US11893220B1
An embodiment for generating and modifying graphical user interface elements based on user item interests. The embodiment may detect a user interacting with a connected application. The embodiment may determine item interests of the detected user. The embodiment may generate and store a personalized user profile based on the determined item interests of the user. The embodiment may, in response to detecting a query made by the user, extract from the detected query interest topics, subject matter, and a series of associated key terms. The embodiment may determine a highest-prioritized key term. The embodiment may identify a first GUI element displayed by the connected application based on the detected query. The embodiment may generate, using a generative adversarial network (GAN), a custom GUI element based on the highest-prioritized key term. The embodiment may replace the first GUI element with the custom GUI element.
US11893219B2
A method for quickly invoking a small window when a video is displayed in full screen, a graphic user interface, and a terminal are provided. The method may include: When a terminal displays a video playing interface in full screen, the terminal may display a small window in a hover box based on a user operation. A display interface of the small window may be switched. The terminal may further quickly switch between multi-window display and full-screen display based on a user operation. In this process, the terminal continuously plays the video. According to this method, the terminal can quickly switch between multi-window display and full-screen display when continuously playing a video.
US11893215B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic device may include: a flexible display having a first portion disposed to be visible from an outside and a second portion extending from the first portion and accommodated in an inner space to be invisible from the outside in a slide-in state; a housing whose having a variable size wherein the flexible display is configured to be expanded in response to a change from the slide-in state to a slide-out state; a sensor disposed in the inner space and configured to detect a moving distance of the flexible display; a memory; and a processor operatively connected to the flexible display, the sensor, and the memory. The processor may be configured to: identify a first distance for the flexible display through the sensor in response to the change from the slide-in state to the slide-out state, control the display to display a user interface through the flexible display based on the first distance, detect a touch on at least a partial region of the flexible display, identify a second distance for the flexible display based on coordinate information corresponding to the detected touch, adjust a size or position of the user interface based on a difference value between the first distance and the second distance, and control the display to display the adjusted user interface through the flexible display.
US11893212B2
The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces that include application widgets. In some embodiments, a computer system displays a home screen, where displaying the home screen includes displaying a set of user interface elements based on whether an account that was used to set up the computer system is associated with a first type of content. In some embodiments, a computer system displays a user interface in response to detecting a request to change the orientation of the user interface. Displaying the user interface includes displaying an arrangement of application widgets and application icons, where a set of application widgets has a same spatial organization as in a previous arrangement.
US11893209B2
In a countermeasures control interface for use in deploying countermeasures in response to user commands, which are deployed from a first countermeasure dispenser that deploys a first type of countermeasure and a second countermeasure dispenser that deploys a second type of countermeasure different from the first type. A user interface receives user commands regarding countermeasures deployment and includes a display that shows a user-selectable image formats. At least one of the user-selectable image formats includes a graphic representation of a loadout of the first countermeasure dispenser and the second countermeasure dispenser, as well as a graphical representation of currently-available countermeasures deployment options. The user interface also receives input regarding a user countermeasure deployment choice and generates a signal corresponding to the countermeasure deployment choice. An electronic circuit controls the display and generates the user-selectable image formats, receives the countermeasure deployment choice from the user interface and activates the countermeasure dispensers.
US11893204B2
In some examples, a method to present an affordance user interface element within a user interface of an interaction application includes detecting an association of a supplemental media content item with a primary media content item presented within the user interface. The supplemental media content item is identified from among a plurality of supplemental media content items supported by the interaction application. The method may include retrieving metadata related to the supplemental media content item and presenting, within the user interface, a supplementation affordance that presents the metadata. In some examples, the supplementation affordance is user selectable via the user interface to invoke a supplementation function that enables a user to apply the supplemental media content item to a further primary media content item. The supplementation function is invoked responsive to detecting a user selection of the supplementation affordance within the user interface.
US11893202B2
A portable communication device (1) is capable of setting a sleep mode as an operation mode. An operation receiver (101) receives operations given by a user. A setter (102) sets the operation mode to the sleep mode when the operation receiver (101) receives no operation for a first time period. A displayer (103) displays an indicator on a display when the operation receiver (101) receives a first operation in the sleep mode. A launcher (104) launches, when the operation receiver (101) receives operations for specifying the indicator, an application program associated with the specified indicator.
US11893190B2
The logic of a handheld controller system may use a clustering algorithm to determine which sensors of a touch sensor array, such as capacitive pads, to assign to individual fingers of a user's hand. The clustering algorithm disclosed herein allows for dynamically determining the controller configuration on-the-fly for a given user. An example process includes receiving data generated by a plurality of sensors of a touch sensor array of the handheld controller, generating a covariance matrix that indicates correlations between pairs of sensors, determining a plurality of feature vectors based at least in part on the covariance matrix, each feature vector corresponding to an individual sensor and describing that sensor's correlation(s) with one or more other sensors, clustering the feature vectors using a clustering algorithm, and configuring the touch sensor array according to a controller configuration that assigns sensors to respective fingers of a hand.
US11893180B2
Provided are a display device and a method for controlling the same. The display device includes: a display panel including a display module and a touch module, and having a first display area, a second display area and a first bending area located at a junction between the first display area and the second display area, the display panel being bendable at the first bending area; and a bendable circuit board having a second bending area, an orthographic projection of which on the display panel overlaps the first bending area, the bendable circuit board is connected to a data driving unit and a touch driving unit, transmits a data signal of any of the first display area and the second display area to the data driving unit and transmits a touch signal of any of the first display area and the second display area to the touch driving unit.
US11893177B2
A touch screen display device with a flexible display that also includes an embedded haptic drive system. The device may be made up of one continuous flexible display that does not fold, or of multiple display segments which can be folded from a compact state that is roughly the size of a typical handheld phone or smaller, to an expanded state that is roughly the size of a larger phone or tablet computer. The haptic drive system is located underneath the flexible display and can physically alter its surface geometry by partially flexing the display at single or multiple points. The device may further include sensors to indicate the state of configuration and mechanisms for alignment, locking, and further structural support. In one embodiment, a module attached to, situated within, or otherwise associated with at least one segment of the flexible display may contain all or substantially all processing and memory, along with a communications system, which may be used in any folded state.
US11893175B2
One or more examples of the present disclosure relate generally to systems and methods for canceling mutual capacitive effects in a capacitance measurement. Some examples relate to providing a driven shield during capacitance measurement. Some examples relate to providing such a driven shield using rail-to-rail voltage.
US11893174B1
An information handling system mouse autonomously provides a rapid visual image transition from a first display to a second display in response to a predetermined condition detected at the mouse, such as a left click that an end user performs when on the visual image title bar accompanied by a gesture or a hot key input. The mouse responds to the inputs by commanding an acceleration of movement of the cursor coordinates so that the information handling system rapidly moves the visual image from the first display to the second. In various embodiments, the movement can include a selection to go to a full screen presentation or to keep the visual image size the same. The visual image transfer is performed without any coordination with the information handling system other than commanding cursor coordinate movements.
US11893172B2
An information processing method includes, in a situation that a connection between a first electronic device and a second electronic device is established for first time, obtaining identity information of the second electronic device; obtaining a communication protocol corresponding to the identity information; and based on a data path formed after the first electronic device is connected to the second electronic device, sending the communication protocol to the second electronic device, to enable the second electronic device to communicate with the first electronic device based on the communication protocol.
US11893167B2
An information processing device controls a display for displaying a guide that instructs a user to perform each of a plurality of patterns of motions including translational motions or rotational motions of an inertial sensor that correspond to a first axis and a second axis, which are perpendicular to each other. Based on inertial information and position and orientation information acquired by causing the inertial sensor to perform the plurality of patterns of motions, the information processing device acquires parameters including a degree of correlation between actual inertial values of the inertial sensor corresponding to the first axis and the inertial information corresponding to the second axis.
US11893161B2
A gesture recognition apparatus by which a gesture for an interface operation is performed includes an image capturer that captures distance image data, a closest point detector that detects a closest point from the imaging apparatus, a gesture measurer that calculates an input switching border for switching ON and OFF of interface input, a gesture recognizer that determines whether the input is ON or OFF, and an interface controller that performs the interface control associated with the gesture if it is determined that the input has been turned on.
US11893160B2
A method for transportation includes providing a vehicle with a cab and having a moveable actuator coupled to a propulsion unit to move the propulsion unit between a first position above the cab during lift-off and a second position during lateral flight. The system can receive hand control gestures as captured by cameras/sensors. A flight computer determines vehicle control options based on the model, a current state of the vehicle and the environment of the vehicle.
US11893142B2
A digital fingerprint generation circuit based on an integrated circuit is provided. In the digital fingerprint generation circuit, a control unit is configured to: generate a first control word and a second control word, and transmit the first control word and the second control word to a first clock generator and a second clock generator respectively, so that the first clock generator generates a first clock signal based on the first control word, and the second clock generator generates a second clock signal based on the second control word; and a frequency detector generates a digital fingerprint of the integrated circuit based on the first clock signal and the second clock signal.
US11893140B2
A system for evaluating manufacturing feasibility of a graphical design is disclosed. The system includes a secret owner device and a memory, operatively connected to the secret owner device. The memory may be configured to store a three-dimensional form including a three-dimensional shape and a dimension set in three dimensions and at least a local geometric feature. The apparatus may also include a merge engine configured to generate at least a combined three-dimensional graphical design as a function of the three-dimensional graphical design and the at least a contributor graphical design. The apparatus also includes an interrogation engine communicatively connected to the merge engine. The interrogation engine is configured to extract the at least a local geometric feature from the three-dimensional graphical design, evaluate manufacturing feasibility of the combined three-dimensional graphical design, and initiate manufacture of a structure represented in combined three-dimensional graphical design as a function of manufacturing feasibility.
US11893133B2
Techniques are described for budget tracking in a differentially private security system. A request to perform a query of a private database system is received by a privacy device from a client device. The request is associated with a level of differential privacy. A privacy budget corresponding to the received request is accessed by the privacy device. The privacy budget includes a cumulative privacy spend and a maximum privacy spend, the cumulative privacy spend representative of previous queries of the private database system. A privacy spend associated with the received request is determined by the privacy device based at least in part on the level of differential privacy associated with the received request. If a sum of the determined privacy spend and the cumulative privacy spend is less than the maximum privacy spend, the query is performed. Otherwise a security action is performed based on a security policy.
US11893131B2
A system, method, and computer-readable media for providing contextual data loss prevention (DLP) within a group-based communication system. At least a portion of a DLP policy may be suspended within a DLP engine based on a context for which a user input is to be displayed. Accordingly, the user input may be displayed without interference from the DLP engine.
US11893130B2
Techniques for data lifecycle discovery and management are presented. Data lifecycle discovery platform (DLDP) can identify data of users, data type, and language of data stored in data stores (DSs) of entities based on scanning of data from databases. DLDP determines compliance of DLDP and DSs with obligations relating to data protection arising out of jurisdictional laws or agreements. DLDP generates rules to facilitate complying with and enforcing laws and agreements. DLDP can determine, and present to authorized users, risk scores relating to levels of compliance of the DLDP, associated platforms, or entities, risk indicator metrics, or a privacy health index of the organization associated with DLDP. DLDP can manage user rights regarding data, and access to data in DSs and information relating thereto stored in secure data store of DLDP. DLDP can remediate issues involving anomalies indicating non-compliance. DLDP can utilize machine learning to enhance various functions of DLDP.
US11893125B2
One or more event logs are received. The one or more event logs are analyzed using a plurality of models to detect one or more anomalous events. A graphical representation of risk entities associated with at least one of the one or more detected anomalous events is provided. A visual representation of automatically detected relationships between the risk entities associated with the at least one of the one or more detected anomalous events is provided in the graphical representation. Indications of measures of anomaly associated with detected anomalous events are provided for the associated risk entities.
US11893123B2
In some aspects, a method for mediation of a screenshot capture by a client application based on policy includes identifying, by a client application on a client device, a policy for mediating one or more screenshots of content displayed via the client application. An embedded browser within the client application accesses a network application of one or more servers. The method further includes intercepting, by the client application, a request to capture a screenshot of at least a portion of the network application being displayed, determining, by the client application, one or more mediation actions to perform on the screenshot responsive to the policy, performing, by the client application, the one or more mediation actions on the screenshot, and providing, by the client responsive to the request, the screenshot resulting from the one or more mediation actions.
US11893118B2
Embodiments described herein are directed to transferring the ownership of a computing device from one entity to another entity. For example, a security processor is utilized to boot the computing device. During a boot session, the security processor loads and executes boot code, which determines whether specialized firmware authorized by the current owner indicates whether a transfer of ownership is to occur. In response to determining that the specialized firmware indicates that a transfer of ownership is to occur, the secure processor loads and executes the specialized firmware. The specialized firmware, when executed, causes the security processor to program a set of fuses with the public key of the new owner. Execution of the specialized firmware also causes the security processor to invalidate the public key of the original owner, which is stored in another set of fuses.
US11893116B2
A method for determining third party network compliance with a host entity network is provided. The method may include generating a scanning file that includes host entity network compliance standards and transferring the scanning file to an intermediary entity network. The method may further include generating an executable file that may run a plug-in scanning file to scan hardware and software resident at the third-party network for compliance. The method may further include transferring the executable file from the intermediary entity network to the third party network. The method may further include executing the executable file, generating a log file upon the completion of the running of the plug-in scanning file and digitally signing the log file. The method may further include deciphering the log file at the intermediary entity network, generating a readable report based on the deciphering and transferring the readable report to the host entity network.
US11893107B2
Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for preventing a security threat to a virtual machine. The apparatus includes one or more processors and executable memory for storing at least one program executed by the one or more processors. The at least one program is configured such that a hypervisor for virtualization in a host kernel executes a virtualization instruction corresponding to the service requested by a virtual machine of a host application and such that a hypervisor for monitoring interrupts the virtualization instruction in response to a security threat event occurring in the monitoring area of the hypervisor for virtualization and controls the process and thread of the host kernel. The hypervisor for monitoring is located in an area separate from the area in which the hypervisor for virtualization is located in the host kernel.
US11893103B2
A method may include registering, with an offline job to be executed by a computer processor, an application programming interface (API) and an operation, obtaining, from a repository, a user consent of a user for the operation, and in response to obtaining the user consent, creating, for the user, an access token including the operation and the API. The user consent may be stored external to the access token. The method may further include transmitting the access token to the offline job, and calling, by the offline job, the API using the access token.
US11893100B2
The present invention relates biometric authentication using an optical biometric arrangement comprising an image sensor comprising a photodetector pixel array configured to capture an image of an object, the image sensor being arranged under a color controllable light source comprising light source units, the method comprising: providing a light pattern comprising portions of different light intensity for illuminating the object; acquiring an image of the object, the image comprising image portions corresponding to the portions of different light intensity of the light pattern illuminating the object, at least one image portion being captured by pixels in the photodetector pixel array arranged directly under a light source being active during image acquisition, and at least one image portion being captured by pixels in the photodetector pixel array arranged under an at least partly in-active illumination area of the color controllable light source during image acquisition, and performing biometric authentication at least partly based on metrics extracted from the image portions.
US11893098B2
A computing device (200) for authenticating a user (110) is provided. The computing device is operative to display a first text (131) to the user, acquire a representation of the user subvocalizing a part of the first text, derive a user phrasing signature from the acquired representation, and authenticate the user in response to determining that the user phrasing signature and a reference phrasing signature fulfil a similarity condition. Optionally, the computing device may be further operative to determine if the user is authorized to read the first text. Further optionally, the computing device may be operative to reveal obfuscated parts of the first text in response to determining that the user is authorized to read the first text, or to discontinue displaying the first text, or to obfuscate at least part of the first text, in response to determining that the user is not authorized to read the first text.
US11893094B1
The invention discloses a DNN watermarking method, comprising embedding part of the digital watermark in selected redundant elements of a deep neural network (DNN) model—without compromising the performance of the DNN. The proposed method aims for a robust watermark scheme by embedding a large watermark that can span the whole DNN model. If an adversary attempts to destroy the watermark, the whole DNN model will be destroyed. However, maximizing the hiding capacity can lead to degradation in the performance of the DNN model. In this work, this capacity-performance trade-off problem is solved using the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT). Moreover, the DCT can work more efficiently with highly correlated data. Therefore, this work suggests segmenting the weights of the DNN model into correlated segments to fully exploit the advantages of the DCT.
US11893092B2
Enabling control of authenticated applications and websites from other applications and websites within an auto entertainment service, including: implementing controls of the auto entertainment service within a privilege auto platform with a defined structure that enables a controller to issue a command; constructing calls appropriate to execute the command; routing playback controls through the privilege auto platform; issuing the command to the privilege auto platform with a content ID; and receiving the command and making the calls for content and digital rights management to execute the command.
US11893091B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for providing intelligent analysis of technical and non-technical data to validate instances of permitted use of such brand elements and generate alerts for instances of non-permitted use of such brand elements. The system provides a single portal view for upload of relevant data and transmission of analysis results. The invention utilizes a permissioned distributed register database architecture for the secure storage and tokenization of brand elements and retrieval of validation and ownership information. The invention further includes the capability to recommend and automate remedial measures to prevent continued unauthorized use of brand elements.
US11893084B2
Disclosed herein is an object detection system, including apparatuses and methods for object detection. An implementation may include receiving a first image frame from an ROI detection model that generated a first ROI boundary around a first object detected in the first image frame and subsequently receiving a second image frame. The implementation further includes predicting, using an ROI tracking model, that the first ROI boundary will be present in the second image frame and then detecting whether the first ROI boundary is in fact present in the second image frame. The implementation includes determining that the second image frame should be added to a training dataset for the ROI detection model when detecting that the ROI detection model did not generate the first ROI boundary in the second image frame as predicted and re-training the ROI detection model using the training dataset.
US11893080B2
Method and computing device using a neural network to determine whether or not to process images of an image flow. A predictive model of the neural network is generated and stored at a computing device. The computing device receives (b) an image of the image flow and executes (c) the neural network, using the predictive model for generating an indication of whether or not to process the image based on input(s) of the neural network, the input(s) comprising the image. The computing device determines (d) whether or not to process the image by an image processing module, based on the indication of whether or not to process the image. The image is processed by the image processing module if the determination is positive and not processed if the determination is negative. Steps (b), (c), (d) are repeated for consecutive images of the image flow.
US11893079B2
Implementations of the present disclosure relate to a method, system and program product for determining a causality between a plurality of variables. A method is provided for determining a causality between a plurality of vectors, which comprises: in response to a data set of a plurality of samples associated with the plurality of variables being collected, obtaining a matrix describing the causality between the plurality of variables, each sample among the plurality of samples comprising data that corresponds to the plurality of variables; determining a fitness degree and an expert knowledge constraint which are associated with the causality based on the data set and the matrix, wherein the expert knowledge constraint comprises at least one of an edge constraint on a direct causality between two variables in the matrix and a path constraint on an indirect causality between two variables in the matrix; building a problem formula describing the causality according to the determined fitness degree and expert knowledge constraint; and solving the built problem formula so as to obtain a candidate result of the matrix. Further, there is provided a corresponding system and computer program product.
US11893067B1
A payment service system monitors data associated with a dynamic information feed and determines trending causes based on the monitoring. The system accesses user information associated with a user and identifies a trending cause that is relevant to the user based on the user information. The system transmits, to the user's mobile device, a recommendation alert that is formatted based on a local application on the user's mobile device, and causes the user's mobile device to surface the recommendation alert to recommend the relevant trending cause within the local application. The system receives an indication of an interaction with the recommendation alert via the user's mobile device. In response, the system facilitates a transfer of at least one asset from an account associated with the user to at least one account associated with at least one recipient entity associated with the relevant trending cause according to a specified distribution.
US11893059B2
A method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium that generate, from a database, an identifier record grouping including the identifier record and at least one other identifier record, generate one or more strength indicators of the generated identifier record grouping, normalize a value of each of the one or more strength indicators based on an average value associated with the respective strength indicator, generate a value of a strength metric of the generated identifier record grouping based on a sum of the normalized values of the one or more strength indicators, rank the value of the strength metric amongst values of strength metrics associated with a plurality of identifier record groupings within the database, and determine a strength score of the generated identifier record grouping as the strength score of the identifier record based on the ranking.
US11893051B2
In some examples, structure-based multi-intent email classification may include receiving an email thread that includes a plurality of emails including an email that is to be classified, and identifying, for the email thread, a process associated with the email thread, Based on the process associated with the email thread and for each sentence of the email that includes a plurality of sentences, a corresponding classifier may be determined from a plurality of classifiers, and applied to each sentence of the email to generate classified sentences. At least one entity may be extracted from each of the classified sentences of the email. Based on the at least one extracted entity, the email may be classified.
US11893050B2
In assistance processing for assisting in describing a document corresponding to a portion in a document, a calculation unit calculates a similarity degree between a sentence in a document and a document described correspondingly to a portion in the document. When the calculated similarity degree is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, an extraction unit extracts the sentence in the document in association with the document described correspondingly to the portion in the document.
US11893030B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed herein for improved state identification and prediction in computerized queries. In an aspects, a neural network model is trained via word embedding, using a plurality of workflows having a plurality of steps as input training data. The model may be searched using a string to locate and identify semantic matches as potential results, where the potential results correspond to a specific step and/or a particular workflow. Markov chaining may also be performed, using the potential results, in order to predict one or more additional results, where the additional results correspond to a specific succeeding step within a particular workflow, in some aspects. The results and predicted steps may be displayed.
US11893017B2
A node of a database system is operable to receive a plurality of data blocks. Based on backlog detection data, at least one feedback data block is generated to be sent to the set of source nodes. Feedback relay node selection data selecting at least one of the plurality of nodes in the database system for facilitating routing of the at least one feedback data block from the node to at least one of the set of source nodes via a prioritized feedback communication mechanism is generated. The at least one feedback data block is sent to the at least one of the plurality of nodes selected in the feedback relay node selection data. The at least one of the plurality of nodes facilitates routing of the at least one feedback data block from the node via the prioritized feedback communication mechanism.
US11893015B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: collecting real time system statistics on a system environment in a remote platform running a remote data source amongst a plurality of remote data sources of a virtual database. Real time data source statistics on one or more data source objects from the remote data source of the virtual database is also gathered. A global catalog of the virtual database is updated with the real time system statistics and the real time data source statistics. An access plan to process a query to the virtual database is optimized based on the real time system statistics and the real time data source statistics and a response is produced based on the access plan, with improved performance and reduced cost.
US11893012B1
Representations of sets of descriptors of reference objects are stored in a repository, with individual descriptors including information about entities identified in the reference objects. In response to a request to extract content from a particular data object, a reference object which satisfies a similarity criterion with respect to the particular data object is identified from the repository using the descriptors. A structural comparison of the particular data object and the reference object is performed to determine an entity related to another entity identified in the particular data object.
US11892998B2
The present disclosure provides systems, methods, and computer program products for providing efficient embedding table storage and lookup in machine-learning models. A computer-implemented method may include obtaining an embedding table comprising a plurality of embeddings respectively associated with a corresponding index of the embedding table, compressing each particular embedding of the embedding table individually allowing each respective embedding of the embedding table to be decompressed independent of any other embedding in the embedding table, packing the embedding table comprising individually compressed embeddings with a machine-learning model, receiving an input to use for locating an embedding in the embedding table, determining a lookup value based on the input to search indexes of the embedding table, locating the embedding based on searching the indexes of the embedding table for the determined lookup value, and decompressing the located embedding independent of any other embedding in the embedding table.
US11892996B1
Systems and methods are described for monitoring indexing nodes, populating and maintaining a resource catalog with relevant information, receiving requests for indexing node availability or assignments, identifying indexing nodes that are available to process data, and/or communicating information relating to available indexing nodes. The system can maintain the resource catalog based on communications with each of the containerized indexing nodes. The system can receive, from a partition manager of a data intake and query system, a request for a containerized indexing node that the partition manager can assign to process data received by the partition manager. The system can identify an available containerized indexing node to process the data. The system can communicate, to the partition manager, an indexing node identifier associated with the available containerized indexing node.
US11892992B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to implementing synthetic identifiers (IDs) for a non-relational database. A server system may operate a database, which includes receiving requests to access records of the database using synthetic IDs. But the database may be searchable using natural IDs. The server system may receive a request to insert a record. In response, the server system may obtain, from a first instance of multiple ID generator instances that implement a distributed ID generator service, a synthetic ID generated based on an identifier assigned to the first ID generator instance. The server system may insert the record with the synthetic ID and a natural ID that corresponds to one or more values of the record. The server system may cause the synthetic ID and the natural ID to be stored in an index of the database to enable the record to be accessed via the synthetic ID.
US11892990B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer system a computer program product, and a method that comprises converting received data from a time-based domain to a frequency-based domain using a signal processing algorithm; identifying transactional noise within the converted data by identifying contextual factors based on a determined pattern, wherein the transactional noise is data associated with an identified fraudulent transaction; filtering the identified transactional noise by removing datapoints within the converted data that reaches a predetermined threshold of signal strength using the signal processing algorithm; and generating a line graph depicting removal of the data that is indicative of the identified transactional noise from the converted data.
US11892989B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for an approach to predictive structuring of electronic data. The system uses data mining and data clustering techniques using classification models to organize feature column groups comprising feature columns. The system identifies and flags feature column groups and/or feature columns based on regulatory data standards provided by regulatory bodies. Thereafter, data objects are imported into the system and prediction algorithms are implemented to characterize the feature columns containing the data objects.
US11892986B2
Systems and methods for determining activated neural pathways in knowledge graphs are disclosed. In an embodiment, a computer system may retrieve data associated with a user account and generate a knowledge graph centered around an account under a current adjudication. The computer system may determine paths based on the knowledge graph using similarity and sentiment scores. By reducing the amount of data in the knowledge graph to specific data associated with paths of interest, unnecessary computer operations may be avoided, which increases processing times related to the knowledge graph and allows near real-time outputs based on the knowledge graph to be utilized. The computer system may rank the paths based on their similarity scores and sentiments scores to determine which paths are considered activated neural pathways in the knowledge graph. The computer system may base a determination of the current adjudication for the account on the activated neural pathways.
US11892973B2
A method and apparatus for converting code-description table data to an enumerated data type in a schema record referencing the code-description table. A record of a table is identified that references the code-description table, and a portion of a schema describing the record is updated to include the relevant data of the code-description table as an enumerated type of the record schema. The enumerated type schema element includes data elements of the code-description table relevant to the record, each element having its own type. As additional records of the same table that are related to the code-description table are called, the enumerated type schema element may be updated to include additional code-description table data elements.
US11892967B2
Apparatus and methods are disclosed herein for remote, direct memory access (RDMA) technology that enables direct memory access from one host computer memory to another host computer memory over a physical or virtual computer network according to a number of different RDMA protocols. In one example, a method includes receiving remote direct memory access (RDMA) packets via a network adapter, deriving a protocol index identifying an RDMA protocol used to encode data for an RDMA transaction associated with the RDMA packets, applying the protocol index to a generate RDMA commands from header information in at least one of the received RDMA packets, and performing an RDMA operation using the RDMA commands.
US11892960B2
A display includes a keyboard, video mouse (KVM) switch that interfaces plural peripheral communication ports and plural information handling system ports. The KVM switch in a first configuration accepts video from one of the information handling system ports for presentation as visual images at a display panel and interfaces all of the plural peripheral communication ports with the one of the information handling system ports. When an end user commands a change to a different information handling system port and the KVM switch detects that a predetermined information transfer is taking place at the one of the information handling system ports, such as a bulk isochronous transfer or greater than a predetermined bandwidth utilization, the KVM switch changes the interface of peripheral devices and video to the second information handling system port while maintaining the transfer of the predetermined type of information with the first information handling system port.
US11892944B2
An anomaly factor estimation apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to execute training an anomaly detection model for performing anomaly detection based on an error of output data with respect to input data represented by a multidimensional numerical vector; inputting test data into the anomaly detection model, to determine whether the test data corresponds to an anomaly based on output data output from the anomaly detection model and the test data; and calculating a degree of contribution to the anomaly for each dimension of the test data based on a likelihood of said each dimension, in response to determining that the test data corresponds to the anomaly.
US11892935B2
Methods and systems for verifying control coupling analysis in testing of software code include: selecting a source file to be tested, the source file having source code, the source file selected from a system set including a plurality of source files from one or more nodes in a system; identifying one or more control couples within the source file by performing static analysis on the source code of the source file; defining one or more test runs of the software code, the one or more test runs including one or more of the identified control couples, and the one or more test runs using dynamic analysis; executing the one or more defined test runs; identifying control coupling coverage of the source file based on the dynamic analysis; and generating a control coupling report based on the identified control coupling coverage of the source file.
US11892928B2
Aspects of a storage device are provided which delay thermal throttling in response to temperature increases based on different reliable temperatures for different types of cells, such as SLCs, hybrid SLCs and MLCs. Initially, a controller writes first data to a block of MLCs at a first data rate when a temperature of the block meets a first temperature threshold for MLCs. Subsequently, the controller writes second data to the block at a second data rate lower than the first data rate when the temperature of the block meets a second temperature threshold for SLCs. For hybrid SLCs, the MLCs are each configured to store a first number of bits, and the controller writes a second number of bits smaller than the first number of bits in each of one or more of the cells. Storage device performance is thus improved through delayed thermal throttling without compromising data integrity.
US11892924B2
A method includes determining, by an analysis system, a system aspect of a system for an issue detection evaluation. The method further includes determining, by the analysis system, at least one evaluation perspective for use in performing the issue detection evaluation on the system aspect. The method further includes determining, by the analysis system, at least one evaluation viewpoint for use in performing the issue detection evaluation on the system aspect. The method further includes obtaining, by the analysis system, issue detection data regarding the system aspect in accordance with the at least one evaluation perspective and the at least one evaluation viewpoint. The method further includes calculating, by the analysis system, an issue detection rating as a measure of system issue detection maturity for the system aspect based on the issue detection data, the at least one evaluation perspective, the at least one evaluation viewpoint, and at least one evaluation rating metric.
US11892921B2
A method of managing a virtual machine environment is described. According to the method, a cloud application that is used for management of a plurality of virtual machines may receive, from a first virtual machine, an indication of one or more configuration parameters associated with the first virtual machine. The cloud application may generate an executable package based on metadata associated with the first virtual machine. The executable package may be configured to be executable by a set of default drivers on a second virtual machine upon bootup of the second virtual machine to configure the second virtual machine in accordance with the one or more configuration parameters. The cloud application may transmit, to the second virtual machine, the executable package for configuring the second virtual machine in accordance with the one or more configuration parameters.
US11892914B2
The method includes obtaining, by a restoration policy manager, a restoration request for a plurality of application containers, and in response to the restoration request: obtaining, by a backup server, container information associated with the plurality of application containers, assigning a restoration type to each application container in the plurality of application containers, updating a restoration type list based on the assigning, and initiating a restoration of the plurality of application containers using the restoration type list.
US11892908B2
A method includes obtaining, by a computing device of a storage network, provenance information for data associated with a set of storage units of the storage network, where the data is error encoded into a set of encoded data slices, in accordance with error encoding parameters, for storage in the set of storage units. The method further includes determining, by the computing device, probable error locations associated with the set of storage units based on the provenance information. The method further includes scanning, by the computing device, the probable error locations to determine whether an error exists for the set of encoded data slices.
US11892903B2
A system includes a computer system, a memory, and processor. The computer system includes a plurality of units of system resources, each executing a workload unit. The memory stores a set of remediation scripts. Each remediation script is associated with a known failure of a set of known failures within the computer system. Each remediation script is configured, when executed, to remediate the known failure. The processor measures performance metrics associated with the computer system. The processor determines, based on the performance metrics, that a probability that a failure within the computer system will occur within a future time is greater than a set threshold. In response, the processor determines, based on the values for the set of metrics, that the failure is a known failure, and executes a remediation script associated with the known failure.
US11892893B2
A method of thermal and power control in a computing device includes, at the computing device, initializing a thermal module of the computing device, receiving data at the thermal module from a first component assigned to an interface of the thermal module, and sending an output to a second component from the thermal module based on the data. Initializing the thermal module includes detecting a presence of a plurality of potential components of the computing device; querying each of the plurality of potential components to determine capabilities of each component; in response to the querying, for each of at least a subset of the plurality of potential components receiving identification information for the component and, based on the received identification information, configuring one or more interfaces of the plurality of predefined interfaces of the thermal module to establish communication with the subset of components.
US11892884B2
A hinge structure for an electronic device including a first part and a second part is provided. The hinge structure includes a first fixing base, a second fixing base, a rotating element, and a control element. The first fixing base connects to the first part. The second fixing base connects to the second part and includes a first locking structure. The rotating element includes a second locking structure. An end of the rotating element rotatably and movably connects to the first fixing base along an axial direction. The other end of the rotating element engages with the first locking structure through the second locking structure. The control element extends to the rotating element for driving the rotating element to move along the axial direction.
US11892881B2
A display device includes: a bendable display panel including a flat area and bendable areas; and a support module disposed on the display panel, wherein the support module supports the display panel, wherein the support module includes a support plate and joints, wherein the support plate overlaps the flat area and the bendable areas and includes lattice pattern areas including lattice patterns, and wherein the joints are disposed on the support plate, are disposed to overlap with the bendable areas, and are spaced apart from one another in the first direction. Each of the joints has a top surface and a bottom surface, wherein the top surface is disposed on the support plate, and the bottom surface is opposite to the top surface, and a width of each of the top surfaces of the joints is less than a width of each of the bottom surfaces of the joints.
US11892880B2
An electronic device includes a housing including a first housing and a second housing; a hinge unit configured to rotate the first housing and the second housing, the housing configured to move between a folded state and an unfolded state via the hinge unit; a first display disposed in a first area of the first housing and a second area of the second housing; a second display disposed in a third area of the first housing, located at an opposite side of the first area; at least one sensor; a memory configured to store an image frame set including a plurality of image frames; and at least one processor; wherein the memory stores instructions which, when executed, cause the at least one processor to obtain, via the at least one sensor, information corresponding to a folding angle between the first housing and the second housing, based on the obtained information corresponding to a first folding angle being smaller than a first reference angle, deactivate the first display and display, via the second display, an image frame included in the image frame set, based on the obtained information corresponding to a second folding angle being greater than the first reference angle, deactivate the second display and control to activate the first display, and based on the obtained information corresponding to a folding angle increasing from the second folding angle to a third folding angle, display, via the first display, image frames included in the image frame set corresponding to a plurality of folding angles between the second folding angle to the third folding angle.
US11892878B2
An electronic device has a structure in which two portions between which a bent portion of a display panel is positioned are each fixed to a housing. The electronic device takes two forms of a form in which the display panel is opened and a form in which the display panel is folded in three. The electronic device includes a mechanism for sliding two housings parallel to each other. The display panel is changed in shape so that a portion where a display surface of the display panel is convexly curved and a portion where the display surface of the display panel is concavely curved in the folded state move in directions parallel and opposite to each other. At this time, the two portions of the display panel which are supported by the housings are slid while their display surfaces maintain a state parallel to each other.
US11892877B2
An information handling system camera is secured against unauthorized image captures by a shutter that mechanically closes across the camera lens to block visible light from entering the camera. The shutter integrates an infrared bypass filter that passes through infrared light while blocking visible light so that the camera can support facial recognition when the mechanical shutter secures the camera to prevent unauthorized capture of visual images.
US11892874B2
A casing assembly for accommodating a stylus includes a casing and a button. The casing has an accommodation recess and an opening in communication with each other. The accommodation recess has a first end and a second end opposite to each other on a longitudinal axis thereof, and accommodates the stylus. The opening extends from the first end to the second end. The button includes an operation portion and a pushing portion connected to each other. The operation portion is pivotally disposed at the casing so as to be pivotable between an initial position and a released position. The pushing portion is located in the accommodation recess. When the operation portion is pivoted from the initial position to the released position, the pushing portion in the accommodation recess is moved toward the opening so as to push the stylus out of the accommodation recess.
US11892868B2
There is described herein a quantum computing system comprising a quantum control system configured for generating microwave signals up-converted to optical frequencies, at least one optical fiber coupled to the quantum control system for carrying the up-converted microwave signals, and a quantum processor disposed inside a cryogenics apparatus and coupled to the at least one optical fiber for receipt of the up-converted microwave signals. The quantum processor comprises at least one optical-to-microwave converter configured for down-converting the up-converted microwave signals, and a plurality of solid-state quantum circuit elements coupled to the at least one optical-to-microwave converter and addressable by respective ones of the down-converted microwave signals.
US11892859B2
A drone system is configured to capture an audio stream that includes voice commands from an operator, to process the audio stream for identification of the voice commands, and to perform operations based on the identified voice commands. The drone system can identify a particular voice stream in the audio stream as an operator voice, and perform the command recognition with respect to the operator voice to the exclusion of other voice streams present in the audio stream. The drone can include a directional camera that is automatically and continuously focused on the operator to capture a video stream usable in disambiguation of different voice streams captured by the drone.
US11892848B2
A method for interactions during encounters between a mobile robot and an actor, a mobile robot configured for execution of delivery tasks in an outdoor environment, and a use of the mobile robot. The method comprises the mobile robot traveling on a pedestrian pathway; detecting an actor by the mobile robot via a sensor system; identifying a situation associated with the detected actor; in response to the identified situation, determining an action to execute by the mobile robot, and executing the determined action by the mobile robot. The mobile robot comprises a navigation component configured for at least partially autonomous navigation in an outdoor environment; a sensor system configured for collecting sensor data during an encounter between the mobile robot and an actor; a processing component configured to process the sensor data and output actions for the mobile robot to perform; and an output component configured for executing actions determined by the processing component.
US11892838B1
According to one aspect, methods to validate an autonomy system in conjunction with a teleoperations system are provided. A computing device obtains simulation data of an autonomous driving system of a vehicle. The simulation data includes first environment data representing an environment in which the vehicle is driven using the autonomous driving system. The computing device obtains teleoperations driving data of a teleoperations driving system by which the vehicle is remotely controlled with an aid of a human. The teleoperations driving data includes second environment data representing the environment in which the vehicle is driven using the teleoperations driving system. The computing device determines whether the autonomous driving system in conjunction with the teleoperations driving system meets a minimum deployment standard based on the simulation data and the teleoperations driving data.
US11892836B2
The present application comprises a system for controlling a plurality of autonomous vehicles on a mine site, the system comprising: a centralized platform configured to store an inventory list of vehicles travelling on the mine site and comprising a first communication interface configured to communicate missions to the vehicles; a plurality of autonomous vehicles, the autonomous vehicles comprising: a first communication interface configured to wirelessly communicate with the centralized platform for receiving a predetermined mission, a trajectory control system configured to autonomously control the autonomous vehicle according to the predetermined mission; and at least one portable device, the portable device comprising a second communication interface configured to wirelessly communicate with a second communication interface of the plurality of vehicles from the mine site.
US11892835B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and techniques for controlling an autonomous vehicle. While the autonomous vehicle is travelling to a destination, the autonomous vehicle may encounter a situation preventing the autonomous vehicle from travelling to the destination. A control center may receive information from the autonomous device and use a graphical user interface to provide instructions with limited controls for the autonomous vehicle to navigate to an intermediate position. In such an intermediate position, the vehicle may make way for an emergency vehicle, obtain additional sensor data for continued autonomous planning, signal intent to other objects in the environment, and the like.
US11892832B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium that generates lane path descriptors for use by autonomous vehicles. One of the methods includes receiving data that defines valid lane paths in a scene in an environment. Each valid lane path represents a path through the scene that can be traversed by a vehicle. User interface presentation data can be provided to a user device. The user interface can contain: (i) a first display area that displays a first visual representation of the sensor measurement; and (ii) a second display area that displays a second visual representation of the set of valid lane paths. User input modifying the second visual representation of the set of valid lane paths can be received; and in response to receiving the user input, the set of valid lane paths of the scene in the environment can be modified.
US11892831B2
Industrial technical plant controlled and monitored by a process control, wherein a visualization system requests a history of selected process datum for that display period from a process control system and outputs the associated profile as a graphic forming process data points, where the visualization system determines the particular process data point as the average or median of the values of the selected process datum in a collection period characteristic of the particular process data point and where, for the particular process data point, the visualization system also determines the minimum and/or the maximum values of the selected process datum during the collection period such that whenever the minimum is below a predefined minimum value and/or the maximum exceeds a predefined maximum value, the visualization system indicates, together with the particular process data point, a secondary alarm not set by the process control system, but set by the visualization system.
US11892819B2
An objective of the present invention is to provide a control device, control system, control method, and computer-readable storage medium, for enabling verification of the reliability of operation machine control. Provided is a control device comprising: a control part comprising a controller for outputting output data with regard to input data, said control part serving to control an operation machine using the controller; an acquisition part for acquiring attribute information including statistics of previously obtained input data and output data; and an evaluation part for, on the basis of a comparison of the attribute information with new input data being newly inputted into the controller and/or new output data being newly outputted from the controller with regard to the new input data, evaluating to what extent the new input data and/or the new output data deviate from the statistics.
US11892803B2
A holographic image display system comprising a processor receiving image data at an input and producing output hologram data based on the image data. The image data comprises three-dimensional image data that is separable into a plurality of two-dimensional image layers at different image planes. The processor is configured to: a) perform a space-frequency transform on each image layer to provide a transformed image layer, b) apply a focus factor to each transformed image layer, c) apply a pseudo-random phase factor to each transformed image layer, and d) sum the transformed image layers to form a holographic sub-frame, e) repeat steps (c) and (d) for a plurality of iterations, applying a different pseudo-random phase factor to the transformed image layers in each iteration to form a plurality of holographic sub-frames; and f) drive a spatial light modulator with the holographic sub-frames in rapid temporal succession to generate a holographic image.
US11892794B2
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device including a fixing device frame, a chute rotatable between a path forming position and a path opening position, an optical sensor including a light-emitting element, and an actuator. The actuator has a shaft, a first lever configured to contact an anti-pivot rib, and a second lever configured to shield light emitted from the light-emitting element. The actuator is movable to a position where the first lever contacts the anti-pivot rib when the chute is at the path forming position, a position where the first lever and the anti-pivot rib are separated from each other when the chute is at the path forming position, and a position where the first lever and the anti-pivot rib are separated from each other when the chute is at the path opening position. The actuator and the optical sensor are supported by the fixing device frame.
US11892793B2
A first cover includes a first discharge tray portion and a first recess. The first discharge tray portion supports a discharged sheet. The first recess is formed at the first discharge tray portion. The first recess extends along a sheet discharge direction to a downstream end of the first discharge tray portion in the sheet discharge direction. The second cover surrounds the first cover. A second cover includes a second discharge tray portion and a second recess. The second discharge tray portion is arranged downstream of the first discharge tray portion in the sheet discharge direction. The second discharge tray portion supports the discharged sheet in cooperation with the first discharge tray portion. The second recess is arranged downstream of the first recess in the discharge direction. The second recess is formed continuously from the first recess, and serves as a sheet handle portion in cooperation with the first recess.
US11892791B2
An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable photosensitive member; a charging portion, an exposure portion, a developing member, a transfer unit, a contact and separation portion, a charging voltage applying portion, a detecting portion, and a controller. The controller is capable of executing an operation in an image forming mode and an operation in a detecting mode. The controller carries out control so that a charging current flowing through a charging portion during charging of the photosensitive member in the operation in the detecting mode is lower than a charging current flowing through the charging portion during charging of the photosensitive member in the operation in the image forming mode.
US11892788B2
A heating device includes a heating roller that includes a resistance heating layer, and a connection power feeder that is mounted on an end portion of the heating roller, is connected to the resistance heating layer, and feeds power to the resistance heating layer, in which the connection power feeder includes an annular frame that is disposed to be concentric with the heating roller and is conductively connected to the resistance heating layer, a power feed shaft of which a portion is disposed in the frame and which feeds power, plural rolling bodies that roll while being in conductive contact with an inner peripheral surface of the frame and an outer peripheral surface of the power feed shaft, and a non-conductive cover that holds and covers the frame and the rolling bodies in a state where a portion excluding the portion of the power feed shaft is exposed, and the connection power feeder excluding the power feed shaft is mounted on the heating roller so as to be integrally rotated with the heating roller.
US11892780B1
An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor that has a photosensitive layer constituting a surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, a charging device that charges the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, an electrostatic charge image forming device that forms an electrostatic charge image on the charged surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, a developing device that accommodates a developer containing a toner which contains toner particles and an external additive, and develops the electrostatic charge image formed on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor by the developer as a toner image, a transfer device that transfers the toner image formed on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor to a surface of a recording medium, and a cleaning device that includes a cleaning blade coming into contact with the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor and cleaning at least residual toner particles on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor.
US11892777B2
The present application relates to contact immersion lithography exposure units and methods of their use. An example contact exposure unit includes a container configured to contain a fluid material and a substrate disposed within the container. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface, and the substrate includes a photoresist material on at least the first surface. The contact exposure unit includes a photomask disposed within the container. The photomask is optically coupled to the photoresist material by way of a gap comprising the fluid material. The contact exposure unit also includes an inflatable balloon configured to be controllably inflated so as to apply a desired force to the second surface of the substrate to controllably adjust the gap between the photomask and the photoresist material.
US11892753B2
A lens apparatus includes a holding barrel configured to hold a lens, an operation member, an exterior barrel configured to hold the operation member rotatably around an optical axis, and a fixed barrel. When the holding barrel and the exterior barrel move in an optical axis direction relative to the fixed barrel, an imaging state and a retracted state are switchable. When the operation member is rotated in one direction in each of the imaging and retracted states, the operation member gets engaged with the fixed barrel and the state gets locked. When the operation member is rotated in the other direction around the optical axis, the operation member gets disengaged from the fixed barrel, and the imaging state or the retracted state gets unlocked and switchable.
US11892750B2
First and second LED arrays can include respective first and second pluralities of light-emitting areas that are separated by respective first and second boundaries. The first and second boundaries can be arranged in slightly different patterns. At least one lens can collimate light from the first LED array to form first illumination, collimate light from the second LED array to form second illumination, and illuminate the scene with the first and second illuminations. The first boundaries can form first dark bands in the first illumination. The second boundaries can form second dark bands in the second illumination, which can be slightly offset from the first dark bands at the scene.
US11892748B2
A control method for an occlusion component and an electronic device are disclosed. The method includes: in a first status of the electronic device, controlling the occlusion component to be located at a first position on the electronic device to occlude a lens of the electronic device; in a second status of the electronic device, detecting a trigger signal and a target object in front of the lens, wherein the trigger signal is generated by triggering a physical button of the electronic device, and the first status is different from the second status; and in a situation where the trigger signal is detected and the target object exists, controlling the occlusion component to move to a second position on the electronic device to expose the lens.
US11892738B2
Disclosed herein are systems, apparatuses, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media related to a display construct coupled to a structure (e.g., a vision window). The structure can be a supportive structure such as a fixture. The display construct is configured to facilitate media display and is at least partially transparent. The vision window may be a tintable window, e.g., a window in which its tint is electrically controllable (e.g., an electrochromic window). Various interactive capabilities with the display construct are disclosed (e.g., via a touch screen).
US11892731B2
Backlight modules, display panels and display apparatuses are provided. A backlight module includes: a flexible light board, provided with a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged at intervals, and provided with a first wire at an edge thereof; a back cover including a base plate, the flexible light board being provided on the base plate, and the base plate being provided with a second wire located on a same side as the first wire; and a controller configured to control a direction of an electric current flowing through the first wire and a direction of an electric current flowing through the second wire, to generate an attractive force or a repulsive force between the first wire and the second wire.
US11892730B2
A backlight module, a display device, and a method of assembling a display device are disclosed. The backlight module includes a backplate, a middle frame, and a bonding adhesive. The middle frame is disposed on the backplate. A first adhesive holding slot is disposed between the backplate and the middle frame. At least one adhesive passage hole is defined in the middle frame. One end of the at least one adhesive passage hole is connected to the first adhesive holding slot, and another end of the at least one adhesive passage hole defines an opening at a top of the middle frame.
US11892729B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a backlight module and a display device. The backlight module includes: a backplane, a bezel, a protrusion and a plurality of dimming film layers, wherein the bezel is connected to the backplane and includes: a fixing structure and a plurality of bezel sidewalls on which the fixing structure is disposed, the fixing structure has an orthographic projection on the backplane located within an orthographic projection of the bezel sidewalls on the backplane, the plurality of bezel sidewalls and the backplane define an accommodation space in which the dimming film layers are provided, and the protrusion is fixedly disposed on a side surface of at least one of the dimming film layers and fixed to the bezel sidewalls via the fixing structure.
US11892727B2
An illumination unit according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of first light-emission blocks, a plurality of second light-emission blocks, and a light-emission controller. The first light-emission blocks each include a plurality of first light-emitting devices arranged in a first direction. The second light-emission blocks are partially overlapped with the respective first light-emission blocks, and each include a plurality of second light-emitting devices arranged in a second direction different from the first direction. The light-emission controller performs light-emission control of the first light-emitting devices for each of the first light-emission blocks, and performs the light-emission control of the second light-emitting devices for each of the second light-emission blocks.
US11892726B2
In an image display method, a backlight is divided into first areas in a first direction. Each of the first areas includes light-emitting regions. A liquid crystal panel is divided into second areas in the first direction. In the method, a first operation to cause light to be emitted from the light-emitting regions at respective intensity in accordance with frame image data is performed sequentially with respect to each of the first areas. Further, a second operation to apply voltages to the pixels at respective levels in accordance with the frame image data is performed sequentially with respect to each of the second areas. A timing at which the first operation with respect to each of the first areas is started is delayed from a timing at which the second operation with respect to a corresponding one of the second areas is started by a predetermined interval.
US11892714B2
An article includes a first ophthalmic lens including a first spectral filter (e.g., a reflective or absorptive spectral filter), and a second ophthalmic lens including a second spectral filter (e.g., a reflective or absorptive spectral filter). The first spectral filter substantially blocks visible light having wavelengths corresponding to a first portion of a spectral sensitivity range of a first type of cone (e.g., S, M, or L cone) and substantially passes visible light having wavelengths in a second, non-overlapping portion of the spectral sensitivity range. The second spectral filter substantially blocks visible light having wavelengths in the second portion of the spectral sensitivity range and substantially passes visible light having wavelengths in the first spectral sensitivity range.
US11892712B2
A progressive spectacle lens has a front face and a rear face and a uniform substrate with a locally varying refractive index. The front face and/or the rear face of the substrate is formed as a free-form surface and carries only functional coatings, if any. The refractive index varies (a) only in a first spatial dimension and in a second spatial dimension and is constant in a third spatial dimension, a distribution of the refractive being neither point-symmetrical nor axis symmetrical, or (b) in a first spatial dimension and in a second spatial dimension and in a third spatial dimension, a distribution of the refractive index being neither point-symmetrical nor axis symmetrical, or (c) in a first spatial dimension and in a second spatial dimension and in a third spatial dimension, a distribution of the refractive index not being point-symmetrical or axis symmetrical at all.
US11892710B2
A system comprises an eyewear device that includes a frame, a temple connected to a lateral side of the frame, a fingerprint sensor, and a sensing circuit. The fingerprint sensor includes an input surface to receive input of a finger skin surface. The sensing circuit is configured to track a pattern of fingerprint ridges of the finger skin surface on the input surface. Execution of programming by a processor configures the system to perform functions to track, via the sensing circuit, the pattern of fingerprint ridges of the finger skin surface on the input surface; generate a fingerprint image having the tracked pattern of fingerprint ridges; extract fingerprint features from the fingerprint image; and authorize the user to utilize the eyewear device based on the extracted fingerprint features.
US11892709B2
A type of fragrant eyeglasses is revealed. The fragrant eyeglasses include an eyeglass body and a nose bridge which is arranged at the eyeglass body and provided with a mounting space for mounting fragrance tablets. At least one air inlet and at least one air outlet for guiding air flows are disposed on a front side and a rear side of the mounting space respectively. Thereby the fragrance tablet mounted in the nose bridge is just adjacent to the user's nose when the eyeglasses are fitted on bridge of user's nose by the nose bridge. Thus the user smells scents emanated from the fragrance tablet and feels refreshing and soothing. The air inlet and the air outlet not only help emanation of scents from the fragrance tablet, but also guide the scents to spread along with air flows induced by movements of people who while walking or riding bicycles.
US11892705B2
An optical unit includes an optical element, a holder, a support portion, a swing mechanism, and an elastic portion. The optical element changes the traveling direction of light. The holder holds the optical element. The support portion supports the holder swingably about a swing axis. The swing mechanism swings the holder with respect to the support portion about the swing axis. The elastic portion connects the holder and the support portion. The support portion has a pair of side surface portions on both sides of the holder along the swing axis, and a connection portion connecting the side surface portions with the elastic portion between the holder and the side surface portions. The elastic portion has a convex or concave portion that comes into contact with a concave or convex portion of at least one of the holder and the support portion.
US11892699B2
A cable assembly includes a cable and a cable mounting clamp. The cable mounting clamp includes a base removably connectable to a surface. The base may include a tab removably insertable into an aperture defined in the surface and a lock releasably connectable to the surface. The base further includes an outer body which defines an inner channel and a support ramp disposed within the inner channel, the inner channel extending along a longitudinal axis. The cable mounting clamp further includes a cap connectable to the base to further define the inner channel therebetween. The cable mounting clamp further includes a roller tube disposed within the inner channel and rotatably mounted on the support ramp, the roller tube rotatable about the longitudinal axis.
US11892697B2
There is disclosed a fiber optic cassette cabinet assembly comprising a plurality of trays, each tray comprising a flat surface for receiving fiber optic cassettes arranged side by side, a second flat surface positioned in front of the cassettes received on the tray and pivotally mounted about a first axis between the forward ends and a label holder positioned above the second flat surface and pivotally mounted about a second axis between the forward ends. The tray is moveable between one of a retracted position, where the cassettes are completely within the tray receiving space, and an extended position where the cassettes extend at least partially in front of the cabinet opening. In the extended position a forward edge of the second surface is tiltable downwards about the first axis and a forward edge of the transparent label holder is tiltable upwards about the second axis.
US11892694B2
Provided is an optical fiber ribbon capable of achieving higher density and reduction in diameter and accurately placing optical fibers in V-shape grooves in a fusion machine without failure. The optical fiber ribbon 1 includes three or more of optical fibers 2 arranged in parallel and connecting portions 3 connecting adjacent two optical fibers 2 together, the connecting portions 3 being intermittently provided in each of a ribbon longitudinal direction and a ribbon width direction. The connecting portions 3 are each formed in such a manner as to fill resin into a gap S formed between adjacent two optical fibers 2, and both surfaces of the respective connecting portions 3 are each formed into a recess having a concave shape curved toward a center of the gap S to separate from lines 4,5 each connecting contact points of the optical fibers 2 when being placed on a horizontal surface.
US11892686B2
A female hardened fiber optic connector for terminating an end of a fiber optic cable that is suitable for making an optical connection with another hardened cable assembly and cable assemblies using the same are disclosed. The female hardened fiber optic connector includes a connector assembly, a crimp body, a connector sleeve, and female coupling housing. The connector sleeve has one or more orientation features that cooperate with one or more orientation features inside the female coupling housing. The crimp body has a first shell and a second shell for securing the connector assembly at a front end of the shells and a cable attachment region rearward of the front end for securing a cable.
US11892683B2
The present disclosure relates to a fiber management device or system for facilitating routing and storing optical fibers. The fiber management device includes a flexible, film-like substrate that has optical fiber management, storing functionality, and splicing functionality all on one film-like substrate. The flexible, film-like substrate can provide a routing path for routing optical fibers onto a flexible planar substrate that can be temporarily supported by, mounted on or attached to the flexible planar substrate. The flexible, film-like substrate can accommodate fibers that are in a multi-fiber (e.g., ribbon) configuration or a single fiber configuration.
US11892675B2
According to one embodiment, an illumination device comprises a light guide, a light source, a reflective layer, a first prism and a second prism, wherein the light guide has a thickness in a second direction increasing toward a second side surface, the first prism and the second prism have cross-sectional shapes being formed in a triangle shape, a first height of the first prism in the second direction is smaller than a second height of the second prism in the second direction.
US11892674B2
A production method of a backlight plate, a backlight plate and a backlight module are provided. The method includes providing a light-transmitting substrate which comprises a first area and a second area, forming a pad on the light-transmitting underlay substrate corresponding to the first area, coating a layer of photosensitive material on the light-transmitting substrate and the pad to form a reflective layer, exposing a position of the second area at opposite sides of the light-transmitting substrate that the reflective layer corresponds to, and developing the reflective layer to form a groove for exposing the pad on the first area that the reflective layer corresponds to. The present disclosure ensures the stability of the reflective layer and enhances the overall reflectance of the backlight plate.
US11892673B2
A dimming assembly includes a first prism having a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other, and a second prism disposed on a side where the second surface of the first prism is located. The first surface includes first dimming portions, each of which includes two first side surfaces. Edges of the two first side surfaces away from the second surface intersect at a first intersection line. A surface of the second prism proximate to the second surface includes second dimming portions, each of which includes two second side surfaces. Edges of the two second side surfaces proximate to the second surface intersect at a second intersection line. A distance between orthographic projections of two adjacent first intersection lines on the second surface is less than a distance between orthographic projections of two adjacent second intersection lines on the second surface.
US11892671B2
A light-emitting module includes a light guide member including a first surface, a second surface on an opposite side of the first surface, and a first through hole penetrating from the first surface to the second surface, a light source unit disposed in the first through hole, a first light-transmissive member disposed in the first through hole of the light guide member and covering the light source unit, and a reflective member disposed above the light source unit and disposed above the first light-transmissive member. In a plan view, an outer edge of the reflective member is located outside an outer edge of the light source unit, and the reflective member includes a resin member and a reflector having a refractive index lower than a refractive index of the resin member.
US11892662B2
A diffraction light guide plate, including: a first diffraction substrate; and a second diffraction substrate provided on the first diffraction substrate. The first diffraction substrate includes a first diffraction grating layer on one surface and a second diffraction grating layer on an opposite surface. The second diffraction substrate includes a third diffraction grating layer on one surface and a stress compensation layer on an opposite surface. The first diffraction grating layer separates light having a wavelength of 550 nm or more and 700 nm or less, the second diffraction grating layer separates light having a wavelength of 400 nm or more and 550 nm or less, the third diffraction grating layer separates light having a wavelength of 450 nm or more and 650 nm or less, and the stress compensation layer has stress in the same direction as a direction of stress of the third diffraction grating layer.
US11892653B2
A light source module includes a first light-splitting element, a second light-splitting element, a first light source, a second light source and a third light source. The first light source emits a first light having a first wavelength to the first light-splitting element in a first optical path direction. The second light source emits a second light having the first wavelength to the first light-splitting element in a second optical path direction perpendicular to the first optical path direction. The third light source emits a third light having a second wavelength to the first and second light-splitting elements in a third optical path direction opposite to the second optical path direction, and the second wavelength is different from the first wavelength. The first light source and the second light source include reflection layers configured to reflect light having the first wavelength.
US11892651B2
An optoelectronic component includes an optoelectronic semiconductor chip configured to emit electromagnetic radiation; an optically effective element arranged such that electromagnetic radiation emitted by the optoelectronic semiconductor chip passes through the optically effective element; and a housing, wherein the optoelectronic semiconductor chip is arranged in a cavity of the housing, the optically effective element includes a carrier, a first optically effective structure arranged on a top side of the carrier, and a cover arranged above the first optically effective structure.
US11892650B2
The invention relates to a method for producing an optical component consisting of at least two individual parts, which together enclose an open cavity, wherein the timer sides delimiting the cavity are coated or structured, and from which previously material has been removed in zones in the region of the free aperture, wherein said region is recoated and the individual parts are connected to one another by wringing. The wringing height is greater than the removal height plus the height of the coating. The invention also relates to optical components which are produced according to this method.
US11892645B2
Intelligent VR (Virtual Reality) elastic bandage equipment includes a main body, left and right supporting arms, a rear support, a telescopic assembly and a driving mechanism. According to a touch panel in the equipment, different input signals are triggered through different touch actions and touch durations, and a motor is controlled through a main control circuit board, so that the motor outputs different rotating speeds and directions; and therefore, the motor further drives the driving mechanism to drive the telescopic assembly to move and stretch, the telescopic assembly further drives the left and right supporting arms to retract, and adjustment of the distance between the main body and the head of a human body is achieved, so that the equipment is more comfortable to use, the use range is enlarged, and the operation is easy.
US11892643B2
Provided are augmented reality glasses, including: a lens unit; two temple brackets connected to a first side and a second side of the lens unit, respectively, the first side and the second side being two opposite sides of the lens unit; at least one optical module configured to form a screen, each of which is connected to at least one optical module holder that each is in rotatable connection with one of the temple brackets, an axis of rotation of the rotatable connection is set along a direction from the first side toward the second side so that the optical module is movable between a first position in front of the lens unit and a second position deviating from the front of the lens unit.
US11892640B1
Disclosed are a mixed-reality optical waveguide-based combiner apparatus that includes stacked plates of reflective optical elements (ROEs) and associated methods of fabrication. ROEs in the plates of the waveguide combiner share a commonly shaped and sized footprint and are aligned in the stack. A top plate in the stack of plates includes an input-coupler, such as a prism, for in-coupling light for virtual images from a display engine into the waveguide combiner. The top plate also includes a top ROE comprising a cascaded array of mirror elements in a waveguide that horizontally expands an exit pupil of the virtual images and couples the light to a corresponding bottom ROE, disposed in a bottom plate in the stack, comprising a cascaded array of mirror elements in a waveguide. The bottom ROE couples the virtual image light to an output coupler in the bottom plate which out-couples light from the waveguide combiner.
US11892638B2
A near-eye imaging system includes a light source, a waveguide, a scanner, and a sensor. The light source is configured to emit light. The waveguide includes an output coupler. The scanner is configured to direct the light to the output coupler at varying scan angles. The waveguide confines the light to guide the light to the output coupler. The output coupler has negative optical power and is configured to direct the light to exit the waveguide as expanding illumination light toward an eyebox region. The sensor is configured to generate a tracking signal in response to returning light incident on the sensor via the scanner and via the output coupler.
US11892631B2
Disclosed are a near-eye display device and a near-eye display system. The excitation light source structure provides excitation light to the first waveguide structure, and the outgoing coupling grating structure corresponding to the first waveguide structure receiving the excitation light may be further irradiated by the excitation light, and be excited and output the light with a pixel color corresponding to the first waveguide structure. That is, the outgoing coupling grating structure corresponding to the first waveguide structure receiving the excitation light can derive the light with the corresponding pixel color emitted by the projection-based display, and be excited by the excitation light emitted by the excitation light source structure to output light with a pixel color corresponding to the first waveguide structure.
US11892630B2
An augmented reality device may include: a light source; a display device comprising a plurality of pixels and configured to generate a first image based on light incident from the light source; and an optical combiner comprising a plurality of optical combining units each including a first area and a second area, wherein the first area reflects a plurality of beams constituting the first image at different reflection angles according to wavelengths and incident angles and transfers the reflected plurality of beams to a predetermined viewer position, and the second area transmits a beam of a second image received from outside and transfers the beam of the second image to the predetermined viewer position.
US11892626B2
Methods and systems for determining an individual gaze value are disclosed herein. An exemplary method involves: (a) receiving gaze data for a first wearable computing device, wherein the gaze data is indicative of a wearer-view associated with the first wearable computing device, and wherein the first wearable computing device is associated with a first user-account; (b) analyzing the gaze data from the first wearable computing device to detect one or more occurrences of one or more advertisement spaces in the gaze data; (c) based at least in part on the one or more detected advertisement-space occurrences, determining an individual gaze value for the first user-account; and (d) sending a gaze-value indication, wherein the gaze-value indication indicates the individual gaze value for the first user-account.
US11892618B2
A light beam shaping arrangement for a light microscope has a first and a second liquid crystal region or lifting micromirror region, each of which has a plurality of independently switchable liquid crystal elements or mirrors with which a phase of incident light is changeable in a settable manner, an input-/output-coupling polarization beam splitter, a polarization beam splitter arranged between the input-/output-coupling polarization beam splitter and the liquid crystal regions or lifting micromirror regions such that the polarization beam splitter separates the light coming from the input-/output-coupling polarization beam splitter in a polarization-dependent manner into a first partial beam. The first partial beam is directed to the first liquid crystal region or lifting micromirror region, and into a second partial beam, which is directed to the second liquid crystal region or lifting micromirror region, and the two partial beams returning from the liquid crystal regions and directs them together as an outgoing light beam.
US11892599B2
A camera optical lens is provided. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, an eighth lens, and a ninth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 0.70≤f1/f≤1.90; and 2.00≤d5/d6≤9.00, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens, f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens, d5 denotes an on-axis thickness of the third lens, and d6 denotes an on-axis distance from an image side surface of the third lens to an object side surface of the fourth lens. The camera optical lens according to the present disclosure meets design requirements for large aperture, wide angle and ultra-thinness while achieving good optical performance.
US11892596B2
Provided is a camera optical lens, which includes, from an object side to an image side, first to seventh lenses. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 0.50≤f1/f≤0.80; 1.50≤f6/f7≤5.00; and 1.20≤d4/d5≤2.00, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens, f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens, f6 denotes a focal length of the sixth lens, f7 denotes a focal length of the seventh lens, d4 denotes an on-axis distance from an image side surface of the second lens to an object side surface of the third lens, and d5 denotes an on-axis thickness of the third lens. The camera optical lens according to the present disclosure can achieve high optical performance while satisfying design requirements for ultra-thin, long-focal-length lenses having large apertures.
US11892578B2
This disclosure relates to geophysical exploration and seismic imaging, and more particularly to a seismic imaging method, system, and device based on pre-stack high-angle fast Fourier transform (FFT). The method includes: acquiring seismic data acquired during seismic exploration; extracting a common shot point gather from the seismic data followed by conversion into a frequency wavenumber domain common offset gather; calculating wave propagation angles; dividing an imaging region into a first region and a second region; solving constant coefficients of the first region and the second region; performing frequency-division layer-by-layer wavefield continuation on a frequency-wave number domain common offset gather to obtain imaging results at different depths and frequencies; subjecting the imaging results to integration followed by transformation to a spatial domain to obtain common offset imaging profiles; and subjecting the common offset imaging profiles to superposition obtain final imaging results. The disclosure achieves the highly-precise seismic imaging of high-steep structures and improves imaging efficiency.
US11892577B2
Disclosed are a multi-scale photoacoustic detection method of geological structure around a borehole and related devices. The method includes: obtaining depth information and direction information of the borehole; generating trajectory data of the borehole according to the depth information and direction information; obtaining an optical image of the geological structure around the borehole; generating a first velocity model according to the optical image and the trajectory data; obtaining low-frequency acoustic wave data and high-frequency acoustic wave data of the geological structure around the borehole; performing a full waveform inversion on the first velocity model according to the low-frequency acoustic wave data and the high-frequency acoustic wave data to obtain a second velocity model; and determining the geological structure around the borehole according to the second velocity model.
US11892576B2
A method for characterizing an electron beam in a liquid metal jet X-ray source. The method includes providing the electron beam and directing the electron beam to an interaction region; providing an electron beam dump connected to ground potential for receiving the electron beam after it has traversed the interaction region; scanning the electron beam over at least part of the interaction region; measuring X-ray radiation generated by interaction between the electron beam and the electron beam dump during the scanning to obtain an X-ray profile; and calculating an electron beam characteristic based on the X-ray profile. Also, a corresponding liquid metal jet X-ray source.
US11892565B2
A LIDAR system includes a waveguide array configured to output a LIDAR output signal such that the LIDAR output signal is reflected by an object located off the LIDAR chip. The system also includes electronics configured to tune a wavelength of the LIDAR output signal such that the direction that the LIDAR output signal travels away from the LIDAR chip changes in response to the tuning of the wavelength by the electronics.
US11892556B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for generating a radar signal, in which performance of radar detection is ensured while increasing a spectrum efficiency in a radar network. The method comprises generating a set of frequency-modulation waveforms, generating an orthogonal code set, generating a set of coded frequency-modulation waveforms through element operation between the set of frequency-modulation waveforms and the orthogonal code set, calculating an objective function for the set of frequency-modulation waveforms with regard to a different set of coded frequency-modulation waveforms and previous sets of coded frequency-modulation waveforms, and selecting a current polyphase code set as an optimized polyphase code set when a result of current calculation is better or smaller than a result of previous iteration, and performing phase perturbation by replacing an element randomly selected in the current polyphase code set selected as the optimized polyphase code set with another admissible-phase element.
US11892535B2
A signal processing apparatus that performs signal processing on a Doppler spectrum derived from a reception signal of a reflected wave of pulsed undulation repeatedly transmitted into a space removes a topographic echo spectrum from the Doppler spectrum and extracts a plurality of candidate points of a target echo spectrum from the Doppler spectrum from which the topographic echo spectrum has been removed. Furthermore, the signal processing apparatus determines positional relation between the candidate points and a plurality of removed points of the topographic echo spectrum removed from the Doppler spectrum and extracts as an interpolation point, a point where the target echo spectrum is missing by removal of the topographic echo spectrum based on positional relation between the candidate points and the removed points in a direction of a frequency axis.
US11892534B2
A frequency characteristic measurement apparatus includes a calibration circuit configured to perform a SOLT calibration on cable end surfaces, a first measurement circuit measuring S-parameters of a first substrate provided with a DUT, after the SOLT calibration by the calibration circuit, a second measurement circuit measuring S-parameters of a second substrate after the SOLT calibration by the calibration circuit, and an extraction circuit performing a vector operation of a measurement result of the first measurement circuit and a measurement result of the second measurement circuit to extract S-parameters of the DUT. The extraction circuit assumes that a reflection of each of first second fixtures obtained by virtually dividing the second substrate into two parts at the center, on an end surface of the second substrate is equal to or smaller than a reflection on an end surface of the second substrate without the virtual division at the center.
US11892527B2
A magnetic sensor includes a substrate including a top surface; an insulating layer disposed on the substrate, the insulating layer including first and second inclined surfaces each inclined with respect to the top surface of the substrate; and an MR element. The MR element is disposed on the first inclined surface or the second inclined surface. The MR element includes a first side surface including a first portion and a second portion, the first portion and the second portion having different angles with respect to the first inclined surface or the second inclined surface.
US11892515B2
According to one embodiment, a determination device relating to a plurality of batteries connected in series is provided. The determination device includes a processor. The processor determines a deterioration variance among the batteries, based on first voltage data indicative of a maximum voltage which is greatest among voltages of the batteries in each of measurements in a plurality of periods in charge or discharge of the batteries, and second voltage data indicative of a minimum voltage which is least among the voltages of the batteries in each of the measurements in the periods.
US11892508B2
A joint test action group transmission system includes a host terminal and a slave terminal. The slave terminal includes a test access port (TAP) circuit, an internal memory, and a memory interface controller. The TAP circuit includes a test data register set. The memory interface controller stores the data received from the TAP circuit to the internal memory. The host terminal transmits a set of download instruction bits to the TAP circuit to have the TAP circuit select the test data register set, and have the TAP circuit enter a data shift status to receive a data package through the test data register set. During the process of receiving the data package, the TAP circuit remains in the data shift status to receive the address and at least one piece of data stored in the data package continuously.
US11892502B2
An integrated circuit with a through-silicon via (TSV) fault-tolerant circuit, a TSV fault tolerance method are disclosed. The IC may include a plurality of operational TSVs, a spare TSV, a plurality of fault-tolerance control modules each coupled to one of the plurality of operational TSVs and the spare TSV, and a decoder coupled to the fault-tolerance control modules. The fault-tolerance control modules may be configured to deactivate an operational TSV that is determined to be defective and activate the spare TSV based on a positioning code for the defective operational TSV from the decoder. The IC may reduce the defect rate in the fabrication of TSV-based three-dimensional (3D) IC chips.
US11892497B2
This disclosure is related to arranging micro devices in the donor substrate by either patterning or population so that there is no interfering with non-receiving pads and the non-interfering area in the donor substrate is maximized. This enables the transfer of micro devices to a receiver substrate with fewer steps.
US11892491B2
An Electromagnetic Interference Pattern Recognition Tomography (EMIPRT) method for use in an image reconstruction system includes generating electromagnetic field data corresponding to an object in an imaging domain, via an electromagnetic tomography system, and using the generated electromagnetic field data, repeatedly, in recursive manner, forming an undisturbed electromagnetic interference image, forming a disturbed electromagnetic interference image based on the undisturbed electromagnetic interference image, recognizing electromagnetic interference patterns in the repeatedly formed disturbed electromagnetic interference images, and forming a superposition image by nullifying or diminishing the recognized electromagnetic interference patterns from the disturbed electromagnetic interference image. Forming a disturbed electromagnetic interference image is also based on an object factor that is a function of the differences between experimentally electromagnetic fields and electromagnetic fields calculated during the step of forming an undisturbed electromagnetic interference image. After each repeated step of forming a superposition image, the method also includes determining whether a convergence objective has been reached.
US11892485B2
A method for monitoring power consumption of an appliance within a space is provided. The method includes obtaining a first set of data indicative of power consumption of the appliance during an interval of time and determining a profile indicative of power consumption of the appliance based, at least in part, on the first set of data. The method includes obtaining a second set of data indicative of power consumption of the appliance subsequent to obtaining the first set of data. The method includes determining whether power consumption of the appliance deviates from the profile based, at least in part, on the second set of data. Furthermore, in response to determining power consumption of the appliance deviates from the profile, the method includes providing a notification indicative of power consumption of the appliance deviating from the profile.
US11892480B2
A voltage detection unit includes a voltage detection terminal including a first portion configured to be conductively connected to a detection target and a second portion, a housing having a plate shape and including a terminal accommodating concave configured to accommodate the voltage detection terminal, a cover configured to be engaged with the housing at a temporary locking position at which the cover does not cover the first portion of the voltage detection terminal accommodated in the terminal accommodating concave and at a final locking position at which the cover covers the first portion and an electric wire conductively connected to the voltage detection terminal at the second portion and configured to, when the voltage detection terminal is accommodated in the terminal accommodating concave, be drawn out from the housing.
US11892474B2
A universal measurement input for connecting a small signal transformer to an electrical device includes an electrical input for connecting a connection line of the small signal transformer, an electrical output for outputting a measurement signal to the electrical device, and a correction element having a digital filter with a filter transfer function adapted to the small signal transformer. In order to provide a measurement input with which all possible types of small signal transformers can be connected to an electrical device and which thus reduces the device variety of measurement inputs which are to be provided, the filter transfer function of the correction element is defined by a parameter set to be variably preset specifically for the small signal transformer. An electrical device with the measurement input is also provided.
US11892468B2
A method of using an imaging system including a focal plane with one or more detectors, a lens optically coupled to the focal plane, a transparent plate optically coupled to the focal plane and lens, and an actuator coupled to the transparent plate, includes receiving, at a first area of the focal plane through the lens, light from an object at a first time. The imaging system is located in a first position relative to the object at the first time. The method also includes causing the actuator to move the transparent plate in response to movement of the imaging system relative to the object and receiving, at the first area of the focal plane through the lens, light from the object at a second time. The imaging system is located in a second position relative to the object at the second time.
US11892465B2
A MEMS device includes a first MEMS sensor associated with a first spatial plane and a second MEMS sensor is associated with a spatial second plane not co-planar with the first spatial plane, wherein the first MEMS sensor is configured to provide a first interrupt and a first data in response to a physical perturbation, wherein the second MEMS sensor is configured to provide a second interrupt and second data in response to the physical perturbation, and a controller configured to receive the first interrupt at a first time and the second interrupt at a second time different from the first time, wherein the controller is configured to determine a latency between the first time and the second time, and wherein the controller is configured to determine motion data in response to the first data, to the second data, and to the latency.
US11892464B2
An electronic device includes a substrate, a functional element disposed on a principal plane of the substrate, a lid body, the functional element being housed in a space covered by the lid body and the substrate, the lid body including a recess at a side opposed to the functional element, an outer surface at the opposite side of the recess, a first hole section including an inclined surface and a bottom surface on the outer surface, and a second hole section piercing through the lid body between the recess and the bottom surface and having an inner wall surface, a joining section of the inclined surface and the bottom surface in the first hole section being a curved surface, the lid body containing silicon, and a sealing member that seals the first hole section communicating with the space.
US11892455B2
We describe apparatuses, systems, method, reagents, and kits for conducting assays as well as process for their preparation. They are particularly well suited for conducting automated sampling, sample preparation, and analysis in a multi-well plate assay format. For example, they may be used for automated analysis of particulates in air and/or liquid samples derived therefrom in environmental monitoring.
US11892449B2
Provided is a multivalent protein that targets interaction of SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor binding domain (RBD) with the human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor protein. The multivalent proteins may also be used to treat subjects having cancer and/or a disease and/or viral infection. Also presented is a multiplex lateral flow test strips for simultaneous detection of the virus and viral antibodies.
US11892444B2
Improved multi-cell nanopore-based sequencing chips and methods can employ formation, characterization, calibration, and/or normalization techniques. For example, various methods may include one or more steps of performing physical checks of cell circuitry, forming and characterizing a lipid layer on the cells, performing a zero point calibration of the cells, forming and characterizing nanopores on the lipid layers of each cell, performing a sequencing operation to accumulate sequencing signals from the cells, normalizing those sequencing signals, and determining bases based on the normalized sequencing signals.
US11892443B2
A micro-environment controllable temperature and humidity system evaluates heat and humidity comfort level of textiles. The system includes a bed-shaped partitioned platform having one or more non-temperature and humidity-controllable sections and one or more temperature and humidity controllable sections. One or more temperature and humidity control machine is in communication with the one or more temperature and humidity control sections for supplying air with a pre-set temperature and humidity. A central controller electrically is connected to the one or more temperature and humidity control machines. The micro-environment controllable temperature and humidity system can perform partitioned control on the temperature and humidity in a micro-environment during sleep, and is used for studying the influence of the temperature and humidity on the comfort level of different regions of a subject.
US11892433B2
An electrospray ionization system used in mass spectrometry provides for improved current measurement. The system includes a fluid union, a fluid column coupled with a first port of the fluid union, a power source coupled with the fluid union and configured to apply a voltage potential to the fluid union, and an electrospray emitter coupled with a second port of the fluid union. The power source is coupled with the first port and configured to apply the voltage potential to the first port to restrict current leakage from the fluid union. The current sensing circuit is configured to determine an electrical current flow between the power source and the at least one of the fluid union and the first port.
US11892429B2
A detector for, and a method of, detecting analytes in gases in described. The detector comprises a sorbent for sorbing therein and/or thereon and/or desorbing therefrom, an analyte included in a gas exposed thereto, at a zeroth temperature, pressure (T0,P0), a controller arranged to change the zeroth temperature, pressure (T0,P0) to a first temperature, pressure (T1,P1) according to a first equation, to desorb and/or sorb at least some of the analyte; and a sensor arranged to sense at least some of the analyte and to output a response corresponding to the sensed analyte. The response comprises and/or is a characteristic response of the analyte. The first response is modified based on a first baseline response at the zeroth temperature, pressure (T0,P0).
US11892428B2
A laser ablation device is provided with: a laser light source that outputs a femtosecond pulse laser beam; an optical system that includes a first mirror rotatable about a first axis, a second mirror rotatable about a second axis, a first driving source for rotating the first mirror about the first axis, and a second driving source for rotating the second mirror about the second axis, and that reflects the laser beam from the laser light source toward a sample by the first mirror and the second mirror; and an irradiation controller that, on the basis of the two-dimensional coordinate position of an analysis position, controls the first driving source and the second driving source to irradiate the analysis position with the laser beam.
US11892426B2
Systems and methods for compensating for effects of temperature on implantable sensors are provided. In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided for measuring a temperature to determine a change in temperature in a sensor environment. In certain embodiments, a temperature compensation factor is determined based on a change in temperature of the sensor environment. The temperature compensation factor can be used in processing raw data of an analyte signal to report a more accurate analyte concentration.
US11892419B2
An apparatus for inspection of a target asset comprises a drone including a body, one or more propellers coupled to the body that enable the drone to fly, and an electronic control unit coupled to or positioned within the body of the drone and coupled to the one or more propellers. The apparatus also comprises a neutron emission source and a neutron detector that are both coupled to the body of the drone and also communicatively coupled to the electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to control navigation of the drone to reach the target asset, to activate the neutron emission source to radiate neutrons onto the asset and to gather data from the neutron detector which detects neutrons backscattered from the asset, indicative of a state of the asset and materials contained within the asset.
US11892416B2
A surface inspection apparatus includes an imaging device configured to image a surface of an object to be inspected, and a processor configured to: calculate a numerical value representing a quality of the surface by processing an image captured by the imaging device, and notify a user of information indicating a relationship between a first orientation of a pattern on the surface detected from the image and a second orientation that gives a direction of imaging in which a sensitivity of detection by the imaging device is high.
US11892410B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing a solid-state photonic crystal IPN composite functionalized with an enzyme, a photonic crystal IPN composite prepared by the method, and a biosensor using the photonic crystal IPN composite. The method of the present invention includes (1) mixing a nonreactive chiral dopant with a reactive nematic mesogen, curing the mixture, and removing the chiral dopant while maintaining a helical structure, to form a solid-state helical photonic crystal structure, (2) infiltrating a PAA hydrogel into the internal space of the photonic crystal structure, followed by curing to form an IPN-structured composite, and (3) immobilizing an enzyme in the IPN-structured composite. The PAA hydrogel is infiltrated into the solid-state helical photonic crystal structure and the enzyme is immobilized such that a pH change caused by the enzymatic reaction induces shrinkage and expansion of the PAA hydrogel, leading to a color change.
US11892398B2
A sensor for determining a liquid type, includes: a plano-convex lens; a lens holder configured to support the plano-convex lens via an edge of the lens; an outputting optical fiber that abuts against a plane surface of the plano-convex lens to output light; a light-receiving optical fiber that abuts against the plane surface of the plano-convex lens to receive light; a light-emitting unit connected to the outputting optical fiber; and a light amount measuring unit connected to the light-receiving optical fiber to measure a light amount. The outputting optical fiber is provided so that an end face of the outputting optical fiber is disposed on the edge of the plano-convex lens, and preferably, a central axis thereof at the end face thereof passes through the plane surface of the plano-convex lens.
US11892390B2
An in-line holographic microscope can be used to analyze on a frame-by-frame basis a video stream to track individual colloidal particles' three-dimensional motions. The system and method can provide real time nanometer resolution, and simultaneously measure particle sizes and refractive indexes. Through a combination of applying a combination of Lorenz-Mie analysis with selected hardware and software methods, this analysis can be carried out in near real time. An efficient particle identification methodology automates initial position estimation with sufficient accuracy to enable unattended holographic tracking and characterization.
US11892375B2
An inspection method of the present invention includes supplying water from a tank to an interior of a conduit through a hose provided at one end of the conduit, releasing air from the interior of the conduit to an outside of the conduit through an air vent tube provided at another end of the conduit, determining whether or not water that does not contain air is drained from the air vent tube, when it is determined in the determining that water that does not contain air is drained from the air vent tube, stopping supplying water to the interior of the conduit, closing a valve of an air vent portion, and blocking both ends of the conduit, and performing pressurization by increasing a pressure of the interior of the conduit whose both ends are blocked and whose interior is filled with water, and measuring a pressure value of the interior of the conduit when the pressurization ends and a pressure value of the interior of the conduit when a predetermined period of time elapses.
US11892370B2
A process oxygen analyzer includes a process probe extendible into a flow of process combustion exhaust, the process probe having an oxygen sensor measurement cell. Measurement circuitry is coupled to the oxygen sensor measurement cell and configured to obtain a non-corrected indication of oxygen concentration relative to a combustion process based on an electrical characteristic of the oxygen sensor measurement cell. A controller is operably coupled to the measurement circuitry and is configured to obtain an indication of process pressure and selectively provide a corrected oxygen concentration output based on non-corrected indication of oxygen concentration and the indication of process pressure. A method of providing a process oxygen concentration using a process oxygen analyzer coupled to an industrial combustion process is also disclosed.
US11892342B2
A parallel guide of a force transmission device has movable and fixed parallel legs, and first and second parallel guiding elements. Thin-point flexional bearings connect the parallel legs to the parallel guiding elements. The movable parallel leg is guided by the parallel guiding element on the fixed parallel leg. A force transmission lever, arranged on the fixed parallel leg, has a lever bearing, and a first lever arm. The force transmission lever is pivotably mounted on the lever bearing and the first lever arm is connected to the movable parallel leg to transmit force. The force-transmitting connection is produced by a coupling element having at least one further thin-point flexional bearing, with at least one functional region of the force transmission device being formed monolithically. A functional region associates at least one bearing point with at least one of the parallel legs, the force transmission lever, and the coupling element.
US11892337B2
An opening portion that is formed so as to pass-through an opening/closing plate portion of a gate, can be disposed at a region overlapping a lower end opening of a hopper. The opening portion is structured by a first pass-through portion, and a second pass-through portion that is formed so as to be continuous with the first pass-through portion. A width, in a direction orthogonal to a lined-up direction in which the first pass-through portion and the second pass-through portion are lined up, is narrower than the first pass-through portion. Further, a driving mechanism moves the gate such that the opening/closing plate portion moves in the lined-up direction as seen in a plan view. Based on a preset target value of weight of sand, a control section controls the driving mechanism so as to decrease an amount of overlap of the opening portion of the gate and the lower end opening of the hopper in a stepwise manner in accordance with an increase in the weight of the sand measured by a scale.
US11892333B2
An object is to improve measurement accuracy of a thermal air flow meter. A flow-rate measuring device comprising: a sensor assembly having a flow-rate detecting element; a circuit board on which the sensor assembly is mounted; and a housing on which the circuit board is mounted, wherein the sensor assembly is mounted on the circuit board such that a detection portion side of the flow-rate detecting element is closer to the housing, and the sensor assembly includes a contact portion in contact with the housing on the detection portion side.
US11892332B2
The disclosed apparatus, systems and methods relate to a flow meter for flowable material configured to be used in non-vertical orientations.
US11892329B2
Disclosed is a measurement system using a fiber Bragg grating sensor, which includes a sensing unit including a plurality of dynamic sensors and static sensors using fiber Bragg gratings to detect mutually different physical quantities to be measured, an optical meter configured to measure each physical quantity by simultaneously processing data output from the plurality of dynamic sensors and static sensors in real time, and a server configured to store and manage the data measured by the optical meter. Mutually different physical quantities are measured by simultaneously processing the data output from the plurality of dynamic sensors and static sensors in real time by using one optical meter.
US11892318B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for bias determination and value calculation of parameters of a robot are disclosed herein. According to at least one exemplary embodiment, a bias in a navigation parameter may be determined based on a bias in one or more measurement units, wherein a navigation parameter may be a parameter useful to a robot to recreate a route such as, for example, velocity and the bias may be accounted for to more accurately recreate the route and generate accurate maps of an environment.
US11892314B2
Provided are techniques for thermally efficient route selection. A request is received for a route for a vehicle to travel from a first geographic location to a second geographic location. Route data is retrieved for each of a plurality of routes, where the route data includes, for each portion of each route at a given time and day, air temperature adjacent to a road surface. Vehicle data is retrieved for the vehicle, where the vehicle data includes a desired temperature of an item being carried and a desired inlet air temperature. The route from the first geographic location to the second geographic location is determined using the route data and the vehicle data, where the route is thermally efficient. The vehicle is directed along the route, where the route specifies a lane from a plurality of lanes of a road for each portion of the route.
US11892306B2
A method for identifying dangerous roads includes: receiving a vehicle dataset and extracting a driving record associated with a travelled road section therefrom; for a road section belonging to one of a plurality of section categories, obtaining a driving record from the vehicle dataset; calculating a driving characteristic dataset based on the driving records that are associated with an identified road section; and determining, whether the identified road section should be deemed as a potential dangerous road section based on at least the driving characteristic dataset and a corresponding one of a plurality of reference datasets that corresponds to one of the plurality of section categories.
US11892304B2
A controller determines a travel route from a starting position to a target position in a parking lot and transmits information on at least a section in the travel route to a vehicle, and a monitor monitors the vehicle for a deviation from the travel route during autonomous travel of the vehicle in the section by using a vehicle monitoring system outside the vehicle. When a deviation is detected in the monitoring, the controller determines a correction route for correcting the deviation, and transmits the correction route to the vehicle. When the controller determines that the vehicle cannot travel along the correction route, the controller determines an evacuation route with the current position of the vehicle set to the starting position and a predetermined location set to the target position, and transits the evacuation route to the vehicle such that the vehicle travels along the evacuation route.
US11892303B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for predicting a state of visibility for a road object. For example, at least one processor receives road sign attribute data indicating at least one attribute of a road sign. The processor further receives weather forecast data indicating a weather forecast of a location in which the road sign is disposed, and using the road sign attribute data and the weather forecast data, a state of visibility for the road sign is identified.
US11892300B2
The invention relates to a method for determining a model of the environment of a vehicle, in which method an initial position estimate for the vehicle is acquired and map data are acquired, wherein the map data comprise information about the spatial arrangement of geographical areas, and the geographical areas are assigned to different area categories. Environmental data within an acquisition space is acquired, and objects are detected using the environmental data, wherein an object position and an object category are assigned to each detected object. The environmental model is determined using the detected objects. Assignment rules are provided which define the assignment of the object categories to the area categories, wherein the objects are detected in accordance with the assignment rules.
US11892293B1
A platform gauge instrument and a platform gauge measuring method based on a photogrammetric principle are provided. According to the platform gauge instrument, measuring stations are arranged on both sides of a platform, and the measuring stations on both sides work together to ensure the acquisition of complete platform information. The measuring stations have automatic traveling capability to complete scanning of a whole platform, platform information obtained by the scanning is automatically resolved by a measuring system, and gauge dimensions such as a transverse dimension and a vertical dimension of a platform gauge are resolved through parameters such as object-space coordinates of platform edge points, a space equation of intersection lines of upper surfaces of rails and a measuring cross-section, and common tangent lines of the upper surfaces of two rails on the measuring cross-section, so that resident and real-time gauge high-precision detection of the platform is achieved.
US11892292B2
A holographic interferometer, comprising: at least one imaging device capturing an interference pattern created by at least two light beams; and at least one aperture located in an optical path of at least one light beam of the at least two light beams; wherein the at least one aperture is located away from an axis of the at least one light beam, thus transmitting a subset of the at least one light beam collected at an angle range.
US11892287B2
An input device includes: a first electrode including a reference potential electrode and two or more sets each including a transmission electrode and a reception electrode; and a second electrode that approaches and recedes from the two or more sets by rotating while facing the first electrode with a predetermined space being provided therebetween. The reference potential electrode faces at least a portion of the second electrode as a result of the second electrode approaching at least one set out of the two or more sets. A phase when a first set of first transmission and reception electrodes disposed in a first region approaches and recedes from the second electrode is different from a phase when a second set of second transmission and reception electrodes disposed in a second region approaches and recedes from the second electrode.
US11892286B2
This invention is Motion Recognition Clothing™ which measures the motion and/or configuration of a person's body using an energy-conducting mesh with a plurality of energy pathways. Energy input components direct energy into the pathways at a first set of locations. Energy sensors measure energy flow through the energy pathways from a second set of locations. As the person's body moves, the mesh stretches, elongates, and/or twists, which changes the flows of energy through pathways. These changes are then analyzed to estimate the motion and/or configuration of the person's body.
US11892284B2
Various embodiments illustrated herein disclose a sprocket wear gauge. The sprocket wear gauge comprises a first plate having a first opening of a first diameter and a second plate having a second opening of a second diameter. The first plate is mounted on one end of adjacent sprocket teeth of a plurality of sprocket teeth of a sprocket wheel. The second plate is mounted on an opposite end of the adjacent sprocket teeth of a plurality of sprocket teeth of a sprocket wheel. The first plate and the second plate are attached to each other using screws. A cylindrical pin is placed between the adjacent sprocket teeth and is configured to pass through at least one of the first opening of the first plate and the second opening of the second plate.
US11892283B2
A measurement apparatus (10) for interferometrically determining a surface shape of a test object (14). A radiation source provides an input wave (42), a multiply-encoded diffractive optical element (60), which is configured to produce by diffraction from the input wave a test wave (66) that is directed at the test object and has a wavefront in the form of a free-form surface and at least one calibration wave (70), and a capture device (46). The calibration wave has a wavefront with a non-rotationally symmetric shape (68f), wherein cross sections through the wavefront of the calibration wave along cross-sectional surfaces each aligned transversely to one another have a curved shape. The curved shapes in the different cross-sectional surfaces differ in terms of an opening parameter. The capture device (46) captures a calibration interferogram formed by superimposing a reference wave (40) with the calibration wave after interaction with a calibration object (74).
US11892281B2
An optical measurement system includes a light source, a spectroscopic detector, a reference sample, a switching mechanism that switches between a first optical path through which a sample to be measured is irradiated with light from the light source and light produced at the sample is guided to the spectroscopic detector and a second optical path through which the reference sample is irradiated with light from the light source and light produced at the reference sample is guided to the spectroscopic detector, and a processing unit that calculates, by performing correction processing based on change between a first detection result at first time and a second detection result at second time, a measurement value of the sample from a third detection result provided from the spectroscopic detector as a result of irradiation of the sample with light from the light source at third time temporally proximate to the second time.
US11892273B2
This disclosure is directed to an improved ballistic concrete mixture which is operable to be cast in many forms such as blocks. The improved ballistic concrete mixture provides an effective barrier for stopping projectiles with a kinetic energy of between about 1.0 kJ (750 foot-pounds) and 20.3 kJ (15,000 foot-pounds) in between about 3 inches and 10 inches such as a fifty-caliber round. The improved ballistic concrete mixture is useful in the erecting of new structures which need ballistics protection or for retrofitting existing structures with ballistics protection.
US11892269B2
Underwater craft including means for launching an underwater vehicle using water pressure, including a vehicle-launching tube having a front part and a rear part and the rear part of which is connected to a water distribution tank itself connected to a water tube in which is positioned a piston for delivering water into the rear part of the tube in order to push and eject the vehicle, is characterized in that the piston is associated with a linear electric actuator for moving same.
US11892268B1
The present disclosure relates a buttstock accessory port system, comprising a body, a recoil pad, and an insert. The body includes a bridge and a cavity. The recoil pad attaches to the body and incudes an opening. The insert is insertable through the recoil pad opening and insertable into the cavity of the body.
US11892267B2
The buttstock assembly uses a modular design including interchangeable end attachments and sling strap connectors. The interchangeable end attachments allow the buttstock to have different toe heights and configurations for different shooting applications. The interchangeable strap connectors allow the use of either quick-disconnect style sling swivels or more traditional fixed strap loops as desired. The buttstock assembly also uses a “trigger” style locking mechanism to selectively position and lock the buttstock along the length of the extension tube to adjust the overall length of pull of the weapon.
US11892263B2
A shaking bullet chain structure of a toy gun is provided. The toy gun has a gun body and an action. The structure includes a fixing base, a slider, a bullet chain, and a sway assembly. The fixing base is disposed beside the gun body and includes a frame and a cover. The slider is movably connected to the cover and is provided with a working trough. The bullet chain is hung on the fixing base and includes multiple bullets and a belt. One end of the sway assembly is pivoted to the frame, and another end is connected to an insert rod. The insert rod penetrates a bullet and the working trough. When the action reciprocates in the gun body, the action is configured to drives the slider to move therewith to further drive the bullet chain to shake by the working trough pushing the insert rod.
US11892260B2
A handguard for mounting on a firearm with a housing axis, including: a housing with a slit and with a clamping device including a lever with a center element which lies in a normal plane to the housing axis in a through-opening. It has a recess in its central region, a thread at one end, a lever arm at the other end, and a nut with an internal thread. According to the invention, the center element has a conical nut section. In the assembled state, a nut is screwed onto the thread and thus the center element is arranged in an annular groove of the travelling nut so as to make contact with the center element.
US11892250B2
A heat exchanger for heat exchange between a first fluid and a second fluid has a plurality of tube sections, each comprising; an interior for passing the first fluid; an exterior for exposure to the second fluid; a first leg; a second leg; a turn joining the first leg to the second leg; and a first face and a second face. A support has at least one carbon member engaging the plurality of tube sections.
US11892241B2
At least one of an evaporator, a condenser, a liquid pipe, and a vapor pipe includes a first outer metal layer, a second outer metal layer, and an inner metal layer including a porous body. The porous body includes a first bottomed hole formed in one face of the inner metal layer; a second bottomed hole formed in the other face of the inner metal layer; a pore, and a first convex portion provided inside the first bottomed hole. The first convex portion has a proximal end connected to a bottom face of the first bottomed hole and a distal end provided on an opposite side to the proximal end in a thickness direction of the first convex portion. The distal end is provided at a position further recessed toward the bottom face of the first bottomed hole than the one face of the inner metal layer.
US11892240B2
A combination structure of a vapor chamber and a heat pipe includes a half-shell seat element, a half-shell cover element, a wick structure, and a working fluid. The half-shell seat element includes a vapor chamber half-shell seat and multiple heat pipe half-shell seats. Each heat pipe half-shell seat is extended from the vapor chamber half-shell seat. The vapor chamber half-shell seat includes a vapor chamber cavity. Each heat pipe half-shell seat includes a heat pipe cavity. Each heat pipe cavity communicates with the vapor chamber cavity. The half-shell cover element is sealedly connected with the half-shell seat element. The wick structure is continuously laid on the vapor chamber half-shell seat and each heat pipe half-shell seat, and is formed in the vapor chamber cavity and each heat pipe cavity. The working fluid is disposed in the vapor chamber cavity.
US11892235B2
Methods and systems for processing natural gas to meet gas pipeline specifications and/or recovering natural gas liquids (NGL). The natural gas is cooled and distilled such that propane and heavier components are produced as a bottoms NGL product, and inerts, methane, ethane, and other lighter portions are produced as a fuel gas grade/quality residue gas product stream. The gas can optionally be treated to remove hydrogen-sulfide and/or carbon dioxide. The NGL product can be split into a marketable propane and butane liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) liquid product and a natural gas condensate product.
US11892231B2
Storage systems for use in consumer appliances are provided. Storage system can be a storage assembly defining a vertical direction, a lateral direction, and a transverse direction, the vertical, lateral, and transverse directions being mutually perpendicular. The storage assembly includes a mounting bracket, a first mounting tab and a second mounting tab extending in the transverse direction from a first end of the mounting bracket. The first mounting tab and the second mounting tab are configured to be inserted into a mounting track disposed within the consumer appliance. The storage assembly also includes a storage receptacle which is supported at a second end of the mounting bracket.
US11892230B1
A refrigerator shelving system includes a plate, an elongated support member, and a support brace. The plate has a front edge, a rear edge, and side edges extending between the front and rear edges. The elongated support member has a base secured to the rear edge of the plate. The elongated support member has a rail protruding upward from the base. The rail extends between the side edges of the plate. The support brace is disposed on a top of the plate. The support brace slidably engages the rail such that the support brace is slidable between the side edges. The support brace defines a notch configured to engage a bottle disposed on the top of the plate to restrict movement of the bottle.
US11892212B2
A gas-liquid separator includes a first cylinder, a second cylinder and a heat exchange assembly. The first cylinder is surrounded by the second cylinder at a predetermined distance. The heat exchange assembly is arranged between the first cylinder and the second cylinder. The heat exchange assembly includes a collecting pipe. An extension direction of the collecting pipe is parallel to an axial direction of the first cylinder. At least a part of a side wall surface of the first cylinder is formed with an avoidance portion recessed inwardly. At least a part of the collecting pipe is arranged between the avoidance portion and the second cylinder.
US11892211B2
A climate-control system may include a first compressor, a second compressor, a suction manifold, and a flow restrictor. The first and second compressors each include a shell and a compression mechanism. The shells define suction chambers from which the compression mechanisms draw working fluid. The shells include suction inlet fittings through which working fluid is drawn into the suction chambers. The suction inlet fittings are fluidly connected to the suction manifold. The suction manifold provides suction-pressure working fluid to the suction inlet fittings of the first and second compressors. The flow restrictor may be at least partially disposed within the suction manifold.
US11892201B2
A method of installing a tubular heat exchanger into soil includes providing the tubular heat exchanger and screwing the tubular heat exchanger into the soil with an installation apparatus. The installation apparatus may be removed from the soil without removing the tubular heat exchanger from the soil.
US11892196B2
Aspects of the invention are directed to condensate traps having a back portion and a front portion. The back portion includes a first passage enclosed between the first wall, a second wall, and a back wall. A first opening in the back portion connects the first wall and the second wall with a first float placed over the first opening and does not travel below the first opening and is prevented from leaving the first passage by a first constriction. The front portion of the condensate trap includes a second passage enclosed between the third wall and the fourth wall. A second opening connects the third wall and the fourth wall in the front portion and a second float is placed below the second opening such that it does not travel through the second opening and is prevented from falling below a predetermined level by a second constriction.
US11892195B2
The present invention comprises a system for the localized heating of a portion of water within larger water bodies through a partial confinement of said portion of water without completely interrupting the water flow and where the concept of being in the same water body is maintained, in order to facilitate the practice of recreational activities in a heated environment. The present invention provides a solution to achieve a comfortable temperature of the water for direct contact recreational purposes in a cost-efficient manner, with a partial confinement system that allows creating a heat plug and provides for a serpentine-type flow between both sides of the partial confinement system.
US11892186B2
A detection device is connected to a plurality of communication devices by a communication line. The detection device has a reception unit, a measurement unit, and a detection unit. The reception unit receives signals with prescribed pulse widths transmitted from the plurality of communication devices, respectively. The measurement unit measures the pulse widths of the signals received by the reception unit. The detection unit is configured to detect the communication device disposed near a terminal end of the communication line as a terminal-end communication device on the basis of the plurality of pulse widths measured by the measurement unit.
US11892185B1
A networked HVAC system is implemented as part of a multi-unit dwelling. At least one HVAC unit is installed within each unit of the multi-unit dwelling. Each individual HVAC unit includes a localized HVAC unit controller, which is connected to an external network. The HVAC unit controller also can be connected to any other controllable HVAC devices in the unit, such as an exhaust fan. The HVAC system addresses the open-loop issue by monitoring temperature, air flow, humidity, air pressure, occupancy, window open/close state, and HVAC units of all units in a multi-unit dwelling, as well as common areas, and optimizing operating parameters to minimize wide swings in operational states and managing the overall system of multiple units/common areas so that energy usage and temperature/ventilation control is optimized. The HVAC system also enables learning and predictive modeling for adapting to real-time and anticipated condition requirements within each zone.
US11892179B2
An air conditioner outdoor device isolation structure includes a foot and a vibration isolation member. The foot includes a mounting hole. The vibration isolation member includes a first end part, a connection part, and a second end part connected in sequence, and a connection hole penetrating the first end part, the connection part, and the second end part. The connection part is located in the mounting hole, and the first end part and the second end part are located on opposite sides of the mounting hole.
US11892166B2
A fuel injector for an aircraft turbine engine includes a tubular body having an axis of elongation. A first longitudinal end configured to be Supplied with fuel and a second longitudinal end configured to elect a jet of fuel. The body further includes an integrated purge-air circuit that has an internal cavity which is connected to air inlet orifices situated on the body and to at least one air outlet situated at said second end. Aire-flow disruptors are provided, projecting into said cavity.
US11892150B2
LED related lighting methods and apparatus are described. Various features relate to water tight light fixtures. Some of the fixtures are spotlights while other fixture are intended for in ground use. The light fixtures in at least some embodiments include power control features. In spotlight embodiments beam angle and power or light output can be controlled without opening the light assembly or compromising the water tight seals which also protect against dirt. In ground embodiments support tilt angle setting which allow a user to set the light fixture to one or more tilt angles. Beam angle can also be changed in some embodiments as well as power control. Beam angle, power control and tilt angle adjustments are supported in some embodiments but need not be supported in all embodiments with some embodiments using one or more of the described features but not all features.
US11892141B1
A light device with movable drive power supply and a recessed downlight assembly. The light device includes a movable bracket assembly, a drive power supply and a light body. The movable bracket assembly includes a first movable arm and a second movable arm. A first and a second movable hinge sections are hinged with each other, whereby the first and the second movable arms can be rotated relative to each other. The drive power supply is disposed on the second movable arm and connected with the light body via a conductive wire. By means of the relative rotation of the first and the second movable arms, the drive power supply and the second movable arm pass through a mounting hole to outside of a mounting panel. Such that, the drive power supply can be conveniently connected with the conductive wire of the light body.
US11892140B2
A ventilation cap according to the present disclosure includes a body, a ventilation filter, a cover member, and legs. A first vent hole is defined in the body, and the ventilation filter is disposed on the body to cover the first vent hole. The cover member is coupled to the body to cover the ventilation filter, and the legs are formed beneath the body and are spaced apart from each other around the first vent hole. Further, the legs are received in a hole defined in a target housing to be coupled to the target housing, and a second vent hole communicating with the first vent hole is defined in a side portion of the cover member.
US11892138B2
A vehicle headlamp optical system, a vehicle headlamp, and a vehicle. The vehicle headlamp optical system comprises a plurality of modules and a light distribution lens that is disposed in front of each module. The plurality of modules comprise at least one high-beam module, at least one main low-beam module, and at least one auxiliary low-beam module. The light distribution lenses are narrow, long light distribution lenses. Each module is disposed at an interval along the length direction of the light distribution lenses. Thus, the miniaturization and diversified design of a vehicle headlamp can be achieved.
US11892136B2
A vehicle lamp forms a predetermined beam pattern using a plurality of lamp modules arranged in at least one direction. Each of the plurality of lamp modules includes a light source unit that generates light; an optical unit that is disposed in front of the light source unit and transmits the light from the light source unit so that at least a portion of the light incident to an incident surface of the optical unit is output through an exit surface thereof to form the predetermined beam pattern; and an optical path adjustment unit that guides the light generated from the light source unit to the optical unit by adjusting paths of the light. The exit surface of the optical unit of one of the plurality of lamp modules is disposed more forward than the exit surface of the optical unit of another one of the plurality of lamp modules.
US11892135B2
A lighting device is described. The lighting device includes a support structure, which includes a central mounting face and at least one first lateral mounting face adjacent the central mounting face and forming an included angle with the central mounting face of 60° to 90°. The device also includes at least one central light emitting element on the central mounting face and in contact with the support structure and at least one first lateral light emitting element on the first lateral mounting face and in contact with the support structure.
US11892123B2
A type IV conformable pressure vessel is provided comprising an elongated folded tank and a valve assembly configured to pass fluid into and out of an interior of the tank through first and second filling couplers directly connected to a respective first and second end of the tank. The tank has at least two chambers for the storage of fluid. The valve assembly receives fluid from an external source, selectively provides the external fluid through a Venturi nozzle into a mixing chamber, recirculates fluid from the second end of the tank into the mixing chamber, and delivers the mixture of the recirculated fluid and the external fluid to the first end of the tank.
US11892120B2
An attachment system for a locking system mounted to a closure is provided. A baseplate is fastenable to a mounting surface of the closure, the baseplate including at least one circumferential cutout having an engagement feature, and a locking feature on a surface of the baseplate. A housing has at least one protrusion insertable into the at least one circumferential cutout and is rotatably engageable with the engagement feature to selectively prevent the housing from being withdrawn from the baseplate in a direction normal to the mounting surface. A locking device is disposed inside the housing and is accessible from outside the housing through a cutout defined in at least one of the housing and the baseplate, the locking device operable to rotatably lock and unlock the housing to the baseplate.
US11892119B1
The present disclosure belongs to the field of suction-operated devices, in particular to a sucker device. The device includes a sucker, a rotating member and a connecting member, wherein both ends of the rotating member are rotatably and movably connected to the connecting member and the sucker respectively, the sucker is provided with a fixing position for fixing the device on an external structure by suction, and the connecting member is provided with a connecting position for mounting a structure to be carried. In the present disclosure, both ends of the rotating member are rotatably and movably connected to the connecting member and the sucker, so that when the device is used, the suction-operated device has a larger angle adjustment range, and can better meet the use requirements of consumers.
US11892114B2
An expander, preferably for use in expanding a host pipe to be refurbished. A floating pad is disposed to be displaced relative to a chassis by at least one retractable and extendable piston such that the expander has a first expansion range between fully-retracted and fully-extended states. A floating pad jacket and a chassis jacket are disposed to be removably attached to the floating pad and chassis, such that the floating pad jacket increases the first expansion range of the expander to a second expansion range when the floating pad jacket is attached to the floating pad, and the chassis jacket increases the first expansion range of the expander to a third expansion range when the chassis jacket is attached to the chassis. At least one piston may be configured to be extended and retracted independently.
US11892111B2
A split T-shaped pipe serving as a housing device and comprising: an annular case body that has a split part in at least one location in the circumferential direction, and that surrounds the outer circumferential surface of a water pipe in a sealed state with a seal material therebetween; and fasteners for tightening the split part, thereby joining a plurality of split pieces constituting the case body. Joining surfaces are provided at the circumferential end portions of the split pieces, and protrusions protruding along the circumferential direction are formed on the joining surfaces but only at both end portions of the case body in the pipe axis direction of the water pipe.
US11892110B2
A sprinkler with a push-in connection includes a sprinkler frame, an operating element, and a sealing cap. The sprinkler also includes one or more sealing gaskets and a retainer. Each such sealing gasket is located at least partially within a groove in the sprinkler frame. The retainer is also at least partially located within a groove in the sprinkler frame. The retainer connects to an internal bore of an outlet of a fluid supply conduit when the sprinkler is installed in the outlet. The one or more gaskets seal against the internal bore of the outlet when the sprinkler is installed in the outlet. The retainer is a spring mechanism so that the diameter of the retainer is reduced when the sprinkler is inserted into the internal bore of the outlet, and the retainer maintains pressure against the outlet internal bore.
US11892104B2
An endoscope flexible tube having a cylindrical flexible tube base that has flexibility and a resin layer that coats the flexible tube base includes the resin layer, which is a single layer or multiple layers of two or more layers, comprises a layer A which comprises: polyester elastomers, at least one of polyurethane elastomers or polyamide elastomers, and both a hindered phenol compound and a hindered amine compound, wherein the content of the polyester elastomers in the layer A is 55 mass % or more.
US11892097B2
The present invention is to provide a valve state grasping system that can be easily retrofitted to any of various existing or operating valves (rotary valves) and actuators, and in particular, even facilities to which commercial power is not supplied, and allows detailed and accurate state grasping and diagnosis or failure prediction for the valve or actuator. The valve state grasping system is configured to perform, based on angular velocity data of a valve stem which opens and closes the valve, state monitoring, diagnosis, and life prediction of this valve. To the valve stem, a monitoring unit having at least a semiconductor-type gyro sensor is attachably and detachably fixed. The angular velocity data includes angular velocity data acquired from this monitoring unit in accordance with a rotational motion of a valve body from being fully open or fully closed to fully closed or fully open.
US11892073B2
A gearwheel arrangement for a transmission of a vehicle, including: a gearwheel configured to be rotatable about an axis of rotation (A), the gearwheel including a gearwheel body and an annular gear tooth section extending around the gearwheel body, the gear tooth section including a plurality of external gear teeth, wherein at least a part of the gear tooth section extends past a radially outer portion of the gearwheel body in an axial direction (A) of the gearwheel, so that at least one radially inwardly facing surface is provided opposite of the external gear teeth, means for guiding cooling fluid toward the at least one radially inwardly facing surface so as to cool the gear tooth section during rotation of the gearwheel about the axis of rotation.
US11892065B2
A drivetrain component provides an electronically controlled, overrunning drivetrain disconnect, such as a differential with different operating modes. The drivetrain component includes a case and a ring gear connected to the case. A carrier is supported for movement relative to and independent of the case. The carrier includes a differential gear set. The differential gear set has a pinion shaft tied to the carrier, pinion gears mounted on the pinion shaft, differential gears engaging the pinion gears, and differential gear shafts connected to the differential gears. The drivetrain component including a first locking structure, the first locking structure coupling the case to the carrier for torque transmission from the case to the carrier in a first direction only, wherein the first locking structure does not inhibit carrier rotation in a second direction.
US11892060B2
A frictional roller reducer having a sun roller; a ring roller; a plurality of intermediate rollers having rolling surfaces coming in rolling contact with the sun roller and the ring roller; the sun roller or the ring roller having a pair of roller elements including inclined surface portions on a circumferential surface coming in rolling with rolling surfaces, the inclined surface portions inclined in directions going toward the intermediate rollers in a radial direction as going away from each other in the axial direction; a pressing device pressing the pair of roller elements in directions going closer to each other, and an elastic member arranged between the pair of roller elements, the elastic member urging the pair of roller elements in directions going away from the rolling surface of the intermediate rollers.
US11892058B2
A coaxial gear mechanism (1) includes a toothing (5) which is oriented axially with respect to an axis of rotation (3) of the coaxial gear mechanism (1), a tooth carrier (7) which in each case has axially oriented guides (9), and tooth pins (11) which each comprise a body (50), which is mounted so as to be axially displaceable in a guide (9) of the tooth carrier (7), and a head region (51), wherein the head region (51) includes at least one tooth (52) for engagement with the toothing (5), and wherein the tooth carrier (7) wherein the tooth carrier has an irregular angular pitch.
US11892053B2
Disclosed herein is a process suitable for constructing a multiple stage air shock. The multiple stage air shock is unique among shocks in that the multiple stage design possesses qualities not available to other shock absorbers. The process includes a means for determining the compressed and extended lengths of the air shock based on the lengths of the parts for each stage. This means refers to one methodology and offers the air shock an extended length that is greater than twice its compressed length, an optimized extended length, and a construction capability based on adding stages. In particular, the extended length-compressed length relationship is a quality inherently unobtainable by current shock absorbers. The process also includes a means of determining the spring rate. This means refers to a second methodology and offers the capability to both set-up the air shock with a relatively linear spring rate and make the relatively linear spring rate more linear.
US11892043B2
Disclosed are a boot for a caliper brake and the caliper brake including the same. The boot, which is provided to be installed on a guide rod to allow a caliper housing to be slidably coupled to a carrier during braking, includes a first coupling part coupled to the guide rod at one end thereof, and a second coupling part coupled to the carrier at the other end thereof, wherein the second coupling part is provided with an elastic protrusion provided to be in contact with an outer surface of the guide rod so that a reaction force is generated by the guide rod moving together with the caliper housing during braking.
US11892037B2
An improved clutch basket assembly is disclosed. The improved clutch basket assembly provides improved wear resistance at the interfaces between friction discs and a clutch basket housing while allowing an operator to have improved clutch lever control and modulation when manually engaging or disengaging the clutch system. The improved clutch basket assembly includes a generally cylindrical clutch basket having a sidewall, a closed first end and an open second end. A plurality of removable pins is attached to the sidewall. A plurality of frictions disks is mounted in said clutch basket. The friction disks each have a plurality of positioning tabs extending out from a periphery of each of the friction disks. The positioning tabs are configured for engagement with at least one adjacent removable pin removably attached to the sidewall.
US11892036B1
A bearing track cage includes a plurality of retention elements, wherein each retention element includes at least a first axial side and a second axial side, and wherein each adjacent pair of retention elements of the plurality of retention elements defines a rolling element pocket configured to retain a rolling element. A first support is slidably coupled to each of the plurality of retention elements on the first axial side thereof and a second support is slidably coupled to each of the plurality of retention elements on the second axial side thereof.
US11892035B2
A composite/metal joint includes a composite member, a metallic member, a cylindrical liner, and a fastener. The composite member has a first aperture. The metallic member is disposed adjacent to the composite member and has a second aperture coaxially aligned with the first aperture. The cylindrical liner extends longitudinally from a first end to a second end. The cylindrical liner has a cylindrical outer liner surface and a longitudinally extending third aperture coaxial with the first and second apertures and defined by an inner liner surface. The cylindrical liner is disposed in the first and second apertures with the outer liner surface adjacent to aperture walls of the first and second apertures. The cylindrical liner has a plurality of grooves intersecting the outer liner surface. The fastener is disposed through the third aperture of the cylindrical liner and is configured to attach the metallic member to the composite member. An outer surface of the fastener is in direct contact with the inner liner surface.
US11892033B2
A motor according to the present application includes a rotating shaft, a bearing, a bearing holder configured to accommodate the bearing, a holder disposed at one end portion side of the bearing holder in a rotating shaft direction, and a lid disposed at another end portion side of the bearing holder in the rotating shaft direction. A labyrinth structure is formed of one end portion of the bearing holder and an inner peripheral portion of the holder, and/or a labyrinth structure is formed of the rotating shaft and the lid.
US11892025B2
A socket includes a housing having a first end dimensioned and configured for cooperation with an associated wrench and a second end dimensioned and configured for engagement with a locknut. The second end includes a first plurality of magnets disposed to maintain a single locknut against the second end, the second end and a second plurality of magnets disposed to maintain the second end against an associated housing with the associated locknut disposed intermediate the second end of the socket and the associated housing. The second end of the socket including a plurality of depending feet dimensioned and configured for meshing engagement with the locknut whereby rotation of the socket causes rotation of the locknut when the locknut is engaged with an associated externally threaded connector to move the locknut axially along the external threads of the externally threaded connector.
US11892024B2
A universal hub adapter for a portable display frame assembly for mounting to an outer surface of a display hub of the frame assembly. The universal hub adapter is used to adapt the display hub of the frame assembly for mounting of a first graphics system including a plurality of stretched fabric panels and a second graphics system including a channeled sub-frame for mounting a larger fabric panel. The universal hub adapter can include a faceplate and a threaded post including a threaded portion, a securement plate, a button shaft, and a button head. The threaded portion passes through an aperture of the faceplate and couples to the display hub to secure the faceplate to the display hub. The button shaft and button head couple to one of a stretched fabric panel or a sub-frame assembly.
US11892023B2
A thermally stabilized fastener system and method is disclosed. The disclosed system/method integrates a fastener (FAS) incorporating a faster retention head (FRH), fastener retention body (FRB), and fastener retention tip (FRT) to couple a mechanical member stack (MMS) in a thermally stabilized fashion using a fastener retention receiver (FRR). The MMS includes a temperature compensating member (TCM), a first retention member (FRM), and an optional second retention member (SRM). The TCM is constructed using a tailored thermal expansion coefficient (TTC) that permits the TCM to compensate for the thermal expansion characteristics of the FAS, FRM, and SRM such that the force applied by the FRH and FRR portions of the FAS to the MMS is tailored to a specific temperature force profile (TFP) over changes in MMS/FAS temperature. The TCM may be selected with a TTC to achieve a uniform TFP over changes in MMS/FAS temperature.
US11891997B2
The present disclosure provides a two-dimensional motor piston pump, including a two-dimensional motor and a two-dimensional piston pump. The two-dimensional motor and the two-dimensional piston pump are nested with each other and arranged coaxially. The two-dimensional motor includes a stator and an outer rotor, and the outer rotor is coaxial with the stator and is sleeved outside the stator. The two-dimensional piston pump includes: a flow distribution mechanism including a flow distribution rotor and a pump body, a piston mechanism including a left cam and a right cam; a roller assembly including a roller and a roller shaft, and a pump housing, a left end cover, and a right end cover.
US11891995B2
A rotary compressor may include a cylinder having an inner peripheral surface that defines a compression space, and provided with a suction port configured to communicate with the compression space and through which refrigerant is suctioned into the compression space; a roller rotatably provided in the compression space of the cylinder, and having a plurality of vane slots that provides a back pressure at one side thereinside and provided at a predetermined interval along an outer peripheral surface of the roller; and a plurality of vanes slidably inserted into the vane slots, respectively, and configured to rotate together with the roller, front end surfaces of which come into contact with the cylinder due to the back pressure to partition the compression space into a plurality of compression chambers. High-pressure refrigerant may be accommodated between one of the vanes and the cylinder.
US11891984B2
A wind turbine apparatus for use in movement of components of a wind turbine. The wind turbine apparatus has an upright support means, the upright support means being adaptable to be set on a surface below a load in use, such that the weight of the load is transferred to the surface. The wind turbine apparatus further has a load bearing means for engaging a load, the load bearing means being operably coupled with the upright support means and being configured to be moveable laterally when bearing a load. The wind turbine apparatus further has a means for raising and lowering the load bearing means. The wind turbine apparatus can be used for supporting, raising and lowering yaw brake calipers.
US11891977B2
An offshore power generating system has a buoyancy body shaped as a hull with a bow and aft end, and elongated mast extending up from the buoyancy body to the buoyancy body about a horizontal transverse axis. A rotor is supported in one end of the longitudinal mast for rotation about a horizontal axis. The buoyancy body is kept in position with the bow turning up into wind and incoming waves. Rotational support of the mast has a horizontal rotational axis through the center of gravity of the mast that lies in the center plane of the buoyancy body above the aft end when the buoyancy body lies in operational position in calm sea with the rotational axis of the rotational support of the mast orthogonal to the center plane of the buoyancy body. A method for on-board loading and commissioning of mast with installed rotor on-board a buoyancy body.
US11891976B2
A wind turbine blade includes a base member formed of FRP and having a blade shape, an intermediate layer arranged on the base member and formed of metal, cermet, ceramic, or a mixture of at least one thereof and resin as a major constituent, and an erosion-resistant overcoat arranged on the intermediate layer and formed of a spray film having a porosity of 5% or lower.
US11891968B2
An improved ball valve for use between dual fuel tanks having a non-circular outlet aperture leading to the fuel line and engine that can allow fuel to pass therethrough even when the ball contained within the valve rests in the opening of the outlet aperture.
US11891967B2
A turbofan includes a fan, a casing positioned downstream of the fan and separating a primary flowpath from a secondary flowpath, a compressor, a combustion chamber and a turbine being arranged in the primary flowpath, the turbofan having a differential transmission coupled to the turbine, and a power supply device configured to provide additional power to the one provided by the turbine to drive the compressor.
US11891965B2
A turbofan engine nacelle includes a thrust reverser system provided with at least one movable cowl retracting towards a rear reverse-jet position, tilting pivoting flaps which at least partially close an annular flow duct, and opening lateral openings of this annular flow duct equipped with reverser grids. Each movable cowl includes a control sector that slides in a transverse plane, a deflection device linking a fixed part of the nacelle to this control sector in order to make it slide towards a reversal position when the movable cowl retracts, and flap connecting rods linking this control sector to the pivoting flaps, which tilt these flaps, closing the annular flow duct, when the control sector slides towards its reversal position.
US11891959B2
A fuel control system for a gas turbine engine includes a fuel metering valve, a pressure raising and shut-off valve (PRSOV), and a shutoff effector including a first stage unit that is electrically powered and a second stage unit that is controlled by the first stage unit. The second stage unit actuates a valve member of the PRSOV between an open position that allows supply of a fuel to burners of the gas turbine engine and a closed position that prevents supply of the fuel to the burners. Upon loss of electrical power to the first stage unit during operation of the gas turbine engine, the first stage unit is configured to: control the second stage unit to actuate the valve member of the PRSOV to the closed position after a predetermined time duration; or retain the valve member of the PRSOV in the open position.
US11891944B2
A controller includes at least one processor coupled to a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to: determine a target engine outlet coolant temperature for a coolant in an engine system; determine an adjustment to a temperature of the coolant based on a determined engine inlet coolant temperature and the target engine outlet coolant temperature; and, alter a flow of the coolant by controlling a coolant valve in response to the determination of the adjustment to the temperature of the coolant.
US11891937B2
A mixing assembly for an exhaust system can include an outer body, a front plate, a back plate, a middle member, and an inner member. The outer body defines an interior volume and has a center axis. The front plate defines an upstream portion of the interior volume and the back plate defines a downstream portion of the interior volume. The middle member is positioned transverse to the center axis and defines a volume. The inner member is positioned coaxially with the middle member inside the middle member. The front plate includes inlets configured to direct exhaust to (i) a first flow path into an interior of the inner member, (ii) a second flow path into the volume of the middle member between a sidewall of the middle member and a sidewall of the inner member, and (iii) a third flow path into the interior volume of the outer body.
US11891930B2
A method of operating an exhaust valve of a two-stroke internal combustion engine is disclosed. The engine has a cylinder and a piston movably disposed within the cylinder. The cylinder defines at least one exhaust port for discharging exhaust fluid from the cylinder. The exhaust valve is configured to cyclically obstruct the exhaust port. The method includes: rotating the exhaust valve in a first direction for clearing the exhaust port before the piston uncovers the exhaust port during a downstroke of the piston, the first direction being opposite a direction of rotation of a crankshaft of the engine; and rotating the exhaust valve in the first direction for at least partially closing the exhaust port before the piston fully covers the exhaust port during an upstroke of the piston, said rotating of the exhaust valve relative to the rotation of the crankshaft at least partially counterbalancing the crankshaft.
US11891921B2
A turbine assembly comprising a housing comprising first and second volutes which define a respective first and second flow passage. A circumferential outlet portion of each volute is defined by first and second tongues. The housing further comprises a first aperture in which a vane assembly is received. The vane assembly comprises a plurality of vanes circumferentially distributed about a turbine wheel-receiving bore, each vane comprising a leading edge and a trailing edge. Each vane has a fixed orientation. The vanes comprise a first vane and a second vane. The first vane having its leading edge disposed in closest proximity to a tip of the first tongue. The second vane having its leading edge disposed in closest proximity to a tip of the second tongue. The leading edge of each vane at least partly overlaps the tip of the proximate tongue circumferentially.
US11891909B2
Methods and systems are provided for electric turbochargers. In one example, a turbocharger comprises a shaft coupling a compressor wheel to a turbine wheel, an electric machine including a stator encircling the shaft between the compressor wheel and the turbine wheel, and an oil supply passage formed in a housing of the electric machine and fluidly coupled to a first oil nozzle oriented toward the shaft.
US11891905B2
A bearing support assembly to support one or more bearings on a shaft. The bearing support assembly includes a bearing support frame configured to be coupled to a static frame, a plurality of ribs connected to the bearing support frame, and a bearing support connected to the plurality of ribs and configured to support a bearing of the one or more bearings. The bearing support assembly has a non-axisymmetric stiffness around a circumference of the bearing support assembly.
US11891902B2
A measurement system for an aircraft gas turbine engine includes an instrumentation hub disposed about a rotational axis. The instrumentation hub includes at least one probe. The measurement system further includes a shield hub disposed about the rotational axis and positioned axially adjacent the instrumentation hub. The shield hub includes at least one shield configured to be radially aligned with the at least one probe of the instrumentation hub. The shield hub is rotatable about the rotational axis independent of the instrumentation hub. The at least one shield is axially translatable between a first axial position and a second axial position. The at least one shield in the first axial position is axially aligned with the at least one probe. The at least one shield in the second axial position is axially separated from the at least one probe.
US11891901B2
A variable-pitch stator blade includes an airfoil having a central portion with a first chord and a first skeleton line delimited by a leading edge and a trailing edge. An end portion has a second chord and a second skeleton line delimited by the leading edge and a downstream limit. A skeleton angle at a first length I1 of the first chord is defined by a function G1(l1), and the skeleton angle at a second length l2 of the second rope being chord is defined by a function G2(l2). The absolute value of the average increase A2 of G2′(l2) between the leading edge and the downstream limit is greater than the absolute value of the average increase Al of Gl′(l1) between the leading edge and a point P, wherein the first length I1 corresponds to the total length of the second chord.
US11891892B2
A square pile construction method and equipment of a rotary drilling rig are disclosed. The square pile construction method includes: site leveling; surveying and setting out; creating concrete retaining wall of wellhead; putting the drilling rig in place; adjusting the verticality of the drilling rig; lead hole drilling; reamed hole drilling; square hole drilling; hole cleaning with round drill bit; and hole cleaning with square drill bit. The square pile construction method and rotary drilling rig can use equipment for square pile construction in the whole process. Three kinds of square pile drill bits and a square pile hole cleaning drill bit in cooperation with the square pile construction method, which further realizes the mechanization of the whole process of square pile construction, are disclosed.
US11891888B2
A measurement tool may be positioned downhole in a wellbore for measuring formation properties and drilling mud properties during a drilling operation. The measurement tool may include a body and an antenna. The body may include magnets for generating a magnetic field and a transmitter for transmitting a radiofrequency pulse. The antenna may be positioned proximate to the body to measure properties using nuclear magnetic resonant frequencies. The antenna may measure formation properties in a first volume of a formation using a first frequency. The antenna may measure drilling mud properties in a second volume in a borehole using a second frequency.
US11891887B2
A vapor recovery apparatus degasses oil and water produced by an oil well. The apparatus has a first vessel forming a column. Oil containing gas enters the bottom of the first vessel and flows up to a liquid outlet. Heat is applied to the rising oil, wherein the oil foams. Gas escapes into the upper end. The foam flows into a second column and along a roughened surface. The bubbles in the foam break apart, releasing the gas. The oil flows down the second column to an outlet. Water is introduced into a third vessel. The water releases gas therein, which gas mingles with the gas from the oil. The third vessel is located around the first and second vessels. A compressor may be used to withdraw the gas and provide hot compressed gas to heat the rising oil in the first column.
US11891880B1
In one embodiment, a method for preventing flaring at a facility, by a system, includes receiving a plurality of pressure measurements from a sensor disposed downstream of the facility. The method further includes comparing the plurality of pressure measurements to a threshold pressure, wherein the threshold pressure corresponds to mitigating a flaring event. In response to determining that at least one of the plurality of pressure measurements is greater than the threshold pressure, the method further includes analyzing injection response curves for a plurality of wells to determine a first well for adjusting a back pressure on a reservoir intersected by the first well. The method further includes transmitting an instruction to the first well to adjust the back pressure on the reservoir.
US11891877B1
A plug and perforation system includes a plug that is configured to isolate formation zones within a wellbore that has a casing. The plug includes a flow control subassembly, an anchoring subassembly, and a sealing device. The flow control subassembly a valve assembly. The valve assembly includes a housing, a valve chamber inside the housing, a valve seat, and a valve element inside the valve chamber. In some embodiments, the valve element is secured to the housing with a frangible matrix that is manufactured as a unitary part with the valve element and the housing. The frangible matrix is designed to fail under a predetermined shearing load to allow the valve element to be pushed into the valve seat. In other embodiments, the valve element is retained by one or more shear pins or shearable threads.
US11891876B2
Rotating a casing during a cementing operation to ensure efficient displacement of cement slurry. More specifically, embodiments are directed towards a sub and rotating tool that are positioned above a first cement operation, wherein the rotating tool is positioned in a kickoff point or build section of a horizontal well.
US11891867B2
Disclosed herein are aspects of an expandable metal wellbore anchor for use in a wellbore. The expandable metal wellbore anchor, in one aspect, includes one or more expandable members positionable on a downhole conveyance member in a wellbore, wherein the one or more expandable members comprise a metal configured to expand in response to hydrolysis, and wherein a combined volume of the one or more expandable members is sufficient to expand to anchor one or more downhole tools within the wellbore in response to the hydrolysis.
US11891861B2
The present invention relates to a riser system in the form of a pumped riser (1), i.e. a riser (1) having an outlet (6) from the riser (1) at a depth below the surface (S) of a body of water, where the outlet (6) is coupled to a return pump (7) to return fluid from the riser (1) to the surface (S), and various operational methods to facilitate greater versatility when performing hydrocarbon drilling related operations. The arrangement also comprises a sealing element (15, 16) to seal an annulus (5) of the riser (1), and a by-pass (17) around the sealing element (15, 16). Various methods makes it possible to switch between open mode and closed mode, and vice versa, monitoring leakage across the sealing element (15, 16), as well as performing other operations exploiting the advantages of the two different modes.
US11891858B2
An apparatus for combined coring and drilling in a wellbore that includes a core drilling assembly with a coring drill head, an outer tubing for conveying forces to the drill head, an inner tubing with a lower end adapted for receiving a core sample. The apparatus further includes: a lifting device; closure elements with embedded cutting implements for cutting the core sample; and one or more controller device(s) for controlling activation and deactivation of the closure elements. The closure elements are connected to the core drilling assembly below an opening of the inner tubing such that, when in an open position the core sample can enter the inner tubing, and when in a closed position core material is cut and the cut core material is prevented from entering the inner tubing and exits to the borehole annulus via drill head openings provided in the wall of the coring drill head.
US11891856B1
A roller shutter with dual operation modes includes a door frame, a roller shutter body, a driving motor, a connecting device, a rotating shaft and a connecting rod. The roller shutter body is slidably configured on the door frame, the rotating shaft is rotatably configured on the door frame, and the rotating shaft is connected with the driving motor through the connecting device. When the connecting device is in a connected state, the driving motor drives the connecting rod to retract or extend the roller shutter body; when the connecting device is a separated state, the rotating shaft is manually operated to drive the connecting rod to retract or extend the roller shutter body. The roller shutter can be opened or closed by manual operation in the absence of power supply or in case of circuit failure, which greatly improves the reliability and convenience.
US11891855B2
In one aspect, a leveling assembly for adjusting the levelness or skew angle of a bottom rail of a covering for an architectural structure includes at least one movable or slideable component configured to be moved or slid laterally relative to the bottom rail or a headrail of the covering to adjust the length(s) along which one or more of the lift cords extend within the bottom rail or headrail, which, in turn, adjusts the effective length of such lift cord(s) defined between the bottom rail and the headrail of the covering. Such adjustment of the effective length(s) of the lift cord(s) results in the horizontal orientation or skew angle of the bottom rail being varied, thereby allowing the levelness of the bottom rail to be adjusted, as desired.
US11891849B2
An apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to determine a window point for an automatic change of state of a window pane of a vehicle. The control unit is also configured to determine event data for a plurality of window events in which an occupant of a vehicle has caused a change in the state of a window pane of the vehicle. The event data for a window event indicate a location at which the change of state of a window pane was effected. The control unit is also configured to determine at least one window point with a location at which a similar change of state of window panes was effected. The control unit is also configured to provide one or more vehicles with point data in relation to the determined window point, wherein the point data indicate the location of the window point and the change of state of a window pane automatically effected at the window point.
US11891841B2
An opening and closing device of a vehicle sliding door includes: a fully closed latch mechanism; a fully opened latch mechanism; a power releaser; a power closer; a canceler; a lock mechanism; and a relay control mechanism that includes an inner handle. The lock mechanism, the power releaser, and the canceler are disposed in the fully closed latch mechanism. The relay control mechanism includes a handle lever configured to, when a door opening operation is performed on the inner handle, rotate in a first direction to unlatch the fully closed latch mechanism and activate the cancel mechanism, and when a door closing operation is performed on the inner handle, rotate in a second direction to unlatch the fully opened latch mechanism. The inner handle is pivotally supported by the handle case of the relay control mechanism so as to be rotatable in two directions.
US11891827B1
A device and method for repairing a pole wherein pre-fabricated brackets are bolted together in the field to form a clamping ring, or exoskeletal splint around the pole, and wherein different sets of brackets can form different rings that are stacked and bolted together to clamp against and span enough of the height of the pole to provide the desired support.
US11891826B2
A post anchor for a railing system or a fencing system. The post anchor has a base plate and a collar, where the collar extends from the base plate. The collar defines an interior capable of receiving a post. The post anchor can be unitarily formed. A drainage system can be included in the post anchor.
US11891825B2
A support apparatus having a base to support a support member which, in turn, supports a structure (e.g., a building joist, overhead structure, combinations thereof). The support apparatus may be used to provide reinforcement between a floor (e.g., ground, substrate, or the like) and the structure. The base of the support apparatus is in the form of a generally planar circular base, but may have any shape. The base may include one or more platforms, recesses, or ribs in order to provide structural support to the base and/or locations for one or more fastener apertures. The one or more fastener apertures are configured to receive one or more fasteners for operatively coupling the base to the floor in order to resist movement of the base during installation and/or use of the support apparatus.
US11891822B2
A binding machine includes: a wire feeding unit configured to feed a wire; a curl forming unit configured to form a feeding path of the wire along which the wire fed in a first direction by the wire feeding unit is wound around an object; and a binding unit configured to twist the wire fed in first direction by the wire feeding unit and wound on the object. The wire feeding unit includes a pair of feeding members configured to sandwich the wire and to feed the wire by a rotating operation, and a feeding motor configured to drive the feeding members. The binding machine further includes a control unit configured to control the wire feeding unit. The control unit is configured to control the wire feeding unit to enable the wire sandwiched by the feeding members to be discharged from the feeding members.
US11891821B2
A mini-trowel attachment assembly having a rotary disk with a plurality of screw holes disposed therein with a plurality of replacement blades secured therein by a plurality of screw members. The plurality of replacement blades include at least a pair of elongated slots that allows the replacement blades to be adjusted slightly inward of an annular peripheral edge of the rotary disk. A free-wheeling self-lubricating bearing assembly having a first non-rotary bearing and spacer ring member attached to the rotary disk and a second free-wheeling member attached to the first non-rotary bearing and spacer ring member that freely rotates when it engages wall structures and upstanding obstructions in concrete surfaces. Also, the elongated slots allows the plurality of replacement blades to be adjusted slightly inward of an annular peripheral edge of the free-wheeling self-lubricating bearing assembly.
US11891820B2
The present claims a decorating tool, comprising a working portion, a grip portion and a connecting portion. The working portion and the grip portion are connected to two ends of the connecting portion, respectively. The connecting portion is configured for controlling the grip portion to rotate towards or away from the working portion. The grip portion can be rotated to adjacent to a sidewall of the working portion, and not protrude from two ends of the working portion.
US11891818B2
The decking anchors have a web anchor and a flange anchor that are operatively coupled together. In an assembly position, the web anchor and the flange anchor may be oriented in the same plane. After insertion into the cavity of the decking, the flange anchor may contact the upper flange of the decking, the web anchor may be rotated (e.g., after moving vertically upward while the flange anchor remains stationary), the web anchor may engage the webs of the decking (e.g., after moving vertically downward while the flange anchor remains stationary), and a stop may be operatively coupled to the web anchor and the flange anchor, in order to secure the web anchor and the flange anchor to each other while the web anchor contacts the webs and the flange anchor contacts the upper flange to form an anchor within the decking that has loading resistance in all directions.
US11891814B2
A prefabricated wall panel has a precast body including at least one decorative design element. In addition, the wall panel includes a mounting element having a first end embedded in the precast body and a second end projecting from the precast body. A groove is formed between the precast body and the second end of the mounting element along a first edge of the precast body. A tongue is formed along a second edge of the precast body opposite the first edge. The tongue and groove cooperate to allow prefabricated wall panels to be more easily installed on a support substrate.
US11891812B2
A wallboard fastening device secures first and second wallboards to a framing member without fasteners passing through the wallboards. The device includes first and second framing panels joined along lengthwise edges at a frame seam to form a two-sided frame that fits around the framing member. The device includes first and second flat-spring flanges joined along lengthwise edges at a front seam. The device includes a channel-dividing panel joined lengthwise to the front seam and to the second framing panel to form first and second channels that are sized to receive edges of the wallboards. The device includes a guide flange joined lengthwise to the frame seam. A corner edge of the second wallboard may be pushed against the guide flange such that the corner edge slides along the guide flange, thereby guiding the second wallboard into the second channel.
US11891803B1
A modular assembly and method of installing a modular assembly is provided. The modular assembly can include a plurality of base members made of a plastic composite material. Each base member can be a monolithic structure defined by a top wall, a bottom wall, and opposing side walls, the opposing side walls defining a channel. A heater tray can be configured to be slidably received within the channel of each base member. The heater tray may include a channel that extends longitudinally along the heater tray. A heating element can be configured to heat the heating tray, the heating element received within the channel of the heater tray. Each of the plurality of base members can adjoin one another in an assembled state to form a horizontal platform for traffic.
US11891795B2
Apparatuses for locking PV panels to support structures, e.g., support beams. The support beams may be designed and built with corresponding connection elements, e.g., slots and tabs, which may be used to enable locking and unlocking of the PV panels on the support beams. Once in place, a ferromagnetic flap may be put into an engaged position, thereby closing and engaging a panel locking mechanism. The ferromagnetic flap may be lifted by using a magnet. The magnet may be may be embedded in a suction cup device which is designed to lift and maneuver an object with a relatively flat surface, e.g. a glass pane. The suction cup device may, when suction is applied, be attached to glass covering the PV panels, and thus the suction cup device may be used to move the PV panels.
US11891791B2
Precast concrete residences resist great hurricane wind forces and moderate seismic forces. The entire residential structure, excluding the slab on grade are made from plant-cast concrete panels. Foundation panel joints are designed at the center of the precast wall panels to assure proper load-distribution from the walls to the foundation. Using a precast foundation greatly increases the speed of construction. All structural elements are field-bolted together. An interior wall track design allows engineered, prefabricated interior wall panels to roll into the home and “tip up” into place without wedging between the floor and ceiling.
US11891788B1
Implementations of sewer cleanout caps may include a cap having a first side and the second side opposite the first side. The cap may be configured to be inserted into a sewer cleanout line with the second side facing an inside of the sewer cleanout line. Implementations of sewer cleanout caps may include a rod coupled to and extending from the second side of the cap. The rod may be configured to extend through and couple to a bait. Implementations of sewer cleanout caps may also include a bait retainer configured to couple to the rod and secure the rodenticide to the rod and a spacer coupled over the rod and configured to provide space between the rodenticide and the second side. A length of the rod extending from the second side may be adjustable.
US11891786B2
A carrier assembly for supporting a water closet having an outlet. The carrier assembly including a faceplate defining an opening therethrough, where the opening includes a first end configured to form a water-tight seal with the outlet of the water closet and a second end opposite the first end, and a fluid coupler defining a fluid pathway therethrough, where the fluid pathway includes an inlet and an outlet opposite the inlet, where the outlet is configured to be coupled to and form a water-tight seal with a wastewater pipe while the fluid pathway is in fluid communication with an internal volume of the wastewater pipe, and where the outlet has at least one degree of adjustability relative to the wastewater pipe.
US11891783B2
A calibration work support system includes an input device for inputting machine information including machine rank data on a hydraulic excavator and specification data on a front work implement, a display controller that generates a target posture image that is an image of the case in which the front work implement that takes target measurement posture is viewed with a point-of-view position and a line-of-sight direction of an operator M on the basis of the machine information input from the input device and target posture data defined in advance as the target measurement posture of the front work implement when an inertial measurement device is calibrated, and an HMD that displays the target posture image generated in the display controller. The HMD executes displaying in such a manner that the target posture image is superimposed on the actual front work implement viewed with the point-of-view position and the line-of-sight direction of the operator M.
US11891780B2
A working machine includes a prime mover, a traveling pump configured to deliver hydraulic fluid at a flow rate corresponding to an angle of the swashplate, a traveling motor configured to be rotated by the hydraulic fluid delivered from the traveling pump so as to have a rotation speed shiftable between a first speed and a second speed higher than the first speed, a traveling change-over valve shiftable between a first state to set the rotation speed of the traveling motor to the first speed and a second state to set the rotation speed of the traveling motor to the second speed, an operation device, an operation valve configured to change the angle of the swashplate of the traveling pump according to operation of the operation device, an actuation valve provided upstream or downstream of the operation valve and fluidly connected to the operation valve, and a controller configured or programmed to output a control signal to control the actuation valve in such a way that, when the traveling change-over valve is shifted from the second state to the first state, a value of the control signal is reduced from a set value to a mitigation value less than the set value and then restores to the set value. The controller is configured or programmed to reduce the value of the control signal from the set value to the mitigation value for a mitigation period in such a way that a first reduction rate that is a rate of reducing the value of the control signal for a first part of the mitigation period between a start point thereof and an intermediate point thereof larger than a second reduction rate that is a rate of reducing the value of the control signal for a second part of the mitigation period between the intermediate point thereof and an end point thereof.
US11891774B2
A structurally integrated fuel tank and method of assembling is disclosed. The fuel tank may comprise a body and a neck disposed on the body. The neck may be configured to be coupled to an arm of a front frame of a machine. The body may comprise a cover, an endwall and a base. The cover includes a cover hitch that defines an upper pivot bore centered about a pivot axis. The upper pivot bore is configured to receive a pivot fastener about which the fuel tank is pivotable. The endwall may be disposed below and coupled to the cover. The base may be coupled to the endwall, and may include a lower hitch that extends outward and away from the endwall. The neck and the body together define a chamber configured to store fuel. The cover is a top of such chamber.
US11891761B2
The invention relates to a machine for stabilizing a track, including a machine frame supported on on-track undercarriages and a vertically adjustable stabilizing unit designed to roll on rails of the track by means of unit rollers, the stabilizing unit comprising a vibration exciter with rotating imbalance masses for generating an impact force (FS) acting dynamically in a track plane perpendicularly to a track longitudinal direction and a vertical drive for generating a vertical load acting on the track. In this, it is provided that the vibration exciter comprises at least two imbalance masses which are driven applying a variably adjustable phase shift (Δφ1, Δφ2). The invention further relates to a method for operating such a machine.
US11891760B2
A rail assembly for rail vehicles having flanged wheels, in particular in the area of track covers and track crossings, as well as a profiled filling element therefor. The rail assembly (1) comprises a support structure (7) for a cover (9) which covers the space (8) directly alongside the rail (2), the cover (9) acting as a guide rail and being easy to remove from the support structure (7). Also disclosed is a profiled filling element (200, 220) particularly suitable for the rail assembly (1).
US11891759B2
A papermaking process including the steps of forming a wet paper web on a papermaking machine, pulling vacuum through the web to remove water from the web and thereby generate discharge air, and diverting at least a portion of the discharge air through a control loop to a hot air drying system within the papermaking process to aid in drying the web, wherein the vacuum is generated by centrifugal blowers.
US11891758B2
A blade element pair (20) for a refiner (1, 2, 3) is intended for refining fibrous material. Each blade element (5, 5′, 8, 8′) of the blade element pair (20) has a refining surface (6, 9) with blade bars (16, 18) and blade grooves (17, 19) extending along the blade element (5, 5′, 8, 8′), and openings (14,15) extending through the blade element (5, 5′, 8, 8′). The openings (14, 15) in one of the blade elements (5, 5′, 8, 8′) is at different axial (A) or radial (R) positions from the openings (14,15) in the other blade element (5, 5′, 8, 8′) when the blade elements (5, 5′, 8, 8′) of the blade element pair (20) are set substantially opposite to each other.
US11891755B2
The present invention relates to safety gloves with special rubber coating. Specifically, a kind of safety gloves with rubber coating which is specially designed and coated on fabric substrates to achieve proper hand protection effects, and exhibits properties such as good ventilation, abrasion resistance, and soft and comfortable wearing experience. A preparation method of safety gloves with special coating, comprising following steps: (1) treating a substrate with composite electrolyte digestion solution by a certain method; (2) spreading polymeric disperse coating over the substrate containing composite electrolyte digestion solution obtained in step (1), heating when the polymeric disperse coating is attached and obtaining a half-product with polymeric disperse coating; (3) treating the half-product with polymeric disperse coating in pre-foamed water chemical compound or non-foamed water chemical compound, by treating immersing or spraying or immersing and spraying is defined; and (4) dipping the product treated in step (3) in aromatic hydrocarbon solution.
US11891753B2
A fiber structure manufacturing apparatus including: an accumulation portion that accumulates a material containing a resin and a fiber in air to generate a fiber web; a transport portion that transports the generated fiber web in a transport direction; and a heating and pressurizing portion that pressurizes the transported fiber web with a heated lower flat plate and an upper flat plate to melt the resin, in which a liquid absorbent having a first region where pressurization by the heating and pressurizing portion is performed the predetermined number of times and a second region where the pressurization is performed more than a predetermined number of times is formed by alternately repeating transport at a predetermined pitch shorter than a length of the flat plate in the transport direction by the transport portion and the pressurization.
US11891751B2
A laundry kiosk is provided according to an aspect of the present disclosure. In an embodiment, the laundry kiosk contains a user interface component to receive laundering choices for a garment from a user and an apparatus to process the garment according to the received choices. The laundering choices include one or more of a combination of cleaning, pressing and drying. A suitable enclosure is also provided to hold the apparatus and the user interface component.
US11891749B2
A drying appliance includes a cabinet with a processing chamber operably disposed therein. A blower delivers process air through an airflow path. The airflow path includes the processing chamber. A condensing airflow path has an inlet positioned within a front panel of the cabinet and an outlet positioned within a bottom panel of the cabinet. A condensing blower moves condensing air from the inlet to the outlet. An airflow seal extends downward from a front edge of the cabinet. The airflow seal separates a low-pressure region proximate the inlet from a high-pressure region proximate the outlet to block convection between the outlet and the inlet.
US11891748B2
Clothing drying device has: a drum with a rope wound around; a casing body having an entrance/exit surface and storing the drum, the entrance/exit surface being provided adjacent to a wall surface to which the casing body is fixed, the entrance/exit surface allowing the rope to go in and out; and a gate-shaped guide member provided on the entrance/exit surface, comprising a hole portion provided inside the guide member and the rope is passed through, a pair of pole portions extending in the direction intersecting with the wall surface and having an arc surface becoming convex toward the hole portion, and a beam portion passed between the pair of pole portions at the end portion opposite to the end portion of the wall surface side of the pair of pole portions and having an arc surface becoming convex toward the hole portion.
US11891744B2
Disclosed is an integrated washing and spinning tub and an energy-saving and healthy household washing machine with a tub replacing function. The integrated washing and spinning tub comprises a water holding tub, a spinning tub is arranged in the water holding tub, and the water holding tub and the spinning tub are connected in a sliding groove mode. The energy-saving and healthy household washing machine with a tub replacing function comprises a washing machine shell, the integrated washing and spinning tub is arranged in the washing machine shell, a spring telescopic support corresponding to the integrated washing and spinning tub is arranged on the inner wall of the upper portion of the washing machine shell, a support frame is arranged at the bottom of the integrated washing and spinning tub, and a reduction gear and a motor which are connected are arranged on the support frame.
US11891736B2
A spunbond non-woven fabric includes a plurality of fibers. The fibers are formed from a polymer blend that includes at least one first polymer and at least one second polymer. A melt flow rate of the at least one first polymer is greater than a melt flow rate of the at least one second polymer, and the melt flow rate of the at least one second polymer is about 9 g/10 min to less than 18 g/10 min. The blend may include a percentage by weight of the second polymer that is greater than a percentage by weight of the first polymer.
US11891718B2
Embodiments provide a method of growing a silicon single crystal ingot, the method including growing a silicon single crystal ingot having crystal orientation of (111) using the Czochralski method, measuring a diameter of the silicon single crystal ingot, calculating a length of a facet of the silicon single crystal ingot, calculating a correction formula for a rotation speed of a seed and a correction formula for a pulling speed of the silicon single crystal ingot based on the calculated facet length, and correcting the rotation speed of the seed and the pulling speed of the silicon single crystal ingot based on a result of the calculation.
US11891715B2
A paddle capable of reducing an influence of blocking the electric field and capable of improving its mechanical strength is disclosed. The paddle, which is configured to agitate a processing liquid in a processing tank by moving in the processing tank, includes a plurality of agitating beams that form a honeycomb structure. The honeycomb structure has a plurality of hexagonal through-holes formed by the plurality of agitating beams.
US11891711B2
The present document describes an electrolytic cell comprising a protective layer comprising elemental copper covering at least in part or all of a refractory material assembly covering an interior surface thereof. Also described is a copper oxide containing composition comprising copper oxide and any one of a reducing agent and a binder. Also described is a method of protecting a refractory material assembly covering an interior surface of an electrolytic cell, comprising covering at least in part, or all of the refractory material assembly with a copper sheet, a structure comprising elemental copper, a copper oxide, an elemental copper comprising composite material, a copper oxide containing composition and combinations thereof, to provide a protective layer comprising elemental copper.
US11891708B2
There is disclosed an improved Kolbe reactor system for converting electrical power into a hydrocarbon fuel and hydrogen. More specifically, the present disclosure provides a Kolbe reactor system comprising an open cavity Kolbe reactor and an initial hydrocarbon chemical formulation comprising from about 3N to about 6N C2-C5 carboxylic acid and from about 2M to about 4M alkali C2-C5 carboxylate, wherein the C2-C5 carboxylate and carboxylic acid have the same carbon alkyl length. The Kolbe reactor system can be continuously fed with C2-C5 carboxylic acid to maintain the initial formulation for a continuous process. Electrical energy is stored by converting the carboxylic acid to hydrocarbon fuel and hydrogen, and is recovered by combustion of the hydrocarbon fuel and hydrogen, and or conversion in a hydrogen fuel cell.
US11891700B2
The present disclosure relates to a cold spray metal process for imparting electromagnetic interference (EMI) resistance or lightning protection to the surface of a polymer, and a polymer with surface EMI resistance, or lightning protection, articles coated therefrom, and methods of reducing or eliminating electrochemical interactions between the metallic coating and components of the polymer.
US11891697B2
There is provided a technique that includes: a process chamber in which a substrate is processed; a gas supplier configured to supply a gas into the process chamber; at least one substrate mounting table disposed in the process chamber and including a substrate mounting surface on which the substrate is mounted; and an arm configured to transfer the substrate to the substrate mounting surface while supporting a lower surface of the substrate, wherein the arm includes a support that includes an inclination and is configured to support the substrate.
US11891685B2
The vacuum processing apparatus for performing predetermined vacuum processing on a processing surface of a to-be-processed substrate is made up of: a vacuum chamber having disposed therein a to-be-processed substrate and having formed, on an upper wall of the vacuum chamber, a mounting opening facing the processing surface where a direction in which the processing surface looks is defined as an upper side; a processing unit for performing therein vacuum processing; and a communication pipe having a predetermined length and being interposed between the vacuum chamber and the processing unit such that predetermined processing is performed, through the communication pipe, on the to-be-processed substrate inside the vacuum chamber. The processing unit has an engaging means to which is coupled a swing arm for swinging about a rotary shaft extending perpendicularly to a vertical direction for selectively engaging the vacuum chamber and the communication pipe or the processing unit and the communication pipe.
US11891684B2
A method of providing a protective titanium layer to an outer surface of an aluminum component includes providing an aluminum component and forming a first layer of titanium-based bulk metallic glass on the component, wherein formation of the bulk metallic glass layer comprises depositing a titanium alloy powder using pulsed directed energy deposition.
US11891681B2
The present invention has as its technical problem to prevent cracking when producing a steel sheet by ferritic stainless steel sheet and provide a ferritic stainless steel sheet excellent in toughness and a part using the same. To solve this technical problem, the present invention provides steel comprised of, by mass %, C: 0.001 to 0.030%, Si: 0.01 to 1.00%, Mn: 0.01 to 1.00%, P: 0.010 to 0.050%, S: 0.0002 to 0.0100%, Cr: 10.0 to 20.0%, N: 0.001 to 0.030%, Nb: 0.10 to 0.40%, B: 0.0002 to 0.0030%, Al: 0.005 to 0.100%, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities in which the amount of solute Nb being less than or equal to a smaller value of 0.20 and (Nb content-0.08) mass %.
US11891677B2
The present invention discloses additive for reducing the roasting temperature of fluxed magnetite pellets and a method of using it, consisting of components: B2O3, Mn2O3, the B2O3 and Mn2O3 are pure chemical reagents, the mass of the additive is 0.8%, 4% of the dry basis mass of the magnetite concentrate, respectively, the magnetite concentrate, bentonite clay, calcium flux and additives will be dosed with 12-14% water of the dry base mass ratio of the mixture, prepared into green pellets of 10-12.5 mm in diameter in a disc ball making machine, After the pellets are completely dried, preheat them for 15˜20 min at 600˜1000° C. to ensure that Mn2O3 is fully decomposed, then roasting is carried out for 15 min at 1200° C., and after roasting, the pellets are cooled to room temperature to obtain the finished pellets.
US11891673B2
A hot-shapable uncoated steel-plate workpiece is press hardened by first transporting the plate through a heating zone continuously or discontinuously and there heating the plate to an austenitizing temperature while blocking entry of oxygen into the heating zone. Then the heated plate is cooled in a cooling zone to a martensitizing temperature below the austenitizing temperature without contacting the heated plate with oxygen. Finally, immediately and without cooling of the cooled workpiece to a martensite start temperature, the cooled workpiece is deformed at least partially in a finishing press into a desired shape.
US11891670B2
Disclosed are probes, primers, a microarray, a kit and applications for rapid detection of clinical microorganism in ophthalmology, belonging to that technical field of clinical microorganism detection. The probes of that disclosure comprise probes for respectively detect Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus haemolyticus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus hominis, Serratia marcescens, Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis and Enterobacter cloacae. The disclosure also discloses primers for amplifying the target bacteria, which comprises primers which can amplify gene sequence fragments with intra-species homology of more than 95 percent (%) and inter-species homology of less than 75%. The disclosure also provides a method for synthesizing the hybridization probe on the microarray, a method for hybridization reaction and a method for scanning detection. The probes described in the present invention are highly specific and detects microorganisms in ophthalmic clinical samples with sufficient positivity, high accuracy and deliver diagnosis in a short period of time.
US11891667B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for the highly sensitive and effective treatment and diagnosis of cancer. The methods disclosed herein take advantage of the discovery of a series of newly identified, inter-chromosomal genetic fusion events that occur upstream from the IGF2BP3 gene, which result in elevated expression of IGF2BP3 protein. The present disclosure utilizes biomarkers developed using this set of newly discovered genetic fusion events and elevated expression of IGF2BP3 protein to not only diagnosis cancer with high sensitivity and reliability, but also to pre-select patient populations that are expected to display an elevated likelihood of success when treated with any of numerous inhibitors of IGF1R-mediated signaling.
US11891664B2
The invention relates generally to the use of microvesicle biomarkers such as nucleic acids, including nucleic acid signatures, and/or proteins for assessing a kidney transplant rejection in a patient. The invention further relates to assessing, and/or to monitoring kidney transplant rejection in patients who have received a renal transplant.
US11891650B2
Provided herein is a fluidic cartridge having a body comprising a malleable material and a layer comprising a deformable material bonded to a surface of the body that seals one or more fluidic channels that communicate with one or more valve bodies formed in a surface of the body. The valve can be closed by applying pressure to the deformable material sufficient to crush and close off a fluidic channel in the body. Also provided are a cartridge interface configured to engage the cartridge. Also provided is a system including a cartridge interface and methods of using the cartridge and system.
US11891647B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for analyzing complete microorganism strains in complex heterogeneous communities, determining functional relationships and interactions thereof, and synthesizing bioreactive modificators based thereon are disclosed. Methods for identifying and utilizing pathways and functionalities of interest based thereon are also disclosed.
US11891646B2
Some aspects of this invention provide methods and bioreactors for converting a carbon source into a lipid. In some embodiments, lipid production is carried out in an aerobic fermentor and carbon dioxide generated during lipid production is converted into a carbon substrate by CO2 fixation in an anaerobic fermentor. In some embodiments, the carbon substrate generated by CO2 fixation is used as the carbon source for lipid production, thus achieving total carbon utilization in lipid production.
US11891641B2
The present disclosure concerns yeast host cell especially suited for the expression of heterologous proteins, such as heterologous enzymes. The yeast host cell of the present disclosure exhibits an alteration in the cAMP signaling pathway which allows achieving increased heterologous protein yield and associated biological activity. The yeast host cell can also exhibit polyploidy.
US11891638B2
Disclosed are variants of ACE2, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the variants of ACE2, and treatment methods for reducing Angiotensin II (1-8) plasma levels and/or increasing Angiotensin (1-7) plasma levels in a subject in need thereof. The disclosed variants of ACE2 may include polypeptide fragments of ACE2 having ACE2 activity for converting AngII(1-8) to Ang(1-7). Suitable subjects suitable for the disclosed methods of treatment may include subjects having or at risk for developing diabetic and non-diabetic chronic kidney disease, acute renal failure and its prevention, chronic kidney disease, severe hypertension, scleroderma and its skin, pulmonary, kidney and hypertensive complications, malignant hypertension, renovascular hypertension secondary to renal artery stenosis, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, liver fibrosis such as in liver cirrhosis patients, an aortic aneurysm, cardiac fibrosis and remodeling, left ventricular hypertrophy, and an acute stroke.
US11891632B2
A DNA polymerase in which a mutation is induced at a specific amino acid position to increase gene mutation specificity, a nucleic acid sequence encoding the polymerase, a vector comprising the nucleic acid sequence, and a host cell transformed with the vector are disclosed. Provided are a method for in vitro detecting one or more gene mutations or SNPs in one or more templates by using a DNA polymerase having increased gene mutation specificity, a composition for detecting a gene mutation or SNP comprising the DNA polymerase, and a PCR kit comprising said composition. Furthermore, provided are a PCR buffer composition for increasing the activity of a DNA polymerase having increased gene mutation specificity and a PCR kit for detecting a gene mutation or SNP comprising the PCR buffer composition and/or the DNA polymerase having increased gene mutation specificity.
US11891629B2
The invention provides propagator cells and methods for propagating phage and transduction particles.
US11891628B2
The invention discloses a methodology for the biomimetic culture of urothelial cells from mammalian bladders, including murine, porcine, bovine and human sources to isolate and expand urothelial cells for use in various applications, such as intravesical urothelial cell therapy to treat cystitis and bladder cancer.
US11891620B2
Platelet lysate compositions and cell culture media compositions for maintaining and/or growing mammalian cells, such as mammalian endothelial cells (ECs) and mammalian endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs), in particular human ECs (huECs) and human EPCs (huEPCs), such as primary huECs and primary huEPCs, are provided. The cell culture media compositions contain a basal medium, a platelet lysate and, optionally, one or more exogenously added growth factors. Also provided are methods for making and using such cell culture media compositions to grow and/or maintain ECs and EPCs, including huECs and huEPCs, as well as cell culture vessels, dishes, plates, and/or flasks pretreated with the cell culture media compositions.
US11891615B2
A method of producing Klotho protein includes preparing a Klotho plasmid DNA vector, culturing cells, transfecting the cells with the Klotho plasmid DNA vector in a cell culture medium, growing the transfected cells, and harvesting the cell culture supernatant by removing the transfected cells. The Klotho plasmid DNA vector has a mammalian selection marker and a Klotho open reading frame. The cells are primary fibroblast cells and/or mesenchymal stromal cells. A method of manufacturing a cosmetic composition includes combining Klotho protein or the cell culture supernatant with a cosmetically acceptable vehicle. A method of treating a patient to improve the condition and appearance of aging skin includes topically administering the cosmetic composition to the patient. By upregulating the Klotho gene in vitro and incorporating the Klotho protein and growth factors into a composition, transepidermal water loss, skin atrophy, and free radical damage to the skin may be addressed.
US11891603B2
The present invention relates to a therapeutic antisense oligonucleotide which binds to exon 51 of the human dystrophin pre-mRNA to induce exon skipping, and conjugates and compositions thereof for the treatment of DMD.
US11891597B2
An automatic processing device of culture plates (2) for microbiological samples, wherein the processing device (1) includes a support frame (3); a slide (4) provided with a seating (5) configured for removably housing a culture plate (2) and movably mounted on the support frame (3) so as to be selectively displaceable between a first loading position, a plurality of image-acquiring positions, and a first unloading; a camera (6) of a linear type, provided with an optic (7) of a telecentric type and a trilinear sensor, and arranged according to a vertical axis (8) such as to acquire, at an image-acquiring zone, a multiplicity of linear images of corresponding linear portions of an upper surface of the culture plate (2), during the displacing of the slide (4); a first lighting device (11) orientated such as to illuminate the linear portions of an upper surface of the culture plate (2); an advancing device (14) of the slide (4) configured such as to enable obtaining a constant and substantially vibration-free advancing speed of the slide (4) in the image-acquiring zone; and an electronic control device (9) of a functioning of the camera (6), of the lighting device and of the advancing device (14).
US11891593B2
Presented is an airway organ bioreactor apparatus, and methods of use thereof, as well as bioartificial airway organs produced using the methods, and methods of treating subjects using the bioartificial airway organs. The bioreactor comprises: an organ chamber: an ingres line connecting the organ chamber and a reservoir system and comprising an arterial line, a venous line and a tracheal line; an egress line connecting the chamber and the reservoir system, pumps in ingress and egress lines; a controller to control fluid exchange; a chamber pressure sensor connected to the organ chamber.
US11891577B2
The present disclosure is an FCC additive composition comprising an acidity enhanced modified clay; an acidity enhanced modified alumina; a binder; a phosphorous oxide and a boron oxide, as well as a process for preparing the FCC additive composition. The FCC additive as disclosed is capable of cracking bottoms comprising large hydrocarbon molecules/heavy fuel oils, it enhances bottoms conversion and reduces formation of dry gas.
US11891573B2
A method and device for controlling viscosity of asphalt rubber based on a current variation are provided. The method includes processing asphalt rubber raw materials with a first preset proportion, and shearing the processed asphalt rubber; obtaining a shearing current, pumping and discharging the sheared asphalt rubber; obtaining a discharging current, and obtaining the viscosity of the pumped asphalt rubber according to the discharging current and the viscosity-discharging current correlation relationship. The method includes comparing the viscosity with a preset viscosity; outputting the pumped asphalt rubber as finished asphalt rubber when the viscosity is equal to the preset viscosity. The method includes adjusting the viscosity according to the discharging current. Double-current control is adopted, so that the whole-process control of the processing viscosity of the asphalt rubber is realized, and the control accuracy of the viscosity is improved.
US11891571B2
The present application relates to an electrochromic composite, an electrochromic device comprising the same, and a method for manufacturing an electrochromic device.
US11891569B2
A diverting agent is provided which has solubility in water that can be controlled excellently and which does not easily dissolve at an early stage of filling of fractures in a well in excavation method using a hydraulic fracturing method and dissolves in water and can be easily removed after filling is no longer needed. The diverting agent contains powdery polyvinyl alcohol-based resins having an average particle diameter of 800 to 2000 μm.
US11891567B2
The subject invention provides compositions comprising solvents and surfactants, as well as their use in improving oil and/or gas production. In some embodiments, the compositions comprise chemical or synthetic solvents and/or surfactants. In other embodiments, the compositions comprise biological components, such as microorganisms and/or their growth by-products. The subject invention can be used to dissolve, disperse and/or emulsify paraffin precipitates and/or deposits; prevent and/or inhibit paraffin deposition; remove rust deposits and prevent corrosion associated therewith; inhibit bacterial growth and/or biofilm formation; and to enhance oil recovery.
US11891566B2
Novel completion fluid compositions for fluid loss control during completion and workover operations conducted on a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation are disclosed. In particular, the composition is a weighted brine fluid having a polymetaphosphate composition, a biopolymer suspension agent, and a fluid loss control additive. These novel compositions provide a means to temporarily seal a wellbore communicating with a subterranean formation to enable completion or workover operations to be performed, after which the composition can be removed by contact with an acidic composition.
US11891564B2
A system includes a well cellar, a wellhead and a colloidal silica gel. The well cellar includes a base and sidewalls extending from the base. The wellhead includes an aboveground region extending above the well cellar and a belowground region in the well cellar. The belowground region of the wellhead includes a wellhead component having an exterior surface. The colloidal silica gel occupies a volume extending from the base and sidewalls of the well cellar to the exterior surface of the wellhead component. The colloidal silica gel covers the exterior surface of the wellhead component.
US11891559B2
A shaped abrasive particle including a body comprising a first major surface, a second major surface, and a side surface extending between the first major surface and the second major surface, the body comprising a sharpness-shape-strength factor (3SF) within a range between about 0.7 and about 1.7 and a Shape Index within a range between at least about 0.01 and not greater than about 0.49.
US11891552B2
There is provided a weather proof pressure sensitive adhesive tape composition having 15 years or more dwell time in ambient conditions, comprising ambient humidity in the range of RH 30% to 100% RH including aggressive under water conditions, ambient pressures in the range of 0.75 bar to 1.5 bar at normal temperature, ambient temperature in the range of (−) 30° C. to 75° C. at normal pressure, ambient acidity and alkalinity in the range of pH 4.5 to pH 10.5 in water, ambient salinity of water in under water conditions of up to 1.2 mole equivalent of sodium chloride and ambient surface fluid resistance of up to 2.7×10−3 cubic meter per second per meter contact edge of the tape.
US11891536B2
A non-stick, durable, and long-serving coating in an inner surface of a tube that transports adhesive, a material of the coating includes polysiloxane. The polysiloxane includes a first monomer unit and a second monomer unit. The first monomer unit is at least one group selected from the group consisting of —O—Si—(R1)(R2)(R3), Si—(R1)(R2)(—O—)2, and Si—(R1)(—O—)3, the R1, R2 and R3 being independently selected from the group consisting of substituted alkyl and unsubstituted alkyl. The second monomer unit includes Si(—O—)4. An injection needle and a method for manufacturing the coating on an injection needle is also provided.
US11891533B2
The present invention relates to a metal fine particle-containing ink containing metal fine particles (a) dispersed therein with a polymer B, in which the ink contains an ink solvent S; a difference ΔSP (|SP(S)−SP(B)|) between solubility parameters of the solvent S and the polymer B is not more than 1.5 (cal/cm3)0.5 wherein SP(S) and SP(B) are a solubility parameter of the ink solvent S and a solubility parameter of the polymer B, respectively, as measured by a Fedors method; and the SP(B) is not less than 9.5 (cal/cm3)0.5 and not more than 10.5 (cal/cm3)0.5, as well as a method for producing a printed material, which includes the step of applying the metal fine particle-containing ink to a printing substrate to form a metal coating film of the ink on the printing substrate under ordinary-temperature environments, thereby obtaining the printed material.
US11891529B2
Provided are an ink composition for bioprinting and a hydrogel formed therefrom, wherein the ink composition: a monomer or macromer having a photocurable functional group; and acrylic hyperbranched polyglycerol (AHPG).
US11891523B2
A composite negative electrode active material, which includes: a silicon-based core particle; an outer carbon coating layer positioned on a surface of the silicon-based core particle; first single-walled carbon nanotubes in contact with the outer carbon coating layer, wherein the first single-walled carbon nanotubes protrude from the outer carbon coating layer; a conductive structure spaced apart from the outer carbon coating layer, wherein the conductive structure includes at least one second single-walled carbon nanotubes; and a crosslinking material bonded to the first single-walled carbon nanotube and at least one of the second single-walled carbon nanotubes. The at least one of the second single-walled carbon nanotubes is crosslinked with the first single-walled carbon nanotube by the crosslinking material, and wherein the conductive structure and the first single-walled carbon nanotube are connected to each other.
US11891522B2
A process is described for manufacturing white pigment containing products. The white pigment containing products are obtained from at least one white pigment and impurities containing material via froth flotation.
US11891517B2
Wax compositions may be obtained by providing an olefinic feed comprising a first linear alpha olefin having m carbon atoms and a second linear alpha olefin having n carbon atoms, wherein m and n are independently selected integers each ranging from about 12 to about 100, and the olefinic feed optionally comprises one or more internal olefins and/or one or more branched olefins; contacting the olefinic feed with a metal carbene catalyst in a reactor; forming ethylene and a hydrocarbon substance comprising a linear olefin dimer comprising two carbon atoms less than a sum of m and n; removing the ethylene from the reactor while forming the linear olefin dimer; and isolating a wax composition comprising the linear olefin dimer, a hydrogenated reaction product thereof, or any combination thereof.
US11891514B2
Provided herein are mycelium materials and methods for production thereof. In some embodiments, a mycelium material includes: a cultivated mycelium material including one or more masses of branching hyphae, wherein the one or more masses of branching hyphae may be disrupted or pressed and/or a bonding agent may be combined with the cultivated mycelium material. Methods of producing a mycelium material are also provided.
US11891511B2
Provided are a two-component curable composition, for manufacture of a thermoplastic polyurethane resin, that exhibits low mixing viscosity and high glass transition temperature after curing, a thermoplastic polyurethane resin that is a cured product thereof, and a fiber-reinforced resin including the thermoplastic polyurethane resin. The two-component curable composition for manufacture of a thermoplastic polyurethane resin is a two-component curable composition including a polyol component including a diol (A) and a polyisocyanate component including a diisocyanate (B). The diol (A) includes a diol (A-1) having an aromatic ring and having a molecular weight of 200 to 700 and a diol (A-2) having no aromatic ring and having a molecular weight of 500 or less. The ratio ((A-1)/((A-1)+(A-2))) of the mass of the diol (A-1) to the total mass of the diol (A-1) and the diol (A-2) is (10/100) to (75/100).
US11891502B2
The present invention relates to a dispersant for a positive electrode of a power storage device. The dispersant is a copolymer that contains a constitutional unit A represented by the following general formula (1) and at least one constitutional unit B selected from the group consisting of a constitutional unit B1 represented by the following general formula (2) and a constitutional unit B2 represented by the following general formula (3). The total content of the constitutional unit A and the constitutional unit B in the copolymer is 80% by mass or more. The content of the constitutional unit A in all constitutional units of the copolymer is 35% by mass or more.
US11891501B2
A method of producing a resin modifier, the method comprising a process of polymerizing an ethylene unsaturated monomer in the presence of a cellulose nanofiber, the cellulose nanofiber being reacted with an amine or a quaternary ammonium salt compound.
US11891499B2
The present invention relates to a granular microfibrillated cellulose product comprising a microfibrillated cellulose originating from agricultural biomass, said microfibrillated cellulose product comprising ≤75 wt % of cellulose, preferably ≤70 wt %, based on dry solids content of said product, wherein said granular microfibrillated cellulose product has a bulk density of 500-1200 kg/m3; a flowability of 5-60 ml/s, measured by a Copley scientific powder flowability tester having a stainless steel cylinder with orifice 16 or funnel with orifice 15; and a water content of at most 60 wt %, based on total microfibrillated cellulose product. The present invention further relates to its manufacture and use in and manufacture of paper and paperboard products.
US11891495B2
A thermoplastic polymer composition comprises a polyethylene polymer composition and a salt of bicyclo[2.2.1]heptane-2,3-dicarboxylic acid. The polyethylene polymer composition can have a Melt Relaxation Product of 50,000 or less. A method for producing an injection molded article comprises the steps of (a) providing a thermoplastic polymer composition as described above, (b) melting the thermoplastic polymer composition, (c) injecting the molten thermoplastic polymer composition into a mold cavity, (d) cooling the molten thermoplastic polymer composition, and (e) ejecting the injection molded article from the mold cavity. A method for producing a film comprises the steps of (a) providing a thermoplastic polymer composition as described above, (b) melting the thermoplastic polymer composition, (c) extruding the molten thermoplastic polymer composition through a slot-shaped die orifice to form a film, (d) cooling the film, and (e) collecting the film.
US11891494B2
Disclosed is an additive for imparting antimicrobial properties to a resin. The additive comprises a string polymer, at least one terminal of which has a positive charge, wherein the string polymer is a polymer containing structural units derived from a cationic polymerization initiator and a monomer containing a carbon-carbon double bond. By using this additive, it becomes possible to obtain an antibacterial resin molded body which can be prepared simply and inexpensively and which has high stability and safety.
US11891492B2
A method for manufacturing a foam rubber by foaming a polymer latex is provided, wherein the polymer latex used has a solids content of 60.0 wt % or more, comprises 0.001 to 1.0 part by weight of antifoaming agent relative to 100 parts by weight of polymer in the polymer latex, and has a viscosity at 25° C. of 370 cps or less when the solids content is controlled to 66.0 wt %.
US11891488B2
A sheet of polymeric material is made using an extruding process and articles are formed from the sheet of polymeric material. The sheet of polymeric material and the articles comprise one or more polypropylene resins. In some embodiments, the sheet of polymeric material and the articles formed form the sheet of polymeric material are transparent.
US11891487B2
The present disclosure relates to a preparation method of a super absorbent polymer having excellent basic absorbency and liquid permeability at the same time by optimizing the degree of cross-linking of a base resin powder and a surface cross-linked layer, and a super absorbent polymer prepared therefrom. The preparation method of a super absorbent polymer includes: forming a hydrogel polymer by cross-linking and polymerizing a monomer composition including a water-soluble ethylene-based unsaturated monomer having a degree of neutralization of less than 72 mol % and an internal cross-linking agent; drying, pulverizing and classifying the hydrogel polymer to form a base resin powder; forming a surface cross-linked layer by further cross-linking a surface of the base resin powder in the presence of a surface cross-linking agent; and further neutralizing the base resin powder by treating the base resin powder with a basic solution during or after forming a surface cross-linked layer.
US11891482B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of polymer chemistry and more particularly to multiblock copolymers comprising a poly(sarcosine) block and a D,L-mixed poly(amino acid) block and uses thereof.
US11891477B2
An organic photovoltaic device comprises a first electrode, a first carrier transporting layer, an active layer, a second carrier transporting layer, and a second electrode. The first electrode is a transparent electrode. The active layer includes a conjugated polymer material, which includes a structure of formula I: wherein R0, R0′, R0″, R0′″, Y1 and Y2 can be the same or different from each other, and independently selected from one of the following groups and their derivatives: C1-C30 alkyl, C3-C30 branched alkyl, C1-C30 silyl, C2-C30 ester, C1-C30 alkoxy, C1-C30 alkylthio, C1-C30 haloalkyl, C2-C30 olefin, C2-C30 alkyne, C2-C30 carbon chain containing cyano, C1-C30 carbon chain containing nitro, C1-C30 carbon chain containing hydroxyl, C3-C30 carbon chain containing keto, halogen, cyano, and hydrogen. The organic photovoltaic device of the present invention has good power conversion efficiency.
US11891474B2
Curable resin composition, dry film, resin-clad copper foil, cured product, and electronic component
To provide a curable resin composition, from which a cured product having high heat resistance, a low dielectric loss tangent, high adhesion to a conductor can be obtained. A dry film, a resin-clad copper foil, a cured product, and an electronic component containing the curable resin composition are to be provided. A curable resin composition containing (A) an epoxy resin and (B) a compound having an active ester group is obtained, which has ratio of the total amount of epoxy group(s) in (A) the epoxy resin/the total amount of active ester group(s) in (B) the compound having an active ester group in the composition in the range of 0.2 to 0.6. A dry film, a resin-clad copper foil, a cured product, and an electronic component containing the curable resin composition are also obtained.
US11891469B2
Provided is a photopolymerizable composition comprising a blend of: a) from 40 wt. % to 70 wt. % of at least one urethane component; b) from 25 wt. % to 70 wt % of at least one monofunctional reactive diluent; c) from 0.1 wt. % to 5 wt. % of at least one initiator; and d) from 2 wt. % to 10 wt % of an amine-functional (meth)acrylate monomer. Also provided is a process of producing a photopolymerizable composition by blending these ingredients. Further provided is a process of producing a three-dimensional object, by depositing the photopolymerizable composition atop a carrier; depositing additional photopolymerizable composition atop a previously applied layer wherein the depositing of the photopolymerizable composition comprises introducing energy.
US11891465B2
A photopolymerized prepolymer manufacturing system can create material suitable for 3D printing buildings or building components. The system can include a conveyor, a prepolymerization chamber, and one or more processors. The prepolymerization chamber can have multiple prepolymerization stations arranged in sequence and can convert untreated material into photopolymerized prepolymer material as the conveyor moves the prepolymer past the prepolymerization chamber. The processor(s) can control operations of the conveyor, the prepolymerization chamber, or both, to alter operations in response to a detected system event. Each polymerization station can include a light source, such as an LED array, that irradiates material. Each light source can be in a lid of the prepolymerization station. When operation of one polymerization station is halted, such as for maintenance, then the system can increase the light source intensity of the remaining polymerization stations, slow the conveyor speed, or both.
US11891456B2
The present invention relates to peptides, in particular amyloid inhibitory peptides, and to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such peptides. Furthermore, the present invention relates to such peptides, in particular such amyloid inhibitory peptides, for use in methods of treating or diagnosing neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, or for use in a method of treating or diagnosing type 2 diabetes. Furthermore, the present invention also relates to a kit for the in-vitro or in-vivo detection and, optionally, quantification of amyloidogenic polypeptides, amyloid fibrils or amyloid aggregates, and/or for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease or type 2 diabetes in a patient.
US11891455B2
This intention relates to a novel polymorph form of compound (R)-2-[2-amino-3-(indol-3-yl)propionylamino]-2-methylpropionic acid, a process for making the novel polymorph form of the compound, and uses thereof for making other polymorph forms of the compound. The invention further relates to composition comprising novel polymorph form of the compound and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or excipient.
US11891442B2
Provided herein are compositions, methods, kits and systems for treating cells, tissues and subjects to alter age-related biology (e.g., to study or to treat age-related diseases and conditions). In particular, provided herein are compositions, methods, and uses for inhibition or modification of sialic acid or its cognate receptor to restore phagocytosis in aged cells.
US11891433B2
Single-domain antibodies (SAbs) against three Yersinia pestis surface proteins (LcrV, YscF, and F1), nucleic acid sequences encoding the SAbs, and polypeptides comprising two or more SAbs capable of recognizing two or more epitopes and/or antigens. The present invention further includes methods for preventing or treating Y. pestis infections in a patient; methods for detecting and/or diagnosing Y. pestis infections; and devices and methods for identifying and/or detecting Y. pestis on a surface and/or in an environment.
US11891430B2
Herein is reported a method for the final filtration of concentrated polypeptide solutions comprising the combination of two immediately consecutive filtration steps with a first filter of 3.0 μm and 0.8 μm pore size and a second filter of 0.45 μm and 0.22 μm pore size.
US11891429B2
The present disclosure relates to the composition of one or more agents, therapies, treatments, and methods of use of the agents and/or therapies and/or treatments for upregulating production of lactoferrin or a sub-peptide of lactoferrin. Embodiments of the present disclosure can be used as a therapy or a treatment of adhesions or scarring.
US11891427B2
The invention relates to a peptide comprising an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of (i) SEQ ID NO: 1 to SEQ ID NO: 113, and (ii) a variant sequence thereof which maintains capacity to bind to MHC molecule(s) and/or induce T cells cross-reacting with said variant peptide, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US11891417B2
The present invention is directed to novel polynucleotides, polypeptides, and polyproteins of Mycoplasma surface proteins, all of which are useful in detecting infection and for the preparation of vaccines for treating and preventing diseases in swine and other animals. Vaccines provided according to the practice of the invention are effective against Mycoplasma infections. Detection and therapeutic polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies are also a feature of the present invention. Assays, kits, systems, and nanoparticle encapsulated compositions related to the polynucleotides, polypeptides, polyproteins, antibodies or fragments, derivatives, and variants thereof are also disclosed.
US11891413B2
The present invention relates to a synthetic oligosaccharide of general formula (I): T*-[(—Ux+4—Ux+3—Ux+2—Ux+1—Ux)m—(Vx+2—Vx+1—Vx)1-m-T-O-L-E that is related to Klebsiella pneumoniae serotype O3, O3b and/or O5 lipopolysaccharide and conjugate thereof. Said synthetic oligosaccharide, said conjugate and pharmaceutical composition containing said synthetic oligosaccharide or said conjugate are useful for prevention and/or treatment of diseases associated with Klebsiella pneumoniae. Furthermore, the synthetic oligosaccharide of general formula (I) is useful as marker in immunological assays for detection of antibodies against Klebsiella pneumoniae serotype O3, O3b and/or O5 bacteria.
US11891412B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for purifying and preparing a highly liposoluble phosphoramidite, as well as a capping reaction using the highly liposoluble phosphoramidite compound, and as well as a method for preparing oligonucleotide by a liquid phase process using a pseudo solid phase protecting group said method comprising the capping reaction step. The present invention also provides a method for preparing a compound represented by formula (I) [wherein, R1, R2 and R3 are defined as described in the Detailed Description], which comprises the following steps: (1) reacting an aliphatic alcohol and a trivalent phosphorus compound in organic solvent in the presence of an activator or an organic base; (2) washing the resulting reaction mixture with water in a reparatory funnel; (3) recovering the organic layer after the step (2) and concentrating it (with the proviso that the organic solvent used in the step (1) is a nitrile solvent, the steps (2) to (3) may be omitted); (4) solubilizing the resulting residue obtained in the step (3) in an aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent (with the proviso that the organic solvent used in the step (1) is an aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent, the steps (2) to (3) may be omitted); (5) washing the aliphatic hydrocarbon solution prepared in the step (4) with a nitrile solvent in a separatory funnel; (6) recovering the aliphatic hydrocarbon solution after the step (5) to obtain a solution of a phosphoramidite compound. Also the present invention provides also a solution containing highly liposoluble phosphoramidite compound obtained by the preparation method, a capping reagent comprising the same solution and optionally an additive, a capping reaction using the same capping reagent, as well as a method for preparing (oligo)nucleotide by using the pseudo solid phase protecting group, said method comprising the capping reaction step.
US11891407B2
Provided herein are methods of novel methods of synthesizing a metal-organic framework system by vapor-phase appending of a plurality of ligands appended to a metal-organic framework. Also, provided are methods of recycling metal-organic framework systems by detaching the ligand and re-appending the same ligand or appending a different ligand to the metal-organic framework to provide a recycled or repurposed metal-organic framework system.
US11891393B2
The present invention discloses compounds of Formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, thereof: which inhibit the protein(s) encoded by hepatitis B virus (HBV) or interfere with the function of the HBV life cycle of the hepatitis B virus and are also useful as antiviral agents. The present invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the aforementioned compounds for administration to a subject suffering from HBV infection. The invention also relates to methods of treating an HBV infection in a subject by administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compounds of the present invention.
US11891392B2
There are disclosed imidazolinopyrimidinone compounds that have activity to induce TRAIL gene expression in macrophages. There is further disclosed a method for treating various cancers comprising administering effective amounts of an imidazolinopyrimidinone having the structure of Formula I herein.
US11891386B2
The present disclosure relates to indole compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and their use in stimulating the immune system of patients in need thereof and in treating cancer.
US11891384B2
The present invention relates to the novel key intermediate, 4-{4-[(SS)-(Aminomethyl)-2-oxo-1,3-oxazolidin-3-yl]-phenyl}-morpholin-3-one perchlorate, m the synthesis of rivaroxaban. The invention further relates to the crystalline form of novel intermediate, the process to prepare the novel intermediate and method of preparing rivaroxaban using this novel intermediate. The invention provides an improved and efficient process for preparation of Rivaroxaban.
US11891383B2
Provided herein is a peptide epoxyketone immunoproteasome inhibitor, crystal forms, salts, and processes for making the same, and formulations thereof.
US11891377B1
Novel pyrrolo[3,2-c][2,7]naphthyridine-2-carboxylic acid compounds, a method of synthesizing these compounds, a pharmaceutical composition comprising these compounds and a suitable carrier, and a method of using the compounds. The pyrrolo[3,2-c][2,7]naphthyridine-2-carboxylic acid compounds, identified as CK2 inhibitors, are useful as anticancer and/or antitumor agents, and as agents for treating other kinase-associated conditions including inflammation, pain, and certain immunological disorders, and other types of diseases such as diabetes, viral infection, neurodegenerative diseases.
US11891373B2
This invention relates to a crystalline form of 1-((2R,4R)-2-(1H-benzo[d]imidazol-2-yl)-1-methylpiperidin-4-yl)-3-(4-cyanophenyl)urea maleate, and to pharmaceutical compositions thereof, to intermediates and methods for the production and isolation of such crystalline forms and compositions, and to methods of using such crystalline forms and compositions in the treatment of abnormal cell growth in mammals, especially humans.
US11891371B2
The present invention belongs to the fields of insecticides, acaricides and fungicides, and particularly relates to a piperonylic acid derivative, and preparation and application thereof. The structure is shown in a general formula I, and the definition of each substituent in the formula is described in the description. The compound of the general formula I exhibits excellent insecticidal, acaricidal and fungicidal activity and can be used for controlling various harmful insects, mites or fungus.
US11891368B2
The invention relates to certain 1,5-benzothiazepine and 1,2,5-benzothiadiazepine derivatives as defined herein. These compounds are bile acid modulators having apical sodium-dependent bile acid transporter (ASBT) and/or liver bile acid transport (LBAT) inhibitory activity. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and to the use of these compounds in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, fatty acid metabolism and glucose utilization disorders, gastrointestinal diseases and liver diseases.
US11891366B1
A 4-methoxy-N′-(2-(5-phenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-ylthio)acetoxy)benzimidamide compound, its synthesis, and its use as an antimicrobial agent.
US11891360B2
Disclosed are novel glycosylated psilocybin derivative compounds and pharmaceutical and recreational drug formulations containing the same. The compounds may be produced by reacting a hydroxylated psilocybin derivative with a glycosyl compound.
US11891358B2
A method for preparing a purified styrene composition with a styrene yield of at least 80%. The method comprises providing a crude composition containing styrene, and subjecting the crude composition to at least one crystallization step. The at least one crystallization step comprises at least one static crystallization stage and at least one dynamic crystallization stage.
US11891357B2
A method that includes (a) providing a stream containing ethane and oxygen to an ODH reactor; (b) converting a portion of the ethane to ethylene and acetic acid in the ODH reactor to provide a stream containing ethane, ethylene, acetic acid, oxygen and carbon monoxide; (c) separating a portion of the acetic acid from the stream to provide an acetic acid stream and a stream containing ethane, ethylene, oxygen and carbon monoxide; (d) providing the stream to a CO Oxidation Reactor containing a catalyst that includes a group 11 metal to convert carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide and reacting acetylene to produce a stream containing ethane, ethylene and carbon dioxide; and (e) providing a portion of the stream and a portion of the acetic acid stream to a third reactor containing a catalyst that includes a metal selected from group 10 and group 11 metals to produce vinyl acetate.
US11891355B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for preparing taurine and a method for recovering a mother liquor thereof. The method for recovering the taurine mother liquor comprises: providing a taurine mother liquor, and mixing the taurine mother liquor and a treating agent to obtain a solid-containing suspension, wherein the treating agent is a water-soluble organic solvent or a mixture of the water-soluble organic solvent and water; filtering the suspension to obtain a first solid product and a first filtrate; and dissolving the first solid product with an ammonia source, and then filtering same to obtain a second solid product and a second filtrate.
US11891351B2
The present invention relates to the synthesis of capsaicin derivatives, specifically to the synthesis of 6-heptyne derivatives of capsaicin.
US11891349B2
The present invention relates to novel lignin-derived compounds and compositions comprising the same and their use as redox flow battery electrolytes. The invention further provides a method for preparing said compounds and compositions as well as a redox flow battery comprising said compounds and compositions. Additionally, an assembly for carrying out the inventive method is provided.
US11891343B2
Methods, materials systems, and devices for inhibiting the infiltration and penetration of molten salts into solid materials, including porous materials at temperatures above the solidus temperature of the molten salt. The methods, materials systems, and devices utilize a non-wetted solid that is introduced into pores having entrances at an exterior surface of a porous solid material adapted to contact the molten salt.
US11891335B2
Cementitious materials having high damage tolerance and self-sensing ability are described herein. These materials may replace conventional concrete to serve as a major material component for infrastructure systems with greatly improved resistance to cracking, reinforcement corrosion, and other common deterioration mechanisms under service conditions, and prevents fracture failure under extreme events. These materials can also be used for the repair, retrofitting or rehabilitation of existing concrete structures or infrastructure systems. Furthermore, these materials may offer capacity for distributed and direct sensing of cracking, straining and deterioration with spatially continuous resolution wherever the material is located, without relying on installation of sensors. The present invention relates to multifunctional cementitious structural or infrastructure materials that integrate self-sensing with damage tolerance for improving safety, extending service life, and health monitoring of structures, components, and infrastructure systems.
US11891331B2
A system and method for nitridizing a glass article includes supplying a source of a nitridizing gas including gaseous NH3 to a glass article supported within a furnace assembly and heating the glass article. In some embodiments, the system includes a handle assembly configured to support the glass article within the furnace assembly and a gas supply conduit carried by the handle and configured to supply the nitridizing gas to the glass article. In some embodiments, a method of nitridizing a glass article includes supplying the nitridizing gas such that a residence time of the nitridizing gas at temperatures greater than 500° C. corresponds to a predetermined time period. In some embodiments, a method of nitridizing a glass article includes supplying the nitridizing gas such that the glass articles is exposed to the nitridizing gas within a contact time tc.
US11891329B2
A window includes a base region and a compressive stress region disposed on the base region. The compressive stress region includes Li+, Na+, and K+ ions. The compressive stress region includes a first compressive stress portion in which a concentration of the K+ ions decreases, a concentration of Na+ ions increases, and a concentration of the Li+ ions increases, from a surface of the window toward the base region. A second compressive stress portion is adjacent to the first compressive stress portion. In the second compressive stress portion, the concentration of the Na+ ion decreases and the concentration of the Li+ ion increases, from the first compressive stress portion toward the base region. The window thereby has a high surface compressive stress value and impact resistance.
US11891323B2
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are destroyed by oxidation in supercritical conditions. PFAS in water is concentrated in a reverse osmosis step and salt from the resulting solution is removed in supercritical conditions prior to destruction of PFAS in supercritical conditions.
US11891318B2
A method and apparatus for direct drying of inorganic sludge with a drum drawing process, comprising the following steps: 1) drum mixed drying of slag and sludge: respectively conveying the slag and sludge into a drum (1) in proportion, completing mixing, heat exchange, dehydration, cooling and crushing of the slag and sludge under the rolling action of the drum (1) and a steel ball to achieve cooling, crushing and drying of the slag and sludge, and directly discharging the obtained mixture; 2) slag and sludge separation: separating the steel slag and dry sludge in a manner of combining screening and rotary separation; 3) tail gas treatment: treating dusts, sulfides and organic compounds in tail gas generated by the dry sludge by using wet alkali washing and activated carbon adsorption, and discharging the treated tail gas; and 4) tailing sludge treatment: generating steam and dusts in the drum treatment of the slag and sludge, allowing dusts to enter a tail gas treatment device (4) with steam, aggregating the dusts after wet washing or spraying, and then conveying into a tailing sludge blending device (5) by means of a conveying device, mixing and stirring the tailing sludge and original sludge, conveying the obtained mixture into the drum (1), and drying the mixture to realize zero discharge of undried sludge.
US11891317B2
A sanitizing system for sanitizing a water flow at a point of use, the sanitizing system including an ozone demand indicator configured for determining the existence of a demand for ozone in the water flow; an ozone generator configured to be disposed no more than about 72 inches upstream of the point of use on a fluid conductor supplying the water flow at the point of use, wherein ozone generated by the ozone generator is configured to be disposed in the water flow to sanitize the water flow; and a controller operable to control the ozone demand indicator and the ozone generator responsive to the ozone demand indicator, wherein the controller is configured to cause the ozone generator to start generating ozone upon receiving an indication from the ozone demand indicator that the demand for ozone exists.
US11891313B2
Materials for binding per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are disclosed. A fluidic device comprising the materials for detection and quantification of PFAS in a sample is disclosed. The fluidic device may be configured for multiplexed analyses. Also disclosed are methods for sorbing and remediating PFAS in a sample. The sample may be groundwater containing, or suspected of containing, one or more PFAS.
US11891312B1
Magnetized hydrochar for the adsorption of cadmium and a method of synthesizing magnetized hydrochar from microalgal biomass are provided. The magnetized hydrochar may be synthesized by subjecting a microalgal biomass to a hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) reaction to produce hydrochar, chemically activating the hydrochar with H2O2, and magnetizing the activated hydrochar through coprecipitation. The microalgal biomass may be selected from Chlorella vulgaris FR751187 or Scenedesmus obliquus GU732418. The resulting mHC may be used to adsorb cadmium ions from an aqueous environment, including but not limited to waste effluent.
US11891304B2
A stable water based nanofluid of graphene-based amphiphilic Janus nanosheets, where the nanofluid has a high salt-content while retaining the interfacial activities of the nanosheets. Such a nanofluid of amphiphilic Janus nanosheets may be used for enhanced oil recovery.
US11891294B2
A system for dispensing fluid. The system includes a fluid cartridge having a fluid outlet spout, a carbonated fluid outlet, a still water outlet, and a non-contact drop sensor for detecting a number of drops dispensed from the fluid outlet spout. The fluid outlet spout, the carbonated fluid outlet, and the still water outlet are configured to dispense fluid into a beverage vessel.
US11891293B2
A smart energy-saving device for automatic blending drinks, adopted to inject beverages into at least one beverage cup that comprises a bar code, comprises: beverage barrels; manifolds; at least one ice-storing device including at least one ice outlet, at least one servomotor, a stirring rod, and at least one thruster; beverage stations; collection mechanisms including ring structures, ice inlets, water inlets, and beverage tubes; and a control module including flowmeters, water valve switches, beverage-cup-weight sensors, beverage-barrel-weight sensors, at least one ice-beverage-barrel-weight sensor, pressure sensors, bar code readers, infrared scanners; and a controller.
US11891284B2
An aerial device data collection apparatus is described. The aerial data collection apparatus includes a power source, a data capture device, a wireless transmitter, and a housing. The data capture device is connected to the power source. The wireless transmitter is connected to the power source and is communicably coupled to the data capture device. The wireless transmitter is configured to transmit data captured by the data capture device. The power source and the wireless transmitter are contained within the housing. The housing is configured to couple to a surface of an aerial bucket.
US11891278B1
A lifting machine includes a machine chassis, a boom extending from the machine chassis, a connector extending from the boom for coupling to a load, a control system that determines a rated lifting capacity of the machine, based on an orientation of the machine chassis and a lifting load, and a display. The display indicates the rated lifting capacity relative to a total lifting capacity, and the display also indicates the lifting load relative to the rated lifting capacity and the total lifting capacity.
US11891276B2
A safety device for an elevator system, and an elevator system. The elevator system includes a guide rope arranged in a hoistway to be used as a guide rail and a running device running along the guide rope, and the safety device includes a body which is connected to the running device, and a first component and a second component which are provided on the body and define a passage for the guide rope to pass through freely when the running device is in normal operation, the first and second components are configured for clamping the guide rope in the passage when a running speed of the running device exceeds a threshold, to restrict the speed of the running device or stop the running device.
US11891272B2
A method for allocating capacity of an energy storage associated with at least one passenger transport installation includes continuously monitoring performance data of the energy storage; obtaining first data associated with operating the at least one passenger transport installation; identifying different uses for the energy stored in the energy storage; determining an allocation of energy storage capacity available for the different uses based on the performance data and the first data; and applying the determined allocation.
US11891270B1
Disclosed is a bidirectional spool apparatus (BSA) and method of use. The BSA comprises a spool apparatus having a plurality of spools, a plurality of cables, and an adjustment knob. When the BSA is in a first mode, rotation of the adjustment knob causes a corresponding rotation of a first spool in a tightening direction and a tightening of a first cable but allows a second cable to rotate substantially freely, and such that when the BSA is in a second mode, rotation of the adjustment knob causes a corresponding rotation of a second spool in a tightening direction and a tightening of a second cable but allows a first cable to rotate substantially freely. Switching of the BSA from a first mode to a second mode and vice versa is accomplished by pulling the adjustment knob out a distance and by pushing the adjustment knob in a distance.
US11891268B2
A tensioning mechanism includes a housing including an accommodation cavity and configured to be sleeved with a to-be-tensioned material, a tensioning assembly mounted in the accommodation cavity, and a driving assembly mounted on the housing and configured to drive the tensioning assembly to move against the housing, so that at least a part of the tensioning assembly protrudes from or retracts into the housing. The driving assembly includes a handle mounted on an outer side of the housing and configured to manually drive the tensioning assembly to move against the housing.
US11891256B2
A recording apparatus includes a housing having a feeding port through which a medium is introduced into the housing, a feeding tray for supporting the medium fed through the feeding port, and a rotary damper configured to generate torque, in which the feeding tray includes a rotation shaft about which the feeding tray is rotatable, relative to the housing, between a close position at which the feeding tray holds the feeding port in a close state and an open position at which the feeding tray holds the feeding port in an open state, and the rotation shaft and the rotary damper are interlocked with each other.
US11891246B2
Container handling vehicle with first and second sections and lifting device motor in second section
A container handling vehicle for picking up storage containers from a three-dimensional grid of an underlying storage system includes a first set of wheels for moving the vehicle along an X direction on a rail system of the grid; and a second set of wheels for moving the vehicle along a Y direction on the rail system of the grid. The Y direction is perpendicular to the X direction. The container handling vehicle includes a vehicle body having a vehicle body footprint defined by horizontal peripheries in the X and Y directions of the vehicle body. The vehicle body includes a first section and a second section. The first section has a first footprint and the second section has a second footprint. The first and second footprints are defined by horizontal peripheries in the X and Y directions of the first and second sections, respectively. The container handling vehicle includes a lifting device for lifting storage containers from the storage system; and a lifting device motor arranged to drive the lifting device when lifting storage containers from the storage system. The first section and the second section are arranged side-by-side such that a total area of the first and second footprints equals a total area of the vehicle body footprint, and a centre point of the first footprint is arranged off centre relative a centre point of the vehicle body footprint. The first section defines a storage container receiving space which is configured to accommodate a storage container. The first section accommodates the lifting device for lifting a storage container from the storage system. The lifting device motor is accommodated in the second section.
US11891245B2
The efficiency of transporting articles is improved by smoothly delivering and receiving the articles between overhead transport vehicles traveling on different tracks. A transport system includes a first overhead transport vehicle that travels on a first overhead track; a second overhead transport vehicle that travels on a second overhead track and a third overhead track; and a first placement portion and a second placement portion that allow articles to be delivered and received between the first overhead transport vehicle and the second overhead transport vehicle. At least one of the first overhead transport vehicle, the second overhead transport vehicle, the first placement portion, and the second placement portion is provided with a rotator that rotates an article around a vertical axis.
US11891235B2
A container for food includes an enclosure, a lid, and pulling structures. The enclosure includes an interior and an opening. The pulling structures pull food layers from each other. A last pulling structure may pull a bottom food layer from the interior. An opening partition member may separate the lid from a top food layer. Separating portions may seal against the interior of the enclosure. At least one of the pulling structures may extend from at least one of the separating portions to a grip. The grip may be positioned outside of the interior of the enclosure, at least when the container is in a storage configuration.
US11891231B1
The controlled dosage dispensing valve is a device that may be placed atop an extraneous cylinder. It is an aim of the device to facilitate the metering and dosing chambers within a plurality of annular aperture and an upper portion of the intake channel respectively through a plurality of fuel apertures. To accomplish this, a spigot valve system, a dosing system, and a cap system are integrated onto a single apparatus that may be fitted over an external gas cylinder. Further, a return spring is disposed that may facilitate vertical reciprocating motion consequent to the consumption of fuel in the associative metering and dosing chambers. With an extraneous tool about the device that induces a downward vertical force on the valve spigot and the pressure of the fuel propagated by the extraneous fuel cylinder, the device achieves the reciprocating motion necessary to meter and dose the fuel.
US11891221B2
Biodegradable bottle cap is a water bottle cap containing the plastic eating fungus pestalotiopsismicrosporia. When the consumer is done drinking from the bottle, the cap has a tab that is pulled and this tab releases the fungus. The fungus consumes the plastic bottle and the cap so no trace is left behind. The cap is made of plastic and the fungus is contained in an aluminum casing. Also contain in the casing is the safe food dye which will be coloring the water in case of accidental release or opening of the casing before the use of the drinking water. Such water coloring will be an indication to avoid using the water for drinking though the fungus is safe after human galloping.
US11891218B2
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to contain and dispense a fluid, such as a thixotropic fluid. In some embodiments, a bottle having a closure cap includes a control device, a base, and a disk, where the base and disk define a mixing chamber configured to facilitate mixing of any serum or liquid separated from the fluid back therein. In some embodiments, a dispensing bottle includes a non-removable closure cap with a tamper evident feature that indicates whether the cap was previously opened. By one approach, the dispensing bottle includes discontinuous threads on a bottle neck and ratchet projections on a closure cap that engage the discontinuous thread(s) to prevent or inhibit manual removal of the cap from the bottle.
US11891216B2
A packaging, in particular for foodstuffs, including a tray (1) made of cardboard or paperboard and a lid (51), which, when the packaging is in the closed state, is fitted on the tray, wherein lugs (57) of the lid (51) engage in openings (7) which are formed in wall portions (8) of at least two opposite side walls (2, 4) of the tray. The side walls of the tray which have the openings have, in each case in the region above the wall portion which has the at least one opening, a freely upwardly projecting tongue (9), which is connected via a bending line (10) to the wall portion which has the at least one opening, and is located beneath the tongue. In the fitted state of the lid, the tongues of the side walls butt against sloping portions (59) of the lid.
US11891215B2
The present disclosure relates to strata 2-ply drawstring trash bags implementing a J-flap extended hem to provide increased top-of-bag strength. In one or more embodiments, the J-flap extended hem includes a 2-ply web folded back on itself (e.g., during a hem folding operation to enclose the drawstring within a hem channel). In one or more implementations, a hem seal secures the 2-ply web to an inside surface of the trash bag. At least one ply of the 2-ply web fold-over extends past the hem seal and is additionally secured to the inside surface of the trash bag via one or more hem skirt seals. For reduced material consumption in certain embodiments, the J-flap extended hem of the present disclosure imparts added strength using only one ply of the 2-ply web fold-over. In some embodiments, at least one ply of the 2-ply web fold-over includes ring-rolled portions to add top-of-bag strength.
US11891212B2
A container is presented having multiple compartments to house multiple personal items, such as eyewear. The container has a cylindrical middle section and two hemispheric end sections. Each compartment is joined to an adjacent compartment via a shared hinge and separated from an adjacent compartment via a separating wall that is attached to the shared hinge. The container is low profile, ergonomic, and designed to minimize the volume of space needed for housing multiple eyewear.
US11891206B2
A system for assembling and filling two groups of electronic cigarettes, includes first and second working stations for assembly/inspection operations on a first group of electronic cigarettes and disposed upstream and downstream of a first conveying path, respectively. Third and fourth working stations perform assembly/inspection operations on a second group of electronic cigarettes and are disposed upstream and downstream of a second conveying path, respectively. A single filling station receives the first group at a first loading zone and the second group at a second loading zone to fill the first group and the second group with a filling product; and releases the first group of filled electronic cigarettes at a first unloading zone and the second group of filled electronic cigarettes at a second unloading zone towards the second working station and towards the fourth working station, respectively.
US11891203B2
Provided is a bag gripping clip, in which, in a case where a bag that forms an accommodation space between a first film and a second film facing the first film is gripped by the clip, a pressing force for bringing the first film and the second film into partially close contact with each other is applied to the bag, and a partition that divides the accommodation space into a plurality of spaces communicating with each other via a communication part is formed.
US11891198B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for roll-formed containers for shipping. In one embodiment, an example container for an item may include a rectangular sheet of formable material, the rectangular sheet having a first crease line, a second crease line separated from the second crease line by a distance, a first crease pattern disposed adjacent to the first crease line, and a second crease pattern disposed adjacent to the second crease line. The container may include a sealant disposed about three sides of the rectangular sheet.
US11891193B2
Systems and methods are provided for assembling a wing. Methods include suspending an upper wing panel of an aircraft beneath a shuttle, translating a rib to a position it, and placing the rib into contact with, then affixing the rib to, the upper wing panel, while suspended. Some methods include installing ribs and spars to the upper wing panel, and joining a lower wing panel to the ribs and spars, while the upper wing panel is suspended. Some methods involve joining ribs to spars (e.g., all, or some) to produce a support structure that is then affixed to the upper wing panel. Systems include a shuttle that suspends an upper wing panel, and a cart that includes supports to hold a rib, a chassis to translate the rib to a position beneath the upper wing panel, and a lifting apparatus to lift the rib into contact with the upper wing panel.
US11891174B2
Methods and apparatus for performing repair operations using an unmanned aerial vehicle. The methods are enabled by equipping the UAV with tools for rapidly repairing a large structure or object (e.g., an aircraft or a wind turbine blade) that is not easily accessible to maintenance personnel. In accordance with various embodiments disclosed below, the unmanned aerial vehicle may be equipped with an easily attachable/removable module that includes an additive repair tool. The additive repair tool is configured to add material to a body of material. For example, the additive repair tool may be configured to apply a sealant or other coating material in liquid form to a damage site on a surface of a structure or object (e.g., by spraying liquid or launching liquid-filled capsules onto the surface). In alternative embodiments, the additive repair tool is configured to adhere a tape to the damage site.
US11891169B2
In an implementation, a rotor blade (alternatively referred to herein as “blade”) for a helicopter or other aircraft may include an outer layer. The outer layer may define a cavity. The outer layer may at least partially correspond to an airfoil, e.g., a wing. One or more inserts may be included within the cavity and be encompassed thereby. The first insert may have a density of at least 0.6 pounds per cubic inch.
US11891160B2
A double airfoil mounted on a structure controlled angularly around a generally vertical axis. The double airfoil includes a fore flap and an aft flap at least one of which has a fore-to-aft asymmetry. Each flap includes a series of shape members distributed in height, wherein the structure includes a fore mast and an aft mast connected by a boom member and a gaff member. The shape members of the fore flap are traversed by the fore mast while being able to turn around an axis defined thereby, while the shape members of the aft flap are traversed by the aft mast while being able to turn around an axis defined thereby. The aft mast is twistable, the shape members of the aft flap are rotationally locked to the aft mast, and the controller can act on the bottom and the top of the aft mast.
US11891159B2
The present invention provides an unmanned watercraft capable of sufficiently cooling equipment that generates a large amount of heat, capable of cooling such equipment without using energy in the watercraft, and capable of improving mean time between failures (MTBF) of a cooling device. An unmanned watercraft 1 has a cooling structure CS for cooling a central processing unit CPU1 for image recognition and a central processing unit CPU2 for control that constitute a central processing unit CPU as a heat-generating body. The cooling structure CS includes a waterproof container 7 that accommodates the heat-generating body (an insulating envelope that surrounds the heat-generating body in an electrically insulated state). The waterproof container 7 is arranged outside a submerged part 3 of the unmanned watercraft 1 so as to be in contact with water present outside the unmanned watercraft 1, the submerged part 3 being submerged in water.
US11891156B2
The invention is defined as a personal watercraft gunwale rod holder complete design, fastened to a personal watercraft gunwale port or starboard. It functions as a support for rod and reels or accessories and incorporates a structure that allows unobstructed access to rod and reels of the personal watercraft port or starboard. An incorporated locking mechanism functions as a positioning lock that also allows quick release by the user of the personal watercraft. This invention allows to lade different accessories such as rod and reels, gaff, net, flag, or other accessories. This invention is designed for all personal watercraft users, including those with mobility restrictions that have restricted access to the personal watercraft when obstructed by placement of items.
US11891154B2
A rear derailleur of a bicycle includes a fixing portion connected to a frame of the bicycle, a linkage assembly pivotally connected to the fixing portion, a moving portion pivotally connected to the linkage assembly, a chain guide assembly connected to the moving portion, a driving assembly, a rechargeable battery for providing an electrical energy required for the motor, a coil, and a wireless charging circuit for receiving an electric power of the coil for charging the rechargeable battery. The driving assembly includes a motor including and a driving gear assembly connected to the linkage assembly. The motor includes an output shaft for driving the driving gear assembly and for driving the linkage assembly to pivot via the driving gear assembly, thereby to drive the moving portion and the chain guide assembly to move. The coil receives an external charging power and is disposed on the fixing portion, the moving portion, or the linkage assembly.
US11891146B2
Example bicycle suspension components and electronic monitoring devices are described herein. An example electronic monitoring device includes a housing defining a chamber. The housing is to be coupled to a suspension component. The electronic monitoring device includes a circuit board disposed in the chamber and a sensor electrically coupled to the circuit board. The sensor is to measure a characteristic of the suspension component. The electronic monitoring device also includes a battery holder coupled to the circuit board.
US11891120B2
In certain embodiments, an electric vehicle includes a front cage, a rear floor, an intermediate section, a utility cabinet, and a flatbed. In other embodiments, an electric vehicle includes a front cage, a rear floor, an intermediate section, and a flatbed. In some embodiments, the front cage at least partially defines an operator cabin, the rear floor is positioned rearward of the front cage in a longitudinal direction, and the intermediate section is disposed at least partially between the front cage and the rear floor in the longitudinal direction.
US11891118B2
Provided are a vehicle control device, a vehicle control method, and non-transitory storage medium. The vehicle control device includes: an acquisition part, acquiring a positional relationship between a vehicle and a lane; a control part, performing in-lane travel control that causes an actuator included in a steering device of the vehicle to output a force for causing the vehicle to travel in the lane within a range not exceeding an upper limit based on the positional relationship; and an upper limit adjustment part, adjusting the upper limit in a predetermined case, in which the upper limit adjustment part switches a change rate of the upper limit in response to a change of state of an operator that accepts a steering operation performed by an occupant of the vehicle.
US11891113B2
An axially adjustable steering column assembly includes an upper jacket. And a lower jacket. The steering column assembly further includes a column mounting bracket, wherein the lower jacket is operatively coupled to the column mounting bracket and translates relative to the column mounting bracket, wherein the column mounting bracket defines a first set of tapered rail slots, each of the first set of tapered rail slots disposed on opposite sides of the column mounting bracket and extending longitudinally along the column mounting bracket, wherein the lower jacket defines a second set of tapered rail slots, each of the second set of tapered rail slots disposed on opposite sides of the lower jacket and extending longitudinally along the lower jacket. The steering column assembly yet further includes a first pair of sliding wedge bushings disposed within the first set of tapered rail slots.
US11891109B2
According to the present embodiments, locking and unlocking can be smoothly performed even when gears for fixing a steering column during a telescoping operation of the steering column are not properly engaged, a collapse motion for absorbing impact can be smoothly performed even when a vehicle collision occurs in a state in which the gears are not properly engaged, impact is absorbed at the minimum and maximum of strokes so as to enable the prevention of noise generation during the telescoping operation, and the number of components can be reduced and assembly process can be simplified.
US11891100B2
The present invention relates to a foldable lightweight roll container, and more particularly, to a foldable lightweight roll container which is lightweight, very easy for cleanliness and maintenance while preventing shortening of a lifetime, and may be used to carry goods in various fields such as medicines and foods in addition to various industrial products. The foldable lightweight roll container according to the present invention is configured to include including a loading frame 100 including a rear frame member 101, left and right frame members 102 and 102′ coupled rotatably to left and right ends of the rear frame member 101, respectively, left and right door members 103 and 103′ coupled rotatably to front ends of the left and right frame members, a bottom member 104 coupled to a lower end of an inner side of the rear frame member, a bottom support means 170 installed on each inner side of the left and right door members to support the bottom member, and door locking members 106 installed on the left and right door members, a left hinge member 200 installed to rotatably couple the left frame member to a left end of the rear frame member, a right hinge member 300 installed to rotatably couple the right frame member to a right end of the rear frame member, left and right door hinge members 400 installed to couple the left and right door members to front ends of the left and right frame members so as to be rotatable and ascend in a predetermined interval, left and right bottom hinge members 500 installed to couple the bottom member to a lower end of the front surface of the rear frame member so as to be rotatable up and down, and casters 600 coupled to left and right ends of the lower surface of the rear frame member and the front ends of the lower surfaces of the left and right frame members, respectively.
US11891096B2
A portable, single-fixation, magnetic derailment mitigation device may be fixed on a rail track for measuring the deflection of the rail track. The magnetically fixing device is used for measuring vertical track deflection (sleeper voids), horizontal track deflection, ambient and rail temperature, rail angle, vibration, displacement, and location. The derailment mitigation device sends digital notifications and/or alarms during the live train and/or freight operations to help prevent derailments, rail buckles, breaks, and pull apart. The measured data and/or all events obtained from the derailment mitigation device is stored in the data storage such as cloud storage and viewed from any smart devices.
US11891088B1
A reward determined as part of a machine learning technique, such as reinforcement learning, may be used to control an adversarial agent in a simulation such that a component for controlling motion of the adversarial agent is trained to reduce the reward. Training the adversarial agent component may be subject to one or more constraints and/or may be balanced against one or more additional goals. Additionally or alternatively, the reward may be used to alter scenario data so that the scenario data reduces the reward, allowing the discovery of difficult scenarios and/or prospective events.
US11891084B2
Disclosed herein a driving assistance control method for a vehicle, the method includes the steps of releasing a lane following assist mode in response to that a predetermined first condition for releasing the lane following assist mode is satisfied while the vehicle is traveling in the lane following assist mode; starting a warning to notify the releasing of the lane following assist mode in response to the lane following assist mode is released; and terminating the warning in response to that a predetermined second condition for terminating the warning is satisfied after the warning is started.
US11891082B2
A blind spot warning system is provided for a motor vehicle having a longitudinal axis and a steering shaft. The system includes a steering angle sensor (SAS), which is coupled to the steering shaft and generates a steering signal associated with a wheel angle in response to the steering shaft rotating. The system further includes a computer having one or more processors and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions. The processor is programmed to determine a blind spot region extending from a sideview mirror of the motor vehicle and based on the wheel angle. The processor is further programmed to generate an actuation signal associated with the blind spot region. The system further includes one or more light projectors that project a light onto a roadway adjacent to the motor vehicle to indicate a current size and a current location of the blind spot region.
US11891080B2
An agricultural tractor with a system for identifying downstream road users includes a control unit in communication with a user interface, and a sensor having a detection range which runs in a vicinity of a ground and which is in a direction of an attachment connected to the agricultural tractor. The sensor is configured to identify a vehicle located in the detection range or which enters therein, and then generates a corresponding message signal which is supplied to the control unit. The control unit activates the user interface based on the message signal for the output of a driver message. A free region visible from the agricultural tractor by the sensor is formed between a road surface and a lower contour of the attachment facing the road surface.
US11891076B1
Techniques for determining whether to limit an operation of a vehicle while operating in a manually assisted mode of operation are described herein. A vehicle computing system can monitor components of the vehicle and identify a fault associated with a component. The vehicle computing system can determine whether the fault is associated with a manual operation of the vehicle. Based on a determination that the fault is not associated with the manual operation of the vehicle (e.g., fault associated with an autonomous control component), the vehicle computing system can override the fault and enable continued operation of the vehicle in the manually assisted mode of operation. Based on a determination that the fault is associated with the manual operation of the vehicle, the vehicle computing system can cause the vehicle to cease operating.
US11891073B2
A control system for a vehicle using a forward-facing camera includes a look ahead module configured to determine a distance to a look ahead point. A lane center module determines a location of a lane center line. A vehicle center line module determines a location of a vehicle center line. A first lateral offset module determines a first lateral offset based on the look ahead point and the determined lane center line. A second lateral offset module determines a second lateral offset based on the determined lane center line and the vehicle center line. A yaw angle offset calculating module receives the first lateral offset, the second lateral offset and the distance to the look ahead point, calculates a yaw angle offset, and compensates a yaw angle error based on the yaw angle offset.
US11891072B2
A driving analysis server may be configured to receive vehicle operation data from mobile devices respectively disposed within the vehicles, and may use the data to group the vehicles into multiple groups. A driving pattern for each vehicle may be established and compared against a group driving pattern of its corresponding group to identify outliers. A driver score the outliers may be adjusted positively or negatively based on whether the outlier behaved in a manner more or less safe than its group. Further, unsafe driving events performed by the outlier that were the result of another vehicle's unsafe driving event may be ignored or positively accounted for in determining or adjusting the outlier's driver score.
US11891071B2
Systems and methods of analyzing a target vehicle based on other vehicles are disclosed. One or more computing devices may receive monitoring vehicle driving data collected from vehicle operation sensors within at least one monitoring vehicle by a telematics device. The one or more computing devices may further receive target vehicle driving data from the telematics device of the at least one monitoring vehicle. The one or more computing devices may determine a driving behavior associated with the target vehicle based on an analysis of the monitoring vehicle driving data and the target vehicle driving data. The one or more computing devices may calculate one or more driver scores based on the driving behavior.
US11891069B2
This document describes techniques, apparatuses, and systems for a grid-based road model with multiple layers. An example road-perception system generates a roadway grid representation that includes multiple cells. The road-perception system uses data from multiple information sources to generate a road model that includes multiple layers. Each layer represents a roadway attribute of each cell in the grid and includes one or more layer hypotheses. In this way, the described techniques and systems can provide an accurate and reliable road model and quantify uncertainty therein.
US11891065B2
A vehicle gear-shifting control apparatus is equipped with an engine, a motor, an automatic transmission, a friction brake system, and a controller which executes, during deceleration of a vehicle during which the friction brake system is distributing a braking force to front and rear wheels, a regeneration control of imparting a regenerative braking torque to the rear wheels by causing the motor to perform a regeneration operation and a gear-shifting control of changing a shift stage of the automatic transmission by outputting a gear-shifting signal in accordance with the rotation speed of an input shaft to the automatic transmission. When the controller determines an oversteered state of the vehicle during the regeneration control, the controller increases an input torque of the input shaft so that the regenerative braking torque decreases while maintaining the regeneration operation of the motor and, at the same time, limits the gear-shifting control.
US11891064B2
Technologies and techniques for operating a backup assistance system for a vehicle, wherein the backup assistance system enables travel in reverse along a previously travelled trajectory, wherein a maximum distance for the reverse travel along the previously travelled trajectory is determined and output using a control unit on the basis of an expected error for the reverse travel along the previously travelled trajectory, in which the expected error exceeds a predefined error threshold value.
US11891062B2
A velocity adjustment system for adjusting a driving velocity of a includes a driver control device configured to receive actuation input from a driver, the actuation input including an actuation parameter. The system further includes an actuation sensor configured to detect the actuation parameter and to output a sensor signal and a velocity control device configured to record the sensor signal and evaluate the actuation input. The velocity control device is designed to compare the actuation parameter with a reference value and to output, based on the comparison, a request signal to an engine control device or a braking request signal to brake control device of a brake system.
US11891061B2
A lateral virtual boundary for a host vehicle is identified based on a lateral distance between the host vehicle and a target vehicle, a longitudinal distance between the host vehicle and the target vehicle, and a speed of the target vehicle relative to the host vehicle. A forward virtual boundary for the host vehicle is identified based on the longitudinal distance between the host vehicle and the target vehicle. A lateral constraint value of the lateral virtual boundary and a forward constraint value of the forward virtual boundary are determined. A longitudinal acceleration and a steering angle are determined based on the lateral and forward virtual boundaries and the lateral and forward constraint values. One or both of a steering component or a brake are actuated based on the longitudinal acceleration and the steering angle.
US11891051B2
A parking assist device capable of parking assistance that ensures high accuracy of a parking location is provided. A parking assist device that assists in performing an operation of parking a vehicle includes a parking-allowing location calculation unit that before the vehicle stops at a parking-allowing location, calculates and updates the parking-allowing location a plurality of times, and a parking route calculation unit that calculates a parking route. The parking route calculation unit sets a minimum turning radius for calculating the parking route, based on the amount of a shift between the parking-allowing location not updated and the parking-allowing location having been updated, and calculates the parking route, using the minimum turning radius. The minimum turning radius is set larger than the minimum value of a turning radius unique to the vehicle.
US11891048B2
A method generates a setpoint for controlling a steering system and a differential braking system of a motor vehicle. The method includes: acquiring a value relating to a total yawing moment to be applied to the motor vehicle such that it follows a required path, and the speed of the motor vehicle, calculating, as a function of the speed, at least one threshold relating to the maximum proportion of the total yawing moment that the steering system or that the differential braking system can provide, determining, as a function of the threshold, a distribution rate relating to the proportion of the total yawing moment that the steering system or that the differential braking system must provide, and generating a setpoint for controlling the steering system and the differential braking system as a function of the distribution rate and of the value relating to the total yawing moment.
US11891037B2
Systems, vehicles, and methods for vehicle stability control and trailer brake control collaboration
A system for controlling a trailer brake output circuit includes an electronic control unit having one or more processors and one or more memory modules. The trailer brake output circuit is configured to output a trailer brake output signal. Machine readable instructions cause the electronic control unit to: receive a signal from a vehicle stability control system indicating that a vehicle stability control flag is set, generate the trailer brake output signal in response to the vehicle stability control flag being set such that the trailer brake output signal ramps up to a target value over a predefined period of time, maintain the trailer brake output signal at the target value while the vehicle stability control flag is set, and output the trailer brake output signal such that the trailer brake output signal ramps down from the target value when the vehicle stability control flag changes from set to not set.
US11891031B2
Provided is a brake control apparatus mounted in a vehicle with a plurality of wheels, the brake control apparatus including: a actuator configured to apply a braking torque to the plurality of wheels; and a controller configured to control the actuator to apply a first braking torque to a first wheel of the plurality of wheels, based on a spin of the first wheel being greater than or equal to a target spin, and to control the actuator to apply a second braking torque to the plurality of wheels based on a displacement of a brake pedal of the vehicle while applying the first braking torque to the first wheel, wherein the controller stepwise or linearly increases a braking torque applied to a second wheel of the plurality of wheels up to the second braking torque.
US11891027B2
A drum brake apparatus includes a housing; a main braking unit installed on one part of the housing, and driven by a hydraulic pressure and pressing a shoe, during main braking; and a parking braking unit installed on the other part of the housing, and driven by an electromotive force of an actuator and pressing the shoe, during parking braking, the parking braking unit includes a bevel gear section disposed in the housing while having a structure of a bevel gear, and rotated in association with the actuator; and a rod section connected with the bevel gear section, and moved out of the housing in association with the bevel gear section and pressing the shoe.
US11891018B2
A storage compartment includes a housing, a lid, a locking mechanism, and a closure mechanism. The lid is pivotally coupled to the housing about a pivot axis for movement between a closed position and an opened position. The locking mechanism is displaceable in a first direction to move between an unlocked position and a locked position, the first direction extending generally normal to the pivot axis. The closure mechanism is configured to inhibit movement of the lid from the closed position towards the opened position upon movement of the locking mechanism to the unlocked position due to movement of the housing in the first direction with respect to the lid.
US11891009B1
An assembly includes a dash and a deployable panel. The deployable panel has a proximal end rotatably connected to the dash. The deployable panel is rotatable about the proximal end from an undeployed position to a deployed position. The proximal end is engaged with the dash in the deployed position and the deployable panel has a distal end spaced above the dash in the deployed position. An airbag is supported by the dash and is inflatable to an inflated position. The airbag has a back panel abutting the deployable panel in the inflated position and an impact panel opposite the back panel. A tether is connected to the deployable panel and the impact panel. The tether extends through the back panel from the deployable panel to the impact panel.
US11891008B1
A vehicle includes a vehicle pillar. The vehicle includes a vehicle roof supported by the vehicle pillar. The vehicle includes an airbag supported by the vehicle roof. The airbag has a first side portion, a second side portion spaced cross-vehicle from the first side portion, and a front portion extending from the first side portion to the second side portion. The vehicle includes a pyrotechnic device supported by the vehicle pillar. The pyrotechnic device is coupled to one of the first side portion or the second side portion of the airbag.
US11891004B1
Vehicle side protector is disclosed. The vehicle external side protector vehicle external side protector has at least two 2-piece vertically moveable guards of a height from bottom of wheel to desired height up the vehicle and a connecting guard stretching from the first to the second vertically moveable guard. The 2-pieces of a vertically moveable guard are connected by a lever; and the length of the vehicle external side protector is less than the distance from the outer perimeter of a front wheel to the outer perimeter of a back wheel of a vehicle side to deploy and retract from underneath the vehicle and be stored underneath the vehicle in parallel plane to the vehicle's undercarriage. The vehicle external side protector rests on a track with an end point block; and connected to an actuator. Also disclosed are vehicle external front and back protectors.
US11890995B2
A bracket includes an abutment portion for a front end portion of a vehicle mount camera, first support portions located at a rear side than the abutment portion to receive first supported portions provided at the vehicle mount camera from a rear side, and second support portions located at right and left at a rear side than the first support portions, for receiving therebetween a rear end portion of the vehicle mount camera. The left and right second support portions respectively include elastic engagement pieces, the elastic engagement piece permitting, by elastic deformation, an upward movement operation of a rear end portion of the vehicle mount camera at a first supported portion as fulcrum from a state that the first support portion receives the first supported portion, and engaging a second supported portion provided in the vehicle mount camera by elastic returning at a finish position of the upward movement.
US11890993B2
An entertainment system including a removable seat-back display unit and a docking station. The seat-back display unit can include a rotating latch butterfly release mechanism that prevents unauthorized release of the display unit from the docking station. The system can include a three-point attachment system that provides additional protection against accidental detachment of the display unit, and provide safety in the event of partial dislodging. The system can include a current control pin system that ensures that current is not provided from the docking station to the display unit until the respective connectors have been properly engaged. The system can also include a heat dissipation system that employs the docking station to share the heat dissipation load with the display unit.
US11890991B2
A vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror reflective element sub-assembly having a mirror reflective element, a mirror reflector coating, a mirror back plate, and indicator element. The indicator element includes a circuit board and a light source. The indicator element includes a diffuser that diffuses light emitted by the light source. An icon is established through a metallic reflector coating disposed at the glass substrate. The icon includes a light-transmitting aperture. With the vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly attached at the vehicle, and when the light source is activated, light emitted by the light source passes through a light-transmitting portion of a heater pad and through the light-transmitting aperture of the icon. With the vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly attached at the vehicle and when the light source is activated, the icon is illuminated and is viewable by the driver of the vehicle.
US11890989B2
An assembly set for assembling an external rearview system for a motor vehicle is provided. The external rearview system when assembled may include a base assembly provided for arrangement on the motor vehicle, and a head assembly attached to the base assembly. The assembly set may include (i) a first head assembly comprising a first rearview device comprising at least one reflective element in form of a mirror glass, and (ii) a second head assembly with at least one component of a camera monitor system. The head assembly may be configured to be detachable and is selected to be the first or second head assembly, with the first and second head assembly being exchangeable with each other.
US11890987B2
An advanced pedestrian warning or alert system is a system for automotive vehicles is described herein in various embodiments. This system detects if a vulnerable road user, for example a pedestrian, is at an unsafe distance from the moving vehicle. If a pedestrian is too close to the vehicle when the vehicle is in motion, then the system will issue auditory and/or visual warnings to notify the pedestrian back to safety.
US11890981B2
A vehicle step device includes: a movable step that is provided in a door opening of a vehicle; and a drive controller that drives the movable step so that the movable step operates in deployment and storage directions. The drive controller includes a sidewalk detection unit that detects a sidewalk provided in parallel with a traveling road surface of the vehicle, a separation distance detecting unit that detects a separation distance between a side edge portion of the vehicle in which the movable step is stored and the sidewalk, and a deployment amount setting unit that sets a deployment amount of the movable step extending in a width direction of the traveling road surface from the side edge portion of the vehicle based on the separation distance. The deployment amount setting unit sets a deployment amount of the movable step to be larger as the separation distance increases.
US11890978B1
Various implementations include an arm rest system. The system includes a housing, one or more actuators, and an arm cushion. The actuators are at least partially disposed within a cavity of the housing. Each of the actuators includes a cylinder defining an opening, a piston slidably disposed within the cylinder opening, and a piston rod having a first end coupled to the piston and a second end opposite and spaced apart from the first end. Each of the actuators is movable between a first position and a second position. One of the cylinder or the piston rod of each of the actuators is static with respect to the housing and the other is coupled to the arm cushion such that moving the actuators between the first and second positions moves the arm cushion relative to the housing.
US11890973B2
A gearing arrangement for a spindle drive arrangement may have a gearing housing and a gearing holder. The gearing holder may have at least two receiving openings, one for each fastening screw or one for each fastening bolt for fastening to another component, in particular to a vehicle seat. The at least two receiving openings may be oriented at right-angles and/or obliquely with respect to one another. A spindle drive arrangement having such a gearing arrangement, and also to a vehicle seat having such a spindle drive arrangement is also provided.
US11890956B2
Disclosed is a vehicle charging station (1) comprising a first reservoir (5) arranged to contain a first charging fluid and a charging fluid delivery system (3) arranged to deliver at least part of the first charging fluid (5) into a heat exchange relationship with a vehicle thermal energy storage material (108) of a vehicle (100) selectively connected to the vehicle charging station (1), thereby charging the vehicle thermal energy storage material (108) by changing its temperature and/or phase and/or chemistry.
US11890951B2
Various disclosed embodiments include illustrative charging systems, electrical dispensers, dispenser chains, methods of charging a vehicle, and methods of providing charging power to a vehicle. A charging system includes a power cabinet having at least one direct current (DC) power module. The charging system also includes at least one dispenser chain, each dispenser chain being electrically couplable to a respective DC power module. Each dispenser chain includes dispensers that are electrically couplable with each other in series and that are configured to dispense electrical power, each of the dispensers being controllable such that electrical power is dispensable by only one dispenser in its dispenser chain at a time.
US11890950B2
A system having electric consumers includes an electrical device including an operating device and wires supplying the consumer. A first wire is provided for conducting the first phase of a three-phase voltage during a normal operation, a second wire conducts a second phase of the three-phase voltage, and a third wire conducts a third phase of the three-phase voltage. The consumer is able to be supplied with the three-phase voltage from the wires during a normal operation. The operating device is configured so that: in a normal operation, the first wire is connected to the first phase of the three-phase voltage; and in a safety case, the first wire is separated from the first phase of the three-phase voltage and will be or is connected to the second phase of the three-phase voltage.
US11890949B2
In a communication system, a control unit and driver units are connected in a daisy chain; each unit includes a corresponding insulated communication circuit, respectively. The control unit measures a communication delay time between the control unit and each driver unit from a response time to transmission of a pulse signal performed to each driver unit during a measurement period. Then, based on each communication delay time, the control unit transmits a shift time to each driver unit for equalizing the timing of signals output by the driver units. When each driver unit receives, from the control unit, an instruction instructing each driver unit to output a signal, each driver unit outputs the signal when the shift time has elapsed.
US11890943B1
A motor for a vehicle includes a motor housing, a motor shaft, a hub, and a wheel speed sensor assembly. The motor shaft is disposed at least partially within the motor housing. The hub is configured to be coupled to the motor shaft and to be coupled to a wheel of the vehicle. The wheel speed sensor assembly includes a first end that is coupled to the motor housing and a second end that is rotatably coupled to the hub. The wheel speed sensor assembly is configured to generate a wheel speed signal that facilitates determination of a speed and direction of rotation of the wheel.
US11890939B2
A driver assistance system includes a first sensor installed in a vehicle to have a front view of a vehicle, and configured to obtain front image data; a second sensor installed in the vehicle to have a front detection field of view of the vehicle and selected from a group consisting of a radar sensor and a LiDAR sensor, configured to obtain front detection data; a third sensor installed in the vehicle to have a side detection field of view of the vehicle and selected from a group consisting of the radar sensor and the LiDAR sensor, and configured to obtain side detection data; and a controller including a processor configured to process at least one of the front image data, the front detection data, and the side detection data.
US11890933B2
The techniques of this disclosure relate to a vehicle occupancy-monitoring system. The system includes a controller circuit that receives occupant data from an occupancy-monitoring sensor of a vehicle. The controller circuit determines an occupancy status of respective seats in a cabin of the vehicle based on the occupancy-monitoring sensor. The controller circuit indicates the occupancy status of the respective seats on a display located in a field of view of occupants of the vehicle. The display is integral to one of a roof light module, a door panel, or a headliner of the cabin. The system can improve passenger safety by alerting the operator and other occupants about the occupancy status of the passengers.
US11890921B2
An external hard bed cover for pickup truck including a series of panels connected to a cargo hopper, wherein the panel series includes a super large panel, a large panel, a medium panel and a small panel, the super large panel is rotationally connected with the large panel, the large panel is rotationally connected with the medium panel, the medium panel is rotationally connected with the small panel, the super large panel, the large panel, the medium panel and the small panel are all rectangular panels.
US11890920B1
Improved soft top assemblies, systems, and methods to cover an open space above the driver and passenger seats of an automobile provide or use precision molded frame elements with interconnecting fastening assemblies to support a soft top cover attached to forward and rearward frame elements. A centrally hinged and pivoting stabilizing bar fitted within frame side elements maintains support and stability to the soft top cover. Forward and rearward frame elements provide mating surfaces matching existing OEM attachment points for a removable fitted hard top for the automobile. Each frame side element underside includes a channel sized to receive a corresponding closed automobile door windshield.
US11890919B2
A door beam structure for a vehicle side door includes a door beam having a hollow cross section, wherein the door beam includes: an outside portion forming a hollow flange of the door beam arranged to face a door skin, and an inside portion forming a hollow door beam body of the door beam.
US11890914B2
A vehicle includes a traction battery, an electric machine powered by the traction battery and configured to power wheels of the vehicle, and a thermal-management system. The thermal-management system includes a battery loop, a cabin heating loop, and a valve configured to fluidly connect the battery loop and the cabin heating loop when in a first position and configured to fluidly isolate the battery loop and the cabin heating loop when in a second position. A controller is programmed to, responsive to (i) battery heating being requested, (ii) a temperature of the battery being greater than a lower threshold, and (iii) cabin heating being requested, actuate the valve to the first position to heat a cabin and the battery.
US11890908B2
A method for controlling vehicle motion is described. The method includes accessing a set of control signals including a measured vehicle speed value associated with a movement of a vehicle. A control signal associated with user-induced input is also accessed. The method compares the measured vehicle speed value with a predetermined vehicle speed threshold value to achieve a speed value threshold approach status, and then compares the set of values to achieve a user-induced input threshold value approach status. The method monitors a state of a valve within the vehicle suspension damper, and determines a control mode for the vehicle suspension damper. The method also regulates damping forces within the vehicle suspension damper.
US11890904B2
A tie down apparatus for securing an item is shown and described herein. The tie down apparatus may include first and second body members, where the first body member is configured to be located and rotated about a first axis within a first receiving member and the second body member is configured to be located and rotated about a second axis within a second receiving member. The tie down apparatus may also include first and second locking members each extending through the first and second body members, respectively, where rotating the first and second body members about the respective first and second axes engages the first and second locking members and generally prevents removal of the first and second body members from the first and second receiving member, and a safety chain holding member selectively engaged with either of the first and second body members.
US11890899B2
A pneumatic tire includes a planar-shaped receiver coil in a cavity region, and configured to receive a magnetic field through a carcass ply layer and generate a signal, and an element to receive power converted from the signal. A receiving region of the receiver coil is interposed between an outermost side of a bead core in the radial direction and an innermost side of a belt layer in the radial direction, and the receiving region faces in the width direction. When a maximum dimension of the receiving region along the radial direction of the receiver coil is a length D1, a distance from the receiving region to a nearest portion of the bead core to the receiving region is L1, and a distance from the receiving region to a nearest portion of the belt layer to the receiving region is L2, relationships L1>(D1/4) and L2>(D2/4) are satisfied.
US11890891B2
A tool that can be retained in a predetermined position relative to a workpiece and to perform an operation on the workpiece includes a head portion and a tail portion. The head portion includes a leg that is adapted to engage a first portion of a workpiece when the tool is in a predetermined position relative to the workpiece. The tail portion extends from the head portion and includes a support having a recess that is adapted to engage a second portion of the workpiece when the tool is in a predetermined position relative to the workpiece. An operation-performing device is supported on the tail portion and is operable to perform an operation on the workpiece when the tool is in the predetermined position relative to the workpiece.
US11890884B2
A printing device for printing on a label sheet includes a first print head to perform printing on a first side of a label sheet being conveyed along a conveyance path. The label sheet is interposed between the first print head and a first roller. A second print head is upstream of the first print head and performs printing on a second side of the label sheet. A second roller is adjacent the second print head across the conveyance path. A cutter is downstream of the first print head to cut off a first portion of the label sheet. A processor is configured to cause the label sheet to be conveyed in a second direction after the first portion is cut off from the sheet so that the cut end of the sheet reaches the first print head.
US11890883B2
Proposed are a thermal transfer ribbon and a sticker printing method using the same, which can form not only full-color images formed by a color ink part but also points, such as pearl, fluorescent, luminous, sparkling, glass, and metal glitters. The thermal transfer ribbon includes: a color ink part having a yellow ink part (Y), a magenta ink part (M), and a cyan ink part (C); an overlay part forming an overlay layer to protect a printed surface; and at least one point ink part provided between the color ink part and the overlay part.
US11890877B2
A food product platform, system and method for supporting a food product thereon during printing. The platform has a first surface for supporting the food product thereon, the first surface having a surface topography configured to securely support the food product thereon; and a second surface supporting an attachment mechanism for removably coupling to a reciprocal attachment mechanism on a receiving arm of a printer, wherein the attachment mechanism prevents movement of the platform with respect to the receiving arm when coupled to the receiving arm. The food product platform is removably connectable to the receiving arm manually and without the use of tools.
US11890868B2
A machine for processing individual sheets comprises at least one processing station, in particular in inkjet printing station, and a transport system (100) for transporting the individual sheets through the processing station, along a transport direction. The transport system (100) comprises at least one gripper conveyor (150) movable along the transport direction, for gripping one of the individual sheets defining a sheet position in transport direction. The transport system (100) further comprises at least one support conveyor (190) movable along the transport direction for supporting a region of the individual sheet, wherein the support conveyor (190) comprises a vacuum system for supporting the individual sheet on an interacting surface of the support conveyor, the vacuum system comprising a plurality of orifices in the interacting surface. The machine allows for efficient and flexible handling of individual sheets, in particular large format sheets of materials such as corrugated cardboard or other materials that have a certain degree of inherent stability.
US11890857B2
The invention relates to a cylinder (10) which is set up for application of at least one hollow cylinder, the cylinder (10) having a layer structure which comprises in this order, from inside to outside, a base layer (12) or a cylinder core, a first compressible layer (14), a filling layer (16), an interlayer (18), a second compressible layer (20) and an outer layer (22), the outer layer forming a lateral surface of the cylinder. The invention further relates to arrangements comprising at least one such cylinder (10) and further cylinders.
US11890851B2
An apparatus for manufacturing a display device and a method for manufacturing a display device includes a stage; a first guide unit positioned on one side of the stage in a first direction and extending in a second direction crossing the first direction; and a first peeling unit disposed on the first guide unit, wherein the first peeling unit includes a first moving part configured to move along the first guide unit, a first rotating part coupled to the other side of the first moving part in the first direction and configured to rotate about an axis extending in the first direction, and a first gripping part coupled to the other side of the first rotating part in the first direction and disposed to overlap the stage.
US11890849B1
A method for initiating separation of a first layer from a second layer of a multilayer composite structure having a free edge, the method includes steps of securing the multilayer composite structure to a work surface; and applying cyclic pressure to at least a portion of the free edge of the multilayer composite structure.
US11890845B2
A decorative sheet comprises a substrate layer; a pattern layer provided on the first front surface of the substrate layer; and a thermoplastic resin layer provided on the second front surface of the pattern layer. A test piece of 8 mm width from the decorative sheet is taken; the storage modulus is measured with an initial chuck distance of 10.77 mm, a start temperature of 30° C., an end temperature of 150° C., a temperature increase rate of 5° C./min, and a measurement frequency of 1.0 Hz. The ratio of the difference between the second storage modulus and a third storage modulus when the decorative sheet changes from the transition region to a rubbery flat region to the difference between a first storage modulus when the environmental temperature is 30° C. and a second storage modulus when the decorative sheet changes from a glassy region to a transition region is 3.5 or less.
US11890841B2
Provided are an acrylic resin layer laminate having excellent impact resistance and a manufacturing method of the same. The laminate includes a first acrylic resin layer, a thermoplastic resin layer, and a second acrylic resin layer in this order, in which the thermoplastic resin layer contains 71% or more of a component having a spin-spin relaxation time T2H in pulse NMR measurement of 0.03 ms or longer. The manufacturing method of the laminate includes: discharging, from a die, a molten resin laminate containing at least a melt of a resin composition (1) containing a (meth)acrylic resin, a melt of a resin composition containing a thermoplastic resin, and a melt of a resin composition (2) containing a (meth)acrylic resin; and cooling the discharged molten resin laminate to obtain a laminate.
US11890830B2
Stock material units that may be used in a dunnage conversion machine. For example, stock material units include sheet material that may be fed into the dunnage conversion machine and may be converted thereby into dunnage.
US11890827B2
A tofu press includes: an open container, a foldable plate, a pressing plate, a spring assembly, and an end cover, where the foldable plate is configured to be placed at a bottom of the open container, the foldable plate includes a bottom plate and lateral plates disposed at two sides of the bottom plate, the lateral plates are perpendicular to and connected to the bottom plate, the pressing plate is configured to cover and press a top of the bottom plate, a bottom end of the spring assembly is configured to press the pressing plate, and the spring assembly is fixedly connected to the end cover; and the pressing plate, the lateral plates, the bottom plate, and two faces of the open container form a compression operating area. The tofu press ensures uniform pressing at the time of pressing a food material to dehydrate.
US11890819B2
An apparatus for storing tissue and other biological materials includes a separable flexible container that includes a first layer coupled to a second layer via a set of seals to define a first storage volume and a second storage volume. Separate tissue specimens are containable within the first storage volume and the second storage volume. A first portion of the first layer or the second layer defines a first opening into the first storage volume. A second portion of the first layer or the second layer defines a second opening into the second storage volume. The opening into the first volume and the opening into the second volume are positioned near opposite edges of the flexible container. The separable flexible container also includes a hinge to allow the first opening and the second opening to move from location on opposing edges of the separable flexible container to adjacent locations.
US11890812B1
The present disclosure provides a 3D printing method including: a resin providing step of providing a dual cure resin; a light curing step of irradiating the dual cure resin by an ultraviolet light to perform 3D printing so as to form an intermediate body having a predetermined lattice shape; a stretching step of applying a stress on the intermediate body in a stretching direction according to a stretching ratio of a predetermined size to stretch and form a stretched body; and a thermal curing step of heating the stretched body to perform thermal curing and shaping so as to form a 3D printing formed body. When the light curing step is performed, a size in a non-stretching direction of the intermediate body is correspondingly pre-compensated based on the stretching ratio. The present disclosure further provides a 3D printing formed body.
US11890811B2
A three-dimensional shaping apparatus includes a plasticizing section, a stage, an ejection section having a first nozzle and a second nozzle, each of which communicates with the plasticizing section, a first ejection adjusting section, a second ejection adjusting section, a moving section that relatively moves the ejection section with respect to the stage, and a control unit. The control unit performs a switching process for switching from a first state in which the ejection of the plasticized material from the first nozzle is stopped and the plasticized material is ejected from the second nozzle to a second state in which the plasticized material is ejected from the first nozzle and the second nozzle by controlling the first ejection adjusting section and the second ejection adjusting section, and an ejection amount decreasing process for decreasing the ejection amount of the plasticized material from the second nozzle by controlling the screw or the second ejection adjusting section before switching from the first state to the second state.
US11890810B2
The invention relates to a device and a method for producing three-dimensional shaped parts by means of a layer construction method on a construction field in a construction space of a device, wherein materials are supplied to and discharged from the construction space. A supplying and discharging of all materials is carried out in a spatial direction of the device.
US11890808B2
A method and a system for digital image correlation and thermal monitoring during directed energy deposition are provided. The method and the system include global off-axis 3D mapping of surfaces features at high frame rates using the natural surface roughness of the additive build. Infrared thermography is projected onto these surface features to record the thermo-mechanical history of the finished component. As set forth herein, the method and the system provide a low-cost solution to monitoring and optimizing the unique temporal artifacts induced by complex scan strategies.
US11890805B2
A three-dimensional printing apparatus includes a container and a projecting structure. The container is configured to contain a liquid photosensitive material. The projecting structure is configured to provide a variety of molding beams to irradiate the liquid photosensitive material. The photoinitiator is suitable for polymerizing with a monomer after receiving the first molding beam with the first wavelength to form a solidified layer with a first color, and the photoinitiator is suitable for polymerizing with the monomer after receiving the second molding beam with the second wavelength to form a solidified layer with a second color, wherein the first color is different from the second color. The projecting structure comprises a light combiner module, disposed on the transmission paths of a variety of light beams. The wavelengths of the first molding beam and the second molding beam are between 355 nm to 415 nm.
US11890804B1
An edge banding machine includes a base, and whereon a drive motor including a power outputting shaft, an edge band conveying mechanism having a pneumatic cylinder, a pushing block and an edge band conveying shaft parallel to the power outputting shaft, and a universal bearing. The pushing block is disposed at a terminal end of a telescopic rod of the pneumatic cylinder capable of being driven to lengthen or shorten to make an edge band approach or leave the edge band conveying shaft. Two ends of the universal bearing are connected with the power outputting shaft and edge band conveying shaft respectively, enabling the drive motor to rotate the edge band conveying shaft through the universal bearing. Through the configuration with the universal bearing, the edge band conveying shaft and power outputting shaft can be quickly connected for the completion of the whole edge banding machine assembly.
US11890802B2
A molding apparatus provided with a transfer capable of transferring a heavy-weight mold clamping device. The molding apparatus that molds a molded product, includes: a mold clamping device clamping a parison extruded from an extruder to obtain a molded body, a transfer rail to support the mold clamping device in a transferable manner, and an electric cylinder to transfer the mold clamping device along the transfer rail. The mold clamping device includes first and second platens for holding a die, and a clamping drive unit for driving the first and second platens closer to or separated from each other, the electric cylinder includes a motor having an output shaft and a feed screw mechanism that converts the rotary motion of the output shaft into a linear motion.
US11890800B2
A method of manufacturing a semi-crystalline article from at least one pseudo-amorphous polymer including a poly aryl ether ketone, such as PEKK, including a softening step, wherein the at least one pseudo-amorphous polymer is heated to a temperature above its glass transition temperature to soften the polymer, and a crystallization step, wherein the at least one pseudo-amorphous polymer is heated to a temperature between its glass transition temperature and melting temperature, the pseudo-amorphous polymer being placed on a mold during either the softening step or the crystallization step before at least some crystallization takes place. The method results in articles demonstrating increased opacity, increased crystallinity, increased thermal resistance, improved chemical resistance, and improved mechanical properties over articles formed by traditional thermoforming processes.
US11890793B2
The present invention relates to a method for assembling moulded bodies. The invention also relates to a moulded body which comprises a foam and at least one fibre (F), the fibre (F) is within a fibre range (FB2) inside the moulded body and is at least once at least partially divided, wherein at least one fibre (F) is completely divided. The invention further relates to the thus obtained assembled moulded body, and to a panel with contains the assembled moulded body and at least one layer (S1). The invention further relates to a method for producing the panel and to the use of the assembled moulded body and the claimed panel, for example, as a rotor blade in wind turbines.
US11890792B2
A solid state foamed microcellular foam sheet for use in forming a container is provided. The solid state foamed microcellular foam sheet includes a central foamed section defining a foam layer within the microcellular foam sheet having a first population of cells within which are interspersed a second population of cells.
US11890789B2
A web forming apparatus includes a drum portion and a second web forming unit. The drum portion has an accommodating chamber capable of accommodating fragments, and accommodating powder supplied from a first supplying unit. The second web forming unit forms a second web by letting a mixture containing the fragments and the powder falling from the drum portion accumulate. The first supplying unit includes a storing chamber for storing the powder and an outlet portion provided below the storing chamber. The powder goes out of the storing chamber via the outlet portion. The drum portion has meshes formed in a net demarcating the accommodating chamber. The powder is able to pass through the meshes. The outlet portion is provided vertically over the net of the drum portion.
US11890788B2
Methods of producing polymer-metal hybrid components that are bonded by C—O-M bonds at the interface using at least one of the hot pressing, rolling, and injection molding methods to create chemical bond formation conditions at the polymer and metal interface. When the thermal cycle and compressive pressure specified herein is combinationally created at the polymer and metal interfaced, strong C—O-M bonds forms at the interface and strongly bonds the metal and polymer together through the reaction carbonyl groups (C═O) in polymer and the metal surface. For polymers lacking enough carbonyl groups, new functional groups can be in-situ generation through introducing distributed air pockets at the polymer-metal interface for forming 3-dimensional distributed C—O-M bonds at the interface.
US11890787B2
A delivery device includes a first fluid supply path to supply first fluid, a second fluid supply path to supply second fluid to be mixed with the first fluid for obtaining a mixture, a mixing chamber to which first and second fluid supply paths are connected and in which the first and second fluids are mixed, and a delivery port for delivering the mixture from the mixing chamber, in which the first fluid supply path is connected to a downstream side end part in the flow direction of the mixing chamber, the second fluid supply path is connected to the upstream side end part in the flow direction of the mixing chamber, and the delivery port is provided on a side wall of the mixing chamber between the downstream side end part and the upstream side end part.
US11890784B2
An integrally blow-moulded bag-in-container has as integrally blow-moulded bag-in-container wherein the same polymer is in contact on either side of the interface between the inner and outer layers. A preform for blow-moulding a bag-in-container has an inner layer and an outer layer, wherein the preform forms a two-layer container upon blow-moulding, and wherein the thus obtained inner layer of the container releases from the thus obtained outer layer upon introduction of a gas at a point of interface between the two layers. The inner and outer layers are of the same material.
US11890781B2
An alumina ceramic integrated hot press molding machine and working method thereof, including a pressing and hot pressing device fixed accordingly on a rack, a stirring device inside the hot pressing device, and a hot pressing mold above the hot pressing device; the pressing device enables one path of high-pressure air to act on the mold, and enables the other path to enter the hot pressing device, so the slurry flows into a cavity of the mold; the stirring device stirs the slurry inside the device, so alumina blanks are more evenly distributed therein; and temperature detection components for detecting the temperature of internal oil and the slurry at a slurry outlet are inside the hot pressing device, and the power of an electric heating device is adjusted and controlled in real time according to the temperature detected by the components, to achieve the purpose of accurate temperature control.
US11890780B2
Additive manufacturing (AM) methods and devices for high-melting-point materials are disclosed. In an embodiment, an additive manufacturing method includes the following steps. (S1) Slicing a three-dimensional computer-aided design model of a workpiece into multiple layers according to shape, thickness, and size accuracy requirements, and obtaining data of the multiple layers. (S2) Planning a forming path according to the data of the multiple layers and generating computer numerical control (CNC) codes for forming the multiple layers. (S3) Obtaining a formed part by preheating a substrate, performing a layer-by-layer spraying deposition by a cold spraying method, and heating a spray area to a temperature until the spraying deposition of all sliced layers is completed. (S4) Subjecting the formed part to a surface modification treatment by a laser shock peening method.
US11890775B2
Disclosed herein is a planning and impositioning technique for industrial printing orders that evaluates and ranks potential planning and impositioning schemes for a given print order based on available printing apparatus, media, and die-cutter specifications. The printing schemes make use non-die cutter operations to subdivide a media sheet, followed by a series of die-cutter operations each subdivision to take advantage of industrial printer efficiency. This printing operation is enabled by planning and impositioning phases that generate print instructions allows a change in media size from printer apparatus to dies. Specifically, during the planning phase of the print order, a printer apparatus and a die or set of dies are selected where the media size used by the printer apparatus is larger than the die(s) is/are designed for.
US11890760B2
A balancer abnormality detection system includes: a robot; a motor configured to operate the robot; a balancer provided in the robot and configured to generate assist torque which assists power of the motor with force generated by elastic bodies; and a controller configured to detect abnormality of the balancer by measuring a current value of the motor operated to keep a posture of the robot during standby of the robot and comparing the current value with a current command value of the motor necessary for keeping the posture of the robot.
US11890759B2
Load information on a tool to be attached to a robot arm and collision sensitivity are input. Gravitational torque is calculated based on the input load information. A deflection amount of the robot arm is calculated based on the gravitational torque. A correction amount is calculated based on the collision sensitivity input. The deflection amount is corrected while the robot arm moves.
US11890756B2
A leg assembly and a legged robot having same are provided. The leg assembly includes a first leg, a second leg, a motor, an output flange and a transmission component. The motor is arranged at a first end of the first leg, and an output shaft of the motor is connected to the output flange to drive the output flange to rotate. The first leg is pivotably connected to the second leg, and the transmission component is connected to the output flange and the second leg to drive the second leg to rotate relative to the first leg. The output flange is provided with a first limiting portion, the first leg is provided with a first stop portion and a second stop portion spaced apart and configured to stop the first limiting portion, and the first leg is provided with a second limiting portion configured to stop the second leg.
US11890754B2
A moving robot includes a main body which forms a space therein, a noise generating member which is disposed inside the main body and generates a noise, an inner housing and an outer housing which surround the main body, and two or voice recognition members which are disposed in the housing and are disposed to be separated from each other, and a noise recognition member which recognizes a noise. The voice recognition members are disposed on a side opposite to the noise generating member based on a central point and disposed to be separated from each other along an outer peripheral surface of the housing. Accordingly, a voice command is determined by a difference of the voice data acquired by the two voice recognition members separated from each other and noise data recognized by the noise recognition member to improve voice recognition efficiency.
US11890751B2
A curved scissor linkage mechanism (1) includes at least four linkage elements (2) each having a first end (3) and a second end (4). The linkage elements are arranged to form sides of one or more rhombi or parallelograms. Each linkage element is rotationally connected to another linkage elements via a revolute joint (5) at the first end and is rotationally connected to another one of the other linkage elements via another revolute joint at the second end. The linkage elements are configured so that the axes of each joint coincide at one common remote centre of motion. The mechanism is connectable to a first external member (7) at a proximal end and is rotationally connectable to a second external member (9) at an opposite distal end to obtain three DOFs. The scissor linkage mechanism may further include a motion controlling mechanism.
US11890750B2
Methods and systems are provided for singulating, orienting, and delivering oriented objects (e.g., embryos) to a desired location (e.g., a plate containing a selected medium).
US11890749B1
Disclosed is an automated storage and retrieval system (100) for returned assets such as mobile phones and tablets that facilitates reduced labor for transporting into and out of inventory, reduced inventory levels, more accurate tracking of storage locations, and space savings. The system (100) comprises a warehouse management unit coupled to a cloud storage medium for receiving, and storing the returned assets and offering them up for bids through a communication network. The warehouse management unit has a receiving unit, a storage unit having sensor based storage racks (17), a retrieval unit and a packaging unit communicatively coupled to a computing device and a storage medium specifically a cloud network. The assets are graded by evaluating the degree of damage, defects, imperfections that might reduce the value, physical/cosmetic state of a device and the like. The system supports manual, automatic, and semi-automatic storage and retrieval operations with maximum reliability.
US11890742B2
A pipe wrench is provided with an extendable handle that fits within a cavity of the head. A lever locks the extended length of the extendable handle along a continuous spectrum between a maximum and a minimum extension of the handle. The lever includes cam surfaces. In an unlocked position, the thickness of the lever between the pivot and a friction plate is less than the thickness between the pivot and the friction plate in the locked position. The friction plate is a composite comprising a top lever plate, a midsection, and a concave surface. The lever plate and concave surface include hard, durable materials, and the midsection is a soft elastic material that redistributes frictional forces across the frictional block. The channel-lock prevents inadvertent overextension and/or accidental removal of the extendable handle.
US11890740B2
The present disclosure is directed to a cordless power tool vibration isolation system. A solution to negative impacts of vibration on a removable battery pack caused by operation of a cordless power tool. Isolating the battery pack from the power tool reduces wear and tear on the battery pack including the pack housing, the pack terminals and internal pack components. A battery pack interface of the power tool including a discrete interface housing that mates with the battery pack and a vibration isolation element that separates and isolates the combination of the discrete interface housing and the battery pack from the power tool and the power tool's associated motor induced vibrations.
US11890738B2
Systems and methods for remote power tool control are provided. In one example, a battery pack is coupled to a power tool device. The battery pack includes a pack transceiver and a pack electronic processor. The pack electronic processor is coupled to the pack transceiver and is configured to determine that the power tool device is remotely controllable. The pack electronic processor is further configured to receive, wirelessly via a pack transceiver of the battery pack, a remote control command from a mobile device, and to provide the remote control command to the power tool device. The system further includes a tool electronic processor of the power tool device in communication with the pack electronic processor. The tool electronic processor is configured to control the power tool device to perform an action specified by the remote control command in response to receiving the remote control command.
US11890735B2
A removal apparatus of a threaded post contains: a drive rod, a connection element, an actuation element, and a slidable sleeve. The connection element includes a locking groove and a notch. The actuation element includes a fitting fringe corresponding to the connection element, a cylindrical neck having a diameter less than a diameter of the fitting fringe, and an engagement disc having a diameter more than the diameter of the cylindrical neck. The diameter of fitting fringe is equal to a diameter of the connection element. The slidable sleeve includes a coupling space having a diameter equal to the diameter of the fitting fringe and the diameter of the connection element. The slidable sleeve is slid so that the coupling space abuts against the fitting fringe and the connection element, and the engagement disc is engaged in the locking groove.
US11890732B2
A binding machine includes a body part, a feeding unit configured to feed a wire, a first guide and a second guide extending in a first direction from an end portion on one side of the body part, arranged with an interval, in which a binding object is inserted, in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and configured to guide the wire fed by the feeding unit, a twisting unit configured to twist the wire guided by the first guide and the second guide, and a guide moving part configured to change the interval from a first distance to a second distance shorter than the first distance.
US11890730B2
A driver drill includes a motor housing that holds an electric motor, an axis of rotation of a rotor of the electric motor extending in a front-rear direction of the driver drill, a grip housing having an upper end connected to a lower part of the motor housing and an enlarged-part housing connected to a lower end of the grip housing and spaced from the motor housing in an up-down direction of the driver drill that is perpendicular to the front-rear direction. A torque setting of the driver drill is changeable, and the driver drill is changeable between a setting unlocked state in which the torque setting is changeable and a setting locked state in which the torque setting is not changeable.
US11890720B2
A quick clamping device for a portable power tool includes at least one rotatably drivable output shaft, at least one clamping unit, at least one operating unit, and at least one uncoupling unit. The clamping unit, for tool-free fastening of an insert tool unit to the output shaft, includes at least one movably mounted clamping element for applying clamping force to the insert tool unit in a clamping position of the clamping element. The operating unit is configured to move the clamping element into the clamping position and/or into a release position of the clamping element. In the release position, the insert tool unit can be removed from the clamping unit. The at least one uncoupling unit is configured to uncouple the operating unit from the clamping unit in accordance with the rotational speed of the output shaft.
US11890709B2
A system for making a connection between a first tubular member and a second tubular member having coincident bores for conveying a fluid, the connection having an axis in the general direction of flow of said fluid therethrough, the system comprising a connection (1) and a tensioning tool (100), the connection having a first tubular end (6) comprising a first end flange (16) having an end face (17) and a collar (20) comprising a sleeve (21) and an end stop (30) fixed to the sleeve (21), said sleeve (21) arranged about said flange (18) and said end stop (30) arranged about said tubular end (6), said collar (20) slideable along said tubular end (6), the connection further having a second tubular end (7) comprising a second end flange (43) having an end face (45) and a locking nut (50) about and slideable along said first tubular end (7), the tensioning tool (100) for applying axial tension to said collar (30) relative to said second tubular end (7) characterised in that at least one of said sleeve (20) and said second tubular end (7) has a set of parallel circumferential grooves (23,47) therein and said tensioning tool (100) has a set of ridges (142), the system comprising the steps of moving said set of ridges (142) into said set of grooves (23,47) and applying an axial tension to said collar (20) relative to said second tubular end (7).
US11890708B2
A tool head assembly for crimping, the assembly including an internal cam that spins freely on a stationary shaft in one direction and locks onto the shaft in the other direction. That cam rotates against the moving slide forcing to move away from the stationary shaft opening a gap between rollers. A controller is programmed to have the drive rotate in one direction for a set time period, then reverse the rotation to begin the crimp process. The start rotation of the drive rotates the cam and opens the roller gap. The forward rotation allows the cam to swing, closing the gap and rotating the rollers around a seal. The tool eliminates the air cylinder and related pneumatic hoses and valve making the head smaller and allows a controller to communicate with any OEM production system to verify the tool has been used and was used correctly.
US11890706B2
A method for assembling parts in an assembly line, such as an automotive final assembly line, is disclosed. The method includes advancing a part along the assembly line with an Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV), arranging a first real time vision system to monitor the position of the AGV in at least two directions, and providing the readings of the first real time vision system to a controller arranged to control an assembly unit of the assembly line to perform an automated operation on the part that is advanced or supported by the AGV. An assembly line is also disclosed.
US11890703B2
The present disclosure relates generally to the field of welding filler metals, and more particularly to compositions suitable for welding or brazing aluminum alloys. In an embodiment, an aluminum-silicon-magnesium alloy, includes a magnesium content between approximately 0.1 wt % and approximately 0.5 wt %, wherein substantially all of the magnesium content is present as magnesium silicide. The alloy includes a silicon content between approximately 5.0 wt % and approximately 6.0 wt %, wherein at least 4.75 wt % of the silicon content is present as free silicon. The alloy includes one or more of iron, copper, manganese, zinc, and titanium. The alloy further includes a remainder of aluminum and trace components.
