US11080206B2
A computer implemented method includes: storing identifiers of cached data blocks stored in a ring structure comprising a plurality of queues, where each queue is assigned a different priority level based on a base pointer, and where the plurality of queues includes a subset of queues associated with an insertion range of priority levels; during a plurality of partial rotations of the ring structure, inserting new identifiers of data blocks associated with a plurality of processing engines into the subset of queues, where each partial rotation shifts the base pointer to a next higher queue; and maintaining, for multiple partial rotations, an association between a first processing engine and a first queue of the subset of queues until the first queue is shifted out of the insertion range of priority levels.
US11080201B2
Techniques that facilitate hybrid memory access frequency are provided. In one example, a system stores access frequency data for storage class memory and volatile memory in a translation lookaside buffer. The access frequency data is indicative of a frequency of access to the storage class memory and the volatile memory. The system also determines whether to store data in the storage class memory or the volatile memory based on the access frequency data stored in the translation lookaside buffer.
US11080194B2
System and method for prefetching pointer-referenced data. A method embodiment includes: tracking a plurality of load instructions which includes a first load instruction to access a first data that identifies a first memory location; detecting a second load instruction which accesses a second memory location for a second data, the second memory location matching the first memory location identified by the first data; responsive to the detecting, updating a list of pointer load instructions to include information identifying the first load instruction as a pointer load instruction; prefetching a third data for a third load instruction prior to executing the third load instruction; identifying the third load instruction as a pointer load instruction based on information from the list of pointer load instructions and responsively prefetching a fourth data from a fourth memory location, wherein the fourth memory location is identified by the third data.
US11080168B1
A system, method and apparatus for choosing a digital processing platform that is optimal for a specified type of application and satisfies a set of user-specified constraints is provided. In operation, all known parameters on all available processing platforms in a database are stored, providing this information to a computer software application run by the user by querying the database, and then allowing a remote user to specify the constraints, in terms of hardware and system software, to eliminate those entries that would not satisfy the constraints in a step-by-step filtering process. The user then chooses a set of application programs to run on the platforms that were not eliminated. The runtime performance parameters/characteristics—e.g. computational throughput, I/O bandwidth, environmental parameters, etc. are measured to select the optimal solution. The system and method also allows for a regression test to ensure consistency between test software processes running on discrete platforms.
US11080165B1
In certain embodiments, a system receives a computer program from a server. The computer program can initiate display of views. The system selects one or more views according to a hierarchy of parent-child relationships among the views. For each selected view, a controller associated with rendering of the view is identified. One or more timing thunks configured to collect timing events are installed into the controllers. One or more records are created from the timing events, and at least a subset of the records are reported to the server.
US11080163B2
A method for adaptive content balancing for Web clients includes monitoring content processing performance in different client computing devices communicatively coupled over a network to a content server, measuring the content processing performance for each of the different devices and storing the measured performance for each of the different devices in connection with different resource groupings of the requested content type. Thereafter, a request for content is received in the content server from one of the devices, and the stored performance is retrieved. As such, the retrieved metrics of the computing device are matched to the retrieved metrics of one of a multiplicity of groupings of one or more different resources associated with the requested content and the resources of the one of the multiplicity of the groupings is included in the requested content. Finally, the requested content is transmitted to the one of the client computing devices.
US11080162B2
The present disclosure provides generally for a system and method for visualizing and measuring software assets. According to the present disclosure, the system interacts through an API to discover and populate all software applications within an organization in an interface that provides the user real-time information regarding the software applications. The system may provide real-time insights within an organization at all levels, with real-time feedback and metrics on what software there is, how software is being used, and software management options.
US11080160B1
For example, as indicated in the Incorporated Disclosures, rapid change from relatively little use of network bandwidth, to heavy overuse of network bandwidth (combined with a large number of endpoints attempting to access that network bandwidth) can often indicate an email virus or other maladjusted use of the system. In such cases, it could be appropriate to generate an alert, and bring the change to the attention of a human expert, or otherwise escalate the problem. In this Application, the phrase “best practices,” and variants thereof, can generally refer to business preferences (and to business rules imposed by management, or law or regulation), such as high utilization preferences often expressed by management. In such cases, one or more operators can enter descriptors of rules the system that it is desired the system follow, such as “processor cycle utilization >90%.” When these best practices are not followed, it could be appropriate to generate an alert, bring the change to the attention of a human expert, or otherwise escalate the problem. In this Application, the phrase “profiling and alerting,” and variants thereof, can generally refer to maintaining a profile of how the system normally behaves, absent stressors, and to identify any substantial changes from that profile. When a profile is seriously violated, it could be appropriate to generate an alert, bring the change to the attention of a human expert, or otherwise escalate the problem. In such cases, it can be appropriate to escalate the severity of the alert with increased severity of violation, increased time duration of the violation, and increased trajectory in the direction of further violation. In this Application, the phrase “absolute capacity,” and variants thereof, can refer to an objective measure of system capacity, such as whether the system has 1 TB or 4 TB of memory. The phrase “relative capacity,” and variants thereof, can refer to a subjective measure of system capacity, such as when the system has 4 TB of physical memory, but 3.5 TB of that memory are allocated to a high-priority task whose interruption or pause would be untoward.
US11080156B2
An electronic controller includes: a logic circuit that is reconfigurable based on a reconfiguration instruction; an arithmetic unit that is configured in the logic circuit; a processing controller that transmits the reconfiguration instruction of the arithmetic unit to the logic circuit and that makes the reconfigured arithmetic unit execute predetermined operation; and a testing unit that executes an operation test for an arithmetic unit when the arithmetic unit is reconfigured, and that transmits the result of the operation test to the processing controller as a notice. Here, the processing controller makes the arithmetic unit execute predetermined processing based on the notice received from the testing unit.
US11080155B2
A method for diagnosing memory, performed by a storage system, is provided. The method includes writing and reading through a communication channel to and from flash memory of each of a plurality of flash memory devices and a static random-access memory (SRAM) register of each of the plurality of flash memory devices. The method includes analyzing errors in read data from the reading through the communication channel, identifying types of errors among flash memory errors, SRAM register errors, and communication channel errors, based on the analyzing, and indicating at least one error and type of error from the read data.
US11080151B2
In some examples, a method includes identifying, via the use of a Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interface (API) call, a modification of persistent data for a Cloud Management Platform (CMP); storing, in a persistent log for the CMP, information about the data modification, including an operation that modified the data, a component of the CMP that modified the data, and the time of modification; determining, as a result of a failure of the CMP, a restoration point for the CMP based on the persistent log; and restoring the CMP to the determined restoration point using an independent restoration system of the component that modified the data.
US11080149B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for restoring tracks in cache. A restore operation is initiated to restore a track in the cache from a non-volatile storage to which tracks in the cache are backed-up. The non-volatile storage includes a current version of the track and wherein a previous version of the track subject to the restore operation is stored in a first location in the cache. A second location in the cache is allocated for the current version of the track to restore from the non-volatile storage. The data for the current version of the track is transferred from the non-volatile storage to the second location in the cache. Data for the track is merged from the second location into the first location in the cache to complete restoring to the current version of the track in the first location from the non-volatile storage.
US11080144B2
Systems and methods for managing blockchain nodes. Blockchain node clusters are created and used to process blockchain requests. Blockchain clusters are managed by adding nodes to a cluster, stopping nodes in the cluster, and generating snapshots of state. of one or more nodes.
US11080141B2
A simulation model recovery method, system, and computer program product include initiating a simulation model, during an operation of a model, periodically writing a solution space of the model to a checkpoint restart file, during an operation of the model, periodically writing diagnostic information on model progression to a log file, detecting a failure of the model, based on the log of the model, determining a time of the failure, based on the model outputs and restart files, determining a period of a numerical instability preceding the failure, selecting a checkpoint of the model preceding the period of the numerical instability, based on the numerical instability and diagnostic information in log files, modifying a configuration of the model, and restarting the model based on the selected checkpoint and the modified configuration.
US11080136B2
A computer-implemented method for dropped write error detection is proposed. In the method, a read request for a stride stored in an array of storage drives is received. The stride includes segments of a data and a first parity associated with the data spreading across the storage drives in the array of the storage drives. In response to the read request being a predefined sequential read request and a state of the stride being a first state, a parity check is performed on the stride. The first state indicates that no parity check has been performed after the data is written into the array of storage drives. The state of the stride is changed to a second state, and the second state is different with the first state.
US11080133B1
A method for reducing observed processing latency in networked communication, the method comprising: receiving a first portion of data, the data consisting of the first portion and a second portion; initializing data processing on the data after receiving the first portion of data and before receiving the second portion of the data; receiving the second portion of the data, the second portion of the data including error-detection code; performing error detection on the data based on the error-detection code; in response to the error detection indicating that the data is valid, finalizing data processing on the data and committing a data-processing result; and in response to the error detection indicating that the data is invalid, performing an error-correction process.
US11080128B2
An automatic failure recovery system that, using machine learning, creates an operation procedure for recovering from a network failure or corrects the created operation procedure has a plurality of recovery tasks for recovering from the network failure; outputs failure data indicating network configuration information and failure information acquired upon occurrence of the network failure; selects an execution procedure of the recovery tasks, based on the failure data and a recovery model acquired in advance; executes the selected execution procedure when the network failure occurs; determines whether or not recovery from the network failure was achieved by the execution procedure; and notifies that the procedure is to be corrected, depending upon the result of the determination and a recovery level of the network failure.
US11080111B1
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to execute programs in a single hardware context on a graphics processing unit (GPU). In at least one embodiment, resource management patches expressed in library or executable code are applied to one or more kernels to ensure execution in a shared context on a GPU.
US11080105B1
The present disclosure relates to methods, systems and apparatuses for routing API calls to multiple backend systems that share a common API. A system may receive an API call comprising a unique identifier from a client computing device. The system may identify the unique identifier in the API call, and determine a target backend system associated with the unique identifier from the plurality of backend systems. Further, the system may route the API call to the target backend system based on the unique identifier.
US11080101B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to processing a control stream such as a compute control stream. In some embodiments, the control stream includes kernels and commands for multiple substreams. In some embodiments, multiple substream processors are each configured to: fetch and parse portions of the control stream corresponding to an assigned substream and, in response to a neighbor barrier command in the assigned substream that identifies another substream, communicate the identified other substream to a barrier clearing circuitry. In some embodiments, the barrier clearing circuitry is configured to determine whether to allow the assigned substream to proceed past the neighbor barrier command based on communication of a most-recently-completed command from a substream processor to which the other substream is assigned (e.g., based on whether the most-recently-completed command meets a command identifier communicated in the neighbor barrier command). The disclosed techniques may facilitate parallel control stream parsing and substream synchronization.
US11080100B2
Techniques for load balancing and fault tolerant service are described. An apparatus may comprise load balancing and fault tolerant component operative to execute a load balancing and fault tolerant service in a distributed data system. The load balancing and fault tolerant service distributes a load of a task to a first node in a cluster of nodes using a routing table. The load balancing and fault tolerant service stores information to indicate the first node from the cluster of nodes is assigned to perform the task. The load balancing and fault tolerant service detects a failure condition for the first node. The load balancing and fault tolerant service moves the task to a second node from the cluster of nodes to perform the task for the first node upon occurrence of the failure condition.
US11080093B2
Computational methods and systems to reclaim capacity of a virtual infrastructure of distributed computing system are described. Methods and systems are directed to forecasting usage of resources that form a virtual infrastructure of a distributed computing system. Streams of metric data that represent usage of resources of the virtual infrastructure assigned to a virtual object are collected. A binary sequence of active status metric data is computed for the virtual object based on the streams of metric data. Forecasted active status metric data are computed in a forecast interval based on the sequence of active status metric data. Expected active or inactive status of virtual object over the forecast interval is determined from the forecasted active status metric data. If the virtual object is expected to inactive status over the forecast interval, resources assigned to the virtual object are reclaimed for use by active virtual objects.
US11080090B2
The present invention relates to methods for processing jobs within a cluster architecture. One method comprises the pausing of a job when waiting upon external dependencies. Another method comprises the transmission of messages relating to the ongoing processing of jobs back to a client via a persistent messaging channel. Yet another method comprises determining capacity at a node before allocating a job for processing by the node or adding the job to a cluster queue. A system for processing jobs within a cluster architecture is also disclosed.
US11080087B2
A TRANSACTION BEGIN instruction and a TRANSACTION END instruction are provided. The TRANSACTION BEGIN instruction causes either a constrained or nonconstrained transaction to be initiated, depending on a field of the instruction. The TRANSACTION END instruction ends the transaction started by the TRANSACTION BEGIN instruction.
US11080085B2
A computer system manages multi-stage transactions. A plurality of response time values of transaction components for a plurality of transactions are received. Two or more transactions from the plurality of transactions are selected, wherein a quantity of the selected transactions is equal to a number of the transaction components in the plurality of transactions. Eigenvalues are calculated from the response time values for the selected transactions. The selected transactions are determined to have timed out by processing the eigenvalues using a machine learning classifier. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for managing multi-stage transactions in substantially the same manner described above.
US11080084B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for managing resources in virtualization systems, including multi-cloud systems. The use of supply chain economics alone and in combination with other techniques offers a unified platform to integrate, optimize or improve, and automate resource management in a virtualization system. These techniques may be used to monitor and control the delivery of service level agreements and software licenses. They may also be used to monitor and control contention of computing resources in a virtualization system, and to suspend or terminate computing resources.
US11080072B1
A user interface for interfacing with a trihybrid data movement, data governance and data provenance system is provided. The user interface may include an application selection drop-down field that enables selection of an application. The user interface may include a deliveries tab. When selected, the deliveries tab may display the status of user subscription deliveries. The user interface may include a resources tab. When selected, the resources tab may display publications and/or subscriptions that have been set up. When selected, the resources tab may enable a user to create a new publication. The user interface may include an approvals tab. When selected, the approvals tab may display approvals relating to subscriptions that have been requested. The user interface may include a data catalog tab. When selected, the data catalog tab may display a plurality of available publications, and enable a user to request a subscription to a publication.
US11080070B2
Disclosed embodiments provide automated techniques for evaluation of a user interface of a computer application. A computer function associated with a graphical element such as an icon or button is analyzed. The resultant text that appears as a result of invoking the button is analyzed and keywords are identified to determine a function type for the function. A graphical element category is determined for the button/icon that is invoked to produce the function. The graphical element category can be determined by analyzing underlying markup code for the button. Keywords pertaining to the button may be extracted from the markup code. The keywords from the button are compared with the keywords of the resulting function and a score is generated based on the amount of common keywords. The score is used as a criterion for a recommendation about the appropriateness of the button for use with the application function.
US11080066B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for starting an embedded apparatus, and an apparatus, and are applied to the field of embedded technologies, so as to improve a start speed of an embedded apparatus. The method is: A development and compilation apparatus divides a program of a system of an embedded apparatus, where the divided program includes a fast start loader and program segments corresponding to different services. In this way, after compilation and linking are performed on the program segments obtained by division to generate a system image file of the embedded apparatus, the embedded apparatus may first load the fast start loader after downloading the image file, then load one or more services in the image file one by one based on service requirements of different services by using the fast start loader, and then run the one or more loaded services.
US11080065B1
A method of generating an optimized executable configuration query engine is disclosed. A set of one or more immutable configuration parameters associated with a configurable service or a configurable application is received. At least a portion of a set of configuration data in a configuration database and at least a portion of the set of one or more immutable configuration parameters are transformed into a set of data and code in a compiler-readable format. An optimized subset of the set of configuration data in the configuration database is selected based at least in part on the set of one or more immutable configuration parameters. An optimized executable configuration query engine is generated based at least in part on the set of one or more immutable configuration parameters, wherein the optimized executable configuration query engine serves configuration data from the selected optimized subset of the set of configuration data.
US11080064B2
Atomic instructions, including a Compare And Swap Register, a Load and AND Register, and a Load and OR Register instruction, use registers instead of storage to communicate and share information in a multi-threaded processor. The registers are accessible to multiple threads of the multi-threaded processor, and the instructions operate on these shared registers. Access to the shared registers is controlled by the instructions via interlocking.
US11080057B2
A processing device includes an instruction decode circuit including decoders that decode instructions respectively assigned an instruction number that is determined for every one of the decoders, an instruction execution circuit that executes the instructions decoded by the instruction decode circuit, an instruction complete holding circuit including hold blocks provided in correspondence with each of the decoders and respectively including hold regions assigned the instruction number, and used for an instruction complete process, and an instruction complete controller that stores instruction information that is generated by decoding the instructions by the decoders, in one of the hold regions of the hold block corresponding to the decoder that decodes the instruction, based on the instruction number, and obtain, in order, the instruction information corresponding to the instructions executed by the instruction execution circuit from the instruction complete holding circuit, to perform the instruction complete process.
US11080055B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to arbitration among register file accesses. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a register file configured to store operands for multiple client circuits and arbitration circuitry configured to select from among multiple received requests to access the register file. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes first interface circuitry configured to provide access requests from a first client circuit to the arbitration circuitry and supplemental interface circuitry configured to receive unsuccessful requests from the first client circuit and provide the received unsuccessful requests to the arbitration circuitry. The supplemental interface circuitry may provide additional catch-up bandwidth to clients that lose arbitration, which may result in fairness during bandwidth shortages.
US11080053B2
Techniques and mechanisms described herein include a signal processor implemented as an overlay on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) device that utilizes special purpose, hardened intellectual property (IP) modules such as memory blocks and digital signal processing (DSP) cores. A Processing Element (PE) is built from one or more DSP cores connected to additional logic. Interconnected as an array, the PEs may operate in a computational model such as Single Instruction-Multiple Thread (SIMT). A software hierarchy is described that transforms the SIMT array into an effective signal processor.
US11080050B2
A method, computer system, and computer program product for accelerating class data loading in a containers environment are provided. In response to a first container in a containers environment being created from a first image, at least one archive file containing a set of classes from the first image can be loaded. Then a respective class sharing file for each of the at least one archive file can be generated. The class sharing file is stored in a shared location. A second container in the containers environment is created from a second image. If a class sharing file from the archive is found in the shared location, that class sharing file can be used.
US11080047B2
The number of registers required is reduced by overlapping scalar and vector registers. This allows increased compiler flexibility when mixing scalar and vector instructions. Local register read ports are reduced by restricting read access. Dedicated predicate registers reduce requirements for general registers, and allows reduction of critical timing paths by allowing the predicate registers to be placed next to the predicate unit.
US11080043B1
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for applying version control of configurations to a software application, such as, a cloud-based application. Each version may be stored as a plurality of configuration nodes within a configuration tree structure. Version changes may lead to the creation or modification of configuration nodes. Configurations may be tested in a sandbox and undergo validation checks before being applied to the software application.
US11080038B2
Systems, methods and computer program products for providing a multi-tenant application execution environment that provides an object metadata service for managing application configuration in the multi-tenant environment. In one embodiment, a system has an application manager, a bundle manager, and a deployment manager. The application manager captures application metadata for a corresponding version of an application and defines a corresponding bundle which contains metadata that configures the version of the application. The bundle manager validates each bundle and stores the validated bundle in a bundle library in a data storage device. The deployment manager retrieves a master schema and one or more of the bundles from the bundle library and installs the retrieved master schema and the retrieved bundles, generating a tenant schema which is accessible by a corresponding tenant of the multi-tenant environment that has subscribed to the version of the application.
US11080036B2
Disclosed is a wireless communication network including radio nodes, which include a first radio node and a second radio node. The nodes are configured to provide a bi-directional radio communication between each other. The nodes are configured to receive a software-distribution package. In addition, the first node sends to at least the second node a timer frame indicating when all nodes of the network start to execute the received package in order to update a software of the nodes.
US11080034B2
An information handling system may include a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. The information handling system may be configured to: receive, for each of a plurality of target information handling systems, information regarding software to be burned to the respective target information handling system; receive, for each of the target information handling systems, information regarding testing time; based on a statistical analysis of the information regarding the testing time, determine a predicted burn time for each target information handling system; and based on the respective predicted burn times, determine a desired order in which the target information handling systems are to be burned with the software.
US11080032B1
A method, system and computer-usable medium for containerized deployment of microservices used to deploy a product or service, such as a software application running on an information handling system is described. Artifacts related to particular versions of the one or more microservices are determined. An immutable container of the artifacts is created and provided to one more environments using the same configuration of the product or service. The container is deployed in the environments during release of the product or service.
US11080023B2
The present disclosure relates to an intelligent digital experience development platform (IDXDP) to assist different users in the development of digital applications. A computer-implemented method for translation includes: identifying text properties of software widgets of a software application that do not have an internationalization key, wherein the text properties show text on a user interface; scanning source code of the software application to identify strings to perform translation capabilities; generating new internationalization keys set to the text properties; replacing the source code of the software application utilizing an application program interface (API) call with the new internationalization keys based on the scanning; adding the strings to an internationalization map, along with their respective new internationalization keys; translating the strings from an initial language to a second language utilizing a translation API to produce translated strings; and adding the second language and the translated strings to the internationalization map.
US11080018B2
The disclosure generally describes methods, software, and systems for defining a constraint satisfaction problem including floating point variables. Floating-point domains are described using a notation that allows arbitrarily many ranges denoted by at least one of intervals with boundary information or singleton values comprising fully discrete domains. Mathematically correct results are computed using closures combined with interval arithmetic. A new consistency level for constraint propagation is provided, including multi-bounds consistency, over floating point variables, where the multi-bounds consistency achieves domain consistency over monotonic functions.
US11080000B2
An example implementation may involve a media playback system detecting two or more playback devices of a given type. The implementation may further involve transmitting, to a particular playback device of the detected playback devices, an instruction that causes the particular playback device to emit a given sound. The implementation may also involve receiving an identification of the particular playback device and displaying, via a graphical interface, one or more prompts to join the particular playback device into the media playback system.
US11079998B2
A system, computer-implemented method, and computer program product for demonstrating a software application on a computer. The system includes a capture component running in a presenter environment and an invoker component running in a viewer environment. One or more steps performed by a presenter on a first copy of a software application being run in the presenter environment are recorded at the capture component. The invoker component access the one or more steps and performs the one or more steps on a second copy of the software application being run in the viewer environment.
US11079997B2
A display includes a plurality of pixel chips, chixels, provided on a substrate. The chixels and the light emitters thereon may be shaped, sized and arranged to minimize chixel, pixel, and sub-pixel gaps and to provide a seamless look between adjacent display modules. The substrate may include light manipulators, such as filters, light converters and the like to manipulate the light emitted from light emitters of the chixels. The light manipulators may be arranged to minimize chixel gaps between adjacent chixels.
US11079988B2
According to an embodiment, a worker selects one of destination places displayed on a screen of a display by means of an operator. Information regarding the selected destination place is sent to a setting processor of a controller. The setting processor of the controller acquires, from among pieces of setting information stored in a storage, the setting information according to the selected destination place information. The setting processor of the controller then performs setting processing for an image forming apparatus, in accordance with the setting information acquired.
US11079985B2
A first hash value calculated by a print server based on print data and a second hash value calculated by an image processing apparatus by using the print data are compared, and printing processing using the print data is cancelled in a case where it is determined that the first hash value and the second hash value are not the same.
US11079982B2
An image forming apparatus includes a CPU. When an error occurs, the CPU notifies a user or the like of the error and adds information about the error to an error table. When the error is resolved, the CPU deletes the information about the resolved error from the error table. The CPU refers to the error table and displays, on a display, a home screen in which a badge indicating the number of unresolved errors in each operation mode is displayed. When a mode selection button on which the badge is displayed is touched, the CPU re-notifies the user of the unresolved errors.
US11079974B2
A server, which is capable of communicating with a printer or printers, each performing radio frequency identification (RFID) communication with a RFID tag, contains: a record unit configured to record, in a memory device, printer identification information for identifying a printer, tag identification information for identifying a RFID tag, and communication parameters with which the printer performs RFID communication, in an associated manner; a first obtaining unit configured to obtain, from a printer, printer identification information and tag identification information read by the printer; an identifying unit configured to identify communication parameters associated with the printer identification information and the tag identification information obtained by the first obtaining unit; and a first transmission unit configured to transmit the communication parameters identified by the identifying unit, to the printer.
US11079971B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes to perform input/output (I/O) fencing without dedicated arbitrators. A coordination storage identifier is stored in a storage device as metadata. The coordination storage identifier is associated with a node of a cluster coupled to the storage device, and an I/O fencing operation is performed using the coordination storage identifier.
US11079966B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for soft fencing is provided. The present invention may include identifying a logical device swap occurred. The present invention may also include, in response to a logical device swap, creating a soft fence command. The present invention may then include issuing the created soft fence command.
US11079959B2
A computing device that includes a plurality of memory devices and firmware to provide a migration data storage option that reserves a portion of a memory device to store, at least, encrypted metadata describing the physical layout information of the memory devices in preparation for migration of the memory devices.
US11079952B2
A data storage device may include a storage including a plurality of memory blocks each composed of a plurality of pages and divided into a first region including some of the plurality of memory blocks and a second region including remaining memory blocks of the plurality of memory blocks; and a controller configured to control data input and output of the storage in response to a request of a host, determine whether to move data stored in a memory block of the first region by performing a first scan operation on the memory block of the first region, and determine whether to move data stored in at least one memory block of the second region by performing a second scan operation on the at least one memory block of the second region after the first scan operation is completed.
US11079947B2
A method to ensure that a hardware management console powers up after a storage system loses external AC power is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method includes detecting loss of external AC power to a storage system. The loss of external AC power causes the storage system to operate on battery power. The method further initiates, in response to the loss, shutdown of a hardware management console associated with the storage system. The method starts a timer in response to initiation of the shutdown. When the timer expires, the method power cycles the hardware management console, thereby causing the hardware management console to power up and restart. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US11079945B2
A processing system includes a memory controller coupleable to a RAM, and a ROM configured to store boot information that includes default values for a set of one or more memory timing parameters. At least one processor is configured to, during initialization, configure the memory controller to utilize the default values for the set of one or more memory timing parameters. The at least one processor further is configured to, during operation of the processing system following initialization, receive user input representing one or more updated values for one or more corresponding memory timing parameters of the set, and to dynamically reconfigure the memory controller to utilize one or more updated values for the set of one or more memory timing parameters for the signaling. The processing system further is configured to conduct one or more memory access operations for the RAM using the reconfigured memory controller.
US11079938B2
A system comprises a plurality of computing devices that are communicatively coupled via a network and have a file system distributed among them, and comprises one or more file system request buffers residing on one or more of the plurality of computing devices. File system choking management circuitry that resides on one or more of the plurality of computing devices is operable to separately control: a first rate at which a first type of file system requests (e.g., one of data requests, data read requests, data write requests, metadata requests, metadata read requests, and metadata write requests) are fetched from the one or more buffers, and a second rate at which a second type of file system requests (e.g., another of data requests, data read requests, data write requests, metadata requests, metadata read requests, and metadata write requests) are fetched from the one or more buffers.
US11079925B2
A controller of a material handling system performs a method of creating a multidrop pattern of articles for robotic placement in layers on a pallet. A pattern is presented on a user interface of any currently positioned representations of articles on a pallet. A control affordance for inputting drag'n'drop and numeric inputs is presented on the user interface for robotic control operations to perform a multidrop of the more than one article in an end effector of a robotic arm for placement of the more than one article. User inputs are received that indicate placement position of a first subset of the more than one article. User inputs are received that indicate placement position of a second subset, which is mutually exclusive of the first subset, of the more than one article. The user inputs are converted into a place sequence of robotic control operations to perform a multidrop of the articles by the robotic arm.
US11079923B1
A method and system for capturing, sharing, viewing, and/or displaying one or more videos. A user of a computing device performs a gesture involving contacting a touch sensitive display. In response, a video segment is captured while the user maintains contact with the touch sensitive display. Upon releasing contact with the touch sensitive display, recording of the video segment is ceased. In one or more embodiments of the invention, the user may then record one or more additional video segments to be included in a video vignette.
US11079912B2
A method and apparatus for enhancing digital video effects (DVE) operates to embed DVE functionality within a graphics modeling system and provides the user with an interface configured to present model elements to a user as controllable parameters. In order to embed DVE functionality, a dynamic data structure is introduced as a scene to allow the addition of user defined model elements. The user interface enables the identification of, and access to the newly introduced model elements.
US11079908B2
A method for adding an icon to an interface of an Android system, where the Android system has N interfaces, includes: a. obtaining add command information; b. obtaining, according to the add command information, space information of an icon to be added; c. obtaining remaining space information of an Mth interface according to the add command information; d. judging whether the space information of the icon to be added is greater than the remaining space information of the Mth interface; if yes, executing step e; if no, executing step f; e. judging whether the Mth interface is a last interface to be judged; if yes, executing step g; if no, assigning M+1 to M and returning to step c; f. adding the icon to the interface; and g. establishing another interface, and adding the icon to the newly established interface; where M and N are natural numbers, and 1≤M≤N.
US11079905B2
A server is configured to receive, from a first user device, information for a debrief-object. The server is further configured to generate a debrief-object from the information for a debrief-object. The server is further configured to generate a post-object containing the debrief-object. The server is further configured to associate the generated post-object with a newsfeed-object that contains a plurality of other post-objects. The server is further configured to generate an interface to render the newsfeed-object such that the generated post-object and the other post-objects are displayed in an order other than the chronological order created. The server is further configured to serve, to a second user device, the interface. The first user device is configured to transmit, to the server, the information for the debrief-object. The second user device is configured to display the newsfeed-object such that the generated post-object and the other post-objects are displayed in another order.
US11079901B2
Systems and methods for presenting data to one or more users in a visualizable format and obtaining information based upon the user's interaction with the data are disclosed. A system may include a processor and a non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium. The non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium may include one or more programming instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to provide data to at least one user via a user interface, receive one or more inputs from the at least one user, and direct a storage medium to record the one or more inputs. The data may be arranged in a user-visualizable format. The one or more inputs may correspond the user's interaction with the user interface that causes manipulation of the data.
US11079898B2
An electronic device comprising: a determining unit configured to determine a display direction based on a movement distance of a touch position or an amount of a change in a posture of the electronic device; and a display control unit configured to control a display unit to display a partial region of a VR image in accordance with the display direction determined based on the movement distance of the touch position if the display direction determined based on the movement distance of the touch position is smaller than the predetermined angle and control the display unit to change over to another VR image and display another VR image instead of displaying the partial region of the VR image if the display direction determined based on the movement distance of the touch position is larger than the predetermined angle.
US11079889B2
Sensing systems and methods that utilize zero row sum code division multiplexing (CDM) drive matrices to reduce or eliminate radiative emissions. Measurements corresponding to an input received at a sensing region of the input device are obtained by driving a first subset of transmitters of the input device according to a first portion of a CDM drive matrix, wherein the CDM matrix is a zero row sum matrix, and obtaining first measurement signals with the plurality of receivers, and driving a second subset of the transmitters according to a second portion of the CDM drive matrix, wherein the first and second subsets of transmitters include at least one transmitter in common, and obtaining second measurement signals with the plurality of receivers. An image of the input may be generated based on the obtained measurements.
US11079887B2
A conductive member for a touch panel has a transparent insulating substrate and a first conductive layer which is formed on the transparent insulating substrate, in which the first conductive layer has a first mesh pattern which is composed of a plurality of first mesh cells having a closed shape and formed of thin metal wires, the number of directional components in which vertices of the plurality of first mesh cells are arranged in a straight line is 1 or less, and the number of directional components in which vertices of the plurality of first mesh cells are arranged in a straight line represents the number of sets of parallel line segments, each of the line segments passing through four or more vertices of four or more of the plurality of first mesh cells which are continuously arranged in a straight line.
US11079883B2
A display module includes: a display panel; and an input sensing circuit disposed thereon, the input sensing circuit including: a first sensor group including a plurality of first sensors arranged in a first direction; a plurality of first connection portions electrically connecting two adjacent first sensors of the plurality of first sensors, respectively; a second sensor group including a plurality of second sensors arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction; a plurality of second connection portions electrically connecting two adjacent second sensors of the plurality of second sensors, respectively; a first signal line electrically connected to one first sensor of the plurality of first sensors; a first measuring line electrically connected to the one first sensor among the plurality of first sensors and spaced apart from the first signal line; and a second measuring line electrically connected to another first sensor among the plurality of first sensors.
US11079878B1
Techniques for mitigating noise in a touch signal are disclosed. To reduce or eliminate noise in a touch signal, the touch activity can be filtered out of a touch signal, thus isolating the noise. In some examples, the noise is then provided to the non-inverting input port of a differential amplifier while the unfiltered touch signal is provided to the inverting input port of the differential amplifier. The noise, which is now common on both inputs, is automatically eliminated or reduced by the differential amplifier.
US11079876B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a touch display device, a touch driving circuit, and a touch driving method, and more specifically, to a touch display device, a touch driving circuit, and a touch driving method for enabling a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and sensitivity of touch sensing to be improved by implementing a code division sensing effect for the self-capacitance sensing scheme.
US11079875B2
A compact electronic device has a touch sensor and/or a microphone that are concealed within a housing at least partially wrapped by an acoustically porous cover. In some implementations, the touch sensor includes a sensing portion and a contact portion extending from the sensing portion. While the sensing portion is placed in proximity to an interior surface of the housing to detect a touch on the housing, the contact portion is bent to electrically couple the sensing portion to a circuit board via two distinct electrical paths. In some implementations, an exterior surface of the housing includes a sealing area surrounding an aperture on the housing, and the acoustically porous cover is affixed to the sealing area via an adhesive. The adhesive covers the sealing area and permeates a thickness of the acoustically porous cover, thereby enabling formation of a controlled sound path to access the microphone via the aperture.
US11079870B2
A display device includes: a display panel; a pressure sensor disposed below the display panel, the pressure sensor configured to detect pressure applied to the display panel; and a supporting layer disposed on a surface of the pressure sensor facing away from the display panel.
US11079866B2
According to various embodiments, there is provided a computer mouse movable relative to a tracking surface on which the computer mouse is placed, the computer mouse including: a housing; a magnetic element provided on the housing; and a control circuit configured to control a magnetic attraction force between the magnetic element and a ferromagnetic material on the tracking surface.
US11079865B2
A position detection device includes an accommodation portion, a planar coil, a first control circuit, and a first detection circuit. The accommodation portion accommodates therein an electronic pen having a position indication coil wound in an axial direction of the electronic pen. The planar coil is disposed adjacent to the accommodation portion at a position at which a center axis direction of the planar coil crosses the axial direction of the electronic pen while the electronic pen is accommodated in the accommodation portion. The first control circuit performs control such that supply of a signal to the planar coil and reception of a signal through the planar coil by electromagnetic induction are performed alternately. The first detection circuit detects a state regarding accommodation of the electronic pen in the accommodation portion in accordance with a presence or an absence of a signal received through the planar coil.
US11079862B2
A stylus includes a timer; a signal generator coupled to a stylus tip; a switch; and a controller comprising one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying logic. The logic is operable when executed to: in response to the switch of the stylus being ON, initiate the signal generator to generate a signal having a pre-determined frequency and a pre-determined voltage from the stylus tip, and activate the timer, and stop the generating of the signal when a timing of the activated timer reaches a pre-determined threshold.
US11079856B2
A system and method for authenticating a user through unique aspects of the user's keyboard are provided. The system and method measure particular aspects of the keyboard performance, which identifies each keyboard uniquely. Thus, the proper keyboard used when logging in to a service or a network can be authenticated.
US11079846B2
Systems, articles, and methods for improved capacitive electromyography (“EMG”) sensors are described. The improved capacitive EMG sensors include one or more sensor electrode(s) that is/are coated with a protective barrier formed of a material that has a relative permittivity εr of about 10 or more. The protective barrier shields the sensor electrode(s) from moisture, sweat, skin oils, etc. while advantageously contributing to a large capacitance between the sensor electrode(s) and the user's body. In this way, the improved capacitive EMG sensors provide enhanced robustness against variations in skin and/or environmental conditions. Such improved capacitive EMG sensors are particularly well-suited for use in wearable EMG devices that may be worn by a user for an extended period of time and/or under a variety of skin and/or environmental conditions. A wearable EMG device that provides a component of a human-electronics interface and incorporates such improved capacitive EMG sensors is described.
US11079834B2
A radio module, radio module, comprising a battery; and a radio circuit, the radio circuit comprising: a DC-to-DC converter coupled with the batters and configured to convert a battery voltage to a first DC voltage level; at least one regulator coupled with the DC-to-DC converter and configured to covert the first DC voltage level to a second DC voltage level; a plurality of circuit blocks coupled with the at least one regulator such that the second DC voltage level is configured to provide power to the plurality of circuit blocks; a real time clock configured to provide a clock signal to the plurality of circuit blocks; and a management unit coupled with the plurality of circuit blocks and configured to implement a state machine to control the plurality of circuit blocks, wherein the state machine causes the management unit to cause the second DC voltage level to be applied to and removed from at least some of the plurality of circuit blocks during various states comprising the state machine, wherein the plurality of circuit blocks comprise a real time clock and a retention memory configured to store register values and component values for the plurality of circuit blocks, and wherein the management unit comprises a wake up logic circuit, the state machine comprising a lower power state in which only the wake up logic circuit, real time clock, and retention memory are on.
US11079825B2
Apparatus, devices, systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to allocate power in a computing device. An example system includes a compiler to: analyze power consumption behavior of power consumption units of the computing device; build a power profile; and generate source code with hints of the power profile. The example system includes a power control circuit to: develop a power policy using the hints of the power profile and requests for power licenses from the power consumption units of the computing device; and allocate power to the power consumption units based on the power profile.
US11079813B2
A computer case configured to dispose a motherboard and a graphics card therein is provided. The computer case includes an outer frame and a motherboard carrier. The outer frame includes a side surface. The motherboard carrier is connected to the outer frame and configured to dispose the motherboard thereon. A body of the motherboard carrier and the side surface form a predetermined angle of greater than 0°.
US11079810B2
Apparatuses and systems can mitigate the ingress of debris such as small foreign particles or fluids passing into a joint of an electronic device. Some aspects of the systems prevent particles from passing between a flexible cable and a mandrel surface used to limit bending of the cable. Other aspects provide particle relief features including gaps, grooves, or reduced-size sections of the mandrel so that particles can pass into them and thereby cause no damage or pass out of the electronic device. Another aspect provides a protective layer configured to limit pressure applied to the cable by particles or other contaminants. These apparatuses and systems can improve the life and durability of the mandrel and cable, thereby improving the reliability of operating the electronic device.
US11079807B1
A hinge assembly is disclosed. The hinge assembly may include roller elements and spacer elements positioned between adjacent roller elements. The hinge assembly couples with two housing parts, and allows movement of the housing parts with respect to one another. The roller elements synchronously rotate along surfaces of the spacer elements during rotation of one of the housing parts. Also, in order to maintain engagement between the roller elements and the spacer elements, a strap may extend through openings of the roller elements and the spacer elements. Further, the strap may provide the hinge assembly with a desired stiffness. For example, when the first housing part ceases rotational movement, the strap may cause the first housing part to maintain its position relative to the second housing part. Also, the hinge assembly may include a tensioning element coupled to the strap in order to provide tension to the strap.
US11079804B2
The present application provides a back plate structure and a flexible display device. The back plate structure includes: a first back plate, a second back plate and a flexible shaft. The first back plate and the second back plate are connected by the flexible shaft. The flexible shaft includes an arch component and at least one end component. The arch component includes a concave surface and a convex surface corresponding to the concave surface, and the concave surface faces a bending direction of the flexible display device. Each end component includes at least one foldable structure, and each foldable structure includes two planes parallel to a bending axis of the flexible display device. Each end component is located at an end of the arch component and obscures a space formed by the arch component.
US11079798B1
Systems and methods are involved with but are not limited to an apparatus including a laptop case assembly for a laptop, the laptop case assembly includes a display case portion including a base portion, and at least one pad portion, the at least one pad portion being contiguously adjacent to at least one surface portion of the base portion, the at least one pad portion including a plurality of ridges and a plurality of grooves, a keyboard case portion including a base portion, and at least one pad portion, the at least one pad portion being contiguously adjacent to the at least one surface portion of the base portion, and the at least one pad portion including a plurality of ridges and a plurality of grooves. In addition, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.
US11079795B2
A portable electronic device includes a first body, a second body, a pivot assembly, and a protective assembly. The pivot assembly is pivoted to the first body and the second body and includes a shaft. The first body pivots relative to the second body via the shaft. The protective assembly is slidably disposed at periphery of the first body and the second body and includes at least one guide structure and at least one sliding structure. When the first body moves relative to the second body from a lock position to an open position, the protective assembly drives the guide structure and the sliding structure to slide along the periphery of the first body and the second body and drive the guide structure to be coaxially arranged with the shaft to allow the protective assembly to rotate with the first body relative to the second body.
US11079780B2
A circuit comprising a NMOS having a gate coupled to a first node and a source terminal coupled to a second node, a second NMOS having a gate coupled to the second node and a source terminal coupled to an output node, a PMOS having a gate coupled to a third node, a drain terminal coupled to a fourth node, and a source terminal coupled to a fifth node, and a second PMOS having a gate coupled to the fourth node, a drain terminal coupled to the output node, and a source terminal coupled to the fifth node. The circuit also includes a voltage protection sub-circuit coupled to the first node, a fast turn-off sub-circuit coupled to the output node, a fast turn-on sub-circuit coupled to the third and fourth nodes, and a node initialization sub-circuit coupled to the first, second, and fourth nodes and the fast turn-on sub-circuit.
US11079775B1
A device that detects fluid flow may include a housing member that couples to a conduit and an apparatus that outputs the fluid. The device may also include a flow mechanism that detects the fluid flow through the conduit and the apparatus and a transmitter that transmits a signal indicative of the fluid flow to a computing device.
US11079762B2
A vehicle control device includes a recognition unit, an intersection road recognition determination unit, and a driving control unit. When a subject vehicle turns in a first direction that is one of left and right directions at an intersection road, in a case where it is determined that a situation of the intersection road is able to be recognized at a predetermined degree or more by the intersection road recognition determination unit, the driving control unit performs control of moving the subject vehicle toward a side of the first direction in front of the intersection road, and in a case where it is determined that the situation of the intersection road is not able to be recognized at the predetermined degree or more, the driving control unit suppresses the control of moving the subject vehicle toward the side of the first direction in front of the intersection road.
US11079759B2
Various technologies described herein pertain to sharing of detection of active emergency vehicles within an autonomous vehicle fleet. Information specifying detection of an active emergency vehicle at a first location in an environment is received. The active emergency vehicle is detected based upon sensor inputs of a first autonomous vehicle in an autonomous vehicle fleet. A second autonomous vehicle, at a second location, in the autonomous vehicle fleet is identified as being approached by the active emergency vehicle based on the information specifying the detection of the active emergency vehicle at the first location and the second location of the second autonomous vehicle. A remote assistance session for the second autonomous vehicle is caused to be initiated based on the second autonomous vehicle being identified as being approached by the active emergency vehicle. The second autonomous vehicle is controllable by a remote operator during the remote assistance session.
US11079757B1
One or more UAVs may survey signal sources encountered during execution of flight plans. A UAV may identify a signal source and determine attributes about the signal source. The attributes may include a location, an identifier, a signal/network type, a signal strength, and/or other information about the signal or signal source. Some attributes may be supplied by the signal source and other attributes may be assigned by another source that received signals from the signal source. The signal source may be associated with a trust level or trust designation (e.g., trusted, not trusted, unknown, etc.). An example of an untrusted signal source is a rogue signal source. A signal source may be labeled as untrusted or have a designation of unknown trust level based on application of one or more rules. Survey results and attributes may be compiled and made available for use by other parties.
US11079756B2
Method and apparatus are disclosed for monitoring of steering wheel engagement for autonomous vehicles. An example vehicle includes an autonomy unit configured to perform autonomous motive functions, a steering wheel, capacitive sensors coupled to the steering wheel, a second sensor configured to monitor an operator, and a controller. The controller is configured to detect a first heart rate via the capacitive sensors, detect a second heart rate via the second sensor, identify that an engagement-imitating device is coupled to the steering wheel responsive to determining that the first heart rate does not correlate with the second heart rate, and emit an alert responsive to determining that the engagement-imitating device is coupled to the steering wheel.
US11079747B2
The system and method described allow for real-time control over positioning of a micro-object. A movement of at least one micro-object suspended in a medium can be induced by a generation of one or more forces by electrodes proximate to the micro-object. Prior to inducing the movement, a simulation is used to develop a model describing a parameter of an interaction between each of the electrodes and the micro-object. A function describing the forces generated by an electrode and an extent of the movement induced due to the forces is generated using the model. The function is used to design closed loop policy control scheme for moving the micro-object towards a desired position. The position of the micro-object is tracked and taken into account when generating control signals in the scheme.
US11079733B2
A method of adaptive anti-windup protection for a control system with cascaded inner control loop and an outer control loops. The method includes receiving an outer loop feedback signal indicative of the response of a plant controlled by the outer control loop and calculating an inner control loop request such that, it would cause saturation of the control device controlled by the inner control loop. The method also includes converting the calculated inner loop request to outer loop anti-windup request limits using kinematic relationships and transmitting the outer loop anti-windup request limits to a controller of the outer control loop. The method may also include applying the outer loop anti-windup request limits to a controller of the outer control loop to limit the inner loop request generated thereby, and executing an outer control loop control law and an inner control loop control law subject to the anti-windup request limits.
US11079718B2
The present invention relates to a method of detecting a possible infection of malaria in a patient using a digital optical microscope.
US11079714B2
An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a developing roller, a cam, a developing motor, a first transmission mechanism, and a second transmission mechanism. The cam moves the developing roller between a contacting position where the developing roller is in contact with the photosensitive drum and a separated position where the developing roller is separated from the photosensitive drum. The developing motor drives both the developing roller and the cam, and is rotatable in a normal rotating direction and a reverse rotating direction. The first transmission mechanism engages power transmission from the developing motor to the developing roller when the developing motor rotates in the normal rotating direction, and disengages the power transmission when the developing motor rotates in the reverse rotating direction. The second transmission mechanism can engage power transmission from the developing motor to the cam, irrespective of the rotating direction of the developing motor.
US11079709B2
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit that transports a sheet of paper carrying an unfixed image through a nip part to fix the unfixed image to the sheet, the nip part applying heat and pressure to the sheet, a first guide unit that guides transport of the sheet, the first guide unit coming into contact with a first side of the sheet leaving the nip part of the fixing unit, and a second guide unit that guides transport of the sheet, the second guide unit coming into contact with a second side of the sheet leaving the nip part of the fixing unit, the second guide unit being rotatable, the second side being opposite to the first side. The first guide unit has a guide part. The guide part includes an upstream guide part disposed upstream with respect to a sheet transport direction, and a bent guide part that is bent at an endpoint position of the upstream guide part in a direction of entry into a sheet transport passage relative to the upstream guide part. At least one portion of the second guide unit is disposed to face the bent guide part such that the at least one portion of the second guide unit is positioned within an area corresponding to a portion of the bent guide part from an upstream end to a downstream end with respect to the sheet transport direction, with a space being provided between the at least one portion of the second guide unit and the bent guide part to allow passage of the sheet.
US11079697B2
According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, and a control portion. The image forming portion includes an image carrier, a charging device, and a cleaning device. The charging device includes a charging roller which contacts a surface of the image carrier. The cleaning device includes a cleaning blade, and an adjustment portion. The cleaning blade slidably contacts the surface of the image carrier. The adjustment portion adjusts a linear pressure of the cleaning blade exerted on the surface of the image carrier. The control portion executes, when a rate of increase of an outer layer resistance value of the charging roller caused by a decrease in the function of the cleaning blade is greater than or equal to a first rate, linear pressure adjustment control of controlling the adjustment portion to increase the linear pressure of the cleaning blade.
US11079673B2
The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for repairing at least one defect of a photolithographic mask for the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wavelength range, wherein the method includes the steps of: (a) determining the at least one defect; and (b) ascertaining a repair shape for the at least one defect; (c) wherein the repair shape is diffraction-based in order to take account of a phase disturbance by the at least one defect.
US11079671B2
A method for fabricating a photomask is provided. The method includes several operations. A photomask substrate, having a chip region and a peripheral region adjacent to the chip region, is received. A reference pattern is formed by emitting one first radiation shot and a first beta pattern is formed by emitting a plurality of second radiation shots in the peripheral region. The plurality of second radiation shots are emitted along a first direction. A roughness of a boundary of the first beta pattern along the first direction is compared to a roughness of a boundary of the reference pattern along the first direction from a top view perspective. An alignment of the plurality of second radiation shots is adjusted if a result of the comparison exceeds a tolerance, or the photomask is formed. A photomask structure thereof and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor are also provided.
US11079670B2
Disclosed are a manufacturing method of a phase shift mask and a phase shift mask. The manufacturing method of a phase shift mask includes: forming a pattern of metal shielding layer on a base substrate; forming a phase shift layer and a first photoresist layer in sequence on the pattern of metal shielding layer; patterning the first photoresist layer with the pattern of metal shielding layer serving as a mask to form a pattern of first photoresist layer; and etching the phase shift layer with the pattern of first photoresist layer serving as a mask to form a pattern of phase shift layer.
US11079664B2
An optical system includes a light source, an illumination optical system, and an optical modulator. The lens array and the lens of the illumination optical system are arranged in that order from an upstream side of an optical path of light from the light source. The light shield is disposed at the upstream side relative to the lens in the optical path. The light shield blocks some rays incident within a range of an effective diameter of the lens. The illumination optical system emits the light to the optical modulator. The optical modulator emits the incident light to a first direction and a second direction different from the first direction. A center of an effective diameter of the lens array is offset from a center of the effective diameter of the lens to an opposite side of the light shield in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis.
US11079663B1
A camera accessory mounting element includes attachment elements configured to mount to a component of a camera, such as a lens or a flash device. One or more peripheral devices may be attached to the camera accessory mounting element using attachment elements such as magnets. Peripheral devices include a grid, a light directing dish, a lens hood, a lens adaptor, a step-ring, a lens filter, a lens extension tubes, a light diffusers, a light filter, and a light directing device.
US11079659B2
An outdoors consumer electronics device such as a camera contains electrical equipment this is isolated from exterior moisture. The consumer electronics device includes a housing configured to contain the electrical equipment, a seal mounted to the housing, and a cover that is releasably installable onto the housing. The seal includes a top surface that forms an inclined plane related to a bottom plane extending through the bottom edges of the seal. When the cover is installed onto the housing, the seal is compressed along a planar surface. Once the seal is compressed, moisture is prevented from entering the interior of the housing. While the seal that is formed when the cover is mounted to the housing is planar, the sealed area is non-planar.
US11079657B1
A display module including upper case, front case, blocking ribs, image-capturing opening, and blocking component is provided. The front case connects the upper case. The holding ribs are from on inner side of the upper case, and a guiding area is remained between the front case and the ribs. The image-capturing opening is formed on the front case. The blocking component is disposed on the inner side of the upper case and the front case. The blocking component has guiding part and blocking part. The guiding part is located on the guiding area. The guiding part has protrusions and compressible openings being adjacent to the ribs. Each of the compressible openings is corresponded to one of the protrusions. The protrusions exceed the guiding area. The blocking component is adjacent to the inner side of the front case and the image-capturing opening.
US11079644B2
An active matrix substrate of a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a light blocking layer, a lower insulating layer, a pixel TFT, a source wiring line, a pixel electrode, and a common electrode. The pixel TFT includes an oxide semiconductor layer. The oxide semiconductor layer includes a channel region, and first and second low-resistive regions. The source wiring line is located between the main surface of the first substrate and the lower insulating layer, and is formed from a conductive film the same as the light blocking layer. The pixel electrode is formed from an oxide film the same as the oxide semiconductor layer, and is continuous with the second low-resistive region. The active matrix substrate further includes a connection electrode that is formed from a transparent conductive film the same as the common electrode and connects the source wiring line to the first low-resistive region.
US11079643B2
An active matrix substrate includes: a source metal layer including a plurality of source bus lines; a lower insulating layer covering the source metal layer; a oxide semiconductor TFT including an oxide semiconductor layer provided on the lower insulating layer; an inter-layer insulating layer covering the oxide semiconductor TFT; a pixel electrode provided on the inter-layer insulating layer; a common electrode including a plurality of sub common electrodes each of which is capable of functioning as a touch sensor electrode; a gate metal layer including a plurality of gate bus lines and a gate electrode; a drain metal layer including the drain electrode; and a plurality of touch sensor lines included in the drain metal layer and each electrically connected to any one of the sub common electrodes.
US11079642B2
The present disclosure provides a display panel, which includes a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scan lines, and a plurality of pixels, a main scan electrode and a branch scan electrode of the same scan line are electrically connected, and a pixel electrode partially overlaps the branch scan electrode to form a storage capacitance.
US11079618B2
An imaging system includes a light source for outputting initial pulsed light, a polarization control unit for rotating a polarization plane of the initial pulsed light, an optical pulse shaping unit for inputting the initial pulsed light with the rotated polarization plane, and outputting first pulsed light Lp1 having a first polarization direction and second pulsed light Lp2 having a second polarization direction different from the first polarization direction with a time, an irradiation optical system for irradiating an imaging object with the pulsed light Lp1 and the pulsed light Lp2, a light separation element for separating the pulsed light Lp1 and the pulsed light Lp2 reflected by or transmitted through the imaging object on the basis of the polarization directions, an imaging unit for imaging the pulsed light Lp1, and an imaging unit for imaging the pulsed light Lp2.
US11079617B2
An optical filter comprising a variable transmittance layer having a first spectrum in a dark state, and a second spectrum in a faded state; and a color balancing layer having a third spectrum; each of the first, second and third spectra comprising a visible portion; the first and third spectra combining to provide a dark state spectrum approximating a dark state target color, and the second and third spectra combining to provide a faded state spectrum approximating a faded state target color. The optical filter may further comprise a light attenuating layer. The optical filter may further comprise part of a laminated glass.
US11079616B2
Various techniques provide nanostructure-based optical limiters for facilitating aperture protection. In one example, a method includes receiving, via a first window, incident light on a solution, where the solution includes liquid medium, a gas dissolved in the liquid medium, and nanostructures in contact with the liquid medium. The method further includes generating heat in the liquid medium based on oscillations of a subset of the plurality of nanostructures in response to the incident light. The method further includes releasing at least a portion of the gas from the solution as gas bubbles in response to the generated heat. The method further includes scattering, by the released gas bubbles, the incident light to prevent the incident light from reaching a second window. Related systems and products are also provided.
US11079614B2
The invention provides an improved rotationally stabilized contact lens design and method of designing such a lens which minimizes stabilization time of the lens while maximizing the lens on-eye comfort. The lens and the method of designing the lens further improves upon an earlier method which utilizes and combines non-circularity and thickness differential aspects which results in equivalent or minimized stabilization time, ease of insertion and manufacturability as well as maximum comfort that is improved over that of what either aspect can achieve independently. This further improvement of stiffness profile is achieved by optimizing and selectively addressing thickness differential both diametrically and circumferentially in a non-round lens design.
US11079609B1
A headband for securing eyeglasses on the head of a wearer may include adjustable cords secured to the temple arms of the eyeglasses. Distal ends of the cords may form end loops that fit over the temple arms and movably attach the headband to the temple arms for positioning the eyeglasses on the head of the wearer to relieve any pain and pressure on the wearer's nose and ears. Slide connectors may be manipulated to position and tighten the end loops of the pair of cords about the temple arms.
US11079604B2
The invention relates to a device for determining the exposure energy during the exposure of an element in an optical system, in particular for microlithography, comprising an optical element, a diffractive structure which has a locally varying grating period, and an intensity sensor arrangement, wherein electromagnetic radiation diffracted at the diffractive structure during operation of the optical system, in at least one order of diffraction, is directed to the intensity sensor arrangement by way of total internal reflection effected in the optical element.
US11079603B2
Illuminations systems that separate different colors into laterally displaced beams may be used to direct different color image content into an eyepiece for displaying images in the eye. Such an eyepiece may be used, for example, for an augmented reality head mounted display. Illumination systems may be provided that utilize one or more waveguides to direct light from a light source towards a spatial light modulator. Light from the spatial light modulator may be directed towards an eyepiece. Some aspects of the invention provide for light of different colors to be outcoupled at different angles from the one or more waveguides and directed along different beam paths.
US11079592B2
The present invention relates to a device 3 for protecting an optical sensor 13 for an automotive vehicle that is intended to be attached to the optical sensor, characterized in that the device includes:—a transparent optical element 9 exhibiting rotational symmetry and being rotatably mounted about an axis of rotation, configured to be positioned upstream of the optical sensor 13 so that the axis of rotation of the optical element 9 is merged with the optical axis 15 of the optical sensor 13; and—an actuator 5 that is coupled to the optical element 9 so as to rotate the optical element 9 in order to allow soiling to be removed by a centrifugal effect.
US11079589B2
An optical fibre for an ultrafast laser endoscope including at least the following structures: a hollow core, the periphery of which has an order of symmetry of at least six when considering axes of symmetry passing through the centre of the core and through the centre of convex shapes, seen from the centre of the core, the convex shapes at least partly making up the periphery of the core; an intermediate layer of cellular structure surrounding the core; a light conducting peripheral structure surrounding the intermediate layer of cellular structure; and an outer sheath surrounding the light-conducting peripheral structure. A particular advantage of the optical fibre is that it optimizes the emission of a high-power flux associated with fluorescence collection.
US11079572B2
There is provided an optical imaging system including a prism, a first fixed lens group, a first movable lens group, a second movable lens group, and a second fixed lens group. The prism is configured to refract light reflected from an object side toward an imaging plane and a reflecting member. The prism is disposed on the first fixed lens group and the first movable lens group is configured to change a position of the imaging plane so that an overall focal length is changed. The second movable lens group is configured to adjust a position of the imaging plane so that a focal length for an object is adjusted. The imaging plane is disposed on the second fixed lens group.
US11079571B2
A laser processing apparatus includes a laser source which generates a laser beam; a scanner unit disposed in an optical path of the laser beam from the laser source and which adjusts the optical path of the laser beam from the laser source in a first direction or in a second direction different from the first direction; and a reflector unit disposed in an optical path of the laser beam adjusted by the scanner unit and which reflects the laser beam adjusted by the scanner unit, where the reflector unit includes a first sub-reflector unit which shifts an optical path of the laser adjusted by the scanner unit in the first direction, and a second sub-reflector unit which shifts an optical path of the laser beam adjusted by the scanner unit in a third direction opposite to the first direction.
US11079559B2
A universal sub slot module is configured to be inserted in a slot in a hardware module that is configured to be inserted in one of a chassis and rack mounted unit. The universal sub slot module includes a printed circuit board; an optics component on the printed circuit board; a data plane and a control plane on the printed circuit board and communicatively coupled to the optics components; and connectors on the printed circuit board and communicatively coupled to the data plane and the control plane, wherein the connectors are configured to connect to corresponding connectors in the one or more hardware modules.
US11079557B2
A multi-fiber, fiber optic connector may include a reversible keying arrangement for determining the orientation for plugging the connector into an adapter to thereby allow for a change in polarity of the connection to be made on site. The connector housing may be configured to engage with a removable key that may be engaged with the housing in at least two different locations to provide the plug-in orientation, or the housing may have slidably displaceable keys movable between multiple positions on the housing.
US11079556B2
A connector including two connector portions each including a ferrule and a latch, each latch including a distal end, and a proximal end, wherein the latch is pivotable about an intermediate connection portion; and a boot mounted to the connector portions, the boot movable longitudinally relative to the connector portions, wherein the boot causes the distal ends of the latch to pivot toward the ferrule of each connector portion as the boot is moved away from the connector portions. Front housings of the connector portions can each be rotated about the longitudinal axis of the ferrule without rotating the ferrule or the boot, to change the polarity of the two connector portions. The spacing between the two ferrules is adjustable. A holder holds the connector portions, the holder including side slots, the connector portions mounted to the holder by moving laterally to the side slots. The holder defines an area for receipt of a fiber optic cable when the ferrule is pushed in a direction toward the boot.
US11079555B2
A managed fiber optic connector assembly formed with an optical fiber management enclosure. The optical fiber management enclosure is formed with a back body as one-piece to form an integrated fiber optic management enclosure, or fiber optic management enclosure is inserted into the back body form a two-piece enclosure. The fiber management enclosure has a plural of channels, for example, an upper channel and a lower channel that retain, separate and guide a plural of optical fibers that are accepted through a port at a distal end of the managed fiber optic connector assembly.
US11079546B2
An apparatus includes a transceiver and one or more optics. The transceiver is configured to transmit a transmit signal from a laser source in a transmission mode and to receive a return signal reflected by an object in a receive mode. The one or more optics are configured to spatially separate the transmission mode and the receive mode by optically changing a distance between the transmit signal and the return signal.
US11079543B1
A method of fabricating a multilayer dielectric (MLD) diffraction grating by providing a multilayer stack having a grating layer, and anisotropically etching the grating layer to form grating lines having an initial lineheight, an initial linewidth, and an initial grating duty cycle, that are greater than a target lineheight, a target linewidth, and a target grating duty cycle, respectively. An isotropic wet etch solution is then used to etch back the grating lines to the target lineheight, the target linewidth, and the target grating duty cycle so as to minimize electric field intensities and maximize diffraction efficiency for a given set of MLD illumination conditions.
US11079542B2
Systems and methods for an integrated photon source and detector of entangled photons are provided. In certain embodiments, a system includes a first waveguide layer comprising a photon producing waveguide configured to provide two photons propagating in orthogonal modes of a single waveguide. The system also includes a second waveguide layer comprising a photon conditioning waveguide network, the second waveguide layer formed on the first waveguide layer, the second waveguide layer having a different index of refraction. Further, the system includes a photon vertical coupling waveguide, coupling the photons into the photon conditioning waveguide network, wherein the photon conditioning waveguide network converts the photons to propagate in two different waveguides in the same mode, wherein the photon conditioning waveguide network provides the photons as an output to an external device, wherein the photon conditioning waveguide network receives the photons from the external device and provides the photons to an interferometer.
US11079541B2
An optical deflection device that achieve both high beam quality and wide angular range of deflection and compatibility with an optical integration technology of silicon photonics. The optical deflection device is a silicon photonics device including a periodic structure of a refractive index. The optical deflection device includes two configurations, which are (1) a configuration in which an optical propagation part where light propagates is a microstructure formed on silicon, and (2) a configuration in which the microstructure constituting the optical propagation part includes a periodic structure that generates slow light and a periodic structure that radiates light. The microstructure formed on the silicon of (1) makes it possible to employ the optical integration technology of silicon photonics and form the optical deflection device. The two periodic structures of (2) make it possible to form a light beam with high beam quality and a wide angular range of deflection.
US11079533B2
Wide-area solid-state illumination devices and systems employing a thin and flexible sheet of an optically transmissive material having at least one broad-area surface patterned with light scattering surface microstructures such as microdots of a non-absorbing UV curable ink. Light is input into the thin and flexible sheet using a number of compact solid-state light sources, such as LEDs, optically coupled to one or more edges or to one or two of the broad-area surfaces defining the thin and flexible sheet. Each surface microstructure forms a semi-opaque layer that extracts light from the thin and flexible sheet and causes light emission from both opposing broad-area surfaces of the sheet.
US11079529B2
A display apparatus includes a polarizer, a phase retardation film, a touch member, and a display panel. The polarizer has a transmitting axis and is configured to linearly polarize external light to be parallel to the transmitting axis. The phase retardation film is on the polarizer and has a first optical axis. The touch member has a second optical axis and comprises a touch substrate on the polarizer and touch electrodes on the touch substrate. The display panel is on the polarizer. When a first in-plane retardation value of the phase retardation film is Rp1, a second in-plane retardation value of the touch member is Rp2, a phase retardation value within a target surface is Rpg, and a is a constant, an equation Rp1=Rpg−a*Rp2 is satisfied.
US11079520B2
In this disclosure, an optical component which comprises an array of metalenses is provided. Each metalens comprises a plurality of nanostructures and a dielectric layer and the nanostructures are disposed on the dielectric layer, and the nanostructures comprises an array of first phase compensation structures, and an array of second phase compensation structures. The array of the first phase compensation structures are disposed to surround the array of the second phase compensation structures so as to define a single metalens. The first and second phase compensation structures are complementary to each other and substantially satisfy the Babinet's principle.
US11079515B2
A three-dimensional time-of-flight (3D TOF) camera having a micro lens (ML) array configured with variable ML height and variable ML shift. The ML array includes micro lens that are configured to direct backscattered light that is transmitted through an image lens into corresponding pixels. Heights of individual micro lenses within the ML array vary according to image height. For example, the height of micro lenses at the center of the ML array, near the axis of the image lens, may be relatively larger than the height of other micro lenses toward the perimeter of the ML array. Furthermore, the shift of individual micro lenses with respect to corresponding pixels may also vary according to the image height. For example, the shift of micro lenses at the center of the ML array may be relatively smaller than the shift of the other micro lenses toward the perimeter of the ML array.
US11079506B2
A seismic streamer includes an outer sheath that forms an interior region of the seismic streamer of which a portion is filled with a gel or liquid. The streamer also includes at least one stress member placed off-center in the interior region, and multiple sensors mounted proximate to a center of the interior region, where the sensors include a pressure sensor and a motion sensor. The streamer further includes multiple tilt sensors mounted along the interior region. A method of manufacturing a seismic streamer includes placing at least one stress member off-center along a first direction, mounting multiple spacers along the stress member, and affixing sensors to respective spacers, where the sensors include a pressure sensor and a motion sensor. The method further includes mounting tilt sensors along the first direction and affixing an outer sheath to the streamer that forms an interior region of the seismic streamer.
US11079504B2
A neutron spectrum generator is disclosed herein including a neutron source, a scatterer positioned in a direct path between the neutron source and a neutron detector, and a material shell configured to have at least one non-uniform characteristic selected from the group consisting of a material, a thickness, a length, an angle, a layer, and combinations thereof to generate a specific spectrum at the neutron detector that is different than the spectrum of the neutron source. A related method includes measuring a first response generated by a first material shell of a neutron spectrum generator interacting with a neutron source, replacing the first material shell with a second material shell, measuring a second response generated by a second material shell of a neutron spectrum generator interacting with the neutron source, and determining a total fission response by determining a difference between the first response and the second response.
US11079500B2
A radiation imaging apparatus that generates an image by receiving radiation transmitted through an object, comprises a sensor array configured to detect radiation, an obtaining unit configured to obtain an image signal from a detection signal of the sensor array, a power reception unit configured to receive power supplied from outside, and battery that is charged by using the power received by the power reception unit. The radiation imaging apparatus generates, in response to the satisfaction of a predetermined condition after power reception is started by the power reception unit, an image for correction by obtaining the image signal from the obtaining unit.
US11079497B2
A method for determining a location of a vehicle is provided. The method includes receiving, at data processing hardware, a first set of vehicle system data from one or more vehicles. The method also includes determining, at the data processing hardware, a data model based on the first set of vehicle system data. Additionally, the method includes receiving, at the data processing hardware, a second set of vehicle system data associated with the vehicle. The vehicle being different than the one or more vehicles. The method includes determining, using the data processing hardware, a vehicle location based on the second set of vehicle system data and the data model. The method includes displaying, on a user interface of the vehicle in communication with the data processing hardware, the vehicle location.
US11079484B2
A method for localizing a device. The method is performed by a communication device. The method includes measuring a phase of a signal that the communication device has received from the device, the signal having a first frequency; measuring a phase of at least one further signal that the communication device has received from the device; the at least one further signal having a second frequency, determining a phase pattern of a measured phase versus frequency, pattern matching the phase pattern with each reference phase pattern of a plurality of pre-determined reference phase patterns. Each reference phase pattern is associated with a distance between the communication device and the further communication device. The method further includes determining the distance between the further communication device and the communication device based on the pattern matching.
US11079481B2
An apparatus and a method for measuring distance by using electronic devices are provided. The apparatus includes an output unit, an input unit, and a controller. The output unit may be configured to transmit the first sound wave, and the input unit may be configured to receive the second sound wave from another apparatus that receives the first sound wave. The controller may be configured to determine the distance between the apparatus and the another apparatus based on a first value and a second value. The first value may correspond to a difference between a timing of initiating a transmission of the first sound wave and a timing of receiving the second sound wave, and the second value may correspond to a difference between a timing when the another apparatus initiates the transmission of the second sound wave and the timing when the another apparatus receives the first sound wave.
US11079478B2
An optoelectronic sensor (10) for measuring a distance of an object (18) in accordance with a time of flight principle comprises a light transmitter (12) for transmitting a light signal (14), a light receiver (22) for receiving the light signal (20) after reflection or remission by the object (18), the light receiver (22) having a first plurality of pixel elements (24, 24a) each configured as an avalanche photo diode element biased with a bias voltage greater than a breakdown voltage and thus operated in a Geiger mode in order to trigger an avalanche event upon light reception, a distance measuring unit (34) having a second plurality of time of flight measuring units (34a) connected to pixel elements (24a) for determining a time of flight between transmission and reception of a light signal, the second plurality being less than the first plurality, switching means (32, 32a) for connecting selected pixel elements (24a) to time of flight measuring units (34a) in a one-to-one fashion, and a pixel selection unit (28, 30) for determining pixel elements (24a) to be connected by the switching means (32, 32a) based on an intensity measurement.
US11079473B2
In at least one illustrative embodiment, a guided wave radar (GWR) level transmitter may comprise a timing circuit including a first oscillator circuit and a second oscillator circuit, a coincidence circuit configured to generate a coincidence signal indicative of phase shifts created by a difference between first and second frequencies of the first and second oscillator circuits, and a microcontroller configured to (i) determine a stretching factor based on the coincidence signal and at least one of the oscillator signals, (ii) calculate, when the stretching factor is within a first range, a distance to a media surface using the stretching factor, and (iii) adjust, when the stretching factor is outside of a second range, at least one of the first and second oscillator circuits to adjust the difference between the first and second frequencies.
US11079472B2
An antenna apparatus includes a dielectric substrate, a base plate, an antenna unit, and a reflecting unit. A plurality of conductor patches are structured to resonate, at an operating frequency of the antenna unit, in a resonating direction which is different from a polarization direction Dan of a radio wave transmitted and received by the antenna unit.
US11079469B2
A method and apparatus for locating a target in a venue is described. A backend controller activates transmitters in a venue to send burst signals using a double symmetry configuration formed of a plurality of separate transmitter groups. The backend controller activates the transmitters into a second, different configuration for bursting. The resulting location signal information from each configuration is obtained by the backend controller, which then more accurately determines the location of the target in the venue.
US11079465B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for estimating a signal source, the method including receiving, in at least one receiving node, a signal emitted from a signal source, extracting a steering matrix corresponding to a virtual antenna array by vectorizing the signal received in the at least one receiving node, and estimating a location of the signal source based on the steering matrix.
US11079463B2
A method for the determining a position of at least one measurement object equipped with a mobile station having a receiver includes employing at least four reference objects having a base station and a transmitter, wherein a first reference object of the at least four reference objects has a mobile station with a receiver and simultaneously acts as a measurement object. The base station and the mobile station are structurally combined. The reference objects initially have a known position that can change. The transmitters of the base stations transmit signals and the mobile stations receive signals. The method additionally includes emitting, by at least two transmitters of base stations, periodic signals of different frequencies at mutually defined time intervals, wherein these frequencies are closely adjacent.
US11079456B2
A method of reconstructing magnetic resonance (MR) image data from k-space data. The method includes obtaining k-space data of an image region of a subject; and reconstructing, using a sparse image coding procedure, the MR image data from the k-space data by performing an iterative optimization method. The optimization method includes a data consistency iteration step and a denoising iteration step applied to MR image data generated by the data consistency iteration step. The denoising iteration step incorporates a sparsifying operation to provide a sparse representation of the MR image data for the imaged region as an input to the data consistency iteration step.
US11079454B2
Systems and methods are provided for performing automated reconstruction of a dynamic MRI dataset that is acquired without a fixed temporal resolution. On one or more image quality metrics (IQMs) are obtained by processing a subset of the acquired dataset. In one example implementation, at each stage of an iterative process, one or more IQMs of the image subset is computed, and the parameters controlling the reconstruction and/or the strategy for data combination are adjusted to provide an improved or optimal image reconstruction. Once the IQM of the image subset satisfies acceptance criteria based on an estimate of the overall temporal fidelity of the reconstruction, the full reconstruction can be performed, and the estimate of the overall temporal fidelity can be reported based on the IQM at the final iteration.
US11079452B2
Some aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for magnetic resonance thermometry. In one embodiment, a preliminary balanced steady state free precession (bSSFP) magnetic resonance imaging pulse sequence is applied to an area of interest of a subject. Based on bSSFP image phases, a relationship between frequency and image phase associated with the area of interest can be determined and a bSSFP magnetic resonance imaging pulse sequence applied for temperature change measurement during and/or after focused energy is applied to the subject. Based on image phase change associated with temperature change and using the determined relationship between frequency and image phase, a change in the resonance frequency associated with the target area due to the application of the focused energy can be determined, and the temperature change can be determined based on the determined change in the resonance frequency.
US11079450B2
Various methods and systems are provided for a flexible, lightweight, and low-cost disposable radio frequency (RF) coil of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. In one example, an RF coil assembly for an MRI imaging system includes a loop portion comprising distributed capacitance conductor wires, a coupling electronics portion including a pre-amplifier; and a disposable material enclosing at least the loop portion, the disposable material comprising one or more of paper, plastic, and/or cloth.
US11079447B2
Magnetic sensors, sensor modules, and methods thereof are provided. A magnetic sensor includes a sensor arrangement including a plurality of magnetic field sensor elements electrically arranged in an asymmetrical bridge circuit, where a first total resistance of a first pair of sensor elements provided on a first side of the asymmetrical bridge circuit is different from a second total resistance of a second pair of sensor elements provided on a second side of the asymmetrical bridge circuit, and the asymmetrical bridge circuit is configured to generate a differential signal based on sensor signals generated by the plurality of magnetic field sensor elements in response to a magnetic field impinging thereon.
US11079439B2
In a protection circuit, a signal line group includes a plurality of voltage signal lines, and the voltage signal lines are connected to electrode portions of a plurality of unit batteries or electrode portions of a battery module. A first protection circuit portion includes a plurality of Zener diodes, and the Zener diodes are connected in parallel to the unit batteries between the plurality of voltage signal lines. A resistor portion group includes a plurality of resistor portions, and the resistor portions are interposed between the Zener diodes and the unit batteries on the voltage signal lines and restrict a current. A second protection circuit portion includes a plurality of varistors, and the varistors are connected in parallel to the unit batteries between the plurality of voltage signal lines.
US11079435B2
A method for diagnosing the wear status of an electrical switching unit including a phase for monitoring the electrical unit. The monitoring phase uses: learning data previously loaded and representative of the type of electrical unit, and initialization data corresponding to the unit to be monitored and stored in memory during an initialization phase. The monitoring phase includes the measurement and the acquisition of a measurement curve upon the opening of the electrical unit, the determination of values of local descriptors with little sensitivity to the temperature from the measurement curve as a function of values of the measurement curve, of initialization data, and of learning data, the determination of a global status class as a function of the positioning values. The device and the electrical unit implement the method.
US11079424B2
Example embodiments of the invention include a powdered core bead body configured to become an inductive impedance to current signals in a power wire with high frequencies. The signals are detectable by a high frequency voltage sensor, which is configured to output an arc fault tripping indication to an arc fault tripping circuit. The bead body includes a magnetic flux-density sensing device embedded in an air cavity of the bead body, having a magnetic field sensing surface oriented substantially perpendicular to the circumferential periphery of the bead body. The bead body is configured to provide measurable magnetic flux through the magnetic flux-density sensing device, for currents in the power wire having low frequencies. The measurable magnetic flux is detectable by a low frequency magnetic flux-density sensing device, to output a low frequency current measurement for power metering devices or to determine power consumption within a protected branch.
US11079417B2
Techniques for detecting electrical meter bypass theft are described herein. In one example, a time-series of voltage-changes and current-changes associated with electrical consumption measured at a meter are obtained. The time series may track associated voltage and current changes at short intervals (e.g., 5-minutes). The voltage and current changes may indicate a slight voltage change when an appliance is turned on or off. An analysis (e.g., a regression analysis) may be performed on the voltage-changes against the current-changes. Using the correlation from the analysis, it may be determined if the meter was bypassed.
US11079412B1
An optical current monitor for detecting a current traveling through conductive material. The optical current monitor comprises a light source for emitting light at an output level; a lens configured to receive the light; Faraday material positioned near the conductive material and configured to receive light that has passed through the lens, thereby producing rotated light; a polarizer configured to polarize the rotated light; a photodetector configured to receive the rotated light and output a signal as a function of the rotated light; and a feedback system. The feedback system is configured to receive the signal from the photodetector and modify the output level of the light source based on the signal so that the signal remains at a reference level when the current is not traveling through the conductive material.
US11079405B1
A method of detecting a ferroelectric signal from a ferroelectric film and a piezoelectric force microscopy (PFM) apparatus are provided. The method includes following steps. An input waveform signal is generated, wherein the input waveform signal includes a plurality of read voltage steps with different voltage levels. The input waveform signal to the ferroelectric film is applied. An atomic force microscope probe scans over a surface of the ferroelectric film to measure a surface topography of the ferroelectric film. A deflection of the atomic force microscope probe is detected when the input waveform signal is applied to a pixel of the ferroelectric film to generate a deflection signal. Spectrum data of the pixel based on the deflection signal is generated. The spectrum data of the pixel is analyzed to determine whether the spectrum data of the pixel is a ferroelectric signal or a non-ferroelectric signal.
US11079402B2
Provided is an automatic analyzer that has a plurality of mechanisms including a mechanism that suctions reaction waste liquid and a mechanism that suctions cleaning liquid, etc. on a sample and a probe surface, the automatic analyzer reducing pressure in a vacuum tank using a pressure-reducing pump, etc., and suctioning waste liquid by negative pressure in the vacuum tank. A contact point of a vacuum switch that is provided in the vacuum tank is closed when the pressure in the vacuum tank reaches a specified negative pressure, and then the analyzer becomes ready for analysis. If any flow path portion of any mechanism that connects with the vacuum tank becomes clogged, suctioning operation cannot be performed properly and analysis performance is affected. The vacuum pump is switched off at a timing at which each solenoid valve connecting to the vacuum pump is individually opened, and the time that elapses before the pressure in the vacuum tank reaches the specified negative pressure is measured. The measured time is compared with parameters in a normal case, and the presence or absence of an anomaly is determined.
US11079397B2
A method and an apparatus for determining or approximating a patient's glomerular filtration rate or a patient's creatinine clearance are disclosed. The method comprises the following steps: determining a serum creatinine concentration of the patient, determining a lean tissue mass of the patient, and determining the glomerular filtration rate of the patient or the creatinine clearance of the patient based on the serum creatinine concentration of the patient and the lean tissue mass of the patient.
US11079391B2
The invention relates to an in vitro process for determining the functional IL-17 pro-inflammatory dependent level (IPDL) of a biological sample, comprising the following steps: a) measuring the level of an inflammatory marker produced by IL-17-sensitive cells incubated in the presence of a biological sample, b) measuring the level of said inflammatory marker produced by said cells incubated in the presence of a biological sample, in the presence of antibodies which neutralize the biological activity of IL-17, and c) determining the IPDL level, which is the difference between the level of said inflammatory marker measured in step a) and the level of said inflammatory marker measured in step b).
US11079389B2
The present invention provides a method for identifying a synthetic classifier including contacting at least a first and second samples derived from different groups of a cohort with a first plurality of peptides. The first plurality of peptides includes a first subset of peptides defining at least one naturally occurring amino acid sequence, and a second subset of peptides defining a plurality of variants of the first subset of peptides. The plurality of variants includes, for each one of the first subset of peptides, a variant peptide having at least one of a substitution, a deletion, an insertion, an extension, and a modification. The method further includes selecting at least one of the plurality of variants from the second subset of peptides, and defining a synthetic classifier including the at least one of the plurality of variants that distinguishes between samples derived from the first and second cohorts.
US11079387B2
In one aspect, the present invention is generally directed to methods for measuring distribution of lengths of a collection of carbon nanotubes. In particular, the present teachings provide an indicator for length-based separation of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) via conjugation of one or more biomolecules onto the surfaces of the nanotubes. As discussed in more detail below, in some embodiments, such a method can include conjugating a biomolecule to the carbon nanotubes and subject the conjugated carbon nanotubes to silver-stained gel electrophoresis to separate the conjugated carbon nanotubes based on their lengths.
US11079386B2
The present invention relates to monoclonal antibodies against FZD10. Furthermore, the present invention provides methods for diagnosing FZD10-related diseases using such an antibody, methods for detecting a FZD10 protein, methods for determining drug efficacy after treatment with FZD10 inhibitors, and methods of screening for subjects in whom treatment with FZD10 inhibitors is highly effective, and provides diagnostic reagents containing such an antibody.
US11079378B2
Devices and kits for detecting molecular targets involved in the onset of parturition are presented, as are methods of using the same. The devices and kits include one or more associators specific for molecular targets, such as microRNAs and proteins and peptide fragments thereof. The associators, such as aptamers or antibodies, bind their targets, when such targets are present in a fluid sample from a pregnant woman, to produce a detectable signal. The signal may be produced in a lateral flow device.
US11079376B1
The optical analyte detector is a photonic detector that uses a measured wavelength shift to determine the presence of an analyte. An open cell is formed in an optical layer for receiving a sample to be analyzed. A transition metal dichalcogenide monolayer defines a bottom wall of the open cell, and the transition metal dichalcogenide monolayer is formed directly above a microring resonator. A waveguide is positioned adjacent to the open cell, and is spaced apart therefrom by a gap. The waveguide is coupled to the microring resonator, and the transition metal dichalcogenide monolayer is functionalized with an adsorbed layer for detection of a specific analyte. Molecular binding takes place if a sample of the analyte contacts the adsorbed layer, which induces a wavelength shift in light transmitted through the waveguide. The presence of this measured wavelength shift indicates positive detection of the analyte.
US11079375B2
The invention relates to a method for determining active concentrations of an analyte and optionally kinetic constants for the interaction of the analyte with a ligand in complex biological samples by means of surface plasmon resonance comprising the use of an auto-blank.
US11079373B2
Aspects of the present disclosure include methods that include co-culturing a cell and a microparticle that includes a capture ligand, in a culture medium under conditions in which a biomarker produced by the cell is bound by the capture ligand. Such methods may further include detecting (e.g., by flow or mass cytometry) complexes that include the microparticle, the capture ligand, the biomarker, and a detection reagent. The methods may further include determining the proportion or number of cells among a heterogeneous cell population that produced the biomarker and/or the level of biomarker secreted by such cells. Compositions, systems and kits are also provided.
US11079367B2
A method and apparatus is provided for assessing the current state of doneness of a cooking food item. In a preferred embodiment, a sharpened hollow tubular cutting member of relatively small diameter is rotationally activated to cut and remove from a cooking food item a cylindrical core sample, preferably throughout its entire thickness, without substantial distortion of the shape of the sample. Upon expulsion from the cutting member, inspection of the core sample permits visual determination of the current state of doneness of the food item.
US11079363B2
The systems and methods of this disclosure enable evaluation, verification, and testing of toxic gas sensors without the need for a target gas cylinder. The systems and methods for testing toxic gas sensors over a broad range of frequencies facilitates evaluation and diagnosis of mechanisms underlying sensor performance. The systems and methods of this disclosure may be incorporated into portable gas sensing equipment for in field diagnostics.
US11079356B2
An ultrasonic sensing apparatus includes an accommodating shell and at least one detection device. The accommodating shell includes a base and a convex portion connected to the base. A side of the base has a first detection opening toward a first direction, and a side of the convex portion has a second detection opening toward a second direction. Each of the at least one detection device is disposed in the base or the convex portion of the accommodating shell and includes a board, a piezoelectric assembly, a housing and a plurality of fixing members. The plurality of fixing members are configured to fix the board on the top wall of the housing to press the board to the encapsulating body of the piezoelectric assembly, thereby pressing the piezoelectric sheet to the bottom wall.
US11079354B2
Multiple Josephson toroidal vertex quantum superconductive/memristive and superconductive/memcapacitive devices were invented with various superlattice structures, which work at room temperature without an applied external magnetic flux. The first type of the superlattices of the devices comprises of multiple-layers of organometallic polymers on gold chips by self-assembling that mimics the function of Matrix Metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2). Another type of quantum superconductor/memristor comprises of multiple-organic polymers cross-linked with MMP-2 protein forming Josephson toroidal vertex on the gold surface. Models of the quantum superconductive/memristive and superconductive/memcapacitive devices were fabricated in nano superlattice structures and the devices module configurations were described. Three different methods were used to evaluate the devices' applications in sub fg/mL collagen-1 sensing, energy storage, and the super-position characteristics as a potential quantum bit device. The superconductivity, memristive, and memcapacitive functions were also evaluated in multiple methods, respectively.
US11079348B2
A water sensor for detecting water in gas oil filters having a first and a second electrode a first and a second earth connection for earthing the first electrode and the second electrode; a first switch arranged in the first earth connection; a second switch arranged in the second earth connection; a first and a second current connection for injecting a first current into the first electrode and a second current into the second electrode; and a current-generating circuit connected to the first electrode and to the second electrode through the first current connection and the second current connection respectively, and designed to inject the first current into the first electrode and the second current into the second electrode, the first current and the second current being the same.
US11079335B2
Designs for a hybrid overlay target design that includes a target area with both an imaging-based target and a scatterometry-based target are disclosed. The imaging-based overlay target design can include side-by-side grating structure. A scatterometry-based overlay target design at a different location in the target area can include grating-over-grating structure. A method of measuring the hybrid overlay target design and a system with both an imaging optical system and a scatterometry system for measuring the hybrid overlay target design are also disclosed.
US11079326B1
Methods and systems for calculating a reflectance value of a reflective coating on a curved surface of an optical element include calculating the reflectance value by taking a series of photon count measurements of an extended radiation source over a range of values of emitted radiation reflected from the curved surface into a detector. A combination of the measurements and a known value of accepted or conforming reflectance for the reflective coating is used to calculate the reflectance value of the reflective coating on the curved surface.
US11079320B2
This disclosure relates to methods of characterizing a urine sample from a subject.
US11079311B2
A method performed by a system controller and evaluating a manhole event occurring in a duct-manhole system. The method includes estimating a size of the manhole event occurring in the system or estimating relative contributions to a fire of at least two of oxidative decomposition, pyrolysis, plasmatization, and flammable gas accumulation. Optionally, the method may include notifying one or more users and/or altering a rate of atmospheric turnover in the duct-manhole system.
US11079309B2
Embodiments are directed to strengthened glass articles comprising a thickness t≤1 mm (1000 μm), an inner region under a central tension CT (in MPa), and at least one compressive stress layer adjacent the inner region and extending within the strengthened glass article from a surface of the strengthened glass article to a depth of layer DOL (in μm), wherein the strengthened glass article is under a compressive stress at the surface CSs (in MPa), wherein the strengthened glass article is an alkali aluminosilicate glass article comprising 0-5 mol % Li2O, and at least 3 mol % Al2O3, and wherein the DOL≥70 μm, and a CSs/DOL ratio≥2.5 MPa/μm.
US11079297B2
The present invention discloses an integrated force sensor, characterized in comprising: a substrate, flexible through-cavities formed on the substrate, and a flexible skin covering the flexible through-cavities, wherein a lug boss is formed on the substrate; the flexible through-cavities are divided into two segments under the action of the lug boss, one end of the flexible through-cavities is connected with a pressure sensor used to measure the internal pressure of the flexible through-cavities, and the other end of the flexible through-cavities is communicated with outside air. In the invention, the force to be measured changes the gas pressure by changing the shape of an object and detects the magnitude of the force to be measured by detecting the gas pressure. Besides, the overloaded pressure can be released through the pressure release mechanism, without affecting the safety of the film of the pressure sensor or resulting in permanent damage to film.
US11079287B1
A method and system for determining temperature are provided. The method comprises using an x-ray source to irradiate a sample of a material with x-rays. Photon fluorescence produced by the sample in response to the x-ray irradiation is detected by a number of photon detectors. Based on the detected fluorescence a temperature of the sample is determined according to a predetermined relationship between photon fluorescence and temperature for the material.
US11079278B1
Provided is a multispectral imaging device for providing precise tracking and verification. The imaging device may configure a first filter for a sensor, and may determine first spectral properties of a target object based on a first image of the target object generated from visible light passing through the first filter onto the sensor. The imaging device may configure a different second filter for the sensor, and may determine second spectral properties of the target object based on a second image of the target object generated from the non-visible light passing through the second filter onto the sensor. The imaging device may align the second spectral properties of the second image with the first spectral properties of the first image, and may present the first spectral properties with the second spectral properties in a single composite image of the target object.
US11079272B2
A detection circuit includes a photosensitive device, a first storage sub-circuit, a second storage sub-circuit group, and an output control sub-circuit. The photosensitive device is coupled to a device voltage terminal and an output node. The first storage sub-circuit is coupled to the output node and a first voltage terminal. The second storage sub-circuit group is coupled to the output node, a second voltage terminal group and a second control signal terminal group. The output control sub-circuit is coupled to a signal receiving terminal, a first control signal terminal, and the output node.
US11079271B2
Provided is a position detection sensor. In a first pixel part, as an incident position is closer to a first end of a first pixel pair group in a second direction, an intensity of a first electric signal decreases. In a second pixel part, as the incident position is closer to the first end, an intensity of a second electric signal increases. In a third pixel part, as the incident position is closer to a second end of a second pixel pair group in a first direction, an intensity of a third electric signal decreases. In a fourth pixel part, as the incident position is closer to the second end, an intensity of a fourth electric signal increases. A calculation unit calculates a second position on the basis of the first and second electric signals, and calculates a first position on the basis of the third and fourth electric signals.
US11079269B2
The present invention provides novel apparatus and methods for fast quantitative measurement of perturbation of optical fields transmitted, reflected and/or scattered along a length of an optical fibre. The present invention can be used for point sensors as well as distributed sensors or the combination of both. In particular this technique can be applied to distributed sensors while extending dramatically the speed and sensitivity to allow the detection of acoustic perturbations anywhere along a length of an optical fibre while achieving fine spatial resolution. The present invention offers unique advantages in a broad range of acoustic sensing and imaging applications. Typical uses are for monitoring oil and gas wells such as for distributed flow metering and/or imaging, seismic imaging, monitoring long cables and pipelines, imaging within large vessel as well as for security applications.
US11079268B2
A level transmitter includes an analog-to-digital convertor clock signal generator that receives a transmitter clock signal that is used to establish when an incident signal is transmitted toward a material boundary. The analog-to-digital convertor clock signal generator uses the received transmitter clock signal to generate an analog-to-digital convertor clock signal. An analog-to-digital convertor samples an analog waveform based on the analog-to-digital convertor clock signal and generates a digital value for each sample of the analog waveform. An analysis module analyzes the digital values to determine a distance to the material boundary.
US11079267B2
A measurement device (10) comprising a sensing circuit (30) which is electrically floating and fully isolated. The sensing circuit (30) has a first (134) and a second (148) transformer across which is connected a measurement circuit (110). The device is so constructed that any signal generated in the coil (132) of the said first transformer (134) that is connected to the measurement circuit (110) caused by a change in any external magnetic field relative to the measurement circuit (110) is in anti-phase with the corresponding signal generated in the coil (164) of the said second transformer (148) that is connected to the measurement circuit (110).
US11079266B2
A scoop for the transfer of product from a container includes a head portion including a bowl portion; a handle portion slidably engageable with the head portion, the handle portion having a first position and a second position relative to the head portion; wherein in the first position, the handle portion at least partially overlaps part of the head portion such that at least part of the bowl portion is covered by the handle portion; wherein in the second position, the handle portion extends away from the head portion such that the bowl portion is no longer covered by the handle portion; wherein the length of the scoop being greater in the second position than in the first position.
US11079265B2
An air mass flowmeter with a housing having an air-guiding path in which an air mass sensor element is arranged on a sensor element carrier in the housing and is electrically connected to a circuit carrier by connection wires. The circuit carrier is also arranged in the housing the air mass sensor element is positioned accurately in the air-guiding path by a positioning element that engages into a positioning element receptacle formed in the sensor element carrier.
US11079259B2
A position encoder includes a carrier adapted to move with respect to a first sensor and a second sensor of a position encoder. The carrier also includes encoding elements situated on the carrier to interact with the first sensor. A first limit indicator is situated at a first location on the carrier to interact with the second sensor at a first position of the carrier corresponding to a first limit of the position encoder, and a second limit indicator is situated at a second location on the carrier to interact with the second sensor at a second position of the carrier corresponding to a second limit of the position encoder.
US11079249B1
A navigation device including a housing including an opening, two or more drive wheels, and two or more rollers, a spherical member located within the opening of the housing in direct contact with the two or more drive wheels and the two or more rollers such that the drive wheels control rotation of the spherical member in response to guidance signals received from a processor, and an attachable member coupled directly to the housing for securing the navigation device to a body part of a user and maintaining contact between the user's skin and the spherical member.
US11079244B2
A method for determining an ETA relating to a target route is provided. The method includes obtaining, a target route associated with a user; determining characteristic data relating to the target route, the characteristic data including first feature data corresponding to at least a portion of the target route; obtaining an estimation model, the estimation model including a first sub-model and a second sub-model; determining first cell state data and first hidden state data based on the first feature data and the first sub-model; determining a first vector based on the first cell state data and the first hidden state data; determining second cell state data and second hidden state data based on the first vector and the second sub-model; and determining an ETA relating to the target route based on the second cell state data and the second hidden state data.
US11079240B2
A method for localization of a mobile automation apparatus includes, at a navigational controller: generating a set of candidate poses within an environmental map; updating the candidate poses according to motion data corresponding to movement of the mobile automation apparatus; receiving observational data collected at an actual pose of the mobile automation apparatus; generating (i) respective weights for the candidate poses, each weight indicating a likelihood that the corresponding candidate pose matches the actual pose, and (ii) a localization confidence level based on the weights; responsive to determining whether the localization confidence level exceeds a candidate pose resampling threshold: when the determination is affirmative, (i) increasing the candidate pose resampling threshold and (ii) generating a further set of candidate poses; and when the determination is negative, (i) decreasing the candidate pose resampling threshold without generating the further set; and repeating the updating, the receiving, the generating and the determining.
US11079232B2
A device includes an optical resonator having four ports including a first port, a second port, a third port, and a fourth port. A first electronic circuit is configured to calculate a first information representative of a power difference between optical signals supplied by two of the four ports. A method of operating a device is also disclosed.
US11079226B2
A physical quantity sensor includes: a supporting member; and a sensor element supported by the supporting member, in which the sensor element includes a vibrator element, a drive signal wiring disposed on the vibrator element, and a first detection signal terminal and a second detection signal terminal disposed on the vibrator element, the supporting member includes a substrate on which the sensor element is joined, and a first detection signal wiring and a second detection signal wiring disposed on the substrate, and the first detection signal wiring and the second detection signal wiring respectively include areas that extend along a second axis intersecting with the first axis and that intersect with the drive signal wiring in a plan view as seen in a direction in which the sensor element and the substrate overlap with each other.
US11079213B2
A sensor includes an elastic base material including a first surface and a second surface, a first sensor which detects a change in a capacitance caused by expansion/contraction of the first surface, and a second sensor which detects a change in a capacitance caused by expansion/contraction of the second surface. The first sensor faces the second sensor with the base material therebetween.
US11079210B2
The disclosure relates to a method of sensing a distance applicable to a terminal including capacitive touch sensors. The method includes, when the terminal enters a non-hands-free call state, increasing an electric field strength of the touch sensors and/or decreasing a preset threshold, wherein the touch sensors generate raw data based on sensed signals when the sensed signals are greater than the preset threshold; and determining a distance between an object and the terminal based on the raw data generated by the touch sensors.
US11079194B1
A method for forming and a carbon fiber barrel sleeve resiliently bonded to steel liner includes providing a rifle barrel having thickened walls and a mandrel blank. Each of the barrel and blank are turned to form a barrel liner and a mandrel, respectively, such that each has a substantially identical contour. The barrel liner is stress relieved to eliminate stresses within the molecular structure of the barrel liner. A plurality of flutes are cut into an exterior surface of the barrel liner; the depth of each flute being at least equal to the depth of the flute. A plurality of layers of carbon fiber fabric are laid up on the mandrel to form a sheath which is cured and bonded to the barrel liner with a continuous bond of high temperature adhesive at tips of the fins. The bonded sheath and barrel liner forming a rifle barrel.
US11079193B1
A firearm safety mechanism assembly is provided. The firearm safety mechanism assembly includes a firearm with a receiver, a trigger guard coupled to the firearm, and a housing pin. The firearm safety mechanism assembly includes a trigger safety mechanism. The trigger safety mechanism includes a plate, a rod extending from the plate, a trigger coupled to the rod, and a lever nested within the trigger. The lever includes a lever first end and a lever second end, where the lever rotates between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the lever first end abuts a housing pin.
US11079184B2
Methods, systems, and devices are provided for thermal enhancement. Thermal enhancement may include absorbing heat from one or more devices. In some cases, this may improve the efficiency of the one or more devices. In general, a phase transition may be induced in a storage material. The storage material may be combined with a freeze point suppressant in order to reduce its melt point. The mixture may be used to boost the performance of device, such as an electrical generator, a heat engine, a refrigerator, and/or a freezer. The freeze point suppressant and storage material may be separated. By delaying the periods between each stage by prescribed amounts, the methods, systems, and devices may be able to shift the availability of electricity to the user and/or otherwise boost a device at different times in some cases.
US11079179B2
A second-level liquid slag cache system with flow and temperature monitoring and control functions is disclosed. A slag inlet is located at an upper portion of the slag ladle casing; at least one slag discharging unit is located at a side of a lower portion of the slag ladle casing; one slag discharging unit is corresponding to one stopper; the stopper includes a stopper head, a stopper rod and a stopper control mechanism; the stopper control mechanism is configured to control the flow area between the stopper head and the sizing nozzle; a sealing cover is disposed outside the sizing nozzle; a slag control tube is installed at a bottom of the sealing cover. The present invention is able to achieve liquid slag buffer, flow control and heat compensation, so as to allow liquid slag to continuously stably perform a subsequent granulation process.
US11079176B2
A method for producing liquefied natural gas (LNG) from a natural gas stream having a nitrogen concentration of greater than 1 mol %. At least one liquid nitrogen (LIN) stream is received at an LNG liquefaction facility. The LIN streams may be produced at a different geographic location from the LNG liquefaction facility. A natural gas stream is liquefied by indirect heat exchange with a nitrogen vent stream to form a pressurized LNG stream. The pressurized LNG stream has a nitrogen concentration of greater than 1 mol %. The pressurized LNG stream is directed to one or more stages of a column to produce an LNG stream and the nitrogen vent stream. The column has upper stages and lower stages. The LIN streams are directed to one or more upper stages of the column.
US11079174B2
A method for detecting whether an article with an abnormal temperature is placed in a refrigerator. The method includes: controlling a plurality of infrared sensors to collect temperature values after a door body is opened; determining whether an abnormal storage space in which the article with the abnormal temperature is possibly placed exists in a plurality of storage spaces; acquiring a first temperature change value of the abnormal storage space between time points before and after the article with the abnormal temperature is possibly placed in the abnormal storage space and a second temperature change value of the abnormal storage space caused by heat exchange between an external environment and the abnormal storage space between said time points; and determining whether the article with the abnormal temperature is placed in the abnormal storage space according to the first temperature change value and the second temperature change value.
US11079170B2
A refrigerator having a slide rail cabling mechanism comprises a compartment provided with a front-facing opening and a drawer-type door. The compartment has a bottom wall, a rear wall, and two sidewalls. An electrical component is provided on the drawer-type door. The slide rail cabling mechanism comprises a cable for powering the electrical component, a first cabling box, and a second cabling box. A first receiving portion and a second receiving portion located below a drawer box are formed in the first cabling box. The cable has a fixed section fixed in the first receiving portion and a movable section extending from the fixed section to the second cabling box. The second receiving portion is used to receive part of the movable section. The second cabling box is formed with a fixed receiving section extending in the front-rear direction.
US11079169B2
A refrigerator includes a main body having a storage compartment, a door to open or close the storage compartment, and a dispenser provided on the door and configured to supply water to the outside of the main body, wherein the door includes, a door plate, and a door cap coupled to a lower end portion of the door plate and having a water collecting part to collect residual water of the dispenser.
US11079162B2
The present invention provides a refrigerator comprising: a cabinet having a storage chamber; a door for opening or closing the storage chamber; a case in which an inlet through which air flows from the storage chamber and an outlet through which the air is discharged to the storage chamber are formed; an evaporator provided inside the case for exchanging heat with the air to supply cool air; and a differential pressure sensor provided inside the case.
US11079147B2
A method for loading refrigerant fluid into an A/C system from an apparatus for recovering and regenerating refrigerant fluid includes a step of hydraulically connecting the apparatus with the A/C system by a high pressure pipe and a low pressure pipe and a step of loading refrigerant fluid present in a storage container of the apparatus into the A/C system.
US11079142B2
A mirror for a solar reflector has at least one sensor integrated in the body of the mirror itself, the body of the mirror being all the layers of the mirror. At least one processor is integrated in the body of the mirror, associated with the sensor, thus generating an intelligent device and an intelligent mirror or smart mirror. A method of assembling the mirror itself and a management system for mirrors that make up a solar field is provided.
US11079137B2
The invention relates to a condensation heat exchanger which comprises: —at least two concentric bundles (5, 5′) of tubes made from a material that is a good thermal conductor, inside which tubes a heat-transfer fluid is intended to circulate, each bundle of tubes (5, 5′) comprising a series of tubes (50, 50′) in the form of an arc of a circle, the tubes of each bundle (5, 5′) being arranged in parallel planes with a gap (53, 53′) between two adjacent tubes (50, 50′), —a single collector (6) made of a material that is a good conductor of heat and to which the two ends (51, 51′, 52, 52′) of each tube (50, 50′) of the various bundles (5, 5′) are connected, this collector (6) being equipped with inlet (61) and outlet (62) couplings. This exchanger is notable in that the collector (6) comprises several partitions delimiting various channels, which allow the fluid that is to be warmed up to be made to circulate in the various successive bundles from the outermost bundle to the innermost bundle.
US11079134B2
Computing device and method for inferring via a neural network a two-dimensional temperature mapping of an area. A predictive model is stored by the computing device. The computing device receives a plurality of temperature measurements transmitted by a corresponding plurality of temperature sensors located at a corresponding plurality of locations on a periphery of the area. The computing device executes a neural network inference engine, using the predictive model for inferring outputs based on inputs. The inputs comprise the plurality of temperature measurements. The outputs consist of a plurality of temperature values at a corresponding plurality of zones, the plurality of zones being comprised in a two-dimensional grid mapped on a plane within the area. For instance, the area is a room of a building, the periphery is an interface of a ceiling and walls of the room, and the plane is a horizontal plane within the room.
US11079127B2
A system includes an inlet to collect air from outside a building; an air filter coupled to the inlet; a baffle to receive air from the inlet; an actuator coupled to the baffle; one or more sensors exposed to air from the air filter to determine air quality; a controller coupled to the one or more sensors and the actuator, the controller closing the baffle if air quality is below a threshold; and an outlet positioned after the baffle to deliver air to the building.
US11079124B1
The presently disclosed subject matter is directed to a whole-house humidifier system including one or more evaporative, unpowered, vertical-air humidifiers. Each humidifier includes a plurality of element sleeves suspended by flat support panels above a built-in water reservoir. The bottom tabs of the reservoir are inserted into the floor register opening for location. The system also includes a cover with windows along a top edge that control the direction of air exiting the system. The position of the cover is controlled by its fit to the outside edges of the water reservoir. A dedicated water supply feeds water through a float valve to control the water level in the reservoir. The element sleeves can easily be cleaned but require no external air duct since air flows up through the center of the humidifier.
US11079122B2
A modular water based heating and cooling system for providing chilled or heated water to terminal devices in a building to heat/cool individual zones in the building. The system includes a flow control device in fluid communication with a riser chilled water supply line, a riser chilled water return line, a riser heated water supply line, and a riser heated water return line. The flow control device includes first control valves and second control valves. Terminal device supply lines extend from the flow control device and are connected to respective first control valves. Terminal device return lines extend from the flow control device and are connected to respective second control valves. The first control valves and the second control valves cooperate to supply required chilled water or heated water through the terminal device supply lines to terminal devices based on the cooling/heating requirements of the terminal devices.
US11079121B2
Provided in the present invention are a muffler (2) for use in a refrigerating device and a refrigerating device. The muffler comprises an outer casing (23), an inner wall (24), and a sound absorbing material (26) provided between the inner wall and the outer casing, the inner wall defining a fluid inlet (21), a fluid outlet (22), and a fluid passage deflected between the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet, wherein at least a partial region of the inner wall is provided with perforations (241, 242, 243, 244), and the inner wall has a higher perforation rate at the inner side of the fluid passage than that at the outer side of the fluid passage. The muffler according to the embodiment of the present invention significantly reduces the sound and vibration of the refrigerating device.
US11079118B2
A combined ventilation hood and microwave oven system (10) with an overall vertical dimension (30) is provided, which is smaller than a conventional combined ventilation hood and microwave oven. One or more vent hood fans (66;74) are disposed on lateral sides of a microwave coo-king cavity (34) to draw in exhaust air (92;93) through one or more vent inlets (54;56;158;160) disposed on a bottom surface (20;156) and expel the exhaust air (92;93;162) through one or more vent outlets (46;52) defined on a surface of an outer wrapper (80) of the combined system. The low-profile combined ventilation hood and microwave oven system is coupled with a modular heating system (150;180) for heating food, which provides both functions within the space typically required by the conventional combined ventilation hood and microwave oven.
US11079115B1
A pellet stove to heat the interior of a structure and provide a heating surface for cooking. The pellet stove has a hopper storing pellet fuel, a core assembly inside a stove enclosure, a primary burn chamber assembly for burning pellet fuel and an air venting system. The hopper gravity feeds pellet fuel to the primary burn chamber assembly. The core assembly has a burn chamber housing connected to a flame chamber by a burn channel. The primary burn chamber assembly has a burn basket and a fuel control mechanism to control the amount of pellet fuel burned in the burn basket. The venting systems draws inlet air into and discharges exhaust air out of the pellet stove, which is sealed to prevent drawing inlet air from or discharging exhaust air to the structure interior. Fire in the flame chamber can be seen through an exterior glass panel.
US11079109B2
Disclosed is a control system for controlling the feed of a solid fuel in a combustion process. The system includes a control unit which is adapted to communicate by way of a communications link in the system, to receive from online measuring instruments online measurement data regarding a fuel coming from a fuel reception unit, and to control a feeding unit for delivering the measured fuel into a fuel silo on the basis of its content model and measurement data.
US11079107B1
A fluid flow diverter is provided that includes a diverter body having four ports, a rotating plenum located within the diverter body, and a purge fluid assembly that supplies a purge fluid to the plenum. The plenum has two stop positions that each define a fluid flow path through the diverter. In the first fluid flow path, a first fluid stream goes between the first and second ports, and a second fluid stream goes between the fourth and third ports. In the second flow path, a first fluid stream goes between the first and third ports, and a second fluid stream goes between the fourth and second ports. The purge fluid supplied to the plenum creates a positive pressure fluid barrier that prevents or minimizes cross-contamination of the two fluid streams through the diverter. Also provided is a regenerative thermal oxidizer that includes such a fluid flow diverter.
US11079106B2
An apparatus and a method are provided for continuously drying bulk goods, in particular wood fibers and/or wood chips, in a dryer, wherein the drying vapors are led to a dryer circuit, in which the drying vapors are indirectly heated via a heat-exchanger and are conducted to the dryer again.
US11079104B2
A flame-resistant wick includes a hollow chamber and at least one capillary structure surrounding the hollow chamber. The at least one capillary structure is interlaced by a plurality of wire strands into a tubular shape. Each of the plurality of wire strands consists of a plurality of core wires made of a material having a melting point of not less than 800° C.
US11079100B2
The partially lit T-bar includes a spine with a rest shelf at a lower portion thereof. The rest shelf supports adjacent ceiling tiles. The under surface of the rest shelf includes a lighting module on a portion and a plain unlit undersurface on other portions. Additional T-bars which are shorter, and typically fully lit or fully unlit and half the length of the partially lit T-bar are also provided which can attach at ends or near a midpoint of the partially lit T-bar and typically perpendicularly thereto. A great variety of lighting patterns in a dropped ceiling is thus facilitated. Each of the T-bars preferably also includes a heat sink on an upper portion of the spine and also preferably a lower heat sink on an upper portion of the rest shelf. Heat associated with the light element of the T-bar can thus be drawn away from a space below the ceiling.
US11079092B2
The present invention relates to a vehicle turn indicator luminous device (1) comprising: an optical element (10) having a controlled caustic generator surface (12) so as to propagate a pattern over a usable range, a mounting part (2) on which is intended to be mounted a beam generator (3) of rays incident on said generator surface, the optical element being such that the propagated pattern is projected onto a target surface, visible from the exterior of the lighting device and situated in the usable range.
US11079090B1
Cooling systems for LED headlight bulbs are disclosed. In some examples, a headlight bulb assembly for a vehicle headlight includes a circuit board and a first light emitting diode (LED) on the first side of the circuit board and a second LED on the second side of the circuit board. The headlight bulb assembly includes a shell at least partially enclosing the circuit board. The shell defines a sealed interior fan housing, an air intake on the first side of the circuit board, and an air exhaust on the second side of the circuit board. A circulator fan in the sealed interior fan housing is configured to draw air into the sealed interior fan housing through the air intake. The circulator fan is configured to expel the air from the sealed interior fan housing through the air exhaust.
US11079089B2
A light guide has an elongated body that includes an entrance face at which light is admitted into the light guide and an exit face at which the light emanates from the light guide. The light guide has an inboard side wall and an outboard side wall extending between the entrance face and the exit face. The entrance face, the exit face, the inboard side wall and the outboard side wall enclose a medium containing a colorant by which the medium meets a color criterion while minimizing light absorption at a wavelength of the light.
US11079076B2
An edge lit fixture. A housing provides the basic shape and structure of the fixture. The housing is constructed from discrete segments including lens frames, side frames, and end frames, which can be used in many different combinations to create the desired fixture. The assembled housing defines an open central area. One or more light panels are arranged around the perimeter of the housing such that at least some of the light is emitted toward the central area. The open central area of the housing allows for existing materials, such as a ceiling tile, for example, to function as a back surface of the fixture.
US11079073B2
The invention provides a tubular solid state lamp having a driver at each end each with an associated section of the solid state light source arrangement. The two drivers are for connection in series so that the mains voltage is shared between them. In this way, each end connector of the lamp holder is only required to operate at half the mains voltage so that a lower creepage distance (e.g. 2 mm) can be tolerated.
US11079069B2
The present invention is to provide a hydrogen refueling system capable to cool down the H2 pre-cooling heat exchanger fast enough when a FCV enters the HRS, so that there is no or very minimal waiting time for the customer before starting refueling. A hydrogen refueling system includes a chiller including a cooling unit that cools a circulating refrigerant by a cooling medium, a dispenser that supplies H2 to a vehicle, including a heat exchanger that cools H2 with the circulating refrigerant provided from the chiller, a circulation line that circulates the circulating refrigerant between the cooling unit and the heat exchanger, a chiller compressor that is provided in the chiller; a cold generation valve that is provided close to an inlet of the heat exchanger in the circulation line.
US11079067B2
The present invention is to provide a hydrogen refueling system capable to cool down the H2 pre-cooling heat exchanger fast enough when a FCV enters the HRS, so that there is no or very minimal waiting time for the customer before starting refueling. A hydrogen refueling system including a cryogenic fluid tank that stores a cryogenic fluid, a dispenser that supplies H2 to a vehicle, including a heat exchanger that cools H2 with the cold and/or cryogenic fluid provided from the cryogenic fluid tank, an inlet line that sends the cold and/or cryogenic fluid to the heat exchanger from the cryogenic fluid tank, an outlet line that collects the cryogenic fluid fed from the heat exchanger, and an injection valve that is provided in the inlet line.
US11079062B2
A display device includes a monitor and a support module including a base frame, a support frame and a driving unit. The base frame includes a base seat and a rotating seat connected to the base seat and rotatable about an axis. The support frame includes a connecting mechanism connected to the monitor, and a support member connected co-rotatably to the rotating seat and connected to the connecting mechanism. The driving unit includes a drive subunit co-rotatably secured to the rotating seat, and a control subunit mounted to the base seat, connected to the drive subunit, and being operable to drive rotation of the rotating seat about the axis via the drive subunit, thereby rotating the monitor about the axis.
US11079058B2
Example aspects of a stent for repairing a pipe and a method for repairing a pipe are disclosed. The stent for repairing a pipe can comprise a coiled extension stent spring comprising a plurality of spring coils and a seal assembled with the coiled extension stent spring and configured to engage an inner surface of a pipe, wherein the stent is configurable in an extended configuration and a contracted configuration, the coiled stent spring biasing the stent to the contracted configuration.
US11079054B2
A cross-over fluid coupling includes a first coupling end and a second coupling end. A plurality of first conduits have inner ends disposed toward the first coupling end and outer ends spaced apart from the inner end toward the second coupling end and being outboard of the inner end. A plurality of second conduits have outer ends that are disposed toward the first coupling end and positioned laterally outboard of the inner end of at least one of the first conduits, and inner ends that are spaced apart from the outer end toward the second coupling end in the axial direction and is laterally inboard of the outer end of the at least one of the first conduits.
US11079052B2
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.
US11079045B2
Provided is an electric resistance welded clad steel pipe or tube in which a region where solidification microstructure is formed, i.e. a region in a weld particularly having significant influence on properties, is reduced without impairing its function as a clad pipe or tube. An electric resistance welded clad steel pipe or tube comprises: a first layer made of carbon steel or low-alloy steel as base metal; and a second layer placed on one surface of the first layer, and made of stainless steel or a nickel-containing alloy as cladding metal, wherein the base metal is not exposed at a cladding metal-side surface of the electric resistance welded clad steel pipe or tube in a weld, and no solidification microstructure is contained in each of circular sections of 0.1 mm in radius respectively centered at specific three positions in a plane perpendicular to a pipe or tube longitudinal direction.
US11079042B2
An ancillary system for a motor vehicle is provided. The system comprises a housing; a duct for carrying a fluid to or from the housing, wherein the duct comprises a duct portion and a connector portion connecting the duct to the housing, wherein the duct portion is spaced apart from the housing in a first direction; and a spacer, the spacer being coupled to one of the duct and the housing and arranged between the duct and the housing to reduce a dimension of a gap between the duct and the housing in the first direction, and thereby reduce a displacement of the duct in the first direction during a collision. A motor vehicle assembly comprising the air ancillary system is also provided.
US11079038B2
An actuator for use in a control valve assembly that has a structure amenable to manufacture. The actuator may comprise a housing comprising a plurality of walls secured to one another with fasteners to form an interior cavity, a torque hub disposed in the interior cavity, the torque hub comprising a torque body and a torque arm that are releasably engaged with one another via fasteners, each of the torque body and the torque arm having interfacing geometry that defines surfaces that engage with opposing surfaces on the other; and a load generator coupled with the torque hub.
US11079037B2
A pneumatically operated gas valve mounted on a vessel containing pressurized gas. The gas valve includes a piston positioned in a cylinder with one closed end so that the piston seats against a gas outlet to close the gas valve. A control reservoir is formed in the cylinder between the piston and the closed end of the cylinder. Upon filling vessel, some of the pressurized gas enters the control reservoir to provide a control pressure behind the piston. Actuating the control mechanism vents the control reservoir, resulting in the gas valve opening rapidly to release the pressurized gas in the vessel through an exhaust port of the gas valve.
US11079019B2
A gasket material to be mounted in a vehicle engine, wherein, on one or both sides of a steel plate, a rubber layer is formed via a coating film including a reaction product of an acid component and a metal or a reaction product of an acid component and a metal compound, and at least one selected from zirconia, alumina and titania.
US11079016B2
A six-gear automatic transmission device is provided for automobiles with a brushless control-by-wire centrifugal ball arm engagement. One brushless control-by-wire centrifugal ball arm engagement device is provided between each gear input gear and each gear driving gear; and by controlling the engagement and disengagement of the brushless control-by-wire centrifugal ball arm engagement device, the shifting control of the six-gear automatic transmission for automobile with a brushless control-by-wire centrifugal ball arm engagement device is performed. The technology provides advantages including compact structure, being capable of dynamic gear-shift, no mechanical or hydraulic gear-shift components and low operational energy consumption.
US11079013B2
A hydraulic apparatus for stretching conductors for power lines comprising: a variable displacement hydraulic pump (10) that supplies by means of a hydraulic fluid a hydraulic motor (11) with a closed circuit connection; a displacement regulation system (15) of said hydraulic pump (10); a regulation system (20) of said hydraulic apparatus; characterised in that said regulation system (20) comprises: an inlet (21) that receives said hydraulic fluid that supplies said hydraulic motor (11); a first outlet (22) that supplies said displacement regulation system (15); a second discharge outlet (23); a flow limiter (30) connected to said inlet (21); a regulatable valve (31) connected to said flow limiter (30); a tap (36) connected between the outlet of said regulatable valve (31) and said first outlet (22); a measurement instrument (33) connected to the outlet of said regulatable valve (31), to measure the regulation pressure of said regulation system (20); a safety valve (34) connected to the outlet of said regulatable valve (31), the outlet of which is connected to said second discharge outlet (23).
US11079002B2
A bearing carrier or a housing part includes a base body, a first component and at least one second component mounted in the base body, and a belt or a cable or a roving connected to the base body and to the first component and the second component such that the belt or the cable or the roving at least partially transmits forces that act on the first component to the second component. The first and second components may each be formed as rings having a cylindrical inner surface and an outer surface having a groove, and the element may pass through the grooves of the first and second components and be embedded in the base body.
US11079001B2
A gear for use in a transmission system. The gear comprises an outer annular element having gear teeth on a radially outer surface thereof and an inner support element arranged coaxially with the outer annular element. The gear further comprises first and second opposing side walls, each side wall extending from the outer annular element to the inner support element to form an annular space. At least one of the first and second side walls extends from the outer annular element at an angle greater than 0 degrees with respect to a direction perpendicular to the rotational axis of the gear.
US11078995B2
An assembly for converting motion comprises a first arm rotatable about a first fixed pivot; a second arm rotatable about a second fixed pivot; a third arm pivotably connected to a second position on the second arm; a first connecting arm extending between the first and third arms; a second connecting arm extending between the first and second arms; a support arm extending from the connection between the second and third arms, the support arm linked to the connection between the first arm and the first connecting arm, wherein one of the connection between the second and third arms and the connection between the first arm and the first connecting arm is moveable relative to the support arm and the other of the connection between the second and third arms and the connection between the first arm and the first connecting arm is fixed relative to the support arm.
US11078981B2
A hydraulic mem-inerter container device and applications thereof. The hydraulic mem-inerter container device comprises a first cylinder barrel, a first piston, and a spiral passage. The first cylinder barrel is divided by the first piston into a left cavity and a right cavity; and the spiral passage enables the left cavity and the right cavity of the first cylinder barrel to communicate, and the length of the spiral passage changes along with the change of the relative displacement of the first cylinder barrel and the first piston. The cylinder barrel and the piston serve as a first end point and a second end point that are independent and movable correspondingly. When used, the hydraulic mem-inerter container device can be connected to a system to control mechanical force. The hydraulic mem-inerter container device can serve as a regulation and control valve for an inerter and a damper.
US11078980B2
There is provided a vibration suppression device, a machine tool including the device and a vibration suppression method using the device. The vibration suppression device includes a flexible member having a first position F fixed to the structure to be a fixed end of a cantilever and a second position on a free end side; and a weight attached to the flexible member in the second position. The vibration suppression device has an adjustment mechanism for changing a distance between the first position and the second position. Accordingly, it can effectively suppress vibration of a structure, and that can effectively suppress the vibration by easy adjustment when the characteristic of a generated vibration is different.
US11078973B2
An apparatus for a vehicle is provided that has a spindle sleeve (12) with a spindle sleeve inner surface axis (14) that is coaxial with the axis of an axle (16). The spindle sleeve (12) has a spindle sleeve outer surface axis (20) that is oriented at an angle to the axis of the axle. A hub (28) is present that has a hub axis (30) that is coaxial with the spindle sleeve outer surface axis (20). A rotor (32) is coaxial with the hub axis (30) and brake calipers (34) are carried by the axle. A brake caliper positional correction device (36) is present and is carried by the axle (16) and has a correction surface (38) that carries the brake calipers (34). The correction surface (38) orients the brake calipers (34) such that the brake calipers (34) are properly positioned with respect to the rotor (32).
US11078969B2
A controllable one-way clutch assembly having an actuator module with a direct action configuration provided between a linearly-moveable actuation component of a power-operated actuator and a pivotably moveable locking element. In particular, the actuator module is equipped with a solenoid having an energizeable coil assembly, a linearly-moveable plunger having a tip portion, a strut moveable in response to energization of the coil assembly from a released position to a locked position due to engagement with the tip portion of the plunger, and a strut biasing arrangement biasing the strut toward its released position. In addition, various strut/actuator interface arrangements are provided between the tip of the plunger of the solenoid actuator and the strut to control movement of the strut between its released and locked positions.
US11078959B1
A ball bearing is adapted to high-speed applications. The single-piece plastic cage has a wide flange portion. In particular, the mass of the flange portion is at least 40% of the total mass of the cage.
US11078958B1
A compression limiter is configured for incorporation within a vehicle component. The compression limiter includes a tubular bushing extending from a first end to a second end. The tubular bushing includes an exterior surface and an interior surface extending from the first end to the second end to define an aperture through the tubular bushing. The compression limiter also includes one or more detents formed in at least one of the first end of the bushing and/or the second end of the bushing. In some examples, the compression limiter includes a first pair of the detents formed in the first end and a second pair of the detents formed in the second end.
US11078948B2
A fastener boss includes a body having a receiving column. The receiving column includes a first section with a first wall thickness and a second section with a second wall thickness wherein the first wall thickness is greater than the second wall thickness. A motor vehicle component incorporating the fastener boss is also disclosed.
US11078945B2
An apparatus can include a coupler for coupling a robotic arm to a surgical table having a table top on which a patient can be disposed. The coupler can include a first portion configured to couple to a surgical table and a second portion configured to couple to a robotic arm. The second portion may include a post that may translate into the first portion. The first portion may comprise a locking mechanism having one or more stages to constrain movement of the second portion relative to the first portion in six degrees of freedom. The coupler can thus provide secure coupling of the robotic arm to the surgical table.
US11078943B2
A fastener assembly according to the present disclosure includes a fastener head, a shank depending from the fastener head, and at least one wing member pivotably coupled to the shank. The shank extends along a central axis, and the wing member is pivotable about a pivot axis extending parallel to the central axis. The wing member is pivotable between a stowed position and a deployed position. The wing member has a fork configured to receive a workpiece therein when in the deployed position.
US11078941B2
A cast-in-place anchor assembly is disclosed for suspending objects below a metal deck. The assembly includes an anchor body and an anchor support. The anchor body includes a threaded opening. The anchor support includes a central member which, in use, extends from a first upper side of the metal deck to a second lower side of the metal deck. The central member further includes a connector. The central member also includes a biasing portion which cantilevers radially outward. The central member further includes a stopping member sized to be larger than a deck opening. An end of the anchor body is connected to a connector to conceal the threaded opening from poured concrete. The stop member flexes to pass through the opening in the metal deck and the stop member and the biasing member flexingly bias the anchor support into position relative to the metal decking.
US11078926B2
A centrifugal blower includes a stator housing. The stator housing includes a radial contact surface which makes contact with a casing in a radial direction, a circumferential contact surface which makes contact with the casing in a circumferential direction, and an axial contact surface which makes contact with the casing in an axial direction. With such configuration, it is possible to reduce the vibration of the blower by increasing a contact area between the casing and the stator housing. Further, the stator housing includes a heat dissipating surface. As a result, it is possible to efficiently dissipate the heat, which is generated from the stator, from the heat dissipating surface of the stator housing to the gas existing within the wind tunnel.
US11078925B2
A vacuum pump reduces a stress without reducing the rotation speed of a rotating cylindrical body. In an outlet port-side lower portion of a rotor cylindrical portion included in the vacuum pump, a smaller diameter portion having an outer diameter smaller than that of an inlet port-side portion of the rotor cylindrical portion is provided. A lowermost end portion (outlet port-side end portion) of the rotor cylindrical portion is designed longer than a thread groove exhaust element to provide an extending portion. In the extending portion, a smaller diameter portion having an outer diameter smaller than that of the inlet port-side portion of the rotor cylindrical portion which is opposed to the thread groove exhaust element is provided.
US11078924B2
The present invention relates to a frame device for a radiator fan module for a motor vehicle, including a frame opening in which a motor seat for receiving a motor is arranged. The motor seat is connected to a frame edge of the frame opening by means of connecting struts. Each connecting strut comprises an inner end connected to the motor seat and an outer end connected to the frame edge of the frame opening. The setting angle of the profile of the respective connecting struts is adapted to the outflow direction of the air flowing out through the frame opening, over the length of the connecting strut from the inner end to the outer end of the connecting strut, such that the flow resistance of the respective connecting struts is as low as possible.
US11078923B2
A pump includes a pump casing that defines a pump chamber, the pump casing having an inlet and an outlet. An impeller is arranged with respect to the pump chamber to displace fluid from the inlet into the pump chamber. A vortex shaping mechanism is arranged in the pump chamber and is configured to constrain fluid within the pump chamber into a rotational flow pattern about a rotational axis. At least the casing and the vortex shaping mechanism are configured so that a portion of the fluid is encouraged to establish a solid body vortex, with an outer periphery of the solid body vortex being determined by the vortex shaping mechanism, and a portion of the fluid defining a diffusion zone in fluid communication with the outlet such that fluid cant diffuse across a fluid interface between the solid body vortex and the diffusion zone to generate a pumping pressure at the outlet.
US11078907B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a scroll type micro-compressor, and a method for machining a fixed scroll plate and an orbit scroll plate thereof. The scroll type micro-compressor comprises a fixed scroll plate and an orbit scroll plate each integrally made with a monocrystalline silicon substrate; the compressor device has an Oldham ring structure, and reduces a mass of the orbit scroll plate by optimizing a design of a substrate of the orbit scroll plate; a cross-sectional shape of a plurality of micropores provided on a lower surface of the fixed scroll plate is set as of a fan ring, in which an electrode material is accommodated to maintain an electric field uniformity and reduce an electric field loss; and hydrophilia of inner surfaces is changed to prevent a top leakage and facilitate capillary filling of a compression chamber.
US11078906B2
A scroll fluid machine that attenuates the bending stress applied to the base of a wall body having an inclined section. The scroll fluid machine is provided with a wall body inclined section in which the distance between the facing surfaces of an end plate of a fixed scroll and an end plate of a rotating scroll that face each other continuously decreases from the outer circumferential side toward the inner circumferential side. A mesh clearance that is a gap between wall bodies formed when the wall bodies mesh with each other is larger on the outer circumferential side of the inclined section than on the inner circumferential side of the inclined section. The mesh clearance is made larger by drawing the wall surface of a wall body further back toward the central side of the wall body in the thickness direction than the original wall surface profile thereof.
US11078891B2
A light-driven rotor applied to a water surface includes a bottom plate, a thermally conductive sheet having a base portion covering on an upper surface of the bottom plate and a plurality of leads extended from the border of the base portion and bent downwardly from the edge of the bottom plate to contact the water surface, and a light-absorbing material attached to an upper surface of the thermally conductive sheet for absorbing the light irradiated thereon by a light source and providing light energy required for heating the thermally conductive sheet so that the heat generated by the thermally conductive sheet is conducted to the water surface via the leads to form a gradient change in surface tension, providing a resultant torque for driving the light-driven rotor to rotate. The materials selected for the three-layer structure design of the light-driven rotor are generally applicable, inexpensive and easy to obtain.
US11078885B2
A rotor blade for a wind turbine is provided. The rotor blade includes an aerodynamic device for influencing the airflow flowing from the leading-edge section of the rotor blade to the trailing edge section of the rotor blade. The aerodynamic device is mounted at a surface of the rotor blade and includes a pneumatic or hydraulic actuator, such as a hose a cavity, of which the volume depends on the pressure of a fluid being present inside the pneumatic or hydraulic actuator. The rotor blade further includes a control unit for controlling the pressure of the fluid in the hose or the cavity of the aerodynamic device.
US11078883B2
A blade for a wind turbine has a hollow or exoskeleton blade body. The blade body has a leading edge and a trailing edge along a span thereof. The blade body includes a first blade portion and a second blade portion wherein the first blade portion and the second blade portion are integrated with one another along at least 90% of the leading edge, and are in uncoupled contact at the trailing edge. The uncoupled contact permits the first blade portion and second blade portion to experience relative movement at the trailing edge when the blade body twists.
US11078881B1
A method for detecting knocking of an engine includes receiving a knock signal indicating a vibration level in a cylinder of the engine and a crank angle signal indicating a crank angle by which a knocking window and an end of injection (EOI) of an injector of the engine are expressed, determining whether the knocking window and the EOI overlap, based on the crank angle signal, setting a second reference value for an overlapping range within the knocking window overlapping the EOI by reflecting a predetermined level on a first reference value for a non-overlapping range within the knocking window non-overlapping the EOI depending on the determination, integrating the knock signal in the knocking window, determining whether an integrated value of the knock signal exceeds the first reference value in the non-overlapping range or the second reference value in the overlapping range, and retarding an ignition timing of the engine as a knocking avoidance logic depending on the determination.
US11078877B2
An example embodiment relates to a method for switching a current in an electromagnet of a switchable solenoid valve, wherein, in successive switching cycles, the current is in each case switched on in order to close the valve against a force of a spring, and thereby the current is generated by electrical connection of the electromagnet to a voltage source. The example embodiment makes provision for the current in the electromagnet to be generated with a current direction opposite to the respective previous switching cycle in at least two successive switching cycles in a switched operation of the valve.
US11078871B2
A cascade box is provided that includes a plurality of lengthwise extending side turning vanes and a plurality of forward turning vanes. Each of the plurality of lengthwise extending side turning vanes is configured to have a side turning angle. Each of the plurality of forward turning vanes is attached to respective adjacent ones of the plurality of side turning vanes, and each forward turning vane is configured to have a forward turning angle, and at least one of the forward turning vanes is configured to have a negative forward turning angle.
US11078864B2
A method of controlling a fuel injection amount of an internal combustion engine includes a target injection amount calculation step, a component-by-component wear amount estimation step at which a component-by-component wear amount of an injector component is estimated, the injector component being a plurality of members or a part of the member constituting the injector and selected in advance as the injector component affects an accuracy of the fuel injection amount, a component-by-component correction amount calculation step, a total correction amount calculation step, and a total correction amount reflection step at which the injector injects a corrected target injection amount.
US11078848B2
A gas turbine engine has a nacelle providing an external skin of the engine, a casing structure radially inwards of the external skin and providing an outer surface of an air flow duct of the engine, and plural engine components located in the bay formed between the casing structure and the nacelle. The components are part of either a first set of components or a second set of components. The components of the first set are all the components from the bay which are potential ignition sources, and the components of the second set are all the remaining components from the bay. The engine further has a container located in the bay, the container being fireproof capable of withstanding the application of heat by a standard flame for 15 minutes and the container containing the components of the first set.
US11078847B2
A heat shield panel for a combustor of a gas turbine engine including a panel body having a first surface and a second surface. The second surface being configured to be oriented toward a combustor liner of the combustor. The heat shield further includes a plurality of first pin fins projecting from the second surface of the panel body. Each of the plurality of first pin fins has a rounded top opposite the second surface. The heat shield further includes a plurality of second pin fins projecting from the second surface of the panel body. Each of the plurality of second pin fins has a flat top opposite the second surface. The plurality of second pin fins are intermittently spaced amongst the plurality of first pin fins. The plurality of second pin fins are organized in a uniform distribution across the second surface of the heat shield panel.
US11078846B2
A fuel delivery system includes a turbine, a pump, and an oxygen removal unit. The turbine is adapted to receive and expel fuel at different pressures. The pump is in fluid communication with, and mechanically coupled to, the turbine, and is configured to expel and receive the fuel at about the respective different pressures. The turbine is configured to convert pressure energy of the fuel to kinetic energy to drive the pump. The oxygen removal unit is in fluid communication with at least one of the turbine and the pump, and is configured to remove oxygen from the fuel.
US11078841B2
Bleed air systems for use with aircraft and related methods are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a compressor having a compressor inlet and a compressor outlet. The compressor inlet to receive airflow from a first air supply source. An air mixing device having a first mixer inlet to receive compressed air from the compressor outlet and a second mixer inlet to receive bleed air from a bleed air system. The bleed air to provide a motive fluid to enable the air mixing device to mix the bleed air and the compressed air to produce mixed air for the anti-icing system.
US11078839B2
The disclosure describes composite nosecones and techniques for forming composite nosecones including a matrix material, relatively higher-modulus reinforcement elements, and relatively tougher polymer-based reinforcement elements. An example composite nosecone includes a body substantially symmetrical around a central axis. The body includes a side wall defining a diameter of the body that increases from a forward side of the body to an aft side of the body. The body includes a composite material including a plurality of relatively higher-modulus reinforcement elements, a plurality of relatively tougher polymer-based reinforcement elements, and a matrix material substantially encapsulating the plurality of relatively higher-modulus reinforcement elements and the plurality of relatively tougher polymer-based reinforcement elements. The plurality of relatively higher-modulus reinforcement elements are different from the plurality of relatively tougher polymer-based reinforcement elements.
US11078832B2
The present invention relates to an actuation device for a compressor inlet adjustment mechanism. The actuation device comprises a housing part and a lever assembly. The lever assembly comprises a bearing section, an input section and an output section. The output section is configured to be coupled to an adjustment ring of the adjustment mechanism on a first side of the housing part. The input section can be coupled to an actuator rod on a second side of the housing part. The lever assembly is rotatably mounted in the housing part via the bearing section on the compressor inlet side here.
US11078831B2
A vehicle supercharging system may include: an engine; a transmission; a dual-turbine electric supercharger that compresses air and has a first turbine and a second turbine; an engine-side supercharging path part that branches out from an air supplying line configured to supply air to the engine, passes through the first turbine and then joins into the air supplying line; a transmission-side supercharging path part that sucks air separately from the engine-side air supplying line, passes through the second turbine, and then supplies compressed air to the transmission; and a controller that operates the dual-turbine electric supercharger according to a driving state of a vehicle and that individually controls valves provided in the engine-side supercharging path part and the transmission-side supercharging path part.
US11078826B1
Operating an internal combustion engine system includes advancing a prechamber piston in a fuel delivery igniter to push a main charge of fuel from a prechamber into a cylinder, and advancing the prechamber piston to compression-ignite a pilot charge within the prechamber. Combustion gases of the pilot charge are conveyed into the cylinder to ignite the main charge. Operation of the engine system provides sparkless gaseous fuel ignition.
US11078823B1
An engine assembly having a thermal management device assembly is disclosed. The engine assembly includes an engine having an internal coolant passageway having at least one coolant port. The thermal management device assembly includes a rotary valve unit mounted on an engine accessory mounting bracket. The engine accessory mounting bracket includes an upper mounting platform having a mounting surface extending between an exterior face and an interior face of the mounting bracket, and at least one fluid channel extending through the mounting bracket from the mounting surface to the interior surface. The rotary valve unit is mounted onto the upper mounting platform. The at least one fluid channel of the engine accessory mount provides fluid communication between the coolant port of the internal coolant passageway of the engine and a valve port of the rotary valve unit.
US11078819B2
A method for operating a particle filter of a vehicle includes creating an ash to be introduced into a filter body of the particle filter by arranging a carrier material of an ash former on an input side of an end face of the filter body, as viewed in a flow direction of an exhaust gas through the particle filter, and combusting the carrier material, where a non-combustible constituent of the ash former is arranged on the carrier material. The created ash is then introduced into the filter body of the particle filter.
US11078804B2
A turbine ring assembly includes ring sectors forming a turbine ring and a ring support structure, each sector having, along a cutting plane defined by an axial direction and a radial direction of the ring, a portion forming an annular base with, in the radial direction, an inner face and an outer face from which a first and a second lug protrude, the structure including a shroud from which protrude a first and a second radial clamp from which the first and second lugs are held. The turbine ring includes an annular flange having a first portion bearing against the first lug, and a second portion removably fixed to the first radial clamp, the first portion including radial slits open on a free end of the annular flange and delimiting first-portion sectors.
US11078803B2
An axial flow rotating machinery includes: a rotor; a casing; a rotating-blade stage including rotating blades and a radially-outer side rotating blade ring continuing to radially outer ends of the rotating blades; and a rotating-blade side seal device configured to seal a gap between the radially-outer side rotating blade ring and the casing. The rotating-blade side seal device includes: a seal fin having an annular shape and extending toward an outer peripheral surface of the radially-outer side rotating blade ring from the casing; and a swirl brake fixed to the casing in a cavity formed at an upstream side of the seal fin. The swirl brake includes: a first plate-shaped member having a surface along a radial direction of the rotor; and a second plate-shaped member or a third plate-shaped member having a surface oblique to the radial direction of the rotor.
US11078796B2
A vane ring for a gas turbine engine includes a multiple of vanes that extend between the inner vane platform and the outer vane platform, each of the multiple of vanes contains an airfoil cooling circuit that receives cooling airflow through a respective one of a multiple of feed passages; a multiple of metering passages in the outer vane platform, each of the multiple of metering passages in communication with the respective one of the multiple of feed passages; and a multiple of secondary passages in the outer vane platform, each of the multiple of secondary passages in communication with the respective one of the multiple of metering passages.
US11078783B2
A caliper-behind casing apparatus and method determines a location and size of a washout (i.e., a void) behind casing in a borehole for a salt cavern used for storing hydrocarbons. The cavern and tubing in the casing are filled with brine. Gaseous nitrogen is used to fill an annulus between the tubing and the casing above and below a casing shoe to obtain image responses from operating a pulsed neutron logging tool in the tubing along the borehole. Analysis of burst ratios of near and far detectors on the pulsed neutron logging tool from these passes is used to detect and estimate a void or washout in the formation behind the casing.
US11078775B2
A method of identifying and diagnosing open gas lift valves in a gas lift production well, the gas lift production well including a production tubular having a plurality of mechanical gas lift valves, and a casing surrounding a portion of the tubular to form an annulus. The method includes reducing injection pressure below the minimum design opening pressure of each of the plurality of mechanical gas lift valves to close each of the plurality of mechanical gas lift valves; incrementally increasing injection pressure to operating or designed injection pressure to sequentially open one or more of the plurality of mechanical gas lift valves; measuring pressure, amplitude, frequency and/or wave patterns produced by the sequential opening of the one or more mechanical gas lift valves; and determining the location of the one or more mechanical gas lift valve locations.
US11078773B2
Computer-implemented systems and computer-implemented methods include the following. A choke/pressure control valve (PCV) gas rate is determined for each well of a group of producing wells. A downstream temperature (DST) gas rate is determined for each well of the group of producing wells. Parameters for a well rate test are determined for each well of the group of producing wells using the choke/PCV gas rate and the DST gas rate. A total gas rate for the producing wells is determined using the parameters. A gas production allocation factor (G-PAF) for the producing wells is determined. A production allocation for each well of the producing wells is determined using the total gas rate.
US11078770B2
A cylindrical drum with a fluid inlet is configured to be connected to a downhole end of a fluid conduit. The cylindrical drum has an outer surface along which is the fluid inlet. The cylindrical drum has a center and an inner surface. Fluid nozzles fluidically connect to an interior of the cylindrical drum and are positioned around the outer circumference of the cylindrical drum. The fluid nozzles are positioned to direct fluid away from the cylindrical drum. A rotatable collar is positioned in the center of the cylindrical drum. The rotatable collar has an outer surface parallel to the inner surface of the cylindrical drum. Sleeve plates are positioned between the inner surface of the cylindrical drum and the outer surface of the rotatable collar. Each of the sleeve plates defines a hole with a diameter smaller than a diameter of a corresponding dropped ball.
US11078768B2
Disclosed belongs to the technical field of oil and gas field development engineering, and particularly relates to a super heavy oil development method for strengthening an SAGD steam chamber to break through a low physical property reservoir. The super heavy oil development method for strengthening the SAGD steam chamber to break through the low physical property reservoir includes the following steps: (1) selection of a developed oil reservoir; (2) well distribution; (3) steam chamber forming; (4) steam chamber expansion; (5) steam chamber strengthening. The method may enhance the ability of the steam chamber to break through the low physical property reservoir, enlarge the development height of the steam chamber, and further improve the SAGD development effect of super heavy oil.
US11078766B2
An artificial lift system has a surface pump operated by a prime mover powered by a variable speed drive. A jet pump disposed downhole in tubing receives pressurized power fluid from the surface pump, mixes the power and production fluid and delivers the product uphole. A controller disposed at surface adjusts the artificial lift system relative to a set value based on a measured discharged pressure or a measured flowrate and trends a change in the other of the measured flowrate or the measured discharged pressure over time. The controller can also trend an operating condition (intake pressure vs. production rate) to determine changes relative to cavitation conditions. Based on the trended changes, the controller initiates an operation in the artificial lift system, such as adjusting the discharge pressure, initiating an alarm condition, etc.
US11078746B2
The invention provides an expanding and collapsing apparatus and methods of use. The apparatus comprises a plurality of elements (52) assembled together to form a ring structure (54) around a longitudinal axis. The ring structure is operable to be moved between an expanded condition and a collapsed condition by movement of the plurality of elements. At least one set of structural elements (56) each having a first end and a second end are operable to move between the expanded condition and the collapsed condition by movement of the first end in an axial direction, and by movement of the second end in a radial dimension. At least one set of elements is operable to be moved by sliding with respect to one another in a direction tangential to a circle concentric with the ring structure. In another aspect, the plurality of elements (82) comprises at least one set of structural elements (86) extending longitudinally on the apparatus and operable to slide with respect to one another, wherein the sliding movement in a selected plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis is tangential to a circle in the selected plane and concentric with the longitudinal axis. Applications of the invention include oilfield devices, including anti-extrusion rings, plugs, packers, locks, patching tools, connection systems, and variable diameter tools run in a wellbore.
US11078735B2
A passive rotating jointed tubular continuous snubbing injector is provided for moving connected, segmented oilfield tubulars axially into or out of horizontal, extended-reach oil and natural gas wells that may contain pressurized fluid or gas to complete for production, work over and service the wells, utilizing an operation commonly known as snubbing. The injector can include variable diameter gripping mechanisms that, in combination with linear drive mechanisms, can apply radial force onto and over a certain length of the tubular, of the tubular string, and onto and over a coupling or tool joint connecting tubulars together while moving the tubular string axially into or out of the well. Further, the injector may rotate in response to the rotation of tubulars while the injector is moving the tubular string into or out of the well.
US11078724B2
A window covering includes a headrail and a covering material positioned under the headrail. The covering material includes a slat assembly. The headrail includes a traverse board and a pressure-dispersion structure, wherein the pressure-dispersion structure is positioned at the traverse board, and protrudes from a bottom surface of the traverse board. On a side of the pressure-dispersion structure facing the slat assembly, a pressure-dispersion area is formed corresponding to a topmost slat of the slat assembly which is closest to the headrail. When the covering material is raised and eventually contacts the headrail, the topmost slat can be controlled to contact at least part of the pressure-dispersion area, whereby to disperse a pressure applied to the slats.
US11078723B2
A skew adjustment mechanism is used for adjusting the length of a lift cord on a window covering. The lift cord extends from a lift spool at a first end to an anchor drum at a second end. A cord wrap post is provided between the lift spool and the anchor drum so that the lift cord can be wrapped around the cord wrap post to provide friction between the lift cord and the cord wrap post when the lift cord is taut in order to reduce the amount of holding force that is needed to prevent the anchor drum from rotating.
US11078716B2
The present invention relates to a removable profile structure, primarily for sliding panels, comprising a concealed support (2) with an inverted “U” shape which comprises at least two rectangular sections (3) and a “W” shaped detachable base (1) able to receive a glass (4). This solution, in which the concealed support (2) and the detachable base (1) are independent, allows the removal of the sliding panel without interfering with the state of the pavement coating.
US11078708B2
A hydraulic piston actuator, which may be used for an aircraft nacelle assembly, includes a housing, a piston, an end gland, and a bearing ring. The housing is concentrically disposed along an axis. The piston is adapted to axially reciprocate within the housing. The end gland is disposed radially between the housing and the piston. The bearing ring is disposed radially between the end gland and the piston.
US11078707B2
A safety contact strip for a closing edge includes an inner shell facing the closing edge and being formed by a coextrudate of a first electrically insulating plastic. An outer shell spaced apart from the inner shell is formed by a coextrudate of a second electrically insulating plastic. Switching chambers respectively retained by at least one web between the inner and outer shells are formed with the outer shell. Two switching layers spaced apart from one another are formed in each switching chamber by a coextrudate of a third electrically conductive plastic. An electrical conductor is embedded in each of the switching layers as a further coextrudate.
US11078704B2
A method of adjusting the closing force of a door coupled to a door closer assembly having a bias element. The method includes determining the kinetic energy of the door without using the weight or other dimensions of the door. The determined kinetic energy is used to adjust the closing force of an electro-mechanical door closer that includes a spring and a motor. The door includes the use of one, some of, or all of an accelerometer, an angular position sensor, a time to close, a breaking torque, and a controller to identify values a acceleration, velocity, and/or position of the door. The identified values are provided to the controller, which is configured to calculate the kinetic energy of the door. The calculated kinetic energy is used to determine the closing velocity of the door closure to ensure proper operation of the door at the point of installation.
US11078700B2
The present invention provides a refrigerator, comprising a cabinet, a door and a hinge body. A guide block is provided on the door, a rotation shaft is provided on the hinge body, and rotation shaft grooves are provided on the guide block. With the structure of the hinge body, the gravity of the door and the friction force may be shared onto the first and second plate bodies of the hinge body, thereby reducing abrasion and prolonging the service life of the door of the refrigerator.
US11078695B2
The invention relates to a locking mechanism component, in particular a catch, for a motor vehicle lock for retaining and securing a closing member in a closed position of a door or hatch of a motor vehicle, comprising at least one first punched metal sheet and one second punched metal sheet, wherein the punched metal sheets are connected to each other in a non-detachable manner and the first punched metal sheet, compared to the second punched metal sheet, has a different punched metal sheet material and/or a greater punched metal sheet thickness, wherein the first punched metal sheet and the second punched metal sheet have at least partially or predominantly an identical outer contour and/or are disposed stacked one above the other in such a way that sections with an identical outer contour are disposed flush with each other on the outside. The invention further relates to a production method. A locking mechanism component with a great strength and longevity can be provided with a smaller production expenditure.
US11078693B2
An apparatus for preventing inadvertent actuation of a door release handle of a motor vehicle includes a cover with a lip that engages with an edge of an opening in an inner body panel, and at least one rib attached to the cover, the at least one rib being positioned relative to the door release handle to prevent actuation of the handle when the cover is positioned in the opening of the inner body panel.
US11078688B2
A prisoner transport kit is described including handcuffs, ankle cuffs, fetters, and locks for use in transporting a prisoner.
US11078685B2
A lock system for a vehicle includes an electronic control module, an actuator in communication with the electronic control module, a lock member movable between an unlocked position and a locked position by the actuator, a sensor for sensing at least one of a current and a voltage supplied from the electronic control module to the actuator, and a processor configured to execute lock verification logic to determine whether the lock member moved from the unlocked position to the locked position based on the at least one of the current and the voltage sensed by the sensor.
US11078678B2
A kit comprising components of an erectable shed, wherein the erectable shed is made of metal, in comprises at least two door panels, each of which is at least thirty four inches in height, wherein the components can be packaged in a box having dimensions of no greater than 48 inches×20 inches×10 inches, and wherein the space perimetered by the wall panels and side panels when the erectable shed is erected is at least 6 feet long by 40 inches wide and wherein the height of the shed when erected is at least 6 feet.
US11078674B2
A wedge levelling system for aligning surface coverings includes a tab with a substantially flat base and a vertical member extending away from a central area of the top surface of the base. The base includes beveled feet portions on opposite sides for insertion under lower surfaces of adjacent surface coverings, with the vertical member extending between the tiles. The vertical member is attached to the base with frangible leg. The vertical member includes an opening spaced so as to be above two adjacent tiles. When a wedge is inserted and held in the opening and presses down, the tiles are pushed downwardly toward a surface upon which they are being laid to properly align the edges thereof until the tiles are set, the wedge removed and the vertical member broken off at the frangible leg portions.
US11078668B2
An assembly for use with a post-tensioning tension member may comprise an anchor body; an anchor encapsulation including rear and front encapsulation extensions; a rear nut coupled to the rear encapsulation extension; a cap coupled to the front encapsulation extension and including a cap extension; a cover extending around a portion of the tension member, the cover being tubular and having proximal and remote end portions; a coupler coupled to both the cap extension and the proximal end portion; and a remote nut coupled to the remote end portion. The assembly may further include a rear seal positioned between the rear encapsulation extension and the tension member; a front seal positioned between the cap extension and the tension member; a proximal seal positioned between the proximal end portion and the tension member; and a remote seal positioned between the remote end portion and the tension member.
US11078667B2
A system for traversing an opening of a construction element the system including a elongated housing with two extendable elements configured to reside at least partially within the housing. The extendable elements may extend beyond the housing and may include flanges or ledges which may engage the ends of a construction element, which may be a wall, and thus allow the system to traverse the opening of a construction element, such as a window or door. The system may allow a user to easily manipulate the system to fit a plurality of openings and reuse the system a countless number of times.
US11078663B1
A wall fastener assembly for retaining an exterior wall covering alongside a wall includes a screw, an elongated shank and a washer. The shank is configured to provide a space for a layer of insulation between the exterior wall covering and the wall. The shank comprises a center bore extending along the length of the shank for receiving the screw configured to secure the wall fastener assembly to the wall. The shank also includes a pair of flanges positioned opposite the wall. The pair of flanges form a groove between them. The groove configured to receive a masonry tie, wire tie or a girt track. The washer includes a central portion comprising a center hole for receiving the shank. The wire tie includes a narrow portion configured to be retained by the groove. A seal may be provided on the shank to seal the wall fastener assembly with the insulation.
US11078659B2
The invention relates to a sewage pit (1, 60) for receiving and discharging waste material, particularly domestic, medical and/or industrial waste comprising liquid and solid constituents, to the sewer (52), the sewage pit comprising: —a housing (2, 3, 4) with a closable receiving space (9), wherein one or more of the walls of the housing is provided with at least one inlet (19) configured to carry the waste material into the receiving space, a flushing liquid feed (10) which is embodied to feed flushing liquid to the receiving space for bringing the waste material into suspension, and at least one outlet (29) which can be connected to the sewer and is configured to discharge the mixture of waste material and flushing liquid from the receiving space and to the sewer, —at least one pump (25, 26) connectable or connected to the one or more outlets which is configured to pump the mixture which has been brought into suspension from the receiving space and to discharge the mixture via the one or more outlets.
US11078654B2
A kitchen sink and the method of installing the kitchen sink is disclosed. The kitchen sink for flush mounting onto a counter top having a recess for the sink, comprising one or a plurality of sink basins thereon; a deck having a substantially horizontal top surface and edges having a recess formed into a rim around the perimeter of the kitchen sink, wherein the top surface of the deck is adapted to be substantially flush with the counter top upon the sink is being mounted to the counter top, and the edges of the rim is being formed into a flange; four corners of the sink being formed rounded such that when the sink is installed into the recess on the edge of the hole opening in the counter top, the flange is substantially flush with the counter top at a level surface thereof, whereby the kitchen sink is being mounted in flush fit of the deck and the counter top.
US11078647B2
In an excavator, a plurality of lines to be compared with a region of work by an end attachment are set, and the plurality of lines are changed in accordance with progress of excavation work.
US11078645B2
An opening and closing motion control section controls an optional control valve so as to reduce opening degree of the optional control valve in a case where a first opening reduction condition is satisfied that a slewing operation detection section detects an operation amount equal to or more than a reference operation amount set in advance so that the reference operation amount is larger than a minimum operation amount of a slewing operation member for causing slewing motion of an upper slewing body and that an optional operation detection section detects operation received by an optional operation member.
US11078643B1
An excavation attachment device includes a pair of elongated malleable members that are positioned between a rigid top plate and a rigid bottom plate. Each of the malleable members being constructed from rubber and include a forward edge that extends outward beyond the forward edges of the top and bottom plates. A gap is provided between the malleable members for receiving the forks of an excavator bucket. A mounting bracket is positioned along the back edge of the top plate and includes a first set of openings for receiving connectors to selectively engage the bottom wall of an excavator bucket. The mounting bracket also including a pair of protrusions along each end having a second set of openings for receiving connectors to selectively engage the side walls of the excavator bucket.
US11078642B2
A vehicle including a coupling device having a male coupler with a release pin and a female coupler having a female housing with a recess for removably connecting the male coupler. The coupling device further includes a mechanical ejector moveably connected to the female housing and configured for depressing the release pin for ejecting the male coupler from the female housing.
US11078640B2
A boom for containing floating material spilled in water including an elongated sheet including units and spaces between the units, each one of the units including a plurality of plates attached to the sheet, designed to fold flat when packed, and to self-expand into a polygonal cross-sectional shape when unpacked. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
US11078639B2
A system of actively introducing opposite phase vibrations to reduce or cancel vibrations caused by operating a snow plow and a method of actively introducing such opposite phase vibrations.
US11078637B2
A support for a roadside object, the support including: a hollow elongate body comprising: a first section having a plurality of first apertures separated by a first distance; and a second section having a plurality of second apertures separated by a second distance, wherein the first distance is different to the second distance.
US11078636B2
A display device displays displacement of a bridge serving as a structure on a display part in the form of image information that is visually recognizable, based on a displacement amount of the bridge, the displacement amount having been calculated based on an output signal output from an acceleration detector serving as a physical quantity sensor provided on the bridge.
US11078635B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to cutting tool assemblies, material-removing machines that include cutting tool assemblies, and methods of use and operation thereof. In some embodiments, the cutting tool assemblies described herein may be used in material-removing machines that may remove target material. For example, the cutting tool assemblies may include one or more superhard working surfaces and/or one or more shields.
US11078629B1
Methods of making laminated paper sheets include winding paper around a flat-sided mandrel to form a flat-sided convolute tube and cutting from the flat-sided convolute tube one or more laminated paper sheets. The laminated paper sheets are alternatives to plastic, wood, and wood-like materials, such as plywood, medium-density fiberboard (MDF), and oriented strand board (OSB).
US11078620B2
A moisture sensor assembly for a dryer appliance includes a housing body having a divider wall, a first sensor rod, and a second sensor rod. The first and second sensor rods are positioned on the housing body. Each of the first and second sensor rods has a mounting tab. The mounting tab of the first sensor rod is positioned opposite the mounting tab of the first sensor rod about the divider wall of the housing body. The mounting tabs of the first and second sensor rods are oriented generally parallel to the divider wall.
US11078610B2
An insulating garment for use as thermal and moist repellent barrier in a firefighter bunker gear is disclosed, the garment being adapted to be worn by a firefighter under a bunker gear. The garment being made from a fire-resistant insulating fabric comprising: a first woven or knitted fire-resistant fabric layer; a second woven or knitted fire-resistant fabric layer; and at least one monofilament yarn interconnecting the first and second layers, thereby creating an insulating space between the layers. Each monofilament yarn is made of a material having a compressive strength from about 0.5 to about 2.5 cN·cm/cm2 and a resilience superiors or equals to about 25% to maintain the insulating space between the layers and therefore thermal and moist insulation. Preferably, the material further has a high melting point and/or high transition temperatures. The material of the monofilament yarn may comprise polyphenylene sulphide (PPS), polyetheretherketone (PEEK) or Polyetherimide (ULTEM™).
US11078609B2
A weft withdrawing device of an air jet loom includes a blow nozzle blowing a weft that is ejected from a weft insertion main nozzle and determined to be a weft insertion failure to guide the weft to a weft withdrawing passage, a weft introducing duct that is integrally swingable with a sley forward and backward, a weft withdrawing mechanism withdrawing the weft guided to the weft introducing duct, and a weft sensor optically detecting the weft. The weft withdrawing device of the air jet loom includes a weft guide member. The weft guide member includes a cloth fell side top portion and a let-off side top portion. The cloth fell side top portion is located above the weft withdrawing passage.
US11078606B2
A method for producing at least one crimped multifilament synthetic yarn through the use of a texturing process, wherein a stream of heated gaseous medium is brought into a texturing channel (1), (2), (3), wherein synthetic filaments (4), (5), (6) are displaced and deformed by the heated gaseous medium in the texturing channel (1), (2), (3), wherein both the temperature and the flow rate of the gaseous medium are measured, and wherein the heat flow is regulated. To this end, the device comprises a regulating device (50) and, for each texturing channel (1), (2), (3), at least one temperature sensor (60), (61), (62) and a flow sensor (57), (58), (59).
US11078592B2
The present disclosure relates to a self-lubricating, electrolytically deposited phosphate coating on metal workpieces, comprising stabilized solid lubricants incorporated into the phosphate coating and to a method for the production thereof.
US11078590B2
A plated steel includes: a steel; a zinc based electroplated layer formed on a surface of the steel; and an organic resin coating layer formed on a surface of the zinc based electroplated layer, in which the surface of the zinc based electroplated layer has hairline extending in a predetermined direction, Ra (ML) measured on the surface of the zinc based electroplated layer is 0.10 to 0.70 μm, on the surface of the zinc based electroplated layer, a peak number PPI measured in a hairline orthogonal direction with a reference level of 10 μinch satisfies PPI≥350×Ra (MC) with respect to Ra (MC), on a surface of the organic resin coating layer, Ra (CC) satisfies Ra (CC)/Ra (CL)≥1.10 with respect to Ra (CL), and Ra (CC) satisfies Ra (CC)
US11078589B2
Disclosed is a copper coated stainless-steel hydrophobic mesh and a method for synthesizing the hydrophobic mesh. In the method, a stainless-steel mesh is sonicated in a solution of acetone and ethanol, and then electroplated in a copper solution to form a copper coating on the surface of the mesh. The copper-coated stainless-steel mesh is treated with an oxidizing solution having an oxidizing potential applied to it. The mesh is then washed with water and dried. The copper-coated stainless-steel mesh is then immersed in a lauric acid solution. The mesh is then rinsed with ethanol to remove adsorbed lauric acid. After drying, the so-synthesized copper-coated stainless-steel hydrophobic mesh is characterized in that it has hydrophobic branches of lauric acid.
US11078588B2
A method for forming an abrasive surface includes applying an electric current through a plating solution so as to cause an abrasive grit to be deposited onto a workpiece and varying a waveform of the electric current while building up a matrix material at least partially around the abrasive grit.
US11078586B2
This zinc-nickel composite plating bath contains a zinc source, a nickel source, silicon dioxide particles and an ammonium-based dispersant in such ranges that enable the achievement of a zinc-nickel composite plating film wherein the codeposition amount of nickel is 10-16 wt % and the codeposition amount of the silicon dioxide particles is 7 vol % or more. Meanwhile, the pH of this zinc-nickel composite plating bath is 5.6 to 6.8.
US11078577B2
A system implementing fiber optics to monitor pipeline cathodic protection systems includes a cathodic protection system coupled to a hydrocarbon pipeline and a fiber optic system connected to the cathodic protection system. The cathodic protection system passes a current through the hydrocarbon pipeline to control corrosion of the hydrocarbon pipeline. The fiber optic system measures the current flowing through the hydrocarbon pipeline over time and provides the measured current.
US11078554B2
There is disclosed a lightweight steel with an enhanced elastic modulus, wherein the lightweight steel has a chemical composition by mass percentage of 0.001%≤C≤0.30%, 0.05%≤Mn≤4.0%, 1.5%
US11078553B2
Disclosed are implementations for heat treatment of a metal component, and a use of a furnace for heating a metal component. The implementations can be used in the partial hardening of optionally pre-coated components made of a high-strength manganese-boron steel. An example method for heat treatment of a metal component comprises at least the following steps: a) heating the component in a first furnace; b) moving the component into a temperature control station; c) cooling at least one first sub-region of the component in the temperature control station, wherein a temperature difference is set between the at least one first sub-region and at least one second sub-region of the component; d) moving the component from the temperature control station into a second furnace; and e) heating at least the at least one first sub-region of the component in the second furnace by at least 200 K.
US11078551B2
A hot-stamping method may include a three-dimensional cooling mode in which, when a closed-section product placed in an upper mold and a lower mold that are coupled each other is heat-treated under control of a controller, an external cooling water direct spraying operation of directly spraying cooling water onto an external portion of the closed-section product is performed and, simultaneously, an internal cooling water direct spraying operation of directly spraying cooling water into an internal of the closed-section product is performed.
US11078547B2
The present invention describes an approach to produce taurine or increase hypotaurine or taurine production in prokaryotes or eukaryotes. More particularly, the invention relates to genetic transformation of organisms with algal, microalgal or fungal genes that encode proteins that pool catalyze the conversion of sulfur-containing compounds such as sulfate or cysteine to taurine. The invention describes methods for the use of polynucleotides for cysteine dioxygenase-like (CDOL), sulfinoalanine decarboxylase-like (SADL), cysteine sulfate/decarboxylase or a portion of the cysteine synthetase/PLP decarboxylase (partCS/PLP-DC) polypeptide in bacteria, alga, yeast, or plants to produce taurine or increase hypotaurine or taurine. The preferred embodiment of the invention is in plants but other organisms may be used. Taurine production or increased levels of hypoataurine or taurine in plants could be used as nutraceutical, pharmaceutical, or therapeutic compounds or as a supplement in animal feed or for animal feed or as an enhancer for plant growth or yield.
US11078546B2
Compositions and methods related to transgenic glyphosate tolerant Brassica plants are provided. Specifically, the present invention provides Brassica plants having a DP-073496-4 event which imparts tolerance to glyphosate. The Brassica plant harboring the DP-073496-4 event at the recited chromosomal location comprises genomic/transgene junctions within SEQ ID NO: 2 or with genomic/transgene junctions as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 12 and/or 13. The characterization of the genomic insertion site of the event provides for an enhanced breeding efficiency and enables the use of molecular markers to track the transgene insert in the breeding populations and progeny thereof. Various methods and compositions for the identification, detection, and use of the event are provided.
US11078542B2
The present invention relates to methods, systems and kits for the diagnosis, prognosis and the determination of cancer progression of prostate cancer in a subject. The invention also provides clinically useful genomic classifiers for predicting prostate cancer metastasis and identifying tumor aggressiveness. The methods, systems and kits can provide expression-based analysis of biomarkers for purposes of predicting metastatic disease and lethal prostate cancer in a subject. Further disclosed herein, in certain instances, are probe sets for use in predicting prostate cancer metastasis in a subject. Classifiers for predicting prostate cancer metastasis are provided. Methods of treating cancer based on tumor aggressiveness are also provided. The methods and classifiers of the present invention are also useful for predicting early prostate cancer metastasis.
US11078538B2
The disclosure includes the identification and use of gene expression profiles, or patterns, with clinical relevance to extended treatment and cancer-free survival in a patient. In particular, the disclosure includes the identities of genes that are expressed in correlation with benefit in a switch in endocrine therapy used to treat a patient. The levels of gene expression are disclosed as a molecular index for predicting clinical outcome, and so prognosis, for the patient. The disclosure further includes methods for predicting cancer recurrence, and/or predicting occurrence of metastatic cancer, after initial treatment with an anti-estrogen agent. The disclosure further includes methods for determining or selecting the treatment of a subject based upon the likelihood of life expectancy, cancer recurrence, and/or cancer metastasis.
US11078534B2
The present invention provides for stable nucleotide reagents used for nucleic acid amplification by PCR and RT-PCR (Reverse Transcriptase-PCR) that comprises modified nucleoside triphosphates. The present invention also provides for methods for using the modified nucleoside triphosphates for detecting the presence or absence of a target nucleic acid sequence in a sample in an amplification reaction.
US11078532B2
This disclosure provides methods for determining relative abundance of one or more non-host species in a sample from a host. Also provided are methods involving addition of known concentrations of synthetic nucleic acids to a sample and performing sequencing assays to identify non-host species such as pathogens. Also provided are methods of tracking samples, tracking reagents, and tracking diversity loss in sequencing assays.
US11078530B2
The invention relates to constructs comprising a transmembrane protein pore subunit and a nucleic acid handling enzyme. The pore subunit is covalently attached to the enzyme such that both the subunit and enzyme retain their activity. The constructs can be used to generate transmembrane protein pores having a nucleic acid handling enzyme attached thereto. Such pores are particularly useful for sequencing nucleic acids. The enzyme handles the nucleic acid in such a way that the pore can detect its component nucleotides by stochastic sensing.
US11078513B2
The present invention relates to a composition for forming an electrode, an electrochemical sensor comprising the same, and a method for determining an analyte using the electrochemical sensor.
US11078511B2
The present disclosure is directed to the properties of certain glycosyltransferase variants having N-terminal truncation deletions or internal deletions. Any of the mutants disclosed in here exhibit alpha-2,6-sialyltransferase enzymatic activity in the presence of CMP-activated sialic acid as co-substrate, and in the presence of a suitable acceptor site. A fundamental finding documented in the present disclosure is that these enzymes are not only capable of catalyzing transfer of a sialidyl moiety but they are also capable of catalyzing hydrolytic cleavage of terminally bound sialic acid from a glycan.
US11078510B2
The present invention relates to mutants of a parent Trichoderma strain, comprising a polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide and one or more (several) genes selected from the group consisting of a first subtilisin-like serine protease gene, a first aspartic protease gene, a trypsin-like serine protease gene, a second subtilisin-like serine protease gene, and a second aspartic protease gene, wherein the one or more (several) genes are modified rendering the mutant strain deficient in the production of one or more (several) enzymes selected from the group consisting of a first subtilisin-like serine protease, a first aspartic protease, a trypsin-like serine protease, a second subtilisin-like serine protease, and a second aspartic protease, respectively, compared to the parent Trichoderma strain when cultivated under identical conditions. The present invention also relates to methods of producing a polypeptide in such mutants and methods for producing such mutants.
US11078507B2
The present invention pertains to an in vitro method in which the frequency of the targeted nucleotide sequence containing the DNA fragment of interest is increased stepwise, by several rounds of 1) dilution of a sample containing the DNA fragment of interest into several replicates (separation), 2) randomly amplifying DNA in the replicates (concentration), 3) detecting the DNA fragment of interest in at least one of the diluted and amplified replicates (selection) and repeating steps 1) through 3) until the DNA fragment of interest can be sequenced by standard sequencing techniques.
US11078505B2
The present disclosure relates to polypeptides having transaminase activity, polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, and methods of using the polypeptides.
US11078495B2
The present invention provides an integration-defective lentiviral vector based on a parental lentivirus and related methods, the integration-defective lentiviral vector including one or more of the following: (a) a mutation, deletion or other modification of one or more binding sites for a host factor involved in gene silencing; (b) an addition of one or more binding sites for a transcription activator, which can be natural (such as but not limited to ubiquitous and/or tissue/cell type specific) including but not limited to SP1 NFkB, or synthetic including but not limited to binding sites for tetracycline regulated trans activators tTA, rtTA, tT65, and/or rtT65; (c) one or more nucleic acid sequences from a SV40 genome, wherein the one or more sequences are obtained from a region of the SV40 genome upstream to the SV40 poly-adenylation signal; (d) a shRNA expression cassette, which encodes a shRNA directed to a host gene involved in epigenetic silencing and/or in DNA repair pathways; or (e) any combination of (a), (b), (c) and (d), wherein as compared to the parental lentivirus, the integration-defective lentiviral vector resists gene silencing.
US11078491B2
Compositions including a virus-like particle (VLP)-based vaccine displaying a portion of ZIKV envelope protein (E) domain III (DIII) and a portion of ZIKV envelope protein (E) and related methods are disclosed herein. Further, compositions including vaccines comprising a portion of ZIKA virus E protein, wherein the portion of ZIKA virus E protein is either a full-length version of ZIKA virus E protein or a functionally equivalent version of the full-length ZIKA virus E protein, are disclosed.
US11078472B2
This invention relates to novel recombinant clostridial neurotoxins exhibiting increased duration of effect and to methods for the manufacture of such recombinant clostridial neurotoxins. These novel recombinant clostridial neurotoxins comprise (i) at least two random coil domains, or (ii) at least two domains having a polyproline II helix conformation, and the methods comprise the steps of inserting at least two nucleic acid sequences each coding for (i) a random coil domain, or (ii) a domain having a polyproline II helix conformation, into a nucleic acid sequence coding for a parental clostridial neurotoxin and expression of the recombinant nucleic acid sequence comprising (i) the random coil domain-coding sequences, or (ii) the sequences encoding the domains having a polyproline II helix conformation in a host cell. The invention further relates to novel recombinant single-chain precursor clostridial neurotoxins used in such methods, nucleic acid sequences encoding such recombinant single-chain precursor clostridial neurotoxins, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the recombinant clostridial neurotoxin with increased duration of effect.
US11078469B2
Engineered transcriptional activator-like effectors (TALEs) are versatile tools for genome manipulation with applications in research and clinical contexts. One current drawback of TALEs is that the 5′ nucleotide of the target is specific for thymine (T). TALE domains with alternative 5′ nucleotide specificities could expand the scope of DNA target sequences that can be bound by TALEs. Another drawback of TALEs is their tendency to bind and cleave off-target sequence, which hampers their clinical application and renders applications requiring high-fidelity binding unfeasible. This disclosure provides methods and strategies for the continuous evolution of proteins comprising DNA-binding domains, e.g., TALE domains. In some aspects, this disclosure provides methods and strategies for evolving such proteins under positive selection for a desired DNA-binding activity and/or under negative selection against one or more undesired (e.g., off-target) DNA-binding activities. Some aspects of this disclosure provide engineered TALE domains and TALEs comprising such engineered domains, e.g., TALE nucleases (TALENs), TALE transcriptional activators, TALE transcriptional repressors, and TALE epigenetic modification enzymes, with altered 5′ nucleotide specificities of target sequences. Engineered TALEs that target ATM with greater specificity are also provided.
US11078468B2
The present invention relates to proteins involved in fatty acid synthesis, such as fatty acid synthases (FAS) variants, comprising one or more polypeptide chains, wherein said polypeptide chain(s) comprise one or more subunits comprising a malonyl/palmitoyl transferase domain (MPT domain), acetyl transferase domain (AT domain), and ketoacyl synthase domain (KS domain), and at least one amino acid substitution in the MPT domain at a position corresponding to R130, in the AT domain at a position corresponding to I306, and/or in the KS domain, preferably in the acyl binding channel and/or at KS domain binding site to ACP, to modulate affinities of acyl intermediates, and optionally further amino acid substitution(s). The present invention relates to the respective polypeptide domains. The present invention further relates to nucleic acid molecules encoding the proteins (or the polypeptide domains) and to host cells containing said nucleic acid molecules. The present invention further relates to a method for the production of short fatty acids, CoA esters of short fatty acids, ethyl esters of short fatty acids, esters of short fatty acids with other metabolites, and/or enzyme bound short fatty acids (C6 to C12), comprising the expression of said nucleic acid molecules, preferably in said host cells. The present invention further relates to a method for the production of biofuels, flavoring compounds and/or fine chemicals, comprising the expression of said nucleic acid molecules, preferably in said host cells. The present invention also relates to the use of the proteins, nucleic acids molecule or host cells for the bulk production of short fatty acids (C6 to C12), the specific production of C6 fatty acids and/or C8 fatty acids, the bulk production of CoA esters of short fatty acids (C6 to C12), the specific production of C6-CoA esters and/or C8-CoA esters, the bulk production of ethyl esters of short fatty acids (C6 to C12), the specific production of C6 fatty acid ethyl esters and/or C8 fatty acid ethyl esters, the bulk production of esters of short fatty acids (C6 to C12) with other metabolites, the specific production of C6 fatty acid esters with other metabolites and/or C8 fatty acid esters with other metabolites, the bulk production of enzyme bound short fatty acids (C6 to C12), the specific production of enzyme bound C6 fatty acids and/or enzyme bound C8 fatty acids, the production of biofuels, fine chemicals and/or flavoring substances.
US11078465B2
The present disclosure discloses an alcohol dehydrogenase mutant and application thereof in synthesis of diaryl chiral alcohols, and belongs to the technical field of bioengineering. The alcohol dehydrogenase mutant of the present disclosure has excellent catalytic activity and stereoselectivity, and may efficiently catalyze the preparation of a series of chiral diaryl alcohols in R- and S-configurations. By coupling alcohol dehydrogenase of the present disclosure to glucose dehydrogenase or formate dehydrogenase, the synthesis of chiral diaryl alcohol intermediates of various antihistamines may be achieved. Compared with the prior art, a method for preparing diaryl chiral alcohols through asymmetric catalytic reduction using the alcohol dehydrogenase of the present disclosure has the advantages of simple and convenient operation, high substrate concentration, complete reaction and high product purity, and has great industrial application prospects.
US11078461B2
The invention provides compositions and methods for the preparation of processed adipose tissue. The invention further provides methods of use of the processed adipose tissue.
US11078451B2
The present disclosure relates to water-soluble unit dose articles made from a combination of chemically different water-soluble films and containing household care compositions that are at least partially enclosed by the water-soluble films in at least one compartment.
US11078447B1
A multi-purpose surface cleaning solution includes sodium percarbonate having a chemical formula of 2Na2CO3.3H2O2 that may be selectively provided in a range of concentrations, from 0.001% through 99.997%. In an aqueous solution, sodium percarbonate decomposes and yields soda ash [Na2CO3] and hydrogen peroxide [H2O2], with additional decomposition of hydrogen peroxide to water [H2O] and diatomic oxygen [O2]. The combination of soda ash, hydrogen peroxide, and diatomic oxygen chemically weaken and release the bonds of the contaminants from the surface(s) to which the contaminants have become attached.
US11078445B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising: (a) a source of sulfite; and (b) a lipase variant of a parent lipase, wherein one or more amino acids in the parent lipase within 20 angstrom (Å) of a cysteine bridge are replaced with a more negatively charged amino acid.
US11078442B2
Suggested is a method for the extraction of fragrances from natural starting material consisting of the following steps: (a) providing a sample of the natural starting material in a pressure proof sample container; (b) bringing in the sample in contact with liquefied petroleum gas of propane and/or butane gas, preferably; (c) extracting the fragrances from the natural starting material provided in step (b); (d) venting of the pressure proof sample container, while the liquefied petroleum gas is evaporated and the fragrances is maintained as residue in the container; and optionally (e) dissolving the fragrances in a suitable solvent.
US11078430B2
The present invention relates to a method for reducing the cloud point of a base oil with high saturates/paraffinic content to below 0° C., wherein the method comprises subjecting said base oils to a cloud point reduction step comprising adding said base oil to a solvent mixture, wherein the solvent mixture comprises a paraffin naphtha fraction and a co-solvent to obtain a solvent treatment mixture; and subjecting the solvent treatment mixture to a solvent de-waxing step.
US11078420B2
Provided are a polymerizable compound represented by formula I and a liquid crystal composition comprising the polymerizable compound, particularly a PSVA liquid crystal composition for displays or TV applications and a PSA-IPS liquid crystal composition for an IPS mode; in particular, the polymerizable compound has a faster polymerization rate, and a “material system” formed from the selected polymerizable component and liquid crystal component has a lower rotary viscosity and better photoelectric properties, and has a high VHR after (UV) photoradiation, this avoiding the problem of the occurrence of residual images to final displays.
US11078408B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a method of producing a viscoelastic surfactant (VES) fluid, the VES fluid comprising desulfated seawater. The method of producing the VES fluid comprises adding an alkaline earth metal halide to seawater to produce a sulfate precipitate. The method further comprises removing the sulfate precipitate to produce the desulfated water. The method further comprises adding a VES and one or more of a nanoparticle viscosity modifier or a polymeric modifier to the desulfated seawater. Other embodiments are directed to VES fluids that maintain a viscosity greater than 10 cP at temperatures above 250° F.
US11078404B2
The present disclosure relates to delivery and release systems, such as core-shell particles. An exemplary composition according to the disclosure can include a degradable polymeric shell surrounding a core that includes a crosslinker, which can encompass a metal, such as chromium. The core-shell particles can be provided with a gel-forming polymer, such as a polyacrylamide, into a subterranean reservoir having conditions such that the shell of the core-shell polymer degrades, and the so-released metal is effective to at least partially crosslink the gel-forming polymer to form a gel. The so-formed gel can be effective to control water flow through the subterranean reservoir, such as in relation to a waterflood of the reservoir.
US11078403B2
Systems, compositions, and methods for synergistic additives for use in the scavenging of sulfur-containing compounds encountered in oilfield operations are provided. In one embodiment, the methods comprise injecting a sulfide scavenging additive that does not comprise a significant amount of an aldehyde into at least a portion of a subterranean formation where one or more sulfur-containing species are present; and injecting a synergistic additive comprising at least one base into at least the portion of the subterranean formation.
US11078402B2
Methods include drilling at least one interval of a wellbore with a water-based wellbore fluid producing a filtercake in the at least one interval of the wellbore. The methods also include gravel packing an interval of a wellbore traversing a subterranean formation with a gravel pack that comprises polyhydroxycarboxylic acid, and hydrolyzing the polyhydroxycarboxylic acid to degrade at least a portion of the filtercake.
US11078393B2
A modified high density brine for use in subterranean drilling and completion operations. The modified high density brine includes the addition of high density particle addition that can optionally be surface-modified. The resultant modified high density brine eliminates the need for toxic, corrosive, and costly ZrBr2 additions or other ionic additives to boost the density of the modified high density brine to 15-17 lbs./gallon or greater.
US11078391B2
The present technology provides a urethane adhesive composition including a urethane prepolymer including an isocyanate group; an isocyanurate compound including an isocyanurate ring; and a terpene compound including an active hydrogen.
US11078388B2
Provided is an adhesive composition containing component (A) (a modified polyolefin-based resin) and component (B) (a polyfunctional epoxy compound), wherein as a result of measuring a storage elastic modulus of a solid content, a storage elastic modulus at 23° C. is 0.1 to 600 MPa, and a storage elastic modulus at 80° C. is 0.1 MPa or lower. Also provided are: a sealing sheet having an adhesive layer formed using the adhesive composition, and a sealed body comprising a seal object that is sealed with the sealing sheet. The adhesive composition is easy to form into a sheet and excellent in unevenness followability. The sealing sheet has an adhesive layer which is formed of this adhesive composition and is excellent in unevenness followability, and a sealed body has a seal object sealed with the sealing sheet.
US11078373B2
In order to satisfy the demand of consumers regarding design attractiveness, an infrared-light-transmitting dark color ink is provided, the ink having a black appearance and attaining high design attractiveness and, despite this, having sufficient infrared-light-transmitting property. The infrared-light-transmitting dark color ink transmits near infrared light having wavelengths of 750-1,500 nm, and comprises a resin component and a pigment component that comprises both a brown pigment, e.g., a benzimidazolone pigment, and a phthalocyanine pigment.
US11078359B2
A biopolymer blend is provided that comprises a combination of three components: poly (butylene adipate-co-terephthalate) (PBAT); agriculture sourced polylactic acid (PLA); and engineered proteinaceous eggshell nanoparticles. The two polymer components can be present in any ratio but an approximate 70:30 ratio is preferred. The engineered proteinaceous eggshell nanoparticles are preferably about 10-25 nanometers. Also provided are methods of preparing biopolymer film and packaging components. Pelleted poly (butylene adipate-co-terephthalate) and agriculture sourced polylactic acid (PLA) are dissolved in chloroform and mixed together to form a polymer blend, and engineered proteinaceous eggshell nanoparticles are incorporated into the polymer blend, which is then extruded to create a biopolymer film or component.
US11078358B2
The present disclosure provides a curable composition. The curable composition includes a liquid epoxy resin component a curative component, and a curable resin filler component. At least a portion of curable resin filler is dispersed in the liquid epoxy resin and solid at about 25° C. According to various examples, the curable composition can produce a film having good tackiness and improved handling characteristics. Additionally, according to some examples, a cured product of the curable composition can have a Wet Glass Transition Temperature and a Dry Glass Transition Temperature that are substantially the same.
US11078350B2
Provided is a cleaning member including a urethane rubber, wherein the urethane rubber has a cyclic structure portion in which a fluorine atom is directly bonded to the cyclic structure portion.
US11078348B2
A rubber composition for a tennis ball includes a base rubber and a high-flatness filler. The high-flatness filler has an average particle diameter D50 of not less than 1 μm and not greater than 50 μm. A degree of flatness DL is not less than 40 and not greater than 200. An amount of the high-flatness filler per 100 parts by weight of the base rubber is not less than 5 parts by weight and not greater than 100 parts by weight. A ratio (E2/E1) of a tensile elastic modulus E2 in a tensile strain range from 70% to 100% to a tensile elastic modulus E1 in a tensile strain range from 10% to 30%, of a vulcanized rubber obtained by vulcanizing the rubber composition, is not less than 0.60 and less than 1.00. The tennis ball includes a hollow core formed from the rubber composition.
US11078345B2
Various embodiments disclosed relate to pore inducers and porous abrasive forms made using the same. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method of forming a porous abrasive form including heating an abrasive composition including pore inducers to form the porous abrasive form. During the heating the pore inducers in the porous abrasive form reduce in volume to form induced pores in the porous abrasive form.
US11078342B2
The present invention relates to an expandable polymeric composition that comprises: a) from 60% to 88% by weight of a vinyl aromatic polymer and/or copolymer, calculated respect to (a)+(b); b) from 12% to 40% by weight of a block copolymer, containing at least one vinyl aromatic polymer and/or copolymer and at least one hydrogenated diene polymer, calculated respect to (a)+(b); c) from 3 parts to 10 parts by weight of a blowing agent, calculated on 100 parts of (a)+(b).
US11078335B2
A method for preparing a graft copolymer having a polyolefin backbone and polyorganosiloxane pendant groups can be catalyzed by a Lewis Acid catalyst, Piers-Rubenstzjan catalyst, or hydrosilylation reaction catalyst. The graft copolymer prepared by the method is useful as a thermoplastic elastomer or as a compatibilizer in compositions containing both a polyolefin and a polyorganosiloxane.
US11078326B2
A liquid composition. The liquid composition comprises (i) particles comprising a complex of a polythiophene and a polyanion, (ii) at least one tetraalkyl orthosilicate, (iii) at least one solvent, and (iv) gallic acid, at least one derivative of gallic acid or a mixture thereof. Also provided are a process for the preparation of a liquid composition, a liquid composition obtainable by such a process, a process for the preparation of a layered body, the layered body obtainable by such a process, a layered body and the use of a liquid composition.
US11078318B2
The present application may provide a block copolymer and a use thereof. The block copolymer of the present application has excellent self-assembly properties or phase separation characteristics, to which various functions to be required can also be freely imparted.
US11078312B2
A cross-linked polymer composition includes a cross-linked polyolefin. Peroxide in an amount of less than 35 mmol —O—O—/kg polymer composition may be included in the polymer composition prior to crosslinking the polyolefin. Suitable polyolefins that can be cross-linked in the polymer composition include an unsaturated LDPE homopolymer and an unsaturated LDPE copolymer of ethylene with one or more comonomers. Such unsaturated LDPE polymer can contain vinyl groups, and the total amount of vinyl groups present in the unsaturated LDPE can be higher than 0.05/1000 carbon atoms. The cross-linked polymer composition can be used, for example, in producing a cross-linkable and cross-linked article such as a cross-linkable and cross-linked direct current (DC) or other type of power cable.
US11078310B2
Catalyst composition comprising a phthalate-free electron donor, which is highly effective during polymerisation in the presence of a polymeric nucleating agent, and its use and a process for its preparation.
US11078296B2
Provided are heterodimer pairs comprising a first heterodimer and a second heterodimer wherein each heterodimer comprises an immunoglobulin heavy chain or fragment thereof and an immunoglobulin light chain. At least one of the heterodimers comprises amino acid modifications in the CH1 and/or CL domains, amino acid modifications in the VH and/or VL domains or a combination thereof. The modified amino acid residues are part of the interface between the light chain and heavy chain and are modified in order to create preferential pairing between each heavy chain and a desired light chain such that when the two heavy chains and two light chains of the heterodimer pair are co-expressed in a mammalian cell, the heavy chain of the first heterodimer preferentially pairs with one of the light chains rather than the other. Likewise, the heavy chain of the second heterodimer preferentially pairs with the second light chain rather than first.
US11078295B2
Provided herein are methods for inhibiting, delaying, or reducing tumor growth and metastases of Plexin-B1-expressing cancer cells in a subject, comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of an isolated binding molecule which specifically binds to semaphorin-4D (SEMA4D) in combination with an effective amount of at least one other immune modulating therapy.
US11078293B2
Provided is an anti-human transferrin receptor antibody or an analog thereof, wherein in the heavy chain variable region of the antibody, (a) CDR1 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 62 or SEQ ID NO: 63, (b) CDR2 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 13 or SEQ ID NO: 14, and (c) CDR3 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 15 or SEQ ID NO: 16, and an analogue thereof.
US11078291B2
The invention provides humanized antibodies that specifically bind to BCMA. The antibodies are useful for treatment and diagnoses of various cancers and immune disorders as well as detecting BCMA.
US11078283B2
Provided are anti-programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) monoclonal antibodies and related compositions, which may be used in any of a variety of therapeutic methods for the treatment of inflammatory and oncological diseases. Specifically, high affinity, humanized anti-PD-L1 antibodies are provided.
US11078265B2
The present invention relates to anti-IL-23p19 binding compounds, in particular new humanized anti-IL-23p19 antibodies, pharmaceutical compositions and therapeutic and diagnostic methods and compositions for using the same.
US11078261B2
Antibodies to human N3pGlu Aβ, compositions comprising such N3pGlu Aβ antibodies, and methods of using such N3pGlu Aβ antibodies for the treatment of a disease characterized by deposition of Aβ including clinical or pre-clinical Alzheimer's disease, Down's syndrome, and clinical or pre-clinical cerebral amyloid angiopathy.
US11078259B2
The invention provides methods and compositions relating to molecular targets identified as being capable of increasing or decreasing thermogenic potential in cells, including preadipocytes. Included in the invention are methods and compositions relating to inhibiting or suppressing the activity of an uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1) negative regulator, such as cardiac actin 1 (ACTC1), somatostatin receptor 1 (SSTR1), FAT atypical cadherin 1 (FAT1), and protein tyrosine phosphatase receptor type B (PTPRB). Also included in the invention are methods and compositions relating to activating a UCP1 positive regulator, such as phosphatidylinositol-3,4,5-triphosphate-dependent Rac exchange factor 1 (PREX1), cortactin binding protein 2 (CTTNBP2), doublesex and mab-3-related transcription factor-like family A1 (DMRTA1), and endothelin receptor type B (ENDRB). The invention also provides methods and compositions relating to enrichment of cells having thermogenic potential based on cell surface markers, e.g., CD29, identified as being predictive of such.
US11078251B2
The present invention relates to T-cell receptors (TCR) that recognize pancreatic betacell epitopes and uses thereof for the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes.
US11078248B2
The invention relates to truncated growth factors and variants thereof. The invention also relates to methods of making and using the truncated growth factors. The invention further relates to compositions including a protease and a growth factor comprising a bone morphogenic protein (BMP) or a variant thereof. The invention also relates to methods of using the composition.
US11078237B2
This disclosure provides platforms for delivery of herpes virus proteins to cells, particularly proteins that form complexes in vivo. In some embodiments these proteins and the complexes they form elicit potent neutralizing antibodies. Thus, presentation of herpes virus proteins using the disclosed platforms permits the generation of broad and potent immune responses useful for vaccine development.
US11078234B2
The present disclosure relates to methods of preparing and crystallizing β-turn cyclic peptidomimetic salts of formula I: where R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R10, X, Y and n are as defined in the specification. The present disclosure provides a more efficient route for preparing a crystalline form of β-turn cyclic peptidomimetic compounds and salts thereof.
US11078230B2
The present invention relates generally to the compound: N-((4aS,6aR,6bS,8aR,12aS,14aR,14bS)-11-cyano-2,2,6a,6b,9,9,12a-heptamethyl-10,14-dioxo-1,2,3,4,4a,5,6,6a,6b,7, 8,8a,9,10,12a,14,14a,14b-octadecahydropicen-4a-yl)-2,2-difluoropropanamide, polymorphic forms thereof, methods for preparation and use thereof, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and kits and articles of manufacture thereof.
US11078227B2
Described are 5′-cyclo-phosphonate modified nucleotides, and oligonucleotides, such as interference (RNAi) agents, containing 5′-cyclo-phosphonate modified nucleotides. The RNAi agents having either double-stranded or single-stranded oligonucleotides described herein comprising 5′cyclo-phosphonate modified nucleotides are useful in modulating gene expression as well as therapeutic, diagnostic, target validation, and genomic discovery applications. The RNAi agents and single-stranded antisense oligonucleotides comprising 5′-cyclo-phosphonate modified nucleotides are useful in the treatment of diseases or conditions that respond to inhibition of gene expression or activity in a cell, tissue, or organism.
US11078226B2
The invention relates to novel glycosidase substrates of formula (I), wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R′9, V, X, Y and Z are as defined in claim 1, and a method for detecting the presence of a catalytically active glycosidase by means of one of said substrates.
US11078219B2
[OBJECT] To provide a metal-organic framework having high hygroscopicity under low humidity conditions, and a method for producing such a metal-organic framework. [SOLVING MEANS] A method for producing a coordinatively unsaturated metal-organic framework includes the steps of providing a precursor metal-organic framework comprising a metal cluster and a polycarboxylic acid ion and a monocarboxylic acid ion coordinated to the metal cluster, and allowing the precursor metal-organic framework and a metal salt having a Lewis acidity to coexist in a solvent to desorb at least a part of the monocarboxylic acid ion, which is coordinated to the metal cluster, from the metal cluster, as well as a coordinatively unsaturated metal-organic framework, including an M6O8-x(OH)x-type metal cluster and carboxylic acid ions including a polycarboxylic acid ion as a polydentate ligand and a C1-3 monocarboxylic acid ion as a monodentate ligand coordinated to the metal cluster.
US11078218B2
Provided herein is a process for preparing triaryl organoborates proceeding from alkyl or cycloalkyl boronates in the presence of an n-valent cation 1/n Kn+ to obtain organoborates of the formula 1/n Kn+R34B−—R1 (IV), where one equivalent of organoboronic ester of the formula B—R1(OR2)(OR3) (I) is initially charged together with 1/n equivalents of salt Kn+ nX− (II) and 3 equivalents of metal M in a solvent or a solvent mixture, 3 equivalents of a haloaromatic R4—Y (III) are added, and optionally a second organic solvent water is added and the compound 1/n Kn+ R24B−—R1 (IV) is separated off with the organic phase, and to the use of these substances as co-initiator in photopolymer formulations.
US11078212B2
A purified 2-hydrocarbyl-3-(dihydroxyfluoresceinyl)phthalimidine compound of formula (I): wherein R is a C1-25 hydrocarbyl; each occurrence of R2 and R3 is independently a halogen or a C1-25 hydrocarbyl; p is 0 to 4; and each q is independently 0 to 3; and wherein the purified 2-hydrocarbyl-3-(dihydroxyfluoresceinyl)phthalimidine compound of formula (I) has a purity of greater than 99.4%, as determined by high performance liquid chromatography.
US11078209B2
Provided is a new polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon derivative. The polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon derivative is a derivative of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon having 6 or more aromatic rings and has a substituent represented by the following formula (1). (In the formula (1), R1 and R2 are carbon atoms of the aromatic rings in the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, and R3 to R5 are carbon atoms of an aromatic ring or a heterocyclic ring in a group having the aromatic ring or the heterocyclic ring. n is 0 or 1, and m is the number of substituents.) [Chemical 1]
US11078203B2
Deuterated fezolinetant (R)-(4-fluorophenyl)-(8-methyl-3-(3-(methyl-d3)-1,2,4-thiadiazol-5-yl)-5,6-dihydro-[1,2,4]trizolo[4,3-a]pyrazin-7(8H)-yl)methanone: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, as an NK-3 antagonist. Also, methods of modulating NK-3 receptor activity including administering an effective amount of the compound or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof. Additionally, a process for manufacturing the compound or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof.
US11078194B2
Disclosed in the present invention are a salt form and a crystal form serving as FGFR and VEGFR inhibitor compounds, a preparation method therefor, and medical uses thereof.
US11078191B2
This invention relates to an active metabolite of 5-bromo-2,6-di(1H-pyrazol-1-yl)pyrimindin-4-amine that modulates the activity of adenosine A2a receptor. In particular, the present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising 1-(4-amino-5-bromo-6-(1H-pyrazol-1-yl)-pyrimidin-2-yl)-1H-pyrazol-4-ol, as well as processes for its preparation and its use in the treatment of cancer alone of in combination with one or more immunotherapeutic agents.
US11078183B2
The present invention concerns the tetrahydrate form of the compound: (3S)-4-{4-[3-(3-methylpiperidin-1-yl)propoxy]phenyl}pyridine 1-oxide, dihydrochloride, its process of preparation and therapeutical uses thereof.
US11078180B2
According to the present invention, a cured product obtained by curing a curable composition including a compound represented by General Formula 1, in which a birefringence Δn (587 nm) is 0.00≤Δn (587 nm)≤0.01, is provided, and this cured product is suitable for manufacturing an optical member. Pol1-Sp1-L1-Ar-L2-Sp2-Pol2 (General Formula 1) In formula, Ar is an aromatic ring group represented by General Formula 2-2 and the like. In formula, Z1 and Z2 each represent a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, and the like; A1 and A2 each represent —S— and the like; X represents C(Rz)2 and the like (where Rz is a substituent, and two Rz's may form a ring); L1 and L2 each represent a single bond, —O—, —OC(═O)—, —OC(═O)O—, —OC(═O)NH—, and the like; Sp1 and Sp2 each represent a single bond or a divalent linking group; Pol1 and Pol2 each represent a hydrogen atom or a polymerizable group; and a compound represented by General Formula 1 has at least one polymerizable group.
US11078171B2
Compounds that inhibit p38α MAPK protein, and methods of using the same, are provided for treating or preventing diseases such as cancer or inflammatory diseases.
US11078169B2
Method for preparing 3,7-bis(dimethylamino)phenothiazin-5-ylium iodide, the method resulting in a high purity while being very simple to implement and producing high yields. The method uses phenothiazine as a starting material and includes the following steps: a) treating phenothiazine with diiodine, b) treating the reaction medium directly obtained from step a) with dimethylamine.
US11078167B2
The present invention provides an improved process for the preparation of Deferasirox of Formula-I substantially free from ‘hydrazino impurity’ by the condensation of 2-(2-hydrophenyl)-4H-1,3-benzoxazin-4-one of Formula-IV with 4-hydrazino benzoic acid of Formula-V in a polar solvent.
US11078166B2
Triazole conjugated urea-based and thiourea-based scaffolds that have high binding affinity to PSMA are disclosed. These scaffolds can be radiolabeled and used to image cells and tumors that express PSMA. Methods of synthesizing radiofluorinated triazole conjugated urea-based and thiourea-based scaffolds also are disclosed.
US11078162B2
Provided herein are improved processes for the preparation of a compound of Formula IX (AG-10). Also provided herein are pharmaceutically acceptable salts of Formula I and Formula Ib as well as crystalline types of Formula IX (AG-10). The processes described herein provide improved yields and efficiency, while the pharmaceutically acceptable salts and crystalline forms provide unexpected pharmacokinetic properties. Other features and aspects of the present disclosure will be apparent to a person of skill in the art upon reading the remainder of the specification.
US11078161B2
Disclosed herein are a compound of formula (I) and a preparation method and uses thereof. The compound shows a good inhibitory activity against ROCK, providing a new medicinal strategy to clinically treat the diseases associated with abnormal ROCK activity.
US11078156B2
A process is provided for control of an ammoxidation reactor. More specifically, the process includes controlling an amount of oxygen added to the reactor, steam temperature and linear velocity to minimize reactor temperature deviations.
US11078148B2
Some embodiments of the invention include methods of using a compound (e.g., Formula (I)) for the reduction of carbon dioxide to formate by contacting the carbon dioxide with a composition comprising a compound. In certain embodiments, the source of the carbon dioxide is air or is flue gas. Additional embodiments of the invention are also discussed herein.
US11078136B2
Provided is a process for converting an alkane to an alkene. The process comprises (a) contacting the alkane and either (i) an oxidizing electrophile comprising a main group element in oxidized form, or (ii) an oxidant and a reduced form of the oxidizing electrophile, in a liquid medium comprising an oxygen acid and optionally one or more additives selected from a non-oxidizable liquid, a salt additive, a Lewis acid, and water, to provide an oxidized intermediate and a reduced form of the oxidizing electrophile; (b) optionally separating the oxidized intermediate and the reduced form of the oxidizing electrophile; and (c) performing an elimination reaction on the oxidized intermediate to provide the alkene and the oxygen acid.
US11078128B2
A composition for weed control and fertilizer comprising iron hydroxyl ethylenediaminetriacetic acid, fertilizer mineral supplement, feed grade urea, a natural-based wetting agent, molasses desugarized solubles, and water, and may further comprise glycerin and/or preservatives, are provided. Methods for weed control and fertilization of plants comprising the steps of providing a composition comprising an effective amount of iron hydroxyl ethylenediaminetriacetic acid, fertilizer mineral supplement, feed grade urea, natural-based wetting agent, and molasses desugarized solubles, and applying an effective amount of the composition to soil or a plant or a weed, are also provided.
US11078124B2
Systems and methods for making ceramic powders configured with consistent, tailored characteristics and/or properties are provided herein. In some embodiments a system for making ceramic powders, includes: a reactor body having a reaction chamber and configured with a heat source to provide a hot zone along the reaction chamber; a sweep gas inlet configured to direct a sweep gas into the reaction chamber and a sweep gas outlet configured to direct an exhaust gas from the reaction chamber; a plurality of containers, within the reactor body, configured to retain at least one preform, wherein each container is configured to permit the sweep gas to flow therethrough, wherein the preform is configured to permit the sweep gas to flow there through, such that the precursor mixture is reacted in the hot zone to form a ceramic powder product having uniform properties.
US11078123B2
A metal oxynitride thin film having a perovskite structure, in which the metal oxynitride thin film has a composition represented by a compositional formula A1+αBOx+αNy wherein α is larger than zero and 0.300 or less, x+α is larger than 2.450, and y is 0.300 or more and 0.700 or less, an AO structure having a layered structure parallel to a plane perpendicular to a c-axis of the perovskite structure and having a composition represented by a general formula AO, and the AO structure is bonded with the perovskite structure and incorporated in the perovskite structure.
US11078122B2
The present invention relates to a bismuth-based solid solution ceramic material, as well as a process for preparing the ceramic material and uses thereof, particularly in an actuator component employed, for example, in a droplet deposition apparatus. In particular, the present invention relates to a ceramic material having a general chemical formula (I): (I): x(Bi0.5Na0.5)TiO3-y(Bi0.5K0.5)TiO3-z1SrHfO3-z2SrZrO3, wherein x+y+Z1+Z2=1; y, (z1+z2)≠0; x≥0. In embodiments, the present invention also relates to a ceramic material having a general chemical formula (II): x(Bi0.5Na0.5)TiO3-y(Bi0.5K0.5)TiO3-y(Bi0.5K0.5)TiO3-ZiSrHfO3-z2SrZrO3, wherein x+y+z−i+z2=1; x, y, fa+z2)≠0; as well as a ceramic material of general formula (III): y(Bi0.5K0.5)TiO3-z1SrHfO3-z2SrZrO3, wherein y+z1,+z2=1; y, (z1+z2)≠0.
US11078121B2
Disclosed are ceramic bodies comprised of composite cordierite-mullite-aluminum magnesium titanate (CMAT) ceramic compositions having high cordierite-to-mullite ratio and methods for the manufacture of same.
US11078120B2
An oxide sintered body is characterized in that it comprises an oxide including an In element, a Zn element, a Sn element and a Y element and that a sintered body density is equal to or more than 100.00% of a theoretical density.
US11078115B2
Sealants for insulated glass units or solar panels are disclosed. The sealant comprises polyisobutylene and a polymer which is a copolymer obtained from the polymerisation of at least one ethylenically-unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon monomer and at least one monomer containing a maleic anhydride moiety. The copolymer comprises at least one amphiphilic polymer side chain. Processes for producing the sealants for insulated glass units or solar panels are also disclosed. Insulted glass units and solar panels comprising the sealant are also disclosed. Processes for producing the insulated glass units and solar panels comprising the sealant are also disclosed.
US11078114B2
The invention relates to a method for treating a silicate-type glass comprising alkali and alkaline-earth metal oxides or d10 or IIIA metal oxides, said method comprising at least the following steps: (a) incorporation of nitrogen into the surface of the glass; and (b) thermal poling treatment of the material obtained in (a), under a chemically inert controlled atmosphere. The invention also relates to the material produced by said method.
US11078110B2
A glass wool which has physical properties required for a heat insulation material, can be produced industrially, can have reduced hygroscopicity, and has a novel compounding composition. The glass wool having the following glass composition: SiO2: 60.0 to 65.0% by mass inclusive, Al2O3: 0.5 to 2.0% by mass inclusive, Na2O and K2O: 13.0 to 17.0% by mass inclusive, MgO and CaO: 8.0 to 12.0% by mass inclusive, B2O3: 5.0 to 12.0% by mass inclusive, and others: a remainder.
US11078106B2
A method of strengthening an alkali aluminoborosilicate glass. A compressive layer extending from a surface of the glass to a depth of layer is formed by exchanging larger metal cations for smaller metal cations present in the glass. In a second step, metal cations in the glass are exchanged for larger metal cations to a second depth in the glass that is less than the depth of layer and increase the compressive stress of the compressive layer. Formation of the compressive layer and replacement of cations with larger cations can be achieved by a two-step ion exchange process. An alkali aluminoborosilicate glass having a compressive layer and a crack indentation threshold of at least 3000 gf is also provided.
US11078105B2
Provided herein are glass based articles comprising SiO2 in a range from about 20 mol % to about 80 mol %; Al2O3 in a range from about 2 mol % to about 60 mol %; MgO; Li2O; La2O3 in an amount greater than or equal to about 3 mol %; a sum of alkali metal oxides (R2O) is greater than or equal to about 6 mol %; and a sum of MgO and Al2O3 is greater than or equal to about 28 mol %, wherein the glass based article is free of B2O3.
US11078090B2
A manifold for domestic water purification systems having flow paths that can be redirected without having to change the physical structure of the manifold or water purification system—a structure to assist with proper installation and stabilization of specific filter cartridges, a memory reader for processing data relating to the state of the filter cartridges, a hinge system to allow for easier installation/removal of new and replacement filter cartridges, and a flow path structure to assist in adding accessories to the water filtration system without requiring a modification to the manifold structure.
US11078085B2
The present disclosure generally relates to methods of preparing spherical salt particles for industrial, medical, and other uses. The methods can include combining the angular salt particles with a quantity of finishing media, for example, into a receptacle. Thereafter, the angular salt particles and the finishing media can be moved or agitated until the angular salt particles have a desired sphericity.
US11078079B2
A system for creating an oxidation reduction potential (ORP) in water employs a manifold. The manifold includes an enclosure containing a plurality of fluid paths and having one or more ozone intake ports. The ozone intake ports are fluidically coupled to one or more ozone output ports of an ozone supply unit housed in a separate enclosure. A plurality of flow switches are disposed within the enclosure and configured to transmit control signals to one or more controllers of the ozone supply unit in response to sensing a flow of water through the fluid paths in order to cause the ozone supply unit to generate ozone. A plurality of fluid mixers are also disposed within the enclosure. The fluid mixers are fluidically coupled to the ozone intake ports and configured to introduce the ozone generated by the ozone supply unit into the water flowing through the fluid paths.
US11078074B2
Processes for integrating complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) devices with microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices are provided. In some embodiments, the MEMS devices are formed on a sacrificial substrate or wafer, the sacrificial substrate or wafer is bonded to a CMOS die or wafer, and the sacrificial substrate or wafer is removed. In other embodiments, the MEMS devices are formed over a sacrificial region of a CMOS die or wafer and the sacrificial region is subsequently removed. Integrated circuit (ICs) resulting from the processes are also provided.
US11078073B2
Provided is a self-processing synthesis of hybrid nanostructures, novel nanostructures and uses thereof in the construction of electronic and optoelectronic devices.
US11078072B2
A method for manufacturing a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device, includes forming a cavity in a bulk semiconductor substrate; defining a movably suspended mass in the bulk semiconductor substrate by one or more trenches extending from a main surface area of the bulk semiconductor substrate to the cavity; arranging a cap structure on the main surface area of the bulk semiconductor substrate; and forming a capacitive structure. Forming the capacitive structure includes arranging a first electrode structure on the movably suspended mass; and providing a second electrode structure at the cap structure such that the first electrode structure and the second electrode structure are spaced apart in a direction perpendicular to the main surface area of the bulk semiconductor substrate.
US11078068B2
A fuel dispensing nozzle comprises a nozzle body defining a dispensing path extending between a distal inlet and a proximal outlet and configured to dispense fuel. A fuel flow valve is disposed in the nozzle body between the distal inlet and the proximal outlet. An actuation assembly movable to open the fuel flow valve is also provided. The nozzle also includes a shut-off mechanism operatively connected to the actuation assembly. A hand lever is pivotally connected with respect to the nozzle body, the hand lever being operatively connected to the actuation assembly so as to cause opening of the fuel flow valve when the hand lever is pivoted in a valve opening direction. The hand lever has a grasping portion extending between a proximal location nearer the proximal outlet and a distal location. The nozzle according to this aspect further includes a hold open mechanism including a trigger disposed at the proximal location of the hand lever. The trigger is pivotally connected to the hand lever and has an engaging element. A catch member is fixed with respect to the nozzle body and defines a plurality of catches corresponding to respective flow positions. The catches are each configured to receive the engaging element of the trigger.
US11078067B2
A liquid direct injection assembly includes a direct injection supply kit to mix liquid components into a mixture and deliver the mixture to a treatment device. The supply kit includes liquid component containers that each include an elongated flexible bladder and a discharge nozzle to discharge a corresponding liquid component from the bladder. The supply kit also includes metering bodies each defining a metering orifice to control a flow rate of the corresponding liquid component from the bladder. The liquid direct injection assembly also includes a container tray configured to removably support a liquid component container.
US11078064B2
A filling machine for the hot filling of containers includes a line for feeding the containers to at least one supporting plate and a line for unloading the filled container from the supporting plate. Above the supporting plate there is a filling head associated with a respective valve assembly to convey the liquid from a containment tank into the container to be filled. The valve assembly is associated with an internally hollow feeder conduit which accommodates a suction conduit with at least one suction inlet configured to determine the liquid level inside the container. The filling head includes a sealing element having a first sealing body configured to engage hermetically against the upper edge of the container and is associated with a vent adapted to pass between a position for sealing the chamber for passing liquid from the supply feeder conduit toward the container and a position for venting.
US11078057B2
A remote controller includes a shell having an upper shell and a lower shell, and further includes a light emitting module and a fixing plate for fixing the light emitting module. The fixing plate is fixedly connected to an inner side of the lower shell. The light emitting module is fixedly connected to one side, far away from the lower shell, of the fixing plate. The fixing plate is provided with a first light-transmitting hole for displaying the light emitting module; and the lower shell is provided with a second light-transmitting hole for displaying the fixing plate.
US11078055B2
The invention relates to a hoist mechanism (20) intended primarily, but not exclusively, for moving a motor driven wheelchair or scooter into and/or out of the load carrying space of a vehicle. The hoist mechanism (20) comprises a lifting arm having, at least in part, a generally U-shaped cross section, and an actuator (28). A mounting point (56) for the actuator (28) is provided within the generally U-shaped cross section. The invention also relates to a stepless adjustment system suitable for use in such a hoist mechanism (20). The adjustment system comprises an inner section (34) received within an outer section (24) in a telescoping arrangement. The outer section (24) comprises first and second body portions (44A, 44B) provided with features for engaging corresponding features (48A, 48B) provided on the inner section (34).
US11078053B2
A structural support that can be used as a truss girder bridge crane, or the like. The support includes one or more rows 13 of segments 15, that are arranged in side by side relation along the length of the support. Each row 13 has extending there through at least one tensioning element 14 which is anchored at opposite ends of the row and is pretensioned with respect to the row in order to hold the segments of the row together. A support preferably includes one row 13 of segments 15 in a lower chord 11 of the support and another row 13 of segments in an upper chord of the support. Vertical framework is mounted between the chords with ends secured adjacent the segments 15 by the tensioning element. The individual segments and the tensioning elements may be directed to a construction site at the location of use and assembled into rows and the appropriate structural construction.
US11078043B2
Elevator overrun systems having a first body arranged to be fixedly mounted to a portion of an elevator system or elevator shaft, a second body positioned within the first body and moveable from a deployed state to a retracted state relative to the first body, and a limit switch located at a distal end of the second body, the limit switch configured to interact with a component of an elevator system to prevent movement of an elevator car.
US11078038B2
A document feeder may include a media transporter to feed a number of sheets of media through a feed path and a detector to detect the presence of a metal object including a number of triangular-shaped inductor coils to detect the metal objects. A method of detecting a metal object coupled to a sheet of media entering a document processing device may include applying an alternating current to a number of triangular-shaped inductor coils to create a magnetic field upstream of a media feed path, detecting a change in a magnetic flux of the magnetic field due to a metal object in the path of said magnetic flux, and producing a warning when the changes in the magnetic flux are detected.
US11078037B2
A conveying unit includes a rotatable roller having a first through-hole between the inside and the outside of the roller. A cylindrical member inside the roller has an opening and defines an annular chamber between the member and the roller. An insert borne by the roller inserted in the first through-hole thereof and contacting an external surface of the cylindrical member has a second through-hole in communication with the outside of the roller and extending through the first through-hole and the annular chamber. The first through-hole of the opening is configured such that, when the roller rotates, the insert transits at the opening, temporarily placing the outside of the roller in fluid communication with the annular chamber via the second through-hole, so that a sheet outside the roller and at the first through-hole is pulled against the roller by aspirating means and is conveyed.
US11078035B2
An apparatus for dispensing microorganism culture plates, culture plate loader and culture plate reader comprising the same, as well as method dispensing microorganism culture plates, method of loading such culture plates into a culture plate reader, and method of counting microorganism colonies on such culture plates.
US11078034B2
An agricultural vehicle includes a chassis, a tank carried by the chassis, and at least one meter module coupled to the tank. The at least one meter module has at least one gate. A gate control link is coupled with the at least one gate of the at least one meter module. A control rod is carried by the chassis. A connector couples the control rod to the gate control link at a connection interface such that movement of the control rod controls an open state of the at least one gate of the at least one meter module. The connector has a frangible portion adjacent the connection interface; the control rod and the gate control link uncouples from one another upon a breaking force causing the frangible portion to break.
US11078032B2
A suction device includes an adapter having in the interior thereof a supply passage to which a negative pressure fluid is supplied, a bellows connected to a distal end of the adapter, and a pad member disposed at a distal end of the bellows and to which a workpiece is attracted under suction. In addition, the suction device attracts the workpiece under suction by a negative pressure fluid which is supplied to the pad member through the supply passage and the bellows. An attachment which is capable of being tilted with respect to the axis of the bellows is provided in the interior of the bellows. In the attachment, a main body portion thereof is disposed in facing relation to a suction surface of a skirt, and a shaft portion is inserted into the supply passage at a time that the workpiece is attracted under suction.
US11078026B2
A conveyor belt blower for a conveyor belt having an infeed portion and a return portion having a width includes a pressure distribution assembly located between the infeed portion and the return portion, a plenum body having first and second ends, wherein the plenum body extends across at least a portion of the width of the return portion, a nozzle assembly having at least one opening extending along a length of the plenum body that is configured to direct air onto the return portion, and an air movement device in communication with the first end of the plenum body for flowing air into the plenum body.
US11078025B2
One embodiment provides a lightweight roller, including: a cylindrical tube manufactured using a lightweight material; the cylindrical tube comprising a first end, a second end substantially opposite the first end, and an outer surface; and at least one end cap attached to at least one of the first end and the second end. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11078006B1
A cooler insert includes a rectangular planar plate having a plurality of legs depending from a bottom of the plate. The plate has a plurality of channels defining breakage zones along their lengths to each form a removable section that can be selectively removed from the plate by breaking the plate along the breakage zone to adjust a dimension of the plate for fitting within a particularly sized cooler. Square apertures are positioned at each intersection of the channels to form a beveled corner between the channels when the plate is separated at the intersection.
US11078001B2
An inflatable web is disclosed. The web includes first and second film plies sealed together via a plurality of generally transverse seals to define a first and second inflatable chambers and an inflation region. The chambers are inflatable with a fluid and operable to contain the fluid. The sealed plies have a first longitudinal edge and a second longitudinal edge. The web defines a separation region extending at least partially transversely across the web between the first and second inflatable chambers and is configured to facilitate separation thereof. The separation region includes a tear propagation line extending transversely across at least a portion of the web with an end of the tear propagation line terminating proximal to the first longitudinal edge of the web. The separation region includes a tear initiation feature including edges spaced apart from one another longitudinally to form a permanent opening in the web.
US11077986B2
A corner support assembly for supporting a stack of containers includes a bar defining a corner and having a first end, a second end, an interior surface. A bracket is operatively coupled to the bar. The bracket includes a front end spaced away from the bar and a back end facing the interior surface of the bar. The bracket is disposed between the first end and the second end of the bar and oriented substantially perpendicular to the bar.
US11077968B2
The invention relates to a so-called stabilization method, consisting of completing the filling of traveling egg trays. In each of the successive trays, eggs taken from an available egg reservoir are deposited in empty locations. This reservoir is made up of egg receiving cells that are movable along rows of cells in series. Depending on a filling state of the tray being treated identifying the distribution of the empty locations relative to the full locations, the reservoir is automatically configured in a configuration of egg-bearing cells complementary to said filling state of the tray in progress, so as to next transfer eggs between the reservoir and the tray in progress by correspondence between empty locations and full locations in the tray and the presence or absence of an egg-bearing cell in the reservoir.
US11077960B2
A system for launching aerospace payloads includes an unmanned modified lifting body spacecraft (100), with a payload compartment in the forward section of the spacecraft. The spacecraft is propelled by hybrid rockets clustered in the aft section of the spacecraft. Reaction control system (RCS) modules control the flight path and its associated avionics hardware and software. This system also includes a carrier aircraft (200) configured to air-launch the spacecraft. The carrier aircraft includes a flight operations control system, which monitors the spacecraft's payload and monitors and controls launch and flight operations of the spacecraft. A ground-based mission control system monitors and controls the spacecraft's payload and monitors and controls the launch and flight operations of the spacecraft.
US11077955B2
A jet engine with a linking device for linking the jet engine at an element of an aircraft optionally in a first mounting position and at least one second mounting position, and with at least one operating equipment appliance that has a first fluid area and a second fluid area. In the first mounting position, the first fluid area is assigned to a first functionality and the second fluid area is assigned to a second functionality. In the second mounting position, the fluid areas are assigned to the respectively other functionality. What is further described is an aircraft with at least one such jet engine.
US11077943B2
A rotary-wing air vehicle comprising a main body (12) and at least two rotor devices (16a, 16b) arranged and configured to generate propulsion and thrust, in use, to lift and propel said air vehicle, said rotor devices (16a, 16b) being arranged and configured relative to said main body (12) such that the blades thereof do not cross through a central vertical axis of said main body (12) defining the centre of mass thereof, wherein said main body (12) is provided with an aperture (100) that extends therethrough to define a channel about said central vertical axis.
US11077941B2
A wing flapping apparatus includes a motive power source; a power transmission mechanism; and a wing unit driven by the power transmission mechanism. The power transmission mechanism includes a rotation transmission member configured to rotate upon reception of motive power transmitted from the motive power source; a slider configured to linearly reciprocate in an X-axis direction upon reception of the motive power transmitted from the rotation transmission member and a rotating body configured to reciprocate in a rotation direction upon reception of the motive power transmitted from the slider. The wing unit is configured to swing such that its distal end moves approximately in the X-axis direction as the rotating body reciprocates in the rotation direction. The power transmission mechanism further includes a pair of crank arms each configured to connect the rotation transmission member and the slider. The pair of crank arms each has: one end rotatably connected to the rotation transmission member and the other end rotatably and slidably connected to the slider.
US11077939B1
An aircraft operable to transition between thrust-borne lift in a VTOL orientation and wing-borne lift in a forward flight orientation. The aircraft has a blended wing body and includes an engine, a binary lift fan system, a forced air bypass system and an exhaust system. The engine has a turboshaft mode and a turbofan mode. The lift fan system includes a plurality of ducted fans in a tandem lateral orientation. In the VTOL orientation of the aircraft, the engine is in the turboshaft mode coupled to the lift fan system such that the engine provides rotational energy to the ducted fans generating the thrust-borne lift. In the forward flight orientation of the aircraft, the engine is in the turbofan mode coupled to the forced air bypass system such that the bypass air combines with the engine exhaust in the exhaust system to provide forward thrust generating the wing-borne lift.
US11077938B1
A rotation-stabilized beamed-energy receiver, and associated systems and methods, including an aircraft carrying a rotating electromagnetic energy receiver that, when rotated, is supported by centripetal force in a selected shape and/or orientation. Accordingly, the receiver can be made from very thin and/or otherwise lightweight/flexible materials, while performing an energy-receiving function.
US11077930B2
A central airfoil box comprising two beams, each beam having a wall pierced with a first bore centered on a first axis, a connecting rod comprising, for each wall, a yoke joint having two flanks arranged on either side of the wall and pierced with a bore. Each yoke joint is fixed to the wall by a fixing system. The fixing system comprises a bearing lodging in the first bore, and being pierced with a second bore centered on a second axis parallel and offset to the first axis, a cylindrical shoulder, secured to and coaxial with the bearing and bearing against the wall, an outer perimeter of the shoulder having a plurality of splines, at least one block fixed to the wall around the first bore and configured to lodge in one of the splines, and a shaft lodging in the second bore and the yoke joint bores.
US11077925B2
A methane transportation system is provided. The system may include a methane source configured to dispense methane at a first location, and an underwater vehicle. The underwater vehicle may include a propulsion system configured to transport the underwater vehicle underwater from the first location to a second location and a vessel defining a storage chamber configured to receive water and the methane from the methane source. The storage chamber of the vessel may have a pressure exceeding one atmosphere and a temperature during transport from the first location to the second location sufficient to form methane clathrate in the storage chamber. The system may further include a methane receiver configured to receive the methane released from the storage chamber at the second location. Related methods are also provided.
US11077913B2
The invention relates to a bicycle frame (1) with a remote-controlled shock absorber (2) connected to the frame (1). The shock absorber (2) comprises two dials (3, 4) for adjusting the compression and rebound. The frame (1) is characterised in that it comprises a depression (9; 25) communicated with the outside of the frame (1) and provided with a window (12; 28) that communicates the depression (9; 25) with an inner part (8b; 18b) of the frame (1). An actuator element (7) for adjusting the compression dial (3) extends from the outside of the frame (1) towards the window (12; 28) passing through the inner part (8b; 18b) of the frame (1). The invention improves the integration of the rear suspension of the bicycle while simultaneously allows for easy adjustment of the compression dial (3) and the rebound dial (4).
US11077910B2
A two-wheeled vehicle includes a frame assembly having a front end and a rear end extending along a longitudinally-extending centerline, a front ground-engaging member operably coupled to the front end of the frame assembly at a front rotational axis, and a rear ground-engaging member operably coupled to the rear end of the frame assembly at a rear rotational axis. The vehicle further includes an engine supported by the frame assembly and operably coupled to the front and rear ground-engaging members, and the engine includes a throttle body assembly. Additionally, the vehicle includes an air intake assembly fluidly coupled to the engine and including an airbox and a mounting plate having a first channel and a second channel. The first and second channels are configured to align with the throttle body assembly. The mounting plate is configured to couple the airbox to the throttle body assembly.
US11077898B2
A robotic device may traverse a path in a direction of locomotion. Sensor data indicative of one or more physical features of the environment in the direction of locomotion may be received. The implementation may further involve determining that traversing the path involves traversing the one or more physical features of the environment. Based on the sensor data indicative of the one or more physical features of the environment in the direction of locomotion, a hydraulic pressure to supply to the one or more hydraulic actuators to traverse the one or more physical features of the environment may be predicted. Before traversing the one or more physical features of the environment, the hydraulic drive system may adjust pressure of supplied hydraulic fluid from the first pressure to the predicted hydraulic pressure.
US11077896B1
Disclosed are various embodiments, aspects and features an oscillating track system that includes an oscillating track lock subsystem. The oscillating track system may include a track operable to rotate around a housing structure that is configured to receive an axle. While in operation, i.e. while the track is being rotated around the housing, the oscillating track system may be able to oscillate about the axle and, in doing so, incline or decline to accommodate undulating terrain. Advantageously, when stopped, the degree to which the oscillating track system has oscillated around the axle may be locked in place via an oscillating track lock subsystem comprised within the oscillating track system, thereby providing stability to the heavy equipment that includes the oscillating track system.
US11077881B2
A lower vehicle body structure for a vehicle includes a floor panel, a pair of side frames, a battery, a left and right pair of side sills, a cross-member, an impact absorption member, and a reinforcement member. The impact absorption member is disposed at a lower surface side of the floor panel and at a position overlapping the cross-member in a front-rear direction of the vehicle body so as to extend in a vehicle width direction between the side frames and the side sills. Also, the impact absorption member is joined to the side frames and the side sills. The reinforcement member is disposed in the cross-member to extend in the vehicle width direction between portions of the cross-member, which correspond to the left and right pair of side frames in the vehicle width direction.
US11077879B2
A travel-lane determination unit determines whether a vehicle has entered a traffic lane on which a toll booth is provided. After it is determined that the vehicle has entered the traffic lane, a travel control unit pulls the vehicle to a position shifted from the center of the traffic lane toward the toll booth in a traffic-lane width direction, by the time when the vehicle reaches the toll booth.
US11077875B2
A rack for a steering gear includes a toothed portion with a toothing extending along a longitudinal axis, and a generally cylinder-segment-shaped back opposite the toothing and having a back radius. A method for producing such a rack includes forming a cylindrical blank with an unmachined radius between a toothed die part having a toothed mold clearance and a back die part having a back mold clearance in a die cavity. The die may have a generally cylinder-segment-shape. In an open position of the die, the blank may be inserted between the toothed mold clearance and the back mold clearance. The toothed die part and the back die part in a forging stroke for closing the cavity may then be moved in a closing direction to a closed position. The back radius of the back mold clearance may be larger than the unmachined radius of the blank.
US11077874B1
A movable crawl space container comprises a body portion and two amounts of rope that extend from opposite sides of the container. The container has an opening and retains needed equipment within the confines of the container. The container has pointed edges near the first end of the container and near the second end of the container that assist the container in traversing corners and other obstacles found in typical crawl spaces. Sides of the container converge towards rope connection portions on both ends of the container. A worker, such as a plumber, can pull the container down into the crawl space and easily move around the crawl space pulling the container as desired. By placing all the necessary tools in the container, the plumber is able to visit various work sites while maintaining access to tools and other desired items stored in the container.
US11077872B2
A signal light assembly is provided that comprises a multi-position Fresnel lens having a circumference, a first side and a second side. The signal light assembly further comprises a main housing configured to attach to the multi-position Fresnel lens. The multi-position Fresnel lens includes a first plurality of pads and a second plurality of pads on the first side of the multi-position Fresnel lens such that the first plurality of pads and the second plurality of pads are different and alternatively disposed. The first plurality of pads corresponds to a first range operation related to a first focal length. The second plurality of pads corresponds to a second range operation related to a second focal length. The multi-position Fresnel lens is disposed in a first position corresponding to the first range operation or in a second position corresponding to the second range operation based on the use of either the first plurality of pads or the second plurality of pads for assembly between the main housing and the multi-position Fresnel lens.
US11077869B2
A locking assembly includes an elongated guide tube configured to be coupled to a first component. The guide tube is elongated in a first direction from a first end to an opposite second end. The locking assembly also includes a first pin partially disposed in the guide tube and protruding from the first end of the guide tube. The first pin can be received in a first receiver. The locking assembly also includes a second pin partially disposed in the guide tube and protruding from the second end of the guide tube. This second pin can be received in a second receiver. The locking assembly also includes a handle removably coupled with the second pin. The handle can be grasped and moved to slide the second pin relative to the guide tube and the first pin along the first direction.
US11077868B2
An apparatus includes a panel, a fastener, and a cushion. The panel is coupled to a side of a railcar. The fastener engages the panel. A vertical position of the fastener on the panel is adjustable. The cushion is coupled to the fastener. The cushion extends from the side of the railcar towards an interior of the railcar and prevents the side of the railcar from contacting an object stored in the railcar.
US11077861B2
The disclosure relates to a control apparatus for enabling functions, comprising an integrated circuit. The control apparatus has a function register unit for storing at least one entry relating to an enabled state of a respective circuit function and/or of a respective circuit area of the integrated circuit. The integrated circuit is configured to enable the respective circuit function and/or the respective circuit area for use in accordance with the at least one entry in the function register unit. The control apparatus has a function control unit configured to respond to a predetermined actuation signal by changing the at least one entry in the function register unit, wherein the change is made only if a predetermined authenticity check based on a cryptographic method confirms a source of the actuation signal is authorized, so that the function control unit is actuatable only by a trusted source.
US11077858B2
A vehicle driver state determination apparatus in a vehicle is provided as follows. A specific notification is issued from a driving assistance apparatus in response to an occurrence of a specific event; the specific notification urges the driver to perform a predetermined driving operation. A reaction time is measured from when the specific notification is issued to when the predetermined driving operation is performed by the driver, to evaluate a state relating to a driving ability of the driver.
US11077857B2
A device for controlling alcohol interlock according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a sensor for obtaining position information and breath information of a fellow passenger, and a controller that determines whether a blood alcohol concentration of the fellow passenger is measured based on the position information and the breath information of the fellow passenger, and determines whether to re-measure a blood alcohol concentration based on the determination result. Thus, the device may prevent surrogate measurement of the fellow passenger, so that a driver's own blood alcohol concentration may be measured accurately, and drunk driving of a driver may be fundamentally prevented.
US11077850B2
In one embodiment, a computing system of a vehicle may capture, using one or more sensors of the vehicle, sensor data associated with a first vehicle of interest. The computing system may identify one or more features associated with the first vehicle of interest based on the sensor data. The computing system may determine a driving behavior model associated with the first vehicle of interest based on the one or more features of the first vehicle of interest. The computing system may predict a driving behavior of the first vehicle of interest based on at least the determined driving behavior model. The computing system may determine a vehicle operation for the vehicle based on at least the predicted driving behavior of the first vehicle of interest.
US11077849B2
A vehicle control system including: a recognizer that is configured to recognize a surroundings status of a vehicle; and a driving controller that is configured to control an acceleration and steering of the vehicle on the basis of the surroundings status recognized by the recognizer, wherein, in a case in which a plurality of pedestrians are recognized in an advancement direction of the vehicle by the recognizer, the driving controller is configured to executes follow control for following the plurality of pedestrians and is configured to determines details of the follow control on the basis of a behavior of a nearest pedestrian who is closest to the vehicle among the plurality of pedestrians and a behavior of a second pedestrian who is a monitoring target other than the nearest pedestrian among the plurality of pedestrians.
US11077842B2
A hybrid vehicle drive system for a vehicle includes a first prime mover, a first prime mover driven transmission, and a rechargeable power source. The hybrid vehicle drive system further includes an interface between the transmission and the prime mover for coupling to an electric motor. The electric motor can be in direct or indirect mechanical communication with a hydraulic pump. The electric motor can receive power from the prime mover driven transmission through the interface.
US11077840B2
A device for addition of motive force to a vehicle, with rotor-plate, rotor-arms, rotor permanent magnets, stator-plate, stator columns, stator electromagnets, and battery, cell, or other energy storage device. The device is retro-fittable on existing wheel assemblies, and installation coverts an internal combustion vehicle to a hybrid with electric propulsion.
US11077837B2
A hydraulic brake system for a vehicle which has expanded functionality, where a pre-charge occurs in the brake system upon deactivation of the cruise control, reducing the time needed to generate pressure in each brake unit, reducing stopping distance. The pre-charge function involves generating pressure in each caliper of the brake system upon deactivation of the cruise control function of the vehicle, such that the hydraulic brake system is pre-charged prior to the driver of the vehicle applying force to the brake pedal, which reduces stopping distance. One aspect of the pre-charge function includes generating enough pressure such that the brake pads contact each corresponding rotor. Another aspect of the pre-charge function includes generating enough pressure such that the brake pads apply force to each corresponding rotor, providing a minimum amount of deceleration prior to the driver of the vehicle applying force to the brake pedal.
US11077811B2
A front-end structure includes a front-end support and a grille fixed relative to the front-end support. Two brackets are disposed between the front-end support and the grille. The two brackets are spaced from each other along a cross-vehicle axis. Each of the two brackets has two legs. Each of the legs extends from the front-end support toward the grille. Two bars are spaced from each other and are spaced from the front-end support. The bars are elongated along the cross-vehicle axis from one of the brackets to the other of the brackets.
US11077805B2
A vehicular camera includes a housing having a front housing and a rear housing, and a circuit board having an imaging element disposed at a first side and a first electrical connector disposed at a second side. The rear housing includes a second electrical connector that, with the rear housing mated with the front housing, electrically connects with the first electrical connector. The second electrical connector includes electrically conductive terminals that extend through the rear housing and that each have an inner end portion and an outer end portion that is physically and electrically contiguous with the inner end portion. The inner end portions of the electrically conductive terminals of the second electrical connector extend from an inner surface of the rear housing and the outer end portions of the electrically conductive terminals of the second electrical connector extend into a socket connection portion of the rear housing.
US11077799B2
A single arm telescoping mirror apparatus comprising a mirror base and mirror head. In one embodiment, a mirror base having a wear plate secured to a single support arm which frictionally engages a single telescoping tube of the mirror head. Furthermore, a mirror base having a roller assembly which frictionally engage the inner wall of a single telescoping tube of the mirror head. Frictional forces created minimize the telescopic or vibrational movement of the mirror head during use of a vehicle. In another aspect, a wear plate is secured to a single telescoping tube while, roller assemblies are attached to a support arm which frictionally engage ridges of the telescoping tube.
US11077798B2
A vehicle side-view mirror assembly includes an anchor element mountable to a vehicle exterior, and a foldable housing, including a first surface directed in a forward direction when the foldable housing is in an unfolded position, a first capacitive cover and a first electric ground path attached to the first surface, a second surface that is a lateral side surface facing away from the anchor element, a second capacitive cover and a second electric ground path attached to the second surface, a third surface that is a hinged side surface hingedly connected to the anchor element, and a third capacitive cover and a third electric ground path attached to the third surface. Each of the capacitive covers are electrically insulated from one another.
US11077796B1
An extended mirror mounting assembly for mounting one or more mirrors to a vehicle is provided. The mirror mounting assembly has one or more mirror mounting arms, each including an arm portion and configured to support the mirrors. The mirror mounting assembly has a lower support member including a lower base end portion configured to be connected to the vehicle at a first vehicle location and a lower distal end portion configured to be connected to the mirror mounting arms at a first mount location. The mirror mounting assembly has an upper support member including an upper base end portion configured to be connected to the vehicle at a second location and an upper distal end portion configured to be connected to the mirror mounting arms at a second mount location. The mirror mounting assembly has a lateral support post or spacer including a lateral base end portion configured to be connected to the vehicle at a third vehicle location and a lateral distal end portion configured to be connected to the upper support member.
US11077778B2
A latch assembly for a compartment of a vehicle interior is provided. The latch assembly comprises a frame, a first pawl member, a second pawl member, a lever member, and a resilient member. The frame has a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion. The frame is fixed to a cover of the compartment. The first pawl member is slidingly disposed in the first portion of the frame. The second pawl member is slidingly disposed in the second portion of the frame. The lever member has a first and a second pivot pin and a center hub. The center hub is rotatably supported by the third portion of the frame. The first pivot pin is disposed in the first pivot slot of the first pawl member. The second pivot pin is disposed in the second pivot slot of the second pawl member.
US11077764B2
The invention is characterised in that the device comprises a first (120), a second (130) and a third (110) elongated element; a first moving unit (140), pivotally connected to a first end of the first elongated element; a second moving unit (150), pivotally connected to a first end of the second elongated element; a cable connecting unit (160), pivotally connected to a second end of the first elongated element and to a second end of the second elongated element; and a control unit (170), in that the third elongated element is arranged to be fixedly mounted at a parking space, in that both moving units are arranged to be controlled by the control unit to be displaced in either direction along the third elongated element, in that such displacement causes the cable connecting unit to be displaced in relation to the third elongated element, and in that the cable connecting unit is arranged to connect the cable to the vehicle by pressing a connecting means (162) against a corresponding connector of the vehicle.
US11077762B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for detecting foreign objects. In one aspect an apparatus for detecting a presence of an object is provided. The apparatus includes a resonant circuit having a resonant frequency. The resonant circuit includes a sense circuit including an electrically conductive structure. The apparatus further includes a coupling circuit coupled to the sense circuit. The apparatus further includes a detection circuit coupled to the sense circuit via the coupling circuit. The detection circuit is configured to detect the presence of the object in response to detecting a difference between a measured characteristic that depends on a frequency at which the resonant circuit is resonating and a corresponding characteristic that depends on the resonant frequency of the resonant circuit. The coupling circuit is configured to reduce a variation of the resonant frequency by the detection circuit in the absence of the object.
US11077761B2
To provide a power supply system for a vehicle which can appropriate charge a capacitor on a step-down side, and suppress system failure. The power supply system for a vehicle includes: a high-voltage battery; a first inverter which connects with the high-voltage battery; a drive motor which connects with the first inverter; a high-voltage DCDC converter which steps down the voltage of the high-voltage battery; an accessory, etc. which connects with the high-voltage DCDC converter; a capacitor which connects in parallel with the accessory, etc.; a current sensor, etc. which acquires the charging state of the capacitor; and a VCUECU which controls the high-voltage DCDC converter based on the acquired values of the current sensor, etc.
US11077755B2
A circuit includes a differential stage configured to provide a differential output signal. An analog-to-digital converter is coupled to first and second output nodes of the differential stage. The analog-to-digital converter is configured to provide an output signal that is a function of the differential output signal from the differential stage. A multiplexer is configured to receive a differential input signal. The multiplexer includes a test switch switchable between a conductive state and a non-conductive state. In the conductive state, the test switch couples the first input node and the second input node of the differential stage. Test signal injection circuitry is activatable to force a differential current through the differential stage. The circuit is selectively switchable between an operational mode and a self-test mode.
US11077754B2
An in-vehicle control apparatus includes: a first inverter; a second inverter; and a voltage conversion part configured to increase or decrease an operation voltage of one of the first inverter and the second inverter by an open-close control of a switch and supply the increased or decreased operation voltage as an operation voltage of another of the first inverter and the second inverter. The voltage conversion part includes: a reference voltage line; a low-voltage-side switch that is connected to and between the reference voltage line and a high-voltage-side power line of the second inverter; and a high-voltage-side switch that is connected to and between a high-voltage-side power line of the first inverter and a high-voltage-side power line of the second inverter. The in-vehicle control apparatus includes: a detection part that detects a short circuit failure of the low-voltage-side switch; and a control part that performs a phase short circuit control that short-circuits at least one of a plurality of low-voltage-side switches and a plurality of high-voltage-side switches of the second inverter upon detection of a short circuit failure of the low-voltage-side switch by the detection part.
US11077750B2
An off-road utility vehicle includes a frame, an engine, a continuously variable transmission, a transaxle comprising a rear differential, an intermediate drive assembly comprising an intermediate differential, and a front drive assembly comprising a front differential. The intermediate drive assembly and transaxle are coupled via an intermediate driveshaft and the front drive assembly and the intermediate drive assembly are coupled via a front drive shaft. The front drive shaft and the intermediate drive shaft are counter rotating.
US11077746B2
A continuously variable power-split transmission with at least four driving ranges, within which the gear ratio of the power-split transmission can be continuously varied by a variator. A first planetary gearset with a plurality of shafts can be connected via shifting elements with another planetary gearset that also has a plurality of shafts and can be connected with a transmission output shaft. The first planetary gearset comprises four shafts and can be connected, via a first shaft, with a transmission input shaft and a first shaft of the variator. Furthermore, the first planetary gearset is connected, via a second shaft, to a second shaft of the variator, and the first planetary gearset is coupled, via a third shaft, to halves of two shifting elements and, via a fourth shaft, the first planetary gearset is coupled to a shifting element half of a further shifting element.
US11077742B2
A locator assembly for an interior trim panel of a vehicle comprises a bracket and an adjustable locator. The bracket is disposed in the interior trim panel. The adjustable locator comprises a locator pin and is rotatably supported by the bracket. The adjustable locator is capable of rotating from a first position to a second position. The locator pin is disposed in a first location when the adjustable locator is in the first position. The locator pin is disposed in a second location when the adjustable locator is in the second position. The first location of the locator pin is displaced a first distance in a first direction from the second location of the locator pin.
US11077740B2
An outlet for a forced air system of a vehicle comprising: a primary air flow chamber; a secondary air flow chamber adjacent the primary air flow chamber; an air flow diverter between the primary air flow chamber and the secondary air flow chamber that diverts a portion of air flow from the primary air flow chamber and into the secondary air flow chamber, with the diverted portion of the air flow flowing back into the primary air flow chamber; and a tray configured to retain an aromatic agent, the tray movable into and out of the secondary air flow chamber to selectively place the aromatic agent in contact with air flowing through the secondary air flow chamber to aromatize the air before flowing back into the primary air flow chamber.
US11077735B2
A heating apparatus of the invention executes a first heating control for heating a heater core by a heat generation device when a process of heating the heater core is requested while an engine operation is stopped. The heating apparatus executes a second heating control for heating the cooling water which cooled an internal combustion engine, by the heat generation device and supplying the heated cooling water to the heater core when a heater core temperature is not increased to a requested temperature only by the heat generation device. The heating apparatus executes a third heating control for stopping the engine operation, heating the cooling water which cooled the internal combustion engine, by the heat generation device, and supplying the heated cooling water to the heater core when an engine temperature becomes equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature while the second heating control is executed.
US11077722B2
A mark indicating portion provided on a sidewall portion comprises a reference surface provided on a surface of the sidewall portion and marks formed on the reference surface. A surface of each mark 4 includes a first inclined surface portion having a height from the reference surface increasing outwardly in a tyre radial direction from an inner end in the tyre radial direction, and a second inclined surface portion having a height from the reference surface increasing inwardly in the tyre radial direction from an outer end in the tyre radial direction.
US11077719B2
A pneumatic tire includes a plurality of main grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction in a tread portion; and a sipe extending in a tire width direction in a rib defined by the plurality of main grooves, the sipe including a leading side edge and a trailing side edge, a chamfered portion shorter than a sipe length of the sipe being formed in each of the leading side edge and the trailing side edge, a non-chamfered region including no other chamfered portion being present in a part facing each chamfered portion of the sipe, and, in a plan view of the tread portion, at least one of the chamfered portions including an outer edge profile line not parallel to a ridge line of the sipe.
US11077715B2
A heavy-duty tire includes a tread portion including a pair of tread edges and a tire equator located therebetween. In a tire cross-section including a tire axis under a 5% inner pressure condition where the tire is mounted on a standard wheel rim with 5% of a standard pressure but loaded with no tire load, the tread portion has a profile which includes a first profile including the tire equator, a pair of second profiles extending axially inwardly from the tread edges and a pair of third profiles connecting the first profile and the respective second profiles. The first profile and the second profiles are configured as arc shapes protruding outwardly in a tire radial direction, and the third profiles are configured as straight shapes.
US11077709B2
A drive shaft is configured by joining solid stub shafts formed of a medium carbon steel to both ends of a hollow tubular body formed of a medium carbon steel. When expressed as grain size number, the grain size of the hollow tubular body at joint parts where the hollow tubular body and the solid stub shafts are joined together ranges from #5 to #9, and the grain size of the solid stub shafts at the joint parts ranges from #10 to #12.
US11077705B2
A clip capable of magnetic attachment to a paintbrush or to a steel paint roller mesh tray. It has a hook arm extending from the body of the clip that enables a hanging attachment to a plethora of different sized paint cans and at different vertical angles. The clip may be used with continued attachment to the paintbrush where the paintbrush is hung on the paint can when necessary by the hook arm. It may also be used with continued attachment to a steel paint roller mesh tray and the paintbrush is magnetically affixed on the tray when necessary. A ferromagnetic backing cup may be used to direct the bulk of the magnetic flux to either side of the clip body.
US11077702B2
A writing instrument includes a body, a nosecone, and an adaptor each being of generally hollow tubular shape. The body, the nosecone, and the adaptor each have a first end and a second end. The first end of the adaptor is configured to slidably couple to the nosecone second end. The second end of the adaptor is coupled to the first end of the body. The writing instrument includes a writing element with a mounting end and a writing end where the mounting end is removably coupled to the second end of the body. The writing instrument includes a locking mechanism configured to selectively lock the nosecone in a storage position or a writing position. In the storage position, the nosecone extends and covers the writing end. In the writing position, the nosecone retracts and the writing end of the writing element extends beyond the nosecone.
US11077695B2
A method for processing a sheet for bookbinding includes operations. A cut is formed that divides a thickness of the sheet in a binding-side side surface of the sheet. A portion of a connection piece that is attached to the sheet is inserted into the cut as an inserted portion, and functions as a hinge in a book-bound state. The portion of the connection piece inserted into the cut is joined to the sheet.
US11077694B2
A post-processing device includes a carrying roller, a conveying member, a transporting member and a processing part. The carrying roller is configured to be rotated to carry a sheet one by one to a processing tray along a conveyance direction. The conveying member is configured to convey the sheet carried by the carrying roller to a receiving position on the processing tray. The conveying member has a rotation shaft and a plurality of contact pieces protruding from the rotation shaft so as to come into contact with the sheet carried on the processing tray. The contact piece is made of elastic material. The conveying member is rotated at a rotation speed higher than a rotation speed of the carrying roller when the sheet carried by the carrying roller is conveyed to the receiving position on the processing tray.
US11077692B2
The present invention relates to a pigment water dispersion containing a pigment, a crosslinked polymer and water, in which the crosslinked polymer is prepared by crosslinking a carboxy group-containing polymer with a crosslinking agent, and has an acid value of not less than 70 mgKOH/g and not more than 300 mgKOH/g; and the pigment water dispersion further contains a formaldehyde-releasing compound. The pigment water dispersion of the present invention is excellent in storage stability even when being stored under high-temperature conditions for a long period of time.
US11077688B2
A liquid discharge head includes a plurality of pressure generating elements configured to generate pressure to discharge a liquid, a plurality of wirings configured to transmit a drive signal to the plurality of pressure generating elements, respectively, a plurality of integrated circuits configured to drive the plurality of pressure generating elements, respectively, the plurality of integrated circuits being provided on the plurality of wirings, respectively, and a heat sink configured to contact the plurality of integrated circuits to dissipate heat in the plurality of integrated circuits. The heat sink includes a first dissipation part that directly contacts one of the plurality of integrated circuits, and a second dissipating part that contacts another of the plurality of integrated circuits via one of the plurality of wirings.
US11077685B2
A printing device (100, 200) may include a carriage (101, 201) to hold an integrated printhead (103, 203) in the printing device; a manifold latch (105, 205) to connect the integrated printhead and an ink tank connector in a locked position; and a controller (109, 209) to align the carriage within the printing device based on a level of health of the integrated printhead and a latching position of the manifold latch. Furthermore, a non-transitory computer readable medium and a printing method are disclosed.
US11077683B2
An image forming apparatus configured to: decide a conveying distance for a conveying processing based on image data stored in a memory; and shorten, in a case where it is determined that a code image is to be formed by a plurality of scanning processing including a first scanning processing and a second scanning processing, the decided conveying distance for: (i) one conveying processing which is executed immediately before the first scanning processing; or (ii) at least one of a plurality of conveying processing which are respectively executed immediately before each of a plurality of scanning processing which includes the first scanning processing and at least one scanning processing executed before the first scanning processing, so that the code image is not to be formed in the first scanning processing and the code image is started to be formed from the second scanning processing.
US11077677B2
An ink jet recording method includes ejecting an ultraviolet-ray curable ink of which a viscosity at 28° C. is 8 mPa·s or more from a head to a recording medium, and curing the ultraviolet-ray curable ink attached to the recording medium, wherein, in the ejecting of the ultraviolet-ray curable ink, the ultraviolet-ray curable ink is heated such that a temperature of the ejected ultraviolet-ray curable ink becomes 28° C. to 40° C., and a viscosity of the ultraviolet-ray curable ink at the temperature is 15 mPa·s or less.
US11077674B2
A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes a printer to print image data to a medium. The printer includes a first pass channel including a first set of pel forming elements to print a first component of the image data and a second pass channel including a second set of pel forming elements to print a second component of the image data, wherein the first component of the image data and the second component of the image data occupy a same region on the print medium. The printing system also includes a print controller to perform uniformity compensation based on a combined compensation of the first pass channel and the second pass channel.
US11077669B2
A liquid cartridge includes: a cartridge casing having a liquid storage chamber; a first wall; a second wall; and an air communication passage. The first wall is positioned upward relative to the liquid storage chamber. The second wall is positioned upward relative to the first wall. The air communication passage has a first communication hole in communication with the liquid storage chamber and a communication opening open to an atmosphere. The air communication passage includes: an air chamber defined by the first wall and the second wall and in communication with the liquid storage chamber through the first communication hole; a second communication hole formed in the second wall; and a labyrinth path. The labyrinth path is positioned upward relative to the air chamber, and has one end in communication with the second communication hole and another end in communication with the communication opening.
US11077660B2
There is provided a liquid discharge head including: a plurality of pressure chambers including pressure chambers aligned in a first direction orthogonal to a vertical direction so as to form a first pressure chamber group, and pressure chambers aligned in the first direction so as to form a second pressure chamber group arranged side to side relative to the first pressure chamber group in a second direction; a return channel extending in the first direction; and return connecting channels each connecting the return channel and one of the plurality of pressure chambers to each other, wherein a height of an upper surface of each of the return connecting channels is not less than a height of an upper surface of one of the plurality of pressure chambers which is connected to the return channel by each of the return connecting channels.
US11077656B2
Provided is an inkjet recording apparatus including: a nozzle configured to eject droplets including a first droplet and a second droplet larger than the first droplet; a moving mechanism that moves a sheet relative to the nozzle; and a processor configured to generate ejection data for the droplets, the ejection data corresponding to a dot image formed by ejecting the droplets from the nozzle on the sheet moved relatively to the nozzle by the moving mechanism, wherein the processor is configured to replace the second droplet for a pixel of interest in an original ejection data for generating the ejection data with the first droplet when the droplets are not ejected for n pixels in a row after the pixel of interest to generate the ejection data, where n is an integer of 2 or more.
US11077653B2
A method of making the asphalt shingles includes applying a substrate to a layer of shingle-forming material, the substrate having indicators at predetermined spaced-apart distances, with the indicators being sensed as the shingle-forming layer is moved along a predetermined path, with adhesive zones being applied to the shingle such that the application of the adhesive zones is synchronized in response to sensing the locations of the indicators, and with the shingle-forming layer then being cut into individual shingles.
US11077645B2
To provide a cover member excellent in edge safety, and a display device in which said cover member is used. A cover member which covers a display panel of a display device and which has a front surface that does not face the display panel and a rear surface that faces the display panel, said cover member being a laminate in which a first glass plate constituting said front surface and a second glass plate constituting said rear surface are bonded via an intermediate film interposed therebetween, wherein the first glass plate has a first inside chamfer which is a chamfer on the intermediate film side, and the first inside chamfer and the second glass plate or the intermediate film are bonded by a resin.
US11077642B2
A hot press cushioning material includes: a first nonwoven fabric forming an inner layer; and second nonwoven fabrics placed on both surfaces of the first nonwoven fabric and forming outer layers. Copolymerized para-aramid fibers having a basis weight of 80 to 400 g/m2 are used as a material of the second nonwoven fabrics. Fibers that are more rigid than the copolymerized para-aramid fibers are used as a material of the first nonwoven fabric. Each of the first nonwoven fabric and the second nonwoven fabrics has a heat resistant temperature of 270° C. or more.
US11077640B2
An adhesive tape, including a substrate including a stitched fleece and an adhesive layer applied one-side on the substrate, wherein the stitched fleece is formed from fibers, which are stitched with stitching yarns. A manually tearable adhesive tape is disclosed, with improved abrasion resistance properties together with a high noise damping. The stitching yarns may be stitched with a fineness of at least F24.
US11077636B2
A label web including a substrate is provided. The label web includes a first label removably affixed to a first side of the substrate. The first label is fabricated from a first material. A second label is removably affixed to the first side of the substrate adjacent to the first label in a side-by-side relationship. The second label is fabricated from a second material which differs from the first material. The first labels may be utilized to print desired information thereon and the second labels may fabricated from a transparent, protective material coating which may positioned on the first labels to discourage damage to the first labels from exposure to water or handling when the first labels are affixed to corresponding products.
US11077634B2
Provided is a tire vulcanizing method enabling an optimum vulcanization operation for each tire by measuring the temperatures of the inner surface and the outer surface of a tire until the demolding timing without damaging the tire and by determining the vulcanized state of the tire accurately based on the measured temperature data to efficiently produce uniformly vulcanized tires especially under conditions where the temperature of a mold fluctuates. During vulcanization of a tire G, the temperatures of the inner surface and the outer surface at a plurality of principal portions representing the tire G are measured, and the demolding timing is determined according to the equivalent degree of vulcanization indicating the degree of progress in crosslinking reaction calculated based on the temperature data measured.
US11077618B2
Methods and apparatus for forming a three-dimensional article in which a powdered medium is distributed in a powder bed, heated to a temperature below its melting point, and fused by means of a laser beam projected in the form of an image of a cross section of the three-dimensional article. The image of the cross-sectional layer is created by spatial light modulation of the laser beam using an LCoS display. During the fabrication process, characteristics of the image of the cross-sectional layer are controlled through monitoring of the projection of a holographic representation of the image using one or more imaging devices.
US11077613B2
The stop time of a whole apparatus caused by planning of shaping, maintenance, replacement of a material, or the like is shortened. A three-dimensional laminating and shaping apparatus includes a plurality of shaping chambers, at least one material supplier that supplies a material of a three-dimensional laminated and shaped object onto a shaping table in each of the shaping chambers, at least one light beam irradiator that irradiates the material with a light beam, and a controller that controls the material supplier and the light beam irradiator. If the material supplier supplies the material onto one of the shaping tables, the controller controls the light beam irradiator to perform irradiation of the light beam onto the other one of the shaping tables.
