Patents Issued in July 14, 2020
  • Patent number: 10712284
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for grafting, in a covalent manner, a coloured indicator having at least one aromatic primary amine function onto the surface of a solid substrate, including the steps that consist of: (a) preparing, from the coloured indicator having at least one aromatic primary amine function, the corresponding diazonium salt; (b) placing the solid substrate in contact with a solution containing the diazonium salt prepared in step (a) and subjecting the solution to non-electrochemical conditions for an optimal grafting time whereby organic chains in which the units are derivatives of the diazonium salt are grafted, in a covalent manner, onto the surface of the solid substrate; (c) washing the solid substrate thus grafted; (d) repeating steps (b) and (c) or possibly steps (a) to (c) at least once. The present invention also relates to a kit for implementing such a method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Denis Doizi, Guy Deniau, Mathias Fages
  • Patent number: 10712285
    Abstract: A three-dimensional object inspecting device for inspecting a three-dimensional object includes a light source, a detector, an orientation information acquisition component, a three-dimensional shading corrector, and an inspection component. The light source emits light energy toward an inspection region set for the three-dimensional object. The detector detects radiant energy radiated from the inspection region. The orientation information acquisition component acquires orientation information about the light source and the detector with respect to the inspection region. The three-dimensional shading corrector performs three-dimensional shading correction on information corresponding to the radiant energy detected by the detector, based on shape information about the three-dimensional object in the inspection region, the orientation information, and shading correction information for a planar image detected by the detector for each of a plurality of working distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: TORAY ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Okada, Chisa Inaka
  • Patent number: 10712286
    Abstract: In an example, a method for non-destructive evaluation of a structure is described. The method comprises identifying a portion of a surface of the structure for evaluation. The method further comprises controlling an armature to align a two-dimensional array of sensors with the portion of the surface. The method further comprises causing the two-dimensional array of sensors to engage the portion of the surface. The method further comprises, responsive to determining that the two-dimensional array of sensors has engaged with the portion of the surface, (i) releasing the two-dimensional array of sensors from the armature, and (ii) scanning, the portion of the surface to collect sensor data. The method further comprises, after scanning the portion of the surface, (i) controlling the armature to couple to the two-dimensional array of sensors, and (ii) causing the two-dimensional array of sensors to disengage with the portion of the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Barry A. Fetzer, Gary E. Georgeson
  • Patent number: 10712287
    Abstract: An inspection device according to the present disclosure includes a detector for inspection that includes a plurality of pixels arranged on a light receiving surface and acquires image data by transferring charge produced by light received by the plurality of pixels in a transfer direction at a specified transfer timing, a light source that emits illumination light including pulsed light, a pulse enable circuit that controls emission timing for the light source to emit the illumination light based on the transfer timing, an illumination optical system that illuminates an object to be inspected with the illumination light, a condensing optical system that condenses, on the detector for inspection, light from the object to be inspected illuminated with the illumination light, and a processing unit that inspects the object to be inspected by using the image data of the object to be inspected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: LASERTEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayasu Nishizawa, Haruhiko Kusunose, Tomohiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10712288
    Abstract: A surface damage inspection system for a workpiece, to automate efficient and effective appearance inspection using imaging, includes an illumination unit that emits light to an inspection target surface from four directions including frontward and rearward directions in an X direction and rightward and leftward directions in a Y direction; an imaging unit that captures an image of the inspection target surface; a damage detection unit that detects damage at the inspection target surface using the image of the inspection target surface; a robot to which a damage inspection device including the illumination unit and the damage detection unit is attached; a table on which the workpiece is to be placed; and a controller that controls drive of the robot and the damage inspection device so as to make the damage inspection device inspect the workpiece on the table or the workpiece gripped by the robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasushi Okajima
  • Patent number: 10712289
    Abstract: Various embodiments for detecting defects on a wafer are provided. One method includes acquiring output generated by an inspection system for a wafer during an inspection process that is performed after at least first and second process steps have been performed on the wafer. The first and second process steps include forming first and second portions, respectively, of a design on the wafer. The first and second portions of the design are mutually exclusive in space on the wafer. The method also includes detecting defects on the wafer based on the output and determining positions of the defects with respect to the first and second portions of the design. In addition, the method includes associating different portions of the defects with the first or second process step based on the positions of the defects with respect to the first and second portions of the design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: KLA-Tencor Corp.
    Inventors: Oksen Toros Baris, Raghav Babulnath
  • Patent number: 10712290
    Abstract: A probe driver may have a coupling that interfaces with a conduit section at a first position of the conduit section. The probe driver also may have an input structure that actuates in response to a user input indicating a second position of the conduit section. The probe driver may also have one or more positioning elements to reposition the conduit section to interface with the coupling at the second position of the conduit section in response to the user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Bryan Christopher Morris
  • Patent number: 10712291
    Abstract: To compensate for artifacts in a visual display, a detector is provided having a first sensor element (2a, 2a?, 2a?, 2a??) including a plurality of first pixel elements (7a, 8a) arranged linearly one behind another, and a second sensor element (2b, 2b?, 2b?, 2b??) having a plurality of second pixel elements (7b, 8b) arranged linearly one behind another. Edge pixel elements (8a, 8b), which are arranged linearly one behind another and in line with the first and second central pixel elements (7a, 7b), are provided in a gap between the closest-together first and second central pixel elements (7a, 7b) of the first and second sensor elements (2a, 2a?, 2a?, 2a??, 2b, 2b?, 2b?, 2b??) arranged next to one another. The edge pixel elements (8a, 8b) have a width that is less than first and second widths of the respective first and second central pixel elements (7a, 7b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: YXLON INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventor: Klaus Bavendiek
  • Patent number: 10712292
    Abstract: A method and a system for scanning an elongate structure. A scan of the elongate structure with a fluid in a cavity of the elongate structure is received. The scan is generated by a scanner using an x-ray beam. Data in the scan is filtered to remove a portion of the data in the scan attributable to the fluid to form filtered data, enabling detecting an inconsistency on a wall of the elongate structure in the filtered data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Morteza Safai, Gary Ernest Georgeson
  • Patent number: 10712293
    Abstract: Methods for characterizing living plants, wherein one or more beams of penetrating radiation such as x-rays are scanned across the plant under field conditions. Compton scatter is detected from the living plant and processed to derive characteristics of the living plant such as water content, root structure, branch structure, xylem size, fruit size, fruit shape, fruit aggregate volume, cluster size and shape, fruit maturity and an image of a part of the plant. Ground water content is measured using the same technique. Compton backscatter is used to guide a robotic gripper to grasp a portion of the plant such as for harvesting a fruit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: American Science and Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Couture, Calvin Adams, Rafael Fonseca, Jeffrey Schubert, Richard Mastronardi
  • Patent number: 10712294
    Abstract: An X-ray diffraction analysis method includes, placing a sample on a sample stage and acquiring a two-dimensional X-ray diffraction image from the sample using a two-dimensional detection circuit by irradiating the sample with an X-ray in a state where an X-ray irradiation angle is fixed, specifying a collection of diffraction spots having a predetermined range of diffraction angles from the X-ray diffraction image as a diffraction spot group, counting the number of diffraction spots having predetermined intensity or more in the diffraction spot group, grouping the diffraction spot group based on the number of diffraction spots, and identifying a crystal phase contained in the sample based on a diffraction angle of the grouped diffraction spot group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Shuuichi Doi
  • Patent number: 10712295
    Abstract: An electron beam inspection apparatus according to an embodiment includes a stage holding a substrate with a pattern; an electron beam column irradiating the substrate with multiple beams including a plurality of electron beams such that adjacent regions irradiated with the electron beams have an overlap portion therebetween; a first image storage unit storing a first inspection image acquired by irradiating a first inspection region of the substrate with the multiple beams; a second image storage unit storing a second inspection image acquired by irradiating a second inspection region of the substrate with the multiple beams; a correction coefficient storage unit storing a correction coefficient for correcting an image of the overlap portion; an image correction unit correcting an image of the overlap portion using the correction coefficient; and a comparison unit comparing the first inspection image with the second inspection image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: NUFLARE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Hideo Tsuchiya, Masataka Shiratsuchi, Ryoichi Hirano, Hideaki Hashimoto, Riki Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10712296
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a handheld material analyser comprising an air-tight chamber having an analysis aperture; an electron beam generation system adapted to direct a beam of electrons through the analysis aperture; an Energy-Dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy system having a detector located in the chamber; the chamber being adapted to operate at internal pressures between atmospheric pressure and a vacuum of the order of 1 Pa; and a gas inlet adapted to receive an inert gas for generating a plasma in the region of the photocathode. In this way, the plasma can clean the photocathode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: ORION ENGINEERING LIMITED
    Inventors: Vladimir Vishnyakov, Paul Nicholas Gater
  • Patent number: 10712297
    Abstract: A method of probing the layers above, at, and below the surface of a conducting region includes exciting nuclear or electronic spins within the conducting region using a first frequency, receiving a second frequency from the conducting region, determining the length scales by the conductivity of the conducting region, the first frequency, and the second frequency, obtaining a depth profile of the conducting region, and indirectly measuring the presence of the surface by characterizing signal distortions above the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Alexej Jerschow, Andrew J. Ilott
  • Patent number: 10712298
    Abstract: A frequency agile gyrotron for use in combination with an NMR system is disclosed. The frequency agile gyrotron combined with EPR-NMR magic angle spinning resonators and cryogenic sample cooling may increase the sensitivity of solid state NMR with DNP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Washington University
    Inventor: Alexander B. Barnes
  • Patent number: 10712299
    Abstract: A deformation measuring apparatus of a specimen includes: a holder which supports the specimen; a contact portion disposed facing the holder and including a hemispherical tip; a position controlling portion which adjusts a position of the contact portion along a thickness direction of the specimen to allow the hemispherical tip to be in contact with a surface of the specimen; a heating chamber which accommodates the holder and the contact portion and heating the specimen; and a sensing portion which measures at least one of a thermal deformation force (F) of the specimen or a thickness direction thermal expansion (?h) of the specimen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ga Hee Kim, Young Suk Jung, Yoo Seong Yang, Young Hoon Lee, Hyun Mi Lee
  • Patent number: 10712300
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a gas sensor device with which highly accurate measurement performance can be achieved even if there are changes in the environmental temperature. The present invention is provided with: a detection heater (3) formed in a thin film part; a temperature compensation heater (4) formed so as to surround the detection heater; a detection heater heating control circuit for controlling the heating temperature of the detection heater (3); and a temperature compensation heater heating control circuit for controlling the heating temperature of the temperature compensation heater to a heating temperature lower than the heating temperature of the detection heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakano, Masahiro Matsumoto, Yasuo Onose
  • Patent number: 10712301
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described herein which allow to determine an icing condition without requiring a wind speed measurement. The methods and systems use two sensing members both being exposed to conditions in an environment. The determination is made based on a capacity of the sensing members to react differently to the conditions to which they are exposed. The conditions can be environmental or controlled. The determination includes measuring a variable indicative of the thermal state of each individual sensing member, and processing the measured values to generate the signal indicative of icing condition. The icing condition can be instrumental or meteorological.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSITÈ LAVAL
    Inventors: André Bégin-Drolet, Jean Ruel, Jean Lemay
  • Patent number: 10712302
    Abstract: An electrical device includes at least one graphene quantum capacitance varactor. In some examples, the graphene quantum capacitance varactor includes an insulator layer, a graphene layer disposed on the insulator layer, a dielectric layer disposed on the graphene layer, a gate electrode formed on the dielectric layer, and at least one contact electrode disposed on the graphene layer and making electrical contact with the graphene layer. In other examples, the graphene quantum capacitance varactor includes an insulator layer, a gate electrode recessed in the insulator layer, a dielectric layer formed on the gate electrode, a graphene layer formed on the dielectric layer, wherein the graphene layer comprises an exposed surface opposite the dielectric layer, and at least one contact electrode formed on the graphene layer and making electrical contact with the graphene layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventor: Steven J. Koester
  • Patent number: 10712303
    Abstract: One example discloses a liquid exposure sensing device, including: a first sensor configured to be coupled to a reference material; wherein the first sensor configured to generate a first signal in response to either a liquid phase and/or vapor phase of a substance passing through the reference material; a second sensor configured to be coupled to an exposed material; wherein the second sensor configured to generate a second signal in response to the liquid phase and/or vapor phase of the substance passing through the exposed material; and a controller coupled to the first and second sensors and configured to generate a liquid detection signal in response to a time delay between the first signal and the second signal that exceeds a threshold time delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Axel Nackaerts
  • Patent number: 10712304
    Abstract: This application relates to methods and apparatus for operating MEMS sensors, in particular MEMS capacitive sensors (CMEMS) such as a microphones. An amplifier apparatus is arranged to amplify an input signal (VINP) received at a sense node from the MEMS capacitive sensor. An antiphase signal generator generates a second signal (VINN) which is in antiphase with the input signal (VINP) and an amplifier arrangement is configured to receive the input signal (VINP) at a first input and the second signal (VINN) at a second input and to output corresponding amplified first and second output signals. This converts a single ended input signal effectively into a differential input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Wilson, Karthikeya Kodur
  • Patent number: 10712305
    Abstract: The output of the electrochemical gas sensor is amplified, and the ambient temperature is measured by means of a temperature sensor. When the ambient temperature is above or equal to a predetermined temperature, a standard value is generated and stored and is increased when the output of the amplification circuit is larger than the standard value, and a gas is detected according to the difference between the output of said amplification circuit and the standard value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Figaro Engineering Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10712306
    Abstract: Continuous monitoring of acetone is a challenge using related art sensing methods. Though real-time detection of acetone from different biofluids is promising, signal interference from other biomarkers remains an issue. A minor fluctuation of the signals in the micro-ampere range can cause substantial overlapping in linear/polynomial calibration fittings. To address the above in non-invasive detection, principal component analysis (PCA) can be used to generate specific patterns for different concentration points of acetone in the subspace. This results in improvement of the problem of overlapping of the signals between two different concentration points of the data sets while eliminating dimensionality and redundancy of data variables. An algorithm following PCA can be incorporated in a microcontroller of a sensor, resulting in a functional wearable acetone sensor. Acetone in the physiological range (0.5 ppm to 4 ppm) can be detected with such a sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: The Florida International University Broad of Trustees
    Inventors: Yogeswaran Umasankar, Shekhar Bhansali, Ahmed Hasnain Jalal, Neera Bhansali
  • Patent number: 10712307
    Abstract: A heater 72 of a heater portion includes linear portions 78 and bend portions 77. A resistance value per unit length of the bend portions 77 at least at a temperature within a temperature range of no less than 700° C. and no more than 900° C. is lower than a resistance value per unit length of the linear portions 78.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Watanabe, Takao Murase, Masashi Yasui, Rui Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 10712308
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of microelectronics, and more particularly to a structure and method of forming a biosensor having a nucleotide attracting surface formed to reduce false detection of nucleotides and enabling electrical detection of nucleotides. The biosensor may include an analyte-affinity layer on an upper surface of a substrate. A conductive layer may extend a length of the substrate below and in contact with the analyte-affinity layer. The conductive layer may be electrically connected to one or more transistors. The analyte-affinity layer may have dimensions tailored for a target analyte. A distance between a first analyte-affinity layer and a second analyte-affinity layer may range from approximately 50% of a length of a target analyte to approximately 300% of a length of a target analyte. The analyte-affinity layer may have an upper surface with a diameter ranging from approximately 3 nm to approximately 20 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert L. Bruce, Payel Das, HsinYu Tsai, Sufi Zafar
  • Patent number: 10712309
    Abstract: The present application relates to an electrochemical reference half-cell, in particular, for an electrochemical sensor for measuring a measurand of a medium surrounding the sensor, including a housing with a chamber that is filled with a reference electrolyte and compressed air, wherein the reference electrolyte is in electrolytic contact with a medium surrounding the chamber across a junction in particular, a diaphragm arranged in a wall of the chamber, and a pickup electrode in particular, comprising an electric conductor immersed in the reference electrolyte, wherein the reference half-cell has a measuring device capable of generating an electrical signal that can be traced back to the pressure in the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KG
    Inventors: Stefan Paul, Jörg Uhle, Michael Hanko, Frederick J. Kohlmann, Aaron Osland
  • Patent number: 10712310
    Abstract: The present invention introduces a protein/peptide quantification method based on near infrared spectral imaging of protein gel bands obtained from gel electrophoresis methodologies. Spectral imaging is a fast and reliable method that is simple to use and easily applicable to several procedures. When proteins are separated through gel electrophoresis, the gel is imaged using a near infrared spectrometer and a standard curve is used to calculate the protein/peptide content based on its relative near infrared absorbance to standard proteins. Compared to other protein quantification techniques, the methods of the present invention quantifies the proteins separated by gel electrophoresis without the need for contrast reagents or for purifying protein out of the gel, shortening the processing time, reducing the number of steps involved, and eliminating the need for additional chemicals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: TEMPLE UNIVERSITY—OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION
    Inventors: Nancy Pleshko, Arash Hanifi
  • Patent number: 10712311
    Abstract: One embodiment of the invention provides: a microchip including a sample collection section and an analysis section, in which the sample collection section and the analysis section are imparted with both hydrophilicity and a positively-charged layer; an analysis system including the microchip; and a method of producing the microchip. The microchip includes: a sample collection section for collecting a sample; and an analysis section for analyzing the sample. In the microchip, a cationic polymer bonded with a hydrophilization substance is immobilized on inner walls of the sample collection section and the analysis section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventors: Takanari Shigemitsu, Naotsugu Onuma
  • Patent number: 10712312
    Abstract: A flexible magnetic coil for determining ion migration rates inside a vacuum device can include a plurality of insulated copper wires held together as a bundle. A positive pole can be connected to a first end of the bundle for receiving a positive DC voltage. A negative pole can be connected to a second end of the bundle for completing a circuit with the positive pole. A DC voltage ranging from ten volts to four thousand volts from a power supply can be connected to the positive pole, the negative pole, or combinations thereof. The bundle can be a loop and can form a circuit when the DC voltage is applied to the loop. The bundle can create a flexible electromagnetic field of at least one Gauss around the vacuum device using a calculation of a number of turns of insulated copper wire multiplied by applied DC current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Inventor: Finley Lee Ledbetter
  • Patent number: 10712313
    Abstract: A feedback device for a gas ionisation particle detector that includes a high voltage generator capable of creating a potential difference between electrodes placed in a gas chamber. The feedback device includes a voltage regulator configured to calculate an indicator characteristic of a measurement signal output by an electronic read unit capable of collecting an electrical signal induced by a particle passing through the chamber and to modify a set voltage output to the high voltage generator as a function of the indicator characteristic of the measurement signal. The characteristic indicator may be an average amplitude. The feedback device can use an error signal corresponding to the difference between the calculated characteristic indicator and a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Simon Bouteille, Sebastien Procureur
  • Patent number: 10712314
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes providing a first pipe having a first leading end and a first trailing end, providing a second pipe having a second leading end and a second trailing end, abutting at least a portion of the second leading end to at least a portion of the first trailing end to define a pipe abutment zone comprising a portion of the first pipe measured longitudinally from the first trailing end and a portion of the second pipe measured longitudinally from the second leading end, conveying the first and second pipe past an inspection device, inspecting by the inspection device a first portion of the pipe abutment zone and a second portion of the pipe abutment zone, and providing defect data that describes defects detected within the first portion and the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Tenaris Connections B.V.
    Inventors: Alberto Nicolini, Javier Etcheverry, Fernando Núñez
  • Patent number: 10712315
    Abstract: A device for supervising biofilm culturing, the device including: a fixed seat including an upper end; a supervision chamber; two ultrasonic sensing probes; a first mounting chamber; a second mounting chamber disposed between the fixed seat and the supervision chamber; an ultrasonic generator; an oscilloscope; and a controller. The first and second mounting chambers are disposed at two opposite ends of the supervision chamber, respectively. The two ultrasonic sensing probes are disposed in the first and second mounting chambers, respectively. The second mounting chamber is connected to the upper end of the fixed seat. The two ultrasonic sensing probes each are respectively connected to the ultrasonic generator, the oscilloscope, and the controller successively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hongqiang Ren, Jinfeng Wang, Lili Ding, Jianxin Li, Huimin Fu, Hui Huang
  • Patent number: 10712316
    Abstract: A fixed value residual stress test block, comprising a main body (1) and two welded blocks (2); the main body (1) and the welded blocks (2) are all rectangular metal blocks; the welded blocks (2) are welded onto the two opposite side surfaces of the main body (1); the main body (1) is deformed under the upper and lower pressures and generates residual stress. The fixed value residual stress test block has a simple structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Beijing Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Chunguang Xu, Lang Xu, Qinxue Pan, Dingguo Xiao, Xiao Li, Wentao Song
  • Patent number: 10712317
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for detecting a defect and a method for detecting a defect using the same, and more particularly, to an apparatus for detecting a defect and a method for detecting a defect using the same for detecting a defect inside an inspection object without destructing the inspection object. An apparatus for detecting a defect according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a first probe unit configured to transmit a signal into an inspection object and receive a signal generated inside the inspection object, a second probe unit separately installed from the first probe unit and configured to receive the signal generated inside the inspection object, and a position determining unit configured to detect a defect position inside the inspection object using the signal received by the first probe unit and the signal received by the second probe unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Inventors: Dong Hwan Shin, Ye Ji Shin, Seung Eun Cha
  • Patent number: 10712318
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sensor adhesion state determination system includes a plurality of sensors, a calculator, and a determiner. Each of the plurality of sensors detects elastic waves. The calculator calculates peak frequencies of the elastic waves on the basis of the elastic waves detected by the plurality of sensors. The determiner determines the adhesion state of each of the sensors by comparing the peak frequencies with information serving as a determination reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hidefumi Takamine, Kazuo Watabe
  • Patent number: 10712319
    Abstract: Provided are methods for determining the amount of lacosamide in a sample using mass spectrometry. The methods generally involve ionizing lacosamide in a sample and detecting and quantifying the amount of the ion to determine the amount of lacosamide in the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Quest Diagnostics Investments Incorporated
    Inventors: Beatrisa Boyadzhyan, Karin Thomassian, Anita Dermartirosian, Lou Jambor
  • Patent number: 10712320
    Abstract: A flow channel structure includes a substrate including a supply flow channel that guides a measurement target liquid toward inside; a separation element accommodating unit that accommodates a separation element that separates components included in the measurement target liquid; and a detection unit that guides the measurement target liquid passing through the separation element accommodating unit, wherein measuring light for measuring information about the components is to be irradiated onto the measurement target liquid. The detection unit includes a measurement flow channel part that guides the measurement target liquid, an incident part that is provided at an end of the measurement flow channel part and that guides the measuring light toward inside the measurement flow channel part, and an emission part that is provided at the other end of the measurement flow channel part and that derives the measuring light from the measurement flow channel part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Sakai, Yoshihiro Taguchi, Kenichiro Sameshima, Yoshimune Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10712321
    Abstract: A method to filter out pump pulses from data collected with a chromatography system is disclosed. Baseline data is collected as a pump delivers solvent to an analytical instrument, which may be the IP signal of a capillary bridge viscometer. A Fourier transform is applied to the data to generate the power spectrum of the baseline signal. Fundamental and harmonic frequencies are determined and a comb filter is constructed therefrom and applied to sample collected from all of the affected instruments. The comb filter may be correlated to the pump and flow rate and stored in data analysis software or database. Other systems using other pumps may also generate associated comb filters, and the resulting filters and the flow rates at which they were generated may be stored in a database accessible to the data analysis software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: WYATT TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Steven P. Trainoff
  • Patent number: 10712322
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for analyzing compositions of polypeptides such as antibodies by ionic strength-mediated pH gradient ion exchange chromatography. In some aspects, the methods use a combination of pH gradients and ionic strength gradients to separate the polypeptide from charge variants of the polypeptide. In some aspects, the methods use a stable ionic strength to optimize the pH gradient separation window to separate the polypeptide from charge variants. Such methods are useful for analyzing polypeptide, e.g. antibodies, with a pI greater than 9 or a pI less than 7. In some aspects, the invention provides a multiproduct method for the analysis of polypeptides of varying pI's.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Yajun Wang, George Tony Moreno, Boyan Zhang, Liangyi Zhang, Dell Farnan, Thomas Patapoff
  • Patent number: 10712323
    Abstract: An electronic central unit is configured to control a voltage application device to execute applied voltage sweep and obtain an output current that flows between a first electrode and a second electrode of an electrochemical cell. The electronic control unit is configured to detect either one of presence or absence of sulfur oxides in a specified concentration or higher in exhaust gas and a concentration of sulfur oxides in the exhaust gas based on the output current. The electronic control unit is configured to execute one of a specified determination and a specified detection based on a specified parameter. Accordingly, it is possible to accurately determine the presence or the absence of sulfur oxides in the specified concentration or higher that are contained in exhaust gas or detect the concentration of sulfur oxides in the exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keiichiro Aoki, Keigo Mizutani, Kazuhiro Wakao, Kazuhisa Matsuda
  • Patent number: 10712324
    Abstract: A device (1) includes a pumping device (7) and a control unit (70) and is configured to test the operational capability of a gas guide element (3) in a gas-measuring system (11) that includes a gas sensor (5). The control unit (70) carries out steps with two operating states including delivering a test gas (91) by the pumping device (7) through the gas guide element (3) to a remote measuring location (80) and is subsequently delivered from the measuring location (80) to the gas sensor (5). Measured values of a gas concentration are detected by the gas sensor (5) during the delivery from the remotely located measuring location (80) to the gas sensor (5) and analyzed to determine whether changes occurring in the detected gas concentration during the delivery from the measuring location (80) to the gas sensor (5) indicate whether the gas guide element (3) is capable of operating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: DRÄGERWERK AG & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Hans-Ullrich Hansmann, Henning Gerder
  • Patent number: 10712325
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for measuring inflorescence, seed and/or seed yield pheno-type of a plant. More particularly, the invention relates to a method and apparatus for high throughput analysis of inflorescence, seed and/or seed yield phenotype of a panicle-like bearing plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH
    Inventors: Pierre Lejeune, Jeroen Baert, Frederik Leyns, Joris Eeckhout
  • Patent number: 10712326
    Abstract: Provided are methods and systems for efficiently and non-invasively identifying nuts (e.g., almonds) having concealed damage using near infrared scanning. The methods identify nuts having concealed damage with a certainty greater than 90% and an error rate that is less than 10%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Cristian Rogel-Castillo, Alyson Mitchell
  • Patent number: 10712327
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for monitoring and managing fluid treatment or storage systems, such as HVAC hydronic water systems. Sensors located at a fluid system can detect various types of data, such as chemical amounts, pressures, temperatures, flow rates, and more. Servers in communication with the sensors can record the data and provide it to a user in a variety of graphical interfaces. One useful interface for display of the data includes a five-sided axis called the OPTI-GON.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Jentek Water Treatment, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark J. Jenkins
  • Patent number: 10712328
    Abstract: An analysis device includes a vapor phase decomposition unit, a heating unit, an evacuation unit, a recovery unit and an analysis unit. The vapor phase decomposition unit performs vapor phase decomposition of a first film on a substrate. The heating unit heats the substrate. The evacuation unit evacuates gas in the heating unit to an outside of the heating unit. The recovery unit supplies liquid on a front surface of the substrate, moves the liquid on the front surface of the substrate, and recovers the liquid. The analysis unit analyzes contents of the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuji Yamada
  • Patent number: 10712329
    Abstract: A method for measuring an airborne metal pollutant on skin can include the taking of a skin sample and measuring of a target metal utilizing inductively coupled plasma tandem mass spectrometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Edward Dewey Smith, III, Jessa Leigh Meyers, Jennifer Lynn Morgan, Casey Patrick Kelly, Andrei Sergeyevich Shauchuk
  • Patent number: 10712330
    Abstract: A method is provided for controlling bitumen recovery from an oil sands ore body in a bitumen extraction process by establishing and using a predictive ore processability model that accounts for multiple ore characteristics in planning ore deliveries from different locations of the ore body to produce a blended ore feedstock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: SYNCRUDE CANADA LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Long, Jonathan Spence, Dean Wallace, Shane Hoskins, Chung H. Ta, David Mueller, Priyanka Pareek
  • Patent number: 10712331
    Abstract: The invention relates, in part, to systems and methods for scoring a sample containing tumor tissue from a cancer patient. The score is representative of a nearness between at least one pair of cells, a first member of the least one pair of cells expressing a first biomarker and a second member of the at least one pair of cells expressing a second biomarker that is different from the first biomarker. The score obtained from these methods can be indicative of a likelihood that a patient may respond positively to immunotherapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Brian Little, Jennifer Bordeaux
  • Patent number: 10712332
    Abstract: A solution tank device comprises: an insulating thin film, which is configured to allow an object to be measured to pass therethrough, and has a thickness of 1 micrometer or less; a first solution tank, which is configured to support one surface of both surfaces of the insulating thin film; and a first conductive structure, which has a sheet resistance of 1013 ohms or less in a portion in which contact friction occurs between the first solution tank and an object outside of the first solution tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuma Matsui, Itaru Yanagi
  • Patent number: 10712333
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a circuit layer and a nanopore layer. The nanopore layer is formed on the circuit layer and is formed with a pore therethrough. The circuit layer includes a circuit unit configured to drive a biomolecule through the pore and to detect a current associated with a resistance of the nanopore layer, whereby a characteristic of the biomolecule can be determined using the currents detected by the circuit unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
    Inventors: Kun-Lung Chen, Tung-Tsun Chen, Cheng-Hsiang Hsieh, Yu-Jie Huang, Jui-Cheng Huang