Lithium stuffed garnet setter plates for solid electrolyte fabrication
Granted: September 24, 2019
Patent Number:
10422581
Setter plates are fabricated from Li-stuffed garnet materials having the same, or substantially similar, compositions as a garnet Li-stuffed solid electrolyte. The Li-stuffed garnet setter plates, set forth herein, reduce the evaporation of Li during a sintering treatment step and/or reduce the loss of Li caused by diffusion out of the sintering electrolyte. Li-stuffed garnet setter plates, set forth herein, maintain compositional control over the solid electrolyte during sintering when,…
Accelerator control device, accelerator control method, and particle beam therapy device
Granted: September 17, 2019
Patent Number:
10420202
According to some embodiments, an accelerator control device has a high-frequency power controller and a timing controller. The high-frequency power controller supplies high frequency power for accelerating a charged particle beam to an accelerator. The timing controller controls an operation timing of a blocker that blocks the charged particle beam emitted from the accelerator based on a current value of the charged particle beam circulating in the accelerator.
Methods and apparatuses for treating agricultural matter
Granted: September 17, 2019
Patent Number:
10420199
Methods and apparatuses to activate, modify, and sanitize the surfaces of granular, powdered, or seed material placed in a continuous flow of a low-temperature, reduced-pressure gas plasma. Said plasma may be created with radio-frequency power, using capacitive-inductive, or a combination of both types of discharge. The plasma is generated at pressures in the 0.01 to 10 Torr range. RF frequency ranges from 0.2 to 220 MHz, and correspond to a plasma density between about ne×108?ne×1012…
Decision-oriented hexagonal array graphic user interface
Granted: September 17, 2019
Patent Number:
10416839
A hexagonal graphical user interface (GUI) is provided in which a user interface is rendered including one or more primary icons, each of the one or more primary icons comprising a hexagon and representing an initial state. In the GUI, responsive to the selection of a first icon from the primary icons, one or more secondary icons are displayed, where each of the secondary icons is a hexagon and positioned in the user interface in a hexagonal tiling (hextille) arrangement with respect to…
Conical access split magnet system
Granted: September 17, 2019
Patent Number:
10416253
A cryostat apparatus including a cooler configured to cool a cryogenic fluid. The cooler includes a cooler chamber disposed about a cooler axis. A magnet assembly is in thermodynamic communication with the cooler and is disposed about a magnet axis offset from the cooler axis. The magnet assembly includes a magnet housing and first and second annular magnet coils disposed about the magnet axis within the magnet housing. A viewing chamber is at least partially located between the first…
Garnet materials for Li secondary batteries and methods of making and using garnet materials
Granted: September 3, 2019
Patent Number:
10403932
Set forth herein are garnet material compositions, e.g., lithium-stuffed garnets and lithium-stuffed garnets doped with alumina, which are suitable for use as electrolytes and catholytes in solid state battery applications. Set forth herein are lithium-stuffed garnet thin films having fine grains therein. Disclosed herein are novel and inventive methods of making and using lithium-stuffed garnets as catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes for all solid state lithium rechargeable…
Garnet materials for Li secondary batteries and methods of making and using garnet materials
Granted: September 3, 2019
Patent Number:
10403931
Set forth herein are garnet material compositions, e.g., lithium-stuffed garnets and lithium-stuffed garnets doped with alumina, which are suitable for use as electrolytes and catholytes in solid state battery applications. Also set forth herein are lithium-stuffed garnet thin films having fine grains therein. Disclosed herein are novel and inventive methods of making and using lithium-stuffed garnets as catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes for all solid state lithium rechargeable…
Systems and methods for acquiring and characterizing time varying signals of interest
Granted: September 3, 2019
Patent Number:
10401513
Methods or systems for identifying seismic or acoustic signals of interest originating with moving motorized vehicles or footstep movement or stationary or moving machinery. A related system for monitoring an area includes a plurality of sensing devices each comprising a frame and a piezo-electric sensor element. A monitoring device is coupled to receive information from each of the sensing devices. One method includes providing a processing chain coupled to receive signal data from a…
Ultra high pressure pump with an alternating rotation to linear displacement drive mechanism
Granted: August 27, 2019
Patent Number:
10393097
A high pressure pump including a linear actuator having a servo motor to axially rotate a hollow rotor shaft in alternating directions, the servo motor having a stator positioned co-axially around the hollow rotor shaft with an interior of the rotor shaft being co-axially coupled to a drive member to convert axial rotation into reciprocal displacement, the drive member being constrained against linear movement and supporting a shaft. At least one piston is coupled to the shaft and the…
Superconducting signal amplifier
Granted: August 27, 2019
Patent Number:
10396733
The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for fabricating and operating superconducting circuitry. In one aspect, an electronic system includes: (1) a first circuit that includes a plurality of superconducting wires connected in parallel with one another, the plurality of superconducting wires including: (a) a first superconducting wire with a corresponding first threshold superconducting current; and (b) a second superconducting wire; (2) a second…
Gated superconducting photon detector
Granted: August 20, 2019
Patent Number:
10386229
The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for fabricating and operating photodetector circuitry. In one aspect, a photon detector system includes: (1) a first superconducting wire having a first threshold superconducting current; (2) a second superconducting wire having a second threshold superconducting current; (3) a resistor coupled to the first wire and the second wire; (4) current source(s) coupled to the first wire and configured to supply a…
Combined amplitude-time and phase modulation
Granted: August 13, 2019
Patent Number:
10382246
A system and method are provided relating generally to data transmission and more particularly to modulation techniques offering increased data transmission rates. To so provide, a first amplitude-time modulated (ATM) signal and a first phase modulated signal are combined at a first combiner to produce a complex wave modulation signal, and the complex wave modulation signal and an additional signal are combined at a second combiner to produce a second complex wave modulation signal. The…
Heuristic journal reservations
Granted: August 13, 2019
Patent Number:
10380068
Example apparatus and methods reserve space in a journal using an observation based approach instead of a fixed sized approach or a worst case scenario approach. One example method receives a request to allocate space in a journal to support a file system transaction. The example method reserves an amount of space in the journal based on a pre-existing reservation size estimate. Unlike conventional systems, the estimate is not based on a worst-case scenario. The example method observes…
File system with multi-class in situ tiered archiving
Granted: August 13, 2019
Patent Number:
10380066
Example apparatus and methods provide a file system that stores files in multiple different logical units. The logical units are associated with different classes of devices. The file system interacts with the logical units through block-based interfaces. The file system is a single file system that spans the multiple logical units. The multiple different logical units include data storage devices for which the file system manages block storage allocation and an object storage system…
Clock generation for a photonic quantum computer to convert electrical pulses into a plurality of clock signals
Granted: August 13, 2019
Patent Number:
10379420
A system for generating clock signals for a photonic quantum computing system includes a pump photon source configured to generate a plurality of pump photon pulses at a first repetition rate, a waveguide optically coupled to the pump photon source, and a photon-pair source optically coupled to the first waveguide. The system also includes a photodetector optically coupled to the photon-pair source and configured to generate a plurality of electrical pulses in response to detection of at…
Efficient spin polarization
Granted: August 6, 2019
Patent Number:
10371767
In some aspects, polarization of a spin ensemble can be increased using cavity-based techniques. A cavity is coupled with a spin ensemble, and a drive field generates an interaction between the cavity and the spin ensemble. In some cases, the interaction increases the polarization of the spin ensemble faster than the thermal (T1) relaxation process or any other thermal polarizing process affecting the spin ensemble. In some cases, polarization is increased by iteratively acting on…
Superconducting logic components
Granted: August 6, 2019
Patent Number:
10374611
The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for implementing logic gates. In one aspect, a circuit includes: (1) a superconducting component having a plurality of alternating narrow and wide portions; (2) a plurality of heat sources, each heat source of the plurality of heat sources coupled to a corresponding narrow portion of the plurality of alternating narrow and wide portions and configured to selectively provide heat to the corresponding narrow…
Composite electrolytes
Granted: August 6, 2019
Patent Number:
10374254
Set forth herein are electrolyte compositions that include both organic and inorganic constituent components and which are suitable for use in rechargeable batteries. Also set forth herein are methods and systems for making and using these composite electrolytes.
Metadata peering with improved inodes
Granted: August 6, 2019
Patent Number:
10372684
Example apparatus and methods concern metadata peering that allows a file system to address a file in a local namespace while actually accessing the file using an address used by a shared secondary storage. This allows the file system to operate unmodified and more efficiently in a native mode that addresses files in the shared secondary storage using addresses local to a computer running the file system. An example method accesses an inode associated with a file that is stored in a…
Coupled resonator photon-pair sources
Granted: August 6, 2019
Patent Number:
10372014
Techniques disclosed herein relate to photon sources with high spectral purity and high brightness. In one embodiment, a photon-pair source includes a pump waveguide, a first resonator coupled to the pump waveguide to couple pump photons from the pump waveguide into the first resonator, a second resonator coupled to the first resonator, and an output waveguide coupled to the second resonator. The second resonator is configured to convert the pump photons into photon pairs. The second…
