US11042305B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system manages wear of each of a plurality of blocks in a nonvolatile memory. The memory system receives, from a host, a write request including a parameter specifying a data retention term required for first data to be written. The memory system selects, from the blocks, a first block in which a data retention term estimated from the wear of the first block is longer than or equal to the specified data retention term. The memory system writes the first data to the first block.
US11042297B2
Examples are disclosed for configuring a solid state drive (SSD) to operate in a storage mode or a memory mode. In some examples, one or more configuration commands may be received at a controller for an SSD having one or more non-volatile memory arrays. The SSD may be configured to operate in at least one of a storage mode, a memory mode or a combination of the storage mode or the memory mode based on the one or more configuration commands. Other examples are described and claimed.
US11042290B2
A method and apparatus for identifying a trajectory on a touch screen solves many limitations that the stylus and the gesture operation currently subjected to in the operation state of the touch screen. For example, due to the chaotic operation caused by the stylus and the gesture operation, it is difficult to distinguish the actual operation attributes such that the operation is too cumbersome and not straightforward, resulting in the technical problem of low user experience. The method for identifying a trajectory on a touch screen includes: detecting a touch operation instruction triggered on the touch screen (101); and then determining a type of the touch operation instruction (102); if the type of the touch operation instruction is a stylus-triggered instruction, performing a corresponding processing according to the acquired trajectory of stylus (103), and if the type of the touch operation instruction is a gesture-triggered instruction, performing a corresponding processing according to the acquired trajectory of gesture (104).
US11042282B2
An information processor includes a display device, a touch panel, a storage device, and a control device. The control device causes the display device to display a portion of a predefined image, a forward key, and a return key, upon receiving slide operation on a display portion via the touch panel, causes the display device to scroll the predefined image until a movement amount of the predefined image reaches a scroll amount and causes the storage device to store the set scroll amount as an additional scroll amount, and upon receiving touch operation performed on the forward key via the touch panel before the movement amount of the predefined image reaches the set scroll amount, adds the additional scroll amount to the set scroll amount to change the set scroll amount and causes the display device to scroll the image until the movement amount of the predefined image reaches the scroll amount having been changed.
US11042280B2
A graphical user interface (60) for a combine harvester (10) includes, in a first portion (62) of the user interface, a graphical representation (66, 70) of an amount of material passing through a threshing system (22) at multiple positions along a longitudinal direction of the combine harvester, and a graphical representation (68, 72) of an amount of material passing through a cleaning system (42) at multiple positions along the longitudinal direction of the combine harvester. The user interface further includes, in a second portion (64) of the user interface, a graphical representation (74, 78) of an amount of material passing through the threshing system (22) at a plurality of locations along a lateral axis of the combine harvester, and a graphical representation (76, 80) of an amount of material passing through the cleaning system (42) at a plurality of locations along the lateral axis of the combine harvester.
US11042276B2
At a first computing device, a target image is identified. The target image is provided in a display on the first computing device in a communication area displaying a conversation between a first user using the first computing device and a second user using a second computing device. An indication is received that the first user has initiated editing of the target image. An edit control listing editing options is provided for display in the communication area. At the first computing device, a user selection is received of a particular editing option selected from the editing options. An edited target image is created by editing the target image using an edit operation associated with the particular editing option. The edited target image is provided to the second computing device and the communication area is updated to display the edited target image.
US11042270B2
Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for facilitating the presentation of a personalized user history component in a graphical user interface (GUI), where the history component identifies primary tabs and associated sub-tabs that have been recently accessed by the user. Upon selection of one of the primary tabs, information pertaining to data records associated with the selected primary tab is presented using a link that includes identifiers of the selected primary tab and associated sub-tabs. The link may be saved or shared, enabling the primary tab and associated sub-tabs to be accessed by the user or another user.
US11042264B2
A system for presenting a skill-based game, the system includes at least one server to serve a set of matchups of participants of an event, to a plurality of presentation devices, the plurality of presentation devices displaying the set of matchups on a display; to receive over the wide area network data from the presentation devices characterizing a set of user selected winners of the matchups made by the users; update the event data pertinent to participants in the actual events; using the updated data to calculate and assign payoffs to the users based on fixed payoff odds. A related computer-implemented method provides participant matchups to an operator organizing such a skill-based game.
US11042261B2
Techniques are described for generating content to be shared between users. For example, user interfaces are described that include features and/or mode controls for generating content to be shared between users. Additionally, the described techniques include determining content shared between users (e.g., previously distributed content) based on a selection of a second user account, and generating customized content which may be specific to an event that includes the shared content.
US11042254B2
A touch display device includes a substrate. The substrate includes a display area, a non-display area, a first touch area, and a non-touch area. A first touch grid is disposed within the first touch area. A second touch grid is electrically isolated from the first touch grid and disposed within the first touch area. A first wire is disposed within the non-touch area and electrically connected to the first touch grid. A second wire is disposed within the non-touch area and electrically connected to the second touch grid. The first wire and the second wire are staggered and are electrically isolated from each other. The second wire includes at least two separate conductive units and at least one bridge wire connected to the at least two separate conductive units. An insulating layer is disposed between the first wire and the second wire.
US11042252B2
A display device includes: a display panel including a display region including a rounded corner, the display region having a plurality of pixels arranged therein, and a non-display region surrounding the display region; a plurality of touch electrodes overlapping with the display region; and a first screen electrode disposed along the rounded corner to overlap with pixels disposed adjacent to the rounded corner among the plurality of pixels, the first screen electrode being electrically connected to some of the plurality of touch electrodes. Accordingly, the touch sensitivity of the touch electrodes can be improved, and pixels arranged in a stair step shape at the round corner of the display region can be prevented or reduced from being viewed from the outside.
US11042248B2
A touch sensor is provided having a sensing area comprising at least one drive conductor and one sense conductor. The drive conductor and the sense conductor are each disposed on the substrate such that, for any two given points on the drive conductor within the sensing area, the nearest point to each on the sense conductor within the sensing area is a different distance away. Drive and sense circuitry are used to measure a touch delta resulting from a given touch on the sensor. For a given touch, the measured touch delta will vary with the location of that touch along the length of the conductors. A third conductor may be added that has the same relationship with a middle (drive or sense) conductor. Repeating use of the two or three conductor patterns can be used to cover wider areas.
US11042242B2
A touch panel device having a plurality of touch sensors for detecting a touch position includes a coordinate calculation unit that calculates a touch coordinate from an output value of at least one of the plurality of touch sensors; and a coordinate correction unit that receives a calculated touch coordinate from the coordinate calculation unit, includes a lookup table that stores a correspondence relationship between a plurality of real touch position coordinates and a plurality of calculated touch coordinates, and extracts one of the plurality of real touch position coordinates as a corrected touch coordinate that corresponds to the calculated touch coordinate.
US11042227B2
The present disclosure discloses the wireless virtual mouse. The wireless virtual mouse comprises a head-mounted device and a wireless virtual mouse body. The wireless virtual mouse body comprises a head motion detection module, an eyelid blinking detection module, a communication module, and a power supply module. The head motion detection module collects relative changes of head position through an aerial attitude sensor. A wireless transceiver of the communication module sends signals generated based upon the relative changes of the head position to a computer, and a cursor on a screen of the computer changes synchronously based upon the signals. The eyelid blinking detection module collects a movement distance and a movement duration of an eyelid through a photoelectric motion sensor, and the wireless transceiver sends change signals generated based upon the movement distance and the movement duration to the computer.
US11042226B2
Techniques that modify traditional input devices (e.g., traditional computer mouse form factor) to interact with the virtual reality (VR) devices are described. Such modification allows the VR devices the ability to track the position and orientation of the mouse in the 3 dimensional (3D) VR without requiring extensive complex hardware typically included in VR motion controllers. Specifically, the traditional mouse form factor may be merged with 3D constellation based tracking elements (e.g., LEDs) with minimal form-factor modifications. The constellation tracking elements may include a plurality of fiducial markers on the mouse that may be detected by an imaging sensor, and thus allow tracking with a single imaging sensor (e.g., either head-mounted or fixed position).
US11042224B1
Some embodiments related to an input device with a hybrid switch coupled to a depressible element. The hybrid switch can include a first and second switch with both switches configured to activate in response to a depressible element being pressed by a user. In some aspects, the hybrid switch architecture can be used to introduce an interrupt signal when the depressible element is pressed by a threshold distance (thereby generating event data) to ensure that a periodic input device report includes the event data regardless of when a periodic switch status check is performed. In further embodiments, the hybrid switch architecture can be used to calibrate the input device and set a reliable preemptive activation threshold that cause the input device to generate event data.
US11042222B1
Disclosed in some examples are display systems, methods, devices, and machine-readable mediums which provide for a gesture-based method for specifying a region of a display in which to show shared content. Also disclosed are pairing methods for associating the region of the display with a content source device, methods for sharing content within the region, and methods for providing input from the region back to the content source device.
US11042219B2
A smart wearable apparatus, smart wearable equipment, and a control method of the smart wearable equipment are provided. The smart wearable apparatus includes a rigid body, at least one hinge mechanism, a brake and a controller. The hinge mechanism is arranged on the rigid body, and the hinge mechanism includes a first pivot portion, a second pivot portion, and a pivot arranged between the first pivot portion and the second pivot portion. By means of the hinge mechanism, two portions of the rigid body, which are connected, respectively, to the first pivot portion and the second pivot portion of the hinge mechanism, can pivot relative to each other in a first direction. The brake is connected to the hinge mechanism, and the brake can receive a first control signal from the controller to stop the hinge mechanism, thereby stopping the two portions of the rigid body from relatively pivoting.
US11042213B2
Embodiments include an autonomous core perimeter, configured to save the state of a core of a multi-core processor prior to the processor package being placed into a low-power state. The autonomous core perimeter of each core is configured to save an image of a microcontroller firmware to an external store if it has not been previously saved by another core, along with the unique working state information of that core's microcontroller. Upon restore, the single microcontroller firmware image is retrieved from the external store and pushed to each core along with each core's unique working state.
US11042208B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to thermal leveling are described. Thermal leveling can be performed on a host computing system as opposed to on a memory system. Thermal leveling can include operations performed by a host to control temperature characteristics and/or power consumption of a memory system. For instance, a host computing system can control temperature characteristics of multiple memory devices that are deployed in a memory system. In an example, a set of processing resources (e.g., a thermal leveling component) can be provided on a host. The set of processing resources can receive information corresponding to thermal characteristics of a memory device coupled to the host and control a thermal setting for the memory device based on the received thermal characteristics.
US11042205B2
A personal computer system comprises a visual display, an imaging device adapted to provide eye-tracking data by imaging at least one eye of a viewer of the visual display, and identifying means for recognizing the viewer with reference to one of a plurality of predefined personal profiles. The personal computer system further comprises an eye-tracking processor for processing the eye-tracking data. According to the invention, the eye-tracking processor is selectively operable in one of a plurality of personalized active sub-modes associated with said personal profiles. The sub-modes may differ with regard to eye-tracking related or power-management related settings. Further, the identifying means may sense an identified viewer's actual viewing condition (e.g., use of viewing aids or wearing of garments), wherein the imaging device is further operable in a sub-profile mode associated with the determined actual viewing condition.
US11042203B1
A regulation circuit is provided. The regulation circuit is embedded in a front-end module, and provides a regulated voltage to a decoder based on a power supply voltage. The regulation circuit includes a first current regulating circuit connected between a power supply voltage terminal and a first connection node and configured to regulate a level of a first current, a first voltage regulating circuit connected between the first connection node and a ground node, and configured to receive the first current to regulate a level of a first voltage, a second voltage regulating circuit connected between the power supply voltage terminal and an output node, and configured to generate an output voltage based on the first voltage, and a second current regulating circuit connected between the output node and the ground node, and configured to stabilize the output voltage.
US11042198B2
A hinge module includes a base, a first shaft, a second shaft, a first bracket, a second bracket, and a linkage component. The base has a bottom plate and two guiding plates opposite to each other. The first shaft is movably and rotatably penetrates through the two guiding plates. The second shaft is movably and rotatably penetrates through the two guiding plates. The first bracket is disposed at a first end of the first shaft. The second bracket is disposed at a first end of the second shaft. The linkage component is disposed in the base and is connected to the first shaft and the second shaft. The first shaft and the second shaft linearly move along the two guiding plates through the linkage component to change a spacing distance between the first shaft and the second shaft and are configured to drive the first bracket and the second bracket to move away from each other or approach each other.
US11042193B2
A foldable mobile terminal and related products include: a flexible display screen; a housing assembly including a first housing and a second housing, the flexible display screen being provided on the first housing and the second housing; a first rotating assembly that is at least partially received in the first housing and can extend or retract with respect to the first housing in a sliding manner, the first rotating assembly being provided with a first groove; a second rotating assembly that is at least partially received in the second housing and can extend or retract with respect to the second housing in a sliding manner; and a first roller and a first spring provided between the first rotating assembly and the first housing.
US11042192B2
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, an electronic device, comprising, a housing, a flexible display slidably coupled to the housing, and at least one processor configured to control the flexible display to display an execution screen of a first application on a first region of the flexible display which is exposed to an outside based on a first mode, detect a pull-out of the flexible display from the housing, and in response to detecting the pull-out of the flexible display, control the flexible display to display the execution screen of the first application on at least a portion of the first region, and control the flexible display to display an execution screen of a second application different from the first application on at least another portion of the first region and a second region of the flexible display which is exposed to the outside by the pull-out.
US11042183B2
An electronic display where various electrical components may be removed from a housing of the display and serviced or replaced without having to demount the display. The electronic display may include an electronic image-producing assembly in electrical communication with a backplane. Various electrical components (e.g., electronic assemblies) may be removably connected to the backplane using self-guiding electrical connectors. An access opening through a wall of the housing may be provided to facilitate removal of an electrical assembly through the housing while the display remains mounted to a vertical surface.
US11042182B1
A first PHY (121) transmits and receives signals, at a physical layer, to and from a second PHY (142) in a communication device (101) through a communication cable (601). The first PHY (121) is set as a clock master to transmit, to the second PHY (142), a clock signal defining timing for transmitting and receiving signals. A device controller (151), in response to detection of a set event, completes initialization of the first PHY (121) set as the clock master after completion of initialization of the second PHY (142) set as a clock slave.
US11042168B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to providing information capture by multiple drones, which may operate in a swarm, while maintaining rights and/or value assigned to the content authored by each drone or by subsets of drones. In general, the present disclosure provides that drones participating in content acquisition may attest to their authenticity to establish trust between drones in the swarm.
US11042166B2
A flying device includes a propulsion unit, a restrictor and a releaser. The propulsion unit flies the flying device in air. The restrictor restricts the propulsion unit in an open state from rotating more than a predetermined angle during flight of the flying device, the propulsion unit in the open state being rotated from a closed state by the predetermined angle. The releaser releases a restriction by the restrictor.
US11042164B1
A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device scans through a scanning zone while emitting light pulses and receives reflected signals corresponding to the light pulses. The LIDAR device scans the emitted light pulses through the scanning zone by reflecting the light pulses from an array of oscillating mirrors. The mirrors are operated by a set of electromagnets arranged to apply torque on the mirrors, and an orientation feedback system senses the orientations of the mirrors. Driving parameters for each mirror are determined based on information from the orientation feedback system. The driving parameters can be used to drive the mirrors in phase at an operating frequency despite variations in moments of inertia and resonant frequencies among the mirrors.
US11042160B2
An autonomous driving trajectory determination device that is configured to determine an autonomous driving trajectory of a vehicle is configured to include: a standard trajectory generation unit configured to generate a standard trajectory for the autonomous driving of the vehicle; a moving object behavior detection unit configured to detect a behavior of a moving object; a deviating moving object detection unit configured to detect a deviating moving object that deviates from a standard state set in advance based on the behavior of the moving object and the map information; a number-of-deviating-moving objects calculation unit configured to calculate the number of deviating moving objects, which is the number of deviating moving objects interfering with the standard trajectory; and a trajectory determination unit configured to determine whether or not to set the standard trajectory as the autonomous driving trajectory based on the number of deviating moving objects.
US11042157B2
According to some embodiments, a system pre-processes, via a first thread, a captured image perceiving an environment surrounding the ADV obtained from an image capturing device of the ADV. The system processes, via a second thread, the pre-processed image with a corresponding depth image captured by a ranging device of the ADV using a machine learning model to detect vehicle lanes. The system post-processes, via a third thread, the detected vehicle lanes to track the vehicle lanes relative to the ADV. The system generates a trajectory based on a lane line of the tracked vehicle lanes to control the ADV autonomously according to the trajectory.
US11042156B2
A system and method for learning and executing naturalistic driving behavior that include classifying a driving maneuver as a goal-oriented action or a stimulus-driven action based on data associated with a trip of a vehicle. The system and method also include determining a cause associated with the driving maneuver classified as a stimulus-driven action and determining an attention capturing traffic related object associated with the driving maneuver. The system and method additionally include building a naturalistic driving behavior data set that includes at least one of: an annotation of the driving maneuver based on a classification of the driving maneuver, an annotation of the cause, and an annotation of the attention capturing traffic object. The system and method further include controlling the vehicle to be autonomously driven based on the naturalistic driving behavior data set.
US11042154B2
Transportation equipment includes a controller configured to perform at least steering, acceleration and deceleration to control traveling of the transportation equipment, a sight line detector for detecting a sight line of an occupant of the transportation equipment, and a display configured to display a sight line guidance pattern used to guide the sight line of the occupant. The controller causes the display to display the sight line guidance pattern while the transportation equipment is traveling, determines whether the sight line of the occupant detected by the sight line detector moves to a vicinity of a position at which the sight line guidance pattern is displayed, and continues or stops the traveling of the transportation equipment based on a result of the determination.
US11042150B2
An embodiment includes an apparatus that supports a user to make planning decisions of fuel efficiency of an aircraft versus time of arrival of the aircraft along a flight path. An embodiment of the apparatus accepts input data related to the aircraft. The input data may include (i) flight plan data that includes a flight path of the aircraft, (ii) state of the aircraft along the flight path, (iii) environmental data, and (iv) an aircraft performance model of the aircraft. The apparatus calculates aircraft performance and an objective function for a range of altitudes and speeds as a function of the input data. The apparatus causes a user interface to display aircraft performance contour boundaries and a vertical routing path that meets the objective function to provide graphical representations to support a user's planning decisions.
US11042143B2
A device for computing data models, in particular comprising the possibility to detect errors occurring during the computation, has at least two processing units, at least one of the at least two processing units being designed to compute a main data model as a function of at least one state of a system, at least one other of the at least two processing units being designed to compute, as a function of this at least one state of the system, an approximation data model associated with the main data model, the main data model comprising at least one property of the system as a first data model, the approximation data model comprising at least the same property of the system approximately as a second data model, a comparator unit being designed to compare a first result of a first computation of the main data model with a second result of a second computation of the approximation data model associated with the main data model, in order to determine information about a deviation between the first result and the second result, the comparator unit being designed to detect an error as a function of the information about the deviation if the deviation exceeds a maximum admissible deviation.
US11042139B2
A Building Management System (BMS) includes a plurality of building subsystems and communications interface. The building subsystems include device(s) for controlling aspect(s) of the building subsystem. The communications interface receives commands from a cloud-based controller and a local client device. The commands from the cloud-based controller and local client device are structured to modify setting(s) for a device of the building subsystems. A BMS controller receives, via the communications interface from the cloud-based controller, a command for modifying a setting of a device for a first building subsystem. The BMS controller identifies a local setting of the device provided by the local client device. The BMS controller identifies a priority of the command from the cloud-based controller in relation to a priority of the local setting. The BMS controller controls the device based on the respective priorities.
US11042138B2
A processor is configured to receive an electronic item comprising an object signature and corresponding to a building infrastructure item, such as space, equipment, monitoring point, etc. The processor is configured to validate the object signature, including determining, based on the object signature, a data source associated with the building infrastructure item. For each of the plurality of data objects from the data source, where each data object corresponds to a particular installation of the building infrastructure item, the processor is configured to determine a signature suffix associated with a current version and/or current configuration of the particular installation. The processor is configured to generate a validated object signature, including appending the signature suffix to the object signature. The processor is configured to identify a target computing system and transmit the validated object signature to the target computing system (e.g., in the form of a representational state transfer (REST) message.).
US11042119B2
A dielectric based metasurface hologram device includes: a substrate layer provided at a lowermost portion of the dielectric based metasurface hologram device; and a dielectric layer forming a geometric metasurface on the substrate layer. The substrate layer includes a plurality of unit cells which are continuous, and the dielectric layer includes a plurality of nano-structures which are disposed with a predetermined distance therebetween. The single nano-structure is disposed on the unit cell, and a hologram image is formed when an incident light from a light source is reflected by the nano-structure so that a phase of the light is controlled.
US11042098B2
Embodiments described herein provide a method of large area lithography. One embodiment of the method includes projecting at least one incident beam to a mask in a propagation direction of the at least one incident beam. The mask having at least one period of a dispersive element that diffracts the incident beam into order mode beams having one or more diffraction orders with a highest order N greater than 1. The one or more diffraction orders provide an intensity pattern in a medium between the mask and a substrate having a photoresist layer disposed thereon. The intensity pattern includes a plurality of intensity peaks defined by sub-periodic patterns of the at least one period. The intensity peaks write a plurality of portions in the photoresist layer such that a number of the portions in the photoresist layer corresponding to the at least one period is greater than N.
US11042088B2
The invention refers to a liquid photocurable resin composition for stereolithography, comprising (i) at least one radical polymerizable compound (A) represented by the following general formula (I): R4O—CO—NH—R2—NH—CO—O—R1—O—CO—NH—R3—NH—CO—OR4 (I), wherein R1 is a linear or branched polytetramethylene glycol residue having an average molecular weight from 200 to 3,000 g/mol; R2 is a diisocyanate compound residue; R3 is a diisocyanate compound residue being the same as or different from R2; and R4 is selected from AcrO—CH2—CH2—, (AcrO—CH2)2CH—, (AcrO—CH2)3C—CH2—, AcrO—CH2—CHCH3—, AcrO—CH2—CHC2H5— and (AcrO—CH2)2C(C2H5)CH2—, preferably from AcrO—CH2—CH2— and (AcrO—CH2)2CH—, more preferably is AcrO—CH2—CH2—; wherein Acr is CH2═C(R)—CO— and R is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; (ii) at least one radically polymerizable organic compound (B) different from compound (A); and (iii) a photosensitive radical polymerization initiator (C), wherein the content of said radical polymerizable compound (A) varies from 5% to 70% by weight based on the total amount of compounds (A) and (B). The invention further describes a corresponding stereolithographic use and method and three-dimensional articles produced therewith.
US11042080B2
A light source module includes first to third light sources respectively providing first, second and third lights, first and second wavelength conversion layers, first and second auxiliary light sources respectively providing first and second auxiliary lights, and a dichroic member. The first wavelength conversion layer is excited by the first light and the first auxiliary light from different sides to generate a first conversion light. The second wavelength conversion layer is excited by the second light and the second auxiliary light from different sides to generate a second conversion light. The dichroic member allows the first and second auxiliary lights to transmit therethrough and reflects the first and second conversion lights. The third light transmits through the dichroic member. The first and second conversion lights and the third light are different in wavelength ranges and combined to form an illumination light.
US11042077B2
A gimbal supporting frame includes a handheld ring. The handheld ring includes a supporting assembly disposed at a lower portion of the handheld ring, and a mounting member configured to mount an imaging device and provided at an upper portion of the handheld ring. The mounting member is configured to protrude upwardly relative to the handheld ring and is located at a center location of the upper portion of the handheld ring.
US11042060B2
A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a display panel; a frame positioned in a rear of the display panel and coupled to the display panel; a bottom frame coupled to a lower side of the frame; a plate positioned in a rear of the frame and hinge-coupled to the bottom frame; and a coupler positioned adjacent to an upper side of the frame and between the plate and the frame and enabling the plate to be detachable from the frame.
US11042056B2
A system, apparatus, and method include a first display device having a first set of pixels adapted to output light; a second display device having a second set of pixels adapted to output light; a first transparent plate spaced apart from each of the first display device and the second display device. The first transparent plate includes a first set of photonic crystal structures arranged in a first direction and adapted to deviate a first path of the light transmitted from the first and second set of pixels at a first angle. A second transparent plate is spaced apart from the first transparent plate and includes a second set of photonic crystal structures arranged in a second direction different from the first direction and adapted to deviate a second path of the light transmitted through the first transparent plate at a second angle to create a third path of light.
US11042045B2
Novel eyewear apparatuses including a display are disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus also includes a frame. The frame includes a side region that includes an extendable arm. The first end of the extendable arm is attached to the frame and a second end of the extendable arm is attached to the display. The side region includes a cavity, where the extendable arm is adapted to retract back. The extendable arm is further adapted to extend out of the cavity and orient the display to be visually observable by a user of the eyewear apparatus. In another embodiment, the apparatus includes a concave reflective and an image source. The image source and the concave reflective surface are oriented to enable a user of the eyewear apparatus to view at least an image from the image source as reflected by the concave reflective surface.
US11042043B1
Folding reading glasses of the type in which the temples fold around the lenses, in which the temples are supported and removably attached to the lenses while folded, providing greater integral strength to the entire assembly and resisting breakage. Several methods for attachment of the temples to the lenses are disclosed, including an interference fitting member in the temple that grasps the lens frame in the vicinity of the lens, and multiple embodiments of an interference fitting member in the temple that grasps a mating member on the outer edge of the lens frame. Combinations of these embodiments are also possible.
US11042033B2
This application discloses virtual reality (VR) glasses, and a lens barrel adjustment method and apparatus, and relates to the field of VR technologies. The VR glasses includes a glasses body and two lens barrels that are symmetrically disposed within the glasses body. Each of the two lens barrels includes a lens barrel body and a lens barrel kit. The lens barrel kit is provided with a first adjustment component. The lens barrel body is provided with a second adjustment component. The lens barrel kit and the lens barrel body are configured to perform relative movement through coordination of the first adjustment component and the second adjustment component.
US11042028B1
This invention relates to tracking of user-worn and hand-held devices with respect to each other, in circumstances where there are two or more users interacting in the same share space. It extends conventional global and body-relative approaches to “cooperatively” estimate the relative poses between all useful combinations of user-worn tracked devices such as HMDs and hand-held controllers worn (or held) by multiple users. For example, a first user's HMD estimates its absolute global pose in the coordinate frame associated with the externally-mounted devices, as well as its relative pose with respect to all other HMDs, hand-held controllers, and other user held/worn tracked devices in the environment. In this way, all HMDs (or as many as appropriate) are tracked with respect to each other, all HMDs are tracked with respect to all hand-held controllers, and all hand-held controllers are tracked with respect to all other hand-held controllers.
US11042026B2
In described examples, a transducer vibrates a lens element at a first frequency and a different second frequency. Controller circuitry selects one of a cleaning mode and a heating mode in response to an estimated temperature of the lens element. The controller circuitry activates the transducer to vibrate the lens element at the first frequency in response to the controller circuitry selecting the cleaning mode. The controller circuitry activates the transducer to vibrate the lens element at the second frequency in response to the controller circuitry selecting the heating mode.
US11042020B2
An endoscope including an elongated insertion section; a side observation window that includes a tapered part on a side circumference intersecting in a longitudinal axis direction of the insertion section, a circumferential side surface formed in a cone shape; and a cleaning nozzle that includes an opening through which liquid cleaning the circumferential side surface of the side observation window is ejected. The opening is inclined to direct an ejection direction of the liquid toward a distal end of the tapered part. A center position of the opening part of the cleaning nozzle is provided on a proximal end side with respect to a center position of the side observation window in the longitudinal axis direction.
US11042019B2
A method for imaging a sample, wherein the sample changes a polarization state of light as a function of position, wherein the method includes changing a polarization state of a purely polarized light of an incident light striking a micro-retarder array, thereby inducing a changed polarization state of the polarization state. The micro-retarder array is placed in a rear conjugate focal plane of a microscope. The method additionally includes projecting the changed polarization state of the polarization state into an object plane of the microscope containing the sample.
US11042016B2
A Multi-Z confocal microscopy system can simultaneously record from multiple Z-sections, and thus performs high speed volumetric imaging. An illumination line can be formed by under-filling the illumination beam in the aperture of the microscope objective. The illumination line extends in the Z dimension into the target sample to be imaged and an X-Y scanning mechanism can be used to scan the illumination line over the sample. The detection signal emanating from the scanned sample can be collected through the full numerical aperture of the microscope objective and directed to a detector subsystem. The detector subsystem includes an array of reflecting pinhole detectors and each reflecting pinhole detector is configured to image a volume at a different depth in the sample. This configuration enables reflecting pinhole detector array to image more than one depth volume at the same time.
US11042015B2
The invention relates to a microscope in which a layer of the sample is illuminated by a plurality of thin strips of light (11) passed through a grid (34) and the sample is viewed (5) perpendicular to the plane of the strips of light. To record the image, the object (4) is displaced through the strips of light (11). At least three different images of the objects (4) are made at different phase angles. The images can be combined to form a single combined image.
US11042014B2
The invention relates to a catadioptric medical imaging system (1), in particular a surgical microscope (2). During surgery, it may be necessary to gain more information about a surgical cavity (6), in particular the type of tissue (29) at the inside walls (4) of the surgical cavity (6). To solve this problem, the catadioptric medical imaging system (1) according to the invention comprises a camera device (8) and a convex catoptric mirror (20) adapted to be inserted into the surgical cavity (6). The catoptric mirror (20) is mounted on an arm (22) and spaced apart from the camera device (8).
US11042012B2
An optical system includes a first lens unit B1 having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit B2, and a third lens unit B3 disposed in order from an object side to an image side. The second lens unit B2 moves in focusing so that an interval between adjacent lens units among the first, second, and third lens units changes. The first lens unit B1 includes a positive lens G1p disposed closest to the object side and a negative lens G1n being a closest negative lens with respect to the object side. The optical system satisfies a predetermined condition.
US11042011B2
Zoom digital cameras comprising a Wide sub-camera and a folded fixed Tele sub-camera. The folded Tele sub-camera may be auto-focused by moving either its lens or a reflecting element inserted in an optical path between its lens and a respective image sensor. The folded Tele sub-camera is configured to have a low profile to enable its integration within a portable electronic device.
US11042004B1
Systems and methods can align of one or more optical beams with respect to one another, an optical axis, a far-field location, and/or a near-field location. An example method includes coupling, with an index-matched epoxy, a plurality of adjustable optical surfaces and an optical element. Each adjustable optical surface of the plurality of adjustable optical surfaces is associated with a respective light-emitter device of a plurality of light-emitter devices. Additionally, the method includes causing at least one light-emitter device to emit light that interacts with at least one adjustable optical surface and an optical element to provide a transmitted light beam. The method also includes receiving information about a beam profile of the transmitted light beam, comparing the beam profile to a desired beam profile, and adjusting a position of the at least one adjustable optical surface with respect to the optical element based on the comparison.
US11042003B2
A method of fixing and moisture sealing a telecommunications cable that includes a jacket defining a jacket perimeter having a generally non-circular transverse cross-section with respect to an enclosure includes placing an adapter tube over the jacket, the adapter tube defining a perimeter having a generally circular transverse cross-section and a throughhole having a generally non-circular transverse cross-section; compressing the adapter tube around the jacket with a clamp; placing a portion of the adapter tube within a gel block of the enclosure, the gel block being provided at a location different than the location of the clamp; moisture sealing the adapter tube with sealant material of the gel block; and fixing the adapter tube and the telecommunications cable with respect to the enclosure to oppose pulling forces.
US11042001B2
A slide assembly for slidably coupling a telecommunications tray to a telecommunications chassis includes a rail configured for mounting to the chassis, the rail defining a rail sliding cavity flanked by a first detent adjacent a first end and a second detent adjacent a second end of the rail, the rail further comprising first and second chassis mounting features, the first and the second chassis mounting features are oriented with respect to each other such that if two of the same rails are aligned and brought together in a juxtaposed relationship with the first and second chassis mounting features facing each other, the first and the second chassis mounting features can nest relative to each other so as to not increase the total width of the two rails. A guide configured for mounting to the telecommunications tray defines a guide sliding cavity configured to slidably receive the rail such that the rail sliding cavity and the guide sliding cavity face each other, the guide defines a pin connected thereto via a flexible cantilever arm, at least a portion of the pin extending into the rail sliding cavity when the rail and the guide are in a sliding relationship for latching by the first and second detents of the rail in providing two predetermined stop positions for the guide.
US11042000B2
An optical cable comprises a group of optical modules. Each of the optical modules comprises a strength member, a plurality of optical fibers arranged about the strength member, the plurality of optical fibers being arranged substantially on a circumference concentric with the strength member, and a retaining element arranged about the plurality of optical fibers. The strength member is covered by a coating, and the plurality of optical fibers are at least partly embedded within the coating. The optical cable comprises an outer sheath around the group of optical modules. The optical cable does not have a central strength member.
US11041992B2
A hinge between a first part and a second part of a microelectromechanical system including a first element and a second element free to move relative to each other in an out-of-plane direction is disclosed. The hinge includes a first rigid part; a second part fixed to a first face of the first part by one end and anchored to the second element by a second end, the second part deforming in bending in the out-of-plane direction; and a third part fired to a first face of the first part by a second end, and anchored to the first element by a second end, the third part deforming in bending in the out-of-plane direction. In an undeformed state, the second part and the third part each includes one face located in the same plane orthogonal to the out-of-plane direction.
US11041990B2
A structure for coupling an optical signal between an integrated circuit photonic structure and an external optical fiber is disclosed as in a method of formation. The coupling structure is sloped relative to a horizontal surface of the photonic structure such that light entering or leaving the photonic structure is substantially normal to its upper surface.
US11041989B2
The present invention therefore provides a method of splicing optical fibers. First, a first optical fiber and a second optical fiber are provided, wherein a core diameter of the first optical fiber is smaller than a core diameter of the second optical fiber. After performing a hydrogen loading treatment for the first optical fiber; a thermal expansion core (TEC) treatment is performed for the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber to match the mode-field (MF) of the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber at the fused section between the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber. The present invention further provides a spliced optical fiber, including a first optical fiber part, a second optical fiber part, and a fused section.
US11041982B2
An optical filter may include a substrate. An optical filter may include a set of optical filter layers disposed onto the substrate. The set of optical filter layers including a first subset of optical filter layers. The first subset of optical filter layers may include a silicon-germanium (SiGe) with a first refractive index. An optical filter may include a second subset of optical filter layers. The second subset of optical filter layers may include a material with a second refractive index. The second refractive index being less than the first refractive index.
US11041974B2
An x-ray imaging device for imaging a borehole environment employs a housing that encloses an x-ray generator spaced from an x-ray detector which cooperate to obtain an image of the borehole environment.
US11041973B2
Systems and methods of deploying seismic data acquisition units from a marine vessel are disclosed. The system can include a spindle coupled to a tether. A robotic arm can couple the spindle to a tether via one or more tumblers. The tether can connect to a seismic data acquisition unit via a connection block having a mechanical force device. The assembled spindle, tether and seismic data acquisition unit can be deployed from the deck via a deployment block.
US11041969B2
Disclosed herein are geologic modeling methods and systems employing function-based representations of horizons intersected by partial faults. An illustrative method embodiment includes: (a) obtaining a seismic image volume; (b) identifying a horizon within the seismic image volume, said horizon being intersected by a partial fault; (c) deriving a function-based representation of the horizon, the representation being continuous except across the partial fault; (e) constructing a watertight subsurface model using the function-based representation; (f) assigning petrophysical parameter values to compartments of the watertight subsurface model; and, optionally, (g) storing or displaying the watertight subsurface model.
US11041960B2
Improved methods and systems for position acquisition and/or monitoring are disclosed. The position acquisition and/or monitoring can be performed with improved intelligence so that data acquisition, transmission and/or processing is reduced. As a result, the position acquisition and/or monitoring is able to be performed in a power efficient manner.
US11041957B2
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving observations of a surrounding environment using a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) device in the presence of highly reflective surfaces. In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to determining that a first point cloud includes an observation of an obscuring object that is highly reflective: i) emitting a scanning light beam at a scanning intensity that is different from an initial intensity of an initial light beam used to acquire the first point cloud, and ii) dynamically controlling the LiDAR device to acquire a second point cloud that omits the obscuring object. The method includes generating a composite point cloud from the first point cloud and the second point cloud that improves an observation of the surrounding environment using the LiDAR device by mitigating interference from the obscuring object.
US11041944B2
Disclosed are techniques for improving the probability of detection and the probability of false alarm of a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) system. A receiver of the LiDAR system is configured to obtain a noise signal vector for an operation condition and determine the coefficients of a matched filter based on the noise signal vector. The matched filter is used to filter a returned signal vector corresponding to returned light detected by the receiver. The receiver detects an object in the field of view of the LiDAR system based on identifying, in the returned signal vector filtered by the matched filter, a pulse having a peak higher than a threshold value. In some embodiments, the receiver is configured to determine the threshold value based on the noise signal vector, energy of the transmitted signal, and a desired false alarm rate.
US11041936B1
An autonomously reconfigurable surface for adaptive antenna nulling includes a lattice of electrically conductive elements (which may be embodied as crossed metallic dipoles) mounted on a thin and preferably conformal surface and aperiodically loaded with reactance tuning elements and/or RF (and typically high power) sensing circuits. Additional elements mounted on this surface include analog to digital convertors (ADCs), digital to analog convertors (DACs), and microcontroller(s). The analog outputs of the DACs are networked to reactance tuning elements via, for example, a network of thin copper traces. The analog inputs of the ADCs are networked to the RF sensing circuits via a network, for example, of thin copper traces. The digital outputs of ADCs and the digital inputs of DACs are networked to microcontroller(s) via a network, for example, of thin copper traces. An embodiment of the adaptive nulling surface can be mounted over antennas and apertures as a retrofit antenna cover or as an overlay applied to existing radomes or over a new design antenna. Once exposed to a high power radio frequency radiation, this surface determines the direction of the incident high power source and adaptively adjusts the reactance of tuning elements in the surface to reconfigure the radiation pattern of the antenna which it is covering to place a null in the direction of the interference while allowing normal operation at other angles.
US11041923B2
A directly coolable multifilament conductor or a magnetic coil, having at least two electric conductors and at least one cooling tube disposed between the conductors adapted to carry a fluid coolant, wherein the cooling tube is a metal conductor having a lower conductivity than the conductors surrounding the tube.
US11041922B2
An apparatus to provide power for operating at least one gradient coil of a magnetic resonance imaging system. According to some aspects, the apparatus comprises a plurality of power terminals configured to supply different voltages of a first polarity, and a linear amplifier configured to provide at least one output to power the at least one gradient coil to produce a magnetic field in accordance with a pulse sequence, the linear amplifier configured to be powered by one or more of the plurality of power terminals, wherein the one or more of the plurality of power terminals powering the linear amplifier is selected based, at least in part, on the at least one output.
US11041920B2
A coil arrangement for a magnetic resonance tomography system is provided. The coil arrangement has at least one coil separation layer that includes a matrix that is perforated, single-piece, and planar. The matrix is compression-resistant in a vertical direction relative to a surface of the matrix, but may be adjusted to a curved surface by bending. A method for producing a coil arrangement and a magnetic resonance imaging system are also provided.
US11041919B2
A shape sensor is used to determine the shape configuration of a flexible substrate. The shape sensor includes a matrix of coils with a first subset of coils and a second subset of coils; and a controller coupled to the matrix of coils, wherein the controller is configured to generate and transmit an excitation signal to the first subset of coils and measure, on the second subset of coils, an induced signal, and wherein, the controller is configured to determine a spatial configuration of the second subset of coils relative to the first subset of coils based on the induced signal. The shape sensor may be incorporated into a flexible display system so as to determine the degree or state of flexing of the flexible display system.
US11041890B2
Systems and methods according to one or more embodiments are provided for sensing a current at an output of a switching amplifier. In one example, a system includes a first transistor switch coupled to a load configured to conduct a current in the load responsive to a first pulse width modulated control signal coupled to a gate terminal of the first transistor switch. The system further includes a second transistor switch configured to conduct the current in the load responsive to a second pulse width modulated control signal coupled to a gate terminal of the second transistor switch. A shielding switch is coupled between the load and a current sensing circuit, wherein the shielding switch is configured to provide a small signal voltage to the current sensing circuit in response to the second pulse width modulated control signal, the current sensing circuit is configured to sense the current traveling through the load responsive to the small signal voltage.
US11041889B2
Disclosed are a method for estimating a load current of a power supply, and a USB-type converter. The method includes steps described below. After an input port of a USB connection line is connected to the power supply and an output port of the USB connection line is connected to a load, the power supply supplies power to the load through the USB connection line to obtain an initial load current value; an actual voltage value of the input port is detected, when the actual voltage value of the input port is less than a preset voltage value, the initial load current value is adjusted until the actual voltage value of the input port corresponding to an adjusted load current value is not less than the preset voltage value, and the adjusted load current value is output as a load current value of the power supply.
US11041888B2
A current detection circuit, a semiconductor device and a semiconductor system which are capable of improving current detection accuracy are provided. According to one embodiment of the invention, a current detection circuit includes a resistive element to convert an input current supplied from outside into an input voltage, a constant-current source, a resistive element to convert an output current of the constant-current source into a reference voltage, and an AD converter to AD-convert the input voltage using the reference voltage.
US11041886B2
Provided is a current sensor including a first Hall element and a second Hall element. Provided is a current sensor including a first Hall element; a second Hall element; a primary conductor arranged in a manner to have a current under measurement flow therethrough and to apply magnetic fields under measurement caused by the current under measurement, with different polarities, to the first Hall element and the second Hall element; and a secondary conductor arranged in a manner to have a reference current flow therethrough and to apply reference magnetic fields caused by the reference current, with the same polarity, to the first Hall element and the second Hall element.
US11041878B2
Methods of determining movement and devices that can be configured to function as an accelerometer, a gyroscope or a magnetometer and is comprised of a sensing element suspended by acoustic waves, and a measurement system capable of determining the position, or rotation of the sensing element without introducing any residual force on the sensing element. The acoustic suspension of the sensing element provides a virtually friction, and torque free method of constraining the sensing element, but not hindering its ability to sense accelerations, rotations or magnetic fields.
US11041871B2
The present invention describes an integrated incubator and image capture module that regulates the incubator atmosphere and obtains high-resolution digital images of sample specimens. The incubator has a cabinet type enclosure that enables the provision of a controlled environment to the contents of the incubator by having at least three ports on one face of the cabinet for the passage of sample containers. Additionally, an image capture module is located immediately adjacent to the incubator. In this regard, using at least three separate access/egress points for the sample containers streamlines operation of the system and enhances preservation of the incubator environment. Furthermore, locating the image capture module directly adjacent to the incubator reduces the amount of time a sample container is exposed to the external environment, thereby reducing the extent to which samples are exposed to potential contaminants and reducing the exchange of the lab and ambient atmospheres.
US11041868B2
Provided herein are several methods for selecting agents that bind to transmembrane receptors in a conformationally-selective way. In some embodiments, the method may comprise producing: a transmembrane receptor in an active conformation; and said transmembrane receptor in an inactive conformation and using cell sorting to select, from a population of cells comprising a library of cell surface-tethered extracellular capture agents, cells that are specifically bound to either the transmembrane receptor in its active conformation or the transmembrane receptor in its inactive conformation, but not both. In other embodiments, the method may comprise: contacting a GPCR with a population of cells that comprise a library of surface-tethered extracellular proteins; labeling the cell population with a conformationally-specific binding agent, e.g., a G-protein or mimetic thereof; and using cell sorting to select from the cell population cells that bind to the agent.
US11041865B2
The present invention relates to the field of myocardial injury. More specifically, the present invention provides methods and compositions useful in the diagnosis, prognosis and/or assessment of myocardial injury. In a specific embodiment, a method comprises the steps of (a) diagnosing a subject as having myocardial injury based on the statistically significant over expression of one or more markers described herein compared to a baseline value, wherein the markers are measured in a biological sample obtained from the subject; and (b) treating the subject with one or more of an anti-thrombolysis agent, coronary bypass surgery or angioplasty.
US11041861B2
The present invention relates to a method for the diagnosis or the prognosis of metastasis in prostate cancer which comprises determining if the c-MAF gene is amplified in a primary tumor sample. Likewise, the invention also relates to a method for the diagnosis or the prognosis of metastasis in prostate cancer, as well as to a method for determining the tendency to develop bone metastasis with respect to metastasis in other organs, which, comprise determining the c-MAF expression level. Finally, the invention relates to the use of a c-MAF inhibitor as therapeutic target for treating the prostate cancer.
US11041857B2
A method for preparing an upconversion-luminescence flexible hybrid membrane for visual detection of tumor markers is provided. Metal ion doped black phosphorus quantum dots (M-BPQDs) are prepared by adopting ultrasonic and solvothermal processes; mesoporous SiO2 grows on the surfaces of the M-BPQDs and amination modification is performed; the M-BPQDs are connected with carboxylated single-stranded DNA1; receptor molecules enter pores; single-stranded DNA2 aptamers and the DNA1 are combined due to base complementation to encapsulate receptors in the pores; and an M-BPQDs probe is prepared. DNA1 terminal-SH and a composite membrane are formed by assembling polymethyl methacrylate-polyimide-gold nanoparticles in a layer-by-layer manner bound by Au—S bonds, and the membrane and the probe are connected to construct the flexible hybrid membrane. The new flexible hybrid membrane is simple and inexpensive to prepare and is highly sensitive.
US11041848B2
There is provided a method that can recover a cell having specific cell information, of cells having cell information that changes over time, from a cell group. A cell recovery method for recovering a specific cell from a cell group including a plurality of cells having cell information that changes over time includes (a) a step of detecting or measuring a desired indicator in each cell of the cell group along a time axis, and (b) a step of recovering a cell having undergone a predetermined change in the indicator, wherein the cell is recovered at a time point after elapse of a preset time since a time point of occurrence of a predetermined change in the indicator.
US11041846B2
A test element analysis system for the analytical examination of a sample is disclosed. The test element analysis system comprises: at least one evaluation device with at least one test element holder for positioning a test element containing the sample and at least one measuring device for measuring a change in a measuring zone of the test element, the change being characteristic for the analyte; at least one electrical heating element configured for electrically heating the test element; at least one electrical power supply for supplying electrical energy to the electrical heating element; at least one temperature sensor connected to the test element holder for detecting a temperature of the test element holder; at least one gap detection device configured for monitoring the electrical energy Espez supplied by the electrical power supply to the electrical heating element for reaching a predetermined target temperature measured by the temperature sensor.
US11041845B2
Provided herein are methods and compositions for detecting and/or quantitating target analytes, including nucleic acids and polypeptides, using nanopore detectable barcodes.
US11041844B2
A 3D nanopore device for characterizing biopolymer molecules includes a first selecting layer having a first axis of selection. The device also includes a second selecting layer disposed adjacent the first selecting layer and having a second axis of selection orthogonal to the first axis of selection. The device further includes an third electrode layer disposed adjacent the second selecting layer, such that the first selecting layer, the second selecting layer, and the third electrode layer form a stack of layers along a Z axis and define a plurality of nanopore pillars.
US11041829B2
A method for measuring fracture characteristics of adhesive polymeric material comprises: (i) bonding a sample to a rigid substrate; (ii) cooling the sample from a first temperature to a second temperature such that thermally-induced stresses are generated within the sample, wherein the thermally-induced stresses generate an inward-growing three-dimensional spiral crack within the sample; (iii) detecting, by three or more AE piezoelectric sensors, mechanical transient waves generated during development of the inward-growing three-dimensional spiral crack within the sample and determining the accurate 3D geometry of the spiral using source location technique; (iv) visualizing the two-dimensional spiral cracking pattern deposited on a surface of the rigid substrate and measuring the precise width of the crack; (v) determining, using the detected mechanical waves and the visualized deposited sample, AE-based fracture characteristics of the sample; and (vi) reporting the determined one or more fracture characteristics of the sample.
US11041814B1
Embodiments of systems and methods for measuring a geometric attribute of a hole structure in a semiconductor chip are disclosed. In an example, an optical spectrum signal corresponding to the hole structure in the semiconductor chip is received. The optical spectrum signal is characterized by one or more optical features. The geometric attribute of the hole structure is determined based, at least in part, on the optical features using a model. The model is trained from a plurality of training samples each including a pair of an optical spectrum signal and a labeled reference signal both corresponding to a same hole structure.
US11041808B2
Imaging systems and methods, referred to herein as surface ablation lathe tomography (SALT), may be capable of providing whole organ tomography to provide 3D imaging. The system may provide a UV source that excites a sample, and a camera may capture imaging of fluorescent emission cause by the excitation. The tissue sample may be treated or stained with an imaging agent, such as fluorescent markers with fluorescently-tagged antibodies. The sample may also be infused with and/or embedded in paraffin wax. The tissue sample embedded in paraffin may be placed on a rotating mechanism that rotates, while the UV source excites a desired region and the camera captures imaging of a thin surface layer or shell of the sample. The system may also provide an ablation mechanism, such as a microtome blade or lathe, to ablate surface of the sample during rotation to allow imaging of subsequent layers of the sample. Once the sample has been fully imaged, a 3D map of the tissue sample, which may be an entire organ, can be provided.
US11041790B2
The present disclosure provides a stress gradient loading test apparatus and a method of accurately determining loading energy, relating to the technical field of a rock mechanical test. The apparatus includes an upper pressure-bearing plate, a specimen fixing device, a stress transfer device, and a simulation specimen. A computer processes stress and strain monitoring data. The stress transfer device includes a plurality of plate-like high strength materials in combination. A simulation roadway is opened in the simulation specimen, and a strain gauge and a stress sensor are disposed on the simulation specimen. In a test using the apparatus, stress gradient loading is realized and elastic strain energy is calculated by the plate-like high strength materials with different stiffnesses of the stress transfer device, and loading energy acting on the simulation specimen is calculated in combination with energy applied by a tester.
US11041783B2
A device for inspecting tires of large dimensions, in particular for civil engineering vehicles, comprises: a rotationally driven tire support (10) designed to support a tire (20) to be inspected in position so that its axis of rotation is substantially horizontal, said support comprising means for rotating the supported tire; an ultrasound inspection device (1) provided with an inspection head (5) that is freely mounted radially and axially, a module (8) for retrieving and processing echo data retrieved during inspection phases, and a system for controlling the movement of the inspection head (5) inside the tire to be inspected, in particular along the inner wall of the crown area of said tire to be inspected.
US11041780B2
Systems and methodologies are disclosed to detect a leak in a duct system or other closed loop system. The system and methodologies use a light source to detect a leak in a duct system, e.g., the ductwork of a HVAC/R system.
US11041766B2
An assembly, for example an electrostatic chuck, is provided including a substrate, an electrostatic chuck, a heating plate, and a bond layer comprising a phosphorescent material. In one form, an optical sensor is disposed proximate the bond layer to detect a temperature of the bond layer in the field of view of the optical sensor. The phosphorescent material is illuminated and the subsequent decay is observed by the optical sensor. From this information, the temperature of the electrostatic chuck and substrate is determined and heating elements may be adjusted by a controller.
US11041764B2
A sensor system for detecting events is provided. The sensor system includes a sensor and a read-out interface. The sensor includes a transducer and a memory device. The transducer detects an event and generates a sensor signal in response to the event. The memory device includes a floating-gate with a sensing interface coupled to the transducer. The sensing interface has an energy barrier that leaks electrons at a predetermined electron leakage rate through Fowler-Nordheim (F-N) tunneling. The sensor signal alters a geometry of the energy barrier to change the electron leakage rate. The read-out interface is communicatively coupled to the memory device and retrieves data stored on the memory device for analysis. The event and a timestamp of the event are identifiable from the stored data.
US11041763B2
An apparatus can include a first adaptive filter, a second adaptive filter, a filter, and a third adaptive filter. The first adaptive filter can be configured to determine an estimated magnitude of a control signal associated with a control measure based on a magnitude of a signal from a sensor, wherein the signal is indicative of operating temperature of a memory system. The second adaptive filter can be configured to determine an estimated operating temperature based on a magnitude of the control signal. The filter can be configured to determine a change magnitude of the control signal based on a difference between the magnitude of the signal from the sensor and a threshold operating temperature. The third adaptive filter can be configured to determine a throttle rate at which to apply the control signal based on a change magnitude of the control signal.
US11041758B2
Methods and systems for measuring one or more properties of a sample are disclosed. The methods and systems can include multiplexing measurements of signals associated with a plurality of wavelengths without adding any signal independent noise and without increasing the total measurement time. One or more levels of encoding, where, in some examples, a level of encoding can be nested within one or more other levels of encoding. Multiplexing can include wavelength, position, and detector state multiplexing. In some examples, SNR can be enhanced by grouping together one or more signals based on one or more properties including, but not limited to, signal intensity, drift properties, optical power detected, wavelength, location within one or more components, material properties of the light sources, and electrical power. In some examples, the system can be configured for optimizing the conditions of each group individually based on the properties of a given group.
US11041756B2
A system for filtering light using a spectrometer enhanced with spectral filters using an array of independent photodetectors to measure the fluorescent or scattered light signal. A system comprising a light source, an illuminated sample, a light spectrum device, a collimator lens, a plurality of spectral filters each having a varying and selected light transmission spectrum and a plurality of photodetectors wherein each photodetector is oriented to a spectral filter. A scanning cytometer for measuring fluorescence and light scattering from an illuminated portion of the sample comprising a first light source, a scanner scanning in two axes, a fluorescence detector, an objective lens, an optically translucent medium through which a sample may be illuminated and a confocal apparatus positioned distally from the light source and sample and through which light signals from the sample are transmitted to a fluorescence detector.
US11041754B2
A system and process scans a target area at a distance of 3-30 m for one or more materials. Scanning is performed by a coherent transmit beam aimed with the help of a thermal camera. The active source of the beam is a supercontinuum (SC) laser. The transmitted source beam is modulated by a high-speed Fourier-transform spectrometer prior to interaction with the target. Target reflected source beam is detected by an infrared detector, along with a reference portion of the transmitted source beam, as a series of interferograms; passed through a digitizer for digitizing the interferograms; and processed to producing spectrograms, wherein the spectrograms are indicative of one or more materials on the target.
US11041749B1
Mass flow controllers and methods for controlling mass flow controllers are disclosed. One method includes providing a process gas through a flow sensor of the mass flow controller, obtaining a gas-adjusted sensitivity coefficient for the flow sensor, and obtaining gas-adjusted nonlinearity data for the flow sensor. The method also includes producing gas-adjusted characterization data for the flow sensor using the gas-adjusted sensitivity coefficient and the gas-adjusted nonlinearity data. A flow value from the gas-adjusted characterization data is obtained using a flow sensor signal from the flow sensor, and the flow value is used along with a setpoint signal to control a valve of the mass flow controller.
US11041747B2
A sensor unit includes a first component including an airflow sensor; a second component; and a third component. The first component includes a lower end portion that is selectively connectable to the second component or the third component, and an upper end portion that is selectively connectable to the third component or the second component.
US11041744B2
A composite sensor package includes: a substrate; a first sensor and a second sensor, which are arranged on the substrate with a predetermined gap therebetween; a signal processing device disposed on the substrate and processing a signal transmitted through the first and second sensors; and a cover disposed on the substrate, and including a package accommodation space enclosing the first sensor, the second sensor and the signal processing device, wherein the first sensor senses a state of air introduced from an outside and transmits the introduced air to the package accommodation space, and the second sensor senses the state of the air, which passes through the first sensor so as to flow into the package accommodation space.
US11041737B2
A method, a device and a system for processing a flight task are provided. The method comprises receiving a loading request for flight data, searching for corresponding flight data according to the loading request, processing located flight data in response to the loading request, and loading the located flight data to control a corresponding aerial vehicle to perform a corresponding flight task.
US11041735B2
A vehicle communication system facilitates hands-free interaction with a mobile device in a vehicle or elsewhere. Users interact with the system by speaking to it. The system processes text and processes commands. The system supports Bluetooth wireless technology for hands-free use. The system handles telephone calls, email, and SMS text messages. The user can customize the device via a user profile stored on an Internet web server.
US11041733B2
A computer-implemented method includes capturing an original image. In the original image, a plurality of potential pickup locations are identified. Each potential pickup location of the plurality of potential pickup locations is associated with a respective metadata set of a plurality of metadata sets. An annotated image is generated based on the original image, where the annotated image indicates the plurality of potential pickup locations and the respective metadata set associated with each potential pickup location. A selection of a pickup location, from among the plurality of potential pickup locations, is received. The pickup location is transmitted to a remote server to facilitate a ride beginning at the pickup location.
US11041726B2
The present invention relates to an inertial measurement apparatus and a mechanical device. The inertial measurement apparatus includes a PCB board and an inertial measurement unit (IMU). The PCB board includes a PCB body portion and an isolation portion that is formed by slotting a side of the PCB board and fixedly connected to the PCB body portion. The IMU is disposed on the isolation portion.
US11041725B2
A method for estimating the motion, orientation, position, and trajectory of an object, comprising acquiring sensor data, estimating an attitude of the object, estimating an altitude of the object, extracting a feature, classifying a motion, selecting a motion model, and estimating a motion parameter. Systems for executing the method are also disclosed.
US11041724B2
A navigation system comprising: an inertial navigation system arranged to output a first position estimate; a terrain based navigation unit arranged to output a second position estimate; a gravity based navigation unit arranged to output a third position estimate; a stored gravity map arranged to receive a position and to output gravity information for that position; and an iterative algorithm unit arranged to determine an INS error state in each iteration; wherein in each iteration the iterative algorithm unit is arranged to: receive the first position estimate, the second position estimate, and the third position estimate; determine a gravity corrected position estimate based on the first position estimate, the INS error state and the gravity information; and update the INS error state for the next iteration based on the INS error state, the gravity corrected position estimate, the second position estimate and the third position estimate.
US11041722B2
Systems and methods for sensing angular motion using a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) gyroscope are described. These systems and methods may be useful for sensing angular motion in the presence of low-frequency noise, which may be noise below 1 KHz. In a system for sensing angular motion, low-frequency noise may give rise to duty cycle jitter, which may affect the demodulation of the sense signal and cause errors in angular motion estimates. The systems and methods described herein address this problem by relying on double-edge phase detection technique that involves sensing when the rising and falling edges of the resonator signal deviate from their expected values in the idealized 50% duty cycle scenario. To prevent the formation of ripples in the double-edge phase detection that may otherwise affect the demodulation of the sense signal, a switch may be used. The switch may be maintained in a non-conductive state when a ripple is received.
US11041721B2
A compass device includes a base seat, a vial unit received in an accommodation hole of the base seat, an azimuth unit rotatably sleeved around the vial unit, a first spring wire disposed to resiliently retain the vial unit to the azimuth unit for magnetic declination adjustment, and a second spring wire disposed to resiliently retain the azimuth unit to the base seat for bearing angle measurement.
US11041720B2
Roll data can be acquired from a magnetometer and an accelerometer of a towed object telemetry unit coupled to a towed object during rolls of the towed object in two or more different headings. The magnetometer can be calibrated based on the roll data. Turn data can be acquired from the magnetometer and the accelerometer during a turn of the towed object from a first heading to a second heading. The magnetometer can be further calibrated based on the turn data.
US11041717B2
An analytical method of determining the solution of an object with a plurality of planar surfaces under applied load includes the steps of assigning the load applied on each of the plurality of planar surfaces in the three dimensional directions respectively, determining the equivalent load applied on each of the plurality of planar surfaces in the three dimensional directions from the applied loads with the stress boundary conditions, and determining the stress and strain fields from the equivalent load applied on each of the plurality of planar surfaces.
US11041714B2
A high throughput and high resolution method for characterizing objects is based on scanning their surfaces with a fast spinning probing beam of electromagnetic radiation concurrently with relatively slow object motion. A characterization apparatus comprises a guiding system that directs a primary beam of electromagnetic radiation onto the surface of a characterized object. An actuator repositions the object. An analytical system measures characteristic parameters of secondary electromagnetic radiation instigated by the primary beam of electromagnetic radiation from the object. A register system records the measured characteristic parameters synchronously with instantaneous coordinates of beam spots at which the secondary electromagnetic radiation is instigated. A compact system of probing beam spinning enables fabrication of inexpensive characterization tools with small dimensions. The tools may be conveniently integrated into production or processing equipment to provide an in-situ or in-process characterization.
US11041704B1
A method for preparing a composite projectile body with preformed fragments precisely embedded within the walls of the projectile body. The process utilizes a combination of additive manufacturing and advanced powder metallurgy fabrication techniques. Specifically a skeletal structure or prefabricated cage body is filled with preformed fragments. The cage structure may be situated on a mandrel or tool inside a container. The container is filled with metal powder, degassed under vacuum, and sealed. The canister is then subjected to heat and pressure to consolidate the powder to full density. The canister is then removed and the compacted billet product is further machined to obtain a desired projectile body.
US11041702B1
Methods involve using a guided munition (e.g., a mortar round or a grenade) that utilizes deployable flow effectors, activatable flow effectors and/or active flow control devices to extend the range and enhance the precision of traditional unguided munitions without increasing the charge needed for launch. Sensors such as accelerometers, magnetometers, IR sensors, rate gyros, and motor controller sensors feed signals into a controller which then actuates or deploys the flow effectors/flow control devices to achieve the enhanced characteristics.
US11041695B2
The present invention relates to a firearm aiming system comprising: an inclinometer measuring at least the angle of elevation of the weapon; a computer comprising a memory of an initial angle of elevation; a ballistics chart included in the computer, which matches a shooting distance with an angle of elevation (a) relative to the initial angle of elevation; a first display device which, when in use, displays for the user the shooting distance as a function of the initial angle of elevation and the instantaneous angle of elevation.
US11041693B2
A target marking system includes a light source configured to emit a beam of thermal radiation and to impinge the beam onto a target. The system also includes a detector configured to collect radiation passing from the target to the detector along a path. The radiation passing from the target in response to impingement of the beam onto the target. The system further includes an optics assembly disposed optically upstream of the detector along the path. The optics assembly includes at least one of an afocal power changer, a camera objective, a catadioptric lens, and a zoom system configured to condition the radiation passing from the target to the detector.
US11041691B2
Sling sliders have a body defining an elongated sling strap passage configured to receive an elongated sling strap, the elongated sling strap passage defined at least in part by an elongated bar having opposed ends, the elongated bar defining an elongated cord passage extending between the opposed ends of the elongated bar, a cord received in the elongated cord passage, and the cord having a received portion within the elongated cord passage and a handle portion extending outside the elongated cord passage such that the handle portion operates to exert a motive force on the body. The sling slider may be a triglide. The body may have three parallel bars, and the elongated bar defining the elongated cord passage may be positioned between a second bar and a third bar. The body may define a pair of elongated sling strap passages on opposite sides of the elongated bar.
US11041690B1
A toy gun capable of piercing two air bottles. The toy gun comprises a gun body, a first piercing member, a screw base, and a moveable rod assembly. The gun body has an air cylinder receiving two air bottles. A connecting tube and a screwed tube are at both ends of the air cylinder. The first piercing member is in the connecting tube. The screw base is screwed to a screwed tube and has a throughhole. The moveable rod assembly has a push rod moveable to penetrate through the throughhole and a return spring flexibly held between the screw base and the push rod having a second piercing member. When pressed, the push rod drives the second piercing member to pierce one of two air bottles and then moves the other towards the first piercing member to be pierced.
US11041684B1
A cartridge loader receives a magazine. The loader directs a cartridge into the top of the magazine. A lever in the loader is pivoted to insert the cartridge while the lever simultaneously downwardly depresses existing cartridges in the magazine to make space for the cartridge being inserted in the top of the magazine.
US11041680B2
Latent heat storage devices are disclosed, such as latent heat storage devices comprising a phase change material encapsulated in sufficiently conductive tubes, wherein the tubes are arrayed in a hexagonal-packed pattern. The devices herein can be used, for example, in residential and/or commercial HVAC systems.
US11041671B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a refrigerator including a cabinet in which a storage compartment is formed; a refrigerator door for opening and closing the storage compartment; a door opening device having a push rod which may move from an initial position to a door opening position for opening the refrigerator door and a motor for providing power to the push rod; and a controller controlling the motor, wherein the controller controls the push rod to move to the door opening position while in close contact with the cabinet or the refrigerator door in order to open the refrigerator door, and controls voltage supply to the motor so that a time period when the push rod is moved to the door opening position is maintained for a certain time.
US11041661B2
The present invention is generally directed to a system for providing heating, cooling, and domestic hot water (DHW) using a water source heat pump, the system including: a compressor; a source heat exchanger; a load heat exchanger; a DHW heat exchanger; and a DHW storage tank. In some embodiments, the system may be concealable, and mounted between two wall studs. In some embodiments, a water-to-water water source heat pump and DHW storage tank may be mounted between the same wall studs, the system having a width of no more than 14.5″ and a depth of no more than 7″. In some embodiments, in a heating cycle high-temperature high-pressure refrigerant in a gaseous phase is provided to both a brazed plate DHW heat exchanger and a brazed plate load heat exchanger in a parallel manner so one of the heat exchangers receives the refrigerant at a time.
US11041659B2
A profile of piping, particularly for making a heat exchanger for a condensation boiler. The cross-section of the profile has a trapezoidal portion with two bases and two sides, and a triangular portion with a base and two sides. A first side of the trapezoidal portion coincides with the base of the triangular portion. The second side and the bases of the trapezoidal portion and the sides of the triangular portion form the inner walls of the profile. A first angle between the first base of the trapezoidal portion and the first side of the triangular portion adjacent thereto is 45°-135°, preferably 90°. A second angle between the second base of the trapezoidal portion and the second side of the triangular portion adjacent thereto is 180°-270°, preferably 225°. A coiled heat exchanger for condensation boilers providing said profile and a condensation boiler providing said heat exchanger are provided.
US11041656B2
An opening and closing device includes a casing that defines an air passage, a slide door that includes a door main body slidable to open or close the air passage, and a sliding gear that is disposed on one side of the door main body in its width direction and includes first teeth in a sliding direction, and a drive gear that is rotatable around its axis line extending in the width direction and that includes second teeth in a circumferential direction around the axis line such that the first teeth and the second teeth are arranged in engagement with each other. When the drive gear rotates, a driving force is transmitted from the drive gear to the slide door through the sliding gear to slide the slide door. The door main body is restricted from shifting in the width direction due to the rotation of the drive gear.
US11041651B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to an energy recovery system for a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system. The energy recovery system includes a nozzle having a flow passage with an inlet passage and an outlet passage that is narrowed relative to the inlet passage, in which the nozzle is configured to couple to a condenser and receive an air flow into the flow passage from a condenser fan. The energy recovery system further includes a wind turbine disposed within the outlet passage of the flow passage and having a first axis of rotation, and a generator that is external to the nozzle and that includes a shaft with a second axis of rotation. The generator is coupled to the wind turbine, such that the first axis of rotation is aligned with the second axis of rotation.
US11041650B2
An integrated energy optimizer having an edge side and a cloud side. The edge side may incorporate an energy optimizer, a building management system connected to the energy optimizer, a controller connected to the building management system, and equipment connected to the controller. The cloud side may have a cloud connected to the energy optimizer and to the building management system, and a user interface connected to the cloud. Data from the field sensor may go to the optimizer and the building management system. The data may be processed at the optimizer and the building management system for proper settings at the building management system.
US11041644B2
Method and environment controller using a neural network for bypassing a legacy environment control software module. The environment controller receives at least one environmental characteristic value and determines a plurality of input variables. At least one of the plurality of input variables is based on one among the at least one environmental characteristic value. The environment controller transmits the plurality of input variables to an inference server executing a neural network inference engine. The environment controller receives at least one inferred output variable from the inference server. The environment controller uses the at least one inferred output variable received from the inference server in place of at least one output variable calculated by the legacy environment control software module based on the plurality of input variables. The environment controller may prevent the execution of the legacy software module or overwrite the output variable(s) calculated by the legacy software module.
US11041630B2
A cooking device includes a frame to form a cooking chamber; a burner disposed in the cooking chamber and to generate a flame for supplying heat to the cooking chamber; a burner cover in which the burner is installed and having a plate with an outlet opening through which an air passes; a fan to flow an air of the cooking chamber; and a stabilizer to reduce an influence of the air on a flame of the burner when the air of the cooking chamber passes through the outlet opening of the burner cover by the fan. The stabilizer includes: a body having an opening for air passage; a barrier extended from the body; and a fastening unit for fastening the body to the burner cover, and while the fastening unit is fastened to the burner cover, the body is spaced apart from the plate of the burner cover.
US11041613B1
A ceiling lamp, including: a lamp body, a mounting plate, a lighting module and a driving power supply electrically connected with the lighting module, the lighting module and the driving power supply are both disposed in the lamp body, the lamp body is detachably fixed to the mounting plate in a screwing manner; the ceiling lamp further includes a screwing assembly configured to detachably fix the lamp body to the mounting plate in a screwing manner, the screwing assembly includes a engagement module disposed on the mounting plate and configured to be electrically connected with the mains electricity, and a snap-fit module disposed at the lamp body and configured to be electrically connected with the driving power supply, the snap-fit module is connected with the engagement module in a screwing manner to form an electrical connection.
US11041612B1
An exemplary lantern comprising a breakaway handle mechanism that allows the handle of the lantern to break away from the body of the lantern. An exemplary lantern may comprise a ratcheting mechanism that allows the handle to rotate relative to the body of the lantern, thereby allowing the lantern to be arranged on the ground in a variety of different positions. An exemplary lantern may comprise a reflector that is specifically designed to increase the far beam throw of light relative to conventionally known lanterns.
US11041610B1
Method and apparatus for a laterally extendable backup light system for placement on the trailer of the 18-wheeler tractor trailer truck device. The light is mounted underneath an outer edge of the trailer of the tractor-trailer so that they would be extendable laterally away from the edge of the trailer so that the light portion of the present invention would extend far enough outwardly to travel beyond the outer edge of the trailer so that the beam of light emanating therefrom would illuminate the area behind the rear of the trailer. An air cylinder operated by an electrical actuator controlled by the driver and/or the transmission of the truck would actuate the light portion so that the light portion would extends from an enclosure and beyond the edge of the trailer of the truck-trailer when the transmission is placed in reverse and then the light portion would be retracted back into the enclosure by an electrical actuator when the transmission is taken out of reverse.
US11041597B2
The present invention provides an LED module that can prevent breakage of an LED chip due to pulse lighting for a flash when the LED module is used in a flashing lamp. An LED module (10) for flashing lamp includes: an LED substrate (13); plural LEDs (12); and plural resin layers (11). In the LED module (10), the LEDs (12) are mounted on a mounting surface of the LED substrate (13). Each resin layer (11) is stacked on a surface of each LED (12) opposite to the LED substrate (13). Adjacent resin layers (11) stacked on the LEDs (12) are separated from each other.
US11041593B2
An embodiment provides a lighting device comprising: a conversion unit including an optical layer having a plurality of optical patterns; a light emitting element for emitting light toward the optical patterns; and a circuit board on which the light emitting element is disposed, wherein the plurality of optical patterns are spaced apart from each other in a first direction and extend in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and the optical layer has a curvature in the first direction.
US11041592B2
Purpose of the present invention is to provide a basic structure for a LED lamp, that is comprised of an aluminum core circuit board, and a base combination of violet-blue LEDs emitting visible electromagnetic radiation which wavelength has a peak that is comprised in given intervals, and that, because of the technical and constructive characteristics of the device, will allow it to break down the microbial load present in any environment, without creating any adverse or dangerous effects for human beings or animals that live there.
US11041584B2
A multi-coupling system includes a first multi-coupling component including a plurality of individual first fluid couplers, and a second multi-coupling component including a plurality of individual second fluid couplers. The second multi-coupling component includes a locking pin assembly that is attached to a handle assembly, the locking pin assembly including a locking pin that is moveable in an axial direction between an extended position and a retracted position; a housing that houses the plurality of individual second fluid couplers, the housing further including a locking pin hole; and an operating lever configured to manipulate the locking pin assembly. In a connected and locked state, the locking pin is in the extended position in which a shaft end of the locking pin is located in the locking pin hole, thereby preventing rotation of the handle assembly. The locking pin assembly is manipulated by a user operation of the operating lever to move the locking pin from the extended position to the retracted position out from the locking pin hole to configure the multi-coupling system in a connected and unlocked state in which the handle assembly is rotatable to reconfigure the multi-coupling system to the disconnected state.
US11041579B2
Systems and method for controlling wellsite equipment, including pumps and a manifold having a low-pressure (LP) manifold, having LP ports with LP valves, and a high-pressure (HP) manifold, having HP ports with HP valves and bleed ports with bleed valves. The pumps are fluidly coupled with the LP manifold via LP conduits and with the HP manifold via HP conduits. Communication is established between a controller and the LP valves, the HP valves, the bleed valves, the pumps, and sensors for monitoring pressure within the HP conduits. The controller is operable to, with respect to each pump, cause the LP valve to transition to a closed position, cause the HP and/or bleed valve to transition to an open position, and determine that the HP conduit is not pressurized based on the information generated by the sensors.
US11041575B2
A valve device that can be activated by pilot air of comparatively low pressure though the size of such valve device is small and provides a valve device that is excellent in durability. The valve device comprises a pilot port which pilot air is supplied to activate a piston part, and a biasing means to press the piston part in the opposite direction to supply and discharge the pilot air, thus controlling the opening and closing of the valve. A first magnetic member is provided on a valve rod; a second magnetic member is provided on a housing. Magnetic attraction is generated between both magnetic members to activate the piston part in the first direction, thus increasing such magnetic attraction by the approach of both magnetic members. An arrangement-relation facing each magnetic member through an air gap is set even when making its closest approach.
US11041571B2
A fluid flow control device includes a valve body defining an inlet, an outlet, and a fluid flow path extending therebetween, a rotatable valve member at least partially disposed in the valve body, an attenuator operably coupled to the valve body, and a retention member disposed within the valve body. The rotatable valve member is rotatable within the fluid flow path from a shut-off position to an open position for controlling the flow of fluid through the fluid flow path. The attenuator defines an attenuator body that includes a plurality of noise-reducing apertures. The retention member is positioned against a portion of the attenuator body to retain the attenuator within the valve body.
US11041563B2
The present invention provides a transmission control device for a vehicle capable of changing a threshold of a shift map for determining shift-up, thereby preventing occurrence of the shift-up during depression of an accelerator and preventing occurrence of a torque interruption. In a transmission control device for a vehicle 1 including a T/M-ECU 50 which automatically performs shift control for switching a plurality of shift gears of a transmission 20 for shift-up or shift-down, the T/M-ECU 50 has a shift threshold setting unit 54 which sets a shift threshold to be used for the shift control, on the basis of an operation plan or a surrounding state of the vehicle 1, and the shift threshold setting unit 54 sets the shift threshold to perform the shift control on the transmission 20 so as not to perform the shift-up of the transmission 20 during acceleration of the vehicle 1.
US11041554B2
A feed mechanism, which is capable of suppressing feed irregularity caused by the inclination of a nut of a feed screw, is obtained. A feed mechanism (sub-scanning mechanism) includes a feed screw that includes a screw shaft and a nut and a moving body, and the nut is moved on the screw shaft by a rotation of the screw shaft, so that the moving body is moved in the direction of the screw shaft. The inclination of the moving body with respect to the nut is allowed in a case in which the moving body is moved by a movement of the nut.
US11041548B2
A belt tensioning system includes a stretch belt rotationally connected to a crankshaft pulley and an accessory pulley, and a tensioning device including a pivoting arm having a tensioning pulley coupled thereto and an arm stop positioned in a path of the pivoting arm to limit the rotation of the pivoting arm. Additionally, the tensioning device does not include a spring tensioner and is configurable in a tensioned configuration and an un-tensioned configuration.
US11041547B2
A shifting manipulation-assisting device and a hub-embedded transmission, wherein in controlling pawls that restrain rotation of sun gears to perform shifting in a planetary gear set, shifting control is properly performed even with a small manipulation force. The shifting manipulation-assisting device includes a pawl control ring having an inner peripheral surface to control laying-down of control pawls, and an outer peripheral surface formed with rotation restricting protrusions; an angle control member positioned on an inner periphery side of a driver; pressing members supported on the angle control member, and positioned between the unidirectionally inclined recesses and an inner peripheral surface of the driver; an elastic connecting body connected to resiliently support the pawl control ring; a fixed support member non-rotatably fixed to the shaft and rotatably supporting the driver; and a return spring connected to reversely rotate and accordingly return the angle control member.
US11041538B2
In a vibration propagation suppressing apparatus, each of fluid machine elements includes: a first volume chamber; a second volume chamber coupled to the first volume chamber through an orifice; an intermediate forming the orifice; and a coupling rod. A first end portion of a first volume chamber is connected to an intermediate adjacent thereto, an intermediate of the first volume chamber is connected to the intermediate of the adjacent fluid machine element through intermediation of an elastic body, and the first volume chamber and the second volume chamber are connected to each other so as to be alternately arranged in a vibration propagation direction. A fluid machine element on a first stage has an intermediate connected to the base surface, and each of the plurality of fluid machine elements has dispersion relationships matching with each other, and has a band gap on the dispersion relationships.
US11041529B2
A support of a bearing pad of a sliding bearing is provided. A bearing pad support connection is disclosed, including a bearing pad and a bearing pad support structure whereby the bearing pad is connected to a support structure by a ball joint. The bearing pad includes a ball head, and the support structure includes a ball socket. The bearing pad and the support structure are connected via a spring connection apply a force between the bearing pad and the support structure to force the ball head to rest movable in the ball socket.
US11041527B2
A radial magnetic bearing includes an axis, a stator and a rotor. The stator includes at least two stator assemblies axially spaced from one another. Each stator assembly includes a magnetically soft core. At least one of the stator assemblies includes one said magnetically soft core with several radially projecting teeth arranged distributed in the circumferential direction, and several coils likewise arranged distributed in the circumferential direction. Two respective teeth of the magnetically soft core that are successive in the circumferential direction are connected to each other by a connecting section of the core. The magnetic bearing includes a permanent magnet assembly disposed axially between the two magnetically soft cores. At least one said stator assembly is embodied such that one of the respective connecting sections is wound with one of the respective coils.
US11041525B1
A system for securing a bearing to a shaft includes a shaft having a raised portion extending radially outward from the shaft. The raised portion includes a first angled face on a first side of the raised portion and a second angled face on a second side of the raised portion. The bearing includes an outer race comprising a bearing surface on an inner face of the outer race, an inner race comprising a bearing surface on an outer face of the inner race and a third angled face on an inner face of the inner race that is configured to mate with the first angled face, and a plurality of rollers disposed between the inner and outer races.
US11041524B2
A ball joint has a ball stud, a housing and a ball seat. The seat is an elastic body in a tubular shape with the top and the bottom being open, and has a spherical space to accommodate a ball portion. The housing has a spherical inner face that is close to an outer periphery of the ball portion, to accommodate the ball portion in the inner face via the seat so as to support the ball stud. A clamped portion arranged at a peripheral end of the housing is clamped to press the seat so that the ball stud can be swung and rotated.
US11041517B2
A net assembly comprising a) a first elongated member, b) a second elongated flexible member, c) a third elongated flexible member, d) a first connector, and e) a second connector, f) said first connector connecting the first elongated member and second elongated flexible member, g) said second connector connecting the second and third elongated flexible members, h) said first connector having a first end and a second end, said first end being connected to the first elongated member and said second end being connected to the second elongated flexible member, i) said second connector having a first end and a second end, said first end being connected to the second elongated flexible member and the second end being connected to the third elongated flexible member, and j) said first and/or said second end of said first and second connectors comprising a longitudinal displacement preventing element.
US11041513B1
A hydraulic cylinder assembly having a free-floating motor and pump, comprising a motor, and a hydraulic fluid reservoir coupled to the motor. There is a reservoir base plate having a pair of fluid path holes therein which run there through. The base plate has a mounting stud. There is a meshed gear fluid pump having a pair of downwardly directed inflow/outflow holes. The single mounting tab allows the easy placement or removal of the assembly into an operating location.
US11041509B2
A height-adjustable fan fixing structure and a height adjustment method are provided. The height-adjustable fan fixing structure includes a fan box rear cover and a fan box front cover, the fan box rear cover and the fan box front cover cooperating to fix a fan; and further includes a height adjustment block, the height adjustment block being adjustably mounted on a whole piece formed by connection of the fan box rear cover and the fan box front cover, the lower end of the two side surfaces of the height adjustment block being provided with trunkings, each of the trunkings being provided with a rotatable wire screw, positions, corresponding to the two ends of each wire screw, on the fan box rear cover and the fan box front cover being provided with clamping holes, the two ends of the wire screw being inserted into the clamping holes.
US11041500B2
A system for cooling a heat generating enclosure includes a first array of one or more fans of a first size and a second array of one or more fans of a second size, where the second array is in series to the first array. The system also includes a measuring unit configured to measure at least one process variable. The system also includes a control unit configured to control at least one of the fans in the first array or at least one of the fans in the second array based on the process variable, wherein the fans are controlled to achieve an optimization criterion.
US11041496B2
A mixed-flow impeller for an electric submersible pump can include a lower end and an upper end; a hub that includes a through bore that defines an axis; blades that extend at least in part radially outward from the hub where each of the blades includes a leading edge and a trailing edge; an upper balance ring that includes a radially inward facing balance chamber surface and a radially outward facing diffuser clearance surface; and an upper guard ring disposed radially outwardly from the upper balance ring where the upper guard ring includes an axially facing diffuser clearance surface that is disposed axially between the trailing edges of the blades and the upper end.
US11041490B2
A piston compressor includes at least one cylinder for compressing air with a piston arranged such that it can move therein in a compression chamber arranged above the piston in the cylinder. The compression chamber is connected to an inlet arrangement for air to be compressed and to an outlet arrangement for compressed air, the piston compressor being drivable by a first drive device. The inlet arrangement includes a pre-compression device that can be driven by a second drive device with variable power and is used to increase the suction pressure at the air inlet.
US11041489B2
A compressor arrangement for operating a compressed air supply installation includes a pneumatic compressor and an electric motor arranged inside a drive housing, the electric motor having an internal stator and an external outer rotor. The external outer rotor is arranged in a rotatable manner about the internal stator. The external outer rotor is supported in a rotatable manner about a center axis with respect to the drive housing via a bearing arrangement. The bearing arrangement has at least one bearing. The external outer rotor is supported by the bearing arrangement on an outer circumference of the outer rotor.
US11041486B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for a self-pumping structure, methods of self-pumping, and the like.
US11041462B2
A turbofan engine includes a fan section including a plurality of fan blades, a first spool including a first turbine section, a second spool including a second turbine section, a first electric machine, and a second electric machine. A gear system is coupled between the first spool, the second spool, the first electric machine, the second electric machine and the fan section for driving the fan section.
US11041451B2
A control method for an internal combustion engine in which a driving force is transmitted through a clutch to a driving wheel of a vehicle, the control method includes: when the internal combustion engine which is automatically stopped in a state where the clutch is disengaged is restarted, performing a torque down control to decrease a target torque of the internal combustion engine when the clutch is engaged; and setting a target torque in the torque down control, to a predetermined torque lower limit value determined in accordance with a driving state, the torque lower limit value including at least one of a predetermined full open value set when an accelerator opening degree is full open, and a predetermined full close value set when the accelerator opening degree is full close.
US11041445B2
A valve assembly includes a body including an inlet port, an outlet port, and a flow passage extending therebetween. The flow passage includes a plurality of valve seats in a stepped arrangement between the inlet port and the outlet port. The valve assembly further includes a valve stem positioned within the flow passage. The valve stem includes at least one shaft and a poppet disk positioned at one end of the at least one shaft, and at least one reed petal coupled to the at least one shaft. The poppet disk is engageable with a first valve seat of the plurality of valve seats, and the at least one reed petal is engageable with a second valve seat of the plurality of valve seats.
US11041441B2
A method of controlling at least a part of a start-up or re-light process of a gas turbine engine, the method comprising: controlling rotation of a low pressure compressor using a first electrical machine to increase angular velocity of the low pressure compressor; and controlling rotation of a high pressure compressor using a second electrical machine to restrict angular velocity of the high pressure compressor while the angular velocity of the low pressure compressor is increased.
US11041436B2
A process for retrofitting an industrial gas turbine engine of a power plant where an old industrial engine with a high spool has a new low spool with a low pressure turbine that drives a low pressure compressor using exhaust gas from the high pressure turbine, and where the new low pressure compressor delivers compressed air through a new compressed air line to the high pressure compressor through a new inlet added to the high pressure compressor. The old electric generator is replaced with a new generator having around twice the electrical power production. One or more stages of vanes and blades are removed from the high pressure compressor to optimally match a pressure ratio split. Closed loop cooling of one or more new stages of vanes and blades in the high pressure turbine is added and the spent cooling air is discharged into the combustor.
US11041423B2
Methods and systems are provided for diagnosing a gasoline particulate filter in an engine exhaust passage. A pressure-flow relationship of the filter is learned in a low engine speed and high engine speed range. Degradation of the filter is identified based on a substantial separation between the curve fits at the high and low speed range.
US11041419B2
An exhaust gas post-processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: an exhaust flow path for moving an exhaust gas discharged from an engine; at least one aftertreatment device installed on the exhaust flow path and purifying the exhaust gas; a burner installed on the exhaust flow path and heating the exhaust gas upstream of the at least one aftertreatment device; a fuel supplier for supplying a fuel to the burner; and an air supply flow path for supplying an air to the burner. The air supply flow path supplies a part of the exhaust gas discharged from the engine as the air to the burner.
US11041416B2
A valve train of an internal combustion engine may include a camshaft, first and second cams, a rocker arm assembly having a displacement bolt, which may be adjustable between at least first and second positions in the axial direction and on which at least one cam roller, may be mounted in an axially fixed and rotatable manner, wherein the displacement bolt may be mounted in associated bearing lugs of the rocker arm assembly, a guide contour arranged on the camshaft and having first and second guide tracks, a switching pin, which may be arranged in the displacement bolt and which may optionally engage with the first or second guide track to adjust the displacement bolt between the first and second positions. In the first and second positions, the cam roller may cooperate with the first and second cams, respectively. First and second catch recesses may be provided on the displacement bolt. A catch device may engage with a catch element, which may be biased into the first or second catch recess and which may secure the displacement bolt in the first or second position. The first and second guide tracks may cross one another in a crossing region. A third catch recess may be provided between the first and second catch recesses, wherein a first catch protuberance may be arranged between the first and the third catch recesses, and a second catch protuberance may be arranged between the second and the third catch recesses, wherein the catch element may engage with the third catch recess in the crossing region.
US11041414B2
A system includes an engine head that mounts to an engine block of a reciprocating engine, and the engine head includes an intake flow path, an exhaust flow path, a coolant flow path, and first and second sealing registers disposed on opposite sides of the coolant flow path. In addition, the first and second sealing registers are configured to receive a valve guide that supports a valve stem of an exhaust valve. Moreover, the first sealing register is disposed in a wall separating the exhaust flow path and the coolant flow path. Also, a first wall portion of the wall extends between the first sealing register and an exhaust valve seat configured to receive a valve head of the exhaust valve, and a second wall portion of the wall extends from the first sealing register away from the first wall portion.
US11041410B2
Systems and methods for coupling a chemical looping arrangement and a supercritical CO2 cycle are provided. The system includes a fuel reactor, an air reactor, a compressor, first and second heat exchangers, and a turbine. The fuel reactor is configured to heat fuel and oxygen carriers resulting in reformed or combusted fuel and reduced oxygen carriers. The air reactor is configured to re-oxidize the reduced oxygen carriers via an air stream. The air stream, fuel, and oxygen carriers are heated via a series of preheaters prior to their entry into the air and fuel reactors. The compressor is configured to increase the pressure of a CO2 stream to create a supercritical CO2 stream. The first and second heat exchangers are configured to heat the supercritical CO2 stream, and the turbine is configured to expand the heated supercritical CO2 stream to generate power.
US11041407B2
A turbocharger includes a turbine with a housing and a rotor for expanding a first medium; a compressor with a housing and a rotor for compressing a second medium utilizing energy extracted in the turbine during expansion of the first medium. A housing surrounds the turbine housing and/or the compressor housing and/or the bearing housing at least in sections, which housing is at least formed from a first housing section and a second housing section, which are connected to one another via screw connections. On the first housing section, shearing force absorption elements are formed or fastened which extend through the second housing section and in the event that shearing forces occur, absorb the shearing forces and thus relieve the screw connections of the shearing forces.
US11041404B2
A bearing assembly monitoring system includes a bearing assembly supporting rotation of a rotating member. The bearing assembly includes a fixed portion and rotatable portion. A piezoelectric element is mounted to the fixed portion and generates an electric signal in response to a vibration of the fixed portion. A first transceiver is electrically coupled to the piezoelectric element to receive the electrical signal generated by the piezoelectric element and generate a signal indicative of the vibration of the fixed portion. A gas turbine engine bearing monitoring system and a method are also disclosed.
US11041400B2
A geared turbomachine includes: a fan, a low pressure shaft which drives the fan rotationally around the main axis of the turbomachine, a speed reducer interposed between the fan and the low pressure shaft, and an alternator driven by the low pressure shaft. The alternator includes an inductor and an armature of which one of the inductor and the armature is integral with the fan and the other of the inductor and the armature is integral with the low pressure shaft.
US11041395B2
Methods for forming airfoils, core assemblies, and airfoils for gas turbine engines are described. The methods include forming an airfoil body about a core assembly configured to define one or more internal cavities of the airfoil body, the core assembly comprising at least core structure having a purge slot protrusion extending from a portion of the core structure, removing the core assembly from the airfoil body to form one or more internal cavities, wherein at least one internal cavity has a cavity extension define by the purge slot protrusion, and forming a squealer pocket in a tip of the formed airfoil body, wherein a cavity purge slot is formed at the cavity extension to fluidly connect the respect internal cavity with the squealer pocket.
US11041391B2
A gas turbine engine includes a combustor. A turbine section is in fluid communication with the combustor. The turbine section includes a first vane stage aft of the combustor. A plurality of vane cooling passages extending through a forward flange of the first vane stage to the radial inner surface for communicating cooling airflow into the core flow path forward of the leading edge. A seal assembly is disposed between the combustor and the forward flange of the vane stage. The seal includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart slots and a plurality of seal cooling passages that extend from the radially outer surface to the radially inner surface at each of the plurality of circumferentially spaced apart slots.
US11041388B2
A gas turbine engine includes rotor having a hub, and a plurality of blades extending generally radially from the hub. Each of the blades has an airfoil portion. The airfoil portion has a leading edge and a trailing edge defining a chordwise direction, and a root and a tip defining a spanwise direction. Only a sub-set of the blades has a cutback at at least one of the trailing edge and the leading edge. A method of designing and a method of assembling a rotor having noise reduction properties in a gas turbine engine is also presented.
US11041387B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a scroll fluid machine configured so that, during maintenance, grease can be easily supplied to a bearing regardless of an installation environment, thereby improving work efficiency. The present invention provides a scroll fluid machine characterized by comprising: a stationary scroll obtained by forming a wrap section on an end plate; an orbiting scroll obtained by forming a wrap section on an end plate such that the wrap section faces the wrap section of the stationary scroll; a drive shaft for driving the orbiting scroll; an orbiting bearing for supporting the drive shaft relative to the orbiting scroll; and a plurality of pouring openings for pouring a lubricant into the orbiting bearing from the outside.
US11041385B2
An anchor rod includes a sleeve open at one end and having a blocking plate at the other end; a pressure relief pipe fixedly arranged on an inner wall of the sleeve; and a rod body. A guide hole is formed in a center of the blocking plate. A part of the rod body penetrates through the guide hole and extends into the sleeve. A gap is formed between the pressure relief pipe and the blocking plate. An overflow valve is connected to the pressure relief pipe. A piston in sliding seal fit with the sleeve and the pressure relief pipe is arranged at the rod body. A sealing ring in sliding seal fit with the rod body is arranged at the inner wall of the guide hole; and a sealing cavity between the blocking plate and the piston in the sleeve is filled with emulsion.
US11041384B2
Described herein are methods and techniques for utilizing a multiple metal isotope signature as an internal tracers for hydrocarbon source, alteration, and mixing. The multiple metal isotope signature may comprise a ratio of a at least two isotopes of a first metal, a ratio of at least two isotopes of a second metal, and a ratio of at least two isotopes of a third metal from a sample. The isotope ratios of the first, second, and third metal may be integrated to form the multiple metal isotope signature.
US11041376B2
Various implementations described herein are directed to a method for surveying a wellbore. A statistical estimation process that combines magnetic survey measurement data and gyroscopic survey measurement data to form error estimates in a magnetic survey system is applied. The error estimates are used to correct magnetic survey data provided by the magnetic survey system. Magnetic only survey data is used when convergence of the error estimates has occurred. Information that facilitates drilling the wellbore is provided.
US11041367B2
An inflow control device (“ICD”) is in production tubing in a wellbore, and used to control a flow of fluid through the ICD. The ICD is adjustable in response to an external force, which is selectively applied by an actuator that is included with a bottom-home assembly (“BHA”). The BHA is deployed on coiled tubing, and anchored in the wellbore to isolate the coiled tubing from resultant or counter forces generated when adjusting the ICD. Fluid is optionally injected into the coiled tubing on surface, and directed into the wellbore from the BHA. A latching arm is included with the actuator, which is equipped with a profile that matches a profile on the ICD to facilitate engagement between the arm and the ICD.
US11041366B2
One illustrative diverter valve disclosed herein includes a body with a primary flow path therethrough, first and second fluid flow galleries, first and second fluid outlets, a first sliding sleeve element and a second sliding sleeve element. The first and second sliding sleeve elements, respectively, include first and second internal flow bores, respectively, wherein each of the first and second sliding sleeve elements are adapted to be moved from a first closed position to a second open position, and vice-versa. In the first and second positions, respectively, the first sliding sleeve element blocks or does not block, respectively, fluid flow between the first internal flow bore and the first fluid flow gallery. In the first and second positions, respectively, the second sliding sleeve element blocks or does not block, respectively, fluid flow between the second internal flow bore and the second fluid flow gallery.
US11041363B2
Provided are systems and methods for decreasing the cost and improving a suitable well safety valve. A well safety valve, comprising: an outer housing having a central bore extending axially through the outer housing, wherein the outer housing comprises an outer wall having a receptacle formed in the outer wall; an inner sleeve disposed in the central bore of the outer housing, wherein the inner sleeve comprises a lockout feature in an exterior surface of the inner sleeve; a sleeve disposed in the receptacle; a piston disposed in the sleeve, wherein the piston is actuated to travel longitudinally in the sleeve, wherein the inner sleeve is operable to move in response to movement of the piston; and a valve member disposed in the outer housing, wherein the valve member is operable to selectively restrict flow through the well safety valve in response to movement of the inner sleeve.
US11041355B2
A lubricator system according to which a lubricator defines an internal passage that extends along a curvilinear path. The lubricator is configured to be connected to a wellhead at the top or head of an oil and gas wellbore. A downhole tool is configured to be conveyed through the internal passage of the lubricator and along the curvilinear path in combination with a conveyance string connected to the downhole tool. The downhole tool may be, include, or be part of, for example, a perforating gun.
US11041348B2
A method of servicing a wellbore extending from a surface of the earth and penetrating a subterranean formation, including: removing water from an aqueous based wellbore servicing fluid by contacting the aqueous based wellbore servicing fluid with a porous substrate coated with a hydrophilic and oleophobic coating, whereby water is removed from the aqueous based wellbore servicing fluid via passage through the porous substrate, and whereby a water concentration and a volume of the aqueous based wellbore servicing fluid are reduced and a density of the aqueous based wellbore servicing fluid is increased to provide a modified aqueous based wellbore servicing fluid.
US11041338B2
Systems and methods for transparent materials implementing effectively transparent conductors in accordance with various embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a window including a first transparent layer of transparent material having a first surface and a second surface, a first plurality of triangular conductors in optical communication with the first transparent layer of glass, wherein each of the first plurality of triangular conductors includes a base side that is parallel to the first surface of the first transparent layer of glass and wherein the first plurality of triangular conductors is configured to redirect a portion of incident light, wherein the portion of incident light travels through both the first surface and the second surface of the first transparent layer of glass.
US11041324B2
A portable erectable shelter may include a pair of wall panels arranged outermost from a pair roof panels. The pair roof panels may be between the pair of wall panels in a collapsed, vertical position of the shelter. The portable shelter may include a first outer wall truss link rotatably fixed to a sidewall of a first wall panel and having a first end pivotally secured to a first corner of a first roof panel and a free end opposite the first end. The portable shelter may further include a first outer roof truss link rotatably fixed to a sidewall of the first roof panel and including a first end pivotally secured to a first corner of the first wall panel. The first end of the first outer wall truss link may be arranged to abut the first end of the first outer roof truss link in an erect position.
US11041316B1
Disclosed is a section of wall cladding comprises of a panel comprising a front side and a back side, a front hem at a top of the panel formed from a portion of material turned toward the front side of the panel and downward, and a rear hem at a bottom of the panel formed from a portion of material turned toward the back side of the panel and upward. The section of wall cladding can be t-shaped or any other shape to depending on the desired aesthetics.
US11041311B1
A metal blocking with coping with cleat having a coping cap with a cap top flange, and first and second side flanges defining first and second channels respectively at respective ends; and a coping cleat having first and second top flanges, a corner anchoring flange, and an intermediate anchoring flange. The first channel is defined by a first exterior cleat strip, a first base cleat strip, and a first interior cleat strip. The second channel is defined by a second exterior cleat strip, a second base cleat strip, and a second interior cleat strip. The first side flange has a first predetermined height and the second side flange has a second predetermined height, wherein the first predetermined height is shorter than the second predetermined height.
US11041309B2
The non-corrosive micro rebar is an apparatus that reinforces concrete structures. The apparatus includes a central rod, a plurality of threads, and a plurality of channels. The central rod connects the plurality of threads to one another and allows the apparatus to be flexible within the concrete structure. The plurality of threads allows a concrete mixture to grip around the apparatus. The concrete mixture surrounds the apparatus by filling the plurality of channels. In order for apparatus to hold together the concrete structure, each of the plurality of threads includes a connecting rod and an anchoring bar. The plurality of threads laterally traverses along the central rod and is radially distributed about the central rod. The connecting bar is fixed to the central rod and is oriented perpendicular to the central rod. The connecting bar traverse across the connecting rod and is oriented concave with the connecting rod.
US11041303B2
Structural support apparatus, system, and installation method, comprising a base member adapted for being mounted to an existing building structure, an attachment bracket mounted to the base member at a pivot point adapted to be set securely to an angle selected during installation, the attachment bracket also adapted for mounting to a wood riser having openings therein to match the attachment bracket.
US11041302B2
The present Cellular Concrete Filled Structural Steel Wall Frames are interconnected in three dimensions with other modular construction elements to enable the rapid construction of multi-story buildings with improved quality of construction over that found in traditional multi-story building construction techniques. These Cellular Concrete Structural Steel Wall Frames typically have a Thin Concrete Wall Panel affixed to the exterior of the structural steel, and also electrical and plumbing rough utility components installed in the Wall Frames.
US11041301B2
A method for installing a liquid quality system into a containment structure, wherein the liquid quality system includes a liquid quality device and at least one drag-inducing assembly, wherein the at least one drag-inducing assembly includes at least one supporting portion and at least one drag-inducing portion, wherein when the liquid quality device is installed a sump region is formed below, is provided. The method may include mounting, at least partially in the sump region, the at least one supporting portion onto a sidewall of the containment structure. The method may also include attaching the at least one drag-inducing portion to the at least one supporting portion. The method may also include mounting the liquid quality device in the containment structure.
US11041299B1
A method of installing a trough or trench for containing a cryogenic spill, includes the step of constructing multiple precast concrete sections at a first location, each section having a bottom wall and spaced apart side walls connected to and extending up from the bottom wall. Each section has end portions that enable connection to another concrete section. The method includes (at the first location), preparing multiple panels of polymeric concrete material by filling one or more molds with a slurry or liquid polymeric concrete material and after time allowing the material to cure and harden. At the first location, one or more of the panels is adhered to the bottom wall and side walls of each concrete section using an adhesive. After adhering of the panels to the concrete sections, the concrete sections are transported from the first location to a second location that is remote from the first location. At the second location, the concrete sections are connected together using connections that join one end portion of a concrete section to and end portion of another concrete section. In one embodiment, the trough or trench is placed next to a pipe rack having cryogen containing flow lines. A slab and riser arrangement preferably channel any spill to the trough or trench.
US11041298B2
A trenchless collector system is configured to intercept and direct surface and/or subsurface fluids to a designated reception location to control groundwater elevations. A target collection and drainage area is identified and a gravity drainage pipe is accessed or trenchlessly installed at the target collection and drainage area. The gravity drainage pipe can be accessed at one or more drawdown points. One end of a collection pipe can be connected to the gravity drainage pipe. Surface and subsurface water is hydrostatically drawn into the collection pipe from the target collection and drainage area through venting at the one end of the collection pipe connected to the gravity drainage pipe. The surface and subsurface water can be passively drained from the collection pipe into the gravity drainage pipe and onto the designated reception location.
US11041297B2
Water management systems and methods of constructing water management systems comprising two-dimensional arrays of cells. Each cell has a base and a cell top module stacked on the base, the cell top module having a top flange and at least one top leg, a lower end of which engages the base. A base of one system has a bottom leg with an upper end cavity configured for a lateral clearance fit of a lower end portion of the top leg. The cavity holds at least one stacked spacer and is filled with a flowable substance after the top leg is inserted and positioned on the spacer. The flowable substance hardens to fully seat the lower end portion of the upper leg. Another system series of the cell top flanges being held together by tension cables extending therethrough.
US11041295B2
This disclosure relates to systems, methods, and compositions for dispensing multiple compositions into a plurality of containers or atmospheres. In one embodiment, this disclosure pertains to treating and preventing offensive odors arising from toilets. The system includes a base station with at least one bag-on-valve (BOV) canister, which holds one or more compositions. A tube leads from the output of the bag-on-valve canister to a bowl clip and/or to a spray nozzle. The bowl clip can be mounted to a toilet bowl. One example embodiment of the invention includes a bowl clip with a sensor that initiates release of the composition(s) from the bag-on-valve (BOV) canister(s), while another embodiment initiates release of the composition(s) from the bag-on-valve (BOV) canister(s) using a motion sensor or activation switch. The compositions are delivered to treat and prevent offensive odors.
US11041294B2
A toilet includes a basin, a rim, and a heated water cleaning system. The basin includes a bowl. The rim includes a rim aperture in fluid communication with the bowl. The heated water cleaning system includes a heated water delivery channel and a heated water generator. The heated water delivery channel is positioned proximate the rim aperture. The heated water generator is in fluid communication with the heated water delivery channel. The heated water generator is configured to receive water, produce heated water, and provide the heated water to the heated water delivery channel. The heated water generator includes a heated water generator tank and a heater. The heated water generator tank is configured to contain at least one of water or heated water. The heater is positioned within the heated water generator tank.
US11041292B1
A urine splatter suppression device and related method are provided. The device can include a base that engages a rim of a toilet, an arm including a corresponding recess and/or projection that engages a base recess and/or a base projection so that the arm is removably supported by the base adjacent the rim, and a deflection plate is joined with the arm and angled between 60 degrees and 90 degrees inclusive relative to the arm and extending transversely inward toward the longitudinal axis of the toilet from the side rim of the toilet. Multiple fingers can extend upward from the deflection plate. The device can be configured so a stream of liquid impinging the plate and/or fingers from above the toilet is dissipated to impair splatter of the stream to an area outside the toilet. A related method of use also is provided.
US11041290B2
To provide a work machine that can stop unexpected operation of actuators faster than it actually occurs even if unintended operation occurs at the time of gate lock lever switching that leads to such unexpected operation. In the work machine, a controller switches a lock valve from a lock position to a release position in a case where a lock operation device is operated from a permission position to a prohibition position; decides, on the basis of a result of detection by a pressure sensor, whether or not a pilot hydraulic fluid has been output from a pilot valve until first time elapses after the lock valve is switched to the release position; keeps the lock valve at the lock position if it is decided that the pilot hydraulic fluid has been output until the first time elapses; and switches the lock valve from the lock position to the release position if it is decided that the pilot hydraulic fluid has not been output until the first time elapses, and second time elapses.
US11041285B2
An excavator machine includes an undercarriage assembly including a drive assembly, and a carriage assembly rotatably coupled to the undercarriage assembly and including an operator cab positioned at a front of the carriage assembly. The excavator machine also includes a boom assembly. The boom assembly is coupled to the carriage assembly via two branches, and the branches are coupled to the carriage assembly on opposing sides of the operator cab.
US11041283B2
A slurry wall grab has a hybrid drive in turn having at least one pulley block, at least one hydraulic actuator, and at least one energy store. The hydraulic actuator and the pulley block open and/or close a grab jaw of the slurry wall grab. The energy store can be charged by actuating the pulley block.
US11041270B2
Process for the plasma surface treatment under vacuum of a fabric, nonwoven fabric or paper material for obtaining materials to be used for the filtration and separation of two immiscible liquids.
US11041264B2
A system for stitching two parts of a shoe together includes a stitching machine with a head and a cylinder bed. The head has a needle base disposed on a lower end adjacent the cylinder bed such that the two shoe parts can be stitched together therebetween. A positioning mechanism has a curved drive frame and is capable of moving the curved drive frame in a rotating motion along the circumference of the curved drive frame and in a linear direction generally along an axis of the curved drive frame. A jig positions the two shoe parts with respect to one another and is coupled to the curved drive frame. The jig includes a curved support surface for supporting the two shoe parts.
US11041261B2
A graphene oxide/polypropylene heat-resistant high-strength composite profile and a preparation method thereof. The composite profile is a graphene oxide/polypropylene-based reinforced plain weave composite resin material, which is a heat-resistant high-strength composite profile prepared from a graphene oxide/polypropylene-based woven plain weave fabric and a fiber heat-insulating material which are made into a layered spacing structure composite flat net, and a resin composite material. The preparation method comprises the following steps: preparation of a graphene oxide/polypropylene-based woven plain weave fabric; preparation of a graphene oxide/polypropylene-based reinforced plain weave composite material; preparation of a multilayer graphene oxide/polypropylene-based reinforced plain weave composite material; and preparation of a resin composite material. The present invention has the advantages of convenient operation and excellent properties.
US11041254B2
The present invention relates to a chamfered silicon carbide substrate which is essentially monocrystalline, and to a corresponding method of chamfering a silicon carbide substrate. The silicon carbide substrate (100) comprises a main surface (102) and a circumferential end face surface (114) which is essentially perpendicular to the main surface (102), and a chamfered peripheral region (110), wherein a first bevel surface (106) of the chamfered peripheral region (110) includes a first bevel angle (a1) with said main surface (102), and wherein a second bevel surface (108) of the chamfered peripheral region (110) includes a second bevel angle (a2) with said end face surface (114), wherein, in more than 75% of the peripheral region, said first bevel angle (a1) has a value in a range between 20° and 50°, and said second bevel angle (a2) has a value in a range between 45° and 75°.
US11041250B2
Compositions for making wettable cathodes to be used in aluminum electrolysis cells are disclosed. The compositions generally include titanium diboride (TiB2) and metal additives. The amount of selected metal additives may result in production of electrodes having a tailored density and/or porosity. The electrodes may be durable and used in aluminum electrolysis cells.
US11041244B2
Introduced here is a plasma polymerization apparatus and process. Example embodiments include a vacuum chamber in a substantially symmetrical shape to a central axis. A rotation rack may be operable to rotate about the central axis of the vacuum chamber. Additionally, reactive species discharge mechanisms positioned around a perimeter of the vacuum chamber in a substantially symmetrical manner from the outer perimeter of the vacuum chamber may be configured to disperse reactive species into the vacuum chamber. The reactive species may form a polymeric multi-layer coating on surfaces of the one or more devices. Each layer may have a different composition of atoms to enhance the water resistance, corrosion resistance, and fiction resistance of the polymeric multi-layer coating.
US11041239B2
A method for forming a SiC film on a target substrate by ALD, comprises: activating a surface of the target substrate by activation gas plasma which is plasmatized an activation gas; and forming a SiC film by supplying a source gas containing a precursor represented by a chemical formula RSiX13 or RSiHClX2 onto the target substrate whose the surface is activated by activating the surface of the target substrate, where, R is an organic group having an unsaturated bond, X1 is selected from a group consisting of H, F, Cl, Br and I, and X2 is one selected from a group consisting of Cl, Br and I.
US11041231B2
In an H-section steel, which has a predetermined chemical composition, a thickness of the flange is from 25 to 140 mm; an average crystal grain diameter is 38 μm or less and the area fraction of a martensite-austenite constituent is 1.2% or less, in a plane orthogonal to the width direction of the flange, centering on a measurement position 7 that is a position separated, in the width direction of the flange, from the end face in the width direction of the flange by (⅙)F, and separated, in the thickness direction of the flange, from the outer face in the thickness direction of the flange by (¼)t2, when the width direction length of the flange is F and the thickness of the flange is t2; a yield strength or 0.2% proof stress is 385 MPa or more and a tensile strength is 490 MPa or more, in the rolling direction of the flange, when measured with respect to the entire thickness in the thickness direction of the flange at a position separated in the width direction of the flange from the end face in the width direction of the flange by (⅙)F; and the absorbed energy in a Charpy test at the measurement position 7 at −20° C. is 200 J or more.
US11041224B2
The present invention discloses a portable multi-azimuth ultrasonic-assisted vibration rolling device and an application method thereof. The vibration rolling device includes an ultrasonic rolling unit, a hydraulic power unit, a pneumatic cooling unit, a main body frame and an indexing device; an amplitude transformer assembly at the ultrasonic rolling unit comes into rolling contact with the surface of a tooth space of a gear workpiece, the hydraulic power unit is articulated with the main body frame, and the hydraulic power unit is articulated with the horn assembly, the indexing device is provided at the main body frame, and the gear workpiece is mounted at the indexing device. The present invention has the advantages that the device is flexible and portable, enables a transducer to be cooled continuously, and facilitates fixation of a rolling steel ball and adjustment of a station of the gear workpiece.
US11041223B2
A high-strength high-toughness electric-resistance-welded steel pipe having high resistance to post-weld heat treatment is provided. The steel pipe having a composition including C: 0.01% to 0.12%, Si: 0.05% to 0.50%, Mn: 1.0% to 2.2%, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Al: 0.001% to 0.10%, N: 0.006% or less, Nb: 0.010% to 0.100%, and Ti: 0.001% to 0.050%. The steel pipe having a structure composed of 90% or more by volume of a bainitic ferrite phase and 10% or less (including 0%) by volume of a second phase. The bainitic ferrite phase having an average grain size of 10 μm or less, and the structure containing fine Nb precipitates having a particle size of less than 20 nm dispersed in a base material portion. The steel pipe having high strength and toughness that is maintained through post-weld heat treatment, including heating to a temperature of 600° C. or more.
US11041218B2
The present invention relates to genetically engineered yeasts having a heterologous trehalase gene and fermentation processes for using such yeasts. The yeasts can express trehalase in a quantity sufficient to convert significant amounts of trehalose to glucose, thereby improving the yield of the product in a fermentation, and/or reducing or eliminating the need to add exogenous trehalase to the fermentation. The yeasts can also include other heterologous genes for expressing enzymes useful for improving yield and/or for reducing or eliminating the need to add exogenous enzymes to the fermentation.
US11041213B2
The present invention relates to a method for the diagnosis or the prognosis of metastasis, relapse or recurrence in prostate cancer which comprises determining if the c-MAF gene is amplified in a primary tumor sample. Likewise, the invention also relates to a method for the diagnosis or the prognosis of metastasis, relapse or recurrence in prostate cancer, as well as to a method for determining the tendency to develop bone metastasis with respect to metastasis in other organs, which comprise determining the c-MAF expression level. Finally, the invention relates to the use of a c-MAF inhibitor as therapeutic target for treating the prostate cancer.
US11041192B2
The present application relates to a method of amplifying genomic DNA of a cell, comprising: (a) providing a reaction mixture, wherein the reaction mixture comprises the genomic DNA, a first type of primer, a second type of primer, a mixture of nucleotide monomers, and a nucleic acid polymerase, wherein the first type of primer comprises, in a 5′ to 3′ orientation, a common sequence and a variable sequence, wherein the common sequence consists of three or two types of bases selected from the group consisting of four types of bases: G, A, C and T, providing that the common sequence does not comprise G and C at the same time, and wherein the second type of primer comprises the common sequence but not the variable sequence; (b) placing the reaction mixture in a first thermal cycle program such that the variable sequence of the first type of primer can pair with the genomic DNA and amplify the genomic DNA to obtain a genomic amplification product, wherein the genomic amplification product comprises the common sequence at its 5′ end and comprises complementary sequence of the common sequence at its 3′ end; (c) placing the reaction mixture obtained from step (b) in a second thermal cycle program, such that the common sequence of the second type of primer can pair with 3′ end of the genomic amplification product and amplify the genomic amplification product to obtain an expanded genomic amplification product, wherein the reaction mixture is provided prior to the step (b) and the step (c). The present application also relates to a kit for amplifying genomic DNA.
US11041191B2
Genetic markers are described for discriminating or detecting viruses causing infectious aquatic organism diseases, and a method of discriminating and detecting the viruses using the same is disclosed, in which the method includes selecting and amplifying a DNA nucleotide sequence encoding a gene specific for viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV), red sea bream iridovirus (RSIV) or infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus (ISKNV), which is a virus causing red sea bream iridovirus disease, or Koi herpesvirus (KHV); hybridizing a peptide nucleic acid (PNA) that specifically recognizes the amplification product; controlling the temperature of the hybridization product to obtain a temperature-dependent melting curve; and discriminating the viral type or detecting whether or not fish are infected with the viral type by analyzing the obtained melting curve to determine a melting temperature.
US11041187B2
A digital assay for a micro RNA (miRNA) or other target analyte in a sample makes use of nanoparticles that absorb light at the resonant wavelength of a photonic crystal (PC). Such nanoparticles locally quench the resonant reflection of light from the PC when present on the surface of the PC. The nanoparticles are functionalized to specifically bind to the target analyte, and the PC surface is functionalized to specifically bind to the nanoparticles that have bound to the target analyte. The sample is exposed to the functionalized nanoparticles, and the individual nanoparticles bound to the PC surface can be identified and counted based on reduced intensity values in the reflected light from the PC. The number of bound nanoparticles that are counted in this way can be correlated to the abundance of the target analyte in the sample.
US11041186B2
This invention relates to a capacitor comprising two electrical conductors separated by a dielectric, the dielectric comprising microorganisms. The dielectric may comprise a biological indicator. This invention relates to a process for determining whether the microorganisms are alive or dead. The number of microorganisms can be determined. This invention relates to a process for testing the efficacy of a sterilization process using the capacitor.
US11041185B2
A system for testing a treatment agent for a biologic material includes an input for receiving a biologic sample. A plurality of micro-pumps pump a portion of the biologic sample from the first reservoir into a connected module. A first module includes a first plurality of testing pathways for testing a first portion of the biologic sample. A first module connector removeably connects the first module to the distributor module. A second module includes a second plurality of testing pathways for testing a second portion of the biologic sample. The selected pathway applies at least one dosage level of a treatment agent to the second portion of the biologic sample. A second module connector removeably connects the second module to the distributor module, wherein treatment agent and the plurality of dosage levels tested by the system may be selected by selecting the second module associated with the second module connector.
US11041181B2
The present disclosure relates to a polynucleotide having a novel promoter activity, a composition for expressing a gene comprising the polynucleotide, a microorganism comprising the gene, and a method for preparing purine nucleotides using the microorganism.
US11041169B2
The present invention provides a method for modifying a targeted site of a double-stranded DNA in a cell, the method including a step of bringing a complex in which a nucleic acid sequence-recognizing module that specifically binds to a selected target nucleotide sequence in a double-stranded DNA and a nucleic acid base converting enzyme or DNA glycosylase are linked, and a donor DNA containing an insertion sequence into contact with said double-stranded DNA, to substitute the targeted site with the insertion sequence, or insert the insertion sequence into said targeted site, without cleaving at least one strand of said double-stranded DNA in the targeted site.
US11041166B2
Compositions and methods and for enhancing the resistance of plants to a plant disease caused by a Phytophthora species are provided. The compositions comprise nucleic acid molecules encoding resistance (R) gene products and variants thereof and plants, seeds, and plant cells comprising such nucleic acid molecules. The methods for enhancing the resistance of a plant to a plant disease caused by a Phytophthora species comprise introducing a nucleic acid molecule encoding an R gene product into a plant cell. Additionally provided are methods for using the plants in agriculture to limit plant disease.
US11041165B2
The present invention relates to the identification of the xcv-1 gene, which is responsible for a recessive resistance to Xanthomonas euvesicatoria, by genetic mapping-based cloning from Capsicum annuum. In addition, the invention relates to methods for generating plants resistant to an abiotic or biotic factor, in particular to Xanthomonas euvesicatoria, and the plants themselves, in particular tomato plants.
US11041163B2
Plants have emerged as an alternative expression system and are increasingly being used byindustry and academia for producing target proteins. However, the ability of plants to glycosylate proteins can be a significant limitation for those proteins, which do not require N-glycosylation. For example, Plasmodium falciparum proteins, or A chain of human factor XIII do not carry N-linked glycans, or the protective antigen (PA) of Bacillus anthracisis not a glycoprotein; however, these proteins contain potential N-linked glycosylation sites that can be aberrantly glycosylated during expression in yeast, mammalian, or plant systems, potentially leading to reduced functionality and immunogenicity because of incorrect/altered folding and/or masking of epitopes. To overcome this problem we have recently developed a strategy of enzymatic deglycosylation of proteins in vivo by co-expressing with bacterial PNGase F (Peptide: N-glycosidase F) using transient expression in plants (WIPO Patent Application WO/2012/170678), which allowed production of malaria vaccine candidate Pfs48/45, which can provide a high transmission blocking (TB) activity (Mamedov et al., 2012). In addition, other deglycosylated antigens induced significantly higher levels of toxin-neutralizing antibody responses in mice than compared with glycosylated forms (Mamedov et al, manuscript has been submitted). Although a PNGase F treatment (in vivodeglycosylation) removes the oligosaccharide intact, but causes amino acid change in the deglycosylated protein due to deamidation of the asparagine (N) in the NxS/T site (sequence) into an aspartate (D). In this study, a strategy was developed for production of target proteins in plants in non-N-glycosylated form, but with no amino acid change in the NxS/T site of the resulting deglycosylated proteins, which can provide production of non-N-glycosylated recombinant proteins in plants or other eukaryotic system with a native-like fold. Thus, materials and methods for in vivo de-glycosylation of recombinant N-glycosylated proteins by co-expression with Endo-β-N-acetylglucosaminidase H (Endo H) in plants, using a transient expression system are described in this invention. A method of expressing active Endo Hin plants is also provided.
US11041150B2
The present disclosure relates to fluidic systems and devices for processing, extracting, or purifying one or more analytes. These systems and devices can be used for processing samples and extracting nucleic acids, for example by isotachophoresis. In particular, the systems and related methods can allow for extraction of nucleic acids, including non-crosslinked nucleic acids, from samples such as tissue or cells. The systems and devices can also be used for multiplex parallel sample processing.
US11041148B2
The invention relates generally to methods and compositions concerning desaturase enzymes that modulate the number and location of double bonds in long chain poly-unsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA's). In particular, the invention relates to methods and compositions for improving omega-3 fatty acid profiles in plant products and parts using desaturase enzymes and nucleic acids encoding for such enzymes. In particular embodiments, the desaturase enzymes are Primula Δ6-desaturases. Also provided are improved soybean oil compositions having SDA and a beneficial overall content of omega-3 fatty acids relative to omega-6 fatty acids.
US11041142B2
Disclosed are methods and devices suitable for growing algae.
US11041139B2
The invention relates to a process for the production of wort, comprising the enzymatic treatment of grist in up to 100% unmalted (grain) form, for further processing into high quality beverage products. By the addition of a combination of exogenous enzymes (α-amylase, isoamylase/pullulanase, FAN generating activity (proteases) and beta-glucanase activity) to the mash and by the simultaneously thermal activation of the maltose-generating endogenous β-amylase, it is possible to obtain a wort based on up to even 100% barley. The invention further relates to a process for the production of a high quality beer or beer product and to the high quality beer produced according to the process.
US11041134B2
Compounds having the formula (F-I) below are provided herein: wherein R1 and R2 at each occurrence are independently a C1-C5000 alkyl group; R3 at each occurrence is independently hydrogen or a C1-C5000 alkyl group; R4 is a C1-C50 alkyl group or an unsubstituted or substituted phenyl group; R5 at each occurrence is independently hydrogen or a C1-C30 alkyl group; n is 1, 2, 3, or 4; and m+n is 5. Processes for preparing compounds of formula (F-I) as well as base stock and lubricant compositions containing compounds of formula (F-I) are also provided.
US11041128B2
A catalyst system has been designed that disrupts the sedimentation process. The catalyst system achieves this by saturating key feed components before the feed components are stripped into their incompatible aromatic cores. The efficacy of this disruptive catalyst system is particularly evident in a hydrocracker configuration that runs in two-stage-recycle operation. The catalyst is a self-supported multi-metallic catalyst prepared from a precursor in the hydroxide form, and the catalyst must be toward the top level of the second stage of the two-stage system.
US11041127B2
Provided are systems and methods for obtaining ethylene and propylene products from, for example, shale gas and shale gas condensate feedstocks. These systems and method operate by utilizing a hydrocracker train to crack C4 and C5 hydrocarbons to a product stream of propane and ethane or using a hydrogenolysis train to process C4 and C5 hydrocarbons to a product stream of propane and ethane that is provided to a cracker for an efficient conversion to ethylene and propylene. The disclosed systems are configured to reduce the amount of offsite hydrogen needed and also provide product streams that include a well-defined set of products as compared to existing approaches.
US11041126B2
An approach is provided for processing mixed solid waste using an integrated bioenergy complex. The approach, for instance, involves receiving the mixed solid waste at the integrated bioenergy complex, the integrated bioenergy complex including an organic conversion processing center and an inorganic conversion processing center. The approach also involves separating the mixed solid waste into recyclables, an organic waste stream, and an inorganic waste stream. The approach further involves feeding the organic waste stream to the organic conversion processing center to produce organic conversion products and an organic residual, and feeding the organic residual and the inorganic waste stream to the inorganic conversion processing center to produce inorganic conversion products, electric power, and a residual waste. The electric power is used to partially or fully power the organic conversion processing center, and residual waste is less than a target percentage of the received mixed solid waste.
US11041124B2
Methods, processes, and apparatuses for preparing and transporting bitumen. Bitumen may be prilled such that a bitumen product comprising a prill core and a non-stick coating is produced. The non-stick coating may comprise asphaltenes and the prill core may comprise bitumen, deasphalted oil, or both bitumen and deasphalted oil. The resultant non-stick coated prills have reduced adhesion to transportation vessels and other non-stick coated prills at a temperature below an adhesion temperature, facilitating transport.
US11041119B2
A Europium beta-diketonate molecule comprises Europium with ligands dibenzoylmethane, 1,10-phenanthroline, and methoxide. The molecule is photoluminescent, absorbing light from the ultraviolet region through the blue region and emitting red light characteristic of trivalent europium. The molecule may be used, for example, as a phosphor in a phosphor-converted light-emitting diode.
US11041116B2
A polymer-encapsulated mineral acid solution and a method for forming the polymer-encapsulated mineral acid solution. Introducing a strong mineral acid solution to a monomer solution occurs such that a primary emulsion that is a water-in-oil type emulsion forms. Introducing the primary emulsion to a second aqueous solution forms a secondary emulsion that is a water-in-oil-in-water type double emulsion. The monomer in the secondary emulsion is cured such a polymerized shell forms that encapsulates the strong mineral acid solution and forms the capsule. The strong mineral acid solution has up to 30 wt. % strong mineral acid. A method of stimulating a hydrocarbon-bearing formation using the polymer-encapsulated mineral acid solution includes introducing a capsule suspension into a fissure in the hydrocarbon-bearing formation to be stimulated through a face in a well bore. The capsule is maintained within the fissure until the polymer shell degrades.
US11041115B2
The present disclosure provides for shape memory proppants, methods for making shape memory proppants, and methods of using shape memory proppants, and the like. The strong expandable proppants of the present disclosure may be used in maintaining fracture openings.
US11041114B2
Systems, methods, and compositions for creating microfractures within subterranean formations and delivering microproppant particles into microfractures within subterranean formations are provided. In some embodiments, the methods include: providing a treatment fluid that comprises an aqueous base fluid, a surfactant, and a plurality of microproppant particles having a mean particle diameter of about 100 microns or less; introducing the treatment fluid into a subterranean formation at or above a pressure sufficient to initiate the formation of at least one microfracture within the subterranean formation; and allowing at least a portion of the microproppant particles to enter the at least one microfracture within the subterranean formation.
US11041113B2
Methods of acidizing a subterranean formation penetrated by a wellbore that include the steps of (a) injecting into the wellbore at a pressure below subterranean formation fracturing pressure a treatment fluid having a first viscosity and including an aqueous acid and a gelling agent selected from the group consisting of Formulas I-XI and combinations thereof; (b) forming at least one void in the subterranean formation with the treatment fluid; and (c) allowing the treatment fluid to attain a second viscosity that is greater than the first viscosity.
US11041112B2
Compositions and methods of using such compositions to, for example, reduce the viscosity of treatment fluids are provided. In one embodiment, the methods include: providing a treatment fluid including a base fluid, a viscosifier, and a breaker system including a gel stabilizer; a delayed release oxidative breaker; and a delayed release enzyme breaker; and allowing the breaker system to reduce a viscosity of the treatment fluid.
US11041096B2
The present invention relates to a polishing agent including: a water-soluble polymer including a copolymer of a monomer (A) which includes at least one member selected from the group consisting of an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid, a derivative thereof, and salts of the unsaturated dicarboxylic acid and the derivative thereof and a monomer (B) other than the monomer (A), comprising an ethylenic double bond and no acidic group; a cerium oxide particle; and water, in which the polishing agent has a pH of 4 to 9.
US11041085B2
There is provided an ink set usable for forming an image on a recording medium which is fabric or recording paper, the ink set including: a water-based ink for ink-jet recording including a pigment, a first resin and water; and a treatment agent including a second resin and the water. The ink set satisfies the following conditions (1) to (3): condition (1): 0.9≤(B+C)/A; condition (2): 3≤A≤9; condition (3): B<9. In the conditions (1) to (3), A: a blending amount (% by weight) of the pigment in an entire amount of the water-based ink; B: a blending amount (% by weight) of the first resin in the entire amount of the water-based ink; and C: a blending amount (% by weight) of the second resin in an entire amount of the treatment agent.
US11041079B2
It is an object of the present invention is to provide an electrodeposition coating composition and an electrodeposition coating method that enable the formation of a cured electrodeposition coating film that develops excellent throwing power and exhibits a good appearance. An electrodeposition coating composition of the present invention comprising: at least one compound (A) selected from the group consisting of a zinc compound (A-1) and a bismuth compound (A-2); an aminated resin (B); and a curing agent (C), wherein a milligram equivalent (MEQ (A)) of an acid per 100 g of a resin solid content in the composition is 27 or more; a coulombic efficiency of the composition is 30 mg/C or less; a film resistance of a 15-μm-thick uncured electrodeposition coating film formed using the composition is 400 kΩ·cm2 or more; and a coating film viscosity of an electrodeposition coating film obtained from the composition is 3000 Pa·s or less at 50° C.
US11041068B2
This invention relates to polymer particles for solid phase oligonucleotide synthesis. The oligonucleotide may be linked to the particle via a linker having an amide-oligoethyleneglycol-amine structure. The particles may be considered to act as a solid support during the oligonucleotide synthesis. Also disclosed are processes for preparing such polymer particles, compositions and systems comprising such particles, and uses thereof.
US11041066B2
A rubber composition for a tire tread is a rubber composition containing from 66 to 110 parts by weight of a filler containing not less than 50 wt. % of a silica per 100 parts by weight of a diene rubber containing not less than 40 wt. % of a terminal-modified styrene-butadiene rubber, from 8 to 35 wt. % of a natural rubber, and from 15 to 40 wt. % of a butadiene rubber; the terminal-modified styrene-butadiene rubber having a terminal functional group derived from a compound reacting with silanol groups; a styrene unit content thereof being from 38 to 48 wt. %; an oil-extended oil content thereof being less than 30 wt. %; a ratio (BR/NR) of a compounded amount of the butadiene rubber (BR) to the natural rubber (NR) being more than 1.0 and not more than 2.5; and an embrittlement temperature of the rubber composition being not more than −45° C.
US11041053B2
A resin powder having a high bulk density and an average particle size of at most 50 μm from resin particles containing a fluorocopolymer as the main component and having a melting point of 260 to 320° C., where the fluorocopolymer contains a unit containing a carbonyl group-containing group, a unit based on tetrafluoroethylene, and a unit based on a perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) or a unit based on hexafluoropropylene. A method of producing the resin powder by subjecting resin particles (A) having an average particle size of at least 100 μm to mechanical pulverization treatment. The resin particles (A) is made of a material (X) having a fluorocopolymer (X1) as the main component, which has a unit (1) based on a monomer containing at least one functional group selected from a carbonyl group-containing group, a hydroxy group, an epoxy group and an isocyanate group, and a unit (2) based on tetrafluoroethylene.
US11041050B2
The present disclosure is directed to nanoparticle delivery systems for delivering biological agents, pharmaceutical compositions of comprising these nanoparticles, and methods of using these compositions. Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide nanoparticles comprising polymers comprising alternating charged and uncharged segments comprising one or more of the following structural units of Formula (I) Formula (III): wherein A is an uncharged segment comprising polyalkylene glycol; and B is a cationically charged segment comprising at least one polyhydroxy linkage.
US11041041B2
High resiliency polyurethane foam is made from a polyether polyol having an equivalent weight of at least 1000. At least a portion of the polyether polyol is one or more random copolymer(s) formed by polymerizing a mixture of 70 to 95% by weight propylene oxide and 5 to 30% by weight ethylene oxide onto an initiator compound. The random copolymer(s) has a nominal hydroxyl functionality of at least 5, a hydroxyl equivalent weight of at least 1500 g/equivalent and no more than 0.01 milliequivalents per gram of terminal unsaturation. The randomly polymerized propylene oxide and ethylene oxide constitute at least 80% of the total weight of the random copolymer. At least 70% of the hydroxyl groups of the random copolymer are secondary hydroxyls.
US11041038B2
Provided is a water repellent composition which does not use a fluorine-containing monomer, especially a fluoroalkyl group-containing monomer. A water repellent composition which contains (1) (a) a polymer which has a repeating unit derived from an amide group-containing monomer that is represented by formula: (wherein R1 represents an organic residue having an ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable group; R2 represents a hydrocarbon group having 7-30 carbon atoms; and R3 represents a hydrocarbon group having 1-5 carbon atoms) in an amount of 2-100% by weight relative to the polymer, and (2) a liquid medium.
US11041030B2
In at least one embodiment, a process of forming a polymer includes supplying a feed having one or more olefin monomers and a solvent; contacting the feed with a catalyst to form a reaction mixture; treating the reaction mixture in a first separator to form a first polymer-rich mixture; introducing the first polymer-rich mixture into a second separator; introducing a volatile component and/or inert component into the first separator, the second separator and/or a line between the first separator and the second separator; treating the first polymer-rich mixture to form a second polymer-rich mixture; and devolatilizing the second polymer-rich mixture to obtain the polymer.
US11041023B2
The present disclosure generally relate to chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) that bind an engulfment receptor expressed on the surface of a phagocytic cell and activate the endogenous phagocytic signaling pathway. Also disclosed are compositions and methods useful for producing such CARs, nucleic acids encoding same, phagocytic cells that have been modified to include a targeted effector activity directed towards a cell of interest such as, e.g., a cancer cell, as well as for modifying a cell and/or for the treatment of various health disorders such as cancer, including solid tumor and hematologic malignancy.
US11041021B2
The disclosure provides chimeric antigen receptors (CARs), T cells comprising such CARs, nucleic acids that encode such CARS, and methods of use thereof, e.g., to treat cancer such as B cell malignancies.
US11041020B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods utilizing anti-TNF antibodies having a heavy chain (HC) comprising SEQ ID NO:36 and a light chain (LC) comprising SEQ ID NO:37 for use in the safe and effective treatment of active Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA).
US11041018B2
The present invention provides for novel compositions and methods for treating a neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer's Disease.
US11041015B2
This disclosure provides non-naturally occurring collagen and elastin molecules. The non-naturally occurring collagens and elastins include truncated collagens, truncated elastins, as well as fusion proteins thereof. The non-naturally occurring collagen and elastin are useful in foods, cosmetics and many other products and uses.
US11041007B2
The present invention provides a modified interleukin-7 and a use thereof. The modified IL-7 or an IL-7 fusion protein of the present invention comprising the same can be obtained in high yield, and biologically active in viral infection and cancer models. Therefore, they can be used for the prevention and treatment of various diseases.
US11041006B2
The present invention provides compositions for use in recovering and/or ameliorating deterioration of physiological functions due to aging. Provided are: a cell overexpressing GDF6 protein or an miR-17 family member; a composition for use in treating a senescence-related condition, containing GDF6 protein; a composition for use in treating a senescence-related condition, containing a human expression vector for GDF6 protein or an miR-17 family member; and a composition for use in treating a senescence-related condition, containing a cell secreting GDF6 protein.
US11040998B2
The present invention provides compounds represented by Formula I, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, stereoisomers, solvates, hydrates or combination thereof, The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and methods of using this compounds for treating FXR-mediated or TGR5-mediated diseases or conditions.
US11040994B2
The present invention discloses a cobalt compound of formula (I), a process for the preparation and use thereof. The present invention further relates to a pharmaceutical composition and a method inhibition of Tau Aggregation in a subject in need thereof using compound of formula (I).
US11040990B2
The present invention relates to novel compounds, particularly to compounds comprising a photoactive unit, said novel compounds being particularly suitable for compositions and ophthalmic devices as well as to compositions and ophthalmic devices comprising such compounds.
US11040983B1
Provided is a cocrystal of varenicline and oxalic acid. In particular, provided is a cocrystal of varenicline and oxalic acid of formula (I) having a molar ratio of varenicline to oxalic acid of 1:1.5. Also provided is a process for preparing the cocrystal, a pharmaceutical composition containing the cocrystal and a method of using the cocrystal and pharmaceutical composition, such as for reducing nicotine addiction or tobacco use.
US11040974B2
The present invention provides novel crystalline forms B1 & B2 of linagliptin intermediate of structural formula V and methods for production of novel crystalline form of linagliptin intermediate represented by the following structural formula V.
US11040962B2
Compounds of formula (I) as defined herein, to processes for preparing them, to pesticidal, in particular insecticidal, acaricidal, molluscicidal and nematicidal compositions comprising them and to methods of using them to combat and control pests such as insect, acarine, mollusc and nematode pests.
US11040957B2
The present invention provides novel compounds of Formula (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, tautomers, stereoisomers, isotopically labeled derivatives, and compositions thereof. Also provided are methods and kits involving the compounds or compositions for treating or preventing proliferative diseases (e.g., cancers (e.g., leukemia, melanoma, multiple myeloma), benign neoplasms, angiogenesis, inflammatory diseases, autoinflammatory diseases, and autoimmune diseases) in a subject. Treatment of a subject with a proliferative disease using a compound or composition of the invention may inhibit the aberrant activity of a kinase, such as a cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) (e.g., cyclin-dependent kinase 7 (CDK7)), and therefore, induce cellular apoptosis and/or inhibit transcription in the subject.
US11040940B2
The subject of the present invention is a weakly corrosive and weakly coloured sulfonic acid, with an APHA colour index of less than 20, comprising chlorides and nitrites in a chloride/sulfonic acid molar ratio of between 1 ppm and 200 ppm, and a nitrite/sulfonic acid molar ratio of between 200 ppm and 6000 ppm, limits inclusive.
US11040936B2
The invention relates to an organometallic complex of the amino acid/metal type. The complex is a crystalline pluri-metal complex that can be obtained in the form of a homogeneous powder that can be used to optimise animal feed. More specifically, the invention relates to an organometallic complex that is characterised in that it is formed by at least one amino acid or amino acid derivative with at least two different metals. The invention also relates to a powder comprising the organometallic complex of the invention, as well as to methods for preparing such a powder.
US11040935B2
Described herein are compounds that disrupt the interaction between Fbxo48 and phosphorylated-AMPK.
US11040916B2
A waterproofing agent for concrete includes: 1-60 parts by weight of ferric ions; 1-60 parts by weight of carboxylate ions; 1-40 parts by weight of 8-hydroxyquinoline; and 1-50 parts by weight of pyrosulfate ions.
US11040915B2
A method of forming a composite component. The method includes laying up a plurality of composite plies to form a composite ply core. Another step of the method includes partially processing the composite ply core to form a green state core. The method further includes machining a cooling cavity on an exterior surface of the green state core. Additionally, the method includes inserting a filler material within the cooling cavity. A further step includes wrapping composite plies around the green state core and filler material to secure the filler material and form an outer enclosure. In one step, the method includes processing the green state core and outer enclosure to form the composite component.
US11040914B2
The present invention is directed to a porous pre-densified CeO2-stabilized ZrO2 ceramic having a density of 50.0 to 95.0%, relative to the theoretical density of zirconia, and an open porosity of 5 to 50% as well as to a densified CeO2-stabilized ZrO2 ceramic having a density of 97.0 to 100.0%, relative to the theoretical density of zirconia, and wherein the grains of the ceramic have an average grain size of 50 to 1000 nm, methods for the preparation of the pre-densified and densified ceramics and their use for the manufacture of dental restorations.
US11040912B2
The invention is directed to a fly ash containing construction material having improved strength and water resistance. The fly ash containing material includes fly ash, an alkali solution comprising sodium hydroxide, and water. The invention further provides a geopolymerization method of forming a fly ash containing material.
US11040910B2
A drying-type joint compound, a setting-type joint compound, and/or a ready-mixed, setting-type joint compound can include a phospholipid dedusting agent. For example, a drying-type joint compound can include: (a) a primary filler at 50 weight percent (wt %) to 98 wt % on a dry basis, wherein the primary filler includes one of calcium carbonate, calcium sulfate dihydrate, and talc, and a mixture thereof (b) a secondary filler at up to 25 wt % on a dry basis; (c) a binder at 1 wt % to 15 wt % on a dry basis; (d) a polymer thickener at 0.05 wt % to 3 wt % on a dry basis; (e) a phospholipid dedusting agent at 0.01 wt % to 3 wt % on a dry basis; (f) an additive up to 10 wt % o on a dry basis; and (g) water at a weight ratio of water to dry components of 1:6 to 2:1.
US11040907B2
Compounds, compositions, articles, devices, and methods for the manufacture of light guide plates and back light units including such light guide plates made from glass. In some embodiments, light guide plates (LGPs) are provided that have similar or superior optical properties to light guide plates made from PMMA and that have exceptional mechanical properties such as rigidity, CTE and dimensional stability in high moisture conditions as compared to PMMA light guide plates.
US11040899B2
A water purification member includes a porous body; and photocatalyst particles loaded on the porous body and including titanium-based compound particles that have, via an oxygen atom, a surface-bonded metallic compound having a metal atom and a hydrocarbon group, that exhibit absorption at a wavelength of 500 nm in a visible absorption spectrum, and that have an absorption peak in a range of 2700 cm−1 to 3000 cm−1 in an infrared absorption spectrum.
US11040892B2
A mobile device reads a test strip to determine a chemical condition of a liquid or a user inputs a treatment plan into the mobile device. The mobile device transmits the determined chemical condition or the input treatment plan to a liquid treatment system which treats the fluid in response to the determined chemical condition or the input treatment plan.
US11040888B2
The invention provides a low alpha dose barium sulfate particle having a silica content of 0.6% by weight or less, an average particle diameter of 1 μm or less, a sulfur content of 10 ppm or less, and an alpha dose of 0.07 cph/cm2 or less.
US11040883B2
Provided is a graphite plate, consisting essentially of: graphite; and pores, wherein said graphite plate has a porosity from 1% to 30%. Further provided is a method for producing a graphite plate, including: applying welding pressure to at least one glass-like carbon material in a state in which said at least one glass-like carbon material is maintained in an inert atmosphere under heating conditions, to produce a graphite plate having a porosity from 1% to 30%.
US11040882B2
A carbon material precursor comprises an acrylamide-based polymer having a weight-average molecular weight of 10,000 to 2,000,000 and a polydispersity of the molecular weight (weight-average molecular weight/number-average molecular weight) of 5.0 or less.
US11040877B2
Process for making a hydrogen-containing synthesis gas (105) from a hydrocarbon feedstock (101), comprising the reforming of said hydrocarbon feedstock and purification of raw synthesis gas, said purification comprising shift conversion of carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide and subsequent absorption of carbon dioxide into an absorbing medium (7a, 14), resulting in a stream of a CO2-rich medium (5), and regeneration of said medium with recovery of CO2 absorbed therein, wherein said raw synthesis gas (102) is produced by the reforming step at a pressure of at least 45 bar, said regeneration of the CO2-loaded medium includes a step of chemical regeneration and the CO2-loaded medium has a temperature of at least 150° C. during said chemical regeneration.
US11040875B2
A hydrogen storage system includes a pressure-sealed storage unit defining an interior and having an outlet, an upper manifold and a lower manifold separated by a dividing plane having a set of ports, a set of chambers, and a hydrogen storage, wherein at least some hydrogen gas is supplied to the outlet.
US11040873B2
In a method of manufacturing a highly stretchable three-dimensional (3D) percolated conductive nano-network structure, a 3D nano-structured porous elastomer including patterns distributed in a periodic network is formed. A surface of the 3D nano-structured porous elastomer is changed to a hydrophilic state. A polymeric material is conformally adhered on the surface of the 3D nano-structured porous elastomer. The surface of the 3D nano-structured porous elastomer is wet by infiltrating a conductive solution in which a conductive material is dispersed. A 3D percolated conductive nano-network coupled with the 3D nano-structured porous elastomer is formed by evaporating a solvent of the conductive solution and removing the polymeric material.
US11040864B2
Apparatus for drawing beverages, particularly beer, contained in barrels with a limited capacity, having a washing device for a beverage dispensing circuit thereof. Such washing device includes a duct which can be connected to a water supply and is connected to a washing head arranged on the casing of the apparatus and that can be coupled to the connector of the dispensing circuit.
US11040863B2
The invention relates to a method for drawing a carbonated drink from a dispenser system, in which the carbonated drink is conducted via a line through a flow controller and a filter that is downstream of said flow controller. The invention also relates to a dispenser system and to a cartridge unit comprising a filter.
US11040858B2
An illustrative example elevator door interlock includes a latch situated for pivotal movement about a pivot axis between a door locking position and a released position. At least one coupling bumper is situated for movement with the latch between the door locking and released positions. The coupling bumper is selectively moved relative to the pivot axis into an alignment position where the coupling bumper is positioned to cooperate with a door coupler. At least one stationary support is situated to contact the coupling bumper when the latch is in the released position where the stationary support bears a load associated with moving an associated door.
US11040854B2
A method of operating an elevator or escalator system is provided. The method includes alerting a mechanic of a shutdown of a vehicle of the elevator or escalator system and providing data indicative of an occupancy condition of the vehicle to the mechanic so that the mechanic can execute, in any order, a verification of a no-occupancy condition, a switch of a mode of operation of the elevator or escalator system to a recovery mode and an inspection for faults. The method further includes initiating an overspeed (OS) switch reset routine in an event the mechanic confirms that an actuation of the OS switch is an exclusive cause of the shutdown and remotely triggers the OS switch reset routine accordingly.
US11040851B2
A method of controlling an elevator system incudes collecting one or more frustration indicators of a passenger during usage of the elevator system by the passenger; collecting one or more frustration factors; correlating the one or more frustration factors to the one or more frustration indicators to generate one or more preferences for the passenger; generating a profile for the passenger in response to the correlating, the profile including the one or more preferences; and controlling operation of the elevator system in response to the one or more preferences to reduce frustration of the passenger during interaction with the elevator system.
US11040836B1
Devices for separating piece goods such as pharmaceutical product packages to be stored in a picking device are provided. The device includes a feed device for piece goods, a recording device for recording 3D images of piece goods, a control device for evaluating 3D images and for determining a piece good to be picked, a conveyor for picking a piece good, a deposit surface, and a lateral recording device. The control device is configured so that the orientation of the picked piece good is ascertained and the preferred storage surface is established and that the conveyor is activated in such a way that a picked piece good is situated on a preferred storage surface on the deposit surface. Methods of separating piece goods to be stored in a picking device are also provided.
US11040833B2
The present disclosure relates to a flight bar clamp for connecting a flight bar to at least one chain link of at least one conveyor chain of a chain conveyor used in underground mining. The flight bar clamp comprises a clamp main body extending along a clamp longitudinal axis, and at least one chain link engaging portion disposed at the clamp main body configured to engage with one chain link. The at least one chain link engaging portion of the flight bar clamp includes a sacrificial anode reception, and a sacrificial anode body disposed in the sacrificial anode reception. The sacrificial anode body may protect the flight bar clamp, the flight bar and the chains from contact corrosion.
US11040829B2
A conveyor bed including a conveyor frame, a first set of rollers, a second set of rollers, and a pivotable frame is provided. The first set of rollers are coupled to the conveyor frame to transport an article from an upstream location to a downstream location. The pivotable frame pivotably coupled to a side of the of the conveyor frame. The second set of rollers mounted to the pivotable frame, positioned below the first set of rollers. A belt wrapped is around the second set of rollers, and selectively engages and disengages the first set of rollers in response to pivoting the pivotable frame based on predefined criteria.
US11040822B1
A device for holding a racking cane is disclosed herein. The device includes a base component, the base component configured to be attached to a neck of a carboy; and a clip component coupled to the base component, the clip component configured to hold a racking cane steady relative to the carboy, the clip component being adjustable relative to the base component so as to allow a position and/or angle of the racking cane to be adjusted by a user.
US11040820B2
A thermal bag includes a thermal bag main body and an upper cover. A side shaping board is interlaid between the fabrics around the thermal bag main body. The upper cover includes a pair of half covers. An opening assembly is connected between the two half covers. Atop shaping board is interlaid between the fabrics of each of the half covers. A hinge assembly is connected between the side shaping board and the top shaping board located at the same side of the opening assembly. The hinge assembly drives the half covers to open/close the opening of the thermal bag quickly.
US11040819B1
An insulated holder for a beverage container has a thermally insulating main body with a base and an upwardly extending side wall that extends upwardly to a top perimeter opening, wherein the top perimeter opening allows access to an interior chamber formed by the main body. The interior chamber is adapted to receive the beverage container, and an opening is formed in a bottom surface of the base, wherein a bottle opener prong extends laterally into the opening.
US11040817B2
Example aspects of a temperature-regulating lid for an insulated box assembly and a method for using an insulated box assembly are disclosed. The temperature-regulating lid for an insulated box assembly can comprise a lid box comprising a top panel, a bottom panel, and at least one side panel, the lid box defining a cavity; and a temperature-regulating insert positioned in the cavity.
US11040816B2
A flameless and nonelectric insulated steam source. The steam source may be operated within a garment bag to refresh and remove wrinkles from an article of clothing. Hydrating an exothermic compound produces steam. An insulator within the steam source allows the pouch to be handled and prevents damage to the garment bag and the surroundings when using compounds with high thermal output. Single-use garment bags employ integrated steam sources to streamline garment steaming. A garment bag can be designed to optimize the benefit to garments when using the steam source.
US11040813B2
A hermetically sealed flat container for containing loose materials may include: first and second flexible sheet elements, having polygonal shape, which are coupled together by welds formed along a perimeter of their polygonal shape, to define a volume for containing the materials. The perimeter may define a plurality of edges, one edge forming a bearing edge for the container to rest upon a base. The bearing edge may progressively reduce its transverse dimensions toward one end such that, when the bearing edge rests on the base, a weight-force component of the materials applied to the bearing edge causes a reaction that causes the bearing edge to retract into the volume and imparts vertical stability to the container. The container further comprises a strip of stiffening material attached to the first and second flexible sheet elements, the strip spaced from the bearing edge except for end portions of the strip.
US11040807B2
A package includes a container and a closure cap for mounting on the container. The closure cap is coupled to a neck of the container to block selectively removal of product stored within the container at the selection of a user.
US11040803B2
The laminated tube container has a tube body that includes a light blocking layer between an innermost layer and an outermost layer made of resin. The tube body has a butted portion in which both side edges of a laminated sheet constituting the tube body butt against each other and a reinforcing tape portion provided on an inner surface of the tube body along the butted portion. The reinforcing tape portion has a pair of resin layers and an intermediate layer that includes an aluminum layer and is disposed between the pair of resin layers.
US11040801B2
A product, system, and method for creating a film capable of allowing a user to create a custom graphical representation is described, which may allow a user to create a custom graphical representation in a film by depressing select areas of the film to form the custom graphical representation.
US11040800B2
A collapsible dunnage box is provided that includes a box base and first and second opposed base sidewalls attached to the box base on opposing sides of the box. First and second opposed top sidewalls are pivotally attached to the top edge of respective ones of the base sidewalls. First and second opposed top endwalls are provided to form a box enclosure. The base endwalls are pivotally-mounted to the top endwalls and are moveable between a lowered, vertical deployed position enclosing respective ends of the box and a raised, horizontal stowed position to contain and store dunnage positioned in an upper portion of the box.
US11040795B2
Packaging machine for packaging products in plastic packaging having at least one sealing station for receiving a plastic packaging to be sealed in a reception region within the sealing station. The packaging machine includes a supply line capable to supply a gas to the reception region, a discharge line capable to discharge a gas from the reception region. A valve may be disposed in the discharge line. Further, a vacuum pump may be connected to the discharge line to pump gas out of the reception region through the discharge line valve. A measuring line may be connected to the reception region at a connection point and may be connected to the discharge line in a region between the valve and the vacuum pump via a connecting line. A first shut-off valve may disposed in the connecting line and a second shut-off valve may be disposed in the measuring line.
US11040781B2
A boarding guidance system includes a beacon (202A) associated with a passenger seat (400A). The beacon is configured to communicate (506) with a passenger guiding device (102) and determine a distance between the passenger guiding device and the passenger seat. When the passenger guiding device is a predetermined distance from the passenger seat, the beacon provides an indication. The beacon further alter at least one characteristic of the indication based on the distance between the passenger guiding device and the passenger seat.
US11040779B2
An aircraft includes a fuselage; a propulsion system including a power source and a vertical thrust electric fan oriented to generate thrust along a vertical direction and powered by the power source; and a wing extending from the fuselage and including the vertical thrust electric fan positioned at least partially therein. The wing includes a variable geometry assembly having partial wing assembly, the partial wing assembly including a frame and a first member, the partial wing assembly moveable generally along a longitudinal direction when the variable geometry assembly is moved between a forward thrust position and a vertical thrust position, the first member moveable relative to the frame to form an exhaust path for the vertical thrust electric fan.
US11040778B2
A multi-staged suspension line length parachute may include a suspension line having a primary length and a secondary length. The primary length may be deployable upon a first deployment of the multi-staged suspension line length parachute. The secondary length may be prevented from deployment until the primary length has fully deployed. An attenuator may attach a first portion of the secondary length to a second portion of the secondary length.
US11040776B2
An aircraft divan includes a lateral bracket connecting between front and rear legs with lateral bracket front and rear ends, a first track defined by the lateral bracket between the lateral bracket front and rear ends, an upright, having upright top and bottom ends, a second track defined by the upright between the upright top and bottom ends, a seat pan having seat pan front and rear ends, the seat pan being slidingly connected to the first track adjacent to the seat pan rear end, and a backrest having backrest top and bottom ends, the backrest being slidingly connected to the second track adjacent to the backrest top end. The seat pan rear end is pivotably connected to the backrest adjacent to the backrest bottom end such that movement of the seat pan is transmitted to the backrest so as to move together between upright and berth positions.
US11040773B2
An aerial spraying apparatus (unmanned aerial vehicle system) includes one or more drones (unmanned aerial vehicles), and a station on the ground that is connected by wire to at least one of the one or more drones. Each of the one or more drones is equipped with a drone side cable connected to the station or another drone, and a drone side cable mechanism that performs paying out or pulling in of the drone side cable.
US11040767B2
An aircraft assembly includes an engine, and intake, and a propeller assembly. The engine is mounted to at least one of a wing or fuselage of an aircraft. The intake is configured to provide air to the engine. The intake includes a body having an engine inlet through which air enters the intake. The propeller assembly includes propeller blades coupled to and driven by the engine. The propeller assembly is spaced an axial distance from the inlet opening of the intake wherein air passing by the propeller blades enters the intake. The propeller assembly has a propeller configuration that is at least one of sized or shaped to optimize performance of the propeller assembly based on an interaction between the propeller assembly and the intake.
US11040762B2
A propulsion system for a marine vessel having a first driveline assembly having a first engine and a first motor-generator, a second driveline assembly having a second engine and second motor-generator, and a controller configured to operate of the assemblies in a split mode. The split mode includes the first driveline assembly being driven by the first engine without torque assistance from the first motor-generator and the second driveline assembly being driven by the second motor-generator without torque assistance from the second engine and includes the first motor generator providing electrical power to the marine vessel grid for consumption.
US11040757B2
A boat includes at least three trim devices positioned aft of the boat's transom. To improve the boat's ability to get on place, each trim device is initially positioned to a deployed position. The speed of the boat is then determined as the boat gains speed. When the speed of the boat exceeds a first predetermined threshold, the first trim device is moved from the deployed position to a non-deployed position. When the speed of the boat exceeds a second predetermined threshold, the second trim device is moved from the deployed position to a non-deployed position. When the speed of the boat exceeds a third predetermined threshold, the third trim device is moved from the deployed position to a non-deployed position. At least one of the first, second, and third predetermined thresholds is different from the other two of the first, second, and third predetermined thresholds.
US11040754B2
Example dampers for bicycle suspension components are described herein. An example damper includes a damper body defining a chamber, a shaft extending into the chamber of the damper body, and an adjustable piston system having a piston body coupled to the shaft. The adjustable piston system controls a flow of fluid between the first and second chambers. The adjustable piston system includes an adjustable rebound orifice forming part of a rebound flow path to control the flow of fluid from the first chamber to the second chamber across the piston body, an adjustable compression orifice forming part of a low flow compression flow path to control the flow of fluid from the second chamber to the first chamber across the piston body, an isolation member to separate the rebound flow path and the low flow compression flow path.
US11040751B2
A longitudinal two-wheel somatosensory car, comprising a car frame, and a front wheel and a rear wheel that are provided at the front and rear ends of the car frame. The rear wheel is connected to a drive motor which is used for driving the rear wheel. The two-wheel car further comprises a somatosensory platform. The somatosensory platform is built-in with an attitude sensor. The somatosensory platform in a mechanical transmission connection with the motor stator shaft of the drive motor. The traditional balanced structure, in which the wheels are provided on the left and right sides of a balanced car, is changed to a structure in which the moving wheels are provided at the front and the rear ends.
US11040749B2
A legs apron for a motor vehicle includes a middle portion having a longitudinal axis; a first side portion and a second side portion, which extend laterally on opposite sides. The side portions define a first and a second folding portion, which extend according in a prevalent direction substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis. The legs apron has an operating configuration in which the side portions are folded along the folding portions to extend over a respective side transversely with respect to the middle portion. The apron has protection against impacts to protect the lower limbs of the driver. First and second protective bar couple to the first and second side portions. The protective bars each extend parallel or substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis. The protective bars are proximal to the first and second folding portions, to protect at least the femoral portions of the driver's legs.
US11040744B2
A spoiler device includes a link mechanism and a spoiler member. In the link mechanism, a drive link, an intermediate link, a driven link, and a fixed link are annularly connected. The drive link is driven by an actuator, thereby causing the link mechanism to operate as a four-joint link. The spoiler member is fixed to the intermediate link or the driven link. Any one of the drive link, the intermediate link, and the driven link is configured so as to include, two division links whose one end portions are connected by a connection portion. The two division links are rotatable around the connection portion, and are pressed in rotational directions by a pressing member.
US11040737B2
A device for assembling a column tube (30) in an adjustable steering column assembly (20), comprising a spacer portion (70) adapted to provide rotational damping; provide damping during adjustment of the steering column assembly (e.g., telescope adjustment); and assist in centering the column tube when in an unlocked position and assist in resisting lash, The device further comprises a stop bracket portion (50) adapted to limit rotational travel of the column tube when in an unlocked position; and retain the column tube longitudinally within the steering column assembly.
US11040734B2
A mobility apparatus for an imaging appliance such as a panoramic radiograph machine allows single-operator transport for on-site usage with ambulatory challenged patients. A counterbalanced pivot interface integrates the imaging appliance with a motorized transport vehicle for disposing the appliance securely on the vehicle, while the counterbalanced pivot interface allows positioning to an operational upright orientation for on-site usage. The imaging appliance includes modifications to a stock appliance for adapting the pivot interface for mobility and for usage with ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) affected patients, such as wheelchair and scooter bound individuals. The modifications include a truncated base and truncated vertical riser, coupled with a counterbalance mass on the vehicle to maintain stability in the deployed and transportable positions. The lowered vertical riser permits the imaging mechanism to descend to accommodate seated patients.
US11040733B1
An apparatus for the transportation and dispensing of spooled wire or cable, the apparatus including a handle structure wherein the handle structure has a first end and a second end, a first support structure attached to the first end of the handle structure, a second support structure attached to the second end of the handle structure, a first spool center insert attached to the first support structure, a second spool center insert attached to the second support structure, a first leg moveably attached to the first support structure, a second leg moveably attached to the second support structure, and wherein a spool of spooled wire or cable is attached to the first and second spool center inserts during transportation and dispensing of the spooled wire or cable.
US11040731B2
Present systems and methods are directed to a passenger restraining system, which includes a restraint and a locking mechanism, and a lighting system, which includes a variety of light sources. At least a portion of the variety of light sources is integrated with the restraint. Furthermore, the lighting system receives an indication of a configuration of the locking mechanism, executes a first light scheme via the plurality of light sources when the indication is of an unlocked configuration, and executes a second light scheme via the plurality of light sources when the indication is of a locked configuration.
US11040729B2
A method for world objects tracking and prediction by an autonomous vehicle includes receiving, from sensors of the AV, a first observation data; associating the first observation data with a first world object; determining hypotheses for the first world object; determining a respective hypothesis likelihood of each of the hypotheses indicating a likelihood that the first world object follows the intention; determining, for at least one hypothesis of the hypotheses, a respective state; and in response to a query, providing a hypothesis of the hypotheses based on the respective hypothesis likelihood of each of the hypotheses. A hypothesis corresponds to an intention of the first world object and the respective state includes predicted positions of the first world object.
US11040727B2
In an engine speed display control device of a vehicle including an engine speed display to display a determined display value of the engine speed, the engine speed display control device determines the display value of the engine speed, and includes a variation restricting display control portion configured to implement a variation restricting display control when a garage-parking shifting operation of the transmission shifting member is performed while the vehicle is held stationary in a non-operated position of the accelerator pedal. The variation restricting display control portion determines the display value of the engine speed in the variation restricting display control such that an amount of variation of the display value is smaller than in a normal display control in which the display value is determined according to the actual value.
US11040723B2
A vehicle can include: a sensing device configured to acquire driving information of the vehicle; and a controller configured to determine whether a current driving mode of the vehicle is changeable based on the driving information, to identify a driving mode among a plurality of driving modes which corresponds to the driving information upon determining that the current driving mode is changeable, and to control an operation of the vehicle so as to change the current driving mode to the identified driving mode.
US11040722B2
The present invention has an object to provide a technology of determining whether a driver is prepared for transfer of driving authorization, and then determining whether transfer of driving authorization is acceptable or unacceptable. The present invention is intended for a driving authorization transfer determination device. The device includes a task request part that makes an output device inside the vehicle output a request for a task involving continuous speech or body movement for a predetermined period of time, a task acquisition part that acquires an accomplishment result of the task from an input device inside the vehicle, a transfer determination part that determines whether the transfer is acceptable or unacceptable based on the accomplishment result of the task, and a determination result output part that outputs a determination result of the transfer determination part to the automated driving controller.
US11040719B2
A vehicle system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to execute a first program, a second program, and a third program. The first program is configured to recognize an object present around a vehicle, the second program is configured to store information related to the recognized object as time-series map data, and the third program is configured to predict a future position of the object based on the stored time-series map data. The first program and the third program are configured to be (i) first, individually optimized based on first training data corresponding to output of the first program and second training data corresponding to output of the third program, and (ii) then, collectively optimized based on the second training data corresponding to the output of the third program.
US11040707B2
There is provided a booster of a braking force 1 which drives a master cylinder by boosting an operation force of a brake pedal 100 in accordance with a movement amount of an input member 4 that reciprocates by an operation of the brake pedal 100, including: the input member 4 of which one end is linked to the brake pedal 100, which is inserted and fitted to the inside of a control housing 3 installed in a housing 2, and which is provided to be freely relatively slidable in an axial direction; and damping members 22, 31, and 32 which are provided at a part at which the input member 4 and the housing 2 abut against each other, or at a position which can be linked or abut against a part of the input member 4, in which, when the input member 4 moves to return when releasing an operation of the brake pedal 100, when the input member 4 abuts against the housing 2, the damping members 22, 31, and 32 perform an impact absorbing and damping action.
US11040701B2
A wiper mount bracket including an attachment portion, a pair of first welded portions each of which is provided with a welding point to be spot welded to the vehicle body, a second welded portion that is disposed on one side with respect to the attachment portion and the first welded portions in a direction perpendicular to an arrangement direction of the pair of first welded portions and that is provided with a welding point to be spot welded to the vehicle body, and a recess portion that is disposed between the second welded portion and the attachment portion together with the first welded portions. A protruding bead through which an input load from the wiper driving unit is transmitted toward an outer edge of the first welded portion is provided in a vicinity of each of the welding points of the first welded portions.
US11040697B2
In an apparatus for controlling a vehicle that includes seats each having a seat belt, a seat-belt detector configured to detect a wearing state of each of the seat belt, and a notifying unit that notifies various items of information, a controller determines whether to notify prompt information that prompts wearing of at least one of the seat belts in accordance with a wearing-obligatory number representing the number of one or more occupants who ride on the vehicle and have an obligation to wear the corresponding one or more seat belts and a seat-belt fastened seat number representing the number of one or more seats whose seat belts are fastened.
US11040693B2
A vehicular protection device includes a protection device that protects a protection target that comes into collision with a vehicle, a measuring device that captures an image of the protection target and measures a distance between the protection target and the vehicle, and a controller that activates the protection device in different modes based on whether the protection target includes a predetermined vehicle on which to ride. The protection device includes an airbag device that deploys an airbag toward a front of the vehicle, and a pop-up device that moves a hood provided in a front upper section of the vehicle, and the controller activates the pop-up device without activating the airbag device if the protection target includes the vehicle on which to ride, and activates the airbag device and the pop-up device if the protection target does not include the vehicle on which to ride.
US11040684B2
A vehicle occupant restraint device comprises a control unit and a group of at least two matched airbags (20, 24; 22, 26) for the protection of a vehicle occupant (10; 16) on a particular vehicle seat (12; 16). The control unit is arranged and the airbags (20, 24; 22, 26) are disposed and designed so that, in a collision case, the control unit differentiates between a first situation in which the vehicle occupant (10; 16) is located in a standard distance area relative to a first airbag (20; 22) and a second situation in which the vehicle occupant (10; 16) is located in a rear area which is further distant from the first airbag (20; 22) than the standard distance area. When the first situation is given, the control unit activates the first airbag (20; 22) only. In contrast, when the second situation is given, the control unit activates the first airbag (20; 22) and additionally at least a second airbag (24; 26) of the group, with the first airbag (20; 22) backing the second airbag (24; 26).
US11040668B2
A cargo carrier includes a backbone that has a hitch mounting portion that is configured to be removably coupled to a trailer hitch receiver of a vehicle and a deck portion that is vertically offset from the hitch mounting portion. Further, the cargo carrier includes a pair of upright members that are coupled to the deck portion of the backbone such that the upright members are substantially parallel to and spaced apart from each other. Each upright member includes a bottom support portion and a pair of arms. Furthermore, the cargo carrier includes a lower cargo deck is coupled to the bottom support portion of the pair of upright members and an upper cargo deck is coupled to the top ends of the arms of the pair of upright members such that the upper cargo deck is spaced apart from and at least partially overlying the bottom cargo deck.
US11040666B2
A glove box retainer assembly for retaining a glove box in a closed position during a frontal impact event of a vehicle includes an instrument panel of the vehicle and a bin is coupled to the instrument panel. The bin includes a base coupled to a rearward wall, a forward wall, and a side wall positioned between the rearward wall and the forward wall. A plurality of ribs is coupled to the forward wall. A collapsible feature is coupled to the side wall. An arm feature is coupled to the side wall and is defined by a slot feature in the side wall that feature extends from an upper rim of the side wall toward the forward wall. The collapsible feature is configured to collapse and the arm feature is configured to protrude outward from the side wall and engage the instrument panel in response to the application of a sufficient force.
US11040665B1
Embodiments of a concealed, secure storage compartment include a concealed floorboard storage compartment for a front passenger side floorboard of a vehicle to provide a unitary floorboard containment shield sized to fit under the passenger side floormat and a hinged attachment plate securing the containment shield to the firewall portion of the passenger side floorboard padding. The containment shield provides an open bottom, a substantially planar top side surface upon which the bottom of the passenger side floormat rests, and internally reinforced sides affixed to the planar top side and its underside surface in the interior portion of the containment shield. An embodiment of the concealed, secure storage compartment provides a locking assembly securing the containment shield and floormat from being raised absent an unlocking key.
US11040660B2
According to one embodiment, a vehicle-mounted monitor display system includes a camera which captures an image of outside scenery which is a blind spot of a driver created by a pillar, a display which displays an image on the pillar, and an image processing device which generates a display image by cutting out the image captured by the camera in conformity with a display range of the pillar, and outputs the display image to the display. In the image processing device, a resolution of the display image is reduced in a state where a vehicle equipped therewith is moving.
US11040659B2
A method displays information graphically on an image captured by a vehicular optical system. The method includes capturing the image and identifying an object in the image. The method the assigns a priority level to the object based on a predetermined criterion. The object is altered based on its priority level to create an altered object. An altered object may have a changed color, a colored halo surrounding it, or a colored object inside it. Other possible ways to alter the way the object looks are possible. The altered object is displayed in the image in place of the object on a mobile device to alert a person of its presence and the priority level associated therewith.
US11040656B2
Provided is an alert apparatus for a vehicle configured to: in a case where a connection state of a switch is an off state, determine whether or not there is an alert-target object based on vehicle peripheral information which has been acquired until an off time point at which the connection state of the switch is changed to the off state, the alert-target object being a moving object to be alerted when an occupant of the vehicle gets out of the vehicle; and configured to, when determining that there is the alert-target object, cause an alerting device to perform an alerting operation.
US11040655B2
An interior assembly for a motor vehicle includes a decorative layer and a lighting unit. The decorative layer has a plurality of cutouts which are arranged with respect to one another in such a way that they represent at least one symbol. The lighting unit is assigned to the cutouts in such a way that the light which is emitted by the lighting unit in the switched on state of the lighting unit is directed through at least some of the cutouts to a surface of the decorative layer.
US11040654B2
A control apparatus includes a switch that operates a device, the switch being attached to a vehicle ceiling part, wherein a display able to transmit light from a light source is provided on an operation surface of an operation element of a switch, and in the operation element, an inclined part inclined with an upward slope from a vehicle front toward a vehicle rear is provided, the slope being inclined at an angle at which light radiated from the light source is not visually recognized by an occupant when the light radiated from the light source is reflected on a rearview mirror.
US11040644B2
A seating posture is stabilized for the shoulders of a passenger seated on a vehicle seat. A vehicle seat is provided with a seat back configured to support the seated person from the rear. A shoulder support portion of the seat back configured to support a corresponding one of the shoulders of the seated passenger includes an air cell configured to expand when air is supplied. When the air cell expands, one end portion of the shoulder support portion on the outside in the width direction of the vehicle seat moves more forward than the other end portion of the shoulder support portion on the inside in the width direction.
US11040640B2
A vehicle seat lifting apparatus includes: a cushion base of a vehicle seat; a link member rotatably provided on the cushion base and raising and lowering at least a part of the vehicle seat; a front limiter provided on a front portion in front of a rotation center of the link member and limiting rotation of the link member; and a rear limiter provided on a rear portion behind the rotation center of the link member and limiting the rotation of the link member.
US11040634B2
A power electronics arrangement includes an inverter to which an electric machine can be connected, and at least one half bridge to which at least two electric energy storage devices can be connected. One of the at least two electric energy storage devices at least temporarily supplies the electric machine, and one of the electric energy storage devices at least temporarily charges another energy storage device of the at least two electric energy storage devices by way of the electric machine and one of the half bridges. For this purpose, a control method for the power electronics arrangement operates according to the principle of space vector modulation.
US11040632B2
An interleaved DC-DC converter includes a non-gapped coupled inductor with first, second, and third windings. The converter also includes first, second, and third legs in parallel. The first leg has silicon carbide or silicon nitride switches, and the second and third legs have silicon switches. A controller modulates the switches of the first leg at a frequency greater than a frequency of the switches of the second and third legs.
US11040609B2
An electric vehicle includes a vehicle cabin, a battery, a drive unit, and an end doorway. The vehicle cabin is provided with a floor having a flat floor surface, and configured such that an occupant is able to be in the vehicle cabin in any one of a seated position and a standing position. The battery is accommodated under the floor of the vehicle cabin. The drive unit is provided on one of a front side and a rear side with respect to the battery in a vehicle longitudinal direction. The end doorway is provided in a longitudinally-end wall of the vehicle cabin, and provided on the other one of the front side and the rear side with respect to the battery in the vehicle longitudinal direction. The end doorway is configured such that the occupant is able to get on and off the electric vehicle through the end doorway.
US11040606B2
A latch system for a tonneau cover. The latch system includes a handle that is configured to move about an axis; and a latch pin connected to the handle. The latch pin is configured to move in a retracted direction and during movement of the handle towards the tonneau cover.
US11040605B2
Disclosed are embodiments of a retractable tonneau cover for a vehicle that has been modified in order to generally minimize the size of a housing of the tonneau cover, providing more vehicle cargo space for a user. The modified retractable tonneau cover can be automatically closed through an electronic system.
US11040601B2
An air sanitizing apparatus for a vehicle comprising: an ozone generator; a negative ion generator; and an ultraviolet radiation source. The air sanitizing apparatus further includes a rotating feature and a motor operably connected to the rotating feature, the rotating feature configured to move the air sanitizing apparatus along a track system. The air sanitizing apparatus can include a first end portion; a second end portion; a middle portion disposed between the first end portion and the second end portion, the middle portion rotatable relative to the first end portion and the second end portion about an axis that extends through both the first end portion and the second end portion. The ozone generator, the negative ion generator, and the ultraviolet radiation source are all disposed at the middle portion. The air sanitizing apparatus is disposed in an interior of a vehicle below but adjacent to a ceiling.
US11040600B2
An arrangement for de-icing a heat exchanger includes an air guiding housing and at least one fan. The air guiding housing is configured to take in an air from an outside of a motor vehicle through an inlet opening and to discharge the air from an outlet opening. The fan is positioned between the inlet opening and the outlet opening inside the air guiding housing and is configured to circulate the air in the air guiding housing. The heat exchanger is positioned between the inlet opening and the outlet opening inside the air guiding housing and allows the air to pass therethrough, thereby being configured to cool the air. The inlet opening and the outlet opening each are configured to be closed. The air guiding housing is configured to cause a circulation flow therein when the fan is operated while the inlet opening and the outlet opening are closed.
US11040597B2
A heat exchanger unit, especially for a fuel-operated vehicle heater, with a heat exchanger housing (16) with an outer wall (24) and with an inner wall (30), wherein the outer wall (24) and the inner wall (30) define a heat carrier medium flow space (36), through which heat carrier medium (M) can flow, wherein at least one sensor mounting opening (42) is formed in the outer wall (24) and a sensor (40) is received in the at least one sensor mounting opening (42) in a fluid-tight manner and displaceably and protruding into the heat carrier medium flow space (36) with an area (50) protruding into the flow space and supported on the inner wall, wherein a prestressing element (52) acting on the sensor (40) for supporting it at the inner wall (30) is associated with the sensor (40), wherein the prestressing element (52) is fixed in a fixing area (54) in relation to an outer housing (58) enclosing the heat exchanger unit (22) in at least some areas and it acts on the sensor (40) in an action area (56) for support at the inner wall (30).
US11040594B2
A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) airflow distribution module is integrated with a driver-focus mode operation mechanism for a vehicle. The module utilizes: a driver face door to control airflow through driver face outlets; a passenger face door sub assembly to control airflow through a passenger center face outlet and a passenger side face outlet independently; a foot door sub assembly including a passenger front foot door and a main foot door to control airflow through a passenger front foot outlet independently from driver front and rear foot outlets and a passenger rear foot outlet; and a separator to separate airflow through passenger front and rear foot outlets. The present disclosure enables an HVAC airflow distribution module to focus airflow on the driver's seat and maintain the vehicle recirculation at a comfortable level when no passenger is present.
US11040590B2
A method and apparatus for lowering the height of a wheeled vehicle for cargo height constraints during transportation. The rear leaf spring shackle on each side of the vehicle is connected to a sliding frame mount. In the transport configuration, fasteners are removed from the sliding frame mount, and the mount slides forward, rotating the rear leaf spring shackle from a near vertical to a near horizontal position, effectively lowering the height of the vehicle. To return the vehicle to the ride configuration, a screw jack member is attached to the sliding frame mount and a rear attachment point on the vehicle, pulling the sliding frame mount back, aligning attachment points of the mount with the frame member in the original position. The fasteners are reinstalled to lock the sliding frame mount into the ride configuration.
US11040587B2
A hitch and ball alignment device for aligning a tow ball with a trailer tongue includes a first sensing unit and a controller. The first sensing unit comprises a first sensor, which is position type, and a first transmitter. A first coupler is coupled to the first sensing unit and is configured to removably couple the first sensing unit to one of a tow ball, which is coupled to a vehicle, and a trailer tongue. The controller comprises a screen and a receiver. The first sensor is configured to determine a distance between the first sensing unit and the other of the tow ball and the trailer tongue and to signal the controller via the first transmitter. The controller is positioned display the positions of the tow ball and the trailer tongue on the screen to guide a user to align the tow ball with the trailer tongue.
US11040585B2
A trailer coupling comprises a cross member unit, which is mountable on a tail region of a body, and a bearing unit held by the cross member unit. A ball neck with a coupling ball is held on the cross member unit by the bearing unit. The cross member unit is connected in its two outer, mutually opposed end regions to mounting elements for fixation to the tail region. The cross member unit has an upper supporting structure and a lower supporting structure. The supporting structures are each connected at their mutually opposed outer end regions to the mounting elements and in a central region carry the bearing unit. One of the supporting structures is primarily torsionally rigid and at least partially surrounds a structure interior, and that the other of the supporting structures is primarily tensile stiff in the direction of travel.
US11040584B2
A pneumatic tire comprises: a fastener disposed on a tire inner surface, the mechanical fastener being a first mechanical fastener of a separatable pair of mechanical fasteners composed of at least two fastener members; wherein a) the fastener members sandwich a rubber-coated fiber reinforced member and fix together; b) the fastener is disposed within a region such that the following relationship is satisfied: 0.05≤A/H≤0.4, where A is a height in a tire radial direction from a bead toe end to a center position (C) of the fastener, and H is a height of a cross section of the tire; and c) the fiber reinforced member includes fiber bundles disposed in alignment in at least one direction, and forms an angle (minor angle θ) with a tire circumferential direction such that: 30 degrees≤θ≤90 degrees.
US11040568B1
This invention relates generally to an apparatus for sharpening marking instruments. More specifically, the invention relates to a sharpener that is convertible for effectively and efficiently sharpening both carpenter's pencils and crayons. The sharpener has a removable and rotatable cap that facilitates the axial alignment of the carpenters' pencil within the sharpener. The sharpener further comprises primary and secondary alignment surfaces for axially aligning the carpenter's crayon within the sharpener, having the cap removed.
US11040567B2
A reusable writing surface is provided having a board having a front side and a rear side. A plurality of magnets is positioned on the rear side, wherein the plurality of magnets is configured to magnetically attach to a plurality of removable magnetic legs. The plurality of magnets are positioned such that the plurality of removable magnetic legs are configured to stand the reusable writing surface in either a vertical orientation or a horizontal orientation depending on which magnets of the plurality of magnets each magnetic leg attaches.
US11040566B2
A pen dispenser is provided with a tube having an open top for holding a fluid to be dispensed. A valve housing made of plastic and having channels on an inner wall is also provided. There is also an applicator nib made of plastic, along with a plastic spring actuator having a plastic button, and a button retainer. In a closed position the plastic spring actuator is sealingly engaged to the valve housing blocking the flow of fluid out around the applicator nib, and in the open position, the plastic spring actuator is depressed so it is no longer sealingly engaged to the valve housing, allowing the fluid to flow through the channels on the inner wall and exit the dispenser around the applicator nib.
US11040563B1
The present invention discloses an automatic score turning device, including: a plurality of pieces of score paper or score paper bags provided with a first magnetic member, and a page turning mechanism. The page turning mechanism includes: a rotating arm assembly mounted with a second magnetic member, and a first motor; the rotating arm assembly includes: a rotating arm drivingly connected with the first motor, and a swinging arm movably mounted on the rotating arm; the second magnetic member is mounted on the swinging arm; and the page turning mechanism further includes a driving mechanism configured to drive the swinging arm to swing towards or away from one side of the first magnetic member.
US11040561B2
An ink and processing liquid set contains a processing liquid to be applied to a recording medium, the processing liquid including a multivalent metal salt and an ink to be applied to an area of the recording medium where the processing liquid has been applied, the ink including a urethane resin, a styrene-acrylic resin, and a pigment, wherein the following relations are satisfied: 0.5≤B/C≤0.7, where B represents a static surface tension of the ink and C represents a static surface tension of the processing liquid; and 0.5≤E/D≤0.9, and 35 (mN/m)≤E≤55 (mN/m), where D represents a dynamic surface tension at 15 ms of the processing liquid and E represents a dynamic surface tension at 1500 ms of the processing liquid.
US11040558B2
Provided is a medium supply device including a spindle that supports a medium having a roll shape, a supplying portion that supplies the medium supported by the spindle toward outside, a plurality of support rollers that support the medium in positions between the spindle and the supplying portion, a moving roller that, in a contact position between the support rollers, is capable of coming into contact with a bridging medium extending across the support rollers in a state where a load is applied to the bridging medium and that is capable of moving from the contact position to a non-contact position of non-contact with the bridging medium, and a moving mechanism configured to move the moving roller from the contact position to the non-contact position.
US11040539B2
The first printing system SY1 includes a printing apparatus 4 including an ink container and a server 2 coupled to the printing apparatus 4 via a network NW, wherein the server 2 acquires maintenance information including residual ink amount information indicating an residual amount of ink in the ink container of the printing apparatus 4, determines whether a maintenance process is configured to be performed based on the acquired maintenance information, and instructs the printing apparatus 4 to perform the maintenance process when it is determined that the maintenance process is configured to be performed.
US11040531B2
A jetting device configured to jet one or more droplets of a viscous medium through the outlet of a nozzle includes an energy output device. The energy output device is configured to direct a quantum of energy into at least a portion of the volume of the viscous medium jetted through the outlet to control a breaking of the droplet from the nozzle. The energy output device may include an acoustic transducer or a piezoelectric material or a laser emitter or a heater.
US11040530B2
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a fluidic system is described. The fluidic system includes a fluidic die. The fluidic die includes a substrate in which a number of fluid chambers are formed. Each fluid chamber includes a fluid actuator disposed within the fluid chamber. A number of actuator sensors are disposed on the substrate to output at least one value indicative of a sensed characteristic of fluid actuators. A number of substrate temperature sensors are also disposed on the substrate to sense a temperature for the substrate. An actuator evaluation device of the fluidic system determines a state of the fluid actuator based at least in part on the at least one value and at least one correction value associated with the temperature sensed by the number of substrate temperature sensors.
US11040527B2
A droplet ejection apparatus comprising: a droplet deposition head comprising an array of actuating elements and a corresponding array of nozzles; actuating circuitry, configured to apply drive waveforms to said actuating elements, thereby causing the ejection of fluid in the form of droplets through said array of nozzles onto deposition media, which are moved relative to the head; and head controller circuitry, configured to: receive an input set of ejection data; generate a series of sub-sets of ejection data based on the input set; and send said series of sub-sets of ejection data to said actuating circuitry; wherein the actuating circuitry is further configured so as to, for each sub-set of ejection data, apply drive waveforms to said actuating elements such that they repeatedly eject droplets from one or more nozzles, thus depositing successive rows of droplets, the one or more nozzles and the sizes of the droplets ejected therefrom being determined by the current sub-set of ejection data, each of the one or more nozzles ejecting droplets with a substantially constant frequency of 1/T; wherein the apparatus is configured to receive deposition media speed data, which indicates the current speed of relative movement of the head with respect to the deposition media; and wherein the apparatus is configured such that the head switches from ejecting droplets in accordance with a current sub-set of ejection data to ejecting droplets in accordance with a consecutive sub-set of ejection data in the series at a time determined in accordance with said media speed data, with the time interval between starting ejecting droplets in accordance with successive sub-sets of ejection data varying inversely with the current speed of relative movement of the head.
US11040524B2
The invention relates to biaxially oriented, UV-stabilized polyester films incorporating silicon dioxide particles as light-scattering particles and a UV stabilizer; a process for producing the same and to use thereof in greenhouse blinds. The invention particularly relates to single- or multilayer polyester film with transparency from 70 to 92 %, where: the film includes at least 1.0% by weight to at most 2.5% by weight of SiO2, with the d50 value of these SiO2 particles ranging from 3 to 9 μm, the SV value of the film is at least 700, the scattering factor SF of the film is at least 2 and not more than 8, the haze of the film is from 60 to 95%, and the clarity of the film is from 15 to 40%; and all of the external layers comprise at least 0.3 % by weight of an organic UV stabilizer.
US11040523B2
A multilayer blown film having an inner layer, a first outer layer, and a second outer layer, wherein the inner layer comprises an ethylene-based polymer having a MWCDI value greater than 0.9, and a melt index ratio (I10/I2) that meets the following equation: I10/I2≥7.0−1.2×log (I2); and the first outer layer and the second outer layer independently comprise a polyethylene composition which comprises the reaction product of ethylene and, optionally, one or more alpha olefin comonomers, wherein the polyethylene composition is characterized by the following properties: (a) a melt index, I2, of from 0.1 to 2.0 g/10 min; (b) a density of from 0.910 to 0.930 g/cc; (c) a melt flow ratio, I10/I2, of from 6.0 to 7.6; and (d) a molecular weight distribution, (Mw/Mn) of from 2.5 to 4.0.
US11040520B2
The present invention relates to a laminated liquid food packaging material, comprising a bulk layer, and a barrier layer portion and a polymer layer structure for balancing package integrity vs openability of the package. The invention further relates to the method for manufacturing the laminated packaging material and to a packaging container for liquid food packaging, comprising the laminated packaging material.
US11040515B2
There is provided a release film comprising a substrate film and a resin layer provided on at least one surface of a substrate film, wherein the resin layer comprises 100 parts by mass of an acid-modified polyolefin resin, 1 to 20 parts by mass of a crosslinking agent and 10 to 1,000 parts by mass of a polyvinyl alcohol having a saponification rate of 99% or lower.
US11040513B2
Disclosed is a composite gypsum board comprising a board core and a concentrated layer of substantial thickness (e.g., at least about 0.02 inches). The concentrated layer includes a higher weight percentage of an enhancing additive than the board core. The board core has a thickness greater than the thickness of the concentrated layer and forms the bulk of the board volume. The concentrated layer has a higher density (e.g., at least about 1.1 times greater) than the density of the board core. Also disclosed is a method of preparing a composite gypsum board.
US11040509B2
A process and an apparatus for cutting a continuous rubber-covered belt in a process for building tyres for vehicle wheels, wherein the apparatus includes a cutting group, in turn comprising: a knife formed by a first half-part and a second half-part and movable along a cutting direction that is tilted with respect to a supply direction of a rubber-covered belt placed beneath the knife. The process includes: lifting a lifting element placed below the continuous rubber-covered belt and at the cutting zone, until a portion of rubber-covered belt is lifted, and lowering the single first-half part of the knife, making it slide with respect to the second half-part.
US11040506B2
A method for manufacturing a curved composite casing for a turbomachine, notably for a low-pressure compressor of an aircraft turbojet engine, includes the following sequence of steps: (a) draping a preform by automatic placement of carbon fibres on a concave form, referred to as a female form; (b) laying a glass-fibre ply on a convex form, referred to as a male form; (c) transferring the preform onto the convex form, covering the glass-fibre ply on the convex form. Step (b) laying includes a phase (α) of laying a metal strip and/or an epoxy profile on the convex form, then a phase (β) of covering the metal strip with the glass-fibre ply.
US11040505B2
The invention relates to an implantable medical device having a body comprising a composite material. The body has a variable cross section along a length, a first portion which forms a part of a surface of said body, and a packing portion. An insert is provided in the packing portion for providing an increased thickness to at least a part of the body.
US11040502B2
A method for producing a fiber-reinforced resin molded article includes disposing a suction medium, a resin barrier aeration medium and a fiber base material in a cavity such that the suction medium is disposed between an end part of the fiber base material and a mold, and the resin barrier aeration medium is disposed between the suction medium and the end part of the fiber base material. The method further includes: impregnating the fiber base material with a resin by injecting the resin from an injection part, while reducing a pressure in the cavity by suction from a suction part; curing the resin with which the fiber base material is impregnated; and releasing a fiber-reinforced resin in which the fiber base material and the resin are integrated.
US11040500B2
Systems and methods are provided for thermal inspection of tape layup. One embodiment is a method for performing inspection of a tape layup. The method comprises laying up tape onto a surface of a laminate, applying heat to tack the tape to the surface, and generating thermographic images of the tape as applied to the surface.
US11040499B2
A method for thermoforming an article includes extruding a sheet of material, conditioning the sheet with a roller, thermoforming the sheet to provide a web, and cutting the web to provide the article.
US11040498B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for manufacturing a nerve conduit, more particularly to an apparatus for manufacturing a porous nerve conduit using glass fibers whereby microchannels are formed using the space between the glass fibers and the defective rate and location-dependent variation of each nerve conduit can be minimized through uniform decompression during the manufacture. The nerve conduit manufactured according to the present disclosure can be manufactured to have various diameters and lengths to be applicable to in vitro and in vivo researches on nerves.
US11040492B2
A system (100) and method for monitoring a recoating mechanism (415A, 415B) in an additive manufacturing environment is provided. Various embodiments involve the use of a control computer (102a-102d) to receive data based on a thermal image of a recoating mechanism (415A, 415B) from an imaging device (436) configured to capture thermal image. The control computer (102a-102d) further determines a value of a property of the thermal image, wherein the property is related to an amount of powder in the recoating mechanism. The control computer (102a-102d) further determines at least one of if the value indicates an error related to the amount of powder in the recoating mechanism (415A, 415B), and an action to take with respect to the recoating mechanism (415A, 415B) that is based on the value.
US11040491B2
According to some aspects, a system for identifying a printed object is provided. The system may include an imaging device configured to image a three-dimensional (3D) printed object and a processor coupled to the imaging device. The processor may be configured to receive information generated as a result of imaging the 3D printed object with the imaging device, identify a set of features for the 3D printed object using the received information, compare the set of features with multiple reference sets of features, each of the multiple reference sets of features being associated with a respective 3D object in a plurality of 3D objects, and identify, based at least in part on results of the comparison, a 3D object from the plurality of 3D objects that matches the 3D printed object.
US11040487B2
An additive manufacturing system opens the valves in an extruder needed to form a swath and operates an actuator to move the extruder through a transition region with those valves open to establish an amount of extrusion material between a faceplate of the extruder and a portion of an object being formed that is adequate for formation of a swath. The length of the transition region is determined with reference to a viscosity of the material being extruded and a speed at which the extruder is moved to form the swath. The transition region can be perpendicular to a path of the extruder to form the swath or aligned with the path of the extruder to form the swath.
US11040483B2
A method of forming a three-dimensional object is carried out by: (a) providing a cyanate ester dual cure resin; (b) forming a three-dimensional intermediate from said resin, where said intermediate has the shape of, or a shape to be imparted to, said three-dimensional object, and where said resin is solidified by exposure to light; (c) optionally washing the three-dimensional intermediate, and then (d) heating and/or microwave irradiating said three-dimensional intermediate sufficiently to further cure said resin and form said three-dimensional object. Compositions useful for carrying out the method, and products made from the method, are also described.
US11040479B2
A structure includes a reinforcing member made up of reinforcing fibers that are impregnated with a resin. The reinforcing member includes a first region and a second region. The first region is formed by irradiating the reinforcing fibers with plasma. The second region is formed by irradiating the reinforcing fibers with a smaller amount of the plasma than the first region. The reinforcing member is provided such that the first region is positioned in a location where more strength is required than the second region.
US11040472B2
Non-time dependent calculated variables based on measured strain are used to effectively determine an optimal hold profile for an expanding crosslinking polymer part in a mold cavity. A system and/or approach may first inject molten expanding crosslinking polymer into a mold cavity, then measure strain at the mold cavity or at another location within the injection molding system, and then calculate at least one non-time dependent variable during an injection molding cycle. Next, the system and/or method commences a hold profile for the part, and upon completing the hold profile, the part is ejected from the mold cavity, whereupon a cure profile is commenced.
US11040465B2
A fiber preform for a turbine engine blade, the preform comprising a main fiber structure (40) obtained by a single piece of three-dimensional weaving, said main first structure (40) comprising a first longitudinal segment (41) suitable for forming a blade root, a second longitudinal segment (42) extending the first longitudinal segment (41) and suitable for forming an airfoil portion (22), and a first transverse segment (51) extending transversely from the junction (49) between the first and second longitudinal segments (41, 42) and suitable for forming a first tongue for a first platform, wherein the first transverse segment (51) extends axially over a length that is less than 30%, preferably less than 15%, of the length of the junction (49) between the first and second longitudinal segments (41, 42).
US11040464B2
A cutting machine having a liquid lubrication delivery system. The machine includes a work-piece platform having an upper surface for supporting a work-piece thereupon. The work-piece platform can further include a main channel defining a recess in the upper surface. At least one liquid lubrication inlet for discharging liquid into the main channel can also be present on the work-piece platform. The at least one liquid lubrication inlet can be a plurality of liquid lubrication inlets.
US11040461B2
A blade assembly is disclosed. The blade assembly includes a mounting ring, at least two elongate cutting blades, and a substantially circular central support positioned substantially at the center of the mounting ring. Each cutting blade may have a proximal end connected to the mounting ring. Each cutting blade may extend from the mounting ring toward a center of the mounting ring. Each cutting blade may be twisted along a length of the cutting blade. A distal end of each cutting blade may be connected to the central support.
US11040445B2
A large manipulator including an extendable folding boom. The extendable boom includes a turntable that is rotatable about a vertical axis and boom segments pivotable at folding joints about folding axes in relation to an adjacent boom segment or the turntable via respective drive assemblies. The extendable boom further includes rotary angle sensors configured to detect folding angles between adjacent boom segments or between one of the boom segments and the adjacent turntable. The extendable boom further includes an inclination sensor arranged at a last of the boom segments forming a boom tip and a computing unit configured to establish an elastic deformation of the extendable folding boom based on the detected folding angles and the inclination of the last boom segment.
US11040437B2
A torque sleeve for a connector includes a slip ring, a torque ring, a torque spring, and an outer shell. The slip ring includes at least one axial movement inhibiting structure, and a plurality of first teeth having a first sawtooth pattern disposed in an axial direction of the torque sleeve. The torque ring includes at least one radial movement inhibiting structure, and a plurality of second teeth having a second sawtooth pattern disposed in an axial direction of the torque sleeve facing the plurality of first teeth. The torque spring is configured to apply a spring force against the torque ring to encourage movement of the torque ring toward the slip ring. The outer shell is configured to house the slip ring, the torque ring, and the torque spring within the torque sleeve.
US11040435B2
A hex wrench improved structure comprises a body, one end thereof has six equally divided planes, an abutting angle is formed between each of the two planes, at least one of the planes is disposed with a groove, the groove has two inclined surfaces, one side of each of the two inclined surfaces is connected to the abutting angle of the two planes, another sides of the two inclined surfaces are connected to each other, and an obtuse angle is included between the two inclined surfaces; thereby, the hex wrench can be pressed tightly against an inner wall surface of a hole in a screw for inserting a cap screw tool to apply force, so that the hex wrench is not easy to slip, and it is easier to turn and lock or adjust the screw.
US11040431B2
A workpiece holder, which does not require actual parts matching as required in a related-art automatic pallet changer, and has higher maintainability than a related-art automatic pallet changer. The workpiece-side jig includes a workpiece-side fitting element provided on a surface opposed to the master-side jig. The master-side jig includes: a master-side fitting element to be fitted to the workpiece-side fitting element, which is provided on a surface opposed to the workpiece-side jig; a rotary pressing member to be brought into abutment against the workpiece-side fitting element fitted to the master-side fitting element to press the workpiece-side fitting element toward the master-side jig; and a rotational drive source configured to rotate the rotary pressing member. When the rotary pressing member is rotated by the rotational drive source, the rotary pressing member is brought into abutment against the workpiece-side fitting element to press the workpiece-side fitting element toward the master-side jig.
US11040422B1
The disclosed device comprises a manually-actuated micro positioning stage that incorporates a mechanism for measurement and electronic output of the stage slider position. A Hall Effect sensor device is used to sense rotary position of the lead screw. based on the lead screw pitch. Processor means converts the Hall Effect sensor measurement of the lead screw rotational displacement into linear displacement of the stage slider for presentation on an electronic display. A magnetically-permeable cap contains a small disc magnet that is poled diametrically and is affixed to the end of the lead screw that is in contact with the stage slider by means of a sensor housing. The Hall Effect sensor contained in a surface mount electronic package is enclosed in a sensor housing that is part of the stage slider that is in contact with the lead screw and is positioned coaxially with the lead screw.
US11040420B2
A wheel press mounting device includes a rack, a servo motor, a synchronous belt, a working table, a base, a thrust bearing, a bearing pedestal, a shaft, a mandrel, hydraulic cylinders, a floating locating pin, strong magnets, floating shafts and a clamp platform.
US11040415B2
The present invention generally describes apparatuses and methods used to perform an annealing process on desired regions of a substrate. In one embodiment, pulses of electromagnetic energy are delivered to a substrate using a flash lamp or laser apparatus. The pulses may be from about 1 nsec to about 10 msec long, and each pulse has less energy than that required to melt the substrate material. The interval between pulses is generally long enough to allow the energy imparted by each pulse to dissipate completely. Thus, each pulse completes a micro-anneal cycle. The pulses may be delivered to the entire substrate at once, or to portions of the substrate at a time. Further embodiments provide an apparatus for powering a radiation assembly, and apparatuses for detecting the effect of pulses on a substrate.
US11040381B2
A nozzle for water jet equipment and a method of use thereof. The nozzle has a body including a base with a shaft extending outwardly therefrom. The shaft is inserted through a bore of a sleeve that rotatable about the shaft. The base and shaft define a bore therein. At least one opening is defined in the shaft and one or more grooves are milled into the shaft's exterior surface. Each opening places the body's bore in fluid communication with one of the grooves and the sleeve's bore. Water flowing through the body's bore will flow through each opening, into the associated groove and into a space between the shaft and sleeve. The shaft terminates in a conical section usable as a battering ram to break up blockages in pipes during cleaning operations.
US11040377B2
A device for packaging and dispensing a chemical product is provided. The device may include a first portion connected to a second portion. Counterpoising locking features may secure the first portion and the second portion. A support member is disposed within the lower portion and adapted to support the product. The device may include a flexible enclosure contoured to and enclosing the rigid body and the product. The flexible enclosure may enclose a portion of the housing and the product, after which heat is applied to shrink the flexible enclosure. A handle may provide for ease of installation and/or removal of the device from a solid chemical dispensing system.
US11040375B2
A bunk cleaner assembly for selectively adjusting a pitch, a roll and a height adjustment of a scoop assembly for cleaning a trough of a feed bunk. The bunk cleaner assembly comprises a frame portion, a swinging arm assembly, the scoop assembly, and a utility vehicle. The frame portion is configured in attaching the swinging arm assembly and the utility vehicle to one another. The swinging arm assembly comprise a hinge assembly.
US11040370B2
Adhesion of particles having a large particle size contained in the slurry to a surface of a strip member is suppressed. A slurry application method includes: spraying a slurry from a nozzle onto one or both of a traveling strip member and a roll; and applying the slurry to a surface of the strip member by pressing the roll against the surface of the strip member, wherein a spray angle θ is set to 0° or more and 50° or less, a distance d in a conveyance direction of the strip member between an intersection point P1 and a rotation center P2 of the roll is 100 mm or less, and a height h from the surface of the strip member to the intersection point P1 is ½ or less of a diameter of the roll.
US11040367B2
A rack system for retaining and maneuvering items to be spray-coated, including car members configured to support the items to be spray-coated, multiple attachment devices configured to mate with the one or more car members and attach to the items to be spray-coated, a horizontal rail configured to support the one or more car members and to provide a channel for the one or more car members to move along a length of the horizontal rail.
US11040360B2
A connector system for a liquid container system for a spray gun includes a lid that includes a liquid outlet and an adapter. The adapter includes a spray gun end and a lid end. The ends are connected with a liquid-tight passageway. Further, the spray gun end is adapted for releasable engagement with a liquid inlet port of the spray gun and the lid end is adapted for releasable engagement with the liquid outlet. The connector system also includes a plurality of interlocking tab assemblies for releasably attaching the adapter to the lid. Each assembly includes a first tab and a second tab, wherein an end of the first tab is adapted to secure the adapter to the lid when the first tab and the second tab are interlocked.
US11040356B2
A shower head structure comprises a handle with a passage. A head portion is arranged at one end of the handle, and the head portion is internally provided with an accommodating cavity. The accommodating cavity is in communication with the passage. First water through holes and bumps made of elastic materials are arranged on one face of the head portion. The first water through holes are in communication with the accommodating cavity. A reinforcing plate is arranged on the face where the bumps are arranged of the head portion. The reinforcing plate is provided with spray holes and reinforcing holes for the bumps to pass through. Side walls of the reinforcing holes are closely attached to roots of the bumps. The spray holes are in communication with the first water through holes.
US11040355B2
An electric dust collecting filter includes a plurality of film electrodes that are arranged apart from each other at regular intervals and form an electric field to collect foreign matter in the air. The film electrode includes an insulating part that defines one surface and the other surface of the film electrode, a first electrode part disposed on one side inside the insulating part and having a plurality of first wire electrodes spaced apart from each other, and a second electrode part disposed on the other side inside the insulating part and having a plurality of second wire electrodes that are disposed between the plurality of first wire electrodes spaced apart from each other and provided alternately with the plurality of first wire electrodes.
US11040350B2
Devices, kits, and methods for dispensing at least two liquid reagents for use in analyte(s) detection assays are disclosed.
US11040345B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a microfluidic device into which fluid can be more easily introduced. A microfluidic device (1) is configured such that: (i) an upper substrate (2) is bonded to a lower substrate (6) via a sealing pattern (5) in such a manner that at least a portion of an edge of the upper substrate (2) is located inward of an edge of the lower substrate (6); and (ii) the sealing pattern (5) includes at least one gap (12) that is provided at a position where the edge of the upper substrate (2) is located inward of the edge of the lower substrate (6).
US11040340B1
In embodiments there is described a method for reducing false positives and negatives in the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in suspected patients using mass spectroscopy employing the steps of mixing samples of collected saliva and nasopharyngeal secretions in a single sample container; adding universal transport medium to the mixed samples in said single sample container; transporting the single sample container at a temperature above 0° C. to a remote location; deactivation of viral content of the mixed sample; protein digestion of the mixed sample; concomitant separation of peptides, ionization by mass spectroscopy of the separated peptides, and comparison of peptide patterns to known SARS-CoV-2 peptides. Also set forth in an embodiment is a collection container for collecting saliva and/or sputum, as well as a swab member, with universal transport medium and/or virus inactivating agent housed in separate compartment communicable with sample compartment through a one-way valve.
US11040332B2
Provided are: a complex oxide that exhibits high redox ability even at low temperatures, has excellent heat resistance, and stably retains these characteristics even on repeated oxidation and reduction at high temperature; a method for producing the same; and an exhaust gas purification catalyst. The inventive complex oxide contains more than 0 but no more than 20 parts by mass of Si, calculated as SiO2, per total 100 parts by mass of rare earth metal elements including Ce, calculated as oxides; and has a characteristic such that when it is subjected to temperature-programmed reduction (TPR) measurement in a 10% hydrogen-90% argon atmosphere at from 50° C. to 900° C. with the temperature increasing at a rate of 10° C./min, followed by oxidation treatment at 500° C. for 0.5 hours, and then temperature-programmed reduction measurement is performed again, its calculated reduction rate at and below 400° C. is at least 1.5%.
US11040327B2
A barrel reactor (100) comprises a rotatable barrel (102); a first roller (110) located outside of the barrel (102) and arranged to facilitate rotation of the barrel, wherein the roller (110) comprises at least part of a first electrode; and a second electrode (120). A plasma is formed between the electrodes (110, 120). The second electrode (120) may also comprise a roller and the barrel (102) may be mounted on the rollers (110, 120). The spacing between, or positions of, the electrodes (110, 120) may be adjusted so as to accommodate different barrels (102) and/or to change the plasma distribution within the barrel (102).
US11040324B2
Polyelectrolyte microcapsules, and methods for making and using the polyelectrolyte microcapsules, are described. A method of making polyelectrolyte microcapsules includes forming an “interfacial complexation in emulsion” (ICE), wherein a polyelectrolyte “shell” is formed by complexing two different polyelectrolytes together at an interface between two immiscible fluids. Both hydrophilic and hydrophobic materials can be incorporated into the cores and shells of the polyelectrolyte microcapsules.
US11040318B2
Liquid mixing device with electronic control of high dynamic regulation and operating method thereof
The present invention relates to a liquid mixing device which has a control system and electronic regulation, in charge of receiving the parameters set with respect to the liquid which is expected to be supplied by the tap or supply means whereto said device is connected and which acts on the regulation means of the different supply lines of liquids to mix to achieve said parameters, which has a high measurement and actuation dynamic thanks to measuring sections with ultrasonic transducers and proportional solenoid valves and a configuration and geometry of said measuring sections which allows having a multitude of reliable measurements per second.
US11040315B2
A gas-dissolved liquid producing apparatus capable of increasing a gas dissolution efficiency and enhancing stability of the concentration of gas-dissolved liquid is provided. The gas-dissolved producing apparatus 1 includes an ozone gas supply unit 2 for supplying ozone gas, a pure water supply unit 3 for supplying pure water, and an ozonated water generator 4 for dissolving ozone gas in supplied pure water to generate ozonated water. The generator 4 includes a first nozzle 10 having a first optimum flow rate, a second nozzle 11 having a second optimum flow rate different from the first optimum flow rate, a flow rate detector 15 for detecting the flow rate of the supplied pure water, and a controller 16 for controlling which one of the first nozzle and the second nozzle should be supplied with the supplied gas, based on the flow rate of the pure water detected by the detector 15.
US11040313B2
The invention is related to a super-hydrophilic/underwater super-oleophobic attapulgite separation membrane, and a preparation method and use thereof. Monodispersed hydrophilic nanoparticulates are loaded on a surface of nanoparticles, to obtain a super-hydrophilic nanocomposite material with a micro-nanostructure. The nanocomposite material is dispersed in a mixed aqueous solution of polyacrylamide and methyl cellulose, to obtain a membrane-forming slurry after vigorous stirring. A disc-shaped porous support is infiltrated with water and placed on a horizontal surface, and then a certain volume of the membrane-forming slurry is slowly and uniformly drip-coated on a surface of the support, dried and sintered to obtain a super-hydrophilic/underwater super-oleophobic microfiltration membrane layer.
US11040312B2
Disclosed are porous membranes including a porous support and a coating comprising a copolymer having monomeric units A and B, and optionally monomeric units C; wherein A is a halogenated vinyl monomer other than tetrafluoroethylene, a halogenated alkyl vinyl ether, or an alkene of the formula CnH2n, wherein n is 1-6; B is a perfluoro (alkyl vinyl)ether compound, a perfluoroalkyl vinyl compound, or a perfluoro alkoxyalkyl vinyl ether compound, each compound having one or more sulfonic acid groups or a salt thereof, one or more sulfonyl fluoride groups, one or more sulfonamide groups, or one or more sulfonate ester groups, and C is vinylidene fluoride. Also disclosed are methods of preparing such porous membranes and methods of treating fluids by the use of these membranes.
US11040311B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide for the deposition of spacing elements on both opposing surfaces of either an entire folded membrane sheet or portions thereof in combination with features deposited on portions of the same sheet to create spacing geometries not otherwise achievable.
US11040307B2
A method for removing at least one contaminant from a fluid stream by filtering the fluid stream with a filtration medium. The filtration medium includes an impregnate. The impregnate includes a surfactant such as sulfamic acid. The medium has from about 0.1 to about 25% by weight of impregnate. The method is useful for removing one or more volatile organic compounds, particularly formaldehyde, from the fluid stream. In some embodiments, the method includes removing at least two volatile organic compound contaminants from the fluid stream.
US11040304B1
A method of recovering paraxylene in a pressure swing adsorption unit with varying hydrogen purge pressures. The pressure swing adsorption zone is adapted to adsorb and desorb paraxylene based on the cycling of partial pressure in the zone. A first hydrogen purge is fed concurrent to the feed. A second hydrogen purge is countercurrent to the feed.
US11040303B2
Systems and methods for removing elemental sulfur from a hydrocarbon fluid using an adsorbent.
US11040302B2
Filter media packs that utilizes a zig-zag folding pattern on deeply corrugated filter media are described. The filter media is scored, folded, and secured into position to form the filter media pack. The filter media pack may be secured using a self-supporting structure (e.g., via tacking adhesive used to secure adjacent folds). The filter media pack contains unique features to optimize filtration performance, such as maximized inlet and outlet face flow areas. In some arrangements, the filter media pack exhibits improved flow characteristics and dust-holding capacity via upstream and downstream channels that have different cross-sectional shapes and/or sizes. The upstream and downstream channels may comprise, for example, circular, diamond shaped, or fish-scale shaped openings.
US11040300B1
A flow back system for separating solids from a slurry recovered from a hydrocarbon well. The system includes a V-shaped tank with a first series of baffles configured to cause the settling of solids that are moved by a shaftless auger to a conduit fluidly connected to a dispersing device mounted over or adjacent to a shaker such as a linear shaker. The shaker receives and processes the output of the dispersing device and dewaters solids. The underflow of the shaker is recirculated through the tank.
US11040294B2
A laboratory device, in particular a rotary evaporator, serves for evaporating a substance, preferably under reduced pressure, and comprises an evaporation flask for receiving the substance to be evaporated, a condenser for condensing the evaporated substance and a vapor passage for passing through the evaporated substance, which vapor passage is arranged in a vapor path between the evaporation flask and the condenser. The laboratory device further comprises a detection unit for foam detection, which detection unit is provided outside of the vapor passage and/or the evaporation flask.
US11040288B2
A ride system to control ride vehicle motion includes a carriage that receives and secures a ride vehicle. The ride system also includes a plurality of pulley systems drivingly coupled to the carriage. Each pulley system of the plurality of pulley systems include a pulley, a pulley cable engaged with the pulley and attached to a portion of the carriage, and a motor drivingly coupled to the pulley to drive pulley motion and pulley cable motion, and thereby cause the portion of the carriage to displace in accordance with the pulley motion and the pulley cable motion.
US11040279B2
A game image generating section 120 generates a first image and a second image of an application. An image providing section 152 provides the first image to an output apparatus 4. A sharing processing section 160 streaming-distributes the second image to the sharing server. A display image generating section 150 may generate a display image including at least the first image and information associated with the second image. In addition, the sharing processing section 160 may instruct the application to generate the second image the basis of a request from a viewing user.
US11040277B2
Examples relate to a system to apply stimuli to a human body. The system comprises a three dimensional display, a stimulation element, a specific piece of clothing, a portable background and a controller. The controller comprises a processor, data storage and an instruction set. The instruction set is to cooperate with the processor, data storage, three dimensional display and stimulation element to display a recorded three dimensional representation of an actor in movement and to transmit to the stimulation element stimuli synchronized with the movement. The actor is wearing a piece of clothing having the same aspect as the specific piece of clothing, the actor being located in front of a background having the same aspect as the portable background, the recording being from the actor point of view.
US11040275B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to systems and methods for multi-player gaming. Some embodiments relate to systems having an improved communications infrastructure and improved handheld game controllers, while other embodiments relate to improvements in handling large numbers of players in the multi-player game when played in a game arena with a single large display screen showing the multi-player game images. In one particular embodiment, a system is provided that has a game server controlling a display system to display the multi-player game on the large screen and a plurality of game controllers. Each game controller has a secondary display means for providing a secondary game display and input means for receiving player input. The system further comprises communication means for enabling communication between the game server and each of the plurality of game controllers. The plurality of game controllers are located in proximity to the large display screen such that it is visible to game players manipulating the game controllers while playing the multi-player game.
US11040274B2
The fantasy sports contest application of the present invention alerts the user of necessary roster changes before an upcoming fantasy sports competition. The fantasy sports contest application may evaluate the user's team roster before an upcoming fantasy sports competition to ensure that all roster spots on the team roster are filled with athletes available for real-life competitions. The fantasy sports contest application may also identify roster changes and roster transactions that may be beneficial to a user's fantasy sports contest team roster. The fantasy sports contest application may recommend roster changes and roster transactions to the user by evaluating the performance of athletes using performance criteria. The performance criteria can be based on the past performance of athletes, either overall, or for certain situations. The performance criteria may be predefined by the system, user-editable, or any suitable combination thereof.
US11040267B2
Some aspects include a ski binding system using controllable electromagnets, alone or in combination with permanent magnets, as means of attaching or releasing a ski boot to a ski during use. Some aspects include a ski binding system using a controllable solenoid. In some aspects, microprocessor-based control releases binding electronically based on input from sensors located in binding, ski and/or boot, as well as in other equipment or clothing connected to them or to skier, or binding releases when a mechanical threshold is overcome. In some aspects, sensor data are recorded for analysis of system performance and for adjustment and improvement of system parameters based on data analytics.
US11040265B2
A frame is provided with at least two holes to fasten electrical and/or electronic devices. The frame includes a single body having fastening means to be fastened on at least one flush-mounted box, and that includes a first part incorporating a hole intended to be fastened on a flush-mounted box by fastening means adapted to fasten the frame on the flush-mounted box and a second part incorporating a hole that is not associated to a flush-mounted box. The frame, at least on the part incorporating the hole that is not associated to a box shows at least a separator element supporting the frame on the wall on which it is to be installed. The separator element is constituted by the frame itself folded creating a flap or rim, the separator element spanning on the whole or part of the perimeter of the frame.
US11040261B1
A system for practicing roping of a steer may include a towing apparatus configured to tow a steer roping practice apparatus across a ground surface, a central anchor device configured to define a fixed anchor point with respect to the ground surface, an elongated guide member attachable at a first end to the central anchor device and attachable at a second end to the towing apparatus to guide the towing apparatus along a circular path about the central anchor device, and a turning device configured to engage the elongated guide member between the central anchor device and the towing apparatus in a manner causing the towing apparatus to make a turn on the ground surface from the circular path. The system may also include a mechanical steer roping practice apparatus movable across the ground surface and removably hitched to the towing apparatus.
US11040255B2
Golf club heads include at least one part having a side wall extending completely around the golf club head, wherein the side wall ends at an edge (a free end) that defines an open side of the part. An interior surface of this side wall has a draft angle of −1° or more as it extends to its edge. In some club heads, the interior surface of at least one club head part will be shaped so that the interior surface does not converge as the side wall of that part extends to its edge. For some club head parts, the planar cross sectional area defined inside the interior surface of the part will either stay the same or get larger as one moves to the part edge. By avoiding or limiting features of negative draft angles, converging interior surfaces, and/or smaller cross sectional areas on interior surfaces of a part, manufacturing and tooling may be simplified.
US11040252B2
The present invention provides methods for producing molded golf balls and the resultant balls. The methods of this invention involve producing foamed polyurethane covers and these methods help reduce dimple distortions and other surface imperfections. These golf balls contain an inner core and outer foamed polyurethane cover. One or more intermediate layers can be disposed between the core and cover. In one embodiment, a castable liquid polyurethane composition containing a foaming agent is dispensed into mold cavities, which are then pressed together to form a foam cover for the ball.
US11040251B2
A golf ball includes a core and a cover. The core is formed of a material molded under heat from a rubber composition. The rubber composition includes components (A) through (C). The components (A) through (C) are (A) a base rubber, (B) an organic peroxide, and (C) a metal salt containing hydration water.
US11040249B2
An apparatus for receiving one or more activity attachments including a deck having one or more openings along a long axis of the deck and between the top surface and the bottom surface of the deck. Each of the one or more openings having a circular aperture for receiving an accessory of a set of accessories. Each accessory of the set of accessories providing an activity for a user of the activity. Each accessory having an attachment platform configured to attach the accessory to the board. The attachment platform having a locking mechanism to engaging with a complementary locking mechanism of the board.
US11040248B2
A bicycle trainer compensation algorithm based on multi-groove belts sliding relative to one another includes: determining a load interval and a rotating speed range, recording an external driving torque, a rotating speed, a measured torque and a no-load mechanical loss of the bicycle trainer under conditions of different loads and different rotating speeds, and obtaining a relationship between a mechanical loss of a whole machine and the different rotating speeds, the different loads, and the no-load mechanical loss, fitting a plurality of sets of relationships to obtain an algorithm relation, verifying universality of the algorithm relation, and further fitting to obtain a compensation algorithm relation, and verifying whether a compensation accuracy of the compensation algorithm relation is satisfied within an error requirement.
US11040244B2
Golf performance and equipment characteristics may be determined by analyzing the impact between a golf ball and an impacting surface. In some examples, the impacting surface may be a golf club face. The impact between the golf ball and the surface may be measured based on sound and/or motion sensors (e.g., gyroscopes, accelerometers, etc.). Based on motion and/or sound data, various equipment-related information including golf ball compression, club head speed and impact location may be derived. Such information and/or other types of data may be conveyed to a user to help improve performance, aid in selecting golf equipment and/or to insure quality of golfing products.
US11040234B2
An exercise machine with electromagnetic resistance selection for changing exercise resistance settings by engaging more or fewer resistance biasing members using a electromagnets. An example implementation includes a movable carriage configured to move substantially along the length of one or more rails. A plurality of resistance biasing members are removably attachable between a stationary biasing member bracket affixed to the machine structure and the movable carriage. A controller changes the resistance settings against the movable carriage by electrically attaching or detaching any preferred number of resistance biasing members between the machine structure and movable carriage.
US11040230B2
Thermally activated devices, including thermally activated release devices. These devices may be used as part of any device or system in which thermal activation may be desired. In particular, described herein are thermally activated devices configured as sprinkler valves. The thermally activated devices typically include a channel and a plug element, where the plug element is a shape memory material, which may be a single-crystal shape memory alloy. The channel has two connected regions, where the first region has a diameter that is greater than the diameter of a plug element in a first configuration and the second region has a diameter that is less than the diameter of the plug element in the first configuration but greater than the diameter of the plug element in its second configuration.
US11040229B2
A panel (10) for use as a fire suppressing system which comprises a substrate (12) and an exothermic gas producing charge (14) wherein the exothermic gas producing charge (14) is integral with the substrate.
US11040223B2
Certain embodiments are directed to composition for inducing an immune response against xCT that is directed to cancer stem cells expressing xCT.
US11040222B2
Edema in tissue of a patient undergoing a course of radiation therapy or treatment can be estimated based on one or more MRI measurements used to measure changes in fluid content of various tissues. A correlation between observed changes in edema and one or more delivered fractions of radiation can be used to drive one or more clinical actions. Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and the like are described.
US11040212B2
An example of a system for delivering neurostimulation may include a display and an interface control circuit. The interface control circuit may be configured to define a stimulation waveform according to which the neurostimulation is delivered. The stimulation waveform is defined by waveform parameters including one or more user-adjustable parameters. The interface control circuit may include a parameter selector, an effect analyzer, and a parameter generator. The parameter selector may be configured to present values for each user-adjustable parameter on the display and allow the user to select a value for each user-adjustable parameter from the presented values. The effect analyzer may be configured to estimate an interactive effect of different stimuli of the neurostimulation. The parameter generator may be configured to select a rate rule based on the estimated interactive effect and to generate the values for each user-adjustable parameter according to the selected rate rule.
US11040211B2
A neurostimulation system configured for providing neurostimulation therapy to a patient. A user customizes a pulse pattern on a pulse-by-pulse basis. Electrical stimulation energy is delivered to at least one electrode in accordance with the customized pulse pattern.
US11040207B2
Systems and methods for monitoring and treating patients with heart failure (HF) are discussed. The system may sense cardiac signals, and receives information about patient physiological or functional conditions. A stimulation parameter table that includes recommended values of atrioventricular delay (AVD) or other timing parameters maybe created at a multitude of patient physiological or functional conditions. The system may periodically reassess patient physiological or functional conditions. A therapy programmer circuit may dynamically switch between left ventricular-only pacing and biventricular pacing, or switch between single site pacing and multisite pacing based on the patient condition. The therapy programmer circuit may adjust AVD and other timing parameters using the cardiac signal input and the stored stimulation parameter table. A HF therapy may be delivered according to the determined stimulation site, stimulation mode, and the stimulation timing.
US11040199B2
The subject matter of the present disclosure generally relates to techniques for neuromodulation of lymphatic tissue that include applying one or more energy pulses to a neuron of a subject, e.g., via an electrode positioned to deliver sufficient energy to the neuron, to modulate immune function. For example, an adaptive immune reflex of a subject may be modulated via neuromodulation.
US11040195B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for reducing RF heating in implantable leads. An implantable lead includes a first electrode, and a coupling component spaced from the first electrode, wherein the first electrode and the coupling component form a capacitor, wherein the first electrode and the coupling component are electrically isolated from one another at therapy frequencies, and wherein the first electrode and the coupling component are electrically coupled to one another at magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) frequencies.
US11040191B2
The invention concerns a method of forming a medical device, the method comprising: forming a graphene film (100) over a substrate (204); depositing, by gas phase deposition, a polymer material covering a surface of the graphene film (100); and removing the substrate (204) from the graphene film (100), wherein the polymer material forms a support (102) for the graphene film (100).
US11040188B2
Methods and apparatus for estimating flow rate in a blood circulation assist system employing impeller eccentricity. A method includes magnetically rotating an impeller within a blood flow channel of a blood pump. The impeller is levitated within the blood flow channel transverse to the impeller axis of rotation. A rotational speed for the impeller is determined. At least one impeller transverse position parameter is determined. The at least one impeller transverse position parameter is based on at least one of (1) an amount of a bearing current that is used to levitate the impeller transverse to the impeller axis of rotation, and (2) a position of the impeller within the blood flow channel transverse to the impeller axis of rotation. A flow rate of blood pumped by the blood pump is estimated based on the impeller rotational speed and the at least one impeller transverse position parameter.
US11040184B2
The invention pertains to a kit for assembling a disposable applicator for inserting an implant, in particular a rod-like implant containing an active substance, under the skin of a human or animal, the kit comprising a first component, in turn comprising a main housing part providing a handle for grasping and maneuvering the applicator, a cannula, and a cannula holder mounted in the main housing part, the main housing part having an opening which allows introduction of an implant into the proximal end of the cannula or the cannula holder, and, a second component for closing said opening, in turn comprising a second housing part and a rod attached to or forming an integral whole with the second housing part and mountable inside the cannula or the cannula holder.
US11040181B2
A topical applicator of the propel/repel type includes a reservoir, an attachable applicator cap, and a metered dosing system. The reservoir is suitable for mixing a topical formulation of multiple constituents using an electronic mortar and pestle and is closed using the applicator cap. Alternatively, the reservoir may be prefilled with a ready-to-use cream and medicament formulation, then sealed with a removable seal. The topical applicator can include a fast purge feature that overrides the metered dosing system to facilitate removal of air from the reservoir. The topical applicator can also include a one-way ratcheting feature to prevent reverse movement (repel) of the metered dosing system. Metered doses can be dispensed through holes in the applicator cap by rotating a knob, which has detent positions that correspond to discrete doses, and which provides audible and tactile feedback.
US11040177B2
A balloon catheter assembly comprises a balloon having attached to or in its wall one or more filar elements, extending from one end of the balloon to the other. The filar elements are made of a material which is at least as flexible as the material forming the walls of the balloon. In the event of circular burst of the balloon, the filar element(s) prevent disconnection of the material of the balloon into two or more separate pieces. The filar element(s) become attached to or in the material of the balloon wall when the raw material is inflated to the shape of a mold. The filar elements may comprise a natural fiber, a synthetic fiber or a metal wire.
US11040171B2
System for curving an elongated medical device including a curving apparatus, and a curve database corresponding to at least one curve shape. The curving apparatus is configured to impart a permanent curve according to the curve shape on a distal portion of an elongated medical device that is greater than that on a proximal portion of the elongated medical device while maintaining sterility of the elongated medical device.
US11040165B2
Aspects of the present technology comprise a positioning and stabilising structure to hold a seal-forming structure in a therapeutically effective position on a head of a patient. The positioning and stabilising structure may comprise at least one gas delivery tube to deliver the flow of air to the entrance of a patient's airways via the seal-forming structure. The at least one gas delivery tube may be constructed and arranged to contact, in use, at least a region of the patient's head superior to an otobasion superior of the patient's head. The positioning and stabilising structure may comprise an adjustment mechanism for adjustment of a length of the at least one gas delivery tube to enable the positioning and stabilising structure to fit different size heads. The positioning and stabilising structure may comprise a bias mechanism to impart a biasing force along at least a part of a length of the at least one gas delivery tube to urge the seal-forming structure towards the entrance of the patient's airways in use.
US11040160B2
A tracheal tube assembly includes an outer cannula configured to be positioned in a patient airway and an inner cannula configured to be disposed inside the outer cannula. The tracheal tube assembly further includes a flange member secured about the outer cannula, and an outer cannula connector coupled to a proximal end of the outer cannula. The inner cannula includes a compressible proximal end region that is compressed while secured inside the outer cannula connector.
US11040154B1
A tamper evident closure assembly for a fitting including, but not limited to, use in combination with a female fixture or an enteral fixture. A cap is connectable in flow restricting relation to the fitting and includes an indicator member removably connected to an exterior thereof. A housing is dimensioned to removably contain the cap and the connected indicator member. Subsequent to the fixture being connected to the cap, a removal thereof results in the indicator member being detached from the cap and movably disposed in a captured, detached orientation within the housing. Tampering may be evidenced by the indicator member remaining captivated within the housing which may be determined by visual observation or the generation of sound caused resulting from the housing being shaken.
US11040141B2
A blood glucose control system can generate an indication of total carbohydrate therapy over a period during use by a subject. The system can be connected to a medicament pump configured to deliver insulin therapy, other types of medicament therapy, or a combination of medicament therapies to the subject. The system can determine an amount of a counter-regulatory agent to respond to an impending risk of hypoglycemia or an episode of hypoglycemia and determine a dose of carbohydrate therapy based at least in part on the amount of the counter-regulatory agent. The system can track determined doses of carbohydrate therapy to generate the indication of total carbohydrate therapy over the period.
US11040133B2
Featured is a closed loop surgical system including one or more control units that are configured to form a fluid control subsystem for fluid control and a device control subsystem for controlling a surgical device. The two control subsystems in combination provide an automatic self-managed closed loop system for the control of fluid into and out of the surgical site by means of intelligent communication and for maintaining a preselected pressure desired by the surgeon. In particular embodiments, this is accomplished by utilizing empirically correlated motor speed and load measurements, based on supplied current, from the surgical resection device when using its specific resection capability. For example, automatically adjusting fluid flow responsive to changes in loading of a surgical device or automatically sensing a load change for the surgical device during a surgical procedure and automatically changing (increasing or decreasing) fluid flow responsive to the load change.
US11040131B2
A method for filling and venting a device for extracorporeal blood treatment is disclosed, such as a patient module in a heart-lung machine, without attached patient. A filling liquid from a filling liquid container located higher than the device flows by gravity via a venous side of the system into a reservoir and flows onwards into a blood pump located at the lower end of the reservoir, wherein a first controllable valve (HC1) for a venting line of a filter is opened and, after the response of an upper filling level sensor in the reservoir, is closed. An upper level of the filter is positioned higher than the upper filling level sensor, and a start-stop motion of the blood pump is performed, as a result of which a stepped flooding of the filter is made providing for an advantageous de-airing of the device.
US11040127B2
A system for treating a deep abdominal wound. The system includes a wound dressing. The wound dressing includes a visceral-protective layer, a compressive layer, and a sealing layer. The visceral-protective layer is configured to be positioned in an open abdomen. The compressive layer is configured to be disposed proximate to the visceral-protective layer. The compressive layer includes a pattern of voids configured for anisotropic collapse of the compressive layer when under negative pressure. The sealing layer is configured to form a sealed space in the open abdomen. A negative pressure source configured to provide negative pressure to the compressive layer.
US11040124B2
An improved new method of making a multi-component implant comprising a solid hydrogel, a porous hydrogel, and a porous rigid base suitable for implantation into a mammal, to treat, repair or replace defects and/or injury biological tissue as well as the implant made from the improved method. The invention also includes an improved method for making devices, constructs, and materials comprising a hydrogel and a porous rigid material. The invention also includes a mold and kits for performing the methods.
US11040122B2
A scent dispensing device is provided that includes a plurality of containers, each containing a different scent ingredient; a driving system configured to separately cause each of the plurality of containers to dispense a quantity of the respective scent ingredient; and a delivery system configured to transport any dispensed quantities from the scent containers to a common receiving area for dispensing onto to a single medium.
US11040119B2
The invention provides compositions and methods for evaluating neuromuscular function in a subject, e.g., a subject at risk for or suffering from a neuromuscular disorder.
US11040116B2
The present invention relates to Adeno-associated virus type 9 methods and materials useful for intrathecal delivery of polynucleotides. Use of the methods and materials is indicated, for example, for treatment of lower motor neuron diseases such as SMA and ALS as well as Pompe disease and lysosomal storage disorders. It is disclosed that administration of a non-ionic, low-osmolar contrast agent, together with a rAAV9 vector for the expression of Survival Motor Neuron protein, improves the survival of SMN mutant mice as compared to the administration of the expression vector alone.
US11040102B2
Discloses herein are high concentration antibody formulations comprising an anti-sclerostin immunoglobulin and an acetate salt and/or an acetate buffer and methods of use.
US11040096B2
Provided is designer nucleic acid constructs and polypeptides that can be used as therapeutic vaccines against HPV16.
US11040081B2
The invention provides the use of low molecular weight collagen hydrolysate for reducing joint pain such as in arthritis or osteoarthritis.
US11040071B2
The present invention offers a solution to the lack of an effective alternative method to those already known to treat angiogenesis. In particular, the present invention is the first to show that a substantially pure population of exosomes derived from MenSCs have capacity to reduce tumor angiogenesis in diseases such as prostate cancer, breast cancer and pancreatic cancer. In this sense, the present invention shows that a substantially pure population of MenSCs-derived exosomes reduce the endogenous levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in cancer cells and the expression of pro-angiogenic factors such as VEGF, NF-KB, FGF and HIFα in the treated tumors. Overall, the invention offers a promising alternative method to treat angiogenesis. Since it is principally composed of exosomes produced by the Stem cells present in menstrual fluid, the invention provides an ease access and repeated sampling in a non-invasive manner. Such attributes allow the rapid production of the treatment.
US11040069B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US11040053B2
The present invention provides highly active cyclic-di-nucleotide (CDN) immune stimulators that activate DCs via a recently discovered cytoplasmic receptor known as STING (Stimulator of Interferon Genes). In particular, the CDNs of the present invention are provided in the form of a composition comprising one or more cyclic purine dinucleotides induce human STING-dependent type I interferon production, wherein the cyclic purine dinucleotides present in the composition are 2′-fluoro substituted, bis-3′,5′ CDNs, and most preferably one or more 2′,2″-diF-Rp,Rp, bis-3′,5′CDNs.
US11040052B2
The present invention provides novel methods for the modulation of autophagy and the treatment of autophagy-related diseases, including cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, liver diseases, muscle diseases and pancreatitis.
US11040048B2
A medicament characterized in that (A) a compound represented by the formula (I): its pharmaceutically acceptable salt, or a solvate thereof, wherein P is hydrogen or a group to form a prodrug; A1 is CR1AR1B, S or O; A2 is CR2AR2B, S or O; A3 is CR3AR3B, S or O; A4 is each independently CR4AR4B, S or O; the number of hetero atoms among atoms constituting the ring which consists of A1, A2, A3, A4, nitrogen atom adjacent to A1 and carbon atom adjacent to A4 is 1 or 2; R1A and R1B are each independently hydrogen, halogen, alkyl or the like; R2A and R2B are each independently hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, or the like; R3A and R3B are each independently hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, or the like; R4A are each independently hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, or the like; R4B are each independently hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, or the like; R3A and R3B may be taken together with an adjacent carbon atom to form non-aromatic carbocycle or non-aromatic heterocycle; n is any integer of 1 to 2; and R1 is or the like, is combined with (B) compound(s) having an anti-influenza activity, its pharmaceutically acceptable salt or a solvate thereof and/or an antibody having anti-influenza activity, is useful for treating or preventing influenza.
US11040032B2
Novel pharmaceutical compositions including cocaine hydrochloride and methods of treating patients using those pharmaceutical compositions are described.
US11040030B2
The instant invention relates to a process for the preparation of a pharmaceutical composition in sustained-release tablet form comprising from 600 milligrams to 2400 milligrams of Pirfenidone (PFD), in such a way that the drug is bioavailable during an extended period of time of 12 hours from its administration. In this way, the anti-fibrotic and anti-inflammatory action of the drug Pirfenidone is optimized. Moreover, the instant invention offers advantages and a higher therapeutic efficacy compared to other pharmaceutical forms of Pirfenidone for oral administration and its therapeutic application in the regression of chronic renal failure secondary to primary glomerulosclerosis; it shows a better activity with regard to the reduction and/or regression of deleterious effects in breast capsular contracture observed after the surgical implantation of breast implants in humans and has an important anti-TNF-α and anti-TGF-β1 action for the treatment of hepatic fibrosis.
US11040027B2
The invention relates to MKK4 (mitogen-activated protein kinase 4) and their use in promoting liver regeneration or reducing or preventing hepatocyte death. The MKK4 inhibitors selectively inhibit protein kinase MKK4 over protein kinases JNK and MKK7.
US11040019B2
Methods are disclosed for treating and/or preventing retinal degeneration is a subject. In some embodiments, the method includes administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) to treat the retinal degeneration in the subject. In other embodiments, the SERM is administered orally. In some examples, the SERM is tamoxifen, afimoxifene, raloxifene, bazedoxifene, arzoxifene, desmethylarzoxifene, or a salt or derivative thereof, or combinations thereof.
US11040017B2
Cannabidiol (CBD) formulation comprising a mixture of full spectrum cannabidiol oil (FSO) and cannabidiol isolate (CBD isolate) is disclosed. The formulation contains a total amount of CBD derived from a combination of an amount of CBD in the FSO and an amount of CBD from the CBD isolate. The formulation of FSO and CBD isolate in used for medicinal and health benefits in a wide range of products, such as tinctures, capsules, creams or lotions, bath salts or bombs, soaps, pet or animal tinctures, and pet or animal edible chews.
US11040012B2
The present invention relates to premixes for the production of active compound-containing tablets which comprise polyvinyl alcohols (PVAs). The invention also relates to active compound-containing tablets which comprise a corresponding premix.
US11040003B2
Leave-on ethanol-free water-based perfumed compositions which are stable during storage, in particular remain clear during storage, and which are non-irritating to the skin. An ethanol-free perfumed composition including water, a perfume and an ester, wherein the ester includes an ethoxylated glyceride derived from carboxylic acids having 6 to 22 carbon atoms moiety.
US11040002B2
A tooth whitening composition includes a hydrophobic copolymer, a hydrophilic whitening agent and a polar solvent.
US11039999B2
Compositions comprising vitamin E, vitamin C, and white tea extract for treating cutaneous signs of aging are disclosed. The compositions reduce signs of wrinkles and improve other skin conditions, such as increased skin elasticity and skin softness. Moreover, the prevention or treatment of unhealthy skin, such as aged skin or skin overexposed to sunlight, may advantageously be accomplished by the administration of the compositions of the present invention The compositions includes the combination of a number of different components, which interact to provide the desired improvements to the skin Further advantageous ingredients of the compositions may comprise, naturally occurring antioxidants extracted from e g grape seeds and tomato, an extract comprising glycosaminoglycans, a transition metal component in an amount effective to bind collagen and elastic fibers and thicken skin, and a catechin-based component present in an amount sufficient to inhibit the presence of anti-collagen enzyme in the skin.
US11039993B2
A composition provides a protective barrier and includes glyceryl dibehenate, tribehenin, and glyceryl behenate, a surfactant that includes glyceryl stearate, hydrogenated vegetable oil, one or more additional fatty compounds, and one or more triglyceride. The composition optionally includes wax, a hydrating agent, and may be essentially free of or is devoid of one or more of petrolatum, mineral oil and water. The composition provides occlusivity and hydration effects that are comparable to compositions that include one or more of petrolatum, mineral oil and lanolin.
US11039983B2
A cap system for sealing injectable drugs within a vial is disclosed. The system includes an elastomeric stopper, a retainer member, a locking member, a cap assembly and a piercing member. The retainer member is arranged to snap onto the vial and the locking member slid with respect to the retainer member to permanently seal the vial. The cap assembly includes a cap and a band and is coupled to the locking member. The cap releasably holds the piercing member. The band is arranged to be removed to enable the cap to move the piercing member to penetrate the stopper, whereupon the cap can be removed. The piercing member is arranged to be connected to a syringe or other instrument to withdraw the vial's contents.
US11039980B2
A system, method and device for providing sound-based therapies to a user. The system, method, and device employ an initial measurement about a user (either or both distances on said user's head or recorded sound), a determination of a resonant frequency, and a wearable actuator affixed on said user's person with the ability to provide a unique resonant frequency to the user. The aspects disclosed herein may also incorporate microphones to optimize and monitor the treatment.
US11039973B2
A system and method are disclosed that allows a practitioner to rotate a human subject in three different axes of rotation, independently from one another and without limitation on the degree of rotation, which allows for the treatment of various systems of the human subject.
US11039966B1
A mobility handling vehicle mechanism includes a tubular frame having a battery and winch secured within the frame. A telescoping lift arm is movably secured to the outside top surface of the frame. A hook and cable are secured to the end of the telescoping lift arm and winch. When secured within a transporting vehicle, the device enables a user to utilize the winch to lift a mobility handling vehicle into the transporting vehicle.
US11039965B2
A patient conveyance apparatus such as a transport chair or a stretcher is disclosed. The apparatus has a frame onto which a patient support with a lowering backrest is provided. The apparatus has two handles extending away from the frame. The handles are rotatable about two axes to change their position, and can be moved through different operative and stowed positions without conflicting with movement of backrest.
US11039962B2
Introduced here are apparatuses and systems for mitigating contact pressures applied to a human body by the surface of an object, such as a chair, bed, or table. A pressure-mitigation apparatus can include a series of chambers whose pressure can be individually varied. When placed between a patient and a contact surface, the pressure-mitigation apparatus can vary the contact pressure on a specific anatomical region of the patient by controllably inflating and/or deflating one or more cell. Moreover, a pressure-mitigation system can be readily integrated into a conventional treatment regimen for a variety of different conditions.
US11039960B2
A liquid indicating article is disclosed. It can have a single layer, but generally will have at least two layers bonded together, wherein a visible layer masks a second colored layer and the visible layer becomes at least semitransparent when wet.
US11039959B2
An ophthalmic laser procedure for forming a lenticule in a cornea and extracting the lenticule from the cornea to accomplish vision correction. An ophthalmic laser system is used to form top and bottom lenticule incisions defining a lenticule in between, and further to form top and/or bottom entry cuts that respectively end unambiguously near the top or bottom lenticule surface. The bottom entry cut intersects both the top and bottom lenticule incisions but ends near the bottom lenticule incision. The entry cuts allow the surgeon to insert a surgical tool which reaches the intended top or bottom lenticule surface without ambiguity. The lenticule has an optical zone in the center that defines the optical power of the lenticule, and a transition zone in the periphery, where the end points of the entry cuts are located in the transition zone.
US11039950B2
Described herein is a medical device with an opening system. The medical device is foldable from an open to a closed condition. It is secured in its closed condition. In certain embodiments, the medical device is an ostomy pouch.
US11039949B2
The present application is directed to methods and devices for reducing shoulder impingement for a person in a lying position. The device may comprise a generally tubular cuff having an inner radius defining an open passage through the cuff and extending from a proximal end to a distal end, an outer radius defining a sidewall thickness between the inner radius and the outer radius, and a length from the proximal end to the distal end. The outer diameter may be selected to provide a sidewall thickness that restricts movement of the arm such that shoulder flexion, extension, adduction, abduction, lateral rotation, and medial rotation are each limited.
US11039946B2
A method includes providing a strap having a length enabled to encircle one side of a user's hand and tricep area when the user's elbow is bent at 90°, and creating a loop with the strap. The loop closing with a buckle, and positioning the inside of one end of the loop around a ventral or dorsal portion of a user's hand or fingers. A step is provided for positioning the inside flat surface of a second end of the loop around at an area at a back side of the user's upper arm, above the elbow, with the elbow bent at approximately 90 degrees. The strap is then tightened to achieve an effective stretch as determined by the user and the stretch may be held for a determined amount of time thereby increasing strength and flexibility and lessen pain in the user's hand, wrist and forearm.
US11039945B2
A stent for use in hollow tubular organs, comprising a continuous tubular or cylindrical inner cavity which is delimited by a wall. The wall is formed in a tubular or cylindrical manner about an axis which runs in a longitudinal direction and has a structure which surrounds the wall. The structure is made of elements, and the elements are made of loops which are arranged about the longitudinal axis in the radial direction. The elements are rigidly connected via connection points such that a tubular or cylindrical single-piece wall structure is produced, and the stent has acute angles in the region of the connection points.
US11039943B2
A bioabsorbable biomedical implant is disclosed. The implant includes a tubular scaffold comprising a plurality of interconnected polymer struts. The interconnected polymer struts defines a plurality of deformable cells. The polymer struts have an average thickness of no more than 120 μm. Methods for making the bioabsorbable biomedical implant, including the methods for making the polymer materials for the tubular scaffold, are also disclosed.
US11039942B2
The present disclosure relates to drug eluting stents, methods of making, using, and verifying long-term stability of the drug eluting stents, and methods for predicting long term stent efficacy and patient safety after implantation of a drug eluting stent. In one embodiment, a drug eluting stent may include a stent framework; a drug-containing layer; a drug embedded in the drug-containing layer; and a biocompatible base layer disposed over the stent framework and supporting the drug-containing layer. The drug-containing layer may have an uneven coating thickness. In addition or in alternative, the drug-containing layer may be configured to significantly dissolve/dissipate/disappear between 45 days and 60 days after stent implantation. Stents of the present disclosure may reduce, minimize, or eliminate patient risks associated with the implantation of a stent, including, for example, restenosis, thrombosis, and/or MACE.
US11039939B2
An orthopedic trial apparatus (100) including an orthopedic component (110) having a distal shaft portion (112) positionable within a passage in a bone and a proximal shaft portion (114) extending from the distal shaft portion, and a proximal trial assembly (120) engaged with the proximal shaft portion of the orthopedic component. The proximal trial assembly includes a proximal spacer (130) component and a proximal trial component (150). The proximal spacer component is rotationally engaged with the proximal shaft portion of the orthopedic component to substantially prevent relative rotation therebetween about a longitudinal axis. The proximal trial component is axially coupled to the proximal spacer component to prevent disengagement of the proximal trial component from the proximal spacer component while permitting selective rotation of the proximal trial component relative to the proximal spacer component about the longitudinal axis.
US11039933B2
An interbody spinal fusion implant includes a top wall, a bottom wall that is spaced apart from the top wall so that a cavity is formed therebetween, and a sidewall extending between the top wall and the bottom wall. At least a portion of the sidewall includes: a row of a plurality of spaced apart outer struts extending between the top wall and the bottom wall, and a row of a plurality of spaced apart inner struts extending between the top wall and the bottom wall, the row of inner struts being set back a distance from the row of outer struts toward the cavity.
US11039921B2
Apparatus and methods are described herein for use in the transvascular delivery and deployment of a prosthetic mitral valve. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a prosthetic heart valve that includes an inner frame and an outer frame couplable to the inner frame via sutures. The prosthetic heart valve is movable between a first configuration for delivery and a second configuration when implanted in a heart. When in the first configuration, the inner frame can be disposed axially proximal of the outer frame and loosely coupled together via the sutures. When in the second configuration, the inner frame and outer frame are disposed in a nested configuration and can be secured together with the sutures. In some embodiments, the sutures are secured with slip knots. In some embodiments, a delivery device can be used to secure the slip knots and sutures to the prosthetic valve.
US11039912B2
The present invention relates to a prosthesis (200) comprising: —one mesh (1) delimited by a peripheral exterior edge (1a), —a frame (2) fastened to said mesh and adopting the shape of said peripheral exterior edge of the mesh, said frame being set back from said peripheral exterior edge and being provided with two hinge points (3a, 3b), the line passing through said two hinge points also passing through the centre (1b) of the mesh and thus forming a line M for folding the mesh in two, characterized in that said prosthesis further comprises at least two anchor pieces (5) made of suturable material and located on a single face of the mesh (1) on either side of said folding line, each piece having a fixed part (5a) linked to said mesh and a free part (5b), said free part being linked to at least one thread-shaped element (7).
US11039902B2
A method produces a marker element, which is composed of two radiopaque layers and an interposed adhesive layer. The marker element is heated and joined into the eyelet of a stent. The introduction of the mechanical force causes the two layers of the marker element to be compressed, whereby the available volume is reduced for the softened adhesive of the adhesive layer. Consequently, the softened adhesive from the adhesive layer is pushed out of the side of the marker element, so that the adhesive flows into the empty volume of the adhesive gap between the marker element and the inner edge of the eyelet of the scaffold and bonds to the inner edge of the eyelet.
US11039901B2
A system, method, and apparatus for performing intraocular lens implantation using real-time surgical reference indicium are disclosed. An example method includes recording a patient specific pre-operative still image of an eye prior to cyclorotation of the eye when a patient lies down for surgery and generating at least one real-time multidimensional visualization of at least a portion of the eye for display. The method further includes using the patient specific pre-operative still image to at least produce at least one virtual surgical reference indicium including an ocular natural vertical axis of the eye and align the at least one virtual surgical reference indicium to the eye in conjunction with the real-time multidimensional visualization of at least a portion of the eye. The patient specific pre-operative still image is captured under a dilation condition selected from the group consisting of natural dilation, chemical dilation, and no dilation.
US11039897B2
A drape management assembly for a robotic surgical system includes a base portion and a grasping portion. The base portion is configured for connection to the robotic surgical system. The grasping portion extends from the base portion and defines a cavity therebetween. The cavity is configured to locate an excess portion of a drape which sheaths at least a robotic arm of the robotic surgical system.
US11039895B2
Remote control robot system includes a master device, slave arm having plurality of control modes including automatic and manual mode, control device configured to operate slave arm, an entering-person sensing device configured to detect entering person into operational area of slave arm, entering-person identifying information acquisition device configured to acquire entering-person identifying information for identifying whether entering person is operator who carries master device, and operation regulating device configured to regulate operation of slave arm based on information acquired from entering-person sensing device and information acquisition device. In automatic mode, operation regulating device regulates operation of slave arm when entering person is detected. In manual mode, operation regulating device allows operation of slave arm to continue when entering person is detected and entering person is operator, and regulates operation of the slave arm when entering person is other than operator.
US11039888B2
Systems and methods are described for planning of catheter ablation procedures, and in particular for planning of the placement of lesions and/or parameters used in ablation. In some embodiments, planning is based on thermal and/or dielectric simulation of lesions, individualized to the anatomy of the particular patient. Optionally, a plan comprises planning of a path along which an ablation lesion is to be formed, the ablation lesion optionally comprising one or more sub-lesions. The plan is optionally optimized for one or more criteria including, for example: minimization of path length, minimization of sub-lesion number, simplification of catheter maneuvering, avoidance of collateral damage to non-target tissue, access to the target dependent on anatomy shape and/or catheter mechanics, and/or features of the target anatomy such as tissue wall thickness and/or fiber direction.
US11039884B2
A microwave ablation device (10) comprises a feed line (22), a microwave radiator and a device outer sheath (46) in which at least part of the feed line (22) is contained. The sheath (46) in use, allows an irrigation liquid to flow therethrough, wherein the feed line has a junction (38) with the radiator (22) has an outer conducting shield (28) terminating and insulated at the junction (38). The feed line (22) has a conductive core (32) that extends to the radiator (24). The conductive core forms a radiating element (34) electrically insulated from its surrounding environment. The radiator (24) is unbalanced.
US11039875B2
A monopolar suction coagulator device is provided for use with a vacuum source and an electrosurgical generator to perform a coagulation procedure and an evacuation procedure at a surgical site. The device includes an active electrode portion at the distal end of a probe, and the probe is formed of a thermally conductive and electrically conductive, non-stick metal material along all or substantially all of its length, to aid in heat dissipation during a coagulation procedure.
US11039867B2
A calcaneal targeting device includes a guide body configured to target a corresponding calcaneal bone plate. The guide body includes at least one mounting opening that is configured to align with a corresponding mounting opening of the calcaneal bone plate, at least one targeting opening configured to align with a corresponding fixation opening of the calcaneal bone plate, and a guiding portion that includes a tali targeting opening and a first elongated opening that has a first length. The first elongated opening is configured to allow sliding of a guide wire across the first length and align the tali targeting opening with a sustentaculum tali.
US11039863B2
A system for reduction of vertebral bodies (or vertebrae) various embodiments includes a reducer, and extender, and a hollow tube. The reducer couples to the extender, which in turn couples to an elongated member, such as a rod, and to a bone fastener assembly. The reducer allows reduction of the vertebral body incrementally, and by a desired amount. The reducer may include or may be used in conjunction with a holding device or holder in order to hold or keep the amount of reduction constant or steady once the desired amount of reduction has been obtained. The reducer may use one of several embodiments, including embodiments that use threaded assemblies or members, inclining members or wedges, offset cams, scissor jacks, and/or levers.
US11039862B2
A vertebral stabilisation device, consisting of at least two linking elements arranged to link two separate vertebrae together, and attachment elements for attaching the ends of each linking element to the two separate vertebrae, characterised in that the length of the linking elements and the arrangement of the attachment elements are such that each linking element can extend diagonally between the two vertebrae to which it is attached, intersecting the mean sagittal plane of the vertebral column, the two linking elements intersecting substantially at said plane, and in that at least the attachment elements situated on a same side of the mean sagittal plane of the vertebral column and on separate vertebrae are not attached to each other.
US11039856B2
The present disclosure relates to laparoscopic surgery, and in particular to laparoscopic ports for facilitating the implant of medical systems such as a neuromodulation system into the body of a patient. Particularly, aspects are directed to a cannula assembly having a cannula housing and a cannula sleeve comprising a sleeve body extending from a distal end of the cannula housing. The cannula sleeve has a semi-rectangular cross section including: (i) a rounded rectangular portion configured to accommodate feeding the neuromodulation system through the cannula assembly, and (ii) a circular portion configured to accommodate insertion of the one or more surgical instruments through the cannula assembly.
US11039854B2
A combination (2290) of an annular rotary knife blade (2300) and blade housing assembly (2400) for a power operated dermatome (2000). The rotary knife blade includes an inner wall (2310) defining an interior region (2301) and including a lower tissue-directing surface (2370) adjacent a cutting edge (2360) and a radially recessed upper portion (2380). The blade housing assembly includes a blade housing (2410) having a first end (2412) and an axially spaced apart second end (2414) and an inner wall (2416) and a radially spaced apart outer wall (2418). The blade housing includes a blade housing cover (2450) extending from the inner wall into the blade interior region. The blade housing cover includes a shield (2470) extending along the recessed upper portion of the rotary knife blade inner wall and having an inner surface (2472) adjacent and continuing the lower tissue-directing surface of the rotary knife blade inner wall.
US11039845B2
The present invention provides methods and devices for treating endovascular disease. Vibrational energy is delivered to change compliance and increase permeability at the treatment area. To improve clinical outcomes, one or more therapeutic drugs may be delivered to the treatment area.
