US11226554B2
An imprint apparatus executes imprint processing of curing imprint material in a state in which the imprint material supplied onto a substrate and a mold are in contact with each other. The imprint apparatus includes a modulator configured to modulate incident light, a first optical system configured to guide first light from a first light source to the modulator, and second light from a second light source that has a wavelength different from that of the first light to the modulator, and a second optical system configured to guide modulated light modulated by the modulator to the substrate.
US11226553B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an imprinting curable composition which includes a silicon-containing polymerizable compound such as polysiloxane, exhibits outstanding adhesion to a substrate and excellent demoldability from a fine pattern mold, and causes very little mold contamination. The object is attained by providing a photo-imprinting curable composition including a polymerizable compound (A) containing a silicon atom in the molecule, a photopolymerization initiator (B) and an additive (C), the additive (C) being a compound represented by the following formula (C1) or (C2): R1OC2H4OnX1 (C1) X2OC2H4OpC3H6OqC2H4OrX3 (C2) (In the formula (C1), R1 is a C12-30 alkyl group, X1 is a hydrogen atom or an acyl group, and n is an integer of 0 to 50. In the formula (C2), X2 and X3 are each independently a hydrogen atom or an acyl group, and p, q and r are each independently an integer of 1 to 50).
US11226549B2
Provided is a mask blank for a phase shift mask having an etching stopper film, which satisfies the characteristics: higher durability to dry etching with fluorine-based gas that is used during the shift pattern formation as compared to that of a transparent substrate; high resistance to chemical cleaning; and high transmittance of exposure light. The mask blank includes a light shielding film on a main surface of a transparent substrate, having a structure where an etching stopper film, a phase shift film, and a light shielding film are laminated in this order on the transparent substrate; wherein the phase shift film includes a material containing silicon and oxygen; and the etching stopper film includes a material containing silicon, aluminum, and oxygen.
US11226544B2
A control device for controlling a photographing system includes a detector configured to detect whether a support is mounted at the photographing system. The support is configured to support a lens mount to maintain a position of the lens mount relative to a main body of the photographing system. The photographing system further includes an image sensor and a support mechanism configured to rotatably support the lens mount and the image sensor. The control device further includes a controller configured to control the support mechanism to restrict a rotation of the lens mount and the image sensor in response to the detector detecting that the support is mounted at the photographing system.
US11226534B2
Apparatus and methods for generating mid-IR frequency combs using intra-pulse DFG. A mode-locked pulse generation laser generates near-IR pulses which are amplified. The amplified pulses are spectrally broadened by a nonlinear element, for example a normal dispersion highly nonlinear fiber (ND-HNLF) to generate broadened pulses. The nonlinear spectral broadening element is a transparent dielectric material having a cubic nonlinear response. Broadened pulses are temporally compressed to generate short, high-power pulses which few-cycle conditioned pulses which are ready for the intrapulse DFG process. The DFG block generates a mid-IR comb by difference frequency generation. It might comprise an orientation patterned GaP (OP-GaP) crystal or a poled lithium niobate (PPLN) crystal.
US11226527B2
A display device according to an embodiment of the present inventive concept includes: a substrate including a first region and a second region; and a plurality of pixels disposed on the substrate, wherein the plurality of pixels each include a first data line and a second data line overlapping a pixel electrode, a first capacitance between the first data line and the pixel electrode is smaller than a second capacitance between the second data line and the pixel electrode in a pixel disposed in the first region, and the first capacitance between the first data line and the pixel electrode is larger than the second capacitance between the second data line and a pixel electrode in the pixel disposed in the second region.
US11226523B2
A display device includes a display panel, a flexible film, and an adhesion layer. The display panel includes a first substrate which includes a pad electrode connected to a signal line, a second substrate, and a metal electrode electrically connected to the pad electrode and on a side surface of the display panel. The flexible film includes a line electrode electrically connected to the metal electrode and attached to the side surface of the display panel. A connection electrode electrically connects the metal electrode to the line electrode. The adhesion layer is disposed between the flexible film and the side surface of the display panel. The connection electrode includes solder particles in melted form.
US11226518B2
A display panel, a sealant coating device and a method for sealant coating are provided. The display panel includes a display area and a peripheral area and further includes oleophobic sealant provided in the peripheral area on a side near the display area and hydrophobic sealant provided in the peripheral area on a side away from the display area and surrounding the oleophobic sealant.
US11226508B2
The disclosure provides a flexible substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a flexible display device. The flexible substrate includes a cell and a plurality of liquid crystal molecules disposed in the cell. The cell includes a plurality of sub-pixel display areas arranged in an array and a non-display area disposed outside the sub-pixel display areas. The liquid crystal molecules are disposed in each of the sub-pixel display areas and the non-display area, extending directions of the liquid crystal molecules in each of the sub-pixel display areas are perpendicular to a plane on which the flexible substrate is disposed, and extending directions of the liquid crystal molecules in the non-display area are parallel to the plane on which the flexible substrate is disposed. Risk of damage to electrically driven devices in the flexible display device having the flexible substrate can be reduced. As a result, reliability of products is improved.
US11226507B2
An electro-optic device includes a substrate and a waveguide on the substrate. The waveguide includes a layer stack including a plurality of electro-optic material layers interleaved with a plurality of interlayers, a waveguide core adjacent to the layer stack, a waveguide cladding layer, and a pair of electrodes in electrical contact with the plurality of electro-optic material layers. The plurality of interlayers maintains a first lattice structure at room temperature and a cryogenic temperature. The plurality of electro-optic material layers maintains a second lattice structure and crystallographic phase at the room temperature and the cryogenic temperature.
US11226499B2
The invention relates to a variable transmittance device including at least one variable transmittance lens and a control circuit comprising at least one sensor suitable for measuring an illuminance (E), the control circuit being suitable for automatically controlling the value of the transmittance of the variable transmittance lens depending on the illuminance (E) measured by the sensor, wherein the control circuit defines a plurality of successive illuminance ranges (P) each illuminance range (P) being bounded by a minimum illuminance value (Emin) and a maximum illuminance value (Emax), and wherein the control circuit is suitable for controlling the transmittance of the lens to a plurality of setpoint transmittance values (Tv) respectively corresponding to said plurality of illuminance ranges (P).
US11226487B2
Disclosed herein are a display apparatus for vehicles and a method of controlling the same. The display apparatus for vehicles includes a projection glass having a variable transmittance, a variable glass driving unit configured to adjust the transmittance of the projection glass, a projector configured to display an image on the projection glass, an image input unit configured to receive an image to be projected onto the projection glass, a mode selection unit configured to select an operation mode of the projection glass, and a control unit configured, according to the selection of the mode selection unit, to drive the variable glass driving unit to adjust the transmittance of the projection glass and to project the image, input from the image input unit, onto the projection glass through the projector.
US11226481B2
Methods and apparatuses for designing optical systems are provided. In this case, on a plurality of known optical systems, machine learning is carried out in order to train a computing device. After this training, the computing device can generate a design for an optical system on the basis of parameters describing desired properties of an optical system.
US11226477B2
Method for presenting images of a digital surgical microscope and digital surgical microscope system
The invention relates to a method for recording and providing digital images using a digital surgical microscope system. The method includes recording magnified video image of an object region by an image sensor in the image recording unit. The method also includes displaying, on a digital display unit, in at least certain regions, the image recorded by the image sensor. A magnification of the image displayed on the digital display unit is adjusted by a limit value of the magnification. The limit value of the magnification is set using situative parameters to determine an optimum magnification.
US11226476B2
An observation apparatus including: a top plate on which a container in which a specimen is accommodated can be placed, and through which illumination light can pass; a light source that emits the illumination light upward from below the specimen; an objective lens that focuses, below the specimen and the top plate, transmitted light which is the illumination light that has passed through the specimen from thereabove and that has passed through the top plate; and a camera that captures the transmitted light, wherein the light source emits the illumination light toward an area above the specimen from outside the objective lens in a radial direction, and the top plate is provided with a mark that specifies a viewing-field area of the camera.
US11226474B2
A method for obtaining one or more images of a sample using a microscope includes dividing, using a reverberation cavity, a first one of a plurality of laser pulses into a plurality of sequential sub-pulses, each of the plurality of sequential sub-pulses having a power that is less than a previous one of the plurality of sequential sub-pulses, directing, using the one or more lenses of the microscope, the plurality of sequential sub-pulses onto a portion of the sample to generate a plurality of signals, each of the plurality of signals being associated with a different depth within the sample, and detecting the plurality of signals from the sample to generate one or more images of at least a portion of the sample.
US11226453B2
The present disclosure is directed to a board mounted active component assembly that includes a printed circuit board to which a connector is mounted and electrically connected. In one aspect, the connector includes a housing defining an adapter port for receiving an optical plug. The connector also includes a fiber optic transceiver module secured within the housing such that the transceiver module is optically aligned with an optical plug received in the adapter port. The fiber optic transceiver module includes a transmitter optical sub-assembly (TOSA) and a receiver optical sub-assembly (ROSA) with leads connected to a circuit on the printed circuit board.
US11226451B2
A 3D optical switch for transferring an optical signal between a plurality of layers of an optical integrated circuit, which comprises: a first optical coupler for distributing the optical signal input to a first optical waveguide deployed in a first layer among the plurality of layers to a second optical waveguide deployed in a second layer different from the first layer; a phase shifter for changing a phase of a first optical signal in the first optical waveguide passing through the first optical coupler and a phase of a second optical signal in the second optical waveguide distributed by the first optical coupler; and a second optical coupler for combining the first optical signal of which the phase is changed and the second optical signal of which the phase is changed is provided.
US11226446B2
A surface-relief structure and techniques for fabricating the surface-relief structure are disclosed. The surface-relief structure includes a substrate, a plurality of ridges on the substrate, and a plurality of grooves each between two adjacent ridges. The plurality of ridges are slanted with respect to the substrate, and include a material having a refractive index at least 2.3. Regions of the substrate at bottoms of the plurality of grooves include at least one of hydrogen or nitrogen at a concentration of at least 1010/cm3.
US11226444B2
An electronic device may be provided with input-output devices and other components such as optical components that emit light and optical components that detect light. An optical component covering structure may be interposed between an interior region of the electronic device and an exterior region that surrounds the electronic device. The optical components may be formed in the interior region of the electronic device. The optical component covering structure may overlap the optical components. The optical component covering structure may be configured to exhibit a flat visible light transmission spectrum. This neutral light transmission characteristic allows the overlapped optical components to emit and/or receive light through the optical component covering structure without imposing an undesired color cast. The optical component covering structure may include first and second layers with complementary light transmission characteristics. When viewed from the exterior region, the optical component covering structure may exhibit a non-neutral color.
US11226438B2
A support for optical elements is described. The support includes a base substrate with high specific stiffness and a finishing layer. The base substrate is a non-oxide ceramic material, preferably a carbide, such as boron carbide or silicon carbide. The finishing layer is preferably Ge or an alloy of Al and Si. The finishing layer is or is capable of being processed to provide a surface with low finish. Low finish is achieved by diamond turning or polishing the finishing material. The finishing layer has a coefficient of thermal expansion similar to the coefficient of thermal expansion of the base substrate. The optical element optionally includes a reflective stack on the finishing layer.
US11226437B2
Provided are a high refractive index film including a high refractive index layer including a binder and flat metal particles, in which a value obtained by dividing an average particle diameter of the flat metal particles by an average thickness is 3 or more, a main plane of the flat metal particles is plane-oriented in a range of 0° to 30° with respect to a surface of the high refractive index layer, a volume fraction of the flat metal particles of the high refractive index layer is 20 volume % or more, and the flat metal particles are stacked in two or more layers, and an optical interference film using the high refractive index film.
US11226433B2
Optical films for redirecting light are described, and optical systems, such as display systems, incorporating such optical films are described. The optical film may include a first structured surface including a plurality of prismatic structures, and a second structured surface opposing the first structured surface and including a plurality of microstructures. An effective transmission of the optical film is not more than 1% less than a film with a comparable construction except for a smooth, non-structured second surface.
US11226428B2
Provided herein are neutron-based detection systems and methods that provide, for example, high throughput analysis of elemental analysis of scrap materials. Such systems and methods find use for the commercial-scale evaluation of bulk process materials where hazardous or otherwise undesirable materials or high value materials may be interspersed with the primary process material. In certain embodiments, the system is used to detect and potentially remove unexploded ordinance (UXO) from a conveyor of demilitarized shell casings being recycled by detecting the presence of nitrogen and other elements present in the UXO. In other embodiments, the system detects and removes unwanted or highly valuable materials from a stream of scrap material.
US11226423B1
A model-driven deep learning-based seismic super-resolution inversion method includes the following steps: 1) mapping each iteration of a model-driven alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) into each layer of a deep network, and learning proximal operators by using a data-driven method to complete the construction of a deep network ADMM-SRINet; 2) obtaining label data used to train the deep network ADMM-SRINet; 3) training the deep network ADMM-SRINet by using the obtained label data; and 4) inverting test data by using the deep network ADMM-SRINet trained at step 3). The method combines the advantages of a model-driven optimization method and a data-driven deep learning method, and therefore the network has the interpretability; and meanwhile, due to the addition of physical knowledge, the iterative deep learning method lowers requirements for a training set, and therefore an inversion result is more reliable.
US11226414B2
A light ranging and detection (LiDAR) device may combine the transmission of laser pulses. Different trains of pulses from different transmitters may be combined and transmitted to an environment via a common optical path. The laser pulses transmitted from one train of pulses may be in a polarization state that is orthogonal to a polarization state for the laser pulses of the other train of pulses. Reflections for the different trains of pulses may be received via the common optical path and separated according to polarization state. Reflections of the train of pulses may be directed to one receiver and reflections of the other train of pulses may be directed to a different receiver. The transmission delta between the different trains of pulses may be dynamically configured. The pulse repetition rate of each train of pulses may also be configured.
US11226413B2
An active sensor for performing active measurements of a scene is presented. The active sensor includes at least one transmitter configured to emit light pulses toward at least one target object in the scene, wherein the at least one target object is recognized in an image acquired by a passive sensor; at least one receiver configured to detect light pulses reflected from the at least one target object; a controller configured to control an energy level, a direction, and a timing of each light pulse emitted by the transmitter, wherein the controller is further configured to control at least the direction for detecting each of the reflected light pulses; and a distance measurement circuit configured to measure a distance to each of the at least one target object based on the emitted light pulses and the detected light pulses.
US11226407B2
A vehicle radar system (3) and related method including at least one transceiver arrangement (7) arranged to generate and transmit radar signals (4), and to receive reflected radar signals (5). The radar signals form a plurality of sensing sectors or sensing bins (8a-8g), that together form a transceiver coverage (9), For each sensing bin (8a-8g) the radar system (3) is arranged to obtain a target angle (φ) and a target range (r) to possible target objects (10a-10j). The radar system (3) is further arranged to determine an unoccupied domain border (11) and a corresponding unoccupied domain (12) for the radar transceiver coverage (9).
US11226404B2
A method for operating a hand-held laser distance measurement device for contactless distance measurement in a calibration mode is based on a method in which a laser distance measurement unit of the laser distance measurement device is used to emit laser radiation to a target point, a camera of the laser distance measurement device is used to acquire at least one image of at least one target environment of the target point, and a screen of the laser distance measurement device is used to output a display of the image overlaid with a marker of the target point. A parallax error in the display of the image overlaid with the marker of the target point is corrected.
US11226395B2
A tracking system uses a mobile reader or scanner that scans, for example through a barcode reader, a passive tag reader, a probe, input, camera, or an active RF tag communication reader, and records item (asset or inventory) data. After being recorded, this item data and other relevant data is sent by radio transmission to a receiver network in the tracking system. The receiver network has at least two receivers (or at least two receiver antennae). The scanner location data, calculated by comparing the signal information at each receiver antenna receiving the radio transmission, is then used to register and record the location data of the scanned item.
US11226385B2
The invention relates to a method of Dixon-type MR imaging. It is an object of the invention to provide an MR imaging technique using bipolar readout magnetic field gradients with an improved estimation of the main field inhomogeneity to eliminate residual artifacts. In accordance with the invention, a method of MR imaging of an object placed in a main magnetic field within an examination volume of a MR device is proposed, wherein the method comprises the steps of: —subjecting the object (10) to an imaging sequence to generate at least two sets of echo signals at two or more different echo times using bipolar pairs of readout magnetic field gradients, one set of echo signals being generated at a first echo time (TE1) and the other set of echo signals being generated at a second echo time (TE2), —acquiring the echo signals from the object (10), —reconstructing a first image from the echo signals attributed to the first echo time (TE1) and a second image from the echo signals attributed to the second echo time (TE2), —computing modified first and second images by compensating for a fat shift in the reconstructed first and second images respectively, —estimating phase errors in the acquired echo signals on the basis of the first and second images and the modified first and second images using a signal model including the resonance spectra of fat and water and the spatial variation of the main magnetic field, and —reconstructing a water image and/or a fat image by separating the signal contributions of fat and water to the acquired echo signals using the estimated phase errors. Moreover, the invention relates to a MR device (1) and to a computer program to be run on a MR device (1).
US11226384B2
A system and method are provided for operating a magnetic resonance tomograph. A transmitter of the magnetic resonance tomograph transmits a predetermined test pulse with a reduced power. The magnetic resonance tomograph receives the test pulse with the local coil. A controller compares the received test pulse with a predetermined pulse response and emits a warning signal when the received test signal differs from the predetermined pulse response.
US11226379B2
A method for detecting faulty operation of a gas blower driven by an electronically commutated DC motor. The DC motor of the gas blower is controlled by an integrated electronic motor control circuit. The electrical current draw, required in operation to reach a predetermined blower speed of the gas blower, is measured. It is measured as a measured variable via the electronic motor control circuit. The electronic motor control circuit performs a plausibility check of the measured electrical current draw. The measured value of the electrical current draw, at a predetermined blower speed, is compared to a current draw reference value characteristic stored in the electronic motor control circuit. Thus, a warning and/or an error code is issued by the electronic motor control circuit. The warning is based on deviation of the measured value of the electrical current draw beyond a tolerance range around the reference characteristic.
US11226378B2
Various embodiments are described that relate an electrical current connector. The electrical current connector can be configured to provide electrical current when pressure is applied to a prong set. This pressure can cause a contact to engage with a connector. This can complete a circuit that allows the electrical current to flow. The connector can be coupled to a cable that can be configured to transfer data along with the electrical current. The cable can have an inner portion that transfers the data while an outer portion that surrounds the inner portion transfers the current.
US11226376B2
To perform charge/discharge control of a storage battery at an appropriate timing. In a battery controller, a battery information acquisition unit acquires information on the storage battery. A degradation progression rate calculation unit calculates a degradation progression rate of the storage battery based on the information acquired by the battery information acquisition unit. A limit value setting unit sets a limit value for controlling charge/discharge of the storage battery based on the degradation progression rate calculated by the degradation progression rate calculation unit. A timing determination unit determines a timing at which the limit value needs to be output based on the information acquired by the battery information acquisition unit. A limit value output unit outputs the limit value to a host controller based on the timing determined by the timing determination unit.
US11226369B2
Electrical current flow in a ball grid array (BGA) package can be measured by an apparatus including an integrated circuit (IC) electrically connected to the BGA package. Solder balls connect the BGA package to a printed circuit board (PCB). A current sense loop can be fabricated on a wiring plane of the PCB to encircle a current supply via that supplies current to an IC mounted on the BGA package. A MUX/Sequencer can sequentially connect wires of the current sense loop to an amplifier. The amplifier can amplify a voltage induced on the current sense mesh by current flow into the BGA package. A sensing analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is electrically connected to convert a voltage at the output of the amplifier into digital output signals.
US11226364B2
A testing device (100) is for electrically testing integrated circuits on a wafer (102). The testing device (100) includes a vacuum chamber (109), a chuck (101) for holding the wafer (102), a probe card (103) for electrically contacting the integrated circuits, and a radiation shield (107) arranged inside the vacuum chamber (109) and enclosing the chuck (101) and the probe card (103). In the testing device (100), the vacuum chamber (109) is provided with a gate valve (123), the radiation shield (107) is provided with a hatch (122), and the testing device (100) includes a wafer loading assembly (125) for loading the wafer (102) onto the chuck (101) through the gate valve (123) and the hatch (122).
US11226363B2
A chip reliability testing method includes mounting a first test chip on a test board, wherein the first test chip comprises a silicon device having a plurality of metallization layers configured to establish a plurality of test circuits, a conductive redistribution layer contacting at least one of the plurality of metallization layers, and contact pads on exposed portions of the conductive redistribution layer. The mounting includes bonding the contact pads of the first test chip to corresponding contact pads of the test board. The method further includes applying a test voltage to a first contact pad connected to a first test circuit of the plurality of test circuits and, while maintaining the test voltage, subjecting the first test circuit to a reliability test. The method further includes monitoring an output voltage at a second contact pad connected to the first test circuit during a test period during the reliability test.
US11226361B2
An apparatus and a method for detecting a fault location of an underground cable are proposed. The apparatus includes: an optimal reference signal design unit configured to design a reference signal for detecting the fault location of the underground cable considering propagation characteristics of the underground cable according to a time-frequency domain reflectometry method; a signal application and acquisition unit configured, as the designed reference signal is generated and applied to the underground cable, to acquire the reference signal applied to the underground cable and a reflected signal of the applied reference signal; and a data analysis unit configured to analyze whether a fault location of the underground cable exists according to a decision on similarity between the reference signal and the reflected signal after obtaining a time-frequency domain energy distribution for the acquired reference signal and reflected signal.
US11226359B2
A system and method to generate high voltage pulses for testing of electrical insulation is presented. The system is comprised of multiple bridges in series that are connected across the insulation through an output inductor. The switching of the bridges are timed to allow a resonant half-cycle of current through the output inductor and the effective capacitance of the insulation which results in a transition of the voltage across the insulation from one level to another. The sequence of switching of the bridges is swapped intermittently such that the dc links of the bridges are substantially kept balanced. In one embodiment, only the dc link of the first bridge is supplied from an external source, while the other bridges are fed via the chain of series bridges from the first bridge through the switching operation of the circuit.
US11226340B2
The invention provides therapeutic compositions that present an artificial repertoire of mammalian pattern recognition receptor (PRR) agonists, so that the pattern of PRR agonists recapitulates a distinct portion of a PRR agonist signature of a mammalian pathogen. The artificial repertoire of PRR agonists may be formulated together in a therapeutic vehicle for combined presentation to an innate immune cell resident in a target tissue in a mammalian host, and the vehicle adapted to deliver the PRR agonists to the target tissue, so as to modulate an immune response.
US11226333B2
The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for cancer diagnosis, research and therapy, including but not limited to, cancer markers. In particular, the present disclosure relates to cancer markers as diagnostic markers and clinical targets for lung cancer.
US11226328B2
A method of detecting a clot in a measurement chamber of a liquid sample analyzer, the liquid sample analyzer comprising one or more analyte sensors, each one of the one or more analyte sensors being arranged for measuring a physical parameter for a respective analyte in a liquid sample in the measurement chamber, wherein detection is performed after conclusion of a rinsing procedure with a primary solution (Cal2) having a pre-determined primary composition with a primary level of the analyte, the method comprising the steps of: (a) at least partly filling the measurement chamber with a secondary solution (Rinse/Cal1) having a pre-determined secondary composition with a respective secondary level for each of the analytes, wherein the respective secondary level is different from the respective primary level; (b) immediately after filling the measurement chamber with the secondary solution (Rinse/Cal1), obtaining an initial measurement result by each of the one or more analyte sensors; (c) flushing the measurement chamber with the secondary solution (Rinse/Cal1); (d) after a time delay with respect to the initial measurement result, obtaining a subsequent measurement result by each of the one or more analyte sensors; (e) comparing the respective initial and subsequent measurement results; and (f) determining presence or absence of a clot in the measurement chamber based on the comparison.
US11226326B2
A fluid sensor/plant machinery monitoring system and method wherein a plurality of on-line fluid property sensors output on-line sensor data and are connected to an interface configured with a server outputting the on-line sensor data via a network. A remote information management system requests and receives the on-line sensor data via the network, stores machine fluid property laboratory data, and calculates an estimate of one or more fluid properties based on both the received on-line sensor data and the stored laboratory data. A manifold unit receives fluid from a machine and includes ports for the on-line fluid property sensors. The remote information management system calculates one or more fluid properties based on both the received on-line sensor data and the stored laboratory data based on models where a machine fluid property is a function of both the on-line sensor data and the stored laboratory data for the machine.
US11226319B1
A method of use encompassing coded sampling containers that may be implemented in two phases, the results of which may be further processed to arrive at a final score. The first phase incorporates four sampling containers in the context of a series of triangle tests to arrive at a first subscore. The second phase uses two of the coded containers and requires the participants to assess the degree to which the contents of the containers reflect a particular characteristic on a scale. The responses of each participant may be scored by summing the differences between the actual answers and the correct answers to arrive as a second subscore. A final score may be calculated by subtracting the first subscore from the second subscore.
US11226313B2
An apparatus for testing a component by ultrasound comprises a plurality of identical devices. Each device has several channels of ultrasonic transducers as well as a master controller. The individual devices are daisy-chained and controlled by one of their master controllers. Mechanical connectors can be used to mechanically couple adjacent devices. Further, a number of differently shaped handles is provided, all of which can be coupled to a common handle interface.
US11226306B2
A microbial sensor, microbial sensing system, and method that can be used to determine the chemical environment of unsaturated soils, rhizosphere, and/or plants are disclosed. The microbial sensing system can be used for monitoring the health of plants including nutrients, salinity, contaminants, chemicals (pesticides, herbicides) and diseases. A microbial sensing system can include one or more indicator electrodes and a reference electrode. The microbial sensing system can include a signal acquisition and/or communication module to allow the real-time collection of data from field deployments and laboratory investigations.
US11226302B2
Devices, systems, and techniques relating to steam trap monitoring are described. These include battery-less steam trap monitors that run on power harvested from their environments, systems for acquiring steam trap monitor data for the traps in a facility or across multiple facilities, and techniques for processing steam trap monitor data to reliably determine the status of individual steam traps and potentially other system parameters.
US11226300B2
A method for determining fluid parameters, such as a heat capacity cPρ, a calorific value Hp, a methane number MN, and/or a Wobbe index WI, of an unknown fluid (g). An unknown flow (55) of the fluid (g) is set in a sensor device (10), the sensor device (10) comprising a thermal flow sensor (1) and a pressure sensor device (15) for measuring at least one temperature value T1, T2, a further parameter, and differential pressure value Δρ over a flow restrictor (14). Using these measurement parameters T1, T2, Δρ and calibration data, the calorific value Hp, and/or the Wobbe index WI, or parameters indicative thereof, of an unknown fluid (g) are calculated. The invention also relates to such a sensor device (10) and to a computer program product for carrying out such a method.
US11226287B2
Sample cells, light scattering detectors utilizing the sample cells, and methods for using the same are provided. The sample cell may include a body defining a flowpath extending axially therethrough. The flowpath may include a cylindrical inner section interposed between a first outer section and a second outer section. The first outer section may be frustoconical. A first end portion of the first outer section may be in direct fluid communication with the inner section and may have a cross-sectional area relatively smaller than a cross-sectional area at a second end portion thereof. The body may further define an inlet in direct fluid communication with the inner section. The inlet may be configured to direct a sample to the inner section of the flowpath.
US11226284B2
A spectrometer and a micro-total analysis system are provided. The spectrometer includes a waveguide structure, a light source, a collimating mirror, a reflection grating, and a light extraction structure. The collimating mirror is configured to convert light, which is emitted from the light source, passes through the waveguide structure, and is incident on the collimating mirror, into collimating light. The reflection grating is configured to allow emergency angles of light of different wavelength ranges among the collimating light incident on the reflection grating to be different, so that the light of different wavelength ranges has an offset in the total reflection propagation process. The light extraction structure is located on the reflection surface of the waveguide structure through which the light of different wavelength ranges passes in the total reflection propagation process, so that the light of different wavelength ranges emits from the light extraction structure.
US11226275B2
The present invention relates to a method of measuring the diffusion coefficient of water in a porous medium. The coefficient is measured using a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique (2, 3, 4) and the sample (1) has the shape of a hollow cylinder.
US11226274B2
Systems and methods for concentrating an analyte preparatory to analysis thereof include processing the effluent of an analyte concentrator to produce an eluent for eluting an analyte retained in the same or separate concentrator, and systems implementing the same. The analyte concentrator system connects the effluent outlet of an analyte concentrator column to an eluent generation module such that the substantially analyte-free effluent discharged from the analyte concentrator column passes fluidly into the eluent generation module. Eluent generated from the substantially analyte-free effluent in the eluent generation module is likewise substantially free of the analyte. The systems and methods can minimize and/or (substantially) eliminate background signal during analysis of the concentrated analyte.
US11226269B2
Direct tank liquid sampling device (1) comprising a plurality of inlet lines (2) to supply a liquid of a liquid tank stock (3) to a main collector (7); a pump (4) configured to circulate a collected liquid in the device (1); a packing section (6); a main piping (19, 20, 21) fluidly coupling the main collector (7) and the packing section (6) for supplying the packing section (6) with a portion of said collected liquid; an in-line measuring instrument (5) fluidly coupled to the main piping ((19, 20, 21) in an intermediate position between the main collector (7) and the packing section (6), said in-line measuring instrument (5) being configured for measuring one or more of the following liquid parameters: density, viscosity, temperature, electrical conductivity, or sulphur content.
US11226268B2
A soil extraction and measurement tool is described. In one example, the tool has a guide having a sleeve and a plate. The sleeve is attached to the plate, extending substantially horizontally from the plate, and having an opening to receive a probe. A probe has a point at an end configured to be inserted into the sleeve of the guide and to extend through the sleeve past the plate. The point is configured to pierce through soil below the plate. The probe has an inner cavity that is open at the point and configured to receive soil when the point pierces through soil, and a window through the probe to the inner cavity configured to allow the soil in the inner cavity to be viewed through the probe.
US11226266B2
The present invention includes a shaft that protrudes further toward a lower spindle side than an upper rim and includes a plurality of engagement grooves arranged in an up-down direction at an outer periphery of a lower end accommodated in a hollow portion of the lower spindle; a shaft support part that rotatably supports an upper end of the shaft; an engagement part that is accommodated within the hollow portion and is engaged with any one engagement groove of the plurality of engagement grooves; a first elevating part that is configured to integrally move the upper spindle, the shaft, and the shaft support part in the up-down direction; and a second elevating part that adjusts the length of the shaft protruding below the upper rim by changing the distance between the shaft support part and the upper spindle.
US11226262B2
This device comprises an immobilizing device of a first portion of the shaft, the shaft extending along a first axis, and a movement device of a second portion of the shaft so as to load the shaft in bending. The moving device comprises a first cylinder, a second cylinder, and a connecting device configured to form, between the shaft and one end of the first cylinder, a first connection prohibiting a translation perpendicular to the first axis and allowing a rotation around the first axis, and to form, between the shaft and one end of the second cylinder or between the end of the first cylinder connected to the shaft and one end of the second cylinder, a second connection prohibiting a translation perpendicular to the first axis and allowing a rotation around a second axis parallel to the first axis.
US11226261B2
At various positions in an eye motion box (EMB) an output image from an optical device can be captured and analyzed for detection and evaluation of image propagation via the optical device. Optical testing along a specific axis can evaluate optical engine transfer function uniformity across facet's active area, detect the existence and degree of “smearing” of a projected image from an optical device, and detect the existence and degree of a “white stripes” (WS) phenomenon related to scattering and diffraction in the wedge-to-LOE interface. A variety of metrics can be derived for quality control and feedback into the production system, and for disposition of the optical devices.
US11226252B2
A sub-micrometer pressure sensor is provided that includes a multilayered magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) pillar that contains a non-magnetic metallic spacer separating a first magnetic free layer from a second magnetic free layer. The presence of the non-magnetic metallic spacer in the multilayered MTJ pillar improves the sensitivity without compromising area, and makes the pressure sensor binary (either “on” or “off”) with little or no drift, and sensitivity change over time. Moreover, the resistivity switch in such a pressure sensor is instantly and a low error rate is observed.
US11226238B2
The present invention relates to a blackbody radiation source. The blackbody radiation source comprises a blackbody radiation cavity and a carbon nanotube structure. The blackbody radiation cavity comprises an inner surface. The carbon nanotube structure is located on the inner surface. The carbon nanotube structure comprises a first carbon nanotube layer in contact with the inner surface, a second carbon nanotube layer located on a surface of the first carbon nanotube layer and a third carbon nanotube layer located between the first carbon nanotube layer and the second carbon nanotube layer. The first carbon nanotube layer and the second carbon nanotube layer are fixed together by the third carbon nanotube layer.
US11226231B1
An image sensor includes an array of optically switchable magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) arranged in columns and rows. The image sensor has first lines of transparent conductive material and second lines of conductive material. Each first line is in contact with the free layers of the MTJs in a corresponding row. Each second line is electrically connected to the fixed layers MTJs in a corresponding column. The first lines are concurrently exposable to radiation. The first and second lines are selectively biasable. In a global reset operation, biasing conditions are such that all MTJs are switched to an anti-parallel state. In a global sense operation, biasing conditions are such that, depending upon the intensity of radiation received at those portions of the first lines in contact with MTJs, the MTJs may switch to a parallel state. In selective read operations, biasing conditions are such that stored data values in the MTJs can be read.
US11226230B2
A method and a detection circuit. The detection circuit may include (a) a photodiode that is configured to convert radiation to a photodiode current; (b) a photodiode bias circuit that is configured to bias the photodiode; (c) a dynamic resistance circuit that has a first terminal and a second terminal; (d) a transimpedance amplifier that is configured to amplify an output current of the dynamic resistance circuit to provide an output voltage, wherein the second terminal is coupled to a negative input port of the amplification circuit; and (e) a conductor that is coupled between the first terminal and an anode of the photodiode.
US11226218B2
A sensor of a multiphase flow meter is operated to determine a physical property attributable to multiphase fluid flow in a conduit of the multiphase flow meter. A stationarity of the multiphase fluid flow is determined based on the determined physical property in actual conditions compared to expected noise of the sensor in stationary flow conditions. A flow model variable is selected from a plurality of flow model variables based on a gas content of the multiphase fluid flow and the determined stationarity. The multiphase fluid flow is then modeled by adjusting the selected flow model variable.
US11226212B2
A robot includes a body on which is mounted a functional head also including a capacitive detector, including: at least one electrical insulator in order to electrically insulate the functional head; at least one apparatus for electrically polarizing the functional head at a first alternating electrical potential (Vg), different from a ground potential; at least one guard polarized at an alternating guard potential (VG) identical to the first alternating electrical potential; and at least one electronics, called detection electronics, for measuring a signal relating to a coupling capacitance, called electrode-object capacitance, between the sensitive part and a surrounding object.
US11226211B2
A position detecting system detects and responds to the movement of a target through a sensing domain area of a plane. The movement causes the amount of the target that lies within a first sensing domain area of a first sensor to change. A second sensor detects a height from the plane to a sensor for enhancing accuracy of measurements from the first sensor.
US11226205B2
One aspect relates to a method for reducing intermediate nodes in a polygonal chain with one or a plurality of intermediate nodes of a set of intermediate nodes between a starting node and an end node. In addition to the attributes of longitude and latitude, at least one further attribute with an attribute value and an attribute direction of a set of further attributes is assigned to the starting node, the end node and every intermediate node of the set of intermediate nodes. The attributes can be a gradient, a curve-radius or an altitude.
US11226197B2
A structured-light pattern for a structured-light system includes a base light pattern that includes a row of a plurality of sub-patterns extending in a first direction. Each sub-pattern is adjacent to at least one other sub-pattern, and each sub-pattern is different from each other sub-pattern. Each sub-pattern includes a first number of portions in a sub-row and a second number of portions in a sub-column. Each sub-row extends in the first direction and each sub-column extends in a second direction that is substantially orthogonal to the first direction. Each portion may be a first-type portion or a second-type portion. A size of a first-type portion is larger in the first direction and in the second direction than a size of a second-type portion in the first direction and in the second direction. In one embodiment, a first-type portion is a black portion and the second-type portion is a white portion.
US11226192B2
A method for measuring the thickness of coatings on a substrate of an aerospace component comprises illuminating a sample comprising the substrate of the aerospace component and a coating with light waves of varying wavelengths from a light source, receiving the light waves reflected by the sample at a light collector, diffracting the light waves into a plurality of component wavelengths with a grating, detecting the light intensities of the plurality of component wavelengths at a detector array, generating a reflectance spectral curve using the detected light intensities for each of the plurality of component wavelengths, calculating the thickness of the coating from the reflectance spectral curves of the component wavelengths.
US11226187B2
A tool, such as a tape measure, including a spring-based retraction system is shown. The retraction system includes a spiral spring that is located outside of and adjacent to a tape reel about which a tape blade is wound. This arrangement provides for a decreased housing height which improves the ability to grip and handle the tape measure.
US11226186B2
An ammunition packaging apparatus and system is reconfigurable to package a select caliber of ammunition by changing a set of components to those associated with the selected caliber of ammunition and selecting the corresponding operating procedure. An ammunition collating and packaging apparatus can be quickly reconfigured from packaging a first caliber of ammunition to packaging a second caliber of ammunition by quickly replacing a define set of components and modifying operationally timings to correspond to the selected caliber.
US11226184B2
A Powder Dispersal Target Impact Indication System (PDS) includes a body configured to contain a powdered substance for dispersing into air external to the body on impact of a target by a firearm projectile. A mounting structure is used to mount the body to the target. A securing cap is configured to retain the powdered substance within the body. A dispersal aperture is configured to disperse the powdered substance.
US11226181B2
A mortar shell including: a metallic inner layer; a polymer outer layer having reinforcing fibers dispersed therein; and at least one layer of metallic fragments disposed between the inner and outer layers, the layer of metallic fragments including a plurality of individual metallic fragments unconnected to each other. In a variation, the mortar shell including: a metallic inner layer, the metallic inner layer having a grid formed on an outer surface to define a plurality of metallic fragments separated by grooves; a polymer having first reinforcing fibers disposed within the grooves; and a polymer outer layer having second reinforcing fibers dispersed therein. In another variation, the mortar shell including a polymer outer layer having reinforcing fibers dispersed therein; and a metallic inner layer having a plurality of metallic fragments with a shape to interlock to each of the other and assembled together into the metallic inner layer.
US11226175B2
A network of scopes, including one or more lead scopes and one or more follower scopes, is provided to allow scope operators of the respective scopes to track the same presumed target. A lead scope locates a target and communicates target position data of the presumed target to the follower scope. The follower scope uses the target position data and its own position data to electronically generate indicators for use to prompt the operator of the follower scope to make position movements so as to re-position the follower scope from its current target position to move towards the target position defined by the target position data received from the lead scope.
US11226169B2
A handguard assembly for attaching to a firearm is disclosed. The handguard assembly comprises an upper component, a lower component, a front cap, and a rear cap. The front cap and rear cap are secured within the lower component. The front cap and rear cap have curved top sides for supporting the barrel of the firearm. The lower component has slots in the sides to receive tabs from the sides of the upper component. When the upper component and lower component are attached to the firearm, the components work together to position the barrel in the preferred position so that the sights of the firearm are zeroed when the handguard assembly is attached to the firearm.
US11226162B2
A heat dissipation device may be formed having at least one isotropic thermally conductive section (uniformly high thermal conductivity in all directions) and at least one anisotropic thermally conductive section (high thermal conductivity in at least one direction and low thermal conductivity in at least one other direction). The heat dissipation device may be thermally coupled to a plurality of integrated circuit devices such that at least a portion of the isotropic thermally conductive section(s) and/or the anisotropic thermally conductive section(s) is positioned over at least one integrated circuit device. The isotropic thermally conductive section(s) allows heat spreading/removal from hotspots or areas with high-power density and the anisotropic thermally conductive section(s) transfers heat away from the at least one integrated circuit device predominately in a single direction with minimum conduction resistance in areas with uniform power density distribution, while reducing heat transfer in the other directions, thereby reducing thermal cross-talk.
US11226148B2
A refrigerator may include an air duct cover plate, a closed air cavity, an evaporator, and an air guiding rib. The air duct cover plate and a liner of the refrigerator enclose the closed air cavity. The evaporator is disposed on an outer surface of the liner. The air guiding rib is disposed in the closed air cavity. The air guiding rib divides the closed air cavity into an air intake region, a first supply region, and a second supply region that are sequentially in fluid communication. The first supply region is located above the air intake region and includes an upper air outlet. The second supply region is located below the first supply region and is separated from the air intake region by the air guiding rib. A lower air outlet is disposed in the second supply region.
US11226147B2
The refrigerator includes an ice maker; an ice bucket; a transfer member configured to transfer ice stored in the ice bucket; a drive motor unit configured to generate a driving force for driving the transfer member; a first coupler connected to the transfer member; and a second coupler separably coupled to the first coupler and coupled to the drive motor unit. The first coupler includes an insertion portion insertable into the second coupler, and a first inclined portion to guide the insertion portion to be inserted into the second coupler. The second coupler includes a seating portion to receive the first coupler, and a second inclined portion to guide the first coupler to the seating portion.
US11226144B2
A transcritical R-744 refrigeration system with a medium temperature section having a plurality of circuits, at least one evaporator receiving an R-744 refrigerant in a medium-pressure liquid state from a receiver and feeding at least one transcritical compressor to compress the R-744 refrigerant from a low-pressure gaseous state into a high-pressure gaseous state to feed a gas cooler and a throttling device to partially condense the R-744 refrigerant into a medium-pressure gaseous-liquid state, the system comprising a pressure reducing valve connected to a discharge conduit of the at least one transcritical compressor and feeding hot gas to a defrost manifold to defrost one of the plurality of circuits of the medium temperature section, wherein the hot gas being fed to the defrost manifold has a pressure value less than or equal to a maximum operating pressure of the at least one evaporator.
US11226136B2
A hot water supply system decouples an intelligent hot water storage system from a water heating engine system. The water heating engine system includes a plurality of instantaneous water heaters that provide for redundant operation for improved reliability. The intelligent hot water storage system includes a storage tank that encloses a volume for storage of water. The intelligent hot water storage system includes a recirculation loop driven by an integrated pump and operated by an integrated controller. By positioning the tank recirculation outlet and inlet farther apart from each other, additional usable volume of hot water is provided by the intelligent hot water storage system. Isolation valves positioned on the input and output of a recirculation pump in the recirculation loop facilitate repair or replacement of the recirculation pump. The hot water system provides for increased capacity while providing redundant heating engines in a smaller floor space than conventional systems.
US11226126B2
A method for generating and updating a live dashboard of a building management system for a building includes generating a dashboard designer interface and causing the dashboard designer interface to be displayed on a user device of a user, receiving a graphic element from the user, wherein the graphic file supports animation and user interaction, generating a widget by binding the graphic element received from the user to a widget of the live dashboard, binding a data point to the widget based on a user selection via the dashboard designer interface, wherein the data point being a data point of building equipment of the building, receiving a value for the data point from the building equipment, and displaying the widget in the live dashboard, the widget including an indication of the value for the data point.
US11226120B2
An outdoor unit of an air conditioner includes a housing including an outlet, a fan disposed inside the housing, and a guide guiding air flowing by the fan, wherein the guide includes an inflow portion provided to guide air introduced into the housing to the fan and a diffuser extending from the inflow portion to guide air passing through the fan to the outlet. The inflow portion includes a duct connected to the diffuser, a bell mouth disposed on an upstream side further than the duct and configured such that a width of an inlet end of the bell mouth is wider than a width of an outlet end of the bell mouth, and a guide vane formed on the bell mouth and configured to guide air introduced into the fan.
US11226119B2
A heat exchanger unit connected to a refrigerant pipe in which refrigerant is sealed includes plural heat sources, each of the heat sources having a different amount of heat generation, and plural cooling units. Each of the cooling units cools an associated one of the heat sources. Cooling provided by each of the cooling units is different depending on amounts of heat generation of the associated heat source.
US11226117B2
A flexible filter cage for receiving an air filter in an air conditioner unit includes a first frame portion and a second frame portion spaced apart from the first frame portion to define a frame cavity therebetween. A flexible bridge extends between and flexibly connects the first frame portion and the second frame portion to permit flexing of the filter cage up to a predetermined angle which facilitates easy mounting into a filter slot defined by the air conditioner unit.
US11226109B2
A floor warming system includes floor warming elements for coupling to a floor and a first sensor assembly for generating a first signal indicative of at least one of a floor temperature and a floor warming element temperature. A thermostat controller receives the first signal and a second signal indicating an ambient outdoor temperature for controlling operation of the floor warming elements. The thermostat controller includes memory storing an instruction set and data related to a user setpoint and a processor for running the instruction set. The processor is operative to calculate an operational floor setpoint based on the first signal, the second signal and the user setpoint.
US11226095B2
A method is provided for controlling airflow into a furnace that employs a velocity type damper. In one embodiment, the method for controlling airflow may include engaging a velocity type damper to an air port opening of a furnace. The velocity type damper includes at least one air controlling surface that is positioned proximate to a wall of the furnace at the air port opening so that air velocity exiting the at least one air controlling surface is substantially equal to the air velocity entering the air port opening to the furnace. The method may further include adjusting a cross sectional area through the velocity type damper to control air velocity into the furnace through the air port opening.
US11226092B2
Methods and combustion devices for reducing NOx formation upon combusting oxidant with fuel to form products of combustion are provided. Such methods and device may involve mixing at least first portions of at least two fluids selected from the group of oxidant, fuel and recirculated products of combustion in at least one first conduit to form a first mixture. The first mixture is subsequently supplied to a plurality of second conduits each in direct fluid communication with the first conduit. Motive energy is utilized to aspirate at least second portions of one or more fluids selected from the group of oxidant, fuel and recirculated products of combustion in at least one second conduit to form a combustible mixture that can be subsequently burned. In one embodiment, the motive energy may be provided or result from the first mixture.
US11226087B2
A recessed light fixture has a heat sink and a removable light engine assembly. A thermally conductive base of the light engine assembly has an LED and has a thermal interface adapted for thermal coupling to a thermal interface of the heat sink. A mechanical connector in the enclosure can connect the base of the light engine assembly to the heat sink and couple the thermal interfaces of the light engine assembly and heat sink. The base of the light engine assembly is insertable through an opening in the ceiling aligned and can be urged into connected and disconnected states, from within the room, where a clearance between the opening in the ceiling and the base is no more than about 0.05 inches, whereby the light engine assembly can be replaced or serviced from within the room without disturbing the ceiling and without the use of a large diameter trim.
US11226083B2
A non-glare luminaire includes a toroidal-shaped light engine having light emitting diodes (LEDs) disposed about the light engine in a radial pattern. The light engine has an axial direction that is at least substantially orthogonal to the surface of the light engine. An anti-glare ring is disposed proximate the light engine and includes reflectors arranged in a radial pattern. Each reflector is configured to reflect tangentially oriented light from at least one of the LEDs substantially along the axial direction. The luminaire also includes a toroidal integrated optic (TIO), which is made up of a total internal reflectance (TIR) lens that is coupled with a light guide. The TIO optic has a toroidal lens portion having a light entrance side that receives light from the LEDs and the reflectors. The optic collimates the light received from the LEDs and the reflectors and emit the light via a light exit side.
US11226080B2
A robust and easy to install obstruction illuminator is herein disclosed. The obstruction illuminator features an elongated body with a first end and a second end opposing the first end. The body of the obstruction illuminator has an inner cavity, which extends between the first and second end. An artificial light source is fitted to the first end of the body and an emission lens is fitted to the second end of the body. The artificial light source is configured to emit light into the cavity towards the second end. An optical condenser element is provided into the inner cavity of the body between the artificial light source and the emission lens. The optical condenser element receives light from the artificial light source as well as condenses and directs the condensed light toward the emission lens. The emission lens refracts the light into a pattern suitable for warning about the presence of an obstacle.
US11226078B2
A vehicular lamp fitting comprising a front lens body, a rear lens unit, and a light source that emits light, which passes through the rear lens unit and the front lens body, to form a low beam light distribution pattern, wherein the rear lens unit is a lens unit configured to condense, in a first direction, the light coming from the light source, and includes a first entry surface, and a first exit surface, the front lens body is a lens unit configured to condense, in a second direction, the light coming from the rear lens unit, and includes a second entry surface, and a second exit surface, the front lens body is disposed in an attitude that is inclined, and a curvature of the first exit surface in the longitudinal section or a curvature of the second entry surface in the longitudinal section is different in each longitudinal section.
US11226077B2
A projection device and a headlight for vehicle are provided. The projection device includes a light source, a light valve and a projection lens. The light source is used to emit a light beam. The light valve is located at the downstream of an optical path of the light source. The projection lens is located at the downstream of an optical path of the light valve and has an optical axis. The light valve is located on the optical axis of the projection lens and is tilted with respect to the projection lens to form an acute angle with the optical axis. The projection lens is used for projecting the light beam on a first projection surface and a second projection surface.
US11226076B2
This invention presents a solar light collecting and guiding system for stabilizing the output light intensity, wherein the system comprising an array of converging lenses and optical fibers for collecting light focused by converging lenses. The fibers and the lenses are in one-to-one correspondence wherein the input end of an optical fiber is located in the focus position of the corresponding converging lens, and the axis of the optical fiber overlaps with the principal axis of the corresponding converging lens. The system is equipped with a sunlight tracking positioning device for synchronized motion, wherein the device is applied to tracking the sun light ray vertical incident into the central converging lens. The system has the function of outputting stable light intensity, that is, it can effectively reduce the variation of the collecting efficiency caused by the positioning deviation between the incident angle of sunlight and the designed input angle.
US11226073B2
An LED tube lamp comprises: a glass lamp tube; a light diffusion layer disposed on a surface of the glass lamp tube; an LED light strip, which comprises a fixing portion and an extending portion disposed in the glass lamp tube; a plurality of LED light sources mounted on the fixing portion of the LED light strip; a fixing structure disposed between the fixing portion and the inner circumferential surface the glass lamp tube; a power supply module disposed on the fixing structure and electrically connecting to the LED light strip and two end caps attached to two ends of the glass lamp tube respectively. The fixing structure comprises a first end fixedly connected to the inner circumferential surface of the glass lamp tube and a second end fixedly connected to the fixing portion of the LED light strip and not connected to the extending portion of the LED light strip.
US11226068B2
Provided is a high-pressure tank including: a helical layer containing first fibers that are wound in a helical pattern and a first resin that fixes the first fibers; a hoop layer located outward of the helical layer in the high-pressure tank and containing second fibers that are wound in a hoop pattern and a second resin that fixes the second fibers; and an intermediate layer located between the helical layer and the hoop layer and containing third fibers that are thinner than at least either the first fibers or the second fibers and a third resin that fixes the third fibers, the first fibers of the helical layer, and the second fibers of the hoop layer.
US11226065B1
Disclosed herein is an articulated support device. The articulated support device is formed to include a plurality of links connected to each other. A device stand is detachably coupled to the front end of the articulated support device and the rear end of the articulated support device is fixedly coupled to a structure detachably. The connection portions of the plurality of links are fixed not to move relative to each other or the connection portions are released to be rotatable relative to each other through an operation of a handle part provided on a front side of the articulated support device. The articulated support device includes a plurality of rotation and fixing units. Each of the plurality of rotation and fixing units includes a front link connection adapter, a wire central binding portion, a rotation regulation portion, a casing pipe, and an inner connection pipe.
US11226060B2
Segments are linked in the circumferential direction to assemble a pipe unit. A link bolt is used to link the segments of the pipe unit in the longitudinal direction to assemble a rehabilitation pipe inside an existing pipe. An elastically deformable hollow cylindrical member having a tongue is attached to the link bolt between the inner plates. The outer diameter of the cylindrical member is larger than the insertion hole of the inner plate through which the link bolt can pass. This allows the link bolt to be prevented from falling out of the segment when the link bolt moves in the longitudinal direction due to gravity. When a force is applied to the tongue from below, the cylindrical member is elastically deformed and can be removed from the link bolt.
US11226057B1
Techniques for implementing a pipe segment that includes a tubing inner barrier layer that defines a pipe bore through the pipe segment, a venting tubing annulus implemented around the tubing inner barrier layer, in which the venting tubing annulus includes a first solid material implemented to define a venting fluid conduit, a tubing intermediate barrier layer implemented around the venting tubing annulus, a reinforcement tubing annulus implemented around the tubing intermediate barrier layer, and a tubing outer barrier layer implemented around the reinforcement tubing annulus. The reinforcement tubing annulus includes a second solid material that is different from the first solid material and is implemented to define a reinforcement fluid conduit. Additionally, the venting fluid conduit facilitates venting fluid that permeates from the pipe bore through the tubing inner barrier layer out from the pipe segment before the fluid contacts the second solid material in the reinforcement tubing annulus.
US11226053B2
A pressure disturbance rejection valve assembly is provided. The valve assembly includes a valve, a flow rate sensor, and an actuator. The actuator includes a motor, a drive device configured to be driven by the motor and coupled to the valve for driving the valve within a range of positions, and a position sensor configured to measure a rotational position of the drive device. The actuator further includes a communications mechanism configured to receive a flow rate setpoint and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to determine an actuator position setpoint using a feedback control mechanism based on the flow rate setpoint and the flow rate measurement, operate the motor to drive the drive device to the actuator position setpoint, detect a fault condition based at least in part on the rotational position measurement or the flow rate measurement, and perform a fault mitigation action in response to detection of the fault condition.
US11226050B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a valve housing (1) having a plastic body (2) with at least one fluid opening (5) which is protected by means of a filter (6) against the inlet of dirt.
US11226049B2
A fluid supply system includes: a coupling manifold disposed in parallel to mutually facing end portions of the multiple-unit manifolds that are adjacent to each other; a first fluid control device connecting one of the end portions of the multiple-unit manifolds that are adjacent to each other to the coupling manifold; and a second fluid control device connecting the other one of the end portions of the multiple-unit manifolds that are adjacent to each other to the coupling manifold, in which the coupling manifold has a communication passage that establishes communication of combined flow passages of the multiple-unit manifolds that are adjacent to each other via the first and second fluid control devices.
US11226048B2
A passive explosion isolation valve (10) is provided that comprises vertically-oriented gate members (40, 42) configured to close automatically in response to an energetic event occurring downstream of the valve. The valve (10) may be optionally equipped with a valve seat cleaning assembly (46) configured to removed accumulated particulate material away from the area of the valve seat (48) and/or one or more latch assemblies (44) configured to secure the gate members (40, 42) in the closed position following closure of the valve (10) in response to an energetic event.
US11226043B2
A ball valve includes: a main body having a fluid inlet passage, a fluid outlet passage, and a column-shaped depression communicating with these passages and opening upward; a ball including a fluid communication passage and disposed at the column-shaped depression of the main body rotatably about a reference axis; an operating mechanism configured to cause the ball to rotate about the reference axis; a ball seat having a required opening on a peripheral wall thereof and disposed between the ball and the main body; a ball seat presser configured to press the ball seat; and a pressing screw configured to press the ball seat presser downward. The ball is rotated to achieve communication and cutoff. The ball seat has a substantially frustoconical shape having a bottom surface larger than a bottom of the depression in diameter, and an upper surface slightly smaller than the bottom surface in diameter.
US11226038B2
A flange sealing system includes two bodies that each have a respective flat surface and are interconnected so that the surfaces face one another. At least one of the bodies has a groove with parallel side walls recessed into the flat surface. An elastic profile with an H-shaped cross-section is arranged in the groove in such a way that at least a part of the vertical regions of the elastic profile is arranged parallel to the side walls of the groove. In at least one portion of the space between the vertical regions of the elastic profile, a cured liquid is arranged in such a way that the profile is adhesively connected to the groove in the region of the base surface of the groove. The cured liquid is elastic.
US11226037B2
A shift range switching control device for switching a shift range by controlling driving of a motor includes a feedback control section, a stationary phase energization control section, and a switching control section. The feedback control section performs a feedback control based on an actual angle of the motor, and a motor speed. The stationary phase energization control section performs a stationary phase energization control which energizes a stationary phase selected according to the actual angle. The switching control section switches the control state of the motor.
US11226036B2
A shift lever device is provided with retention frames at a front side and rear side of a lever, and a plate is provided with blocks at the front side and rear side of the lever. Even if the plate and the lever are installed to a vehicle with the front side and rear side of the plate and the lever reversed, changing the retention frame that retains a detent rod enables the block on the side of the detent rod to restrict swinging of the detent rod, enabling swinging of the lever to be restricted. This thereby enables the plate and the lever to be commonly employed.
US11226033B2
A shift range control device switches a shift range by controlling the driving operation of a motor in a shift range switching system. The shift range control device includes a drive control unit, a stop control unit, and a return control unit. The drive control unit drives the motor so that an engagement member engages in one of recess portions corresponding to a requested shift range. The stop control unit stops the motor at a target position corresponding to the requested shift range. When the requested shift range corresponds to one of both ends of multiple recess portions, the return control unit returns the rotation position of the motor after the motor stops at the target position.
US11226030B2
A motor apparatus having an oil circulation structure may collect churning oil inside a housing and efficiently disperses the collected oil in each drive system, smoothly performing cooling and lubrication of the drive system including a motor and a reduction gear. Furthermore, even under low or high load conditions of the drive system, the oil level inside the housing is maintained at a constant level to maintain desired lubrication and cooling performance.
US11226025B2
A drivetrain has a first speed path and a third speed path. The first speed path includes a one-way clutch that allows power transmission from the drive shaft toward the driven shaft but prevents power transmission in the opposite direction. The third speed path includes a one-way clutch that allows power transmission from the driven shaft toward the drive shaft but prevents power transmission in the opposite direction. The third speed path further includes a shift clutch member. This can provide a drivetrain capable of performing regenerative control to derive electricity appropriately from an electric motor and also capable of shifting gears smoothly.
US11226012B2
A driving force transmission device includes a clutch housing configured to be connected to a propeller shaft; a shaft including a weakened portion that is a portion in an axial direction of the shaft; a multi-plate clutch disposed between the clutch housing and the shaft; a case member including a housing portion having a cylindrical shape, the housing portion being configured to house at least a part of the clutch housing; and a falling-off preventing member configured to, when the shaft is broken at the weakened portion, allow rotation of the clutch housing while restraining the clutch housing from falling off the housing portion.
US11226008B2
A system for axially retaining two coaxial components includes an inner component having an annular compression groove formed in a radially outer surface thereof, an outer component having an annular engagement groove formed in a radially inner surface thereof, and a split retaining ring installed in the annular compression groove of the inner component, wherein the split retaining ring is adapted for movement between a radially compressed condition to facilitate axial engagement of the inner component within the outer component and a radially expanded condition to facilitate radial engagement of the split retaining ring in the annular engagement groove of the outer component, so that the inner and outer components are axially locked together.
US11226005B2
A bearing arrangement includes two bearing rings which can be rotated with respect to one another about a common axis, an annular module carrier, an encoder, and at least one sensor module. The module carrier is arranged axially on one of the two bearing rings. The encoder is arranged on the other one of the two bearing rings. The at least one sensor module is arranged in the module carrier. In some embodiments, the module carrier has a cut-out on at least one of its axial side surfaces. through which a lubricant can be introduced into the bearing. The cut-out is arranged circumferentially in the region away from the sensor modules. In other embodiments, the module carrier has at least one predetermined break point for configuring a cut-out.
US11226001B2
A machining control system for machining of a workpiece movably supported by a motion guidance device having a track member which extends along a longitudinal direction and a moving member which is arranged so as to oppose the track member via a rolling element being rollably arranged inside a rolling groove and which is relatively movable along the longitudinal direction of the track member, the machining control system including: an acquisition unit which acquires prescribed machining information related to a load applied to the motion guidance device when machining of the workpiece is performed by the machining device; and an output unit which generates machining correction information for correcting a prescribed control parameter for machining of the workpiece by the machining device on the basis of the prescribed machining information acquired by the acquisition unit and which outputs the generated machining correction information to a side of the machining device.
US11225989B2
An indexing pin comprises a central axis. The indexing pin further comprises a threaded portion, extending along the central axis. The indexing pin also comprises a stem, extending along the central axis opposite the threaded portion. The indexing pin further comprises a cylindrical surface, extending along the central axis between the threaded portion and the stem. The indexing pin further comprises a tapered surface, extending between the threaded portion and the cylindrical surface. The indexing pin further comprises a flange, located between the stem and the cylindrical surface.
US11225987B2
A mount base is disclosed, wherein the mount base is detachably set in a hole on a plate for mounting a support arm supporting at least one display, the mount base comprises a guide rod, a first clamping unit, and a second clamping unit, wherein the plate is adjustably clamped by the first clamping unit and the second clamping unit.
US11225978B2
A compressor according to an exemplary embodiment of this disclosure, among other possible things includes, a rotor driven by a shaft and configured to compress air. A motor is drives the shaft. First and second journal bearings facilitate rotation of the shaft. The first journal bearing is located upstream from the motor, and the second journal bearing is located downstream from the motor. A thrust bearing also facilitates rotation of the shaft. The thrust bearing is downstream from the second journal bearing. A tie rod connects the shaft to a motor rotor shaft adjacent the first journal bearing. The tie rod includes an opening which is configured to communicate cooling air from the motor to the rotor. A method for cooling a compressor is also disclosed.
US11225963B2
A valve seat assembly comprises a valve. The assembly further comprises a removable upper seat associated with the valve. The assembly further comprises a lower seat configured to be inserted into a fluid end of a pump and releasably couplable to the upper seat. The upper seat is decouplable from the lower seat while the lower seat remains inserted in the fluid end of the pump. The valve is configured to contact the upper seat to prevent a flow of fluid through the fluid end of the pump.
US11225955B2
An electric pump device includes a single motor, a pump that discharges fluid from a discharge port with driving force of the motor, and a flow passage switch that includes outlets configured to be in communication with the discharge port and switches an outlet of the outlets that is in communication with the discharge port with driving force of the motor.
US11225951B2
The present disclosure relates to techniques for extracting heat energy from geothermal briny fluid. A briny fluid can be extracted from a geothermal production well and delivered to a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger can receive the briny fluid and transfer heat energy from the briny fluid to a molten salt. The molten salt can be pumped to a molten salt storage tank that can serve as energy storage. The briny fluid can be returned to a geothermal source via the production well. The briny fluid can remain in a closed-loop system, apart from the molten salt, from extraction through return to the geothermal production well.
US11225947B2
A method of securing a cable (22) to a wind turbine blade is described. The method involves providing a pre-assembled cable assembly (34) comprising a cable (22) and a plurality of mounts (40a-e) pre-attached to the cable (22) at intervals along the length of the cable (22). The plurality of mounts (40a-e) is attached to a surface (20) of a wind turbine blade such that the mounts (40a-e) are spaced apart along the surface (20) of the blade. The spacing between adjacent mounts (40a-e) when the mounts (40a-e) are attached to the blade is less than the length of the cable (22) between said adjacent mounts (40a-e) such that a predetermined amount of slack is provided in the cable (22) between said adjacent mounts (40a-e). A pre-assembled cable assembly for use in the method is also described together with a method of assembling the cable assembly.
US11225944B2
Wind energy assemblies which contain arrays of wind diodes, which arrays are assembled into a wind energy collector assembly.
US11225936B1
An exhaust gas recirculation system for an engine includes a first conduit, a second conduit, and a mixer. The first conduit is configured to direct a first portion of exhaust gas away from a first exhaust manifold. The second conduit is configured to direct a second portion of exhaust gas away from a second exhaust manifold. The mixer is configured to direct the first and second portions of the exhaust gas from the first and second conduits, respectively, into an engine air intake system. The mixer is arranged to segregate the first and second portions of the exhaust gas while the first and second portions of the exhaust gas are within the mixer. The mixer forms a ring about a perforated tube. The mixer is configured to direct the first and second portions of the exhaust gas into the air intake system via the perforated tube.
US11225933B2
A liquid fuel injector such as for a dual fuel system in an internal combustion engine includes two-way injection control valves for controlling twin outlet checks. A first set of orifices are arranged in an A-F-Z pattern, and a second set of orifices are arranged in an A-F-Z pattern, within the fuel injector, among a high-pressure inlet passage, a low-pressure space, and first and second outlet check control chambers, respectively. A common nozzle supply cavity is fluidly connected to the high-pressure inlet passage and supplies each of two sets of nozzle outlets opened and closed by the twin outlet checks.
US11225923B2
A controller includes a memory device and an execution device, which executes an operation of an operated unit of an internal combustion engine. The execution device includes a first operation process that operates the operated unit by an operated amount, which is calculated on the basis of a state of a vehicle, using an adapted data set, a second operation process that operates the operated unit by an operated amount that is defined by a relationship defining data set and the state of the vehicle, and a switching process that switches the operation of the operated unit between an operation by the first operation process and an operation by the second operation process, depending on whether the vehicle is performing a manual acceleration travel or an automatic acceleration travel.
US11225916B2
Present embodiments provide an electronic fuel injection throttle body which may be used with a variety of engines of different manufacturers. The throttle body may be used to replace mechanical or hydraulically controlled carburetors with electronic fuel injection. The bores or barrels of the throttle body may comprise one or more stackable fuel injectors. The fuel component cover may include a regulator with a housing formed integrally with the fuel component cover or alternatively, a regulator may be located remotely.
US11225914B2
A gas turbine engine including a fan, a core including at least one rotatable shaft, and a gearbox mechanically coupling at least one rotatable shaft of the core to the fan is provided. The gas turbine engine also includes a coupling system for mounting the gearbox within the gas turbine engine. The coupling system includes a flexible coupling connected to at least one of a fan frame or a core frame, as well as a torque frame connected to the flexible coupling and the gearbox. Moreover, a deflection limiter is provided, loosely attaching the flexible coupling to the gearbox to provide a predetermined axial range of motion, radial range of motion, and circumferential range of motion between the gearbox and the frame to which the flexible coupling is attached.
US11225911B2
An inter-spool energy transfer system is provided and includes a first spool, a second spool, which includes components that are rotatable at a different speed as compared to components of the first spool and an inter-spool interface system coupled to at least one of the components of the first spool and at least one of the components of the second spool. The inter-spool interface system includes a controller, which is configured to supply power to one of the first and second spools and to draw power from the other of the first and second spools.
US11225904B2
In an exemplary embodiment, an internal combustion engine, in which a valve is opened and closed when a piston reciprocates in a cylinder, has a configuration to perform repeatedly the following combined strokes: an intake stroke→a compression stroke→a combustion stroke→an exhaust stroke in a four-cycle internal combustion engine are combined with an intake and compression stroke→a combustion and exhaust stroke in a two-cycle internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine can reduce pumping loss in a six-cycle internal combustion engine and increase the output.
US11225900B2
An active air flap includes: a first air flap disposed between a ventilation opening of a bumper and a radiator, and openably disposed in a first section facing the radiator; a second air flap disposed between the ventilation opening of the bumper and the radiator, and openably disposed in a second section bordering the first section facing the radiator; and an air guide configured to guide air introduced into the radiator toward the first air flap and the second air flap.
US11225897B2
A vehicle exhaust system includes a tubular component having an inner surface and an outer surface such that the inner surface defines a primary exhaust gas flow path. The tubular component extends along a central axis from an inlet end to an outlet end. The tubular component includes at least one ridge extending at least partly along a circumference of the tubular component. The at least one ridge includes a first portion angularly extending inwardly from the tubular component, and a second portion disposed downstream of the first portion. The second portion angularly extends inwardly from the tubular component. In some cases, the second portion defines a plurality of openings extending therethrough and spaced apart from each other. In some cases, the tubular component defines a plurality of tube openings disposed downstream of the at least one ridge.
US11225896B1
A degradation diagnosis device includes a downstream air-fuel ratio sensor and a control device. The control device is configured to perform a rich process and a lean process alternately and repeatedly in a degradation diagnosis process for diagnosing degradation of the exhaust gas control catalyst. The control device is configured to, in the degradation diagnosis process, determine that the exhaust gas control catalyst has been degraded when the lean process is executed and the frequency with which an output air-fuel ratio of the downstream air-fuel ratio sensor is equal to the lean air-fuel ratio is equal to or more than a predetermined frequency.
US11225894B1
An exhaust aftertreatment system for use with an over-the-road vehicle is disclosed. The exhaust aftertreatment system includes a flash-boil doser mounted to an exhaust conduit and a catalyst coupled to the exhaust conduit. The flash-boil doser configured to inject heated and pressurized reducing agent into an exhaust passageway defined by the exhaust conduit for distribution throughout exhaust gases passed through the exhaust conduit. The catalyst configured to react the reducing agent with the nitrous oxide in the flow of exhaust gases to provide treated exhaust gases with a reduced nitrous oxide amount.
US11225892B2
A heating device comprises a grid and a power supply device connected to the grid to pass an electric current in the grid. The grid is formed by strands delimiting openings between the strands. The strands of the grid do not overlap.
US11225881B2
An example hybrid aircraft propulsion system includes one or more parallel propulsion units, each of the parallel propulsion units comprising: a first propulsor; a gas turbine engine configured to drive the first propulsor; and an electrical machine selectively configurable to: generate, for output via one or more electrical busses, electrical energy using mechanical energy derived from the first propulsor or the gas turbine engine; and drive the first propulsor using electrical energy received via the one or more electrical busses; and one or more series propulsion units, each of the series propulsion units comprising: a second propulsor; and an electrical machine selectively configurable to: generate, for output via the one or more electrical busses, electrical energy using mechanical energy derived from the second propulsor or the gas turbine engine; and drive the second propulsor using electrical energy received from one or more electrical busses.
US11225879B2
An abradable element (7) for a turbomachine comprises a body (8) formed from an abradable material and extending between a wear face (11) and a bottom (9). The body comprises blind cavities (12) opening up into the wear face and filled in with a material with a colour different from the colour of the material forming the body of the element (7) to form wear indicators of the wear face (11) of the element (7).
US11225866B2
A siphon pump chimney can be used in a mini-drillstem test to increase formation fluid flow rates. A formation tester can be coupled to a siphon pump chimney via a wet connect assembly to transfer formation fluid from a fluid-bearing formation. The siphon pump chimney can receive the formation fluid through the wet connect and disperse the formation fluid into a drill pipe that is flowing drilling fluid. The siphon pump chimney can include check valves to prevent the drilling fluid from entering the siphon pump chimney. The siphon pump chimney can be configured to have a variable height that can reduce pressure within the siphon pump chimney to a pressure value that can be close to or less than the formation pressure, which can allow a pump to operate at high flow rates or be bypassed in a free flow configuration.
US11225861B1
Frac pumps have a fluid end and a fluid end block. The fluid end block has a plunger cylinder having a primary axis, a suction bore having a primary axis, a discharge bore, and a pump chamber. The pump chamber is defined by the intersection of the plunger cylinder, the suction bore, and the discharge bore. The fluid end block has a cylindrical portion extending along the primary axis of the suction bore. The cylindrical portion has a diameter greater than the diameter of the plunger cylinder. The pump chamber also has a ridge that extends radially inward from the walls of the pump chamber in a plane normal to the suction bore primary axis.
US11225858B2
A methane gas production facility or the like capable of efficiently producing a methane gas from a wide range of a methane hydrate layer. In a methane gas production facility that produces a methane gas from a methane hydrate layer MHL, a first horizontal well is provided along the methane hydrate layer MHL and injection water supply units supply injection water obtained by dispersing a carbon dioxide gas in water to the first horizontal well. A second horizontal well is provided along an area in which methane released from methane hydrate by replacement with carbon dioxide rises, a decompression and suction unit decompresses the inside of the second horizontal well by pumping water and sucks water containing methane, and a gas-liquid separation unit separates a methane gas from the sucked water.
US11225856B2
A downhole acoustic stimulation tool comprises: a sealed chamber containing a liquid; a pair of electrodes located in the chamber; at least one transducer arranged to generate an acoustic field between the electrodes thereby inducing cavitation in a volume of the liquid between the electrodes; and at least one capacitor configured to apply a pulse voltage across the electrodes when discharged, thereby causing the cavitating volume of liquid to form a plasma which collapses to form a shockwave. The at least one transducer constitutes a first energy source, and the at least one capacitor back and electrodes constitute a second energy source. Alternative forms and arrangements of the first and second energy sources are also disclosed.
US11225852B2
A subsea valve system for use in a subsea landing string includes a subsea valve and an external manifold in fluid communication with the subsea valve. The external manifold includes a cylinder, a split manifold piston, an above bore inlet that is configured to be exposed to an above bore pressure, a below bore inlet that is configured to be exposed to a below bore pressure, and an open chamber outlet. The split manifold piston is configured to move within the cylinder to fluidly couple the above bore inlet to the open chamber outlet to enable pump through functionality while a respective force exerted on the manifold piston by the above bore pressure is greater than a respective force exerted on the manifold piston by the below bore pressure.
US11225851B2
A debris collection tool includes a mandrel having a longitudinal flowbore therethrough and an inner sleeve disposed around the mandrel. A first array of magnets is arranged on the inner sleeve. A second array of magnets is disposed around the inner sleeve. The first array of magnets is moveable with respect to the second array of magnets. The debris collection tool further includes an adaptor sleeve concentric with the mandrel and a linkage coupling the adaptor sleeve with the inner sleeve.
US11225850B2
A downhole tool includes a streamlined housing sized to freely move through a wellbore formed from a terranean surface to a subterranean formation; an explosive material enclosed within an interior volume of the housing, the explosive material sufficient to cut at least a portion of a tubular positioned in the wellbore upon detonation; a detonator coupled to the explosive material; and a detonator control system communicably coupled to the detonator and configured to activate the detonator with a detonation signal to detonate the explosive material.
US11225834B2
A method of estimating a state of a rotary steerable drilling system comprising applying a control input to a rotary steerable drilling system, sensing an actual output of the rotary steerable drilling system, inputting the control input into a mathematical model of the rotary steerable drilling system, receiving an estimated output of the rotary steerable drilling system from the mathematical model, generating an error compensation signal based on a difference between the actual output and the estimated output, and applying the error compensation signal to the mathematical model.
US11225832B2
According to the present invention, a ladder having an adjustable length comprises: a first support including a first outer support and a first inner support inserted into the first outer support; a horizontal foothold for connecting the first supports to each other; a first gear formed at the inner side of the horizontal foothold and having a groove part formed therein; a second gear engaging with the first gear and changing the rotational direction of the first gear; a rotary bar coupled to the second gear; a third gear formed at the end of one side of the rotary bar; a screw bolt having a fourth gear, which engages with the third gear and is formed at the end thereof, formed inside the first inner support, formed in a stick type, and having threads formed on the outer side thereof; and a screw nut in which the screw bolt is formed, and to which the first inner support is coupled at the outer side thereof.
US11225817B2
A sensing edge is made in segments that can be used to determine at which point along the edge an obstruction occurred. Data collected can be used to determine a point in a process that the fault occurred by addressing each segment individually or as a whole. A programmable controller can be operatively coupled to the sensing edge, and can include logic to control the door and/or other equipment using data collected from the sensing edge.
US11225813B2
A theft-prevention anchoring device is an apparatus that secures a bag to a secure structure. The apparatus includes an anchoring band, a band fastener, and a security cable. The anchoring band houses the security cable and protects the bag from any damage. The anchoring band also provides a style according to the preferences of a user. The band fastener attaches a first band end of the anchoring band with a second band end of the anchoring band so that the anchoring band may loop around the bag and the secure structure. The band fastener includes a first interlocking piece and a second interlocking piece. The first interlocking piece is engaged to the second interlocking piece. Moreover, the band fastener is configured to generate a loud audible sound as the first interlocking piece is disengaged from the second interlocking piece. The security cable provides the structural integrity for the apparatus.
US11225809B2
A canopy tent includes a plurality of vertical rods. Top ends of the vertical rods are connected to top rods, respectively. An inner end of each top rod is pivotally connected to a top hub located at a center of the canopy tent. Each top rod includes an inner rod and an outer rod that are pivotally connected to each other at a middle portion of each top rod. A side rod assembly that can be unfolded or folded inwardly is connected between every adjacent two of the vertical rods. A push-pull assembly is provided under the center of the canopy tent. The push-pull assembly includes a plurality of push-pull rods that are pivotally connected to lower ends of the inner rods of the top rods, respectively. A lower end of each push-pull rod is pivotally connected to a connecting base located under the top hub.
US11225802B2
Apparatus is provided for vertically-extending construction column and horizontal construction beam assembly having beam-reference portion. Apparatus includes prop head assembly configured to be fixedly connected to vertically-extending construction column, and also configured to support horizontal construction beam assembly once the prop head assembly is fixedly connected to vertically-extending construction column. Prop head assembly includes first beam-locating feature and second beam-locating feature. First beam-locating feature configured to selectively receive, at least in part, the beam-reference portion. Second beam-locating feature configured to selectively receive, at least in part, the beam-reference portion. Second beam-locating feature is also configured to receive beam-reference portion once the beam-reference portion is inadvertently displaced away from first beam-locating feature and from vertically-extending construction column and toward second beam-locating feature.
US11225797B2
A hand tool has a plurality of similarly or identically shaped rollers aligned end-to-end along an axle such that the outer surface of each respective roller moves about an axis define by the axle. The hand tool may be a roofing roller tool that enables an impermeable vapor membrane or sheet to be applied to a vertical wall extending upwardly from an outer perimeter of a roof. The tool may be manipulated by an elongated pole handle coupled to a roller head or roller head frame.
US11225787B2
A connection utilizing a joist hanger to hang a joist or beam from a wood structural support member such as a top plate or header in cooperation with a first plurality of fasteners such as screws or nails and one or more substantially vertical fire-resistant panels such as drywall.
US11225784B2
A self-cleaning toilet has: a toilet, a cleaning device, a solenoid valve and a blocking member. The toilet has a sitting toilet seat and a water tank. The sitting toilet seat is formed with a urinal, and one end of the urinal has an enlarged opening to form a seat, and the urinal tapers from the seat to the other end to form a drain elbow. The water tank is connected to the toilet with an outlet pipe, and the water tank is connected with an input pipe, a cleaning device is set in the toilet with a controller, and the controller is connected with a plurality of the ultrasonic transducers and a full water level sensor, The ultrasonic transducers are fixed on the inner wall of the urinal. The solenoid valve is connected to the input pipe, and a blocking member is connected to the drain elbow.
US11225778B2
A system for monitoring wear of shank attachment members of an agricultural implement includes a shank extending between a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end configured to be pivotally coupled to a portion of the agricultural implement, a shank attachment member coupled to the distal end of the shank, a non-contact sensor positioned remote to the shank attachment member, the non-contact sensor configured to detect a parameter indicative of wear of the shank attachment member, and a controller communicatively coupled to the non-contact sensor. The controller is configured to determine a status of the wear of the shank attachment member based on sensor data received from the non-contact sensor while the shank attachment member is above ground.
US11225766B2
A driving system for driving at least one auger of a snow removing device comprising at least one at least one self-adjusting chain tensioner. A first portion of the driving system is positioned within an auger housing and a second portion of the driving system is positioned outside the auger housing. The roller chain is adapted to move across a third opening provided in the auger housing. The first portion is covered by a front guard to prevent snow or debris contained in the auger housing to contact said first portion. The front guard is provided with an opening adapted to surround a portion of a shaft element of the auger with a play between periphery of the opening and the periphery of a corresponding portion the shaft element. The play is either small enough to prevent water and or debris to enter the first casing, or filled with a filling element and/or covered with a sealing element secured to the front guard or the corresponding portion of the shaft element of the at least one auger, to have the play small enough to prevent water and/or debris to enter the first casing. The second portion prevent snow or debris present around the snow removing device to contact the said second portion. A snow blower provided with the driving system, a kit comprising parts and/or components of the driving system, a method for assembling the driving system, and a method for manufacturing some components or parts of the driving system.
US11225753B2
A domestic compact article folding machine (10) configured for autonomous article folding includes first, second and third primary conveyors (CI, C2, C3), at least two of which in a stacked formation, each includes two primary rollers (32) and a primary belt (34) which extends thereabout. First and second holding conveyors (U1, U2), each includes at least three holding rollers (32) and a holding belt (34) which extends thereabout. Each of the holding conveyors engages each of the first and second primary conveyors respectively. The folding machine further includes at least a first width-folder (38) which is configured for creating a width-fold in the article and at least a first length-folder (64) which is configured for creating a length-fold in the article.
US11225750B2
A door latch for a domestic electrical appliance is provided, which door latch has an electromotively driven locking element for locking the closed door.
US11225747B2
A household appliance can include a treating chamber configured to receive an article for treatment according to a cycle of operation of the household appliance, as well as a coating on at least a portion of the treating chamber. The coating can be configured to provide at least hydrophobicity characteristics to the treating chamber.
US11225746B2
A filtration-free liquid sampling system may be used to extract particulate or debris-containing liquid samples that may otherwise plug a filter over its service life. For example, such a system may be used to extract liquid sample from an industrial textile washer to monitor and/or validate the quality of wash conditions within the washer. In some examples, the system includes a pump that creates a vacuum on a backstroke, drawing liquid into a sensor housing positioned between the pump and the washer. After holding the liquid in the sensor housing long enough to measure its properties, the pump can be driven in a reverse stroke to pressurize the contents in the sensor housing and force the liquid back into the washer. This vacuum fill/pressure purge can keep the sensor housing free of debris.
US11225744B2
A laundry treatment machine may include: a tub; a drum that is rotatably disposed in the tub; an actuator that provides power for rotating the drum; and a balancer device that is disposed at an end where the inlet hole of the drum is formed, and adjusts the center of gravity of the drum that is rotating. The balancer device may include: a main balancer that reduces vibration of the drum by moving in the opposite direction to eccentricity that is generated when the drum is rotated; a first sub-balancer of which an arrangement gap from the main balancer is adjusted in accordance with the degree of eccentricity of the drum; and a second sub-balancer of which an arrangement gap from the main balancer is adjusted in the opposite direction of the first sub-balancer with respect to the main balancer.
US11225743B2
Disclosed herein are a washing machine and a control method thereof. The control method effectively transmits high-concentration wash liquid to laundry, while minimizing the amount of water used, through washing using bubbles, and maximizes the increase in volume of the wash liquid rubbed on the inner circumferential surface of the drum using the generation of bubbles and the rotation of the drum to raise the water level of the wash liquid without additional water.
US11225738B2
A long-fiber nonwoven fabric includes fibers having a birefringence (Δn) of more than or equal to 0.005 and less than or equal to 0.020 and an average fiber diameter of more than or equal to 30 μm and less than or equal to 60 μm, and has a basis weight amount of more than or equal to 50 g/m2 and less than or equal to 120 g/m2, an average value of Gurley bending resistances in an MD direction and a CD direction according to JIS L1096 (2010) 8.22.1 Method A of more than or equal to 100 mg and less than or equal to 200 mg, and a value of the Gurley bending resistance in the MD direction/the Gurley bending resistance in the CD direction of less than or equal to 3.0.
US11225734B1
A towel assembly is including a plurality of layers including a first layer and a fourth layer constructed of a textile terry cloth. A second layer and a third layer are constructed of a fabric, each of the first layer, the second layer, the third layer, and the fourth layer are retained to one another such that the first layer and the fourth layer are arranged to interact with a surface. The second layer and the third layer are retained between the first layer and the fourth layer. The towel assembly is arranged to reduce friction when interacting with the surface.
US11225731B2
Reducing the microvoid (MV) density in AlN ameliorates numerous problems related to cracking during crystal growth, etch pit generation during the polishing, reduction of the optical transparency in an AlN wafer, and, possibly, growth pit formation during epitaxial growth of AlN and/or AlGaN. This facilitates practical crystal production strategies and the formation of large, bulk AlN crystals with low defect densities—e.g., a dislocation density below 104 cm−2 and an inclusion density below 104 cm−3 and/or a MV density below 104 cm−3.
US11225721B2
A thin film etchant composition for preventing re-adsorption of an etched metal and uniformly etching a thin film is provided. The thin film etchant composition includes about 43 wt % to about 46 wt % of phosphoric acid, about 5 wt % to about 8 wt % of nitric acid, about 10 wt % to about 17 wt % of acetic acid, about 1 wt % to about 3 wt % of iron nitrate, about 0.7 wt % to about 1.5 wt % of phosphate, and deionized water as a remaining amount based on a total weight of the thin film etchant composition.
US11225716B2
Internally cooled multi-hole injectors to deliver process chemicals are provided. An internal channel in an injector for the delivery system delivers process chemicals, such as a gas precursor, to a reaction space or substrate within a process chamber through multiple holes formed by outlets. A cooling delivery path and a cooling return path for cooling chemicals are positioned adjacent the supply channel to cool the process chemicals internally within the injector. The cooling process can be controlled to achieve a target cooling level for the process chemicals within the channel. In operation, undesired deposits are reduced thereby extending the time between product maintenance cycles. Further, the delivery and return flow of the cooling chemicals helps to stimulate a more evenly distributed temperature for the supply channel. Still further, the disclosed embodiments can be used in high-temperature environments, such as above about 400 degrees Celsius.
US11225712B2
A method for depositing tungsten includes arranging a substrate including a titanium nitride layer in a substrate processing chamber and performing multi-stage atomic layer deposition of tungsten on the substrate using a precursor gas includes tungsten chloride (WCIx) gas, wherein x is an integer. The performing includes depositing the tungsten during a first ALD stage using a first dose intensity of the precursor gas, and depositing the tungsten during a second ALD stage using a second dose intensity of the precursor gas. The first dose intensity is based on a first dose concentration and a first dose period. The second dose intensity is based on a second dose concentration and a second dose period. The second dose intensity is 1.5 to 10 times the first dose intensity.
US11225704B2
A tooling assembly, including a cermet tool body and an electrically nonconductive polymer support body at least partially encapsulating the cermet tool body. The cermet tool body and electrically nonconductive polymer body further include a plurality of high magnetic permeability metallic particles distributed therethrough. Each respective high magnetic permeability metallic particle has a magnetic permeability of at least 0.0001 H/m. Each respective high magnetic permeability metallic particle has a relative permeability of at least 100.
US11225703B2
This invention relates to magnetocaloric materials comprising ternary alloys useful for magnetic refrigeration applications. The disclosed ternary alloys are Cerium, Neodymium, and/or Gadolinium based compositions that are fairly inexpensive, and in some cases exhibit only 2nd order magnetic phase transitions near their curie temperature, thus there are no thermal and structural hysteresis losses. This makes these compositions attractive candidates for use in magnetic refrigeration applications. The performance of the disclosed materials is similar or better to many of the known expensive rare-earth based magnetocaloric materials.
US11225698B2
Disclosed is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet that exhibits excellent iron loss properties and a good building factor, in which damage to a tension coating is suppressed. In a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having a tension coating, an interlaminar current is 0.15 A or less, a plurality of linear strain regions extending in a direction transverse to the rolling direction are formed, the strain regions are formed at line intervals in the rolling direction of 15 mm or less, each of the strain regions has closure domains formed therein, and each of the closure domains has a length d along the sheet thickness direction of 65 μm or more and a length w along the rolling direction of 250 μm or less.
US11225691B2
This document provides methods and materials involved in using measles viruses. For example, methods and materials for identifying mammals (e.g., humans) likely to respond to standard measles virus vaccines or standard measles virus-based therapies as well as methods and materials for identifying mammals (e.g., humans) unlikely to respond to standard measles virus vaccines or standard measles virus-based therapies are provided.
US11225674B2
The present disclosure provides a sphere-packing lattice electroporation device configured for use as a stand-alone unit or in an automated multi-module cell processing environment and configured to decrease cell processing time and increase cell survival. The sphere-packing lattice utilizes lattice-forming beads that are uniform in size and that self-assemble into a crystalline-like lattice.
US11225672B2
A pesticidal protein class exhibiting toxic activity against Coleopteran and Lepidopteran pest species is disclosed, and includes, but is not limited to, TIC7040, TIC7042, TIC7381, TIC7382, TIC7383, TIC7386, TIC7388, and TIC7389. DNA constructs are provided which contain a recombinant nucleic acid sequence encoding the TIC7040, TIC7042, TIC7381, TIC7382, TIC7383, TIC7386, TIC7388, and TIC7389 pesticidal proteins. Transgenic plants, plant cells, seed, and plant parts resistant to Coleopteran and Lepidopteran infestation are provided which contain recombinant nucleic acid sequences encoding the TIC7040, TIC7042, TIC7381, TIC7382, TIC7383, TIC7386, TIC7388, and TIC7389 pesticidal proteins of the present invention. Methods for detecting the presence of the recombinant nucleic acid sequences or the proteins of the present invention in a biological sample, and methods of controlling Coleopteran and Lepidopteran species pests using the TIC7040, TIC7042, TIC7381, TIC7382, TIC7383, TIC7386, TIC7388, and TIC7389 pesticidal proteins are also provided.
US11225659B2
The invention provides novel CRISPR/Cas compositions and uses thereof for targeting nucleic acids. In particular, the invention provides non-naturally occurring or engineered RNA-targeting systems comprising a novel RNA-targeting Cas13e or Cas13f effector protein, and at least one targeting nucleic acid component such as a guide RNA (gRNA) or crRNA. The novel Cas effector proteins are among the smallest of the known Cas effector proteins, at about 800 amino acids in size, and are thus uniquely suitable for delivery using vectors of small capacity, such as an AAV vector.
US11225649B2
The present disclosure provides engineered cross-type-nucleic-acid targeting nucleic acids and compositions thereof. Nucleic acid sequences encoding the engineered cross-type-nucleic-acid targeting nucleic acids, as well as expression cassettes, vectors and cells comprising such nucleic acid sequences, are described. Also, methods are disclosed for making and using the engineered cross-type-nucleic-acid targeting nucleic acids and compositions thereof.
US11225643B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing endothelial cells, including carrying out: (a) inducing a population of mesoderm-lineage cells containing endothelial progenitor cells from pluripotent stem cells without forming an embryoid body; and (b) culturing the population of mesoderm-lineage cells containing endothelial progenitor cells in the presence of RepSox, in this order. According to the present invention, endothelial cells with high quality can be efficiently produced from pluripotent stem cells. The endothelial cells obtained by the method of the present invention are useful for the production of, for example, a myocardial sheet, and expected to be utilized in the treatment of a heart disease. A myocardial sheet can be produced by mixing the endothelial cells obtained by the method of the present invention with myocardial cells and mural cells and culturing the cells.
US11225634B2
A beverage maker includes a fermentation module including a fermentation tank that defines an inner space, and a lid that is configured to open and close at least a portion of the inner space, and a container configured to be accommodated in the inner space of the fermentation tank. The container includes a container channel configured to guide flow of fluid, and the lid includes a lid channel connected to the container channel, and a tube connected to the lid channel.
US11225632B1
Disclosed herein is a cleaning composition for facilitating cleaning surfaces of an object, in accordance with some embodiments. Accordingly, the cleaning composition may include carbanions and a diluting agent. Further, a carbanion of the carbanions may include a carbon atom. Further, the carbon atom may include a formal charge of −1. Further, the diluting agent may be capable of combining with the carbanions for forming at least one appliable form of the cleaning composition. Further, a ratio of the diluting agent to the carbanions by volume may be 64:1. Further, the combining facilitates applying of the at least one appliable form of the cleaning composition to at least one surface of the object. Further, the applying of the at least one appliable form of the cleaning composition cleans at least one contaminant present on the at least one surface of the object.
US11225617B1
In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, a continuous catalytic deasphalting process includes introducing a feed comprising crude oil and solvent to a first reactor to deasphalt the feed, producing polymerized asphaltene adsorbed to the catalyst and deasphalted oil; introducing solvent to a second reactor to regenerate catalyst in the second reactor while the deasphalting step is performed in the first reactor; introducing a wash solvent to the first reactor after deasphalting to remove the polymerized asphaltene, thereby regenerating the catalyst in the first reactor and producing a mixture comprising solvent and polymerized asphaltene; passing the mixture to a separator downstream of the reactor system to separate the wash solvent from the polymerized asphaltenes; and reintroducing at least a portion of the separated wash solvent to at least one of the first and second reactors.
US11225616B2
Disclosed is a method of producing a lubricating base oil, including providing a feedstock including a diesel fraction, subjecting the feedstock to catalytic dewaxing, and recovering a lubricating base oil from a product of the catalytic dewaxing. A lubricating base oil produced thereby and a lubricant product including the lubricating base oil are also provided.
US11225613B2
A process for removing sulfur compounds from a liquid composition immiscible with water, comprising at least partially oxidizing the sulfur compounds by contacting a liquid composition comprising at least one sulfur compound with an aqueous oxidizing solution comprising at least one oxidant in the presence of at least one polyoxometalate and amphiphilic solid particles.
US11225608B2
The present invention relates to environmentally friendly flame retardant materials based on renewable resources and industrial waste streams. The materials have advantageous intumescent properties, charring, gas phase radical traps and thermal stability. The present invention further relates to processes for the preparation of the flame retardant materials and to plastic materials comprising said flame retardant materials.
US11225603B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a mechanoluminescent material which can be exhibit brighter luminescence compared to traditional SAO mechanoluminescent material even with respect to small strains and which has a relatively high mechanoluminescent capability even when left to stand for a long period of time after excitation. Provided is a strontium aluminate mechanoluminescent material containing Zr ions, characterized in that the Zr ions are contained in a reduced state, the content of the Zr ions is 10 mol % or less, and in a thermoluminescence measurement, one or more luminescence peaks are observed at a temperature of 100° C. or higher.
US11225596B2
The present disclosure provides methods, compositions, and systems embodying cement compositions and the synergistic effect of lost circulation materials (LCMs) and fluid loss control additives (FLCAs) thereupon for cementing subterranean zones. A method of subterranean well cementing, comprising providing a cement composition comprising a hydraulic cement, a first FLCA, an LCM, and water, wherein the first FLCA comprises a water-soluble polymer with repeating units comprising a 5- to 6-membered cyclic amide; introducing the cement composition into a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation, wherein inclusion of the first FLCA and the LCM in the cement composition fluid reduces fluid loss into the subterranean formation, wherein the subterranean formation has fractures with a width of from about 1 micron to about 800 microns, and wherein the subterranean formation has a permeability of about 1 milliDarcy to about 300 Darcy; and allowing the cement composition to set in the subterranean formation.
US11225593B2
The present invention relates to sintered platelet-like randomly shaped abrasive particles based on alpha alumina having a hardness HV of at least 20 GPa and a crystal structure with an average crystal size between 100 nm and 300 nm, whereby the abrasive particles comprise a body having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, both surfaces are separated from each other by a randomly shaped sidewall having a thickness (T) between 20 μm and 500 μm.
US11225589B2
Some variations provide a multiphase polymer composition comprising a first polymer material and a second polymer material that are chemically distinct, wherein the first polymer material and the second polymer material are microphase-separated on a microphase-separation length scale from about 0.1 microns to about 500 microns, wherein the multiphase polymer composition comprises first solid functional particles selectively dispersed within the first polymer material, and wherein the first solid functional particles are chemically distinct from the first polymer material and the second polymer material. Some embodiments provide an anti-corrosion composition comprising first corrosion-inhibitor particles or precursors selectively dispersed within the first polymer material, wherein the multiphase polymer composition optionally further comprises second corrosion-inhibitor particles or precursors selectively dispersed within the second polymer material. These multiphase polymer compositions may be used for other applications, such as self-cleaning, self-healing, or flame-retardant coatings. Methods of making and using these multiphase polymer compositions are disclosed.
US11225581B2
A carbon nanotube aligned film as well as a preparation method and application thereof are disclosed. The preparation method includes: providing a carbon nanotube dispersion solution comprising a selected carbon nanotube, a polymer as a carbon nanotube dispersing agent and binding to the selected carbon nanotube, an aromatic molecule binding to the selected carbon nanotube and allowing the surface of the selected carbon nanotube to have the same charges and an organic solvent being at least used for cooperating with the rest components of the dispersion solution to form uniform dispersion solution; and introducing a water phase layer to the upper surface of the dispersion solution to form a double-layer liquid phase system, partially or completely inserting a base into the double-layer liquid system, and then pulling out the base so as to form the carbon nanotube aligned film on the surface of the base.
US11225580B2
The disclosed technology relates to corrosion- or rust-preventive coating compositions and methods of their use. The compositions comprise a rust preventative composition, optionally including a diluent, and a quaternary ammonium salt.
US11225579B2
A method of manufacturing colored chalk. The method for manufacturing colored chalk includes preparing a colorant, combining the colorant with a volume of water, adding magnesium carbonate to the combination of water and colorant until a paste is formed, mixing the paste until the paste is homogenous, heating the paste in a kiln until the water is removed, and grinding a mass of colored magnesium carbonate into a powder having a desired fineness. In some embodiments, the colorant includes iron oxide, charcoal, or Camellia sinensis leaves.
US11225578B2
Some embodiments of the invention include a process for the surface-treatment of a calcium carbonate-comprising material, a surface-treated calcium carbonate-comprising material obtained by such a process and the use of such a surface-treated calcium carbonate-comprising material.
US11225572B2
A water-soluble film includes: a polyvinyl alcohol resin (A); and a plasticizer (B), wherein the plasticizer (B) contains a polyhydric alcohol (b1) having a melting point of more than 50° C. and 100° C. or less, a polyhydric alcohol (b2) having a melting point of 50° C. or less, and a polyhydric alcohol (b3) having a melting point of more than 100° C. The water-soluble film has a high tensile strength and a high tensile elongation, and does not cause bleed-out before the formation of a package.
US11225571B2
Thermoplastic polymer compositions (P) comprising 90 to 99.9 wt.-% of at least one styrene-based copolymer, 0.1 to 10 wt.-% of at least one copolymer at least comprising repeating units derived from at least one α-olefin monomer and at least one vinyl-aromatic monomer, at least one inorganic phosphate compound, at least one polyolefin wax and optionally at least one colorant, dye or pigment, and/or at least one further additive show improved properties with respect to residual gloss after abrasion combined with improved melt flow characteristics while heat resistance is not affected.
US11225562B2
The present invention provides expanded beads comprising a crosslinked multi-block copolymer containing an ethylene block and an ethylene-α-olefin copolymer block, having an apparent density of 40 to 300 g/L, a gel fraction of 30 to 70% by weight by a hot xylene extraction method, an average cell diameter (a) of 50 to 180 μm, and an average surface layer thickness (b) of 3 to 27 μm, and the expanded beads are excellent in in-mold moldability, and can produce an expanded beads molded article being excellent in tensile characteristics in a well balanced manner.
US11225556B2
A super absorbent polymer produced by the preparation method of the super absorbent polymer according to the present invention has excellent dryness while maintaining excellent absorption performance, and thus is preferably used for hygienic materials such as diapers and can exhibit excellent performance.
US11225551B2
The present invention relates to an amphiphilic block copolymer represented by formula I, a preparation method thereof, and a nanomicelle drug delivery system formed from the copolymer and a poorly soluble drug. The amphiphilic block copolymer includes a hydrophilic chain segment, a hydrophobic chain segment, and a linker for linking the hydrophilic chain segment to the hydrophobic chain segment. The linker contains an unsaturated structure, which can enhance the interaction between the poorly soluble drug and the copolymer to improve the drug loading ability and stability of the nanomicelle. The invention also relates to a nanomicelle drug-loading system, a preparation method thereof, and the use of the nanomicelle drug-loading system for preparing medicines for treating tumors, inflammation, diabetes, central nervous system diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and psychological disorders.
US11225542B1
Casting of non-ferrous metals, especially aluminum and magnesium, can have problems with erosion, in which molten metal contacts the mold or core surfaces during the pouring process, resulting in the sand being dislodged. Binder systems addressing this issue often use bisphenol F epoxy resin. A binder system is provided in which a major portion of the epoxy resin component is a bisphenol epoxy resin that has been modified by incorporating oxazolidone rings into an epoxy backbone of the bisphenol epoxy resin, especially a bisphenol A epoxy resin. The modification is preferably achieved by reacting the diglycidyl ether of the bisphenol with a methylene diphenyl diisocyanate.
US11225533B2
The present invention relates to a process for the hydrogenation of the carbon-carbon double bonds in nitrile butadiene rubber which is present in latex form, this means as a suspension of nitrile butadiene rubber particles in an aqueous medium, using a hydrogenation catalyst in the presence of an emulsifier.
US11225531B2
Disclosed are a carboxylated glycosaminoglycan derivative, a preparation method therefor, and the use thereof for inhibiting tumor growth and/or metastasis.
US11225530B2
Poly alpha-1,3-glucan ester compounds are disclosed herein with a degree of substitution of about 0.001 to about 3.0. Also disclosed are methods of producing poly alpha-1,3-glucan ester compounds using cyclic organic anhydrides.
US11225529B2
Disclosed is method for preparation of a starch phosphate using phytate. The method enables the preparation of a starch phosphate with improved physical properties such as high transparency, solubility, swelling power, and storage stability by the phosphorylation of a starch using naturally occurring phytate rather than using a synthetic chemical. Due to these advantages, the starch phosphate is expected to replace conventional chemically modified starches. In addition, the method enables the preparation of a starch phosphate based on a simple modification. The use of the starch phosphate greatly contributes to improvements in the quality and storage stability of various starchy foods. Therefore, the starch phosphate is expected to find application in the food industry, including starchy foods.
US11225516B2
A method of operating a chromatography column is described. This method involves collecting column outlet signal and accumulated flow parameters at two or more intervals of at least one mobile phase transition front during operation of the chromatography column comprising column packing. A model gamma cumulative distribution curve is calculated based on the collected column outlet signal and accumulated flow parameters for the at least one mobile phase transition front. A height equivalent theoretical plate (HETP) value is calculated for the at least one mobile phase transition front using parameters of the model gamma cumulative distribution curve and the quality of the chromatography column packing is assessed based on the calculated HETP value.
US11225483B2
Disclosed are compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of treatment. The disclosed compounds are based on fused 1,4-diazepine and pyrrolidinedione scaffolds. The compounds may be utilized in pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treating diseases and disorders associated with cell proliferation such as cancer and may have a formula illustrated as follows:
US11225481B2
This invention relates to xanthine derivative compounds that are inhibitors of BET bromodomains proteins, the method of preparation thereof and applications thereof.
US11225476B2
The invention relates to new bicyclic heterocycle compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds and to the use of the compounds in the treatment of diseases, e.g. cancer.
US11225459B2
Disclosed is a composition and method for a therapeutic treatment that is able to combat neuroinflammation caused by diseases and disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and traumatic brain injury. The class of urea compounds acts by blocking at targeted receptors in the brain that contribute to the increase in inflammation. Combinations of receptors, H1 receptor, H2 receptor, dopamine transporter (DAT), and/or 5HT3C receptor, are individually and/or collectively inhibited by the same compositions of the present disclosure, and this ability leads to a decrease in brain edema. The DAT inhibitory effects additionally maintains dopamine levels in a patient.
US11225456B2
The present invention relates to a process for in situ the preparation of mixtures of chelating agents by catalyzed reactions of diethanolamine derivatives with maleic acid and then with 2-halocarboxylic acid, to mixtures of chelating agents and methods using such chelating agents.
US11225453B2
A method for producing tricyclo[5.2.1.02,6]decane-2-carboxylate according to the present invention is a method for producing tricyclo[5.2.1.02,6]decane-2-carboxylate, containing reacting tricyclo[5.2.1.02,6]deca-3-ene in a dilute solution containing the tricyclo[5.2.1.02,6]deca-3-ene with carbon monoxide in the presence of an acid catalyst, followed by reaction with an alcohol, wherein the dilute solution contains 100 parts by mass or more of a tricyclo[5.2.1.02,6]decane isomer mixture based on 100 parts by mass of the tricyclo[5.2.1.02,6]deca-3-ene, the tricyclo[5.2.1.02,6]decane isomer mixture contains endo-tricyclo[5.2.1.02,6]decane (Endo form of TCD) and exo-tricyclo[5.2.1.02,6]decane (Exo form of TCD), and a constituent ratio thereof (Endo form of TCD/Exo form of TCD) is greater than 1.0.
US11225443B2
A method for directly preparing p-xylene from synthetic gas and aromatic hydrocarbon. The method includes contacting the feedstock containing synthetic gas and aromatic hydrocarbon excluding p-xylene with the catalyst in the reaction zone under reaction conditions sufficient to convert at least part of the feedstock to obtain a reaction effluent containing p-xylene; and separating p-xylene from the reaction effluent, where the catalyst includes a highly dispersed metal oxide material confined by an inert carrier, an acidic molecular sieve, and optionally at least one of graphite powder and dispersant, where in the highly dispersed metal oxide material confined by the inert carrier, the inert carrier is at least one of silicon oxide and alumina, and the content of the metal oxide in terms of metal is less than or equal to 10% by mass calculated based on the weight of the highly dispersed metal oxide material confined by the inert carrier.
US11225437B2
Latex-based formulations for coating and sculpting applications may provide blending a wet mixture with a dry mixture or blending a wet composition with a dry powder. The formulation may then be applied to a surface. In some embodiments, after the formulation is applied to a surface, the formulation may be set to the surface by covering the formulation applied to the surface with a material and/or the formulation may be self-setting on the surface. The formulation may fill gaps in the surface, thereby reducing cracks and shrinkage of the surface. The formulation may be applied to surfaces in a plurality of applications that may include, but are not limited to, sculpting, molding, and cosmetic repairs.
US11225434B2
Provided herein are methods for forming one or more silicon nanostructures, such as silicon nanotubes, and a silica-containing glass substrate. As a result of the process used to prepare the silicon nanostructures, the silica-containing glass substrate comprises one or more nanopillars and the one or more silicon nanostructures extend from the nanopillars of the silica-containing glass substrate. The silicon nanostructures include nanotubes and optionally nanowires. A further aspect is a method for preparing silicon nanostructures on a silica-containing glass substrate. The method includes providing one or more metal nanoparticles on a silica-containing glass substrate and then performing reactive ion etching of the silica-containing glass substrate under conditions that are suitable for the formation of one or more silicon nanostructures.
US11225405B2
A water dispenser is provided. The water dispenser may include a main body, a rotator installed to be rotatable in a horizontal direction in the main body and including a water discharger, a rotation guide rail having a predetermined curvature within the main body, and a rotation guide protrusion provided in the rotator and slidably coupled to the rotation guide rail to guide rotation of the rotator.
US11225395B2
An arrangement for evacuating persons from an elevator car includes a tread element, which tread element delimits a lower end of an evacuation passage of the elevator car, and a walkway having a first end, wherein the walkway can be fixed, preferably hooked, on the tread element by the first end. The arrangement includes at least one rung that can be fixed above the tread element, wherein the rung is usable as a tread step and the first end of the walkway can alternatively be fixed or hooked on the rung instead of on the tread element.
US11225392B2
There is provided a wound thread package that is unlikely to cause problems such as cob-webbing and collapse at the time of unwinding even when the wound thread is a multi-filament thread or tape-like thread, and a manufacturing method for the same. To manufacture a wound thread package 1 by winding a plurality of multi-filament threads or tape-like threads having a total fineness of 100 to 6400 dtex per thread around a bobbin 2 by a traverse method, the threads constituting a thread layer 3 are arranged at intervals therebetween and wound with the same in traverse width w and at different traverse reverse positions.
US11225360B2
A flat-bottomed bag is formed from a flexible sheet that initially is flat prior to being manipulated to form the bag. The sheet is a laminate of a first web and a second web laminated together by an adhesive layer disposed between the webs. The sheet defines a plurality of serially connected side wall panels collectively defining a vertically extending side wall of the bag, and a plurality of bottom panels respectively connected to the side wall panels at respective fold lines. The bottom panels are folded about the fold lines and are attached together to form a flat bottom wall configured to support the bag in an upright orientation. The adhesive layer is in a partial-coverage pattern that includes adhesive-free regions located along each fold line between each bottom panel and the respective side wall panel connected therewith.
US11225359B2
The blank is made of corrugated board that is foldable in half with at least one half having a cutout to receive a good to be shipped. The folded blank forms a flexible insert that may be inserted into a pocket of a mailer. In one embodiment, one half of the blank is formed with multiple cutouts to receive a plurality of goods of the same or different sizes. In another embodiment, both halves of the blank are formed with cutouts.
US11225358B2
A unique flexible container combination comprises a viscoelastomeric thermoset overlay disposed upon a flexible supportive base. Desirably, the viscoelastomeric thermoset overlay possesses exceptional adhesive, cohesive and releasability properties. In some embodiments, the flexible container combination can also exhibit antipathogenic, cleansability and/or reusability properties. The flexible container combination can maintain an adhered stowable item in an immobilized position until intentionally removed therefrom by a user. In some embodiments, the flexible container combination can be folded or rolled into a rolled-up configuration.
US11225356B2
A pallet includes a top deck that includes a product support surface and an opposing underside, and with the product support surface including a pair of pallet support leg receiving areas. A pair of pallet support legs is on the underside of the top deck and aligned with the pallet support leg receiving areas. Each pallet support leg including a center leg section having a first end adjacent the underside of the top deck and a second end opposite the first end, and a pair of leg extensions extending outwards from the second end of the center leg section. An underside of the center leg section and the pair of leg extensions are configured to engage one of the pallet support leg receiving areas of an identical pallet when stacked thereon.
US11225350B1
A label-affixing device includes a plate and a shape-conforming tamp pad. The plate is configured to move between a first position and a second position. The shape-conforming tamp pad includes a base structure including a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The shape-conforming tamp pad further includes appendages extending from the second surface of the base structure. The first surface of the shape-conforming tamp pad is mounted to the plate. The appendages are configured to at least one of individually compress or individually deform to apply an adhesive label to a non-planar surface of an object responsive to the plate moving from the first position to the second position.
US11225348B2
A process of making a water soluble pouch including the steps of providing a first mold, providing a water soluble first web carried on the first mold, forming the water soluble web into a compartment by applying a first pressure difference across the water soluble first web at a first maximum temperature and subsequently applying a second pressure difference across the water soluble first web, wherein the second pressure difference is greater than or equal to the first pressure difference.
US11225341B2
Modular mobile mixing and packaging plant for powdery or granular products, comprising a carrying structure having dimensions suitable for being introduced in a standard shipping container and internally housing a receiving and manual weighing module, a material loading module, a mixing module, and a packaging module, wherein the mixing module comprises means for cooling and/or drying the mixture contained in said module.
US11225340B2
To enable a local connection with separation on command, a connection device (20) comprises a first base plate (24), a first connection wall (22) forming a protuberance from the first base plate (24) and having an internal surface (22A) delimiting an internal volume (V) located on the side of the first base plate, on a first side, and a first connection surface (22B), a second base plate (28), a second connection wall (26) fixed to the second base plate on a second side and with a second connection surface (26A) covering the first connection wall (22) so as to form a space (S) between the first and second connection surfaces, a bonding layer (30) arranged in the space and extending along at least two distinct directions, and a heat generating material (32) arranged in an internal volume so as to enable heating of the bonding layer.
US11225335B2
An aircraft operational state monitoring system is provided that includes a module for acquiring a logic state of a plurality of components of the aircraft, the components belonging to airplane systems. The aircraft operational state monitoring system includes a module for determining the operability status of a plurality of macroscopic functions of the aircraft, each macroscopic function being defined independently of the components and airplane systems necessary for the performance of the macroscopic function, the operability status being determined based on logic states of the plurality of components between an operational status and at least one nonoperational status. The aircraft operational state monitoring system includes a display and at least one graphic display management assembly on the display, configured for displaying, on the display, summary indicators of the operability status of the macroscopic functions of the aircraft.
US11225334B2
Systems and methods for monitoring the health of a rotating machine mounted on a vehicle are disclosed. The method may include: receiving identifying information of the vehicle, the rotating machine, and a vibration sensor coupled to the rotating machine; receiving vibration data from the vibration sensor during operation of the rotating machine, the received vibration data being associated with the identifying information of the vehicle, the rotating machine, and the vibration sensor; comparing the received vibration data with known vibration data for the rotating machine; generating an alert if the received vibration data exceeds a predetermined threshold value of the known vibration data; generating a health report for the rotating machine based on the received vibration data; and transmitting the health report to a user via a web portal.
US11225328B1
A system may include a surface, a pocket member, and spring members. The pocket member may have a top portion, a bottom portion, an exterior side, and an interior side. Each spring member may be positioned vertically between the surface and the interior side of the pocket member. Each spring member may have a spring top portion and a spring bottom portion. Each of the spring top portions may be attached to the top portion of the pocket member. Each of the spring bottom portions may be attached to the surface at a location corresponding to a vertical position of the bottom portion of the pocket member. The surface, the pocket member, and the spring members may form a pocket configured to at a given time be one of: open at the top portion of the pocket member, open at the bottom portion of the pocket member, or closed.
US11225300B2
A straddle vehicle of the present invention includes: a vehicle body frame member; a rotatably supporting member supporting a front wheel; a support arm supporting the rotatably supporting member, the support arm extending rearward from the rotatably supporting member; a pair of upper and lower link members pivotally connected to the support arm at two locations on a rear portion of the support arm at least on one side of the vehicle body in a vehicle width direction, the two locations being spaced in the upward-downward direction, the pair of upper and lower link members extending rearward from the support arm, each of the link members having a rear portion pivotally connected to the vehicle body frame member; a handle; and a handle supporting member removably coupled to the vehicle body frame member and supporting the handle.
US11225298B2
A seat bench arrangement for a motorcycle is provided, with a tank bearing which is designed for connecting a tank bladder to a vehicle structure, and a seat bench for receiving a motorcyclist. The seat bench is connected to the tank bearing such that the tank bearing forms a bearing for supporting the seat bench.
US11225294B1
An example implementation for determining mechanically-timed footsteps may involve a robot having a first foot in contact with a ground surface and a second foot not in contact with the ground surface. The robot may determine a position of its center of mass and center of mass velocity, and based on these, determine a capture point for the robot. The robot may also determine a threshold position for the capture point, where the threshold position is based on a target trajectory for the capture point after the second foot contacts the ground surface. The robot may determine that the capture point has reached this threshold position and based on this determination, and cause the second foot to contact the ground surface.
US11225290B2
A vehicle structural support is disclosed having first and second metallic members. A first metallic member has first and second sides, where the second side has a reduced thickness section. A second metallic member is coupled to a first side of the first metallic member. A third member is coupled to the first metallic member and positioned in the reduced thickness section. The second metallic member extends beyond the reduced thickness section to at least partially overlap the third member. The third member may be a fender for a vehicle.
US11225289B2
The present vehicle rear part structure includes: a rear cross member that extends in a vehicle width direction on a bottom of a vehicle, and is coupled to structural materials of both side parts of the vehicle; under braces that extend in the vehicle width direction, and couple the rear cross member, and the structural materials of both side parts of the vehicle; a pair of rear suspension towers that are provided in the both side parts of the vehicle, and support the pair of rear suspensions; and a room partition, having both ends in the vehicle width direction connected to the pair of rear suspension towers, and having an intermediate lower end in the vehicle width direction coupled to the rear cross member from an upper side. Coupling positions of the under braces and the rear cross member are below a coupling position of the room partition and the rear cross member.
US11225283B2
A worm gear for a worm gear mechanism of a motor vehicle steering system includes a carrier body and a multiplicity of teeth with tooth surfaces. The teeth point radially outward and the carrier body is formed from a plastic including reinforcement fibers and has a multiplicity of ribs with rib surfaces which point radially outward from a central encircling ring-shaped web of the worm gear. The teeth are applied to the ribs of the carrier body by injection molding, and the reinforcement fibers are oriented, wherein the multiplicity of reinforcement fibers, in terms of their orientation, follow the adjacent rib surfaces of the carrier body and/or the adjacent tooth surfaces of the teeth.
US11225281B2
A steering column assembly includes a lower jacket. The steering column assembly also includes an upper jacket at least partially received within the lower jacket. The steering column assembly further includes a jacket wall integrally formed with the lower jacket, the jacket wall extending longitudinally form a first end to a second end and having a first side and a second side. The steering column assembly yet further includes an energy absorption strap offset from the first side of the jacket wall to form a recess extending along the jacket wall, the energy absorption strap having a first end and a second end, the energy absorption strap having at least one tear line at an interface with the jacket wall.
US11225273B2
A truck assembly is configured to travel along a track having rails. The truck assembly includes a bolster that includes a first flange, a second flange, and a web connecting the first flange to the second flange. The first flange, the second flange, and the web form an I-beam.
US11225271B2
A damping system for a truck assembly of a rail vehicle includes a first friction shoe configured to engage a first portion of a side frame of the truck assembly, and a first lever pivotally coupled to the first friction shoe.
US11225260B2
The present disclosure discloses a control method and device for automated guided vehicle, and automated guided vehicle. By utilizing the coupling relation between the turntable and the chassis, a disturbance to the chassis electromechanical control subsystem is compensated by using a feedback signal in the turntable electromechanical control subsystem, or a disturbance to the turntable electromechanical control subsystem is compensated by using a feedback signal in the chassis electromechanical control subsystem, so that high-precision movement control of the turntable and the chassis is realized.
US11225253B2
A transmission includes an input shaft coupled to a prime mover, a countershaft, main shaft, and an output shaft, with gears between the countershaft and the main shaft. A shift actuator selectively couples the input shaft to the main shaft by rotatably coupling gears between the countershaft and the main shaft. The shift actuator is mounted on an exterior wall of a housing including the countershaft and the main shaft. An integrated actuator housing includes a single external power access for the shift actuator. A controller interprets a shaft displacement angle, determines if the transmission is in an imminent zero or zero torque region, and performs a transmission operation in response to the transmission in the imminent zero or zero torque region.
US11225248B2
A vehicle control apparatus comprises a setting unit that sets a target position within a lane currently being traveled, and a steering controller that carries out steering control based on the target position. The steering controller can accept a steering input resulting from a manual operation, even when steering control is being carried out, generates a counterforce against the manual operation, and controls steering counterforce characteristics so that when the target position is distanced, in a width direction, from a first reference position near the center of the lane, the steering counterforce against a manual operation in a first direction from the target position toward the first reference position is lower than the steering counterforce against a manual operation in a second direction different from the first direction with respect to a manual operation at a given steering angle.
US11225245B2
To minimize a pedal operation of a driver and to provide convenience of driving by flexibly controlling a maximum creep speed during a creep driving in a traffic congestion section, a vehicle includes: a radar configured to obtain speed information of a preceding vehicle and distance information to the preceding vehicle; a sensor configured to acquire behavior information of the vehicle; a controller configured to determine whether or not the vehicle has entered the traffic congestion section based on the behavior information of the vehicle, to determine a safety distance and a surplus distance related to the preceding vehicle, to determine a maximum creep speed and a creep torque based on the surplus distance, and to control operation of at least one of a motor or an engine to transmit the creep torque to a wheel of the vehicle.
US11225243B1
A method of controlling a split inflow of condensate water in a hybrid engine includes: determining whether condensate water is generated from an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) device of a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV); determining an amount of the condensate water introduced into an hybrid engine; determining whether a vehicle speed of the HEV is within a predetermined speed range; determining whether a request torque of the HEV is within a predetermined torque range; determining whether a duration time of the vehicle speed within the predetermined speed range, and a duration time of the request torque within the predetermined torque range are greater than or equal to a predetermined duration time, respectively; and when the determined duration times are greater than or equal to the predetermined duration time, increasing an engine torque of the HEV.
US11225238B2
A vehicle includes a power source configured to provide drive torque, a front axle, a rear axle, and a transfer case configured to distribute drive torque from the power source between the front axle and the rear axle. The vehicle additionally includes a clutch arranged between the front axle and the transfer case. The clutch has a disengaged state and an engaged state drivingly coupling the transfer case and the front axle. The vehicle also includes a regenerative braking system configured to, in response to a braking request, provide regenerative braking torque to the rear axle. The vehicle further includes a controller. The controller is configured to, in response to a braking request and the clutch being in the disengaged state, control the clutch to shift into the engaged state to couple the regenerative braking system to the front axle and provide regenerative braking torque to the front axle.
US11225237B2
A control apparatus for an electromechanical-brake-booster of a vehicle, having: an electronic-device to control an electric-motor of the electromechanical-brake-booster so that an output piston, connected indirectly to the electric-motor, of the electromechanical-brake-booster is displaceable out of its initial-position by the controlled electric-motor, such that only after a displacement of the output-piston out of its initial-position by at least a predefined limit displacement travel does a frictional engagement exist between the output-piston and an input-piston that is indirectly connected to the brake-pedal and is displaced by the actuation of the brake-pedal, and such that a speed of the output-piston displaced out of its initial-position by less than the limit displacement travel is at first increased from a reference-speed to a maximum-speed and is then reduced from the maximum-speed to the reference-speed. The invention furthermore relates to a method for operating an electromechanical-brake-booster of a vehicle.
US11225234B2
A vehicle braking force control apparatus of the disclosure executes a slip rate reduction control to reduce a slip rate of any of wheels of a vehicle becoming equal to or greater than a predetermined slip rate threshold by automatically changing braking force applied to one or more of the wheels. The apparatus uses a first slip rate threshold as the predetermined slip rate threshold during a normal acceleration-and-deceleration control and a normal steering control. The apparatus uses a second slip rate threshold during a driving assist control. The second slip rate is set to a value smaller than the first slip rate threshold and near and smaller than the slip rate, at which a friction coefficient between the wheel and a surface of a road on which the vehicle moves is maximum.
US11225231B2
The present disclosure discloses a brake control system for use in a vehicle and a control method thereof. A brake control system may be configured to include a brake pad for braking the vehicle by pressing a brake disc provided in the vehicle, a measuring apparatus for measuring the vehicle speed, the wear level of the brake pad, the traveling distance of the vehicle, the braking distance of the vehicle, and the braking pressure applied by the brake pad to the brake disc at braking, and a controller connected with the measuring apparatus and for controlling an operation of the brake pad. The controller may compare an initial braking distance, which is a design value of the braking distance before initial traveling of the vehicle, with a current braking distance, which is a braking distance after traveling of the vehicle during a certain duration, and increase the braking pressure of the brake pad in response to the amount of increase in the braking distance, when the amount of increase in the braking distance, which is a difference value between the current braking distance and the initial braking distance, is out of a setting range. The brake control system may transmit and receive a wireless signal in a mobile communication network constructed according to 5G (Generation) communication.
US11225230B2
An electric-brake controller controls an electric brake operable by an electric motor. The electric-brake controller includes: a rotation-angle obtainer including (i) a relative-rotation-angle obtaining unit that obtains a relative rotation angle of the electric motor for a set time, based on values output and received from a rotation-angle sensor at intervals of the set time, and (ii) an absolute-rotation-angle obtaining unit that calculates the obtained relative rotation angle with consideration of an orientation of the relative rotation angle to obtain an absolute rotation angle that is a rotation angle of the electric motor from a start of its operation; a recognition-error detector that detects a recognition error in the rotation-angle obtainer based on the obtained absolute rotation angle or a changing state of the absolute rotation angle; and a motor controller that controls the electric motor based on a result of detection performed by the recognition-error detector.
US11225229B2
The braking device is provided with an electromagnetic valve, which is an example of a device to be controlled, and a valve control unit for driving the electromagnetic valve by means of PWM control. When driving the electromagnetic valve by inputting a drive signal to the electromagnetic valve, the valve control unit changes the frequency of the drive signal within a frequency range. Note that the width of the frequency range is set on the basis of the minimum audible field among equal-loudness contours.
US11225227B2
The driving force control device includes: a requested driving force calculation unit configured to calculate requested driving force requested to the vehicle, in a coasting state where neither an accelerator operation nor a brake operation is performed by a driver; a power train control unit configured to control a gear ratio of the power train on the basis of the requested driving force and driving force that is achieved by the power train in the coasting state; a braking force calculation unit configured to calculate braking force required for achieving the requested driving force, when the requested driving force is smaller than driving force that is achieved by the power train at a gear ratio set by the power train control unit; and a brake control unit configured to cause the brake to generate the braking force calculated by the braking force calculation unit.
US11225218B2
A side airbag device includes an airbag 2 and an inflator. The airbag is formed in a bag shape by connecting peripheries of first and second main base cloths and of a vehicle inner side and a vehicle outer side. The airbag is partitioned into a front chamber and a rear chamber by a first partition wall. First inner tethers are provided in the front chamber and connect between a forward vehicle direction end of the front chamber and the first partition wall. Lengths of the first inner tethers and are shorter than a length between a first joint part connecting the first partition wall to the first inner tether and the forward vehicle direction end of the front chamber in the airbag in a front to rear vehicle direction before the airbag is deployed.
US11225213B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a vehicle body shield having a light mount. The vehicle body shield can protect portions of a vehicle from damage when the vehicle is in motion and also provide illumination to regions around or in front of a vehicle via light sources supported by the light mount. The vehicle body shield can have a protection surface facing away from the vehicle, an attachment surface facing towards the vehicle, and a light mount extending upward from at least a portion of the attachment surface and between first and second ends of the vehicle body shield.
US11225212B2
A load distribution device for a vehicle configured to distribute loads in the event of a collision involving the vehicle, the load distribution device comprises: an upper beam extending in a transversal direction and connectable to at least one upper load path of the vehicle; a lower beam extending in the transversal direction and arrangeable at at least one lower load path of the vehicle; and an interconnecting portion connecting the upper beam and the lower beam, wherein the upper beam, the lower beam, and the interconnecting portion are made in a single piece.
US11225207B2
A vehicle circuit body is provided. The vehicle circuit body includes a bent portion which is formed by bending a plurality of conductor plates with a convex shape toward one side of a lamination direction in which the plurality of conductor plates are laminated, the plurality of conductor plates being laminated such that adjacent conductor plates are spaced apart from each other; and a rigid portion where the plurality of conductor plates extending from the bent portion are joined together to form a single layer. The bent portion is arranged at a position which faces an inner corner or outer corner of a concave-convex shape formed on a body panel.
US11225205B2
The invention relates to a haul truck body, comprising a front wall and two opposing side walls. Each side wall presenting an inner surface and an upper edge portion extending rearwardly from a rear end of side wall towards the front wall. Also, each side wall presents an upper reinforcement element which is integrally formed with the side wall and extends along the upper edge portion of the side wall. The invention also relates to a truck and a method for manufacturing a haul truck body.
US11225204B2
An object of the present invention is to provide is an on-vehicle image processing device that achieves low cost and provides high mounting accuracy and high electrical adjustment accuracy during a manufacturing process. The on-vehicle image processing device includes a first imaging section, a second imaging section, and an enclosure having the first imaging section at one end and the second imaging section at the other end. The on-vehicle image processing device generates a range image from images captured by the first and second imaging sections. The on-vehicle image processing device further includes an enclosure reference surface that comes in contact with an equipment jig during manufacture, the enclosure reference surface being provided at two locations between the first and second imaging sections.
US11225198B2
Disclosed herein is a roof rack comprising a plurality of roof attachments for attaching the roof rack to a roof of an automobile; at least two cross bars that are arrangeable across the roof of the automobile, each cross bar comprising a plurality of members configured to move relative to each other such that the cross bar is extendable into an extended configuration in which a portion of the cross bar would overhang a side of the automobile; a mounting rack configured to receive articles on an upper portion thereof, the mounting rack being mounted to the at least two cross bars in a spaced relationship thereto, whereby extending the at least two cross bars into their extended configurations moves the mounting rack between a first position where it would overlie the roof of the automobile and a second position where it would overhanging the side of the automobile, wherein the mounting rack is mounted to a member of the at least two cross bars which is the last to move into a position overhanging the side of the automobile; a pivot that is not operable until the mounting rack is in the second position, the mounting rack being pivotable between the second position and a third position where the mounting rack would be adjacent the side of the automobile with the upper portion facing away from the side of the automobile for loading or unloading of the articles; and a ground engaging portion configured to engage the ground when the mounting rack is in the third position.
US11225196B2
A vehicle interior component comprising a cover movable relative to a base and a latch mechanism configured for movement within the base for an engaged state and a disengaged state is disclosed. The latch mechanism may maintain the disengaged state after the cover has been released from the base. The latch mechanism may comprise a magnet fixed to and concealed within the cover; the magnet of the base may be concealed within the base. The component may comprise an opening mechanism for opening of the cover upon release of external force from the cover. The opening mechanism may move the latch mechanism within the base. The latch mechanism may extend through an opening in a sidewall of the base to engage the cover to secure the cover to the base.
US11225195B2
An occupant step apparatus and method for a vehicle, includes a powered occupant step, a kick sensor mounted to the occupant step, and a controller having processing circuitry. The processing circuitry detects a kick gesture signal from the kick sensor, controls operation of the powered occupant step to move the occupant step, and upon detection of a step gesture signal from the kick sensor while the occupant step is being operated, halts operation of the occupant step.
US11225189B2
A rear lamp includes a reverse light, a direction indicator light, a brake light and a taillight, which are provided inside a lamp case. The rear lamp includes left and right rear lamps and has a peripheral area and a center area. The peripheral area is disposed on the outer side of the center area. The reverse light, the brake right and the taillight are positioned in the center area. The direction indicator light is positioned in the peripheral area and is formed as an LED array in the shape of a “C” or “inverted-U”. The left rear lamp has a U-turn indicator light and a left turn indicator light. The right rear lamp has a right turn indicator light. When the U-turn indicator light activates, the entire LED array turns on. When the left turn indicator light activates, only a part of the LED array turns on.
US11225181B2
A vehicle seat assembly including a seat frame assembly including a seat base and a seat back pivotally connected to the seat base. The seat back includes at least one resin fuse arranged in the seat back to indicate structural loading in the vehicle seat assembly above a tolerance loading. The at least one resin fuse includes an aperture extending through the seat back and comprising a flange encircling the aperture and extending generally perpendicular to the seat back, and an indicator bar extending across a diameter of the aperture. The aperture is open on either side of the indicator bar.
US11225180B2
An automobile headrest includes a mounting component, a pillow portion detachably connected with the mounting component, a movable block provided with engaging protrusions arranged vertically, a side of the pillow portion adjacent to the mounting component is provided with a groove, at least part of the movable block is movably arranged in the groove, an end of the movable block disposed with the engaging protrusions is exposed from a groove opening of the groove, the pillow portion is provided with a vertically oriented slideway adjacent to the groove opening, the mounting component is provided with a sliding block matched with the slideway, the sliding block is provided with an engagement portion matched with the engaging protrusions, the sliding block is arranged in the slideway, the engaging protrusions are protruded from the groove opening and partially arranged in the engagement portion, when the pillow portion is connected with the mounting component.
US11225179B2
A sliding sleeve (6, 60) for fixing in a securing support (5, 50). The sliding sleeve (6, 60) includes a sleeve body (6.2, 60.2) with a coupling section (6.3, 60.3) with at least one flexible coupling face (6.4, 60.4) for bearing against the securing body (5, 50).
US11225177B2
A vehicle console assembly includes a body that defines a cutout. The cut out includes a contact surface. A lid is operably coupled to the body and includes a connector that defines an engagement member. The lid is operable between a raised position, a lowered position, and an intermediate engaging position therebetween defined by a predefined opening angle. The engagement member is space-apart from the context surface when the lid is in the lowered position and engages the contact surface when the lid is in the intermediate engaging position. A biasing member is disposed proximate the connector. A hinge pin extends through the cutout, the biasing member, and the engagement member.
US11225167B2
An electric shopping cart having an override that can be activated when the cart is cutoff during use due to a low battery condition. The override allows extra run time to be activated in order that the cart can be driven to a recharging area to recharge the battery for future use. In addition, thumb throttles on the electric shopping cart have magnets that return the throttles to a neutral position.
US11225163B2
In various embodiments, methods and systems are provided for controlling charging for a plurality of electric vehicles, each of the plurality of electric vehicles including a respective battery that is charged electrically via a respective charger. In one exemplary embodiment: (i) vehicle data, including respective charge statuses for the respective batteries of the plurality of electric vehicles, via sensors onboard the plurality of electric vehicles; (ii) charging station data, including respective availabilities for the plurality of charging stations, is obtained; (iii) the plurality of electric vehicles are each paired with respective charging stations, generated paired sets of electric vehicles and charging stations, based on the vehicle data and the charging station data, via a processor; and (iv) charging of respective batteries of the electric vehicles are controlled with the respective paired charging stations, via the processor.
US11225162B2
An on-demand power service provides electrical vehicle charging. Requesting the on-demand power service may include determining a current location of a computing device, determining an amount of power requested by a user of the computing device, and locating a plurality of mobile charging stations within a predefined geographic distance from the current location of the computing device. The method further includes receiving a price associated with each respective mobile charging station among the plurality of mobile charging stations, and providing on a display of the computing device, selectable options to purchase on-demand power from a mobile charging station among the plurality of mobile charging stations.
US11225155B2
A switching apparatus is disclosed for switching a current, formed using a phase conductor and a switch arranged in the phase conductor, for the purpose of switching a transmission of current via the phase conductor. In addition, the switching apparatus includes a circuit for deriving a test current from the phase conductor via a ground conductor; a sensing apparatus for detecting the test current and an evaluation apparatus for evaluating the detected test current. A control apparatus is used to control closing of the switch arranged in the phase conductor. The evaluation apparatus is configured to detect a zero crossing for an alternating current and the control apparatus is set up to prompt closing of the switch arranged in the phase conductor in accordance with the time of the zero crossing. An embodiment reduces abrasion or wear on the switch as a result of short-circuit currents during switching-on.
US11225153B2
A method for operating an advanced driver assistance (ADAS) system of a motor vehicle includes a vehicle controller receiving, from side and end cameras mounted to the vehicle, camera signals indicative of real-time images of outboard-facing side and end views of the vehicle. The controller determines a region of interest (ROI) inset within each end/side view within which is expected foreign objects and/or hazards. These ROIs are analyzed to detect if a foreign object/hazard is present in the vehicle's end and/or side views. Responsive to detecting the foreign object/hazard, movement of the foreign object/hazard is tracked to determine if the foreign object/hazard moves towards or away from the vehicle's underbody region. If the foreign object/hazard moves to the underbody region, control signals are transmitted to the vehicle's propulsion and/or steering system to automate preventative action that prevents collision of the vehicle with and/or removes the foreign object/hazard from the underbody.
US11225152B2
A fuel cell vehicle capable of determining, when a fuel cell vehicle collides with a rigid body, whether a stack is damaged by a visual observation at a low cost. A fuel cell vehicle includes: a fragile part configured to be located so as to come into contact with a side surface of the stack frame that is orthogonal to a direction in which cells in the stack are stacked, and be deformed when a preset collision force causing damage to a stack is applied; and a deformation part configured to form a part of the vehicle body, and be deformed and come into contact with the fragile part when a collision force is applied to the vehicle body.
US11225151B2
A motor vehicle with two front wheels and two rear wheels and with an electric drive that is operable via a traction energy storage device. The motor vehicle has a front recess in the region between the front wheels for a traction energy storage device assigned to the front recess, and has a rear recess in the region between the front wheels and the rear wheels, arranged in an underbody of the motor vehicle, for a traction energy storage device assigned to the rear recess, and traction energy storage devices are insertable or inserted into the recesses.
US11225138B2
A center bearing assembly for a multi-piece propeller shaft includes a stud yoke extending along an axis A between first and second stud yoke ends to define a central stub shaft rotatable about the axis A. A rotatable weld collar is operably connected to the second stud yoke end of the central stub shaft for simultaneous rotation therewith. The rotatable weld collar includes a body extending from a first collar end disposed adjacent the central stub shaft to a second collar end to define an exterior surface. A tuned damper extends radially outwardly from the exterior surface of the rotatable weld collar for reducing noise, vibration, and/or harshness (NVH) generated during operation of the multi-piece propeller shaft. A first shaft segment is operably connected to the rotatable weld collar and a second shaft segment is operably connected to the stud yoke for transferring a rotational force therebetween.
US11225134B2
A plenum assembly for a vehicle includes a plenum body, a plenum grid coupled to the plenum body, the plenum grid including a grid surface having a plurality of grid openings and a separation member extending from the grid surface toward the plenum body, and a vent port including a side surface extending from the plenum body and a domed surface formed integrally with the side surface, the vent port including an edge defining a vent port opening in the side surface such that a flow of air passes through the vent port and through the plurality of grid openings in the grid surface.
US11225131B2
A foldable vehicle undercarriage barrier assembly provides a frame that carries a foldable panel. The panel positions between the undercarriage of a vehicle and a ground surface in a friction fit relationship, so as to help restrict ingress of snow, debris, and small animals beneath the vehicle undercarriage. The panel positions perpendicularly to the ground surface, forming a barrier between the undercarriage and ground surface. The panel is vertically and horizontally expandable to accommodate different vehicle sizes and types. The panel has a joint to enable foldability. The panel comprises a handle for facilitating folding and carrying of the panel. The panel is supported by a length adjustable support pole that braces against the undercarriage or a wheel when deployed. The panel is also defined by at least one sight hole to enable viewing the space beneath the undercarriage, and verify proper alignment of the panel to the undercarriage.
US11225126B2
A motor driven air vent device for a vehicle can perform not only left/right angular rotation operation of a vertical wing for adjusting a left/right-directional airflow direction of air discharged indoors but also an opening/closing operation of a damper for interrupting or allowing an indoor discharge of air using a link bar for performing a straight line motion to the left or right thereof by driving a motor and a cam plate for angularly rotating by the link bar, etc. in a motor driven manner.
US11225119B2
A vehicle has a vehicle body and a vehicle suspension system supporting the vehicle body. The vehicle suspension has a gas spring, and includes a cylinder, a rod, and an accumulator. The cylinder has a longitudinal axis. The rod is partially disposed within the cylinder and is movable relative to the cylinder along the longitudinal axis of the cylinder. The rod and cylinder together at least partially define a chamber having a variable volume that receives a first pressurized gas. The accumulator is in communication with the chamber and contains a second pressurized gas held at a threshold pressure creating a first spring rate opposing relative movement between the rod and cylinder when the first pressurized gas within the chamber is pressurized below the threshold pressure and a second spring rate when the first pressurized gas within the chamber is pressurized above the threshold pressure.
US11225103B1
A system includes a foldable dry erase board forming a continuous surface area for writing thereon. The dry erase board includes a first panel foldably attached to a second panel about a pivot joint. The method includes creating the continuous dry erase marker board surface with the first panel and the second panel and folding the first panel onto the second panel about the pivot joint extending partially through a thickness of the board.
US11225102B2
A security device and method of making thereof. The security device includes a colour shifting element that exhibits different colours dependent on the angle of incidence of light impinging upon the colour shifting element, and; an at least partially transparent light control layer covering at least a part of the colour shifting element and including a surface relief adapted to modify the angle of light incident upon the light control layer, wherein; the light control layer includes at least first and second functional regions having different refractive indices such that light incident upon the first functional region impinges upon the colour shifting element at a first angle of incidence, and light incident upon the second functional region impinges upon the colour shifting element at a second, different, angle of incidence.
US11225096B2
A liquid ejection apparatus includes a conveying unit, a winding unit, a printing unit, and a rotation control unit. The conveying unit is configured to intermittently convey a printing medium by a predetermined feed amount. The winding unit is configured to wind the printing medium conveyed by the conveying unit. The printing unit is configured to perform printing on the conveyed printing medium. The rotation control unit is configured to control the winding unit to rotate in a winding direction at a predetermined timing after the conveying unit has started to convey the printing medium intermittently, and then cause the winding unit to rotate in a reverse direction opposite to the winding direction.
US11225086B2
A thermal contact device may include a thermal contact die embedded in a moldable material. The thermal contact die may include a number of resistors integrated into the thermal contact die, and a number of heater drivers integrated into the thermal contact die and electronically coupled to the resistors. The moldable material is coplanar with a thermal contact side of the thermal contact device. Further, the moldable material includes at least one gradient edge along a medium feed path.
US11225085B2
A control device is configured to: control a main scanning device and a sub-scanning device to print partial images by single partial printing in a first case where a specific condition is not satisfied, the specific condition indicating that ink supply to a printing head may be delayed in a partial printing and determined for each of the partial image, control the main scanning device and the sub-scanning device to print the partial images by a plurality of partial printings including a first partial printing and a second partial printing in a second case where the specific condition is satisfied, and determine a first area of the partial image to be printed by the first partial printing and a second area of the partial image to be printed by the second partial printing by using a pixel value information, in the second case.
US11225081B2
A cleaning device includes: a cleaning member that comes into contact with a cleaning subject member and cleans the cleaning subject member using a liquid; and a liquid supply member that holds the liquid on a surface that is in contact with the cleaning member and supplies the held liquid to the cleaning member via the surface. The liquid supply member includes a plurality of holders that hold a different amount of liquid from each other in the surface.
US11225074B2
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a fluidic ejection die is described. The die includes an array of nozzles. Each nozzle includes an ejection chamber, an opening, and a fluid actuator disposed within the ejection chamber. Each nozzle also includes an inlet passage to deliver fluid into the ejection chamber and an outlet passage to deliver fluid out of the ejection chamber. The fluidic ejection die also includes an array of channels divided into inlet channels and outlet channels. Each inlet channel is fluidly connected to a respective plurality of inlet passages and each outlet channel is fluidly connected to a respective plurality of outlet passages.
US11225073B2
A liquid ejecting head including: an individual flow path row in which a plurality of individual flow paths communicating with a nozzle that ejects a liquid in a first axis direction are arranged in parallel along a second axis orthogonal to a first axis, and a first common liquid chamber communicating with the plurality of individual flow paths, in which each of the plurality of individual flow paths has a pressure chamber that stores a liquid.
US11225067B2
A drive circuit for driving a first drive element having a first terminal and a second terminal and driving a second drive element having a third terminal and a fourth terminal, includes a first drive signal output circuit that is electrically coupled to the first terminal and outputs a first drive signal, and a second drive signal output circuit that is electrically coupled to the third terminal and outputs a second drive signal. The first drive signal output circuit includes a first reference voltage signal output circuit that outputs a first reference voltage signal. The first reference voltage signal output circuit is electrically coupled to the second terminal and the fourth terminal. The second drive signal output circuit is not electrically coupled to the second terminal and the fourth terminal. The first drive signal output circuit starts startup after the second drive signal output circuit.
US11225062B2
The present invention relates to a multi-layer film comprising at least three layers, with two outer layers, and one core layer, wherein: the core layer comprises an ethylene copolymer comprising 1-octene and having a density between >0.910 g/cm3 and 0.925 g/cm3, wherein further the first outer layer comprises an ethylene homopolymer having a density of between >0.915 g/cm3 and 0.930 g/cm3, wherein further the second outer layer comprises and optional first ethylene copolymer and a second ethylene copolymer having a density of between 0.850 g/cm3 and <0.890 g/cm3. Such film demonstrates improved cling properties and further provides benefits in that a.o. migration of components from this film during storage and use at elevated temperatures is reduced.
US11225051B2
A multi-layered brazing sheet product having an aluminium core alloy layer provided on one or both sides with a brazing clad layer material, and an inter-layer material positioned between the aluminium core alloy layer and at least one of the brazing clad layer materials, wherein the brazing layer material(s) is made from an 4xxx-series aluminium alloy having 5% to 15% Si and up to 3% Mg, and wherein the inter-layer material is made from a 1xxx-series aluminium alloy having a purposive addition of Mg of 0.10% to 2.0%. The invention relates also to the use of the brazing sheet product in a fluxless controlled atmosphere brazing process.
US11225048B2
The present invention provides a laminated nonwoven fabric achieving both handling properties during manufacturing and use and adherence to a skin surface at a high level particularly when used for a face mask. The laminated nonwoven fabric includes a nonwoven fabric layer (A) and a nonwoven fabric layer (B). The nonwoven fabric layer (A) is formed from a fiber A having a single fiber diameter of 50 nm or more and 800 nm or less, and the nonwoven fabric layer (B) is formed from a fiber B having a single fiber diameter of 3 μm or more and 30 μm or less. The nonwoven fabric layer (B) includes 15 to 40% by mass of a fiber B1 to all of the fibers constituting the nonwoven fabric layer (B), the fiber having tensile strength of 2.0 cN/dtex or less as measured based on JIS L 1015: 2010 8.7.2. The nonwoven fabric layer (B) Includes a fiber B2 having tensile strength exceeding 2.0 cN/dtex as measured based on JIS L 1015: 2010 8.7.2. The nonwoven fabric layer (A) is disposed as an outermost layer of at least one surface.
US11225025B2
In an example, a method includes acquiring, at a processor, a first data model and a second data model. The first data model comprises a representation of at least one property of at least part of a first object and the second data model comprises a representation of at least one property of at least part of a second object. The first and second objects are to be generated in a common additive manufacturing operation. The method may include generating a first print layer model and a second, different, print layer model using the processor by combining at least parts of the first data model and the second data model and generating additive manufacturing instructions based on the first print layer model and the second print layer model.
US11225024B2
In some examples, a build material recycling system of a three-dimensional (3D) printer can include a build material transport system of the 3D printer, a build material recycling device of the 3D printer that includes a fluidizing membrane and is connected to the build material transport system, and a recycled build material hopper of the 3D printer connected, via the build material transport system, to the build material recycling device.
US11225022B2
A build material dispensing device may include a material spreader to spread an amount of build material along a build platform, and at least one hopper for dispensing the build material. The at least one hopper dispenses a plurality of doses of the build material in front of the progression of the material spreader as the material spreader is moved over the build platform.
US11225018B2
A multi-degree-of-freedom (Multi-DOF) 3D printing device includes a printer mechanism, a rotatable platform, a visual inspection system, and a control system. The printing mechanism includes a print head. The printing mechanism and the rotatable platform are combined to have three degrees of freedom of translation, and the rotatable platform has two degrees of freedom of rotation. The visual inspection system includes a camera mounted to nearby the print head and the relative position of camera and print head remains constant. The control system is configured to implement the printing process. The model is decomposed into several components, each of which could be printed in a single direction. After one component is printed out, the platform is then rotated so that the cutting plane for the component will be printed is horizontal.
US11225017B2
Disclosed is a three-dimensional object shaping apparatus for forming an object with a desired shape in a three-dimensional space represented by a three-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system of XYZ. The three-dimensional object shaping apparatus includes a light source; a drive mechanism to move the shaping surface parallel to an XY plane in a Z axis direction; an optical scanning unit to scan light emitted from the light source along a Y axis direction perpendicular to the Z axis; and a rotation mechanism to rotate one of the optical scanning unit and the shaping surface relative to each other with respect to the Z axis as a rotation axis, where a pattern of the light to be applied to the shaping surface is controlled by a combination of a rotation of the shaping surface performed by the rotation mechanism and the scanning of the light performed by the optical scanning unit.
US11225015B2
A method for manufacturing, layer-upon-layer, an integral composite aeronautical structure, wherein the method comprises: (a) providing an additive manufacturing tool comprising a depositing mold shaping an aerodynamic surface and at least one head configured to be moved over the depositing mold and to deposit fibrous material reinforcement and/or meltable material; (b) depositing fibrous material reinforcement embedded within meltable material onto the depositing mold, at least one layer of a lower aerodynamic face-sheet being built thereby; (c) depositing meltable material onto at least a portion of the outer layer of the lower aerodynamic face-sheet, at least one layer of core structure being built thereby; and (d) depositing fibrous material reinforcement embedded within meltable material onto at least the outer layer of the core structure, at least one layer of an upper aerodynamic face-sheet being built thereby; wherein steps (b), (c) and (d) are performed using Additive Manufacturing technology.
US11225013B2
A repair method for a civil engineering work. The method includes the depositing, directly onto a portion of the work to be repaired, of a reinforcing structure formed from one or more successive layers of at least one reinforcing material which are each extruded in contact with the surface onto which the material is to be deposited, using a robot system, with the material being extruded in strips.
US11225009B2
A manufacturing device of the present invention includes an intermediate molded body mold having a first accommodating space capable of accommodating a plurality of preforms, each preform having a mouth portion and a trunk portion; an intermediate molded body blowing unit configured to blow gas into the plurality of preforms arranged in the first accommodating space to inflate the plurality of preforms, thereby manufacturing an intermediate molded body having a connection portion formed by the trunk portions of the plurality of preforms welded to each other; a final molded body mold having a second accommodating space larger than the first accommodating space; and a final molded body blowing unit configured to blow gas into the intermediate molded body arranged in the second accommodating space to inflate the intermediate molded body, thereby forming an exterior shape of a multiple-chamber container.
US11225007B2
A method for moving a movable mold mounting plate of a molding machine, wherein the movable mold mounting plate is movable relative to a stationary mold mounting plate and the mold mounting plates are kinematically connected to each other, wherein molding tool parts arranged on the mold mounting plates are brought into abutment to each other in a closed state and wherein the movable mold mounting plate is moved by a drive mechanism and/or the stationary mold mounting plate is moved by an injection device such that, when reaching a predeterminable distance of the mold mounting plates relative to each other, a parameter representing a tilting movement of the mold mounting plates relative to each other is less than or equal to a presettable value.
US11225005B2
A system for setting injection-molding conditions and a method for setting actual molding conditions of an injection-molding machine are disclosed. The system includes a computer and an injection-molding equipment. The computer is configured to simulate, via computer-aided simulation software, a virtual molding using a plurality of design parameters to generate a plurality of provisional molding conditions. The injection-molding equipment is associated with the computer and configured to perform at least one trial molding using the provisional molding conditions to obtain a plurality of intermediate molding conditions. The computer optimizes the provisional molding conditions to obtain actual molding conditions in accordance with the intermediate molding conditions.
US11225002B2
In one embodiment, a gate insert includes an injection gate body having front and rear opposite sides and an aperture extending through the injection gate body between an injection gate outlet on the front side and an opening on the rear side. The injection gate body is connectable to and disconnectable from a gate pad in a cavity plate from a front side of the gate pad and from a front side of the cavity plate. In another embodiment, a cavity flange includes a molding body defining at least a portion of a molding cavity shaped to mold a shell of a closure for a container. The molding body is connectable to and disconnectable from a gate insert in a cavity plate from a front side of the gate insert and from a front side of the cavity plate. Other apparatuses are disclosed.
US11224990B2
Continuous method including mixing water and cementitous powder to form slurry; mixing the slurry and reinforcement fibers in a single pass horizontal continuous mixer to form fiber-slurry mixture, the mixer including an elongated mixing chamber having a reinforcement fiber inlet port, and upstream of the fiber inlet port is an inlet port to introduce water and cementitous powder together as one stream or at least two inlet ports to introduce water and dry cementitous powder separately as separate streams into the chamber, a rotating horizontal shaft/s within the chamber, part of the chamber for mixing the fibers and slurry and moving the fiber-slurry mixture to a mixture outlet; discharging the fiber-slurry mixture from the mixer outlet; forming and setting the fiber-slurry mixture on a moving surface; cutting the set mixture into fiber reinforced concrete panels and removing the panels from the moving surface.
US11224985B2
A bagel slicer includes a frame. A pusher assembly translates along a slicing path within the frame between an open position and a sliced position. At least one blade is positioned within the slicing path. Movement of the pusher assembly along the slicing path from the open position to the sliced position translates a bagel along the slicing path about the at least one blade to slice the bagel. Movement of the pusher assembly along the slicing path from the sliced position to the open position returns the sliced bagel to the open position of the pusher assembly.
US11224979B2
A parallel link robot includes: a base part; a movable part including an accessory shaft; arms coupling the base and movable parts in parallel; and actuators that drive the respective arms, where each of the arms includes a driving link driven by each of the actuators, and two parallel passive links coupled to the driving link, between the passive links of at least one of the arms, an additional actuator having a rotating shaft disposed in parallel to the passive links is supported by a first link swingably coupled to each of the passive links, the accessory shaft, and the rotating shaft are coupled by a transmission shaft, and the transmission shaft is supported, at an intermediate position in a direction along a longitudinal axis thereof, on a second link rotatably around the longitudinal axis, the second link being swingably coupled to each of the passive links.
US11224978B2
Provided is a robot. For example, a joint part of this robot is provided with: a motor; a reduction gear coupled to the motor; an output-side member fixed to the output shaft of the reduction gear; a position detection mechanism for detecting the rotational position of the motor; a circuit board to which the motor and the position detection mechanism are electrically connected; and a case in which the motor, the reduction gear, the position detection mechanism, and the circuit board are housed. The motor and the reduction gear are fixed to the case. A motor driving circuit for driving the motor, a signal transmission circuit for outputting a signal inputted to the circuit board to outside the circuit board, and a connector to which an end of a wiring is connected are mounted to the circuit board.
US11224974B2
A bottle gripping assembly including a pair of bottle gripping arms each having a grip member for gripping a bottle therebetween. The bottle gripping assembly also includes a base supporting the bottle gripping arms, with the base having a top surface and a recess into the top surface, a wear pad located in the recess of the base, with the wear pad and the base under the upper surface of the recess having a pair of aligned fastener holes, a pair of fasteners, with each one of the fasteners extending through one of the bottle gripping arms and into one of the fastener holes to connect the bottle gripping arms to the wear pad and the base, and a pair of wear bushings, with each of the wear bushings having a tubular portion that extends into one of the bottle gripping arms and surrounds a portion of the fasteners.
US11224966B2
A non-retrieval tool with a magnet connected a handle by a linkage assembly. The linkage assembly can be adjustable to maintain an orientation or position based on manipulation of a user, and can be made of a non-conductive material to safely operate in electrical applications. In some embodiments, the tool can include a socket portion near the magnet to apply torque to work pieces.
US11224965B2
Novel tool tray systems and devices. In at least one exemplary embodiment of a tray of the present disclosure, the tray comprises an interior tray section configured to receive one or more items, the interior tray at least partially surrounded by at least one sidewall having a height, a first ramp portion in communication with the interior tray section, the first ramp portion defining a sloping surface that extends from the interior tray section to a top of the at least one sidewall, wherein the at least one tray is configured to be secured to an inner lip of an aerial bucket liner.
US11224962B2
A wrench includes a tool head, an outer tube unit, a rod unit and a sleeve unit. The outer tube unit includes an outer tube, a tail seat and a biasing member. The tail seat is detachably mounted to the outer tube. The rod unit includes an inner rod telescopically disposed in the outer tube and formed with a plurality of cavities. The biasing member biases the inner rod away from the tail seat. The sleeve unit is slidably sleeved on the outer tube and includes a positioning ball engageable with a selected one of the cavities to prevent the inner rod from moving relative to the outer tube and removable from the selected one of the cavities to allow the inner rod to move relative to the outer tube.
US11224950B2
Methods and apparatuses for aligning a first hole in a first panel with a second hole in a second panel to define a through-hole. A wall that defines the second hole is gripped from within the through-hole to pull the second panel towards the first panel and thereby establish a clamp-up of the first panel and the second panel.
US11224947B2
A seat frame assembling unit includes: a setting device and a setting robot. The setting device is driven in a state where side frames, a connecting frame, a pan frame, a member frame and an upper frame are arranged. The setting robot installs the side frames side by side and subsequently installs the connecting frame, the pan frame, the member frame and the upper frame between the side frames. The setting device moves the side frames to positions in which the side frames are to be assembled with the connecting frame, the pan frame, the member frame and the upper frame.
US11224932B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to a welding system that is configured to execute opposed, step, and parallel gap resistance spot welds (RSW) and associated methods. The system may be configured to switch bases to switch between an opposed weld configuration, a step weld configuration, and a parallel gap configuration. The system may include an accelerometer that is secured to the weld head adjacent one of the electrodes. The system may use the accelerometer to determine whether or not an RSW was defective. Acceleration data may indicate a defective weld when it includes acceleration data that is outside of a threshold range of acceptable acceleration data.
US11224905B2
An injection tip assembly 10 and methods for use more reliably provide for delivery of fluid substances, such as materials that promote removal, destruction, or isolation of contaminants, into targeted zones within soil or bedrock. The injection tip assembly 10 permits the application of pressurized fluid 163 so as to erode or cut a desired cavity or eroded volume 164 within the subsurface 14, allows for timely observation, adjustment, and control of pressure within the cavity, and directs the delivery of a second substance or fluid that may incorporate desired materials. The consequence of managed erosion and pressure control is to nucleate and propagate a hydraulic fracture of desirable form that optimally delivers remedial agents throughout the targeted formation.
US11224900B2
A method of cleaning deposited solid material from a fouled portion of a gas compressor whilst the gas compressor is in situ in a natural gas processing system is provided. The method comprises the steps of supplying a liquid cleaning agent to a gas inlet of the gas compressor, the liquid cleaning agent being capable of removing the deposited solid material; passing the liquid cleaning agent through the gas compressor to a gas outlet of the gas compressor, wherein at least a portion of the cleaning agent remains in a liquid state as it passes through the fouled portion of the gas compressor; and recovering a fluid containing removed material that is output from the gas compressor so as to prevent the removed material reaching one or more gas processing stages of the gas processing system downstream of the gas compressor.
US11224898B2
A control method for sorting machines including carriages (2), each carriage including a loading-unloading device (3) which can be selectively activated for loading-unloading an object (O) from the carriage and an electronic unit (4) configured to receive and analyse a digital signal (20), includes the steps of: moving the carriage along a sorting direction having a plurality of loading stations (9) and unloading stations (10) each including respective inductors (11); generating by means of the inductors a magnetic field with a variable frequency modulating the digital signal uniquely associated with an operating mode selected from a plurality of operating modes, the digital signal including a bit string; transmitting, by electromagnetic induction, the digital signal to the electronic unit of the carriage; and activating the loading-unloading device according to operating mode uniquely associated with the received digital signal.
US11224895B2
Ultrasound devices, and associated methods of assembly thereof, are disclosed whereby an annular electrode array of an ultrasound transducer is electrically connected to a flexible printed circuit board in a compact configuration. The flexible circuit board includes an elongate flexible segment and a distal distribution segment, where the distribution segment is attached to a peripheral support ring that surrounds at least a portion of the ultrasound transducer. The distribution segment includes a plurality of spatially distributed contact pads, and electrical connections are provided between the contact pads and the annular electrodes of the annular array. A backing material may be provided that contacts and extends from the annular array electrodes, and a distal portion of the elongate flexible segment may be encapsulated in the backing material, such that the distal portion extends inwardly from the peripheral support ring, without contacting the electrical connections and without contacting the array surface.
US11224882B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a small rotor for a centrifuge, the rotor being configured such that numerous sample containers can be mounted simultaneously and it is easy to take out the sample containers. In an inner peripheral surface 20A of an outer wall part 20, recessed areas 20B locally carved outward are provided in areas between sample container insertion holes 11 that are adjacent to each other in a circumferential direction. In the locations of the recessed areas 20B, the spaces between adjacent sample containers 51 are wider, and the sample containers 51 can easily be taken out.
US11224881B2
A grinding roller is configured so that the fatigue strength of a roller housing can be ensured, and product life can thus be ensured. The grinding roller includes: a roller housing; a roller main body; a pressing plate; a tab hole; and a tab. A line at which fastening stress caused by the pressing plate is concentrated on a base portion of a fixing stopper part of the roller housing and a line at which stress caused by a grinding load received by the roller main body is concentrated on a base portion of the tab hole of the roller housing are disposed in an offset manner so as not to intersect each other.
US11224878B2
Methods of preparing surfaces of sample wells are provided. In some aspects, methods of preparing a sample well surface involve contacting the sample well with a block copolymer to form an antifouling overlay over a metal oxide surface of the sample well. In some aspects, methods of passivating and/or selectively functionalizing a sample well surface are provided.
US11224876B2
Microfluidic structures and methods for manipulating fluids, fluid components, and reactions are provided. In one aspect, such structures and methods can allow production of droplets of a precise volume, which can be stored/maintained at precise regions of the device. In another aspect, microfluidic structures and methods described herein are designed for containing and positioning components in an arrangement such that the components can be manipulated and then tracked even after manipulation. For example, cells may be constrained in an arrangement in microfluidic structures described herein to facilitate tracking during their growth and/or after they multiply.
US11224875B2
Methods, devices, and systems for performing isoelectric focusing reactions are described. The systems or devices disclosed herein may comprise fixtures that have a membrane. In some instances, the disclosed devices may be designed to perform isoelectric focusing or other separation reactions followed by further characterization of the separated analytes using mass spectrometry. The disclosed methods, devices, and systems provide for fast, accurate separation and characterization of protein analyte mixtures or other biological molecules by isoelectric point.
US11224863B2
An oxygen storage material (OSM) that exhibits enhanced redox properties, developed mesoporosity, and a resistance to sintering. The oxygen storage material (OSM) has a high oxygen storage capacity (i.e., OSC>1.5 mmol H2/g) and enhanced reducibility (i.e., bimodal TPR-H2 profile with two Tmax in the temperature range from 150° C. to 550° C.). The OSM is suitable for use as a catalyst and a catalyst support. The method of making the oxygen storage material comprises the preparation of a solution containing zirconium, cerium, rare earth and transition metal salts, followed by the co-precipitation of all constituent metal hydroxides with a base.
US11224862B2
A reference material for performance evaluation of a catalyst of a selective catalytic reduction includes a ceramic carrier and a coating material that coats the ceramic carrier. The coating material includes copper (Cu), alumina (Al2O3), and silica (SiO2). A method of preparing the reference material includes mixing copper (Cu) and an acidic solution to prepare a copper-containing solution, mixing the copper-containing solution, alumina, and silica to prepare a mixture, and coating the mixture on the ceramic carrier, and drying and baking the mixture coated on the ceramic carrier.
US11224855B2
The invention generally relates to a carbon-based boron removal medium with hydroxyl group and amine group, and in particular, to a method for forming the carbon-based boron removal medium. In various embodiments, nitrogen-doped (“N-doped”) graphene oxide is synthesized by a simple two-step process: (1) oxidation of graphite to graphene oxide, and (2) nitrogen-doping (“N-doping”) the graphene oxide to form the amine group. The resultant N-doped graphene oxide can efficiently remove boron from aqueous solutions. The invention also generally relates to a boron sensing medium and its use in conductometric measurement techniques to detect and measure the amount of boron present in aqueous solutions.
US11224838B2
Controlling aerosol production during absorption in ammonia-based desulfurization. The absorption reaction temperature, the oxygen content and water content of the process gas may be controlled, and an absorption circulating liquid containing ammonium sulfite may be used for removing sulfur dioxide in flue gas, so as to control aerosol production during absorption in the ammonia-based desulfurization.
US11224831B1
A dam assembly is provided which is used to increase retention time on the shaker and therefore achieve maximum dryness of solids, such as cuttings, sand, dirt, and other particles. As solids are conveyed to the end of the shaker, the solids will begin to pile up behind the dam assembly. Once enough solids of sufficient weight pile up behind the dam assembly, the dam assembly will fold over and release the solids.
US11224827B2
Disclosed is a chromatography column cylinder (200) formed from a polymer composite comprising an outer layer (220) and inner layer (210) intended to be in direct contact with the intended contents of the cylinder in a volume (202), wherein the outer layer supports the inner layer, for example when there is negative pressure in the volume (202). In one embodiment, one of said layers is molded directly onto a surface of the other layer such that there is no gap between the two layers. Disclosed also is a method for forming a chromatography column cylinder.
US11224821B2
A magnetic toy construction block includes an inner shell and an outer shell which are arranged to form a module having a shell-within-a-shell construction. Disc-shaped magnets are rotatably received and maintained in pockets formed in the inner shell of the module. The inner shell is permanently housed within the outer shell such that the magnets lie in close proximity to its sidewalls and hence sidewalls of the module itself.
US11224818B2
Systems and methods for transfer of rights pertaining to game assets operate between users of an online gaming platform. Exemplary implementations may: tokenize a game asset into a tokenized game asset; record, on a distributed blockchain, ownership of a beneficiary right to a share resulting from selling the game asset; responsive to a sale of the game asset, transfer the share resulting from the sale to a first beneficiary; responsive to a transfer of ownership of a particular virtual item from the first beneficiary to a second beneficiary, and responsive to a second sale of the game asset, transferring a second share resulting from the second sale to the second beneficiary in accordance with the beneficiary right.
US11224811B2
An information display method in a battle game is provided, applied to a terminal on which a first client is run, the method including: obtaining a first combat power value of a first game role; receiving a second combat power value of a second game role controlled by a second client or an Artificial Intelligence (AI) program; obtaining, according to the second combat power value and the first combat power value, a combat power difference between the second game role and the first game role; determining, according to the combat power difference, a display mode of the second combat power value; and displaying a battle interface, the battle interface including an object corresponding to the second game role and the second combat power value displayed in the display mode, the second combat power value being located in a peripheral position of the object corresponding to the second game role.
US11224809B2
A server system includes a game start control section configured to perform a game start control including setting a game space for each player as an initial state and allowing the player to start gameplay in the game space, an opponent space status display control section configured to perform a control for displaying status of at least one game space other than the game space being used by the player himself/herself for performing the gameplay on a computer device of each player, and a transfer control section configured to transfer an executing player satisfying a given transfer execution condition from the game space being used by the executing player for performing the gameplay to another game space.
US11224800B2
An example game controller includes L and R buttons provided in both left and right end portions on an upper surface of a housing and ZL and ZR buttons provided to sides of the L and R buttons closer to a back surface of the game controller. The ZL/ZR button includes a protruding portion protruding in the direction of the back surface of the game controller and the direction of a side surface of the game controller. This makes it possible to increase the area of an upper surface of a key top of the ZL/ZR button and improve the operability of the ZL/ZR button.
US11224798B2
A skills game includes at least a trackable drawing device and an electronic device. The trackable drawing device includes one or more illumination sources configured to illuminate an illumination area of the trackable drawing device. The electronic device is configured to track a location of the illumination area when the illumination area is illuminated a specific frequency by the one or more illumination sources. The electronic device also generates a drawing on a display of the electronic device based on tracking of the location.
US11224797B2
A word forming game assembly for entertainment includes a panel, which comprises an array of elements. Each element can selectively present a first view, a second view, and a third view to a player. An integer generating device randomly generates an integer and presents the integer to the player. The player is permitted to select a set of the elements from the array of elements, based on the integer, for presentation of the second view. The second view of each element comprises a subset of letters of an alphabet. The player can select one of the letters from the subset of letters for presentation in the third view. The selected ones of the letters from the sets of the letters are required to comprise a word.
US11224796B1
A physical-virtual gaming system comprising a game board including a multiplicity of physical locations, a game overlay including a multiplicity of logical locations, and game pieces for moving throughout the logical locations. The system tracks the physical locations of the game pieces and translates these physical locations into the logical locations using pre-known physical-to-logical location mapping information. Game boards, game overlays and game pieces can be individualized with their own unique identifiers. As game pieces are moved, a game database comprising at least current game piece locations and the game state are maintained. Based at least in part upon the current game piece locations and game state the system provides actions including outputting any of virtual content and information on any of a shared or private computing device running a game app. Actions also include causing changes to game devices including wearables.
US11224795B2
A cue for use in billiard games includes a removable weight system located in a bore in a butt section of the cue. The weight system includes a carrier having a length extending from a first end to a second end with one or more weights and two or more support washers supported on the carrier. A butt plate is secured to the first end of the carrier, the butt plate having a first end and a second end and including an opening extending from the first end to the second end, the opening having a circular cross section at a second end for receiving the carrier of the weight system. The one or more weights and the two or more washers may be set at different locations along the length of the carrier.
US11224785B2
A ball striking device, such as a golf club head, has a face member with a striking surface configured for striking a ball and a flange that comprises a portion of the crown. The flange being made of at least two members that are made of different materials, where a second material has a lower modulus of elasticity than the first material. The second member has a length, a width, a thickness and a location proximate to the ball striking surface to improve the impact efficiency of a collision with a golf ball.
US11224780B2
Described is a machine for assisted physical activity exercise, comprising a base (4) and supporting means (2, 3) for a user, comprising a seat (3) and/or a backrest (2). The assisted physical activity exercise machine (1) comprises a training tool (6) mounted on the base (4). The training tool comprises an engagement portion (7), configured for being actuated by a user, and guiding means (8) associated with the engagement portion (7) for guiding it at least according to a lifting movement. The supporting means (2, 3) are mounted on the base (4) and comprise a slide (100) slidably mounted on the base (4) according to an adjustment movement. The slide (100) supports the seat (3) and/or the backrest (2).
US11224773B1
A system for suppressing fires from an aircraft has a munition deployment system suspended beneath the aircraft. A shield is suspended between the aircraft and the munition deployment system to protect the aircraft. The munition deployment system has munitions compartments containing munitions for deploying vertically from the munition deployment system, and for detonating over a fire. A controller within the aircraft communications with a sensor package in the munition deployment system and directs the order of munition deployment.
US11224764B2
An ion chamber has a chamber having an interior volume. There is a first electrode and a second electrode in the chamber and separated by a gap. A collector electrode is positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode. The collector electrode is shaped to occlude a portion of the first electrode from the second electrode.
US11224760B2
Semisolid oral dispersions for whitening teeth. The semisolid oral dispersions include hydrophilic bleaching agent particles in a hydrophobic phase. The hydrophilic bleaching agent particles can include peroxide compounds and/or hydrogen peroxide adducts. The hydrophilic bleaching agent particle can have a solubility in water of at least about 20 parts, by weight of the particles, in about 100 parts, by weight, of water.
US11224759B2
A lighting system comprises a housing, an arrangement of UV-B LEDs in the housing and a fabric output screen which provides a UV-B exit surface. This provides UV-B light for an indoor application in order to replicate the health benefits of natural sunlight.
US11224756B2
A magnetic field generating-apparatus for biostimulation including: a C-shaped annular core having a gap-portion; and coils wound around the core, wherein the core includes a pair of facing extended-portions which lie on the both sides of the gap-portion and which face each other by extending toward the adjacent directions, and includes a pair of opposite-side portions which are juxtaposed on the respective outsides of the pair of facing extended-portions, and wherein the coils are wound around the pair of opposite-side portions respectively.
US11224754B2
In some examples, a feedthrough assembly for a medical device may include a ferrule. The ferrule defines an aperture extending through the ferrule from an outer end surface defined by the ferrule to an end inner end surface defined by the ferrule. The aperture includes a first portion having a first diameter and a second portion having a second diameter less than the first diameter. The aperture defines a longitudinal axis extending therethrough and the ferrule defines a ledge between the first and second portions of the aperture that extends radially inward toward the longitudinal axis. The feedthrough assembly further may include a conductive pin within the aperture and an insulating member surrounding at least a portion of the pin. The insulating member may electrically insulate the conductive pin from the ferrule, and the ledge and a surface of the insulating member adjacent the ledge may define a space therebetween.
US11224751B2
Systems and methods for treating arrhythmias are disclosed. In one embodiment an LCP comprises a housing, a plurality of electrodes for sensing electrical signals emanating from outside of the housing, an energy storage module disposed within the housing, and a control module disposed within the housing and operatively coupled to the plurality of electrodes. The control module may be configured to receive electrical signals via two or more of the plurality of electrodes and determine if the received electrical signals are indicative of a command for the LCP to deliver ATP therapy. If the received electrical signals are indicative of a command for the LCP to deliver ATP therapy, the control module may additionally determine whether a triggered ATP therapy mode of the LCP is enabled. If the triggered ATP therapy mode is enabled, the control module may cause the LCP to deliver ATP therapy via the plurality of electrodes.
US11224744B2
The disclosure relates to variable power modular electronic systems for generating unipolar and bipolar electrical pulses and associated uses thereof. In an embodiment, such a system includes one or more pulse generators for generating electrical pulses that can be connected in series; a charging circuit for charging the pulse generators; and a controller communicatively coupled to the pulse generators and the charging circuit. Advantageously, each pulse generator may include an AC/DC rectifier and a DC/AC inverter connected to said AC/DC rectifier in a bridge configuration to generate bipolar output electrical pulses or pulse trains. In addition, the charging circuit may include a DC/DC step-up converter connected to an indirect DC/AC inverter. The system provided in various embodiments of the disclosure also provides a great versatility for adaptation to various applications and high output voltage and current values.
US11224741B2
A transducer array for use in tumor-treating fields (TTFields) therapy is particularly suited for use in treating abdominal or thoracic cancers. The transducer array has features that increase its flexibility and adhesion to the patient's skin, including a branching configuration and a correspondingly branching top covering adhesive-backed layer. Additionally, a skin-level adhesive layer is provided beneath the flex circuit to which the electrode elements are attached, to help ensure thorough, lasting adhesion of the transducer array to the patient's skin over the course of treatment.
US11224736B2
An implantable blood pump system is disclosed herein. The implantable blood pump system includes an implantable blood pump and a controller coupled to the blood pump. The controller includes a partially sealed housing defining an internal volume. The controller includes an energy storage component contained within the internal volume and a processor. The processor can generate one or several signals affecting operation of the implantable blood pump. The controller includes a connector receptacle including a plurality of contacts selectively coupled via a circuitry to the energy storage component. The circuitry can electrically couple the plurality of contacts to the energy storage component when a connector insert is received within the connector receptacle and deactivate the plurality of contacts from the energy storage component when the connector insert is not within the connector receptacle.
US11224732B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for cleaning and sealing threaded connector ports are disclosed. An exemplary cleaning system includes a basin and cleaning apparatus including a sealing connector, an alignment peg, and an outer foam sleeve having a tubular portion. The sealing connector includes a body portion having a gripping portion, an internal thread cleaning portion, and a longitudinal axis. Another cleaning apparatus also includes a cap cleaning end having a cap cavity and an inner foam pad. Another system includes a threaded connector port and a cleaning apparatus including an alignment peg, a disposable foam platform, and a handle body, which includes a grip portion and a pair of cleaning arms. The cleaning arms and foam pads are adapted to engage the female threads of a threaded connector port. A sealing apparatus includes a disposable liner having locator flaps and a placement tool having a handle and locator fingers.
US11224719B2
A urodynamic investigation apparatus for receipt of urine from a bladder is provided. The apparatus is characterized by a tubular element, first and second fittings, and a sleeve element, for select passage of urine there through, within the tubular element. The tubular element is characterized by opposing first and second end portions, and a port. The fittings are adapted to be received by the opposing end portions of the tubular element so as to delimit an apparatus chamber. The sleeve element, suspended between the fittings within the chamber, has collapsed and open configurations. The collapsed configuration is indicative of a no urine flow condition, and the open configuration indicative of a urine flow condition, with the sleeve element urine flow condition being a function of pressure applied to the chamber via the port of the tubular element.
US11224713B2
A mount configured for use within a respiratory system that provides a structure that facilitates coupling of a nebuliser downstream of a humidifier chamber and upstream of a conduit that delivers conditioned breathing gases to a patient or user. The mount can couple together a chamber, a nebulizer and a conduit.
US11224712B2
The invention relates to a multifunctional applicator 6 for mobile use having an applicator plug 7, a supply tube 8, a Y-piece 9, fork tubes 10 and a nose piece 11 with prongs 12, wherein the applicator plug 7 comprises a pressure chamber 21 that has a humidifier interface 17 for connection with a high flow therapy device 1, an oxygen supply port 13 having an opening diameter of at least 1 mm, and a therapy air supply port 14 for the supply tube 8, the humidifier interface 17 and the oxygen supply port 13 within the pressure chamber 21 are both in fluid communication with an upper and a lower valve seat 23, 25 that are provided with a seal 22 and a valve body 24 being movable between said valve seats 23, 25 and said valve body 24 being subjected to a force by a helical compression spring 26 from the direction of the oxygen supply port 13 and on the other hand being pushed against the upper valve seat 25 by an actuating element 28 of the high flow therapy device 1 when the applicator plug 7 is locked in place on the high flow therapy device 1.
US11224708B2
An instrument for accessing and visualizing hollow organs is provided. The instrument includes a mouthpiece having a perforated mask and a sleeve having a generally cylindrical or ovoid shape extending from the perforated mask substantially perpendicularly thereto and defining a channel. The instrument further includes sucking means having a suction chamber or closed volume that is restrained to the mask on the side where the sleeve is formed. The suction chamber has a plurality of through openings adapted to allow fluid communication with a surrounding environment, an intake opening communicating with the suction chamber formed on the mask, wherein the through openings are formed on the skirt of a dome-shaped member which delimits the suction chamber.
US11224705B2
An inhaler for inhalation of a formulation in powder form includes: a magazine which is rotatable and contains pre-dosed doses of the formulation in capsules, a housing which is substantially round or disc-shaped, the housing having a housing part in which the rotatable magazine is disposed, where the housing part is fixedly coupled to the rotatable magazine, and is removable from the housing in order to facilitate replacement of the magazine by inserting a new magazine.
US11224704B2
Methods and devices for delivering a dose, such as a medicament, for inhalation. A dose may be stored by a delivery device and dispersed and delivered in a metered fashion to a subject, such as by the subject inhaling via a mouthpiece of the delivery device. One or more chambers of the device may have a toroidal shape and may be arranged to be selectively opened for fluid communication with a flow path of the delivery device, such as by sliding the chamber relative to a portion of the flow path. The flow path may include a restriction that permits air to bypass the chamber, and/or the chamber may be arranged so that fluid entering the chamber interacts with fluid exiting the chamber so as to enhance dispersion of the dose.
US11224703B2
The invention relates to a nozzle for use in a device for administering a liquid medical formulation, to a method for producing the nozzle in the form of a microfluidic component and to a tool for producing microstructures of the microfluidic component. The nozzle is formed by a plastics plate with groove-like microstructures which are covered by a plastics cover on the longitudinal side in a fixed manner. The production method includes a moulding process in which a moulding tool is used, which moulding tool has complementary metal microstructures which have been produced from a semiconductor material in an electrodeposition process by means of a master component.
US11224670B2
Provided is a decontamination apparatus including a base, and a source that emits UVC light at a suitable intensity to at least partially decontaminate a target object and render the target object pathogen reduced. An adjustable support is coupled to the base and includes an adjustment mechanism that can be manipulated to adjust a position of the source relative to the base. A controller is operatively connected to the source to control emission of the UVC light and establish at least one of a suitable duration of a decontamination process and a suitable intensity of UVC light to render the target object pathogen reduced.
US11224662B2
Disclosed herein are novel methods and compositions for targeting drug delivery systems to specific cells. One aspect relates to a drug delivery system comprising an elastin-like peptide (ELP) component and a ligand selected from the group consisting of an polymeric immunoglobulin receptor binding site in the Cα3 domain of dimeric human IgA (mIgA) and knob capable of either drug encapsulation or drug attachment. Further aspects relate to drug delivery systems comprising an elastin-like peptide (ELP) component and a ligand; wherein the ligand specifically binds to a receptor selected from the group consisting of coxsackievirus and adenovirus receptor (CAR) and polymeric immunoglobulin receptor (pIgR). Further aspects include the novel transcytosing properties of the elastin-like peptide and the ligand, knob. Also provided are methods and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the disclosed therapeutics.
US11224659B2
The present specification discloses solid solution pharmaceutical compositions comprising therapeutic compound comprising a phytocannabinoid, an endocannabinoid, a synthetic cannabinoid, or a combination thereof, one or more pharmaceutically-acceptable hard fats in an amount of at least 30% by weight of the pharmaceutical composition, and one or more pharmaceutically-acceptable liquid lipids in an amount of less than 45% by weight of the pharmaceutical composition, methods of preparing such pharmaceutical compositions, and methods and uses of treating a chronic inflammation and/or an inflammatory disease in an individual using such pharmaceutical compositions.
US11224656B2
There are provided, inter alia, compositions including a scintillator nanocrystal linked to a chemical agent moiety through a scintillator-activated photocleavable linker, and methods of use thereof.
US11224647B2
A method of immunizing a susceptible host against a pathogen comprising administering to the host a vaccine that comprises an attenuated recombinant live vaccine strain lacking a polynucleotide encoding CapB (LVS ΔcapB), wherein the LVS ΔcapB expresses an antigen of at least one pathogen from Table 1; or administering to the host a vaccine that comprises an attenuated Listeria monocytogenes expressing the antigen of the pathogen from Table 1; or administering to the host a prime vaccine and a heterologous booster vaccine where the prime vaccine comprises an attenuated recombinant live vaccine strain lacking a polynucleotide encoding CapB (LVS ΔcapB), wherein the LVS ΔcapB expresses an antigen of at least one pathogen from Table 1 and the heterologous booster vaccine comprises an attenuated Listeria monocytogenes expressing the antigen of the pathogen from Table 1.
US11224635B2
Methods for the diagnosis and treatment of ischemic spinal conditions, degenerative disc disease, back pain and/or other tissue pathologies. Patients with ischemic spine disease can be categorized into subsets that are deemed to have potential to respond to therapy. In particular, therapies are disclosed which involve stimulation of neovascularization so as to increase perfusion of spinal and other anatomies.
US11224631B2
The present invention provides a stable, non-aqueous, ready-to-use parenteral composition comprising: carfilzomib or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, acidifying agent, optionally a surfactant, one or more solvents or co-solvents.
US11224628B2
Provided is a process for extraction of a lipophilic agent from a plant source, the process including: mixing a first quantity of a plant source, the plant source being containing the lipophilic agent and a first quantity of an extraction medium to obtain a first mixture, the extraction medium being in the form of a microemulsion and comprising at least one oil, at least one hydrophilic surfactant, at least one co-surfactant and optionally at least one co-solvent; homogenizing the first mixture under conditions maintaining the microemulsion structure; and separating the homogenized mixture into a biomass slurry and an agent-loaded medium to obtain the agent-loaded medium in a microemulsion form.
US11224627B2
Disclosed is a method for obtaining a unialgal biomass of cells of small multicellular macroalgae, including: preparing a unialgal sample of cells of multicellular macroalgae from a sample of microalgae taken from the natural environment; culturing the unialgal sample of cells of multicellular macroalgae obtained in step in sea water to which at least one nitrogen source is added, in order to obtain an aqueous suspension of the unialgal biomass of cells of small multicellular macroalgae; a step of harvesting the unialgal biomass of cells of small multicellular macroalgae from the aqueous suspension obtained at the end of step; and a step of producing a powder of the unialgal biomass of cells of small multicellular macroalgae obtained in step. Also disclosed is glycolic extract of the aforementioned biomass, to a method for producing the extract, to the use thereof in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, and to compositions containing same.
US11224626B2
The subject matter of the instant invention relates to methods of enhancing harvesting of phages against a targeted host bacteria, as well as methods of identifying phages likely to have an enhanced propensity to infect and kill an infectious pathogenic bacteria in vivo, from samples comprising phages. The invention also relates to phage libraries, pharmaceutical compositions, methods of treatment, and phage-based diagnostic methods and methods of detecting bacteria related thereto.
US11224624B2
Some embodiments relate to genetically engineered bacterial strains for modulation of levels of the bacterial metabolite 4-ethylphenol (4EP) and its sulfated form, 4-ethylphenyl sulfate (4EPS). In some embodiments, the bacteria reduce or inhibit production of 4EP or 4EPS in the gut of a subject. The bacteria can ameliorate, delay the onset or reduce the likelihood of one or more symptoms associated with anxiety and/or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the subject.
US11224614B2
Compositions containing iron and denatured protein have been prepared that are capable of increasing serum iron and other divalent metal cations in a subject. For example, edible microbeads have been prepared containing iron entrapped within a protein matrix that provides a gastroprotective effect and improves iron bioavailability relative to previously known vehicles for delivering iron to a subject.
US11224613B2
The present invention relates to preventing and/or treating urologic diseases and symptoms in humans or domestic animals. The present invention relates also to preventing and/or treating pain in the pelvic area. The invention relates to use of a heteropolysaccharide composition isolated from ligneous plants and comprising hemicelluloses, mainly glucomannans, but also xylans and pectic polysaccharides, as well as fractions, subgroups or mixtures of these, as pharmaceutical preparations, food additives and food products.
US11224611B2
The present invention relates to methods for treating a tumor, including a metastatic tumor, with TLR9 agonist in combination with an immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy.
US11224603B2
The present invention provides for novel combinations comprising an antihistamine with selected pharmaceutical and nutraceutical agents which alleviate some of the symptoms experienced by menopausal women, optionally combined further with a range of indole-based natural products such as L-tryptophan, 5-hydroxytryptophan and melatonin. These mixtures may be enriched further with pharmaceutically acceptable calcium and magnesium salts as well as selected B vitamins. These combinations have utility in providing a medicament for improving health in mammals, especially for the improvement of menopausal symptoms as welt as sleep in women.
US11224602B2
The present disclosure includes compositions of a semi-crystalline or crystalline pharmaceutically active agent dispersed in a polymer matrix, in which the active agent is less degraded and, therefore, has lower level of impurities. The present disclosure further includes a method of reducing or preventing physical and chemical degradation of a semi-crystalline or crystalline active agent pharmaceutically active agent dispersed in a polymer matrix. A method of preparation of the composition is also included in this disclosure.
US11224601B1
Provided herein are myeloid cell leukemia 1 protein (Mcl-1) inhibitors, methods of their preparation, related pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of using the same. For example, provided herein are compounds of Formula I, or a stereoisomer thereof; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof and pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds. The compounds and compositions provided herein may be used, for example, in the treatment of diseases or conditions, such as cancer.
US11224592B2
Disclosed herein are formulations of pirfenidone or pyridone analog compounds for aerosolization and use of such formulations for aerosol administration of pirfenidone or pyridone analog compounds for the prevention or treatment of various fibrotic and inflammatory diseases, including disease associated with the lung, heart, kidney, liver, eye and central nervous system. In some embodiments, pirfenidone or pyridone analog compound formulations and delivery options described herein allow for efficacious local delivery of pirfenidone or pyridone analog compound. Compositions include all formulations, kits, and device combinations described herein. Methods include inhalation procedures, indications and manufacturing processes for production and use of the compositions described.
US11224588B2
The present invention relates to a combination of lipoic acid and taurine for use as an osmoprotective agent for the prevention and treatment of ailments of the skin and of the mucous membranes associated with osmotic imbalance. It also relates to a method for preventing and treating ailments of the skin and of the mucous membranes associated with osmotic imbalance, in which an appropriate amount of a combination of lipoic acid and taurine is applied to the skin or the mucous membranes of a patient who is in need thereof. The invention also relates to a pharmaceutical or cosmetic composition suitable for topical application or an oph-thalmic composition which comprises a combination oflipoic acid and taurine.
US11224587B2
A process for extracting a botanical organic compound from cannabis with subcritical liquid carbon dioxide includes providing a pressurizable extraction vessel. The cannabis is placed within the pressurizable extraction vessel, whereupon the extraction vessel is filled with liquid carbon dioxide under subcritical conditions. The cannabis is then allowed to be in contact with the subcritical liquid carbon dioxide for a selected period of time so as to extract at least a portion of the botanical organic compounds from the cannabis into the subcritical liquid carbon dioxide. The subcritical liquid carbon dioxide containing the botanical organic compound is then removed from the extraction vessel, and the liquid carbon dioxide is separated from the botanical organic compound.
US11224585B2
The invention provides pharmaceutical compositions containing omega-3 oil and a non-hydrophilic co-solvent that have an increased absorption rate. The pharmaceutical compositions may further contain one or more pharmaceutical organic molecules. The invention further provides kits containing these pharmaceutical compositions, methods for formulating pharmaceutical compositions containing omega-3 oil, and methods for decreasing the likelihood of developing cardiovascular disease, decreasing triglyceride or LDL cholesterol levels, decreasing pain or inflammation, treating diabetes, chronic pulmonary diseases, or irritable bowel syndrome, decreasing symptoms of an autoimmune disease or allergic conditions.
US11224584B2
Provided herein is technology relating to treating sleep apnea and particularly, but not exclusively, to treating sleep apnea with immunotherapeutics and/or anti-inflammatory drugs such as beta-interferons and glatiramer acetate.
US11224578B2
Provided is a molecular assembly (for example, a polymeric micelle nanoparticle) which is capable of efficiently encapsulating a fat-soluble drug. A molecular assembly comprising: an amphiphilic block polymer A1 comprising a hydrophilic block having a sarcosine unit and a hydrophobic block having a lactic acid unit; a hydrophobic polymer A2 having a lactic acid unit; a fatty acid triglyceride; and a fat-soluble drug. Examples of the fat-soluble drug include miriplatin.
US11224577B2
The present invention relates to prevention and/or treatment of infection by a platelet-targeting microbe in a subject. The present invention provides for methods, combinations and pharmaceutical compositions for preventing and/or treating (and/or related uses) infection by a platelet-targeting microbe in a subject, using, inter alia, an effective amount of a nanoparticle comprising a) an inner core comprising a non-cellular material, b) an outer surface comprising a cellular membrane derived from a platelet; and optionally c) an agent for preventing said infection, treating said infection, diagnosing said infection, prognosing said infection and/or monitoring prevention or treatment of said infection. Exemplary platelet-targeting infections include infections by a bacterium, a virus, a fungus and/or a parasite.
US11224565B2
Methods of treating aging related skin changes and of increasing skin thickness with topical administration of N-acyldipeptide derivatives are described. Compositions comprising N-acyldipeptide derivatives, are therapeutically effective for increasing skin thickness, and for treating extrinsic and intrinsic aging and aging related skin changes, such as fine lines, wrinkles, photoaging, hyperpigmentation, laxity, age spots, lentigines, mottled skin, and cellulite.
US11224562B2
The present invention relates to a topical composition. The present invention more particularly relates to a topical composition for antimicrobial benefit and a method of disinfecting a surface. According to the invention there is provided a topical composition comprising: a) 0.1 to 10% by weight of Niacinamide or its derivatives; b) 0.01% to 5% by weight of a first quaternary ammonium salt comprising Didecyl Dimethyl Ammonium Chloride; c) 0.01 to 5% by weight of a second quaternary ammonium salt; and d) a cosmetically acceptable base.
US11224555B2
A safety vial system has a vial adapter subsystem irreversibly mountable to the top of a vial containing a hazardous medicament and a vial base subsystem sealingly engaging a lower portion of the vial adapter subsystem and telescopically movable therein from a first position providing a path for gas sterilization around the vial to a second position wherein the path is closed to form a sterilized expandable, neutral pressure bellows chamber around and below the vial. The device has a removable top cap, a pierceable barrier film, a normally closed needleless valve in fluid communication with a dual lumen spike initially disposed above the film and a frangible product integrity ring holding the activation housing in place for sealed telescopic movement on a main body that surrounds the vial. The user pulls the product integrity ring and removes it, and then pushes the activation housing axially downward until it clicks to lock the device in the activated position wherein both lumens of the spike are in communication with the inside of the vial. The user removes the top cap on the activation housing assembly, and then uses a needleless syringe with an adapter thereon to add diluent and mixes if needed and withdraw drug from the vial via the valve.
US11224549B2
A patient support apparatus for supporting a patient comprising a support frame and a support deck coupled to the support frame. The support deck has a deck section arranged to articulate relative to said support frame between a first position and a second position. An actuator is interposed in force-translating relation between the support frame and the deck section to articulate the deck section. The actuator comprises a biasing device configured to store mechanical energy and having an interface. The actuator further comprises a torque multiplier coupled to the deck section and engaged with the interface to translate mechanical energy stored in the biasing device into force acting on the deck section to urge the deck section toward the first position.
US11224546B2
A hollow fiber that extending along at least a portion of the fiber along a longitudinal axis thereof and is defined by an interior wall is provided. Through selective control over the manner in which it is formed, the present inventors have discovered that the hollow fiber can exhibit a unique combination of a high void fraction and small fiber size that makes it particularly suitable for use in certain applications, such as in nonwoven webs for absorbent articles.
US11224544B2
The present invention relates to dressings such as bandages or tapes improved extensibility. The present invention further relates to dressings such as bandages or tapes which are extensible so as to at least partially conform to a body contour at wound surface upon stretching of the dressing.
US11224543B2
A method for detecting a state of a dressing includes measuring air pressure within a tube. The tube provides airflow between a pump device and the dressing. The method also includes determining whether the air pressure differs from a pressure setpoint by more than a preset limit, and running the pump to cause the air pressure to approach the pressure setpoint. In response to a determination that the air pressure does not differ from the pressure setpoint by more than the preset limit, the method also includes determining a duration of time since a last running of the pump, determining whether the duration of time since the last running of the pump exceeds a threshold duration, and, in response to a determination that the duration of time since the last running of the pump exceeds the threshold duration, generating an alert that indicates that the dressing is full.
US11224538B2
A device for fusing two or more tissues is disclosed. The device comprises a hand held probe comprising a fluid receiving opening, a channel and an outlet in fluid communication whereby fluid passes through the channel and exits the outlet where it is directed to at least one of the two or more tissues and/or a space in-between. A disruptive emitter, in the form of a laser, is comprised on the probe which emits a force sufficient to fuse the two or more tissues. The device finds particular application to treatment of a detached retina by fusing the retina and the retinal pigmented epithelium. A method of fusing two or more tissues including a retina and underlying retinal pigmented epithelium is also disclosed.
US11224521B2
Systems for distracting a facet joint and positioning a permanent implant in the joint are disclosed. The implants serve to retain a distracted position of the facet joint which is achieved with positioning of the leading end of a distraction tool in the facet joint and then distracting or enlarging the joint a desired amount. The permanent implant could be part of the distraction mechanism which can be separated from the delivery tool once the joint has been distracted or an auxiliary implant may be positioned before the distraction mechanism is removed from the distracted joint. The permanent implants can be solid, mechanical devices that may have fixation means thereon to hold them in place or injected fluids such as hydrogels or fluids confined within balloons.
US11224505B2
Hybrid Accommodating Intra Ocular Lens (AIOL) assemblages including two discrete component parts in the form of a discrete base member for initial implantation in a vacated capsular bag and a discrete lens unit for subsequent implantation in the vacated capsular bag for anchoring to the discrete base member. The lens unit includes a lens optics having at least two segmented lens haptics radially outwardly extending therefrom.
US11224502B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to ureteral stents having an elongated stent body and one or more deformable bladders secured thereto, and methods of using the same.
US11224492B1
A surgical drape is adapted for use by a woman during childbirth. The surgical drape includes a fecal collection panel having top, bottom, and opposing side edges. An adhesive is applied to a top marginal area of the collection panel directly adjacent its top edge. The adhesive is adapted for temporarily holding the top edge of the collection panel below the vagina and above the anus of the woman when disposed in a lithotomy position, while the bottom edge of the collection panel resides beneath the buttocks. The collection panel defines a protected access aperture designed for enabling ready access by a delivery assistant to the anus of the woman during childbirth. The protected aperture comprises a line of perforations extending perpendicular from the top marginal area of the collection panel towards the bottom edge.
US11224479B2
The tissue cutting device comprises an elongated assembly including both an outer sleeve and an inner sleeve. The outer sleeve has a tissue-receiving window, and the inner sleeve has a distal end which cuts tissue as the inner sleeve is advanced past the window. The tissue is received into a lumen of the inner sleeve, and the inner sleeve lumen is typically enlarged in a proximal direction to reduce the tendency of resected tissue to lodge therein. The tissue displacement member is optionally provided at a distal end of the outer sleeve to further aid in dislodging tissue which becomes captured in a distal end of the inner sleeve of the lumen.
US11224471B2
Described herein are devices, systems and methods for treating disease and/or infection by the release of silver from an implant over an extended period of time. In particular, the devices described herein may be used to treat infections such as osteomyelitis by the controlled release of silver ions from multiple sites of an extended-use implant. This implant typically includes a plurality of arms that both anchor and help distribute the released ions within the tissue. Power may be applied to release the silver ions into the tissue.
US11224465B2
A method for the treatment of spinal stenosis that includes cutting off a muscle origin or insertion from a spinous process, cutting off the spinous process at the transition to the lamina arcus vertebrae, resecting at least a part of the lamina arcus vertebrae and thereby decompression of the spinal cord within the foramen vertebral, performing osteosynthesis of the spinous process and placing a suture anchor within the spinous process and reattaching the muscle origin or insertion to the spinous process.
US11224451B2
The invention involves forceps having rounded grasping tips. The rounded tips are configured to avoid puncturing an amniotic membrane during insertion over an ocular surface for the treatment of dry eye disease and inflammation of the eyes and to avoid injuring the conjunctiva during removal of an amniotic membrane from the ocular surface. The forceps have grasping tips at its distal end, wherein one of the grasping tips has a notch on its inside surface. The dimensions of the notch are configured to permit an eye doctor to securely and safely grasp a lip of an amniotic membrane insert for better insertion and removal from an ocular surface.
US11224450B2
Described are methods, systems, devices for facilitation of intraluminal medical procedures within the neurovasculature. A catheter advancement device includes a flexible elongate body having a proximal end, a distal end, and a single lumen extending therebetween. The flexible elongate body has a proximal segment, an intermediate segment, and a tip segment. The proximal segment includes a hypotube coated with a polymer. The intermediate segment includes an unreinforced polymer having a durometer of no more than 72D. The tip segment is formed of a polymer different from the intermediate segment and has a durometer of no more than about 35D and a length of at least 5 cm. The tip segment has a tapered portion that tapers distally from a first outer diameter to a second outer diameter over a length of between 1 and 3 cm.
US11224431B2
There is provided a lumen maintenance catheter used for vascular suture, in which an operator can stably grip the catheter to improve the operability, and the entire catheter is prevented from entering a blood vessel. The lumen maintenance catheter for vascular suture includes a shaft having flexibility and a bulging part bulging in a radial direction at a distal end of the shaft, wherein the shaft includes a small diameter part on a distal end side, and a large diameter part larger in diameter than the small diameter part, on a rear end side, the small diameter part and the large diameter part are connected by an inclined part that is inclined so that a diameter of the shaft increases toward the rear end side, and the rigidity of the shaft increases as the diameter increases.
US11224428B2
A system is disclosed. The system can comprise a replaceable staple cartridge comprising a plurality of staples, a proximal laterally-protruding lug, and a distal laterally-protruding lug. The system can further comprise a channel configured to receive the replaceable staple cartridge, wherein the channel comprises a sidewall comprising a proximal receptacle positioned and dimensioned to receive the proximal laterally-protruding lug and a distal receptacle positioned and dimensioned to receive the distal laterally-protruding lug.
US11224414B2
A blood vessel access closure device includes an inner blood vessel wall support member and an outer blood vessel wall support member. The closure device also includes a deployment member and an electrode. The deployment member is configured to draw the inner and outer blood vessel wall support members towards each other when the inner and outer blood vessel wall members are deployed on opposite sides of a blood vessel wall during closure of a hole in the blood vessel wall. The electrode is configured to be attached to the deployment member and configured to be used to measure impedance.
US11224413B2
A specimen retrieval device includes outer and inner shafts. An end effector is supported on a distal end of the inner shaft and includes first and second arms that are configured to support a specimen bag. The first and second arms are movable via actuation of a handle between a proximal position wherein the first and second arms are retracted and a distal positon wherein the first and second arms are deployed and the specimen bag is positioned for receiving tissue. A release tube is disposed within a collar defined in the specimen bag and is configured to releasably engage respective first and second arms to provide stability when supporting the specimen bag and facilitate disengagement of the first and second arms from within the collar upon retraction of the first and second arms.
US11224404B2
An information processing apparatus includes a memory storing a program, and one or more processors that, by executing the program, function as an obtaining unit configured to obtain information relating to a posture of an imaging device that is imaging a region of a subject, and a determination unit configured to perform a determination, based on the information relating to the posture, regarding which region of the subject corresponds to the region imaged by the imaging device. The determination unit performs the determination based on the information relating to the posture obtained at a timing when a posture of the imaging device satisfies a predetermined condition.
US11224397B2
A common region derivation unit derives a common region common to at least some of a plurality of projection images which correspond to a plurality of radiation source positions, respectively, and are acquired by directing an imaging apparatus to perform tomosynthesis imaging. In a case in which a width of the common region in a movement direction of a radiation source is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value, an image acquisition unit directs the imaging apparatus to perform the tomosynthesis imaging to acquire the plurality of projection images.
US11224396B2
An x-ray imaging apparatus and associated methods are provided to receive measured projection data from a wide aperture scan of a wide axial region and a narrow aperture scan of a narrow axial region within the wide axial region and determine an estimated scatter in the wide axial region using an optimized scatter estimation technique. The optimized scatter estimation technique is based on the difference between the measured scatter in the narrow axial region and the estimated scatter in the narrow axial region. Kernel-based scatter estimation/correction techniques can be fitted to minimize the scatter difference in the narrow axial region and thereafter applying the fitted (optimized) kernel-based scatter estimation/correction to the wide axial region. Optimizations can occur in the projection data domain or the reconstruction domain. Iterative processes are also utilized.
US11224374B2
Systems and methods are disclosed to determine one or more sensing zones on a body surface for electrocardiographic mapping of a region of interest associated with the heart. The sensing zone can be utilized to facilitate acquisition, processing and mapping of electrical activity for the corresponding region of interest. In other examples, an application-specific arrangement of electrodes can also be provided based on the sensing zone that is determined for the region of interest.
US11224373B2
The present invention relates to an adapter (100) for coupling with a medical coupling unit (1) and a medical sensor (2) that are configured for being coupled for electrical signal transmission between them. The adapter comprises an adapter coupling unit (101) configured to fit with a coupling-side connector (10) of the medical coupling unit (1) and including a plurality of coupling-side electrical contacts (111, 113) for contacting a plurality of electrical contacts (11, 13) of the coupling-side connector (10) and a sensor-side connector (120) configured to fit with a sensor-side connector (20) of the medical sensor (2) and including a plurality of sensor-side electrical contacts (121, 123) for contacting a plurality of electrical contacts (21, 23) of the sensor-side connector (20), allowing the adapter coupling unit (101) to be mechanically coupled between the medical coupling unit (1) and the medical sensor (2). Further, the adapter comprises one or more wires (102) fixedly connected to the adapter coupling unit for coupling one or more sensor elements (225) with the adapter coupling unit for electrical signal transmission from the one or more sensor elements to the adapter coupling unit, and connection circuitry (103) within the adapter coupling unit (101) for connecting said sensor-side electrical contacts (121, 123) and said one or more wires (102) with said coupling-side electrical contacts (111, 113) allowing signal transmission from the medical sensor (2) and one or more sensor elements (225) coupled to the adapter coupling unit (101) to the medical coupling unit (1).
US11224372B2
An implantable electrode for use in the body of a subject has a metal layer and a graphene passivation layer formed on at least a portion of the metal layer. The graphene passivation layer may be a single monolayer of graphene. A process for passivating an implantable electrode is also disclosed.
US11224368B2
A kit for separating and concentrating body fluid cells is provided. The kit includes a first sealing cap provided with a first close contact body; a first cap connection housing having a first inner connection body in which a first elastic body having a first slit line formed at an end thereof, with which the first close contact body comes into elastic contact when coupled to the first sealing cap, is inserted and disposed in an inner hole so that the first inner connection body is assembled with the first sealing cap; a first housing having one end screw-coupled to the first cap connection housing, and having an inner partition wall formed therein so that a first connection hole corresponding to the inner hole is formed through the inner partition wall; a central housing having one end screw-coupled to the other end of the first housing.
US11224367B2
A sensor module is disclosed herein. The sensor module includes a skin piercing member carried by the carrier. The skin piercing member has a skin piercing end positioned opposite from a base end. The skin piercing member defines a lumen that extends along the central longitudinal axis from the skin piercing end toward the base end and the lumen having a lumen axis. The sensor module also includes a blood sample analysis zone located entirely within the lumen of the skin piercing member and a capillary flow stop for stopping capillary flow at a predetermined location within the lumen of the skin piercing member. The sensor module includes an elongated working electrode positioned within the lumen. The working electrode has a length that extends along the lumen axis where at least a section of the working electrode is positioned within the analysis zone. The working electrode includes sensing chemistry.
US11224363B2
An active-pulse blood analysis system has an optical sensor that illuminates a tissue site with multiple wavelengths of optical radiation and outputs sensor signals responsive to the optical radiation after attenuation by pulsatile blood flow within the tissue site. A monitor communicates with the sensor signals and is responsive to arterial pulses within a first bandwidth and active pulses within a second bandwidth so as to generate arterial pulse ratios and active pulse ratios according to the wavelengths. An arterial calibration curve relates the arterial pulse ratios to a first arterial oxygen saturation value and an active pulse calibration curve relates the active pulse ratios to a second arterial oxygen saturation value. Decision logic outputs one of the first and second arterial oxygen saturation values based upon perfusion and signal quality.
US11224333B2
A stereo endoscope including: a shaft; and an objective lens including: a distal objective lens portion, where beam paths of right and left partial images extend through common optical components; a proximal objective lens portion, where the beam paths of the right and left partial images extend through separate optical components; and a transition portion, where the beam paths of the right and left partial images, which emerge from the distal objective lens portion at an angle to one another, are aligned parallel to one another; the transition portion comprises a lateral spreading arrangement including optical components for increasing a distance between the beam paths of the right and left partial images; and the lateral spreading arrangement is configured to laterally spread the beam paths of the right and left partial images asymmetrically in relation to an optical axis of the distal objective lens portion.
US11224327B2
A sponge fixing mechanism for sponge mop includes a first fastener and a second fastener. The first fastener has a chute and a mating surface in the chute. The chute has an outlet and an inlet respectively located at two opposite ends of the first fastener. The second fastener has a mating surface and is installed in the chute and detachably fastened to the first fastener with the mating surface thereof in sliding contact with the mating surface of the first fastener. One of the first fastener and the second fastener has a latching recess recessed from the mating surface thereof. The first fastener and the second fastener are fastened together by elastically engaging the latching protrusion into the latching recess.
US11224315B2
Exemplary embodiments wet-on-demand dispensers are disclosed herein. An exemplary dispenser for dispensing wet-on-demand substrates includes a housing, a container for holding a fluid, one or more wetting tips in fluid communication with the container. Each of the one or more wetting tips has a movable valve member. The exemplary dispenser further includes a holder for holding a roll of substrate and the movable valve members are moved as a function of contact with the substrate.
US11224308B2
An embossed paper-based bakeable tray having a bottom surface and sidewalls and an embossed pattern formed in the bottom surface providing a series of closely spaced projections substantially entirely over the bottom surface.
US11224295B2
A smart adjustable bed system combines an adjustable bed, a smart hub, a server, and smart devices to provide a system for controlling the raising and lowering of the adjustable bed. The smart hub acts as a gateway interconnecting the smart adjustable bed and a remote server capable of powerful voice recognition and artificial intelligence at a shared price. The system includes methods of using the system to allow an additional smart device such as a tablet computer to act as a remote control for the smart adjustable bed. The system further enables voice controls to be used to raise and lower the adjustable bed. Lastly, the voice recognition of the smart hub can be used to detect snoring and to send a signal to the adjustable bed to raise the bed to a position until the user reaches a position where snoring stops.
US11224293B2
A lighted gaming chair including a chair and enhanced visibility lighting. The chair has a seat portion and a back portion mounted with respect to the seat portion. The enhanced visibility lighting is attached to the chair. The enhanced visibility lighting includes a light source and a diffusion layer that substantially covers the light source. The light source has a first width. The diffusion layer has a second width that is more than two times the first width. Light emitted from the light source passes through the diffusion layer.
US11224288B2
A modular closet system provides reconfigurable closet capacity and an appearance of a customized closet in any of the configurations. The system includes at least two sideframes cooperating to define a space therebetween creating a closet module when assembled. A series of through holes on an inside surface of the sideframes are used to attach a variety of storage devices from the system's sides, which may be re-positioned by user design. When assembled, any of the fasteners used to attach the storage devices are hidden from a front view perspective of the system. Once assembled, the perimeter of the storage devices cooperates with the frames to block the view of the fasteners. Some embodiments may extend closet capacity by including a hanging rod system that connects two frame modules together via the through hole system on respective closet modules, which when assembled also blocks the view of any fasteners.
US11224287B2
A platform apparatus is provided which may be configured to support an electronic device. The platform apparatus may include a base, an extension, and a support. Some implementations include a hinge. The platform apparatus may be configured for use by a standing, seated, or reclining user, or to support an electronic device.
US11224278B2
A robust cleaning and ventilation system for a work station such as a manicure station, employing table geometry to create high efficiency in debris and odor removal while providing a conditioned make-up air return that completes the full ventilation process. The manicure station includes a modular implementation such that the necessary equipment is not a single custom bespoke installation and can be used universally.
US11224277B2
A two-sided applicator assembly includes a first tube and a second tube. A first dispenser is rotatably coupled to the first tube and a second dispenser is rotatably coupled to the second tube. Moreover, the first dispenser is coupled to the second dispenser such that the first tube is directed in an opposite direction from the second tube. A first cylinder is movably coupled to the first dispenser and the first cylinder is comprised of a pliable material. The first cylinder is infused with a chemical lip balm for applying the chemical lip balm to lips. A second cylinder is movably coupled to the second dispenser and the second cylinder is comprised of a pliable material. The second cylinder is infused with a chemical sunscreen for applying the chemical sunscreen to skin.
US11224271B2
A collapsible backpack cooler includes a base, a collapsible portion, a back portion, and one or more straps configured for use by a user in securing the collapsible backpack cooler to their back. The collapsible backpack cooler is configured to allow the collapsible backpack cooler to transition between an expanded configuration, and a collapsed configuration having a reduced volume as compared to the expanded configuration.
US11224263B2
A medical shoe having a plurality of outsole projections is provided. The medical shoe may include a sole assembly configured to support a foot, and a frame surrounding the sole assembly. The sole assembly may include a midsole portion forming a substantially planar surface for supporting the foot and an outsole portion including the plurality of outsole projections extending from the midsole portion. The frame may include a plurality of through holes corresponding to the plurality of outsole projections. The plurality of outsole projections may extend through the plurality of through holes so as to form a ground contacting surface. The plurality of outsole projections may also be provided in a symmetrical pattern. The sole assembly may be secured to the frame by a self-locking fit between the sole assembly and the frame.
US11224262B2
To provide a sports inner boot that ensures removal from a sports outer boot to allow an inside to be easily washed and where a drying time be a comparatively short time. A sports inner boot made of a thermoplastic plastic includes a bottom plate disposed in the sports outer boot and a foot wrap portion formed at the bottom plate. The bottom plate and the foot wrap portion are integrally formed. The bottom plate and the foot wrap portion contain an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer material (EVA).
US11224258B2
A garment or article of clothing made of a resilient/elastomeric material includes at least a waist portion, a first leg portion, and a second leg portion. The waist portion further includes a pocket on the rear of the garment, where the pocket is defined by a backing panel, a first flap, and a second flap. The first flap is at least partially disposed over the second flap to secure contents between the backing panel and the second panel, and thus, within the pocket. When the waist portion is stretched, the tensile forces imparted onto the waist portion by the resilient/elastomeric material causes the first flap to at least partially overlie the second flap. The pocket is sized and shaped to receive smartphones and other small personal items, such as keys, money, credit cards, identifications, etc.
US11224255B2
An electrically heated aerosol generating system for receiving an aerosol-forming substrate includes at least one heating element for heating the substrate to form the aerosol and a power supply for supplying power to the at least one heating element. The power supply includes a voltage source, two or more supercapacitors, and switches between the voltage source and the two or more supercapacitors. The switches are arranged so that, during a charging mode, the supercapacitors are connected so as to be charged by the voltage source and, during a heating mode, the supercapacitors are connected so as to discharge through the at least one heating element.
US11224239B2
A process of producing hydrogen water includes the steps of: cooling water to a temperature where hydrogens atoms of the water molecule expand a space between the hydrogen atoms and contacting the cooled water with hydrogen gas wherein hydrogen atoms of the hydrogen gas are positioned in the space of the expanded hydrogen atoms of the water molecule and then heating the water trapping the hydrogen atoms of the hydrogen gas in the space wherein the hydrogen water has a hydrogen content of from 3 to 10 parts per million. The hydrogen water may be filled into pouches with hydrogen water in the pouch having a hydrogen content of from 1.7 to 4 parts per million.
US11224236B2
Problem to be Solved An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a textured protein material having a meat-like fibrous texture. Solution The textured protein material having a meat-like fibrous texture can be produced by feeding a flat-sheet-like textured protein material prepared via pressurization and heating, and then extrusion by an extruder through cutting blade rolls composed of a pair of rolls facing each other and having a plurality of square-blade-like annular blades arranged in parallel, thereby making slits sheared on the topside and the underside of the textured protein material in the same direction as the extruded direction.
US11224232B2
The invention concerns a kitchen appliance comprising a stirring unit 5, 6 and a pot 2. An insert pot 3 is provided, which can be inserted in the pot 2 such that an interspace 4 remains between the pot 2 and the insert pot 3, wherein the stirring unit 5, 6 has a tool 5 for blending and/or chopping that is located in the interspace 4 when the insert pot 3 is inserted. The invention further comprises the use of the kitchen appliance for the preparation of chocolate and an insert system for a kitchen appliance.
US11224218B2
The present invention relates to isolated haemoglobin from worms belonging to the Nereididae family and its use in cell culture medium, in preservation solutions and as artificial oxygen carrier for transfusion.
US11224217B2
Storage media and powder formulations for avulsed teeth and explanted tissues comprising fibroblasts
Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for preserving avulsed teeth and/or explanted tissue. The disclosed methods for preserving avulsed teeth and/or explanted tissue typically include placing the avulsed teeth and/or explanted tissue in a preservation solution comprising at least about 2.75 g/L sugar. Suitable explanted tissues for the disclosed methods may include explanted tissues comprising fibroblasts, such as dental tissue and/or oral tissue. The preservation solution of the disclosed preservation methods may include additional components which may include but are not limited to inorganic salts, amino acids, vitamins, and buffering agents. The preservation solution may be prepared from a powder formulation having a long shelf-life.
US11224211B2
A sprayer boom breakaway joint with a staged release and forced lift system is implemented with an agricultural sprayer. The system provides positive locking to restrain a breakaway joint against movement from a neutral position until an impact with a breakaway boom segment provides sufficient force to overcome the neutral holding force. Once released from the neutral position, the breakaway boom segment may at least initially experience a lesser holding force that biases the breakaway boom segment toward the neutral position and the breakaway boom segment may move along a path that has an upward movement component in addition to a rearward movement component.
US11224208B2
The invention provides genetically modified non-human animals that express chimeric human/non-human MHC I and MHC II polypeptides and/or human or humanized β2 microglobulin polypeptide, as well as embryos, cells, and tissues comprising the same. Also provided are constructs for making said genetically modified animals and methods of making the same. Methods of using the genetically modified animals to study various aspects of human immune system are provided.
US11224206B2
Aspects of this disclosure include a system for providing non-contact, computer-vision based monitoring of the health and pollination activity of a beehive. The system may include camera positioned proximate to a beehive. The camera may include an onboard processor that analyzes video of the beehive captured by the camera and calculates an activity value that estimates a number of bees moving about the beehive. The video calculated activity values may be uploaded to a server where they can be accessed via a user device. The user device may allow the user to display interactive plots of the activity values over a variety of time bases. The disclosed beehive monitoring system relies on relatively lost-cost hardware and requires neither modification to the hive nor special constraints on the placement of the camera.
US11224205B2
A cage connector for connecting two mesh panels of a poultry cage. The connector includes two elongated members which are hingedly connected together and which are releasably fastenable to each other, so that mesh parts from each panel are connected by placing the parts between the members and fastening the members to each other. At least one member has a tab which projects transversely to the longitudinal axis of the member in the same plane, or a plane parallel to the surface of the plane of the member.
US11224201B1
A pet bed that provides an ideal resting place for pets is disclosed herein. The pet bed comprises a fabric shell and a bed filler contained within the fabric shell. The fabric shell defines a support region and a continuous sidewall emanating therefrom to surround an open center area. The fabric shell is made of organic hemp canvas and the bed filler is made of organic latex. The bed filler comprises a padding made of organic latex. A cushion is removably positioned in the center area of the fabric shell. At least one pocket is disposed on the sidewall of the fabric shell, and a healing crystal is removably inserted within the pocket. As a result, the pet bed spreads positive energy and provides comfort, healing, wellness, happiness and peace of mind to a pet and a pet owner.
US11224199B2
A hygienic filter and disposal apparatus comprising a main compartment a base platform, a front end, and a back end, and adapted to contain granular material and waste; a secondary compartment adapted to contain granular material; a door connecting the main compartment to the secondary compartment; and a filter element, comprising porous walls around a cavity and a first opening into said cavity, the walls adapted to filter waste out of the granular material; wherein the back end is proximate to the first opening at a first position where the front end and the back end of the base platform are level; wherein in a second position the front end is lifted higher than the back end and the granular material and waste are directed through the first opening into the cavity; wherein in the second position the filter element retains waste in the cavity and permits the granular material to fall through the porous walls into the secondary compartment; wherein in a third position the back end is higher than the front end and the door opens and directs the granular material into the main compartment; and wherein the device is adapted to sequence from the first position to the second position to the third position.
US11224198B2
An animal house climate control system uses a method for operating a baffle of an air inlet of an animal house with a motor using timed inlet control. The method includes performing a calibration sequence to calculate opening velocity and opening inertia values and closing velocity and closing inertia values. The method also includes moving the baffle from an initial position to a final position by calculating a calculated power on time for the motor using the opening inertia or closing inertia values. The method can also include calculating a real position error value by comparing the calculated on time for the motor and a measured on time for the motor and using the real position error value to calculate adjusted opening and closing velocity values.
US11224192B1
The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato hybrid SVTM9019, tomato line PSQ-9Z16-6517V, and tomato line PSQ-9Z18-9186. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid SVTM9019, tomato line PSQ-9Z16-6517V, and tomato line PSQ-9Z18-9186 and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a tomato plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid SVTM9019, tomato line PSQ-9Z16-6517V, and tomato line PSQ-9Z18-9186 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
US11224191B2
The present invention relates to a Solanum lycopersicum seed designated 72-763 RZ. The present invention also relates to a Solanum lycopersicum plant produced by growing the 72-763 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the tomato cultivar, represented by tomato variety 72-763 RZ.
US11224190B2
The present invention relates to a Solanum lycopersicum seed designated 72-016 RZ. The present invention also relates to a Solanum lycopersicum plant produced by growing the 72-016 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the tomato cultivar, represented by tomato variety 72-016 RZ.
US11224186B2
The disclosure provides a new and distinct pepper variety NUN 89004 PPS as well as seeds and plants and fruits thereof. NUN 89004 PPS is a red, mini sweet pointed sweet pepper variety for the snacking segment, comprising resistance to Pepper Mild Mottle Virus Pathotype 0.
US11224185B1
The invention provides seeds and plants of pepper hybrid SVPB8500, pepper line SBO-E717-0902, and pepper line SBO-E717-0900. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid SVPB8500, pepper line SBO-E717-0902, and pepper line SBO-E717-0900 and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a pepper plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid pepper hybrid SVPB8500, pepper line SBO-E717-0902, and pepper line SBO-E717-0900 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
US11224181B2
The present invention relates to methods for controlling hybridization in plants and producing hybrid plants. The present invention also relates to nucleic acids encoding amino acid sequences for self-incompatibility (SI) proteins in plants, and the use thereof for the manipulation of SI, including seed production, in plants, particularly of the Poaceae family. The present invention also relates to kits, compositions, constructs and vectors including such nucleic acids, and related polypeptides, regulatory elements and methods. The present invention also relates to expression of self-gamete recognition genes in plants and to related nucleic acids, constructs, molecular markers and methods.
US11224180B2
The invention provides seed and plants of the lettuce line SVLD9010. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of lettuce line SVLD9010, and to methods for producing a lettuce plant produced by crossing a plant of lettuce line SVLD9010 with itself or with another lettuce plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of lettuce line SVLD9010, including the gametes of such plants.
US11224173B2
An internal irrigation circuit board (10) comprises: a body (1), with a planting niche (2) adjacent to a drip irrigation channel (3) holding at least one drip irrigation hose (5), with the drip irrigation channel (3) functioning in cooperation with the planting niche (2) through a connecting channel (4) arrayed concurrently with the drip irrigation channel (3), the connecting channel (4) conveying water accumulated in the drip irrigation channel (3) to the planting niche (2).
US11224169B2
A rotary cleaning system for a combine harvester that includes a hollow drum having a plurality of apertures along at least a portion of a length of an exterior surface of the drum, the drum having a feeding end configured to receive a harvested crop and a discharge end configured to expel chaff from the harvested crop and a guiding vane positioned in an interior of the drum, wherein one of the drum and the guiding vane is configured for rotation while the other one of the drum and the guiding vane is stationary to expel grain through the plurality of apertures in the drum. A feeding mechanism can be attached to supply the crop to the hollow drum. A fan can be attached to the rotary cleaning system to generate an air flow stream. A plurality of fingers can be positioned in the drum.
US11224168B1
A handheld harvester apparatus may include a threshing assembly and a screening assembly within a housing. The threshing assembly may include a threshing drum with a plurality of blades coupled to a first axle. The plurality of blades may include a set of teeth configured to strip a plurality of seeds and plant material from a plant. The screening assembly may include a paddle assembly configured to receive the plurality of seeds and plant material from the threshing assembly, the paddle assembly including a plurality of paddles coupled to a second axle. The screening assembly may include a screen assembly positioned beneath the paddle assembly, the screen assembly including a plurality of pass-through apertures configured to define a threshold for the plurality of seeds. The screening assembly may include a collection chamber configured to receive any of the plurality of seeds that exit the plurality of pass-through apertures.
US11224167B2
Example draper heads may include an endless belt conveyor and a catch pan disposed adjacent to the endless belt conveyor to collect crop material and defining a uniform gap formed between at least a portion of the catch pan and a portion of an endless belt of the endless belt conveyor located adjacent to the catch pan. A cleat formed on the endless belt cooperates with the catch pan to transport the collected crop material onto the endless belt. The catch pan may include a contoured end that conforms to a shape formed by the endless belt at an end of the endless belt conveyor.
US11224161B2
An improved cutter assembly for use with a header of an agricultural harvester is provided. The assembly includes a pair of oppositely directed knife blades or cutter bars and a center knife drive. A crank shaft drives both knife blades in linear reciprocating paths with no fore and aft movement. As a consequence, harmful fore and aft vibration is eliminated. The assembly is simple and durable in design, less susceptible to vibration-induced wear and tear, and comparatively simple to manufacture and repair.
US11224155B2
An articulated nozzle-holder boom arm for agricultural sprayer which is extensible to the sides of a main chassis and which can be folded to a transportation position by means of an intermediate hinge generally placed in an intermediate point of the boom arm, and the several sections of the beam forming the boom arm can be engaged or disengaged easily and without welding in the hinge or several supports of the beam sections, being the beam sections generally extruded aluminum profiles and the union of the profiles ends obtained engaging the same in retaining flanges included in the supports and hinges of connection of the sections.
US11229151B2
A component mounting machine including a head unit that has a head main body configured to hold multiple pickup members each capable of picking up a component at a predetermined interval along a predetermined circumference and to be capable of rotating forward and reverse directions; a moving device configured to move the head unit; a lifting and lowering device configured to lift and lower a pickup member; a component supply device configured to be capable of supplying the component to the pickup member; and a control device configured to control those described above. The control device performs a control such that the pickup members pick up the components supplied by the component supply device, and each component is mounted on a board after a completion of the pickup, while performing an operation of rotating the head main body and an operation of moving the head unit together.
US11229148B2
A component mounting machine that performs mounting of components by moving a mounting head attached to slide using linear motor, stator of the linear motor that is forms of magnets arranged side by side is arranged on base, movable element is fixed to a slide so as to pass through the stator, and bracket for holding a portion of wires for supplying power to the linear motor and wire protector is fixed to the movable element. Since the bracket is located at a position close to the axis line of the movable element, the rotational moment acting on the slide due to the deformation resistance of the wires and the wire protector caused by the movement of the slide is reduced, and appropriate movement of the slide is ensured.
US11229146B2
Systems and methods are disclosed relating to welding-type power supplies. In some examples, the power supplies may have no vents, which may help prevent environmental contaminants from entering the power supplies. Instead, the power supplies include one or more thermal interfaces configured to conduct heat generated by internal circuitry of the power supply from the interior of the power supply to an exterior of the power supply. Additionally, the thermal interface(s) may be configured for attachment to one or more exterior heat dissipating devices.
US11229145B2
An air baffle component includes an air baffle rotationally connected to a housing of a device chassis having a module insertion port. The air baffle component also includes a level-1 elastic component. The air baffle component further includes a level-2 elastic component. The air baffle component additionally includes a connecting rod. The connecting rod includes a force-bearing rod rotationally connected to the housing of the device chassis between the air baffle and the module insertion port. The connecting rod also includes a pull rod connected to the force-bearing rode. The connecting rod further includes a baffle column on the pull rod. The level-1 elastic component provides a first elastic force for the force-bearing rod, so that the baffle column is caused to abut against a surface of the air baffle opposite to the module insertion port. The level-2 elastic component provides a second elastic force for the air baffle.
US11229143B2
A liquid-cooling heat dissipation system capable of regulating water quality includes a first liquid inlet, a first liquid outlet, a heat exchange unit, a sensation unit, a water quality regulating unit for containing and releasing an agent and a control unit. The heat exchange unit has a heat exchanger, a first pump and a mating opening connected with the water quality regulating unit. The sensation unit detects the pH value of a first working liquid and transmits a sensation signal to the control unit. The control unit compares the sensation signal with a preset pH value range to generate and transmit a comparison result to an external interface, whereby the water quality regulating unit is manually controlled to release the agent or not. Alternatively, according to the comparison result, the control unit automatically controls the water quality regulating unit to release the agent or not.
US11229138B1
A module is described which is slidably attachable to a controller. Resource wires are connected to the module through resource connectors, The module has a circuit board that can perform actions. The module can modify the function of its resource connectors. These modifications may be to meet the requirements of resources that are to be connected to the module. The module may be able to monitor voltage, current, or power, or check for faults on the wire. The results of such monitoring may be displayed on a screen associated with the controller.
US11229137B2
A display apparatus includes a plurality of first brackets adhered to the rear panel. A first bracket has a recess on a first surface where an adhesive is applied, and a first protrusion extending from a second surface and a second protrusion extending from the first protrusion. A connection bracket has a side wall and a plurality of first tab portions. The tab portion is provided into an opening of the first protrusion. A second bracket is provided adjacent to the plurality of the first brackets and attached to the connection bracket. A frame is mounted to the at least one second bracket. A light source is provided between the frame and the second bracket.
US11229112B2
An extreme ultraviolet light generation apparatus may include a target supply unit configured to output a target; an actuator configured to change a trajectory of the target; an illumination device configured to illuminate the target; a first trajectory sensor configured to detect the trajectory in a first direction; a second trajectory sensor configured to detect the trajectory in a second direction; and a processor configured, when the trajectory of the target is detected by the first trajectory sensor but is not detected by the second trajectory sensor, to perform a first search and determine whether or not to repeat the first search based on a signal intensity of the first trajectory sensor, the first search including changing the trajectory of the target into a third direction by controlling the actuator, and then determining whether or not the second trajectory sensor is capable of detecting the trajectory of the target.
US11229111B2
A method of operating a semiconductor apparatus includes generating, by a droplet generator, a target material droplet; receiving, by a catcher, the target material droplet, wherein the catcher has a first section and a second section, wherein the first section of the catcher is closer to the droplet generator than the second section of the catcher; and heating the second section of the catcher, wherein the first section of the catcher is longer than the second section of the catcher and is free of a heater, and heating the second section of the catcher is performed such that a temperature of the second section of the catcher is higher than a temperature of the first section of the catcher.
US11229110B2
The present application provides a combined machine head and a ray imaging device, wherein the combined machine head comprises: a housing, having an enclosed cavity; a ray tube, arranged in the enclosed cavity; and a pump and a pipe, arranged in the enclosed cavity; wherein the pump is arranged on one side away from an anode of the ray tube, the pipe has a first end connected with an outlet of the pump and a second end extending to be near the anode of the ray tube; or the pump is arranged near the anode of the ray tube, the pipe has a first end connected to an inlet of the pump and a second end extending to one side away from the anode of the ray tube.
US11229109B2
The present disclosure provides a system and method for providing electrostatic discharge protection. A probe card assembly is provided which is electrically connected to a plurality of input/output channels. The probe card assembly can be contacted with a secondary assembly having an interposer electrically connected to one or more wafers each wafer having a device under test. Voltage can be forced on ones of the plural input/output channels of the probe card assembly to slowly dissipate charges resident on the wafer to thereby provide electrostatic discharge protection. A socket assembly adaptable to accept a 3DIC package is also provided, the assembly having a loadboard assembly electrically connected to a plurality of input/output channels. Once the 3DIC package is placed within the socket assembly, voltage is forced on ones of the input/output channels to slowly dissipate charges resident on the 3DIC package to thereby provide electrostatic discharge protection.
US11229091B2
A safety method and system consisting of resistance checking for use with high power deicing and defogging systems, including high power deicing and defogging systems for windshields and including quasi-continuous checking with pulse-electro thermal deicing and defogging systems, is disclosed. The resistance checking system may be combined with a proximity detector safety system which operates in conjunction with the resistance based safety system.
US11229085B2
The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate than a 4G communication system such as LTE. In a method of a terminal according to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a communication method of a terminal in a wireless communication system supporting a plurality of PDU sessions is proposed, the communication method comprising: a step of transmitting, via a base station to a network entity responsible for mobility management, a first NAS message including first state information indicating whether to activate each of the plurality of PDU sessions; and a step of receiving, via the base station from the network entity, a second NAS message including second state information indicating whether to activate each of the plurality of PDU sessions.
US11229076B2
Facilitating geo-distributed dynamic network system for ubiquitous access to multiple private networks in advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a method can comprise establishing, by a system comprising a processor, a first communication link between a first network device and group of devices connected via a private network connection. The method also can comprise establishing, by the system, a second communication link between the first network device and a second network device. The second network device can be included in a group of network devices associated with a communication network provider. Further, the second network device can facilitate communication with a communication device.
US11229071B2
A communication method is provided for communicating data between a tool and a controller. The method includes establishing communication between the tool and the controller using a first wireless communication protocol. Once wireless communication has been established, the tool and the controller switch to a new wireless communication protocol that is different from the first protocol. Operational settings are then wirelessly communicated by the controller to the tool using the second protocol.
US11229065B2
A communications network is being accessed by a wireless device associated with a coverage class selected from a set of coverage classes. The wireless device performs a method comprising initiating network access to the communications network by transmitting a preamble sequence for random access on a physical random access channel during a starting opportunity defined by the coverage class of the wireless device. Each coverage class may be associated with a unique number of repetitions of the preamble sequence transmission.
US11229062B2
Methods, apparatus and systems for performing a random access procedure in a wireless communication are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication node is disclosed. The method comprises: receiving, from a wireless communication device, a first message comprising a preamble and a payload for an access to the wireless communication node; and transmitting, to the wireless communication device, a second message in response to the first message.
US11229058B2
A wireless device is provided that is configured to determine a Random Access-Radio Network Temporary Identifier, RA-RNTI, for use in a radio network system. The wireless device comprises a first counter configured to be incremented after a predefined period of time and to be re-set when having reached a predefined first number, wherein the first counter counts a first count; a second counter configured to be incremented when the first counter reaches the predefined first number and to be re-set when having reached a predefined second number, wherein the second counter counts a second count; and a third counter configured to be incremented when the second counter reaches the predefined second number and to be re-set when having reached a predefined third number, wherein the third counter counts a third count. The wireless device is configured to determine an RA-RNTI at least based on the second count and the third count.
US11229055B2
A UE receives a request from a base station to initiate a random access procedure in a connected state. When a first bandwidth part does not contain any random access resource that is available, the UE: switches to a second bandwidth part that contains one or more random access resources that are available and transmits a preamble sequence at a first random access resource selected from the one or more random access resources that are available. When the first bandwidth part contains the one or more random access resources that are available, the UE transmits the preamble sequence at a second random access resource selected from the one or more random access resources that are available. The second random access resource is at least a second time duration subsequent to the request. The second time duration is shorter than the first time duration.
US11229052B2
Methods and systems herein provide better downlink (DL) data throughput for cell-edge stations (CE STAs). The systems enable protection from a third-party collision during a wideband DL data transmission to the cell edge STA, when the wideband control frame, such as clear-to-send (CTS) or acknowledge (ACK), transmission from a cell edge STA cannot reach the AP. This process can be achieved by designing a new wideband control frame comprising: a legacy preamble sent over the primary 20 MHz channel that can be decoded by the legacy STAs, a new preamble sent over the primary 20 MHz channel that can be used to identify the new wideband control frame (this new preamble has the total signal bandwidth information for the rest of the packet following the new preamble); and duplicate legacy control packets set over the total bandwidth indicated in the new preamble (the legacy control packets can be decoded by the legacy STAs).
US11229050B2
A method and apparatus in a wireless communication system supporting a semi-static shared spectrum channel access is provided. The method and apparatus comprises: receiving system information carried by downlink channels; identifying a duration of idle period, a fixed frame period, a number of observation slots, and an index; determining a first phase based on a first time period between a starting instance of the idle period and an ending instance of the at least one observation slot, a second phase based on a second time period between the ending instance of the at least one observation slot and an ending instance of the idle period, and a third phase based on a third time period between the ending instance of the idle period and an ending instance of the fixed frame period; and identifying the downlink channels as an idle state in the at least one observation slot.
US11229045B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for utilizing and processing repeated DCI transmissions that schedule common uplink or downlink transmissions. The techniques allow a UE to decide which repeated DCI to use for determining resources for the uplink or downlink transmissions.
US11229033B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) in communication with a serving base station may identify that the UE is a potential victim of interference from a neighboring base station. The UE may transmit an interference coordination message to the neighboring base station. The interference coordination message may request modification of one or more transmission parameters at the neighboring base station. The neighboring base station may modify its transmission parameters to decrease interference with the UE, and the UE may communicate with the serving base station after transmitting the interference coordination message.
US11229030B2
The present invention provides a method for transmitting an uplink signal, a terminal, and a network device. In one aspect, in embodiments of the present invention, by receiving configuration information of a zero-power uplink reference signal transmitted by a network device, and determining resources occupied by the zero-power uplink reference signal according to the configuration information, no uplink data is transmitted over the resources, and/or no non-zero-power uplink reference signal is transmitted over the resources. Since resources are pre-reserved on a terminal, the interference with uplink reference signals transmitted by other terminals over pre-reserved resources caused by uplink signals transmitted by the terminal over the pre-reserved resources is effectively avoided, and reliable transmission of the uplink reference signals of the terminal can be ensured, thereby improving the transmission performance of these uplink reference signals.
US11229022B2
A user equipment (UE), a base station, and a method for receiving physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs). The UE includes a receiver and a processor and is configured to receive a configuration for one or more search space sets (SSS) for reception of PDCCHs. The UE is configured to determine a PDCCH reception occasion according to the configuration of the one or more search space sets. The PDCCH reception occasion is prior to an ON duration of a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle after a second DRX cycle. The UE is also configured to determine an indication to either receive the PDCCHs when the PDCCH reception occasion does not overlap with an extended Active Time of the second DRX cycle or to suspend reception of the PDCCHs when the PDCCH reception occasion overlaps with the extended Active Time of the second DRX cycle. The UE is also configured to receive the PDCCHs at the PDCCH reception according to the determined indication.
US11229011B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a communication method and apparatus. For example, at a first device, a resource for data transmission is randomly selected, and the resource is used to transmit data. In addition, the first device sends, to a second device, an indication that the first device will continue to use the resource for transmitting further data. A corresponding apparatus is further disclosed in the present disclosure.
US11229007B2
The present application relates to the application field of communication technologies. Provided are a message transmission method, apparatus and system. The method comprises: obtaining two sets of paging transmission information, the two sets of paging transmission information comprising paging transmission information of a relay user equipment (UE) and paging transmission information of a remote UE, the paging transmission information being used for indicating the transmission position of a paging message, and the relay the UE being a relay device between a base station and the remote UE; and sending the paging message to the relay UE according to the two sets of paging transmission information. The present application can reduce the network signaling overheads. The present application is used for paging message transmission in a mobile communication system.
US11229004B1
A method of data communication service to a wireless communication device, comprising receiving a first communication session initiation message by a communication gateway from a wireless communication device, wherein the first communication session initiation message provides no access point name (APN) or provides a default APN, based on the first communication session initiation message providing no APN or providing a default APN, sending the first communication session initiation message by the communication gateway to an APN allocation server, parsing the first communication session initiation message by the APN allocation server to determine a destination identity of the first communication session initiation message and to determine an identity of the wireless communication device, looking up a communication policy by the APN allocation server, looking up by the APN allocation server an APN associated with the communication policy, sending the APN by the APN allocation server to the wireless communication device.
US11228995B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide synchronization techniques for user equipment (UEs) that may be otherwise unable to support sidelink communication a synchronized UE and may have also lost global navigation satellite system (GNSS) and/or Evolved Node Base Stations (eNBs) as a synchronization source. In such instance, the unsynchronized UE may utilize reference signals (RS) from the data packets received from other UEs to track the timing and perform autonomous timing adjustments based thereon for synchronized packet transmission or reception.
US11228994B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In an example, a method includes a first node receiving a precision time protocol (PTP) message, identifying one or more timing domains to be supported by the first node based at least in part on the PTP message, and sending, to a second node of the wireless communication network, an indicator of the one or more timing domains to be supported by the first node. Another example at a node includes receiving, from additional nodes of the wireless communication network, indicators of one or more timing domains supported by the additional nodes, receiving a PTP message associated with a timing domain, and sending the PTP message to a subset of the additional nodes based at least in a part on the indicators of one or more timing domains supported by the additional nodes.
US11228987B2
The present application provides a method and a wireless communication device, which includes selecting a total transmitter power target. A target transmitter power is identified for each of the transmitters operating separately at which each individual transmitter would meet a transmitted radio frequency signal exposure limit relative to a user of the wireless communication device. A fixed ratio is determined for each of the transmitters to be used with the total transmitter power target, based on the determined fixed ratio of the target transmitter power identified for each of the transmitters to the total transmitter power target. Power is dynamically shared between the transmitters in response to varying uplink power requests received from a network, where a power level being used for each of the transmitters is equal to the determined fixed ratio multiplied by a corresponding one of a shared power value, where the sum of the shared power values equals the total transmitter power target for each of the transmitters.
US11228986B2
An electronic device includes a plurality of antenna modules, a first communication circuit communicating in a first communication scheme via at least one antenna module The electronic device also includes a second communication circuit communicating in a second communication scheme. The electronic device further includes a temperature sensor, a processor and a memory storing instructions. The instructions are configured to, when executed, enable the at least one processor to detect a temperature associated with the antenna module or the first communication circuit while communicating via the first communication circuit, identify a first control step among a plurality of control steps based on an operation type of the electronic device and the at least one temperature detected, and limit at least some operations on at least one of the at least one antenna module or the first communication circuit, corresponding to the identified first control step.
US11228983B2
A method, performed by a terminal, of transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a higher layer parameter for a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), in response to the higher layer parameter including a cell identity (ID) indicating a serving cell, identifying an active downlink (DL) bandwidth part (BWP) of the serving cell, and receiving a reference signal (RS) on the active DL BWP of the serving cell.
US11228981B2
The present invention relates to a method for controlling a device controller of an electronic device comprising a fingerprint sensor to transition from an at least partly active mode to an at least partly in-active mode. The fingerprint sensor itself is used for determining a presence of a finger on the fingerprint sensor, wherein a device controller is maintained in an at least partly active mode if a finger is detected on the fingerprint sensor. The present invention also relates to an electronic device comprising a fingerprint sensor and a device controller.
US11228980B2
As uplink data can be transmitted without delay even in a situation where DRX related to battery consumption reduction is being operated, in the same manner as when DRX is not operated, the present invention proposes a terminal device and an uplink data transmission technology, which not only can achieve battery consumption reduction, but also can process, without delay, various low latency services to be newly provided in 5G.
US11228977B2
A base station can enable a terminal in a communication system to monitor a radio link between the terminal and the base station. The base station can transmit a first message to the terminal. The terminal configured to not communicate data with the base station via the radio link during an inactive phase. The first message setting a threshold value for comparison of the threshold value with a duration of the inactive phase.
US11228976B2
Various solutions for power saving for New Radio (NR) carrier aggregation in mobile communications are described. An apparatus receives, from a wireless network, a trigger signal. The apparatus switches between a first bandwidth part (BWP) and a second BWP of at least two BWPs for a secondary cell (SCell) in response to receiving the trigger signal. No physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring is configured for the first BWP while PDCCH monitoring is configured for the second BWP.
US11228963B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses for associating a wireless communication device such as a wireless station (STA) of a STA multi-link device (MLD) with an access point (AP) MLD that includes a first AP associated with a first communication link of the AP MLD and includes one or more secondary APs associated with one or more respective secondary communication links of the first AP MLD. The AP MLD transmits a frame including an advertising information element carrying discovery information for the first AP of the AP MLD, including a first portion carrying discovery information for each secondary AP of the one or more secondary APs of the AP MLD, and including a second portion carrying common attributes of the one or more secondary APs of the AP MLD.
US11228961B2
A computer-implemented method for delivering network connectivity includes receiving, by an edge server, a set of communication packets from a communication device. The method further includes storing, by the edge server, the set of communication packets as part of outbound data. The method further includes determining, by the edge server, that a mobile access point is within a communicable range of the edge server. The mobile access point travels back and forth between the edge server and a base station. The method further includes transmitting, by the edge server, the outbound data to the mobile access point that is within the communicable range.
US11228960B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for efficient signaling, for example, in multi connectivity (MC) or dual connectivity (DC) scenarios with multiple packet duplicates are provided. One method may include transmitting, by a first network node, an indication over a network interface to a second network node involved in multi-connectivity. The indication indicates how to map a packet transferred over the network interface to one or more protocol entities at the second network node. The method may also include transferring the packet once over the network interface to the second network node.
US11228959B2
Mechanisms for efficient inter-system or inter-RAT handover for the case when large numbers of devices need to perform a handover within a short time interval or even simultaneously are described. These mechanisms can include an aggregated Handover Procedure. An Aggregated Handover procedure can be enabled by a UE and can be indicated to the network entities by “Aggregated Handover Indication”. The detection of target (H)eNB or WLAN can be triggered by user, GPS location, boarding time, or a travel or eTicket application etc. The UEs requesting Aggregated Handover within a time interval, i.e. Handover Window, can be processed with aggregated messages by the core network entities.
US11228950B2
A redirection method and apparatus in which a first network device receives a service request from a terminal device, where the request is used to request a service related to a first edge APP; and when the first edge APP is unavailable and a second edge APP is available, redirects the service request to the second edge APP, where the first edge APP and the second APP respectively correspond to a first DNAI and a second DNAI. The first DNAI represents a deployment location of the first edge APP, the second DNAI represents a deployment location of the second edge APP, the deployment locations represented by the first DNAI and the second DNAI meet a preset condition, and the second edge APP is in edge APPs corresponding to the second DNAI, and has a sane service provider and function as the first edge APP.
US11228948B2
The present application is at least directed to an apparatus in a network including a non-transitory memory including instructions stored thereon for obtaining a resource for accessing a target cell in the network. The apparatus includes a processor, operably coupled to the non-transitory memory, configured to execute the instructions of detecting plural beams associated with the target cell. The processor also executes the instructions of determining one or more of the plural detected beams meeting a threshold for performing random access. The processor also executes the instructions of evaluating if a physical random access channel (PRACH) resource is associated with the one or more determined beams meeting the threshold. The processor further executes the instructions of selecting one of the evaluated beams exhibiting a reference signal received power (RSRP) above a predetermined value. The processor even further executes the instructions of picking the PRACH resource associated with the selected beam.
US11228943B2
Disclosed are a signaling transmission method and apparatus, base station and terminal. The signaling transmission method includes: a base station determines a manner for a terminal transmitting signaling data on a signaling radio bearer; and the base station transmits instruction information for instructing the terminal whether to transmit the signaling data on the signaling radio bearer in a separate transmitting manner to the terminal.
US11228941B2
A one-step method of cleaning a girth gear set of a mill in preparation for inspection is provided, the method comprising: substantially emptying the mill; inching the gear; spraying a low, very low or non-Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) cleaning formulation at high pressure onto the gear, the cleaning formulation comprising a non-VOC aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent, an extreme pressure lubricant, a fretting wear lubricant, a non-ionic surfactant, and a mixture of non-VOC unsaturated fatty alcohols; and continuing to spray the low or very low VOC cleaning formulation on the gear for sufficient time for the formulation to clean the gear, thereby providing a so cleaned gear.
US11228935B2
A base station and mobile device (UE) may coordinate transmission of reference signals and reception of corresponding channel state information (CSI) reports. If a periodic reference signal is scheduled for transmission outside the on-duration period of the UE, even if the reference signal corresponds to a periodic CSI report scheduled to be transmitted by the UE during the on-duration period, the base station may not transmit the periodic reference signal, thereby allowing the UE not to prematurely exit a low-power state. The base station may instead transmit an aperiodic reference signal at a specified point in time later than the scheduled transmission of the periodic reference signal. The UE may receive the aperiodic reference signal and either transmit the periodic CSI report or an aperiodic CSI report in response, depending on how close to the start of the on-duration period the transmission of the periodic CSI report is scheduled.
US11228932B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A discontinuous reception (DRX) periodicity may be configured to enable monitoring of a reference signal (RS) for RLM procedures. For example, a transmitting device may configure a DRX periodicity for an RS, where the configured DRX periodicity may include a periodicity of discrete transmissions of the RS or a periodicity of a transmission window in which the RS is located. Accordingly, a receiving device may identify the DRX periodicity and monitor radio link quality using the RS based on the DRX periodicity. In some examples, the RS may be transmitted independent of control channel transmissions, and the transmitting device may configure one or more control resource sets for the RS.
US11228923B2
A method of operating a communication system includes communicating a sounding signal to a plurality of devices through a first antenna array coupled to a basestation. The method further includes, in response to the sounding signal, communicating a response signal to the basestation from each of the plurality of devices, from the response signal determining device data comprising a device location, a signal strength of the sounding signal and phase information of the sounding signal, grouping the plurality of devices into a first group based on the device data, generating first transmit beamforming weights for the first group to shape the power output of the first beamforming weight vector to communicate a data signal to the first group and broadcasting the data signal to the first group through a wireless signal from the first antenna array using the first transmit beamforming weights and nulls.
US11228917B2
A radio device (10) controls a first uplink radio transmission on a first carrier (33) from an unlicensed frequency spectrum on the basis of a first access scheme. Further, the radio device (10) controls a second uplink radio transmission on a second carrier (34) from the unlicensed frequency spectrum. The latter is accomplished on the basis of a second access scheme which is different from the first access scheme. Further, the radio device (10) coordinates the first uplink radio transmission and the second uplink radio transmission.
US11228901B2
Various embodiments relate to a method and an electronic device for installing a subscriber profile. The method includes obtaining network operator-related information. The method also includes identifying whether download of an embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) profile is allowed based on the network operator-related information. The method further includes downloading the eSIM profile when download of the eSIM profile is allowed.
US11228898B2
A device for multi-receive multi-subscriber identity module (SIM) includes an input buffer configured to provide samples of a baseband signal, a rake receiver including plural fingers and configured to generate a series of symbols from the samples, and a controller configured to assign the fingers to a single SIM in a multi-standby mode and respectively assign two or more finger groups divided from the fingers to two or more SIMs in a multi-receive mode.
US11228891B2
Described herein are systems, devices, methods, and media for connecting a user for providing emergency response assistance to victims and emergency service providers. In some embodiments, a method for automatically populating an incident report includes the steps of: generating a victim code for display at a first electronic device; receiving an emergency data request comprising the victim code from a second electronic device associated with an emergency service provider (ESP) personnel; gathering emergency data associated with the victim code; transmitting the emergency data associated with the victim code to the second electronic device associated with the ESP personnel; and automatically populating, at the second electronic device associated with the ESP personnel, one or more fields of an incident report using the emergency data associated with the victim code.
US11228888B2
One or more Bluetooth® low energy (BLE) beacons in communication with a remote server that provides check in capabilities and payment capabilities may be installed at a location. The BLE beacons may connect with a user's mobile device when the user enters the location and allow the user to check in to the location and authorize payments to be made at the location. Once the user is checked in to the location, the user may be provided with additional functionality, benefits, offers, and applications related to the location and facilitated by the check in. Further, the user may be pre-checked in into a next location when the user is at a current location.
US11228879B1
A notification system for location-based fingerprint detection includes a wireless device scanner, at least one sensor, and a remote server. The sensor is configured to sense parameters indicative of an event. The system further includes a processor, and a memory having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the notification system to: detect an occurrence of the event based on the sensed parameters; receive, by the wireless device scanner, a wireless signal of a user device; determine a unique identifier of the user device based on the wireless signal, wherein the wireless signal includes a wireless signal noise level for the user device; and transmit the determined unique identifier to the remote server.
US11228877B2
The present invention provides an electronic net for security during transportation, whereas the net body of electronic net is knitted with a braided wire which has a conductive wire inside, or even it is formed by multiple subnets and the conductive wires between subnets are connected in series. Both metal ends of conductive wire of the net body are connected to electronic lock. If the conductive wire in the braided wire is disconnected due to the damage of net body, the electronic lock rapidly detect the error. Even though the disconnected conductive wire is reconnected again, the error record in the electronic lock cannot be eliminated. Therefore, once the goods finish the X-ray security check, it is covered with the electronic net and locked to the bottom plate with fixing belt, and then identify it with the strap before transportation. And the staff needs to check the electronic lock if there is any error signal and observe the identifiers of the straps if they are consistent with the record and damaged or not As above to complete the inspection of the security problems in transportation. The process is simple and reduces the security loopholes caused by negligence.
US11228875B2
An electronic notebook system is described that comprises a housing, a computing device, wireless interfaces, antennas, sensors, a touch display configured to receive input via a stylus and/or human digit input, the stylus comprising a pressure and/or an inclination sensor, a microphone, camera, the notebook system configured to provide a user condition interface, receive a user selection of a first user condition, provide an interface configured to receive user details, receive audible user details via the microphone, convert the audible user details received via the microphone to text, perform natural language processing to identify text keywords utilizing sentence segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, paraphrase recognition, and/or co-reference resolution, identify a condition based at least in part on the identified one or more keywords, dynamically generate an alert based at least in part on the identified condition, wirelessly transmit the generated alert to one or more destinations via at least a first wireless interface and antenna.
US11228874B2
A system for communicating a message in response to placement of a product proximate to a mobile electronic device. The system includes a product package comprising a token that includes a power source and a wireless transmitter, and a mobile electronic device. The mobile electronic device includes a processor, a computer-readable memory, a wireless receiver that is operable to detect a signal emitted by the wireless transmitter of the product package, and a transmitter. The processor is configured to detect the signal, analyze the signal and extract token information from the signal, retrieve user information for a user who is associated with the mobile electronic device, generate a message that corresponds to the extracted information, and cause the transmitter of the mobile electronic device to send the message via a wireless communication protocol.
US11228873B1
Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for improving establishment and streaming of audio communication among mobile computing devices and for handling dropping or adding of users during an audio conversation. For example, a method comprises: establishing, on a mobile application, an audio conversation among at least a first user and a second user; streaming the audio conversation to a third user who accesses the mobile application on a mobile device; transmitting to the mobile device for visual display, during the audio conversation, on the user interface of the mobile application on the mobile device, a visual representation of the first user and the second user; determining the second user drops out of the audio conversation; and adding a new user to the audio conversation.
US11228871B2
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a communications apparatus and associated methods configured for managing user identification queries. The communication apparatus is configured to receive a user identification query comprising a requesting user identifier and a target user identifier, compare the target user identifier to a user status cache associated with the requesting user identifier to determine a known status, an unknown status, or a pending status, and cause rendering of a known user identification interface or a limited user identification interface. In some embodiments, the communication apparatus is configured to transmit a client device hold instruction in response to determining the pending status for the target user identifier with respective to a given requesting user identifier. Various embodiments discussed herein mediate and resolve voluminous user identification queries through a specially configured group-based caching service and associated system architecture.
US11228868B2
Embodiments herein provide a method for managing Quality of Service (QoS) for multiple Evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (eMBMS) services in a wireless communication system. The method includes detecting, by a network node, more than one Multimedia Broadcast-Multicast Service (MBMS) services in a group of MBMS services have a similar popularity index. Further, the method includes identifying, by the network node, which eMBMS service has more number of users facing Quality of Experience (QoE) issues, in response to detecting that the more than MBMS service in the group of MBMS services have the similar popularity index. Further, the method includes localizing, by the network node, whether the QoE issue is from at least one of the core network, the access network, the single eNB or a complete Multimedia Broadcast Single Frequency network (MBSFN) area. Furthermore, the method includes dynamically modifying, by the network node, QoS parameters based on the identification of the QoS issue.
