Patents Issued in December 15, 2020
  • Patent number: 10866577
    Abstract: To provide a numerical controller for facilitating mass production of various types of workpieces in comparison with a prior art, by controlling a rotary index machine or the like having a plurality of machining stations. A numerical controller for a machine tool executes multi-path control for collectively controlling a plurality of paths requiring conveyance operations between the processes when each of workpieces receives a plurality of processes. The numerical controller includes an execution unit for executing a plurality of machining programs each of which is generated for each of the workpieces so as to correspond to each of the paths, the plurality of machining programs including execution commands of the processes and conveyance commands between the processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daijirou Koga
  • Patent number: 10866578
    Abstract: A table assembly comprising a worktop, a frame supporting the worktop, an integrated drive subassembly, a memory storing defined conditions, a control system including a user input control interface and at least one processor, the input control interface for receiving user commands to initiate changes in worktop height, the processor programmed to perform the steps of a) at any time, respond to direct manual user input via the interface to change the worktop height and b) enable a reminder function to periodically change the worktop height by i) monitoring worktop use, ii) comparing worktop use to at least one of the defined conditions, iii) after the at least one condition is met, providing a signal to the user to change the worktop height to a different position, iv) monitoring for user input via the interface to change the worktop height and (v) upon each of the worktop height being changed prior to providing a signal to the user to change the worktop height and the worktop height being changed subsequent
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: STEELCASE INC.
    Inventors: Jean-Paul Labrosse, Michael Xinjie Chu, Scott Sullivan
  • Patent number: 10866579
    Abstract: An automated manufacturing process tooling setup assist system includes a controller configured to control movement and positioning of tools to provide a first tool spatial arrangement within a workspace. Responsive to an unsuccessful test process run using the tools in the first tool spatial arrangement, the controller may control movement of the tools so as to replace a tool in the first tool spatial arrangement with another tool configured to perform a function of the tool to be replaced. Responsive to a successful test process run using the tools in the first tool spatial arrangement, the controller may control movement of the tools so as to reposition one or more tools in the workspace to provide a second tool spatial arrangement within the workspace different from the first tool spatial arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Raman Virk
  • Patent number: 10866580
    Abstract: A component-mounted-board production line includes a power operation switch configured to be operated by an operator to turn power on and off, and an automatic power on and off circuit section configured to turn the power on and off. There is provided a production management means for, in a case where the multiple devices include a device that stops operating and enters a standby state, inputting a power on and off signal to the automatic power on and off circuit section of the device such that the power to device is turned on and off in accordance with an operation state of another device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mizuho Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10866581
    Abstract: A valve controller for controlling a valve and a valve comprising the valve controller are disclosed. The valve comprises an actuator and a flow controlling unit. The valve controller comprises equipment for controlling the function of at least one of the actuator and the flow controlling unit. The valve controller is further configured to obtain one or more first parameter values indicative of a functionality of the equipment at startup of the valve controller. The valve controller is configured to monitor the equipment during operation of the valve controller for determining one or more second parameter values indicative of the functionality of the equipment and determining if a change in functionality of the equipment has occurred based on a comparison of the one or more second parameter values with the one or more first parameter values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB
    Inventors: Thomas Priisholm, Karsten Schack Madsen, Axel Lund Henriksen
  • Patent number: 10866582
    Abstract: A hybrid data collection and analysis infrastructure combines edge-level and cloud-level computing to perform high-level monitoring and control of industrial systems and processes. Edge devices located on-premise at one or more plant facilities can collect data from multiple industrial devices on the plant floor and perform local edge-level analytics on the collected data. In addition, the edge devices maintain a communication channel to a cloud platform executing cloud-level data collection and analytic services. As necessary, the edge devices can pass selected sets of data to the cloud platform, where the cloud-level analytic services perform higher level analytics on the industrial data. The hybrid architecture operates in a bi-directional manner, allowing the cloud-level and edge-level analytics to send control instructions to industrial devices based on results of the edge-level and cloud-level analytics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Francisco P Manturana
  • Patent number: 10866583
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dual controller system for analyzing a control signal received from two dual controllers, both of which operate in an active state, to check whether an error occurs in the controllers and to perform operation with a controller in a normal state. A dual controller system according to the present invention includes a plurality of lower-layer modules performing respective functions, and first and second controllers for controlling each of the plurality of lower-layer modules, wherein the first and second controllers transmit control signals to the plurality of lower-layer modules, and the lower-layer modules determine whether an error occurs in the two received control signals, remove an erroneous control signal and perform a function according to a normal control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: HYOSUNG HEAVY INDUSTRIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chul-Jin Ko, Jun-Chol Lee
  • Patent number: 10866584
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for data collection in an industrial environment are described. The system may include a multi-sensor acquisition component, the multi-sensor acquisition component including a plurality of inputs and outputs, a plurality of sensors operatively coupled to at least one of a plurality of components of an industrial process, and each communicatively coupled to at least one of the plurality of inputs of the multi-sensor acquisition component, a sensor data storage profile circuit structured to determine a data storage profile, a sensor communication circuit communicatively coupled to the plurality of outputs of the multi-sensor acquisition component, a sensor data storage implementation circuit structured to sensor data values in response to the data storage profile; and a data marketplace circuit structured to store at least a second portion of the plurality of sensor data values on a data marketplace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Howard Cella, Gerald William Duffy, Jr., Jeffrey P. McGuckin, Mehul Desai
  • Patent number: 10866585
    Abstract: Acceptance of robotic service agents may be improved if robots are compliant with a monitoring program of a third party. A robot may be allowed to perform certain operations if monitored or prevented from such operations if unmonitored. If authorized, a robot may be able to perform certain operations unmonitored; however, the third party may report the authorized exception. Should the robot be unmonitored, and absent unauthorized exception, the robot performs only those operations approved for unmonitored mode. Otherwise, the robot is enabled to perform tasks approved for monitored and unmonitored mode. The third party may report the monitoring, lack of monitoring, and compliance with a monitoring program accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: George Erhart, David Skiba, Valentine C. Matula
  • Patent number: 10866586
    Abstract: A remote control method for remote control of a driver assistance system of a motor vehicle by a remote control unit assigned to the motor vehicle, wherein the driver assistance system is designed to actuate the motor vehicle for carrying out an autonomous or piloted parking operation, and which includes an optical sensor apparatus having at least one sensor, an analysis unit and a control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Hermann Vogt
  • Patent number: 10866587
    Abstract: There is provided a management system for vehicles which can make it easier to introduce changes in the traveling path on the field. A management system 1 manages travel of a vehicle by using a travel management apparatus. The vehicle includes a plurality of driving wheels to be driven by a plurality of motors, a drive unit to rotate the driving wheels, a first communication circuit which receives data representing a traveling path from the travel management apparatus, and a control circuit which causes the vehicle to travel along the traveling path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: NIDEC SHIMPO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Akamatsu, Syunta Sato
  • Patent number: 10866588
    Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving training of sub-modules for autonomously controlling a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes generating projected controls for autonomously controlling the vehicle through a driving scene by analyzing sensor data about the driving scene using an end-to-end (E2E) model. The E2E model is based, at least in part, on at least one of the sub-modules. The method includes training the E2E model according to the projected controls and labels for the sensor data that indicate expected controls for driving the vehicle through the driving scene. The method includes transferring electronic data of the E2E model into the at least one of the sub-modules associated with the E2E model to initialize the at least one of the sub-modules to improve operation of the at least one sub-modules at sub-tasks for autonomously controlling the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Shyamal D. Buch, Adrien D. Gaidon
  • Patent number: 10866589
    Abstract: A method for providing an information item regarding a pedestrian in an environment of a vehicle. In this connection, a surround sensor signal generated by a surround sensor of the vehicle is inputted. A pedestrian information item representing the pedestrian is generated, using the surround sensor signal. Finally, the pedestrian information item is transmitted to a communications interface to at least one further vehicle, to provide the pedestrian information item to the further vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Marlon Ramon Ewert
  • Patent number: 10866590
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems associated with safety-related decision making reporting and regulation of computer-assisted or autonomous driving (CA/AD) vehicles are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a safety-related decision making reporting unit, disposed in a CA/AD vehicle, to collect data about driving behavior of the CA/AD vehicle and to determine whether the collected data is related to a safety-related decision making rule. In embodiments, the collected data is to be reported to a remote organization associated with regulating the safety-related decision making rule. In some embodiments, a computing device or server associated with regulating safety-related decision making rules receives the collected data from the CA/AD vehicle and/or manufacturers of the CA/AD vehicle. In embodiments, the computing device analyzes the collected data to modify or generate a safety-decision making rule. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Xue Yang, Sherry Chang, Chaitanya Sreerama, Linda L. Hurd, Denica Larsen
  • Patent number: 10866591
    Abstract: A device can receive a request for a schedule that assigns a fleet of vehicles to a set of deliveries. The device can determine that a parameter is not included in the request that is needed to generate a new schedule or that is needed to generate an existing schedule. The device can obtain the parameter using a historical user request, a historical schedule, or a scheduling template. The device can generate or obtain the schedule based on information included in the request and the obtained parameter. The device can provide the schedule to a user device and/or to one or more devices associated with the fleet of vehicles carrying out the set of deliveries. The device can modify the schedule based on a trigger. The device can provide the modified schedule to the user device and/or to the one or more devices associated with the fleet of vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Verizon Connect Ireland Limited
    Inventors: Valerio Arena, Francesco Sambo, Leonardo Sarti, Matteo Simoncini, Nicola Tommasi
  • Patent number: 10866592
    Abstract: A method is provided for calculating the prediction of required navigation performance for a trajectory associated with a list of segments of a flight plan. A method is also provided for displaying the navigation performance as a corridor trajectory and adapted to guarantee compliance with the navigation performance requirements while offering immediate viewing of the navigation latitude in a corridor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Michel Roger, Christophe Pierre, Hervé Goutelard
  • Patent number: 10866593
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an aerial vehicle landing method, a ground control system, and a flight control system. The aerial vehicle landing method includes: selecting, when an aerial vehicle needs to make a diversion, an available alternative landing area according to at least a flight parameter of the aerial vehicle; determining the available alternative landing area as a target waypoint, and planning a new airway according to the target waypoint; and controlling, according to the new airway, the aerial vehicle to fly to the target waypoint. According to the foregoing manners, the embodiments of the present disclosure can resolve problems of unpredictable casualties and property losses that may be caused because the aerial vehicle has an emergency and is landed in a non-predetermined area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: AUTEL ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ken Argo
  • Patent number: 10866594
    Abstract: In an example, a drop tank for an aerial vehicle includes a body having an internal fuel reservoir configured to store fuel. The drop tank also includes an outlet coupled to the internal fuel reservoir for supplying the fuel from the internal fuel reservoir to a propulsion system of the aerial vehicle. Additionally, the drop tank includes a plurality of flight control surfaces extending outwardly from the body. The flight control surfaces are actuatable to adjust a flight attitude of the drop tank. The drop tank further includes a flight control system including a processor and configured to actuate the plurality of flight control surfaces to fly the drop tank to a target location when the drop tank is jettisoned from the aerial vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Brian Tillotson, Charles B. Spinelli
  • Patent number: 10866595
    Abstract: A movement adjusting device adjusts the movement of a transceiver moving according to a plan along a route through a communication network while communicating for an application having a service requirement on the communication network, the communication network comprises cells and the movement adjusting device is operative to: obtain radio network condition data regarding a group of cells comprising a current cell in which the transceiver is located and a number of neighbouring cells into which the transceiver may move, analyse the radio network condition data with regard to fulfilling the service requirement of the application, and make an adjustment of the planned movement if the analysis indicates that this would improve on the fulfilling of the service requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Stefan Wänstedt, Tommy Arngren, Tomas Jönsson, Peter Ökvist
  • Patent number: 10866596
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) uses a first baseband processor to establish a first communication link with a ground network cell and a second baseband processor that establishes a second communication link with a user device. The second baseband processor is communicatively coupled to the first baseband processor such that the user device exchanges communication data with the core network via the first communication link and the second communication link. Flight-control hardware steers the UAV along a flight trajectory that is determined by a ground-based UAV controller based at least on a geolocation of the user device. The second baseband processor establishes the second communication link with the user device while the first baseband processor maintains the first communication link with the ground network cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Genghiscomm Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Steve Shattil
  • Patent number: 10866597
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide for systems and methods for detecting and intercepting drones and drone operators. An example system for disrupting drone attacks comprises a drone detection system configured to detect a hostile drone, a defensive drone control system coupled to the drone detection system and configured to communicate with a first defensive drone, and a first defensive drone configured to receive first data from the defensive drone control system and to use the data to intercept the hostile drone. The system for disrupting drone attacks may further comprise a system configured to identify a control source of the hostile drone, and a second defensive drone configured to receive second data from the defensive drone control system and to use the second data to fly to a location associated with the control source of the hostile drone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Securus Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis J. Reinhold, Daniel James Wigger, Joshua Martin
  • Patent number: 10866598
    Abstract: A poultry house sprinkler system comprises a temperature sensor for obtaining a temperature value based on a temperature of a poultry house, a controller in communication with the temperature sensor, an input/output module in communication with the controller, a valve in communication with the input/output module and connected to the fluid source for receiving a fluid, and at least one sprinkler nozzle connected to the valve for receiving the fluid from the valve and distributing the fluid in the poultry house when the valve is in an open position. The controller is configured to receive the temperature value from the temperature sensor, compare the temperature value to a threshold value, and instruct the input/out module to set the valve in the open position when the temperature value is above the threshold value, maintain the valve in the open position for a cooling interval duration, and subsequently set the valve in a closed position at the end of the cooling interval duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: WEEDEN ENVIRONMENTS INC.
    Inventor: Kevin S. Weeden
  • Patent number: 10866599
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a smart water dispenser and a control method thereof. The smart water dispenser includes: an electronically controlled switch for starting adding water to a cup when it is turned on and stopping adding water when it is turned off; a cup detection module for detecting a cup placed under an outlet of the smart water dispenser; and a water level detection module for detecting a water level of water in the cup when the water is being added to the cup under the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhongwei Zhang, Ken Wen
  • Patent number: 10866600
    Abstract: A pressure-regulating valve includes a valve sleeve with first and second ends defining a longitudinal axis, a sense line, a sense piston, a main chamber, and first and second valve spools. The sleeve includes an axially aligned bore. The sense line is within the bore proximate the first end. The sense piston is within the bore between the sense line and the second end, and is configured to move along the longitudinal axis in response to pressure exerted by fluid in the sense line. The main chamber is within the bore between the sense piston and the second end, and includes supply and vent ports. The first valve spool is within the bore between the sense piston and the second end. The second valve spool is within the bore between the first valve spool and the second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventor: Mark F. Franzen
  • Patent number: 10866601
    Abstract: A fluid monitoring and control system includes a central hub having a central processor, a user interface and an input/output port. A plurality of control devices communicate with the central hub. Each control device includes a fluid pipe section including a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. A fluid valve is coupled in series within the fluid pipe section and an electric motor is mechanically connected to the fluid valve. A temperature sensor, pressure sensor and flow rate sensor are coupled to the fluid pipe section monitoring a temperature, pressure and flow rate of the fluid flow within the fluid pipe section. A control device processor is controllably connected to the electric motor, temperature sensor, pressure sensor and flow sensor. A control device input/output port is coupled to the control device processor, the control device input/output port in communication with the input/output port of the central hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: FLO TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Henry M. Halimi
  • Patent number: 10866602
    Abstract: Systems and methods of controlling communications using temperature and/or Radio Frequency (RF) signals are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method may include determining whether a user operating a communications device has at least temporarily transferred at least partial control of the communications device to another user based, at least in part, upon a change in at least one of: a temperature or an RF signal sensed at the communications device. The method may also include controlling an aspect of a communication conducted via the communications device based, at least in part, upon the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Securus Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Higgs, Adam C. Edwards
  • Patent number: 10866603
    Abstract: Various systems for controlling coolant flow through a plurality of coolant lines via a wax thermostat are provided. In one embodiment, a thermostat comprises at least one wax motor that mediates coolant flow between two inlet passages and three outlet passages as a function of longitudinal position, the longitudinal position varying in response to changes in coolant temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Putman Styron, Michael Joseph Giunta, Peter Rowling, Erik Thomas Andersen
  • Patent number: 10866604
    Abstract: A longitudinal voltage regulator includes: a voltage source for generating an additional voltage; and a transformer for coupling the additional voltage into an input voltage. The transformer both generates the additional voltage and couples the additional voltage into the input voltage. In an embodiment, the transformer has an input winding and an output winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: ABB POWER GRIDS SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventors: Frank Cornelius, Martin Carlen
  • Patent number: 10866605
    Abstract: An ultra-low power consumption power supply structure, comprising: a first LDO circuit, a second LDO circuit, a first Bandgap module, a second Bandgap module and a switching circuit, wherein the first LDO circuit is used for providing an LDO output voltage when an SOC chip is in a normal operating mode, and the second LDO circuit is used for providing an LDO output voltage when the SOC chip is in an ultra-low power consumption mode; the first Bandgap module is used for providing, based on a main power supply voltage, a first reference voltage for the first LDO circuit at the time of power-on startup, and the second Bandgap module is used for providing a second reference voltage for the second LDO circuit after power-on startup is completed; and the switching circuit is used for switching the mode in which the first reference voltage is output by the first Bandgap module at the time of power-on startup to the mode in which the second reference voltage is output by the second Bandgap module after power-on start
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Beijing Smartchip Microelectronics Technology Comp
    Inventors: Dongyan Zhao, Xiaoke Tang, Xiaoman Wang, Dejian Li, Haifeng Zhang, Yi Hu, Lixin Yang, Yidong Yuan, Lang Tan, Yongwang Ma, Jiali Hou
  • Patent number: 10866606
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to multi-mode voltage regulators. For example, the regulator may include a first voltage regulator configured to operate in a first power mode. The first voltage regulator is further configured to selectively adjust an output voltage using one of a voltage output of a replica pass transistor of the first voltage regulator or a voltage output of the pass transistor of the first voltage regulator based on a transition from a second power mode to the first power mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Anqiao Hu
  • Patent number: 10866607
    Abstract: Techniques that can prevent the low dropout (LDO) output voltage degradation that occurs with conventional LDO regulators, even with large LDO supply variations. An LDO regulator circuit can include another loop that is much slower than the main LDO regulator loop, concentrates the load regulation, and fixes the voltage regulation runaway problem due to the large supply variation with large frequency content. The LDO regulator circuit can include a negative feedback correction loop that corrects the LDO output by, in some examples, adding sink current to the main voltage regulation loop via a programmable current sink element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Analog Devices International Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Celal Avci, James Lin, Shawn S. Kuo
  • Patent number: 10866608
    Abstract: One embodiment relates to a method of controlling supply voltage regulation within an integrated circuit. An external interrupt is sent from an external interaction processing layer to a processor in the integrated circuit. Off-die instructions are generated by the external interaction processing layer and sent to the processor. The off-die instructions are executed by the processor to test and adjust supply voltage regulation within the integrated circuit on a sector-by-sector basis. Another embodiment relates to a method of controlling a supply voltage regulator for a sector of an integrated circuit. Commands are sent by a processor and translated by a sector manager to bits. The bits are loaded into registers so as to set the regulator control circuit to the testing mode send a supply voltage to an analog-to-digital converter. Other embodiments and features are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Eng Ling Ho, Ping-Chen Liu, Chiew Siang Wong, Siaw Chen Lee, Shen Shen Lee
  • Patent number: 10866609
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for dynamically learning the optimum energy consumption operating condition for a building and monitor/control energy consuming equipment to keep the peak demand interval at a minimum. The dynamic demand limiting algorithm utilized employs two separate control schemes, one for HVAC loads and one for non-HVAC loads. Separate operating parameters can be applied to the two types of loads and multiple non-HVAC (control zones) loads can be configured. The algorithm uses historical peak demand measurements in its real-time limiting strategy. The algorithm continuously attempts to reduce peak demand within the user configured parameters. When a new peak is inevitable, the algorithm strategically removes and/or introduces loads in a fashion that limits the new peak magnitude and places the operating conditions within the user configured parameters. In an embodiment, the algorithm that examines the previous seven days of metering information to identify a peak demand interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: GridPoint, Inc.
    Inventors: Danny K. Dyess, Arnie J. Tamagni, Mark W. Vinson
  • Patent number: 10866610
    Abstract: A knob structure includes a fixed member, a rotational assembly, and a damping element. The fixed member includes a carrying platform. The rotational assembly is rotatably disposed on the fixed member. The damping element is disposed between the carrying platform and the rotational assembly. A contact area between the carrying platform and the damping element is configured to be changed by a rotation of the rotational assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: SZ DJI OSMO TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guoyao Liu, Yanchong Zhao, Weidong Li, Paul Pan
  • Patent number: 10866611
    Abstract: The invention provides a phase difference generator error compensation method of a digital frequency generator, wherein the digital frequency generator comprises a phase difference generator, the phase difference generator comprises a phase compensation module and an adjusting module, the phase compensation module provides at least two clock signals, the at least two clock signals comprise a first clock signal and a second clock signal, and a phase difference exists between the first clock signal and the second clock signal; the phase compensation module outputs a third clock signal according to the first clock signal and the second clock signal, and the third clock signal is a difference signal of the first clock signal and the second clock signal; the adjusting module compensates the error of the third clock signal according to the clock phase difference. The method has the benefits that process errors in the phase difference generator are compensated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Amlogic (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Weihua Zou, Ming Shi, Yan Wang
  • Patent number: 10866612
    Abstract: A clock generation circuit is disclosed. The clock generation circuit includes a logic gate configured to, in response to a control input receiving a first control signal, generate an output clock based on a first input clock received by a first identified clock input. The logic gate is further configured to, in response to the control input receiving the second control signal, generate the output clock based on a fixed logic level. The logic gate is further configured to, in response to the control input receiving the second control signal, generate the output clock based on the second input clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Goodix Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Bassam S. Kamand, Ramon Zuniga, Perry Virjee
  • Patent number: 10866613
    Abstract: Disclosed are a conductive particle, an anisotropic conductive film, a display device, and a method for fabricating the same so as to detect the extent to which the conductive particles are cracked in a heating and pressurizing process, to thereby improve the ratio of finished products while the display device is being manufactured. A core of the conductive particle is a fluorescent resin core. In the conductive particle according to this disclosure, the core of the conductive particle is a fluorescent resin core, and the extent to which the conductive particle is cracked can be detected by detecting varying fluorescence in a heating and pressuring process, to thereby alleviate such a phenomenon from taking place that the conductive particle has a poor electrical conductivity due to an insufficient pressure, or the conductive particle is cracked, and thus loses its electrical conductivity, due to an excessive pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huan Ni, Fengzhen Lv, Xinxia Zhang, Xiao Guo, Qun Li, Xiaolong Xie, Chengpeng Yao, Mingguang Li
  • Patent number: 10866614
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first base plate, a second base plate coupled to the first base plate to allow the second base plate to be rotated on the basis of a rotation axis between the first base plate and the second base plate, a moving plate coupled to the second base plate and configured to slide along a first direction with respect to the second base plate, a pop-up plate configured to move along a second direction corresponding to a thickness direction of the second base plate on the second base plate in accordance with a movement of the moving plate, and a display panel including a first portion coupled to the first base plate and a second portion coupled to the moving plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sangwol Lee
  • Patent number: 10866615
    Abstract: An electronic device display may have an inner layer with a pixel array for displaying images and an outer layer with an array of light modulator cells operable in transparent and light-blocking modes. Force sensor and touch sensor circuitry may be used to gather user input such as information on finger pressure or stylus input applied to a location on the display. A block of the cells may be placed into a transparent mode to form a transparent window based on information from the sensor circuitry. Images on the pixel array may be viewed through the window. In another mode of operation, images can be displayed by adjusting the cells of the light modulator layer and backlight illumination may be provided by the pixel array. A camera and a flash or other optical components may be overlapped by an adjustable shutter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Harry K. Ng, Alvin K. Ng, Katherine E. Tong, Tyler S. Bushnell, Amin M. Younes, Benjamin S. Bustle, Christopher D. Jones, James R. Wilson
  • Patent number: 10866616
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a liquid planarization material is coated on at least one of a first surface and a second surface of the cover glass. The second surface faces a direction opposite the first surface. The liquid planarization material is pressed toward the cover glass by a pressing plate and cured. Then, the pressing plate is detached from the cured planarization material and the cover glass. Other embodiments are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngmin Seo, Youngsoo Lee, Min Kim, Yongha Kim
  • Patent number: 10866617
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a wearable display device which includes a flexible screen and a support component supporting the flexible screen. The flexible screen includes a fixed region and a movable region. The support component includes a fixing portion fixedly connected with the fixed region and a movable support plate fixedly connected with the movable region. The movable support plate is hinged with the fixing portion, and the movable support plate drives the movable region to rotate to a preset angle relative to the fixing portion. The technical solution of the present application can make the display screen of the wearable display device be a foldable display screen, and specifically, the user can fold the flexible screen to adjust the display direction of the flexible screen, so as to enrich the use range and use functions of the wearable display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Inventor: Zhiyang Sun
  • Patent number: 10866618
    Abstract: A flexible display apparatus is disclosed. The flexible display apparatus may include a flexible display panel including a display area and a non-display area and a backplate structure on the flexible display panel and configured to support the flexible display panel. The backplate structure includes an elastic structure and a rigid structure that is less flexible than the elastic structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: MoonSoo Yeom
  • Patent number: 10866619
    Abstract: A biometric button assembly may be disposed in an opening of an enclosure of an electronic device. The biometric button assembly may include an input member that forms an exterior surface of the button housing and is configured to receive inputs, for example from a user of the electronic device. The biometric button assembly may further include a biometric sensor for detecting the received inputs and transmitting a signal to a processor of the electronic device. The signal may correspond to a biometric characteristic, such as a fingerprint. A flexible conduit may transmit the signal to the processor. A portion of the flexible conduit and a seal may be positioned between the button assembly and the enclosure that prevents contaminants from entering the button housing and the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Tyler S. Bushnell, James G. Horiuchi, Michael K. McCord, Trevor J. Ness
  • Patent number: 10866620
    Abstract: A mobile terminal is disclosed. When the support assembly of the mobile terminal is unfolded, an entire display screen can perform displaying, so that the mobile terminal can realize large-screen displaying. When the support assembly is folded, the first housing and the second housing are stacked, so that the length of the support assembly is only about a half of the support assembly when it is unfolded, making the mobile terminal convenient to carry. Therefore, the mobile terminal has a large displaying area and is convenient to carry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Jia Chen
  • Patent number: 10866621
    Abstract: A device assembly as disclosed herein includes a heat pipe coupled to a heat transfer device, and a thermal interface. The assembly further includes a cold plate rotatably coupled with the heat pipe through a hinge. The thermal interface is coupled with the cold plate through a plane to rotate about the heat pipe together with the cold plate, and the thermal interface includes a material having a thickness and a resiliency configured to make thermal contact with a circuit in a circuit card when the cold plate is rotated over the circuit card. A chassis and a method to build the chassis including the above assembly are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: David A. Selvidge, Pinche Tsai, David Scott Chialastri, Minh H. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 10866622
    Abstract: A secure charging device provides a charge signal from a host device to an end-user device to charge a battery of the end-user device. The secure charging device includes data transmission logic for transmitting data signals from the host device to the end-user device. The secure charging device also include data monitoring logic for monitoring the data transferred from the host device to the end-user device. Alternatively, the data monitoring logic may include logic for terminating the data transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Inventor: Daryle D. Deloatch
  • Patent number: 10866623
    Abstract: Embodiments of information handling systems (IHSs) and methods are provided herein to automatically detect and recover from boot failures, such as no power failures and no POST failures, without suffering the information loss that typically occurs in conventional recovery methods. One embodiment of an IHS disclosed herein includes a system real-time clock (RTC) configured to maintain current date and time values, a host processor configured to execute boot firmware and perform a Power-On Self-Test (POST) during a boot process for the IHS, and an embedded controller (EC) configured to execute embedded controller firmware during the boot process to detect a no power failure or a no POST failure, and reset or remove power from the system RTC if a no power failure or a no POST failure is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Craig L. Chaiken, Michael W. Arms
  • Patent number: 10866624
    Abstract: The invention relates to power over data cable (PoC) systems comprising power source equipment, PSE, and plural PoC devices connected to the PSE. The PoC devices can operate in various power modes including low and high power modes. A method of managing power performed by a processing device of the system upon starting-up includes: reading, in memory of the processing device, a power change record to determine if, prior to the start-up, a target PoC device was about to switch from the low power mode to the high power mode; if it was about to switch, restricting it to remain in the low power mode; otherwise, triggering the target device to switch to the high power mode. As being restricted to the low power mode, the target device can no longer cause power failures. Thus endless loops of power failures caused by one and the same device are avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yacine El Kolli, Pascal Lagrange
  • Patent number: 10866625
    Abstract: First data is transmitted from a modem of a device to a processor of the device over a point-to-point serial data link at a first one of a plurality of link speeds, where the first data is received at the device over a wireless network connection. The data link transitions to an inactive state following transmission of the first data. Second data is identified that has likewise been received over a wireless network connection, where at least a portion of the second data is received at the device while the data link is in the inactive state. A change from the first speed to a second one of the plurality of link speeds is determined based on historical parameters and predictive parameters. The data link is transitioned to an active state operational at the second link speed to transmit the second data to the processor over the data link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Reinhold Schneider, Pavel Peleska
  • Patent number: 10866626
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic apparatus, a power-saving control method, and a program capable of realizing both ease of use for a user and power-saving. A determination unit that determines whether a non-operation state of a user continues for a reference time in a first power mode, a mode control unit that shifts a power mode to a second power mode in which power is saved in a case where determination is made that the non-operation state continues for the reference time in the first power mode, a time interval detection unit that detects a time interval from the shift to the second power mode to an operation by the user, and a time control unit that changes the reference time based on the detected time interval are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiko Sugimoto