US11327938B2
According to some embodiments, a system associated with predictive analytics may include a data filter dictionary that stores a plurality of electronic data records based on prior input data. A data filtering and noise reduction module may receive input data and access the data filter dictionary. The data filtering and noise reduction module may then utilize data from the data filter dictionary and a latent semantic indexing data filter and noise reduction algorithm to remove information from the input data and create a subset of the input data. A predictive analytic algorithm platform may receive the subset of input data and use a predictive analytic algorithm to output a prediction result. An intelligent loop-back mechanism may then receive the subset of the input data and dynamically update the data filter dictionary based on an impact associated with the output prediction result.
US11327931B2
A structured testing method for diagnostic or therapy support of a patient with a chronic disease and devices thereof are disclosed which implement a structured collection procedure based on a medical use case and/or question which provides at least one or more parameters defining entry criterion, a schedule of events, adherence criterion, and exit criterion. The entry criterion establish conditions needed to be met prior to obtaining biomarker data from the patient. Each event can include one or more of a performance time, patient guidance to perform the event, a request for information from the patient a request for patient action, and a request for collection of biomarker data from the patient. The adherence criterion can be used to assess whether an event performed is acceptable to addressing the medical use case and/or question, and the exit criterion establishes conditions needed to be met prior to exiting the collection procedure.
US11327926B2
A file management system may include a file server that performs calculations of a spreadsheet file instance to generate a dataset that includes values in the spreadsheet file instance. The file management system also may include an application operating at a client device that is in communication with the file server via a network. The application may receive, via the network, a version of the dataset comprising the values generated by the calculations performed by the server. The application may visualize a spreadsheet at the user interface. The visualized spreadsheet may display at least a subset of the values. In one case, protected contents of one or more cells in the spreadsheet may be converted to other values when displayed at the user interface.
US11327914B1
Methods, apparatus, and systems for clock and data recovery in a C-PHY interface are disclosed. A receiving device has a plurality of differential receivers and a recovery circuit. The differential receivers are configured to generate difference signals. Each difference signal is representative of voltage difference between one pair of wires in a three-wire serial bus. The recovery circuit is configured to identify a first difference signal that has the greatest voltage magnitude among the plurality of difference signals in a first unit interval and determine signaling state of the three-wire serial bus for the first unit interval based on identity of the pair of wires corresponding to the first difference signal and polarity of the first difference signal in the first unit interval, and to generate a first edge in a clock signal responsive to a transition in the first difference signal during the first unit interval.
US11327912B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for improving bus latency are described. A data communication method includes receiving a trigger actuation command from a bus master coupled to the serial bus, determining that a sequence is being executed in the slave device, and providing a trigger actuation signal corresponding to the trigger actuation command when execution of the sequence has been completed. A sequence initiation command may be received before the trigger actuation command, and the sequence may be initiated in response to the sequence initiation command. The trigger actuation command may be queued in a first queue, the sequence initiation command in may be queued in a second queue. Trigger actuation commands in the first queue may be associated with sequence initiation commands in the second queue. The sequence may be initiated in response to a sequence initiation command associated with the trigger actuation command corresponding to the trigger actuation signal.
US11327908B2
A memory management system for facilitating communication between an interconnect and a system memory of a system-on-chip includes a plurality of memory controllers coupled with the system memory, and processing circuitry coupled with the interconnect and the plurality of memory controllers. The processing circuitry is configured to receive a transaction request from the interconnect, and identify a memory controller of the plurality of memory controllers that is associated with the received transaction request. Further, the processing circuitry is configured to provide the transaction request to the identified memory controller for an execution of a transaction associated with the received transaction request. The processing circuitry is further configured to receive a transaction response to the provided transaction request from the memory controller, and provide the received transaction response to the interconnect after a previous transaction response associated with a previous transaction request is provided to the interconnect.
US11327902B2
The present disclosure includes a memory system, a memory controller, and an operation method thereof. The memory system may cache a subset of all map segments in a mapping table indicating mapping information between logical addresses and physical addresses in a map cache, may select map segments on which locking is to be set from the map segments cached in the map cache so as not to be evicted from the map cache based on information on all commands received from a host during a set period of time, and may set lock flags for the map segments on which locking is to be set. Accordingly, the memory system may reduce the overhead occurring in reloading previously evicted map segments in the process of updating a mapping table, and may optimize update performance for a mapping table within a limit that guarantees caching performance to a predetermined level or higher.
US11327896B2
A method and apparatus for storing and accessing sparse data is disclosed. A sparse array circuit may receive information indicative of a request to perform a read operation on a memory circuit that includes multiple banks. The sparse array circuit may compare an address included in the received information to multiple entries that correspond to address locations in the memory circuit that store sparse data. In response to a determination that that the address matches a particular entry, the sparse array may generate one or more control signals that may disable the read operation, and cause a data control circuit to transmits the sparse data pattern.
US11327885B2
There are provided a controller and a memory system having the controller. The controller includes: a first storage area configured to store mapping information between logical addresses of logical regions of a storage device coupled to the controller and physical addresses of memory blocks of the storage device, the logical regions being divided into logical units including a first logical unit; and a second storage area configured to store allocation information on logical addresses of logical regions allocated to the first logical unit, each of the logical regions allocated to the first logical unit having a corresponding index, wherein the second storage area is further configured to store a location table for the first logical unit that includes index information having a smallest index corresponding to a logical region allocated to the first logical unit without having other indices corresponding to remaining logical regions allocated to the first logical unit and number information on a total number of the logical regions allocated to the first logical unit.
US11327883B2
The example embodiments disclose a system and method, a computer program product, and a computer system for improving solid-state drive performance. The example embodiments may include generating, by an affinity adapter located external to the solid-state drive, a plurality of affinities for each of a plurality of data to a respective plurality of subdivisions of data of a solid-state drive, wherein each of the plurality of data is associated with a logical block address (LBA) and each of the respective plurality of subdivisions has a physical block address (PBA). The example embodiments may also include receiving a request to write first data having a first LBA to the solid-state drive, determining by the solid-state drive, at a first time, that the first data has an affinity with a particular subdivision of data of a solid-state drive based on the generated plurality of affinities, and writing the first data to a memory location of the solid-state drive, wherein the PBA of the memory location has the determined affinity.
US11327882B2
A method comprising: performing a first read from an address in a data storage module by using a first read voltage; storing, in a first register, data that is retrieved from the data storage module as a result of the first read; performing a second read from the address by using a second read voltage; storing, in a second register, data that is retrieved from the data storage module as a result of the second read; detecting whether a weak bit condition is present at the address based on the data that is stored in the first register and the data that is stored in the second register; and correcting the weak bit condition, when the weak bit condition is present at the address.
US11327876B2
In some examples, a server receives configuration data from a device. The server receives a software or firmware update from a vendor and determines, based on the configuration data, that the update is installable on the device. The server creates and configures a container, based on the configuration data, to create a replica of the device. The server installs the update in the replica and performs multiple tests that generate logs. If the logs indicate that the update caused no issues, the server sends the update to the device. If the logs indicate that the update caused an issue, the server sends the update to the vendor. In response, the server receives, from the vendor, a modified update that addresses the issue, installs the modified update in the replica, performs the tests, determines that the modified update causes no issues, and sends the modified update to the device.
US11327874B1
As described herein, a system, method, and computer program are provided for orchestrating automatic software testing. In use, an interface to a plurality of different testing tools is provided, where each testing tool of the plurality of different testing tools usable for performing one or more testing-related tasks. Additionally, information describing a software project is identified. Further, use of the plurality of different testing tools is orchestrated to provide automated testing for the software project.
US11327866B2
A memory test method for being implemented by storing corresponding test result data and test parameter data into memory chips when a burn-in test, a high temperature test, a low temperature test, and a normal temperature test are performed on the memory chips. A memory test method for being implemented by storing the corresponding test result data and the test parameter data into the memory chips after the memory chips finish the burn-in test, the high temperature test, the low temperature test, and the normal temperature test. The memory chips can internally store the test result data and the test parameter data after finishing tests through the memory test method of the present disclosure so that relevant personnel can read data to easily trace back test history of the memory chips.
US11327865B2
A method for controlling temperature of a memory system which includes a memory device suitable for storing memory map data including a logical address of an external device and a physical address of a memory device, corresponding to the logical address; and a controller suitable for downloading at least a part of the memory map data and storing and managing the downloaded data as controller map data, and uploading at least a part of the controller map data to the external device, the method comprising: measuring temperature of the memory device; and performing a map downloading for the memory map data from the memory device in response to the measured temperature.
US11327864B2
Certain embodiments provide methods and systems for managing a sound profile. An example playback device includes a network interface and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored therein instructions executable by the processor. When executed by the processor, the instructions are to configure the playback device to receive, via the network interface over a local area network (LAN) from a controller device, an instruction. The example playback device is to obtain, based on the instruction, via the network interface from a location outside of the LAN, data comprising a sound profile. The example playback device is to update one or more parameters at the playback device based on the sound profile. The example playback device is to play back an audio signal according to the sound profile.
US11327862B2
Disclosed herein are vector index registers for storing or loading indexes of true and/or false results of conditional operations using multiple lane processing in vector processors. Each of the vector index registers store multiple addresses for accessing multiple positions in operand vectors in various types of operations that can leverage multi-lane processing.
US11327860B2
A memory device and methods for programming and reading a memory device are provided. The memory device includes a memory array and a memory controller. The memory array includes a plurality of one-time programmable (OTP) cells, in which the OTP cells comprises a plurality of data cells for storing data, a plurality of supplementary cells in parallel to the data cells, and one or more redundant cells for each of a plurality of sets of the data cells. The memory controller is configured to program the data cells. The memory controller verifies and records a state of each data cell in a set of the data cells in the corresponding supplementary cell after the programming, and stores the data to be programmed to the data cell using the one or more redundant cells reserved for the set of the data cells when the data cell is verified as failed.
US11327854B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for receiving, at a central server from a first remote data transmission device, first product data for a product at a first location and second product data for the product from a second remote data transmission device at a second location. The respective data is processed sequentially, then determined to contain identical data, such that the system selects a data transmission device as the leader. Then, at a second time, the system receives receiving additional product data from only the selected data transmission device and not from the ignored transmission device, then processes the additional product data as though it had been received from both the first remote data transmission device and the second remote data transmission device.
US11327852B1
A live migration/high availability system includes a first computing system having a first SCP subsystem coupled to first computing system components and a first hypervisor subsystem that provides a first virtual machine. Each time the first SCP subsystem receives snapshot commands from the hypervisor subsystem, it retrieves respective SCP component state information that was not retrieved in response to a previous snapshot command from each first SCP component included in the first SCP subsystem, and uses the respective SCP component state information to generate a respective SCP subsystem snapshot based on that snapshot command. The first SCP subsystem then transmits the SCP subsystem snapshots to a second SCP subsystem in a second computing system, and the second SCP subsystem uses the SCP subsystem snapshots to allow a second hypervisor subsystem on the second computing system to provide a second virtual machine that operates the same as the first virtual machine.
US11327842B2
A transport vehicle, a server, and a method for backing up a software update of a control device of the transport vehicle are provided. The method includes the steps: transmitting a first data set representing a current software version of the control device by the transport vehicle to a server, storing the first data set in the server; determining that a software update of the control device must occur; generating a second data set representing a target software version of the control device as a function of the first data set by the server; and transmitting the first data set and the second data set and a software package for updating the control device according to the second data set from the server to the transport vehicle.
US11327841B2
The disclosure herein describes placing a delta component of a base component in a target fault domain. A delta component associated with a base component is generated. The generation includes selecting a first fault domain as a target fault domain for the delta component based on the first fault domain including a witness component associated with the distributed data object of the base component. Otherwise, the generation includes selecting a second fault domain as the target fault domain based on the second fault domain including at least one data component that includes a different address space than the base component. Otherwise, the generation includes selecting a third fault domain as the target fault domain based on the third fault domain being unused. Then, the delta component is placed on the target fault domain, whereby data durability of the distributed data object is enhanced, and available fault domains are preserved.
US11327840B1
A computing device for use in a distributed storage network (DSN) to recover corrupt encoded data slices. The computing device requests, from storage units of the DSN, encoded data slices corresponding to a data segment. In response, the computing device receives at least a decode threshold number of encoded data slices and at least one integrity error message that provides an indication of a corrupt encoded data slice, such that less than a decode threshold number of valid slices is received. Utilizing at least one correction approach involving stored integrity data, the computing device corrects the corrupt slice(s) to produce a decode threshold number of encoded data slices in order to decode the corresponding data segment. A variety of correction approaches may be employed, including a multi-stage approach that utilizes data from both valid and invalid slices.
US11327835B2
In an embodiment, a storage device includes a multiplicity of data value memory cells and a multiplicity of check value memory cells, where at least one of the multiplicity of data value memory cells is assigned to two of the check value memory cells, and where at least one of the multiplicity of check value memory cells is assigned to two of the data value memory cells, and a correction circuit which is configured to output a corrected data value when reading out a selected data value memory cell of the at least one of the multiplicity of data value memory cells, based on a content of the selected data value memory cell and based on contents of the two check value memory cells assigned to the selected data value memory cell.
US11327828B2
A system for remediating computing-related events by taking into account the past performance of remediation processes and the current run-time environment in which the remedy will be deployed. Robotic Process Automation is implemented to identify computing-related events requiring automation and to record actions that are taken to remediate the events. Robotic scripts (bots) are created based on the recorded actions and are implemented in a learning-mode, in which run-time conditions and level of performance are recorded, such that, run-time conditions and performance are determinative of which bot or combination of bots are implemented for subsequent occurrence of computing-related events. Additionally, remedial process associated with the bot(s) may be executed in a simulated environment prior to the production run-time computing environment to validate the bot and insure the likelihood of effective performance of the remedial process in the run-time production environment.
US11327813B2
Implicit sync group selection is performed by having dual interfaces to a gateway. A subsystem coupled to the gateway selects a sync group to be used for an upcoming exchange by selecting the interface to which a sync request is written to. The gateway propagates the sync requests and/or acknowledgments in dependence upon configuration settings for the sync group that is associated with the interface to which the sync request was written to.
US11327812B1
At least one processing device is configured to obtain timestamps for respective dequeue events involving respective ones of a plurality of threads of one or more applications executing on a first one of a plurality of processing cores of a storage system, to determine a waiting time measure for at least a subset of the plurality of threads in one or more thread queues of the first processing core, and to control performance of a per-core queue rebalancing process for the first processing core based at least in part on one or more of the dequeue event timestamps and the waiting time measure. In conjunction with performance of the per-core queue rebalancing process, at least one thread is moved from at least one of the thread queues of the first processing core to a thread queue of a different one of the processing cores of the storage system.
US11327802B2
Systems and methods for exporting logical object metadata. In one example, the system includes an electronic processor configured to receive a first input from a user. The first input includes a logical object location and at least one metadata export option. The electronic processor is also configured to create an export job based upon the first input. The electronic processor is also configured to store the export job in a job queue, determine when a computing resource is available to execute the export job, and execute the export job when the computing resource is available. The electronic processor is also configured to store a job manifest in a memory location. In one example, the job manifest includes metadata for each logical object located in the logical object location.
US11327800B2
To control a technical process comprising a control task for independently controllable modules, modules are each assigned to a computing core on a controller with a plurality of computing cores. The technical process is connected to the controller via at least one communication connection. In a first time segment, the controller provides read-in input data of the modules for the respectively associated computing core. Subsequently, synchronization of the computing cores to which modules are assigned is carried out by the controller. In a second time segment, the computing cores process the input data of the modules to generate output data for the modules, wherein each computing core signals the end of processing. As soon as all computing cores have signaled the end of processing, the output data are provided in a third time segment by the controller in order to be provided to the modules on the communication connection.
US11327797B2
Embodiments provide techniques for estimating seasonal indices for multiple periods. Some embodiments can receive a signal comprising a plurality of measures sampled over a span of time from an environment in which one or more processes are being executed. Some embodiments may then extract a seasonal effector and a de-seasonalized component from the signal. Next, some embodiments can apply one or more spline functions to the seasonal effector to generate a first model. Some embodiments may then apply a linear regression technique to the de-seasonalized component to generate a second model. Some embodiments may then initiate actions associated with the code. Some embodiments may then generate a forecast of the signal based on the first model and the second model. Next, some embodiments may initiate, based at least in part on the forecast, one or more actions associated with the environment.
US11327790B1
The independent claims of this patent signify a concise description of embodiments. A method is provided for parallel simulation using synchronization during simulation. The method comprises executing a plurality of threads in parallel, identifying a first event block and a second event block of a circuit design, calculating a minimum delay (minDelay) based on a current simulation time, scheduled times for execution of the first event block and the second event block, and causal delays (CausalDelay) of the first event block and the second event block, and scheduling a next synchronization point based on the minimum delay, the next synchronization point being a next simulation time at which the plurality of threads synchronize to a common clock. This Abstract is not intended to limit the scope of the claims.
US11327785B2
A computing system includes an application configured to request execution of at least one translation including at least one command. A first coupling facility is configured to perform a first modification process to modify a first structure based on a received command associated with an ongoing transaction. A second coupling facility includes a secondary circular queue loaded with first data blocks indicating the first modification process, and is configured to output a message response block (MRB). The application determines a most recent modification process performed by the secondary coupling facility based on the MRB.
US11327784B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel architecture for capturing contextual attributes on host computers that execute one or more machines, and for consuming the captured contextual attributes to perform services on the host computers. The machines are virtual machines (VMs) in some embodiments, containers in other embodiments, or a mix of VMs and containers in still other embodiments. Some embodiments execute a guest-introspection (GI) agent on each machine from which contextual attributes need to be captured. In addition to executing one or more machines on each host computer, these embodiments also execute a context engine and one or more attribute-based service engines on each host computer. Through the GI agents of the machines on a host, the context engine of that host in some embodiments collects contextual attributes associated with network events and/or process events on the machines. The context engine then provides the contextual attributes to the service engines, which, in turn, use these contextual attributes to identify service rules for processing.
US11327780B2
Network-efficient isolation environment redistribution is described. In one example, network communications are surveyed among isolation environments, such as virtual machines (VMs) and containers, hosted on a cluster. An affinity for network communications between the isolation environments can be identified based on the survey. Pairs or groups of the isolation environments can be examined to identify ones which have an affinity for network communications between them but are also hosted on different host machines in the cluster. The identification of the affinity for network communications provides network-level context for migration decisions by a distributed resource scheduler. Certain VMs and containers can then be migrated by the distributed resource scheduler to reduce the network communications in the cluster based on the network-level context information. In some cases, migration decisions can be conducted with reference to both network-level context information and other application-affinity policies.
US11327776B2
Methods and systems for the collecting and monitoring of information related to the performance of application programming interfaces (APIs) are provided. A method includes obtaining one or more various measurements of performance of the APIs, and assessing a performance status for each API based on the obtained one or more various measurements of performance. The method further includes displaying, the performance status for each API and the APIs, and searching for a particular API of the displayed APIs using a search technique configured to compare a keyword indicative of the particular API to all fields of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) objects that have been used to define the APIs. The method further includes displaying the particular API including the performance status for the particular API, the one or more various measurements of performance for the particular API, and methods of the particular API, as a result of the searching.
US11327775B2
The present invention describes a web application having a module formed by a recorder sub-module responsible for recording and a player sub-module responsible for playback. When the recording is initialized, a process is started to capture the media, listen and record certain application events thrown as a result of the user's navigation, to record the application state just before such events occur, to record a time/date for each of such events, so that the actions taken in the application along with audio and video capture can be played back later in synchrony. During playback, even if the user assisting to the playback pauses, rewinds, forwards or interacts with the elements of the application at any moment during the execution of the playback or while in pause, the playback will reproduce the state of the application and the actions taken by the user during the recording.
US11327772B2
A method for method of setting up a processing system includes determining availability of user-provided platform information indicative of a first memory platform out of a plurality of memory platforms. In response to determining that the user-provided platform information is available at the first memory platform, a boot loader code is read from the first memory platform. In response to determining that the user-provided platform information is not available, test availability of the boot loader code in another memory platform of the plurality of memory platforms, and read the boot loader code from the another memory platform upon testing the availability of the boot loader code in the another memory platform.
US11327748B2
A software cooperation possibility determination apparatus stores pieces of software configuration information which are pieces of information regarding configurations of determination target software which is software for which cooperation possibility with cooperation destination software which is software of a cooperation destination is to be determined and verified software which is software verified that the software is able to cooperate with the cooperation destination software, acquires information regarding data output from the determination target software and information regarding data output from the verified software and input to the cooperation destination software from the pieces of software configuration information, and determines consistency or similarity between the information regarding the data output from the determination target software and the information regarding the data output from the verified software, and determines the cooperation possibility of the determination target software with the cooperation destination software based on a result of the determination.
US11327747B2
A method, a computer program product, and a computer system modify a version of an application. The method includes determining a sentiment being experienced by a second user while using a second version of the application installed on a second device associated with the second user based on sensory information indicative of the sentiment. The method includes generating sentiment associated information associating the sentiment of the second user with the second version of the application, the sentiment associated information configured to be exchanged with the first device over an offline, ad hoc connection. The method includes transmitting the sentiment associated information to the second device. The sentiment associated information is indicative of whether the first version of the application is to be modified on the first device to the second version of the application.
US11327744B2
Disclosed herein is technology to compare different versions of a code object to determine if the versions include equivalent changes. An example method may include: determining a set of changes of a first version of a code object, wherein the code object comprises a plurality of versions; generating a first hash in view of the set of changes; accessing a second hash representing a set of changes of a second version of the code object; comparing, by a processing device, the first hash and the second hash; and indicating the set of changes of the first version and the set of changes of the second version are equivalent.
US11327738B2
An image of a virtualization software and firmware in a plurality of hosts are upgraded by performing the steps of: in response to a user input, generating a software specification that specifies a desired state of the virtualization software and a desired state of the firmware; based on the software specification, preparing a desired image of the virtualization software that includes software components of a desired version of the firmware; and from a virtual machine management server that is programmed to deploy virtual machines in the hosts, coordinating an upgrade to the desired image of the virtualization software and the desired version of the firmware in the hosts by (1) instructing a hardware support manager to upgrade the hosts to the desired version of the firmware, and (2) instructing each of the hosts to upgrade to the desired image of the virtualization software.
US11327723B1
The technology disclosed herein enables performing code review during an active build. An example method may comprise causing, by a processor of an integrated development environment, execution of a software build job by a build tool, wherein the software build job comprises source code. The example method may further comprise tracking, using the integrated development environment, the execution of the software build job by receiving progress data associated with the execution. The example method may further comprise displaying, via a graphical user interface (GUI) of the integrated development environment, a plurality of lines of the source code. The example method may further comprise, responsive to detecting a failure during the execution, displaying, on the GUI, an information identifying the failure and a suggested corrective action.
US11327721B1
A system for extending functionality of a computer programming language includes a programming interface, a module creator, an object creator, and a node compiler, all executing on a computer. The programming interface provides a code editor. The module creator defines a module based on user input received via the code editor. The module exports a function with a plurality of sub-functions, including a first sub-function and a second sub-function. The object creator defines a plurality of versions of an object based on user input received via the code editor, including a first version having a call for the function to take as an argument a first node including a first parameter linked to the first sub-function and a second node including a second parameter linked to the second sub-function. The node compiler detects a dependency between the first node and the second node.
US11327717B2
A computation unit computes a function f(I). The function f(I) has a target output range over a first domain of an input I encoded using a first format. A first circuit receives the encoded input I in the first format including X bits, to add an offset C to the encoded input I to generate an offset input SI=I+C, in a second format including fewer than X bits. The offset C is equal to a difference between the first domain in f(I) and a higher precision domain of the second format for the offset input SI. A second circuit is operatively coupled to receive the offset input SI in the second format, to output a value equal to a function f(SI) to provide an encoded output value f(I).
US11327716B2
An arithmetic circuit includes an arithmetic driving circuit and a detection circuit. The arithmetic driving circuit is configured to generate an arithmetic result value based on first and second arithmetic target values. The detection circuit is configured to detect whether an upper borrow digit value occurs, by receiving the arithmetic result value as feedback.
US11327706B2
A method and system provide the ability to asynchronously collaborate on a model of an infrastructure project. The model is acquired and view settings for the model are captured. The view settings include a feature highlight that provides display attributes/settings for objects and/or features of the model, a camera position providing second settings relating to a camera view of the model, and a data view providing third settings regarding a view of the model data. The view settings are associated with a link. The link is transmitted/provided from a sender to a recipient. The link enables rehydration of a live model based on the captured view settings thereby presenting a state and view settings of the model specified by the sender.
US11327701B2
A workflow method for creating a printed sheet from a graphics file and an associated job description. The graphics file and an associated job definition are received in a digital front end (DFE), and a raster imaging processor (RIP) in the DFE converts the graphics file from a native format to RIPped data and stores the RIPped data in digital storage. A print controller retrieves the RIPped data from the digital storage and streams the RIPped data as an output. A communication interface, connected to a screening engine processor, receives the streamed RIPped data and the job definition from the DFE and converts the streamed RIPped data to converted RIPped data having a format readable by the screening engine processor, and to pass information from the screening engine processor to the DFE.
US11327700B1
Various systems and methods maintain a print job of a user in a print queue and identify the user approaching a printing device using a user identification device operatively connected to the printing device. Such systems/methods alter the position of the print job within the print queue (e.g., to a higher priority position) or even begin printing the print job when the user identification device identifies the user approaching the printing device (i.e., before the user reaches the printing device). Systems and methods can also identify the urgency of the user using the user identification device. The amount that the print queue is altered can be based on the amount that the urgency of the user is elevated.
US11327693B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions configured to, when executed by a processor of an information processing device, cause the information processing device to acquire identification information for identifying an OS of the information processing device, using the acquired identification information, determine whether the OS is capable of accepting a driver program for controlling a device, when determining that the OS is capable of accepting the driver program, install the driver program into the OS, and when determining that the OS is incapable of accepting the driver program, download into the information processing device a driverless installer for achieving driverless control of the device without using the driver program.
US11327683B2
A RAID storage-device-assisted RMW system includes a RAID primary data drive that retrieves second primary data via a DMA operation from a host system, and XOR's it with its first primary data to produce first interim parity data that it writes via a DMA operation to a RAID parity data drive. The RAID parity data drive XOR's its first parity data and the first interim parity data to produce second parity data that overwrites the first parity data. The RAID parity data drive also performs GF operations on the first interim parity data and its second interim parity data and XOR's the results to produce interim Q data that it writes via a DMA operation to a RAID Q data drive. The RAID Q data drive XOR's its first Q data and the interim Q data to produce second Q data that overwrites the first Q data.
US11327675B2
Examples of a data migration system are provided. The system may receive a data migration requirement. The system may sort the data stored in the on-premise data warehouse into a plurality of data domains. The system may map the plurality of data domains to a usage parameter index and a storage parameter index to determine a data usage pattern and a data storage pattern. The system may evaluate the data storage pattern and the data usage pattern to determine a data assessment index. The system may determine a data migration index from mapping a plurality of cloud platforms to the data assessment index. The system may determine a data migration model compatible with the data assessment index. The system may generate a data migration output comprising the layout for transferring data stored in the on-premise data warehouse to a compatible cloud platform to resolve the data migration requirement.
US11327674B2
Methods for use in a dispersed storage network (DS) to determine appropriate resources for storing data. An example method, implemented by one or more devices of a dispersed storage network (DSN), includes obtaining storage characteristics relating to data stored in a first pool of storage units associated with a first storage tier, the data stored as a set of encoded data slices. Based on the storage characteristics, the method determines to move the data to a target storage pool of storage units associated with a second storage tier. The method also determines whether to re-encode the data for storage in the target storage pool of storage units. When not re-encoding the data, the method includes retrieving the set of encoded data slices, translating associated slice names into translated slice names, and facilitating storage of the encoded data slices in the target storage pool utilizing the translated slice names.
US11327658B2
According to one aspect, a system for managing information objects in dynamic data storage devices including a first data storage device having a plurality of information objects, a second data storage device operatively connectable to an output device for providing at least some of the information objects to at least one user, and at least one processor operatively coupled to the first data storage device and the second data storage device. The at least one processor is configured to automatically divide the plurality of information objects in the first data storage device to form at least one data subdivision based on division criteria, and repeatedly, in response to a dynamic operating condition determine a relevance value of at least one of the data subdivisions in the first data storage device and the second data storage device indicative of the relevance of those data subdivision to the user, and based on the relevance value, perform at least one of loading those data subdivision to the second data storage, or unloading those data subdivision from the second data storage.
US11327656B2
A method for accessing a dynamic memory module, the method may include (i) receiving, by a memory controller, a set of access requests for accessing the dynamic memory module; (ii) converting the access requests to a set of commands, wherein the set of commands comprise (a) a first sub-set of commands that are related to a first group of memory banks, and (b) a second sub-set of commands that are related to a second group of memory banks; (iii) scheduling, by a scheduler of the memory controller, an execution of the first sub-set; (iv) scheduling an execution of the second sub-set to be interleaved with the execution of the first sub-set; and (v) executing the set of commands according to the schedule.
US11327644B2
Systems and methods are provided for syndicating slideshow content in a web feed. Data is obtained for a content feed associated with a web page in response to a request by a user of a content feed reader. A slideshow within the web page is identified based on analysis of the obtained data according to a schema definition for syndication of slideshow content. A first set of properties for the slideshow is extracted from the obtained data, based on the schema definition. A set of slides of the slideshow is identified based on the first set of properties. A second set of properties for the set of slides is also extracted from the obtained data. The content feed including the set of slides of the slideshow and one or more properties of the second set are displayed to the user via the content feed reader.
US11327643B2
A device identifies one or more user interface elements, in a user interface, associated with a fixed positioning characteristic and not positioned within another user interface element with the fixed positioning characteristic. The device repositions the one or more user interface elements in the user interface to vacate space for a new user interface element based on a size of the new user interface element and forgo repositioning one or more other user interface elements in the user interface that do not have the fixed positioning characteristic or are positioned within another user interface element with the fixed positioning characteristic. The device inserts the new user interface element into the user interface in a portion of the user interface vacated in connection with repositioning the one or more user interface elements, and provides the user interface for display based on inserting the new user interface element into the user interface.
US11327640B2
Systems, methods, and devices can allow applications to provide complication data to be displayed in display of an electronic device. A client application can create a data object according to a template to efficiently select how the data object is to be displayed. For example, a complication controller on the electronic device can receive new data and determine which template to use. The data object can be sent to a display manager that can identify the selected template and display the data according to the template.
US11327633B2
A first graphical depiction transitions into a second graphical depiction. Initially, a hierarchy of entities is presented as graphical elements that are distributed across concentric circular areas such that at least two of the graphical elements that correspond to sibling entities at a higher level of the hierarchy are presented in an inner circular area and such that at least one additional graphical element that corresponds to a lower level of the hierarchy is presented in an outer circular area. Responsive to an indication, the graphical elements of the inner circular area are rotated such that a selected one of the sibling entities at a higher level of the hierarchy is repositioned within the inner circular area and such that any unselected sibling entities of the higher level remain visible and selectable after being rotated.
US11327627B2
A system for managing incidents includes an electronic display, an electronic processor coupled to the electronic display, and memory coupled to the electronic processor and storing instructions. The instructions, when executed by the electronic processor, cause the system to display an incident card on the electronic display, display first incident information on a front side of the incident card, receive a first user input indicating to flip to a back side of the incident card, determine user focus information, generate second incident information based on the user focus information, and display a back side of the card responsive to receiving the first user input. The back side includes the second incident information.
US11327623B2
The detection of multiple manual interactions upon a touch-pad is shown. Drive lines intersect a scan lines and each intersection between a drive line and a scan line includes an element of variable resistance. A scanning processor energises the drive lines and monitors the scan lines. The scanning processor is configured to identify positions of manual interaction, validate identified positions to identify potentially erroneous positions and remove positions identified as erroneous. However, removed positions are re-introduced when they are not in the vicinity of other identified positions.
US11327622B2
A flexible display and manufacturing method for the same are disclosed. The flexible display includes a flexible display panel, a conductive layer, an insulation layer, and a touch electrode layer. Wherein the flexible display panel includes multiple sub-pixels, the touch electrode layer includes multiple touch sensing electrodes and multiple touch driving electrodes, the touch sensing electrodes and the touch driving electrodes are intersected and insulated. Wherein the multiple sub-pixels are directly opposite to the multiple stress buffering holes respectively, the conductive layer includes multiple conductive bodies disposed separately with the stress buffering holes, the conductive body is directly opposite to an interval region of the sub-pixels, when the touch driving electrodes are electrically connected, each two touch sensing electrodes are electrically connected through the conductive body, when the touch sensing electrodes are electrically connected, each two touch driving electrodes are electrically connected through the conductive body.
US11327620B1
A touch sensing layer includes a first-axis conductive unit, a second-axis conductive unit, and at least one dummy electrode. The first-axis conductive unit substantially extends along a first axial direction. The second-axis conductive unit substantially extends along a second axial direction and includes two conductive electrodes and a conductive bridge. The two conductive electrodes are respectively located at opposite sides of the first-axis conductive unit. The conductive bridge crosses the first-axis conductive unit and is connected to the two conductive electrodes. The dummy electrode includes at least one part located in a gap formed between the first-axis conductive unit and one of the two conductive electrodes.
US11327588B2
Certain exemplary embodiments relate to entertainment systems and, more particularly, to systems that incorporate digital downloading jukebox features and improved user interfaces. For instance, a smart search may be provided, e.g., where search results vary based on the popularity of songs within the venue, in dependence on songs being promoted, etc. As another example, a tile-based approach to organizing groupings of songs is provided. Groupings may involve self-populating collections of songs that combine centrally-promoted songs, songs in a given genre that are popular across an audiovisual distribution network, and songs that are locally popular and match up with the given genre (e.g., because of shared attributes such as same or similar genre, artist, etc.). Different tile visual presentations also are contemplated, as are different physical jukebox designs. In certain example embodiments, a sealed core unit with the “brains” of the jukebox is insertable into a docking station.
US11327587B2
In various embodiments, bilayers are formed in electronic devices at least in part by anodization of metal-alloy base layers.
US11327582B2
An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a stylus pen including: a body portion; a conductive tip configured to be exposed from an inside of the body portion to an outside thereof; a ground portion configured to be electrically connected to a user; and a resonant circuit portion in the body portion, electrically connected between the conductive tip and the ground portion, and including one or more resonance circuits that resonate with electrical signals of different frequencies transferred from the conductive tip to output resonance signals of different frequencies.
US11327578B2
A control circuit for an input device including a micro-switch is provided. The control circuit includes an input circuit, a receiver circuit, a control unit, and a detecting unit. The input circuit includes a first contact and a second contact for electrically connecting to the micro-switch. The receiver circuit includes a third contact and a fourth contact for electrically connecting to the micro-switch. The control unit is electrically connected to the first contact and the third contact for providing an input signal via the first contact to the micro-switch and receiving a switching signal from the micro-switch via the third contact. The detecting unit detects a voltage of the second contact to generate a detecting signal. The control unit receives the detecting signal to determine a type of the micro-switch.
US11327577B2
A system and method for transmitting an input value to a computing device are included herein. The method includes detecting sensor data in a stylus. The method also includes detecting a gesture event with the stylus. In addition, the method includes generating an input value based on the sensor data and the gesture event. Furthermore, the method includes sending the input value from the stylus to a computing device.
US11327575B2
A system for positioning and controlling sound images in three-dimensional space, comprising: a three-dimensional motion sensing input device; and a computer system incorporating a digital audio workstation application including a gesture library and one or more built-in features, the computer system being connected to the three-dimensional motion sensing input device by a communication link, wherein gestures that are pre-defined in the gesture library are captured by the three-dimensional motion sensing input device and are provided to the computer system via the communication link and used by the digital audio workstation application to position a sound image in three-dimensional space or to control one or more built-in features of the digital audio workstation application.
US11327570B1
In order to provide filtering of content to be presented on a mobile device, a gesture-based preferencing system and method may be employed. When content is presented to a user, the user may indicate a positive or negative preference toward that content by making a gesture. The gesture may be detected by a motion sensor and the preference of the content indicated by the gesture may be stored in a preference datastore. The preference may be used to subsequently filter content that is to be presented to the user.
US11327568B2
An information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes an information acquisition unit and a signal output unit. The information acquisition unit acquires electronic information. The signal output unit outputs a first haptic signal for presenting haptic feedback with respect to an object, the haptic feedback with respect to the object being set corresponding to the acquired electronic information.
US11327564B2
An eye-tracking apparatus includes a first lens group, a light splitting device, a display, an image sensor, a second lens group, and a plurality of light sources. The light splitting device receives a first beam, generates a second beam, and transmits the second beam to a second surface of the first lens group. The display projects a reference mark to a target area through the light splitting device and the first lens group. The image sensor captures a detection image on the target area through the first lens group, the light splitting device, and the second lens group. The second lens group is disposed between the light splitting device and the image sensor. The light sources are disposed around the image sensor and project a plurality of beams to the target area through the first lens group, the light splitting device, and the second lens group.
US11327544B2
A memory system may include: a memory device suitable for storing data; a controller suitable for controlling the memory device; a power manager suitable for receiving external power, and supplying operation power to the memory device and the controller; and a plurality of auxiliary power circuits suitable for receiving the operation power from the power manager, storing the received power, and supplying auxiliary power to the power manager when the external power is removed. The power manager may group and manage selected auxiliary power circuits among the plurality of auxiliary power circuits as a test group, and perform a full discharge test on the selected auxiliary power circuits.
US11327543B2
A power converter device health check system includes a circuit that connects a power input to a power output, and that includes a first transistor directly coupled to ground and a capacitor in parallel with the first transistor. A controller device is coupled to the circuit and, during boot operations, prevents first power from being provided to the first transistor via the power input, and turns off the first transistor. While preventing the first power from being provided to the first transistor and with the first transistor turned off, the controller device provides second power to a circuit location in the circuit between the first transistor and the capacitor, and then determines whether a charge of the capacitor is below a threshold charge level. If the capacitor is below the threshold charge level, the controller device transmits a power converter warning message.
US11327540B2
Materials, components, assemblies, and methods consistent with the disclosure are directed to the fabrication and use of sheets of material to provide channels for cooling through the flow of gas. An assembly for cooling can include a stack of alternating first and second blades, where each blade exhibits at least a first edge, a beveled edge, and a bend, the bend defining at least a first region and a second region, where the first region is substantially flat and bordered by the edge, the beveled edge, and the bend. An assembly can also include a sheet with folds to provide channels.
US11327526B2
Methods and devices for selectively presenting a user interface in a dual screen device. More particularly, the method includes providing a gallery for the dual screen device. The gallery can present one or more images in a user interface. The gallery user interface can adapt to changes in the device configuration. Further, the gallery can display images or videos in the various configurations.
US11327524B2
A memory controller having a data receiver to sample data at a sample timing using a strobe signal, wherein the data and the strobe signal are sent by a memory device in connection with a read operation initiated by the memory controller, and a strobe receiver to receive the strobe signal, wherein a phase of the strobe signal has a drift relative to a reference by an amount. The memory controller further having a monitoring circuit to monitor the strobe signal and determine the amount of the drift, and an adjustment circuit to update the sample timing of the data receiver based on the amount of drift determined by the monitoring signal.
US11327514B2
An embodiment device includes a first MOS transistor and a first resistor in series between first node and second nodes, the first resistor being connected to the second node; a second MOS transistor and a second resistor in series between the first and second nodes, the second resistor being connected to the second node and the gates of the first and second transistors being coupled to each other; an operational amplifier including a first terminal connected to a node of connection of the first resistor to the first transistor, a second terminal, and an output terminal coupled to the gate of the first transistor; and a circuit configured to supply a set point voltage to the second terminal of the amplifier.
US11327509B2
Disclosed is a flow rate controller in which a clear width (6) of a control gap (4) between a main part (3) and a control element (2), which is deformable according to the pressure in order for the flow rate through the control gap (4) to be kept constant, can be adjusted as a result of the fact that at least one supporting element that adjusts the clear width (6) of the control gap (4) is designed to be movable relative to a main part (3).
US11327506B2
A system and method for monitoring a road segment includes determining a geographic position of a vehicle in context of a digitized roadway map. A perceived point cloud and a mapped point cloud associated with the road segment are determined. An error vector is determined based upon a transformation between the mapped point cloud and the perceived point cloud. A first confidence interval is derived from a Gaussian process that is composed from past observations. A second confidence interval associated with a longitudinal dimension and a third confidence interval associated with a lateral dimension are determined based upon the mapped point cloud and the perceived point cloud. A Kalman filter analysis is executed to dynamically determine a position of the vehicle relative to the roadway map based upon the error vector, the first confidence interval, the second confidence interval, and the third confidence interval.
US11327505B2
A control apparatus of a work vehicle includes a course data acquisition unit acquiring course data indicating a traveling condition of a work vehicle that includes a travel route, a travel range data acquisition unit acquiring travel range data indicating a travel range of the work vehicle that is defined with a preset travel width based on the travel route, a detection data acquisition unit acquiring detection data of a detection device that has detected a travel direction of the work vehicle, a prediction unit predicting, based on the detection data, a prescribed position distant from a current position of the work vehicle traveling according to the course data, a determination unit determining whether the prescribed position exists within the travel range, and a drive control unit stopping traveling of the work vehicle when it is determined that the prescribed position does not exist within the travel range.
US11327503B2
A mobile robot is configured for operation in a commercial or industrial setting, such as an office building or retail store. The robot can patrol one or more routes within a building, and can detect violations of security policies by objects, building infrastructure and security systems, or individuals. In response to the detected violations, the robot can perform one or more security operations. The robot can include a removable fabric panel, enabling sensors within the robot body to capture signals that propagate through the fabric. In addition, the robot can scan RFID tags of objects within an area, for instance coupled to store inventory. Likewise, the robot can generate or update one or more semantic maps for use by the robot in navigating an area and for measuring compliance with security policies.
US11327499B2
A vehicle control system that is mounted in a vehicle includes a camera and an autonomous driving control device. The camera images a situation in front of the vehicle to acquire camera imaging information indicating an imaging result. The autonomous driving control device controls autonomous driving of the vehicle based on the camera imaging information and decides a maximum speed of the vehicle in the middle of the autonomous driving. In more detail, the autonomous driving control device estimates a maximum visible distance of the camera based on the camera imaging information. Then, the autonomous driving control device variably sets the maximum speed according to the maximum visible distance such that the maximum speed in a case where the maximum visible distance is long becomes higher than the maximum speed in a case where the maximum visible distance is short.
US11327498B2
According to various embodiments, systems and methods for smoothing a reference line for an autonomous driving vehicle are described. In an exemplary method, a raw reference line can be generated from a high definition map and routing results, and can be truncated based on a predetermined formula. The truncated raw reference line can include a number of points, each point representing a position of an autonomous driving vehicle in a global coordinate system. The number of points can be converted to points in a local coordinate system, where a polynomial curve that best fits the points are generated. The polynomial curve can subsequently be used to generate a new vertical coordinate for a horizontal coordinate of each of the number of points. The new vertical coordinates and their corresponding horizontal coordinates can be converted back to the global coordinate system. The polynomial curve can be used to derive a heading, a kappa, and a dkappa for each point in the global coordinate system.
US11327477B2
Disclosed are a somatosensory remote controller, a somatosensory remote control flight system and method, and a remote control method. The somatosensory remote controller comprises: a motion sensor, a controller, a first transmission module, and a remote controller body. The motion sensor, the first transmission module, and the controller are all disposed on the remote controller body, and the motion sensor and the first transmission module are electrically connected to the controller. The motion sensor acquires initial state information of a current position of the remote controller body and movement information about movement of the remote controller body, and transmit the same to the controller. The controller is configured to receive, according to the initial state information and the movement information, a flight instruction, and send the flight instruction via the first transmission module.
US11327473B2
A scalable industrial asset management system dynamically negotiates allocation of mobile industrial assets to industrial operation sites. The asset management system tracks and models the capabilities and availabilities of a pool of mobile industrial assets (e.g., truck-mounted assets or other such assets). Based on a defined demand of a scheduled industrial operation requiring mobile industrial assets (e.g., a fracking operation, a mining operation, etc.) the system selects a subset of the mobile industrial assets that are both available during the scheduled operation and are collectively capable of satisfying the demands of the industrial operation. Moreover, based on the asset models for the subset of mobile industrial assets, the system configures an on-premise cloud agent device to collect telemetry data from the mobile assets during the operation and to migrate the collected data to a cloud-based collection and analytics system.
US11327472B2
An industrial controller executes a control program held in non-transitory medium to: (a) open connections for the communication of data on the industrial control network, the connection subject to a timeout; (b) operate in a synchronized state with the second industrial controller to execute a same control program to communicate same control data; (c) operate in an unsynchronized state providing no-operation data to the industrial control network, the no-operation data preventing timeout of the open connections on which it is communicated.
US11327470B2
A unit space generating device (141) which generates a unit space for use when diagnosing an operating state of a plant on the basis of a Mahalanobis distance is provided with: a sampling data acquiring unit (141A) which acquires a sampling data group comprising a plurality of state quantities of the plant, measured with a fixed period; an adoption determining unit (141C) which, on the basis of an adoption probability calculated each time the sampling data group is acquired, determines whether the sampling data group is to be adopted as a unit space generation data group serving as the basis for a unit space; a unit space generating unit (141D) which generates unit spaces on the basis of a plurality of the adopted unit space generation data groups; and an output value acquiring unit (141B) which acquires an output value of the plant corresponding to the sampling data group.
US11327469B2
A method includes performing, by a processor: providing a database that contains records corresponding to a plurality of drug product packaging systems, the records in the database being accessible through a common database management system, receiving a packaging order for at least one drug product, evaluating at least one criterion for fulfilling the packaging order, and identifying one of the plurality of drug product packaging systems to package the at least one drug product based on evaluating the at least one criterion.
US11327467B2
An information processing device including a communication portion capable of receiving sensor data detected from a plurality of sensors arranged in predetermined regions and transmitting control signals to a plurality of actuators arranged around the sensors such that the actuators are, at least one by one, associated with each of the sensors. The information processing device further includes a control portion that performs control such that the sensor arranged in a specific region determined not to have an ideal situation is specified on the basis of the sensor data detected from the plurality of sensors, the actuator corresponding to the specified sensor is specified from the plurality of actuators, and the control signal for bringing the specific region into the ideal situation is generated and transmitted to the specified actuator through the communication portion.
US11327459B2
An apparatus includes multiple circuit paths configured to generate multiple electrical signals to be used to communicate with multiple devices. Each of the circuit paths is configured to use electrical energy from a different one of multiple independent power supplies. The apparatus also includes an I/O terminal configured to be coupled to a common electrical conductor that is coupled to the multiple devices. The I/O terminal is configured to pass the electrical signals to the common electrical conductor. The apparatus is configured to use each of the electrical signals to one of: receive input data from one of the multiple devices or provide output data to one of the multiple devices.
US11327454B2
Systems and methods are directed to a device comprising a product status synchronization device. Examples of the product status synchronization device comprise a plurality of input ports and an encoder input, each of the input ports coupled to one of a plurality of registers and configured to receive a signal indicative of a status assigned to a product by one of a plurality of process stations, and to register the status assigned to the product into the one of the plurality of registers coupled to the input port, wherein one or more of the plurality of process stations are located at different distances from a predetermined location along a processing line and are configured to asynchronously process one or more products moving through the processing line.
US11327453B2
A relatively simple status indicator for a building control device that helps the user more quickly and intuitively identify the operation status of the building control system and more quickly troubleshoot faults and/or other problems that may occur within the building control system. This may help reduce the cost of maintain the building control system and may help reduce unwanted downtime of the building control system.
US11327451B2
A building management system of a building includes one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to generate agents, each agent of the agents paired with one entity of a plurality of entities of an entity database, wherein the entity database includes relationships between the entities, wherein the entities represent physical building entities of the building comprising building equipment or building spaces. The instructions cause the one or more processors to communicate, by the plurality of agents, data of the physical building entities via a plurality of agent communication channels and perform, by the plurality of agents, one or more operations for the plurality of entities based on the data.
US11327449B2
A predictive controller controls a system under uncertainty subject to constraints on state and control variables of the system. At each control step, the predictive controller solves an inequality constrained nonlinear dynamic optimization problem including probabilistic chance constraints representing the uncertainty to produce a control command, and controls an operation of the system using the control command. The predictive controller solves the dynamic optimization problem based on a two-level optimization that alternates, until a termination condition is met, propagation of covariance matrices of the probabilistic chance constraints within the prediction horizon for fixed values of the state and control variables with optimization of the state and control variables within the prediction horizon for fixed values of the covariance matrices.
US11327432B2
A process cartridge includes a first unit including an image bearing member configured to carry an electrostatic latent image, and a second unit including a developer bearing member configured to develop the electrostatic latent image carried on the image bearing member into a toner image, the second unit being capable of being mounted on the first unit in a mounting direction. The first unit includes a moving member that moves the second unit mounted on the first unit at a mounting position to a detachment position. The second unit includes a storage unit that stores information about the second unit. The moving member is disposed on a first side of the process cartridge in a longitudinal direction of the image bearing member. An electrode of the storage unit is disposed on a second side of the process cartridge in the longitudinal direction.
US11327431B2
A toner cartridge includes a photoconductive drum and a boss that protrudes outward from a first longitudinal end of the toner cartridge at a rotational axis of the photoconductive drum. An outermost axial segment of the boss along the rotational axis includes a partial cylinder having a cross-sectional shape of a circular segment. An outer circumferential surface of the partial cylinder is convex to a bottom of the toner cartridge and forms a bottom contact surface of the boss that is unobstructed to contact and sit in a corresponding V-block in an image forming device when the toner cartridge is installed in the image forming device. The outermost axial segment of the boss includes clearance above a topmost portion of the partial cylinder and within the radius of the outer circumferential surface of the partial cylinder permitting the clearance to accommodate one or more features in the image forming device.
US11327429B2
A surface roughness Rz of an outer peripheral surface of an intermediate transfer belt is 0.05 μm or more, and toner contains toner base particles and an organosilicon polymer on the surface of the toner base particles. After residual toner on the intermediate transfer belt is collected by a blade into a belt cleaning device, the blade has a coating layer on its surface facing the intermediate transfer belt, the coating layer containing the organosilicon polymer.
US11327415B2
An image forming apparatus is capable of performing a second image forming operation in which a peripheral velocity ratio of a developer bearing member to an image bearing member becomes greater than that in a first image forming operation, and in which a potential difference between a developing bias applied to the developer bearing member and a supply bias applied to a supply member becomes a potential difference at which a urging force causing a developer at the contact portion between the developer bearing member and the supply member to move from the supply member to the developer bearing member becomes smaller than that in the first image forming operation, or becomes a potential difference at which a urging force causing the developer to move from the developer bearing member to the supply member is generated.
US11327414B2
A toner comprises toner particles containing a colorant, non-crystalline polyester, and crystalline polyester. The crystalline polyester does not contain an esterification catalyst and has a melting point in a range of 80 to 110° C. A gel content of the toner particles is in the range of 4 to 11% by mass.
US11327409B2
Methods and systems that include the generation of a map of modulation values for a spatial light modulator. In which a map representative of a desired curing region is received. Receiving, for each pixel of a spatial light modulator, spatial information representative of an intensity distribution of actinic radiation at a plane of formable material under a template that is guided from the spatial light modulator to the plane of the formable material for curing the formable material under the template. Receiving a dose threshold for the formable material. Generating a map of modulation values for each pixel in the spatial light modulator based on: the dose threshold; the spatial information for all of the pixels; and the map representative of the desired curing region.
US11327407B2
A method of determining a correction for a process parameter related to a lithographic process, wherein the lithographic process includes a plurality of runs during each one of which a pattern is applied to one or more substrates. The method of determining includes obtaining pre-exposure metrology data describing a property of a substrate; obtaining post-exposure metrology data comprising one or more measurements of the process parameter having been performed on one or more previously exposed substrates; assigning, based on the pre-exposure metrology data, a group membership status from one or more groups to the substrate; and determining the correction for the process parameter based on the group membership status and the post-exposure metrology data.
US11327399B2
A photoresist composition comprising a resin which comprises a structural unit represented by the formula (I): and a salt represented by the formula (B1):
US11327398B2
Provided herein are photoresist compositions and methods for fabricating semiconductor devices using the same. A photoresist composition may include an organometallic material, a fluorine-containing material, and an organic solvent.
US11327397B2
A pattern forming method using a photo-nanoimprint process on each of a plurality of shot areas: a step (1) of laying a layer of a curable composition (A1); a step (2) of dispensing liquid droplets of a curable composition (A2) dropwise discretely onto the layer of (A1); a step (3) of sandwiching a layer obtained by partially mixing (A1) and (A2), between a mold and the substrate; a step (4) of irradiating the layer with light to cure the layer; and a step (5) of releasing the mold from the layer of (A1) and (A2), in which when steps from the step (3) to the step (5) are collectively called an imprinting step [Im], in a time period from an end of the step (2) to a beginning of the step [Im] in one shot, the step (2) or the step [Im] is performed on another shot area.
US11327393B2
A photomask blank comprising a transparent substrate and a light-shielding film disposed thereon is provided. The light-shielding film is constructed by a single layer or multiple layers including a light-shielding layer containing Si and N, having a N content of 3-50 at % based on the sum of Si and N, being free of a transition metal.
US11327367B2
A display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a display medium layer, a sealant and a conductor. The first and second substrates are assembled via the sealant that surrounds the display medium layer disposed between the first and second substrates. The second substrate includes a second conductive layer and a passivation layer disposed on the second conductive layer. The passivation layer reveals a portion of the second conductive layer. The conductor electrically connects a first conductive layer of the first substrate to the revealed portion of the second conductive layer and is disposed between the sealant and an edge of the display panel. A first conductive protrusion and a second conductive protrusion are sequentially disposed on one of the first and second substrates to form the conductor. A material of the second conductive protrusion may be formed from a conductive composite material, that may include a curable material.
US11327358B2
A privacy display comprises a spatial light modulator and a passive retarder arranged between first and second polarisers arranged in series with the spatial light modulator. On-axis light from the spatial light modulator is directed without loss, and off-axis light has reduced luminance. The visibility of the display to off-axis snoopers is reduced by means of luminance reduction over a wide polar field of view. Off-axis visibility of the display in an automotive vehicle can be reduced.
US11327355B2
The present application discloses a display substrate. The display substrate includes a base substrate; a color filter on the base substrate; and an overcoat layer on a side of the color filter distal to the base substrate. The overcoat layer includes a first sublayer and a second sublayer, the second sublayer on a side of the first sublayer distal to the base substrate. The first sublayer includes a first polymer material. The second sublayer includes a second polymer material different from the first polymer material.
US11327349B2
Described are methods for assembling a display device by forcibly flexing a first component to conform to a curved surface, adhering the first component to the curved surface, forcibly flexing a second component to conform to an outer surface of the first component and adhering the second component to the first component. The first and second components each comprise at least one of: i) a touch sensor component or a component film of a touch sensor component; ii) at least one pair of orthogonal polariser sheets; iii) a liquid crystal cell comprising liquid crystal material contained between two containing films; iv) at least one encapsulation film; v) at least one diffuser sheet; vi) a backlight component; vii) a light-emitting diode unit; and viii) a circular polariser component, or a component film thereof, for use with a light-emitting diode unit.
US11327342B2
The present invention relates to optical lens for correcting color vision for individuals with color vision deficiency comprising a substrate and an absorbing dye which has at least a minimum light transmission factor at a wavelength ranging from 515 nm to 80 nm that is lower than or equal to 40% and quickly varying transmission around 500 nm and around 595 nm.
US11327341B2
Ophthalmic lenses are described herein. An example ophthalmic lens may comprise a first surface. The example ophthalmic lens may comprise a second surface disposed opposite the first surface and defining a volume of lens material therebetween. A thickness profile of the volume of lens material may be derived from one or more eyelid profiles such that a thickness gradient of the volume of lens material is oriented to be substantially orthogonal to a target eyelid margin shape.
US11327336B2
A panel with a virtual curved display surface and a display device are provided. The virtual curved display panel includes a display panel and a grating. The grating is disposed at a light-exiting side of the display panel, and includes a plurality of light-transmitting regions and a plurality of light-shielding regions spaced apart from each other. Respective widths of the plurality of light-shielding regions of the grating are gradually decreased as respective distances from the plurality of light-shielding regions to a symmetry axis of the display panel are increased, and respective widths of the plurality of light-transmitting regions are gradually increased as respective distances from the plurality of light-transmitting regions to the symmetry axis of the display panel are increased.
US11327325B2
Optical beam former for generating an emerging light beam from an incident light beam, the optical beam former including: a condenser lens array including several condenser lenses; and a projection lens array arranged in parallel to the condenser lens array and including several projection lenses; wherein exactly one of the projection lenses is assigned to each of the condenser lenses so that several optical channels are formed and so that each of the several optical channels generates a partial light beam of the emerging light beam, said partial light beam emerging in an angle-of-emergence range with a partial intensity distribution that is homogenous with respect to an angle of emergence, from an incident partial light beam, wherein the admissible angle-of-incidence ranges of the optical channels have the same size as to the magnitude in a plane extending in parallel to the optical axes of the condenser lenses; and wherein the angle-of-emergence ranges of at least two of the optical channels are different so that an intensity distribution with respect to the angle of emergence includes several regions having a homogenous intensity in a far field of the emerging light beam.
US11327323B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and devices for receiving and presenting content. In an example method, content is received, the content to be delivered to a plurality of recipients. Each recipient of the plurality of recipients has a preference for a respective first physical location at which the content is to be presented on a display of a wearable head device associated with the recipient. A sender of the content has a preference for a second physical location at which the content is to be presented to the respective recipient of the plurality of recipients. A respective final physical location for the presentation of the content for the respective recipient of the plurality of recipients is identified. The respective final physical location is based on the respective recipient's preference and the sender's preference. It is determined whether the respective recipient is proximate to a zone associated with the respective final physical location. In accordance with a determination that the respective recipient is proximate to the zone, an alert is generated on the wearable head device, the alert associated with the respective final physical location. It is determined whether the respective recipient is in the zone associated with the respective final physical location. In accordance with a determination that the respective recipient is in the zone, the content is caused to be presented to the respective recipient of the plurality of recipients.
US11327321B2
The present invention relates to an electronic device. More particularly, the present invention relates to an electronic device used in virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), etc. Disclosed herein is an electronic device which includes: a frame including at least one opening and worn on a human body of a user; a control unit fixed to the frame and generating an image; and a display unit fixed to the opening of the frame and showing the image to the user, in which the frame includes a front frame including the at least one opening and first and second side frames which extend in a first direction crossing the front frame at both ends of the front frame and are parallel to each other, and at least one of a first length of each of the first and second side frames and a first interval between the first side frame and the second side frame is adjustable.
US11327317B2
[Problem] To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program. [Solution] An information processing apparatus including a display control unit that causes a display unit to display a virtual image in a three-dimensional space. The display control unit causes the display unit to display only one of a left-eye image and a right-eye image corresponding to the virtual image if it is determined that the virtual image is located outside of a predetermined range in a depth direction when viewed from a user of the display unit, and causes the display unit to display the left-eye image and the right-eye image if it is determined that the virtual image is located inside of the predetermined range.
US11327310B1
The present application discloses examples of various apparatuses and systems that can be utilized for augmented reality. According to one example, a wearable device that can optionally comprise: a frame configured for wearing by a user; one or more optical elements mounted on the frame; an array having a plurality of light emitting diodes coupled to the one or more optical elements, wherein the one or more optical elements and the array are mounted within a field of view of the user when the frame is worn by the user; and additional onboard electronic components carried by the frame including at least a battery that is configured to provide for electrically powered operation of the array.
US11327308B2
A freeform prism-lens group includes: a primary prism; a first auxiliary lens; and a beamsplitter film between the primary prism and the first auxiliary lens and having a predetermined beamsplitting ratio; wherein: the first auxiliary lens has a first optical surface substantially conforming to a neighboring freeform surface of the primary prism; and the first auxiliary lens has a second opposing optical surface distal from the primary prism that is planar, aspheric, or spherical with a curvature radius greater than 100 mm.
US11327304B2
A windshield head-up display, and a method for suppressing a ghost image are disclosed. The windshield head-up display comprises an image source and a projection assembly. The image source is projected onto a windshield by means of the projection assembly, such that a first virtual image and a second virtual image are formed on the same side of the windshield. The first virtual image is closer to an eye-box region than the second virtual image. The distance from the first virtual image to the eye-box region is an imaging distance. The method comprises: measuring a ghost image value of the first virtual image and the second virtual image upon a change in the imaging distance; and if the imaging distance has increased, reducing the ghost image value of the first virtual image and the second virtual image projected by the projection assembly onto the same side of the windshield.
US11327301B2
A virtual image display device includes an image element configured to display an image, a first lens disposed in an extraction position of image light and including at the image element side thereof a convex surface, a second lens disposed further toward the image element side than the first lens and including a concave surface bonded to the convex surface of the first lens, a half mirror provided in a bonding portion for bonding together the convex surface and the concave surface, a transmission/reflection selection member provided at a light emitting side of the first lens and configured to selectively perform transmission or reflection of the light depending on a polarization state of the light, and a light-guiding portion keeping close contact between the image element and the second lens and configured to guide the image light.
US11327287B2
A microscope comprising a first turret bearing a plurality of lenses and a second turret bearing a plurality of filtering modules, the first turret and the second turret being borne on the same pivot and mounted to rotate, independently of each other, about this pivot, each lens of the first turret and each filtering module of the second turret being able to be arranged by rotation of the first turret and of the second turret into an active position of use in which a filtering module of the second turret is inserted into the optical path between a lens of the first turret and a detector.
US11327286B2
Systems and methods for managing a plurality of scanning devices in a high-throughput laboratory environment. Each of the scanning devices is configured for a remote boot operation from an administrative server that is communicatively coupled with the plurality of scanning devices via a local network. The remote boot replaces the complete operational firmware of a scanning device. The scanning devices are each configured to periodically provide operational information to the administrative server for centralized storage. The centralized storage of operational information for each of the plurality of scanning devices, coupled with the ability of the administrative server to initiate a reboot of any scanning device and thereby update the complete operational firmware of the scanning device, allows for centralized administration of multiple scanning devices that facilitates configuration, support, image data storage, and/or communication with outside servers.
US11327280B2
The zoom lens consists of, in order from the object side, a positive first lens group that does not move during zooming, a negative second lens group that moves during zooming, a negative third lens group that moves during zooming, at least one lens group that moves during zooming, and a rear group that does not move during zooming. All distances between the lens groups adjacent to each other change during zooming. The zoom lens satisfies predetermined conditional expressions.
US11327276B2
A multi-axis MEMS assembly includes a micro-electrical-mechanical system (MEMS) actuator configured to provide linear three-axis movement. The micro-electrical-mechanical system (MEMS) actuator includes: an in-plane MEMS actuator, and an out-of-plane MEMS actuator. An optoelectronic device is coupled to the micro-electrical-mechanical system (MEMS) actuator. The out-of-plane MEMS actuator includes a multi-morph piezoelectric actuator.
US11327272B2
A mirror driving device includes a positioner in the imaging apparatus; a mirror holder configured to hold the movable mirror and move to the first position and the second position of the movable mirror; a positioning surface at the mirror holder and configured to come into contact with the positioner to determine the first position of the movable mirror; and a shock dispersion surface provided at the mirror holder. When moving from the second position toward the first position, the movable mirror is configured to contact the positioner before the positioning surface comes into contact with the positioner to reduce a shock. The shock dispersion surface has a smaller inclination with respect to a travel-direction tangent line than an inclination of the positioning surface with respect to the tangent line. The shock dispersion surface is located forward of the positioning surface in the travel direction toward the first position.
US11327270B2
A lens assembly includes a lens including an optical portion refracting light and a flange portion extended along a periphery of at least a portion of the optical portion, and a lens barrel accommodating the lens. The lens includes a first D-cut portion on one side surface of the flange portion spaced apart from the lens barrel and a second D-cut portion on another side surface of the flange portion spaced apart from the lens barrel, wherein the first D-cut portion and the second D-cut portion each include first inclined surfaces, and the first inclined surfaces are spaced apart from respective ends of the first D-cut portion and the second D-cut portion by a predetermined interval.
US11327266B2
A housing assembly for mounting a first lens and a second lens includes a first lens holder. The first lens holder includes a ring-shaped structure configured to mount the first lens. The housing assembly also includes a second lens holder including a cup-shaped structure. The cup-shaped structure includes an upper portion configured to mount the first lens holder, and a lower portion configured to mount the second lens.
US11327265B2
A clamp assembly includes a first clamp half-piece and a second clamp half-piece. In one example, the clamp half-pieces are identically shaped. In one example, each of the clamp half-pieces has at least one integral pin and at least one aperture. The first and second clamp half-pieces are pivotally connected to each other via a first snap-fit interface in which the integral pin of the first clamp half-piece snap-fits into the at least one aperture of the second clamp half-piece. The clamp assembly can also include a link arm connected to the first clamp half-piece via a second snap-fit interface. A lever arm can also be included that is pivotally connected to the link arm via a third snap-fit interface. The clamp assembly does not require separate link pins or other parts and only includes four components: the clamp half-pieces, the link arm, and the lever arm.
US11327262B2
Certain types of fiber termination enclosures include an enclosure and at least one of a plurality of plate module mounting assemblies. Example plate module mounting assemblies include a termination panel plate assembly; a splice tray plate assembly; a cable spool plate assembly; and a drop-in plate assembly. Example cable spool plate assemblies include a cable spool arrangement rotationally coupled to a mounting plate, which fixedly mounts within the enclosure housing. A stand-off mount element may be disposed on the front of the cable spool arrangement to rotate in unison with the cable spool arrangement. The stand-off mount element may include one or more termination adapters.
US11327260B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to an optical fiber cable having at least one optical fiber, a cable jacket and a foam layer. The cable jacket includes an inner surface and an outer surface in which the outer surface is an outermost surface of the optical fiber cable. The inner surface is disposed around the at least one optical fiber. The foam layer is disposed between the at least one optical fiber and the cable jacket. The foam layer is made of an extruded product of at least one thermoplastic elastomer (TPE), a chemical foaming agent, and a crosslinking agent. The foam layer has a closed-cell morphology having pores with an average effective circle diameter of less than 100 μm. Further, the foam layer has a compression modulus of less than 1 MPa when measured at 50% strain.
US11327253B1
An apparatus including a cable jacket, a plurality of connectors, a first light pipe and a second light pipe. The cable jacket may comprise one or more data carrying lines configured to transmit data and a tracing fiber. The plurality of connectors may each be connected to one end of one of the data carrying lines and be configured to connect to a communication port. The first light pipe may be connected to a first end of the tracing fiber. The second light pipe may be connected to a second end of the tracing fiber. The first light pipe may be configured to receive a light input and focus the light input by refraction into the tracing fiber. The tracing fiber may be configured to propagate the light input to the second light pipe. The second light pipe may emit the light input.
US11327250B1
Improved optical interconnects obtained by replacing one or more single core fibers with one or more multicore fibers. In some instances, at least one of the optical fibers is shaped.
US11327242B2
The present disclosure relates to a process by which an optical fiber is terminated with a ferrule to form an optical fiber connector assembly. The ferrule is heated at a heating temperature whereby the ferrule bore (and ferrule microhole) expands. The optical fiber is then inserted into the ferrule microhole. The ferrule then contracts when heat is no longer applied resulting in an interference fit between the optical fiber and the ferrule microhole based on the dimensions of the optical fiber and the ferrule microhole. The interference fit yields certain optical fiber characteristics within the optical fiber connector assembly. The present disclosure also relates to an optical fiber having an outer cladding comprising titania-doped silica and the resulting optical fiber characteristics.
US11327237B2
An electronic device includes a housing and a display. The housing defines an interior cavity and includes an optically-transmissive housing component. The display is disposed in the interior cavity and is viewable through the optically-transmissive housing component. An optoelectronic component is disposed in the interior cavity. An optical fiber extends between a first end positioned adjacent the optoelectronic component and a second end positioned adjacent the optically-transmissive housing component. The optical fiber defines a non-linear optical path between the first end and the second end. At least a portion of the optical fiber is laterally offset from a lateral edge of the display.
US11327235B2
In various embodiments, a beam-parameter adjustment system and focusing system alters a spatial power distribution of a plurality of radiation beams before the beams are coupled into an optical fiber.
US11327230B2
An optical fiber holder for holding an optical fiber includes: a holder main body; and a groove part that is capable of holding a part of the held optical fiber. The optical fiber holder has an adjustment mechanism that is capable of adjusting a position of the groove part with respect to the holder main body in a state where the groove part is placed on the holder main body.
US11327229B2
A fiber optic coupling device comprises an elastomeric body. The elastomeric body includes first and second sides with a deformable alignment passage extending there between. The deformable alignment passage is configured to elastically center opposing first and second optical fibers. The deformable alignment passage includes a first portion that is configured to receive the first optical fiber having a first core. The deformable alignment passage also includes an opposing second portion that is configured to receive the second optical fiber having a second core. The first portion and the opposing second portion of the alignment passage are defined by a common encompassing periphery, and meet at a common location within the alignment passage to present the core of the received first optical fiber in coaxial alignment with the core of the received second optical fiber.
US11327210B2
Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved ophthalmic lenses, particularly intraocular lenses (IOLs). Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include a plurality of echelettes arranged around the optical axis, having a profile in r-squared space. The echelettes may be non-repeating over the optical zone.
US11327208B2
An aerospace mirror having a reaction bonded (RB) silicon carbide (SiC) mirror substrate, and a SiC cladding on the RB SiC mirror substrate forming an optical surface on a front side of the aerospace mirror. A method for manufacturing an aerospace mirror comprising obtaining a green mirror preform comprising porous carbon, silicon carbide (SiC), or both, the green mirror preform defining a front side of the aerospace mirror and a back side of the aerospace mirror opposite the front side; removing material from the green mirror preform to form support ribs on the back side; infiltrating the green mirror preform with silicon to create a reaction bonded (RB) SiC mirror substrate from the green mirror preform; forming a mounting interface surface on the back side of the aerospace mirror from the RB SiC mirror substrate, and forming a reflector surface of the RB SiC mirror substrate on the front side of the aerospace mirror. Additionally, the method can comprise cladding the reflector surface of the RB SiC mirror substrate with SiC to form an optical surface of the aerospace mirror.
US11327203B1
An optical fiber cable that includes reduced or minimal use of colorant may include a single optical fiber component and a jacket formed around the optical fiber component. The optical fiber component may include at least one optical fiber and a buffer layer formed around the at least one optical fiber. The buffer laying may include one or more first polymeric materials that are not blended or compounded with any colorant, and no colorant may be formed on an outer surface of the buffer layer. Additionally, the jacket may include or more second polymeric materials that are not blended or compounded with any colorant.
US11327200B2
A wireless seismic data acquisition unit with a wireless receiver providing access to a common remote time reference shared by wireless seismic data acquisition units in a seismic system. The receiver can replicate local version of remote time epoch to which a seismic sensor analog-to-digital converter is synchronized. The receiver can replicate local version of remote common time reference to time stamp local node events. The receiver can be placed in a low power, non-operational state over periods of time during which the unit continues to record seismic data, thus conserving unit battery power. The system corrects the local time clock based on intermittent access to the common remote time reference. The system corrects the local time clock via a voltage controlled oscillator to account for environmentally induced timing errors.
US11327197B2
A device and method is described to parallelize a pressure-volume-temperature (“PVT”) analysis using gas chromatography and mass spectrometry techniques such that a portion of the pressure, temperature and volume analysis is performed separately from others. The resulting PVT data is then recombined statistically for a complete PVT analysis. The device may also obtain compositional data of the fluid to perform an equation of state analysis or reservoir simulations.
US11327196B2
Marine surveys carried out with multiple source arrays comprising three or more sources are discussed. Each source of a multiple source array is an array of source elements, such as air guns. The sources of a multiple source array may be arranged in particular type of configuration that is effectively maintained while the survey vessel travels a sail line. The sources of the multiple source array are activated to acoustically illuminate a subterranean formation with acoustic signals. Two or more sources of a multiple source array may be activated to create blended seismic data. Methods to deblend, source deghost, and attenuate noise in the blended seismic data obtained by using a multiple source array are also discussed.
US11327195B2
Processes and systems are described for generating an image of a subterranean formation from seismic data recorded during a marine survey that employed a moving vibrational source. Processes and systems compute an up-going pressure wavefield from pressure data and vertical velocity data recorded in the marine survey. A direct incident downgoing vertical velocity wavefield that includes Doppler effects created by the moving vibrational source and characterizes a source wavefield and source ghost of the moving vibrational source is computed and deconvolved from the upgoing pressure wavefield to generate a subsurface reflectivity wavefield. The subsurface reflectivity wavefield is effectively free of contamination from the source wavefield, the source ghost, and the Doppler related effects. Processes and systems generate an image of the subterranean formation based on the subsurface reflectivity wavefield, thereby enhancing resolution of the image by attenuating the source-motion effects, source signature, and source ghost of the moving vibration source.
US11327194B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for identifying a boundary of a sedimentary facies, a computer device and a computer readable storage medium. The method comprises: acquiring a preliminary marked result of the sedimentary facies in a seismic attribute map; acquiring a color-based K-means classification result of the seismic attribute map by using a maximal between-cluster variance and a K-means clustering; acquiring a super-pixel classification result of the seismic attribute map according to a SLIC super-pixel segmentation; and performing a region growing fusion on the super-pixel classification result by taking the preliminary marked result and the K-means classification result as constraints, to determine an identification result of the boundary of the sedimentary facies in the seismic attribute map.
US11327191B2
The present disclosure describes methods and systems, including computer-implemented methods, computer program products, and computer systems for direct gas reservoir detection using frequency amplitude. One computer-implemented method includes spectrally decomposing seismic data associated with a target area into a plurality of mono-frequency volumes. Further, the method includes based on a low-frequency volume of the plurality of volumes, generating a low frequency map of the target area. Yet further, the method includes based on a high-frequency volume of the plurality of volumes, generating a high frequency map of the target area. Additionally, the method includes dividing the low frequency map by the high frequency map to generate a frequency ratio map. The method also includes using the frequency ratio map to identify a subsurface gas reservoir in the target area.
US11327186B2
The present invention discloses a submarine seismic monitoring apparatus and system based on the submarine Internet of things. A sea surface buoy network device and a submarine network device in the monitoring apparatus are connected by using an anchor system; the submarine network device and a submarine seismic detection device are connected by using a submarine photoelectric composite cable; there are one or more submarine seismic detection devices; the sea surface buoy network device includes a satellite transceiver apparatus, an Internet of things platform server, a network time server, and an autonomous energy supply apparatus; the submarine network device includes a photoelectric separation cabin, a submarine server, a bottom anchor weight block, and a mechanical releaser; and the submarine seismic detection device includes multiple submarine seismometer network nodes, where the multiple submarine seismometer network nodes are successively connected in series end to end by using the submarine photoelectric composite cable. The apparatus and system in the present invention not only can be used for submarine structure detection, but also can be used for earthquake disaster and tsunami warning, and can implement autonomous energy supply, long timing, and unattended operation.
US11327185B2
A neutron imaging system includes a neutron generator, a flight tube, a stage, a neutron imaging module, and a neutron shield. The flight tube enables neutrons from the neutron generator to enter the flight tube through an input opening and exit through an output opening. The stage supports a sample object to receive neutrons that pass through the entire length of the flight tube and the output opening. The neutron imaging module has a neutron-sensitive component that receives neutrons that pass through the sample object and generates neutron detection signals. The neutron shield surrounds at least a portion of the flight tube and the neutron imaging module to block at least a portion of stray neutrons that travel toward the neutron-sensitive component of the neutron imaging module, in which the stray neutrons do not enter the flight tube through the input opening of the flight tube.
US11327179B2
A method and system for tracking the real-time positions of airport ground vehicles, and integrating the positional data into the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) network infrastructure. The system may include one or more ground receiver stations that receives positional telemetry data from one or more airport ground vehicles, and transmits the ground vehicle positional data to a centralized ground base station. A computer system connected to the ground base aggregates the ground vehicle telemetry data from one or more ground vehicles, converts the aggregate telemetry data into an ADS-B compatible data protocol, and integrates that data into the ADS-B network infrastructure for dissemination and reporting across the ADS-B network. The method enables the use of and dissemination of ADS-B information for ground vehicles without the need for ADS-B transponders on each ground vehicle.
US11327174B2
A sensor control device includes a plurality of drive units for oscillating respective transducers included in a plurality of ultrasonic sensors, a driving signal generation section for generating driving signals capable of oscillating the respective plurality of transducers, a control unit having a control signal output section for outputting, to each one of the plurality of drive units, a control signal as an input command for the driving signal to the respective transducer and a bus line configured to connect the control unit to the plurality of drive units in form of a daisy-chain, the bus line being used for bidirectional communication of communication data between the control unit and the plurality of drive units based on preset time-division, the communication data being comprised of a data structure having a first band that allows superimposition of audio data thereon. Control data based on the control signal is included in the first band.
US11327173B2
An object detection device includes: a transmission unit transmitting a first transmission wave; a reception unit receiving a first reception wave reflected by an object; a signal processing unit sampling a first processing target signal according to the first reception wave and acquiring a difference signal based on a difference between the first processing target signal for at least one sample at a certain detection timing, and the first processing target signal for a plurality of samples in at least one of first and second periods; a threshold setting unit setting a threshold as a comparison target with the value of the difference signal, based on variation in the values of the first processing target signal for the plurality of samples; and a detection unit detecting information about the object at the detection timing based on a comparison result between the value of the difference signal and the threshold.
US11327164B2
A sensor and a method for detecting a position of the sensor relative to a guide surface, comprising a housing and an electronic analysis device which outputs measurement values for the position of the guide surface on the basis of the measurement signals. The sensor contains an ultrasonic transducer array, each of the two outer ends of which is additionally equipped with a respective reference ultrasonic transducer and a respective reflector surface flush with the reference piezo disc at a distance from the base side, said ultrasonic transducers and reflector surfaces being inclined by 45° relative to the base side and pointing towards one another, thus forming a reference measurement path with a known length between the two reference ultrasonic transducers. In the method for detecting the relative position, the measurement values are corrected with respect to environmental influences by measurements in a reference path.
US11327162B1
The technology relates to fiducials for calibrating or validating a vehicle's sensors. One or more computing devices receive a plurality of data sets captured by the sensors from the plurality of fiducials. Each of the data sets corresponds to a respective sensor of the plurality of sensors. The one or more computing devices determine whether data in each of the plurality of data sets contains expected data representative of a respective fiducial of the plurality of fiducials. For each of the respective sensors, the one or more computing devices output a calibration status or a validation status associated with each data set that contains the expected data representative of the respective fiducial.
US11327161B2
A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system includes one or more processors, and one or more computer-readable storage mediums storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to determine a code that has a first number of symbols, transmit, to an environment, an optical signal generated based on the code such that the first number of symbols are transmitted in a first duration, in response to transmitting the optical signal, receive a returned optical signal that is reflected from an object in the environment, sample, from the returned optical signal, a second number of symbols in a second duration, the second number being different from the first number, and determine, based on the second number of symbols, a range to the object.
US11327159B2
An electronic distance meter comprises a laser emitting a laser pulse toward a target, a photodetector adapted for receiving a laser pulse reflected by the target and for outputting a corresponding return pulse signal, and a comparison circuit receiving said return pulse signal and comprising a comparator provided with a first input and a second input and arranged to output a first fixed value signal when the signal at the first input exceeds the signal at the second input and else to output a second fixed value signal, said comparison circuit being arranged for determining a return pulse time signal based on the output of said comparator, said electronic distance meter being arranged for determining a target distance based on said return pulse time signal. The comparison circuit comprises a first branch connected to said first input and provided with an integrator which receives a signal derived from said return pulse signal and comprises an output connected to said first input, and a second branch connected to said second input which receives a signal derived from said return pulse signal.
US11327155B2
A system and method for detecting a level of misalignment of a vehicle sensor, such as a radar sensor, compared to a reference sensor also associated with the vehicle. The reference sensor may comprise a different type of sensor, such as an optical sensor, motion sensor, or position sensor. One or more reference sensors may be utilized in detecting a level of misalignment.
US11327153B2
In another example, a method is provided that includes transmitting a first radar signal by a first channel of a plurality of channels of a radar unit. The method also includes receiving first radar reflections of the first radar signal by at least one reception antenna of the radar unit. Additionally, the method includes transmitting a second radar signal by the first channel. The method further includes receiving second radar reflections of the second radar signal by at least one reception antenna. Yet further, the method includes processing the received radar reflections from the first and second radar reflections to determine a platform movement parameter. Additionally, a virtual array may be constructed and radar signals received at common location of the virtual array may be used to determine a platform movement parameter. Moreover, the method includes operating the radar unit based on an offset determined from the platform movement parameter.
US11327149B2
A system for registering multiple point clouds captured by an aircraft is disclosed. The system includes a speckle generator, at least one three-dimensional (3D) scanner, and a processor coupled thereto. In operation, the speckle generator projects a laser speckle pattern onto a surface (e.g., a featureless surface). The at least one 3D scanner scans the featureless surface to generate a plurality of point clouds of the featureless surface and to image at least a portion of the laser speckle pattern. The processor, which is communicatively coupled with the at least one 3D scanner, registers the plurality of point clouds to generate a complete 3D model of the featureless surface based at least in part on the laser speckle pattern.
US11327147B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for determining locations of wireless nodes in a network architecture are disclosed herein. In one example, a system for localization of nodes in a wireless network architecture, comprises a wireless node having a wireless device with one or more processing units and RF circuitry for transmitting and receiving communications in the wireless network architecture; and a plurality of wireless sensor nodes having a wireless device with a transmitter and a receiver to enable bi-directional communications with the wireless node in the wireless network architecture. One or more processing units of the wireless node are configured to execute instructions to determine ranging data including a set of possible ranges between the wireless node and the plurality of wireless sensor nodes having unknown locations, and to associate a set of relative locations within an environment of the wireless network architecture with the wireless node and the plurality of wireless sensor nodes.
US11327146B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a device and a computer readable medium for determining a location of a communication device. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, a network device determines a location of a terminal device relative to a network device using signals received from the terminal device via a reference antenna and a switchable antenna array, thereby improving precision of determining the location of the terminal device.
US11327144B2
The invention relates to a method for geolocating a signal-transmitting device, the geolocation method comprising: a. supplying positions of a plurality of stations and dates of reception of the radio signal by said stations, b. selecting a reference station, c. defining a scanning zone, d. subdividing the scanning zone as a function of a scanning granularity, e. for each subzone, calculating a degree of cumulative error of said subzone, f. selecting a subzone exhibiting a minimal degree of cumulative error, g. defining a new scanning zone, h. defining a new scanning granularity, i. iterating the method from the step d).
US11327131B2
Some radio-frequency coils comprise three or more electrical conductors that form a radio-frequency coil element. Each of the three or more electrical conductors extends along at least a respective part of a length of the radio-frequency coil element, and, along the length of the radio-frequency coil element, the three or more electrical conductors are separated from each other by respective distances and by one or more dielectric materials.
US11327126B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a cable for transmitting power and data from power sourcing equipment to a powered device in a Power over Ethernet (PoE) system, and plugs at each end of the cable, at least one of the plugs comprising at least one resistor, wherein power capacity of the cable is identified at the power sourcing equipment receiving one of the plugs based on the at least one resistor.
US11327119B2
A method of charging a battery, the method comprising the steps of: providing a charging current to the battery; determining a property of the battery substantially continuously during charging; and varying a property of the charging current in dependence on the determined property of the battery.
US11327118B2
A battery capacity estimation method includes first to third steps. The first step involves obtaining information about a Nyquist plot by a predetermined AC-IR measurement. The second step involves obtaining image data of a Nyquist diagram that is obtained when the AC-IR measurement is performed at a predetermined first temperature, based on the information about the Nyquist plot obtained in the first step and on an ambient temperature at which the AC-IR measurement is performed in the first step. The third step involves inputting the image data of the Nyquist diagram obtained in the second step to an input layer of a pre-trained neural network model, to obtain a battery capacity estimate value of a battery to be measured.
US11327115B2
A JTAG TAP apparatus coupled between a host and an interface circuit, which is coupled between a memory and the JTAG TAP apparatus, includes first pin, second pin, first data register, and second data register. The first data register stores data shifted in by the host via the first pin, the shifted in data is stored into a specific address of the memory via the interface circuit. The second data register stores read back data from the specific address of the memory via the interface circuit and outputs the read back data to the host via the second pin to make the host compare the shifted in data with the read back data to perform comparison test.
US11327112B2
According to an embodiment, a semiconductor device comprises a first monitoring pad and a second monitoring pad; a test circuit including an NMOS transistor having a drain and source coupled between a first voltage terminal and a common node, a PMOS transistor having a drain and source coupled between the common node and a second voltage terminal, a first switching element having a first terminal coupled to the common node via a first resistor and a second terminal coupled to the first monitoring pad, and a second switching element having a third terminal coupled to the common node via a second resistor and a fourth terminal coupled to the second monitoring pad; and a test control circuit suitable for controlling the test circuit.
US11327109B2
A stacked semiconductor device includes: a plurality of semiconductor chips that are stacked in a vertical direction, wherein each of the semiconductor chips includes: a plurality of first through-electrodes; a plurality of second through-electrodes positioned adjacent to the first through-electrodes; a first voltage driving circuit suitable for providing the first through-electrodes with a test voltage or a ground voltage based on a first driving control signal; a second voltage driving circuit suitable for providing the second through-electrodes with the test voltage or the ground voltage based on a second driving control signal; and a failure detection circuit suitable for generating a failure signal based on a plurality of first detection signals received through the first through-electrodes and a plurality of second detection signals received through the second through-electrodes.
US11327107B2
A method of testing a semiconductor device may include preparing a semiconductor substrate in which the semiconductor substrate includes a test element group including first and second test circuits, measuring first and second leakage currents in the first and second test circuits, respectively, and calculating leakage components by comparing the first and second leakage currents. Each of the first and second test circuits may include an active region, which is an upper portion of the semiconductor substrate, a gate electrode, which is configured to cross the active region and to extend in a first direction, and an active contact, which is on the active region, is spaced apart from the gate electrode, and extends in the first direction. The second test circuit may further include a first gate contact that is connected to the gate electrode and overlaps the active region in a vertical direction perpendicular to the substrate.
US11327102B2
Aspects are generally directed to a compact and low-noise electric field detector, methods of operation, and methods of production thereof. In one example, an electric field detector includes a proof mass, a source of concentrated charge coupled to the proof mass, and a substrate having a substrate offset space defined therein, the proof mass being suspended above the substrate offset space. The electric field detector further includes a sense electrode disposed on the substrate within the substrate offset space and proximate the proof mass, the sense electrode being configured to measure a change in capacitance relative to the proof mass from movement of the proof mass in response to a received electric field at the source of concentrated charge. The electric field detector includes a control circuit coupled to the sense electrode and configured to determine a characteristic of the electric field based on the measured change in capacitance.
US11327091B2
A method for installing an inertial sensor unit includes: attaching a substrate to a structure with a magnet; and attaching a case accommodating an inertial sensor, to the substrate. The case is provided with a first attachment part. The substrate is provided with a second attachment part. In the attaching the case, the first attachment part and the second attachment part are fitted together to attach the case to the substrate. The inertial sensor has a base part, a moving part coupled to the base part, a physical quantity detection element arranged at the moving part, and a mass part arranged at the moving part. The mass part is made of a non-magnetic material.
US11327067B2
A method, system, and apparatus for a rivet measurement system for non-destructive testing measurements comprising a first measurement apparatus, a second measurement apparatus and a rivet analyzer. The first measurement apparatus acquires non-destructive testing measurements for sample production grade rivets of a particular class installed in a production vehicle structure. The second measurement apparatus acquires destructive testing measurements for the sample production grade rivets of the particular class. The rivet analyzer creates a statistical model representing a relationship between the non-destructive testing measurements and destructive testing measurements of the production grade rivets and to acquire the non-destructive testing measurements for the button height and the button diameter for additional production grade rivets, predict rivet button concentricity from the non-destructive testing measurements for the button height and the button diameter using the statistical model and determine whether the additional production grade rivets installed in the production vehicle structure are acceptable.
US11327062B2
The invention relates to a device for examining an atmosphere, comprising an atmosphere analysis chamber and a cryocooler, which is thermally coupled to the atmosphere analysis chamber for cooling the atmosphere analysis chamber. The invention further relates to the use of the device for examining an atmosphere, in particular the composition of an atmosphere.
US11327052B2
Disclosed herein is an ultrasonic inspection probe for inspecting parts. The ultrasonic inspection probe comprises a probe body that comprises an ultrasonic array and a plate attachment surface. The ultrasonic array comprises a plurality of ultrasound elements, each selectively operable to generate an ultrasonic beam and each fixed relative to the plate attachment surface. The ultrasonic inspection probe also comprises an interface plate, comprising a body attachment surface, removably attachable to the plate attachment surface of the probe body, and a part inspection surface, shaped to complement a shape of one of the parts.
US11327051B1
A system for inspection includes an ultrasound transmitter, an ultrasound receiver, an isolator, and a control system. The ultrasound transmitter, the ultrasound receiver, and the isolator are coupled to an exterior of a metal pipeline. The control system is configured to provide an input signal to the ultrasound transmitter; receive a received signal using the ultrasound receiver; and provide a result based at least in part on the received signal.
US11327046B2
Methods, electrodes, and sensors for pH sensing using pseudo-graphite are disclosed. In one illustrative embodiment, a method may include coating a pseudo-graphite material onto a surface of an electrode substrate to produce a pseudo-graphite surface. The method may also include exposing the pseudo-graphite surface to a sample to measure a pH of the sample.
US11327033B1
The present application relates to a method for detecting the stability of an X-ray photoelectron spectrometer, comprising: obtaining a first upper limit value and a first lower limit value of a rate of oxygen and nitrogen contents of a calibrating wafer having a silicon oxynitride film formed on its surface; measuring the calibrating wafer by the X-ray photoelectron spectrometer to obtain a first test value of the rate of oxygen and nitrogen contents; and when the first test value is between the first upper limit value and the first lower limit value, considering that the photoelectron spectrometer can accurately test the nitrogen content of the monitor wafer since the value of the nitrogen content of the monitor wafer obtained by the X-ray photoelectron spectrometer is within the normal fluctuation range, and determining that the X-ray photoelectron spectrometer is stable.
US11327021B1
A method and a device for crop canopy chlorophyll fluorescence three-dimensional distribution information acquisition are provided. The device includes a Cropobserver canopy chlorophyll fluorescence detection device, a 3D camera and a computer system. The 3D camera is connected to the computer system, Visual studio 2017 and MATLAB 2018 are run in the computer system, and the Visual studio 2017 calls a point cloud library and a computer vision library to realize three-dimensional visualization of chlorophyll fluorescence information of crops to be tested. By means of the new method and the new device, the problem of incompleteness of the two-dimensional chlorophyll fluorescence information distribution acquired is solved, overall 3D visual distribution of crop canopy chlorophyll fluorescence distribution is realized, and important technical support is provided for acquisition and research of three-dimensional visual distribution information of chlorophyll fluorescence of the whole crop canopy.
US11327017B2
High-throughput hyperspectral imaging systems are provided. According to an aspect of the invention, a system includes an excitation light source; an objective that is configured to image excitation light onto the sample, such that the excitation light causes the sample to emit fluorescence light; a channel separator that is configured to separate the fluorescence light into a plurality of spatially dispersed spectral channels; and a sensor. The excitation light source includes a light source and a plurality of lenslet arrays. Each of the lenslet arrays is configured to receive light from the light source and to generate a pattern of light, and the patterns of light generated by the lenslet arrays are combined to form the excitation light. The objective is configured to simultaneously image each of the patterns of light to form a plurality of parallel lines or an array of circular spots at different depths of the sample.
US11327012B2
A system for measuring a periodic array of structures on a sample is provided. The system includes an optical source configured to produce an optical beam; an optical system configured to control the polarization of the optical beam and to focus the optical beam with a first NA1 on a sample surface and to sweep the angle of incidence across a range of angles with an approximately fixed focal position on a sample surface with a second NA2 wherein NA2>NA1; additional optical components configured to receive the optical beam reflected from the sample surface and to focus the reflected beam onto a detector; and a recording system to record the reflectivity of the sample surface as a function of the angle of incidence.
US11327009B2
A device is provided for IR-spectroscopy and for determining an impairment of a surface which is exposed to measuring radiation during the IR-spectroscopy. The device includes a radiation source to generate the measuring radiation a detector and a sample receptacle for receiving a sample. The sample receptacle is at least partially delimited by the surface. The detector measures radiation after interaction with the sample. The device is configured to measure an IR-reference spectrum of a reference sample which is received in the sample receptacle, evaluate the reference spectrum, determine an indicator of the impairment, wherein evaluating encompasses an integration of a quantity which is based on the reference spectrum over a predetermined integration spectral range, wherein the indicator is determined dependently on a value of the integration.
US11326999B2
A device and a method for detecting fluid particle characteristics. The device comprises a fluid composition sensor configured to receive a volume of fluid and a controller. The fluid composition sensor comprises a collection media configured to receive one or more particles of a plurality of particles within the fluid; and an imaging device configured to capture an image of one or more particles of the plurality of particles received by the collection media. The controller is configured to determine a particle impaction depth of each of the one or more particles of the plurality of particles within the collection media; and, based at least in part on the particle impaction depth of each of the one or more particles of the plurality of particles, determine a particulate matter mass concentration within the volume of fluid.
US11326995B2
The invention provides a multi-functional true triaxial shear test device and method for hard rocks, the device comprises a hydraulic system, a left-end combination tangential loading oil cylinder, a right-end combination tangential loading oil cylinder, a front-end combination lateral loading oil cylinder, a rear-end combination lateral loading oil cylinder, an upper normal loading oil cylinder, a lower normal loading oil cylinder, an annular framework, a lateral auxiliary push-and-pull framework, an annular framework support platform, a horizontal support platform and a test chamber. The stiffness of the device is improved, and besides, a total section stress covering loading manner of the rock samples in a shear process is guaranteed. Through improving a temperature reduction manner of front ends of the oil cylinders, the situation that high temperature does not enable the temperature of hydraulic oil in the oil cylinders to rise to affect normal motion of the actuator can be guaranteed.
US11326994B2
The present disclosure provides for parallel sample stress rupture test in a controlled environment by loading predefined amounts of weight on stack lines; positioning the stack lines on a tensioning platform in alignment with respective upper clamps when the tensioning platform is a first distance away from the upper clamps; clamping samples to a corresponding lower clamp and upper clamp pair; and moving the tensioning platform to a second distance away from the upper clamps that is greater than the first distance such that the stack lines are suspended above the tensioning platform to apply individual tensions to the individual samples based on the predefined amount of weight loaded onto the individual stack lines.
US11326993B2
Provide is a deformation testing apparatus in which a sign of breakage of a specimen under a deformation test can be detected before an actual breakage. The deformation testing apparatus carrying out a plurality of deformation cycles includes an image capturing means; reference data storing means storing the reference data showing the deformation state calculated based on the reference image data shot by the image capturing means; reference cycle number deformation data calculating means to calculate the reference data; detection cycle number deformation data calculating means to calculate detection cycle number deformation data showing the deformation state based on the detection image data shot at the detection cycle number being larger than the reference cycle number; and change detection means to detect that the deformation caused in the specimen is changed based on the reference cycle number deformation data and the detection cycle number deformation data.
US11326992B2
Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to analyte detection and products facilitating the collection, separation of sample components, and analyte detection. The multilayer device that allows for a rapid, easy, accurate, and efficient test of a fluid sample for analytes of interest and methods of collecting, separating components, and testing using the multilayer device are described in various embodiments of the invention.
US11326989B2
Devices and systems are provided herein relating to a novel and rapid assay for tissue staining. Methods for using the devices and systems for analyzing tissue samples are also disclosed.
US11326987B2
A cultivation and sampling method for plants grown in a multi-section sampling device, the sampling device including an upper section with an upper section identifier and a number of cultivation containers, and a lower section with a lower section identifier and an equal number of sample containers. When the sampling device is in an assembled position, the upper section is connected to the lower section such that the sample containers are arranged to correspond to the cultivation containers being underneath them.
US11326983B2
A circuit retaining system can include a contact monitoring system configured to determine if a retainer is providing at least a selected force and/or pressure to a circuit board when the retainer is retaining the circuit board. The contact monitoring system can include a force and/or pressure sensor configured to be disposed between the retainer and the circuit board and to output a force and/or pressure sensor signal indicating a contact force and/or pressure.
US11326976B2
A seal integrity verification system includes a pressure source, a valve, and a pressure sensor. The pressure source is fluidly connected to a housing having at least one sealing member. The valve is fluidly connected to the pressure source and the housing. The valve is movable between a first open position and a closed position. The pressure sensor is arranged to provide a first signal indicative of a pressure within the housing.
US11326974B2
In a canister horizontally installed and housed inside a concrete silo, at least two temperatures out of a temperature TB at a canister bottom portion to be one end portion in a lateral direction in a horizontally-installed attitude, a temperature TSB at a canister side surface lower portion located below a horizontal plane passing through a center of the canister, a temperature TT at a canister lid portion to be the other end portion in the lateral direction, and a temperature TST at a canister side surface upper portion located above the horizontal plane passing through the center of the canister are monitored, and occurrence of leakage of an inert gas inside the canister is detected when there is a change in a temperature difference between the at least two temperatures.
US11326971B2
A pressure sensing device comprising a body assembly, a connector assembly, an electronic circuit, and a pressure sensor is provided. The pressure sensing device is a compact device allowing for improved assembly. Moreover, the pressure sensing device allows for a leakage test and an electronic circuit control test to be performed before the assembly of the device thereby improving reliability and precision.
US11326969B2
A micromechanical sensor includes a substrate having a cavity; a flexible diaphragm spanning the cavity; and a lever element that spans the diaphragm and has a first and second end section on opposite sides of a center section. A first joint element is between the first end section and the substrate and a second joint element is between the center section and the diaphragm. The lever element can be pivoted due to a deflection of the diaphragm. Two capacitive sensors are provided, each having two electrodes, one electrode of each sensor being mounted at one of the end sections of the lever element, and the other being mounted on the substrate. The electrodes are disposed so that distances between the electrodes of different sensors are influenced oppositely when the lever element is pivoted. Also, an actuator is provided for applying an actuating force between the lever element and the substrate.
US11326967B2
A strain gauge includes a strain detecting unit and a temperature detecting unit that are formed on or above a flexible substrate. The strain detecting unit includes a resistor formed as a film containing Cr, CrN, and Cr2N, on one surface of a functional layer. A first metallic layer formed of a material of which a gauge factor is less than that of the resistor is laminated on a folded portion, and a resistance value of the first metallic layer on the folded portion is less than a resistance value of the folded portion. The temperature detecting unit is a thermocouple including a second metallic layer formed of a same material as the resistor, on or above the substrate; and a third metallic layer formed of a same material as the first metallic layer, on the second metallic layer.
US11326961B2
The present invention relates to integrated circuits. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for determining temperatures of an integrated circuit using an one-point calibration technique, where temperature is determined by a single temperature measurement and calculation using known electrical characteristics of the integrated circuit.
US11326941B2
Eyewear having monitoring capability, such as for radiation or motion, is disclosed. Radiation, such as ultraviolet (UV) radiation, infrared (IR) radiation or light, can be measured by a detector. The measured radiation can then be used in providing radiation-related information to a user of the eyewear. Motion can be measure by a detector, and the measured motion can be used to determine whether the eyewear is being worn.
US11326937B2
A vibration transducer module for detecting a vibratory signal, comprising a base, a spring connected to the base at a first location, a mass mechanically coupled to the spring at a second location remote from the first location, and a wall configured to position a first wall electrode and a second wall electrode a selected distance from the first location, the conductive element positioned and sized to contact the first wall electrode and the second wall electrode. The mass comprises a conductive element, and an energy harvester to provide a first voltage signal. The energy harvester may comprise a piezoelectric material or be construct as a SAW device. The module may be combined with a rectifier and an oscillator to form a vibration sensor.
US11326925B2
Disclosed is a probe unit for a capacitive and/or conductive apparatus for determining and/or monitoring of at least one process variable of a medium in a containment, comprising a rod-shaped probe body, which is embodied in the form of a hollow body, especially with a cylindrical wall, and which has an internal volume, at least one ring-shaped electrode placeable, especially releasably, around the wall of the probe body, and at least one securement unit, which is embodied to secure the at least one electrode, especially releasably, at a predeterminable position on the probe body. Further disclosed is an apparatus for capacitive and/or conductive determining and/or monitoring of at least one process variable of a medium in a containment and having a probe unit of the present disclosure.
US11326924B2
Disclosed in one embodiment are a device for measuring water level by using a capacitive technique, and a method therefor. A device for measuring water level comprises: an electrode unit which includes a first electrode and a second electrode arranged in parallel in a lengthwise direction, and which allow voltages to be applied to the first electrode and the second electrode; and a control unit for measuring the applied voltages, calculating the amount of reference charging time it takes to reach a second voltage from a predetermined first voltage on the basis of the measured voltages, and determining water level on the basis of the calculated reference charging time.
US11326923B2
A tamper-resistant lid assembly for dispensing a premeasured amount of liquid from a beverage container and a method of providing a tamper-resistant lid assembly for use in dispensing a premeasured amount of liquid. The assembly includes a cup and a ring that are secured to one another using a snap-fit connection, as well as a lockable connection enabled by a selectively twistable rotation of the cup and the ring once the snap-fit connection is established.
US11326922B2
An apparatus for metering and dispensing a predetermined amount of a viscous substance includes an inlet fluidly connected to a supply flow path that branches into a metering flow path and a first dispensing flow path which branches into a second dispensing flow path that is angled relative to the first dispensing flow path. The apparatus also includes a supply valve disposed in the supply flow path, a dispensing valve disposed in the first dispensing flow path and the second dispensing flow path, a metering piston disposed in the metering flow path, and a dispensing piston. A method of metering and dispensing a volume of a viscous substance is also provided.
US11326918B2
A flowmeter is disposed in a passage through which a fluid flows. The flowmeter includes a first passage and a second passage. The first passage defines an opening through which a part of the fluid flows into the flowmeter from the passage. The second passage branches off from the first passage and includes a flow rate detector configured to detect a flow rate of the fluid flowing through the second passage from the first passage. The second passage has one end at which the second passage branches off from the first passage and the other end. The second passage includes at least one end opening at the other end and an inflow reducer configured to restrict the fluid from flowing into the second passage through the at least one end opening.
US11326903B1
An apparatus, comprising: a transmitting coil; a first receiving coil having a first receiving coil portion and a second receiving coil portion, the first receiving coil portion and the second receiving coil portion being coupled to one another, and the first receiving coil portion and the second receiving coil portion each including N lobes, where N is an integer and N≥1; a second receiving coil having a third receiving coil portion and a fourth receiving coil portion, the third receiving coil portion and the fourth receiving coil portion being coupled to one another, and the third receiving coil portion and the fourth receiving coil portion each including N lobes; wherein the first receiving coil is disposed over the second receiving coil.
US11326894B2
Navigation devices and methods of operation are provided. The navigation device includes a communication unit; a display; an input unit for receiving an input of data; a communication unit; and a controller for controlling operation of the display and the input unit. The controller connects to a data server through the communication unit, requests path setting information to the data server, receives the path setting information from the data server, acquires present position information of the navigation device, acquires a user moving path by reflecting the acquired position information and the received path setting information, and sets the user moving path as a guidance path. In this case, the path setting information is generated in another electronic device or the data server based on user input information input from the another electronic device.
US11326893B2
A vehicle display device calculates a travel distance limit of an own vehicle, based on an energy remaining amount of the own vehicle; calculates a degree of scattering being a numerical value indicating a degree of remoteness between a farthest supply facility farthest from the own vehicle, and other supply facilities present within a predetermined distance from the farthest supply facility; calculates a travelable distance being a distance by which the own vehicle is able to travel, based on the travel distance limit and the degree of scattering; and causes the display to display the calculated travelable distance. In the processing of calculating the travelable distance, the travelable distance is decreased, as the degree of scattering increases.
US11326885B2
An inertial measurement device includes: a shell, sensor components and vibration damping components installed in the shell. The sensor components include an integrated circuit board, an inertial sensor connected to the integrated circuit board, and a barometric sensor connected to the integrated circuit board. The vibration damping components include a first cushion, a first weighting piece, a second weighting piece and a second cushion which are connected successively. An accommodating cavity for accommodating the integrated circuit board is formed between the first weighting piece and the second weighting piece. The first weighting piece includes a holding cavity for accommodating the inertial sensor and a pressure chamber accommodating the barometric sensor and communicating with the exterior of the inertial measurement device.
US11326877B2
The invention can be used for determining absolute movements of objects. The problem to be solved consists in increasing the accuracy of the measurement of movements of an object when obstacles are present in the trajectory of motion thereof by eliminating error accumulation in the positioning of signal sources. A transducer is mounted on an object, separate sources of uniquely coded signals are used and/or groups of sources of a uniquely coded signal are formed, the separate sources of uniquely coded signals and/or formed groups of sources of a uniquely coded signal are placed randomly along the trajectory of movement of the object at any distance between any two consecutively mounted separate sources of a uniquely coded signal and/or between any two formed groups of sources of a uniquely coded signal, said distance not exceeding the measurement range of the transducer, a signal is directed at the moving object having the transducer, an output signal from the transducer regarding the position of the separate sources of uniquely coded signals and/or groups of sources of a uniquely coded signal is received, and the position of the object is determined.
US11326874B2
A structured light projection optical system for obtaining 3D data of an object surface includes a structured light projection optical part configured to project a plurality of patterns onto an object or a screen, and an imaging optical part configured to obtain 3D data by photographing the patterns being projected from the structured light projection optical part. The structured light projection optical part includes a plurality of light sources, and a plurality of pattern masks. As the plurality of light sources are turned on and off, the pattern mask matches any one of the plurality of light sources illuminating a light, and the plurality of patterns are projected on the object or the screen by the pattern mask. Accordingly, various patterns can be effectively projected, real-time measurement can be easily performed through a quick pattern change, and the accurate 3D data can be obtained.
US11326868B2
A position sensor system for determining a position of a sensor device relative to a magnetic structure, the system comprising: said magnetic structure comprising a plurality of non-equidistant poles; said sensor device comprising at least three magnetic sensors spaced apart over predefined distances; and the sensor device being adapted for: a) measuring at least three in-plane magnetic field components, and for calculating two in-plane field gradients therefrom; b) measuring at least three out-of-plane magnetic field components, and for calculating two out-of-plane field gradients therefrom; c) calculating a coarse signal based on these gradients; d) calculating a fine signal based on these gradients; e) determining said position based on the coarse signal and the fine signal.
US11326851B1
An automatic rifle storage assembly for storing an automatic rifle includes a first member that is mountable to a vertical support surface. A cup is coupled to and extends away from the first member to receive a muzzle of an automatic rifle. A second member is slidably inserted into the first member and the second member is mountable to the vertical support surface. A clamping unit is coupled to the second member to releasably engage a buffer tube of the automatic rifle for storing the automatic rifle in a vertical orientation.
US11326850B2
Methods and systems are provided for a firearms suppressor adapted with blowout panels. In one example, the blowout panels may be configured to have a lower tolerance for pressure than the materials from which outer components of the suppressor are formed. During over pressure events of the suppressor, the blowout panels may rupture, thereby dissipating pressure in the suppressor.
US11326846B1
A magazine follower is disclosed. The magazine follower may include: a magazine spring receptacle having, a bullet support surface having a first portion and a second portion, each bullet support portion is shaped to support a bullet in the magazine. Therefore, the second portion protrudes from the first portion. The magazine follower further includes a metallic flange, extending from the first portion and positioned in the front of the bullet support surface, in a direction facing a chamber of a firearm when the magazine follower is assembled in a magazine and the magazine is inserted into the firearm.
US11326844B2
An apparatus for cleaning heat exchangers may include a cleaning lance for cleaning a plurality of bores of the heat exchanger and an examination lance for examining a plurality of bores of the heat exchanger. The apparatus may further include a first feeder configured to extend and retract the cleaning lance and a second feeder configured to extend and retract the examination lance. The apparatus may further include a controller configured to control the first feeder to feed the cleaning lance into a first bore, to control the cleaning lance to clean the first bore, and to control the first feeder to retract the cleaning lance from the first bore.
US11326830B2
A modular refrigeration system includes refrigeration modules that contain a high side cassette including a compressor and a condenser that is slidable into and out of a framework. A low side cassette including an evaporator is positioned in an area to be refrigerated in proximity to the framework and the high side cassette. A suction refrigerant pipe extends between the high side and low side cassettes and supplies refrigerant to the condenser from the evaporator. A liquid refrigerant pipe returns refrigerant from the condenser to the evaporator. The suction refrigerant pipe and/or liquid refrigerant pipes may include threaded connections and/or quick connects/disconnects to be easily disconnected and allow removal of the high side cassette from the framework. Heat is transferred from the refrigerant to the coolant in the condenser in the high side cassette.
US11326829B2
The present invention (1) relates to a folding and portable refrigerated cabinet comprising a locked-compartments structure, made up of the reversible combination of three elements:—a plinth,—a folding exterior structure positioned on the plinth,—a folding interior structure with compartments set into the exterior structure, the plinth containing a refrigeration unit, the folding exterior structure comprising a hermetically sealed facade closed by a refrigeration door, the other sides being covered with a removable isothermal insulation means (4), the folding interior structure with compartments being made up of at least one module comprising walls delimiting at least one closed volume inside the folding exterior structure, said closed volume constituting a compartment (24, 25, 26, 27) provided with a mobile partition allowing the volume of the compartment to be varied as two sub-compartments (24′/24″, 25′/25″, 26′/26″, 27′/27″), each of said compartments and sub-compartments being closed by a door comprising a secured-access means.
US11326828B2
A refrigerator including a compressor, a condenser, and an expansion unit that constitute a refrigeration cycle, an evaporator that evaporates a refrigerant that has passed through the expansion unit, a heating unit that provides heat for defrosting the evaporator, and a frost sensor unit that is provided at one side of the evaporator to sense the amount of frost on the evaporator, the frost sensor unit including a sound-source transmitting unit that generates a sound-source of a first volume to the evaporator, and a sound-source receiving unit that receives a sound-source of a second volume formed after the sound-source transmitted by the sound-source transmitting unit reflects from or passes through the evaporator, and a controller that controls the heating unit to generate heat, when the difference between the first volume and the second volume reaches a predetermined value.
US11326826B2
Automated blast gel pack conditioning equipment is provided and includes a housing with an evaporator and heater and defining a void space for containing a set of gel packs, at least one fan for circulating air within the housing such that a path of air flow extends through an air insufflation end to an air return end within the housing, at least one temperature sensor located within the housing, and a controller for receiving temperature measurements from the at least one temperature sensor and for automatically controlling operation of the evaporator, heater, and fans during phase change processing and conditioning of gel packs. A method of phase change processing and conditioning gel packs and a temperature sensor assembly are also provided.
US11326823B2
A household refrigeration apparatus has an interior container with a first wall and with a second wall arranged angled thereto. The interior container bounds a first receiving space for food of the household refrigeration apparatus. An ice maker has a housing formed by a wall area of the first wall of the interior container and a wall area of the second wall of the interior container in certain areas. The housing bounds a receiving space of the ice maker. The housing has a wall unit, which is a unit separate from the interior container. The wall unit includes at least one positioning element, which is formed integrally with the wall unit and which is a protruding plug pin or a locking element.
US11326820B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for a TRS to automatically sense a voltage level and configuration of an input AC power provided by an AC power source and automatically adapt to the input AC power being used are provided. When the voltage level of an input AC power supplied to a TRS changes, the TRS can automatically detect the change of the voltage level, and adjust a winding configuration of a compressor motor of the TRS and a voltage level of the TRS based on the detected voltage level of the input AC power.
US11326819B2
A refrigeration apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit including: a compressor, a radiator, an expansion mechanism, and an evaporator. The refrigerant circuit encloses a refrigerant that contains a fluorinated hydrocarbon that causes a disproportionation reaction. The refrigerant circuit further includes: a discharged refrigerant recovery receiver that is connected to a path between a discharge side of the compressor and a gas side of the radiator through a discharged refrigerant branch pipe; and a discharged refrigerant relief mechanism that is disposed in the discharged refrigerant branch pipe and that connects the discharge side of the compressor with the discharged refrigerant recovery receiver when the refrigerant on the discharge side of the compressor satisfies a predetermined condition. The predetermined condition includes at least one of a first condition under which the refrigerant does not yet cause the disproportionation reaction and a second condition under which the refrigerant causes the disproportionation reaction.
US11326817B2
An ice making system includes: a refrigerant circuit that performs a vapor compression refrigeration cycle and that includes a compressor, a condenser that condenses refrigerant discharged from the compressor, a first expansion valve with an adjustable opening degree that decompresses the refrigerant from the condenser, a flooded evaporator that evaporates the refrigerant decompressed by the first expansion valve, and a superheater that imparts a degree of superheating to the refrigerant discharged from the flooded evaporator; a circulation circuit that circulates a medium that is cooled by the flooded evaporator; and a control device that controls the adjustable opening degree of the first expansion valve such that the superheater imparts to the refrigerant discharged from the flooded evaporator a degree of superheating at which dryness of the refrigerant is kept within a predetermined range of less than 1.
US11326815B2
A heat exchanger includes heat exchanger cores connected to a distributor. The inside of the distributor is divided into refrigerant flow paths, allowing the refrigerant to flow from one of the refrigerant flow paths to another one of the refrigerant flow paths. The heat transfer tubes of one of the heat exchanger cores disposed on a windward side of a flow of the air fed to the heat exchanger are connected to at least one of the refrigerant flow paths disposed in the distributor on an upstream side of a flow of the refrigerant. The heat transfer tubes of one of the heat exchanger cores disposed on a leeward side of the flow of the air fed to the heat exchanger are connected to at least one of the refrigerant flow paths disposed in the distributor on a downstream side of the flow of the refrigerant.
US11326811B2
A cryogenic refrigerator includes a pulse tube cryocooler including a pulse tube, and a pulse tube cryocooler rotating mechanism that rotatably supports the pulse tube cryocooler allowing it to be changed from a cooling posture to a heating posture. When the pulse tube cryocooler is in the cooling posture, an inclination angle formed between a vertical line and a center axis of the pulse tube is a first angle, and when the pulse tube cryocooler is in the heating posture, the inclination angle is a second angle. In a case where the inclination angle formed when a cold end of the pulse tube faces vertically downward is defined as zero degrees and the inclination angle formed when the cold end of the pulse tube faces vertically upward is defined as 180 degrees, the second angle is larger than the first angle.
US11326810B2
Falling particle solar receivers, systems, and methods are disclosed that include one non-linear falling particle curtain or two or more falling particle curtains within a solar receiver that receives incident solar radiation. The particles heated in the solar receiver may be used to heat a secondary fluid. In an embodiment, the particles may be recirculated to improve energy capture and thermal efficiency. In other embodiments, an air curtain may be used across the aperture of the receiver, and flow-control devices may be used to evenly spread particles across the width of the receiver inlet. Finally, feed particles may be preheated using heat from the solar receiver.
US11326804B2
An air-conditioning system includes a plurality of indoor units; a relay unit including an intermediate heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between refrigerant and a heat medium; and a heat source unit configured to supply cooling energy or heating energy to each of the plurality of indoor units via the relay unit. The heat source unit and the relay unit are connected by a heat-source connection pipe through which the refrigerant flows, and the relay unit and the plurality of indoor units are connected by a load connection pipe through which the heat medium flows. The load connection pipe comprises a main pipe connecting between the relay unit and one of the indoor units provided at an end of the load connection pipe opposite to the relay unit. The main pipe has branch parts associated with the indoor units.
US11326802B2
The disclosed technology includes a controller for a cascade boiler system having both condensing and non-condensing boilers. The controller can receive supply water temperature data and return water temperature data to determine a current temperature differential in the system. The controller can determine a current load demand value using the current temperature differential and a set point temperature. If the current load demand value is less than or equal to a first load demand threshold, the controller can output a control signal for a condensing boiler to transition to a heating mode. If the current load demand value is greater than a second load demand threshold, the controller can output a control signal for a non-condensing boiler to transition to a heating mode.
US11326801B2
An environmental apparatus controller performs control over multiple types of environmental apparatuses, and includes a grasping unit, learning control plan output means, and a selection control unit. The grasping unit grasps current mental and physical condition information of a user, environmental situation information, and target relationship information between a target mental and physical condition and a present mental and physical condition. The learning control plan output means outputs a control change plan for each combination of multiple types of the environmental apparatuses according to the current mental and physical condition information, the environmental situation information, and the target relationship information. The selection control unit selects one of a plurality of the control change plans output by the learning control plan output means and executes the plan. The learning control plan output means performs learning such that a method of determining the control change plans to be output is updated.
US11326797B2
A gas sensing system for an air conditioner unit is provided. The air conditioner unit includes a bulkhead that divides a cabinet into an indoor portion and an outdoor portion, and a compressor circulates refrigerant through a sealed system. An electrically protected housing is positioned within the indoor portion and defines a sensor enclosure for receiving a gas sensor for measuring a gas concentration of leaked refrigerant within the sensor enclosure. The housing includes vent apertures to permit leaked refrigerant to enter the sensor enclosure while the vent apertures are covered by filters to prevent contaminants from entering the sensor enclosure.
US11326795B2
An air conditioning system includes an outdoor air latent cooling treatment stage providing parallel airflow with a return air sensible cooling treatment stage. A mixer mixes the treated outdoor air with the return air to form the conditioned space supply air. A first relative humidity controller monitors the outdoor air relative humidity and separates the outdoor air from saturation to maintain relative humidity in outdoor air ducting below a predetermined mould growth limit. A second relative humidity controller monitors the conditioned space supply air relative humidity and separates the space supply air from saturation to maintain relative humidity in space supply air ducting below a predetermined mould growth limit. The outdoor air latent cooling treatment stage includes a dehumidification heat exchanger, combination pre-cooling and heat reclaim heat exchangers, or a heat transfer pump. The return air sensible cooling treatment stage includes at least a sensible cooling heat exchanger.
US11326781B2
A liner for a combustor includes a first wall and a second wall extending around at least a portion of the first wall to form a liner cavity with the first wall. The first wall defines a first wall orifice and the second wall defines a second wall orifice. The liner further includes a first insert mounted on the second wall within the second wall orifice and extending through the first wall orifice. The first insert is configured to direct a first air jet through the second wall and the first wall. The first insert is formed by a tubular body portion extending through the first wall orifice and the second wall orifice, and a shoulder extending around the body portion that abuts the first side of the second wall. The shoulder has a first diameter and the first wall orifice has a second diameter, greater than the first diameter.
US11326779B2
A combustion/pyrolization system for generating at least one of char and biochar comprising an upper base frame supporting a combustion/pyrolization housing, and the combustion/pyrolization housing having both an open top end and an open bottom end. A char collection bin defining a collection chamber therein and a perforated grate normally covering the open top end of the char collection bin. The perforated grate being sized so as to permit desired sized char and/or biochar to pass therethrough into the collection chamber. The open bottom end of the combustion/pyrolization housing of the upper base frame is movable into an engaged position where the combustion/pyrolization housing partially receives and surrounds the perforated grate and defines a combustion/pyrolization chamber for receiving and consuming feed material. The upper base frame is movable out of engagement with the perforated grate to facilitate movement of the perforated grate and removal of the generated char and/or biochar.
US11326774B2
A steam generating system includes a nozzle assembly for pulverized coal and air, the coal nozzle assembly comprises an inner housing (3) for conveying primary air and coal and an outer housing (5) for conveying secondary air to an exit face (13) of a nozzle tip (1), wherein the outer housing (3) and the inner housing (5) are arranged coaxially and limit a channel (15) for the secondary air, wherein the cross-sectional area (AIH) of the inner housing (3) increases towards the exit face (13) of the nozzle tip (1), wherein the cross-sectional area (AOH) of the outer housing (5) decreases towards the exit face (13), and wherein bars (11) are located in the inner housing (3) near the exit face (13) that accelerate the velocity of the primary air and coal particles.
US11326773B2
A waste heat recovery boiler in producing glass beads includes an equipment base arranged at the lower part of the waste heat recovery boiler. The upper part of the equipment base is connected with a cylindrical combustion production chamber, the lower part of the combustion production chamber is provided with a raw material inlet with single-layer or staggered layers. A finished product outlet is arranged at the lower end inside the combustion diffusion chamber, a membrane wall is arranged outside the combustion diffusion chamber, a steam-water lead-out straight tube system is symmetrically arranged at the upper end of the combustion diffusion chamber, a top annular water collecting tank is connected between the steam-water lead-out straight tube system and a steam-water lead-out tube system, and the steam-water lead-out tube system is connected with an upper drum.
US11326772B2
Provided is a boiler configured to perform heating by a heat generation section provided with heat generation bodies in a container and capable of properly charging a circulation path including, as part thereof, the inside of the container with required gas. A boiler includes: heat generation bodies; a container configured such that the heat generation bodies are provided inside and configured chargeable with gas with higher specific heat than that of air; and a circulation path including, as part thereof, the inside of the container, the circulation path being a path in which gas circulates. When the charging process of charging the circulation path with the gas is performed, a circulation amount and a gas concentration in the circulation path are monitored.
US11326765B2
A lighting device configured for controlling a light radiation direction thereof, may include a housing provided with a light source; a lens unit provided in the housing, the lens unit being configured to concentrate the light generated from the light source; a length-variable unit mounted to the housing, the length-variable unit being configured so that a length thereof is changed, in a response to application of electricity thereto, in a direction in which the position of the lens unit is changed; and a controller configured to control a light radiation direction of the lens unit by setting a voltage of the electricity to be applied to the length-variable unit so that a length of the length-variable unit is changed according to a set voltage and the position of the lens unit is changed according to a change in the length of the length-variable unit.
US11326758B1
An illumination system for a vehicle includes a light source to emit light along an optical path and into an environment. A lens is positioned along the optical path and configured to collimate the light to a light beam. An optical element, having a body comprising four sides and a reflective member within the body, is positioned along the optical path and configured to redirect the light beam. The optical element is configured to move around an optical element axis to change a direction the light beam is transmitted into the environment. The illumination system is configured to receive a target position within the environment and move the optical element to fixate the light beam onto the target position.
US11326751B2
A flame simulating device has a light source which is reflected by a rotating device which has mirrors which are spaced apart. The spaced apart mirrors rotate, and thus provide a selective reflection, at some points reflecting during time and at other points not reflecting during time. This produces a flickering effect. The flickering effect is shown through a cut out in the shape of the flame, to display a simulated flame devi effect. The display screen for the simulated effect can be a part mirror, and can display, for example, an artificial log mixed in with the flame effect.
US11326747B2
Various examples concern techniques for opto-mechanically manipulating LED-based lighting systems. More specifically, various embodiments concern creating patterns of colored LEDs by determining the preferred color-specific density distribution and sequence(s) of LEDs. When creating the patterns, multiple considerations can be taken into account, including the power to be shared amongst the color channels when certain color models are generated by the linear array of LEDs, allocating an appropriate number of LEDs to each color channel to support the desired color spectrum, the sequencing of those LEDs along a string (e.g., as part of a linear array), etc. The appropriate number of LEDs for each color channel may be determined by first establishing the color model of the linear array within which the LEDs are interleaved.
US11326742B2
Provided is a valve for high-pressure gas, wherein a sheet member is provided inside a through hole formed in a valve body of the valve, wherein the sheet member constitutes a channel for high-pressure gas inside the through hole, wherein the sheet member is fixed inside the through hole by a pressing member, wherein an end opening of the through hole is closed by a lid member, wherein a gasket is provided at a peripheral part of the end opening of the through hole, wherein the gasket is sandwiched between the lid member and the valve body, wherein the lid member is pressed toward the valve body by a plug, and wherein a bearing is provided between the plug and the lid member.
US11326735B1
A mounting bracket for mounting an electronic device to the T-bar of a drop ceiling provides for self-locking snap-action securing of the mounting bracket to a flange of the T-bar, suspending the mounting bracket from the T-bar. The mounting bracket also provides for self-locking snap-action attachment of the mounted device to the bracket, suspending the device from the suspended mounting bracket. A split adapter allows vertical offsetting of the device from the ceiling, reducing vertical displacement of ceiling tiles resting on the T-bar. The split adapter has two halves the are laterally slid on to the T-bar flange and are then longitudinally slid together to be joined against lateral separation. The composite adapter thus formed presents an adapter flange to which the mounting bracket snap-secures, the mounting bracket locking the adapter halves against longitudinal separation.
US11326734B2
A monolithic gimbal includes a top body portion having a top surface configured to be mounted to a housing, a middle body portion coupled to the top body portion, and a bottom body portion coupled to the middle body portion. The bottom body portion has a bottom surface configured to be mounted to a device. The monolithic gimbal further includes first flexure blades integrally formed with the top body portion and the middle body portion. The first flexure blades enable rotation of the top body portion and the bottom body portion about a first axis. The monolithic gimbal further includes second flexure blades integrally formed with the middle body portion and the bottom body portion. The second flexure blades enable rotation of the top body portion and the bottom body portion about a second axis that is perpendicular to the first axis.
US11326731B2
Example aspects of a deployment probe for deploying a stent, a pipe repair assembly, and a method for repairing a pipeline are disclosed. The deployment probe for deploying a stent can comprise a probe body defining an inner surface, an outer surface, and a slot extending from the inner surface to the outer surface, the inner surface defining a probe void, the probe void defining a probe axis, the slot extending in an axial direction relative to the probe axis; and a release mechanism comprising a retainer body received within the probe void and a stent retainer coupled to the retainer body, the stent retainer substantially aligned with the slot and configured to engage a stent.
US11326730B2
A support assembly comprises a mounting bracket and a coupling component. The mounting bracket comprises a first material and has an engagement surface defining a void along a first axis. The coupling component comprises a second material, which is different than the first material. The coupling component has a first end, a second end, and an intermediate portion. The intermediate portion extends through, and partially fills, the void defined by the mounting bracket. The intermediate portion defines a fluid passageway about the first axis within the void and also presents a locking surface. The locking surface abuts the engagement surface to prevent rotation of the coupling component with respect to the mounting bracket.
US11326724B2
A plastic drain pipe for drainage includes a first end, a second end, and a pipe sub-section between the first end and the second end. The pipe sub-section includes a collapsible section of corrugated pipe, a first non-collapsible section of corrugated pipe, and a second non-collapsible section of corrugated pipe. The collapsible section of corrugated pipe has a first joining area and a second joining area. The first non-collapsible section of corrugated pipe is connected to the collapsible section of corrugated pipe at the first joining area, and the second non-collapsible section of corrugated pipe is connected to the collapsible section of corrugated pipe at the second joining area.
US11326721B2
An apparatus having a flexible conduit which includes a flexible member and a rigid member in fluid communication with the flexible member, and a releasable connector. The releasable connector has a first member and a second member. When a releasing force is applied to the flexible conduit, the releasable connector separates. The apparatus also includes a shock absorber to configured to absorb a load when the releasable connector separates. The shock absorber may include elastomeric pads between rigid plates, a rotary dampener, a spring, rod and piston, or an elastic strap.
US11326720B2
A pipe support system includes a pipe base, a threaded stud having a head, a saddle supported above the pipe base, and a shoe removably nested along a concave upper surface of the saddle. Methods for installing the pipe support system include determining a height of a joint of pipe above a ground surface; selecting a length of pipe for the pipe base in accordance with the height of the joint of pipe above the ground surface, thereby making a macro-adjustment; and rotating a threaded stud relative to a stud housing in order to make a micro-adjustment to the height of t\he joint of pipe; and placing the joint of pipe onto the shoe, thereby supporting the pipe above the ground surface. A method for replacing the shoe when it becomes worn is also provided by reversing said installation.
US11326717B1
A three-way (3-way) Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)-based micro-valve device and method of fabrication for the implementation of a three-way MEMS-based micro-valve which uses a single piezoelectric actuator. The present invention has a wide range of applications including medical, industrial control, aerospace, automotive, consumer electronics and products, as well as any application(s) requiring the use of three-way micro-valves for the control of fluids. The present invention allows for the implementation of a three-way microvalve device and method of fabrication that can be tailored to the requirements of a wide range of applications and fluid types. The microvalve may employ a novel pressure-balancing scheme wherein the fluid pressure balances the actuator mechanism so that only a small amount of actuation pressure (or force) is needed to switch the state of the actuator and device from open to closed, or closed to open.
US11326714B2
A multi-directional touch valve has a valve unit and a press unit. The valve unit has a housing, a main flow channel, and a switching unit. The housing has a shoulder portion being adjacent to an outlet end of the housing. The switching unit is mounted in the housing and selectively blocks the main flow channel. The press unit is connected with the valve unit and has a passing portion, a hanging portion, and an abutting portion. The hanging portion is movably held on the shoulder portion and has an inner edge spaced from an outer surface of the housing and a space formed in a side of the at least one hanging portion facing the passing portion. The press unit can be pressed from any of axial direction, transversal directions, and oblique directions to switch the switching unit.
US11326711B2
The invention relates to a control valve (10) for a process plant, comprising an actuator (16) which is connected to, and spaced from, a valve body (12) of a valve unit (11) via a yoke (14), the valve body (12) having a housing flange (32) which is detachably connected to the yoke (14), with the valve body (12) having an inlet (20) and an outlet (22) adapted to allow the flow of a process fluid therethrough, which inlet (20) and outlet (22) are each arranged in a fluid connection region (18, 19), and with an actuating member adapted to be displaced by the actuator (16) for controlling the flow rate of the process fluid being arranged in the passage (24) from the inlet (20) to the outlet (22). The invention is characterized in that the housing flange (32) connected to the yoke (14) has at least one recess (44) as well as a yoke fastening region (33), with the yoke fastening region (33) being formed as a bolt hole circle (34) with radially arranged connecting holes (36).
US11326710B2
A valve with an electrodynamic actuator includes a magnet device that generates a magnetic field and a drive element that is movable relative to the magnet device. The drive element is pivotally mounted and comprises a current-carrying air coil that is arranged in the magnetic field and is fixedly coupled to a coil carrier made of a non-magnetic material. Sealing surfaces for sealing valve seats are arranged on two opposite sides of the drive element, such that the sealing surfaces face in opposite directions. A housing is comprised of a plurality of plastic housing parts and a metallic encasement. The metallic encasement surrounds an upper area of the housing in which the electrodynamic actuator is arranged and at least partially surrounds a lower area of the housing in which fluid channels are arranged.
US11326703B2
An oil control valve for a cam phaser of an internal combustion engine, the oil control valve including a valve housing, including a first operating connection, a second operating connection, a supply connection, and a tank drain connection configured to drain a hydraulic fluid; a piston assembly, including a piston, a hollow check valve tube, a first check valve and a second check valve configured to provide cam torque recirculation, wherein the piston assembly is arranged in the housing axially displaceable by an actuator, wherein a control chamber is arranged within the piston between the first check valve and the second check valve and wherein a check valve compression spring which closes the first check valve and the second check valve is arranged within the piston between the first check valve and the second check valve.
US11326700B2
Systems and methods are disclosed that include providing a valve suitable for maintaining a seal and preventing fluid flow through the valve at cryogenic temperatures. The valve includes a valve body having a longitudinal axis along a flow path through the valve, a ball selectively rotatable within the valve body to selectively allow fluid flow through the valve, a seat formed within the valve body and comprising a cavity having an angled wall, and a seat insert at least partially disposed within the cavity and having a first sealing surface that forms a first sealing interface with the ball to prevent leakage through a first leakage path and a second sealing surface that forms a second sealing interface with the angled wall to prevent leakage through a second leakage path when the ball valve is selectively rotated to prevent fluid flow through the valve.
US11326695B2
A metal gasket (10) installed between a cylinder head and a cylinder block comprises at least one metal substrate (11) coated with a sealant (19) on its outer surface, and including a full bead (13) for cylinder bore hole sealing and a half bead (16) for liquid hole sealing. The half bead (16) includes: an inclined plate portion (16b) connected to a flat substrate body (11a) of the metal substrate (11) through a first bend portion (16a) and inclined with respect to the substrate body (11a); and an edge plate portion (16d) connected to the inclined plate portion (16b) through a second bend portion (16c) and inclined with respect to the inclined plate portion (16b). A radius at a convex surface of the first bend portion (16a) and a radius at a concave surface of the second bend portion (16c) are in a range of 2.0 mm to 3.5 mm.
US11326694B2
A piston ring set of a cryogenic pump includes a first piston ring and a second piston ring which are dissimilarly shaped and cooperatively shaped to form a hollow cylindrical shape when in abutment to one another. The first piston ring is C-shaped and defines a middle portion disposed between a first end portion and a second end portion. A piston ring gap is disposed between a first distal end of the first end portion and a second distal end of the second end portion. When the first piston ring is in abutment with the second piston ring forming the hollow cylindrical shape, the second piston ring does not extend along the middle portion of the first piston ring while the second piston ring does extend along the first end portion and second end portion of the first piston ring.
US11326686B2
A utility vehicle has a CVT, an engine providing power to the CVT, a CVT case accommodating the CVT, front and rear wheels supporting the vehicle body frame on the ground surface and an exterior side panel supported to the vehicle body frame. The exterior side panel includes an inner wall located inside a vehicle cabin and an outer wall located outside the vehicle cabin. An intake chamber is formed between the inner wall and the outer wall of the exterior side panel. An intake opening portion is provided in the exterior side panel for introducing ambient air present around the exterior side panel to the intake chamber. The intake chamber and the CVT case are connected and communicated to each other via an intake hose.
US11326683B2
A method for controlling a process for manufacturing a bevel gear includes forming, via a first process, a ring gear and determining a first set of parameters associated with the ring gear, and forming, via a second process, the pinion gear, and determining a second set of parameters associated with the pinion gear. The ring gear and the pinion gear are paired, and a single-flank test is executed on the paired ring gear and pinion gear to determine a third set of parameters. The paired ring gear and pinion gear are assembled into a final assembly, and an end-of-line noise/vibration analysis of the final assembly is executed. The noise/vibration analysis, the first set of parameters, the second set of parameters, and the third set of parameters are evaluated, and one of the first process, the second process, the pairing process, and the assembly process are adjusted based thereon.
US11326674B2
Methods for producing a spindle nut, and spindle nuts produced by such methods are disclosed. The method for producing a spindle nut may include producing a blank which has a sleeve portion and a cylindrical outer surface by non-cutting shaping from sheet metal; and forming a thread provided for cooperation with a threaded spindle in the blank by non-cutting shaping, while maintaining the cylindrical outer surface of the sleeve portion.
US11326673B2
A linear actuator includes a motor, a shaft, and a casing. The shaft has a longitudinal axis, and the shaft is moveable along the longitudinal axis by the motor. The casing supports the motor and the shaft with a tapered roller bearing positioned between at least a portion of the shaft and a portion of the casing.
US11326672B2
A power transmitting chain that operates between continuously variable pulley sheaves, but which is retained by radial locking forces rather than by teeth, sprockets, strain forces, or tangential friction. The chain is comprised of three basic elements: 1) An inner drive-chain of conventional chain links, which transmits power, but which is free-floating with no contact with the sheaves; 2) an outer series of chocks which immovably wedge into place between the sheave faces; and 3) radial links that are arranged to form the connections between the drive-chain and each of the chocks. The connecting links pivot or swing longitudinally, in both directions at both ends, and are arranged radially, so only radial forces are transmitted between the drive-chain and the chocks. With the primary vectors nearly perpendicular and restricted to angles well below tangency, the chocks are immovably seated and will not slip. However, as the radial links are slightly angled, they also duplicate the necessary horizontal vector components to rotate the sheaves.
US11326670B2
A hydraulic tensioner for an internal combustion engine for tensioning a span of a chain or a belt has a piston with an internal reservoir connected to a high pressure chamber through a check valve assembly. The check valve assembly has a disk seat formed by an internal bulge within the piston; a check valve retainer within the piston, and a moveable disk that is received between the disk seat formed by the internal bulge and the check valve retainer and is moveable between a first position and a second position, and a check valve spring that is received between the check valve disk and the check valve retainer.
US11326665B2
The present invention relates to a transmission belt which is provided with: a rubber layer that is formed from a vulcanized product of a rubber composition which contains a rubber component containing an ethylene-α-olefin elastomer, a filler containing silica, a vulcanizing agent containing a sulfur-based vulcanizing agent, and a curable resin containing an amino resin; and a fiber member that is in contact with the rubber layer.
US11326664B2
A method for reshaping an electric drive signal of a real-time damper in a sprung mass system includes detecting a periodic frequency and magnitude of a target periodic vibration of a sprung mass. The periodic vibration has velocity and elasticity components that are 90 degrees out-of-phase. An electric drive signal to the real-time damper is reshaped by a controller depending on polarity of the velocity component to thereby generate a composite drive signal. The damper is energized using the composite drive signal to modify a damper force. Reshaping the electric drive signal includes injecting a force and/or an intermittent drive suppression component onto the electric drive signal based on the frequency and magnitude. The sprung mass system may have a frame and body, motion and wheel speed sensors, the real-time dampers, road wheels, and a controller programmed to perform the method.
US11326660B2
A reaction force generation unit includes an opposing member and a pressed body, which includes a base and domes, including a first dome, a second dome, and a third dome, bulging from the base. A leading end of each dome faces an opposing surface of the opposing member. When the pressing member presses the base, the leading ends of the domes move in a direction relatively close to the opposing member, where the domes become elastically deformed and cause an appropriate reaction force with respect to the handle. In a natural state where the pressed body is not subjected to any pressing force, axes of the domes are substantially parallel to each other, and acute angles formed by the axes and a normal line of the opposing surface are substantially similar to each other at a predetermined angle larger than zero degree.
US11326657B2
A method for operating an electrohydraulic transmission clutch of a motor vehicle, wherein, for a clutch operation, a hydraulic pressure is set by way of a regulating device of a controller as a function of a clutch signal, and, through the pressure, a disengagement element of the transmission clutch is moved through a soft region into a rigid region via a rigid point, or vice versa. The soft region is to be compensated for. Further, as a function of the clutch signal, the regulating device generates a preliminary target value signal for the pressure and a time derivative of the preliminary target value signal is generated as a movement signal, and a pilot control generates a pilot control signal as a function of the movement signal, and the preliminary target value signal and the pilot control signal are combined to give a final actuating value signal for the pressure.
US11326652B2
A friction clutch includes a housing, an axially displaceable pressure plate, a lever system for displacing the pressure plate, a ramp system arranged between the pressure plate and the lever system, a torsion device for rotating the ramp system, and a control device. The torsion device has a spindle to drive the ramp system and a drive gear with an external profile. The control device has a fastening portion fixed to the housing and a pawl with a plurality of tongues to forming a positive interlock. At least one tongue is arranged to engage the external profile. Each tongue is separated from another tongue by a gap extending in the axial direction. At least one gap, starting from a tip of the tongue, extends in the axial direction 30% or less of a minimum distance between the tip and the fastening portion.
US11326649B2
A rear-wheel drive shaft (1) includes a fixed type constant velocity universal joint (3), a plunging type constant velocity universal joint (2), and an intermediate shaft (4) coupling both the constant velocity universal joints to each other. A ratio (PCDBALL(f)/DBALL(f)) of a pitch circle diameter (PCDBALL(f)) of balls (33) of the fixed type constant velocity universal joint (3) to a diameter (DBALL(f)) of each of the balls (33) is set from 3.70 to 3.87. A ratio (PCDBALL(s)/DBALL(s)) of a pitch circle diameter (PCDBALL(s)) of balls (23) of the plunging type constant velocity universal joint (2) to a diameter (DBALL(s)) of each of the balls (23) is set from 3.3 to 3.6.
US11326634B2
A tubular structure is described herein comprising an elongate tubular member extending between a first end and a second end, wherein the tubular member comprises an inwardly tapered portion adjacent said first end, the inwardly tapered portion narrowing the tubular member in a longitudinal direction towards said first end. A nut is also provided internally of said tubular member at said inwardly tapered portion, said nut having an outer surface that is in contact an inner surface of said tubular member. An annular member is also provided externally of said tubular member at said inwardly tapered portion, said annular member having an inner surface that is in contact with said outer surface of said tapered portion. The inner surface of said tubular member at said inwardly tapered portion is tapered so as to extend at an angle that compliments an angle of the outer surface of said nut.
US11326627B2
A hydraulic system (600) and method for reducing boom dynamics of a boom (30), while providing counter-balance valve protection, includes a hydraulic cylinder (110), first and second counter-balance valves (300, 400), and first and second control valves (700, 800). A net load (90) is supported by a first chamber (116, 118) of the hydraulic cylinder, and a second chamber (118, 116) of the hydraulic cylinder may receive fluctuating hydraulic fluid flow from the second control valve to produce a vibratory response (950) that counters environmental vibrations (960) on the boom. The first control valve may apply a holding pressure and thereby hold the first counter-balance valve closed and the second counter-balance valve open.
US11326622B2
A centrifugal compressor includes: a housing; an impeller rotatably disposed within the housing; a rotational shaft connected to the impeller; and a bearing member supporting the rotational shaft in the housing. An oil flow passage through which oil flows is formed in the housing. The oil flow passage includes a lubricating oil passage through which the oil flows as lubricating oil to be supplied to the bearing member, and a cooling oil passage through which the oil flows as cooling oil for heat exchange with a fluid compressed by the impeller. The cooling oil passage is configured so that the oil flows into the cooling oil passage as the cooling oil without passing through the bearing member.
US11326620B1
A stator vane includes an airfoil having an airfoil shape. The airfoil shape has a nominal profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in one of Table I, Table II, Table III, Table IV, Table V, Table VI, Table VII, Table VIII, Table IX, Table X, Table XI, or Table XII. The Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z are non-dimensional values from 0% to 100% convertible to dimensional distances expressed in a unit of distance by multiplying the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z by a scaling factor of the airfoil in the unit of distance. The X and Y values, when connected by smooth continuing arcs, define airfoil profile sections at each Z value. The airfoil profile sections at Z values are joined smoothly with one another to form a complete airfoil shape.
US11326616B2
A disk-shaped fan impeller structure includes a plate body having an inner rim and an outer rim. The inner rim is connected with a hub via multiple connection members. The outer rim extends in a direction away from the hub. The connection members are annularly disposed on outer circumference of the hub at intervals to radially extend toward the inner rim of the plate body. A top face and a bottom face are defined between the inner rim and outer rim. Multiple upper boss bodies are arranged on the top face at intervals. Multiple first gaps are distributed between the upper boss bodies. By means of the boss bodies, the periodical noise problem of the conventional fan impeller can be improved.
US11326610B2
A blower may include a motor; a centrifugal fan configured to rotate with rotation of the motor; a casing configured to guide air from a suction port to a discharge port; a trigger configured to be pressed; and a control board configured to control rotation of the motor. The control board may include a normal mode and a low speed mode. In the normal mode, the control board may be configured to adjust a rotation speed of the motor in accordance with a degree by which the trigger is pressed. In the low speed mode, the control board may be configured to adjust the rotation speed of the motor to a target rotation speed, wherein the target rotation speed is lower than a maximum rotation speed of the motor that is achieved when the degree by which the trigger is pressed is a maximum degree in the normal mode.
US11326609B2
Embodiments relate generally to a cross flow blower (100) including a housing (108) which includes an inlet (104) and an outlet (102), rotating impeller blades (212) located within the housing (108), wherein airflow enters and exits the impeller blades (212) radially, a motor (106) operable to power the rotating impeller blades (212), and a plurality of flow forming blades (210, 214) located within the blower (100) operable to direct airflow within the blower (100).
US11326608B2
A multi-outlet fluid pump includes a housing, a motorized pump, an electrical power supply, and a self-locking thermal cutoff. In one form, the pump includes a first or primary thermal cutoff and a second or secondary thermal cutoff to prevent the pump from operating once a thermal cutoff has deactivated the pump until a user or operator has taken some affirmative action. Related methods are also disclosed herein. In some forms an indicator is provided to indicate if the thermal cutoff has disabled the pump to alert a user as to the need to unplug or reset the pump before operating the pump again.
US11326606B2
A multistage centrifugal pump has a rotatable shaft, a plurality of pump stages and a thrust module. Each of the plurality of pump stages has an impeller connected to the rotatable shaft and a stationary diffuser. The thrust module has a thrust runner and a unitary thrust pad. The unitary thrust pad has an axial wear face adjacent the thrust runner and a radial wear surface adjacent the rotatable shaft. The axial wear face and radial wear surface are integrated as a unitary component. The unitary thrust pad is secured to a thrust pad support with threaded fasteners that are torqued to a predetermined extent.
US11326602B2
A scroll compressor with a stationary scroll, an orbiting scroll, and a discharge port through which a fluid that has been compressed by both the scrolls is discharged. An end plate of the orbiting scroll is provided with an end-plate side stepped portion formed such that, along a spiral of a spiral wrap, the height thereof increases toward a central side of the spiral and decreases toward an outer end side thereof. A spiral wrap of the stationary scroll is provided with a wall-portion side stepped portion formed corresponding to the end-plate side stepped portion such that the height thereof decreases toward the central side of the spiral and increases toward the outer end side thereof. A pair of compression chambers which face each other, the ventral side compression chamber communicates with the discharge port before the dorsal side compression chamber communicates with the discharge port.
US11326600B2
A scroll type compressor includes a housing, a fixed scroll cooperating with the housing to define a discharge chamber, a movable scroll cooperating with the fixed scroll to define a compression chamber, and a shaft support member cooperating with the movable scroll to define a back pressure chamber. Fluid in the compression chamber is supplied to the back pressure chamber. The back pressure chamber and the discharge chamber communicate with each chamber through a relief passage. A check valve is disposed in the relief passage, and the check valve allows the fluid to flow from the back pressure chamber to the discharge chamber, when back pressure of the back pressure chamber is higher than discharge pressure of the discharge chamber.
US11326594B2
A stator element of a progressive cavity pump having a reinforcement tube having a longitudinal axis, an inner face (22), and an outer face, and an elastomer liner fixed to the inner face of the reinforcement tube, wherein a portion of the reinforcement tube has a substantially constant thickness (e) and in that said portion of the reinforcement tube is deformed such that it comprises at least a first relief pattern and a second relief pattern, the first relief pattern having the shape of a helical strip that is right-handed relative to the longitudinal axis, the second relief pattern having the shape of a helical strip that is left-handed relative to the longitudinal axis, the first and second relief patterns meeting in at least one section.
US11326587B2
A fluid pump is proposed. The fluid pump includes: a housing having an operation space and having connection ports disposed at a side in the operation space to discharge working fluid and suctioning working fluid from the outside; a swash plate coupled to the housing at an opposite side to the connection ports and having an inclined surface on a top facing the operation space; a cylinder block disposed in the operation space to be rotated by a driving shaft and having several cylinder rooms therein that extend in parallel with the driving shaft.
US11326586B2
An exhaust coupling for a pump is disclosed. The exhaust coupling for a pump, comprises: an inlet chamber defining a coupling inlet for receiving a fluid from said pump; an outlet chamber defining a coupling outlet for outputting said fluid from said exhaust coupling; and a non-linear inter-chamber conduit fluidly coupling said inlet chamber with said outlet chamber for conveying said fluid from said inlet chamber to said outlet chamber. In this way, noise from the pump is abated since it is initially dampened when received in the inlet chamber, then dampened further by the non-linear inter-chamber conduit, before being dampened yet further within the outlet chamber prior to being emitted through the coupling outlet. The presence of the non-linear inter-chamber conduit ensures that there is no direct, linear path along which the noise can travel from the coupling inlet to the coupling outlet.
US11326583B2
Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present techniques provide techniques for delivering, when required, higher powers to SMA actuator wires by using a single controller/control circuit that implements pulse width modulation (PWM). Typically, when PWM is used to deliver power, the PWM frequency may be fixed, and power may be applied to each SMA actuator wire during each PWM cycle/period. The present techniques provide a method for delivering higher powers to SMA actuator wires (i.e. increasing the length of individual PWM pulses) without changing the duration of the PWM cycle/period. The present techniques also provide techniques for making accurate resistance measurements to determine position of a moveable component that is moved by the SMA actuator wires.
US11326567B2
The present disclosure is related to a method and an assembly for delivering fuel in a fuel tank (10), wherein the fuel tank comprises at least a first chamber (12) having a module pot (18) disposed therein and at least a first pump (30) adapted to deliver fuel from the first chamber to the module pot, and wherein a fuel pump (20) for delivering fuel to an engine is disposed within the module pot. In order to minimize the duty cycle of the pumps and therefore the energy consumption, it is proposed according to the present disclosure that a sensor device (22) is used to detect a predetermined minimum fill level in the module pot, wherein the pump disposed in the first chamber is activated when the minimum fill level is reached and is deactivated after a predetermined time interval or when a predetermined higher fill level in the module pot is reached.
US11326559B2
A leakage detector for a fuel vapor treatment device includes a fuel vapor treatment device that maintains the interior of a treatment system of the fuel vapor treatment device in a sealed state. In addition, the leakage detector includes; a closing valve and shutoff valve that can shut off fluid communication between the fuel tank and the canister to section the interior of the treatment system into a first region including the fuel tank and a second region including the canister. Further, the leakage detector includes an aspirator that applies a negative pressure to the second region. The leakage detector for the fuel vapor treatment device determines the presence and/or absence of leakage in the first region on the basis of a change in the pressure in the first region while an engine is stopped and determines the presence and/or absence of leakage in the second region on the basis of a change in the pressure in the second region by applying a negative pressure to the second region while the engine is operated.
US11326556B2
A hybrid rocket motor includes a solid fuel element, and an oxidizer tank containing an oxidizer. The solid fuel element adjoins and at least partially defines a combustion chamber in which the solid fuel and the oxidizer are burned, to produce thrust from the hybrid rocket motor. The oxidizer tank is at least partially within the combustion chamber, and the entire oxidizer tank may be within the combustion chamber. The oxidizer tank may be protected by an insulating material, which may also serve as a structural material that contains the pressure of the oxidizer. The insulating material and the fuel material may both be polymer-based materials, although they may be different materials having different characteristics, for example including different additives to the same polymer material. The fuel element and the oxidizer tank may be made by additive manufacturing processes, for example by adding different materials in different locations.
US11326555B2
A gearbox for a gas turbine engine with a rotatably mounted structural component that is formed with an at least approximately rotationally symmetrical duct into which, starting from its radially inner area, oil from an oil supply which is fixedly attached at the housing can be introduced. Starting from the oil supply, an introduction direction of the oil into the duct encloses an angle of 90° or an angle of between 60° and 90° with the axial extension direction of the duct. Additionally, in the circumferential direction of the duct, the introduction direction of the oil encloses an angle with the radial extension direction that is larger than or equal to 0° and smaller than 90°.
US11326541B2
A vehicle control device includes a storage device that stores mapping data including data that defines mapping that receives input data based on a plurality of detection values which are detection values of an in-vehicle sensor and which are before or after in time series and outputs a predetermined output value and that is learned by machine learning and an execution device that executes an acquisition process of acquiring the input data from the storage device, a calculation process of calculating the predetermined output value with the input data as an input of the mapping, and a transmission process of transmitting the detection values used when the input data is generated and time series data including data based on one or a plurality of detection values which are before or after the detection value used for the input data in time series to an outside of the vehicle.
US11326539B2
Disclosed is a method for detecting a malfunction of a voltage-limiting circuit of a control circuit, the control circuit including an output port connected to a capacitive actuator of a motor vehicle, an output voltage on the output port being, in the absence of a malfunction of the voltage-limiting circuit, equal to or lower than a theoretical maximum value. The capacitive actuator is arranged in series with a commutator, the method including steps of: placing the commutator in an open state; activating the control circuit; measuring the output voltage over the output port; and evaluating a criterion for detecting a malfunction of the voltage-limiting circuit as a function of the output voltage.
US11326538B2
An injection control device for a fuel injection valve includes: a current detection unit of the fuel injection valve; a current area correction control unit that performs current area correction for an area correction amount of an energization time to equalize the integrated current value of the energization current profile and an integrated current value of the detected current; and an information correction unit that learns and stores a reference attainment time, from a start of energization to an attainment of each of the plurality of reference currents, in a storage unit, and corrects information related to the current area correction based on a difference between the reference attainment time and an actual attainment time from the start of energization to the attainment of each reference current.
US11326500B2
An attachment structure for an exhaust gas sensor, wherein an exhaust gas sensor is attached to a downstream connection pipe part of an exhaust pipe so as to be disposed, in a side view of a motorcycle, in a spatial region between a footrest and a brake pedal provided to the motorcycle.
US11326499B2
The invention concerns a method for controlling regeneration of an exhaust gas aftertreatment system (7, 8) of an internal combustion engine (4) arranged on a vehicle (1), wherein the vehicle (1) is provided with a control system configured to control the regeneration in at least a first regeneration strategy mode comprising a first set of predetermined actions to be taken for controlling initialization and performance of regeneration processes. The method comprises the steps of: (100)—adapting the control system so as to be configured to alternatively control the regeneration in a second regeneration strategy mode, wherein the second regeneration strategy mode comprises a second set of predetermined actions to be taken for controlling initialization and performance of regeneration processes, and wherein the first and second regeneration strategy modes differ from each other in that the first and second set of predetermined regeneration control actions differ from each other; (200)—collecting, during operation of said vehicle (1) or of another vehicle, data on an exhaust gas regeneration capability of said vehicle (1) or the other vehicle as a function of time; and (300)—evaluating, based on the collected data and the difference between the first and second regeneration strategy modes, whether the first or the second regeneration strategy mode is the most suitable for said vehicle (1) if operating under conditions corresponding to the operational conditions for the vehicle for which data were collected. The invention also concerns a vehicle arranged to be the subject of such a method and to a computer program product, a computer readable medium and a control system related to performance of the steps of the above method.
US11326496B2
An ECU stores and holds in a memory unit NOx information which is information concerning NOx in an exhaust gas flowing through an exhaust system of an onboard engine of a vehicle or NOx purification by a catalyst placed in the exhaust system. The ECU includes a parameter acquisition unit that acquires an NOx parameter, which is an outflow quantity of NOx flowing out to a downstream side of the catalyst or a correlation value correlating to the outflow quantity of NOx, according to a working state of the engine, an integrated value computation unit that computes a parameter integrated value by integrating NOx parameters acquired by the parameter acquisition unit, and a storage processing unit that stores in the memory unit the parameter integrated value as the NOx information.
US11326489B1
The present invention comprises an apparatus and method for replacing an original equipment manufacturer air-oil separator apparatus having an integral pressure control valve (“OEM-AOS” system) in a vehicle. The OEM-AOS system is disconnected from the engine air intake. The integral pressure control valve is disabled. An accumulator for collecting oil from by-pass combustion gas is connected to the OEM-AOS system. A discrete pressure control valve (“discrete-PCV”) is connected to the accumulator and to the engine air intake. The discrete-PCV is located within the vehicle at an easily accessible location so that it can be quickly accessed and replaced when necessary. The accumulator includes a sensor that is operable to send a warning signal to a vehicle operator when the vehicle needs to be serviced to remove condensed oil from the accumulator.
US11326482B2
Methods and systems are provided for a valve system for actuating two cylinder valves in an engine. In one example, the valve system may include a single pump and a solenoid valve capable of non-concurrently actuating the two cylinder valves coupled to separate cylinders.
US11326480B2
A rocker arm assembly including a rocker body having an upper wall arranged above a pivot axis, two ears extending from opposing sides of the upper wall and defining a pivot bore coaxial with the pivot axis, and a pad end wall and a socket end wall each extending from the upper wall and the ears. A pad having a convex pad surface is formed on the pad end wall for engaging a valve and a socket having a concave socket surface is formed on the socket end wall for engaging a pushrod. The rocker arm assembly further includes a trunnion body and a bearing, each disposed in the pivot bores and for facilitating pivoting movement between the rocker body and the trunnion body.
US11326472B2
A turbine engine comprises a rotor shaft and a roller bearing supporting the shaft in rotation along an axis. The bearing comprises an inner ring, an outer ring, and rolling elements engaged between the inner and outer rings. The inner ring has a first axial end annular portion that is more exposed to heat during operation than a second axial end annular portion thereof. The turbine engine further comprises an oil injection device configured to supply the rolling elements with oil for lubrication of the latter. In order to homogenise the temperature of the inner ring, the latter comprises through-holes formed in the first axial end annular portion and distributed around the axis in order to allow for a circulation of oil coming from the oil injection device through the first axial end annular portion, thereby providing additional cooling to the first end annular portion.
US11326471B2
A system for warming a power generation system including a boiler and a mixer fluidly coupled to the boiler, a turbine first section operable to receive steam from the boiler at a first temperature. The turbine supplies steam at a second temperature to a first heat exchanger operably connected to receive the heated steam at the second temperature from the output of at least the first section of the turbine and transfer heat to at least one of water and steam in the boiler or the mixer, feedwater for the boiler, and a thermal energy storage system. The system further includes a control unit configured to receive the monitored operating characteristic and control the amount of steam directed through the turbine.
US11326467B2
A turbine engine includes integrated electric machines in the compressor section and the turbine section to supplement power produced from fuel with electric power. The compressor section includes a compressor electric motor that is electrically coupled to a compressor generator. The example turbine section includes a turbine electric motor that is coupled to a geared architecture to supplement power driving the fan section. A turbine generator driven by a portion of the turbine section provides electric power to the turbine electric motor.
US11326463B2
A blade outer air seal assembly includes a support structure. A blade outer air seal has a plurality of segments that extend circumferentially about an axis and mounted in the support structure. At least two of the segments have a first wall circumferentially spaced from a second wall. A base portion extends from the first wall to the second wall. A recess is arranged in at least one of the first wall and the second wall. An intersegment seal is arranged between the at least two segments. The intersegment seal has a circumferentially extending portion and a radially extending tab. The radially extending tab extends into the recess to define at least two cavities within the recess.
US11326462B2
A gas turbine spacer disk includes a disk portion, a rim portion, a first fillet, and a second fillet. The disk portion is disposed about a rotational axis. The rim portion is disposed about the disk portion. An outer face of the rim portion defines a plurality grooves extending circumferentially about the rotational axis. The first fillet transitions from the rim portion to a first side of the disk portion. The second fillet transitions from the rim portion to a second side of the disk portion. The plurality of grooves includes a pair of first grooves having a first diameter and a pair of second grooves having a second diameter that is less than the first diameter. A first one of the first grooves overlaps in an axial direction with the first fillet. A second one of the first grooves overlaps in the axial direction with the second fillet.
US11326461B2
A hybrid grommet assembly for a vane comprising a body portion comprising a first lip opposite a second lip forming a slot receiver, said slot receiver configured to receive a shroud slot of a shroud; said body portion comprising a vane receiver extending from said body portion and configured to receive a vane; a fiber integral within said body portion; and a potting coupled to said grommet proximate said vane receiver, wherein said potting fills a gap between the grommet and the vane.
US11326458B2
An aerofoil for a turbine blade, having a leading edge onto which a hot gas can flow and from which a suction-side wall and a pressure-side wall extend to a trailing edge of the aerofoil, the aerofoil extending in a direction transverse thereto from a root-side end having an aerofoil height of 0% to a tip-side end having an aerofoil height of 100%, and having at least two rows of cooling holes arranged along the leading edge, which cooling holes are at a mutual spacing which can be measured perpendicularly to the leading edge. In order to provide a turbine blade which can be used, with reduced cooling complexity, for additional reliable cooling of the leading edge in various operating conditions, the at least two rows of cooling holes are arranged at least in part in a wavy line along the leading edge.
US11326453B2
Provided are: a displacement expanding apparatus, which uses environmentally friendly electrical energy to generate rotational power; and an engine including the displacement expanding apparatus, the novel engine having improved performance and a long lifespan. Also, to realize a novel engine, provided is a novel engine which is environmentally friendly and has a long lifespan.
US11326436B2
A wellbore completion comprises a borehole extending into a subterranean formation, a first portion of the borehole disposed within at least one production zone of the subterranean formation, and one or more completion zones within the first portion of the wellbore. The first portion maintains a high dog-leg severity throughout the first portion, and the one or more completions are configured to allow for fluid communication between an interior of the borehole and the subterranean formation.
US11326435B1
A method for manipulating hydraulic fracture geometry. In one embodiment, the method comprises injecting a fracturing fluid into a well to generate one or more hydraulic fractures in a subsurface rock formation and then substantially draining any fluids from the one or more hydraulic fractures. The method may further comprise injecting a hydrophilic polymer and one or more crosslinking agents into the well to subsequently form low-density hydrogels which may then screen out only each tip of the one or more hydraulic fractures. A working fluid may then be injected into the well to increase fracture width of the one or more hydraulic fractures without substantially increasing fracture length. In an alternative embodiment, the hydrophilic polymer may be fully crosslinked by the one or more crosslinking agents and injected as pre-formed particle gels (PPGs) which may also screen out only each tip of the one or more hydraulic fractures.
US11326431B2
Methods are provided that facilitate the production of hydrocarbons from subterranean formations, involving the mobilization of an immobile heavy oil in situ by gravity displacement. In effect, heavy oil is mobilized by dense aqueous gravity displacement (DAGD), in a process that generally involves injecting a dense, heated aqueous injection fluid into the formation into an injection zone that is in fluid communication with immobile heavy oil. The injection well is operated so that the injection fluid mobilizes and displaces the immobile heavy oil, to produce an expanding upper zone of mobilized heavy oil amenable to production.
US11326430B2
A pumping system that includes a reciprocating isobaric pressure exchanger (reciprocating IPX) designed to exchange pressures between a first fluid and a second fluid. The first fluid includes a substantially particulate free fluid and the second fluid includes a particulate laden fluid. The reciprocating IPX includes a valve having a first and second piston. The value further includes a shaft coupling the first piston to the second piston and a drive coupled to the shaft.
US11326426B2
Hydrocarbon wells including gas lift valves and methods of providing gas lift in a hydrocarbon well. The hydrocarbon wells include a wellbore extending within a subsurface region and a downhole tubular extending within the wellbore. The downhole tubular defines a tubular conduit, and the wellbore and the downhole tubular define an annular space therebetween. The hydrocarbon wells also include a lift gas supply system configured to provide a lift gas stream to the annular space and a closure material supply system configured to provide a closure material stream to the annular space. The hydrocarbon wells further includes a gas lift valve operatively attached to the downhole tubular. The gas lift valve includes a lift gas injection conduit and an actuation mechanism. The actuation mechanism selectively transitions to a closed state responsive to contact with the closure material. The methods include methods of operating the hydrocarbon wells.
US11326423B2
Systems and methods include a method for optimizing smart well completions using real-time nodal analysis including recommending changes to downhole settings. Real-time well rates and flowing bottom-hole pressure data at various choke settings for multiple flow conditions are collected for each lateral of a multilateral well. Recommended optimizing changes to downhole inflow control valve (ICV) settings for surface and subsurface ICVs are determined based on the real-time well rates and the flowing bottom-hole pressure data. The optimizing changes are designed to optimize production in the multilateral well. The recommended optimizing changes to the downhole ICV settings for the surface and subsurface ICVs in the laterals are provided for presentation to a user in a user interface of a multilateral well optimizing system. A user selection of one or more of the recommended optimizing changes is received. The recommended optimizing changes selected by the user are implemented.
US11326415B2
A rotating control device is disclosed for the use of oil, gas or geothermal wells. While providing for sealing with or without rotation of the drill pipe, the device consists of a housing with guide rails attached beneath the two part dual actuated clamp that can be locked in place by remote controlled retention pins. The design has a novel adapter design enabling a common RCD bearing assembly to be installed in a variety of different housing sizes.
US11326406B1
A flow back system for separating solids from a slurry recovered from a hydrocarbon well. The system includes a V-shaped tank with a first series of baffles configured to cause the settling of solids that are moved by a shaftless auger to a conduit fluidly connected to hydrocyclones mounted over a linear shaker. The overflow from the hydrocyclones is discharged through a second conduit back into the tank for processing by a second series of baffles resulting in a clean effluent. The clean effluent is recirculated in the well.
US11326392B2
A louvre shutter comprising louvres 20 rotatably mounted in a frame on louvre axles, and a louvre drive system that, in summary, comprises a rack and pinion gear system including an externally operable rack assembly and a set of pinion gears 28 mounted to the louvre axles. The rack is externally operable rack and is reciprocably mounted in the drive system housing 42, 48. The pinion gears 28 mounted to the louvre axles are engaged with the rack such that reciprocation of the rack rotates the louvre 20 relative to the frame.
US11326390B2
A foam spacer applicator may include: a conveyer unit configured to automatically transfer a glass panel; a foam head unit disposed at a predetermined distance from the front side of the conveyer unit, and configured to automatically supply and bond a spacer to the glass panel transferred from the conveyer unit through a combination of an X-axis horizontal operation and a Y-axis elevation operation through an elevation guide plate disposed with a vertical structure; and a magazine unit disposed at a predetermined distance from the rear side of the foam head unit, and configured to inject and apply a sealant to both surfaces of the spacer while adjusting tension of the spacer, and automatically supply the spacer to the foam head unit.
US11326385B2
A door operating assembly (100) for operating a sliding door leaf (101) driven by a drive unit (112) along a sliding door rail (110), said door operating assembly (100) comprising a door bracket (150) configured to position the door leaf (101) relative the rail (110), a drive member (170) adapted to be driven by the drive unit (112), and a lever arm (160) having one end (161) pivotally connected to the drive member (170) and a remote portion (167) pivotally connected to the door bracket (150) via a cam structure (194) such that the vertical position of the door leaf (101) relative the rail (110) varies when the lever arm (170) pivots.
US11326379B2
A filtration system interconnection structure having a filter manifold and a filter cartridge in magnetic communication with one another, such that a latching mechanism and latch blocking structure in the manifold secures the filter cartridge with a manifold sump when the filter cartridge is inserted within the manifold sump. The magnetic communication is formed between two complementary coded magnets capable of producing a magnetic shear force when in close proximity to one another. The magnetic shear force removes the latching blocking structure from interfering with the latch, allowing the latch to secure the filter cartridge. Movement of the latching blocking structure coded magnet relative to the filter cartridge coded magnet may be perpendicular or parallel with respect to each other. The filter magnet polarity transitions are aligned with the manifold magnet polarity transitions such that a shear force is generated between the magnets when the filter cartridge is inserted within the manifold sump housing, allowing for actuation of the latch blocking mechanism against a biasing force, and allowing the latch to move radially inwards against a separate biasing force.
US11326377B2
A hood prop attaches to right and left side hoods and engages a receptacle plate attached to a fire wall. The hood prop includes a mounting plate attached to hood latch fasteners at a bottom rear position of each side hood. A mounting plate end of a prop arm is pivotally attached by a friction fit. The friction fit allows the arm to pivot on the rod but retain a position to reduce or eliminate any rattles. The arm includes at least one bend to align a firewall end of the prop arm with a receptacle reaching out from the receptacle plate.
US11326372B2
A motor vehicle door lock comprises a ratchet-type mechanism having a pawl and a rotary latch. The motor vehicle door lock is also provided with a release lever for the ratchet-type mechanism and at least one actuation lever and a blocking element. The blocking element brings about a mechanical connection during normal operation and a mechanical separation, when operating in the event of an accident, between the actuation lever and the release lever. According to the invention, the blocking element is configured as a coupling lever mounted on the actuation lever, which pivots independently from the actuation lever applied with spring force when operating in the event of an accident.
US11326371B2
A tool for adjusting the backset of a latch bolt. The latch bolt includes a latch bolt and a tailpiece. A housing receives the latch bolt and includes a transversely extending protrusion. A casing slidably receives the housing such that the protrusion on the housing is received in a slot on the casing and an inner end of the tailpiece extends from the housing and casing. The casing is rotated relative to the housing to allow relative axial movement between the casing and the housing when transitioning between the first backset position and the second backset position. The tool includes a member defining a first slot for receiving the inner end of the tailpiece and a pair of second slots for receiving the pair of ears such that rotation of the tool rotates the tailpiece and the casing simultaneously.
US11326369B2
A key includes a key-shaped supporting structure, made of a metal material, which includes a stem and a head having an opening therethrough, the opening being entirely laterally delimited by inner side walls extending from one face of the head to the other; and an insert, made of a polymeric material, which includes an identification system and which is removably inserted into the opening of the head, the insert having at least one section protruding from the inner side walls of the opening and laterally projecting with respect to the opening, thus abutting against a part of the head portion provided about the opening.
US11326367B2
An exemplary knob assembly includes a knob having a circumferential channel, and a deformable ring seated in the circumferential channel. The ring is normally rotatable relative to the knob such that rotation of the ring does not cause a corresponding rotation of the knob. When gripped with a sufficient gripping force, the ring frictionally engages and rotationally couples with the knob, thereby permitting transmission of torque between the ring and the knob. In certain embodiments, the knob assembly may include a detent mechanism operable to selectively couple the ring and the knob. In certain embodiments, the ring may include protrusions operable to engage pockets in the knob to provide for rotational coupling.
US11326366B2
A fence vegetation barrier assembly for inhibiting vegetation from growing beneath a fence includes a plurality of panels that is each elongated. Each of the panels is positionable beneath a fence having each of the panels extending between a respective pair of fence posts to inhibit vegetation from growing beneath the fence. A plurality of first trim units is each coupled to a respective one of the panels. A plurality of second trim units is each coupled to a respective one of the panels. Each of the second trim units engages the first trim unit on an adjacent one of the panels when the panels are positioned beneath the fence to enhance the visual appeal of the fence posts.
US11326362B2
A floatation accessory for a pool vacuum is an apparatus that maintains an inverted position for a pool vacuum such that the mouth of the pool vacuum suctions debris along the surface of a pool. The apparatus includes a support platform, a first float, a second float, a support ridge, a handle, an elongated guard, and a suspension system. The support platform upholds the first float and the second float. The first float and the second float are used to float a pool vacuum that is engaged with the apparatus. The support ridge connects the first float and the second float and offsets the elongated guard from the mouth of a pool vacuum. The elongated guard offsets the mouth of a pool vacuum from the side walls of a pool. The suspension system loops a pool vacuum with the support platform, and consequently the first float and the second float.
US11326361B2
A debris containment system includes channel units that are configured to attach to perimeter structural members of the building (e.g., vertical columns and/or horizontal beams) and extend outward from the perimeter of the building. Channel units can be produced in any length or lengths needed for a given application. These channel units are used to lift and support barrier members (e.g., nets, tarps, canvas/fabric, or other barrier members) to create barriers along the perimeter of the building. Importantly, these channel units are generally attached directly or indirectly (e.g., via temporary vertical members) to structures that will remain on the building (e.g., structural columns and beams of the building) as opposed to being used with separate framing structures erected outside of the building perimeter, although in some exemplary embodiments, channel units can be used on structures erected outside of the perimeter of the building.
US11326356B2
The invention relates to a panel, in particular a floor panel or a wall panel configured for forming a floor or wall covering, the panel comprising at least one core layer, the core layer comprising at least one pair of opposite side edges which are provided with complementary coupling parts configured for interconnecting adjacent panels, the core layer comprising an upper core surface and a bottom core surface, and at least one ceramic tile, the ceramic tile comprising an upper surface and a bottom surface and the panel further comprising at least one further layer.
US11326352B2
A method of manufacturing building-wall flexible cladding (12) for a wall of a building so that a cladding outer surface of the building-wall flexible cladding (12) matches or substantially matches a textured wall surface of the wall of the building. This is first achieved by selecting the wall to be modelled (S101) and forming an impression of the wall (S102). An absorbent flexible substrate (18) is provided (S103), and a wet mixture (24) created (S105) and applied to the substrate (18, S106) to form one or more tiles (24a). The wet mixture (24) is textured by applying the impression so that the cladding outer surface corresponds or substantially corresponds to the said textured wall surface (S108). Finally, the textured wet mixture is cured (S109).
US11326349B2
This disclosure relates to a louvered patio cover. The louvered patio cover may comprise a frame with support beams, louvered panels, support beam couplers, an actuator, a gutter, and/or other components. The support beams may have angled ends. The louvered panels may be rotatably coupled to the support beams. A support beam coupler may comprise first and second receivers. The first receiver may be configured to receive an angled end of a first support beam, and the second receiver may be configured to receive an angled end of a second support beam. The angled ends of the first and second support beams may face, meet, and/or abut each other when received by the first and second receivers. The actuator may be configured to rotate the louvered panels. A gutter may comprise a lighting channel configured to hold a light source for lighting an area under the louvered patio cover.
US11326346B2
The present disclosure provides in various embodiments a truss member connector including a first attachment section, a second attachment section, a connection section connecting the first attachment section to the second attachment section, and one or more guide pins. The present disclosure provides in various embodiments a reinforced truss and a method for reinforcing a truss member of a truss with the additional reinforcing member which includes attaching an additional reinforcing member to the truss member with a plurality of truss member connectors to enable rotation of the additional reinforcing member relative to the truss member such that the additional reinforcing member adds support and rigidity to the truss member and the entire truss.
US11326344B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to structural panel systems, and in particular in-frame fluted panel systems. The in-frame fluted panel systems allow for improved strength and/or ductility within a reduced wall thickness by installing the fluted panels within the framing of the support members in various configurations. The in-frame fluted panel systems further allows for easier construction and lower costs than conventional systems that have fluted panels located outside of the support members.
US11326336B2
An underground stormwater management system comprising a sediment settling chamber, a plurality of stormwater management cells, and a trash capturing net. The sediment settling chamber has a sediment settling chamber floor and a discharge port located at a higher elevation than the sediment settling chamber floor. The plurality of stormwater management cells are located adjacent each other, and each cell comprises a body portion and an internal region, and is adapted to permit passage of stormwater into and out of the internal region of such cell. The plurality of stormwater management cells combine to form a stormwater management chamber downstream of the sediment settling chamber and in fluid communication with the sediment settling chamber. The trash capturing net is at least partially located within the stormwater management chamber and is adapted and configured to capture trash and debris in stormwater discharged from the discharge port.
US11326327B2
Disclosed herein are water harvesting networks. The harvesters allow extraction and collection of moisture from the atmosphere without requiring electrical energy inputs.
US11326313B2
According to the method, at least one carbon fibre-reinforced polymer band is joined to the steel structure at the end regions thereof, capable of transferring tensile forces. Subsequently, at least one lifting element (7) disposed between the carbon fibre-reinforced polymer band (4) and the steel girder (3) to be reinforced in a region between these end anchorages (5), is extended substantially perpendicular to the carbon fibre-reinforced polymer band (4). So, a tensile force stress is generated between the end regions of the carbon fibre-reinforced polymer band (4). Then, a steel girder treated in such a manner includes at least one carbon fibre-reinforced polymer band, which is each joined to the steel structure (1) at the end regions thereof, capable of transferring tensile forces. In the region between these end regions, a lifting element (7) is disposed between the carbon fibre-reinforced polymer band (4) and the steel girder (3) to be reinforced, by means of which the carbon fibre-reinforced polymer band (4) is subjected to tensile stress by lifting away from the steel girder (3). The tensile force is transferred to the steel girder (3) via the anchoring elements (5).
US11326312B2
A dry-bulk tanker for the provision of binding agent for soil stabilization for a spreading device, comprising a storage container (10) for binding agent. An intermediate chamber (20) is connected to the storage container and is also connected to a compression chamber (40). A conveying device (22) for conveying of binding agent into the compression chamber (40) is arranged in the intermediate chamber (20). A conveying channel (44) is connected to the compression chamber (40). The conveying channel (44) can be connected to a spreading device (58). Furthermore, a pneumatic line (46) for feeding of conveying compressed air is connected to the compression chamber (40) and/or the conveying channel (44).
US11326311B2
A system which creates a durable seal between adjacent horizontal panels, including those that may be curved or subject to temperature expansion and contraction or mechanical shear. The durable seal system incorporates a plurality of ribs, a flexible member between the cover plate and the ribs and may incorporate a load transfer plate to provide support to the rib from below, and/or cores of differing compressibilities.
US11326310B2
A method and apparatus are provided to rehabilitate and beautify cracked concrete surfaces by adding channels to the surface.
US11326309B2
Provided is a paper treatment agent with which improved touch feeling different from smoothness that has been conventionally studied is obtainable when a pressure is applied like nose blowing or the like. A paper treatment agent of the present invention is a paper treatment agent containing (A) a polyhydric alcohol as a main component, the paper treatment agent contains (B) a sucrose fatty acid ester having an acyl group with more than 12 and less than 22 carbon atoms and an HLB of 11 or more and (C) an ionic surfactant, and it is characterized in that a mass ratio (C/B) of the component (C) to the component (B) is 0.65 to 24. According to the paper treatment agent of the present invention, when a pressure is applied to treated paper like nose blowing or the like, slick texture that is specific and distinctive smoothness which is non-conventional is obtainable.
US11326302B2
A steam type clothing flattening device includes an electrical heating tray unit and a soleplate unit. The electrical heating tray unit is heated electrically to vaporize water in an upper vaporization chamber thereof, and has a discharge port for discharge of vapor from the upper vaporization chamber. The soleplate unit is coupled to an underside of and heated by the electrical heating tray unit. The soleplate unit cooperates with the electrical heating tray unit to define a lower vaporization chamber in communication with the discharge port, and has a plurality of vapor outlets extending through a bottom surface thereof for outletting vapor from the lower vaporization chamber.
US11326300B2
A clothes treating apparatus having a drying function includes: a cabinet; a drum provided within the cabinet; a heat-exchanger heat-exchanged with air exhausted from the drum; a lint filter disposed on an upstream side of the heat-exchanger with respect to flow of air exhausted from the drum to collect lint in the air; a spray tube spraying water to the lint filter to separate lint collected in the lint filter from the lint filter; and a lint collecting part at least partially provided below the lint filter or below the heat-exchanger to collect falling lint. Lint in condensate water may be collected, and thus, generation of a bad influence when condensate water is re-used may be suppressed. Also, contact between lint in drying air and the heat-exchanger may be restrained.
US11326296B2
A washing machine is provided. The washing machine includes a water tub configured to be disposed in a cabinet and to store wash water, a rotating tub configured to be rotatably installed in the water tub and to include an opening formed in an upper end portion thereof, and a driver configured to be connected to the rotating tub and to rotate the rotating tub, wherein a deviation preventer configured to prevent wash water in the rotating tub from being deviated to one side during rotation of the rotating tub is formed at an upper end portion of the rotating tub.
US11326280B2
A fabric substrate material is provided. The fabric substrate includes at least a first layer and a second layer. The first layer includes a first plurality of non-functional fill yarns and at least one functional fill yarn, and the second layer includes a second plurality of fill yarns. The second plurality of fill yarns and the at least one functional fill yarn exhibit substantially the same compressive strength, compressive resistance, or flexural strength. As such, the functional fill yarn in the first layer is protected from shrinkage or expansion and remains undamaged and functional after the fabric substrate is woven and subsequently handled or processed. The aforementioned practice of reinforcement described in the fill direction of the second layer can also be applied in the warp yarn direction, using the same principles described herein.
US11326277B2
A process for manufacturing a fiber including polyetherketoneketone including the steps of: mixing polyetherketoneketone and sulfuric acid having a concentration of at least 90 wt % to obtain a spin dope and passing the spin dope through a spinneret into a coagulation bath, wherein the polyetherketoneketone is dissolved in the sulfuric acid to a concentration of 12 to 22 wt %. Also disclosed are fibers obtainable by the process and polyetherketoneketone fibers having a sulfur content of 0.001 to 5 wt %, based on the weight of the fiber, in particular such fibers having low or high crystallinity, as well as, hybrid yarns and composite materials.
US11326276B2
Processes for making fibrous structures and more particularly processes for making fibrous structures comprising filaments are provided.
US11326269B2
A method of anodizing an article of aluminum or aluminum alloy for forming a porous anodic oxide coating comprises an immersion step of immersing the article to be anodized in an electrolyte in a tank, wherein the electrolyte comprises an aqueous solution of 5-50 g/l sulphuric acid and 2-50 g/l phosphoric acid, and arranging the article as an anode with respect to one or more counter electrodes as arranged cathodes in the electrolyte, and an anodizing step of applying a positive anode voltage Va to the article, while the temperature of the electrolyte is in the range of 33-60° C.
US11326266B2
An electrode (10) is disclosed. The electrode (10) comprises an electrode substrate (20). A layer of TiOx (30, 40) with a total thickness in the range of between 40-200 μm is present on at least one surface of the electrode substrate (20) and a porosity of layer of TiOx (30, 40) is below 15%. An electro-catalytic layer (50) comprising oxides of ruthenium and cerium according comprising at least 50 molar % ruthenium oxides is present on layer of TiOx (30, 40) and wherein x is in the range 1-2 for the layer of TiOx. A process for the manufacture of the electrode (10) is disclosed as are uses thereof.
US11326262B2
A hydrogel is formed by a reaction which is induced, in an electrolytic solution, by an electrode product electrochemically generated by electrodes installed in the electrolytic solution. An apparatus including an electrolytic tank with a bottom surface on which a two-dimensional array of working electrodes is provided and a counter electrode installed in the electrolytic tank is prepared. An electrolytic solution containing a dissolved substance that causes electrolytic deposition of a hydrogel is housed in the electrolytic tank. By applying a predetermined voltage to one or more selected working electrodes of the two-dimensional array, a hydrogel with a two-dimensional pattern corresponding to the arrangement of the selected working electrodes is formed.
US11326260B1
To improve oxidation and corrosion resistance of stainless steel, it is not necessary to apply suspensions containing nanoparticles of rare earth metal oxides. Rare earth metal nitrates or acetates in aqueous solution improve the oxidation and corrosion resistance of stainless steels when applied to the surface of the steels. Further oxidation and corrosion resistance can be provided by the addition of chromium or aluminum acetate, nitrate, or sulfate to the rare earth metal nitrate or acetate aqueous solutions before application to the steel.
US11326250B2
A method of making a fibrous part is provided. The method may comprise forming a porous structure with an annular geometry. A first entrance channel and a second entrance channel may be formed with the entrance channels defined by a surface of the preform. The entrance channels may also extend in a radial direction from an inner diameter of the annular porous structure partially across the surface. An exit channel may be formed between the entrance channels and defined by the surface. The exit channel may extend in a radial direction from an outer diameter of the annular porous structure partially across the surface.
US11326248B2
A coated cutting tool including a substrate and a single layer or multi-layer hard material coating is provided. The substrate is selected from cemented carbide, cermet, ceramics, cubic boron nitride (cBN), polycrystalline diamond, steel or high-speed steel. The hard material coating includes at least one layer of gamma-Al2O3, exhibiting particularly high hardness and reduced Young's modulus. The gamma-Al2O3 layer of the coated cutting tool is obtainable by means of a reactive magnetron sputtering process using at least one Al target, wherein the deposition is carried out using a reaction gas composition of argon (Ar) and oxygen (O2) at a total reaction gas pressure within the range from at least 1 Pa to at most 5 Pa, at an O2 partial pressure within the range from 0.001 Pa to 0.1 Pa, and at a temperature within the range from 400° C. to 600° C.
US11326245B2
A mask includes a mask body and at least one sub-mask provided on the mask body. The sub-mask includes an evaporation zone and a shield portion. The shield portion is provided with at least one groove in a thickness direction of the sub-mask. The groove has a depth smaller than a thickness of the mask body. Since the shield portion is provided with the groove, and a single groove has a depth smaller than the thickness of the mask body, it not only ensures that there is no pixel evaporated onto a substrate at the shield portion, but also reduces the thickness of the shield portion, thereby reduces weight thereof, lowers the weight difference between the shield portion and the evaporation zone and reduces the stress concentration on the shield portion, resulting in that the mask body is evenly stressed during tensioning.
US11326241B2
A plastic wrought magnesium alloy includes a Mg—Al—Bi—Sn—Ca—Y alloy, prepared from the following chemical components in percentage by mass: 3 to 6.0% of Al, 1 to 3.0% of Bi, 0.5 to 2.0% of Sn, 0.02 to 0.05% of Ca, 0.02 to 0.05% of Y and the balance of Mg, in which the percentage sum of Ca and Y elements is more than 0.05% and less than 0.1%.
US11326233B2
A method of manufacturing an iron soap is disclosed herein. The method comprising the steps of: reacting, at a temperature equal to or lower than a crystal transition initiation temperature of the iron soap to be manufactured, between a straight-chain saturated fatty acid alkali metal salt aqueous solution having from 12 to 22 carbons and a trivalent iron salt aqueous solution with pH of 0.1 to 5.5 so as to prepare an iron soap slurry; and adjusting pH of the prepared iron soap slurry to from 0.1 to 6.0.
US11326230B2
A method for producing a high temperature component includes a shaping step of shaping a powder compact of a desired high temperature component shape using a specific powder shaping method, from an alloy powder of γ′ precipitation strengthening-type Ni-based alloy, and a crystal grain coarsening step of coarsening a crystal grain size of the powder compact by heat treatment, wherein the powder compact contains 0.002% or more and 0.07% or less of C, and 5.40% or more and 8.40% or less of Al+Ti by mass percentage.
US11326225B2
There is provided a metal sheet producing method that can avoid a decrease in magnetic properties. The metal sheet producing method is a method for producing metal sheets by applying heat treatment to metal sheets made of amorphous soft magnetic material while conveying the metal sheets along a bar and thus crystallizing the amorphous soft magnetic material into nano-crystal soft magnetic material. The method includes attaching the plurality of metal sheets in a laminated state to an upstream portion of the bar, separating the plurality of metal sheets from each other using magnetic force and moving the metal sheets while applying heat treatment thereto so as to allow them to pass by a midstream portion of the bar, and sequentially laminating the metal sheets that have passed by the midstream portion on a downstream portion of the bar.
US11326204B2
The invention relates to methods of detecting a genetic variation in a genetic sample from a subject using labeled probes and counting the number of labels in the probes.
US11326203B2
The disclosure provides methods for sequencing nucleic acids using, including with nucleotide analogs and subsequently appended labels.
US11326198B2
A method to classify and identify microorganisms using the FTIR ATR technique.
US11326185B2
The present invention relates to stable and high-producing site-specific integration (SSI) host cells, e. g. Chinese hamster ovary (CHO)-derived host cells, methods to produce and to use them.
US11326183B2
The invention provides improved gene therapy methods and compositions. In particular embodiments, gene therapies comprise hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell compositions with increased therapeutic efficacy and methods of making and using the same. In other particular embodiments, the present invention contemplates compositions and methods for increasing transduction efficiency and vector copy number (VCN) of human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) to yield improved gene therapy compositions. In various embodiments, the present invention contemplates, in part, a population of HSPCs transduced with a lentiviral vector. In various embodiments, the present invention contemplates a method of treating sickle cell disease in a subject comprising administering the subject an effective amount of the population of hematopoietic cells contemplated herein. In various embodiments, the present invention contemplates a kit comprising an agent that increases prostaglandin EP receptor signaling and staurosporine.
US11326181B2
A method for producing a transgenic plant having increased content of 20-hydroxyecdysone according to an embodiment of the present invention may use insect-derived gene A method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes transforming a plant cell with a recombinant vector including at least one of a gene encoding short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase (SDR) protein and a gene encoding C-14 hydroxylase protein, a gene encoding C-25 hydroxylase protein, a gene encoding C-22 hydroxylase protein, a gene encoding C-2 hydroxylase protein, and a gene encoding C-20 hydroxylase protein derived from insect, and regenerating a plant from the transformed plant cell.
US11326179B2
Provided are isolated polynucleotides comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding a polypeptide at least 80% identical to SEQ ID NO: 422, 362-421, 423-601, 2429-4085 and 4086, such as a polynucleotide which is at least 80% identical to SEQ ID NO: 260, 1-259, 261-361, 602-2427 and 2428, nucleic acid constructs comprising same, plant cells comprising same, transgenic plants expressing same, and methods of generating thereof for increasing the yield, biomass, growth rate, vigor, oil content, fiber yield, fiber quality, nitrogen use efficiency and/or abiotic stress tolerance of a plant.
US11326171B2
Non-naturally occurring microorganisms are provided that produce taurine and/or taurine precursors, e.g., hypotaurine, sulfoacetaldehyde, or cysteate, utilizing exogenously added enzyme activities. Methods of producing taurine and/or taurine precursors in microbial cultures, and feed and nutritional supplement compositions that include taurine and/or taurine precursors produced in the microbial cultures, such as taurine- and/or taurine precursor-containing biomass, are also provided.
US11326168B2
In light of a discovery that astroglial Kir4.1 in lateral habenula drives neuronal bursts in depression, the present disclosure provides a pharmaceutical agent and a method of use thereof for treating depression. The pharmaceutical agent can inhibit an activity of an astroglial potassium channel, and especially suppress expression or functionality of Kir4.1, in astrocytes in the lateral habenula of a subject so that bursting activity of neurons in the lateral habenula of the subject can be suppressed. The pharmaceutical agent can include a vector expressing a target nucleotide sequence in the astrocytes in the lateral habenula, whose expression is configured to suppress Kir4.1 expression by RNA interference, or to block Kir4.1 functionality by a dominant negative effect of a mutant Kir4.1 protein. The pharmaceutical agent can alternatively comprise a small molecule compound, or an active macromolecule such as an anti-Kir4.1 antibody, configured to directly inhibit the astroglial potassium channel activity.
US11326165B1
Described herein are small molecule splicing modulator compounds that modulate splicing of mRNA, such as pre-mRNA, encoded by genes, and methods of use of the small molecule splicing modulator compounds for modulating splicing and treating diseases and conditions.
US11326156B2
Provided herein are modified caspase-9 polypeptides, and chimeric caspase-9 proteins containing the modified caspase-9 polypeptides. The disclosure further provides polynucleotides encoding these proteins, engineered host cells containing these polynucleotides and proteins, including host cells that co-express a chimeric antigen receptor, and methods of making and using the same.
US11326149B2
Organs-on-chips are microfluidic devices for culturing living cells in micrometer sized chambers in order to model physiological functions of tissues and organs. Engineered patterning and continuous fluid flow in these devices has allowed culturing of intestinal cells bearing physiologically relevant features and sustained exposure to bacteria while maintaining cellular viability, thereby allowing study of inflammatory bowl diseases. However, existing intestinal cells do not possess all physiologically relevant subtypes, do not possess the repertoire of genetic variations, or allow for study of other important cellular actors such as immune cells. Use of iPSC-derived epithelium, including IBD patient-specific cells, allows for superior disease modeling by capturing the multi-faceted nature of the disease.
US11326136B2
A fermentation basket for placement in a fermentation tank during wine fermentation which includes a perforated bottom side, at least one perforated vertical side, an open top side having an upper edge with a circumference or perimeter, hoist handles, and forklift pocket legs. The basket is used in connection with a hoist bar that couples to a forklift rotating carriage and together enable manipulation and rotation of the fermentation basket, including lower the fermentation basket into, and raising out from, a fermentation tank, and rotating the fermentation basket to dump pomace after fermentation.
US11326131B2
A cleaning and disinfecting composition comprises a long-chain alkyl polyamine, such as dodecyl dipropylene triamine; a long-chain quaternary ammonium salt, such as N,N-didecyl-N,N-dimethylammonium chloride; and a metal carbonate salt, such as potassium carbonate, all in aqueous solution. A sequestering agent, a long-chain alkyl polyethoxylate, an alkanolamine and an anti-corrosive agent may also be present. The composition has a pH of at least 11 when diluted to an in-use concentration, and may be used to clean and disinfect hard surfaces, such as medical, dental and surgical implements, walls, floors, sinks and hard furnishing surfaces, or soft surfaces such as bedding, upholstery or clothing. The composition is effective as a virucide, a sporicide, a bacteriocide, a fungicide, and against yeasts and moulds, without harming the substrate cleansed.
US11326127B2
A foamable, liquid cleaning composition comprising: i. 0.5 to 5 wt. % C8-18 alkoxylated anoionic surfactant having 1 to 30 moles of alkylene oxide; ii. 5 to 20 wt. % nonionic surfactants; iii. 0.1 to 10 wt. % water miscible glycol ether solvent; iv. 0.1 to 10 wt % water immiscible fatty acid ester solvent selected from the group consisting of methyl laurate, ethyl laurate, ethyl octanoate or mixtures thereof; v. 0.1 to 10 wt % of sequestrant selected from the group consisting of citric, adipic, succinic, maleic, glutaric acids, mixtures thereof or salts thereof; and vi. water, wherein the composition has a viscosity of less than 100 mPa·s at 25° C. and 20 s−1, wherein ratio of the sum of alkoxylated surfactant (i) and nonionic surfactant (ii) to the solvent is in a weight ratio ranging from 0.93:1 to 20:1, and wherein the pH of the composition ranges from 2.0 to 4.5. A cleaning system comprising a spraying device and a foamable liquid cleaning composition, said spraying device forming a foam with a density of less than 0.4 g/ml when ejected from the spray device through the spray head. A method of removing oily fatty stains from fabric. Use of the composition for the removal of oily fatty stains from fabric, said use comprising applying the liquid cleaning composition in the form of a foam onto the surface of the fabric.
US11326123B1
The present disclosure relates to a durable lubricating fluid for an electric motor or hybrid-electric motor. The disclosed technology relates to a durable lubricating fluid comprising an oil of lubricating viscosity, a thiadiazole or derivative thereof, and an amine salt of a phosphoric acid.
US11326116B2
Methods and systems for operating and NGL recovery process are provided. In an exemplary method, an absorber column upstream of a fractionator column is operated at a higher pressure than a pressure in the fractionator column. An NGL (C3 plus) stream is taken from the bottom of a fractionator column and then ethylene/ethane stream is taken from the top of the fractionator column. A differential pressure between the absorber column and the fraction are column is controlled based, at least in part, on a flow rate of the fractionator feed stream from the absorber column to the fractionator column.
US11326090B2
A well cleanup process involves removing an impermeable filter cake from a formation face with thermochemical and chelating agents to allow formation fluids to flow from a reservoir to a wellbore. The method may be used with oil and water-based drilling fluids with varied weighting agents, e.g., bentonite, calcium carbonate, or barite. Such thermochemical agents may involve two salts, e.g., NO2− and NH4+, which, when mixed together, can generate pressure and heat, in addition to hot H2O and/or N2. For example, the thermochemical agents may comprise Na+, K+, Li+, Cs+, Mg2+, Ca2+, and/or Ba2+ with NO2− and NH4+ with F−, Cl−, Br−, I−, CO32−, NO3−, ClO4−, and/or −OH. The thermochemical agents in combination with a chelator such as EDTA can removed the filter cake after 6 hours with a removal efficiency of 89 wt % for the barite filter cake in water based drilling fluid, exploiting the generation of a pressure pulse and heat which may disturb the filter cake and/or enhance barite dissolution and polymer degradation.
US11326081B2
A method of bonding two shaped bodies S1 and S2 including the steps of: a) providing shaped body S1; b) arranging shaped body S2 wherein shaped body S1, forming cavity between two shaped bodies, c) introducing one-component thermosetting epoxy resin compositions into cavity, wherein one-component thermosetting epoxy resin composition is one-component thermosetting epoxy resin composition including: at least one epoxy resin A having average of more than one epoxy group per molecule; at least one curing agent B for epoxy resins activated by elevated temperature; at least one polyester polyol PP obtainable by reaction of at least one diol having structure HO—(CH2)x′—OH the value of x′=2-10, and —at least one dicarboxylic acid having structure HOOC—(CH2)y′—COOH and derivatives of dicarboxylic acid, value of y′=8-18, and wherein proportion of polyester polyol PP is 1.5% to 20% by weight, based on total weight of one-component thermosetting epoxy resin composition.
US11326074B2
The invention provides a method of treating a floor, such as with a curable epoxy resin-based system or another resin system. The method involves mixing together a Part A comprising a resin and a Part B comprising a hardener to form an activated multicomponent resin system. In certain embodiments, the activated multicomponent resin system has a viscosity in a range of 900-1,200 centipoise. The method further comprises mixing a Part C comprising particles into the activated multicomponent resin system to form a slurry, spreading the slurry over a floor to form a slurry coat, and allowing the slurry coat to cure. Before and after the slurry coat has cured, it has particles of the Part C distributed substantially uniformly throughout. The invention also provides slurry floor coats and floors bearing such coats, as well as methods for repairing such floor coats and floors.
US11326066B2
Provided are an ink for a PTP package, which is a counterfeit prevention ink for use in a PTP package, has excellent invisibility, can be efficiently read by a scanner having sensitivity in a near infrared region, is highly durable, and can be used for a material of a PTP package, particularly an aluminum substrate; and an ink composition for use therefor. An ink composition for a PTP package, containing vanadyl naphthalocyanine represented by Formula (I): and a resin. The resin is preferably at least one selected from a cellulose-based resin, a vinyl-based resin, a polyamide-based resin, a polyimide-based resin, an epoxy-based resin, a polyurethane-based resin, a polyester-based resin, a polyester urethane-based resin, a polystyrene-based resin, a polyolefin-based resin, a polyacrylic resin, and a polycarbonate-based resin.
US11326065B2
A versatile silicone resin reflective substrate which exhibits high reflectance of high luminance light from an LED light source over a wide wavelength from short wavelengths of approximately 340-500 nm, which include wavelengths from 380-400 nm near lower limit of the visible region, to longer wavelength in the infra-red region. The silicone resin reflective substrate has a reflective layer which contains a white inorganic filler powder dispersed in a three-dimensional cross linked silicone resin, the inorganic filler powder having a high reflective index than the silicone resin. The reflective layer is formed on a support body as a film, a solid, or a sheet. The silicone resin reflective substrate can be easily formed as a wiring substrate, a packaging case or the like, and can be manufactured at low cost and a high rate of production.
US11326057B2
The invention relates to the identification of polymer materials on the basis of the fluorescence decay time of the intrinsic fluorescence of the polymer materials for definite sorting in a completely separated manner. The invention further relates to marking with fluorescent dyes, which, because of the specific fluorescence decay times of the fluorescent dyes, can further increase the sorting reliability by means of redundancy and can be used to identify particular batches.
US11326055B2
The present invention relates to an aerogel composite powder superior in thermal insulation and flexibility, the aerogel composite powder comprising an aerogel component and a silica particle.
US11326047B2
The present invention relates to a method of preparing a thermoplastic resin. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method of preparing a thermoplastic resin, the method including A) a step of coagulating an emulsion-polymerized latex with an acid; B) a step of treating the coagulated aggregate (slurry) with a base, followed by dehydration; and C) a step of treating the dehydrated wet powder with an acid, followed by dehydration. A method of preparing a thermoplastic resin which exhibits reduced gas generation, color improvement, and superior thermal stability is provided.
US11326045B2
Disclosed herein is a film comprising a layer that comprises a polyethylene composition comprising the reaction product of ethylene and optionally one or more alpha-olefin comonomers, wherein said polyethylene composition is characterized by the following properties: a melt index, I2, measured according to ASTM D1238 (2.16 kg, 190 C), of from 0.5 to 10 g/10 min; a density (measured according to ASTM D792) of less than 0.935 g/cm3; a melt flow ratio, I10/I2, wherein I10 is measured according to ASTM D1238 (10 kg, 190 C) of from 6.0 to 7.5; a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of from 2.8 to 3.9; and a vinyl unsaturation of greater than 0.12 vinyls per one thousand carbon atoms, and a low density polyethylene.
US11326041B2
A mono or multi-layer biaxially oriented polyester film is described. Also described, is a process for producing the mono or multi-layer biaxially oriented polyester film. Uses of a surface-treated filler material product as a voiding agent in the mono or multi-layer biaxially oriented polyester film, an article that includes the mono or multi-layer biaxially oriented polyester film as well as the use of the mono or multi-layer biaxially oriented polyester film in packaging products are also described. The packaging products can include: paper and glass coverings, insulating materials, solar, marine and aviation applications, science, electronic and acoustic applications, wires, cables, radio frequency identifications, flexible circuits, graphic arts, filter products, cosmetic products, household products, imaging and recording media, or industrial products.
US11326035B2
The present invention provides a new method for modifying a polymer molded body and binding a target molecule. The method for selectively binding a target molecule to a polymer molded body of the present invention includes: a pretreatment step of irradiating a selected surface of a polymer molded body with light in the presence of a compound radical; and a binding step of reacting a target molecule with the polymer molded body after the pretreatments to bind the target molecule to the selected surface of the polymer molded body, wherein the compound radical is a radical containing one element selected from the group consisting of Group 15 elements and Group 16 elements, and a Group 17 element.
US11326033B2
The disclosure provides a method to optimize atomic layer deposition comprising the following steps: (A) providing a cellulose nanofiber; (B) acidifying the cellulose nanofiber by an acidifying treatment agent; (C) hydrophobing the acidified cellulose nanofiber by a hydrophobinghydrophobic treatment agent; (D) dissolving the acidified and hydrophobed cellulose nanofiber in a solvent to form a cellulose nanofiber solution; (E) coating the cellulose nanofiber solution on a silicone resin film; (F) heating the coated silicone resin film to form a cellulose nanofiber layer on a surface of the silicone resin film; and (G) forming an inorganic coating layer on the surface of the silicone resin film having the cellulose nanofiber layer by atomic layer deposition.
US11326030B2
Disclosed herein are a polyamide-imide film which is transparent and exhibits superior mechanical properties such as surface hardness, etc. and a method of preparing the same. The polyamide-imide film a copolymer of an aromatic diamine, an aromatic dianhydride, and an aromatic dicarbonyl compound, wherein the aromatic diamine and the aromatic dianhydride forms an imide unit; the aromatic diamine and the aromatic dicarbonyl compound forms an amide unit; and the amide unit accounts for 50-70 mol % of 100 mol % of the units of the copolymer, thereby exhibiting transparency and superior mechanical properties including surface hardness.
US11326029B2
A hybrid composite comprising a thermoplastic or thermoset matrix in which brittle and ductile fibers are present, wherein the fibers are configured such that the ductile fibers of the hybrid composite dissipate energy at a impact or overload by plastic deformation of the ductile fibers and show residual properties after impact or overload.
US11326026B2
Reversibly crosslinkable compositions are provided for forming removable crosslinked films. A reversibly crosslinkable composition may comprise entangled chains of a polysiloxane comprising pendant functional groups having formula —NH—(C═O)—X—COOH, wherein X is an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, or an aryl group; a plurality of inorganic oxide nanoparticles; and a solvent; wherein non-covalent bonds between the pendant functional groups and the inorganic oxide nanoparticles crosslink the entangled chains to form a polymeric matrix in the absence of the solvent, wherein the non-covalent bonds dissociate and the polymeric matrix collapses in the presence of water and heat.
US11326024B2
A polyamide resin with an excellent balance of mechanical characteristics such as breaking strength and breaking elongation in a solid state, a molded body containing said polyamide resin, a laminate provided with a film or a sheet containing said polyamide resin, a medical device provided with the aforementioned molded body and/or the aforementioned laminate, and a production method of the aforementioned polyamide resin are provided. A polyamide resin is used which contains: a linear aliphatic dicarbonyl unit as unit (a); a linear aliphatic diamino unit as unit (b); at least one of a unit (b) and a unit (c), each of a prescribed structure; and a trivalent unit (e).
US11326018B2
A method for the production of polyoxazolidinone compounds, comprising the step of reacting an isocyanate compound (A) with an epoxide compound (B) in the presence of a catalyst (C), wherein the isocyanate compound (A) comprises a isocyanate compound (A1) wherein the a isocyanate compound (A1) comprising at least two isocyanate groups (I1≥2), preferred two isocyanate groups (I1=2), wherein the epoxide compound (B) comprises a epoxide compound (B1) and an epoxide compound (B2), wherein the epoxide compound (B2) is different from the epoxide compound (B1) wherein the epoxide compound (B1) comprising at least two terminal epoxide groups (F1≥2), preferred two terminal epoxide groups (F1=2), linked together by a linking group (L1) and the epoxide compound (B2) comprising at least two terminal epoxide groups (F2≥2)), preferred two terminal epoxide groups (F2=2), linked together by a linking group (L2), wherein the linking group (L2) comprises acyclic and covalent bonds to each other free of conjugated multiple bonds within the main chain, wherein the epoxide compound (B2) is present in the epoxide compounds B1 and B2, in an amount of ≥0.01 mol-% to <10 mol-%, preferred 1-9 mol-% more preferred 3-8 mol-% based on the molar ratio the terminal epoxide groups in the epoxide compound (B1) and of the sum of the terminal epoxide groups in the epoxide compound (B1) and terminal epoxide groups in the epoxide compound (B2).
US11326017B2
The present invention relates to a composition at least comprising A) an adduct of isocyanatosilanes with hydroxy-functional compounds and B) a tin-free catalyst, and also to a coating composition comprising at least the composition and to the use of the coating composition.
US11326006B2
A gate insulation film composed of a polymer compound containing at least one repeating unit selected from the group consisting of a repeating unit of formula (2) and a repeating unit of formula (3); a repeating unit of formula (4) and a repeating unit of formula (1), or composed of a composition containing the polymer compound, wherein the molar ratio of the repeating unit of formula (4) to the sum of the repeating unit of formula (2) and the repeating unit of formula (3) is 50/100 to 200/100 with the total charging amount (molar quantity) of the repeating unit of formula (2) and the repeating unit of formula (3) being 100 and the content of the repeating unit of the following formula (1) is 75% by mol or more with the total content of all repeating units in the polymer compound being 100% by mol.
US11326004B2
Isobutylene copolymer includes repeat units derived from isobutylene and one or more comonomers selected from isoprene, butadiene, cyclopentadiene, dicyclopentadiene, limonene, substituted styrenes, and C4 to C10 dienes other than isoprene, butadiene, limonene, cyclopentadiene, or dicyclopentadiene, wherein the molar ratio of isobutylene derived repeat units to the comonomer derived repeat units is from 75:1 to 1.5:1. The copolymers have a molecular weight, Mn, of from 200 to 20,000 Daltons and typically have a high double bond content and a high vinylidene double bond content when diene monomers are utilized.
US11326001B2
A copolymer of ethylene and of myrcene, in which the ethylene units represent between 50 mol % and 95 mol % of the ethylene units and of the myrcene units, and the myrcene units of 1,2 and 3,4 configuration represent more than 50 mol % of the myrcene units, is provided. Such a copolymer exhibits an improved compromise between the degree of crystallinity and the stiffness. It therefore makes it possible to widen the field of application of ethylene-rich diene copolymers in rubber compositions, and also to increase the production capacity of a unit for the synthesis of ethylene-rich diene polymers.
US11325997B1
Supported chromium catalysts containing a solid oxide and 0.1 to 15 wt. % chromium, in which the solid oxide or the supported chromium catalyst has a particle size span from 0.5 to 1.4, less than 3 wt. % has a particle size greater than 100 μm, and less than 10 wt. % has a particle size less than 10 μm, can be contacted with an olefin monomer in a loop slurry reactor to produce an olefin polymer. Representative ethylene-based polymers produced using the chromium catalysts have a HLMI of 4 to 70 g/10 min, a density from 0.93 to 0.96 g/cm3, from 150 to 680 ppm solid oxide (such as silica), from 1.5 to 6.8 ppm chromium, and a film gel count of less than 15 catalyst particle gels per ft2 of 25 micron thick film and/or a gel count of less than or equal to 50 catalyst particles of greater than 100 μm per five grams of the ethylene polymer.
US11325992B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing a dispersion of white fine particles from which a white ink that is capable of exhibiting excellent hiding power, rub fastness and water resistance even when printed on a low-water absorbing printing medium can be obtained by incorporating the dispersion of the white fine particles into the ink, and a water-based ink for ink-jet printing which contains the white fine particles. The present invention provides [1] a process for producing a dispersion of white fine particles, including step 1 of mixing titanium oxide and a polymer dispersant at a pH value that is not less than an acid dissociation exponent (pKa) of at least a part of an acid component of the polymer dispersant to thereby obtain a titanium oxide dispersion, in which an isoelectric point (A) of the titanium oxide and the acid dissociation exponent (pKa) (B) of the polymer dispersant satisfy a relationship represented by the formula: A−B≥0, the polymer dispersant contains a constitutional unit derived from a hydrophobic monomer, and a volume median particle size (D50) of particles in the titanium oxide dispersion is from 150 to 500 nm; and step 2 of adding a polymerizable monomer to the titanium oxide dispersion obtained in the step 1 to subject the polymerizable monomer to polymerization reaction, thereby obtaining the dispersion of the white fine particles, and [2] a water-based ink for ink-jet printing which contains the white fine particles obtained above.
US11325987B2
The present disclosure provides a method for identifying and quantifying sulfated glycosaminoglycans, including for example heparin, by passing a sample through nanopores. The glycosaminoglycans sample is measured in microliter quantities, at nanomolar concentrations with detection of impurities below 0.5%, and a dynamic range over five decades of magnitude with a trained machine learning algorithm.
US11325983B2
The invention relates to a bispecific antibody comprising a first antigen-binding site capable of binding Factor VII(a) and a second antigen-binding site capable of binding TLT-1, pharmaceutical formulations comprising such bispecific antibodies and uses thereof.
US11325974B2
Blockade of immune checkpoints such as cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4) and programmed death-1 (PD-1) shows promise in patients with cancer. Inhibitory antibodies directed at these receptors have been shown to break immune tolerance and promote anti-tumor immunity. These agents work particularly well in patients with a certain category of tumor. Such tumors may be particularly susceptible to treatment because of the multitude of neoantigens which they produce.
US11325969B2
The disclosure is directed to antibodies and binding fragments thereof that specifically bind FGL2. The disclosure is also directed to uses of the antibodies and binding fragments thereof for treating cancer.
US11325968B2
The present invention relates to a mouse antibody denoted m2E6, chimeric ch2E6, as well as to 3 humanized forms (2E6-HLD1, 2E6-HLD2 and 2E6-HLD3) and affinity matured forms of HLD1: 7A10, 5A1, 9D7, 9G11, 7C4, L3, 8D9, 9C12 or 6B6 to create higher affinity antibodies.
US11325965B2
Isolated VHH monoclonal antibodies are disclosed that specifically bind to a Norovirus polypeptide. In some embodiments, the Norovirus is a Genogroup I Norovirus or a Genogroup II Norovirus. In other embodiments, the Norovirus is Norwalk or MD2004 virus. In some embodiments, the monoclonal antibodies specifically bind VP1. Also disclosed are compositions including the disclosed antibodies, nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, expression vectors including the nucleic acids, and isolated host cells that express the nucleic acids. The antibodies and compositions disclosed herein can be used for detecting the presence of a Norovirus in a biological sample, or detecting a Norovirus infection. Also disclosed are methods of treating and/or preventing a NoV infection.
US11325961B2
To provide a therapy and a diagnosis of cancer or an infection using recognition mechanism of a T-cell receptor. An NK cell function enhancer comprises, an active ingredient, a T-cell receptor chimeric protein being a fusion protein of: a T-cell receptor variable region capable of recognizing a cancer-specific antigen or a T-cell receptor variable region capable of recognizing an antigen specific to a pathogen causative of an infection, and an immunoglobulin Fc region, wherein the T-cell receptor chimeric protein binds to an MHC molecular complex of a cancer cell to down-modulate an MHC class I molecule complex, and the cancer cell is killed or damaged by recognition of an NK cell; and an NK cell function enhancer for imparting to an NK cell a function of recognizing a cancer cell or an infected cell infected with a pathogen causative of an infection, which expresses an MHC class I molecule, and killing or damaging the cancer cell or the infected cell by TDCC (T-cell receptor chimeric protein-dependent cellular cytotoxicity) activity.
US11325949B2
Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are insecticidal nucleic acids and proteins of bacterial species. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest including plants, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The pesticidal proteins find use in controlling, inhibiting growth or killing Lepidopteran, Coleopteran, Dipteran, fungal, Hemipteran and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity.
US11325943B2
Disclosed are various crystalline salt forms of L-Phe-D-Arg-L-Phe-L-Lys-NH2.
US11325939B2
The presently-disclosed subject matter relates to an artificial RNA nanostructure molecule and method to treat brain tumor in a subject. More particularly, the presently disclosed subject matter relates to a RNA nanostructure containing a multiple branched RNA nanoparticle, a brain tumor targeting module, and an effective amount of a therapeutic agent. Further, the presently disclosed subject matter relates to a method of using the RNA nanostructure composition to treat brain tumor in a subject having or at risk of having brain tumor.
US11325930B2
The present disclosure relates generally to modulators of Cot (cancer Osaka thyroid) and methods of use and manufacture thereof.
US11325924B2
The present invention provides compounds, compositions thereof, and methods of using the same.
US11325916B1
The present invention discloses compounds of Formula (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, thereof: which inhibit coronavirus replication activity. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and methods of treating or preventing a coronavirus infection in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US11325910B2
The present invention provides novel compounds of Formula (I), (II), or (III), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, polymorphs, co-crystals, tautomers, stereoisomers, isotopically labeled derivatives, prodrugs, and compositions thereof. Also provided are methods and kits involving the inventive compounds or compositions for treating and/or preventing proliferative diseases (e.g., cancers (e.g., leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, lymphoma, Burkitt's lymphoma, melanoma, multiple myeloma, breast cancer, Ewing's sarcoma, osteosarcoma, brain cancer, ovarian cancer, neuroblastoma, lung cancer, colorectal cancer), benign neoplasms, diseases associated with angiogenesis, inflammatory diseases, autoinflammatory diseases, and autoimmune diseases) in a subject. Treatment of a subject with a proliferative disease using a compound or composition of the invention may inhibit the aberrant activity of a kinase, such as a cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) (e.g., CDK7, CDK12, or CDK13), and therefore, induce cellular apoptosis and/or inhibit transcription in the subject.
US11325906B2
The present invention relates to azaquinolone compounds of Formula (I), and their use in medicine.
US11325893B2
A compound is represented by the following general formula (I): (I) wherein each of Rf1 and Rf2 is, independently, F, CF3, C2F5, C3F7, or C4F9, with the proviso that if either of Rf1 and Rf2 is fluorine, then the other is not fluorine; Rf3 is F, CF3, C2F5, C3F7 or CF(CF3)2; Rf4 is F, CF3, C2F5, C3F7 or CF(CF3)2; and Rh is CH3 or C2H5.
US11325889B2
Provided herein are piperidine dione compounds having the following structure: wherein RN, R1, R2, R3, R4, X, L, V, m, and n are as defined herein, compositions comprising an effective amount of a piperidine dione compound, and methods for treating or preventing an androgen receptor mediated disease.
US11325885B2
Therapeutic compounds containing a phenyl core and amide link(s). Also described are pharmaceutical compositions incorporating the therapeutic compounds and a method for treating cancer with the compounds. These compounds are cytotoxic to stomach, colon, breast, and leukemia cancer cell lines via dual inhibition of Src kinases and tubulin.
US11325884B2
The present invention provides compounds according to Formula I as described herein, and their use for inhibiting the lysine gingipain protease (Kgp) from the bacterium Porphyromonas gingivalis. Also described are gingipain activity probe compounds and methods for assaying gingipain activity are also described, as well as methods for the treatment of disorders associated with P. gingivalis infection, including brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.
US11325875B2
Chiral spirobiindane skeleton compound and preparation method thereof is disclosed in the present invention. The spirobiindane skeleton compound of the present invention having the structure formula of I or I′; the preparation method for synthesizing the spirobiindane skeleton compound of the present invention comprising the following steps: in the presence of solvent and catalysts, the structure formula compound III reacted through intramolecular Friedel-Crafts reaction to obtain the compound of formula I; the catalyst is a Browsteric acidor Lewis acid. The preparation method of chiral fused spirobiindane skeleton compound of the present invention does not need to adopt chiral starting materials or chiral resolving agents, does not require chiral resolving steps, is simple in method, is simple in post-treatment, and is economic and environment friendly. High product yield, high product optical purity and chemical purity. The catalyst for the asymmetric reaction is obtained from the chiral spirobiindane skeleton ligand of the present invention, under the catalytic reagent of transition metal, the catalyzed hydrogenation reaction can arrive at a remarkable catalytic effect with a product yield of >99%, and a product ee value of up to >99%.
US11325872B2
A concentrated aqueous suspension of microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) comprising salts for plant nutrition, the concentrated aqueous suspension comprises microfibrillated linear polymers of D-glucose molecules homogenized through a fibrillation process (cellulose microfibers), calcium ions, sulfate ions and other substances for plant nutrition, being the concentration of calcium ions and sulfate ions in excess of the concentration corresponding to the solubility of calcium sulfate in water and being the proportion of microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) within a range of 1% and 99% w/w of the suspension.
US11325867B2
Hybrid composite materials including carbon nanotube sheets and flexible ceramic materials, and methods of making the same are provided herein. In one embodiment, a method of forming a hybrid composite material is provided, the method including: placing a layer of a first flexible ceramic composite on a lay-up tooling surface; applying a sheet of a pre-preg carbon fiber reinforced polymer on the flexible ceramic composite; curing the flexible ceramic composite and the pre-preg carbon fiber reinforced polymer sheet together to form a hybrid composite material; and removing the hybrid composite material from the lay-up tooling surface, wherein the first flexible ceramic composite comprises an exterior surface of the hybrid composite material.
US11325862B2
A hydrophobic, water-redispersible polymer powder composition contains a) a main polymer having a1) more than 60 parts by weight of vinyl laurate monomer units a2) 5 to 30 parts by weight of vinyl acetate monomer units, a3) 5 to 30 parts by weight of ethylene monomer units, a4) 0 to 10 parts by weight of other ancillary monomer units, where the parts by weight total 100 parts by weight, b) 0.5 to 30% by weight of one or more protective colloids, c) 0 to 30% by weight of antiblocking agent, d) 0 to 20% by weight of organosilicon compound, and e) 0 to 20% by weight of fatty acid or derivatives of the fatty acids, where the % s by weight are based on the total weight of the polymer a).
US11325859B2
The invention provides a glass sheet or another transparent substrate on which there is provided a static-dissipative coating. The static-dissipative coating includes a film comprising titania. The film comprising titania preferably is exposed so as to define an outermost face of the static-dissipative coating. The static-dissipative coating is characterized by an indoor dust collection factor of less than 0.145.
US11325857B2
A black β-spodumene glass ceramic is provided. The glass ceramic includes β-spodumene as a primary crystal phase and gahnite as a minor crystal phase. The glass ceramic is characterized by the color coordinates: L*: 20.0 to 40.0, a*: −1.0 to 0.5, and b*: −5.0 to 1.0. The glass ceramic may be ion exchanged. Methods for producing the glass ceramic are also provided.
US11325852B2
Wastewater treatment plants and processes for treating wastewater are described. The wastewater treatment plant utilizes channel plug flow dynamics with attached growth media and pure oxygen or mixtures of pure oxygen and compressed air.
US11325849B2
An apparatus, system and method to purify water is disclosed. Pumps and energy recovery devices for taking water from an intake, filtering the water to remove solid contaminates before running the filtered water through the reverse osmosis system to the discharge device and purified water lines are described. The system may comprise a control panel that controls the plurality of filters, plurality of reverse osmosis membranes, purified water line and effluent discharge device, to achieve favorable water purification. A method that utilizes the apparatus and/or system is described herein.
US11325846B2
A solar distillation system includes at least one solar panel to reflect sunlight, and a distillation tube adjacent the at least one solar panel. The distillation tube is to receive brine to be processed into fresh water. The brine is to flow through the distillation tube and is heated by the reflected sunlight. A first supplemental distillation unit is connected to a first end of the distillation tube and has a curved surface perpendicular to the distillation tube to receive the reflected sunlight. A second supplemental distillation unit is connected to a second end of the distillation tube and has a curved surface perpendicular to the distillation tube to receive the reflected sunlight. The first and second supplemental distillation units each include sprayers to spray brine onto the respective curved surfaces to be further processed into fresh water.
US11325845B2
A water vapor distillation system. The system includes a water vapor distillation device configured to receive a volume of source water from a fluid source and produce distillate, the device comprising: a concentrate flow path comprising a concentrate output; a distillate flow path comprising a distillate output; at least one source proportioning valve; a first heat exchanger comprising at least a portion of the distillate flow path; a second heat exchanger including at least a portion of the concentrate flow path, wherein the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger in fluid flow communication with the fluid source; a distillate sensor assembly in communication with the distillate flow path and located downstream the first heat exchanger, the distillate sensor assembly configured to generate a distillate temperature measurement; and a controller configured to control the source proportioning valves, the controller configured to: receive the distillate temperature measurement; determine the difference between a first target temperature and the distillate temperature measurement; and split the source water from the fluid source between the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger based on the difference between the first target temperature and the distillate temperature measurement.
US11325841B2
A preparation method of indium oxide with stable morphology includes: (1) mixing indium oxide powder and bismuth oxide powder according to a mass ratio of 1:0.1-0.5 to obtain a powder mixture; (2) putting the powder mixture into a ball mill for ball milling at room temperature to obtain a uniform powder mixture; (3) putting the obtained uniform powder mixture into a muffle furnace and calcining at 700-1000° C.; and (4) obtaining the indium oxide with cubic stable morphology after the muffle furnace naturally cools to room temperature. The method has advantages of simple synthesis process, short synthesis period, high sample yield, no need of complicated equipment, and morphology of the obtained indium oxide can be maintained after being heated at a high temperature within 1000° C. for 2 hours. An electrochemical sensor prepared by using the indium oxide obtained by the method has better selectivity to nonane.
US11325840B1
A zinc oxide powder in which a BET specific surface area of the powder is 8 m2/g or more and 65 m2/g or less, an apparent specific volume measured by a loose packing method of the powder is 1.0 mL/g or more and 7.5 mL/g or less, and a value indicated by (the apparent specific volume measured by the loose packing method/an apparent specific volume measured by a tapping method), which is obtained by dividing the apparent specific volume (mL/g) measured by the loose packing method by the apparent specific volume (mL/g) measured by the tapping method of the powder, is 1.50 or more and 2.50 or less.
US11325837B2
A process of forming a sintered article includes heating a green portion of a tape of polycrystalline ceramic and/or minerals in organic binder at a binder removal zone to a temperature sufficient to pyrolyze the binder; horizontally conveying the portion of tape with organic binder removed from the binder removal zone to a sintering zone; and sintering polycrystalline ceramic and/or minerals of the portion of tape at the sintering zone, wherein the tape simultaneously extends through the removal and sintering zones.
US11325836B2
The present invention relates to recovery of lithium from liquid resources to produce lithium solutions while limiting impurity precipitation in the lithium solutions.
US11325826B2
A refueling vehicle may have a front fuel dispensing module with at least one or more hoses for dispensing fuel product from the fuel tank to an external tank. The front fuel dispensing module is located between the cab and the fuel tank containing the fuel product.
US11325822B2
A water dispenser which is connected to a pure water source and used for dispensing pure water includes: an arm mounting unit; a water dispensing gun including a nozzle for discharging pure water; a holding unit for holding the water dispensing gun; and at least two arms connecting the holding unit to the arm mounting unit. The at least two arms constitute a parallel link mechanism in which a trajectory of each arm when the at least two arms move is within the same vertical plane.
US11325814B2
A method for lifting a tank car is provided. The method can include positioning a lifting apparatus above a tank car, pulling at least one of the first arm and the second arm outward to place the lifting apparatus in an open configuration, lowering the lifting apparatus in the open configuration to surround a tank of the tank car, connecting the second end of the first arm to a first tank car support, connecting the second and of the second arm to a second tank car support, and raising the lifting apparatus to lift the tank car.
US11325810B2
A method includes a first brake block of a first brake rubber, a second brake block mounted with a second brake rubber and a mounting base for mounting the first and second brake blocks. The second brake rubber is movable along a direction slanted with respect to an axis of rotation of the traction sheave. A brake block actuation member is triggered by the brake blocks to enable the first and the second brake rubbers to hold the traction sheave. A switching member is also triggered by the action of the second brake rubber, cutting off a safety circuit of the elevator. The external power is cut off, and the brake block actuation member enables contact between the second brake rubber and the traction sheave. The traction sheave further drives the second brake rubber triggering the brake block members to generate frictional braking force to stop the traction sheave.
US11325809B2
A guide for individual movement machinery. The guide includes a base, a frame and a monitoring system. The monitoring system includes arrays of sensors affixed to each of the base and the frame to respectively sense guide conditions and to generate readings accordingly.
US11325799B2
A vacuum roller system and a method of operation the vacuum roller system can include an assembly of interdigitated rollers, and a vacuum system, wherein the assembly of interdigitated rollers is operably connected to the vacuum system to move sheets of media through a downstream dryer in a printer, wherein a vacuum is drawn between individual rollers among the assembly of interdigitated rollers so that the vacuum is distributed across a sheet of media and is split around the individual rollers. The spacing between the individual rollers among the assembly of interdigitated rollers is variable to vary the vacuum.
US11325798B2
A feeding device comprises a suction feeding unit having a belt for feeding a sheet in a suction state and a belt driving unit, a sheet detection sensor, and a control unit. The control unit controls the belt drive unit so as to feed the sheet in a feeding direction at a first speed. If the sheet does not arrive at the sheet detection sensor, the control unit controls the belt drive unit so as to execute a low-speed feeding of moving the belt in the feeding direction at a second speed lower than the first speed or so as to execute a reverse feeding of moving the belt in a reverse feeding direction opposite to the feeding direction.
US11325789B2
A sorting facility for sorting articles by a plurality of connected conveyance carriages. The sorting facility includes a supervisory controller managing a position of each of the conveyance carriages, a trigger sensor detecting each of the conveyance carriages, and a belt conveyor provided on each of the conveyance carriages. The supervisory controller identifies each of the conveyance carriages that should deliver the articles to the chute based on the managed position of each of the conveyance carriages. The supervisory controller instructs the belt conveyor provided in each of the conveyance carriages identified to start a delivery operation of each of the articles at timing when each of the conveyance carriages identified is detected by the trigger sensor.
US11325786B2
A guide profile and a conveying system are disclosed. The conveying system is designed with a guide profile of this type. A slide bar of the guide profile is provided with an articulated leg so that it is possible to change the slide bar on the already installed conveying system.
US11325784B2
A roller conveyor, comprising: a plurality of rollers (2) each of which has a cylindrical external surface (21), arranged to enable an object to be transported to rest; a motor (3); a transmission element (4), which kinematically connects the motor (3) to the rollers (2). The transmission element (4) is placed in contact with the external surface (21) of the rollers (2), or in contact with a portion of the rollers (2) which has the same diameter as the external surface (21), and in the same position as the contact point of the external surface with the element to be transported.
US11325778B2
A wastebasket liner is configured to attach to an inner surface of a wastebasket so that the liner does not show conspicuously above a top rim of the wastebasket. The liner has an adhesive layer disposed on its outer surface at or adjacent a top edge of the liner so that the liner can be adhered in place within the wastebasket. One or more pull members are provided to assist in removing the liner from the wastebasket. Such pull member can be bonded to the liner, and has a free portion that is configured to be grasped by a user so that the user can easily pull on the liner to detach the adhesive from the wastebasket and remove the liner from the wastebasket.
US11325762B2
A container-closure system comprises a threaded-neck container that houses a first flowable product in a first reservoir. A closure assembly for the container initially houses a second flowable product in a second reservoir, and comprises a threaded cap and a cap insert. Movement of the cap insert with respect to the threaded cap effects the mixing of the two flowable products in the first reservoir.
US11325756B2
An improved lid and pail combination provides a child resistant connection for use with pails.
US11325754B2
A dispensing mechanism for carbonated beverage bottles that includes connecting member, perforating mechanism, and opening mechanism.
US11325749B2
The present invention relates to a container including a container body with a removable tray wherein the container can house at least two materials that must be kept separate until use. The container also may have upwardly extending fingers in the removable tray for securing a material.
US11325748B2
A device for protecting against shocks for a glass bottle is presented, having a body, a bottom and a distal portion successively comprising from the body, a shoulder, a collar and a neck, said device comprising a first cup engaging with the bottom and a second cup engaging with the shoulder, each of the cups having a projecting portion for damping shocks, along a transversal plane, beyond a zone of a larger diameter of the bottle. The projecting portion of at least one from among the first and the second cups includes a plurality of damping pads spaced apart from one another.
US11325742B2
The package includes sidewall panels, at least one first platform panel configured to support at least one first consumer product within the package, at least one foot panel that is at least partially positioned under the at least one first platform panel to support at least one portion of the at least one first platform panel, and a tear-off section defined by at least a lower end of the package.
US11325733B2
An exemplary apparatus for making packages from a web of interconnected bags includes an indexing mechanism, an opening arrangement, a pair of engagement devices, and a sealing arrangement. The indexing mechanism is configured to move the web of interconnected bags along a path of travel. The opening arrangement is configured to open a bag such that an opening is formed in the bag and a product can be placed into the opening of the bag. The pair of engagement devices are configured to engage the bag and close the opening of the bag. Each engagement device includes a base member, a first link, a second link, a sliding pivot member, and a finger. The first link is pivotably connected to the base member, and the second link is pivotably connected to the first link. The sliding pivot member is configured to allow the second link to slide through the sliding pivot member and pivot in relation to the base member. The finger is connected to the second link. The pair of engagement devices are configured to pull a first side and a second side of the bag in opposite directions. The sealing arrangement is configured to seal the opening of the bag.
US11325728B2
A tablet packaging device capable of shortening operation time required for packaging tablets for one tray. The tablet packaging device includes a packaging portion configured to accommodate tablets dispensed from a dispensing port into a tray. The packaging portion includes: a tray loading unit to which the tray is mountable; a tray unloading unit to which the tray accommodating the tablets is mountable; a tray driving unit, which is configured to removably support the tray, move the supported tray among positions of the dispensing port, the tray loading unit, and the tray unloading unit, and move the desired accommodation recess portion to the dispensing port for tablets; a tray attaching unit configured to attach the tray from the tray loading unit to the tray driving unit; and a tray detaching unit configured to detach the tray from the tray driving unit and place the tray on the tray unloading unit.
US11325717B2
An aircraft nacelle including a conduit rigidly connected to an air inlet and a conduit rigidly connected to an engine, a link between the conduit rigidly connected to the air inlet and the conduit rigidly connected to the engine. The link includes a sleeve that receives one end of a first conduit and is rigidly connected to a second conduit, and linking elements that link the sleeve and the first conduit and that are distributed about the entire circumference of the nacelle, each linking element having a threaded stem oriented in a radial direction and being configured to enable tightening from inside the first conduit.
US11325713B2
Ice protection systems of aircraft and related methods are disclosed. In one embodiment of the present invention, the system includes a gas-discharge lamp and an electric power source. The gas-discharge lamp is configured to emit infrared radiation toward an inner surface of an aircraft skin. The electric power source is operatively connected to the gas-discharge lamp.
US11325709B1
An upper shell for an aircraft seat may include a main body, and an upper pocket. The upper pocket may include a pocket flap coupled to the main body via at least one pocket flap hinge. The upper pocket may include a pocket cavity defined within the main body. The pocket cavity may be accessible following an actuation of the pocket flap into a pocket flap open position via the at least one pocket flap hinge. The pocket flap may be configured to cover at least a portion of the pocket cavity when the pocket flap is in a pocket flap closed position. The upper shell for the aircraft seat may include a personal electronic device (PED) holder assembly with a PED cavity defined within an area of the upper pocket, and a PED holder configured to fit within the PED cavity when in a PED holder closed position.
US11325705B2
Aspects of the current subject matter relate to enhanced operation services provided by an unmanned vehicle with cloud-based connectivity for real-time exchange of data and command/control operations. Data collected during a mission for an operation service, such as a particular inspection activity, is transmitted in real-time to a server for analysis to provide real-time or near real-time feedback in the form of command and/or control signals to the unmanned vehicle to improve the operation service while it is being carried out. The collected data is also used for simulations and to create historical content for future operation services.
US11325704B2
Disclosed is an unmanned automated hook-fastening device including a device coupler, a propulsion unit, a transmitter, a receiver, hook pliers, and an unloading transmitter. The propulsion unit adjusts the position of the hoisting unit with respect to the object, on the basis of the position signal transmitted by the transmitter and received by the receiver, and adjusts the position of the hoisting unit coupled to the object, on the basis of the position signal transmitted by the unloading transmitter and received by the receiver. It is possible to easily track the position of a hook of the object to be hoisted, automatically fasten the hook pliers to the hook, and automatically fasten the hook to a crane without a monitoring system.
US11325703B2
A control device includes a processor which: obtains first region information indicating a first region; obtains first position information indicating the position of an unmanned aerial vehicle tethered to a tethering device using a tether; and controls the tethering device using the first region information and the first position information to cause the tether to have tension corresponding to a specified distance which is at least one of the shortest distance between a boundary of the first region and the position of the unmanned aerial vehicle and a distance included in a predetermined range from the shortest distance.
US11325702B2
Methods and systems are described for an aerial drone system including a drone system controller, at least one working drone (101), and a plurality of support drones (103). The working drone (101) is operated by the drone system controller (125) to adjust a position of the working drone (101). A tether line (105) coupled to the working drone (101) provides electrical power to the working drone (101). The support drones (103) are each coupled to the tether line (105) at a different location along the tether line (105) forming a tethered aerial drone system. Each support (drone 103) supports a portion of the weight of the tether line (105) and is operated by the drone system controller (125) to adjust the position of the tether line (105) by adjusting the position of one or more of the support drones (103).
US11325701B2
The present invention provides a propulsion system for an aircraft. The system includes one or more thrust producing portions, wherein the one or more thrust producing portions include one or more duct means. The duct means are at least partially formed or defined by two or more substantially parallel wall members. At least one flapping or waving wing member is provided, at least partially located or positioned substantially within the one or more duct means, wherein the flapping or waving motion of the at least one wing member creates thrust, enabling the aircraft to fly in use.
US11325689B2
In an example, a composite stringer assembly includes a composite stringer, a radius filler, and an overwrap layer. The composite stringer includes: (i) a skin flange configured to be coupled to a support structure, (ii) a web, (iii) a lower corner portion of the composite stringer extending from the skin flange to the web, and (iv) an inner surface of the composite stringer extending along the skin flange, the lower corner portion, and the web. The radius filler includes a first surface coupled to the inner surface at the lower corner portion, a second surface configured to couple to the support structure, and a third surface extending between the first surface and the second surface. The overwrap layer is coupled to the inner surface at the web, the third surface of the radius filler, and the support structure.
US11325688B2
In an example, a composite stringer is described. The composite stringer includes a skin flange having a first gage, a top flange having a second gage, and a web having a third gage and extending between the skin flange and the top flange. The skin flange is configured to be coupled to a support structure. The support structure includes at least one of a skin of a vehicle or a base charge. The second gage of the top flange is greater than the first gage of the skin flange and the third gage of the web. The skin flange, the top flange, and the web include a plurality of plies of composite material.
US11325683B2
A urinal for a boat includes an outer shell that has an enlarged opening for accepting liquids (e.g. urine) and a drain. The drain is interfaced to an opening on a bottom surface of the outer shell for draining the liquids away from the boat. In some embodiments, there is a support unit for installing the urinal into an orifice (e.g. fishing pole holder) of the boat.
US11325681B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for a collapsible enclosure and a flotation container coupled to the collapsible enclosure to provide a buoyance to the collapsible enclosure. The collapsible enclosure comprises a floor portion, a top portion, and a side portion. The top portion is disposed opposite the floor portion. The side portion extends between the floor portion and the top portion. The collapsible enclosure being sealable to resist fluid penetration.
US11325678B2
A battery unit for a drive mechanism for a bicycle comprises at least one decoupling element. This allows for a decoupling of a housing for receiving a battery from the bicycle frame. The battery unit may in particular be mounted in an elastically dampened manner in the bicycle frame.
US11325677B2
A bicycle propulsion system including a concentric rotor assembly and a chassis assembly. The concentric rotor assembly: defines an outer drive surface; defines an inner retention surface; includes a set of sprocket brackets arranged about the inner retention surface of the concentric rotor assembly and configured to engage with teeth of a bicycle sprocket; and is configured to engage around the bicycle sprocket, wherein a center axis of the outer drive surface is concentric with a rotational axis of the bicycle sprocket. The chassis assembly: is configured to secure to a stay of the bicycle; includes a retention subassembly configured to translationally constrain the concentric rotor assembly relative to the chassis assembly; includes a drive subassembly configured to engage the outer drive surface of the concentric rotor assembly; and includes a motor configured to rotate the concentric rotor assembly via the drive subassembly.
US11325674B1
An operating device comprises a base member, an operating member, a piston, and a coupling structure. The base member includes a cylinder bore having a cylinder center axis. The operating member is movable relative to the base member between a rest position and an operated position. The piston is movably provided in the cylinder bore and is coupled to the operating member to be pulled in a pulling direction in response to a pulling movement of the operating member from the rest position to the operated position. The operating member includes a cam surface including a curved surface. The base member includes a guide groove linearly extending in the pulling direction. The coupling structure includes a follower configured to be in contact with the cam surface to receive the pulling movement, and a guided part movably provided in the guide groove to move the follower in the pulling direction.
US11325669B1
A bicycle adjustable seatpost includes a seatpost assembly, connecting base, telescopic cylinder, and control assembly. The cylinder of telescopic cylinder is connected to outer tube of seatpost assembly. The piston rod of telescopic cylinder is connected to inner tube of seatpost assembly and divides cylinder into first and second chambers. The connecting base is connected to saddle and has a motor chamber. The control assembly includes a motor including a cam and an actuation rod. The motor is in the motor chamber; the actuation rod is in the seatpost assembly and one end thereof extends into the motor chamber; the cam abuts against the actuation rod. When the cam is driven by the motor to rotate, the actuation rod reciprocates along axis thereof to connect or block the chambers. When the chambers are connected, the seatpost assembly length and saddle height can be adjusted.
US11325660B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a safety support apparatus for a cabin over engine (COE) truck cabin elevated in a raised position. The safety support apparatus provides a base member having a clamp mechanism which adjusts to truck chassis designs with rails of varying thicknesses. The frame of the safety support apparatus provides a receiver which may engage the bottom of an elevated truck cabin. The frame and base member are adjustable to allow configuration on either side of a truck cabin and deployment of the support apparatus at a range of angles.
US11325656B2
A drainage system for a vehicle is disclosed herein. A drain is disposed within a vehicle substrate and has a floor. A receiver is disposed proximate to the floor. A cap feature is operably coupled to the drain and is operable between first and second positions relative to the drain. The cap feature includes an upper platform and a sidewall that extends generally downward from the upper platform. A cutout is defined by the cap feature and is configured to allow liquid to flow through the cap feature. An engagement feature is coupled to the cap feature and is operable between a disengaged position and an engaged position in which the engagement feature is engaged with the receiver. Movement of the cap feature from the first position to the second position moves the engagement feature from the disengaged position to the engaged position.
US11325654B2
A front vehicle-body structure includes a front wheel including a wheel; and a side sill that extends in a front-rear direction on a rear side of the front wheel and has side sill inner and outer portions positioned on vehicle-width-direction inner and outer sides, respectively. Vehicle-width-direction end portions of the inner and outer portions are joined at a joined portion formed by the vehicle-width-direction end portions abutting against each other. The inner portion has a higher buckling strength in the front-rear direction than the outer portion. The joined portion has a second joined portion extending inclined to the vehicle-width-direction outer side toward a rear side, and a first joined portion bent from the second joined portion, extending to a front side, and positioned on a front-end portion of the side sill closer to the vehicle-width-direction inner side than a center line of the wheel in the vehicle width direction.
US11325646B2
A parking assistance system for a motor vehicle. A parking-space searching drive is performed where longitudinal and transverse guidance is determined, while a detection device determines a vehicle environment. Parking spaces may be measured on the basis of the detected vehicle environment. Based on the parking space measurement, it is determined if a parking space is suitable for the vehicle.
US11325644B2
The invention relates to a steering wheel assembly (10) comprising a steering wheel skeleton (12), an attachment component (14), a connection component (20) for fastening the attachment component (14) to the steering wheel skeleton (12), and a first resilient damping element (16) which couples the connection component (20) to the attachment component (14) so as to be able to oscillate, a second resilient damping element (18) being provided which couples the connection component (20) to the steering wheel assembly (12) so as to be able to oscillate.
US11325640B2
An apparatus for controlling an motor-driven power steering (MDPS) may include: a driving information input unit configured to receive driving information; a steering angle position control unit configured to receive a command steering angle and a current motor steering angle of a driving motor, and output an autonomous driving command; and an MDPS control unit configured to drive the driving motor based on the autonomous driving command in an autonomous driving mode, determine whether a driver intervenes in steering, calculate a driver command by the driver's steering according to whether the driver intervenes in steering, and change an operation mode from the autonomous driving mode to a driver mode while driving the driving motor with a compensation output between the driver command and the autonomous driving command.
US11325633B2
A child transport carrier includes a lower frame, an upper frame, a rear frame, and a first upper seat support. The lower frame includes a first end and a second end. The upper frame includes a first end and a second end. The rear frame extends from the second end of the lower frame to the second end of the upper frame. The first upper seat support includes a cross-member extending transversely across the first upper seat support and having a first end and a second end. The cross-member is configured to move the first upper seat support between a first seat position and a second seat position. The upper frame extends from an upper end of the rear frame and the lower frame extends from a lower end of the rear frame.
US11325629B2
The invention relates to a stackable transport trolley, in particular a stackable shopping trolley, comprising a chassis and a basket; the chassis includes a support frame and a frame of rods which is arranged on the support frame, the frame of rods supporting the basket.
US11325619B2
The invention relates to a suspension bridge type self-supporting aerial metal structure, in which the main platform is designed having three levels. The upper level is intended for the passage of motor vehicles. The intermediate level is intended for the transportation, transmission and distribution of all existing public services, and other possible services. The lower level is intended for an urban public transport system. Thanks to its self-supported aerial design, the structure of the present invention can be built within cities following the same layout as existing roads.
US11325617B2
An automatic driving system includes a driver monitor, a driver state determining unit, a first automatic driving controller, and a second automatic driving controller. The first automatic driving controller controls a first automatic driving mode for causing a vehicle to travel by automatic driving under a preset first traveling environment regardless of whether a driver is in a forward monitoring state. The second automatic driving controller controls a second automatic driving mode for causing the vehicle to travel by the automatic driving in a situation where the driver state determining unit determines, based on a driver state detected by the driver monitor, that the driver is in the forward monitoring state, and the vehicle is under a second traveling environment which is more complicated than the first traveling environment.
US11325616B2
An in-vehicle driving assistance apparatus that can execute driving assistance on the basis of any one of a plurality of control modes having mutually-different degrees of driving assistance, the apparatus comprising a receiving unit configured to receive a transition instruction of the control mode, a setting unit configured to set the control mode based on the transition instruction, a determining unit configured to determine whether or not a transition scheme for the control mode indicated by the transition instruction has a pre-registered detail, and a suppressing unit configured to suppress the setting of the control mode by the setting unit when the transition scheme for the control mode indicated by the transition instruction does not have the pre-registered detail.
US11325612B2
Disclosed is a passenger safety system for a vehicle that can remind a driver of the vehicle to check seats before leaving the vehicle. The system includes a control unit connected to an ignition sensor. The control unit can receive a signal from the ignition sensor indicating turning-off the ignition. The system may also include a weight sensor installed in the rear seat of the vehicle. The weight sensor is activated when an object is placed on the rear seat. The control unit can trigger an alert upon receiving a signal from the ignition sensor and the weight sensor is active. The alert can be an audio and/or visual alert for reminding the driver.
US11325608B1
Embodiments described herein receive telematics data collected over a period of time, wherein the telematics data is indicative of operation of a vehicle by an owner of the vehicle during the period of time; analyze the telematics data to identify driving behavior(s) of the owner during the period of time; predict one or more user preference values of a vehicle-sharing platform profile of the owner based on the identified one or more driving behaviors, wherein the one or more user preference values define one or more criteria for vehicle renters with whom the first vehicle can be shared; apply the one or more criteria to a potential vehicle renter; and cause an indication of the first vehicle of the owner to be displayed via a mobile device of the potential renter only if the potential vehicle renter satisfies the one or more criteria.
US11325580B2
A multi-layer control mechanism for optimizing performance metrics of a hybrid electric vehicle (e.g., fuel efficiency, drivability, NVH). A first layer generates a policy that defines target engine & motor operating settings for each of a plurality of possible driver demand inputs based on a predicted driver demand profile for a long-horizon period of time. A second layer determines a predicted “short-horizon” driver demand—based, for example, on historical driver data and one or more environmental sensor inputs—and applies a corrective pre-adjustment to the operating settings of the vehicle in response to determining that a pre-adjustment is required in order to apply the target operating settings for the predicted driver demand. A third layer determines constraints to the operating settings required to comply with the additional performance parameters and limits the operating settings applied to the engine and motor(s) to feasible operating settings defined by the constraints.
US11325578B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods disclosed herein include a system including a heating, venting, and air conditioning (HVAC) system and a controller coupled to the HVAC system. The controller is configured to receive internal vehicle information, external static information, and external dynamic information, and to control operation of the HVAC system based on the internal vehicle information, external static information, and external dynamic information.
US11325575B2
A brake valve for a compressed air brake system of a utility vehicle includes a compressed air input configured to connect to a system pressure, a compressed air output configured to connect a brake control line, and at least one sensor configured to determine a brake valve actuation travel of an actuating element of the brake valve with a working interconnection to the brake pedal. The brake valve further includes a characteristic curve memory storing two stored characteristic curves and/or dependences and at least one determination device. The brake valve is configured to output at least two useful sensor signals, a first of which represents a brake valve output pressure and a second of which represents a percentage actuation position of the actuating element. The at least one sensor is configured to generate an actuating signal depending on the brake valve actuation travel of the actuating element.
US11325573B2
A rear wheel regenerative braking control system for vehicle, may include a brake controller; a vehicle controller; a hydraulic controller; and a motor controller, wherein the system and the method may maximize an amount of rear wheel regenerative braking while easily securing braking stability of a vehicle.
US11325570B2
Provided is a vehicle operation pedal device comprising: an operation pedal which includes a depressing part provided thereto; a pair of upper support members which are fixed to a dash panel; a pair of lower support members which are fixed to the dash panel and also fixed to the pair of upper support members; an upper center support member which is laid between the pair of upper support members; and a connection hole which supports an operating rod protruding from the dash panel towards a vehicle rear side, such that the operating rod is rotatable with respect to the operation pedal. The upper center support member comprises a sliding receiving part. The pair of upper support members comprise an escape hole.
US11325564B2
A vehicular illumination system includes a ground illumination module disposed at a side door of a vehicle. The ground illumination module includes a reconfigurable display element and at least one light source operable to emit light. When the at least one light source is electrically powered, light emitted by the at least one light source illuminates a ground region adjacent the vehicle. When the at least one light source is electrically powered, light emitted by the at least one light source passes through the reconfigurable display element and the ground illumination module projects an icon established by the reconfigurable display element onto the ground region. The reconfigurable display element is reconfigurable to form the icon responsive to programming of the reconfigurable display element for an icon.
US11325534B2
An assembly includes a head assembly for an external rear view device to be attached to a motor vehicle, a lower casing element, an upper casing element, an articulation assembly, a bezel assembly for carrying at least one rear view element, and a hinge connection between the bezel assembly and a first sub assembly provided by at least the lower casing, the articulation assembly and attachment means with the articulation assembly being mounted on the attachment means or the attachment means being mounted on the articulation assembly.
US11325531B2
A system for promoting passenger trust and to mitigate motion sickness in a vehicle may include a first sensor structured to detect an operational status of the vehicle, a processor operably coupled to the first sensor; and a subliminal sensory system operably coupled to the processor. The processor may be structured to control the subliminal sensory system to subliminally provide information about the operational status of the vehicle to a passenger.
US11325529B2
In one embodiment, the invention describes a method of providing advance braking warning before an ADV reaches a point where the ADV is expected to brake. The method enables brake lights to be turned on before actual braking occurs, thus providing trailing vehicles more time to respond. According to the method, a trajectory is generated at a starting point. The trajectory includes a number of discrete points that the ADV is to follow. One or more discrete points are identified from the number of discrete points where the ADV is expected to brake based on previous driving statistics and calculated decelerations. At a predetermined time prior to reaching each of the identified discrete points, the ADV can turn on its brake lights to warn trailing vehicles that the ADV is about to brake so that the trailing vehicle can start to respond earlier.
US11325527B2
A helmet lighting system includes a display attachable to a helmet which is selectively illuminated in response to receiving a wireless signal transmitted from a wireless transmitter operably coupled to a brake or direction signal light of the motorcycle. The display includes flexible base housing attachable to an outer surface of the helmet that at least partially houses an illumination module. A flexible applique overlies the illumination module and is at least partially transparent or translucent so as to pass light from LEDs of the illumination module therethrough. The applique is removably attachable to the base housing and/or the illumination module and may be replaced with other appliques having different logos or indicia.
US11325522B2
An automatic light system is provided for automatically turning on and off vehicle lights in accordance with the surrounding environment. The system includes an imaging device that images an area in front of the vehicle and generates image data; an image processing unit that generates light mode information on the basis of the brightness in an upper region and lower region of the image data; and a light control unit that controls the lights on the basis of the light mode information. The image processing unit sets a higher weight to a measurement region in the movement direction of the vehicle from among a plurality of measurement regions set in the upper region and a lower weight to the other measurement regions to calculate the brightness in the upper region and generates the light mode information on the basis of the brightness in the upper region.
US11325519B1
The present invention relates to a securing assembly (1) for securing an elongated support tower (2) to a wind turbine tower (3). The securing assembly (1) comprises a base part (1a) including: a tower holding part (4), a fixed part (5), two arms (6), a plate (6c) arranged at the outer part of each of the two arms (6), the plates (6c) can adapt to the curvature of the wind turbine tower (3) and each comprising at least one rope sliding element (9). The securing assembly (1) comprises a rope (8), being arranged via the rope sliding elements (9), and a rope tightening device (11) arranged on the base part (1a). The rope (8) presses the plates (6c) against the wind turbine tower (3) when tightened.
US11325508B2
A child restraint includes a seat bottom and a seat back. The seat back includes a backrest and an adjustable headrest that is mounted for up-and-down movement on the backrest by a caregiver.
US11325507B2
A tether anchorage device for a swivel seat of a vehicle is provided. The device is configured such that an anchor including a horizontal bar and a vertical bar is mounted on a rear surface of the swivel seat, and a tether belt for fixing a baby seat is anchored to the anchor while being bound in a vertical direction as well as a horizontal direction of the swivel seat, so that the baby seat may be securely fixed to the swivel seat regardless of a rotating position of the swivel seat.
US11325494B2
Systems, methods, and storage media for determining a target charging level of a battery pack for a drive route are disclosed. A method includes receiving data pertaining to cells within a battery pack installed in each vehicle of a fleet of vehicles, the data received from at least one of each vehicle in the fleet of vehicles, providing the data to a machine learning server, directing the machine learning server to generate a predictive model, the predictive model based on machine learning of the data, receiving a vehicle route request from the vehicle, the vehicle route request corresponding to the drive route, estimating travel conditions of the vehicle based on the route request, determining a temperature of the battery pack in the vehicle, determining a target battery charging level based on the predictive model, the travel conditions, and the temperature, and providing the target battery charging level to the vehicle.
US11325492B2
A method for the efficient placement of electric vehicle chargers in a target area couples vehicle dynamics and battery dynamics modeling with environmental factors to accurately incorporate the impact that the environment has on the range of the battery into the placement of the chargers by simulating trips of fleets of electric vehicles. The vehicles can be of various types, for example, motorcycles, cars, trucks or aircraft, and will each have their battery state of charge monitored as they traverse a simulated trip through the target area.
US11325490B2
The present invention relates to a movable station. More particularly, the present invention relates to a movable station including a vehicle, a multi-tier open frame rack installed in the vehicle, and multiple accommodation modules mounted on each tier of the rack and each of which stably secures an electric kick scooter. With the use of the movable station, many electric kick scooters can be picked up easily and stably carried. In addition, damage to the electric kick scooters and stable placement frames can be prevented during transportation of the electric kick scooters.
US11325485B2
A ground-side coil device includes a ground-side coil disposed on a road surface where a vehicle parks or stops and transmitting or receiving, via a magnetic field, electric power to or from a vehicle-side coil mounted on the vehicle, a position detection sensor disposed around the ground-side coil and acquiring information relating to the position, relative to the ground-side coil, of the vehicle approaching the ground-side coil, a screen disposed at a position visible to a driver of the vehicle approaching the ground-side coil, and a control unit controlling a display mode on the screen.
US11325454B2
A method of designing a machine on which a drive motor, a fuel cell stack, and a secondary battery are mounted includes: determining a maximum output of the drive motor to be a first output value and an output of the drive motor when a vehicle travels under a cruise condition to be a second output value; determining the number of fuel cell stacks to be mounted to be n; and determining a maximum output of the secondary battery to be a value obtained by subtracting a value obtained by multiplying a maximum output of the fuel cell stack by the n, from the first output value. A value obtained by multiplying the third output value by the n is equal to or larger than the second output value, and a value obtained by multiplying the third output value by (n−1) is less than the second output value.
US11325446B2
A method for operating a refrigeration system for a vehicle with a refrigerant circuit including a heat exchanger. A controllable environmental air flow (L) is flowed through the heat exchanger and the heat exchanger can be operated as a refrigerant condenser or a gas cooler for a refrigeration system operation.
US11325442B2
A vehicle and method are provided for monitoring and changing quality of air in a passenger compartment of a vehicle so that the air quality remains above a predeterminable threshold value. The vehicle has an air quality sensing device and an air quality changing device. The method includes sensing the quality of the air in the passenger compartment and in the surroundings of the vehicle with the air quality sensing device; and in the event that the quality of the air in the passenger compartment of the vehicle drops below the predeterminable threshold value, changing the quality of the air in the passenger compartment of the vehicle with the air quality changing device so that the quality of the air in the passenger compartment rises above the predeterminable threshold value.
US11325441B2
The seat air conditioner configured to supply conditioning air to a seat in a vehicle cabin includes a refrigeration cycle, an air blower, and a conditioning air supply unit. The refrigeration cycle includes a compressor that compresses and discharges a refrigerant, a heat emitting portion that emits heat of the refrigerant discharged from the compressor to generate a warm air, a decompressor that decompresses the refrigerant flowing out of the heat emitting portion, and a heat absorbing portion that evaporates the refrigerant decompressed by the decompressor to generate a cold air. The air blower blows air to exchange heat with the refrigerant. The conditioning air supply unit supplies each of the warm air generated by the heat emitting portion and the cold air generated by the heat absorbing portion as the conditioning air to the seat.
US11325437B2
A suspension element includes a main body having an end cap defining an internal volume and a tubular element slidably engaged with the main body. The suspension element further includes a first piston and a flow control element. The flow control element is configured to prevent movement of the tubular element relative the main body in a direction. The suspension element may further include a locking member and a piston. The locking member may be configured to engage a barrier of the main body when the first piston traverses at least a predetermined distance towards the end cap. The locking member may be affixed to the tubular element and may fully surround the tubular element. Together the flow control element and the locking member are configured to prevent movement of the suspension element.
US11325431B2
A wireless vehicle data communications device is adapted for mounting on a wheel hub assembly of a vehicle. The vehicle data communications device includes a housing, a microprocessor located inside the housing, a signal transmitting device, and a signal receiving device. A self-generating electrical power supply is located within the housing and functions to supply electrical power to components of the vehicle data communications device.
US11325414B2
A transfer sheet is configured to include a base sheet; a releasable layer laminated on the base sheet, containing an ultraviolet curing resin, and including minute irregularities on at least part of a surface opposite to a surface in contact with the base sheet; a peeling layer laminated entirely on the releasable layer; and a single color solid print layer laminated in a section on the peeling layer corresponding at least to a region where the minute irregularities of the releasable layer are formed. A maximum width W of a recessed portion of the minute irregularities and a depth D of the recessed portion of the minute irregularities satisfy 10≤W/D≤50, W≤100 μm and 2 μm≤D≤10 μm. At least one of the number of recessed portions per unit area and the depth of the recessed portion changes stepwise.
US11325412B2
A flat security element with microreflectors arranged as a microreflector pattern in a main plane of the security element. The microreflectors present a motif made up of image points to a viewer. The motif appears for the viewer as lying outside the main plane of the security element. Two of the microreflectors are adjusted in each case to produce one of the image points of the motif appearing for the viewer as lying outside the main plane. The microreflector pattern has several groups of microreflectors. Each of the groups is provided to represent to the viewer a perspective view of the motif after tilting the security element about an axis lying in the main plane. Image points of the motif are shifted by shift ranges of different sizes through the tilting.
US11325400B2
According to examples, a heated system may include a heat generating device, a temperature sensor to detect temperature in the heated system, and a controller. The controller may store temperatures detected by the temperature sensor over time and based on a determination that the temperature in the heated system has reached a predefined temperature value, stop application of power to the heat generating device. The controller may also calculate a rate of change of the stored temperatures corresponding to a predefined period of time prior to the application of power to the heat generating device being stopped, may determine a seeding value for a control mechanism of the heat generating device based on the calculated rate of change, and based on aa determination that a predefined condition has occurred, control the control mechanism to apply power to the heat generating device beginning with the determined seeding value.
