18th week of 2020 patent applcation highlights part 46 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20200133237 | NUMERICAL CONTROLLER - To provide a numerical controller that can detect the position at which the look-ahead blocks used to determine an acceleration/deceleration operation is insufficient in a machining program in order to stabilize feed rate, cutting speed and other factors. A numerical controller includes a program execution unit that executes a machining program, a program look-ahead unit that looks ahead at the machining program in parallel with execution of the machining program, a look-ahead blocks calculation unit that calculates a look-ahead blocks, which is the difference between a first sequence number that is the number of a block being executed by the program execution unit and a second sequence number that is the number of a block that is looked ahead by the program look-ahead unit while the machining program is being executed, and an exhaustion block detection unit that detects an exhaustion block, which is a block at which the look-ahead blocks falls below a prescribed value. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133238 | SELECTIVELY ACTIVATING A RESOURCE BY DETECTING EMOTIONS THROUGH CONTEXT ANALYSIS - A method selectively activates a resource to accommodate an advanced emotion. A supervisor computer receives a first piece of content, and then applies an emotion classifier to the first piece of content in order to create a first concept/emotion/sentiment/time tuple. The supervisor computer creates a second concept/emotion/sentiment/time tuple for a second piece of content, and compares the first and second tuples. If the concept in the first piece of content matches the concept in the second piece of content but that at least one of the emotion, sentiment, and time of the first piece of content does not match the emotion, sentiment, and time of the second piece of content, the supervisor computer determines that the emotion of the second piece of content is an advanced emotion that is not expressed by the first or second pieces of content, and activates a resource that accommodates the advanced emotion. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133239 | COMMUNICATION ROBOT AND CONTROL PROGRAM OF COMMUNICATION ROBOT - A communication robot includes: an operation part; and a communication arbitration unit configured to exhibit one of a robot mode for autonomously operating the operation part by applying a first operational criterion and an avatar mode for operating the operation part based on an operation instruction sent from a remote operator by applying a second operational criterion to arbitrate communication with a service user, in which the communication arbitration unit operates, when it is intended to exhibit the avatar mode in accordance with an operation request from the remote operator, the operation part in the robot mode and asks the service user whether to allow the mode to be switched to the avatar mode. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133240 | NUMERICAL CONTROLLER - To provide a numerical controller that can detect a position in a machining program at which a speed control abnormality is likely to occur due to an insufficient look-ahead blocks that are used to determine an acceleration/deceleration operation, and supplement the look-ahead blocks at that position in order to stabilize feed rate, cutting speed and other factors. A numerical controller includes a required look-ahead blocks setting unit that sets a required look-ahead blocks, which is a look-ahead blocks required to execute a machining program, and an operation limitation unit that compares a look-ahead blocks calculated by a look-ahead blocks calculation unit to the required look-ahead blocks and, if the look-ahead blocks is less than the required look-ahead blocks, limits execution of the machining program until the look-ahead blocks reach the required look-ahead blocks. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133241 | NUMERICAL CONTROL SYSTEM - To provide a numerical controller that can detect a position in a machining program at which a speed control abnormality is likely to occur due to an insufficient look-ahead blocks that are used to determine an acceleration/deceleration operation, and start a look-ahead processing function from the position in parallel with looking ahead at the machining program from the start of the machining program in order to stabilize feed rate, cutting speed and other factors. A numerical controller includes a program execution unit that executes a machining program, a first program look-ahead unit and a second program look-ahead unit that simultaneously look ahead at the machining program from different blocks in the machining program in parallel with execution of the machining program, and a look-ahead allocation unit that divides a storage unit into a first region and a second region and instructs the first program look-ahead unit to perform a look-ahead action of storing look-ahead blocks in the first region and instructs the second program look-ahead unit to perform a look-ahead action of storing look-ahead blocks in the second region. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133242 | NUMERICAL CONTROLLER - To provide a numerical controller that can detect a position in a machining program at which a speed control abnormality is likely to occur due to an insufficient look-ahead blocks that are used to determine an acceleration/deceleration operation, and start a look-ahead processing function from the position in parallel with looking ahead at the machining program from the start of the machining program. A numerical controller includes a program execution unit that executes a machining program, a program look-ahead unit that simultaneously looks ahead at the machining program from different blocks in the machining program in parallel with execution of the machining program and that includes a first program look-ahead unit and a second program look-ahead unit, and a look-ahead allocation unit that divides a storage unit into at least a first region and a second region and instructs the first program look-ahead unit to perform a look-ahead action of storing look-ahead blocks in the first region and instructs the second program look-ahead unit to perform a look-ahead action of storing look-ahead blocks in the second region. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133243 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING SAFETY-CRITICAL AND NON-SAFETY-CRITICAL PROCESSES - A control system configured to control safety-critical and non-safety-critical processes and/or plant components includes: a non-safety controller module, at least one safety controller module, and at least one condition monitoring module. The non-safety controller module is configured to control the non-safety-critical processes and/or the non-safety-critical plant components. The at least one safety controller module is configured to control the safety-critical processes and/or the safety-critical plant components. The at least one condition monitoring module is configured to perform fail-safe condition monitoring and to collect monitoring data. The non-safety controller module is configured to receive the collected monitoring data from the condition monitoring module and to pass the collected monitoring data to the safety controller module. The safety-controller module is configured to evaluate the monitoring data based on safety conditions. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133244 | PREPARING DEVICE, DEBUGGING DEVICE, DATA PREPARING METHOD, AND DATA PREPARING PROGRAM - Provided is a data preparing device, a data preparing method, and a data preparing program that can accumulate information in which operating states of equipment when a specific event occurs in the equipment are organized. An edge server includes a collection section configured to collect time series data from equipment, a storage unit configured to define a situation in which any of items or a combination of the items included in the time series data becomes a predetermined value as an event, and store a storing rule that defines, for each of the events, an item of associated data as a storing target; and a conversion section configured to extract the associated data from the time series data for each of the events in accordance with the storing rule and convert resultant data into event data. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133245 | Device For Coordinated Movement And/Or Orientation Of A Tracking Tool, Method For Smoothing A Part Using Said Device And Smoothing Station For Implementing Said Method - A device for coordinated movement and/or orientation of a tracking tool relative to a portable tool handled by an operator on a production station allows a tracking tool to track the movements of a portable tool handled by an operator, without the intervention of an additional operator. Also described is a smoothing method using the device, as well as a smoothing station for implementing the method. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133246 | LEARNING MODEL GENERATION DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING MACHINE TOOL, SUPPORT DEVICE FOR MACHINE TOOL AND MACHINE TOOL SYSTEM - A learning model generation device for supporting a machine tool, includes: a first non-control element acquisition unit configured to acquire a first non-control element, the first non-control element including at least one of specifications of a workpiece and specifications of a tool and being not a machining control element for a machine tool; a machining control element acquisition unit configured to acquire the machining control element for the machine tool; and an actual quality element acquisition unit configured to acquire an actual quality element of the workpiece after machining. The leaning model generation device further includes a learning model generation unit configured to generate, by machine learning in which the first non-control element, the machining control element and the actual quality element are set as learning data, a learning model for outputting the machining control element based on the first non-control element and the actual quality element. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133247 | Method and System for Controlling Body-Shop Processing - A method and system to help control body-shop processing of vehicles, based on timing of interaction with a touch-screen display. In an example implementation, a body shop will be equipped with a computing system including a touch-screen display, with the computing system being configured to manage presentation on the display of graphical representations of job-cards for individual body-shop jobs, such as individual vehicles in for repair. With such an arrangement, body shop personnel could drag and drop job cards from one section to another to indicate transitions of jobs between body-shop processing steps. The computing system will then advantageously make use of data regarding the timing of those drag-and-drop operations as a basis to control body-shop processing, such as be predicting a processing duration of a job currently in process and taking action to modify processing of the job based on the predicted duration for instance. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133248 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INVERSE INFERENCE FOR A MANUFACTURING PROCESS CHAIN - The present disclosure provides a system and method for inverse inference in a chain of manufacturing processes using Bayesian networks is provided. The method generates a composite Bayesian network model for a chain of manufacturing processes from Bayesian network models of the unit processes in the chain. The models of unit processes might have been learned independently in other contexts and stored in a knowledge repository. Models relevant for the current problem context are obtained from the knowledge repository and checked for compatibility using ontological information about their inputs and outputs. The obtained compatible Bayesian network models of unit processes are composed to generate a composite Bayesian network model for the chain. The generated composite Bayesian network model is sampled to perform inverse inference. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133249 | DATA ANALYZER, SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING SYSTEM, DATA ANALYSIS METHOD, AND SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING METHOD - A data analyzer includes a data collector that acquires data on each analysis target parameter of each of a plurality of apparatuses from the apparatus, the plurality of apparatuses including a light source apparatus, an exposure apparatus that exposes a wafer to pulsed light outputted from the light source apparatus, and a wafer inspection apparatus that inspects the exposed wafer, an image generator that visualizes the data on each of the parameters collected by the data collector from the apparatuses that process the wafer for each predetermined area of the wafer to convert the data into an image and generates a plurality of mapped images for each of the parameters of the apparatuses, and a correlation computing section that performs pattern matching on arbitrary ones of the mapped images generated from the wafer to determine a correlation value between arbitrary ones of the parameters of the apparatuses. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133250 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING QUALITY CONTROLLED DATA FROM A REDUNDANT SENSOR SYSTEM - A method for determining a quality controlled sensor set from a redundant sensor set comprising calculating a first time correlation coefficient and a first autocorrelation coefficient based on a first sensor time series data, calculating a second time correlation coefficient and a second autocorrelation coefficient based on a second sensor time series data, calculating a first and second sensor correlation coefficient based on the first sensor time series data and the second sensor time series data, and determining the quality controlled sensor set with a highest confidence level. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133251 | Detecting and Correcting for Discrepancy Events in Fluid Pipelines - Techniques for detecting and correcting for discrepancy events in a fluid pipeline are presented. The techniques can include obtaining a plurality of empirical temperature and pressure measurements at a plurality of locations within the pipeline; simulating, using a pipeline model, a plurality of simulated temperature and pressure measurements for the plurality of locations within the pipeline; detecting, by a discrepancy event detector, at least one discrepancy event representing a discrepancy between the empirical temperature and pressure measurements and the simulated temperature and pressure measurements; outputting to t a user an indication that the at least one discrepancy event has been detected; accounting for the at least one discrepancy; determining, after the accounting and using an estimator applied to the pipeline model, a corrected branch flow rate for the pipeline; and outputting the corrected branch flow rate for the pipeline to the user. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133252 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING PERFORMANCE OF A BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM VIA LOG STREAMS - Methods and systems for monitoring the performance of a building management system by analyzing log files of various modules of the building management system. A user request is received at a first one of the plurality of modules of the building management system, which initiates a sequence of messages processed by two or more modules. Each of the sequence of messages include a common tag value that corresponds to the user request. Each of the plurality of modules that process one of the sequence of messages logs the corresponding message including the common tag value in a corresponding log entry. The log entries are analyzed to identify resource utilization of at least some of the plurality of modules. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133253 | INDUSTRIAL ASSET TEMPORAL ANOMALY DETECTION WITH FAULT VARIABLE RANKING - A method of temporal anomaly detection includes accessing sensor data readings obtained at a monitored industrial asset, performing a data cleanup operation on at least a portion of the accessed sensor data readings, transforming at least the cleaned-up portion of the accessed sensor data readings to time series feature space sensor data, applying a multi-kernel-based projection algorithm to the time series feature space sensor data, computing a respective anomaly score and a respective ranking for one or more variables of the sensor data readings, and providing at least the computed respective anomaly score or the respective ranking for at least one of the one or more variables to a user. Ranking the anomaly score includes comparing each anomaly score to a threshold and then assigning a ranking to scores with a magnitude greater than the threshold based on its magnitude. A system and a non-transitory computer-readable medium are also disclosed. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133254 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DATA COLLECTION, LEARNING, AND STREAMING OF MACHINE SIGNALS FOR PART IDENTIFICATION AND OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS DETERMINATION USING THE INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS - An industrial machine predictive maintenance system may include an industrial machine data analysis facility that generates streams of industrial machine health monitoring data by applying machine learning to data representative of conditions of portions of industrial machines received via a data collection network. The system may perform a method of image capture of a portion of an industrial machine in which an image capture template is provided and aligned via augmented reality with a live image in order to update a procedure for performing a service that implements a predicted maintenance action on an industrial machine. The system may perform a method of machine learning-based part recognition in which a captured image is analyzed and used to adapt a target part template, image analysis rules, or part recognition. The system may detect operating characteristics of an industrial machine via a machine learning aspect trained based on image data sets. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133255 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DATA COLLECTION, LEARNING, AND STREAMING OF MACHINE SIGNALS FOR ANALYTICS AND MAINTENANCE USING THE INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS - An industrial machine predictive maintenance system may include an industrial machine data analysis facility that generates streams of industrial machine health monitoring data by applying machine learning to data representative of conditions of portions of industrial machines received via a data collection network. The system may include an industrial machine predictive maintenance facility that produces industrial machine service recommendations responsive to the health monitoring data by applying machine fault detection and classification algorithms thereto. The system may predict a service event from vibration data from at least one vibration sensor disposed to capture vibration of a portion of an industrial machine signal a predictive maintenance server to execute a corresponding maintenance action on the portion of the industrial machine. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133256 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SAMPLING AND STORING MACHINE SIGNALS FOR ANALYTICS AND MAINTENANCE USING THE INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS - In industrial machine predictive maintenance system may include an industrial machine data analysis facility that generates streams of industrial machine health monitoring data by applying machine learning to data representative of conditions of portions of industrial machines received via a data collection network. The system may perform a method of sampling a signal at a streaming sample rate to produce a plurality of samples of the signal. Portions of the plurality of samples can be allocated to first and second signal analysis circuits based on signal analysis sampling rates less than the streaming sample rate, and the samples and the outputs of the signal analysis circuits can be stored. The system can include a sensor detecting a condition of an industrial machine to output a signal, which can be sampled at a streaming sample rate that is at least twice a dominant frequency of the signal. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133257 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING OPERATING CONDITIONS OF AN INDUSTRIAL MACHINE USING THE INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS - Methods and systems for detecting operating characteristics of an industrial machine in which the systems include at least one data capture device configured to capture raw data of a point of interest of the industrial machine and a computer vision system. The computer vision system can generate one or more image data sets using the raw data captured, identify one or more values corresponding to a portion of the industrial machine within the point of interest represented by the one or more image data sets, compare the one or more values to corresponding predicted values, generate a variance data set based on the comparison of the one or more values and the corresponding predicted values, detect an operating characteristic of the industrial machine based on the variance data, and generate data indicating the detection of the operating characteristic. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133258 | Motor Vehicle Self-Driving Method and Terminal Device - A motor vehicle self-driving method comprises obtaining a first positioning mode and a first driving route; obtaining second vehicle information of a second motor vehicle, where the second vehicle information includes a second positioning mode and a second driving route; determining whether the first driving route overlaps with the second driving route; when the first driving route overlaps with the second driving route, comparing positioning precision of the first positioning mode with positioning precision of the second positioning mode; determining a positioning mode with higher positioning precision in the first positioning mode and the second positioning mode as a target positioning mode; determining a target driving parameter based on the target positioning mode; and controlling the first motor vehicle and the second motor vehicle to drive based on the target driving parameter. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133259 | INTERMITTENT DELAY MITIGATION FOR REMOTE VEHICLE OPERATION - Method and apparatus are disclosed for mitigating issues for a vehicle executing a remote vehicle operation, wherein there is a communication delay between the vehicle and a remote computing device providing control. An example vehicle includes a communication system, an autonomy unit for performing a remote vehicle operation, and a processor. The processor is configured to receive a remote vehicle operation control signal via the communication system from a remote computing device. The processor is also configured to determine a delay corresponding to the control signal. And the processor is further configured to modify the remote vehicle operation responsive to determining that the delay rises above a delay threshold at a threshold rate. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133260 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HUMAN OPERATOR INTERVENTION IN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE OPERATIONS - An autonomous vehicle system is configured to receive vehicle commands from one or more parties and to execute those vehicle commands in a way that prevents the execution of stale commands. The autonomous vehicle system includes a finite state machine and a command counter or stored vehicle timestamp, which are used to help reject invalid or stale vehicle commands. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133261 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING AUTONOMOUS DRIVING OF VEHICLE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for controlling autonomous driving of a vehicle, a device and a storage medium. The method is implemented at a portable electronic device, including: establishing a communication connection with a driving control system of the vehicle; receiving information related to a driving control of the vehicle from an external device of the vehicle, the information including at least one of perceptual information related to an environment where the vehicle is located, a path planning of the vehicle and a behavior prediction of at least one object in the environment; determining, based on the received information, a control instruction for a driving behavior of the vehicle; and transmitting, via the communication connection, the control instruction to the driving control system of the vehicle for executing the control instruction. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133262 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALIBRATING ALIGNMENT OF WORK VEHICLES - A control system for a work vehicle includes a controller having a memory and a processor. The controller is configured to instruct a user interface to present graphical representations of a set of zones on a display of the user interface. The set of zones is formed within a bounding shape of a storage compartment, and the zones do not overlap one another. In addition, the controller is configured to receive a signal from the user interface indicative of a selected zone of the set of zones, and to engage product flow from a conveyor outlet to the storage compartment while the conveyor outlet is within the selected zone. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133263 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF VALIDATION OF OPERATIONAL REGULATIONS TO AUTONOMOUSLY OPERATE A VEHICLE DURING TRAVEL - System and method to autonomously operate a vehicle during travel are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: generate, by sensors, output signals conveying contextual information and operational information, the contextual information characterizing a contextual environment surrounding the vehicle; obtain a current set of operational regulations; implement the current set of operational regulations to operate the vehicle autonomously; assess the validity of the current set of operational regulations within the updated contextual environment; responsive to the determining that the current set of operational regulations are valid within the updated contextual environment, return to implementation; responsive to the determining that the current set of operational regulations are invalid within the updated contextual environment, generate an updated set of operational regulations that are valid within the updated contextual environment; and responsive to generation, replace the current set of operational regulations with the updated set of operational regulations. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133264 | TRAVELING CONTROL APPARATUS, TRAVELING CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A traveling control apparatus comprises: a control unit configured to control traveling of a vehicle to switch between first traveling control that does not need monitoring by a driver and second traveling control that needs monitoring by the driver; and a recognition unit configured to recognize a state of the driver, wherein in a case in which traveling of the vehicle by the first traveling control is impossible, in accordance with a result of recognition by the recognition unit, the control unit performs switching from the first traveling control to the second traveling control, or executes third traveling control of making a safety margin larger than in the first traveling control without switching from the first traveling control to the second traveling control. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133265 | AUTONOMOUS FORKLIFT TRUCK CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DRIVNG THE FORKLIFT TRUCK - A control system for a lift truck comprises: human-control devices generating manual-guidance signals for actuators of the vehicle, said devices including a hydraulic steering system, a control module ( | 2020-04-30 |
20200133266 | SAFE TRANSFER BETWEEN MANNED AND AUTONOMOUS DRIVING MODES - A method for safe transfer between manned and autonomous driving modes, the method may include detecting, based on first sensed information sensed during a first period, a situation related to an environment of the autonomous vehicle; searching for one or more matching concepts of a group of reference concepts, to which the situation belongs, each reference concept of the group represents a plurality of situations and has a reference concept safety level; wherein for each reference concept of at least a sub-group of the group of reference concepts the safety level of the reference concept is based on a tested success level of at only some of the plurality of scenarios represented by the reference concept; and determining, based on an outcome of the searching, whether the vehicle is capable to safely autonomously drive through the environment. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133267 | MIDDLEWARE SUPPORT FOR FAULT-TOLERANT EXECUTION IN AN ADAPTIVE PLATFORM FOR A VEHICLE - A method for controlling a vehicle includes: establishing, by a vehicle controller, a connection between a client and a plurality of servers, the plurality of servers includes a primary server and at least one replica server, the at least one replica server is a replica of the primary server; making, by the vehicle controller, a data request about a given service to the plurality of servers; in response to the data request, receiving reply data from the plurality of servers to the data request via a middleware; fusing, by the middleware, the reply data from the plurality of servers to generate a resulting data; receiving, by the vehicle controller, the resulting data; and controlling, by the client, the vehicle based on the resulting data. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133268 | VIRTUAL VALET - A vehicle apparatus onboard a vehicle identifies a human operator-free trip trigger corresponding to a human operator-free trip the vehicle is to take. The vehicle is located at an origin location of the human operator-free trip. Responsive to the vehicle apparatus identifying the human operator-free trip trigger, a candidate destination location for the human operator-free trip is identified. A candidate route from the origin location to the candidate destination location is generated. The vehicle apparatus provides a trip request including the candidate route to an approval apparatus. The vehicle apparatus receives a message from the approval apparatus. Responsive to determining that the message comprises an approval of the candidate route, the vehicle apparatus controls one or more systems of the vehicle to cause the vehicle to traverse the candidate route from the origin location to the candidate destination location. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133269 | UNSURPERVISED CLASSIFICATION OF ENCOUNTERING SCENARIOS USING CONNECTED VEHICLE DATASETS - The present disclosure provides a method in a data processing system that includes at least one processor and at least one memory. The at least one memory includes instructions executed by the at least one processor to implement a driving encounter recognition system. The method includes receiving information, from one or more sensors coupled to a first vehicle, determining first trajectory information associated with the first vehicle and second trajectory information associated with a second vehicle, extracting a feature vector, providing the feature vector to a trained classifier, the classifier trained using unsupervised learning based on a plurality of feature vectors, and receiving, from the trained classifier, a classification of the current driving encounter in order to facilitate the first vehicle to perform a maneuver based on the current driving encounter. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133270 | LIDAR DEVICE WITH CYLINDRICAL LENS FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING VEHICLES - A LIDAR scanning system uses a combination of a laser emitter, a scanning mirror which scans in a first plane, a diffuser which diffuses emitted laser beams in a second plane, perpendicular to the first plane. A focusing optic focuses a reflection of a laser beam, reflected off of an object, onto a detector. The focusing optic focuses the reflection of the reflection of the laser beam at least in the first plane, and may also focus the reflection of the laser beam in the second plane. A peak magnitude of the detector, and a time which the peak occurred, relative to the time at which the laser beam was emitted (“time of flight”), and LIDAR information is generated from peak magnitude and time of flight. The LIDAR scanning system can be used in an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) to assist in navigating the ADV. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133271 | MOBILE VENDING USING AN AUTONOMOUS ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLE - A system for providing goods to a customer includes an autonomous vehicle, the autonomous vehicle including a first controller, a camera in communication with the first controller for supplying image data to the controller, a global positioning satellite apparatus for determining a position of the autonomous vehicle in communication with the first controller, and a ranging unit for determining a distance to an object from the autonomous vehicle in communication with the first controller. The system also includes a mobile vending machine affixed to the autonomous vehicle, the mobile vending machine including a second controller, a user interface for taking an order from the customer in communication with the second controller, and a delivery apparatus in communication with the second controller for delivering the order to the customer. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133272 | AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF DIMENSIONALLY REDUCED MAPS AND SPATIOTEMPORAL LOCALIZATION FOR NAVIGATION OF A VEHICLE - Among other things, we describe techniques for generation of dimensionally reduced maps and localization in an environment for navigation of vehicles. The techniques include generating, using one or more sensors of a vehicle located at a spatiotemporal location within an environment, M-dimensional sensor data representing the environment, wherein M is greater than 2. Odometry data is generated representing an operational state of the vehicle. The odometry data is associated with the spatiotemporal location. An N-dimensional map is generated of the environment from the M-dimensional sensor data, wherein N is less than M. The generating of the N-dimensional map comprises extracting an M-dimensional environmental feature of the spatiotemporal location from the M-dimensional sensor data. The M-dimensional environmental feature is associated with the odometry data. An N-dimensional version of the M-dimensional environmental feature is generated. The N-dimensional version of the M-dimensional environmental feature is embedded within the N-dimensional map. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133273 | ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS HAVING COMPETITIVE REWARD MODULATED SPIKE TIME DEPENDENT PLASTICITY AND METHODS OF TRAINING THE SAME - A method of training an artificial neural network having a series of layers and at least one weight matrix encoding connection weights between neurons in successive layers. The method includes receiving, at an input layer of the series of layers, at least one input, generating, at an output layer of the series of layers, at least one output based on the at least one input, generating a reward based on a comparison of between the at least one output and a desired output, and modifying the connection weights based on the reward. Modifying the connection weights includes maintaining a sum of synaptic input weights to each neuron to be substantially constant and maintaining a sum of synaptic output weights from each neuron to be substantially constant. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133274 | CONTROL METHOD OF DETERMINING VIRTUAL VEHICLE BOUNDARY AND VEHICLE PROVIDING THE CONTROL METHOD - Provided is an electronic device including: a sensing device selected from a group including a radar and a lidar and installed in a vehicle to have a sensing zone directed to outside of the vehicle, the sensing device configured to obtain sensing data about an object; an image obtainer installed in the vehicle to have a field of view directed to the outside of the vehicle, the sensing device configured to obtain image data; and a controller including at least one processor configured to process the sensing data obtained by the sensing device and the image data obtained by the image obtainer, wherein the controller generates a first virtual driving path and a second virtual driving path based on the sensing data and the image data, and when a first boundary of the first virtual driving path and a second boundary of the second virtual driving path are located at different positions, provides a virtual driving path having a boundary closest to the vehicle between the first virtual driving path and the second virtual driving path as an actual driving path. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133275 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - The disclosure relates to an electronic device (e.g., a mobile robot). An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a speaker, a microphone, a substrate on which the speaker and the microphone are mounted, a spherical housing defining therein an inner space in which the speaker, the microphone, and the substrate are disposed, a support member configured to be in contact with and support an inner surface of the hosing on one side thereof, and a driver disposed in the inner space of the housing and including at least one power generation actuator and at least one wheel configured to rotate the housing by receiving power from the actuator, wherein the speaker is disposed adjacent to an another side of the support member opposite the one side of the support member, and outputs sound using oscillation of the surface of the housing. In addition, an electronic device according to various embodiments may be applied. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133276 | AUTOMATIC PROGRAM-CORRECTION DEVICE, AUTOMATIC PROGRAM-CORRECTION METHOD, AND AUTOMATIC PATH-GENERATION DEVICE - An automatic program-correction device includes: a clearance detecting unit that detects an amount of clearance between a robot and a peripheral device in an operation program; a near-miss detecting unit that detects a near-miss section; a closest-point detecting unit that detects a pair of closest points, in the near-miss section; and a program updating unit that generates a new operation program having an intermediate teaching point to which the closest points have been moved, along a straight line passing through the detected pair of closest points, until the amount of clearance becomes greater than a minimum amount of clearance and equal to or less than the threshold. While gradually reducing, from the threshold, the amount of clearance at the intermediate teaching point, the program updating unit obtains an intermediate teaching point that provides a maximum amount of clearance at which a new near-miss section is not detected. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133277 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD - A vehicle control system includes a vehicle control apparatus configured to set a target trajectory of a vehicle in autonomous driving, a manual driving database configured to contain manual driving trajectory information that indicates a manual driving trajectory that is a trajectory of the vehicle in manual driving, a weight acquisition device configured to acquire weight information that indicates weights of the target trajectory and manual driving trajectory, the weights being designated by a user of the vehicle, and a trajectory adjusting device configured to determine an integrated target trajectory by integrating the target trajectory and the manual driving trajectory based on the weights indicated by the weight information. The vehicle control apparatus is configured to control the autonomous driving of the vehicle such that the vehicle follows the integrated target trajectory. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133278 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING VEHICLE INFORMATION, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for providing vehicle information, a device and a storage medium for implementing the method. The method includes: acquiring a first time period expected for a first vehicle to wait before supplement of energy for the first vehicle is to be commenced; determining a second time period expected to be required during the supplement of the energy for the first vehicle based on an amount of the energy to be supplemented for the first vehicle; determining a third time period expected to require for completing the supplement of the energy for the first vehicle based on the first time period and the second time period; and providing the third time period. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133279 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information medium control motion of a moving body according to position information corresponding to a predetermined array pattern. An information processing apparatus includes an information acquisition unit acquires position information from a sensor configured to read a predetermined array pattern, and a motion control unit controls motion of a first moving body including movement in a real space based on the position information. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133280 | ADJUSTING LATERAL CLEARANCE FOR A VEHICLE USING A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL ENVELOPE - Among other things, we describe techniques for adjusting lateral clearance for a vehicle using a multi-dimensional envelope. A trajectory is generated for the vehicle. A multi-dimensional envelope is generated indicating a drivable region for the vehicle and containing the trajectory. One or more objects are identified located along or adjacent to the trajectory. At least one dimension of the generated multi-dimensional envelope is adjusted to adjust a lateral clearance between the vehicle and the identified one or more objects. A control module of the vehicle navigates the vehicle along the multi-dimensional envelope. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133281 | SAFETY SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE - A safety system for a vehicle may include one or more processors configured to determine uncertainty data indicating uncertainty in one or more predictions from a driving model during operation of a vehicle; change or update one or more of the driving model parameters to one or more changed or updated driving model parameters based on the determined uncertainty data; and provide the one or more changed or updated driving model parameters to a control system of the vehicle for controlling the vehicle to operate in accordance with the driving model including the one or more changed or updated driving model parameters. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133282 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - Provided are an electronic apparatus and a method for recognizing, based on ambient road information of a vehicle and field of view information of the vehicle, a hidden region that is a region where another vehicle is possibly present in an area hidden from a field of view of the vehicle by an external object In the present disclosure, one or more of an electronic apparatus, a vehicle, a vehicular terminal, and the autonomous driving vehicle may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, a 5G service-related device, and the like. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133283 | PROCEEDABLE DIRECTION DETECTION APPARATUS AND PROCEEDABLE DIRECTION DETECTION METHOD - A proceedable direction detection apparatus includes a processor. The processor inputs an image acquired from an image capturing unit mounted on a vehicle into a classifier that is pre-trained to output a proceedable certainty degree indicating a proceedable probability of each relative bearing with respect to a predetermined direction relative to a vehicle based on a display status of a traffic signal in the image. The processor calculates, using the classifier, the proceedable certainty degree of each relative bearing based on the display status of the traffic signal in the image. The processor determines the direction in which the vehicle can proceed based on a proceedable certainty degree of each relative bearing. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133284 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE - At least one of an autonomous vehicle, a user terminal, and a server may be connected or converged with an artificial intelligence (AI) module, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, a device associated with a 5G service, and the like. A vehicle control method of the present disclosure may include identifying a driving route, identifying whether other vehicle is on the driving route, transmitting a first request message based on information on the driving route, identifying whether a first response message to the first request message is received from the other vehicle, and transmitting, when the first response message is received, a second request message requesting a movement based on the information on the driving route, to the other vehicle based on the first response message. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133285 | CHASSIS STRUCTURE FOR ROBOT AND ROBOT WITH THE SAME - The present disclosure provides a chassis structure for a robot and a robot with the same. The low speed motor provided with an extra encoder is used to compose a driving wheel so as to drive a driven wheel and a chassis to move; a driver module is used to drive the driving wheel through a low speed motor in response to the control of a control processing module, and obtain rotational parameters of the low speed motor through the encoder to output to the control processing module; the control processing module is used to control the driving wheel to rotate through the driver module so as to drive the chassis to move, calculate a movement path of the chassis based on the rotational parameters of the low speed motor, thereby adjusting the movement path of the chassis. In the present disclosure, since there is no transmission mechanism, the efficiency of transmission is improved. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133286 | AUTOMATIC POWER SOURCE CHARGING AND SWAPPING SYSTEM FOR AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE (AV) - Systems, methods, and machine readable media are provided for automatic charging and swapping power sources for an Autonomous Vehicle (AV). A determination is made whether a current first power source installed in an AV has sufficient power to complete a task assigned to the AV. In response to determining the first power source has insufficient power to complete the assigned task, the AV is directed to a location of a power source repository. The AV is positioned proximate a power source swapping unit of the power source repository where the first power source is removed from the AV and a second power source stored at the power source repository is installed into the AV. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133287 | METHOD FOR THE AUTOMATED DOCKING OF ROBOTIC PLATFORMS - Various embodiments are directed to a method for docking a robotic platform. The method may include receiving a robotic platform onto a ramp of a docking station. The docking station may include the ramp, a roller assembly, a base pad, and a roller backstop assembly. The ramp may have a first side and a second side opposing the first side. The method may further include guiding, by the roller assembly, the robotic platform as the robotic platform is being driven onto ramp such that the robotic platform continues powered travel over the ramp when the robotic platform approaches the ramp within an angle range of 0 and 15 degrees with respect to either of the first and second sides of the ramp. The method may further include receiving, by the roller backstop assembly, the robotic platform from the roller assembly and then docking the robotic platform. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133288 | SENSOR FUSION BY OPERATIONS-CONTROL VEHICLE FOR COMMANDING AND CONTROLLING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving sensor data from one or more sensors of each of one or more vehicles, processing a combination of the sensor data to generate an assessment of an area surrounding the one or more vehicles based on one or more points-of-view of the area, the one or more points-of-view of the area generated based on synchronizing the combination of the sensor data, and detecting an occurrence of an event based on the assessment of the area. The method further includes identifying one or more instructions corresponding to the event, the instructions associated with a particular vehicle and sending one or more executable instructions based on the instructions to the particular vehicle. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133289 | PATH TRACKING METHOD AND MOBILE ROBOT USING THE SAME - The present disclosure provides a path tracking method as well as a mobile robot using the same. The method includes: obtaining a preset path and a current position of the mobile device; determining a forward-looking path point corresponding to the current position on the preset path; obtaining a path curvature corresponding to the forward-looking path point; and determining an adjustment velocity of the mobile device at the current position based on the path curvature corresponding to the forward-looking path point. In this manner, the adjustment velocity of the mobile device can be determined based on the curvature of the path, so as to adjust the velocity of the mobile device and improve the stability of path tracking of the mobile device at different path curvatures. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133290 | CONTROL TRANSFER OF A VEHICLE - A method for finding at least one trigger for human intervention in a control of a vehicle, the method may include receiving, from a plurality of vehicles, and by an I/O module of a computerized system, visual information acquired during situations that are suspected as situations that require human intervention in the control of at least one of the plurality of vehicles; determining, based at least on the visual information, the at least one trigger for human intervention; and transmitting to one or more of the plurality of vehicles, the at least one trigger. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133291 | Method for Controlling Motion of Robot Based on Map Prediction - A method for controlling a motion of a robot based on map prediction mainly carries out estimation and calculation for a wall surface by combining an external sensor with internal map information about a robot, so as at least to enable the robot to walk along the estimated wall surface. The method for controlling the motion of the robot based on map prediction can be adapted to various different wall surfaces based on map prediction, including different colors and shapes, thereby reducing an operation time; and the accuracy of map prediction can be continuously corrected during an operation process, thereby realizing a good wall-following behavior. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133292 | Railroad Light Detection - The technology relates to controlling a vehicle based on a railroad light's activation status. In one example, one or more processors receive images of a railroad light. The one or more processors determine, based on the images of the railroad light, the illumination status of a pair of lights of the railroad light over a period of time as the vehicle approaches the railroad light. The one or more processors determine based on the illumination status of the pair of lights, a confidence level, wherein the confidence level indicates the likelihood the railroad light is active. The vehicle is controlled as it approaches the railroad light based on the confidence level. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133293 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIEWING UNDERNEATH A VEHICLE AND A TRAILER - A system and method are provided for aiding an operator in operating a vehicle. In one embodiment, a system includes a sensor system configured to generate sensor data sensed from an environment of the vehicle. The system further includes a control module configured to, by a processor, to determine a scene of the environment based on the sensor data, determine a terrain feature in the environment based on the sensor data, alter a graphic of a vehicle component based on the terrain feature, and generate display data to display the altered graphic and the terrain feature in the scene for viewing by the operator of the vehicle. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133294 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A REPRESENTATION OF AN ENVIRONMENT - A method is provided for generating a representation of an environment. Methods may include: determining location information of a vehicle including a road segment and a direction of travel; identifying features of the road segment based on sensor data from sensors carried by the vehicle; projecting the features of the road segment onto a ground plane of the road segment; defining bins across a width of the road segment; laterally positioning the defined bins relative to a determination of positions of the features of the road segment; consolidating detected features of each bin to define features of the road segment; and guiding an autonomous vehicle along the road segment based, at least in part, on the consolidated detected features of the road segment. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133295 | VEHICLE ASSIST SYSTEM - A method for assisting operation of a vehicle traveling on a roadway includes acquiring visual images around the vehicle with at least one visual camera having a field of view and acquiring thermal images around the vehicle with at least one thermal camera having the field of view. The thermal images are superimposed over the visual images to produce composite images. An object is detected in the composite images. A vehicle assist system adjusts at least one of a direction of travel and speed of the vehicle in response to detecting the object. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133296 | CONTROL UNIT, METHOD, AND SENSOR SYSTEM FOR SELF-MONITORED LOCALIZATION - A control unit for a vehicle for analyzing localization systems, the control unit being connectable in a data-conducting manner to at least two localization systems which are operable independently of one another for ascertaining system-specific positions, each localization system including at least one sensor, the control unit being configured to evaluate pieces of position information ascertained by the localization systems by subjecting them to a plausibility check. Also described are a related method and a sensor system. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133297 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING VEHICLE PARKING SUPPORT PROGRAM - An information processing device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: acquire a first image at a first time and a second image at a second time later than the first time from a monocular camera mounted on a vehicle; calculate an amount of movement of the vehicle, based on a sensor value acquired during a measurement period between the first time and the second time; output a result of distance measurement using a first distance measurement method to perform distance measurement using the first image or the second image, or a second distance measurement method to perform distance measurement using the first image and the second image, depending on the amount of movement; and output a result of calculation of a route to guide the vehicle to a parking space, based on the result of distance measurement. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133298 | INFRASTRUCTURE EVALUATION AND MONITORING USING GROUND PENETRATING RADAR DATA - Methods and systems provide infrastructure information including subsurface images captured by ground penetrating radar (GPR) carried by vehicles including mobile data processing devices. Computer readable data further includes location information for the subsurface images based on a location of the vehicle and can include GPS, images and video. The computer readable data can be wirelessly transmitted to a remote server for storage in a database and for retrieval by registered users for display of infrastructure information including subsurface images captured by GPR, based on the received and stored computer readable data. The subsurface images and the location information can be provided for infrastructure where changes are detected based on previously stored infrastructure information related to the location where the subsurface images are captured by GPRs and reported to the server. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133299 | MARKER SYSTEM - A marker system ( | 2020-04-30 |
20200133300 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE INFRARED EMITTER POWER OPTIMIZATION FOR SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING - A wearable headset information handling system infrared emitter power optimization system may comprise a memory storing an association between an active infrared (IR) light emitter mounted to the wearable headset and a calibration intensity at which the IR light emitter emits light during a calibration phase, wherein the active IR light emitter is identified based on its position with respect to the field of view of the wearable headset. A SLAM engine may determine a calibration distance between the active IR light emitter and a first farthest identified object and determine an image projection distance between the active IR light emitter and a nearby virtual object. The processor may determine a first light intensity cap for the active IR light emitter based on the calibration distance, the calibration intensity, and the image projection distance, and the active IR light emitter may emit light according to the first light intensity cap. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133301 | Method and System for Determining an Accurate Position of An Autonomous Vehicle - The present disclosure discloses method and an Electronic Control Unit (ECU) ( | 2020-04-30 |
20200133302 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN AUTOMATICALLY MOVING ROBOT - A method for operating an automatically moving robot, wherein a map of the surroundings of the robot is generated using measurement data captured within the surroundings, and a control command is generated using the generated map, the current position of the robot within the surroundings, and a determined behavior of the robot. The robot is moved using the generated control command, and data which is relevant to the navigation of the robot is at least partly transmitted to an external computing device for processing. In order to reduce the computing capacity and/or storage capacity required within the robot, the external computing device determines a desired behavior of the robot as the basis for the control command based on the map and the current position of the robot. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133303 | MAP INFORMATION SYSTEM - A map information system includes: an in-vehicle device that executes automated driving control of a vehicle; and an external device having external map information used for the automated driving control. The in-vehicle device includes: a memory device in which map information is stored; and a control device configured to execute the automated driving control based on the map information stored in the memory device, The control device is further configured to: determine whether or not a takeover occurs during the automated driving control; set an upload target area including the takeover occurrence position, in a case where the takeover occurs during the automated driving control; and upload the map information regarding the upload target area to the external device. The external device updates the external map information based on the map information uploaded from the in-vehicle device. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133304 | METHOD FOR VERIFYING A DIGITAL MAP OF A MORE HIGHLY AUTOMATED VEHICLE (HAV), ESPECIALLY OF A HIGHLY AUTOMATED VEHICLE - A method for verifying a digital-map of a more highly-automated-vehicle (HAV), especially of an HAV, including: S | 2020-04-30 |
20200133305 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UTILIZING FLEETS OF ROBOTS - A system for controlling a fleet of unmanned vehicles includes a plurality of unmanned vehicles connected to a computing device. The computing device stores a dynamic attribute and a static attribute respective to each of the plurality of unmanned vehicles. The computing device is configured to: receive a task request including (i) an item identifier of an item, (ii) an action type defining an action to be performed respective to the item, and (iii) a location identifier of a location at which to perform the action; responsive to receiving the request, retrieve the stored dynamic attributes and static attributes; based on a comparison of the task request with the dynamic attributes and the static attributes, select one of the plurality of unmanned vehicles; and transmit, via the network, a command to the selected unmanned vehicle to perform the action respective to the item at the location. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133306 | Autonomous Vehicle Fleet Management for Improved Computational Resource Usage - Systems and methods for evaluating and deploying fleets of autonomous in operational domains are described. A computing system may obtain data indicative of one or more capabilities of at least one autonomous vehicle, data indicative of vehicle service dynamics in an operational domain over a period of time, and determining a plurality of resource performance parameters respectively for a plurality of autonomous vehicle fleets associated with potential deployment in the operational domain. Each autonomous vehicle fleet can be associated with a different number of autonomous vehicles The resource performance parameter for each autonomous vehicle fleet can be based at least in part on the one or more capabilities of the at least one autonomous vehicle and the vehicle service dynamics in the operational domain. The computing system can initiate an action associated with the operational domain based at least in part on the plurality of resource performance parameters. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133307 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SWARM ACTION - Systems and methods for a swarm management framework are described. According to one embodiment, a swarm management framework includes a goal module, a target module, a negotiation module, and a perception module. The goal module determines a cooperation goal. The target module identifies a vehicle associated with the cooperation goal and sends a swarm request to the vehicle to join a swarm. The negotiation module receives a swarm acceptance from the vehicle. The perception module determines a cooperative action for the vehicle relative to the swarm. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133308 | VEHICLE TO VEHICLE (V2V) COMMUNICATION LESS TRUCK PLATOONING - V2V communication-less truck platooning. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133309 | BEACH CLEANING AUTONOMOUS ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for cleaning a beach includes a master autonomous vehicle that includes a controller, a camera, a GPS unit, a ranging unit, and a wireless communication unit. The system further includes at least one client autonomous vehicle in wireless communication with and operated by the controller of the master autonomous vehicle and a plurality of beach cleaners attached to the autonomous vehicles. The autonomous vehicles may detect and avoid obstacles on the beach being cleaned and each other. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133310 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PALM LANDING OF UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE, CONTROL DEVICE, AND UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE - A method for controlling palm landing of an unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”) includes detecting a flight status of the UAV under a predetermined condition. The method also includes controlling the UAV to land on a palm of a user when the flight status is a hover state and when the palm is located under the UAV. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133311 | DOUBLE-SPRING AND HIGH-PRECISION HYSTERETIC PRESSURE CONTROL VALVE - Disclosed in the present invention is a double-spring and high-precision hysteretic pressure control valve, including an upper valve body, a lower valve body, a double-spring pressure adjustment valve, a spring energy storage linkage mechanism, and a main valve. The double-spring pressure adjustment valve includes a rough adjustment stud, a rough adjustment spring, a fine adjustment stud, a fine adjustment spring, a spring guide sleeve, and a pressure adjustment valve spool. The spring energy storage linkage mechanism includes a guide block, a valve spool control linkage, a tension spring, and a tension spring shift lever and a tension spring sliding hook. The valve spool control linkage is connected to the guide block at one end, and connected to a main valve spool drive rod via a pin at the other end. The tension spring sliding hook is mounted on the guide block, and one end of the shift lever is placed below the tension spring sliding hook so as to drive the tension spring sliding hook to move upwards, thereby controlling the state of the tension spring and enabling energy storage of the spring. The spring energy storage linkage mechanism make the valve spool to open and close momentarily at the right portion. The double-spring and high-precision hysteretic pressure control valve according to the present invention has a low cost, and can provide precise control of opening and closing pressures for the pressure control valve and control of both states of opening and closing for the main valve. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133312 | SOLENOID VALVE CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF SOLENOID VALVE - A solenoid valve control apparatus includes a basic electric current value set portion configured to set a basic electric current value every first cycle, a dither electric current value set portion configured to set a dither electric current value of which a cycle corresponds to a dither cycle, a target electric current value set portion configured to set a target electric current value, an electric current detection portion configured to detect an actual electric current value, a duty ratio set portion configured to set a duty ratio every second cycle which is longer than the dither cycle, and a PWM control portion configured to perform PWM control on the solenoid on the basis of the duty ratio. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133313 | MASS FLOW CONTROLLER WITH ADVANCED ZERO TRENDING DIAGNOSTICS - A diagnostics system, for mass flow controller calibration, comprising a controller communicable coupled to a sensor(s) and a valve. The controller controls the valve based on a predetermined set point value and communication from the at least one sensor. The controller determines a number of set point value adjustments and compares results of a calibration operation and a set point value plus a tolerance value. The controller generates a notification message indicating at least one of the predetermined number of set point value adjustments and results of the comparing. The controller calibrates the mass flow controller based on, at least in part, one of a predetermined number of set point value adjustments, results of the comparison, and user input. The notification message can comprise temperature values, valve drive values, sensor flow rate values, gas flow hours, and a remaining number of set point adjustments based on a total fluid hours. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133314 | DETERMINING AND CONTROLLING A WEIGHT FLOW IN AN ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL SYSTEM - A method of determining and controlling a weight flow in an environmental control system includes sensing, using a turbine inlet temperature sensor, a turbine inlet temperature. A turbine inlet pressure is sensed using a turbine inlet pressure sensor. A turbine outlet pressure is sensed using a turbine outlet pressure sensor. A rotational shaft speed of a shaft is sensed using a rotational shaft speed sensor. The sensed turbine inlet temperature, the sensed turbine inlet pressure, the sensed turbine outlet pressure, and the sensed rotational shaft speed are received by a controller. A flow coefficient is determined by the controller using the turbine inlet pressure, the turbine outlet pressure, the shaft speed, and a Turbine Flow Coefficient Map. A weight flow through the turbine is determined by the controller using the flow coefficient, the turbine inlet temperature, a nozzle area, and the turbine inlet pressure. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133315 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS WATER LEAK DETECTION - The system and method for wireless water leak detection provides for manual prevention of external action, such as an external alarm and/or valve shut-off, if a leak sensor can be reached by a respondent within a pre-set time threshold. Upon detection of a leak by a leak sensor, a local alarm, such as an audible alarm or the like, is initiated. Additionally, at the time of detection, a first time is recorded. A first alarm signal is transmitted from the leak sensor to a base station. The first alarm signal includes data representative of the recorded first time. If manual input is not received by the leak sensor within a pre-set time threshold measured from the first time, then the base station transmits a second alarm signal to at least one external device, and may further wirelessly transmit a shut-off signal to a valve controller for closing an associated valve. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133316 | Seal Section Check Valve With Protection Tube - A submersible well pump assembly has a communication path for communicating motor lubricant to an interior of a pressure equalizer. A check valve passage with a check valve leads from the communication path to a pressure equalizing chamber. A dip tube has a dip tube inlet at the check valve passage below the check valve and a dip tube outlet in the pressure equalizing chamber. The dip tube is filled with motor lubricant to retard migration of well fluid from the pressure equalizing chamber into contact with the check valve. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133317 | FLUID REGULATOR - A fluid regulator includes a balance port regulator valve and an actuator coupled to the regulator valve. The regulator valve has an inlet, an outlet, a valve port disposed between the inlet and the outlet, and a valve disc movable along a longitudinal axis between a closed position in which the valve disc sealingly engages the valve port and an open position in which the valve disc is spaced apart from the valve port. The actuator is responsive to fluid pressure to move an actuator stem along the longitudinal axis. A connector assembly operably and removably connects the valve disc to the actuator stem. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133318 | ANTI-SCALDING WATER OUTLET DEVICE - An anti-scalding water outlet device, including: a main body adapted to allow water to flow through; a control circuit board adapted to set a temperature parameter value; a temperature sensor, in connection with the control circuit board and adapted to sense water temperature inside the main body; and a solenoid valve, in connection with the control circuit board and adapted to use as a water flow switch of the main body, when the solenoid valve is opened to allow water to flow out of the main body, the control circuit board obtaining water temperature information transmitted from the temperature sensor; when the water temperature exceeds the set temperature parameter value, the control circuit board issuing a command to close the solenoid valve and stop waterflow of the main body, thereby preventing high temperature water from scalding users. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133319 | CONTROL OF AN ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEM RESPONSIVE TO SENSING A GROUND FAULT - In some examples, an electrical power system includes a differential bus, a power converter coupled to the differential bus, and a controller configured to control the power converter based on a first target value for the differential bus. The controller is also configured to sense that a ground fault has occurred in the electrical power system while controlling the power converter based on the first target value. The controller is further configured to, responsive to sensing that the ground fault has occurred, control the power converter based on a second target value for the differential bus, the second target value being different than the first target value. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133320 | LOAD DRIVE DEVICE - Provided is a load drive device comprising: a first input terminal for accepting an input of a first input current from a power source; a second input terminal for accepting an input of a second input current from the power source via an external resistor; an output terminal for outputting an output current to a load; a current distribution unit for summing the first input current and second input current at a prescribed distribution ratio and generating the output current and a control unit for controlling the distribution ratio. As one example, it would be appropriate for the control unit to control the distribution ratio according to the difference between a first terminal voltage present in the second input terminal and a second terminal voltage present in the output terminal. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133321 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CALIBRATING A VOLTAGE REGULATOR - An integrated circuit includes a voltage monitor circuit having a first input coupled to a reference voltage and a second input, a successive approximation register (SAR) circuit having an input coupled to an output of the voltage monitor circuit, a low drop out (LDO) regulator having an input coupled to an output of the SAR circuit and an output coupled to the second input, a discharge circuit coupled to the LDO output, voltage sensing circuit having a first input coupled to the reference voltage during a trim mode and coupled to the LDO output during a monitor mode, having a second input coupled to the reference voltage, and an output which asserts a sense indicator that indicates when a voltage at the first input goes higher or lower than the reference voltage by a predetermined amount. Control circuitry is configured to, during trim mode, periodically discharge the LDO output voltage. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133322 | ASYMMETRIC PHASE CURRENT REGULATION FOR MULTIPHASE SWITCHMODE POWER SUPPLIES - According to certain general aspects, the present embodiments relate generally to allowing phase currents of a multiphase switching power supply to be asymmetrically configured to any percentage of the total load current while maintaining excellent dynamic performance. According to certain other aspects, this allows for increased design flexibility for board area, solution cost and optimized efficiency. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133323 | DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIER - There is provided a differential amplifier including: an inverting input terminal to which a first voltage is applied; a non-inverting input terminal to which a second voltage proportional to the first voltage is applied; and an offset part configured to generate a predetermined input offset voltage between the inverting input terminal and the non-inverting input terminal. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133324 | LINEAR POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT - A linear power supply circuit, includes: output transistor between input terminal where input voltage is applied and output terminal where output voltage is applied; a driver driving the output transistor based on difference between voltage based on the output voltage and reference voltage; and phase compensation circuit, wherein the driver includes differential amplifier outputting voltage corresponding to the difference between the voltage based on the output voltage and the reference voltage, a first capacitance having one end where output of the differential amplifier is applied and the other end where ground potential is applied, a converter converting the voltage based on the output of the differential amplifier into current, and a current amplifier amplifying the current output from the converter, and wherein the phase compensation circuit lowers gain of transfer function of the linear power supply circuit and output capacitor connected to the output terminal. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133325 | TEMPERATURE DRIFT COMPENSATION - A voltage reference circuit includes a bandgap circuit and a temperature compensation circuit. The temperature compensation circuit includes a first trim circuit, a second trim circuit, and a resistive digital-to-analog converter. The resistive digital-to-analog converter is coupled to the first trim circuit, the second trim circuit, and the bandgap circuit. The resistive digital-to-analog converter is configured to generate a temperature compensation voltage, and to provide the temperature compensation voltage to the bandgap circuit. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133326 | ROLLER MODULE - A roller module for an input module includes a roller base, a roller element and an adjusting element. The roller element is pivotally coupled to the roller base. Moreover, at least one discontinuous protrusion structure is circumferentially arranged a bottom surface of a concave region of the roller element. A contacting part of the adjusting element is contacted with the at least one discontinuous protrusion structure. Consequently, a rotation of the roller element results in a tactile feel. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133327 | GATE DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A gate driving circuit includes a pull-up control part for applying a first previous carry signal to a first node in response to the first previous carry signal, a first pull-up part outputting a clock signal as an N-th gate output signal in response to a signal applied to the first node, a second pull-up part outputting the clock signal as the N-th gate output signal in response to the signal applied to the first node, a carry part outputting the clock signal as an N-th carry signal in response to the signal applied to the first node, a first pull-down part pulling down the signal at the first node to a second off voltage, and a second pull-down part pulling down the N-th gate output signal to a first off voltage, wherein one of the first pull-up part and the second pull-up part is selectively activated. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133328 | Clock Tick Interrupt Configuration Method and Apparatus - A method and an apparatus for setting a time for a tick interrupt are disclosed. The method includes performing a compensation for a system time when a tick interrupt is executed; setting a time of a next tick interrupt according to a timeout task and a compensated system time if the timeout task exists when the tick interrupt is executed; and when a system enters into a low power mode after the tick interrupt is executed, correcting the time of the next tick interrupt according to the timeout task that is updated when the low power mode is entered. The present disclosure can decouple logic relationships between tick interrupts and Idle tasks, thereby reduces the number of division operations that involve rounding, reduces such accumulated error associated with compensation time, and improves the accuracy of the system time, as compared to the existing technologies. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133329 | RECEPTION DEVICE, OPERATING METHOD, AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM WITH SWITCHING NOISE REDUCTION - A reception device that communicates with a transmission device is provided. The reception device includes a reception circuit configured to receive a clock signal, a first data signal, and a second data signal from the transmission device, a signal synchronization circuit configured to adjust the phases of the first data signal and the second data signal, and generate a first synchronization data signal and a second synchronization data signal, a signal distribution circuit configured to adjust the phase of the clock signal and generate a first distributed clock signal and a second distributed clock signal, and adjust the phases of the first synchronization data signal and the second synchronization data signal and generate a first distributed data signal and a second distributed data signal, and an output circuit configured to process the first distributed data signal and the second distributed data signal. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133330 | TIMESTAMP ALIGNMENT ACROSS MULTIPLE COMPUTING NODES - Examples described herein relate to multiple processor nodes which are physically separate with interfaces to a common network interface. A local processor can run a timing recovery algorithm, and tune the master timer to align with the network domain to cause the master timer and network timing domains to be in the same domain. A common master timer can be used to align time stamps of independent processor nodes. A processor node can use the common master timer as a reference and the processor does not need to communicate with another processor to synchronize its timer. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133331 | ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH INTEGRATED DISPLAY SCREENS - An electronic device is described having a support base including a base front surface, a normal vector perpendicular to at least a portion of the base front surface, and a horizontally elongate slot extending through a plane that is perpendicular to the normal vector. The device also includes a first display screen supported by the support base. The base front surface, the plane, and the first display screen face a common direction. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133332 | ALTERNATING SAMPLING METHOD FOR NON-ECHO DUPLEX CONVERSATIONS ON A WEARABLE DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE SPEAKERS AND MICROPHONES - A wearable device including a body having fasteners and a frame coupled between two fasteners. The frame includes first and second sections. A first portion of the body including the first section of the frame and one fastener and a second portion of the body including the second section of the frame and the other fastener. A speaker and a microphone are connected to the first portion and another speaker and another microphone are connected to the second portion. The body also includes a processor, memory accessible to the processor, and programming in the memory for configuring the processor to selectively activate the speakers and microphones such that a first speaker emits an output sound signal while a first microphone and a second speaker are deactivated and a second microphone captures an input sound signal during the emission of the output sound signal by the first speaker. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133333 | Wearable Smart Device - A wearable smart device is configured to provide wireless and cellular data access through position- and orientation-adjustable touchscreens, which may be flexible or rigid and may be of a variety of different screen compositions. The device includes a wristband, a primary touchscreen, a secondary touchscreen, a swiveling mechanism, a first ratcheting mechanism, and a controller. The wristband enables a user to connect the present invention to the user's body, especially around the user's wrist. The primary touchscreen provides the user with the ability to interact with the device through touch. The secondary touchscreen also allows the user to further interact with the device. The swiveling mechanism enables the primary touchscreen to rotate upon the wristband. The first ratcheting mechanism enables adjustment of the secondary touchscreen relative to the primary touchscreen. The controller accepts electrical inputs and returns electrical output signals. A portable power supply is positioned offset from the controller. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133334 | TOUCHPAD DEVICE - A touchpad device is used to connect a first fixing portion of a housing. The touchpad device includes a hinge structure and a circuit board. The hinge structure includes a main body and an elastic arm. The main body is located above the first fixing portion. The elastic arm is connected to the main body and includes a second fixing portion. The second fixing portion is fixed to the first fixing portion of the housing. A bottom surface of the circuit board is attached to a top surface of the main body. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133335 | FOLDABLE DISPLAY DEVICE WITH BIOMETRIC SENSORS AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - A foldable display device is disclosed and has a first display region, a second display region, and a foldable region connecting the first display region and the second display region. The foldable display device includes a first biometric sensor disposed in the first display region and a second biometric sensor disposed in the second display region. | 2020-04-30 |
20200133336 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH DUAL DISPLAY - A base portion ( | 2020-04-30 |