Static pressure seal-equipped motor
Granted: April 2, 2019
Patent Number:
10250097
A static pressure seal-equipped motor in which front and rear gaps are sealed by first and second static pressure seal portions disposed at first and second axial end portions of a motor rotating shaft protruding toward front and rear. Sealing gas supplied to sealing gaps of the first and second static pressure seal portions is caused to diverge and flow to chemical liquid atmospheres and a motor chamber or an encoder chamber into the chemical liquid atmospheres, and also prevent entry…
Strain wave gearing with built-in motor
Granted: March 19, 2019
Patent Number:
10236747
A strain wave gearing with a built-in motor is provided with a motor, a wave gear mechanism enclosing the motor coaxially, and a heat-insulation spacing formed therebetween. The wave gear mechanism has a wave generator attached to the motor rotor so as to rotate integrally with the motor rotor. A wave generator plug of the wave generator is fixed to a rotor magnet back yoke of the motor rotor so as to enclose the rotor magnet back yoke. The spacing is formed in a contact surface portion…
Scheduler of processes having timed predictions of computing loads
Granted: February 26, 2019
Patent Number:
10216541
A scheduler of computer processes. The scheduler comprises first processing logic configured to obtain predictions of a computing load of a computer process to allocate. Predictions are associated with a period of time. The processing logic retrieves predictions of available computing capacities for the period of time, and determines, based on the predictions, a processing capability to allocate at least one computer process during the period of time. The scheduler may comprise second…
Planetary reduction gear device
Granted: February 26, 2019
Patent Number:
10215259
A planetary reduction gear device has first and second planetary gears meshed with a sun gear and an internal at different locations in a direction of an axis line; and a carrier assembly for supporting the first and second planetary gears. The carrier assembly has a first planetary carrier for supporting the first planetary gears and a second planetary carrier for supporting the second planetary gears. The first and second planetary carriers are fixed coaxially with each other in the…
High bit rate media FEC recovery
Granted: February 19, 2019
Patent Number:
10211950
Approaches for recovering one or more media datagrams. A plurality of media datagrams, a plurality of row forward error correction (FEC) datagrams, and a plurality of column FEC datagrams are received. The plurality of media datagrams is logically arranged in rows and columns of media datagrams. Each row FEC datagram corresponds to one of the rows of the media datagrams and each column FEC datagram corresponds to one of the columns of media datagrams. Each received datagram is stored in…
Passing-type-meshing negative-deflection strain wave gearing
Granted: January 8, 2019
Patent Number:
10174825
A strain wave gearing is a negative deflection strain wave gearing. The tooth profile shape for the internally toothed gear is defined by using a convex, basic tooth profile curve, which is a curve portion from an inflection point (A) to a bottom-part point (B) of a moving locus (Mc) of an externally toothed gear with regard to an internally toothed gear obtained by a rack meshing approximation. The tooth profile shape for the externally toothed gear at a principal cross section is…
Wave generator and strain wave gear device
Granted: December 4, 2018
Patent Number:
10145459
The wave generator of the strain wave gear device comprises: a rigid plug; a roller bearing fitted on the elliptical outer circumferential surface thereof; and first and second cylindrical springs, which press loose rollers that have some play in the radial direction between the outer race and the inner race of the roller bearing against the outer raceway surface. The loose rollers are pressed against the outer raceway surface with a linear contact and roll according to the outer raceway…
Non-excitation operative brake and motor with non-excitation operative brake
Granted: November 20, 2018
Patent Number:
10132370
In a non-excitation operative brake, a friction plate faces the inner disk part of an attraction plate made from a magnetic material, and an electromagnet faces the outer disk part of the attraction plate. A part for generating a brake force acting on a hollow shaft is located on an inner circumferential side in a radial direction of the attraction plate, while a part for magnetically attracting the attraction plate so as to release the brake force is located on an outer circumferential…
Determining a computing capacity of one of a physical or a virtual machine
Granted: November 20, 2018
Patent Number:
10133605
The estimation of a computing capacity of a machine. The computing capacity is estimated by iteratively adding and removing calibrated computer processes on the machine, and performing a sum of computing loads of processes that execute on the machine. In order to characterize the ability of a machine to run in parallel a number of processes having a defined computing load, the processes are associated to a condition of success.
Strain wave gearing and method for manufacturing multi-layer hollow body
Granted: November 20, 2018
Patent Number:
10132398
A wave plug of a wave generator of a wave gear device includes: a metallic outer hollow body with an elliptical wave plug outer circumferential surface formed thereon; a metallic inner hollow body with a wave plug inner circumferential surface formed thereon; and an intermediate hollow body sandwiched between the outer hollow body and the inner hollow body. The intermediate hollow body includes CFRP layers. It is possible to implement a light wave plug in which a big hollow portion can…
Rotary actuator
Granted: November 6, 2018
Patent Number:
10122239
The rotary actuator has an outer rotor type motor assembled coaxially in a device hollow part of a strain wave gearing. One end of the device hollow part is closed by an end cover fixed to an output shaft of the strain wave gearing. A detection part is arranged between the motor and the end cover inside the device hollow part. A rotational position of a rotation detection plate mounted on an inside end surface of the end cover is detected by the detection part, to detect the rotational…
Dynamic allocation of CPU cycles in video stream processing
Granted: October 16, 2018
Patent Number:
10104405
Approaches for dynamically allocating CPU cycles for use in processing a video stream. Video complexity information for two or more digital video streams actively being processed by one or more video encoders is determined at periodic intervals. Video complexity information describes the complexity of digital video carried by the digital video streams across a bounded number of consecutive digital frames which includes digital frames not yet processed by the one or more video encoders. A…
System and method for distribution of broadcast channels
Granted: October 16, 2018
Patent Number:
10103927
A distribution system that may include multiple radio frequency outputs, a group of channel processing and digital up conversion units, and a set of digital to analog converters. The set of digital to analog converters is coupled between the group of channel processing and digital up conversion units and the multiple radio frequency outputs. The group of channel processing units may be arranged to generate multiple digital multiplexes and to provide the multiple digital multiplexes to…
Method of adaptive broadcasting of multimedia streams by using an energy index
Granted: October 9, 2018
Patent Number:
10097889
Method of adaptive broadcasting of multimedia data streams Fi originating from a service provider (20), during a download between a reception terminal (40) and a server (30), as a function of an energy criterion, comprising the following steps: determining, for N representations Fi, at least one first energy index by calculating, for each of the representations Fi of a multimedia segment, a value of energy Ei(t) consumed to decode the representation Fi at the instant t, the maximum…
Failure recovery for real-time audio and video encoding, decoding, and transcoding
Granted: October 9, 2018
Patent Number:
10097823
Approaches for recovering from a disruption in a live input stream when performing an encoding, transcoding, or decoding operation. A higher quality input stream and a lower quality input stream are received. The two streams may be an audio or video data stream. A real-time encoding, decoding, or transcoding operation is performed using the higher quality input stream. When a disruption in the higher quality input stream occurs, the real-time encoding, decoding, or transcoding operation…
Watermarks in distributed construction of video on demand (VOD) files
Granted: October 2, 2018
Patent Number:
10091561
Approaches for creating video on demand (VOD) assets with a VOD watermark. For a digital stream yet to be broadcast, a duplicate version of an accompanying audio stream comprised within the digital stream is created. A video on demand (VOD) watermark is inserted into or affixed within the duplicate version of the accompanying audio stream. Thereafter, the digital broadcast stream which comprises the original audio stream and the duplicate version is transmitted to an integrated…
Strain wave gearing
Granted: September 4, 2018
Patent Number:
10066724
In a strain wave gearing, external teeth of a flexible externally toothed gear are elastically deformable in a direction in which the tooth thickness of the external teeth decreases. Engagement between internal teeth of a first and a second rigid internally toothed gears and the external teeth is set in an overlapping state in which the external teeth elastically deform and engage in a state in which no gap is present. The tooth profile of the internal teeth is a corrected tooth profile…
Strain wave gearing, frictional engagement wave device, and wave generator
Granted: August 28, 2018
Patent Number:
10060517
An externally toothed gear of a strain wave gearing is made to flex into a shape conforming to an ellipsoidal curve. The externally toothed gear meshes with an internally toothed gear at the major-diameter position of the ellipsoidal curve. These two meshing positions gradually change in the circumferential direction of the both gears along the tooth trace direction. The number of external teeth of the externally toothed gear participating in meshing with the internally toothed gear can…
Controlling speed of the display of sub-titles
Granted: August 28, 2018
Patent Number:
10063933
Applying a presentation timestamp to an element of a sequence of sub-titles. A minimum presentation timestamp TMIN of an element of a sequence of sub-titles N is initialized. The presentation timestamp T(N) of the new element of a sub-title sequence N is compared with the minimum presentation timestamp for sub-titles TMIN. The minimum presentation timestamp for sub-titles TMIN is applied to the element of a sequence of sub-titles N if the presentation timestamp T(N) of the new sub-titles…
Obtaining internet protocol subnet scope
Granted: August 28, 2018
Patent Number:
10063455
A method for obtaining and utilizing internet protocol (IP) subnet information, the method may include obtaining by a layer two cable modem termination system (L2 CMTS) information about IP subnets that comprise DHCP leased IP addresses assigned to devices serviced by the L2 CMTS; and maintaining, by the L2 CMTS and based on the information about the IP subnets, a data structure that reflects the IP subnets that comprise the IP addresses that are allocated to the devices serviced by the…
