US11061696B2
A web-based application is executable on one or more computing devices, where execution of the web-based application involves invocation of at least one extension point. The one or more computing devices are configured to: (i) receive, by the web-based application and from a client device, a request for web-based content; (ii) receive, by an extension point service, a call to a particular extension point, where the particular extension point is related to the web-based content, (iii) request and receive, by the extension point service and in communication with a database, one or more implementations corresponding to the particular extension point, and (iv) transmit, by the extension point service and in response to the call to the particular extension point, one or more user-defined plugin scripts included in the one or more implementations, output from which is incorporated in the web-based content as displayed by the client device.
US11061694B2
A reconfigurable data bus system comprises a driver, a receiver, a data bus and a detector. The driver stores an electrical parameter data base. The electrical parameter data base includes a plurality of different signal-to-ground ratios and a plurality of signal quality parameters corresponding to the signal-to-ground ratios. The data bus includes a plurality of signal lines electrically connected between the driver and the receiver. The detector is electrically connected to the data bus and the driver. The detector is configured to detect a current signal quality parameter of the data bus and transmit the current signal quality parameter to the driver. The driver is selectively reconfigured a current signal-to-ground ratio according to a current signal quality parameter of the data bus and the electrical parameter database.
US11061688B2
Systems and methods directed to managing computer resource allocation by monitoring signals indicating demand for services utilizing computer resources are described. A method includes maintaining, for each first event of first events, historical registration data and respective parameter values of the first event and identifying, for a second event having an open registration status, respective parameter values of the second event, and registration data for the second event. The method includes computing a similarity score between the second event and each first event of the plurality of first events, based on the respective parameter values of the first event and the second event and the registration data of the second event and the historical registration data of the first event, generating, for the second event, a projected number of entities based on determined information and determining a ranking of the second event.
US11061687B2
There is provided a program generating apparatus including a generating unit and a genetic processing unit. The generating unit is configured to generate tree structures each representing an image classification program. Each of the tree structures has a first level group and a second level group. Elements of nodes in the first level group are selected from amongst image filters each used to apply preprocessing to an input image. An element of a node in the second level group is selected from amongst setting programs each used to set a different value as a control parameter for generating a classifier based on information obtained by execution of the elements selected for the nodes in the first level group. The genetic processing unit is configured to output, using genetic programming, a tree structure with a fitness score exceeding a predetermined threshold based on the tree structures.
US11061682B2
The invention relates to a method for processing instructions out-of-order on a processor comprising an arrangement of execution units. The inventive method comprises looking up operand sources in a Register Positioning Table and setting operand input references of the instruction to be issued accordingly, checking for an Execution Unit (EXU) available for receiving a new instruction, and issuing the instruction to the available Execution Unit and entering a reference of the result register addressed by the instruction to be issued to the Execution Unit into the Register Positioning Table (RPT).
US11061677B1
A register mapping circuit for recovering a register mapping state associated with a flushed instruction by traversing ROB entries from a snapshot of another register mapping state. The register mapping circuit includes a ROB control circuit, a snapshot circuit, and a register rename recovery circuit (RRRC). The ROB control circuit allocates ROB entries to instructions entering a processor pipeline, including a target ROB entry allocated to a target instruction and other ROB entries allocated to other instructions. The snapshot circuit captures snapshots of logical register-to-physical register mapping states in the rename map table in association with a subset of instructions that could be flushed. If the target instruction is flushed, the RRRC restores the rename map table register mapping state corresponding to the target instruction based on a snapshot in a ROB entry allocated to another instruction, and traverses register mapping updates in the intervening ROB entries.
US11061671B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to microcode instructions. One example apparatus comprises a memory storing a set of microcode instructions. Each microcode instruction of the set can comprise a first field comprising a number of control data units, and a second field comprising a number of type select data units. Each microcode instruction of the set can have a particular instruction type defined by a value of the number of type select data units, and particular functions corresponding to the number of control data units are variable based on the particular instruction type.
US11061669B2
The present disclosure relates to improving the monitoring of software development activities by implementing a centralized software development tool that connects to one or more other development tools. In general, the centralized software development tool may receive activity data and/or historical data from the one or more software development tools that may be indicative of the occurrence of certain activities, such as commits, builds, stories, and like. In some embodiments, the centralized software development tool may provide event notifications based on the received data to facilitate and improve the efficiency of software development.
US11061661B2
A system and method for enabling graphic-based interoperability between computer executed applications. A computer system operating as a client may display a graphical user interface (GUI) including control graphic items such as buttons, text boxes, etc. A process may examine the graphical image of the GUI to determine if there has been a change over time in the GUI as displayed which updates a control graphic item. If there has been a change over time in the GUI which updates a control graphic item, an action may be taken, for example updating properties of an object construct corresponding to the control graphic item, raising an event corresponding to an object construct corresponding to the control graphic item, or communicating an event to a process.
US11061659B2
Provided is a control apparatus which is connected to an on-vehicle control device via an in-vehicle communication line, and constitutes, together with the on-vehicle control device, an in-vehicle network with the in-vehicle communication line being a transmission path. The control apparatus includes: a storage unit configured to store therein an update program for the on-vehicle control device; a monitoring unit configured to monitor an occupancy of the in-vehicle communication line; and a transfer control unit configured to control a timing to transfer the stored update program to the on-vehicle control device, on the basis of the occupancy being monitored.
US11061654B1
Provided are systems and methods for synchronizing program code execution for a plurality of execution engines in an integrated circuit device. In some cases, the operation of one execution engine may be dependent on the operation of another execution engine. To accommodate this dependency, the instructions for the first execution engine can include a set-event instruction and the instructions for the second execution engine can include a wait-on-event instruction. The wait-on-event instruction can cause the second execution engine to wait for the first execution engine to reach the set-event instruction. In this way, the two execution engines can be synchronized around the data or resource dependency.
US11061653B2
Implementations of the present disclosure relate a method, system and computer program products that dynamically compile conditional statements. According to the method, a first number of times that a first conditional statement of a plurality of conditional statements has been satisfied during execution of the plurality of conditional statements for a time period is obtained, wherein the plurality of conditional statements are compiled in a first order during the execution. Based on the first number of times and the first order, a determination is made whether the plurality of conditional statements are to be reordered. In response to a determination that the plurality of conditional statements are to be reordered, a second order of the plurality of conditional statements is determined, wherein the second order being different from the first order. The plurality of conditional statements are then compiled in the second order.
US11061648B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for enhancing operable functionality of input source code files from a software program by identifying a first code snippet and a first library function which have similar execution flow similarity measures by evaluating a first contiguous sequence of n items extracted from the first code snippet against a second contiguous sequence of n items extracted from the first library function using an Ngram threshold that is calculated for the first library function and one or more literals from the first code snippet so that the developer is presented with a library function recommendation which includes the first code snippet, the first library function, and instructions for replacing the first code snippet with the first library function.
US11061643B2
A system for enhancing audio including a plurality of sensors, an output device, and a processor in communication with the plurality of sensors and the output device. The processor is configured to process data captured by the plurality of sensors, and based on that, modify an output of the output device. The processor also is configured to determine whether there are a plurality of users associated with a video conferencing session, determine which user of the plurality of users is speaking, and enhance the audio or video output of the speaking user on the output device.
US11061640B2
A mobile app co-browsing method includes providing a customer mobile device with a mobile application and a co-browsing SDK installed; requesting a screen associated with the mobile application through a media server; receiving authorization from a customer to initiate sharing of the screen with the media server; receiving data associated with the screen and converting the data into a video stream via the media server; sending the video stream to a computing device with an agent, the video stream providing a representation of the screen; allowing an agent to mark-up the screen to create a marked-up screen; receiving data associated with the marked-up screen and converting the data into a second video stream via the media server; and transmitting the second video stream back to the customer mobile device such that the marked up screen is displayed to the customer.
US11061635B2
An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit, an interrupt unit, a control unit, and a selection unit. The reading unit reads an original document. The interrupt unit interrupts a first read job for reading a first original bundle by the reading unit. The control unit executes a second read job, different from the first read job, for reading a second original bundle, different from the first original bundle, by the reading unit while the first read job is interrupted by the interrupt unit. The selection unit selects, from among one or more read jobs interrupted by the interrupt unit, a selected read job to be resumed after the second read job of the second original bundle is completed.
US11061628B2
An information processing system includes a processor that performs control, in the case where plural print jobs with different allowable values of a transport speed are consecutively scheduled on one roll of rolled paper, so as to increase and reduce the transport speed of each print job in such a range that the transport speed of the print job does not exceed the allowable value of the transport speed of the print job during execution of print operation corresponding to the print job.
US11061596B2
A system and method for repartitioning data in a distributed network. The method may include executing, by one or more processors, a first pass of a data set from a plurality of first sources to a plurality of first sinks, each first sink collecting data from one or more of the first sources, and executing, by the one or more processors, a second pass of the data set from a plurality of second sources to a plurality of second sinks, each one of the plurality of first sinks corresponding to one of the plurality of second sources, and each second sink collecting data from one or more of the second sources. Executing the first and second passes causes the data set to be repartitioned such that one or more second sinks collect data that originated from two or more of the first sources.
US11061595B2
A method of writing to a data storage drive having a first media partition having a first write speed and a second media partition having a second write speed slower than the first write speed includes mapping a plurality of logical block addresses (LBAs) to a plurality of physical block addresses (PBAs) of the first media partition, and writing to the plurality of LBAs mapped to the PBAs of the first media partition. It is determined whether the first media partition is at or above a predetermined storage level, and, when the first media partition is at or above the predetermined storage level, data is moved moving data from the first media partition to a plurality of PBAs in the second media partition, and mapping of LBAs and PBAs in the data storage device is updated.
US11061590B2
A chip select training mode (CSTM) enables a memory subsystem to train a chip select signal separately from command bus training. A memory device and a memory controller can connect via a command bus including a chip select signal line. Instead of training the chip select along with other signal lines of the command bus, a CSTM mode enables the memory subsystem to more accurately train the chip select. The memory device can be triggered for CSTM mode with a command, and then train voltage margining for the CS signal line to align chip select signaling with the memory subsystem clock signal.
US11061588B2
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes receiving a request to add a generic volume entry to a generic volume element list, storing the generic volume entry in the generic volume element list in a SMS configuration in a SCDS, and building a volume list definition of the SMS configuration. A unit control block chain is parsed for determining additional specific volumes. It is determined whether a specific volume found in the parsing was not used in the building. In response to a determination that the specific volume found in the parsing was not used in the building, it is determined, for the specific volume found in the parsing, whether at least one predetermined condition is met. The specific volume found in the parsing is added to the volume list definition in response to a determination that the at least one predetermined condition is met.
US11061579B2
A method for data storage tape access optimization is provided. The method identifies a plurality of data segments stored on a data storage tape. Each segment having a location and a size on the data storage tape. The method determines a subset of data segments stored on the data storage tape selected for retrieval. The method determines an access order for the subset of data segments. The access order represents a minimized tape cycle time for retrieving the subset of data segments. The method retrieves the subset of data segments from the data storage tape based on the access order.
US11061576B2
Read-only or pseudo table of contents (TOC) register. A value for a register to be used to access a reference data structure for a given module is obtained. The register is a virtual register that provides the value for the given module absent backing the register in memory. The value is used to access the reference data structure to obtain a variable address to be used by the given module.
US11061571B1
In various embodiments, a memory interface unit organizes data within a memory tile to facilitate efficient memory accesses. In an embodiment, a memory tile represents a portion of memory that holds multiple chunks of data, where each chunk is stored either in a non-compressed or in a smaller compressed data format. In an embodiment, the tile is organized to pack multiple compressed chunks together so that multiple compressed chunks can be retrieved from memory with a single read access. In another embodiment, the tile is organized to store redundant copies of compressed chunks so that a compressed chunk can be quickly decompressed within a tile without having to relocate other compressed chunks in the tile. Additional embodiments are further disclosed for allowing efficient accesses to both compressed and non-compressed data.
US11061559B2
A technique includes detecting a finger pattern that is associated with a physical interaction of a user with a touch screen of an electronic device. The technique includes acquiring sensory input that is associated with the user other than a characteristic of the physical interaction of the user with the touch screen. The technique includes determining whether the physical interaction is associated with an intent to use the touchscreen for key-based input entry based at least in part on the sensory input and controlling a user interface for the electronic device based at least in part on the detected finger pattern and the determined intent.
US11061557B2
Touchscreen-enabled devices are provided to display images of either real or virtual environments, the devices having at least one user interface including a graphical overlay laid over the images for navigating the environments. The device can interpret gestures made by a single finger of the user on the touchscreen as commands to achieve intended maneuvers such as translations of the point of view and rotations of the point of view within the displayed environment. This allows for one-finger navigation of the environment. The elevational angle of the viewpoint may be tilted above or below horizontal as the viewpoint approaches topographical features within the displayed environment, and may return to horizontal after transitioning to a level surface.
US11061556B2
A computer device and method are configured to receive a user input across a plurality of points on a display surface of a user interface device. The device and method detect the user input and measure an amount of an input value at each of the plurality of points. Additionally, the device and method generate and display a display output based on a predefined programmable action corresponding to the amount of the input value at at least one of the respective points varying relative to the amount of the input value at one or more of other ones of the respective points.
US11061552B1
Techniques for cross-context digital item containers and collaboration are provided, including receiving a command to add a particular digital item in a portfolio of digital items, wherein the portfolio of digital items includes one or more digital items, and then adding it in the portfolio of digital items. Subsequently, a request for display of the portfolio of digital items is received and an interactive view of the portfolio of digital items, including the particular digital item is displayed. When an interaction with the interactive view of the portfolio of digital items requesting to use the particular digital item in a second application is received, a digital copy of the particular digital item is provided to the second application for use in the second application.
US11061551B1
Systems and methods are described herein for passive scroll hints while presenting graphical content via an application (e.g., a web browser). A location of a mouse cursor, touch input, or tilt angle of a user device may be utilized to identify a horizontal and/or vertical shift amount. The horizontal and/or vertical shift amounts may relate to an amount by which graphical content presented via a viewing window of the application may be shifted in a horizontal and/or vertical direction, respectively. The horizontal and vertical shift amounts may be bounded based at least in part on a total width and/or height of the graphical content. Utilizing the techniques described herein, a user may be informed of the existence of additional graphical content that is outside of the area of the viewing window.
US11061536B2
Systems and methods for multitasking using touch-sensitive devices, including: displaying, by a display generation component, a first user interface containing a selectable representation of first content, wherein the first content is associated with a first application; detecting a first input that corresponds to a request to move the selectable representation of the first content across the display to a respective location; in response to detecting the first input: in accordance with a determination that the respective location is a first location, resizing the first user interface and displaying a second user interface that includes the first content adjacent to the first user interface; and in accordance with a determination that the respective location is a second location different from the first location, displaying a third user interface that includes the first content overlaid on the first user interface.
US11061532B2
Methods and systems for manual and programmatic remediation of websites. JavaScript code is accessed by a user device and optionally calls TTS, ASR, and RADAE modules from a remote server to thereby facilitate website navigation by people with diverse abilities.
US11061529B2
Techniques are described for utilizing drawing guides in an electronic canvas. The techniques may include detecting a first input at an edge of an artboard associated with the electronic canvas, triggering, responsive to the detected first input, a plurality of selectable indicators to enable configuration of a drawing guide for providing an interactive reference for placing content in the artboard, detecting a second input pertaining to at least one of the plurality of selectable indicators, determining a location in the artboard corresponding to the distance from the edge of the artboard, and triggering the at least one drawing guide for display in the artboard at the determined location.
US11061522B2
An input device includes a pressure-sensitive sensor including a first sensing unit and a second sensing unit, and a pressing unit that is disposed on the pressure-sensitive sensor and undergoes buckling deformation. A bottom of the pressing unit is disposed on the first sensing unit, and a top of the pressing unit is disposed on the second sensing unit.
US11061516B2
A flexible touch panel includes a flexible substrate bent in a first direction, and a touch sensor unit disposed on the flexible substrate, the touch sensor unit including a bridge extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction.
US11061508B2
In an embodiment, a touch sensor may include a sensor part including a first electrode and a second electrode, a signal receiving part, an amplifier circuit part connected between the second electrode and the signal receiving part, an analog-to-digital converter part configured to output a digital signal corresponding to a voltage difference between input terminals, and a processor configured to detect a touch input from the sensor part in response to the digital signal when operating in a first mode, and to output a gain control signal for calibrating a gain value of the amplifier circuit part in response to the digital signal when operating in a second mode.
US11061504B2
An input sensing unit may include the following elements: a first sensing electrode including first sensors and a first connector coupling the first sensors; a second sensing electrode including second sensors and a second connector coupling the second sensors; a first sensing line including first sensing line parts and a third connector coupling the first sensing line parts; a second sensing line; and an insulating layer including a first insulating side and a second insulating side opposite the first insulating side. The first sensing line parts may overlap the first sensors and may be disposed on the first insulating side. The second sensing line may overlap the second sensors and may be disposed on the first insulating side. The first sensors may be disposed on the second insulating side. The second sensors may be disposed on the second insulating side.
US11061493B1
A mouse roller module includes a roller assembly, a sensing unit and a control unit. The roller assembly includes a stator and a rotator. When the roller assembly is in a first usage mode, the rotator is rotated relative to the stator in response to an applied force of a user. A rotating speed of the rotator relative to the stator is sensed by the sensing unit. If the rotating speed of the rotator relative to the stator reaches a threshold value when the roller assembly is in the first usage mode, the roller assembly is switched form the first usage mode to a second usage mode under control of the control unit. While the first usage mode is switched to the second usage mode, the roller assembly is switched to an enabled state, so that the stator drives rotation of the rotator.
US11061492B2
Methods and systems may provide for a gyratory sensing system (GSS) for extending the human machine interface (HMI) of an electronic device, particularly small form factor, wearable devices. The gyratory sensing system may include a gyratory sensor and a rotatable element to engage the gyratory sensor. The rotatable element may be sized and configured to be easily manipulated by hand to extend the HMI of the electronic device such that the functions of the HMI may be more accessible. The rotatable element may include one or more rotatable components, such as a body, edge or face of a smart watch, that each may be configured to perform a function upon rotation, such as resetting, selecting, and/or activating a menu item.
US11061480B2
A method of controlling a user interface using an input image is provided. The method includes storing operation executing information of each of one or more gesture forms according to each of a plurality of functions, detecting a gesture form from the input image, and identifying the operation executing information mapped on the detected gesture form to execute an operation according to a function which is currently operated.
US11061479B2
The present disclosure provides a method, a device and a readable storage medium for processing a control instruction based on gesture recognition, the method including: obtaining a trigger-gesture-recognition instruction; capturing a set of to-be-recognized images corresponding to a to-be-recognized user according to the trigger-gesture-recognition instruction, where the set of to-be-recognized images includes to-be-recognized images of multiple frames; determining location information of a hand of the to-be-recognized user respectively in each frame of the to-be-recognized images via a preset body recognizing model; and according to the location information, obtaining gesture information corresponding to the hand via a preset gesture recognizing model; and according to the gesture information corresponding to the hand, obtaining a control instruction corresponding to the gesture information. Thus, the amount of computation for gesture recognition is reduced, and efficiency of gesture recognition is improved, enabling a remote gesture control of an intelligent terminal.
US11061474B2
Visual information defining visual content may be accessed. The visual content may include one or more views of one or more scenes. The scene(s) may include one or more human subjects. Gaze directions of the human subject(s) may be determined. The gaze directions may indicate one or more viewing directions in which the human subject(s) are looking. One or more directions of view for the visual content may be determined based on the gaze directions of the human subject(s). The direction(s) of view may include one or more of the viewing directions looked at by the human subject(s). The visual content may be presented on a display based on the direction(s) of view for the visual content.
US11061473B2
A method of updating a cornea model for a cornea of an eye is disclosed, as well as a corresponding system and storage medium. The method comprises controlling a display to display a stimulus at a first depth, wherein the display is capable of displaying objects at different depths, receiving first sensor data obtained by an eye tracking sensor while the stimulus is displayed at the first depth by the display, controlling the display to display a stimulus at a second depth, wherein the second depth is different than the first depth, receiving second sensor data obtained by the eye tracking sensor while the stimulus is displayed at the second depth by the display, and updating the cornea model based on the first sensor data and the second sensor data.
US11061470B2
An eye tracking device includes at least one light source configured to irradiate detection light for eye tracking to at least one eyeball of a subject; at least one imager configured to capture image of the at least one eyeball; a position detecting unit configured to detect a position of a pupil center of the at least one eyeball and a position of a corneal reflex center of the at least one eyeball from the captured image; a gaze determining unit configured to determine whether the subject is gazing at a target position based on the position of the pupil center and the position of the corneal reflex center; and a calibration unit configured to perform calibration for the eye tracking based on the captured image when the gaze determining unit determines that the target position is gazed at by the subject.
US11061464B2
An electronic device includes a key circuit, a first universal serial bus (USB) circuit coupled to the key circuit, where the key circuit outputs different signals when different keys on the key circuit are pressed. The first USB circuit is configured for USB communication, and a first power delivery (PD) circuit is coupled to the key circuit and configured to convert a signal output by the key circuit into a PD signal and transmit the PD signal to a second electronic device to enable the second electronic device to process the key operation when the first USB circuit is in a power-off state and a key operation is performed on the key circuit.
US11061452B2
An integrated circuit includes a digital circuit and an energy management circuit. The digital circuit operates with an internal power supply voltage in synchronism with a clock signal and comprises complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistors. The energy management circuit has an input for receiving an external power supply voltage and an output for providing the internal power supply voltage. The energy management circuit is thermally coupled to the digital circuit and sets the internal power supply voltage to a nominal voltage when a temperature of the digital circuit is greater than a boost temperature. The energy management circuit boosts the internal power supply voltage to a boosted voltage greater than the nominal voltage when the temperature of the digital circuit is less than the boost temperature.
US11061447B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a first housing surface that faces a first side, a second housing surface that faces a second side, and a side surface that surrounds at least a portion of a space between the first housing surface and the second housing surface, a display arranged within the housing and including a first display surface including a display screen exposed through the first housing surface and a second display surface that faces the second side, a structure arranged between the second display surface and the second housing surface including a contact surface, the structure including a through-opening, and a sensor, at least a portion of which is arranged within the opening and which is arranged to detect at least a portion of light received from the outside of the housing after passing through the first housing surface and the display.
US11061446B1
The handset is connected to a cord that can be unreeled and reeled in, and can be set in a cradle and taken out of the cradle, the handset comprising an acceleration sensor, a display unit, and a controller. The acceleration sensor detects movement of the handset in a first direction, which is a direction in which the handset is taken out of the cradle, and/or a second direction, which is a direction in which the handset is set in the cradle. The controller controls operation of the display unit, and disables the operation of the display unit while the acceleration sensor is detecting movement of the handset in the first direction or the second direction.
US11061443B2
A foldable mechanism for a foldable mobile terminal and related products may include: first and second sliding plates provided between a first shell and a second shell, the first sliding plate being able to slidably extend or retract with respect to the first shell, and the second sliding plate being able to slidably extend or retract with respect to the second shell; first and second rotation shafts; a first connection rod having a first end slidably hinged to the first rotation shaft and a second end rotatably capable of being connected to the first shell; a second connection rod having a first end slidably hinged to the second rotation shaft and a second end capable of being rotatably connected to the second shell; and a linkage element that connects the first and second rotation shafts and is in linkage with the first end of the first connection rod and the first end of the second connection rod.
US11061434B2
A display cover is provided. The display cover includes a first glass and a second glass; a carbon material layer disposed between the first glass and the second glass, wherein the carbon material layer is formed by simultaneously applying a heat treatment process to an organic adhesive layer, the first glass, and the second glass to carbonize the organic adhesive layer. The structural strength of display cover can be strengthened by placing a carbon material layer between two glass layers to achieve a strong chemical bond between the thin carbon material layer disposed between the two glass layers and the two glass layers.
US11061426B2
A voltage reference circuit serves to furnish a reference voltage for an application-specific integrated circuit. The voltage reference circuit includes a voltage input for applying an operating voltage; a ground terminal; a voltage output for furnishing a reference voltage; and a signal output for furnishing a power-on reset signal. The voltage reference circuit includes an IPTAT circuit, connected between the voltage input and ground terminal, for generating a current proportional to the absolute temperature, the voltage reference circuit being embodied to furnish the power-on reset signal only if the reference voltage has reached a target value and if additionally a current is flowing in the IPTAT circuit with a quantity of current that reaches or exceeds a minimum current intensity determined by a voltage value of the operating voltage and by a pull-down resistance value.
US11061422B2
Disclosed is a low dropout linear regulator and a voltage stabilizing method therefor in embodiments. The low dropout linear regulator includes: a drive circuit, generating a first control signal according to a voltage reference and a feedback voltage and generating an output current according to the first control signal, a load capacitor providing an output voltage according to the output current; a voltage feedback circuit, obtaining the feedback voltage according to the output voltage; a current feedback circuit, generating a second control signal according to the output current; a switch circuit, providing the voltage reference according to the second control signal. Among them, in a first phase of a startup process, the voltage reference is less than or equal to an initial value, and the current feedback circuit limits the output current according to the second control signal; in a second phase of the startup process, the switch circuit switches a voltage value of the voltage reference to a target value. The low dropout linear regulator and the voltage stabilizing method therefor of the embodiment of the disclosure, during the startup process, may effectively limit the output current and make the output voltage rise gently so as to reduce or avoid overshoot.
US11061418B2
An overfill prevention valve that is testable to ensure proper functionality of the valve. More particularly, in one embodiment the invention is an overfill prevention valve system including an overfill prevention valve having a blocking component. The blocking component is movable between a closed position, wherein the blocking component generally blocks fluid from flowing through the valve, and an open position, wherein the blocking component generally allows fluid to flow through the valve. The valve further including a float operatively coupled to the blocking component. The system additionally has an actuator that is operable to directly or indirectly move the blocking component to at least one of its open or closed positions to thereby enable testing of the overfill prevention valve.
US11061412B2
An information processing device that operates in an imaging device mounted on a mobile unit, and notifies the mobile unit of failed imaging, when imaging performed by the imaging device has failed.
US11061410B2
According to one implementation of the present disclosure, a method for determining angle-of-attack for an unpowered vehicle is disclosed. The method includes: determining a monotonic portion of a look-up curve of an angle-of-attack operating plot; during flight, determining, by an accelerometer disposed on the unpowered vehicle, first and second accelerometer outputs, where the first and second accelerometer outputs correspond to first and second body-fixed load factor measurements, respectively; determining an operating point on the monotonic portion by applying a quotient of the first and second accelerometer outputs to the angle-of-attack operating plot; and determining an angle-of-attack parameter corresponding to the determined operating point.
US11061409B2
A machine routing and planning system for mobile machines at a work site includes a plurality of haul trucks, a loading machine, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine an initial effective capacity based on an initial amount of carryback material, and generate an initial material movement plan based upon the number of machines, the capacity of the loading machine and the initial effective capacity of each haul truck. The controller is further configured to determine a modified effective capacity for each haul truck based on a current amount of carryback material, and generate a modified material movement plan based upon the number of machines, the capacity of each loading machine, and the modified effective capacity for each haul truck.
US11061402B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods that apply neural networks such as, for example, convolutional neural networks, to sparse imagery in an improved manner. For example, the systems and methods of the present disclosure can be included in or otherwise leveraged by an autonomous vehicle. In one example, a computing system can extract one or more relevant portions from imagery, where the relevant portions are less than an entirety of the imagery. The computing system can provide the relevant portions of the imagery to a machine-learned convolutional neural network and receive at least one prediction from the machine-learned convolutional neural network based at least in part on the one or more relevant portions of the imagery. Thus, the computing system can skip performing convolutions over regions of the imagery where the imagery is sparse and/or regions of the imagery that are not relevant to the prediction being sought.
US11061400B2
A control apparatus for a vehicle makes the vehicle travel without depending on operation of a shift operation apparatus by a driver, even in a case where a detection abnormality by which a shift operation position of the shift operation apparatus becomes indefinite has occurred.
US11061379B2
A main controller may be used to provide integrated, centralized, and optimized handling of telematics data in welding arrangements. The main controller may receive from other components of a welding arrangement, telematics data, and may apply at least some processing to the telematics data, to enable use of the telematics data by a remote entity. The telematics data may comprises data relating to an engine used in driving one or more components of the welding arrangement, data relating to one or more components of the welding arrangement, and/or data relating to welding operations performed via the welding arrangement. The processing of telematics data may comprise formatting data in accordance with a single standard format, digitizing analog data, and/or processing data for communication to the remote entity. The main controller may provide telematics client and/or host node functions, such as based on the controller area network (CANBus) protocol.
US11061378B2
In a method of controlling a processing apparatus having a touch-panel display: when an operator touches the display with a finger and moves the finger in an X-axis direction, a chuck table or a processing unit is moved in the X-axis direction for a distance depending on the distance that the finger is moved, and an image of a portion of a workpiece is moved in the X-axis direction on the display; and when the operator touches the display with a finger and moves the finger in a Y-axis direction, the chuck table or the processing unit is moved in the Y-axis direction for a distance depending on the distance that the finger is moved, and the image of the portion of the workpiece is moved in the Y-axis direction on the display.
US11061377B2
The invention realizes miniaturization, high performance, and informatization of a control device. Only an application not required to be repeatedly executed with respect to a control subject at an execution interval less than or equal to a prescribed time interval is assigned to a fourth core (114) of a PLC (10).
US11061374B2
A building management system comprising a plurality of sensors, each sensor of the plurality of sensors configured to detect a condition of the building is disclosed. The system may further comprise a memory for storing one or more events, each event configured to identify an action from a sequence of sensed conditions, a communications module configured to communicate with a remote device over a network, and a controller operatively coupled to the first sensor, the second sensor, the memory, and the communications module. The controller may be configured to compare the plurality of sensed conditions to the one or more events to identify an action and determine what, if any response is required, and if a response is required, provide a notification to the remove device via the communications module.
US11061371B1
A moiré-effect winding assembly for an automatic timepiece movement includes an oscillating winding mass which is movable relative to the movement. The winding mass is to be mounted to rotate on an axis of the movement. Part of the winding mass forms a heavy part allowing the mass to oscillate in response to the movement of the timepiece and to the force of gravity. The assembly also includes an element that is stationary relative to the movement. The stationary element is arranged under the winding mass. The winding mass at least partly displaces above the stationary element. The stationary element includes a first relief pattern and the winding mass includes a plurality of through openings defining a second pattern, so as to create a dynamic moiré effect when the winding mass displaces above the stationary element.
US11061369B2
A cartridge for use with a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, the main assembly including a driving shaft having a rotational force applying portion, wherein the cartridge is dismountable from the main assembly in a direction substantially perpendicular to an axial direction of the driving shaft, the cartridge including i) a developing roller for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, the developing roller being rotatable about an axis thereof; and ii) a coupling member engageable with the rotational force applying portion to receive a rotational force for rotating the developing roller, the coupling member being capable of taking a rotational force transmitting angular position for transmitting the rotational force for rotating the developing roller to the developing roller and a disengaging angular position in which the coupling member is inclined away from the rotational force transmitting angular position, wherein when the cartridge is dismounted from the main assembly of the electrophotographic image forming apparatus in a direction substantially perpendicular to the axis of the developing roller, the coupling member moves from the rotational force transmitting angular position to the disengaging angular position.
US11061355B2
An image forming apparatus includes a receiving part that receives multiple page images including a first page image and a second page image, a medium carrying part that carries the recording media, and an image forming part that forms images on the recording media carried by the medium carrying part based on the first and second page images processed by the image processing part. The image processing part determines one edge region of the first page image, which has the highest image density among four edge regions on the first page image, changes the orientation of the first page image such that the one edge region having the highest image density is arranged to be at the trailing side of the first page image, and changes the orientation of the second page image to the same orientation as that of the first page image.
US11061351B2
A measuring device a measurement unit configured to measure an image on a sheet, the measurement unit including a light emitting portion configured to illuminate the sheet with light, and a detecting portion configured to detect light reflected by the sheet; a supporting unit supporting the measurement unit; and a driving unit configured to move the measurement unit supported by the supporting unit in a scanning direction. A size, in the scanning direction, of a detectable range of the detecting portion in which the detecting portion is capable of detecting the reflected light from the sheet is larger than a size, in a sub-scanning direction perpendicular to the scanning direction and a normal direction of a surface of the sheet, of the detectable range of the detecting portion.
US11061350B2
An image forming apparatus includes a density detector, a determination unit, and a change unit. The density detector detects a density of a patch image formed on an image carrier over plural places. The determination unit determines whether plural detection results of the density detector are within a threshold. When the number of determination results, by the determination unit, that the density of the patch image is not within the threshold exceeds a predetermined number, the change unit changes (i) a detection timing at which the patch image is detected by the density detector or (ii) a formation position of the patch image on the image carrier.
US11061347B2
A printer including: a powder housing chamber that houses powder including a color material and carrier; a supplying conveying unit that conveys the powder while supplying the powder to a powder holder that holds the powder, by forward rotation; a detection unit that detects the amount of powder within the powder housing chamber, upstream in a conveyance direction from a discharge unit that discharges surplus powder, downstream in the conveyance direction from the supplying conveying unit, and above a rotary shaft of the supplying conveying unit; and a control unit that controls at least one of the rotation direction and the rotation speed of the supplying conveying unit on the basis of a detection result of the detection unit.
US11061346B2
A lens mirror array includes a plurality of transparent optical elements integrally connected to each other in one direction. Each of the optical elements includes: an incidence side lens surface on which light is incident; an exit side lens surface through which incident light exits; and a flange portion having a surface continuous to the incidence side lens surface. The surface of the flange portion is arranged at an angle at which unnecessary light incident on the flange portion is guided to a position deviating from an slit, the slit allowing transmission of effective light in light that exits through the exit side lens surface.
US11061339B2
An apparatus for containing a substrate and a method of manufacturing the apparatus are provided. The apparatus for containing a substrate includes: a base having a periphery and an upward-facing top horizontal planar surface with a plurality of contact elements, the contact elements being used for engaging the substrate to hold the substrate upon the upward-facing top horizontal planar surface, an upward-facing frame-like support surface extending from the upward-facing top horizontal planar surface and surrounding the contact elements at a position proximate to the periphery of the base; and a cover having a downward-facing frame-like support surface being in large-area contact with the upward-facing frame-like support surface to define a cavity for containing the substrate between the base and the cover. The downward-facing and upward-facing frame-like support surfaces in contact with each other are not at the same level as the upward-facing top horizontal planar surface.
US11061328B2
Embodiments in accordance with the present invention encompass photosensitive compositions containing a base soluble polymer, a latent base catalyst, a photoactive compound and an epoxy crosslinking agent. The compositions are useful for forming films that can be patterned to create structures for microelectronic devices, microelectronic packaging, microelectromechanical systems, optoelectronic devices and displays. In some embodiments the compositions of this invention are shown to feature excellent hitherto unachievable mechanical properties. More specifically, the compositions exhibit increased photo speed, higher elongation to break, higher tensile strength and higher glass transitions temperatures than the conventional compositions, among other enhanced properties. Accordingly, the positive images formed therefrom exhibit improved thermo-mechanical properties, among other property enhancements.
US11061327B2
A polyimide polymer that includes the reaction product of: (a) at least one diamine selected from the group consisting of a diamine of Structure (Ia) and a diamine of Structure (Ib), (b) at least one diamine of Structure (II), (c) at least one tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride, and optionally (d) at least one compound containing a first functional group reactive with an amine or an anhydride and at least one second functional group selected from the group consisting of a substituted or unsubstituted alkenyl group and a substituted or unsubstituted alkynyl group. Each variable in the above formulas is defined in the specification.
US11061314B2
There is provided a projection screen and a projection display apparatus that make it possible to improve display quality. A projection screen according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a display member (50) having transmittance or reflectance that varies in accordance with first light (UV) to be applied.
US11061310B2
A projector, including a light modulation module including at least one light modulator illuminated by light of at least two primary colours, light of each primary colour having at least two wavelengths or wavelength ranges, where the optical power emitted at a wavelength or wavelength range associated with a lower contrast of a projected image is lower than the optical power emitted at a wavelength associated with a higher contrast of the projected image.
US11061304B2
A system may include an enclosure with an exterior wall that defines a cavity therein. The exterior wall may have an interior surface and an exterior surface. A projector support may be insertable into the cavity or may be formed as a single piece with the exterior wall such that the projector support supports a projector in a position and orientation in which the projector projects light at the interior surface from within the cavity. The exterior wall may have a thickness and material composition selected such that, in response to projection of light at the interior surface, an image is visible on the exterior surface.
US11061302B2
A quick release mount system having a mounting plate with opposed sides, each includes latching surfaces, adapted to be received into a base member having a socket. The mounting system further includes at least one movable latching member for engaging with the latching surface of the mounting plate to prevent separation of the mounting plate from the socket. The mounting system also includes a locking mechanism for clamping said mounting plate within the socket, by pushing the mounting plate in a direction perpendicular to the base, and against the at least one latching member.
US11061300B2
A flash housing for photographic purposes and method for controlling a flash light is disclosed. The flash housing comprises a flash forming element arranged to generate a flash light. The flash housing further comprises a lens element having a substantially circular cross-section and being arranged to let at least part of the generated flash light out of the flash housing so as to obtain the flash. The flash housing further comprises a zoom element rotatably arranged at least partly along the circumference of the lens element. The zoom element is operatively connected to the flash forming element so as to control movement of the flash forming element by manual rotation of the zoom element.
US11061296B2
A microwave amplitude-phase controller and a method of controlling amplitude and/or phase of a microwave are provided. The microwave amplitude-phase controller includes: a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to each other; a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; a conductive layer on a side of the first substrate facing the liquid crystal layer, the conductive layer being configured to receive a first voltage signal; and a resonant structure on a side of the second substrate facing the liquid crystal layer, the resonant structure being configured to receive a second voltage signal and to transmit a microwave signal.
US11061291B2
An electronic apparatus that can secure a space in a bezel while controlling the thickness of a main body, in which a display is disposed, and the width of a bezel to a minimum is disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes a main body having a display and a bezel disposed around the display, a first board that controls an image displayed on the display, and an FPC that connects at least two terminal groups arranged along one side of the display and the first board. The first board is disposed at a position adjacent to the one side in the bezel, and the FPC has a first wiring section connected to at least two terminal groups and extends, grouping together wires at one place on the rear surface of the display, and a second wiring section that connects the wires grouped together by the first wiring section to the first board.
US11061286B2
Color derived from metallic nanostructures are often more efficient, more robust to environmental changes, and near impossible to damage or bleach due to overexposure. The embodiments combine these advantages with the millisecond re-configurability of liquid crystals to actively control a reflective color of a metallic nanostructure. Of the current technologies that boast active color tunability, many are pigmentation based (e-ink in e-readers) and/or need seconds to change color (photonic ink, electrochromic materials). Speed is an advantage of the embodiments and is comparable to current liquid crystal displays (˜120 Hz). Traditional LC displays use static polymer films (color filters) and white back light to generate color. Being able to actively tune the color from a single metallic nanostructure allows for smaller pixel size, increased resolution, and decreased fabrication cost compared to a conventional RGB color pixel without needing external white light source for extremely low power operations.
US11061285B2
By increasing an interval between electrodes which drives liquid crystals, a gradient of an electric field applied between the electrodes can be controlled and an optimal electric field can be applied between the electrodes. The invention includes a first electrode formed over a substrate, an insulating film formed over the substrate and the first electrode, a thin film transistor including a semiconductor film in which a source, a channel region, and a drain are formed over the insulating film, a second electrode located over the semiconductor film and the first electrode and including first opening patterns, and liquid crystals provided over the second electrode.
US11061278B2
Provided are a wavelength conversion member including: a quantum dot phosphor; a white pigment including an organic substance layer that contains an organic substance, on at least a part of a surface of the white pigment; and a resin cured product including the quantum dot phosphor and the white pigment.
US11061277B2
A diffusion sheet, a backlight module, a liquid crystal display panel and a display device are disclosed. The diffusion sheet comprises a base layer, a white printed layer and a black printed layer. The base layer comprises a peripheral region and a light transmitting region. The white printed layer and the black printed layer are arranged in the peripheral region. In a direction from a light incident surface to a light exit surface of the base layer, the black printed layer and the white printed layer are arranged in this order. An orthographic projection of the black printed layer on the base layer falls within an orthographic projection of the white printed layer on the base layer. In this way, the white printed layer can block a shadow which is formed by reflection of the black printed layer from the prismatic sheet, and thus improve the display quality.
US11061261B2
An optical modulator, a substrate for an optical modulator, a method of manufacturing an optical modulator, and a method of manufacturing a substrate for an optical modulator that can reduce a propagation loss are provided. An optical modulator 1 according to an embodiment includes: a base substrate 10; a waveguide substrate 20 disposed over the base substrate 10 and including an electro-optic effect; a waveguide 23 formed on the waveguide substrate 20 for performing optical modulation; and an electrode 40 configured to apply a voltage to the waveguide 23. Here, the base substrate 10 and the waveguide substrate 20 are made of the same material, the waveguide 23 is formed inside the waveguide substrate 20, and a refractive index of the waveguide substrate 20 is larger than a refractive index of the base substrate 10.
US11061255B2
Contact lenses incorporating an array of non-coaxial lenslets with add power that create non-coaxial myopic defocus within the optic zone of the lens may be utilized to prevent and/or slow myopia progression. The positive, non-coaxial lenslets cover about twenty to eighty percent of the central pupil area to deliver positive foci of light in front of the retina to slow the rate of myopia progression.
US11061254B2
Changing a prescription of a contact lens includes analyzing vision-related data regarding a user (e.g., eye measurements and/or contextual information) to determine a currently needed contact lens prescription, resulting in a determined contact lens prescription; and adjusting a contact lens prescription of a contact lens embedded in the user's eye based on the determined contact lens prescription.
US11061245B2
The present disclosure concerns a device for forming a field intensity distribution in the near zone, from a propagating electromagnetic waves which are incident on said device. The device comprises: at least one layer of dielectric material, having a first refractive index n1 with a surface having at least one abrupt change of level forming a step; an element having a second refractive index n2 lower than said first refractive index n1, which is in contact with said step; and wherein said step generates a beam which is tilted compared to a propagation direction of said electromagnetic waves, and said beam having a length comprised between ½λ_1 to 10λ_1, with λ_1 being a wavelength of said electromagnetic waves in said dielectric material.
US11061244B2
A lens (10) has an incidence surface (11) having a cylindrical shape and forming a concave shape, and an emitting surface (12) forming a convex shape with respect to an optical axis (10a). A light source (20) has a large divergence angle in a vertical direction, and a divergence angle in a horizontal direction which is smaller than that in the vertical direction. The light source (20) is located at a position of focal length of the lens (10) in the vertical direction on a side of the incidence surface. The horizontal direction of the light source (20) is aligned with a curvature direction of the cylindrical shape of the lens (10).
US11061240B2
A method of adapting content responsive to a well-being of a user wearing a head mountable display (HMD) includes detecting, by one or more sensors, one or more parameters indicating one or more current properties of the user wearing the HMD, generating information indicating the well-being of the user based on the one or more parameters, and adapting an output of the HMD responsive to the generated information, the output comprising at least one of an image and an audio signal.
US11061231B2
To provide a display device in which the brightness of the image viewed by the observer is bright, and the brightness of the image is as uniform as possible. The display device according to the present invention includes a frame 10 and an image display device 100, the image display device 100 includes an image forming apparatus 11 and an optical device 120, the optical device 120 includes a light guide plate 121, a first deflection unit 130 configured with a first hologram diffraction grating 131 and a second hologram diffraction grating 135, and a second deflection unit 140 configured with a third hologram diffraction grating 141, and slant angles and pitches of the first hologram diffraction grating 131, the second hologram diffraction grating 135, and the third hologram diffraction grating 141 satisfy a predetermined relation.
US11061228B2
A head-up display includes: a plurality of displays having a plurality of pixels and configured to emit lights from each of the plurality of pixels; a plurality of collimators configured to receive the lights emitted from each pixel of the plurality of pixels of the plurality of displays and output collimated lights by collimating the lights; and a diffractive optical element configured to receive the collimated lights from the plurality of collimators, diffract the collimated lights, emit the collimated lights at angles substantially equal to respective angles at which the collimated lights are incident to the diffractive optical element, respectively, and generate a virtual image by the collimated lights emitted from the diffractive optical element. The head-up display is reduced in size and capable of generating the virtual image at infinity to allow drivers to view the virtual image without shifting their focal point.
US11061225B2
An emitter configuration layout for an optical phased array comprises a plurality of emitters arranged around a perimeter, and a plurality of waveguides, with each of the waveguides respectively coupled to one of the emitters. The plurality of emitters are operative to generate a single far-field peak.
US11061223B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods of reducing distortion in an image displayed on a near-eye display. Described herein is a display system including a light assembly configured to generate source light for a display image, a distortion correcting optics assembly, and a mirror scanning system configured to receive pre-distorted and collimated light and reflect and scan the pre-distorted and collimated light to provide an image on an image plane. The distortion correcting optics assembly delivers pre-distorted and collimated light to the mirror scanning system, the mirror scanning system is configured to undistort the pre-distorted light and transmit an undistorted image to a display.
US11061220B2
System and method utilizing a reconfigurable in real-time phase-modulating diffractive device (in a specific case—a 2D array of micro-mirror elements) in conjunction with another diffractive element (active or passive) to spatially steer a beam of polychromatic light such that light reaches the identified target without being substantially angularly dispersed.
US11061218B2
Apparatus and method for maintaining precise end-to-end relative position between two optical fibers
According to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided an apparatus comprising: a first optical fiber in communication with a light source; a second optical fiber in communication with an imaging probe; and a fiber optic rotary joint (FORJ) where a distal end of the first optical fiber and a proximal end of the second optical fiber are positioned coaxially with a gap between the fibers' end faces. The FORJ is adapted to transmit light between the fibers' end faces, and to rotate at least one of first and second optical fibers relative to the other. An actuator is configured to axially translate at least one of the first and second optical fibers relative to the other in a reciprocal motion. A light intensity sensor is adapted to measure light intensity changes due to optical interference between light reflected from the fibers' end faces. And, a control system is configured to receive light intensity measurements from the sensor and to use the light intensity measurements to control the reciprocal motion of the linear actuator to maintain the length of the gap between fibers' end faces substantially constant.
US11061212B2
A zoom lens includes in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power; a second lens unit having a negative refractive power and configured to move for zooming; and at least one lens unit configured to move for zooming. The distance between each pair of the lens units adjacent to each other is changed for zooming. The first lens unit includes a negative lens and an Abbe number and a partial dispersion ratio of the negative lens are properly determined.
US11061194B2
Disclosed are an optical module unlocking device and an optical module. For the optical module unlocking device, a boss is arranged on a metal front end of a pull ring. The boss abuts against the skewed slot of an upper cover. The metal front end located in the upper cover can slide relatively along the limiting post of the upper cover and at least one boss is driven to slide into the skewed slot of the upper cover and then hide into the bottom of the skewed slot or abut against a bevel edge of the at least one skewed slot and then bulge. After the at least one boss abuts against the bevel edge of the at least one skewed slot and then bulges, a shielding cage spring strip which is about to be cooperated with the boss is opened by being pushed upwards, and the optical module can be unlocked. The reliability of the optical module unlocking device is high and the unlocking motion of the optical module is simple. The optical module unlocking device of the present disclosure has the advantages of less component quantities, simple assembling, high assembling efficiency and low cost.
US11061187B2
Planar waveguide junctions are described with a waggled transition section connecting input waveguide sections with output waveguides sections, in which the waggled transitions have alternating segments matching the input waveguide and output waveguides to efficiently transition the optical signal. The planar waveguide junctions can be used to form efficient optical splitters, mixers, or taps.
US11061177B2
A solid body made of an inactive, light transmissive material (3) has embedded therein an optical fiber (6) having a lengthwise segment (9) in which a scattering structure is formed that is to redirect primary propagating light sideways out of the fiber (6). An active photoluminescent layer integrated in the optical fiber (6) is to wavelength-convert the primary light into secondary light. The solid body is generally cylindrical but without rotational symmetry about the center longitudinal axis (2) of the fiber (6). A portion of the outer side surface of the body is curved and is covered by an external reflector (4), while another portion of the outer side surface is uncovered by the reflector in order for the secondary light to emerge. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US11061169B2
The invention is generally related to a soft contact lens which comprises a hydrogel lens body and a coating thereon and to a method for producing the same. The hydrogel lens body is composed of a crosslinked polymeric material comprising repeating units of at least one arylborono-containing vinylic monomer having a boronic acid group, and the coating comprises a layer of a phosphorylcholine-containing polymer which comprises (a) repeating units of vinyl alcohol, and (b) repeating units of 6-membered acetal ring substituted with a phosphorylcholine-containing group. The coating is covalently-attached to the hydrogel lens body through cyclic boronic ester linkages each formed between one of the boronic acid groups of the crosslinked polymeric material and one of the 1,2-diol and 1,3-diol moieties of the phosphorylcholine-containing polymer.
US11061166B2
Deploying and retrieving streamer cleaning devices. At least some of the example embodiments are methods including transferring a streamer cleaning device to a geophysical sensor streamer. The transferring may include towing the geophysical sensor streamer through water while the geophysical sensor streamer submerged, towing a tow fish through water by way of an umbilical (the streamer cleaning device coupled within a payload area of the tow fish during the towing of the tow fish through the water), landing the tow fish on the geophysical sensor streamer and thereby abutting the streamer cleaning device against the geophysical sensor streamer, closing the streamer cleaning device around the geophysical sensor streamer, releasing the streamer cleaning device from the payload area, and separating the tow fish from streamer cleaning device and the geophysical sensor streamer.
US11061150B2
A detector module is provided. The detector module may include a plurality of detector sub-modules. Each of the plurality of detector sub-modules may include a detection layer, at least one data acquisition circuitry, a frame for supporting the detection layer, and a positioning element for assembling the plurality of detector sub-modules. The frame may include a plurality of heat transfer fins that are thermally connected with the at least one data acquisition circuitry for dissipating heat produced by the at least one data acquisition circuitry.
US11061145B2
A system includes a memory and a processor. The memory is configured to store map data indicating positions of landmarks. The processor is configured to receive image data from an image sensor. The processor is also configured to determine, based on the image data, a first estimate of a position, relative to the image sensor, of a landmark identified in the map data. The processor is configured to determine orientation of the image sensor based on inertial measurement unit measurements. The processor is also configured to determine, based on position information, the orientation, and the map data, a second estimate of the position of the landmark. The processor is configured to determine position offset data based on a comparison of the first estimate and the second estimate. The processor is also configured to generate, based on the position offset data and the position information, an output indicating an adjusted position.
US11061141B2
A system for generating satellite positioning corrections includes a global correction module that generates a set of global pre-corrections based on modeling of global positioning error, a set of local correction modules that, for each local correction module of the set, takes input from a unique reference source and generates a set of local pre-corrections based on modeling of local positioning error; and a correction generator that generates a positioning correction from the set of global pre-corrections and the sets of local pre-corrections to correct a position of the mobile receiver.
US11061139B2
A ranging sensor includes a light emitting unit includes a plurality of light emitting elements, a light receiving unit including a plurality of light receiving elements, a space control unit, a position estimation unit, and a TOF signal processing unit, operates in cooperation with an RGB camera module, and generates target distance information for generating three-dimensional position information. The space control unit independently controls each element group including a light emitting element and a light receiving element allocated to a common subspace. The position estimation unit estimates, from received light amount distribution of a plurality of light receiving elements receiving a reflected light beam from the target existing in a space of each subspace, a position of the target in the space of the subspace group. The TOF signal processing unit performs TOF signal processing in parallel with channels whose number is less than that of light emitting elements.
US11061134B2
A radar level gauge system, comprising a transceiver; an antenna for radiating an electromagnetic transmit signal from the transceiver towards a surface of the product and for returning an electromagnetic reflection signal back towards the transceiver; a feed-through connecting the transceiver and the antenna; and processing circuitry coupled to the transceiver for determining the filling level based on a relation between the transmit signal and the reflection signal, wherein the feed-through comprises a waveguide arranged between the transceiver and the antenna to receive the transmit signal from the transceiver and guide the transmit signal towards the antenna in a guiding direction, the waveguide comprising an elongated plug arranged in a hollow conductor extending in the guiding direction, wherein the plug comprises a non-conductive sleeve member and a metallic plug member, the non-conductive sleeve member being sealingly joined to a portion of the hollow conductor and to the metallic plug member.
US11061133B2
A monitoring system includes a first sensor and a second sensor, at least one of which is a camera. A computer system coupled to the first and second sensors includes a memory and stored object types and associations between objects. The computer system is configured to infer a group association between a first and second object by retrieving an input from at least one of the sensors, inferring an interaction at a monitored location, infer possession of the second object by the first object, and terminate the inferred group association based on a subsequent inference.
US11061130B2
A radar apparatus includes: a detection portion that transmits a radio wave to a target and receives a radio wave reflected on the target so as to detect instantaneous data; and an allocation portion that allocates the instantaneous data to prediction data of the target so as to take continuity of the target; and the allocation portion corrects velocity of the instantaneous data and velocity of the prediction data respectively as velocities made in line with a predetermined direction set as a reference, so as to allocate the instantaneous data to the prediction data based on at least magnitudes of the respectively corrected velocities.
US11061127B2
A vehicle radar system including at least one transceiver arrangement (52) that is arranged to generate and transmit a least one FMCW chirp signal (4a, 4b). Each chirp signal (4a, 4b) includes a corresponding plurality of frequency ramps (r1, r2). The vehicle radar system (3) is arranged to receive reflected signals (5a, 5b) and to mix the received signals (5a, 5b) with the respective transmitted chirp signal (4a, 4b) to obtain at least one IF signal (14). The vehicle radar system (3) is further arranged to produce a periodically updated dwell list (34), and to collect and process data in dependence of the present dwell list (34). The present dwell list includes information where the probability of presence of objects exceeds a certain threshold.
US11061126B2
A system and a method that enable two or more dispersed platforms to simultaneously use respective frequency-modulated continuous-wave radar systems in a typical radar application such as synthetic-aperture radar for terrain mapping, moving-target indicator radar to track targets on the ground and air-to-air tracking of other aircraft. The systems use the same RF spectrum in their operation and also communicate through their respective radar systems while simultaneously reducing their interplatform interference through the use of both filters and coded waveforms.
US11061114B2
A radar system for the detection of drones, including a transmitter, a receiver and a processor, wherein the processor is arranged to process demodulated return signals in a first process using a Doppler frequency filter, and to store locations of any detections therefrom, and to process the demodulated signals in a second process to look for signal returns indicative of a preliminary target having a rotational element at a location, and should a detection be found in the second process, to then attempt to match a location of the preliminary target with returns from the first process, and to provide a confirmed detection if a location of a detection from the first process matches with the location of a detection from the second process. The disclosed subject matter enables improved detection rates for drones, by looking for outputs from both the first and second processes.
US11061110B2
A waveguide device includes an electrical conductor including an electrically conductive surface, a waveguide extending alongside the electrically conductive surface, and an artificial magnetic conductor extending on both sides of the waveguide. The waveguide includes a first portion extending in one direction, and at least two branches extending from one end of the first portion, the at least two branches including a second portion and a third portion that extend in mutually different directions. A waveguide defined by the electrically conductive surface, the waveguide surface, and the artificial magnetic conductor includes an enlarged gap portion at which a gap between the electrically conductive surface and the waveguide surface is locally enlarged.
US11061109B2
In a radar device (1), when a distance determined based on a range of fields of view required of the radar device (1) is defined as a distance d, transmission antennas (Tx) are arranged side by side with an antenna interval that is larger than the distance d in a first array direction, which is perpendicular to an emission direction of a transmission signal, reception antennas (Rx) are arranged side by side at antenna intervals that are larger than the distance d in a second array direction, which is parallel to the first array direction, and the transmission antennas (Tx) and the reception antennas (Rx) form virtual reception antennas (VR), which have an antenna arrangement including at least one part in which a virtual antenna interval is the distance d or less.
US11061106B2
Disclosed is method of computing a round trip delay between a pair of nodes, the method comprising transmitting at least one beacon at a known transmit time from each of the nodes; measuring the times-of-arrival of the beacons at other of the nodes; and estimating a round trip delay between the nodes from the measured times-of-arrival and the transmit times; and correcting the round trip delay for either or both of a frequency offset between the nodes and relative motion between the nodes.
US11061103B1
A system, device and method that enables at least two unsynchronized units with known locations and an unsynchronized unit having an unknown location to communicate with each other and to be a part of enabling navigation by the unit having the unknown location by determining time difference of arrivals of signals between the units.
US11061097B2
The invention provides for an MRI system (100) with an RF system for acquiring magnetic resonance data (142). The RF system comprises a set of antenna elements (126). The MRI system (100) further comprises a processor for controlling the MRI system (100). Magnetic resonance data is acquired. Combined image data (144) is reconstructed. The reconstruction comprises transforming the acquired magnetic resonance data (142) from k-space to image space and combining the resulting image data. For each antenna element (126) magnetic resonance data (146) is simulated using the reconstructed combined image data (144). The simulation comprises transforming the reconstructed combined image data (144) from image space to k-space. A phase correction factor is determined, The determination comprises calculating phase differences between the acquired magnetic resonance data (142) and the simulated magnetic resonance data (146). The acquired magnetic resonance data (142) is corrected using the phase correction factor. In this way, the invention allows for correcting phase errors caused e.g. by subject motion such as respiration by B0 off-resonances, etc.
US11061095B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for correction of imaging-plane uniform magnetic field—(B0) inhomogeneity-induced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) artifacts. The systems and methods can be implemented to improve the filtering and correction of arterial spin labeling (ASL) MRI data by forming a tagging dependent Z-spectrum (TADDZ) of ASL MRI data. In TADDZ, images are acquired via ASL, MRI after tagging blood water at a number of tagging, distances upstream and downstream of die MM system's imaging plane. A tagging distance dependent Z-spectrum is analyzed for each image to map the magnetic field inhomogeneity across the imaging plane. Along with magnetic-field mapping, Z-spectrum analysts and data processing enables TADDZ to remove magnetic field inhomogeneity induced artifacts, resulting in more clear and clinically relevant perfusion imaging via MRI.
US11061082B2
A Hall effect sensor system includes a Hall effect sensor and a drive-sense circuit (DSC). The Hall effect sensor includes an input port to receive a DC (direct current) current signal and generates a Hall voltage based on exposure to a magnetic field. The DSC generates the DC current signal based on a reference signal and drives it via a single line that operably couples the DSC to the Hall effect sensor and simultaneously to sense the DC current signal via the single line. The DSC detects an effect on the DC current signal corresponding to the Hall voltage that is generated across the Hall effect sensor based on exposure of the Hall effect sensor to the magnetic field and generates a digital signal representative of the Hall voltage.
US11061075B2
A system configured to avoid a power shortage while a vehicle is traveling is provided. A voltage measurement device includes a relay, a first voltage measurement unit measures a first voltage applied to the power supply circuit, a second voltage measurement unit, a power supply circuit, and a control circuit. The power supply circuit is indirectly connected to a direct current bus. A first end of the relay is connected to the direct current bus, whereas a second end is connected to the power storage device. The control circuit, controls opening and closing of the relay, and closes a path between the first end and the second end when the first voltage is lower than or equal to a first threshold value. The second voltage measurement unit measures a second voltage applied to the second end at least when the relay is in an open state.
US11061070B2
Disclosed is a guide plate for a probe card guiding a probe pin of the probe card and a manufacturing method thereof, and the probe card having the same. Particularly, the guide plate and a manufacturing method thereof, and the probe card securing reliability of the probe card are intended to be provided, wherein probe pins are easily inserted into the guide plate, and pin insertion holes into which the probe pins are inserted are precisely formed in a small size.
US11061067B2
An apparatus and a method provide a high temperature test and a low temperature test. The apparatus mainly includes a depressing head and a test base, wherein the depressing head includes a cooling module, a heating module, and a heat dissipation module therein, the heat dissipation module includes a finned heat sink and a heat conduction member, and the heat conduction member is thermally coupled to the heating module and the finned heat sink. When the low temperature test is performed, an electronic component is cooled by filling liquid nitrogen into the cooling module of the depressing head. When the high temperature test is performed, the electronic component is heated by the heating module. If the temperature of the electronic device is higher than a predetermined high temperature, the electronic device is cooled by the heat dissipation module.
US11061063B2
A method for characterizing an integrated circuit that selecting at least two devices from an integrated circuit for measuring light emission, wherein each of the at least two devices have experienced a different level of stress, applying power to the integrated circuit, and measuring the light emission from the at least two devices. The method also includes comparing the light emission that is measured from the at least two devices, wherein a difference between the light emission that is measured from the at least two devices greater than a predetermined ratio indicates that at least one of the devices from the at least two devices has a below specification performance.
US11061062B2
The invention provides an Intelligent Electronic Device (IED) and a method for locating a fault in a power transmission line with the IED. The method comprises measuring arrival times of a first, second and third peak of a travelling wave, using measurements obtained with one or more measurement equipment connected with the power transmission line. The method further comprises generating two or more initial estimates for the location of the fault, estimating time of initiation of the travelling wave, and estimating an arrival time of the third peak. The estimated arrival time of the third peak is compared with the measured arrival time of the third peak, to select an initial estimate of the two or more initial estimates as the location of the fault.
US11061055B2
A three-phase power meter can monitor power on both 3-wire and 4-wire power lines. The power meter measures at least two voltages between phase conductors of the power line, and at least one voltage between a phase conductor and a neutral conductor of the power line when the neutral conductor is available. Using at least some of the measured voltages, the power meter can then operate in a first mode when coupled to a 3-wire power line to determine power on the power line based on the measured voltages, or operate in a second mode when coupled to a 4-wire power line to determine power on the power line based on the measured voltages.
US11061054B2
Provided is a current measuring device for measuring current, including a conductor adapted to pass current therethrough, a circuit board with a wire, the wire being adapted to extract a voltage signal from the conductor, a cover member adapted to house the circuit board, first fixing means provided on the cover member, and second fixing means fixed in combination with the first fixing means, in which the conductor is mounted between the first fixing means and the second fixing means.
US11061046B2
A liquid delivery method according to the present invention performs a procedure including supplying a first liquid into a microchannel and collecting the first liquid from within the microchannel, and then, dispensing a first amount of a second liquid without hermetically sealing a pipette tip insertion hole, then, dispensing a second amount of the second liquid in a state where the pipette tip insertion hole is hermetically closed to supply the second liquid into the microchannel.
US11061045B2
A matrix droplet extruder includes one or a plurality of reagent containers. Pneumatic connectors are each connectable to a corresponding docking station connector of a docking station that is connectable to a pneumatic generator controllable by a controller to provide pneumatic pressure to the pneumatic docking station connectors. A droplet matrix extrusion surface includes an array of perforations. A liquid management chip has a network of dispensing channels for dispensing reagents from reagent containers through the array of perforations. A pneumatic control network includes pneumatic channels and gates that are controllable by application of the pneumatic pressure to the gates via the pneumatic channels to enable or block dispensing the one or more reagents to repeatedly generate a matrix of droplets when applying the pneumatic pressure to the reagents.
US11061039B2
The present invention provides methods, kits, and compositions for purifying HDL molecules from a sample (e.g., blood sample) using HDL tagging molecules comprising an HDL lipophilic core binding peptide (e.g., portion of ApoA1) and an affinity tag. The present invention also provides methods, kits, and compositions for detecting non-fragmented ApoA1 with mass spectrometry. The present invention further provides methods, kits, and compositions for tagging HDL molecules in a sample with detectably labeled ApoA1 molecules such that the ratio of detectably labeled ApoA1 molecules to native ApoA1 proteins may be determined.
US11061028B2
This disclosure provides antigen compositions useful for diagnosing Lyme disease and for detecting antibodies that bind to Borrelia antigens. The antigenic compositions comprise a mixture of hybrid peptides and Borrelia proteins. This disclosure also provides devices, methods, and kits that are useful for diagnosing Lyme disease and for detecting anti-Borrelia antibodies in a sample to aid in the diagnosis of Lyme disease.
US11061026B2
Disclosed herein are devices, systems, methods and kits for performing immunoassay tests to detect for at least progesterone or analytes of progesterone on a sample in association with diagnosing problems and issues associated with corpus luteum functionality. The immunoassay devices and methods may be used in conjunction with diagnostic reader systems and/or a base unit for obtaining a sensitive read-out of the immunoassay results. The immunoassay devices and methods may utilize a competitive binding-like assay and a sandwich binding assay to detect at least progesterone or analytes of progesterone in a sample.
US11061023B2
Novel reagents comprising MS active, fluorescent compounds having an activated functionality for reaction with aldehydes and useful in labeling biomolecules such as glycans and methods of making the same are taught and described.
US11061014B2
A diagnostic system that includes a cartridge and a reader. The cartridge can contain a patient sample, such as a blood sample. The cartridge is inserted into the reader and the patient sample is analyzed. The sample can be processed for data collection and analysis to provide interpretative results indicative of a disorder, condition, disease or infection of the patient. For example, the data collection and analysis can determine one or more hemozoin characteristics.
US11061004B2
A system and method in which, upon receipt of an analysis initiation instruction and regardless of the necessity of any changes in operation at the time of the analysis initiation, an integrated controller of a system control unit notifies other units of analysis initiation and changes the luminescent color of a state indication LED to blue, which is common to each unit. In a liquid supply unit that receives a notification of the analysis initiation, a local controller changes the device status to “RUN” and changes the luminescent color of a state indication LED to blue. This is also applies to other units. Upon completion of the analysis, the integrated controller notifies each unit of the analysis completion and changes the display color of the state indication LED to green. Each unit also changes the display color of the state indication LED to green.
US11060988B2
A method for detecting status information about a track pin of a track chain for heavy equipment includes disposing a track pin sensor within a void of the track pin; sensing with the track pin sensor a temperature characteristic of the track pin; determining status information based on the temperature characteristic; and wirelessly communicating the status information to a remote device. A method for detecting status information about a mechanical system that generates heat energy includes generating electrical energy based on the heat energy; providing the electrical energy to a control unit; sensing with the control unit a temperature characteristic of the mechanical system based on a voltage of the electrical energy; determining status information of the mechanical system based on the temperature characteristic; and wirelessly communicating the status information to a remote device.
US11060985B2
The inspecting method is for a product including a transparent substrate and a part placed at a predetermined position within a front surface of the transparent substrate, and includes an imaging step and an evaluating step. The imaging step is a step of taking an image of the front surface by an imaging device with the front surface being illuminated by an illuminating device. The evaluating step is a step of evaluating a degree of matching between an image which is derived from the image (P10) taken by the imaging device and shows a position corresponding to the predetermined position and its vicinity, and a template. The template is indicative of a positional relationship between a real image and a virtual image, of the part in a case where the part is placed at the predetermined position correctly.
US11060979B2
An optical imaging and processing system includes an optical connection and an optical element disposed at a first end of the optical connection. The first end of the optical connection is configured to extend into a turbine component interior such that the optical element is disposed within the turbine component interior. The system also includes a photodiode array disposed at a second end of the optical connection, where the optical element is configured to transmit a video stream of the turbine component interior to the photodiode array as the optical element is moved within the turbine component interior between multiple vantage points. The system also includes a processor coupled to the photodiode array, wherein the processor is configured to process the video stream to generate a three-dimensional model of at least a portion of the turbine component interior without utilizing a previously defined three-dimensional model input of the turbine component interior.
US11060975B2
An apparatus to provide a label-free or native particle analysis comprises a light generating system producing first light pulses at a first wavelength and second light pulses at a second wavelength; and a flow cell coupled to the light generating system to convey particles for analysis. The light generating system is configured to chirp at least one of the first light pulses and the second light pulses to analyze the particles.
US11060970B2
A gas concentration measurement device is disclosed. The gas concentration measurement device comprises: a light source unit for emitting light into the gas concentration measurement device; an incident unit for refracting the light emitted from the light source unit; a first reflection unit and a second reflection unit for reflecting the incident light; a rotatable third reflection unit; and a light receiving unit for measuring the amount of incident light, wherein the light incident from the incident unit is reflected between the first reflection unit and the second reflection unit through the third reflection unit, and the light is incident on the light receiving unit by allowing an optical path thereof to be changed according to the rotation of the third reflection unit.
US11060962B2
Provided is a flow analysis method capable of predicting a flow state of a composite resin material by taking into account a change in filler dispersion degree of the composite resin material. In a flow analysis method for a composite resin material having a filler and a resin, in a certain process of identifying a region in which the composite resin material flows and analyzing a flow, an exothermic reaction speed of the composite resin material in the region is computed using a filler dispersion degree in the composite resin material, a temperature and the filler dispersion degree of the composite resin material in the region is computed using the computed exothermic reaction speed, and an exothermic reaction speed in a process subsequent to a process is computed using the computed filler dispersion degree.
US11060960B2
A device for isolating a microbe or a virion includes a semiconductor substrate; and a trench formed in the semiconductor substrate and extending from a surface of the semiconductor substrate to a region within the semiconductor substrate; wherein the trench has dimensions such that the microbe or the virion is trapped within the trench.
US11060951B2
A fault diagnosis device for a fluid feed system comprises a first acquiring part acquiring values as a fluid pressure and pump rotational speed before fluid injection, a second acquiring part acquiring values as a fluid pressure and pump rotational speed during fluid injection, a pump rotational speed difference calculating part calculating a pump rotational speed difference comprising a difference between a pump rotational speed during fluid injection and a pump rotational speed before fluid injection when the fluid pressure before fluid injection and the fluid pressure during fluid injection match, and an abnormality judging part judging if an abnormality has occurred in a flow rate of fluid injected from an injection device based on the pump rotational speed difference.
US11060947B2
A testing system for load test measuring a shaft resistance and a base resistance having first and second operating units with the first operating unit having a bottom loading plate, a base bearing plate and base mobilizer bars operably joined thereto; the second operating unit having a top loading plate, a shaft bearing plate and shaft mobilizer bars operably joining them together wherein the first and second operating units can move relative to one another; the system having a loading sources producing a test load between the top and bottom loading plates to move them apart wherein the shaft bearing plate that is positioned below a foundation element produces an upward compressive force test load on the foundation element to test shaft resistance and the base bearing plate that is positioned between the shaft bearing plate and the bottom surface of the foundation opening produces a downward compressive force test load on the bottom surface to test base resistance.
US11060945B2
A sealing element that visually indicates when a sealing element has been opened or corrupted without destruction of the seal. Ultraviolet light passes through a scattering layer and is absorbed by a fluorescing layer, the fluorescing layer reemitting the light in the visual spectrum and thereby allowing a user to inspect the integrity of the sealing element without otherwise destroying the seal.
US11060941B2
In a method for determining an equivalent modal unbalance for the first bending characteristic form of a shaft-elastic rotor, which unbalance is to be compensated for, a rotor model is created describing the geometric shape and material properties of the shaft-elastic rotor. The magnitude of compliance of the rotor model is calculated at a measurement point and at the center of gravity of the rotor at an assumed speed. The shaft-elastic rotor is received in a rotatable bearing and accelerated to the assumed speed which is below its first critical speed. Subsequently, the magnitude of outward deflection at the measurement point of the shaft-elastic rotor rotating at the assumed speed can be measured. The equivalent modal unbalance for the first bending characteristic form of the shaft-elastic rotor, which unbalance is to be compensated for, can be calculated from the magnitudes of the calculated compliance and the measured outward deflection.
US11060940B2
There is provided a vibration insulator mounted between a cartridge and a wheel-side housing, in which the cartridge includes a rotor having a wheel and a rotational shaft and a bearing housing accommodating a bearing rotatably supporting the rotor, and the wheel-side housing is to be pressed to the bearing housing in an axial direction. The vibration insulator includes an annular outer ring portion having a wheel-side contact surface configured to come into contact with the wheel-side housing, an annular inner ring portion disposed inside the outer ring portion with a clearance from the outer ring portion and having a bearing-side contact surface configured to come into contact with the bearing housing, and a flexible support portion interposed between the outer ring portion and the inner ring portion and connecting the outer ring portion and the inner ring portion, the flexible support portion being elastically deformable.
US11060937B2
A micromechanical pressure sensor, having—a pressure sensor core including a sensor diaphragm and a cavity developed above the sensor diaphragm; and—a pressure sensor frame; and—a spring element for the mechanical connection of the pressure sensor core to the pressure sensor frame being developed in such a way that a mechanical robustness is maximized and a coupling of stress from the pressure sensor frame into the sensor pressure core is minimized.
US11060936B2
A physical quantity measuring device includes a cylindrical case provided with a through hole, a sensor module, a joint, a cap member, a circuit board including an electronic circuit and an electronic adjuster, a sealing member attached to the through hole, and an adjuster member capable of adjusting the electronic adjuster. The electronic adjuster includes an engaged portion disposed to face the through hole. The sealing member is provided with a housing recess opened to an outside of the cylindrical case, and a communication hole for bringing the housing recess into communication with an interior of the cylindrical case. The adjuster member includes a shaft that is hermetically attached in the communication hole, an engagement portion provided at a first end of the shaft to be engageable with the engaged portion, and an operable portion provided at a second end of the shaft and housed in the housing recess.
US11060931B2
A sensor device that can reduce an assembly error of a magnetic sensor with respect to holders is provided. Magnetic sensors are disposed between first magnetism collection portions and second magnetism collection portions with a first holder and a second holder assembled to each other. A circuit board recessed portion of the second holder is provided with positioning protrusions that extend toward the first holder. A circuit board, on which the magnetic sensors are mounted, is provided with through holes. The magnetic sensors are integrally assembled to the second holder in advance with the positioning protrusions inserted through the through holes.
US11060929B2
Pressure sensor systems and methods of assembling pressure sensor systems that reduce the need for accurate placement of a pressure sensor die in a pressure sensor package, reduce leakage in pressure sensor systems, and provides a consistent attachment of a pressure sensor die to a package.
US11060928B2
Provided is a load sensor that may precisely detect a load of pressing force to an object. A load sensor to be used for a multiaxial actuator (10) that has a drive rod (12) that linearly moves in an axial direction in a state where the drive rod (12) is contained in a housing (11), and a suction rod (22) that is arranged in parallel with the drive rod (12), linearly moves at the same time as the drive rod (12) in the axial direction, and has a tip end portion (22a) to be pressed, when a chip is to be suctioned, against the chip, includes a coupling member (30) that couples the drive rod (12) and the suction rod (22), in which the coupling member (30) has a first coupling part (31) that couples the drive rod (12), and a second coupling part (32) that couples the suction rod (22) in an integrated state, and the first coupling part (31) has a strain body part (311) that is formed to be thinner than the second coupling part (32) and supports the drive rod (12), and strain gauges (41) to (44) attached to the strain body part (311).
US11060925B2
The invention relates to a magnetic force sensor (100), having at least one conducting track (111, 211) of soft magnetic material, wherein the at least one conducting track (111, 211) has at least one interruption (130) having a distance (A), wherein the force sensor (100) is arranged on a substrate, in particular on a component (1, 2) to be monitored, and a change in the distance (A) or rather a change in the magnetic flux in the at least one magnetic conducting track (111, 211) is monitored.
US11060914B2
An ATR scanner and method for calibrating the same are disclosed. The scanner includes an ATR objective having a reflecting face and an optical port adapted to receive a first light beam, and to focus the first light beam to a point, at a location on the reflecting face such that the first light beam is reflected by the reflecting face and no portion of the first light beam strikes the reflecting face at an angle greater than the critical angle. A detector measures an intensity of light reflected from the reflecting face. A controller controls the location of the focal point and determines an intensity of light that was incident on the reflecting face as a function of the position on the reflecting face and an intensity of light that was reflected from the reflecting face as a function of position on the reflecting face.
US11060902B2
An abnormality treatment apparatus includes: a sensor which outputs a signal upon detecting an event caused by contact of a rotor of a rotating machine during rotation of the rotor; and a control unit which executes at least one of rotation number control of reducing the number of rotations of the rotor step by step, liquid injection control of injecting liquid into a housing chamber of the rotor step by step, and pressure control of lowering a discharge pressure of the rotating machine step by step based on reception of the signal output from the sensor.
US11060901B2
The invention relates to a filling level measuring device (10) for measuring the filling level in a container (2) through the wall (9) thereof by means of ultrasound, having an ultrasonic measuring head (12), a controller (20), and a fastening device (24) by means of which the filling level measuring device (10) can be fastened to the container (2) such that the ultrasonic measuring head (12) is pressed against the wall (9) of the container (2). The invention further relates to a method of operating such a filling level measuring device (10), wherein a sampling rate is used which is situation-dependent. The invention finally relates to an assembly made up of such a filling level measuring device and at least one spacer (50) which can be attached to the lower edge of a container (2) to be provided with the filling level measuring device (10).
US11060895B2
A gas meter includes a meter body having a meter inlet into which a fluid-to-be-measured is to flow and a meter outlet from which the fluid-to-be-measured is to flow out, and an extended section extending from the meter inlet to an interior of the meter body. The gas meter further includes a flow rate measurement unit inside the meter body, the flow rate measurement unit having a measurement flow passage having a straight tubular shape, a lead-in port and a lead-out port for the fluid-to-be-measured, and a shutoff valve in an internal passage of the extended section. The lead-in port is airtightly connected to the extended section so as to communicate with the internal passage.
US11060894B2
Apparatus and methods are described for automatically performing set-up steps for flow cytometry operations. The invention provides for the spatial determination of a flow stream and the subsequent automatic alignment of analysis devices and/or collection vessels. The automatic determination of flow stream properties provides for the automatic configuration flow cytometer parameters.
US11060884B2
A terminal device includes a communication unit configured to transmit and receive information, an input unit configured to receive input of state information indicating a state of a movable object, and a controller configured to determine whether a predetermined state change has occurred in the movable object based on the input state information, acquire, as attention information, state-changed position information indicating a state-changed position that is a position of the movable object when the predetermined state change has occurred and attention voice information including an attention content for the state-changed position as voice when it is determined that the predetermined state change has occurred, and cause the communication unit to transmit the acquired attention information.
US11060876B2
A method, system and computer program product provide assessing environmental conditions outside an autonomous vehicle and recommending modifications for the autonomous vehicle based on a condition. A plurality of possible routes are determined for an autonomous vehicle using a navigational system. Environmental conditions are assessed, and one or more environmental conditions are identified outside the autonomous vehicle related to each of the plurality of possible routes. A determination is made as to when the one or more environmental conditions necessitate a modification of the autonomous vehicle for traveling the respective possible route. One of the possible routes are selected based on a criteria which includes avoiding a greatest number of the environmental conditions which necessitate the modification. The autonomous vehicle is routed along the selected route to a service station for implementing the modification based on the condition related to the selected route.
US11060875B2
A device receives re-routing event data identifying a deviation from a proposed route at a particular location. The device determines, based on the re-routing event data, whether the deviation from the proposed route is a problem deviation or a planned deviation, and associates, based on determining that the deviation from the proposed route is a problem deviation, the particular location with an problematic location tag. The device determines that a route, corresponding to a request for routing information received from a navigation device, includes the particular location, and determines, based on a user profile and the problematic location tag, a particular alert level, of a plurality of alert levels, to associate with the particular location. The device detects a proximity of the navigation device to the particular location, and causes a particular alert corresponding to the particular alert level to be provided via the navigation device.
US11060869B2
An integrated photonics optical gyroscope fabricated on a silicon nitride (SiN) waveguide platform comprises a first straight waveguide to receive incoming light and to output outgoing light to be coupled to a photodetector to provide an optical signal for rotational sensing. The gyroscope comprises a first microresonator ring proximate to the first straight waveguide. Light evanescently couples from the first straight waveguide to the first microresonator ring and experiences propagation loss while circulating as a guided beam within the first microresonator ring. The guided beam evanescently couples back from the first microresonator ring to the first straight waveguide to provide the optical signal for rotational sensing after optical gain is imparted to guided beam to counter the propagation loss. In a coupled-ring configurations, the first microresonator ring acts as a loss ring, and optical gain is imparted to a second microresonator ring which acts as a gain ring.
US11060867B2
A rotation rate sensor includes a substrate and a drive structure that is movable relative to the substrate and is fastened to the substrate via a spring system that includes first and second spring components that each connects the drive structure and the substrate and that are joined by an intermediate piece, the drive structure being joined to the intermediate piece via the first portion, and the intermediate piece or a center area, which is at least partially situated between the first and second portions, being joined to the substrate via the second portion, the first and/or second portions having a respective varying base area in a respective main extension direction of the first and second portions, respectively.
US11060849B2
The present disclosure discloses a dual-channel optical three-dimensional interference method based on underdetermined blind source separation, which blindly separates out, through interference data collected by a CCD camera, interference signals between surfaces of a slide under test, to solve interference signal parameters, including an interference signal amplitude-frequency and an interference signal phase-frequency. Based on a dual-channel optical three-dimensional Michelson-type interference experiment, estimation of a mixed matrix is obtained by a K-means clustering algorithm, and recovery of a source signal is achieved by a L1 norm shortest path method. It is finally achieved that laser wavenumber scanning can accurately and blindly separate out the interference signals of the four surfaces based on light intensity values collected by the CCD camera, to achieve the blind separation of the interference signals of the four surfaces.
US11060844B2
An apparatus for measuring edge features of a work piece includes an optical sensor assembly and a reference device. The reference device includes a contact surface configured to contact a surface of the work piece adjacent to an edge of the work piece and a marked surface including a plurality of markings indicating positions relative to the contact surface. The reference device is configured to be coupled to a portion of the optical sensor assembly such that the optical sensor assembly is positioned to capture an image representing a portion of the marked surface and an edge feature of the work piece.
US11060835B2
A rotary table includes: a stage; a rotary base configured to be rotated around a rotation center axis; a support mechanism that is disposed on the rotary base and supports the stage; a leveling adjustment mechanism configured to perform a leveling adjustment of the stage; and a transfer mechanism configured to transfer a rotative force of the rotary base to the stage. The transfer mechanism includes: an annular transfer member configured to receive the support mechanism therethrough; a first connecting mechanism that connects the transfer member and the rotary base and is rotatable around the first axis; and a second connecting mechanism that connects the transfer member and the stage and is rotatable around a second axis defined in a direction intersecting the first axis.
US11060832B2
An above ground stemming device is described which includes a body configured, in use, to cover an open end of a blast hole loaded with explosives to surface or to within 300 mm of surface. The body has a void containing a stem of superabsorbent polymer gel therein and it is positioned in use to allow the stem of superabsorbent polymer gel to be in contact with the explosives in the blast hole. The body may include a base and an upper portion extending upwardly from the base. The void may extend through the body to an opening in the base. Alternatively, the void may be encased by the body. The body may be fabricated from a rigid material or from a flexible material capable of being inflated with a fluid.
US11060826B1
A mine roller includes a bracket having a first end and a second end. The first end is adapted to be coupled to a vehicle. A table having a center region is coupled to the second end of the bracket for rotation about the second end in a first plane. The table has first and second telescopic portions coupled to the center region such that the table is extendable relative to the center region in opposing directions of a second plane that is perpendicular to the first plane. A roller bank is coupled to each telescopic portion of the table for rotation relative to the respective telescopic portion in a third plane that is parallel to the second plane.
US11060822B2
An apparatus includes at least one transmitter configured to transmit wireless signals that create different localized heating in different portions of a scene. The different localized heating in the different portions of the scene is based on different moisture or liquid content within objects in the scene. The apparatus also includes at least one controller configured to control the at least one transmitter in order to control the different localized heating in the different portions of the scene and to create a desired thermal radiation pattern in the scene. The desired thermal radiation pattern in the scene may include a camouflage pattern that increases clutter in an infrared image, at least one temporary infrared marker, or at least one false shape in an infrared image. The desired thermal radiation pattern could reduce a contrast between a cold infrared background in the scene and one or more targets in the scene.
US11060806B2
A snout apparatus for guiding high pressure flexible lances between a lance drive apparatus and a flexible lance positioner apparatus includes one of a male tubular connector and a female tubular connector fitting adapted to fasten to a flexible lance drive apparatus, another one of a male and a female tubular connector fitting adapted to fasten to a flexible lance positioner, and a plurality of segments connected together in series so as to connect in series between the one and another connector fittings. Each segment may include a cylindrical tube portion sized to receive and pass therethrough flexible lances and a tubular collar portion connected to the tube portion. The collar portion has peripheral arcuate closed slots adjacent to and spaced around a distal end of the collar portion. Shoulder bolt fasteners are each fastened to a next segment tube portion and extend through one of the closed slots.
US11060798B2
A loop heat pipe includes an evaporator, a condenser, a liquid pipe, and a vapor pipe. The liquid pipe is formed a metal layer stack of metal layers. The metal layers include a first metal layer through which a first through hole extends in a thickness-wise direction. The liquid pipe includes a flow passage formed by at least the first through hole and having four walls that define the flow passage. The liquid pipe further includes a plurality of porous bodies that form at least two of the four walls of the flow passage.
US11060795B2
The double tube for heat exchange includes: a spiral pipe having ridges and valleys alternately formed on a circumferential surface along a spiral track thereof and guiding a first fluid therethrough; an outer pipe receiving the spiral pipe axially inserted thereinto and guiding a second fluid along the circumferential surface such that the second fluid exchanges heat with the first fluid; a resistance member protruding from the spiral pipe or valleys to increase time of the second fluid in the valleys and to support the ridges adjacent thereto. Unlike typical double tubes, this double tube can: improve heat exchange efficiency by virtue of the spiral pipe; improve flow directionality of the second fluid; reduce noise through expansion of a space between an end joint of the outer and inner pipe to reduce the pressure of the second fluid; and improve efficiency through resistance members protruding from the valleys.
US11060793B2
The present invention relates to a batch furnace for annealing material comprising a furnace housing which has a closable loading opening, a receiving chamber for furnace material and a device for convective heat transfer to the furnace material by a heat transfer medium, wherein the device for convective heat transfer comprises at least one heating device and at least one fan which is arranged in the furnace housing wherein the receiving chamber is arranged on the suction side of the fan and at least one nozzle array is arranged on the pressure side of the fan, wherein the nozzle array has a central opening which forms an intake duct of the fan and the nozzle array projects radially beyond the fan. The invention further relates to a method for heat treatment of a furnace material.
US11060791B2
Described herein are systems and processes to produce liquefied natural gas (LNG) using liquefied nitrogen (LIN) as the refrigerant. Greenhouse gas contaminants are removed from the LIN using a greenhouse gas removal unit. The LNG is compressed prior to being cooled by the LIN.
US11060789B2
Rack systems, devices, and methods for attaching and providing foldable storage racks underneath refrigerator shelves or cabinets or other shelves for suspending, storing and separating wine bottles and beverage cans and plates. The storage racks can include a plurality of bail cradles each having ends pivotally attached to brackets. The bail cradles can have concave support surfaces for supporting and separating bottles and cans. The bail cradles can have ribbed upper surfaces for allowing a shelf/tray to slide thereon. The racks can have pivotal vertical legs with a slide out drawer on lower ends of the legs. The racks can be used for storing other items such as computer keyboards and the like, used with desks, tables, and the like. The foldable storage racks can have horizontally adjustable and vertical adjustable clamp ends for allowing the assemblies to be mounted to the front and rear ends of different length, different width and different thickness refrigerator shelves.
US11060778B2
A universal controller for integration of cryogenic equipment, requiring different control mechanisms, onto a single operating platform. The universal controller may include a power supply element that is configured to simultaneously drive a plurality PV of cryogenic devices that have different power supply requirements and a protocol translator element that is configured to enable communication between a plurality' of cryogenic devices that use different, incompatible communication protocols, wherein the protocol translator element translates communications sent by a first type of cryogenic device from a first cryogenic device communication protocol into a second cryogenic device communication protocol and translates communications sent by a second type of cryogenic device from a second cryogenic device communication protocol into the first cryogenic device communication protocol, enabling the first type of cryogenic device and the second type of cryogenic device to communicate with each other.
US11060773B2
A refrigerating device includes a refrigerant circuit through which a refrigerant flows. A refrigerant collection container through which the refrigerant flows in a refrigeration cycle operation is detachably provided in the refrigerant circuit.
US11060769B2
A refrigerator includes a main body that has a storage chamber and a drying chamber; a thermoelectric module that includes a heat absorber and a heat dissipater; a cooling fan that circulates air in the storage chamber to the heat absorber and the storage chamber; a heat-dissipating fan that blows air to the heat dissipater; an air guide that has a passage for guiding air heated by the heat dissipater to the drying chamber; a heater that is disposed in the passage; and a damper that controls a flow of air in the passage between the heat-dissipating fan and the heater. Heat of the heat dissipater transfers to the drying chamber through the passage of the air guide and the damper, thereby being able to dry an object to be dried.
US11060767B2
A method for operating a compressor unit (2) comprising one or more compressors (8, 9, 10) is disclosed, the compressor unit (2) being arranged in a vapour compression system (1). Two or more options for distributing the available compressor capacity of the compressor unit (2) between being connected to a high pressure suction line (11) and to a medium pressure suction line (13) are defined. For each option, an expected impact on one or more operating parameters of the vapour compression system (1), resulting from distributing the available compressor capacity according to the option, is predicted. An option is selected, based on the predicted expected impact for the options, and based on current operating demands of the vapour compression system (1), and the available compressor capacity is distributed according to the selected option, e.g. by means of settings of one or more valve arrangements (14, 15).
US11060765B2
An electrical radiator type heating appliance comprises a case housing a heater member producing a first flow of calories (F1) when an input of the heater member is powered by a direct electric voltage. The heating appliance also comprises a voltage converter implanted in the case and comprising an input provided with connection elements for connecting the voltage converter to an electric power supply source and an output delivering a direct electric voltage adapted to directly or indirectly power the input of the heater member.
US11060753B2
A draft perceived by a user under an indoor unit is reduced. A controller makes each of a plurality of indoor units perform a partial supply operation. In the partial supply operation, the controller controls an airflow blocking mechanism such that, regarding the indoor units adjacent to each other with a predetermined distance α interposed therebetween, no air current is blown from one of the outlet openings which face each other with the predetermined distance α interposed therebetween.
US11060752B2
Various embodiments are described herein for an environmental control system. In one example embodiment, the system is an HVAC system including an HRV or ERV unit, a first distribution system, and an ambient energy distribution system. The first distribution system has a first end in thermal communication with the HRV or ERV unit and a second end in thermal communication with the interior of a domicile. The ambient energy distribution system extends between first and second locations in the domicile and is isolated from fluid flow communication with the first distribution system. The ambient energy distribution system transfers heat between the first and second locations.
US11060749B2
The present disclosure relates to an air conditioner, an air conditioner controlling system, and an air conditioner controlling method. The air conditioner controlling system includes one or more controlled air conditioners, a main controlling air conditioner having control authority over, from among the one or more controlled air conditioners, one or more controlled air conditioners that belong to an upper rank group corresponding to the main controlling air conditioner, and a sub-controlling air conditioner having control authority over, from among the one or more controlled air conditioners, one or more controlled air conditioners that belong to a first lower rank group.
US11060744B2
A method, system (100), and a computer program product comprising a non-transient computer-readable medium (190) having stored thereon computer program code configured to control one or more processors (180) of a computer (170) for operating an HVAC installation (200, 300), wherein a set of enthalpies (H1,i, H2,i, H1,o, H2,o) and flow rates (ϕ1, ϕ2) as variables of the HVAC installation (200, 300) is monitored and used for controlling the operation of said HVAC installation (200, 300), comprising the steps of: (a) dividing said set of enthalpies (H1,i, H2,i, H1,o, H2,o) and flow rates (ϕ1, ϕ2) into a first and second subset; (b) measuring each variable of said first subset with a related sensor (110, 120) arranged in said HVAC installation (200, 300); and (c) determining the variables of said second subset from the measured variables of said first subset by using a mathematical and/or empirical relationship between the variables of said first and second subset.
US11060742B2
The present invention provides a photovoltic and thermal (PVT) heat pump system capable of achieving day-night time-shared combined cooling, heating and power using solar radiation and sky cold radiation. The system utilizes a photovoltaic power generation technology and a photovoltic and thermal (PVT heat pump technology simultaneously, both of which are relatively independent and promoted to each other in the function. The main energy sources of the system are solar radiation energy and sky long-wave cold radiation energy, and the energy is respectively transformed into electric energy, thermal energy and cold energy via a photovoltic and thermal (PVT) photoelectric-evaporation/condensation module at different times in different working modes. The system of the present invention integrates power generation. heating, refrigeration and many other functions; and the equipment has simple composition, high utilization rate and remarkable energy-saving effect, thereby improving the energy utilization rate to the maximum extent, and achieving a multi-purpose machine and day-night time-shared combined cooling, heat and power.
US11060729B2
A fuel nozzle assembly and a gas turbine combustor including the same are provided. The fuel nozzle assembly may include an end plate coupled to one end of an annular casing, and a fuel nozzle configured such that one end thereof is supported by the end plate and the other end thereof extends outward. The fuel nozzle may include a center fuel nozzle and a plurality of side fuel nozzles arranged annularly to surround the center fuel nozzle. The side fuel nozzle may include a nozzle body located at a center thereof, a shroud spaced outward from the nozzle body, and a plurality of swirlers located between the nozzle body and the shroud. Each of the swirlers may include a leading edge directed toward the end plate and a trailing edge located opposite the leading edge. In each of the side fuel nozzles, distances between the leading edges are different from each other.
US11060696B2
A luminaire includes a housing, a downlight that includes one or more first light sources configured to emit a first light downwardly from the housing, a waveguide, and one or more second light sources. The waveguide is formed of a portion of an optical material and characterized by opposing planar faces joined by one or more edge faces about a periphery of the optical material. The waveguide forms at least a portion of an uppermost optical surface of the luminaire. The one or more second light sources are coupled with the housing and configured to emit a second light into the optical material through at least one of the one or more edge faces. The waveguide is configured to emit at least a portion of the second light upwardly from an upper one of the planar faces.
US11060694B2
In one aspect, optic assemblies are provided comprising a collimating optic directing light along a collimation axis and light redirection elements comprising facets for redirecting a portion of the light in one or more directions away from the collimation axis.
US11060690B2
A luminous device for a motor vehicle, comprising a light source including a plurality of emitting elements that are configured to form at least one first emission zone and one second emission zone that are addressable selectively from each other. The luminous device also comprises a screen that is at least partially transparent to the light emitted by the light source, comprising first transmission zones and second transmission zones that are respectively arranged facing the first and second emission zones, the first transmission zones being configured to scatter the light beams emitted by the first emission zones.
US11060686B2
A method for machining a holding device for a light module of a lighting device of a motor vehicle. An SMD semiconductor light source component arranged on the holding device is operated for light generation. An emission characteristic of a light-emitting surface of the SMD semiconductor light source component is determined. A mechanical feature with regard to the holding device is specified depending upon the emission characteristic. An optical element which co-operates optically with the SMD semiconductor light source component is specified depending upon the mechanical feature with regard to the SMD semiconductor light source component.
US11060685B2
The invention relates to a projection device (1) for a motor vehicle headlight, wherein the projection device (1) is configured to project light from at least one light source (2) associated with the projection device (1) in a region in front of a motor vehicle in the form of at least one light distribution, wherein a light-impermeable coating consists of partial layers arranged in an at least planar manner one on top of the other, specifically a reflective metal first partial layer (6) and a second partial layer (6″) consisting substantially of black light-absorbing paint, wherein the first partial layer (6′) is arranged between the input lens system (3) and the second partial layer (6″).
US11060682B1
Provided systems and methods for an aircraft lighting system (ALS) include a centralized blue generator that supplies blue light to a plurality (N) of passive light-heads distributed at various locations on the aircraft. A load profile for use of the N passive light-heads during all flight phases and operational phases is developed and uploaded into the system. Each of the passive light-heads is operationally coupled to the blue light generator via a respective light transmission element that is gated with a respective one of N light switches. A light generating control unit (LGCU) is coupled to the blue light generator, and controls the generation and actuation of blue light, in addition to controlling light switch positions, as a function of navigation data and the load profile. Each of the N passive light-heads comprises a respective light conversion element to convert the blue light into red, green, or white light.
US11060679B2
A disco ball with an outer skin (3) which on the outside is fitted with mirror pieces (6) and has an expandable inner structure (2) comprising an inflatable inner skin which in expanded state is spherical and holds the outer skin (3) in a ball shape, characterized in that the outer skin (3) has a plurality of approximately lenticular segments (4) which are arranged next to each other, and adjacent lenticular segments (4) are releasably connected together to form the outer skin (3), and the lenticular segments (4) are each fitted with mirror pieces (6) on the outside.
US11060657B1
The present disclosure relates to adjustable stands for supporting a user operated device, such as a compound bow, arrangements for attaching the user operated device to the stand, and/or arrangements for mounting one or more additional accessories to the stand. The stand includes telescoping, height-adjustable leg assemblies and user operable locking arrangements to lock the height of the stand. The arrangements for attaching the user operated device are adjustable to accommodate differently sized user operated devices and provide clearance between the user-operated device and the stand for users of various hand sizes.
US11060650B2
A coupling system includes a female coupling device, the female coupling device including a first main body with a first front face, the first front face defining a first opening leading into a first fluid passageway; a stem having a stem head positioned within a sleeve; a first spring positioned about the stem that biases the sleeve into a closed position; a first seal that seals between the main body and the sleeve; a second seal that seals between the sleeve and the stem head; and a third seal that is positioned at the opening of the main body. The coupling system includes a male coupling device, the male coupling device including a second main body with a second front face, the second front face defining a second opening leading into a second fluid passageway; a valve member and a second spring positioned within the second fluid passageway; and a major seal that seals between the second main body and the valve member. The second main body of the male coupling device is capable of being inserted into the first opening of the first main body of the female coupling device so that the first seal and the third seal of the female coupling device engage the second main body of the male coupling device. The sleeve and the valve member are displaced against the first and second springs such that the second seal and the major seal are disengaged so that fluid flows through the first and second fluid passageways.
US11060637B2
A fluid-device connecting structure includes a first fluid device having a first connection part, a second fluid device having a second connection part, an annular seal member to connect the first and second connection parts, and a coupling member to keep the first and second connection parts in a connected state. The coupling member includes a first coupling segment and a second coupling segment, each including at one end a first hinge part or a second hinge part. The first and second connection parts each have a cylindrical outer shape. The first coupling segment has a U-like shape having an opening and surrounds the first and second connection parts over a range more than 180 degrees of an entire circumference of each of the first and second connection parts.
US11060636B2
Embodiments of apparatus for controlling the movement of matter, including but not limited to one-way fluid valves, are disclosed. The apparatus may include a transition nozzle, a funnel nozzle, and a reverse flow blocker arranged in series in a case. A counter-flow area may be disposed about the funnel nozzle. The apparatus may permit matter to flow in a first direction, and discourage or prevent flow in a direction reverse to the first direction. Control over the flow of matter also may enable matter to be harvested, sorted, separated or combined with injected matter.
US11060632B2
A smart valve maintenance alert device includes a connection unit, which is connectable to a valve stem of a smart valve. The connection unit includes a detectable element that is movable in unison with the valve stem. A control unit includes a detecting element arranged to correspond to the detectable element. A drive unit is connected to the connection unit, and the drive unit drives the connection unit to allow the valve stem to be driven by the connection unit to rotate and the valve stem drives the smart valve to rotate. The detecting element and the detectable element collaboratively generate a detection signal in response to the rotation of the valve stem, such that the control unit generates data of operation state according to the detection signal.
US11060622B2
The invention relates to a cartridge (1) for a water fitting having a stationary bearing disk (2) on which a rotatable ceramic control disk (3) is placed and on which control disk (3) a sliding disk (4) made in particular of plastics material is located. In order that no leaking water can escape from the cartridge (1) even at high water pressure, it is proposed that the control disk (3) is pressed against the stationary bearing disk (2) by a pressure element.
US11060620B2
A valve for free-flowing media, such as a glue valve, with a valve housing, and with a closure member, such as a valve tappet, which is movable in the valve housing by means of an electromagnet and which bears with a closure piece on a valve seat in the closed position of the valve and which sits at least partially in a continuous interior of a one-piece coil carrier on which the windings of a coil of the electromagnet are wound, and having two terminal receivers for a dosing unit and a valve lift adjustment unit with an elongate abutment part which is arranged at least in part in the interior of the coil carrier and which limits a movement of the closure member in the direction of the valve lift adjustment unit, with the valve lift adjustment unit being is secured on the coil carrier.
US11060617B2
A control valve includes a housing, a valve body arranged in a valve chamber of the housing, and a support portion slidably supporting an outer surface of the valve body in the valve chamber. The valve body is slidable on the support portion between an open position at which an outlet port is open and a closed position at which a seat surface of the valve body closes the outlet port. The valve body includes a skin layer forming the outer surface of the valve body, and a core layer under the skin layer. The outer surface of the valve body, other than the seat surface and a slidable area, includes a core exposed portion where the core layer is exposed without being covered with the skin layer.
US11060614B2
A mechanical seal has a rotary part and a non-rotary part, the rotary part having at least a rotary slide ring and a rotary slide ring carrier, and the non-rotary part having at least a non-rotary slide ring and a non-rotary slide ring carrier. The mechanical seal includes a circumferential groove in one of the rotary slide ring and the non-rotary slide ring and a sensor in communication with the mechanical seal.
US11060610B2
A multistage shaft sealing apparatus includes a first sealing unit, a second sealing unit, and a third sealing unit provided, in a sequential order from a side of the apparatus closer to inside of the apparatus, in a fluid leakage passage formed between the rotating shaft or the rotating member and a housing located to surround the rotating shaft or the rotating member. The first sealing unit includes a first runner and a first sealing ring which form a non-contact-type sealing surface; the second sealing unit includes a second runner and a second sealing ring which form a contact-type sealing surface; the third sealing unit includes a third runner and a third sealing ring which form a contact-type sealing surface, and a purge water supply passage supplying purge water to the third sealing unit and a purge water discharge passage discharging the purge water supplied to the third sealing unit.
US11060609B2
A piston ring is produced from a main body made of steel or cast steel and comprising a running face, an inner circumferential surface, upper and lower flank regions, and transition regions from the running face to the respective flank region, by coating the running face and the transition regions with a first chromium layer, removing this first chromium layer at the running face down to the base material of the main body, providing at least the running face of the layer-free main body with a nitride layer, and, finally, coating the running face and the transition regions with at least one further chromium layer.
US11060598B2
A pulley device comprising a pulley and a bearing. The pulley has at least one “C-shaped” pulley part having an inner portion mounted on the bearing, an outer portion having an outer cylindrical surface dedicated to interact with a belt or a chain, and an intermediate portion extending substantially radially between axial ends of inner and outer portions on one axial side of pulley device. The outer cylindrical surface of outer ring is provided with at least one recess having in cross-section, a concave internal profile. The pulley part is provided with at least one protruding portion which inwardly extends beyond the inner cylindrical surface of inner portion. The protruding portion is received in a corresponding recess of outer ring so as to block the pulley part with respect to the outer ring in both axial directions.
US11060587B1
A variable-speed speed-up mechanism (1) includes an electric device (50) and a transmission device (10). In the transmission (10), an internal gear carrier shaft (37) forms a constant-speed input shaft (Ac), and a planetary gear carrier shaft (27) forms a variable-speed input shaft (Av). The electric device (50) includes a constant-speed electric motor (51) having a constant-speed rotor (52) which is configured to rotate the constant-speed input shaft (Ac), and a variable-speed electric motor (71) having a variable-speed rotor (72) which is connected to the variable-speed input shaft (Ac). The variable-speed speed-up mechanism (1) further includes a brake mechanism (200) which is configured to detect an abnormal state of the variable-speed electric motor (71), stop the rotation of at least one of the variable-speed input shaft (Ac) and the variable-speed rotor (72), and continue the rotation of the constant-speed rotor (52).
US11060580B2
An all plastic compression spring assembly includes a slotted tubular spring element formed from a tensile polymer material and upper and lower loading cones received at opposing upper and lower ends of the slotted tubular spring element. The upper loading cone may be axially compressible towards the lower loading cone within the slotted tubular spring element whereby the slotted tubular spring element radially expands in tension to create an opposing radial contraction force, and in turn, an axial extension spring force. When released, the spring element elastically returns to its normal at rest shape, returning the cones to their normal at rest positions. In some dispenser configurations, the lower loading cone may be stationary or fixed within the dispensing head and the upper loading cone may be downwardly compressible toward the lower loading cone by movement of a nozzle head.
US11060577B2
A friction material containing a fiber base material, a binder, an organic filler, and an inorganic filler, wherein the copper content in the friction material in terms of elemental copper is 0.5% by weight or less relative to the whole friction material, and a particulate or fibrous aluminum alloy and zinc oxide are contained as the inorganic filler.
US11060573B2
A one-piece brake carrier for a vehicle disc brake is provided. The brake carrier has a frame-like disc wrap-around element which has two mutually parallel bridge struts, and two frame sections arranged parallel to a brake disc rotation axis and connecting the bridge struts. The brake carrier further has a securing flange by which the brake carrier is fixable to an axle flange. One or both of the frame sections, starting from a side of the brake carrier away from the securing flange widens toward an outer edge of the securing flange.
US11060565B2
A screw nut on which a pulley is mounted is capable of promoting reductions in the size and weight thereof. The screw nut includes: an outer ring; and a nut rotatably assembled to the outer ring via a first rolling element. The nut includes: a nut body having a screw groove in an inner surface thereof; and a recirculation component provided at an end portion of the nut body in an axial direction, the recirculation component having a turn-around path for recirculating a second rolling element rolling along a screw groove. A pulley to be mounted on the nut is fitted on an outer surface of the nut body, and is brought into contact with an end surface of the nut in the axial direction. The pulley is mounted on the end surface of the nut with a fastening member.
US11060564B2
An offset coupling includes a first coupling disc, a second coupling disc, and a multi-link structure. The first coupling disc includes a first pivoting portion, a second pivoting portion, and a third pivoting portion surround a first central axis. The second coupling disc includes a fourth pivoting portion, a fifth pivoting portion, and a sixth pivoting portion surround a second central axis. The multi-link structure includes a first linkage group, a second linkage group, and a third linkage group, two first cranks of the first linkage group are respectively pivotally connected to the first pivoting portion and the fourth pivoting portion, two second cranks of the second linkage group are respectively pivotally connected to the second pivoting portion and the fifth pivoting portion, and two third cranks of the third linkage group are respectively pivotally connected to the third pivoting portion and the sixth pivoting portion.
US11060556B2
A rolling bearing of a wheel hub group for motor vehicles, equipped with a stationary radially outer ring and with respective radially outer raceways, a pair of rotatable radially inner rings equipped with respective radially inner raceways, and two rows of rolling bodies positioned between the corresponding inner and outer raceways. The rolling bearing is also equipped with a piezoelectric actuator housed in a seat of the radially outer ring, in a symmetrical position relative to the raceways, and capable of varying the strain behavior of the radially outer ring.
US11060550B2
A handle mounted to a shaft with a fixing member has a first surface that comes in contact with the shaft and receives an operation force applied to the handle and a second surface in which the fixing member is arranged.
US11060543B2
A method of joining first and second vehicle components to make an assembly includes applying structural adhesive and mastic to the first component. The first and second component may be made of different metals, and are brought together and joined at an interface using a linkage. Thereafter, the structural adhesive and mastic are cured. The mastic seals an interior edge of the interface, which is located at an interior of the assembly. A dust sealer is applied and cured to seal the exterior edge of the interface, which is located at an exterior of the assembly. The method results in sealing of all the edges around the entire perimeter of the interface, thus inhibiting water intrusion into the interface and possible corrosion resulting therefrom.
US11060542B2
A connecting member, a receiving member, a housing, and a display device are provided. The connecting member includes a columnar body, and a securing member at a first end of the columnar body. The securing member is elastically deformable to detachably connect the connecting member and a receiving member.
US11060541B2
A method of forming three-dimensional shaped microparticles in a microfluidic device includes flowing a mixture of a monomer and photoinitiator in a microfluidic channel having a plurality of pillars disposed therein to define a flow stream having a pre-defined shape and temporarily stopping the same. One or more portions of the flow stream are polymerized by passing polymerizing light through one or more masks and onto the flow stream, the polymerization process forming a plurality of three-dimensional shaped microparticles. The three-dimensional shape of the microparticle may be geometrically complex by using non-rectangular 2D orthogonal shapes for the flow and/or masked light source. The microparticles may include protected regions on which cells can be adhered to and protected from shear forces. The flow stream is restarted to flush out the newly formed microparticles and prepare the device for the next cycle of particle formation.
US11060536B2
A servo valve includes a valve housing, a cavity formed in the valve housing defining an axis (X) and an axially moveable member disposed in the cavity. The member comprises flat surfaces parallel to the axis (X). A channel is formed within the cavity and a plurality of ports each forming a fluid passage through the valve housing in fluid communication with a spool and with the channel. The plurality of ports include first and second nozzles with nozzle openings, wherein in a first axial position of the member the first nozzle opening is at least substantially obstructed by the first flat surface, and in a second axial position of the member the second nozzle opening is at least substantially obstructed by the second surface, the member controlling fluid between the spool and the channel.
US11060532B2
A pressure amplifier (1) is described comprising a housing (2), an amplification piston (5) in the housing (2) having a high pressure area (9) in a high pressure chamber (5) and a low pressure area (8) in a low pressure chamber (3), and a switching valve (11) having a pressured control valve element having a larger pressure area (16) and a small pressure area (17). Such a pressure amplifier should have a high operating frequency. To this end the valve element (10) and the amplification piston (5) are located in a same bore (3, 4) in the housing (2).
US11060511B1
Artificial muscles comprising a body of dielectric elastomer, wherein the body contains a pair of microfluidic networks are presented. Each microfluidic network includes a plurality of channels fluidically coupled via a manifold. The channels of the microfluidic networks are interdigitated and filled with conductive fluid such that each set of adjacent channels functions as the electrodes of an electroactive polymer (EAP) actuator. By using the manifolds as compliant wiring to energize the electrodes, artificial muscles in accordance with the present disclosure mitigate some or all of the reliability problems associated with prior-art artificial muscles.
US11060505B2
A vertical axis wind turbine generator having a support stand (11), a shaft (41) defining the longitudinal direction and axis (19) of the generator. Two rotating members (12, 13) are coupled to the support stand (11) and the upper end of the shaft (41), thus being enabled to rotate about the axis (19). Two or more blades (14, 24, 34) having two free ends (15, 16) are connected by connecting members (17 and 18) to the two rotating members (12, 13), wherein movement of the first and/or second rotating members (12, 13) towards or away from one another causes the blades (14, 24, 34) to move further from, or closer to, the shaft (41).
US11060504B1
A control system is disclosed. The control system includes a wind turbine, at least one sensor configured to detect at least one property of the wind turbine to generate measurement data, and a controller communicatively coupled to the wind turbine and the at least one sensor. The controller includes at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device. The at least one processor is configured to control, during a training phase, the wind turbine according to at least one test parameter, receive, from the at least one sensor, during the training phase, first measurement data, generate, based on the at least one test parameter and the received first measurement data, a control model, receive, during an operating phase, second measurement data from the at least one sensor, and update the control model continuously based on the second measurement data.
US11060503B2
A yaw brake apparatus includes a first surface disposed on an end of a yaw piston for a wind turbine, the first surface including a first pattern formed by one or more of a plurality of first recesses and a plurality of first protrusions. The yaw brake apparatus may also include a yaw pad including a second surface structurally configured to engage with the first surface and a third surface opposite the second surface that is structurally configured to engage with a slew ring of the wind turbine, the second surface including a second pattern formed by one or more of a plurality of second recesses and a plurality of second protrusions corresponding to one or more of the plurality of first recesses and the plurality of first protrusions on the first pattern such that the first pattern and second pattern fit together when aligned in a predetermined orientation.
US11060498B2
Method and device for starting an internal combustion engine having high alcohol content in the fuel
A method and a corresponding device are disclosed for starting an internal combustion engine designed for alcohol or a high content of alcohol in a mixed alcohol-gasoline fuel, including setting an early starting ignition time point in a first time period beginning immediately after the activation of the starting process of the engine. The rotational speed of the internal combustion engine is monitored and the number of the cylinder working cycles is summed during the starting process and, upon exceeding a predetermined rotational speed threshold value, the number of those cylinder working cycles is summed in which there occurs a rotational speed increase greater than a predetermined threshold value. The number of the cylinder working cycles is compared with predetermined threshold values and, upon reaching or exceeding the threshold values, the ignition time point is shifted starting from the early ignition time point toward a late ignition time point.
US11060496B2
A combination starter-generator device is provided for a work vehicle having an engine. The starter-generator device includes an electric machine; and a gear set configured to receive rotational input from the electric machine and from the engine and to couple the electric machine and the engine in a first power flow direction and a second power flow direction. The gear set is configured to operate in one of multiple relatively high-torque, low-speed start gear ratios in the first power flow direction and a relatively low-torque, high-speed gear ratio in the second power flow direction.
US11060489B2
An inlet duct for an internal combustion engine includes a duct member made of a compression molded fiber material. The duct member includes a main body and end portions provided on opposite sides in an axial direction of the main body. The main body includes at least one high-compression portion and at least one low-compression portion, which is made through compression molding at a compression ratio lower than that of the at least one high-compression portion. The at least one low-compression portion extends throughout a length in the axial direction of the main body.
US11060485B2
A control valve assembly includes a housing accommodating an electromagnetic coil unit which is disposed in an in-housing passage and drives a valve element to open and close the in-housing passage. An inflow-outflow member is coupled to the housing, and includes an inflow portion having an inflow passage through which evaporative fuel flows toward the in-housing passage, and an outflow portion having an outflow passage through which the evaporative fuel from the in-housing passage flows. The outflow passage in the outflow portion and the inflow passage in the inflow portion communicate with each other through the in-housing passage.
US11060483B2
A rocket engine with an improved solid fuel segment mainly comprises a combustion chamber, a solid fuel segment installed in the combustion chamber, and an oxidizer injector installed at one end of the combustion chamber. The solid fuel segment surrounds and forms a trajectory to allow the oxidizer injector to inject oxidizer into the trajectory, in particular, on the solid fuel segment is formed with a plurality of protrusions, between the each two protrusions are defined a recess, a flame holding hot-gas region is formed between the protrusion and the recess, so as to produce eddy current in the flame holding hot-gas region when the propellant mixture is burned inside the trajectory, such that the whole solid fuel segment can produce even regression rate and high combustion efficiency.
US11060481B2
A thrust reverser system for a turbine engine includes a support structure, a transcowl, a door, a lock, and a first elastic element. The transcowl is mounted on the support structure and is translatable between a stowed position, a deployed position, and an over-stow position. The door is pivotally coupled to the support structure and is rotatable between at least a first position, a second position, and a third position. The lock is movable between a locked position, to prevent transcowl translation toward the deployed position, and an unlocked position, to allow transcowl translation toward the deployed position. The lock is only able to move to the unlocked position when the transcowl is in the over-stow position. The first elastic element is disposed within the stowed position aperture and, when engaging both the support structure and the transcowl, supplies a force to the transcowl.
US11060466B2
A system and method is provided for controlling an electric machine rotatably coupled to a rotatable shaft of an electronically-controlled one of a turbocharger and an exhaust-driven turbo supercharger fluidly coupled to an exhaust duct of an internal combustion engine. An operating temperature of a component of the engine is determined or estimated an operating temperature of a component of the engine or coupled to the engine, which is compared to a threshold temperature. The electric machine is controlled to operate as a motor in response to the determined or estimated temperature of the component being below a threshold temperature.
US11060461B2
A fuel system for an engine can include a fuel circuit and a primary fuel pump in fluid communication with the fuel circuit and configured to pump fuel to the engine as a function of engine speed. The primary fuel pump is configured to pump insufficient fuel flow to the engine during at least one engine speed or speed range. The system also includes a supplemental fuel pump in fluid communication with the fuel circuit configured to selectively pump fuel to the engine at least during the at least one engine speed or speed range to supplement fuel flow from the primary fuel pump to provide sufficient total fuel flow to the engine during all engine speeds.
US11060460B1
A fuel distribution system for a gas turbine powerplant. A fuel injector with a cylindrical body defines a single internal plenum sealed at an engagement end, having multiple axial openings in a midsection, and injection ports in an injection end. A fuel manifold defines a hollow annular fuel chamber with substantially parallel and opposing top and bottom surfaces. One chamber wall includes multiple cylindrical channels extending between the top and bottom surfaces. Each channel is connected through the wall to the fuel chamber. Each channel has securing features to engage corresponding securing features of the fuel injectors. When a fuel injector is inserted through the top surface into one of the channels in the manifold and the securing features engage, the engaging feature protrudes from the top surface, the injection ports protrude from the bottom surface, and the axial openings are in fluid communication with the fuel chamber.
US11060457B2
A cooling system for a gas turbine engine comprising a closed circuit containing a change-phase fluid, the closed circuit having at least one cooling exchanger configured to be exposed to a flow of cooling air for the change-phase fluid to release heat to the cooling air. A plurality of heat exchangers in are heat exchange relation with the change-phase fluid in the closed circuit, the plurality including at least a first heat exchanger configured to receive a first coolant from a first engine system for the change-phase fluid to absorb heat from the first coolant, and a second heat exchanger configured to receive a second coolant from a second engine system for the change-phase fluid to absorb heat from the second coolant. The system is configured so that the fluid at least partially vaporizes when absorbing heat from at least one of the first coolant and the second coolant and at least partially condenses when releasing heat to the cooling air. A method for cooling engine systems of a gas turbine engine is also provided.
US11060455B1
A system, as well as associated methods, for increasing the efficiency of a gas turbine including an inlet assembly and a compressor may include a housing configured to channel airstream towards the inlet assembly, an air treatment module positioned at a proximal end the housing, and at least one air conditioning module mounted downstream of the air treatment module for adjusting the temperature of the airstream entering the compressor. The air treatment module may include a plurality of inlet air filters and at least one blower configured to pressurize the air entering the air treatment module.
US11060449B2
An integrated turbo-compressor includes a compressor with a compressor outlet, a turbine with a turbine inlet, the turbine operatively connected to the compressor by an interconnect shaft, and a compounding drive. The compounding drive is connected to the turbine and has a variable gear ratio and an output member, the variable gear ratio coupling the turbine to the output member to compound output of an internal combustion engine using energy recovered from an exhaust flow received from the internal combustion engine and in excess of energy required to compress combustion air provided to the internal combustion engine. Internal combustion engines, aircraft, and methods of compounding output of internal combustion engines are also described.
US11060439B2
A system of diagnosing a deterioration of a catalyst, which includes a precious metal component and a ceramic part and purifies an exhaust gas emitted from an engine, includes: a diagnosis means comparing a diagnosis object value corresponding to an output from an NOx sensor provided on a downstream side with respect to the catalyst and a predetermined diagnosis threshold value stored in a storage means, thereby diagnosing a degree of deterioration of the catalyst, wherein the diagnosis threshold value is previously determined based on a correlationship between the diagnosis object value and a total weight value of NOx and THC in the exhaust gas through the catalyst in a state where the vehicle travels under a constant threshold value setting condition, and the diagnosis means diagnoses that a deterioration occurs in the precious metal component when the diagnosis object value exceeds the diagnosis threshold value.
US11060436B2
An exhaust heat recovery apparatus is installed proximate an engine and at a front side of a warm-up catalytic converter in an exhaust system, where the exhaust system includes an exhaust line connected with the engine, and the warm-up catalytic converter is installed at the exhaust line. The exhaust heat recovery apparatus includes a bellows unit which is of a dual-pipe type and exchanges heat between exhaust gas emitted through the exhaust line and coolant circulating from a cooling system to the engine.
US11060434B2
An aftertreatment system comprises a first passageway having a first temperature and a second passageway having a second temperature different than the first temperature. A turbine is disposed downstream from the first passageway and upstream from the second passageway. The turbine is in fluidic communication with the first passageway and the second passageway. The turbine is structured to receive an exhaust gas from the first passageway, generate energy using the exhaust gas flowing through the turbine and communicate the exhaust gas to the second passageway. The aftertreatment system also includes an insertion device structured to insert an exhaust reductant into the first passageway. A selective catalytic reduction system is configured to receive the exhaust gas from the second passageway and treat the exhaust gas. The first temperature can be higher than the second temperature.
US11060428B2
A snap-action valve assembly for an exhaust system is provided with a conduit that defines an exhaust passageway. A valve flap is disposed within the exhaust passageway for controlling exhaust flow. A shaft supports the valve flap in the exhaust passageway and allows the valve flap to rotate between closed and open positions. A mass damper, positioned outside the conduit, includes a longitudinal segment that is rotatably coupled to the shaft and that extends between first and second coiled ends. The longitudinal segment includes an inboard side and an outboard side. The first and second coiled ends include a series of overlapping layers arranged in either a folded serpentine shape or a spiral shape.
US11060427B2
A valve train arrangement including at least one exhaust valve and a reverse-spring hydraulic lash adjuster (RSHLA) is provided. The RSHLA has a predetermined closing velocity. An engine brake system is configured to engage the exhaust valve, such that: (i) upon activation of the engine brake system, the engine brake system engages the at least one exhaust valve to open the at least one exhaust valve; and (ii) upon deactivation of the engine brake system, the engine brake system disengages the at least one exhaust valve such that the at least one exhaust valve is closed. A deactivation velocity of the engine brake system is less than the predetermined closing velocity of the RSHLA.
US11060426B2
A switching finger follower for an engine valve train utilizes an adjustable support assembly that eliminates potential for partial engagement during operation. A lever engagement member or latch is disposed for movement on the follower body and interacts with a lever to provide a constant contact geometry. The finger follower may be configured as a lost motion device and may include a biasing assembly and a travel limiter. The latch may support the lever in at least one precise position and may support the lever in a second position for partial lost motion, or permit the lever to pivot free of the latch for complete lost motion, as in cylinder deactivation applications.
US11060420B2
An extraction device of a platform for holding a blade fitted with an upstream flange, out of a turbomachine rotor disc, and extraction method using the device. The device includes a handle fitted with a radial annular shoulder extended by a threaded pin, a proximal ring and a distal ring having a tube extended by a radial collar and a sleeve. The proximal ring is arranged around the pin, the tapped distal ring being screwed onto the other end of the pin and the sleeve being arranged around the two rings between their respective collars. Screwing of the handle results in moving the distal ring towards the proximal ring, radial deformation of the distal part of the sleeve against the flared part of the cylindrical orifice of the flange and its being joined to the latter. It is possible to conjointly extract the platform and the device from the disc.
US11060412B2
A method for controlling a gap minimization for an adjustable gap between a rotor and a housing of a gas turbine carried out on the basis of a correlation extracted from simulation data. If the actual value (PI) lies below the lower threshold (PU), the gap minimization is deactivated, whereas if the actual value lies above the upper threshold (PO), the gap minimization is activated. The gap minimization is activated between the thresholds (PU, PO) if the actual value lies above the threshold (PG) but is deactivated if the actual value (PI) lies below the threshold (PG).
US11060405B2
An apparatus and method for a turbine engine including an engine core having a compressor section, a combustor, and a turbine section, which are arranged to define a stator and rotor. The engine further includes a swirler to increase the rotational speed of the air leaving the stator and entering the interior of the rotor.
US11060398B2
A method may comprise disposing a nuclear magnetic resonance logging tool into a wellbore, identifying an upper limit of an amplitude for tool motion, identifying a frequency range based at least in part on the upper limit of the amplitude for tool motion, measuring the one or more frequencies from the echo train, and performing a frequency-domain processing of the one or more frequencies to suppress distortions in an echo train. A system may comprise a nuclear magnetic resonance logging tool and an information handling system. The nuclear magnetic resonance logging tool may further comprise an electromagnetic transmitter configured to emit a magnetic field, a radio frequency transmitter configured to transmit a pulse and one or more refocusing pulses, and a receiver configured to detect one or more frequencies from an echo train.
US11060395B2
Herein disclosed are methods and systems related to processes for injection wells generally utilized in the oil and gas industry. More particularly, disclosed herein are methods and systems related to improving the accuracy of profiling and determining individual cumulative fluid injection profiles for an injection period for multiple zones of an injection well in reservoir systems utilizing conventional warmback models. The methods herein allow for proper modeling and allocation of all injection zones, including zones experiencing a cooldown phenomena during shut-in by transforming the cooldown zonal temperature profiles into temperature profiles which can be utilized in a conventional warmback analysis. These methods are particularly useful in mature reservoir systems where the background reference temperature profile is no longer governed by the geothermal reference temperature profile.
US11060393B1
A shock isolated gamma probe attenuates axial, lateral, and torsional shocks to a gamma sensor package. A gamma sensor is inserted into and fixed to a tubular cartridge. The cartridge is closed with a cap and keyed at the other end. The cartridge is inserted into a resilient sleeve having an extension at the closed end to conform to the key on the cartridge. The open end of the resilient sleeve is closed with a gasket. The sleeve/cartridge assembly are inserted into a tubular structure on a first chassis. The first chassis has a keying structure for the key and extension of the resilient on an end bulkhead. The cartridge and first chassis are resiliently engaged to attenuate shocks. A second bulkhead, on a second chassis, closes the open end of the tubular structure on the first chassis.
US11060390B2
Downhole casing temperature may be predicated at the drill string/casing interface as a function of side force on the casing due to drill string tension, the speed or rate of penetration of the drill string in the axial direction, the rate of rotation of the drill string, and a calibrated/assumed friction factor. Predicted down hole casing temperature may be used as a proxy to monitor casing integrity.
US11060386B2
A tubular for downhole use, the tubular including a pipe, an insulation layer surrounding the pipe, and a protective layer around the insulation layer and comprising a polymer. The protective layer can also include a compression layer adjacent to the insulation layer. There may be reinforcement material in the protective layer, for example encapsulated by the elastomer. The tubular may have bare portions at the ends for manipulation of the tubulars to form a tubing string. A sleeve may be provided using the same layer structure to insulate the bare portions which form joints of the tubing string. The sleeve can also include a base layer.
US11060380B2
A system for remediating a blockage in a subsea component including a riser extending from a surface vessel, a flexible jumper having an upper end coupled to the riser and a lower end coupled to a subsea component, and a surface system disposed on the surface vessel and including flexible tubing configured to be inserted and advanced through the tubular string and flexible jumper to the blockage.
US11060369B2
A core catcher for a coring tool may include a sleeve including a slit extending along at least a portion of a height of the sleeve. A crosspiece may extend at least partially across the at least one slit and at least partially around a perimeter of the sleeve. A track may extend at least partially around the perimeter of the sleeve, the crosspiece being slidably engaged with the track. The crosspiece and the track may be configured to cooperatively delimit relative movement of portions of the sleeve on opposite sides of the slit as a width of the slit increases or decreases responsive to receipt of a core sample into the core catcher.
US11060368B2
A well-logging system includes a first downhole tool coupled to a first cable for conveying the first downhole tool along a wellbore. A second downhole tool having a housing is coupled to a second cable for conveying the second downhole tool along the wellbore. The well-logging system includes a cable guide having a chassis structure coupled to the housing and a sleeve coupled to the chassis structure and disposed about the first cable. The first cable is configured to translate along the sleeve such that the sleeve facilitates guided movement of the first downhole tool relative to the second downhole tool.
US11060366B2
A high pressure fluid pump system of a fluid injection system includes a large volume displacement system, having a large volume pump, and low volume displacement system, having a low volume pump, a programmable logic control (PLC) computer coupled with each displacement system. The large volume displacement system is configured to incrementally or continuously increase a pressure of a fluid in a downhole to a predetermined pressure setting below a maximum pressure setting, and the low volume displacement system is configured to increase the pressure of the fluid from the predetermined pressure setting to a pressure setting above the predetermined pressure setting and at or below the maximum pressure setting. The functioning of the high pressure fluid pump system can be monitored, controlled and tested by the PLC computer. One or more graphical user interfaces can be coupled to the PLC computer for user input.
US11060365B2
A solids discharge assembly for disposing of oil and gas well treated solids, the assembly including a discharge eductor and solids valve. The eductor includes a solids inlet, a fluid inlet, and a discharge outlet. Method and system embodiments for disposing of oil or gas well treated solids are also disclosed.
US11060363B1
A mandrel assembly secures to a mandrel and drill pipe to start the drill pipe through the RCD. The mandrel assembly attaches to different drill pipe configurations via an attachment finger. The attachment finger secures the mandrel to the drill pipe. The attachment finger inserts into the attachment aperture of the mandrel and the drill pipe to secure the mandrel with the drill pipe. Once attached, the user removes the mandrel by pulling the mandrel away from the drill pipe via removal apertures.
US11060362B2
A self-adjusting spinner is provided that is capable of accommodating various pipe sizes without requiring the need for an operator to climb up the support mechanism and manually change the position of the drive assembly. The self-adjusting spinner includes a case having two pivotally connected members: a stationary case member and a moving case member. Upper and lower plates having gear racks are mounted on the stationary case member for moving a drive assembly horizontally across the case. The drive assembly includes a motor that drives gear sprocket through a drive shaft. The drive sprocket then drives a chain that rotates a drill pipe in an operative position relative to the case. The spinner also includes an adjusting assembly mounted on the case that moves the drive assembly along the gear rack upon the actuation of an adjustment sequence. When the adjustment sequence is initiated, the effective length of the chain is adjusted to accommodate drill pipes of varying diameters.
US11060361B2
A retractable top drive for use with a drilling rig and process for operating a drilling rig. The retractable top drive comprises a dolly having a pair of mast rails in translatable relation to a mast, such as sliding. A yoke pivotally connects a torque tube to the dolly and the top drive is connected to the torque tube, so that a substantial portion of the top drive is positioned lower than a substantial portion of the dolly. An extendable actuator is connected between the dolly and the yoke to translate the top drive to/from the dolly. Torque is transferred from the top drive through the torque tube, yoke and dolly into the mast of the drill rig.
US11060358B2
An earth-boring drill bit with brazed-in rolling elements for depth-of-cut control. The earth-boring drill bit includes a bit body, a blade having an exterior surface and defining at least one pocket, and a DOCC element positioned within the blade. The DOCC element includes a walled retainer positioned within the pocket. The walled retainer includes retainer side walls and an endcap attached to the retainer side walls at an end of the walled retainer. The DOCC element further includes a rolling element positioned within and partially enclosed by walled retainer, with a portion thereof extending above the exterior surface of the blade. The disclosure further includes the DOCC element and a method of installing it in the pocket defined by the blade.
US11060353B2
A coupling for a roller tube of a window treatment system may include a body and/or one or more compliant members. The body may include a bore through a rotational axis of the coupling. The body may be configured to be received within the roller tube of the window treatment system. The body may define an outer surface. One or more compliant members may extend at an oblique angle from the outer surface of the coupling. The one or more compliant members may be configured to engage a smooth inner surface of the roller tube. The use of compliant members may enable a rigid connection of the coupling to the smooth inner surface of the roller tube surface, without the use of fasteners.
US11060352B2
Intelligent building control systems utilize sky information from a camera or cameras to facilitate control of building systems such as lighting, motorized window coverings, electrochromic glazings, HVAC systems, and so forth. Based on the sky information, interior lighting intensity and/or color temperature may be modified, for example in order to achieve a desired circadian effect for building occupants. In this manner, energy efficiency and occupant comfort and convenience are improved.
US11060351B2
Intelligent building control systems utilize sky information from a camera or cameras to facilitate control of building systems such as lighting, motorized window coverings, electrochromic glazings, HVAC systems, and so forth. Based on the sky information, interior lighting intensity and/or color temperature may be modified, for example in order to achieve a desired circadian effect for building occupants. In this manner, energy efficiency and occupant comfort and convenience are improved.
US11060339B2
A vehicle includes a liftgate system for mitigating a liftgate from contacting an object within a closing path of the liftgate. The liftgate system includes the liftgate, a camera, and a processor. The liftgate includes a surface facing an interior of the vehicle when the liftgate is closed. The camera is disposed on the surface. The processor detects, via the camera, an object within a closing path of the liftgate. The processors estimate a trajectory of the object when the object is in motion. The processor controls the liftgate based on the estimated trajectory and a speed setting at which the liftgate closes.
US11060338B2
A door closer having an elongate housing for mounting in a door leaf or door frame, the elongate housing having opposite forward and rear end parts, a plunger disposed in and movable along the housing, the plunger including a ferromagnetic material, a spring biasing element disposed in the housing and applying a first biasing force to bias the plunger inwardly of the housing and away from the forward end part and towards the rear end part, a tension member having a first end connected to the plunger and a second end connected to an anchor element assembly, the anchor element assembly comprising a mounting member for mounting in the other of the door leaf or door frame, the tension member and anchor element forming a tension assembly which extends through the forward end part.
US11060333B2
A hinge assembly for moveably coupling a door with a cabinet of a home appliance includes a first hinge plate coupled with the cabinet and a second hinge plate coupled with the door and moveable relative to the first hinge plate about a pivot pin. One of the first hinge plate and the second hinge plate includes a step vertically offset from a body of the hinge plate. When the door is moved into the open position, the second hinge plate travels downward relative to the first hinge plate due to the step. The step is configured to inhibit movement of the door to the closed position until a vertical force is applied to lift the second hinge plate relative to the first hinge plate into a closed position.
US11060330B2
A lock for an access point such as a window includes a dual-action locking mechanism with a locking unit and a blocker. The locking unit is movable between a locking position and an unlocking position. The blocker blocks movement of the locking unit when the blocker is in a blocking position, and permits movement of the locking unit when the blocker is in an unblocking position. The lock may capture an insert attached to a tether to permit partial opening of a window while the unit is locked.
US11060329B2
A computer includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to actuate a vehicle door to an opened position and to determine a height of an object on a vehicle roof based on a distance from a sensor on the door in the opened position to a top of the object.
US11060327B2
A latch travel mechanism for a closure panel of a vehicle, the mechanism comprising: a mounting plate for mounting a latch, the latch for retaining the closure panel; a support plate coupled to the mounting plate, the support plate for connecting to a body of the vehicle; and an actuation mechanism mounted on at least one of the support plate or the body and coupled to either the closure panel or the mounting plate to move the mounting plate relative to the support plate from a home position to an extended position; wherein the latch is moved from the home position to the extended position when mounted on the mounting plate. The latch travel mechanism also has a locking member mounted on the support plate and configured for retaining the mounting plate in a home position when engaged with the one or more linkages and for disengaging from the one or more linkages when operated.
US11060325B2
In combination: an over-the-road vehicle with a frame bounding a cargo space and at least one door having inside and outside surfaces and a peripheral edge; and a first locking assembly connected to the vehicle. The first locking assembly extends in an inside to outside direction over at least a portion of the thickness dimension of the peripheral door edge and so that a first portion extends to beyond the outside door surface. The first portion of the first locking assembly is configured to be engaged by a locking device that acts between the first locking assembly and another component to maintain the first door in the closed position. The first locking assembly is configured so that a region of the first portion is locally strengthened in a manner to resist severance and/or bending.
US11060323B2
An electronic lock with a wireless module configured to communicate wirelessly using a selected wireless communication protocol. The lock includes a hardware profile selector, such as a plurality of switches, which can be configured to set the wireless protocol used by the wireless module. For example, the hardware profile selector can be adjusted to change the wireless protocol used by the lock.
US11060321B2
A fence panel construction device includes a structural member and a pair of post members coupled to the structural member. Each post member includes a pair of attachment devices configured to removably attach a pair of fence stringers to the pair of post members. A pair of actuator mechanisms are coupled to a respective one of the pair of post members to position the pair of post members corresponding to a pair of fence posts on a property. A finishing assembly is coupled to the structural member and includes at least one fastening device and at least one trimming device both operable to move vertically. The finishing assembly is operable to move horizontally while the at least one fastening device fastens fence boards to the pair of fence stringers and at least one trimming device trims the fence boards. A method of making a fence panel is provided.
US11060320B1
A barrier, such as fence panel, is formed from a plurality of channel-shaped rails and plurality of upright members. Each upright member traverses the rail channels of the rails forming the barrier and is mechanically connected to the rail, such that the upright member is selectively tiltable with respect to the rail within an angular adjustment range. The mechanical connection between rail and upright member may be formed by a weld, such as a resistance weld, by a permanent adhesive, or with a fastener such as bolt or screw. A tab that extends from the rail web may be used to connect a rail to an upright member. The tab may depend from a bracket installed within the rail channel, or may be cut out and bent into the channel from the web. The tab is rotatable about an axis situated at or adjacent the web.
US11060309B1
Pools, methods of fabricating pools, and pool panel junctions are provided. The pool includes a first internal surface having a first radius; a second internal surface, for example, of a wading pool, having a second radius; a third internal surface having a third radius, different from the second radius; and a junction where the first internal surface transitions to the second internal surface at a first elevation and the first internal surface transitions to the third internal surface at a second elevation, different from the first elevation. The pool panel junction includes at least one elongated member having a pair of opposing sides defining planes that converge at an apex, such as, a triangular member, and wherein each of the opposing sides is adapted to engage an adjacent connector operatively mounted to a pool panel. An elongated pool panel structural member and a method of fabricating a pool are also provided.
US11060307B2
Provided is a decorative building material and a method of manufacturing the same, and more particularly to a decorative building material which is manufactured by a simple process and has a print layer excellent in sharpness, realism, and stereoscopic effect as well as having a functional layer such as an impact absorbing property and a manufacturing method thereof. The method of manufacturing a decorative material includes the steps of: (S1) preparing a transfer film on which a pattern is printed; (S2) preparing a substrate comprising polyvinyl chloride resin, a white film comprising polyvinyl chloride resin, and a transparent film comprising polyvinyl chloride resin; (S3) laminating the white film, the transparent film, and the transfer film on the substrate in order and at the same time performing a heat treatment under pressure; and (S4) peeling off the transfer film.
US11060306B2
Methods and articles of manufacture relating to engineered hardwood flooring are provided. Engineered hardwood flooring is produced by drying a structural layer comprising a hardwood to a moisture content from about 0.1% to about 3%, whereupon a cell structure of the hardwood collapses. The dried structural layer is humidified to where the hardwood has an increased moisture content greater than about 3%. First and second outer layers are adhered to respective first and second sides of the structural layer to form an engineered product, the structural layer sandwiched by the first outer layer and the second outer layer.
US11060294B2
A downspout cord or the like conveyance device and method, comprised of a sufficiently heavy and at least partially rolling mass, preferably that rotates around an axle which is connected to a harness and to which a cord or the like may be attached and pulled down a bent downspout largely by the force of gravity.
US11060290B1
An improved cover board product with a panel comprised of three discrete layers: a top surface layer comprised of either paper or a fiberglass web, a bottom surface layer comprised of either paper or a fiberglass web, and a core layer comprised of discrete paper fragments and polypropylene fragments, which are connected by use of a thermoplastic bonding resin, including polyethylene. The bonding resin is generally attached in a random pattern to less than 100% of the paper fragment and polypropylene fragment surface area. The paper fragments are generally shaped as irregular plates. The polypropylene fragments can have multiple shape types. The two different fragment types are randomly distributed in the core layer relative to each other. The core layer includes small voids in and around the particles, which improves flexibility. The core layer is attached to the top and bottom surface layers by use of a thermoplastic adhesive, including polyethylene.
US11060287B2
A system for providing reinforcement to structures comprises a prefabricated rebar assembly, a first end plate and a second end plate. The prefabricated rebar assembly comprises multiple rods connected to each other. The prefabricated rebar assembly is held between the first end plate and the second end plate to form a block of rebar assembly.
US11060286B2
An example apparatus is disclosed that may be a utility panel that may include an exterior panel, a plurality of studs coupled to the exterior panel, a hat channel coupled to the plurality of studs opposite the exterior panel, wherein the hat channel is perpendicular to the studs, and an interior panel coupled to the hat channel opposite the plurality of studs. An example method is disclosed for coupling a wall panel to a beam.
US11060283B2
Fire-rated wall construction components and wall systems for use in building construction. Embodiments can include tracks for holding studs which incorporate various geometries capable of receiving fire-retardant material, including but not limited to intumescent material. The fire-retardant material can be attached to compressible backer rods inserted within deflection gaps in the wall systems such that the fire-retardant material expands and seals gaps and/or areas between the tracks and wall components such as ceilings, floors, and drywall. Various assemblies and methods can be used to cover the deflection gap.
US11060271B2
A portable personal hygiene device is detachably secured to a toilet bowl rim via an integral mounting bracket. The hygiene device controllably directs liquid, water, or other solution to the posterior portions of a user's body through a nozzle assembly. The hygiene device includes a housing which encloses a power source, a motor and a pump. An adjustable brace is included to facilitate enhanced secured attachment of the hygiene device to the toilet rim. A replaceable, reusable reservoir provides the water supply for the pump. The nozzle assembly is movable between retracted and extended positions.
US11060256B2
A pier maintenance system and a structural maintenance system are provided. The pier maintenance system is configured to maintain elongate members of the pier (e.g. piles). The pier maintenance system includes a delivery module, configured to navigate between the elongate members; and a maintenance module, coupled to the delivery module, and configured to navigate along the elongate members, to maintain the pier.
US11060253B2
A magnetic marker (1), laid in or on a road so as be detectable by a magnetic sensor (2) attached to a bottom surface side of a vehicle (5), that is used for vehicle-side drive assist control for assisting driving is an isotropic ferrite plastic magnet, molded into a columnar shape, that contains a magnetic powder of iron oxide, i.e. a powder of a magnetic material, dispersed in a polymer material. In a marker system (1S) including this magnetic marker (1), magnetic markers (1) accommodated in holes (530) bored in a road surface (53) are arranged along the center of a lane.
US11060252B2
The present invention relates to a structure for supporting an information or surveillance device above a road. The structure includes: at least one post extending upwards from the ground to an elevated position, at least one overhead beam which is supported by said post, the overhead beam extending over a horizontal distance above the road, at least one information or surveillance device being connected to said overhead beam and being positioned above the road, a catwalk extending along the overhead beam, wherein said catwalk comprises a guard rail assembly which is movable between: an operating position in which the guard rail assembly extends upwardly from a floor of the catwalk and protects personnel from falling from the catwalk, and a retracted, non-operating position in which the guard rail assembly is concealed behind the overhead beam when viewed from a direction of approaching traffic on the road.
US11060249B2
A road finisher includes an undercarriage, a chassis which is adjustable in height relative to the undercarriage, an electronic control system, and a paving screed which is attached to tie bars, the tie bars each being hinged to the chassis at a pull point and the pull points each being adjustable relative to the chassis by means of a leveling cylinder. The control system comprises a receiving unit configured to detect an actual pull point height, an evaluation unit configured to calculate a deviation of the actual pull point height from a target pull point height caused by a height adjustment of the chassis relative to the undercarriage, and a command unit, which is configured to automatically at least partially correct the deviation by a correction signal sent from the command unit causing a hydraulic controller to adjust at least one of the leveling cylinders.
US11060240B2
Provided is synthetic leather with wrinkling and springiness similar to those of natural leather. The synthetic leather has a grain pattern and is obtained by laminating a polyurethane resin layer on a fibrous substrate. A stiffness of the front surface of the synthetic leather is 65 to 95 mm and a stiffness of a rear surface of the synthetic leather is 55 to 85 mm.
US11060237B2
A clothes treatment apparatus includes a cabinet defining a treatment chamber in which clothes are treated. A door is coupled to the cabinet and a pants crease management apparatus is disposed on a rear surface of the door. The pants crease management apparatus includes a press plate coupled to the rear surface of the door, a press door coupled to the press plate, and a film disposed between the press plate and the press door. The film can be placed between side portions of pants when pressed in between the press plate and the press door in a process to remove wrinkles from the pants and put a crease in the pants.
US11060236B2
A dryer appliance and a method of operating the same are provided. In one aspect, the dryer appliance includes a drum rotatably mounted within a cabinet. The drum defines a chamber that is in fluid communication with a conditioning system of the dryer appliance. The conditioning system heats air circulating therethrough. A variable speed blower fan is provided to circulate air between the conditioning system and the chamber. A sensor is positioned at or proximate a drum exit of the drum. A controller of the dryer appliance receives an input indicative of the relative humidity of the air at the drum exit. Based on the received input, the controller determines a control command. The control command can be routed to a blower fan motor operable to drive the blower fan. The blower fan motor receives the control command and adjusts a flow rate of the air exiting the drum exit.
US11060232B2
Disclosed is a laundry treatment apparatus, which directly heats a drum accommodating laundry and is enhanced in efficiency and safety. The laundry treatment apparatus includes a tub, a drum formed of a metal material and rotatably provided inside the tub to accommodate laundry, an induction module spaced apart from a circumferential surface of the drum to heat the circumferential surface of the drum via a magnetic field that is generated when current is applied to a coil, a lifter provided in the drum to move the laundry inside the drum when the drum rotates, a temperature sensor provided to sense a temperature of the drum, and a module controller configured to control an output of the induction module so as to control an amount of heat generated from the circumferential surface of the drum. The module controller controls the amount of heat based on the temperature sensed by the sensor.
US11060228B2
A washing machine including a plurality of washers may include a fixing bracket coupled to a front of a first housing in which a first tub is disposed and a front of a second housing in which a second tub is disposed, to prevent the first housing and the second housing from being separated from each other.
US11060213B2
A method of spreading fibres, the method comprises providing a continuous fibre bundle having an initial width Wa and causing the fibre bundle to run, in a running direction, through tensioning means and past or through fluid flow means, the tensioning means intermittently varying the tension in the fibre bundle and the fluid flow means producing a fluid flow through the fibre bundle as the tension varies in the fibre bundle, whereby the width of the fibre bundle increases to a spread width Wb. Apparatus (1) is also disclosed, which apparatus (1) comprises a tensioning means (3) to intermittently vary the tension in the fibre bundle (2) and a fluid flow means (4) for producing a flow of fluid through the bundle (2).
US11060212B2
Aspects herein are directed to using a space-treating process to apply functional finishes to a yarn and incorporating the treated yarn into a textile and/or a garment to impart engineered functional properties to the textile and/or garment.
US11060211B2
The present invention relates to twisted yarn obtained by twisting a plurality of carbon fiber resins which are slit from a carbon fiber resin tape in which adhesive, alumina sol, and potassium persulfate permeate between a plurality of the carbon fibers spread flatly. An open yarn is obtained by S-twisting and Z-twisting covering yarn around the periphery of the twisted yarn. A carbon fiber covered twisted yarn is obtained by winding the twisted yarn around the periphery of a core material.
US11060202B2
Single crystal semiconductor ingots are pulled from a melt contained in a crucible by a method of controlling the pulling the single crystal in a phase in which an initial cone of the single crystal is grown until a phase in which the pulling of a cylindrical section of the single crystal is begun, by measuring the diameter Dcr of the initial cone of the single crystal and calculating the change in the diameter dDcr/dt; pulling the initial cone of the single crystal from the melt at a pulling rate vp(t) from a point in time t1 until a point in time t2, starting from which the pulling of the cylindrical section of the single crystal in conjunction with a target diameter Dcrs is begun, wherein the profile of the pulling rate vp(t) from the point in time t1 until the point in time t2 during the pulling of the initial cone is predetermined by means of an iterative computation process.
US11060194B2
Apparatuses and methods of manufacturing of thermally formed composite structures, such as a projectile firing structure, are provided. One simplified exemplary method includes: determining material properties of a projectile firing structure comprising a rifled barrel including thermal conductivity, wear, and tensile strength; wrapping a plurality of thermally reactive layers onto a cylindrical press form structure, the cylindrical press form structure comprising a plurality of spiraled grooves and lands, the thermally reactive layers comprising metal or metal oxides that when heated produce thermal diffusion byproducts in a composite structure forming the rifled barrel having the plurality of material properties; disposing an enclosing structure around the thermally reactive layers wrapped around the cylindrical press form structure; and heating the plurality of thermally reactive layers at a temperature and time so that the plurality of thermally reactive layers thermally react via thermal diffusion forming the rifled barrel having the plurality of material properties.
US11060190B2
A controller that processes a substrate by executing a process recipe for supplying at least a source gas to a process chamber to form a film on the substrate, and a pressure controller that controls the degree of opening of a pressure control valve on the basis of a pressure value detected by a pressure sensor that detects a pressure in a furnace during execution of the recipe and maintains the process chamber to a predetermined pressure. The pressure controller includes a memory that accumulates data acquired from the pressure sensor and pressure control valve, and measures a valve full close time to full close of the pressure control valve during execution of the process recipe and holds the valve full close time in the memory, and the controller acquires the stored valve full close time and confirms whether the acquired valve full close time falls within a threshold range.
US11060181B2
A method for coating substrates with a decorative layer of hard material which is guided into a vacuum coating chamber. The decorative layer of hard material is deposited by a reactive HIPIMS-process, and the energy content in the power pulses is controlled in such a manner that the deposited layer of hard material has a homogeneous colour, a high degree of smoothness and a high strength.
US11060180B2
There is provided a BN-containing ferromagnetic material sputtering target which is capable of suppressing generation of particles during sputtering. A sputtering target containing from 1 to 40 at. % of B and from 1 to 30 at. % of N and comprising a structure including at least one ferromagnetic metal-containing metal phase and at least one nonmagnetic material phase, wherein an X-ray diffraction profile obtained by analyzing the structure with an X-ray diffraction method exhibits a diffraction peak derived from cubic boron nitride.
US11060172B2
Provided is an abrasion-resistant steel plate which has high hardness up to the mid-thickness part thereof although the steel plate is 50 mm or more, and can be manufactured at low cost. The abrasion-resistant steel plate has a specific chemical composition having DI* of 120 or more, where DI* is defined by the following Formula (1): DI*=33.85×(0.1×C)0.5×(0.7×Si+1)×(3.33×Mn+1)×(0.35×Cu+1)×(0.36×Ni+1)×(2.16×Cr+1)×(3×Mo+1)×(1.75×V+1)×(1.5×W+1) . . . (1), has HB1 of 360 HBW10/3000 to 490 HBW10/3000, HB1 being a Brinell hardness at a depth of 1 mm from a surface, has a hardness ratio, HB1/2 to HB1, of 75% or more, HB1/2 being a Brinell hardness at a mid-thickness position, and has a plate thickness of 50 mm or more.
US11060169B2
A high temperature oxidation resistant nickel-aluminide alloy composition and furnace rolls formed therefrom. The inventive nickel-aluminide alloy composition comprises 0.08-0.1 wt. % Zr, 2.5-3.0 wt. % Mo, 7.5-8.5 wt. % Al, 7.5-8.5 wt. % Cr, about 0.01 wt. % B and the balance being substantially nickel.
US11060165B2
A copper/molybdenum separation system uses sea water in the roughing circuit and desalinated water in cleaning circuit. In both roughing circuit and cleaning circuit, hydrophobic engineered media are used to recover the mineral particles of interest. The cleaning circuit includes a molybdenum loading stage configured to contact the conditioned pulp with the engineered media in an agitated reaction chamber, and load the hydrophobic molybdenite on the engineered media.
US11060160B2
A low-alloy steel has a composition including, by mass %, C: more than 0.45 and up to 0.65%; Si: 0.05 to 0.50%; Mn: 0.10 to 1.00%; P: up to 0.020%; S: up to 0.0020%; Cu: up to 0.1%; Cr: 0.40 to 1.50%; Ni: up to 0.1%; Mo: 0.50 to 2.50%; Ti: up to 0.01%; V: 0.05 to 0.25%; Nb: 0.005 to 0.20%; Al: 0.010 to 0.100%; B: up to 0.0005%; Ca: 0 to 0.003%; 0: up to 0.01%; N: up to 0.007%; and other elements. A microstructure consists of tempered martensite and retained austenite <2% in volume fraction, crystal grain size number being 9.0 or larger, number density of carbonitride-based inclusions with grain diameter of 50 μm or larger being 10 inclusions/100 mm2 or smaller, and yield strength being 965 MPa or higher.
US11060159B2
A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a steel sheet 1; an intermediate layer 4 containing Si and O, arranged on the steel sheet; and an insulation coating 3 arranged on the intermediate layer 4, in which the intermediate layer 4 contains a metal phosphide 5, a thickness of the intermediate layer 4 is 4 nm or more, and an abundance of the metal phosphide 5 present is 1% to 30% by cross-sectional area fraction in a cross section of the intermediate layer 4.
US11060157B2
Provided are coated steel sheets, production methods therefor, and so forth, the coated steel sheets having a tensile strength of 440 MPa or more, good formability, and good aging resistance. A steel sheet of the present invention includes a specific component composition and a steel microstructure having an area fraction of a ferrite phase of 80% or more and 95% or less, an area fraction of pearlite of 5% or more and 20% or less, and an average ferrite grain size of 5 μm or more and 20 μm or less, in which in a ferrite grain size histogram, the average grain size of the largest 20% of ferrite grains in terms of grain size is 10 μm or more, and the pearlite has an average lamellar spacing of 200 nm or less, the area fraction, the average ferrite grain size, and the lamellar spacing being determined by microstructure observation.
US11060155B2
A cemented carbide body includes WC in a metallic binder phase. The cemented carbide body has a bulk portion and a surface portion. The grain size of the WC in the surface portion is smaller than the grain size in the bulk portion of the body and this gives an increased surface hardness and an increased wear resistance. The median grain thickness, tg, of WC in the surface portion is 20-300 nm and the average grain size in the bulk portion is 0.5-8 μm. A method of surface hardening a cemented carbide body is also provided.
US11060149B2
Provided herein are devices and methods for rapid analysis of biological samples. In particular, devices and methods described herein can be applied to rapid nucleic acid analysis of solid tissue samples.
US11060145B2
Technology provided herein relates in part to methods, processes and apparatuses for non-invasive assessment of genetic variations.
US11060135B2
A method includes forming a patterned substrate including a plurality of base pads, using a nano-imprint lithography process. A capture substance is attached to each of the plurality of base pads, optionally through a linker, the capture substance being adapted to promote capture of a target molecule.
US11060132B2
The present disclosure describes various improved methods for imaging at least one target in a sample, including methods employing an adapter strand oligonucleotide and a bridge strand oligonucleotide. Some methods also employ bouncer oligonucleotides and/or blocker oligonucleotides. Some methods also use two partial docking strands to detect proximity of the partial docking strands to each other.
US11060124B2
Provided herein include methods of making mogroside compounds, e.g., Compound 1, compositions (for example host cells) for making the mogroside compounds, and the mogroside compounds made by the methods disclosed herein, and compositions (for example, cell lysates) and recombinant cells comprising the mogroside compounds (e.g., Compound 1). Also provided herein are novel cucurbitadienol synthases and the use thereof.
US11060120B1
The method for producing biodiesel from microalgae using a thermo-responsive switchable solvent includes mixing a thermo-responsive switchable solvent (TSS) in a hydrophilic state with microalgae at room temperature (25° C.); maintaining the TSS-microalgae mixture in the hydrophilic state for a cell disruption time period; raising the temperature of the TSS-microalgae mixture to switch the TSS solvent to a hydrophobic state; maintaining the TSS solvent in the hydrophobic state in the presence of immobilized lipase catalyst and methanol for an extraction/reaction time period to obtain fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs) as the oils are extracted; lowering the temperature of the TSS-microalgae mixture to switch the TSS solvent back to the hydrophilic state; and maintaining the TSS solvent in the hydrophilic state for a product separation time period. The method may further include extracting the FAMEs from the TSS-microalgae mixture with a nonpolar organic solvent to obtain the biodiesel product.
US11060112B2
The disclosure provide cell lines and methods for the production of vectors and viral particles useful in gene therapy.
US11060102B2
Compositions and methods for improving plant growth are provided herein. Polynucleotides encoding photosystem I reaction center subunit N (PSAN) proteins, polypeptides encompassing PSAN proteins, and expression constructs for expressing genes of interest whose expression may improve agronomic properties including but not limited to crop yield, biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, and early vigor, plants comprising the polynucleotides, polypeptides, and expression constructs, and methods of producing transgenic plants are also provided.
US11060098B2
The present invention provides polynucleotide vectors for high expression of heterologous genes. Some vectors further comprise novel transposons and transposases that further improve expression. Further disclosed are vectors that can be used in a gene transfer system for stably introducing nucleic acids into the DNA of a cell. The gene transfer systems can be used in methods, for example, gene expression, bioprocessing, gene therapy, insertional mutagenesis, or gene discovery.
US11060084B2
The present invention is directed to SH3 domain derivatives having a specific binding affinity to a target molecule. In this respect, the invention provides SH3 domain derivatives of nephrocystin (NPHP1) and the Tec kinase. The invention also provides a method for the production of a library comprising recombinant derivatives of NPHP1 or the Tec kinase SH3 domains and a method for selecting from the library one or more derivatives of the SH3 domain of nephrocystin (NPHP1) or the Tec kinase having a specific binding affinity to a target molecule.
US11060080B2
A method for fermentation-production of a pentanediamine, comprising: culturing a cell expressing a lysine decarboxylase to obtain a whole cell fermentation broth comprising a pentanediamine; and extracting the pentanediamine from the whole cell fermentation broth, and striping the whole cell fermentation broth of carbon dioxide contained therein before adding a strong base. The method greatly increases a production volume of the pentanediamine.
US11060076B2
The present invention discloses a method for producing a 1,2-amino alcohol compound by utilizing whole-cell transformation, and belongs to the technical field of gene engineering and microorganism engineering. According to the present invention, engineered Escherichia coli co-expresses epoxide hydrolase, alcohol dehydrogenase, ω-transaminase and glutamate dehydrogenase, is capable of realizing whole-cell catalysis of an epoxide in one step to synthesize a 1,2-amino alcohol compound, and meanwhile, can realize regeneration of coenzyme NADP+ and an amino doner L-Glu; alcohol dehydrogenase expressed by the engineered Escherichia coli is RBS optimized alcohol dehydrogenase, and such RBS optimization can control the expression quantity of alcohol dehydrogenase, so that the catalysis rate of alcohol dehydrogenase and transaminase can achieve an optimum ratio, to eliminate influence caused by a rate-limiting step in a catalyzing course.
US11060075B2
The present invention provides engineered DNA polymerase polypeptides and compositions thereof, as well as polynucleotides encoding the engineered DNA polymerase polypeptides. The invention also provides methods for use of the compositions comprising the engineered DNA polymerase polypeptides for diagnostic and other purposes.
US11060074B2
The present invention provides polymer brush constructs, for example, surfaces decorated with hyaluronan polymers, and methods of making the same. The constructs are useful as functional materials for numerous applications, e.g., as lubricants, implant coatings, bandages and other uses.
US11060073B2
Genetically engineered bacteria, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of modulating and treating disorders associated with hyperammonemia are disclosed.
US11060057B2
Decellularization methods for tissue are provided. The method can include: exposing a tissue to a water-saturated, supercritical CO2. The method can further comprise, prior to exposing the tissue to the water-saturated, supercritical CO2, saturating a stream of supercritical CO2. The tissue can be exposed to the water-saturated, supercritical CO2 at a treatment temperature of about 35° C. to about 40° C. (e.g., about 37° C.). In one embodiment, the water-saturated, supercritical CO2 is completely saturated with water at the treatment temperature. The tissue can be exposed to the water-saturated, supercritical CO2 at a constant flow rate, such as less than 3 mL/min (e.g., about 0.5 mL/min to about 2.5 mL/min).
US11060055B2
A composite sensor assembly for monitoring bio-processes which is suitable for use with a polymeric bioprocess vessel or with downstream equipment, and comprises: i) a port comprising a high surface tension thermoplastic having a hollow tubular portion and a base plate portion, the base plate being fusibly sealable to the bioreactor vessel at a hole in the wall thereof; ii) a generally opaque polymeric monitoring sensor assembly including electrical, and/or optical measurement components. The sensor assembly fits inside the bore of the hollow tubular portion of the port, and is adhesively retained therein.
US11060040B2
Systems and methods are provided for block operation during lubricant and/or fuels production from deasphalted oil. During “block” operation, a deasphalted oil and/or the hydroprocessed effluent from an initial processing stage can be split into a plurality of fractions. The fractions can correspond, for example, to feed fractions suitable for forming a light neutral fraction, a heavy neutral fraction, and a bright stock fraction, or the plurality of fractions can correspond to any other convenient split into separate fractions. The plurality of separate fractions can then be processed separately in the process train (or in the sweet portion of the process train) for forming fuels and/or lubricant base stocks. This can allow for formation of unexpected base stock compositions.
US11060029B2
The invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium having a nematic phase comprising one or more compounds of formula B wherein the parameters have the meaning given in the text, to the use thereof in an electro-optical display, particularly in an active-matrix display based on the IPS or FFS effect, to displays of this type which contain a liquid-crystalline medium of this type and to the use of the compounds of formula B for improvement of the transmission and/or response times of a liquid-crystalline medium which comprises one or more additional mesogenic compounds.
US11060020B2
A wavelength conversion member is provided which includes a phosphor layer having an increased pencil hardness and thereby has a reduced risk of breakage such as scattering of fragments of the phosphor layer or separation of the phosphor layer. A substrate 12 is made of sapphire, and a phosphor layer 14 is disposed on the substrate 12 and includes phosphor particles 16 and a light transmissive inorganic material 22. The phosphor layer 14 has a pencil hardness of 5B or above. The high hardness of the phosphor layer 14 reduces the risk of breakage such as the phosphor layer 14 being scattered as fragments or being separated from the substrate 12.
US11060019B2
A composition comprising: a plurality of quantum dots; a plurality of luminous carbon nanoparticles; a carboxylic acid group-containing binder; a polymerizable monomer including a carbon-carbon double bond; and an initiator, wherein the plurality of quantum dots comprises a Group II-VI compound, a Group III-V compound, a Group IV-VI compound, or a combination thereof, the plurality of luminous carbon nanoparticles have a size of less than or equal to about 10 nanometers, and exhibit both a D band and a G band in a Raman spectrum thereof, and at least a portion of the plurality of luminous carbon nanoparticles absorb light having a wavelength of greater than or equal to about 400 nanometers and a maximum luminous peak wavelength thereof is greater than or equal to about 480 nanometers.
US11060016B2
A dry polymer powder for use in enhanced petroleum recovery without being prehydrated before being added to water or brine to be introduced into a wellhead. The dry polymer powder consisting of at least one of a polyacrylamide, a copolymer of acrylamide and acrylic acid, a galactomannan, or cellulosic polymer or derivatives thereof, and the polymer can be crosslinked or not crosslinked, provided that if they are homo- or co-polymers of acrylic acid, they are not crosslinked. The dry polymer powder has a polymer size range distribution of 6.6%<40 mesh and 85.4% of 40 to 200 mesh and 8%>200 mesh, and wherein the polymer size range ensures that the dry polymer powder will efficiently hydrate in the water or brine within about one minute without forming fisheyes.
US11060014B2
This invention generally relates to the field of oil recovery from reservoirs. More specifically, it relates to the recovery of oil from sandstone and carbonate reservoirs using a process for preparing a dispersion of capsules for use downhole including the steps of providing capsules containing a dense liquid, each capsule having a capsule wall defining an inner area, the capsule wall having an outer side. The capsules are functionalized by adding a carbon dioxide-philic compound to the outer side of the capsule wall. A dispersion is then prepared by adding the functionalized capsules to supercritical carbon dioxide such that a stable dispersion of capsules in supercritical carbon dioxide is achieved.
US11060013B2
A method of treating a subterranean formation penetrated by a wellbore comprises: introducing into the subterranean formation a treatment fluid comprising a carbonate producing agent, urea, and a cation source; allowing a carbonate precipitate to form, the carbonate precipitate comprising a cation from the cation source and having a water solubility of less than about 0.1 g/100 mL at 25° C. and atmospheric pressure; and reducing or substantially preventing the passage of formation particles from the subterranean formation into the wellbore while allowing passage of formation fluids from the subterranean formation into the wellbore.
US11060012B2
A solvent mixture comprising a solvent and a polar additive and associated methods.
US11060011B2
Coil tubing cleanout fluids comprising a clay are provided. A method may comprise introducing a cleanout fluid into a wellbore wherein the cleanout fluid comprises a carrier fluid and a clay; and entraining solid particles in the cleanout fluid wherein the solid particles are disposed in the wellbore.
US11060006B2
The present invention pertains to a method for manufacturing a laminated textile product comprising providing a first intermediate product comprising a primary backing having a front surface and a back surface, and yarns stitched into the primary backing, the yarns extending from the front surface of the backing material, feeding the intermediate product along a body having a heated surface, the back surface being pressed against the said heated surface, to at least partly melt the yarns present in the intermediate product to bond the yarns to the backing, wherein the part of the back surface that is pressed against the heated surface has a relative speed with respect to the heated surface, so as to provide a second intermediate product having a calendered back surface, providing a dimensionally stable carrier sheet or secondary backing, and connecting the second intermediate product to the carrier sheet by providing a hot melt adhesive between the calendered surface and the sheet, and pressing the sheet to the second intermediate product to form the textile product.
US11060001B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for producing a moist-crosslinking pressure-sensitive adhesive with adjustable adhesive properties, more particularly for producing thick layers of the moist-crosslinking pressure-sensitive adhesive, comprising the following steps: providing, by means of UV-initiated radical polymerisation, a covalently bonded pre-polymer containing alkoxysilyl-terminated monomers to provide a base material suitable for a pressure-sensitive adhesive; adding at least one catalyst to the pre-polymer; and moist-crosslinking this mass to provide a pressure-sensitive adhesive; wherein an aftertreatment of the pressure-sensitive adhesive to adjust application-specific mechanical and/or rheological properties to optimise the adhesive properties such as adhesion, cohesion, visco-elasticity and tack by means of steam and/or temperature. A corresponding moist-crosslinked pressure-sensitive adhesive and an adhesive tape is also described.
US11059996B2
A method for producing a polishing composition including: preparing a first dispersion liquid by mixing a dispersing element containing abrasive grains and a dispersing medium with a pH adjusting agent, and changing the pH of the dispersing element so as to pass an isoelectric point of the abrasive grains; and preparing a second dispersion liquid by mixing the first dispersion liquid with an electrical conductivity adjusting agent.
US11059994B2
A silicone resin is disclosed. The silicone resin is free from carbon atoms. A method of preparing the resin is additionally disclosed. This method comprises reacting a silane compound and a precursor compound, thereby preparing the silicone resin. A composition including the silicon resin and a vehicle is further disclosed. A method of preparing a film with the composition is also disclosed. This method comprises applying the composition including the silicone resin and the vehicle to a substrate to form a layer. This method also includes heating the layer to give the film.
US11059982B2
The aim of the present invention is to provide a fluid composition that can form a coating, said composition being characterized in that it contains, at least in a solvent medium, an effective amount of at least one natural virucide selected from among lauric acid, monolaurin, lactoferrin and essential oils having antiviral activity and/or one of the precursors thereof, said composition having a viscosity of 30 mPa·s to 40 Pa·s at room temperature and pressure.
US11059977B2
Provided is a near-infrared-absorbing dye increasing a visible light transmittance and having a near-infrared blocking characteristic. The near-infrared-absorbing dye has an absorption characteristic measured by dissolving the dye in dichloromethane satisfying the following requirements. ⋅In an absorption spectrum at a wavelength of 400 to 800 nm, there is a maximum absorption wavelength λmax in a wavelength region of 670 nm or more. ⋅The following relational expression is established between a maximum absorption constant εA with respect to light with a wavelength of 430 to 550 nm and a maximum absorption constant εB with respect to light with a wavelength of 670 nm or more, where εB/εA≥65. ⋅In a spectral transmittance curve, an average transmittance of light with a wavelength of 430 to 460 nm is 94.0% or more when a transmittance at the maximum absorption wavelength λmax is set to 1%.
US11059971B2
Provided are a composition, a cured polymer material formed from said composition, a method for forming a thermally conductive material on an article and an article having a thermally conductive material. Said thermally conductive material can be formed on an electronic device, and can be peeled off from said electronic device.
US11059956B2
The present disclosure relates to an organic-inorganic composite for rubber reinforcement, a method for preparing the same, and a rubber composition for tires including the same. The organic-inorganic composite for rubber reinforcement according to the present disclosure exhibits excellent dispersibility in the rubber composition and reinforcing effect, and thus can be suitably used for eco-friendly tires requiring high efficiency and high fuel efficiency characteristics.
US11059952B2
A rubber composition for downhole tools having excellent degradability and storability is provided. The rubber composition for downhole tools includes degradable rubber, a degradation accelerator, and a degradation inhibitor. The degradation accelerator is at least one type of the compound represented by Formula (I) or Formula (II) below. The degradation inhibitor is at least one type selected from the group consisting of carbodiimide compounds, oxazoline compounds, oxazine compounds, and epoxy compounds. The content of the degradation accelerator is from 0.1 to 20 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the degradable rubber. The content of the degradation inhibitor is from 0.1 to 3 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the degradable rubber.
US11059946B2
Provided is a glass fiber-reinforced resin molded article having high tensile strength and high impact strength in combination with a low dielectric constant and a low dissipation factor. The glass fiber-reinforced resin molded article contains: 10 to 90 mass % of a glass fiber; and 90 to 10 mass % of a resin based on the total amount of the glass fiber-reinforced resin molded article, wherein the glass fiber has composition containing: 52.0 to 57.0 mass % of SiO2; 13.0 to 17.0 mass % of Al2O3; 15.0 to 21.5 mass % of B2O3; 2.0 to 6.0 mass % of MgO; 2.0 to 6.0 mass % of CaO; 1.0 to 4.0 mass % of TiO2; and less than 1.5 mass % of F2, and the total amount of Li2O, Na2O, and K2O is less than 0.6 mass %, based on the total amount of the glass fiber, and the glass fiber has a number-average fiber length of 30 to 5000 μm.
US11059943B2
The present disclosure provides a core-shell nanocomposite material comprising an intrinsically conductive polymer (ICP) and surface-modified cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) as well as synthesis for preparing same and its use thereof in various applications.
US11059942B2
Biosuccinic acid, obtained via sugar fermentation, is cyclodimerized and oxidized to yield building blocks for aromatic polyesters with high glass transition temperatures.
US11059927B2
The present invention relates to a substituted styrene-based compound represented by Formula 1 (refer to the specification and the scope of the claims), a method of preparing the styrene-based compound, a modified polymer including a functional group derived from the substituted styrene-based compound, a method of preparing the modified polymer, a rubber composition including the modified polymer, and a molded article manufactured from the rubber composition.
US11059922B2
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a cross-linked polymer comprising reacting at least one polymer having at least one —SO2X group, with X being F or Cl, a basic compound, and certain salts including a ring-quaternized pyridinium-type nitrogen, and possessing at least two groups in ortho or para position thereto comprising reactive hydrogen atoms; cross-linking has been proven to proceed effectively, delivering cross-linked polymers possessing improved chemical resistance and mechanical performances.
US11059920B2
A method for producing a polydiene, the method comprising the step of: polymerizing conjugated diene monomer with a lanthanide-based catalyst system in the presence of a hydrocarbyloxysilane.
US11059912B2
A polymer production method whereby: a flow reactor comprising a flow path wherein a plurality of liquids can be mixed is used; and a monomer is anionically polymerized in the presence of an initiator. The flow reactor comprises a mixer for mixing two liquids, said mixer comprising either a joint member having a double pipe therein or a static mixer member.
US11059909B2
Provided herein are engineered antibodies that comprise a modified IgA heavy chain constant region, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of use. The engineered antibodies described herein comprise one or more amino acid substitution or deletion in a constant region of an IgA domain. Further provided herein are methods of treating disorders, including cancer, by administering an engineered IgA antibody described herein.
US11059897B2
Provided are antibodies or fragments thereof having binding specificity to the human interferon alpha and beta receptor subunit 1 (IFNAR1) protein. In various examples, the antibodies or fragments thereof include a VH and VL CDRs as provided, or variants thereof. Methods of using the antibodies or fragments thereof for treating autoimmune diseases and disorders are also provided.
US11059884B2
The present disclosure is directed to leukotoxin-binding antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof. The antibodies and fragments can be used, for example, to detect leukotoxin and/or in methods of treating and preventing Staphylococcus aureus infections.
US11059881B2
The inventors discovered that viscosity of a protein solution can be estimated by measuring the apparent particle size or apparent molecular weight by a small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) method or X-ray solution scattering method, which enables measurement of small amounts of samples, and then correlating those measurement results with viscosity of the protein solution.
US11059871B2
The present invention provides an isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising, or consisting of, the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 or a nucleic acid sequence of at least 300 bp having at least 80% identity to said sequence of SEQ ID NO:1, wherein said isolated nucleic acid molecule specifically leads to the expression in rod photoreceptors of a gene when operatively linked to a nucleic acid sequence coding for said gene.
US11059860B2
The invention discloses peptides having biocidal properties, more particularly antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral properties, and preparations based thereon. A biocidal peptide of general formula Y-Ile-Leu-Pro-X-Lys-X-Pro-X-X-Pro-X-Arg-Arg-NH2, where X is 4-nitrophenylalanine; 4-chlorophenylalanine; 4-methoxyphenylalanine; D-phenylalanine; 4-aminophenylalanine; 4-aminobenzoylphenylalanine; homophenylalanine; 4-tertbutylphenylalanine; 2-methylphenylalanine; 4-fluorophenyl alanine; pentafluorophenylalanine; or 2-trifluoromethylphenylalanine; and Y is H or palmitoyl or aminoundecanoyl, and a preparation in the form of a gel with biocidal properties, containing, as an active substance, the peptide at a concentration of 0.001 to 0.1 wt %. The peptides demonstrate biocidal properties towards bacteria, including spore-forming bacteria, mold fungi, and viruses. The peptide-based gels can be used for treating bacterial and viral infectious diseases and infectious comorbidities.
US11059854B2
The present invention falls within the field of pharmaceutical chemistry, and relates to a method for preparing a steroid derivative FXR agonist and relevant intermediates. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for preparing a compound of formula I, comprising reacting a compound of formula 8 with a compound of formula 9 to obtain a compound of formula 10, obtaining a compound of formula 11 from a reaction of the compound of formula 10, and obtaining the compound of formula I from a reaction of the compound of formula 11, as well as the intermediates used, the methods for preparing the intermediates and the use of the intermediates. The reaction conditions of the preparation method are mild, and some of the steps can convert multiple groups simultaneously, thereby effectively shortening the sequence of steps. The preparation method is suitable for industrialized production.
US11059853B2
Disclosed are a crystalline or amorphous form of steroid derivative FXR agonist (formula I), and a preparation method therefor, and a crystalline composition and pharmaceutical composition comprising the crystalline or amorphous form, and the use of same in the preparation of a drug for treating or preventing various conditions associated with FXR.
US11059852B2
The present invention provides ergostenol glycoside derivatives, method for preventing, treating, or alleviating dermatitis using the same. The present invention also provides a method for preparing the ergostenol and glycoside derivatives thereof. The ergostenol and the glycoside derivatives thereof according to the present invention suppress the production of chemokines increasing according to the skin inflammation stimulation and inhibit the activity of transcriptional factors controlling the expression of various inflammation mediators in the prevention and treatment of dermatitis.
US11059844B2
The present invention provides immune stimulating macrolides of formula (I), wherein the substituents are as defined in the claims. The macrolides have utility in treating viral diseases and cancer.
US11059831B2
Provided are sugar-based compounds, method so making such compounds, gels comprising such compounds, methods of making gels, methods of using such compounds for containing spill of a hydrocarbon, and methods for reclaiming solvent from gels comprising such compounds.
US11059829B2
In some embodiments, the invention relates to crystalline solid forms, including hydrates, polymorphs, and salt forms, of (S)-4-(8-amino-3-(1-(but-2-ynoyl)pyrrolidin-2-yl)imidazo[1,5-a]pyrazin-1-yl)-N-(pyridin-2-yl)benzamide. In some embodiments, the invention relates to amorphous solid forms of (S)-4-(8-amino-3-(1-(but-2-ynoyl)pyrrolidin-2-yl)imidazo[1,5-a]pyrazin-1-yl)-N-(pyridin-2-yl)benzamide. In some embodiments, the invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing the solid forms, and methods for treating conditions or disorders by administering to a subject a pharmaceutical composition that includes the forms, including pharmaceutical compositions and methods for overcoming the effects of acid reducing agents.
US11059822B2
Provided herein are spirocyclic and fused bicyclic carbamates and pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds. The subject compounds and compositions are useful as modulators of MAGL. Furthermore, the subject compounds and compositions are useful for the treatment of pain.
US11059821B2
The present invention relates to substituted pyrrolopyridinones and substituted pyrazolopyridinones which are inhibitors of BET proteins such as BRD2, BRD3, BRD4, and BRD-t and are useful in the treatment of diseases such as cancer.
US11059803B2
The present invention relates to crystalline forms of N-[1-(5-cyano-pyridin-2-ylmethyl)-1H-pyrazol-3-yl]-2-[4-(1-trifluoromethyl-cyclopropyl)-phenyl]-acetamide, pharmaceutical compositions comprising said crystalline forms and their use as T-type calcium channel blockers in the treatment or prevention of diseases or disorders where T-type calcium channels are involved.
US11059793B2
A process for the purification of a melamine melt (5) containing melamine and by-products, comprising the steps of: (a1) quenching of said melamine melt; (a2) decomposition of by-products with alkali, providing an alkaline aqueous solution of melamine (26); (b) stripping of said alkaline aqueous solution of melamine (26); (c) crystallization of melamine with a first alkali-containing solution (6b) and separation of solid melamine (7) from a mother liquor (8); (d) treatment of said mother liquor, providing a waste water stream (11) containing carbonates; (e) decomposition of at least part of the carbonates contained in said waste water stream (11) into carbon dioxide and alkali, providing a second alkali-containing aqueous solution (30); (f) recycle of at least part of said alkali-containing aqueous solution (30) to at least one of said steps (a1), (a2) and (c).
US11059792B2
Disclosed herein are compounds of the formula: (I), wherein the variables are defined herein. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions thereof. In some aspects, the compounds and compositions provided herein may be used as antioxidant inflammation modulators. In some aspects, the present disclosure provides methods wherein the compounds and composition described herein are used for the treatment of diseases and disorders associated with inflammation and cancer.
US11059790B2
The present disclosure relates to a compound that has biocidal activity or is a precursor of a compound with biocidal activity. The compound comprises an N-halamine precursor, at least one quaternary ammonium and at least one coating-incorporation group (CIG). In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the compound may be incorporated into a coating formulation. The coating formulation comprises the compound and at least one further component. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the CIG reacts with the further component of the coating formulation to incorporate the compound into the coating formulation. In some embodiments, the coating formulation comprises a polymer. In some embodiments, the CIG of the compound reacts with the further component to incorporate the compound into the polymer of the coating formulation. The coating formulation may be used to coat a substrate. The coated substrate may demonstrate biocidal activity or the potential for increased biocidal activity.
US11059784B2
Disclosed are compounds of Formula (I): (I) or a salt thereof, wherein: X is CH or N; Y is CH or N; R1 is —OH or —OP(O)(OH)2; L is —CR3═N—O—CRaRa— or CRaR—O—N═CR3; L2 is a bond, —C(O)—, or S(O)2—; and R2, R3, Ra, m, and n are defined herein. Also disclosed are methods of using such compounds as selective agonists for G protein coupled receptor S1P1, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds. These compounds are useful in treating, preventing, or slowing the progression of diseases or disorders in a variety of therapeutic areas, such as autoimmune diseases and vascular disease.
US11059781B2
A compound is represented by a formula (1) below, in which k is an integer of 0 or more, m is an integer of 1 or more, n is an integer of 2 or more. L is a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon ring having 6 to 30 ring carbon atoms, CN is a cyano group, and D1 and D2 are each independently represented by one of a formula (2), a formula (3) and formula (3x) below, D1 and D2 being optionally mutually the same or different.
US11059769B2
The disclosure provides methods and apparatus for producing 3-hydroxypropionic acid or a salt thereof, for removing 3-hydroxypropionic acid from aqueous solution (e.g., aqueous broth), and for using it to make various chemicals.
US11059761B2
Decomposing waste material may use a no-turn, aerobic composting apparatus that includes an enclosure for containing waste material and a fluid distribution system including a fluid injection member removably disposable in waste material disposed in the enclosure. The fluid injection member includes a plurality of spaced apertures for injecting fluid into the waste material.
US11059758B2
A method for producing a co-polymer of fulvic acid and poly-metallic humates (CPFAPH) including performing a decomposition reaction via electrolysis of an initial water substratum to produce an end product comprising hydrolyzates; and performing a polymerization of the hydrozylates.
US11059752B2
A sintered concrete having the following mean chemical composition, as mass percentages on the basis of the oxides and for a total of 100%; ZrO2: 55 to 70%, SiO2: 25 to 40%, P2O5: 0.2 to 9.0%, Al2O3: 0.5 to 7.0%, CaO: >0.2%, CaO+MgO+B2O3+Fe2O3: 0.2 to 10.0%, MgO+B2O3+Fe2O3; ≤7.5%, B2O3+MgO: ≤4.5%, ZrO2+SiO2+P2O5+Al2O3+CaO+MgO+B2O3+Fe2O3: ≥95.0%, and containing more than 70% of zircon, as a mass percentage on the basis of the mass of the crystalline phases.
US11059750B2
Processes of forming or repairing a structure for use in high temperature applications may include intermixing a sodium nitrite (NaNO2) additive with a refractory material; and applying the refractory material to a structure surface.
US11059747B2
A light diffusing optical fiber includes a glass core, a cladding, a phosphor layer surrounding the cladding, and a plurality of scattering structures positioned within the glass core, the cladding, or both. The phosphor layer includes two or more phosphors and is configured to convert guided light diffusing through the phosphor layer into emission light such that the color of the emission light has a chromaticity within a u′-v′ chromaticity region on a CIE 1976 chromaticity space defined by: a first u′-v′ boundary line and a second u′-v′ boundary line that extend parallel to a planckian locus at a distance of ±0.02 Duv from the planckian locus, a third u′-v′ boundary line that extends along an isothermal line for a correlated color temperature of about 2000 K, and a fourth u′-v′ boundary line that extends along an isothermal line for a correlated color temperature of about 10000 K.
US11059744B2
Chemically strengthened glass articles exhibiting superior resistance to damage when dropped onto an abrasive surface. The strengthened glass article has a stress profile in which the compressive and tensile stresses within the article vary as a function of the thickness t of the glass article. The stress profile has a first region extending from the surface of the glass article to a depth d1 into the glass, wherein d1≤0.025t or ≤20 μm and has a maximum compressive stress of at least about 280 MPa at the surface, a second region extending from a depth of at least d1 to a second depth d2 and having a local compressive stress maximum, and a third region extending from a third depth d3 in the glass to a depth of compression DOC, wherein d2≤d3 and DOC≤0.15t. A method of strengthening a glass article to provide resistance to damage when dropped is also provided.
US11059741B2
Disclosed herein are graphene coatings characterized by a porous, three-dimensional, spherical structure having a hollow core, along with methods for forming such graphene coatings on glasses, glass-ceramics, ceramics, and crystalline materials. Such coatings can be further coated with organic or inorganic layers and are useful in chemical and electronic applications.
US11059737B2
A method for manufacturing a multicore optical fiber includes a step of forming ring-shaped closed-end holes to axially extend from a first end toward a second end of a glass rod; a step of heating bottom parts of the ring-shaped closed-end holes and softening center rods surrounded by the ring-shaped closed-end holes; a step of pulling out the center rods toward a side of the first end, forming columnar closed-end holes from the ring-shaped closed-end holes, and treating the glass rod as a cladding material; a connecting step of connecting a supporting pipe to the first end; an inserting step of inserting core rods into the columnar closed-end holes after the connecting step; and a drawing step of drawing the cladding material and the core rods while heating a portion near the second end and integrating the cladding material and the core rods after the inserting step.
US11059733B2
A vermicomposting system for treating waste water streams that includes a pretreatment stage for converting liquid or semi-liquid organic waste streams into a feedstock for vermicomposting; a vermicomposting digestion stage having populations of worms and beneficial bacteria which consume and break down organic material and nutrients present in the feedstock from the pretreatment stage to create worm castings, vermicompost, and a liquid compost tea that contains plant nutrients, plant growth promoting substances, and beneficial bacteria; and a post-treatment stage in which the liquid compost tea is removed for use as an soil amendment or inoculant, or is further treated in a separate containment tank where nutrients and oxygen levels are controlled to increase specific bacterial and fungal populations.
US11059727B2
A fluid treatment tank for an aeration filter has an air blocker separating a chamber in fluid communication with a control valve of the filter from a pocket of air above the liquid in the tank and the control valve. The air blocker contains a volume of liquid that acts as a trap that prevents or at least inhibits air in the pocket from backing up into the chamber. Contact between the control valve and air is dramatically reduced. The air blocker may comprise a baffle that directs any air flowing through the air blocker downwardly and then back upwardly before the air can escape the air blocker.
US11059724B2
The present application relates to a porous material and preparation methods thereof, and anodes and devices including the same. The porous material provided by the present application includes a material of the formula SiaMbOx, wherein the ratio of x to a is about 0.6 to about 1.5, and the ratio of a to b is about 8 to about 10,000, wherein M includes at least one selected from the group consisting of Al, Si, P, Mg, Ti and Zr. The anode and an electrochemical device including the porous material exhibit higher rate performance, higher first coulombic efficiency, higher cycle stability and lower cycle expansion ratio.
US11059722B2
The present invention relates to a method for the manufacture of cyclododecasulfur, a cyclic sulfur allotrope wherein the number of sulfur (S) atoms in the allotrope's homocyclic ring is 12. The method includes reacting a metallasulfur derivative with an oxidizing agent in a reaction zone to form a cyclododecasulfur-containing reaction mixture.
US11059714B2
Method and apparatus for autonomously fueling machinery operating at fracking sites. Apparatus includes a main tank with a plurality of fuel lines individually coupled to the fuel tank. Pumps are connected to some of the fuel lines. Pump outputs are coupled to hoses extending to the machinery tanks to be refueled. The apparatus further includes a cap detachably connected to the hoses and machinery tanks. The fuel tank includes an intake filter capable of blocking approximately 10 micron contaminants with about 250 gallon per minute flow. The methodology of the present invention includes measuring the duration of machinery tank fuelings and the interval between fuelings. A first alarm is generated if the duration of fuelings is longer than a first interval. A second alarm is generated if the interval between fuelings is longer than a second interval.
US11059701B2
Climber motors are a form of temporary winch that can be used before a permanent elevator drive system is installed at the top of a hoistway. A mount to be employed with such a climber motor may include a frame having a base, a lower portion, and an upper portion. The upper portion may support a lower plate, which lower plate supports sleeves, which sleeves in turn support an upper plate. The frame and the climber motor may be positioned within an elevator cab such that the sleeves extend upwards through apertures in a canopy of the elevator cab. Once the upper plate is positioned between the sleeves and a crosshead above the elevator cab, the climber motor may be engaged to cause the sleeves to exert an upward force on the crosshead and thereby lift the elevator cab in the hoistway.
US11059698B2
An elevator safety gear assembly for an elevator system comprises a first engagement member; a second engagement member; and a connector mechanically connecting the first and second engagement members with each other. The first and second engagement members are arranged opposite to each other defining a gap which is configured for accommodating a guide member extending in a longitudinal direction. At least one of the engagement members is movable in a direction which is inclined with respect to the longitudinal direction. The first engagement member is pivotably coupled to the connector by means of a first joint, and the second engagement member is pivotably coupled to the connector by means of a second joint. At least one of the joints is movable along the connector for changing the distance between the first and second joints.
US11059690B2
An automated method and system for stacking and loading wrapped or unwrapped facemasks into a carton in a facemask production line includes conveying individual wrapped facemasks in a continuous stream to a stacking location. At the stacking location, the facemasks are deposited into a vertical accumulator such that the facemasks are stacked in the accumulator. Upon reaching a predetermined fill level of facemasks in the accumulator, a bottom retainer in the accumulator is opened such that the stacked facemasks drop into a carton placed below the accumulator. Upon opening the bottom retainer, a mid-level retainer is actuated in the accumulator that captures facemasks that continue to be deposited into the accumulator at an intermediate height above the bottom retainer. The bottom retainer is closed after the stacked facemasks drop into the carton, and the mid-level retainer is then opened such that the facemasks captured by the mid-level retainer drop onto the bottom retainer.
US11059681B2
Systems and methods for tracking carriers and other critical path items are provided. The systems and methods comprise structure and functionality to allow for the real-time tracking of pneumatic tube smart carriers and other devices including the use of an IoT capable device, a computer, and an IoT access point. The present disclosure also provides monitoring and analytics capabilities to allow for complex information to be tracked. Such information includes, but is not limited to carrier velocity, air flow, and latch status of the carrier's door.
US11059674B2
A method for sequencing loads in an automated load-distribution system having k sources with k≥2; at least one destination; k FIFO-type source buffer devices, each receiving loads from one of the k sources; a collector collecting the loads coming from the k source buffer devices and transporting them to the at least one destination. The collector has k successive nodes each collecting the loads coming from one of the source buffer devices. The control system processes customer orders listing loads for a given destination and being associated with a sequential order number of destination. The control system: builds a collection list containing n loads to be collected and reducing a disorder of the n loads relative to a rising order of the sequential order numbers of destination; and controlling the collector and the source buffer devices to collect loads on the collector in compliance with the collection list.
US11059669B2
Locking roller assemblies for locking and unlocking a roller of a roller conveyor. The disclosed locking roller assemblies include rollers that, by default, are locked from rotation in the absence of a transferred object such as a container, crate, or pallet. When an object is present over the roller, the roller is passively actuated by the object to unlock and release the roller, enabling the roller to rotate. When the package or article has passed by the roller, the locking roller assembly resumes the default configuration of locking the roller to prevent rotation. In some embodiments, actuation of the locking mechanism is parallel to the roller axis and accomplished by a lever and cam arrangement. In other embodiments, actuation of the locking mechanism is in a direction that is orthogonal to the roller axis and accomplished by a plunger arrangement.
US11059666B2
A holding container includes a plurality of pre-formed, releasably interlocking, load-bearing panels configured to form an at least partially curved, load-bearing wall extending around the perimeter of at least one storage area capable of containing at least 100,000 gallons of liquids, solids or a combination thereof. At least one among the width and length of each panel is less than 102 inches in a non-load-bearing state.
US11059665B2
An article manufactured in a mould and which comprises a structural composite of plastics layers, the article having a wall defining an internal space for holding contents therein; wherein, the wall is formed from at least two layers of plastics materials; wherein a first of said layers comprises a thermoplastics material and at least a second layer comprises a thermosetting resin and a fibrous layer.
US11059657B2
An assembly comprises a container, a primary container cover, and a secondary flip up cover. The primary container cover comprises a two-shot injection molded component and includes an integrally-formed seal. The integrally-formed seal is designed to reduce or eliminate evaporation occurring between the container and the primary cover. The integrally-formed seal is further designed to reduce or eliminate evaporation occurring between the primary cover and the secondary flip up cover.
US11059654B1
Provided is a fluid dispense pump comprising a pump housing and a cartridge body positioned along an axis. The cartridge body comprises a chamber and a feed aperture extending through a surface of the cartridge body to the chamber. A fluid shaft extends through the cartridge body along the axis. The fluid shaft has an inlet port positioned in the chamber of the cartridge body. One of the cartridge body and the fluid shaft is attached to the pump housing and is fixed relative to the pump housing. The other of the cartridge body and the fluid shaft moves relative to the one of the cartridge body and the fluid shaft to change a position of the inlet port relative to the feed aperture during a dispensing operation.
US11059650B2
A packaging bag composed of a multilayer film and having a steam releasing mechanism. The multilayer film has at least a base layer and a welding layer and has a moisture content of not more than 1.0% in a state in which the packaging bag is filled with a content. The steam releasing mechanism has at least a steam releasing portion formed to have a maximal width of 3 to 20 mm. The internal pressure of the packaging bag is kept to be not more than 115 kPa during a period from the time the internal pressure is released through the steam releasing portion as a result of an increase in the internal pressure caused by heating in a microwave oven to the time the heating in the microwave oven finishes.
US11059644B2
Tabbed sealing members with a robust tab structure having additional support under the tab and at a tab pivot or hinge joint.
US11059643B2
A plastic foil molded part for a blister, in particular a tablet blister, comprises a transparent carrier substrate having a semitransparent function layer. The semitransparent function layer is constituted such that the plastic foil molded part has a first, visually recognizable color upon viewing in incident light and has a second, visually recognizable color upon viewing in transmitted light.
US11059641B2
A dispenser has a bottle (2) and a closure (3) for the bottle (2). The closure (3) has abase (4) forming a dispensing outlet (6) and a flip-cap for openably closing the dispensing outlet (6). The base (4) is attached on the bottle (2). The dispenser (1) further having a hinge (7) which interconnects the flip-cap and the base (4) for swiveling the flip-cap relative to the base (4) between a closed position, in which the flip-cap closes the outlet (6), and an open position in which the outlet (6) is open. The hinge (7) forms a swivel axis. The closure (3) forms a first end (18, 19) in a direction toward the flip-cap and a second end (18, 19) in a direction toward the base (4). The closure (3) in an area between the hinge-level plane and the second end (18, 19) forms an outer surface circumferentially around the longitudinal axis which is at least partly provided by an outer surface of the base (4) and an outer surface of the flip-cap.
US11059640B2
A package for shipping a product ordered via the Internet. The package comprising a container body, an inner label, a closure, an outer label removably attached to and covering all or part of the inner label, and a shipping label adhered to the outer label.
US11059638B2
A container has an at least partially filled container body and at least one cap part (10). The cap part has at least one sealing part (16) that, for removal of the container contents, can be penetrated by a hollow-spike-shaped insertion part (22) from the outside, with a predeterminable actuating force, in an introduction direction. The insertion part can be removed from the container again, with a predeterminable pull-out force, in an oppositely directed pull-out direction. A device (16, 18) makes it difficult for the insertion part (22) to be removed with the pull-out force being increased such that unintentional removal of the insertion part (22) is at least made difficult.
US11059633B2
A flip-top closure includes a spout, a lid, and a hinge member. The spout is configured for coupling with a fitment of a container. The spout includes a base portion, a tip portion, and a main body. The base portion defines a retention receptacle and an inlet. The inlet includes a first diameter. The tip portion extends from the base portion and defines a dispensation outlet. The base portion and the tip portion cooperate to define a passageway that extends between the inlet and the dispensation outlet. The lid includes a main body that includes an upper wall and a sidewall that cooperate to define an interior. The hinge member is coupled with each of the spout and the sidewall of the main body. The hinge member is configured to facilitate pivoting of the lid between a closed position and an opened position.
US11059622B2
A bulk material shipping container including a pallet, a compartment mounted on the pallet, a material unloading assembly, and a material loading assembly.
US11059620B2
The invention is a bottle or container for a beverage, which is configured with an upper and lower compartment connected by a waist portion that defines a passage therebetween. Through the use of an appropriately configured freezing shelf, the beverage held in the lower compartment can be frozen at point of sale. The bottle is specifically configured to, upon activation, create a pinch point between the waist portion of the bottle and the punt of the lower compartment. This pinch point is achieved through controlled deformation of part of the lower compartment and/or waist portion of the bottle and effectively seals the lower compartment, and its contents, from the upper compartment, or at the very least significantly restricts the passage between the two compartments. Convection circulation between the two compartments is prevented or at least hindered. The isolation of the lower compartment from the upper compartment by virtue of the pinch point may leads to quicker crystallization and ice formation. The invention is advantageous it means that the beverage contained in the upper compartment can be held at a higher temperature and thus is easier to consume at the time of purchase and allowing some time for the beverage in the lower compartment to melt and in due course become consumable.
US11059618B2
An apparatus for emptying a container including a body unit, a container platform, a cutting blade, and a hold-down assembly. The body unit at least partially defines a chamber, and the container platform is configured to support a container. The cutting blade is movable between a retracted position and an extended position. The cutting blade is located within the chamber when in the extended position. The cutting blade is configured to puncture a container positioned on the container platform as the cutting blade goes from the retracted position to the extended position. The hold-down assembly is configured to secure a container positioned on the container platform. The hold-down assembly is oriented such that a bracket and a shaft of the hold-down assembly are fixed relative to the body unit when an adjustable strut of the hold-down assembly is in a locked strut configuration.
US11059612B2
The present disclosure is directed to the packaging of metal thin films deposited on polymeric substrates. The packaging method prevents deleterious change of surface energy/water contact angle as a function of time for metal thin films such as rolls, coils, sheets or strips of sputtered or vacuum deposited metal thin films. Methods and kits directed toward a unique packaging and storage scheme are also disclosed. This results in maintenance of the metal film's hydrophilicity and surface energy for extended periods of time.
US11059608B2
Various embodiments of space launch vehicle systems and associated methods of manufacture and use are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the systems include a reusable, horizontal takeoff/horizontal landing (HTHL), ground-assisted single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) spaceplane that is capable of providing frequent deliveries of people and/or cargo to Low Earth Orbit (LEO). In some embodiments, the spaceplane can takeoff with the aid of a rocket-powered sled that, in addition to providing additional thrust for takeoff, can also provide propellant for the spaceplane engines during the takeoff run so that the spaceplane launches with full propellant tanks.
US11059607B2
The invention relates to a navigation satellite (10, 10′, 10″), in particular for a medium earth orbit (MEO), having a housing (12) and a navigation antenna (16) connected to the housing (12) for emission of navigation signals in a preferred direction. Furthermore, the navigation satellite (10, 10′, 10″) has an optical communication system (22) for unidirectional or bidirectional signalling having at least one other satellite advancing in the direction of movement and/or having at least one other satellite following in the direction of movement. The navigation satellite (10, 10′, 10″) has a holder (for example as navigation antenna), which is arranged rotatably on the housing (12) about an axis of rotation (17), the optical communication system being (22) arranged on the holder.
US11059601B2
A water and lighting display that includes an unmanned aerial system (UAS) is disclosed. The UASs may illuminate water shot out of the water fountains, may fly in formation or may include removable payloads.
US11059584B1
This application relates to a method for detecting chemical pollution cloud which is performed by an unmanned aerial vehicle comprising. In one aspect, the method includes receiving, from a control device for controlling the unmanned aerial vehicle, a control signal and generating a status signal indicating a state of the unmanned aerial vehicle. The method also includes determining an operation mode for detecting the chemical pollution cloud based on the control signal and the status signal. The method further includes detecting the chemical pollution cloud based on a pre-learned autonomous algorithm without the control of the control device when the determined operation mode is an automatic detection mode for detecting the chemical pollution cloud without control of the control device.
US11059576B2
An aerial vehicle is provided including rotor units connected to the aerial vehicle, and a control system configured to operate at least one of the rotor units. The rotor unit includes rotor blades, wherein each rotor blade includes a surface area, and wherein an asymmetric parameter is defined, at least in part, by the relationship between the surface areas of the rotor blades. The value of the asymmetric parameter is selected such that the operation of the rotor unit: (i) moves the rotor blades such that each rotor blade produces a respective vortex and (ii) the respective vortices cause the rotor unit to produce a sound output having an energy distribution defined, at least in part, by a set of frequencies, wherein the set of frequencies includes a fundamental frequency, one or more harmonic frequencies, and one or more non-harmonic frequencies having a respective strength greater than a threshold strength.
US11059572B2
An aircraft landing gear 2 is disclosed having a first arm 6a configured to have one or more wheels 8a mounted at one end, the first arm 6a being configured for mounting to a pivot 10a. The landing gear 2 includes a second arm 6b configured to have one or more wheels 8b mounted at one end, the second arm 6b being configured for mounting to a pivot 10b. The landing gear 2 further includes a first link 18a pivotally coupled to the first arm 6a, a second link 18b pivotally coupled to the second arm 6b; and a main link 20 pivotally coupled to each of the first and second links 18a, 18b and to a shock absorber 22 arranged to provide a biasing force via (i) the main linkage 20 and the first link 18a which opposes rotation of the first arm 6a about the pivot 10a and (ii) the main linkage 20 and the second link 18b which opposes rotation of the second arm 6b about the pivot 10b.
US11059567B2
A method for controlling an aircraft propeller is provided that comprises obtaining a measurement of a speed of the propeller, comparing the propeller speed to a first threshold, responsive to determining that the propeller speed exceeds the speed threshold, outputting a valve control signal for opening a two-position solenoid valve coupled to the propeller, the two-position solenoid valve configured for controlling fluid flow to and from the propeller to control propeller blade angle, computing a rate of change of the propeller speed, comparing the rate of change of the propeller speed to a second threshold, and responsive to determining that the rate of change of the propeller speed is below the second threshold, outputting the valve control signal for closing the two-position solenoid valve. A system for controlling an aircraft propeller and an aircraft propeller control assembly are also provided.
US11059565B2
Airflow-dependent deployable fences for aircraft wings are described. An example apparatus includes a fence coupled to a wing of an aircraft. The fence is movable relative to the wing between a stowed position in which a panel of the fence extends along a skin of the wing, and a deployed position in which the panel extends at an upward angle away from the skin. The panel is configured to impede a spanwise airflow along the wing when the fence is in the deployed position. The fence is configured to move from the stowed position to the deployed position in response to an aerodynamic force exerted on a deployment vane of the fence.
US11059558B2
A marine vessel control system comprises a propulsion unit and a steering actuator for steering the propulsion unit. There is a shift actuator for shifting gears in the propulsion unit and a throttle actuator for increasing or decreasing throttle to the propulsion unit. There is an input device for providing user inputted steering commands to the steering actuator and for providing user inputted shift and throttle commands to the shift actuator and the throttle actuator. There is a sensor for detecting a global position and a heading direction of the marine vessel. A controller receives position and heading values of the marine vessel from the sensor. The controller compares the received position value to a pre-programmed position value to determine a position error difference. The controller also compares the received heading value to a pre-programmed heading value to determine a heading error difference.
US11059555B2
A mounting assembly for improved latching of a watercraft trolling motor that includes a shaft assembly. The mounting assembly includes a pivot joint configured to be fixed relative to the watercraft. The mounting assembly further includes a swinging bracket assembly having: (a) a swinging bracket having a first end, a second end and a length, the first end being configured for attachment to the shaft assembly and the second end being rotatably attached to the pivot joint; and (b) a latch pin assembly including an elastic element and a latch pin mounted to the swinging bracket. The mounting assembly still further includes a stationary bracket configured to be fixed relative to the watercraft and having a protuberance and a sloped surface receiving the latch pin. Inadvertent removal of the latch pin from a sliding, latched relationship with the sloped surface is obstructed by the protuberance.
US11059549B2
A marine vessel includes a hull including a cabin, an imager that images a field-of-view shielded region, which is a region in which a marine vessel operator's field of view is obstructed when the marine vessel operator located on an operation seat provided inside the cabin looks around an outside of the marine vessel in a horizontal direction, and a display provided at a position visible from the operation seat and that displays a field-of-view complement image, which is an image of the field-of-view shielded region captured by the imager.
US11059548B2
A watercraft light adapted to fit in a rub rail is provided. The watercraft light longitudinally extends in a portion of the rub rail and provides light to the exterior of the watercraft. A watercraft light system and method of installing the watercraft light are also presently disclosed.
US11059544B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to apparatus for semi-submersibles, including hulls of semi-submersibles. In one implementation, a hull for a semi-submersible includes a pontoon having one or more sides, and a plurality of columns extending upwards from the pontoon and configured to support a topsides. Each one of the plurality of columns has a cross section that is in a plane perpendicular to an axial centerline of the respective one of the plurality of columns. The cross section includes a first portion being rectangular in shape and a second portion being triangular in shape and having an apex that extends inboard from the first portion.
US11059540B2
A foldable bicycle is disclosed herein which can be unlocked to fold. It comprises a main frame having a first connecting rod and a second connecting rod, a first folding joint between the first connecting rod and the second connecting rod and having a first outer shell, a second outer shell, an engaging unit, an elastic member, a press button and a cam locking member, a front wheel rack connected to a front end of the first connecting rod, a front wheel connected to the front wheel rack, and a rear wheel connected to a rear end of the second connecting rod.
US11059536B2
A conveying apparatus includes an outer casing for disposing the conveying apparatus on a traveling structure, a storage case that is disposed inside the outer casing and that allows a stored article to be placed therein and removed therefrom from above, a plurality of stretchable elastic members that are spaced apart from each other in a crosswise direction and each of which includes a bridging portion that bridges between front and rear ends of the outer casing in a traveling direction of the traveling structure, and a plurality of suspension devices that are spaced apart from each other at least in a fore-aft direction and each of which includes an upper end assuming a supported portion that is supported slidably on the elastic member and a lower end assuming a supporting portion that supports the storage case.
US11059531B2
A magnetic roller for being rotatable on a ferromagnetic surface is provided. The magnetic roller includes a roller wheel having an inner space, a magnetic array arrangement and at least one first drive mechanism. Further, the magnetic array arrangement is adapted to be swivelably disposed within the inner space of the roller wheel. The magnetic array arrangement includes a strong adhesion force side and a weak adhesion force side. Furthermore, the first drive mechanism is configured to swivelably drive the magnetic array arrangement. The first drive mechanism swivelably drive the magnetic array arrangement to direct the strong adhesion force side towards the oncoming ferromagnetic surface, and, to direct the weak adhesion force side towards the foregoing ferromagnetic surface to enable the roller wheel to move forward on the ferromagnetic surface.
US11059526B2
A corner module (30, 32), including a first part adapted, in use, to join at an end of a first elongate and hinged gate of a utility vehicle tray, a second part adapted, in use, to join at an end of a second elongate and hinged gate of the utility vehicle tray, and a releasable gate securing apparatus including complementary engagement sections in the first part and in the second part, such that, in use, when the first and second gates are moved towards a closed position, the gates define a corner, and the releasable gate securing apparatus sections are enabled to engage to releasably retain the first and second parts in the closed position, wherein at least one of the first part and the second part has an outer face external to the corner in the closed position, wherein the outer face is curved, and wherein the defined corner is curved.
US11059523B2
An adjustable datum pin assembly for temporarily affixing a bumper cover, fender, side panel, roof spoiler, or the like (i.e., a vehicle component) to an associated vehicle structure, the adjustable datum pin assembly including: a fixed lower portion adapted to be coupled to the associated vehicle structure; a translatable upper portion translatably coupled to the fixed lower portion, wherein the translatable upper portion includes an attachment structure adapted to be coupled to the bumper cover, fender, side panel, roof spoiler, or the like; and a friction mechanism disposed between the translatable upper portion and the fixed lower portion adapted to resist translation of the translatable upper portion with respect to the fixed lower portion.
US11059517B2
A driving assistance method for a vehicle, in which in a training phase, the vehicle is steered by a driver through a setpoint course to a setpoint destination position, and setpoint course data are gathered in the process, in a replay phase, the vehicle is steered automatically through an actual course, actual course data are gathered in the process and, via a comparison of actual course data to setpoint course data, the steering of the vehicle is carried out so that the actual course is adapted/being adapted to the setpoint course and ends in an area of the setpoint destination position; and images of the vehicle surroundings are recorded with a camera as setpoint course data at setpoint positions, spaced equidistantly on a setpoint driving route of the setpoint course, and edge segments, feature points and corresponding descriptors are determined from an image processing for each image.
US11059516B2
Provided is a steering control apparatus capable of performing adjustment so as to suppress deterioration in a steering feel that is caused by a twist of a torsion bar. A torsional stiffness control circuit includes a torsion angle calculation circuit, a gain calculation circuit, multiplication circuits, and an addition circuit. The torsion angle calculation circuit calculates a torsion angle based on a steering torque. The gain calculation circuit calculates a gain having a positive or negative value based on a value obtained by multiplying the steering torque and a steering speed together by the multiplication circuit. The multiplication circuit calculates a compensation amount by multiplying the torsion angle and the gain together. The addition circuit calculates a target pinion angle having a compensated phase by adding the compensation amount to a target steering angle.
US11059514B2
An input torque fundamental component computation circuit includes: a torque command value computation circuit that computes a torque command value corresponding to a target value for steering torque that is to be input by a driver for drive torque obtained by adding the steering torque to an input torque fundamental component; and a torque F/B control circuit that computes the input torque fundamental component through execution of torque feedback control for causing the steering torque to follow the torque command value. A target steering angle computation circuit computes a target steering angle on the basis of the input torque fundamental component. A steering-side control circuit computes target reaction force torque on the basis of execution of angle feedback control for causing a steering angle to follow a target steering angle. The torque command value computation circuit computes the torque command value in consideration of the grip state amount.
US11059513B2
A steering column for a motor vehicle includes a steering shaft rotatably mounted in a steering column housing about a longitudinal axis, and a rotation limiter. The rotation limiter has a stop disk which is connected to the steering shaft to transmit torque. The stop disk includes at least one recess extending in the circumferential direction, such that the steering shaft is coupled to a lifting mechanism, with a stop pin, which is mounted displaceably in the direction of the longitudinal axis and non-displaceably in the circumferential direction and engages with the recess depending on the rotational angle of the steering shaft such that, when the permitted rotational angle of the steering shaft is reached, the stop pin strikes against a boundary of the recess, the boundary lying in the circumferential direction, and prevents further rotation in the same direction of rotation.
US11059512B2
An adjustable steering column may include an actuating unit, a carrying unit, a transmission device, an energy absorption apparatus, and a coupling device. The coupling device may be disconnected from the actuating unit and/or the transmission device in a crash event, which enables movement between the actuating unit and the transmission device. The coupling device includes a pin-shaped holding element with a head, which holding element is fixed in a counterholder. An element that is connected fixedly to the transmission device or the actuating unit may be arranged between the counterholder and the head. A second thickness of all the elements arranged between the counterholder and the head may be smaller, in the case of a movement of the actuating unit relative to the transmission device, than a first thickness of all the elements in the case where the actuating unit is fixed relative to the transmission device.
US11059506B2
Physical shopping carts can have product detection systems and associate physical shopping carts with mobile computing devices (e.g., smartphones, tablet computing devices, smart watches, wearable computing devices). For example, physical shopping carts can be equipped with one or more product detection systems (e.g., scanners, sensors, cameras) that can electronically tally products that are placed in physical shopping carts. Mobile computing devices can be associated with and mounted on the physical shopping carts to provide a variety of enhanced shopping cart features not possible with conventional physical shopping carts, such as electronically tracking the contents of a shopping cart, checking-out from the mobile computing device (instead of at conventional check-out areas, such as point of sale terminals), and others.
US11059502B1
An impact detection tower is disclosed that can facilitate a reliable method of avalanche detection, related to the maintenance and monitoring a railway system. The avalanche detection system can include a plurality of impact detection towers comprising sensors in operable communication with a gateway configured to utilize data transmitted from the sensors to determine if an avalanche has occurred. The gateway can be in operable connection with a human-machine interface to facilitate monitoring of the system by a railroad engineer.
US11059501B2
Linkage device for a couplings of railway vehicles, the coupling head of which is connected to a drawbar linked to a steering pivot of the railway vehicle, which drawbar is provided with spring elements sitting on it in order to dampen compressive and tensile force that arise, e.g., when coupling the railway vehicle. The spring elements are fastened to a plate that can be rotated about an axis of rotation of the steering pivot. In this way, they are also deflected when the coupling is deflected so that the compressive and tensile forces acting on the latter also act upon its entire surface evenly, even when the coupling is deflected. The linkage device is also provided with overload protection.
US11059500B2
An elevated guideway performing the function of supporting, guiding and propelling pneumatic transport vehicles for passengers and loads. The two-part elevated guideway is formed by two components, each corresponding to one side of the cross section, divided by a vertical axis passing through the center of the slot. Components are not symmetrical, the left hand component having a wider top table. Components are joined through a niche already present at the lower slabs which is filled with a structural resin. Niche for joining the two-part elevated guideway has a central type female-female fitting. The elevated guideway includes guideway guards, two additions for installing the propulsion duct slot seal, tubes for the electric power supply and telecommunication and control cables, the protective railing for protection in the side emergency gangway, the unit for securing the rail via the web thereof, rails and the third and fourth electric power supply rails of the vehicle. The two-part elevated guideway may have, combined on the same beam of the propulsion duct, a secondary propulsion duct, thereby forming a single, non-separable structure.
US11059485B2
A method and an apparatus for lane selection are provided. In the disclosed method that is implemented by the apparatus, a decision model used for a lane change selection is obtained based on a first model configured to decide a junction lane change and a second model configured to decide a travelling speed. In addition, travelling information of a target vehicle and target information related to the target vehicle is acquired in real time. The target information is configured to represent travelling information of one or more vehicles around the target vehicle. A target lane is subsequently defined based on the decision model, the target information related to the target vehicle and the travelling information of the target vehicle that is acquired in real time.
US11059484B2
A driving assistance device includes: a vehicle group search unit that acquires a most frequent vehicle speed of the vehicle and to search for one or more vehicle group, the most frequent vehicle speed being a vehicle speed that is most frequent, the vehicle group traveling at one of the most frequent vehicle speed and a speed close to the most frequent vehicle speed; a distance information generation unit that generates the vehicle group searched for by the vehicle group search unit and distance information on a distance between the vehicle group and an information-receiving vehicle that has sent the most frequent vehicle speed; and a merging assistance unit that sends the distance information generated by the distance information generation unit to a user terminal device and assists the vehicle in merging into one of the vehicle groups searched for by the vehicle group search unit.
US11059480B2
A propulsion and collision avoidance system is associated with a machine operating on the ground, and is configured to determine whether a collision will occur based upon the pose and movement of the machine and the pose of the obstacle. The slope of a straight line between the machine and the obstacle is determined based upon the pose of the machine and the pose of the obstacle, and the slope of the straight line is compared to a slope threshold. A collision alert is generated after determining that a collision will occur and when the slope of the straight line is less than the slope threshold, and continuing propulsion commands are generated to propel the machine along the work surface after determining that a collision will occur and when the slope of the straight line is greater than the slope threshold.
US11059479B2
A collision avoidance apparatus including: a first detector configured to detect another vehicle information including a longitudinal velocity and a lateral velocity of another vehicle, and distance information including a longitudinal distance and a lateral distance from another vehicle; a second detector configured to detect subject vehicle information including a velocity and a yaw rate of the subject vehicle; a calculator configured to determine whether steering avoidance is executable, on the basis of the another vehicle information, the subject vehicle information, and the distance information, and when steering avoidance is executable, calculate steering avoidance information on steering avoidance of the subject vehicle; and a control unit configured to control the subject vehicle to travel according to the steering avoidance information. Therefore, it is possible to prevent execution of steering avoidance in a case where steering avoidance is not needed or is inexecutable, and safer steering avoidance can be performed.
US11059475B2
An automatic transmission is arranged in a hybrid driveline employing an EV mode and an HEV mode, and establishes transmission ratio positions by engaging or disengaging frictional elements. A system or method includes: determining, based on a vehicle deceleration and a relationship between a requested transmission ratio position and an actual transmission ratio, whether or not interlocking is occurring, when the automatic transmission is in a state out of transmission shifting, wherein the interlocking is due to erroneous engagement of one of the frictional elements; and inhibiting the determination about interlocking, during a period from start of slip of a first frictional element of the automatic transmission to confirmation of convergence of slip of the first frictional element, in a situation that the first frictional element is slip-engaged for starting the engine in response to a request for mode transition from the EV mode to the HEV mode.
US11059468B2
This braking control device comprises a differential mechanism, a first electric motor that generates assisting force in a braking operation member, a second electric motor that adjusts output rod shift of the differential mechanism, and a controller that controls the first and second electric motors. In the controller, the first electric motor is controlled on the basis of an assistance map in which the assisting force is calculated, and the second electric motor is controlled on the basis of a displacement map in which the output rod shift is calculated. When the displacement map is changed, the assistance map is corrected as well.
US11059465B1
To be able to set a spring force of a first simulator spring of a pedal travel simulator of a hydraulic power vehicle braking system, a stroke limiter is provided, which is situated between a simulator piston and the simulator spring, including two rams projecting in opposite directions as stops, which are plastically compressed for setting the spring force. To set a “jump-in,” the stroke limiter includes laterally projecting, plastically bendable wings as supports for a second simulator spring, which is situated between the stroke limiter and the simulator piston.
US11059464B2
In a method for controlling a hydraulic braking system, in the event of a failure of a primary brake actuator system, a secondary brake actuator system is activated.
US11059457B1
The disclosure relates to detecting and clearing debris from a sensor window. For instance, a system may include the sensor window and one or more processors. The sensor window may include a transparent thin film conductor. The one or more processors may be configured to identify a change in capacitance using the transparent thin film conductor, detect debris on the sensor window using the change in capacitance, and activate a cleaning system in order to clear the detected debris from the sensor window.
US11059456B2
An in-vehicle authentication device may perform wireless communication with a portable device in a vicinity of a vehicle. The in-vehicle authentication device may transmit a call signal that requests a reply of a response signal to the portable device. The in-vehicle authentication device may transmit an authentication request signal that requests a reply of an authentication signal to the portable device when the in-vehicle authentication device determines that the portable device exists in the vicinity of the vehicle by receiving the response signal. The in-vehicle authentication device may authenticate the portable device that transmits the authentication signal based on the authentication signal when the authentication signal is received.
US11059454B1
A smart sensor module for providing protection to vehicles having central lock system, which has only five connecting wires coupling the smart sensor module to the vehicle acting as security system with the remote controller come with the vehicle from the original manufacture, there are only two buttons of the remote controller, with which the smart sensor module can automatically perform ARM/DISARM function for the vehicle in response to the user's action respectively to Lock/Unlock the doors. The smart sensor module does not utilize any device for wireless transmission.
US11059451B2
A vehicle seat belt assembly having a seat belt retractor with a spool rotatable with respect to a retractor frame, the spool storing a seat belt webbing wrapped thereon. The retractor also includes a primary locking mechanism for selectively locking the spool with respect to the retractor frame to provide vehicle occupant restraint. The retractor further includes an auxiliary locking mechanism for selectively locking the spool with respect to the retractor frame upon a predetermined restraint load acting on the spool.
US11059450B2
A vehicle occupant restraint device includes a three-point seatbelt device, a shoulder belt anchor, and a mover device. The three-point seatbelt device includes a shoulder belt extending from an upper portion on one seat width direction end side of a seatback configuring a vehicle seat on which an occupant sits, toward a buckle at a lower portion on another seat width direction end side. The shoulder belt anchor is provided for the shoulder belt to pass through at a shoulder opening on the one seat width direction end side of an upper section of the seatback. The mover device moves the shoulder belt anchor toward a top-to-bottom direction lower side of the seatback when the seatback, which is configured to tilt rearward from an upright state, has been tilted rearward by at least a predetermined angle or greater with respect to a vertical direction.
US11059447B2
Emblem body includes emblem main body section and pin projecting to emblem main body section and inserted through opening section. Pin has shaft section continuous with emblem main body section, enlargement section formed to be enlarged on the distal end side of shaft section, planar section formed in a planar shape along a direction intersecting with the protrusion direction of pin in enlargement section, and linear section linearly formed at a position different from planar section along a direction intersecting with the protrusion direction of pin in enlargement section. Back plate is provided with elastic piece section against which planar section and linear section abut from the direction opposite to the protrusion direction of pin at least during airbag inflation deployment.
US11059433B2
This disclosure describes systems, devices, apparatuses, kits, and methods of accessing a container. In a particular implementation, a container includes a housing that defines a cavity and a ladder coupled to the housing. The ladder is movable relative to the housing while the ladder is coupled to the housing. The ladder is movable relative to the housing between: a first position in which the ladder is disposed within the cavity; and a second position in which the ladder is disposed outside the cavity.
US11059422B2
A rear view device for a motor vehicle includes a mirror base which is mountable on the vehicle and which supports a mirror head with a housing, the mirror head being movable relative to the mirror base using at least one power-fold unit, and includes at least one support or housing element for mounting at least a part of the power-fold unit in a mounting area. The at least one element may include at least one foamed polymer part at least partly within the mounting area. A motor vehicle may include such a rear view device.
US11059416B1
An electrochromic adaptive driving beam system for a vehicle includes a vehicle headlamp, a high-beam light source, and a low-beam light source. The vehicle headlamp includes an electrochromic material that covers the high-beam light source attached to the vehicle headlamp. The low-beam light source is uncovered by the electrochromic material of the vehicle headlamp. The electrochromic material is transparent to transmit light projected from the high-beam light source and changes opacity to reduce glare projected from the high-beam light source through the vehicle headlamp in response to a voltage.
US11059410B2
A hydraulic deck comprising a frame consisting of a pair of horizontal members and a pair of vertical members, wherein the frame is configured to be mounted in a bed of a pickup truck; a pair of pivot arm members in telescoping engagement with the pair of horizontal members and a pair of extension members in telescoping engagement with the pair of vertical members; a platform member configured to support at least one vehicle; a pair of pillars rotationally connected to pin members positioned on the pair of extension members, wherein the pair of pillar extend perpendicularly from the platform member; and a mechanically operating lifting system configured to slide and lower the platform from the bed in a stored position to a ground surface in a loading position.
US11059408B2
A mortuary cargo loading system having a transport bed adjacent to a motorized winch, a cable engaged with and extending from the motorized winch, a cargo stopper comprising a first end, a second end, and a guide therebetween, and a cargo stopper support having at least one bore for receiving a cargo stopper. The mortuary cargo loading system further has the cargo stopper support and the motorized winch connected to a surface of a vehicle cargo space, the first end of the cargo stopper is engaged with the at least one bore, the cable is engaged with the guide, and the transport bed is connected to the cargo stopper support.
US11059382B2
A battery pack replacement and explosion-proof system: Start to control the second battery pack robot system and the ferry robot to uninstall and install the first battery pack and the second battery pack; the second connection point of the first power supply protector's grounding conductor unloads and absorbs the large current entering along the first power line; the third connection point unloads and absorbs the large current along the second power line; the fifth connection point of the second power surge protector unloads and absorbs the large current along the third power line; the sixth connection point unloads and absorbs the large current along the fourth power line; the first connection point and the fourth connection point unloads and absorbs the large current along the first and the second control line and signal lines of BMS, various parts of the grounding conduct currents into the earth through the conductive tyre.
US11059372B2
An electric motor controller adapted to provide anti-lock braking of an electric traction motor for an electric vehicle is disclosed herein. The electric motor controller comprises a torque demand input for receiving a torque demand input signal based on a request from an operator of the electric vehicle and a torque demand adjuster adapted to adjust the torque demand input signal and to provide an adjusted torque demand signal. The torque demand adjuster is configured to adjust the torque demand signal such that the motor is controlled to reduce the difference between a motor speed and an estimated speed of the electric vehicle.
US11059367B2
A work vehicle is disclosed that includes an elastic support mechanism for supporting an exhaust muffler. The elastic support mechanism includes a support platform member, elastic cylindrical members and a bar-shaped member. The support platform member is supported by a rear-linking frame bar to adjust a position of the support platform member along one of lateral and longitudinal directions of the body frame. An elastic cylindrical member is supported by one of the support platform member and the exhaust muffler. The elastic cylindrical member has an axis extending along the other of the lateral and longitudinal directions, and is supported at a single position, in a direction of the axis, of one of the support platform member and the exhaust muffler. A bar-shaped member supported by the other of the support platform member and the exhaust muffler is fitted into the elastic cylindrical member to be supported by the elastic cylindrical member.
US11059366B2
A cooling air supply device for a motor vehicle has a motor vehicle body with an underbody and a unit. The cooling air supply device configured to receive cooling air in the form of an air flow which flows along the underbody counter to the direction of travel, and configured to be self-regulating. The cooling air supply device having a molded part, which is pivotable about an axis of rotation, has an outer surface facing away from the underbody, and has a convex curvature relative to the underbody. A flow duct is between the underbody and the molded part, the flow duct being configured to allow the air flow to be conducted to the unit.
US11059364B2
A drive device for a vehicle axle, especially a rear axle, of a two-track vehicle, wherein the vehicle axle comprises an axle differential, which can be connected at the primary end to a primary drive machine and can be connected at the output end across flange shafts arranged on either side to vehicle wheels of the vehicle axle, wherein the vehicle axle is associated with an additional drive machine and a shiftable superimposing gear, which can be shifted to a torque distribution gear in which a drive torque is generated by the additional drive machine, depending on the magnitude and direction of rotation of which a torque distribution on the two vehicle wheels can be changed, and shifted to a hybrid mode in which the drive torque generated by the additional drive machine can be coupled to both flange shafts of the vehicle wheels, evenly distributed across the axle differential.
US11059360B2
An encapsulated fixed window module for a motor vehicle, includes: a fixed window pane having a peripheral edge extending between exterior and interior surfaces; and a trim strip extending along at least a portion of the peripheral edge, the trim strip including a first longitudinal profile of U-shaped cross section. The first profile defines a longitudinal groove configured to receive a guide carried by a movable window pan. The exterior wall of the first profile faces the interior surface and is secured thereto by an over-molded material which does not cover the peripheral edge along the first profile. The exterior wall has a longitudinal edge which is opposite to the lateral wall and which is substantially aligned with the peripheral edge in a plane that is perpendicular to the fixed window pane.
US11059348B2
A computer-implemented process for controlling a vehicle interior includes detecting a previously defined situation that relates to an undesirable environmental condition of the vehicle interior, and assessing both a risk level and an urgency level, based on a vehicle sensor input. The process also includes generating a vehicle command based upon the detected previously defined situation, the assessed risk level, and assessed urgency level, and executing the generated vehicle command to control at least one of an engine, a window, and a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) unit to modify an environmental condition of the vehicle interior.
US11059342B2
An actuator system for a vehicle suspension system includes: an actuator having a piston and a first fluid chamber separated from a second fluid chamber by the piston; a hydraulic pump having a first port connected by a first hydraulic circuit to the first chamber via a first valve, the first valve being a damper valve operable to variably restrict flow of hydraulic fluid out of the first chamber; a first hydraulic accumulator connected to the first hydraulic circuit between the first port and the first valve; and a second hydraulic accumulator connected to the first port by a second valve, the second valve being a variable pressure relief valve operable to variably restrict flow of hydraulic fluid from the first port to the second hydraulic accumulator.
US11059340B2
A vehicle suspension comprises a hub carrier on which a wheel hub is suitable for being mounted, a suspension arm having an outer end connected to the hub carrier by a ball joint and an inner end suitable for being attached to a suspended structure of the vehicle, and a shock absorber. At least one load responsive device is arranged on the suspension arm, the load responsive device comprising a sensor able to generate an output signal in response to a load applied to the suspension arm, wherein a control unit is configured to receive the output signal generated by the sensor and to adjust the stiffness of the shock absorber through a valve adapted to vary passage cross-sections of the fluid contained in the shock absorber.
US11059336B1
A movable assembly is formed of a reciprocable sub-assembly and a pivotable sub-assembly. The reciprocable sub-assembly has a tubular housing. The tubular housing is reciprocable within a receiver. The reciprocable sub-assembly has a block reciprocable within the housing. The pivotable sub-assembly has a trailer hitch ball and a pivot sleeve. A neck fixedly couples the trailer hitch ball and the pivot sleeve.
US11059333B2
In various aspects, the performance optimization system described herein optimizes vehicle performance through smart alerts communicated to an operator, owner, or fleet manager of a vehicle. When a vehicle characteristic is outside of the target range, a smart alert can be communicated to the user to encourage the user to bring the vehicle characteristic back into a target range. Aspects of the performance optimization system can focus on tire characteristics, which are one type of vehicle characteristic. Exemplary tire characteristics can include tire pressure, tire tread, and tire alignment. In order to generate smart alerts, vehicle information can be gathered from a variety of sources. In particular, information about a tire can be collected from an onboard tire pressure monitoring system, tire mats, or other mechanisms. This information can be analyzed to determine whether vehicle characteristics are inside or outside of a target range for the particular characteristic. When outside the target range, a smart alert is generated.
US11059325B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for automated vehicle wheel removal and replacement are provided. One system includes a computer system with applications for scheduling the replacement of tires for the vehicle. An electronically controlled lift device and robotic apparatus is configured for interaction with the computer system. The lift device mechanically adjusts arms for placement on lift points of vehicles. The robotic apparatus detects positioning of lug nut configuration for a wheel, removes lug nuts, and then removes the wheel from the wheel hub with gripping arms. The wheel and tire are then handed off to a separate tire changing machine. When a new tire is replaced the robotic apparatus then mounts the wheel to the original wheel hub, and then secures the lug nuts to the lug nut bolts.
US11059324B2
An tire replacement apparatus is disclosed that has an electric motor with a drive shaft and a first gear concentrically connected to the drive shaft. The first gear may connect to a symmetrical bolt locking gear array having several bolt locking gears arranged such that each bolt locking gear rotates in the same direction that the first gear rotates. Each bolt locking gear may have a cylindrical hole at its center. The cylindrical hole may be outlined with an inner spiral thread, which connects to a set of power bolts that are outlined in an outer spiral thread which interlocks with the inner spiral thread.
US11059323B2
A sealing device for a hub/wheel assembly with a roller bearing. The sealing device includes a guard, made of plastic. The guard is coupled to an outer ring of the bearing to seal off the bearing. The guard has a cylindrical mounting wall with an outer lateral surface coupled to an inner lateral surface of a collar of the outer ring, and a snap-engagement step for engaging with the collar made along the outer lateral surface so that it snap-fits in a contoured annular groove made along the collar about the axis. An annular gasket is made of elastomer and co-injection-molded inside an annular groove made in the cylindrical mounting wall on the same side as the snap-engagement step.
US11059322B2
The wheel is for a railway vehicle that travels on a rail. The wheel includes a wheel tread, a flange and a throat portion. The wheel tread is provided at an outer circumferential portion of the wheel. The wheel tread faces a head surface of the rail. The flange is provided at the outer circumferential portion of the wheel. The flange projects further outward than the wheel tread in the radial direction of the wheel. The throat portion connects the surface of the flange and the wheel tread. The throat portion has a protrusion. The protrusion projects to the rail side. The protrusion extends along the entire circumference of the throat portion.
US11059317B2
A display includes a plurality of pixels arranged in matrix. Each of the pixels includes a single reflecting surface, and all the reflecting surfaces include a set of the reflecting surfaces that allow light incident in a predetermined direction to be reflected in a direction predefined for the respective reflecting surfaces, so that light reflected by all the reflecting surfaces forms an image which appears in a specific direction, which is a direction common to all the reflecting surfaces.
US11059314B2
A printing method that carries out printing using a mesh screen, which is a screen gauze including multiple holes, is provided. The printing method includes: a covering process of covering one surface of the mesh screen with a covering member; an entering process of entering the covering member to at least a middle of the hole from a side of the one surface with respect to the multiple holes of the mesh screen; a mask forming process of ejecting a mask forming liquid used to form a mask that covers one part of an other surface of the mesh screen from an ejection head, to form the mask; a peeling process of peeling the covering member from the mesh screen; and a print executing process of printing an image corresponding to a pattern of the mask on the medium using the mesh screen and the printing ink.
US11059306B2
Provided herein are platens for printing on an item of clothing, where the platens are adapted to enable the printing of a pattern on the item of clothing, such that the pattern may encircle the entire item of clothing in a seamless manner. Also disclosed herein is an apparatus that makes use of said platens and a method of printing with said platens.
US11059298B2
A liquid discharge device includes a case receiving a cartridge having a first liquid chamber, a tank having a second liquid chamber, a head, a liquid level sensor, an alarm and a controller configured to: receive a first signal or a second signal when a position of a liquid level in the second liquid chamber is equal to or higher than or lower than a predetermined position; operate the alarm when receiving the second signal after the first signal; cancel the operation of the alarm based on determining of installation of the cartridge; and operate the alarm based on determining that a first elapsed time from a time when determining the installation of the cartridge reaches a predetermined time and the second signal is received from the liquid level sensor without receiving the first signal.
US11059297B2
In one example, an integrated circuit device for a replaceable printer component to communicate information about the component to a printer controller when a component with the integrated circuit device is installed in a printer. The integrated circuit device includes a controller, a memory operatively connected to the controller to store and/or generate information about the component, a single pair of conductors to supply power to the controller and to carry data signals to and from the controller, a detector to detect incoming data signals with a signal property associated with the component, and two electrical contacts each connected to one of the conductors to connect the integrated circuit device to a printer controller when a component with the integrated circuit device is installed in a printer.
US11059289B1
A directionality detector is configured for use in an inkjet printer to attenuate the effects of ink drying in the nozzles of a printhead during printing operations. The directionality detector includes an optical sensor that generates image data of a test pattern formed on media by the printer, a diffuser that emits humidified air toward the media before the media is printed, and a controller operatively connected to the optical sensor and diffuser. The controller is configured compare the image data of the test pattern to stored image data of the test pattern printed at a previous time and determine whether any difference between the two images is greater than a predetermined threshold. The controller then operates the diffuser to direct humidified air toward the media passing the diffuser using the differences between the stored image data of the test pattern and the image data of the test pattern.
US11059288B2
A drive circuit of a liquid ejecting device includes a first switch, a second switch, and a signal processing circuit. The first switch is connected between a first potential and an output terminal through which a drive signal is transmitted to an actuator of a liquid ejecting device. The second switch is connected between the output terminal and a second potential lower than the first potential. The signal processing circuit is configured to detect a difference between a waveform of a target drive signal and the drive signal waveform output at the output terminal, and to cause the first switch and the second switch to be off when an absolute value of the difference is less than a threshold value.
US11059287B2
A liquid discharge apparatus includes an actuator and a drive circuit. The actuator is configured to cause liquid to be discharged from a nozzle. The drive circuit is configured to apply a waveform to the actuator during a discharge cycle in accordance with a discharge trigger and to cause a voltage of the actuator to be maintained at a value from an end of the discharge cycle until reception of a subsequent discharge trigger.
US11059285B2
A liquid discharge head includes an actuator and a drive circuit. The actuator is configured to expand and contract a pressure chamber corresponding thereto. The drive circuit is configured to, during a dot formation cycle apply a first discharge pulse to the actuator to cause a first droplet to be discharged from the pressure chamber, and after a predetermined rest period, during which no discharge pulse is applied to the actuator, has elapsed from application of the first discharge pulse, apply a second discharge pulse to the actuator to cause a second droplet to be discharged from the pressure chamber.
US11059284B2
A substantially tubular interchangeable sleeve is adapted for applying a printing or coating liquid to a substrate material or offset roller. The sleeve has a multi-layer construction primarily consisting of a first outer layer of a dimensionally stable substantially fluid-impregnable solid material, such as aluminum or steel, around the exterior surface of which is affixed or applied a print or coating liquid receiving plate or layer. The sleeve further comprises one or more further interior layers of relatively less dimensionally stable, compressible, usually fibrous materials disposed inwardly of the interior surface of the first layer which, under air pressure, can be compressed so as to enlarge the inner dimensions of the sleeve so that it can be slid over a suitable bridge mandrel. The sleeve further comprises at least one end ring of a dimensionally stable substantially fluid-impregnable solid material.
US11059277B2
A curved screen laminating apparatus and a laminating method is provided. The flexible display panel is driven to bend via a photoactive polymer layer which is controlled by a light source; next, the bent flexible display panel and the curved glass are laminated; last, the flexible display panel and the curved glass are laminated. Compared with the prior art, air bubbles are effectively discharged from edges by employing a segmented lamination which ensures product yields.
US11059270B2
A method of forming a flexible glass-polymer laminate structure includes heating a polymer layer to an elevated temperature of greater than 20° C. and below a working temperature of a flexible glass substrate adjacent the polymer layer. The flexible glass substrate has a thickness of no more than about 0.3 mm. The flexible glass substrate is shaped with the polymer layer at the elevated temperature. The polymer layer is cooled below the elevated temperature such that the flexible glass-polymer laminate structure maintains a non-planar formation.
US11059269B2
Disclosed are a hot dip coated steel and a method for manufacturing the same, the hot dip coated steel comprising a hot rolled steel and a hot dip coated layer formed on the surface of the hot rolled steel, wherein the hot rolled steel comprises: by wt %, 0.05-0.15% of C, 0.5% or less of Si (excluding 0%), 0.5-1.5% of Mn, 0.01-0.05% of Nb, 0.005-0.05% of V, 0.03% or less of P (excluding 0%), 0.015% of S or less (excluding 0%), 0.05% or less of Al (excluding 0%), 0.01% or less of N (excluding 0%), and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities; 90 area % or more of ferrite as the microstructure thereof; and 5,000-15,000/μm2 of V-based precipitates.
US11059266B2
A protective shield includes a rigid base layer, and a flexible outer cushioning layer formed from a flexible film material laminated to an outer surface of the base layer. The outer cushioning layer includes two or more layers of flexible film laminated together via an intermediary adhesive. The protective shield also has a mounting adhesive layer applied on the lower surface of the shield. The mounting adhesive allows the shield to be removably mounted to a display surface, such as a touch screen surface for an electronic device. When the shield is properly mounted to the display surface, the outer layer formed from flexible film material faces away from the display surface. The flexible cushioning layer on the outer surface of the shield allows the shield to protect the display surface such that the display surface can withstand higher levels of impacts without breaking or shattering.
US11059265B2
A glued arrangement, preferably for a motor vehicle, is disclosed. The glued arrangement includes a first component, a second component, and at least one adhesive layer for connecting the two components. The adhesive layer includes a central zone and an edge zone that surrounds the central zone where, in the hardened state, the adhesive in the edge zone has a higher elasticity than the adhesive in the central zone.
US11059264B2
Provided herein is are multilayer damping laminates comprising alternating damping and constraining layers. The materials and configurations of the damping layers are selected such that the damping layers have a decreasing glass transition temperature profile beginning at the first damping layer, allowing the laminates to effectively dissipate vibrations over a wider range of operating temperatures and/or frequencies. Also provided are systems and methods using the multilayer damping laminates.
US11059263B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing a conductive composite material, as well as the composite material capable of being obtained by said method. The conductive material is obtained from a composite polymer matrix, which is formed by aggregation of composite conductive particles consisting of particles of a polymer matrix, having a diamter d50 of between 1 and 4000 μm, coated with a layer of electrically conductive material consisting of at least one metal. The ratio of the thickness of the conductive layer to the diameter d50 of the polymer matrix particles is between 0.0025:100 and 1.5:100, said thickness being less than 300 nm.
US11059257B2
The present disclosure is directed to a retort pouch. In an embodiment, the retort pouch includes a multilayer film with at least three layers. The at least three layers include (A) a skin layer comprising a blend of a propylene-based polymer and a styrenic block copolymer, (B) a seal layer comprising blend of a propylene-based polymer and a styrenic block copolymer, and (C) a core layer located between the skin layer (A) and the seal layer (B). The core layer comprises a blend of (1) a propylene-based polymer, (2) an ethylene-based polymer, and (3) a crystalline block composite (CBC).
US11059244B2
The present invention relates to a method of making a composite sandwich structure. The method comprises the steps of: providing a base lay-up on a surface, wherein the base lay-up comprises a first reinforcement material layer; providing a core layer on to the base lay-up, wherein the core layer comprises an open cellular structure and wherein the open cellular structure is at least partially filled with unbound particles; providing a top lay-up on top of the core layer, wherein the top lay-up comprises a second reinforcement material layer; sealing the arrangement within a hermetically sealed enclosure; introducing matrix material into the arrangement via the at least one conduit through a pressure differential; and curing the matrix material.
US11059234B2
A thermoplastic polymer alloy compositions including a blend of polymers that each contribute beneficial properties to the compositions. The compositions exhibit characteristics desirable for outdoor applications such as weatherability, impact resistance and durability, while offering excellent surface appearance. The compositions are particularly suitable for decking applications and as capstock materials.
US11059230B2
A biomaterial printing apparatus includes a support base, a movement device, a printing device, a first optical-detection device, and a second optical-detection device. The carrier is configured for a culture container to be put thereon. The movement device is connected to the support base. The printing device is connected to the movement device. The first optical-detection device is configured to detect the position of the injection needle of the printing device. The second optical-detection device is configured to detect the position of the culture container. According to the detection of the first optical-detection device and the second optical-detection device, the biological material printing device can accurately move the injection needle to the injection position relative to the culture container, thereby improving the accuracy of printing the biological material.
US11059225B2
A three-dimensional object printer varies the finish in exposed surfaces of a printed object. The printer includes a controller operatively connected to at least two ejector heads, a leveling device, a curing device, and an actuator that is operatively connected to a member to which the at least two ejector heads, the leveling device, and the curing device are mounted. The controller is configured to detect a next layer to be formed being within a predetermined number of layers before an exposed surface is formed, to modify rendered data for the layers within the predetermined number of layers received from the source of rendered data, and to operate a plurality of ejectors in the at least two ejector heads with reference to the modified rendered data to apply a finish to the exposed surface.
US11059215B2
A liquid-containing container manufacturing method includes: a liquid blow molding step of, in a state in which a reversal panel formation part forms a convex surface projecting toward inside of a cavity, supplying a pressurized liquid into a preform placed inside a cavity, to mold the preform into a container including a reversal panel; and a headspace formation step of pressing the container by a press part to reverse the reversal panel, and thereafter releasing press by the press part to increase a volume of the container and thereby form a headspace.
US11059210B2
A plastic injection molding machine and molding method related to an injection molding machine for stack molds, wherein the central portion of the mold remains fixed and it has two molding faces that act on the fixed central portion by means of a hydraulic chamber that produces the clamping force and prevents the deformations due to bending on the molding faces. Likewise, it relates to a molding method.
US11059202B2
A method for creating modifications in a solid-state material is described, wherein a crack guidance region for guiding a crack for separating a solid-state layer from the solid-state material is predetermined by the modifications. The method includes: moving the solid-state material relative to a laser processing system; successively emitting a plurality of laser beams from the laser processing system to the solid-state material to create at least one modification within the solid-state material; and continuously adjusting the laser processing system for defined focusing of the plurality of laser beams and/or for adjustment of energy of the plurality of laser beams as a function of at least one parameter.
US11059198B2
A method of forming a composite material includes: a) providing a substrate with fibres, lignin and hemicellulose; b) partially removing the lignin and hemicellulose from the substrate; and c) compressing the remaining substrate to form a compressed substrate. A composite material formed by the method is also provided.
US11059195B2
A method of making a razor cartridge including providing at least one razor blade having a cutting edge extending along a length of the razor blade and printing at least one printed object on the length is provided. The razor blade is positioned between the guard and the cap where the visible surface of the at least one razor blade includes a printed object. The printed object may extend continuously along the length of the razor blade and/or may have multiple portions having a comb-like structure. The printed object appears as a solid object to a viewer's naked eye. The solid object includes a plurality of printed ink dots not visible to the viewer's naked eye. The printed object of flexible, polymer ink may act as a guard element on the razor blade which helps with glide and to manage a user's skin (e.g., bulge) during shaving.
US11059193B2
A razor cartridge comprising three or more substantially parallel cutting members disposed between a leading longitudinal side and a trailing longitudinal side of the razor cartridge in a shaving direction of the razor cartridge. Each of the cutting members comprises a blade support comprising a blade mounting portion disposed on an inner surface of the respective blade support that, in use, faces away from a shaving plane, and a blade attached to the blade mounting portion. The cutting members are disposed to define a plurality of inter-blade spans between cutting edges of the blades. A leading inter-blade span that is closer to the leading longitudinal side of the razor cartridge than a trailing inter-blade span is different to the trailing inter-blade span that is closer to the trailing longitudinal side of the razor cartridge than the leading inter-blade span.
US11059191B2
A dual knife food cutter apparatus is configurable into a cutting configuration and a storage configuration. In the cutting configuration, the first blade is attached to the second blade with an internal or external connector to form a substantially contiguous combined cutting side. In the storage configuration, the cutting side of each blade is inserted into a slot of the handle of the other blade.
US11059190B2
A solar actuator comprises a top coupler, a bottom coupler, and a plurality of fluidic bellows actuators, wherein a fluidic bellows actuator of the plurality of fluidic bellows actuators moves the top coupler relative to the bottom coupler.
US11059188B2
Exemplary embodiments relate to a fastener suitable for industrial tasks. Some embodiments include a sealing surface sized so that an outer surface of a sealing ring is located at approximately the same diameter as the fastener head, thus reducing ingress risk for foreign contaminants. Further embodiments provide a centering pilot to improve sealing consistency and quality. Some embodiments provide an angled flange on the fastener head to lift tightening tools away from the surface to which the fastener is being applied, and to shed liquids readily. The portion of the head that receives the tightening tools may be relatively small (approximately the same diameter as the fastener's threaded shaft) to reduce the risk of over-torquing. A bearing surface of the fastener may be located below the sealing ring (towards the threaded shaft) to prevent the fastener from marring the unsealed surface to which the fastener is being applied.
US11059166B2
A linear delta system includes a frame, rails secured to the frame, linear actuators, each linear actuator coupled to a respective rail and configured to translate along a longitudinal length of the respective rail, pairs of parallel rods each operably coupled to a respective linear actuator, a platform coupled to the pairs of parallel rods, structure configured to movable couple an object to the platform; and at least one degree of freedom imparting assembly including a profiled rod extending in a direction parallel to the rails and a drive unit configured to rotate the profiled rod, wherein the at least one degree of freedom imparting assembly is configured to impart a degree of freedom to the object.
US11059159B2
An actuator assembly for a power tool includes an actuator with a permanent magnet. The actuator is moveable between a first position for a first mode of operation, and a second position for a second mode of operation. A first positioning member is adjacent the first position composed of a ferromagnetic material to attract the permanent magnet. A second positioning member is adjacent the second position and composed of a ferromagnetic material to attract the permanent magnet. An electromagnet may be energized to move the actuator between the first position and the second position. When the electromagnet is not energized and the actuator is in the first position, the actuator is retained in the first position. When the electromagnet is not energized and the actuator is in the second position, the actuator is retained in the second position. When the electromagnet is energized, the actuator moves between the first and second positions.
US11059156B2
An impact tool that realizes an ON-lock function with a simple mechanism and makes it possible to switch between activation and deactivation of the ON-lock function with few operation processes is provided. A hammer drill having at least two operating modes including a hammer mode in which an impact force is transmitted to a tool bit whereas a rotational force is not transmitted thereto includes: a motor as a power source; a trigger lever and an ON-lock button that are operated by an operator; a sensor that detects whether a selected operating mode is the hammer mode or not; and a controller that controls the motor based on an operation of the trigger lever and the ON-lock button. When the ON-lock button is operated while the hammer mode is selected, the controller performs ON-lock control to maintain the motor in the operating state even when the trigger lever is not operated.
US11059152B2
The tool can include a tang keeper which can be positioned behind the tang of a helical insert which is installed in an aperture, and a pushing member which can be moved to push the tang against the keeper and hold the tang against the keeper while breaking and removing the tang by manipulating the tool.
US11059123B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for forming a three-dimensional article through successively depositing individual layers of powder material that are fused together so as to form the article, the apparatus comprising an electron beam source emanating an electron beam for fusing the powder material in a build tank, a hollow construction having an upper opening and a lower opening, means for moving the hollow construction between a first position and a second position, a synchronising unit for synchronising the movement of a powder distributor for applying the individual layers of powder material on the work table with the movement of the hollow construction so that the hollow metal construction is at the first position when fusing and/or heating the powder layer and at the second position when the powder distributor is distributing the powder material for forming the individual powder layers.
US11059122B2
In some aspects, contact members to connect plasma torch leads to plasma cutting systems can include: a base portion; a set of ports within the base portion that include: a coolant supply port to convey a liquid coolant from the cutting system to a plasma arc torch connected to the contact member by the torch lead, a coolant return port: i) to convey return liquid coolant from the torch to the cutting system, and ii) to convey an operational current from the cutting system to the torch, at least one gas supply port to convey processing gases to the torch, and an ohmic contact connector; and a connector to couple the base portion to the cutting system and connect each of the ports and electrical connectors to respective complementary connections of the cutting system upon coupling to the cutting system.
US11059104B2
A cutting tool may include a holder and a cutting insert. The cutting insert may include a ridge including a corner and a first side. The holder may include a first flow path extending along a first central axis, and a second flow path extending along a second central axis. A line obtained by extending the first central axis may be a first imaginary line, and a line obtained by extending the second central axis may be a second imaginary line, each of the first imaginary line and the second imaginary line is inclined downward. An intersection of the first imaginary line and the second imaginary line is located outside of the cutting insert in a plan view. The first imaginary line intersects with the ridge and the second imaginary line intersects with the first side at a side closer to the second end than the first imaginary line.
US11059103B2
A method of additive manufacturing metallic components, the method includes: forming a component in a layer by layer process, the component being formed integrally with at least one non-perforated support structure to be separated from the component after the layer by layer process, the support structure being formed with at least one wall that is non-perforated; and wherein after completion of the layer by layer process, the method includes exposing the component and support structure to at least one thermal pulse so as to weaken, or break, the interface(s) between the support structure and component prior to removal of the support.
US11059101B2
Aspects of the disclosed technology include an additive manufacturing method including: applying a mixture of metal powder and a carrier agent to a substrate; removing a portion of the carrier agent from the applied mixture; and fusing the metal powder remaining in the applied mixture to the substrate.
US11059078B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an underwater sensor protection device and method employed thereof. The underwater sensor protection device comprises a focal tube. The focal tube comprises at least one open end and at least one top closed end, the top closed end is connected to a control board and the open end is kept open, the control board comprises an air pump and a solenoid valve, the focal tube is submerged in water level for regulating the air pump. Sensors are positioned in the focal tube. Air is passed through an air tube to the focal tube and vacates the volume of water within the focal tube for avoiding water contact with the sensors, and air bubbles are generated by passing air via the air tube for longer duration into the focal tube thereby performing cleaning operation of the sensors.
US11059075B2
In one example embodiment, a robotic vacuum sorting system comprises: a suction gripper mechanism mounted to a sorting robot; a vacuum system coupled to the suction gripper mechanism; robot control logic and electronics coupled to the sorting robot and the vacuum system; and an imaging device coupled to the robot control logic and electronics. In response to an image signal from the imaging device, the robot control logic and electronics outputs robot control signals to control the sorting robot, and outputs one or more airflow control signals to the vacuum system to execute a capture action on a target object using the suction gripper. During the capture action, the robot control logic and electronics outputs control signals such that the vacuum system pulls a vacuum at the gripping port of the suction gripper mechanism as the suction gripper mechanism is applied to capture and hold the target object.
