US12032495B2
A device connectable between a host computer and a computer peripheral over a standard bus interface is disclosed, used to improve security, and to detect and prevent malware operation. Messages passing between the host computer and the computer peripherals are intercepted and analyzed based on pre-configured criteria, and legitimate messages transparently pass through the device, while suspected messages are blocked. The device communicates with the host computer and the computer peripheral using proprietary or industry standard protocol or bus, which may be based on a point-to-point serial communication such as USB or SATA. The messages may be stored in the device for future analysis, and may be blocked based on current or past analysis of the messages. The device may serve as a VPN client and securely communicate with a VPN server using the host Internet connection.
US12032494B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to kernel integrity protection methods and apparatuses. In an embodiment, a method includes: sending, by a first program executing at a first exception level, a request message to a second program executing at a second exception level, wherein the first exception level has lower execution privilege than the second exception level, the request message requests to perform memory access, and wherein the memory access is a preset register access or a preset memory space access, and; in response to receiving the request message, obtaining, by the second program, event information corresponding to the memory access; sending, by the second program, the event information to the first program; and processing, by the first program, the event information.
US12032475B2
A library model addition engine adds library models to a library knowledge base by defining a template for a library configuration file that conveys information about each library model, custom inputs and code snippets to facilitate library comparison operations, and education content for the library model, where the library configuration file template may be automatically filled by populating selected data fields in the template with information identifying the library model, scraping documentation pages to extract test cases, and then scraping test case code to extract the test case input parameters for input to an input/output matching engine to evaluate a repository of code snippets and identify a set of functionally similar code snippets for inclusion one or more data fields in the template.
US12032474B2
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing an acceleration test program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process includes selecting a cooperation application that operates in cooperation with a test target application that is a target application of an acceleration test by accelerating an operation of an application, determining an acceleration degree of an operation in an acceleration mode in which an operation of an application is accelerated in comparison to a normal mode, and disabling an acceleration of an operation of a non-cooperation application that does not cooperate with the test target application during an acceleration of operations of the test target application and the cooperation application based on the acceleration degree.
US12032473B2
Embodiments described herein relate to methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable mediums storing instructions for placing an application in an external environment such as a cloud or edge environment, when it is rendered unavailable on a local environment such as a local host. The application's instance is moved after a connection test reveals that the application, related applications, and/or underlying physical computing devices hosting the applications and/or their data, do not respond to the test within an acceptable level of performance. By placing the application instances in an external environment, the application(s) can continue to provide an adequate level of service to one or more users until the application can be restored to its better function local host.
US12032472B2
Omitting or obfuscating physical memory addresses within an execution trace. A microprocessor identifies a first translation lookaside buffer (TLB) entry mapping a first virtual memory page to a physical memory page, and initiates logging of the first TLB entry by initiating logging of at least a first virtual address of the first virtual memory page and a first identifier. The microprocessor identifies a second TLB entry mapping a second virtual memory page to the physical memory page, and initiates logging of the second TLB entry by initiating logging of at least a second virtual address of the second virtual memory page and a second identifier. The microprocessor determines that the first and second TLB entries are each live, logged into the execution trace, and mapped to the same physical address, and ensures that the execution trace indicates that the first and second TLB entries each map to the physical address.
US12032469B2
Provided is a system and method that generates an artificial intelligence workflow model in which image conversion, measurement, and image searches can be performed, by selecting/combining algorithms suitable for a workflow having been created/modified according to a subject area such as a display manufacturing process, and that conducts a simulation of the generated model. An explainable artificial intelligence modelling and simulation method includes designing an artificial intelligence workflow model once algorithms suitable for a workflow having been created/modified according to a subject area are selected from algorithms stored in advance; and conducting, when input information is input, a simulation of the artificial intelligence workflow model for the input information.
US12032468B2
Embodiments of this application provide a method and a device for displaying a representation indicator of an object. In the method, values of representation indicators of a plurality of monitored objects at a plurality of sampling time points are determined; and image information used to display changes of the representation indicators is generated, where the image information includes the plurality of sampling time points, values of representation indicators of a plurality of objects that meet a sorting requirement at the plurality of sampling time points, and association information, and the association information is used to associate values of representation indicators that are at a same sorting position at the plurality of sampling time points, to reflect changes of the values of the representation indicators that are at the same sorting position.
US12032466B2
A computer implemented method comprises receiving a request to provision a container as a software container on a current node of the cluster. The method further comprises accessing a performance information data store (PIDS) to obtain a record associated with the container that includes benchmarked performance metrics including container-required resources associated with a benchmark-specified node of the container. The method further comprises accessing the PIDS to obtain a record associated with the current node of the cluster that includes current-node performance metrics associated with the current node. The method further comprises comparing the benchmarked performance metrics with the current node performance metrics to determine that a difference exists, and conditioned upon the difference existing adjusting, with a resource adjustment calculator, the container-required resources based on the determination of how much of a difference exists. The method then provisions the container on the current node with adjusted container-required resources.
US12032461B2
A method and system determine a potential impact from software upgrades on a computing device. A device configuration is identified for a first computing device based on the software and hardware elements currently present. Other computing devices are identified in the network having installed the software application upgrade. A history of operating behavior associated with the software application upgrade is retrieved. The profile is analyzed for each of the other computing devices for conflicts with the software application. A determination is made as to whether the software application upgrade will potentially cause a failure in the first computing device based on the history of operating behavior associated with the software application upgrade and based on a state of similarity between the analyzed profile for each of the other computing devices and the profile of the first computing device. The end user is presented with a risk-based recommendation.
US12032451B2
Selective migration of a database in which one or more computing devices establish a creation specification for a snapshot of a subset of a source database of a source database management system (DBMS). The device(s) receive instruction to create the snapshot in accordance with the creation specification. The device(s) retrieve, in response to receiving the instruction to create, record(s) from the source database in accordance with the creation specification. The device communicates, via broadcast, the retrieved records to one or more creation listeners; and serializes, by each listener and in accordance with the creation specification, the broadcast records into the snapshot comprising the fragments and the parts.
US12032450B1
Provided is a system for facilitating recovery of deleted computing resources in a cloud network environment. A centralized resource recovery service may be in network communication with a plurality of resource management services that are each configured to create, modify, or delete their respective computing resources such as data storage volumes, databases, compute instances, and the like. The resource recovery service may be configured to receive a delete request associated with a resource managed by one of the resource management services, and cause the resource to be retained in a recovery bin based on the resource satisfying one of a plurality of resource recovery conditions used to manage resource recovery across the resource management services.
US12032448B2
A method includes receives data representing a changed chunk of data in a current revision of a data volume, the changed chunk includes data having changes from previous data of a previous revision of the data volume. The method creates a block of data representing the changed chunk of data on the object store, the object store also stores previous revision data of the previous revision. The method determines a previous index stored on the object store corresponding to the previous revision, which includes entries including at least one corresponding to the previous revision data. The method creates a revised index that updates the corresponding entry with updated entry data representing the changed chunk of data. The method includes deleting, from the object store, each particular block of data stored on the object store that is no longer associated with an entry on any index stored on the object store.
US12032445B2
Described is a system (and method) for specialized data management when performing incremental backups to a cloud-based object storage. When backing up client data, the server may utilize incremental backups to conserve the amount of storage space required on the object storage. However, the server may implement a configuration that enables full reconstruction of the client data at the time of recovery. To provide such capabilities, the server may leverage a specialized metadata database. The metadata database may be an embedded database maintained by the server. The server may leverage the metadata database to provide further storage efficiencies by storing certain incremental backup data exclusively within the metadata database. Accordingly, the server may implement a data management configuration as part of a backup service that conserves storage usage, and as a result, storage costs when using on a third-party cloud-based object storage.
US12032444B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for error correction with syndrome computation in a memory device are described. A first syndrome for first encoded data is generated in a memory device. The first syndrome and the first encoded data are transmitted to a controller that is coupled with the memory device. A second syndrome for first and second encoded data is generated. The first encoded data and the second encoded data are interrelated according to an error correction code. The second syndrome is transmitted to the controller without the second encoded data and the controller is to decode the first encoded data based on at least one of the first syndrome, the second syndrome, or a combination thereof.
US12032443B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods can include a multi-stage cache for providing high reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS). The multi-stage cache memory comprises a shadow DRAM, which is provided on a volatile main memory module, coupled to a memory controller cache, which is provided on a memory controller. During a first write operation, the memory controller writes data with a strong error correcting code (ECC) from the memory controller cache to the shadow DRAM without writing a RAID (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks) parity data. During a second write operation, the memory controller writes the data with the strong ECC and writes the RAID parity data from the shadow DRAM to a memory device provided on the volatile main memory module.
US12032442B2
A method includes obtaining audit records. Each of the audit records indicates a timestamp for a corresponding message, at least one event type code selected from a plurality of event type codes for a corresponding audit event of the corresponding message, and an identifier for a corresponding system entity associated with creation of the corresponding message. A number of audit records are aggregated over a period of time. An audit file is generated to include the number of audit records and integrity information. Storage of the audit file is facilitated by utilizing a name of the audit file.
US12032438B2
In one embodiment, a solid state drive (SSD) comprises a plurality of non-volatile memory dies communicatively arranged in one or more communication channels, each of the plurality of non-volatile memory dies comprising a plurality of physical blocks, one or more channel controllers communicatively coupled to the one or more communication channels, respectively, and a memory controller communicatively coupled to the plurality of non-volatile memory dies via the one or more channel controllers, wherein the memory controller is configured to assign (i) the plurality of physical blocks of a first die of the plurality of non-volatile memory dies to only a first region and (ii) the plurality of physical blocks of a second die of the plurality of non-volatile memory dies to only a second region, perform only read operations on the first region in a first operation mode, and perform write operations or maintenance operations on the second region in a second operation mode concurrently with read operations on the first region in the first operation mode.
US12032436B2
A BIOS error locating method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring one or more MAP files which are generated during a compilation process of a BIOS and used for recording an entry address offset of each function; recording a base address of each function module after the BIOS is started, so as to obtain a base address log file; in response to occurrence of an EXCEPTION error during an execution process of the BIOS, executing an Exception handling function, so as to determine, according to the base address log file and the one or more MAP files, a target function that results in the EXCEPTION error; and recording a name of the target function in a serial log, and sending the serial log to a BMC.
US12032435B2
To enable more accurate determination of a failure cause event, an event mapping acquiring unit acquires an event mapping file defining a normalized alarm message indicating a normalized alarm content, a resource type indicating an event failure location, an alarm type, and an event type indicating event classification of the alarm in association with one another. An event type conversion unit determines whether input alarm information matches the definition of the event mapping file acquired, when the input alarm information matches the definition, sets the event type to a value defined in the event mapping file, when the input alarm information does not match the definition, sets the event type to the alarm type of alarm information, and registers the event type and the alarm information in association with each other as a failure event in the database.
US12032427B2
An apparatus for outputting a sound source for minimizing power consumption and an operating method thereof are disclosed. The sound source output method includes a terminal detecting step of detecting connection and a type of a terminal; a power control processing step of generating a power control signal so as to correspond to an audio transmitting method according to the detected terminal type and controlling a power supply operation to a conversion processing unit and an amplification processing unit connected to a power source unit including at least one power block based on the power control signal; an audio signal generating step of generating at least one audio signal by performing signal converting and amplifying operations based on the power supplied based on the power supply operation; and an audio outputting step of outputting a final audio signal generated using audio signals according to the audio transmitting method.
US12032426B2
Systems, methods and computer-readable mediums may be used in portable computing devices (PCDs) for dynamically allocating system resources in a way that prevents or lessens degradation of power and performance KPIs while also avoiding temperature increases in the PCD that can create unpleasant user experiences. A smart resource allocation framework (SRAF) is triggered when a call is received or placed. Once triggered, the SRAF framework monitors a preselected set of state conditions to determine whether or not to place the wireless modem in a modem power-performance (Mod. Pow.-Perf) mode. If it determines that modem is to be placed in the Mod. Pow.-Perf. mode, a Mod. Pow.-Perf. process is performed dynamically allocates system resources and preferably also triggers a thermal framework that performs power reduction in one or more non-modem processing cores.
US12032419B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example electronic device disclosed herein includes a microphone and a thermal management system having a fan. The electronic device includes a processor to detect ambient noise via the microphone, identify a sound of interest value associated with the ambient noise and identify a background noise value associated with the ambient noise. The processor to determines a signal-to-noise ratio based on the sound of interest value and the background noise value and compares the signal-to-noise ratio to a sensitivity threshold. In response to determining that the signal-to-noise ratio exceeds the sensitivity threshold, the processor operates the thermal management system with one or more restrictions.
US12032412B2
A foldable apparatus and an electronic device are provided in the present disclosure. The foldable apparatus includes a rotating shaft base and two main bodies. Each main body is provided with a rotating member rotatably connected with the rotating shaft base, a housing rotatably connected with the rotating member, a first support plate fixed to the housing, and a second support plate fixedly connected with the rotating member. When the two main bodies are folded relative to each other, the second support plate rotates relative to the housing along with the rotating member to be inclined relative to the first support plate, and an accommodating space is defined between two second support plates. When the two main bodies are unfolded relative to each other, the second support plate rotates relative to the housing along with the rotating member to be flush with the first support plate.
US12032405B2
A system can include a display housing that includes a display, a frame, a display side, and a back side; and a cellular phone coupling that couples a cellular phone to the display housing with a portion of the cellular phone extendable a distance beyond an edge of the frame of the display housing.
US12032402B2
A transceiver includes a transmitter and a receiver connected to each other by a first line and a second line. The transmitter transmits signals having a first voltage range to the first line and the second line in a first mode, and transmits signals having a second voltage range smaller than the first voltage range to the first line and the second line in a second mode. The transmitter encodes an original payload in the second mode to generate a first payload, and transmits the clock training pattern and the first payload through the first line and the second line.
US12032399B2
An integrated circuit includes: a power supply circuit configured to generate a supply voltage from at least one of first and second power source voltages; and a system load configured to operate by receiving the supply voltage through an output node of the power supply circuit, wherein the power supply circuit includes: a first low drop-output (LDO) regulator configured to generate, from the first power source voltage, a first load current flowing to the system load through the output node; and a second LDO regulator configured to selectively generate a second load current flowing to the system load through the output node, from the second power source voltage based on a difference between voltages of internal nodes of the first LDO regulator.
US12032392B2
Methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing a blending flow configuration for a material processing system that blends a material from multiple sources. A blending flow configuration identifies an arrangement of components and settings of the components in the material processing system to support blending a material. The blending flow configuration can support optimizing outcomes of different types of downstream processes. The material properties data are identified based on different types of measurements. For example, block models, lab assays, and on-stream analyzers can be used to determine a composition of the material. Grinding line performance data (or grinding line operation data) that estimates the grinding line performance or capacity can also be accessed. A description of a conveyance network design of the material processing system is generated. The conveyance network design can specifically help identify source nodes, sink nodes, transshipments nodes, and network arcs of the material processing system.
US12032390B2
The autonomous landing method of a UAV includes: obtaining a point cloud distribution map of a planned landing region; determining a detection region in the point cloud distribution map according to an actual landing region of the UAV in the point cloud distribution map; dividing the detection region into at least two designated regions, each of the at least two designated regions corresponding to a part of the planned landing region; determining whether a quantity of point clouds in each of the at least two designated regions is less than a preset threshold; and if a quantity of point clouds in a designated region is less than the preset threshold, controlling the UAV to fly away from the designated region of which the quantity of point clouds is less than the preset threshold, or controlling the UAV to stop landing.
US12032389B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for controlling an automatic descent of a vehicle. For instance, the method may include: determining whether a descent trigger condition is present; and in response to determining the descent trigger condition is present, performing an automatic descent process. The automatic descent process may include: obtaining clearance data from an on-board system of the vehicle; generating a descent plan based on the clearance data, the descent plan including a supersonic-to-subsonic transition and/or a supersonic-descent to a target altitude; and generating actuator instructions to a control the vehicle to descend to the target altitude based on the descent plan.
US12032380B2
In various examples, a trigger signal may be received that is indicative of a vehicle maneuver to be performed by a vehicle. A recommended vehicle trajectory for the vehicle maneuver may be determined in response to the trigger signal being received. To determine the recommended vehicle trajectory, sensor data may be received that represents a field of view of at least one sensor of the vehicle. A value of a control input and the sensor data may then be applied to a machine learning model(s) and the machine learning model(s) may compute output data that includes vehicle control data that represents the recommended vehicle trajectory for the vehicle through at least a portion of the vehicle maneuver. The vehicle control data may then be sent to a control component of the vehicle to cause the vehicle to be controlled according to the vehicle control data.
US12032372B2
An autonomous driving system includes: a Human Machine Interface; and a control device configured to control autonomous driving of a vehicle, present a first operation instruction to a driver of the vehicle during the autonomous driving, the first operation instruction requesting the driver to perform a first response operation performed in response to a first request or a first proposal by presenting the first request or the first proposal to the driver via the Human Machine Interface, and prohibit presenting a second operation instruction different from the first operation instruction until the first response operation is completed or until a timing at which the first response operation is predicted to be completed, the second operation instruction requesting the driver to perform a second response operation performed in response to a second request or a second proposal by presenting the second request or the second proposal.
US12032367B2
A processing system for processing objects using a programmable motion device is disclosed. The processing system includes a perception unit for perceiving identifying indicia representative of an identity of a plurality of objects received from an input conveyance system, an acquisition system for acquiring an object from the plurality of objects at an input area using an end effector of the programmable motion device, wherein the programmable motion device is adapted for assisting in the delivery of the object to an identified processing bin, and the identified processing bin is associated with the identifying indicia and said identified processing location is provided as one of a plurality of processing bins, and a delivery system for bringing the identified processing bin toward the object, where the delivery system includes a carrier for carrying the identified processing bin toward the object.
US12032366B2
A method and a device for simulating a machining process of a workpiece on an NC-controlled machine tool by means of a self-learning artificial neural network. Process parameters both from a machining process on a real machine tool located in a manufacturing section and a digital machine model implemented in a simulation section are provided to the artificial neural network to learn the behavior of the machine tool including the tools and workpieces used and are reformatted into input parameters by means of mathematical transformation. By learning the behavior of the machining process, the artificial neural network ca, send output files back to the simulation software of the simulation section and optimally adapt the behavior of the digital machine model to the conditions of the real machine tool by adapting the simulation parameters and make it more efficient in order to optimize the machining process on the machine tool.
US12032365B2
Aspects of the disclosed technology encompass the use of a deep-learning controller for monitoring and improving a manufacturing process. In some aspects, a method of the disclosed technology includes steps for: receiving control values associated with a process station in a manufacturing process, predicting an expected value for an article of manufacture output from the process station, and determining if the deep-learning controller can control the manufacturing process based on the expected value. Systems and computer-readable media are also provided.
US12032363B2
A dual positioned recirculating chute that would allow the operator to run the plant in either closed circuit or open circuit position. While in closed circuit position, the plant will run rock through and the chute will provide as a recirculating chute for oversized rock to travel from the recirculating conveyor back into the feeder hopper for re-crushing. The operator can then reposition the chute to the open circuit position, which will change the direction of the chute away from the feeder hopper and discharge material off the side of the plant. This can be oversized rock material to form an additional stock pile or be redirected to an off-plant conveyor. This can also allow for the removal of trash and unwanted material from the plant cycle without the need for a full plant shutdown, locking out the proper equipment, and manually removing before restarting the crushing process again.
US12032354B2
A program restart assisting apparatus acquires time series data of a physical amount detected in machining, detects a change point on which a machining state of the machining is changed based on the acquired data, and records the change point of the machining state as a restartable point. Then, the program restart assisting apparatus selects a restart execution point from among the recorded restartable points, with the result that an appropriate restartable point can be easily selected.
US12032346B2
A control system includes one or a plurality of functional units, and a control device for exchanging communication data transmitted circularly among the functional units. The control device selects, in accordance with an instruction from a user or in accordance with a predetermined condition, one transfer system of a first transfer system in which a computation processing unit transfers the communication data and a second transfer system in which a DMA controller transfers the communication data.
US12032344B2
A model management system for building equipment includes one or more memory devices configured to store instructions that, when executed on one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to determine whether fault data exists in equipment data used to generate a plurality of shutdown prediction models for the building equipment, generate a first performance evaluation value for each of the plurality of shutdown prediction models using a first evaluation technique in response to a determination that the fault data exists in the equipment data, generate a second performance evaluation value for each of the plurality of shutdown prediction models using a second evaluation technique in response to a determination that the fault data does not exist in the equipment data, and select one of the plurality of shutdown prediction models based on the first performance evaluation value and the second performance evaluation value.
US12032341B2
A Time to Digital Converter (TDC) arrangement includes a first delay circuit configured to receive a signal with N phases; a set of phase detectors configured to compare each phase of the signal with a reference signal; a logic circuit configured to receive output signals from the set of phase detectors and detect which phase signal that is the closest signal leading or lagging the reference signal; a first multiplexer configured to receive outputs from the first delay circuit and the logic circuit; a second delay circuit configured to delay the reference signal; a TDC configured to receive output signals from the first multiplexer and the second delay circuit; an adder configured to sum outputs from the logic circuit and the TDC and generate an output signal of the TDC arrangement.
US12032340B2
A time-to-digital converter (TDC) circuitry for converting a phase difference between an input reference signal and an input clock signal to a digitally represented output signal. The TDC circuitry comprises multiple constituent TDCs, a reference signal provider, and a digital signal combiner. Each TDC is configured to convert a phase difference between a constituent reference signal and a constituent clock signal to a digitally represented constituent output signal. The reference signal provider is configured to provide the respective constituent reference signals to each of the TDCs. In at least a parallel operation mode of the TDC circuitry, each respective constituent reference signal comprises a respectively delayed version of the input reference signal with different respective delays for at least two of the respective constituent reference signals. The digital signal combiner is configured to provide the digitally represented output signal based on the digitally represented constituent output signals of the TDCs.
US12032334B2
The present invention relates to an escapement system that can be used, for example, in a measuring device such as in a timepiece. The escapement system comprises a drive axle and at least one escape wheel that has at least one impulse tooth. The at least one impulse tooth is connected to the drive axle via at least one spring element and has a starting position in which it is fixed such that the spring element has a preload torque.
US12032330B2
A cartridge includes a photosensitive drum and a coupling operatively connected to the photosensitive drum so as to be capable of transmitting a driving force toward the photosensitive drum. The coupling includes a first wall, a second wall provided inside the first wall in a radial direction of the coupling, a groove portion defined by the first wall and the second wall, a recessed portion provided in the second wall, and an inclined portion adjacent to the recessed portion.
US12032327B2
An image forming apparatus includes an exposure unit that exposes a photoconductor; and an exposure support member that includes a support portion that detachably supports the exposure unit and is moved integrally with the exposure unit in a first direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the photoconductor, wherein the exposure unit includes a first engagement portion that is formed on an opposing portion facing the support portion of the exposure support member in the first direction so as to protrude toward the exposure support member and further formed to extend in the axial direction of the photoconductor orthogonal to a protruding direction, the exposure support member includes a second engagement portion that is formed on the support portion facing the exposure unit at a position corresponding to the first engagement portion and engages with the first engagement portion.
US12032324B2
An image forming apparatus to and from which a replenishment container accommodating toner is detachable and which forms an image on a recording material includes an apparatus body, and a cartridge including an image bearing member, a developer container to accommodate toner, and a developing portion to develop an electrostatic latent image formed on the image bearing member into a toner image by using the toner. A replenishment port allows replenishment of toner from the replenishment container, which is arranged outside of the image forming apparatus, to the developer container therethrough in a state where the replenishment container is attached to the replenishment port, and a controller notifies a user of information related to a toner amount if it is determined that a lifetime of the cartridge will expire before a sum of toner accommodated in the developer container and toner accommodated in the replenishment container is consumed.
US12032322B2
An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member, a charging member, a developing roller, a transfer roller, and a brush configured to be brought into contact with a surface of the image bearing member on a side downstream of a transfer portion and upstream of a charging portion in a rotation direction of the image bearing member and in which, wherein, after the transfer of a developer image onto a transferred member, a developer remaining on the surface of the image bearing member is collected by the developing roller, the brush is disposed such that, in a cross section perpendicular to a rotation axis of the image bearing member, a contact region of the surface of the image bearing member in contact with the brush overlaps a virtual line containing the rotation axis of the image bearing member and extending upward from the rotation axis in a vertical direction.
US12032320B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image formation unit, a casing, a sheet discharge unit, a supporting portion, a first electric board, a second electric board, and a connecting cable. The first electric board is disposed such that the first electric board does not overlap the supporting portion in a width direction when viewed in the vertical direction. The second electric board is disposed such that the second electric board does not overlap the supporting portion in the width direction when viewed in the vertical direction. The second electric board is disposed on a same side in the width direction as the first electric board with respect to the supporting portion when viewed in the vertical direction. At least a part of the second electric board overlaps the first electric board in the vertical direction and the sheet discharge direction when viewed in the width direction.
US12032318B2
An electrophotographic image forming system forms an electrostatic latent image on at least a photoreceptor, develops an image using an electrostatic charge image developing toner, and removes the toner using a cleaning blade. A tip ridge of the cleaning blade is pressed against a surface of the photoreceptor. The system includes a photosensitive layer of the photoreceptor and a surface protecting layer that is provided on a surface of the photosensitive layer. The surface protecting layer includes a polymerizable monomer having at least two polymerizable groups in a molecule and a polymer of a hole transporting compound having a polymerizable group represented by General formula (1). The tip ridge of the cleaning blade has an edge angle that is obtuse and less than 120° and is pressed against the surface of the photoreceptor at an effective contact angle that is in a range of 8 to 20°.
US12032316B2
A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a sheet conveyor configured to convey a sheet, a guide configured to form a conveyance path through which the sheet is conveyed by the sheet conveyor, and a sensor disposed on a same side as the guide with respect to the conveyance path. The guide includes a retracted portion disposed over a first region in a sheet width direction perpendicular to a sheet conveyance direction, the retracted portion being retracted with respect to a second region of the guide in the sheet width direction so as not to come into contact with the sheet passing through the conveyance path, the first region including a detection region of the sensor in the sheet width direction, the second region being a sheet passing region of the sheet in the sheet width direction excluding the first region.
US12032313B2
A tubular body for a fixing member includes: a first layer having a thermal conductivity of 1.0 W/m·K or more; and a second layer containing a resin and particles of a solid material in which heat absorption/release associated with electronic phase transition occurs.
US12032307B2
A developing cartridge includes a casing having an outer surface, a developing roller, a first electrode, and a boss. The developing roller is movable together with the casing and includes a developing roller shaft extending along a first axis extending in a first direction. The developing roller is rotatable about the first axis. The first electrode is positioned at one end portion in the first direction of the developing roller shaft, and electrically connected to the developing roller shaft. The boss is positioned at one end portion in the first direction of the outer surface. The boss extends in the first direction and is engageable with the drum unit. A part of the first electrode is configured to contact with a second electrode of the drum unit as a result of pivotal movement of the developing cartridge about the boss relative to the drum unit.
US12032305B2
A method of, and associated apparatuses for, performing a position measurement on an alignment mark including at least a first periodic structure having a direction of periodicity along a first direction. The method includes obtaining signal data relating to the position measurement and fitting the signal data to determine a position value. The fitting uses one of a modulation fit or a background envelope periodic fit.
US12032296B2
A fluid handling system that includes a liquid confinement structure configured to confine immersion liquid to a space between at least a part of the liquid confinement structure and a surface of a substrate. The fluid handling system also includes a mechanism configured to vibrate a vibration component in contact with the immersion liquid.
US12032292B2
A photosensitive film of the present invention includes a carrier film having a first surface whose surface roughness is 0.1 to 0.4 μm, and a photosensitive layer formed on the first surface, in which a haze of the carrier film is 30 to 65%, and a spectral haze at a wavelength of 405 nm of the carrier film, as measured by providing a transparent resin layer in which a difference between a refractive index of the transparent resin layer and a refractive index of the photosensitive layer is within ±0.02 on the first surface, is 0.1 to 9.0%.
US12032288B2
An actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition includes a compound represented by General Formula (I) and an acid-decomposable resin. M1+A−-L-B−M2+ (I)
US12032286B2
Provided is a method for producing a multi-layered microchannel device by using a photosensitive resin laminate, which is highly-defined and excellent in dimension accuracy and enables channels to be partially hydrophilized or hydrophobilized, wherein the method comprises step (i) of sequentially carrying out (i-a) forming a first photosensitive resin layer on a substrate, (i-b) light-exposing the first photosensitive resin layer, and (i-c) developing the light-exposed photosensitive layer and forming a channel pattern layer, to form a first channel pattern layer; and step (ii) of sequentially carrying out (ii-a) laminating a second photosensitive resin laminate on the first channel pattern layer formed in the step (i), (ii-b) light-exposing a photosensitive layer of the second photosensitive resin laminate, and (ii-c) developing the light-exposed photosensitive layer and forming a channel pattern layer, to form a second channel pattern layer.
US12032280B2
A reflective mask blank includes: a substrate; a multilayer reflective film configured to reflect EUV light; a protective film; and a phase shift film configured to shift a phase of EUV light, in this order, in which the phase shift film includes a first layer including one or more first elements selected from a group consisting of ruthenium, rhenium, iridium, silver, osmium, gold, palladium, and platinum, and a second layer including one or more second elements selected from a group consisting of tantalum and chromium, the first layer includes a region A1 in which a content of an element having a highest content among the one or more first elements increases in a thickness direction from a side opposite to the second layer toward the second layer, and the region A1 is present adjacent to the second layer.
US12032273B2
A backup camera for mounting on a vehicle tailgate. The backup camera includes a mounting base and an optical support housing rotatably engaged to the mounting base, the optical support housing rotatable between a first housing position and a second housing position; A lens element, generating a field of view, is mounted on the optical support housing and a digital imaging sensor is in communication with the lens element. The field of view is at least partially perpendicular to the tailgate plane when the optical support housing is in the first housing position. The field of view is at least partially parallel to the tailgate plane when the optical support is in the second housing position.
US12032268B2
An optical modulator in which an optical signal is input from one side of a package, includes in the package, a chip that optically modulates the optical signal and in which an input waveguide and an output waveguide of the optical signal are led to mutually different destinations each being one end of the chip facing the one side of the package and a side surface of the chip orthogonal to the one end of the chip; an input optical system coupled to the input waveguide of the chip; and an output optical system coupled to the output waveguide of the chip.
US12032264B2
A method for driving an electro-optic display, the display having at least one display pixel coupled to a storage capacitor, the method include applying a waveform sequence to the at least one display pixel and connecting the storage capacitor to a first bias voltage, and maintaining a last frame voltage level on the display pixel after the completion of the applied waveform.
US12032263B2
Some embodiments are directed to a light modulator comprising transparent substrates, or a transparent substrate and a reflective or partially reflective substrate, multiple electrodes being applied to the substrates in a pattern across the substrate. A controller may apply an electric potential to the electrodes to obtain an electro-magnetic field between the electrodes providing electrophoretic movement of the particles towards or from an electrode.
US12032257B2
An array substrate including: a substrate; a data line on the base substrate and extending in a first direction; and a touch signal line on the base substrate, wherein an extending direction of the touch signal line is the same as an extending direction of the data line; the data line and the touch signal line are in different layers and insulated from each other, and an orthographic projection of the touch signal line on the base substrate at least partially overlaps an orthographic projection of the data line on the base substrate.
US12032256B2
A display device includes a first substrate, a gate wiring on the first substrate, a first insulating layer on the gate wiring, a source wiring on the first insulating layer and intersecting the gate wiring, a second insulating layer on the source wiring, a pixel electrode on the second insulating layer; and a first buffer layer between the first substrate and the first insulating layer. A refractive index of the first buffer layer is higher than a refractive index of the first substrate, at an interface between the first buffer layer and the first substrate, and the refractive index of the first buffer layer is lower than a refractive index of the first insulating layer, at an interface between the first buffer layer and the first insulating layer.
US12032251B2
The application discloses a display panel. The display panel includes: a dataline black matrix less (DBS) common electrode trace arranged in a routing area; a plurality of clock signal traces arranged in a first wiring area along a first direction; and a plurality of clock signal transfer lines connected to the plurality of clock signal traces in a one-to-one correspondence, wherein each of the clock signal transfer lines passes through the routing area and extends to a gate driver on array (GOA) unit area along the first direction, and at least one of the clock signal transfer lines is bent and arranged in the routing area.
US12032250B2
A display module is provided. The display module includes: a display panel, a light control panel, at least one first circuit board for the display panel, and at least one second circuit board for the light control panel. The display panel and the light control panel are stacked, the display panel is on a light-emitting side of the light control panel, a light-emitting surface of the display panel is on a first surface, and at least part of an orthographic projection of any one of the at least one first circuit board on the first surface does not overlap with an orthographic projection of the at least one second circuit board on the first surface in a direction perpendicular to the first surface.
US12032232B2
Provided in a method of fabricating an optical element array including providing a silicon substrate, providing a first element layer on the silicon substrate, the first element layer including a plurality of passive optical elements, providing a plurality of semiconductor blocks on a compound semiconductor wafer, providing semiconductor dies by dicing the compound semiconductor wafer by the plurality of semiconductor blocks, and providing a second element layer by providing the semiconductor dies on the first element layer, each of the plurality of semiconductor blocks contacting at least one corresponding passive optical element from among the plurality of passive optical elements.
US12032231B2
The present invention realizes an optical signal processing device that enables using a thermal oxidation silica film as the under clad of a silica PLC while also increasing the thickness of the under clad and reducing the time required for film growth during manufacturing. The optical signal processing device is formed as a planar optical circuit that includes an optical waveguide formed on a silicon substrate, and has a phase modulation element that employs a thermo-optical effect. A plurality of silica films are provided between a core of the optical waveguide and the silicon substrate, and at least one of the silica films was formed by thermal oxidation.
US12032227B2
The present disclosure provides a bespoke eyewear and a system and a method for manufacturing the bespoke eyewear. In one aspect, the method for manufacturing the bespoke eyewear frame includes capturing one or more facial images of a user using an image capturing device, generating a facial model from said one or more facial images, extracting a plurality of facial parameters from the facial model, generating a three-dimensional digital model of an eyewear frame based at least in part on one or more of the facial parameters of the user, and transmitting the three-dimensional digital model to an additive manufacturing apparatus for additively manufacturing the bespoke eyewear frame.
US12032225B2
An optical imaging lens assembly includes eight lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical path: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element and an eighth lens element. The first lens element has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and having at least one inflection point in an off-axis region thereof. The seventh lens element has negative refractive power. The eighth lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and having at least one inflection point in an off-axis region thereof. At least one lens surface of at least one of the second to seventh lens elements is aspheric.
US12032219B2
A camera module includes a housing; a plurality of movable lens modules disposed in an internal space of the housing and configured to be movable in an optical axis direction, each of the plurality of movable lens modules comprising at least one lens; and a stopper configured to prevent contact between at least two of the plurality of movable lens modules, wherein the stopper includes a frame mounted on the housing; an extension portion extending from the frame into the internal space of the housing to face a side of one movable lens module of the plurality of movable lens modules in the optical axis direction; and a damping member disposed on the extension portion to face the side of the one movable lens module in the optical axis direction.
US12032216B2
Integrated circuit packages (100) having electrical and optical connectivity and methods of making the same are disclosed herein. According to one embodiment, an integrated circuit package includes a structured glass article (120) including a glass substrate (122), an optical channel (132), and redistribution layers. The integrated circuit package (100) further includes an integrated circuit chip (160) positioned on the glass substrate (122) and in optical communication with the optical channel (132) and in electrical continuity with the redistribution layers (136).
US12032208B2
An optical connector includes multiple optical fibers; a single multicore fiber; and multiple self-forming optical waveguides, wherein the total number of cores of the multiple optical fibers and the total number of cores of the multicore fiber are identical to each other, the multiple optical fibers and the multicore fiber are arranged facing each other, the self-forming optical waveguides are provided among the multiple optical fibers and the multicore fiber, end portions of the self-forming optical waveguides are optically connected to the cores of the multiple optical fibers and the cores of the multicore fiber, and either the multiple optical fibers or the multicore fiber contacting the end portions of the self-forming optical waveguides is detachable from the self-forming optical waveguides.
US12032205B2
A method of co-manufacturing silicon waveguides, SiN waveguides, and semiconductor structures in a photonic integrated circuit. A silicon waveguide structure can be formed using a suitable process, after which it is buried in a cladding. The cladding is polished, and a silicon nitride layer is disposed to define a silicon nitride waveguide. The silicon nitride waveguide is buried in a cladding, and annealed. Thereafter, cladding above the silicon waveguide structure can be trenched through, and low-temperature operations can be performed to or with an exposed surface of the silicon waveguide structure.
US12032200B2
Disclosed is a multi-core optical fiber having a plurality of cores extending parallelly along a central axis of the multi-core optical fiber. Each core of the plurality of cores is up-doped with an up-dopant. The multi-core optical fiber further has a plurality of buffer layers such that each buffer layer of the plurality of buffer layers envelop a corresponding core of the plurality of cores. Each buffer layer of the plurality of buffer layers has a predefined buffer layer thickness. The multi-core optical fiber further has a plurality of trench layers such that each trench layer of the plurality of trench layers envelops a corresponding buffer layer of the plurality of buffer layers. Each trench layer of the plurality of trench layers is down-doped with a down-dopant. The multi-core optical fiber has an inter-core crosstalk of less than −30 decibel/kilometres (dB/km) at a wavelength of 1550 nanometres (nm).
US12032198B2
A light emitting device (1) comprising an optical film (2) and a tensioner (3), the tensioner (3) being configured to accommodate a change in shape and/or position of the optical film (2), and the tensioner (3) comprising at least one resilient element (8) and a housing frame (4) configured to be connected to a backplate (5) of the light emitting device (1), the housing frame (4) including at least one mounting opening (7) configured to accommodate the at least one resilient element (8), the at least one resilient element (8) being provided between the housing frame and the optical film, the at least one resilient element (8) being placed in the at least one mounting opening (7), the at least one resilient element (8) being adapted for being in contact with the optical film (2), and the at least one resilient element (8) being arranged inclined with respect to a plane (P) in which the optical film (2) extends.
US12032196B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first transparent substrate, a second transparent substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a third transparent substrate having a first side surface, a second side surface, and an inner surface, a transparent layer arranged on the inner surface, and light emitting elements. The transparent layer includes a band-shaped portion extending from the first side surface toward the second side surface and a frame-shaped portion formed in a frame shape surrounding the band-shaped portion. The band-shaped portion is separated from the frame-shaped portion. A width of the band-shaped portion on a first side surface side is larger than a width of the band-shaped portion on a second side surface side.
US12032195B1
An optical device includes a first waveguide, having parallel first and second faces and parallel third and fourth faces forming a rectangular cross-section, that guides light by four-fold internal reflection and is associated with a coupling-out configuration that couples light out of the first waveguide into a second waveguide. The first or second face is subdivided into first and second regions having different optical characteristics. The optical device also includes a coupling-in configuration having a surface that transmits light into the first waveguide. The surface is deployed in association with a portion of the third or fourth face adjoining the second region such that an edge associated with the surface trims an input collimated image in a first dimension, and a boundary between the first and second regions trims the input collimated image in a second dimension to produce a trimmed collimated image that advances by four-fold internal reflection.
US12032189B2
A phase difference film includes a small change in tint when the film is applied to a display device as a circularly polarizing plate in combination with a polarizer display device being observed from an oblique direction at all azimuthal angles. The film includes optically anisotropic layers X, Y, and Z in this order, in which layer X is an A-plate, and layers Y and Z are formed by fixing a first and second liquid crystal compound, respectively, twist-aligned along a helical axis extending in a thickness direction, one of the first and second liquid crystal compounds are rod-like liquid crystal compounds, the other first and the second liquid crystal compounds are disk-like liquid crystal compounds, and an in-plane slow axis of layer X is parallel to an in-plane slow axis on a surface of layer Y on layer X side.
US12032177B2
An optical image stabilization OIS unit including a base; a holder module including an outer blade spaced apart from the base, a bobbin disposed in the outer blade, and a spring member connecting the bobbin and the outer blade; a first coil disposed on the bobbin; a magnet configured to move the bobbin by interacting with the first coil; a second coil configured to move the holder module by interacting with the magnet; a wire electrically connected with the first coil through the spring member; and a buffer unit connected with the wire, wherein the buffer unit has a curved shape having a curvature.
US12032175B2
An imaging correction unit and an imaging module are provided. The imaging correction unit has an optical axis, and includes an optical turning element and two wedge-shaped optical elements. The optical turning element has a light emitting surface, and the light emitting surface has a first included angle with respect to the optical axis. Each of the two wedge-shaped optical elements has an inclined optical surface, and the inclined optical surface has a second included angle with respect to the optical axis. The light emitting surface of the optical turning element faces one of the two wedge-shaped optical elements, and the two wedge-shaped optical elements are rotatable relative to the optical axis.
US12032170B2
An augmented reality system includes a light source to generate a virtual light beam, the virtual light beam carrying information for a virtual object. The system also includes a light guiding optical element, the light guiding optical element allowing a first portion of a first real-world light beam to pass therethrough, where the virtual light beam enters the light guiding optical element, propagates through the light guiding optical element by substantially total internal reflection (TIR), and exits the light guiding optical element. The system further includes a lens disposed adjacent and exterior to a surface of the light guiding optical element, the lens comprising a light modulating mechanism to absorb a second portion of the real-world light beam and to allow the first portion of the real-world light to pass through the lens.
US12032166B2
An optical system for an augmented reality head mounted display eyepiece that is configured to deliver images to the eye wherein the optical system includes optics. The optics are disposed so as to receive light output from the light source. The optics further arranged with respect to a spatial light modulator such that the light received from the light source passes through the optics and illuminates the spatial light modulator. The light illuminating the spatial light modulator is redirected back through the optics and is coupled into at least one waveguide through at least one in-coupling optical element. At least a portion of the coupled light is ejected from at least one waveguide by at least one out-coupling optical element and directed to the eye of the user.
US12032165B2
A glasses type display device including a front end assembly and a pair of legs is provided. Each of the pair of legs includes a front segment, a rear segment, a torsion mechanism, and a rotation mechanism. The torsion mechanism is disposed between the front end assembly and the front segment. The rotation mechanism is disposed between the front segment and the rear segment.
US12032159B2
A multiplexed, synchronized active beam splitter or mirror and display providing a user or manufacturer with the ability to choose different modes of functionality of a transparent optical module.
US12032147B2
A system and a method for imaging microfluidic ejectors during operation. An example provides a microscopy system, that includes a plurality of microfluidic ejectors. A mirror is disposed in a droplet path of the plurality of microfluidic ejectors, wherein the droplet path passes through an opening in the mirror. An optical system is focused on the plurality of microfluidic ejectors through the mirror, wherein the optical system comprises a camera.
US12032145B2
An imaging optical system has an image circle defined on an imaging element. The imaging optical system includes: lens elements arranged from an object side to an image plane side, and a diaphragm arranged between two of the lens elements. The lens elements include freeform lens elements, each having a freeform surface that is an asymmetrical surface with respect to a first cross section and a second cross section, the first cross section being defined by a first direction and an optical axis direction, the second cross section being defined by a second direction and the optical axis direction, the first direction crossing the second direction, and the optical axis direction being orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction. At least two of the freeform lens elements are located on an object side of the diaphragm.
US12032141B2
An optical-lens-set includes a first lens element of a concave image-side surface near its optical-axis, a sixth lens element of negative refractive power and of a concave image-side surface near its optical-axis to go with a fifth lens element of a concave object-side surface near its optical-axis or with a seventh lens element of negative refractive power. The Abbe number υ1 of the first lens element, the Abbe number υ3 of the third lens element, the Abbe number υ4 of the fourth lens element, the Abbe number υ5 of the fifth lens element, the Abbe number υ6 of the sixth lens element and the Abbe number υ7 of the seventh lens element together satisfy 5≤5υ1−(υ3+υ4+υ5+υ6+υ7).
US12032125B2
An optically transparent device includes an exterior lens and an optical filter coupled to an inner surface of the exterior lens. A protective coating comprised of an acrylate may be coupled to an inner surface of the optical filter to reduce fragments of the optical filter from detaching from the exterior lens.
US12032107B2
Disclosed herein are methods and devices for the acquisition of positron emission (or PET) data in the presence of ionizing radiation that causes afterglow of PET detectors. In one variation, the method comprises adjusting a coincidence trigger threshold of the PET detectors during a therapy session. In one variation, the method comprises adjusting a gain factor used in positron emission data acquisition (e.g., a gain factor used to multiply and/or shift the output(s) of a PET detector(s)) during a therapy session. In some variations, a method for acquiring positron emission data during a radiation therapy session comprises suspending communication between the PET detectors and a signal processor of a controller for a predetermined period of time after a radiation pulse has been emitted by the linac.
US12032106B2
Some embodiments include an x-ray detector, comprising: a plastic housing including a conductive coating; a two-dimensional sensor array disposed in a within the plastic housing and configured to generate image data in response to incident x-rays; a front plate connected to the plastic housing, the front plate and the plastic housing forming an enclosure surrounding the two-dimensional sensor array; wherein the conductive coating and the front plate form at least part of an electromagnetic interference shield around the two-dimensional sensor array.
US12032100B2
Embodiments discussed herein refer to LiDAR systems and methods that monitor for fault conditions that could potentially result in unsafe operation of a laser. The systems and methods can monitor for faulty conditions involving a transmitter system and movement of mirrors in a scanning system. When a fault condition is monitored, a shutdown command is sent to the transmitter system to cease laser transmission. The timing by which the laser should cease transmission is critical in preventing unsafe laser exposure, and embodiments discussed herein enable fault detection and laser shutoff to comply with laser safety standards.
US12032099B2
A method may include obtaining sensor data describing a total measurable world around a motion sensor. The method may include processing the sensor data to generate a pre-compensation scan of the total measurable world around the motion sensor based on the sensor data. The method may include determining a delay between the obtaining the sensor data and the generation of the pre-compensation scan. The method may include obtaining motion data corresponding to motion of the motion sensor and generating a motion model of the motion sensor based on the motion data. The method may include generating an after-compensation scan of the motion sensor using the delay and the motion model to compensate for continued motion during the delay.
US12032097B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods that provide both an image of a scene and depth information for the scene. An example system includes at least one time-of-flight (ToF) sensor and an imaging sensor. The ToF sensor and the imaging sensor are configured to receive light from a scene. The system also includes at least one light source and a controller that carries out operations. The operations include causing the at least one light source to illuminate at least a portion of the scene with illumination light according to an illumination schedule. The operations also include causing the at least one ToF sensor to provide information indicative of a depth map of the scene based on the illumination light. The operations additionally include causing the imaging sensor to provide information indicative of an image of the scene based on the illumination light.
US12032086B2
The present disclosure relates to a global resource locator tag and methods of using the same. A semiconductor chip can include a processor and a micro sized timing device. The semiconductor chip can generate a timing signal. The global resource locator tag can include a blockchain and a memory in logical communication with the processor. The processor can determine a cryptographic hash of a previous block of events in the blockchain. The processor can determine an respective inventory status of nearby labels. The processor can compile a data set with the respective inventory status of each of the nearby labels and the cryptographic hash of the previous block. The processor can record a next event of the events in a next block of the blockchain. The next event can include the data set.
US12032081B2
A system may include a transmitter node and a receiver node. Each node may include a communications interface including at least one antenna element and a controller operatively coupled to the communications interface, the controller including one or more processors. Each node may be time synchronized to apply Doppler corrections to said node's own motions relative to a stationary common inertial reference frame. The stationary common inertial reference frame may be known to the transmitter node and the receiver node prior to the transmitter node transmitting signals to the receiver node and prior to the receiver node receiving the signals from the transmitter node.
US12032071B2
Satellite echoing for geolocation and mitigation of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) denial are provided herein, where an example method comprises: transmitting, by a processing device, an echo message along a communication path having a communication satellite and a target device with an unknown distance to the communication satellite; receiving, by the processing device, a return of the echo message from the communication satellite over the communication path; determining, by the processing device, a time of travel of the echo message associated with only a single traversal of a portion of the communication path that is between the communication satellite and the target device; calculating, by the processing device, a distance between the communication satellite and the target device based on the time of travel; and performing, by the processing device, one or more actions based on the distance between the communication satellite and the target device.
US12032063B2
The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for configuring architectures for a sensor, and more particularly for light detection and ranging (hereinafter, “LIDAR”) systems based on ASIC sensor architectures supporting autonomous navigation systems. Effective ASIC sensor architecture can enable an improved correlation between sensor data as well as configurability and responsiveness of the system to its surrounding environment and avoid any unnecessary delay within the decision-making process that may result in a failure of the autonomous driving system. It may be essential to integrated multiple functions within an electronic module and implement the functionality with one or more ASICs.
US12032059B2
A radar-optical fusion article for attachment to a substrate is described. The radar-optical fusion article includes a first retroreflective layer which is configured to retroreflect at least a portion of light having a wavelength in a range from about 400 nm to about 2500 nm. The radar-optical fusion article includes a second retroreflective layer disposed adjacent to the first retroreflective layer. The second retroreflective layer is configured to retroreflect at least a portion of an electromagnetic wave having a frequency in the range from about 0.5 GHz to about 100 GHz.
US12032053B2
An angle measuring device includes: a signal extracting unit for extracting a signal that includes a first reflection wave and does not include a second reflection wave as a first demodulated signal and a signal that includes the second reflection wave and does not include the first reflection wave as a second demodulated signal from reception signals output from one or more reception antennas among a plurality of reception antennas; an elevation calculating unit for calculating an elevation of a target by performing monopulse angle measurement using a sum signal of the first demodulated signal and the second demodulated signal and a difference signal between the first demodulated signal and the second demodulated signal; and an azimuth calculating unit for calculating an azimuth of the target using reception signals output from the plurality of reception antennas.
US12032051B2
A radar device includes a radar signal outputting unit that repeatedly outputs radar signals whose frequency changes with the passage of time, at a non-uniform repetition period.
US12032049B2
A measurement apparatus that includes a static magnetic field application part that applies a static magnetic field in a first direction to a measurement subject, a deflection magnetic field application part that applies a deflection magnetic field in a second direction different, to a portion of the measurement subject via a coil, a plurality of magnetic field detection elements respectively detect a magnitude of a magnetic field on the basis of an electromagnetic wave generated and propagated in a portion of the measurement subject due to an application of the deflection magnetic field, a calculation part that calculates an impedance distribution of at least a portion of a region where the electromagnetic wave is propagated inside the measurement subject, and an image information output part that generates and outputs an image showing information about inside the measurement subject.
US12032045B2
The present disclosure directs to a system and method for configuring a pulse sequence in MRI. The method may include obtaining a preliminary gradient pulse configuration, wherein the preliminary gradient pulse configuration relates to a portion of a pulse sequence to be implemented by one or more coils of an MR scanner, the pulse sequence including a plurality of gradient pulses. The method may also include determining a global peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) value of the preliminary gradient pulse configuration according to a PNS model. The method may further include determining a target gradient pulse configuration based at least in part on the preliminary gradient pulse configuration, the global PNS value, and a PNS threshold.
US12032042B2
A sensor including: a substrate having a first region and a second region; a first series of first magnetoresistive (MR) elements formed on the substrate, the first series of first MR elements including at least two first MR elements; and a second series of second MR elements that is coupled in parallel with the first series of first MR elements to form a bridge circuit, the second series of second MR elements being formed on the substrate, the second series of second MR elements including at least two second MR elements, each of the at least two second MR elements having a different pinning direction than each of the at least two first MR elements, wherein one of the at least two first MR elements and one of the at least two second MR elements are formed in the first region of the substrate and have different pinning directions.
US12032041B2
The present disclosure relates to sensors and, more particularly, to magnetic field sensors. More specifically, a structure includes a package with a wraparound geometry and discontinuous ends, and includes a low permeability magnetic material.
US12032040B2
Circuits and methods for reading fusible links that allows use of low-voltage logic circuitry utilizing devices that may have a high-voltage stand-off capability. Embodiments provide predictable operation that is less susceptible to PVT variations, allow the use of arrays of fuses that may be scaled to relatively large memory sizes, uses little integrated circuit area, and do not require extra pins for operation. Embodiments utilize a latch circuit and voltage dividers to generate a reference voltage VREF and a fuse voltage VFUSE, and then compares and latches the greater of those voltages. The circuitry does not require any more supply voltage than is needed to turn ON input pass transistors to the latch at a slightly higher voltage (VTH) than VREF. Since VREF may be about 0.1V, that turn-ON voltage may be as low as about 0.1V+VTH, and thus would be less than a VDD_MIN of about 1V.
US12032039B2
A control device including a solder joint life predictor includes: a temperature sensor that measures temperature of a solder joint on an electronic circuit board that drives a heater and a motor; a storage that stores a reference acceleration factor that is an acceleration factor based on a test condition of a thermal shock test and a reference condition in an environment in which the electrical appliance is used; a calculator that calculates an actual acceleration factor from a temperature variation range and a maximum reached temperature of the solder joint during one cycle from start to end of driving of the heater or the motor; and a determiner that predicts the life of the solder joint by comparing the integrated value of the acceleration factor ratios with a threshold.
US12032029B2
A battery management system, comprising a bank of serially connected battery cells having a lower most cell connected to ground and an uppermost cell connected to one port of a load, the other port of which being connected to ground; circuitry for sampling the output voltage of a selected battery cell; a voltage to current converter for receiving the sampled battery cell output voltage, which consists of a current source that outputs current being proportional to the sampled output voltage a predetermined resistor, connected between the current source output and ground, into which the output current of the current source is fed; a control circuit, adapted to measure the voltage generated across the predetermined resistor with respect to ground; determine whether or not the selected battery cell is fully charged according to the difference between the measured voltage and a predetermined threshold voltage; repeat the process for additional battery cells of the bank.
US12032025B2
a permanent magnet synchronous motor diagnostic device includes: a negative-sequence current calculator that calculates a negative-sequence current, based on magnitudes of a plurality of phase currents flowing through a permanent magnet synchronous motor that rotates a load; and a deterioration diagnoser that diagnoses deterioration of a plain bearing supporting the permanent magnet synchronous motor, based on the negative-sequence current.
US12032024B2
A system and method for monitoring a circuit breaker monitoring system includes a vibration sensor, a processing unit, and an output unit. The vibration sensor is mounted to a circuit breaker acquires a temporal vibration signal over at least a temporal portion of a closing operation of the circuit breaker, wherein the closing operation comprises: initiation of the closing operation, latch release, movement of a moveable contact towards a fixed contact, contact touch of the moveable contact with the fixed contact, and stop of movement of the moveable contact. The vibration sensor provides the temporal vibration signal to the processing unit, which determines a plurality of features of the closing operation and an indication of operational functionality of the circuit breaker.
US12032021B2
A method for testing a stacked integrated circuit device comprising a first die and a second die, the method comprising: sending from testing logic of the first die, first testing control signals to first testing apparatus on the first die; in response to the first testing control signals, the first testing apparatus running a first one or more tests for testing functional logic or memory of the first die; sending from the testing logic of the first die, second testing control signals to the second die via through silicon vias formed in a substrate of the first die; and in dependence upon the second testing control signals from the first die, running a second one or more tests for testing the stacked integrated circuit device.
US12032017B2
A chip detection device, a chip detection system and a control method. The chip detection device includes a support plate (100), a probe holder (110) disposed on an upper part of the support plate (100), a detection platform, and a first driving device (120) connected to the probe holder (110). The chip detection system includes a cabinet (600), which is internally provided with a chip detection device, a controller, a loading manipulator (910), an unloading manipulator (920), a chip tray bracket (700) disposed on a side of the loading manipulator (910), and a distribution tray (800) disposed on a side of the unloading manipulator (920). According to the chip detection device, the chip detection system and the control method, during the rotation of the turntable (200), the filling, detection and classification of the chips are all controlled to be automatically completed under the control of an automatic control program, which greatly improves the efficiency of the chip detection.
US12032016B2
The invention relates to an electronic component comprising a first integrated sub-circuit having a defined interface and a defined fixed-hardware functionality, a second, reconfigurable integrated sub-circuit being signal-connected via the interface to the first sub-circuit to exchange signals therewith, and optionally supply energy thereto, and one or more terminals for electrically connecting the electronic component to its periphery. The second sub-circuit is configured as an interface circuit between the one or more terminals and the first sub-circuit. The second sub-circuit is further configured as a reconfigurable integrated testing unit to test said hardware functionality of the first sub-circuit by applying one or more input signals to the first circuit and evaluating one or more output signals received via the interface from the first sub-circuit in response to the one or more input signals for conformance with one or more predetermined test criteria.
US12032015B1
Flexible input/output (I/O) allocation techniques for integrated circuit scan testing are disclosed. The techniques implement configurable definition of the core circuitry blocks comprising the scan domain under test and their mapping to the scan test pads. Scan testing of the scan domain is performed by receiving a test pattern on the set of one or more scan-in test pads, transmitting the test pattern to the scan domain via the set of one or more scan input channels, receiving a test response on the set of one or more scan output channels, and transmitting the test response to the set of one or more scan-out test pads.
US12032013B2
Provided are a device and a method for monitoring substrates to determine a processed state of the substrates and inspecting presence of abnormality in the processed substrates. A device for inspecting substrates includes a substrate mounting part moving relative to the substrate and for mounting a substrate, a measurement part for monitoring the substrate, a control part configured to control a movement path of the measurement part so that at least some regions are monitored from positions different from each other with respect to a plurality of substrates, and an analysis part configured to determine presence of abnormality from monitoring information about the plurality of substrates.
US12032005B2
Disclosed is a device and method for monitoring a common mode voltage. There is provided the device for monitoring a common mode voltage including an input end connected to a node between an energy storage device and a power conversion device, a voltage divider that divides a voltage applied to the input end, a comparator that compares an output of the voltage divider and a reference voltage, and a controller that detects an abnormality in a voltage applied from the power conversion device to the energy storage device based on an output of the comparator.
US12032002B2
An apparatus an apparatus comprising: a substrate having a plane; and an array of at least one conductive probe having a base affixed to the substrate, the at least one conductive probe having a major axis extending from the plane of the substrate and terminating at a tip, wherein the one or more conductive probes comprise at least three points that are non-collinear.
US12031999B2
A fluid-flow measuring apparatus is made of an enclosure housing that supports a plurality of flow-receiving tubes, each one of which has a plurality of apertures the either face substantially towards the source of fluid flow or away therefrom, a dispersing blade with a surface located in a plane that is parallel to a plane that is tangent to the surface of at least one of the plurality of flow-receiving tubes, a hub intersecting at least one of the plurality of flow-receiving tubes, and a facilitator structure that separates at least two of the plurality of flow-receiving tubes.
US12031998B2
A holder structure for a sensor and a sensor for detecting a change in the magnetic field including the same are provided. The holder structure for a sensor according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure may include a body which is elongated; a sensor unit seating part formed at one end of the body in the longitudinal direction; a cable seating part formed at the other end of the body in the longitudinal direction; a first fixing part having a first protrusion formed to protrude from one side of the body, and a first groove concavely formed on a front-end surface of the first protrusion; and a second fixing part having a second protrusion formed to protrude from the other side of the body, and a second groove concavely formed on a front-end surface of the second protrusion.
US12031995B2
Provided is an automatic analysis device that can suppress concentration of a reagent made to react with a specimen. This automatic analysis device is provided with: a reagent container which accommodates a reagent and which has attached thereto a perforable lid; a perforation unit for perforating the lid; and a reagent suction nozzle that is inserted into a hole formed by perforation and that sucks up the reagent. The automatic analysis device is characterized by being further provided with a state storage unit that stores the state as to whether the reagent container is in an unused state or in a used state, and a state update unit that, when the lid is perforated by the perforation unit while the reagent container is in an unused state, updates the state stored in the state storage unit to the used state.
US12031991B2
The present invention pertains to an in vitro method for detecting intestinal barrier failure in an avian population, the method comprising the following steps: a) collecting a pooled fecal sample deriving from an avian population and b) determining the amount of at least one protein marker contained in said sample; wherein the at least one protein marker comprises or consists of an acute phase protein or a functional fragment thereof, and wherein an increased amount of said at least one protein marker contained in said sample versus a reference sample indicates intestinal barrier failure.
US12031989B2
The invention relates to a method for the preparation of living, microbial samples and microorganisms for subsequent mass spectrometric measurement and evaluation. Findings which can be derived from such a measurement can particularly serve the faster identification of microorganisms in the microbial sample according to species/subspecies and/or the fast determination of resistance/sensitivity of the microorganisms to antimicrobial substances and/or the further characterization of microorganisms, for example in respect of pathogenicity, virulence and metabolism. According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the preparation particularly takes place directly on a mass spectrometric sample support.
US12031985B2
Methods and cartridges for detecting targets are provided. A biological sample is introduced to a cartridge. Targets in the sample are photonically labeled with fluorescent particles in a first liquid layer in the cassette. Photonically-labeled targets are separated out of the sample into a second liquid layer within the cassette, detected, and counted to show presence of the targets in the subject. Cartridges include a receiving reservoir, a mixing well for introducing the sample to photonic labels and magnetic particles, and an imaging well for detecting and counting targets from the sample. The sample may be a human stool sample. A filter may be used to filter particulates out of the sample.
US12031983B2
The present disclosure relates to a novel method for lateral flow immunoassay (LFIA) by utilizing plasmonic enhancement strategy. More specifically, the present disclosure provides a plasmonic enhanced lateral flow sensor (pLFS) concept by introducing a liposome-based amplification of the colorimetric signals on the lateral flow platform for ultrasensitive detection of pathogens.
US12031969B2
The invention discloses a spatial and temporal feature-based method for measuring domestic wastewater effluent loadings, comprising the following steps: establish a model for measuring regional domestic wastewater effluent loadings; calculate regional population distribution raster data; obtain per capita effluent loading coefficients with spatial and temporal differences; calculate regional domestic wastewater effluent loadings; and compare and analyze the temporal fluctuation features and spatial variation features of regional domestic wastewater effluent loadings and identify “hotspot” periods and areas of effluent loadings. Compared with the prior art, the method for measuring domestic wastewater effluent loadings provided by the present invention is flexible, convenient and highly universal, which can significantly raise the temporal-spatial resolution of the pattern of regional domestic wastewater effluent loadings. The data needed are also publicly available. This invention can help identify key pollution areas and periods and lay a methodological foundation for precision pollution control.
US12031968B2
A distribution unit for milk samples that includes a first distribution portion with a first flow channel and a plurality of ports adjoining and communicating with the first flow channel, the ports configured to permit various media to be delivered to and from the first flow channel, and a second distribution portion that includes a second flow channel and a plurality of ports adjoining and communicating with the second flow channel, including at least a milk inlet port permitting milk to be delivered from the first flow channel to the second flow channel, and including a milk outlet port permitting milk samples to be delivered from the second flow channel to a further milk analyzing unit.
US12031963B2
A connection assembly for a chromatograph is used for connection to a flow path of the chromatograph, and includes a tube, a housing and a ferrule. The housing has an opening into which an end portion of the tube forming the flow path is insertable. The ferrule is formed of resin having chemical resistance and holds the tube in the opening of the housing while surrounding the tube. The ferrule has an inner peripheral surface coming into contact with the tube and an outer peripheral surface coming into contact with the housing. The friction coefficient between the inner peripheral surface of the ferrule and the tube, and the friction coefficient between the outer peripheral surface and the housing are equal to or larger than 0.3.
US12031953B2
Disclosed is a deepwater platform welded joint testing system. The testing system comprises a host unit, a hydraulic unit and a control unit, wherein the control unit is connected with the host unit and the hydraulic unit respectively; the host unit comprises a bearing frame placed on a bearing base, biaxial tension/compression loading oil cylinders mounted on the bearing frame, a lateral force resistant mechanism connected to the front ends of the biaxial tension/compression loading oil cylinders, counter-force supports fixed to the top end of the bearing frame and biaxial bending loading oil cylinders mounted on the counter-force supports. According to the deepwater platform welded joint testing system, through the independent or synergistic effect of the six loading oil cylinders, stretching and fatigue performance tests of a large complex structure under uniaxial tension/compression, uniaxial bending, biaxial tension/compression, biaxial bending and uniaxial/biaxial tension/compression and bending composite loads can be achieved.
US12031943B2
An ion analyzer for analyzing product ions generated by irradiating precursor ions derived from a sample component with radicals, the ion analyzer including a reaction chamber 2, a radical supply unit 5, 6 configured to generate radicals and supply the radicals to the reaction chamber, a radical temperature acquisition unit 911, 912 configured to acquire a temperature of the radicals to be supplied to the reaction chamber, a standard substance supply unit 11 configured to supply a predetermined amount of predetermined precursor ions to the reaction chamber, the predetermined precursor ions being generated from a standard substance whose activation energy of a reaction in which the radicals attach to the standard substance is known, an ion measurement unit 92 configured to measure an amount of predetermined product ions generated from the precursor ions derived from the standard substance by the reaction with the radicals, a reactive radical amount calculation unit 93 configured to obtain an amount of reactive radicals based on the amount of the predetermined product ions, and a radical density calculation unit 94 configured to obtain a radical density based on the temperature of the radicals, the activation energy, and the amount of the reactive radicals.
US12031928B2
A system for analyzing soil content of a field includes a data acquisition unit configured to detect gamma spectra of each of a plurality of soil samples, wherein a surface area of the field is divided into a plurality of portions and the plurality of soil samples comprises at least one soil sample from each of the plurality of portions, a navigation unit configured to detect geographic coordinates of each of the plurality of soil samples, a data analysis unit configured to associate the detected gamma spectra of each of the plurality of soil samples with the geographic coordinates of the soil sample and determine a weight percent of at least one element within each of the soil samples based on the detected gamma spectra, and an element content map unit configured to generate a map indicating concentration of the at least one element within the soil of the field.
US12031926B2
The present invention relates to a sample holder on which a crystal sample for serial crystallography is mounted, or the like. Compared to an existing sample holder, the sample holder according to the present invention can be manufactured by a very simple manufacturing process and at low costs, and does not physically and chemically affect other equipment therearound while collecting X-ray diffraction data. Therefore, it is possible to stably operate a beam line, to increase beam time efficiency, and further to perform raster scanning so that many diffraction images can be obtained even in a small-sized chip. In addition, since the problem of evaporation of a crystallized solution does not occur even when the crystallized solution is stored in the air for a long time, the sample holder is generally easy to use compared to a previously reported sample holder. Therefore, it is expected that the sample holder is very likely to be variously applied to the fixed-target serial crystallographic research field using various samples.
US12031910B2
Implementations disclosed describe a system including a light source, an optical sensor, and a processing device. The light source directs, during a first time, a probe light into a processing chamber through a window. The light source ceases, during a second time, directing the probe light into the processing chamber through the window. The optical sensor detects, during the first time, a first intensity of a first light. The first light includes a portion of the probe light reflected from the window and a light transmitted from an environment of the processing chamber through the window. The optical sensor detects, during the second time, a second intensity of a second light. The second light includes the light transmitted from the environment of the processing chamber through the window. The processing device determines, using the first intensity and the second intensity, a transmission coefficient of the window.
US12031909B2
Disclosed is a method for performing a measurement of an exposed pattern in photoresist on a substrate and an associated metrology device. The method comprises imparting a beam of measurement radiation on said exposed pattern over a measurement area of a size which prevents or mitigates photoresist damage from the measurement radiation; capturing scattered radiation comprising said measurement radiation subsequent to it having been scattered from said exposed pattern and detecting the scattered radiation on at least one detector. A value for a parameter of interest is determined from the scattered radiation.
US12031906B2
A method for mapping distribution of chemical compounds in soil is described herein including inserting a probe into the soil at multiple locations, obtaining spectroscopic data regarding the soil, sampling a core of soil adjacent to the probe locations, dividing the core into multiple depth increments, analyzing the core samples, matching each core sample with a corresponding depth increment of the probe insertions, obtaining data from the probe insertions, dividing the probe insertion data into training, validation, and test categories, resampling spectral variables from the probe insertion data to a wavelength interval longer than a native wavelength interval of an associated spectrometer, normalizing the probe insertion data on a spectrum by spectrum basis, utilizing a machine learning normalization algorithm, standardizing the spectral variables to a common scale by removing a mean and scaling to unit variance, and choosing a model utilizing the test set.
US12031902B2
The invention relates to a method for contactless characterization of a substance (A) using waves (W), wherein the substance (A) comprises a spectral structure (a({tilde over (e)}i)) as a characteristic field (KF) which qualitatively depends on at least one property (ei) of the substance (A), wherein the spectral structure (a({tilde over (e)}i)) is recorded by a measurement (x), and wherein the measurement (x) may comprise an interference structure (s) that depends on the measurement circumstances. According to the invention it is provided that in step 1) at least two different measurements (xj) are carried out under different measurement circumstances, which can have quantitatively and/or qualitatively different interference structures (sj) and/or quantitatively different spectral structures (gj·α), and that in step 2) coefficients (cj) of a linear combination ( ∑ j = 1 M c j x j ) of the different measurements (xj) and the value ({tilde over (e)}i) of the at least one property (ei) of the substance (A) are optimized so that the deviation between the linear combination ( ∑ j = 1 M c j x j ) and the spectral structure (a({tilde over (e)}i)) is minimized.
US12031897B2
A target may be tagged, and its position tracked to maintain the position of the target at the center (e.g., zero region) of a suppression beam, where suppression is minimal, so the signal from the target is not suppressed relative to signal from background molecules. Point scanning is not needed, as a pixelated detector of a camera can be used to acquire the position of the target in one shot. Images of the object from the pixelated detector can be analyzed to acquire the position of the target. To maintain the target in the zero, the beams may be steered onto the target. Alternatively or additionally, the sample may be moved to place the sample in the center. A correction signal may be sent to cause the sample and/or beams to be moved to maintain the target in position.
US12031896B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems that facilitate the integration of on-chip impedance sensors and measurement circuitries for quantifying the impedance/frequency response of microfluidic device under the same, or similar, conditions used for particle manipulation. The methods and systems can use a microfluidic chip comprising a microfluidic channel with one or more electric-field-generating structures located therein, including a first electric-field-generating structure, wherein the one or more electric-field-generating structures is configured to selectively polarize or manipulate biologic or particle components flowing within the microfluidic channel. The method and system can also employ a circuit configured for automated determination and quantification of parasitic voltage drops during AC electrokinetic particle manipulation, without the need to use valuable biological samples or model particles. The determined impedance response can be used to assess efficacy of the microfluidic device geometry as well as to provide control signals to inform downstream cell separation decisions.
US12031895B2
A method of analysing and identifying particles in an input fluid by electrical field analysis preferably in combination with imaging analysis and towards establishing characterises of the particles that can be compared with characteristics of known particles, preferably biologic particles such as bacteria and viruses. Preferably in a focusing step, the particles are focused as in a microfluidic particle sorting cartridge followed by electrical field analysis to determine impedance data. Preferably, the electrical field analysis is carried out in a water and alcohol solution.
US12031892B2
A method is provided for using hollow fibers having a porosity above 20 nm, in particular polyethersulfone hollow fibers, to impoverish blood and blood-derivatives from blood-derived extracellular vesicles, in particular exosomes and exomers. Methods for obtaining and analyzing the impoverished samples are also provided.
US12031887B2
A field agricultural machinery test platform, comprising a field soil groove, traveling guide rails, traveling trolleys, a hitch trolley, a hitch device mechanism, and a test system. The two guide rails are provided on both sides of the field soil groove in parallel, and the traveling trolleys are located on the guide rails; a cross beam is provided between the two guide rails, and the two ends of the cross beam are respectively connected to the traveling trolleys; the hitch trolley is provided on the cross beam, and a hitch device is provided on the hitch trolley; the test system is provided on the hitch trolley and the hitch device; a test machine is connected to the hitch device; the test system comprises an image assembly, a force test assembly, and a control assembly which are mounted on the hitch trolley.
US12031881B2
A test stand includes a base frame and a bearing housing defining a frustoconical recess. A bearing unit has a bearing sleeve defining a through-going bearing bore coaxial with a rotation axis. A bearing shaft is rotatably mounted in the bearing bore. A contour of an outer conical wall of the bearing sleeve is at least partially identical with a contour of the frustoconical recess, where the bearing unit is detachably arranged in contact with the frustoconical recess. A fixing element on the distal end of the bearing shaft is configured for detachably fixing a test object. A test stand drive is arranged on the base frame and has a test shaft configured to be driven in rotation about the rotation axis, where the test shaft is configured to be connected coaxially to the bearing shaft of the bearing unit.
US12031876B2
The present invention relates to a sensor module and an auto defog sensor. The sensor module includes a housing, a flexible substrate, and a temperature sensor. The housing has a contact face arranged and configured for installation on a surface, wherein the contact face of the housing has an opening. A flexible substrate has a base substrate part fixed inside the housing and a curved substrate part which extends in a bent form from the base substrate part and has an extension end fixed inside the housing so that a contact part of the curved substrate part is withdrawn via the opening of the housing and configured to press against the surface. The temperature sensor is arranged on or in the contact part of the curved substrate part and configured to measure a temperature of the surface.
US12031870B2
The present invention provides a sensor assembly including housing; a sensor, disposed in the housing; a conductive member, having an inner portion located inside the housing and an outer portion located outside the housing. The outer portion receives a physical quantity from a component to be sensed and transmits the physical quantity to the sensor through the inner portion, so that the sensor senses the physical quantity and generates a sensing signal; a wireless communication module, receiving the sensing signal and transmits an output signal corresponding to the sensing signal. The invention also provides a method for using a sensor assembly as above.
US12031869B1
The temperature measurement device provided by the present disclosure includes: a thermometer comprising: a casing, a first power module, a temperature sensing module, a first communication module, and a first antenna module located within the casing; a booster comprising a housing, a second power module, a second communication module, and a second antenna module located within the housing; wherein, the thermometer is connected to the booster by communication, and the booster amplifies signals of the thermometer and charges the thermometer.
US12031868B2
A totagram is produced by an iterative spectral phase recovery process resulting in complete information recovery using special masks, without a reference beam. Using these special masking systems reduce computation time, number of masks, and number of iterations. The special masking system is (1) a unity mask together with one or more bipolar binary masks with elements equal to 1 and −1, or (2) a unity mask together with one or more phase masks, or (3) a unity mask together with one pair of masks or more than one pair of masks having binary amplitudes of 0's and 1's, in which the masks in the pair are complementary to each other with respect to amplitude, or (4) one or more pairs of complementary masks with binary amplitudes of 0's and 1's without a unity mask.
US12031866B2
A colorimeter includes: a colorimetric section that performs colorimetry; a first wireless communicating section that performs first wireless communication according to a first wireless communication standard; a second wireless communicating section that performs second wireless communication according to a second wireless communication standard; and a processor that controls the first wireless communicating section and the second wireless communicating section. The processor transmits colorimetric data acquired by the colorimetry in the first colorimetric mode by the first wireless communication when colorimetry in a first colorimetric mode is performed. The processor also transmits colorimetric data acquired by the colorimetry in the second colorimetric mode by the second wireless communication when colorimetry in a second colorimetric mode is performed.
US12031864B2
A spectrometer capable of providing information, to a measurer, necessary for determining whether a sample set to the spectrometer is a sample expected by the measurer or not before a main measurement includes a data processor and a display. The data processor calculates a preliminary spectral information of the sample based on at least n of a latest detected signal and a BKG information retained in advance, calculates and updates the preliminary spectral information based on at least n of the latest detected signal and the BKG information again, and repeats these calculations and updates. The display shows the preliminary spectral information that is calculated and updated in the preview display. The data processor starts integration of N (N>n) of the detected signal during a preview display of the preliminary spectral information, and acquires a spectral information of the sample.
US12031863B2
An optical device includes: a base which includes a main surface; a movable mirror which includes a mirror surface; a first and a second elastic support portions which support the movable mirror so as to be movable along a first direction perpendicular to the main surface; an actuator which moves the movable mirror; and a first optical function portion which is disposed at one side of the movable mirror in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The first elastic support portion includes a pair of first levers extending from the movable mirror toward both sides of the first optical function portion in a third direction perpendicular to the first and the second directions. A length of each of first levers in the second direction is larger than the shortest distance between an outer edge of the mirror surface and an edge of the first optical function portion.
US12031847B2
A sensor device includes a mounting member having fixation surfaces inside, and at least one electronic component directly or indirectly fixed to the fixation surfaces of the mounting member, and the mounting member constitutes a part of a casing for housing the electronic component. Further, the fixation surfaces are perpendicular to each other.
US12031838B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to various systems, methods and apparatuses for performing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for a wearable device, including without limitation, a head-mounted wearable device that optionally includes a display screen. Such embodiments enable accurate and quick localization of a wearable device within a dynamically constructed map, optionally through computations performed with a computational device (including those having limited resources). A non-limiting example of such a computational device is a smart cellular phone or other mobile computational device.
US12031828B2
The invention relates to a method for optimising a flight plan consisting of an air route for an aircraft of a fleet of aircraft, each aircraft being designed to record flight data, the method comprising a preliminary step of learning a network of air routes specific to the fleet of aircraft, the method comprising a step of determining a fuel consumption model specific to the aircraft based on the flight data, the method comprising the subsequent steps of: —collecting meteorological data associated with the aircraft environment, and —determining an optimised flight plan for reaching the destination waypoint, based on a current position of the aircraft, the flight conditions of the aircraft, the predefined air route, the consumption model of the aircraft, the meteorological conditions and the previously defined optimal air routes.
US12031821B2
A sensor system. The sensor system includes: an analog processing arrangement comprising: a drive circuit which generates an analog drive signal to drive an oscillating element of a microelectromechanical gyroscope; a detection circuit configured to generate analog rotation-rate and quadrature signals from a signal detected by the gyroscope; an analog-to-digital converter(s) configured to convert the analog rotation-rate and quadrature signals into digital rotation-rate and quadrature signals; a compensation circuit, which, in a measurement operating mode of the sensor system, compensates a quadrature effect on the analog quadrature signal using at least one quadrature compensation value; and a digital processing arrangement comprising a digital processing circuit, which, in the measurement operating mode of the sensor system, is configured to compensate a temperature-dependent quadrature-induced zero rate offset ZRO of the digital rotation-rate signal using at least one ZRO compensation value and temperature information.
US12031815B2
A magnetic response section provided by a scale of a magnetic linear sensor is configured so that changes in magnetic influence on a magnetic detection head appear alternately and repeatedly every first pitch in a displacement detection direction. The magnetic detection head is provided on one side of the scale in the first direction, which is a direction perpendicular to the displacement detection direction, and provided with a base substrate section and a plurality of signal output sections. The signal output sections are arranged on an insulating plate and in the displacement detection direction at a second pitch based on a first pitch. The first conductive pattern and the second conductive pattern included by each of the signal output sections are formed to arrange coil elements side by side in an elongated area in a second direction orthogonal to both the displacement detection direction and the first direction.
US12031810B2
A measuring device includes a projector, a camera and a calculation device. The projector projects, on a target object, first stripe pattern light having a first period, second stripe pattern light having a second period, and third stripe pattern light having a third period. A relation of the periods is the first period
US12031809B2
A system for detecting a wave occurring in/on a membrane includes a source for directing an excitation signal obliquely to the membrane and a receiver for measuring interference between a first part of the excitation signal reflected off a front surface of the membrane and a second part of the excitation signal reflected off a rear surface of the membrane. The system includes a processing device for detecting the wave based on a change in the measured interference. The detection of the wave is based on changes caused by the wave in the optical length of a V-shaped part of a propagation path of the second part of the excitation signal, where the V-shaped part of the propagation path is inside the membrane.
US12031805B1
Devices, systems, and methods of using ammunition cartridge blocks to hold a plurality of cartridges upright, including a first layer having a plurality of openings configured to receive the plurality of ammunition cartridges, a second layer having a plurality of holes alignable with the plurality of openings and configured to receive the plurality of ammunition cartridges, the second layer positioned above the first layer, and a third layer having a plurality of holes aligned with the plurality of openings and configured to receive the plurality of ammunition cartridges, the third layer positioned above the second layer, the second layer adjustable with respect the first layer. An operator may adjust the second layer to lock the plurality of cartridges into position.
US12031802B2
A guided projectile having a nose portion, a body portion, a tail portion, and a central axis. In various embodiments the projectile includes a control support portion and a collar assembly pivotally mounted to the control support portion. In various embodiments the collar assembly includes a collar having an exterior sidewall with a plurality of fixed aerodynamic surfaces thereon for spinning the collar and a plurality of variable sweep wings for directional control of the projectile. In various embodiments the plurality of variable sweep wings each have a first end coupled to a wing actuator configured to rotate a second end portion between and including a first position, where the wings are oriented generally parallel to the central axis of the projectile to a second position, where the lengthwise wing axis of the plurality of wings are oriented generally perpendicular to the central axis of the projectile.
US12031798B2
A weapon mount for controlling targeting of a weapon includes a base, an arm that extends from the base, and an attachment component that is rotatably coupled with the arm. The base is attachable to a platform and is rotatable to control a yaw of the weapon relative to the platform. The attachment component is configured to couple with the weapon and is rotatable to control a pitch of the weapon relative to the platform. The arm is positioned relative to the base so that a recoil vector of the weapon is within 0.5 inches radially of an axis of rotation of the base.
US12031791B2
A pistol frame can include a trigger mechanism recess, an upper rim extending about the trigger mechanism recess, a rear insert recess within the trigger mechanism recess, a left rear rail insert, and a right rear rail insert. The left rear rail insert can include an upper portion including a left rail and a lower portion including a first pin aperture. The right rear rail insert can include an upper portion including a right rail and a lower portion including a second pin aperture. The pistol frame can include a first and second pin hole aligned with the trigger mechanism recess and a pin that can extend through the first and second pin holes and through the first and second pin apertures.
US12031785B2
A modular trigger assembly having auto-tensioning hammer pin and trigger pins, which allow for rapid installation and removal of the modular trigger assembly from the lower receiver of an ArmaLite style modular rifle using minimal tools. When installed and under tension, the auto-tensioning pins remain flush with the exterior of the lower receiver and present no external parts outside of the lower receiver while maintaining anti-walk and anti-roll properties.
US12031784B1
In a forced rest trigger mechanism, provided is an extended trigger member locking device having a locking member that is movable between a first position in which it locks a trigger member against pulling movement and a second position where it does not restrict movement of the trigger member. The locking member is configured to be movably supported by a frame and includes a generally upward extension portion configured to make actuating contact with a surface of a bolt carrier. The locking member has a body portion that is movably supported and an upward extension portion that is separately movable relative to the body portion between an extended position and a deflected position.
US12031782B2
A heat exchanger cleaning system is disclosed which is capable of determining the position of a lance within a tube bundle of a heat exchanger core. The system comprises a lance for directing a jet of fluid into spaces between the tubes of the bundle, an arm mounted alongside the lance and movable relative thereto, an abutment mounted to an end of the arm to sense an outer surface of the heat exchanger core, and a transducer for measuring the position of the lance relative to the arm to determine the extent of travel of the tip of the lance beyond the front face of the tube bundle.
US12031778B2
The present invention relates to a plate-and-shell heat exchanger and a heat transfer plate for a plate-and-shell heat exchanger. The heat exchanger comprises a shell and a plurality of heat transfer plates within the shell. The plates form fluidly connected first cavities for providing a first fluid flow path for a first fluid flow. The shell forms a second cavity in which the plates are arranged, and a second fluid flow path is provided for a second fluid flow, separated from the first fluid flow path by the plates. The heat exchanger comprises heat transfer plates which are formed for improving the distribution of the second fluid flow within the heat exchanger.
US12031776B2
Disclosed are an unblocking apparatus for a furnace discharging pipe and a use method. The unblocking apparatus includes a rail, a rail car that may move along the rail, an unblocking drive mechanism arranged on the rail car, a heat-unblocking component, a cold-unblocking component, and a material receiving component that is used to receive a blocking material in the discharging pipe, and a drive end of the unblocking drive mechanism is detachably connected with one end of the heat-unblocking component and the cold-unblocking component respectively. The present application effectively handles different blockage situations of the furnace discharging pipe by connecting the unblocking drive mechanism with an unblocking rod capable of heat-unblocking and a drilling rod capable of cold-unblocking, thereby two modes of heat-unblocking and cold-unblocking are performed on the furnace discharging pipe; and the discharging pipe may be unblocked by a remote operation.
US12031768B2
A refrigerator includes a cabinet, an evaporator, a shroud, a grille panel coupled to a front surface of the shroud, and a blower fan module disposed between the grille panel and the shroud and configured to blow the cool air from the evaporator toward a freezing compartment. The blower fan module includes an installation frame defining a first plane that faces a rear surface of the grille panel, and a second plane that faces the front surface of the shroud, a hub part that is rotatably coupled to the second plane of the installation frame and faces an inlet hole of the shroud, and a blower impeller disposed in the hub part.
US12031766B2
The disclosure extends to apparatuses, methods, and systems, for producing frozen confections and conditioning ice for use in frozen confections. A frozen confection machine includes a hopper portion for receiving ice into an interior, and a motor configured to rotate a drive shaft, a blade to condition the ice in the hopper during rotation of the motor. The frozen confection machine also includes a lid for selectively covering the interior of the hopper, a bias member for biasing the lid away from a closed position, and a switch for causing the motor to actuate in response to the lid being pressed to a closed position.
US12031762B2
A refrigerator according to the present invention comprises: a storage compartment for storing food; a first temperature sensor for sensing the temperature in the storage compartment; a door for opening and closing the storage compartment; a cold air supply means for supplying cold air into the storage compartment; trays forming ice-making cells which are spaces in which water changes phase into ice due to the cold air; a second temperature sensor for sensing the temperature of the water or ice in the ice-making cells; a heater for supplying heat to the trays; and a control unit for controlling the heater, wherein, after opening or closing of the door is sensed during the ice-making process, the control unit increases the cooling power of the cold air supply means if an increase in cooling power therefrom is determined to be needed on the basis of the temperature sensed by the first temperature sensor, and decreases the amount of heat applied by the heater if a reduction in heat applied by the heater is determined to be needed on the basis of the change in temperature sensed by the second temperature sensor.
US12031745B2
A drain cleaner apparatus for dispensing a cleaning composition into a condensate drain line of an air handler of an air conditioning system. The drain cleaner apparatus includes an apparatus reservoir configured to hold the cleaning composition, a connector interface configured to couple with the condensate drain line to cause an apparatus outlet of the drain cleaner apparatus to be in fluid communication with an opening of the condensate drain line, a dispenser device that is configured to be actuated to selectively dispense an amount of the cleaning composition from the apparatus reservoir and through the apparatus outlet, and a controller configured to actuate the dispenser device to cause the amount of the cleaning composition to be dispensed through the apparatus outlet without manual intervention.
US12031736B2
An inspection execution method is performed by a computer to cause each of a plurality of apparatuses to execute a plurality of inspections. The inspection execution method includes determining an inspection schedule including at least order of the plurality of inspections, and causing the apparatuses to execute the inspections based on the determined inspection schedule.
US12031734B2
Techniques for performing an emissions demand response (EDR) event are described. In an example, a cloud-based HVAC control system may obtain a first emissions rate forecast and generate an EDR event with a start time and end time based on the first emissions rate forecast. The EDR event may then be transmitted to a thermostat and stored in a memory of the thermostat. At the start time, the thermostat may commence controlling an HVAC system according to the EDR event. After the start time and prior to the end time, the cloud-based HVAC control system may obtain a second emissions rate forecast and generate a modified EDR event with a modified end time. The modified EDR event may be transmitted to the thermostat before the end time and/or the modified end time whereupon the thermostat may control the HVAC system accordingly until the modified end time is reached.
US12031731B2
A Thermal Performance Forecast approach is described that can be used to forecast heating and cooling fuel consumption based on changes to user preferences and building-specific parameters that include indoor temperature, building insulation, HVAC system efficiency, and internal gains. A simplified version of the Thermal Performance Forecast approach, called the Approximated Thermal Performance Forecast, provides a single equation that accepts two fundamental input parameters and four ratios that express the relationship between the existing and post-change variables for the building properties to estimate future fuel consumption. The Approximated Thermal Performance Forecast approach marginally sacrifices accuracy for a simplified forecast. In addition, the thermal conductivity, effective window area, and thermal mass of a building can be determined using different combinations of utility consumption, outdoor temperature data, indoor temperature data, internal heating gains data, and HVAC system efficiency as inputs.
US12031726B2
An ingredient feeding, cooking and heating system comprises a cooking cavity (100) formed by a hollow shell in a sealed manner and main cooking equipment arranged in the cooking cavity (100), the main cooking equipment comprises a wok device and an ingredient feeding device (2), a cooking area for accommodating the wok device is arranged at a middle portion of the interior of the cooking cavity (100), a feeding area for accommodating the ingredient feeding device (2) is arranged at an upper portion of the interior of the cooking cavity (100) and above the cooking area; the wok device comprises a wok (1), a furnace body device (13) adapted for bearing and heating the wok (1), and a wok rotating device (14) adapted for controlling the wok (1) to rotate. A full-closed cooking machine comprises the ingredient feeding, cooking and heating system.
US12031721B2
A burner includes an atomizing chamber, a flame tube in front of the atomizing chamber adapted to direct combusting fuel introduced by the atomizing chamber along an interior of the flame tube, and a controller. The controller is programmed to independently control rate of fuel flow to the atomizing chamber, rate of atomizing air flow to the atomizing chamber, and rate of combustion air to the flame tub. The controller is also programmed to perform operations including regulating, based on output of a gas sensor, at least the rate of combustion air to the flame tube to substantially maintain a first predetermined amount of excess air in the flame tube.
US12031719B2
The disclosure relates to preventing an oxidizer from overheating using cold side bypass during high input for a VOCs treatment system having a series rotor, which may be used in an organic waste air treatment system. The system includes a thermal oxidizer (TO), a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger, a third heat exchanger, a fourth heat exchanger, a first cold-side transporting pipeline, a fourth cold-side transporting pipeline, a first adsorption rotor, a second adsorption rotor, and a chimney. A cold-side proportional damper is installed between the first desorption-treated air pipeline and the first cold-side transporting pipeline, between the first desorption-treated air pipeline and the fourth cold-side transporting pipeline, or between the first cold-side transporting pipeline and the fourth cold-side transporting pipeline, or the damper is installed on the first desorption-treated air pipeline.
US12031716B2
A solar light shade includes a housing having an annular sidewall, wherein the annular sidewall includes an upper end opposite a lower end. A lip extends radially inwardly from the upper end towards a longitudinal axis of the housing defining an opening through the upper end. A diameter of the opening is less than a diameter of the lower end. The housing removably secures over a solar light fixture, such that a solar panel of the solar light fixture is exposed by the opening. The housing is a translucent material designed to filter light therethrough, such that light emitted from the solar light fixture is altered to a different color or intensity.
US12031704B2
An intelligent focusing method of an intelligent moving head light based on machine vision includes the following steps: prestoring coordinate positions Z21 and Z22 of the focusing assembly corresponding to stage light projection distances Smax and Smin respectively, moving the focusing assembly to a position between Z21 and Z22 after the controller receives a command to start an automatic focusing function; gradually moving the focusing assembly between Z21 and Z22 by a focusing search strategy, calculating a sharpness evaluation value Tn of a current projected image according to an image sharpness evaluation function, and determining whether Tn is greater than a preset high sharpness threshold TH if yes, completing the focusing, otherwise determining whether Tn is less than or equal to Tn-1, if yes, driving the stepper motor by the driver to operate in an opposite direction, otherwise driving the stepper motor by the driver to operate in an original direction, until Tn is greater than TH.
US12031700B2
Disclosed are a trim unit for a lamp and the lamp. The trim unit for the lamp includes: one or more installation parts, through enabling the installation parts to be abutted with a corresponding fixture of a lamp main body of the lamp, the trim unit may be fixed to the lamp main body at a light-emitting end of the lamp main body in a removable manner, and the trim unit includes an adjusting part, the adjusting part adjusts light emitted by an illuminating unit installed in the lamp main body. Therefore, a problem in the related art that an appearance decoration effect of the lamp is monotonous is solved.
US12031699B1
A recessed ceiling lamp and an inductor plug thereof belong to the technical field of lamps. The inductor plug includes a left end plate, an intermediate plate, and a right end plate. The intermediate plate is clamped between the left end plate and the right end plate, and integrally formed with the left end plate and the right end plate as an upside-down boat-shaped structure. An accommodating opening is formed in the intermediate plate. The left end plate is configured to be connected to a profile. The right end plate is configured to be docked with an end of a diffusing cover. An inductor to be mounted is connected to the intermediate plate through the accommodating opening.
US12031698B1
A pole mounted lantern comprises a lantern housing mounted on a top of a pole. A slot extends through the lantern housing. A circuit board is located in the lantern housing and carries light emitting diodes (LEDs). A lens is associated with the lantern housing and circumscribes the LEDs. The circuit board has a portion extending to the slot and exposed to an exterior of the lantern housing and ambient conditions outside of the lantern housing. The circuit board is configured to conduct heat from the LEDs inside the lantern housing and out of the lantern housing through the slot.
US12031687B2
Devices, systems and methods for leak detection are provided herein. Also provided are devices, systems and methods for monitoring and/or measuring fluid usage. In some aspects, a system comprising a sensor, a processing system, and a platform are provided. In some aspects, the sensor may be coupled to a spinning device. The sensor can be configured to detect fluid data, which can comprise, for example, displacement data of liquid and/or movement data associated with the liquid in a container and/or flow data associated with a flow of fluid in a conduit. The processing system can be coupled with the sensor and configured to communicate the fluid data. The platform can comprise an application communicatively coupled to one or more databases storing evaluation data (e.g., known pattern data) and configured to receive the fluid data and determine if there is a leak.
US12031674B2
A high-pressure hydrogen container is provided that has a simple configuration, requiring less labor for manufacture, achieving reduced manufacturing costs, and ensuring pressure resistance. The high-pressure hydrogen container includes a metal cylinder configured to store high-pressure hydrogen, a pair of lid parts configured to cover both end portions of the metal cylinder, and a plurality of fastening parts configured to fix the pair of lid parts in a state where the metal cylinder is clamped between the pair of lid parts.
US12031663B1
A lateral hinge that allows space saving and greater movement is disclosed. The lateral hinge has a structure, a foundation and a support system that couples the structure and the foundation. The support system has two or more movement arms that are coupled to the structure, and each movement arm is coupled to a movement element. The two support arms move in the support plane. The movement arms move in the movement plane. The movement plane and the support plane intersect. The structure can be curved and hold multiple monitors.
US12031662B2
Insulated portable spas and processes for insulating spas are described herein. The processes can include filling the undercabinet cavity of the spa with insulative fiberglass while the spa is in an upright position. The insulative fiberglass can be blown-in through sidewalls of the box frame. The portable spas can include an insulative air barrier at the bottom of the spa.
US12031659B2
A cartridge shell for a suction or discharge stabilizer dampening pumped fluid pressure pulsations at an inlet or outlet of a reciprocating pump includes a head including a protrusion, an annular shell of deformable material of a deformable multi-ply material coupled to the protrusion, a plug coupled to the annular shell of deformable material at an opposite end of the annular shell of deformable material from the protrusion, and a cellular foam included within the interior of the annular shell of deformable material.
US12031652B2
Pipe supports are described herein. A pipe support can include a first elongated body having a first top surface for supporting a pipe having a pipe surface, a second elongated body having a second top surface for supporting the pipe and a support structure slidably coupled to the first elongated body and to the second elongated body such that the first top surface or the second top surface is in contact with the pipe surface when the other of the first top surface and the second top surface is not in contact with the pipe surface.
US12031648B2
A pipe coupling for coupling a first pipe to a second pipe wherein a gap exists between a first pipe end and a second pipe end. The pipe coupling includes a tubular insert configured to fit within the gap and match an inside diameter and outside diameter of the pipes, thereby providing a through-butt joint between the insert and the pipes. The pipe coupling also includes a half-tubular first fitting section and a half-tubular second fitting section, configured to snap-lock and form a tubular shape over the insert, the first pipe end and the second pipe end. In some embodiments, the insert is integral with the fitting sections.
US12031645B2
An inner ring 4 of a pipe joint 1 includes a cylindrical body portion 5 having a communication hole 5a for providing communication between flow passage holes 2c and 8a of a joint body 2 and a tube 8, and an annular primary sealing portion 11 projecting from a radially inner side of an axially outer end portion of the body portion 5 toward an axially outer side and to be press-fitted into an annular primary sealing groove 2d formed on the joint body 2. The primary sealing portion 11 is formed so as to be tapered from an axially inner end thereof toward an axially outer end thereof in an axial cross-sectional view, and has a flat surface 11c extending from a radially outer end 11b of the axially outer end thereof toward the radially inner side.
US12031643B2
A ball valve assembly includes a ball configured to rotate between an open position and a closed position. The ball valve assembly also includes an annular seat configured to engage the ball and a rotatable ring having a first engagement feature. In addition, the ball valve assembly includes a non-rotatable ring positioned adjacent to the rotatable ring. The ball valve assembly also includes a drive plate non-rotatably coupled to the ball. The drive plate includes a second engagement feature, and the second engagement feature is configured to engage the first engagement feature to drive the rotatable ring to rotate in response to rotation of the drive plate. Furthermore, the ball valve assembly includes a bearing element configured to drive the rotatable ring and the non-rotatable ring away from one another to compress the annular seat against the ball in response to rotation of the rotatable ring.
US12031642B2
A choke valve including a valve body defining an inlet defining a centrally disposed axis extending through the inlet, an outlet, and a chamber in fluidic communication with the inlet and the outlet, and a flow trim disposed within the chamber and having a side wall that defines a generally cylindrical shape, the flow trim defining a passage through the flow trim, a pair of diametrically opposing windows extending through the side wall, each window permitting fluid communication between the chamber and the passage in a direction orthogonal to the centrally disposed axis defined by the inlet, and a slot extending through the side wall, the slot being disposed substantially equidistantly between the pair of diametrically opposing windows orthogonal to the centrally disposed axis defined by the inlet and on a side of the flow trim opposite the inlet, the slot permitting containment of turbulence created by interaction of fluid flow through the windows.
US12031638B2
A heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) actuator is shown. The actuator includes a motor and an epicyclic gear train assembly, including a sun gear, an annulus, and a plurality of planet gears. The epicyclic gear train assembly is configured to receive, at at least one of the sun gear or the annulus, an input motion at a first rotational velocity from the motor. The epicyclic gear train assembly is further configured to provide an output motion at a second rotational velocity to an HVAC component, the second rotational velocity different than the first rotational velocity.
US12031635B2
The present invention relates to a hydraulic built-in valve (100) for a valve block (10), comprising a sleeve (110) that is introducible into the valve block, and a closing element (130). The sleeve comprises a first end region (111) which is connectable to a control cover. The sleeve comprises a second end region (112) which is at the opposite end from the first end region and is introducible into the control cover, wherein the second end region has, in a frontal end, a frontal opening (114), and the sleeve forms, between the first end region and the second end region, a shell (117), having an outer side and an inner side, and the shell of the sleeve has a multiplicity of shell apertures (119) separated by shell webs (118). The closing element is arranged movably in the sleeve, wherein the closing element is movable between a first position and a second position, and wherein, in the first position, a fluidic connection between the frontal opening and the shell apertures is opened up, and, in the second position, a fluidic connection between the frontal opening and the shell apertures is closed off, wherein the shell apertures extend along the shell in the direction from the first end region to the second end region and form an aperture height, and the shell apertures have a height/width ratio of at least 3:1.
US12031625B2
A mechanical device includes a worm gear mechanism which includes a worm wheel and a worm shaft. The worm gear mechanism adjusts backlash between the worm and the worm wheel by movement of the worm shaft in an axis line direction. The mechanical device includes a position adjusting mechanism which includes a holder, an axial force generation part and a base part. The holder is screwed into the accommodation hole and rotatably supports the worm shaft. The holder causes the movement of the worm shaft by rotation. The axial force generation part includes a screw part and exerts an axial force on the holder. The base part is provided to the frame and receives a reactive force acting on the axial force generation part as a result of exerting the axial force to the holder.
US12031624B2
A helical-gear transmission for an electromechanical power steering includes a shaft intermeshing with a helical gear. The shaft is arranged in a transmission housing and is rotatably mounted in the transmission housing about a longitudinal axis, having the first end thereof in a drive-side bearing arrangement and the second end thereof in a non-drive-side bearing arrangement. The transmission housing has, in extension of the shaft on a non-drive-side end, an opening which can be sealed by a cover, wherein the cover has a cover base and a surrounding cover edge, wherein the cover base has, in the region of the shaft, a bulge extending to the outside in the direction of the shaft which forms an axial lock of the shaft.
US12031621B2
A transmission lubricating structure includes: a main tank; an auxiliary tank; a common line to supply lubricating oil from the main or the auxiliary tank; a main line to introduce the lubricating oil in the main tank to the common line; an auxiliary line to introduce the lubricating oil in the auxiliary tank to the common line; a common nozzle configured to discharge the lubricating oil, supplied from the common line, to a transmission; a pump configured to supply the lubricating oil from the main tank to the common line; and a relay valve arranged lower than the auxiliary tank and higher than the common nozzle and provided upstream of the common line, the relay valve being configured to block the auxiliary line when the pump is operating and open the auxiliary line so the common line communicates with the auxiliary tank when the pump is in a stop state.
US12031612B2
A speed reducer relating to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: an internal gear having a casing and a plurality of outer pins, where the casing surrounds a main axis, and the outer pins are rotatably arranged in pin grooves provided on an inner periphery of the casing; an external gear meshing with the internal gear; an eccentric body for oscillating the external gear; a carrier rotatable relative to the casing; and a main bearing having an inner sliding surface and an outer sliding surface, where the inner sliding surface is rotatable integrally with the casing, and the outer sliding surface is rotatable integrally with the carrier. One of the inner and outer sliding surfaces is made of resin, and the other of the inner and outer sliding surfaces is made of a thermally conductive material that is more wear-resistant than the resin.
US12031601B2
A core material for a shock insulation support, comprising, in parts by weight: steel shot of 150-300 parts, zirconia particles of 50-150 parts and rubber particles of 50-100 parts. Further provided are a shock insulation support comprising the core material, and a preparation method for the shock insulation support. The core material for a shock insulation support, and the shock insulation support dissipates earthquake energy by means of a dry friction energy dissipation mechanism, having high damping and excellent shock insulation performance.
US12031599B2
An aircraft brake temperature control system (BTCS) (100) for controlling a temperature of a brake (220) of a landing gear (201) of the aircraft (200). The BTCS (100) includes a controller (110) configured to cause a thermal management system (2000) to regulate the temperature of the brake (220), on the basis of a selection of an objective for regulating the temperature of brake from a plurality of objectives (121), (122) for regulating the temperature of the brake. An aircraft (200) includes the BTCS; and a method (300) controls a temperature of a brake of a landing gear of an aircraft.
US12031597B2
A brake disk unit includes a rotating member, a brake disk, and a control member. The brake disk includes a disk main body, fins, and convex portions and/or concave portions. The control member includes a support portion and a projecting portion. At least a part of the projecting portion is arranged between fins that are adjacent in the circumferential direction of the brake disk. A gap is formed between the projecting portion and the brake disk. On the surface of the brake disk, the convex portions and/or the concave portions are provided further on the outer side in the radial direction of the brake disk than a minimum opening portion of the gap.
US12031595B1
A compressively resilient, dual layered bushing useful for aligning shafts and couplings and adjusting shaft misalignment. It has a cylindrical sleeve with an outer wall, and a hollow core defining an inner wall extending from a top to a bottom of the cylindrical sleeve. The cylindrical sleeve comprises a first compressively resilient material and has separated, parallel grooves through the outer wall around its circumference. A cylindrical outer tube is attached around the outer wall of the cylindrical sleeve from the top to the bottom. The outer tube has a smooth outer wall and an inner wall having separated parallel projections extending outwardly around the inner wall of the outer tube. The projections are attached to and mate with the grooves through the outer wall around the cylindrical sleeve. The cylindrical outer tube and the projections comprise a second different compressively resilient material.
US12031591B2
Methods and systems for a transmission are provided herein. In one example, a hydraulic system includes a lubrication valve included in a lubricant line and designed to adjust a flow of lubricant to a multi-disc wet clutch. The hydraulic system further includes a clutch line coupled to a clutch control valve, where the clutch line is in fluidic communication with a hydraulic fluid to a clutch actuator of the multi-disc wet clutch and a passive adjustment device of the lubrication valve and where the passive adjustment device transitions the lubrication valve between a limited flow state and an open flow state based on a pressure of the hydraulic fluid in the clutch line.
US12031590B2
A separating clutch for a powertrain includes a rotational axis, a friction pack for transmitting a torque in an engaged state, a damper device having a torsional vibration damper or a centrifugal pendulum, and an actuation device for selectively releasing the engaged state. The actuation device is arranged in an axial overlap with the damper device. The friction pack may include a friction disk, a pressure plate, a counter-plate, a pressure pot, and a disk spring supported between the counter-plate and the pressure pot. The friction disk may have a friction surface and the pressure pot may extend through the counter-plate to contact the pressure plate, radially outside of the friction surface, and the actuation device, radially inside of the friction surface. The actuation device may include a pressure chamber with a pressure piston, and the pressure piston may be axially movable and arranged radially within the friction pack.
US12031588B2
A clutch plate and a clutch assembly for use in a powertrain of a vehicle, the clutch plate being configured to be connected for common rotation with a driven shaft extending in an axial direction, the clutch plate including a support member and a first friction member attached thereto, the first friction member having a first friction surface configured to face and selectively engage a corresponding second friction surface of a flywheel, the clutch plate further including an electrically conducting element extending from the first friction surface toward the support member in a direction having an axial component, the electrically conducting element being configured to be electrically connected to a terminal, so that, upon engagement of the first and second friction surfaces, an electric signal may be passed between the flywheel and the terminal via the electrically conducting element.
US12031575B2
In a strut bearing device, an upper spring seat made of steel has a cylindrical part and a disc part. The cylindrical part has, at an upper part thereof, an engagement hole penetrated in a radial direction. A lower case of a strut bearing has a cylindrical member fitted along an inner peripheral surface of the upper part of the cylindrical part. The cylindrical member has, at its outer peripheral surface, an engagement projection that is engaged with an engagement hole. Relative movement of the upper spring seat and the lower case in an axial direction and in a circumferential direction is restricted in a state where the engagement projection is engaged with the engagement hole.
US12031573B2
The invention relates to a gas bearing for contactlessly bearing a rotatable element (50). The gas bearing comprises: a housing (100) having an opening for receiving the rotatable element; and at least two sliding films (200), which are arranged on an interior (110) of the opening without overlap and which each have a first end portion (210) and a second end portion (220) for support on the housing (100). The sliding films (200) are designed to radially support the rotatable element relative to the housing (100) only by means of the first and second end portions (210, 220), the second end portion (220) providing frictional contact with the interior (110) and the first end portion (210) being fastened to the housing.
US12031569B2
A sliding element works with a guide system having two guide parts that can be moved relative to one another. The sliding element can be fixed to one of the guide parts by an attachment face (3) and includes, on a face opposite the attachment face (3), a sliding surface (6) so as to be slidingly supported on the other guide part. The sliding element includes a first part (I) and a second part (2) which is mounted so as to be rotatable relative thereto, which parts include a contact surface (3) for mutual support. The contact surface (7) is axially inclined in a rotational direction of the second part (2) counter to the first part (I), and the two parts (I, 2) can be locked to one another in various angular positions and the locking can be released.
US12031564B2
A method of joining a first workpiece to a second workpiece is disclosed including securing a spark containment cap to the first workpiece, the cap comprising an electrically insulating washer and a cap body defining an air cavity. Once the cap has been secured, a tail of a fastener is inserted into the air cavity through the second workpiece, the first workpiece and the washer. Upon tightening the fastener, the tail of the fastener urges the washer against the first workpiece and the first and second workpiece are thereby clamped between the washer and a head of the fastener so as to form a joint. Advantageously, it has been found that forming a joint in this manner can help to better protect the joint from the effects of electrical arcing.
US12031562B2
A fastening assembly includes a mounting cylinder frame, a movable part and a turnover part, the mounting cylinder frame is provided with a first vertical beam and a transmission rod, the mounting cylinder is provided with a butting block at the top of the first vertical beam, the transmission rod passes through the butting block, the side wall of the first vertical beam is provided with a bulge, the movable part is connected with the transmission rod, and the turnover part is arranged on the first vertical beam and rotationally connected with the movable part. The turnover part is butted with the bulge, the turnover part is located between the butting block and the movable part, and has a vertical state and a horizontal state. The transmission rod is used to drive the turnover part to switch between the horizontal state or the vertical state.
US12031555B2
A fluidic control system (1) for controlling a vehicle, which includes a controller (2) and a closed fluidic circuit. The circuit includes a pump (3) for pressurizing fluid in the circuit, valve means (40, 50, 60), an actuator (4, 5, 6) and a precharge accumulator (7). The valve means (40, 50, 60) is fluidly connected to the inlet and outlet of the pump (3) and the actuator (4, 6) is fluidly connected to the valve means (40, 50, 60) for selectively receiving pressurized fluid therefrom. The precharge accumulator (7) includes a movable member (73, FIG. 2) that describes a variable volume (71) fluidly connected to the circuit between the valve means (40, 50, 60) and the inlet of the pump (3). The system (1) also includes a sensor (70) for determining the position of the movable member (73) for estimating the quantity of fluid and/or detecting an abnormal pressure variation within the circuit.
US12031548B2
A scroll structure of a centrifugal compressor includes, of a flow passage connection section where a scroll start portion and a scroll end portion of a scroll flow passage intersect, a connection region where a first inner circumferential surface of the scroll end portion in the centrifugal compressor and a second inner circumferential surface of the scroll start portion in the centrifugal compressor are connected. The connection region includes a turning start point where a direction starts to change from the first inner circumferential surface toward the second inner circumferential surface, and a turning end point where the change in direction from the first inner circumferential surface toward the second inner circumferential surface comes to an end. Where a cross-section orthogonal to an extension direction of a center line of the scroll flow passage in the connection region is a first cross-section, the turning start point on the first cross-section is a first turning start point, a turning end point on the first cross-section is a first turning end point, and a tangent line to the first inner circumferential surface passing through the first turning start point on the first cross-section is a first direction, the first turning start point exists at a position away from the first turning end point along the first direction by a distance not less than 30% of a height dimension along an axial direction of the centrifugal compressor at a minimum cross-sectional area position of the scroll flow passage.
US12031547B1
Provided in embodiments of the present application are a head mechanism and a fan apparatus. The head mechanism includes: a casing, where a primary air inlet and an air outlet are provided on a circumferential side wall of the casing, and an auxiliary air inlet is provided on an axial wall surface of the casing; and a centrifugal volute arranged in the casing, where a centrifugal fan is arranged in the centrifugal volute, and an air duct outlet corresponding to the air outlet and an air duct inlet corresponding to the auxiliary air inlet are provided on the centrifugal volute; and air flowing from the primary air inlet and the auxiliary air inlet flows into the centrifugal volute through the air duct inlet. According to the embodiment of the present application, since the primary air inlet located on the circumferential side wall is provided.
US12031540B2
The disclosure relates to a compressor having a noise reduction resonator. The compressor includes: a compression part having compression space in which introduced gas is accommodated, and configured to compress and discharge the gas in the compression space; and a gas moving part having an inner wall forming a gas flow path through which the gas discharged from the compression space moves, wherein the gas moving part is provided with a first resonator configured to communicate with the gas flow path on the inner wall forming the gas flow path and having a resonance space depressed upward in a moving direction of the gas. The compressor according to the disclosure may prevent compression efficiency from decreasing and maintain a noise reduction effect for a long period of time by preventing foreign objects or liquids from being accumulated in the resonance space.
US12031539B2
A rotary compressor includes a compressor housing that is provided with a refrigerant discharge portion and a refrigerant suction portion, and an accumulator that is fixed to the outer peripheral surface of the compressor housing and connected to the suction portion. The accumulator has a cylindrical body portion, which is formed of a resin material, an upper portion, which is formed of a metal material and closes an upper end of the body portion, and a lower portion, which is formed of a metal material and closes a lower end of the body portion, the upper portion is joined to the upper end of the body portion, and the lower portion is joined to the lower end of the body portion.
US12031538B2
The scroll compressor (2) including a hermetic enclosure (3), a compression unit (11) configured to compress refrigerant, and an electric motor (16) configured to drive the compression unit (11) via a drive shaft (15), the hermetic enclosure (3) including a midshell (4), an upper cap (5) and a baseplate (6), the baseplate (6) including a mounting base (24) having a plate shape and including a central portion, and a cylindrical rim surrounding the central portion and extending upwardly, the cylindrical rim (28) being secured to the mounting base (24) by a double-welded T-joint (29), the double-welded T-joint (29) including an inner welding seam connecting an inner surface of the cylindrical rim (28) to the mounting base (24), and an outer welding seam connecting an outer surface of the cylindrical rim (28) to the mounting base (24).
US12031537B2
The invention relates to a screw compressor comprising a compressor housing (11) having two rotor screws (1, 2) mounted axially parallel therein, which mesh with each other in a compression space (18), can be driven by a drive and are synchronized with each other in their rotational movement, wherein the rotor screws (1, 2) each have a single-part or multi-part base body (24) with two end faces (5a, 5b, 5c, 5d) and a profiled surface (12a, 12b) extending therebetween, and shaft ends (30) projecting beyond the end faces (5a, 5b, 5c, 5d), wherein at least the profiled surface (12a, 12b) is formed in multiple layers, comprising a first, inner layer (3) and a second, outer layer (4), wherein the first, inner layer (3) and the second, outer layer (4) both comprise or are formed from a thermoplastic synthetic material, wherein particles (25) or pores (32) supporting a running-in process are embedded in the second, outer layer (4) and the thermoplastic synthetic material defines a matrix for receiving the particles (25) or for forming the pores (32).
US12031533B2
A linear compressor includes a casing, a back cover supported in the casing, an intake flow path member coupled to the back cover, and an intake muffler of which at least a portion linearly reciprocates inside the intake flow path member. The intake flow path member includes a first hole that is formed in a front surface and is penetrated by the intake muffler, and a flow path guide that extends axially forward from a rear surface and has an opened front and an opened rear. A noise of a refrigerant passing through the intake flow path member can be reduced through an expansion space between the flow path guide and an inner surface of the intake flow path member.
US12031530B2
A pump for pumping a pumping mud or a slurry. The pump includes a housing having a pump chamber and an intermediate fluid chamber, a membrane arranged within the housing, a reciprocal pumping member operatively arranged in the intermediate fluid chamber, and an accumulator fluidly connected to the intermediate fluid chamber via a throttle. The pump chamber has a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. The membrane delimits the pump chamber from the intermediate fluid chamber.
US12031528B2
The invention relates to a solid or liquid propellant (2) tank (1) for a thruster, the tank (1) comprising means for forming a gas (9) in the tank, the tank (1) having an opening (4) of surface area S for the extraction of a flow (20) of the propellant gas from the tank (1). According to the invention, the tank (1) comprises a propellant gas flow on-off control system comprising a grid (6) arranged opposite the opening (4) of the tank (1), a first thermal regulation system (11, 21) for heating the gas (9) in the tank and a second thermal regulation system (12, 22) for heating the grid (6), said grid (6) including holes of total surface area greater than the surface area S of the opening of the tank (1).
US12031524B2
A system for generating power includes an environmental engine that determines performance metrics for a plurality of wind turbines deployed at a plurality of windfarms, such that each windfarm includes a corresponding subset of the plurality of windfarms. The performance metrics for a given wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines characterizes wind flowing over blades of the given wind turbine. The system includes an artificial intelligence (AI) ensemble engine operating on the one or more computing devices that generates a set of models for each wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines, wherein each model of each set of models is generated with a different machine learning algorithm and selects, for each respective set of models, a model with a highest efficiency metric. The AI engine provides edge computing systems operating at the plurality of windfarms with a selected model and corresponding recommended operating parameters.
US12031523B2
The invention relates to a method for damping drive train oscillations of a VSM configured wind turbine. The method comprises determining a drive train damping power signal based on speed signal representing a generator speed, determining a power deviation based on a combination of a power reference for a desired power production, the drive train damping power-signal, a grid power supplied by the line side converter to the grid and a damping power, determining a virtual synchronous machine angle based on the power deviation so that the derivative of the virtual synchronous machine rotational speed is indicative of the power deviation, determining a converter reference for controlling the line side converter to generate the desired active power based on the virtual synchronous machine angle and a voltage reference for a voltage amplitude to be generated by the line side converter, and applying the converter reference to the line side converter.
US12031519B2
A wind turbine nacelle configured for mounting on a wind turbine tower and housing a rotor-supporting assembly defining a rotation axis. The nacelle comprises a main unit arranged to be connected to a wind turbine tower and housing the rotor-supporting assembly. A crane is placed outside the main unit and connected directly to the main frame.
US12031518B2
A wind turbine blade comprising: a first blade portion having a shell that defines a suction side, a pressure side, a leading edge, and a trailing edge of the blade, the first blade portion further including a first blade portion end surface at one end of the first blade portion; a second blade portion having a shell that defines a suction side, a pressure side, a leading edge, and a trailing edge of the blade, the second blade portion further including a second blade portion end surface at one end of the second blade portion, wherein the first blade portion and the second blade portion are configured to be coupled together at the first and second blade portion end surfaces; and a connection joint for coupling the first and second blade portions together, wherein the connection joint includes: a first insert embedded in the first blade portion; a fitting integral with the first insert and projecting from the first blade portion end surface toward the second blade portion end surface; a second insert embedded in the second blade portion; and a fastener arranged to fasten the second insert to the fitting.
US12031515B2
The disclosure provides a method and a device for closed-loop control of a temperature of a component in an exhaust-gas tract of an internal combustion engine. The exhaust-gas tract has a temperature sensor arranged upstream of the component. The method includes providing a control circuit for the closed-loop control of the temperature of the component and detecting a measurement signal by the temperature sensor during the operation of the internal combustion engine. The measurement signal is characteristic of an exhaust-gas temperature. The measurement signal is used as a measured controlled variable for the control circuit for the closed-loop control of the temperature of the component. The method also includes determining a temperature model for the exhaust-gas temperature of the exhaust gas upstream of the component. The temperature model is used as a predictor for the control circuit. Also, a modeled controlled variable is provided from the temperature model.
US12031514B2
An ignition apparatus of an engine includes a spark plug disposed in a combustion chamber, and configured to generate a spark discharge between a center electrode and a ground electrode, a plurality of ignition coils each applying a current to the spark plug and including a primary coil, a secondary coil, a main switch, and an auxiliary switch, and a controller selectively performing a multi-stage ignition through a first ignition coil and a second ignition coil or a single-stage ignition through one ignition coil among the first ignition coil and the second ignition coil, adjusting a charging speed, a number of discharges, and a discharge maintaining period of the ignition coil depending on a driving point of the engine, and adjusting the charging speed of the ignition coil and a target air/fuel ratio for performing a lean combustion, based on a state of charge of a battery.
US12031513B2
A method for operating a glow plug includes controlling a temperature of the glow plug by switching between applying a voltage VH and applying a voltage VN
US12031511B2
A starting module for a vehicle is provided. The starting module is configured to reside on-board the vehicle, and is used to start an engine associated with the vehicle in the event the battery on the vehicle is too weak to crank the engine. The engine starting module first comprises a housing. The housing resides proximate the vehicle battery and holds a plurality of super capacitors. The super capacitors reside within the housing, in series, and are electrically in parallel with the vehicle battery. The super capacitors store charge received from the electrical system of the vehicle. The starting module also includes control logic. The control logic controls the release of energy from the super capacitors. The engine starting module also comprises an isolation switch, which is configured to move between open and close positions in response to signals from the control logic.
US12031509B2
A fuel injector assembly includes a valve housing, a valve stem that is disposed in the valve housing, a magnetic coil that surrounds the valve housing and is used to displace the valve stem within the valve housing, and a terminal blade. The terminal blade includes a bus bar that provides an electrical connection between the magnetic coil and an external connector. In addition, the terminal blade includes a clip that is connected to the bus bar at a clip first end and to the valve housing at a clip second end. The clip includes a sacrificial portion that is configured to part, for example by dissolving, when the terminal blade undergoes an overmolding process. As a result of the overmolding process, the clip is separated into multiple, spaced portions.
US12031506B2
A liquid fuel rocket engine according to one example includes a combustor, a liquid fuel repository connected to the combustor via a fuel line and a first valve, an oxidizer repository connected to the combustor via an oxidizer line and a second valve, a valve controller configured to output a valve control current to the first valve, the valve controller storing instructions for determining at least one actual minimum impulse bit of a valve based on a current profile and a voltage profile of a single operation of the first valve, and to adjust valve controls to account for the at least one actual minimum impulse bit.
US12031498B2
An engine includes a cylinder block including a first jacket through which a coolant flows, a spacer disposed within the first jacket, a cylinder head including a second jacket through which the coolant flows from the first jacket; and a gasket interposed between the cylinder block and the cylinder head. The cylinder block includes a branch passage branched off from the first jacket to supply the coolant to an external device. The gasket includes communication ports that communicate the first jacket with the second jacket. The spacer includes a protruding portion that penetrates one of the communication ports that is closest to the branch passage. There is a clearance between the protruding portion and the one of the communication ports.
US12031491B2
This combustion adjustment method applied to the combustion control of a combustor executes a first step for selecting a combustion parameter for a load of a gas turbine and increasing or decreasing a command value of the combustion parameter from an original location. When the command value reaches a target tolerance upper limit value or a target tolerance lower limit value, the first step is terminated. Furthermore, a second step for decreasing or increasing the command value in a direction opposite to that of the first step is executed. When the command value reaches the target tolerance upper limit value or the target tolerance lower limit value, the present invention includes a combustion tolerance confirmation step for confirming a combustion tolerance range of the combustion parameter at which the second step is terminated.
US12031482B2
An embodiment of a torch ignitor system for combustor of a gas turbine engine includes a torch ignitor, the torch ignitor having a combustion chamber oriented about an axis, the combustion chamber having axially upstream and downstream ends defining a flow direction through the combustion chamber, along the axis. The torch ignitor system also includes a cap defining the axially upstream end of the combustion chamber and oriented about the axis, wherein the cap is configured to receive a fuel injector and at least one glow plug, a tip at a downstream end of the combustion chamber, and a passage for pressurized oxygen containing gas passing through the cap from an exterior of the combustion chamber and in fluid communication with the combustion chamber. An embodiment of a method for starting a gas turbine engine is also disclosed.
US12031480B2
A gas turbine engine includes a compressor. A turbine is mechanically connected to the compressor by a shaft. An air-driven auxiliary turbine is in fluid communication with the compressor and is configured to receive pressurized air from the compressor. An auxiliary generator is operably connected to the auxiliary turbine. The auxiliary generator is configured to generate electrical energy in response to an operation of the auxiliary turbine. An energy storage device is in electrical communication with the auxiliary generator.
US12031479B2
A method is provided for operating a hybrid-electric propulsion system having a first engine, a second engine, a first electric machine coupled to the first engine, and a second electric machine coupled to one of the first engine or the second engine. The method includes: receiving data indicative of a first engine operating parameter, a second engine operating parameter, or both; determining a first engine operating parameter margin, a second parameter operating margin, or both; determining a load share for the first engine, the second engine, or both, or between the first engine and the second engine based on the first engine operating parameter margin, the second engine operating parameter margin, or both; and transferring a first amount of power to or from the first electric machine and a second amount of power to or from the second electric machine in response to the determined load share.
US12031476B2
A cover for an internal combustion engine is configured to be attached to an engine main body so as to cover a timing chain or a timing belt. The cover for the internal combustion engine includes insertion holes configured to receive a crankshaft or a camshaft. The cover for the internal combustion engine includes a first member made of a hard plastic and a second member made of a material different from the hard plastic. The first member is produced by insert molding with the second member embedded in the first member. A periphery of at least one of the insertion holes in the second member includes a joint surface that is joined to the first member. The joint surface includes annular grooves surrounding the insertion hole, the annular grooves being arranged in a radial direction of the insertion hole.
US12031470B2
There is provided a control device that controls an injection amount of a reducing agent to be supplied to a selective reduction catalyst provided in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine. The control device includes a pre-correction injection amount calculation unit configured to calculate a pre-correction injection amount of the reducing agent based on an operating state of the engine, and an injection amount correction unit configured to calculate a corrected injection amount obtained by correcting the pre-correction injection amount, based on a rate of change over time of a rotation speed of the engine and a rate of change over time of a fuel injection amount of the engine, such that the injection amount of the reducing agent increases when at least both the rate of change over time of the rotation speed and the rate of change over time of the fuel injection amount are positive.
US12031464B2
Systems and methods for diagnosing at least one component in an exhaust aftertreatment system are provided. The system includes an exhaust aftertreatment system coupled to an engine system, at least one sensor, and at least one processing circuit structured to: receive initial sensor data; determine an initial parameter value based on the initial sensor data; determine that the initial parameter does not satisfy an initial threshold; perform operations to diagnose at least one component of the exhaust aftertreatment system comprising: causing the engine system to operate through a sequence of a plurality of engine outputs; receiving a plurality of sensor data, each of the plurality sensor data corresponding to at least one of the plurality of engine outputs; comparing each of the plurality of sensor data to a corresponding threshold; and diagnosing the at least one component based on the comparison.
US12031460B2
A sliding cam system for an internal combustion engine includes an adjusting element that has at least three coupling pins. A first coupling pin is arranged in the region of the primary sliding cam element and a second coupling pin is arranged in the region of the first secondary sliding cam element and a third coupling pin is arranged in the region of the second secondary sliding cam element. The coupling pins each cooperate with a shifting gate of the respectively associated sliding cam element such that a movement of a primary sliding cam element initiated by the actuator pin is transmissible to secondary sliding cam elements by the adjusting element. The sliding cam system is designed such that a shifting operation of the first secondary sliding cam element takes place at least partially at the same time as the shifting operation of the second secondary sliding cam element.
US12031459B2
A rocker arm assembly can comprise a main rocker arm and a latch assembly. A latching arm can control the latch assembly and thereby control the extent to which a secondary rocker arm acts on the main rocker arm. The main rocker arm can comprise a main body configured to rotate around a rocker shaft, a valve end extending from the main body, a reaction end extending from the main body, and a latch bore. A bias pin can extend from the main body. The latch assembly can be configured to selectively rotate in the latch bore. The latch assembly can comprise a first latch end comprising a switch plate configured to receive actuation force on a first side and to receive bias force from the bias pin on a second side. A second latch end can comprise a first latch seat and a second latch seat.
US12031456B2
In a gas turbine and a method for assembling a radial turbine nozzle, the radial turbine nozzle is assembled in a manner so that a first ring and a second ring are assembled to an outer circumferential portion of a nozzle main body. The radial turbine nozzle is arranged on an outside of a first holder in a radial direction in a manner so that the inner circumferential portion of the nozzle main body can be seated on the first holder and the plurality of segments can move in the radial direction of the radial turbine.
US12031453B1
A component and blade assembly for a turbine engine, the component having a wall bounding an interior and defining an exterior surface extending radially between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chordwise direction, and between a hub and a tip to define a spanwise direction. A metallic spar extending from the hub in the spanwise direction into the interior, the metallic spar defining a socket. A composite spar extending in the spanwise direction between a spar root and a spar tip, the spar root received in the socket. The component further having a stiffener.
US12031450B2
A turbocharger having a centrifugal compressor includes a vaned diffuser. The vaned diffuser is formed by a diffuser ring formed separately from the compressor housing and center housing. The diffuser ring is installed between the compressor and center housings such that a diffuser passage is defined between a surface of the compressor housing and a surface of the diffuser ring. Integral vanes on the diffuser ring extend only partially across the axial width of the diffuser passage. A rectangular-section seal ring is axially compressed between the compressor housing and the diffuser ring for sealing and axial locating of the diffuser ring. Radial locating of the diffuser ring is accomplished by an integral locating pin on the ring, which fits into a receptacle in the center housing.
US12031449B2
A stationary blade unit including a first engaging portion projecting from an outer tube toward a first side in an axial direction; and a second engaging portion projecting from the outer tube toward a second side in the axial direction. A first outer shell includes a first flange and a first engaged portion into which the first engaging portion is slidingly inserted in the axial direction. A second outer shell includes: a second flange fastened to the first flange by a fastener; and a second engaged portion into which the second engaging portion is slidingly inserted in the axial direction. The stationary blade unit includes a projection projecting outward in a radial direction from the outer tube. One of the first outer shell and the second outer shell includes an integrated stopper arranged on a rotation trajectory of the projection around an axis.
US12031448B2
A device for centering and guiding a shaft of an aircraft turbine engines. The device includes an outer ring of a rolling bearing, the ring extending about a main axis and having orifices arranged around the axis axis; an annular bearing support extending about the main axis and at least partially about the ring, the support having orifices and openings arranged about the axis; and a series of studs for linking the ring to the support, the studs being distributed about the main axis and having elongation axes substantially parallel to the main axis, the body of each of the studs passing through one of the openings. Some of the studs, have bodies that pass with a first positive clearance and a second virtually zero clearance through the first openings, the first and second clearances being configured so that the device has different displacement amplitudes.
US12031442B2
A turbine engine comprising an engine core, a plurality of circumferentially arranged vanes, and a floating seal. The plurality of circumferentially arranged vanes forming an upper band and a lower band. The floating seal being carried by at least one respective vane of the plurality of circumferentially arranged vanes. The floating seal having a ring and at least one dynamic seal.
US12031439B2
A motor is configured to apply a rotational force to a wheel that includes a rim rotatably mounted to an axle about a first axis. The motor has a rotor coupled to the rim. The rotor has an interior cavity and a plurality of radial slots formed therein. A cylindrical stator is disposed within the cavity and has a second axis offset from the first axis. The stator is fixed in rotation relative to the axle. The motor further includes a plurality of vanes, each vane being slidably disposed within one of the plurality of radial slots. A compressed gas source is in fluid communication with the cavity and selectively provides compressed gas to the cavity to rotate the rotor.
US12031432B2
An excavation apparatus includes a supporting linkage mountable to a vehicle, and a rotary spindle operable to drive a coring element about a cutting axis. The supporting linkage supports the rotary spindle and is operable to displace the rotary spindle relative to a ground surface. The supporting linkage can lower the rotary spindle to a deployed position and raise the rotary spindle to a stored position. The cutting axis can be maintained in a vertical direction in the deployed and stored positions. The rotary spindle can move relative to the supporting linkage about a hinge axis. The hinge axis can be generally parallel to the vertical direction.
US12031431B2
Systems and methods presented herein provide for the generation of acoustic waves for acoustic stimulation, as well as for analysis of subterranean formations, using downhole tools and associated equipment that are not conventionally designed to do so. For example, in certain embodiments, formation testing tools, formation, measurement tools, inflatable packers, and so forth, may be controlled by control systems to, for example, create pressure pulses that generate the acoustic waves. In addition, in certain embodiments, a tool conveyance system that conveys a formation testing or measurement tool into a wellbore may include acoustic receivers that may detect the acoustic waves after they reflect from subterranean features of the formation.
US12031414B2
A method for subsurface sequestration of carbon in a subterranean zone includes forming a fluid-filled volume in the subterranean zone by injecting an aqueous into the subterranean zone and injecting a mixture comprising silicate nanoparticles suspended in an acidic solution having a pH of less than 4. Carbon in the form of carbon dioxide is injected into the fluid-filled volume such that a least a portion of the carbon is sequestered by precipitation of carbonate minerals. At least a portion of the carbonate minerals are formed from reaction of metal cations with bicarbonate formed from the carbon dioxide, and least a portion of the metal cations are a product of decomposition of the silicate nanoparticles in the acidic solution.
US12031409B2
An autonomous flow control device includes a valve plate having a surface and a valve element at least partially formed on the surface. The valve element has an inlet and an outlet with a fluid flow path extending therebetween. The fluid flow path included a viscosity dominant flow path configured to provide a first flow resistance and an inertia dominant flow path configured to provide a second flow resistance that is greater than the first flow resistance such that when the viscosity of the fluid flowing therethrough is greater than a first predetermined level, the fluid follows the viscosity dominant flow path with the first flow resistance and when the viscosity of the fluid flowing therethrough is less than a second predetermined level, the fluid follows the inertia dominant flow path with the second flow resistance, thereby regulating the production rate of the fluid responsive to changes in fluid viscosity.
US12031401B2
Methods of controlling surface systems described herein include acquiring data during operation of a surface system that handles fluid using sub-systems; generating a parameter value for one of the sub-systems using at least a portion of the data and a model that models the sub-system using historical data that include operational adjustment data for operational adjustments responsive to conditions; and automatically controlling the one of the sub-systems using the parameter value.
US12031399B2
A tool (1) for manipulating a target (12) with combustion products from a propellant has a housing (2) including at least one outlet (5) for combustion products from at least one propellant source (16) contained within. An ignition mechanism (18) is provided for igniting propellant at the propellant source. The outlet (5) includes a plurality of exit ports (6, 8) on a surface of the tool that is configured to direct combustion products at a target. The plurality of exit ports includes a principal exit port (6) and one or more secondary exit ports (8). The secondary exit port (8) or ports are spaced apart from and at least partly surround the principal exit port (6). A method for manipulating a target with the tool is provided.
US12031392B2
An interlock between a drawworks and a blowout preventer includes a sensor for sensing a position of the blowout preventer. An interlock signal is generated by the sensor, and the interlock signal is reflective of the position of the blowout preventer. A lock operably connected to the drawworks receives the interlock signal and disables operation of the drawworks if the interlock signal meets a predetermined criterion. A method for operating a drill rig includes operating a drawworks to raise and lower a drill string and operating a blowout preventer. The method further includes sensing a position of the blowout preventer and generating an interlock signal that reflects the position of the blowout preventer. The method further includes comparing the interlock signal to a predetermined criterion and disabling the drawworks if the interlock signal meets the predetermined criterion.
US12031391B2
A coil structure unit comprises a base and a tower structure, the tower structure comprises a plurality of intermediate units. The length of each of the plurality of intermediate sections can be about 50 feet. The length allows to utilize a manipulator that allows equipment such as lubricators and blowout preventers to be integral to the loads which will eliminate much of the rig up time and complication as well as having much more flexibility in operations to take the items on and off hole.
US12031382B2
A method for mining narrow vein deposit of ore, the narrow vein deposit having a hanging wall and a foot wall, the method comprising: drilling a pilot hole into the narrow vein deposit along a path substantially centrally between the hanging wall and the foot wall to a depth within the vein; following the pilot hole with a larger diameter drilling assembly to fragment the ore into drill cuttings; circulating the drill cuttings to a wellhead; and collecting the drill cuttings for processing to recover the ore therefrom.
US12031361B2
Provided is a push-to-open latch for an oven appliance and other household appliances. The push-to-open latch includes an integrated locking device for locking an appliance door in place and initiate a downstream appliance function such as a self-cleaning function. The integrated locking device includes a rotating cam having a latching slot which engages a pawl. The rotating cam also includes a guiding ramp and a catch surface which may be used to engage a latching finger to lock the cam in place. In addition, the locking device may include a locking slide and a locking slide pin that is actuated by a solenoid to engage the cam. Once the appliance door is locked, one or more switches send a signal to the appliance controller to activate the downstream function.
US12031359B2
An operation relay device for a motor-vehicle door latch includes a base fixed to a door panel of a door, an operation handle pivotably supported to the base, and a link lever transmitting an opening operation by the operation handle to a door latch. The base includes a plurality of fixing parts, and the operation handle is pivotably supported at a position deviating from a center in a front-rear direction on the base, so that a center of gravity of the operation relay device is in a side of the deviating position. The fixing parts except a specific fixing part are respectively fixed to the door panel by a bolt. The specific fixing part is a temporary fixing piece that is integrally formed on the upper portion of the base to be capable of engaging with an engaging hole formed on the door panel.
US12031350B2
A pool unit including a pool shell, which has a wall, and a bracing structure bracing the wall to curve inwardly. The pool shell is fillable with water to straighten the wall to form a straight wall.
US12031348B2
A venue transformation and construction method is disclosed that creates a tropical style swimming lagoon at an infield site of a race or activity circuit facility, the infield site being contained within a race or activity circuit perimeter. The transformation includes demolishing at least part of the infield site; excavating material from an area within the infield site; and forming a basin for a large water body having a surface area of at least 3,000 m2. Water containment walls are constructed on a first section and a sloped access area is formed on a second section of the basin for a beach. A barrier is included to control access to the beach. At least one additional recreational facility is constructed around the basin and a connection is provided that connects the outfield of the race or activity circuit with the infield site to allow transit of vehicles and/or people.
US12031331B2
Reinforced concrete is protected from corrosion without conducting an operation involving exposure of rebar. A reinforced concrete structure is provided with a storage part that is formed inside concrete of the reinforced concrete structure, and that retains an anticorrosion solution. The anticorrosion solution diffuses and permeates through the concrete from the storage part, prevents the concrete in the vicinity of rebar from drying, and passivates the rebar.
US12031326B2
Provided are a structural energy-saving, heat-insulated and decorative integrated plate and a manufacturing method therefor. The method includes: step 1: welding outer side keels, an inner side keel and a bottom keel into a wall framework; step 2: fixing an inner side decorative plate and an outer side decorative plate on the wall framework through shoot nails, and a hollow structure formed by the inner side decorative plate, the outer side decorative plate and the wall framework being a filling and pouring layer; and step 3: grouting the filling and pouring layer, to form a wall filled with cement foamed polystyrene particles. The present invention features a rational structure, manufactures an integrated wall plate with decorated inner and outer sides, and can replace patterns on the decorative plates. The integrated plate features energy saving, environmental friendliness, shock resistance, compression resistance, fire prevention, heat insulation and sound insulation.
US12031325B2
A structure and associated methodology for framing a wall having top and bottom runners supporting respective opposing ends of each of a plurality of upright studs. The top runner has a planar base and a track extending from the base and forming therewith an enclosure configured to operably capture top ends of the studs and compensate for vertical deflection. The track defines a laterally-directed slot configured for installing a fastener through to connect to the stud inside the enclosure. The track further defines indicia visually presenting a conformance-comparison of each stud's length to a predetermined threshold before the fastener is installed, the threshold related to a predetermined operable clearance between each stud's end and the base inside the enclosure.
US12031323B1
A smart integrated roofing system includes a housing configured to protect components of the roofing system; an extensible tensioned fabric disposed in the housing; a roller configured to regulate the extensible tensioned fabric within the housing in a retracted position and deploy the fabric in an open position; an electric motor disposed in the housing and configured to actuate an operation of the roller. The system includes a light sensor is configured to detect sunlight intensity; a microcontroller configured to control an operation of the electric motor based on the detected sunlight intensity, a wind sensor is configured to detect wind speed, a rain sensor is configured to detect rainfall, a retaining structure securing the fabric in the open position, a solar panel is positioned adjacent to the housing, and a data and control bus electrically coupling the solar panel with the microcontroller.
US12031318B1
Disclosed herein is the fabrication and implementation of prefabricated volumetric construction modules that include transitioning members that adjust between vertical support columns and structural trusses via lateral joints. Modification of vertical support columns to trusses enables open space configurations in volumetric construction. Each volumetric module includes a habitation zone and a truss zone. Folding or transitioning a vertical support column at the lateral joint positions a lower region of the support column from the habitation zone into the truss zone. The vertical support columns are transitioned in a specified order where within a given row of vertical support columns. Beginning from a first interior column on an edge-positioned transforming volumetric module, workers fold half of the vertical support columns of the given row into the truss arrangement in a first direction toward the edge-positioned transforming volumetric module. Continuing from a second interior column on an opposite edge-positioned transforming volumetric module, a worker folds a remining half of the vertical support columns of the given row into the truss arrangement in a second direction toward the opposite edge-positioned transforming volumetric module.
US12031312B2
Disclosed is a sanitary ware compatibly satisfying both low water absorption and weight reduction. The sanitary ware has a pottery substrate of a vitreous body and a glaze layer, in which part of the substrate is exposed to outside thereof without the glaze layer; the substrate has (A) an anorthite and (B) an alkali metal component; and an amount of the alkali metal component is in the range of 5 to 10% by weight in terms of an oxide conversion (A2O) relative to the substrate. This sanitary ware has the properties of low water absorption and light weight.
US12031309B2
A faucet system comprising a faucet; an electronic valve associated with the faucet; and a faucet controller associated with the electronic valve; wherein the faucet controller is configured to receive a faucet command from a command server; and actuate the electronic valve upon receiving the faucet command; wherein the command server is configured to receive a speech-based command from a natural language processing (NLP) server; generate the faucet command from the speech-based command and transmit the faucet command to the faucet controller; and wherein the NLP server is remote to the faucet.
US12031308B2
A faucet apparatus which is capable of, even when a first spouting mode is adapted to be executed when a detection sensor detects an object, causing function water that has an antibacterial effect or bacteria removing effect to be spouted to a detected object without causing tap water by the first spouting mode to be spouted, so that the antibacterial effect or bacteria removing effect can be caused to effectively work on the object. A controller of the faucet apparatus of the present disclosure comprises the first spouting mode and a second spouting mode, and the controller is further provided with a second spouting mode prioritization function of, even if the detection sensor is into a detection state, performing control not to execute the first spouting mode while the second water mode is executed.
US12031300B2
Disclosed are techniques for displaying AR elements on a display system of a construction machine. A position of the construction machine in a world reference frame is detected. An orientation of the construction machine is detected. A position of an operator of the construction machine in a machine reference frame is detected. A position of the operator in the world reference frame is determined based on the position of the operator in the machine reference frame, the position of the construction machine in the world reference frame, and the orientation of the construction machine. The AR elements are generated based on the position of the operator in the world reference frame and a position of the display system in the world reference frame. The AR elements are then displayed on the display system.
US12031296B2
A fuel tank (16) for storing fuels is located between a right side frame (8) and a center frame (6) of a revolving frame (5) and is disposed on the center frame (6) side. Also, a hydraulic oil tank (19) for storing hydraulic oil is disposed adjacent to the fuel tank (16) in the right-and-left direction on the side of the right side frame (8) closer to an outer side in the right-and-left direction than the fuel tank (16). In addition, a top surface portion (19E) of the hydraulic oil tank (19) is disposed at a position higher than that of a top surface portion (16E) of the fuel tank (16).
US12031295B2
A work vehicle includes a cover having a center cover portion, a first side cover portion, and a second side cover portion. The center cover portion includes a punching metal and has a substantially rectangular shape. A first side and a second side of the rectangular shape face each other in a width direction, and a third side and a fourth side of the rectangular shape face each other in a front-rear direction. The first side cover includes a punching metal, has a substantially rectangular shape, is connected to the center cover portion at the first side, and is inclined downward in the height direction relative to the center cover portion. The second side cover includes a punching metal, has a substantially rectangular shape, is connected to the center cover portion at the second side, and is inclined downward in the height direction relative to the center cover portion.
US12031285B2
A barrier system comprising: an elongate and rigid base member having a channel defined by inner walls of the base member, the channel extending along the length of the base member, the rigid base member being adapted to be anchored to an underlying supporting surface wherein the channel comprises a relatively broader in-use lower portion with a first width (w1) and a relatively narrower in-use upper portion with a second width (w2) defining an opening into the channel; and a removable wall assembly adapted to be removably fastened relative to the base member, the removable wall assembly comprising a flexible barrier wall having a length and a height and being adapted to be positioned within the opening of the upper portion of the channel wherein the wall assembly comprises a frame assembly for framing the barrier wall, the flexible frame assembly further comprising a top frame member and a bottom frame member with the height of the flexible barrier wall extending therebetween and wherein the bottom member is dimensioned to have a thickness that is less than or equal to w1 and that is greater than w2 for allowing the bottom member be received into the lower portion of the channel to position the flexible barrier wall in a substantially upstanding position and for simultaneously preventing the bottom member from being passed through the opening defined by the upper portion of the channel in an upwardly direction.
US12031280B1
A barrier system is configured to stop vehicular traffic. The barrier system has a beam gate arranged between a first barrier and a second barrier. The beam gate further comprises a hollow beam having bean first end and a beam second end. A beam cable is arranged through the beam along a beam central axis. A latch assembly has a cradle assembly that is joined to the first barrier and configured to house the beam in the cradle assembly. A pivot arm is joined to the beam and the second barrier, and further has a pivot arm joined to an axle and a counterweight housing. The counterweights arranged on the counterweight housing facilitate raising and lowering the beam in order to stop vehicular traffic.
US12031279B2
An earth working machine includes a support structure and a working assembly mounted on the support structure so as to be rotatable about a drive axis. An assembly-side bearing configuration is connected to the working assembly and a structure-side bearing configuration is connected to the support structure. The assembly-side bearing configuration includes a driver configuration having a driver surface facing in a first circumferential direction and the structure-side bearing configuration includes a driver counterpart configuration having a driver counterpart surface facing in a second circumferential direction opposite to the first, the movement spaces of the driver surface and of the driver counterpart surface about the drive axis overlapping one another.
US12031273B2
Systems and methods as disclosed herein automatically provide real-time dosing corrections for an industrial process wherein enzyme blends are applied to natural fibers for pulp/paper production. An initial enzyme blend (e.g., enzymes and supporting formulation components, as relevant) and respective dose rates are selected to be applied based on expected fiber surface substrate characterization, expected fiber quality characterization, the physical conditions of the system being treated, respective characteristics of the initially selected enzyme blend components, etc. Upon application of the initial enzyme blend, online sensors provide real-time feedback data corresponding to measured actual values for the fiber surface substrate characterization and fiber quality characterization. A replacement enzyme blend (enzymes and supporting formulation components) and respective dose rates thereof is dynamically selected based on the feedback data. The enzyme dosing stage can be optimized responsive to product changes and/or variations in fiber sources/blend and/or physical conditions, substantially in real time.
US12031267B2
Provided is a synthetic leather including a fibrous substrate, a porous resin layer provided on the fibrous substrate, and a non-porous resin layer provided on the porous resin layer. The synthetic leather has a thickness of 800 μm or more, and a vertical cross-section of the porous resin layer has a pore area ratio of 25% or more.
US12031265B2
A clothes treatment apparatus for treating clothes in a treatment space including a frame, a hanger body movable with respect to the frame, a center axial portion fixed with respect to the frame, and disposed along a center axis extending in the vertical direction, a first eccentric portion configured to rotate in a first direction around a first rotational axis spaced apart from the center axis, a second eccentric portion configured to rotate in a second direction opposite to the first direction around the first rotational axis, a motor generating a torque for rotating the first eccentric portion and second eccentric portion, a vibrating body supporting rotatably the first eccentric portion and second eccentric portion, and a hanger driving unit connecting the vibrating body and the hanger body. The hanger driving unit transmitting excitation force of the vibrating body to the hanger body.
US12031264B2
A laundry appliance includes a cabinet having a top panel that defines an aperture for selectively accessing a treatment chamber defined within the cabinet. A lid is rotationally operable relative to the aperture of the top panel between open and closed positions. Hinge assemblies extend between the lid and the top panel. The hinge assemblies include a first hinge assembly. A second hinge assembly is selectively retractable into the lid to a retracted position. A biasing member biases the second hinge assembly out to an extended position. At least the second hinge assembly is operable to the retracted position to bypass a portion of the top panel to define an installed position where the first and second hinge assemblies are engaged with respective hinge receptacles of the top panel.
US12031263B2
A laundry treatment apparatus includes a cabinet with an entrance, a drawer provided to be withdrawable from the cabinet through the entrance, a tub provided inside the drawer to provide a space for storing water, a height of the tub being smaller than a width of the tub, a water supply unit communicating with the tub to supply water, and a drum including a drum body rotatably provided inside the tub and a drum introduction port provided at an upper portion of the drum body and opened to allow laundry to be introduced. The tub includes a tub body, a tub cover, a tub introduction port, and an inflow portion provided at any one of the tub cover and the tub body. The inflow portion is disposed at an outer side of the drum introduction port to prevent the inflow portion from facing the drum introduction port.
US12031258B2
A clothing treatment apparatus, including a control panel, a power supply button, a parameter setting interface, a starting-and-stopping button and a preference button are arranged on the control panel the clothing treatment apparatus is set to be operated according to an intelligent clothing treatment procedure when the starting-and-stopping button is directly operated after the power supply button is operated; the clothing treatment apparatus is further arranged to be operated according to a pre-stored preference clothing treatment procedure when the preference button and the starting-and-stopping button are sequentially operated after the power supply button is operated; and the clothing treatment apparatus is further arranged to be operated according to a defined clothing treatment procedure when the parameter setting interface and the starting-and-stopping button are sequentially operated after the power supply button is operated.
US12031257B2
Disclosed herein is a clothes treatment apparatus. The clothes treatment apparatus includes a drum configured to accommodate clothes, an inputter configured to receive one of a plurality of programs and configured to receive a start command, a storage configured to store information on a setting time corresponding to a weight of clothes for each program and configured to store information on a default time for each program previously executed, in the form of tables, a processor configured to detect a weight of clothes when any one program is received and a start command is received, configured to identify a setting time corresponding to the detected weight of clothes and the received program, configured to control the execution of the received program based on the identified setting time, and configured to store an operation time, which is taken until the completion of the received program, as a default time, and a display configured to display a remaining time during the execution of the received program.
US12031252B2
The present invention provides portable devices and systems for electrofocused blow spinning, and methods for using the same. The devices of the invention are convenient to carry and use and are able to aerodynamically spin a variety of materials in a mobile setting.
US12031250B2
Hydroentangled composites having a wide variety of uses (e.g., personal hygiene articles, facers for fenestration absorbent patches on surgical drapes, facers on absorbent surgical drapes, etc.) are provided. The hydroentangled composite includes at least two nonwoven webs hydroentangled together. The hydroentangled composite may have a three-dimensional structure. Additionally, the at least two nonwoven webs may have different bonding levels and/or lint levels.
US12031248B2
A nonwoven substrate includes individual fibers each having a fiber surface and a fiber diameter, wherein a portion of the individual fibers include a micro-embossed pattern, and wherein the micro-embossed pattern includes pattern elements equal to or smaller than the fiber diameter. The pattern elements can be recessed into and/or extend out of the fiber surface, and the nonwoven substrate can include polypropylene or polyethylene. A disposable absorbent article includes a nonwoven substrate having individual fibers each having a fiber surface and a fiber diameter, wherein a portion of the individual fibers include a micro-embossed pattern, and wherein the micro-embossed pattern includes pattern elements equal to or smaller than the fiber diameter.
US12031247B2
A towel or peshtemal made from recycled materials that do not require any chemical treatment or dyeing in which the towel has a 60% water absorption rate and has 60% pile yarn, 20% warp yarn and 20% weft yarn. Each of the pile yarn, the warn yarn and the weft yarn is a blend of polyester yarn obtained from recycled polyester waste and cotton yarn of from recycled virgin textile cotton waste.
US12031240B2
A fiber for artificial hair formed of a polyvinyl chloride-based resin composition. The fiber for artificial hair has a value X1 of a loss tangent tans at 70° C. of 0.06 or more and 0.12 or less, when dynamic viscoelasticity is measured under the following conditions, and has a peak in a temperature range of 90° C. or higher and 110° C. or lower. (Dynamic viscoelasticity measurement conditions) The measurement is performed by sandwiching a bundle of 40 fibers for artificial hair that are arranged at a heating rate of 4° C./min and a frequency of 1 Hz.
US12031236B2
Electrospinning (ES) produces fibers with small cross-sections and high surface area, making them ideal for a multitude of applications. Structures produced using ES methods exhibit a high surface-to-volume ratio, tunable porosity, and controllable composition. ES involves the delivery of a liquid or solid polymer to a spinneret, whereby, an initiated electric field pulls the polymer into micro to nano-scale fibers. Due to the multitude of applications for which polymer fibers can be used, it is desirable to provide an efficient and portable ES device that allows on-demand deposition of polymer materials. The invention that is subject of this patent application is a portable ES device that allows ideal deposition on a substrate regardless of whether that substrate is attached to high voltage or grounded, and regardless of whether or not there is a charged or grounded substrate behind the desired deposition surface.
US12031222B2
A system and method for CO2 capture and electroregeneration and synchronous conversion are provided. The system includes a CO2 capture subsystem, which uses an absorption liquid to capture CO2 and generate a capture liquid; and a CO2 electroregeneration and synchronous conversion subsystem, including a cathode chamber provided with a cathode electrode, a sample inlet, and a sample outlet, an anode chamber having an anode electrode, a sample inlet connected to an outlet of the capture liquid of the CO2 capture subsystem, and a sample outlet connected to the sample inlet of the cathode chamber for introducing CO2 regenerated by anodic oxidation into the cathode chamber for electroreduction, and a balance chamber in the middle having a sample outlet connected to an inlet of the absorption liquid of the CO2 capture subsystem. The system can perform self-circulation and stably operate, to capture, regenerate and convert CO2.
US12031220B2
The invention provides a cathode for the nitrogen reduction reaction, comprising an electrically conductive substrate and an electrocatalytic composition on the substrate, wherein the electrocatalytic composition comprises: a support material present in one or more crystalline phases; and metallic clusters dispersed on the support material, the metallic clusters comprising at least one metal selected from ruthenium, iron, rhodium, iridium and molybdenum, wherein at least 80 mass % of the support material is present in a semiconductive crystalline phase having a conduction band minimum energy below (more positive than) −0.3 V relative to the normal hydrogen electrode (NHE).
US12031217B2
A thin plate-shaped graphite product is produced by applying a current to an electrochemical reaction system including a graphite-containing anode, a cathode optionally containing graphite, and an electrolyte solution containing tetrafluoroboric acid or hexafluorophosphoric acid as an electrolyte. Flaky graphite is produced by subjecting the thin plate-shaped graphite product to delamination.
US12031216B2
A passive cathodic protection process for preservation of embedded metallic foundations entails embedding a wrap around a metallic foundation. The wrap has an outer sheath and an inner absorbent mat to be in direct contact with the metallic foundation. The is also mat hydrophobic. The wrap is subsumed such that an upper edge of the wrap is accessible. An oil-based metallic soap is injected via the upper edge to impregnate the mat. The metallic soap is selected from a set of metallic soaps such that the metal of the metallic soap is more electropositive than the metal of the metallic foundation such that the metallic soap acts as an anodic solution for galvanic exchange with metal within the embedded metallic foundation for the passive cathodic protection thereof. For example, zinc naphthenate may be selected for steel or aluminium foundations thereby allowing for both passive cathodic protection and biocidal action.
US12031203B2
A galvannealed steel sheet according to one aspect of the present invention has a hot-dip galvannealed layer on at least one surface of the steel sheet, and the steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in which the steel sheet contains 10% or more and 90% or less of ferrite, and 10% or more of tempered martensite and tempered bainite in terms of an area ratio, a sum of the ferrite, the tempered martensite, and the tempered bainite is 90% or more, carbides having a major axis of 50 nm or more and 300 nm or less are contained in grains of the ferrite in a number density of 20/μm2 or more, and a two-dimensional homogeneous dispersion ratio S of Mn is 0.75 or more and 1.30 or less.
US12031194B2
A process for selectively extracting cobalt from a composition comprising cobalt and one or more other metal elements, wherein the process comprises the following steps: a) a step of forming a precipitate consisting of a coordination complex comprising cobalt, by bringing the solution into contact with at least one aromatic compound comprising at least two nitrogen atoms in its ring; b) a step of recovering the precipitate.
US12031186B2
Provided herein are methods of generating a homologous recombination repair deficiency (HRD) score, determining a reference HRD score, determining a HRD status of a test subject having one or more cancer types, and/or treating a disease based on HRD status. Additional methods as well as related systems, apparatuses, and computer readable media are also provided.
US12031181B2
Provided herein are systems and methods for quantitating the HLA diversity in a solid tissue or circulating tumor DNA sample that is predictive of a patient's responsiveness to immune checkpoint inhibitory therapies.
US12031180B2
Provided are systems and methods for analyte detection and analysis. A system can comprise an open substrate. The open substrate may be configured to rotate or otherwise move. The open substrate can comprise an array of individually addressable locations, with analytes immobilized thereto. The substrate may be spatially indexed to identify nucleic acid molecules from one or more sources, and/or sequences thereof, with the respective one or more sources. A solution comprising a plurality of probes may be directed across the array to couple at least one of the plurality of probes with at least one of the analytes to form a bound probe. A detector can be configured to detect a signal from the bound probe via scanning of the substrate while minimizing temperature fluctuations of the substrate or optical aberrations caused by bubbles.
US12031171B2
An antibacterial agent suppresses the growth of gram-positive contaminating bacteria. The antibacterial agent is selected from: a lactylate in accordance with the general formula (R—(O—CH(CH3)—CO)aO)bM; a glycerol ester in accordance with the general formula CH2OR1—CHOR2—CH2OR3; and, mixtures thereof. In the general formulae: R represents a C4-C18 acyl group, R1, R2 and R3 are each independently selected from H or a C4-C18 acyl group, the acyl group having an alkyl or alkenyl chain which may be branched or unbranched, with the proviso that at least one of R1, R2 or R3 is H and at least one of R1, R2, or R3 is an acyl group; M represents a proton (H+) or a counter-cation chosen from the group Li, Na, K, Ca, Mg, Zn, Fe(II), Cu, Mn, Ag, ammonium or substituted ammonium having one or more (C1-4)alkyl optionally substituted with one or more hydroxyl.
US12031166B2
A method for producing biogas in an anaerobic digestion chamber from an un-treated organic substrate, wherein said un-treated organic substrate has a dry matter of content of in the range of 20 to 90% of total solids, wherein the method comprises the steps of, pre-treatment of the un-treated organic substrate, to form a slurry having a dry matter content of in the range of 8 to 19.9% of total solids, feeding said slurry to a digestion chamber; digesting said slurry in the digestion chamber to produce biogas and a digestate, wherein in said pre-treatment step a mixture of a dilution fluid and a liquid digestate from said digestion chamber is used to dilute the un-treated organic substrate.
US12031163B2
The present disclosure relates to liquid enzyme formulations containing one or more alpha-amylases for use in starch processing, wherein the pH of the enzyme formulation is about pH 6.0-8.0, and methods of use thereof. The present disclosure further relates to methods of making a liquid enzyme formulation containing one or more alpha-amylase having improved stability, comprising titrating the pH of the liquid enzyme formulation to a range of pH 6.0-8.0.
US12031160B2
The present invention provides a glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase mutant and application in synthesis of L-glufosinate-ammonium thereof, the method uses 2-carbonyl-4-[(hydroxy)(methyl)phosphinoyl]-butyric acid or its salts as a substrate and the glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase or cells containing the glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase as a biocatalyst to carry out reductive amination, thereby obtaining L-glufosinate-ammonium. The method has features of high conversion rate of raw materials, high yield, easy separation and purification of the product, and high chiral purity; compared with other catalytic processes, the method in the present invention has features of relatively simple process and a conversion rate of raw materials up to 100%.
US12031150B2
Methods of editing a target genomic region(s), methods of repairing of a DNA break via a HDR pathway, methods of inhibiting or suppressing repair of a DNA break via a NHEJ pathway, and methods of modifying expression of a gene(s) or protein(s) comprise administering to one or more cells that include one or more target genomic regions, a genome editing system and a DNA protein-kinase (DNA-PK) inhibitor disclosed herein. Kits and compositions for editing a target gene comprise a genome editing system and a DNA-PK inhibitor disclosed herein.
US12031148B2
The invention described herein provides a recombinant DNA viral particle comprising a protein shell encapsulating an RNA vector genome, as well as related compositions and uses thereof.
US12031143B2
Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are insecticidal nucleic acids and proteins of bacterial species. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest including plants, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The pesticidal proteins find use in controlling, inhibiting growth or killing Lepidopteran, Coleopteran, Dipteran, fungal, Hemipteran and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity.
US12031140B2
Provided herein are regulatory elements, such as promoters and terminators, derived or obtained from various Glycine species. Such regulatory elements are useful for expression cassettes for plants, such as soybean. Such expression cassettes generally contain a promoter and terminator sequence to control expression of each coding sequence. Provided are promoters and terminators which are useful for expressing insect resistance and herbicide tolerance genes.
US12031136B2
The present invention includes a method of treating a bone disease caused by a intracellular protein trafficking defect comprising: identifying a subject having the bone disease caused by the intracellular protein trafficking defect in a membrane bound transcription factor peptidase, site 1 (MBTPS1) gene; and providing the subject with an effective amount of a composition that bypasses or corrects a defect in MBTPS1 gene expression, gene splicing, or corrects protein trafficking defects in the endoplasmic reticulum and to the lysosome.
US12031119B2
In a method for enriching and separating an anaerobic fiber-degrading bacterium on the basis of cellulosic magnetic nanoparticles, the cellulosic magnetic nanoparticles are prepared by coating cellulose on the surface of a magnetic nanomaterial. Bacteria attach to the cellulosic magnetic nanoparticles. Anaerobic fiber-degrading bacteria degrade the cellulose and then detach from the cellulosic magnetic nanoparticles, and the anaerobic fiber-degrading bacteria are obtained by means of separation using a magnet. The magnetic nano-separation technology can be used as a new technology to efficiently separate anaerobic fiber-degrading bacteria.
US12031117B2
A perfusion bioreactor system that includes assemblies for separating cells from microcarriers and exchanging liquids in the perfusion bioreactor system is provided herein. The perfusion bioreactor system includes a vessel having a wall at least partially defining an interior compartment for receiving fluid, at least one port fluidly connected to at least one of a plurality of external sources and at least one outlet fluidly connected to a small pore membrane device.
US12031116B2
The gas collection device includes a constant temperature chamber whose interior is maintained at a set temperature; a culture flask unit located inside the constant temperature chamber and culturing bacteria therein; a mass flow controller located outside the constant temperature chamber and connected to the culture flask unit through an injection flow path to control a gas injected into the culture flask unit through the injection flow path; and an impinger located outside the constant temperature chamber and connected to the culture flask unit through a discharge flow path to receive a gas discharged from the culture flask unit through the discharge flow path in real time.
US12031108B2
Acidic liquid fabric care compositions that include citric acid and/or a salt thereof, fragrance material that includes certain aldehydic perfume raw materials, and water. Related methods of using and making such compositions.
US12031100B2
A sulfonate-based grease composition and method of manufacture comprising (1) addition of both overbased calcium sulfonate and overbased magnesium sulfonate in a ratio range of 60:40 to 100:1, with the magnesium sulfonate added all at once, a portion prior to conversion and another portion after conversion, and/or one more delay periods between the addition of water or other reactive ingredient and the addition of magnesium sulfonate; (2) one or more delay periods between the addition of at least a portion of a facilitating acid and at least a portion of the next subsequently added ingredient; (3) no conventional non-aqueous converting agents added prior to conversion; or (4) a combination thereof. The grease has a high dropping point and reduced thickener yield.
US12031099B2
An additive composition for a marine fuel or a heating oil comprising a stabilized colloidal dispersion of catalytic metal particles, a neutral or overbased alkaline earth metal detergent and a carrier fluid miscible with a marine fuel oil, a heavy fuel oil, a marine distillate fuel, and/or a residual fuel oil. Also provided are marine fuel and/or heating oil compositions having the additive composition described above and associated methods and uses.
US12031094B2
Assemblies and methods to enhance a fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) process associated with a refining operation, during the FCC process, may include supplying a hydrocarbon feedstock to first processing units associated with the refining operation. The assemblies and methods also may include conditioning a hydrocarbon feedstock and unit material samples, and analyzing the samples via one or more spectroscopic analyzers. The assemblies and methods further may include prescriptively controlling, via one or more FCC process controllers, based at least in part on the hydrocarbon feedstock properties and the unit material properties, the FCC processing assembly, so that the prescriptively controlling results in causing the FCC process to produce intermediate materials, the unit materials, and/or the downstream materials having properties within selected ranges of target properties, thereby to cause the FCC process to achieve material outputs that more accurately and responsively converge on one or more of the target properties.
US12031085B2
A method of drilling a subterranean geological formation is described. The method includes driving a drill bit to form a wellbore in the subterranean geological formation thereby producing a formation fluid including hydrogen sulfide. The method further includes injecting a drilling fluid into the subterranean geological formation through the wellbore. The drilling fluid includes an aqueous solvent, a hydrogen sulfide scavenger including particles of a manganese oxide supported on a porous support. The particles are suspended in the aqueous solvent. The method further includes reacting the hydrogen sulfide scavenger with the hydrogen sulfide present in the formation fluid to form a manganese sulfide.
US12031084B2
The invention relates to a polymeric composite. The polymeric composite includes a polymeric matrix that further includes a thermoset polymer and a phase change material that has been mixed with the polymeric matrix using a thickening agent. In some cases, the polymeric composite is at least 10% by weight of the phase change material.
US12031077B2
The present disclosure provides an etching composition for a metal nitride layer and an etching method of a metal nitride layer using the same, and more particularly, to an etching composition for a metal nitride layer selectively etching the metal nitride layer, an etching method of a metal nitride layer using the etching composition, and a method of manufacturing a microelectronic device, the method including an etching process performed using the etching composition.
US12031076B2
An etching composition for a silver-containing thin film, the etching composition comprising an inorganic acid compound, a sulfonic acid compound, an organic acid compound, a nitrate, a metal oxidizing agent, an amino acid compound, and water.
US12031067B2
According to one embodiment, a process for applying an adhesive material onto a barrier sheet substrate is provided. The process includes providing an adhesive material having viscosity of at least about 10,000 centipoise at 250° F. The adhesive material is applied to a multitude of cavities on a surface of a first tool with a coater unit in close proximity to the surface. The adhesive material is transferred from the surface of the first tool to the substrate supported on a surface of a second tool and pressed against the surface of the first tool.
US12031063B2
Described are adhesive compositions containing a block copolymer component that includes a midblock segment and a plurality of end block segments, each end block segment comprising polystyrene, a (meth)acrylic functional additive having a glass transition temperature of from 50° C. to 160° C., a first tackifier compatible with the midblock segment and containing a hydrocarbon, and a second tackifier compatible with the end block segments and containing a polyphenylene ether. These compositions are useful in providing pressure-sensitive adhesives that are melt processible, display a high temperature resistance, and effectively bond to low surface energy substrates.
US12031062B2
The present disclosure relates to a polishing slurry composition for an STI process and, more specifically, to a polishing slurry composition for an STI process, the polishing slurry composition comprising: a polishing solution including polishing particles; and an additive solution containing a polymer having an amide bond, and a polysilicon film polishing barrier inclusive of a monomer having three or more chains linked to one or more atoms.
US12031055B2
A composition is provided that includes aliphatic urethane acrylate; a multifunctional crosslinking agent; photoinitiator; a chemical initiator system of a peroxide or azo group containing catalyst, and a cure promoter; and a particulate filler. The composition is amenable to rapid cure to a sandable condition as compared to conventional products. By adjusting the amount of particulate filler present, a product is provided that operates as a primer, a putty, or a filler. A method of vehicle body repair includes the application of an uncured layer of the composition to the vehicle body. The uncured layer is exposed to UV radiation to induce cure of the uncured layer to form a coating in a time of between 2 and 20 minutes even with an ultraviolet wavelength emitting light emitting diode (UV LED).
US12031050B2
To provide a paint composition capable of forming a coating film having a small graininess, having high flip-flop property, and having excellent chipping resistance and adhesion. According to the present invention, there is provided a paint composition including a hydroxy group-containing acrylic resin (A), a hydroxy group-containing polyester resin (B), an amino resin (C), and a titanium oxide-coated light interference pigment (D), which has an L*15 value of 100 or more and an L*110 value of 65 or less, wherein the solid content of the hydroxy group-containing acrylic resin (A) is in the range of 20 to 60 parts by mass, the solid content of the hydroxy group-containing polyester resin (B) is in the range of 10 to 50 parts by mass, the solid content of the amino resin (C) is in the range of 5 to 40 parts by mass, and the solid content of the titanium oxide-coated light interference pigment (D) is in the range of 3 to 25 parts by mass, relative to 100 parts by mass of the total solid content of the hydroxy group-containing acrylic resin (A), the hydroxy group-containing polyester resin (B), and the amino resin (C).
US12031043B2
A composite nanomaterial of ZnO impregnated by, e.g., a green copper phthalocyanine compound (CuPc) can be an efficient solar light photocatalyst for water remediation. The composite may include hollow shell microspheres and hollow nanospheres of CuPc-ZnO. CuPc may function as a templating and/or structure modifying agent, e.g., for forming hollow microspheres and/or nanospheres of ZnO particles. The composite can photocatalyze the degradation of organic pollutants such as crystal violet (CV) and 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid as well as microbes in water under solar light irradiation. The ZnO-CuPc composite can be stable and recyclable under solar irradiation.
US12031041B2
A method involving either: determining a first amount of asphalt emulsion required to generate a mixture for roadway material so that the roadway material will exhibit a predetermined strength; or adding a first amount of asphalt emulsion to a road base material to generate a mixture for roadway material and determining a strength of the mixture. The method involves determining an amount of maltene compounds to be mixed with a second amount of asphalt emulsion so that a mixture of the second amount of asphalt emulsion and the amount of maltene compounds used to generate roadway material will exhibit the predetermined strength or the strength, the second amount of asphalt emulsion being less than the first amount of asphalt emulsion. The method involves generating a mixture including the second amount of asphalt emulsion, the amount of maltene compounds, and the road base material.
US12031028B2
The present invention relates to a polyamide resin film having improved UV shielding function by using a polyamide resin having a backbone chain of alternative structure of two types of polyamide segments; and a resin laminate using the polyamide resin film.
US12031025B2
The invention relates to a composition comprising A) a polyester, B) a polyolefin and C) a compatibilizer, wherein A) comprises a first polyester derived from an aromatic dicarboxylic acid, an acyclic aliphatic diol and at least one of a cycloaliphatic diol and spiroglycol and a second polyester different from the first polyester. The invention further relates to an article comprising the composition, particularly a toy block.
US12031024B2
A thermoplastic resin composition and a molded article including the same can include 100 parts by weight of a base resin including 10 to 50% by weight of an acrylate-aromatic vinyl compound-vinyl cyanide compound graft copolymer (A-1) containing acrylate rubber having an average particle diameter of 0.3 to 0.5 μm, 5 to 40% by weight of an acrylate-aromatic vinyl compound-vinyl cyanide compound graft copolymer (A-2) containing acrylate rubber having an average particle diameter of 0.05 μm or more and less than 0.3 μm, and 20 to 65% by weight of an aromatic vinyl polymer (B), and 0.5 to 12 parts by weight of a polyamide (C). The thermoplastic resin composition can have a solvent resistance of 15 days or more.
US12031018B2
A flexible carrier for carrying a plurality of containers, such as soft drink and other beverage containers, is formed from a polymer composition which provides the carrier with improved elastic recovery following installation of the containers, along with tensile strength and tear resistance. The polymer composition includes about 10% to about 95% by weight of a post-consumer recycled plastic that includes recycled branched low-density polyethylene and recycled linear low-density polyethylene polymers, zero to about 90% by weight of a branched low-density polyethylene polymer having a density of about 0.910 to about 0.950 grams/cm3, and greater than zero to about 65% by weight of an elastomeric ethylene copolymer that includes about 60% by weight to less than 100% by weight ethylene and greater than zero to about 40% by weight of a vinyl acetate comonomer.
US12031011B2
Disclosed are a poly dopamine film and a preparation method and application thereof. The polydopamine film is loaded with silver sulfadiazine, and the preparation method achieves in-situ synthesis of si sulfadiazine on a conventional polydopamine film by microwave irradiation. In the method, the sulfadiazine is not dissolved in conventional aqueous ammonia, which has the following advantages: firstly, preventing the polydopamine film from being corroded by the aqueous ammonia; secondly, protecting mucosa such as eyes and nasal cavities of workers from stimulation and corrosion of the aqueous ammonia; and thirdly, avoiding the environmental problem caused by pungent odor and fumes emitted from high-concentration aqueous ammonia. In the method, without using the catalyst trifluoromethanesulfonic acid or trifluoromethanesulfonic salt, not only is the loading of silver sulfadiazine increased, but also the safely performance can be further improved.
US12031009B2
A downhole hydraulic frac tool for use in a hydraulic fracturing system, the frac tool comprising a dissolvable frac tool member that includes a water-dissolvable composition, the composition including: a water-soluble thermoplastic polymer; and water-soluble bulk metallic glass (BMG) particles, wherein: the BMG particles are embedded within a matrix of the water-soluble thermoplastic polymer, the BMG particles have a greater tensile strength than a tensile strength the water-soluble thermoplastic polymer, and the BMG particles have a higher fracture toughness than a fracture toughness the water-soluble thermoplastic polymer. A method of manufacturing a dissolvable downhole hydraulic frac tool member and, a hydraulic fracturing system associated with a wellbore in which dissolvable downhole hydraulic frac tools of the disclosure can be used, are also disclosed.
US12031003B2
The disclosure provides solid compositions such as lyophilisates adhered to surfaces such as plasma-treated surfaces and related methods, uses, kits, intermediates, starting materials, and downstream products.
US12030998B2
Disclosed herein are a fiber-reinforced material and an article made of the same. The fiber-reinforced material includes a fiber assembly and a matrix material coating the fiber assembly, the matrix material is a thermoplastic resin composition obtained by blending a polyolefin resin, a polyamide resin, and a modified elastomer that reacts with the polyamide resin. When a puncture test is performed at a striker speed of 1-4 msec and when a maximum impact force is applied is defined as PM and a deflection at break is defined as PB, PB/PM≥4. When the amount of energy absorbed before a maximum impact force is applied is E1, the amount of energy absorbed after a maximum impact force is applied and before break is E2, and a total amount of absorbed energy of E1 and E2 is ET, the ratio of E2:ET is 70% or more.
US12030996B2
An inorganic degradable plastic masterbatch material is disclosed, the product prepared meets the degradation requirements and has higher mechanical strength and faster degradation rate than ordinary plastic products. The material is used to prepare various environmentally friendly degradable products. The inorganic degradable plastic masterbatch material comprises the following components: calcium carbonate mineral powder with mass percentage of 56-72%; polyethylene with mass percentage of 3-10%; polypropylene with mass percentage of 18-30%; glass fibers with mass percentage of 2-5%; and additives with mass percentage of 2-5%.
US12030992B2
A photocurable composition can comprise a polymerizable material and an initiator. The polymerizable material can comprise at least one 1,3-benzoxazine monomer and at least one acrylate monomer, and may have a viscosity of not greater than 20 mPa·s. The photocurable composition can be suitable for use in inkjet adaptive planarization and is adapted to form cured layers having exceptional heat stability up to 320° C.
US12030990B2
An aliphatic polyketone compound including 85.0 to 99.5 wt % aliphatic polyketone and 0.5 to 15.0 wt % ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene. An aliphatic polyketone compound described where the ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene is 2.0 to 8.0 wt %. An aliphatic polyketone compound where the ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene has a molecular weight greater than 1.0 million g/mol.
US12030987B2
An object of this invention is to find a method for introducing a functional group into an aliphatic polycarbonate without impairing the excellent thermal decomposition property of the aliphatic polycarbonate. An aliphatic polycarbonate comprising a constituent unit represented by formula (1): wherein R1, R2, and R3 are identical or different, and each represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-10 alkyl group optionally substituted with one or more substituents, or a C6-20 aryl group optionally substituted with one or more substituents, wherein two groups from among R1 to R3, taken together with the carbon atom or carbon atoms to which these groups are attached, may form a substituted or unsubstituted, saturated or unsaturated 3- to 10-membered aliphatic ring; and X represents a divalent group containing one or more heteroatoms or an alkylene group having 3 or more carbon atoms, and a constituent unit represented by formula (2): wherein R4, R5, R6, and R7 are identical or different, and each represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-10 alkyl group optionally substituted with one or more substituents, or a C6-20 aryl group optionally substituted with one or more substituents, wherein two groups from among R4 to R7, taken together with the carbon atom or carbon atoms to which these groups are attached, may form a substituted or unsubstituted, saturated or unsaturated 3- to 10-membered aliphatic ring, the content of the constituent unit represented by formula (1) being 0.1 mol % or more and 1.5 mol % or less, based on the total amount of the constituent units of formula (1) and formula (2).
US12030975B2
A pre-catalyst composition comprising: a) a silica support comprising silica wherein an amount of silica is in a range of from about 70 wt. % to about 95 wt. % based upon a total weight of the silica support; b) a titanium-containing compound wherein an amount of titanium is in a range of from about 0.1 wt. % to about 10 wt. % based upon the total weight of the silica support; c) a chromium-containing compound wherein an amount of chromium is in a range of from about 0.1 wt. % to about 10 wt. % based upon the total weight of the silica support; d) a surfactant wherein the surfactant comprises a non-ionic surfactant, a cationic surfactant, or a combination thereof; e) a carboxylate wherein the carboxylate comprises a multi carboxylate, an alpha-hydroxy carboxylate, or a combination thereof; and f) a solvent.
US12030973B2
A thermoplastic resin composition comprising: a graft copolymer (A) obtained by polymerizing a vinyl monomer mixture (m1) in the presence of a specific alkyl (meth)acrylate rubbery polymer (a); a graft copolymer (B) obtained by polymerizing a vinyl monomer mixture (m2) in the presence of a specific alkyl (meth)acrylate rubbery polymer (b); and a vinyl copolymer (C) obtained by polymerizing a vinyl monomer mixture (m3), wherein: a proportion of a rubbery polymer contained in the thermoplastic resin composition is 21 to 28% by mass, and a proportion of particles with a particle size of 300 nm or more among all particles formed by the rubbery polymer is 1 to 11% by mass.
US12030970B2
A curable composition contains 79.0 to 99.0% by mass of a polymerizable monomer (a), 0.1 to 10.0% by mass of a photopolymerization initiator (b), and 0.01 to 20.0% by mass of a compound represented by the following general formula (I) as a polyfunctional polymerizable compound (c): wherein R1 and R2 each independently represent at least one kind selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an alkenyl group having 2 to 6 carbon atoms, an aryl group, and an aralkyl group; R3 represents at least one kind of a polymerizable functional group selected from the group consisting of a (meth)acryloyl group, a 4-vinylphenyl group, and an alkenyl group having 2 to 5 carbon atoms; and n represents an arbitrary integer of 0 to 5.
US12030964B2
A biaxially-oriented film for thermoforming is disclosed including at least 75% by weight polyethylene and at least 95% by weight polyolefins, based on the total mass of the film. The polyethylene has an elongation at break of at least 7 in the stress-strain diagram, wherein the stress-strain diagram is measured at a temperature of 10° C. below the melting point of the polyethylene and the melting point is determined by differential scanning calorimetry using a heating rate of 10° C. per minute. A process for producing such films and to the use thereof are disclosed. A process for producing shaped bodies from such films and to the shaped bodies themselves are disclosed.
US12030963B2
The present invention discloses a matrix comprising a modified polysaccharide consisting of repeating disaccharide units whereby in at least 11% of the disaccharide units one primary alcohol group is oxidized into a carboxylic acid group.
US12030962B2
The invention relates to an iron oligosaccharide compound with improved stability comprising a hydrogenated oligosacharride in stable association with ferric oxyhydroxide, the content of dimer saccharide in said hydrogenated oligosaccharide being 2.9% by weight or less, based on the total weight of the hydrogenated oligosaccharide. In further aspects is provided a process for preparing said compound as well as the use of said compound for preparation of a composition for treatment of iron deficiency anaemia.
US12030961B2
The present invention provides a method for removing an organic solvent from starch hemostatic microspheres, comprising the following steps: 1. taking to-be-dried starch hemostatic microspheres and laying them flatly on drying trays with attention to laying them as uniformly and thinly as possible; 2. taking an adsorbent and subpackaging it into dialyzing paper bags for sealing; and 3. placing the trays and the dialyzing paper bags completed in the previous two steps on separators of a low-temperature vacuum oven in layers, setting the oven temperature at 0-20° C., then vacuumizing and keeping pressure for 15-48 hours. The method provided by the present invention can reduce organic solvent residue in the starch hemostatic microspheres to less than 0.05%, which meets the requirements of relevant standards for medical devices, thereby improving safety of products.
US12030956B2
Compositions and methods of using antibodies that are able to recognize single amino acid polymorphisms in a protein are provided. Compositions are disclosed which may be used for blood typing or to block hemolytic transfusion reactions and/or hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn.
US12030954B2
Provided is an antibody or an antigen-binding fragment thereof, having one or more properties selected from the group consisting of: 1) being capable of binding to an AXL protein by a KD value of 1×10−8 M or lower; 2) being capable of specifically recognizing an AXL protein expressed on a cell surface; and 3) being capable of mediating internalization after binding to the AXL protein expressed on the cell surface. The antibody may further used for constructing an immunoconjugate. The antibody and the immunoconjugate may inhibit the proliferation of tumor cells.
US12030948B2
The present invention discloses a stable pharmaceutical formulation of an antibody, wherein the formulation contains buffer, surfactant, sugar, and optionally contains a free amino acid. The disclosed formulation is stable at 50° C. for two weeks. In addition, the formulation maintains at least 96% of the antibody in monomeric form under above said storage conditions.
US12030945B2
Embodiments provided herein, provide for variant IgG Fc polypeptides, dimeric molecules, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods that can be used to target at cells to modulate the activity of the same to treat disorders, such as autoimmune disorders or cancers.
US12030932B2
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.
US12030931B2
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.
US12030923B2
The invention provides for mammalian cells capable of producing recombinant CTLA4-Ig and variants thereof. The invention also provides for compositions comprising CTLA4-Ig and formulations thereof. The invention further provides for methods for mass-producing CTLA4-Ig from mammalian cells capable of producing this recombinant protein, and for purifying the CTLA4-Ig.
US12030922B2
The present invention provides macrophages genetically modified to express IL-31 or both IL-31 and a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) for treatment of cancer. It further provides methods for treatment of cancer comprising administration of IL-31 along with genetically unmodified macrophages or genetically modified to express a CAR.
US12030899B2
Pt-biphenyl-iodine complex and Pt-biphenyl-bromine complex, and the use thereof for catalysis of a hydroformylation reaction.
US12030898B2
The invention provides an organic electroluminescent material and application thereof in optoelectronic devices. The organic electroluminescent material according to the invention having the structure of Formula (I), the compound of which contains a unit formed by imidazole and indenopyrrole, with its spiro structure molecule that is beneficial to inhibit the stacking between molecules. The compound has better thermal stability and will be applied to organic electroluminescent devices with characteristics such as luminous efficiency and color purity, has the potential to be applied to organic electroluminescent devices. The invention further provides an optoelectronic device including a cathode, an anode, and an organic layer. The organic layer is one or more of a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer, a light-emitting layer, a hole-blocking layer, an electron injection layer, and an electron transport layer. At least one layer of the organic layer contains the compound having Formula (I).
US12030895B2
The present invention relates to: a novel method for preparing a heterocyclic derivative compound of chemical formula I below; a novel intermediate compound used in the preparation method; a composition for treatment or prevention of hyperuricacidemia, gout, nephritis, chronic renal insufficiency, nephrolith, uremia, urolithiasis, or a uric acid-related disease, the composition containing the compound of chemical formula I at a dose of more than 2 mg and equal to or less than 10 mg and being orally administered once a day; and a hydrochloride 1.5 hydrate of the novel compound of chemical formula I.
US12030890B2
The present invention describes diazadibenzofuran or diazadibenzothiophene derivatives substituted by carbazole, fluorene, phenanthrene, benzofuran and/or benzothiophene groups, especially for use in electronic devices. The invention further relates to a process for preparing the compounds of the invention and to electronic devices comprising these.
US12030886B2
The present disclosure relates to Form Z of acetic acid solvated hydrate of ponatinib hydrochloride. The present disclosure is also related to processes for the preparation of Form Z of acetic acid solvated hydrate of ponatinib hydrochloride. Further, the present disclosure also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising Form Z of acetic acid solvated hydrate of ponatinib hydrochloride and methods for treating disease using Form Z of acetic acid solvated hydrate of ponatinib hydrochloride.
US12030884B2
Disclosed are compounds of Formula I, methods of using the compounds for inhibiting KRAS activity and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds. The compounds are useful in treating, preventing or ameliorating diseases or disorders associated with KRAS activity such as cancer.
US12030883B2
Disclosed are compounds of Formula I, methods of using the compounds for inhibiting KRAS activity and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds. The compounds are useful in treating, preventing or ameliorating diseases or disorders associated with KRAS activity such as cancer.
US12030878B2
Disclosed are compounds of Formula (I) (I) N-oxides, or salts thereof, wherein R1, G, A, R5, and n are defined herein. Also disclosed are methods of using such compounds as inhibitors of signaling through Toll-like receptor 7, or 8, or 9, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds. These compounds are useful in treating inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.
US12030877B2
Compounds and compositions are provided that can inhibit microsomal prostaglandin E synthase-1 (mPGES-1). The compounds and compositions can reduce inflammation in a subject, such as inflammation caused by an inflammation disorder or symptoms thereof. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compound are also provided. Furthermore, methods are provided for reducing inflammation and/or inhibiting mPGES-1. The methods can comprise administering an effective amount of the composition to a subject.
US12030871B2
Compounds of formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R23, R24, L, A and B are as defined in claim 1, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are disclosed. The compounds of formula (I) possess utility as cytochrome P450 monooxygenase 11A1 (CYP11A1) inhibitors. The compounds are useful as medicaments in the treatment of steroid receptor, particularly androgen receptor, dependent diseases and conditions, such as prostate cancer.
US12030864B2
The invention relates to methods of treating cell proliferative disorders. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions for treating cell proliferative disorders, especially cancer.
US12030859B2
Proposed are a polymerizable compound, a polymerizable composition, and an optical film using the same, which can exhibit superior optical properties in a wide wavelength range by reducing wavelength dependence or exhibiting reverse-wavelength dispersibility.
US12030853B2
The present disclosure provides, inter alia, compounds with MASP-2 inhibitory activity, compositions of such compounds, and methods of making and using such compounds.
US12030848B2
The present disclosure provides methods for isolating a long chain dicarboxylic acid such as a substantially pure or pure long chain dicarboxylic acid from a fermentation broth containing microbial cells.
US12030841B2
The present invention provides honokiol crystal forms A, B and C and amorphous form and a preparation method thereof, wherein the preparation method comprises dissolving honokiol in n-heptane and standing at room temperature overnight to obtain the separated crystal as honokiol crystal form A; heating the honokiol crystal form A and cooling to room temperature to obtain a solid as honokiol crystal form B; heating the honokiol crystal form A to the molten state and then standing at quenching temperature to obtain the separated crystal as honokiol crystal form C; and adding the honokiol crystal form A with an antisolvent in DMSO/H2O system, and thus obtaining the oily matter as honokiol amorphous form. The honokiol crystal forms A, B and C and the amorphous form of the present invention have the advantages of good solubility, good stability, low hygroscopicity, long-term storage and/or good reproducibility, and are suitable for drug development.
US12030834B2
The present disclosure is directed synthetic methods for the preparation of 4-valyloxybutyric acid. The synthetic methods described herein employ a diverse array of protecting group strategies and reaction conditions. Additionally, the present disclosure is directed to compounds useful as synthetic intermediates in the preparation of 4-valyloxybutyric acid.
US12030826B2
The present invention relates to improving the efficacy of man-made and/or natural organic-based animal manure fertilizers by administration of an organic solvent formula containing polyorganic acids and/or their salts. The formulation liberates nutrient(s) that are normally bound in the soil as insoluble salts and complexes. These delivery formulations also provide an environmentally sound and inherently safe solvating system that improves diffusion of polyorganic acids to the granule fertilizer. These delivery formulations enable safe storage, transport and subsequent application or blending with solid or liquid fertilizers. The combined formulation and fertilizer can be applied to soil to provide improved efficacy of fertilizer by liberating nutrients bound in the soil for uptake by plant life.
US12030817B2
A multicolor light-storing ceramic for fire-protection indication and a preparation method thereof are provided. The preparation method includes: adding a glass based raw material, a light-storing powder, a dispersant and an alumina powder into a granulator, adding water mixed with a pore-forming agent and then mechanically stirring for granulation; adding a plasticizer after the stirring of 4˜8 h, and continuing the stirring for 1˜3 h to thereby obtain a mixture; packing the mixture into a mold and performing tableting; demolding and obtaining a light-storing self-luminous quartz ceramic by drying and firing using a kiln; printing a pattern onto a surface of the ceramic and then curing to obtain a light-storing ceramic for indication sign. Using an industrial waste glass has advantages of low sintering temperature and green environmental protection; dispersed pores and alumina introduced as scattering sources improves light absorption efficiency, fluorescence output phase ratio and light transmission of the ceramic.
US12030814B2
A method for preparing Portland cement includes: respectively weighing iron slag, copper slag, vanadium slag, and nickel slag and grinding, to yield prefabricated iron slag, prefabricated copper slag, prefabricated vanadium slag, and prefabricated nickel slag; weighing mica and kaolinite, mixing, and grinding to obtain aluminous raw materials; evenly mixing the prefabricated iron slag and the aluminous raw materials, and calcining, to yield an iron-aluminum eutectic mineral; weighing the marble, fluorite, dolomite, and quartz, evenly mixing the marble, fluorite, dolomite, and quartz with the prefabricated copper slag, prefabricated vanadium slag, and prefabricated nickel slag to yield a first mixture; grinding the iron-aluminum eutectic mineral to yield powders, and calcining a second mixture of the first mixture and the powders, to yield the cement clinker; and cooling the cement clinker, and grinding a third mixture of the cooled cement clinker and the gypsum, to yield the Portland cement.
US12030813B2
A method of placing a flowable construction material including a hydraulic binder for building structural components layer-by-layer, such as for 3D concrete printing, the method including preparing a fresh flowable construction material made of Portland cement, fine limestone filler materials, fine sands, water, and water reducing admixture and possibly a set or hardening accelerating admixture, conveying the flowable construction material to a deposition head, placing the construction material through an outlet of the deposition head in order to form a layer of construction material, before placing the construction material, adding a rheology-modifying agent to the construction material so that the placed material has an increased yield stress when compared to the material during the conveying step.
US12030811B2
The present invention relates to the use of a cationic copolymer as a rheology modifier in a geopolymer foam formulation, a geopolymer foam formulation comprising a cationic copolymer, a process for preparing a geopolymer foam, a geopolymer foam comprising a cationic copolymer and composition for preparing a geopolymer foam formulation.
US12030805B2
A glass article is provided that includes: a glass substrate comprising a thickness and a primary surface; and a textured region defined by the primary surface. The textured region comprises a low spatial frequency region and a high spatial frequency region substantially superimposed within the low spatial frequency region. Further, the low spatial frequency region comprises an average lateral feature size that exceeds an average lateral feature size of the high spatial frequency region. In addition, the textured region comprises a surface roughness (Ra) from about 10 nm to about 1000 nm.
US12030804B2
An optical fiber includes a core, and a cladding. When a refractive index of silica glass is set as n0, a refractive index of the core is set as n1, and a refractive index of the cladding is set as n2, a relative refractive index difference Δ defined by Expression (1): Δ[%]=100×(n12−n22)/2n02 (1) is 0.2% or higher. A ratio of a maximum value of a concentration of the dopant composed of the alkali metal element or the alkaline-earth metal element in the cladding to a maximum value of a concentration of the dopant composed of the alkali metal element or the alkaline-earth metal element in the core is 0.06 or higher and 0.25 or lower.
US12030802B2
A cold-formed glass laminate may include a first ply of 3D formed glass with a first thickness and a first strength. The first ply may include pre-formed residual compressive stresses in a peripheral edge portion adapted to offset tensile stresses resulting from a cold-forming process. The laminate may also include a second ply of 3D formed glass with a second thickness less than the first thickness and a second strength greater than the first strength. An adhesive may be arranged between the first ply and the second ply and post-formed residual stresses in the peripheral edge portion of the first ply of the laminate may remain compressive. A method of forming a glass laminate with compressive edge stresses is also described.
US12030794B2
A method for electrochemical treatment of water is provided. The method includes providing a flow-through reactor including a cathode and an anode, wherein the anode includes about 80 weight percent or greater of a sub-stoichiometric titanium oxide. The method further includes applying power to the cathode and the anode, passing a solution including water and a metal chloride through the flow-through reactor, and withdrawing the purified water.
US12030789B2
Methods for synthesizing crystalline Ni-rich cathode materials are disclosed. The Ni-rich cathode material may have a formula LiNixMnyMzCo1-x-y-zO2, where M represents one or more dopant metals, x≥0.6, 0.01≤y<0.2, 0≤z≤0.05, and x+y+z≤1.0. The methods are cost-effective, and include methods for solid-state, molten-salt, and flash-sintering syntheses.
US12030788B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing mixed metal oxide particles, in which particles from parent compounds are converted by contactless energy input. The invention also relates to a process for coating bodies, preferably transition metal- or metal particles, transition metal- or metal oxide particles, transition metal- or mixed metal oxide particles, or silicon- or sulphur particles, especially preferably particles having a mass of less than one milligram and being in the form of grains, fibers, hollow fibers, or 2D structures, by heating with the exclusion of oxygen in the presence of a carbon source.
US12030780B2
Described herein is a nanostructured silicon carbonaceous composite material and methods for producing the same. The methods include formation of a metal organic framework/silica (MOF/SiO2) intermediate material and conversion of the MOF/SiO2 intermediate material to the nanostructured silicon carbonaceous composite material. Relatively inexpensive and/or recycled materials can be used as precursors in manufacturing the nanostructured silicon carbon composition material, which can be used in various applications, including as silicon anode material in a lithium-ion battery.
US12030775B2
An apparatus for supplying gas includes: an ion chamber; and a gas supply unit connected to the ion chamber, wherein the gas supply unit includes: a case having an internal space; an inactive gas supply unit connected to the ion chamber; and a hydrogen gas supply unit installed inside or outside of the case, wherein the hydrogen gas supply unit includes: a hydrogen gas generator generating hydrogen gas; a controller connected to the hydrogen gas generator; a dehumidifying filter connected to the controller and removing moisture from the hydrogen gas; and a purifying filter connected to the dehumidifying filter and removing an impurity from the hydrogen gas, wherein the hydrogen gas generator is configured to generate the hydrogen gas through a chemical reaction between a reactant and a hydrogen-containing solid raw material.
US12030761B2
Testing operational characteristics of a remote control device associated with a materials handling vehicle can include waiting for receipt of a first input indicative that a first button of the remote control device has been pressed, wherein the first button comprises a travel button of the remote control device. The testing may further comprise waiting for receipt, subsequent to receiving the first input, of a second input indicative that at least a second button of the remote control device has been pressed, wherein the second button relates to a first auxiliary vehicle function. The testing still further comprises determining whether or not a predetermined button pressing sequence is successful based at least in part on receiving or not receiving the first and second inputs; and optionally driving a display on the vehicle to provide a visual indication that the button pressing sequence is successful or not successful based on the determination.
US12030755B2
A method and system for controlling an actuator, in particular an actuator of a winch, a hoist or a crane, wherein the actuator is controlled using a fail-safe control unit. In order to improve a corresponding method, according to the invention, set point values are calculated in the fail-safe control unit, on the basis of which values the actuator is controlled.
US12030754B1
A crane apparatus of the present invention is configured to install a tower and a wind power generation system and includes an elevation unit configured to be movable upward or downward, and a crane unit configured to raise an element that constitutes the wind power generation system, in which the elevation unit includes upper and lower bases configured to switch between a state in which the upper and lower bases are supported on the tower and a state in which the upper and lower bases are movable, a plurality of posts configured to fix the upper and lower bases to each other, a lifting base configured to switch between a state in which the lifting base is supported on the tower and a state in which the lifting base is movable, and a drive device configured to change distances between the lifting base and the upper and lower bases.
US12030753B2
A bridge crane assembly includes a crane track that is positioned in a warehouse. A cylinder is included that has a plurality of tracks integrated into the cylinder. A drive unit is integrated into the cylinder and the drive unit has a pair of drive wheels that each engages the crane track. The drive unit rotates each of the drive wheels in a first direction or a second direction. A carriage extends around the cylinder and a plurality of rollers is each rotatably coupled to the carriage. Each of the rollers engages a respective one of the tracks on the cylinder thereby facilitating the carriage to travel along the cylinder. A transport unit is integrated into the carriage and the transport unit engages the cylinder. The transport unit is actuatable to urge the carriage to travel along the cylinder in either a primary direction or a secondary direction.
US12030734B2
Methods and apparatus to form tear-off paperband composites that adhesively attach a paper web to an empty web spool. In some embodiments, the paperband composite is applied in several layers to an empty web spool, each layer suitable for fixedly attaching a paper web to the empty spool. Multiple layers of paperband composite allow for use during multiple turn-up procedures with one layer of paperband composite used per turn-up procedure. In some examples, the paperband composite may be applied to a paper spool tangentially along the spool face and perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the spool. In other examples, the paperband composite may be spirally wrapped around the paper spool.
US12030732B2
A subterranean energy storage system configured to store and subsequently release potential energy. Storage of potential energy is achieved by the transfer of a pseudo fluid from a first storage tank to a second storage tank located above the first storage tank, and is subsequently released by the transfer of the pseudo fluid from the second storage tank to the first storage tank. To transfer the pseudo fluid between the first and second storage tanks, the subterranean energy storage system comprises at least one continuous conveyor mechanism extending through at least one transport shaft, wherein the at least one continuous conveyor mechanism comprises a plurality of vessels arranged along a length of the continuous conveyor mechanism. The subterranean energy storage system further comprises an energy transfer means operably connected to the at least one continuous conveyor mechanism to transfer power to and from the subterranean energy storage system.
US12030727B2
A film forming system includes a conveyance carrier configured to hold a substrate and a mask and move inside a conveyance path, the substrate including a film formation area, the mask being configured to shield a film non-formation area other than the film formation area, a conveyance unit disposed on the conveyance path and configured to move the conveyance carrier in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction, a film formation unit located along the conveyance path and configured to form a film on the film formation area of the substrate, and a mask supply unit located along the conveyance path and configured to supply the conveyance carrier with the mask.
US12030725B2
An in-line valve assembly for a tubular drag conveyer system includes a first tube segment having a first end and defining a first passageway, a second tube segment having a second end and defining a second passageway, and a tubular valve body translatably disposed relative to the second tube segment and defining a valve passageway. The first end of the first tube segment is spaced apart from the second end of the second tube segment by a gap. The valve body is selectively adjustable between a closed position wherein the valve passageway spans the gap and connects the first passageway to the second passageway and an open position wherein the valve passageway is spaced apart from the first passageway by at least a portion of the gap.
US12030721B2
The invention relates to a storage and order-picking system (1a . . . 1f) as well as order-picking method for picking ordered goods into or onto a target loading aid (4, 4′), in which at least one of the picking orders comprises multiple order lines (6, 7), which specify (an) ordered good(s) (2, 3) according to its/their type of good (8) and its/their number of pieces to be picked (9). During the execution of a picking order, a first loading aid (11, 11a . . . 11c), which is configured so as to be different from a hanging bag, with ordered good(s) (2) of the first order line (6) is out-fed from a first storage zone (10). Further, a hanging bag (13) with ordered good(s) (3) of the second order line (7) is out-fed from a second storage zone (12). Then, the ordered good(s) (2) of the first order line (6) and the ordered good(s) (3) of the second order line (7) are loaded into or onto a target loading aid (4, 4′) in accordance with the at least one picking order.
US12030719B2
A parts feeding apparatus includes: a parts feeder disposed on one side of a worktable where work is performed and having a plurality of feeder slots each for loading at least one parts box; a position mover adapted to load the parts boxes onto the parts feeder or unload the parts boxes loaded on the plurality of slots to move the parts boxes horizontally or vertically; a parts storage unit located to face the parts feeder and having a plurality of storage unit slots for loading at least one or more parts boxes to store the parts boxes to be fed to the parts feeder therein; and a control unit adapted to control the parts feeder and the position mover so that the parts boxes are changed in position and aligned.
US12030717B2
A container-handling vehicle includes a vehicle body and a lifting device for lifting a storage container from a grid. The lifting device includes a lifting band drive assembly connected to the vehicle body, a horizontal lifting frame for releasable connection to a storage container, and four lifting bands connecting the lifting band drive assembly to the lifting frame. The lifting band drive assembly includes a lifting shaft assembly having a lifting shaft and at least one motor for rotating the lifting shaft. The lifting shaft includes a first end section and a second end section. Two of the lifting bands are connected at each of the first and second end sections. The lifting shaft assembly includes at least one electrical insulating element arranged such that the lifting bands connected at the first end section is electrically insulated from the lifting bands connected at the second end section.
US12030715B2
The transport system has a transport vehicle. The transport vehicle includes two racks, each of the two racks being configured to accommodate a plurality of boxes, and a drive arm that is disposed at a position between the two racks and that moves each of the boxes in and out of each of the racks. The transport vehicle moves each of the boxes in and out of each of the two racks by changing an orientation of the drive arm.
US12030712B2
A transport container includes: a bottom member where the transported object is placed; left and right side members disposed beside the bottom member; a handle disposed above the bottom member; left and right lower connecting members interconnecting the bottom member and side members; and left and right upper connecting members interconnecting the side and the handle members, which are respectively interconnected via hinges. When the handle is not lifted, the side members are separated from the bottom member. When the handle is lifted, the side members laterally support the transported object. As for the transport method, with the transported object stacked in the up-down direction, the transport container is installed at an unloading location such that the lower and upper connecting members are laid to be non-parallel to the side member, and the transported object is taken out from the front or rear between the left and right side members.
US12030711B1
An intermodal container comprising: a bottom frame; a first side end wall configured to slide into a first side of the bottom frame, the first side end wall is height adjustable with respect to the bottom frame; a second side end wall configured to slide into a second side of the bottom frame, the second side opposite of the first side, the second side end wall is height adjustable with respect to the bottom frame; a front gate configured to attach to the bottom frame, the front gate configured to rotate with respect to the bottom frame, and the front gate further configured to lock into place with respect with the bottom frame at various angles of rotation with respect to the bottom frame; a rear gate configured to attach to the bottom frame, on a side of the bottom frame opposite from the front gate, and the rear gate configured to rotate with respect to the bottom frame, and the rear gate further configured to lock into place with respect with the bottom frame gate at various angles of rotation with respect to the bottom frame; a first vertical limiting member configured to attach to the top of the first side end wall and the second side end wall; a second vertical limiting member configured to attach to the top of the first side end wall and the second side end wall; where the intermodal container is configured to store, transport, and secure items; and where the first and second vertical limiting members are configured to limit items from moving in a vertical direction.
US12030705B2
The present disclosure relates to a pouch assembly for storing a liquid and a container device using the same. A pouch assembly according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a pouch unit which is formed of an elastic material and in which a charging space for charging the liquid is formed. The pouch unit includes a pouch unit body in which the charging space and a pouch-side opening communicating with the charging space on one side thereof are formed, a pouch-side catch which is formed on one side of the pouch unit body and in which an outer circumferential side thereof in a state in which the pouch-side catch surrounds the pouch-side opening further extends outward from an outer surface side of the pouch unit body, and a selective sealing unit which is disposed at an upper side of the pouch-side catch and selectively opens/closes the pouch-side opening.
US12030701B2
A reclosable flexible package is described that includes an inner film layer, an outer film layer laminated to the inner film layer, and reclose region defined in a portion of package film layers. The reclose region includes pressure sensitive adhesive disposed between the inner and outer film layers. A number of cut lines are provided in the outer film layer in the reclose region, such that the user, by manipulating the package film layers at the reclose region, can reveal the underlying layer of pressure sensitive adhesive. Once the pressure sensitive adhesive of the reclose region is exposed, the action of the user can serve to adhere the pressure sensitive adhesive to itself and/or other portions of the film, such that the package is cinched in the area of the reclose region and maintains the remnants of the package contents within the reclosed package for later use.
US12030695B2
An inner tray for battery cell transport includes a base plate extending in a longitudinal direction of a pouch-type battery cell; a plurality of insertion plates erected and located on the base plate, the insertion plates being spaced apart to accommodate a lead of the pouch-type battery cell; and at least one buffer pad located on the base plate and extending in the longitudinal direction to support the pouch-type battery cell.
US12030691B2
A container system utilizing interlocking structural elements and magnetic attachment to facilitate modular assembly of one or more internal container sections for enhanced customizability and ease of use.
US12030686B2
A method for controlling the processing of varying shipment sets of one or more item(s) in an automated packaging system for packaging said varying shipment sets in custom-sized boxes made from cardboard blanks, said packaging system comprising a plurality of processing stations performing different operations on said shipment sets, said operations including transporting said shipments sets to and through said stations, said method comprising: acquiring information about one or more physical properties of a shipment set or the item(s) forming the shipment set, determining based on said information if the shipment set needs or allows a specific treatment in or on the transport to and through one or more of said processing stations within said packaging system, and configuring said one or more of said processing stations with instructions for said specific treatment of said shipment set.
US12030676B1
A deployable structure includes a hydride material to be converted into hydrogen gas; and a sheet material encapsulating the hydride material; wherein the sheet material is to be plastically deformed by the hydrogen gas to have an expanded structure. A method of manufacturing a deployable structure includes: forming a sheet material comprising an outer shell structure and a hollow interior; placing a hydride material capable of being converted into hydrogen gas into the hollow interior; sealing the outer shell structure; and converting and releasing the hydrogen gas to expand and plastically deform the sheet material.
US12030675B2
An impact driver separation device for spacecraft and other vehicular separation mechanisms including a first element, second element, first connector, second connector, and impact actuator. The first element and the second element are joined by the first connector and the second connector. The impact actuator connects to the first connector or the second connector. In one example, the first connector is a bolt, and the second connector is a nut. In another example, the first connector is a nut, and the second connector is a bolt. When the impact actuator connects to the first connector, the impact actuator permits removal of the first connector from the second connector for separation of the first element and the second element. When the impact actuator connects to the second connector, the impact actuator permits removal of the second connector from the first connector for separation of the first element and the second element.
US12030673B2
An Electrostatic Ion Thruster for propulsion of spacecraft, comprising an ionization chamber with a central axis, a propellent gas inlet port, an inlet, an exit and an igniter between the propellent gas inlet port and the inlet of the ionization chamber, a propellent gas source, an ion accelerator arranged at the exit of the ionization chamber opposite the propellent gas inlet port in the direction of the central axis, the ion accelerator including at least three acceleration grids spaced apart from each other in the direction of the central axis and each extending perpendicular to the central axis, an ignition circuit electrically connected to the igniter, at least three high frequency coils surrounding at least a part of the ionization chamber, a high frequency ionization power generating unit electrically connected to the high frequency coils, and a polyphase high voltage high frequency power generating unit electrically connected to the acceleration grids.
US12030666B2
The present disclosure provides a launching mechanism for a drone that is housed within a container. The launching mechanism is also housed within the container and is disposed at the bottom portion of the container such that the effect of its activation causes the drone to move along a container axis defined by the longitudinal axis of the container, at a direction towards a top cover of the container and eject therethrough during the launching process. The launching mechanism includes two elements, each has a receptacle portion, wherein the receptacle portion of one of the elements is received within the receptacle portion of the second element. The two receptacle portions, when one is received within the other, confine an inner space. One of the elements is a static element that is fixed to the container, and the other element is a dynamic element that upon application of force along the container axis in the direction of the top cover is free to move in the force direction and to push the drone that is disposed between it and the top cover of the container. A pressure generator of the launching mechanism is configured for controllably causing an abrupt increase of pressure in the inner space, thus generating a propelling force along the container axis in the direction of the top cover that pushes the drone and causing its launching out of the container. The dynamic element is detachably attached to the static element such that when the propelling force exceeds a certain value, the two elements detach one from the other and the dynamic element continues to move along the container axis.
US12030664B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has: a body for carrying an article; at least one rotor; and a light source for generating a light beam to indicate the landing zone for the UAV. The UAV, in use, is flown to a desired location, that might be a site of an emergency with no defined landing zone. The UAV descends, and, while descending the light source is operated to illuminate and to define a landing zone. The UAV can be provided with lights and an audio source to warn and advise bystanders that the UAV is landing and to stand clear of the landing zone.
US12030661B2
A transmission includes a first component and a second component which are journaled for rotation relative to each other, and a locking mechanism for rotationally locking the first component and the second component relative to each other in a predetermined mutual rotation position. The transmission includes a magnetic field sensor arranged for measuring a relative rotation position of the first component and the second component while the first component and the second component are rotating relative to each other.
US12030658B2
An autothrottle of an aircraft is configured to reduce engine power of the aircraft such that the aircraft incrementally slows from a prior airspeed to a reduced airspeed by a first increment, and compare the rates of energy consumption at the prior airspeed and the reduced airspeed. In response to the rate of energy consumption at the reduced airspeed being lower than at the prior airspeed as determined the above operations are repeated. In response to the rate of energy consumption at the reduced airspeed not being less than at the prior airspeed, the autothrottle increases the engine power such that the aircraft incrementally speeds up from a prior airspeed to an increased airspeed by a second increment, the increased airspeed corresponding to a more efficient operating point of the aircraft than any prior airspeed.
US12030657B1
A method for a hybrid electric propulsion (HEP) system includes utilizing a soft actor-critic agent, which includes at least one neural network, and a control barrier function (CBF) filter to obtain a power splitting profile for an HEP system. The power splitting profile includes an electric motor power for an electric motor of the HEP system and a gas turbine power for a gas turbine of the HEP system. The electric motor power and gas turbine power collectively provide a combined HEP output power. The method also includes, during a flight of an aircraft that includes the HEP system, performing an output action for the HEP system based on the power splitting profile. The utilizing is performed based on a predefined fuel consumption objective and a state of charge of at least one battery that powers the electric motor. A system for a HEP system is also disclosed.
US12030650B2
An automatic parachute release device is a quick release coupler that becomes disengaged after an externally applied tension load is removed. The parachute release device has a parachute connection fastener, a camlock mechanism, a retention mechanism and a catch pin. The camlock mechanism is a mechanical controller that transitions the retention mechanism between a set configuration and a release configuration. While in the set configuration, the retention device is clamped around the catch pin. While in the release configuration, the retention mechanism disengages the catch pin. Thus, the retentive capabilities of the retention mechanism are governed by the configuration of the camlock mechanism. The retention mechanism remains in the set configuration until the load is removed. At which point, the retention mechanism slides into a dedicated slot of the camlock mechanism and becomes disengaged.
US12030649B2
Parachutes which have a generally circular skirt or hem, such as semi-hemispherical, extended gore, or any variant of axisymmetric parachutes and cruciform parachutes with arms attached are disclosed with a plurality of vertical slits located in a circumferential band adjacent the skirt or hem of the parachute to prevent canopy inversion. During deployment, when the outer portion of the canopy is exposed to air flow, the slits open up and the drag of the skirt of the canopy is reduced, thus limiting the potential for hem migration. The slits are positioned to allow airflow therethrough in order for the pressure on the outside of the canopy to be transferred through the slit openings and released or transferred to inside of the lower section of the canopy. Instead of slits, elongated narrow openings can be utilized.
US12030639B2
A data transfer system is disclosed for a galley insert used in an aircraft, which includes an electronic interface having an integrated antenna configured to utilize a wireless communication protocol to add data relating to insert status into a message reported to a maintenance engineer by way of a wireless reader.
US12030633B2
Various arrangements for managing network channels are presented. A backend system can receive data from one or more data sources. Based at least in part on the data received from the one or more data sources, a triggering event and a location related to the triggering event can be determined. Location data associated with the location related to the triggering event can be transmitted to a UAV and the UAV deployed. While the UAV is deployed at the location, the UAV can relay data between wireless devices, such as cellular phones, and a network access point, such as a cellular base station.
US12030630B2
A method for coordinating initiation of a power plant of a telecommunications site is disclosed herein. The method includes receiving construction plans and other project details for the power plant. The method also includes receiving data responsive to an initial site visit with the data representing field conditions of the telecommunications site, the data capture including one or more of photos and videos of existing infrastructure of the telecommunications site selected to receive and interface with the power plant. The method further includes generating one of a 360 degree view and a model of the existing infrastructure selected to receive and interface with the power plant. The method yet further includes ensuring the construction plans match the field conditions including the conditions of the existing infrastructure selected to receive and interface with the power plant and identifying any obstacles to the installation of the power plant.
US12030621B2
A shock absorber system for a vehicle includes a first shock absorber with a first cavity and a second shock absorber with a second cavity, wherein the first and second shock absorbers are located on a same side of the vehicle. The shock absorber system further includes a conduit in fluid communication with the first and second shock absorbers so that the second cavity maintains fluid communication with the first cavity through the conduit. The first and second cavities are at least partially filled with a gas.
US12030617B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for controlling aircraft roll operations are disclosed. An example system includes an aileron actuator including a mode selector valve to control fluid flow through the aileron actuator, and a valve spring coupled to the mode selector valve, the valve spring to adjust the mode selector valve from the active position to a block position, the block position to prevent fluid flow through the aileron actuator, a wing cable system coupled to the aileron actuator, a wing actuator coupled to the wing cable system, the wing actuator to control displacement of the aileron of the aircraft in response to the mode selector valve being in the block position, and a differential linkage coupled to the wing actuator and the aileron, the differential linkage to translate the displacement of the wing actuator into rotational movement to adjust the aileron from a first position to a second position.
US12030612B2
An aircraft includes an airfoil and a hinge member to rotatably couple the airfoil to a structure of an aircraft. The hinge member defines at least a portion of a rotational axis. The aircraft also includes an indexing mechanism coupled to the airfoil and configured to, in a first state, inhibit rotation of the airfoil about the rotational axis, and in a second state, to permit rotation of the airfoil about the rotational axis between a first position and a second position that is angularly indexed relative to the first position. The aircraft further includes an actuator to selectively change a state of the indexing mechanism from the first state to the second state, from the second state to the first state, or both.
US12030605B1
A device includes a hub and a blade. The hub has a cylindrical geometry. The blade extends radially from the hub. The blade has a helical structure. The blade includes a leading edge, a winglet, a trailing edge, and a trough. The leading edge is formed on the blade and has an arcuate geometry. The winglet of the blade is distal relative to the hub. The winglet angles away from a surface of the blade. The trailing edge is formed on the blade to be opposite the leading edge. At least a portion of the trailing edge forms a pitch-line cup that is angled with respect to the surface of the blade. The trough is formed in a transition between the pitch-line cup of the trailing edge and the winglet. The trough forms a recess that is relatively closer to the surface of the blade.
US12030595B2
A water flow deflection device configured to be attached to a side of a watercraft for wake enhancement, the water flow deflection device having a water flow deflector having a stationary portion operably connected to a foldable portion, the foldable portion capable of being configured between a fully extended position and a folded position with intermediate folding positions there between, whereby the foldable portion in the folded position is configured to facilitate storage of the device. The water flow deflection device also includes a frame connected to the stationary portion of the water flow deflector, the frame including a base, at least one extension arm, and two or more suction cups for attaching the water flow deflection device to the side of the boat.
US12030594B2
A truss system may include a plurality of beams. Each beam of the plurality of beams may have various cross-sectional sizes in a same plane. Additionally, the plurality of beams may have a geometric arrangement such that a structural weight at required strength level may be reduced to achieve optimal design.
US12030591B2
A recessed and retractable mooring line device includes a housing having a mooring head that is configured for projecting through an opening or recess of a mounting structure so that an upper surface of the mooring head does not project from an outer surface of the mounting structure. A reel assembly is coupled to the housing and positioned below the mooring head to take up a flexible mooring line. The reel assembly includes a rotatable spool for winding the line. A ratchet wheel and spool that is engaged by a pawl prevents rotation of the ratchet wheel and spool when engaged. A moor head assembly that includes a pawl actuator actuates the pawl. An actuator lock of the moor head assembly engages the pawl actuator to keep it engaged with the pawl. A line anchor is used for securing to an end of the mooring line.
US12030583B2
A three-wheeled electric vehicle in accordance with EU vehicle classification L2e-U, which has two electric-motor-driven rear wheels, each of which is driven by one wheel-hub motor. A hydraulically actuatable rear-wheel disc-brake system is mounted on each rear wheel which brake system is also fitted with an integrated electromechanical parking brake, the activation of which shifts each rear wheel into a parking-brake mode in which wheel rotation is prevented. In a rear portion, the vehicle body forms a support structure on which an optionally present, exchangeable transport container can be supported and secured with the aid of a quick-release fastening system. The quick-release fastening system includes one or more connection device(s), wherein each connection device includes a bar that protrudes from a bottom wall of the transport container; and a locking device, which is permanently attached to the support structure, is fitted with a movable blocking element.
US12030579B2
Disclosed are a personal mobility and a control method thereof. The personal mobility includes a front body on which a front wheel is installed, and a rear body slidably coupled to the front body in a front-rear direction to enable wheelbase adjustment and on which a rear wheel is installed.
US12030575B2
A rider-posture changing device for a human-powered vehicle comprises a first member, a second member, a detector, and a controller. The second member is configured to be movable relative to the first member. The detector is configured to detect position information of the second member relative to the first member. The controller is configured to obtain movement information of the second member relative to the first member based on the position information.
US12030570B2
A door lift apparatus for removing and/or installing a door of a vehicle by lifting the door from or onto hinges of the vehicle. The door lift apparatus includes a support frame, a cradle for receiving the door, and a displacement device configured to raise and lower the cradle relative to the support frame, and may further include a lateral stabilizer to prevent or limit lateral movement of the cradle relative to the support frame and/or a leveling shim to maintain the door in a substantially level position when supported. A door storage apparatus configured to be used with the door lift apparatus has a hanger arm configured to extend through a window opening of the door and support the door. A door glide slidably mounted on the hanger arm provides a mechanism to move the door axially back and forth along the hanger arm without scratching the door.
US12030567B2
A rubber crawler includes: a crawler main body; a main cord layer overlaid on a crawler outer circumferential side of a main body inner circumferential portion, and including a main cord extending in a crawler circumferential direction; a first bias cord layer overlaid on a crawler outer circumferential side of the main cord layer, and including a bias ply configured with a bias cord, which extends obliquely with respect to the crawler circumferential direction; a second bias cord layer overlaid on a crawler outer circumferential side of the first bias cord layer, and including a bias ply configured with a bias cord, which intersects with the bias cord; and a protective cord layer overlaid on a crawler outer circumferential side of the second bias cord layer and overlaid on a crawler inner circumferential side of a main body outer circumferential portion, and is formed by one sheet of protective ply configured with a protective cord, which extends along a crawler width direction.
US12030551B2
An image processing device includes a camera configured to be mounted on a vehicle to capture an image around the vehicle, a marker detector to carry out an edge detection process on the image to detect corner markers on one end of a parking frame, a provisional parking frame setting part to set a provisional parking frame based on the detected corner markers on the one end, and a parking frame identifying part to identify the parking frame. The marker detector is configured to detect corner markers on another end of the parking frame in directions along sidelines of the provisional parking frame, and the parking frame identifying part is configured to identify the parking frame based on the corner markers on the one end and the corner markers on the other end.
US12030538B2
Methods are provided that may include determining one or more of a vibration characteristic or a fluid characteristic of one or more components of a vehicle and determining one or more expected characteristics for the one or more of the vibration characteristic or the fluid characteristic. The methods may also include determining whether the one or more of the vibration characteristic or the fluid characteristic deviates from the one or more expected respective characteristics, and implementing one or more responsive actions in response to determining that the one or more of the vibration characteristic or the fluid characteristic deviates from the one or more expected characteristics.
US12030537B2
A method analyzes conditions of technical components in view of a rarity and/or an abnormality of a condition. To provide a reliable analysis and thus a safely operating system the method includes: a) describing conditions of the technical components in a behavioral input space that is spanned by state variables, which are characteristic for the technical components, b) analyzing a condition of one technical component in respect to other conditions of this technical component in the behavioral input space, whereby a rarity of this condition of the technical component is detectable, and c) analyzing the condition of the technical component also in respect to analyses of conditions of further technical components in the behavioral input space. Whereby an abnormality of the condition of the technical component is detectable.
US12030534B2
For a respective passenger car, a number of passengers situated therein and/or a number of available spaces is determined. A passenger flow simulation is initialized on the basis of the determined numbers is provided. A multiplicity of potential directions of movement are furthermore determined, for which a multiplicity of direction of movement-specific movement profiles are read in. The initialized passenger flow simulation is then executed for a respective movement profile, wherein a distribution value that rates a resultant passenger distribution is determined in each case. From the potential directions of movement, depending on the determined distribution values, specific directions of movement are selected and are output as direction of movement indications on passenger-specific and/or location-specific direction indicators is also provided.
US12030529B2
An electronic device and an operating method thereof are for predicting future trajectories of an unspecified number of surrounding vehicles in an integrated way. The electronic device and operating method may be configured to recognize historical trajectories of one or more surrounding objects, predict future trajectories of the surrounding objects in an integrated way based on the recognized historical trajectories, and plan a driving trajectory of the electronic device based on the predicted future trajectories of the surrounding objects.
US12030525B2
The present disclosure provides a method including determining a dispatch state of a vehicle traversing a current route based on data available from a fleet management system associated with the vehicle; selecting a driving dynamics mode for the vehicle based on the determined dispatch state, wherein the driving dynamics mode determines at least one of a route the vehicle is directed to traverse and a driving behavior of the vehicle; and operating the vehicle in the selected driving dynamics mode.
US12030524B2
An embodiment method for controlling autonomous driving in a vehicle with an incorporated semi-autonomous driving system and warning alarm system includes monitoring a status of a driver during semi-autonomous driving, generating a state signal based on the monitoring, the state signal indicating a state that includes a warning state, a coasting state and a braking state, and performing a driver emergency assistance operation based on the state signal, wherein the vehicle transitions to the warning state, the coasting state, or the braking state based on the state signal to perform a corresponding driver emergency assistance operation.
US12030519B2
This provides a system and method for handling the interchange of trailers between an over the road (OTR) truck and an autonomous vehicle (AV) yard truck in a facility yard includes an interchange zone (IZ) that is bounded by a predetermined boundary structure, having an OTR entry gate and an OTR exit gate on a first side and an AV entry gate and an AV exit gate on a second side. The system and method further includes a management process that selectively opens and closes each of the OTR entry gate, the OTR exit gate, the AV entry gate and the AV exit gate according to a predetermined set of rules.
US12030514B2
When transitioning from both prohibition state that prohibit a specific action and a hand release during an execution of the autonomous driving to a specific action permission state that permits a driver to execute a specific action other than a driving operation, a presentation control device presents information indicating that the transition is allowable prior to information indicating that the transition is executed. When transitioning from a hand release permission state that prohibits the specific action and permits hand release from a steering wheel to the specific action permission state, the presentation control device presents the information indicating that the transition is allowable and the information indicating that the transition is executed at a same time.
US12030510B2
A method for operating a processing unit, in which a multiplicity of processes are carried out, which together access a resource according to a predefined resource distribution. The method includes a determination of an instantaneous actual processing time of at least one of the multiplicity of processes during an execution of the at least one of the multiplicity of processes, within which the at least one of the multiplicity of processes is processed; a comparison of the actual processing time with a setpoint processing time assigned to the at least one of the multiplicity of processes and/or with a sum of the assigned setpoint processing time and a processing time extension assigned to the at least one of the multiplicity of processes; and an adaptation of the predefined resource distribution as a function of a result of this comparison.
US12030500B2
A vehicle control apparatus comprises a judging section that judges whether a destination of a user vehicle is set, and a lane change control section that, if the destination is not set, enables performance of a single lane change causing the user vehicle to perform a lane change from the user lane to a first other lane, and if the destination is set, enables the single lane change and also enables a multiple lane change causing the user vehicle to perform a lane change from the user lane to a second other lane through the first other lane.
US12030499B2
Disclosed are an intersection driving control system and method for vehicles, the intersection driving control system for vehicles including a monitoring array configured to recognize and monitor peripheral vehicles driving proximate to a host vehicle, a pattern detector configured to detect reduction patterns of the peripheral vehicles in a longitudinal direction, and an intersection entry confirmer configured to confirm whether the host vehicle enters an intersection based on whether the longitudinal reduction patterns of the peripheral vehicles are similar to an intersection entry pattern.
US12030498B2
A method for braking a hybrid electric vehicle, a hybrid electric vehicle and a computer program element. The method includes actuating braking with a brake energy, starting to regenerate the brake energy and charging a battery system with the regenerated brake energy, receiving a state of charge of the battery system, redirecting the regenerated brake energy into an integrated starter generator in case of a full or limited charging of the battery system, and activating the integrated starter generator to rotate an internal combustion engine.
US12030493B2
An automatic cruise control system for controlling at least a powertrain of a vehicle, the cruise control system being configured to automatically control a vehicle speed to a target speed determined based on a set speed and on information relating to a road topography along an expected travelling route of the vehicle. The automatic cruise control system is configured to: while automatically controlling the vehicle speed to the target speed, receive an indication that a slippery road condition applies or is expected to apply, in response to receiving said indication, activate a predefined slippery road condition driving mode in which predetermined restrictions apply, said restrictions relating to at least one of the vehicle speed, an allowable vehicle acceleration, and a gear selection of the powertrain, control at least the powertrain in accordance with the slippery road condition driving mode.
US12030492B2
The invention relates to a method and a device for determining a deceleration setpoint value of an autonomous vehicle (204), the autonomous vehicle (204) comprising an adaptive cruise control capable of decelerating the autonomous vehicle according to a first deceleration setpoint (215), referred to as standard deceleration, the autonomous vehicle (204) traveling along a first lane (201) at a first speed, the vehicle heading into a second lane (202) subject to a speed limit (208) at a distance, D, relative to the beginning (203) of the second lane (202), said method comprising the steps wherein: —a necessary deceleration is calculated; —the deceleration setpoint of the autonomous vehicle (204) is determined; —the adaptive cruise control applies the deceleration setpoint thus determined in order to decelerate the autonomous vehicle (204) from the beginning (203) of the second lane (202).
US12030485B2
Multiple trajectories for a vehicle are generated based on a road segment. Sensor data is received from at least one sensor. The vehicle is traveling the road segment in accordance with a first trajectory of the multiple trajectories. A potential collision is predicted between the vehicle and an object based on the sensor data and the first trajectory. A set of constraints is determined to avoid the potential collision. The set of constraints is determined based on the sensor data. A maneuver is determined for the vehicle by superimposing each constraint of the set of constraints on each other constraint of the set of constraints. The maneuver includes a second trajectory independent of the multiple trajectories. Instructions are transmitted to a control circuit of the vehicle to override the first trajectory and traverse the road segment according to the second trajectory to perform the maneuver.
US12030466B2
A method for communicating regarding supply of hydrogen of a moving vehicle to one or more distribution stations begins by collecting at least two parameters relating to the vehicle during its movement by two or more sensors onboard the vehicle. The parameters include at least the current location of the vehicle. Next, the parameters are transmitted to a control module. At least one parameter relating to hydrogen available in the one or more distribution stations is then collected by another sensor, which then transmits the hydron availability parameters to the control module. A hydrogen distribution station is then identified while the vehicle is moving, and a user of the vehicle is informed of available hydrogen distribution stations and of hydrogen supply conditions in the identified distribution stations.
US12030461B2
The present disclosure includes a cover which is accommodated in a dashboard near to a passenger seat and which is open in a forward direction, a housing which is accommodated in the cover and selectively opened or closed through a front surface of the cover, a rotating member which is disposed between the cover and the housing and forms a rotation orbit so that the housing is opened or closed through the cover, and an elastic member having a first end coupled to the rotating member and a second end coupled to the cover.
US12030456B2
A vehicle front passenger seat airbag device comprises an airbag body, a flow regulating bag, and a tether. The airbag body is housed in a vehicle rear side end portion at a front passenger seat side of an instrument panel, and is configured to be inflated and deployed toward a vehicle rear side by gas ejected from an inflator. The flow regulating bag is provided inside the airbag body and is configured to distribute the gas ejected from the inflator toward left and right sides of an interior of the airbag body. The tether is provided inside the flow regulating bag and limits an amount of projection toward the vehicle rear side at a left-right direction central portion of the flow regulating bag.
US12030448B2
A bumper arrangement for a motor vehicle, having an upper main cross member, which is able to be coupled via crash boxes to the motor vehicle, and a lower auxiliary cross member, wherein the main cross member and auxiliary cross member are coupled together via vertical struts. The main cross member and/or the auxiliary cross member and/or the vertical element are supported on the crash box and/or on a longitudinal member via at least one additional support element oriented in the direction of the motor vehicle, wherein the support element is configured in one piece and in a single material with the main cross member or the auxiliary cross member or the vertical element.
US12030435B2
A golf car canopy extension panel that is connectable to a canopy main panel, wherein the extension panel comprises a first extension longitudinal water channel that is fluidly connectable to a first main longitudinal water channel main panel, and a second extension longitudinal water channel that is fluidly connectable to a second main longitudinal water channel of the main panel, wherein the first and second extension longitudinal water channels each comprise a termination end structured and operable to direct water to exit the respective extension longitudinal water channel at an end of a sidewall of the respective extension longitudinal water channel.
US12030430B2
A steering wheel. The steering wheel includes a steering wheel rim and a light-emitting assembly, the steering wheel rim having an inner cavity, and the light-emitting assembly being provided in the inner cavity so as to be used to cause the steering wheel rim to emit light, wherein the light-emitting assembly includes a light source, a first printed circuit board, and a second printed circuit board, wherein the light source is provided on the first printed circuit board, the second printed circuit board being provided with a control assembly for controlling the light source, the second printed circuit board being configured to control the light source by means of an electrical connection with the first printed circuit board, the first printed circuit board being configured to be a flexible circuit board, and the second printed circuit board being configured to be a rigid circuit board.
US12030427B2
A light assembly for attachment to a surface of a vehicle. The light assembly includes a vehicle base configured to be coupled to the surface of the vehicle and a light head coupled to the vehicle base. The light head is configured to rotate relative to the vehicle base about a first axis and about a second axis that is different from the first axis. The light head is configured to rotate about the first and second axes at a first speed in response to a first user input, and to rotate about the first and second axes at a second speed that is different from the first speed in response to a second user input.
US12030424B2
A cargo restraint system includes a body, a first connecting end and a second connecting end on opposing sides of the body, wherein the first and second connecting ends are coupled to a securing member which is used to restrain the cargo. One or more load sensors are coupled to the first connecting end and/or the second connecting end. A controller is coupled to the one or more load sensors. The controller is configured to receive tension information from the one or more load sensors. The controller includes a transmitter capable of transmitting the tension information to a remote device. The controller may include a database to store the information.
US12030423B2
A vehicle, such as a motor home or camper or the like, includes a living space expansion that can be set up as needed and has a space volume, which, in the set-up state, is connected with an interior space volume of the vehicle. The living space expansion includes at least three wall sections, wherein at least two of the wall sections are each configured as side walls, wherein at least of the one wall sections is configured to be moved out of the interior space volume to form the living space expansion. At least one of the wall sections of the living space expansion can be a hollow chamber wall section. The hollow chamber wall section can be an inflatable hollow chamber wall section or a self-inflating hollow chamber wall section.
US12030422B2
A cluster transfer robot includes a body, two clamping arms arranged at the bottom of the body, and a first driving mechanism arranged at the bottom of the body. The first driving mechanism includes a driving wheel configured for driving the transfer robot to move. The clamping arm includes a second driving mechanism and a rotating assembly connected to the second driving mechanism, the rotating assembly includes a rotating arm rotatably connected to the body and a supporting wheel arranged on the rotating arm for supporting the transfer robot, the rotating arm is provided with a clamping portion for clamping automobile tire, and two clamping portions of two rotating arms are arranged facing to each other to define a clamping space for the automobile tire when the two clamping portions are close to each other. The cluster transfer robot can greatly reduce the construction cost of intelligent parking lots.
US12030420B2
A storage pod for use with a delivery vehicle is provided. The storage pod is configured to store packages and to dispense them when sufficiently close to a delivery location. Methods of delivering packages using a storage pod are provided.
US12030415B2
Described are support surfaces (such as passenger seat tray tables) that have a pivot about which the support surface is rotatable. The pivot can be coupled with a track and movable relative to the track to adjust a deployed height of the tray table, such as among a stowed position along the seat back in which the pivot is retained at a first height; a first deployed position in which the pivot is retained at a first height and the support surface is oriented for receiving and supporting items; and a second deployed position in which the pivot is retained at the second height and the support surface is oriented for receiving and supporting items.
US12030414B2
A child safety seat is provided and includes a base, a seat body and a notifying system. The seat body is movable relative to the base between a first position and a second position. The notifying system includes at least one actuated device, an actuating component and a notifying device. The at least one actuated device is disposed on one of the base and the seat body. The actuating component is disposed on another one of the base and the seat body and for actuating the at least one actuated device when the seat body reaches at least one of the first position and the second position. The notifying device is electrically connected to the at least one actuated device and configured to generate different types of notifying signals in response to the at least one actuated device when the seat body reaches the first position and the second position.
US12030411B2
A child seat comprising: an outer shell supporting an inner shell therein, the inner shell and the outer shell together defining a child protection region within the seat; an adjustment mechanism disposed between the inner shell and the outer shell defining a trajectory of movement for the inner shell relative to the outer shell, wherein relative movement between the inner shell and the outer shell along the trajectory of movement adjusts a size and a shape of the child protection region of the seat.
US12030405B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle and a battery, possible to be disabled when a phenomenon to cause a functional disorder, are provided. The battery includes a battery pack having a battery cell, sensors detecting a phenomenon that impairs a function of the battery pack, a memory storing a detection signal of the sensors, and block circuits blocking output of the battery pack by the detection signal. The unmanned aerial vehicle includes the battery and air frame side sensors, and operates the block circuit, which the battery includes, by the detection signal of the airframe side sensors.
US12030403B2
A reconfigurable system capable of autonomously exchanging material from unmanned vehicles of various types and sizes. The system comprises an environmental enclosure, a landing area, a universal mechanical system to load and unload material from the unmanned vehicle, and a central processor that manages the aforementioned tasks. The landing area may comprise a one or more visible or non-visible markers/emitters capable of generating composite images to assist in landing the unmanned vehicle upon the reconfigurable, autonomous system.
US12030395B2
A foreign object removal device removes a foreign object on a vehicle-body undersurface of a vehicle traveling a road surface in wireless power transfer from a power transmission unit of a power transmission device installed on the road surface to a power reception unit of a power reception device mounted on the vehicle-body undersurface, and comprises a foreign object removal unit installed on the road surface around the power transmission unit and removing the foreign object on the vehicle-body undersurface.
US12030394B2
A contactless power feeding system includes: a power feeding device including a plurality of power feeding coils along a road, and configured to transmit electric power to a power receiving coil of an electric vehicle in a contactless manner; a receiver configured to receive traffic congestion information of the road; and an electronic control unit configured to: control transmission power transmitted from each of the plurality of power feeding coils to the power receiving coil, and control the power feeding device such that the transmission power of one or more power feeding coils located in a congestion occurrence section is higher than the transmission power of one or more power feeding coils located in a non-congestion occurrence section, wherein each of the congestion occurrence section and the non-congestion occurrence section are along a portion of the road including the plurality of power feeding coils.
US12030379B2
The present invention provides a hand acceleration control system to control and set Engine RPM at constant speed. The hand acceleration control system is controlled by a rotating switch (20) preferable positioned on a steering wheel.
US12030375B2
A covering device (100) for a vehicle, includes: a cover (10); a drive element (40a, 40b) formed to enable a movement of the cover, wherein the drive element brings about a force which acts on the cover. The covering device has a force-limitation apparatus (30a, 30b) which limits the force brought about by the drive element to a limit force so that the covering device is protected in the event of an overload acting on the covering device and/or a user is protected when using the covering device. An actuator (200) has a drive apparatus (210) with a drive element (211); an output drive element (290); and a force-decoupling apparatus (230). The force-decoupling apparatus is formed so that it at least temporarily does not output a force taken up by the drive element or at least temporarily outputs it in a delayed manner to the output drive element.
US12030372B2
A method for opening and closing a retractable roof of a convertible vehicle, wherein the roof includes a first portion and a second portion, connected together. The method includes: moving the first portion relative to the second portion between a first position and a second position, such that, at the first position, the first portion is at least partly superposed on the second portion and, at the second position, the first portion lies in substantially the same plane as the second portion, rotating the first and second portions about an axis of rotation, and translating the superposed first and second portions between a first position and a second position, such that, at the first position, the first and second portions are inside a compartment in the vehicle and, at the second position, the first and second portions are outside the compartment.
US12030354B2
An electrified vehicle winch includes, among other things, a winch and a charge port connector that connects to a charge port of an electrified vehicle. The winch is powered through the charge port connector. A winch operating method includes, among other things, operating a winch to move a load and, during the operating, powering the winch through a charge port of the electrified vehicle.
US12030351B2
In a pneumatic tire including a carcass layer mounted between a pair of bead portions and a belt reinforcing layer disposed on an outer circumferential side of the carcass layer, the carcass layer is formed of a carcass cord made of an organic fiber cord, an elongation at break of the carcass cord is set to 20% or more, an elongation under a load of 1.5 cN/dtex of the carcass cord on the inner circumferential side of the belt layers is set to from 5.5% to 8.5%, the belt reinforcing layer is formed of a cover cord made of an organic fiber cord, and a tensile strength of the cover cord per width of 50 mm at a 3.0% elongation is set to from 2.8 kN to 4.0 kN.
US12030345B2
Provided is a pneumatic tire. In shoulder regions of a tread portion, as shoulder blocks, inner blocks and outer blocks, which have outer edges in a tire lateral direction at different positions on a tread contact surface, are alternately disposed in a tire circumferential direction. In shoulder grooves disposed between the inner blocks and outer blocks adjacent to each other in the tire circumferential direction, groove bottom protrusions, which extend from a laterally inner side to a laterally outer side in the tire lateral direction along the shoulder grooves over the positions of the outer edges of the inner blocks, are provided. Broad width portions having a relatively broad protrusion width of the groove bottom protrusions are disposed on a laterally outer side in the tire lateral direction with respect to the outer edges of the inner blocks in a front view.
US12030344B2
A tire has a tread portion divided into a crown land region, shoulder land regions, and middle land regions. The crown land region comprises a crown axial central portion. The middle land region comprises a middle axial inner portion and a middle axial outer portion. The shoulder land region comprises a shoulder axial inner portion and a shoulder axial central portion. The radius Rmi of curvature of the middle axial inner portion is 0.80 to 1.20 times the radius Rcc of curvature of the crown axial central portion. The radius Rsc of curvature of shoulder axial central portion is 0.80 to 1.20 times the radius Rmo of curvature of middle axial outer portion. The radii Rsc and Rmo are less than the radii Rcc and Rmi. The radius Rsi of the shoulder axial inner portion is less than the radii Rsc and Rmo.
US12030340B2
A vehicle wheel rim is printed with a metal alloy by a three-dimensional printing method. The rim includes a substantially circular rolling strip defined by a front edge and a rear edge. The rolling strip includes a central rim base, a front part including fittings for a front tire support, located between the rim base and the front edge, and a rear part including fittings for a rear tire support, located between the rim base and the rear edge. The rim is designed to be mounted on a vehicle such that the front edge is located on an outer side of the vehicle and the rear edge is located on an inner side of the vehicle. The rolling strip includes a plurality of cavities in the thickness thereof and in a radial section.
US12030338B2
A fountain pen with a quick-filling coupling includes a nib assembly, a housing with a main tank and a writing tank formed therein, a rotatable finial at an end of the fountain pen opposite from the nib assembly, and a coupling for placing the housing on an ink feed device. A first sealing unit, arranged between the writing tank and the main tank, can be selectively opened and closed for filling the writing tank via the main tank. A second sealing unit, arranged between the writing tank and the nib assembly, can be selectively opened and closed for supplying ink to the nib assembly. A third sealing unit, arranged between the main tank and the coupling, can be opened and closed for filling at least the main tank. The finial is operably coupled to the pen for controlling the opening state of the first and second sealing units.
US12030334B2
A free-ink writing instrument mat include a nib drying delay component to prevent drying out of the end of the nib of the writing instrument that is located in the writing ink tank thereof. The nib drying delay component is locally arranged around the end of the nib in a liquid tight manner and configured to locally retain ink therein so as to keep the nib end in contact with locally retained ink.
US12030325B2
A media processing device includes: a body defining a media supply chamber and carrying a print head; a cover carrying a platen roller, the cover having an open position enabling access to the chamber, and a closed position enclosing the chamber, and cooperating with the body to define a media path extending from the chamber, between the print head and the platen roller, to a media outlet; a target conductor affixed to one of the body and the cover; and an inductive proximity sensor affixed to the other of the body and the cover, disposed to detect the target conductor when the cover is closed.
US12030320B2
A liquid discharging device includes: a cartridge mounting part; a tank connected to the cartridge mounting part; a head that ejects a liquid; a discharge configured to discharge the liquid from the head; and a controller. The liquid is at least a storage liquid, a first liquid which is different from the storage liquid, or a mixture thereof. In a storage mode, the controller executes: a return process of returning the first liquid from the tank to a first liquid cartridge mounted on the cartridge mounting part; a first discharging process of discharging the first liquid from the head; a storage liquid supplying process for supplying a storage liquid from a storage liquid cartridge to the tank; and a second discharging process of discharging the storage liquid from the head, after executing the storage liquid supplying process.
US12030311B2
The disclosure concerns a test apparatus comprising a drum (100) configured such that ink drops (200) deposited on the surface of the drum form a printed marking (210) on the surface of the drum. The test apparatus further comprises an ink removal unit (300) configured to remove ink from the surface of the drum. The drum is at least partially transmissive of light and a light source (800) is disposed inside the drum to controllably illuminate the drum.
US12030301B2
A liquid ejecting device includes a first liquid ejecting unit configured to eject recording liquid onto a medium, a second liquid ejecting unit configured to eject disinfectant liquid onto the medium, and a control unit configured to control the first liquid ejecting unit and the second liquid ejecting unit, wherein the control unit is configured to cause the disinfectant liquid to eject avoiding a position at which the recording liquid ejects on the medium.
US12030298B2
Laminated glazing includes a first glass sheet constituting an external face of the glazing, connected to a second glass sheet by a first interlayer adhesive layer, the edge of the first glass sheet being set back with respect to that of the second, a peripheral part of the free surface of the first glass sheet, its edge face, that of the first interlayer adhesive layer and a part of the surface of the second glass sheet extending beyond the first describing a continuous stepped contour which is covered, with interposition of adhesive, with a stepped element made of polymer material which can contain reinforcing fillers, which exhibits a permeability to water vapor at most equal to 5 g/m2/day.
US12030293B2
Composites having a polymer or natural leather skin layer and a polyurethane foam layer are made in a molding process. The polyurethane foam layer is made from a foam formulation that includes certain polyester polyols. The presence of the polyester polyol improves flow characteristics of the foam formulation. The foam so produced has unexpectedly low quantities of VOCs.
US12030285B2
A decorative functional component with a transparent partial surface includes a substrate and a flat cover body. The substrate is of a first plastic material and has a recess. The cover body is of a transparent second plastic material and covers the recess of the substrate. The substrate and the cover body are connected together by a loose form-fit connection. The substrate and the cover body and are jointly coated with a low viscosity curing transparent plastic flooded thereon.
US12030279B2
The present invention concerns a laminated glazing having variable light transmission comprising two glass sheets, an external glass sheet and an internal glass sheet, that are joined by at least one thermoplastic interlayer sheet, an assembly of a functional film, which is incorporated into the laminate between the two glass sheets. According to the invention, the at least one thermoplastic interlayer sheet has a roughness with a Rz comprised between 50 and 400 μm and a Ra comprised between 15 and 90 μm and preferably with a Rz comprised between 100 and 400 μm and a Ra comprised between 30 and 90 μm.
US12030266B2
Systems and methods are provided for compacting objects onto tools. One embodiment is a method for compacting an object onto a rigid tool. The method includes placing an object onto a surface of a rigid tool, disposing an end effector over the object, spreading linkages of the end effector, causing a scroll of material between the linkages to be disposed atop the object while surrounding the object, and applying a negative pressure to the scroll that offsets air leaks between the scroll and the object, thereby forming a suction hold that compacts the object onto the rigid tool.
US12030265B2
A method of forming a composite structure is presented. A charge is placed on a charge support surface of a charge forming table in a planar orientation, the charge support surface formed by a plurality of surfaces of a plurality of charge forming fingers. A number of charge forming fingers of the plurality of charge forming fingers is actuated to form a curvature into the charge. The charge having the curvature is removed from the charge forming table. The charge having the curvature is placed onto a tool having a matching surface curvature.
US12030263B2
The present disclosure relates to composites. One composite may include a resin and oxidized polyacrylonitrile fibers. The oxidized polyacrylonitrile fibers may be provided as a nonwoven fabric. An additional composite may include a resin and material scraps respectively including carbon fibers. The material scraps may be positioned to at least partially overlap one another and define a substantially continuous layer. The material scraps may be provided as a fabric and/or a plurality of loose fibers.
US12030258B2
A method for resistance welding of two fiber-composite components to give a fiber-composite structure includes arranging conductive fibers within a jointing region of the two fiber-composite components, where each conductive fiber includes a carbon fiber with an electrically insulating coating. An electric current is passed through the conductive fibers to heat the jointing region to a welding temperature and melt the fiber-composite components in the jointing region. The jointing region is hardened in a manner that bonds the two fiber-composite components by way of the jointing region to give the fiber-composite structure.
US12030247B2
A material ejection system, a print head, a 3D printer, and a method for material ejection is provided. The material ejection system comprises: a housing; a plate provided in the housing and dividing the housing in an upper space and a lower space, wherein the lower space is configured to hold a material for ejection; a controller unit; one or more material ejection units each comprising: a membrane formed by two essentially parallel slits in the plate, a first electrode provided above the membrane in the upper space, a piezoelectric element provided on the first electrode, a second electrode provided on the piezoelectric element, wherein the first and second electrodes are each electrically connected to the controller unit for providing a voltage to the piezoelectric element, and an extension member provided underneath the membrane extending into the lower space. The material ejection system further comprises nozzle plate provided at a bottom end of the housing and comprising one or more nozzle openings formed at positions corresponding to a respective lower portion of a respective extension member and provided at a predetermined distance from said lower portion in the lower space.
US12030236B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for embossing a plastic sheet and a corresponding tool (1). The plastic sheet is pressed between first and second tool halves (3, 5) while being heated such that a pattern is imprinted on first and second faces (19, 21) of the plastic sheet. Reference marks (31, 33) are imprinted on both faces of the plastic sheet and the embossed plastic sheet is evaluated optically to determine error data based on the relative position of the first and second reference marks. This allows to adjust the embossing tool based on the error data for subsequent embossing operations.
US12030234B2
A method for transferring a negative structure of a surface of an inner wall (51) of a blow molding tool (1) onto a surface of a plastic container. The method comprises the steps of heating at least one region (511) of a mold cavity (6) of a molding body (4) of the blow molding tool (1), on which the negative structure is formed, inserting a preform into the mold cavity (6), closing the blow molding tool (1), molding the plastic container by inflating the preform and bringing the preform to lie against the inner wall (51) of the mold cavity (6), cooling the region (511) by supplying a coolant through temperature control channels (54), and removing the plastic container from the mold.
US12030229B2
The invention relates to a hybrid structure comprising a first component having a base and an upstanding wall extending from the base, the first component having an interior enclosed between the upstanding wall and the base, and a thermoplastic second component moulded to the first component, the second component comprising a reinforcing portion for structurally reinforcing the first component, the reinforcing portion extending in a longitudinal direction of the first component and located in the interior of the first component, the thermoplastic second component further comprising a locking portion that extends adjacently over at least part of an exterior of the first component, wherein the reinforcing portion and the locking portion are integrally formed, thus interlocking the first component in the thermoplastic second component. The invention relates as well to a method for manufacturing such a hybrid structure, and to a vehicle comprising such a hybrid structure.
US12030211B2
A method for 3D printing a prefabricated modular building includes rotating an intermediate module (300) by 90 degrees to obtain a fabricated module (400), so that two originally vertical walls (A, C) become horizontal walls, and the other two walls (B, D) become supporting walls. This enables the building to be able to receive stresses as a whole, improving the stability of the building.
US12030202B2
A razor handle includes a top portion to connect to a blade assembly; a bottom portion to support the top portion, and more than one supporting member, a respective proximal end of each supporting member being operatively connected to the top portion and the supporting members extending distally therefrom, wherein the supporting members are provided to adopt a first configuration and a second configuration, and wherein when at least one supporting member is in the second configuration, the razor handle has a broader footprint than when all of the supporting members are in the first configuration.
US12030192B2
What is disclosed is a motion model calculation device which easily creates a motion model for a drive device. The motion model calculation device is connected to a robot arm including a plurality of arms and a joint mechanism which pivotally joins the plurality of arms to a connection part, outputs a predetermined motion command to the joint mechanism, acquires a driving state of the joint mechanism caused by a motion corresponding to the motion command, and calculates, on the basis of the motion command and the driving state, a motion model representing the relationship between an input value representing an input to the joint mechanism and an output value of the joint mechanism with respect to the input.
US12030186B2
A control device (120) according to the present application includes a limitation portion that is provided in a joint portion, which joins two or more links, of a robot and that physically limits motion of the links, and a control unit (122f) that limits movable ranges of the links by controlling the limitation portion corresponding to a predetermined joint portion on the basis of a task executed by the robot. With this configuration, it becomes possible to secure safety of when the robot executes a task.
US12030179B2
A method and system for teaching a transfer device including a substrate holder and a first detector disposed at the substrate holder is disclosed. The method comprises detecting a vertical position of an object by the first detector while moving the substrate holder in a vertical direction, and setting a teaching position of the substrate holder in the vertical direction based on the detected vertical position of the object; and setting a teaching position of the substrate holder in a horizontal direction based on a horizontal position of the substrate holder at which the substrate holder is detected by a second detector while moving the substrate holder in the horizontal direction, the second detector being disposed at a position different from a position of the transfer device.
US12030177B2
In a suspended industrial robot, a base and a swivel section have an internal space into which a cable can be inserted. The base has an insertion opening through which at least the cable can be passed into the internal space from the outside. A first cable holding part that holds the cable is installed on at least one of a first arm and a second arm. The cable passes through the internal space of the base and the swivel section and is routed up to an end effector with a midway portion of the cable being held by the first cable holding part.
US12030172B2
A personal case system with interchangeable touchless tool feature and a method of its use are provided. The system includes a tool having a spine, a distal end and a proximate end. The tool is pivotally connected by the proximate end to a casing at a pivot point. The casing includes a front side, a back side, a sidewall formed by a top side, bottom side and a rear side, and a space formed between the front side and the back side and adapted to receive at least a portion of the tool; wherein the tool can be rotated, relative to the casing, around the pivot point between an open position in which the tool extends from the casing, and a closed position in which the tool retracts into the space of the casing; and wherein the pivot point is located at the top corner of the casing opposite the rear side.
US12030171B2
A folding stand with a pivoting securing mechanism to secure an object to the stand is disclosed. The stand may include two rails in the same horizontal plane and a securing mechanism that pivots about an axis which is perpendicular to that horizontal plane. The securing mechanism may be positionable in a locked and an unlocked position. The securing mechanism may include one or more arms that extends over a portion of the object in the locked position.
US12030170B2
The disclosure discloses an electric power tool. The electric power tool may include a motor, a power transmission mechanism connected to the motor, a housing that houses the motor and the power transmission mechanism, an end tool holder to which an end tool is configured to be attached and from which the end tool is configured to be detached, and connected to the power transmission mechanism, and a handle attached to the housing. The electric power tool may be configured to prohibit rotation of the motor when a user is not gripping the handle.
US12030165B2
A fastener driving machine, which comprises an energy storage unit; an impact unit used to drive the energy storage unit to store energy and withstand the energy released by the energy storage unit to drive fasteners into a workpiece; a driving mechanism connected to the impact unit; a rotating power mechanism connected to the driving mechanism to provide rotating power to the driving mechanism. The driving mechanism comprises a stationary annular gear, a crank connected to the rotating power mechanism, and at least one planetary gear which is connected to the crank in a spinning manner and revolves with the rotation of the crank relative to the annular gear, and an engaging shaft eccentrically connected to the planetary gear to push the impact unit. The planetary gear is placed in the annular gear to mesh with the annular gear.
US12030164B2
A pneumatic tool includes an air chamber; and a pressure adjusting mechanism which adjusts a pressure of a compressed air in the air chamber. The pressure adjusting mechanism includes a valve body which opens and closes a flow path that communicates the air intake and the air chamber; an elastic body which exerts an urging force to the valve body; a support part which supports an end of the elastic body; a pressure receiving member which receives air pressure in the air chamber and presses the elastic body in a direction of closing the flow path; and a load reducing mechanism capable of switching the urging force of the elastic body acting on the valve body between a normal state and a load reduction state in which the urging force smaller than the normal state is exerted.
US12030163B2
A dustproof device for use in an electric nail gun includes a dustproof plate and two fastening members. The electric nail gun includes a muzzle unit used for discharging nails and a machine body unit connected to the muzzle unit and operable to strike the nails. The dustproof plate has a mounting surface facing the machine body unit, an exterior surface that is opposite to the mounting surface and prevents foreign matters from entering the machine body unit, and a through hole that extends through the mounting surface and the exterior surface, that permits the muzzle unit to extend fittingly therethrough, and that is complementary in shape with a contour of a cross section of the muzzle unit. The two fastening members extend from the mounting surface and are detachably connected to the machine body unit to secure the dustproof plate between the machine body unit and the muzzle unit.
US12030161B2
An electric tool includes an output shaft and a controller. The output shaft is configured to hold a tip tool and be rotated by motive power provided from an electric motor with the output shaft holding the tip tool. The controller is configured to control rotation of the output shaft in accordance with pressing force in a direction from a tip end of the tip tool toward the output shaft. The electric tool has, as an operation range, a restriction range in which rotation of the output shaft is restricted in a state where the pressing force is less than or equal to a prescribed value.
US12030159B2
A method of operating a chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) tool includes attaching a polishing pad to a first surface of a platen of the CMP tool using a glue; removing the polishing pad from the platen, wherein after removing the polishing pad, residue portions of the glue remain on the first surface of the platen; identifying locations of the residue portions of the glue on the first surface of the platen using a fluorescent material; and removing the residue portions of the glue from the first surface of the platen.
US12030158B2
A method for smoothing surface roughness within an internal passageway is disclosed. In various embodiments, the method comprises developing a first sphere progression through a length of the internal passageway, each sphere within the first sphere progression having a first sphere diameter greater than or equal to a diameter of the internal passageway; and developing a second sphere progression through the length of the internal passageway, each sphere within the second sphere progression having a second sphere diameter greater than the first sphere diameter, whereby the inner surface of the internal passageway is smoothed, first by the first sphere progression and then by the second sphere progression.
US12030155B2
A honing machine (100) for honing a bore in a workpiece comprises a support structure (120) fixed to the machine and at least one honing unit (130) which is mounted on the support structure and which has a main support (160), which can be mounted fixedly in relation to the support structure, and a spindle unit (150), which is supported by the main support and in which a spindle shaft (152) is rotatably mounted, wherein the spindle shaft (152) is rotatable about a spindle axis (155) by means of a rotary drive and, at a tool-side end (153), has a device for the fastening of a honing tool. The honing machine furthermore has a linear guide system which is arranged between the main support (160) and the spindle unit (150) and which serves for guiding a linear stroke movement of the spindle unit (150) relative to the main support (160), a stroke drive for generating the stroke movement of the spindle unit (150), and an alignment system (200) for setting the alignment of the spindle axis (155) in relation to the support structure (120). The alignment system (200) is designed for the continuously variable, reversible setting of the alignment of the spindle axis (155) in relation to the support structure (120), wherein the alignment system is designed for the independent setting of the position of the spindle axis (155) along two mutually perpendicular axes of translation and for the setting of the orientation of the spindle axis (155) in relation to two mutually perpendicular axes of rotation.
US12030146B2
A transmission arrangement for energy and/or signal transmission between a control unit of a machine tool and at least one electronic component, in particular for use in a machining center or a turning and/or milling center. The transmission arrangement is configured to transmit energy and/or signals between electronic components arranged on a pallet and a control unit of a machine tool. The method shows a procedure for automated machining of a workpiece by means of a machine tool, in particular when electronic components are arranged on a pallet on which the workpiece is clamped.
US12030143B2
A method for manufacturing a cutting tool having a rake face, a flank face, and an edge having a ridge line interconnecting the rake face and the flank face, wherein on the flank face there is a cutting edge region from the ridge line of the edge to a point A away therefrom on the side of the flank face by a distance X, the method comprising producing and processing the flank face with a laser, the producing and processing being producing and processing the cutting edge region along the ridge line of the edge with a first laser beam having a depth of focus equal to or deeper than a width of the cutting edge region when the distance X is the width of the cutting edge region, the distance X being 0.2 mm or more and 5 mm or less.
US12030141B2
A device for the laser treatment of trousers, including a laser beam generating equipment suitable for emitting the laser beam in any direction within an emission pyramid with an emission axis and two opening angles, and a work station with two mannequins, where each mannequin includes two legs. Each leg defines a longitudinal axis, and the two longitudinal axes of each mannequin define a mannequin plane. Each of the mannequins is oriented towards the equipment so that the emission axis strikes the mannequin plane at an angle of less than 90° and each mannequin has at least one of its legs within the pyramid.
US12030138B2
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing composite solder balls that are metallized on the surface and calibrated, these balls comprising a core consisting of a spherical support particle of diameter D0 made of expanded polystyrene and having an intergranular porosity of at least 50%, and a shell covering said support particle and formed by a plurality of metallic surface layers. The present invention also relates to balls that can be obtained by the method according to the invention, as well as to the use thereof for the assembly of electronic boards.
US12030126B2
A droplet comprises a core including an alloy comprising a majority of a first metallic element and a minority of a second element, wherein the core is in a liquid state below a solidus temperature of the alloy. A shell is arranged to enclose the core and includes an exterior surface comprising a majority of the second element and a minority of the first metallic element, wherein the shell is in a solid state below the solidus temperature of the alloy. The alloy can comprise a solder material that can be used to form solder connections below a solidus temperature of the alloy.
