US11099882B2
In an approach to optimizing container images through automatic layer suggestions, one or more computer processors identify one or more layers contained within an image. The one or more computer processors compare each identified layer with one or more layers contained in an image repository. The one or more computer processors calculate a layer overlap score for each compared layer. The one or more computer processors determine a potential substitute layer utilizing a respective calculated layer overlap score. The one or more computer processors, responsive to the determined substitute layer exceeding a layer overlap score threshold, substitute one or more identified layers with the determined substitute layer. The one or more computer processors restructure one or more layers of the image based on the substituted layer.
US11099878B2
Implementations describe a computing system that implements a plurality of virtual machines inside a trust domain (TD), enabled via a secure arbitration mode (SEAM) of the processor. A processor includes one or more registers to store a SEAM range of memory, a TD key identifier of a TD private encryption key. The processor is capable of initializing a trust domain resource manager (TDRM) to manage the TD, and a virtual machine monitor within the TD to manage the plurality of virtual machines therein. The processor is further capable of exclusively associating a plurality of memory pages with the TD, wherein the plurality of memory pages associated with the TD is encrypted with a TD private encryption key inaccessible to the TDRM. The processor is further capable of using the SEAM range of memory, inaccessible to the TDRM, to provide isolation between the TDRM and the plurality of virtual machines.
US11099876B2
An aspect of the invention is a method that includes receiving a request from a requestor to reclaim a portion of a memory assigned to a virtual machine (VM). The memory includes real memory that is divided into a plurality of increments. An amount of paging space that will be occupied by the VM subsequent to reclaiming the portion of the memory is predicted. Based on the predicted amount of paging space exceeding a threshold, the requestor is notified that the portion of the memory cannot be reclaimed. Based on the predicted amount of paging space not exceeding the threshold, a reclamation of the portion of the memory is initiated. The reclamation includes vacating an increment of the plurality of increments and removing an assignment of the increment to the VM.
US11099874B2
Technology for configuring and executing a shallow virtual machine to enhance memory protection between different portions of user space memory of a particular computing process. An example method may involve: associating a computing process with a virtual machine data structure, wherein the computing process initiates an update to the virtual machine data structure to cause a processor to switch between a page table structures; loading first and second executable code into user space memory of the computing process, wherein a first page table structure comprises mapping data for the first and second executable code and wherein the second executable code comprises driver code of a device; updating the second page table structure to disable execution of the first executable code and to map a portion of the user space memory to the device; and restricting the first executable code from accessing the memory mapped device.
US11099872B2
Techniques are described that can be used to enable a transfer of an operating system from one machine to another. The transfer permits the operating system to be available to the target machine at buffers that are accessible to one or more application or other logic. In some implementations, information related to an operating system migration is stored in a buffer that is accessible to an application that is to use the information and thereby avoids a copy of such information from an intermediate buffer to an application buffer.
US11099854B1
An integrated circuit (IC) implements an M by N aperture function over an R by C source array. The IC has an input port receiving an ordered stream of independent input values, an output port producing an output stream, a mass multiplier circuit multiplying inputs by weights, producing streams of products on pathways on the IC, an M by N array of compositor circuits on the IC, single dedicated pathways between compositors, delay circuits, a finalization circuit, and a control circuit operating counters and producing control signals. The compositors combine the values received from product pathways, further combine that result to an initial value or to a value from an adjacent compositor upstream, or to a value from a delay circuit. Upon a last downstream compositor producing a complete composition of values, that value is passed to the finalization circuit, which posts a result to the output port.
US11099850B2
Branch prediction circuitry comprises: a return address prediction structure to store at least one predicted return address; and a branch target buffer (BTB) structure comprising entries each for specifying predicted branch information for a corresponding block of instructions. Within at least a subset of entries of the BTB structure, each entry specifies the predicted branch information with an encoding incapable of simultaneously indicating both: that the corresponding block of instructions is predicted to include a return branch instruction (for which the return address prediction structure is used to predict the target address); and the predicted target address for the return branch instruction. This can provide a more efficient BTB structure which requires less circuit area and power for a given level of branch prediction performance.
US11099849B2
An apparatus includes a branch target cache configured to store one or more branch addresses, a memory configured to store a return target stack, and a circuit. The circuit may be configured to determine, for a group of one or more fetched instructions, a prediction value indicative of whether the group includes a return instruction. In response to the prediction value indicating that the group includes a return instruction, the circuit may be further configured to select a return address from the return target stack. The circuit may also be configured to determine a hit or miss indication in the branch target cache for the group, and to, in response to receiving a miss indication from the branch target cache, select the return address as a target address for the return instruction.
US11099834B2
The examples include methods and apparatuses to build software using a cloud system. Building software can include receiving a number of events from a software repository reporting a change to the software repository and, based on receiving the number of events, trigger a software build. Building software can also include, based on triggering the software build, synchronizing the software repository on a cloud system to generate a synchronized software repository, instructing the cloud system to perform the software build using the synchronized software repository, and receiving and publishing an artifact generated by the software build.
US11099828B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for updating a metadata structure to be compatible with an update between the first version of firmware and a second version of firmware, including formation of migration data (e.g., migration arrays) associated with corresponding blocks of metadata for different versions of firmware, and comparing of attributes of the migration data to determine various migration actions to perform in generating an updated metadata structure that is compatible with an update between versions of firmware.
US11099827B2
A networking-device-based HCI edge controller system includes a networking device coupled to a master controller system via a network, as well as locally to an HCI node system including HCI node(s). The networking device and the HCI node system are provided at an edge location in a network, and the networking device operates to identify HCI node components that are included in the HCI node(s) in the HCI node system, and retrieve respective software inventory information for each of the HCI node component in the HCI node(s). The networking device receives first updated software from the master controller system via the network, determines that the respective software inventory information for at least one of the HCI node components does not comply with the first updated software for those HCI node components and, in response, provides the first updated software on those HCI node components.
US11099826B2
Methods and systems for performing application deployments in a computing environment are presented herein. One or more components of the computing environment may perform a canary deployment of an updated version of an application. As the canary deployment is performed, one or more determinations as to whether to continue, stop, or complete the canary deployment may be performed. These determinations may be based on one or more metrics determined by an application delivery controller of the computing environment. The application delivery controller may be configured to divert or forward traffic to application resources that execute the updated version. Additionally, the canary deployment may be performed in an automated fashion.
US11099823B2
The present application is directed towards systems and methods for automatically transforming reporting and view database schema during upgrading of a system from a source installation to a target installation. An analyzer executed by a processor of a client device may identify an application of a source installation configured to process a first one or more objects of the source installation. The analyzer may determine that the first one or more objects are modified during upgrading or transformation of the source installation to a target installation. The analyzer may generate a mapping between the first one or more objects of the source installation to a second one or more objects of the target installation, responsive to the determination. A transformer executed by the processor of the client device may modify a schema of the application, according to the generated mapping.
US11099813B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a computer-implemented system for intelligently retaining and recalling memory data. An exemplary method comprises receiving, via a microphone of an electronic device, a speech input of the user; receiving a text input of the user; constructing a first instance of a memory data structure based on the speech input; constructing a second instance of the memory data structure based on the text input; adding the first instance and the second instance of the memory data structure to a memory stack of the user; displaying a user interface for retrieving memory data of the user; receiving, via the user interface, a beginning of a statement from the user; retrieving a particular instance of the memory data structure from the memory stack based on the beginning of the statement; and automatically displaying a completion of the statement.
US11099811B2
Systems and methods are described herein for displaying subjects of a portion of content and searching for content related to a particular subject in the content. Media data of content is analyzed during playback, and a number of audio signatures are identified. Each audio signature is associated, based on audio characteristics, with a particular subject within the content. The audio signature is stored, along with a timestamp corresponding to a playback position at which the audio signature begins, in association with an identifier of the particular subject. Upon receiving a command, icons representing each of a number of audio signatures at or near the current playback position are displayed. Upon receiving user selection of an icon corresponding to a particular signature, a portion of the content corresponding to the audio signature is played back or a search interface is displayed including autocomplete suggestions related to the subject of the signature.
US11099808B2
Example techniques facilitate calibration of a playback device. An example implementation involves a computing device capturing, via a microphone, data representing multiple iterations of a calibration sound as played by a playback device. The computing device identifies multiple sections within the captured data. Two or more sections represent respective iterations of the calibration sound as played by the playback device. Based on the multiple identified sections, the computing device determines a frequency response of the playback device, the frequency response of the playback device representing audio output by the playback device and acoustic characteristics of an environment around the playback device. Based on the frequency response of the playback device and a target frequency response, the computing device determines one or more parameters of an audio processing algorithm and sends, to the playback device, the one or more parameters of the audio processing algorithm.
US11099806B2
A system is provided for streaming media content in a vehicle. The system includes a personal media streaming appliance system configured to connect to a media delivery system and receive media content from the media delivery system at least via a cellular network. The personal media streaming appliance system operates to transmit a media signal representative to the received media content to a vehicle media playback system so that the vehicle media playback system operates to play the media content in the vehicle. Various types of rotations of a knob part of the personal media streaming applicant system result in different media playback actions.
US11099777B2
Techniques for providing a unified approach to an orchestration of services for accomplishing data import tasks, data replication tasks, and/or data migration tasks in a clustered storage environment. The techniques are employed in a clustered storage environment that includes one or more storage domains, each of which includes, as members of the storage domain, a primary storage appliance and one or more secondary storage appliances. By providing, in a primary storage appliance of a storage domain within a clustered storage environment, an orchestrator for orchestrating a set of orchestration phases, which can be shared to perform data import tasks, data replication tasks, and/or data migration tasks involving a foreign storage system deployed outside of the clustered storage environment and/or one or more data storage appliance deployed within the clustered storage environment, enhanced efficiencies due to infrastructure sharing within the clustered storage environment can be achieved.
US11099776B2
A memory system includes a plurality of memory devices configuring a plurality of ways, and a memory controller communicating with the plurality of memory devices through a channel, wherein each of the plurality of memory devices includes a device queue, and wherein the device queue queues a plurality of controller commands inputted from the memory controller.
US11099771B2
A method of deleting tombstones early includes setting an initial-flag in a first record in the storage system, setting a delete-flag in a second record in the storage system, selecting a set of one or more records in the storage system to be written to an extent of the storage system in a merge operation, each of the one or more records being associated with the first key, and performing the merge operation, wherein the second record is not written to the extent during the merge operation based at least in part on a determination that the first record having the initial-flag set is the oldest record in the set and the second record having the delete-flag set is the newest record in the set.
US11099770B1
One example method includes powering off a replica VM, taking a snapshot of an OS disk of a source VM associated with the replica VM, taking a snapshot of an OS disk of the replica VM, generating a list of blocks that includes all blocks of the source VM OS disk that have changed since a preceding cloning or snapshot process and further includes all blocks of the replica VM OS disk that have changed since the preceding cloning or snapshot process, and performing an override of the replica VM disk by writing, to the replica VM OS disk, the respective source VM OS disk values for each block in the list of blocks.
US11099766B2
An apparatus is configured to initiate a first replication session to replicate data of a first consistency group in a first storage system to a second consistency group in a second storage system, to create an additional consistency group linked to the first consistency group in the first storage system, and to initiate a second replication session to replicate data of the additional consistency group to another consistency group in a third storage system. The additional consistency group linked to the first consistency group in some embodiments is periodically updated against the first consistency group. For example, in one or more embodiments the second consistency group is updated based at least in part on an active snapshot set of the first replication session, and the additional consistency group is updated based at least in part on the first consistency group.
US11099765B2
Embodiments include methods, apparatus, or processors configured to access a tracking enabled storage volume associated with a container; perform a full backup of the storage volume, where performing the full backup includes defining a full backup point; perform a first incremental backup of the storage volume based on the full backup point, where performing the first incremental backup includes defining a current backup point; determine whether a backup termination condition has been met; upon determining that the backup termination condition has not been met: performing a subsequent incremental backup of the storage volume based on the current backup point; and updating the current backup point. Embodiments may restore the tracking enabled storage volume from the full backup and the incremental backups.
US11099762B2
A semiconductor device: includes a plurality of I/O clients; a multi host controller which includes a physical host interface, a virtual host interface, an arbiter; and a system memory. The arbiter receives first transfer requests from a first one of the I/O clients via the physical host interface and receives second transfer requests from a second one of the I/O clients via the virtual host interface, and arbitrates the first transfer requests and second transfer requests. The system memory stores a first transfer request list of the first transfer requests and a second transfer request list of the second transfer requests, wherein the first and second transfer request lists include the same number of slots.
US11099758B2
In one embodiment, a method includes allocating, by an operating system of a computing device, computer-implemented memory into a discardable portion and a durable portion; receiving, from a computer-executable program, a designation indicator of a particular data file that is associated with the computer-executable program indicating that the particular file is to be stored in the discardable portion of the memory and in response, storing the particular data file in one or more particular pages of the discardable portion of the memory; identifying an occurrence of a computing condition and in response, marking the one or more particular pages that include the particular data file as invalid for the computer-executable program; receiving, from the computer-executable program, a request for the particular data file; and in response to receiving the request, providing, to the computer-executable program, a notification that the particular data file is invalid for the computer-executable program.
US11099757B2
A memory system includes a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks capable of storing data, and a controller configured to determine an attribute of data stored in a memory block during an operating period. A duration of the operating period is changeable based on a parameter regarding the plurality of memory blocks. The duration of the operating period is adjusted in order to increase the accuracy of a determination of a usage pattern regarding the memory device.
US11099755B2
An apparatus comprises a host device comprising at least one processor coupled to memory. The host device is configured to communicate over a network with a storage system comprising a plurality of storage devices. The host device is further configured to identify a logical volume identifier corresponding to a given logical volume of the storage system and to submit a message comprising an indication of the logical volume identifier to a messaging system. The host device is further configured to obtain, from the messaging system, an indication of a pseudo name corresponding to the logical volume identifier and to assign the obtained pseudo name to a multipath device corresponding to the given logical volume, the multipath device comprising a plurality of paths between the host device and the given logical volume.
US11099754B1
An apparatus comprises at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The at least one processing device is configured to receive, via a multi-path layer of at least one host device, at least one indication of a predicted distribution of input-output operations directed from the at least one host device to a storage system for a given time interval. The at least one processing device is also configured to determine a cache memory configuration for a cache memory associated with the storage system based at least in part on the at least one indication of the predicted distribution of input-output operations for the given time interval. The at least one processing device is further configured to provision the cache memory with the determined cache memory configuration for the given time interval.
US11099752B1
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes to improve application performance in replication environments. In one embodiment, first application input/output (I/O) throughput and second application I/O throughput are associated with a data volume and are both sampled, with the first application I/O throughput being sampled while the data volume is set to an asynchronous write acknowledgement mode and the second application I/O throughput being sampled while the data volume is set to a synchronous write acknowledgement mode. A determination is made as to whether the asynchronous write acknowledgement mode or the synchronous write acknowledgement mode provides a higher application I/O throughput for the data volume. The data volume is then set to a preferred write acknowledgement mode that is selected, based on a result of the determining, from the asynchronous write acknowledgement mode and the synchronous write acknowledgement mode, and in certain embodiments, a mixed write acknowledgement mode.
US11099741B1
Techniques are provided for assigning alias devices in a parallel access volume storage environment. An exemplary method for assigning alias devices by a host in a parallel access volume storage environment comprises: obtaining a next I/O (input/output) operation from a queue; obtaining a utilization factor for a plurality of available I/O processing thread in the storage controller; and assigning the next I/O operation to an alias device associated with a given one of the plurality of available I/O processing threads based on the utilization factors.
US11099734B2
Techniques manage a storage system. In such techniques, data types of data in multiple storage devices associated with the storage system are obtained. The multiple storage devices are divided into a first group of storage devices and a second group of storage devices according to the data types. A first processing ability of the first group of storage devices and a second processing ability of the second group of storage devices are determined separately. Data distribution is scheduled among the multiple storage devices on the basis of the first processing ability and the second processing ability. With such techniques, processing abilities of various storage devices in a resource pool may be balanced, so that workloads of various storage devices may be balanced and further overall response speed of the resource pool may be increased.
US11099730B2
Techniques for map interface interaction are described. One example method includes receiving user input specifying a map search operation, the map search operation including a first location and a distance determining point each specifying a location in a set of map data representing a physical area; determining a selected distance between the first location and the distance determining point, wherein the selected distance represents a physical distance between the physical locations represented by the first location and the distance determining point; determining a demarcated range based on the first location and the selected distance, the demarcated range representing a subset of the physical area; and displaying one or more target objects in the demarcated range as a search result set, each target object associated with a physical location in the subset of the physical area represented by the demarcated range.
US11099729B1
Disclosed are systems and methods for displaying content on a user device. For example, a method of displaying content on a user device may include: receiving a first set of content data; arranging and displaying the first set of content in a first sequence of consecutive segments; detecting user input indicative of a scroll pattern of the user through the first sequence of consecutive segments; determining a preferred category based on the detected user input; receiving a second set of content data; arranging the second set of content data into a second sequence of consecutive segments based on the preferred category; and displaying the second set of content data in the arranged second sequence of consecutive segments on the display of the user device.
US11099727B2
Systems and methods are provided for sharing maps in a collaborative environment using classification-based access control. The generation of and dissemination of maps and/or data within such maps can be governed by classification-based access control, where a user's classification level can determine whether or not maps and/or data within those maps can be seen. In some scenarios, a user may wish to reveal the existence of data and/or additional details within a limited geographical area or subset of a map. The systems and methods further provide a geo-fenced view that can dynamically declassify data (to a specified degree). For example, declassified details can be revealed for moving data sets or objects upon entry into the geo-fenced view, and upon existing the geo-fenced view, the moving data sets or objects are reclassified.
US11099722B2
In some implementations, a computing device can simulate a virtual parallax to create three dimensional effects. For example, the computing device can obtain an image captured at a particular location. The captured two-dimensional image can be applied as texture to a three-dimensional model of the capture location. To give the two-dimensional image a three-dimensional look and feel, the computing device can simulate moving the camera used to capture the two-dimensional image to different locations around the image capture location to generate different perspectives of the textured three-dimensional model as if captured by multiple different cameras. Thus, a virtual parallax can be introduced into the generated imagery for the capture location. When presented to the user on a display of the computing device, the generated imagery may have a three-dimensional look and feel even though generated from a single two-dimensional image.
US11099716B2
Systems and methods provide for content navigation based on an identified context. A wearable device is initiated and loaded with content from a content repository. The loaded content comprises one or more digital tags. The wearable device is configured to provide for display, content associated with a digital tag. A context is determined for the wearable device, and based on the determined context a digital tag can be presented to a user for selection, the digital tag associate with a piece of content or a portion of content. A command can be received to select the digital tag or perform an action associated with the digital tag. A piece or portion of content associated with the selected digital tag is provided for display. A second digital tag can be presented along with the display of a piece or portion of content to enable further navigation through the content.
US11099715B2
A method for providing a user interface in a vehicle, wherein information that is structured in lists can be displayed, and wherein a list includes list entries and the list entries include elements. At least one subset of the list is displayed on a display surface so that list entries extend on the display surface in a first direction, and at least one subset of elements of this one list entry are displayed so that the elements extend on the display surface in a second direction that differs from the first direction.
US11099707B2
A computer system with a display, a touch-sensitive surface, and one or more cameras displays a virtual object in a first user interface region. In response to detecting a first input at a location that corresponds to the virtual object and in accordance with a determination that the first input meets first criteria, the virtual object is displayed in a second user interface region. In response to detecting a second input, in accordance with a determination that the second input corresponds to a request to manipulate the virtual object in the second user interface region, a display property of the virtual object is changed, and in accordance with a determination that the second input corresponds to a request to display the virtual object in an augmented reality environment, the virtual object is displayed with a representation of a field of view of the one or more cameras.
US11099706B1
An information handling system enhanced user interface distinguishes native operating system touch inputs from enhance touch gestures based upon context, such as the number and types of displays interfaced with the information handling system. Enhanced touch gestures include multi-finger touches with symmetrical movement that command start events, move events and end events to interact with content at plural displays through touches at one of the plural displays, such as moving windows, selecting an active window, minimizing windows, maximizing content of one window and restoring minimized content.
US11099704B2
A mobile terminal capable of sensing a touch input, and a control method thereof are provided. The mobile terminal includes: a camera unit configured to receive an image in a camera mode; a display unit configured to sense a touch input; a control unit configured to designate a region on the basis of a touch input sensed by the display unit, execute the camera mode when a region is designated, control the camera unit to capture the received image, and display the captured image in the designated region.
US11099703B1
A touch sensor panel can include a silver nanowire touch electrodes formed in a silver nanowire layer on the substrate. In some examples, the touch sensor panel can include one or more anticorrosion layers to protect silver nanowire layer from ionization. In some examples, the silver nanowires include electrochemically stable outer shells that protect the silver nanowires from ionization. Additionally or alternatively, the touch sensor panel can including one or more anti-static layers to protect against electrostatic discharge (ESD). Additionally or alternatively, one or more anticorrosion layers and/or one or more antistatic layers can be formed with a passivation layer therebetween. The passivation layer, one or more anticorrosion layers and/or one or more antistatic layers can then be laminated to the silver nanowire layer to prevent corrosion and/or ESD events in the silver nanowire layer during the fabrication of the touch sensor panel.
US11099700B1
A multi-mode operation method for a capacitive touch panel is disclosed. The panel has a plurality of touch cells, and detection values of the plurality of touch cells are obtained by mutual capacitance scan. A normal mode and an insulation mode are provided for situations in which the panel is touched by a finger and a glove, respectively. An insulation determination condition is established for automatically determining glove touch to make the panel enter the insulation mode. In the insulation mode, the criteria for determining touch events can be automatically adjusted, or the detection values around the cells touched can be processed to accurately determine the touch effect when the panel is touched by a glove. In the insulation mode, a condition for determining to leave the insulation mode is also established, so that the touch panel can be smoothly switched between the normal mode and the insulation mode.
US11099697B2
Provided is an input detection unit with a plurality of first electrodes and second electrodes insulated from the first electrodes. Dummy patterns are disposed between the patterns and the detection patterns. A secondary dummy pattern is disposed adjacent to the dummy patterns. Signal lines overlap the non-detection area. The signal lines include a first signal line connected to the patterns and a second signal line connected to the detection patterns. The plurality of patterns includes a row of patterns closest to the non-detection area. The secondary dummy pattern overlaps a portion between the row of patterns closest to the non-detection area and the second signal line.
US11099694B2
A flexible display screen system (100) includes a flexible display screen (10), a sensor (30) and a processor (50), in which the flexible display screen (10) is formed with a first display region (11), the sensor (30) is configured to generate a bending signal when the flexible display screen (10) is bent, and the processor (50) is configured to control the flexible display screen (10) to form a second display region (13) according to the bending signal and the display content of the first display region (11) and control the second display region (13) to display the display content. The flexible display screen system (100) realizes control over the flexible display screen (10) by bending, and may form another display area which facilitates sharing the content of the original display area with others, and is easy and convenient to operate.
US11099688B2
An optical IR touch sensing apparatus configured to determine, based on output signals of light detectors, a light energy value for each light path across a touch surface, and generate a transmission value for each light path based on the light energy value. A processor is then configured to process the transmission values to determine an object reference point on the touch surface where the light is attenuated or occluded by an object and determine, from a set of light paths unaffected by an object, a set of object boundary light paths comprising one or more light paths passing closest to the object reference point. The characteristics of the object may then be determined in dependence on the set of object boundary light paths.
US11099684B2
The present invention relates to a driving circuit, the touch device thereof, the touch module thereof, and the method for manufacturing the same. The present invention comprises a control circuit, a scan circuit, a touch panel, and a detection circuit. The control circuit generates an input signal. The scan circuit comprises a plurality of signal generating circuits, which receive the input signal, generate a plurality of scan signals according to the input signal, and output the plurality of scan signals to the plurality of scan electrodes of the touch panel. The detection circuit detects the touch panel according to the plurality of scan signals and outputs a detection signal to the control circuit to let the control circuit know at least a touch point of the touch panel being touched.
US11099676B1
A touch module, a touch display panel and a touch display device are provided. The touch module includes a substrate; at least one touch electrode layer disposed over the substrate; a first inorganic material layer disposed over a side of the touch electrode layer away from the substrate; at least one second inorganic material layer disposed over a side of the first inorganic material layer away from the touch electrode layer; and at least one third inorganic material layer disposed over a side of the touch electrode layer adjacent to the substrate. A refractive index of the touch electrode layer is greater than that of the first inorganic material layer; the refractive index of the first inorganic material layer is greater than that of the second inorganic material layer; and the refractive index of the touch electrode layer is greater than that of the third inorganic material layer.
US11099672B2
The present disclosure provides a touch control panel, a method for manufacturing the touch control panel, and a display device. The touch control panel includes a substrate, a touch control electrode, and a plurality of conductive connection lines. The substrate includes a first side surface and a second side surface that are oppositely disposed. The touch control electrode is formed on the first side surface, which includes sensing electrodes and driving electrodes that are alternately arranged. The plurality of conductive connection lines are formed on the second side surface, which are configured to connect the driving electrodes and the sensing electrodes to a touch control chip.
US11099669B2
A conductive structure is provided. The conductive structure includes a template including a skeleton and a pore therein and having flexibility, and a conductive material aggregated and formed on the skeleton and in the pore.
US11099668B2
A hand-held device with a sensor for providing a signal indicative of a position of the hand-held device relative to an object surface enables power to the sensor at a first time interval when the hand-held device is indicated to be in a position that is stationary and adjacent relative to the object surface, enables power to the sensor at a second time interval shorter than the first time interval when the hand-held device is indicated to be in a position that is moving and adjacent relative to the object surface, and enables power to the sensor at a third time interval when the hand-held device is determined to be in a position that is removed relative to the object surface.
US11099656B1
A low-height key structure includes a keycap, a supporting plate, a connecting element, a circuit board and an elastic element. The circuit board is disposed on the supporting plate. A switch element is installed on the circuit board. The connecting element is connected with the keycap and the supporting plate. The keycap is movable upwardly or downwardly relative to the supporting plate through the connecting element. The elastic element is arranged between the keycap and the circuit board. The elastic element includes a contacting part and an elastic support part, which are connected with each other. The contacting part includes a bowl-shaped concave structure. A raised structure is protruded from a middle region of a bottom side of the bowl-shaped concave structure. A top surface of the raised structure is at a level lower than or equal to a top surface of the contacting part.
US11099645B2
A method for rendering computer graphics based on saccade detection is provided. One embodiment of the method includes rendering a computer simulated scene for display to a user, detecting an onset of a saccade that causes saccadic masking in an eye movement of the user viewing the computer simulated scene, and reducing a computing resource used for rendering frames of the computer simulated scene during at least a portion of a duration of the saccade. Systems perform similar steps, and non-transitory computer readable storage mediums each storing one or more computer programs are also provided.
US11099644B2
An input system and an electronic apparatus with novel structures are provided. An electronic apparatus whose setting can be changed even when both hands are full is provided. An input system and an electronic apparatus including an imaging device having a function of taking an image of eyes and a detection device having a function of detecting a change of the shape of the eyes from data obtained by the imaging device are provided. Settings are changed in accordance with the change of the shape of the eyes. The settings are changed by a different method from a manual method and the change of the settings can be reflected in display.
US11099640B2
A computer system for improving a user interface (UI) is disclosed. The system includes a reinforcement module that obtains (i) a shortest path to a goal in the UI and (ii) user interaction experiments; a distance module that determines a reinforcement distance for each page of the UI based on the user interaction experiments; and a step analysis module that determines a count of times that user interaction experiments indicate a deviation from each step of the shortest path. The determination is based on the determined reinforcement distance for the page of the UI associated with the step. The reinforcement module is configured to, in response to determining that a step requires reinforcement, generate a reinforcement for the step. Generating the reinforcement includes at least one of generating a prompt for an action associated with the step and altering a UI element associated with the step.
US11099636B1
A display system includes an interface unit, a head worn display in wireless communication with the interface unit, and a first tracker sensor remote from a head of a user and configured to wirelessly sense a head pose and provide first head tracking data to the interface unit. The interface unit is remote from the head worn display. The display system also includes a second tracker sensor associated with the head of the user and configured to provide second head tracking data associated with the head pose to the head worn display. The interface unit is configured to receive the second head tracking data from the head worn display via at least one wireless link and provide video information for display on the head worn display via the at least one wireless link.
US11099634B2
In one implementation, a method of manipulating virtual objects using tracked physical objects is disclosed. The method involves presenting content including a virtual object and a virtual representation of a proxy device physically unassociated with an electronic device on a display of the electronic device. Input is received from the proxy device using an input device of the proxy device that represents a request to create a fixed alignment between the virtual object and the virtual representation in a three-dimensional (“3-D”) coordinate space defined for the content. The fixed alignment is created in response to receiving the input. A position and an orientation of the virtual object in the 3-D coordinate space is dynamically updated using position data that defines movement of the proxy device in the physical environment.
US11099621B2
An information handling system real time clock (RTC)/CMOS circuit is powered from a battery that powers the information handling system. The battery power is supplied through a power management circuit that manages power constraints to the real time clock and that protects the battery from exceeding current and voltage thresholds. A protection integrated circuit selectively cuts off power supply from a power module to the RTC/CMOS circuit if predetermined conditions are detected. The protection circuit may also cutoff all power from battery with a permanent failure option or may itself directly supply power to the real time clock/CMOS circuit.
US11099615B2
A display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The display panel includes: a display substrate, a COF film disposed on a side of the display substrate; a plurality of signal lines disposed on another side of the display substrate, an insulation layer located between the signal lines and the display substrate, a plurality of connection holes penetrating at least the display substrate, the signal lines and the insulation layer and a conductive material filled in the connection holes. The signal lines are connected to connection terminals disposed on the COF film by the conductive material; the insulation layer has recesses each of which surrounds the respective connection holes.
US11099610B1
The present invention provides a mobile electronic device including a metal framework, a back cover and a frame. A motherboard is provided on an inner side of the metal framework, and a periphery of the metal framework forms an installation wall provided with a first wire connection opening. The back cover is superimposed on the metal framework and covers one side of the metal framework. The frame includes a functional frame bar disposed at the installation wall.
US11099607B2
A flexible display window and an electronic device having the same are provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a first rigid portion and a flexible portion, at least one outer layer that covers the first rigid portion and the flexible portion, a display device including a screen including a first portion exposed through the first rigid portion and a second portion extended from the first portion and exposed through the flexible portion, at least one processor electrically coupled to the display device, and a memory electrically coupled to the at least one processor, wherein the outer layer includes a polymer layer, a glass layer interposed between the polymer layer and the screen, and an adhesive layer interposed between the polymer layer and the glass layer.
US11099599B2
A communication device comprising at least one communication port called reception port and another communication port called forward port, each communication port being associated with a respective clock, the communication device being further configured for computing an offset between the respective clocks associated with the reception and forward ports, and synchronizing the respective clocks based on the computed offset.
US11099589B1
An error amplifier circuit receives first and second input signals and provides an error amplifier output signal indicative of the difference between the first and second input signals. The error amplifier circuit implements a proportional-integrator-differentiator (PID) circuit having a differential input signal path and including a proportional amplifier circuit, an integrator amplifier circuit, and a differentiator amplifier circuit. The differentiator amplifier circuit receives an AC coupled input signal. The error amplifier circuit sums the output from the proportional amplifier circuit, the integrator amplifier circuit and the differentiator amplifier circuit to provide the error amplifier output signal where the error amplifier output signal is referenced to a first bias voltage.
US11099579B2
A system for determining the number of remote vehicles following a host vehicle includes a receiver and an electronic controller. The receiver receives information related to a plurality of remote vehicles, including, for each remote vehicle, a vehicle location and a vehicle travel path. The electronic controller determines a location and a travel path of the host vehicle, compares the location of the host vehicle with the vehicle location of each of the remote vehicles, compares the travel path of the host vehicle with the vehicle travel path of each of the remote vehicles, and causes the host vehicle to perform a mitigation operation when the electronic controller determines that a predetermined number of the remote vehicles are disposed behind the host vehicle, and the travel path of the host vehicle and the vehicle travel path of each of the predetermined number of the remote vehicles is the same.
US11099578B2
A work machine management system includes: an input data acquisition unit that acquires input data generated by an operation of an input device; a turn signal data setting unit that sets turn signal data for controlling a direction indicator of a work machine to each of a plurality of courses branching from an intersection based on the input data; and an output unit that outputs the turn signal data to the work machine.
US11099574B2
Systems, apparatus and methods implemented in algorithms, hardware, software, firmware, logic, or circuitry may be configured to process data and sensory input to determine whether an object external to an autonomous vehicle (e.g., another vehicle, a pedestrian, road debris, a bicyclist, etc.) may be a potential collision threat to the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle may be configured to implement interior active safety systems to protect passengers of the autonomous vehicle during a collision with an object or during evasive maneuvers by the autonomous vehicle, for example. The interior active safety systems may be configured to provide passengers with notice of an impending collision and/or emergency maneuvers by the vehicle by tensioning seat belts prior to executing an evasive maneuver and/or prior to a predicted point of collision.
US11099573B2
Performance anomalies in complex systems can be difficult to identify and diagnose. In an example, latency associated with one or more of the systems can be determined. An anomalous event can be determined based on the determined latency. In some examples, based at least in part on determining the event, the system may be controlled in a safe state and/or reconfigured to obviate the anomaly.
US11099569B2
Systems and methods for determining object prioritization and predicting future object locations for an autonomous vehicle are provided. A method can include obtaining, by a computing system comprising one or more processors, state data descriptive of at least a current or past state of a plurality of objects that are perceived by an autonomous vehicle. The method can further include determining, by the computing system, a priority classification for each object in the plurality of objects based at least in part on the respective state data for each object. The method can further include determining, by the computing system, an order at which the computing system determines a predicted future state for each object based at least in part on the priority classification for each object and determining, by the computing system, the predicted future state for each object based at least in part on the determined order.
US11099565B2
A method for providing personal stowage using a highly or fully automatically operated vehicle includes receiving a request signal, which includes information about a desired provisioning location for providing a personal stowage, ascertaining the location of the requested personal stowage, and transmitting a provisioning signal to an automatically operated vehicle for providing the personal stowage at the provisioning location using the automatically operated vehicle.
US11099558B2
In various examples, at least partial control of a vehicle may be transferred to a control system remote from the vehicle. Sensor data may be received from a sensor(s) of the vehicle and the sensor data may be encoded to generate encoded sensor data. The encoded sensor data may be transmitted to the control system for display on a virtual reality headset of the control system. Control data may be received by the vehicle and from the control system that may be representative of a control input(s) from the control system, and actuation by an actuation component(s) of the vehicle may be caused based on the control input.
US11099557B2
This invention is directed toward a method by which a user desiring drone footage from a location can hire a drone owner near that location to set up the drone for remote control flight at the location. The user and owner can agree to a set of parameters prior to the flight which determine the environmental conditions under which the flight can take place, the duration of the flight, any safety protocols the parties agree to, etc. One the parameters are met, the drone owner takes the drone to the location, the user remotely connects to the drone and flies the drone subject to the parameters, then downloads the footage taken by the drone during the flight.
US11099556B2
An example system for racing aircraft systems includes: a plurality of autonomous synchronized unmanned aircraft systems configured to form a swarm at a race course through which the aircraft systems are to navigate; and a controller configured to be operatively coupled to at least one unmanned aircraft system of the swarm, the controller configured to control the swarm to form an element of the race course.
US11099547B2
A communication device for control interaction between operating electronics and an actuator to set a process fluid flow of a process-engineering plant can include a first communication interface configured to receive electrical signals from the operating electronics, a second communication interface configured to provide electrical actuator commands to the actuator, and a permissibility processor having a data memory that stores permissible actuator commands, the permissibility processor being configured to cause the second communication interface to provide one of the permissible actuator commands to the actuator based on an electrical signal of the electrical signals received via the first communication interface.
US11099540B2
A system of household appliances is configured to provide services according to user identity. The system includes a first appliance, a server or other network device, and a second appliance. The first appliance is configured to collect sensor data associated with an identity of a user. The server or other network device is configured to receive the sensor data from the first appliance and analyze the sensor data to determine the identity of the user. The second appliance is configured to provide a device function to the user based on the identity determined from the sensor data collected by the first appliance.
US11099539B2
Apparatus, methods, and systems implementing multi-sensor agent devices are described herein. The agent devices can each include a plurality of sensors for measuring parameters of interest to an entity such as an electric power utility. The sensors can be organized in individually-IP-addressable sensor clusters, with each sensor cluster including an associated microcontroller. The agent devices can be controlled by a control center of the entity to operate in a coordinated manner, such as to gather and transmit data regarding parameters of interest. The agent devices can be transported to desired areas for data collection by unmanned aerial systems such as drones, and the collected data can be stored in a distributed blockchain ledger.
US11099537B2
Systems and methods are directed controlling components of a utility grid. The system can receive signals. The system can determine one or more statistical metrics based on the signals. The system can generate an input matrix. The system can input the input matrix into a machine learning model. The system can predict, based on the input matrix and via the machine learning model, the value for the signal of the utility grid at a time period for which the value is not provided in the input matrix. The system can provide a command to control a component of the utility grid responsive to the value for the signal of the utility grid predicted by the machine learning model.
US11099533B2
Methods and systems are described for controlling parameters in a building. According to at least one embodiment, a method for controlling a building system includes using at least one sensor to detect occupancy in a building over time, determining a predictive schedule based on the occupancy detected with the at least one sensor, and associate real time events that occur simultaneously with an occupancy state of the predictive schedule.
US11099532B2
Predictor variables that affect production or consumption of a resource are sampled at a plurality of times within a time period and aggregated to generate an aggregated value for each predictor variable over the time period. A model is generated which estimates the production or consumption in terms of the predictor variables. A regression process is performed to generate values for a plurality of regression coefficients in the model based on a cumulative production or consumption of the resource for the time period and the aggregated values. The sampled values of the predictor variables are then applied as inputs to the model to estimate productions or consumptions of the resource at each of the plurality of times. The estimated productions or consumptions may be used as inputs to a controller that operates equipment.
US11099531B2
A method of controlling an operation of a mechanical transmission system includes receiving motor-load data corresponding to the mechanical transmission system. The method further includes receiving, by a digital motor unit, one or more motor input parameters and generating motor parameter estimates of one or more of the plurality of motor parameters. The method also includes receiving, by a digital load unit, one or more motor parameter estimates from the digital motor unit and generating load parameter estimates corresponding to one or more load parameters. The digital motor unit and the digital load unit is a real-time operational model of the motor unit and the load unit respectively. The method also includes controlling the operation of the mechanical transmission system based on one or more of the motor-load data, motor parameter estimates and load parameter estimates.
US11099528B2
Real-time dynamic optimization of a process model in an online model-based process control computing environment. A mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) solver utilizes grouping of first-principle model units to implement constraints of the underlying process. A group identifier parameter and a group complement parameter enable the grouping behavior through association with the first-principles model units.
US11099508B2
An image forming apparatus, including: a dividing the image data into regions including pixels; an obtaining a first ratio by dividing a total number of the pixels included in groups, the pixels having a density equal to or higher than a predetermined value and arranged consecutively in a predetermined direction, by a total number of the pixels having the density and included in each of the regions; an obtaining a second ratio by dividing the total number of pixels having the density and included in each of the regions by a total number of the pixels included in each of the regions; a determining a target temperature for maintaining a temperature of a fixing portion based on the first and second ratios; and a controlling power to be supplied to the fixing portion so that the fixing portion is maintained at the target temperature.
US11099504B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a transfer member, a voltage source, a current detecting portion, and a controller. When the recording material passes through the transfer portion, the controller is capable of changing the predetermined voltage on the basis of a detection result of said current detecting portion so that the detection result of the current detecting portion falls within a predetermined range. A maximum changeable amount per once of the predetermined voltage is larger when a leading end portion of the recording material with respect to a recording material feeding direction passes through the transfer portion than when a central portion of the recording material with respect to the recording material feeding direction passes through the transfer portion.
US11099502B2
An apparatus and methods of decorating a metallic container are provided. More specifically, the present invention relates to apparatus and methods used to provide a decoration or indicia on a predetermined portion of an outer surface of a metallic container body. The decorator includes at least one digital print unit, a transfer blanket, and a support element. The digital print unit transfers a decorating material to the transfer blanket to form a decoration on the transfer blanket. The support element then moves a metallic container into contact with the transfer blanket. In this manner, the decorating material is transferred to an exterior surface portion of the metallic container to decorate the metallic container. In one embodiment, the digital print unit is an electrophotographic system which transfers a toner material to the transfer blanket. In another embodiment, the digital print unit includes an inkjet print head which transfers an ink to the transfer blanket. Optionally, the decorator may include two or more support elements.
US11099491B2
The present invention provides an imprint apparatus which forms a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate by using a mold, the apparatus comprising: a driver configured to drive the mold and the substrate relatively; a measurement device configured to measure a relative position between the mold and the substrate; and a controller configured to, in alignment between the mold and the substrate, control the driver based on a signal obtained by combining, with a first signal according to a deviation between the relative position measured by the measurement device and a target relative position, second signals with time intervals therebetween and that momentarily increase a driving force of the driver.
US11099486B2
A technique to generate predicted data for control or monitoring of a production process to improve a parameter of interest. Context data associated with operation of the production process is obtained. Metrology/testing is performed on the product of the production process, thereby obtaining performance data. A context-to-performance model is provided to generate predicted performance data based on labeling of the context data with performance data. This is an instance of semi-supervised learning. The context-to-performance model may include the learner that performs semi-supervised labeling. The context-to-performance model is modified using prediction information related to quality of the context data and/or performance data. Prediction information may include relevance information relating to relevance of the obtained context data and/or obtained performance data to the parameter of interest. The prediction information may include model uncertainty information relating to uncertainty of the predicted performance data.
US11099484B2
A cost-effective method for repairing reflective optical elements for EUV lithography. These optical elements (60) have a substrate (61) and a coating (62) that reflects at a working wavelength in the range between 5 nm and 20 nm and is damaged as a result of formation of hydrogen bubbles. The method includes: localizing a damaged area (63, 64, 65, 66) in the coating (62) and covering the damaged area (63, 64, 65, 66) with one or more materials having low hydrogen permeability by applying a cover element to the damaged area. The cover element is formed of a surface structure, a convex or concave surface, or a coating corresponding to the coating of the reflective optical element, or a combination thereof. The method is particularly suitable for collector mirrors (70) for EUV lithography. After the repair, the optical elements have cover elements (71, 72, 73).
US11099478B2
A photomask includes a translucent substrate and at least one main feature. The translucent substrate has a recessed region recessed from a first surface of the translucent substrate. The at least one main feature is disposed on the translucent substrate, and protrudes from the first surface of the translucent substrate.
US11099477B2
The present disclosure provides a photomask, including a substrate having a front side, an absorber layer over the front side of the substrate, a first patch layer over the front side of the substrate and adjacent to a sidewall of the absorber layer, and a second patch layer over the first patch layer.
US11099475B2
The present disclosure provides a display system comprising a retro-reflective screen having retro-reflective screen elements that reflect incident light. Each of the retro-reflective screen elements can include three intersecting planes. At least one of the three intersecting planes intersects an adjacent plane at an angle that is 90° with an offset greater than 0°. The display system can further include at least one projector that projects the light onto the retro-reflective, which light characterizes an image or video. The retro-reflective screen having the retro-reflective screen elements can reflect the light at a cross-talk that is decreased by at least 10% and/or an intensity that is increased by at least 5%, as compared to a retro-reflective screen with retro-reflective screen elements having planes that each intersects an adjacent plane at an angle of 90° without the offset.
US11099465B2
Enterprise communication display systems enable life-like images for videoconferencing and entertainment productions. Life-like images appear in a 3D environment where imaged people are visible through the use of specially configured see-through displays. Imaged people can also be viewed amongst a reflected foreground. A dual mode large high-resolution display is inventively configured for watching and working. Methods for enterprise wide deployments for corporate, healthcare, education, and government communications, including hotel properties and a property management system are shown. The invention further discloses an online production system for events. Further, a black void illusion is described and is applicable to numerous displays including event and live theater stages and movie theaters. Numerous inventive features are described enabling and advancing the black void illusion. Virtual stage lighting is disclosed for simulating stage lights and coordination of virtual stage lights with real stage lights for live and recorded performances.
US11099450B2
The present invention relates to an electrochromic device, and according to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electrochromic device comprising: a first electrode layer, a first electrochromic layer provided on the first electrode layer, an electrolyte layer provided on the first electrochromic layer, a second electrochromic layer provided on the electrolyte layer, and a second electrode layer provided on the second electrochromic layer, wherein it comprises a first auxiliary electrode layer and a second auxiliary electrode layer each provided on each opposite surface of the first electrochromic layer and the second electrochromic layer opposed to each other with the electrolyte layer interposed therebetween, and the first and second auxiliary electrode layers each comprise an electrode portion formed of a metal material and an insulation portion for insulating the electrode portion.
US11099448B2
A switchable backlight for a switchable privacy display apparatus comprises a collimated backlight arranged to provide two off-axis beams and at least one polar control liquid crystal retarder arranged between parallel polarisers. The alignment layers of the liquid crystal retarder are rotated with respect to the electric vector transmission direction of the polarisers. In use in the centre stack of a vehicle, in one mode of operation high image luminance and high image visibility is provided for the passenger while the image is invisible to the driver. In another mode of operation an image is provided to the driver with low stray light to the passenger for night time operation. In a third mode of operation both passenger and driver can see an image with high luminance and image visibility.
US11099446B2
When polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystal is driven by comb-shaped electrodes, a large electric field is generated near the electrodes, and electrostriction results in degradations in the switching speed of polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystal. This optical switching engine is manufactured by inserting polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystal between parallel plates on which are formed conventional thin film electrodes, followed by bonding a polarization grating plate thereto, and disposing or bonding two silicon wedges having triangular cross sections to the sides thereof so as to have rotational symmetry with each other.
US11099441B2
A wire substrate, a display device including a wire substrate, and a method of fabricating a wire substrate are disclosed. The display device comprises: a first base; and a first wiring layer disposed on the first base and comprising a conductive layer and a metal oxide layer stacked on the conductive layer, wherein the metal oxide layer comprises molybdenum (Mo), tantalum (Ta), and oxygen (O). The conductive layer includes a first metal layer on the first base, and a second metal layer between the first metal layer and the metal oxide layer. The second metal layer has a higher electrical conductivity than the first metal layer, and a thickness of the second metal layer is greater than a thickness of the first metal layer.
US11099440B2
Provided are a display device and an array substrate thereof. The array substrate includes a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array, wherein each of the pixel units comprises a light shielding layer, a thin film transistor, a touch electrode, a scan line and a data line, and the scan line is disposed in a first direction, and the data line is disposed in a second direction, and the scan line crosses the data line, and the pixel unit further comprises a touch signal line, and the touch signal line is at a same layer as the scan line, and two adjacent touch signal lines in the first direction are connected with the light shielding layer, the touch signal line is connected to the light shielding layer through a first via hole, and the touch signal line is connected to the touch electrode through a second via hole.
US11099428B2
Disclosed herein is a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a backlight unit emitting light forward, a liquid crystal panel disposed in front of the backlight unit and having a front polarizing film, and a diffusion film disposed in front of the liquid crystal panel, wherein the diffusion film includes a first refraction layer having a lens portion projecting forward, a second refraction layer disposed in front of the first refraction layer, a retardation member disposed at a front end of the lens portion, and a film polarizing layer disposed in front of the retardation member.
US11099413B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first basement, a first folding line and a second folding line. The first basement has a first area which is a display area including a display element, and a second area and a third area which are non-display areas and are adjacent to the first area. The first folding line is located at a border of the first area and the second area. The second folding line is located at a border of the first area and the third area. The first folding line extends in a first direction, and the second folding line extends in a second direction intersecting the first direction.
US11099410B2
A layered structure including a transparent substrate; a photoluminescent layer disposed on the transparent substrate and a pattern of a quantum dot polymer composite; and a capping layer disposed on the photoluminescent layer and including an inorganic material, a method of producing the same, a liquid crystal display including the same. The quantum dot polymer composite includes a polymer matrix; and a plurality of quantum dots in the polymer matrix, the pattern of the quantum dot polymer composite includes at least one repeating section and the repeating section includes a first section configured to emit light of a first peak wavelength, the inorganic material is disposed on at least a portion of a surface of the repeating section, and the inorganic material includes a metal oxide, a metal nitride, a metal oxynitride, a metal sulfide, or a combination thereof.
US11099409B2
Disclosed herein are glasses having an air purification function. The glasses include: a pair of glass frames inside which airflow paths are formed, and in which a plurality of air vents is formed in the sides of the glass frames facing the nose and mouth of a user; a bridge inside which an airflow path is formed, and in which a plurality of air vents is formed in the side of the bridge facing the nose of the user; a pair of temples inside which airflow paths are formed, and in which at least one air intake is formed in the rear side of a corresponding one of the temples; at least one high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter; at least one blower fan; at least one drive motor; at least one switch; at least one charging connector; at least one speaker; and at least one anion generation unit.
US11099406B2
A system, method and program product for delivering augmented reality content to a user includes a data processing system receiving data indicating the focal point of the contact lens user and delivering augmented reality content to the user via the contact lens at the focal point, the data including data regarding a shape of an eye lens. Alternatively, the data is based on a cognitively predicted activity of the user, the cognitively predicted activity being based on contextual information.
US11099403B2
A compact mirror-based three-dimensional (3D) display system with a polarizer between the viewer in a viewing space and a beam splitter. The beam splitter may be a half-silvered mirror, and the polarizer may be a circular polarizer that acts to cancel the undesired reflections including that of a viewer. A half prop often will be positioned between the beam splitter and the polarizer. The mirror-based 3D display system may also utilize additional components for creating effects that move in depth and that are in 3D. This may include rotation of the display (or its monitor or display screen) from parallel to an offset angle to allow displayed images to move toward and away from the mirror and not be locked into a plane parallel to and often abutting the mirror. The display system may further include configurations that provide a backdrop image behind the displayed image.
US11099400B2
A beam propagation camera has at least one beam-splitting optical arrangement (240) configured to split a beam, which is incident on the beam-splitting optical arrangement along an optical axis (OA) of the beam propagation camera, into a multiplicity of sub-beams, and a sensor arrangement (250) configured to detect the sub-beams. The beam-splitting optical arrangement has a diffractive structure (241) configured such that at least two of the sub-beams are spatially separated from one another on the sensor arrangement and have respective foci longitudinally offset from one another along the optical axis.
US11099395B2
A virtual image display device includes a video image element that displays an image, and a light-guiding member that guides video image light from the video image element by reflection and transmission at a plurality of light-guiding surfaces. Among the plurality of light-guiding surfaces, with respect to an incident-side light-guiding surface and an emission-side light-guiding surface that are adjacent to each other, and an opposing light-guiding surface that faces the incident-side light-guiding surface and the emission-side light-guiding surface, a thickness from the incident-side light-guiding surface to the opposing light-guiding surface is caused to be smaller than a thickness from the emission-side light-guiding surface to the opposing light-guiding surface.
US11099355B2
The present disclosure discloses a camera lens assembly. The camera lens assembly includes, sequentially along an optical axis from an object side to an image side: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens. The first lens has a negative refractive power. The third lens has a positive refractive power. The second lens and the fourth lens both have refractive powers. An object-side surface of the third lens is a convex surface, an image-side surface of the fourth lens is a concave surface, and a radius of curvature R5 of the object-side surface of the third lens and a radius of curvature R8 of the image-side surface of the fourth lens satisfy: 0.7
US11099353B2
An adjustable optical lens and camera module, and manufacturing method and applications thereof is disclosed. The camera module includes an optical sensor and an adjustable optical lens. The adjustable optical lens includes an optical structural member and at least two lenses, wherein each of the lenses is arranged in an internal space of the optical structural member. Along a vertical direction of the optical structural member, at least one lens is adapted to be adjustably pre-mounted to an internal space of the optical structural member serving as an adjustable lens. The side wall of the optical structural member is provided with at least one adjustment channel, which is positioned corresponding to the adjustable lens, so that an assembling position of the adjustable lens can be adjusted through the adjustment channel so as to align a central axis line of the adjustable optical lens with a central axis line of the optical sensor.
US11099350B2
A lens driving device is provided, including: a holder member; a first driving unit disposed at the holder member; a base disposed at a lower side of the holder member and spaced apart from the holder member; a first circuit board disposed at an upper surface of the base; a second circuit board including a second driving unit facing the first driving unit, and disposed at an upper surface of the first circuit board; a support member supporting the holder member with respect to the base; and a guide portion protruded from an upper surface of the base, wherein the guide portion supports the second circuit board. In an embodiment, a coil at the second circuit board and a magnet at the holder member may be assembled at a predetermined interval, such that reliability of the product with respect to performance of handshake compensation device can be enhanced.
US11099333B2
This disclosure relates to an optical fiber guidewire, an array magnetic optical fiber connector and a method for using the same. The optical fiber guidewire includes an optical fiber and an array magnetic optical fiber connector. The connector includes optical fiber magnetic joints disposed on the optical fibers and further includes an array magnetic connector mated with the optical fiber magnetic joints. The array magnetic connector is provided with a plurality of holes. The optical fiber magnetic joint includes optical fiber pins that can be sleeved around a periphery of the optical fiber. When the optical fiber pins are inserted into the holes, the optical fiber pins on both sides of the holes are paired to connect two optical fibers wrapped in the optical fiber pins, so as to realize a light transmission.
US11099332B1
An optical fiber connector module for coupling to a ferrule terminated to at least one fiber in a ribbon cable is provided. The optical fiber connector module may include a first connector body member for coupling to the ferrule, the first connector body member including at least one alignment component coupling section, at least one biasing component coupling section, and a first through-channel for the ribbon cable. The optical fiber connector module may include a second connector body member coupled to the first connector body member, the second connector body member including at least one biasing component coupling section, a second through-channel for the ribbon cable, and an open side spanning the length of the second connector body member providing access to the second through-channel for the ribbon cable.
US11099328B2
An optical coupler including a first surface intended to receive a light beam and a second surface intended to supply at least part of the light beam, and a lateral wall connecting the first surface to the second surface, the lateral wall successively including, between the first and second surfaces, a first concave portion and a first convex portion.
US11099326B2
An optical fiber array includes: optical fibers that each include a fusion part; and a substrate on which fiber grooves are formed along a longitudinal direction of the optical fibers. The optical fibers are aligned in a width direction of the optical fibers. The fiber grooves are aligned in the width direction. The fusion parts are disposed on the substrate. The fusion parts of two adjacent optical fibers are disposed in different positions from each other in the longitudinal direction.
US11099325B2
The present invention provides a polymer optical waveguide containing: a core; and a cladding having a refractive index lower than that of the core, provided around the core, in which the polymer optical waveguide has a core-coupling section where at least a part of the cladding is not present along a light propagation direction of the polymer optical waveguide and an application type removal film A provided so as to come into contact with the core of the core-coupling section.
US11099322B2
An optical fiber according to an embodiment includes: a core; an inner cladding surrounding the core and having a refractive index smaller than a refractive index of the core; an outer cladding surrounding the inner cladding and having a smaller refractive index than the refractive index of the core and having a refractive index greater than the refractive index of the inner cladding, in which a ratio of a caustic radius to a MAC-value (caustic radius/MAC-value) at a bending radius of 10 mm at a wavelength of 1625 nm is 2.70 μm or more.
US11099321B2
The optical fibers disclosed have single mode and few mode optical transmission for VCSEL-based optical fiber transmission systems. The optical fibers have a cable cutoff wavelength λC of equal to or below 1260 nm thereby defining single mode operation at a wavelength in a first wavelength range greater than 1260 nm and few-mode operation at a wavelength in a second wavelength range from 840 nm and 1060 nm. The mode-field diameter is in the range from 8.6 microns to 11 microns at 1550 nm or in the range from 8.0 microns to 10.1 microns at 1310 nm. The optical fibers have an overfilled bandwidth OFL BW of at least 1 GHz·km at the at least one wavelength in the second wavelength range. The optical fibers have a gradient-index core and can have a trench refractive index profile. VCSEL based optical transmission systems and methods are disclosed that utilize both single core and multicore versions of the optical fiber.
US11099316B1
A multi-branched light guide device for a light assembly includes first, second, and third braches each adapted to internally transmit respective portions of a plurality of lights rays along respective directions. The branches each include a respective outer surface adapted to internally reflect the respective portions in the respective directions. A trunk of the device is connected to the branches, and is adapted to internally transmit the plurality of light rays against the outer surfaces of the branches.
US11099311B2
The present invention is a sheet-like optical film including a release film, a first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, a polarizing film, and a surface protective film, laminated in this order; wherein a thickness of the polarizing film is 60 μm or less, and when a virtual center plane f is a virtual plane located at an intermediate position in total thickness of the optical film, a distance x (μm) between the virtual center plane f and the surface protective film, and a distance y (μm) between the virtual center plane f and the release film satisfy a formula x−y>−20. The sheet-like optical film of the present invention enables the release film to be easily peeled even if a thin polarizing film is used.
US11099309B2
A pupil replication waveguide for a projector display includes a slab of transparent material for propagating display light in the slab via total internal reflection. A diffraction grating is supported by the slab. The diffraction grating includes a plurality of tapered slanted fringes in a substrate for out-coupling the display light from the slab by diffraction into a blazed diffraction order. A greater portion of the display light is out-coupled into the blazed diffraction order, and a smaller portion of the display light is out-coupled into a non-blazed diffraction order. The tapered fringes result in the duty cycle of the diffraction grating varying along the thickness direction of the diffraction grating, to facilitate suppressing the portion of the display light out-coupled into the non-blazed diffraction order.
US11099307B2
An optical system including a first microstructured surface; and a second microstructured surface; wherein the first microstructured surface is aligned along an axis with the second microstructured surface is provided. An illumination system including a light source and the optical system is also included. A method of diffusing light is included.
US11099306B2
A Fresnel lens with Fresnel prisms having a first facet, called the main facet, and a second facet, called the draft facet, the draft facet making a draft angle to the optical axis, the draft angle being variable along at least one Fresnel prism, so that the draft angle is higher on one side of the lens than on the other.
US11099296B2
The invention relates to an RFID-type transponder for a contactless identification and wireless communication system, intended to affixed to a buried polymer pipe, comprising: an RFID chip; an electronic switching circuit coupled to the RFID chip; a first antenna coupled to the switching circuit, said first antenna having a surface covering a first portion of the external surface of the polymer pipe; and a second antenna coupled to the switching circuit, said second antenna having a surface covering a second portion of the external surface of the polymer pipe, said second portion being different from the first portion. According to the invention, the switching circuit is configured to: couple the first antenna to the RFID chip when the voltage captured at die edge of the first antenna, and corresponding to the magnetic field, by an RFID emitter is greater than the voltage captured at the edge of the second antenna; and couple the second antenna to the RFID chip when the voltage captured at the edge of the second antenna by an RFID emitter is greater than the voltage captured at the edge of the first antenna.
US11099295B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to a photoelectric sensor system having a transmitter and a receiver, and at least one aperture module configured to modify a nominal field of view (FOV) of the transmitter and/or receiver, such that an overlap between the transmitter and receiver FOVs is controlled. In an illustrative example, the aperture module may be a plate having respective receiver and transmitter apertures. The transmitter and/or receiver apertures may be aligned or slightly offset from respective transmitter and receiver optical axes. The transmitter and/or receiver apertures may have a specific size/shape/position that produces a custom predetermined FOV overlap. At least one registration/alignment pin may extend through the aperture plate, a baffle, and a lens module to control orientation. The photoelectric sensor system may advantageously (1) be more resistant to the “white card effect,” (2) increase maximum sensor range, and (3) control the shape/size/overlap of the FOVs.
US11099293B2
A system and method of evaluating a subterranean earth formation using a statistical distribution of formation data. The system comprises a logging tool and a processor in communication with the logging tool. The logging tool comprises a sensor operable to measure formation data and is locatable in a wellbore intersecting the subterranean earth formation. The processor is operable to calculate inversion solutions to the formation data, wherein each inversion solution comprises values for a parameter of the formation, and generate a statistical distribution of the parameter along one or more depths in the subterranean earth formation using the inversion solutions. The processor is also operable to identify peaks within the statistical distribution and select the inversion solutions corresponding to the identified peaks, generate a formation model using the selected inversion solutions; and evaluate the formation using the formation model to identify formation layers for producing a formation fluid.
US11099291B2
A transmission device of a submarine resource exploration system includes a transmission unit which transmits a predetermined transmission artificial signal transmitted in order to perform exploration of submarine resources in water using water as a medium. A reception device includes a reception unit which receives a composite signal of a received artificial signal representing a signal propagated to the reception device using water as a medium in the transmission artificial signal, and a self-potential propagated to the reception device using water as a medium due to a potential anomaly generated due to submarine resources. A signal processing device includes a signal processing unit which separates the composite signal into the received artificial signal and the self-potential.
US11099284B2
A radiation sensing device is provided in the present disclosure. The radiation sensing device includes a substrate and a plurality of semiconductor units. The semiconductor units are disposed on the substrate, and at least one of the semiconductor units includes a first gate electrode, an active layer, and a second gate electrode. The active layer is disposed on the first gate electrode, and the second gate electrode is disposed on the active layer. The second gate electrode has a positive bias voltage during a standby mode. The second electrode may be configured to have a positive bias voltage during the standby mode for improving influence on electrical properties of the semiconductor unit after the semiconductor unit is irradiated by radiation.
US11099283B2
A scintillator panel includes a substrate having a substrate main surface, a substrate rear surface, and a substrate side surface; and a scintillator layer having a scintillator rear surface formed of a plurality of columnar crystals, a scintillator main surface, and a scintillator side surface. The substrate side surface and the scintillator side surface are substantially flush with each other. In the substrate, an angle between the substrate rear surface and the substrate side surface is smaller than 90 degrees.
US11099275B1
A LiDAR point cloud reflection intensity complementation method includes: acquiring a grayscale image and an original point cloud of a same road surface using a calibrated vehicle-mounted webcam and LiDAR; extracting edge information of the grayscale image using a preset edge extraction strategy, to obtain an edge image of the grayscale image; preprocessing the original point cloud to obtain an original point cloud reflection intensity projection image and an interpolated complementary point cloud reflection intensity projection image; and inputting the grayscale image, the edge image of the grayscale image, the original point cloud reflection intensity projection image and the interpolated complementary point cloud reflection intensity projection image into a pre-trained point cloud reflection intensity complementation model, and outputting a complementary point cloud reflection intensity projection image. A LiDAR point cloud reflection intensity complementation system is further provided.
US11099274B2
Device for tracking a target, the device comprising an optical system and a quadrant photodetector, wherein the optical system is configured to project a light beam coming from the target at one spot on at least one of the quadrants, and the photodetector is configured to estimate a current position of the spot by weighting of light energies received by the quadrants. The optical system comprises an optical device configured, when the spot is entirely contained in only one of the quadrants, to enlarge the spot. The invention also relates to a tracking method likely to be implemented by this tracking device.
US11099257B2
A radar system for sensing object movements in a predefined target region is described. The radar system includes: at least one radar unit which includes at least one transmitting unit designed to emit electromagnetic radiation and at least one receiving unit designed to receive reflected electromagnetic radiation; at least one evaluating unit designed to sense object movements in the predefined target region and, for a sensed object movement, to decide whether the object movement is a sought object movement; at least one covering device behind which the transmitting and receiving units are arranged for protection; and at least one clearing device designed to remove deposits that adhere to or lie on an outer surface of the at least one covering device. The evaluating unit is designed to determine whether deposits are present on the outer surface or not and to decide whether the clearing device becomes activated or not.
US11099256B2
A device for processing radar signals is suggested, the device comprising: (i) a memory, which is arranged to store radar data and (ii) an accessor comprising a DMA engine, wherein the accessor is arranged to access data of the memory via the DMA engine, to filter the accessed data, and to forward the filtered data.
US11099255B2
A radar includes a transmitter antenna unit that includes multiple transmitter antennas arranged at first horizontal distances and first vertical distances from each other, a receiver antenna unit that includes multiple receiver antennas arranged at second horizontal distances and second vertical distances from each other, a transceiver that transmits transmission signals through the transmitter antenna unit and receives return signals reflected from a target object trough the receiver antenna unit, and a processing unit that derives information about the target object by processing the received return signals.
US11099254B2
An anti-collision radar device includes a radar mount for fixation to an outer peripheral side of a powerless trailer carriage, and a radar mounted in the radar mount for sensing vehicles coming from left and right sides. The radar mount defines a reference surface. The radar has a sensing surface. The extending direction of the sensing surface is intersected with the extending direction of the reference surface so that a predetermined angle of 30° to 50° is defined therebetween. Thus, the anti-collision radar device can expand the radar sensing range and reduce the visual field blind spot of the driver of the car, thereby ensuring the safety of the car when towing the powerless trailer carriage.
US11099246B2
A medical image diagnosis system according to one embodiment includes a gantry, a couch, a reflecting plate, and a processing circuitry. The gantry is for medical imaging having a bore. The couch movably supports a top plate. The reflecting plate reflects an image output from an image output device. The processing circuitry, in a first case where the image is shown to an observer not through the reflecting plate, outputs a first image signal relating to a first image to the image output device. While in a second case where the image is shown to the observer through the reflecting plate, The processing circuitry outputs a second image signal relating to a second image to the image output device.
US11099242B2
The present invention relates to a device (1) for measuring a magnetic field (B) and/or an electric field (E) comprising:—a measurement cell (3) enclosing a gas that is sensitive to the Zeeman effect and/or to the Stark effect, a polarised light source (7) the wavelength of which is tuned to an absorption line of the gas that is sensitive to the Zeeman effect and/or to the Stark effect,—at least one polarimetry system (11) configured to measure a first parameter corresponding to the rotation by a polarisation angle caused by the passage of the beam (9) through the measurement cell (3) enclosing a gas that is sensitive to the Zeeman effect and/or to the Stark effect,—a system (13) for measuring absorption, configured to measure a second parameter corresponding to the absorption of the beam (9) by the gas that is sensitive to the Zeeman effect and/or to the Stark effect in the measurement cell (3), and a processing unit (15) configured to combine the measurement of the first parameter corresponding to the rotation by the polarisation angle and the absorption measurement in order to extract therefrom a third and/or fourth parameter corresponding respectively to an electric field (E) and/or a magnetic field (B) to be measured.
US11099239B2
A measuring device includes: a sensor arrangement; and an insulating support for use in an electric switching device. The sensor arrangement includes at least a sensor for measuring at least one of a current strength and a voltage of an electric current flowing through an electric path. The insulating support includes a sleeve comprised of electrically insulating material, the sleeve enclosing a space enclosing the electric path. The sensor arrangement is arranged on an outer side of the sleeve.
US11099228B2
Presented embodiments facilitate efficient and effective access to a device under test. In one embodiment, a test system comprises: a primitive configured to control testing of a device under test (DUT) and a device interface board (DIB). The device interface board comprises: a loadboard, an environmental control component and a device under test access interface. The loadboard is configured to selectively couple with a device under test and a primitive. The environmental control component is configured to control environmental conditions. The device under test access interface is configured to allow robotic manipulation of the device under test. The manipulation can include selectively coupling the device under test to the loadboard. The device under test access interface can be configured to enable unobstructed access for robotic manipulation of the device under test.
US11099224B2
Performance measuring circuitry, for determining relative operational performance attributes of different types of a class of semiconductor component disposed on a semiconductor die, includes a first oscillator circuit including a plurality of first circuit element modules having a first circuit topology. The first oscillator circuit provides a first performance indication indicative of a collective performance attribute of all types of components in the class. A second oscillator circuit separate from the first oscillator circuit includes a plurality of second circuit element modules having a second circuit topology, and provides a second performance indication responsive to different contributions from different types of components in the class. A comparison circuit receives outputs of the first and second oscillator circuits and determines the relative performance characteristic of the different types of components. Dice may be binned according to performance, for use in assembly of operational circuits with different performance characteristics.
US11099218B2
A current sensor includes a magnetic sensor, a magnetic sensor, a first calculator, a second calculator, and an output. The first magnetic sensor senses a magnetic field to generate a first sensor signal and a second sensor signal. The second magnetic sensor senses a magnetic field having a phase opposite to that of the magnetic field sensed by the first magnetic sensor in accordance with the current to generate a third sensor signal and a fourth sensor signal. The first calculator receives the first sensor signal and the third sensor signal to generate a first arithmetic signal. The second calculator receives the second sensor signal and the fourth sensor signal to generate a second arithmetic signal. The output receives the first arithmetic signal and the second arithmetic signal and generates an output signal based on the respective signals that are input.
US11099214B2
A sensor for a separable connector includes a plug body, one or more high voltage capacitors, one or more low voltage capacitors, and a low voltage connection. The plug body includes an insulating resin. The plug body can be inserted into the separable connector to encase a high voltage conductor disposed in the separable connector. The one or more high voltage capacitors are encased by the insulating resin and can be electrically coupled to the separable connector at a first end portion when the plug body is inserted. The one or more low voltage capacitors are electrically coupled in series to the one or more high voltage capacitors to form a capacitive voltage divider. The low voltage connection provides a low voltage signal corresponding to a high voltage signal present in the separable connector. Signal conditioning electronics or a memory may also be included.
US11099211B1
The various embodiments described herein include methods for testing low temperature components. In some embodiments, a cryogenic testing system includes: (1) a cryostat chamber configured to maintain a sample at temperatures below a threshold temperature, where the sample includes a two-dimensional array of components to be tested, the two-dimensional array comprising a first number (n) of columns and a second number (m) of rows; (2) a probe card including: (a) a set of n column connectors configured to couple to respective columns of the two-dimensional array; and (b) a set of m row connectors configured to couple to respective rows of the two-dimensional array; and (3) a cryogenic connector for communicatively coupling the probe card to a processing unit outside of the cryostat chamber.
US11099210B2
A method of carrying out sub-resonant tapping in an atomic force microscope includes causing a probe that is disposed above a sample to be translated in a direction parallel to a horizontal plane defined by the sample and to oscillate in a vertical direction that is perpendicular to the horizontal plane about an equilibrium line that is separated from the horizontal plane by a vertical offset. As a result, the probe repeatedly taps a surface of the sample. Each tap begins with a first contact of the probe on the surface followed by a progressive increase in force exerted by the sample on the probe until a peak force is attained. The vertical offset is controlled by relying at least in part on a feature other than the peak force as a basis for controlling the vertical offset.
US11099207B2
Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) accelerometers are described. The MEMS accelerometers may include multiple proof mass portions collectively forming one proof mass. The entirety of the proof mass may contribute to detection of in-plane acceleration and out-of-plane acceleration. The MEMS accelerometers may detect in-plane and out-of-plane acceleration in a differential fashion. In response to out-of-plane accelerations, some MEMS accelerometers may experience butterfly modes, where one proof mass portion rotates counterclockwise relative to an axis while at the same time another proof mass portion rotates clockwise relative to the same axis. In response to in-plane acceleration, the proof mass portions may experience common translational modes, where the proof mass portions move in the plane along the same direction.
US11099203B2
Automated pipetting systems and methods are disclosed for aspirating and dispensing fluids, particularly biological samples. In one aspect, a liquid dispenser includes a manifold and one or more pipette channels. The manifold includes a vacuum channel, a pressure channel, and a plurality of lanes. Each lane includes an electrical connector, a port to the pressure channel, and a port to the vacuum channel. The pipette channels can be modular. Each pipette channel includes a single dispense head and can be selectively and independently coupled to any one lane of the plurality of lanes. In some aspects, a valve in the pipette channel is in simultaneous fluid communication with a pressure port and a vacuum port of the manifold. The valve selectively diverts gas under pressure and gas under vacuum to the dispense head in response to control signals received through the electrical connector of the manifold.
US11099198B2
Methods are described for determining the amount of insulin in a sample. More specifically, mass spectrometric methods are described for detecting and quantifying insulin in a biological sample utilizing purification methods coupled with tandem mass spectrometric or high resolution/high accuracy mass spectrometric techniques.
US11099195B2
The present invention provides methods and systems to accurately detect and measure levels of endogenous antibodies, for examples endogenous IgA, to particular antigens in a biological sample from a companion animal, which is useful to diagnose inflammatory conditions, including bowel disease (IBD), gastrointestinal infections, and food sensitivities in companion animals, e.g., dogs or cats, and to distinguish among such gastrointestinal disorders. Such methods and systems identify whether a sample from the patient is associated with an inflammatory condition, infection, and/or food sensitivity condition, by using non-invasive means, thus conveniently providing information useful for guiding treatment decisions.
US11099191B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide: a method for predicting the prognosis for kidney disease for a subject on the basis of the amount of D- and L-amino acids, from a blood sample; and an analysis system that determines prognosis predictions. This purpose is achieved by using at least one amino acid to predict the prognosis for kidney disease, said amino acid being selected from the group consisting of D-serine, D-asparagine, D-proline, D-alanine, D-leucine, D-lysine, D-allo-isoleucine, L-glutamic acid, L-alanine, L-tryptophan, and L-asparagine.
US11099190B2
Fluorogenic sensors for a target analyte are provided. The fluorogenic sensors can include a water soluble light harvesting multichromophore and a fluorogenic dye covalently linked to the multichromophore and in energy-receiving proximity therewith. Aspects of the fluorogenic sensors include selective recognition of the target analyte by chemical reaction or by specific binding. In some cases, the linked fluorogenic dye includes a lactone or spiro-lactone group that is configured to chemically react with a target analyte via lactone ring-opening to produce a fluorescent dye configured for excitation by the multichromophore. Also provided are labelled specific binding members that include the subject dyes. Methods of evaluating a sample for the presence of a target analyte and methods of labelling a target molecule in which the subject fluorogenic sensors find use are provided. Systems, devices and kits for practicing the subject methods are provided.
US11099185B2
The invention is directed to the use of biomarkers to determine responsiveness of an individual with wet AMD to treatment with a VEGF antagonist, to diagnose and distinguish dry and wet AMD and to determine the risk of conversion of a dry AMD disease to a wet AMD disease.
US11099184B2
A manufacturing method of a protein sensor includes the following steps. A hydrophobic material is provided and the hydrophobic material has a surface. An atmospheric pressure plasma process is performed to form a hydrophilic functional group on the surface of the hydrophobic material. A first antibody is immobilized on the surface of the hydrophobic material by the hydrophilic functional group. A mixed solution is prepared. The mixed solution includes a second antibody and an analyte, and the second antibody binds to the analyte. The mixed solution is reacted with the first antibody immobilized on the surface of the hydrophobic material to bind the first antibody to the analyte. Furthermore, a protein sensor manufactured by the above-described manufacturing method of the protein sensor is also provided.
US11099179B2
The present invention relates to a device and a method for detecting substances which are present in biological or chemical samples, each substance producing an optically detectable signal upon reaction with a reagent. The device further comprises a sample carrier with at least two receptacles for receiving samples and is characterized in that at least part of the receptacle is equipped to receive at least 2 reagents each, and in that a camera for recording an image which shows at least one receptacle filled with at least two reagents for the detection of different substances, and an evaluation device for evaluating the samples which device is designed such as to evaluate each image by analyzing the signals in the image. Said method comprises the following steps: Introducing at least two reagents into one receptacle of a sample carrier, and optionally immobilizing the reagents, adding the sample to the receptacle, recording an image by means of a camera such that the image shows the receptacle which is loaded with at least two reagents, and evaluating the image by analyzing the color spectrum of the samples in the image.
US11099172B2
The present invention provides cell-based assays, including high throughput cell-based assays, for identification of candidate therapeutic agents with the ability to inhibit microglial activation in vivo in response to different ligands.
US11099171B2
A communication interface apparatus is provided for use with a handheld medical test device. The communication interface apparatus is comprised of an attachment member configured to detachably couple to a housing of the medical test device, where the attachment member substantially overlays a rear side of the medical test device. The communication interface apparatus houses an infrared receiver, a secondary transceiver and a controller. The infrared receiver is arranged such that its input port aligns with an output port of an infrared transmitter in the medical test device when the attachment member is coupled to the medical test device.
US11099170B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, an apparatus comprising: a dielectric substrate; a plurality of membranes positioned upon the dielectric substrate, wherein each of the plurality of membranes has a first side and a second side, wherein each of the plurality of membranes has a pore disposed therein, wherein each pore extends through each respective membrane from the first side of the respective membrane to the second side of the respective membrane, wherein each pore is associated with a corresponding hole that extends through the dielectric substrate, and wherein each of the plurality of membranes is not in direct contact with any other of the plurality of membranes; and a plurality of electrode pairs, wherein each of the plurality of electrode pairs is in contact with a single respective one of the plurality of membranes. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US11099160B2
Lowering of a switching recovery rate is suppressed without degrading separating ability in a second analytical column. A multidimensional GC includes a sample injector for injecting a sample, a first analytical column for separating the sample injected from the sample injector into one or more components, the first analytical column communicating with the sample injector, a detector for detecting the components of the sample separated in the first analytical column, a second analytical column provided separately from the first analytical column, a switching device connected to an outlet side of the first analytical column and configured to lead the sample out of the first analytical column to the detector or to the second analytical column, and a temperature adjuster configured to adjust temperature of the switching device to a predetermined temperature independently of a temperature of the first analytical column and a temperature of the second analytical column.
US11099159B2
Reduced column loading of a sample onto a chromatographic column may be mitigated by excluding diffuse portions of the sample from introduction to the column. Systems and methods are provided for detecting and removing the diffuse portions from the feed solution delivered to the chromatography column. The systems and methods herein permit use of a single detector to detect and remove the diffuse portions and can accommodate a recovery/collection/recycling mechanism permitting reuse of removed sample from the diverted diffuse portions.
US11099149B2
A test element for electrochemically detecting at least one analyte in a bodily fluid is disclosed. The test element comprises at least one first electrode and at least one second electrode. The first electrode is designed as a working electrode and the second electrode is designed as a counter electrode. The test element comprises at least one capillary capable of receiving a sample of the body fluid. The first electrode and the second electrode are arranged on opposing sides of the capillary. The first electrode and the second electrode are arranged such that during a capillary filling the first electrode and the second electrode are wetted simultaneously and at an equal rate.
US11099147B2
Disclosed are a gas sensor member, a gas sensor using the same, and manufacturing methods thereof, and specifically, a gas sensor member using a one-dimensional porous metal oxide nanotube composite material having a double average pore distribution in which mesopores (0.1 nm to 50 nm) and macropores (50 nm to 300 nm) are simultaneously formed on the surface of a nanotube through decomposition of a spherical polymer sacrificial template and continuous crystallization and diffusion of a metal oxide and a nanoparticle catalyst embedded in an apoferritin is uniformly loaded in the inside and on the outer wall and inner wall of a one-dimensional metal oxide nanotube through a high-temperature heat treatment, a gas sensor using the same, and manufacturing methods thereof are disclosed.
US11099146B1
When the heading machine tunnels, a current generated by a current excitation source enters a coal seam through a movable cutting pick to form a stray current. The stray current collected by a backflow net returns to a negative electrode of a power supply through a transition resistor. When information such as the water content of the coal seam changes, the stray current and a potential difference across the transition resistor also accordingly change, and the coal seam water content information is converted into an electric signal. When the potential difference across the transition resistor is applied to two ends of a piezoelectric ceramic, the piezoelectric ceramic extends or compresses, and the electric signal is converted into a strain signal. A sensing optical fiber converts the strain signal into an optical signal detectable by a photoelectric detector. The optical signal is analyzed to obtain the coal seam water content information.
US11099143B2
A method of detecting an anomaly in a crystallographic structure, the method comprising: illuminating the structure with x-ray radiation in a known direction relative to the crystallographic orientation; positioning the structure such that its crystallographic orientation is known; detecting a pattern of the diffracted x-ray radiation transmitted through the structure; generating the simulated pattern based on the known direction relative to the crystallographic orientation; comparing the detected pattern to a simulated pattern for x-ray radiation illuminating in the known direction; and, detecting the anomaly in the crystallographic structure based on the comparison.
US11099141B2
A higher accuracy beam hardening correction with a low calculation load is performed with objects whose elements have a wider range of effective atomic numbers Zeff, thereby contributing to presentation of more quantitative X-ray images. Of two or more X-ray energy bins, two X-ray bins are selected to normalize X-ray attenuation amount μt in those bins such that one or more normalized X-ray attenuation amounts are obtained at each pixel areas. From reference information indicating a theoretical relationship of correspondence between the normalized X-ray attenuation amounts and effective atomic numbers of elements, one ore more effective atomic numbers are estimated every pixel area. Among the one or more effective atomic numbers (ZHigh, ZLow) and an effective atomic number (Zm) preset for the beam hardening correction, two or more atomic numbers are subjected to their equality determination.
US11099140B2
A system and method for X-ray computed tomography includes a robotic arm that moves an X-ray emitter around a subject in a curvilinear path and an X-ray detector that captures 2-dimensional views while the subject is scanned. Movements of the emitter and detector are coordinated such that the position and angle of the emitter relative to the detector remains substantially constant during scanning. A processor uses computed tomography to reconstruct an image of the subject from the captured 2-dimensional views. The robotic arm varies the pitch of the X-ray emitter during the scan to enhance the spatial resolution of the reconstructed image. The processor generates a projection transformation matrix based on movement of the robotic arm for each captured 2-dimensional view that is applied during reconstruction.
US11099139B2
A photolithography method includes dispensing a first liquid onto a first target layer formed over a first wafer through a nozzle at a first distance from the first target layer; capturing an image of the first liquid on the first target layer; patterning the first target layer after capturing the image of the first liquid; comparing the captured image of the first liquid to a first reference image to generate a first comparison result; responsive to the first comparison result, positioning the nozzle and a second wafer such that the nozzle is at a second distance from a second target layer on the second wafer; dispensing a second liquid onto the second target layer formed over the second wafer through the nozzle at the second distance from the second target layer; and patterning the second target layer after dispensing the second liquid.
US11099136B2
3D graphene optical sensors, such as microstructure sensors and nanostructure sensors. The 3D optical sensors include one or more graphene panels shaped to surround an interior, open volume. Graphene plasmons couple across the interior, open volume. The 3D optical sensors can have a polygonal shape or a cylindrical shape.
US11099134B2
An optical examination device is designed to detect properties of a semiconductor component. The device comprises a first illumination arrangement, a second illumination arrangement and an imaging device, where the first illumination arrangement emits infrared light onto a first surface of the semiconductor component, which faces away from the imaging device (camera). The infrared light fully penetrates the semiconductor component at least proportionally. The second illumination arrangement emits visible light onto a second surface of the semiconductor component, which faces the imaging device. The imaging device is designed and arranged to detect the light spectrum emitted from both the first and the second illumination arrangement, and as a result of a subsequent image evaluation on the basis of both the visible and the infrared light spectrum, to provide a separate image reduction for determining property defects or damage of the semiconductor component.
US11099129B2
Spatially resolved standoff trace chemical sensing using backwards transient absorption spectroscopy
A system includes a first laser beam including a pulsed laser emanating from the instrument propagates in the air, wherein the first lase beam is tuned to the wavelength at which a target chemical absorbs, its pulses bringing molecules to an excited state, a second laser beam used to probe target chemicals by transient absorption spectroscopy, wherein the second laser beam is pulsed or continuous, and a detector.
US11099125B2
The present invention provides an optical cavity for a gas sensor having a space defined therein, including: a first parabolic reflective surface formed on one wall surface in the space; a second parabolic reflective surface which is formed at a position facing the one wall surface, and is configured to reflect again a light emitted from a light source disposed at a focus of the first parabolic reflective surface and reflected by the first parabolic reflective surface so as to change a traveling path of the light; and a hyperbolic reflective surface formed so that any one focus of two foci coincides with a focus of the second parabolic reflective surface, and is configured to reflect the light made incident from the second parabolic reflective surface to change the traveling path of the light, and a value of c2−b2 of a hyperbola equation of hyperbola forming the hyperbolic reflective surface is in a range of 0
US11099123B2
In accordance with an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of obtaining a calibrated measurement of a sample using an integrating cavity, comprising obtaining sample spectral information by using the integrating cavity with the sample placed inside the integrating cavity, obtaining cavity-characterizing spectral information generated by using the integrating cavity with a standard object, and obtaining a measurement result from the sample spectral information by employing a mathematical process that takes the cavity-characterizing spectral information as input.
US11099121B2
The present invention is a cuvette assembly for use in optically measuring at least one characteristic of particles within a plurality of liquid samples. The cuvette assembly includes a unitary body made of a single type of transparent material. The unitary body includes a plurality of optical chambers for receiving the liquid sample, an entry side wall for allowing transmission of an input light beam into the respective liquid sample, and an exit side wall for transmitting a forward scatter signal caused by the particles within the respective liquid sample. Each of the plurality of optical chambers is separated by internal walls of the unitary body.
US11099119B1
An inspection system includes a base plate, an array of fixtures, a plurality of light sources, and a drive mechanism. Each fixture has a first portion rotatably secured to the base plate and configured to rotate about a yaw axis and a second portion rotatably secured to the first portion and configured to rotate about a pitch axis. Each light source is secured to one of the fixtures and is configured to direct light at yaw and pitch angles relative to the base plate. The drive mechanism is configured to rotate the first portions of each fixture about each respective yaw axis and to rotate the second portions of each fixture about each respective pitch axis to adjust yaw and pitch angles of each light source, respectively.
US11099111B2
A test coupon (1) for an ISO-standard-conforming test method for testing a material hardness of gearwheels. The test coupon (1) is designed as a two-piece test coupon (1) including a casing body (2) and a test body (3). The test coupon (1) being tested by an ISO-standard-conforming test method for determining a material hardness of the gearwheels.
US11099097B2
An apparatus for hydrostatic testing of items containing flanged openings and which items require periodic pressure testing, such as flanged pipe sections, flanged pipelines, flanged hose assemblies, as well as other flanged equipment requiring periodic pressure testing. The apparatus is clamp-like and is comprised of multiple circular plates that are designed and arranged to hold a blind flange against the flange of the item to be tested. One of the circular plates contains a circular cavity into which the blind flange can be stored when the apparatus is not in use.
US11099096B2
A pressure measurement tool secured to a rod arranged across a duct of an engine of an aircraft. A sheath includes two walls which bound a space receiving the rod, the space communicating with the outside by an opening extending over the length of the sheath, the sheath having a bay extending over the length of the sheath and cavities distributed over the sheath. For each cavity, an air inlet including a passage opens at one end into the cavity another end into the duct. A printed circuit board runs along the bay. For each passage, a pressure sensor in the corresponding cavity faces the passage and is on the printed circuit board. A unit is provided for processing and/or recording the data transmitted by the pressure sensors. It is thus easy to install and makes it possible to take a large number of measurements in the secondary duct.
US11099095B2
The present invention relates to a sensor, particularly a flexible pressure sensor and a fabrication method thereof. The invention provides a flexible pressure sensor which comprises a sensor body and electrodes. The sensor body comprises a first insulation layer of PET film, a first conductivity layer, an isolation layer, a second conductive layer and a second insulation layer of PET film from top to bottom, respectively. The electrodes are made from the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer connected with external circuit through any electrical wire. The isolation layer is a semi-conductive foamed polymer with adjustable conductivity/resistance. Both of the first insulation layer of PET film and the second insulation layer of PET film have the thickness of 4.5-120 μm with the surface resistance value of 1013-14. In the process method of the invention, the isolation layer is a foamed polymer with adjustable conductivity. When pressed, the isolation layer deforms, which reduces the resistance between the two electrodes and increases the conductivity. High sensitivity of the isolation layer meets the requirement that a tiny deformation is enough to have a large change in resistance. Hence, the pressure can be detected by computer data processing upon the relationship between any external pressure and related resistance value.
US11099094B2
A pressure measuring probe, in particular for use in an aircraft is disclosed. In one aspect, the pressure measuring probe includes at least one acquisition tube, including a capability for discharging water and captured crystals contained in the atmosphere, where the discharge capability includes a drainage hole arranged in a rear partition of the tube, in the axis of symmetry thereof and in the flow direction of the flow of air.
US11099085B2
Fiber optic cables with improved performance for use in distributed sensing, for instance in distributed acoustic sensors, are disclosed. In one embodiment a fiber optic cable (210) comprises a core (208) and cladding (206) disposed within a buffer material (202) surrounded by a jacket (204) and arranged so that the core is offset from the center of the cable. By offsetting the core from the center of the jacket any bending effects on the core can be maximized compared to the core being located at the center of the cable.
US11099082B2
A sensor substrate includes an insulating substrate including a plurality of inorganic particles formed of an insulator in contact with each other and glass, and a wiring conductor disposed on the insulating substrate. The plurality of inorganic particles and the glass are in contact with the wiring conductor, and the glass is disposed at a position between the plurality of inorganic particles and the wiring conductor, and a contact portion between the plurality of inorganic particles and the wiring conductor is larger than a contact portion between the glass and the wiring conductor in a longitudinal sectional view.
US11099077B1
A background subtracted spectrometer for airborne infrared radiometry. The background subtracted spectrometer may comprise: a filter array, a detector, and a dewar containing liquid nitrogen. The filter array may be configured to selectively pass different spectral bands of infrared radiation. The filter array may comprise: at least one linear variable filter and a plurality of bandpass filters. The detector may comprise a focal plane array configured to receive the different spectral bands of infrared radiation simultaneously transmitted through the filter array. The detector may generate one or more electrical signals indicative of infrared radiation intensity as a function of wavelength. The filter array may be coupled to the focal plane array of the detector, and the filter array and detector may be conductively cooled by the liquid nitrogen to improve signal-to-noise ratio and spectral measurements. The background subtracted spectrometer preferably lacks a circular variable filter and relay lens.
US11099074B2
A molded piece set including two or more colored molded pieces having different compositions. One of the colored molded pieces and at least another of the colored molded pieces have a CIEDE2000 color difference of 1.0 or lower and a metamerism index of 1.0 or lower. Also disclosed is a computer color matching system, a database including color data sets corresponding to two or more respective colored molded pieces having different compositions and a method for producing the molded piece set.
US11099068B2
A system comprising a light source, and a retention device configured to receive and retain a sample for measurement. The system includes a detector. An optical path couples light between the light source, the sample when present, and the detector. An optical objective is configured to couple light from the light source to the sample when present, and couple reflected light to the detector. A controller is configured to automatically control focus and/or beam path of the light directed by the optical objective to the sample when present. The system includes a spatially variable filter (SVF) positioned in the optical path. The SVF is configured to have spectral properties that vary as a function of illuminated position on the SVF.
US11099065B2
A method and system, in an optical receiver, includes receiving a first photocurrent from a first photodetector and a second photocurrent from a second photodetector; amplifying the first photocurrent with a first amplifier to provide a first output signal and the second photocurrent with a second amplifier to provide a second output signal; adjusting a frequency response of a first path the first photocurrent and a second path of the second photocurrent; and determining a difference between the adjusted first photocurrent and the adjusted second photocurrent.
US11099063B2
Methods and apparatus (100) for profiling a beam of a light emitting semiconductor device. The apparatus comprises a light emitting semiconductor device (102) comprising an active region (108) formed on a substrate (104) and configured to generate light when a suitable electrical current is applied to contacts on an upper surface of the device and a light emitting surface (110) defined by a lower surface of the substrate opposite the contacts. The apparatus further comprises a transmission medium (112) comprising a first surface (114) in contact with at least part of the light emitting surface of the semiconductor device and a diffusion surface (116), opposite the first surface, and configured to diffuse light emitted from the micro-LED and transmitted through the transmission medium.
US11099062B2
An electronic device includes a device body, a screen, and a photo-sensing module. The screen is mounted on a front side of the device body. The photo-sensing module includes a light emitter and a light receiver. The light emitter is arranged obliquely relative to the screen, and a direction of the emitted light from the light emitter is tilted towards the side with the screen relative to the device body.
US11099059B2
A method and a system for noise mapping in buildings, wherein a communication device is configured for determining the current noise level of a location in the building by an appropriate sensor of the communication device, wherein the communication device is further configured to communicate the noise level information and the location data to a computer system; wherein the computer system is configured for collecting and analyzing the received noise level information and the corresponding location data, and wherein the computer system is further configured to provide a noise heat map of the building.
US11099052B2
A Time Domain Return measurement system for measuring liquid level, linear movement or other measurements which includes a first and second electrode, the second electrode spaced from the first electrode to define a gap, and an electronics assembly connected to the first and second electrodes equipped with a generator for transmitting an electromagnetic signal for propagation along the electrodes. The signal generator has a first analog timing circuit for actuating a slow-rising function of voltage versus time, a second analog timing circuit associated with the first analog timing circuit for actuating a fast-rising function of voltage versus time, and a receive circuit electrically connected to the electrodes, the receive circuit being activated for receiving return echo data associated with the electromagnetic signal transmitted when the fast-rising function is equal or greater than the slow-rising function to determine the position of the second medium with respect to the electrodes.
US11099049B2
A method for operating a measuring device having at least one measured value sensor for recording and forwarding measured values of a primary measured variable. To ensure a particularly high reliability and measuring accuracy, the recording of the measured value and/or the forwarding of the measured value is carried out in dependence on the operating state of the measuring device, recording of the measured value and/or the forwarding of the measured value being interrupted during a disturbance. The measuring device is wherein the measured value sensor is designed in such a manner that the recording of the measured value and/or the forwarding of the measured value is carried out in dependence on the operating state of the measuring device, wherein the recording of the measured value or the forwarding of the measured value is interrupted during a disturbance.
US11099047B2
A liquid observation device having a clear body structure 1C which is a disc-like shape which on the top surface has a thumb support member 1A that includes symbol indicator marks 1B thereon, on the opposite side of the clear body structure 1C a mechanical seal surface 2B having a mechanical seal 2A thereto, which has threads 3A extending from the mechanical seal surface 2B to the bottom of the said clear body structure 1C which located on the bottom surface at the center a phosphorescent tube. member 5 having a vent hole 4 at the top, which extends vertically down from the clear body structure 1C, toward the end has tube indicator section 6 that extends in a downwardly-inclined outwardly spiral. The device is attached to the liquid storage vessel 8 by engagement of the threads in a clockwise direction which define matching threads and turned until the mechanical seal 2A is tight between the seal surface 2B and the liquid storage vessel 8, the phosphorescent tube member 5 indicator section 6 provides light and is submerged into the liquid 9, which the liquid 9 enters the tube entrance 7, the air vents out of the vent hole 4 permitting the liquid to rise up the tube that gives the observer visual observation as well as the liquid level in the liquid storage vessel which is observed through the clear body structure 1C, and by which the claimed invention functions.
US11099046B2
To provide an apparatus for monitoring a fluid flow rate, which is capable of performing monitoring without a data deficit, and displays information on a trend of a past history. A monitoring apparatus accepts, from the flow meter, integrated flow amount data for every day-and-time section, and a current flow rate, and graphically displays, on the basis of the integrated flow amount data for every day-and-time section, an integrated flow amount corresponding to each day-and-time section, on the basis of the integrated flow amount data for every day-and-time section including the current day-and-time and for every another plurality of continuous day-and-time sections.
US11099041B2
An information processing device includes: a memory; and a processor configured to: decide an acquisition method of acquiring data using a sensor node; acquire measurement data measured at the sensor node and performance data relating to performance of the sensor node according to the decided acquisition method; determine a presence or absence of occurrence of an anomaly based on the acquired measurement data and/or the acquired performance data; and divide an appearance range of data values of the performance data into level ranges indicating a degree of quality of the data values and store the level ranges in a storage unit, wherein the processor is configured to decide a level range including a data value of the acquired performance data by referring to the storage unit, and decide the acquisition method based on a combination of the decided level range and the presence or absence of occurrence of the anomaly.
US11099032B2
A drive-sense circuit includes a signal source circuit and a signal change detection circuit. The signal source circuit is operably coupled to a sensor. When enabled, the signal source circuit provides a signal to the sensor. When the sensor is exposed to a condition, an electrical characteristic of the sensor affects the signal, which includes a DC component and/or an oscillating component. When enabled, the signal change detection circuit is operably coupled to detect an effect on the signal as a result of the electrical characteristic of the sensor. The signal change detection circuit is further operable to generate a signal representative of change to the signal based on the detected effect on the signal.
US11099031B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for calibrating the Zero Rate Offset (ZRO) of a gyroscope are disclosed.
US11099029B2
The present invention relates to a method for estimating the movement of a walking pedestrian (1), the method being characterised in that it comprises the following steps: (a) Acquisition, by inertial-measurement means (20) rigidly connected to a lower limb (10) of said pedestrian (1) and positioned in such a way as to have substantially a movement of rotation with respect to a distal end (11) of said lower limb (10) at least when said distal end (11) of the lower limb (10) is in contact with the ground, of an acceleration and of an angular speed of said lower limb (10); (b) Estimation, by data-processing means (21, 31, 41), of a speed of said lower limb (10) according to said measured acceleration and said measured angular speed. (c) Determination of a time interval of said walking of the pedestrian (1) during which said distal end (11) of said lower limb (10) is in contact with the ground according to the measured acceleration, the measured angular speed, and a moment arm between the inertial-measurement means (20) and said distal end (11); (d) In said determined time interval: calculation of an expected speed according to said measured angular speed and said moment arm; Correction of the estimated speed according to the expected speed; (e) Estimation of the movement of the pedestrian (1) according to the estimated speed.
US11099022B2
A vehicle reach area presentation device sets a unit area in which a start point exists as a start area among unit areas into which a region on map data is divided and extracts pieces of probe data including records of past travels within a certain range from the start area. The device sets the unit areas, including goal points recorded in the extracted pieces of probe data, as reach areas, calculates energy consumptions from the start area to the reach areas by using the pieces of probe data, and presents the reach areas to a user while changing display of the reach areas depending on the calculated energy consumptions.
US11099015B2
A management system that manages substitute parking service in which a substitute driver parks a vehicle of a service user, in place of the service user, includes a processor configured to generate path information indicating a path from a delivery location of the vehicle to a parking lot in which the vehicle is allowed to be parked, based on information indicating the delivery location, and information indicating a position of the parking lot, and the processor being configured to transmit the path information to a terminal of the service user.
US11099008B2
An image capture device assembly includes a light source that emits a reference light pattern, an image capture device, and a control device that controls the light source and the image capture device. The light source emits the reference light pattern to a subject with high brightness and low brightness, respectively, under the control of the control device. The image capture device captures an image of the reference light pattern and the subject in a high brightness irradiation state and outputs a first image signal to the control device. The image capture device captures an image of at least the subject in a low brightness irradiation state and outputs a second image signal to the control device. The control device generates a reference light pattern image signal from a difference between the first image signal and the second image signal.
US11099007B2
System and method for monitoring of performance of a mirror array of a digital scanner with a use of light, illuminating the mirror array at grazing (off-axis) incidence, and an optical imaging system that includes a lateral shearing interferometer (operated in either static or a phase-shifting condition) during and without interrupting the process of exposure of the workpiece with the digital scanner, to either simply identify problematic pixels for further troubleshooting or measure the exact magnitude of the deformation of a mirror element of the mirror array.
US11099003B2
Examples of a light field metrology system for use with a display are disclosed. The light field metrology may capture images of a projected light field, and determine focus depths (or lateral focus positions) for various regions of the light field using the captured images. The determined focus depths (or lateral positions) may then be compared with intended focus depths (or lateral positions), to quantify the imperfections of the display. Based on the measured imperfections, an appropriate error correction may be performed on the light field to correct for the measured imperfections. The display can be an optical display element in a head mounted display, for example, an optical display element capable of generating multiple depth planes or a light field display.
US11099001B2
An inspecting device is provided with: a radiating unit which radiates terahertz waves onto a sample laminated into a plurality of layers; a detecting unit which acquires a detected waveform by detecting terahertz waves from the sample; a selecting unit which selects a portion of a library representing an estimated waveform, on the basis of the detected waveform; and an estimating unit which estimates a position of an interface between the plurality of layers, on the basis of the detected waveform and the selected partial library.
US11098994B1
An arrow insert with threaded stem for retaining an arrow tip preferably includes an arrow tip and an arrow insert. The arrow tip may be a broadhead. The arrow tip includes tip portion formed on one end and a threaded tap formed in an opposite end thereof. An O-ring counter bore is formed in the opposite end. The arrow insert preferably includes a barbed shank, an arrow shaft contact portion, an end flange, an arrow tip locator, at least one O-ring groove and a threaded stem. The barbed shank extends from one end of the arrow shaft contact portion. The end flange extends from an opposing end of the arrow shaft contact portion. The arrow tip locator extends from the end flange. The threaded stem extends from the arrow tip locator. The at least one O-ring groove is formed in the arrow tip locator.
US11098990B2
The present invention provides ammunition cartridge having a two piece primer insert with a flange, a polymeric middle body extending from the primer insert to a cylindrical middle body coupling region, and a polymeric projectile end having a projectile aperture mated to the polymeric middle body.
US11098985B2
The invention relates to a decoy (3) for protecting a fast aircraft (1) against an incoming threat (2), wherein said decoy is non-driven. The decoy (3) has a squib (6) on one end and a molded body (11) on the opening side. If the decoy (3) has an active material container (8), the squib (6) can be attached to the end side thereof and the molded body (11) attached to the opening side thereof. The squib (6) contains a propellant, which is converted into a drive energy. The molded body (11) is heavier than the decoy (3) without the molded body (11) and has the task of preventing the separating of the molded body (3) to the rear. In addition, the molded body (11) should be at least 1.0-1.5 times heavier than the decoy itself. Advantageously, however, the molded body (11) is twice as heavy.
US11098984B2
A smoke generator and driver circuit (46) for controlling and powering a smoke generating canister (38), said driver circuit (46) comprising a power output connected to said smoke generating canister (38) for activation thereof. It comprises a charging unit (50) providing after a charging process sufficient power for igniting and driving said smoke generating canister (38), a switching unit (52) connected to said charging unit (50) and to a first pole (56) of said smoke generating canister (38) for releasing power from said charging unit (50) to said smoke generating canister (38), and a connecting unit (54) connected to a second pole (58) of said smoke generating canister (38) for allowing power to flow through said smoke generating canister (38), wherein activation of both said connecting unit (54) and said switching unit (52) during an overlapping time period is required for activation of said smoke generating canister (38). A method comprises applying a charging signal a charging input of the driver circuit (46), applying a control signal to a connect input of said driver circuit (46), and applying a trigger signal at a trigger input of switching unit (52).
US11098980B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for a modular weapon sight assembly. A weapon sight may include a base, an optical bench, an adjuster assembly, and/or a housing. The base may be configured to be releasably secured to a weapon. The optical bench may include a plurality of optical elements attached to a unitary component carrier. A relative position of the plurality of optical elements may define an optical path of the weapon sight. The base, the optical bench, the adjuster assembly, and the housing may be configured as separate modules. For example, the optical path of the optical bench may remain constant during adjustment and/or replacement of the base, the adjuster assembly, and/or the housing. A change in position of the base, the adjuster assembly, and/or the housing may not alter the relative position of the plurality of optical elements with respect to one another.
US11098979B2
A retaining mechanism for a holster includes a body (18) mountable to or integral with a holster, and a hood unit (40) rotatably mounted to the body. The hood unit configured for rotation about a first axis between a retaining condition in which it overlies a service item in the holster to prevent its withdrawal and a retracted condition in which the service item can be withdrawn. A hand-operable lever assembly (60) is rotatably mounted to the body and configured for rotation about a second axis. The lever assembly is operably engageable with the hood unit whereby rotation of the lever assembly effects rotation of the hood unit to its retracted condition and vice versa. The lever assembly includes a first, deflectable, portion (70) and a separate second, depressible, portion (80). These first and second portions are respectively selectively deflectable and depressible against respective first and second restoring bias forces to disengage the lever assembly from a lock formation (128) configured to lock the lever assembly against rotation and thereby the hood unit against rotation to its retracted condition. Also disclosed is a blocking element (160) moveable from a position in which it impedes or obstructs the lever assembly. In another aspect, a portion (150) of the lever assembly is releasable restrained between a portion (128) of the hood unit and a portion (110) of the body.
US11098978B2
A holster includes a hip plate and a shroud mounted to the hip plate. The shroud includes a channel adapted to receive a slide of a firearm, a slide block extending into an open portion of the channel and configured to abut a muzzle end of the slide received in the channel to prevent forward movement of the slide, and a locking lug extending into the open portion of the channel and configured to engage a chamber of the slide to prevent movement of the slide.
US11098976B2
Projectile carriers are provided. In one aspect, a projectile carrier has a storage area with a breech opening and a bolt opening aligned with the breech opening along a first axis, a plurality of projectile drivers positioned in the storage area are biased to move in a first direction within the storage area along a path that passes between the breech opening and the bore opening. A stop is positioned to stop movement of the projectile drivers in the first direction when one of the projectile drivers is positioned substantially aligned at the first axis. The projectile drivers have a block that prevents a projectile from exiting the bolt opening. The projectile drivers are sized and can be moved in a second direction to allow a bolt to drive a projectile along the first axis through the breech opening.
US11098968B1
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for a follower assembly comprising one or more dummy cartridges, the first thereof comprising an angled follower platform that when pressed between the follower spring and a final live cartridge in the magazine, rotates to a first side of the magazine and enhances follower interaction with a slide lock mechanism. The follower platform may also be angled back to front to further enhance this interaction. The follower platform may include a protruding heel extending laterally from a front portion of the first side of the follower platform configured to interface with the slide lock mechanism. A rear stop may extend from a rear portion of the first side and interface with a downward-facing surface of the magazine near the feed end, wherein contact between these two surfaces causes a front end of the first dummy cartridge to rotate upward.
US11098965B2
A radiator includes a radiator frame, an array of tube assemblies each including a coolant tube and a tube clip supported in the radiator frame, and a lateral bump stop fitted between the array of tube assemblies and the radiator frame. The lateral bump stop includes cushions arranged in a staggered cushion pattern complementary to a staggered packing pattern of the tube assemblies with each of the cushions in contact with the tube clip of one of the tube assemblies.
US11098962B2
An apparatus and methods are provided for finless heat exchanger cores. A heat exchanger core includes an inlet header and an outlet header. The heat exchanger core also includes one or more curved channel frames disposed at least partially between the inlet header and the outlet header. The one or more curved channel frames have a first end and a second end, and one or more fluid passageways that direct flow of a first fluid in a first direction therethrough from the first end to the second end. In some embodiments, at least one of the one or more curved channel frames includes a rounded leading edge and a tapered trailing edge.
US11098958B2
A loop-type heat pipe includes an evaporator configured to vaporize an operating fluid, a condenser configured to condense the operating fluid, a liquid pipe configured to connect the evaporator and the condenser, a vapor pipe configured to connect the evaporator and the condenser and to form a loop together with the liquid pipe, a first porous body provided in the evaporator, and a second porous body provided in the liquid pipe. A connection region between the evaporator and the liquid pipe includes a first porous extension part extending from one of the first porous body and the second porous body toward the other, and a space part in contact with the first porous extension part. A leading end of the first porous extension part is inserted in a first concave part formed in the other of the first porous body and the second porous body.
US11098954B2
A heat exchanger for transferring thermal energy between a first working fluid and a second working fluid. The heat exchanger has an outer shell that has a first port, a second port, a third port, and a fourth port. A set of tubes each extend within the outer shell and between the first and second ports, such that the first working fluid can flow in parallel through the tubes. A plenum space extends within the outer shell and between the third and fourth ports, and surrounding the tubes. The second working fluid is to flow through the plenum space. The heat exchanger has a central core region, a first transition region that extends between the first port and the central core region, and a second transition region that extends between the second port and the central core region.
US11098952B2
A grain aeration system facilitates thorough and efficient aeration of grain within a grain bin. The system includes a grain bin having a top vent and a bottom vent. A stand is positioned within the grain bin. A duct includes a loop section supported on the stand and an extension extending from the loop section out through the bottom vent in the grain bin. The duct has a duct wall and a plurality of perforations extending through the duct wall. A blower drives air flow out of the bottom vent creating air flow into the grain bin through the top vent and into the duct wherein the blower is configured to aerate grain positioned within the grain bin.
US11098950B2
The invention proposes a process and an air separation plant comprising a rectification column system comprising a high-pressure column, a low-pressure column, a main heat exchanger, and a main air compressor. The total air supplied to the rectification column system is compressed in the main air compressor to a first pressure level. The high-pressure column is operated at a second pressure level, at least 3 bar below the first pressure level. A gaseous, nitrogen-rich fluid is removed from the high-pressure column and warmed up in the gaseous state without prior liquefaction. A first partial quantity of the gaseous, nitrogen-rich fluid is warmed to a first temperature level of −150 to −100° C., supplied at this first temperature level to a booster and compressed further to a third pressure level. The first partial quantity is then warmed to a second temperature level and discharged from the air separation plant.
US11098942B2
The present invention provides a refrigeration device, wherein a chamber structure is provided with a refrigeration space, and further fitted with a return outlet flow pipe and a return inlet flow pipe. Cold from a cold source produced by a refrigeration chip passes through a temperature equalization plate or a heat conducting pipe to enter the interior of a refrigeration space. A return inlet flow pipe of the refrigeration device is inserted into a beverage and used to input the beverage to the interior of the refrigeration space for cooling thereof. The beverage is then output from the inside of the refrigeration space through the return outlet flow pipe into a cup. The refrigeration device thus achieves fast cooling of a beverage to produce a cold drink. The refrigeration device can be applied in medical treatment, beds, and clothing, as well as medical equipment to provide a cooling function.
US11098940B2
An ice-making container having a base and a freestanding side extending from the base to define a mouth opposite the base, and having a divider extending from the base and/or freestanding side so as to divide the container into at least two ice-making compartments. The container is a closable container via zipper members extending from the interior sides of the mouth, wherein the mouth is deformable between open and closed configurations and the first and second zipper members are disengagable when the mouth is open and engagable when the mouth is closed. The container may be molded from platinum silicone as a unitary whole without assembled parts. The molding process may comprise liquid injection molding, compression molding, or transfer molding.
US11098927B2
A distributor includes: a fluid inlet; a plurality of fluid outlets; a distribution flow passage which causes the fluid inlet to communicate with the fluid outlets, and distributes fluid which flows into the distribution flow passage through the fluid inlet, among the fluid outlets; and a plurality of heat-transfer-tube insertion portions each formed to face an associated one of the fluid outlets, the heat-transfer-tube insertion portions allowing heat transfer tubes to be inserted therein. The heat transfer tubes are inserted in the heat-transfer-tube insertion portions such that an end portion of each of the heat transfer tuber is connected to the associated fluid outlet.
US11098925B1
An end seal arrangement for a Parabolic Trough solar Collector, PTC, comprises an elongated parabolic reflector trough and a receiver pipe arranged at a focus-line of the reflector trough. The end seal arrangement comprises a housing configured to be fixated to one short-end of the reflector trough, and an inlay configured to be inserted in the housing to slidably abut a circumference of the receiver pipe, such that the reflector trough is sealed to the receiver pipe by the inlay when the housing is fixated to the short-end of the reflector trough and the reflector trough pivots about its focus-line. The end seal arrangement further comprises a fixation means configured to fixate the housing to the reflector trough. By reducing heat leakage and prevent ice, snow, sand, etc. from deteriorating the reflector, improved operational performance will be achieved.
US11098913B2
A communication rate between a cloud-based server and an HVAC controller located within a building may be controlled based on the amount of power available at the HVAC controller. The cloud-based server may notify a user if the amount of power available at the HVAC controller is determined to be low.
US11098911B2
Systems and methods for integrating a building management system communicatively coupled to a security subsystem via a communication network, in which the building management system determines occupancy data, with a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning subsystem that includes a scrubber unit communicatively coupled to the building management system via the communication network. The scrubber unit includes a contaminant filter that sorbs air contaminants from a surrounding environment when an elevated pressure differential is introduced across the contaminant filter; an inlet sensor that determines sensor data indicative of contaminant level present in return air received by the scrubber unit from an internal portion of the building; and scrubber control circuitry that selectively instructs the scrubber unit to operate in one of multiple regeneration modes based at least in part on the occupancy data and the sensor data to facilitate improving filtering efficiency provided by the contaminant filter during subsequent operation.
US11098904B2
An embodiment of an electric heating element is disclosed, including an electrically resistive inner heating element, an electrically resistive outer heating element, and a thermostat positioned along a cold leg of the inner heating element. The thermostat is configured to selectively allow electrical current to be delivered to the inner heating element while maximum electrical current, for example, continues to be provided to the outer heating element. The thermostat cycles the electrical current on and off when detecting maximum and minimum desired temperatures radiated from the electric heating element. The inner heating element has a pair of cold legs that extend parallel to a pair of cold legs of the outer heating element, some or all of which may be supported by a terminal bracket.
US11098897B2
A method of making a hot surface igniter is described. A silicon carbide composition that includes both fines fraction and a coarse fraction is sintered in a nitrogen and argon reducing atmosphere in a manner that controls the incorporation of nitrogen with in the lattice of recrystallized silicon carbide. The controlled incorporation of nitrogen in the lattice provides enhanced control over heating and electrical properties, while simultaneously achieving a lower surface area fully recrystallized structure for oxidation resistance and long service life.
US11098889B2
The contemplated system allows users to engage in a recording activity with studio quality light. Because the system is portable and easily deployable, the system can be carried to and quickly set up by the user in any location where the recording will occur. The system includes a lighting instrument that can be installed on the display with the web camera exposed. The lighting instrument includes a light source configuration that can reduce lens flare. The system allows for operation as a dock station when not deployed. The contemplated method allows users to operate the system. The method helps the user achieve the optimal light intensity and angle for the recording area with reduced time and efforts. The method may consider distance, ambient light, location of the subject and other factors in its determination. The method allows users to further adjust the intensity and angle if necessary.
US11098887B1
Encapsulated linear lighting with improved light diffusion is disclosed. The encapsulated linear lighting includes a channel and a long narrow strip of printed circuit board (PCB) with light engines disposed off-center on the PCB. The PCB is installed along a bottom inner surface of a sidewall of the channel so that the light engines are adjacent a bottom of the channel. The encapsulated linear lighting includes a covering that encapsulates and protects the PCB.
US11098881B2
A light-vehicle light attachable to a light vehicle, such as a bicycle, using a fixture includes: a first member including a light emitter; and a second member including a region fixable to the fixture, wherein the first member is detachably fixable to the second member at a plurality of selective angles including, a first angle and a second angle for vertical inversion of a light distribution of light from the light emitter with respect to the second member.
US11098873B2
The light device comprises a housing (1) covered with a transparent or semi-transparent cover (2) that delimit an inner chamber (3) inside the housing (1), a light unit (5) situated in the chamber (3) and equipped with at least one light source, a cooler (4) associated with the light unit (5), and a tubular cooling conduit (7) that passes through an opening (10) in the housing (1) into the chamber (3) to supply cooling medium (8) from the cooling medium (8) source installed outside the housing (1) to the cooler (4) and comprises a drive means (74) for forced flow of the cooling medium (8) in the tubular cooling conduit (7). The tubular cooling conduit (7) is connected to the cooler (4) in such a way that the cooling medium (8) does not escape from the tubular cooling conduit (7) and cooler (4) to the surrounding space in the chamber (3). Inside the tubular cooling conduit (7), one or more adjacent supply channels (72) are provided to supply the cooling medium (8) to the cooler (4) in one direction, and next to the supply channel (72) or channels (72), one or more exhaust channels (73) are provided to simultaneously discharge the cooling medium from the cooler (4) in the opposite direction out of the housing (1).
US11098872B2
A vehicle luminaire according to an embodiment includes: a socket; and a light-emitting module which is provided at one end side of the socket. The light-emitting module includes: at least one light-emitting element; a first transistor of which a source is electrically connected to a cathode of the light-emitting element; a negative characteristic thermistor which is electrically connected to a gate of the first transistor; a positive characteristic thermistor which is electrically connected to the gate of the first transistor or a drain of the first transistor; and a second transistor of which a collector is electrically connected to the gate of the first transistor, a base is electrically connected to the drain of the first transistor, and an emitter is electrically connected to an output terminal.
US11098867B2
A light fixture may include a light source assembly configured to generate visible light radiation of different colours, an optical device configured to process at least a portion of the light radiation emitted by the light sources so as to form a light beam extending substantially along an optical axis, and at least one beam processing element located downstream of the optical device and configured to selectively intercept the light beam. The beam processing element may include at least one portion movable between several positions. The light fixture may include a control device configured to control the light source assembly either on the basis of the position of a movable portion of the beam processing element or on the basis of a parameter correlated to the position of the movable portion of the beam processing element.
US11098861B1
A sun umbrella capable of emitting light in all directions comprising an umbrella rod and an umbrella disc. The umbrella rod is connected to an opening-and-closing device and is internally provided with a light strip. Circuit boards are fixedly assembled in the umbrella disc. The opening-and-closing device comprises light-transmitting tubes. Each light-transmitting tube is internally provided with a light strip, and the light strip is electrically connected to a power supply through a circuit board. The light-transmitting tubes are directly used as umbrella ribs. Copper-wire lights are arranged in the umbrella rod and the umbrella ribs and are directly connected to the circuit boards assembled in the umbrella disc, thus avoiding slotting process and achieving a simple assembly. The power supply is detachable and the power supply is stable and reliable. Through adopting the technical solution of the present disclosure, the production capacity is improved, and the cost is lowered.
US11098859B2
A portable solar light system is configured to move from outdoors during the day, wherein batteries are charge by photovoltaic cells, to indoors at night to provide lighting. A portable solar light system has a Sight fixture that has one or more solar light assemblies attached thereto. A photovoltaic cell is configured on a top surface of the tight fixture and the light projects light from the bottom surface of the light fixture, Sn addition, a light fixture has a top and bottom connector to allow easy placement of the fight fixture both outdoors and indoors. The top and/or bottom connectors have attachment features to allow a hook to be attached to enable the light fixture to be hung in a desired location and the bottom connector may be attached to a stand-base to form a floor lamp. An extension rod may be configured into the top or bottom connectors.
US11098858B2
A portable light includes a body having a first end and a second end. The body defines a longitudinal axis extending through the first end and the second end, and is configured to receive a battery. The portable light also includes a light head pivotably coupled to the first end of the body, a first light source supported by the light head, and a second light source supported by the light head. The first light source includes a spot light emitting diode configured to emit light in a direction substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis, and the second light source includes a flood light emitting diode configured to emit light in the direction substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis. The portable light further includes an actuator supported by the body and operable to selectively turn on the first light source and the second light source.
US11098850B2
A large volume natural gas storage tank comprises rigid tubular walls having closed tubular cross-sections that are interconnected at opposing ends with two other rigid tubular walls such that interiors of the rigid tubular walls define an interior fluid storage chamber. The storage tank also includes bulkheads positioned in the interior fluid storage chamber across intermediate segments of the rigid tubular walls and closure plates connected between exterior surfaces of successive interconnected rigid tubular walls to define sides of the storage tank. Interior surfaces of the closure plates and exterior surfaces of the rigid tubular walls define an auxiliary fluid storage chamber. The storage tank also includes exterior support structures extending through the closure plates and between the exterior surfaces of the rigid tubular walls on some of the sides of the storage tank to reinforce the storage tank against dynamic loading from fluid in the interior fluid storage chamber.
US11098846B2
A clip assembly secures a flexible material to a profile with a receiving channel. An exemplary profile is a pontoon fence rail. The clip assembly includes a clip bracket with a material connecting section and a profile connecting section. The material connecting section has an aperture, and the profile connecting section has a connection tab. A connector includes a shaft and a cap. The shaft is insertable through the flexible material into the aperture of the material connecting section. The connection tab is releasably engageable with the receiving channel with the flexible material sandwiched between the material connecting section and the cap of the connector.
US11098842B2
A mount assembly for a mountable device such as a laser unit, such as a hybrid point and line laser that projects a vertical plumb dot(s) up and down, combined with horizontal and plumb projected lines. The mount assembly including: a base, an X-axis linear actuator, an upright support, a Y-axis linear actuator, an extension arm, a Z-axis linear actuator, a support plate assembly, and a mount for mounting on the mountable device.
US11098836B2
The disclosed invention provides a device and method to detect leaks in pipelines and heal them instantly using twin ball technology. The device comprises two twin balls of novel construction inserted into the pipeline. The sensor ball receives acoustical data through internal sensors. Once the threshold of the sound level is surpassed, the smart ball will send a signal to the second flowing ball. The second ball will flow towards the leaking outlet and eject a healing fluid to close the leak and prevent further damage. The sensor ball will also alert the user to the size and location of the leak via Wi-Fi monitoring and text messaging. This twin balls technology could be used in pipelines of varying sizes and flow rates.
US11098830B2
A female coupling for a fluid quick connector and configured to be removably connected to a male coupling of the connector. The female coupling includes a valve assembly with a valve alternating between closed and open positions. The flow of a fluid from the female coupling towards the male coupling occurs in the open position. The female coupling includes a hollow body defining an inner cavity with a longitudinal axis for the flow of the fluid. The female valve assembly is housed in the inner cavity. The hollow body includes an end portion configured to be housed in a housing seat of an interface manifold. With the end portion in the housing seat, the tubular inner cavity is placed in fluid connection with at least one inner channel of the interface manifold. A constraint prevents rotation/translation of the end portion of the hollow body with respect to the housing seat.
US11098819B2
A valve device that greatly reduces man-hours for flow adjustment includes a valve body that defines a flow path, a valve element provided so as to be capable of opening and closing the flow path of the valve body, an operation member that operates the valve element and is moveably provided between a closed position where the valve element closes the flow path and an open position where the valve element opens the flow path, set in advance, in opening and closing directions that allow the valve element to open and close the flow path, a main actuator that moves the operation member in the opening direction, and a piezoelectric actuator for adjusting a position of the operation member positioned in the open position.
US11098815B2
There is provided a valve drive device including: a base including a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet, and a valve seat surface, at least one of the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet being opened at the valve seat surface; a cover configured to define a valve chamber; a valve element configured to open and close any one of the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet in the valve chamber; and a valve element driver configured to drive and rotate the valve element. The valve element driver includes: a motor; a drive gear configured to rotate together with a rotor of the motor; a driven gear configured to rotate, in a state of meshing with the drive gear, the valve element by rotation of the drive gear; and a power transmission switching unit.
US11098807B2
In a valve device, a housing has a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. A valve body is rotatably placed at an inside of the housing and has a flow inlet and a flow outlet. A sleeve is placed at the fluid outlet of the housing. A seat member is placed between the sleeve and an outer wall of the valve body and slidably contacts the outer wall of the valve body. The valve device is configured such that the fluid, which enters from the fluid inlet of the housing into the inside of the housing, flows from the flow inlet of the valve body toward the inside space of the valve body and is limited from flowing into a space formed between an inner wall of the housing and the outer wall of the valve body.
US11098805B1
A shuttle valve and a method of fabricating a shuttle valve. In one embodiment, a shuttle valve comprises a casing having a first and second inlet ports, and an outlet port. The shuttle valve further comprises a sleeve disposed between the first and second inlet ports, a spool slidable within the sleeve along an axial line and having a plurality of detent grooves, and a C-spring. The sleeve has a spring retaining portion that includes at least one offset groove that is offset from the axial line. The C-spring is disposed in the offset groove, and engages one of the detent grooves on the spool.
US11098802B2
A metal seal fitting for use on a pipe or pipeline includes at least one metal seal ring having a C-profile which houses a spring and is arranged concentric to, and outside of, a tap diameter of the access connection. The seal ring is double-curved so that it conforms to a pipe-facing side of the fitting. A surface of the pipe is prepared to receive the seal and, as the fitting is being secured to the pipe, the seal is activated and spring-energized. In its final sealing state, the seal is not compressed passed its deformation point and maintains its spring-back capability. After the fitting is removed from the pipe, the seal may be re-used. The metal seal fitting is suited for applications requiring a high integrity seal and can be used in high pressure, high temperature, and highly corrosive environments which are not well-suited for elastomeric seals.
US11098798B2
A clutch device may include an actuator and a clutch member. The actuator may include a clutch motor; a reduction gear mechanism; an output member to be operated by a drive force of the clutch motor; a support plate in which the reduction gear mechanism is disposed on a first face side and a connection part electrically connected between members is disposed on a second face side; a first case member which covers the support plate from the first face side; and a second case member which covers the support plate from the second face side. An end part of the support plate may be sandwiched between the first case member and the second case member and the outer case.
US11098795B2
A torque vectoring apparatus receiving a vehicle driving torque from a motor-generator may include a speed reduction device configured of reducing a rotation speed of a torque received from the motor-generator, a differential device differentially outputting the speed-reduced torque to two output shafts, a torque vectoring control motor outputting a control torque, a torque vectoring apparatus engaged to the torque vectoring control motor and including two planetary gear sets to control a torque ratio output to the two output shafts by the control torque, and a torque multiplication device including a first planetary gear set having first to third rotation elements and being mounted on one of the two output shafts, the second rotation element being connected to the torque vectoring control motor, the third rotation element being fixedly connected to a transmission housing.
US11098791B2
This invention is an all gear continuously variable transmission that is non-dependent on friction. It can me be used in high torque applications. It offers a steady and uniform output for a steady and uniform input. It allows a co-axial input and output thereby by using a planetary gear system the output can be made continuous from forward to reverse. This uses a “scotch-yoke” mechanism to convert rotational motion to a linear reciprocating motion. The linear distance of this reciprocating motion-“stroke” is changed by altering the crankpin location of the scotch-yoke mechanism. This reciprocating motion is converted to a rocking motion by using a “rack and pinion” and later converted to a unidirectional motion via a One-Way-Bearing. A set of non-circular gears are used to achieve a steady and uniform output. It employs a very simple mechanism to change the ratio between the input and output of the transmission.
US11098788B2
The present invention provides a curvature-adjustable backboard assembly and a curved display device. The curvature-adjustable backboard assembly of the present invention includes a curvable backboard, a slider-crank mechanism, and a first low-speed position-limiting electric machine. The slider-crank mechanism comprises a central pivot and a first rail that are fixed to the backboard, a first slider mounted to the first rail, a first crank that is rotatable about the central pivot as being driven by the first low-speed position-limiting electric machine, and a first connection rod having two ends respectively and pivotally coupled to the first slider and the first crank, wherein when the first crank is driven to rotate, the first connection rod drives the first slider to move along the first rail and during the movement of the first slider along the first rail, a height of an arched form of the backboard with respect to the central pivot at a location where the first slider passes may vary accordingly so as to allow for easy and efficient variation of a curvature of the backboard according to a desired curving condition.
US11098786B2
A vibration application mechanism including a vibratable part, a load sensor to sense a load applied to the vibratable part, a vibration generator to vibrate the vibratable part, and a controller. The controller makes a first determination as to whether a load sensed by the load sensor has equaled or exceeded a first threshold value; if the first determination is such that the sensed load has equaled or exceeded the first threshold value, the controller drives the vibration generator and makes a second determination, during a predetermined period, as to whether a load sensed by the load sensor has fallen below a second threshold value, wherein the period starts when the sensed load has equaled or exceeded the first threshold value; and if the second determination is such that the sensed load has fallen below the second threshold value during the period, the controller does not drive the vibration generator.
US11098778B2
An electric brake actuator configured to push a friction member onto a rotary body by advancing a piston by rotating an input shaft by an electric motor, including: a torque imparting device configured to impart, to an input shaft, a torque in a direction to retract a piston based on an elastic torque of a torsion spring and including a mechanism configured to allow a first retained portion provided at one end portion of the torsion spring to be retained by another one of a plurality of first retaining portions of a stator when the elastic torque exceeds a set upper-limit torque to decrease the elastic torque; and a mechanism configured to permit a second retained portion of a rotor to be retained by a second retaining portion provided at the other end portion of the spring to prohibit the elastic torque from becoming smaller than a set lower-limit torque.
US11098773B2
A brake caliper and a pad assembly may have a pad retention device securely attached to a brake pad. The brake caliper may have an actuation device of movement and application of a braking action, along a thrust direction, to the brake pad to abut it against a braking surface of a disc. The actuation device may have an actuation device seat having a seat opening, where the seat receives a retention device coupling portion of the retention device through the seat opening. The assembly may have a coupling ring accommodated in the seat, leaving a radial clearance, free to move in a radial direction and leaving an axial clearance, free to move in an axial direction parallel to the thrust device thrust direction and limited in its stroke so as not to escape from the seat during use.
US11098771B2
A method determines the travel of a clutch in a hydraulic clutch-actuation system. A hydraulic signal which extends between a transmitting end and a receiving end is acted upon by an acoustic signal for the generation of a wave packet. The acoustic signal on the transmitting end of the clutch-actuation system is fed into the hydraulic fluid, a wave packet generated by the acoustic signal on the receiving end is reflected back to the transmitting end, a running time of the transmitted and reflected wave packet on the transmitting end is evaluated to determine the coupling travel.
US11098769B2
A clutch mechanism switches a clutch to one of an engaging state and a released state by a piston operated by an oil pressure. The piston includes a first side surface portion configured to press the clutch, and a second side surface portion on which the oil pressure acts. The second side surface portion has an uneven shape in a circumferential direction.
US11098768B2
An inner disc carrier (LT) for a wet-type friction clutch (K0) may have a driving toothing including ridges (S, SX) and grooves (N) for the form-locking accommodation of discs (L) of the friction clutch (K0). Each of a first group of the ridges (S) has a first opening (A1) produced in a chip-less shaping process and a section (ST) extending radially inwardly at the first opening (A1) and created during production of the first opening (A1). Hydraulic fluid supplied radially from inside the inner disc carrier (LT) from a first axial position is guided through the first openings (A1) to the discs (L). Hydraulic fluid supplied radially from inside the inner disk carrier (LT) from a second axial position is guided past the discs (L). The sections (ST) of the ridges (S) act as a damming contour for hydraulic fluid supplied radially from the second axial position.
US11098765B2
An elastic short-pin type universal joint includes a first base, a second base, a jointer, a first elastic member, two second elastic members, and four short pins. The first base engages the second base to form a space therebetween. The jointer is received in the space between the first and the second bases. The jointer has a first bore passing through the jointer, a second bore, and a third bore. The first elastic member is received in the first bore of the jointer, and the second elastic members are received in the second bore and the third bore. The short pins are urged by ends of the first elastic member and the second elastic members to press the first base and the second base respectively. As a result, the first base is able to rotate related to the second base in all directions.
US11098763B2
An installation tool for a bearing ring including rolling elements includes a ring that is configured to be disposed on a lateral surface of the bearing ring and slider elements extending through receptacles in the ring. The slider elements are uniformly distributed circumferentially around the ring and are displaceable relative to the ring from an initial position into an end position and are configured to be disposed in the end position between two rolling elements and against a contact surface of a wall of a cage segment, which wall is disposed between two rolling elements, in order to limit axial and radial movement of the rolling elements relative to the bearing ring.
US11098760B2
The disclosure relates to a vehicle component with a bearing bush system for mounting the vehicle component on a fastening portion of a vehicle. The vehicle component includes a bearing bush which has an internal thread, and a bearing bush receptacle which is configured to at least partially accommodate the bearing bush, wherein the bearing bush is configured to be at least partially shifted in the bearing bush receptacle by means of an interaction between the internal thread of the bearing bush and a bearing screw, in order to enter into engagement with the fastening portion. The disclosure furthermore relates to the use of the vehicle component, and to a method for the mounting of the vehicle component.
US11098749B2
A vacuum suction cup assembly, including a vacuum cup, a vibration assembly, and a vibration shock absorber. The vacuum cup includes a skirt and is configured to be pressurized when placed against a surface to retain the vacuum cup against the surface in any orientation. The vibration assembly includes a vibrator; a vibration transfer plate on which the vibrator is mounted; and at least one vibration transfer blocks disposed on an opposite face of the vibration transfer plate from the vibrator, wherein the at least one vibration transfer blocks is configured and arranged to transmit a majority of the vibration forces from the vibrator to the surface. The vibration shock absorber is disposed between the vibration assembly and the vacuum cup.
US11098739B2
A bushing assembly for tubular structures is disclosed. The bushing assembly includes a body having a substantially flat configuration and defining a planar surface and an outer edge; and a plurality of projections extending from the outer edge and traverse to the planar surface, each projection defining a longitudinal axis, each projection including at least one ridge extending at least partially along a surface of the projection and along the longitudinal axis.
US11098738B2
A transceiver module is provided. The transceiver module includes a housing, a latch and a torsion spring. The housing includes a positioning post and a block. The latch includes a wedging protrusion. The torsion spring includes a coil portion, a first extending portion and a second extending portion, wherein the first extending portion and the second extending portion are connected to the coil portion, the first extending portion includes a first free end, the second extending portion includes a second free end, and the first extending portion intersects the second extending portion at an intersection point on a projection plane. A first area, a second area, a third area and a fourth area are defined by the torsion spring clockwise around the intersection point, the coil portion surrounds the positioning post in the first area, and the first free end is adapted to connect the latch.
US11098737B1
In some examples, a device includes a fluidic circuit may be configured to receive a fluidic input (and optionally a fluidic bias) and to provide a fluidic output based on the fluidic input. In some examples, the fluidic output may be a fluidic difference output based on a difference (such as a pressure and/or flow difference) between the fluidic input and a fluidic bias. In some examples, a device includes a fluidic amplifier configured to receive the fluidic difference output, and to provide a device fluidic output based on the fluidic difference output. The device fluidic output may be provided to a fluidic load, which may include an actuator and/or a haptic device.
US11098735B2
Devices for controlling movement of aerial buckets via hydraulic systems. Each hydraulic system has valves that control movement of the aerial bucket. A control head of the device has a joystick that is moveable and encoders that detect movement of the joystick. A valve actuator manifold of the device is coupled between the control head and the hydraulic system and supports valve actuators moveably coupled to the valves. Servo drive systems supported by the valve actuator manifold are coupled to the valve actuators and are controllable to move the valve actuators. A processor module of the device is in communication with the encoders and the servo drive systems. The processor module controls the servo drive systems based on input from the encoders such that moving the joystick controls movement of the aerial bucket.
US11098729B2
A method of modifying a compressor wheel includes forming a stake-receiving feature having a reconditioned surface on a radial face of an axial slot in a rim of the compressor wheel. The forming includes removing stake marks in the radial face. A gas turbine wheel assembly includes a gas turbine wheel rotatable about an axis of a turbine and blades. A radial face of an axial slot in the gas turbine wheel includes a stake-receiving feature having a reconditioned surface. Material displaced at the reconditioned surface by staking axially retains a blade in the axial slot. A method of mounting a blade to a gas turbine wheel includes staking the base of the blade in the axial slot by displacing material at a reconditioned surface of a stake-receiving feature on a radial face of the axial slot to axially retain the base of the blade in the axial slot.
US11098708B2
A hydraulic pumping system can include a hydraulic actuator with a magnet that displaces with a piston, and a sensor that continuously detects a position of the magnet. A ferromagnetic wall of the hydraulic actuator is positioned between the magnet and the sensor. A hydraulic pumping method can include incrementally lowering a lower stroke extent of a rod string reciprocation over multiple reciprocation cycles of the rod string, and automatically varying the lower stroke extent or an upper stroke extent of the rod string reciprocation, in response to a measured vibration. Another hydraulic pumping method can include solving a wave equation in the rod string, and automatically varying a reciprocation speed of the rod string in response to a change in work performed during reciprocation cycles of the hydraulic actuator or a change in detected force versus displacement in different reciprocation cycles of the hydraulic actuator.
US11098702B2
A liquid delivery device includes a pump head having a pump chamber provided in the inside, a plunger whose tip is slidably inserted into the pump chamber, and at least one plunger pump having a drive mechanism that reciprocates the plunger in its axial direction. Then, at least one of the plunger pumps is a pressurizing pump that pressurizes a mobile phase including a compressible fluid sucked into the pump chamber and then discharges the mobile phase from the pump chamber, and at least the pump head of the pressurizing pump includes a cooling part that is connected to an outlet channel from the pump chamber, and allows the pump head to absorb heat of the mobile phase discharged from the pump chamber to cool the mobile phase.
US11098699B2
Provided is a wind turbine having at least one lighting device, which has a light source and emission device, wherein the light source and the emission device are arranged at different positions of the wind turbine, wherein at least one positioning device is provided which, by a positioning section, is coupled to the emission device in such a way that the emission device can be moved between a first position and a second position by a movement of the positioning section.
US11098686B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a fuel injection valve that can be used in a gasoline engine and can take fuel into an injection hole with a small pressure loss near a seat portion on which a valve is seated. Thus, the present invention provides a fuel injection valve for a gasoline engine which includes: a plurality of injection holes; and a seat portion that opens and closes a fuel passage to the plurality of injection holes in cooperation with a valve. At least one fuel injection hole among the plurality of injection holes is configured in a shape such that an injection hole inlet has a long axis and a short axis, and the long axis is directed in a direction in which an extension line intersects with the seat portion.
US11098667B2
During operation of the engine for a time period from a system-on operation to a system-off operation, the vehicle causes the warming-up determination parameter to be subject to addition when an engine is not in a flow path heat release state where an amount of heat released in the supply flow path is expected to be larger than an amount of heat received in the supply flow path, while causing the warming-up determination parameter to be subject to subtraction when the engine is in the flow path heat release state and a duration time of the flow path heat release state is equal to or longer than a first predetermined time period.
US11098662B2
An engine system incorporating an intake manifold, a compressor, and a controller. The compressor may provide air to the intake manifold and the controller may be connected to the intake manifold and the compressor. The controller may receive a control signal and control air flow from the compressor to the intake manifold based on the received control signal. The controller may control the air flow from the compressor to the intake manifold based on a first equation when a value related to the control signal is on a first side of a threshold and according to a second equation when the value is on a second side of the threshold. The controller may control the air flow between the compressor and intake manifold according to the second equation to prevent the compressor from operating at a surge condition when controlling the air flow according to the first equation.
US11098660B2
Various implementations include drive systems and related methods of operation. In one implementation, a drive system includes: a combustion engine, where the combustion engine includes a combustion chamber with injectors for injecting a fossil fuel into the combustion chamber, a supply line for delivering a gas mixture to the combustion chamber, an electrolysis chamber for producing hydrogen gas and oxygen gas, and a vacuum pump for sucking the hydrogen gas and the oxygen gas from the electrolysis chamber, a gasification tank with volatile organic compounds received therein, and an air compressor for pumping air into the gasification tank, wherein the gas mixture comprises gasified organic compounds from the gasification tank and at least a part of the hydrogen gas and the oxygen gas.
US11098648B2
An inlet body for a fluid injector for a turbomachine. The inlet body includes a casing defined by an internal surface and a seal valve housed inside the casing. The valve includes a sealing member including an intake duct, and internal duct into which the intake duct opens, and a seat for the sealing member. The seat defines an opening over a fluid path towards the internal duct. The internal surface includes a recess which defines at least partially a chamber communicating with the opening and with the intake duct.
US11098638B2
A jacket cooling system for an engine of a locomotive is disclosed. The jacket cooling system may comprise a jacket coolant pump driven by a crankshaft of the engine. The jacket cooling system may further comprise a coolant jacket associated with one or more components of the engine, and a delivery conduit in fluid communication with the outlet of the jacket coolant pump and configured to deliver a coolant from the jacket coolant pump to the coolant jacket. The jacket cooling system may further comprise a bypass circuit configured to divert the coolant away from the delivery conduit and the engine, and an electronically-controlled bypass valve in the bypass circuit. The bypass valve may allow at least some of the coolant to flow through the bypass circuit when a valve position of the bypass valve is at least partially open.
US11098624B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of compacting an ash deposited in a particulate filter for a vehicle exhaust gas system, the method includes the steps of: a) providing a low-temperature melting salt to the particulate filter, thereby forming a mixture of the ash and the low-temperature melting salt: and b) heating the particulate filter to a compaction temperature, thereby compacting the mixture of the ash and the low-temperature melting salt. The disclosure further relates to engine oils, dosage products, engine systems and vehicles for implementing such a method.
US11098618B2
A press-fit member having a cylindrical shape is press-fit into a through hole formed in a vane. An advance-side lock pin and a retard-side lock pin are provided coaxially with each other inside the press-fit member. In the outer circumferential surface of the press-fit member, an advance-side lock pin-release oil passage for applying lock pin-release hydraulic pressure to an advance-side engagement groove and a retard-side lock pin-release oil passage for applying the lock pin-release hydraulic pressure, applied to the advance-side engagement groove, to a retard-side engagement groove are formed.
US11098614B2
A turbine housing for a turbocharger of an internal combustion engine includes an annular duct for conducting an exhaust-gas mass flow to a turbine wheel to be disposed in the turbine housing and an exhaust-gas discharge duct for discharging the exhaust-gas mass flow from the turbine housing after impinging on the turbine wheel. An insulating element is respectively disposed in a region of an inner wall of the annular duct and in a region of an inner wall of the exhaust-gas discharge duct. A turbocharger having the turbine housing is also provided.
US11098611B2
Techniques for mechanical calibration of turbine overspeed trip are described. An electric motor rotates a rotational electric motor shaft coupled to an over speed trip collar of a rotational shaft of an electric machine at multiple rotational speeds. The over speed trip collar is configured to trip in response to the rotational electric motor shaft being rotated at a particular rotational speed. The over speed trip collar triggers an alarm when a rotational speed of the multiple rotational speeds substantially matches the particular rotational speed. The alarm provides a signal in response to triggering the alarm.
US11098610B2
In a steam turbine seal packing performance monitoring system, steam pressure is measured by installing a pressure sensor inside a seal packing for preventing steam from leaking, so that pressure information can be transmitted using magnetic field communication in order to externally monitor seal packing performance. The system includes a seal packing unit that is installed on a rotor shaft and has a plurality of seal packs disposed along an axial direction of the rotor shaft; a pressure sensor installed inside the seal packing unit to detect a pressure of steam leaked from inside the seal packing unit and to transmit a magnetic field signal by converting a detection signal indicative of the detected pressure into the magnetic field signal; and an adapter for receiving the magnetic field signal, converting the received magnetic field signal into pressure data, and calculating a leakage amount of steam based on the pressure data.
US11098606B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a sliding seal between two components. The sliding seal includes a first seal section and an uncoupled second seal section which allows the first and second seal sections to move relative to one another during relative movement between the two components. A wave spring disposed between the first and second seal sections biases the first and second seal sections away from one another. A compliant seal is carried by the second seal section. Other combinations of seal sections, wave springs, and compliant seals are also disclosed.
US11098603B2
The invention relates to an inner ring for a guide vane assembly for mounting adjustable guide vanes of a turbomachine, of a compressor stage or turbine stage of a gas turbine, a guide vane assembly for a turbomachine having an inner ring, a turbomachine having an inner ring, and a method for producing an inner ring, wherein the inner ring has a plurality of guide vane bearing mounts, which are each arranged spaced apart in the peripheral direction, recesses, which are each formed for receiving a bearing element, a bearing journal, of a guide vane, wherein, between at least two adjacent guide vane bearing mounts, the inner ring has at least one depression with a wall thickness in a radial direction that is reduced in comparison to a region that abuts the depression and is outside of the depression.
US11098602B2
Disclosed is a turbine vane having a turbine vane airfoil extending from a platform to an end wall and having an airfoil-shaped cross section having a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a pressure side and a suction side that extend from the leading edge to the trailing edge, wherein a plurality of cavities defined by a plurality of ribs extending from the pressure side to the suction side is formed in the turbine vane airfoil, at least one of the cavities is provided with a plurality of insert supports protruding inward from an inner surface of the turbine vane airfoil, and the insert supports are arranged in a circumferential direction of the cavity and arranged in a plurality of rows arranged in a radial direction.
US11098598B1
A turbine vane for a gas turbine engine, including: an airfoil including leading and trailing edges joined by spaced apart pressure and suction sides to provide an exterior airfoil surface extending from an inner platform in a radial direction to an outer platform; and wherein the exterior airfoil surface is formed in substantial conformance with multiple cross-sectional profiles of the airfoil described by a set of Cartesian coordinates set forth in at least one of Tables 1-3, and wherein the set of Cartesian coordinates in Tables 1-3 are offset from a center of an opening located in a forward surface of an attachment lug that extends from a leading edge of the inner platform.
US11098591B1
A turbine blade for a gas turbine engine having an airfoil to platform fillet, wherein the fillet is contoured in accordance with the coordinates of Table 1.
US11098588B2
An engine includes a housing defining an annular bore and a piston assembly disposed within the annular bore. The engine also includes a rotary valve comprising a circular faceplate and a wall structure disposed at an outer periphery of the faceplate, a portion of the at least one rotary valve disposed within the annular bore, and a rotary drive mechanism connected to the rotary valve and configured to rotate the rotary valve between a first position to align an opening of the wall structure with the annular bore to allow the piston of the piston assembly to travel within the annular bore from a first location relative to the rotary valve to a second location relative to the rotary valve and a second position to define a chamber relative to the piston of the piston assembly at the second location.
US11098582B1
Earth models of stress conditions in subsurface reservoirs are formed reflecting rock mechanical properties, stress regime and also wellbore stability. A number of variables related to the rock mechanical properties and stress conditions are parameterized. The variability of minimum horizontal stress magnitudes as a product of the relative contributions of the various rock properties and input parameters or variables used to form the model is analyzed. Differences between predicted minimum horizontal stress magnitudes in the formation and an actual measurement obtained from the formation (for example, fracture closure pressure) are determined. The determined differences are the minimized through an optimization methodology to find a best set of parameters suitable to match the minimum horizontal stress to actual formation measurement.
US11098581B2
A computerized method and system for of operating an oil/gas facility for processing oil and gas from a reservoir. The method includes steps of receiving input data concerning condensate phase and gas phase components in the reservoir, the input data characterizing both phase components, determining a pore capillary pressure of the reservoir based on the received input data which characterizes the phase components, determining PVT parameters of the reservoir phase components based on the determined pore capillary pressure, and controlling a setting of the oil/gas facility based on the determined PVT parameters of the reservoir phase components.
US11098557B2
A plug for delivering to a bottom end of a tubular in a wellbore and method of use. The plug includes a body having a first end and a second end opposite the first end, the first end engageable to a landing member in an interior of the tubular uphole of the bottom end. A bore extends through the body from the first end to the second end. A rupture disk that breaks above a rupture threshold pressure is on an outer diameter of the body. The plug is run into the tubular and engaged to the landing member. A hydraulic pressure is applied in the tubular to rupture the rupture disk to form an inlet to the plug. Fluid is delivered to the bottom end of the tubular via the inlet of the plug.
US11098553B2
A system for sealing a region of open hole gravel pack comprising a sealing patch and an installation tool is described. The sealing patch includes a tubular assembly including two expandable anchor/seals and two low melting temperature alloy elements positioned on outside surface of the tubular assembly above the anchor/seals. The system is deployed in desirable location in the well and the tool is operated to set anchor/seals in interference contact with sand-screen. Then the alloy elements are melted to seal the patch. The anchor/seals serve two purposes: they provide a hanging capacity to support the patch in the well and create a “bridge” preventing the molten alloy from freely flowing through the annulus between the tubular assembly and sand screen and focusing the molten alloy at the anchor/seals to flow in radial direction penetrating through the sand-screen and the surrounding proppant sand creating a complete seal.
US11098544B2
A downhole tool for projecting a projectable element downhole includes a tool body having a radial bore, a projectable element forming a piston in the radial bore, the projectable element having first and second element parts. In the retracted position the projectable element and the second bore part define an annular cavity, a hollow base part having an open end and a closed end, the open end extending into the open first end of the projectable element forming a chamber. The open end of the hollow base part has at least one spring element arranged in the chamber and connected to the closed first end of the projectable element and to the closed end of the hollow base part for retraction of the projectable element, and a pump configured to pump fluid into the chamber via a fluid channel to project the projectable element.
US11098540B2
A tubular handling apparatus for a drilling system, a method for handling tubulars, and a drilling system. The apparatus includes a first trough configured to receive at least a first tubular and a second tubular, a first skate movable along the first trough and configured to engage a first end of the first tubular, and a second skate movable along the first trough and configured to engage a second end of the second tubular. The first and second skates are configured to push a third end of the first tubular into engagement with a fourth end of the second tubular in the first trough. The apparatus also includes a tongs configured to engage the first and second tubulars in the first trough and apply torque thereto.
US11098528B2
A tensioner for use with an architectural-structure covering including an operating element (e.g., a cord, a chain, or the like) is disclosed. The tensioner selectively securing a position of the operating element relative to the tensioner. In one embodiment, the tensioner includes a body, a slider, a bearing, and an optional biasing member. The body may include a first body member coupled to a second body member. The slider is movably positioned within the body between first and second positions to selectively enable movement of the operating element relative to the tensioner. The bearing includes a projection for coupling to the second body member to prevent the second body member from being decoupled from the first body member. In this manner, when the bearing is enclosed within the body, a user cannot readily open the body (e.g., a user cannot readily separate the first and second body members).
US11098521B2
A solar-control or thermally insulating or anticondensation-function glazing unit includes at least one substrate equipped with a stack of thin layers reflecting infrared radiation. The stack is covered with a protective polymer film made of styrene-butadiene copolymer, the thickness of the polymer film being smaller than 10 microns.
US11098517B2
A door operator, for opening and closing a door with a motor, comprises a worm drive, a clutch coupled to the worm drive, and an output shaft coupled to the clutch. The worm drive comprises a worm and a worm gear. The door operator allows for the use of a low voltage motor to be used to open and close the door.
US11098516B2
A damping assembly for a flap fitting includes first and second spring holders, between which at least two coil springs are arranged. In each of the at least two coils springs, a linear damper having a damper housing and having a piston rod slidable relative to the damper housing is arranged between the first and second spring holders.
US11098513B2
A door-and-window system having a handle component (121), a transmission component (123) and a force receiving portion (12231). When the handle component (121) is operated, the force receiving portion (12231) moves along a first guide groove (12211) via the transmission component (123), and at the same time a driving portion (12232) moves along a second guide groove (12221). Due to a relationship between a guide member (1224) and a third guide groove (12212), a first base seat (1221) translates relative to a second base seat (1222) along a direction of the third guide groove (12212), such that a movable door-and-window (11) can abut tightly against or move away from a sealing member (24) on a door-and-window mounting profile (2).
US11098509B2
A double-door lock assembly includes a first lock and a second lock which are mounted to a first door and a second door, respectively. The first lock includes a first rotary member, a first magnetic member and a linkage member. The second lock includes a second rotary member having a driving portion and a second magnetic member. The first and second rotary members can be driven to rotate together to open or close the first and second doors simultaneously when the first and second magnetic members are attracted to each other and the driving portion on the second rotary member contacts against the linkage member on the first rotary member.
US11098508B2
The invention relates to a motor vehicle lock (1) comprising a locking mechanism that includes a rotary latch (2), at least one pawl (3), a triggering lever (4) that allows the pawl (3) to disengage from the rotary latch (2), and a latching lever function that allows the triggering lever (4) which is actuated for disengaging the rotary latch (2) to be secured in an actuated position; the triggering lever can be guided by the rotary latch (2) only in some sections.
US11098501B2
Improvements in a hasp are disclosed. The hasp allows for locking the hasp with a cylindrical lock to operate on a door such as, but not limited to, a garage door, a roll-up door or a shed door. This configuration allows for upgrade or replacement of these types of door locks without requiring re-design or replacement of the door. The cylindrical locks offer a greater protection because they can't be “picked” using traditional lock picking tools. This makes the lock safer from people that may try to break into the door. The cylindrical lock fits primarily within the hasp. This prevents a person from grinding through the lock or shackle. The shackle can be configured with just the circular opening for the key visible. It can be further enclosed to prevent infestation from bugs such as hornets that can fill the inside of the hasp with dirt.
US11098474B2
An elongated sheet metal channel for transversely supporting drywall grid tees at regular intervals along the channel, the channel having a generally vertical web, and a lower flange and an upper flange, a vertical spacing between the flanges being sufficient to receive upright grid tees at the intervals, the lower flange having outer and mid-width portions lying in a generally horizontal plane at an interval when a tee is received therein, opposed formations stamped into one of the flanges at the intervals to longitudinally locate the grid tee, the upper flange at said intervals having a pocket for receiving a distorted end of a grid tee.
US11098473B1
An apparatus and methods for the separation of macroscopic solid body particles (SBPs) from a fluid stream contained in a conduit, such as a hose or pipe. The method involves utilizing a particle separator having a fluid inlet port connected to a fluid inlet conduit and a fluid outlet port connected to a fluid outlet conduit to change the direction (and optionally the velocity) of the fluid stream within a lumen of an enclosed vessel component of the particle separator sufficiently to permit SBPs to fall by gravity (and/or to descend due to inertia) into a removable receptacle within a bottom portion of the vessel component while directing the flow of cleansed fluid to the fluid outlet port of the particle separator.
US11098468B2
A sink includes a basin body having a generally concave shape that forms at least one sink basin, a top flange integrally formed with the basin body, the top flange extending around the at least one sink basin, an apron connected to a front edge of the top flange, a replaceable panel removably connected to the apron, and a fastening system disposed between the apron and the replaceable panel, the fastening system releasably connecting the replaceable panel to the apron.
US11098457B2
Articles of manufacture, systems, and methods relating to a liquid containment panel are provided, where the liquid containment panel includes a body comprising a thermoplastic olefin. The body has a substantially horizontal portion and a substantially vertical portion and is configured to be freestanding with the substantially vertical portion in an upright position. One or more coupling features can be located along one or more edges of the body, where such coupling features can couple the liquid containment panel to another liquid containment panel to form a barrier or containment system.
US11098440B2
An apparatus for steam treatment of laundry includes a base containing a water reservoir, connected by a conduit to an ironing and/or smoothing tool including at least one hole for the emission of steam, at least one pole which supports a holding element on which a garment can be hung and/or supported in order to allow it to be treated using the tool, and a support device for placing the tool in a stable manner during inactive ironing and/or smoothing phases, the support device including an attachment member intended to cooperate with a first complementary attachment element supported by the pole in order to allow the support device to be removably attached to the pole, wherein the base includes a second complementary attachment element allowing the support device to be removably attached to the base.
US11098434B2
A washing machine comprises: an outer tub containing water; an inner tub rotating on a vertical axis within the outer tub and having a first opening at the bottom; a motor providing torque; a dewatering shaft rotating by the motor; and a hub supporting the inner tub from the bottom, wherein the hub comprises: a connecting boss whose center is connected to the dewatering shaft; a plurality of spokes extending outward radially from the connecting boss and having second openings overlapping the first opening; and a circular flange connecting the outer edges of the spokes and attached to the bottom of the inner tub, wherein the spokes comprise at least one first spoke whose underside faces the bottom of the outer tub and is entirely smooth.
US11098432B2
A damping device for a washing machine and a washing machine are provided. The damping device for a washing machine comprises an upper boom, a damping spring mechanism and a lower boom, wherein an upper end of the upper boom is installed on a cabinet of the washing machine, a lower end of the lower boom is installed on an outer tub of the washing machine, the damping spring mechanism is installed between the upper boom and the lower boom, and the upper boom and/or the lower boom are/is elastically stretched under the drive of the damping spring mechanism.
US11098431B2
A method for controlling a spin-drying operation of a washing apparatus includes a laundry dispersing step of dispersing the laundry inside a drum by accelerating the drum, a spin-drying step including detecting the eccentricity of the drum, and performing spin-drying by rotating the drum to a spin-drying RPM. The laundry dispersing step is re-executed when the eccentricity exceeds a reference eccentricity, and in the spin-drying step, a rotation time during which the drum rotates at the spin-drying RPM is adjusted according to a spin-drying degree. The spin-drying degree is measured after a point in time at which the eccentricity exceeds the reference eccentricity.
US11098419B2
The invention provides a thermal control combination yarn system including a first plurality of the yarns within the system including microdenier or almost microdenier hydrophobic yarns, such as, for example, polypropylene (PP) and a second plurality of the yarns including less hydrophobic ultra microfibers (UMF), wherein the first plurality of yarns is in direct contact with the second plurality of yarns. The yarn system can include from 97% yarns made of a microdenier or almost microdenier hydrophobic material and 3% yarns made of a less hydrophobic ultra microfibers (UMF) material to 97% yarns made of the less hydrophobic ultra microfibers material and 3% yarns made of a microdenier or almost microdenier hydrophobic material.
US11098408B2
An environment control system utilizes oxygen and humidity control devices that are coupled with an enclosure to independently control the oxygen concentration and the humidity level within the enclosure. An oxygen depletion device may be an oxygen depletion electrolyzer cell that reacts with oxygen within the cell and produces water through electrochemical reactions. A desiccating device may be g, a dehumidification electrolyzer cell, a desiccator, a membrane desiccator or a condenser. A controller may control the amount of voltage and/or current provided to the oxygen depletion electrolyzer cell and therefore the rate of oxygen reduction and may control the amount of voltage and/or current provided to the dehumidification electrolyzer cell and therefore the rate of humidity reduction. The oxygen level may be determined by the measurement of voltage and a limiting current of the oxygen depletion electrolyzer cell. The enclosure may be a food or artifact enclosure.
US11098402B2
A novel method, composition and storage and delivery container for using antimony-containing dopant materials are provided. The composition is selected with sufficient vapor pressure to flow at a steady, sufficient and sustained flow rate into an arc chamber as part of an ion implant process. The antimony-containing material is represented by a non-carbon containing chemical formula, thereby reducing or eliminating the introduction of carbon-based deposits into the ion chamber. The composition is stored in a storage and delivery vessel under stable conditions, which includes a moisture-free environment that does not contain trace amounts of moisture. The storage and delivery container is specifically designed to allow delivery of high purity, vapor phase antimony-containing dopant material at a steady, sufficient and sustained flow rate.
US11098400B2
A machine for coating an optical article with an anti-soiling coating composition, includes a vacuum chamber (8) configured to receive the optical article, a vacuum pump (20) connected to the vacuum chamber (8), a plasma generator (11) configured to carry out a vacuum plasma treatment of the optical article, an evaporation device (10) configured to carry out a vacuum evaporation treatment of the composition for depositing it on the optical article, a control unit (2) controlling the plasma generator for removing an initial outermost anti-soiling coating of the article, controlling the evaporation device for recoating the article with the anti-soiling coating composition, being configured to causes the vacuum pump (20) to suck gases from the chamber (8) during vacuum plasma treatment and being further configured to causes the vacuum pump (20) not to suck gases from the chamber (8) during vacuum evaporation treatment.
US11098397B2
An yttrium fluoride spray material contains Y5O4F7 and YF3, and has an average particle size of 10-60 μm and a bulk density of 1.2-2.5 g/cm3. The Y5O4F7 and YF3 in the yttrium fluoride spray material consist of 30 to 90% by weight of Y5O4F7 and the balance of YF3. A sprayed coating of yttrium oxyfluoride is obtained by atmospheric plasma spraying of the spray material.
US11098396B2
An installation for continuous hot-dip coating of a metal strip is provided. The installation includes a tank containing a bath of molten metal, a metal strip running through the bath and a confined wiping device. The confined wiping device includes at least two wiping nozzles placed on each side of a path of the strip after the strip has left the bath of molten metal. Each nozzle has at least one gas outlet orifice and an upper face. The confined wiping device also includes a confinement box adjacent each upper face. The confinement boxes are open on a face which faces the strip. Each box includes at least one upper part and two lateral parts.
US11098390B1
The present invention relates to one or more rust-proof springs for use in a firearm assembly. The rust-proof springs involve a variety of metals combined to create an alloy that does not react with moisture to form rust. The alloy is formed into one or more mechanical coil springs, and the mechanical coil springs are heat treated to improve the structural strength of the springs. The advantage of the rust proof springs for use in the firearm assembly is that the firearms can be exposed to moisture, such as moisture from rain, and the firearm user would not have to worry about rust on the firearm springs later causing issues with the firearm working as intended. Additionally, the one or more springs have high heat resistance properties.
US11098381B2
Methods for increasing carbon-based chemical product yield in an organism by genetically modifying one or more genes involved in a stringent response and/or in a regulatory network, nonnaturally occurring organisms having increased carbon-based chemical product yield, and methods for use in production of carbon-based chemical products are provided.
US11098378B2
The invention features compositions and methods for the detection of Candida species in biological samples, such as human tissue samples. The invention features species specific nucleic acid probes that can hybridize to target nucleic acid molecules in Candida species and can be used in a variety of detection assays, such as fluorescence based assays or NMR based assays. The compositions and methods of the invention can be used to rapidly and accurately detect one or more Candida species in patients and can be used to assist in point-of care-decisions for treating Candida infections.
US11098371B2
A kit for detecting urothelial carcinoma is provided. The kit includes at least one primer or probe for detecting one or more miRNAs, and the one or more miRNAs are selected from the group consisting of miR-19b-1, miR-636, miR-150, miR-155, miR-183, miR-378, miR-210, miR-487, and combinations thereof. A method for detecting urothelial carcinoma is also provided. The method includes detecting the expression level(s) of one or more miRNAs in a sample of a subject, and the one or more miRNAs are selected from the group consisting of miR-19b-1, miR-636, miR-150, miR-155, miR-183, miR-378, miR-210, miR-487, and combinations thereof.
US11098362B2
The invention is directed to methods for early diagnosis, progression and treatment monitoring of Parkinson's disease (PD) and its differentiation from other neurodegenerative diseases by quantifying brain-enriched miRNA in bodily fluids.
US11098356B2
The present disclosure provided methods and compositions for nucleic acid sequencing. In particular, the disclosure provides for detection of multiple different nucleotides in a sample utilizing fewer detection moieties than the number of nucleotides being detected and using two imaging events per sequencing cycle.
US11098355B2
The invention relates to a new method of characterising two or more target polynucleotides using a pore. The method involves sequentially attaching to a first polynucleotide one or more subsequent polynucleotides to form a concatenated polynucleotide.
US11098354B2
A nanopore cell includes a conductive layer. The nanopore cell further includes a titanium nitride (TiN) working electrode disposed above the conductive layer. The nanopore cell further includes insulating walls disposed above the TiN working electrode, wherein the insulating walls and the TiN working electrode form a well into which an electrolyte may be contained. In some embodiments, the TiN working electrode comprises a spongy and porous TiN working electrode that is deposited by a deposition technique with conditions tuned to deposit sparsely-spaced TiN columnar structures or columns of TiN crystals above the conductive layer.
US11098348B2
Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for detection of target polynucleotides in a mixed sample by amplification of the target polynucleotide and detection in a nanopore device.
US11098338B2
Herein is reported a method for producing a fusion-polypeptide comprising the seeps of a) cultivating a mammalian cell comprising a nucleic acid encoding a variant fusion-polypeptide wherein the amino acid sequence of the fusion-polypeptide has been modified by replacing in a pro-fusion-polypeptide the endogenous protease cleavage site between the pro-peptide and the fusion-polypeptide with an exogenous (with respect to the origins of the parts of the fusion-polypeptide) or artificial protease cleavage site, and b) recovering the fusion-polypeptide or fusion-pro-polypeptide from the cell or the cultivation median and thereby producing the (recombinant) fusion-polypeptide.
US11098335B2
A perfect palindrome operator sequence-based protein expression system is provided. The expression system comprises a promoter; and a perfect palindrome operator sequence, wherein the promoter is not T7. The expression system is preferably employed for the production of recombinant proteins by fermentation.
US11098329B2
One aspect of the invention relates to a mutant polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of Escherichia coli tetracycline efflux pump A (TetA). Another aspect of the invention relates to a polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide of TetA, a fragment thereof, or a mutant thereof. Another aspect of the invention relates to a first expression plasmid vector comprising one or more first polynucleotides encoding a first polypeptide comprising a tetracycline efflux pump polypeptide, a fragment thereof or a mutant thereof, one or more second polynucleotides independently selected from the group consisting of a third polynucleotide encoding a third polypeptide comprising a lysine decarboxylase polypeptide, a fragment thereof or a mutant thereof, and a fourth polynucleotide encoding a fourth polypeptide comprising a lysine biosynthesis polypeptide, a fragment thereof or a mutant thereof. Another aspect of the invention relates to a transformant comprising one or more expression plasmid vectors as described herein in a host cell. Another aspect of the invention relates to a mutant host cell comprising one or more first, third or fourth polynucleotides as described herein integrated into a chromosome of a host cell. Another aspect of the invention relates to a method for producing a lysine comprising obtaining a transformant and/or mutant host cell as disclosed herein, culturing the transformant and/or mutant host cell under conditions effective for the expression of the lysine; and harvesting the lysine. Other aspects of the invention relate to methods for producing biobased cadaverine using the transformants disclosed herein, and biobased cadaverine prepared by the method disclosed herein, and polyamides formed using the biobased cadaverine as disclosed herein and compositions thereof.
US11098319B2
Methods and compositions are described for producing a glucanase in transgenic plants and then incorporating parts of the transgenic plants in animal feed. The feed glucanase enzyme displays activity across a broad pH range, and tolerance to temperatures that are often encountered during the process of preparing animal feeds. Producing the enzyme in the transgenic plant enhances the thermal stability of the enzyme.
US11098314B2
Compositions and methods are provided for genome modification at a target site in the genome of a fungal cell. Aspects of methods and compositions are drawn to a guide polynucleotide/Cas endonuclease system for promoting insertion of a donor DNA at a desired target site in a fungal host cell genome.
US11098311B2
The present disclosure pertains to compositions comprising aflibercept and methods for producing such compositions in chemically defined media and using chromatography to reduce amounts of certain aflibercept variants.
US11098306B1
The present invention relates to synthetic promoters, as well as expression cassettes, and recombinant scaffolds, and methods thereof. In particular embodiments, the synthetic promoter is inducible by one or more chemical compounds present during lignin depolymerization.
US11098298B2
The present invention provides a novel method for the recombinant production of Factor C protein from horseshoe crab using a parasitic protozoan expressing the Factor C protein. In particular, the present invention provides a parasitic protozoan host cell harbouring a polynucleotide encoding horseshoe crab Factor C protein, and a method for producing Factor C protein comprising culturing said parasitic protozoan host cell under conditions such that the cells express the horseshoe crab Factor C protein. Furthermore, the present invention provides recombinant Factor C protein produced by the novel method and its use in the detection and/or removal of endotoxin.
US11098294B2
The present invention relates to methods of treating or preventing inflammation with a peptide having anti-inflammatory activity, wherein the peptide consists of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 101. According to the present invention, the peptide of SEQ ID NO: 101 has outstanding efficacy in both suppressing inflammation and in prophylactic means. Therefore, the method comprising administration of the peptide of this invention can be used in anti-inflammatory pharmaceutical or cosmetic applications, in turn, treating and preventing a variety of different types of inflammatory diseases.
US11098288B2
An enzyme having the following characteristics (a) and (b): (a) the enzyme has an activity of reversible dehydrogenation of D-amino acids; (b) the enzyme is a hexamer of polypeptides having an amino acid sequence having 80% or greater identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2.
US11098284B2
A method of carrying out adoptive immunotherapy by administering a subject an antigen-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) preparation in a treatment-effective amount is described. In the method, the CTL preparation is preferably administered as a preparation of an in vitro antigen-stimulated and expanded primate CTL population, the CTL population: (i) depleted of FoxP3+ T lymphocytes prior to antigen stimulation, (ii) antigen-stimulated in vitro in the presence of interleukin-21; or (iii) both depleted of FoxP3+ T lymphocytes prior to antigen stimulation and then antigen-stimulated in vitro in the presence of interleukin-21. Methods of preparing such compositions, and compositions useful for carrying out the adoptive immunotherapy, are also described.
US11098267B2
A perfume composition containing a compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1, R2 and R3 are independently hydrogen or a methyl group, X is an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R4 and R5 are independently hydrogen or a —CHO group, and AA is a single bond or a double bond, has an excellent aroma and aroma persistence useful as a compound perfume material.
US11098255B2
The invention provides an improved system for separation technology intended to reduce unwanted catalyst/thermal reactions by minimizing contact of the hydrocarbons and the catalyst within the reactor.
US11098251B2
A reactor system made up of a single canister or a plurality of separate canister sections for the advanced thermal chemical conversion processing of municipal solid waste (“MSW”), either sorted or unsorted, and autoclaves specially designed to process the waste at suitable temperature and pressure combinations is disclosed. The canister sections can be individually and separately filled with compressed bales of MSW or with selected loose MSW. The reactor system can produce syngas that has an enhanced BTU value, typically between about 300 to 700 BTU/ft3. The remainder solid waste material generally amounts to approximately 5% of the original MSW volume. This material can then be sorted for metals with the balance being sent to a landfill or other recycling processes depending on its composition.
US11098245B2
Novel Iridium complexes having three different bidentate ligands useful for phosphorescent emitters in OLEDs are disclosed. At least one of the three different bidentate ligands is a carbene ligand.
US11098236B2
Provided are low dust-content particulate polyvinyl alcohol-based compositions suitable for a variety of end uses including for use in subterranean treatments and for manufacturing chemical materials, which are prepared by compacting a specified polyvinyl alcohol polymer resins, optionally with specified additives and/or other polyvinyl alcohols.
US11098235B1
A method of converting a drilling fluid into a geopolymer cement slurry includes introducing the drilling fluid into a wellbore, in which the drilling fluid comprises Na2SiO3, NaCl, or both. The method further includes introducing Saudi Arabian volcanic ash into the wellbore. The Saudi Arabian volcanic ash comprises SO3, CaO, SiO2, Al2O3, Fe2O3, MgO, and K2O. The method further includes allowing the Saudi Arabian volcanic ash to contact the drilling fluid in the wellbore, thereby converting the drilling fluid into the geopolymer cement slurry. A method of cementing a casing in a wellbore includes introducing a drilling fluid into a wellbore, in which the drilling fluid comprises Na2SiO3, NaCl, or both, and introducing Saudi Arabian volcanic ash into the wellbore to form the geopolymer cement slurry. The method further includes curing the geopolymer cement slurry to cement the casing in the wellbore.
US11098232B2
Embodiments are directed to a lubricant package for water based drilling fluids. The lubricant package includes water, a polyethylene glycol, and a lubricating agent. The lubricating agent includes triethanolamine, or a C12-C14 alcohol ethoxylate, or a combination of triethanolamine and C12-C14 alcohol ethoxylate. The weight ratio of the polyethylene glycol to the lubricating agent in the lubricant package is from 1:2 to 2:1. Embodiments are also directed to a water-based drilling fluid composition including an aqueous base fluid, one or more additives, and the lubricant package for water based drilling fluids.
US11098223B2
The present invention relates to a radiation-curable aqueous coating composition comprising a polyurethane A comprising as building blocks at least: (a) a polyisocyanate(s) containing at least two cyclic groups, (b) a non-cyclic aliphatic diisocyanate(s) whereby the non-cyclic aliphatic group connecting the two isocyanate groups has from 4 to 36 carbon atoms, and (c) a component(s) containing an isocyanate-reactive group(s), whereby the summed amount of (a) and (b) is 10 to 60 wt. %, relative to the total weight amount of components used to prepare the polyurethane A; and optionally radiation-curable diluent; whereby the weight ratio between (a) and (b) is in the range from 50:50 to 99:1; and whereby the ethylenically unsaturated bond concentration of the coating composition is in the range from 0.5 to 6 milliequivalents per g of polyurethane A and radiation-curable diluent.
US11098221B2
A composition comprising a drag reducing latex formulation produced by emulsion polymerization to create solid particles dispersed in an aqueous medium and an additive. The use of the composition results in a decrease of film formation while injected through a pump head when compared to the drag reducing latex formulation injected through the pump head.
US11098220B2
This invention relates to coating compositions comprising at least one aminoplast crosslinker resin A, binder resins B that have active hydrogen functionality, and a catalyst composition C, wherein the catalyst composition C is a mixture of an organic sulfonic acid C1, and an amine C2 which may be primary, secondary, or tertiary, and which must have a pKa value of not more than 10, and preferably not less than 4, a process for the preparation thereof, and to a method of use thereof.
US11098219B2
A novel polymer mixture having fast drying time, a multilayer article comprising at least one layer of the dried polymer mixture and having good mechanical properties, and a method of preparing the multilayer article.
US11098218B2
Patterned and plasma-treated coatings for surfaces of electronic devices are disclosed. The patterned and plasma-treated coatings may include a linear fluorinated oligomer or linear fluorinated polymer and may be transparent. Regions of a patterned coating may be micro-sized. The pattern defined by the coating may not be visually discernable, but may affect the frictional properties of the coating.
US11098216B2
An image forming method for forming an image on a non-absorbable substrate includes (a) applying a surface processing composition including water, a first organic solvent, and a urethane resin particle to the non-absorbable substrate, (b) applying a non-white ink including water, a second organic solvent, and a second acrylic resin particle and (c) applying a white ink including water, a third organic solvent, a third acrylic resin particle, and a white colorant.
US11098212B2
An inkjet ink composition comprising a polyurethane-based binder dispersion is described. The polyurethane-based binder dispersion comprises: a polyurethane, which comprises: (A) a polyisocyanate; (B) a first polyol having a chain with two hydroxyl functional groups at one end of the chain and no hydroxyl groups at an opposed end of the chain; (C) a second polyol having a chain with two hydroxyl functional groups at both ends of the chain; (D) a carboxylic acid functional group with two hydroxyl functional groups; and (E) a compound shown in formula (1): m(M+)n(X)—R—Y— (1), wherein m is 0 or 1, M is a metal, n is 2 to 10, X is an amino group, R is a C1 to C18 alkyl group, a C6 to C30 aromatic compound or a C4 to C20 aliphatic cyclic compound, and Y is SO3- or SO3H, with the proviso that when m is 0, Y is SO3H and when m is 1, Y is SO3-.
US11098211B2
To provide a photocurable inkjet primer ink composition having a low viscosity, which is capable of forming a primer layer which exhibits excellent adhesion to a non-absorptive substrate material and has low tackiness, an inkjet ink set, and an inkjet recording method. A photocurable inkjet primer ink composition comprising: a photopolymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator, the composition having a viscosity at 25° C. of 5.0 to 10.0 mPa·s; wherein the photopolymerizable compound is composed of a monofunctional ethylenically unsaturated monomer and a bifunctional ethylenically unsaturated oligomer; wherein a content of the monofunctional ethylenically unsaturated monomer is 76.0 parts by weight or more per 100 parts by weight of the whole composition; and wherein a homopolymer of the monofunctional ethylenically unsaturated monomer has a glass transition temperature of lower than 25° C.
US11098209B2
In one aspect, inks for use with a three-dimensional (3D) printing system are described herein. In some embodiments, an ink described herein comprises 10-70 wt. % cyclopolymerizable monomer, based on the total weight of the ink. The cyclopolymerizable monomer comprises a first ethenyl or ethynyl moiety and a second ethenyl or ethynyl moiety. Additionally, the α-carbon of the first ethenyl or ethynyl moiety and the α-carbon of the second ethenyl or ethynyl moiety have a 1,5-, 1,6-, 1,7-, or 1,8-relationship.
US11098207B2
A metallic nanoparticle dispersion includes metallic nanoparticles, a liquid carrier and an optional binder, and a silane compound according to Formula I: wherein R1, R2 and R3 are independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, an alkoxy group and an aryloxy group with the proviso that at least one of R1 to R3 represents an alkoxy group or an aryloxy group, L1 represents a divalent linking group including one to 20 carbon atoms, A represents a thiol, a disulfide or a functional moiety comprising at least one thiol or disulfide, having no more than 10 carbon atoms, and n represents 0 or 1.
US11098203B2
The application is directed to polymer coatings which can be modified to control biointerfacial interactions including biofilm formation and protein adsorption onto said coatings. The polymer coatings comprise a First Component comprising epoxide or alkenyl groups, and a Second Component comprising at least one amine group. The polymer coatings further comprise at least one bioactive agent which may control said biofilm formation and/or protein adsorption. Also disclosed herein are methods for producing said coatings incorporating bioactive molecules in one or two step procedures on a substrate. The polymer coating may be immobilised on the substrate via the reaction of functional groups present on the First Component and/or Second Component with complimentary functional groups disposed on at least one surface of the substrate.
US11098201B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a carbon black for batteries having excellent dispersibility, electron conductivity and oxidation resistance. In addition, an object of the present invention is to provide a low-viscosity conductive composition for an electrode produced using the carbon black, and a low-resistance battery electrode and a battery having excellent high-output characteristics and cycle characteristics produced using the conductive composition. A carbon black for batteries having: BET specific surface area of 50 to 220 m2/g; a crystallite diameter (La) of 30 to 42 Å; and a number of CO2 desorption molecules per unit surface area measured by a temperature-rising desorption gas analysis method (50° C. to 1200° C. of measurement temperature) of 8.0×1016 to 15.0×1016 molecules/m2 is excellent in dispersibility, electron conductivity and oxidation resistance. A conductive composition for a low-viscosity electrode produced using the carbon black, and a low-resistance battery electrode and a battery having excellent high-output characteristics and cycle characteristics produced using the conductive composition can be obtained.
US11098199B2
The present invention is directed to a method for manufacturing a bismuth based pigment having an improved alkaline resistance, the method comprising: i) obtaining a dried bismuth based pigment; ii) encapsulation of the bismuth based pigment using a chelating agent; iii) final processing of the encapsulated pigment; and v) drying of the pigment. In addition, the present invention is directed to a bismuth based pigment encapsulated by a layer of chelating agent.
US11098183B2
A composition comprising an ethylene-based polymer which comprises the following properties: a) MWD(conv) from 3.0 to 7.0; b) an ADF IR between 0.230 and 0.260 for molecular weight ≤15,000 g/mol c) 12 from 4.0 to 6.5 g/10 min.
US11098180B2
Provided are a rubber composition for tires that provides a balanced improvement of snow and ice performance and abrasion resistance, and a tire including the rubber composition. The rubber composition for tires contains: a rubber component including an isoprene-based rubber and BR; silica; and a terpene-based resin having a softening point of 60-150° C., an α-pinene unit content of 65-100% by mass, a β-pinene unit content of 0-35% by mass, and a limonene unit content of 10% by mass or lower, the rubber component including, based on 100% by mass thereof, 5-80% by mass of the isoprene-based rubber and 5-80% by mass of the BR, with a combined amount of the isoprene-based rubber and the BR of 60% by mass or more, the rubber composition containing, per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component, 1-500 parts by mass of the silica and 0.1-100 parts by mass of the terpene-based resin.
US11098178B2
A resin composition containing a cellulose acylate (A) having, in a side chain, a group having a hydrocarbon chain with 5 or more carbon atoms; a polyester resin (B); and an ester compound (C) having a molecular weight of about 250 or more and about 2000 or less. The mass ratio ((B)/(A)) of the polyester resin (B) to the cellulose acylate (A) is about 0.05 or more and about 0.5 or less. The mass ratio ((C)/(A)) of the ester compound (C) to the cellulose acylate (A) is about 0.02 or more and about 0.15 or less.
US11098174B2
The disclosed latex system comprises a one-component, closed-cell, semi-foam, mastic sealant using gas-filled, flexible, organic microspheres to create a product that is elastic and compressible under pressure without protruding in an outward direction when compressed, thereby allowing the applied sealant to compress in an enclosed, maximum-filled channel unlike typical mastic sealants (while retaining the ability to rebound). This allows the sealant to function as a gasket, and, once fully cured, to have properties including vibration damping, insulating, and condensation resistance. The sealant can be formulated as an air barrier or a vapor barrier and at various degrees of moisture resistance. It may be applied by different packaging variations including aerosol can (bag in can or bag on valve), airless sprayer, cartridge tubes, foil tubes, squeeze tubes, and buckets to be applied using a brush, trowel, spatula, etc. The disclosed mastic sealant can also be formulated to be smoke-resistant and flame-resistant.
US11098165B2
A metal aprotic organosilanoxide compound of formula (I): {R1—Si(R2)(R3)—[O—Si(R4)(R5)]m—O}n-M1(←L)o(X1)p (I), wherein M1 is a metal atom Al, Ce, Fe, or V, a composition or formulation containing or prepared from it, and methods of making and using them. Each molecule of the metal aprotic organosilanoxide compound is composed of at least one metal atom and at least one aprotic organosilanoxide ligand. The metal aprotic organosilanoxide compound may be used as such or as a constituent in a variety of silicone formulations for adhesives, coatings, elastomers, encapsulants, pottants, and sealants.
US11098160B2
The present disclosure relates to a polyimide-based block copolymer and a polyimide-based film including the same. The polyimide-based block copolymer according to the present disclosure makes it possible to provide a polyimide-based film having a large molecular weight and exhibiting colorless and transparent properties.
US11098147B2
An aqueous polymer dispersion is produced by multistage emulsion polymerization, in which a monomer composition I comprising 19 to 29 wt % hard monomers and 64 to 74 wt % soft monomers is polymerized to produce a first polymer phase and then a monomer composition II comprising 65 to 95 wt % hard monomers and 5 to 35 wt % soft monomers is polymerized to produce a second polymer phase. Monomer composition I also comprises from 1 to 5 wt % of at least one monomer selected from ethylenically unsaturated sulfonic acids, phosphonic acids, phosphoric acids, carboxylic acids, carboxylic amides, carboxylic anhydrides and mixtures thereof and 1 to 7.5 wt % of ethylenically unsaturated monomers containing keto groups. The weight ratio of monomer composition I to monomer composition II ranges from 50:50 to 65:35 and the polymer dispersion also contains a water-soluble cross-linking component selected from polyfunctional carboxylic hydrazides and/or polyfunctional amines.
US11098137B2
The present invention relates to a continuous vapor phase olefin polymerization process comprising polymerization of at least one olefin monomer in at least two serial polymerization reactors containing an agitated bed of forming polymer particles, wherein forming polymer particles are transferred from an upstream reactor to a downstream reactor, wherein the upstream reactor is a horizontal stirred reactor containing multiple reaction zones, each reaction zone having at least one inlet for a gaseous stream and optionally additionally an inlet for a liquid stream, wherein said process reduces the carry over of undesired reactive gases from the upstream reactor to the downstream reactor. The present invention further relates to a system suitable for the present continuous vapor phase olefin polymerization process. The present invention further relates to the use of the present process and system for producing heterophasic polypropylene.
US11098130B1
A humanized antibody to the poliovirus receptor can be used to target nucleic acids, proteins, and chemicals to brain cancer cells, thus providing treatment for tumors that are otherwise hard to treat due to the difficulty of getting treatments through the blood brain barrier.
US11098126B2
The invention relates to agonistic anti-MET antibodies and uses thereof in the therapeutic treatment of disease. The antibodies bind with high affinity to the human and mouse hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) receptor, also known as MET, and are agonists of MET in both humans and mice, producing molecular and cellular effects resembling the effects of HGF binding.
US11098123B2
An OCTS-based CAR-T vector for treating pancreatic cancer and malignant mesothelioma includes lentiviral skeleton plasmid, human EF1α promoter (SEQ ID NO: 14), OCTS chimeric receptor structural domain, and PDL1 single-chain antibody; the OCTS chimeric receptor structural domain consists of CD8 leader chimeric receptor signal peptide (SEQ ID NO: 15), PDL1 single-chain antibody light chain VL (SEQ ID NO: 16), PDL1 single-chain antibody heavy chain VH (SEQ ID NO: 17), mesothelin single-chain antibody light chain VL (SEQ ID NO: 18), mesothelin single-chain antibody heavy chain VH (SEQ ID NO: 19), antibody Inner-Linker (SEQ ID NO: 20), single-chain antibody Inter-Linker (SEQ ID NO: 21), CD8 Hinge chimeric receptor linker (SEQ ID NO: 22), CD8 Transmembrane chimeric receptor transmembrane domain (SEQ ID NO: 23), TCR chimeric receptor T cell activation domain (SEQ ID NO: 26) and chimeric receptor co-stimulator domain.
US11098118B2
Provided are antibodies or fragment thereof having binding specificity to the wild-type human claudin 18.2 (CLDN18.2) protein and also capable of binding the M149L mutant. By contrast, such antibodies and fragments do not or weakly bind to claudin 18.1 (CLDN18.1).
US11098110B2
A method is provided for reducing the treatment burden for patients who have an intraocular neovascular disorder, the method comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of VEGF antagonist on a dosing schedule that includes treatment intervals of 8 and/or 12 weeks.
US11098096B2
The present disclosure relates to a class of engineered polypeptides having a binding affinity for amyloid β (Aβ) peptides (in the following referred to as Aβ), comprising the amino acid sequence EX2X3YX5X6NLX9A X11QLCAX16IX18X19X20 ED (SEQ ID NO:632). The present disclosure also relates to the use of such Aβ peptide binding polypeptides as therapeutic, prognostic and/or diagnostic agents.
US11098094B2
The present invention relates to proteins consisting of an artificial DNA-binding domain (DBD) and related molecules and uses thereof. In particular, the proteins are ZF-DBD or TALE-DBD and are used for the treatment of eye disorders caused by gain of function mutation. The disorder may be ADRP, in particular ADRP caused by mutation in the rhodopsin gene. The present invention also relates to a method to identify cis-regulatory elements and to modulate them via DBDs.
US11098090B2
The present invention relates to novel peptides derivable from the polypeptide chaperonin 60.1 and to their use in medicine, such as for the prevention and/or treatment of inflammatory conditions.
US11098083B2
Peptide that regulates fat metabolism and is used in the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of diseases associated with abnormalities in energy metabolism is described, particularly fat metabolism. The peptide of the present disclosure can reduce fat absorption, reduce fat accumulation in the liver and regulate fat metabolism, and has an advantage of being orally administered as compared with other general peptide products, and thus can also be used as an active ingredient of a health care product for regulating fat metabolism.
US11098074B2
The present invention relates to a compound represented by the formula (1A). G represents a group selected from the group consisting of a monovalent group represented by the formula (GP) and a monovalent group represented by the formula (GS). R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, and R12 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a group selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, an aralkyl group, an alkoxy group, a halogeno group, and a halogeno alkyl group.
US11098072B2
The present disclosure relates to novel compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods for treating or preventing microbial infection caused by parasites or bacteria, such as Plasmodium falciparum or related Plasmodium parasite species and Mycobacterium tuberculosis or related Mycobacterium bacteria species. The compounds are α,β-unsaturated analogs of fosmidomycin and can inhibit deoxyxylulose phosphate reductoisomerase (Dxr) in many microbes, such as P. falciparum.
US11098071B2
The present invention relates to a GPR84 receptor antagonist and use thereof. The GPR84 receptor antagonist of the present invention has a structure as represented by formula (I), the definitions of R1, R2, R3, R4, L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6, Y, Z, and rings A, B, C, and D are as described in the description and claims. The GPR84 receptor antagonist of the present invention can competitively inhibit the activation of the receptor caused by an agonist of GPR84, and can be used in the preparation of a medicament for treating related diseases caused by high expression or high excitability of GPR84 receptor, the diseases including multiple sclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease, arthritis and the like.
US11098069B2
Organoamino-functionalized cyclic oligosiloxanes, which have at least two silicon and two oxygen atoms as well as an organoamino group and methods for making the organoamino-functionalized cyclic oligosiloxanes are disclosed. Methods for depositing silicon and oxygen containing films using the organoamino-functionalized cyclic oligosiloxanes are also disclosed.
US11098067B2
The present invention relates to a method of production of 4-boronophenylalanine (BPA) from 4-iodophenylalanine, in which all the functional groups of the amino acid are protected by benzyl protection method, and which uses isopropyl magnesium halogenide stabilized by a complexation base, and subsequent condensation of the resulting Grignard reagent with a boric acid ester. The final reaction step, catalytic hydrogenolysis or transfer hydrogenolysis of protecting groups on the amino acid, occurs after hydrolysis of the boronate ester groups.
US11098058B2
The invention provides novel compounds having the general formula I: wherein R1, the A ring and the B ring are as described herein, pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds, and methods of using the compounds.
US11098051B2
The invention provides compounds of Formula (I): as further described herein, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and methods to use the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions for treatment of certain viral disorders, including influenza.
US11098050B2
The present invention relates to organic semiconducting compounds of formula (I) wherein X1 is C, Si or Ge; X2 is 0, S or Se; and X3 is N or P as well as to organic electronic devices comprising such organic semiconducting compounds. (I)
US11098048B2
Compounds of formula (I) wherein R1, R2, A, W, m, n, p and q are as described herein, compositions including the compounds and methods of using the compounds as autotaxin inhibitors.
US11098047B2
The present disclosure relates generally to the field of antimicrobial compounds and to methods of making and using them. These compounds are useful for treating, preventing, reducing the risk of, and delaying the onset of microbial infections in humans and animals. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides a compound of Formula (I) or tautomer thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the compound or tautomer.
US11098037B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing the Alectinib or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof using lesser reaction steps and also eliminating expensive and time-consuming column chromatography. The invention also relates to novel polymorphic forms of Alectinib and Alectinib hydrochloride.
US11098035B2
The present disclosure is directed to disclosed compounds that increase cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) activity as measured in human bronchial epithelial (hBE) cells.
US11098033B2
The present disclosure relates to certain compounds having binding affinity for Ku, and uses thereof. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to the use of Ku inhibitors as described herein in site-specific genome engineering technologies, including but not limited to CRISPR/Cas9, Zinc finger nuclease (ZFN), Transcription activator-like effector nuclease (TALEN), and meganuclease. The present disclosure also relates to kits useful for site-specific genome engineering that include at least one compound as described herein.
US11098027B2
Compounds having the following Formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and methods of their use and preparation are disclosed:
US11098003B2
Control or repellency of bed bugs is accomplished by bringing the bed bugs into contact with at least one of the compounds of the structure (I) Wherein R is selected from —OH, —OC(O)R4, —OR6, —(OR6)2, wherein each R6 is independently selected from an alkyl group containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms and R4 is a branched or straight chain saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbyl group with zero to two double bonds and from 1 to 15 carbon atoms; X is O or CH2, with the proviso that when X is O, R can only be ═O; each Z is independently selected from (CH) and (CH2) y is a numeral selected from 1 and 2; R1 is selected from H or a branched or straight chain saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbyl group with zero to two double bonds and from 1 to 15 carbon atoms. R2 is selected from H and a branched or straight chain saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbyl group with zero to three double bonds and from 1 to 15 carbon atoms. R3 is selected from H, a branched or straight chain, saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbyl group with zero to three double bonds and from 1 to 15 carbon atoms, —(CH2)nOH, —C(O)OR5, —CH2C(O)OR7, —CH2C(O)R8, —C(O)NR9R10, —CH2C(O)NR11R12 where each of R5, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11 and R12 is independently selected from H and a branched or straight chain, saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbyl group with zero to three double bonds and from 1 to 15 carbon atoms, and n is an integer of from 1 to 12; and the bond between the 2 and 3 positions in the ring structure may be a single or a double bond, and wherein the compounds of structure (1) contain from 11 to 20 total carbon atoms, except where R is ═O, X═CH2 and y is 1 the compounds of structure (I) contain from 13 to 20 total carbon atoms in the compounds. wherein the compounds of structure (1) contain from 11 to 20 total carbon atoms, except where R is ═O, X═CH2 and y is 1 the compounds of structure (I) contain from 13 to 20 total carbon atoms in the compounds. wherein the compounds of structure (1) contain from 11 to 20 total carbon atoms, except where R is ═O, X═CH2 and y is 1 the compounds of structure (I) contain from 13 to 20 total carbon atoms in the compounds.
US11097994B2
Paraffin compositions including mainly even carbon number paraffins, and a method for manufacturing the same, is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the method involves contacting naturally occurring fatty acid/glycerides with hydrogen in a slurry bubble column reactor containing bimetallic catalysts with equivalent particle diameters from about 10 to about 400 micron. The even carbon number compositions are particularly useful as phase change material.
US11097985B2
A carbon composite composition and a carbon heater are provided. The carbon composite composition may include a phenolic resin as a binder, a lubricant, and a base material that determines a specific resistance of a resistance heating element at a high temperature. The carbon composite composition may prevent a dielectric breakdown, a spark and plasma from occurring in a carbon heater, and may improve radiation efficiency of the carbon heater.
US11097975B2
An optical fiber preform manufacturing apparatus comprising a seal member, wherein the seal member is attached to a flange portion formed in an open portion of a reaction chamber into which a burner is inserted, the seal member includes a first sheet that is flexible and includes an open portion that is smaller than an outer diameter of the burner, through which the burner is inserted; a second sheet having the same thickness as the first sheet and including an open portion that is larger than an outer diameter of the first sheet; and two third sheets that each include an open portion that is larger than the outer diameter of the burner and smaller than the outer diameter of the first sheet, the second sheet is arranged in the same plane as the first sheet, and the first and second sheets are sandwiched by the two third sheets.
US11097973B2
A mold stack for forming 3D glass-based articles includes a plenum and a cooling structure integrated with the plenum. The mold stack includes a mold with a flange that can be used to mount the mold on the plenum. The mold stack includes features to reduce mold warp without significantly increasing thermal mass.
US11097967B2
The invention provides for the integration of a gas fermentation process with a gasification process whereby effluent downstream from the gas fermentation process is recycled to the gasification process. The invention is capable of recycling one or more effluents including biogas generated from a wastewater treatment process, tail-gas generated from the fermentation process, unused syngas generated by the gasification process, microbial biomass generated from the fermentation process, microbial biomass generated from a wastewater treatment process, crude ethanol from the product recovery process, fusel oil from the product recovery process, microbial biomass depleted water, wastewater generated from the fermentation process, and clarified water from a wastewater treatment process to a gasification process.
US11097964B2
A magnet positioning system for positioning magnets inside pipes includes a first stackable paddle that includes slots for accepting magnets and a second stackable paddle that includes a metal component for attracting the magnets and securing the magnets in the slots when the paddles are stacked together. Once stacked together, the paddles are inserted into position inside a pipe and the metal component is removed to release the magnets which move toward, and attach to, the inside wall of the pipe. A fluid conduit is positioned between the magnets using a spacer and a fixing agent permanently secures the magnets, fluid conduit, and spacer in place.
US11097959B2
A single-phase fluid (SPF) storage is introduced for desalination of high-salt water using thermal energy from a concentrated solar power (CSP) unit. The SPF having a specific volumetric enthalpy higher than that of water at critical point in the operating ranges from 20 to 300 bar in pressure and 190 to 400 C in temperature is used as a new type of thermal energy storage (TES) medium and heat transfer fluid (HTF). It produces wet steam of a quality required by the desalination unit generating both steam for utilization of latent heat and condensate for sensible heat when its pressure is reduced to lower operating pressures. With a MED-TVC unit by using the steam as motive steam, the capacity of the CSP unit and SPF storage can be reduced as much as the energy recycled in the desalination unit.
US11097954B2
A method for preparing battery grade and high purity grade lithium hydroxide and lithium carbonate from high-impurity lithium sources includes steps for preparation of a refined lithium salt solution, preparation of battery grade lithium hydroxide, preparation of high purity grade lithium hydroxide, preparation of high purity grade lithium carbonate and preparation of battery grade lithium carbonate. The system to carry out the preparation includes a refined lithium salt solution preparation subsystem, a battery grade lithium hydroxide preparation subsystem, a high purity grade lithium hydroxide preparation subsystem, a high purity grade lithium carbonate preparation subsystem and a battery grade lithium carbonate preparation subsystem arranged in turn according to production sequence. A combination of physical and chemical treatment methods are used to treat the high-impurity lithium sources having variations in lithium contents, impurity categories, and impurity contents.
US11097952B2
Processes and systems for oxygen-enhanced Claus carbon dioxide recovery are disclosed. Oxygen is fed to a sulfur recovery unit instead of air. The tail gas is fed to a tail gas treatment unit which produces a treated tail gas, and the treated tail gas is processed in a carbon dioxide recovery unit to produce a carbon dioxide product. A method for retrofitting an existing sulfur recovery unit and tail gas treatment unit so as to recover the carbon dioxide product is also disclosed.
US11097947B2
Chalcogen-containing compound, its preparation method and thermoelectric element comprising the same
A chalcogen-containing compound of the following chemical formula which exhibits an excellent thermoelectric performance index (ZT) through an increase in power factor and a decrease in thermal conductivity, a method for preparing the same, and a thermoelectric element including the same: MyV1-ySnxSb2Tex+3, wherein V is vacancy, M is at least one alkali metal, x≥6, and 0
US11097935B2
An electric can opener comprises an upper opening portion and lower base portion. The upper opening portion and the lower base portion are selectively attachable to and separable from each other. The upper opening portion and the lower base portion are operable as an upright countertop can opener when attached, and the upper cutting portion is operable as a walk-and-cut can opener when separated from the lower base portion.
US11097923B2
Typically a technician is physically present to investigate a malfunction of an elevator system. Devices, systems and methods are provided for actively monitoring one or more lift devices, such as elevators and escalators. A computing system for electrically controlling an elevator controller, includes: a field board electrically connected to an elevator controller, and the field board communicates with a computing platform device, which in turn is connected to a server over the Internet. The field board includes relay switches that are electrically connected to the elevator controller. The server sends poking commands that triggers a relay switch to open or close, which causes the elevator controller to generate a call signal to move the elevator to an upper or a lower floor. If the elevator does not move according to a poking command, then a malfunction is reported.
US11097917B2
A sheet supporting apparatus includes first and second units. The first unit includes a first housing, first and second lock portions, a first shaft configured to be supported rotatably with respect to the first housing and to turnably support the first lock portion, and a second shaft configured to be supported rotatably with respect to the first housing and to turnably support the second lock portion. The second unit includes a second housing and first and second engagement portions provided in the second housing and configured to engage respectively with the first and second lock portions. The first and second shafts are disposed such that extension lines of rotational axes of the first and second shafts cross with each other in a plan view.
US11097907B2
A substrate transfer device according to an embodiment includes: a holding part configured to hold a substrate having a pattern formed on a front surface thereof; and a supply part configured to supply an inert gas, which locally keeps the front surface of the substrate held by the holding part in a low oxygen state, to the front surface of the substrate.
US11097906B1
A liquid withdrawal system includes a base, at least one motion-enhancing element, a plurality of grip elements and a clamp. The base has a load-carrying surface and a rotational axis. The rotational axis is perpendicular to the load-carrying surface. The base is rotatable relative to the rotational axis. The motion-enhancing element is disposed on the load-carrying surface. The clamp is disposed opposite the load-carrying surface. The base and clamp jointly define a receiving space. The receiving space is adapted to receive a liquid barrel. The grip elements are movably connected to the base and symmetrically positioned relative to the base.
US11097903B2
An unscrambler machine receives a load of wooden boards in its hopper. The unscrambler steadily dispenses one board at a time onto a grading “waterfall” conveyor. When the board leaves the unscrambler, it is relatively aligned, but not always adequately aligned, perpendicular to the direction of travel of the conveyor. In the case that multiple tiered “waterfall” conveyors are used, the board is cascaded down each waterfall configuration and will continue to be straightened out by nature of the effect of gravity on the board as it slides down to encounter the conveyor chain of each conveyor tier.
US11097898B1
Provided are an electronic apparatus for transporting an item and an operation method thereof. The operation method includes identifying characteristic information of the item, identifying whether the identified characteristic information comprises main characteristic information associated with planned placement, based on a result of whether the identified characteristic information comprises the main characteristic information, identifying a placement space corresponding to the main characteristic information among a plurality of placement spaces or identifying one placement space among the plurality of placement spaces, and controlling a transport device to transport the item to a location corresponding to the identified placement space.
US11097895B1
A shelf is positioned at a shelf level and above a floor level. A ramp starts at the floor level and transitions to a first level. A robot having a drawer can travel from the floor level up the ramp to the first level without touching the shelf. A drawer handler robot has a drawer transitioning lower level which is between the floor level and the shelf level. A first instruction is provided to the robot to travel up the ramp to the first level. The robot moves up the ramp and to the first level according to the first instruction. The system provides a second instruction for the drawer handler robot to retrieve the drawer configured on the robot. The drawer handler robot is positioned near the robot and on the first level and retrieves the drawer from the robot on the first level.
US11097893B2
A tool for securing a shipping container head with two extensions extending away from the head and having a space between them sufficient to accommodate a bar bracket of a container lashing turnbuckles used to secure a shipping container door. The head also has a handle that can function as a lever, so that when the tool engages the turnbuckle bar bracket, an operator can close and secure the shipping container door.
US11097888B2
A container for consumer goods, such as smoking articles, has an outer housing with a hinged lid that houses an inner package of consumer goods. The inner package has an access opening through which consumer goods can be removed and that is covered by a reclosable flap attached to a first lid panel that is relatively movable to a second lid panel throughout rotation of the lid between lid open and closed positions. The reclosable flap has a hinge line about which it can move and a ratio between a first distance measured when the hinged lid is in the open position along a straight line between a lower front edge of the lid and the hinge line and a second distance that is a length along the reclosable flap between the hinge line and the free end is between 70% and 100%.
US11097883B2
A container for consumer goods, such as smoking articles, includes an outer housing with a hinged lid that houses an inner package of consumer goods. The inner package has an access opening through which consumer goods can be removed and that is covered by a reclosable flap, which is attached to a first lid panel that is relatively movable to a second lid panel throughout rotation of the lid between lid open and closed positions. Blanks for forming the outer housing and a method of forming the container are also provided.
US11097881B2
Described herein is an array of wet wipe packages displayed via a merchandise display system. The array of wet wipe packages includes a first package, a second package, and a third package. The first package includes a first wet wipe having a first coform nonwoven material and a first lotion which is devoid of perfume. The second package includes a second wet wipe having a second coform nonwoven material and a second lotion which includes a perfume. The third package includes a third wet wipe having a third coform nonwoven material and a third lotion. The third lotion is different than the first lotion and the second lotion. The first coform nonwoven material, the second coform nonwoven material, and/or the third coform nonwoven material has from about 14.5% to about 45% cotton.
US11097878B2
A flexible strap connector is disclosed. The connector comprises a strap having a buckle head at one end and a tongue at the opposite end. Ratchet teeth extend on one side of the strap and the ratchet teeth cooperate with the buckle head to permit movement of the strap in a first direction and to prevent movement of the strap in a second direction. A second slot is formed in the strap itself and it is a non-locking slot. When the strap is in the second slot, the strap is free to move further into the slot and free to be withdrawn from the slot. Embodiments where the buckle head and ratchet teeth are replaced with hook and loop fasteners are also disclosed.
US11097873B2
Method, system, apparatus, and/or device to secure the vapor plug within the dewar. The vapor plug retention strap includes a first connector, a second connector and a main body. The second connector is configured to couple with the first connector. The main body is coupled in between the first connector and the second connector. The main body has a receptacle formed within that is configured to receive a neck of a vapor plug of a dewar and retain the neck of the vapor plug to secure the vapor plug within the dewar.
US11097859B2
This method for producing a packaged food product portion includes the following steps: providing a cup defining an inner area for receiving the food product; cold pouring, at a temperature below 50° C., the food product into the receiving area of the cup; covering the food product using a thermally insulating lid arranged such that thermally conducting flaps of the cup extend toward the outside of the lid after the covering step; folding the flaps on an outer face of the lid opposite the receiving area; and heat-sealing the flaps on the outer face.
US11097857B2
An aircraft includes an electrical system and an electronic controller in signal communication with the electrical system. The electronic controller including a main processor and a multi-core processor. The multi-core processor includes one or more control cores and one or more prognostic cores. The control core is in signal communication with the electrical system to control power delivered thereto. The prognostics core is configured to process prognostics and diagnostics data of the electrical system independently from operation of the control core.
US11097850B2
A propulsion system for an aircraft includes an electric propulsion engine configured to be mounted to the aircraft at an aft end of the aircraft. The electric propulsion engine includes a power gearbox mechanically coupled to an electric motor. The electric propulsion engine further includes a fan rotatable about a central axis of the electric propulsion engine by the electric motor through the power gearbox. Moreover, the electric propulsion engine includes an attachment assembly for mounting at least one of the electric motor or the power gearbox. The attachment assembly includes a torsional damper for accommodating a torsional vibration of the electric motor or the power gearbox.
US11097845B2
In an illustrative embodiment, an aircraft galley ducting assembly provides airflow to at least one compartment of an aircraft galley monument. The ducting assembly may include a supply air duct that provides a supply airflow path to a compartment that includes an inlet port mounted to a compartment surface. A return air duct may provide an exit airflow path for return air that has circulated throughout the compartment and includes an outlet port mounted to the compartment surface. An airflow adjustment apparatus with an airflow adjustment surface is positioned within the supply airflow path of the supply air duct or the exit airflow path of the return air duct to cause a modification of airflow properties for air passing across or through the airflow adjustment surface.
US11097832B2
A system is provided. The system includes a dual piston actuator and valves. The dual piston actuator includes a primary actuator and a protection actuator. The primary and protection actuators move to increase and decrease a pitch of propellers of an aircraft with respect to a supply of first and second mediums. The valves include a first check valve, a second check valve, and a third valve. The third valve operates between a first mode and a protection mode. The second medium is directed to the primary and protection actuators through the first and second check valves by the third valve when the third valve is operating in a protection mode.
US11097826B1
A tiller for an outboard marine drive includes a tiller body that is elongated along a tiller axis between a fixed end connected to an outboard marine drive and a distal end. A lanyard switch on the tiller body is configured to prevent operation of the outboard marine drive when a lanyard clip is not attached to the lanyard switch. A controller is configured to identify that an operator has provided user input to start the outboard marine drive and that the lanyard clip is not connected to the lanyard switch. The controller then generates a lanyard error alert identifying that the lanyard clip is not connected to the lanyard switch.
US11097823B1
A mount for a trolling motor pivots the trolling motor between a deployed position and a stowed position. The mount includes a base coupled to a deck of a watercraft and upper and lower arms pivotably coupled to the base. A bracket also couples the upper arm to the lower arm. The mount includes one of the following: (1) a deployed-position latch coupled to the upper arm or the base and a corresponding deployed-position striker pin configured to engage with the deployed-position latch in the deployed position of the trolling motor to lock the upper arm to the base; or (2) a pivotable latch and an associated latch blocker on the upper or lower arm or the base and a corresponding striker pin configured to engage with the pivotable latch in the deployed and/or stowed position of the trolling motor to lock the upper or lower arm to the base.
US11097820B2
In order to provide a rigid sail or aerofoil sail which has a lower overall weight, is cost-effective to manufacture and does not affect the passing under bridges, power lines or similar structures arranged over busy waters, in the case of a rigid sail for vessels, in particular, for large ships, such as bulk carriers, tankers, car transporters or bulkers, comprising a mast and a first aerofoil wing body mounted on the mast with a base and a head, wherein the mast is inserted through the base into the first aerofoil wing body and is arranged within the first aerofoil wing body, it is proposed that the mast, starting from the base, does not extend beyond a maximum height of the first aerofoil wing body, in particular, less than 75% of the maximum height.
US11097816B1
A deflector for a mooring buoy of the type having a raised shackle includes a mounting plate that has a top side, a bottom side, and at least one peripheral edge. A shackle aperture traverses a center portion of the mounting plate and is adapted for receiving the shackle therethrough. A cage projects upwardly from the at least one peripheral edge of the mounting plate and terminates at an upper rim. The cage has a plurality of apertures therethrough and two or more tie apertures adjacent the shackle aperture. In use, the shackle of the buoy is inserted into the shackle aperture and the cage is rotated 90-degrees to secure the deflector to the buoy. Ties are then fastened through the tie apertures and the through the shackle to further secure the deflector to the mooring buoy.
US11097809B2
A method for constructing a hull of an offshore structure includes (a) welding a plurality of plates together to form a plate assembly. The method also includes (b) passing the plate assembly through a rolling machine with the plate assembly in a vertical orientation. In addition, the method includes (c) bending the plate assembly into a cylinder during (b). The cylinder includes a pair of circumferentially adjacent free ends. Further, the method includes (d) welding the free ends of the cylinder together after (c) to form a cylindrical external wall.
US11097786B2
A vehicle front structure includes a dash panel and a reinforcing member. The dash panel includes a steering column hole. The reinforcing member includes a center reinforcing member mounted in a center portion along a width of a vehicle and an outer reinforcing member attached outward along the width of the vehicle. The center reinforcing member and the outer reinforcing member are superposed and joined together on the dash panel around the steering column hole.
US11097785B2
The invention relates to an automobile hood assembly containing an inner hood, an outer hood, and a core sandwiched between the inner and outer hoods. The inner hood is constructed to provide strength and stiffness to the hood assembly; and the outer hood and core are constructed to provide energy absorption to provide pedestrian safety in case of pedestrian collision. The automobile hood assembly decouples the stiffness and energy absorption requirements of an automobile hood, so that those two design criteria may be accomplished independent of each other.
US11097783B2
A front pillar structure is provided with a pillar frame component that forms part of a front pillar, and with a pillar garnish that forms part of the front pillar, and that has a surface covering portion that extends substantially in the vehicle vertical direction and covers the pillar frame component from the vehicle cabin inner side, and an elastic body that is joined to a wall surface facing the pillar frame component of the surface covering portion, and that firmly grips inside itself the vehicle cabin inner-side flange portions of the first component and the second component.
US11097778B2
A vehicle rear structure includes a pair of laterally spaced apart rear side members extending along a longitudinal axis of a vehicle, and cross members extending between the pair of rear side members. Each of the rear side members includes a curve portion curved to be more inward at a rearer portion, and longitudinally-extending front and rear portions respectively disposed in front and at rear of the curve portion. A center cross member connects the front portions of the pair of rear side members. A first rear cross member connects boundary portions of the pair of rear side members. Each of the boundary portions is located between the curve portion and the rear portion of each of the rear side members. An intermediate cross member connects the curve portions of the pair of rear side members.
US11097777B2
A lane-change assistance system for a motor vehicle performs a plurality of lane changes from the current lane to a target lane, which are required in order to follow a navigation system outputted route. The plurality of lane changes is performed in response to the lane-change assistance system ascertaining a triggering operation action by the driver, which indicates that the driver wants the lane-change assistance system to perform the plurality of lane changes.
US11097774B2
A steering assist system for a hybrid vehicle capable of being driven by both of an engine and a drive motor, including a first assist portion and a second assist portion configured to assist a steering force respectively utilizing the engine and an electric motor each as a drive source, wherein the steering force is assisted only by the second assist portion in a motor-driven state in which the vehicle is driven only by the drive motor, and wherein the steering assist system is configured to, upon occurrence of a failure of the second assist portion in the motor-driven state, drive the engine, execute assist switching from an assist by the second assist portion to an assist by the first assist portion, and gradually increase, in the assist switching, an assist force by the first assist portion up to a set assist force when the vehicle is being steered.
US11097760B2
The present disclosure relates to a self-driving system that can engage and move an inventory holder. The self-driving system includes a mobile base comprising motorized wheels, an actuator disposed within the mobile base, the actuator is operable to adjust a height of the mobile base, a console having an upper portion and a main body, the main body being coupled to a first end of the mobile base in a standing configuration, and a first camera disposed on a first side of the upper portion of the console, the first camera facing a second end of the mobile base opposing the first end.
US11097757B2
The present invention is generally a load-bearing assembly that may be expanded so as to increase a surface area on which to support different sized loads. The load-bearing assembly may be constructed with multiple T-shaped frames or housings that register with each other forming a unique H-shaped frame design. The two T-shaped housings register with each other in a manner that facilitates the adjustment of the width of the load-bearing assembly. Extensions enclosed within each housing and extendable at terminal ends of each T-shaped housing extend outwardly from their respective terminal ends to adjust a length of the load-bearing assembly. The load-bearing assembly may be constructed of a light, sturdy metal alloy that is lightweight. Applications include moving inventory inside warehouses or moving furniture or appliances from one location to another.
US11097753B2
An airbag module and a rail vehicle with an airbag module are described herein. The airbag module includes a support flap, which is pivotably mounted on its rear end, such that the airbag module is convertable from a closed state into an open state by pivoting the support flap. The airbag module further includes an airbag, which is folded in the closed state of the airbag module and unfolded in the open state of the airbag module, so that the unfolded airbag and the support flap together form an impact protection for a person on the track. Furthermore, a rail vehicle with one or a plurality of airbag modules is described.
US11097744B2
A method for operating a driver assistance system of a vehicle, in which interventions activated by the driver assistance system in a travel mode of the vehicle are at least partially suspended for a predetermined time window when an override intent of a driver of the vehicle is recognized.
US11097742B2
The system includes an examination controller that performs control relating to medical examination of a client user in the mobile object, a controller configured to, decide whether or not to transport the client user to a medical facility, and create an operation command so as to cause the mobile object to pick up the client user at a first destination, which is a location based on information sent from a client user's terminal used by the client user, and when the controller decides to transport the client user to the medical facility after the mobile object moves to the first destination, to transport the client user aboard the mobile object to the medical facility as a second destination.
US11097741B1
A computer-implemented method is provided for adjusting at least one of a visual or an auditory setting correlated to the provision of entertainment within a vehicle. The method includes receiving information indicative of one or more changes in behavior that coincides with a provision of entertainment within a vehicle. The information indicative of the one or more changes in behavior is based on data captured by one or more sensors of the vehicle. The method includes analyzing the one or more changes in behavior in order to determine a modification to the provision of entertainment within the vehicle. The modification is commensurate with the one or more changes in behavior. The method includes based on the determined modification, providing, an output signal for adjusting at least one of a visual or an auditory setting correlated to the provision of entertainment within the vehicle.
US11097733B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for controlling a reverse driving. The apparatus includes: a movement trace storage unit configured to detect and store the movement trace of the vehicle moving forward; a restricted driving area identifier configured to identify a restricted driving area, based on at least one of the processing result of the image data, the location information, and pre-stored map information; a reverse driving path determiner configured to identify whether a reverse driving request signal is received when the restricted driving area is identified, generate one or more driving paths, based on, the stored movement trace when the reverse driving request signal is received, and determine the reverse driving path, based on the one or more driving paths; and a movement controller configured to control movement of the vehicle to reverse the vehicle along the reverse driving path. The present disclosure has an effect of providing driving convenience by controlling a reverse driving when a vehicle enters a dead end or a one-way street by mistake.
US11097730B2
A system, vehicle and method are provided that automatically activate and deactivate a driver assistance system. The automatic activation and deactivation depend on predefined criteria such as brake or gas pedal release, current vehicle velocity, and the presence of a lead vehicle.
US11097724B2
In an apparatus for controlling travel of an own vehicle which is a vehicle carrying the apparatus, an information acquirer is configured to acquire information regarding a target around the own vehicle from a target detector. A controller is configured to, if determining, using the target information acquired by the information acquirer, that if travel of the own vehicle is continued in accordance with a collision avoidance trajectory determined to avoid a collision with an object located on a roadway ahead of the own vehicle, the own vehicle is likely to collide with the object or another object, change a setting of a driving state of the own vehicle so as to avoid or reduce a likelihood of the collision.
US11097710B2
A method (purge procedure) for purging a decoupled brake system including: a brake fluid reservoir, a master cylinder, a brake circuit connected to the wheel brakes, a pump equipped with a plunger. A segment of the brake circuit to be purged is isolated by closing the solenoid valves at the extremities of the segment, a vacuum is created with the plunger, and an extremity of this segment is placed in communication with the exterior to evacuate the trapped air bubble.
US11097709B2
The present disclosure relates to a brake cylinder, a brake caliper unit and a rail vehicle. The brake cylinder includes a cylinder block and a cylinder head fixedly sleeved over one end of the cylinder block, the cylinder block being provided therein with a piston, a guide spring, a guide nut, a taper sleeve, an adjusting shaft assembly, a thrust sleeve and a gap adjusting nut assembly; wherein the gap adjusting nut assembly includes a gap adjusting nut, a gap adjusting sleeve and a gap adjusting spring, and a groove extending along an axial direction of the gap adjusting sleeve is formed on an outer circumferential surface of the gap adjusting sleeve, in which groove a release gap adjusting unit is provided. The thrust sleeve spring of the brake cylinder of the present disclosure can recognize excessive elastic deformation of the external lever to prevent the gap adjustment triggered by the excessive elastic deformation of the external lever, ensuring that the release gap of the disc is constant.
US11097704B2
A method for updating a vehicle reference speed for a vehicle is disclosed. The method includes increasing brake pressure to at least one wheel of the plurality of wheels and determining, via an electronic control unit, that a first wheel speed of the at least one wheel is less than a second wheel speed of another wheel of the plurality of wheels. The method also includes estimating the vehicle reference speed of the vehicle based upon the first wheel speed of the at least one wheel.
US11097702B2
A method for electronically controlling a brake unit having two brake systems in an automatically controllable vehicle combination includes inputting a request signal for automatic electronic activation of service brakes in a tractor vehicle brake system of a tractor vehicle and/or a trailer brake system of a trailer of the vehicle combination, wherein an automatically requested vehicle setpoint acceleration and/or an automatically requested vehicle setpoint velocity to be implemented by the respective service brakes are transmitted via the request signal. The method further includes monitoring and checking plausibility of the request signal to establish whether the automatically requested vehicle setpoint acceleration and/or the automatically requested vehicle setpoint velocity are or can be implemented completely or faultlessly by the respective service brakes. The method additionally includes outputting a trailer redundancy control signal at the trailer brake system under certain conditions.
US11097701B2
A controller and a control method of a motorcycle brake system including a brake operator, a wheel braking assembly, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform a lean angle obtainment step during turning, and perform a positive gradient setting step. The positive gradient corresponds to the lean angle obtained. The controller is also configured to initiate a braking force suppression operation in states where the motorcycle makes a turn and increases input to the brake operator. This operation is executed to increase braking force generated by the wheel braking assembly in a smaller positive gradient of hydraulic pressure in a wheel cylinder than a positive gradient of hydraulic pressure in a master cylinder when the braking force on the wheel depends only on the input to the brake operator. The braking force suppression operation is initiated in the positive gradient when an initiation reference is satisfied.
US11097700B2
Disclosed herein is an electronic brake system using an integrated sensor, which includes a hydraulic block configured to distribute and supply a fluid to a wheel brake, and having a through-hole penetrated at both sides thereof, a sensor module installed at one side of the hydraulic block having the through-hole, for sensing a linear displacement of a brake pedal and a position of a motor, and an electronic control unit installed to a side of the hydraulic block opposite to the sensor module, in order to determine a movement distance of the pedal, based on the linear displacement of the pedal sensed by the sensor module, and control rotation of the motor depending on the linear displacement of the pedal.
US11097697B2
The utility model relates to a pluggable two-way tire slip stopper, which is used for solving the problem of sliding when a vehicle is parked. The pluggable two-way tire slip stopper includes two slip stoppers, the back portions of the two slip stoppers are plugged together via a slot in a protrusion manner, the two slip stoppers are identical in structure, and the slip stopper includes the anti-slip portion of a front end and the plug portion of a rear end, the anti-slip portion is integrally formed with the plug portion, the plug portion is in the shape of a square, the plug portion is a triangular column shape with an obliquely upward surface, and the anti-slip portion is provided with a plurality of anti-slip belts, and the anti-slip belt is disposed at a certain distance, the upper surface of the anti-slip belt is inclined, and the anti-slip belt is provided thereon with a plurality of anti-slip protruding strips. The two slip stoppers of the utility model can be combined and plugged together, can be used in combination, and uses a two-wheeled vehicle to prevent slippage, whose effect is very good. The utility model has the advantages of scientific design, convenient use and good use value. The utility model is light and durable, convenient to carry, safe and convenient.
US11097687B2
A webbing retractor includes a spool, a motor, a force limiter mechanism, a first rotating body, a second rotating body, a ratchet gear, a pawl body and a control section. The ratchet gear is provided at one of the first rotating body or the second rotating body. The pawl body is provided at another of the first rotating body or the second rotating body. The pawl body can engage with the ratchet gear in a case in which the first rotating body rotates toward one side, and engagement of the pawl body with the ratchet gear being cancelled in a case in which the first rotating body rotates toward another side. The control section drives the motor to rotate in reverse, such that the first rotating body rotates toward another side in a case in which a physical amount relating to load of the passenger exceeds a predetermined value during forward rotational driving.
US11097685B2
A tactical-gear-accommodating seatbelt system and method adapted to provide enhanced safety and easier, more reliable means of engaging and disengaging the seatbelt for persons wearing tactical gear on the waist and chest, by providing an extender unit having an extender strap coupled with and extending from the standard seat-level receptacle or anchored in lieu of the standard seat-level receptacle, and a continuous two-way quarter-turn sure-release receptacle attached to the free end of the extender strap such that the double receptacle sits generally in front of the lower torso in use, and having receptacle fittings to accommodate separate lap and shoulder straps anchored at lower and upper anchor points, respectively, with free ends terminated in buckle tabs, thereby allowing easier and safer engagement and disengagement of the seatbelt system for a person wearing tactical gear.
US11097676B2
An apparatus and method for improving the safety and performance of an automobile in crash events is disclosed. The apparatus includes a front crash pad, rear crash pad, and a connection beam. Both crash pads and the connection beam are coupled to an automobile in such fashion as to absorb and dissipate energy by converting kinetic energy into strain energy.
US11097670B2
A method for calibrating image data of an imaging system for a vehicle combination, including a first part of the tractor trailer, which encompasses the imaging system, and a second part which encompasses a calibration object, the second part being mechanically coupled to the first part so as to be movable about at least one axis. The imaging system is configured to at least partially representing the second part. The method includes: providing at least one image of the imaging system, which represents the calibration object; identifying the calibration object within the image; identifying a characteristic variable of the calibration object within the image; determining a deviation of the characteristic variable from a stored characteristic setpoint variable; generating calibrated image data by transforming the image data of the imaging system, depending on the deviation of the characteristic variable from the stored characteristic setpoint variable to compensate for the deviation.
US11097661B1
A method for operating a display arrangement of a motor vehicle. A camera continuously captures camera images of a motor vehicle environment and a display device shows the camera images in the form of an alternating image display. An additional, continuously changing image element is shown in or adjacent to the display of alternating images. The image element does not change if a malfunction of the camera and/or the display device and/or another component of the display arrangement results in the display of a still image comprising a single camera image by the display device.
US11097657B1
An illuminated door sill plate contains: a base and a removable cover. The base includes an elongated case, a waterproof plate, a PCB having a light-emitting diode (LED), a light guide plate, and at least one changeable battery. The elongated case has a light emitting portion, multiple engagement portions, at least one first receiving orifice, and at least one battery cover. The removable cover includes an elongated body connected with a nameplate, and the nameplate has a light transmission portion formed on center of the nameplate in multiple character shapes and configured to transmit lights, an elongated groove formed on center of a top of the elongated body, and multiple hooks extending from two long sides of the elongated groove and engaged with the multiple engagement portions so that the base is connected with or removed from the removable cover.
US11097652B2
There is provided an aiming adjustment method for a vehicle headlamp which performs aiming adjustment based on a reference point on a light-dark boundary of a light distribution pattern, the method includes setting, as the reference point, an intersection between a vertical light-dark boundary of a part of multi-divided light distribution patterns which are to be synthesized to form a high-beam light distribution pattern and a horizontal light-dark boundary of a low-beam light distribution pattern.
US11097649B2
The selectively sealable vehicle bed partition comprises a partition body comprising a top edge, a bottom edge, a first end edge extending between the top edge and the bottom edge, an opposed second end edge extending between the top edge and the bottom edge, a first face bounded by the top edge, bottom edge, first end edge, and second end edge, and an opposed second face bounded by the top edge, bottom edge, first end edge, and second end edge; and a selectively inflatable seal comprising an inflation chamber disposed on the partition body, the selectively inflatable seal disposed on and extending along the first end edge, bottom edge, and second end edge, the selectively inflatable seal comprising a selectively openable and closable valve that is configured to receive and retain a gas for inflation of the inflation chamber and release the gas to deflate the inflation chamber.
US11097643B1
An L-arm protection system includes an L-arm assembly to engage with wheels of a vehicle for towing the vehicle, the L-arm assembly having a first side and a second side; a sleeve to secure over the first side of the L-arm assembly, the sleeve having a body extending from a first side to a second side and having a channel, the first side being open and the second side being closed; a set screw extending through the body and to tighten the body to the first side of the L-arm assembly; and a chain link secured to the second side of the body and to provide a securing point; the body of the sleeve is to secure around the first side of the L-arm assembly via the set screw.
US11097642B2
A vehicle seating assembly includes a leg support rotationally coupled to a seat and including a bladder assembly at least partially disposed on the leg support, and a lift mechanism disposed between the seat and the leg support, wherein the lift mechanism is configured to move the leg support between a stored position and a deployed position, and wherein the bladder assembly is inflatable between a deflated state and an inflated state.
US11097639B2
A support base for a child safety seat includes a support leg, a first and a second locking mechanism, and a linking assembly. The support leg includes three segments that are telescopically connected with one another via a first and a second sliding connection. The first locking mechanism includes a first latch for locking and unlocking the first sliding connection, and a first actuating part operable to cause the first latch to unlock the first sliding connection. The second locking mechanism includes a second latch for locking and unlocking the second sliding connection, and a second actuating part operable to cause the second latch to unlock the second sliding connection. The linking assembly operatively couples the first locking mechanism to the second locking mechanism so that the first and second sliding connections can be unlocked concurrently with one single operating step.
US11097628B2
An energy transmission and control system includes a power supply, a conductive support to electrically couple to the power supply, and a vehicle to electrically couple to the conductive support to receive electrical energy from the power supply. The conductive support can be configured to support the vehicle for travel along the conductive support and to transmit the electrical energy from the power supply to the vehicle. The electrical circuit can be configured to transmit a communications signal at a low frequency of about five hundred kilohertz or less. The vehicle can include a translating contact for electrically coupling the vehicle to the conductive support, a switch for selectively transmitting the electrical energy from the power supply to an electrically powered element or subsystem, and a controller to receive the communications signal and operate the switch to selectively transmit the electrical energy to the electrically powered element or subsystem.
US11097624B2
A driving system includes a first alternating-current rotary electrical machine and a second alternating-current rotary electrical machine. The driving system includes: a first inverter electrically connected to the first alternating-current rotary electrical machine; a second inverter electrically connected to a first end of each of phase windings constituting the second alternating-current rotary electrical machine; a step-up converter; and a third inverter that is electrically connected to a second end of each of the phase windings and transfers power to a second direct-current power source different from the first direct-current power source to drive the second alternating-current rotary electrical machine. The step-up converter raises an output voltage of the first direct-current power source and outputs the output voltage to the first inverter and the second inverter. The second direct-current power source and the first alternating-current rotary electrical machine are connected by a single connection route.
US11097620B2
A circuit system for a railroad vehicle according to an embodiment includes a power conversion unit, a first converter, a second converter, a power storage unit, and a control unit. The power conversion unit converts power supplied from an overhead wire into power for driving a motor for running mounted on a railroad vehicle. The first converter converts power supplied from the overhead wire into DC power. The second converter converts power output from the first converter into power for driving a load mounted on the railroad vehicle. The power storage unit is electrically connected to an input side of the second converter. The control unit inputs regenerative power output from the power conversion unit to the first converter and inputs power output from the first converter to the power storage unit in a case where it is determined that the railroad vehicle is being regenerated.
US11097619B2
A current collector monitoring system in one aspect of the present disclosure is provided with: a collected current measurement unit; a collected current state determination unit; an image acquisition unit; an event recognition unit; an event determination unit; and a determination result output unit. When a state of collected current corresponds to an abnormal state, the image acquisition unit acquires an image including, within an angle of view, a collector shoe provided to a current collector.
US11097614B2
A ride-on toy with electronic speed controller for superior user experience is described herein. A ride-on toy as described herein may be in the form of a ride-on toy car, truck, jeep, motorcycle or the like and may be used with up to a 24-volt power source as opposed to a 12-volt power source as is common in the art. An electronic speed controller of the present disclosure provides variable speed control to at least one and preferably at least two motors from separate accelerator and brake mechanisms such as pedals. Conventional ride-on toys such as those described herein typically contain a single-pole switch such as pedal that provides all-or-nothing power to a motor as opposed to modulation of two motors by two actuation means. A ride-on toy as described herein may combine various controller components in unique ways to achieve the superior results as described herein.
US11097608B2
A method for manufacturing a solenoid-armature ram composite and a corresponding solenoid-armature ram composite for a linear actuator which has a stator with a coil that can be fed with electrical current for producing an electromagnetic field and a single-part or multi-part solenoid armature movable along a longitudinal axis of the coil and a ram connected with the solenoid armature, provides that the solenoid armature surrounds the ram in a ring shape and a gap between the ram and the solenoid armature is cast with a casting material.
US11097604B2
The golf club cover is an apparatus that acts as a rain cover for protecting golf clubs in golf bags, placed in the rear section of a golf cart. To accomplish this, the apparatus includes a transparent sheet that is held securely between two PVC rod structures, such that the transparent sheet does not hinder the rear view of the driver. The rod structures have bungee cords with fastening elements at the end of the bungee cords, such that the apparatus may be attached on the golf cart roof and body, without having to have any additional fastening features on the golf cart. Further, the apparatus may be rolled up and compactly stored within the golf bag in a sleeve. Furthermore, the arrangement of the bungee cords at the lower end enables a user to retrieve contents from one golf bag without exposing the other bag to the elements.
US11097597B2
Methods and systems are provided for controlling an air conditioning system of a motor vehicle. In one example, a cabin of the vehicle may be heated firstly to a first temperature by flowing coolant to a heat exchanger, coolant may be diverted away from the heat exchanger and toward the engine in order to increase a temperature of the engine, and the coolant may then flow again to the heat exchanger in order to heat the cabin to a second temperature. An amount of fuel savings resulting from heating the engine by diverting coolant away from the heat exchanger may be displayed to an operator of the vehicle via a display device.
US11097596B2
A vehicle equipped with an electric motor includes an electric motor, an electrical storage device, an air-conditioning device, a heat source cooling circuit and a controller. The air-conditioning device includes a heater core, an air conditioning hot liquid circuit that causes a thermal medium liquid to flow through the heater core, and a temperature raising device that raises a temperature of the thermal medium liquid and cause electric power consumption. When regenerative braking is performed by the electric motor when a state of charge of the electrical storage device is a predetermined value or more, the controller raises a temperature of the thermal medium liquid using the temperature raising device and switches connection and shutting between the air conditioning hot liquid circuit and the heat source cooling circuit according to a temperature of the thermal medium liquid in the air conditioning hot liquid circuit and the heat source cooling circuit.
US11097587B2
The electromagnetic suspension apparatus includes: an electromagnetic actuator provided in parallel with a spring member between a vehicle body and a wheel of a vehicle and configured to generate driving force involving vibration damping of the vehicle body; an information acquisition unit configured to acquire, through a high-pass filter, time-series information about a stroke position of the electromagnetic actuator; and an ECU configured to calculate target driving force of the electromagnetic actuator and use the calculated target driving force to execute driving force control of the electromagnetic actuator. The ECU corrects the target driving force such that when the stroke position on the basis of the high-pass-filter-processed time-series information, from which low-frequency components (steady state deviation) have been removed, is present in a neutral region including a neutral position, spring force of the spring member is made weaker than when the stroke position is present in a non-neutral region.
US11097586B2
A damper and spring unit includes a damper having a cylinder and a rod extending along a first axis (z), a spring plate arranged around the cylinder and slidable with respect to the cylinder along the first axis (z), a spring resting at its bottom on the spring plate, and an electro-mechanical adjustment device interposed between the cylinder and the spring plate for adjusting in a continuous and controlled manner the vertical position of the bottom end of the spring and the height of the vehicle from the ground. The adjustment device includes an electric motor generating a rotary motion and a motion conversion mechanism having one screw extending along a second axis (z′) parallel to the first axis (z), but spaced therefrom, and driven into rotation by the electric motor about the second axis (z′), and a nut meshing with the screw and drivingly connected for translation with the spring plate.
US11097582B1
Some embodiments may provide a suspension unit that may include a rail having a longitudinal axis, a sliding member slidably connected to the rail, and shock absorption and springing means adapted to damp motions and support forces along the longitudinal axis of the rail, wherein, the rail and the sliding member are shaped to have transverse cross-sectional profiles that prevent a rotational movement of the sliding member with respect to the rail about the longitudinal axis of the rail. In some embodiments, the suspension unit may be part of an in-wheel system further including at least a steering unit.
US11097577B2
Tire health sensor assembly for arrangement in a vehicle tire formed by a housing arranged for accommodating a magnet assembly formed by at least one magnet, a sensor module including at least one tire pressure sensor, power means in the form of at least one battery or capacitor and/or energy harvester, and a communication module wherein the magnet assembly and sensor module are arranged at lower part of the housing providing the housing, and accordingly the tire health sensor assembly, with a centre of gravity at lower part of the housing which together with magnetic force of the magnet assembly are arranged to self-align/correct the tire health sensor assembly in relation to an inner circumferential surface of the tire, and attachment to a metal cord of the tire or metal wheel of the tire.
US11097574B2
One or more marks provided on a reference surface has an edging portion forming an outer edge of the or each mark and a mark main portion arranged inside the edging portion. A surface of the edging portion is inclined with respect to the reference surface in a direction in which a height thereof from the reference surface increases from one side to the other side in a tyre radial direction. A surface of the mark main portion is inclined with respect to the reference surface in an opposite direction to the surface of the edging portion.
US11097565B2
A thermally expandable sheet includes a base, a thermally expansive layer, and a color adjustment layer. The thermally expansive layer is provided on a first side of the base and includes a thermally expandable material that distends in accordance with an amount of heat absorbed, the heat being generated from a thermal conversion layer that includes a thermal conversion material that converts electromagnetic waves to heat. The color adjustment layer is provided on at least one of the thermally expansive layer and a second side of the base and includes a color adjusting agent. When the thermal conversion layer is provided on the color adjustment layer, the color adjustment layer reduces a visual difference in color between a first region where the thermal conversion layer is provided and a second region where the thermal conversion layer is not provided.
US11097564B2
Aspects are directed to a textile substrate with two or more ink layers and methods for printing a textile substrate. The two or more ink layers may include one or more visual components that form graphics or images that are visible to an observer when viewing the textile substrate from different angles.
US11097562B2
A printing apparatus includes a discharge head configured to discharge a liquid toward a medium, a head control board configured to control the discharge head, a circuit case having a box-like shape configured to house the head control board, and a carriage configured to reciprocate in a scanning direction while supporting the discharge head and the circuit case. The circuit case includes an air intake port in one surface of the circuit case, with the one surface intersecting with the scanning direction, and an exhaust port in another surface of the circuit case, with the other surface intersecting with the scanning direction. At the exhaust port, an exhaust fan configured to exhaust, to outside of the circuit case, heat that is inside the circuit case is installed, the heat being generated by the head control board.
US11097560B2
An inkjet printer is described. The inkjet printer has a substrate holder assembly that includes a base member having a long axis in a first direction and a short axis in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; a contact member coupled to the base member, the contact member having a long axis in the first direction and a short axis in the second direction; a holder carriage coupled to the base member; a linear extender coupled between the base member and the contact member and extending in a third direction intersecting with the first direction and the second direction from the base member toward the contact member; and a flex member coupled to the base member, extending in the second direction between the linear extender and the contact member, and having a flex direction in a direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction.
US11097552B2
A droplet discharge apparatus includes a first head, a first-ink pack storing first ink, a second head, a second ink pack storing second ink, a cleaning liquid container storing cleaning liquid, a common flow path system, a cleaning liquid flow path, a first pump feeding the first ink from the first ink pack to the second ink pack through the common flow path system, a second pump feeding the cleaning liquid from the cleaning liquid container to the first ink pack through the cleaning liquid flow path and the common flow path system, a first valve controlling a liquid flow rate between the common flow path system and the first ink pack, a second valve controlling a liquid flow rate between the common flow path system and the second ink pack, a third valve controlling a liquid flow rate between the common flow path system and the cleaning liquid flow path, and a control unit, wherein the common flow path system, the first valve, and the second valve are located higher than a liquid surface in the first ink pack and a liquid surface in the second ink pack, and wherein the control unit transfers the first ink from the first ink pack to the second ink pack, and transfers the cleaning liquid from the cleaning liquid container to the first ink pack.
US11097540B2
A liquid ejection head includes a base plate and at least two device chips in which ejection ports for ejecting a liquid are formed and which are disposed on the base plate. At least one first reference mark is provided on the base plate. A second reference mark is provided on each of the device chips. At least one space is formed between adjacent device chips. The second reference marks and the first reference mark present in the space are disposed on an array axis along which the device chips are arrayed.
US11097532B2
A method for making a mold is provided. The method includes the following steps a) to d): a) in which a polymer solution is discharged from a liquid droplet discharger onto a stage, where the polymer solution is capable of solating at a temperature lower than a sol-gel transition temperature and gelating at a temperature higher than the sol-gel transition temperature; b) in which the polymer solution discharged onto the stage is maintained at a temperature higher than the sol-gel transition temperature; c) in which the liquid droplet discharger and the stage are relatively moved to form a gel layer on the stage, where the gel layer has a shape corresponding to a locus of the relative movement; and d) in which the polymer solution is discharged from the liquid droplet discharger onto the gel layer to laminate another gel layer thereon and obtain a laminated object.
US11097519B2
The invention relates to a polyamide-based surface material having fillers which improve the tribologically active properties, wherein the fillers comprise at least one metal sulfide and/or calcium phosphate. The invention further relates to a three-dimensional molded body consisting of a surface material, produced, in particular, as an injection-molded part or extrusion part and or by additive fabrication.
US11097518B2
The present invention relates to a coated polyester film equipped on at least one side with permanent antifog coating. The film of the invention is suitable for the production of greenhouse blinds, and has specific transparency properties, permanent antifog properties and high UV resistance. The invention further relates to processes for the production of the polyester film of the invention, and also to use thereof.
US11097513B2
A laminated glass pane is described including a) a substrate glass, b) at least one layer structure applied to the substrate glass, c) at least one polymer layer applied to the layer structure, d) a cover glass on the polymer layer, wherein the mean coefficient of thermal expansion of the substrate glass is at most 18×10−7 K−1 greater than or at most 18×10−7 K−1 less than the mean coefficient of thermal expansion of the cover glass, and in the temperature range from −40° C. to +90° C., the maximum mechanical stress of the laminated glass pane is less than or equal to 7 MPa. Uses of the laminated glass pane are also described.
US11097512B1
Provided is a panel for constructing a floor or wall covering. The panel includes a core which includes a mineral material and at least one dendritic additive for improving the flexibility and tensile strength of the panel. The panel further includes at least one pair of opposite side edges. The pair of opposite side edges are provided with interconnecting coupling means for interconnecting adjacent panels.
US11097506B2
A method for making said flexible includes forming a flexible pouch having an open top. A dividing seal extends from the open top to the bottom of the pouch so as to define two pouch openings and two pouch spaces. Substances are introduced into the pouch spaces by a first nozzle and a second nozzle inserted into a respective first space and second space and filling the pouch body through the first and second nozzle.
US11097496B2
Porosity causing gas-based defects are detected, located, identified, and/or characterized by the use of defect information generated from gas flow data corresponding to gas flow characteristics measured by one or more sensors on a composite part processing piece such as a mould or membrane used during a composite manufacturing process. The defect information is generated using techniques including one or more of profiling the gas flow data, fingerprinting, line leak detection, analytical triangulation.
US11097489B2
Methods and systems for controlling a three-dimensional (3D) printing process are disclosed. In such methods, for example, encrypted printing parameters for a specific printing material are recorded onto a digital tag. The digital tag is then applied to a cartridge that holds the printing material, which is subsequently inserted into a 3D printer. The printer is then instructed to decrypt the encrypted printing parameters to produce a set of decrypted printing parameters. A set of spatial model specifications are also provided to the 3D printer. The 3D printer is then instructed to generate printing machine code based on the decrypted printing parameters and spatial model specifications. Finally, the 3D printer is instructed to manufacture a physical model based on the printing machine code.
US11097485B2
A system and method for resource estimation of an additive manufacturing device is disclosed herein. The system includes at least one processor and one or more software modules. The processor executes the one or more software modules to determine a number of parts that can be manufactured per manufacturing run, estimate manufacturing time to manufacture a specified number of parts, and determine a total cost to manufacture the number of parts with the additive manufacturing device. The one or more software modules can compare the total cost to the cost of a current manufacturing method.
US11097475B2
Methods and systems for 3D printing use a 3D printing device defined by a polar coordinate frame including an r-axis, a z-axis, and a rotational theta axis. The device includes a base, a rotatably attached printing stage is rotatably attached, a z-axis aligned pair of towers, an r-axis aligned rail slidably coupled to the towers, a print head slidably disposed on the rail, a printing tool coupling component (“master”) joined to the print head, and a rotatable tool carousel with bays housing printing tools, each including a printing tool body (“slave”). The slave may be coupled with and locked to or unlocked from the master to form a coupled tool assembly through a mechanical actuation assembly. With the coupled tool assembly, a printing tool is removable from a respective bay when the coupled tool assembly moves along the r-axis in a direction opposite from the rotatable tool carousel.
US11097469B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing three-dimensional models by a layering technique, particulate build material being applied to a build space, and binder material subsequently being selectively applied to the build material with the aid of a printer, the binder material containing a moderating agent and subsequently being sintered with the aid of a heat lamp, the print head being protected against overheating by active and/or passive cooling.
US11097468B2
A build material management apparatus for a three dimensional printing system is provided having a plurality of conduits to connect to a respective plurality of ports of at least one build material container. Processing circuitry is provided to control coupling of a 5 pump interface to the plurality of conduits to independently set, for at least two of the plurality of conduits, a given air flow parameter for cooling build material in the at least one build material container. A build material container and machine executable instructions are also provided.
US11097457B2
A method of forming a bi-injected closure, comprising the steps of: forming a cap with a top plate and a depending sidewall, in a first injection moulding phase using a first mould part, the cap formed so as to include one or more external sealing areas; changing the first mould part for a second mould part, the second mould part sealing against the or each sealing area on the cap; and forming an outer ring around the cap sidewall whilst the second mould part is sealed against the sealing area/s in a second moulding phase.
US11097451B2
A system for releasing an additive manufactured part from a build location is disclosed having a cure inhibitor transport system to resupply a cure inhibitor at a cure inhibited photopolymer resin layer where the additive manufactured part is built, the transport system comprises a cure inhibiting reservoir to initially hold the cure inhibitor, a cure inhibiting distributor layer adjacent to the cure inhibiting reservoir through which the cure inhibitor passes from the cure inhibitor reservoir to the cure inhibited photopolymer resin layer and into the adjacent photopolymer creating a cure inhibited photopolymer resin layer. Another system and method are also disclosed.
US11097449B2
According to some aspects, a method is provided of casting an object from a mold, the method comprising obtaining a mold comprising a hollow shell of rigid material, the material comprising a thermoset polymer having a plurality of pores formed therein, providing a metal and/or ceramic slurry into an interior of the mold, exposing at least part of the mold to a low pressure environment so that a net flow of gas is produced from the interior of the mold into the low pressure environment. According to some aspects, a method of forming a porous mold is provided. According to some aspects, a photocurable liquid composition is provided, comprising a liquid photopolymer resin, particles of a solid material, in an amount between 30% and 60% by volume of the composition, and a water-soluble liquid.
US11097435B2
An electric hair clipper comprises a blade and a casing, consisting of an upper shell, a lower shell and a screen removable from the lower shell to leave the blade in evidence.
US11097434B2
An ergonomically designed, auto-retracting utility knife that can safely remain in the user's hand while performing non cutting tasks. This invention allows a person to continue with the jobs they were performing by having the ability to use both hands and not having to set the utility knife down between manual tasks, thus saving time and increasing efficiency. An auto-retracting blade decreases the risk lacerations and other hand/wrist injuries to the user and others during routine use of the knife.
US11097432B2
An end-effector assembly includes a master boom, a frame rail coupled thereto, and at least one branch rail movably coupled to the frame rail by a swing branch lock. The swing arm is movably coupled to the at least one branch rail by a swing arm lock. Each of the swing branch lock and the swing arm lock further includes a clamp configured to movably secure the branch rail to the frame rail or the swing arm to the branch rail. A pivot shaft extends through the clamp and is configured to rotationally secure the clamp in place. A swing plate is secured to the pivot shaft and is configured for engagement with a configuration tool. A locking fastener extends through the swing plate and into the pivot shaft and is configured to lock and unlock the clamp in position.
US11097428B2
A system for underwater inspection including an inspection crawler are provided. The inspection crawler includes a housing having first and second sides, a power source, a controller, an inspection tool, at least two driving wheels, and a moveable center of gravity. A method for traversing a weld joint with the inspection crawler having a moving mass is also provided. In the method, the crawler is parked proximate to the joint, and the mass is slid along a slide rail to the second end of the crawler distal to the joint. The first end of the crawler is then propelled over the joint and the mass is slid to the center of the crawler. A center portion of the crawler is then propelled over the joint and the mass is slid to the first end of the crawler. The second end of the crawler is then propelled over the joint.
US11097425B2
According to an aspect, a releasable actuation system includes a support member, a carriage movable relative to the support member, a releasable mount configured to couple the support member to a frame, the support member being rotatable relative to the releasable mount by a rotatable joint, an image capturing sensor connected to the carriage, an actuator connected to the carriage and operable to adjust a position of a switch, a memory having computer readable instructions, and one or more processors for executing the computer readable instructions, the computer readable instructions controlling the one or more processors to perform operations comprising directing the actuator to adjust the position of the switch.
US11097421B2
An trajectory information generating unit for generating trajectory information defining a trajectory for which a picking hand picks a work at a first position and arranges the work at a second position, an execution control unit for operating a picking apparatus based on trajectory information generated by the trajectory information generating unit, and an execution time estimating unit for estimating a period of time from when the picking apparatus receives an instruction for starting an operation on a work to a time when the operation of the picking apparatus on the work is ended are included. The trajectory information generating unit may adjust an amount of calculation based on an estimation result of the execution time estimating unit.
US11097417B2
Systems, devices, articles, and methods for the partition of a plurality of items. A system including at least one processor, a frame, an end-effector coupled to the frame, and a plurality of reception spaces proximate to the end-effector. Coupled to the at least one processor is the end-effector, and a storage device storing processor-executable instructions which cause the at least one processor to direct the end-effector partition a plurality of items into two or more defined parts per a defined partition for the plurality of items. The end-effector places the plurality of items in the plurality of reception spaces. Item(s) for a respective part of the two or more defined parts are placed in a respective reception space, and may be transferred to a respective container. A method of operation of a system including at least one processor and a robot substantially as described and illustrated herein.
US11097416B2
Disclosed are a mobile robot system including a server of creating and storing traveling information about moving space and a mobile robot of travelling on the moving space, wherein the mobile robot comprises a driving portion configured to move the mobile robot, a communication device configured to receive the traveling information from the server and a controller configured to control the driving portion based on the traveling information received from the communication device and wherein the server receives information about the moving space from at least one external robot, and creates the traveling information based on the information about the moving space.
US11097415B2
Methods and systems for connection-driven generation of robotic user interfaces and modification of robotic properties include detecting a connection of a robotic peripheral to a robot; obtaining a peripheral property set corresponding to the robotic peripheral, wherein the peripheral property set includes one or more properties of the robotic peripheral; modifying, based on the peripheral property set, a robotic property set that includes one or more properties of the robot to provide a modified robotic property set; generating, during runtime, a robotic graphical user interface (“RGUI”) dynamically based on the peripheral property set, wherein the RGUI provides at least one user-accessible interface to control the robot and the robotic peripheral; and controlling, based on the modified robotic property set, the robot and the robotic peripheral in response to user input received via the RGUI.
US11097412B2
A mechanic's creeper assembly includes a panel that can be worn on a user's back. A first belt is slidably coupled to the panel and the first belt can be wrapped around the user to retain the panel on the user's back. A second belt is slidably coupled to the panel and the second belt can be wrapped around the user to retain the panel on the user's back. A pair of wheel mounts is each of the wheel mounts is coupled to opposite sides of the panel and each of the wheel mounts has a plurality of engagement points thereon. A pair of wheel units is provided and each of the wheel units is removably coupled to a respective one of the wheel mounts for rolling along the ground. Each of the wheel units engages a selected one of the engagement points in the respective wheel mount thereby spacing each of wheel units a selectable distance below the panel.
US11097411B2
An ergonometric utility handle having a main body portion having an end that fits in a cupped palm and concavities emanating from the end that lengthwise substantially conformingly receive palm sides of a thumb and at least one finger. The concavities are widely dish shaped or bound and defined by gently sloped surfaces disposed in laterally outwardly spaced relation to the utility object or a mounting element therefor and against which the thumb and finger or fingers can be positioned and pressed to control and exert useful mechanical advantage. Additional features include a cantilever element against which a finger can be pressed to enhance control and mechanical advantage, an ability to remove and reorient a utility object, such as to reverse the diagonal cut of a brush tip, and an ability to attach an extension in one or more ways.
US11097410B2
A battery-powered hand-held machine tool, particularly a hand-held circular saw, includes an electric motor for rotational driving a tool arranged on the hand-held machine tool, particularly a saw blade, a front handle and a rear handle each in terms of an advancing direction of the hand-held machine tool, and a receiving recess for receiving a replaceable battery. The rear handle is mounted such that it can pivot out, preferably upwards, about a pivot axis such that when the rear handle is in a state of being pivoted out, the receiving recess for receiving or removing the replaceable battery is exposed and, when the rear handle is in a state of being pivoted in, the reception or removal of the replaceable battery into or out of the receiving recess is blocked.
US11097407B2
A driving tool drives a fastener by a striking mechanism. The driving tool includes a trigger, a contact arm, a contact lever and a regulator. The trigger and the contact arm receive manipulations which operate the striking mechanism. The contact lever is movable according to operations of the trigger and the contact arm and switches operating states of the striking mechanism. The regulator regulates a movement of the contact lever according to a movement of the contact arm in which another manipulation is released. The regulator operates with a fluid for operating the striking mechanism, and keeps the contact lever at an operation standby position where the contact lever is operated by manipulation of the contact arm for a predetermined time period by controlling a flow rate of the fluid.
US11097405B2
An impact tool is provided which includes a drive source configured to rotate an output drive. A hammer is movable in a first direction to apply a rotational impact force on an anvil which rotates the output drive. A first hammer angle sensor set to a first signal channel and located proximate to a surface of the hammer. A plurality of regularly spaced targets are located on the surface of the hammer. Each of the plurality of regularly spaced targets are detectable by the first hammer sensor. And detection of one or more of the plurality of regularly spaced targets by the first hammer sensor indicates movement of the hammer.
US11097402B2
A socket assembly includes a socket head, an input member, and a plurality of transfer members. The socket head is disposed about an axis and defines an aperture extending axially through the socket head and through a side of the socket head. The socket head includes external teeth. The input member is coaxial with the socket head. Each transfer member includes a first end drivingly coupled to the input member and a second end configured to engage the external teeth.
US11097398B2
In some examples, an abrasive particle transfer system including a production tool including a dispensing surface with a plurality of cavities formed therein; abrasive particles removably disposed within at least some of the cavities; and a nonwoven substrate having an outer surface opposing the dispensing surface of the production tool, wherein the dispending surface of the production tool is configured to apply a compressive force to the outer surface of the nonwoven substrate to compress the nonwoven substrate from a first thickness to a second thickness, wherein, while the nonwoven substrate is compressed to the second thickness by the production tool, the abrasive particles are transferred from the plurality of cavities to the nonwoven substrate.
US11097395B2
A tool for chamfering cleaved tips of optical fibers. The tool including conical bores of relatively smooth and hard material terminate at a cylindrical bore that is slightly larger than the fiber core maximum diameter and a fiber centering bore that is slightly larger than the fiber coating maximum diameter. The tool provided such that when a cleaved fiber tip is inserted into the centering bore the sharp edge falls upon the chamfer that, when rotated relative to the fiber, gently grinds the edge to the chamfer angle. Chamfering cannot occur on the core face due to the absence of tool surface at this dimension.
US11097394B2
In one aspect, a pipe machining system is provided and includes a positioning apparatus, a pipe machining apparatus, and an adjustment member coupled to the positioning apparatus and a pipe machining apparatus. The adjustment member is configured to move the pipe machining apparatus relative to the positioning apparatus. In one aspect, the pipe machining system also includes a position tracking apparatus configured to identify a position of the pipe machining apparatus relative to a pipe on which the system is mounted.
US11097391B2
A spindle arrangement for a machine tool, comprising a spindle for driving a tool and at least one actuator for exciting vibration of the tool, characterized in that the spindle arrangement is provided with a compensation device for at least partly compensating the inertia forces produced by the vibration excitation in the spindle region.
US11097388B2
A fence assembly for a table saw includes a primary fence including a first elongated body having a first body first side, a first body second side, a first body top side, and a first body bottom side, and a first height measured between the first body top side and the first body bottom side. A secondary fence is pivotally mounted to the primary fence and pivotable between a deployed position adjacent one of the first body first side or the first body second side, and a stowed position adjacent the other of the first body first side or the first body second side. The secondary fence includes a second elongated body having a second body top side and a second body bottom side, and a second height measured between the second body top side and the second body bottom side. The second height is less than the first height.
US11097380B2
A composition for welding or brazing aluminum comprises silicon (Si) and magnesium (Mg) along with aluminum in an alloy suitable for use in welding and brazing. The Si content may vary between approximately 5.0 and 6.0 wt %, and the Mg content may vary between approximately 0.15 wt % and 0.50 wt %. The alloy is well suited for operations in which little or no dilution from the base metal affects the Si and/or Mg content of the filler metal. The Si content promotes fluidity and avoids stress concentrations and cracking. The Mg content provides enhanced strength. Resulting joints may have a strength at least equal to that of the base metal with little or no dilution (e.g., draw of Mg). The joints may be both heat treated and artificially aged or naturally aged.
US11097378B2
A weldable adhesive or sealant formulation comprising a plurality of discrete solid metallic portions within a material having a viscosity of greater than 10,000 Pa s in its green state and at room temperature.
US11097377B2
A method for the preparation of steel sheets for fabricating a welded steel blank is provided. The method includes procuring at least two pre-coated steel sheets, each having a pre-coating of an intermetallic alloy layer, topped by a layer of aluminum metal or aluminum alloy or aluminum-based alloy. The sheets have a principal face, an opposite principal face, and at least one secondary face. The sheets are positioned so a gap between 0.02 and 2 mm exists between the secondary faces. The secondary faces face each other. The positioning of the first and second sheets defines a median plane perpendicular to the principal faces. Layers of metal alloy are removed by melting and vaporization simultaneously on the principal faces, in a peripheral zone of the sheets, the peripheral zones being the zones of the principal faces closest in relation to the median plane.
