Patents Issued in April 2, 2020
  • Publication number: 20200103266
    Abstract: The device for packaging and dispensing a product including a storage container (12) provided with at least one variable-volume compartment (22) containing the product, a pressurizing means (30) able to permanently pressurize the product contained in the compartment, and a dispensing head (14) having a mounting base (32) attached to the container. The dispensing head further includes a dispensing member (34) mounted inside the mounting base (32) with the ability to move in rotation, a piston (36) with the ability to move in translation inside the dispensing member (34) and able to delimit, inside the said member, opposing first and second metering chambers (60, 62), and at least first and second orifices (56, 58) formed on the dispensing member (34) and respectively able to be in direct fluidic communication with the first and second metering chambers (60, 62).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventor: Jian YAN
  • Publication number: 20200103267
    Abstract: A method is used to control a fuel level gauge of a vehicle system and includes: monitoring, via an engine controller, a fuel economy of the vehicle system; comparing, via the engine controller, the fuel economy with a predetermined fuel economy threshold to determine whether the fuel economy is less than the predetermined fuel economy threshold; adjusting, via the engine controller, a sensitivity of a display filter in response to determining that the fuel economy is less than the predetermined fuel economy threshold for a predetermined amount of time in order to maximize an accuracy of the fuel level gauge, wherein the display filter smoothes an unfiltered fuel level signal received from a fuel level sensor of the vehicle system, thereby generating a filtered fuel level signal; and controlling, via an instrument panel controller, the fuel level gauge of the vehicle system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Ayman A. Abbas, Michael V. Miceli, Thomas J. McDade, JR.
  • Publication number: 20200103268
    Abstract: Fill level gauge with a single continuously measuring fill level sensor and at least one processor for controlling the fill level sensor and for evaluating the measurements, with the fill level gauge having at least a first operating mode and a second operating mode for determining the fill level, with the measuring device showing in the first operating mode a first measurement rate and a first measurement precision and in the second operating mode showing a second measurement rate and a second measurement precision, wherein the first measurement rate is lower than the second measurement rate and/or the first measurement accuracy is lower than the second measurement accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Karl Grießbaum, Jürgen Motzer, Jürgen Skowaisa, Jürgen Haas
  • Publication number: 20200103269
    Abstract: A method at a sensor apparatus affixed to a transportation asset. The method includes calibrating the sensor apparatus by initiating a vertical impact at the transportation asset, measuring spring oscillation and creating a model of the transportation asset. The method further includes detecting, subsequent to the calibrating, an impact event at the sensor apparatus. The method further includes measuring spring oscillation due to the impact event at the sensor apparatus and using the measured spring oscillation in the model created during calibration to create a load mass estimate for the transportation asset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventor: Gordon Bell
  • Publication number: 20200103270
    Abstract: A medication dispensing device may include a plurality of trays, each tray optionally including a load cell configured to measure a mass/weight of a medication contained in the respective tray. Each tray is placeable in a medication accessible position and a medication inaccessible position. The medication dispensing device includes a user interface configured to provide instructions and/or other information with regard to access for each medication. A processor provides instructions to selectively place each tray in the medication accessible position, and to determine, based on any change in the mass of the medication placed in the medication accessible position, whether the appropriate amount of the medication is removed from the tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Mark Allen Pilkington, Benjamin Eli Stormer, Daniel Lee Michael, Jason R. Ertel, Vikki Nowak
  • Publication number: 20200103271
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for operating a set of electronic sensors. The method includes detecting, by one or more sensors embedded in a table, that a tray associated with a user is placed on the table. The method further includes detecting, by the one or more sensors embedded in the table, a first weight of contents on the tray at a first time, and detecting, by the one or more sensors embedded in the table, a second weight of the contents on the tray at a second time. The method further includes determining a final weight of the contents on the tray when the tray is no longer associated with the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Alaa Abou Mahmoud, Mahjabeen Huq, Vignesh Kumaresan, Shaila Pervin
  • Publication number: 20200103272
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for estimating drift in a solar radiation sensor (2) and for calibrating such a sensor, in which the radiation (GMES) measured by this sensor under its conditions of use and a radiation model (51) are taken into account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Sylvain LESPINATS, Xavier LE PIVERT
  • Publication number: 20200103273
    Abstract: A light detection device includes: a package including an opening configured to allow light to enter therefrom; a light transmitting unit arranged on an inner surface of the package so as to close the opening; a Fabry-Perot interference filter arranged in the package and configured to transmit light transmitted by the light transmitting unit; and a light detector arranged in the package and configured to detect the light transmitted by the Fabry-Perot interference filter. The light transmitting unit is integrally configured by including: a band pass filter arranged in the package and configured to transmit the light to be incident on the Fabry-Perot interference filter; and at least one lens unit configured to condense the light to be incident on the Fabry-Perot interference filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Masaki HIROSE, Katsumi SHIBAYAMA, Takashi KASAHARA, Toshimitsu KAWAI, Hiroki OYAMA, Yumi KURAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200103274
    Abstract: Light obstruction can be detected using a light obstruction sensor. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a light obstruction sensor, light being emitted by a light source, a light level being associated with the light, and the light source and the light obstruction sensor being disposed in a light assembly. The method further includes determining, by a processing device, whether the light level exceeds a first threshold. The method further includes, responsive to determining that the light level exceeds the first threshold, determining that the light being emitted by the light source is at least partially impaired by an object. The method further includes validating, by the processing device, the determination that the light source is at least partially impaired by the object to confirm whether the light source is at least partially impaired by the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Tynan J. Garrett, Andrew Hicks, Michael P. Lyons, Miles C. Pedrone, Yunli Tang
  • Publication number: 20200103275
    Abstract: [Object] An analog front end is realized which is capable of correcting a difference in characteristics between sensors without reduction of an operation speed. [Solution] An analog front end (400) that reads from a sensor (91) an output signal which is either a current output signal (IOUT) or a charge output signal corrects characteristics of the sensor by adjusting a bias voltage (VBIASIN) of an output signal line from the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventor: Yoshihisa FUJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200103276
    Abstract: Provided is an optical probe, and a Raman spectroscopy system using such, including excitation and detection optics coupled to a sampling optics via a beam splitter, in confocal arrangement with a sample focal plane of the sampling optics. The detection optics is arranged to receive Raman signal from the sample focal plane and direct it onto a tip of a detection optical fiber. The optical probe may further include a positioning device mechanically coupled to the sampling optics and configured to control a position of the sample focal plane. In the Raman spectroscopy system a light source is coupled to the excitation optics via an excitation optical fiber, and a spectrometer is coupled to a detection optics via a detection optical fiber. Provided is further a method for measuring Raman signal depth profile in a sample, wherein sample's Raman spectra is measured and stored at different focal plane positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Malini Olivo, Gurpreet Singh, Renzhe Bi, Kapil Dev, Dinish Unnimadhava Kurup Soudamini Amma, Chris Jun Hui Ho
  • Publication number: 20200103277
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical system including at least one objective lens (2) for receiving light from an object (1), an array of image forming elements (4) for generating multiple images of the object on an image sensor plane (SP) and a filter (F). The optical system is configured to form a real image of the filter on the array of image forming elements to filter the multiple images of the object, the filter being arranged with respect to the at least one objective lens so that a real image of the filter is formed on the array of image forming elements, and wherein the optical system is configured to be telecentric in the image plane of the filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Ross STANLEY, Amina CHEBIRA, Liza Andrea DUNBAR
  • Publication number: 20200103278
    Abstract: An ATR scanner and method for calibrating the same are disclosed. The scanner includes an ATR objective having a reflecting face and an optical port adapted to receive a first light beam, and to focus the first light beam to a point, at a location on the reflecting face such that the first light beam is reflected by the reflecting face and no portion of the first light beam strikes the reflecting face at an angle greater than the critical angle. A detector measures an intensity of light reflected from the reflecting face. A controller controls the location of the focal point and determines an intensity of light that was incident on the reflecting face as a function of the position on the reflecting face and an intensity of light that was reflected from the reflecting face as a function of position on the reflecting face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: Agilent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Ryan Moon, Charles Hoke
  • Publication number: 20200103279
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a tip-enhanced Raman spectroscope system. The system includes a laser emitting unit, a laser excitation unit, a first dichroic beam splitter, a first Raman spectrometer, and a confocal detecting unit. The laser excitation unit includes a sample stage and a first scanning probe. The sample stage is configured to have a sample disposed thereon such that a first incident laser beam emitted from the laser emitting unit is transmitted to the sample to excite first scattered light. The first dichroic beam splitter is configured to split a first Raman scattered light from the first Rayleigh scattered light. The first Raman spectrometer is disposed on a first Raman optical path of the first Raman scattered light. The confocal detecting unit is disposed on a first Rayleigh optical path of the first Rayleigh scattered light to image the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: National Institute of Metrology, China
    Inventors: ZHEN-DONG ZHU, SI-TIAN GAO, WEI LI, SHI LI, JING-TAO XU
  • Publication number: 20200103280
    Abstract: A device includes a computing unit connectable to a Raman spectrometer, refractometer, and database. Data sets represent fluids, active substances and/or active substance combinations. The device can subject a fluid, active substance, or active substance combination to a Raman spectroscopic measurement. The computing unit can identify the fluid, active substance, or active substance combination as Raman active or Raman inactive. The device can also subject the fluid, active substance, or active substance combination to a refractive index measurement. The computing unit can compare the second result with the first result to obtain a final result in the event of a detected Raman activity, and adopt the second result as the final result in the event of a detected Raman inactivity. The computing unit can compare the final result with the data sets to identify an incorrect/unintended fluid, active substance, or active substance combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Lars Gundrum, Julian Born, Hainer Wackerbarth, Zheng Wang, Fabian Dach
  • Publication number: 20200103281
    Abstract: A non-paraxial Talbot spectrometer includes a transmission grating to receive incident light. The grating period of the transmission grating is comparable to the wavelength of interest so as to allow the Talbot spectrometer to operate outside the paraxial limit. Light transmitted through the transmission grating forms periodic Talbot images. A tilted detector is employed to simultaneously sample the Talbot images at various distances along a direction perpendicular to the grating. Spectral information of the incident light can be calculated by taking Fourier transform of the measured Talbot images or by comparing the measured Talbot images with a library of intensity patterns acquired with light sources having known wavelengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Erika Ye, Amir H. Atabaki, Ningren Han, Rajeev J. RAM, William F. Herrington
  • Publication number: 20200103282
    Abstract: A spectrometer including at least one light-coupling element, a variable entrance slit, a dispersive element, a detector element and a control and evaluation unit. The object of providing a spectrometer having improved measuring characteristics is achieved in that the variable entrance slit is implemented by a first spatial modulation element including a plurality of pixels, wherein the individual pixels can be arranged independently of one another by the control and evaluation unit, wherein the individual pixels are arranged in order to implement the entrance slit during operation in such a manner that at least part of the light incident from the light-coupling element is passed on to the dispersive element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: KROHNE Messtechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas FRITSCH
  • Publication number: 20200103283
    Abstract: Chromatic calibration of a device having an embedded camera proceeds by illuminating a plurality of color references with at least one light source. Images of the respective illuminated color references are captured with the embedded camera. Color calibration data from are determined from the captured images and the color calibration data are stored in association with an identifier of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
    Inventors: Mahbubunnabi TAMAL, Maram Abdullah ALQARNI, Danah Naif ALOTAIBI, Meernah Mohammed ALABDULLAH, Mona Ameen ALHAWAJ, Fatimah Najib ALSAFWANI, Noor Sami ALHAWAJ
  • Publication number: 20200103284
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed towards systems, methods and computer program products for correcting inter-instrumentation variation among color measurement devices. In one particular implementation, a method for correcting inter-instrument variation among color measurement devices includes obtaining a set of color measurements of an item under analysis. The described approach also includes accessing a conversion model, wherein the conversion module has been generated using one or more ANN back propagated over a collection of data points, where the data points correspond to measurements of a color standard using devices from a control device batch and a test device batch. Using the conversion module, a processor is configured to transform the set of color measurements into a calibrated color measurement set. The calibrated color measurement set is then output to at least one display, memory or remote computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Taeyoung Park, Hong Wei, Zhiling Xu, Venkata R. Thumu
  • Publication number: 20200103285
    Abstract: A scale composition determination device (10) determines that Fe2O3 has been generated in the outermost layer of a scale (SC) in the case where the absolute value of a difference between temperatures of a steel material SM measured by radiation thermometers (20a, 20b) is equal to or more than a predetermined temperature, and determines that Fe2O3 has not been generated in the outermost layer of the scale (SC) in the case where the absolute value of the difference between the temperatures of the steel material SM measured by the radiation thermometers (20a, 20b) is not equal to or more than the predetermined temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi TANEI, Masato SUGIURA, Shuichi YAMAZAKI, Yasumitsu KONDO
  • Publication number: 20200103286
    Abstract: A notification control device for controlling notification based on subject information is disclosed. The subject information including temperature image data, which indicates temperature of a subject captured within a predetermined capturing range, is received. A predetermined destination of notification information, which represents a state of the subject based on the subject information, is notified. A process of notifying the notification information to the predetermined destination is stopped depending on whether or not the subject information includes predetermined identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajimu IKEDA, Toshihiro ATSUMI, Shotaro KOMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200103287
    Abstract: A process fluid temperature estimation system includes a mounting assembly, a sensor capsule, measurement circuitry, and a controller. The mounting assembly is configured to mount the process fluid temperature estimation system to an external surface of a process fluid conduit. The sensor capsule has an end that is configured to contact the external surface of the process fluid conduit to form an interface having a contact region and an air gap. The sensor capsule also has at least one temperature sensitive element disposed therein. The measurement circuitry is coupled to the sensor capsule and configured to detect an electrical characteristic of the at least one temperature sensitive element that varies with temperature and provide at least process fluid conduit skin temperature information. The controller is coupled to the measurement circuitry and is configured to obtain the process fluid conduit skin temperature information from the measurement circuitry and to obtain reference temperature information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Jason H. Rud, Aleksey A. Krivonogov, Yury N. Kuznetsov, Sait S. Garipov, Sergey A. Fomchenko, Allen J. Kassen, Kyle S. Warren
  • Publication number: 20200103288
    Abstract: A method of making a resistance temperature detector includes additively manufacturing a conductive ink on a flexible substrate and applying the resistance temperature detector to a geometrically complex surface of a component requiring heating, or directly additive manufacturing the resistance temperature detector onto that surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: James A. Mullen, Reid Philip Beery, Brandon Hein
  • Publication number: 20200103289
    Abstract: A thermal sensor in some embodiments comprises two temperature-sensitive branches, each including a thermal-sensing device, such as one or more bipolar-junction transistors, and a current source for generating a current density in the thermal-sensing device to generate a temperature-dependent signal. The thermal sensor further includes a signal processor configured to multiply the temperature-dependent signal from the branches by respective and different gain factors, and combine the resultant signals to generate an output signal that is substantially proportional to the absolute temperature the thermal sensor is disposed at.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Jaw-Juinn Horng, Szu-Lin Liu
  • Publication number: 20200103290
    Abstract: The structure of a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) thermal sensor and a method of fabricating the MEMS thermal sensor are disclosed. A method of fabricating a MEMS thermal sensor includes forming first and second sensing electrodes with first and second electrode fingers, respectively, on a substrate and forming a patterned layer with a rectangular cross-section between a pair of the first electrode fingers. The first and second electrode fingers are formed in an interdigitated configuration and suspended above the substrate. The method further includes modifying the patterned layer to have a curved cross-section between the pair of the first electrode fingers, forming a curved sensing element on the modified patterned layer to couple to the pair of the first electrodes, and removing the modified patterned layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsai-Hao HUNG, Shih-Chi Kuo
  • Publication number: 20200103291
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for conserving energy of a power source of an analyte monitoring device. Also disclosed herein are methods and systems for reducing noise during data transmissions to and from the analyte monitoring device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
    Inventors: Saeed Nekoomaram, Martin J. Fennell, Mark Kent Sloan, Lei He, Jeffery Mario Sicurello
  • Publication number: 20200103292
    Abstract: Two sets of the DC voltages are determined from among sets of DC voltages. At a first temperature, a first voltage of one of the two sets and a first voltage of the other one of the two sets surround a detection voltage that varies substantially proportionally to temperature. The detection voltage is compared with a second voltage of one of the two sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventor: Bruno Gailhard
  • Publication number: 20200103293
    Abstract: A process fluid temperature estimation system includes a mounting assembly configured to mount the process fluid temperature estimation system to an external surface of a process fluid conduit. A sensor capsule has at least one temperature sensitive element disposed therein. Measurement circuitry is coupled to the sensor capsule and configured to detect an electrical characteristic of the at least one temperature sensitive element that varies with temperature and provide sensor capsule temperature information. A controller is coupled to the measurement circuitry and is configured to obtain a reference temperature and employ a heat transfer calculation with the reference temperature, the sensor capsule temperature information and the known thermal conductivity of the process fluid conduit to generate an estimated process fluid temperature output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Jason H. Rud, Steven R. Trimble
  • Publication number: 20200103294
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include a method of measuring the chucking force of an electrostatic chuck. In an embodiment, the method comprises placing a sensor wafer onto the electrostatic chuck, wherein the sensor wafer comprises a plurality of pressure sensors, and applying a chucking voltage to the electrostatic chuck. In an embodiment, the method further comprises measuring the chucking force with the plurality of pressure sensors to determine a first chucking force profile of the electrostatic chuck, and processing a plurality of wafers on the electrostatic chuck. In an embodiment, the method further comprises placing the sensor wafer onto the electrostatic chuck, and applying the chucking voltage to the electrostatic chuck. In an embodiment, the method further comprises measuring the chucking force with the plurality of pressure sensors to determine a second chucking force profile of the electrostatic chuck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Charles G. Potter, Wendell Glenn Boyd, JR., Govinda Raj, Robert Hirahara
  • Publication number: 20200103295
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to systems, apparatuses, processing, and techniques related to may generally relate to a printed circuit board (PCB) with one or more strain gauges integrated into the PCB, where the strain gauges are to facilitate an evaluation of PCB integrity during operation of the PCB. The strain gauge may include discrete strain gauges integrated into the PCB at potentially critical stress points within the PCB. The strain gauge may include an electrically conductive daisy chain formation of solder bumps where a change in electrical resistance along the daisy chain formation indicates a strain on the PCB. The strain gauge may include one or more traces included in the PCB, where a change in electrical resistance along the one or more traces is to indicate a strain on the PCB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Michael A. SCHROEDER, Sayed S. SERHAN
  • Publication number: 20200103296
    Abstract: An electric inertia control device 5A simulates the behavior of an inertial body having a predetermined set moment of inertia Jset by means of a dynamometer, and is provided with: an inertia compensator 51A which generates a torque signal by multiplying a signal obtained by subtracting a shaft torque detection signal T12 from a higher-level command torque signal T* by the ratio of a moment of inertia J1 of the dynamometer to the set moment of inertia Jset, and generates an inertia compensation torque signal Tref by summing the torque signal and the shaft torque detection signal J1; and a resonance suppression control circuit 53A which uses the inertia compensation torque signal Tref and the shaft torque detection signal T12 to generate a torque current command signal T1 in such a way as to suppress resonance in a mechanical system including a test piece and the dynamometer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Takashi YAMAGUCHI, Takao AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200103297
    Abstract: A measurement device includes a probe having a first conductive surface, a second conductive surface, and an insulating layer. The second conductive surface is opposite the first conductive surface and fixed relative to the first conductive surface. The insulating layer is positioned between the first conductive surface and second conductive surface and electrically insulates the first conductive surface from the second conductive surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Errol Mark TAZBAZ, Luis Ariel ALDARONDO
  • Publication number: 20200103298
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises an electrically active layer having a first plurality of substantially parallel electrodes and a second plurality of substantially parallel electrodes, wherein the first plurality of electrodes are not parallel to the second plurality of electrodes, such that there exists a matrix of intersection points between the electrodes. A signal generator is configured to generate excitation signals and is connected to the first plurality of electrodes, and a signal detector is configured to detect output signals from the second plurality of electrodes, wherein an output signal from one of the second plurality of electrodes is indicative of the degree of capacitive coupling to one of the first plurality of electrodes on application of an excitation signal thereto. A flexible top layer is sealed to the electrically active layer to define at least one hermetic void between portions of the top layer and portions of the electrically active layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventor: Hrand Mami MAMIGONIANS
  • Publication number: 20200103299
    Abstract: A pressure transducer assembly comprises a pressure transducer, a cable, an expandable member, and a vented connector. The cable includes a proximal end, a distal end, and a vent tube. The proximal end is operatively connected to the pressure transducer. The expandable member is operatively connected to the vent tube proximate the distal end. The vented connector is operatively connected to the distal end, and the vented connector is configured and arranged to allow exposure of the vent tube to atmospheric conditions when in a disconnected configuration and to prevent exposure of the vent tube to atmospheric conditions when in a connected configuration. The expandable member accommodates changes in air pressure within the vent tube when the vented connector is in the connected configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: S.J. Electro Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan J. Bergum
  • Publication number: 20200103300
    Abstract: A manifold assembly configured to measure differential pressure of fluid. The manifold assembly may have a monolithic body with an internally drilled fluid pathway. The body supports a differential pressure transducer that communicates, on either end, with the internally drilled fluid pathway. This configuration can generate data that defines pressure drop across impellers or other mechanisms on metrology hardware (or “gas meters”). Utilities can use this data to diagnose health or other conditions on the gas meter in the field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventor: Richard Jin Yao
  • Publication number: 20200103301
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a sensing device comprising a pressure sensor, a sensor housing, and a deformable cover. The sensor housing comprises a sensor cavity disposed within the sensor housing. The pressure sensor is disposed within the sensor cavity. The deformable cover is disposed adjacent to the sensor housing. The deformable cover comprises a deformable cavity. The deformable cavity is in fluid communication with the sensor cavity. The deformable cavity and the sensor cavity contain a fluid, such that when an external force is applied to a surface of the deformable cover, the deformable cavity deforms and alters a volume of the deformable cavity to alter a pressure sensed by the pressure sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Claudio V. Di Leo, Mark F. Costello, Benjamin Leon, Julian Jose Rimoli
  • Publication number: 20200103302
    Abstract: A pressure sensing module for an electronic device includes a substrate and a module housing coupled to the substrate. The module housing defines a first chamber and a second chamber. The second chamber is separate from the first chamber. The first chamber is configured to connect to an environment around an electronic device. The second chamber is configured to connect to an internal volume of the housing of the electronic device. A first pressure sensing element is electrically coupled to the substrate and disposed in the first chamber and is operative to detect an external pressure around the electronic device. A second pressure sensing element is electrically coupled to the substrate and disposed in the second chamber and is operative to detect an internal pressure within the electronic device housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Gregory B. Arndt, Krishna Prasad Vummidi Murali
  • Publication number: 20200103303
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a sensor module, an offset diagnostic module, and a notification module. The sensor module is in operative communication with a cylinder pressure sensor and structured to acquire cylinder pressure data from the cylinder pressure sensor indicative of an actual in-cylinder pressure of a cylinder of an engine. The offset diagnostic module is structured to interpret the cylinder pressure data to determine an offset of the cylinder pressure sensor based on a reference in-cylinder pressure and the actual in-cylinder pressure. The notification module is structured to provide an offset error notification responsive to the offset being greater than a threshold offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: Cummins, Inc.
    Inventors: Alok A. Joshi, Richard A. Booth, Edmond P. Hodzen
  • Publication number: 20200103304
    Abstract: A balancing device is provided, including acquisition device adapted to detect vibratory stresses generated by the rotating body during rotation, in which the acquisition device are configured in such a way as to allow the detection of vibratory stresses along at least two mutually non intersecting acquisition directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: BALANCE SYSTEMS S.r.L.
    Inventor: Gianni TRIONFETTI
  • Publication number: 20200103305
    Abstract: An improved sensor system is provided that monitors and controls a dendritic fluid system. A dendritic fluid system can include artificial components and/or natural components that carry fluid from a source to a destination through a series of paths. The sensor system can include magnetic field sensors, acoustic sensors, encapsulated sensor systems, pressure regulators, and valve controllers to monitor and control the dendritic fluid system. For example, magnetic field sensors, acoustic sensors, and/or pressure regulators can be used to measure the flow of fluid within a dendritic fluid subsystem and/or to detect potential leaks. The encapsulated sensor systems and/or valve controllers can be used to detect fluid levels in a contained system and control valves to adjust the fluid levels in the contained system to a desired level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventor: Richard Andrew DeVerse
  • Publication number: 20200103306
    Abstract: A water leak sensing system includes: a plurality of sensor terminals including a sensor installed in a pipeline of a water supply network; and a computer that senses a water leak from the pipeline based on detection signal data of the plurality of sensors of the plurality of sensor terminals, and outputs a result. The pipeline is either a first pipeline not covered by a pipe covering member (PE sleeve) or a second pipeline covered by the pipe covering member. The sensor can detect a signal at a first distance from a water leak point when the water leak occurs in the first pipeline, and detect a signal at a second distance, longer than the first distance, from the water leak point when the water leak occurs in the second pipeline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Toshiyuki MINE, Yuudai KAMADA, Tetsuya ISHIMARU, Kazuo ONO
  • Publication number: 20200103307
    Abstract: The method may include: in a first measurement phase, generating a first input signal to the first input terminal of a leak detection cable interface circuit and receiving a first response signal in response the first input signal; in a second measurement phase, generating a second input signal to the second input terminal of the leak detection cable interface circuit and receiving a second response signal in response the second input signal; and based on at least the first response signal and the second response signal, determining a state of a leak detection cable communicatively coupled to the leak detection cable interface circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Sandor FARKAS, Jeremiah BARTLETT
  • Publication number: 20200103308
    Abstract: A vehicle headlight measurement system instrumentation structure, comprises: a support structure; a vehicle calibration assistance structure, which is carried by the support structure and includes a headlight aiming device; a positioning target element, having a surface provided with a predetermined graphical feature, the positioning target element being supported by the support structure and oriented in a forward direction towards the service area; a positioning device, configured for aiding a relative positioning between the vehicle and the vehicle calibration assistance structure; a processing system which is operatively connected to the positioning device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventor: GIULIO CORGHI
  • Publication number: 20200103309
    Abstract: A method for continuous playback of machine vibration data that is stored in a plurality of data files, by selecting for analysis desired ones of the plurality of data files, retrieving a first one of the desired data files, and designating the first of the desired data files as a current data file. A sequence of derived measurements is calculated, based on a subsampling of the current data file, and visualizations of the current data file and the sequence of derived measurements are presented. A subsequent one of the desired data files is retrieved, and the subsequent one of the desired data files is designated as the current data file. These steps are iteratively repeated until all of the desired data files have been processed. Selected portions of the derived measurements are stored on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: Computational Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick P. Slavick
  • Publication number: 20200103310
    Abstract: A mechanical seal assembly comprising a gland assembly having first and second sensor openings and a sleeve assembly disposed about a shaft and disposed within the gland assembly. A first RFID sensor is disposed within the first sensor opening and a second RFID sensor is disposed within the second sensor opening, where the first RFID sensor is a high frequency RFID sensor and the second RFID sensor is an ultra high frequency RFID sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventor: John M. STRONCK
  • Publication number: 20200103311
    Abstract: A lifespan diagnosis device for a motion guidance device including: a stress calculating means which calculates stresses during movement for each of virtual segments, the stresses during movement being stresses that occur in each segment during a movement of the moving member; a counting means which counts, for each of the segments, on the basis of the amount of displacement, the number of occurrences of the stresses during movement which repetitively occur with waving during a movement of the moving member along the track; and a diagnostic means which calculates, for each of the segments, a lifespan exhaustion ratio on the basis of magnitudes of the stresses during movement and the number of occurrences of the stresses during movement, and which diagnoses the lifespan of the motion guidance device on the basis of the calculated lifespan exhaustion ratios of the respective segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Unno, Yuki Hayashi, Yuki Tanaka, Tomofumi Ohashi, Yusuke Asano, Katsunori Kogure
  • Publication number: 20200103312
    Abstract: A method can include receiving time-dependent vibration data characterizing a vibration of a machine. The method can also include generating first conditioned vibration data by at least identification of one or more vibrational peaks of intermediate data representative of the received vibration data, temporal interpolation of one or more portions of the intermediate data including the identified one or more vibrational peaks, and widening the one or more vibrational peaks. The method can further include generating a frequency spectrum based on the first conditioned vibration data. The method can also include providing the frequency spectrum to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventor: Nigel Trevor Leigh
  • Publication number: 20200103313
    Abstract: A flow sensor rake assembly for taking flow field measurements in flow machine, such as a compressor or turbine of gas turbine engine. Axial flow machine has rotor arranged to rotate about an axis to interact with fluid flow through the rotor in use, and static annular wall surrounding axis. Annular wall is mounted axially upstream or downstream of rotor to be washed by fluid flow in use. Flow sensor rake has elongate stem having first and second ends and plurality of probes depending therefrom at spaced locations along stem. Elongate stem is mounted to annular wall at first end and depending away from annular wall to the second end. Elongate stem is obliquely angled relative to annular wall when viewed in axial direction and second end of elongate stem is offset in circumferential direction relative to first end. Stem is slanted relative to radial direction with respect to axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventor: Vasileios Kyritsis
  • Publication number: 20200103314
    Abstract: A method of optimizing the operation of a gas turbine engine is provided. The method comprises the steps of: (a) measuring respective values for plural control actuator settings within the gas turbine engine; (b) deriving, based on data external to the operation of the gas turbine engine, a desired performance modification of the gas turbine engine; (c) determining, based on the measured control actuator settings, one or more respective trim signals for varying selected of the control actuator settings to achieve the desired performance modification; and (d) transmitting the trim signals to an electronic controller of the engine to vary the selected control actuator settings accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Derek S. WALL, Chana T. GOLDBERG, Panagiotis LASKARIDIS, Devaiah K. NALIANDA
  • Publication number: 20200103315
    Abstract: A system for torque measurement is generally provided. The system includes a sensor disposed between an outer bearing race and a static structure of a bearing assembly. The sensor is disposed adjacent along a thrust load direction to the outer bearing race. The system further includes a rotor assembly rotatably coupled to the bearing assembly, and a controller communicatively coupled to the sensor. The controller is configured to store and execute operations. The operations include determining a torque measurement from the rotor assembly based at least on an axial thrust load from the rotor assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventor: Michele Gravina