Particular Manufactured Product Or Operation Patents (Class 700/117)
  • Patent number: 11809165
    Abstract: Logic mechanisms operate to define the position of at least one mechanical output based on the position of two or more mechanical inputs, and employ at least one control element that functions to determine (at least in part) whether an output is moved, and which provides the same function in more than one position. Some mechanisms are configured to determine, based on the input positions, whether a path to transmit motion to an output exists or does not exist. Some mechanisms are configured to determine, based on the input positions, whether or not motion of a driven element can be accommodated without moving an output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: CBN Nano Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: James F. Ryley, III, Mark N. Jobes, Jeffrey E. Semprebon
  • Patent number: 11703499
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for generating a recipe for a concrete mixture, comprising: obtaining an optical characterization of a set of particles; determining, based on the optical characterization, physical characteristics of the set of particles; generating a multispherical approximation of the set of particles; selecting, based on the physical characteristics of the set of particles and from a database of performance rules, performance rules applicable to the set of particles; predicting performance of a proposed recipe for a concrete mixture formed from the set of particles by: determining a wet flowability rating of the proposed recipe based on the selected performance rules; and determining a dry packing rating of the proposed recipe based on the multispherical approximation; iteratively altering the proposed recipe and predicting performance of the altered proposed recipe until the predicted performance satisfies performance criteria to obtain a final recipe; and outputting the final recipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: X Development LLC
    Inventors: Antonio Raymond Papania-Davis, Weishi Yan
  • Patent number: 11679548
    Abstract: A method of controlling a manufacturing process in which directed energy selectively melts material, forming a melt pool. The method includes: generating an image having an array of individual image elements, the image including measurement, for each image element, of two or more physical properties from the group including: color, emission frequency, and sheen, the measurements collectively indicating presence of: liquid phase, melting, or incipient melting; from the measurements, mapping a boundary of the melt pool, wherein for each of the measurements that indicate liquid phase, melting, or incipient melting, corresponding image elements are defined to be inside the boundary, and wherein for each of the measurements that do not indicate liquid phase, melting, or incipient melting, the corresponding image elements are defined to be outside of the boundary; and controlling at least one aspect of the additive manufacturing process with reference to the boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Thomas Graham Spears
  • Patent number: 11590596
    Abstract: A welding system includes a first sensor associated with a welding helmet and configured to sense a parameter indicative of a position of a welding torch relative to the welding helmet. The travel speed sensing system also includes a processing system communicatively coupled to the first sensor and configured to determine a position of the welding torch relative to a workpiece based on the sensed first parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Kyle Andrew Pfeifer, William Todd Watson, Richard Martin Hutchison, William Joshua Becker
  • Patent number: 11590703
    Abstract: Apparatuses for dynamically sensing infrared (IR) radiation in an electron beam powder bed fusion (EB-PBF) printer are provided. A radiation collector receives radiation from a surface of the powder bed. An IR-transparent material rejects one or more non-IR wavelengths, and a lens focuses the IR radiation onto an optical fiber. The IR radiation is carried from the vacuum chamber of the printer to a sensor, where IR information is determined based on the received IR radiation. The IR information may be received from the sensor and used by the print controller to modify one or more parameters, such as beam intensity or scanning rate, on the fly or during the next print cycle. An occlusion member can be used to selectively block or expose the radiation collector to protect the radiation collector from condensation of vapor from vaporization of particles at high temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: DIVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Yang, Andrius Juozas Raulinaitis, Michael James Hoganson
  • Patent number: 11590708
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a system that includes a three-dimensional fabricator. An image processing module acquires an image of a rock sample having a network of pores, a transformation module transforms the image into a binary matrix and determine a set of statistical moments of the binary matrix, a layer generation module generates a first representation of a first stochastic layer based on the set and emulative of the rock sample and generates a second representation of a second stochastic layer based on the set and emulative of the rock sample. An arrangement module arranges the first representation and the second representation as adjacent layers of a three-dimensional model emulative of the rock sample, and provides the first representation and the second representation to the 3D fabricator for fabrication as a physical three-dimensional fluid micromodel emulative of the rock sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Ali Alkhatib, Amar Alshehri, Ming Han
  • Patent number: 11562547
    Abstract: A system and method include performing digital block-out of one or more digital preparation teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics, Inc.
    Inventors: Sergey Nikolskiy, Fedor Chelnokov
  • Patent number: 11553633
    Abstract: A mounting device comprises: a mounting head having multiple pickup members configured to pick up components; a mounting control section configured to cause a second component to be picked up later when a first component, held by the mounting head at a predetermined height, and the second component, held by the mounting head at a lowered position lower than the predetermined height, are picked up with the mounting head; the mounting control section being configured to cause the second component to be released earlier when the mounting head, having picked up the first component and the second component, releases a component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeto Oyama, Jun Iisaka
  • Patent number: 11504911
    Abstract: Irradiation device (5) for an apparatus (1) for additively manufacturing three-dimensional objects (2) by means of successive layerwise selective irradiation and consolidation of layers of a build material (3) which can be consolidated by means of an energy source, which Irradiation device (5) comprises at least one irradiation unit (6-8), preferably an optical unit, arranged in a housing (9) of the Irradiation device (5), wherein a stream generating device (10) is provided that is adapted to guide a gas stream (11) that is adapted to be charged with residues present inside the housing (9) through the housing (9) of the Irradiation device (5) along a streaming path in which the gas stream (11) at least partially streams alongside or through the at least one irradiation unit (6-8) for removing residues from the housing (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: CONCEPT LASER GMBH
    Inventor: Tim Döhler
  • Patent number: 11498131
    Abstract: Estimation algorithms, methods, and systems are provided that estimate the internal temperatures inside of a part being built using powder bed fusion (PBF). Closed-loop state estimation is applied to the problem of monitoring temperature fields within parts during the PBF build process. A simplified linear time-invariant (LTI) model of PBF thermal physics with the properties of stability, controllability and observability is presented. In some aspects, an Ensemble Kalman Filter is applied to the model. Linear time-varying (LTV) systems are also contemplated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Ohio State Innovation Foundation
    Inventors: Nathaniel Joseph Wood, David John Hoelzle
  • Patent number: 11457932
    Abstract: A cutting system includes a material removal tool having a fluid nozzle with an adjustable diameter, a workpiece including a target shape for removal, and a controller operable to adjust the diameter of the nozzle to vary fluid flow and control an amount of material removed by the material removal tool. The controller is adapted to adjust the nozzle to vary the fluid flow based on a position of the nozzle and workpiece data preoperatively obtained from the workpiece via a continuous feedback loop. A method of cutting a bone is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Mako Surgical Corp.
    Inventors: Gokce Yildirim, Justin Joseph Gerges
  • Patent number: 11458682
    Abstract: The invention relates to a build chamber (1) for an additive manufacturing apparatus (100) for forming a three-dimensional article layer by layer from a powder. The build chamber (1) comprising a build chamber base body (2) and the build chamber base body (2) is formed by at least two segments (4) telescopically coupled together. Associated with the telescopically coupled segments are one or more bellows assemblies, further coupled to support structure configured to raise and/or lower the build table. An associated method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: ARCAM AB
    Inventor: Kristofer Karlsson
  • Patent number: 11440262
    Abstract: Method for operating an apparatus (1) for additively manufacturing three-dimensional objects (2) by means of successive layerwise selective irradiation and consolidation of layers of a build material (3) which can be consolidated by means of an energy source, wherein irradiation data define at least two regions (8, 9) of object data relating to a three-dimensional object (2), which regions (8, 9) are irradiated based on at least two different irradiation parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: CONCEPT LASER GMBH
    Inventor: JĂŒrgen Werner
  • Patent number: 11400653
    Abstract: Method for operating an apparatus (1) for additively manufacturing three-dimensional objects (2) by means of successive layerwise selective irradiation and consolidation of layers of a build material (3) which can be consolidated by means of an energy beam (4), wherein at least one energy beam (4) is guided along at least one track segment (13, 16-18) in the build plane based on irradiation data generated based on a space-filling curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: CONCEPT LASER GMBH
    Inventors: AndrĂ© Petratschek, Benjamin GĂŒnther
  • Patent number: 11351650
    Abstract: Provided is a block device that mounts a lens shape processing lens holder to a convex surface of a spectacle lens with two alignment reference marks for identifying a distance portion design reference point on a concave surface. The block device includes an imaging unit that images the alignment reference marks of the spectacle lens supported by a support unit from a convex surface side of the spectacle lens, an information processing unit that obtains expected imaged positions of the alignment reference marks imaged by the imaging unit, using information regarding the spectacle lens, when a posture of the spectacle lens supported by the support unit becomes a reference posture suitable for mounting the lens holder, and a display control unit that displays images of index marks indicating the expected imaged positions obtained in the information processing unit and images of the alignment reference marks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Daimaru, Hidetoshi Nishimura, Takao Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11322976
    Abstract: Operational events associated with a target physical device can be detected for mitigation by implementing some aspects described herein. For example, a system can apply a sliding window to received sensor measurements at successive time intervals to generate a set of data windows. The system can determine a set of eigenvectors associated with the set of data windows by performing principal component analysis on a set of data points in the set of data windows. The system can determine a set of angle changes between pairs of eigenvectors. The system can generate a measurement profile by executing an integral transform on the set of angle changes. One or more trained machine-learning models are configured to detect an operational event associated with the target physical device based on the measurement profile and generate an output indicating the operational event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SAS INSTITUTE INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Dale Anderson, Priyadarshini Sharma, Mark Joseph Konya, James M. Caton
  • Patent number: 11288625
    Abstract: Disclosed are a warehousing management method and a warehousing system, wherein the warehousing management method includes: determining whether any of the current warehousing cabinets in the warehousing system could satisfy a balance mechanism trigger condition, wherein the warehousing system includes a plurality of warehousing cabinets, each of the warehousing cabinets includes a plurality of warehousing positions for storing the cartridges; selecting a candidate cartridge for the work in process from the current storage cabinets that does not belong to the machine on the current warehousing cabinet if the current warehousing cabinet could satisfy the balance mechanism trigger condition; controlling the transmission device to convey at least one of the candidate cartridges to the target warehousing cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignees: HKC Corporation Limited, Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Posung Pan
  • Patent number: 11204423
    Abstract: A micro robot that is moveable in a body includes first quantum dots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: DAEGU GYEONGBUK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Hyun Ki Lee, Jin Young Kim, Sung Jun Lim, Hong Soo Choi
  • Patent number: 11179889
    Abstract: A three-dimensional forming system includes a three-dimensional forming apparatus and a control device. The three-dimensional forming apparatus includes a nozzle that discharges a forming material, an opening/closing mechanism that opens or closes a flow path connected to the nozzle, a moving mechanism that changes a relative position between the forming table and the nozzle, and a control unit that perform a control based on forming data. The control device includes a forming data generating unit that analyzes path data including a path indicating a movement direction and a movement distance of the nozzle and a discharge parameter indicating discharging of the forming material, generates the forming data by adding an opening/closing command for driving the opening/closing mechanism to the path data, and transmits the forming data to the three-dimensional forming apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Inventors: Shunsuke Mizukami, Satoshi Yamazaki, Kazuhide Nakamura, Kohei Yuwaki, Koichi Saito
  • Patent number: 11150417
    Abstract: The systems and methods disclosed herein are used to estimate the insertion loss of an anticipated optical connection between a first optical connector having least one first optical fiber and a second optical connector having at least one second optical fiber. The method includes extracting first connector information stored on the first optical connector to obtain extracted first connector information and extracting second connector information stored on the second optical connector to obtain extracted second connector information. The estimated insertion loss of the anticipated optical connection between the first optical connector and the second optical connector is calculated using the extracted first connector information and the extracted second connector information. The total estimated insertion loss of a fiber link that includes one or more such optical connections can be used to qualify the fiber link without having to directly measure the fiber link insertion loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Coming Research & Development Corporation
    Inventor: Grzegorz Tosik
  • Patent number: 11148203
    Abstract: Plant for additively manufacturing at least one three-dimensional object, comprising at least one process station being configured to perform an additive manufacturing process and/or at least one preprocessing process for an additive manufacturing process and/or at least one postprocessing process for an additive manufacturing process; at least one conveying device configured to convey an item between at least two positions (P1, P2) of the plant, the conveying device comprising at least one conveying element, the at least one conveying element being at least partially bound to ground, and at least one conveying carriage being connectable or connected with the conveying element so as to be moveable between at least two positions (P1, P2) of the plant, the at least one conveying carriage comprising at least one supporting interface for supporting at least one item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Concept Laser GmbH
    Inventors: Viktor Kremer, Christoph Schmidbauer, Ralf Hetzel, Pascal Krause, Benjamin Krausser
  • Patent number: 11071211
    Abstract: Provided is a method for operating an electronic component mounting system including component storages including a keeping rack, a dry box and a dryer. The method includes, after a reel of a moisture sensitive device is dispatched from a component keeping area and setup to a tape feeder is performed in an external setup area, measuring a exposure time for which the moisture sensitive device is in an atmospheric exposure state is in a reel unit, and comparing the exposure time with an exposure limit time set for the moisture sensitive device and stored in a storage. The method includes stopping using the reel of the moisture sensitive device whose exposure time exceeds the exposure limit time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norihisa Yamasaki, Yasuhiro Maenishi, Yuji Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11052606
    Abstract: A method of detecting a malfunction event in an additive manufacturing system includes building a workpiece with the additive manufacturing system. The additive manufacturing system includes a housing, a build chamber disposed within the housing, a recoater disposed within the build chamber, a build platform configured to receive the workpiece, a shaft mounted to the build platform, a sensor in operable communication with the additive manufacturing system, and an actuating mechanism engaged with the shaft such that the actuating mechanism is configured to move the shaft relative to the actuating mechanism. The undesirable event is sensed with the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: David W. Morganson, Eric M. Raffia
  • Patent number: 11021200
    Abstract: A modular vehicle assembly system and methods for increased flexibility and adaptability of a high-volume assembly facility which builds several vehicle models. In one example, the invention includes modular assembly equipment (AE) support pallets which are shipped to vendors for installation of selected AE equipment devices that are specific to a predetermined assembly operation and then validation tested prior to shipment to the assembly facility. The validated modular AE pallets and AE devices are then shipped to the assembly facility and quickly installed to support manufacturing, assembly or other operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Comau LLC
    Inventor: Velibor Kilibarda
  • Patent number: 10983507
    Abstract: A system and method for data collection and frequency analysis with self-organization functionality includes analyzing with a processor a plurality of sensor inputs, sampling with the processor data received from at least one of the plurality of sensor inputs at a first frequency, and self-organizing with the processor a selection operation of the plurality of sensor inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Howard Cella, Mehul Desai, Gerald William Duffy, Jr., Jeffrey P. McGuckin
  • Patent number: 10828837
    Abstract: A method of controlling an additive manufacturing process in which a directed energy source is used to selectively melt material to form a workpiece, forming a melt pool in the process of melting, the method comprising: using an imaging apparatus to generate an image of the melt pool comprising an array of individual image elements, the image including a measurement of at least one physical property for each of the individual image elements; from the measurements, mapping a melt pool boundary of the melt pool; computing a algebraic connectivity of the melt pool; and controlling at least one aspect of the additive manufacturing process with reference to the algebraic connectivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Thomas Graham Spears
  • Patent number: 10828836
    Abstract: A method of controlling an additive manufacturing process in which a directed energy source is used to selectively melt material to form a workpiece, forming a melt pool in the process of melting, the method including: using an imaging apparatus to generate an image of the melt pool comprising an array of individual image elements, the image including a measurement of at least one physical property for each of the individual image elements; from the measurements, mapping a melt pool boundary of the melt pool; and controlling at least one aspect of the additive manufacturing process with reference to the melt pool boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Thomas Graham Spears
  • Patent number: 10795339
    Abstract: Provided is a method for processing containers, wherein the containers are processed by. a first processing device in a first predetermined manner and are transported by. a transport device to a second processing device and are processed by this second processing device in a second predetermined manner, and wherein the processing devices are in each case controlled by at least control devices, wherein for the control parameters are used which are characteristic of the containers and/or the processing of the containers. According to the embodiment, predetermination parameters are output on at least one and preferably on several control devices, and said output predetermination parameters are compared with parameters required by at least one processing device, and it is checked whether the parameters required by the at least one processing device can be derived at least from the predetermination parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Andreas Gschrey, Thomas Hensel, Falk Huppelsberg
  • Patent number: 10772251
    Abstract: A setup support device that improves the efficiency of setup of a component mounter by guiding supplying of feeders to a component supply device as preparation for setting of the feeders. The support setup device includes: a preparation cart on which are loaded multiple of the feeders used to perform multiple production jobs; and a feeder identifying section configured to identify multiple of the feeders to be set on a component supply device among the multiple feeders loaded on the preparation cart. The preparation cart includes a guidance section configured to issue guidance all at once for the identified multiple feeders to an operator performing the setup so as to supply the identified multiple feeders to the component supply device as preparation for setting the identified multiple feeders on the component supply device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Hayashi, Hiroyuki Haneda, Koji Shimizu
  • Patent number: 10618751
    Abstract: A modular loading and unloading system wherein modular units can be simply added to a base unit, or main unit, in a desired configuration that fulfill capacity and footprint needs of a manufacturer at any moment, for example when the manufacturer's business expands, thus considerably reducing the time and cost of modifying existing manufacturing systems, such as a laser-based parts cutting system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Amada America, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Beransky, Mihai Cioclei, Alexey Volovik, Jonas Gutierrez, Fred Cortez, Karapet Kirishchyan
  • Patent number: 10614533
    Abstract: Methods and processes for moving towards optimizing one or more parameters in a parallel train comprising two hydrocarbon cracking facilities where the two facilities either have non-identical process unit configurations or are operating under non-identical process conditions are disclosed. These methods and processes use models to simulate the impact of interconnecting the facilities by partially withdrawing an intermediate stream from within one cracking facility and adding the partially withdrawn stream to the second cracking facility in order to better optimize the overall operation of the parallel train.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph F. Carpency, Xueyu S. Chen, Marie S. Delaroche
  • Patent number: 10596650
    Abstract: A welding system includes a first sensor associated with a welding helmet and configured to sense a parameter indicative of a position of a welding torch relative to the welding helmet. The travel speed sensing system also includes a processing system communicatively coupled to the first sensor and configured to determine a position of the welding torch relative to a workpiece based on the sensed first parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Kyle Andrew Pfeifer, William Todd Watson, Richard Martin Hutchison, William Joshua Becker
  • Patent number: 10591553
    Abstract: The invention relates to a circuit arrangement for establishing compatibility between a field device or an interface device for a field device and a diagnostic system pertaining to a control system, to the output of which the interface device or field device can be connected. The diagnostic system is adapted to send, via the output of the control system, a test signal to the interface device or field device and to emit an error signal when an electrical response at the output of the control system lies outside an expectancy range. The circuit arrangement comprises voltage influencing means for influencing a voltage at the output of the control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: PEPPERL + FUCHS GMBH
    Inventors: Martin Jung, Peter Ball
  • Patent number: 10549398
    Abstract: Provided is a block device that mounts a lens shape processing lens holder to a convex surface of a spectacle lens with two alignment reference marks for identifying a distance portion design reference point on a concave surface. The block device includes an imaging unit that images the alignment reference marks of the spectacle lens supported by a support unit from a convex surface side of the spectacle lens, an information processing unit that obtains expected imaged positions of the alignment reference marks imaged by the imaging unit, using information regarding the spectacle lens, when a posture of the spectacle lens supported by the support unit becomes a reference posture suitable for mounting the lens holder, and a display control unit that displays images of index marks indicating the expected imaged positions obtained in the information processing unit and images of the alignment reference marks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Daimaru, Hidetoshi Nishimura, Takao Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10515157
    Abstract: A method is provided for the creation of an addendum for use in the design and production of sheet metal formed components, which method uses a sectionless approach. In a preferred approach, elevation curve (EC) lines are established relating to the component (ECc) and binder (ECb), and it is these lines which are used to design the addendum. Additional EC lines (EC1, EC2, EC3, etc.) can be added to modify or optimize the addendum design. The spaces between the EC lines are filled using various parameterized filling techniques so as to provide the addendum design. Optimization of the addendum can be achieved by modification of the various EC lines, so as to modify or control the various design parameters, in accordance with various quality or design criteria. A more rapid, and less complicated approach to addendum design is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence Canada Limited
    Inventors: Victor Apanovitch, Stefan Martin Walter Huhn, Yongguo Wu, Derek Edward George Peeling, Dong Zhao
  • Patent number: 10482439
    Abstract: A key-duplicating system comprises a network that includes a multiplicity of kiosks at a multiplicity of different locations, each of the kiosks having a customer interface and a processor coupled to the customer interface. A remote central server coupled to the kiosks is adapted to receive, from the kiosks, information identifying master keys to be duplicated. A key analysis module uses the information identifying master keys to be duplicated to derive information required to produce duplicates of the identified master keys, and a key duplicating module uses that information to produce duplicates of said identified master keys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: The Hillman Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Freeman
  • Patent number: 10474980
    Abstract: A system for providing access to delivery locations with added security. The system can include a database of images (or other data) of keys associated with a plurality of delivery addresses, or secure delivery locations. When a special handling item—i.e., one that cannot safely be left outside the delivery location—is ordered, the system creates a key to provide access to the secure delivery location. The key can be a one-time use, disposable, shreddable, or otherwise temporary key. The system can also utilize one or more video cameras to record some or all of the delivery process to ensure the delivery driver delivers the item(s), destroys or leaves the key, and leaves the secure delivery location locked, among other things. The manufacturing of a key and/or the choice to use secure delivery can be based on the delivery location, product, delivery value, perishability, or other factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David Bruce McCalib, Jr., Harrison Holmes Jones
  • Patent number: 10373371
    Abstract: An example technique for generating slice data from the tree data structure representation of a three dimensional (3-D) object can include obtaining a shape specification of the 3-D object and obtaining a material specification of the 3-D object. The example technique for generating slice data from the tree data structure representation of a 3-D object can also include merging the shape specification and the material specification to create a tree data structure representation of the 3-D object. The example technique for generating slice data from the tree data structure representation of a 3-D object can also include generating slice data from the tree data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jun Zeng, Pu Huang, Sebastia Cortes, Scott A. White, Gary J. Dispoto
  • Patent number: 10350399
    Abstract: A medical fluid suspension generating apparatus for performing medical procedures includes a Venturi-agitating tip assembly composed of a multi-channel arrangement at a proximal first end thereof and a tip at a distal second end thereof. The apparatus also includes a compressed medical fluid unit fluidly connected to the multi-channel arrangement at a proximal first end of the Venturi-agitating tip assembly and a medical solution fluidly connected to the multi-channel arrangement at a proximal first end of the Venturi-agitating tip assembly. Pressurized gas, from the compressed medical fluid unit, and the medical solution are combined within the Venturi-agitating tip assembly in a manner generating an enriched medical suspension that is ultimately dispensed from the suspension delivery apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Inventors: Frank Levy, Kimberley Levy
  • Patent number: 10322271
    Abstract: A medical fluid suspension generating apparatus for performing medical procedures includes a Venturi-agitating tip assembly composed of a multi-channel arrangement at a proximal first end thereof and a tip at a distal second end thereof. The apparatus also includes a compressed medical fluid unit fluidly connected to the multi-channel arrangement at a proximal first end of the Venturi-agitating tip assembly and a medical solution fluidly connected to the multi-channel arrangement at a proximal first end of the Venturi-agitating tip assembly. Pressurized sclerosant or other chemical medical solution, from the compressed medical fluid unit, and the medical solution of sclerosant or other chemical medical solution are combined within the Venturi-agitating tip assembly in a manner generating an enriched medical suspension that is ultimately dispensed from the suspension delivery apparatus to spray or wash the inner wall of a lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Inventors: Frank Levy, Kimberley Levy
  • Patent number: 10318381
    Abstract: A memory device can include three-dimensional memory entities each including a plurality of two-dimensional memory entities. A controller can read data from the memory at a first resolution and collect error rate information from the memory at a second resolution including a portion of a two-dimensional memory entity. The controller can determine a quantity of two-dimensional memory entities that have a greater error rate than a remainder of the two-dimensional memory entities based on the error rate information. The controller can determine a quantity of portions of three-dimensional memory entities that have a greater error rate than a remainder of the portions of three-dimensional memory entities based on the error rate information excluding error rate information for portions of the two-dimensional memory entities associated with the quantity of two-dimensional memory entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin M. Eno, Samuel E. Bradshaw
  • Patent number: 10289696
    Abstract: A round baler may include a bale chamber having one or more bale forming apparatus which form a bale in the bale chamber. The round baler may include a size sensor which measures a plurality of dimensions of the bale as the bale increases in size from a partial bale to a completed bale. The round baler may include a force sensor which measures an ending weight of the completed bale. The round baler may include a location determining device which establishes a plurality of locations of the round baler corresponding to the plurality of dimensions of the bale. The round baler can determine a plurality of yields for the bale by correlating changes in the plurality of dimensions of the bale with the ending weight of the completed bale and generating a map by correlating the plurality of yields with the plurality of locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventor: Daniel E. Derscheid
  • Patent number: 10255060
    Abstract: Method for extending an embedded software component of a field device (F), wherein an extending software component is loaded into a memory of the field device (F), wherein by means of the extending software component at least one supplemental application function is provided for the field device (F), and wherein the embedded software component and the extending software component interact, in order to execute the supplemental application function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: ENDRESS + HAUSER PROCESS SOLUTIONS AG
    Inventor: Vincent De Groot
  • Patent number: 10107679
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optoelectronic safety sensor comprising an electronic measuring device for generating measured signals which depend on a state of a safety zone observed by the safety sensor and an electronic evaluation unit for evaluating the measured signals. The electronic evaluation unit comprises a programmable logic controller integrated into the optoelectronic safety sensor for the logic evaluation of logic state variables which are derived from the measured signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: SICK AG
    Inventors: Manfred Haberer, Andreas Schieber, Frank Haberstroh
  • Patent number: 10110328
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides apparatus and methods for the calibration of analog circuitry on an integrated circuit. One embodiment relates to a method of calibrating analog circuitry within an integrated circuit. A microcontroller that is embedded in the integrated circuit is booted up. A reset control signal is sent to reset an analog circuit in the integrated circuit, and a response signal for the analog circuit is monitored by the microcontroller. Based on the response signal, a calibration parameter for the analog circuit is determined, and the analog circuit is configured using the calibration parameter. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Neville Carvalho, Tim Tri Hoang, Sergey Shumarayev
  • Patent number: 10036688
    Abstract: An interface and method for determining an operational reliability factor SB for a drive, including gear unit and motor, provided for a load, an operational reliability factor SB is determined for the drive or its gear unit from a load collective that is at least three-dimensional.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Peter Barton, Roman Schaefer
  • Patent number: 10013510
    Abstract: A system or method includes receiving data regarding a first simulated object with at least one desired physical property to be exhibited by the first simulated object designed by a user. The method includes receiving a request for modifications to the simulated object to achieve the at least one desired physical property and determining based on the at least one desired physical property other simulated objects designed by other users, the other simulated objects exhibit the desired physical properties. The display at least one design path that shows other simulated objects that has the desired physical properties and allowing the user choose one of the other simulated objects and replace the object with the chosen object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: MSC.Software Corporation
    Inventors: Kunaseelan Kanthasamy, Herbert Dennis HĂșnt
  • Patent number: 10015293
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are described for incorporating an Internet of Things (IoT) service interface protocol layer in at least one node. The format of various IoT messages used to communicate over a service interface are also described. A set of IoT service level operations may be defined in the node. The IoT service level operations may be performed on IoT information elements (IEs). The IoT service level operations may be defined in terms of various actions that are generic and applicable across industry verticals. The operations may leverage each other as sub-operations, (e.g., collaborate, share, synchronize, discover, associate, collect, aggregate, concatenate, share, relocate, invoke, delegate or surrogate). The IoT IEs may include at least one of a content IoT IE, a context IoT IE, a policy IoT IE, a decision IoT IE, an event IoT IE, a discovery IoT IE or a descriptor IoT IE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: IOT Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale N. Seed, Chonggang Wang, Lijun Dong
  • Patent number: 9985958
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and systems described herein are for segmentation, handshaking, and access control solutions for Opendots technology. One embodiment described a charging pad that includes a plurality of conductive strips, switches, and decipher circuitry. A switch is coupled to the plurality of conductive strips whereas the decipher circuitry is coupled to the plurality of conductive strips and the switch. In response to contact with one conductive strip of the plurality of conductive strips, the decipher circuitry determines whether a security password has been received. The switch allows a voltage higher than a threshold voltage level to be supplied to an external device if the security password is received by the decipher circuitry. However, the switch can also prevent a voltage higher than a threshold voltage level to be supplied to an external device if the security password is not received by the decipher circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Bo Qiu, Jianfang Zhu, Anand S. Konanur, Bradley A. Jackson, Sayan Lahiri
  • Patent number: 9939388
    Abstract: A wafer inspection apparatus including a derivation unit configured to derive a first polar coordinate set and a second polar coordinate set using a latin hypercube sampling, the first and second polar coordinate sets not overlapping each other, an inspection unit configured to perform defect inspections of a plurality of wafers using the first and second polar coordinate sets, a support unit configured to support the wafers, and an calculation unit configured to combine a defect inspection result using the first polar coordinate set with a defect inspection result using the second polar coordinate set may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Choon-Shik Leem, Woo-Jin Jung, Chung-Sam Jun