US11003181B2
An aerial device includes a body, an optical system having gimbal supporting a camera, a lift mechanism coupled to the body, a haptic sensor coupled to the body and configured to generate haptic data, and a processing system disposed in the body and in data communication with the haptic sensor. The processing system is configured to process the haptic data to understand an intended position of the aerial device and/or an intended orientation of the gimbal and convert the intended position to a target position of the aerial device and/or the intended orientation to a target orientation of the gimbal utilizing said processed data irrespective of an initial position of said aerial device and an initial orientation of said gimbal. Also disclosed is a method for controlling the aerial device.
US11003170B2
To provide a parameter determination support device and a program capable of simplifying determination of driving parameters upon driving a motor for which the slip constant is unknown. A parameter determination support device includes: an acquisition unit for acquiring specification information of a drive device of a motor and output specification information of an induction motor; an initial parameter determination unit for determining an initial parameter for test running, based on the specification information and the output specification information; a program creation unit for creating a test-run program to be used in test running for acquiring data that is required for adjustment of a parameter that determines output of the induction motor, based on the output specification information; an automatic measurement unit for automatically measuring a Q-phase voltage command of the induction motor according to the speed, as operating information upon driving by varying the speed of the induction motor according to the test-run program by applying the initial parameters; an estimation unit for estimating a slip constant of the induction motor, based on the operating information; and a calculation unit for performing calculation of an optimum parameter tailored to the output specification of the induction motor, based on the slip constant.
US11003165B2
Apparatus and methods for transforming three dimensional object data are disclosed. In some examples, data representing a three dimensional object is received, the data comprising object property data indicative of at least one attribute of at least a portion of the three dimensional object. The object property data is transformed into a plurality of device independent object property data objects having a common data structure, each object property data object comprising a value indicative of each of a predetermined set of object properties.
US11003158B2
In a method for 3D radius correction in CNC milling, a mill path of an original milling tool producing a surface contour on a workpiece is calculated for an original milling tool based on dimensions of the mill cutter tip, with the positions of the mill cutter tip specified by an NC program. A surface normal of an end face milling surface and a surface normal of a circumferential milling surface are then specified, for each position of the mill cutter tip taking into account dimensional differences between an actually available milling tool and the original milling tool. By specifying along the mill path a spatial orientation of the milling tool axis, a correction vector is specified from the milling tool orientation, dimensional differences and the surface normals, and the workpiece is machined by traversing the mill path with the actual milling tool under consideration of the correction vector.
US11003128B2
An image forming apparatus including a main body casing, a cover, a drum cartridge, a developing cartridge, an intermediate transfer belt and a movable cam. The movable cam is movable among a first position when the cover is in the open position, a second position and a third position when the cover is in the closed position. In a case where the movable cam is in the first position, the photosensitive drum is in a first drum position spaced from the intermediate transfer belt, and the developing roller is in a first developing position spaced from the photosensitive drum. In a case where the movable cam is in the second position, the photosensitive drum is positioned toward the intermediate transfer belt from the first drum position. In a case where the cam is in the third position, the developing roller is positioned toward the photosensitive drum from the first developing position.
US11003117B1
A temperature control device controls a temperature of a temperature control target to which heat is propagated from a heater by supplying power to the heater. The temperature control device includes processing circuitry that acquires a temperature measurement result of the temperature control target from a temperature sensor. The processing circuitry estimates an input voltage being supplied to the heater based on an energization time of the heater and a change in the temperature of the temperature control target during the energization time. The processing circuitry generates a temperature estimation result by estimating the temperature of the temperature control target based on a previous energization pulse used to control energization of the heater and the input voltage. The processing circuitry outputs the energization pulse to control the power supplied to the heater based on the temperature estimation result and the temperature measurement result.
US11003113B2
A pressing device includes a cam member 120, a bearing 120a, a cam portion 120b, a cam engaging portion 120c of snap fit fashion. The bearing 102a is rotatably supported by a fixation frame 115. The cam portion 120b is provided on one side of the bearing 120a and contacts a pressing lever. The cam engaging portion 120c is provided on the other side of the bearing 120a and engages with a hole 123a formed on an outer surface of a cam shaft 123. The cam engaging portion 120c engages with the hole 123a at a position away from a maximum load portion of the cam portion 120b by not less than 90 degrees phase different.
US11003111B2
An example apparatus includes a conveyor. The apparatus also includes a first developer unit. The first developer unit is to concentrate first printing liquid. The first developer unit also is to deliver the first printing liquid to the conveyor. The apparatus also includes a second developer unit. The second developer unit is to concentrate second printing liquid. The second developer also is to deliver the second printing liquid to the conveyor to form a thick layer of printing liquid comprising the first and second printing liquid.
US11003102B2
Provided are an electrophotographic apparatus and a process cartridge each capable of suppressing the occurrence of a black spot (white background contamination) in an output image under a low-temperature and low-humidity environment. The electrophotographic apparatus includes: an electrophotographic photosensitive member including a support, a photosensitive layer, and a protective layer in the stated order; an exposing device; a developing device; and a cleaning device, wherein the protective layer has a triarylamine structure and a specific structure at a ratio in a specific range, and a toner contains toner particles each containing at least a resin, and an external additive. The toner has a volume-average particle diameter of 7 μm or more. The external additive contains a compound containing a titanium atom. The ratio of the mass of the compound containing a titanium atom to the total mass of the toner is 0.6 mass % or more.
US11003101B2
An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer. The photosensitive layer is a single layer. The photosensitive layer contains a charge generating material, a hole transport material, an electron transport material, and a binder resin. The hole transport material includes a compound represented by chemical formula (1-1) or (1-2). The photosensitive layer further contains an n-type pigment. The n-type pigment is preferably an azo pigment or a perylene pigment.
US11003100B2
In a beam irradiation apparatus in which a movable body holds an object, a mark detection system detects a first mark on the movable body while moving the movable body in a first direction and changing an irradiation position of a measurement beam in the first direction, the mark detection system detects a second mark while moving the movable body in the first direction and changing the irradiation position of the measurement beam in the first direction, a controller controls a position of the movable body in a second direction intersecting the first direction during a time period between the detection of the first mark and the detection of the second mark, and the controller controls the movement of the movable body to adjust a positional relation between the object on the movable body and a processing beam, based on results of the detection of the first and second marks.
US11003096B2
A lithographic apparatus is provided that has a sensor at substrate level, the sensor including a radiation receiver, a transmissive plate supporting the radiation receiver, and a radiation detector, wherein the sensor is arranged to avoid loss of radiation between the radiation receiver and a final element of the radiation detector.
US11003094B2
A substrate holder for a lithographic apparatus has a planarization layer provided on a surface thereof. The planarization layer provides a smooth surface for the formation of an electronic component such as a thin film electronic component. The planarization layer may be provided in multiple sub layers. The planarization layer may smooth over roughness caused by removal of material from a blank to form burls on the substrate holder.
US11003093B2
A defect prediction method for a device manufacturing process involving processing one or more patterns onto a substrate, the method including; determining values of one or more processing parameters under which the one or more patterns are processed; and determining or predicting, using the values of the one or more processing parameters, an existence, a probability of existence, a characteristic, and/or a combination selected from the foregoing, of a defect resulting from production of the one or more patterns with the device manufacturing process.
US11003086B2
An illumination optical unit for projection lithography illuminates an object field. The illumination optical unit has an optical rod with an entrance area and an exit area for illumination light. The optical rod is configured so that the illumination light is mixed and homogenized at lateral walls of the optical rod by multiple in-stances of total internal reflection. At least one correction area serves to correct a field dependence of an illumination angle distribution when illuminating the object field. The correction area is disposed in the region of the exit area of the optical rod. This can result in an illumination optical unit, in which an unwanted field dependence of a specified illumination angle distribution is reduced or entirely avoided, even in the case of illumination angle distributions with illumination angles deviating extremely from a normal incidence on the object field.
US11003084B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device structure is provided. The method includes forming a material layer over a substrate and forming a resist layer over the material layer. The method includes exposing a portion of the resist layer by performing an exposure process. The resist layer includes a compound, and the compound has a carbon backbone, and a photoacid generator (PAG) group and/or a quencher group are bonded to the carbon backbone. The method also includes performing a baking process on the resist layer and etching a portion of the resist layer to form a patterned resist layer. The method includes patterning the material layer by using the patterned resist layer as a mask and removing the patterned resist layer.
US11003076B2
Resist materials having enhanced sensitivity to radiation are disclosed herein, along with methods for lithography patterning that implement such resist materials. An exemplary resist material includes a polymer, a sensitizer, and a photo-acid generator (PAG). The sensitizer is configured to generate a secondary radiation in response to the radiation. The PAG is configured to generate acid in response to the radiation and the secondary radiation. The PAG includes a sulfonium cation having a first phenyl ring and a second phenyl ring, where the first phenyl ring is chemically bonded to the second phenyl ring.
US11003068B2
Provided are a reflective mask blank, having a phase shift film having little dependence of phase difference and reflectance on film thickness, and a reflective mask. The reflective mask blank is characterized in that the phase shift film is composed of a material comprised of an alloy having two or more types of metal so that reflectance of the surface of the phase shift film is more than 3% to not more than 20% and so as to have a phase difference of 170 degrees to 190 degrees, and when a group of metal elements that satisfies the refractive index n and the extinction coefficient k of k>α*n+β is defined as Group A and a group of metal elements that satisfies the refractive index n and the extinction coefficient k of k<α*n+β is defined as Group B, the alloy is such that the composition ratio is adjusted so that the amount of change in the phase difference is within the range of ±2 degrees and the amount of change in reflectance is within the range of ±0.2% when one or more types of metal element each is selected from the Group A and the Group B and the film thickness of the phase shift film has fluctuated by ±0.5% with respect to a set film thickness (provided that α: proportional constant, β: constant).
US11003063B2
A heat generating device includes a heat generating portion, a first cover configured to cover at least part of the heat generating portion and including a first opening portion formed on one side and a second opening portion formed on the other side lying opposite to the one side, and a second cover disposed on an outer side of the first cover and forming a flow path leading from the first opening portion to the second opening portion, and in the heat generating device, a height from a lower end of the first cover to an opening center of the first opening portion is greater than a height from the lower end of the first cover to an opening center of the second opening portion.
US11003061B2
According to an embodiment of the present technology, an image display apparatus includes a light source; an image generation unit; and a projection optical system. The image generation unit generates image light by modulating a light beam emitted from the light source. The projection optical system includes a first lens group that is disposed on an optical axis of the generated image light and has a first refractive power, a second lens group that is disposed on the optical axis and has a second refractive power, a first movement mechanism that moves the first lens group, and a second movement mechanism that moves the second lens group corresponding to the first refractive power, the second refractive power, and the movement of the first lens group.
US11003060B2
An apparatus including a camera optical element and a tactile indicator associated with the camera optical element for indicating a property of the camera optical element.
US11003059B1
A Dynograph device for smoothing videos being taken is presented. The Dynograph device is a motorized camera tripod which interfaces an attached video camera to allow for automatic subject tracing. Upon initial observation, it appears as a conventional camera tripod with three extendable and adjustable legs. However, after closer inspection, it can be seen that the Dynograph device also provides motorized pan and tilt head that adjust the position of the attached video camera. This control module, powered by an attached battery or external power supply, uses smart logic to lock onto the movable portion of a video signal emanating from the video camera, such as a human presenter. Thus, as the person moves about the frame, the Dynograph device automatically adjusts the position of the video camera to keep the person within the same relative position. This movement is fluid and steady yielding finished videos that are on par with the best of professional films. The use of the Dynograph device provides the ability to automatically pan and rotate the video camera in a manner which is quick, easy and effective.
US11003049B2
A configurable lens cover configured to be disposed over a lens of a sensor to control an area monitored by a sensor and/or to block light from undesirable directions from striking the lens of the sensor. The configurable lens cover includes a collar that has an inner edge which defines a central opening. Further, the configurable lens cover includes detachable panels that extend angularly and inward towards a central axis and the central opening of the configurable lens cover from the inner edge of the collar. The detachable panels may be partially separated from each other along the side edges and top end of each detachable panel. Furthermore, the configurable lens cover includes perforations formed adjacent a bottom end of each detachable panel that is coupled to each other and the collar. The perforations define a living hinge along which each detachable panel is breakable.
US11003046B2
A photonic device comprises a plurality of resonators and a plurality of optical channels. Each resonator from the plurality of resonators has a set of resonance frequencies independently selected from a set of resonance frequencies of each remaining resonator from the plurality of resonators. Each resonator from the plurality of resonators lacks substantially any linear coupling between each remaining resonator from the plurality of resonators. The plurality of resonators defines a spatial overlap region between at least two resonators from the plurality of resonators such that nonlinear optical processes are substantially optimized during operation. A plurality of optical channels is operatively coupled to the plurality of resonators. The plurality of optical channels is configured to receive light from the plurality resonators and configured to send light into the plurality of resonators.
US11003042B2
A switchable image capturing system is provided. Through modulating light by an electro-optical switch, the light intake received by the lens assembly and the image sensor may be changed. Specifically, when the electro-optical switch receives a positive voltage, the electro-optical switch obstructs the light so that the lens assembly and the image sensor are not able to image by receiving the light; when the electro-optical switch receives a negative voltage, the electro-optical switch allows the light to pass through so that the lens assembly and the image sensor is able to image by receiving the light. Through the configuration in the aforementioned statements, the image time of the image sensor may be controlled to interrupt or continue filming according to the user's needs.
US11003038B2
A display apparatus includes a plurality of gate lines extending in a first direction, a plurality of data lines extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and a plurality of pixels connected to the gate lines and the data lines. Each of the pixels includes a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, and a third sub-pixel disposed in an i-th row and a fourth sub-pixel disposed in an (i+1)-th row. The first, second, and third sub-pixels and the fourth sub-pixel are disposed with the i-th gate line between the fourth sub-pixel and the first, second, and third sub-pixels and connected to the i-th gate line, and the first, second, third, and fourth sub-pixels are connected to different data lines from each other.
US11003028B2
The present invention discloses a photo-alignment apparatus that realizes a desirable distribution through a single exposure and a method of manufacturing an optical element. The photo-alignment apparatus comprises a light source, a linear polarization film, a pixelated electronic-control phase retarder, and a phase retardation plate; the light source is used to provide light for a exposure; the linear polarization film is configured to convert the light emitted by the light source into a linearly-polarized light having a polarization direction parallel to the direction of the transmission axis of the linear polarization film; the pixelated electronic-control phase retarder is configured to generate phase retardations distributed in a desirable pattern; and the phase retardation plate is used to generate a non-pixelated phase retardation. With this photo-alignment apparatus, a polarization distribution of a desirable pattern can be generated, and a corresponding alignment profile can be formed on a polarization sensitive medium.
US11003027B2
A liquid crystal display includes: a first pixel and a second pixel for displaying different colors, the first pixel and the second pixel each including a first sub-pixel electrode receiving a first voltage; a second sub-pixel electrode receiving a second voltage; an insulating layer disposed between the first sub-pixel electrode and the second sub-pixel electrode; and a common electrode receiving a common voltage. A first portion of the first sub-pixel electrode and a second portion of the second sub-pixel electrode overlap each other, a difference between the first voltage and the common voltage is larger than a difference between the second voltage and the common voltage, and a ratio of the second voltage to the first voltage for the first pixel is different from a ratio of the second voltage to the first voltage for the second pixel.
US11003009B2
A display device includes a first region and a second region adjacent to the first region. A display element included in the first region has a function of reflecting visible light and a function of emitting visible light. A display element included in the second region has a function of emitting visible light. In an electronic device including the display device, the first region is located on a first surface (e.g., top surface) on which a main image is displayed, and the second region is located on a second surface (e.g., side surface) on which an auxiliary image is displayed.
US11002999B2
Described herein is a mechanism for automatically correcting perspective of displayed information based on the orientation of the display device. A user can identify a screen orientation where the displayed information does not need perspective correction. The system can monitor changes to the display orientation, and when the orientation changes, the system can measure the distance to a user's eye or calculate the distance based on measured data. Based on the distance, a correction factor can be calculated. An area in the display where corrected information will be displayed is identified. The currently displayed information is corrected based on the correction factor and displayed in the identified display area.
US11002994B2
Apparatus, systems, or methods for mixed reality are disclosed herein. An apparatus may include an optical structure, a display structure, and a controller coupled to the optical structure and the display structure. The optical structure may be controlled by a first electrical signal to act as a transparent glass to present a natural view, or to act as a magnifying glass to present a virtual view. The display structure may be controlled by a second electrical signal to act as an opaque display or a transparent display. In addition, the controller may control the apparatus to operate in at least an AR mode to interlace the natural view and the virtual view. Other embodiments may also be described and claimed.
US11002975B2
According to one embodiment, a system includes a wearable device configured to be attached to a display configured to display a display image. The wearable device features an optical component set featuring a lens, a first user operable member configured to set an adjustment value relating to a projection angle of the visual image, and a second user operable member configured to set an adjustment value relating to at least one of a color tone or a brightness of the visual image. A position of the visual image is changed by adjusting the projection angle of the visual image using the first user operable member so that the visual image is displayed at a position based on at least one of a shape or a size of the head of the user. The color tone or the brightness of the visual image is changed using the second user operable member.
US11002974B2
A method is performed at a computing system for customizing a user interface panel of a virtual space based on user locations. The computing system is communicatively connected to a head-mounted display wore by a user. The method includes: generating a virtual space including a user interface panel, the user interface panel having a default location in the virtual space; rendering the virtual space in the head-mounted display; measuring the head-mounted display's location in a physical space using a position tracking system adjacent the user; determining the user's location in the virtual space according to the head-mounted display's location in the physical space; and updating the user interface panel's default location in the virtual space in accordance with the user's location in the virtual space.
US11002971B1
An optical system may include a head-mounted support structure configured to receive a removable portable electronic device with a display to form a head-mounted device. A head-mounted device may also be formed by incorporating a non-removable display into a head-mounted support structure. An optical combiner may be coupled to the head-mounted support structure. During operation of the head-mounted device, real-world image light passes through the optical combiner to eye boxes in which the eyes of a user are located. Display image light from the display reflects from a curved partially reflective surface of the optical combiner towards the eye boxes. To make optical adjustments such as virtual image distance adjustments, one or more actuators may be used to mechanically adjust the optical combiner.
US11002961B2
A see-through head mounted display with controllable light blocking includes an optics module comprising a light source and image source positioned on a same side of an angled partially-reflective surface, wherein the light source projects light off the surface to the image source which reflects the light as image light to the surface which transmits the image light along a first axis. The display also includes a flat combiner positioned to reflect the image light off of a first side and simultaneously transmit incident light through the first and a second side, along an optical axis perpendicular to the first axis to provide a view of a displayed image overlaid onto a see-through view of the environment, and a controllable light blocking element arranged generally parallel to the flat combiner and in front of the second side to block light incident on the same optical axis as the image light.
US11002941B2
A calibration method of an optical system is provided, wherein the optical system includes a movable element that can move within an operation interval. The calibration method includes the step of establishing a relationship between the operation interval and an electrical signal coding sequence. The calibration method further includes the step of establishing a relationship between the operation interval and a sensing signal coding sequence.
US11002935B2
The present disclosure relates to an optical fiber distribution system that can be expanded to selectively add a number of ruggedized fiber optic adapter ports for connecting to customer premises.
US11002928B2
An optical fiber cable includes: a core comprising gathered optical fibers; an inner sheath housing the core; a wire body embedded in the inner sheath; tension members embedded in the inner sheath, wherein the core is interposed between the tension members; a reinforcing sheet that covers the inner sheath; and an outer sheath that covers the reinforcing sheet, wherein in the inner sheath, ti
US11002926B1
Examples herein relate to optical modules. In particular, implementations herein relate to optical modules that include top-emitting VCSELs and/or top-entry photodetectors. The optical modules include a first interposer having opposing first and second sides and a second interposer having opposing first and second sides. The optical modules include a plurality of top-emitting vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) coupled to the second interposer and a plurality of electrical conductors forming electrical paths between electrical contacts of the top-emitting VCSELs and the second side of the second interposer. The VCSELs are configured to emit optical signals having different wavelengths. The optical signals are configured to be combined and transmitted over a single optical fiber.
US11002918B2
Reduced-profile connection components are described. The reduced-profile connection components are configured to connect various data transmission elements, including cables, network devices, and computing devices. A non-limiting example of a connection component includes a fiber optic connection component, including connectors, adapters, and assemblies formed therefrom. In some embodiments, the connection components may include mechanical transfer (MT) and multi-fiber push-on/pull-off (MPO) connection components, such as MT ferrules and MPO adapters. The reduced-profile connection components configured according to some embodiments have a smaller profile and/or require less parts to achieve a connection compared to conventional connection components. In some embodiments, the reduced-profile connection components may be used with conventional connection components. For example a reduced-profile connector may use a conventional MT ferrule to establish a connection within a conventional MPO adapter.
US11002911B2
A polarization-independent, optical circulator is formed in silicon photonics. The polarization-independent, optical circulator uses an optical splitter having two couplers and two waveguides joining the two couplers. One of the two waveguides is thinner than the other to create a large effective index difference between TE and TM modes transmitted through the one waveguide. Polarization rotators, including reciprocal and/or non-reciprocal rotators, are further used to create the optical circulator.
US11002902B1
A gauge assembly includes a gauge surface including at least one graphic, which may be a plurality of graphics defining a scale in a generally circular pattern on the gauge surface. A light guide has a main body portion disposed adjacent to the gauge surface and corresponding to the shape of the gauge surface. The light guide has a plurality of raised tick marks extending from the main body portion. The light guide is configured to provide illumination to the illuminable graphic(s) and the plurality of tick marks. A light housing disposed a light housing disposed adjacent to the light guide, the light housing having at least one light housing opening disposed adjacent to at least one of the plurality of raised tick marks.
US11002899B2
A method for making a wire grid polarizer (WGP) can provide WGPs with high temperature resistance, robust wires, oxidation resistance, and corrosion protection. In one embodiment, the method can comprise: (a) providing an array of wires on a bottom protection layer; (b) applying a top protection layer on the wires, spanning channels between wires; then (c) applying an upper barrier-layer on the top protection layer and into the channels through permeable junctions in the top protection layer. In a variation of this embodiment, the method can further comprise applying a lower barrier-layer before applying the top protection layer. In another variation, the bottom protection layer and the top protection layer can include aluminum oxide. In another embodiment, the method can comprise applying on the WGP an amino phosphonate then a hydrophobic chemical.
US11002890B1
An optical element includes a Fresnel surface including valleys between Fresnel segments. Compensation trenches disposed in the valleys are configured to accept excess of an optical layer received in the valleys during a deposition of the optical layer. The compensation trenches are filled with the optical layer.
US11002889B2
There is provided a reflective diffuser plate to achieve more uniform diffusion angle distribution properties. The reflective diffuser plate is a microlens array reflective diffuser plate including a single lens group positioned on a surface of a transparent base material. There are variations in aperture diameter and radius of curvature that respective single lenses constituting the single lens group have in the single lens group as a whole, and vertex positions of the respective single lenses are located irregularly. A luminance distribution of reflected light of light vertically incident on the single lens group is substantially uniform in a predetermined diffusion angle range. For at least light incident on the single lens group from certain directions, a relation of 0.3≤A/B≤1 holds where A represents a reflection luminance value in the surface normal direction, and B represents a peak reflection luminance value of a diffuse reflection component.
US11002885B2
Embodiments of articles with optical coatings are described herein. According to one embodiment, an article may comprise a substrate having a major surface, and an optical coating disposed on the major surface and forming an anti-reflective surface, the optical coating comprising an anti-reflective coating. The article may exhibit a maximum hardness of about 12 GPa or greater as measured on the anti-reflective surface by a Berkovich Indenter Hardness Test along an indentation depth of about 100 nm or greater. The article may exhibit a single side average light reflectance measured at the anti-reflective surface of about 8% or less over an optical wavelength regime in the range from about 400 nm to about 800 nm. The article may exhibit an average light transmission of about 90% or greater over an optical wavelength regime in the range from about 400 nm to about 800 nm.
US11002883B2
The present invention provides a resin composition comprising a thermoplastic resin comprising a constituting unit (A) derived from a compound represented by the following general formula (1), wherein the resin composition comprises an ultraviolet absorber in an amount of 2,000 ppm to 40,000 ppm:
US11002881B2
Systems and methods for detecting inclement weather in the vicinity of an aircraft engine are described herein. At least a first engine parameter and a second engine parameter are obtained, each engine parameter varies with changing weather conditions. An arithmetic value is determined as a function of at least the first engine parameter and the second engine parameter. The arithmetic value varies with changing weather conditions. A rate of change of the arithmetic value is determined. Inclement weather is detected when the rate of change exceeds a threshold.
US11002880B2
A method for quantitatively evaluating multiple computer-based plate tectonic models for application in a geographic region of interest, in some embodiments, comprises: selecting a plurality of computer-based plate tectonic models; using multiple computer-based plate tectonic models to generate one or more predictions for one or more geological parameters; obtaining observational data for each of said one or more geological parameters; for each of said one or more geological parameters, quantitatively comparing the predictions and the observational data to determine model rankings; and displaying said model rankings on a computer display.
US11002878B2
A sensing element (10) for an intrinsic gravity gradiometer (IGG) for use in sensing variation in a gravity field at a location. The sensing element (10) is flexible, elongate and has unfixed opposed ends (12, 14) when part of the gravity gradiometer. The sensing element can be a metallic ribbon, and can be mounted by a number e.g. 3 or 5, pivot points or axes 30-40 at each of the opposed sides along the sensing element, with the opposed ends of the sensing element free to move. The pivot points or axes can include pins, preferably cylindrical pins (48) or the sensing element may be etched within the side wall and remain joined to the remainder of the side wall by connections. The sensing element (10) can form part of one or more resonant cavities or wave guide (44, 52-66), such as a side or dividing wall (46) or part thereof. A dual phase bridge (61,612) arrangement can be provided. Electrical current (I) can be injected into the sensing element. Feed forward motion compensation (MC or FFMC) can be applied as part of the determination of the current. Applying electrical current into the opposed longitudinal sides (20, 22), such as right and left sides, of the sensing element, such as a ribbon, can be used for several types of compensation. Displacement of the sensing element can be detected by a resonant cavity, electromagnetic sensor or optical sensor.
US11002871B2
A method for processing sonic data acquired with a downhole sonic tool is provided. The method comprises detecting coherent noise based on a plurality of waveforms obtained from one or more receivers issued by one or more transmitters. The plurality of waveforms correspond to propagating acoustic waves in a formation. In addition, the method comprises building a slowness filter for removing the coherent noise, and applying the slowness filter to the plurality of waveforms.
US11002870B2
A method is described for removing the surface ghost from and/or separating wave field data and/or for estimating redatuming operators of the wave field data by effective use of a transform that that relies on the non-uniform distribution of distances with respect to a reference surface or of tuned-source radiation directions of sources and or the non-uniform distribution of receivers with respect to a reference surface to partition or map the wave field from at least two different cones in the transformed domain and using the contribution of sources and or receivers inside at least one of the at least two different cones to estimate a first wave field of interest, a second separated or ghost wave field and/or redatuming operator.
US11002868B2
A device for detecting neutrons comprising a base, a lateral surface and a cover, thereby providing a detector housing having a central longitudinal axis, wherein the interior of the housing is divided into n (n≥2) cells wherein at least one of said cells is adapted to operate as neutron detection ion chamber by having at least one removable foil disposed parallel to said longitudinal axis, at least one removable foil positioned adjacent to, and essentially parallel with, a sector of the lateral surface, with said removable foils having neutron sensitive coating applied on at least one their faces, and an anode mounted in at least one cell bounded by said removable foils, with said housing constituting the cathode. The device is also useful for simultaneously detecting gamma irradiation and or producing radioisotopes.
US11002864B2
The disclosure relates to spectroscopic sensors of ionizing radiation, and the use of an application specific integrated circuit to detect both positive features in a pixel anode signal indicative of ionizing radiation interacting with that pixel, and negative features indicative of ionizing radiation interacting in an adjacent or proximal pixel. For this purpose, both positive and negative peak hold circuits may be provided in each ASIC pixel circuit.
US11002862B2
A detector pixel, an array substrate, an apparatus and a method for detecting an intensity of a ray are provided. The detector pixel includes substrate, first transistor, second transistor, storage capacitor, photosensitive element, first control line, second control line, first data line and second data line. The first and the second transistors are dual-gate transistors; the first transistor has a bottom gate connected to the first control line, a top gate connected to the second control line, a first electrode connected to the storage capacitor, and a second electrode connected to the first data line; the second transistor has a bottom gate connected to the second control line, a top gate connected to the first control line, a first electrode connected to the storage capacitor, and a second electrode connected to the second data line; and the storage capacitor is connected to the photosensitive element.
US11002843B2
A dual-frequency CW processing unit (12) calculates an observation-point orientation of an observation point. An FMCW processing unit (11) calculates at least a power spectrum of a beat signal, which has been generated based on radar waves that have come from the calculated observation-point orientation, in terms of an up-modulation time interval and a down-modulation time interval (termed orientation power spectrum hereinafter). The FMCW processing unit (11) shifts the orientation power spectra of the up- and down-modulation time intervals to positive and negative directions, respectively, by an amount corresponding to a Doppler shift frequency. The FMCW processing unit (11) calculates a differential power spectrum by differentiating the orientation power spectra of the shifted up- and down-modulation time intervals, and detects a peak frequency where intensity is maximum.
US11002842B2
A method and apparatus for determining the location of an object with a sensor positions an instrument at a first location, controls the instrument to transmit a first omnidirectional signal during a first time, and determines a first distance from the instrument to the static object using the first omnidirectional signal. The method and apparatus repeats this process in a serial manner at two other locations, and uses the respective distances from each location to determine the location of the object. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11002839B2
A method and apparatus for measuring an angular resolution of a multi-beam lidar. The method includes: acquiring, when a checkerboard calibration plate is scanned by a multi-beam lidar, an image of the checkerboard calibration plate photographed by a camera; identifying a checkerboard in the image, and determining a physical length characterized by a unit pixel of the image based on shape and length information of each checker in the checkerboard calibration plate; determining a center light spot and a light spot pair in the image; determining an angle between a laser beam corresponding to each light spot of the light spot pair and a laser beam corresponding to the center light spot based on the physical length characterized by the unit pixel, the center light spot and the light spot pair; and determining the angular resolution of the multi-beam lidar based on the determined angle.
US11002838B2
An object is to provide a communication management system that prevents a surveying instrument from being used in an environment exceeding a guaranteed range of specifications. To achieve the above-described object, a communication management system includes a surveying instrument including a survey unit, a temperature sensor, a control unit, and a communication unit, a management server, and a remote terminal, wherein the remote terminal sets a usable temperature of the surveying instrument, sets a determination on the usable temperature and a temperature acquired by the temperature sensor, and an operation responsive to results of the determination, and makes the management server store these, the surveying instrument transmits its own temperature information to the management server, and the management server makes the determination by comparing the usable temperature and a temperature acquired by the temperature sensor, and executes the operation based on results of the determination.
US11002828B2
A method of using a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) antenna array for high-resolution radar imaging and wireless communication for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) utilizes a MIMO radar and at least one base station. The MIMO radar establishes wireless communication with the base station via an uplink signal. Likewise, the base station sends a downlink signal to the MIMO radar. Further, unlike conventional vehicle-to-everything (V2X) systems that filter the reflected uplink signal, the MIMO radar uses the reflected uplink signal to detect a plurality of targets. Accordingly, the MIMO radar derives spatial positioning data for each target from the reflected uplink signal.
US11002815B2
A method for reducing N/2 ghost or Nyquist ghost in magnetic resonance (MR) images is provided The method includes acquiring k-space dataset for an object using an echo planar imaging (EPI) sequence, dividing the k-space dataset into first partial k-space subset data related to positive echoes and second partial k-space subset data related to negative echoes, obtaining third partial k-space subset data that is N/2 or Nyquist ghost-free subset data, respectively registering the first partial k-space subset data and the second partial k-space subset data to a first portion of the third partial k-space subset data corresponding to positive echoes and a second portion of the third partial k-space subset data corresponding to negative echoes, combining the registered first partial k-space subset data and the registered second partial k-space subset data to form full k-space dataset, and reconstructing an image for the object based on the full k-space dataset.
US11002812B1
In a general aspect, a magnetic resonance system includes a primary magnet system configured to generate a principal magnetic field in a sample region. The magnetic resonance system also includes a field source device. The field source device includes a substrate and first and second conductor layers on the substrate. The first conductor layer includes a constriction configured to generate a radio frequency magnetic field in the sample region. The second conductor layer is vertically centered above the first conductor layer, and includes gradient coils configured to generate first, second, and third magnetic field gradients along respective first, second and third mutually-orthogonal spatial dimensions in the sample region.
US11002805B2
A magnetic sensor includes a magnetic field converter, a magnetic field detector, and a plurality of shields aligned in a Y direction. The magnetic field converter includes a plurality of yokes. Each yoke has a shape elongated in the Y direction, and is configured to receive an input magnetic field component in a direction parallel to a Z direction and to output an output magnetic field component in a direction parallel to an X direction. The magnetic field detector includes a plurality of trains of elements. Each train of elements includes a plurality of MR elements that are aligned in the Y direction along one yoke and connected in series. Each shield has such a shape that its maximum dimension in the Y direction is smaller than its maximum dimension in the X direction.
US11002804B1
Sensing systems and methods are provided for compensating for offset and gain changes. A sensing system includes a magnetic element, a current sensing arrangement to provide a current measurement signal influenced by a flux induced in the magnetic element, an oscillator arrangement to provide a reference oscillating current signal configured to induce an oscillating flux in the magnetic element, and a compensation arrangement coupled the current sensing arrangement to adjust the current measurement signal to compensate for gain changes in the measurement signal output and provide a compensated current measurement based at least in part on the adjusted measurement signal and the reference oscillating current signal. The oscillating flux influences the current measurement signal output by the current sensing arrangement.
US11002797B2
The fault diagnosis circuit includes a first line including a first resistor, having one end connected to the positive (+) terminal of a battery, and having the other end connected to a first input unit of an analog to digital converter (ADC); a second line including a second resistor, having one end connected to the positive (+) terminal of the battery, and having the other end connected to a first input unit of a comparator; and a third line including a third resistor, having one end connected to the negative (−) terminal of the battery, having a first other end connected to a second input unit of the ADC, and having a second other end connected to a second input unit of the comparator. A fault in a battery management system can be efficiently diagnosed using a smaller number of elements.
US11002778B2
A computer-implemented method for determining the phase center of an antenna under test comprises the following steps: acquiring a transmitted near-field or far-field signal of the antenna under test, by rotational movement of a measuring antenna relative to the antenna under test, the rotation covering at least the angle between the z axis and the x axis of the antenna, the rotational movement covering a spherical measurement region, the acquisition being performed at different angles phi to the z axis and while rotating, relative to the measuring antenna, the antenna under test around its z axis, obtaining far-field phase data by applying a field transformation on the near-filed or far-filed signal obtained, determining the main beam peak location within the measurement region, and transforming the coordinate center of the far-field data based on the main beam peak location in order to determine the phase center.
US11002763B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a probe structured for electrical and photonics testing of a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) die, the probe including: a membrane having a first surface and an opposing second surface and including conductive traces, the membrane being configured for electrical coupling to a probe interface board (PIB); a set of probe tips positioned on the membrane, the set of probe tips being configured to send electrical test signals to the PIC die or receive electrical test signals from the PIC die; and a photonic test assembly disposed on the membrane and electrically coupled to the conductive traces of the membrane, the photonic test assembly positioned for substantial alignment with a photonic I/O element of the PIC die, wherein the photonic test assembly is configured to transmit a photonic input signal to the photonic I/O element or detect a photonic output signal from the photonic I/O element.
US11002761B2
A system for testing an integrated-circuit wafer, the system including a probe card having a probe needle and a probe body enclosing a pressure chamber. The probe body includes a unitary sidewall, a first end cap substantially closing a first end of the probe body, except for an outlet passage in the first end cap, and an inlet passage configured to introduce compressed gas into the pressure chamber. The probe needle is within the pressure chamber and is supported by the probe body. A free end of the probe needle extends through the outlet passage. The ends of the probe needle are separated by a first bend in the probe needle, which has a center of curvature that is located between the probe needle and a longitudinal centerline of the unitary sidewall. Methods of using a probe card are also disclosed.
US11002756B2
An accelerometer comprising a plurality of proof-masses moveable along a measurement axis; a respective spring rigidly attached to each proof-mass, configured to exert an elastic recall on the proof-mass in the measurement axis; and a fixed stop associated with each proof-mass, arranged to intercept the proof-mass when the acceleration in the measurement axis increases by a step. The proof-masses are suspended in series with respect to one another by springs in the measurement axis, the stops being arranged to successively intercept the respective proof-masses for increasing thresholds of acceleration.
US11002746B2
Disclosed is a blood analyzer that includes: a sample preparation unit configured to mix a blood specimen and a fluorescent dye for staining nucleic acid to prepare a measurement sample; a light receiver configured to receive fluorescence and scattered light that are generated by light being applied to the measurement sample prepared by the sample preparation unit; and a controller programmed to determine whether or not infection with Plasmodium has occurred, on the basis of a value representing variation of a distribution of first particles in a range where single-ring form of red blood cells appear, the range where single-ring form of red blood cells appear being identified according to fluorescence intensities and scattered light intensities obtained by processing of signals from the light receiver.
US11002745B2
Methods and compositions relating to motor neurons derived from induced pluripotent stem cells of subjects having a neurodegenerative disease, where the motor neurons exhibit phenotypes characteristic of the neurodegenerative disease, are provided herein. In particular, the present invention provides methods for screening putative therapeutic agents and methods for diagnosing living subjects as having a neurodegenerative disease. In addition, the present invention provides therapeutic gene transfer methods for treating or preventing a neurodegenerative disease in a subject in need thereof.
US11002744B2
A system and method is described for characterizing glycopeptides which includes a first quadrupole mass filter, a multipole rod set of an ion guide, a lens electrode, an ExD device and a mass analyzer. The multipole rod set is adapted to receive a radial radio frequency (RF) trapping voltage and a radial dipole direct current (DC) voltage The lens electrode is adapted to receive an axial trapping alternating current (AC) voltage and a DC voltage. The ExD device performs electron capture dissociation or electron transfer dissociation, the ExD device being positioned so that an entrance of the ExD device is disposed on the other side of the lens electrode opposite the multipole rod set. The mass analyzer is positioned at an exit of the ExD device for receiving ions from the ExD device.
US11002743B2
A device includes: a first portion configured to be grasped by the hand of the user, and a second portion defining a reservoir containing a control material, wherein the control material contains a target analyte in a known or predetermined concentration. A method of verifying the accuracy of an analyte monitoring device includes receiving control information, receiving a fluid sample, identifying the fluid sample as a control solution, and analyzing the control solution.
US11002740B2
The present invention is related to novel methods for detecting and reducing cancer cell central nervous system colonization and methods of treating subjects having cancers that colonize in the central nervous system.
US11002739B2
The present invention relates to an antibody specifically binding to thioredoxin-1 and a use thereof, and more particularly, to an antibody specifically binding to thioredoxin-1 or an antigen-binding fragment thereof, a nucleic acid molecule(s) encoding a heavy chain and/or a light chain of the antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof, a recombinant vector including the nucleic acid molecule, host cells, a method of preparing the antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof, a breast cancer diagnostic kit, and a method of providing information necessary for breast cancer diagnosis.
US11002736B2
SUSD2 protein is used as a marker in identification, selection or separation of pancreatic internal secretion precursor cells and/or newborn pancreatic internal secretion cells; and a use of an mRNA, for encoding the SUSD2 protein, of a precursor protein as the marker in identification of the pancreatic internal secretion precursor cells and/or the newborn pancreatic internal secretion cells. Analysis of gene expression of pancreatic endoderm cells sourced by induced directional differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells finds the enrichment expression of a SUSD2 gene in the pancreatic internal secretion precursor cells and the newborn pancreatic internal secretion cells. A protein encoded by the SUSD2 gene is a receptor protein on cell membranes. Using the protein as the marker, the identification, the selection or the separation of the pancreatic internal secretion precursor cells and the newborn pancreatic internal secretion cells can be conducted.
US11002734B2
Devices and methods incorporate mucolytic agents into a point-of-care testing device. The sample is loaded, and then the sample travels until it encounters one or more lysis agents and/or mucolytic agents. The mucolytic agent is preferably pre-loaded onto the collection device. In a preferred embodiment, the mucolytic agent is localized between the sample application zone and the conjugate zone. In embodiments with a sample compressor, one or more mucolytic agents may be pre-loaded and dried on the sample compressor, the sample collector, in various locations on the test strip, or in the running buffer.
US11002730B2
The compositions described herein include a substrate, wherein the substrate is a metal, metal oxide, metal nitride or a silicon containing material; a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) bonded to the substrate, wherein the self-assembled monolayer comprises: a surface binding unit bonded to the substrate, wherein the surface binding unit is selected from the group consisting of hydroxamates, phosphonates, catechols, halosilanes, alkoxysilanes, phosphonic acids, alkenes, alkynes, alcohols, 1,2-diols, and thiols; a separator unit bonded to the surface binding unit; a mass altering unit bonded to the separator unit; and a detector unit bonded to the separator unit.
US11002726B2
A test element analysis system for an analytical examination of a sample, in particular of a body fluid, is disclosed. The test element analysis system comprises an evaluation device with a test element holder for positioning a test element containing the sample and a measuring device for measuring a change in a measuring zone of the test element, the change being characteristic for an analyte. The test element holder contains contact elements with contact surfaces which allow an electrical contact between contact surfaces of the test element and the contact surfaces of the test element holder. The contact surfaces of the contact elements of the test element holder are provided with an electrically conductive surface containing metallic ruthenium.
US11002717B2
A device for automated characterization of radioactive analytes that provides an integrated system with liquid handling and plate reading components. The device can be further configured to include a chromatographic subsystem. Also provided is a method of using such a device, providing addition of a radioactive sample and a sequence of operations involving the abovementioned components of the system. The system is configured with radiation shielding in such a way that manipulations of radioactive samples do not interfere with concurrent radioactive measurements.
US11002712B2
A device for estimating a mechanical property of a sample is disclosed herein. The device may include a chamber configured to hold the sample; a transmitter configured to transmit a plurality of waveforms, including at least one forcing waveform; and a transducer assembly operatively connected to the transmitter and configured to transform the transmit waveforms into ultrasound waveforms. The transducer assembly can also transmit and receive ultrasound waveforms into and out of the chamber, as well as transform at least two received ultrasound waveforms into received electrical waveforms. The device also includes a data processor that can receive the received electrical waveforms; estimate a difference in the received electrical waveforms that results at least partially from movement of the sample; and estimate a mechanical property of the sample by comparing at least one feature of the estimated difference to at least one predicted feature, wherein the at least one predicted feature is based on a model of an effect of the chamber wall. Finally, the device can also include a controller configured to control the timing of the ultrasound transmitter and data processor.
US11002707B2
Diagnostic device including a hammering sound signal acquisition unit, a frequency characteristic conversion unit, and an abnormality determination unit. The hammering sound signal acquisition unit acquires an i-th hammering sound signal and a j-th hammering sound signal representing hammering sounds with respect to striking applied to an i-th and a j-th struck position of an inspection target. The frequency characteristic conversion unit respectively converts the i-th hammering sound signal and the j-th hammering sound signal into an i-th frequency characteristic and a j-th frequency characteristic. The abnormality determination unit determines presence or absence of an abnormality in the inspection target on the basis of a matching degree of waveforms around peaks in the i-th frequency characteristic and waveforms around peaks in the j-th frequency characteristic. The diagnostic device can be used with an inspection robot to automatically analyze for loose stator wedges.
US11002705B2
The present invention is to provide a semiconductor element achieving a high-level detection sensitivity when utilized as a sensor. The present invention relates to a semiconductor element including an organic film, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a semiconductor layer, in which the first electrode, the second electrode and the semiconductor layer are formed on the organic film, the semiconductor layer is arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode, the semiconductor layer contains a carbon nanotube, and the organic film has a water contact angle of 5° or more and 50° or less.
US11002700B2
A gas sensor for sensing a gas of interest includes a ceramic carrier and a porous ceramic lid that is secured to the ceramic carrier. The porous ceramic lid and the ceramic carrier together define a sensor cavity. A gas sensor is situated in the sensor cavity and is spaced from the porous ceramic lid. The porous ceramic lid is configured to allow the gas of interest to move through at least part of the porous ceramic lid and into the sensor cavity to be sensed by the gas sensor. In some cases, the gas sensor is a MEMS gas sensor.
US11002698B2
A testing system for causing a physical change in a crack tip region of a crack within a specimen. The testing system includes a load application system for applying a load to the specimen having the crack formed therein, an electrothermal system for applying an electrical current through the specimen and comprising a power supply and a controller operably coupled to the load application system and the electrothermal system. The load application system configured to perform a crack growth test on the specimen. A method of thermally influencing a crack tip region of a crack within a specimen includes applying at least one pulse of current to the specimen to generate flux tangentially around the crack within the specimen and at the crack tip region and causing the crack tip region of the crack within the specimen to reach a predetermined activation temperature.
US11002681B2
The invention provides a method for rapid detection of a specific bacterial species. The method includes preparing a sample, irradiating the prepared sample with an electromagnetic radiation of specific wavelength, capturing the electromagnetic radiation scattered by the sample to obtain a Raman spectra and analyzing the Raman spectra to obtain a unique biochemical signature. The unique biochemical signature identifies a single bacterium within the sample. The method also provides for rapid detection of a group of bacterial species within the sample. The method takes about 1 minute to about 1 hour for the detection of specific bacterial species.
US11002677B2
An apparatus for detecting material within a sample includes a light emitting unit for directing at least one light beam through the sample. The at least one light beam has a unique signature combination associated therewith responsive to passing through the sample. A Raman spectroscopic unit receives the at least one light beam that has passed through the sample and performs a Raman spectroscopic analysis to detect a first signature associated with the sample. An infrared spectroscopic unit receives the at least one light beam that has passed through the sample and performs an infrared spectroscopic analysis to detect a second signature associated with the sample. A database includes a plurality of unique combinations of the first signature and the second signature. Each of the plurality of unique combinations of the first signature and the second signature are associated with a particular material. A processor detects the material within the sample responsive to a comparison of a unique combination of the first signature and the second signature detected by the Raman spectroscopic unit and the infrared spectroscopic unit with the plurality of unique combinations of first signature and second signature within the database and determines a matching unique combination of the first signature and the second signature within the database, wherein identification of the unique combination of the first signature and the second signature enables detection of the material not detectable using either the first signature or the second signature alone.
US11002671B1
A method of detecting a substance includes, for each position of a plurality of positions in a field of view of an environment: emitting from a light source a light beam including a predetermined wavelength that is absorbable by a constituent of the substance, controlling at least one mirror to direct the emitted light beam to the position in the field of view, detecting by a detector light resulting from the emitted light beam, and determining whether the constituent of the substance is present at the position in the field of view based on characteristics of the detected light; generating a detection map indicating a presence or an absence of the substance at the plurality of positions in the field of view of the environment; capturing, by an image capture device, an image of the environment; and identifying a portion of the captured image having the substance based on the detection map.
US11002658B2
Some embodiments of the methods provided herein relate to sample analysis and particle characterization methods. Some such embodiments include receiving, from a particle analyzer, measurements for a first portion of particles associated with an experiment. Some embodiments also include generating a tree representing groups of related particles based at least in part on the measurements, wherein the tree includes at least three groups. Some embodiments also include generating a measure of relatedness between a first group and a second group of the tree based at least in part on the measurements. Some embodiments also include and configuring the particle analyzer to classify a subsequent particle associated with the experiment with the first group real-time, wherein the subsequent particle is not included in the first portion of particles. Some embodiments also include sorting the subsequent particle.
US11002643B1
An in-situ monitoring tool is provided that is compromised of a non-reactive medium, a reactive medium, or a combination thereof, contained in a water-permeable mesh. The tool is placed in an aquifer for a predetermined amount of time to allow the medium(s) to act as a substrate that collects minerals from the aquifer for analysis.
US11002638B2
A magnetoscop inspection system includes a magnetoscop, a computed tomography unit, and a corrosion model unit. The magnetoscop measures a permeability at a plurality of inspection points of a turbine component. The computed tomography unit generates a measured profile of a hollowed portion of the turbine component based at least in part on the permeability at the measured inspection points. The corrosion model unit stores in memory at least one reference computed tomography profile of a known turbine component. The magnetoscop inspection system determines a structural integrity of the turbine component based on a comparison between the measured profile and the reference profile corresponding to the turbine component currently under inspection.
US11002637B2
A wear monitoring system for measuring incursion depth into an abradable coating includes a layer of abradable coating including a depth, and a measurement circuit including a plurality of conductive leads disposed within the abradable coating. The conductive leads are spaced radially apart within a common radial plane corresponding to the depth of the abradable coating. A radio frequency identification tag (RFID) is disposed within the abradable coating and connected to the measurement circuit. A plurality of resistor elements corresponds with the plurality of conductive leads. Each of the plurality of resistor elements in electrical communication with one of the plurality of conductive leads is disposed within the common radial plane of the corresponding one of the plurality of conductive leads. An electrical characteristic of the measurement circuit varies responsive to cutting of one or more of the plurality of conductive leads by a passing airfoil.
US11002631B2
According to examples, a fiber-optic testing source for testing a multi-fiber cable may include a laser source communicatively coupled to a plurality of optical fibers connected to a connector. The fiber-optic testing source may include at least one photodiode communicatively coupled to at least one of the plurality of optical fibers by at least one corresponding splitter to implement a communication channel between the fiber-optic testing source and a fiber-optic testing receiver. The communication channel may be operable independently from a polarity associated with the multi-fiber cable. The fiber-optic testing receiver may include a plurality of photodiodes communicatively coupled to a plurality of optical fibers. The fiber-optic testing receiver may include at least one laser source communicatively coupled to at least one of the plurality of optical fibers by at least one corresponding splitter to implement the communication channel between the fiber-optic testing receiver and a fiber-optic testing source.
US11002629B2
An analysis system includes a fluidic system includes a number of components that are interconnected to form a fluidic system having a plurality of flow paths. An example method of pressure testing the fluidic system includes (a) selecting a flow path from the plurality of flow paths through a flow cell in accordance with a prescribed test protocol; (b) actuating a pump to pressurize a fluid in the selected flow path; (c) generating pressure data representative of the pressure in the selected flow path; and (d) processing the pressure data to determine whether the selected flow path maintains pressure in a desired manner.
US11002621B2
A drive, method and a device for determining the torque of a shaft, wherein gear wheels engaged with one another in a gearbox serve to apply an axial force to the shaft, where the axial force is induced by helical teeth of the gear wheels, the axial force of the shaft is determined using a force sensor and/or a position sensor, and where the torque is determined arithmetically from the measured axial force such that a static and dynamic measurement of the torque on the shaft can be advantageously performed.
US11002608B2
The present invention relates to a blackbody radiation source. The blackbody radiation source comprises a blackbody radiation cavity, a black lacquer layer and a plurality of carbon nanotubes. The blackbody radiation cavity comprises an inner surface. The black lacquer layer and the plurality of carbon nanotubes are located on the inner surface. Each carbon nanotube comprises a top end and a bottom end. The bottom end of each carbon nanotube is immersed into the black lacquer layer, and the top end of each carbon nanotube is exposed out from the black lacquer layer. An extending direction of each carbon nanotubes is substantially perpendicular to the inner surface.
US11002600B2
A protection device for an Optical Emission Spectrometer (OES) and a method of protecting a detector to which purge gas is supplied, in an OES, are disclosed. The protection device comprises a timer, which measures a parameter, such as a humidity value, indicative of a shut down time period following cessation of application of purge gas to the detector. The protection device comprises a processor, which determines a start-up time period, based on the parameter, during which purge gas is supplied to the detector prior to cooling of the detector. The processor may selectively trigger commencing or maintaining application of purge gas to the detector or cooling of the detector in dependence on the parameter.
US11002599B2
A method of verifying repeatability of a spectroscope that irradiates light to a user sample, detects light reflected from the user sample, and measures spectrum data of the user sample, includes: verifying repeatability of the spectrum data, measured by the spectroscope, based on repeatability verification criteria; and controlling the spectroscope whether or not to remeasure the spectrum data, based on the verifying.
US11002597B2
A solar spectrum sensor, a consumer device and a method for determining an ambient solar spectrum. The solar spectrum sensor comprises a sensor unit configured for generating respective photo current outputs responsive to different parts of the solar spectrum; a measurement unit configured for measuring the respective photo current outputs from the sensor unit; and a processing unit for determining an average photon energy, APE, value of the solar spectrum from the measured photo current outputs and for determining the solar spectrum based on the determined APE.
US11002588B2
A liquid surface detecting device includes a movable body, a circuit board, segment electrodes, an output electrode, and a resistive element located across the segment electrodes and the output electrode to be electrically connected thereto. The segment electrodes are arranged on the mounting surface in an electrode region. The resistive element includes first and second resistive portions on both sides of the electrode region in the movement direction. The resistive element is electrically connected to the output electrode at each of the first and second resistive portions. The movement direction in which the movable body moves according to a decrease of the liquid surface level is defined as a reference direction. The second resistive portion located further in the reference direction than the first resistive portion is completely cut off to block a conduction between its output electrode side and electrode region side.
US11002581B2
A physical quantity measurement device for measuring a physical quantity of a fluid includes a housing that includes a bypass flow channel through which a fluid flows and a physical quantity detection unit that detects a physical quantity of the fluid in the bypass flow channel. The housing includes a housing main body made of a dielectric and a covering film that covers at least a part of a surface of the housing main body, and the surface of the housing is positive charged due to positive charges being arranged in the housing main body along the surface of the housing main body or the positive charges being arranged in the covering film along a surface of the covering film.
US11002577B2
A fiber optic flow sensor includes a fiber optic cable, a light emitter, an optical power meter, and a processing circuit. The fiber optic cable allows light to enter a first end of the fiber optic cable, reflect off a second end of the fiber optic cable and exit the fiber optic cable through the first end. The fiber optic cable is at least partially exposed to fluid flow at the second end. The light emitter emits light at an input power into the first end of the fiber optic cable. The optical power meter measures an output power of the light exiting the fiber optic cable at the first end. The processing circuit calculates a flow rate of the flow of fluid based on the input power of light entering the fiber optic cable and the output power of light exiting the first end of the fiber optic cable.
US11002567B2
An angle sensor may comprise a sensing element including a first half bridge, where magnetic reference directions of resistors of the first half bridge are along a first reference axis. The sensing element may include a second half bridge, where magnetic reference directions of resistors of the second half bridge are along a second reference axis. The sensing element may include a third half bridge, where magnetic reference directions of resistors of the third half bridge are along a third reference axis. At least two of the first reference axis, the second reference axis, or the third reference axis may be non-orthogonal to each other.
US11002555B2
Methods, systems, and computer storage media for generating a visual representation of crime-related information on a map are provided. The crime-related information is gathered from a variety of sources and evaluated to ensure there is no bias when generating metrics that describe individual events within the information. The evaluation involves normalization of a crime's location (e.g., longitude and latitude) and statistical analysis of a crime's severity (e.g., vandalism vs. car theft). Once the metrics are derived, they are employed to generate map that plots the individual events in a visually intuitive manner, such as heat map. In one instance, the map is used to route travelers to their destination optimizing for the safest route, while also considering timing of the trip. In another instance, the map is used to alert a user when s/he enters into an area with event(s) designated as having severe criminal events.
US11002551B1
An airline travel reminder assembly for displaying flight information for a traveler includes a wrist band that is issued to a traveler at a check in point of an airport. A display unit is issued to the traveler at the check in point of the airport. The display unit is programmed to contain flight information for the traveler and the display unit is removably coupled to the wrist band when the display unit is programmed. The display unit displays indicia comprising the pertinent flight information for the traveler. Moreover, the display unit is in wireless communication with a communication network in the airport to receive updates to the pertinent flight information.
US11002545B2
Systems and methods for performing SHD switching for RFOGS are provided herein. A system includes a resonator in which light resonates; at least one laser source that produces first and second optical beams; heterodyne modulators that modulate the first and second optical beams at a heterodyne frequency plus a modulation frequency offset to produce multiple sideband optical beams, wherein the modulation frequency offset has a different sign for the first and second optical beams; a frequency switching controller that alternatingly switches the signs of the modulation frequency offset applied to the first and second optical beams, wherein the heterodyne modulation of the first and second optical beams are on average at the heterodyne frequency; at least one coupler that couples the sideband optical beams into the resonator; a feedback control that detects the sideband optical beams transmitted from the resonator and, in response, adjusts frequencies of the optical beams.
US11002542B1
A laser level with a measurement display window is disclosed herein. The self-leveling laser level and measurement locating instrument includes a rectangular body with multiple laser light outputs wherein the color of the light beam can be changed from either green or red. Additionally, the leveling tool can be secured to a metal surface using a magnet and can be mounted to a tripod or hand carried. The laser level also has a display window for displaying the measurement indicia acquired by the laser lines. Furthermore, the laser level is configured to take measurements either horizontally or vertically.
US11002539B2
A method for detecting a slope of a road on which a vehicle is traveling in at least one spatial direction. The vehicle has a body and a chassis with a plurality of wheels. An inclination of the vehicle body in the spatial direction is determined. For at least one wheel, a vertical distance to the vehicle body is detected. The distance so determined is used to calculate an inclination of the chassis in the spatial direction. The slope of the road in the spatial direction is determined from a difference between the inclination of the vehicle body in the spatial direction and the inclination of the chassis in the spatial direction.
US11002524B2
The present invention discloses a cyclic compound of formula (I) and a process of preparation thereof. The present invention further discloses a process for the preparation of compound of formula (II) preferably Hunanamycin A from compound of formula (I).
US11002515B2
Disclosed are an intelligent artillery supporting apparatus and a method of operating the same which can support a movement of a scheduled fire point of impact for each artillery weapon displayed as a result of a scheduled fire simulation for a target area to a new point of impact which an operator desires and automatically calculate and provide new firing data according to the movement of the scheduled fire point of impact, thereby effectively supporting artillery tactics.
US11002511B2
A holster for receiving and withdrawing a handgun has a proximal wall portion with a handgun retention mechanism thereon. The mechanism having a first lever with a tab portion for actuation and release of a trigger guard, the lever having a snap fit into a lever region without a separate pin. A belt engaging member covers the lever region capturing the first lever therein. If a second retention mechanism is used, another lever with a tab portion is positioned so the tabs are stacked, depressing one also depresses the tab behind it, such that both mechanisms are released. Overmolded polymer layers in the holster body provides a softer interior handgun engagement surfaces. The holster body is split forwardly with a threaded fastener for clamping onto the handgun. No holster body is beneath or rearward of the tab portion, configured as a thumb button, allowing smooth transition to gripping the handgun.
US11002510B2
A firearm component carrier apparatus is disclosed. The firearm component carrier apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a main body, an insert member, and a wrap member. The insert member is coupled to the main body and is oriented to insert into a firearm component. The wrap member is coupled to the main body. The wrap member is shaped to wrap at least partially around the firearm component to secure the firearm component relative to the main body.
US11002500B2
A trigger activated arm may use a piston moving within a cylinder to dampen gun bolt speed. In some embodiments, gun bolt motion increases pressure within the cylinder bore to dampen rearward gun bolt speed. The pressure may be high enough to unseat the cylinder creating a vent that cylinder fluid exits. In other embodiments, gun bolt motion decreases pressure within the cylinder bore to dampen forward gun bolt speed.
US11002499B2
A water distribution system with wide-range variable traffic includes a water distribution tank and at least two types of spray heads uniformly distributed on the bottom of the water distribution tank. Each spray head is provided with a spray pipe connected to the bottom of the water distribution tank. A water inlet is arranged on the upper part of each spray pipe, and a water outlet is arranged on the lower part of the spray pipe. The heights, by which water inlets of at least two types of spray heads are exposed out of the bottom of the water distribution tank, are different.
US11002497B1
Multi-stage microchannel heat and/or wherein said heat and/or mass transfer system includes a system selected from a group of heat exchanger, mass transfer system, and combination thereof, mass transfer system attains an enhanced heat transfer, low pressure drop, and optimized flow distribution and stability for a single- and two-phase applications by combining microchannels formed on industrially available fin tubes, and a multi-stage flow distributing manifold, and directing the flow of a heat exchanging medium through multiple passes formed by short length of respective microchannels, while controllably by-passing some microchannels when migrating the flow of the heat exchanging medium from the microchannels into multiple mixing stages provided by a specific configuration of the manifold. Multiple stages of variable length correlated with the mixing zones are provided in the flow distributing manifold to enhance operational parameters of the system for different applications including evaporators, condensers, and gas-liquid absorbers.
US11002494B2
A heat exchanger may include a heat exchanger block including a plurality of flat tubes held at a longitudinal end side in a respective rim hole of an associated tube plate. The respective rim hole may have at least two mutually opposite and substantially straight long sides and at least two mutually opposite narrow sides. A brazed connection may be disposed between at least one of the at least two long sides of at least one of the respective rim holes and a corresponding one of the flat tubes arranged therein, and the brazed connection may have an undulating brazing boundary. At least one of the plurality of flat tubes may include at least one partition. The undulating brazing boundary may have a high point that defines an increased thickness in relation to a plane running through two opposite groove bases disposed in the tube plate.
US11002492B2
The present invention provides an energy storage system (10) for a use with a boiler (20). The energy storage system (10) comprises a plurality of thermal energy storage banks (101, 102, 103, 104). Each thermal energy storage bank (101, 102, 103, 104) comprises phase changeable material having a predetermined phase transformation temperature. The energy storage system (10) also includes an extraction device (105; 1 15) configured to recover waste energy from the boiler (20). The extraction device (105, 1 15) is operable to extract waste energy from the boiler (20) and feed that energy to at least one (101) of the thermal energy storage banks (101, 102, 103, 104). A controller (106) is arranged, in use, to activate the extraction device (105, 115) in response to operation of the boiler (20).
US11002491B2
A heat transfer segment for a curved heat exchanger, wherein the heat transfer segment comprises a plurality of enclosure bars that at least partially define two opposite ends of the heat transfer segment, wherein the two opposite ends define respective general planes, characterised in that: the enclosure bars are shaped and arranged such that the general plane of one end of the heat transfer segment is not parallel with the general plane of the other end of the heat transfer segment, such that when said heat transfer segment is joined to an adjacent heat transfer segment in an end-to-end fashion the enclosure bars the heat transfer segment may join to corresponding enclosure bars of the adjacent heat transfer segment.
US11002482B2
A system for producing dry nanoparticles from a liquid includes a closed tubing system which incorporates a mister, heater and an electrostatic collector therein. The system is able to produce dry nanoparticles from liquid-suspensions and from solvent solutions.
US11002479B2
A storage shelf base for an item of furniture or household appliance, includes a support plate arranged on a body of the item of furniture or household appliance, and a storage shelf positively driven relative to the support plate and can simultaneously be moved rotationally and traslationally. Facing bearing surfaces of the support plate and the storage shelf have respective closed circulating running grooves, in which rolling elements are guided. The storage shelf can be moved out of an initial position into an intermediate position, relative to the support plate in an opening movement, in which the storage shelf is rotated relative to the support plate in a rotational direction and shifted in a predetermined direction and can be moved out of the intermediate position back into the initial position in a closing movement. The facing bearing surfaces of the support plate and the storage shelf have respective second running grooves, in which rolling elements are guided. The second running grooves of the support plate and the storage shelf at least partially surround the first running grooves of the support plate and the storage shelf.
US11002474B2
A refrigerator includes a cabinet in which a storage space is formed; a main evaporator which is installed at one side of an inner portion of the storage space to cool the storage space; a case which is installed on the other side the inner portion of the storage space and defines a deep-freezing storage chamber; a drawer which is accommodated in the case so as to be retractable and withdrawable and in which food is stored; and a rapid cooling module which is provided on a rear side of the inner portion of the case and rapidly cools the deep-freezing storage chamber, in which the rapid cooling module may includes an auxiliary evaporator; and a thermoelectric device which is coupled to the auxiliary evaporator and cools the deep-freezing storage chamber through heat exchange by heat conduction.
US11002469B2
An integrated thermal superconducting plate heat exchanger and a manufacturing method thereof. The integrated thermal superconducting plate heat exchanger comprises a heat exchange plate of a composite plate structure, a fluid pipe having a certain structure shape and a thermal superconducting pipe having a certain structure shape are formed in the heat exchange plate; two ends of the fluid pipe are formed with openings; and the thermal superconducting pipe is an enclosed pipe and is filled with a heat transfer working medium therein.
US11002467B2
A refrigeration cycle apparatus capable of performing pump down operation while suppressing degradation in performance is provided. The refrigeration cycle apparatus includes an outdoor heat exchanger, a compressor including an inlet side and an outlet side, at least one indoor heat exchanger, a four-way valve, a check valve including an inlet side and an outlet side, a pipe serving as a first flow path connecting the outlet side of the check valve to the inlet side of the compressor, a first on-off valve, and a refrigerant leak detection device. The refrigeration cycle apparatus is configured such that, when a refrigerant leak is detected by the refrigerant leak detection device, pump down operation is performed as refrigerant transfer operation of transferring the refrigerant from the indoor heat exchanger to the outdoor heat exchanger.
US11002464B2
The present disclosure relates to a bracket for stacking heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) units. The bracket includes a corner portion having a first raised section and an alignment protrusion that extends from the corner portion. The bracket also includes a first arm extending from the corner portion, where the first arm includes a second raised section at a first end of the first arm, and where a first strap recess is formed between the first raised section and the second raised section. The bracket further includes a second arm extending from the corner portion, where the second arm includes a third raised section at a second end of the second arm, and where a second strap recess is formed between the first raised section and the third raised section.
US11002445B2
A gas burner (1) comprises a support plate (2) with a passage opening (8) for the gas and an annular wall (11) formed around the passage opening (8), a diffusing wall (19) and a further flow element (20,21,22) inserted on the annular wall (11) in flow communication with the passage opening (8), wherein the annular wall (11) forms a plurality of punches (16) with a recess (17) and an opposite projection (23), wherein the recess (17) accommodates a locking protuberance (25) of the diffusing wall (19) and the projection (23) extends in a locking hole (24) of the further flow element (20, 21, 22).
US11002441B2
The present disclosure provides a leakage protection circuit, a method and a drive device. The leakage protection circuit is used for being electrically connected with the power supply line of a load, and may be configured to sample the power supply line at intervals, detect the voltage of the sampled electrical signals to determine whether the voltage of the AC input power is divided, and provide leakage protection based on the determined result. The present disclosure can prevent human from electric shock through sampling the electric signals from the power supply line at intervals and performing voltage detection and comparison to determine whether the voltage of the accessed AC input power is divided, when the voltage of the accessed AC input power is determined to be divided, the power supply line will be controlled in non-conductive state.
US11002436B2
It is described herein an article of manufacture comprising a housing, with a wing shaped support attached to the housing's outer surface in a first direction, and a second wing attached to and extending from the housing outer surface in a second direction opposite the first direction. The first wing and the second wing may have a degree of curvature which can be formed by the respective wing that is greater than 12° for a one inch arc length. The housing may be capable of passing light in a visible wavelength from a cavity in the housing when a light source is disposed within said cavity.
US11002428B2
A light regulation device includes: a first substrate on which a first electrode layer is provided; a second substrate on which a second electrode layer is provided; and liquid crystals interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first electrode layer includes a plurality of electrode units. Each of the electrode units includes a plurality of electrode strips. Each of the electrode strips is configured to be loaded a different driving voltage signal. The second electrode layer is configured to be loaded a common voltage signal. An exiting direction of light passing through liquid crystals at a position corresponding to each of the electrode units is deflected in the same direction.
US11002425B1
An optical cover for a linear light source includes a portion of an optical material that forms a cross-section transverse to an axial direction. The cross-section curves so that its inner surface is substantially concave and its outer surface is substantially convex. The outer surface is substantially smooth, and the inner surface forms facets. Each of the facets refracts light, and connects with an adjacent facet. Each of the facets defines a peak height from the outer surface, and each pair of adjacent facets defines a valley height from the outer surface. The peak heights of all facets exceed the valley heights between adjacent pairs of facets, and the peak height of each selected facet does not exceed twice the valley height between the selected facet and a facet adjacent to the selected facet.
US11002418B1
A lamp for illumination or decorative lighting having a lamp unit with a roof portion and a base portion, and a translucent cylindrical enclosure. A single, flat, and rigid PCB is disposed within the enclosure, mounted to the roof portion. A white set of LEDs is mounted on the faces of the PCB and arranged in a plurality of white rows. A colored set of LEDs is mounted on the two faces and arranged in a plurality of colored rows, the white rows interleaved with the colored rows. A battery rechargeable by solar cell powers the LEDs. A switch and electronic circuitry selectively control the white set and colored set, the circuitry configured to perform an off mode (white set and colored set are off), an illumination mode (white set is powered on continuously and the colored set is off), and a flame mode (colored LEDs of the colored set are powered on selectively to simulate a flame), selected by the switch.
US11002414B2
[Object] External leakage of laser light can be prevented in a reflective type light source device. [Solution] Laser light excites a first surface (21) of a phosphor light-emitting section. (20), and a window portion (30) formed of a transparent member disposed spaced away from the first surface (21) is provided. A light leakage prevention portion (600), which inhibits the laser light reflected at the first surface (21) of the phosphor light-emitting section (20) from leaking to the outside through the window portion (30) is provided to part of the window portion (30).
US11002413B2
A light bulb apparatus includes a bulb shell, a bulb head and a light source module. The bulb shell has a light passing portion and a neck portion. The neck portion has a first protruding ring, a first gap ring and a second protruding ring. The bulb head has a body portion and a cap portion. The neck portion has a third protruding ring, a second gap ring and a fourth protruding ring. The first protruding ring is placed in a second concave structure, the fourth protruding ring is placed in a first concave structure. The light source module is enclosed by the bulb shell and emitting light passing through the light passing cover of the bulb shell.
US11002409B2
A gas and liquid separation system could be said to have a passage with an inlet connected to receive a mixed gas and liquid flow. An air separation tube extends into the passage at a location downstream of where the inlet is connected with an upstream tube end upstream in the passage relative to a downstream tube end. The upstream tube end provides an obstruction to the mixed gas and liquid flow, to cause separation of the gas from the mixed gas and liquid flow. A liquid tube is connected to the passage at a location downstream of the air separation tube.
US11002400B2
A piping insulation insert that may be inserted in a cut-away portion of insulation wrapping a pipe, wherein the piping insulation insert supports the weight of the pipe against a system by which the insulated pipe is suspended and supported. The insert includes: a length of unistrut having a u-shaped cross-sectional profile, wherein: the exterior surface of the u-shaped unistrut is covered with a first insulating material; a volume defined by the interior surface and the two upper edges of the u-shaped unistrut is packed with a second insulating material; and the two upper edges of the u-shaped unistrut are covered with the first insulating material.
US11002399B2
A sewer inspection or maintenance system is provided, at least comprising a carrier system, a satellite system which is movable relative to the carrier system, and a guide device coupled to the carrier system, along which the satellite system can be guided during a movement relative to the carrier system. The guide device can be extended or unfolded or rolled out from a stowed position into at least one position of use, so that the effective length of the guide device can be increased.
US11002395B2
A push to connect fitting includes a body member adapted to receive a conduit end, a conduit comprising a first end that can be axially inserted into the body member and a conduit gripping device attached to an exterior surface of the conduit, and a retainer that retains the conduit in place when said conduit is fully inserted into the body member. Additional embodiments include providing a seal with the fitting that seals the exterior surface of the conduit, an optional load retaining sleeve for the conduit gripping device, and an optional gimbal. The push to connect aspect may be realized in the form of a single action unthreaded mechanical connection.
US11002394B2
A quick connect joint includes a base with first and second lock receivers on opposite sides of the base, and a connection plate including first and second engagement members engageable with the first and second lock receivers, respectively. The first engagement member is displaceable between a release position and lock position, and the first engagement member is rotatable between an insert position and a connect position. The quick connect joint creates a safe and reliable connection.
US11002389B2
A one-touch pipe connection device includes a socket main body portion including a plurality of pipe fitting portions in each of which a pipe is inserted; a sealing portion that provides sealing between the socket main body portion and the pipe; and a cap portion having a through hole through which the pipe is inserted into the pipe fitting portion and configured to be coupled to the pipe fitting portion by rotation while moving towards the pipe fitting portion such that the sealing portion is pressed and deformed to closely contact the pipe.
US11002372B2
A diaphragm valve includes a valve seat disposed in a valve chamber in a body, an annular groove provided on the outer periphery of the valve seat, a diaphragm provided so as to be able to make contact with and leave the valve seat via a pressurizing device, and a primary-side flow path communicating the valve chamber, in which an inner diameter of a secondary-side flow path contiguously provided to the annular groove is 2.0 to 4.5 times a groove width of the annular groove, and an intersection cross-sectional area between the annular groove and the secondary-side flow path is smaller than a cross-sectional area of the secondary-side flow path and the intersection cross-sectional area is configured to be equal to or larger than 35% with respect to a sectional area of the secondary-side flow path to acquire a predetermined Cv value.
US11002364B2
A labyrinth seal includes a step-up structure step portion which is a step portion on a high-pressure side, a step-down structure step portion which is a step portion which is a step portion on a low-pressure side, a fin and an annular groove. The fin is arranged on the low-pressure side relative to the step-down structure step portion. The annular groove is arranged in at least a part of a region on the low-pressure side relative to the step-up structure step portion as well as on the high-pressure side relative to the third fin.
US11002363B2
A seal includes: a sealing ring made of a sealing material; and at least one shielding ring made a soft magnetic material for shielding against electromagnetic interfering waves. In an embodiment, the at least one shielding ring is formed by a ferrite ring. In an embodiment, the at least one shielding ring includes at least two shielding rings, the at least two shielding rings being arranged in a functional series connection.
US11002361B2
A shift control device has stepless and stepped shift modes in which a transmission gear ratio of a continuously variable transmission is controlled in stepless and stepwise fashions, respectively, and includes a mode setting unit that switches the shift mode to the stepped shift mode if an engine rotation speed in the stepless shift mode exceeds a switch threshold, a correction-value setting unit that sets a correction value based on the engine rotation speed if the shift mode is to be switched to the stepped shift mode, a shift-threshold setting unit that sets a shift threshold by adding the correction value to the switch threshold if the shift mode is to be switched to the stepped shift mode, and an upshift controller that switches the transmission gear ratio toward a higher side when the engine rotation speed in the stepped shift mode reaches the shift threshold.
US11002360B2
The present disclosure may provide a shift range control apparatus that controls on-off operations of switching elements in a driver circuit, drives a motor, and switches a shift range. The shift range control apparatus may be configured to determine an abnormality of a rotation angle sensor detecting a rotation angle of the motor, to control a drive of the motor using a detection value, and to execute a control which switches an energization phase every energization phase switching period without using the detection value of the rotation angle sensor in response to that the rotation angle sensor is abnormal.
US11002356B2
The invention relates to a method for controlling the oil level (h3) in a differential gearbox for a vehicle having an oil sump (3) and an oil reservoir (4) that is pneumatically separated from the oil sump (3). The oil reservoir (4) is connected to the oil sump (3) by way of at least one oil channel (34), and the oil sump (3) is connected to a pneumatic pressure source (8) by way of at least one control valve (7) and an air line (5), wherein in at least one position (B) of the of a the control valve (7), the pressure source (8) is pneumatically connected to the oil sump (3). In order to improve the efficiency, at least one first characteristic operating parameter of the vehicle, according to the invention, is detected, and the control valve (7) is operated in dependence of at least said first characteristic operating parameter, wherein the vehicle speed (v) is selected as first characteristic operating parameter.
US11002354B2
A toothed wheel system for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle is provided. The least one tooth system has a plurality of teeth that follow one another in the circumferential direction of the gear wheel, and at least one elastomer track adjoining the tooth system in the axial direction. The elastomer track is formed as a regular polygon on the outer circumferential side. The number of sides of the polygon correspond to the number of teeth.
US11002350B2
An axle assembly may have at least one electric motor/generator. The motor/generator may be connected to a first sun gear. A first gear of a first planet carrier may be meshed with the first sun gear. A first ring gear may be meshed with a second gear of the first planet carrier. A second ring gear, a second sun gear and a second planet carrier may be provided. A selector sleeve may selectively connect a selector spline connected to the first ring gear and a ground for a low output speed, the selector sleeve may selectively connect the first and second ring gears with the first planet carrier for a high output speed and selector sleeve selectively connect to only the first ring gear for neutral.
US11002348B2
A rotary actuator has a hollow motor and hollow reduction gears arranged coaxially on either side of the hollow motor. A rotary shaft is arranged so as to pass through a hollow motor shaft of the hollow motor. The hollow reduction gears have hollow input shafts connected to the shaft ends on either sides of the hollow motor shaft. The hollow reduction gears have hollow output shafts connected to sections of the rotary shaft protruding from both ends of the hollow motor shaft. The connection position of the hollow output shaft with respect to the rotary shaft can be adjusted in the rotational direction. A load is rotationally driven by the rotary shaft. By increasing the axial length of the hollow motor, it is possible to obtain a small-diameter rotary actuator having a rotational output with large torque.
US11002338B2
A drive belt includes a hoop and multiple elements joined together in a loop by the hoop. Each element has an assembly space into which one end portion of the hoop is inserted during assembly. Each element is configured such that a first opening width, which is a distance between a first hook and a second hook, is less than a width of the hoop, and a second opening width, which is a distance between the second hook and a contact site where the one end portion of the hoop housed in the assembly space contacts a first pillar, is greater than the width of the hoop. The first hook and the second hook respectively include a first displacement-restriction surface and a second displacement-restriction surface each configured to restrict relative displacement between the element and the hoop by contacting a corresponding one of edges of the hoop.
US11002323B2
A drum brake includes a brake drum with an attaching region for arranging the brake drum on a vehicle part, such as a wheel hub, and a shell region with a first contact face, and a friction lining with a second contact face which faces toward the shell region, the first and second contact face being curved along or in a radial plane.
US11002320B2
A compressor includes a housing, a drive shaft rotatably engaged in the housing, a stator attached to the housing, a pulley rotatably attached to the housing and rotatable relative to the housing, a front plate attached to the drive shaft and rotated in concert with the drive shaft, and a lock device includes a lock member attached to the drive shaft and rotated in concert with the drive shaft, and the lock member is secured to the front plate for anchoring and securing the front plate and the lock member and the drive shaft together. The drive shaft includes a non-circular section, and the lock member includes a non-circular bore engaged with the drive shaft for preventing the lock member from being rotated relative to the drive shaft.
US11002317B2
A system having a rolling bearing providing at least an outer ring, at least an inner ring and at least a seal, which seals an inner space of the rolling bearing on a first axial end of the rolling bearing against ingress of liquids and dust. The system further provides a transportation safety device, which is attached to the rolling bearing and restricts swiveling of the inner ring relative to the outer ring in comparison to a state of the rolling bearing in which the transportation safety device is detached from the rolling bearing.
US11002314B2
A spherical roller bearing providing an inner ring, an outer ring, rollers for rolling on raceways arranged on the rings, and a cage for holding the rollers spaced apart from each other. The cage having an annular core and a plurality of bars delimitating a plurality of pockets for the rollers, the annular core including two side faces from which the bars protrude axially outwardly, the inner and outer rings being rotatable with respect to each other around a bearing axis. The annular core further provides a plurality of spacing elements that protrude from the side faces of the annular core designed to come into contact with side faces of the rollers in order to prevent the rollers from moving axially towards the center of the bearing.
US11002303B2
A fastener-retaining system (100) is configured to securely couple a fastener (102) to a substrate (104). The fastener-retaining system (100) includes a compression-limiting bushing (106) including a tube defining a central passage (132), and a retainer (130) positioned within the central passage. The retainer (130) includes a first portion that securely connects to the bushing, and a second portion that is configured to securely connect to a portion of the fastener.
US11002302B2
A rod bracket is provided and includes a bracket base, wherein the bracket base defines a plurality of bracket mounting cavities and includes a base front, a base rear, a base top and a base bottom, a bracket arm having a bracket arm length and a curtain rod cradle securely associated with the bracket base via the bracket arm, wherein the plurality of bracket mounting cavities communicate the base front with the base rear and are configured at an angle of between about 30° and 60° relative to a horizontal plane, and wherein the bracket base defines a first bracket base rear opening, and wherein the ratio between the bracket arm length and the distance between the first bracket base rear opening and the base bottom is about 1:1.
US11002299B1
A pressure wave generator with dynamic reflector of pressure impulse is disclosed which comprises an outer fixed and an inner coaxially-rotating cylindrical elements with the given profiled openings of the given shapes and sizes in the solid walls and a dynamic reflector of pressure impulse, configured in the solid wall of the inner rotating cylindrical element having a longitudinal radial-azimuthal variable-concave surface. Such concave surface provides a decomposition of the reflected pressure impulse to a radial and azimuthal component, especially important on the stage of decrease of the pressure amplitude from a maximal value to zero. Variation of the curvature of the radial-azimuthal shape of the concave surface provides a maximal azimuthal component and a minimal radial component of the mechanical reaction of the shaft of the pressure wave generator. The helicoidally-shape of the inner surface of a collector add an azimuthal motion to reflected pressure impulse.
US11002298B2
A damping device, particularly for damping or avoiding pressure surges such as pulses, in hydraulic supply circuits, preferably in the form of a silencer, includes a damping housing that surrounds a damping chamber (19), has at least one fluid inlet (11), has at least one fluid outlet (13) and has a fluid receiving chamber (19) extending between the fluid inlet (11) and the fluid outlet (13). During operation of the device, a fluid flow crosses the damping chamber (19) in a through-flow direction (15), coming from the fluid inlet (11) in the direction of the fluid outlet (13). At least parts of the fluid receiving chamber (19) extend in at least one extension direction transversely with respect to the through-flow direction (15). The fluid receiving chamber (19) immediately adjoins the fluid inlet (11) and the fluid outlet (13) and is delimited by at least one yielding wall part (4).
US11002294B2
A composite fan casing for a turbine engine includes a core including a plurality of core layers of reinforcing fiber bonded together with a resin. The core includes a first surface and an opposing second surface. The fan casing also includes a shock dispersion panel coupled to the first surface, wherein the shock dispersion panel is configured to disperse a shock wave caused by an impact on the second surface to prevent separation of the plurality of core layers.
US11002261B2
Modular mechanically driven diaphragm pump features are presented herein. Such a diaphragm pump can include a motor, a drive mechanism, and a coupling mounted on a wheeled frame. A diaphragm pump can be mounted to the coupling by forming mechanical static and dynamic connections to brace a housing of the diaphragm pump relative to a drive rod which is moved by the drive mechanism to operate the pump. These mechanical static and dynamic connections can be broken to dismount the pump for replacement or servicing. In some cases, a gas charge can be introduced on the non-working fluid side of the diaphragm to boost performance and/or a dampener can be integrated into the housing of the diaphragm pump and mounted/dismounted with the diaphragm pump.
US11002255B2
A carbon negative clean fuel production system includes: a main platform; a heat collection device for capturing heat from a hydrothermal emissions from a hydrothermal vent on a floor of an ocean; a heat driven electric generator; a heat distribution system including a heat absorbing material and a heat transporting pipe; anchor platforms tethered to the main platform; a mineral separator; a seawater filtration unit; a water splitting device; a sand refinery machine; a carbon removal system; and a chemical production system for producing hydrides, halides and silane. Also disclosed is a method for carbon negative clean fuel production, including: capturing heat; producing electric energy; separating minerals; filtering seawater; splitting water; refining sand; removing carbon dioxide; and producing hydrides, halides, and silane.
US11002254B2
A turbine for a power plant unit for a hybrid power plant is arranged in a turbine housing in which a flow channel for a compressible medium is arranged. A drive shaft and at least one output impeller are arranged in the flow channel, the output impeller containing an output shaft for operating a generator, wherein the output impeller is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the output shaft. The drive shaft is not connected to the output shaft.
US11002252B2
A wind installation comprising a wind turbine (1) and an airborne wind energy system (12, 13), e.g. in the form of a kite (12) or a glider (13) is disclosed. The wind turbine (1) is electrically connected to the power grid via a power transmission line (27). The wind installation further comprises an airborne wind energy system (12, 13), e.g. in the form of a kite (12) or a glider (13), for generating electrical energy. The airborne wind energy system (12, 13) comprising a separate generator is coupled to the wind turbine (1) via a cable (6) and the separate generator is electrically connected to the power transmission line (27).
US11002235B2
A fuel injection device is provided with a valve body, a nozzle needle, a movable plate, and a support spring. The valve body has a control chamber therein. The control chamber is defined by a defining wall which has a dividing wall portion. The dividing wall portion divides the control chamber into an accommodation chamber and a backpressure chamber. The accommodation chamber accommodates a movable plate and a support spring. A fuel pressure in the backpressure chamber is applied to the nozzle needle. The dividing wall portion has a restriction hole fluidly connecting the accommodation chamber and the backpressure chamber with each other, and a support surface supporting the support spring.
US11002225B1
An air-breathing rocket engine in certain embodiments comprises an hourglass-shaped outer shell and an interior portion situated entirely within the front end of the outer shell. The interior portion includes a funnel-shaped intake that terminates in a floor and an inner front wall that forms a first circumferential gap between the inner front wall and the outer surface of the funnel-shaped intake. The intake has a central aperture that is in fluid communication with the throat and exhaust areas within the outer shell. A second circumferential gap is formed between the outer surface of the front inner wall and the inner surface of the front end of the outer shell and is in fluid communication with the throat and exhaust areas within the outer shell. One or more injector polis and one or more ignition ports are situated at the front end of the second circumferential gap.
US11002221B2
An acoustic cavity tailored synthetic jet employs a body having a cavity with a wall including a taper from a first extent to an aperture. The cavity is configured to produce a matched acoustic resonance. A drive system has a piston engaged to the cavity at the first extent. The drive system and piston are configured for oscillatory motion inducing a synthetic jet at the aperture.
US11002215B2
A controller for controlling a fuel injection valve and a fuel pressure adjustment mechanism integrates a deposition amount of deposits per unit time, and estimates a deposition amount of deposits on an injection hole of the fuel injection valve. The controller causes the fuel pressure adjustment mechanism to increase a fuel pressure, when the estimated deposition amount exceeds a predetermined value, and corrects the unit deposition amount acquired by the deposition amount estimation according to the set fuel injection timing of the fuel injection valve. The controller corrects such that as compared with the unit deposition amount when the fuel injection timing is set to a first timing away from a top dead center of the piston by a first period, the unit deposition amount decreases when the fuel injection timing is set to a second timing away by a second period longer than the first period.
US11002212B1
A Simulink modeling method for a mechanical hydraulic device of an aeroengine fuel regulator is proposed. The Simulink modeling method can implement high precision simulation of a mechanical hydraulic device of an engine fuel conditioning system, and greatly increase the simulation speed as compared with the existing modeling simulation in AMESim; solve the problem of a double-layered nested algebraic loop occurring when the mechanical hydraulic device is modeled in Simulink, and improve the simulation precision of the system. In addition, because of having certain universality, the resolving method for a double-layered nested algebraic loop can be generalized to resolve other types of algebraic loops. Meanwhile, the parameters of the simulation model provided by the present invention can be conveniently modified, and can provide a reference for modeling simulation of mechanical and hydraulic devices of engine fuel conditioning systems of other types.
US11002211B2
An engine diagnostic system is provided for diagnosing a deterioration degree of an engine mounted on a vehicle. The engine diagnostic system learns, as a knock learning value, a maximum advancement amount of an ignition timing that reduces knocking. A database stores time-series data of the knock learning value of the engine for each individual engine. The knock learning value is acquired from each of a plurality of vehicles of the same model. An evaluation process computes an evaluation value indicating the deterioration degree of a designated engine using the time-series data of the knock learning value of each engine stored in the database.
US11002204B2
An exhaust purification system of an internal combustion engine comprises an HC adsorbent 20 arranged adsorbing HC in exhaust gas, an NOx adsorbent 20 adsorbing NOx in exhaust gas, a catalyst 24 removing HC and NOx at a predetermined air-fuel ratio, an air-fuel ratio control part 31 configured to control an air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas, and an HC concentration calculating part 32 configured to calculate a concentration of HC desorbed from the HC adsorbent. A peak of a desorption temperature of HC at the HC adsorbent and a peak of a desorption temperature of NOx at the NOx adsorbent are substantially the same. The air-fuel ratio control part is configured to control an air-fuel ratio of inflowing exhaust gas flowing into the catalyst to the predetermined air-fuel ratio based on the concentration of HC calculated by the HC concentration calculating part when HC is desorbed from the HC adsorbent.
US11002193B2
A turbomachine fuel injector system includes an air distributor configured to be mounted to and contained within a casing and to provide air to mix with a fuel from one or more fuel distribution systems. The system includes a fuel manifold configured to be mounted indirectly to the casing such that the fuel manifold system is contained within the casing but is independent such that fuel manifold does not touch or directly mount to either an interior of the casing or touch the air distributor within the casing to prevent or reduce thermal transfer from the air distributor to the fuel manifold.
US11002191B2
An apparatus and method for a generator for generating power having a rotary union between a rotor and a stator, the rotary union comprising a first fluid passage having a converging nozzle and located within the stator having a first inlet and a first outlet, a second fluid passage having a diverging nozzle and located within the rotor and having a second inlet and a second outlet, the second inlet is aligned with the first outlet and at least one gap located between the rotor and stator.
US11002189B2
A system, as well as associated methods, for increasing the efficiency of a gas turbine including an inlet assembly and a compressor may include a housing configured to channel airstream towards the inlet assembly, an air treatment module positioned at a proximal end the housing, and at least one air conditioning module mounted downstream of the air treatment module for adjusting the temperature of the airstream entering the compressor. The air treatment module may include a plurality of inlet air filters and at least one blower configured to pressurize the air entering the air treatment module.
US11002181B2
A rotating machine has a stationary portion, and a rotating portion. The stationary portion and the rotating portion having a fluid passage therebetween. The stationary portion comprising a first fluid channel, a well, and a second fluid channel spaced apart from the first fluid channel. The first fluid channel fluidically is coupled to receive fluid from the fluid passage. A sensor is coupled to the stationary portion and is disposed at the well.
US11002180B2
The disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for acquiring an electronic file. The method for acquiring an electronic file comprises: sending a first request message for acquiring an electronic file to a platform server, wherein the first request message carries a first identifier of an information providing server providing the electronic file; receiving first prompt information returned from the platform server according to the first request message; determining first verification information for identity authentication according to the first prompt information, and sending the first verification information to the platform server; and receiving the electronic file forwarded by the platform server, wherein the electronic file is from the information providing server, and private information in the electronic file is encrypted through a first encryption key of the information providing server. The technical solutions in the disclosed embodiments can effectively protect private information of a user from being leaked by a platform server, thereby ensuring privacy security of the user.
US11002176B2
Fluid temperature regulator includes a unitarily-formed housing having an inlet, outlet, bypass outlet, and plurality of valve chamber openings, in line with respective valve chambers. Valve holders are removably disposed within valve chamber openings to position thermostatic valves within the valve chambers. Each valve holder includes at least one wall having at least one holder outlet opening and holder bypass outlet opening. First and second regulator flowpaths through the regulator are defined through the regulator inlet to either the regulator bypass outlet or regulator outlet depending upon whether the thermostatic valves are disposed in a first or second configuration, respectively.
US11002172B2
A exhaust-gas heat management system includes a catalytic converter in the exhaust-gas train of an internal-combustion engine, a cover enclosing the catalytic converter, and thereby realizing a cavity for holding a latent-heat storage PCM, at least two fluid connections between the cavity and the collecting vessel, and a pump device for activating and deactivating a PCM circuit between the cavity and the collecting vessel by means of the fluid connections. A method comprises determining an operating state of the internal combustion engine, determining the catalytic converter temperature, determining the PCM temperature, activating the PCM circuit if the PCM temperature is above a phase transition temperature of the PCM, and the internal combustion engine is in a switched-on operating state or the internal combustion engine is in a switched-off operating state and the catalytic converter temperature is below a light-off temperature of the catalytic converter.
US11002152B2
A unitary fan inlet case and bearing support structure for a gas turbine engine includes an annular body having a radially inward ring connected to a radially outward ring via a plurality of struts. A platform protrudes radially inward from the radially inward ring. The platform includes a radially outward facing surface and a radially inward facing surface. The annular body is a single unitary structure.
US11002146B1
A power generation system includes a shroud that defines a fluid flow path. A compressor is in the fluid flow path, and a combustor is in the fluid flow path downstream from the compressor. A turbine is in the fluid flow path downstream from the compressor and the combustor. An electric generator is in the fluid flow path upstream from the compressor, and the electric generator includes a rotor coaxially aligned with the turbine.
US11002140B2
A guide vane segment for a turbomachine stage that has an inner ring segment (10) and a plurality of guide vanes (20) that are configured on the inner ring segment; a detuning region (V) of the inner ring segment extending in each case from a trailing edge (21) of at least one guide vane (20), in particular of at least 50% of the guide vanes (50), axially toward a leading edge (22) of the guide vane (20) over at most 50% of a width (B) of the inner ring segment (10) and/or at most 5 mm and/or circumferentially on both sides, in each case over at most 25% of a spacing (A) between adjacent guide vanes (20), at and/or in which at least one cavity (112) is configured which contains at least one impulse element (100) with clearance of motion for providing impact contacts.
US11002138B2
A turbine blade having a base and an airfoil, the base including cooling air inlets and an internal cooling air passageway, and the airfoil including an internal multi-bend heat exchange path beginning at the base and ending at a cooling air outlet at the trailing edge of the airfoil. The airfoil also includes a “skin” that encompasses a tip wall, an inner spar, and a tip flag cooling system.
US11002130B2
A spoolable array of sensors may be deployed within a wellbore and external a tubular string for measuring properties of a fluid in the central flow passage of the tubular string. A flow port may be made in the tubular string passing from the central flow passage to the external surface. Sensors of the spoolable array of sensors may be covered with a shroud and placed proximate the flow port, or such sensors may be isolated in a zone with packers along with the flow port. The spoolable array of sensors may additionally obtain pressure data to calculate a flow rate from a production zone. The spoolable array of sensors may also be employed in a non-flowing wellbore for monitoring nearby wellbores.
US11002116B2
A parallel-processing hydrocarbon (HC) migration and accumulation methodology is applied to basin data to determine migration pathways and traps for high-resolution petroleum system modeling. HC is determined in parallel to have been expelled in source rocks associated with a plurality of grid cells divided into one or more subdomains. Potential trap peaks are identified within the plurality of grid cells. An invasion percolation (IP) process is performed until the HC stops migrating upon arrival to the plurality of trap peaks. A determination is made as to whether the grid cells containing HC contains an excess volume of HC. An accumulation process is performed to model the filling of the HC at a trap associated with the identified potential trap peaks. The trap boundary cell list is updated in parallel together with an HC potential value. Trap filling terminates when excess HC is depleted or a spill point is reached.
US11002111B2
The disclosure describes hydrocarbon flowline corrosion inhibitor overpressure protection. Such a protection system includes a fluid flow pathway fluidically coupled to a corrosion inhibitor injection pump that injections corrosion inhibitor into a hydrocarbon carrying flowline. When the injection pump pressure exceeds a threshold flow pressure, the corrosion inhibitor is flowed through a first branch of the fluid flow pathway to relieve the excess pressure. The first branch is fluidically isolated from a second branch. When a rupture disc in the first branch fails, then the corrosion inhibitor is diverted to flow through the second branch and the first branch is isolated from the corrosion inhibitor flow.
US11002110B2
A tool for suspending in a well retrieves various metal debris from the well, and includes an elongated tool body with a plurality of magnets included in a plurality longitudinal ridges which are circumferentially spaced. In the method a plurality of magnets can be positioned within openings, recesses, or pockets in each ridge, and held in place by one or more retaining plates, the tool being connected to a drill string and lowered into a well.
US11002108B2
Systems and methods for drilling optimization of a subterranean well include securing a multifunction sub in line with a tubular string. A nozzle provides a fluid flow path from the central bore through a sidewall of the sub body, the nozzle oriented in a direction so that the fluid flow path directs a wellbore fluid from within the central bore in a direction uphole. A valve system can move between a closed position where the fluid flow path of the nozzle is closed, and at least one open position where the wellbore fluid can pass through the fluid flow path. A control system is operable to receive information and provide a signal to move the valve system. The tubular string is moved into a bore of the subterranean well and information is delivered to the control system to regulate the flow of wellbore fluid through the nozzle.
US11002105B2
A downhole tool includes an engaging member configured to increase in radial dimension from a run-in configuration to a set configuration, and to engage a surrounding tubular in the set configuration, and a plurality of buttons embedded in the engaging member. The plurality of buttons are positioned in radial alignment with or radially inward of an outer surface of the engaging member until at least a portion of the engaging member is increased in the radial dimension. The plurality of buttons are configured to extend radially outward of the outer surface of the engaging member and engage the surrounding tubular in when the radial dimension of the at least a portion of the engaging member is increased.
US11002100B2
A fishing tool (1) configured to retrieve a fish (100) from a wellbore, having a fish engagement arrangement (3) with fish engagement means (5) configured to lock the fishing tool to the fish inside a well. The fishing tool (1) has an electrically actuated fish disengagement arrangement (4), which is configured to unlock the fishing tool from the fish, wherein the fish disengagement arrangement (4) comprises an electric actuator (13). The fish disengagement arrangement (4) comprises a direct mechanical force link (6) between the electric actuator (13) and the fish engagement means (5), wherein the direct mechanical force link is configured to connect a mechanical force from the electric actuator (13) to the fish engagement means (5).
US11002087B2
A system including an elevator to move a tubular, the elevator including two or more remotely operable latches that can configure the elevator to handle various tubular diameters. A portion of the latches can be laterally offset from each other and another portion can overlap adjacent latches. The elevator can be Atmosphere Explosible (ATEX) certified or International Electrotechnical Commission for Explosive Atmospheres (IECEx) certified according to explosive (EX) Zone 1 requirements with an electronics enclosure contained within a sealed chamber. The elevator can be rotated greater than 90 degrees relative to a pair of links that support the elevator. The elevator can use rotary actuators to operate the latches and rotate the housing of the elevator.
US11002082B2
A departure device couples to a bit using a connector that facilitates release of the bit from the departure device. The connector may be more millable than the departure device and can transmit axial and torque loads between the bit and the departure device. The connector may include a material having lesser strength or hardness than the departure device, and may be millable by the bit. Another example connector may have connection points with the bit, and a movable member of the departure device may a force to the connector and contribute to releasing the connection between the bit and the departure device. A tensile connector between the bit and the movable member may apply a tension force to the movable member, urging the movable member toward an extended position in which the movable member is aligned coherently with a sloped face of the departure device.
US11002079B2
A reaming tool includes a tool body having a longitudinal axis and an upper end opposite a lower end and at least one blade extending outwardly from the external surface of the tool body. The blade includes a rolling element defining the gauge of the reaming tool, and a blade surface arranged undergauge of the rolling element and comprising a cutting surface.
US11002071B2
A battery operated shade is provided adapted to adjustably cover a structural opening. The shade generally comprises a shade material extending from a top end to a bottom end and a motor drive unit operably connected to the top end of the shade material and adapted to raise and lower the shade material between an upper limit and a lower limit to adjustably cover and uncover the structural opening. The shade also comprises a shade housing adapted to at least partially conceal the motor drive unit, wherein the shade housing defines a bottom opening at a bottom of the shade housing from which the shade material exits the shade housing. The shade further comprises a battery compartment adapted to removably retain batteries for providing power to the motor drive unit. The battery compartment is attached to the shade housing proximate to the bottom opening below the motor drive unit. The battery compartment is adapted to swivel from a first position where the battery compartment is at least partially concealed by the shade housing, through the bottom opening, and to a second position where the battery compartment is positioned out of the shade housing.
US11002069B2
A Venetian blind to be fitted to an architectural frame, including a first rail; a second rail; and a transfer mechanism, wherein: the first rail includes a tilt controller configured to control tilting of the blind, the second rail includes a control actuator, and the transfer mechanism mechanically couples the control actuator and the tilt controller to transfer movement of the control actuator to the tilt controller.
US11002067B2
In a cellular material a first panel having a series of lengthwise accordion folds across the width of the panel, alternate folds projecting toward the front of the panel and the back of the panel is attached to a second panel of material in a manner to create a series of P-shaped cells having a back, an upper cell wall and a lower cell wall in which the upper cell wall and the lower cell wall are curved in a same direction.
US11002062B1
A door sill including: a sill base including a bottom member and a top member defining a cavity therebetween; and a tower extending from the sill base in a vertical direction and defining a bottom end proximate to the bottom member of the sill base and a top end distal from the bottom member of the sill base and offset from the top member of the sill base, the tower including a first leg and a second leg, a width of the tower where it intersects with the bottom member of the sill base greater than a width of the tower at the top end.
US11002060B2
A window regulator for a motor vehicle includes a drive unit assembly with a module plate. The drive unit for the window regulator includes a cable drum housing with a cable drum and a motor assembly. The cable drum housing includes a stepped annular ring extended from the cable drum housing and a snap-fit post protruded from each of the stepped annular ring for engaging with the module plate. The cable drum housing is positioned on a receiving site of the module plate, and the stepped annular ring and the snap-fit post is coupled with a locating site on the receiving site. Each locating site includes a circular bead for engaging with the stepped annular ring of the cable drum housing.
US11002054B2
A sliding door mechanism includes a track that is fixed in position relative to a door opening, a post fixed in position relative to the track, and a member that is moveable longitudinally with respect to the track, the member being configured to be guided by the track. The mechanism further includes an arm mounted to the member, the arm rotatable about a vertical axis and configured to be pivotably attached to the sliding door. The arm defines a slot that is configured to receive the post as the door is moved from an open position toward a closed position such that the post urges the arm to rotate relative to the carriage such that the arm transmits a force to the door to urge the door to move laterally into the door opening.
US11002050B1
A radial progression hinge cap has a cap body that is configured to attach to a door jamb of a door frame above a geared continuous hinge that supports a door in the door frame. The cap body has a rear attachment channel that is configured to be attached at the door jamb. The cap body also has an upper surface that slopes downward from a top edge of the rear attachment channel to a front distal edge of the cap body. The front distal edge protrudes a threshold distance away from the rear attachment channel so that the upper surface of the cap body spans over and conceals a top surface of the geared continuous hinge and an upper corner of the edge portion of the door as it moves between the open and closed positions.
US11002048B2
A first hinge 11 comprises: a first turning shaft portion 111 which extends vertically; a first supporting portion 112 which is extended longitudinally and laterally, and supports the bottom of the first turning shaft portion 111; and a first mounting portion 113 which extends downwardly from the rear end of the first supporting portion 112. A second hinge 12 comprises: a second turning shaft portion 121 which extends vertically; a second supporting portion 122 which is extended longitudinally and laterally, and supports the top of the second turning shaft portion 121; and a second mounting portion 123 which extends upwardly from the rear end of the second supporting portion 122. The first supporting portion 112 is disposed above the second supporting portion 122. The first mounting portion 113 is disposed below the second supporting portion 122. The second mounting portion 123 is disposed above the first supporting portion 112.
US11002031B2
Described herein is a base isolation system utilising a pier-like assembly comprising intermediary elements such as pillars isolating a first member and a second member, the second member above the first member and the members in a spaced apart relationship with intermediary elements therebetween. In one aspect, a base isolation system is provided comprising a first member and a second member, the second member being above the first member, the members being in a spaced apart relationship separated by pillars; and wherein each pillar comprises a pillar fixed end and an opposing pillar movable end. In the event of relative movement between the first and second member, the pillars dampen transfer of movement between the members by the movable pillar end moving relative to a movable first or second member thereby reducing the degree of energy transfer between the members. A method of installing a base isolation system is also described herein.
US11002030B1
The present invention provides a pool ladder with an automatic wash-down system for cleaning a person's feet before entering a swimming pool. The pool ladder includes a staircase to allow a person to climb into the swimming pool. The wash-down system includes nozzles positioned in the staircase to direct water spray towards the person's feet. The wash-down system further includes sensors to detect the presence of the person on the staircase and a controller to regulate the flow of water to the nozzles, based on signals from the nozzles, for automatic washing of the person's feet when the person is standing on one of the steps of the staircase.
US11002014B2
Herein disclosed is an asphalt roofing shingle, adapted to be laid up in courses on a roof, comprising an upper headlap portion, a lower tab portion, vertically spaced apart upper and lower edges, laterally spaced apart right and left edges and top and bottom surfaces. The bottom surface is configured to be laid up on a roof facing the roof and the tab portion of the top surface is configured to be substantially weather-exposed when laid up on a roof. The upper headlap portion is configured to be substantially covered by the tab portion of roofing elements in a next-overlying course of roofing elements when laid up on a roof. The upper headlap portion further comprises a plurality of parallel, evenly laterally spaced, first markings, the first markings being useful, at least, for aligning adjacent shingles, cutting books of shingles, forming starter shingles from full shingles and forming a grid of shingles without external measuring devices.
US11002003B2
A multi-family building structure using light weight prefabricated parallel modular living units is provided. The structure comprises at least first plurality of parallel modular living units and a second plurality of parallel modular living units. Each living unit in the first plurality of living units comprises a first outer and inner modules and a first synthetic residential module between the first outer module and the first inner module. Each living unit in the first plurality of living units comprises a second outer and outer modules and a second synthetic residential module between the second outer module and the second inner module. The structure further comprises a synthetic corridor module formed between the first inner module of the each living unit in the first plurality of living units and the second inner module in the second plurality of living units.
US11002001B2
A method of engineering monolithic earthen masonry consists of selecting sufficient amount of subsoil mixture and straws, wherein physical characteristics of the subsoil mixture are determined from a sieve analysis test and a hydrometer analysis. The proper mixing ratios of the subsoil mixture and the straws provide a composite sample. The composite sample is then dried and lastly exposed to a compressive test. If optimal plurality of particle size percentage distributions within the subsoil mixture is not obtainable due to lack of resources, the end-product of the non-ideal subsoil mixture is adjusted within the aforementioned method or thickness and/or height of a building to compensate for the load-bearing capacities of the building.
US11001999B2
An apparatus and method for plumbing a conventional bathtub drain to a conventional shower drain. A wooden framework is used wherein a pipe is placed that has one end connected to a pre-existing bathtub drain and the other end connected to a shower stall drain. The framework requires a minimal height because the pipe is oval shaped, thus providing a large enough volume for fluid flow while limiting the height required for such a pipe.
US11001993B2
A work vehicle control system includes an actual topography acquisition device, a storage device, a soil amount acquisition device, and a controller. The actual topography acquisition device acquires actual topography information, which indicates an actual topography of a work target. The storage device stores design topography information, which indicates a final design topography of the work target. The soil amount acquisition device generates a soil amount signal indicating a held soil amount of the work implement. The controller acquires the actual topography information from the actual topography acquisition device, the design topography information from the storage device, and the soil amount signal from the soil amount acquisition device. The controller determines an intermediate design topography positioned above the actual topography and below the final design topography in accordance with the held soil amount. The controller generates a command signal to move the work implement based on the intermediate design topography.
US11001988B2
An automatic interlock system for a motor grader is disclosed. The automatic interlock system may include one or more processors. The one or more processors may be configured to determine an operating mode for the motor grader based on one or more operating parameters of the motor grader. The one or more processors may be configured to determine an interlock configuration for the motor grader based on the operating mode. The one or more processors may be configured to selectively activate or deactivate one or more interlocks of the motor grader based on the interlock configuration.
US11001973B2
A gauge spacing apparatus for positioning pot sleepers with respect to existing sleepers of a railway track has a pair of turnout rails, which are separated from one another by a desired gauge distance. The gauge spacing apparatus includes a first guide member aligned with and secured with respect to a portion of the existing rail; and a second guide member angled with respect to the first guide member at a turnout angle. The second guide member is aligned with a portion of a turnout rail to allow the turnout rail to be provided with supporting pot sleepers, such that the desired gauge between the turnout rails is maintained. Also provided are a rectangular gauge spacing apparatus, a shear plate arrangement for providing supported engagement between first and second sections of rail, and a support framework for supporting a planar supporting member spanning over an existing rail.
US11001968B2
A refining member comprising a refining body with a refining surface comprising first and second refiner bars separated by first and second refiner grooves, respectively. The first refiner bars extend from a radially inward position to a first radially outward position. The second refiner bars extend to a second radially outward position that is nearer to an outermost part of the refining body than the first radially outward position. The second refiner bars have a longitudinal length from about 0.6 cm to about 10 cm. The first and second refiner bars have a respective first and second maximum height extending upward from a floor of a respective, adjacent first or second refiner groove. The second maximum height is at least 0.35 mm less than the first maximum height. The first refiner bars are adapted to refine wood fibers and the second refiner bars are adapted to break up fiber bundles.
US11001966B2
The thickness of accumulated fiber can be appropriately measured when accumulating and processing fiber. A measuring device includes a distributor 60 that disperses material containing fiber; a mesh belt 72 that accumulates material dispersed by the distributor 60; a roller unit 650 that compresses a second web W2 accumulated on the mesh belt 72; and a measurement device 400 that measures the thickness of the second web W2 after compression by the roller unit 650.
US11001964B2
There is provided a treatment agent applicable to a recording surface of a recording medium which is recording paper or fabric. The treatment agent contains: a non-cationic sizing agent; and at least one cationic substance which is selected from the group consisting of: a cationic polymer capable of forming a flexible film in a case that the cationic polymer is dried, a cationic surfactant, a polyvalent metal salt and a polyvalent metal ion.
US11001963B2
The present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing synthetic leather in which, after obtaining a thickened liquid by adding a thickening agent (B) with an oxyethylene group content of 2×10−2 mol/g or less to an aqueous urethane resin composition containing an aqueous urethane resin (A) having an acid value of 0.01 mgKOH/g or higher in a range of 0.01 to 30 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the aqueous urethane resin (A), the thickened liquid is coated on a base and coagulated with a coagulating agent (C) containing a metal salt (c-1). As the thickening agent, it is preferable to use one or more kinds of thickening agent that is selected from the group consisting of a cellulose thickening agent, an acryl thickening agent, and a urethane thickening agent. Furthermore, as the metal salt (c-1), calcium nitrate is preferable.
US11001960B2
A clothes treatment apparatus is disclosed. The clothes treatment apparatus includes a case defining the external appearance and having an open front, a first clothes treatment chamber defining a space in the case to treat clothes using steam or air circulation, a second clothes treatment chamber defining a space at one side of the first clothes treatment chamber in the case to remove wrinkles from clothes by applying pressure to the clothes, a machine chamber provided in the case to spray steam to or circulate air through the first clothes treatment chamber or the second clothes treatment chamber, and a partition plate configured to be movable to a position for closing the second clothes treatment chamber so that the second clothes treatment chamber is separated from the first clothes treatment chamber and to the open front of the case to open the second clothes treatment chamber.
US11001959B2
A door-lock system for a household appliance, such as a washing machine and the like, of the type provided with a door, to which a hook is associated, and a member to be moved (C) of said household appliance, such as a washing drum (C) or the like, said door-lock system comprising motor means for operating said member to be moved (C) and a door-lock device, capable of interacting with said hook, to lock said door, characterized in that said door-lock system comprises a control unit, capable of controlling the power supply of said motor means and connected to said door-lock device, so as to control the power supply to hold said hook and to close said door.
US11001957B2
A laundry treatment apparatus is configured to directly heat a drum containing laundry therein. The laundry treatment apparatus includes: a tub; a drum configured to rotate within the tub and to contain laundry therein, the drum being formed of a metallic material; and an induction module provided at an outer surface of the tub and configured to heat a surface of the drum within the tub via induction, the induction module comprising: a coil that comprises a wire through which an electric current is configured to pass so as to generate a magnetic field; a base housing configured to accommodate the coil therein, the base housing being mounted on the outer surface of the tub; an at least one magnet configured to be arranged above the base housing in which the coil is accommodated, and arranged to be lengthwise perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the wire of the coil.
US11001956B2
A washing machine and a method for controlling the same are provided. The washing machine includes a first rotary tub, a first driver configured to rotate the first rotary tub, a second rotary tub, a second driver configured to rotate the second rotary tub, and at least one processor configured to control the first driver and the second driver in a manner that the first rotary tub and the second rotary tub rotate. If a rotation speed of the first rotary tub is equal to or higher than a first reference speed, the at least one processor controls the second driver such that a rotation speed of the second rotary tub increases to a target speed and then decreases.
US11001953B2
A washing machine is provided. The washing machine includes a first housing; a second housing disposed on the first housing; a first tub covered by the first housing and having a first opening formed at a front surface; a second tub covered by the second housing and having a second opening formed at an upper surface; a drain path provided to drain wash water of the first tub and wash water of the second tub and having at least one portion located at a position higher than a maximum water storage height of the second tub; and a connector coupled to the first housing and disposed at one portion of the drain path where wash water of the first tub and wash water of the second tub are joined.
US11001947B2
An article with heat-treatable thermoplastic yarn includes various features. The article may include knit structures that at least partially affect rigidity in a zone that includes thermoplastic yarn. In addition, the article may include knit structures that at least partially affect elasticity in a zone that that includes thermoplastic yarn.
US11001943B1
A simple controllable set-up for drawing single filament nanofibers from polymer solutions or melts using a rotating rod or a set of rods (round brush) is described. The set-up can be assembled in a few minutes and applied to fabricate customized nanofiber scaffolds and meshes for various applications. The resulting fiber diameter is controlled precisely in the range 40 nm to 5 μm by adjusting the rotational speed and polymer concentration. Owing to the simple design and capability to manipulate single nanofibers, the spinning set-up can be used to wind a single filament into unidirectional, orthogonal or randomly oriented 2D and 3D meshes with controlled density, thickness and combinations of different fibers and materials in the scaffolds. The method is scalable and can be implemented easily for laboratory and industrial manufacturing.
US11001942B2
An apparatus for making spunbonded nonwoven has a spinneret for emitting the continuous filaments in a filament-travel direction, a cooling chamber downstream in the direction from the spinneret and receiving the filaments, and two air-supply manifolds flanking the chamber for feeding cooling air thereinto transverse to the direction. A flow straightener for equalizing flow of the cooling air on the filaments is provided in at least one of the air-supply manifolds and has passage walls forming a plurality of flow passages that extend transversely to a filament-travel direction. A flow cross section of the flow straightener is greater than 85% (preferably more than 90%) of a cross-sectional size of the straightener, a ratio of a length L of the flow passages to an inner diameter Di of the flow passages L/Di is 1 to 15.
US11001933B2
A composite body has a cermet member, a metal member and an intermediate member. The cermet member includes a cermet oxide phase and a cermet metal phase. The cermet oxide phase contains a Ni-containing oxide or an Fe-containing oxide. The cermet metal phase contains Ni. The intermediate layer contains Cu. The mass proportions of Cu in the cermet metal phase at points which are spaced apart by 10, 50, 100 and 1000 μm from the interface between the cermet member and the intermediate layer to the cermet member side are denoted by C10, C50, C100 and C1000 (mass %). When the mass proportions of Cu in the cermet oxide phase at points which are spaced apart by 10 and 100 μm from the interface to the cermet member side are denoted by M10 and M100 (mass %), C10>C50>C100>C1000, and 5>M10−M100>−5.
US11001930B2
A method of manufacturing a wiring board, includes forming an interconnect layer on a first insulating layer, roughening a surface of the interconnect layer, not in contact with the first insulating layer, to form concavo-convex portions, forming a bond enhancing film on the concavo-convex portions, partially removing the bond enhancing film, using an acid solution, and forming a second insulating layer on the first insulating layer, to cover the interconnect layer.
US11001928B2
In a flow down type surface treating apparatus, a scattering amount of a processing solution is reduced. A film forming mechanism 110 is provided on an inlet side and an outlet side of each treatment chamber. The film forming mechanism 110 ejects a continuous laminar liquid under pressure of about 0.01 MPa at a flow rate of 5 to 10 L/min. Such a liquid film prevents droplets reflected on a surface of an antiscattering member 60 from splashing and entering the adjacent treatment chamber. When a plate-like work 10 is shaken to collide with the liquid film, the film flows down along the plate-like work 10 since the film formed by the film forming mechanism 110 is liquid. Thereby, a shake of the plate-like work 10 is converged. An amount of air flowing in toward a transport direction in each treatment chamber is reduced.
US11001927B2
A method of forming a corrosion-resistant ceramic coating on a metallic substrate, the method comprising providing a passivation layer on a surface of the metallic substrate by electrochemical passivation of the metallic substrate under a first electrical current and using a first electrically conducting solution; and providing the corrosion-resistant ceramic coating on an outermost surface of the metallic substrate, the outermost surface in use adapted to be exposed to a corrosive environment, by plasma electrolytic oxidation of the metallic substrate with the passivation layer, in a second electrically conducting solution and under a second electrical current having a discharge voltage. The first and the second electrically conducting solutions comprise a tetrafluoroborate compound.
US11001925B2
A substrate processing apparatus having improved uniformity and speed of reaction is provided. A substrate processing apparatus includes a body portion comprising a discharge path, a gas supply unit connected to the body portion, a first partition extending from the body portion, a second partition extending from the body portion and arranged between the gas supply unit and the first partition, and a substrate support unit configured to have surface-sealing with the first partition, wherein a first region between the first partition and the second partition and a second region between the gas supply unit and the second partition are connected to the discharge path.
US11001920B2
Provided is a chamber system for solid free form fabrication, the chamber system having a deposition chamber, a service chamber and one or more loading/unloading chambers. The chamber system allows for a more efficient and cost effective process to service the deposition apparatus, load holding substrates, and unload workpieces without requiring having to adjust the atmosphere in the deposition chamber.
US11001914B2
A metal matrix composite comprises and/or consists of a uniform distribution of calcined ceramic particles having an average particle size of between 0.30 and 0.99 microns and a metal or alloy uniformly distributed with the ceramic particles and wherein the ceramic particles include oxides of two separate metals selected from the group consisting of Al, Li, Be, Pb, Fe, Ag, Au, Sn, Mg, Ti, Cu, and Zn, and in which said ceramic particles comprise at least 15 volume percent of the metal matrix sintered together and wherein said metal-matrix being machinable with a high speed steel (HSS) bit for greater than about one minute without excessive wear to the bit.
US11001910B2
Wire products, such as round and flat wire, strands, cables, and tubing, are made from a shape memory material in which inherent defects within the material are isolated from the bulk material phase of the material within one or more stabilized material phases, such that the wire product demonstrates improved fatigue resistance. In one application, a method of mechanical conditioning in accordance with the present disclosure isolates inherent defects in nickel-titanium or NiTi materials in fields of a secondary material phase that are resistant to crack initiation and/or propagation, such as a martensite phase, while the remainder of the surrounding defect-free material remains in a primary or parent material phase, such as an austenite phase, whereby the overall superelastic nature of the material is preserved.
US11001907B2
An object of the present invention is to provide magnesium oxide for an annealing separator which is useful for obtaining grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheets with excellent magnetic properties and insulating properties. To resolve the above object, an aspect of the present invention resides in magnesium oxide for an annealing separator which has an adhesion water content and a hydration water content each falling in the quadrilateral region defined by the following points a to d as the vertices in a graph representing the adhesion water content-hydration water content relationship: a: adhesion water content: 0.25 mass %, hydration water content: 0.1 mass % b: adhesion water content: 0.60 mass %, hydration water content: 0.1 mass % c: adhesion water content: 0.40 mass %, hydration water content: 6.0 mass % d: adhesion water content: 0.20 mass %, hydration water content: 6.0 mass %.
US11001901B1
Methods, primers, sets of primers, probes, compositions, and kits for detecting presence or absence of SARS-CoV-2 in a sample are provided.
US11001898B2
The present disclosure provides, among other things, methods for colorectal cancer detection (e.g., screening) and compositions related thereto. In various embodiments, the present disclosure provides methods for colorectal cancer screening that include analysis of methylation status of one or more methylation biomarkers, and compositions related thereto. In various embodiments, the present disclosure provides methods for colorectal cancer detection (e.g., screening) that include detecting (e.g., screening) methylation status of one or more methylation biomarkers in cfDNA, e.g., in ctDNA. In various embodiments, the present disclosure provides methods for colorectal cancer screening that include detecting (e.g., screening) methylation status of one or more methylation biomarkers in cfDNA, e.g., in ctDNA, using MSRE-qPCR.
US11001897B2
The present invention relates to systems, devices and methods for diagnosing cancer. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method for quantifying a 5′-htRNA; a method for quantifying a 3′-htRNA; a method for obtaining a DNA library of 5′-htRNAs and a DNA library of 5′-htRNAs obtained therefrom; and a method for obtaining a DNA library of 3′-htRNAs and a DNA library of 3′-htRNAs obtained therefrom. The invention also teaches a method for determining the presence or absence of a cancer cell in a biological sample; a method of diagnosing cancer in a subject; and a method of prognosing cancer in a subject.
US11001889B2
An analytical device including an optically opaque cladding, a sequencing layer including a substrate disposed below the cladding, and a waveguide assembly for receiving optical illumination and introducing illumination into the device. The illumination may be received from a top, a side edge, and a bottom of the device. The waveguide assembly may include a nanoscale aperture disposed in the substrate and extending through the cladding. The aperture defines a reaction cell for receiving a set of reactants. In various aspects, the device includes a sensor element and the illumination pathway is through the sensor element. Waveguides and illumination devices, such as plasmonic illumination devices, are also disclosed. Methods for forming and operating the devices are also disclosed.
US11001883B2
The present invention generally relates to microfluidics and/or epigenetic sequencing. In one set of embodiments, cells contained within a plurality of microfluidic droplets are lysed and the DNA (e.g., from nucleosomes) within the droplets are labeled, e.g., with adapters containing an identification sequence. The adapters may also contain other sequences, e.g., restriction sites, primer sites, etc., to assist with later analysis. After labeling with adapters, the DNA from the different cells may be combined and analyzed, e.g., to determine epigenetic information about the cells. For example, the DNA may be separated on the basis of certain modifications (e.g., methylation), and the DNA from the separated nucleosomes may be sequenced using techniques such as chromatin immunoprecipitation (“ChIP”). In some cases, the DNA sequences may also be aligned with genomes, e.g., to determine which portions of the genome were epigenetically modified, e.g., via methylation.
US11001871B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for producing 9α-hydroxy androstane-4-alkene-3,17-diketone by enzymatic conversion, and belongs to the fields of gene engineering and enzyme engineering. According to the present disclosure, oxidation subunit KshA, reduction subunit KshB and unknown active subunit KshC of 3-ketosteroid-9α-hydroxylase sourcing from Mycobacterium sp. Strain VKM Ac-1817D are successfully expressed in E. coli BL21, and KshC is identified as an oxidation subunit, the enzyme activity of which is far higher than that of KshA. BL21/pET-28a(+)-fdh constructed in the laboratory is used for expressing formate dehydrogenase (FDH), and by using crude enzyme liquid of KSH (KshB+KshC) and FDH engineering bacteria as a biocatalyst and a steroidal compound (AD) as a substrate, optimum reaction temperature is determined as 30° C. and optimum pH is determined as 7.0. In optimum conditions, AD is converted to produce a product 9-OH-AD, and within 20 hours, the output of 9-OH-AD is 4.7 g/L, and the molar conversion rate reaches 96.7%. According to the present disclosure, in production of 9-OH-AD, coupling of a 3-ketosteroid-9α-hydroxylase hydroxylation system and a coenzyme recycling system is realized, and the method has the advantages of being high in efficiency, low in cost, green, environmentally friendly and the like.
US11001869B2
The present invention relates to mutants of a parent Trichoderma strain, comprising a polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide and one or more (several) genes selected from the group consisting of a first subtilisin-like serine protease gene, a first aspartic protease gene, a trypsin-like serine protease gene, a second subtilisin-like serine protease gene, and a second aspartic protease gene, wherein the one or more (several) genes are modified rendering the mutant strain deficient in the production of one or more (several) enzymes selected from the group consisting of a first subtilisin-like serine protease, a first aspartic protease, a trypsin-like serine protease, a second subtilisin-like serine protease, and a second aspartic protease, respectively, compared to the parent Trichoderma strain when cultivated under identical conditions. The present invention also relates to methods of producing a polypeptide in such mutants and methods for producing such mutants.
US11001865B2
Disclosed are methods of making a modified lecithin by conducting an enzymatic conversion of a naturally derived lecithin to form a modified lecithin, e.g., having an enhanced level of phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylserine, or a combination thereof. Compositions prepared from the modified lecithin and use to inhibit lipid oxidation are described.
US11001861B2
The invention relates to mRNA therapy for the treatment of galactosemia type 1 (Gal-1). mRNAs for use in the invention, when administered in vivo, encode human galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase (GALT), isoforms thereof, functional fragments thereof, and fusion proteins comprising GALT. mRNAs of the invention are preferably encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to effect efficient delivery to cells and/or tissues in subjects, when administered thereto. mRNA therapies of the invention increase and/or restore deficient levels of GALT expression and/or activity in subjects. mRNA therapies of the invention further decrease levels of toxic metabolites associated with deficient GALT activity in subjects, namely galactose-1-phosphate (Gal-1-P).
US11001854B2
Methods and materials for modulating low-nitrogen tolerance levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding low nitrogen tolerance-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased low-nitrogen tolerance levels and plant products produced from plants having increased low-nitrogen tolerance levels.
US11001852B1
The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides. The present invention further relates to the uses of these nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides. For example, the nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides could be used in making enzymes or used to make plants, plant cells, plant materials or seeds of a plant having such modulated growth or phenotype characteristics that are altered with respect to wild type plants grown under similar conditions.
US11001846B2
Aptamers, polynucleotides which participate in preventing the Porcine Respiratory and Reproductive Syndrome virus (PRRSV) infection of cells, and nucleic acid molecules, which include a polynucleotide sequence capable of specifically binding the polypeptides domain of the PRRSV that controls infection, constitute the core of the present invention. Also provided are methods of using such nucleic acid molecules, polynucleotides and synthetic antibodies directed against these, for detection, treating and neutralization of PRRSV infection.
US11001843B2
The present disclosure provides engineered Class 2 CRISPR-Cas-associated discontinuous first-stem nucleic-acid targeting nucleic acids, nucleoprotein complexes comprising these nucleic acids, and compositions thereof. Nucleic acid sequences encoding the Class 2 CRISPR-Cas-associated discontinuous first-stem nucleic-acid targeting nucleic acids, as well as expression cassettes, vectors and cells comprising such nucleic acid sequences, are described. Also, methods are disclosed for making and using the Class 2 CRISPR-Cas-associated discontinuous first-stem nucleic-acid targeting nucleic acids, nucleoprotein complexes comprising such nucleic acids, and compositions thereof.
US11001840B2
The present invention relates to the composition of a nanoparticle based on a magnesium salt, and methods of drug delivery using the nanoparticle. A preferred embodiment uses magnesium phosphate, with or without a shell to deliver aiRNA and/or siRNA. The nanoparticles of the present invention are also effective when administered orally.
US11001839B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a chromosome substitution library, comprising: a) producing a population of DH lines from an at least partially heterozygous starting organism; b) identifying a first DH line in the population that has at least one non-recombined chromosome pair; c) identifying a matching second DH line in the population that has at least one non-recombined chromosome pair that is the same as the non-recombined chromosome pair of the first DH line, and at least one non-recombined chromosome pair that is different from the non-recombined chromosome pair of the first DH line; d) selecting the first DH line and the second DH line as a pair of parents, the progeny of which has at least three non-recombined chromosomes, at least two of which form a pair; e) repeating steps b), c) and d) one or more times on the DH population of the heterozygous starting organism, or repeating steps a)-d) on a DH population produced from a progeny plant of a pair of parents selected in step d), until preferably all chromosomes from the selected DH lines are non-recombined and preferably all possible combinations of the parental chromosomes are selected, to assemble a library of chromosome substitution lines. The invention further relates to the libraries thus obtained.
US11001838B2
The present invention provides for a method to identify a second or mutant phosphomevalonate decarboxylase (PMD) with a higher PMD activity compared to a first PMD, comprising (a) culturing a medium comprising a first host cell expressing the first PMD and a second host cell expressing the second or mutant PMD wherein the first and second host cells have their respective PMD enzymatic activities coupled to the growth rates of the host cells, and (b) identifying the second host cell that has a higher growth rate than the first host cell, thereby identifying the second or mutant PMD having a higher PMD activity.
US11001833B2
A combined ribosome-display and phage-display method and kit for carrying out the method are provided. The method includes screening a ribosome-display library of binding agents to identify binding agents that interact with one or more target molecules of interest, converting the RNA encoding the binding agents to a phage-display format by amplification and primer extension, and the screening the phage-display library to enrich for binding agents that interact with one or more target molecules of interest.
US11001824B1
The carbohydrate processing enzyme PNGase F was catalytically inactivated through mutation. Additional mutations yielded a catalytically inactive carbohydrate-binding protein with lectin-like properties including high affinity and specificity N-linked glycans, O-linked glycans, or both.
US11001822B2
The invention provides polypeptides comprising a complement factor B analog. The invention also provides various complement factor B analogs including complement factor B analogs comprising a mutation of a free cysteine amino acid and related methods, nucleic acids and vectors. These complement factor B analogs and related methods, nucleic acids and vectors can be used to modulate a complement pathway or for the study and/or treatment of various conditions or diseases related to a complement pathway.
US11001820B2
Methods of delivering therapeutic agents by administering compositions including a bacterial collagen-binding polypeptide segment linked to the therapeutic agent to subjects in need of treatment with the therapeutic agent are provided. In these methods, the therapeutic agent is not a PTH/PTHrP receptor agonist or antagonist, basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) or epidermal growth factor (EGF). The bacterial collagen-binding polypeptide segment delivers the agent to sites of partially untwisted or under-twisted collagen. Methods of treating collagenopathies using a composition including a collagen-binding polypeptide and a PTH/PTHrP receptor agonist are also provided. In addition, methods of treating hyperparathyroidism, and hair loss using compositions comprising a collagen binding polypeptide and a PTH/PTHrP receptor agonist are provided. Finally, methods of reducing hair regrowth by administering a composition including a collagen binding polypeptide and a PTH/PTHrP receptor antagonist are provided.
US11001819B2
The present invention provides an EndoS mutant enzyme having an amino acid sequence of EndoS D233Q and further having a particular additional mutation and exhibiting a reduced hydrolysis activity, in comparison with the activity of EndoS D233Q, to an N-linked sugar chain (N297-linked sugar chain) linked to Asn at position 297 in IgG and a gene encoding the same.
US11001810B1
Provided is a cell culture medium comprising enriched basal media supplemented with ascorbic acid, a member of the fibroblast growth factor (FGF) superfamily, a transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) superfamily ligand, and a stable glutamine source. Methods of culturing stem cells in such culture medium for extended periods of time, populations of stem cells, and kits are also provided.
US11001801B2
A novel method of growing fungi is disclosed which uses an engineered artificial media and produces high density filamentous fungi biomats that can be harvested with a minimum of processing and from which fungal products such as antibiotics, proteins, and lipids can be isolated, the method resulting in lowered fungus cultivation costs for energy usage, oxygenation, water usage and waste stream production.
US11001791B2
The invention relates to cleaning deposits of various natures from metal, glass and ceramic surfaces of industrial equipment and can be used for the removal of such deposits, as metal oxides (iron, chromium, nickel, etc.), carbonate and salt deposits, asphalt-tar-paraffin deposits and deposits of an oily nature, deposits of organic and biological nature (bacterial deposits). The proposed solution for removing deposits of different natures comprises hydrogen peroxide, complexing agent, calixarene and water in the following quantitative ratio, wt. %: hydrogen peroxide, 2-90; complexing agent, 3-30; calixarene, 0.01-10; water, the balance. EFFECT: increased degree of cleaning off deposits of various natures with simultaneous reduction of solution aggressiveness to structural materials.
US11001785B2
Systems and methods for removing particles from a surface of a substrate without damage to the substrate are provided. The disclosed systems/methods use polymeric microstructures, e.g., microfibrils, to remove micrometric and sub-micrometric particles from a substrate surface by establishing interfacial interactions with the particles that effectively debond the particles from the surface of the substrate. The disclosed systems/methods have wide ranging applications, including particle removal in art conservation processes, microelectronic applications, optical applications and any other field that stands to benefit from precise removal of particles/dust from a surface without damage to the surface.
US11001784B2
Detergent compositions effective for controlling hard water scale accumulation are disclosed. Detergent compositions employing phosphinosuccinic acid and mono-, bis- and oligomeric phosphinosuccinic acid (PSO) derivatives with alkali metal carbonate and/or alkali metal hydroxide to reduce hard water scale accumulation on treated surfaces at alkaline conditions between about pH of 9 and 12.5. Methods employing the detergent compositions and preventing hard water scale accumulation are also provided.
US11001783B2
The present invention provides a synthetic chemical method for preparing ω-hydroxylated polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) including 20-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (20-HETE), 20-hydroxyeicosapentaenoic acid (20-HEPE), and 22-hydroxydocosahexaenoic acid (22-HDoHE) and a method of use thereof for treating cancer and macular degeneration.
US11001779B2
The present invention, in one aspect, provides a refrigerating machine oil including a lubricating base oil and a compound represented by the following formula (A): wherein R1 and R2 each independently represent a monovalent hydrocarbon group, and R3 and R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, the refrigerating machine oil being used with a refrigerant including an unsaturated hydrofluorocarbon.
US11001774B2
The present technology provides compositions that include at least about 98 weight percent (“wt %”) n-paraffins which, among other surprising features, may be suitable for use as a diesel fuel, an aviation fuel, a jet fuel blendstock, a blendstock to reduce the cloud point of a diesel fuel, a fuel for portable heaters, and/or as a charcoal lighter fluid. The composition includes at least about 98 wt % C7-C12 n-paraffins, where at least about 10 wt % of composition includes n-decane, at least about 20 wt % of the composition includes n-dodecane, and at least about 75 wt % of the composition includes even carbon number paraffins. The composition also includes less about 0.1 wt % oxygenates and less than about 0.1 wt % aromatics. The composition may be produced by a process that includes hydrotreating a biorenewable feedstock comprising at least one of palm kernel oil, coconut oil, babassu oil, microbial oil, or algal oil.
US11001770B2
According to one embodiment, a heavy oil may be processed by a method that may include upgrading at least a portion of the heavy oil to form an upgraded oil, where the upgrading includes contacting the heavy oil with a hydrodemetalization catalyst, a transition catalyst, a hydrodenitrogenation catalyst, and a hydrocracking catalyst to remove at least a portion of metals, nitrogen, or aromatics content from the heavy oil and form the upgraded oil. The method may further include passing at least a portion of the upgraded oil to a refinery operation.
US11001769B2
A process and apparatus for hydrocracking a hydrocarbon stream that feeds a cold stripped stream and a hot stripped stream to a prefractionator from which a prefractionated overhead stream and a prefractionated bottoms stream are passed to a product fractionation column. The product fractionation column may produce three products, light naphtha, heavy naphtha and distillate omitting the need for a naphtha splitter column. Data may be received from a stream in fluid communication with the foregoing process and apparatus.
US11001768B2
A heavy oil hydrotreating system has a prehydrotreating reaction zone, a transition reaction zone, and a hydrotreating reaction zone that are connected in series successively, sensor units, and a control unit. In the initial reaction stage, the prehydrotreating reaction zone includes at least two prehydrotreating reactors connected in parallel, and the transition reaction zone includes or doesn't include prehydrotreating reactors; in the reaction process, the control unit controls material feeding to and material discharging from each prehydrotreating reactor in the prehydrotreating reaction zone according to pressure drop signals of the sensor units, so that when the pressure drop in any of the prehydrotreating reactors in the prehydrotreating reaction zone reaches a predetermined value, the prehydrotreating reactor in which the pressure drop reaches the predetermined value is switched from the prehydrotreating reaction zone to the transition reaction zone.
US11001766B2
A method for producing a diesel having improved cold flow properties, the method comprising the steps of introducing a crude oil to a distillation column, separating the crude oil in the distillation unit to produce a light gas oil, and a light vacuum gas oil, where the light gas oil has a T95% cut point in the range between 300 deg C. and 340 deg C., where the light vacuum gas oil has a T95% cut point in the range between 400 deg C. and 430 deg C., processing the light vacuum gas oil in the supercritical water unit to produce an upgraded vacuum gas oil, separating the upgraded vacuum gas oil in the fractionator to produce an upgraded light fraction, an upgraded light gas oil, and upgraded heavy fraction, introducing the upgraded light gas oil into a diesel pool, and blending the light gas oil into the diesel pool.
US11001760B2
A process to convert asphaltenes found in heavy hydrocarbon sources, remove the converted solid asphaltene portion from the hydrocarbon source at operating conditions and to prepare the separated solid asphaltenes for easier handling, storage or bulk transport, with a minimal amount of heavy hydrocarbon remaining with the asphaltenes to serve as an inherent binder for larger and robust formed solid asphaltene pieces.
US11001756B2
A method of producing hybrid fluorescent material includes dispersing Lu3Al5O12:Ce fluorescent material particles in a first solution; mixing the first solution in a second solution, the second solution including a mixture of a first metallic salt containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of yttrium, gadolinium, and terbium, a second metallic salt containing aluminum and/or gallium, and a third metallic salt containing cerium, wherein the mixing attaches (Y,Gd,Tb)3(Al,Ga)5O12:Ce fluorescent material precursor particles on surfaces of the Lu3Al5O12:Ce fluorescent material particles to obtain a hybrid fluorescent material precursor; separating the hybrid fluorescent material precursor particles from the first and second solutions; and calcining the hybrid fluorescent material precursor particles to obtain a hybrid fluorescent material of Lu3Al5O12:Ce fluorescent material particles covered by (Y,Gd,Tb)3(Al,Ga)5O12:Ce fluorescent material.
US11001755B2
A sintered phosphor-composite having a high internal quantum efficiency and a high transmittance is provided. The object can be achieved with a sintered phosphor-composite including a nitride phosphor and a fluoride inorganic binder, wherein, in cross-sectional observation, the sintered phosphor-composite includes at least a portion in which voids of not more than 1 μm are present in a number of not more than 700 within a cross-sectional area of 0.046 mm2, or a portion having a void area fraction of not more than 3% within a cross-sectional area of 0.046 mm2.
US11001747B2
Embodiments relates to a bitumen recovery process from oil sands. The oil sands may be surface mined and transported to a treatment area or may be treated directly by means of an in situ process of oil sand deposits that are located too deep for strip mining. Specifically, the present invention involves the step of treating oil sands with a composition comprising an alkanolamine and an ethylene oxide capped glycol ether.
US11001744B2
The present invention includes a foam-forming composition for use in enhanced heavy oil recovery, and a method of using said foam-forming composition for recovering heavy oil and/or bitumen. The foam-forming composition of the present invention comprises a mixture of (di)alkyl diphenyloxide (di)sulfonate compounds and the process of heavy oil recovery is performed at elevated temperatures using steam.
US11001743B2
Methods for using treatment fluids comprising synthetic silicates in subterranean formations are provided. In some embodiments, the methods may comprise introducing a treatment fluid comprising an aqueous base fluid and a synthetic silicate into a wellbore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation comprising a loss zone; allowing the treatment fluid to displace at least a portion of a first fluid present in the wellbore; and allowing the treatment fluid to at least partially plug the loss zone.
US11001738B2
Disclosed are compositions comprising HCFC-243db, HCFO-1233xf, HCFC-244db and/or HFO-1234yf and at least one additional compound. For the composition comprising 1234yf, the additional compound is selected from the group consisting of HFO-1234ze, HFO-1243zf, HCFC-243db, HCFC-244db, HFC-245cb, HFC-245fa, HCFO-1233xf, HCFO-1233zd, HCFC-253fb, HCFC-234ab, HCFC-243fa, ethylene, HFC-23, CFC-13, HFC-143a, HFC-152a, HFC-236fa, HCO-1130, HCO-1130a, HFO-1336, HCFC-133a, HCFC-254fb, CHF═CHCl, HFO-1141, HCFO-1242zf, HCFO-1223xd, HCFC-233ab, HCFC-226ba, and HFC-227ca. Compositions comprising HCFC-243db, HCFO-1233xf, and/or HCFC-244db are useful in processes to make HFO-1234yf. Compositions comprising HFO-1234yf are useful, among other uses, as heat transfer compositions for use in refrigeration, air-conditioning and heat pump systems.
US11001735B2
A water-based dispersion adhesive composition and use thereof for bonding floor coverings or for bonding wood floors to substrates. The water-based dispersion adhesive composition includes an aqueous polymer dispersion including water and at least one water-dispersible polymer, at least one calcium ion complexing agent, at least one calcium ion precipitating agent, and at least one calcium-containing filler.
US11001733B2
Provided herein are compositions and methods for polishing surfaces comprising cobalt and optionally a low-K material, e.g., in semiconductor device fabrication. Embodiments include a slurry for chemical mechanical polishing a surface comprising cobalt and low-K materials, such as Black Diamond (BD) or SiN, comprising a complexor, an oxidizer, an abrasive, a Co corrosion inhibitor and an ILD suppressor.
US11001732B2
Disclosed is a chemical-mechanical polishing slurry composition having a small change in pH over time under an acidic condition and thus being easy to store for a long time. The chemical-mechanical polishing slurry composition includes an abrasive; an amount of about 0.000006 to 0.01 weight % of an aluminum component based on the total weight of the polishing slurry composition; and water. The number of silanol groups on a surface of the abrasive and a content of the aluminum component satisfy the requirements of following Equation 1: 0.0005≤(S*C)*100≤4.5, [Equation 1] wherein, S is the number of the silanol groups present on 1 nm2 of the abrasive surface (unit: number/nm2), and C is the content of the aluminum component (weight %) in the slurry composition.
US11001729B2
A coating material of the present invention includes an insulating resin, and dispersion particles dispersed in the insulating resin. The dispersion particle includes a core particle containing zinc oxide as a main component and having nonlinear resistance, and a resin layer covering the surface of the core particle and having an average thickness being less than or equal to 5.0 μm. The coating material of the present invention is a coating material for coating an inner surface of a ground tank of a gas insulated switchgear.
US11001715B2
The invention relates to thermosetting powder coating compositions as these are disclosed herein. The compositions comprise certain unsaturated resins comprising ethylenic unsaturations, curing agents selected from vinyl urethanes, vinyl functionalized urethane resins and mixtures thereof, dilauroyl peroxide as initiator, and a co-initiator selected from the group of onium compounds and sulpho-compounds. The invention further relates to a process for making said thermosetting powder coating compositions and processes for coating an article with said thermosetting powder coating compositions. The invention further relates to cured thermosetting powder coating compositions obtained by curing of the thermosetting powder coating compositions of the invention. The invention further relates to an article having coated thereon said thermosetting powder coating composition as well as to an article having coated and cured thereon said thermosetting powder coating composition. The invention further relates to the use of said thermosetting powder coating compositions, to the use of an article having coated thereon said thermosetting powder coating compositions and to the use of an article having coated and cured thereon said thermosetting powder coating compositions. The invention further relates to various uses of either the thermosetting powder coating compositions of the invention, or the cured thermosetting powder coating compositions of the invention or of articles having coated thereon the thermosetting powder coating composition of the invention, or of articles having coated and cured thereon the thermosetting powder coating composition of the invention. The invention further relates to a method for enabling the fast heat-curing of a thermosetting powder coating composition at low temperature. The invention further relates to a method for enhancing the chemical resistance of a powder coating obtained by heat curing of the thermosetting powder coating composition of the invention at low temperature.
US11001713B2
Disclosed is an organic/inorganic composite filler that contains: inorganic agglomerated particles comprising agglomerations of inorganic primary particles having a mean diameter between 10 and 1000 nm; an organic resin phase that covers the surface of each inorganic primary particle and binds the inorganic primary particles to each other; and intra-agglomerate voids, formed between the organic resin phase covering the surface of each inorganic primary particle, with a pore volume (here, “pore” refers to holes with diameters between 1 and 500 nm) between 0.01 and 0.30 cm3/g as measured by mercury intrusion porosimetry. Also disclosed is a method for manufacturing the above organic/inorganic composite filler.
US11001709B2
A polycarbonate copolymer contains aromatic carbonate units; optionally siloxane units; and resorcinol arylate ester units. The resorcinol arylate ester units of the polycarbonate copolymer are derived from a resorcinol composition having a hydroquinone content of 50 to 1200 parts per million, a catechol content of 5 to 29 parts per million, and a phenol content of 0 to 2400, each as determined by high performance liquid chromatography, and further comprising an acid stabilizer.
US11001701B2
A PVC product and a stabilizing agent thereof are provided. The stabilizing agent is composed of perchlorate, alkanolamine, and alkanolamide. The total amount of alkanolamine and alkanolamide in the stabilizing agent is 80-99 wt % of the total weight of the stabilizing agent, and the weight ratio of the total amount of alkanolamine and alkanolamide to the amount of perchlorate is 4:1 to 99:1, so that the PVC product has a lower Yellowness Index (YI) and higher transparency.
US11001699B2
To provide a transparent plastic substrate having a high cut rate of blue light, a plastic lens and a transparent plastic member. A transparent plastic substrate containing a benzotriazole compound represented by the formula (1), a plastic lens containing the transparent plastic substrate, and a transparent plastic member containing a benzotriazole compound represented by the formula (1).
US11001698B2
The present invention relates to a stabilizer composition containing at least one sterically hindered amine (HALS) in which the amino group carries a basicity-reducing substituent, at least one antioxidant containing one or more thioether groups and at least one liquid plasticizer containing carboxylate groups. The invention further relates to a polymer composition containing at least one sterically hindered amine (HALS) in which the amino group carries a basicity-reducing substituent, at least one antioxidant containing one or more thioether groups, at least one liquid plasticizer containing carboxylate groups and at least one silyl-terminated polymer, to the use of the stabilizer composition for stabilizing a silyl-terminated polymer or a sealant, adhesive, gasket, knifing filler or coating composition, especially a sealant, adhesive, gasket, knifing filler or coating composition containing a silyl-terminated polymer, against degradation by heat, light and/or oxygen, to the use of the polymer composition as or in a sealant, adhesive, liquid gasket, knifing filler or coating composition, and to a sealant composition or an adhesive composition, or a gasket composition, or a knifing filler composition or a coating composition comprising the polymer composition.
US11001692B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing a water-absorbing polymer, comprising the process steps of (i) mixing (α1) 0.1 to 99.999% by weight of polymerizable, ethylenically unsaturated monomers containing acid groups, or salts thereof, (α2) 0 to 70% by weight of polymerized, ethylenically unsaturated monomers copolymerizable with (α1), (α3) 0.001 to 10% by weight of one or more crosslinkers, where the sum of the weights (α1) to (α3) is 100% by weight, (ii) free-radical polymerization with crosslinking to form a water-insoluble, aqueous untreated hydrogel polymer, (iii) drying the hydrogel polymer, (iv) grinding and sieving the water-absorbing polymer to size, wherein the aqueous monomer solution, is admixed with 0.01 to 5% by weight of at least one surfactant and optionally 0.01 to 5% by weight of a blowing agent having a particle size of 10 μm to 900 μm, based on the water-absorbing polymer.
US11001687B2
Provided are a substrate with a functional fine line having excellent optical properties and excellent adhesion of the functional fine line, and a method for forming the functional fine line. The substrate with a functional fine line according to the present invention has an undercoat layer including a hydrophobically modified polyester resin on the substrate, and has a functional fine line including a deposit of functional microparticles and having a line width of 1 μm or more and 10 μm or less on the undercoat layer. The method for forming a functional fine line according to the present invention includes forming an undercoat layer including a hydrophobically modified polyester resin on a substrate, and then forming a functional fine line including a deposit of functional microparticles and having a line width of 1 μm or more and 10 μm or less on the undercoat layer.
US11001681B2
A soft structure fiber reinforcement technology is provided. In an example embodiment, the fiber reinforced elastomeric sheet comprises a sheet of elastomeric matrix; and a fiber array comprising a plurality of fibers embedded within the elastomeric matrix. Each fiber of the array of fibers has a tensile modulus that is significantly greater than the tensile modulus of the elastomeric matrix. The fiber reinforced elastomeric sheets may be used in grasping or gripping robots, walking or jumping robots, artificial muscles, compliant prosthetics, impact and/or vibration dampening soft structures, passive soft structure configured to passively restrict deformation in an unwanted direction while allowing deformation in another direction, and/or the like.
US11001679B2
A biofabricated material containing a network of crosslinked collagen fibrils is disclosed. This material is composed of collagen which is also a major component of natural leather and is produced by a process of fibrillation of collagen molecules into fibrils, crosslinking the fibrils and lubricating the crosslinked fibrils. Unlike natural leathers, this biofabricated material exhibits non-anisotropic (not directionally dependent) physical properties, for example, a sheet of biofabricated material can have substantially the same elasticity or tensile strength when stretched or stressed in different directions. Unlike natural leather, it has a uniform texture that facilitates uniform uptake of dyes and coatings. Aesthetically, it produces a uniform and consistent grain for ease of manufacturability. It can have substantially identical grain, texture and other aesthetic properties on both sides distinct from natural leather where the grain increases from one side (e.g., distal surface) to the other (proximal inner layers).
US11001678B2
Some embodiments are directed to the manufacture of functional composites (electrical conductors, thermal conductors, etc.) produced from coated powders.
US11001677B2
Provided are thermoplastic polymer particles having an aspect ratio of 1.00 or more and less than 1.05, and a roundness of 0.95 to 1.00. The thermoplastic polymer particles are formed from a thermoplastic polymer resin in a continuous matrix phase. The thermoplastic polymer particles show a peak cold crystallization temperature (Tcc) at a temperature between a glass transition temperature (Tg) and the melting point (Tm) in a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) curve which is derived from temperature rise analysis at 10° C./min by differential scanning calorimetry.
US11001670B2
A surface treatment agent which comprises a fluoropolyether-group-containing polymer represented by the following formula (1) or (2) Rf1—[N(V)β(E)γ]α (1) Rf1-[Q-(G)δ-(E′)ε-B]α (2) and/or a product of partial (hydrolytic) condensation of the polymer. The surface treatment agent forms a cured coating film excellent in terms of water and oil repellency and resistance to abrasion with erasers. (In formulae (1) and (2), Rf1 is a mono- or divalent polymer residue containing a fluorooxyalkylene group; N is C, Si, N, or a tri- to octavalent group optionally substituted by F; V is a monovalent group containing a hydroxy group or hydrolyzable group at the terminal; E is a monovalent group containing an oxyalkylene group; α is 1 or 2; β and γ are each 1-6, and β+γ is 2-7; Q is a single bond or a divalent group; G is a divalent group containing a hydroxy group or hydrolyzable group; E′ is a divalent group containing an oxyalkylene group; B is H, an alkyl group, or a halogeno; δ is 0-10; and ε is 1-10.)
US11001668B2
The invention relates to the synthesis method of polyglycolic acid (PGA) obtained by removing the excessive water and monomer formed subsequent to condensation by means of an organic solvent and using azeotropic distillation method in the presence of a catalyst. The invention is a synthesis method of polyglycolic acid with high molecular weight and high solubility, characterized by comprising the steps of placing the glycolic acid in reaction medium with a catalyst; using hydrophilic organic solvents for removing the excessive water and monomer formed during condensation; mixing and boiling the mixture; stabilizing the amount of solvent in reaction medium and distilling the water off by means of Dean stark apparatus and/or a similar apparatus; refluxing the solid polymer obtained at the end of the reaction with ethyl acetate and removing the same from monomer residue and catalyst.
US11001663B2
The present invention relates to an aqueous dispersion comprising dispersed particles of an acrylic copolymer having a volume average particle size diameter (d50) of from 1 to 50 μm (microns), wherein the aqueous dispersion further comprises (i) an acrylic copolymer dispersant having an alkaline solubility higher than 50 wt. %, and being present in the dispersion in an amount of from 10 to 35% by weight, relative to the total amount of monomers used to prepare the acrylic copolymer of the dispersed polymeric particles; and (ii) decomposition products of an oil-soluble organic initiator.
US11001661B2
A modified conjugated diene-based polymer, and more particularly, a modified conjugated diene-based polymer having a unimodal molecular weight distribution curve measured by gel permeation chromatography (GPC), molecular weight distribution (PDI; MWD) of less than 1.7, and a Si content of 100 ppm or more based on weight, and including a repeating unit derived from an aromatic vinyl monomer in an amount of 30 wt % or more, and a rubber composition including the same.
US11001644B2
Methods of improving the re-dispersibility of dried or at least partially dried microfibrillated cellulose, methods of re-dispersing dried or at least partially dried microfibrillated cellulose, compositions comprising re-dispersed microfibrillated cellulose and the use of re-dispersed microfibrillated cellulose in an article, product or composition; and methods of improving the physical and/or mechanical properties of re-dispersed dried or partially dried microfibrillated cellulose.
US11001641B2
The present invention relates to the use of binding equivalents of monoclonal antibody 31.1, including chimerized and/or humanized versions thereof, antibody fragments as well as competitively binding and co-specific antibodies and antibody fragments, in the treatment of pancreatic cancer.
US11001637B2
The present invention provides high affinity anti-CD40 monoclonal antibodies and related compositions, which may be used in any of a variety of therapeutic methods for the treatment of cancer and other diseases.
US11001636B2
The invention relates to specific Antibody-Drug-Conjugates (ADCs) with KSP inhibitors and anti-CD 123-antibodies, to the use of these conjugates for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases and to the use of these conjugates for preparing medicaments for treatment and/or prevention of diseases, in particular hyperproliferative and/or angiogenic disorders such as, for example, cancer diseases. Such treatments can be carried out as monotherapy or else in combination with other medicaments or further therapeutic measures.
US11001635B2
Antitumor antagonists that bind specifically to immune checkpoint regulators, angiogenesis pathway regulators and/or TGF pathway regulators are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for treating proliferative disorders, infections, and immunological disorders with the antitumor antagonists described herein.
US11001632B2
This disclosure relates to anti-cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4 (CTLA4 or CTLA-4) antibodies, antigen-binding fragments, and the uses thereof.
US11001627B2
A mixed mode chromatography method for separating correctly folded from incorrectly folded conformations of a given protein is provided. The method is highly effective in separating correctly folded etanercept from incorrectly folded etanercept and aggregates in commercially attractive yields capable of affording etanercept preparations having very high purity in terms of correctly folded etanercept versus incorrectly folded etanercept. The invention is further directed to protein preparations and formulations comprising correctly folded proteins obtained using the present methods, and methods of treatment using the high purity preparations obtained from the mixed mode method.
US11001624B2
The present invention relates to monomeric fusion proteins comprising the extracellular part of the thymic stromal lymphopoietin receptor (TSLPR) and the extracellular part of the interleukin-7 receptor alpha (IL-7Ralpha) as inhibitors of thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) activity. The invention relates further to the use of said inhibitors as a medicament in the treatment of—but not limited to—inflammatory diseases, cancer and fibrosis.
US11001622B2
Described herein are methods for suppressing an immune response in a subject, e.g., a subject with an autoimmune disease, by administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of recombinant CD5L, CD5L homodimers and/or CD5L:p40 heterodimers, or nucleic acids encoding any of these. Also described are methods for enhancing an immune response in a subject, e.g., a subject with cancer, infection, or an immune deficiency, by administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of an antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof that binds specifically to CD5L, D5L homodimers and/or CD5L:p40 heterodimers, and inhibits their binding to the IL-23 receptor, or inhibits formation of the CD5L homodimer and/or CD5L:p40 heterodimer, or inhibitory nucleic acids that target CD5L and/or p40.
US11001620B2
The present invention relates to a composition for the diagnosis and treatment of recurrent thyroid cancer comprising recombinant human thyroid stimulating hormone (rhTSH) and a method for producing the recombinant human thyroid hormone. The method for producing recombinant human thyroid hormone according to the present invention can effectively produce rhTSH despite being cultured through fed-batch culture, and has a high purification yield and purity. Therefore, the recombinant thyroid stimulating hormone produced by the method can be usefully used for the diagnosis or treatment of recurrent thyroid cancer.
US11001602B2
The present disclosure relates to photoactivable protecting groups containing a diarylsulfide chromophore, a method for the synthesis thereof and their use as photoactivable protecting groups using maskless photolithography based array synthesis.
US11001596B2
A compound, as defined herein, or pharmaceutical composition containing the compound, for use in treating IDH1 or IDH2 mutant cancer and having the structure: (I).
US11001592B2
The present invention relates to compounds and methods useful for inhibiting the DNA polymerase IIIC enzyme. The invention also provides pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising compounds of the present invention and methods of using said compositions in the treatment of Gram-positive bacterial infections.
US11001591B2
The invention relates to compounds which are suitable for the treatment of cancer, an immune disease, Parkinson's disease, Cardiac Hypertrophy or Type-2 diabetes and to pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds. The invention further relates to a kit of parts comprising such compounds.
US11001589B2
The present application relates to novel compounds of formula (I) to their utility in treating and/or preventing clinical conditions including cardiovascular diseases (CVD), to methods for their therapeutic use, to pharmaceutical compositions containing them and to processes for preparing such compounds.
US11001588B2
The disclosure provides chemical compounds useful as activators of PKR. PKR activating compounds are useful in the treatment of disease and disorders associated with modulation of PKR and/or PKM2, such as pyruvate kinase deficiency (PKD).
US11001582B2
Processes for the preparation of Venetoclax and Venetoclax produced by the processes are disclosed. Intermediate compounds used in the processes are further disclosed including the compound of formula 5
US11001578B2
The present invention provides compounds of formula (I): compositions comprising such compounds; the use of such compounds in therapy (for example in the treatment or prevention of a disease or condition in which plasma kallikrein activity is implicated); and methods of treating patients with such compounds; wherein R5, R6, R7, A, B, W, X, Y and Z are as defined herein.
US11001575B1
The invention provides a compound of formula (0): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, N-oxide or tautomer thereof; wherein: n is 1 or 2; X is CH or N; Y is selected from CH and C—F; Z is selected from C—Rz and N; R1 is selected from: -(Alk1)t-Cyc1; wherein t is 0 or 1; Optionally substituted C1-6 acyclic hydrocarbon groups R2 is selected from hydrogen; halogen; and C1-3 hydrocarbon groups optionally substituted with one or more fluorine atoms; R3 is hydrogen or a group L-R7; R4 is selected from hydrogen; methoxy; and optionally substituted C1-3 alkyl; and R4a is selected from hydrogen and a C1-3 alkyl group; wherein Rz, Alk1, Cyc1, L1 and R7 are defined herein; provided that the compound is other than 6-benzyl-3-{2-[(2-methylpyrimidin-4-yl)amino]pyridin-4-yl}-7,8-dihydro-1,6-naphthyridin-5(6H)-one and 3-{2-[(2-methylpyrimidin-4-yl)amino]pyridin-4-yl}-7,8-dihydro-1,6-naphthyridin-5(6H)-one and salts and tautomers thereof. The compounds are inhibitors of ERK1/2 kinases and will be useful in the treatment of ERK1/2-mediated conditions. The compounds are therefore useful in therapy, in particular in the treatment of cancer.
US11001567B2
Provided is a compound represented by formula (I): or an N-oxide compound thereof, wherein the variable groups are as defined in the specification. Also provided is an arthropod pest control agent containing a compound represented by formula (I) and an inert carrier. The compound represented by formula (I) and arthropod pest control agent exhibit an excellent controlling effect against arthropod pests.
US11001559B2
This invention relates to 4-substituted isoquinoline compounds and their derivatives and uses thereof for treatment of cancer, for example, acute myeloid leukemia.
US11001557B2
The present invention pertains to an antiviral drug for severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome, which contains a compound represented by formula (I) or a salt thereof, or a solvate of the compound or salt (In the formula, R1 and R2 are the same or different from each other, and each represents a substituted or unsubstituted C1-10 alkyl group, R1 and R2 may form a substituted or unsubstituted 5- or 6-member ring in conjunction with an adjacent nitrogen atom, and X represent a halogen atom.)
US11001556B2
This invention relates to crystalline forms of (R)-1-(1-(methylsulfonyl)propan-2-yl)-4-(trifluoromethyl)indoline-5-carbonitrile, a modulator of the androgen receptor, and methods for the use in treatment.
US11001535B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to methods of forming optical devices comprising nanostructures disposed on transparent substrates. A substrate, such as a silicon wafer, is provided as a base for forming an optical device. A transparent layer is disposed on a first surface of the substrate, and a structure layer is disposed on the transparent surface. An etch mask layer is disposed on a second surface of the substrate opposite the first surface, and a window or opening is formed in the etch mask layer to expose a portion of the second surface of the substrate. A plurality of nanostructures is then formed in the structure layer, and a portion of the substrate extending from the window to the transparent layer is removed. A portion of the transparent layer having nanostructures disposed thereon is then detached from the substrate to form an optical device.
US11001533B2
The present disclosure provides a method for coating a composite structure, comprising forming a first slurry by combining a first pre-slurry composition with a first carrier fluid, applying the first slurry on a surface of the composite structure, and heating the composite structure to a temperature sufficient to form a base layer on the composite structure. The first pre-slurry composition may comprise a first phosphate glass composition and a low coefficient of thermal expansion material, wherein the low coefficient of thermal expansion material is a material with a coefficient of thermal expansion of less than 10×10−6° C.
US11001517B2
Disclosed is a bioreactor for treating sewage comprising an aerobic tank including a mixing cell for receiving sewage to be supplied from an inlet and mixing the sewage with activated sludge and an aerobic reactor tank in which the activated sludge adsorbs organic substance existing in the sewage; a backwashing cartridge filter for removing floc resulting from growth of the activated sludge adsorbing the organic substance; and an anaerobic tank for carrying out a denitrification process for denitrifying treated water flowed through the backwashing cartridge filter using anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) bacteria wherein the backwashing cartridge filter allows the sewage discharged from the aerobic tank to pass through the cartridge filter and separates the floc and the treated water using difference in size between the floc contained in the sewage and pores in the cartridge filter, and wherein foreign matter adsorbed on the cartridge filter is easily removed by means of washing water to be injected into the cartridge filter.
US11001510B2
A liquid treatment system comprising at least one ultra-violet light treatment lamp arranged within an elongated protective UV-transparent sleeve provided along a central longitudinal axis A, said sleeve having an outer surface and an essentially circular cross-sectional shape; and an elongated reactor configured to receive said sleeve, whereby an elongated liquid treatment chamber for receiving liquid to be treated, is provided between an inner surface of the reactor and the outer surface of the sleeve; wherein said liquid treatment system further comprises at least one cleaning arrangement comprising at least one cleaning device, wherein said cleaning arrangement is configured to compress said cleaning device towards the outer surface of the sleeve and to transfer the cleaning device over the sleeve surface for cleaning the outer surface of the sleeve, wherein the at least one cleaning device comprises at least one metal braid.
US11001504B2
Disclosed is a compound semiconductor material with excellent performance and its utilization. The compound semiconductor may be expressed by Chemical Formula 1 below: M1aCo4Sb12-xM2x Chemical Formula 1 where M1 and M2 are respectively at least one selected from In and a rare earth metal element, 0≤a≤1.8, and 0≤x≤0.6.
US11001496B2
A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) sensor testing device, system and method are provided. The testing device includes a socket having a plurality of pads configured to receive a respective plurality of pins of the MEMS sensor, a body having a plurality of operable positions associated with a respective plurality of orientations of the MEMS sensor and circuitry which performs a method for testing the MEMS sensor in the plurality of operable positions. The method includes, for each position of the plurality of operable positions, outputting an indication of the position to the plurality of operable positions, receiving one or more measurements made by the MEMS sensor at the respective position and determining whether the one or more measurements satisfy a reliability criterion. The method includes generating a report based on the plurality of measurements and indicating whether the plurality of measurements satisfy a plurality of reliability criteria, respectively.
US11001479B1
A conveyor arrangement, a conveyor system and a method for determining a load estimate in a people conveyor arrangement, such as an escalator arrangement or horizontal or inclined autowalk arrangement include using a power model of the people conveyor arrangement, which power model includes e.g. motor model components and/or people conveyor model components, having at least a friction monitoring mode, and determining in the friction monitoring mode a friction estimate of the conveyor arrangement based at least in part on the measured or determined motor power, the power model of the people conveyor arrangement, and a speed of the step or pallet chain and/or a speed of the handrail.
US11001474B2
A belt includes one or more tension members extending along a length of the belt, a jacket at least partially enclosing the plurality of tension members, and one or more layers of one or more of a fluorescent, absorbing, or reflecting material located in the belt such that when subjected to a light source, an indication of fluorescence or absorbance or reflection of the one or more layers of fluorescent or absorbent or reflective materials is indicative of a wear condition of the belt.
US11001473B2
A self-contained data acquisition system for a passenger conveyance system, includes a sensor module for sensing data associated with an entry and exit of each of a multiple of passengers, a location sensor module for sensing a position of the passenger conveyance upon entry and exit of each of the multiple of respective passengers and a processing module operable to use the sensed data from the sensor module and the location sensor module to record passenger data.
US11001471B2
A cable reel apparatus that has a cable reel for holding a coil of cable and includes a central longitudinal axis. A first flange is configured to be rotatably coupled to a first frame and has opposite inner and outer sides. A second flange that is separate from the first flange is configured to be rotatably coupled to a second frame and has opposite inner and outer sides. One of the first and second flanges includes a hub portion that extends transversely from the inner side thereof. The first and second flanges are configured to be releasably coupled to one another for supporting a coil of cable on the hub portion between the first and second flanges along the central longitudinal axis of the cable reel and are configured to be decoupled from one another when replacing the coil of cable once dispensed from the cable reel apparatus.
US11001470B2
A sheet pressing apparatus includes an inlet port for receiving a sheet having a folding line; additional folding rollers supported by a supporting member arranged downstream from the inlet port; a lower folding guide opposing the additional folding rollers; a first drive mechanism configured to move the additional folding rollers between a pressing position, at which the additional folding rollers approach the lower folding guide to press the sheet at the folding line, and a retreat position to which the additional folding rollers are moved from the pressing position, separating from the sheet; and a second drive mechanism configured to move the additional folding rollers along the folding line. The additional folding rollers are arranged such that one end of the folding line exists between the two additional folding rollers provided at one position and the additional folding roller at the other end position is arranged on the folding line.
US11001467B2
A paper sheet folding device (sheet folding device) 160 includes a paper sheet folding unit 60 and a tray unit 110 that is provided on one side surface 161a of a device main body 161 and includes a lower discharge tray 121 on which a paper sheet S discharged through a lower discharge port 85 is loaded. The tray unit 110 is pivotable in an up-down direction about a pivotal shaft 111. A discharge drive mechanism 132 is disposed at a center portion of the tray unit 110 in a paper sheet width direction.
US11001462B2
A recording-medium container includes a press portion and an urging member. The press portion is disposed to be movable toward and away from a side of a recording medium stack loaded in the recording-medium container, and pressed against the side. The urging member urges the press portion toward the recording medium stack when a quantity of the recording medium stack exceeds a predetermined load.
US11001461B2
A component mounting apparatus includes a component mounting unit including a suction configured to adsorb and transport a component; a first light source configured to emit first light to the component; a second light source configured to emit second light to a Fiducial mark of a substrate; a filter configured to transmit the first light reflected by the component through the filter and reflect the second light reflected by the Fiducial mark; and an image capturer configured to detect the first light transmitted through the filter and the second light reflected by the filter.
US11001460B2
A tool cart having a frame, a lifting device for lifting the frame, a locking device to lock the tool cart horizontally relative to a work station or a packaging machine (collectively referred to below as the “packaging machine”), and a stop element that may engage with an underside of the packaging machine when lifted. The lifting device and locking device operate independently. A method for transferring a tool component including one or more of the steps of: aligning the tool cart relative to the packaging machine; locking the tool cart in position relative to the packaging machine; lifting a frame of the tool cart by way of a lifting device until the stop element engages an underside of the packaging machine; and transferring the tool component between the tool cart and the packaging machine may be included.
US11001442B2
A stocking system is provided. The stocking system includes a wafer carrier, a stocking unit, a plurality of pod stoppers and at least one positioning pin. The stocking unit is configured to store the wafer carrier, and includes a carrying plate for carrying the wafer carrier. The pod stoppers stand on an edge of the carrying plate. The at least one positioning pin is disposed on a front portion of the carrying plate, such that the wafer carrier leans against the at least one positioning pin and is tilted toward a back portion of the carrying plate.
US11001436B2
A beverage cartridge and method for forming a beverage cartridge. An outer cup may be made of paper and a polymer liner provided at the inner space of the cup. The liner may define an interior space that is closed by a lid, and the liner and lid may be impervious to moisture and gases, e.g., to protect a beverage material in the interior space. A filter may be attached to the liner and/or lid, and the liner may be peelably removable from the cup. The liner, filter and/or lid may be removable together from the cup.
US11001428B2
A container carrier and manufacturing method therefor are provided. The container carrier may include an integrally molded body with a top surface, a bottom surface, and a plurality of annular structures. Each annular structure may connect to at least one adjacent annular structure and may include a circumferential rib with a plurality of flanges, which are collectively configured to secure a container. An integrally formed handle may extend upward from the body of the container carrier. The handle may include a graspable region and a bifurcated region that forms a pair of arms that connect to the body and support the graspable region in an upright configuration in an unbiased state. The arms may flex such that an intersection of the bifurcated region and graspable region moves to accommodate a downward flexion of the handle when a downward biasing force is applied to the handle in a biased state.
US11001427B2
A connector to be used with a strap for wrapping an object. The strap is detached from the connector and has first and second extremities. The connector has a first passage adapted to insert and to lock the first extremity of the strap therein and a second passage having an entrance adapted to insert the second extremity of the strap therein and to prevent the strap from travelling toward the entrance upon insertion. It has a body having a first section with the first passage and a second section with the second passage, wherein the first section has a vertical wall and the second section has a vertical wall distinct from and facing the vertical wall of the first section, and a bridge joining the first and second sections of the body by extending between the vertical wall of the first section and the vertical wall of the second section.
US11001423B2
A container assembly including a container member having a first cavity for holding a substance therein and a second cavity formed adjacent its bottom edge portion and extending upwardly therefrom, the second cavity having a top wall portion, a lid member engageable with the container member for closing access to the first cavity, the lid member having a raised wall portion configured to be receivable within the second cavity of the container member so as to form a pedestal for the container member, and at least one bumper member associated with the top wall portion of the second cavity for abutting the raised wall portion of the lid member when the lid member is inserted into the second cavity, the at least one bumper member increasing the coefficient of friction between the lid member and the container member when the lid member is received within the second cavity.
US11001422B2
An example lid assembly can include a lid and a slider. The lid can include a wall defining a recess. The slider can be configured to slide in the recess and can be configured to move between a closed position where the slider covers the opening to aid in preventing spilling of contents of the container and an opened position where the slider uncovers the opening such that the contents of the container can be consumed. The slider can be configured to be removable from the lid and can be replaced back on the lid. Additionally, the slider can be configured to lock into place on the recess in both the closed position and the opened position.
US11001419B2
A lid for a beverage container comprising a lower lid having a perimeter skirt adapted to secure the lower lid to an opening of the beverage container, a lip portion radially inward from the skirt and extending upward from the skirt and defining an inside surface, an annular portion radially inward from the lip portion and defining a plurality of openings through which liquid from the container may flow; an upper planar lid resting on the lower lid by gravity and having a perimeter edge that is sized to closely conform with the inside surface, the upper lid covering the annular portion as it rests on the lower lid, and a stop mechanism cooperating with the lower lid and the upper lid to limit the range of motion of the upper lid with respect to the lower lid, wherein the stop mechanism enables the upper lid to move away for a distance from the lower lid in response to pressure exerted upon the upper lid by liquid flowing out of the container through the openings as the container is tilted, and wherein the stop mechanism prevents the upper lid from being expelled from the lower lid, and wherein the upper lid returns to resting on the lower lid by gravity as the container is returned to vertical.
US11001402B2
Embodiments of a cell traverse for an aseptic region of a filling machine for filling packages with flowable products are provided. The cell traverse includes a frame structure with a first lateral longitudinal structure and a second lateral longitudinal structure opposite the first longitudinal structure. Also included are a plurality of transverse elements arranged between the first and second longitudinal structures and connecting the longitudinal structures. Between the longitudinal structures and the transverse elements a plurality of cells of the cell traverse are formed for receiving packages to be filled. The cell traverse also includes insert elements, which each have the frame structure, in particular at least one longitudinal structure and/or at least one transverse element, and at least some of the insert elements are detachably connected to the frame structure of the cell traverse.
US11001401B2
An exemplary method of making packages includes advancing a web of connected bags to a position where an opening of the bag is below an engagement device and opening the engagement device. Additionally, the exemplary method includes blowing the opening of the bag to a partially opened configuration, and reverse indexing the web of connected bags so that a portion of the engagement device is disposed inside of the bag and a portion of the engagement device is disposed outside the bag. Subsequently, the exemplary method includes closing the engagement device so that the engagement device engages the bag and moving the engagement device to a position that causes the opening of the bag to have a rectangular shape.
US11001397B2
A modular ramp for creating a ski jump on a modern naval vehicles is provided. Generally, the system allows a user to manipulate a ramp surface in a way that best suits the needs of the user at that time. The system generally comprises a framework, interlinking tracks, and control arm. The control arm manipulates the position of the framework, which in turn manipulates the surface created by the interlinking tracks. The modular ramp may also comprise mechanical joints and a hinge, which may allow the surface to be manipulated in multiple directions.
US11001396B2
Airfield guidance signs are described herein. One airfield guidance sign includes a first surface, a second surface angled with respect to the first surface, and a top edge adjacent the first surface and the second surface, wherein the top edge is rounded to reduce a pressure differential between the first surface and the second surface when a force is applied to the first surface or the second surface.
US11001393B2
A method of protecting an air vehicle against lightning strikes includes inserting a fastener through a hole in conjoined structures, the fastener defining an axis along its length and having a threaded end and a sleeve, and installing a washer assembly over the threaded end and the sleeve, the washer assembly having a metallic washer and a polymer seal radially inward of the metallic washer. The seal includes a lower seal portion defining a counter-bore, and an upper seal portion extending axially from the lower seal portion. The method includes installing a counter-bored nut on the threaded end, and applying torque to the nut to compress the lower seal portion against a surface of the conjoined structures and around the sleeve at the counter-bore of the seal, and to compress the upper seal portion of the seal into a counter-bore of the nut and around the threaded end.
US11001379B2
An airborne computational facility uses an energy collection system to provide energy for operation. An airborne balloon is provided with a photovoltaic collector array, and uses energy generated by the photovoltaic collector array to power an on-board computational facility. Data for computation is received by a communication module and computational results are transmitted by the communication module.
US11001372B2
An actuation assembly includes a drive mechanism that has an array of magnetic members moveable along an axis, and a gear train that has an input and an output. The drive mechanism causes the input to move in response to generating an electromagnetic field that interacts with at least one of the array of magnetic members.
US11001368B2
Wing structure that includes slat-cove fillers configured to reduce leading-edge slat noise on aircraft, such as transport aircraft.
US11001364B2
An assembly apparatus for forming an interfay joint during manufacture of an aircraft (10). The assembly apparatus includes an assembly jig (40) to hold a first joint component (26), and an applicator (43) configured to apply an uncured layer of shim to the first joint component. The assembly jig locates, subsequent to the uncured layer of shim being applied, a second joint component (23) in an assembled joint position spaced from the first joint component. As such the uncured layer of shim is compressed between the first and second joint components. A method of forming an interfay joint during manufacture of an aircraft, an interfay joint for an aircraft, an aircraft aerodynamic surface, an aircraft, and a shim layer applicator.
US11001363B2
An example aircraft wing includes a first skin, a second skin opposite to the first skin, and a composite spar. The composite spar includes a double-flanged spar cap, a single-flanged spar cap, a spar web connecting the double-flanged spar cap and the single-flanged spar cap, and a tear strap. The double-flanged spar cap includes an inward-facing flange and a first outward-facing flange, and the inward-facing flange and the first outward-facing flange are integrated with the first skin during a co-curing process. The single-flanged spar cap includes a second outward-facing flange that is attached to the second skin. The tear strap is stitched to an inner side of the spar web along at least a portion of a length of the composite spar.
US11001360B2
A device for monitoring a boat drive, preferably for monitoring a drive battery of a boat drive, includes a first water sensor configured to switch off the boat drive when a first water level is reached, and a second water sensor configured so as to output a water level warning when a second water level is reached.
US11001359B2
A harness for sailing, comprising a harness body with a pair of side flaps, a groin piece connected to the harness body and connecting to a spreader bar assembly. The spreader bar assembly comprising a front piece, and a pair of distal flaps, in which a respective side flap can be positioned between the front piece and the respective distal flap to be releasably secured therein; the spreader bar assembly comprising a quick release strap positioned between each distal flap and respective side flap, such that when the quick release strap is moved distally of the spreader bar assembly, the distal flap is separated from the side flap.
US11001354B1
One or more specific embodiments herein includes a personal flotation device, comprising a vest capable of floating in water and having front panels; a power source; a light source; at least two support straps; a first electrical cable; and a second electrical cable. Further, the first electrical cable and the second electrical cable are capable of being connected to one another to form a connector assembly through which electrical current is capable of flowing, and the connector assembly includes a housing for preventing water from contacting the electrical current when the connector assembly is formed.
US11001352B1
A vessel that is configured to remove trash from a body of water includes a trash intake portion, a trash processing portion, a compactor, and a plurality of components configured to allocate compacted trash onboard the vessel.
US11001348B2
Disclosed are devices for attaching a seat to a stand-up paddleboard. The devices generally have an open “C”-shape that is designed and configured to accommodate the side rail of a stand-up paddleboard while maintaining flush contact with at least a portion of the bottom of the stand-up paddleboard. The present disclosure also relates to a system for attaching a seat to a stand-up paddleboard. The system includes the above-described device and a mechanism for connecting the device to a seat disposed on the stand-up paddleboard. The mechanism for connecting the device to a seat can be, for example, a strap or a hook. The connecting device can be varied to accommodate the location on the seat to which the connecting device is attached.
US11001347B1
A system may include an inflatable towable vehicle. The inflatable towable vehicle may include a spinner apparatus attached to a bottom side of the inflatable towable vehicle. At least a portion of the spinner apparatus may be configured to be submerged when the inflatable towable vehicle is towed in water. The spinner apparatus may include: a base configured to abut the bottom side of the inflatable towable vehicle when the spinner apparatus is attached to the bottom side of the inflatable towable vehicle; a post extending away from the base; a cylindrical tube, wherein the post may extend through the cylindrical tube, wherein the cylindrical tube may be configured to rotate around the post; and a tow rope attachment member attached to and extending from the cylindrical tube. The inflatable towable vehicle may be configured to rotate as the inflatable towable vehicle is towed.
US11001343B2
The present invention relates to a rotating and sliding boat boarding door mechanism configured to aid the vessel's occupants in their ingress and egress to and from the vessel. More particularly, the present invention provides a rotating and sliding boat boarding door assembly and system that slidingly moves into a recess in the vessel's exterior (e.g., side, transom, and/or gunwale) that has been configured to receive and maintain the boarding door assembly in a position where it is out of sight when fully recessed.
US11001335B2
A swing arm for a saddle riding vehicle which includes a pivot section connected to a vehicle body, and a wheel support section configured to support a rear wheel and which is capable of swinging around the pivot section, includes a swing arm main body made of a fiber reinforced resin, in which the swing arm main body includes a pivot-side opening configured to open an end on a side of the pivot section, and a rear end opening configured to open an end on a side of the wheel support section, and is formed in a hollow shape continuous from the pivot-side opening to the rear end opening.
US11001322B2
A training wheel apparatus for learning to ride a bicycle includes a lift activation assembly, wherein the lift activation assembly includes a grip. The training wheel apparatus further includes a wheel mount assembly configured to operatively connect to a wheel. The training wheel apparatus further includes a cable configured to operatively connect to the lift activation assembly and the wheel mount assembly via the grip. When activated by rotation of the grip in a first direction, the lift activation assembly is configured to use the cable to change an elevation of the wheel between a first position.
US11001314B2
An improved reefer wall panel having better foam adhesion by including a plurality of hook and loop tape sections. The sections, as strips, may be applied horizontally or diagonally and may extend from the top to near the bottom of any such wall panel before foaming. They may be applied to the whole of panel, randomly throughout or to just the more vulnerable lower sections of a given panel.
US11001313B2
A tail gating apparatus including a horizontal frame with various tables positioned thereon on spindles that allow the tables to rotate in supports mounted on the frame. The frame also supports shade producing umbrellas and alternatively a cook's seat, a stabilizing plate and a wind protection shield.
US11001312B2
A hole plug is configured to plug a hole of a component, and includes a first lip that is configured to be positioned on a first surface of the component, and second lip that is configured to be positioned on a second surface of the component. The second surface is opposite from the first surface. At least one of the first lip or the second lip includes a first lip segment, a second lip segment, and at least one gap formed between the first lip segment and the second lip segment. The gap(s) is configured to allow the first lip segment and second lip segment to deflect and rotate relative to one another to adapt a size of the first lip and/or the second lip to the hole of the component.
US11001309B2
A method and apparatus includes a substrate, a foam that is applied to the substrate to form a least a portion of an interior trim part, at least one holder fixed to the substrate, and at least one reinforcement member supported by the at least one holder such that, when the foam is applied, the at least one reinforcement member is suspended within the foam.
US11001304B2
A side impact load management system for a vehicle having a vehicle frame includes a plurality of cross-vehicle support members extending from a first side of the vehicle to a second side of the vehicle. A first structural member extends in a first vertical plane parallel to a vehicle body axis defined by the vehicle frame and coupled to the vehicle frame, the first structural member connecting the plurality of cross-vehicle support members on the first side of the vehicle. A second structural member extends in a second vertical plane parallel to the vehicle body axis defined by the vehicle frame and coupled to the vehicle frame, the second structural member connecting the plurality of cross-vehicle support members on the second side of the vehicle. The first and second structural members are configured to transfer a side impact load simultaneously to the plurality of cross-vehicle support members.
US11001294B2
A steering column power assist assembly housing includes a worm bearing sleeve, a gear bearing sleeve, and an over-molded portion of the housing formed on the worm bearing sleeve and the gear bearing sleeve.
US11001291B2
A rake adjustment mechanism for an electronically adjustable steering col disclosed.
US11001290B2
A steering column may include a steering spindle that is surrounded by a casing tube and is connected to a steering wheel, a guide clamp in which the casing tube is guided displaceably along a longitudinal axis of the steering spindle. The guide clamp may be mounted pivotably about a pivot axis in a holding part that is connectable to a chassis of the motor vehicle. The position of the casing tube may be adjustable relative to the holding part, and a blocking device may be arranged between the casing tube and the holding part. The blocking device may comprise a threaded rod engaged with a spindle nut. The spindle nut may be mounted in a rolling bearing. Rolling bodies of the rolling bearing may be at least partially surrounded by a magnetorheological fluid, and the blocking device may comprise an electromagnet.
US11001281B2
A train communication system is configured to perform wireless communication between two cars coupled to each other by using low power radio. The train communication system includes: a first device disposed on one coupling surface of two coupling surfaces facing each other between two cars; a second device disposed on the one coupling surface; a third device disposed on another coupling surface of the two coupling surfaces; and a fourth device disposed on the other coupling surface. The first device and the third device are disposed to face each other. The second device and the fourth device are disposed to face each other. When no wireless connections are established among the first device, the second device, the third device, and the fourth device, the first to fourth devices each perform at least one of switching of communication channels used for wireless communication among the first to fourth devices and switching of a master device or a slave device.
US11001276B2
A cable transportation installation, including an aerial hauling cable, a vehicle having an attachment device to attach the vehicle to the hauling cable, a structure on which at least one sheave is mounted movable between a first position in which the at least one sheave is in contact with the hauling cable and a second position in which the at least one sheave is separated from the hauling cable, and at least one actuating device coupled to the at least one sheave and configured to exert a first force on the at least one sheave in order to move the at least one sheave to the first position, and to exert a second force on the at least one sheave in order to move the at least one sheave to the second position.
US11001267B2
A method and system include a biometric monitor monitoring an occupant of the vehicle and a vision detector detecting a condition of an upcoming road segment. A controller determines an adjustment to the biometric monitor for the biometric monitor to counteract an expected effect that the condition of the upcoming road segment will have on the biometric monitor in monitoring the occupant when the vehicle drives over the upcoming road segment. The controller adjusts the biometric monitor according to the adjustment such that the biometric monitor is adjusted in monitoring the occupant according to the adjustment as the vehicle drives over the upcoming road segment. The controller may determine an adaptation to a suspension assembly of the vehicle for the suspension assembly to counteract the expected effect and adapt the suspension assembly according to the adaptation. The adjustment to the biometric monitor is modified accordingly.
US11001261B2
The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for controlling a vehicle (100) during a downhill start. The vehicle comprises a service brake (131a, 131b; 132a, 132b; 33a, 133b), an engine (119) and a transmission (120) being arranged between the engine and at least one driven axle (123), wherein the service brakes, the engine and the transmission are controlled by an electronic control unit (140). The method involves registering that the vehicle is located on a downhill gradient; registering an action from the driver, indicating a request to start the vehicle; controlling the service brake to maintain the vehicle stationary during a predetermined time after the request before initiating a controlled service brake release; controlling a gradual release of the service brake in response to at least one detected first vehicle operating parameter; and releasing the service brake when detecting that a predetermined threshold for at least one second vehicle operating parameter has been attained.
US11001248B2
A powertrain optimization method is used to identify the optimal torque operating range. The method for controlling the vehicle includes: receiving, by a planning controller, a trip plan based on an input from a vehicle-operator, wherein the trip plan is indicative of a planned trip; determining, by the planning controller, a current location of the vehicle using a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) of the vehicle; determining, by the planning controller, a geography of the planned trip using map data from a map database; determining, by the planning controller, a target speed profile for the vehicle as a function of the trip plan, the geography of the planned trip, and a predetermined, optimal acceleration range; determining, by an adaptive cruise controller, a torque request as a function of the target speed profile, a predetermined-optimal torque range, and a current speed of the vehicle.
US11001246B2
This electric brake device includes: a brake rotor, a friction member, a friction member operator, an electric motor, and a controller which controls, by controlling the electric motor, a braking force generated as a result of contact between the friction member and the brake rotor. The electric brake device includes a vehicle speed estimator which estimates the speed of the vehicle having the electric brake device mounted thereon. The controller includes a power limiter which limits the power that drives the electric motor. When an estimated vehicle speed, which is the speed of the vehicle estimated by the vehicle speed estimator, is in a determined low-speed range, the power limiter limits the power in accordance with a condition that has been determined such that the maximum power consumption of the electric brake device decreases in accordance with decrease in the estimated vehicle speed.
US11001225B2
The present disclosure relates to an airbag apparatus for a vehicle. The airbag apparatus is capable of protecting a collision object while protecting a vehicle and an occupant by being installed in a fully autonomous vehicle in which the occupant's position and posture are variable. The airbag apparatus includes an inflator provided outside a vehicle body and configured to generate working gas, a housing mounted to an edge of the vehicle body, a cushion part accommodated in the housing and configured to be inflated as being discharged from the housing by receiving the working gas generated from the inflator for covering a front of the vehicle body, and a tether part provided in the cushion part to determine a deployment shape of the cushion part.
US11001224B2
A gas generator includes a housing constructed by combining and joining a plurality of shell members. One of the plurality of shell members includes a cylindrical portion and a flange portion. The cylindrical portion is provided with a plurality of gas discharge openings including gas discharge openings different in opening area from one another. The flange portion is shaped such that a distance from an axial line of the cylindrical portion to an outer edge of the flange portion is non-uniform. When a perpendicular line is drawn to the axial line from a maximum outer geometry position in the outer edge of the flange portion most distant from the axial line, a gas discharge opening arranged closest to the perpendicular line is a gas discharge opening other than a gas discharge opening largest in opening area among the plurality of gas discharge openings.
US11001223B2
A method of manufacturing a folded airbag comprising the steps of: providing an airbag cushion; heating the airbag material, folding the heated airbag material; compressing the folded airbag material obtained in step c) and optionally cooling the compressed airbag.
US11001218B2
A seatback carrier module includes first and second side portions spaced-apart from one another and interconnected by an upper portion. A cradle portion is disposed along the first and second side portions and the upper portion of the seatback carrier module. The cradle portion includes inner and outer edges with a rearwardly extending body portion. A mounting portion is disposed along a portion of the inner edge of the cradle portion. The mounting portion includes inner and outer edges with a body portion disposed therebetween. The mounting portion further includes a rearwardly extending sidewall disposed along the inner edge of the mounting portion. An airbag assembly is received within the cradle portion and has an inverted U-shaped configuration to substantially surround the outer perimeter of the seatback frame. The airbag assembly is an elongate member defining an overhead airbag assembly.
US11001214B2
A bumper system with a bumper beam and two crash boxes, and two intermediate elements, wherein the intermediate elements have a first wall and a second wall that are arranged such that, from the perspective of direction x, the first wall points toward the exterior of the vehicle and the second wall points toward the interior of the vehicle, wherein walls are linked to each other at their one end in direction y, and wherein the linked ends point toward the exterior of the vehicle. The walls continue to be connected to at least one first support wall. The intermediate elements are arranged in the bumper system so that, in the event of a force striking the bumper beam in direction x, the intermediate element is deformed first and thereafter the crash box assigned to the intermediate element is subsequently deformed.
US11001212B2
A car jump start power source comprises a casing assembly having an accommodating chamber as well as a press key, an optical condenser, a light guide bar, an electrical device assembly and a battery pack provided in the accommodating chamber; the casing assembly comprising a top casing, a bottom casing, a rubber cover covering a three-hole socket, a top aluminum casing and a bottom aluminum casing; and the top casing being mounted on the bottom casing in a non-detachable manner, and the accommodating chamber being collectively surround by the top casing and the bottom casing. One first mounting hole is provided in a top of the bottom casing, and the rubber cover is mounted at the first mounting hole. A separation plate is provided on the bottom casing, and the separation plate separates the accommodating chamber into a front chamber in which the press key, the optical condenser, the light guide bar and the electrical device assembly are mounted and a rear chamber in which the battery pack is mounted. Power from the battery pack is led out via a three-hole socket to an electric accumulator of a motorcar through an intelligent cable for a jump start.
US11001208B2
A trim assembly for a trim of a body element of a vehicle includes a pivotably mounted first trim element that is displaceable into a first functional position and into a second functional position and an adjustment device for adjusting the first trim element from the first functional position into the second functional position and/or from the second functional position into the first functional position. The adjustment device is configured to secure the first trim element in a blocking position in at least one of the first functional position and the second functional position, against displacement out of the blocking position. A stop element is disposed such that, in the blocking position, the adjustment device rests via the stop element on a stop or rests on the stop element.
US11001201B2
A system includes a vehicle transmission shifter input device; and a computer. The computer includes a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions such that the processor is programmed to detect, via the shifter input device, a user input to shift the vehicle transmission; and generate, a haptic feedback via the shifter input device.
US11001197B2
A lighting system for a vehicle and a corresponding motor vehicle is implemented with personalized or individualizable lighting functions. A part of a lighting device is reserved for implementing main lighting functions in accordance with legal requirements and another part of the lighting device is reserved for generating individualizable lighting functions. The part for individualizable lighting functions can be freely programmed and actuated via a user interface, such as a smartphone, within the scope of the technical power limitations of the individual lighting devices while taking into consideration legal requirements.
US11001185B2
A haulage arrangement has a frame configured for operative attachment to a suitable tractor, and defining a tray for operatively receiving particulate material therein. The tray comprises two side walls separated by a loadbearing lower section with a headwall at a head end of the tray and slidably arranged in-between the side walls. Also included is an urger at the head end configured to operatively urge the headwall to slide across the lower section. Arrangement further includes an elastically flexible floor slidably arranged on the lower section and fast at a first end with the headwall, as well as a retractor arranged at an ejection end of the tray and configured to continuously retract a second end of the floor underneath the lower section whilst the headwall is urged. The retractor is further configured to agitate the floor during retraction to counteract adhesion of particulate material ejected from the tray.
US11001183B2
An adapter for a grab handle in the interior of a motor vehicle, having an attachment portion for attaching the adapter to a vehicle body frame and having a retaining portion, which in the mounted state of the adapter, extends starting from the attachment portion in the direction of the vehicle interior and has a region to which a grab handle can be attached, is characterized in that the retaining portion between the attachment portion and the region to which a grab handle can be attached has a plastic formation or a plurality of plastic formations, so that with the forming of a first predetermined buckling line, a bending strength of the retaining portion in a first direction, in which the adapter is typically stressed in an accident situation, is reduced relative to a bending strength in a second direction opposite the first direction.
US11001181B2
A vehicle seat including a seat back in which a seat back frame that is a flat plate is provided, wherein a reinforcement portion is provided to a surface of the seat back frame, the surface requiring reinforcement, and the reinforcement portion protruding in a shape of a line along the surface requiring the reinforcement from the surface requiring the reinforcement, and at least a part of the reinforcement portion is a stepped portion that is provided to continue from the other portion of the reinforcement portion and has a protruding height lower than a protruding height of the other portion, the protruding height being a height from the surface requiring the reinforcement.
US11001176B2
There is provided a vehicle seat (car seat) comprising a seat cushion pad (seat body) having an air passage connected to an outlet port (114), and a blower having an inlet port (113) and configured to feed air taken in through the inlet port (113) to the air passage. The blower (100) is located on the lower side of the seat cushion pad (seat body) that is opposite to an occupant's side on which an occupant is to be seated, and the inlet port (113) is directed upward that is a direction toward the seat cushion pad (seat body).
US11001174B2
A vehicle seat system includes a seat back. A seat cushion is positioned proximate to the seat back. The seat cushion includes: a first side configured when upwardly directed for supporting an adult passenger; and a second side oppositely facing from the first side. The second side is configured when upwardly directed for supporting a child passenger and includes: an elevated face positioned proximate to the seat back; and a lower elevation face forward of the elevated face at a lower elevation than the elevated face when the second side is upwardly directed. The seat cushion is releasable and rotatable to configure the seat cushion with either the first side or the second side upwardly directed.
US11001148B2
To appropriately limit a current output from an inverter to a motor according to a state of a cooling mechanism that cools the motor and the inverter. A motor control unit includes a current command unit configured to calculate current command values (Id*, Iq*) for determining a current to be output to a motor on the basis of an input torque command, a motor lock determination unit configured to determine whether the motor is in a locked state on the basis of a motor rotation speed Nrpm indicating a rotation state of the motor, and a torque command limitation unit configured to limit the current to be output to the motor by limiting the torque command on the basis of a cooling water temperature Tc indicating a state of the cooling mechanism in a case where the motor lock determination unit determines that the motor is in the locked state.
US11001142B2
A system for non-invasively measuring an analyte in a vehicle driver and controlling a vehicle based on a measurement of the analyte. At least one solid-state light source is configured to emit different wavelengths of light. A sample device is configured to introduce the light emitted by the at least one solid-state light source into tissue of the vehicle driver. One or more optical detectors are configured to detect a portion of the light that is not absorbed by the tissue of the vehicle driver. A controller is configured to calculate a measurement of the analyte in the tissue of the vehicle driver based on the light detected by the one or more optical detectors, determine whether the measurement of the analyte in the tissue of the vehicle driver exceeds a pre-determined value, and provide a signal to a device configured to control the vehicle.
US11001138B2
It is disclosed a FLVV including: an upper cover provided in the fuel tank, and having an outlet duct; a casing coupled to the upper cover; the float, which is elastically provided inside the casing so as to be movable upward and downward, has a first valve seat provided on the upper surface of one side thereof so as to open and close a first outlet port by principle of a lever, and has a recessed surface formed at one side of the upper surface thereof; the plate elastically provided by a second spring at the recessed surface formed at the float, so as to open and close a second outlet port while moving upward and downward; and a lower cover closing the lower part of the casing and having the float elastically provided by a first spring.
US11001127B2
A vehicle door assembly includes a door module and a door panel. The door module has a back plate with a periphery bearing attachment orifices defining a base plane. At least one guide rail extends in a rail direction in a rail plane offset from the base plane and has a connected edge and a free edge. The connected edge is attached to the back plate, and the free edge is shaped for slidably attaching a carrier plate for a window. The guide rail vertically protrudes beyond the periphery of the back platen. A void in the rail plane intersects a trajectory of the connected edge. The void provides access through the rail plane to the periphery of the back plate, wherein an attachment orifice is disposed in the void. The door panel has a central hole and attachment openings aligned with the attachment orifices of the door module.
US11001114B2
A suspension system for a vehicle includes a first chassis rail and a second chassis rail, each extending longitudinally in an axial direction of the vehicle. Also included is a first leaf spring element extending longitudinally in the axial direction of the vehicle, the first leaf spring element operatively coupled proximate ends thereof to the first chassis rail and at an intermediate location to an axle assembly of the vehicle. Further included is a second leaf spring element extending longitudinally in the axial direction of the vehicle, the second leaf spring element operatively coupled proximate ends thereof to the second chassis rail and at an intermediate location to the axle assembly of the vehicle. Yet further included is at least one leaf spring extending in a transverse direction of the vehicle, the at least one leaf spring having a spring rate that is actively variable.
US11001109B1
A custom valve stem is adapted to fit in a conventional valve stem opening in a tire rim. The valve stem has a primary air channel for a conventional Schrader-type valve. The valve stem also has a secondary air channel extending within the valve stem between a base of the valve stem and an outlet through the material of the valve stem to atmosphere outside of the valve stem. The outlet can have a screen as a debris air filter. An optional tire pressure monitoring system TPMS sensor couples to the primary air channel independent of the secondary air channel. The secondary air channel comprises an atmospheric hose coupled to an electric air compressor and rechargeable battery disposed within a pressure cavity of the tire for maintaining tire pressure. A motion activated power generator disposed within the pressure cavity recharges the rechargeable electric storage.
US11001108B2
The present invention relates to a mounting/demounting tool unit for mounting a tyre to or demounting a tyre from a rim of a vehicle wheel and for being adapted to be attached to a tyre mounting/demounting machine, including: a longitudinally extending tool carrier arm having a center line and a first as well as a second end, a mounting/demounting tool having a first as well as a second end and a hook arranged in the region of the second end, and being pivotally mounted to the tool carrier arm in the region of its first end, wherein means for reversibly urging the mounting/demounting tool in a resting/operating position and for positioning the mounting/demounting tool in said resting/operating position are provided.
US11001105B2
A pneumatic tire includes a carcass layer mounted between a pair of bead portions; a belt layer disposed on an outer circumferential side of the carcass layer; and a band-like sound absorbing member extending in a tire circumferential direction adhered to a region of a tire inner surface corresponding to a tread portion, the band-like sound absorbing member being locally disposed at a position distanced from a central region of the region corresponding to the tread portion, and an outer circumferential surface of the band-like sound absorbing member including cuts extending in the tire circumferential direction.
US11001103B2
A first tire includes a tread having a circumferential center rib and a circumferential intermediate rib laterally adjacent the center rib, the intermediate rib being separated from the center rib by a first circumferential groove, a second circumferential rib bordering the intermediate rib opposite the first circumferential groove, the tread further including two other circumferential grooves; at least one stiffener element disposed within each of the four circumferential grooves, the stiffener elements having a reduced height relative to a height of the center and intermediate ribs; and the stiffener element having a circumferentially oriented cut extending into an upper surface of the stiffener element toward a bottom of the stiffener element, the cut extending circumferentially through the stiffener element with the cut bounded by opposite laterally inward facing cut sides.
US11001091B2
The following invention represents a postcard, comprising a laminar body adapted to be decorated externally with at least one predefined illustration. Said body has an opening for access to an internal recess, said opening is normally closed by a removable cover. The recess accommodates at least one seed and a substrate, and that at least one seed is arranged on the top of the substrate and directed toward said opening, for the sprouting of a plant after the removal of the cover and the addition of water into the recess. The seed is normally being retained on the top of said substrate by a laminar containment element, which is made of water-soluble material and is interposed between the substrate and the cover.
US11001088B2
In one or more embodiments, the present invention provides a method of applying or printing structural colors to a substrate that involves pre-treatment of the substrate surface to prevent absorption of the fluid containing the particles. This allows the fluid to maintain their sessile drop shapes and as the water evaporates, the colloidal particles spontaneously assemble within the confined geometry into semi-ordered structures that interact with light to produce structural color. While the pre-treatment may be done in a variety of ways, application of a, hydrophobic and/or oleophobic coating, like 1H-IH,2H-perfluoro-1-dodecene (C10F21—CH═CH2) (perfluoro) monomer, fluoroalkyls, fluorohydroalkyls, cyclo-fluoroalkyls, fluorobenzen, by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (cold plasma treatment) has been found to be effective, particularly for printing applications. These treated substrates allow production of a wide range of structural colors using binary systems of nanoparticles.
US11001081B2
Backing material is passed by a first heater to pre-heat the backing material. The backing material is then passed by a printing engine to print marking material on the backing material, and passed by a first light source to apply ultra-violet (UV) light to the marking material printed on the backing material, to partially cure the marking material. Further, the backing material is passed by a container to expose the partially cured marking material to adhesive particles to cause the adhesive particles to adhere only to the marking material. The backing material is passed by a second light source to apply additional UV light to the marking material partially cured on the backing material to fully cure the marking material. Finally, the backing material is passed by a second heater to melt the adhesive particles that are adhered to the marking material on the backing material.
US11001080B2
To provide an ink jet recording method capable of recording a high-quality image excellent in optical density and water resistance and at the same time, suppressing peeling-off of an image caused by contact heating of a recording medium. The ink jet recording method has a step of ejecting an aqueous ink containing a resin particle from a line head and applying the aqueous ink to a predetermined position of a recording medium having ink absorbability and a step of bringing a heating roller into contact with the aqueous ink applied to the recording medium to heat it and fixing it at the predetermined position. The dynamic surface tension of the aqueous ink at the time when the heating roller is brought into contact with the aqueous ink applied to the recording medium is higher than the surface tension of the heating roller.
US11001079B2
A thermal printer includes a thermal head in which a plurality of heating elements are arranged in a line, and a processor that executes a printing process of energizing the thermal head successively a predetermined number of times so at to print a printing data by causing a predetermined voltage to be applied to the thermal head the predetermined number of times in accordance with and in synchronization with strobe pulses in a strobe signal, a strobe width of each strobe pulse in the strobe signal defining a duration during which the thermal head is being applied with the predetermined voltage, wherein among the strobe pulses for the predetermined number of times of energizing the thermal head, a strobe width of at least one predetermined strobe pulse is set to be always shorter than a strobe width of another predetermined one of the strobe pulses.
US11001075B2
A printing method includes discharging a first white ink comprising a first white pigment and a second white ink containing a second white pigment by a discharging head, wherein the following relationship is satisfied: |RA−RB|≥0.5, where RA represents a refractive index of the first white pigment and RB represents a refractive index of the second white pigment.
US11001073B2
The present disclosure is drawn to UV-curable inkjet inks, fluid sets, and printing systems. An example UV-curable inkjet ink can include water, a photo-initiator, from 8 wt % to 25 wt % organic co-solvent, and from 2 wt % to 20 wt % of a polyurethane. The polyurethane can include a polymer strand including a polymer backbone having two ends terminating at first and second capping units. The polymer backbone can be formed of polymerized monomers including a diisocyanate and a reactive diol selected from an acrylate-containing diol or a methacrylate-containing diol. The first capping unit can include an acrylate-containing monoalcohol, a methacrylate-containing monoalcohol, an allyl-containing monoalcohol, an allyl-containing monoamine, a styrene-containing monoalcohol, an acrylamide-containing monoalcohol, or a methacrylamide-containing monoalcohol reacted with an isocyanate group of the diisocyanate. The second capping unit can include 3-(cyclohexylamino)-1-propanesulfonic acid or 2-(cyclohexylamino)ethanesulfonic acid reacted with an isocyanate group of the diisocyanate.
US11001068B2
An ink replenish container comprises a container main body that is able to store the ink; and an ink outlet formation member, attached to a front end side of the container main body, to form an ink outlet. The container main body includes a screw formation portion having a screw for engaging with the ink outlet formation member, and a shoulder portion provided on a front end side of the screw formation portion. The ink outlet formation member includes an abutting portion that abuts the shoulder portion.
US11001066B2
The ink jet recording method is an ink jet recording method of recording an image on a recording medium using an ink jet recording apparatus including a recording head and a recovery mechanism for recovering an ejection state of pigment ink from ejection orifices. The recording head includes a first flow path and a second flow path allowing an ejection orifice and a recording element to communicate with each other and through which ink flows between the ejection orifice and the recording element. The ink jet recording method includes (i) a first cleaning of allowing the ink in the first flow path to flow to the second flow path while performing wiping and suction with a suction wiper; or (ii) a second cleaning of allowing the ink in the first flow path to flow to the second flow path after performing wiping and suction with a suction wiper.
US11001063B2
According to one embodiment, a maintenance apparatus includes a first suction nozzle having a first suction port facing a first nozzle row through which a first liquid can be ejected, the first nozzle row including nozzles aligned in a first direction on a nozzle plate, and a second suction nozzle having a second suction port facing a second nozzle row through which a second liquid can be ejected, the second nozzle row including nozzles aligned in the first direction on the nozzle plate and parallel to the first nozzle row.
US11001057B2
There is disclosed a controller for controlling two or more groups of nozzles in an array, the controller configured to: encode data blocks into a data stream, wherein each data block denotes how a respective group of nozzles is to be controlled for a droplet period; encode fire codes into the data stream, wherein each fire code is a reserved code that denotes when a respective group of nozzles is to be controlled in accordance with the data block for the droplet period; and wherein the data block precedes the fire code for the respective group of nozzles in the data stream and wherein the fire codes are generated independently of the data blocks.
US11001047B2
Techniques for integrating a machine-readable matrix with a component of a mechanical structure using three-dimensional (3-D) printing are disclosed. Such techniques include generating at least one data model representing the component, and projecting a matrix pattern identifying one or more features of the component onto a selected surface portion of the component to produce a modified data model for use as an input to a 3-D printer.
US11001045B2
A method and system of producing a three-dimensional object with an anti-counterfeiting measure uses a processor to access a data file including a plurality of parameters for producing a three-dimensional object, wherein the parameters comprise a plurality of structural parameters. The processor may also cause a three dimensional printing device to form the three dimensional object that exhibits the structural parameters by identifying a build material, identifying at least one anti-counterfeiting measure that when included in the 3D object will prevent creation of a digital model of the three-dimensional object by causing the 3D object to obstruct a possible 3D scanning method, and causing the three dimensional printing device to form the three-dimensional object with the anti-counterfeiting measure using the build material.
US11001037B2
A composite pane, includes an outer pane having an outer-side surface and an interior-side surface, an inner pane having an outer-side surface and an interior-side surface, and a thermoplastic intermediate layer, which joins the interior-side surface of the outer pane to the outer-side surface of the inner pane. The composite pane has, between the outer and inner panes, a sun protection coating, which substantially reflects or absorbs rays outside the visible spectrum of solar radiation. The composite pane has, on the interior-side surface of the inner pane, a thermal-radiation-reflecting coating (low-E coating). The composite pane has a transmittance index A of 0.02 to 0.08, wherein the transmittance index A is determined according to the following formula A=TLcomposite glass pane/(TLlow-E-coated pane*TE). TL is the light transmittance and TE is the energy transmittance measured according to ISO 9050.
US11001028B2
The invention concerns a corrugator machine with an intermediate web dispensing device for dispensing an intermediate web, a top layer dispensing device for dispensing a top layer, a printing arrangement located downstream of the top layer dispensing device for printing the top layer, a device located downstream of the intermediate web dispensing device and the printing arrangement for producing a corrugated board web laminated on one side from the intermediate web and the top layer, a lamination web dispensing device for dispensing a lamination web, and a connection device for connecting the corrugated board web laminated on one side and the lamination web with each other whilst forming an at least three-layered corrugated board web.
US11001027B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems increase converting accuracy and consistency of corrugated articles of manufacture such as blanks, intermediates or converted structures to minimize unintended gap variations, fishtail variations and visual discord as well as to minimize unintentional loss of strength due to conversion of such articles. The constitution of converted articles formed from a corrugated board blanks according to the invention comprises at least one intelligently located score, slit or slot (hereinafter collectively “registered modification”) based upon knowledge of the corrugated board's fluted medium, including the absolute relative location of at least one fluted medium feature and/or the fluted medium geometry, such as its pitch.
US11001010B2
A method for installing pipeline segments within a conduit. The method includes a step of securing a first pipe segment of the pipeline segments at a top end of the conduit, a step of aligning a main axis of a second pipe segment of the pipeline segments with the main axis of the pipeline, a step of lifting the second pipe segment from a first position associated with a bottom end of the conduit to a second position adjacent to the first pipe segment, a step of abutting a top rim of the second pipe segment against a bottom rim of the first pipe segment, and a step of attaching the top rim of the second pipe segment to the bottom rim of the first pipe segment.
US11001009B2
There is provided a pressure maintaining and alignment device, comprising a box body that is open at its front side to form an outer opening having a certain depth; a cover assembly for opening and closing outer opening; a pushing assembly disposed on a rear side of box body for selectively clamping a product to be pressure-maintained; and a pressing assembly located at a rear side of the pushing assembly; wherein pressing assembly comprises a pushing rod and a pressing plate, at least one pressing arm extending to above the box body is provided at top of pressing plate, an alignment adjusting assembly is provided between pressing arm and box body, and pressing plate selectively pushes alignment adjusting assembly by the pressing arm under driving of pushing rod, so that the product to be pressure-maintained in the box body is selectively pressed, pressure-maintained and aligned.
US11001007B2
Device for fixing a connection to an OPW airbag, with an expansion sleeve (2), with a plurality of expansion shells (4), and a mandrel (6) extending longitudinally through the expansion sleeve (2) having a stretching piece (8) arranged in the vicinity of the expansion shells (4), the outer diameter of which stretching piece is greater than the inner diameter of the expansion shells (4).
US11001006B2
An additive manufacturing apparatus in which a streak in a manufacturing direction is difficult to be made on the surface of a product manufactured object in a boundary region of projection regions of exposure images is provided. In this apparatus, a vessel holds a photosetting liquid resin material, a first projector makes a first exposure image incident from an incident surface and projects it into the resin material, a second projector makes a second exposure image, continuous with the first exposure image, incident from the incident surface and projects it into the resin material, and a controlling unit adjusts on a projection surface a boundary region between a first projection image obtained by projecting the first exposure image by the first projector and a second projection image obtained by projecting the second exposure image by the second projector.
US11001004B2
A printing system for forming three-dimensional objects, layer by layer is provided. The system includes inkjet printing heads, each printing head adapted to dispense one of a modeling material, a support material or a reusable waste material that comprises one or more materials that were previously discharged from at least one of the inkjet printing heads; a modeling material container; a support material container; a reusable waste material container and a leveling unit that removes surplus material from previously deposited layers, the surplus material being provided to the reusable waste container via a tube. In embodiments, the method comprises dispensing the reusable material to form a separate waste block adjacent to the three-dimensional object.
US11001002B2
A method for the additive manufacturing of a closed-cell porous matrix is described herein. A powder-bed, additive manufacturing process is used to create a piece with partially-closed cavities filled with unfused powder. Vacuum, negative pressure, positive pressure, or solvent is used to evacuate the powder from the cavities. Finally, a fresh layer of powder is used to cover the opening of the cavity and the powder is fused on top to close the opening.
US11000992B2
A method of forming a three-dimensional object is carried out by: providing a carrier and an optically transparent member having a build surface, the carrier and the build surface defining a build region therebetween; filling the build region with a polymerizable liquid; irradiating the build region through the optically transparent member to form a solid polymer from the polymerizable liquid while concurrently advancing the carrier away from the build surface to form the three-dimensional object from the solid polymer, while also concurrently: (i) continuously maintaining a dead zone of polymerizable liquid in contact with the build surface by electrochemically generating a polymerization inhibitor therein from a precursor of the polymerization inhibitor, and (ii) continuously maintaining a gradient of polymerization zone (e.g., an active surface) between the dead zone and the solid polymer and in contact with each thereof, the gradient of polymerization zone comprising the polymerizable liquid in partially cured form. Apparatus for carrying out the method is also described.
US11000982B2
A method of setting a shaping machine includes identifying values for setting parameters, which setting parameters at least partially establish control of controllable components of the shaping machine during the shaping process. A plurality of simulations of the shaping process are performed on the basis of a first parameter and a second parameter. The first parameter describes physical factors of the shaping process. The second parameter is suitable as a basis for at least one of the setting parameters of the shaping machine. The simulation is carried out on the basis of various combinations of values of the first parameter and the second parameter. Values of at least one quality parameter are calculated from results of the simulations for the various combinations of values of the first parameter and the second parameter.
US11000981B2
A mold changing apparatus includes a conveyance unit that is configured to generate a driving force for positioning the mold in addition to loading and unloading the mold into and from an injection molding machine, and a fluid pressure cylinder to assist acceleration and deceleration of the mold in cooperation with the conveyance unit.
US11000978B2
Roller assembly for forming adjacent curved surfaces in a composite gap filler member includes a first roller supported by a first support member, a second roller supported by a second support member and a support including a surface. First roller and the second roller are in contact with one another and in contact with the surface. With rotation of the first roller about a third axis and with at least one of the first roller or second roller moved relative to the other such that the first roller maintains contact with the second roller and the first roller and the second roller maintain contact with the surface, such that the first roller, second roller and the surface form an aperture having a first curved side having a first radius adjacent to a second curved side having a second radius wherein the first radius and second radius are unequal.
US11000976B2
The invention relates to a process for producing an optical casting comprising at least one volume-holographic optical element by means of at least one casting operation, the process comprising the following steps: providing a casting mould comprising a first mould section having a flat, spherical, aspherical or free-form first surface and a second mould section having a flat, spherical, aspherical or free-form second surface, the first mould section being connectable to the second mould section to form the casting mould, providing at least one holographic optical element, positioning and aligning the at least one holographic optical element with respect to the first mould section or/and with respect to the second mould section, combining the first and second mould sections to form the casting mould, introducing casting material in one or more casting steps, the casting material having a maximum viscosity at 25° C. of 100 000 mPas, curing the casting material, removing the cured casting material comprising the at least one holographic optical element from the casting mould, the at least one holographic optical element being at least partly surrounded by the casting material.
US11000973B2
The invention relates to a method for producing powdery plastic particles having as spherical a structure as possible, wherein a starting product (30) made of plastic, in particular a viscous to solid starting product (30), is brought into contact with a smooth surface (24) of a body (20), which is moved at a speed v of at least 5 m/s relative to the starting product (30). In the contact area (34) between the starting product (30) and the body (20), the starting product (30) is heated locally, and is flung in powdery form out of the contact area in the direction of movement of the body (20).
US11000972B2
The present disclosure provides a process. The process includes (i) melt blending, in an extruder, (a) a polyolefin phase and (b) an aqueous phase in the presence of (c) at least one dispersant selected from an acrylic dispersant, a poloxamer dispersant, and combinations thereof; (ii) producing an interfacial tension from 0.1 dynes/cm to 25 dynes/cm; (iii) forming a polyolefin aqueous dispersion having from 25 wt % to 90 wt % solids content of dispersion; and (iv) removing the water from the polyolefin aqueous dispersion to form a powder. The powder has a mean volume average particle size from 10 μm to 300 μm, a sphericity from 0.92 to 1.0, a particle size distribution from 1 to less than 2, and a particle density from 98% to 100%.
US11000968B2
There is provided a sheet manufacturing apparatus that is capable of manufacturing a sheet having a predetermined color, the apparatus including: a plurality of resin cartridges that store a plurality of colored resins, respectively; a resin supply unit that supplies a resin from one or the plurality of resin cartridges to a predetermined raw material in a predetermined step of manufacturing a sheet; and a controller that selects a resin cartridge, which is a supply source of a resin, when the resin supply unit supplies the resin, and performs setting related to a supply amount of a resin for each of the selected resin cartridges, based on setting related to a color of a sheet to be manufactured.
US11000958B2
A deflection element (10) for robot arms has two arm braces that are pivotally mounted on a joint mechanism. In order to create a universally useable deflection element, the two arm braces (12) are each mounted on a support structure (20) of the joint mechanism by means of an arm joint (18), and the two arms braces (12) are coupled to a connecting element (22) between the two arm joints (18), said connecting element (22) being movable relative to the support structure (20); furthermore, at least one actuating element (50; 51), which moves the connecting element (22) and thus pivots the arm braces (12) between the end positions thereof, is arranged between the support structure (20) and the connecting element (22).
US11000957B2
The disclosure relates to a mechanical hand of a dual-driven special-shaped super-flexible elastic framework. The mechanical hand includes a top plate and a base plate. The top plate and the base plate are fixed into a whole through two groups of guide connection rods. Two lead screw shaft servo motors are disposed on the top plate at an interval. Lead screws of the two lead screw shaft servo motors are respectively connected to a hollow finger front section driving plate and a finger root portion driving plate. Tail ends of the two lead screws are respectively supported on the base plate through two mounted bearings. The mechanical hand further includes flexible fingers. A tip portion of each of the flexible fingers is fixed on the hollow finger front section driving plate. A special-shaped super-flexible leaf spring of the flexible finger is connected to the base plate through a finger root hinge seat. A curved rod of the flexible finger is connected to the finger root portion driving plate through a curved rod hinge seat. The two lead screw shaft servo motors convert rotation movements into linear movements through lead screw nut mechanisms, and different portions of the flexible finger are respectively driven to move. Objects of different sizes and states are reliably grasped. A grasping range is wide. A flexible self-adaption effect is achieved.
US11000955B2
A mobile phone robot is able to perform multi-touch operations on a mobile phone. A fastener holds a mobile phone stationary relative to the mobile phone robot. A first robot arm subsystem controls location and timing of contact of a first stylus tip with a touchscreen or a keyboard of the mobile phone. A second robot arm subsystem controls location and timing of contact of a first stylus tip with a touchscreen or a keyboard of the mobile phone. A camera subsystem is oriented to capture images displayed by the mobile phone. Control circuitry controls the first robot arm subsystem and the second robot arm subsystem. The control circuitry processes the images captured by the camera subsystem to detect text displayed within the image and to detect layout of the image. The control circuitry performs speech to text translation to receive commands from a user to perform multi-operations touch that are performed by the first robot arm subsystem and the second robot arm subsystem.
US11000951B2
Methods, systems, and devices for robotic navigation are described. A robotic device such as a robotic vacuum or a robotic assistant may navigate a first surface. In some cases, navigating the first surface may include removing debris from the first surface. The robotic device may identify a location of a track that connects the first surface to a second surface that is vertically displaced from the first surface. The robotic device may engage the track based at least in part on the identified location. The robotic device may ascend to the second surface by activating an actuator and navigate the second surface (e.g., may remove debris from the second surface, may map the second surface, etc.).
US11000945B2
Wearable robotic systems including robotic limbs for supporting a load while a user moves through an environment and their methods of use are described. In one embodiment, a robotic system includes robotic limbs with first and second robotic limb segments that are movable between different configurations to support a load while a user is standing or crawling. In another embodiment, a robotic system includes first and second robotic limbs that are substantially located within a plane parallel to a frontal plane of a user when the robotic system is worn. In another embodiment, a wearable robotic system includes first and second robotic limbs and an associated base that is attachable to a user's torso. The first and second robotic limbs may include a plurality of actuators and associated robotic limb segments to couple the robotic legs to the base and control their movement.
US11000933B2
In an angle electric power tool 1 in which an output axis P intersects and is orthogonal to a motor axis J, a battery attachment portion 40 is provided to the rear of a grip 30 so as to extend in the rearward direction and a battery pack 50 is configured to be attached to an upper surface of said battery attachment portion 40. Because of this configuration, the battery pack 50 does not directly come into contact with a working surface W, thereby preventing flaws and scratches on the working surface W.
US11000930B1
An advanced jig for manufacturing a firearm lower receiver can include an adapter, a guide plate, a front support, a buffer support, a buffer mounting screw and at least one carriage with at least one locating pin. A guide plate can be in a location above the fire control cavity of a lower receiver and can be mounted to the carriage(s) in conjunction with a rotary power tool adapter. The jig can be a universal fitment. The jig can include a bearing to support a rotary tool and can be constructed and arranged to provide for use of at least one guiding feature to facilitate in the guidance of the rotary tool without placing the rotary tool in direct contact with any of a plurality of guidance features for firearm lower receiver manufacturing. A removable locating pin can be situated in a location along the front takedown pin hole of a firearm receiver that is for firearm lower receiver manufacturing.
US11000921B2
Welding rods and associated cladded articles are described herein. Briefly, a welding rod comprises a hard particle component dispersed in a nickel-based alloy matrix or cobalt-based alloy matrix, the hard particle component comprising tungsten carbide particles having an average size of less than 45 μm, and the nickel-based alloy matrix or the cobalt-based alloy matrix comprising at least one metal carbide forming element.
US11000919B2
A laser processing apparatus includes: a scanner configured to adjust a path of at least one of a first laser beam and a second laser beam; and a lens unit configured to condense the first laser beam and the second laser beam received from the scanner. The scanner may include a first reflection member for providing the first laser beam to the lens unit and a second reflection member for providing the second laser beam to the first reflection member.
US11000918B2
To prevent an output decrease of laser light due to impurities that could be formed in a guide-light emitting device or an imaging device. A laser-light guiding section includes a transmission window section, an optical component disposed to cause an optical path of the UV laser light emitted from the laser-light output section and an optical path of transmitted light transmitted through the transmission window section to cross, and a sealing member in which the transmission window section is provided, the sealing member configuring a sealed space for airtightly housing the optical component. At least one of a guide-light emitting device configured to emit guide light for visualizing a scanning position of the UV laser light toward the transmission window section and an imaging device configured to receive light for imaging a workpiece via the transmission window section is disposed on the outer side of the sealed space.
US11000917B2
A laser marking system for marking a predetermined pattern on a workpiece may include a first light source structured to emit first light at a first wavelength; a second light source structured to emit second light at a second wavelength different from the first wavelength and selected to mark a marking surface of the workpiece; beam shaping optics structured to adjust a focal length of the second light; beam steering optics structured to aim the first laser light and the second laser light; a controller configured to control the first light source to emit the first light at the marking surface of the workpiece and control the beam steering optics to aim the second light so as to mark the marking surface of the workpiece and create the first predetermined pattern; and a camera structured to detect first light reflected from the marking surface and record an image.
US11000915B2
In described examples, a transient liquid phase (TLP) metal bonding material includes a first substrate and a base metal layer. The base metal layer is disposed over at least a portion of the first substrate. The base metal has a surface roughness (Ra) of between about 0.001 to 500 nm. Also, the TLP metal bonding material includes a first terminal metal layer that forms an external surface of the TLP metal bonding material. A metal fuse layer is positioned between the base metal layer and the first terminal metal layer. The TLP metal bonding material is stable at room temperature for at least a predetermined period of time.
US11000902B2
A composite machining tool includes a tool body with at least one cutting edge and at least one grinding region. The grinding region is located adjacent to the cutting edge such that there is a gap between the grinding region and the cutting edge and such that when the tool performs a machining action the cutting edge and the grinding region act together on a material surface.
US11000901B2
Process for the production of containers for cosmetic products, comprising the steps of: providing a first bar made of metal or metal alloy; turning said first bar to obtain an element (2) having a tubular shape and defining internally a housing compartment (3); anodizing said element (2) to obtain a surface finishing processing; and inserting a cylindrical body (9) for containing a cosmetic product inside said housing compartment (3).
US11000892B2
A non-path-variable element switch, in particular for connecting elements, which can be passed continuously by the elements being positive-lockingly guided, in particular head-guided, therein only in a feeding direction, from a plurality of profiled tracks into a number of profiled tracks, which is reduced compared to the plurality of profiled tracks. With the non-path-variable element switch, a plurality of feeding sources with different elements are connected to a processing tool. Thereby, the element switch is characterized in that it comprises no mechanically switchable elements.
US11000889B2
A method for preparing an alternating arrangement silver-copper lateral composite ingot, including: using a concave roller set; manufacturing a copper frame having a fixed width according to a negative tolerance of a width of the grooves of the concave roller, and corresponding copper bars and silver bars, and performing a surface treatment on the copper frame, the copper bars, and the silver bars; and then arranging different number of copper bars and silver bars at internals as needed and tightly placing into the copper frame to form a composite blank, i.e., a composite ingot. A method for preparing an alternating arrangement silver-copper lateral composite strip is further provided, and the silver-copper lateral composite ingot prepared by the method for preparing the alternating arrangement silver-copper lateral composite ingot is used to prepare the silver-copper lateral composite strip.
US11000885B2
A contaminated soil purification system for decomposing a contaminant in contaminated soil E. The contaminated soil purification system includes: injecting, into contaminated soil through a water injection well, an injection liquid containing a purification agent to decompose a contaminant or an activator to stimulate biological decomposition by the purification agent; a process of measuring a concentration of the purification agent or the activator in groundwater in an observation well or in a pumping well, the observation well or the pumping well being provided at a location spaced apart from the water injection well; and a process of, based on the concentration that has been measured, automatically controlling an addition amount of the purification agent or the activator to the injection liquid or automatically controlling a pumping amount of water from the pumping well.
US11000879B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for treating a substrate with a liquid. The substrate treating method comprises a pre-treating step for supplying the treatment liquid containing hydrogen fluoride (HF) to the substrate and treating the substrate before the surface modification step and a surface modification step for supplying an alkene-based chemical onto a substrate to change the surface of the substrate to a hydrophobic state. As a result, the surface of the substrate is uniform, and generation of particles can be reduced when the substrate is removed.
US11000876B2
A liquid dispenser. The dispenser includes reversible modular components to define selective removability and rearrangement between them and a base structure such that one or more sheets of a passing liquid-receiving substrate may receive such liquid through interchangeable liquid-dispensing orientations. The removability features include tool-free operation to facilitate quick insertion and removal of the modular components that include at least a liquid-dispensing valve assembly and a seal that is selectively engageable with the valve assembly to protect liquid-dispensing nozzles of the valve assembly from becoming clogged with residual dried liquid during periods of inactivity of the liquid dispenser. Selective movable cooperation or attachment between the modules—as well as between the modules and the base structure—facilitates flexible configurations of the dispenser, including top-down and bottom-up liquid-dispensing orientations.
US11000870B2
A sample pump device comprising a flexible pouch, a rigid frame, a mechanical pump, an actuator and a rigid, non-flexible stem attachment. A flexible dip tube is specifically not included. The rigid frame houses the mechanical pump and supports the flexible pouch which contains a flowable product, such as perfume. The stem attachment provides a firm surface against which a user can provide counter pressure, as the mechanical pump is being operated. The sample pump device is adapted to withstand the extreme pressures of binding, bundling and distribution operations associated with printed circulars.
US11000869B2
Some implementations can include a zero turn radius utility vehicle that is operated in a standing position by an operator using foot controls provided on the utility vehicle. Accordingly, the operator's hands are free to operate handheld equipment (e.g., a line trimmer, edger, blower, etc.) while the operator controls the utility vehicle via the foot controls. Further, the utility vehicle may have a single third wheel (and no mower deck or other deck or protrusion) extending from the front of the vehicle frame so as to minimize any protrusions to the front of the vehicle, which can permit the operator to work on the ground in front of the utility vehicle using handheld equipment without interference from a mower deck, while remaining in a standing position on the utility vehicle and being able to simultaneously control the utility vehicle (via foot controls) and perform work with handheld equipment.
US11000860B2
A shower facility includes a shower assembly and a wireless remote control device. The shower assembly includes a hydroelectricity device and an outlet control device electrically connected to the hydroelectricity device, wherein the hydroelectricity device could provide electricity to the outlet control device. The hydroelectricity device has an inlet opening, and the outlet control device has at least three outlet openings. The wireless remote control device is signal-connected to the shower assembly. When the wireless remote control device is operated to transmit an operating signal to the shower assembly, the outlet control device would receive the operating signal to control the opening and closing of the outlet openings, and one of the outlet openings communicates with the inlet opening.
US11000859B2
A separator includes a first piston and a second piston both mounted on a drum assembly. The first piston is moveable between a first piston open position and a first piston closed position. In the first piston open position drum ejection passages are open for ejection of material from a maximum diameter of a separator volume, while in the first piston closed position the first piston blocks the drum ejection passages to prevent the ejection of material from the maximum diameter of the separator volume. A number of intermediate ejection paths are formed in the separator, each extending from an intermediate ejection path inlet at an intermediate region of the separator volume to an intermediate ejection path outlet. The second piston is moveable to alternately open or close the intermediate ejection paths for fluid communication to the separator volume.
US11000854B2
A rotor positioning device in a crusher is arranged to adjust a rotational position of a rotor shaft. A shaft engager includes a female toothed mating surface for coaxial engagement with a male mating surface at an end of the rotor shaft, so they become rotationally interlocked. The shaft engager includes alignable indicator slots that are, when in use, alignable with markings associated with an end of the rotor shaft, such that the markings become visible through the slots as the rod is rotationally driven by a drive component. The markings correspond to hammer positions within the crusher, such that these can be maneuvered for maintenance (e.g. to top dead-center positions) before access to the crusher chamber is gained.
US11000853B2
The methods and configurations herein provide for analysis of microplate based assays. Certain aspects include: an optical illumination panel; a plurality of sample wells configured to receive light from the optical illumination panel, and wherein the plurality of sample wells is configured with a first field of view; at least one aperture array configured to isolate directed light therethrough the plurality of sample wells; at least one optical array configured to receive optical information from the plurality of sample platforms, wherein the at least optical array comprises an array of individual microprisms configured with equal apex angles at distal equidistances along a row, wherein the individual microprism apex angles decrease toward the center of the row culminating in at least one flat surface along a center portion of the row; and a detector configured to capture the optical information with a second field of view as provided by the at least one optical array.
US11000848B2
A medical system for determining an analyte quantity in a blood sample via a cartridge that spins around a rotational axis. The cartridge may include: a separation chamber that separates blood plasma from the sample; a processing chamber containing a reagent with a specific binding partner which binds to the analyte to form an analyte specific binding partner complex; a first valve structure connecting the separation chamber to the processing chamber; a measurement structure to measure the quantity of the analyte, wherein the measurement structure includes a chromatographic membrane with an immobilized binding partner for direct or indirect binding of the analyte or the analyte specific binding partner complex, and an absorbent structure that is nearer to the axis than the membrane; a second valve structure connecting the processing chamber to the measurement structure; and a fluid chamber filled with a washing buffer and fluidically connected to the measurement structure.
US11000827B2
An air filter including a filter support that supports polymeric sorbent particles. The polymeric sorbent is the reaction product of a divinylbenzene/maleic anhydride precursor polymeric material with a nitrogen-containing compound. The air filter may be used for capturing e.g. reactive gases.
US11000825B1
Solid absorbent compositions and methods for the removal of mercaptan sulfur compounds from hydrocarbon streams are provided. The compositions may include porous granulated activated carbon particles with internal pore surfaces containing bound trinuclear basic iron (III) acetate complex containing the [Fe3(μ3-O)] core structure.
US11000819B2
The invention provides a reaction system for the production of ethylene carbonate and/or ethylene glycol. The reaction system having a guard bed system upstream of a catalytic EO reactor. The guard bed system having a feed line supplying a gaseous feed and an effluent line configured to remove the treated gaseous feed. The guard bed system has two or more guard bed vessels arranged in series in sequential order, each having an inlet, a bed of guard bed material and an outlet. The inlet of each guard bed vessel is attached by means of valves to both the feed line and the outlet of the guard bed vessel preceding it in sequential order. The outlet of each guard bed vessel is attached by means of valves to both the effluent line and to the inlet of the guard bed vessel following it in sequential order.
US11000811B2
A method of manufacturing a reverse osmosis composite membrane, including: (i) bringing a mixed liquid containing carbon nanotubes, water, and an amine component into contact with a porous support, the mixed liquid being produced through a step of pressurizing and compressing an aqueous solution containing the carbon nanotubes while flowing the aqueous solution, followed by releasing or reducing a pressure to return a volume of the aqueous solution to an original volume to mix the carbon nanotubes; and then (ii) subjecting the amine component in the mixed liquid adhering to the porous support to a crosslinking reaction.
US11000810B2
Membranes, methods of making the membranes, and methods of using the membranes are described herein. The membranes can comprise a support layer, and a selective polymer layer disposed on the support layer. The selective polymer layer can comprise an oxidatively stable carrier and a borate additive dispersed within a hydrophilic polymer matrix. The oxidatively stable carrier can comprise a quaternaryammonium hydroxide carrier (e.g., a mobile carrier such as a small molecule quaternaryammonium hydroxide, or a fixed carrier such as a quaternaryammonium hydroxide-containing polymer), a quaternaryammonium fluoride carrier (e.g., a mobile carrier such as a small molecule quaternaryammonium fluoride, or a fixed carrier such as a quaternaryammonium fluoride-containing polymer), or a combination thereof. The borate additive can comprise a borate salt, a boric acid, or a combination thereof. The membranes can exhibit selective permeability to gases. As such, the membranes can be for the selective removal of carbon dioxide and/or hydrogen sulfide from hydrogen and/or nitrogen.
US11000808B2
A sheet-shaped hollow fiber membrane module includes a casing having a flat shape, the casing including a supply port and a discharge port, and a plurality of hollow fiber membranes accommodated inside the casing. The casing includes a plurality of the supply ports on one main surface of the casing and a plurality of the discharge ports on the other main surface of the casing, at least one of the plurality of the supply ports is closable, and at least one of the plurality of the discharge ports is closable. Each of the plurality of hollow fiber membranes includes a first opening at one end of the hollow fiber membrane and a second opening at the other end of the hollow fiber membrane, and the first opening and the second opening communicate with an outside of the casing and do not communicate with an inside of the casing.
US11000801B2
A carbon dioxide (CO2) separation membrane plant abnormality detection system includes: an entrance unit through which gas containing CO2 enters a plant including a CO2 separation membrane module; a separation membrane module; a permeation unit configured to discharge the gas with the relatively high CO2 concentration, which is discharged from the separation membrane module, to the outside of the plant; a residue unit configured to discharge the gas with the relatively low CO2 concentration, which is discharged from the separation membrane module, to the outside of the plant; a measurer configured to measure information; and a controller configured to determine the presence of an abnormality, wherein the controller determines whether the plant is in an abnormal situation.
US11000784B2
A vacuum assembly includes a housing and a movable assembly positioned within the housing. Movement of the movable assembly relative to the housing creates a low pressure area. A fluid flow conduit is in fluid communication with the low pressure area. A leakage valve is disposed within the fluid flow conduit and is movable between a first position and a second position to restrict a flow through the fluid flow conduit upon detection of an undesired fluid within the low pressure area.
US11000783B2
A chamber has a first opening, a second opening, and a third opening. The second opening is higher in level than the first and third openings, and is located at the highest position of a reservoir. Air bubbles are easily collected around the second opening, higher in level than the third opening, due to buoyancy. Moreover, the chamber includes an upper slope on an upper inner wall thereof such that a sectional area of the chamber becomes smaller toward the highest position of the reservoir. The upper slope causes the air bubbles not to stagnate but to be guided to the second opening along the upper slope. This makes easy discharge of the air bubbles from the chamber.
US11000782B2
The present invention provides a high temperature chemical solution supply system for cleaning substrates. The system includes a solution tank, a buffer tank, a first pump and a second pump. The solution tank contains high temperature chemical solution. The buffer tank has a tank body, a vent line and a needle valve. The tank body contains the high temperature chemical solution. An end of the vent line connects to the tank body, and the other end of the vent line connects to the solution tank. The needle valve is mounted on the vent line, wherein the needle valve is adjusted to reach a flow rate to vent gas bubbles inside of the high temperature chemical solution out of the buffer tank through the vent line. An inlet of the first pump connects to the solution tank, and an outlet of the first pump connects to the buffer tank. An inlet of the second pump connects to the buffer tank, and an outlet of the second pump connects to a cleaning chamber in which a substrate is cleaned. The present invention also provides an apparatus including the high temperature chemical solution supply system and an ultra or mega sonic device for cleaning the substrate. The present invention also provides methods for cleaning the substrates.
US11000765B2
A system and method for analyzing and improving the performance of a body motion of an animal or human subject requires instrumenting a subject with inertial sensors, monitoring a body motion of interest, converting sensor data into motion data and animation, comparing the motion data with existing data for motion related performance parameters, providing a real-time, information rich, animation and data display of the results in color coded displays; and based on the results prescribing a training regime with exercises selected from a library of standardized exercises using standardized tools and training aids.
US11000758B2
A method for providing a game includes: providing a plurality of blocks arranged on a block map with mission information to be displayed on a screen; selecting a block, among the plurality of blocks, based on a user's input and moving the selected block; determining whether matched blocks are adjacent to or exist around a mission block relating to mission information when some blocks, among the plurality of blocks match with a deletable form according to a movement of the block; deleting the matched blocks when the matched blocks are adjacent to or exist around the mission block; and processing the mission information for the mission block.
US11000754B2
A face protection accessory for work or sports protective helmets is disclosed. The accessory has a support structure having two engagement portions for its engagement to an outer surface of a helmet and a face protection structure, transparent or perforated, to allow a user wearing the helmet to see through the latter. The face protection structure is engageable to the support structure and is removable from the support structure to remove the face protection structure from the helmet or to replace the face protection structure with another different face protection structure.
US11000753B2
Provided is a personal fitness machine device using VR including: a driving unit collecting front location information of a user and front posture information of the user; a VR unit which collects rear location information, rear posture information, and distance information of the user; an exercise unit including a bottom frame, a footrest unit, a separation prevention unit, a back support frame, and a waist protector; and a control unit which controls the driving unit, the VR unit, and the exercise unit, compares the front posture information of the user and pre-stored posture information, and generates posture correction information.
US11000747B2
Basketball goals may incorporate folding rim assemblies which can be packaged and transported pre-mounted to certain backboard assemblies. Alternately, folding rim assemblies can be sold separately or packaged with a backboard for on-site mounting. Some basketball rim assembles may incorporate a break-away mechanism using a leaf spring. The leaf spring biases the rim bracket and resiliently resists downward pivotal movement of the rim bracket and rim. When the rim is rotated downward under an applied force, the leaf spring is flexed, biasing the rim to return to a static playing position when the force is removed.
US11000738B2
Multi-piece golf balls having a solid core made of a foamed composition and a cover are provided. Preferably, the core is dual-layered having has a foam inner core (center) and surrounding thermoset or thermoplastic outer core layer. Preferably, a polyurethane foam composition containing mineral filler particulate, for example, nanoclay particles, is used to form the foam center. The concentration of clay particulate is preferably in a range of 0.1 to 60% by weight. The surrounding outer core layer may be made from non-foamed or foamed compositions. For example, polybutadiene rubber or highly neutralized olefin acid copolymers may be used in the outer core layer. The core layers have different hardness gradients and specific gravity values.
US11000724B1
A weight plate securing strap having a strip with a first end and a second opposite end. A post is on the first end and a plurality of apertures are near the second opposite end, wherein, when the strap is curved so that the post on the first end is inserted into an aperture near the second opposite end, the strap forms a circular collar for a weight plate on a barbell and wherein the strip is stretchable, made of rubber, or is rubber-like. A gripping flap on the first end and on the second opposite end facilitate installation of the strap around a barbell. The nature of the rubber or rubber-like texture of the strap and its being wound and stretched around the barbell creates a high resistance to movement along the length of the barbell.
US11000717B2
A sprinkler head for a sprinkler system including a pipe section, a sealing member provided over a pipe section discharge opening, an abutment connected to the pipe section via a support element, and thermal release element disposed between the abutment and sealing member. A triggering means controls active thermal triggering of the thermal release element and includes an electrical circuit board having a controller, an electric power supply, and an electrical conduction path along the thermal release element. The electrical circuit board is in electrical contact with the sealing member and support element. The abutment and sealing member are electrically connected to the electrical conduction path. Current fed by the power supply through the support element, the abutment, the electric conduction path, and sealing member is produced by means of the controller, causes active heating and thus a triggering of the thermal release element.
US11000715B2
The various embodiments of the present invention disclose a modular portable oxygen generator including a reactor container having two vertical compartments, where one of the compartments houses a cartridge while another houses oxygen storage tank. The arrangement is provided with a mechanism to guide the oxygen generated in the cartridge after triggering to a defined outlet. The modular portable oxygen generator is light weight, easy to carry and easy to use with minimal maintenance as compared to heavy oxygen cylinders and generator.
US11000713B2
A method is for operating an electromechanical or electrohydraulic work appliance or rescue appliance that can be carried and used by an operator, having a movable tool insert, a spreading tool or a lifting tool, a housing, an electric motor, a pump or a mechanical transmission driven by the electric motor, for actuating the tool insert. The appliance has an exchangeable, rechargeable appliance electrical energy source, having a housing in or on the rescue appliance. During operation of the appliance, operating data of the appliance and/or of the energy source are acquired and transferred into a data carrier or data storage device in the electrical energy source. The electrical energy source is removed from the appliance and connected to a charging device. The operating data stored in the data carrier or storage device of the electrical energy source are read by the charging device and transferred to a network.
US11000711B2
Compositions suitable for use as cosmetic products (e.g., skin cream) are disclosed. Methods of making and using compositions suitable for use as cosmetic products are also disclosed.
US11000709B2
Method for treating hair comprising the successive application onto hair of polymeric layers which can be removed to a large extent or even totally in an easy manner upon request of the user by using a composition having a pH of at least 8.5.
US11000702B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for verifying radiation source delivery in brachytherapy by allowing for the radiation source location and dwell time to be determined via real-time measurement. In an embodiment, a radiation detector may be disposed proximate to a radiotherapy target. The radiation detector is configured to provide real-time information indicative of ionizing radiation emitted by a radiation source. A controller may perform operations including receiving, from the radiation detector, real-time information indicative of at least one of: a particle flux rate, an energy fluence, or an absorbed dose of ionizing radiation emitted from the radiation source. The operations may also include determining, based on the received information, at least one of: a location of the radiation source or a dwell time of the radiation source.
US11000695B2
Differing from conventional approaches for improving sexual dysfunction of an adult man being commonly achieved by letting the adult man administer a dosage of synthetic drug or a composition of Chinese herbal medicines, the present invention particularly discloses a method for treating male sexual dysfunction by using underpants comprising far-infrared fibers. Clinical data have proved that, after wearing this underpants for 3 months, both the men diagnosed with sexual dysfunction and the men not sure to suffer from sexual dysfunction have an apparent progress on improvements of their erectile ability, erectile quality, ejaculation control ability, and lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). Moreover, clinical data have also proved that, despite the fact that a male person wears the underpants provided by the present invention for three months, there is no adverse effect induced by the underpants for causing the physiological condition of the men be abnormal.
US11000694B2
A method for treating a subject having a diseased or atrophic state of fibrotic tissue, kidney disease and associated nerve endings, or for promoting tissue regeneration in muscle tissue is accomplished through exposing the tissue with a laser light having a wavelength of about 400 nm to about 700 nm, or more preferably having a wavelength of about 405 nm, about 532 nm, about 635 nm, or a combination thereof. Subsequent to exposure, mesenchymal stem cells can be administered to the subject. After the administration of mesenchymal stem cells, the tissue is further exposed to laser light having a wavelength of about 400 nm to about 700 nm, or a laser light having a single wavelength of about 400 nm to about 700 nm. The mesenchymal cells can be interferon gamma activated.
US11000691B2
A wearable medical monitoring (WMM) system may be worn for a long time. Some embodiments of WMM systems are wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) systems. In such systems, ECG electrodes sense an ECG signal of the patient, and store it over the long-term. The stored ECG signal can be analyzed for helping long-term heart rate monitoring of the patient. The heart rate monitoring can be assisted a) by special filtering techniques that remove short-term variations inherent in patients' short-term heart rate determinations, and b) by indication techniques that indicate when conditions hampered sensing of the ECG signal too much for a reliable heart rate determination.
US11000690B2
A leadless pacing device may include a housing having a proximal end and a distal end, and a set of one or more electrodes supported by the housing. The housing may include a first portion and a second portion, with a guide wire port extending through the second portion. A guide wire lumen may extend through the second portion of the housing and the guide wire port may be located at a proximal end of the guide wire lumen. An exposed electrode may be located on a side of the housing that is opposite a side on which the guide wire port is located. The leadless pacing device may include a fixing member on the housing and extending radially from the housing. The leadless pacing device may further include a proximal member extending proximally from a proximal end of the housing. The proximal member may be elongated.
US11000683B2
An implantable medical therapy delivery device includes a non-conductive filament extending along a length of an outer surface of an insulative body of the device, wherein the filament includes a plurality of fixation projections and is secured to the outer surface of the insulative body such that the projections protrude outward from the outer surface and are spaced apart from one another along the length of the outer surface. The filament may be wound about the length with an open pitch. In some cases, the insulative body includes an open-work member forming at least a portion of the outer surface thereof, and the filament may be interlaced with the open-work member. In these cases, the filament may be bioabsorbable, for example, to provide only acute fixation via the projections thereof, while the open-work member provides a structure for tissue ingrowth and, thus, more permanent or chronic fixation.
US11000682B2
Devices, systems, and methods for sealing medical devices, particularly during intravascular access, are disclosed herein. Some aspects relate to a hemostatic valve for sealing a wide range of medical devices, such as catheters, wires, embolectomy systems. The valve can include an elongate member having a first end, a second end, and a central lumen extending therebetween. A reinforcement structure extends along at least a portion of the elongate member and is coupled to the elongate member. A shell defining a first aperture and a second aperture may be included, which first and second apertures can be fluidly coupled by the elongate member. A tensioning mechanism is coupled to the shell and to the elongate member, the tensioning mechanism can be moveable between a first configuration wherein the tensioning mechanism is collapsed and the central lumen is sealed and a second configuration wherein the central lumen is open.
US11000677B2
A method of treating an occlusion in a body lumen of a patient is described. The method uses advancing a first end of a wire guide through the body lumen of the patient from an entry point towards a first side of an occlusion. The method also advances the first end of the wire guide through the occlusion to a second side of the occlusion. The method further advances the first end of the wire guide through a second entry point and out of the lumen. The method involves removing a portion of the first end of the wire guide extending outside the second percutaneous entry point to expose a modified terminal end of the wire guide.
US11000661B2
A nasopharyngeal airway device for receiving a nasal cannula is provided. The device has a flexible tube having first and second open ends and a flexible receptacle open at its upper end and integral with the flexible tube first open end. The flexible receptacle has a diameter greater than a diameter of the flexible tube and contains a lower end opening that communicates with the flexible tube first open end and opposed recesses arranged at an upper edge thereof and configured to receive and retain a nasal cannula. Preferably, the receptacle further includes a bottom wall containing the lower end opening and side wall containing the recesses. When the flexible tube second open end is inserted into a nasal passage of a patient, tubing of a nasal cannula is arranged in the recesses to deliver oxygen to the patient via the receptacle and the flexible tube.
US11000657B2
Embodiments are directed to an endotracheal intubation system that provides for differential ventilation of lungs and lung lobes. Certain aspects are directed to an assembled device having three lumens: (1) a tracheal lumen that provides for ventilation of the upper lobes of the lung, (2) a first lobular lumen that provides for ventilation of a first lower lobe of the lung, and (3) a second lobular lumen that provides for ventilation of a second lower lobe of the lung.
US11000656B2
The present disclosure describes a system that automatically detects patient-ventilator asynchrony and trends in patient-ventilator asynchrony. The present disclosure describes a framework that uses pressure, flow, and volume waveforms to detect patient-ventilator asynchrony and the presence of secretions in the ventilator circuit.
US11000654B2
A vibratory PEP respiratory therapy device (100) includes a valve element (11) on a rocker arm (12) that opens and closes an opening (10) during exhalation through the apparatus. An accelerometer (20) including a piezoelectric beam (22) supported at one end (23) is mounted on the outside of the housing (2) of the device to respond to vibration transmitted though the housing caused by oscillating movement of the rocker arm (12). The output of the accelerometer (20) is supplied to a circuit (28), (29) that determines when the device (100) is used and the duration and quality of use of the device.
US11000653B2
The introduction of electronics into a drug delivery device may introduce certain technical challenges, such as durability, electro-mechanical integration, and drug delivery performance. The present disclosure provides solutions for inclusion of an electronics module with an inhaler. For example, heat stakes may be used to secure a printed circuit board (PCB) to an electronics module's housing. Also for example, a slider may be used to transfer vertical movement of an inhaler's yoke to an electronics module's switch. Also for example, certain seals may be used when interfacing the electronics module to other portions of the device's housing to achieve a desired performance.
US11000642B2
An apparatus for generating dialysate for dialysis comprising a dialysate outlet and a dialysate inlet and dialysate purifying means, wherein the purifying means comprise a cryopurifier for generating pure water, wherein the inlet of the cryopurifier is connected to the dialysate outlet and the outlet of the cryopurifier is connected to the dialysate inlet; and a method for reclaiming of fresh dialysate from ultrafiltrate and wasted dialysate extracted from a dialysis patient, comprising the following steps: preparing an ice slurry from the dialysate, wherein the ice slurry contains ice crystals and a liquid containing solutes; and separating the ice crystals from the liquid containing the solutes.
US11000640B2
A system for detecting needle dislodgement includes a first sensor element, a second sensor element, and an alarm. The first sensor element attaches to an associated dialysis tubing having a needle connected at one end. The first sensor element also attaches to the associated dialysis tubing offset from the needle and a sterile field, which is an area on a leg or arm adjacent to where the needle is inserted, in a manner such that movement of the associated dialysis tubing results in movement of the first sensor element. The second sensor element secures to the arm or leg offset from the sterile field. The alarm is in communication with or includes at least one of the first sensor element and the second sensor element. The alarm generates a signal indicative of a position of the first sensor element with respect to the second sensor element.
US11000636B2
A copolymer is capable of being immobilized on a base material while maintaining a high antithrombotic property persistently without having to introduce heparin or an anticoagulant drug to the surface thereof. The copolymer includes monomer unit A, monomer unit B, and monomer unit C, wherein monomer unit C has a mole fraction of 0.5-40% with respect to the total amount of all constituent monomer units.
US11000633B2
Stents and methods for producing stents are provided. The stent includes a polymeric substrate comprised of 10-50% (w/w) of alginate and 45-85% (w/w) of gelatine and further includes a polymeric biodegradable resin for coating said polymeric substrate. The stent can also include a contrast agent. The stent can further include a crosslinking agent. The method for producing the stent includes dissolving the alginate and gelatine in water and stirring to obtain a polymeric substrate. The method also includes adding a crosslinking agent to the substrate, injecting the substrate into a mold to obtain the stent, placing the stent in a first alcohol solution, and placing the stent in a crosslinking agent solution. The method further includes placing the stent in a second alcohol solution, and a series of interchanging drying and immersing steps.
US11000626B2
Provided are injectable, hyaluronic acid-based dermal filler compositions including conjugated vitamin C derivatives. The compositions provide for extended release of active vitamin C into tissue, promoting collagenesis and other benefits to skin.
US11000622B2
An improvement to UV sterilization and disinfection devices and methods is disclosed. An apparatus for sterilization and disinfection includes: a compact, highly effective air sterilization and disinfection apparatus, which delivers clean, pure air directly into a blower/warmer device for clean and effective management of patient body temperature.
US11000603B2
The present invention relates to a multi-specific binding conjugate, a related composition and use. The binding conjugate comprises binding moieties for two or more different receptors, co-receptors, antigens or cellular markers which moieties are coupled by a nanomaterial. The multi-specific binding conjugate can be used to modulate an immune response, treat or prevent a disease or condition (e.g., a cancer, autoimmune disease, pathogen infection or inflammatory disease).
US11000599B2
A polypeptide conjugate for use in a method for binding and/or internalization of the polypeptide conjugate to a mammalian cell having a transferrin receptor (TFRC) and/or receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE). The polypeptide conjugate may be used in a method for targeting of a drug delivery system or diagnostic delivery system.
US11000595B2
The present embodiments provide methods, compounds, and compositions useful for inhibiting PCSK9 expression, which may be useful for treating, preventing, or ameliorating a disease associated with PCSK9.
US11000590B2
The present disclosure relates to a composition for transduction of a virus in a cell by using a crosslinked product of PEGylated magnetic nanoparticles and catechol grafted poly-L-lysine by application of an external magnetic field. When the composition is used, a virus may be delivered into cells more rapidly and efficiently than in intracellular uptake of a virus by CAR-mediated endocytosis.
US11000587B2
Disclosed in the present invention are a use as an immune enhancer of phytosphingosine-1-phosphate (P1P), O-cyclic P1P (cP1P), N-acetylphytosphingosine-1-phosphate (NAPS-1-P), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition or vaccine for treating dementia, comprising such substance on the basis of a neuronal cell death inhibitory effect. The substance according to the present invention exhibits an effect of enhancing Th2 immune response and inhibiting Th1 immune response and has an effect of protecting neurons as well, and thus can be useful as an immune enhancer to help the production of antibodies for the development of a dementia vaccine, as well as an agent for preventing or treating dementia.
US11000582B2
Provided herein are isolated proteins isolatable from a Klebsiella spp. Also provided are compositions that include one or more of the proteins, and methods for making and methods for using the proteins.
US11000581B2
This invention relates to the delivery of heterologous peptides or proteins such as therapeutic peptides, therapeutic proteins or antigens to mucosal sites using vesicles derived from the outer membrane of commensal bacteria, recombinant bacteria capable of producing such vesicles, and methods for the production of such vesicles. The invention further relates to an inducible expression system for use in recombinant bacteria.
US11000580B2
Embodiments of the present invention concern methods of preventing malaria in a target population of humans comprising: uniformly administering a therapeutically effective amount of a live low dose malaria vaccine to each individual within the target population on each of two or three consecutive days. The methods include using Plasmodium infected mosquitoes to inject Plasmodium into individuals through mosquito bites.
US11000562B2
The invention relates to therapeutic uses of isolated fractions of mastic gum for treating optic neuropathy. More particularly, the invention relates to methods of treating optic neuropathy conditions using compositions comprising isolated fractions of mastic gum.
US11000551B2
Red blood cell products and compositions are disclosed. The product includes a container made from PVC or a non-PVC material that is substantially free of a phthalate plasticizer but otherwise includes one or more non-phthalate plasticizers or extractable agents. The product includes a RBC concentrate which has been combined with an additive solution for storing the RBCs.
US11000550B2
This invention is directed to treatment of a subject having or suspected of having a cancer comprising administering to the subject a monoclonal antibody and NK-92 expressing Fc receptor.
US11000549B2
The presently disclosed subject matter provides for methods and compositions for treating multiple myeloma. It relates to chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) that specifically target B cell maturation antigen (BMCA), and immunoresponsive cells comprising such CARs. The presently disclosed BMCA-specific CARs have enhanced immune-activating properties, including anti-tumor activity.
US11000547B2
The present invention provides circularized RNA and methods of making and using the same.
US11000538B2
The present specification relates to a composition containing novel (20S,24R)-6-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl(1→2)-β-D-glucopyranoside-dammar-3-one-20,24-epoxy-6a,12b,25-triol, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a hydrate or a solvate thereof as an active ingredient. The composition exhibits an excellent exercise ability enhancing effect and anti-fatigue effect.
US11000537B2
The present specification relates to a composition containing novel ginsenoside, (20S,24R)-6-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl(1→2)-β-D-glucopyranoside-dammar-3-one-20,24-epoxy-6a,12b,25-triol, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a hydrate or a solvate thereof as an active ingredient. The composition exhibits excellent effects in glycemic control, lipid metabolic control, cholesterol control, anti-obesity and blood circulation improvement.
