US11327872B2
A test instrument is operable to test Software Communications Architecture (SCA) devices. The test instrument can identify components of an SCA application loaded on an SCA device being tested, and create a test point in the SCA application that may be between components of the SCA application. The test instrument can receive and analyze signals generated at the test point to identify malfunctioning components within the SCA application.
US11327859B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for a cell-based storage system with failure isolation are disclosed. A first subset of storage nodes is selected from a set of storage nodes of a data store and assigned to a first partition of data. Replicas of the first partition are stored using the first subset. A second subset of storage nodes is selected from the set of storage nodes and assigned to a second partition of data. The second subset is selected based (at least in part) on the membership of the first subset, and the second subset comprises at least one node not present in the first. Replicas of the second partition are stored using the second subset. Access requests associated with the first partition are routed to the first subset of storage nodes. Access requests associated with the second partition are routed to the second subset of storage nodes.
US11327858B2
Systems and processes are disclosed to preserve data integrity during a storage controller failure. In some examples, a storage controller of an active-active controller configuration can back-up data and corresponding cache elements to allow a surviving controller to construct a correct state of a failed controller's write cache. To accomplish this, the systems and processes can implement a relative time stamp for the cache elements that allow the backed-up data to be merged on a block-by-block basis.
US11327848B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for data remediation without data loss. In one exemplary aspect, the method comprises performing, at a first time, a first backup of a plurality of files on a file system of a computer system; tracking changes to any of the plurality of files on the file system after the first time; performing, at a second time, a second backup of the plurality of files on the file system; detecting, based on a scan of the second backup, an infection of the computer system caused by a malicious application; identifying, by the processor, a most recent backup of the file system that does not comprise the infection; in response to determining that the first backup is the most recent backup: restoring the first backup to the file system, and restoring a subset of files on the file system for which authorized changes.
US11327844B1
A storage array creates snapshots of each of a plurality of devices of a storage group associated with a production device on which active application data is logically stored. Metadata that indicates associations between the snapshots and the devices is stored on cloud storage with the snapshots as a snapset object. A program running on a management station used the snapset metadata to automatically create new devices on which to recover the snapshots on a selected storage array and uses the snapset metadata to cause the snapshots to be automatically written from the cloud storage system to the new devices on the selected storage array.
US11327838B2
A memory device includes: a first memory bank and a second memory bank; a control logic configured to receive a command and control an internal operation of the memory device; and an error correction code (ECC) circuit configured to retain in a latch circuit first read data read from the first memory bank in response to a first masked write (MWR) command for the first memory bank based on a latch control signal from the control logic, generate a first parity from data in which the first read data retained in the latch circuit is merged with first write data corresponding to the first MWR command in response to a first write control signal received from the control logic, and control an ECC operation to retain in the latch circuit second read data read from the second memory bank based on the latch control signal.
US11327834B2
In an information processing system including a set of data storage devices for storing data blocks arranged in respective columns on each data storage device and rows across the set of data storage devices to form at least one data stripe, and a set of parity storage devices for storing parity blocks computed via one or more parity operations based on the data blocks of the at least one data stripe, at least one of the data storage devices includes a processing device configured to: receive from the information processing system an instruction to perform at least a portion of a parity operation; perform the portion of the parity operation; and send a result of the performed portion of the parity operation to the information processing system, wherein the result is useable by the information processing system for performing another portion of the parity operation.
US11327831B2
A memory system employs an addressing scheme to logically divide rows of memory cells into separate contiguous regions, one for data storage and another for error detection and correction (EDC) codes corresponding to that data. Data and corresponding EDC codes are stored in the same row of the same bank. Accessing data and corresponding EDC code in the same row of the same bank advantageously saves power and avoids bank conflicts. The addressing scheme partitions the memory without requiring the requesting processor to have an understanding of the memory partition.
US11327829B2
A semiconductor device of an embodiment includes a main circuit configured to perform a predetermined operation to an input signal to output an output signal, an inverse operation circuit configured to receive the output signal of the main circuit as an input, and perform an inverse operation of the predetermined operation by using the output signal to output an inverse operation result signal, and a comparison circuit configured to compare the input signal and the inverse operation result signal, and output a predetermined signal when the input signal and the inverse operation result signal do not coincide with each other.
US11327826B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for automated resolution of free-text incidents, based on machine learning. In operation, a system receives incident information from at least one IT service management (ITSM) system. The system reads the incident information including free text and classifies an incident associated with the incident information to at least one automation flow. The system generates robotic process automation (RPA) compatible information from the incident information by parsing parameters associated with the incident from text into required fields based on the at least one automation flow. Further, the system sends the generated RPA compatible information to the at least one ITSM system or at least one RPA system.
US11327816B2
A solution is proposed for monitoring usage of bundles in the OSGi environment. For this purpose, an event notification interface of the OSGi environment is exploited. Particularly, each event relating to a change of state of a bundle (such as its addition, removal, starting and stopping) is detected by an auxiliary bundle—which previously subscribed to the event notification interface. The auxiliary bundle can then forward the detected events to a licensing agent, which identifies the bundle by means of a software catalogue. In this way, the desired result is achieved without requiring any instrumentation of the bundles to be monitored.
US11327809B2
An aspect of the invention includes a method for receiving a request to reclaim a portion of a memory assigned to a virtual machine (VM). In response to receiving the request, an increment of the plurality of increments to vacate is selected. The selecting is based at least in part on the failure counts corresponding to each of the plurality of increments. An attempt is made to vacate all contents of the selected increment. Based at least in part on determining that all contents of the selected increment were not vacated, a failure count corresponding to the selected increment is incremented. Based at least in part on determining that all contents of the selected increment were vacated, an assignment of the selected increment to the VM is removed.
US11327799B2
A schedule is stored indicating a frequency of replication from source to destination sites. When a replication job is initiated, information identifying one or more objects at the source site to be replicated is copied into a snapshot without pausing user operations against the one or more objects. The snapshot is compared with a previous snapshot to generate replication tasks for the replication job. The replication tasks are placed onto a message queue at the source site, where a worker node at the source site retrieves a replication task from the message queue and processes the replication task in conjunction with a worker node at the destination site.
US11327792B2
Various approaches for data storage and retrieval for a computer memory include processing a computational workflow having multiple data-processing steps, generating and storing a first hash value associated with a first step of the data-processing steps based on an input to the first step, generating and storing a second hash value associated with a second step of the data-processing steps based on the generated first hash value, and reconstructing a computational state of the workflow based on the second hash value, and thereby avoid re-execution of a portion of the workflow corresponding to the second hash value.
US11327782B2
The present disclosure provides an approach for migrating the contents of an enclave, together with a virtual machine comprising the enclave, from a source host to a destination host. The approach provides a technique that allows the contents of the enclave to remain secure during the migration process, and also allows the destination host to decrypt the contents of the enclave upon receiving the contents and upon receiving the VM that includes the enclave. The approach allows for the VM to continue execution on the destination host. The enclave retains its state from source host to destination host. Applications using the enclave in the source host are able to continue using the enclave on the destination host using the data migrated from the source host to the destination host.
US11327778B2
A system includes a memory, a processor in communication with the memory, and a recorder. The recorder is configured to obtain a proxy for each respective real object. Each respective real object is related to a respective service. The recorder is also configured to record a sequence of each invocation on each respective proxy and generate an intermediate representation of an application that is configured to invoke the sequence of each invocation on each real object associated with each respective proxy.
US11327767B2
Embodiments of dynamically increasing the resources for a partition to compensate for an input/output (I/O) recovery event are provided. An aspect includes allocating a first set of resources to a partition that is hosted on a data processing system. Another aspect includes operating the partition on the data processing system using the first set of resources. Another aspect includes, based on detection of an input/output (I/O) recovery event associated with operation of the partition, determining a compensation for the I/O recovery event. Another aspect includes allocating a second set of resources in addition to the first set of resources to the partition, the second set of resources corresponding to the compensation for the I/O recovery event. Another aspect includes operating the partition on the data processing system using the first set of resources and the second set of resources.
US11327766B2
A method of instruction dispatch routing comprises receiving an instruction for dispatch to one of a plurality of issue queues; determining a priority status of the instruction; selecting a rotation order based on the priority status, wherein a first rotation order is associated with priority instructions and a second rotation order, different from the first rotation order, is associated with non-priority instructions; selecting an issue queue of the plurality of issue queues based on the selected rotation order; and dispatching the instruction to the selected issue queue.
US11327762B2
An instruction prefetching method, a device and a medium are provided. The method includes the following: instructions in a target buffer are precompiled before a processor core fetches a required instruction from the target buffer corresponding to the processor core; if it is determined that a jump instruction exists in the target buffer and a jump target instruction corresponding to the jump instruction is not cached in the target buffer according to a precompiled result, the jump target instruction is prefetched from an icache into a candidate buffer corresponding to the processor core to wait for the processor core to fetch the jump target instruction from the candidate buffer; the target buffer and the candidate buffer are alternately reused during instruction prefetching.
US11327761B2
An integrated circuit, comprising an instruction pipeline that includes instruction fetch phase circuitry, instruction decode phase circuitry, and instruction execution circuitry. The instruction execution circuitry includes transformation circuitry for receiving an interleaved dual vector operand as an input and for outputting a first natural order vector including a first set of data values from the interleaved dual vector operand and a second natural order vector including a second set of data values from the interleaved dual vector operand.
US11327757B2
In at least one embodiment, a processor includes architected and non-architected register files for buffering operands. The processor additionally includes an instruction fetch unit that fetches instructions to be executed and at least one execution unit. The at least one execution unit is configured to execute a first class of instructions that access operands in the architected register file and a second class of instructions that access operands in the non-architected register file. The processor also includes a mapper circuit that assigns physical registers to the instructions for buffering of operands. The processor additionally includes a dispatch circuit configured, based on detection of an instruction in one of the first and second classes of instructions for which correct operands do not reside in a respective one of the architected and non-architected register files, to automatically initiate transfer of operands between the architected and non-architected register files.
US11327746B2
Disclosed are embodiments for reducing processing requirements in complex build environments. Complex build environments frequently perform multiple builds per day, in some cases, multiple builds are occurring in parallel. Some of these builds and some fail. Moreover, a definition of success or failure of a build can vary across individual engineers or teams of engineers. In a complex build environment that is rapidly generating multiple build results simultaneously, identifying which builds are appropriate for use can be difficult. Many teams solve this problem by increasing a frequency of builds to rapidly detect any problems with documents recently checked into a document repository. However, this relatively high frequency of builds can impose large processing and/or cost burdens on an organization. By providing sophisticated methods of extracting validation information from existing builds, the disclosed embodiments reduce processing requirements and improved efficiency of enterprise build environments.
US11327743B2
A method for transporting configuration data may include determining that a customization created at a development system for a software application is being deployed at a production system hosting the software application. In response, a transport request including the customization may be verified to determine whether errors are present in the transport request. The errors may include dependent data that is required to deploy the customization at the production system being absent from the transport request. If errors are present in the transport request, a request for a corrected transport request may be sent to the development system. The customization included in the corrected transport request may be deployed at the production system by applying, to a configuration of the software application, the customization included in the corrected transport request. Related systems and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also provided.
US11327737B2
A building device including one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to implement a software gateway configured to receive one or more messages from building equipment, receive, based on the one or more messages, one or more software updates for the software gateway, wherein the one or more software updates are updates for communicating with the building equipment, communicate with the building equipment based on the one or more software updates and receive data describing the building equipment, and cause a configuration image to be generated for the software gateway based on the data describing the building equipment, the configuration image indicating a configuration of the software gateway for performing one or more gateway services.
US11327733B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to a method and device for optimizing compilation of source code. The proposed method receives a first intermediate representation code of a source code and analyses each basic block instruction of the plurality of basic block instructions contained in the first intermediate representation code for blockification. In order to blockify the identical instructions, the one or more groups of basic block instructions are assessed for eligibility of blockification. Upon determining as eligible, the group of basic block instructions are blockified using one of one dimensional SIMD vectorization and two-dimensional SIMD vectorization. The method further generates a second intermediate representation of the source code which is translated to executable target code with more efficient processing capacity.
US11327732B2
The present specification provides a method for executing a smart contract, a blockchain node, and a storage medium. An implementation of a method for executing a smart contract includes: receiving, by a blockchain node, a request for creating a smart contract, the request including a bytecode of the smart contract; starting, by the blockchain node after completing deployment of the smart contract, to compile the bytecode of the smart contract into a machine code by using ahead of time (AoT) compilation and storing the machine code; and during execution of a smart contract that has been deployed, interpreting and executing, by the blockchain node, a bytecode of the smart contract in response to that a machine code of the smart contract is not locally stored.
US11327714B2
Low precision computers can be efficient at finding possible answers to search problems. However, sometimes the task demands finding better answers than a single low precision search. A computer system augments low precision computing with a small amount of high precision computing, to improve search quality with little additional computing.
US11327707B1
In one embodiment, an interactivity agent provides display data from a plurality of devices to a touch screen display via a network for simultaneous presentation on the touch screen display. The interactivity agent receives touch information regarding a touch action performed via the touch screen display with respect to the display data from a particular one of the plurality of devices. The interactivity agent translates the received touch information from the touch screen display into translated touch information for the particular device. The interactivity agent sends, to a particular device via the network, the translated touch information. The translated touch information causes the particular device to replicate the touch action on a display of the particular device.
US11327698B2
A server includes: a memory storing printing configuration rules for interfacing with a printing system; a communications interface configured to communicate with a client device; a processor interconnected with the memory and the communications interface, the processor configured to: generate a print system network identifier mapped to the printing system, the print system network identifier configured for identifying print parameters for print jobs; receive, via the communications interface, a print request from the client device, the print request generated based on the print system network identifier and including one or more print parameters for a print job; and send a print instruction to the printing system to initiate the print job at the printing system according to the one or more print parameters, the print instruction generated according to the printing configuration rules.
US11327695B2
An example image forming apparatus includes a memory, a print engine to perform a printing job, and a processor to store received user information in the memory when the user information of a group from among a plurality of groups is received from a server having the plurality of groups and user information of each of the plurality of groups, determine whether a user corresponding to a user terminal is a user belonging to the group when print data and user information are received from the user terminal, and control the print engine to print the print data based on the determination result.
US11327691B2
A delivery system including an information processing apparatus operated by a user, a printing apparatus and a server that instructs delivery of a consumable of the printing apparatus. The information processing apparatus requests screen information for making a contract related to the delivery of the consumable to the server, displays a screen based on the screen information received from the server, and transmit registration information input on the screen to the server. The server creates the screen information and transmits the screen information to the information processing apparatus, makes a contract of the delivery of the consumable to be used in the printing apparatus with the user, based on the registration information, and delivers the consumable to the user when a remaining amount of the consumable is less than a predetermined amount in the printing apparatus.
US11327681B2
A memory system with at least one namespace includes a memory device and a controller. The memory device includes a plurality of single-level cell (SLC) buffers and a plurality of memory blocks, wherein each memory block includes a plurality of memory cells, each memory cell storing multi-bit data, and is allocated for a respective one of a plurality of zones, wherein each of the at least one namespace is divided by at least some of the plurality of zones. The controller is configured to receive a program request related to at least one application program executed by a host, to determine at least one zone designated by the at least one application program as an open state, and to control the memory device to perform a program operation on at least one memory block allocated for an open state zone.
US11327670B2
Systems and methods for selectively disabling power to disk drives in a distributed storage network (DSN). In embodiments, a method includes: monitoring namespace health parameter data in a DSN including a plurality of storage disk drives, wherein the namespace health parameter data includes available disks of the plurality of storage disk drives; determining that power to a subset of the plurality of storage disk drives can be disabled without disrupting anticipated client access to a data collection based on the monitoring and stored power management rules; and sending instructions to at least one power manager within the DSN to disable power to the subset of the plurality of storage disk drives, resulting in at least one disabled storage disk, wherein the instructions are based on the determining that power to the subset of the plurality of storage disk drives can be disabled.
US11327668B1
A flexible RAID system can expand by iteratively adding disks to a disk cluster. The disks may be added individually or in groups. Spare capacity is distributed over multiple disks within a cluster. Clusters are created, grown, and divided with predictable RAID member distribution patterns. Cluster validation is performed based on the patterns.
US11327667B2
A system for adaptive storage device utilization is provided. The system is configured to: determine a new workload request for a data structure comprising layers in a stack configured for storing data objects; analyze resource usage patterns of the layers of the data structure, the resource usage patterns comprising a rate and volume of resource consumption; simulate a change in a data storage resource demand for each of the layers of the data structure based on the new workload request by constructing a simulated model of the data structure under the new workload; calculate an adaptive data storage resource configuration based on the resource usage patterns of the layers and the constructed model; and deploy the adaptive data storage resource configuration for the data structure at a data storage location, wherein storage resources of the data storage location are allocated based on the adaptive data storage resource configuration.
US11327662B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for managing a storage area. In one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for managing a storage areas, comprising: obtaining a storage area in a storage system according to a predefined dividing rule; determining status regarding whether the storage area has been used; setting a status identifier for the storage area based on the use status; and managing the storage area based on the status identifier. In another embodiment, there is proposed a system for managing a storage area, comprising: one or more processors; a memory coupled to at least one processor of the one or more processors; computer program instructions stored in the memory which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to execute a method for managing a storage area.
US11327655B2
In one implementation, a method includes establishing a connection between a new frontend system resource and an existing frontend system resource for a client network. The method further includes transferring, by a processing device, a frontend system resource role from the existing frontend system resource to the new frontend system resource to enable the existing frontend system resource to operate as a backend system resource.
US11327651B2
Disclosed herein are related to systems and methods for providing inputs through a virtual keyboard with an adaptive language model. In one approach, one or more processors determine whether a user intended to provide semantically meaningful characters or not, when providing a hand motion or a hand pose with respect to a virtual keyboard. The virtual keyboard may be located on a surface without physical keys. In one approach, the one or more processors determine an input to the virtual keyboard based on the hand motion or the hand pose. In one approach, the one or more processors determine weight of a language model according to the determined user intention. In one approach, the one or more processors modify the detected input according to the determined weight of the language model.
US11327638B2
Currently there is no product that allows an attractive graphical home or building-like virtual presence on the Internet to be created—that would allow all the typical interactions or information dissemination that one would like to have with individuals or businesses reflecting their actual presence in a geographical location. Having such a product allows virtual neighborhoods to be created both by geographical location or by interests or by nature of businesses or many other such classifications. Enabling active interaction with businesses through the graphical presence will be useful in both increasing the footfall for the businesses as well as reducing the cost of their backend operational expenses by automating the interactions with their customers.
US11327637B2
Provided are an information processing system, an information processing method, and a recording medium capable of presenting advice more effectively by updating a user interface of an agent according to a user's behavior modification with respect to the agent advice. An information processing system includes a control unit (200) that controls a user interface of an agent to be updated depending on whether a user has performed behavior modification in response to advice that the agent has presented to the user.
US11327631B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for displaying application storage space and a terminal, so as to enable a user to intuitively learn a use state of application storage space, so that the storage space can be cleaned in time to ensure normal and efficient running of a terminal. The method in the embodiments of the present invention includes: first displaying, by a terminal, a first icon on a desktop in first display mode; and when determining that storage space used by a first application corresponding to the first icon is greater than a preset storage threshold, displaying, by the terminal, the first icon in preset display mode that is different from the first display mode.
US11327626B1
A conferencing arrangement for sharing information within a conference space, the arrangement comprising a common presentation surface including a presentation surface area, a common presentation surface driver, a system processor linked to the driver and receiving and presenting the information content via the common presentation surface and a portable user interface device including a device display screen and a device processor, the device processor programmed to provide an interface via the device display screen useable to view content and to enter a command to replicate content presented on the device display on the common presentation surface, the device processor capable of identifying a direction of a swiping action on the interface as a command to replicate the content, wherein, upon identifying that the direction of a swiping action on the interface is in the direction of the common presentation surface, the arrangement creates a sharing space on the presentation surface area and replicates the content from the device display within the sharing space.
US11327619B2
Some embodiments include a touchscreen device (e.g., a projected capacitive sensor) with non-orthogonal U-drive and V-sense electrodes that intersect at an acute angle, θ. The touchscreen device includes a rectangular touch sensitive area with horizontal edge of length W and a vertical edge of length H. Some embodiments include a controller coupled to the touchscreen device that transmits signals via N drive channels, where N is an integer, where the N drive channels are communicatively coupled to P U-drive electrodes, and where P is an integer greater than or equal to N. Members of a subset of the P U-drive electrodes communicatively coupled to one of the N drive channels, intersect mutually exclusive sets of the V-sense electrodes. Motivated by signal-to-noise ratio considerations, values of acute angle, θ, are chosen such that signals corresponding to the drive signals traverse path lengths that are less than W plus H.
US11327615B2
Embodiments relate to a touch panel and a method of operating the touch panel. The touch panel includes first electrodes and second electrodes separated from and intersecting the first electrodes. The first electrodes are applied with a touch driving pulse during a first sensing mode and a second sensing mode. The second electrodes sense a first touch sense signal responsive to the touch driving pulse in the first sensing mode. A subset of the second electrodes senses a second touch sense signal responsive to the touch driving pulse in the second sensing mode.
US11327614B2
A fingerprint recognizable touch display panel includes a display panel, a touch layer, and a fingerprint recognizing layer disposed in the touch area. The touch layer includes touch driving electrodes and touch sensing electrodes. The fingerprint recognizing layer includes first fingerprint recognizing electrodes and second fingerprint recognizing electrodes. The first fingerprint recognizing electrodes and the second fingerprint recognizing electrodes do not overlap with the touch driving electrodes. When touch control function is implemented, the first fingerprint recognizing electrodes and the second fingerprint recognizing electrodes are both multiplexed to touch driving electrodes.
US11327613B2
An sensing unit including a first conductive layer including a first line portion including a first auxiliary sensing line, a second auxiliary sensing line, and a connection line, an insulating layer and a second conductive layer disposed on the insulating layer. The second conductive layer includes an electrode portion including a first sensing pattern and a second sensing pattern and a second line portion including a first sensing line overlapping the first auxiliary sensing line and connected to the first sensing pattern and a second sensing line overlapping the second auxiliary sensing line. The first sensing line is disposed between the second sensing pattern and the second sensing line, the connection line does not overlap the first auxiliary sensing line, crosses the first sensing line in a plan view, and connects the second sensing line to the second sensing pattern through contact holes defined through the insulating layer.
US11327610B2
An aspect of the present disclosure may provide a display device including: a light-emitting layer including a plurality of light-emitting areas; a plurality of touch wiring lines arranged in a first direction so as to overlap the light-emitting area; and a touch electrode formed on the plurality of touch wiring lines. Further, a method of manufacturing the display device may be provided.
US11327606B2
Provided are an output unit configured to output an image or distribution information of evaluation values corresponding to a plurality of regions of the image, an operation unit configured to accept a first action and a second action different from the first action; and a control unit configured to execute, when the output unit outputs a first image, output control such that the output unit outputs a second image if the operation unit accepts the first action, and that the output unit outputs distribution information of the evaluation values corresponding to the first image if the operation unit accepts the second action.
US11327604B2
A touch sensing circuit for use in a touch sensitive device includes: an integrator, a first switching unit and a control signal generator. The integrator, coupled to at least one sensing electrode of a touch panel in the touch sensitive device, and arranged to collect charges on the at least one sensing electrode and accordingly generate an output sensed signal. The first switching unit is arranged to selectively couple a first end of the at least one sensing electrode to a reference voltage level according to a first mask signal. The control signal generator is arranged to generate the first mask signal according to a synchronization signal of a display panel in the touch sensitive device, wherein the first switching unit couples the first end of the at least one sensing electrode to the reference voltage level when the synchronization signal is asserted.
US11327602B2
A touch driving method for a touch display device, a touch display device, and an electronic device are provided. The touch driving method includes: applying a touch scanning signal, which is periodic, to a touch structure of the touch display device during applying display data to a display structure of the touch display device in a progressively scanning manner. The display structure is stacked with the touch structure, each period of the touch scanning signal includes a signal rising edge and a signal falling edge, and a signal rising edge and a signal falling edge of at least one period of the touch scanning signal are in display scanning periods for scanning display sub-pixels of an identical color in different rows of the display structure.
US11327592B2
A display device that is capable of being manufactured through a simplified process and at reduced cost is disclosed. The display device is configured such that a plurality of grouped cathode electrodes and a plurality of grouped black matrices intersect each other in the state in which an encapsulation unit is disposed therebetween in order to form a touch sensor, so that a process of forming first and second touch electrodes is omitted and a separate adhesion process becomes unnecessary, whereby structural simplification is achieved while costs are reduced.
US11327586B2
The present disclosure provides a touch display device including a display panel, a touch panel, and a cover plate. The side of the touch panel adjacent to the display panel is provided with a recess and a surrounding portion surrounding the recess. By vacuuming the gap formed between the display panel and the touch panel, a portion of the touch panel is recessed into the gap, which reduces the space occupied by the gap, eliminates the sense of space, enhances waterproof and dustproof effects and elevates stability.
US11327580B2
An electronic pen includes a conductive core-side member, a power supply circuit, a signal transmission circuit, an input reception circuit, and a control circuit. The signal transmission circuit receives a power supply voltage from the power supply circuit, generates a first signal and a second signal each having a different waveform, and selectively supplies either the first signal or the second signal to the core-side member. The input reception circuit which receives a designation input designating either the first signal or the second signal to be supplied from the signal transmission circuit to the core-side member. The control circuit controls the signal transmission circuit to supply either the first signal or the second signal to the core-side member according to the designation input received by the input reception circuit.
US11327579B2
An electronic pen includes a first casing, a second casing disposed within the first casing, and an electronic pen main body unit incorporating an electronic pen function disposed within the second casing, in which the electronic pen main body unit includes a side switch unit having an operating element exposed on a side surface of the second casing, and an operating opening portion is disposed in a side surface of the first casing, and the operating opening portion exposes the operating element exposed on the side surface of the second casing.
US11327566B2
The disclosed method may include receiving neuromuscular activity data over a first time series from a first sensor on a wearable device donned by a user receiving ground truth data over a second time series from a second sensor that indicates a body part state of a body part of the user, generating one or more training datasets by time-shifting at least a portion of the neuromuscular activity data over the first time series relative to the second time series, to associate the neuromuscular activity data with at least a portion of the ground truth data, and training one or more inferential models based on the one or more training datasets. Various other related methods and systems are also disclosed.
US11327562B2
An eye reconstruction-based eye tracking method and apparatus are provided. The eye tracking method includes generating a reconstructed image by performing eye reconstruction with respect to an input image, determining a difference value between the input image and the reconstructed image, selecting one of the input image, the reconstructed image, and a replacement image as a target image based on the determined difference value, and performing eye tracking based on the target image.
US11327559B2
Data characterizing a section of a route traveled by a motor vehicle during reproduction of virtual contents, reproduced virtual contents and/or states of vehicle occupants during reproduction of the virtual contents are transferred to a vehicle-external server device. The transferred data are evaluated by the vehicle-external server device.
US11327550B2
There is provided a navigation device including an image sensor, an analog to digital converter and a processor. The image sensor is used to output an analog image using an exposure time. The analog to digital converter is used to convert the analog image to a digital image using a resolution. The processor is used to identify an image quality of the digital image, and adjust at least one of the exposure time of the image sensor and the resolution of the analog to digital converter according to the image quality thereby adjusting the operation power by changing data length actually processed by the processor.
US11327547B2
Technology for a system operable to extend a level of processor performance is disclosed. The system can comprise a power source connected to a platform voltage regulator (VR) and one or more processors and configured to provide an input power to the platform VR. The system can further comprise the platform VR connected to a peripheral interface and the one or more processors and configured to power the peripheral interface and send a power good signal to the one or more processors. The system can further comprise the peripheral interface connected to the platform VR and the one or more processors and configured to connect to a peripheral device and send a signal to the one or more processors when a peripheral interface connection state is identified as connected.
US11327542B2
There is provided a control device that includes a processor and an energy harvesting unit. The processor acquires an electricity consumption amount necessary for execution of a predetermined function of the processor and an amount of energy harvested by the energy harvesting unit, and determines whether or not to execute the predetermined function based on the electricity consumption amount, the amount of energy harvested that are acquired.
US11327537B2
An electronic device is disclosed, including: a printed circuit board, a first support member including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the first support member defining a first hole formed through the first surface and the second surface, wherein the printed circuit board is coupled to the second surface, and a display coupled to the first surface of the first support member, the display defining: a second hole on a first side of the display to correspond to at least a portion of the first hole, and a third hole on a second side of the display opposite the first side, the third hole adjacent to the second hole and corresponding to the remaining portion of the first hole, wherein signal lines related to driving pixels of the display are disposed in an area between the second hole and the third hole, and wherein at least a partial area of the display is set as an active area configured to display a screen.
US11327530B2
A mobile computer including a liquid crystal display, a first illumination source, a second illumination source for illuminating through a portion, and a lens.
US11327527B2
A motor assembly is provided. The motor assembly includes a motor, a driving force transmission module, and a driving force output component. The motor includes a rotating shaft, the rotating shaft is configured to rotate along a first axis. The driving force transmission module includes a first transmission portion and a second transmission portion connected with each other. The first transmission portion is connected with the rotating shaft of the motor, and the second transmission portion is bent relative to the first transmission portion and extends to one side of the motor. The driving force output component is connected with an end of the second transmission portion away from the first transmission portion, and configured to rotate along a second axis, which is parallel to the first axis.
US11327521B1
A method includes mapping a monitor setting to a shortcut key associated with a human interface device, and translating the monitor setting of a first monitor into binary data based on a lookup table. The method may also generate a human interface device report; embed the binary data in the human interface device report, and store the human interface device report with the binary data in the human interface device. The method may also detect invocation of the shortcut key using the human interface device, match an identifier in the human interface device report associated with the shortcut key; and retrieve the binary data based on the identifier. The method may also transmit the binary data to a second monitor.
US11327517B2
Circuits and devices related to switch controller. In some embodiments, a radio-frequency module can include a packaging substrate configured to receive a plurality of components, and a switching circuit implemented on the packaging substrate. The radio-frequency module can further include a control circuit configured to control operation of the switching circuit. The control circuit can include a regulator configured to generate a plurality of reference voltage levels for the operation of the switching circuit, or to be in a sleep mode, based on a control signal received through a common input node. The control circuit can further include a mode detector in communication with the regulator and configured to provide a first form of the control signal to the common input node to allow the plurality of reference levels to be generated by the regulator, or a second form of the control signal to the common input node to put the regulator in the sleep mode.
US11327515B1
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to optimizing, or at least reducing, power consumption and/or hold timing issues within an integrated circuit (IC). One example IC generally includes a global power supply rail and a first power block. The first power block includes a first plurality of head switch cells coupled to the global power supply rail. Each head switch cell includes a head switch coupled between the global power supply rail and a power node for the head switch cell. The first plurality of head switch cells is configured such that a first set of the first plurality of head switch cells can be programmed on and a second set of the first plurality of head switch cells can be programmed off.
US11327510B2
A multi-chamber rate-of-change flow meter system and methods for operating the same are disclosed. The multi-chamber rate-of-change flow meter system includes a collection of N chambers, means for drawing a gas into or out of the collection of N chambers, N pressure sensors corresponding one of the N chambers, and means for redistributing the gas among the chambers. A measurement module is coupled to the pressure sensors to obtain a rate of change of pressure in each of the chambers due to the redistribution of the gas and calculate a flow rate of the gas flowing into or out of the collection of N chambers based upon the rate of change of pressure in each of the chambers.
US11327508B2
A system and method of generating optimised aircraft flight trajectories on Flight Management Systems with limited computational power that takes into account developing operational conditions, air traffic constraints and aircraft performance in a timely manner on the flight management system that can allow tactical flight plan changes to be incorporated without unduly introducing operational or financial penalties to the operator. An example method involves parameterisation of optimal trajectories as functions of operational parameters thereby allowing computational systems to use such computed functions in the air to determine the optimal trajectory or flight profile required for the specific operating conditions quickly and accurately.
US11327500B2
It is proposed a positioning assistance system for a vibrator truck, that is configured to determine a vibration point distance between the vibrator truck and the vibration point location; determine a stopping distance for stopping the vibrator truck at a vibration point location, according to a determined current speed of the vibrator truck and according to a speed profile; determine a time for stopping the vibrator truck at the vibration point location according to the current speed of the vibrator truck, when the stopping distance corresponds to said vibration point distance; and trigger the lifting down of the baseplate of the vibratory system, when at least the following condition is met: said stopping time is inferior or equal to a time for lifting down the vibratory system to the ground. Corresponding vibrator truck and method are also proposed.
US11327494B1
A method for maintaining a marine vessel propelled by a marine propulsion device in a selected position includes determining a current global position of the marine vessel and receiving a signal command to maintain the current global position. The current global position is stored as a target global position in response to receiving the signal command. A subsequent global position of the marine vessel is determined and a position error difference between the subsequent global position and the target global position is determined. The method includes determining marine vessel movements required to minimize the position error difference, and causing the marine propulsion device to produce a thrust having a magnitude, a direction, and an angle calculated to result in achievement of the required marine vessel movements. At least one of timing and frequency of discontinuity of thrust production is controlled while the position error difference is minimized.
US11327485B2
A control device for a vehicle that has a sensor that acquires automated driving information required for automated driving and a display that provides a driver with information. The control device includes an electronic control unit including a processor configured to: perform automated driving for automatically performing operations for driving the vehicle based on the automated driving information; and make a driving intervention degree of the driver change during automated driving, including: judge a distance or a required time until an anticipated switching point where switching to manual driving is anticipated; judge a difficulty of take-over of a driver when switching to manual driving; set a demanded driving intervention degree of a driver during automated driving based on the distance or required time up to the anticipated switching point and the difficulty of take-over; and provide information relating to the demanded driving intervention degree to the driver.
US11327480B2
A vehicle control system includes: a driving operation device provided in a vehicle and configured to accept a driving operation by a user; an operation terminal configured to be carried by the user and including an input/output unit configured to accept an input by the user and to output a signal; and a control device configured to control traveling of the vehicle based on a signal from the driving operation device and to execute remote parking processing to move the vehicle to a parking position based on a signal from the operation terminal. When the control device detects the driving operation based on a signal from the driving operation device during the remote parking processing, the control device executes suspension processing to stop the vehicle and to make the input/output unit notify that the driving operation device has been operated.
US11327468B2
When a specification setting unit sets a specification of a lot number “k+1” after setting a specification of a lot number “k”, a mounting program selector performs a mounting program corresponding to the lot number “k”, and then selects a mounting program corresponding to the lot number “k+1” according to matching between a mounting number from the mounting program and a planned number of products of the lot number “k”. A printing program selector selects a printing program corresponding to the lot number “k”, and then selects a printing program corresponding to the lot number “k+1” according to matching between a sum of a printing number from the printing program and a defective product number and the planned number of products of the lot number “k”. Consequently, on-demand production of an electronic device can easily be manufactured on a manufacturing line.
US11327466B2
A command-value generation apparatus includes: a segmentation unit to segment a machining program into execution units to generate segment machining programs; a parallel computation unit, including a plurality of arithmetic units, to execute the segment machining programs on a per execution unit basis in parallel and generate a segment command for each of the execution units, the segment command being a group of interpolation points on the tool path; and a command-value generation unit to generate a tool travel command from the segment command for each of the execution units. The segment machining programs are separate from one another by at least one segmentation point. The segment machining programs includes a forward segment machining program located forward of the segmentation point, and a rearward segment machining program located rearward of the segmentation point.
US11327465B2
The exemplified methods and systems facilitate manufacturing of a new class of mechanical, loading-bearing components having optimized stress/strain three-dimensional meta-structure structures (also referred to herein as “Meshagons”) as finite-element-based 3D volumetric mesh structures. The resulting three-dimensional meta-structure structures provide high strength, ultra-light connectivity, with programmable interlinkage properties (e.g., density/porosity of linkages).
US11327463B2
A machine tool for performing a cutting process on a workpiece with a cutting tool, includes: a pre-machining shape acquisition unit configured to acquire the shape of the workpiece before cutting, as a pre-machining shape; a target shape acquisition unit configured to acquire a target shape of the workpiece after cutting; a differential shape acquisition unit configured to acquire a differential shape between the pre-machining shape and the target shape; and a machining path setting unit configured to set machining paths so as to perform the cutting process on the differential shape only.
US11327458B2
Three-dimensional (3D) object manufacturing systems and methods are operable to manufacture printed 3D objects corresponding to user-selected physical objects of interest shown in a media content event that have been viewed by a user, wherein at least one 3D printer that is accessible by the user of the media device is operable to manufacture the printed 3D object corresponding to the viewed physical object of interest.
US11327457B2
A facility employing systems, methods, and/or techniques for dynamically and adaptively configuring configurable energy consuming and producing devices (e.g., smart energy devices) based on user profiles and user presence information is disclosed. In some embodiments, the facility periodically detects the presence of users, and retrieves preference information for those users. For each of one or more configurable energy devices in the area, the facility generates a combined setting based on the preferences of each user present and adjusts the devices based on the combined settings. For example, if User A, User B, and User C are present in a room and User A's preferred temperature setting is 75° F., User B's preferred temperature setting is 68° F., and User C's preferred temperature setting is 70° F., the facility may generate a combined setting for a thermostat by taking the average value of the users in the room.
US11327448B2
The present disclosure provides a method and system for optimizing a control process. The method and system comprise using a sensor to generate a feedback signal that represents a measured performance index for an extremum seeking control (ESC) method and sending the feedback signal to an ESC conditioning circuit that applies a logarithmic transformation to the feedback signal to obtain a modified feedback signal. An ESC controller applies the modified feedback signal to the ESC method to generate an output value that is used to control an actuator to maximize the performance of a machine or process.
US11327446B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method of configuring a watch screen and a wearable electronic device implementing the same, which displays various pieces of information provided by an application, in an icon form, to enable a user to easily identify the information. A method of configuring a watch screen, the method comprising selecting one of a plurality of predetermined watch screens, thereby resulting in a selected watch screen; determining at least one icon of a plurality of predetermined icons as components of the selected watch screen; and displaying the selected watch screen, wherein the selected watch screen includes the at least one icon.
US11327443B1
An electronic device includes a housing forming an enclosed chamber. The housing has a top portion and a bottom portion. One or more sensors is provided within the chamber and configured to interface with a user to generate physiological data associated with the user. A set of electrodes is provided on the bottom portion of the housing. Each electrode in the set of electrodes is a single member having a corresponding inner electrode portion within the chamber and an outer electrode portion outside the housing. A set of magnets is provided on the bottom portion of the housing.
US11327440B2
A timepiece is provided with a mechanical movement which includes a mechanical resonator, a sensor detecting oscillations of the mechanical resonator, and a braking device arranged to generate braking pulses in response to a control signal provided by a control circuit associated with an auxiliary oscillator. The control circuit is arranged to be capable of detecting a negative or positive temporal drift in the oscillation of the mechanical resonator and to generate, in a correction period, in association with the braking device, when the temporal drift corresponds to at least a certain loss, a series of braking pulses which are applied to the mechanical resonator at a frequency FSUP in a given range of values which is preferably higher than a frequency FZ (N)=2·F0c/N, F0c being a set point frequency for the mechanical resonator and N a positive integer number.
US11327437B2
A method and system for a scalable multi-sense user experience are disclosed. A three-dimensional (“3-D”) display is disposed behind a slit plane comprising slits and ultrasonic transducers. Light from the 3-D display passes through the slits in the slit plane to generate a 3-D image. The ultrasonic transducers on the front of the slit plane, i.e., opposite the side where the 3-D display is disposed, generate directed acoustic field and/or a formed tactile field. Because the generating components for all three senses, i.e., visual, audio, and tactile, are coplanar, units may be tiled and thereby scaled to generate larger multi-sense experiences.
US11327423B2
An image forming apparatus, includes: an image forming portion configured to form a toner image on a recording material according to image information on a predetermined image; a fixing portion configured to fix the toner image on the recording material by heating the recording material having thereon the toner image while conveying the recording material by a nip portion; an acquisition portion configured to acquire an image end position that is a position of one end of the toner image in a main scanning direction perpendicular to a conveying direction of the recording material; a determination portion configured to determine a target temperature based on the image end position; and a control portion configured to control the fixing portion based on the target temperature.
US11327420B2
An image forming apparatus includes a transfer unit configured to transfer second charged images superposed with one another onto a holding surface of a recording medium on which at least one first charged image has been electrostatically held and a static eliminating unit disposed upstream from the transfer unit in a transport direction of the recording medium and configured to remove static electricity from the recording medium electrostatically holding the at least one first charged image.
US11327418B2
A developing cartridge may include: a casing; a developing roller extending in a first direction; a developing-roller gear; a coupling including a coupling gear; a first idle gear; a second idle gear; an agitator; a first agitator gear; and a protrusion. The developing-roller gear, the coupling, the first idle gear, the second idle gear, the first agitator gear, and the protrusion may be positioned at an outer surface of the casing. The protrusion may be positioned between a first axis of the coupling and a third axis of the first agitator gear in a second direction connecting the first and third axes. The protrusion may be positioned outside an addendum circle of the developing-roller gear, an addendum circle of the coupling gear, an addendum circle of the first idle gear, and an addendum circle of the second idle gear. The first agitator gear may be spaced apart from the protrusion in the first direction.
US11327412B2
A topography measurement system includes a radiation source; a first grating; imaging optics; a movement mechanism; detection optics; a second grating; and a detector. The radiation source is configured to generate a radiation beam and includes a light emitting diode to produce to the radiation. The first grating is configured to pattern the radiation beam. The imaging optics is configured to form a first image of the first grating at a target location on a substrate. The movement mechanism is operable to move the substrate relative to the image of the first grating such that the target location moves relative to the substrate. The detection optics is configured to receive radiation from the target location of the substrate and form an image of the first image at the second grating. The detector is configured to receive radiation transmitted through the second grating and produce an output signal.
US11327411B2
The present invention provides a substrate processing apparatus that processes a substrate, the apparatus including a stage configured to hold and move the substrate, a conveying unit configured to hold and convey the substrate between conveying unit and the stage, an accumulation unit configured to accumulate control information concerning the stage and the conveying unit which is generated by processing the substrate, and a determination unit configured to determine a conveying procedure when conveying the substrate between the stage and the conveying unit by selecting one of a plurality of conveying procedures which can be set for the stage and the conveying unit based on control information accumulated in the accumulation unit.
US11327394B2
A multilayer stack in the form of a Bragg reflector comprising a graded interfacial layer and a method of manufacturing are disclosed. The graded interfacial layer eliminates the formation of low-reflectivity interfaces in a multilayer stack and reduces roughness of interfaces in a multilayer stack.
US11327391B2
A wavelength conversion device includes a heat dissipation substrate, a first reflection layer, a second reflection layer, and a wavelength conversion layer. The first reflection layer is disposed on the heat dissipation substrate. The second reflection layer is disposed on the first reflection layer. The wavelength conversion layer is disposed on the second reflection layer. The first reflection layer is located between the heat dissipation substrate and the second reflection layer, and the second reflection layer is located between the first reflection layer and the wavelength conversion layer. A reflectivity of the second reflection layer to a visible light is greater than a reflectivity of the first reflection layer to the visible light, and a thickness of the first reflection layer is greater than or equal to a thickness of the second reflection layer. A projection device having the wavelength conversion device is further provided.
US11327385B2
An optical device (20) includes an electro-optical layer, including a liquid crystal material (24) with a heliconical structure having a pitch that is less than 250 nm and is modifiable by an electric field. An array of excitation electrodes (28) extends over the electro-optical layer. Control circuitry (23) is coupled to apply control voltage waveforms to the excitation electrodes and is configured to modify the control voltage waveforms so as to locally modify a molecule director angle of the heliconical structure and thus to generate a specified phase modulation profile in the electro-optical layer.
US11327384B2
An optical resonant modulator based on coupling modulation, comprising a resonant structure with an embedded Mach-Zehnder interferometer that is differentially driven to induced amplitude modulation at the output port. The principle of coupling modulation enables high data/baud rates to be achieved in a photonic integrated circuit, e.g. silicon, footprint that is considerably smaller than that of a conventional traveling-wave Mach-Zehnder modulator, in particular by utilizing space saving features, such as ring resonator phase shifters and bend waveguide arms.
US11327383B2
The present application discloses a display panel having an array of a plurality of subpixels. The display panel includes a plurality of light modulators configured to modulate display contrast of the display panel. Each of the plurality of light modulators is in a light modulation region configured to allow light transmitting through the display panel. Light transmittance in the light modulation region is controlled by a first gate line and a first data line for driving image display in a first subpixel of the plurality of subpixels.
US11327382B2
The embodiments herein relate to electrochromic stacks, electrochromic devices, and methods and apparatus for making such stacks and devices. In various embodiments, an anodically coloring layer in an electrochromic stack or device is fabricated to include nickel-tungsten-niobium-oxide (NiWNbO). This material is particularly beneficial in that it is very transparent in its clear state.
US11327381B2
[Problem] Conventional multi-stage optical switching elements have had the problems that, when the number of polarized light beams becomes large, walkoff of light beams produced in middle stages is gradually amplified so that beams at the terminal end deviate from the opening surface and the configuration of the optical switching element itself becomes larger. [Solution] Developed is a 1×N light beam switching element, which has a cube-type modular structure comprising a corner cube and a cubical cube with roughly identical dimensions, which is one-dimensional, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional, and which is fast, highly efficient, wide-angled, and compact, by combining: a simple corner-cube reflection-type light beam switching element comprising a polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystal layer sandwiched between two transparent electrodes in the form of parallel plates, a mirror, and a wedge-shaped prism; and a walkoff correction element in which a condensing-type polarization grating is arranged or affixed to a cubical.
US11327378B2
An array substrate includes a base substrate, a plurality of gate lines extending in a row direction on the base substrate, a plurality of data lines extending in a column direction intersecting the row direction on the base substrate, and a plurality of pixel groups in rows and columns, each including two sub-pixels side by side in the row direction. Each of the rows of pixel groups is connected to two respective ones of the gate lines, and the two sub-pixels of each pixel group in the row of pixel groups are respectively connected to different ones of the two respective gate lines. The data lines and the columns of pixel groups are alternately arranged in the row direction, and the two sub-pixels of each of the plurality of pixel groups are connected to a corresponding one of the plurality of data lines directly adjacent to the pixel group.
US11327377B2
A display device includes: a pixel electrode; and a storage electrode line surrounding the pixel electrode. The storage electrode line includes a first horizontal portion at a lower portion of the pixel electrode and extending in a first direction, a second horizontal portion at an upper portion of the pixel electrode and extending in the first direction, a first vertical portion extending toward the second horizontal portion from the first horizontal portion, and a second vertical portion extending toward the first horizontal portion from the second horizontal portion. The first horizontal portion and the second horizontal portion are electrically connected to each other and receive a same voltage, and the first vertical portion is not directly connected to the second horizontal portion, and/or the second vertical portion is not directly connected to the first horizontal portion.
US11327376B2
To suppress a variation in characteristics of a transistor due to a released gas from an organic insulating film so that reliability of a display device is increased. The display device includes a transistor, an organic insulating film which is provided over the transistor in order to reduce unevenness due to the transistor, and a capacitor over the organic insulating film. An entire surface of the organic insulating film is not covered with components (a transparent conductive layer and an inorganic insulating film) of the capacitor, and a released gas from the organic insulating film can be released to the outside from exposed part of an upper surface of the organic insulating film.
US11327372B2
A display panel including a substrate, a plurality of bonding pads, and a plurality of conductive traces is provided. The substrate has a substrate edge, a display region, and a peripheral region disposed between the substrate edge and the display region. The plurality of bonding pads are arranged in the peripheral region of the substrate. The plurality of conductive traces are electrically connected to the bonding pads. The conductive traces extend between the bonding pads and the substrate edge and have a plurality of breaks. A method of fabricating the display panel is also provided.
US11327371B2
According to one embodiment, a relay substrate provided between a liquid crystal panel and a controller includes first connectors. The controller includes a microcomputer and second connectors. The relay substrate and the controller include a line pattern to form a test circuit which feeds a test signal back to an input pin of the microcomputer from an output pin of the microcomputer, and which transfers the test signal between the controller and the relay substrate in each pair of the first connectors and the second connectors. The microcomputer outputs the test signal from the output pin, and determines a connecting state of the cables that connect the relay substrate and the controller based on a state of feedback of the test signal to the input pin.
US11327370B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a peep preventing device. The peep preventing device includes first electrodes and a transparent insulating body on a transparent substrate. The insulating body has recesses, the first electrodes are located in the recesses, respectively, and an area of a section, taken along a plane parallel to the transparent substrate, of each recess gradually reduces in a direction away from the transparent substrate. The peep preventing device further includes transparent second electrodes each of which includes a second electrode sidewall portion covering a sidewall of one of the recesses. Closed spaces are defined between the insulating body and the second electrodes and the transparent substrate, and electrophoretic liquids are contained in the closed spaces, respectively, and contain reflective charged particles adapted to adhere to the second electrodes when a first electric field is applied between the first electrodes and the second electrodes.
US11327365B2
The present application provides an apparatus for fabricating a display substrate of a liquid crystal display panel. The apparatus includes a support for receiving a mother substrate having a plurality of display substrate units and a photoalignment material layer on the plurality of display substrate units; a plurality of polarizers including a first polarizer having a first light transmission axis, and a second polarizer having a second light transmission axis non-parallel to the first light transmission axis; and a light source for irradiating a light on a first display substrate unit of the plurality of display substrate units through the first polarizer and on a second display substrate unit of the plurality of display substrate units through the second polarizer.
US11327351B2
The invention provides a display device, including a backlight module, a plastic frame, and a sheet metal. The plastic frame is disposed on a side of the backlight module, and the plastic frame has a slot. The sheet metal includes a bottom portion and a bent portion perpendicular to the bottom portion, and the bent portion is bent to a side surface of the backlight module and correspondingly engaged in the slot of the plastic frame.
US11327350B2
A flexible liquid-crystal-screen module and a method of assembling the flexible liquid-crystal-screen module are provided. The flexible liquid-crystal-screen module includes a groove-type middle bezel, a flexible liquid-crystal display and a backlight assembly, wherein, the backlight assembly is fixed at a bottom of a groove of the groove-type middle bezel, the flexible liquid-crystal display is fixed on an opening of the groove of the groove-type middle bezel, and the backlight assembly is spaced from the flexible liquid-crystal display.
US11327348B2
A system may include a laser source, an acousto-optic modulator (AOM) coupled to the laser source, an atom trap, and an optical body coupled between the AOM and the atom trap and having a plurality of spaced apart optical signal channels etched therein. At least one piezoelectric transducer may be coupled to each of the optical signal channels, and a beam polarization controller may be coupled to the piezoelectric transducers.
US11327344B2
Novel and useful quantum structures having a continuous well with control gates that control a local depletion region to form quantum dots. Local depleted well tunneling is used to control quantum operations to implement quantum computing circuits. Qubits are realized by modulating gate potential to control tunneling through local depleted region between two or more sections of the well. Complex structures with a higher number of qdots per continuous well and a larger number of wells are fabricated. Both planar and 3D FinFET semiconductor processes are used to build well to gate and well to well tunneling quantum structures. Combining a number of elementary quantum structure, a quantum computing machine is realized. An interface device provides an interface between classic circuitry and quantum circuitry by permitting tunneling of a single quantum particle from the classic side to the quantum side of the device. Detection interface devices detect the presence or absence of a particle destructively or nondestructively.
US11327334B2
The present invention provides apparatus, systems, and methods for A stereoscopic display system including an array of Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) is provided. The system includes a plurality of left LEDs, each left LED comprising a left housing, a left light transmitter arrangement within the left housing, and a left polarizing element positioned with the left housing above the left light transmitter arrangement and a plurality of right LEDs, each right LED comprising a right housing, a right light transmitter arrangement within the right housing, and a right polarizing element positioned with the right housing and above the right light transmitter arrangement. At least one left housing and left polarizing element pair are each irregularly formed and fit together, and at least one right housing and right polarizing element are each irregularly formed in a manner complementary to the at least one left housing and left polarizing element.
US11327324B2
A display system including an imager for forming an image, and a projection lens system for projecting the image formed by the imager is described. For each pixel in the plurality of pixels, the imager is configured to emit a cone of light having a central ray having a direction that varies with location of the pixel in the imager. The variation may increase a brightness of an image projected through the projection lens system by at least 30 percent. The display system may include a light guide having a light insertion portion adapted to receive light; a light transport portion disposed to receive light from the light insertion portion; and a light extraction portion disposed to receive light from the light transport portion.
US11327314B2
A display device including a laser-based light engine is disclosed. Optical interference effects due to the coherent nature of a laser light source are mitigated by shortening a coherence length of the laser source. The coherence length shortening is achieved by at least one of the following: providing a multiple longitudinal mode laser source, pulsing a laser source to achieve spectral broadening, or providing multi-emitter laser source(s) with emission wavelength varying from emitter to emitter.
US11327312B2
A display system can include a head-mounted display configured to project light to an eye of a user to display augmented reality image content to the user. The display system can include one or more user sensors configured to sense the user and can include one or more environmental sensors configured to sense surroundings of the user. The display system can also include processing electronics in communication with the display, the one or more user sensors, and the one or more environmental sensors. The processing electronics can be configured to sense a situation involving user focus, determine user intent for the situation, and alter user perception of a real or virtual object within the vision field of the user based at least in part on the user intent and/or sensed situation involving user focus. The processing electronics can be configured to at least one of enhance or de-emphasize the user perception of the real or virtual object within the vision field of the user.
US11327311B2
A head mounted display (HMD) includes a field curvature corrected (FC) display to mitigate field curvature in an image that is output to a user's eyes. The FC display includes elements that generate the image light and elements to mitigate field curvature from the image light. The FC display may include a display panel with lenses, a display panel with a reflective polarizer and reflective surface, or other optical elements. The FC display may include a pancake lens configuration including a polarized display with a quarter wave plate, a reflective mirror, and a polarization reflective mirror.
US11327303B2
The information display apparatus configured to display video information of a virtual image on a reflecting surface of conveyance includes: a display configured to display the video information; and a virtual image optical system configured to display a virtual image at a front of the conveyance by reflecting light emitted from the display by means of the reflecting surface. The virtual image optical system includes a concave mirror and an optical element. The optical element is arranged between the display and the concave mirror, and is configured to correct distortion of the virtual image obtained so as to correspond to a viewpoint position of a driver on a basis of a shape of the concave mirror and a shape of the optical element. The information display apparatus further includes a virtual image double image conversion reducer configured to reduce double image conversion of the virtual image.
US11327288B2
A method is useful for generating an overview image using a high-aperture objective. An optical detection beam path with the objective is provided. The path is transferred into a second operating state via a first depth of field increased to a second depth of field. Detection radiation is captured in the second operating state. Detection radiation coming from the sample space is collected by the objective, guided along the path, and captured by a detector sensitive to detection radiation as an image with a lateral image field, which is the same in the first and second operating states.
US11327285B2
An optical imaging equipment and method. The optical imaging equipment includes an optical microscope, an objective table, a light source module and an objective lens. The objective table is movable in the XY-plane, the light source module contains illumination light sources, a narrowband filters and the objective lens is movable in the Z-axis direction; a three dimensions (3D) electric sample table is fixed on the objective table, which is used for carrying a sample to be tested and driving the sample to move in 3D directions relative to the objective table; a microsphere is fixed on a transparent substrate; the objective lens, the microsphere and the sample to be tested are arranged in the Z-axis direction in sequence, wherein, the transparent substrate along with the microsphere thereon can be moved to a first position and remain stationary relative to the objective table in the Z-axis direction, the 3D electric sample table can adjust the sample to be tested with respect to the microsphere to an imaging plane which is parallel to the XY-plane and a first image is formed by the microsphere, the objective lens can be adjusted to a second position so that the objective lens can perform a secondary imaging of the first image to form a second image.
US11327283B2
A system, method and device for collimating the output of a light emitting diode (LED) are disclosed. The system, method and device include an LED substrate including a top surface from which the light is emitted, and an array of subwavelength scattering antennas positioned within the emitted light path, the array of subwavelength scattering antennas configured to select directions of scatter of the LED emitted light to provide collimated light output from the device. The array may be aligned perpendicular to the plane of propagation of the light emitted from the LED and may be positioned adjacent to the top surface. The array may be at least partially, or completely, positioned within the LED substrate. The array may be spaced a distance from the top surface and the spacing may be achieved using a dielectric spacer adjacent to the top surface. The array may be positioned within the dielectric spacer.
US11327282B2
A zoom lens includes a negative first lens group, a positive second lens group, and a subsequent lens group in order from an object side. A focusing lens group closer to an image side than the first lens group moves during focusing. The first lens group consists of a first-a lens group and a first-b lens group in order from the object side. Assuming that an average of refractive indices of the negative lenses of the first-a lens group is Nd1ave, a focal length of the focusing lens group is ff, and a focal length of the first lens group is f1, Conditional Expression (1) of 1.73
US11327279B2
A zoom optical system comprises, in order from an object side: a first lens group having positive refractive power; a front-side lens group; an intermediate lens group having positive refractive power; and a rear-side lens group. The front-side lens group is composed of one or more lens groups and has a negative lens group. At least part of the intermediate lens group is a focusing lens group. The rear-side lens group is composed of one or more lens groups. Upon zooming, distances between the first lens group and the front-side lens group, between the front-side lens group and the intermediate lens group, and between the intermediate lens group and the rear-side lens group change. At least one of the following conditional expressions is satisfied: 0.010
US11327277B2
A lens system includes four lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element. Each of the four lens elements has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side. At least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the first lens element has at least one inflection point. The fourth lens element has positive refractive power, the object-side surface of the fourth lens element is convex in a paraxial region thereof, and at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fourth lens element has at least one inflection point.
US11327274B2
An observation optical system for use in observing an image displayed on an image displaying surface, includes, in order from an observation surface side to the image displaying surface side: a first lens having a first transmission reflective surface and a first transmissive surface; and a second lens having a second transmission reflective surface and a second transmissive surface, in which the first lens and the second lens are arranged via an interval interposed therebetween; light from the image displaying surface transmits through the second lens, is reflected by the first transmission reflective surface, is reflected by the second transmission reflective surface, is transmitted through the first lens, and then travels toward the observation surface side; and a focal length of the first lens and a focal length of the observation optical system are appropriately set.
US11327268B2
A camera module includes a lens assembly, a holder, and a thermal deformable material. The lens assembly includes at least one lens and a lens barrel, wherein the lens barrel includes a wall surrounding a central axis of the lens assembly to define a receiving chamber, and the lens is disposed in the receiving chamber. The holder surrounds the lens barrel and supports the lens assembly. The thermal deformable material is disposed between an outer wall of the lens barrel and an inner wall of the holder.
US11327259B2
A multichip package may include at least a package substrate, a main die mounted on the package substrate, a transceiver die mounted on the package substrate, and an optical engine die mounted on the package substrate. The main die may communicate with the transceiver die via a first high-bandwidth interconnect bridge embedded in the package substrate. The transceiver die may communicate with the optical engine die via a second high-bandwidth interconnect bridge embedded in the package substrate. The transceiver die has physical-layer circuits that directly drive the optical engine. An optical cable can be connected directly to the optical engine of the multichip package.
US11327258B2
This optical module comprises a stem; lead pins extending through the stem; glasses filled between the stem and the lead pins; elements (photodiode, amplifier) disposed on a first main surface of the stem, and connected to the lead pins; FPC in contact with a second main surface of the stem; a cap attachable to the stem; and an aligning-fixing parts (metal-made flange, Z-sleeve) that aligns an optical fiber stub with the cap and fix the optical fiber stub to the cap.
US11327256B2
A package for optical receiver module includes a conductive housing and a feedthrough. The conductive housing includes a first sidewall having an optical port for receiving an optical signal along an optical axis, a second sidewall separated from the first sidewall along the optical axis, and an interior space for housing a photodetector. The feedthrough includes first to third layers extending from the second sidewall to an opposite direction of the first sidewall, and the third layer is provided between the first and second layers. The feedthrough includes first to fourth wirings, a grounding wiring, and a plurality of first conductive cells. The first and second wirings face the interior space. The third wirings, the fourth wiring, the grounding wiring are formed in the first layer or the second layer. The plurality of first conductive cells are arranged in the third layer, and are electrically connected to the grounding wiring.
US11327251B2
One or more cables are axially, laterally, and/or rotationally secured to an anchor member. A plug connector can be assembled to or around the anchor member. The anchor member also can be used to handle the cable prior to assembling the plug connector. A connectorization system for assembling plug connectors includes multiple types/sizes of cables; optionally types/sizes of plug bodies; and the anchor member sized and shaped to connect a selected one of any of the cables with any of the plug bodies of the connectorization system.
US11327247B2
Multiports having connection ports formed in the shell and associated securing features are disclosed. One aspect of the disclosure is directed to a multiport for providing an optical connection comprising a shell comprising a first portion, at least one connection port comprising an optical connector opening, and a connection port passageway formed in the first portion of the shell, where the at least one securing feature is associated with the at least one connection port.
US11327245B2
An optical fiber connector sub-assembly for an optical fiber connector includes a ferrule configured to hold an optical fiber therein, a ferrule holder configured to hold the ferrule, a retaining tube configured to hold the ferrule holder and receive a fiber optic cable, and a connecting tube configured to be rotatingly coupled with the ferrule holder and slidingly received by the retaining tube. The ferrule holder, the retaining tube, and the connecting tube are configured to receive an optical fiber, and the retaining tube and the connecting tube are configured to cooperate with one another to prevent relative rotation between the ferrule holder and the retaining tube.
US11327243B2
An optical connection component includes optical fibers; one or a plurality of line members arranged in parallel with the optical fibers, line members having a lower elastic limit and being easier to undergo plastic deformation at room temperature than the optical fibers; a first securing member as a block having a plurality of capillaries extending parallel to one another or as a combination of a V-grooved board and a flat board, the V-grooved board having a plurality of V-grooves extending parallel to one another, the first securing member securing one-end portions of the optical fibers and one-end portions of the one or plurality of line members individually in the plurality of capillaries or in the plurality of V-grooves; and a second securing member that secures the optical fibers and the one or plurality of line members on a side near other-end portions of the one or plurality of line members.
US11327241B2
An optical fiber adapter structure, comprises a metal flange, a tubular housing, an insulating ring, an optical fiber stub, and a shielding annulus. The optical fiber stub is embedded into the metal flange; the shielding annulus is fixed at a bottom of the metal flange by means of a conductive adhesive; the shielding annulus covers an end of the optical fiber stub and is provided with a reserved hole only for laser signals to pass through; the tubular housing is sleeved to the bottom of the metal flange; and the tubular housing is insulated from the metal flange by means of the insulating ring. The conductive adhesive adheres the shielding annulus made of conductive material to a tail end of the metal flange and maintains complete electrical contact therebetween, such that the electromagnetic wave radiation between the interior of optical device and the exterior of metal flange is reduced.
US11327239B2
A cable management arrangement (1000) is disclosed. In one aspect, a plurality of cables (1002) extending between first and second ends is provided. The arrangement (1000) can also include a supporting sheet (1004) having a first side and a second side, wherein the plurality of cables (1002) is removably adhered to the supporting sheet first side by a first adhesive (1010). A second adhesive (1012) can be provided on at least a portion of the supporting sheet second side and a protection sheet (1014) can be provided to cover the second adhesive (1012). A protection sheet (1014) can be provided that is removable from the supporting sheet (1004) to allow the supporting sheet (1004) to be adhered to a surface. A telecommunications arrangement is also disclosed in which the aforementioned cable management arrangement (1000) is mounted to a telecommunications tray (112) via the second adhesive (1012).
US11327233B2
The present invention discloses an encoding apparatus, including: a polarization splitter-rotator PSR, a polarization rotation structure, and a modulator, where the PSR is configured to receive an input signal light, split the input signal light into two parts whose polarization modes are the same, and send the two parts to the polarization rotation structure and the modulator respectively; the polarization rotation structure has functions of rotating, by 180 degrees, a polarization direction of an optical signal entering the polarization rotation structure from one end, and keeping a polarization direction of an optical signal entering the polarization rotation structure from the other end unchanged; the modulator is configured to modulate a light input to the modulator; and the PSR is further configured to receive signal lights sent by the polarization rotation structure and the modulator, combine the two signal lights to send the output signal light.
US11327228B2
A method for fabricating a photonic device is provided. The method includes forming an optical coupler and a waveguide structure connected to the optical coupler over a semiconductor substrate; forming a metal-dielectric stack over the optical coupler and the waveguide structure; etching a hole in the metal-dielectric stack and vertically overlapping the optical coupler; and forming a protection layer on a sidewall and a bottom of the hole.
US11327222B2
The present disclosure provides an optical fibre. The optical fibre includes a core region, a primary trench region and a secondary trench region. The core region has a radius r1. In addition, the core region has a relative refractive index Δ1. Further, the primary trench region has a relative refractive index Δ3. Furthermore, the primary trench region has a curve parameter αtrench-1. Moreover, the secondary trench region has a relative refractive index Δ4. Also, the secondary trench region has a curve parameter αtrench-2.
US11327216B2
A display device according to one or more embodiments may include a lightguide plate comprising a transparent part, and an incident surface, the lightguide plate configured to display at least one pattern; and a light source facing the incident surface. The lightguide plate may include a plurality of prisms on a surface of the lightguide plate, the plurality of prisms being arranged along the at least one pattern to reflect light emitted from the light source and entering the lightguide plate through the incident surface out of the lightguide plate through an emission surface of the lightguide plate, and a transparent protective layer covering at least a part of the emission surface, the protective layer having a smaller refractive index than the lightguide plate.
US11327212B2
A polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display including the same are provided. A polarizing plate includes: a polarizer; and a pattern layer on a light exit surface of the polarizer, the pattern layer including a first resin layer and a second resin layer sequentially arranged on the polarizer, a pattern portion being located at an interface between the first resin layer and the second resin layer and being composed of at least two pattern groups repeatedly arranged therein, each of the pattern groups including at least two engraved optical patterns; and at least two of the engraved optical patterns in each of the pattern groups having different aspect ratios and different base angles.
US11327209B2
In a diffractive optical element including a base material, a first resin layer having a diffraction grating shape including plural concentric ring bands, and a second resin layer containing an inorganic particle, the inorganic particle is adjusted to have a number mean particle diameter of 10 nm or less, a first peak in a region in which particle diameters are 2 nm or more and 7.9 nm or less, and a second peak in a region in which particle diameters are larger than those of the first peak in a grain size distribution on a volumetric basis, with the ratio of the maximum intensity of the second peak to the maximum intensity of the first peak being 0.3 or more and 0.8 or less in a grain size distribution.
US11327206B2
A diffuser provided with plural shapes obtained by translation on an xy plane of at least one of z=g(x, y) and z=−g(x, y), z=g(x, y) being a smooth function within a rectangle having sides of length of s in x direction and sides of length of t in y direction, the origin being the center of the rectangle, wherein on the sides of the rectangle, g ( x , y ) = 0 , ∂ g ( x , y ) ∂ x = 0 , ∂ g ( x , y ) ∂ y = 0 , ∂ 2 g ( x , y ) ∂ x 2 = 0 , and ∂ 2 g ( x , y ) ∂ y 2 = 0 , and wherein z=g(x, y) has a single vertex at (xv,yv) g(x,y)=h1(x)·h2(y), first derivative of z=h1(x) is continuous in ( - s 2 , s 2 ) , second derivative of z=h1(x) has a single point of discontinuity in ( - s 2 , x v ) and ( x v , s 2 ) , first derivative of z=h2(y) is continuous in ( - t 2 , t 2 ) , and second derivative of z=h2(y) has a single point of discontinuity in ( - t 2 , y v ) and ( y v , t 2 ) .
US11327205B2
An optical device, such as a diffuser, can include a substrate; and a diffuser surface, in which the diffuser surface has an index of refraction greater than about 1.8. A method of making and using the optical device is also disclosed.
US11327202B2
The present invention relates to a thermosetting composition for the manufacture of an ophthalmic lens which efficiently absorbs light rays without degradation of the light-absorbing additive, said composition comprising an allyl monomer or oligomer, a catalyst, at least one light-absorbing additive contained in nanoparticles which are dispersed in said allyl monomer or allyl oligomer. The present invention also relates to the use of said composition and to the ophthalmic lens obtained from said composition.
US11327198B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of CT detection, in particular to a CT inspection system and a CT imaging method. The CT inspection system provided by the present disclosure includes a scanning device and an imaging device, wherein the scanning device having a radioactive source device and a detection device is configured to rotate at a nonuniform speed in at least partial process of scanning an object to be detected; and the imaging device generates a CT image based on effective detection data, wherein the effective detection data refer to data acquired each time the detection device rotates by a preset angle. In the present disclosure, the imaging device of the CT inspection system generates a CT image based on data acquired each time the detection device rotates by a preset angle, which, compared with traditional image collection solutions, can effectively reduce image deformation and improve accuracy of detection results.
US11327190B2
A method of characterizing a subterranean geologic formation's response to hydraulic fracturing is presented. The method includes acquiring data representing a plurality of seismic events caused by hydraulic fracturing of the subterranean geologic formation, determining, by at least one electronic processor, a plurality of seismic event moment magnitudes for respective seismic events in the plurality of seismic events, estimating, by at least one electronic processor, a first parameter representing a negative slope of a line relating seismic event frequency to seismic event magnitude for at least some of the plurality of seismic events, estimating, by at least one electronic processor, a second parameter representing an axis intercept of the line, and characterizing the subterranean geologic formation based at least in part on the first parameter and the second parameter
US11327184B2
The invention relates to providing atmospheric correction data in a GNSS network-RTK system for correcting GNSS data, wherein a base triangulation that encloses at least part of the reference stations of the GNSS network-RTK system is subdivided into child triangles by means of a recursive division of parent triangles into four child triangles, synthetic data are determined for each of the child triangles based on a triangulation algorithm applied to basic data of the reference stations such that the synthetic data represent a gridded representation of the basic data, and access to correction data is provided, wherein the correction data comprise at least part of the synthetic data arranged in a quad-tree hierarchy.
US11327183B2
An antenna system includes a right-hand circularly polarized antenna for receiving Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals and located on a receiver housing; a vertical semitransparent screen for providing an Down/Up ratio DU 9 0 = DU ( θ e = 9 0 ∘ ) = F ( - 9 0 ∘ ) F ( 9 0 ∘ ) of −13 dB or better for at least some GNSS frequencies; the semitransparent screen being connected to a ground plane of the antenna; the ground plane being connected to a conductive receiver housing; the semitransparent screen further comprising a horizontal slot to which sets of lumped impedance elements are connected. Each set includes several lumped elements; where the lumped elements are capacitors and/or inductors and/or resistors; where the lumped elements in each set are connected in parallel or series; and the semitransparent screen including at least 4 segments arranged symmetrically around the center of the antenna and connected to each other.
US11327178B2
An apparatus and method for performing environment perception is described. An example technique may include receiving a point cloud from a sensor, such as a LiDAR sensor, the point cloud including a plurality of points representing positions of objects relative to the LiDAR sensor. The example techniques may further include dividing the point cloud into a plurality of distances ranges, processing the points in each distance range of the point cloud with a different section of a plurality of sections of a piece-wise network structure, and outputting environment perception data from the piece-wise network structure.
US11327170B2
A method and system involve obtaining reflected signals in a radar system using a first one-dimensional array of antenna elements and a second one-dimensional array of antenna elements. The reflected signals result from reflection of transmitted signals from the radar system by one or more objects. The method includes processing the reflected signals obtained using the first one-dimensional array of antenna elements to obtain a first array of angle of arrival likelihood values in a first plane, and processing the reflected signals obtained using the second one-dimensional array of antenna elements to obtain a second array of angle of arrival likelihood values. A four-dimensional image indicating a range, relative range rate, the first angle of arrival, and the second angle of arrival for each of the one or more objects is obtained.
US11327168B2
A method of tracking objects using a radar, includes sending a beamcode to at least one radar antenna to set a predetermined direction, using samples from a random distribution of at least one of a phase or an amplitude to generate a tracking signal pulse train, transmitting the pulse train from the at least one antenna within a pulse time window, receiving return signals from objects at the at least one antenna, and using the return signals to gather data to track the objects. A radar system has at least one radar antenna to transmit a tracking signal, a memory to store a set of random distributions, a controller connected to at least one radar antenna and the memory, the controller to execute instructions to determine which random distribution to use, generate a pulse train using the random distribution, transmit the pulse train to the at least one radar antenna as the tracking signal, and gather measurement data about objects returning signals from the tracking signal.
US11327167B2
In an embodiment, a method for tracking human targets includes: receiving radar signals using a radar sensor; generating a range-Doppler map based on the received radar signals; detecting a human target based on the range-Doppler map, where detecting the human target includes determining a range and a bounding box dimension of a bounding box bounding the detected human target, the bounding box at least partially surrounding the detected human target; and when the determined range is inside an expected region associated to a track, adding to the track a new detection point including the determined range and bounding box dimension, where the expected region is determined based on bounding box dimensions of detection points of the track.
US11327166B2
In the proposed low complexity technique a hierarchical approach is created. An initial FFT based detection and range estimation gives a coarse range estimate of a group of objects within the Rayleigh limit or with varying sizes resulting from widely varying reflection strengths. For each group of detected peaks, demodulate the input to near DC, filter out other peaks (or other object groups) and decimate the signal to reduce the data size. Then perform super-resolution methods on this limited data size. The resulting distance estimations provide distance relative to the coarse estimation from the FFT processing.
US11327165B2
The present invention provides an apparatus and a method for ranging, following and positioning of a mobile device. The apparatus includes an emitting unit, a receiving unit, and a computing unit. The emitting unit and the receiving unit are connected to the computing unit. The emitting unit is configured to emit a centimeter wave to an object to be followed. The receiving unit is configured to receive the centimeter wave. The computing unit is configured to calculate a distance between the mobile device and the object to be followed according to a time difference between emission of the centimeter wave and reception of the centimeter wave, and further calculate a movement distance according to the distance and a threshold distance difference. The present invention can be made waterproof and oil resistant. Compared with the technology using laser, the present invention better prevents measurement failure caused by permeability of the medium.
US11327160B2
A TOF sensor includes: a light-emitting element that emits light in accordance with reference pulses; a first light-receiving unit that outputs pulses in response to light incident thereon; a first digital computation unit that calculates the number of third output pulses of the first light-receiving unit in response to reflected light incident thereon; and a distance computation unit that calculates the distance from this device to the object if the number of third output pulses is greater than a first reference value.
US11327150B2
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for a mobile device based control device locator. An embodiment operates by receiving a request to locate a control device, transmitting acoustic token transmission information to the control device to activate an electroacoustic transducer on the control device, receiving an acoustic signal including an acoustic token signal from the control device via a plurality of acoustic sensors, and determining distance information of the control device based on the received acoustic token signal generated by the electroacoustic transducer of the control device.
US11327143B2
A method for controlling the orientation of a single-axis solar tracker (1) orientable about an axis of rotation (A), said method repetitively completing successive control phases, where each control phase implements the following successive steps: a) observing the cloud coverage above the solar tracker (1); b) comparing the observed cloud coverage with cloud coverage models stored in a database, each cloud coverage model being associated to an orientation setpoint value of the solar tracker; c) matching the observed cloud coverage with a cloud coverage model; d) servo-controlling the orientation of the solar tracker by applying the orientation setpoint value associated to said cloud coverage model retained during step c). The present invention finds application in the field of solar trackers.
US11327141B2
A LORAN device may include a housing, and an electrically short LORAN antenna carried by the housing. The LORAN device may have a LORAN receiver carried by the housing and coupled to the electrically short LORAN antenna, and an RF crystal resonator coupled to the electrically short LORAN antenna so that the electrically short LORAN antenna is forced to a resonant condition for a LORAN receive signal.
US11327139B2
A measurement device includes: a host computer and a current source, wherein the host computer is configured to: control, when ambient temperature of a current detection device is at a preset temperature within an operation temperature range of a shunt of the current detection device, the current source to output a current with a preset current value to the current detection device; receive a calibrated current value sent by the current detection device; calculate a measurement error of the current detection device according to the preset current value and the calibrated current value; and instruct, when the measurement error is less than a preset current error, the current detection device to use the predetermined current calibration coefficient as a current calibration coefficient.
US11327138B2
Techniques are disclosed for creating measurement data of an examination object by means of magnetic resonance technology in a plurality of repetitions according to a pulse sequence pattern, existing information about gradients that have already been switched is considered to determine compensation gradients that are possibly to be switched in a following repetition for compensating eddy current effects. Such dynamic determination and switching of compensation gradients make it possible to dynamically compensate eddy currents. Consequently, the image quality of image data reconstructed from measurement data acquired using inventive compensation gradients is increased.
US11327136B2
The invention provides for a medical imaging system (100, 300). The medical imaging system comprises a processor (104). Execution of machine executable instructions (120) causes the processor to: receive (200) magnetic resonance imaging data (122) comprising a Z-spectrum acquisition (124) for a set of saturation frequency offsets (126) and at least one reference saturation frequency offset (128); reconstruct (202) saturation frequency offset complex image data (130); reconstruct (204) a B0 map (132), a water image (134), and a fat image (136) according to a Dixon-type magnetic resonance imaging protocol; calculate (206) a water phase angle (138) using the water image and/or the fat image; calculate (208) rotated complex image data (140) by rotating the phase of the saturation frequency offset complex image data such that the complex water signal is aligned with a real axis for each voxel; perform (210) a B0 correction by calculating shifted complex image data (142); calculate (212) a frequency dependent phase angle (144) descriptive of a phase angle between the complex water signal and the complex fat signal for each of the set of saturation frequency offsets using a fat signal model comprising at least two fat species; calculate (214) a residual fat component correction factor (150) by projecting the complex fat signal onto the real axis for each of the set of saturation frequency offsets; and calculate (216) corrected water Z-spectrum image data (152) by subtracting the residual fat component correction factor for each of the set of saturation frequency offsets from the real component of the shifted complex image data.
US11327134B2
In one embodiment, an MRI apparatus includes: a scanner for acquiring MR signals from an imaging region in which substances having different magnetic resonance frequencies are included; and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to: calculate phase correction data, which includes information on phase rotation amount due to non-uniformity of a static magnetic field, from MR signals; generate an image by using the phase correction data and the MR signals such that a signal from at least one of the substances in the imaging region is suppressed in the image; and perform decimation processing on first phase correction data to generate second phase correction data, based on information related to a component ratio of the plurality of substances in the imaging region and a plurality of MR signals, wherein resolution of the second phase correction data is lower than the first phase correction data.
US11327130B2
An embodiment in accordance with the present invention provides an improved electrically conductive transmission line that is radio frequency (RF) safe. The present invention does not include any inductive coupling elements. Instead, multiple coils constructed from twisted pairs of wires are used to block the common mode of the received magnetic resonance (MR) signal that can cause heating, while passing the differential mode that is used for tracking and/or imaging. These twisted pair coils are easily manufactured out of a single length of twisted pair wire, but multiple segments could also be used. The twisted pair coils of the present invention are easier to manufacture than the pre-existing inductive coupling element-based transmission lines, and occupy less overall volume inside a medical device. The individual coils of twisted pairs are tuned to the resonant frequency of the MR scanner by the addition of appropriate capacitors.
US11327128B2
The invention provides for a magnetic resonance imaging system (100, 300, 500). The magnetic resonance imaging system comprises a video system (122, 122′, 122″) configured for providing video images (146) of a facial region (119) of a subject (118) during acquisition of the magnetic resonance imaging data (144). The magnetic resonance imaging system further comprises a memory (134) for storing machine executable instructions (140) and pulse sequence commands (142). Execution of the machine executable instructions causes a processor (130) to: control (200) the magnetic resonance imaging system with the pulse sequence commands to acquire the magnetic resonance imaging data; receive (202) the video images from the video system during execution of the pulse sequence commands; determine (204) a voice activity state (150) in real time for the video images by inputting the video images into a video-based voice activity detection module, wherein the voice activity state indicates a talking state of the subject or a non-talking state of the subject; and provide (206) a voice activity signal (152) if the voice activity state indicates the talking state.
US11327125B2
A ground monitoring tester for an AC power network, the tester comprising: a processor configured to repeatedly conduct impedance measurements of the ground of said AC power network at a point between a neutral reference point and the ground, wherein the processor is configured to conduct the impedance measurements repeatedly at intervals such as between 2 milliseconds and 2 minutes, indefinitely (i.e. without a time limit ending the measurements), whether or not the appliance or system is operational and whether or not there is an indication of a problem in the ground of said AC power network, wherein each of the impedance measurements is based on a voltage differential between a sequence of voltages including a first voltage without an internally generated reference current and a second voltage with an internally generated reference current, and at least one indication output based on the impedance measurements of the ground.
US11327123B2
A method includes detecting a fault in a grid coupled to a distribution power network, the distribution power network comprising a distribution feeder, a plurality of distributed energy resources (DERs) coupled to the distribution feeder and a reference point of applicability (RPA) associated with the plurality of DERs, and in response to detecting the fault, determining an error voltage at the RPA, converting the error voltage into an error signal, broadcasting the error signal to the plurality of DERs, and based on the error signal, reducing the error voltage at the RPA by injecting a plurality of currents from the plurality of DERs to the distribution feeder.
US11327121B2
A system includes a first group of sensors and a control circuit including one or more processors. The first group of sensors is associated with an energy storage module having one or more energy storage devices. The sensors in the first group generate sensor measurements representing one or more parameters of the energy storage module. The control circuit is configured to receive the sensor measurements and determine one or more of a reference value or a reference variation of a specific parameter related to the energy storage module based at least in part on the sensor measurements. The control circuit compares one or more of monitored values or monitored variations of the specific parameter, based on the sensor measurements generated by sensors, to the reference value or the reference variation of the specific parameter and detects a deviation that is greater than a designated tolerance margin.
US11327116B2
A pulse pattern generation device generating a pulse pattern for controlling switching elements provided in an inverter that operates a motor, the pulse pattern generation device includes a current calculation unit that calculates a current flowing through a coil when a voltage that is applied to the motor during the operation of the motor is virtually applied to the coil of the motor, an effective current calculation unit that calculates an effective current from the current calculated by the current calculation unit, an iron loss estimation unit that estimates an iron loss which originates in a core of the motor, and a pattern generation unit that generates a pulse pattern using an evaluation function including the iron loss estimated by the iron loss estimation unit and the effective current calculated by the effective current calculation unit as evaluation items.
US11327114B2
The fully-automatic closed-loop detection method includes: comparing a SCD file of a to-be-tested substation with a device-type data template file, so as to determine whether configuration information about the to-be-tested substation is correct; when the configuration information about the to-be-tested substation is correct, parsing the SCD file of the to-be-tested substation and generating a SSD topological diagram of the to-be-tested substation; and acquiring a testing item from a predetermined testing item library in accordance with the SSD topological diagram of the to-be-tested substation, generating a testing scheme for the to-be-tested substation, performing a testing operation and outputting a testing result.
US11327110B2
A chip testing system includes a central control device, a chip mounting apparatus, a plurality of environment control apparatus, a classification apparatus, and a transferring apparatus. The central control device is configured to control the chip mounting apparatus to dispose a plurality of chips onto a chip testing device. Each of the environment control apparatus includes a plurality of accommodating chambers that are independent from each other. Each of the accommodating chambers is provided with a temperature adjusting device. The central control device is configured to control the transferring apparatus to place the chip testing device into one of the accommodating chambers. When the chip testing device carrying the chips is arranged in the corresponding accommodating chamber, the central control device is configured to control an operation of the corresponding temperature adjusting device, so that the chips are in an environment of a predetermined temperature.
US11327106B2
A system for detecting a fault in a polyphase electrical network, characterized by the fact that it comprises a plurality of sensors distributed over the electrical network and suitable for measuring a parameter representative of the positive sequence voltage and/or the negative sequence voltage at each respective sensor and analyzing means suitable for analyzing the signals coming from the different sensors representative of the positive sequence voltage and/or the negative sequence voltage at each respective sensor, by searching for an extremum from among the signals coming from the sensors and for locating a fault at the sensor corresponding to this extremum.
US11327103B2
A method, an apparatus and a system that may be configured to determine and provide a direction-to-source indicator on a signal level meter or other test instrument that may be used by a user of the meter (e.g., a technician, maintenance personnel or other personnel) to locate the source of leakage such as home leakage (HL).
US11327098B2
During frequency detection, a constant current source outputs an output current to charge a variable capacitor for multi-period. In a calibration mode, according to a comparison result between a cross voltage of the variable capacitor and a reference voltage, a capacitance value of the variable capacitor is adjusted. In a monitor mode, according to a reference frequency and the cross voltage of the variable capacitor, a frequency under test of a circuit under test is detected.
US11327088B2
A reagent-bottle lid opening mechanism is disclosed, which has a needle for piercing a lid of a reagent bottle to be delivered to a reagent disk, has an aligning mechanism of automatically adjusting a position of the needle with respect to the lid such that a needle body of the needle can stick in the center of the lid, and accurately and repeatedly makes an incision in the center of the lid. As a result, an automatic analyzer is provided that is capable of unsealing the center of the lid of the reagent bottle with accuracy even if the central axis of the needle and the central axis of the lid are offset from each other.
US11327087B2
The invention herein relates to conducting assays with an apparatus including a substantially transparent assay cartridge loaded with magnetic beads, and a magnets positioned in a platform above and below the assay cartridge. The assay cartridge includes magnetic beads, sample and control solutions in some wells, and assay reagents in others. A microcomputer controls a linear actuator which moves the magnet platform causing the magnetic beads to travel from one well to another and to oscillate within a well. At assay completion, the cartridge will generate a signal representing a test result, which is then sent to a server through a wireless transmission system.
US11327080B2
A method of preventing, alleviating or treating traumatic brain injury in an individual comprises administering to the individual a therapeutically effective and physiologically acceptable amount of an agent capable of reducing the amount of one or more aggregated forms of one or more peptides in the brain. An agent capable of reducing the amount of one or more aggregated forms of one or more peptides in the brain is suitable for use in preventing, alleviating or treating traumatic brain injury. A method for predication of the risk of an individual for complications after a traumatic brain injury comprises detecting one or more aggregated forms of one or more peptides prone to aggregate as a result of a traumatic brain injury event, in the brain of the individual, wherein an increased level of such aggregates in the brain indicates an increased risk for complications.
US11327079B2
The present invention relates to a method of directly detecting, using a mass-spectrometry method, whether a microorganism contained in a sample is resistant to antibiotics, and a kit for detection used therewith. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and kit for directly detecting an antibiotic hydrolase secreted by a microorganism resistant to antibiotics, thereby directly determining whether the microorganism is resistant to antibiotics. According to the present invention, it is possible to very simply and immediately confirm whether a specific strain is resistant to antibiotics in the field. In particular, a complicated pretreatment process such as proteolysis is not performed, and a complicated identification process of calibrating and then combining the obtained results is not performed. Accordingly, it is possible to realize a method of easily confirming whether antibiotic resistance occurs in just a dozen minutes, compared to a conventional technology in which it takes several days to confirm whether antibiotic resistance occurs, and a simple diagnostic kit used therewith.
US11327075B2
It was discovered that hydrogel scaffolds can be used to induce phase separation as aqueous two-phase systems (ATPSs) pass through and/or rehydrate the scaffolds, allowing for concentration of target analyte(s) (e.g., biomolecule(s)) into a particular phase of the ATPS or into a leading front. Accordingly, in various embodiments methods and devices are provided that utilize aqueous two-phase systems and hydrogel scaffolds to improve the sensitivity of assays (e.g., of point-of-care assays) without sacrificing cost or ease of use.
US11327073B2
Disclosed herein are detection devices, systems including such detection devices, and methods of using such detection devices. A detection device comprises a fluidic channel configured to receive a plurality of molecules to be detected, a plurality of temperature sensors, and an insulating material encapsulating the plurality of temperature sensors and providing a barrier between the plurality of temperature sensors and contents of the fluidic channel. A surface of the insulating material within the fluidic channel provides a plurality of sites for binding the plurality of molecules to be detected. Each of the plurality of temperature sensors is configured to detect, in the presence of an alternating magnetic field, a temperature change indicating presence or absence of one or more magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) coupled to at least one of the plurality of molecules to be detected at a respective subset of the plurality of sites.
US11327071B2
Described herein are methods, compositions, kits, and systems for detecting free and bound PlGF, and using detection of such species to distinguish between pregnant women with or without preeclampsia or related conditions.
US11327068B2
A method and apparatus for determining a presence of a microorganism in a sample is provided. The method includes storing electrophysiological and/or impedance signatures of a plurality of microorganisms in a memory of a processor. The method also includes obtaining a sample and generating an electrophysiological and/or impedance signature of the sample. The electrophysiological and/or impedance signature of the sample is compared with the electrophysiological and/or impedance signatures in the memory. A presence of one of the plurality of microorganisms in the sample is then identified based on a correlation between the electrophysiological and/or impedance signature of the sample and the electrophysiological and/or impedance signature of the one of the plurality of microorganisms. A method is also provided for determining a growth stage of a microorganism in a sample.
US11327065B1
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of angiotensin receptor blockers or its pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof containing less than 10 ppm of the azido impurities. More particularly, the present invention relates to process for the preparation of Losartan, Losartan potassium of Formula I or its other pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof containing less than 10 ppm of each of the azido impurities, wherein the azido impurity is selected from the group comprising of 5-(4′-(azidomethyl)-[1,1′-biphenyl]-2-yl)-1H-tetrazole, 4′-(azidomethyl)-[1,1′-biphenyl]-2-carbonitrile, 4′-((5-(azidomethyl)-2-butyl-4-chloro-1H-imidazol-1-yl)methyl)-[1,1′-biphenyl]-2-carbonitrile, 5-(4′-((5-(azidomethyl)-2-butyl-4-chloro-1H-imidazol-1-yl)methyl)-[1,1′-biphenyl]-2-yl)-1H-tetrazole, 5-(azidomethyl)-2-butyl-4-chloro-1H-imidazole, 4′-((4-(azidomethyl)-2-butyl-5-chloro-1H-imidazol-1-yl)methyl)-[1,1′-biphenyl]-2-carbonitrile, 5-(4′-((4-(azidomethyl)-2-butyl-5-chloro-1H-imidazol-1-yl)methyl)-[1,1′-biphenyl]-2-yl)-1H-tetrazole and 1-((1-((2′-(1H-tetrazol-5-yl)-[1,1′-biphenyl]-4-yl)methyl)-2-butyl-4-chloro-1H-imidazol-5-yl)methyl)-5-(4′-((5-(azidomethyl)-2-butyl-4-chloro-1H-imidazol-1-yl)methyl)-[1,1′-biphenyl]-2-yl)-1H-tetrazole. More particularly, the present invention relates to a simple, economical and industrially efficient process for the preparation of Losartan potassium of Formula I.
US11327063B2
A sensor system includes a plant growth sensor, an environmental sensor device, and processing electronics. The plant growth sensor includes a strain sensor arranged on a first stretchable and flexible substrate. The environmental sensor device includes first and second environmental sensors arranged on a second stretchable and flexible substrate. The processing electronics are electrically coupled to the plant growth sensor and the environmental sensor device. The processing electronics include a wireless communication transceiver.
US11327057B2
A Gas Chromatograph (GC) detector comprises a first circuit, a second circuit, a digital subtractor and a digital logic shared between one to many detector channels to provide a GC measurement in a digital form. The first circuit includes a first counter circuitry to provide a first counter output. The second circuit includes a second counter circuitry to provide a second counter output. The GC detector includes a digital subtractor to subtract the first counter output from the second counter output and provide a digital subtractor output. The GC detector further includes a digital logic shared between one to many detector channels to implement at least a portion of the first counter circuitry and the second counter circuitry. The digital logic to receive the digital subtractor output and provides the GC measurement in the digital form. The GC detector may be based on a Thermal Conductivity Detector (TCD) in which an integrator of a Sigma-Delta (Σ-Δ) A/D converter is eliminated and the Σ factor of the Sigma-Delta (Σ-Δ) A/D converter is accomplished in a digital form.
US11327048B2
An acoustic analyzer system is provided that includes an acoustic analyzer having a reusable glass flow cell positioned within the acoustic analyzer. A disposable card body may be inserted into the acoustic analyzer and deliver sample fluid to the glass flow cell so that acoustic-wave assisted measurements may be performed on the sample fluid. The disposable card body may also deliver wash fluid to the glass flow cell, and receive waste sample fluid and waste wash fluid from the glass flow cell to prepare the glass flow cell for subsequent sample fluids. Numerous other embodiments are provided.
US11327047B2
The present invention includes a first flow path through which a sample gas flows, a first analyzer that is provided in the first flow path to measure total hydrocarbon concentration in the sample gas, a second flow path through which the sample gas flows, a non-methane non-ethane cutter that is provided in the second flow path to remove the hydrocarbon components other than the methane and the ethane in the sample gas, a second analyzer that is provided downstream of the non-methane non-ethane cutter in the second flow path to measure the total methane ethane concentration of the methane and the ethane in the sample gas, and a calculation part that calculates the concentration of the hydrocarbon components other than the methane and the ethane in the sample gas with use of the total hydrocarbon concentration by the first analyzer and the total methane ethane concentration by the second analyzer.
US11327028B2
The present invention discloses a ceramic ball automatic sorting system and method. The system automatically sucks a ceramic ball on a ceramic ball feeding track for image acquisition, identifies whether the ceramic ball is defective according to the acquired image information, and determines a ball storage device into which the ceramic ball is placed, and the whole process does not require manual participation, which achieves the automation of ceramic ball defect identification and sorting and improves the ceramic ball defect identification accuracy and sorting efficiency. According to the method, images of the ball surface shot at each angle are automatically spliced by using an automatic image splicing technology to achieve full coverage. A defect is identified by using a threshold segmentation algorithm according to a set threshold, and whether the ceramic ball is defective and the ball storage device where the ceramic ball should be placed are determined, thereby achieving the automation of ceramic ball defect identification and sorting, and improving the ceramic ball defect identification accuracy and sorting efficiency.
US11327027B2
The invention relates to a method for checking the quality of a product (1) comprising at least two cardboard portions (2) connected to each other such that a slot (10) extends between the cardboard portions from one side of the product (1) to the opposite side, with the slot (10) being expected to extend perpendicularly with respect to an outer edge of the product (1), comprising the steps of: capturing a 2D image of the slot (10) at one side of the product (1) and of the slot at the opposite side of the product, analyzing the images so as to recognize the slot (10), comparing the positions of the slot of one product at the opposite sides, making a determination whether or not a difference between the positions is within a predefined range of tolerance. The invention further relates to a machine for checking the quality of a product (1) made from at least two cardboard portions (2) connected to each other such that a slot (10) extends from one side of the product to the opposite side, with the slot being expected to extend perpendicularly with respect to an outer edge of the product, the machine comprising two cameras (304) adapted for capturing a 2D image in a stacking area for stacking the products, an image processing module (306) adapted for recognizing in the captured images the position of the slot on the two sides of the product, and an offset determination module (310) adapted for determining the amount of offset between the position of the slots at the opposite sides of the product.
US11327019B2
An integrated spectro-microscopic system for multimodality imaging on a sample includes a reflected differential interference contrast (RDIC) microscope, a Raman spectroscope optically coupled with the RDIC microscope and a total internal reflection fluorescence/scattering (TIRF/TIRS) microscope optically coupled with the RDIC microscope such that the integrated spectro-microscopic system is capable of simultaneously acquiring both the RDIC images, the Raman spectra and TIRF/TIRS images on the same sample.
US11327013B2
A specular variable angle absolute reflectometer includes a light source and a mirror system in a light path of the light source. The mirror system is configured to reflect a light beam from the light source towards a sample that is optically reflective. The device also includes an elliptical roof mirror disposed in the light path after the sample having an ellipsoidal reflector surface configured to reflect the light beam back towards the sample. The device also includes a mechanism connected to the elliptical roof mirror. The mechanism is configured to rotate the elliptical roof mirror about an axis of the sample. The device also includes a detector in the light path after the elliptical roof mirror such that the detector receives light that has been reflected from the elliptical roof mirror, thence back to the sample, thence back to the mirror system, and thence to the detector.
US11327011B2
Methods and systems are provided for using optical interferometry in the context of material modification processes such as surgical laser, sintering, and welding applications. An imaging optical source that produces imaging light. A feedback controller controls at least one processing parameter of the material modification process based on an interferometry output generated using the imaging light. A method of processing interferograms is provided based on homodyne filtering. A method of generating a record of a material modification process using an interferometry output is provided.
US11327010B2
System and technique for inspecting a moving film by measuring the levels of light transmission through a thickness dimension of the film are described. The system includes a light source configured to provide light including a particular wavelength, or a particular range of wavelengths. The light from the light source is directed toward a first surface of the film, and an image capturing device is located adjacent to the light source on a second side of the film opposite the first surface, the image capturing device configured to measure the levels of light intensity exiting a second surface of the film. Measurements of the level of the light intensity passing through the film may be spatially synchronized to physical positions along the film to generated at least one roll map indicative of light transmission characteristics of the film over the imaged portions of the film.
US11327001B2
A particle or pollen sensor comprises an array of relative humidity sensors. A change in relative humidity is representative of a particle or pollen in contact with one or more of the sensors. A size and/or shape of a particle or pollen in contact with one or more of the sensors is optionally also determined based on the number and/or configuration of sensors. From this information, a particle or pollen type is determined.
US11326996B2
A system for monitoring processing of a fluid receives one or more characteristics of the fluid and uses those characteristics to determine specific gravity of the fluid and a level of processing activity of the fluid. The processor will cause a display device to output a dynamic representation of the specific gravity of the fluid as well as the determined level of processing activity. In some embodiments, the processing activity may include fermentation, as that of a beverage. If so, the dynamic representation of the determined level of processing activity may include a fermentation tank with a dynamically changing cavity. Displayed characteristics of the cavity will change as the determined level of the fermentation increases.
US11326980B2
Disclosed is a method for determining a parameter of an optical device including at least an optical lens, the method including: an optical system providing step, during which an optical system including a visual target, the optical device and an image acquisition module is provided in an initial configuration state, a parameter determining step during which a parameter of the optical device is determined based on the blur level of the images of the visual target acquired by the image acquisition module through the optical device in at least two different configuration states.
US11326979B2
The present invention discloses a push-swing combined wave generator, comprising a wave-generating fixing bracket, a servo motor, a driving wheel, a connecting rod, a first hydraulic cylinder, a second hydraulic cylinder, a first hydraulic cylinder push rod, a second hydraulic cylinder push rod, and a wave-generating plate. The sliding pins arranged in the wave-generating plate slide in the axial direction, and are switchable to connect either the first hydraulic cylinder push rod or the second hydraulic cylinder push rod with the wave-generating plate, and thus to render the push-swing combined wave generator to operate in respective locked state or unlocked state. The present invention integrates pushing and swinging, is capable of implementing horizontal pushing and swinging wave generating modes respectively, generating various wave types, and meeting requirements of various forms of wave generating.
US11326970B2
A passive microscopic Fabry-Pérot Interferometer (FPI) pressure sensor includes an optical fiber and a three-dimensional microscopic optical enclosure. The three-dimensional microscopic optical enclosure includes tubular side walls having lateral pleated corrugations and attached to a cleaved tip of the optical fiber to receive a light signal. An optically reflecting end wall is distally engaged to the tubular side walls to enclose a trapped quantity of gas that longitudinally positions the optically reflecting end wall in relation to ambient air pressure, changing a distance traveled by a light signal reflected back through the optical fiber.
US11326968B2
Devices and methods for detecting axial forces applied to a container are provided. The devices can include a device housing, a container section, a force measurement sensor, and a processing section. The device housing can extend between a first housing end and a second housing end along a longitudinal axis. The container section can be mounted to the housing proximate the first housing end. The container section can have an open first section end and a closed second section end spaced apart along the longitudinal axis and at least one sidewall extending therebetween. The container section can define a cavity bounded by the first section end, the second section end and the at least one sidewall. The force measurement sensor can be positioned to generate the force measurement data in response to an axial force applied at the first section end.
US11326965B2
A transducer structure for converting a deformation along an axis into a corresponding deformation on a plane orthogonal to the axis itself, including: two end plates facing each other and aligned along a common reference axis (X); connection members projecting radially from each end plate according to respective different directions; lateral bars connecting the end plates to one another through two connection members. The connection members are deformable within respective deformation planes to allow relative movements between the end plates and the lateral bars such as to convert an axial movement of mutual approach between the two end plates into a corresponding radial movement of the lateral bars away from the reference axis (X), and vice-versa.
US11326955B2
The present invention relates to an intelligent flame detection apparatus and method using an infrared thermogram, which combine a conventional flame detector with an infrared thermographic camera and an infrared thermogram processing technology, and which enable whether a flame signal received from a flame sensor is an allowed flame or an artificial flame to be accurately detected, thereby improving the accuracy of fire alarms.
US11326947B2
Disclosed is a spectral filter including a plurality of Fabry-Perot structures which are collectively carried by a support, and coupled together so as to produce a coupling resonance that is distinct from individual resonances of each of the Fabry-Perot structures. The coupling resonance may have a higher quality factor than the quality factors of the individual resonances. Each Fabry-Perot structure includes two portions of metal surfaces which are parallel to a face of the substrate, so that electromagnetic radiation wave components propagating within each Fabry-Perot structure, and which contribute to the coupling resonance, have a direction of propagation that is parallel to the face of the substrate.
US11326935B2
A method and a system for vision-based defect detection are proposed. The method includes the following steps. A test audio signal is outputted to a device-under-test (DUT), and a response signal of the DUT with respect to the test audio signal is received to generate a received audio signal. Signal processing is performed on the received audio signal to generate a spectrogram, and whether the DUT has an unacceptable defect with respect to the predefined auditory standard is determined through computer vision according to the spectrogram.
US11326932B2
A weigh platter assembly includes a weigh platter having a proximal edge and a lateral edge and an off-platter detection assembly. The off-platter detection assembly has an assembly field-of-view (field-of-view) extending from the proximal edge and constrained to have an assembly central field-of-view axis substantially parallel to the lateral edge and at least one lateral boundary substantially adjacent to the lateral edge. A light emission assembly has a light source and emits a light away from the proximal edge. A light detection assembly has a light sensor and detects at least a portion of the light reflected towards the proximal edge. A controller allows the measured weight to be recorded in response to a first value from the light detection assembly and prevents the measured weight from being recorded and/or provides an alert in response to a second value from the light detection assembly.
US11326930B2
A system for weighing containers includes: a weighing station and a conveying path extending from an upstream infeed section to a downstream outfeed section. The conveying path includes a gripping stretch for gripping the containers and a release stretch for releasing the containers, disposed between the infeed section and the outfeed section; and a conveying device for conveying the containers from the infeed section to the gripping stretch, and the weighed containers from the release stretch to the outfeed section. The conveying device includes first and second groups of housings for receiving the containers and moving them from the infeed section to the gripping stretch. A gripping and transferring device transfers the containers from the gripping stretch to the weighing station and from the weighing station to the release stretch. The first and second groups are movable independently of each other from the infeed section to the gripping stretch.
US11326921B2
The flow rate measuring method is performed in a common gas supply system comprising a plurality of gas supply paths each having a first valve, and a gas measuring device formed downstream side of the plurality of gas supply paths, having a pressure sensor, a temperature sensor, and a downstream side second valve. The flow rate measuring method includes: a first step of opening any one of the first valves and the second valve to allow gas to flow, closing the second valve while gas is flowing, and closing the first valve after a predetermined time has elapsed, and then measuring a pressure and a temperature after the first valve has been closed; a second step of opening any one of first valves and the second valve to allow gas to flow, closing the any one of the first valve and the second valve at the same time while gas is flowing, and then measuring a pressure and temperature after the first valve and the second valve have been closed; and a third step of calculating the flow rate in accordance with the pressure and temperature measured in the first step and the pressure and temperature measured in the second step.
US11326917B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a first terminal arranged to accept an external input of an analog input signal, an amplifier configured to amplify the analog input signal to generate an amplified signal, a logic unit configured to generate a digital output signal that is in accordance with the amplified signal, and a second terminal arranged to externally output an analog output signal that is in accordance with the amplified signal. The first terminal is disposed at a first side of a package, and the second terminal is disposed at a second side which is different from the first side.
US11326913B2
A transducer apparatus comprises a deformation body as well as, positioned on the deformation body and connected therewith by material bonding, a radio sensor having a surface facing away from the deformation body. The radio sensor is adapted to receive free-space electromagnetic waves and to convert them into acoustic surface waves propagating along the surface facing away from the deformation body, or to convert acoustic surface waves propagating along the surface into free-space electromagnetic waves. Additionally, the deformation body is adapted as a function of a mechanical force acting thereon, and/or as a function of a temperature change, to be at least partially deformed, in such a manner that at least the surface of the radio sensor facing away from the deformation body experiences a shape change influencing a propagation of acoustic surface waves propagating along the surface. A measuring system formed by means of such a transducer apparatus comprises additionally a measuring electronics electrically coupled with the transducer apparatus and adapted to generate at least one electrical driver signal feeding and/or activating the transducer apparatus and to couple such into the transducer apparatus, and to receive and to evaluate a measurement signal delivered from the transducer apparatus.
US11326911B2
A fastening device for holding a sensor includes a clamping piece which is acted on by a cam, in order to be movable between a release position and a clamping position.
US11326902B2
A scale capable of maintaining measurement accuracy even if the pattern of the scale pattern is scratched is provided. The scale 2 comprises a scale pattern 4 having a plurality of unit patterns provided at a predetermined pitch along the measurement direction on a surface thereof. At least one of the plurality of unit patterns comprises a plurality of loop portions 8 formed with conductors in a loop shape. The plurality of loop portions 8 included in the unit pattern are arranged so as to be spaced from each other such that the centers of gravity of the loop portions 8 are at the same position in the measurement direction on the surface of the scale 2. Thereby, the plurality of loop portions 8 included in the unit pattern can prevent deviation of the center of gravity of the magnetic flux distribution in the measurement direction, even if any of the plurality of the loop portions 8 is scratched. Therefore, the scale 2 can maintain the measurement accuracy.
US11326901B2
A magnetic substance detection sensor includes a first support substrate, a magnet disposed on the upper main surface of the first support substrate so that a magnetization direction becomes parallel to the upper main surface of the first support substrate, a semiconductor chip disposed on the upper main surface of the first support substrate and having a magnetic field detection element configured to detect a magnetic field component in a specific direction, and a soft magnetic substance film disposed on the lower main surface of the first support substrate and extending in a direction parallel to the magnetization direction of the magnet.
US11326900B2
A positioning device for a machine tool includes a substrate upon which a printing medium is deposited. The substrate has a longitudinal dimension that is longer than the transverse direction of the substrate. The printing medium includes magnetic or magnetizable particles, and the substrate is nonmagnetic. A scale is formed by first regions of the printing medium on the substrate and by second regions without the printing medium between adjacent first regions. The first regions are spaced apart in the longitudinal direction on the substrate. The printing medium is printed within the first regions on the substrate such that the printing medium is thinner in the interior of the first regions and thicker at the edges of the first regions. The location of the positioning device is determined by applying a measuring magnetic field and by detecting a resulting magnetic field emanating from a particular first region on the scale.
US11326898B2
A parking assist apparatus includes: a map generation unit that generates an obstacle map showing a position of an obstacle existing in a surrounding of own vehicle based on a detected result of a sonar, and records data indicating existence of the obstacle on the obstacle map; a wheel-stop detection unit that divides the obstacle map generated by the map generation unit into a plurality of areas, counts a number of data pieces in each of the plurality of divided areas, and detects a position of a wheel stop based on the counted number of data pieces in each of the plurality of areas; and a parking position setting unit that sets a parking position for parking the own vehicle based on the position of the wheel stop detected by the wheel-stop detection unit.
US11326892B2
A route guide apparatus and a route guide method for an electric vehicle may include a sensor to measure an ambient temperature of the electric vehicle, a battery manager to monitor a battery temperature, and a processor to perform a route guide by predicting battery power based on at least one of the ambient temperature or the battery temperature, when searching for a traveling route to a destination, and by selecting, as a traveling route, a route which represents the least total cost of battery consumption energy based on the predicted battery power.
US11326883B2
A gyroscope includes at least one anchor and a plurality of gyroscope spring elements coupled to the at least one anchor. The gyroscope also includes a plurality of concentric rings coupled to the plurality of gyroscope spring elements and configured to encircle the plurality of gyroscope spring elements. The gyroscope further includes an excitation/detection/tuning unit electrostatically coupled to the plurality of concentric rings.
US11326876B1
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for non-destructively estimating the thickness of buried concrete without excavation. An example method may include placing one or more first accelerometers at a plurality of vertical positions below the surface of the ground at an approximate first distance from a vertical edge of the buried concrete each time. The method may further include, for each position in the plurality of vertical positions, generating a dispersive wave in the buried concrete and determining a time of arrival of the dispersive wave at the one or more first accelerometers. The method may further include estimating the thickness of the buried concrete based on at least the times of arrival of the dispersive waves at the one or more first accelerometers.
US11326869B2
A surface finish stylus and associated methods for a multi-directional scanning probe the stylus having an elongate stylus shaft having a longitudinal axis and one or more contact elements protruding from the elongate shaft for contacting a surface to be measured. The one or more contact elements are configured to enable measurement of surface finish during motion of the stylus shaft relative to a surface along a measurement direction that is non-parallel to the longitudinal axis. The multi-directional scanning probe may be carried by a coordinate measuring machine or machine tool.
US11326866B2
A distance measuring device (100) is provided, comprising a first sensing module (110), a second sensing module (120), a reference device (130), and an evaluating module (140). The first sensing module and the second sensing module are arranged on a horizontal base line (150). Each one of the first and second sensing module is configured to detect the strength of a magnetic field (50) and each one of the first and second sensing module has a first sensing direction (y) and a second sensing direction (x).
US11326858B2
A reusable shooting target or target system may include multiple rotary targets each having a target plate section having a bottom end, a top end, a front end, and a back end, and a pivot section. The target may include crossbars having a first end, a body portion, and a second end, front legs and back legs. The pivot section of each rotary target is fixedly or removably attached to the body section of one of the crossbars such that the target plate section of the rotary target is positioned below the crossbar to which the pivot section is attached. The pivot section of each rotary target and the crossbar to which the pivot section is attached are together adapted such that when hit with a bullet the rotary target spins around an axis aligned with the respective crossbar to which the rotary target is attached.
US11326854B2
A modular grenade launcher assembly which uses a 40×46 and 40×51 mm ammunition grenade launcher and which can be used with a portable rifle butt or can be mounted under a rifle.
US11326853B2
A free-floating rifle rail and barrel locking system that provides a barrel assembly and rail assembly, which is detachable from the main body of a rifle without tools. This is advantageous for quick field breakdown and/or rifle modification. The user has the option to disassemble the rifle for easy transport, to change barrel length, to change barrel caliber or change rail configurations. The rails are free-floating, meaning the rails do not come in contact with the barrel and thus do not impact the precision of the rifle.
US11326847B1
A firearm, the firearm comprising: a grip; a transparent window located on the rear of the grip; at least one electromagnetic sensor located within the grip, and configured to receive electromagnetic radiation from outside of the grip through the transparent window; a computing device located in the grip and in communication with the LED and the electromagnetic sensor; where the electromagnetic sensor is configured to detect incoming electromagnetic radiation traveling through the transparent window from outside of the grip; and the computing device is configured to allow the firearm to fire if the computing device determines that the incoming electromagnetic radiation corresponds to an authorized user for the firearm. A firearm system, the firearm comprising: an external charging circuit, the external charging circuit comprising: a resonant inductive coil; a power supply in operable communication with the coil; a rechargeable power storage device in operable communication with the coil; a firearm configured to removably connect to the external charging circuit, the firearm comprising: a resonant inductive coil; a power supply in operable communication with the coil; a rechargeable storage device in operable communication with the coil; firearm electronics in operable communication with the power supply; mechanical controls in operable communication with the power supply; a mechanical squeeze generator in operable communication with the power supply.
US11326841B2
Systems and methods of manufacture of radiator fins. In one embodiment, a radiator fin made of carbon fiber is provided. In one aspect, the radiator fin is made of carbon fibers forming an interlaced pattern. In another aspect, the interlaced carbon fiber radiator fin is attached directly to a heat pipe, the heat pipe connected to a heat source.
US11326839B2
The invention relates to a heat exchanger comprising a first free space (7) for a first fluid (3), a thermally conductive wall (11) which, at least locally, delimits said first free space (7), in such a way that an exchange of heat can occur between the first fluid and the thermally conductive wall (11) which is hollow and encloses a material (13) for storing thermal energy by accumulation of latent heat, by heat exchange with at least the first fluid. The first free space (7) is divided into at least two separated channels (7a, 7b) in which two streams of the first fluid (3) can circulate at the same time but separately, the thermally conductive wall (11) which encloses the thermal energy storage material (13) being interposed between the two channels (7a, 7b).
US11326838B2
A road vehicle having: two front wheels; two rear wheels; an engine, which transmits the motion to drive wheels; and a cooling system, which is connected to the engine. The cooling system has: a cooling circuit where a cooling liquid flows; two first radiators, which are connected to the cooling circuit and make up, together, a first “V”-shaped structure, which is arranged on a right side of the road vehicle; and two second radiators, which are connected to the cooling circuit and make up, together, a second “V”-shaped structure, which is arranged on a left side of the road vehicle.
US11326837B2
A heat exchanger adapted to support a plurality of battery cells on the outer surface thereof is disclosed. The heat exchanger includes first and second plates disposed in opposed, facing relation to one another such that portions of the inner surface of the first and second plates are spaced apart from one another. A manifold region is enclosed between the first and second plates for receiving an incoming heat transfer fluid. A main fluid flow region is enclosed between the first and second plates and is configured for receiving heat transfer fluid discharged from the manifold region and transmitting the heat transfer fluid through the heat exchanger to an outlet port. At least one bypass port for establishing fluid communication between the manifold region and the main fluid flow region is disposed at a location within the manifold region that is upstream of the manifold region outlet end.
US11326832B2
A refrigerator includes a main body that defines a storage space, a door configured to open or close the storage space, and a dispenser located in the door and configured to dispense cooled water and purified water. The refrigerator also includes a purified water input part that inputs a command for dispensing the purified water, a cooled water input part that inputs a command for dispensing the cooled water, and a dispensing amount input part that sets an amount of purified water to be dispensed based on the purified water being selected through the purified water input part. The refrigerator further includes a filter device located within the storage space to purify water supplied from a water supply source, and a water tank storing water that has passed through the filter device in a cooled state.
US11326827B2
A refrigerator having a cool air circulation unit for directly supplying heat-exchanged cool air to a storage compartment is disclosed. The cool air circulation unit supplies and discharges the cool air, which has been heat-exchanged in an evaporator, to and from the storage compartment through a flow passage provided inside a partition.
US11326825B2
A stand-alone ice and beverage dispenser is provided. Appliance includes a cabinet defining a chilled chamber, a bottom portion and a countertop. Appliance includes an ice maker assembly mounted on the countertop, a liquid dispenser assembly mounted on the countertop, and a sealed refrigeration system. Sealed refrigeration system includes a compressor, condenser, chamber evaporator, and an ice maker assembly evaporator fluidly coupled through a refrigerant conduit. The compressor is operably coupled to the refrigerant conduit for circulating a flow of refrigerant through the refrigerant conduit. Appliance also includes refrigerant valve assembly including one or more valves. Refrigerant valve assembly is configured to selectively provide refrigerant to chamber evaporator to refrigerate chilled chamber and selectively provide refrigerant to the ice maker assembly evaporator for ice production.
US11326818B2
A receiver of a cooling unit includes a cylindrical body having a cylindrical wall that defines an interior chamber, a bottom wall formed with the cylindrical wall, and a top wall formed with the cylindrical wall. The receiver further includes an inlet provided in the cylindrical body, an outlet provided in the cylindrical body, a heater well disposed within the cylindrical body, and a heater positioned in the heater well to selectively heat a heat transfer fluid contained within the interior chamber of the cylindrical body. The heater well can be configured to extend from the top wall to adjacent the bottom wall along an axis that is coaxial with an axis of the cylindrical wall of the cylindrical body or extend horizontally adjacent the bottom wall of the cylindrical body.
US11326812B2
A heat pump system and a control method therefor are provided. The heat pump system includes an outdoor heat exchanger and an electromagnetic heating assembly. The electromagnetic heating assembly includes an induction heating sheet, an insulation plate, and an electromagnetic induction wire coil. The induction heating sheet is in contact with the outdoor heat exchanger, the electromagnetic induction wire coil is attached to the insulation plate, the insulation plate is connected to the outdoor heat exchanger or the induction heating sheet, the induction heating sheet is coupled with the electromagnetic induction wire coil by communication.
US11326808B2
A premix gas burner (100) comprises a metal mounting plate (102) for mounting the premix gas burner in a heating appliance; a metal plate structure (104) and a burner deck (106). The burner deck comprises a woven wire mesh on the outer surface of which premix gas is combusted after the premix gas has flown through the woven wire mesh. The woven wire mesh comprises a circumferential edge (108). The circumferential edge comprises a plurality of tabs (110). The mounting plate comprises a central opening. The burner deck is inserted through the central opening. The metal mounting plate or the metal plate structure comprises at least one ridge (112). The at least one ridge comprises at least one notch (114). Each of the tabs is positioned in a notch. The metal mounting plate and the metal plate structure are in contact with each other at the top of the ridge, such that the open side of the at least one notch is covered; and such that the tabs are held in between the metal mounting plate and the metal plate structure with play being present of the tabs relative to the metal mounting plate and relative to the metal plate structure.
US11326794B2
An air mixing device mitigates temperature stratification between two incoming air streams by creation of turbulent airflow through an arrangement of channels in the device. The device also provides selective passage of air for incoming airstreams to achieve functionality for damper control typically associated with separate inlet dampers. A slotted cover plate is mounted to a downstream face of the device. The slots are disposed over the channels to determine areas through which airstreams may pass, such as return air and outdoor air introduced into an air handling unit. A method provides for selectively controlled airflow through the device so effective mixing occurs along with an economizer function to control separate airstreams such as outside air and return air. The slotted cover plate is actuated to control airflow in which flow of one airstream through the device increases as the flow of the other airstream is proportionately decreased.
US11326793B2
This application relates to roof vents with diverters that prevent or reduce the likelihood that water or other debris can be driven through the vent by wind. For example, a roof vent can include a lower portion and an upper portion attached to the lower portion at an upslope edge, the upper portion angling away from the upslope edge to create a space therebetween. The roof vent can also include a front opening between the lower portion and the upper portion at a downslope edge of the upper portion to allow airflow into and out of the space. The roof vent can include a diverter positioned downslope of the front opening and attached to the lower portion for preventing or reducing the likelihood that water or other debris can be driven through the vent by wind.
US11326792B2
A ventilation grille having a trim ring and a plate releasably connected to the trim ring. The trim ring defines an aperture allowing connection of the trim ring to a main housing of a ventilation system defining an internal region in which a blower is located. The plate is releasably connected to the trim ring to allow access to the trim ring aperture for connection of the trim ring to the main housing or blower and disconnection of the trim ring from the main housing or blower.
US11326789B2
An air conditioning system and a control method thereof. The air conditioning system includes a main circuit and a first subcooling circuit, wherein the main circuit has: a main compressor and an injector; a gas cooler and a gas-liquid separator connected between the main compressor and the injector; and a main throttling element and an evaporator connected between the gas-liquid separator and the injector; and wherein the first subcooling circuit has: a first subcooling compressor, a first condenser, a first subcooling throttling element and a first subcooler connected in sequence; wherein the first subcooler is further disposed in a flow path between the outlet of the injector and the gas-liquid separator.
US11326786B2
An air conditioner comprises a compressor configured to have an inlet, through which a refrigerant is sucked in, the sucked refrigerant being compressed by the compressor, and an outlet, through which the compressed refrigerant is discharged, a four-way valve configured to switch flow paths in cooling and heating operations, the four-way valve having a valve body, a D port protruding from the valve body in a first direction to be connected to the outlet, and an S port 26 protruding from the valve body in a second direction, which is opposite to the first direction, to be connected to the inlet, and a compressor pipe having a discharging pipe to connect the outlet and the D port and a sucking pipe to connect the inlet and the S port, one of the discharging pipe and the sucking pipe has two curved portions and the other has one curved portion.
US11326783B2
A combined handle and light source for a cooking appliance such as a grill which is provided with a rotation joint such that the handle can be placed in a stored position to allow for articulation of a lid which covers a cooking surface and such that the handle can be moved relative to the joint to put the handle in a use position to allow the light to illuminate the cooking surface when the lid is in an open position.
US11326780B2
A resonant sound absorbing device of a gas turbine combustor includes a plurality of resonance chambers independently disposed side by side in an axial direction of the gas turbine combustor so as to communicate with a gas passage of the gas turbine combustor via acoustic holes. The plurality of resonance chambers include n related resonance chambers each satisfying: 0.9 × ∑ i = 1 n F i n ≤ F i ≤ 1.1 × ∑ i = 1 n F i n ( A ) where n is an integer of 2 or more, and Fi is a peak frequency corresponding to a maximum sound absorbing ratio of the ith related resonance chamber of the n related resonance chambers.
US11326769B2
A rail nut spacer is shown and described, and may have a body and one or more threaded inserts positioned along a width of the body. Threaded inserts may be retained within the rail nut spacer by surface characteristics on each insert to prevent movement thereof with respect to the rail nut spacer. The rail nut spacer may be inserted in a first direction into a slot extending through a width of a housing, such that the slot prevents movement of the rail nut spacer in a second direction. Fasteners may extend through a bezel, through the slot, and/or through the threaded inserts to secure the bezel to the rail nut spacer. The bezel may exert a force on a media to secure the media to the housing. The bezel, media, and/or housing may be sealed together by a gasket to protect an interior of the housing from contaminants.
US11326763B1
Methods and apparatus for fabricating light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that include polarizing or wavefront-altering optical components are described in which additional optical components are added to the LED package to filter or modify the polarization of the emitted photons. Packaged LEDs that include polarizing or wavefront-altering optical components are also described. The packaged LEDs may emit infrared light that is polarized or otherwise altered by the optical components added during the fabrication process.
US11326757B2
An optical module of a head lamp including a first light source unit, a first reflection unit configured to concentrate, at a first focal point, light radiated from the first light source unit, a first shield unit positioned in the first focal point, second light source units, a second reflection unit configured to concentrate, at second focal points, light radiated from the second light source units, a second shield unit positioned in the second focal points, a hot zone lens unit positioned on the output side of the first shield unit and configured to form a light distribution pattern parallel to horizontal and vertical directions, by transmitting light radiated from the first shield unit, and a wide zone lens unit positioned on the output side of the second shield unit and configured to form a light distribution pattern spread in the horizontal direction, by transmitting light radiated from the second shield unit.
US11326749B1
A multi-positional bar shaped light assembly includes a rear housing defining an interior and an open front. The housing further has a rear wall defining two identical sets of mounting holes therethrough, one at a midpoint of the housing and a second set at one end of the housing. The second set being oriented at a right angle with respect to the first set. A printed circuit assembly is mounted within the rear housing and includes a plurality of linearly aligned light emitting diodes arranged thereon oriented to emit light through the open front of the rear housing. A reflector has an open back and is mounted to the printed circuit assembly, and a translucent lens is attached to the rear housing at the open front. A support stand is affixed to the rear housing at one of the first and second sets of mounting holes.
US11326745B2
A LED light tube apparatus installed to a tube bracket includes a LED light source and a light passing tube. A driver includes a driver circuit. A power input electrode that an external power is supplied to the driver for generating a driving current supplied to the LED light source. A first cap and a second being disposed at two opposite ends of the light passing tube. The first cap and the second cap respectively have two pins inserted into corresponding pin sockets for fixing the LED light tube apparatus to the tube bracket. The LED light tube provides an in-house power source to the pin sockets, but the in-house power is not routed to the driver from the pins.
US11326739B2
A cryostat includes a room temperature vessel, a low temperature vessel, and a refrigeration mechanism. The room temperature vessel includes a room temperature tank, an outer neck tube and a sealing head. The low temperature vessel includes a low temperature tank, an inner neck tube and a liquefaction chamber. The liquefaction chamber corresponds to the first opening and passes through the first opening. The refrigeration mechanism includes a device panel and a refrigeration device. The device panel is disposed on the sealing head. The refrigeration device includes a body and a cold finger. The body is disposed at the device panel. The cold finger is connected with the body and extends into the liquefaction chamber.
US11326728B2
A connector assembly includes a male connector and a female connector. The male connector comprises a male connector housing, a male connector valve core, and a male connector push rod. The female connector comprises a female connector housing, a female connector valve core, and a female connector push rod. The male connector valve core has a closed position, the female connector valve core has a closed position, and the male connector is capable of being at least partially inserted into the female connector. When the male connector is inserted to a proper place in the female connector, the male connector push rod pushes the female connector valve core away from the closed position, and the female connector push rod pushes the male connector valve core away from the closed position, so that the male connector fluidly communicates with the female connector.
US11326725B2
An adapter for an expandable hose is an apparatus used to connect an expandable hose to other fluid management tools. The apparatus is also configured to prevent leakages in multi-channel expandable hoses. An objective of the apparatus is to provide a connection for expandable hoses. The apparatus is designed to prevent leakage between expandable hoses and the apparatus. A threaded connector enables attachment of the expandable hose to other hoses. Another unit fits inside the inner channel of an expandable hose, while a third part surrounds the inner channel of the expandable hose. An annular fastener secures the outer channel of the expandable hose to the inner channel. A cover or housing may be added to protect components from damage due to external stimuli. Altogether, the apparatus enables a user to securely attach an expandable hose to a spout, faucet, spicket, another hose, or a variety of other devices.
US11326707B2
A capacity control valve (1) includes a valve main body (10) having a first communication passage (11), a second communication passage (12), a third communication passage (13), and a main valve seat (15a), a valve element (20) having an intermediate communication passage (29), a main valve portion (21c), and an auxiliary valve portion (23d), and a solenoid (30) having a plunger (35) that drives a first rod (136) and a second rod (36). The first rod (136) opens and closes the main valve portion (21c), and the second rod (36) opens and closes the auxiliary valve portion. The capacity control valve is capable of efficiently discharging a liquid coolant irrespective of pressure of a suction chamber and lowering drive force of a compressor at a liquid coolant discharging operation.
US11326706B2
A valve operating machine includes a base having a housing thereon. A motor, and a planetary gearbox are mounted within cavities in the housing. A motor gear, a planetary input gear and an idler gear are mounted within a separate cavity. The motor gear is mounted for rotation with a motor shaft of the motor and the planetary input gear is mounted for rotation with a planetary gear spindle of the planetary input gear. The idler gear is engaged with the motor and planetary input gears. An output socket is connected to the planetary gearbox for connection to a key that is used to exercise a valve.
US11326698B2
A disc for a multiple orifice valve includes a disc body and a disc orifice extending through the disc body. A disc surface of the disc body includes a recessed portion and a raised portion that at least partially circumferentially surrounds the recessed portion. The recessed portion is configured not to contact an opposed disc when the disc is assembled within a housing of the multiple orifice valve, and the raised portion is configured to contact the opposed disc when the disc is assembled within the housing of the multiple orifice valve.
US11326688B1
A planetary gear set having a planet shaft that extends from a planet gear carrier into a hole in a planet gear. At least one set of bearing rollers may be received inside the hole and may rotatably support the planet gear on the planet shaft. A first shaft thrust washer may extend between the planet gear carrier and a set of bearing rollers.
US11326685B2
The present invention provides a linear module, which includes a casing, and a linear transmission device (20). The casing has an internal cavity, in which the linear transmission device (20) is at least partially disposed, and an output opening (31) which extends along a movement direction of the linear transmission device (20) defined on the case. A sealing band (32) is arranged at the output opening (31). The linear module further includes a first rolling mechanism (50) which is moveable in synchronization with the linear transmission device (20) and is arranged on a side of the sealing band (32) which is away from the internal cavity. The first rolling mechanism (50) is in rolling contact with the sealing band (32). This linear module enables high cleanliness and has good sealing performance, high accuracy and high stability.
US11326678B2
A torque converter assembly includes a torsional vibration damper and a clutch operatively coupled to the torsional vibration damper. The clutch includes a friction disc having a tab coupled to a distal portion of the friction disc and extending axially away from the distal portion. The clutch also includes a piston configured to urge the friction disc into engagement with a torque converter cover to transfer torque from the torque converter cover to the torsional vibration damper. The tab includes a first segment directly contacting a spring member or a spring seat of the torsional vibration damper and a second segment, between the first segment and the distal portion of the friction disc, configured to slide against a guide surface of the torsional vibration damper to provide radial guidance to the friction disc.
US11326671B2
The invention relates to a transmission comprising two circulating elements and a transmission element, such as a toothed belt. At least one circulating element comprises a number of contact elements for contact with the transmission element which determine a running radius of the transmission element, a radial guide for the contact elements, along which the latter are radially displaceable, displacement means for displacing the contact elements in the radial direction, wherein the transmission element has engagement elements such as teeth. Each of the contact elements comprises a base part which is in contact with the radial guide and with the displacement means, and an engagement member which is connected to the base part and is radially movable with respect to the base part, wherein the engagement member of at least one of the number of contact elements of the respective circulating element is in positive-locking contact with the transmission element.
US11326666B2
A low passive intermodulation (PIM) angle adapter fabricated from or coated with a polymeric material supports one or more cable support hangers. The low-PIM angle adapter includes a box frame integrally formed with a slot frame, where the box frame supports one or more cable hangers and the slot frame slides onto a support structure to position the angle adapter on the support structure. The low-PIM angle adapter also includes one or more cable tie slots the receive cable ties that secure the angle adapter to the support structure. Various embodiments include differently shaped box frames designed to support one or more cable hangers, such hex, rectangular, trapezoidal and square box frames. The box frames may include multiple receptacles for receiving multiple cable hangers. Cable blocks and brackets also may be used to connect multiple cable hangers to a single receptacle of the low-PIM angle adapter.
US11326661B2
The present invention includes a damper assembly, method and kit to provide dampening to an airframe comprising: a mass to dampen the vibration of the airframe; one or more wire rope isolators having a first and a second portion, wherein the mass is attached to the one or more wire rope isolators and the mass is isolated from the airframe by the one or more wire rope isolators; and a first fastener and a second fastener, wherein the first fasteners attaches to the first portion of the wire rope isolator to the mass, and the second fastener attaches the second portion of the wire rope isolator to the airframe to dampen vibration of the airframe.
US11326655B2
A material reduction machine including an engine, a material reduction tool, a drivetrain, and a control system. The drivetrain is between the engine and the material reduction tool, and includes a coupling and a power transfer element, the coupling having an engaged state and a disengaged state. When engaged, the coupling enables power transfer through the power transfer element and when disengaged, the coupling inhibits power transfer through the power transfer element. The control system includes a sensor to detect a speed of the engine or the material reduction tool, a drivetrain protection system to protect the power transfer element by disengaging the coupling, and a controller to enable the drivetrain protection system based on a first signal from the sensor indicating the speed is at or above a first threshold, and to disengage the coupling based on a second signal indicating the speed is below a second threshold.
US11326646B2
Detection device for a wheel hub assembly provided with a rolling bearing, the detection device having a phonic wheel made of magnetized material and mounted on a rotating ring of the bearing, a shaped support element angularly constrained to the rotating ring of the bearing arranged directly between the phonic wheel and the rotating ring so as to angularly lock together the phonic ring and the rotating ring, and a sensor facing the phonic wheel; a protection device being integral with the rotating ring of the bearing so as to protect simultaneously both the phonic wheel and the sensor from external contaminants.
US11326645B2
Methods and systems are provided for an engine housing assembly. In one example, an engine housing assembly comprises an engine housing component, the housing component at least partially defining a first bore for receiving a first shaft and at least partially defining a second bore for receiving a second shaft; and a reinforcement member cast into the housing, the reinforcement member having a lower coefficient of thermal expansion than the housing component, wherein the reinforcement member at least partially surrounds the first and second bores. A method of manufacturing the engine housing assembly is also provided.
US11326644B2
A bearing assembly includes a rolling bearing having a bearing ring fitted to a mating member, i.e., a shaft or a housing, with a clearance fit. Of the bearing ring and the mating member, the bearing ring has a flank face that separates a fitting surface of the bearing ring across the entire width thereof. The flank face defines a radial gap between the bearing ring and the housing. In a load receiving region where the radial gap remains, a portion of the bearing ring which is deformed in a wave-shaped pattern is kept out of contact with the fitting surface of the housing. The wave-shaped deformation of the bearing ring does not act as traveling waves that cause creep of the bearing ring.
US11326643B2
A rolling sliding member includes a base part and a surface layer. The base part has a composition that includes 0.30 mass % to 0.45 mass % of carbon, 0.15 mass % to 0.45 mass % of silicon, 0.40 to 1.50 mass % of manganese, 0.60 mass % to 2.00 mass % of chromium, 0.10 mass % to 0.35 mass % of molybdenum, 0.20 mass % to 0.40 mass % of vanadium, and 0.005 mass % to 0.100 mass % of aluminum, and a remainder of iron and inevitable impurities. The surface layer is positioned around the base part. The surface layer has a Vickers hardness of 700 to 800 and a retained austenite content of 25 volume % to 50 volume %. The thickness of a grain boundary oxide layer satisfies Formula: thickness of grain boundary oxide layer≤equivalent diameter of rolling sliding member×1.4×10−3.
US11326636B2
Panels are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system including a separate and flexible tongue allowing connection with a snap action. An outer edge part of the separate flexible tongue includes a guiding protrusion for disassembly of the panels and that is deformed during locking and/or unlocking.
US11326626B2
Systems, methods and devices are described providing a selective hydraulic or electrically powered prime mover that is a bi-directional power unit system, including movement within a device used to compress and/or expand a fluid and provide fluid movement. The use of a hydraulic power unit is involved and comprises at least a pump or other fluid moving device, a first set of selective control valves delivering pressurized fluid to the device(s), and a second set of selective control valves returning unpressurized fluid from the device(s), a reservoir comprising a compensator tank, a port for operation at ambient pressure, and a pressure measuring device measuring ambient pressure allowing for unbalanced flow to and from the device as well as thermal expansion or compression. The use of a multiport and in some cases a swashplate pump that incorporates the features and functions of several valves for the system is also described.
US11326619B2
The invention relates to a diffuser for a radial compressor, comprising a flow channel defined by a first side wall and a second side wall, a diffuser vane ring with a plurality of diffuser vanes that are at least partially arranged in the flow channel, each of the diffuser vanes having a pressure side and a suction side, a plurality of diffuser passages, said diffuser passages being formed between every two adjacent diffuser vanes of the plurality of diffuser vanes, and circulation openings, each circulation opening connecting the flow channel to a diffuser cavity, at least two circulation openings being associated with one diffuser passage, and a circulation opening associated with a diffuser passage being fluidically connected to another circulation opening associated with the same diffuser passage or to a circulation opening associated with another diffuser passage, via the diffuser cavity.
US11326618B2
A continuous variable trim compressor includes: a plurality of rotary vanes provided in a passage of air flowing toward a compressor wheel; and a rotating device configured to rotate the plurality of rotary vanes simultaneously, wherein as the plurality of rotary vanes is rotated simultaneously by the rotating device, a cross-sectional area of the passage of air flowing toward the compressor wheel is variable.
US11326612B2
A fan includes a main body with a vertical development with respect to a support base on which the main body is located in a condition of use. The main body defines an internal housing compartment.
US11326607B2
A first fluid rotor that has a first fluid intake end and a first fluid discharge end. The first fluid rotor includes a shaft and an impeller. A second fluid rotor that has a second fluid intake end and a second fluid discharge end. The second fluid rotor is rotatably coupled to the first fluid rotor to rotate in unison with the first fluid rotor along a shared rotational axis. The first fluid intake end and the second fluid intake end are facing opposite directions. The second fluid rotor includes a second shaft and a second impeller. A first fluid stator surrounds the first fluid rotor. The first fluid stator is aligned along the rotational axis. The first fluid rotor and the first fluid stator form a first fluid stage. A second fluid stator surrounds the second fluid rotor. The second fluid stator is aligned along the rotational axis. The second fluid stator and the second fluid rotor form a second fluid stage. A flow crossover sub is positioned between the first fluid stage and the second fluid stage. The flow crossover sub defines flow passages that fluidically connect the first fluid stage and the second fluid stage. An outer housing surrounds the first fluid stator, the second fluid stator, and the flow crossover sub.
US11326603B2
Disclosed are a compressor and an air conditioner having same. The compressor includes: a first-stage cylinder, including a first-stage compression chamber; and a second-stage cylinder, including a second-stage compression chamber and a gas storage chamber. Refrigerant flowing out of the first-stage compression chamber flows through the storage chamber and enters into the second-stage compression chamber, and a flow area of the gas storage chamber is larger than an area of a gas outlet of the first-stage compression chamber. The compressor effectively solves problems that power consumption of the compressor is increased and performance is reduced due to large resistance loss in the cylinder of the compressor.
US11326601B2
In a scroll compressor (1) provided with a fixed scroll (3) and an orbiting scroll (5), an inclined portion is provided in which the inter-facing surface distance (L) between an end plate (3a) and an end plate (5a) that face each other decreases continuously from the outer peripheral side towards the inner peripheral side. The inclined portion is configured from wall inclined portions (3b1, 5b1) in which the height of a wall (3b, 5b) decreases continuously from the outer peripheral side towards the inner peripheral side, and end plate inclined portions (3a1, 5a1) in which a tooth bottom surface is inclined in accordance with the incline of the wall inclined portions (3b1, 5b1). The inclined portion is provided across a range of no less than 180° around the center of the spiral.
US11326597B2
A pump for pumping a liquid food product, including a star wheel arranged to be driven by an impeller to rotate around an axis that is offset from an axis of rotation of the impeller, an element that extends between a part of the star wheel and the impeller, such that the liquid is pumped when the impeller rotates and thereby drives the star wheel. A channel is formed between the star wheel and an axle on which the star wheel is arranged, such that a part of the product may enter the channel for providing lubrication.
US11326585B2
A capacity control valve includes a valve housing having a main valve seat portion formed on an inner peripheral surface, a main valve body that has a main valve portion capable of seating on the main valve seat portion and capable of blocking communication between a discharge port and a control port depending on a driving force of a solenoid, a relief valve that is opened by pressure, a first flow channel that allows the control port and a suction port to communicate with each other when the relief valve is opened. A second flow channel formed at least partially in parallel with the first flow channel allows the control port and the suction port to communicate with each other. A spool valve body is reciprocally disposed in a sleeve and capable of adjusting an opening of the second flow channel depending on the driving force of the solenoid.
US11326578B2
A control system and control method of a wind farm allows taking into account dynamic variations in the possibilities of reactive power generation of each wind turbine with respect to maximum reactive power generation capacities. The system is configured to receive from at least one first wind turbine of the wind turbines of the wind farm a maximum reactive power limit desired lower than a minimum reactive power capacity required. The system is configured to calculate the individual reactive power setpoints for each of the at least two wind turbines of the wind farm such that the individual reactive power setpoint for the at least one first wind turbine of the wind farm does not exceed the maximum reactive power limit desired.
US11326576B2
A shear web foot for a wind turbine blade is described. The shear web foot extends longitudinally and comprises a base for attaching to an internal surface of the blade and first and second side walls. The side walls extend respectively from opposite longitudinal sides of the base. At least part of each side wall is inclined relative to the base and inclined towards the other side wall. A web-foot interior is defined at least in part by the base and the first and second side walls. One or more internal walls are located in the web-foot interior. The one or more internal walls extend between the base and the first and/or second side walls and are spaced apart from the first and second side walls to define a plurality of chambers within the web-foot interior.
US11326565B2
A rectification structural body includes an inlet port into which air from an air cleaner flows, an outlet port from which air flows out toward an airflow sensor, and a chamber provided between the inlet port and the outlet port. The inlet port and the outlet port are provided in such directions and at such positions that an air flow is bent in the chamber. The chamber includes two cases of a first case and a second case, the chamber being divided into the two cases.
US11326564B2
Internal combustion engines having an external mixture formation and compensation tank for avoiding reignition. An internal combustion engine is provided having an external mixture formation including at least one exhaust system, at least one intake system, the intake system including at least one intake manifold, at least one throttle valve, at least one mixture forming device, at least one compensation tank, and at least one air filter.
US11326560B1
Methods and systems for performing diagnostics on an evaporative emission are described. The methods and systems may include evaluating pressure or vacuum development within an evaporative emissions system over time to determine the presence or absence of a breach in the evaporative emissions system. If a breach is identified, mitigating actions may be performed.
US11326549B2
Methods and systems are provided for an oil gallery of a piston. In one example, a system for a piston comprising an internal oil gallery. The internal oil gallery comprises one or more of a funnel shaped inlet, a funnel shaped outlet, and a plurality of tongues extending along a circumference of the internal oil gallery.
US11326545B2
An injection control device includes: a fuel injection quantity command value output unit that outputs a command value for a fuel injection quantity of a fuel injection valve; a fuel injection quantity correction unit that calculates an air-fuel correction amount and corrects the command value for the fuel injection quantity; and a controller that executes current control on the fuel injection valve. The controller executes current area correction by calculating an area correction amount for an energization time. The injection control device further includes a learning controller that stops the air-fuel learning.
US11326536B2
An internal combustion engine control apparatus is configured to control an internal combustion engine including a piston reciprocating in a cylinder and a fuel injector arranged to inject a fuel into a combustion chamber facing the piston in the cylinder. The internal combustion engine control apparatus includes an electronic control unit having a microprocessor and a memory. The microprocessor is configured to perform controlling the fuel injector so as to inject the fuel in an injectable area from a first crank angle at which an intake stroke is started to a second crank angle at which a compression stroke is ended, and setting an injection frequency of the fuel injected by the fuel injector in the injectable area. The microprocessor is configured to perform the setting including setting the injection frequency between once and four times.
US11326525B2
A method of monitoring bleed air provided from a first engine to a second engine of a multi-engine aircraft includes operating the first engine in a powered mode to provide motive power to the multi-engine aircraft; and when the first engine is in the powered mode: actuating an air valve to open an air flow path from a compressor section of the first engine to a plurality of parts of the second engine, after the step of actuating the air valve, determining a change in a temperature in a main gas path of the first engine at a location in the main gas path at or downstream of a combustor of the first engine, and in response to determining that the change is below a threshold, executing an action with respect to the first engine, the air valve, and/or the second engine.
US11326522B1
Sealing arrangements and turbomachines are provided. A sealing arrangement for a turbomachine includes a transition duct having an upstream end and a downstream end. The transition duct includes an aft frame that circumferentially surrounds the downstream end of the transition duct. A stage one nozzle spaced apart from the aft frame and defining a gap therebetween. A sealing assembly extends across the gap. The sealing assembly includes a first seal link magnetically coupled to the aft frame. The sealing assembly further includes a second seal link magnetically coupled to the first seal link and the stage one nozzle.
US11326520B2
A heat exchange apparatus cools air supplied from a compressor to a turbine and includes a shell housing; a heat exchanger coupled to an outer surface of the shell housing and configured to cool air passing through an air channel of the heat exchanger using a coolant passing through a coolant channel; a flow guide installed in the shell housing and connected to the air channel of the heat exchanger in order to pass the cooled air into the shell housing, the flow guide having a distal end spaced apart from an inner surface of the shell housing; and at least one air discharge port installed through a sidewall of the shell housing to communicate with the air channel via the flow guide. The heat exchanger is a printed board type including a first plate and a second plate and is formed by alternately stacking the first and second plates.
US11326510B2
Provided is a general purpose engine that has a small external appearance and can be placed in a stable posture even when inverted, and whereby labels attached to the upper surface thereof can be protected. The general purpose engine 1 comprises a shroud 4 covering an engine main body. The shroud 4 includes: a top cover 2 arranged in an upper section of the general purpose engine 1; and a bottom cover 3 arranged in a lower section of the general purpose engine 1. The top cover 2 has a pair of bridges 20, 20 formed so as to protrude from the upper surface of the top cover 2, constituting the apex of the top cover 2 and continually extending from the front surface of the top cover 2 to the rear surface thereof, across the upper surface.
US11326509B2
The valve ignition prechamber (1) with a reversed direction of combustion includes a lamination cavity (6) in which opens a pilot charge injector (32), and said cavity (6) being connected to a combustion chamber (5) of an internal combustion engine by a lamination duct (7), which, when opened by a lamination valve (13), forms with the latter a torch-ignition prechamber while an inverter housing (93) containing an ignition pilot charge (27) and accommodating ignition means (11) is housed in the lamination cavity (6) with which it forms a late combustion volume, said housing (93) comprising a main ejection nozzle (94) which can emit a pre-ignition torch in the direction of the lamination duct (7), the volume swept by said torch forming an early combustion volume.
US11326507B2
In one aspect, an engine ignition apparatus for a natural gas engine may include a housing including a drive piston, a floating piston, a controllable hydraulic fluid chamber located between the drive piston and the floating piston, and an ignition chamber acted on by the floating piston, the ignition chamber having an outlet formed by a plurality of orifices, the outlet being in direct communication with a combustion chamber of the engine. In another aspect, an engine ignition apparatus for a natural gas engine may include, among other features, a controllable valve connected to a hydraulic fluid chamber, and configured to open and release a hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic fluid chamber, and to close. In still another aspect, a method for controlling an engine ignition apparatus for an engine includes, among other features, controlling a volume of a hydraulic fluid chamber of an ignition apparatus.
US11326503B2
A portable, easily mountable, temporary exhaust removal system adapted to re-direct exhaust emissions away from an internal combustion engine having an exhaust conduit that exhausts combustion gas from the engine.
US11326497B2
An energy recovery converter for exhaust gases or waste heat is provided. The converter includes a membrane electrode assembly (MEA), an exhaust gas having a first molecular oxygen content, and an external electrical load. The MEA includes a first electrode, a second electrode and an oxygen ion conductive membrane sandwiched between the first and second electrodes. Each of the first and second electrodes includes at least one oxidation catalyst configured to promote an electrochemical reaction. The second electrode of the MEA is exposed to the exhaust gas and the first electrode of the MEA is exposed to a gas having a second molecular oxygen content. The second molecular oxygen content is higher than the first molecular oxygen content. The external electrical load is connected between the first and second electrodes of the MEA.
US11326486B2
Methods and systems are provided for an oil heater of a hybrid electric vehicle. The oil heater comprises a metal foam comprising a plurality of pores. The oil heater is activated during a regenerative braking event where an oil temperature is less than a predefined temperature.
US11326478B2
A strut structure with a strip for an exhaust diffuser of a gas turbine and a gas turbine having the same are provided. The strut structure with a strip for an exhaust diffuser of a gas turbine is configured to include a plurality of struts disposed along an outer circumference of a diffuser body disposed on a central side of the exhaust diffuser, and one or more strips formed on the strut, wherein an exhaust gas passing through the strut flows along the strip from a leading edge of the strut to alleviate a separated flow phenomenon, and wherein if the exhaust gas enters the strip, corner vortices are formed on the leading edge of the strut, and if the exhaust gas flows along the strip, streamwise vortices are formed to alleviate a pressure loss of the exhaust gas.
US11326477B2
Method for assembling a turbomachine (1) by means of a device (10), the turbomachine comprising at least two modules (3) which are assembled by the insertion of a shaft of one of the modules into a housing of the other of the modules, the device comprising: means (11) for supporting a first of the modules, means (20, 21) for suspending a second of the modules and for moving this second module along an axis of movement (Z), a laser beam emitter (30) intended to be fixed to the said first module and configured to emit a laser beam (31) that coincides with a longitudinal axis (X) of this first module, and a target (40) intended to be fixed to the said suspension and movement means so that it can be moved along the said axis of movement, and so that in at least two axial positions on this axis which are distant from one another, a spot from the said laser beam is located at the centre of the said target, the method being characterized in that it comprises the steps of: a) positioning the said first module (3) on the said support means (11), b) fixing the said target (40) to the said suspension and movement means, c) determining a first axial position of the said target, for which position a spot from the said laser beam (31) is positioned at the centre of the said target, d) moving the said target along the said movement axis (Z), and e) determining a second axial position of the said target, for which position a spot from the said laser beam is located at the centre of the said target, so as to validate the parallelism between the said longitudinal axis (X) of the said first module and the said movement axis.
US11326466B2
A supply system of a sealing system of a turbomachine, wherein the sealing system which are suppliable with a seal gas. The supply system comprises, for each sealing sub-system, four seal gas lines: a first seal gas supply line, via which process gas extracted from the turbomachine is suppliable as first seal gas to the respective sealing sub-system. A second seal gas supply line, via which second seal gas is suppliable to the respective sealing sub-system. A seal gas discharge line, via which the first seal gas and the second seal gas are dischargeable from the respective sealing sub-systems. A safety discharge line, which is closed during the normal operation and open in the event of a fault, to discharge at least one part of the first seal gas and of the second seal gas from the respective sealing sub-system via the same in the event of a fault.
US11326459B2
A blade for a gas turbine engine comprises an aerofoil body having a suction side, a pressure side, and a trailing edge. An internal cooling passageway is provided in the aerofoil body, and an ejection slot in fluid communication with the cooling passage and provided at the trailing edge of the aerofoil body. The ejection slot is defined between a pressure side wall and a suction side wall. Both the suction side wall and the pressure side wall include a mid-section and a trailing edge section adjacent the mid-section, and the thickness of the suction side wall and the pressure side wall reduces to define a taper with a wedge angle less than or equal to 20 degrees.
US11326456B2
A vibration suppression device for a rotary machine according to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure is a vibration suppression device for a rotor of a rotary machine including a damper pin movably provided inside a gap of the rotor, the damper pin including a magnet, and a magnetic force generation portion provided in the rotor at a periphery of the gap. The magnetic force generation portion is configured to exert, against the magnet, a magnetic force in a direction pushing the damper pin away from a stick region of the damper pin located on a radially outward side of the rotor in the gap.
US11326451B2
This disclosure relates to a pick tool with a PCD impact tip. The impact tip is joined to a support body at a non-planar first interface. The non-planar first interface comprises two co-axial and annular interface surfaces of differing radial widths.
US11326443B2
Reservoir sweep efficiency includes obtaining fluid front arrival times for streamlines in a reservoir. A wellbore is partitioned into independent production zones, and a target flow rate is allocated to each of the independent production zones based on the fluid front arrival times. Partition choke parameters complying with the target flow rates are allocated to generate a completion design, which is presented.
US11326440B2
An instrumented coupling for pipe joints is described herein. The instrumented coupling includes a first threaded end configured to thread to a first pipe joint and a second threaded end configured to thread to a second pipe joint. The instrumented coupling also includes a sensor configured to obtain a measurement of a parameter of a well and a communications device configured to communicate to a receiving device outside of the well. The instrumented coupling further includes a processor configured to execute instructions in a data store. The instructions direct the processor to read the measurement from the sensor, compare the measurement from the sensor to a preset limit, and generate a signal within the communications device based, at least in part, on the measurement.
US11326439B2
Compositions and methods for prevention and reduction of iron sulfide scale formation, one method including detecting at least one component indicative of an iron sulfide scale precursor, the at least one component selected from the group consisting of: H2S; HS−; S2−; Sn2−; FeS(aq); Fe2+; Fe3+, and combinations of the same; preparing a composition to react with the iron sulfide scale precursor, the composition comprising at least one compound selected from the group consisting of: a methylating agent; a metal operable to react with sulfide species; a compound to increase the oxidation state of Fe2+; and combinations of the same; and applying the composition to the iron sulfide scale precursor to consume the iron sulfide scale precursor.
US11326434B2
Methods for enhancing the conductivity of fractures in a subterranean formation using electrically controlled propellants are provided. In some embodiments, the methods comprise: introducing an electrically controlled propellant into one or more secondary boreholes in a subterranean formation near a main well bore that penetrates the subterranean formation; igniting the electrically controlled propellant in the secondary boreholes, whereby at least a portion of the region of the subterranean formation near the secondary borehole is at least partially ruptured by the ignition of the electrically controlled propellant in the secondary boreholes; and introducing a fracturing fluid into the main wellbore at or above a pressure sufficient to create or enhance at least one primary fracture in the subterranean formation that extends into at least a portion of the ruptured region of the subterranean formation.
US11326433B2
A fracturing method, to cause a crack in bedrock, includes installing a depressurizing device in a well in the bedrock, and depressurizing the inside of the well with the installed depressurizing device. The installing step includes installing, in the well, a connecting pipe, which is connected to the depressurizing device, and a packer, which is attached to the connecting pipe, and the depressurizing step includes shutting off a gap between the well and the connecting pipe, with the packer, and depressurizing a region in the well below the packer, with the depressurizing device.
US11326432B2
A fluid control device includes a housing, a fluid channel defined within the housing, the fluid channel having an inlet, and a flow control body disposed in the fluid channel, the flow control body tapering towards the inlet. The flow control body, in use, causes a fluid flowing through the fluid channel to flow into an annular fluid flow path within the fluid channel. The annular fluid flow path has a geometry selected based on a subcool of the fluid at a pressure of the fluid entering the fluid channel, and the geometry is selected to induce cavitation of the fluid to choke fluid flow through the fluid channel.
US11326428B2
A stator for a downhole-type motor includes a housing. The housing includes a sleeve. The sleeve includes a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer. The first layer is erosion-resistant. The second layer is corrosion-resistant. The third layer can provide structural support. The stator includes a motor stack. The stator can be used to drive a rotor disposed within an inner bore of the housing.
US11326421B2
A perforating gun system with at least one gun. Each of the perforating guns have charges disposed in a gun carrier that are angled to the longitudinal axis of the gun to achieve a predetermined proppant transport profile into clusters within a stage in a well casing. The perforation tunnels may also have burrs on each side of the casing and acts in initially aiding proppant transport during fracture treatment. A method of tuning a cluster to achieve a desired fracturing treatment based on a feedback from another cluster includes selecting a hole diameter, a hole angle for creating an angled opening, a discharge coefficient, and a proppant efficiency. Moreover, a method of improving perforation charge efficiency.
US11326416B1
A spiral deployed isolation tool includes a central pipe having an outer surface in a conical shape and an axial through hole, and an anchoring sealing structure. The anchoring sealing structure is matched and sleeved on the outer surface of the central pipe. The anchoring sealing structure has a first sealing section and an anchoring section. The first sealing section is located at a larger end of the central pipe. The anchoring section includes a plurality of slips, the first sealing section includes a plurality of first spiral sealing rings. The plurality of slips 221 correspond to the plurality of first spiral sealing rings one by one to respectively form an integral structure. The plurality of slips are uniformly expanded in a radial direction, thereby achieving uniform circumferential distribution of slips, so that the slips are evenly anchored on an inner wall of the whole wellbore.
US11326404B2
A system includes a processing device configured to determine a tripping operation to be undertaken. The processing device is configured to also calculate a variable tripping speed for the tripping operation to vary a speed of the tripping operation. The processing device is further generate an output to control the operation of a portion of a continuous tripping system to implement the tripping operation at the variable tripping speed.
US11326403B2
A rotating control device can include a latch assembly with a lock ring that permits displacement of an inner mandrel in one longitudinal direction, and prevents displacement of the inner mandrel in an opposite longitudinal direction. Another rotating control device can include a latch assembly and an equalization valve having an open configuration in which fluid communication is permitted between an exterior and an interior of the rotating control device through the equalization valve, the latch assembly changing from a latched to an unlatched configuration only when the equalization valve is in the open configuration. A method of installing a rotating control device can include releasing a running tool from the rotating control device by producing relative rotation between components of the running tool.
US11326394B2
The present disclosure discloses a punching-free mounting assembly for a curtain, a curtain, and a method of installing a curtain; the punching-free mounting assembly for a curtain comprises a mounting seat, a telescopic head, an adjusting plate and an elastic thrust member; the center of the telescopic head is sequentially provided with an outwardly extending threaded column and smooth column. In a natural state, the elastic thrust member squeezes and pushes the mounting seat and the adjusting plate toward two sides, and the limiting part of the smooth column abuts against the outer bottom of the mounting seat, which no longer needs to damage the surface of the wall, and without the requirements of auxiliary tools, a quick and punching-free installation of the curtain is achieved, greatly saving time and effort.
US11326391B2
A polymer window assembly includes a polymer window frame with a pair of jambs and a sill, and a glass unit carried by the window frame. A pair of brackets are attached to the jambs proximate corners between the jambs and the sill. Each bracket has an upright member, a horizontal member orthogonal to the upright member and a hook attached to a rear surface of the upright member. The brackets attach to the jambs so that the hook extends through a hole in the jamb, the upright member is adjacent a surface of the jamb and the horizontal member is disposed above (e.g., spaced above) the sill. The brackets support and transfer the weight of the glass unit to the jambs to inhibit (e.g., prevent) the sill from bearing the load of the glass unit, thereby inhibiting (e.g., preventing) the crushing or bowing of the sill by the glass unit and thereby inhibiting (e.g., preventing) the formation of gaps in the window assembly that allow for air and/or water infiltration through the window assembly.
US11326388B2
An assembly includes: a pair of glass substrates; a peripheral wall disposed between the glass substrates; partitions; an evacuation port; and air passages. The partitions are provided to partition an internal space, surrounded with the glass substrates and the peripheral wall, into an evacuation space and a ventilation space. The evacuation port connects the ventilation space to an external environment. The air passages are used to evacuate the evacuation space through the evacuation port. The air passages include particular air passages arranged in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction, in which the glass substrates face each other, to constitute a ventilation path running through the internal space in the second direction.
US11326387B2
Electro-mechanical and electronically controlled access devices are described for automatically controlling passage between two areas, and where a plurality of such access control devices may be ganged or clustered to provided additional throughput and directional control, including stacking a plurality of access control devices side by side within a cluster. Each access control device contains multiple rotatable and moveable door panels. The door panels are controlled by various drive mechanisms to enable passage through the device, while ensuring by the use of sensors that door panels avoid touching subjects as they traverse the device. The direction of flow through a device according to these embodiments is electronically controlled and may be changed from time to time. At any instant in time while being traversed, the flow through each device is unidirectional. Multiple devices within a cluster can be directionally controlled according to traffic, demand, time of day, or other factors.
US11326384B2
An automatic door opening system suitable for use in an electrical device having a body with an inner chamber, a door hinged to the body from one side, and a processing unit, the automatic door opening system having a rod that allows the door to open by applying a pushing force to the door while moving in a forward direction, and allows the door to be released when the rod brings into the backward position by moving in the backward direction.
US11326373B2
The invention relates to a motor vehicle door lock (1) which comprises a locking mechanism having a rotary latch and at least one pawl, and a first actuating lever (8), the locking mechanism being at least indirectly unlockable by means of the actuating lever (8), and the locking mechanism further having a locking device (21). The actuating lever (8) can be disengaged from the locking mechanism by means of the locking device (21). An additional motor vehicle door lock (2) is provided, and said vehicle door lock (2) can be actuated by means of the actuating lever (8). The actuating lever chain to the additional motor vehicle lock (2) can be disengaged by means of the locking device (21).
US11326370B2
In one embodiment, a system includes a first object, a second object, and a latch. The latch includes a worm gear, a spur gear, and a lever arm. The spur gear rotates in response to rotating the worm gear. The lever arm rotates in response to rotating the spur gear. The first object latches to the second object in response to rotating the lever arm.
US11326358B2
A hardboard installation support apparatus for mounting hardboard for board and batten siding installations includes a support bracket having a bracket front side, a bracket back side, a bracket top edge, a bracket bottom edge, a bracket left edge, and a bracket right edge. The supper bracket has a pair of mounting apertures extending from the bracket front side through the bracket back side. The pair of mounting apertures receives hardware to engage a building. A measurement indicator is coupled to the bracket front side and indicates a vertical distance from the bracket bottom edge. A support lip is coupled to the support bracket. The support lip is coupled to the bracket bottom edge and extends away from the bracket front side. The support lip and the bracket front side form an angle between 90° and 100°.
US11326355B2
A connecting system for boards, and a connecting device and a support element for boards are disclosed. The connecting system includes the support element configured to support at least one board and the connecting device configured to releasably fasten the at least one board to the support element. The support element includes at least one lateral surface with at least one locking member arranged on the lateral surface. The connecting device includes at least one arm with a locking member configured for engagement with the locking member of the support element. At least one of the locking member of the support element and the locking member of the connecting device includes a plurality of protrusions forming a plurality of locking positions of the connecting device relative the support element.
US11326348B2
The present disclosure relates generally to roofing elements and methods for making them. In one embodiment, the disclosure provides a roofing element in the form of a roofing shingle that includes a body of a foamed cured cross-linked polymer, the body having a top surface and a bottom surface, the body extending substantially in a plane and having a thickness in the range of 0.5 mm to 35 mm; and a layer of weather-resistant roofing granules disposed on and adhered at the top surface of roofing element. The roofing element can be made by providing a body of wet foamed curable composition, and allowing the curable composition to cure to provide the body of foamed cured cross-linked polymer.
US11326342B1
The primary objective of the present invention is to provide an interlocking, interchangeable wall system allowing for the formation of a plurality of form structures. Each parallel sidewall is embedded with stones or other materials into a composition base on one side. On the opposite side, the sidewalls are embedded with metal lathing and hardware to connect to bracing which connects to the opposing sidewall to form a plurality of structures, including an interlocking block system. Each sidewall interlocks with the panel or block next to it. When connected, the resulting interlocking composite blocks may be used in the construction of walls or other structures. The resulting sidewalls may be used in the decoration of existing construction or other structures. The present invention provides a significant improvement in labor and customization of structures.
US11326339B2
The present disclosure provides a Tetris house in which a structural material and an insulating material are combined with each other to further save a space, and an exterior of the structural material is treated with neoprene to block a heat bridge between an inside and an outside and prevent condensation. The Tetris house includes a plurality of structural materials which are installed in regions corresponding to respective sides of a hexahedron, and a connector which is installed in a region corresponding to each corner of the hexahedron to connect adjacent structural materials to each other, in which the structural material includes a metal pipe, a first insulating material with which an inside of the metal pile is filled, and a second insulating material which surrounds an outside of the metal pipe.
US11326332B2
An advanced toilet/bidet with a remote pod that stores both the majority of the bidet hardware and an advanced software program, providing a toilet seat that is thinner and lighter than a traditional toilet/bidet combination. The toilet seat has a bidet nozzle, and an internal cavity in which additional hardware and software is stored. The toilet seat has sensors the record health-related data on each user and has a unique cleaning mechanism to ensure the highest sanitary standards.
US11326330B2
A toilet management system includes a toilet bowl device installed in a toilet room, a management device configured to manage a use situation of the toilet bowl device, and a communication device configured to transmit use situation information related to the use situation of the toilet bowl device to the management device. The management device includes an acquirer configured to acquire the use situation information from the communication device, and an abnormality detector configured to detect an abnormality of the toilet bowl device or a facility or equipment installed inside or around the toilet room when the use situation information acquired by the acquirer matches a predetermined condition.
US11326325B2
An engineering system for collecting and utilizing regional rainwater includes a rainwater collection system, a water quality treatment system, and a control and allocation system. The rainwater collection system includes a rainwater collection ditch for a hardened underlying surface, a barrier and a water storage tank. The water quality treatment system includes a filter system. The control and allocation system includes a water quality monitoring device, a water level monitor, a control gate and a water pump. The filter system is connected to the underlying surface through the rainwater collection ditch, and the filter system is connected to the water storage tank. The control gate is disposed between the filter system and the water storage tank. The water quality monitoring device and the water level monitor are disposed within the water storage tank. The water pump is used to drain water from the water storage tank.
US11326318B2
Provided is a lateral water intake structure for preventing silting of bed load and floating debris, which is provided at a river bank. The lateral water intake structure includes: a diversion canal, a guiding wall structure, a shaft-shaped water intaking space, and a trash rack. The lateral water intake structure functions to prevent the floating debris from gathering at the surface of the trash rack and reduce a risk that the trash rack is damaged by water pressure and hitting of the floating debris. Meanwhile, by using a water flow in the watercourse to continuously wash the floating debris near the trash rack, maintenance costs of removing the floating debris at the trash rack manually or mechanically can be reduced.
US11326317B2
A transportable wave suppressor and sediment collection system for suppressing wave action along the shore of a body of water, which includes a plurality of interconnected sections, each section including a base, a forward wall, and a rear wall, and having a plurality of flow pipes extending from the forward wall to the rear wall, and further including a plurality of shelves on the forward wall for dispersing wave energy, while redirecting and using the wave energy to allow water and sediment to flow into the flow pipes and for collecting sediment that is not carried into the flow pipes and settles on the shelves for being contacted by a following wave to carry the sediment into the flow pipes. In some deeper water embodiments, the sections may include a base portion, a top portion and one or more spacer portions to enable raising or changing the height of the system.
US11326315B2
A rotatable plow shovel apparatus for clearing a path without having to lift includes a plow blade and a shaft housing having a curved front face coupled to a back side of the plow blade. A shaft aperture extends through a top side of the shaft housing to proximal a bottom side and the back face has a plurality of adjustment apertures extending through to the shaft aperture. A handle shaft has a vertical engagement portion rotatably engaged within the shaft aperture and an angled extension portion coupled to the engagement portion. A locking pin is coupled to the engagement portion and is selectively engageable with each of the plurality of adjustment apertures of the shaft housing to lock the handle shaft in a straight position, at least one alternative left tilt position, and at least one alternative right tilt position.
US11326308B2
A coated paperboard comprising a paperboard substrate having a first side and a second side and a coating in contact with the first side of the paperboard substrate, the coating including binder and pigment, the coating containing substantially no fluorochemical or wax, wherein the coated paperboard has a 3M kit test value of at least 3, and wherein the coated paperboard is repulpable.
US11326306B2
A method for the production of a fibrous product from a fibrous web, wherein the method comprises the steps of: —providing a fibrous suspension comprising a microfibrillated cellulose, wherein the content of the microfibrillated cellulose of said suspension is in the range of 60 to 99.9 weight-% based on total dry solid content, —adding an uncharged, amphoteric or weakly cationic polymer having a molecular weight of at least 50000 g/mol to said suspension, —adding an anionic polymer having a molecular weight of at least 00000 g/mol to said suspension to provide a mixture of said microfibrillated cellulose, said uncharged, amphoteric or weakly cationic polymer and said anionic polymer, 1—providing said mixture to a substrate to form a fibrous web, wherein the amount of uncharged, amphoteric or weakly cationic polymer in said mixture is in the range of 0.1 to 20 kg/metric ton based on total dry solid content and wherein the amount of anionic polymer in said mixture is in the range of 0.01 to 10 kg/metric ton based on total dry 20 solid content; and—dewatering said fibrous web to form a fibrous product.
US11326304B2
The present invention relates to a process for adhering a textile material to an elastomer, the process comprising the steps of pretreating the textile material with at least one polyester of an α-β-unsaturated carboxylic acid, contacting the pretreated textile material with an unvulcanized elastomer, and vulcanizing the product obtained. The present invention additionally encompasses an elastomer article obtainable by this process and also the use of a polyester of an α-β-unsaturated carboxylic acid for improving the adhesion of a textile material to an elastomer.
US11326295B2
A laundry treating appliance includes a tub defining a tub interior and a basket rotatably mounted within the tub interior. The basket can include an upper basket portion defining a basket interior, as well as a lower base portion coupled to the upper basket portion and including at least one spoke.
US11326293B2
The present disclosure relates to a level adjustable washing machine and a method for adjusting a level of the washing machine. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the level adjustable washing machine may include a cabinet forming an exterior of the washing machine; a tub disposed in the cabinet; a drum rotatably disposed inside the tub and configured to receive laundry; a level sensor disposed on at least one surface of the cabinet and configured to sense a tilt of the cabinet; a vibration sensor disposed on at least one side of the tub and configured to sense vibration generated by rotation of the drum; a plurality of height adjustable supports disposed on a bottom portion of the cabinet; and a processor configured to receive tilt information of the cabinet from the level sensor, receive information on the vibration generated by rotation of the drum from the vibration sensor, and derive a tilt value of the cabinet that is capable of minimizing the vibration of the corresponding washing machine using an artificial intelligence pre-trained through machine learning.
US11326287B2
A cap frame includes a body member including an arc-shaped curved wall extending in a particular direction, an attaching portion connected to the body member, and a retaining member including a clamping portion having a plurality of protrusions aligned along the particular direction, and a facing portion. The attaching portion is removably attachable to a moving mechanism of an embroidery machine. In a state where the retaining member is attached to the body member, the clamping portion is elastically deformed in conformance with the curved wall and presses, toward the curved wall, a cap sandwiched between the curved wall and the clamping portion. The facing portion faces the curved wall of the body member. Each protrusion extends toward the curved wall from a leading end of the facing portion in a removing direction and faces a leading end of the curved wall of the body member in the removing direction.
US11326286B1
A stitch counting device for assisting users with counting the number of stitches made during stitchwork. The stitch counting device includes a casing, a first prong, a second prong, a display, a microcontroller, one or more fasteners, a fulcrum having a spring, a battery, and an interface input port. Methods for using the stitch counting device are also described.
US11326279B2
An antibacterial yarn that includes a core yarn including a functional polymer that generates a charge by external energy and a first sheath yarn higher in hygroscopicity than the core yarn, the first sheath yarn covering at least a part of a periphery of the core yarn across an axial direction of the core yarn.
US11326275B2
A SiC epitaxial growth apparatus according to an embodiment includes a mounting stand on which a SiC wafer is mounted, and a furnace body which is configured to cover the mounting stand, and the furnace body includes a raw material gas supply port which is positioned so as to face the mounting stand and is configured to supply a raw material gas to the growth space, a first purge gas supply port which surrounds a vicinity of the raw material gas supply port and is configured to supply a purge gas to the growth space, and a second purge gas supply port which surrounds a vicinity of the first purge gas supply port and is configured to supply a purge gas to the growth space.
US11326274B2
Provided is a single crystal growth crucible including a first housing and a second housing, in which a fitting portion between the first housing and the second housing has a first protruding portion, which is provided by protruding inner wall side of the first housing toward the second housing, and a second protruding portion, which is provided by protruding outer wall side of the second housing toward the first housing and covers an outer circumferential surface of the first protruding portion, the first protruding portion is formed such that an outer diameter of a tip portion thereof is larger than that of a base portion thereof in the protruding direction, and the second protruding portion is formed such that an inner diameter of a tip portion thereof is smaller than that of a base portion thereof in the protruding direction, the outer diameter of the tip portion of the first protruding portion is equal to or smaller than the inner diameter of the tip portion of the second protruding portion at room temperature, and the outer diameter of the tip portion of the first protruding portion is larger than the inner diameter of the tip portion of the second protruding portion at a single crystal growth temperature.
US11326264B2
Provided is a membrane electrode assembly for a proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer, including: an oxygen electrode including an iridium oxide (IrO2) layer which is an electrodeposited oxygen electrode catalyst layer on a titanium (Ti) layer which is a diffusion layer; a hydrogen electrode in which a hydrogen electrode catalyst layer is formed on a diffusion layer; and an electrolyte membrane placed between the oxygen electrode catalyst layer and the hydrogen electrode catalyst layer, in which a portion of the pores of the Ti diffusion layer are filled with an electrolyte of the electrolyte membrane.
US11326257B2
An integrated sleeve structure is provided between an electrode configured to feed power to a silicon core wire and a bottom plate part. Sealing members are arranged on at least part of a flange part of an insulating member and on at least part of a straight part of the insulating member.
US11326255B2
A system and method for improved atomic layer deposition. The system includes a top showerhead plate, a substrate and a bottom showerhead plate. The substrate includes a porous microchannel plate and a substrate holder is positioned in the system to insure flow-through of the gas precursor.
US11326249B2
In various embodiments, evaporation sources for deposition processes have disposed therearound an insulation material configurable to fit snugly around the source body of the evaporation source and to be at least partially distanced away from the source body to expedite heat transfer therefrom.
US11326246B2
A system and method includes pre-warping a mask to induce strain when affixed to a substrate and ensure positive contact between the mask and the substrate during all phases of deposition. A film is applied to the mask at a rate sufficient to impart stress to the film faster than such stress can be released. Depending on the features defined by the mask, the pre-warping may be concentric, linear along one axis, or complex along a plurality of axes.
US11326244B2
Steel materials for continuously variable transmissions sheaves, and methods for manufacturing a continuously variable transmission sheaves, are provided. In the disclosed steel materials for continuously variable transmission sheaves, the steel materials satisfy the following expressions: 13.9≤Fn1≤15.5, and 1.20≤Fn2≤4.35 (in which Fn1=7×Cr−6×Si+4×Mn; and Fn2=Al×N×104).
US11326243B2
Low-density hot dip galvanized steel, comprising a steel substrate (1) located at a core portion and a coating layer (3) located on the surface. An interface layer is disposed between the steel substrate (1) and the coating layer (3), the interface layer comprises an iron particle layer (4), iron particles dispersed on the steel substrate (1) and covering the steel substrate (1) are disposed in the iron particle layer (4), and the iron particles are covered by a first inhibition layer (5). The low-density hot dip galvanized steel contains element Al in a mass percentage of 3.0% to 7.0%. Correspondingly, the present invention also comprises a manufacturing method for the low-density hot dip galvanized steel. The low-density hot dip galvanized steel has a low density, a high strength and high galvanizability and coating layer adhesion.
US11326237B2
An austenitic wear-resistant steel plate according to an aspect of the present invention has a predetermined chemical composition, amounts of C and Mn by mass % satisfy −13.75×C+16.5≤Mn≤−20×C+30, the volume fraction of austenite in a metallographic structure is 40% or more and less than 95%, and the average grain size of the austenite is 40 to 300 μm.
US11326236B2
Provided is a black stainless steel sheet that has excellent weldability, that can ensure good toughness and corrosion resistance, and that can maintain the blackness of the surface thereof, even after being welded. This black ferrite-based stainless steel sheet having excellent weldability includes, as a base, a stainless steel containing, in mass %, 0.020% or less of C, 1.0% or less of Si, 0.35% or less of Mn, 0.04% or less of P, 0.005% or less of S, 11-25% of Cr, 1.0% or less of Mo, 0.020% or less of N, 0.4% or less of Al, 10(C+N) to 0.3% of Ti, 0.05% or less of Nb, and 0.01% or less of O, and has a surface in which an oxide coating is formed on the base, wherein the surface has a lightness index (L*) satisfying L*≤45, chromaticity indices (a*, b*) satisfying −5≤a*≤5 and −5≤b*≤5, and a blackness (E) satisfying E=(L*2+a*2+b*2)1/2≤45.
US11326229B2
Provided is a monatomic amorphous palladium, a method for preparing the same and use thereof. The method comprises a) loading a monatomic palladium powder on a silicon nitride substrate; b) heating the silicon nitride substrate loaded with the monatomic palladium powder obtained in a) up to a temperature of 800° C. to 1000° C. and keeping the temperature for at least 3 minutes; and c) cooling a system of palladium and silicon nitride obtained in b) to room temperature at an apparent cooling rate greater than 103° C./second, thus obtaining the monatomic amorphous palladium.
US11326227B2
A pre-coated steel strip is provided. The steel strip includes a strip of base steel having a length, a width, a first side, and a second side. The length of the strip is at least 100 m and the width is at least 600 mm. An aluminum or an aluminum alloy pre-coating is on at least part of at least one of the first or second sides of the strip of base steel. A thickness tp of the pre-coating is from 20 to 33 micrometers at every location on at least one of the first or second sides. Processes, coated stamped products and land motor vehicles are also provided.
US11326215B2
The present invention provides novel methods of diagnosing and determining treatment strategies for Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses.
US11326213B2
The invention features methods, systems, and panels for rapid detection of tick-borne pathogens in a sample (including Borrelia spp. such as B. burgdorferi, B. afzelii, and B. garinii) and for diagnosis and monitoring of tick-transmitted diseases, including Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Q-fever, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, tularemia, and anaplasmosis.
US11326208B2
Methods for non-invasive prenatal paternity testing are disclosed herein. The method uses genetic measurements made on plasma taken from a pregnant mother, along with genetic measurements of the alleged father, and genetic measurements of the mother, to determine whether or not the alleged father is the biological father of the fetus. This is accomplished by way of an informatics based method that can compare the genetic fingerprint of the fetal DNA found in maternal plasma to the genetic fingerprint of the alleged father.
US11326195B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to materials and methods for preparing a clathrate-forming composition comprising a plurality of linear glucomonomer chains of about 15 to about 100 D-glucopyranosyl residues linked by α-1,4 linkages, wherein the linear glucomonomer chains are a product of partial amylolysis of a modified starch substrate and wherein the product is flowable at temperatures within a range of 4-20° C. at about 20% w/v solids content. The present disclosure further describes methods of using the clathrate-forming compositions to form molecular dispersions or clathrates with hydrophobic guest molecules, kits for use in these methods, and molecular dispersions or clathrates obtained from the materials.
US11326192B2
The present invention relates to a variant of oleaginous yeast of the species Trichosporon oleaginosus characterized by mutations affecting cell wall synthesis that change the morphology thereof with respect to the wild-type strain of the same species. In particular, thanks to said mutations, cell aggregates are formed which, with respect to the wild-type strain of the same species, lower the viscosity of the culture broth, are more easily separable therefrom and thus make their recovery easier. Said variant of oleaginous yeast of the species Trichosporon oleaginosus is also characterized by yields of oleaginous cellular biomass and intracellular accumulation of lipids that are similar or even higher than those of the wild-type strain. Further, the present invention relates to a process for the production of lipids through said variant of oleaginous yeast of the species Trichosporon oleaginosus. The lipids thus obtained can be advantageously used as synthesis intermediates, particularly in the so-called “green chemistry” sector, or in the production of biofuels such as, for example, “biodiesel” or “green diesel”, which can be used as such, or mixed with other fuels for transportation.
US11326190B2
An aspect of the present disclosure is a microbial cell that includes a genetic modification resulting in the expression of a deficient form of an endogenous dioxygenase, and a gene encoding an exogenous dioxygenase and a promoter sequence, where the endogenous dioxygenase includes PcaH and PcaG, the exogenous dioxygenase includes LigA and LigB, the microbial cell is capable of growth utilizing at least one of a cellulose decomposition molecule or a lignin decomposition molecule, and the microbial cell is capable of producing 2-hydroxy-2H-pyran-4,6-dicarboxylic acid.
US11326189B2
A method for conversion of magnesium chloride into magnesium oxide and HCl includes the steps of providing a magnesium chloride compound to a thermohydrolysis reactor, the reactor being at a temperature of at least 300° C., withdrawing MgO from the thermohydrolysis reactor in solid form, and withdrawing an HCl containing gas stream from the thermohydrolysis reactor. The magnesium chloride compound provided to the thermohydrolysis reactor may be a solid magnesium chloride compound which comprises at least 60 wt. % of MgCl2.4H2O.
US11326188B2
A method for conversion of magnesium chloride into magnesium oxide and HCl includes the steps of providing a magnesium chloride compound to a thermohydrolysis reactor, the reactor being at a temperature of at least 300° C., withdrawing MgO from the thermohydrolysis reactor in solid form, and withdrawing an HCl containing gas stream from the thermohydrolysis reactor. The magnesium chloride compound provided to the thermohydrolysis reactor may be a solid magnesium chloride compound which comprises at least 60 wt. % of MgCl2.4H2O.
US11326186B1
The invention is directed to a culture medium for Haematococcus that contains combustion gases like carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and oxides of nitrogen or sulfur and which fixes the carbon, nitrogen or sulfur in these combustion gases into biomass and to methods providing superior biomass yields using this culture medium to culture select species of Haematococcus such as Haematococcus sp. KAU-01.
US11326176B2
A method of in vivo assembly of a recombinant micelle including: introducing a plasmid into a plant cell, wherein: the plasmid includes a segment of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) for encoding a ribonucleic acid (RNA) for a protein in a casein micelle, the segment of DNA is transcribed and translated; forming recombinant casein proteins in the plant cell, wherein: the recombinant casein proteins include a κ-casein and at least one of an αS1-casein, an αS2-casein, a β-casein; and assembling in vivo a recombinant micelle within the plant cell, wherein: an outer layer of the recombinant micelle is enriched with the κ-casein, an inner matrix of the recombinant micelle include at least one of the αS1-casein, the αS2-casein, the β-casein.
US11326173B2
The present invention concerns a method of producing and enantiomerically pure alpha-ionone. Further, the invention concerns a nucleic acid that comprises a sequence that encodes a lycopene-epsilon-cyclase (EC), a lycopene-epsilon-cyclase (EC), plasmids, which encode components of the alpha-ionone biosynthesis and a microorganism that contains heterologous nucleotide sequences which encode the enzymes geranylgeranyl-diphosphate-synthase, isopentenyl-diphosphate-isomerase (IPI), phytoene desaturase-dehydrogenase (crtI), phytoene synthase (crtB), lycopene-epsilon-cyclase (EC) and carotenoid-cleavage-dioxygenase (CCD1). Further, the invention concerns a method of producing highly pure epsilon-carotene.
US11326167B2
In some aspects, the invention provides a method of treating atherosclerosis in a subject. The method comprises administering to the subject an agent that increases the activity or level of a let-7 miRNA or an agent that decreases activity or level of a TGFβ signaling polypeptide in an endothelial cell in the subject. In some embodiments, the subject is administered an additional agent comprising a therapeutically effective amount of rapamycin or any derivative thereof. In some embodiments, the agent is a let-7 miRNA. In some other aspects, the invention provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising a let-7 miRNA. In some embodiments, the let-7 miRNA is encapsulated in a nanoparticle formulated for selective delivery to an endothelial cell.
US11326166B1
The present invention relates to RNAi agents, e.g., dsRNA agents, targeting the xanthine dehydrogenase (XDH) gene. The invention also relates to methods of using such RNAi agents to inhibit expression of an XDH gene and to methods of treating or preventing an XDH-associated disease in a subject.
US11326160B2
This disclosure provides, among other things, a method for making a cDNA library. In some embodiments the method may comprise reverse transcribing mRNA to produce DNA:mRNA hybrids, treating the DNA:mRNA hybrids with RNAseH to produce mRNA fragments, and reverse transcribing the mRNA fragments.
US11326159B2
Various approaches for generating read-sets from nucleic acid molecules and segments and phasing are disclosed. Nucleic acids are assembled into complexes using binding moieties and exposed nucleic acid ends are tagged with nucleic acid tags. Read-sets can be generated from tagged nucleic acid molecules and segments. Physical linkage relationships between nucleic acid molecules and segments can be examined using the nucleic acid tags. Various approaches to generating read-sets and phasing are presented.
US11326150B2
The present invention provides a means for reconstituting tissues and organs having mature functions. A method of preparing a tissue or an organ, comprising coculturing an organ cell with a vascular endothelial cell and a mesenchymal cell, generating an organ bud, transplanting the organ bud into a non-human animal, and then isolating from the non-human animal the transplanted organ bud-derived tissue or organ.
US11326140B2
A method and apparatus of aseptic processing and production of cells in a non-sterile enclosure apparatus without chemical biocides is disclosed, by controlling the level of humidity throughout the enclosure to 25% relative humidity (RH) or less, and preferably 20% or 15% or less RH. In addition, the temperature is controlled to 37° C., and consistent gas flow is maintained the enclosure. Colony forming units from microbial contamination detected by environmental monitoring within the enclosure are significantly reduced in this method.
US11326135B2
An additive dispensing device for dispensing of additives into a pressurised vessel, more particularly a fermentation vessel of a brewing system, is disclosed. The device has a vessel body including a chamber, the chamber having a closed end and an open end. A pressure release means is provided between the chamber and atmosphere. A controllable valve positioned between the closed end and the open end, configured to selectively open and close a flow path between the closed end and the open end.
US11326132B2
An antimicrobial nonwoven wet wipe includes i) a fibrous nonwoven substrate bonded with a cross-linkable VAE dispersion stabilized with one or more nonionic colloidal stabilizers and one or more nonionic surfactants, and ii) absorbed in the nonwoven substrate, an aqueous lotion including one or more cationic disinfectants. No anionic surfactants are present in the antimicrobial nonwoven wet wipe. A method of producing the antimicrobial nonwoven wet wipe includes a) applying a first aqueous composition including a crosslinkable VAE dispersion stabilized with one or more nonionic colloidal stabilizers and one or more nonionic surfactants to a nonwoven substrate; b) drying the composition; and c) applying a second aqueous composition to the product of step b). At least one of the first and second aqueous compositions includes one or more cationic disinfectants.
US11326128B2
Provided among other things is a cleaning composition comprising: a carrier fluid; and Minute Fibrils suspended in the carrier fluid, wherein the composition is protein cleaning effective.
US11326118B2
A lubrication method including lubricating a sliding member which contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a liquid crystal polymer and polyetheretherketone by using a lubricating oil composition which contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a mineral oil and alkyl benzene as a lubricating base oil.
US11326115B2
An improved biodiesel production process includes the steps of processing a feedstock to produce biodiesel, cooling the biodiesel so as to form sediment, and filtering the biodiesel to remove the sediment. The resulting biodiesel from the cold filtration process avoids problems of sediment formation during storage and transportation.
US11326109B2
Metals, such as mercury, may be removed from glycol fluids by applying a sulfur compound having the general formula HS—X, wherein X is a heteroatom-substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, and/or alkylaryl group either alone or in combination with or as a blend with at least one antifoam additive, at least one demulsifier and/or a buffering agent, to chelate the at least one metal and form a chelate complex of the sulfur compound with the at least one metal and then separating the chelate complex from the fluid.
US11326106B2
A solid hazardous waste pyrolysis process and full-set equipment including a pyrolysis box for hazardous waste and intermittent pyrolysis equipment. The equipment includes an outer and rotatable inner barrel; at least one pyrolysis material placement area is formed in the inner barrel; the placement area formed by multiple groups of guide plates circumferentially arranged on the inner wall of the barrel and baffles arranged on the top of plates at the two ends; each group of plates include vertical and sieve plates that are connected. Hazardous waste placed in the pyrolysis box; a box body is placed between the baffles of the pyrolysis material placement areas; after a pyrolysis device is sealed, heat is carried out to start pyrolysis; the box body rotates at the bottom of the inner barrel; and a material is heated, melts and falls onto the reaction medium below, completing pyrolysis of solid hazardous waste.
US11326099B2
A scintillator for positron emission tomography is provided. The scintillator includes a garnet compound of a formula of A3B2C3O12 and an activator ion consisting of cerium. A3 is A2X. X consists of at least one lanthanide element. A2 is selected from the group consisting of (i), (ii), (iii), and any combination thereof, wherein (i) consists of at least one lanthanide element, (ii) consists of at least one group I element selected from the group consisting of Na and K, and (iii) consists of at least one group II element selected from the group consisting of Ca, Sr, and Ba. B2 consists of Sn, Ti, Hf, Zr, and any combination thereof. C3 consists of Al, Ga, Li, and any combination thereof. The garnet compound is doped with the activator ion.
US11326098B2
A luminophore may have the general empirical formula X3A7Z3O11:E, where: X=Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, and/or Zn; A=Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Cu, and/or Ag; Z=Al, Ga, and/or B; and E=Eu, Ce, Yb, and/or Mn.
US11326096B2
A red light thermally activated delayed fluorescence material, a method for preparing the same, and an organic light emitting diode (OLED) device are provided. The OLED device has a luminescent material layer containing the red light thermally activated delayed fluorescence material. The red light thermally activated delayed fluorescence material has a specific molecular structure. The OLED device has a maximum brightness ranging from 1300 to 1800 cd/m2 and a maximum current efficiency ranging from 25 to 35 cd/A.
US11326093B2
A fracturing fluid may include an aqueous base fluid; a proppant material; and hydrophilic fibers having a length of about 250 microns to 10 millimeters. A method of performing a fracturing operation may include injecting a fracturing fluid comprising hydrophilic fibers having a length of about 250 microns to 10 millimeters and proppant into a wellbore.
US11326091B2
Methods and compositions for treating aqueous fluids that may be included in treatment fluids that are used for treating a subterranean formation. In some embodiments, the methods include: providing a water-based friction reducing additive that includes an aqueous base fluid, a salt, a first friction reducing polymer, and a suspension agent; introducing the water-based friction reducing additive into a treatment fluid; and introducing the treatment fluid into a wellbore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation at a pressure sufficient to create or enhance one or more fractures within the subterranean formation.
US11326079B2
Disclosed is an aqueous bonding composition comprising: (A) a saccharide; (B) a phosphate; and (C) at least one neutralizing agent selected from ammonia and an amine compound having at least one hydroxyl group. The aqueous bonding composition is excellent in balance among bending strength, bending strength under wet condition, water-absorption thickness expansion coefficient and peeling strength and scarcely causes metal to rust. The aqueous bonding composition can be usefully used to produce a wood-based material.
US11326063B2
Provided is a fibrous carbon nanostructure dispersion liquid having excellent fibrous carbon nanostructure dispersibility. The fibrous carbon nanostructure dispersion liquid contains a solvent and one or more fibrous carbon nanostructures having a percentage mass loss of 3.0 mass % or less upon heating from 23° C. to 200° C. at a heating rate of 20° C./min in a nitrogen atmosphere as measured by thermogravimetric analysis.
US11326062B2
Aspects of this disclosure pertain to a colorless material that includes a carrier, copper-containing particles, and either one or both of sodium thiocyanate and titanium dioxide. In one or more embodiments, the material exhibits, in the CIE L*a*b* system, an L* value in the range from about 91 to about 100, and a C* value of less than about 7, wherein C* equals √(a*2+b*2). In some embodiments, the material exhibits a greater than 3 log reduction in a concentration of Staphylococcus aureus, under the EPA Test Method for Efficacy of Copper Alloy as a Sanitizer testing conditions.
US11326051B2
It has been desired to develop a method for producing an oxymethylene polymer, by which an oxymethylene polymer having a high polymerization degree can be produced with high efficiency while suppressing increase in the amount of generation of an odor. Further, it has been desired to develop an oxymethylene polymer resin composition, wherein generation of an odor at the time of molding or after molded to obtain a molded body is suppressed. The present invention provides a method for producing an oxymethylene polymer, wherein the oxymethylene polymer is produced by polymerizing a cyclic oligomer of formaldehyde, and wherein a boron trifluoride compound and an aryl fluoride boron compound are used as polymerization catalysts. The present invention also provides an oxymethylene polymer resin composition containing an oxymethylene polymer and a derivative of an aryl fluoride boron compound.
US11326048B2
A member contains a fluorine-containing polymer and a fluorine-containing surfactant, in which provided that a mass-based content of the fluorine-containing surfactant in at least a surface of a portion of the member is M1, and a mass-based content of the surfactant in a position 10 nm below the surface in a thickness direction of the member is M2, M1/M2 is 0.50 to 0.90, and an atom number ratio X1 of the number of fluorine atoms contained in the surface to the number of carbon atoms contained in the surface is 0.50 to 3.0.
US11326044B2
The resin composition contains: a resin component containing an ethylene-(meth)acrylate ester copolymer and at least one of an ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer or ethylene-acrylate rubber; and a flame retardant, and the resin component is crosslinked. The tensile stress at 19% strain of the resin composition is 2.0 MPa or less, and the resin composition has heat resistance at 150° C. prescribed in JASO D624.
US11326042B1
A foundry dust compound reinforcing filler for natural rubber contains 40-80 parts by weight of foundry dust, 10-40 parts by weight of silica and 10-40 parts by weight of Carbon black. A method for preparing a foundry dust compound reinforcing filler for natural rubber includes the steps of sieving, iron removal, pickling, precipitation, primary grinding, mixing, secondary grinding, granulation and the like. The foundry dust compound reinforcing filler used for reinforcing natural rubber is easy to disperse in natural rubber. The compound reinforcing filler has excellent reinforcing effect, which realizes the resource utilization of casting dust waste and reduces the consumption of silica and carbon black.
US11326040B2
Described herein is curable composition comprising a halogenated amorphous polymer having at least 25% halogen by weight; at least 0.5 phr of an acid acceptor; at least 0.01 phr of silicon-containing compound; and a dehydrohalogenation cure system. Upon curing, a silicon-containing superficial layer forms, which can provide increased durability, non-tackiness, and a matte finish to the cured elastomer.
US11326037B2
A compressible seal (400A) includes a compressible body (406) having a first surface (410) and a second surface. A pattern of discontinuous adhesive regions (412) is formed of an adhesive connected with at least one of the first surface (410) or the second surface of the compressible body (406). The compressible body (406) is operable to conform around the pattern of adhesive regions (412) to prevent fluid ingress when the compressible body (406) is compressed.
US11326036B2
A phenolic resin foam has a density of 30 kg/m3 to 80 kg/m3, a closed cell ratio of 85% or more, and reaches a total amount of heat release of 8 MJ/m2 in a time of 20 minutes or more in a heat release test performed using a cone calorimeter.
US11326021B2
Bellows, for example, a roll bellows and a folding bellows, can be produced that can be used at higher temperatures such as those prevailing in modern articulated constructions, using a mixture comprising at least one thermoplastic elastomer selected from the group of copolysters with a hard segment and a soft segment, wherein in a first step the at least one thermoplastic elastomer is mixed with approximately 0.8 wt. % to approximately 5 wt. % triallyl isocyanurate, based on the total amount of the mixture; in a second step the bellows is produced; and in a third step, the bellows is exposed to an ionizing irradiation in a range from approximately 140 kGy to approximately 350 kGy.
US11326015B1
A method for making a cyanate ester resin includes reacting an arylorganometallic agent with a phosphorous halide in a solvent forming methoxy functionalized triphenylphosphines with one to six meta-methoxy groups. The methoxy functionalized triphenylphosphines with one to six meta-methoxy groups are reacted with an oxidizing agent forming a methoxy functionalized triphenylphosphine oxide including one to six meta-methoxy groups. The methoxy functionalized triphenylphosphine oxide is reacted with a dealkylating agent forming a hydroxy substituted triphenylphosphineoxide including one to six meta-hydroxyl groups. The hydroxy substituted triphenylphosphineoxide is reacted with cyanating reagent and a base forming a substituted triphenylphosphine oxide including one to six meta-cyanate groups. The substituted triphenylphosphine oxide is polymerized forming the cyanate ester resin.
US11326000B2
The invention includes a biaxially oriented, multi-layer film including a base layer, at least one intermediate layer and at least one skin layer. The base layer and at least one intermediate layer includes a blend of crystalline polypropylene wax and a high crystallinity polypropylene.
US11325991B2
Thermoplastic elastomer compositions comprising acrylic multigraft copolymers are described. The multigraft copolymers comprise a rubbery polyacrylate backbone and a plurality of randomly spaced glassy polyacrylate side chains. The multigraft copolymers can be prepared using a facile grafting through method that can provide copolymers with enhanced purity. The acrylic multigraft copolymers exhibit microphase separated morphologies and “superelastomeric” properties, including an elongation at break, stress at break, and/or strain recovery behavior that exceeds that of conventional triblock copolymer polyacrylate thermoplastic elastomers.
US11325980B2
The invention provides methods of treating a subject having or at risk of cancer by administering a LIV-1 antibody drug conjugate and a chemotherapeutic.
US11325977B2
The present invention relates to chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) against multiple but not all human leukocyte antigen (HLA-G) isoforms. More specifically, the invention concerns CARs that are specific for HLA-G β2M-free or β2M-associated immunosuppressive isoforms respectively.
US11325975B2
Blockade of immune checkpoints such as cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4) and programmed death-1 (PD-1) shows promise in patients with cancer. Inhibitory antibodies directed at these receptors have been shown to break immune tolerance and promote anti-tumor immunity. These agents work particularly well in patients with a certain category of tumor. Such tumors may be particularly susceptible to treatment because of the multitude of neoantigens which they produce.
US11325967B2
The present invention is directed to methods of inhibiting or preventing photophobia in subjects in need thereof using anti-CGRP antibodies or antibody fragments that inhibit photophobia, especially CGRP-associated photophobia. These antibodies and fragments are useful in treating different disorders associated with photophobia such as migraine, cluster headaches and the like. The present invention also provides assays using transgenic Nestin/Ramp1 rodents, utilizing a CGRP model light aversive behavior model for identifying therapeutically effective anti-CGRP antibodies and fragments thereof having binding specificity for CGRP which inhibit or prevent photophobia in subjects in need thereof. The present invention is specifically directed to methods for identifying therapeutically effective antibodies and fragments thereof having binding specificity for CGRP that may be used to treat CGRP associated disorders such as migraine. Specifically, this invention relates to assays and therapies using the antibodies described herein to inhibit or prevent photophobia, and binding fragments thereof, comprising the sequences of the VH, VL and CDR polypeptides described herein, and the polynucleotides encoding them.
US11325957B2
The present invention relates to methods and compositions for reducing the immunogenicity of chimeric Notch receptors, and specifically to transcription factors useful for controlling gene expression delivered to tissues by such chimeric Notch receptors.
US11325952B2
The present invention relates to a nucleic acid molecule encoding a fusion protein, wherein the nucleic acid molecule comprises: (a) a first nucleic acid sequence encoding a first biosensor, wherein said first biosensor is a first molecule capable of interacting with a second molecule; (b) a second nucleic acid sequence encoding an effector-activating module, wherein the effector-activating module comprises a nucleic acid sequence encoding a first part of a protease, wherein said first part of the protease is capable of interacting with a second part of said protease to form an active form of said protease; (c) a third nucleic acid sequence encoding a third biosensor comprising a protease cleavage site, wherein the protease cleavage site is sterically occluded in the absence of a stimulus for said third biosensor and wherein the protease cleavage site becomes accessible in the presence of said stimulus.
US11325950B2
The present invention relates to an immunogenic fusion protein comprising a first amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity with the amino acid sequence of the N-terminal region of a first group B Streptococcus surface protein, which is fused to a second amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity with the amino acid sequence of the N-terminal region of a second group B Streptococcus surface protein. Each of the first and the second group B Streptococcus surface protein is selected from the group consisting of Rib protein, Alp1 protein, Alp2 protein, Alp3 protein, Alp4 protein and AlpC protein. The immunogenic fusion protein further comprises at least one amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity with the amino acid sequence of the N-terminal region of the group B streptococcus surface protein Alp1, Alp2, Alp3 or Alp4. The invention further pertains to an isolated nucleotide sequence encoding the immunogenic fusion protein; a vector; a host cell; an immunogenic product, a vaccine; and a method for preventing or treating a group B Streptococcus infection.
US11325947B2
The present invention provides, among other things, a novel and improved method for generating “mosaic” influenza antigenic polypeptides including hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) polypeptides based on unique combination of epitope patterns that maximize exposure to epitopes present across multiple HA or NA sequences and therefore improved influenza strain coverage. In particular, the present invention provides engineered H1N1 influenza hemagglutinin (HA) polypeptides that are comprised of novel combinations of protective epitopes and antigenic regions from multiple H1N1 viral strains. Such engineered HA polypeptides have improved properties over HA polypeptides developed through conventional approaches that rely on consensus alignments of viral sequences.
US11325946B2
The present invention relates to novel immunogens based on overlapping peptides (OLPs) and peptides derived therefrom useful for the prevention and treatment of AIDS and its related opportunistic diseases. The invention also relates to isolated nucleic acids, vectors and host cells expressing these immunogens as well as vaccines including said immunogens.
US11325944B2
The invention relates to macrocyclic peptides and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions for modulating opioid receptor activity.
US11325942B2
Useful chiral specific boron-containing compounds, such as boronate, boronate esters, boranamines, borane diamines, boranamine thioesters, and boronic mono/di-thioesters, have been prepared. These compounds and compositions containing them are useful as anti-cancer or anti-amyloidosis agents.
US11325938B2
Described herein are CD73 inhibitors and pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds. The subject compounds and compositions are useful for the treatment of cancer, infections, and neurodegenerative diseases.
US11325936B2
New 2-deoxy-2,3-dehydro-sialic acids and 2,7-anhydro-sialic acids, which are useful as sialidase inhibitors, and enzymatic methods for preparing them are disclosed. The methods include forming a reaction mixture comprising a glycoside acceptor, a sialic acid donor, and a sialyltransferase; maintaining the reaction mixture under conditions sufficient to form a sialoside; and contacting the sialoside with a Streptococcus pneumoniae sialidase to form the sialic acid product. Methods for the inhibition and sialidases and the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases are also disclosed.
US11325931B2
Methods and compounds are disclosed for treating a disease or condition by inhibiting PSMA (Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen) using prodrugs of 2-PMPA.
US11325929B2
The present invention provides a phosphorus-containing compound characterized by being a compound represented by the following structure: the compound is a novel immune cell migration inhibitor. The compound has good hydrophilicity and can be developed into eye drops. The compound has a strong inhibitory ability to immune cell migration and can relieve the symptoms of most dry-eye patients.
US11325928B2
A modified spray-dried Ziegler-Natta (pro)catalyst system comprising a Ziegler-Natta (pro)catalyst, a carrier material, and a tetrahydrofuran/ethanol modifier; polyolefins; methods of making and using same; and articles containing same.
US11325927B2
An activated, titanium-based, spray-dried Ziegler-Natta catalyst system containing a titanium-based Ziegler-Natta catalyst, a carrier material, and an activator mixture comprising an effective amount of an activator mixture comprising triethylaluminum and diethylaluminum chloride for producing a substantially uniform comonomer composition distribution. Also, polyolefins; methods of making and using same; and articles containing same.
US11325923B2
Siloxanes are prepared by reacting: a compound A with a compound B or a compound A with a compound C or a compound B with a compound C or a compound C alone, in the presence of a compound D at ≥40° C., wherein compound A is a silane or a siloxane having at least one silicon-bonded hydrogen atom, compound B is a silane or a siloxane having at least one silicon-bonded alkoxy moiety, compound C is a silane or a siloxane having at least one silicon-bonded hydrogen atom and at least one silicon-bonded alkoxy moiety, and compound D is a cationic Si(II) compound.
US11325903B2
Disclosed are compounds useful, for example, in methods of treating hyperproliferative disorders such as cancer, methods of arresting the cell cycle in cancer cells, methods of inhibiting glutathione synthesis in cancer cells, and associated compounds for use and uses in medicaments. In certain embodiments, the methods, uses and compounds are provided with reference to compounds of the structural formulae (Ia), (Ib), (Ic), (Id) and (Ie), in which R1, L1, L2, Q, L3, R3, L4, R4, L5, and R5 are as described herein. In certain embodiments, compounds disclosed herein are especially active against cancers having a mutant KRAS gene.
US11325895B2
Provided are type I, III, V and VI crystals of 1-((1R,2R)-2-hydroxy-4,4-dimethyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalen-1-yl)-3-(5-methyl-6-(2-methylpyrimidin-5-yl)-2-phenylpyridin-3-yl)urea which are useful as bulk pharmaceutical crystals. Also provided are type I, III, V and VI crystals of 1-((1R,2R)-2-hydroxy-4,4-dimethyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalen-1-yl)-3-(5-methyl-6-(2-methylpyrimidin-5-yl)-2-phenylpyridin-3-yl)urea having excellent TrkA inhibitory effect, medicines and medicinal composition containing these crystals, and a method for producing these crystals.
US11325890B2
Provided herein are Diaminopyrimidine Compounds having the following structures: wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4 are as defined herein, compositions comprising an effective amount of a Diaminopyrimidine Compound, and methods for treating or preventing liver fibrotic disorders or a condition treatable or preventable by inhibition of a JNK pathway.
US11325886B2
Amide compounds are disclosed. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds as well as methods of treating neurodegenerative diseases that involve administering the compounds or pharmaceutical compositions to a subject.
US11325881B2
The present invention relates to a plasticizer composition and a preparation method therefor and, more specifically, to a plasticizer composition, which contains an anhydrosugar alcohol monoester, an anhydrosugar alcohol diester, and a sugar alcohol ester at a specific content ratio and has improved plasticity and excellent storage stability, and to a preparation method therefor.
US11325879B2
Certain bleached earths improve methods of fatty acid purification.
US11325866B2
An aluminum nitride sintered body for use in a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus is provided. The aluminum nitride sintered body exhibits, in a photoluminescence spectrum thereof in a wavelength range of 350 nm to 700 nm obtained with 250 nm excitation light, a highest emission intensity peak within a wavelength range of 580 nm to 620 nm.
US11325861B1
Multi-solid waste activated concretes with high-silicon iron ore tailings and preparation methods thereof are disclosed. In at least some embodiments, the concrete is prepared from raw materials including 360-380 kg/m3 of a cement, 30-40 kg/m3 of fly ash, 30-40 kg/m3 of a modified ultrafine sand of high-silicon iron ore tailings, 930-950 kg/m3 of a waste stone of tailings, 870-930 kg/m3 of a fine sand of tailings, 160-170 kg/m3 of water, and 4-8 kg/m3 of an additive.
US11325860B2
A colored sapphire material and methods for coloring sapphire material using lasers are disclosed. The method for coloring the sapphire material may include positioning the sapphire material over an opaque substrate material, exposing the opaque substrate material to a laser beam passing through the sapphire material to impact the substrate material, and inducing a chemical change in a portion of the sapphire material exposed to the laser beam. The method may also include creating a visible color in the portion of the sapphire material as a result of the chemical change. The colored sapphire material may include a first transparent portion, and a second, colored portion substantially surrounded by the first portion. The second, colored portion may have a chemical composition different than that of the first portion.
US11325854B2
A process and an apparatus for drying and consolidating an optical fibre preform in a furnace tube comprising a heating chamber, wherein an extension tube having an extension chamber configured to house at least a length portion of the preform is removably joined to the furnace tube and the drying process starts with the preform not completely inserted into the furnace tube, an upper length portion of the preform being surrounded by the extension tube joint to the furnace tube.
US11325851B2
A diluted chemical liquid production apparatus has a structure that has a platinum group metal carrying resin column, a membrane-type deaeration apparatus and a gas dissolving membrane apparatus, which are sequentially provided in a supply line of ultrapure water; and has a pH adjuster injection device and an oxidation-reduction potential adjuster injection device, which are provided between the platinum group metal carrying resin column and the membrane-type deaeration apparatus. An inert gas source is connected to a gaseous phase side of the membrane-type deaeration apparatus, and an inert gas source is also connected to the gaseous phase side of the gas dissolving membrane apparatus; and a discharge line communicates with the gas dissolving membrane apparatus. A pH meter and an ORP meter are provided in the discharge line. Such a diluted chemical liquid production apparatus can control a pH and an oxidation-reduction potential.
US11325844B2
An apparatus and method for decontamination of effluent, includes connecting a first ejector to source of a first motive fluid, directing from the first ejector first motive fluid into piping connected to a source of effluent thus causing the effluent to stream in the piping and simultaneously causing the effluent to be heated, and controlling the directing of the first motive fluid in such a way that a predetermined thermal effect is achieved.
US11325838B2
These surface-modified metal compound particles have metal compound particles the surfaces of which are modified by: at least one first carboxylic acid selected from the group consisting of a methacrylic acid, an acrylic acid, and a propionic acid; and at least one second carboxylic acid selected from the group consisting of a C6-C16 fatty acid and a C7-C32 monovalent carboxylic acid having at least one benzene ring, wherein at least a portion of the first carboxylic acid is a carboxylic acid type in which a hydrogen atom of the carboxy group is not dissociated as an ion.
US11325833B2
A method of making a carbon nanotube composite yarn, the method including growing floating carbon nanotubes in a reactor, forming a mat of carbon nanotubes from the floating carbon nanotubes, a deposition step including depositing secondary particles on at least a portion of the mat of carbon nanotubes to provide a carbon nanotube composite mat, and a densification step including densifying the carbon nanotube composite mat to provide a carbon nanotube composite yarn.
US11325831B2
CNT foams and methods are provided. The methods may include forming, in a non-solvent liquid, a suspension of CNTs and particles of a pyrolytic polymer; removing the non-solvent liquid; and removing the particles of the pyrolytic polymer to produce a CNT foam having cells that at least substantially correspond to the dimensions of the particles of the pyrolytic polymer. CNT foams having porous structures also are provided.
US11325829B2
The invention relates to a method for producing hydrogen gas and optionally a carbonaceous product from a hydrocarbon fuel, comprising: introducing a flowing stream of said fuel into a reaction chamber of a reactor, wherein said reaction chamber has at least one wall and a heating zone which is heated by a heat source, heating said fuel in said heating zone to effect pyrolytic decomposition of said hydrocarbon fuel to produce said hydrogen gas and optionally said carbonaceous product; wherein the ratio of C:O (mol/mol) in the reaction chamber is greater than 20:1; and characterized in that the heat source heats the hydrocarbon fuel in the heating zone by radiated heat to an average temperature of greater than 2000° C. The invention also relates to an apparatus for carrying out the method of the invention.
US11325828B2
A method for manufacturing a millimeter scale electromechanical device includes coupling a stainless steel ply to a polymer carrier ply, coating the stainless steel ply in a photo resist material, masking the photoresist material, exposing the photoresist material to cure a portion of the photoresist material, developing the photoresist material to remove uncured photoresist material from the stainless steel ply, chemically etching the stainless steel ply to remove a patterned portion of the stainless steel ply, dissolving the polymer carrier ply to release unwanted chips of the stainless steel ply, and adhering the patterned stainless steel ply to a flexible material ply to form a sub-laminate.
US11325825B2
A fleet refueling silo tank system gravity feeds fuel through hoses to fleet units without requiring pressurizing pumps. A specialized valve at the fleet unit fuel tank prevents vapor escape and admits fuel at low, gravity-feed pressures. The valve includes a valve body with an upper end and a lower end, the upper end adapted to engage a cap which affixes the valve body to the fuel tank fill mouth. Below the cap, a fuel cut-off plunger and seat selectively interrupt fuel flow through the mouth by responding to a buoyant float extending coaxially beneath the valve body and into the fuel tank. Linkage coupled to the plunger extends through the valve body to the float, and roller bearings within the valve body engage a shaft extending from the float coaxially into the lower end of the valve body.
US11325823B2
The systems and methods of fuel vapor recovery and use comprise a cryogenic condensation module and a fuel tank of a service station. The cryogenic condensation module comprises a cryogenic vaporizer that lowers the temperature of fuel vapors via condensation. The cryogenic condensation module also comprises a processing element that processes the fuel vapors that have not been condensed via the cryogenic vaporizer. The fuel tank is connected to the cryogenic condensation module by a ventilation pipe and a return pipe. The ventilation pipe is capable of displacing the fuel vapors to the cryogenic condensation module. The return pipe is capable of returning condensed fuel vapors to the fuel tank.
US11325820B2
A beverage distribution system for preparation of espresso coffee and similar aromatic beverages, including a drinking recipient (1, 1′), for example of type glass, cup, or similar, a beverage discharge disposition (2) operatively associated with a beverage preparation device (3), whereby the beverage discharge disposition is provided so that the beverage discharge flow impinges, with a given flow pressure, a flow regulation disposition (12) on the base region (11) of the drinking recipient (1, 1′) along a direction opposite gravity, whereby the drinking recipient has first and second recipient parts (11, 12) adapted to be removably retained and that, in an assembled condition, provide fluid connection through a flow passageway (110) that develops along a single direction and to confine the beverage flow downstream of flow constrain means (16) and upstream of the entry of beverage flow in the region of the base wall (111) of the collection space.
US11325817B2
A device for producing filled containers has a transport device which is configured for transporting containers which are filled with a liquid and are closed by a closure. Furthermore, the apparatus has a penetration device which is configured for producing an opening in at least one region of the closure and/or of the container, and an application device, which applies a flowable and in particular gaseous medium to the interior of the container through this opening (or feeds the gaseous medium to this interior). Furthermore, the apparatus has a closing device which closes the opening again.
US11325816B2
A lifting apparatus and controller therefore, where the lifting apparatus includes independently driven lifting columns and independently driven wheels that are controlled by a controller having a number of sensors such as limit sensors, position sensors, rotation sensors, laser sensors, torque sensors and the like. The independent motors for lifting and driving may also be removed easily to provide for improved servicing and maintenance. The various sensor signals are used to calculate, coordinate and calibrate the apparatus for precise and safe movement by the motors in order to perform lifting and positioning operations, for example rail car repair and service.
US11325811B2
The disclosure relates to a mine shaft conveyance safety brake for controlling the rate of deceleration of a free-falling conveyance, operating within or upon fixed shaft guides, in a vertical, substantially vertical or inclined mine shaft. The safety brake includes an activation system, one or more guide clamp assemblies operable for locking onto one or more shaft guides, one or more braking assemblies and one or more brake paths attached upon the conveyance. Upon detection of a conveyance suspension failure or slack rope condition associated with a free-falling or obstructed condition of the conveyance, the activation system is triggered, causing each guide clamp assembly to self-lock onto a shaft guide. Upon further downward travel of the conveyance, the braking assemblies travel upwardly upon the brake paths, generating increasing braking forces in a controlled manner until the conveyance comes to a controlled stop. The safety brake is purely mechanical in nature, as there are no electronics, electro-mechanical controls or hydraulic systems involved.
US11325807B2
A line-handling device is for letting out, winding up and locking a line. The line-handling device has: a first handle; a substantially flat reel which is rotatable relative to the first handle; a line-guiding part which is fixed relative to the first handle; a locking mechanism for locking the reel in a non-rotatable position; and an attachment element for a tautening device, the reel being displaceable relative to the first handle parallel to the rotational axis of the reel. A line-handling system is for suspending a line between two anchoring points and a method is for suspending a line between two anchoring points.
US11325803B2
A gluing device of an end edge of a log including an introduction assembly into the gluing device of a log, a handling assembly for a log associated to detection device of the end edge and including a pair of rolls for advancement and holding in rotation of the log, a glue dispensing assembly and a transfer assembly of the log including a transfer plane positioned downstream of the lower handling roller. The glue dispensing assembly is placed in series between the lower handling roll and the transfer plane and includes a transverse tank for the glue, housing cyclically movable glue transfer members. The transverse tank is provided with an upper cover provided with a plurality of openings provided in succession side by side at a set distance along a transverse row. The movable glue transfer members include a plurality of tips provided in succession along a transverse row, alternatively projecting through the relevant openings and retracted within the transverse tank because of the cyclical movement.
US11325795B1
Systems and methods for the modification of loading dock environments are provided that allow trailers and shipping containers on chassis' to park at a loading dock with closed doors and have these doors opened into the loading dock environment and resealed while the trailer remains at the loading dock.
US11325794B2
An unloading conveyor system for unloading grain through the floor of a grain bin. A removeable cover is vertically supported by the plurality of ribs to cover the span of the midpan to allow maintenance. The midpan comprises a plurality of slots and ledges to receive and support the ribs to allow easy installation and maintenance. A central pit having an internal portion and an access support wall also provides easy installation and maintenance. The first bearing mount, second bearing mount, and roller are all accessible for service through the internal portion of the central pit.
US11325792B2
A loading station for a pocket conveyor having two conveying lines. The loading station has a receiving section for receiving pockets for each conveying line; a receiving section for objects, with which the pockets are to be loaded; and a device for each conveying line, into each of which an empty pocket to be filled can be introduced. In addition, the loading station has a moving unit for moving the devices from a receiving section for objects to one of the receiving sections for receiving pockets, and back again. The loading station is also designed to alternately load the pockets of the first conveying line and the pockets of the second conveying line.
US11325791B2
A storage apparatus for transport goods includes a first conveyor, a second conveyor and a deflecting mechanism for deflecting transport goods conveyed by the first conveyor onto the second conveyor. A motor configuration is provided for motorized driving of the first conveyor and/or the second conveyor. A step is provided over which the transport goods are conveyed. The storage apparatus is configured to vertically compress the transport goods with the aid of the step. A method for storing transport goods, in particular packages, is also provided.
US11325788B2
A two-loop cross-belt sorter includes at least one loop-shaped track (1); two cross-belt trolley groups (2), and forms two side-by-side conveyance loops able to circulate on the loop-shaped track (1), and a power apparatus (3) that drives the two cross-belt trolley groups (2) to move along the loop-shaped track (1). The two-loop cross-belt sorter uses two sets of trolleys on a loop-shaped track, allows the space inside the loop to be utilized and the quantity of cross-belt trolleys to be increased without increasing the area occupied by the sorter, thus doubling sorting capacity, while allowing parcels to be transferred between cross-belt trolleys on the two conveyance loops, thereby reducing the idle rate of the trolleys.
US11325775B2
A single-use means for preparing a beverage from an infusible product, containing a bendable sheet-like base with a designated bend line, and a moisture-permeable bag for brewing a product, wherein the bag has an upper portion attached by one side to the sheet-like base, and an unattached lower portion, wherein the sheet-like base and the bag are designed and mutually arranged such that the sheet-like base can cover a vessel containing a liquid, in which the bag is immersed during the brewing of a product, and such that the product can be squeezed after brewing by bending the sheet-like base and pressing the bag from two opposing sides using the bent sheet-like base, wherein to allow more careful squeezing of an infusion from the product in the bag after brewing, the region in which the attached side of the upper portion of the bag is attached to the sheet-like base is situated along a line that intersects the bend line of the sheet-like base, wherein the line along which the attachment region of the bag is situated substantially coincides with the bend of the bag in its suspended state on the base during use.
US11325773B2
A spray canister dispenser for mounting to a spray canister to allow for more convenient actuation of a nozzle. The spray canister dispenser includes a housing that removably mounts to an upper end of a spray canister. A first channel is disposed on an interior sidewall of the housing and can align with a lip of the spray canister to selectively couple thereto. An actuator assembly having a trigger handle and an actuator extends from a moveable plate secured to the housing and can transition between a dispensing and resting configuration. In the dispensing configuration, the actuator is forced against a spray canister nozzle to dispense substance therefrom. In use, the trigger handle is positioned on a forward side of the spray canister, wherein the housing is on a rearward side of the canister. An aperture is disposed within the trigger handle to allow the substance to be dispensed therethrough.
US11325769B2
A cushioning packaging material for packaging one or more electronic products and the like is disclosed. The cushioning packaging material includes a cushioning portion provided with a plurality of air pockets, an air distribution portion provided with a distribution passage through which air is distributed into the plurality of air pockets, and an air inlet provided at one side of the air distribution portion. The air inlet is closed after completion of air injection. Thus, air leakage through the air inlet is prevented and cushioning force reduction caused by air leakage is also prevented.
US11325765B1
A weighting device for audio equipment may include a container and an outer casing. The container includes an interior volume that contains or is configured to contain a filler material and that is defined by one or more sidewalls that are impermeable to the filler material. The filler material may include a liquid, solid, slurry, or non-Newtonian fluid. The outer casing includes an interior volume configured to receive the container. The outer casing has an exterior side comprising a rubberized material, non-abrasive material, slick material, soft cloth, or non-abrading polymer material to prevent damage to the audio equipment.
US11325757B2
A re-closable vent for a container closure which requires no pre-formed holes in the closure deck, provides a tamper-evident feature, and provides simple rotation of a cap structure to open and a vent after punching out a frangible deck section.
US11325753B2
A thermal pizza slice container apparatus for transporting a pizza slice and maintaining temperature includes a base having a base bottom side, a base sidewall, and an open base top side defining a base cavity. The base bottom side is sector-shaped and configured to accommodate a slice of pizza. A bottom lip is coupled to a perimeter of the open base top side. A lid has a lid top side, a lid sidewall, and an open lid bottom side defining a lid cavity. The lid top side is sector-shaped and conforms to the base bottom side. The lid sidewall has a flared lower portion that is selectively engageable with the bottom lip to seal and alternatively unseal the base cavity and the lid cavity. The base and the lid are each comprised of an outer shell layer and an inner insulation layer.
US11325750B2
A container for storing at least one personal care item includes a base plate and well. The base plate defines an aperture and has top and bottom surfaces. The well passes through the aperture and has: an open top portion and a closed bottom portion collectively defining a chamber accessible through the top portion, a seat abutting the bottom surface, and a flange overlying a portion of the base plate. A cap is removably secured atop the chamber and abuts the flange such that the flange seals between the cap and the base plate when the cap is secured atop the chamber. The well has an uppermost point and a lowermost point and a height defined therebetween, and the lowermost point is collapsible toward the uppermost point to a maximum distance of: at least forty percent of the height and no more than sixty percent of the height.
US11325744B2
A carton box includes a main body and at least one fastening module removably mounted on the main body. The main body includes two first face boards and two second face boards. One of the first face boards is provided with a first movable plate. The other one of the first face boards is provided with a second movable plate. The main body is provided with at least one locking slot. The at least one fastening module includes a first fastener member mounted on the second movable plate and a second fastener member located in the at least one locking slot of the main body. The second fastener member is detachably connected with the first fastener member.
US11325743B2
A retail ready package configured for division into two separate product display cases is disclosed wherein two rows of products are arranged side-by-side within the package in a vertical front facing display orientation relative to the left and right lower front panels of the package.
US11325725B2
The present invention comprises: a fatigue estimation unit that estimates the fatigue life of a prescribed area of a fuselage, on the basis of the level of damage in the prescribed area during operation; a determination unit that determines whether the estimated fatigue life will be reached after a prescribed period of time has elapsed; a repair determination unit that determines that repair of the fuselage is unnecessary if a determination is made that the estimated fatigue life will be reached after the prescribed period of time has elapsed, and that determines that the fuselage is to be repaired if a determination is made that the estimated fatigue life will be reached within the prescribed period of time; and a selection unit that, if a determination is made that the fuselage is to be repaired, selects a repair method corresponding to the detected degree of damage in the prescribed area.
US11325721B2
An inerting system comprises an air separating device having an enclosure (40) having at least one air inlet (46) and one outlet (48) for oxygen-depleted air. The air separating device (18) is configured to generate, from an air inlet flow coming from the air inlet (46) of the enclosure (40), an outlet flow of oxygen-depleted air and to discharge the outlet flow of oxygen-depleted air through the outlet (48) for oxygen-depleted air. The inerting system (14) comprises a heating system (20), outside the enclosure (40), configured to heat at least one region of the enclosure (40).
US11325720B2
A system for power and data communications within a fuel tank and across a wall of the fuel tank includes a fuel height sensor and a sealed connector extending through a wall of a fuel tank. The system also includes an electric power connection between the fuel height sensor and the sealed connector. The system additionally includes an internal data communications connection between the fuel height sensor and the sealed connector, wherein the electric power connection comprises a resistive non-metallic wire.
US11325716B2
A nacelle inlet may comprise a lip skin and a bulkhead mounted to the lip skin. The lip skin may define an orifice. The bulkhead may comprise a forward face, a first flange extending axially from an outer circumference of the forward face, and a ventilation groove formed in the forward face. The ventilation groove may be circumferentially aligned with the orifice.
US11325707B2
An automation system, comprising a control device for controlling at least one machine, and at least one unmanned aircraft. The control device is designed to control the unmanned aircraft to support an operation of the machine.
US11325695B2
A rotor blade of a rotary wing aircraft includes a core defining a trailing edge of the rotor blade and a skin extending from the trailing edge defining an opening including the core. The skin defines an aerodynamic surface of the rotor blade. The rotor blade additionally includes at least one trim tab assembly including a trim portion extending from the core beyond the trailing edge of the rotor blade and an actuation system including at least one actuator disposed within the core. The actuation system is operable to adjust an angle of the trim portion relative to the rotor blade.
US11325691B2
An assembly that comprises a first part and a second part. The second part comprises a non-faying surface facing the base surface, a plurality of faying surfaces manifested at bosses that are shimmed if and as required, and a plurality of second through-holes. A width of each one of the plurality of bosses is equal to or greater than 2(r+T tan θ), where r is a maximum radial dimension of an outermost peripheral portion of a fastener in contact with the first part or the second part, T is the distance from the point of contact, between a fastener and the first part or the second part, and a faying surface of a corresponding boss, and θ is an angle between a central axis of the corresponding second through-hole and an outermost load vector initiating at the point of contact between the fastener and the first part or the second part.
US11325684B2
The present disclosure provides an inflatable kayak. The inflatable kayak includes an inflatable floor having two ends defined upward; two inflatable gunwales arranged on the left and right sides of the inflatable floor, the height of the upper edge at both ends of the inflatable gunwale being higher than the height at the middle of the inflatable gunwale, allowing the height of the prow and the stern of the inflatable kayak to be no less than the height at the middle of the inflatable kayak; and a reinforcing assembly including a bottom reinforcing layer, a prow hatchway cover, and a stern hatchway cover, the bottom reinforcing layer at least covering the joints of the inflatable floor and the two inflatable gunwales. The prow hatchway cover connects the two inflatable gunwales at the prow, and the stern hatchway cover connects the two inflatable gunwales at the stern.
US11325682B2
An apparatus for reliquefaction of boil-off gas for a vessel, comprises: a compression unit for compressing the boil-off gas discharged from the storage tank; and a heat exchanger for heat-exchanging the compressed boil-off gas compressed by the compression unit with the boil-off gas discharged from the storage tank; a first expansion means for dividing the boil-off gas passing through the heat exchanger into at least two flows including a first flow and a second flow, and expanding the divided first flow; a first intercooler for cooling the second flow remaining after the division of the first flow by using the first flow expanded by the expansion means as a refrigerant; and a receiver for receiving a second flow having passed through the first intercooler, in which a downstream pressure of the compression unit is controlled by a flow discharged from the receiver.
US11325672B2
The present disclosure provides a method for controlling an electric scooter and electric scooter, wherein the method comprises: a first target operation performed on the electric scooter is detected in a case that the electric scooter is unlocked by using a target account; the electric scooter is set to be in a temporarily locked state in response to the first target operation, wherein the electric scooter in the temporarily locked state is set to allow to be unlocked only by the target account within a target duration after detecting the first target operation the electric scooter in the temporarily locked state is unlocked in a case that a second target operation performed on the electric scooter is detected within the target duration. The present disclosure solves the problem existed in the method for controlling an electric scooter in the related art that the electric scooter is easily used by others when the electric scooter is temporarily stopped using.
US11325671B2
The present invention provides a headlight provided on a front side of a vehicle and configured to illuminate the front side of the vehicle, including a first board provided with a first light source, a second board provided with a second light source, and a reflecting portion provided between the first board and the second board, wherein the reflecting portion includes a first reflector configured to reflect light from the first light source, and a second reflector configured to reflect light from the second light source, the first board and the second board are arranged to face each other while sandwiching the first reflector and the second reflector, and a space irradiated with the light from the first light source and a space irradiated with the light from the second light source define one continuous space.
US11325670B2
A saddle riding vehicle includes a front fork including a pair of left and right fork tubes and a pair of top and bottom bridges connecting the left and right fork tubes, a headlight, and an electric part accommodating member accommodating electric parts, the electric part accommodating member being disposed on the rear side of the headlight in a space surrounded by the left and right fork tubes and the top and bottom bridges. The electric part accommodating member includes a fastening section fixed to the front fork by a fastening member and a fitting section fitted and fixed to the bridge.
US11325668B2
The invention relates to a shock-absorbing seat tube, including an outer tube and an inner tube sleeved within the outer tube. The inner tube is adapted for connection to a bicycle saddle from below through a joint. The seat tube is provided with a height adjustment device having a supporting end inserted into the inner tube, and a shock-absorbing device disposed in the inner tube at a position above the height adjustment device and includes a fixing part and a damper part. The fixing part passes at its top end through the inwardly protruded portion of the inner tube and is arranged in the barrel portion of the inner tube. The damper part is arranged between the inwardly protruded portion and the supporting end.
US11325663B2
A car having: a passenger compartment; a body surrounding the passenger compartment and having: a roof, a tail provided with a rear bumper, and a joining portion connecting the 5 roof to the tail; a rear spoiler, which is arranged at the end of the joining portion in the area of the tail; and a deflector panel, which is arranged on the joining portion, is directly hit by an air flow brushing the joining portion during the travel and is mounted in a movable manner so as 10 to move between a rest position, in which the deflector panel rests on the joining portion, and an active position, in which the deflector panel is lifted and spaced apart from the joining portion.
US11325661B2
An apparatus for a trailer is provided that has a top fairing configured for being mounted to a top surface of the trailer at a location closer to the back of the trailer than the front of the trailer. The trailer has a longitudinal direction, a lateral direction, and a vertical direction. First and second side fairings are also included and are configured for being mounted to respective first and second side surfaces of the trailer. Additionally, first and second trailer skirts are configured for being carried by the trailer and are part of the apparatus. First and second trailer rear skirts are likewise included and are located rearward of the first and second trailer skirts. The combination of components provides aerodynamic benefit to the trailer.
US11325651B2
There is provided a vehicle body structure, including: a die-cast rear floor side member; and a metal rear floor side member rear, a joint section including: an inner joint section provided at a side of the rear floor side member, the inner joint section including at least three joining faces including an upper face provided at an upper portion, in a vehicle vertical direction, of the inner joint section and two faces positioned with orientations intersecting the upper face in a cross-section profile of the inner joint section sectioned along the vehicle vertical direction and the vehicle width direction, and an outer joint section provided at the side of the rear floor side member rear, the outer joint section abutted against and joined to the three joining faces of the inner joint section from an outer side of the inner joint section.
US11325645B2
A vehicle comprises a chassis supported by wheels for moveably carrying the chassis in a driving direction, a steering wheel for turning a steering column around a rotation axis, and a steering angle sensor for measuring a rotation angle of the steering column with an encoder that is stationary to the steering column and with a magnet sensor that is disposed axially displaced from the encoder on the rotation axis. The encoder includes a first magnet with a top side directed to the magnet sensor and a second magnet attached to the first magnet opposite to the top side. The first magnet includes a recess starting from the top side, and each magnet is magnetized orthogonal to the rotation axis. The first magnet and the second magnet are displaced against each other in rotation direction. The recess has a depth lower than an axial thickness of the first magnet.
US11325638B2
A dual-mode active rear-wheel steering device, including: a steering motor, a main shaft, an intermediate gear, a transmission gear, a planetary gear coupling mechanism and a mode switching assembly. An output end of the steering motor is provided with a first input gear. An end of the main shaft drives a first rear wheel to rotate by a two-stage gear transmission system and a first rear-wheel motion conversion mechanism, and the other end of the main shaft drives a second rear wheel to rotate by the planetary gear coupling mechanism and a second rear-wheel motion conversion mechanism. The intermediate gear, the transmission gear and a sun gear of the planetary gear coupling mechanism are provided on the main shaft. The intermediate gear meshes with the first input gear.
US11325631B2
A stroller and foldable frame assembly for a stroller includes a locking mechanism adjustable between a locked position and an unlocked position. The locking mechanism is configured to releasably lock the foldable frame assembly in its use configuration and/or storage configuration by releasably and internally locking at least one of a respective swivel joint assembly of the frame assembly. The locking mechanism includes an actuation element configured to adjust the locking mechanism between the unlocked and the locked position that is arranged spaced apart transversely to a swivel axis of the respective at least one internally lockable swivel joint.
US11325627B2
A foldable cart comprising an upper frame, a lower frame, and a plurality of legs attached to and supporting the upper frame and the lower frame is disclosed. Each leg is configured to be folded into a folded configuration from an erect configuration. Each leg comprises a lock configured to hold the leg in the erect configuration. The lock comprises a lock bar movable between a locking position and an unlocking position, an internal support brace, wherein the lock bar extends through the internal support brace, and a spring configured to bias the lock bar into the locking position to hold the leg in the erect configuration. The lock bar is spring-loaded against the internal support brace, wherein the entire length of the spring surrounds the lock bar, and wherein the spring is confined entirely within the internal support brace.
US11325625B2
Systems and methods for railway asset management. The methods comprise: using a virtual reality device to recognize and collect real world information about railway assets located in a railyard; and using the real world information to (i) associate a railway asset to a data collection unit, (ii) provide an individual with an augmented reality experience associated with the railyard and/or (iii) facilitate automated railyard management tasks.
US11325620B2
A portable rope tow assembly is used to transport people, typically skiing or snowboarding, along snow covered ground and usually up hill. The assembly is extremely lightweight, portable and rapid to deploy. It uses a variable frequency drive to control an electric drive motor, and enables convenient variable speed and reverse direction operation.
US11325614B2
A system for providing a speed profile of a self-driving vehicle includes a vehicle driving information prediction device, and a speed profile generation device, wherein the vehicle driving prediction device includes a navigation unit configured to set information on a drive route and a target travel time, a 3D map information provision unit configured to search for gradient information of the drive route set by the navigation unit, and a vehicle driving information provision unit, and wherein the speed profile generation device includes a vehicle energy consumption calculation unit configured to calculate energy consumption at a current speed of the vehicle when the vehicle runs along the set drive route, and a speed profile calculation unit configured to calculate a distance-based target speed profile by executing a dynamic programming algorithm.
US11325613B2
An automatic driving system allows a vehicle to travel by automatic driving. The system includes first and second detectors and first and second determiners. The first detector is disposed on a movable part of the vehicle and detects an object located around the vehicle. The second detector is disposed on the vehicle and has an object detection region that partially overlaps a detection region of the first detector. The first determiner determines whether a detection state of the first detector based on a position of the object detected by the second detector and behavior of the object estimated from a detection position of the first detector and a traveling state of the vehicle. The automatic driving availability determiner determines availability of the automatic driving according to the detection state of the first detector and disables the automatic driving when the first detector is not in a regular detection state.
US11325609B2
A vehicle driving assist system includes an imaging device, an alarm, and a controller. The controller includes a facial recognition unit, an occupant determination unit, and a loss determination unit. The facial recognition unit recognizes at least a part of an occupant's face in first captured images acquired from the imaging device. The occupant determination unit determines a driving state of the occupant on the basis of a second captured image in which at least the part of the face is recognizable, and generate a first alert request if the occupant is unable to drive the vehicle. The loss determination unit generates a second alert request if a third captured image in which at least the part of the face is unrecognizable occurs two or more times. The alarm outputs an alert to the occupant on the basis of the first and second alert requests.
US11325603B2
Systems and methods for estimating lane geometry are disclosed herein. One embodiment receives sensor data from one or more sensors; detects a road agent based on the sensor data; detects, based on the sensor data, that the road agent has performed a lane shift from a first lane of a roadway to a second lane of the roadway; and estimates a boundary line between the first lane of the roadway and the second lane of the roadway based, at least in part, on the detected lane shift.
US11325600B2
The present invention provides a vehicle control method capable of suppressing an increase in the frequency of stopping and restarting of the engine when the braking device is activated at the self-driving mode. When the operation mode is set as self-driving, the braking device is activated in accordance with a system deceleration request to keep an actual vehicle-speed at a target vehicle-speed or change the actual vehicle-speed at the target vehicle-speed or lower depending on environment surrounding the vehicle. Further, a braking amount is estimated, the braking amount is a magnitude of a braking force generated from the activated braking device. When the braking amount is an engine-stopping enabling threshold or more, enabling stopping is allowed. When the braking amount is less than the engine-stopping enabling threshold, enabling stopping is not allowed.
US11325598B2
A travel assisting method for a vehicle which is executed by a processor, comprising: generating a vehicle speed command value based on vehicle information of a subject vehicle; calculating the vehicle speed command value at a predetermined time (a look-ahead time) ahead of a current time based on information of a feature existing ahead of the subject vehicle in a travelling direction, as a look-ahead vehicle speed command value; and controlling the subject vehicle based on the look-ahead vehicle speed command value. Further, a lighting state of a traffic light located around the subject vehicle is detected, and the look-ahead time is set based on the lighting state.
US11325595B2
In vehicle platooning, when road surface information is received from a preceding vehicle, an ECU determines whether a specific spot on a road included in the road surface information can be avoided. That is, the ECU determines whether avoidance control can be performed. When it is determined that the avoidance control can be performed, the ECU transmits the road surface information received from the preceding vehicle to a following vehicle, and performs the avoidance control to avoid the specific spot on the road. In contrast, when it is determined that the avoidance control cannot be performed, the ECU ends a process without performing the avoidance control.
US11325592B2
Techniques are provided for operation of a vehicle using multiple motion constraints. The techniques include identifying an object using one or more processors of a vehicle. The vehicle has a likelihood of collision with the object that is greater than a threshold. The processors generate multiple motion constraints for operating the vehicle. At least one motion constraint includes a minimum speed of the vehicle greater than zero to avoid a collision of the vehicle with the object. The processors identify one or more motion constraints for operating the vehicle to avoid a collision of the vehicle with the object. The processors operate the vehicle in accordance with the identified motion constraints.
US11325589B2
This vehicle control device comprises: action amount determination units that determine evasive action amounts indicating the degree of evasive action relative to a recognized obstacle; and a travel control unit that performs travel control whereby a vehicle is caused to take evasive action corresponding to the determined evasive action amount. The action amount determination units determine the amount of evasive action, according to user preferences for the vehicle.
US11325585B2
A clutch control method for a hybrid vehicle with a DCT is provided. The method includes determining an energy-saving possible period based on a selection state of shifting ranges, operation states of an accelerator pedal and a brake pedal, and the gradient of a road on which the vehicle is driven. An operation current is set for maintaining a clutch, which is configured to engage the first gear, engaged as 0 A in response to determining that a current state of the vehicle is in the energy-saving possible period.
US11325581B2
A control system for a hybrid vehicle configured to start an engine promptly during propulsion in an electric vehicle mode. Electric power generation resulting from cranking the engine by a first motor is greater in the first electric vehicle mode compared to a second electric vehicle mode. A controller that is configured to determines whether an acceptable input power to an electric storage unit is smaller than a threshold value. If the acceptable input power to the electric storage unit is smaller than the threshold value, selection of the first electric vehicle mode is inhibited.
US11325569B2
A dump-truck fluid assistance system and method for prevention and remediation of material sticking to the truck bed and dampening generation of dust, at different stages of loading, transport, and dumping operations. Fluid is emitted from one or more outflow manifolds inside the bed of the dump truck for one or more purposes of lubricating the truck bed, regulating the temperature of the truck bed, physically flushing material from the truck bed, and dampening generation of airborne particles or dust. Under the control of a controller having a controller transceiver, directed via a cab operator transceiver or remote operator transceiver, a fluid pump sends fluid from a fluid reservoir via a fluid line into the outflow manifolds that emit the flow of fluid variously as spray, stream, jet, drip, or weep, into the bed of the dump truck.
US11325565B2
A vehicle recognition device includes a vehicle recognizer and a wiper controller. The vehicle recognizer is configured to determine, upon a first state, whether a transition is made from the first state to a second state. The first state is a state in which a second vehicle is recognizable from captured images obtained from respective cameras provided in a first vehicle. The second state is a state in which the second vehicle is unrecognizable from one or more of the captured images. The one or more of the captured images is obtained from all or a part of the cameras. The wiper controller is configured to automatically control an operation of a wiper of the first vehicle on the basis of an automatic control, when the vehicle recognizer determines that the transition is made from the first state to the second state.
US11325562B1
A wire-management module is configured to be installable to a vehicle having an operable system configured to be energized in response to operative connection between a first wire and a second wire. A user-authentication module is configured to transmit a wire-management signal including a wire-inhibit signal configured to indicate lack of authorization to use the operable system of the vehicle. The wire-management module is configured to be operatively coupled to the first wire and the second wire. The wire-management module has a signal input port configured to receive the wire-inhibit signal that is transmittable from the user-authentication module. The wire-management module is also configured to inhibit operative connection between the first wire and the second wire.
US11325555B2
A vehicle seat comprises a seating portion and a back rest the angle of inclination is adjustable in relation to the seating portion, where at least the back rest is of modular design made of a plurality of upholstered elements, the upholstered elements each comprising a preformed foam part surrounded, at least in part, by a cushion cover, the upholstered elements made in this manner are put together via fasteners in modular fashion to form the back rest adjustable in inclination.
US11325545B2
A rotary connector device is provided, which includes a moving member on a stator side in an insertion direction of a steering shaft, the moving member including a first recessed portion recessed in the insertion direction and located in a first direction (X) orthogonal to a center axis (Cx) of the stator, and a second recessed portion recessed in a direction opposite to the first recessed portion and located in a second direction (Y); a rotator including a first guide portion configured to loosely fit together with and guide the first recessed portion; a rotating portion provided in the stator and configured to rotate about the center axis (Cx) includes a second guide portion configured to loosely fit together with and guide the second recessed portion; and the first recessed portion and the second recessed portion are capable of movement in the first direction (X) and the second direction (Y).
US11325542B2
An airbag device attached to a vehicle body frame member and covered by a garnish is configured such that when a bag body is deployed, the airbag device pushes out the garnish to create a gap between the garnish and the vehicle body frame member to allow the bag body to be inflated out of the gap. The clip for securing the garnish to the vehicle body frame member includes a first member configured to be fixed to the vehicle body frame member, a second member configured to be fixed to the garnish, and a connecting member for keeping the first member and the second member connected when the airbag is deployed. The connecting member is tiltable with respect to the first member and the second member so that the movable range of the clip can be maximized without using flexible material for the connecting member.
US11325536B2
A lighted exterior mirror system suitable for use in a vehicle includes a lighted exterior rearview mirror assembly having a light module, which includes a planar circuit board and a light guiding element. The light module includes a plurality of illumination sources disposed on a mounting side of the circuit board and operable to emit light. When the illumination sources are actuated, light emitted by each of the illumination sources is emitted in a direction normal to the mounting side of the planar circuit board. The light guiding element is configured so that light emitted by the illumination sources is redirected by the light guiding element so that light emanates from the light guiding element in a direction parallel to the mounting side of the planar circuit board and parallel to the road surface.
US11325533B2
A vehicular interior rearview mirror assembly includes a mounting portion, a mirror casing and a mirror reflective element. The reflective element includes a glass substrate having a planar front surface, a planar rear surface and a circumferential perimeter edge around a periphery of the glass substrate that extends across a thickness dimension separating the planar front surface from the planar rear surface. A front perimeter edge portion of the circumferential perimeter edge includes a rounded glass surface circumferentially around the periphery of the glass substrate, with the rounded glass surface at least partially spanning the thickness dimension of the glass substrate. The rounded glass surface has a radius of curvature of at least 2.5 mm. The planar rear surface of the glass substrate is coated with a coating. No portion of the mirror casing overlaps onto the rounded glass surface of the glass substrate.
US11325528B2
A rear turn lamp has a structure formed of divided components, i.e., a first lamp unit provided to a fixed portion of a vehicle body and a second lamp unit provided to a movable portion of the vehicle body. The first lamp unit is provided with a controller. A first lighting circuit turns on multiple first light sources. A second lighting circuit turns on multiple second light sources.
US11325526B2
A headlamp control device configured to control a headlamp which illuminates forward of a vehicle, is provided. The device includes a visibility detector configured to detect visibility of a road state forward of the vehicle, and a headlamp controlling module configured to control brightness of the headlamp. The headlamp controlling module is able to adjust light emitted from the headlamp so that a brightness gradient that is a difference of brightness of a part distant from the vehicle and brightness of a part closer to the vehicle is changed. When a deterioration in the visibility is detected, the headlamp controlling module executes a brightness adjusting control in which the brightness gradient is increased by making the brightness of the part closer to the vehicle higher than the brightness of the part distant from the vehicle, as compared with the brightness gradient when the deterioration in the visibility is not detected.
US11325524B2
Various embodiments include methods and vehicles, such as an autonomous vehicle, a semi-autonomous vehicle, etc., for collaboratively directing one or more headlights by two or more vehicles. Various aspects may include receiving, by a first vehicle processor, a first vehicle collaborative lighting message from a second vehicle, in which the first vehicle collaborative lighting message requests that the first vehicle direct one or more headlights of the first vehicle to illuminate a target area of uncertainty that is disposed, relative to the first vehicle, in a direction other than a direction of travel of the first vehicle. The first vehicle processor may direct one or more the headlights of the first vehicle to illuminate the target area in accordance with the first vehicle collaborative lighting message.
US11325517B2
A tailgate apparatus for a dump body is described herein. The dump body includes a floor, a front wall coupled to and extending upwardly from the floor and two opposing side walls coupled to and extending upwardly from the floor. Each side wall is coupled to the front wall. The two side walls define an opening at a rear end of the floor. The tailgate apparatus includes a tailgate sized to cover the opening and two opposed side arms extending from the tailgate towards the front wall. Each side arm is pivotally coupled to a respective one of the side walls. The tailgate apparatus also includes a pair of linkages for linking the side arms to the side walls. The linkages enable the tailgate to pivot between a closed position where the tailgate covers the opening and an open position where the tailgate is positioned closer to the front wall than the opening.
US11325504B2
The present disclosure relates to a track for an automotive vehicle seat comprising: a first, upper, rail and a second, lower, rail mounted sliding relative to each other along a sliding axis, that define a cavity between them; a bolt comprising at least one locking member movable from a locked position in which the at least one locking member immobilizes the first rail and the second rail relative to each other, and an unlocked position and a guiding system for the at least one locking member between the first locked position and the second unlocked position, secured to the first, upper, rail, where the guiding system comprises an inner guide secured to the first rail at two anchoring points extending respectively the guide forming body above and below a guiding orifice.
US11325498B2
A through the road (TTR) hybridization strategy is proposed to facilitate introduction of hybrid electric vehicle technology in a significant portion of current and expected trucking fleets. In some cases, the technologies can be retrofitted onto an existing vehicle (e.g., a truck, a tractor unit, a trailer, a tractor-trailer configuration, at a tandem, etc.). In some cases, the technologies can be built into new vehicles. In some cases, one vehicle may be built or retrofitted to operate in tandem with another and provide the hybridization benefits contemplated herein. By supplementing motive forces delivered through a primary drivetrain and fuel-fed engine with supplemental torque delivered at one or more electrically-powered drive axles, improvements in overall fuel efficiency and performance may be delivered, typically without significant redesign of existing components and systems that have been proven in the trucking industry.
US11325489B2
A power conversion apparatus includes a housing including an AC inlet and a DC connector. The DC connector is connectable to an inlet for DC power of a vehicle. The AC inlet is connectable to a connector of a cable for AC power. A rectifier circuit is housed in the housing. The rectifier circuit is located between the AC inlet and the DC connector, and configured to convert AC power input from the AC inlet side into DC power and output the DC power to the DC connector side.
US11325484B2
A method of charging a battery includes coupling an electricity network or subnetwork to the battery using inductive power transfer, transferring electrical energy to the battery from the electricity network or subnetwork and varying the inductive power transfer using a controller of the electricity network or subnetwork according to at least one predetermined criteria of the electricity network or subnetwork.
US11325474B2
The invention relates to a particularly redundant electrical machine (10) for driving a means of propulsion (1) with increased reliability. The machine (10) comprises a plurality of independent partial rotors (210, 220) which are respectively coupled to a common shaft (200) by means of freewheel devices (510, 520) in order to drive said shaft and the means of propulsion (1) therewith in a working direction of rotation. The machine (10) also comprises a plurality of independent stator winding systems (111, 121), a stator winding system (111, 121) and a partial rotor (210, 220) being respectively associated with each other and arranged in such a way that they can electromagnetically interact with each other. The stator winding systems (111, 121) are successively arranged in the axial direction. Similarly, the partial rotors (210, 220) are successively arranged in the axial direction.
US11325471B2
A method for displaying a safety zone in front of a transportation vehicle or object. The safety zone is shown on a display unit. The safety zone is displayed as a grid and the end of the grid that is remote from the transportation vehicle indicates the end of the safety zone at the measured speed, taking into consideration the determined driving situation.
US11325468B2
An apparatus comprising an interface, a memory and a processor. The interface may be configured to receive sensor data samples during operation of a vehicle. The memory may be configured to store the sensor data samples over a number of points in time. The processor may be configured to analyze the sensor data samples stored in the memory to detect a pattern. The processor may be configured to manage an application of brakes of the vehicle in response to the pattern.
US11325465B2
A work vehicle including a tank (31,131) formed so as to extend from a rear part of a vehicle body toward a center, wherein the tank includes: a first storage tank (32) located on the rear side of the vehicle body, and stores stored fluid (9); a second storage tank (34) located on a side close to the center in the front-rear direction of the vehicle body, and stores the fluid; a partition part (36) that separates the first storage tank and the second storage tank; a discharge member (49) that has a discharge opening (49a) extending and opened inside the second storage tank, and discharges, from the second storage tank, the fluid stored in the second storage tank; and a hollow tube member (60) that has a first end communicated with the first storage tank through the partition part so as to enable the stored fluid to flow, and a second end having a hollow tube opening (62) extending and opened toward the center of the vehicle body inside the second storage tank, wherein the hollow tube opening of the hollow tube member is located on the central side of the vehicle body with respect to the discharge opening of the discharge member.
US11325462B2
A capless filler pipe closure is provided for a tank filler pipe. The capless closure permits a fuel pump nozzle to be inserted into the tank filler pipe without first removing a fuel cap from the outer end of the tank filler pipe.
US11325460B2
Disclosed herein is a baffle for regulating air flow around an object. The baffle can be of unitary construction and can be made by a single shot injection molding process. The baffle can have an edge portion that is more flexible than the base portion. The baffle has also can have a base portion with a base portion thickness and an edge portion with an edge portion thickness that is less than the base portion thickness. A method of making a baffle by an injection molding process is also disclosed.
US11325457B2
The present invention relates to a triple clutch device (2) for arrangement in a drivetrain of a motor vehicle having a double clutch device comprising a first disk clutch (40) for selective torque transmission between a first input-side disk carrier (52) and a first output-side disk carrier (54) and a second disk clutch (42) for selective torque transmission between a second input-side disk carrier (56), which is connected rotationally fixed to the first input-side disk carrier (52), and a second output-side disk carrier (58), and having a separating clutch device comprising a third disk clutch (44) for selective torque transmission between a third input-side disk carrier (60) and a third output-side disk carrier (62), wherein the first input-side disk carrier (52) is connected rotationally fixed to the third output-side disk carrier (62), and a first disk set (46) of the first disk clutch (40) and a third disk set (50) of the third disk clutch (44) are arranged nested in the radial directions (8, 10). The third disk set (50) is arranged within the first disk set (46) in the radial direction (10). The present invention additionally relates to a drivetrain of a motor vehicle comprising such a triple clutch device (2).
US11325456B2
Various embodiments may include a clutch assembly comprising: a first coupling and a second coupling; and a vibration damper with a spring. The first coupling includes a crankshaft connection and a coupling-in element which can be connected to one another in a controlled manner. The second coupling has an output connection and an intermediate element which can be connected to one another in a controlled manner. The spring connects the intermediate element and the coupling-in element to one another.
US11325438B2
A suspension is provided which can not only generate a damping force between sprung mass and unsprung mass but also steer a wheel. A suspension includes: a shaft coupled to sprung mass of a vehicle, the shaft having a screw groove and a spline groove formed thereon; a ball screw nut assembled to the shaft via a ball; a ball spline nut assembled to the shaft via a ball; a ball screw-specific motor connected to the ball screw nut; a ball spline-specific motor connected to the ball spline nut; and a case coupled to unsprung mass of the vehicle, the case being configured to hold the ball screw-specific motor and the ball spline-specific motor. The ball spline-specific motor rotates the ball spline nut and the shaft relative to the case.
US11325432B2
An apparatus includes a rim, a tire, and an energy harvesting component. The rim is configured to rotate and move. The tire is coupled to the rim. The tire when inflated is configured to transfer force to the rim resulting from compressive force acting on a portion of the tire making contact with a road. The energy harvesting component is positioned on the rim and configured to capture a kinetic energy in response to the compressive force acting on the portion of the tire making contact with the road as the rim rotates.
US11325425B2
A tyre for a motorcycle for rough terrain comprises a tread portion. In a region between at least one of tread edges and a tyre equator, the tread portion is provided with middle blocks, shoulder blocks, and tie bars each connecting between one of the middle blocks and its adjacent one of the shoulder blocks. The shoulder blocks include first shoulder blocks forming the one of the tread edges and second shoulder blocks arranged on an inner side in a tyre axial direction of the one of the tread edges. The tie bars include first tie bars each connecting between one of the middle blocks and one of the first shoulder blocks and second tie bars each connecting between one of the middle blocks and one of the second shoulder blocks.
US11325423B2
A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion with shoulder lug grooves spaced apart in a circumferential direction, each extending outward in a tire lateral direction, opening to a ground contact end, and including a closed end inward in the tire lateral direction. In a region of each of the shoulder lug grooves from an end of a belt having a greatest width in a belt portion of the pneumatic tire to an inner side in the tire lateral direction, the shoulder lug groove has a groove width that decreases inward in the tire lateral direction, and includes a portion where a groove cross-sectional area is kept constant by a change in at least one of a groove wall angle or a groove depth of the shoulder lug groove, the portion being provided in the tire lateral direction across a length of at least 20% of half a tire development width.
US11325421B2
A tire has an intended tire rotational direction and comprises a tread portion having a tread surface defined between tread edges and a pair of buttress surfaces defined as extending radially inwardly from the respective tread edges. One or each of the buttress surfaces is provided with a plurality of protrusions protruding axially outwardly and arranged in the tire circumferential direction. The protrusions include a curved protrusion which extends radially inwardly from the tread surface while curving toward the intended tire rotational direction.
US11325420B2
Provided is an aircraft tire which has both satisfactory light weight and satisfactory separation durability of carcass ply ends. An aircraft tire (10) includes a pair of bead cores (1), and a carcass (2) extending between the pair of the bead cores (1). In this aircraft tire (10), the carcass (2) includes at least one layer of a turn-up ply (2a) which is composed of a main body (2aa) and folded portions (2ab), and at least one layer of a down ply (2b) which covers a tire width-direction outer side of the respective folded portions (2ab) of the turn-up ply (2a) and extends to at least a tire radial-direction inner side of the respective bead cores (1); rubber-cord reinforcing members (6) are each arranged between the main body (2aa) of an outermost turn-up ply (2a) and the folded portion (2ab) of the turn-up ply (2a) extending to a tire radial-direction outermost side, and between the folded portion (2ab) of the turn-up ply (2a) extending to the tire radial-direction outermost side and an innermost down ply (2b); and cords of the rubber-cord reinforcing members (6) have an elongation at break of not less than 30%.
