US11436078B2
Disclosed in some examples are techniques for handling parity data of a non-volatile memory device with limited cache memory. In certain examples, user data can be programmed into the non-volatile memory of the non-volatile memory device in data stripes, and parity information can be calculated for each individual data stripe within a limited capacity cache of the non-volatile memory device. The individual parity information can be swapped between a swap block of the non-volatile memory and the limited capacity cache as additional data stripes are programmed.
US11436070B2
Embodiments are described for prioritizing input/output (I/O) operations dispatched from a storage media to a host bus adapter in a network, by tagging, in an I/O tagging module, the I/O operations in a file system supporting applications generating the I/O operations, wherein all child I/O operations initiated from a parent I/O operation are tagged with a same unique tag ID; tracking a time of arrival of each I/O operation of the I/O operations; and dispatching, in a transactional I/O scheduler, all sibling I/O's of the parent I/O operation based on a unique tag ID for the sibling I/Os, a respective time of arrival of each of the sibling I/Os, and defined quality of service (QoS) requirements.
US11436067B1
Configuring resource transfer event messages to include, not only the user data required to affect the resource transfer (e.g., resource repository identifier and the like), but other user data related to the resource transfer event, such as user preference data. The resource transfer event messages are communicated to resource storage entities that subsequently store user records that associate users with the resource transfer events and the additional user data. In this regard, a security benefit is realized, in that, resource storage entities can leverage the additional data to investigate potential nefarious actions. Moreover, by including the additional user information in resource transfer event messages communicated to resource storage entities, the volume of resource transfer event messages or other network-based messages is lessened thereby limiting network traffic and making the overall process more efficient and effective.
US11436061B2
Disclosed are platforms for communicating among one or more otherwise independent systems involved in controlling functions of buildings or other sites having switchable optical devices deployed therein. Such independent systems include a window control system and one or more other independent systems such as systems that control residential home products (e.g., thermostats, smoke alarms, etc.), HVAC systems, security systems, lighting control systems, and the like. Together the systems control and/or monitor multiple features and/or products, including switchable windows and other infrastructure of a site, which may be a commercial, residential, or public site.
US11436060B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for proactively managing inter-processor network links are disclosed. A computing system includes at least a control unit and a plurality of processing units. Each processing unit of the plurality of processing units includes a compute module and a configurable link interface. The control unit dynamically adjusts a clock frequency and a link width of the configurable link interface of each processing unit based on a data transfer size and layer computation time of a plurality of layers of a neural network so as to reduce execution time of each layer. By adjusting the clock frequency and the link width of the link interface on a per-layer basis, the overlapping of communication and computation phases is closely matched, allowing layers to complete more quickly.
US11436058B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a new approach for workload balancing in a system. A computer-implemented method comprises obtaining a configuration of a system, wherein the configuration includes a connection relationship between components in the system. The method further comprises determining a workload threshold of a given component in the components based on the configuration, wherein a workload threshold of an upstream component of the given component is associated with a workload limit of the upstream component and a workload limit of the given component. The method further comprises determining a utilization rate of the given component based at least partially on a workload amount of the given component, the workload threshold of the given component, and the workload threshold of the upstream component. Accordingly, a more accurate utilization rate of each component in a system can be determined by considering the bottleneck of other components in the system, and thus workloads of various components in the system can be balanced from the perspective of the overall system.
US11436057B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for deploying network elements for a set of machines in a set of one or more datacenters. The datacenter set is part of one availability zone in some embodiments. The method receives intent-based API (Application Programming Interface) requests, and parses these API requests to identify a set of network elements to connect and/or perform services for the set of machines. In some embodiments, the API is a hierarchical document that can specify multiple different compute and/or network elements at different levels of compute and/or network element hierarchy. The method performs automated processes to define a virtual private cloud (VPC) to connect the set of machines to a logical network that segregates the set of machines from other machines in the datacenter set. In some embodiments, the set of machines include virtual machines and containers, the VPC is defined with a supervisor cluster namespace, and the API requests are provided as YAML, files.
US11436050B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, apparatus and computer program product for resource scheduling. The method comprises obtaining a processing requirement for a deep learning task, the processing requirement being specified by a user and at least including a requirement related to a completion time of the deep learning task. The method further comprises determining, based on the processing requirement, a resource required by the deep learning task such that processing of the deep learning task based on the resource satisfies the processing requirement. Through the embodiments of the present disclosure, the resources can be scheduled reasonably and flexibly to satisfy the user's processing requirement for a particular deep learning task without requiring the user to manually specify the requirement on the resources.
US11436046B2
A memory processor-based multiprocessing architecture and an operation method thereof are provided. The memory processor-based multiprocessing architecture includes a main processor and a plurality of memory chips. The memory chips include a plurality of processing units and a plurality of data storage areas. The processing units and the data storage areas are respectively disposed one-to-one in the memory chips. The data storage areas are configured to share a plurality of sub-datasets of a large dataset. The main processor assigns a computing task to one of the processing units of the memory chips, so that the one of the processing units accesses the corresponding data storage area to perform the computing task according to a part of the sub-datasets.
US11436043B2
For a process of an operating system, it is detected that a live migration has occurred, the live migration comprising a change in a hardware characteristic of a computer system on which the process executes. A first message is broadcast to a set of processors, the first message causing each processor in the set of processors to enter a waiting state. While each of the set of processors is in the waiting state, a portion of a set of program instructions of the operating system is modified.
US11436039B2
A method for processing one or more message passing transactions sent from one or more client computers to one or more distributed ledger accounts, of one or more distributed ledgers, executed on one or more distributed ledger nodes, themessage passing transactions processed by one or more class manager infrastructure intrinsics.
US11436034B2
Provided are techniques for encrypting a virtual disk of a virtual computing instance (VCI) while the VCI is online and still running using a mirror driver. In certain aspects a mirror driver is a filter running in an I/O stack used for accessing a virtual disk, such that the mirror driver receives I/Os destined to the virtual disk and mirrors those I/Os to the virtual disk and one or more additional virtual disks. The mirror driver begins copying data from an unencrypted source virtual disk to a destination virtual disk, and the data is encrypted as it is stored in the destination virtual disk, while the VCI is still online. During the copying, as new writes are issued to the unencrypted source virtual disk from the VCI, the mirror driver mirrors the writes to both the unencrypted source virtual disk and the destination virtual disk.
US11436033B2
Scalable virtual memory metadata management comprising a plurality of pre-instantiated VM metadata containers representing the entire amount of real physical memory available to a computing system, with additional instantiated VM metadata containers created as needed. Individual and/or groups of VM metadata containers are assigned to metadata container groups, wherein each container group is controlled by an acquired lock assigned to the VM metadata container groups. Virtual memory metadata is managed using a “least used” technique. In response to allocation requests, the allocator scans the container groups/VM containers and fulfills memory object metadata allocation to the least used VM metadata container of the least used container group, filling the individual VM metadata containers and/or the container groups at a nearly equal rate.
US11436028B2
In a computer implemented sketch-based education or training system, guidance elements are generated and output to users both on an affirmative request of the user and in an automated manner without a request for guidance from the user. Automated guidance may take the form of a mini-hint that does not provide explicit information about a solution. The automatically provided guidance elements may contain numerical measures of correspondence between a user submitted sketch and a model sketch.
US11436025B2
Systems, methods and devices are disclosed for a smart compute memory circuitry that has the flexibility to perform a wide range of functions inside the memory via logic circuitry and an integrated processor. In one embodiment, the smart compute memory circuitry comprises an integrated processor and logic circuitry to enable adaptive System on a Chip (SOC) and electronics subsystem power or performance improvements, and adaptive memory management and control for the smart compute memory circuitry. A resistive memory array is coupled to the integrated processor.
US11436019B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are described herein that enable execution of a large AI model on a memory-constrained target device that is communicatively connected to a parameter server, which stores a master copy of the AI model. The AI model may be dissected into smaller portions (e.g., layers or sub-layers), and each portion may be executed as efficiently as possible on the target device. After execution of one portion of the AI model is finished, another portion of the AI model may be downloaded and executed at the target device. To improve efficiency, the input samples may be divided into microbatches, and a plurality of microbatches executing in sequential order may form a minibatch. The size of the group of microbatches or minibatch can be adjusted to reduce the communication overhead. Multi-level parallel parameters reduction may be performed at the parameter server and the target device.
US11436016B2
A technique for determining whether a register value should be written to an operand cache or whether the register value should remain in and not be evicted from the operand cache is provided. The technique includes executing an instruction that accesses an operand that comprises the register value, performing one or both of a lookahead technique and a prediction technique to determine whether the register value should be written to an operand cache or whether the register value should remain in and not be evicted from the operand cache, and based on the determining, updating the operand cache.
US11436015B2
A digital data processor includes a multi-stage butterfly network, which is configured to, in response to a look up table read instruction, receive look up table data from an intermediate register, reorder the look up table data based on control signals comprising look up table configuration register data, and write the reordered look up table data to a destination register specified by the look up table read instruction.
US11436014B2
Disclosed herein is a processor for deep learning. In one embodiment, the processor comprises: a load and store unit configured to load and store image pixel data and stencil data; a register unit, implementing a banked register file, configured to: load and store a subset of the image pixel data from the load and store unit, and concurrently provide access to image pixel values stored in a register file entry of the banked register file, wherein the subset of the image pixel data comprises the image pixel values stored in the register file entry; and a plurality of arithmetic logic units configured to concurrently perform one or more operations on the image pixel values stored in the register file entry and corresponding stencil data of the stencil data.
US11436012B1
When a transformation job of flow logs generated for a cloud environment is triggered, a security service determines a parameterized template for batch data processing operations offered by the cloud service provider (CSP) to use based on the type of transformation job. The security service communicates an indication of the template and the corresponding parameter values to a data processing service/pipeline offered by the CSP. The provisioned processing resources retrieve the flow logs from a designated location in cloud storage, complete the transformation, and store the transformed flow logs in a new storage location. If the CSP does not provide a data processing service/pipeline which can perform bulk data transformation, the security service uses a generic parameterized template specifying a transformation job to be run on a cluster. Upon completion, the security service retrieves and analyzes the transformed flow logs as part of threat detection performed for securing the cloud environment.
US11436009B2
A method for execution by a dispersed storage and task (DST) processing unit includes initializing a composite operation from a plurality of independent operations. An empty transaction context is created by performing an evaluation of the composite operation. A multi-source compare and swap (CASN) transaction is created from resulting expected values determined by evaluating the composite operation in the empty transaction context. The CASN transaction is executed against a dispersed storage network (DSN) memory. When the execution of the CASN transaction is successful, the transaction is committed to the DSN memory. When the execution failed due to at least one conflicting value stored in the DSN memory, a new transaction context pre-populated with the at least one conflicting value is created, and an updated CASN for the composite operation that utilizes the new transaction context is executed.
US11436006B2
The present application is directed towards systems and methods for providing a heat map interface for analyzing and reporting transformation capabilities of a source installation to a target installation of an application. Characteristics of the source installation are displayed in an easy, intuitive interface, providing improved efficiency in analysis and planning. Furthermore, the interface is interactive, allowing an administrator or user to select and apply transformation dispositions to code objects grouped into regions and sub-regions, providing versatility and accuracy of configuration.
US11435998B2
A computer-implemented system and method of providing utility service network information for a utility service disturbance monitoring equipment management network and system. The system includes six components: an operating system with mirrors/feedback point, a local provider/USI DME application repositories, working snapshots, published snapshots, a quality control test system; and a dedicated provider/USI portion of the Cloud. The process using the system has steps of methodology—updating, creating snapshots and publishing snapshots; added software—adding and publishing specific provider/USI software; verify and test software—testing latest software with a quality control test, if issues fixing and repeating former steps, and, if no issues, publishing latest snapshots to specific provider/USI Cloud, and advising customers that updates are available; and permitting customers to synchronize their local repository with the provider/USI Cloud and using the updated management system for disturbance monitoring equipment to update customer DME systems.
US11435991B2
Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media for automated computer configuration. In some implementations, a method includes providing a configuration tool on a computer. The method further includes accessing a configuration file that includes configuration settings, wherein the configuration file is a plain text file. The method further includes selecting particular settings for the computer from the configuration settings based at least in part on the configuration file and identification information of the computer. The method further includes automatically configuring the computer with particular software that is identified based on the particular settings.
US11435979B2
In some implementations, a user can play a music track from a dynamically generated playlist. The user can provide input indicating that the user likes or dislikes the music track and the playlist can be adjusted based on the user input. In some implementations, information can be presented to the user so that the user can preview changes to the playlist before the changes are made to the playlist. In some implementations, a user can adjust playlist criteria (configuration) by adjusting specific music characteristics. In some implementations, a user can adjust playlist criteria by manipulating a list of representative music tracks. In some implementations, a user can compare the user's playlist to playlists of other users.
US11435969B2
A function executing device is configured to send a wireless identifier to a communication device via a first type of wireless communication interface for setting up a wireless connection. The function executing device is configured to determine whether the function executing device is in an error state and, if not, to establish the wireless connection via a second type of wireless communication interface. The function executing device operates in a parent state in the wireless connection. Additionally, print data may be received from the communication device. However, if the function executing device is in an error state the wireless connection is not established via the second type of wireless communication interface.
US11435966B2
In a case where an image forming apparatus has entered into a sleep mode, a user is required to wait, after issuing an instruction for image formation via a wireless operation unit, until the image forming apparatus returns from the sleep mode to a standby mode, for the requested processing to be performed. Accordingly, an image forming system is provided that includes an image forming apparatus capable of transitioning between a standby mode and a sleep mode includes a wireless operation unit capable of performing wireless communication with the image forming apparatus, and that includes a counter for counting a time for determining timing of transition from the standby mode to the sleep mode, and a resetter capable of resetting a count value of the counter in response to a predetermined icon being selected in the wireless operation unit in the standby mode.
US11435960B2
A method at a print device may include receiving, from a supply, signals indicative of a print functionality from a set of authorizable functionalities for the print device. The set of authorizable functionalities may comprise: (1) a color depletion print mode, (2) an increased resolution print mode, (3) a refill pump increased speed mode, or a combination thereof. The method may also include enabling the print functionality on the print device based on the received signals.
US11435955B1
A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving, at a host computing device, a request to copy data from a source Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) namespace directly accessible by a source storage controller to a destination NVMe namespace directly accessible by a destination storage controller and may determine whether the destination storage controller can directly access the source NVMe namespace. In response to determining that the destination storage controller cannot directly access the source NVMe namespace, a first identifier associated with the data may be generated via the source storage controller. The first identifier may be provided to the host computing device. A data handle associated with the first identifier may be generated via the destination storage controller. The data may be copied, via the destination storage controller, from the source NVMe namespace to the destination NVMe namespace based upon, at least in part, the data handle.
US11435954B2
In a method used for maximizing performance of a storage system, saturation points of the storage system for I/O requests of different types and sizes are identified. Normalized tokens are determined based on the saturation points. Unique numbers of normalized tokens are associated with the I/O requests of different types and sizes. A number of normalized tokens for a queue depth limit of a storage device is determined. From the queue depth limit, normalized tokens are allocated to each node in the storage device. I/O requests are processed according to the allocations of normalized tokens.
US11435949B2
An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store data, a write control unit configured to instruct the storage unit to write data, a calculation unit configured to calculate, for each of a plurality of writes of data to the storage unit, a data size estimated to be actually written to the storage unit, based on a write data size specified by the write control unit, and a notification unit configured to issue a notification based on a total of the data sizes calculated by the calculation unit.
US11435944B2
Systems and methods of memory operation involving dynamic adjustment of write policy based on performance needs are disclosed. In one embodiment, an exemplary method may comprise monitoring memory performance parameters related to a programming operation being scheduled, selecting a write policy based on the memory performance parameters monitored, executing a memory control process that is configured to switch between a first addressing scheme and a second addressing scheme, and programming a first superpage of the programming operation using the first addressing scheme and programing a second superpage of the programming operation using the second addressing scheme.
US11435943B2
A storage device includes a memory device and a controller. The memory device stores attribute information associated with a host memory buffer allocated on a host memory. The controller communicates with the host memory such that a plurality of pieces of data associated with operations of the memory device is buffered, based on the attribute information, in a plurality of host memory buffers allocated on the host memory. The controller communicates with the host memory such that first data corresponding to a first attribute group managed in the attribute information is buffered in a first host memory buffer among the plurality of host memory buffers and second data corresponding to a second attribute group different from the first attribute group is buffered in a second host memory buffer separate from the first host memory buffer.
US11435939B2
In an example, a method of allocating storage objects of a virtual machine across storage devices in a computing system includes: collecting capabilities of the storage devices in the computing system; assigning a tier of a plurality of tiers to each of the storage devices in the computing system; collecting performance data for the storage devices across a period of time; analyzing the performance data and the capabilities to determine a placement of storage objects of the virtual machine across the plurality of tiers; and moving the storage objects to respective ones of the storage devices based on the assigned tiers.
US11435932B1
A data relocation system includes a storage controller device coupled to first storage device(s) that operate at first data access speeds, and second storage device(s) that operate at second data access speeds that are higher than the first data access speeds. During a first time period, the storage controller device monitors first data that is stored in the first storage device(s) to identify a first data access frequency for the first data, and determines that the first data access frequency for the first data during the first time period indicates that a second data access frequency for the first data will exceed a data access frequency threshold during a second time period that occurs immediately following the first time period. In response and during the second time period, the storage controller device relocates the first data from the first storage device(s) to the second storage device(s).
US11435922B2
A control method for a storage device of a driving recorder includes: configuring a directory entry of a storage device according to a predetermined directory entry stored in a storage unit; configuring a file allocation table of the storage device according to a predetermined file allocation table stored in the storage unit; and controlling a controller to write data to the storage device according to the directory entry and the file allocation table. In one embodiment, entries of the predetermined file allocation table are interleaved to accommodate multiple files and still support a continuous write operation.
US11435905B1
Techniques for DNA-based storage of electronic data are described herein. In an example embodiment, a plurality of files is stored in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-based storage. The plurality of files is encoded in a set of DNA oligos, where a DNA synthesizer system synthesizes first DNA oligos that encode first type of segments from the plurality of files and second DNA oligos that encode second type of segments from the plurality of files, and where the first DNA oligos are synthesized in excess compared to the second DNA oligos.
US11435894B2
While displaying an application user interface for an application (e.g., a media application), a computer system receives a request to display a system user interface in place of the application user interface. In response, the computer system performs one of a plurality of operations in accordance with a state of the application, including: in accordance with a determination that the application is in a first state, display information about the application in the system user interface; and in accordance with a determination that the application is in a second state distinct from the first state, displaying the system user interface without the information about the application in the system user interface.
US11435881B1
A customer management system can be designed to provide an integrated smart graphical user interface. For example, a computing device can receive information that includes a topic of conversation for a chat-based communication; initiate, via a first graphical user interface (GUI), the chat-based communication with another computing device after the information is received; display, via a second GUI, the user profile associated with the person, wherein the second GUI is displayed adjacent to and integrated with the first GUI; determine a relationship between one or more words or phrases received via the first GUI from the first computing device and the additional information in the user profile, where the relationship is determined in real-time or near real-time as the one or more words or phrases are received; and display a visual indicator in the second GUI that shows content in the second GUI that is relevant to the determined relationship.
US11435878B2
The disclosed technology generally relates to an application programming interface (API) and user interface (UI) that can translate user communication into an interactive message that is displayed on the UI. In at least one embodiment, a mobile application uses a sentence builder to translate data structures into an interactive message (e.g., an editable sentence). A UI can display the interactive message in a first portion (e.g., “upper portion”) of a UI, and display user selectable objects for adding information to the interactive message in a second portion (e.g., “lower portion”). For example, as a customer makes choices for a food order, ingredients as emojis can appear and disappear in sentence form from a UI based on customer preferences and inputs.
US11435875B2
A display, such as a computer monitor, presents a user interface having static and dynamic icons that define inputs made at a joystick input device. For example, a first static icon associates with a first input button to always command a menu presentation, and a second static icon associates with a second input button to always command an exit from the user interface. Plural dynamic icons associate with third and fourth input buttons that scroll the dynamic icons to populate a central input button of the joystick input device. A press at the central input button selects a function associated with the dynamic icon presented at the central input button.
US11435873B1
An improved user interface in which related items are organized in a manner that is intuitive to a user, and ultimately results in the number of navigational steps performed by the user to identify desired items being reduced, is described herein. For example, instead of having a user interface display a large number of related items, a recommendation system can identify a single item related to an item initially selected by the user that is associated with one or more factors a user likely finds important in deciding which item to select, and produce data that results in a user interface that displays the single related item. Optionally, the user interface can display the single related item in an above-the-fold (ATF) portion of the user interface such that the single related item is visible to a user without the user having to interact with the user interface.
US11435872B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide an icon control method and a terminal device. The method includes: receiving a first input that is performed by a user, where the first input is used to trigger a terminal device to enter an icon editing state, a target object is displayed on N pages on a desktop of the terminal device, the target object includes at least one of the following: an application icon or an application folder, where one application folder includes at least two application icons, and one application icon is used to indicate one application; and displaying at least one type of editing control on the desktop in response to the first input, where each type of editing control of the at least one type of editing control is used to edit the target object on the N pages; where in a case that the terminal device is in the icon editing state, the at least one type of editing control is always displayed on the desktop.
US11435870B2
Provided is an input/output controller including: a touch panel display; and a control section configured to cause the touch panel display to display a first icon at a first position on the touch panel display and, when one or more other positions are touched while the first position is touched, perform a process associated with the first icon and the one or more other positions.
US11435868B2
Systems, devices, and methods are provided for selecting a precise value within a large value range. Data received by an ultrasonic inspection device can include a range of values associated with one or more parameters to be configured for performing ultrasonic inspection of a test object. A control in a user interface of the ultrasonic testing device can be provided and can include a display portion displaying one or more parameters and one or more values within the range of values associated with the one or more parameters. The control can also include an interactive portion configured to receive a plurality of inputs. Based on the inputs, a selected value associated with a first parameter can be determined. The selected value associated with the first parameter can be displayed as a static display within the display portion of the control.
US11435866B2
A user interface on a computing device can utilize a calendar bar with various portions of the interface, such as a lock screen and home or application screens. The calendar bar can enable the user to view upcoming appointments and determine how much the user has before those appointments. The user can tilt the device or select an appointment to obtain additional information. If the device is unlocked or otherwise accessible, the user can also navigate back and forth between a calendar display and other information, such as past or present actions with respect to the device, and can scroll back in forth in time using any of these displayed portions.
US11435864B1
A differential touch screen display includes a display, a plurality of differential electrode pairs integrated into the display, a plurality of differential drive-sense circuits, and a processing module. When enabled, a set of differential drive-sense circuits of the plurality of differential drive-sense circuits is operable to provide a set of differential electrode signals to a set of differential electrode pairs of the plurality of differential electrode pairs and generate a set of analog receive signals representative of electrical characteristic changes of the set of differential electrode pairs. The processing module is operable to interpret the electrical characteristic changes as one or more of a self capacitance of one or more of: a row differential electrode pair and column differential electrode pair of the set of differential electrode pairs and a mutual capacitance at a crossing between one or more row differential electrode pairs and column differential electrode pairs.
US11435863B1
A touch sensor having a visible area and a peripheral area on at least one side of the visible area includes a substrate, a metal nanowire layer, and a metal layer. The metal nanowire layer is disposed on the substrate and has a first portion corresponding to the visible area and a second portion corresponding to the peripheral area. The metal layer is disposed on the substrate and corresponding to the peripheral area, in which a portion of the metal layer overlaps and contacts at least a portion of the second portion of the metal nanowire layer, such that an overlapping region is formed, a contact area of the overlapping region is between 0.09 mm2 and 1.20 mm2, and a contact impedance of the overlapping region is less than 50Ω.
US11435862B2
A touch operation is performed on a touch panel on which a knob for input operation can be placed, using the knob or another operation object. A touch detection unit detects the touch operation in a first detection method and a second detection method which are different from each other. Based on the result of detection in the first detection method, a knob touch point determining unit identifies the position where the touch operation has been performed by the knob, and outputs the touch information. A knob-finger contact determining unit determines whether a finger is in contact with the knob based on the touch information and the result of detection in the second detection method. It is possible to perform, without fail, the determination as to whether a knob or another object is in contact with the touch panel, and whether a finger is in contact with the knob which is in contact with the touch panel.
US11435860B2
A touch panel including: a first electrode pattern arranged in a first direction, including a plurality of first electrode cells that are physically separated from each other; a second electrode pattern arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction, including a plurality of second electrode cells that are physically separated from each other; first touch signal lines connected to the first electrode cells; and second touch signal lines connected to the second electrode cells. The electrode patterns and the touch signal lines are arranged on the same layer on a substrate such that a first virtual connection line for connecting centers of second electrode cells of a first group corresponding to an n-th first electrode cell crosses a second virtual connection line for connecting centers of second electrode cells of a second group corresponding to an (n+1)-th first electrode cell.
US11435855B2
A capacitance detection circuit, a touch control chip and an electronic device are provided, which could reduce the influence of a display screen noise on capacitance detection. The capacitance detection circuit includes: an amplification circuit, connected to a detection capacitance in a touch screen, and configured to amplify a capacitance signal of the detection capacitance and convert the capacitance signal into a voltage signal, the voltage signal configured to determine the detection capacitance; and a control circuit, connected to the amplification circuit, and configured to control a magnification of the amplification circuit, where a period in which a noise peak of a noise signal of a display screen is located includes consecutive N sub-periods, and a magnification of the amplification circuit in the N sub-periods is inversely proportional to a magnitude of the noise signal in the N sub-periods, N>1.
US11435852B2
A touch sensitive processing method, comprising: generating modified codes of N orthogonal pseudo random number (PN) codes, each of PN code has M symbols, where M and N are positive integers larger than 1; transmitting driving signals modulated by the N modified codes via N first electrodes, respectively, and sensing via multiple second electrodes in a M symbols period to generate M one-dimensional sensing information arrays; calculating sums of corresponding elements of the M one-dimensional sensing information arrays corresponding to each of the second electrodes, respectively; determining whether each of the sums is in a range; and recording the M one-dimensional sensing information arrays and their corresponding N first electrodes and N PN codes in response to that at least one of the sums is determined out of the range.
US11435851B2
One variation of a method for characterizing inputs includes: scanning an array of sense electrodes at a first resolution to generate a first force image; detecting a first force input in the first force image; in response to a first geometry dimension of the first force input exceeding a first threshold, characterizing the first force input as a non-stylus input type; in response to the first geometry dimension of the first force input remaining below the first threshold: scanning the array of sense electrodes at a second resolution; detecting a second force input in a second force image; and, in response to a ratio of a force magnitude of the second force input to a geometry dimension of the second force input exceeding a second threshold, characterizing the first force input as a stylus input type; and outputting a location and a type of the first force input.
US11435847B2
An exemplary credential reader includes a touch-sensitive region and is configured to generate tap information and/or swipe information in response to the touch-sensitive region being tapped and/or swiped. In certain forms, the touch-sensitive region is a non-displaying track pad. In other forms, the touch-sensitive region is a touch-sensitive display. A lockset including the credential reader further includes a controller configured to generate credential information based upon information received from the credential reader. The controller may compare the credential information to an authorized credential and transmit a grant/deny signal based upon the comparing.
US11435844B2
An electronic device and its force touch assembly are provided. The force touch assembly includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first patterned conductive layer, an insulation layer, a second patterned conductive layer, a plurality of variable pressure sensitive materials and a third patterned conductive layer, wherein the first patterned conductive layer, the insulation layer, the second patterned conductive layer, the plurality of variable pressure sensitive materials and the third patterned conductive layer are sequentially stacked from top to bottom between the first substrate and the second substrate.
US11435843B2
A display panel and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The display panel includes pixels, data lines and scan lines. The pixels are arranged in pixel rows and pixel columns, and each pixel has subpixels. The data lines are configured to transmit data signals to the pixels, and each data line has a non-straight and continuously curved shape or a non-straight and continuously bent shape. The scan lines are configured to sequentially transmit scan signals to the pixels. The subpixels of each pixel are coupled to different scan lines, and each data line is curved or bent with respect to a unit of one pixel. Accordingly, the display panel of the invention can avoid the problems of poor image display and vertical line (V-line) defects as well as reducing power consumption.
US11435839B2
The present invention discloses a touch pad module, which includes a touch panel, an elastomer and a noise reducing film. The touch panel has a bottom surface. The elastomer is disposed on the bottom surface of the touch panel. The noise reducing film covers the elastomer. The noise reducing film includes a fixing portion, an opening and an elastic arm structure. The fixing portion is disposed on the bottom surface of the touch panel. The opening is located in the fixing portion. The elastic arm structure extends from the fixing portion to an inside of the opening and corresponds to the elastomer. The elastic arm structure includes a suspended portion and a plurality of elastic arms, and the elastic arms extend from the suspended portion to the fixing portion.
US11435833B2
An electronic apparatus includes: a detection sensor which detects a wave motion coming from an object present within a predetermined range and outputs a detection signal; an object detection unit which detects an object present within the predetermined range based on the detection signal output from the detection sensor; a gesture detection unit which detects a gesture according to the movement of the object based on the detection signal output from the detection sensor; and a detection resolution control unit which sets the detection resolution of the detection sensor to a first resolution when detecting the object present within the predetermined range, and sets the detection resolution of the detection sensor to a second resolution higher in resolution than the first resolution when detecting the gesture.
US11435832B2
An input device includes an operation member, an actuator configured to impart a tactile effect to the operation member, and a controller configured to apply, to the actuator, a control signal for starting to apply a first vibration to the operation member at a first timing and for starting to apply a second vibration to the operation member at a second timing after the first timing, such that a combined vibration of the first vibration and the second vibration is applied to the operation member. The controller is configured to change a duration of a first period of the combined vibration to two or more different durations of the first period by changing a control period of time that extends from the first timing to the second timing to two or more different control periods of time.
US11435829B2
A device and method are provided to provide haptic signals when a user touches the device. In one embodiment, the haptic signal provided represents a summary of messages or notifications accumulated since the user last touched the device. In another embodiment, the haptic signal corresponds to the presence or absence of specific messages or persons attempting to contact the user. In another embodiment, the haptic signal corresponds to arbitrary input from a remote user. In another embodiment, the haptic signal corresponds to a user-authored mapping between a data source and the haptic signal.
US11435824B2
A prompt method for an eye-protection mode and apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium are disclosed. The method includes: recognizing a collected face to determine an age status of a user corresponding to the face; acquiring at least two types of parameter information collected by a terminal which is in use by the user, where the at least two types of parameter information are used to represent eye-protection mode-related information; obtaining prompt information for the eye-protection mode according to the age status and the at least two types of parameter information; displaying the prompt information for the eye-protection mode.
US11435822B2
An estimation method includes first acquiring information of an eyeball motion of a user on the basis of a measurement value of an eye potential of the user, second acquiring positional information of an interaction target on a screen that corresponds to an interaction performed on a device through an operation of the user, third acquiring information regarding a relative motion of sight of the user on the basis at least of the information of the eyeball motion of the user, and estimating a sight position of the user on the screen on the basis of the information regarding the relative motion of the sight of the user and the positional information of the interaction target on the screen, by processing circuitry.
US11435820B1
One embodiment of the present disclosure sets forth a method that includes receiving one or more two-dimensional images of one or more light patterns incident on an eye proximate to an eye region of a near-eye display device, and computing a gaze direction associated with the eye based on the one or more two-dimensional images.
US11435818B2
Systems and methods for resonance aware performance management of processing devices. In one aspect, a method includes iteratively testing a performance operation for the processing device, wherein each iteration is performed at an iteration voltage level for a power delivery network. The performance operation is applied at different application periods and at the iteration voltage level for the iteration. If no failure condition is met, the iteration voltage is reduced and another iteration is done. Upon a failure occurring at a particular application period, an operational voltage level for the power delivery network that is based on the iteration voltage level for the iteration in which a failure condition was induced is selected, and application of the performance operation at the particular application period is precluded.
US11435806B2
Automatic voltage reconfiguration in a computer processor including one or more cores includes executing one or more user-specified workloads; determining, based on the user-specified workloads, a respective minimum safe voltage for each core of one or more cores; and modifying a respective voltage configuration for each core of the one or more cores based on the respective minimum safe voltage.
US11435799B2
In a memory system in an embodiment, in a case of normal operation, a control unit returns a write completion response upon completion of reception of write data from a host, and writes the write data into nonvolatile memory in a multiple values. In a case of unordinary power-off, changeover to operation using a backup battery is conducted and the control unit writes dirty data that is not completed in writing into the nonvolatile memory, into the nonvolatile memory with two values. When next boot, the control unit reads the dirty data from the nonvolatile memory into the volatile memory, and thereafter writes the dirty data into the nonvolatile memory in a multiple values.
US11435798B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing a dynamic power estimation (DPE) unit that adapts weights in real-time are described. A system includes a processor, a DPE unit, and a power management unit (PMU). The DPE unit generates a power consumption estimate for the processor by multiplying a plurality of weights by a plurality of counter values, with each weight multiplied by a corresponding counter. The DPE unit calculates the sum of the products of the plurality of weights and plurality of counters. The accumulated sum is used as an estimate of the processor's power consumption. On a periodic basis, the estimate is compared to a current sense value to measure the error. If the error is greater than a threshold, then an on-chip learning algorithm dynamically adjust the weights. The PMU uses the power consumption estimates to keep the processor within a thermal envelope.
US11435794B2
A cooling system for a datacenter is disclosed. An evaporative cooling subsystem provides blown air for cooling the datacenter and a repurposable refrigerant cooling subsystem controls moisture of the blown air in a first configuration and independently cools the datacenter in a second configuration.
US11435787B2
A portable information device includes: a chassis having an upper cover defining a top face, a lower cover defining a bottom face, and a vertical wall standing between edges of the upper cover and the lower cover to define a side face; a microphone hole that penetrates the vertical wall and opens to the side face; a microphone module in the chassis, including a microphone facing the microphone hole, the microphone module being configured to acquire sound information outside the chassis with the microphone; and a microphone pressure component between the vertical wall and one of the upper cover and the lower cover to be compressed therebetween and press the microphone module against an inner face of the vertical wall.
US11435785B2
A foldable display device is proposed, the foldable display device including a first body and a second body formed in a plate shape to be arranged symmetrically; a display part attached to the first body and the second body to be folded or unfolded; and a hinge device coupled to the first body and the second body to connect the bodies to each other to allow the first body and the second body to be folded and unfolded and having first and second bracket, first and second main shafts, a rotation inducing part, and a movable part composed of first and second connection plates, wherein when the first and second bodies are folded, the first and second connection plates are in proximity to each other, and the first and second link connectors move about the first and second main shafts to be in proximity to each other.
US11435777B2
In one general aspect, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in a display case door that includes an insulated panel assembly, a door frame, and an electronic display mounted to the door. The door frame extends about and is secured to a peripheral edge of the insulated panel assembly. The electronic display overlays the insulated panel assembly. A mounting bezel is secured to the door frame and has a coupling end that extends over an edge of the electronic display securing the electronic display to the door frame. A cover bezel is coupled to a front surface of the door frame, where the cover bezel is sized to overlay the front surface of the door frame and the coupling end of the mounting bezel.
US11435768B2
A voltage regulator includes two input pairs of opposite type transistors, p-type and n-type, to provide a soft-start functionality for gradually increasing the voltage regulator's output voltage from zero, or a voltage below the thresholds of the n-type transistors, to an operational voltage. The voltage regulator operates in a soft-start mode during which a variable input voltage signal is ramped up to allow the output voltage to reach the operational voltage, and a normal-operation mode during which the operational voltage is maintained.
US11435748B2
A system and method for real world autonomous vehicle trajectory simulation may include: receiving training data from a data collection system; obtaining ground truth data corresponding to the training data; performing a training phase to train a plurality of trajectory prediction models; and performing a simulation or operational phase to generate a vicinal scenario for each simulated vehicle in an iteration of a simulation. Vicinal scenarios may correspond to different locations, traffic patterns, or environmental conditions being simulated. Vehicle intention data corresponding to a data representation of various types of simulated vehicle or driver intentions.
US11435745B2
A robot and a map update method using the same are disclosed. The robot includes: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image; a first indication lamp disposed at a first location; a second indication lamp disposed apart from the first location; an image determination module configured to compare an image learned and stored in the robot with the image acquired through the image acquisition unit; and an indication lamp determination module configured to compare operation information of each of the first and second indication lamps with the image acquired through the image acquisition unit.
US11435742B2
The behavior of automated agents, such as autonomous vehicles, drones, and the like, can be improved by control systems and methods that implement a combination of neighbor following behavior, or neighbor-averaged information transfer, with delayed self-reinforcement by utilizing time-delayed movement data to modify course corrections of each automated agent. Disclosed herein are systems and methods by which a follower agent, or a multiple follower agents in formation with a plurality of automated agents, can be controlled by generating course correction data for each follower agent based on the movement of neighboring agents in formation, and augmenting the course correction data based on time-delayed movement data of the follower agent. The delayed self-reinforcement behavior can (i) increase the information-transfer rate between autonomous agents without requiring an increased, individual update-rate; and (ii) cause superfluid-like information transfer between the autonomous agents, resulting in improvements in formation-keeping performance of the autonomous agents.
US11435732B2
A telemetry master (TM) system provides automatic monitoring and maintenance of equipment by automatically generating predictive actions of a certain confidence threshold to backend systems which maintain a full duplex communication channel with the TM system. Data entries including context information that are generated by applications corresponding to the backend systems during the functioning of the backend systems are collected, analyzed and actionable items such as alerts, alarms of particular messages cause the telemetry master system to generate a predictive action of a minimum confidence threshold using a pre-trained first data model. A second data model is employed to identify particular equipment from the backend systems that is to implement the action. Results from implementing the action are collected and again used to train the data models. Certain applications can include intelligent agents which enable automatic execution of the actions.
US11435726B2
An industrial device supports device-level data modeling that pre-models data stored in the device with known relationships, correlations, key variable identifiers, and other such metadata to assist higher-level analytic systems to more quickly and accurately converge to actionable insights relative to a defined business or analytic objective. Data at the device level can be modeled according to modeling templates stored on the device that define relationships between items of device data for respective analytic goals (e.g., improvement of product quality, maximizing product throughput, optimizing energy consumption, etc.). This device-level modeling data can be provided to higher level systems together with their corresponding data tag values to high level analytic systems, which discovers insights into an industrial process or machine based on analysis of the data and its modeling data.
US11435723B2
A control device for machine tools according to an aspect of the present disclosure controls a machine tool which cuts the workpiece by way of the cutting tool by causing the spindle and the feed axis to cooperatively act, the control device including: a feed command calculation unit which calculates a feed command for causing the feed axis to relatively move in relation to the workpiece; an oscillation phase calculation unit which calculates an oscillation phase that is a phase of oscillation to cause the feed axis to reciprocally move based on a rotation number of the spindle; an oscillation phase compensation unit which compensates the oscillation phase; an oscillation amplitude calculation unit which calculates an oscillation amplitude that is an amplitude of oscillation causing the feed axis to reciprocally move based on the feed command; an oscillation command calculation unit which calculates an oscillation command causing the feed axis to reciprocally move, based on the oscillation amplitude and the oscillation phase after compensation by the oscillation phase compensation unit; and a command synthesizing unit which calculates a synthetic command for driving the feed axis by superimposing the feed command and the oscillation command.
US11435722B2
A process and smart controller for controlling a subsea smart electrical control unit. The process including collecting operating data from one or more devices and one or more control end points, calculating and performing in-situ analytics, and reporting a health and a status of the one or more devices and one or more control end points. The smart controller including one or more external sensors that create local control loops for real time operation, adjustment, and optimization of the controlled end device, wherein the external sensors are used with a smart controller to create one or more control loops.
US11435721B2
A personal computer for setting of parameters of a machine tool acquires adjusted parameters, adjusted by a numerical controller or a simulator, from the numerical controller or the simulator, makes a comparison between an axis configuration of the machine tool set up by a user and an axis configuration of the adjusted parameter adjusted by the numerical controller or the simulator, and converts the axis configuration of the adjusted parameters into the axis configuration set up by the user.
US11435720B2
To provide a numerical control machine that can identify a factor of noise. A numerical control machine that is connected to a power magnetics cabinet including a plurality of electronic components that potentially generate noise includes: a device information acquisition unit that acquires device information including the relative arrangement and classification of each of the plurality of electronic components; an identification condition information acquisition unit that acquires conditions for identifying electronic components that are factors of noise as identification condition information; a noise detector that detects noise generated in any of the plurality of electronic components and that identifies the electronic components in which noise is generated; and an electronic component identification unit that applies the identification condition information to the device information on the electronic components in which noise is generated to identify the electronic components that are factors of noise from the device information.
US11435715B2
Example implementations described herein are directed to a change over detection system and method. Such example implementations facilitate updating the information of the production line in an Internet of Things (IoT) system to the latest version. Through the example implementations described herein, device rearrangement in manufacturing field can thereby be detected.
US11435712B2
A method for storing data for at least one of a device state, device diagnosis and calibration of a field device in a cloud, with the field device having a self-monitoring functionality. The method includes device-internal registering of first data for at least one of a device state, device diagnosis and calibration by the field device and transfer of the device-internally registered first data from the field device to the cloud. Moreover, the method includes registering second data for at least one of a device state, device diagnosis and calibration of the field device using an external service computer and transferring the second data from the external service computer to the cloud. Both the first data as well as also the second data are stored in the cloud.
US11435709B2
A building management system comprises building equipment operable to affect a physical state or condition of a building. The building management system includes a system manager coupled to the building equipment via a system bus, the system manager comprising a schedule manager configured to control a first operation schedule of the building equipment. Combined schedules are configured to be controlled by the schedule manager. The combined schedules are configured to control both a first setpoint of the building equipment and first operation schedule of the building equipment. A client device is configured to communicate with the schedule manager to modify the first operation schedule of the building equipment to include the first schedule object.
US11435701B2
An electronic watch includes a dial, an antenna, a solar panel, a circuit board, and a connection member. The antenna includes an antenna electrode. On the solar panel, a first solar cell and a second solar cell, are arranged continuously along an outer circumference of the antenna electrode, are connected in series via a third solar cell, which is not arranged along the outer circumference of the antenna electrode. The connection member is configured to connect the solar panel and the circuit board, and is arranged in a region different from a region in which the antenna is arranged when the dial is divided into two regions by a second virtual straight line, which is orthogonal to a first virtual straight line and passes through a center of the dial.
US11435695B2
Techniques related to generating holographic images are discussed. Such techniques include application of a hybrid system including a pre-trained deep neural network and a subsequent iterative process using a sui table propagation model to generate diffraction pattern image data for a target holographic image such that the diffraction pattern image data is to generate a holographic image when implemented via a holographic display.
US11435685B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to perform a first image forming process and a second image forming process to form an image and a test image on a sheet; a reader, arranged in a conveyance path along which the sheet is conveyed, configured to read the test image on the sheet, the test image being formed by the image forming unit; a member; a controller configured to obtain, from the reader, reading data related to the test image on the sheet.
US11435678B1
A developing device includes a developing container, a developer carrier, a seal member, and a pair of pressing members. The developing container has an opening. The seal member includes a contact end part, a first blocking part, and an interposed end part. Each of the pressing members has a pressing surface in which a cutout recess is formed. The developing container includes a second blocking part that is adjacent to each end part of the first blocking part in a rotary shaft direction and protrudes upward. The interposed end part is located at such a position as to overlap the cutout recess with respect to a circumferential direction, and the second blocking part is located at such a position as to overlap the cutout recess with respect to the rotary shaft direction.
US11435676B2
A focus adjustment method is disclosed. The focus adjustment method includes depositing, using a print apparatus, print agent onto a printable substrate, the print apparatus comprising a photoconductive surface and a writing head having a first end and a second end, the writing head having an array of light sources to emit radiation onto the photoconductive surface during a printing operation. The method also includes during said depositing, moving the writing head relative to the photoconductive surface, between a first position and a second position, to create a printed image. The method also includes determining, based on the printed image, for each of a plurality of locations along the writing head, a position of the writing head relative to the photoconductive surface at which the writing head is most focussed. The method also includes calculating, using processing apparatus, a position of the first end of the writing head and a position of the second end of the writing head relative to the photoconductive surface at which the focus of the writing head at the plurality of locations is within a defined threshold. The method also includes adjusting the position of the first end of the writing head and the second end of the writing head relative to the photoconductive surface according to the calculated positions. A print apparatus and the machine-readable medium are also disclosed.
US11435669B2
Embodiments described herein provide a lithographic system having two or more lithographic tools connected to a radiation source using two or more variable attenuation units. In some embodiments, the variable attenuation unit reflects a portion of the received light beam to the lithographic tool attached thereto and transmits a remaining portion of the received light beam to the lithographic tools downstream. In some embodiments, the radiation source includes two or more laser sources to provide laser beams with an enhanced power level and which can prevent operation interruption due to laser source maintenances and repair.
US11435656B1
A system including a drone having a projector to project an image from a projection origin. The drone also has a navigation unit to determine location information for the drone. A processor coupled to the drone includes a memory. Execution of programming by the processor configures the system to obtain a projection surface architecture for a projection surface. The projection surface architecture includes reference points that correspond to physical locations on the projection surface. Each reference point is associated with relationship data with respect to an architecture origin. The system also receives location information for the drone, adapts the relationship data responsive to change in the location information, adjusts the image using the adapted relationship data, and projects the adjusted image onto the projection surface.
US11435654B2
A camera tripod with surge protector outlets is provided. The device includes a central shaft affixed to a base. A plurality of support legs is pivotally affixed to the base, wherein each of the plurality of support legs is telescopically adjustable in length. The base removably secures a camera thereto via a threaded connection. At least one surge protected outlet is affixed to one of the plurality of support legs, wherein the surge protected outlet is electrically connected to an external power source. In some embodiments, the surge protected outlet is electrically connected to one or more batteries removably secured within a battery compartment defined within an interior volume of the central shaft.
US11435647B2
A light shielding blade including a laminate in which a resin layer is sandwiched between two metal base materials, wherein the two metal base materials each have a specific rigidity of 20×106 [Pa·m3/kg] or more and a specific bending rigidity of 1.0 [Pa1/3·m3/kg] or more, and wherein the resin layer has an elastic modulus of 1 GPa or more and a thickness of 65 μm or less.
US11435637B2
A display apparatus capable of supplying a high voltage to a display device is provided. A pixel has a function of retaining first data, a function of adding second data to the first data to generate third data, and a function of supplying the third data to the display device. Capacitive coupling by a capacitor is used for data addition. Two pixels provided in the vertical direction (the direction in which a source line extends) share components including the capacitor; thus, the area where the two pixels are provided can be assigned to the capacitor, which can increase the capacitance value. Thus, the data addition by the capacitive coupling can be efficiently performed.
US11435633B2
An embodiment of the present application provides a liquid crystal display panel, including a color filter substrate having at least one first auxiliary trace disposed on a lower surface thereof; an array substrate having a low voltage area disposed on an upper surface thereof, wherein the low voltage area is disposed with a plurality of low voltage signal traces; and at least one connecting metal pair, wherein each of the connecting metal pairs includes two connecting metals, and the two connecting metals are disposed between the color filter substrate and the array substrate to electrically connect two ends of one of the low voltage signal traces to two ends of the first auxiliary trace.
US11435628B2
A display device is provided and includes first substrate; first insulating layer on first substrate; first common electrode in first row on first insulating layer; second common electrode in second row on first insulating layer; second insulating layer on first and second common electrodes; pixel electrodes on second insulating layer; first line connected to first common electrode; second line connected to second common electrode; drive signal line outside display area; first transistor between first and drive signal lines; second transistor between second and drive signal lines; second substrate facing first substrate; and liquid crystal layer between first and second substrates; wherein first and second transistors are outside the display area, and second line is longer than first line.
US11435623B2
Included are a first orientation region in which a liquid crystal molecule is oriented along a first direction and a plurality of pixels are included; a second orientation region in which a liquid crystal molecule is oriented along a second direction intersecting the first direction and a plurality of pixels are included; a third orientation region in which a liquid crystal molecule is oriented along a third direction intersecting the second direction and opposite to the first direction and a plurality of pixels are included; and a fourth orientation region in which a liquid crystal molecule is oriented along a fourth direction intersecting the third direction and opposite to the second direction and a plurality of pixels are included.
US11435616B2
Optical constructions are disclosed. A disclosed optical construction includes a reflective polarizer layer, and an optical film that is disposed on the reflective polarizer layer. The optical film has an optical haze that is not less than about 50%. Substantial portions of each two neighboring major surfaces in the optical construction are in physical contact with each other. The optical construction has an axial luminance gain that is not less than about 1.2.
US11435615B2
An optical device that can be used for various applications including eyewears, such as sunglasses or AR (augmented reality) or VR (virtual reality) eyewear, an outer wall of a building or a sunroof for a vehicle, and the like is provided. The optical device includes first and second outer substrates disposed to face each other, an active liquid crystal film layer, and a step forming layer. The active liquid crystal film layer and the step forming layer are encapsulated by an encapsulating agent between the first and second outer substrate. The active liquid crystal film layer comprises a first region that is pressed by the step forming layer and a second region that is not pressed by the step forming layer. The defects caused by an excessively large or small amount of light-modulating material or heat shrinkage of the light-modulating material, and the like are prevented in the optical device.
US11435611B2
A display apparatus includes a rear chassis, a light source installed in the rear chassis to emit light, a diffuser plate that diffuses light emitted from the light source, a liquid crystal panel positioned in front of the diffuser plate to display an image, a front chassis that supports the liquid crystal panel, and a middle mold coupled between the front chassis and the rear chassis to support the diffuser plate, and is provided with a curved reflective surface formed in a curved shape to reflect the light, which is emitted from the light source module, to the diffuser plate.
US11435607B2
A liquid crystal composite material is disclosed, including a polymer matrix, and a light-blocking body dispersed in the polymer matrix, wherein when no voltage is applied, the light-blocking body is randomly oriented so that the liquid crystal composite material is in a black state, and wherein when a voltage is applied, the light-blocking body is orderly oriented and the polymer matrix scatters incident light, so that the liquid crystal composite material is in a scattering state. A light switching device, a display device and methods for manufacturing the liquid crystal composite material, the light switching device, and the display device are further disclosed.
US11435598B2
An example optical system for a 3D stereoscopic image display comprises a changing mirror, a rotating mirror, a tilted mirror, a concave mirror and a planar mirror. The changing mirror can change the path of light from a horizontal direction to a vertical direction. The rotating mirror can rotate while having an X-axis and a Y-axis with different curvature radii. The tilted mirror can include a central region with a hole for allowing light to pass therethrough, and a peripheral region having one surface having a concave tilted structure while the other surface has a planar structure. The concave mirror can include a central region with a hole having a size capable of encompassing the tilted mirror and a peripheral region having a bent structure that is completely concave. The planar mirror can include a central region with a hole and a peripheral region with a flat doughnut structure.
US11435594B2
A method for adjusting an optical source used for fabricating an optical receiver comprising a signal beam input port, a polarization beam splitter, and signal generation units, is disclosed. The optical source generates a reference beam by combining first and second beams having polarization directions orthogonal each other. The reference beam is introduced to the signal beam input port to measure a first size of an electric signal generated in one of the signal generation units. A half-wavelength plate is disposed in an optical path between the beam splitter and the one of the signal generation units. After that, the reference beam is introduced to the signal beam input port to measure a second size of an electric signal generated in the one of the generation units. At least one of the first and second beams is adjusted such that the first size and the second size become close to each other.
US11435593B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) displaying one or more images to a user via a display comprising multiple display regions, (2) switching each of the display regions to a blocking state in which a view of the user's real-world environment in a corresponding region of the user's field of view is blocked from the user, (3) detecting a pass-through triggering event involving one or more objects in the user's real-world environment, (4) identifying one or more display regions corresponding to a region of the user's field of view occupied by the object, and (5) switching each of the one or more display regions to a pass-through state in which the view of the user's real-world environment in the corresponding region of the user's field of view is passed through to the user. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11435591B2
An apparatus (100) for collimating a light ray field (1), a diode laser, the use of a collimation lens system (1), a collimation method and a method of producing a collimation apparatus. The apparatus (100) collimates a light ray field (L), which diverges more quickly in a first direction (F), perpendicular to the emission direction(s), than in a second direction (S), perpendicular to both the emission direction(s) and the first direction (F). The apparatus (100) comprises at least one first collimation lens system (1) for collimating the light ray field (L) in the first direction and at least one second collimation lens system (2) for collimating the light ray field in the second direction. The first collimation lens system (1) comprises a glass cylindrical lens (3) with an at least partly circular profile (4). The first collimation lens system (1) comprises an aspherical plastic lens element (5).
US11435585B1
An optical device having suppressed rainbow effect is provided. The optical device includes a light source configured to generate an image light, an optical combiner coupled with the light source and configured to direct the image light to an eye-box of the optical device, and a dimming element disposed at the optical combiner. The optical combiner includes at least one diffractive element. The optical combiner has a first side facing the eye-box and an opposing second side facing a real world, and the dimming element is disposed at the second side of the optical combiner. The dimming element is configured to receive a light from the real world and significantly attenuate an intensity of the light having an incidence angle in a predetermined range.
US11435584B2
Systems and methods providing optical structures providing a large field of view (FOV) for personal portable displays are described. An optical structure of embodiments comprises a catadioptric optical configuration configured to produce a magnified curved intermediate image, wherein the magnified curved intermediate image is furthered magnified with proper reflection angle and transmitted to viewer's eye. The catadioptric optical configuration may comprise two curved mirrors and a polarization prism. Optical structures comprising such catadioptric optical configurations may utilize relatively small sized image sources to produce a large FOV. Such optical structures are well suited for use in large FOV optical see through (OST) head-mounted displays (HMDs).
US11435578B2
A method for detecting a gaze direction of an eye includes the steps of irradiating at least one wavelength-modulated laser beam onto an eye, detecting an optical path length of the emitted laser beam based on laser feedback interferometry of the emitted laser radiation with a backscattered radiation from the eye, detecting a Doppler shift of the emitted radiation and the backscattered radiation based on the laser feedback interferometry, detecting an eye velocity based on the Doppler shift, and detecting an eye movement of the eye based on the optical path length and the eye velocity.
US11435576B2
A near-eye display system includes a display panel to display a near-eye lightfield frame comprising an array of elemental images and an eye tracking component to track a pose of a user's eye. The system further includes a lenslet array and a rendering component to adjust the focal points of the array of elemental images in the integral lightfield frame based on the pose of the user's eye. A method of operation of the near-eye display system includes determining, using an eye tracking component of the near-eye display system, a first pose of a user's eye and determining a desired focal point for an array of elemental images forming an integral lightfield frame based on the first pose of the user's eye. The method further includes changing the focal length of light projecting out of a lenslet array based on the first pose of the user's eye.
US11435575B2
A system and method to improve astigmatism correction and collimation of a laser beam generated by a diode in a low-level laser therapy system, but without using a complex optical configuration. A first divergent lens is a cylindrical lens. The divergence of the first lens is applied in the direction in which the diode's beam has relatively small divergence. The first lens creates divergence in the beam in a first axis, which divergence approximates the divergence in the perpendicular second axis. This first axis divergence corrects the astigmatism in the optical system of the therapy apparatus. The therapy apparatus thus can emit a beam with an elliptical cross-section with an axes ratio of less than 2:1, despite a high axes ratio of the beam originated by the diode. A second lens of the system and method is a collimating lens with elliptical shape adapted to maximize emitted beam collimation.
US11435572B2
An image display system includes an optical subsystem configured to emit a first light beam and a second light beam, wherein the first light beam illuminates a first portion of a composite field of view and the second beam illuminates a second portion of the composite field of view. A scanning mirror is positioned to intercept and reflect the first light beam and the second light beam. The system also has a waveguide with at least one input coupling optical element for receiving the first light beam and the second light beam into the waveguide. The waveguide also has an output coupling optical element for projecting a plurality of output light beams derived from the first light beam and the second light beam from the waveguide to illuminate the composite field of view.
US11435561B2
This application relates to the field of optical imaging technologies, and discloses a lens system and an image photographing apparatus and device, so as to obtain a larger image on an imaging surface, thereby facilitating product miniaturization. The lens system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens that are sequentially arranged in an optic axis direction from an object side to an image side, where the first lens has a positive refractive power, the second lens has a negative refractive power, the third lens has a negative refractive power, the fourth lens has a positive refractive power, and the fifth lens has a negative refractive power and has a convex image-side surface.
US11435552B2
Provided are an optical lens assembly and an electronic apparatus. The optical lens assembly includes a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens having a refractive power, and a moving lens group movable to be inserted in or removed from between the third lens and the fourth lens, wherein the first, second, third, and fourth lenses and the moving lens group are sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side. The moving lens group is moved between the third lens and the fourth lens for infrared (IR) photography.
US11435550B2
A camera includes: an image capturing unit that outputs a signal by capturing a subject image via an optical system having a focus adjustment optical system; a detection unit that detects an in-focus position at which the subject image is in focus on the image capturing unit by the optical system based on the signal outputted from the image capturing unit; a control unit that controls a position of the focus adjustment optical system so as to focus continuously upon a specified subject based on the in-focus position detected by the detection unit; and an acquisition unit that acquires information related to at least one of a distance to the specified subject, a size of the specified subject, and the optical system; wherein the control unit controls the position of the focus adjustment optical system based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit.
US11435540B2
A cable management system includes a cap that cooperates with a housing to enclose a connection between a first cable and a second cable. The cap defines a first port and a second port through which cables extend into the housing. A base is to be coupled to the cap. The base includes a first clamp that protrudes from a surface of the base and maintains an alignment of a portion of the first cable with the first port. The base also includes a base interlock portion. A first cable guide, separate from the base, is to be installed on the cap to maintain an alignment of a portion of the second cable. The first cable guide includes a second clamp, and a first cable guide interlock portion that cooperates with the base interlock portion to interfere with separation of the first cable guide from the base.
US11435538B2
In various embodiments, optical fibers have arrangements of core, annular core, and cladding regions enabling variation of beam shape and/or beam parameter product and may be utilized for the processing (e.g., welding, cutting, drilling, etc.) of various workpieces.
US11435535B2
A behind-the-wall optical connector an outer housing configured to be inserted into an adapter with a corresponding inner surface, a ferrule included in an annular collar to mate with a corresponding projection at an adapter opening, and a latch attached to one side of housing configured to lock the connecter into an adapter opening. The latch is further configured with a locking channel and guide to accept a pull tab with a catch at one end, the pull tab releases the connector from the adapter opening when the tab is pulled rearward or away from the adapter.
US11435534B2
A flexible optical fiber connector comprises a first housing component configured to couple to a terminating connector, and a second housing component configured to receive an optical fiber for termination in the terminating connector. The first housing component and the second housing component are further configured to receive a pushable connector therethrough. A flexible optical fiber connector assembly comprises a flexible connector and a terminating connector coupled thereto. The flexible connector assembly is configured to couple to an adapter held by a holder coupled to a port.
US11435529B2
Provided is an optical fiber holder comprising a holder body and a cover. The holder body has an accommodation section capable of accommodating a plurality of optical fibers. The holder body or the cover has at least one ridge which can be disposed within the accommodation section. When the cover is closed over the holder body, a plurality of sections which can parallelly accommodate the plurality of optical fibers are parallelly formed by the inner surface of the accommodation section, the lower surface of the cover, and the ridge.
US11435527B2
An optical fiber cleaving device (1) has a knife (3) and two clamping arrangements (6a, 7). A first clamping arrangement (6a) includes an element (8a) configured to receive a light-radiation-curing adhesive (11) together with an end portion (5a) of the fiber (5), which is embedded in the adhesive (11). A lamp (15) is configured to apply light on the adhesive (11) to cure it so that the end portion (5a) of the fiber (5) is firmly bound to the element (8a). The end portion (5a) is in this way fixedly held during cleaving of the fiber (5). A method is also provided for cleaving an optical fiber (5), in which the fiber (5) to be cleaved is clamped using light-radiation-curing adhesive (11), as well as use of a fiber cleaving device (1).
US11435517B2
A display for representing information in an interior of a motor vehicle includes a decoration component configured to be inserted in an interior trim of a motor vehicle. The decoration component has a display region configured to cover and/or represent an indication element and a decoration region for an optical design of the interior. The decoration region has a three-dimensional structure on a rear side that is remote from an upper side facing an interior. The display region is optically coupled to the decoration region for illuminating the three-dimensional structure.
US11435512B2
Each wire of a wire grid polarizer (WGP) can include the following layers moving outwards from the substrate: a high-index-layer, a low-index-layer, and a reflective-layer. Each wire can have a distal-end, farthest from the substrate, with a convex shape. These layers and the convex shape can be combined for a more stable and improved Rs.
US11435510B2
To suppress a phenomenon where an optical axis of the optically anisotropic layer is tilted when the optically anisotropic layer is produced by using a liquid crystalline compound showing smectic phase as a materials showing a higher level of orderliness. An optically anisotropic layer wherein a polymerizable composition, containing one or more polymerizable rod-like liquid crystal compound showing a smectic phase, is fixed in a state of smectic phase, and a direction of maximum refractive index of the optically anisotropic layer is inclined at 10° or smaller to the surface of the optically anisotropic layer, a method for manufacturing the same, a laminate and a method for manufacturing the same, a polarizing plate, a liquid crystal display device, and an organic EL display device.
US11435503B2
This document relates to head mounted display devices. In one example the head mounted display device includes a light engine including an array of individually controllable pixels that can be energized to emit light. The example also includes an optical assembly physically aligned with the light engine and including a set of focusing elements facing toward the light engine and a different set of focusing elements facing away from the light engine.
US11435500B2
An optical lens assembly has a central axis and includes at least one dual molded lens element. The dual molded lens element includes a light transmitting portion and a light absorbing portion, wherein the light transmitting portion includes an optical effective region and a lens peripheral region, and the lens peripheral region surrounds the optical effective region. The light absorbing portion surrounds the optical effective region. The light transmitting portion and the light absorbing portion are made of different plastic materials with different colors, and are integrally formed by an injection molding. The light transmitting portion or the light absorbing portion includes a plurality of annular convex structures, and the annular convex structures surround the central axis.
US11435484B2
A global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver is disclosed. In embodiments, the GNSS receiver includes a tracking engine running on a primary controller, the tracking engine configured to receive a plurality of signals from a plurality of satellites. The GNSS receiver further includes a space-time adaptive correlator (STAC) engine running on an application-specific controller. In embodiments, the STAC engine is configured to: receive initial position data and an initial receiver clock estimate from the tracking engine; construct a spatial hypercube based on the received initial position data; receive the plurality of signals from the tracking engine; interpolate signal strengths of the plurality of signals to generate a plurality of signal intensity curves; integrate the plurality of signal intensity curves within the spatial hypercube for the initial receiver clock estimate to generate a signal intensity hypercube plot; and determine a receiver position based on the signal intensity hypercube plot.
US11435481B2
A device for determining position information includes a detector that is configured to detect a position of the device and a processor that is configured to determine the position information based on a primary position indication from the detector and a secondary position indication from a second detector that is distinct from the detector. The processor determines the position information by aligning the primary position indication with the secondary position indication based on identifying a pattern of the primary position indication that corresponds with a pattern of the secondary position indication.
US11435480B2
A map construction method and a robot are provided. The map construction method includes: acquiring a two-dimensional point cloud image of a motion space, wherein the two-dimensional point cloud image is a data set composed of several point cloud data; determining a wall in the motion space according to the two-dimensional point cloud image; determining a main traveling direction according to the wall. The method adds up a function for searching the main traveling direction, and can provide the robot with optimal main traveling direction, which makes the map composition smoother, more regular and intuitive, and conforms to people's using habits, thereby facilitating improving the user experience.
US11435475B2
An information handling system manages operation of an infrared time of flight sensor to provide accurate and timely user presence and absence detection through modulation in the frequency domain of infrared light, such as by hopping or multiplexing through plural infrared frequencies sensed by the time of flight sensor. An application of the information handling system retrieves calibration information from the infrared time of flight sensor and applies the calibration information to select the plural infrared frequencies. If one or more predetermined conditions, such as a change in ambient light characteristics, the application commands an update of the calibration information to enhance user presence and absence detection.
US11435474B2
A vehicle environment detection system (40) in an ego vehicle (1), including a sensor arrangement (4) and a main control unit (8) is arranged to detect and track at least one oncoming vehicle (9), and to determine whether the ego vehicle (1) has entered a curve (17). When this is the case. The main control unit (8) is arranged to, determine an ego direction (21) along which the ego vehicle (1) travels with a corresponding ego direction angle (γego) with respect to a predetermined axis (xglob), determine a measured oncoming direction (18) of the tracked oncoming vehicle (9) with a corresponding oncoming angle (θtrack, glob) with respect to the predetermined axis (xglob) during a plurality of radar cycles, determine a difference angle (δ) between the measured oncoming direction (18) and the ego direction (21), and compare the difference angle (δ) with a threshold angle (θmax), and to determine that the oncoming vehicle (9) is crossing if the difference angle (δ) exceeds the threshold angle (θmax).
US11435470B2
Provided is a multi-target life detection method based on radar signals. The method includes: performing time accumulation in a slow time direction on a preprocessed echo signal to obtain a first echo signal; performing an envelope extraction of inflection points on the first echo signal to obtain a second echo signal; calculating an average value of all amplitude signals in the second echo signal other than M marked amplitude signals; and in response to a ratio of a marked amplitude signal to the average value being greater than a threshold, determining that a living target exists at a radar detection distance corresponding to the marked amplitude signal. According to the life detection method of the present disclosure, a normalization method is adopted to normalize signal amplitudes of the radar in a dimension of fast time (distance). In addition, two envelope extractions of inflection points may be performed.
US11435461B2
An ultrasound system, probe and method are provided. The ultrasound system includes a transducer with piezoelectric transducer elements polarized in a poling direction. A bipolar transmit circuit is configured to generate a transmit signal having first and second polarity segments. The first and second polarity segments have corresponding first and second peak amplitudes. A bias generator is configured to generate a bias signal in a direction of the poling direction. The bias signal is combined with the transmit signal to form a biased transmit signal that is shifted in the direction of the poling direction and still includes both of positive and negative voltages over a transmit cycle.
US11435460B2
An ultrasound imaging system enhances the display of an ultrasound image by applying a selected style to the content of the ultrasound image. The style may be of anatomic illustrations of a particular anatomical feature such as tissue type or may be the style of a previously obtained ultrasound image that shows tissue well. The style of other imaging modes can also be applied. In some embodiments, a training mode of the ultrasound imaging system implements a style transfer technique to enhance the appearance of captured ultrasound image data.
US11435457B2
A surveying instrument comprises a projection optical system for irradiating a distance measuring light which is a linearly-polarized light to an object to be measured, a light receiving optical system for receiving a reflected distance measuring light from the object to be measured, a polarization selecting module for selecting a polarization of the reflected distance measuring light received by the light receiving optical system and an arithmetic control module for controlling a distance measurement based on a light receiving result of the reflected distance measuring light, wherein the arithmetic control module is configured to give a material information to a distance measurement result of the object to be measured based on a change in light receiving amounts caused due to a selection of the polarization by the polarization selecting module.
US11435441B2
Embodiments include methods, systems and computer readable storage medium for a method for operating one or more doors of a vehicle is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by at least one radar sensor on the vehicle, input data related to one or more objects. The method further includes filtering, by the at least one radar sensor, vehicle environment noise from the received input. The method further includes identifying, by the at least one radar sensor, an external environment for the vehicle based on the filtered input. The method further includes operating, by a processor, one or more doors of the vehicle based on the external environment for the vehicle.
US11435439B2
A method is provided that includes a method is provided that includes transmitting a radar signal by a radar system. The method also includes receiving reflections of the radar signal from an environment by the radar system. Additionally, the method includes receiving a location of a plurality of objects in the environment by a radar processing system. The method further includes tracking a plurality of reflecting objects in the environment based on the received reflections by the radar processing system. Yet further, the method includes determining, by the radar processing system, that a received radar reflection corresponds to one of the plurality objects in the environment having an incorrect location. Moreover, the method includes revising a tracking for the one of the plurality objects in the environment having an incorrect location.
US11435437B2
The present disclosure relates to a transmission apparatus, including at least one first RF signal connection for an RF signal having a first phase, a ring coupler having a plurality of antenna connections for coupling a plurality of antennas in the first RF signal connection, wherein the ring coupler is configured to cause, at each of different antenna connections of the ring coupler, a constructive superposition of components of the RF signal that propagate from the first RF signal connection to the respective antenna connections in different directions in the ring coupler, wherein RF signals having different phases are obtained at the different antenna connections.
US11435435B2
Disclosed herein is a radar device. The radar device can implement a virtual antenna with high spatial resolution having a two-dimensional (2D) distribution of received beams using a plurality of transmitting and a plurality of receiving antennas.
US11435426B2
Aspects of the invention include a circuit having a power header configured to couple to a power supply and to provide an output voltage. A sense circuit is coupled to the power header to receive the output voltage, the sense circuit including a replica voltage circuit coupled to a replica power header circuit and a transistor, the replica voltage circuit being configured to provide a replicated output voltage in accordance with the output voltage, the replica power header circuit being configured to couple to the power supply and the replicated output voltage to generate a replica current, the transistor being configured to deliver the replica current.
US11435421B2
One or more peripheral components are attached to a medical imaging system. One or more devices are attached to the one or more peripheral components and configured to communicate data with a controller of the medical imaging system.
US11435420B2
In a magnetic resonance (MR) method and apparatus for determining an MR image or an MR fat image of an examination subject, first and second MR signal datasets are provided to a computer, respectively obtained at first and second echo times. The computer defines a signal model and determines possible solution candidates for values of parameters of the signal model for each pixel of the two MR signal datasets so that the MR signals thereof are matched as well as possible. A correct solution is selected from the solution candidates, using a calculated phase map, based on predetermined assumptions regarding the calculated phase map. The MR water image or the MR fat image is determined using the correct solution.
US11435414B2
A magnetic field sensor for detecting a direction of a magnetic field comprises an xMR sensor designed to produce an xMR sine signal and an xMR cosine signal based on the magnetic field, and an AMR sensor designed to produce an AMR sine signal and/or an AMR cosine signal based on the magnetic field. A processing circuit is designed to determine the direction of the magnetic field using the xMR sine signal, the xMR cosine signal, a first phase difference between the xMR sine signal and the AMR sine signal or the AMR cosine signal, and a second phase difference between the xMR cosine signal and the AMR sine signal or the AMR cosine signal.
US11435413B2
The present invention relates to a field-sensor device comprising a reference field sensor providing a reference sensor signal in response to a field, a calibrated field sensor providing a calibrated sensor signal in response to the field, a reference circuit connected to the reference field sensor and adapted to receive a reference signal, and an adjustable circuit connected to the calibrated field sensor and adapted to receive a calibrated signal. When the adjustable circuit is adjusted with the calibrated signal, said calibrated signal being different from the reference signal, the calibrated field sensor provides a calibrated sensor signal substantially equal to the reference sensor signal. The field sensor device is arranged to be exposed, when in a calibration mode, to a uniform calibration field and, when in operational mode, to an operational field being a field gradient.
US11435410B1
A system for detecting contamination in a two-phase immersion cooling system based on current leakage between two combs on a printed circuit board. A first comb is opposite a second comb, wherein each finger of the first comb is positioned between two adjacent fingers on the second comb. The combs are positioned near a heat source in the liquid portion of the fluid. As the fluid boils, contaminants are distilled out of the fluid. Acidic contaminants deposited on either comb may cause metal migration to occur, resulting in bridging between two combs. A current sensor may detect the current leakage and send a signal to allow the information handling system, the fluid, or the cooling system to be serviced before damage occurs to the information handling system.
US11435383B2
A comparison unit (22) compares a measurement value, which is one of changes over time in a voltage value of a bus line (11), distance transition of the voltage value, changes over time in an impedance value of the bus line (11), and distance transition of the impedance value that have been measured, with a normal value, which is one of changes over time in a voltage value of the bus line (11), distance transition of the voltage value, changes over time in an impedance value of the bus line (11), and distance transition of the impedance value in a normal state, and extracts a difference between the measurement value and the normal value. An unauthorized connection determination unit (24) evaluates the difference between the measurement value and the normal value extracted by the comparison unit (22), so as to determine whether an unauthorized device is connected to the bus line (11).
US11435382B2
A current monitoring circuit includes: an output terminal configured to be coupled to a controller; an inverter having an output coupled to the output terminal; a first transconductance amplifier having first and second inputs configured to be coupled across a sense resistive element, and an output coupled to an input of the inverter; and a current generator having a second transconductance amplifier configured to generate a reference current at an output of the current generator based on a reference voltage, the output of the current generator being coupled to the input of the inverter, where the output of the inverter is configured to be in a first state when a load current flowing through the sense resistive element is higher than a predetermined threshold, and in a second state when the load current is lower than the predetermined threshold, and where the predetermined threshold is based on the reference current.
US11435378B2
A MEMS microforce sensor for high temperature nanoindentation is used for determining a mechanical property of a sample by sensing a deflection and measuring a force. The MEMS microforce sensor includes at least a cold movable body, a heatable movable body, a heating resistor and capacitor electrodes. The cold movable body and the heatable movable body are mechanically connected by at least one bridge and the capacitor electrodes measure a force applied on the sample by sensing the deflection of the cold movable body relative to the outer frame by a change of electrical capacitance.
US11435369B2
In one embodiment, a biological sample analyzer has a housing having at least one outer wall that defines a cavity therein. A receptacle, which can support a consumable holder containing a biological sample, is disposed within the internal cavity. At least one heater applies heat to the receptacle when the consumable holder is supported by the receptacle. At least one heater sensor detect temperatures of the receptacle over time. A controller detects whether the consumable holder is below an ambient temperature based on a decrease in temperature of the receptacle when the consumable holder is inserted into the receptacle. The controller also increases an amount of thermal energy transferred from the at least one heater to the consumable holder when the controller detects that the consumable holder is below the ambient temperature so as to heat the consumable holder to a target temperature.
US11435368B2
Provided are a biomarker for diagnosing of the level of senescence, a composition and kit for diagnosing of the level of senescence to detect the biomarker, and a method of diagnosing the same. According to the composition and kit for the diagnosis of the level of senescence and the method of diagnosing senescence, the level of senescence of a subject is easily diagnosed, the health conditions of the subject are monitored, and a senescence-associated disease is prevented or diagnosed.
US11435363B2
The invention involves, inter alia, the use of markers of systemic inflammation to determine whether or not an individual undergoing treatment with a cardiovascular agent to reduce the risk of a future cardiovascular event will benefit from continued treatment with the cardiovascular agent. Further, this invention describes the use of markers of systemic inflammation to evaluate the efficacy of treatment and to assist physicians in deciding on the course of a treatment in an individual at risk of future cardiovascular events.
US11435360B2
The present disclosure provides a system comprising a communication interface and computer for assigning a label to the biomolecule fingerprint, wherein the label corresponds to a biological state. The present disclosure also provides a sensor arrays for detecting biomolecules and methods of use. In some embodiments, the sensor arrays are capable of determining a disease state in a subject.
US11435357B2
A system and method for detecting gene-environment interactions, a method of making predictions about individual response to a specific environmental factor with respect to a single phenotype and a simulation method determining the optimal parameters for use of the gene-environment interaction detection method. Gene-environment interaction detection and the discovery of previously unknown interactions are facilitated.
US11435353B2
The present invention provides a method of evaluating drug resistance in hormone therapy including the following steps. Firstly, a primary level of TRBP in a subject is measured, and an effective amount of tamoxifen, an active form of tamoxifen or an analogous of tamoxifen is provided to the subject. Then, a level of TRBP in the subject is measured after providing tamoxifen, the active form of tamoxifen or the analogous of tamoxifen. Finally, a level change of TRBP in the subject is discriminated to determine a tamoxifen resistance.
US11435339B2
Diseases (e.g., cancer) of a particular organ can be detected by analyzing cell-free DNA. Some embodiments may use an organ-associated sample that is from a particular organ or passes through the particular organ, as may occur, for example, in urine, saliva, blood, and stool samples. In some embodiments, methylation levels of cell-free DNA can be measured in a sample. Tissue-specific methylation patterns can be used to determine fractional contributions from different tissue types. In other embodiments, sizes of organ-associated cell-free DNA can be measured. A statistical measure of the size profile may indicate that cell-free DNA fragments are collectively longer than expected for subjects with healthy tissue compared to non-healthy tissue. In other embodiments, two different samples can be analyzed to determine whether a particular organ has cancer. Cell-free DNA in a blood sample and organ-associated sample can both be analyzed to identify chromosomal regions exhibiting a copy number aberration.
US11435338B2
Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for determining an improved estimate of the true fractional abundance of target analytes (e.g., specific polynucleotide sequences) in a sample using a nanopore sensor, e.g., by correcting errors inherent to identifying and correlating electrical signals to amounts of a target analyte or reference analyte in a sample.
US11435336B2
The present invention discloses a method for determining a content of lost gas in a shale gas content test. The method includes: acquiring a shale core and recording the time required for acquiring the shale core; carrying out a desorption experiment on the shale core to obtain desorption data; acquiring a fitting objective function; fitting the desorption data by using the fitting objective function to obtain fitted desorption data; determining fitting parameters according to the desorption data and the fitted desorption data; correcting the time required for acquiring the shale core according to the fitting parameters; and obtaining the content of lost gas according to the fitting parameters and the corrected time required for acquiring the shale core. The present invention can improve the determining precision of the content of the lost gas.
US11435332B2
A method for reducing sensor noise in an automobile vehicle NOx sensor offset diagnostic includes: connecting an exhaust system to an engine of an automobile vehicle; sensing a condition of the exhaust system using at least one NOx sensor; identifying when the at least one NOx sensor is at a low noise condition; and running a diagnostic to identify conditions of the at least one NOx sensor. The method further includes selecting one of the low noise condition as the engine in an after-run condition or as the engine in an engine idle condition.
US11435318B2
A specimen liquid sensor apparatus includes a specimen liquid sensor having an external terminal and a reader on which the specimen liquid sensor can be detachably attached. The reader includes a first portion, a second portion that can be displaced with respect to the first portion. A connection terminal located on an upper surface of the first portion, and an external terminal of the specimen liquid sensor and a connection terminal of the reader are in contact with each other in a closed state in which the specimen liquid sensor is located between an upper surface of the first portion and a lower surface of the second portion.
US11435314B2
Methods and apparatus relating to very large scale FET arrays for analyte measurements. ChemFET (e.g., ISFET) arrays may be fabricated using conventional CMOS processing techniques based on improved FET pixel and array designs that increase measurement sensitivity and accuracy, and at the same time facilitate significantly small pixel sizes and dense arrays. Improved array control techniques provide for rapid data acquisition from large and dense arrays. Such arrays may be employed to detect a presence and/or concentration changes of various analyte types in a wide variety of chemical and/or biological processes. In one example, chemFET arrays facilitate DNA sequencing techniques based on monitoring changes in hydrogen ion concentration (pH), changes in other analyte concentration, and/or binding events associated with chemical processes relating to DNA synthesis.
US11435312B2
A sensor system, device, and methods for determining the concentration of an analyte in a sample is described. Gated voltammetric pulse sequences including multiple duty cycles of sequential excitations and relaxations may provide a shorter analysis time and/or improve the accuracy and/or precision of the analysis. The disclosed pulse sequences may reduce analysis errors arising from the hematocrit effect, variance in cap-gap volumes, non-steady-state conditions, mediator background, a single set of calibration constants, under-fill, and changes in the active ionizing agent content of the sensor strip.
US11435298B2
In some examples, a system receives a first image of a circuit board produced by a first production stage, and compares the first image to a second image of the circuit board acquired at a second production stage for the circuit board. The system indicates an anomaly with the circuit board based on the comparing.
US11435297B2
Provided is an image capture method including: illuminating an object having known label data, capturing images of the object using illumination parameters, and acquiring captured images; generating an estimated image of the object at the time of illumination based on the illumination parameter on the basis of an image data set obtained by associating a captured image with an illumination parameter; setting a maximum number of captured images permitted for the object; and performing learning with a machine learning model for each number of images equal to or smaller than the maximum number of captured images, optimizing illumination parameters and inspection algorithm parameters on the basis of a result of comparison between a result of estimation of the machine learning model and the label data of the object, calculating an index representing inspection performance expected when the each number of images is captured, and presenting the index to a user.
US11435296B2
Gemstone grading method including illuminating the gemstone by light having a plurality of spectral components, each modulated according to a spectrally specific modulation (e.g., of intensity, frequency, phase), collecting the light following interaction with the gemstone, extracting from the collected light a set of intensity values for a respective set of modulation parameter values to provide a transmittance spectrum, and an output indicative of the transmittance spectrum (e.g., color, clarity, fluorescence grade). A complementary system includes a plurality of monochromatic light sources and respective modulators for simultaneously illuminating a gemstone with a modulation spectrally specific for each light source, a detection system for collecting the light following interaction whose signals are fed via a communication system to a data processor configured to extract a set of intensity values for a respective set of modulation parameter values to provide a transmittance spectrum and an output indicative thereof.
US11435295B2
A sensor element is used to collect environment information on a surface of the earth or a surface layer of the earth by being scattered in a target region where the environment information is collected. At least one of reflection properties, transmission properties, absorption properties, or luminescence properties with respective to an electromagnetic wave with a specific wavelength, or light emitting properties changes in accordance with an environment.
US11435294B2
A color-changing environmental stimulus indicator includes a substrate, an active indicator placed above the substrate, and a reference component. The active indicator is configured to change color in response to an environmental stimulus. The reference component is also color changeable in response to an environmental stimulus. The reference component is configured to have a similar appearance to the active indicator at an end point. The environmental stimulus includes one or more of temperature, cumulative temperature, humidity, pH, and ultraviolet radiation.
US11435293B2
A dual-function heat indicator for monitoring two or more modes of heat exposure is described. A manufacturing process for the dual-function heat indicator is also described. Dual-function heat indicators as described may be useful for monitoring the exposure of host products, with which the dual-function heat indicators may be associated, to cumulative ambient heat exposure and to a peak ambient heat exposure, and for other purposes.
US11435283B2
A method for optically detecting mutations in a sequence of DNA is disclosed. The method includes generating an optically coded input sequence by optically coding an input sequence, generating an optically coded reference sequence by optically coding a reference sequence, generating an aligned sequence by overlapping the optically coded input sequence with the optically coded reference sequence, and determining a mutation in the input sequence with respect to the reference sequence. The input sequence includes an input arrangement of a plurality of elements. Each of the plurality of elements includes an element value of a plurality of element values. The reference sequence includes a reference arrangement of the plurality of elements. Each element of the aligned sequence includes one of a low-value element or a high-value element. The mutation is determined responsive to detecting the low-value element in the aligned sequence.
US11435282B2
According to one embodiment, a gas analysis device includes: a base including a concave portion; a window includes a first film and a second film; an optical part that is located at a side of the window opposite to the base side and includes a light projector and a light receiver; and an optical path length controller that is located between the base and the window and has a controllable thickness. The concave portion includes a first sidewall that is oblique to a surface of the base, and a second sidewall that is oblique to the surface of the base. An oblique direction of the second sidewall is opposite to an oblique direction of the first sidewall. The light projector is configured to irradiate light toward the first sidewall. The light receiver is configured to convert light reflected by the second sidewall.
US11435277B2
Embodiments of the present invention include a device for removing energy from a beam of electromagnetic radiation. Typically, the device can be operatively coupled to a turbidity measuring device to remove energy generated by the turbidity measuring device. The device can include a block of material having one of a plurality of different shapes coated in an energy absorbing material. Generally, the device can include an angled or rounded energy absorbing surface where the beam of electromagnetic radiation can be directed. The angled or rounded energy absorbing surface can be configured to deflect a portion of the beam of electromagnetic radiation to a second energy absorbing surface.
US11435273B2
A densitometer in the present disclosure comprises tension measuring devices that send tension measurements to a measurement module enabling the measurement module to estimate fluid density with increased accuracy. The densitometer measures sample fluid density by vibrating the sample fluid and measuring the resonant frequency of the sample fluid, then estimating the sample fluid density based on this resonant frequency. A set of tension measuring devices affixed to a tube of the densitometer measure external forces on the tube due to O-ring seals and other operational conditions. The sample fluid density estimate uses these tension measurements to take into account O-ring friction and other external forces applied to the densitometer to improve the accuracy of the calculated density.
US11435272B1
A method of determining shear strength of soil using a fall cone apparatus is provided. The method includes generating a first plot having graph lines defined for penetration depth values ranging from 4 to 20 mm on a first logarithmic paper, deducing a first mathematical model based on the first plot, and generating a second plot having the graph lines extended for a predefined penetration depth range based on the first mathematical model. The method further includes generating a third plot having graph lines corresponding to the extended penetration depth values defined for the W/A ratio values ranging from 0.17 to 13.3 on a second logarithmic paper, deducing a second mathematical model based on the third plot, generating a fourth plot having the graph lines extended for a predefined W/A ratio range based on the second mathematical model, and determining shear strength based on the fourth plot.
US11435270B2
Hardness testers having a pivoting body and capable of providing power to accessories on the pivoting body are disclosed. An example hardness testing device includes: a rotating carriage configured to: hold at least one of an indenter or an objective and at least one accessory; and rotate to selectively place the at least one indenter or objective or the at least one accessory in an operative position to operate the at least one indenter or objective or the at least one accessory; a carriage mount configured to support the rotating carriage; and an electrical contact block mounted stationary with respect to the carriage mount, the electrical contact block comprising a plurality of electrical contacts configured to make electrical contact with a counterpart electrical contact block of the at least one accessory coupled to the rotating carriage when the at least one accessory is positioned in the operative position.
US11435264B2
A probe device includes a probe that detects a state of a rotary shaft, a probe holding member having a first end fixed to a bearing portion, in which the probe is fixed to the first end, a cylindrical guide sleeve inserted into a communication hole of a casing, a second end of the probe holding member being inserted into the cylindrical guide sleeve, and a plurality of elastic support members disposed at an interval in an extending direction of the probe holding member between the second end of the probe holding member and an inner peripheral surface of the guide sleeve, and formed of an elastic material to form an annular shape extending along an outer peripheral surface of the probe holding member.
US11435263B2
A pylon for supporting an aircraft turbomachine, in particular for a test bench, the pylon having a generally elongated shape along an axis and including, at a first longitudinal end, first members for fixing to a turbomachine and, at a second longitudinal end, second members for fixing to a base plate, the pylon being traversed by at least one fluid pipe including a first end for connecting to the turbomachine and a second end for connecting to a fluid supply circuit, wherein the at least one pipe includes a movable portion movable in translation along the axis so as to be able to adjust the position along the axis of the first connecting end relative to the first longitudinal end. It also concerns a method of mounting an aircraft turbomachine on such a pylon.
US11435248B2
A system and method for measuring resistance over an array. The array includes at least three electrodes. Nodes at each intersection between input electrodes and output electrodes have variable resistance. A driving voltage is applied to a selected input electrode and an output current is received at a selected output electrode. A selected node is at the intersection of the two selected electrodes and includes an electrical component with a resistive property. Remaining electrodes are connected with a ground for isolating the selected node from the effects of changes in impedance of the remaining nodes. The driving voltage is converted to an output current by resistance at the selected node. The output current is converted to an output voltage with a current-to-voltage converter circuit for measuring the resistance of the electrical component. The nodes may be measured as the selected node in sequential or non-sequential patterns.
US11435241B2
A smart body temperature monitoring system, including a thermometer that has a body temperature detection module, a CPU connected with the body temperature detection module, and a wireless communication module connected with the CPU; a cloud server having a cloud database that stores global records of one or more persons including global identification information and global body temperature data of the person; and a mobile terminal, through which the global records of the cloud database stored in the cloud server are accessed and checked.
US11435239B2
The invention relates to a method (100) for estimating (150) a temporally variable measurement variable of a system, in particular a temperature in a vessel (24), preferably in a food processor (10) for the at least partially automatic preparation of food, wherein at least one measurement information (210.1) is determined by means of a measurement (130), which measurement information differs, at least depending on at least one system parameter (230), from the true value of the measurement variable.
US11435236B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for determining and/or monitoring temperature of a liquid. The apparatus includes at least one temperature sensor arranged in a sensor head. Furthermore, the present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing the apparatus. At least one internal volume of the sensor head is at least partially filled with at least one first material and at least one second material. The first material serves for affixing at least one component of the temperature sensor within the sensor head, and the second material serves for heat conduction within the sensor head.
US11435228B2
Disclosed is a system and method for interrogating a photo-responsive material, such as for authentication purposes, utilizing a light source to illuminate a photo-responsive material, a detector to capture an emission from the photo-responsive material, and a processor to receive a response from the detector while the photo-responsive material is being illuminated after a maximum response has been received, then measuring a change in the received response.
US11435226B2
Provided are an apparatus and method for measuring quantum efficiency of a detector using a single pulse laser. Quantum efficiency of the measurement target detector may be measured from 420 nm to 1600 nm having uncertainty of 2% to 4% (K=2) by comparing the reference detector and the measurement target detector significantly different in sensitivity using a single laser pulse as a spectral light source. Also, it is possible to directly compare the two detectors with a significant difference in sensitivity through a very simple setup that causes a portion of a laser pulse output from a light source part to be absorbed by the reference detector and the laser pulse reflected from the reference detector to be irradiated to the measurement target detector.
US11435224B2
The present disclosure relates to a stringed instrument resonance analysis device which uses a scientific detection method to evaluate the resonance effect of stringed instrument, wherein the stringed instrument resonance analysis device has a cabinet, a holder, a resonant sounder, a sonic generator, at least one sonic collector and a spectrum analyzer. The cabinet forms an accommodating space therein. The holder a holder is disposed in the accommodating space and used to fix and hold the stringed instrument. The resonant sounder is disposed in the accommodating space and fixed and clamped to a bridge on a loudspeaker box of the stringed instrument. The sonic generator is connected to the resonant sounder. The sonic collector is disposed in the accommodating space and adjacent to the loudspeaker box of the stringed instrument. The spectrum analyzer is connected to the at least one sonic collector.
US11435222B2
A scale includes a scale pan for supporting goods to be weighed, and upper and lower bearing plates, wherein the scale pan is arranged above an upper bearing plate, and a weighing cell is arranged between the upper bearing plate and the lower bearing plate, wherein at least three feet are attached to the lower bearing plate, which are supported on a fixed area, wherein the lower bearing plate has a U-shaped cross-section, wherein, contiguous to respective stiffened areas of the U-shaped cross-section, there is a further region, which extends in parallel to a trough bottom, wherein the trough bottom is arranged between the two stiffened areas, and the trough bottom has a trapezoidal geometry.
US11435220B2
A combination weighing device includes: a conveyance unit; a plurality of first hoppers each receiving the article; a plurality of second hoppers detachably provided on a downstream side of the plurality of first hoppers, and each receiving the article; a weighing unit weighing the article held in each of the plurality of second hoppers; and a control unit performing combination calculation and discharging the article from the second hopper corresponding to the combination. The control unit performs combination calculation based on a weighing value corresponding to mass of the article held in each of the plurality of second hopper, and continues combination calculation based on a weighing value corresponding to mass of the article held in each of the second hoppers other than a part of the second hoppers in a state in which the part of the plurality of second hoppers has been removed.
US11435219B2
A method for ascertaining at least one pipe wall resonance frequency of a pipeline in the region of a measuring point by means of a field device of process measurements technology having at least a first ultrasonic transducer, which is placed on the pipeline at the measuring point, comprising steps as follows: providing a first transfer function Utransducer(f) at least of the first or a plurality of ultrasonic transducers located in the region of the measuring point; ascertaining a received spectrum Urec(f) from a received signal Urec(t) after transmission of an ultrasonic signal; ascertaining a second transfer function Umeasuring point(f) from the first transfer function Utransducer(f) of the first or the plurality of ultrasonic transducers and from the received spectrum urec(f), wherein the second transfer function Umeasuring point(f) is characteristic for the measuring point; and ascertaining the at least one pipe wall resonance frequency fres, especially a plurality of resonance frequencies, in the region of the measuring point by evaluating the second transfer function Umeasuring point(f) from step III, as well as a clamp-on, ultrasonic, flow measuring device, a method for ascertaining flow, a method for ascertaining a change of the measuring point and an identification device.
US11435213B2
In some embodiments, a system for dispensing liquid from a container holding a liquid comprises a reservoir mountable to the container so as to be in fluidic communication with the container. The reservoir may comprise an inlet and an outlet. When mounted to the container, the reservoir may be configured to measure a predetermined quantity of liquid while in first orientation and to simultaneously dispense the predetermined quantity of liquid from the outlet and receive a refilling quantity of liquid through the inlet while in a second orientation that is angled relative to the first orientation above a threshold angle.
US11435204B2
The disclosure realizes a touch sensor unit including a mold part that can restrict the movement of a sensor body embedded in a sensor holder. A touch sensor unit includes a sensor body, a sensor holder in which the sensor body is embedded, and a resistor disposed outside the sensor holder and electrically connected to the sensor body. The sensor body includes a tubular insulator that is elastically deformed when an external force is applied, and a plurality of linear electrodes that are provided inside the tubular insulator and come into contact with each other as the tubular insulator is elastically deformed. At least an end of the sensor holder, an end of the tubular insulator protruding from an end surface of the sensor holder, and the resistor are molded together with a mold part which is a resin molded body.
US11435193B2
The present technology pertains to visualization of maps used for autonomous vehicle applications. These maps include many layers of dense information. Each layer can be stored in a vector format and small portions, called tiles, of a map can be requested by a users web browser. The web browser can filter for desired layers and render all desired map layers at once to provide visualization of map and layers of interest.
US11435189B2
Methods and systems of crowd-sourced magnetic fingerprinting for mobile device indoor navigation with neural network re-training are described. In an example, at multiple locations, magnetic input parameters in accordance with a magnetic infrastructure profile of an indoor area are determined. Further, from a mobile device positioned at a first location, measured magnetic parameters at respective ones of multiple locations are received. A route segment similarity factor for the mobile device based on the measured magnetic parameters of a corresponding route segment accessible from the magnetic fingerprint dataset is computed. If the similarity factor exceeds a threshold, the magnetic measured parameters are added to the magnetic fingerprint dataset. For at least a second location along the route, another set of magnetic measured parameters is received from the mobile device. At an output layer of a neural network, an error matrix is computed and an initial weight matrix is recursively adjusted to diminish the error matrix.
US11435187B2
An electronic device and a method of an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a satellite positioning circuit, at least one sensor for sensing an azimuth or movement of the electronic device, and a processor configured to identify the movement of the electronic device by using a plurality of location information received through the satellite positioning circuit, identify first azimuth information corresponding to the movement of the electronic device, based at least on determining that the movement of the electronic device corresponds to a designated movement, and calibrate second azimuth information obtained using the at least one sensor, based at least on the first azimuth information.
US11435186B2
The present application discloses a dead reckoning method for a vehicle, an apparatus, an apparatus and a storage medium, and relates to the fields of vehicle control, intelligent driving and automatic driving. The specific implementation solution is as follows: obtaining a position and attitude increment of the vehicle on the basis of wheel speed information of the vehicle; and carrying out dead reckoning on the position and attitude of the vehicle at a current moment, on the basis of the position and attitude increment of the vehicle and the position and attitude at a previous moment.
US11435184B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to configurations of compact ultra-low loss integrated photonics-based waveguides for optical gyroscope applications, and the methods of fabricating those waveguides for ease of large scale manufacturing. Four main process flows are described: (1) process flow based on a repeated sequence of oxide deposition and anneal; (2) chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP)-based process flow followed by wafer bonding; (3) Damascene process flow followed by oxide deposition and anneal, or wafer bonding; and (4) CMP-based process flows followed by oxide deposition. Any combination of these process flows may be adopted to meet the end goal of fabricating optical gyroscope waveguides in one or more layers on a silicon substrate using standard silicon fabrication technologies.
US11435164B2
A boresighting device to equip a turret provided with a barrel and one or several sight system(s) each with an optical system includes: a deflection target intended to be positioned outside the barrel, at a muzzle brake of the barrel; a housing intended to be positioned outside the barrel, at a shaft of the barrel. The housing includes: a first optics system provided with a deflection camera, the first optics system being used to determine a parallelism error between a firing line from the shaft and that from the muzzle brake; and a second optics system provided with a boresighting camera, the second optics system being used to determine a parallelism error between the firing line from the shaft and an optics line from the sight system(s). The deflection target integrates a geometric figure serving as a reference point for the first optics system.
US11435158B1
A fast expansion structure of a toy gun buttstock is provided. The structure includes a main body, a plurality of slide bars, a plurality of coupling portions, a plurality of fixing members, a butt piece, a plurality of rotating and retaining members, a plurality of first engaging surfaces, a plurality of second engaging surfaces, a limiting member, and a first elastic member. With the above structure, a user may pull the butt piece to cause the fixing members that are provided on the slide bars to push the rotating and retaining members for rotation so as to cause the first elastic member to push the limiting member to change the limiting member from an initial condition of contacting and pushing the first engaging surfaces to a condition of contacting and pushing the second engaging surfaces.
US11435154B2
A removable firearm chamber-obstruction mechanism includes a locking mechanism including at portion configured to be inserted in a chamber of a firearm and engage the chamber so as to be locked in place. The locking mechanism includes one or more finger actuators, a thumb bar actuator engaged with the one or more finger actuators, a release key connected to the thumb bar actuator, and a tooth key disposed in abutment against the release key. A handle covers the locking mechanism, and a lid encloses the handle. The locking mechanism locks and unlocks the tooth key upon a successful manual actuation of the one or more finger actuators and the thumb bar actuator, such that the tooth key engages the chamber in a locked position and is unengaged from the chamber in an unlocked position.
US11435139B2
The invention relates to a method for separating air by cryogenic distillation in a column system, comprising a first column operating at a first pressure and a second column operating at a second pressure, in which an argon-enriched flow is sent from an intermediate point of the first column to the tank of the second column and an argon-rich flow is drawn off at the top of the second column, wherein a nitrogen-enriched flow of the first column is compressed in a compressor, the compressed flow is sent to a head condenser of the second column after an expansion step and the vaporized flow is expanded in the condenser in a turbine where it at least partially liquefies.
US11435137B2
Door alarm systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed. A door alarm system may monitor a door of a refrigeration device and detect a failed attempt at closing the door. In response to detecting the failed attempt, the door alarm system may generate a notification of the detected, failed attempt so that remedial action may be taken.
US11435131B2
A hinge assembly connecting a door of a refrigerator with a main body of a refrigerator is disclosed. The hinge assembly includes a bracket configured so that a one surface is arranged at a lower part of the door, a shaft located on the bracket and configured to be a rotational shaft of the door, and a support member rotatably arranged inserted to the shaft, and configured to support the door, and a height of a support surface supporting the door is changed according to the support member rotating based on the shaft.
US11435130B2
A door panel for a refrigerating appliance includes an inner liner. An outer wrapper is attached to the inner liner and defines an insulating structure with an insulating cavity disposed therein. An insulating material is defined within the insulating cavity. A dispenser structure is defined within a central portion of the inner liner and the outer wrapper. The dispenser structure defines an insulated dispenser portion therein. A dispenser conduit extends from an interior area disposed above the dispenser structure to an external dispensing cavity and passing through the insulated dispenser portion.
US11435123B2
A refrigeration system has a main refrigeration circuit including a compression stage, a condensing stage, and an evaporation stage, a refrigerant circulating between the compression stage, the condensing stage and the evaporation stage in a refrigeration cycle. An integrated transfer system is in closeable and openable fluid communication with the main refrigeration circuit, the transfer system including a receiver. Valves are operable to selectively open the fluid communication between the main refrigeration circuit and the transfer system. A motive force source displaces refrigerant from the main refrigeration circuit to the transfer system.
US11435112B2
An outdoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes: a bottom plate having a drain hole formed therein to discharge drain water generated in a heat exchanger; a heater provided at an upper surface of the bottom plate; a heater fixing tool provided to fix the heater to the bottom plate, with the heater interposed between the heater fixing tool and the upper surface of the bottom plate; a screw fastened after inserted into a screw hole from above to fix the heater fixing tool to the bottom plate, the screw hole being provided in overlapping portions of the heater fixing tool and the bottom plate; and a protective cap configured to cover a tip of the screw from below, which projects downwards from a lower surface of the bottom plate. The screw hole is located in a surrounding area which surrounds the drain hole, and the heater fixing tool is fixed to the bottom plate in the surrounding area.
US11435107B2
An air conditioning system according to the present invention includes: a first air conditioner; a second air conditioner; a first operation terminal capable of operating the first air conditioner; a second operation terminal capable of operating the second air conditioner; and a portable terminal that receives, from the first operation terminal, first setting information including first information for operating the first air conditioner or the second air conditioner, and second information that is information on the first operation terminal or the second operation terminal, generates transmission information on the basis of the first setting information, and transmits the transmission information to the second operation terminal.
US11435096B2
The present disclosure discloses an evaporative air cooler including a housing, an atomization part, and a cooling part. An accommodating cavity is arranged in the housing; a water storage tank is arranged at a bottom of the housing; the accommodating cavity is provided with an air inlet and an air outlet; the accommodating cavity communicating with the water storage tank; the atomization part includes an atomizer, and a water tank fixed to the housing; a first water storage cavity is arranged in the water tank; the atomizer is fixed to the water tank and placed in the accommodating cavity; the cooling part includes a wet curtain filter net and a fan which are fixed to the housing; the fan is arranged between the air inlet and the air outlet; and the wet curtain filter net being accommodated in the accommodating cavity and the water storage tank.
US11435094B2
A dehumidifier has a main body and a main tank. The main body has a secondary tank, a water pump, and a controlling assembly electrically connected to the water pump and having a starting position, a stopping position, and a float. The float is located in the secondary tank and is capable of moving with a water level inside the secondary tank. The controlling assembly controls the water pump to start or to stop according to the relative position between the float and the starting position or the stopping position. The main tank is detachably mounted on the main body, is located in a lateral side of the main body, and communicates with the water pump. With the controlling assembly, the water pump can be controlled to start only when necessary, thereby saving energy and reducing noises caused by prolonged running.
US11435091B2
A tubular burner and methods of use in a furnace having reduced NOx emissions are provided. The tubular burner comprises a structural skeleton and a mesh screen disposed about the structural skeleton. The structural skeleton may be coupled to an air/fuel mixture source. The structural skeleton may comprise a hollow interior and a plurality of perforations to allow the air/fuel mixture to pass from the interior of the structural skeleton to the exterior. The burner systems may further comprise a plurality of holes spaced along and between the burners for cross-lighting of multiple burners using a single igniter.
US11435086B2
A cooktop appliance includes a first burner and a second burner which are spaced apart with a grate positioned above the burners. The grate includes a first sensor finger with a first temperature sensor over the first burner and a second sensor finger with a second temperature sensor over the second burner. The cooktop appliance also includes a first control valve and a second control valve which selectively direct fuel to the respective burners. A controller of the cooktop appliance is operably coupled to the temperature sensors and the control valves. The controller may be operable for and/or methods of operating the cooktop appliance may include receiving a set temperature, receiving a first temperature measurement from the first temperature sensor and a second temperature measurement from the second temperature sensor, and adjusting each control valve based on the set temperature and the corresponding temperature measurement.
US11435084B2
A control knob lockout device for rendering knobs of a stove inoperable includes a pair of latches, a pair of keepers, and a housing. The latches are mountable to a stove so that the latches are positioned singly proximate to opposed sides of the stove. The latches also are positioned in substantial alignment with a set of control knobs that is engaged to a surface of the stove. The housing defines an interior space and has a rear face. The rear face has an opening positioned therein to insert the set of control knobs so that the housing is positioned thereover. The pair of keepers is engaged to a front face of the housing. Each keeper is positioned proximate to a respective opposed end of the housing and selectively engages a respective latch to fixedly position the housing over the set of control knobs.
US11435083B2
An assembly for a gas turbine having a combustion chamber, a swirler, a combustion zone in the combustion chamber, and an air feed. In a transition region from the air feed to the swirler that is flowed through by the air, a plenum is formed and the assembly adjoining the plenum has the swirler, the combustion chamber, and a cover closing the combustion chamber. The assembly has an air conduction channel designed to conduct part of the air flow flowing into the assembly into the combustion chamber, so that the air flow leading through the air feed is divided into a main flow leading through the swirler into the combustion zone and a bypass flow leading past the combustion zone.
US11435082B2
A fuel supply device includes: an outer tubular member; an inner tubular member inside the outer tubular member; and a flow distribution portion on an inner surface of the outer tubular member or an outer surface of the inner tubular member, wherein the flow distribution portion includes first and second distribution wall portions arranged apart from one another in an axial direction of the inner tubular member, the first distribution wall portion includes first individual wall portions spaced apart from one another along a first circumference of the inner tubular member, the second distribution wall portion includes second individual wall portions spaced apart from one another along a second circumference of the inner tubular member, at least some of the first individual wall portions are arranged to face spaces between at least some of the second individual wall portions, respectively, in the axial direction of the inner tubular member.
US11435074B2
A floor and an upright sidewall formed from two vertically coaxial components, each component having a floor baffle with a plurality of floor openings defined therein, each floor retained within a respective upright sidewall with a plurality of sidewall openings defined therein. The floor openings and the sidewall openings cooperate between the two coaxial components such that flow of gases through the floor and upright sidewall of the baffle structure is controlled by rotation of the two vertically coaxial components relative to one another.
US11435070B1
An LED modules installation and support system has a plurality of aligned LED modules, each having a support member which extends outwardly from a side of each of the modules. A flexible, deformable wire member extends through the support members of each of the LED modules, such that the wire member within the support members retains the modules in spaced alignment. The support members take the shape of an inverted U having a U-shaped tunnel or an enclosed support member having a through opening.
US11435062B2
A device and method for adjusting a tilt angle of a tilt mechanism of an internal assembly of a lighting fixture is disclosed. The tilt mechanism comprises an inner base and an outer base. The inner base facilitates installation of a light engine for installation and operably engages with the outer base to vary a tilt angle of the lighting fixture, which can be adjusted by a tilt mechanism thumb actuator.
US11435061B2
A direct-lit panel light including a frame, a diffusion plate, a back plate and at least one light bar. The frame comprises a plurality of frame bars that are connected end-to-end, each frame bar having a first mounting surface and a second mounting surface; the diffusion plate is overlapped on the first mounting surface, the back plate is overlapped on the second mounting surface, and the center area of the back plate is fixed with the at least one light bar, and the edge area of the back plate is deformed and forms first convex ribs extending along peripheral sides of the back plate, and the first convex ribs abut against the diffusion plate and press it against the first mounting surface, and the first convex rib on each peripheral side of the back plate has a height gradually increasing from the middle thereof towards two ends thereof, respectively.
US11435057B2
A zoom structure includes a light source, a first sleeve, a second sleeve, a lens fixedly connected with the first sleeve and a limitation element. The second sleeve and the first sleeve are coaxially arranged, the second sleeve is rotationally connected with the limitation element in a circumferential direction. The second sleeve is provided with a plurality of spiral sliding grooves. The first sleeve is provided with a plurality of sliding structures connected with the spiral sliding grooves. A position of the light source module is fixed. The lens is opposite to the light source module in the axial direction. The second sleeve is rotatable relative to the limitation element in the circumferential direction. The spiral sliding grooves push the sliding structures to move on the limitation element in the axial direction, the sliding structures then drive the first sleeve and the lens to move in the axial direction.
US11435056B1
A camp lantern includes a housing having an outer wall, a lower surface, and an upper surface with an LED module positioned thereon. A U-shaped handle attached to opposing sides of the outer wall allows the lantern to be easily transported to remote locations. Removably superimposable on the LED module is a frosted, semispherical cover that allows the lantern to be used as a portable light source. Any one of a plurality of interchangeable, substantially opaque covers with transparent, thematic design elements can be substituted for the frosted cover to convert the camping lantern to an image projector. When the LED module is activated, light only passes through the transparent portions to project the design elements onto a tent or cabin ceiling.
US11435051B2
Provided is an optical unit capable of preventing unintended light distribution and having a small assembly error while using a plurality of light sources and a plurality of lenses. An optical unit (10) includes: a plurality of light sources (26); a plurality of first lenses (30) integrally formed, respectively arranged to correspond to each of the light sources (26), condensing light from the corresponding light sources (26), and forming corresponding light source images on a predetermined virtual plane; a second lens (12) projecting projected images of the light source images forward; and a light-shielding member (31) extending between two adjacent first lenses (30) in the first lenses (30), and shielding light passing through one first lens (30) so as not to enter the other first lens (30), in which the light-shielding member (31) and the first lenses (30) are integrally formed by two-color molding.
US11435050B2
A lamp for a vehicle is provided that can include a housing, an axial symmetric lens coupled to the housing and defining an optical axis and a focal point, an image shifting lens positioned within the housing behind the axial symmetric lens relative to the optical axis, and a light source positioned within the housing. The light source can be positioned behind the image shifting lens. The light source can be configured to emit light along an optical path that extends, from the light source, through the image shifting lens, towards the axial symmetric lens above the optical axis, and through the axial symmetric lens to define a high beam illumination pattern.
US11435047B2
A front light module for a headlamp is provided, with a light source unit containing a number of light sources, and with an optical unit featuring a lens for generating a front light distribution (LV). The optical unit features a number of collimator lens elements arranged adjacent to each other. A first collimator lens element features a rotationally symmetrical light emitting surface and a second collimator lens element features a rotationally symmetrical light emitting surface section and a toroidal light emitting surface section.
US11435046B2
Lighting module of a lighting and/or signalling device for a motor vehicle including at least one light source positioned on a source support, an optical element comprising an input face which receives light rays emitted by said at least one light source and is positioned facing the latter, and a frame supporting the optical element and fastened to said source support. The optical element has at least one stud having a free end projecting towards the source support, said at least one stud being made of the same material as the optical element and being in direct or indirect contact with the source support when the lighting module is assembled.
US11435045B2
A Lighting device for a motor vehicle is provided comprising at least one light source from which light is emitted during operation of the lighting device. An optical component into which the light emanating from the at least one light source enters is also provided, along with a light influencing means having an active surface for selectively influencing individual pixels or groups of pixels of the light. The light influencing means reflects or deflects light incident thereon in such a way that it emerges at least partially from the lighting device. Illumination optics are formed on or in the optical component. The light is reflected or deflected by the illumination optics during operation of the lighting device onto the active surface of the light influencing means. The light influencing means is arranged outside the optical component in such a way that light emanating from the illumination optics emerges from the optical component, impinges on the active surface of the light influencing means, is reflected or deflected by the latter, and then re-enters into the optical component.
US11435042B1
A projection device includes a light beam generator including an incoherent light source assembly, a reflecting mirror arranged on one side of the light beam generator, an interference structure arranged on a reflecting light path of the reflecting mirror and generating a pattern effect, a first gear structure arranged on an outer side of the interference structure, a convex lens arranged on an exit light path of the interference structure; and a motor. A light beam generated by the light beam generator irradiates on one surface of the reflecting mirror along an incident light path of the reflecting mirror and reflects to a side surface of the interference structure. The light beam passes through the interference structure and the convex lens in sequence to form a patterned projection. A second gear structure engaged with the first gear structure is arranged on an output shaft of the motor.
US11435028B2
A lubricant injector includes an injector body having an inlet port fluidly coupleable with a lubricant supply, an outlet port fluidly coupleable with a lubrication point, a piston chamber and a valve chamber. A piston is disposed within the piston chamber and defines a measuring section and an actuating section, the piston being linearly displaceable along an axis through the piston chamber so as to inversely vary the volume of the chamber measuring section and the volume of the chamber actuating section. A valve member disposed within the valve chamber is displaceable along an axis through the valve chamber between a first position, at which the inlet port is fluidly coupled with the piston chamber actuating and measuring sections, and a second position at which the inlet port is fluidly coupled with the piston chamber actuating section and the outlet port is fluidly coupled with the piston chamber measuring section.
US11435025B2
A multifunctional holder is provided for supporting a first object and a second object. The multifunctional holder includes a backboard assembly, an adapter, at least one movable arm and a positioning member. The backboard assembly is disposed on a back side of the first object. The adapter is connected to the backboard assembly. The at least one movable arm is connected to the adapter, wherein a first degree of rotational freedom is provided between the backboard assembly and the adapter, and a second degree of rotational freedom is provided between the adapter and the at least one movable arm. The positioning member is disposed on the backboard assembly or the adapter for fixing the second object.
US11435024B2
A rebounding pivot module includes a mounting shaft, and a bouncing device set including a barrel having one end tooth shaped, a connecting tube mounted in the other end of the barrel, a connection rod connected to the connecting tube, a socket and a first guide block mounted onto the connection rod, the first guide block having one end beveled, a bouncing barrel mounted around the connecting rod, a second guide block supported on an elastic member in the bouncing barrel and defining therein a guide hole and having one end tooth shaped and abutted at the beveled edge of the first guide block, and a lock device fastened to connection rod that is inserted through the second guide block, the elastic member and the through hole of the bouncing barrel to lock the bouncing barrel to the connection rod.
US11435021B2
An in-pipe moving apparatus that can freely and smoothly move in a pipe having a bent portion and a branching portion, is not stuck in the pipe even if a drive motor of a movement mechanism fails or otherwise experiences a problem, and can be readily taken out of the pipe. The in-pipe moving apparatus includes two sets of wheel-based traveling elements (2A) and (2B), which each have two driving wheels (8A) and (8B) linearly arranged, and a variable bag, which is expanded and contracted in accordance with the pressure of a fluid supplied to the variable bag, and the two sets of wheel-based traveling elements (2A) and (2B) are so disposed as to sandwich the variable bag (3) and are fixed to the outer surface of the variable bag (3).
US11435019B2
A valve guide for a coupling including a circular, longitudinally extending portion, including a substantially circular channel extending therethrough; a ring portion; a plurality of ports radially disposed around a centerline of the valve guide; and one of more collar supports disposed radially about the circular, longitudinally extending portion. The valve guide comprises a unitary one-piece component. A male portion for a coupling that includes a valve guide with integral assembly support and a method for assembling a coupling assembly are also disclosed.
US11435018B2
A multi-coupling assembly includes a first female coupler and a second female coupler whereby the female couplers are independently operable. Rotation of a rotational lever moves one of the female couplers from the coupling position to the release position without affecting a connection state of the other of the female couplers. Such independent operation of the female couplers is achieved by rotating cams that are configured such that when one of the cams rotates to interact against its respective female coupler, the other of the cams does not act on its respective female coupler. Pressure relief valves are operated such that internal pressure within a female coupler is released prior to the female coupler reaching the release position during a disconnection operation of the male coupler, and prior to the female coupler reaching the coupling position during a connection operation of a male coupler.
US11435013B2
An isolator for an aircraft fuel tank configured to separate an electrically conductive internal panel of the fuel tank from an electrically conductive pipe that passes through the panel. The isolator includes: a plurality of first attachment points for attaching the isolator to the panel, a plurality of second attachment points for attaching the isolator to the pipe, and an aperture defined by an outer wall and extending from a first side of the isolator to a second side of the isolator. The aperture is configured to receive the pipe in use, wherein the isolator is formed of a non-electrically conductive material.
US11435001B2
The present invention discloses a gate valve with a first side and a second side relative the throughbore. A circular body cavity is on the first side and a rectangular body cavity on the second side and a portion of the first side whereby the gate is operable to move up and down within the body cavities. Due to the rectangular body cavity, the seats are slimmer than the gate. A skirt assembly is used which is inserted over the gate to cover the gate opening when the gate is moved to the closed position to prevent debris and other contaminants from entering the body cavity. Four U-shaped seals are mounted to provide that the gate valve is a bidirectional gate valve with upstream sealing having back up downstream sealing in case an upstream seal fails.
US11434995B2
An apparatus for controlling a transmission of a vehicle includes a processor configured to identify a location of a speed bump based on collected information about a specified section of a front road and determine whether the vehicle enters a section of the speed bump, and to set an oil pressure of the transmission to a first oil pressure in a normal driving section and set the oil pressure of the transmission to a second oil pressure when the vehicle enters the section of the speed bump, and a controller that controls the oil pressure of the transmission corresponding to a setting of the processor for each driving section of the vehicle.
US11434987B2
A damping apparatus includes a first sidewall defining a centerline axis, a second sidewall disposed coaxial with the first sidewall, a main cavity defined between the first sidewall and the second sidewall, and a damping material disposed in the main cavity.
US11434985B2
A torque converter comprises a front cover, an impeller including an impeller shell fixed to the front cover, and a turbine including a turbine shell axially movable to frictionally engage the impeller shell such that the turbine shell forms a turbine piston of a lock-up clutch. A damper assembly disposed between the front cover and the turbine shell comprises: springs; a flange connected to the turbine shell and drivingly engaged with the springs; and a spring retainer supporting the springs and connected to a turbine hub. A piston plate may be disposed between the spring retainer and front cover and configured to be axially displaceable to force the turbine piston against the impeller shell for engagement of the lock-up clutch. A seal plate may be fixed to the front cover and disposed between the front cover and the piston plate with the piston plate sealed to the seal plate.
US11434984B2
A torsion damper includes an input carrier and an output carrier. The input carrier is configured to rotate about an axis and receive an input torque from a prime mover, such as an engine. An output carrier is spaced along the axis from the input carrier and is configured to transfer an output torque to a transmission component. The torsion damper includes two rings, namely a first ring connected to the input carrier and a second ring connected to the output carrier. The first and second rings are spaced apart from one another. A plurality of rolling elements are disposed between and connect the first and second rings. Rotation of the input carrier relative to the output carrier causes the rings to rotate, forcing the first ring to be in compression and the second to be in tension.
US11434980B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a tensioner lever that can reduce vibration and noise when the chain runs, and realize smooth attachment into an engine with minimal deformation of the lever body with a simple configuration. A tensioner lever according to the present invention includes a lever body and a torsion coil spring pressed the lever body toward the chain. The lever body includes a stopper member mounting part where a stopper member by which the support arm of the torsion coil spring is locked and which retains the torsion coil spring in a compressed state is removably mounted. The stopper member mounting part is located closer to a distal end of the lever body than a center position in the longitudinal direction of the lever body, or a center of gravity position of the lever body.
US11434977B2
A vehicle drive device that includes a rotary electric machine, a power transfer mechanism that transfers a rotational drive force between the rotary electric machine and a plurality of wheels, a case that houses at least a part of the power transfer mechanism and the rotary electric machine, and a hydraulic pump.
US11434976B2
A chain component of a chain for power transmission coated with a layer of hard material includes a substrate based on steel and a layer of hard material on an outer surface of the substrate based on steel, with the layer of hard material containing metal nitrides and the C mass concentration in the layer of hard material decreasing in the direction toward the outer surface of the layer of hard material.
US11434973B2
Described and shown are passive variable stiffness devices, which are of compact design and configured to produce a restoring force that varies optimally with the isolator displacement when subjected to vibration-inducing loading.
US11434966B2
A power transmission device has a first pressure member (5a), a second pressure member (5b) and a back-torque transmitting cam. The first pressure member (5a) presses the drive-side clutch plates (6) and the driven-side clutch plates (7) against each other. The second pressure member (5b) releases a press-contact force between the drive-side clutch plates (6) and the driven-side clutch plates (7). The back-torque transmitting cam moves the second pressure member (5b) relative to the first pressure member (5a) to keep pressing the drive-side clutch plates (6) and the driven-side clutch plates (7) against each other when a rotational force is input to the clutch member (4), via the output shaft (3), in a process where the weight member (8) moves from the radially-outer position to the radially-inner position and the first pressure member (5a) moves to follow the interlocking member (9).
US11434962B2
A clutch unit includes a lever-side clutch section configured to control transmission and interruption of rotational torque input by a rotation of an operation lever, and a brake-side clutch section configured to transmit the rotational torque from the lever-side clutch section to an output side and interrupt rotational torque that is reversely input from the output side. The lever-side clutch section includes a side plate to which the operation lever is fixed and an outer ring member that fits with the side plate. The brake-side clutch section includes a cover whose rotation is restricted. An angle regulating part configured to regulate a rotation angle of the operation lever is disposed radially inside of outer peripheral edges of the outer ring member and the cover and includes a claw of the outer ring member and a through hole of the cover.
US11434960B2
A method for motion control of a shift sleeve in a stepped gear transmission during a synchronization and gear engagement sequence for avoiding gear teeth interference, wherein the stepped gear transmission includes an axially displaceable shift sleeve arranged on and rotationally secured to a shaft, and a constant mesh gear wheel arranged on and rotatable relative to said shaft.
US11434956B2
A holding ring for the axial fixing of a rotary bearing of a steering apparatus for motor vehicles on a rotatable component with a cylindrical outer surface onto which an inner bearing shell of the rotary bearing is mounted, wherein the holding ring includes at least one spring tongue which lies in an axial direction resiliently against the inner bearing shell, is improved with regard to a simple design and assembly process in that the holding ring comprises radially inwardly projecting elastic fixing tongues which, in the relaxed state, extend into the radial region of the rotatable component such that, when the holding ring is pushed onto the cylindrical outer surface of the rotatable component, the fixing tongues are deflected elastically in an axial direction opposite to the pushing-on direction and lie with a radial preload force against the outer surface of the rotatable component.
US11434955B2
A method of making a powder metal bearing support insert includes filling a tool and die set with a powder metal. A compact is compacted from the powder metal using the tool and die set in which the compact includes a body having a pair of opposing ends on lateral sides thereof, a bearing-receiving surface positioned on a side of the body between the pair of opposing ends in which the bearing-receiving surface is for reception of a bearing therein, and a pair of holes extending through the body wherein each of the pair of holes are formed by sets of adjacent interdigitated slots having regions that abut one another to form a connected passageway therethrough that define the respective hole. The compact is sintered to form the powder metal bearing support insert. The powder metal bearing support insert may be cast into an engine component.
US11434952B2
An object anchoring assembly includes a housing that can be positioned on a horizontal support surface having an object being positioned on top of the housing. A plurality of arms is each slidably integrated into the housing and each of the arms is positionable in a retracted position or an extended position. A plurality of engagements is each is movably integrated into a respective one of the arms. Additionally, each of the engagements engages the housing at a variety of locations to retain the arms at a selected degree of extension to accommodate dimensions of the object placed on the housing. A coupler is movably coupled to the housing to engage the support surface thereby inhibiting the housing from sliding on the support surface.
US11434947B1
A stay rod assembly for a fluid pump has a rod with the first threaded section at one end and a second threaded section at an opposite end thereof with a stud portion located between the first threaded section and the second threaded section, and a sleeve positioned over the stud portion of the rod. The stud portion is tapered so as to narrow diameter from the first threaded section to the second threaded section. The stud portion has no shoulders thereon. The rod is received in an interior of the sleeve.
US11434945B2
A method and device for creating a distribution of unsteady suction, the device may include ejectors; and a fluidic oscillator; wherein the fluidic oscillator may be configured to switch a first flow of fluid, in a cyclic manner, between the ejectors; wherein the ejectors may be fluidly coupled to the fluidic oscillator; and wherein each one of the ejectors may be configured to create pulsed suction through at least one first aperture, and (b) pulsed ejection through at least one second aperture.
US11434941B2
A lift arm lifting and lowering mechanism cylinder case provided with a cylinder portion into which oil is fed, a piston slidable inside the cylinder portion to define a hydraulic chamber and receiving hydraulic pressure of the hydraulic chamber on a front surface, a safety valve provided to the piston to discharge the oil inside the hydraulic chamber to the outside when the hydraulic pressure of the hydraulic chamber becomes greater than or equal to a predetermined value, and a lift arm supported by the cylinder case and rotatable in conjunction with movement of the piston, in which the piston includes an oil passage allowing communication between a rear surface of the piston and the front surface, and the oil passage includes a containing portion provided to open on the axially front surface side and capable of containing the safety valve, and a non-containing portion provided on the axially rear surface side relative to the containing portion and incapable of containing the safety valve.
US11434939B2
A manifold includes multiple first valve mount portions, on each of which three electromagnetic valves are arranged side by side, or a plurality of second valve mount portions, on each of which two electromagnetic valves are arranged side by side, or includes at least one of the first valve mount portions and at least one of the second valve mount portions. Waterproof covers are attached to the valve mount portions of the manifold to each cover the three or two electromagnetic valves mounted on the valve mount portion. Thus, a waterproof manifold electromagnetic valve is formed.
US11434930B2
A sealing system of a turbomachine for sealing a rotor of the turbomachine relative to a stator of the turbomachine, having a rotor-side component rotating together with the rotor, a stator-side component that is stationary together with the stator, and a dry gas seal, which includes a rotor-side sealing component and a stator-side sealing component compressed via a spring element forming a sealing gap, and a cleaning device, via which detergent is conducted in the direction of the spring element for cleaning the same and/or in the direction of the sealing gap for cleaning the same.
US11434914B2
An electric pump includes: a motor; an impeller rotated by the motor; a motor housing portion that houses the motor; an impeller housing portion that houses the impeller and is positioned at one side with respect to the motor housing portion in a rotation axis of the motor; an introduction pipe portion that introduces a fluid into the impeller housing portion and is positioned at the one side with respect to the motor housing portion; a discharge pipe portion that discharges the fluid from the impeller housing portion; and a printed circuit board electrically connected to a coil of the motor and positioned at the one side with respect to the motor housing portion.
US11434908B2
A compressor is provided which is configured to allow lubrication of a thrust surface through an oil groove formed in a thrust surface of a fixed scroll. Also, a scroll compressor is provided which smoothly supplies oil to a thrust surface of a fixed scroll by including a fixed scroll having an oil groove formed in the thrust surface of a fixed scroll sidewall, and allows an injection pressure acting on an orbiting scroll in an upward direction to be added by supplying the oil guided to the oil groove to the thrust surface of the fixed scroll such that an overturn moment generated in the orbiting scroll may be offset.
US11434893B2
A micropump and its use, the micropump including a vibration unit with piezo actuator, which is arranged on an vibration diaphragm, a vibration plate arranged opposite the vibration diaphragm and having a blower opening, as well as a wall arranged between the vibration diaphragm and the vibration plate, so that a blower chamber is formed, and a housing, in which the vibration unit is mounted, with an suction opening, as well as an output opening, which lies opposite the blower opening. The housing forms a closed space and has at least one suction opening arranged radially, or on an underside opposite the vibration unit, with a suction channel leading into a pump chamber located between the vibration plate and the inside of the housing.
US11434887B2
A compressor includes a casing, a piston accommodated in a cylinder disposed inside the casing to reciprocate forward and backward, the piston being configured to define a suction space in which a refrigerant is accommodated therein, a suction muffler connected to the piston to guide the refrigerant to the suction space, a suction guide disposed behind the suction muffler and fixed to the casing, the suction guide being disposed parallel to the suction muffler in an axial direction, and a suction pipe passing through the casing to extend into the suction guide, the suction pipe being configured to suction the refrigerant. A portion of the suction muffler is disposed to overlap the suction guide in a direction crossing the axial direction.
US11434877B2
Direct-drive wind turbines (160) are disclosed. The wind turbine comprise a generator (3) mounted on a frame (1), the generator (3) comprising a generator stator (32) and a generator rotor (31) configured to rotate about a rotation axis (RA), the frame (1) has a protruding portion (11) extending beyond the generator (3), the protruding portion (11) comprising a first structure and a second structure; wherein the first and second structures are configured to rotate relative to each other and about the rotation axis (RA); wherein the first structure is attached to the generator stator (32) and the second structure is attached to the generator rotor (31); a brake system (2) attached to the first and second structures, the brake system (2) being spaced away from the generator (3) along the rotation axis (RA). Also disclosed are methods (200) for braking a direct-drive wind turbine (160).
US11434874B2
A tower for wind turbine is provided, including an outer wall encompassing an inner space and including a through-hole having a central axis, and a light source configured to emit light through the through-hole into an environment surrounding the tower, wherein the light source lies on the central axis of the through-hole and is arranged inside the inner space of the outer wall. The serviceability and maintenance of the light source is improved since the light source can be easily accessed by maintenance personnel operating inside the tower.
US11434871B2
Embodiments herein described provide systems and techniques for performing black start operations. For example, one embodiment provides a method for performing black start operations. The method generally includes operating a wind turbine in a wind park in a first mode to provide power to an alternating-current (AC) grid using a control system. The control system may include a reactive power control leg and an active power control leg. The method also includes switching operation of the wind turbine from the first mode to a second mode based on an indication to perform a black start of an electrical grid and by activating a controller with an integral action to thereby increase output power of the wind turbine, the controller being coupled between the reactive power control leg and the active power control leg, and providing power to the electrical grid while operating in the second mode.
US11434868B2
A method of installing a rotor on a nacelle (44) on a wind turbine generally includes providing a rotor hub counterweight assembly (10, 10′) which are rotated and lifted from a downtower location to an uptower location at which wind turbine blades (50, 52, 54) are progressively attached and the counterweights (14, 16), (14′, 16′) are progressively removed. The rotor hub and counterweight assembly (10, 10′) for use when installing a rotor on a wind turbine (46) generally includes a rotor hub (12) having first, second and third flanges (18, 20, 22), a first counterweight (14, 14′), a second counterweight (16, 16′), and a lifting apparatus connecting member (26, 26′). A lifting apparatus connecting member (26) is configured with at least two connection points (60, 62) being configured for allowing at least two of three operations including installation, rotating and lifting the rotor hub (12), and removal of the lifting apparatus connecting member (26′).
US11434864B2
Disclosed is an apparatus that floats at the surface of a body of water over which waves pass. Passing waves cause a nominally vertical axis of the apparatus to tilt away from an axis normal to the resting surface of the body of water. Tilting of sufficient magnitude and duration allows a fluid to flow through a channel that in an un-tilted apparatus would require the gravitational potential energy of the fluid to increase (i.e., to flow uphill), but, because of the tilt allows the fluid to flow through the channel in a downhill direction. Flowing water is trapped at a plurality of levels which in an un-tilted apparatus are higher than the respective levels from which the fluid has flowed. A subsequent tilt of the apparatus in a sufficiently different direction, and of a sufficient magnitude and duration, causes the trapped water to flow to new, yet higher levels. Successive wave-driven tilts of the apparatus incrementally raise water to a height and/or head from which a portion of its gravitational potential energy can be released, and/or converted to electrical power, by causing the water to return to a lower level by flowing through a water turbine thereby energizing an operationally connected generator, or through some other apparatus that performs a useful function when supplied with a flow of high-pressure water.
US11434863B2
A wave receiving plate is pivotably supported by a support device in the wave force generation system and includes a flexible plate in at least a part of the wave receiving plate.
US11434846B2
An engine control device for controlling an engine of a vehicle includes a microcomputer for executing an engine control process, and an abnormality detection unit for detecting an abnormality of the microcomputer. A reset execution unit executes a process of causing an external monitor IC to reset the microcomputer on condition that the abnormality of the microcomputer is detected and an engine rotation speed is higher than a threshold engine speed value. The microcomputer may alternatively be reset on condition that a vehicle speed is higher than a threshold vehicle speed value, or that all or a part of torque output from the engine is able to be supplemented by another vehicle drive power source.
US11434842B1
Operating a gaseous fuel engine system includes determining a detonation level in combustion cylinders in an engine in the gaseous fuel engine system, comparing the detonation level to a detonation level limit, calculating a detonation error, and limiting an engine load of the engine to a derated engine load level based on a reduction to intake manifold air pressure (IMAP) that is performed responsive to the detonation error. The gaseous fuel engine system can be operated at a reduced, derated engine load, rather than being shut down, and permitted to increase in engine load level as detonation events clear. Related control logic and structure are disclosed.
US11434836B2
An internal combustion engine comprises a plurality of cylinders, including at least one de-activatable cylinder having at least one deactivator assembly operatively connected to the at least one valve train for the de-activatable cylinder. In such an internal combustion engine, a method for actuating engine valves comprises operating at least one cylinder of the plurality of cylinders to provide positive power generation according to the main valve actuations and, additionally, placing the at least one deactivator assembly for a de-activatable cylinder of the at least one de-activatable cylinder in a deactivation state. While the at least one deactivator assembly for the de-activatable cylinder is in the deactivation state and while the at least one cylinder is operating to provide positive power generation according to main valve actuations, the method further comprises performing at least one secondary valve event via at least one engine valve for the de-activatable cylinder.
US11434834B2
A system and method of controlling a turbocharged engine system includes receiving a boost mode selection signal and controlling the turbocharged engine system in response to the boost mode selection signal.
US11434830B2
A control system (50) for a turbopropeller engine (2) of an aircraft (1) having a gas turbine (11) and a propeller assembly (3) coupled to the gas turbine (11), the gas turbine (11) having a compressor (12) coupled to an air intake (13) and a temperature sensor (22) being arranged in the air intake (13) to measure the temperature of engine intake air and provide a sensed temperature (T1sens); the control system envisages: a compensation system (40) to receive the sensed temperature (T1sens) from the temperature sensor (22) and to add to the sensed temperature (T1sens) a compensation quantity (comp) to compensate for a delay introduced by the time constant (τ) of the temperature sensor (22) and generate a compensated temperature (T1comp); and a control unit (20) to perform engine control operations based on the compensated temperature (T1comp). In particular, the compensation quantity (comp) is calculated based on an ISA International Standard Atmosphere—temperature (T1ISA), which is determined as a function of an external pressure (P0) measured by a pressure sensor (35).
US11434823B2
A fuel power transfer system for an engine may include a cryogenic fuel supply, a fuel pump in fluid communication with the cryogenic fuel supply, a multi-position valve in fluid communication with the fuel pump and a combustion chamber of the engine, a fuel turbine operatively coupled to the fuel pump and having a primary discharge port in fluid communication with the combustion chamber, a primary heat exchanger in fluid communication between the multi-position valve and the fuel turbine, and a gearbox operatively coupled to the fuel turbine and the fuel pump and configured to transfer power from the fuel turbine to the engine.
US11434820B2
An exhaust energy recovery system (EERS) and associated methods for an engine are disclosed. An embodiment of an EERS, for example, includes an inlet duct that is configured to divert exhaust gas from an exhaust duct of the engine into the recovery system and an outlet duct configured to return the exhaust gas to the exhaust duct downstream of the inlet duct. The recovery system is configured to heat components or fluids associated with engine to operating temperatures. The recovery system may be part of a mobile power system that is mounted to a single trailer and includes an engine and a power unit such as a high pressure pump or generator mounted to the trailer. Methods of operating and purging recovery systems are also disclosed.
US11434819B2
An acoustic liner may include an acoustic core having an array of resonant cells, and an acoustic screen disposed across the array of resonant cells. The resonant cells include a plurality of cell walls and a resonant space defined by the plurality of cell walls. The acoustic core may include a folded acoustic core. Additionally, or in the alternative, at least some of the resonant cells may include an oblique polyhedral cellular structure and/or a multitude of sound-attenuating protuberances. The acoustic screen may include a reticulate membrane and a support lattice.
US11434809B2
A vehicle includes first and second heat exchangers, a shutter member, first and second detectors, and a control device. The first and second heat exchangers are disposed in an engine room. The first heat exchanger is used for cooling of an engine. The second heat exchanger is used for recovery of exhaust heat of the engine. The shutter member opens and closes a grille opening in a front portion of the engine room. The first detector detects a feed forward system parameter indicating a sign of a load increase the first exchanger or the second heat exchanger. The second detector detects a feedback system parameter indicating that a load in the first exchanger or the second heat exchangers has increased. The control device controls opening and closing of the shutter member and adjusts an opening degree of the shutter member based on the feed forward and feedback system parameters.
US11434808B2
A controller includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a deviation between an estimated amount and a target amount of a working fluid in the labyrinth chamber, and a fluid amount parameter corresponding to the estimated amount; and a control unit that executes feedback control including at least integral control of the deviation so as to control a regulation mechanism. When the fluid amount parameter is equal to or greater than a threshold, the control unit executes the feedback control in a state where the integral control is stopped.
US11434802B2
An internal combustion engine has an exhaust gas aftertreatment system comprising in the given order in the flow direction of the exhaust gas: a device for metering ammonia and/or a compound that can be decomposed to form ammonia into the exhaust gas to be cleaned, as a reducing agent; one or more SCR catalysts, which form a first SCR unit; one or more SCR and/or ammonia oxidation and/or ammonia slip catalysts, which form a second SCR unit; and a NOx sensor in the exhaust gas tail pipe. An amount, to be metered into the exhaust gas, of ammonia and/or of the decomposable compound is set using the nitrogen oxide concentration in the exhaust gas tail pipe that is determined by the NOx sensor, and the occurrence or non-occurrence of an ammonia excess in the region of the NOx sensor can be determined from the sensor signal of the NOx sensor by evaluating said sensor signal.
US11434797B2
Systems and methods for removing accumulated soot in an aftertreatment system for an engine are disclosed herein. A method includes receiving an indication that an engine of a vehicle has been operating in a low load condition for more than a predefined amount of time; in response, determining an adsorption rate of soot in an exhaust aftertreatment system of the vehicle; determining an adsorption amount of soot based on the adsorption rate for a predefined amount of time; comparing the adsorption amount to a predefine adsorption amount limit; and in response to the adsorption amount exceeding the predefined adsorption amount limit, initiating an exhaust cleaning event to remove at least some of the accumulated soot in the exhaust aftertreatment system.
US11434792B1
A PCV system includes a PCV valve configured to be inserted into a port formed on a mating component of an engine and regulate a flow of blow-by gases from a crankcase to an intake manifold. A PCV line includes a first end, and a second end configured to fluidly couple to the air intake manifold. A PCV valve cap is coupled to the PCV line first end and configured to further couple to the mating component to secure the PCV valve in the port and establish a fluid coupling with the mating component. The PCV valve is separate and distinct from the PCV valve cap such that a disconnection of the fluid coupling between the PCV line first end and the mating component separates the PCV line from the PCV valve such that the PCV valve no longer regulates flow through the PCV line into the intake manifold.
US11434791B2
An oil level gauge guide apparatus including a body of an internal combustion engine, a case member attached to the body so as to cover a moving part disposed on a side of the body, a passage forming member forming a gauge passage through which an oil level gauge passes between the body and the case member, and a guide portion provided at a lower part of the passage forming member to guide the oil level gauge to the gauge passage. The body and the case member include a first and second facing surfaces facing each other so as to form a space to accommodate the moving part and the guide portion is extended along the gauge passage and protruded from one of the first facing surface and the second facing surface to the other of the first facing surface and the second facing surface.
US11434786B2
A power plant can comprise a gas turbine productive of an exhaust gas, a steam turbine, a heat recovery steam generator that extracts heat from gas turbine exhaust gas and supplies fluid to the steam turbine, a thermal storage unit storing a thermal storage working medium that is configured to discharge thermal energy into the fluid supplied from the heat recovery steam generator to supplement power generation by the steam turbine, a first heat exchanger disposed within the heat recovery steam generator to transfer thermal energy from the exhaust gas to the thermal storage working medium, and a second heat exchanger in flow communication with the heat recovery steam generator and the thermal storage unit, the second heat exchanger facilitating a direct heat transfer of thermal energy from the thermal storage working medium in the thermal storage unit to the fluid supplied from the heat recovery steam generator.
US11434784B2
A method of operating a gas turbine engine in a multi-engine aircraft, the gas turbine engine having an engine shaft mounted for rotation in a bearing and a gearbox connected to the engine shaft for torque transmission therebetween, includes axially preloading the bearing using an axially biasing element disposed between the gas turbine engine and the gearbox. The axially biasing element reacts against the gearbox to exert an axial preload force on the bearing and the engine shaft of the gas turbine engine.
US11434779B2
A turbine for a turbo-machine is proposed in which, at a gas inlet for a turbine wheel, vanes extend from a nozzle ring though slots in a shroud. The vanes are formed with a leading portion which is arranged to contact a leading portion of a corresponding slot, and a trailing portion which is shaped, when the leading portion of the vane and slot are together, to be spaced from a corresponding trailing portion of the slot with a substantially constant spacing at room temperature. The contact may be a point contact, e.g. close to the leading edge of the vane. Alternatively, the vane may include a leading surface portion which conforms closely with the shape of a corresponding leading surface portion of one of the slots.
US11434759B2
A methodology is provided to optimize the dynamic connectivity of a discrete fracture network (DFN) model of a subsurface reservoir against observed reservoir production measures using streamlines and machine learning. Adjustment of discrete fracture network properties of the reservoir is made locally and minimizes computer processing time spent in history matching. An iterative workflow identifies history match issues between measured and predicted or simulated water cut of reservoir produced fluids. Streamline analysis quantifies injector-producer communication and identifies reservoir grid block bundles that dominate dynamic response. A genetic algorithm updates discrete fracture network properties of the reservoir model to improve dynamic history match response.
US11434757B2
Various embodiments described herein provide methods of hydrocarbon management and associated systems and/or computer readable media including executable instructions. Such methods (and by extension their associated systems and/or computer readable media for implementing such methods) may include obtaining geophysical data (e.g., seismic or other geophysical data) from a prospective subsurface formation (that is, a potential formation or other subsurface region of interest for any of various reasons, but in particular due to potential for production of hydrocarbons) and using a trained machine learning (ML) system for direct hydrocarbon indicators (DHI) analysis of the obtained geophysical data. Hydrocarbon management decisions may be guided by the DHI analysis.
US11434755B2
Methods and downhole tools for operation within in a wellbore that extends into a subterranean formation. The operation includes simultaneously causing a change in a first parameter of fluid drawn into the downhole tool from the formation and determining a change in a second parameter of the fluid relative to the change in the first parameter. A third parameter of the fluid is determined based on the first and second parameter changes.
US11434754B2
In some embodiments, a system including a tool drill string having a downhole device is disclosed. The downhole device includes a memory storing instructions and a downhole processor configured to execute the instructions to operate in a first transmission mode by default. The downhole processor is communicatively coupled to an uphole processor via the first transmission mode. The downhole processor is further to transmit, via a second transmission mode, a message to the uphole processor, determine whether a response is received, via the second transmission mode, from the uphole processor, and responsive to determining the response is received from the uphole processor, switch from the first transmission mode to the second transmission mode.
US11434753B2
An electronics carrier to be disposed in a downhole tool is provided. The electronics carrier includes a chassis, and a receiver processing component disposed on the chassis. The receiver processing component is communicatively coupled to one or more receiver sensors, and the receiver processing component includes a receiver pre-amplifier. A transmitter processing component is disposed on the chassis. The transmitter processing component is communicatively coupled to one or more transmitter sensors. A shield is disposed on the chassis to prevent cross-talk between the transmitter processing component and the receiver processing component.
US11434749B2
Methods and systems are described that can be used for locating conductive bodies such as wellbore casing or piping disposed below the earth's surface. An electrical current can be excited in a conductive body in each wellbore in a given area to produce a magnetic field, and the magnetic field can be detected by a ranging tool. Location and current parameters can be determined for an estimated number of wellbores producing non-negligible contributions to the magnetic field, and the estimated number of wellbores can be adjusted until the number of contributing wellbores is determined. Location solutions can be returned for each of the contributing wellbores, and the location solutions can be employed to facilitate exploration of drilling applications such as well avoidance, well intersection and/or steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) steering operations.
US11434739B2
A fracturing fluid delivery system is provided. In one embodiment, the system includes a fracturing manifold and a fracturing tree. A fluid conduit is coupled between the fracturing manifold and the fracturing tree to enable receipt of fracturing fluid by the fracturing tree from the fracturing manifold through the fluid conduit. The fluid conduit includes a flexible pipe segment between rigid ends of the fluid conduit. Additional systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.
US11434738B1
A wellbore is formed within a rock formation. At least a portion of the wellbore is filled with pressurized fluid. A pressure of the pressurized fluid is cycled between 40% of an expected fracture pressure of the rock formation and 85% of the expected fracture pressure of the rock formation. The rock formation is fractured responsive to the cycling pressure.
US11434735B2
There is provided a flow control apparatus configured for integration within a wellbore string disposed within a wellbore extending into a subterranean formation and useable for effecting production of hydrocarbon material by providing flow communication for injection of treatment material for stimulating the reservoir and then receiving hydrocarbon material from the stimulated reservoir, and also for effecting production of hydrocarbon material by providing flow communication for injection of a displacement fluid for displacing hydrocarbon material to a second wellbore.
US11434733B2
A bypass plunger combines a unitary or one-piece hollow body-and-valve cage, retains a dart valve within the valve cage portion of the hollow body using a threaded retaining nut secured by crimple detents. A series of helical grooves surround the central portion of the outer surface of the hollow body of the plunger to control spin during descent. A canted-coil-spring disposed within the retaining nut functions as a clutch. The valve cage includes ports that may be configured to control flow through the plunger during ascent. Other embodiments include clutch assemblies using canted-coil springs with split bobbins, and valve stems surfaced to achieve specific functions. Combinations of these features provide enhanced performance, durability and reliability at reduced manufacturing cost, due primarily to the simplicity of its design.
US11434722B2
A downhole flow control device and associated method, wherein the downhole flow device is configured for use with a tubing string, the downhole flow device including a flow path configured to permit flow between external and internal locations of a tubing string; a barrier member configured to selectively vary the flow path; and a receiver configured to receive a control signal to permit control of the barrier member. Beneficially, the downhole flow device may be at least partially operable by fluid or fluid pressure from the tubing string or wellbore. Corresponding fracking valve assemblies, completion assemblies, inflow control device and hydraulic distribution modules may be provided.
US11434715B2
A frac plug apparatus has a plug body that comprises a central bore and separable elements. The central bore extends axially through the plug body. The separable elements are joined by relatively weak bridging portions adapted to break in a controlled manner, the separable elements thereby forming an integral component comprised of the separable elements. The separable elements comprise a wedge element and an array of slip elements. The slip elements are joined to the wedge element by first bridging portions.
US11434705B2
A system for assembling drilling tubulars, comprising a tiering rack system configured to receive a plurality of sections of drilling tubulars and to selectively provide an individual drilling tubular section. A casing feed and bucking skid system coupled to the tiering rack system and configured to receive the individual drilling tubular section and to combine the individual drilling tubular section with a second individual drilling tubular section. A tubular delivery catwalk system coupled to the casing feed and bucking skid system and configured to receive the combined drilling tubular sections and to transport the combined drilling tubular sections to a drilling rig by elevating on at least two elevating supports.
US11434700B2
A drill pipe assembly includes a first drill pipe and a second drill pipe disposed in a wellbore. The first drill pipe includes a tubular wall and a threaded end at a downhole end of the tubular wall. The second drill pipe is disposed in the wellbore downhole of and fluidically coupled to the first drill pipe. The second drill pipe includes a tubular wall and a threaded end corresponding with and configured to receive the threaded end of the first drill pipe to form a connection. At least one of the first drill pipe or the second drill pipe includes an annular groove residing between a respective tubular wall and a respective threaded end. The drill pipe assembly is collapsible at the annular groove under a torque smaller than a torque required to collapse the connection.
US11434695B2
Spherical projectiles may be used to form one or more holes in geologic or other material. These holes may be used for drilling, tunnel boring, excavation, and so forth.
US11434692B2
The invention describes a cushion for shading system of the type comprising a piece of cloth slidingly fastened to a section bar of an upright. A raceway with a substantially C-shaped cross section serves to fasten the cushion to a section bar edge, and a flexible tongue, having an end on the raceway and an opposed end spaced therefrom in order to contact the upright, serves as a spring between the section bar and the upright, allowing the section bar to come nearer to the upright in a compression phase or to be spaced in a predetermined way in the absence of compression.
US11434682B2
An apparatus comprising a baseplate configured to be coupled to an interior side of an inswing door adjacent a pivot edge of the door; a rotatable closing arm with a first end and a second end, the second end coupled to a motor, the motor configured to be engaged in response to receipt of a signal from a remote electronic device; and circuitry electrically coupled between a power supply and the motor, the circuitry configured to wirelessly send and receive information to and from the remote electronic device.
US11434680B2
A stabilizer comprises housing, a lever, and a plate spring. The lever has a shaft, a main body extending radially from the shaft, an elongated portion extending at an angle from the main body, and a cam portion extending from the shaft in a substantially opposite direction to the main body. A tip of the elongated portion extends outward through an opening in the housing. The plate spring has a plane portion fixed to the housing, and a curved portion pushed by the lever cam portion. When the stabilizer is attached to a fixed member (case). The lever tip portion extends from the opening of the housing and abuts to the surface of a slide member (holder). The lever tip exerts a constant load to the surface of the slide member, even if the distance between the fixed member and the slide member changes.
US11434670B2
An escutcheon and a vehicle door which attain excellent door interior design are provided. An escutcheon includes: a first vertical wall part covering the circumference of a handle base vertical wall part having a shape of a frame; a second vertical wall part having a shape of a frame continuous in a circumferential direction along a handle opening, the second vertical wall part having its height set corresponding to a clearance between a projecting end of the handle base vertical wall part and a back surface of the door trim; and a continuous part connecting between the first vertical wall part and the second vertical wall part.
US11434653B2
A post joint assembly and a method are provided. The assembly includes an upper cup member having a flat top wall, a tubular wall, a flange portion, and a threaded stud. The assembly further includes a lower cup member having a parabolic dish portion, a tubular portion, and a beaded edge portion. An outer surface of the parabolic dish portion is disposed against an inner surface of the flange portion of the upper cup member such that the threaded stud extends through a first hole in the lower cup member. The assembly further includes a tensioner cup having a second hole with the threaded stud extending therethrough. The assembly further includes a nut threadably coupled to the threaded stud such that the nut urges the tensioner cup against the lower cup member, and further urges the lower cup member against the upper cup member.
US11434647B2
Described herein are resilient floor coverings produced by using digitally printed UV-cured inks and exhibiting high adhesion properties between an ink layer and a wear layer. Also described herein are methods for manufacturing same. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.
US11434636B2
A dynamic acoustic ceiling baffle and a dynamic acoustic ceiling baffle system, that includes multiple shaped baffles that can be quickly and easily installed onto construction ceiling hangers without the need for additional tools, to provide an aesthetically pleasing image, such as an undulating image, along with a reduction in unwanted noise or room acoustics.
US11434635B1
Window wall and curtain wall mullion or transom structures, members, systems and methods including an insulating component covering substantially an entirety of an outer side of a metal structural segment where the component is connected to a metal structure of the mullion or transom via an interlocking connection, the component connected to the metal structure by clamping the component to the structure with a clamp where the clamp is secured by a fastener in a spaced relationship with respect to the component.
US11434634B2
A long-span structure engaged with a plurality of first and second transportation devices for moving the long span structure. The transportation devices travel along parallel, longitudinally-oriented first and second tracks; moving the structure between a first position and a second position. A first region of the structure is fixed to each first transportation device. A second region of the structure is secured to each second transportation device via a bearing assembly. The first and second regions of the structure are laterally spaced apart. When the long-span structure thermally expands or contracts, a slider plate of each bearing assembly moves laterally relative to the rest of the bearing assembly. Growth of the structure in a predictable direction is forced by keeping the first region thereof fixed against lateral movement with the first transportation devices and allowing movement of the second region thereof via the bearing assemblies on the second transportation devices.
US11434627B2
This invention shows a type of dual-sensing basin faucet, includes the shell of faucet, the shell of this faucet is setting a valve seat with adjustment switch. The top of valve seat is connected to the cavity of water outlet and cavity of solenoid valve. There is the outlet tube inside the cavity of water outlet and a solenoid valve inside the cavity of solenoid valve. Both outlet tube and solenoid valve are setting inside the shell of this faucet. There is circuit board setting on the top of outlet tube, and the circuit board is electrically connected with the solenoid valve. There is a support plate that is setting above the circuit board and is firmly connected with the circuit board.
US11434625B2
A method for determining whether water contained within a water pipe system in a building is at risk of freezing is disclosed. The method is carried out by a detector device comprising a processor. The method comprises determining a plurality of pipe temperature measurements using a temperature sensor. The processor analyses the pipe temperature measurements to detect whether a water draw has occurred. An exterior building environment temperature is compared to a predetermined freeze alert threshold. If the processor detects that (i) a water draw has not occurred; and (ii) the indicative temperature of the exterior building environment is lower than the predetermined freeze alert threshold, an alert is transmitted.
US11434621B2
A method for determining object position information indicative of the position includes at least the horizontal position of an object that is intended to be removed using an object removal machine. The method uses a working machine that includes an implement, and that is different from the object removal machine. The method includes arranging the implement such that at a position of at least a portion thereof has a determinable relation to the position of the object; determining the position of the implement, and determining the object position information using the position of the implement.
US11434617B2
A retrofit reinforcing structure addition and method for an existing gravity spread foundation for a wind turbine or the like having a central pedestal and a spread section is provided. The retrofit structure addition includes a collar formed around the pedestal of the spread foundation. The collar is formed by a shape sustaining member, such as a CMP, placed around the pedestal to define an annular ring between the CMP and the pedestal that is filled with cementitious material. Radial bolts extend horizontally through the collar and into the side of the pedestal. Soil and/or rock anchor bolts extend vertically through the collar, the spread portion of the foundation and into the underlying soil and/or rock substrate. The radial and anchor bolts are post-tensioned to ensure that the cementitious material of the collar remains in compression and the bolts are always in static tension, strengthening the original gravity spread foundation and extending the fatigue life thereof.
US11434616B1
Provided is an erosion control kit (ECK) comprising: (I) an erosion control block comprising: (a) a degradable box-shaped frame of latticed ligament with a top, bottom and four sides; (b) a degradable fabric framed just inside the top, bottom and four sides of the frame and defining an interior space; and (c) soil substantially filling the interior space; and (II) one or more anchors configured to bind a bottom portion of the frame to a substratum. Related erosion control features and methods are further provided.
US11434615B2
Proposed is a wave-dissipating block including: a body placed on a seabed perpendicularly thereto and having a shape of a polygonal column, a cylinder, an oval column, or a cross-shaped column; male coupling protrusions formed on a first surface of the body in a height direction thereof and on a surface opposite to the first surface, respectively; female coupling grooves formed in a second surface of the body in the height direction thereof and in a surface opposite to the second surface, respectively; a habitat part configured as a space defined at a center portion of the body or a portion of the body; a dividing plate provided as a plate dividing the habitat part into habitat parts; a through hole formed in the dividing plate; and a space part having a space defined between multiple bodies of wave-dissipating blocks connected adjacently to each other.
US11434604B2
The present invention provides a colored fiber fabric and the like that can be colored in various colors including bright colors and have excellent color fastness to light. The colored fiber fabric includes: a fiber fabric; a white pigment adhering to at least one surface of the fiber fabric via a binder resin; and a resin layer that contains a color pigment and is provided on the white pigment.
US11434588B2
A knitted spacer fabric has an upper knitted cover layer and a knitted lower cover layer, said cover layers being connected to one another by pile threads, wherein the cover layers are connected to one another by way of at least two different pile threads having dissimilar elasticity properties, and the cover layers are both knitted in a single-threaded or multiple-threaded manner across the entire area.
US11434579B2
A portable communication device according to various embodiments includes a housing that forms at least a portion of an external surface of the portable communication device, wherein at least a portion of an area of the housing comprises: an aluminum alloy substrate including 90.0 to 99.8 weight % (wt %) of aluminum (Al) and 0.2 to 1.0 wt % of manganese (Mn); and an anodized layer including aluminum oxide (Al2O3) formed on the aluminum alloy substrate, wherein the anodized layer has a first hole and a second hole formed in the anodization layer, wherein the anodized layer may comprise: a plurality of holes including a first hole and a second hole, formed in the anodized layer; a plurality of first channels extending from at least a portion of a surface of the anodized layer to the first hole in a first direction substantially perpendicular thereto, a second channel extending from the first hole toward the aluminum alloy substrate in a second direction different from the first direction, and a third channel extending from the first hole toward the aluminum alloy substrate in a third direction different from the first direction and the second direction. Other embodiments are possible.
US11434577B2
Aqueous acid binary silver-bismuth alloy electroplating compositions and methods enable electroplating silver rich binary silver-bismuth deposits. The aqueous acid binary silver-bismuth alloy electroplating compositions include thiol terminal aliphatic compounds having carboxyl or sulfonic groups which enable deposition of silver rich binary silver-bismuth alloys having deposits which are matte to semi-bright, uniform and have a low coefficient of friction.
US11434573B2
Described herein is an aqueous composition for removing cryolitic deposits from plants or parts of plants which serve for the conversion treatment of metal surfaces, said composition including a) at least one mineral acid, and b) at least one dicarboxylic acid of the formula HOOC—(CH2)x—COOH, where x is 0 to 3 and no borate-containing compounds have been added to the composition. Also described herein is a corresponding method for removing cryolitic deposits.
US11434572B2
A metallic sheet with deposited structured images and method for manufacture (MSDIMM) that includes a substrate, at least one structural feature, and a metal layer. The structural feature is at least one cavity on the substrate's upper surface, or at least one material object that extends outward from the substrate's upper surface. The metal layer is deposited, either by sputtering or atomic deposition, onto the substrate's upper surface, and, as the metal layer is deposited, the metal layer interfaces with and follows the dimensions of the structural feature(s), thereby creating a visible image at the location(s) of the structural feature(s). The visible image can be any image, and is preferably either an artistic image, a textual image, or an authentication image. The MDSIMM can be used for a variety of purposes, and is especially effective as a form of exonumia or currency.
US11434571B2
A chain component of a chain for transmitting a force includes a steel-based substrate and a hard material layer on an external side of the steel-based substrate. The hard material layer contains metal nitrides and the metal carbide content in the hard material layer decreases toward the external side of the hard material layer.
US11434570B2
Provided is a method of forming an apatite coating, the method including immersing a substrate in an apatite-forming precursor solution including Ca2+ ions and PO43− ions, emitting a laser beam onto a surface of the substrate immersed in the precursor solution, and forming an apatite coating in a region exposed to the laser beam, wherein an output power of the laser beam is set within a range enabling the surface of the substrate to be melted.
US11434565B2
This invention provides a cleaning method that uses a cleaning gas composition for a semiconductor manufacturing device, including a monofluorohalogen compound represented by XF (in which X is Cl, Br or I) as the main component, and provides a method for removing unwanted film, such as a Si-containing deposit, attached to the interior of the processing room or processing vessel after a processing operation without damaging the interior of the processing room or processing vessel using such monofluorohalogen compound.
US11434540B2
Ultraspecific, programmable nucleic acid sensors capable of detecting and preferentially amplifying target DNA molecules comprising a particular SNP or mutation are provided. In some cases, the ultraspecific programmable nucleic acid sensors are useful for detecting SNP-containing DNA molecules indicative of cancer such as cell-free DNA circulating in the blood or indicative of organ transplant rejection Also provided are methods for construction of such ultraspecific nucleic acid sensors and methods for preferential amplification of target DNA molecules containing a mutation of interest, as well as testing systems for early cancer screening and routine monitoring of circulating cancer DNA using liquid biological samples such as serum, plasma, or saliva.
US11434538B2
Barcoded ligation assay products from individual samples.
US11434536B2
The invention as disclosed herein in encompasses a method for predicting the risk of metastasis of a primary cutaneous melanoma tumor, the method encompassing measuring the gene-expression levels of at least eight genes selected from a specific gene set in a sample taken from the primary cutaneous melanoma tumor; determining a gene-expression profile signature from the gene expression levels of the at least eight genes; comparing the gene-expression profile to the gene-expression profile of a predictive training set; and providing an indication as to whether the primary cutaneous melanoma tumor is a certain class of metastasis or treatment risk when the gene expression profile indicates that expression levels of at least eight genes are altered in a predictive manner as compared to the gene expression profile of the predictive training set.
US11434534B2
In an aspect, a method includes obtaining patient data for a patient, the patient data including one or more molecular biomarkers specific to the patient, standardizing and curating the patient data, classifying the standardized and curated patient data including classifying the one or more molecular biomarkers by one or more of its functional effects, using the one or more functional effects for the one or more molecular biomarkers to identify a combination of available therapeutic options by targeting biomarkers with relevant functional effects based on the patient data, applying a learning method to optimize results for presentation to a user, and presenting optimized results to the user.
US11434531B2
Disclosed herein in are methods and systems for determining genetic variants (e.g., copy number variation) in a polynucleotide sample. A method for determining copy number variations includes tagging double-stranded polynucleotides with duplex tags, sequencing polynucleotides from the sample and estimating total number of polynucleotides mapping to selected genetic loci. The estimate of total number of polynucleotides can involve estimating the number of double-stranded polynucleotides in the original sample for which no sequence reads are generated. This number can be generated using the number of polynucleotides for which reads for both complementary strands are detected and reads for which only one of the two complementary strands is detected.
US11434529B2
Described herein are assays and kits capable of specifically detecting Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei (EHP) in a nucleic acid sample. In some embodiments, the nucleic acid sample is obtained from shrimp tissue, shrimp feed, or a feed ingredient.
US11434524B2
Provided herein are methods of determining a location of a target analyte in a non-permeabilized biological sample that include the use of a blocking probe.
US11434522B1
A method of determining the epigenetic chromosome interactions which are relevant to a companion diagnostic.
US11434518B2
The present disclosure provides a monitoring device comprising a test composition, a test element comprising a test portion to which the test composition is releasably adhered, a detection reagent, and a container comprising a first end with an opening and a second end opposite the first end. The test composition comprises a predetermined quantity of tracer analyte. The container is configured to receive the test portion and configured to be operationally coupled to an analytical instrument. The tracer analyte and the detection reagent each are capable of participating in one or more chemical reaction that results in the formation of a detectable product. A method of using the monitoring device to assess the efficacy of a washing process is also provided.
US11434516B2
Methods and apparatus for rapid, culture free pathogen detection. The methods utilize optical spectroscopy techniques to identify and/or characterize pathogens in a sample via the detection of unique properties and/or analytes that are specific to particular pathogens.
US11434514B2
The present invention relates to methods of upregulating the high mannose glycoform content of a recombinant protein during a mammalian cell culture by manipulating the mannose to total hexose ratio in the cell culture media formulation.
US11434503B2
The present invention provides hyperactive piggyBac transposons, in particular hyperactive piggyBac transposons from Trichoplusia ni (cabbage looper moth) that transpose at a higher frequency than wildtype. The invention also features integration defective piggyBac transposons. The piggyBac transposons and transposases can be used in gene transfer systems for stably introducing nucleic acids into the DNA of a cell. The gene transfer system can be used in methods, for example, but not limited to, gene therapy, insertional mutagenesis, or gene discovery.
US11434502B2
The present invention relates to AAVs encoding a SOD1 targeting polynucleotide which may be used to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and/or canine degenerative myelopathy (DM).
US11434500B2
The present invention relates to a genetic determinant which may comprise at least two copies of a combination of two closely linked RDR1 genes, which two closely linked RDR1 genes are inversely oriented, and which genetic determinant leads to virus resistance when present in a plant. In one embodiment, of the RDR1 genes in the combination is represented by SEQ ID NO: 1 or has at least 70% sequence identity, and one of the RDR1 genes in the combination is represented by SEQ ID NO: 3 or has at least 70% sequence identity; or one of the RDR1 genes in the combination encodes a protein represented by SEQ ID NO: 2 or a protein that has at least 70% sequence identity, and one of the RDR1 genes encodes a protein represented by SEQ ID NO: 4 or a protein that has at least 70% sequence identity.
US11434495B2
A formulation is provided for application to a host plant to reduce, inhibit or impair one or more of growth and development of the host plant. A method of inhibiting growth plant growth and development is also provided as a means of controlling weedy species. The method comprises: selecting a suitable gene for growth suppression in a target plant; identifying an at least one target site accessible to base pairing in the suitable gene; identifying an at least one divergent site in the at least one target site; designing a construct complementary to the at least one divergent site; adding an at least one RNAi inducer to the construct; and delivering the construct to the target plant.
US11434493B2
The invention provides important tools for the use of Chlorophyte organisms, including regulatory sequences useful for the expression of transgenes in such organisms. Also provided are vectors and expression cassettes containing promoters and/or terminators disclosed herein for expression of transgenes in Chlorophyte organisms. Methods of using these tools are also provided.
US11434484B2
The invention described herein provides compositions and reagents for assembling a tripartite complex at a specific location of a target DNA. The invention also provides methods for using the complex to, for example, label a specific genomic locus, to regulate the expression of a target gene, or to create a gene regulatory network.
US11434482B2
The invention provides methods of identifying bacteria comprising binding polypeptides. The invention also provides methods of identifying bacteria with improved expression of binding polypeptides. The invention also provides methods of identifying binding polypeptides with improved expression. The invention also provides engineered bacteria suitable for use in the methods of the invention. The invention also provides compositions that can be obtained using the methods, for example, anti-interleukin-13 (IL-13) antibodies with improved expression and/or stability. The invention also provides libraries comprising binding polypeptide (e.g., antibody) variants.
US11434481B2
A device for rapid non-destructive genetic material collection can include a multi-reservoir array (202) and a movement mechanism. The multi-reservoir array (202) can include multiple reservoirs (204). A plurality of the multiple reservoirs (204) can include an abrasive surface (210) capable of retaining a source of genetic material in a liquid carrier. The abrasive surface (210) has a roughness. The movement mechanism can be operable to move the multi-reservoir array (202) in an oscillating motion sufficient to create relative movement between the abrasive surface (210) and the source of the genetic material in order to remove a portion of genetic material from the source of the genetic material without destroying the source of the genetic material or the portion of the genetic material that is removed.
US11434476B2
The invention relates to methods of modifying DNA methylation by contacting a catalytically inactive site specific nuclease fused to an effector domain having methylation or demethylation activity and one or more guide sequences.
US11434469B2
The invention relates to biologically functional scaffolds having a porous structure, methods of preparing, and methods of use thereof. The invention also relates to methods of repairing a defect, methods of culturing cells and promoting differentiation of stem cells using the same.
US11434461B2
An airlift bioreactor for perfusion cell culture comprises a single- or multi-tiered riser for working volume scale-up, an internal inclined gravity settler for cell retention, an outlet port for cell-free spent culture medium removal, and an inlet port for fresh medium addition.
US11434460B2
A cell culture matrix is provided that has a substrate with a first side, a second side opposite the first side, a thickness separating the first side and the second side, and a plurality of openings formed in the substrate and passing through the thickness of the substrate. The plurality of openings allow flow of at least one of cell culture media, cells, or cell products through the thickness of the substrate, and provides a uniform, efficient, and scalable matrix for cell seeding, proliferation, and culturing. The substrate can be formed from a woven polymer mesh material that provides a high surface area to volume ratio for cells and good fluid flow through the matrix. Bioreactor systems incorporating the cell culture matrix and related methods are also provided.
US11434459B2
Cell culture systems and methods provide improved immunotherapeutic product manufacturing with greater scalability, flexibility, and automation. Cell culture systems are configured with interchangeable cartridges, allowing versatility and scalability. Systems are configured to have multiple connected cell culture chambers, which allows parallel processing of different types of cells. Gas-impermeable cell culture chambers and methods for generating cells in closed systems prevent contamination and user error. Methods for recycling cell culture medium provide additional efficiencies.
US11434450B2
A cleaning composition includes at least two anionic surfactants, an ionic agent, a nonionic surfactant and a fragrance. The at least two anionic surfactants include a linear alkylbenzene sulfonate (LAS) and a sodium lauryl ether sulfate (SLES). The LAS and the SLES are present in the cleaning composition in a total amount combined of about 1%-2% by weight. A weight ratio of LAS:SLES is about 3:1 to about 1:1 or about 6:1 to about 4:1. The ionic agent is present in the cleaning composition in an amount of about 0.01% to about 1% by weight. The nonionic surfactant is present in the cleaning composition in an amount of at least about 0.45% by weight.
US11434441B2
Disclosed is a blended gasoline composition having an AKI of 87. The formulation of the blended gasoline composition leads to a reduction in carbon dioxide emission. The blended gasoline composition contains a reduced concentration of olefins and non-amine aromatics.
US11434439B2
For the shipping industry, these fuels provide solutions to long outstanding technical problems that heretofore hindered supply of low sulfur marine fuels in quantities needed to meet worldwide sulfur reduction goals. Marine shipping use of high sulfur bunker oils is reported as largest source of world-wide transportation SOx emissions. When ships on the open seas burn cheap low grade heavy bunker oils high in sulfur, nitrogen and metals, the SOx, NOx, and metal oxides go to the environment. This invention converts essentially all of each barrel of crude feed to a single ultraclean fuel versus conventional refining where crude feed is cut into many pieces, and each piece is sent down a separate market path meeting various different product specifications. When in port, ships can use these fuels to generate and sell electricity to land based electrical grids to offset fuel cost in an environment-friendly manner.
US11434436B2
A computer-implemented method includes controlling water separation in a hydrocarbon stream flowing through a separator train including one or more separator vessels located upstream of a dehydrator by manipulating a demulsifier flowrate added to the separator train by: receiving data from a real-time process test of the separation train, estimating model fit parameters to the data to generate a water separation profile (WSP) correlating water draw-off and demulsifier flowrate for the separation train, determining a maximum and a minimum demulsifier flowrate from the WSP, receiving, from an operator, a separation performance for a target water separation value entering the dehydrator downstream from the separator train, and adjusting the demulsifier flowrate according to the WSP to achieve the target water separation entering the dehydrator.
US11434426B2
A fast flexoelectro-optic switching device containing bimesogen-doped and polymer-stabilized vertical standing helix (PSVSH) in a cholesteric liquid crystal. The PSVSH device exhibits a response time of less than 0.7 millisecond, high contrast and negligible hysteresis which is suitable for applications including blur-free displays, field-sequential color displays and active optical elements.
US11434418B1
Methods and compositions involving a strong acid precursor that generates and/or releases a strong acid for use in a subterranean formation. In some embodiments, the methods include providing a treatment fluid comprising a base fluid and a strong acid precursor and introducing the treatment fluid in a wellbore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation.
US11434417B2
A fluid for treating a subterranean formation includes a solvent, a rheology modifier, and a composition that includes a mixture of cellulose fibers and cellulose nanoparticles. The cellulose nanoparticles have a positive zeta potential in a range of about +100 mV to about +10 mV, and a length in a range of from about 50 nm to about 500 nm, and the cellulose fibers have a length from about 50 microns to about 500 microns.
US11434410B2
A method of servicing a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation, comprising placing a wellbore servicing fluid (WSF) into the wellbore proximate a permeable zone having an average fracture width of about W microns, wherein the WSF comprises a particulate blend and water, and wherein the particulate blend comprises (a) a type A particulate material characterized by a weight average particle size of equal to or greater than about W/3 microns, and (b) a type B particulate material characterized by a weight average particle size of less than about W/3 microns, wherein a weight ratio of the type A particulate material to the type B particulate material is from about 0.05 to about 5.
US11434404B2
A rapidly dehydrating lost circulation material (LCM) composition is provided. The LCM composition may include a carrier fluid, diatomaceous earth, a viscosifier, and date tree rachis fibers. The carrier fluid may be water and the viscosifier may be a cellulosic microfiber. The LCM composition may form a rapidly dehydrating loss control slurry (RDLCS). The LCM composition may be formed by mixing the carrier fluid, the diatomaceous earth, the viscosifier, and the date tree rachis fibers in a mixer to form a homogenous mixture. Methods of lost circulation control and manufacture of a rapidly dehydrating LCM are also provided.
US11434398B2
Pressure sensitive adhesives are provided comprising an adhesive copolymer which is a copolymer of a set of monomers comprising: a) 41.0-49.0 weight percent of isobornyl acrylate (IBOA); b) 0.0-4.5 weight percent of one or more basic-functional polar monomers comprising a polymerizable double bond; and c) 46.5-58.9 weight percent of one or more alkyl (meth)acrylate monomers, where the alkyl groups are selected from linear and branched alkyl groups comprising 2-12 carbon atoms and branched alkyl groups comprising 13-20 carbon atoms and wherein weight percentages are weight percent of all monofunctional monomers comprising the adhesive copolymer. In another aspect, the present disclosure provides tapes comprising the pressure sensitive adhesive according to the present disclosure. In some embodiments, the tapes are flexographic plate mounting tapes.
US11434397B2
Disclosed are a double-sided adhesive film for bonding heterogeneous substrates, a laminated film, and a display device. The double-sided adhesive film for bonding heterogeneous substrates comprises: a first adhesive layer; and second adhesive layer which is disposed on the first adhesive layer and has a different adhesive force from that of the first adhesive layer to the same substrate.
US11434394B2
Articles having a thermal imprinted adhesive on a substrate of a plurality of certain conicals have improved bonding strength.
US11434393B2
The present invention relates to an adhesive film including a photothermal conversion layer including a light absorber and a thermally decomposable resin; and an adhesive layer, in which the thermally decomposable resin has a —COOH or —OH functional group and includes two kinds of acrylic resins having different weight average molecular weights, and an adhesive substrate including the adhesive film and a substrate to be processed. In the adhesive film and the adhesive substrate according to the present invention, it is possible to simplify a processing process of the substrate and reduce costs and time, and prevent damage to a substrate and a circuit or an element formed on the substrate.
US11434376B2
The present invention provides: an aminocoumarin compound having a structure represented by the following formula (1); and an aminocoumarin compound-containing resin particle containing the aminocoumarin compound and a resin particle containing the aminocoumarin compound. In formula (1), Rs each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, Q represents a sulfur atom, an oxygen atom, or N—R1, and R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group. The aminocoumarin compound of the present invention is a fluorescent dye that has a longer excitation wavelength than a conventionally known sulfonated coumarin-based compound and is effectively excited at a wavelength of 475 nm or more, particularly at a wavelength around 500 nm. The aminocoumarin compound of the present invention is a fluorescent dye that is excited, for example, at a wavelength of 475 to 510 nm and can be observed in a green light emission region of 510 to 540 nm using the wavelength characteristic, and can be expected to be suitably utilized in immunostaining or the like.
US11434375B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a compound exhibiting a cyan color having properties such as high chroma, high light fastness, and high solubility. The compound is represented by the following General Formula (1). In Formula (1), R1 and R2 each independently represent a linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl group having 6 or more and 12 or fewer carbon atoms, R3 represents a 4-alkylphenyl group, a 4-halogenated phenyl group, or a 3-alkoxyphenyl group, R4 represents a linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl group having 1 or more and 8 or fewer carbon atoms, and R5 represents a linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl group having 1 or more and 8 or fewer carbon atoms or a benzyl group.
US11434373B2
The present invention provides methods for preparing the nut waste sheet composites from a nut waste component and one or more binders.
US11434372B2
A two part curable composition comprising organosiloxane polymer; water; an organosilane such as hexamethyldisilazane (HMDS) or vinyltrimethoxysilane; crosslinker; adhesion promoter and catalyst; and optionally comprising plasticizer; colorant and filler. The first part can comprise organosiloxane polymer and water. The second part can comprise crosslinker; adhesion promoter and catalyst. Either or both parts can optionally further comprise an organosilane such as hexamethyldisilazane (HMDS) or vinyltrimethoxysilane; plasticizer; colorant and filler. Cured reaction products of the two part curable organosiloxane composition has good adhesion to metallic sealing surfaces and good resistance engine oil and other automotive fluids. Cured reaction products of the two part curable organosiloxane composition can surprisingly retain physical properties after long-term exposure to temperatures between 200° C. and 250° C. and can retain physical properties after exposure to temperatures between 250° C. to 300° C. for short periods.
US11434371B2
A composition containing the following components: (a) a polysiloxane having at least one alkenyl functional group and at least one alkoxy functional group; (b) a mercapto-functional polysiloxane with at least one mercapto functionality; (c) a silane crosslinker with at least two alkoxy groups per molecule; (d) a photoinitiator; (e) a combination of zirconium tetraalkoxylate and alkylacetoacetate at a mole ratio in a range of 1:1 to 1:4.
US11434366B2
A resin composition includes a vinyl group-containing polyphenylene ether resin, a polyolefin and a magnesium and aluminum combination ionic compound, wherein the magnesium and aluminum combination ionic compound has a thermal resistance of greater than or equal to 600° C. The resin composition may be used to make various articles, such as a prepreg, a resin film, a laminate or a printed circuit board, and at least one of the following improvements can be achieved, including glass transition temperature, copper foil peeling strength, thermal resistance and dissipation factor.
US11434356B2
Disclosed is a propylene-based resin composition comprising more than 15 parts by mass and 40 parts by mass or less of an ethylene/α-olefin copolymer (E1) and 4 to 20 parts by mass of an ethylene/α-olefin/diene copolymer (E2), and comprising also a propylene-based polymer (P1) having an amount of a n-decane-soluble part at 23° C. of 5 to 25% by mass, wherein the ethylene content of the n-decane-soluble part is more than 40% by mass and 60% by mass or less, a propylene homopolymer (P2) and an inorganic filler (F) [providing that the total amount of the components (P1), (P2), (E1), (E2) and (F) is taken as 100 parts by weight]. The propylene-based resin composition is capable of producing a molded article which is excellent in mechanical properties, unnoticeable flow marks, low gloss.
US11434340B2
A shaped polymeric material having a three-dimensional configuration with one or more angular displacements is provided. The polymeric material is formed from a thermoplastic composition containing a continuous phase that includes a matrix polymer. A microinclusion additive and nanoinclusion additive are dispersed within the continuous phase in the form of discrete domains, and a porous network is defined in the material.
US11434339B2
A heat energy storage system may have a shape-stabilized composite prepared using an easy impregnation method involving a porous Ca2+-doped MgCO3 matrix and PEG as the functional phase. The heat storage capability, microstructures, and interactions with the PEG/CaMgCO3 composite can be characterized by DSC, SEM imaging, FT-IR spectroscopy, and TGA. Likely because of the synergistic phase change effect of CaMgCO3 and PEG, the PEG/CaMgCO3 composites can have high thermal enthalpies, and their enthalpy efficiencies are substantially higher than those of traditional shape stabilized PCMs. The functional material PEG can permeate porous CaMgCO3 matrices under capillary action. Liquid PEG can be stabilized within the porous matrix, and/or the CaMgCO3 matrix can improve the thermal stability of the PEG. The high heat energy storage properties and good thermal stability of such organic-inorganic composites offers utility in a range of applications, including thermal energy storage.
US11434334B2
A composite material and a foam prepared from the composite material are provided. The composite material includes a network polymer, a fluorine-containing polymer fiber, and a reinforcement fiber. The polymer network is a crosslinking reaction product of a polymer and an oligomer, wherein the polymer is polyamide, polyester, polyurethane, or a combination thereof, and the oligomer is a vinyl aromatic-co-acrylate oligomer with an epoxy functional group. The oligomer has a weight percentage of 1% to 10%, based on the weight of the network polymer. The ratio of the weight of the reinforcement fiber to the total weight of the network polymer and the fluorine-containing polymer fiber is from 1:9 to 4:6.
US11434329B2
The invention relates to polymers comprising sulfonated 2,6-diphenyl-1,4-phenylene oxide repeating units, to a method for their preparation, and to their use in a membrane electrode assembly, in a proton exchange membrane, in a fuel cell, in an electrolyser, in an electrolytic hydrogen compressor or in a flow battery. The invention further relates to a proton exchange membrane comprising said polymer and to a method for the preparation of a proton exchange membrane from said polymer. The invention also relates to the use of the polymers in ion exchange materials.
US11434326B2
A method of forming a multimodal Polyalkylene Terephthalate (PAT) can include: providing a feed of a low molecular weight (LMW) PAT, the LMW PAT having a low average molecular weight; providing a feed of high molecular weight (HMW) PAT, the HMW PAT having a high average molecular weight, wherein the low average molecular weight is lower than the high average molecular weight; mixing the feed of LMW PAT with the feed of HMW PAT in a mixer to form a multimodal PAT; and providing the multimodal PAT as output. The multimodal PAT can include: a low average molecular weight of a low molecular weight (LMW) PAT; and a high average molecular weight of a high molecular weight (HMW) PAT mixed with the LMW PAT to form the multimodal PAT, wherein the multimodal PAT is devoid of talc.
US11434322B2
A polymer comprising at least 1% by mole of a structural unit represented by Formula (2); in Formula (2), two R1s are the same or different from each other and are each a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; X is a single bond, an oxygen atom, or a group represented by —COO—, —OOC—, —CONH—, —NH—, —NHCO—, —NR3—, or —CH2O—; Y is a single bond or an oligooxyalkylene group; two R2s are the same or different from each other and are each an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; R3 is an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; m is an integer of 1 to 10; and n is an integer of 2 to 10; and having a number average molecular weight of 5,000 or more has various characteristics suitable for use in contact with a living organism and can be easily produced.
US11434321B2
A process for producing rigid PUR/PIR foams via the reaction of a reaction mixture comprising A1 an isocyanate-reactive component, A2 a flame retardant, A3 a blowing agent, A4 a catalyst, and A5 optionally auxiliaries and additives with B an organic polyisocyanate component. Component A1 comprises a diurethane diol A1.1 and a compound A1.2 selected from the group consisting of polyether polyol, polyester polyol, polyether carbonate polyol, and polyether ester polyol. Also disclosed is a rigid PUR/PIR foam, an insulating material, a composite element, and a mixture.
US11434316B2
Provided herein are processes for the generation of composite polymer materials utilizing a single resin. The processes utilize diffusion between a region undergoing a polymerization reaction preferentially polymerizing one monomer component and an unreactive region. Diffusion and subsequent/concurrent polymerization results in a higher concentration of the more reactive monomer component in the reacting region and a higher concentration of the less reactive monomer components in the unreactive region. The unreactive region may be later polymerized. In embodiments, photopolymerization is used and the regions are generated by a mask or other mechanism to pattern the light.
US11434314B2
A method for preparing a 2-cyanoethyl group-containing polymer is provided. The method can prepare a purified 2-cyanoethyl group-containing polymer with high purity even while a reduced amount of water was used during the purification process, thus reducing the amount of wastewater generated.
US11434306B2
The present disclosure provides a low-molecular-weight Tremella aurantialba glucuronoxylomannan (LTAG) as well as a preparation method and an application thereof, and specifically relates to the technical field of medicine. The LTAG provided in the present disclosure has a weight-average molecular weight of 8,000-24,000 Da. In the method of preparing LTAG as provided in the present disclosure, Tremella aurantialba glucuronoxylomannan is depolymerized by peroxides so as to get low-molecular-weight products, which are then exchanged into pharmaceutically acceptable salts through cation exchange resins. The resulting LTAG has a clear structure, a low viscosity and a good solubility, has a strong immune-enhancing activity, and is capable of acting on TLR4 receptor-activated macrophagocytes and promoting the production of various immune factors, so it can be used in the prevention and/or treatment of immunodeficiency-related diseases.
US11434303B2
Disclosed herein are anti-lymphocyte antigen 6 complex, locus H (LY6H) antibodies and antibody drug conjugates (ADCs), including compositions and methods of using said antibodies and ADCs.
US11434302B2
The present invention provides bispecific antibody constructs of a specific Fc modality characterized by comprising a first domain binding to a target cell surface antigen, a second domain binding to an extracellular epitope of the human and/or the Macaca CD3ε chain and a third domain, which is the specific Fc modality. Moreover, the invention provides a polynucleotide, encoding the antibody construct, a vector comprising this polynucleotide, host cells, expressing the construct and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same.
US11434298B2
The present invention relates to antibodies and antigen binding fragments thereof which bind to the human CD70 protein with high affinity and display potent inhibition of tumour cell growth.
US11434296B2
The invention relates to methods of treating fibrosis and inflammatory bowel disease. In one embodiment, the present invention treats gut inflammation by administering a therapeutically effective dosage of TL1A inhibitors and/or DR3 inhibitors to an individual. In another embodiment, the present invention provides a method of reversing tissue fibrosis in an individual by inhibiting TL1A-DR3 signaling function.
US11434294B2
The present invention relates to anti-PD-L1 binding members and in particular to monovalent, high potency PD-L1-binding antibody fragments being highly stable and soluble. Such binding members may be used in the treatment of cancer and inflammatory diseases as well as in diagnostics. Also provided are related nucleic acids, vectors, cells, and compositions.
US11434282B2
In one aspect, methods of generating human monoclonal antibodies that specifically binds to an allergen are provided. In some embodiments, the monoclonal antibodies are generated from sequences identified from isolated single B cells from a human subject who is allergic to the allergen.
US11434278B2
A polymeric scaffold useful for conjugating with a protein based recognition-molecule (PBRM) to form a PBRM-polymer-drug conjugate is described herein. The scaffold includes one or more terminal maleimido groups. Also disclosed is a PBRM-polymer-drug conjugate prepared from the scaffold. Compositions comprising the conjugates, methods of their preparation, and methods of treating various disorders with the conjugates or their compositions are also described.
US11434257B2
This application is directed to the use of aminosteroid compounds for the selective inhibition of the enzyme PTP1B in a mammal for the treatment of diabetes.
US11434251B2
The present invention relates to a method of producing a magnesium compound represented by the following formula: Mg(OR1)2−n(Modifier)n wherein R1 is CmH2m+1, where in m is an integer from 2 to 10, and n is 0-2 wherein the method comprises the steps a) providing a mixture comprising magnesium, an initiator and a first alcohol wherein the molar ratio of initiator to magnesium is from 0.0001 to 1; and b) adding a modifier to the mixture obtained in step a) wherein the modifier is selected from the group consisting of alkoxy alcohol, carboxylic acid ester, aliphatic hydrocarbon, aromatic hydrocarbon, ketone, a second alcohol or a mixture thereof, wherein the second alcohol is different from the first alcohol, respective magnesium compound and the use thereof.
US11434246B2
We provide compounds given by Formula I, which is shown in FIG. 3, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, as well as formulations thereof and methods of use of those compounds and formulations for treatment of cancer.
US11434244B2
The present invention features novel peripherally-restricted non-benzodiazipene analogs with reduced blood brain barrier permeability and methods of use thereof for reducing tactile dysfunction, social impairment, and anxiety in a subject diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Rett syndrome, Phelan McDermid syndrome, or Fragile X syndrome, or for treating touch over-reactivity, pain, or mechanical allodynia.
US11434237B2
The invention provides compounds of formula (I) and compositions comprising compounds of formula (I). The invention further provides uses of the compounds of formula (I) and compositions comprising compounds of formula (I), including the use of such compounds for the detection of tau deposits, and the use of such compounds and compositions as diagnostic agents in the diagnosis or monitoring of the progression of a disease or disorder such as Alzheimer's disease or corticobasal degeneration, or for the prevention or treatment of a disease or disorder such as Alzheimer's disease or corticobasal degeneration.
US11434231B2
There are provided compounds, their preparation and their use in the treatment of KRAS-driven cancers. The compounds according to the invention (general formula Class III) disrupt dimerization of KRAS and are inhibitors of KRAS mutants such as KRAS G12D, KRAS G12V and KRAS 12C. Embodiments of the compounds according to the invention are selective inhibitors of KRAS mutants over the wild-type (WT) KRAS.
US11434229B2
The present disclosure provides compounds of Formulas (I), (II), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The compounds described herein are useful in treating proliferative diseases, for example, cancer (e.g., lung cancer), and infectious diseases (e.g., bacterial infections).
US11434226B2
The present disclosure relates to a salt of phenyl pyrimidinone compound, a polymorph thereof and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same and a use thereof, particularly relates to the hydrochlorate of phenyl pyrimidinone compound of following formula (I-A) and a pharmaceutically acceptable polymorph, solvate, hydrate, co-crystal, anhydrous substance, or amorphous form thereof, a pharmaceutical composition and a pharmaceutical unit dosage comprising the same, the preparing method and use thereof.
US11434220B2
Use of physiological cooling active ingredients, and compositions comprising such active ingredients
The invention relates primarily to a method of modulation, preferably of in vitro and/or in vivo modulation, of the cold menthol receptor TRPM8, wherein the receptor is contacted with at least one modulator selected from the group consisting of the compounds of the structure type 1 described herein. The present invention further relates to corresponding uses and compositions comprising such compounds.
US11434217B2
The present invention can synthesize lobaric acid and four analogues thereof, which are five phenolic lichen metabolites isolated from an extract of the Antarctic lichen Stereocaulon alpinum and selectively inhibit PTP1B, by a simple, economic and efficient chemical synthesis method.
US11434210B2
A method for synthesizing valsartan, comprising the steps of: synthesizing a valsartan methyl ester intermediate to obtain a reaction mixture of the valsartan methyl ester intermediate; diluting the reaction mixture by salt water or water, and then using a first extraction solvent to extract the valsartan methyl ester intermediate; adding alkali to an organic layer containing the valsartan methyl ester intermediate for hydrolyzing, removing the organic layer, regulating pH of a water layer to be acidic by using acid, using the first extraction solvent to extract, concentrating a part of solvent, or distilling the solvent to dryness, and then adding a new solvent; finally, crystallizing, filtering, and drying to obtain the valsartan.
US11434207B2
The present invention relates to a diazepine derivative represented by the following general formula (I) (in the formula, R1 and R2 represent hydrogen atom and the like, or R1 and R2 bind together to form a naphthalene ring and the like together with the benzene ring to which they bind, R3 and R4 represent hydrogen atom and the like, R5 represents hydrogen atom and the like, R6 and R7 represent hydrogen atom and the like, X represents C, CH or N, Y represents N, NH or C(═O), provided that when X is N, Y is not N or NH, and when X is C or CH, Y is not C(═O), Z represents oxygen atom or sulfur atom, A represents benzene ring and the like, B represents NHC(═O) and the like, D represents an atomic bond and the like, E represents an atomic bond and the like, G represents benzene which may be substituted and the like, and m represents an integer of 0 to 5) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof, and a P2X4 receptor antagonist.
US11434197B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of Droxidopa by means of an improved enzymatic reduction of a compound of formula (II): (II), wherein R1, R2 is independent hydrogen, acetyl, R3 is hydrogen, a C1-C4 linear or branched alkyl group and R4 is hydrogen or an amine protecting group.
US11434196B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparation of 2-Amino-5-hydroxy propiophenone, a key intermediate for the synthesis of camptothecin analogs including 7-Ethyl-10-hydroxycamptothecin (SN-38).
US11434192B2
The present invention relates to a new chemical synthesis, intermediates and catalysts useful for the preparation of the neprilysin (NEP) inhibitor sacubitril. It further relates to new intermediate compounds and their use for said new chemical synthesis route.
US11434179B2
Disclosed herein is a composition comprising fertilizer particles being coated with at least two layers of superabsorbent polymers such that leachate of nitrogen in the soil is substantially decreased.
US11434170B2
A recycled aluminium silicate material, suitable for use in ceramic article production, wherein the recycled aluminium silicate material has a particle size distribution such that: (i) the d50 particle size is from 10 μm to 30 μm; (ii) the d70 particle size is less than 40 μm; and (iii) the d98 particle size is less than 60 μm. A particulate mixture, suitable for use in ceramic article production, includes the above defined recycled aluminium silicate material.
US11434169B1
High-strength flowable fill compositions are disclosed. The compositions include cement, aggregate (e.g. sand), water, coloring agent, polymer, and fibers. In an embodiment, the compositions include an accelerant, e.g., calcium chloride or sodium bicarbonate and/or an air entraining agent. In an embodiment, the compositions include a water-proofing agent to eliminate efflorescence. The compositions have a compressive strength of between 300 psi and 3000 psi after 1 day, a compressive strength of between 900 psi and 4000 psi after 7 days, and a compressive strength of between 1200 psi and 5000 psi after 28 days.
US11434168B2
A controlled low strength material has constituents that include a cement, an aggregate, a heavy oil fly ash, and a water. The controlled low strength material has a compressive strength in a range of 300 kPa to 2.1 MPa. In certain embodiments, the heavy oil fly ash can be part of a heavy oil fly ash slurry.
US11434159B2
The present invention provides a device and method for sulphur cycle-based advanced denitrification of wastewater coupling autotrophic denitrification and heterotrophic denitrification, and belongs to the technical field of wastewater treatment. The unit generating hydrogen sulfide during the wastewater treatment process adopts a lye to absorb hydrogen sulfide; the absorbed sulfide is introduced into an anoxic tank that removes nitrate nitrogen through sulfur-based autotrophic denitrification; and the remaining organic matters in the anaerobic methane-producing reaction tank are subjected to heterotrophic denitrification in the anoxic tank, and the anoxic unit combines the sulfur-based autotrophic denitrification with the heterotrophic denitrification of organic matters. The coupling of sulfur-based autotrophic denitrification and heterotrophic denitrification strengthens the removal of nitrate nitrogen. The biogas desulfurization process system only absorbs hydrogen sulfide and uses the absorbed sulfide in an anoxic system to realize the recovery and utilization of sulfur.
US11434151B2
a method of treating aqueous wellbore fluids, comprising (a) converting one or more multivalent cations in a multivalent cation-containing aqueous fluid to form a mixture comprising one or more insoluble compounds and a treated aqueous fluid, (b) separating the treated aqueous fluid from the one or more insoluble compounds, and (c) contacting the treated aqueous fluid with a sulfide-containing aqueous fluid to form a compatibilized aqueous fluid, wherein the multivalent cation-containing aqueous fluid, the sulfide-containing aqueous fluid, or both were recovered from wellbores prior to (c).
US11434150B2
Embodiments provide methods and structures for purification or volume reduction of a brine by an advanced vacuum distillation process (AVMD) to achieve higher flux by passage of vapors through an AVMD distillation unit. In one example, brine is circulated in a tank. The tank may include one or more membrane pouches that are submerged in the circulating brine or placed above the water level of the hot circulating brine. In other embodiments the membrane pouches are outside of the tank that includes the hot circulating brine but still in communication with it. The circulating brine is heated, allowing creation of water vapor. Using a vacuum, the water vapor is drawn through the membrane, where it may be condensed and subjected to further beneficial use. This process can concentrate to levels to generate crystals or solids, which can be separated and utilized.
US11434140B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing hierarchical zeolites, including the steps of preparing a first mixture solution including a structure-directing agent, an alumina precursor and a pH controller; preparing a second mixture solution by injecting a silica precursor into the first mixture solution; preparing an aqueous solution including a surfactant; preparing a third mixture solution by injecting the aqueous solution into the second mixture solution; and drying and heat-treating the third mixture solution. According to the present invention, hierarchical zeolites having a uniform morphology can be prepared, and thus hierarchical zeolites having improved activity are provided.
US11434139B2
Instabilities in the pyrogenic production of fumed silica caused by use of silanes having low ignition temperatures are caused by mixing the silanes, at a temperature above their dew point(s) with fuel gas in the absence of the use of a dynamic or static mixer, and then combining the resultant mixed stream with an oxygen containing gas and igniting. Self-ignition of the silanes and also the deposition of flammable or pyrophoric substances are avoided.
US11434138B2
A system and a method for producing silicon from a SiO2-containing material that includes solid SiO2. The method uses a reaction vessel including a first section and a second section in fluid communication with said first section. The method includes: heating the SiO2-containing material that includes the solid SiO2 to a SiO2-containing material that includes liquid SiO2, at a sufficient temperature to convert the solid SiO2 into the liquid SiO2; converting, in the first section, the liquid SiO2 into gaseous SiO2 that flows to the second section by reducing the pressure in the reaction vessel to a subatmospheric pressure; and reducing, in the second section, the gaseous SiO2 into liquid silicon using a reducing gas. The reducing of the pressure is performed over a continuous range of interim pressure(s) sufficient to evaporate contaminants from the SiO2-containing material, and removing by vacuum, the one or more evaporated gaseous contaminants.
US11434130B2
Described examples include an apparatus having a substrate with a substrate surface. The apparatus also includes an element with a planar surface facing the substrate surface and with a nonplanar surface opposite the planar surface facing away from the substrate surface.
US11434129B2
A semiconductor structure includes: a first device; a second device contacted with the first device, wherein a chamber is formed between the first device and the second device; a first hole disposed in the second device and defined between a first end with a first circumference and a second end with a second circumference; a second hole disposed in the second device and aligned to the first hole; and a sealing object for sealing the second hole. The first end links with the chamber, and the first circumference is different from the second circumference, the second hole is defined between the second end and a third end with a third circumference, and the second circumference and the third circumference are smaller than the first circumference.
US11434126B2
A water cooling apparatus and a water purifier having a water cooling apparatus is provided. The water cooling apparatus may include a case, a water tank provided within the case, a cooling block provided to be in contact with the water tank and to cool the water tank through heat exchange, a thermoelectric element having one side in contact with the cooling block and provided so as to transfer heat from the one side to another side of the thermoelectric element when power is applied thereto, an insulator provided within the case and that covers the water tank and the cooling block, and a heat dissipation block provided outside of the case and provided to be in contact with the other side of the thermoelectric element to dissipate heat from the other side of the thermoelectric element.
US11434116B2
A vehicle jacking assembly for raising a vehicle includes a plurality of cylinders, each of which is configured to couple to a frame of a vehicle proximate to a respective wheel of the vehicle. The cylinder comprises a plurality of nested sections so that the cylinder is selectively extensible. An actuator that is coupled to the vehicle is operationally coupled to the plurality of cylinders and an electrical circuit of the vehicle. The actuator is positioned to selectively actuate the plurality of cylinders to extend the cylinders from the frame of the vehicle so that the cylinders contact a surface. The plurality of cylinders thus is configured to raise the vehicle.
US11434112B2
Provided is a crane (1) including: a boom (7); a wire rope (8); a winch (9); and a hook (10). The crane further includes: a spooling operation instrument (24) for enabling commanding an operation state of the winch (9); and switches (switch (41) or switch (42)) for enabling commanding a switch of a control mode with regard to the operation of the spooling operation instrument (24). When the boom (7) is in a flat travel orientation with the hook (10) loaded on a prescribed site (hook platform (12)), the switches ((41), (42)) being in an on state and the spooling operation instrument (24) being operated toward one side thereof cause the boom (7) to be raised to a work orientation while the wire rope (8) is unwound such that the hook (10) is not lifted.
US11434109B2
A clamping device configured to handle large and fragile objects can include large jaws extended outside a smaller jaw support. The extended areas of the second jaw can be up to 4× of the jaw support, and can contain reinforced ridges configured so that a force applied from the second body portion to the second jaw spreads to the extended areas of the second jaw outside the second body portion, for example, to at least 80%. The clamping device can include an automatic locking mechanism for open and close the jaws from an operator far away from the clamping device.
US11434100B2
Embodiments of a method of collecting a tail section of a long product, such as an optical fiber cable, are provided. In the method, a lead wire from a tail spool is unwound, and the lead wire is fed through a flange of a main spool. The tail spool and the main spool have a common rotation axis. The lead wire is attached to the long product. The tail spool is rotated while holding the main spool stationary so as to wind the lead wire and the tail section onto the tail spool. The rotation of the tail spool is stopped, and the main spool and the tail spool are rotated together so as to wind the long product onto the main spool. Also provided are embodiments of a winding apparatus using the tail spool and a tail reel that includes the tail spool and a drive mechanism.
US11434098B2
A sheet sorting device includes three or more trays including a predetermined tray detachable from an apparatus main body and a tray different from the predetermined tray, a discharge unit to discharge a sheet to any one of the three or more trays, a control unit, and a tray detection unit to detect that the predetermined tray is detached from the apparatus main body. The control unit sets a sheet discharge destination such that a sheet conforming to a preset condition is discharged to the predetermined tray through the discharge unit. Where the tray detection unit detects that the predetermined tray is detached from the apparatus main body, the control unit sets a sheet discharge destination that has been set to the predetermined tray to the tray different from the predetermined tray based on a state of each of the trays other than the detached predetermined tray.
US11434097B2
There is described a magazine unit for a packaging machine comprising an inlet opening configured to allow for the introduction of a spindle carrying a wound-up web of packaging material into the magazine unit, at least one pair of housing seats configured to rotatably support the spindle carrying the wound-up web of packaging material, the respective housing seats being arranged side-by-side and distanced from the inlet opening, and a pair of guide rails, the guide rails being arranged side-by-side and each one extending from the inlet opening to one respective housing seat and being configured to guide the spindle from the inlet opening to the pair of housing seats.
US11434057B1
A pivotal pawl assembly for a can carrier applicator apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes spaced-apart and vertically disposed first and second support walls. The first and second support walls define a can passageway having a forward end and a rearward end. A vertically disposed spacer is vertically movably positioned at the forward end of the support walls with the lower end of the spacer being positioned above the lower ends of the support walls. The pawl assembly is positioned at the lower rearward end of the spacer. A plurality of stacked can carriers are positioned above the can passageway. A dispensing mechanism sequentially dispenses a can carrier which drops downwardly onto the cans. The pawl assembly not only limits the forward movement of the can carrier but also exerts downward force on the can carrier to seat the can carrier onto the cans moving through the can passageway.
US11434049B2
A collapsible container made up of a bottom portion and a side wall that define an interior, wherein the bottom portion and the side wall are made of a foldable material, a top portion with an opening that allows access to the interior, and a rim member connectable to the top portion and sized and shaped to extend around the perimeter of the opening. The collapsible container is positionable in an open configuration where the rim member in connected to the top portion in a manner than maintains the opening in an open position. The collapsible container is also positionable in a collapsed configuration where at least a portion of the rim member is disconnected from the top portion. In one version, when in the collapsed configuration, the collapsible container takes on a substantially flat shape having a longest dimension less than the longest dimension of the opening when the collapsible container is in the open configuration. In one version, the rim member which may be in the form of a collapsible hoop is contained within the collapsed container when in the collapsed configuration.
US11434045B2
The present invention relates generally to a safety-enhanced can lid, and more particularly to a safety-enhanced can lid in which a prevention portion configured to prevent a user's hand from being cut is provided along the edge of the lid that is coupled to seal a can, thereby enabling safe use. For this purpose, the present invention provides a can lid that is coupled to the top side of a container in which contents are stored, the can lid including: a plate laid to cover the top portion of the container, composed of a flat plate, and provided with a pull tab on the top surface thereof; and a hand-cut prevention portion including a cut prevention wall bent downward from the edge of the plate toward the container.
US11434043B2
A pack for consumer goods includes an outer packaging container and an inner packaging container. The outer packaging container includes a lower box portion with an upper lid portion hingedly connected thereto. The inner packaging container includes a dispensing opening with a resealable closure, a front panel, a back panel, a top panel, a bottom panel, and opposing side panels; each side panel having an inner panel and an outer panel, the inner panel having a first width defining a width of the inner packaging container, and the outer panel including at least a portion having a second width defining flanges having a width greater than the first width. The inner packaging container is insertable within the outer packaging container such that the flanges extending from the back panel of the inner packaging container exert a biasing force on the hinged lid of the outer packaging container to assure lid closure is maintained.
US11434036B2
A label application system and method for applying a label to a package travelling on a conveyor along a conveying path includes: an applicator apparatus which is operable to move a label into contact with a package, a control system, which controls operation of the applicator apparatus, and a sensor system operable to detect an edge of the package, a distance from a reference point to the package, and the speed at which the package is travelling, wherein the control system is operable to receive and process the data from the sensor system relating to the package and initiate operation of the applicator apparatus such that the label is applied to the package in a desired position as the package moves in a direction of travel.
US11434032B2
A modular production system including a plurality of production modules connected in a linear series to form a production tunnel, and collectively defining a production channel, and wherein at least one fluid inlet port defined along the production tunnel, said inlet port is in fluid communication with a pressurized fluid source, whereby influx of fluid from said fluid source through said fluid inlet port acts to maintain the fluid pressure within the production channel at a higher pressure than the atmospheric pressure outside of the production tunnel; and wherein one of said production modules positioned between said proximal-most and distal-most production modules comprises a depyrogenator and/or sterilization module, comprising a transparent tubular body, and an irradiation source positioned external to said transparent tubular body, said irradiation source capable of heating the internal environment of the depyrogenation and/or sterilization module to a temperature sufficient to depyrogenate or sterilize articles passing therethrough.
US11434030B2
The present disclosure relates to a separating device for severing at least one strap, in particular a plastic strap, the separating device having a blade with an edge for severing the at least one strap, and it being possible for the separating device to be connected to a strap end connecting device, the strap end connecting device having an assembly which has a heating element, it being possible for the blade to be connected to that assembly of the strap end connecting device which has the heating element. In addition, the present disclosure relates to a strap end connecting device for a strapping system having a separating device of this type. In addition, the present disclosure relates to a strap end connecting device for a strapping system having a strap end connecting device of this type.
US11434027B2
A machine for filling and closing pharmaceutical containers disposed in respective supports has a sterile first work environment with an inlet passage and an outlet passage, a conveyor transporting the supports, which crosses the work environment through the inlet passage and the outlet passage, and a collecting station in the work environment, for collecting and extracting the containers from the supports. The work environment has a second outlet passage. A sterile second work environment has an inlet and an outlet, the inlet being at the second outlet passage of the first work environment to define a common passage. Another conveyor passes through the common passage, has a first part in the first work environment and a second part in the second work environment, and is predisposed so that the first part can receive the containers and convey them through the common passage at a filling station and a closing station.
US11434023B2
A support panel assembly includes a lower panel, an upper panel pivotally coupled to the lower panel by a central pedestal, and a first pressure sensor located about a center of the support panel assembly, and coupled to the central pedestal. The first pressure sensor detects pressure exerted into the upper panel in response to the upper panel pivoting in relation to the lower panel about the central pedestal. The first pressure sensor outputs a pressure signal indicative of pressure exerted into the upper panel. In at least one embodiment, the pressure signal is received by a detecting control unit.
US11434020B2
An assembly for an aircraft including a pylon having a lateral wall with a window passing through it, at least one reservoir, each reservoir being in the shape of an elongate ellipsoid with three semi-axes. The dimension of the reservoir along a first semi-axis differs from the dimension of the reservoir along at least one other semi-axis. The reservoir extends parallel to the semi-major axis, between a first end and a second end. The reservoir is equipped with a discharge head at the second end. The reservoir is equipped with a fastening arrangement disposed on the side of the second end and fastening the reservoir to the pylon. The reservoir is positioned through the window with the first end housed in the pylon and the second end outside the pylon.
US11434019B2
A fuel extraction system for extracting a gaseous fuel from a fuel tank. The fuel extraction system includes a conveying device which is configured to convey gaseous fuel and to bring it from a first pressure level to a second pressure level, a first line which is configured to connect the conveying device fluidically to the interior of the fuel tank, a buffer tank which is configured to store the fuel at the second pressure level, and which has a first outlet and a second outlet, at least one valve with a pneumatic actuating device, and a second line which is connected to the first outlet of the buffer tank and is configured to conduct a part of the fuel at the second pressure level to the pneumatic actuating device of the at least one valve. Furthermore, a fuel tank apparatus and a fuel cell system are described.
US11434017B2
The invention relates to the field of fairings of aircraft propulsion units, and more particularly to an assembly comprising a longitudinal beam (31) configured to be mounted on a lateral of a turbofan (7) engine core (11), oriented parallel to a longitudinal axis (X) of the turbofan (7), an opening fairing (18) cowl (50) of the engine core (11) and a deployment mechanism (60) mounted on the longitudinal beam (31) to move the opening cowl (50) between an open position and a closed position.
US11434014B2
Aircraft spars with integrated power cells, and associated systems and methods are described. A representative aircraft wing spar includes a spar body extending in a spanwise direction, and having a plurality of apertures also extending in a spanwise direction, with individual apertures positioned to receive multiple electrical power cells.
US11434009B2
Described herein are a system for providing oxygen to oxygen masks in an aircraft, and an associated method for regulating the oxygen flow in an efficient manner. The system has an oxygen tank, oxygen masks, first and second oxygen lines, and an electrically controllable valve. The valve is coupled to the oxygen tank and the two oxygen lines. The oxygen masks are coupled to the oxygen lines downstream of the valve to accommodate the transfer of oxygen from the oxygen tank via the valve. In a working state when an electrical signal is applied the valve produces a connection between the oxygen tank and the first oxygen line when required, and permanently prevents a connection between the oxygen tank and the second oxygen line. When in a rest state, the valve produces a permanent connection between the oxygen tank and the second oxygen line.
US11434007B2
A cargo handling system is disclosed. In various embodiments, the cargo handling system includes a first rail defining an upward facing surface and a downward facing surface and a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction; a platform configured for rolling engagement with the first rail; and a first tug configured to propel the platform along the first rail in the longitudinal direction, the first tug comprising a power drive unit having a first drive wheel and a guide unit having a first guide wheel.
US11433999B2
A vehicle capable of taking off and landing vertically and operating in water, land, air and submarine environments includes a fuselage, two main wings, ailerons, a vertical tail, a rudder, a horizontal tail, elevators, a propeller, rotor wings, rotor wing supports, etc. The vehicle has the advantages of adaptability to various environments, good concealment and strong survivability. Compared with a traditional unmanned rotorcraft, the vehicle has longer endurance time and larger load. Compared with a fixed wing UAV, the vertical take-off and landing function makes the work more convenient. Compared with unmanned diving equipment, the vehicle is applicable to richer environments, and can complete designated missions in air, land, water and submarine environments. Compared with a tilt rotor UAV in water, land, air and submarine environments, the vehicle is rapider in switching of various modes and is higher in stability.
US11433996B2
A pitch beam movable by a pitch change shaft to adjust a pitch of at least one rotor blade of a rotor system via a pitch linkage includes a first surface having a generally planar configuration, a smooth second surface disposed opposite the first surface, and a sidewall extending between the first surface and the second surface. A pitch linkage connection point is disposed at the sidewall to which the pitch linkage is attachable. An interior is defined between the first surface and the second surface and an opening extends through the first and second surface at a rotational axis of the rotor system to which the pitch change shaft is attached. Movement of the pitch change shaft moves the pitch beam and adjusts the pitch of the at least one rotor blade via the pitch linkage attached at the pitch linkage connection point.
US11433995B2
A kit for a helicopter is described, the helicopter comprising a fuselage and a rotor; the kit comprises at least one device adapted to dampen the vibrations transmitted from the rotor to the fuselage and to be interposed between the fuselage and the rotor; the device, in turn, comprises a first threaded element operatively connectable to the rotor and adapted to, in use, vibrate parallel to a first axis; a second threaded element operatively connectable to the fuselage and operatively connected to the first threaded element so as to, in use, rotationally vibrate about the first axis; and a plurality of threaded rollers, which are screwed on the first and second threaded elements; the rollers being rotatable about their respective second axes parallel to and separate from the first axis with respect to the first and second threaded elements; the rollers are also rotatable about the first axis with respect to the first threaded element and the second threaded element.
US11433989B2
The present invention relates to a force application device for a control stick of an aircraft, wherein the control stick comprises a control lever (1) rotating a shaft (A1) about a first axis (A), the device comprising a magnetic brake (5a) which comprises a magnetisable element (50a) mounted on the shaft and a magnetic transmitter (51a) which is opposite the magnetisable element and free to rotate about the first axis relative to the magnetisable element, the magnetic transmitter having an activated state in which the magnetic transmitter is supplied with current and generates a magnetic field in a volume occupied by the magnetisable element, and a deactivated state in which the magnetic transmitter is not supplied with current and does not generate a magnetic field, so as to prevent the magnetisable element from rotating about the shaft relative to the magnetic transmitter.
US11433988B2
An aircraft wing including a mobile leading edge flap associated with a guiding device arranged at the front of a front spar of a wing box, and including: —a pivoting member having one end connected to the spar by an articulated linkage; —a pivoting member connected to one end of the member by an articulated linkage, the end of this member being connected to the flap via an articulated linkage; —a guide rail receiving a tracking member supported by the member, the rail defining a path inscribed on the surface of an imaginary sphere, the centre of which corresponds to a point of convergence of the axes of the three linkages.
US11433987B2
A method of repairing an over-frame blanket assembly in an aircraft includes identifying an aperture in an over-frame blanket piece having an exposed sound barrier layer. The method further includes cutting an acoustic barrier patch to a size that is larger than the aperture. The method includes adhering a sound barrier layer of the acoustic barrier patch to the exposed sound barrier layer of the over-frame blanket piece around the aperture to cover the aperture.
US11433979B2
Reversible camber wings are disclosed herein. A reversible camber wing includes a first body portion that defines a trailing edge of the reversible camber wing and a second body portion that defines a leading edge of the reversible camber wing. The second body portion is configured to be selectively pivoted about a pivot axis relative to the first body portion between a first position and a second position. The reversible camber wing additionally comprises a flexible skin that extends around the first and second body portions and conforms to the body portions when the second body portion is in the first position and the second position. When the second body portion is in the first position, the reversible camber wing has a first camber, and when the second body portion is in the second position, the reversible camber wing has a second camber that is opposite the first camber.
US11433975B2
A system for temporarily connecting an underwater station arranged on the bed of a body of water and a surface facility has an elongated conducting member with one end connected to the underwater station and one free end selectively and temporarily connectable to the surface facility; a marker buoy; and a cable connected to the free end of the elongated conducting member and to the marker buoy to quickly recover the free end of the elongated conductor element when it is necessary to connect the underwater station via the elongated conducting member to the surface facility.
US11433974B2
A retractable canopy for a watercraft lift includes an actuator operatively connected to the watercraft lift and a movable boom to rotate the movable boom relative to the watercraft lift; a linkage extends between the fixed boom and the movable boom, at least one first strut is supported by the linkage, at least one second strut is supported by a fixed boom; and at least one third strut is supported by the movable boom. The fixed boom, the movable boom, the at least one second strut, and the at least one third strut support a cover in an extended configuration above a watercraft area. The fixed boom, the movable boom, the at least one first strut, the at least one second strut, and the at least one third strut support the cover in a retracted configuration adjacent to the fixed strut.
US11433971B2
A high performance synchronous transmission to be used aboard a motorcycle for transmitting the motion generated by an engine to a driving wheel, between a crankshaft and a hub shaft parallel therebetween and perpendicular to the median plane of the motorcycle, comprising on the crankshaft a centrifugal clutch, for the automatic engagement of the first speed above a predetermined rotation regime, and a driving pulley apt to transmit the motion through a subsequent kinematic chain, is provided with a coupling between crankshaft and driving pulley which connects them directly, by determining with its own engagement the exclusion of said centrifugal clutch, said coupling being controlled in disengagement when a control lever is in active position.
US11433968B2
Bicycle comprising a head tube (3), a down tube and a steering tube. The head tube comprises a cable passage (14) connecting the interior of the head tube with the interior of the down tube. The steering tube (16) engages an upper bearing (18) and a lower bearing (19) within the head tube. The upper bearing is below the cable passage. Cables (12) enter the head tube (3) at a top end of the head tube and leave the head tube via the cable passage (14) to the down tube (4).
US11433955B2
An air dam for a vehicle having a front panel with a downward facing surface at a lateral front edge. At least one air curtain such as an air jet forces air downward toward the ground for creating an aerodynamic barrier of air which reduces turbulence caused by the underbody of a vehicle while the vehicle is underway.
US11433954B1
A vehicle includes a first trailer having a rear end, and a second trailer having a front. The second trailer is coupled to the first trailer. The vehicle also includes at least one flexible membrane that includes a perimeter coupled to the rear end. A seal is formed between the perimeter and the rear end. The vehicle further includes a pressurization source coupled to the vehicle, and at least one port defined in and extending through the rear end. The at least one port is enclosed by the perimeter and in fluidic communication with the pressurization source. In a deployed profile, the at least one flexible membrane extends between the rear end of the first trailer and the front of the second trailer.
US11433950B2
A front lower body structure of a vehicle includes a front side rear lower member connected from a front side member disposed on one side of a fender apron to a side sill inner, a center floor side upper member disposed in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle and extending from an upper surface of a dash panel to a center floor panel, and a reinforcement bracket connecting the front side rear lower member with the center floor side upper member.
US11433949B2
A body of an electric vehicle may include: a floor panel; a pair of rockers extending along both side edges of the floor panel, respectively; an indoor floor crossmember protruding upward from the floor panel and connecting the rockers to each other; an outdoor floor crossmember protruding downward from the floor panel, connecting the rockers to each other, and located rearward of the indoor floor crossmember; and a battery case located below the floor panel and housing a battery configured to supply power to a traction motor. The battery case may extend from a position located frontward of the indoor floor crossmember to a position that is located rearward of the indoor floor crossmember and frontward of the outdoor floor crossmember.
US11433943B2
A trailer detection system for a vehicle includes a radar system outputting object point location data to a rear of the vehicle and a controller. The controller receives the object point location data and determines a position of an edge of the trailer relative to the vehicle by processing the object point location data from the radar system at a reduced threshold relative to use of the data in detecting a vehicle and filters out object point location data not correlated with the edge of the trailer based on object point location data persistence during driving of the vehicle. The controller further correlates the determined position of the edge of the trailer relative to the vehicle to determine an angle of the trailer relative to the vehicle about a coupling point.
US11433942B2
A motor vehicle power steering mechanism with an electric motor for steering assist and/or steering, and a steering controller, which controls the electric motor with a position control mode for autonomous driving and/or automatic steering and a torque control mode for manual steering by a driver. The steering controller includes a steering column reference controller, an arbitration unit, a column torque controller, a steering algorithm, and the steering system. The steering column reference controller calculates for position control based on a reference position and a measured position, and a first reference steering column torque. A steering algorithm calculates for torque control based on a measured column torque and a second reference steering column torque. The arbitration unit weights and adds the first and second reference steering column torques, and the output of the arbitration unit is input to the column torque controller.
US11433941B2
The present embodiment relates to an apparatus and method for processing a sensor signal and a steering control apparatus. In the sensor signal processing apparatus, an abnormality test is performed on three or more sensor signals (e.g., motor position sensor signals) by a sensor signal test module, and by the sensor signal selection module, a main sensor signal (e.g., a main normal motor position sensor signal) is selected on the basis of normal sensor signals (e.g., normal motor position sensor signals), validity of the selected main sensor signal is determined, and an output of the selected main sensor signal is controlled.
US11433939B2
A clamp mechanism for a steering column assembly includes a support bracket; a clamp pin; a fixing member; and a toothed rack. The toothed rack includes a plurality of recesses each spaced from an adjacent recess by a land and extends alongside the elongate slot. A locking pin is located in a bore in the fixing member that is biased in a direction towards the toothed rack by a spring and a clamp means which may cause the fixing member to move between a clamped condition and unclamped condition.
US11433938B2
A steering wheel for a vehicle comprising: i) a hub adapted to be mounted on a steering column of a vehicle; ii) a rim coupled to the hub; iii) a rim material covering at least a part of the rim; iv) at least one bladder disposed between the rim and the rim material; v) a fluid pump configured to inflate and to deflate the at least one bladder; and vi) a control module coupled to at least one vehicle sensor and configured to control the operation of the fluid pump.
US11433934B2
A motorized cart assembly includes a cart that has a basket, a collapsible frame and a plurality of wheels. The basket has a height that is greater than a width of the basket to accommodate tent poles and a tent. The frame includes a pole support for insertably receiving a respective one of the tent poles to vertically orient the respective tent pole. A drive unit is coupled to the cart and the drive unit is in mechanical communication with respective ones of the wheels. The drive unit rotates the respective wheels when the drive unit is turned on thereby facilitating the cart to be self propelled. The drive unit is in wireless communication with a personal electronic device for remotely controlling the drive unit.
US11433931B2
A system and method for monitoring a track and/or rail employs one or more distance measuring imagers mounted to a railcar and directed to image the track and/or rails wherein the images are geo-tagged with location data. Geo-tagged distance measurements are processed to determine at least track gauge and/or at least rail fastener integrity. The system and method may also determine other track and/or rail integrity issues including, e.g., rail profile, rail alignment, center point dip, cross level, rail cant, wheel wear, wheel integrity, rail wear, rail defects, and/or rail temperature. The system and method may also determine when inspection and/or maintenance of the track is indicated, and provide selected records of where and/or when such inspection and/or maintenance is indicated.
US11433926B2
A travelling apparatus, including: a rail; at least one vehicle, for travelling in a direction being along the rail; and a holding structure, for holding a user to stand on the at least one vehicle, with one foot in front of another along the travelling direction, thereby forces produced by the travelling, are applied on one side of the user in relation to the other, thus being safe to the user, thereby diminishing width of the rail.
US11433924B2
A system and method for controlling one or more vehicles with one or more controlled vehicles may include one or more processors and a memory in communication with the one or more processors. The memory may include one or more modules that cause the one or more modules to obtain a state of an environment having a universe of vehicles operating therein, identify one or more anomaly vehicles from the universe of vehicles operating in the environment, select one more actions to control a plurality of controlled vehicles to control the operation of one or more anomaly vehicles and direct the plurality of controlled vehicles execute the one or more actions. The selecting of one or more actions may be performed by utilizing a reinforcement-learning trained algorithm.
US11433922B1
Techniques for determining an uncertainty metric associated with an object in an environment can include determining the object in the environment and a set of candidate trajectories associated with the object. Further, a vehicle, such as an autonomous vehicle, can be controlled based at least in part on the uncertainty metric. The vehicle can determine a traversed trajectory associated with the object and determine a difference between the traversed trajectory and the set of candidate trajectories. Based on the difference, the vehicle can determine an uncertainty metric associated with the object. In some instances, the vehicle can input the traversed trajectory and the set of candidate trajectories to a machine-learned model that can output the uncertainty metric.
US11433910B2
An electronic control unit includes a signal input circuit configured to receive a sensor signal from a radar sensor or from a lidar Sensor and a processing circuit configured to determine a first condition based on a first representation of the sensor signal, and to generate an activation signal in response to the first condition.
US11433904B2
A system for monitoring the condition of a road surface travelled by a plurality of vehicles, each including at least one sensor, is provided. The system includes a central processing arrangement arranged to: map at least a part of the road surface with a number of cells; receive road surface data for the cells, which road surface data is based on measurements made by the sensors as the plurality of vehicles travel on the road surface; and calculate a probability for at least one road surface parameter for each cell travelled by the plurality of vehicles based at least on road surface data received from the plurality of vehicles.
US11433899B2
Provided are a method, apparatus and system for detecting obstacle collision in an automatic parking path. The method includes: geometrically performing an obstacle collision detection in a circular arc path and/or an obstacle collision detection in a straight line path by using a path contour, a vehicle contour and an obstacle contour. The system includes a collision detection module for geometrically performing detection of obstacle collision in a circular arc path and/or detection of obstacle collision in a straight line path by using a path contour, a vehicle contour and an obstacle contour. The apparatus includes: a memory and a processor configured for geometrically performing detection of obstacle collision in a circular arc path and/or detection of obstacle collision in a straight line path by using a path contour, a vehicle contour and an obstacle contour.
US11433896B2
A computer includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to move a vehicle within a roadway lane according to an emergency lane procedure to form an emergency lane when a longitudinal speed of the vehicle is below a specified speed and end the emergency lane procedure when the longitudinal speed is at least a second specified speed.
US11433894B2
A driving assistance method includes: detecting a first other vehicle entering an intersection on a first route where a host vehicle is traveling from a second route; predicting whether or not the first other vehicle will stop in the intersection, and predicting a stop position of the first other vehicle; calculating a minimum distance of a first gap between a vehicle body of the first other vehicle and a surrounding object around the first other vehicle or between the vehicle body of the first other vehicle and a road edge of a travel lane of the first other vehicle when the first other vehicle stops at the predicted stop position; and predicting according to the calculated minimum distance whether or not a second other vehicle, which is a following vehicle behind the first other vehicle, may slip through the first gap from behind the first other vehicle.
US11433888B2
A driving support system detects a deceleration object ahead and starts deceleration assistance for a host vehicle. The driving support system includes a reliability calculation unit configured to calculate a reliability of detection of the deceleration object, an assistance mode selection unit configured to select an assistance mode of the deceleration assistance from among multiple assistance modes in accordance with the calculated reliability of detection, and a driving support unit configured to perform the deceleration assistance in the selected assistance mode. The assistance mode selection unit is configured to select a first assistance mode when the reliability of detection is lower than a predetermined reliability threshold and select a second assistance mode higher in a level of the deceleration assistance than the first assistance mode when the reliability of detection is higher than or equal to the reliability threshold.
US11433884B2
Disclosed are probabilistic prediction for a motion of a lane-based surrounding vehicle and a longitudinal control method and apparatus using the same. The method includes obtaining surrounding vehicle information using a sensor, predicting a target lane of the surrounding vehicle based on the obtained surrounding vehicle information, performing future driving trajectory prediction for each target lane based on the surrounding vehicle information, and computing a probability of a collision likelihood based on a target lane and trajectory predictions of the surrounding vehicle in which future uncertainty has been taken into consideration and performing longitudinal control for collision avoidance.
US11433883B2
An autonomous vehicle (AV) is described herein. The AV is configured to identify an occluded region where a portion of a field of view of a sensor is occluded by an object. The AV is further configured to hypothesize that an object exists in the occluded region and is moving in the occluded region. The AV is still further configured to perform a driving maneuver based upon the hypothesized object existing in the occluded region.
US11433878B2
An apparatus for controlling a hybrid vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes an engine generating power by combustion of fuel, a driving motor assisting power of the engine and selectively operated as a power generator to generate electric energy and a clutch disposed between the engine and the driving motor. A battery supplies electric energy to the driving motor and charges the electric energy generated in the driving motor. A plurality of electric superchargers are installed in a plurality of intake lines, in which outside air supplied to combustion chambers of the engine flows, respectively and a controller variably adjusts an operating point of the engine.
US11433877B2
A hybrid vehicle and a control method are provided. The method of controlling a hybrid vehicle including a motor, an engine, and an engine clutch disposed between the motor and the engine includes determining whether to enter a first mode in which both the engine and the motor operate without engagement of the engine clutch, based on at least a first condition related to an accelerator pedal and a second condition related to a required torque condition, determining torque of the motor in consideration of at least required torque upon determining entry into the first mode, and determining an operating point of the engine based on engine generation power to be supplied to the motor with power of the engine.
US11433870B2
A method for control and/or regulation of a hybrid powertrain of a motor vehicle, wherein exhaust gas is taken from an exhaust system and delivered to a fresh air supply of an internal combustion engine, wherein the residual recirculated exhaust gas is purged from the fresh air supply in the event of a negative load jump. After the negative load jump, the internal combustion engine continues to run with a smaller load and simultaneously the torque supplied by the internal combustion engine is recuperated by means of the electric machine, wherein no positive torque in total is applied to the output of the powertrain.
US11433861B2
A drive assistance device includes an automatic brake unit configured to perform automatic brake control, a brake hold unit configured to perform a brake hold control keeping the vehicle stopped, a brake hold cancel unit configured to cancel the brake hold control when it is determined that a predetermined cancel condition is satisfied, a surroundings information obtaining unit configured to obtain surroundings information indicating a situation around the vehicle, a maneuver information obtaining unit configured to obtain maneuver information about a driving maneuver performed by a driver of the vehicle, a maneuver determination unit configured to determine, based on the surroundings information and the maneuver information whether the driving maneuver performed during the brake hold control is appropriate for the situation around the vehicle, and a prohibition unit configured to prohibit cancelling the brake hold control as long as it is determined that the driving maneuver is inappropriate.
US11433859B2
An ATV jack may include an adjustable jack leg and an engagement member configured to engage a bracket disposed on an ATV to non-pneumatically lift the ATV to enable changing of a tire.
US11433854B2
An access control method in an access control system that comprises at least one access control device with an antenna (2, 3, 4). Verification of an access authorization is based on analysis of a beacon transmitted by a first wireless communication standard. The beacon contains an ID to which a unique identifier (TID) of the data carrier and a unique beacon ID of the data carrier (1) transmitting the beacon is assigned. The unique identifier and unique beacon ID allows positive beacon identification. The identification and localization of the data carriers (1) is realized by analyzing the RSSIs of the transmitted beacons. The unique beacon IDs ensure that the RSSI values of the same respective beacon of a data carrier (1) are used in the course of the RSSI analysis. The closest data carrier (1) is determined, during the RSSI analysis, and the transmitted ID is analyzed to grant access.
US11433846B2
The invention relates to a side impact protection device comprising a side curtain airbag (22), wherein the side curtain airbag (22) includes a cushion area (24) extending along the side window (90) and at least partially covering the latter in the inflated state, comprising an upper securing edge (28) by which the cushion area (24) is secured to the lateral roof rail (18), and comprising a holding area (26) in the inflated state extending away from the side window (90) and from the cushion area (24) which constitutes the inner end of the side curtain airbag (22) and which is secured by its upper edge (29) to the vehicle roof (40) spaced apart from the lateral roof rail (18).
US11433841B2
A truck bracket assembly including a first bracket and a second bracket. The first bracket is provided to mount a sports bar to a side panel of a vehicle truck bed. The first bracket has a panel facing surface that faces the side panel. The second bracket has a first portion supported to the panel facing surface of the first bracket. The second bracket has a second portion that extends cantilevered with respect to the first portion.
US11433840B2
A head and neck support and protection device includes an arm that is pivotably mounted, at a first end, to a support and has at a second end a slidably-mounted element connected to a helmet clip. The helmet clip engages a helmet pin. A resistance block transfers energy into a vehicle chassis when the arm hits the resistance block. The slidably-mounted element slides out of the arm, in a controlled manner, when conditions indicating a crash have been met.
US11433833B2
A system includes obtaining a plurality of automobile part sets through classification based on at least one of the following factors an interface type of an interface of an automobile part, a transmission type used by the automobile part to transmit data, a manufacturer of the automobile part, a type of the automobile part, a safety level of the automobile part, a service type of a service to which data transmitted by the automobile part belongs, or a service level of the service to which the data transmitted by the automobile part in the automobile belongs.
US11433832B2
When not in use and axis of a grommet is straight, a grommet entire length is 120% or greater and 150% or less of a distance from a through hole of a body panel to an opposing member, an accordion sleeve outer diameter is 37% or greater and 42% or less of the grommet entire length, an accordion sleeve length is 50% or greater and 55% or less of the grommet entire length, an accordion sleeve pitch is 12% or greater and 17% or less of the accordion sleeve length. When in use and the grommet is bent, an angle between opening directions of first and second openings is ninety degrees or greater, and a grommet length in the opening direction of the second opening is 82% or greater and 87% or less of the distance from the through hole of the body panel to the opposing member.
US11433828B2
A hinge cover member (20) for use with a swan neck type hinge (12) has an elongate channel shaped portion (24) for receiving the hinge arm (14) and a housing portion (13) for location about a mounting structure (18) which attaches the hinge arm to the closure. The housing portion defines at least one formation (70) for attaching an edge (72) of a trim panel (56) mounted to the closure to the housing portion. The formation (70) may be a clip which clamps the edge (72) of the trim panel. The trim panel (56 may have a live hinge (74) adjacent the edge about which the panel can flex. During adjustment of the closure (13) relative to the hinge, the edge region (72) of the trim panel is constrained to move with the hinge cover.
US11433822B2
A net assembly for a vehicle, comprising an assembly of rod elements, each of which has a guide channel; a plurality of joint elements, each of which has at least one connection opening, wherein the rod elements are connected together via the joint elements; and at least one tensioning element which extends through the guide channels of at least some of the rod elements and the connection openings of at least some of the joint elements and can be tensioned in order to clamp the rod elements relative to the joint elements. In this manner, a net assembly is provided which can be used in a variable manner, the shape of which can be adapted in a flexible manner, and which can thus be used to withstand forces.
US11433812B2
Upon initiation of trailer-hitching, an image is obtained of an area behind and in a horizontal plane with respect to a vehicle, the area including a rearwardly extending trailer hitch, with a hitch ball mounted thereto, mounted to the vehicle. The hitch ball is located in the image. An overshoot zone, having a length extending from a vehicle rear bumper to a nearest point on the vehicle hitch ball and having a width that is a sum of a diameter of the hitch and two times a lateral offset, is defined within the area, as is a misaligned zone having a border extending from the vehicle rear bumper to a line tangent to a rearmost point of the hitch ball. A vehicle action is caused upon determining that the trailer coupling is detected in the overshoot zone or the misaligned zone.
US11433802B2
The invention relates to a switch (10), in particular as a steering column switch for arrangement on a steering column of a vehicle, with an actuable switch lever (12) which has along its longitudinal axis (14) a bearing element (16) with which the switch lever (12) is mounted movably in a bearing (20) of a base housing (18), a switching element (30) which is movement-coupled to the switch lever (12) and which is embodied with a contact-free signalling element (32), wherein the switch lever (12) can be activated on a first side (34) of the bearing element (16), the switching element (30) is arranged on a second side (36) of the bearing element (16), the switching element (30) is embodied as a reversing lever with a first and a second lever arm (40, 42), the reversing lever (30) is retained in the connection region (44) of the first and second lever arm (40, 42) in a reversing bearing (46) rotatably on the base housing (18), the signalling element (32) is arranged on the first lever arm (40), and the second lever arm (42) is coupled to the switch lever (12). The invention furthermore relates to a vehicle with an above switch (10).
US11433799B2
A vehicle rooftop platform mounting system includes a platform adjuster device that is configured to mount to a vehicle. The platform adjuster device includes a ball joint that rotatably connects a corner of a support platform to the platform adjuster device to adjust an angle of the corner of the support platform relative to a roof of the vehicle.
US11433788B2
A riding outdoor power equipment vehicle, such as for grounds maintenance, having a chassis including a support area, an operator platform for supporting a rider and supported by the chassis, and a suspension assembly. The suspension assembly is configured to resist movement of the operator platform towards the support area of the chassis and includes a biasing element having a plurality of annular portions. At least two annular portions of the plurality of annular portions are spaced apart from one another when the biasing element is in a default orientation and are moved into engagement with one another upon compression of the biasing element between the operator platform and the support area. Compression of the biasing element provides an initial deflection response that decreases substantially in response to increasing loading being applied to the operator platform.
US11433785B2
A rail assembly can include a track assembly, an elongate shaft mounted to the track assembly, and a carriage assembly received within the track assembly. The carriage assembly can include a slider bracket. The slider bracket includes a first ramp portion and a second ramp portion. The first and second ramp portions are disposed on opposite sides of the slider bracket. The first and second ramp portions each define a receiving aperture. The elongate shaft is received through the receiving apertures of the first and second ramp portions.
US11433779B2
A battery management and monitoring system integrated in a battery pack configured for use in electric aircraft. The system includes a sensor suite configured to measure a plurality of battery pack data. The system includes a battery monitoring component configured to detect a first fault in the battery pack and produce a first fault detection response notifying a user of the first fault in the battery pack. The system includes a battery management component configured to detect a second fault in the battery pack and produce a second fault detection response configured to mitigate the second fault in the battery pack. The system includes an interlock component having a first mode and a second mode, configured to enable the battery monitoring component and disable the battery management component when in the first mode and enable the battery management component and disable the battery monitoring component when in the second mode.
US11433776B2
A vehicle provided with a rechargeable battery, a charging port connected to a charging cable for supplying the battery with electric power of an outside power source, a CO2 recovery device for recovering CO2, a CO2 collection port connected to a collection hose for collecting CO2 from the CO2 recovery device, and a single openable lid covering both the charging port and the CO2 collection port.
US11433774B2
Disclosed herein is a battery charger for electric vehicle includes a motor configured to generate power for driving the electric vehicle, an inverter configured to provide the power to the motor, an AC power input terminal configured to be input at least one AC power of single phase AC power and polyphaser AC power from a slow charger, a power factor corrector configured to include a plurality of full bridge circuits through which the AC power is input through the AC power input terminal, a link capacitor configured to connect in parallel with the power factor corrector, a switch network configured to include a first switch SW A provided to connect any one of a plurality of AC power input lines and a neutral line constituting the AC power input terminal with the power factor corrector, and a second switch provided to transfer one of a direct current power input from a quick charger and an alternating current power input from a slow charger to a high voltage battery and a controller configured to control the power factor corrector and the switch network according to the conditions of the AC power and the DC power.
US11433759B2
A grille shutter is fixed to a radiator grille at end portions of the grille shutter in the vehicle right-left direction. A restriction mechanism includes a restriction member provided to the radiator grille and a restriction member abutting portion provided to an intermediate portion of the grille shutter in the vehicle right-left direction. The restriction mechanism restricts the intermediate portion of the grille shutter from moving toward the vehicle rear side relative to the radiator grille. The restriction member is configured to be movable toward the vehicle rear side relative to the restriction member abutting portion.
US11433756B2
A drive device includes a fluid coupling, a rotary electrical machine, and a damper device. The fluid coupling includes an input unit and an output unit. The input unit includes an impeller. The output unit includes a turbine. The rotary electrical machine includes a first stator and a rotor. The first stator is disposed in a non-rotatable manner. The rotor is attached to the output unit. The damper device is disposed axially adjacent to the fluid coupling. The damper device is connected to the input unit.
US11433752B2
A liquid diverter assembly for a vehicle door includes, among other things, a funnel adjacent a vertically lower end portion of a glass run within a vehicle door, and a conduit that communicates liquid from the funnel around an electrically powered component of the vehicle door. A method of diverting liquid within a vehicle door includes, among other things, collecting liquid from a glass run of a vehicle door within a funnel, communicating liquid from the funnel to a conduit, and communicating liquid through the conduit such that the liquid moves around an electric component of the vehicle door.
US11433749B2
A vehicle includes a vehicle body including a truck bed at least partially defining a cargo area, a vehicle interior with front passenger seating and rear passenger seating, and a modular, multi-component hard top assembly. The hard top assembly is configured to selectively and removably couple interchangeably between (i) the vehicle body to provide an enclosed configuration at least partially enclosing the vehicle interior, and (ii) the truck bed to function as a truck bed storage cover to enclose the cargo area and provide a securable storage compartment. The multi-component hard top assembly is detachable from the vehicle body to provide an open air configuration for the vehicle interior.
US11433738B2
A thermal management method and system in a vehicle include a chiller to cause heat transfer between a coolant loop that defines a path in which a coolant circulates and a refrigerant loop that defines a path in which a refrigerant circulates. The system includes an electronic expansion valve (EXV) in the refrigerant loop to control a flow of the refrigerant into a first part of the chiller, and a coolant pump in the coolant loop to control a flow of the coolant into a second part of the chiller. A controller controls the EXV and the coolant pump based on a target amount for the heat transfer.
US11433737B2
A cooling device for the redundant cooling of a control unit for a vehicle. The control unit has a first electronic component and a second electronic component that is redundant with respect to the first electronic component. The cooling device has a first cooling circuit for cooling the first electronic component and a second cooling circuit, fluidically separated from the first cooling circuit, for cooling the first and/or second electronic component.
US11433736B2
Methods and systems are provided for providing thermal management for components of a vehicle. In one example, a method may include exchanging heat between different coolant systems via a heat exchanger using predicted data indicating estimated coolant temperatures for a vehicle trip and measured data indicating dynamic conditions for the vehicle trip.
US11433734B2
A vent control system for a vehicle includes one or more processors and a memory communicably coupled to the one or more processors. The memory may store a vent control module including instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to autonomously control operation of a vehicle to open at least one vehicle vent when the vehicle is in a regular vent opening condition. Responsive to manual closure of the at least one vehicle vent within a predetermined time period after the at least one vehicle vent was autonomously opened, the regular opening condition may be updated to an updated regular opening condition. After updating the regular opening condition, operation of the vehicle may be autonomously controlled to open the at least one vehicle vent when the vehicle is subsequently in the updated regular opening condition.
US11433728B2
An active control system for a mass traveling along a guideway and method for active control of a mass traveling along a guideway. The active control system includes at least one displacement sensor and at least one motion sensor. Signals from the at least one displacement sensor and the least one motion sensor are processed to adjust a displacement of a reference location on the mass from a fixed reference.
US11433726B2
A method for forming an air spring for a vehicle including a frame coupled to the air spring includes heating an elastomeric base material to a melting point of the elastomeric base material, thereby forming a melted elastomeric base material, forming a sleeve from the melted elastomeric base material, the sleeve being substantially free of textile reinforcing fibers, and engaging the sleeve with end components, the sleeve and the end components defining a deformable pressure vessel, where the deformable pressure vessel supplies a supporting force.
US11433721B2
This disclosure relates to systems and methods of towing, hitching, and connecting devices. In particular, this disclosure relates to tow devices, hitches, and connections for towing item containers behind vehicles, both autonomous and manually guided.
US11433717B2
A process for applying noise-reducing elements to a tyre for vehicle wheels. A plurality of noise-reducing elements are arranged on a feeding belt movable along a predetermined feeding direction. The noise-reducing elements are subsequently aligned along the feeding direction and brought into mutual contact, to then be transferred onto a service plane arranged downstream of the feeding belt along the feeding direction and having, on an upper surface thereof, a continuous film which supports a layer of adhesive material. The layer of adhesive material is applied onto a lower surface of each of the noise-reducing elements taking it from the continuous film. The noise-reducing elements are then transferred one by one onto a conveyor belt arranged downstream of the service plane along the feeding direction. The noise-reducing elements are finally positioned one by one on a radially inner surface of a tyre.
US11433716B2
A pneumatic tire includes a pair of bead portions that are arranged at intervals wider than a regular rim width in a non-rim-assembled state. The bead portion includes a rim protector, a bead base, a bead heel, and a bead back surface. In the non-rim-assembled state, the bead back surface is formed with a recess that is recessed inward in the tire width direction. The bead back surface has a second curved portion constituting a deepest portion of the recess and a third curved portion extending inward in the tire width direction from the rim protector. When a height of the deepest portion is H2, a height H8 of a virtual intersection of a curve obtained by extending the second curved portion and a curve obtained by extending the third curved portion is larger than 1.5 times H10 and smaller than 3.0 times H10.
US11433713B2
In a pneumatic tire, a sipe includes an edge on a leading side and an edge on a trailing side; the edge and the edge each include a chamfered portion shorter than a sipe length of the sipe; a non-chamfered region in which other chamfered portions are not present is provided at portions facing the chamfered portions of the sipe; and for all chamfered portions, including at least the chamfered portions of the sipe, formed on grooves other than main grooves, with a ground contact width being equally divided into three in the tire lateral direction, a total volume SCE of chamfered portions provided in a center region centrally located in the tire lateral direction and each of total volumes SSH of chamfered portions provided in shoulder regions located on either side of the center region satisfy a relationship SCE
US11433712B2
Provided is a pneumatic tire. A sipe is formed, on each of a leading side edge and a trailing side edge, with a chamfered portion shorter than a sipe length of a sipe, a non-chamfered region in which no other chamfered portion is present is provided in a part facing each of the chamfered portions, at least one end of the sipe communicates with the auxiliary groove, one end of the chamfered portion adjacent to the auxiliary groove in the rib communicates with the auxiliary groove, a maximum depth×(mm) of the sipe and a maximum depth y (mm) of the chamfered portion satisfy a relationship x×0.1≤y≤x×0.3+1.0, and a sipe width W of the sipe is constant in a range from an end positioned in the radial direction inside the chamfered portion to a groove bottom of the sipe.
US11433706B2
The present invention provides a composite that has good initial adhesion and good adhesion after high temperature and high humidity aging. Provided is a composite including: a topping rubber composition having a fatty acid content of 0.8% by mass or less; and an adherend plated with a copper-containing layer.
US11433703B2
A vehicle having a front axle with a pair of front wheels having a track width adjustable between a wide track and a narrow track; a rear axle with at least one rear wheel; a steering wheel configured to control the turn of the rear wheel when the front wheels are set to the narrow track; track width control configured to change the track width of the front wheels and to change the wheel base between the front axle and the rear axle such that for the wide track of the front wheels the wheel base is longer than for the narrow track of the front wheels; a locking mechanism configured to lock the track width; wherein each of the front wheels is connected to a dedicated front wheel motor for driving that front wheel and to a dedicated front wheel brake for braking that front wheel.
US11433702B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for holonomic drivetrain modules for mobile robots. In one embodiment, an example mobile robot may include a chassis, and a holonomic drivetrain module removably coupled to the chassis. The holonomic drivetrain module may include a first drive wheel having a caster angle of substantially zero, a first bearing block assembly vertically aligned with the first drive wheel, and a first steer motor coupled to the first bearing block assembly and vertically aligned with the first drive wheel.
US11433701B1
A studded wheel increases traction of a vehicle along slippery surfaces, such as a pipe. The wheel features a wheel body manufactured from a rigid material and having a tread surface. A plurality of studs are secured to the tread surface of the wheel body. The plurality of studs may be polycrystalline diamond. The plurality of studs may be secured directly to the tread surface of the wheel body, such as by brazing. The vehicle to which the wheel is attached may be an inspection vehicle with a mounted camera system fitted for surveying inaccessible areas including sewer systems and other internal piped locations.
US11433700B2
A magnetic hub plug apparatus for sealing a wheel hub and detecting wheel bearing failure includes a plug body having a plug outer side, a plug inner side, and a plug edge. A seal ring has a proximal perimeter coupled to the plug inner side, a distal perimeter, and a seal sidewall extending from the proximal perimeter to the distal perimeter. The seal ring is configured to sealingly fit within a wheel hub cap. A magnet extension is coupled to the seal ring. The magnet extension extends from the seal sidewall and dips within an oil reservoir of the wheel hub cap with each rotation. A magnet insert is coupled within the magnet extension to collect particles from a faulty wheel bearing. A plug grip is coupled to the plug body and extends from the plug outer side.
US11433697B2
A clip includes an insertion piece insertable into a valley formed by folding a corner of a stack of a plurality of paper pieces, a front-side clamping piece contactable with a paper piece portion on a front side of the valley, and a back-side clamping piece contactable with a paper piece portion on a back side of the valley. The insertion piece, front-side clamping piece, and back-side clamping piece are elastically and integrally formed so that the paper piece portion on the front side and the paper piece portion on the back side of the valley are clamped between the front-side clamping piece and the insertion piece and between the insertion piece and the back-side clamping piece, respectively, and both of the paper piece portion on the front side and the paper piece portion on the back side of the valley are clamped between the front-side and back-side clamping pieces.
US11433693B2
A recording apparatus includes a feed portion that feeds a medium, a transport portion that transports the fed medium in a transport direction, a recording portion that performs recording on the medium transported by the transport portion, a support member that includes a support surface that supports the medium on which the recording portion performs recording. The recording apparatus includes a pressing member that presses the medium towards the support member, at a position upstream of the recording position of the recording portion in the transport direction. The pressing member is provided so as to be movable in a direction intersecting the support surface.
US11433687B2
In one example, a printer with adaptive sampling includes a print engine, a monochrome scanner, a light source, and an analysis module. The light source has independently controlled primaries oriented to illuminate a media from the print engine. The analysis module includes a page selection module to select a chosen page of media for analysis, a heuristic analysis module to analyze the chosen page and determine a region of the page for analysis, a light control module to select a mono-color for the light source in region on the chosen page, and a quality module to accept an image of the chosen page and a scan of the chosen page with the monochrome scanner illuminated by the selected mono-color and compare the image and the scan within the region to determine a discrepancy.
