magnetic layer separating the reference layer from the sensitive layer. The layers are designed such that the orientation of the magnetization in the respective layer is possible in the longitudinal direction of the layer. The at least one sensor element is formed in a plane in a spiral form with at least one complete winding and the windings are implemented concentrically. The sensor element is bent into a winding in different segments. Adjacent segments enclose an angle between them and each complete winding comprises a predetermined number of segments.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KGInventors: Markus Dietrich, Oliver Rink
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Patent number: 10415999Abstract: Rotational angle sensor systems and methods are provided for detecting an angular position of a movable structure. The movable structure may be configured to rotate about an axis of rotation between a first rotational position and a second rotational position. A magnet may have a magnetic field pattern with a magnetic field orientation and an angle sensor may be configured to detect the magnetic field pattern and generate one or more signals, based on the magnetic field orientation, corresponding to a rotational position of the movable structure. Additionally, a first one of the magnet and the angle sensor is configured to rotate about the axis of rotation relative to a second one of the magnet and the angle sensor that is rotationally fixed such that the magnetic field orientation changes relative to the angle sensor as the movable structure rotates about the axis of rotation.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Leo Aichriedler, Peter Slama
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Patent number: 10416000Abstract: A magnetoresistive element is provided with a plurality of magnetoresistive laminated bodies arranged in an array and a plurality of lead electrodes that electrically connect the plurality of magnetoresistive laminated bodies in series. A first lead electrode electrically connected to a first surface in the lamination direction of a first magnetoresistive laminated body among the plurality of magnetoresistive laminated bodies and a second lead electrode electrically connected to a first surface in the lamination direction of a second magnetoresistive laminated body adjacent in the series direction are electrically connected without a magnetoresistive laminated body being interposed in between.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: TDK CorporationInventor: Naoki Ohta
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Patent number: 10416001Abstract: A ring magnet for use in determining a rotational angle of a rotatable shaft and configured to be connected to the rotatable shaft for co-rotation with the rotatable shaft around a rotational axis may include a recess in a circumferential surface of the ring magnet, where the recess may be recessed away from the circumferential surface to cause a magnetic sensor to measure a substantially constant ellipticity of a radial component of a magnetic field of the ring magnet and a tangential component of the magnetic field of the ring magnet, when measuring the rotational angle of the rotatable shaft, as the ring magnet moves along the rotational axis of the rotatable shaft.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventor: Udo Ausserlechner
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Patent number: 10416002Abstract: Provided are a light source device that can achieve higher accuracy while maintaining reliability by reducing stray light, and a photoelectric encoder including the same. A light source device 2 includes a translucent member 10 configured to accommodate a light emitting unit 5 thereinside, and to make light emitted from the light emitting unit 5, into parallel light. The translucent member 10 includes an optical axis plane 11, an orthogonal plane 12, a reflection portion configured to make light from the light emitting unit 5, into parallel light, and a connection portion 14 formed by the optical axis plane 11 and the orthogonal plane 12 connecting to each other, and having a curved surface. A central axis AX of the curved surface is in an outside region of the translucent member 10, and a region between the optical axis plane 11 and the orthogonal plane 12.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventors: Miyako Mizutani, Kimitoshi Ono, Fujio Maeda
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Patent number: 10416003Abstract: A resonating measurement system having at least a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) and/or nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) is provided, including an optomechanical device comprising at least one resonating element at at least one resonance frequency of fr, and at least one optical element having an optical index sensitive to displacement of the at least one resonating elementl; excitation circuitry configured to excite the at least one resonating element at at least at one operating frequency of fm; an injection device configured to inject a light beam, having an intensity modulated at frequency of f1=fm+?f, in the optomechanical device; and a photodetection device configured to measure an intensity of a light beam transmitted from the optomechanical device, the intensity having at least one component at frequency of ?f.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Luca Leoncino, Sebastien Hentz, Guillaume Jourdan, Marc Sansa Perna
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Patent number: 10416004Abstract: A resin impregnation detection device configured to detect resin impregnation in a resin impregnation process for a coil insulation layer. The resin impregnation detection device can be inserted in a narrow portion, is capable of detecting impregnation with a liquid resin, and does not leave metal foreign materials other than an optical fiber in a product even after the resin impregnation. The resin impregnation detection device includes an optical fiber including an FBG sensor, and a coating resin, which coats the FBG sensor. The coating resin includes a resin to be softened by contact with a detection target resin. The FBG sensor is applied with a compressive strain caused by cure shrinkage of the coating resin or heat shrinkage thereof from a curing temperature to a normal temperature.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Michihito Matsumoto, Kazushi Sekine, Ichiya Takahashi
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Patent number: 10416005Abstract: An optical fiber interrogator for interrogating optical fiber that includes fiber Bragg gratings (“FBGs”). The interrogator includes a light source operable to emit phase coherent light, amplitude modulation circuitry optically coupled to the light source and operable to generate pulses from the light, and control circuitry communicatively coupled to the amplitude modulation circuitry that is configured to perform a method for interrogating the optical fiber. The method includes generating a pair of light pulses by using the amplitude modulation circuitry to modulate light output by the light source without splitting the light.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Hifi Engineering Inc.Inventors: Brian H. Moore, Walter Jeffrey Shakespeare, Phillip William Wallace, Viet Hoang, Tom Clement
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Patent number: 10416006Abstract: This method includes the steps of a) providing a tool configured to cooperated with each object in a cooperation position, the tool being equipped with a transmitter of a signal of Ultra-Wide Band type, b) arranging at least one receiver configured to provide data (X1, X2, X3, X4) representative of the corresponding cooperation position, and forming a random variable, noted X, c) acquiring at least M times the data (X1, X2, X3, X4) for each of the cooperation positions, where M is a natural number greater than a predetermined value, d) calculating the expectation of X, noted E[X], e) arranging the tool (1) in a current position, f) acquiring at least one current piece of data, provided by the at least one receiver for the current position, g) applying an identification criterion including E[X] to identify the current position from among the K cooperation positions.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: COMMISSARIAT À L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventor: Sébastien De Rivaz
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Patent number: 10416007Abstract: An environmental sensor including sensor elements to measure multiple physical quantities associated with a surrounding environment, and includes a state determination unit that determines whether the environmental sensor is in a first state in which the sensor is fixed at a predetermined installation location or in a second state in which the sensor is away from an installation location, and an operation switch unit that switches an operation of each sensor element that measures the physical quantities based on whether a state determined by the determination unit is the first state or the second state.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Takanobu Yamauchi, Naotsugu Ueda, Kayo Nakamura, Ryusuke Sakai
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Patent number: 10416008Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure pertain to a monitored heat exchanger system that includes a heat exchanger unit in operable engagement with a heat generating device. The heat exchanger unit has a frame; and at least one cooler coupled with the frame, the at least one cooler having an airflow side and a service fluid side. The system includes a monitoring module coupled to the heat exchanger unit. The monitoring module an at least one sensor; and at least one controller housing. A microcontroller is disposed within the controller housing and in operable communication with the at least one sensor. The at least one sensor has a rotating member configured to generate a system signal proportional to an amount of rotation of the rotating member.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: FORUM US, INC.Inventors: Randy Vanberg, Hamid Reza Zareie Rajani, Seyed Reza Larimi, Morteza Abbasi
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Patent number: 10416009Abstract: A vortex shedding flowmeter has a vortex sensor with a cantilever mounted transducer vane comprising a piezoelectric polymer film laminated together with an elastic substrate and that is encapsulated in an elastomeric integument to enable the transducer vane to withstand vortex pressure fields that span more than three orders of magnitude with sensitivities that provide high turn down ratios.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: FLOWPRO, LLCInventors: Charles E. Miller, Michael Steinbach
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Patent number: 10416010Abstract: It is described a method for detecting and identifying obstructions in a pipeline network for transporting fluids, wherein the network is composed of a plurality of pipeline sections (P) and a plurality of junctions (N). The method comprising the following phases: acquiring the geometrical data of a predefined number of pipeline sections (P) for which the presence of obstructions has to be evaluated; measuring the actual flow-rate values (Q1) of the fluid in one or more pipeline sections (P) and of the actual pressure values (h1) of the fluid at one or more junctions (N) of the network; comparison between the values of the nominal diameters (D1) of said pipeline sections (P) and the corresponding equivalent diameters (Dieq) of said pipeline sections (P); calculating, by means of a specific numerical model, the theoretic flow-rate values (QiT) and pressure values (hiT) of the fluid for said equivalent diameters (Dieq).Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2013Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: ENI S.p.A.Inventors: Tommaso Mantegazza, Alberto Giulio Di Lullo, Paolo Bocchini, Alessandro Marzani
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Patent number: 10416011Abstract: An electromagnetic flowmeter includes a measurement tube having a mounting tube liner and a control module installed in an outer side of the measurement tube. A magnetic field module is installed in an outer side being orthogonal to a shaft of the measurement tube without contacting the working fluid. An electrode structure is disposed on an outer surface of the measurement tube and partially extended in the mounting tube liner to contact the working fluid. The actuator element is electrically connected with the control module and connected with the electrode structure. The actuator element is driven by an external force to drive the electrode structure toward the mounting tube liner inside and being orthogonal to the mounting tube liner for compensating the wear of the electrode structure so as to obtain a correct measurement result and increase the service life.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: FINETEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Chien-Lung Huang, Sheng-Shou Chen, Yi-Liang Hou, Chun-Ju Chen
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Patent number: 10416012Abstract: A method for estimating and correcting or at least reducing phase errors in received ultrasonic signals in an ultrasonic flow meter is disclosed, the method including the steps of: measuring one or more signals in the ultrasonic flow meter, which one or more signals depend on characteristics of one or more ultrasonic transducers in the ultrasonic flow meter, using the one or more measured signals for calculating an estimated phase error value, and using the estimated phase error value for correcting transmission times measured by the ultrasonic flow meter.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2012Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Apator Miitors ApSInventor: Jens Drachmann
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Patent number: 10416013Abstract: A measurement apparatus 100 comprises a measurement unit 10 to propagate, using sensors 11 and 12 provided in a pipe 99, a measurement wave in a medium 98 flowing through the pipe and receive the measurement wave, a trigger detecting section 21 to detect whether or not a level of the received measurement wave exceeds a predetermined trigger level, and a specifying section 22 to specify a reception timing of the measurement wave based on a waveform part in a period of the received measurement wave different from a period in which the level of the received measurement wave exceeds the trigger level.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Shingo Noguchi, Masami Kishiro
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Patent number: 10416014Abstract: A device for detecting air flows includes an air line channeling an air flow. The line (for example a tube) includes at least one first temperature sensor and one second temperature sensor (inside the tube). At least one of the sensors is subjected to periodic temperature fluctuations controlled by at least one heating device, such as a variable-current power source dedicated to the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Siemens Schweiz AGInventor: Pierre Clerivet
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Patent number: 10416015Abstract: A technique facilitates evaluation of a fluid, such as a fluid produced from a well. The technique utilizes a modular and mobile system for testing flows of fluid which may comprise mixtures of constituents, and for sampling fluids thereof. The multiphase sampling method includes flowing a multiphase fluid comprising an oil phase and a water phase through a first conduit, the oil phase and water phase at least partially separating in the first conduit, mixing together the oil phase and water phase to form a mixed bulk liquid phase by flowing the multiphase fluid through a flow mixer toward a second conduit downstream the flow mixer, sampling a portion of the mixed bulk liquid phase at location at or within the second conduit, wherein the sampled portion of the mixed bulk liquid phase has a water-to-liquid ratio (WLR) representative of the pre-mixed oil phase and water phase.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Cheng-Gang Xie, Jianhua Zhu, Alexander Tuborg Vilstrup, Guillaume Jolivet, Shasha Wang
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Patent number: 10416016Abstract: A grid sensor system for characterizing a fluid flow includes a sensor insert having a grid sensor element and a flow guide having an inlet line, an outlet line, and an insert holder arranged between the same to hold the sensor insert. A rectilinear flow path is formed by the flow guide. The insert holder is formed in such a way that the sensor insert can be inserted into the insert holder along an insertion direction extending transversely with respect to the flow path. When the sensor insert is held in the insert holder, none of the electrodes extends parallel to the insertion direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Hemlholtz-Zentrum Dresden—Rossendorf e.V.Inventors: Eckhard Schleicher, Martin Tschofen, Heiko Pietruske
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Patent number: 10416017Abstract: A method for reducing flowmeter braze joint stress is provided. The method comprises the step of bending a flow tube (20) to create at least one thermal expansion bend (300, 302) thereon. The method comprises the step of aligning a flow tube (20) with at least one anchor block (30a, 30b). Additionally, the flow tube (20) is brazed to the at least one anchor block (30a, 30b) in another step, after which the flow tube (20) and the at least one anchor block (30a, 30b) are allowed to cool and contract a predetermined degree after brazing. The method additionally comprises the step of attaching the at least one anchor block (30a, 30b) to a support block (100) after the flow tube (20) has been attached to the at least one anchor block (30a, 30b) and attaching a manifold (90, 92) to each end of the flow tube (20).Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Micro Motion, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey D. Nielson, Gregory Treat Lanham, Christopher A Werbach, Nikhil Bhargava, Anand Vidhate, David Fleming, Lyle Dee Ashby
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Patent number: 10416018Abstract: A pulse running time filling level sensor includes a sampling device for sampling an IF signal at discrete instants and for converting the sampling values into digital sampling values, and a digital signal processing device for subsequent processing of the digital sampling values by calculating at least one new value characterizing the IF curve from respectively exactly two digital sampling values.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: VEGA GRIESHABER KGInventors: Karl Griessbaum, Josef Fehrenbach, Roland Welle, Juergen Haas
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Patent number: 10416019Abstract: A bin monitoring system functions both as a device for lifting the bin and as a weighing system for monitoring or measuring the level of feed or other product in a bin. Various embodiments and methods of retrofitting the bin monitoring system to existing bins are provided. Further, the accuracy provided by various embodiments enables one to accurately predict when the bin will be empty. Thus, a feed mill, for example, can be aware of anticipated needs days in advance, allowing the feed mill to better optimize its scheduling and deliveries.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Herdstar, LLCInventor: Mark H. Jaeger
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Patent number: 10416020Abstract: Method for monitoring a predetermined fill level of a medium (3) in a container (2) with at least one measuring probe (1) and an electronics unit (7), wherein the measuring probe (1) is operated alternately in the conductive and in the capacitive operating modes, wherein the measuring probe (1) is supplied with an exciter signal, which is composed of two different, time alternatingly sequential, periodic signal components, wherein in a first time interval the first periodic signal component is generated for the conductive operating mode and in a second time interval the second periodic signal component is generated for the capacitive operating mode, wherein from the capacitive or conductive operating mode response signal obtained from the measuring probe (1) as a function of the current signal component, it is ascertained, whether the predetermined fill level has been reached, and wherein a report is generated upon the exceeding or subceeding of this fill level.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: ENDRESS+HAUSER SE+CO.KGInventors: Armin Wernet, Gerd Bechtel, Kaj Uppenkamp
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Patent number: 10416021Abstract: A method for measuring a fill level of a fill substance in a container with a fill-level measuring device working according to the travel time principle. The fill-level measuring device in measurement operation sends transmission signals toward the fill substance in the container and, based on their signal fractions reflected back in the container, derives echo functions, which give the amplitudes of the signal fractions as a function of their travel time.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2014Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: ENDRESS+HAUSER SE+CO.KGInventors: Stefan Gorenflo, Alexey Malinovskiy
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Patent number: 10416022Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for monitoring the water level within a pipe. The present specification discloses a method for monitoring the water level in a pipe, comprising the steps of: transmitting ultrasonic waves generated at a plurality of ultrasonic transducers, which are spaced apart from each other in the outside of the pipe, to the inside of the pipe via a solid contact medium; checking whether echoes corresponding to respective ultrasonic waves are present; and determining the water level on the basis of the presence of the echoes corresponding to the respective ultrasonic waves. The present invention can simply and conveniently install water level monitoring equipment within a pipe on a long term basis using a nondestructive method.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2014Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: KOREA HYDRO & NUCLEAR POWER CO., LTDInventors: Seung Chan Lee, Duk Joo Yoon, Sang Jun Ha