US11354293B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to index a plurality of records based upon the similarity of the records along a plurality of dimensions. In the context of a method, one or more blocking keys are constructed for each of the plurality of records. A respective blocking key represents a string representation that combines components derived from attributes of a respective record, such as by concatenating components derived from attributes of the respective record. For a respective blocking key, the method determines a locality sensitive hash based upon the string representation of the respective blocking key. The method also includes indexing the respective record based upon the locality sensitive hash.
US11354292B2
A system and method for analyzing coverage, bias and model explanations in large dimensional modeling data includes discretizing three or more variables of a dataset to generate a discretized phase space represented as a grid of a plurality of cells, the dataset comprising a plurality of records, each record of the plurality of records having a value and a unique identifier (ID). A grid transformation is applied to each record in the dataset to assign each record to a cell of the plurality of cells of the grid according to the grid transformation. A grid index is generated to reference each cell using a discretized feature vector. A grid storage for storing the records assigned to each cell of the grid is then created. The grid storage using the ID of each record as a reference to each record and the discretized feature vector as a key to each cell.
US11354286B1
A system for outlier detection and removal comprises an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive a data set. The processor is configured to determine a cleaned data set by removing outliers, wherein determining the cleaned data set comprises determining a type of distribution, in response to the type of distribution being normal, determining the outliers using covariance estimation, in response to the type of distribution not being normal, determining the outliers using density based clustering, and determining the cleaned data set by removing the outliers from the data set, determine a coefficient of variation of the cleaned data set, determine whether the coefficient of variation is greater than a threshold coefficient of variation, and in response to the coefficient of variation being greater than the threshold coefficient of variation, determine a new cleaned data set by removing a new set of outliers from the cleaned data set.
US11354280B2
Some embodiments of the present invention provide virtual configuration systems and methods that overcome some or all of the downfalls of typical approaches by allowing for persistent configuration of an operating system of a host device. A virtual configuration layer may be incorporated into the file system of the host device and executed to modify configuration data stored outside of the file system, without changing the file system. Once the configuration data is modified, it may be used to configure the file system and/or the operating system of the host device when it is loaded by a client device. In some embodiments, the host device may be nonvolatile storage (e.g., a flash drive) embedded into a client device (e.g., a diskless system).
US11354270B2
Systems and methods for searching for hash strings stored in an indexed array are described. A method includes receiving a hash string. The method includes determining a first set of index values for the indexed array that correspond to a first stored value matching a first portion of the hash string and determining a second set of index values for the indexed array that correspond to a second stored value matching a second portion of the hash string if a match between the first stored value and the first portion of the hash string is found. The method includes upon finding a match for the first stored value and the second stored value, comparing the hash string to each of the set of hash strings in the indexed array having an index value common to both the first set of index values and the second set of index values.
US11354265B2
A wiring aggregation apparatus includes at least one subunit. The subunit includes: an input/output module to output, to a control module, a first serial signal obtained by performing parallel-serial conversion on plural pieces of contact information collected from devices, and to output, to a corresponding device, each of plural pieces of contact information obtained by performing serial-parallel conversion on a second serial signal acquired from the control module; and the control module to generate a transmit frame by arranging the first serial signal acquired from the input/output module at a defined frame position, to transmit the generated transmit frame to another wiring aggregation apparatus, to extract the second serial signal arranged at a defined frame position from a receive frame acquired from the another wiring aggregation apparatus, and to output the extracted second serial signal to the corresponding input/output module.
US11354263B2
A bus system comprises a master, a first slave, a second slave, and a bus. The master is configured to be able to issue a second request to the second slave after issuing a first request to the first slave and before receiving a response to the first request. The bus comprises: a determination unit configured to, upon receiving the second request, determine whether to permit a transfer of the second request to the second slave; and a suspending unit configured to suspend the transfer of the second request to the second slave while it is determined by the determination unit that the transfer is not permitted. The determination unit determines whether or not the transfer is permitted based on a notification from the first slave regarding processing of the first request.
US11354262B2
A solid state drive having a drive aggregator and a plurality of component solid state drives. The drive aggregator is configured to map logical addresses identified in one or more first commands into multiple logical address groups defined respectively in multiple component solid state drives. According to the one or more first commands and the logical address mapping, the drive aggregator generates multiple second commands and transmits the multiple second commands in parallel to the multiple component solid state drives to perform an operation identified by the one or more first commands.
US11354261B2
A system for controlling a process having a first control device for processing first data, and a first communication interface of a first communication unit designed for receiving the first data, and a second control device for processing second data, and a second communication interface of a second communication unit, designed for receiving the second data. The first communication unit comprises a third communication interface and the second communication unit comprises a fourth communication interface. The third communication interface is connected to the second communication interface and the first processor processes or compares the second data received by the third communication interface with the first data received by the first communication interface. The fourth communication interface is connected to the first communication interface, and the second processor processes or compares the second data received by the second communication interface with the first data received by the fourth communication interface.
US11354259B1
In some examples, a baseboard management controller (BMC) includes a communication interface to communicate with a device over a network; and a processor to present a virtual input/output (I/O) device that stores a hierarchical structure of data elements, write information in a first data element of the data elements, the information relating to a configuration of a computer system to be managed by the BMC, and receive an access of the first data element during a configuration stage of the computer system.
US11354255B2
A chip system including I/O pins, a memory chip and a processing chip is provided. The processing chip includes I/O pads, memory access pads, a processor, an I/O controller, a memory controller and a transmission gate module. Under an operation mode, the I/O controller allows the processor to communicate with an external circuit device through the I/O controller, the I/O pads and the I/O pins. Under the operation mode, the memory controller allows the processor to access the memory chip through the memory controller and the memory access pads. The transmission gate module is enabled during a program mode or a test mode to allow the external circuit device to perform programming or testing on the memory chip through the I/O pins, the I/O pads, the transmission gate module and the memory access pads.
US11354253B2
In one embodiment, the method includes receiving, at a storage device, a request. The request includes a request message authentication code and write protect information. The write protect information includes at least one of start address information and length information. The start address information indicates a logical block address at which a memory area in a non-volatile memory of the storage device starts, and the length information indicates a length of the memory area. The method also includes generating, at the storage device, a message authentication code based on (1) at least one of the start address information and the length information, and (2) a key stored at the storage device; authenticating, at the storage device, the request based on the generated message authentication code and the request message authentication code; and processing, at the storage device, the request based on a result of the authenticating.
US11354247B2
In certain aspects, one or more solid-state storage devices (SSDs) are provided that include a controller and non-volatile memory coupled to the controller. The non-volatile memory can include one or more portions configured as main memory or cache memory. When data stored in the main memory is written to the cache memory for processing, the data in the main memory is erased. In certain aspects, storage systems are provided that include one or more of such SSDs coupled to a host system. In certain aspects, methods are provided that include: receiving, by a first such SSD, a first command to write data to memory; determining that the data is stored in a main memory and is to be written to the cache memory for processing; writing the data to the cache memory; and erasing the data from the main memory.
US11354245B2
Systems and methods for prefetching content items for display by applications executed on computing devices are provided. The method can include transmitting a first request for content to display within an environment of the application, the first request for content including a first parameter to be used to determine a first content item for display; storing in an associated memory element, the first parameter; transmitting a follow-on request for content including the first parameter of the first request for content; receiving a follow-on content item responsive to the follow-on request for content; storing the follow-on content item in a local cache structure specific to the application; transmitting a second request for content; retrieving, in response to the second request, the follow-on content item from the local cache structure; and displaying, in response to the second request, the follow-on content item within the environment of the application on the computing device.
US11354241B2
A memory system may include a cache memory, a nonvolatile memory, a write back wait queue, and a controller. To evict an eviction cache entry including a target transaction ID from the memory cache to the nonvolatile memory, the controller performs write back operations on cache entries respectively corresponding to waiting entries at a head of the write back wait queue until a waiting entry including the target transaction ID arrives at the head of the write back wait queue, and then performs a write back operation on the eviction cache entry.
US11354240B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods that include cache operation storage circuitry that selectively enables/disables the Cache Line Flush (CLFLUSH) operation. The cache operation storage circuitry may also selectively replace the CLFLUSH operation with one or more replacement operations that provide similar functionality but beneficially and advantageously prevent an attacker from placing processor cache circuitry in a known state during a timing-based, side channel attack such as Spectre or Meltdown. The cache operation storage circuitry includes model specific registers (MSRs) that contain information used to determine whether to enable/disable CLFLUSH functionality. The cache operation storage circuitry may include model specific registers (MSRs) that contain information used to select appropriate replacement operations such as Cache Line Demote (CLDEMOTE) and/or Cache Line Write Back (CLWB) to selectively replace CLFLUSH operations.
US11354234B1
This disclosure provides for host-controller cooperation in managing NAND flash memory. The controller maintains information for each erase unit which tracks memory usage. This information assists the host in making decisions about specific operations, for example, initiating garbage collection, space reclamation, wear leveling or other operations. For example, metadata can be provided to the host identifying whether each page of an erase unit has been released, and the host can specifically then command each of consolidation and erase using direct addressing. By redefining host-controller responsibilities in this manner, much of the overhead association with FTL functions can be substantially removed from the memory controller, with the host directly specifying physical addresses. This reduces performance unpredictability and overhead, thereby facilitating integration of solid state drives (SSDs) with other forms of storage. The disclosed techniques are especially useful for direct-attached and/or network-attached storage.
US11354231B2
A method for performing access management of a memory device with aid of information arrangement and associated apparatus (e.g. the memory device and controller thereof, and an associated electronic device) are provided. The method may include: when the host device sends a write command to the memory device, utilizing the memory controller to generate a plurality of ECC chunks respectively corresponding to a plurality of sets of memory cells of the NV memory according to data, for establishing one-to-one mapping between the plurality of ECC chunks and the plurality of sets of memory cells; and utilizing the memory controller to store the plurality of ECC chunks into the plurality of sets of memory cells, respectively, to prevent any two ECC chunks of the ECC chunks from sharing a same set of memory cells of the sets of memory cells, to enhance read performance of the memory controller regarding the data.
US11354229B1
Example embodiments of the present invention provide a method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for providing information lifecycle management using a federation of arrays. The method includes receiving a request to provision storage resources of a one big array according to a class of service, the one big array comprising heterogeneous storage resources, and causing the requested storage resources to be provisioned according to a provisioning policy. Execution of an information lifecycle management policy then may be initiated for management of data stored to the storage resources according to the class of service.
US11354227B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to conducting software testing using dynamically masked data. In some embodiments, a computing platform may receive, from a developer computing platform, a test execution request that includes a test code for execution. Subsequently, the computing platform may establish a secure connection to an enterprise data storage database. Upon establishing the secure connection, the computing platform may request confidential data from the enterprise data storage database in connection the test execution request. Thereafter, the computing platform mat execute the test code, which may include receiving encrypted confidential data from the enterprise data storage, decrypting the confidential data, and plugging the confidential data into the test code. Upon completing execution of the test code, the computing platform may delete the confidential data from the computing platform, terminate the secure connection to the enterprise data storage database, and send test code output results to the developer computing platform.
US11354224B2
A construction method of a test case constraint control technology based on epigenetics includes steps of: 1: defining a fitness function, a genetic coding method, and a constraint control rule; 2: initializing parameters: setting a population size, an evolution number, and a termination fitness function value; 3: initializing a population: randomly generating an initial population; 4: performing evolution termination judgment; 5. performing constraint regulation based on the epigenetics: performing constraint methylation and constraint acetylation according to the constraint control rule; 6: selecting individuals; 7: completing epigenetic evolution of the population; and 8: outputting a test case set; wherein through the above steps, construction of an epigenetic test case constraint control technology is completed, so as to design test cases that are more in line with the actual operation conditions of the software, find more potential software failures, and improve the quality of software testing.
US11354218B2
Provided is a system and method for generating a subset of optimal variations of a software program which allow some statements of the control flow to be exposed to side channels. Furthermore, the subset of optimal variations may be selected based on a security and a performance trade-off analysis. In one example, the method may include identifying a set of statements within a control flow of a software program, generating a plurality of variations of the software program which comprise different subsets of statements which are exposed to side channels, respectively, determining one or more pareto-optimal variations of the software program based on side channel leakage values and performance values of the plurality of variations of the software program, and outputting information about the one or more pareto-optimal variations of the software program to a user device.
US11354215B2
A method for analyzing how a baseboard management controller (BMC) is monitoring a device in an analysis system platform performs an analysis of features of the device being monitored by the BMC. The method receives an IP address of a BMC input by a user, obtains source code corresponding to the IP address and determines application programming interface type corresponding to the source code. A function menu according to the application programming interface type is selected, the function menu comprising at least one item for analysis. The feature performance of the device being monitored is analyzed and recorded and results of the performance analysis are stored.
US11354202B1
Apparatus and methods for controlling unmanned systems (UMSs), such as unmanned aircraft, are provided. A UMS can be provided that includes a network, auxiliary systems, and a payload, where the network can connect the auxiliary systems and the payload. A network switch of the network can logically separate the network into at least a second tier of communications and a third tier of communications. The network can be used to control the UMS by at least: controlling the auxiliary systems using messages communicated by the second tier of communications, and communicating with the payload using messages communicated by the third tier of communications.
US11354194B2
A programmable display device for a production system that includes a storage device and a plurality of the programmable display devices. The storage device includes a plurality of individual memory areas that store data from the plurality of the programmable display devices individually and are associated with any one of the plurality of the programmable display devices. There is a backup processing unit that loads some or all data that the programmable display device itself retains into an individual memory area associated with the programmable display device itself among the plurality of individual memory areas and a state management unit that updates state management information retained in the storage device when the backup processing unit has performed data update within the individual memory area associated with the programmable display device itself. The state management information indicates that data retained by the plurality of individual memory areas have been updated.
US11354182B1
According to some embodiments, a system comprises a computer system comprising a processing unit, an interrupt controller, an internal watchdog, and a computer system reset interface. The system further comprises a watchdog controller comprising a secondary watchdog timer. Expiry of the computer system internal watchdog triggers the interrupt controller to cause the processing unit to collect debug information and triggers the watchdog controller to start a secondary watchdog timer. Expiry of the secondary watchdog timer triggers the watchdog controller to reset the computer system.
US11354174B2
The disclosed technology is generally directed to communications in an IoT environment. In one example of the technology, a plurality of module twins that respectively correspond to a plurality of modules of edge applications on a plurality of edge devices are stored. The plurality of module twins individually include metadata associated with the corresponding module of the plurality of modules. A plurality of services is executed, such that the services of the plurality of services are configured to communicate with the modules of the plurality of modules. At least one service to be executed as a further module on at least one edge device of the plurality of edge devices is determined. The further module is caused to be deployed to the at least one edge device of the plurality of edge devices. Execution of the determined at least one service is ceased.
US11354163B2
A method of placing a virtual machine may include: calculating virtual machine workload information, which is a load of the physical machine applied by the virtual machine through a predetermined method of calculating a workload on the basis of information stored in storage and related to operations of the first physical machine and the second physical machine; calculating initial predicted virtual load information related to an initial predicted virtual load related to a load of the physical machine predicted due to the virtual machine for a predetermined period on the basis of the virtual machine workload; calculating search placement information related to a search placement which is a placement of the virtual machine on the first physical machine and the second physical machine through a predetermined method of calculating a search placement; and placing the virtual machine on the physical machine again on the basis of the selected search placement.
US11354158B2
Novel techniques are described for platooning of computational resources in automated vehicle networks. An on-board computational processor of an automated vehicle typically performs a large number of computational tasks, and some of those computational tasks can be computationally intensive. Some such tasks, referred to as platoonable tasks herein, are well-suited for parallel processing by multiple processors. Embodiments can detect one or more on-board computational processors in one or more automated vehicles that are likely, during the time window in which the platoonable task will be executed, to have available computational resources and to be traveling along respective paths that are close enough to each other to allow for ad hoc network communications to be established between the processors. In response to detecting such cases, embodiments can schedule and instruct shared execution of the platoonable tasks by the multiple processors via the ad hoc network.
US11354153B2
A resource utilization level and a data size may be determined for each organization within a computing pod located within an on-demand computing services organization configured to provide computing services. One of the organizations may be selected for migration away from the computing pod based on the resource utilization levels and the data sizes. The designated organization may have a respective resource utilization level that is high in relation to its respective data size.
US11354152B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses may provide for managing or operating self-evolving microservices. A method, system, computer readable storage medium, or apparatus may provide for receiving a message associated with a service, wherein the message is for a first microservice that contributes to the implementation of the service, wherein the first microservice comprises a plurality of rules; and subsequent to receiving the message, creating an evolved first microservice using a second rule of a plurality of rules of a second microservice.
US11354146B2
Transaction data is received from a remote system with an Emulated Register Input Control Adapter (ERICA) application programming interface (API). The received transaction data is validated as validated data. The validated data is translated into a set of sequential events that are transmitted to an ERICA Module executing on a Point-of-Sale (POS) system terminal computer. The set of sequential events is processed with the ERICA Module to emulate user actions on a POS system Human Machine Interface (HMI). Result data generated by the sequential event processing is validated.
US11354139B2
An integrated code inspection framework using check variants is provided herein. Integrated code inspection can include associating a check variant with a development object in a development project. Additionally, a check variant can be associated with a development project. A check variant associated with a development project can cascade to development objects in the development project. A check variant associated with a development object can cascade to related development objects, based on their hierarchical relationship. A check variant can be executed against a development object to identify code which triggers check rules of the check variant. The check variants executed can come from the development project or related development objects based on the cascade of check variants. Results of the code inspection via the check variants can be aggregated and displayed in a user interface, and integrated with the code of a development object.
US11354137B2
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a modular computing component is described. The modular computing component includes a first terminal to connect the modular computing component to at least one of a host computing device and another modular computing component. Controller memory of the modular computing component stores information relating to at least one of build level information, revision level information, and generation level information. A controller of the modular computing component transmits the at least one of build level information, revision level information, and generation level information to the host computing device.
US11354128B2
In one embodiment, software executing on a data processing system that is capable of performing dynamic operational mode transitions can realize performance improvements by predicting transitions between modes and/or predicting aspects of a new operational mode. Such prediction can allow the processor to begin an early transition into the target mode. The mode transition prediction principles can be applied for various processor mode transitions including 64-bit to 32-bit mode transitions, interrupts, exceptions, traps, virtualization mode transfers, system management mode transfers, and/or secure execution mode transfers.
US11354103B2
The disclosure invention provides a method for executing a program compiled for a source architecture on a machine having a different target architecture, a non-transitory computer readable medium configured to store instructions for performing such a method, and a system for performing such a method.
US11354098B2
The Non-Volatile Arithmetic Memory Operator (NV-AMO) including a non-volatile memory cell for storing non-volatile data and a first input terminal for receiving volatile variable data is applied to perform the arithmetic operations over the volatile variable data and the non-volatile data. The NV-AMO can also be configured multiple-times for new computations. The constructions of NV-AMO in Arithmetic Logic Units (ALU) can be applied in DSP (Digital Signal Processor) computations and DNN (Deep Neural Network) computations.
US11354092B2
In one aspect, a network microphone device includes a plurality of microphones and is configured to detect sound via the one or more microphones. The network microphone device may capture sound data based on the detected sound in a first buffer, and capture metadata associated with the detected sound in a second buffer. The network microphone device may classify one or more noises in the detected sound and cause the network microphone device to perform an action based on the classification of the respective one or more noises.
US11354091B2
Disclosed herein is a mixed reality application to use a multi-channel audio input to identify a character and origin of a given sound, then present a visual representation of the given sound on a near eye display. The visual representation including a vector to the source of the sound. The visual representation further including graphical elements that describe various attributes of the given sound including the magnitude, directionality, source, and threat level. Where the source of the given sound is moving, the visual representation shifts to illustrate the movement.
US11354086B2
A method for adjusting sound playback of a portable device for constancy notwithstanding different environments outputs from the portable device detectable audio signals inaudible to user and the device receives reflected audio before the portable device is actually commanded to play an audio file. A list of volume weightings for reflected audio is calculated. Before commencing playback of the audio file, the portable device obtains reference volume weightings from a list according to the current volume setting, and calculates adjustment coefficients for different frequency bands based on weightings of the reference volume list and of the reflected audio list. The audio signals of the audio file are output after adjustment. A portable device is also disclosed.
US11354081B2
An information processing apparatus includes a collection unit that collects a first history on a monitoring target device, a display unit that displays a history screen including at least a part of the first history collected by the collection unit, a receiving unit that receives an operator's operation to designate information included in the first history, on the history screen displayed by the display unit, and a generation unit that generates a second history in which the information designated by the operator is concealed, from the first history.
US11354079B2
An information processing apparatus includes a forming unit, a storage, and a selector. The forming unit receives print jobs and forms a group print job constituted by print jobs that satisfy a certain condition. The storage separately stores some of the print jobs forming the group print job as a subgroup if an amount of paper required for the group print job exceeds a total amount of specified continuous-form paper. Based on information stored in the storage, the selector selects, from among plural output devices, an output device that is able to output cut sheets which satisfy an execution condition for executing the print jobs forming the subgroup.
US11354075B2
Provided are a non-transitory computer-readable medium, a print image control device, and a control method of the print image control device capable of reducing time required for an operation to adjust a position of a print image, and of improving productivity. A CPU performs part specification command input processing in which a command is input to specify a part of a photographic image captured by a camera, characteristic identification processing that identifies a characteristic of fabric on the basis of the command input by the part specification command input processing, generated graphic generation processing that generates a generated graphic relating to the characteristic identified by the characteristic identification processing, and display control processing that controls a display such that the generated graphic generated by the generated graphic generation processing is displayed along with the photographic image and a print image.
US11354074B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores computer-readable instructions for causing a terminal device to perform: generating first print data for creating a first print label having a first print object formed thereon; generating second print data for creating a second print label having a second print object formed thereon; generating, based on the first print data, outline data representing an outline of the first print object; generating, based on the outline data, alignment mark data representing an alignment mark used for aligning the first print label with the second print label when overlaying these labels; generating third print data by adding the alignment mark data to the second print data such that the alignment mark is added to a portion of the second print label that corresponds to the outline of the first print object; and transmitting the first and third print data to a label creating device.
US11354069B2
An operating method of a data storage system comprising a processor and multiple storage devices, the operating method comprising: a first storage operation of selecting a first storage device, a second storage device, and a third storage device among the multiple storage devices and transmitting and storing data generated by the processor in the first storage device and the second storage device, a second storage operation of transmitting, to the third storage device, the data stored in the second storage device and compressing and storing the data in the third storage device, a first access operation of accessing the data in the first storage device, by the processor, after the first storage operation is completed, and a second access operation of accessing the data in the second storage device after fail of the first access operation.
US11354062B2
A memory system includes: a memory device suitable for storing data; a controller suitable for controlling the memory device; an interface suitable for communication between a host and the controller; a register suitable for storing a parameter value set associated with a waveform and a magnitude of a signal provided by the interface to the host, wherein the controller is suitable for: performing signal transmission operations for candidates of the parameter value set, storing a new parameter value set, which is determined based on the responses of the signal transmission operations, in the register, and controlling the interface to transfer a new signal having adjusted waveform and magnitude to the host based on the new parameter value set.
US11354061B2
One or more aspects of the present disclosure relate to providing storage system configuration recommendations. System configurations of one or more storage devices can be determined based on their respective collected telemetry information. Performance of storage devices having different system configurations can be predicted based on one or more of: the collected telemetry information and each of the different system configurations. In response to receiving one or more requested performance characteristics and workload conditions, one or more recommended storage device configurations can be provided for each request based on the predicted performance characteristics, the requested performance characteristics, and the workload conditions.
US11354058B2
A storage system includes solid-state storage devices and a storage controller operatively coupled to the solid-state storage devices, the storage controller including a processing device, the processing device to receive, from a solid-state storage device of the solid-state storage devices, an indication of an occurrence of triggering event associated with data stored at a first data block of the solid-state storage device. In response to receiving the indication of the occurrence of the triggering event, a second data block of the solid-state storage device is identified for storage of the data. A command in transmitted to the solid-state storage device that includes address information associated with the second data block of the solid-state storage device for storage of the data, wherein the command causes the solid-state storage device to program the data to the second data block.
US11354052B2
An apparatus can include a media management threshold component. The media management threshold component can determine a first threshold quantity of blocks for a first memory mode in the memory device. The media management threshold component can determine a second threshold quantity of blocks for a second memory mode in the memory device. The media management threshold component can determine a logical saturation of the memory device. The media management threshold component can cause performance of a media management operation based on the determined first threshold quantity, the determined second threshold quantity, and a percentage of the determined logical saturation to a total logical saturation of the memory device.
US11354051B2
A memory system includes a memory device including multiple memory blocks and a controller that groups the multiple memory blocks into a plurality of super blocks according to a specific condition, each of the super blocks including two or more memory blocks, sorts a mixed super block among the super blocks, the mixed super block including a source block and a general block, the source block being a memory block having a read count equal to or greater than a reference value, the general block being a memory block having a read count smaller than the reference value, collects and regroups two or more source blocks, included in two or more mixed super blocks, into one or more source super blocks according to the specific condition, and moves valid data of the one or more source super blocks to one or more general super blocks each including general blocks only.
US11354047B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide for mechanisms for memory protection of virtual machines in a computer system. A first host page table and a second host page table is generated by a processing device running a hypervisor in view of a guest page table associated with a virtual machine. The first host page table includes a first mapping corresponding to a privileged page of a guest memory and a second mapping corresponding to an unprivileged page of the guest memory. The second host page table includes a third mapping corresponding to the unprivileged page of the guest memory. The first host page table is associated with the virtual machine. In response to detecting a transition from a first guest mode to a second guest mode by the virtual machine, the virtual machine is associated with the second page table.
US11354038B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a computer-implemented method that includes providing a layered index to variable length data, the layered index comprising a plurality of layers. Each layer of the plurality of layers has an index array, a block offset array, and a per-block size array. The index array identifies a next level index of a plurality of indices or data. The indices represent a delta value from a first index of a block. The block offset array identifies a starting location of the index array. The per-block array identifies a shared integer size of a block of indices. The method further includes performing a random access read of the variable length data using the layered index.
US11354028B2
A method for configuring a plurality of objects in a multi-depth tree structure is disclosed. The method comprises: upon receiving a first user command including a node attribute for connecting a first object and a second object and a coordinate attribute for representing a position in the first object, associating the second object with the first object in a first mode; upon receiving a second user command including the node attribute without the coordinate attribute in the first object, associating the second object with the first object in a second mode. In the first mode the second object is inserted at the position indicated by the coordinate attribute within the first object, and in the second mode the second object is inserted into the first object with specifying no position within the first object.
US11354024B1
Described herein are systems and methods that search videos and other media content to identify items, objects, faces, or other entities within the media content. Detectors identify objects within media content by, for instance, detecting a predetermined set of visual features corresponding to the objects. Detectors configured to identify an object can be trained using a machine learned model (e.g., a convolutional neural network) as applied to a set of example media content items that include the object. The systems provide user interfaces that allow users to review search results, pinpoint relevant portions of media content items where the identified objects are determined to be present, review detector performance and retrain detectors, providing search result feedback, and/or reviewing video monitoring results and analytics.
US11354021B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method, a device, a terminal, and a storage medium for displaying icons, relating to the field of computer technology. The terminal includes special-shaped screen, the special-shaped screen includes a non-display portion with a special shape and a display portion attached to the non-display portion. The method includes: selecting Q first function icons and (P−Q) second function icons from P function icons; arranging and displaying the Q first function icons along an arc in a first target region of the display portion, wherein the first target region is a display region that is adjacent to an edge of the special-shaped screen or surrounding the non-display portion of the special-shaped scree; and displaying K second function icons in the display portion when an icon display instruction applied to the first target region is detected.
US11354019B2
A method of controlling a notification output from an electronic device according to the present invention may comprise the steps of: outputting notification information; display a snoozing time setting object; using the displayed snoozing time setting object and setting a snoozing time; and executing a snoozing mode for the notification information, and re-outputting the notification information after the selected snoozing time elapses. However, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment and may include other embodiments.
US11354013B1
Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for determining asset efficiency. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) may be used to obtain aerial images of locations, property or structures. The aerial images may be geo-rectified, and a ortho-mosaic, digital surface model, or a point cloud may be created. In the context of an operation where mobile assets are used, such as construction or earth moving equipment, location-based event information may be obtained. The system determines efficiency clusters for particular assets, and provides an exploration interface to present and navigate via the efficiency cluster.
US11354010B2
A notification builder implemented through a graphical user interface (“GUI”) provides a platform for building notifications and defining priorities for how the notifications will be presented to users of managed devices. Elements included in the notification builder and selectable as part of a build process can provide options for naming a notification, providing content for the notification, defining recipients, setting a respective priority, and creating action buttons. An action button can allow a user that has received a notification built with the notification builder to interact with the notification in a predetermined manner. The GUI can also provide data relating to the notification, such as success/failure, read/unread, etc.
US11354002B2
A display device including a touch sensing unit including a first touch conductive layer, a first touch insulating layer disposed on the first touch conductive layer, and a second touch conductive layer disposed on the first touch insulating layer. The touch sensor area includes a first touch sensor area located at a center of the touch sensor area, and a second touch sensor area located between the first touch sensor area and the curved portion. The first touch conductive layer includes a touch connection electrode connecting adjacent first touch electrodes, and a plurality of capacitance (cap) compensation patterns arranged in the second touch sensor area. The plurality of cap compensation patterns includes a first cap compensation pattern electrically connected to the adjacent first touch electrode and a second cap compensation pattern electrically connected to the adjacent second touch electrode.
US11354000B1
A processing system and method are provided. The processing system includes a sensor circuit that drives, during a first sensing period, a first plurality of sensor electrodes with first sensing signals, receives first resulting signals from the first plurality of sensor electrodes, and mixes the first resulting signals with a first mixer signal to generate a first mixed signal, wherein the first mixer signal has a first phase and the first mixed signal corresponds to at least a portion of a capacitive image. The processing system also includes a noise measurement circuit that receives second resulting signals from a second plurality of sensor electrodes, and mixes the second resulting signals with a second mixer signal to generate a second mixed signal, wherein the second mixer signal has a second phase and the second mixed signal corresponds to a first noise measurement.
US11353998B2
A touch panel has a substrate having a display region and a peripheral region, a touch sensing electrode disposed in the display region of the substrate, and a peripheral circuit disposed in the peripheral region of the substrate. The touch sensing electrode is electrically connected to the peripheral circuit, and the touch sensing electrode layer includes a first portion of a patterned metal nanowire layer. The peripheral circuit includes a patterned conductive layer and a second portion of the metal nanowire layer. At least a non-conductive material of the conductive layer is between the peripheral circuit and a second peripheral circuit.
US11353973B2
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.
US11353967B2
A pointing controller enables interaction with virtual objects in a virtual or augmented reality environment. The pointing controller comprises a form factor that enables it to be securely positioned in the user's fingers during a pointing gesture. The pointing controller tracks a pointing direction in three-dimensional space based on motion of the pointing controller. The pointing controller furthermore includes one or more control elements such as buttons or touch interfaces to enable additional interactions.
US11353963B2
An accessory for an electronic device, such as a mobile computing device, includes a housing and a support element that are configured to support the electronic device in an inclined orientation. The support element of the accessory may comprise an elongated recess that receives a portion (e.g., an edge portion) of an electronic device to orient and support the electronic device in the inclined orientation. The accessory may also include a peripheral component, such as a user interface component (e.g., a keyboard, a track pad, etc.) or any other component that may enhance or supplement functionality of the electronic device.
US11353960B1
An intraocular brain interface system that detects a user's neuronal activity and uses it to identify an image associated with that neuronal activity. Once identified, the image is presented to the user via an intraocular display component such that only the user is able to see the image.
US11353955B1
A system can include one or more processors that determine a first position of an object in view of a user of a head mounted display (HMD) and a first gaze direction towards the first position. The object can be detected by one or more sensors. The one or more processors detect that the user is gazing at the object. The one or more processors determine, responsive to detecting that the user is gazing at the object, a second gaze direction based on at least a second position of one or more eyes of the user of the HMD provided via an eye tracking operation of the HMD. The one or more processors calibrate, based at least on a difference between the first gaze direction and the second gaze direction, the eye tracking operation of the HMD.
US11353954B2
An augmented reality system recognizes objects in a user's environment and operates an electronic contact lens based on the recognition. The electronic contact lens includes an integrated femtoimager that captures images corresponding to the user's gaze direction. The augmented reality system recognizes objects in the images and generates visual information relevant to the recognized objects that is presented using a femtoprojector integrated with the electronic contact lens. The visual information may include virtual control elements that the user can interact with to control smart devices. The augmented reality system can also configure various calibration parameters of the electronic contact lens based on a recognized environment associated with the recognized objects.
US11353949B2
Methods and systems for enabling a user to perform a full body movement while viewing a virtual reality environment on a head up displays without interfering with viewing of content on the heads up display. Specifically, a full body movement of the user is detected. In response to detecting the full body movement, the additional content is generated for display in a portion of the virtual reality environment corresponding to a foreground area of the user's visual field. The additional content assists the user perform the full body movement.
US11353946B2
The invention introduces a non-transitory computer program product for adjusting operating frequencies when executed by a processing unit of a device, containing program code to: collect an interface-activity parameter comprising information about data transmissions on a host access interface and/or a flash access interface; select one from multiple frequencies according to the interface-activity parameter; and drive a clock generator to output a clock signal at the selected frequency, thereby enabling the host access interface and/or the flash access interface to operate at an operating frequency.
US11353942B2
A system can comprise a memory device and sequencing circuitry configured to provide enable signals to a number of voltage regulators in association with providing sequenced power signals to the memory device. The system can include voltage threshold detection circuitry configured to: detect primary supply voltage events; and responsive to detecting a primary supply voltage event, deassert a timer enable signal provided to timing circuitry. The timing circuitry is configured to, responsive to the deassertion of the timer enable signal: deassert a primary enable signal provided to the sequencing circuitry; and maintain the primary enable signal in a deasserted state for a particular amount of time prior to reasserting the primary enable signal.
US11353937B2
A server chassis, configured to detachably fasten a PCB, includes a case, an expansion frame, and a fastening assembly. The fastening assembly includes a slidable component, a guiding component disposed through the slidable component and fixed to the case, a movable pin movably disposed through the slidable component, and a fastening pin fixed to the slidable component. When the slidable component is at a fastening position, the movable pin is movable between inserted and extracted positions. When the movable pin is at the inserted position, the movable pin is disposed through the slidable component and the case, such that the slidable component is positioned at the fastening position, and the fastening pin is disposed through the PCB and the expansion frame. When the movable pin is at the extracted position, the movable pin is disengaged from the case, such that the slidable component is slidable to a releasing position.
US11353935B1
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first housing, a second housing, a hinge structure configured to connect the first housing and the second housing, and a foldable display module. The hinge structure includes a rotating shaft, a first idle gear, a second idle gear, a first gear, a second gear, a first pressing member configured to move the first gear toward the second gear, and a first interconnecting structure formed between the first gear and the second gear to enable the first gear to engage with the second gear, the first interconnecting structure being formed between the first gear and the second gear such that, as first pressing member moves the first gear toward the second gear, the first gear and the second gear receive with rotational forces in opposite directions.
US11353934B2
Example computing devices are disclosed that include a first housing member rotatably coupled to a second housing member at a hinge. In addition, the computing devices include a display including first and second ends disposed on first and second sides of the hinge, respectively. Further, the computing devices include a first magnet disposed within the first housing member, and a controller disposed within the housing. The controller is coupled to the first magnet and is to actuate the first magnet to generate a magnetic field based on a position of the first housing member relative to the second housing member about the hinge. Additionally, the magnetic field is to attract or repel the first end of the display to translate the first end of the display relative to the hinge within the first housing member.
US11353925B2
The present disclosure discloses a portable electronic device including a primary display panel, a keyboard module, a secondary display panel, and a support plate. The primary display panel includes a first pivot and a second pivot. The first pivot and the second pivot are disposed at the primary display panel. The keyboard module faces the primary display panel and includes a third pivot. One side of the secondary display panel is connected to the first pivot, and another side is a free side. The secondary display panel is flipped through the first pivot to be overlapped on an upper surface of the keyboard module or to abut against the upper surface at the free side. The support plate is flipped through the second pivot and the third pivot to be overlapped on the bottom surface of the primary display panel or to support the primary display panel.
US11353924B1
A console panel includes a housing and a display device. The console panel is configured to fit in an opening of an automotive console or dashboard. The housing is configured to retain and support the display device within the housing. The housing comprises a retaining portion configured to position and retain the housing within the opening. The retaining portion is an encapsulation portion that is disposed about at least a portion of the perimeter of the housing. The encapsulation portion includes a retention feature configured to retain and support the housing within the encapsulation portion. The housing further includes a complementary retention feature. The retention feature is configured to at least partially engage with the complementary retention feature.
US11353901B2
An electronic circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and a variable resistor. The first transistor has a first threshold voltage. The second transistor has a second threshold voltage that is different from the first threshold voltage. The second transistor is coupled to the first transistor. The variable resistor is coupled to the first transistor and the second transistor. The variable resistor is configured to adjust a temperature coefficient of the electronic circuit. The electronic circuit is configured to generate a reference voltage based on a difference of the first threshold voltage and the second threshold voltage.
US11353893B1
Disclosed is an obstacle avoiding method and apparatus for an unmanned aerial vehicle based on a multi-signal acquisition and route planning model. The method comprises: conducting signal acquisition processing on a first environmental area to obtain an initial millimeter-wave radar signal, an initial laser radar signal, an initial image signal and an initial ultrasonic signal; generating an initial three-dimensional environmental model according to a preset dynamic environment real-time modeling method; acquiring a motion parameter and a body shape parameter of the unmanned aerial vehicle and inputting the parameters into an initial route planning model corresponding to the initial three-dimensional environmental model based on a genetic algorithm to process so as to obtain an output of the initial route planning model; judging whether the output is capable of avoiding an obstacle; if yes, generating an obstacle avoiding flight instruction to require the unmanned aerial vehicle to fly through the first environmental area.
US11353890B1
Aspects relate to methods and systems for reversionary flight control for an electrical vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. An exemplary system includes a pilot control, a sensor configured to sense and transmit analog control data associated with a pilot interaction with the pilot control, a pilot interface module configured to receive the analog control data, convert the analog control data to digital control data, and transmit digital control, an actuator, and a flight controller. The flight controller may be configured to receive the digital control data, determine a primary command datum as a function of the digital control data, transmit the primary command datum to the actuator, determine that the digital control signal is non-functional, receive the analog control data, determine a reversionary command datum as a function of the analog control data, and transmit the reversionary command datum to the actuator.
US11353882B2
Apparatuses and methods associated with silicon photonic chips, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a quarter wave plate (QWP) is provided to a silicon photonic chip to convert a first linearly polarized mode (e.g., TE mode) optical beam from a laser disposed on the silicon photonic chip, into a combination of orthogonal polarization modes optical beam, and to convert or contribute in converting a reflection of the combined polarized modes optical beam into a second linearly polarized mode (e.g., TM) optical beam with polarization orthogonal to the first. The optical beam is rotated relative to an axis of the QWP, or the QWP and its axis are rotated relative to a polarization axis of the optical beam. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US11353877B2
Techniques to provide guidance to a vehicle operating in an environment may include determining a suggested region to block in the environment along a path of the vehicle and causing presentation of the suggested region to block in a user interface of the computer device. Information about the blocked region may be transmitted to one or more vehicles in the environment. Based on the information about the blocked region, at least one of the computer device or a vehicle computer system of the vehicle may control operation of the vehicle to avoid the blocked region.
US11353875B2
A target intention predicting method including a dataset obtaining step and a calculating and map mapping step is provided. A host vehicle positioning dataset of a host vehicle and a plurality of target datasets of a target are obtained. Each of the target datasets corresponds to each of a plurality of time points of a time line, and each of the target datasets includes a target position and a target velocity. The host vehicle positioning dataset is mapped to a map. The target position at the last one of the time points is mapped to the map. An updated velocity of the target is calculated according to the target velocities of the target datasets, and the updated velocity is mapped to the map to predicting a target future position of the target on the map at a future time point according to the updated velocity.
US11353852B2
Systems, methods and an apparatus for data monitoring. A system may include a data acquisition circuit structured to interpret a plurality of detection values, each of the plurality of detection values corresponding to at least one of a plurality of input sensors communicatively coupled to the data acquisition circuit; a data storage circuit structured to store specifications and anticipated state information for a plurality of pump and fan types; an analysis circuit structured to analyze the plurality of detection values relative to specifications and anticipated state information to determine a pump or fan performance parameter; and a response circuit structured to initiate an action in response to the pump or fan performance parameter.
US11353848B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing video controlled adjustment of light conditions at a property. A monitoring system obtains video data from a video recording device at the property and uses the video data to determine a location of a person at the property as well as a location of an electronic window treatment at the property. Using the video data, the system identifies an attribute of light entering a window at the property. The system determines an adjustment setting for the electronic window treatment at the property based on the attribute of the light and the location of the person at the property. Based on the adjustment setting, a command is provided to perform a first adjustment action that adjusts the position of the electronic window treatment located at the window.
US11353847B2
Set differences between an as-designed and an as-manufactured model are computed. Discrepancies between the as-designed model and the as-manufactured model are determined based under-deposition and over-deposition features of the set differences. Based on the discrepancies, an input to a manufacturing instrument is changed to reduce topological differences between the as-manufactured model and the as-designed model.
US11353845B2
A model-adaptive multi-source large-scale mask projection 3D printing system configured to conduct the following steps: projecting pure-color images of first and second colors having identical attributes, capturing an image of an overlapping portion and calculating height and width information of the overlapping portion; splitting a pre-processed slice and respectively recording width and height information of two slices resulting from the splitting and generating two gray scale images having identical attributes thereto; counting power values of identical positions of slices in different gray scale values, performing a further calculation to obtain a projection mapping function, using the projection mapping function as a basis for performing optimization on gray scale interpolation of the generated images; and fusing the processed gray scale images and the originally split two slices to obtain a mask projection 3D printing slice having a uniform shaping brightness, and forming a final product.
US11353842B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method of automatically converting thermal displacement compensation parameters of a machine tool, which automatically convert a compensation parameter of a thermal displacement compensation equation of a machine tool so that the compensation parameter is optimized to a current thermal displacement state of the machine tool in real time based on Z-directional or Y-directional displacement data of a tool tip end of a reference tool measured by a tool measuring unit according to an operation state of the machine tool or various kinds of machine tools or thermal displacement data of the machine tool calculated by measuring a processed portion of a processed material, and temperature data measured by a temperature measuring unit, to minimize a processing error according to thermal displacement and improve processing accuracy of the machine tool.
US11353839B2
Example embodiments relate to a node and a method of controlling devices connected to the node. In example embodiments the devices may be, but are not required to be, lights.
US11353837B2
A power supply control device includes: a power generator that converts energy into power; an environmental sensor that detects a state of an ambient environment; and a controller that controls an operation timing of a functional circuit that operates upon receipt of power supplied from the power generator based on the state of the ambient environment detected by the environmental sensor.
US11353834B2
A controller for heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) equipment includes a communications interface configured to communicate with first HVAC equipment and second HVAC equipment and a processing circuit communicably coupled to the communications interface. The processing circuit is configured to detect a staging event for the first HVAC equipment occurring at a first time, obtain a delay time based on an estimated amount of time required to reach steady state after the staging event for the first HVAC equipment occurs at the first time, determine whether the delay time has elapsed since the staging event for the first HVAC equipment has occurred, and prevent the second HVAC equipment from staging in response to a determination that the delay time has not elapsed since the staging event for the first HVAC equipment has occurred.
US11353826B2
A vertical clutch device for a timepiece includes along a vertical axis a first wheel rotatably mounted about the vertical axis, a clutch disc, a spring, and a second wheel rotatably mounted about the vertical axis. The vertical clutch device is able to assume a clutched position where the second wheel is rotated by the first wheel under the action of the spring exerting a vertical force Fe to press the clutch disc against the first wheel and a disengaged position where the clutch disc is subjected against the action of the spring to a vertical force Fd separating it from the first wheel so that the second wheel is not rotated by the first wheel. The spring of the vertical clutch device is made of a shape memory alloy.
US11353820B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member on which an electrostatic image is formed, a developing unit to develop the electrostatic image, a driving unit, a driving gear to drive the driving unit, and a toner replenishing container to attach to an attaching portion of the image forming apparatus and to accommodate the toner to replenish to the developing unit. In addition, a door opens and closes the attaching portion, a first mechanism changes an open/close state of the door, and a second mechanism changes an input state of the driving force to a shaft of the first mechanism.
US11353816B2
A decurling device is provided on a downstream side with respect to a fixing device in a medium transporting direction and straightens a curl formed in a medium transported to the decurling device. The decurling device includes a bending unit extending across the medium transporting direction and having a guiding surface that guides a leading end of the medium, the leading end coming into contact with the guiding surface, the bending unit bending the medium in a decurling direction by using the guiding surface; an urging unit that urges the bending unit toward the medium; and a single or plural rotating members provided on a part of the guiding surface of the bending unit and rotating by coming into contact with the medium that is in contact with the guiding surface.
US11353807B2
An example toner cartridge includes a housing to accommodate toner and having a toner discharge port at one side, a conveying member inside the housing to rotate to convey the toner toward the toner discharge port, a driven coupler to rotate by a rotational force, and an ejector to rotate by the driven coupler. Either one of the driven coupler and the ejector is rotatably supported by a side wall of the housing in the longitudinal direction and connected to the conveying member to rotate the conveying member. The other one of the driven coupler and the ejector moves in a direction spaced apart from the side wall with respect to either one of the driven coupler and the ejector when the driven coupler rotates in a reverse direction which is an opposite direction to a forward direction in which the toner is conveyed toward the toner discharge port.
US11353805B2
An image forming apparatus to form an image on a recording material includes a photosensitive member, an exposure device to form a latent image on the photosensitive member, a tubular body defining a space in which at least a part of the exposure device is contained, and a support portion that supports the exposure device and is provided along a rotation axis direction of the photosensitive member in the space of the tubular body. The image forming apparatus further includes, in the rotation axis direction, a first side plate fixed to one end portion of the tubular body, and a second side plate fixed to another end portion of the tubular body. One support portion end portion in the rotation axis direction is fixed to the first side plate, and another support portion end portion in the rotation axis direction is fixed to the second side plate.
US11353804B2
An image forming apparatus includes a unit configured to perform image forming operation, a unit board in the unit, a wiring configured to be connected to the unit board, and a control board configured to be connected to the unit board with the wiring and control the unit. The unit board includes a connector to which the wiring is to be connected. A length of the connector in a longitudinal direction of the connector is longer than a length of the unit board in a widthwise direction of the unit board, and the longitudinal direction of the connector intersects the widthwise direction of the unit board.
US11353803B2
A toner for electrostatic image development includes toner particles containing an amorphous resin and a crystalline resin. The toner particles include first toner particles. When a cross section of each of the first toner particles is observed, at least two domains of the crystalline resin satisfy conditions (A), (B1), (C), and (D) below: condition (A): an aspect ratio of each of the at least two domains of the crystalline resin is from 5 to 40 inclusive; condition (B1): a length of a major axis of each of the at least two domains of the crystalline resin is from 0.5 μm to 1.5 μm inclusive; condition (C): an angle between an extension of the major axis of each of the at least two domains of the crystalline resin and a tangent at the point of contact of the extension with a surface of the each of the first toner particles is from 60 degrees to 90 degrees inclusive; and condition (D): a crossing angle between extensions of major axes of any two of the at least two domains of the crystalline resin is from 45 degrees to 90 degrees inclusive.
US11353802B2
Provided are an optical device capable of effectively preventing contamination and a method for preventing contamination of the same. An optical device according to an embodiment includes a light source that generates light containing EUV (Extreme UltraViolet) light or VUV (Vacuum UltraViolet) light, a chamber in which an object to be irradiated with the light is placed, an optical element placed inside the chamber to guide the light, an introduction unit that introduces hydrogen or helium into the chamber, a power supply that applies a negative voltage to the optical element in the chamber, an ammeter that measures an ion current flowing through the optical element, and a control unit that adjusts the amount of the hydrogen or the helium introduced according to a measurement result of the ammeter.
US11353800B2
An improved stage for the processing of large, thin substrates, such as glass and semiconductor panels. Processing includes lithography, inspection, metrology, grinding, and the like. The stage includes a chuck that moves over a base relative to a device for processing a substrate. The chuck conforms to a geometry of the base while moving relative to the base.
US11353799B1
A metrology system includes a controller communicatively coupled to one or more metrology tools, the controller including one or more processors configured to execute program instructions causing the one or more processors to receive one or more metrology measurements of one or more metrology targets of a metrology sample, a metrology target of the one or more metrology targets including one or more target designs with one or more cells, the one or more target designs being generated on one or more layers of the metrology sample; determine one or more errors based on the one or more metrology measurements; and determine one or more correctables to adjust one or more sources of error corresponding to the one or more errors, the one or more correctables being configured to reduce an amount of noise in the one or more metrology measurements generated by the one or more sources of errors.
US11353794B2
Improved stripper solutions for removing photoresists from substrates are provided that typically have freezing points below about 0° C. and high loading capacities. The stripper solutions comprise dimethyl sulfoxide, quaternary ammonium hydroxide, and an alkanolamine having at least two carbon atoms, at least one amino substituent and at least one hydroxyl substituent, the amino and hydroxyl substituents attached to two different carbon atoms. Some formulations can additionally contain a secondary solvent. The formulations do not contain tetramethylammonium hydroxide. Methods for use of the stripping solutions are additionally provided.
US11353776B2
A lens module includes a lens barrel, a lens group, and a soma. The soma includes a first end surface facing an object side and a second end surface facing an image side. An end point of the lens group closest to the object side is defined as an origin. An angle formed by a line connecting the origin to a point on the first end surface closest to an optical axis and the optical axis is defined as a first angle α. An angle formed by a line connecting the origin to a point on the second end surface closest to the optical axis and the optical axis is defined as a second angle β. The first angle α and the second angle β satisfy the following relationship: β>34.5° and α-β<0.4°.
US11353763B2
A phase modulation device of the present disclosure includes: a light source; and an optical phase modulation element including a plurality of pixels in each of which liquid crystal molecules are arrayed, and including a plurality of pixel regions each including the plurality of pixels, the optical phase modulation element modulating, for each of the pixels, a phase of incident light entering the plurality of pixel regions from the light source. The optical phase modulation element includes, as the plurality of pixel regions, at least one first alignment region where an alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules is a first direction parallel with a polarization axis of the incident light, and at least one second alignment region where an alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules is a second direction parallel with the polarization axis of the incident light and different from the first direction by 180 degrees.
US11353758B2
Disclosed are an array substrate, a display panel, a display device, and a driving method. The array substrate includes a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of columns of pixel structures which are respectively connected to the plurality of data lines in one-to-one correspondence. Each of the plurality of columns of the pixel structures includes a plurality of pixel structures. Each of the plurality of pixel structures includes two adjacent sub-pixel units and a first transistor. The sub-pixel unit includes a second transistor. The first transistor is connected to the second transistors of the two adjacent sub-pixel units and the data line respectively.
US11353755B2
A display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present inventive concept includes: a first substrate including a display area and a non-display area; a second substrate overlapping the first substrate; a sealant disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a stacked body disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, disposed on an outermost edge of the non-display area, and disposed spaced apart from the sealant, wherein the stacked body includes a column spacer and a color filter stacked body in which at least two color filters are stacked.
US11353752B2
A switchable privacy display comprises a spatial light modulator (SLM), a first switchable liquid crystal (LC) retarder and first passive retarder between a first pair of polarisers and a second switchable LC retarder and second passive retarder between a second pair of polarisers. The first switchable LC retarder comprises a homeotropic alignment layer and a homogeneous alignment layer. The second switchable LC crystal retarder comprises two homeotropic alignment layers or two homogeneous alignment layers. In landscape or portrait privacy mode, on-axis light from the SLM is directed without loss, whereas off-axis light has reduced luminance to reduce visibility to off-axis snoopers. Display reflectivity may be reduced for on-axis reflections of ambient light, while reflectivity may be increased for off-axis light to achieve increased visual security. In public mode, the LC retardance is adjusted so that off-axis luminance and reflectivity are unmodified. The display may switch between day-time and night-time operation.
US11353722B2
Disclosed is a method for determining a specific near vision power of an ophthalmic lens to be provided to a wearer having an ophthalmic prescription, the specific near vision power being for near distance vision, the method including: an ophthalmic lens providing step during which at least an ophthalmic lens having a near distance vision zone including a mean power adapted for near distance vision is provided to the wearer; a near vision task speed determining step during which the processing speed of a near vision task by the wearer when wearing the provided ophthalmic lens is determined; wherein the ophthalmic lens providing step and the near vision task speed determining step are repeated with ophthalmic lenses having different mean power, so as to determine a specific near vision power corresponding to the mean power providing an improved near vision task processing speed.
US11353720B2
The utility model discloses glasses with replaceable lenses, and the technical scheme of the glasses comprises a glasses frame, glasses legs connected to two sides of the glasses frame, and a lens assembly detachably fit with the glasses frame, the lens assembly comprising a frame and a lens; the frame is provided with an insertion end; the glasses frame is provided with an insertion groove in inserting fit with the insertion end; a clamping groove adapted to the clamping piece is arranged on the side wall of the insertion groove is provided with a clamping piece; the side wall, opposite to the clamping piece, of the insertion end; the clamping piece is in elastic clamping fit with the clamping groove, and the utility model is simple in structure and easy to detach.
US11353719B2
Modular eyeglass frame system and methods for their use and manufacture. Exemplary frame systems include an eyeglass frame base having a top edge, a removable element having a top edge that substantially matches the top edge of the frame base, and one or more attachment elements operative to removably attach the removable element to the frame base. The frame base includes a first channel and a second channel suitable for partially enclosing a first lens and a second lens; and the removable element includes a first channel and a second channel, each removable element channel being configured such that when the removable element is attached to the frame base, the first and second channels of the frame base align with the first and second channels of the removable element to fully enclose a periphery of the first lens and the second lens. The one or more attachment elements secure the removable element to the frame base such that the two-piece frame system is substantially as durable as a solid one-piece frame.
US11353717B2
The present invention discloses novel rimless glasses which include a left temple, a left end piece, a left lens, a nose mid-bridge, a right lens, a right end piece and a right temple. A first lens fixing device is disposed between the left end piece and a left end of the left lens. A second lens fixing device is disposed between a right end of the left lens and a left end of the nose mid-bridge. A third lens fixing device is disposed between a right end of the nose mid-bridge and a left end of the right lens. A fourth lens fixing device is disposed between a right end of the right lens and the right end piece. The rimless glasses have a reasonable simple structure design, a reliable connection, not easy looseness, ease of assembly and disassembly, convenient maintenance, and achieves a reinforcement effect on the lenses.
US11353709B2
Head-mounted augmented reality (AR) devices can track pose of a wearer's head or pose of a hand-held user input device to enable wearer interaction in a three-dimensional AR environment. A pose sensor (e.g., an inertial measurement unit) in the user input device can provide data on pose (e.g., position or orientation) of the user input device. An electromagnetic (EM) tracking system can also provide pose data. For example, the handheld user input device can include an EM emitter that generates an EM field, and the head-mounted AR device can include an EM sensor that senses the EM field. The AR device can combine the output of the pose sensor and the EM tracking system to reduce drift in the estimated pose of the user input device or to transform the pose into a world coordinate system used by the AR device. The AR device can utilize a Kalman filter to combine the output of the pose sensor and the EM tracking system.
US11353705B2
Provided is a glasses-type display apparatus. The glasses-type display apparatus includes an optical engine configured to project light containing an image; a waveguide including an input region for receiving the projected light and an output region for outputting at least a portion of the received light; and a glasses-type body for holding the waveguide and the optical engine where a portion of the optical engine is arranged at a side portion of the waveguide.
US11353704B2
The present disclosure provides a display system including a HMD mounted on a head of a user and a smartphone coupled to the HMD. The smartphone includes a touch sensor configured to accept a position input operation to detect coordinates of an operational position, a first sensor configured to detect a motion of the user with respect to the smartphone, and a first execution unit configured to execute personal authentication of the user based on a detection result of the first sensor until the user starts the position input operation.
US11353703B2
Methods and apparatus for an image generated for display by a head mountable display device include: defining a 2×2 pixel mask pattern for a region of the image, indicating the location of one or more pixels and corresponding masked pixels within the 2×2 pixel mask pattern; adapting a multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) scheme to sample at one quarter resolution on a regular grid; sampling values using the adapted MSAA scheme to render the one or more respective pixels indicated by the 2×2 pixel mask, so as to generate a region of the image comprising one or more rendered pixels and corresponding missing pixels; and dilating one or more of the respective pixels to fill in the one or more missing pixels within the region of the image.
US11353701B2
Systems and apparatus for a bezel assembly for a heads-up display (HUD) unit located in an instrument panel of a vehicle, the instrument panel being adjacent to a front windshield of the vehicle. The bezel assembly includes a bezel having a rear edge aligned with a front edge of the instrument panel and an interior border defining a bezel opening. The bezel assembly also includes a chute located beneath the bezel and above the HUD unit. The chute includes an exterior border defining a top chute opening aligned with the bezel opening, and an interior border defining a bottom chute opening aligned with a display screen of the HUD unit and having a shape corresponding to the display screen of the HUD unit.
US11353700B2
An orientation predicting method, adapted to a virtual reality headset, comprises obtaining an orientation training data and an adjusted orientation data, wherein the adjusted orientation data is obtained by cutting a data segment off from the orientation training data, wherein the data segment corresponds to a time interval determined by an application latency; training an initial neural network model based on the orientation training data and the adjusted orientation data corresponding to the time interval; retrieving a real-time orientation data by an orientation sensor of the virtual reality headset; and inputting the real-time orientation data to the trained neural network model to output a predicted orientation data. The present disclosure further discloses a virtual reality headset and a non-transitory computer-readable medium.
US11353696B2
An image forming apparatus, including a photosensitive member, a scanning optical unit configured to scan the photosensitive member by laser light according to image information, a detection unit arranged in a position facing the photosensitive member and configured to output positional information on the laser light. The detection unit includes a detection portion into which the laser light reflected by the photosensitive member is incident, and a control unit configured to calculate a positional deviation amount of an irradiation position on the photosensitive member which is irradiated by the laser light based on the positional information output by the detection unit, and control the scanning optical unit to correct the positional deviation of the irradiation position of the laser light.
US11353691B1
A method to capture microscopy images from multiple image sensors and to relay them to one or more central processing units with high frame rates can include preprocessing the image data from the image sensors to reduce the sizes of the captured images, before sending the image data to a central processing station for analysis. Using multiple image sensors and an image reduction process, large image frames of over 20 megapixels and up to 1 gigapixel or more can be obtained at high imaging frame rates of 30 or more to up to hundreds or thousands of frames per second.
US11353683B2
The present invention relates to the technical field of optical lens and discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens having a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: −3.50≤f2/f≤−1.50; 3.00≤(R3+R4)/(R3−R4)≤8.00; 8.00≤d1/d2≤15.00; 0.50≤f3/f≤0.75; −5.00≤R2/R1≤−2.50; −0.70≤f4/f≤−0.40. The camera optical lens can achieve excellent optical characteristics with a large aperture, wide-angle, and being ultra-thin.
US11353679B2
A lens driving device according to an embodiment comprises: a movable unit on which at least one lens is mounted; a first coil and a driving magnet which face and interact with each other such that the movable unit is moved in the optical axis direction of the lens; a position sensor for sensing the position of the movable unit in the optical axis direction or a driver comprising the position sensor; and a positively magnetized magnet arranged to face the position sensor or the driver, wherein the positively magnetized magnet comprises a first side surface, which faces the position sensor and has a first polarity, and a second side surface, which faces the position sensor, which is arranged to be spaced from the first side surface in a direction parallel with the optical axis direction or arranged to abut the first side surface, and which has a second polarity that is the opposite of the first polarity of the first side surface, and the length of the first side surface in the optical axis direction may be equal to or larger than the length of the second side surface in the optical axis direction.
US11353674B2
Tools and associated methods for facilitating feeding of optical fibers into a tube. In particular, the tools and associated methods are adapted to remove overlaps and tangles in the fibers as they are being fed into the tube. In this way, the number of fibers that can be fed into a tube of given transverse cross-sectional area can be maximized.
US11353672B1
A fiber optic cable splice case may include (1) an outer enclosure with a plurality of cable funnels defining paths from an exterior to an interior of the outer enclosure, (2) a clamp connected to the exterior of the outer enclosure, where the clamp attaches the outer enclosure to a powerline conductor, and (3) an inner enclosure positioned at least partially within, and rotatably coupled to, the outer enclosure, where the inner enclosure defines (a) a splice cavity within the inner enclosure, where the cavity is configured to store an optical fiber splice tray for coupling corresponding optical fibers of each of a pair of fiber optic cable segments and (b) a cable channel about an exterior of the inner enclosure, where the cable channel carries a portion of each of the pair of segments between the funnels and the cavity. Various other components and methods are also disclosed.
US11353660B2
An optical delay line device, providing a fixed or variable optical delay, including an optical input, an optical output, an optical assembly that directs a beam along an optical path from the input to the output. The optical assembly including; a retroreflector, an optical element including first, second and third reflective surfaces, the second and third reflective surfaces being arranged to make therebetween an angle of 45°, a beam that propagates along the optical path and enters said optical element being reflected by the first surface with an angle of 90° toward the second surface, then being reflected by the second and third surfaces to exit from the optical element in a direction parallel to the direction of the beam incident on the optical element, and said optical element is arranged so as to steer said output beam onto said second surface of said retroreflector.
US11353658B2
A multi-fiber splice protector includes a strength member having at least one wall arranged in a tubular shape with a longitudinal opening extending through the wall to permit passage of a coated optical fiber into an inner cavity, with a thermoplastic hotmelt material arranged in the inner cavity. The longitudinal opening has a first width between 1 and 2 times the diameter of one coated optical fiber, while the inner cavity has a second width that is significantly greater than the first width to permit fusion spliced optical fibers to be not exclusively arranged in a 1-D array in the inner cavity. A fiber optic cable assembly including a multi-fiber splice protector with thermoplastic hotmelt material encapsulating fusion splice joints is further provided. Additionally provided is a method for forming a fiber optic cable assembly.
US11353650B2
Large mode area optical fibers include cores that are selected to be smaller than a core size associated with a minimum mode field diameter of a lowest order mode. Cross-sectional shape of such cores can be circular or annular, and a plurality of such cores can be used. Gain regions can be provided in cores or claddings, and selected to produce a selected state of polarization.
US11353649B2
The invention provides a display device, including: a backlight module with a backlight area and a transmissive area; The transmissive area of the backlight module is disposed to have at least one MicroLED light emitting unit, when the microLED light emitting unit is turned on the backlight module, the camera module does not work, and the display area of the display panel and the transmissive display area are able to display the picture normally, thus entering the full-screen display state When the camera module is working, turn off the MicroLED light-emitting unit, the camera module obtains sufficient imaging light, and the display panel corresponding to the backlight area can display the picture normally.
US11353644B2
A blended display device is provided. The display device includes a display panel having a first substrate located at a back side and a second substrate located at a display side, and a directional nanowire grid polarizer (NWGP) layer disposed on the second substrate. The display panel is switchable between first and second operational modes. The directional NWGP layer has a NWGP direction. The directional NWGP layer includes at least one colored coating disposed on at least one pattern region. In the first operational mode, the directional NWGP layer functions as a polarizer for the display panel, and the display panel is used to display an image. In the second operational mode, the display panel does not display an image, and an ambient light incident toward the display panel is at least partially reflected by the pattern region of the directional NWGP layer to show a predesigned color pattern.
US11353636B2
A mount includes an active area in which an optical element may be located. The mount is bonded to a neighboring mount using adhesives that are placed on a top side of a wall structure of the mount. Migration of the adhesives from the wall of the mount into the active area is prevented by use of groove-structures and micro-wall structures located in a buffer area of the mount that circumscribes the active area. In some embodiments, a diffuser is located in the buffer area of the mount to redirect the emitted light as desired for a particular application.
US11353634B2
An embodiment includes a light source. The light source may include a substrate and a diffuser. The substrate may include a first surface and a second surface. The second surface may be opposite the first surface. The diffuser may be carried by the substrate. The diffuser may be configured to receive an optical signal from the substrate after the optical signal propagates through the substrate and to control a particular profile of a resultant beam of the optical signal over two axes after the optical signal propagates through the integrated diffuser.
US11353631B2
A display device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The display device includes a display panel including a series of pixels, each pixel including N sub-pixels, where N is an integer of 2 or greater; and a lens array on a surface of the display panel, the lens array including a series of lenses, wherein each of the lenses overlaps with M sub-pixels, where M is an integer greater than N.
US11353628B2
The present invention relates to an anti-reflective film including: a hard coating layer; and a low refractive index layer including a binder resin, and hollow inorganic nanoparticles and solid inorganic nanoparticles which are dispersed in the binder resin, wherein in a graph of the measurement of the friction force with a TAC film measured by applying a load of 400 g to the surface, the maximum amplitude (A) is 0.1 or less based on the average friction force.
US11353623B2
Embodiments disclosed herein may relate to weather sensors and particularly to methods and systems related to collecting weather data and other site-specific data. The system may also be used to collect data on hydrometeors, especially hail. Some, but not all of the things a system described can determine are the kinetic energy, diameter, mass, and velocity.
US11353616B2
Acoustic waves are obtained from an acoustic logging tool within a borehole passing through a formation. Signal properties in a time domain, frequency domain, or both are determined based on the obtained acoustic waves. A machine learning analysis is used to determine formation slowness based on the determined signal properties and a downhole operational parameter is adjusted based on the determined formation slowness.
US11353609B2
Systems and methods for seismic imaging of a subterranean geological formation include receiving parameter data representing one or more parameters of a seismic survey, the seismic data specifying an incident angle and an azimuth angle for each trace of the seismic survey; determining a relationship between the incident angle and the azimuth angle for each trace and a location in a spiral coordinate system, and generating a weighting function for applying a weight value to each trace seismic data based on the incident angle and the azimuth angle associated with each trace; and determining a residual moveout value of the seismic data for each location in the spiral coordinate system by applying the weighting function to each; and generating a seismic image representing the residual moveout value of the seismic data for each location in the spiral coordinate system.
US11353590B2
A sensor pod system includes one or more sensor pods with a plurality of sensors configured to collect data from an environment. A sensor pod may have an effective field of view created by individual sensors with overlapping fields of view. The sensor pod system may include sensors of different types and modalities. Sensor pods of the sensor pod system may be modularly installed on a vehicle, for example, an autonomous vehicle and collect and provide data of the environment during operation of the vehicle. A combination of techniques may be used to calibrate a sensor pod prior to installation in the vehicle and may be used to determine if the sensor pod is compatible with other sensor pods and may also be used to calibrate other sensors when integrating the sensor pod into the vehicle.
US11353585B2
The present disclosed subject matter relates to a method for measuring the distance of targets in the surroundings by way of a time-of-flight measurement of pulses reflected at said targets, in particular laser pulses, said method comprising: emitting a sequence of transmission pulses having varying pulse intervals, and receiving at least one receive pulse after each one of two different transmission pulses; for each receive pulse: generating a group of M candidate distances, each based on a different transmission pulse among M transmission pulses preceding the receive pulse, wherein each candidate distance is assigned to the corresponding transmission pulse on which it is based; for each candidate distance: determining a weighting value on the basis of at least the closest of the candidate distances assigned to such a transmission pulse which is adjacent to the transmission pulse to which the candidate distance being considered in this determining process is assigned; for each group: selecting the candidate distance with the highest weighting value as the distance measurement value of the receive pulse for which the group was generated.
US11353584B2
A laser rangefinder and a method for implementing the same are provided. When the distance is measured, a number of laser signals are emitted from an emitting unit to an object to be measured. A receiving unit receives the laser signals reflected by the measured object and converts them into an electrical pulse signal. A time measuring unit converts a trigger signal of a laser emitter and the electric pulse signal converted by the laser receiver into a rectangular gate signal. The width of the rectangular gate signal is measured by a pulse counter unit with high precision.
US11353582B2
An ultrasound probe (106) contains an array transducer (101) and a microbeamformer coupled to elements of the array. The microbeamformer comprises analog ASICs (102) with transmitters and amplifiers coupled to elements of the array (101). The microbeamformer also comprises analog to digital converters which convert received echo signals to digital data, and digital beamforming circuitry located in digital ASICs (103). The digital ASICs (103) are clocked at a lower core frequency than that of which the digital integrated circuit process of the digital ASICs (103) is capable, and the digital ASICs (103) are operated at a lower supply voltage than that for which the digital integrated circuit process is designed, both of which reduce power consumption by the microbeamformer.
US11353580B2
A proximity radar method for a rotary-wing aircraft includes a sequence of phases T(k) of steps. In a first phase T(1), the electronic computer of the radar system computes unambiguous synthetic patterns on the basis of a first activated interferometric pattern M(1) of N unitary radiating groups. In the following phases T(k) of steps, executed successively in increasing order of k, the electronic computer computes synthetic patterns on the basis of interferometric patterns M(k) of rank k, wherein the N unitary radiating groups of a series deviate simultaneously in terms of azimuth and in terms of elevation as k increases, and establishes maps of rank k of the surroundings in terms of azimuth distance/direction and/or elevation distance/direction cells wherein the detected obstacle ambiguities, associated with the network lobes, are removed by virtue of the map(s) provided in the preceding phase or phases.
US11353577B2
Techniques are discussed for generating a spatial grid based on radar sensor data. The spatial grid may include cells, which may be designated as being occupied, occluded, and/or free space. A cell may be designated as being occupied if radar sensor data is associated with a region of an environment associated with the cell. A field may be designated as being occluded if a region of the environment associated with the cell is obstructed, relative to a radar sensor, by a cell that is designated as being occupied. In some instances, objects may be detected and/or tracked in occluded regions. A cell may be designated as being free space if a region associated with the cell is within a field of view of a radar sensor and is unoccupied and un-occluded. In some instances, the spatial grid may be used to control a vehicle, such as an autonomous vehicle, in the environment.
US11353576B2
The present invention includes systems and methods for a continuous-wave (CW) radar system for detecting, geolocating, identifying, discriminating between, and mapping ferrous and non-ferrous metals in brackish and saltwater environments. The CW radar system generates multiple extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic waves simultaneously and uses said waves to detect, locate, and classify objects of interest. These objects include all types of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, as well as changing material boundary layers (e.g., soil to water, sand to mud, rock to organic materials, water to air, etc.). The CW radar system is operable to detect objects of interest in near real time.
US11353575B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for compact radar systems. In some examples, a compact radar system can include a first set of transmit antennas, a second set of receive antennas, one or more processors, and at least one computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the radar system to coordinate digital beam steering of the first set of transmit antennas and the second set of receive antennas, and coordinate digital beam forming with one or more of the second set of receive antennas to detect one or more objects within a distance of the radar system.
US11353564B2
Disclosed are a disturbance light identifying apparatus, a disturbance light separating apparatus, a disturbance light identifying method, and a disturbance light separating method capable of precisely identifying whether or not light exiting an optical system contains a disturbance light component or capable of separating such a disturbance light component by using a simple technique. Provided are: a modulated light irradiation unit that irradiates an optical system 1 with modulated light; a light receiving unit that receives light exiting the optical system 1 in response to an incidence of the modulated light from the modulated light irradiation unit; and a controlling unit that controls the modulated light irradiation unit and the light receiving unit.
US11353559B2
In one embodiment, a lidar system includes a light source configured to emit pulses of light and a scanner configured to scan at least a portion of the emitted pulses of light along a scan pattern contained within an adjustable field of regard. The scanner includes a first scanning mirror configured to scan the portion of the emitted pulses of light substantially parallel to a first scan axis to produce multiple scan lines of the scan pattern, where each scan line is oriented substantially parallel to the first scan axis. The scanner also includes a second scanning mirror configured to distribute the scan lines along a second scan axis that is substantially orthogonal to the first scan axis, where the scan lines are distributed within the adjustable field of regard according to an adjustable second-axis scan profile.
US11353546B2
A radar apparatus includes an antenna unit and a cover unit. The cover unit is arranged at a position through which an electromagnetic wave sent and received by the antenna unit passes. The cover unit has, in an order from closer to the antenna unit, a first dielectric layer formed of a dielectric and a second dielectric layer formed of a dielectric having a dielectric constant different from that of the first dielectric layer. The first dielectric layer is configured to have a thickness not more than that for a maximum external transmittance. The external transmittance indicates a transmittance of an electromagnetic wave, which is emitted in a direction of an incidence angle with respect to the first dielectric layer, which is equal to a maximum sensing angle, when the electromagnetic wave is transmitted through the cover unit.
US11353542B2
A positioning method and related devices are provided. The method includes: measuring, by a UE, PRSs sent by a plurality of positioning reference devices to obtain a plurality of PRS measurement results; measuring, by the UE, SPRSs sent by the plurality of positioning reference devices to obtain a plurality of SPRS measurement results; performing, by the UE, a positioning operation based on the plurality of PRS measurement results and the plurality of SPRS measurement results, wherein the positioning operation includes: sending the plurality of PRS measurement results and the plurality of SPRS measurement results to a positioning server, so that the positioning server determines a position of the UE based on the plurality of PRS measurement results and the plurality of SPRS measurement results; or determining, by the UE, the position of the UE based on the plurality of PRS measurement results and the plurality of SPRS measurement results.
US11353539B2
Anchor base stations are arranged around an area in which positions for radio transmitter tags are to be determined. The anchor base stations have known locations, and the location of an intermediate base station added to the system is determined by: arranging the intermediate base station between first and second anchor base stations; determining, based on propagation-delay measurements of a signal emitted by the intermediate base station and using the global time reference a first calculated distance between the first anchor base station and the intermediate base station, and a second calculated distance between the second anchor base station and the intermediate base station (BSI5); obtaining an elevation indicator specifying whether the intermediate base station is located in level with, above or below the common plane; and determining the location of the intermediate base station based on the first and second calculated distances and the elevation indicator.
US11353537B2
A LORAN device may include a LORAN antenna, a LORAN receiver, an RF signal path extending between the LORAN antenna and the LORAN receiver and being subject to ambient RF interference, and an ambient RF interference canceller coupled in the RF signal path. The ambient RF interference canceller may include an ambient RF interference sensor configured to generate an estimated ambient RF interference signal based on the sensed ambient RF interference, and cancellation circuitry configured to cooperate with the ambient RF interference sensor to generate an ambient RF interference cancellation signal based upon the sensed ambient RF interference signal, and add the ambient RF interference cancellation signal to the RF signal path.
US11353536B2
A method is provided for calibrating a test system, including an RF source combined with a VNA connected to or embedded in a test instrument. The method includes connecting to a power meter at the test port; generating an RF signal at an RF source as an incident signal, and providing the incident signal to the power meter through the test port; measuring a forward power wave of the incident signal using a first receiver; measuring a reverse power wave of a reflected signal using a second receiver; measuring output power at the test port using the power meter; and calculating magnitude errors of the first receiver and the second receiver using the measured forward power wave, the measured reverse power wave, and the measured output power by the power meter, and determining magnitude error correction terms of the forward and reverse power waves to remove the magnitude errors.
US11353529B2
The disclosure relates to a method for generating a magnetic resonance image from a measurement dataset. The measurement dataset is initially acquired from k space values. By means of a data processing facility the k space values are then automatically analyzed at least in terms of their size. Furthermore a modified measurement dataset is automatically generated from the measurement dataset by removing k space values whose size satisfies at least one predetermined threshold value criterion. The magnetic resonance image is then generated automatically from the modified measurement dataset.
US11353527B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for magnetic resonance imaging. The method may include obtaining a pulse sequence for scanning an object, obtaining a tolerance parameter associated with the pulse sequence, determining, based on the pulse sequence and the tolerance parameter, a target waveform for scanning the object, and causing an MRI device to scan the object based on the target waveform.
US11353522B2
A system determines the data stored on a portion of magnetic media by obtaining an image that represents the magnetic state of the portion of magnetic media using a magneto-optic image sensor. In an example, the image sensor is connected to a mechanism that moves over the portion of magnetic media, and the system takes a plurality of images which are stitched together into a composite image of the state of the portion of magnetic media. The system analyzes the image to identify regions that contain data, extracts the encoded data from the regions. The encoded data is decoded in accordance with an encoding scheme used by the portion of magnetic media. In some examples, a file structure is applied to the data and data files are recovered from the image. In various examples, the portion of magnetic media can be hard disk media, floppy disk media, or magnetic tape.
US11353514B2
An ECU sets a SOC estimated from an OCV at the time of activating a system of a vehicle as an initial SOC value in the case where the SOC during a stop of the system is higher than a first SOC, which represents the SOC estimated from the OCV at the time of activating the system by using a discharging curve line, or the SOC during the stop of the system is lower than a second SOC, which represents the SOC estimated from the OCV at the time of activating the system by using a charging curve line. The ECU sets the SOC during the stop of the system as the initial SOC value in the case where the SOC during the stop of the system is equal to or lower than the first SOC and is equal to or higher than the second SOC.
US11353513B2
The invention is directed toward a primary AA alkaline battery. The primary AA alkaline battery includes an anode; a cathode; an electrolyte; and a separator between the anode and the cathode. The anode includes an electrochemically active anode material. The cathode includes an electrochemically active cathode material. The electrolyte includes potassium hydroxide. The primary AA alkaline battery has an integrated in-cell ionic resistance (Ri) at 22° C. of less than about 39 mΩ. The separator has a porosity of greater than 70%.
US11353505B2
The present disclosure provides a differential clock cross point detection circuit and a detection method. The detection circuit includes: a first MOS transistor (M1), a second MOS transistor (M2) and a capacitor (C); a drain of the first MOS transistor (M1) is connected to a negative terminal (CLK−) of a differential clock, a gate of the first MOS transistor (M1) is connected to a positive terminal (CLK+) of the differential clock, and a source of the first MOS transistor (M1) is connected to a drain of the second MOS transistor (M2); a gate of the second MOS transistor (M2) is connected to the negative terminal (CLK−) of the differential clock, and a source of the second MOS transistor (M2) is connected to an output terminal through a node; one terminal of the capacitor (C) is connected to a node (A), and the other terminal of the capacitor (C) is grounded.
US11353503B2
A method for testing the hermetic seal of a packaged device, which includes: a package that delimits a device chamber; and a transducer device, which is arranged within the device chamber and generates an electrical signal indicating at least one physical quantity external to the package. The testing method includes the steps of: imposing a reference pressure in the device chamber; arranging the packaged device in a testing chamber in which a testing pressure is present, different from the reference pressure; and subsequently detecting possible pressure variations within the device chamber.
US11353498B2
A feedback burn-in device of a burn-in oven includes at least one burn-in rack disposed in the burn-in oven, at least one burn-in board, and at least one feedback burn-in unit. The burn-in rack is formed, in a top thereof, with at least one horizontal ventilation passage in communication with an interior of the burn-in rack. The horizontal ventilation passage has an end connected to at least one negative pressure zone or heat dissipation blower of the burn-in oven. The burn-in board is disposed in the interior of the burn-in rack. The burn-in board is connected to a socket to which at least one tested IC is connectable. The feedback burn-in unit is connected to the socket and the burn-in board. The feedback burn-in unit provide automatic feedback control for a burn-in board environment temperature, tested IC temperature detection, and a tested IC burn-in temperature, a dissipating airflow speed, and a burn-in board environment temperature, so as to discharge heat-dissipation hot air from the burn-in board and the tested IC of each feedback burn-in unit to the horizontal ventilation passage of the burn-in rack to be further discharge through one end of the horizontal ventilation passage to a negative pressure zone or a discharge blower of the burn-in oven, thereby forming a feedback burn-in device featuring automatic feedback burn-in and heat dissipative airflow discharged to the burn-in oven.
US11353494B2
A testing system includes: a substrate having a probe pad and having a supply input; driver circuitry having a driver output; a transistor having a gate, a source, and a drain; and a field effect transistor (FET) engager. The gate of the transistor is coupled to the driver output, and the drain of the transistor is coupled to the supply input. The FET engager is configured to couple the probe pad to the gate of the transistor and provide test instrument measurement of gate current of the transistor without test instrument probe capacitance impacting operation of the transistor.
US11353480B2
Unique systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses of a power line measurement device are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment is a measurement device comprising a measurement device structured to at least partially surround a segment of a power distribution line, the measurement device including a winding portion spaced apart from the segment of the power distribution line structured to receive magnetic flux from the power distribution line and to output data corresponding to a current flowing through the power distribution line; and a magnetic shield spaced apart from the measurement device and positioned radially outward from the winding portion relative to the segment of the power distribution line, the magnetic shield comprising a first section and a second section coupled to the first section at an obtuse angle, the magnetic shield being structured to reduce an amount of external flux from being received with the measurement device.
US11353469B2
The method of confirming consumption of a tagged pharmaceutical or nutritional product includes the step of providing a subject with a pharmaceutical or nutritional product which has been tagged with a safe, for example, a plant-based, compound. These compounds may include asparagusic acid or a derivative thereof which is found in asparagus, garlic or an extract of garlic, or 1,8-cineole. Alternatively, the taggant may be dimethylsulfoxide. A subject may be provided with and instructed to consume the tagged product according to a defined protocol. A sample of bodily waste or other biological sample may be collected from the subject and analyzed for the presence of the tag or a metabolite thereof. This method may be used to confirm compliance with the protocol in clinical drug trials or nutritional studies.
US11353468B2
Disclosed herein are, inter alia, methods and compositions useful for detecting and/or quantifying host cell proteins during the production of a product, e.g., a recombinant protein, e.g., an antibody.
US11353458B2
Methods are provided for determining prognosis of multiple myeloma in a patient by measuring expression of BCMA in a sample. Also provided are methods for treating multiple myeloma by measuring expression of BCMA in a sample and administering an effective amount of an antigen binding protein that binds BCMA. Also provided are kits for measuring BCMA expression in a sample.
US11353439B2
A method and device for detection of bone in meat identifies fragments larger than about 1 mm using spectral optical imaging and ultrasound. Spectral imaging can detect foreign material proximate to the surface and ultrasound can detect material within the sample. The sample is irradiated by light and reflected light or Raman scattered light measured. The sample is similarly irradiated by ultrasound and reflected or transmitted sound waves give a set of amplitude data points, which include temporal delay. These data points are then processed by statistical methods to derive a set of vectors in n-dimensional space, which are compared to a calibrated data set of derived vectors which have distinct identifying loci for each type of surface, are indicative of the presence or absence of defects.
US11353428B2
Lateral boundaries of a fluidic passage of a fluidic device incorporating at least one BAW resonator structure are fabricated with photosensitive materials (e.g., photo definable epoxy, solder mask resist, or other photoresist), allowing for high aspect ratio, precisely dimensioned walls. Resistance to delamination and peeling between a wall structure and a base structure is enhanced by providing a wall structure that includes a thin footer portion having a width that exceeds a width of an upper wall portion extending upward from the footer portion, and/or by providing a wall structure arranged over at least one anchoring region of a base structure. Anchoring features may include recesses and/or protrusions.
US11353423B2
The invention described herein provides, in part, improved methods, compositions, and kits for detecting analytes in biological samples.
US11353413B2
Mask inspection apparatuses and/or mask inspection methods are provided that enable quick and accurate inspection of a registration of a pattern on a mask while a defect of the mask and the registration of the pattern are inspected simultaneously. The mask inspection apparatus may include a stage configured to receive a mask for inspection; an e-beam array including a plurality of e-beam irradiators configured to irradiate e-beams to the mask and detectors configured to detect electrons emitted from the mask; and a processor configured to process signals from the detectors. A defect of the mask may be detected through processing of the signal and registrations of patterns on the mask may be inspected based on positional information regarding the e-beam irradiators.
US11353412B1
The present disclosure provides an inspection system for contact network damage detection, including: a laser imaging radar, an X-ray transmitter, a booster, an X-ray receiver, and a control circuit board. The laser imaging radar emits a laser beam to a contact line for scanning. A laser radiation reflected by the contact line is received, and a continuous analog signal is generated, which is restored to a real-time image of the contact line. After the analog signal is converted into a digital signal on the control circuit board, a height of the contact line in a horizontal direction is calculated to determine a wear degree on an outer surface of the contact line. The booster boosts electric energy obtained by the pantograph on the contact line and supply power to the X-ray transmitter.
US11353406B2
A test apparatus checks containers (13) of plastic and produced using the blow-moulding, filling and sealing methods. The containers are filled with fluid that can contain particulate contamination deposited on the container wall when the container (13) is still and floating freely in the fluid when the container (13) is moving and/or changing position owing to the movement. The contamination can be detected by a sensor (37). By a vibration device (23), the container (13) can be oscillated at a prespecifiable excitation frequency such that the particulate contamination (47) in the fluid can be detected.
US11353403B2
A method of inspecting and performing material identification of a contaminant found in a vial may include identifying the presence of the contaminant in a lyophilized medicine within the vial, detaching a portion of the vial to create an enlarged opening in the vial, removing substantially an entire cake of lyophilized medicine through the enlarged opening, and analyzing the contaminant using an atomic emissions spectroscopy (AES) technique such as laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). Systems, fixtures and devices associated with the method are also disclosed.
US11353400B2
Disclosed herein are methods of detecting a target nucleic acid sequence, determining the localization of the target nucleic acid sequence, and/or quantifying the number of target nucleic acid sequences in a cell. This method may be used on small target nucleic acid sequences, and may be referred to as Nano-FISH.
US11353398B2
A system for extraction of optical properties of a turbid medium by using diffuse reflectometry may include at least one light source, an optical receiver, at least one separator, and at least one processor configured to control the optical receiver, while the radiation is provided to the turbid medium in the radiation input area of the at least one light source, to sequentially open each LC cell from the array of LC cells, and simultaneously receive radiation, passed through the sequentially opened LC cells and corresponding microlenses, by corresponding photodetectors from the array of photodetectors to obtain the distribution of radiation intensity; and extract the optical properties of the turbid medium based on the distribution of radiation intensity.
US11353392B2
A device includes a filter that enhances a beam profile of a received pulsed laser; a first optical element to direct the pulsed laser as a reference wave towards an optical sensor; an open cavity positioned between the first optical element and the optical sensor. The open cavity receives an aerosol particle, which enters the open cavity from any direction. The reference wave illuminates the aerosol particle. An illuminated particle generates and directs an object wave towards the optical sensor. A pixel array is connected to the optical sensor. The pixel array receives the reference wave and the object wave. The optical sensor creates a contrast hologram comprising an interference pattern of the illuminated particle. A processor creates an image of the illuminated particle based on the contrast hologram.
US11353391B2
An infiltration apparatus is disclosed herein. In various aspects, the infiltrometer apparatus includes a cylinder that defines a cylinder passage coupleable to a base that defines a base passage to form an infiltrometer passage. The infiltrometer apparatus includes a baffle removably emplacable within the infiltrometer passage, in various aspects. The baffle is in gapped relation with a soil surface of a soil when the base coupled to the cylinder is inserted into the soil and the baffle is emplaced within the infiltrometer passage, in various aspects. In various aspects, the infiltrometer apparatus includes a level detector to detect a water surface level of a water surface within the infiltrometer passage. The level detector may communicate by network with a computer to communicate data indicative of the water surface level to the computer. Related methods of use of the infiltrometer apparatus are also disclosed herein.
US11353390B2
A portable communication device includes one or more optical detectors to generate an analog signal in response to a change in an intra-cavity or an emitted optical power of a light source due to light backscattered from a particle and an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The particle is illuminated via a light source. The ASIC includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit, a digital delay circuit, a particle detector module and a processor. The ADC converts the analog signal to a digital signal. The digital delay circuit can store the digital signal for a predetermined or dynamically variable time interval. The particle detector module can analyze the digital signal and can generate an enable signal upon detecting a particle signature in the digital signal. The processor is coupled to the digital delay circuit and can start processing the digital signal in response to the enable signal.
US11353388B2
A TDR matrix suction sensor measures the matrix suction exhibited by a porous medium surrounding the sensor. The sensor is constructed from a TDR matrix suction sensor probe, which includes two or more elongated conductors and a jacket that encases the conductors. The jacket is made of a hydrophilic, non-conductive, porous (HN-CP) material. In operation, a pulse delay time is computed for an electrical pulse injected into the proximal end of the conductors and reflected when reaching their distal ends. The pulse delay time and a delay-to-matrix suction profile of the HN-CP jacket material are used to compute the matrix suction exhibited by the probe jackets. An indicator of the current value of the matrix suction exhibited by the porous medium is then established based on the matrix suction computed for the HN-CP jackets.
US11353381B1
A detector disc includes a disc body having a bottom disc and a top cover, the top cover including a first aperture. A sensor is disposed inside the disc body and positioned to be exposed to an external environment via the first aperture in the top cover. The solid state sensor is adapted to detect levels of chemical gas contaminants and output a detection signal based on detected levels of the chemical gas contaminants. A microcontroller is disposed on the PCB and adapted to generate measurement data from the detected levels of the chemical gas contaminants embodied within the detection signal. A wireless communication circuit is disposed on the PCB, the wireless communication circuit adapted to transmit the measurement data wirelessly to a wireless access point device.
US11353379B2
A sampling apparatus (100) employs a cell-positioning system to move a sample capture cell (138) relative to a specimen positioning system (124). The cell-positioning system may be controlled to move sample capture cell (138) opposite to movement of the specimen positioning system (124) to maintain alignment of the sample capture cell (138) with an optical path of a laser beam of a sample generator (108). Alternatively or additionally, the cell-positioning system may be controlled to move sample capture cell (138) in response to alignment deviation of a reference beam on a quadrant detector (404).
US11353377B2
In a wedge looseness diagnosis which is performed by striking wedges of a rotary electric machine, a variation of a wave form of a strike sound is reduced with respect to a variation of an amount of looseness of the wedges, and it is difficult that a slight difference of the amount of the looseness of the wedges is discriminated, so that the wedges are struck by a strike portion in a state where the wedges are pressed by a pressure portion which presses the wedges, and a strike sound at a high frequency is reduced, whereby an amount of a variation of magnitude of the strike sound is enlarged with respect to a valuation of the amount of the looseness of the wedges, and the amount of the looseness of the wedges is judged in accordance with the strike sound which is obtained by a strike sound measuring portion.
US11353370B2
An air temperature sensor with a housing having a skin with a first and second portion, a temperature sensor having at least a portion extending through the housing, a set of fluid passageways defined within an interior of the housing, and a tube to receive bleed air from an aircraft engine located within the interior and to allow hot bleed air into the set of fluid passageways.
US11353366B2
A method for manufacturing a textile temperature sensor, including arranging a linear knitting machine having a first thread-guide and a second thread-guide; arranging a conductive insulated wire on the first thread-guide; meshing the conductive insulated wire for making a mesh portion B having a nonconductive surface; arranging an electric resistance measuring device configured to measure a variation of electric resistance, the electric resistance being a function of the temperature; the measuring device phase of the electric resistance including a first electric cable and a second electric cable; electric connection of the first electric cable to the first end and of the second electric cable to the second end; and arranging a control unit arranged to receive from the device the variation of electric resistance in order to calculate excursions of the temperature at the lead wire.
US11353362B2
An apparatus includes a substrate transmissive of electromagnetic energy of at least a plurality of wavelengths, having a first end, a second end, a first major face, a second major face, at least one edge, a length, a width, and a thickness, at least a first output optic that outputs electromagnetic energy the substrate; and a first input optic oriented and positioned to provide electromagnetic energy into the substrate via at least one of the first or the second major face of the substrate. The first output optic is laterally spaced from the first input optic. A number of reflectors and optional absorbers may be positioned proximate the first major face and/or the second major face to structure electromagnetic energy and/or to translate such from the first input optic to the first output optic. The apparatus may be part of a spectrometer or other optical system.
US11353357B2
A weighing machine includes a weighing unit that measures the weight of a product placed on a weighing table, a calculation unit that calculates the price of the product based on the weight of the product measured by the weighing unit, and a control unit that sets the price calculated by the calculation unit when the product is removed from the weighing table.
US11353355B2
An impedance limit switch is configured to determine a limit level of a medium. The switch may include a measuring probe having an oscillator circuit; and an electronic circuit configured to generate an excitation signal for the oscillator circuit. The electronic circuit is further configured to sweep a frequency of the excitation signal and determine a resonance curve of the oscillator circuit. The electronic circuit is further configured to adapt an amplitude of the excitation signal dependent upon the resonance curve in order to reduce an EMC radiation of the switch.
US11353351B2
A metering device includes a storage tank, a funnel, a feeder, at least one measuring container, a first driver, and a second driver. Liquid and string-shaped foods are sent from the storage tank to the funnel by the feeder. The measuring container is provided under the funnel in a measuring position, and volumetrically meters the string-shaped foods sent from the funnel while ejecting the liquid. The first driver moves the funnel or the measuring container to insert the funnel into the measuring container at a time of metering, and moves the funnel or the measuring container to separate the funnel from the measuring container after metering is completed. The second driver moves the measuring container from the measuring position to an ejecting position.
US11353347B2
Disclosed examples include methods and systems to measure fluid flow, including a transmit circuit to provide a transducer transmit signal based on a transmit pulse signal, a receive circuit to receive a transducer receive signal, an ADC to sample a receive signal from the receive circuit and provide a sampled signal, and a processing circuit that computes a transit time based on the sampled signal, and provides the transmit pulse signal including a first portion with a frequency in a first frequency band, and a second portion with a second frequency outside the first frequency band to mitigate undesired transducer vibration, where the second frequency is outside a transducer frequency bandwidth of the transducer.
US11353344B2
In a force sensor according to one embodiment, a main body is cylindrical. A cylindrical movable body is movable with respect to the main body and includes at least three circular openings in the outer circumference thereof. A strain body is fixed to the main body and the movable body and is deformable according to the movement of the movable body. Strain sensors are provided on the strain body. A first stopper is arranged inside each of the openings and includes a first outer circumferential surface including a first outer diameter less than a diameter of the opening. Sealing members are configured to cover at least the openings and a movable part between the main body and the movable body.
US11353342B2
A shadow-cast encoder apparatus includes a scale and a readhead. The readhead includes at least one electromagnetic radiation source for illuminating the scale in order to produce a shadow-cast fringe pattern at a detector configured to detect the shadow-cast fringe pattern. The encoder apparatus can be configured so as to suppress the total harmonic distortion of the fringe pattern, e.g. such that the total harmonic distortion of the fringe pattern is not more than 6%.
US11353318B2
Disclosed is an optical probe system that is capable of high speed, high precision, and high resolution 3D digitalization of engineered objects. The 3D dimensional data of the engineered object is measured using a swept source optical coherence tomography system with improved speed, spatial resolutions, and depth range. Also disclosed is a type of coordinate measurement machine (CMM) that is capable of performing high speed, high resolution, and non-contact measurement of engineered objects. The mechanic stylus in the touch-trigger probe of a conventional CMM is replaced with an optical stylus with reconfigurable diameter and length. The distance from the center of the optical stylus to the measurement probe is optically adjusted to match the height of the object to be measured quickly, which eliminates one dimensional movement of the probe and greatly improves the productivity.
US11353317B2
A system and method for measuring three-dimensional (3D) coordinate values of an environment is provided. The method including moving a scanning platform through the environment along a path. The position of the scanning platform is localized using the scanner. 3D coordinate values are with a 3D scanner that is coupled to the scanning platform.
US11353305B2
Disclosed is a cartridge case for various caliber ammunition that can consist essentially of a powdered metal and/or powdered metal alloy(s) that is formed into the cartridge case through an injection mold processing. Also disclosed is a method for forming a cartridge case, which may include use of Metal Injection Molding (“MIM”) processes to produce the cartridge case which retains a primer, propellant, and/or a bullet. Also disclosed are embodiments related to a case telescoped cartridge that may include a cap and a body. The body can consist essentially of or consists entirely of a powdered metal and/or powdered metal alloy(s) that has been formed through MIM. The cap can comprise plastic that has been formed through plastic molding or comprise powdered metal and/or powdered metal alloy(s) that has been formed through MIM.
US11353298B2
A high strength polymer-based cartridge has a polymer case with a mouth, a neck, a shoulder below the neck, and a body below the shoulder and having a case thickness (Tc). The body has a flat portion comprising a pull thickness (Tp), and a dip, closer to the shoulder than the flat portion and comprising a dip thickness (Tb). The cartridge can also include an insert attached to the polymer case opposite the shoulder. The insert can have a flat section contacting the flat portion and comprising an insert wall thickness (Ti), and a bulge engaging the dip to maintain the insert on the polymer case. Tc, Tp, Tb, and Ti are related by Tp+Tb+Ti=Tc. These variables also have ranges where Tp equals approximately 15-33% of Tc, Tb is greater than or equal to Tp, and Tc is a function of a loaded projectile.
US11353294B2
A modular armor system is provided. The modular armor system includes an encasement for holding one or more interior plate, thereby providing a variety of protection options. The encasement is moveable from an open configuration to a closed configuration. In the open configuration, a user can inspect plate conditions and configurations prior to using such system, thereby allowing the user to replace damaged plates and/or to change plate configurations. The system is configured to allow bullets to penetrate the encasement, thereby reducing impact to users while reducing shrapnel associated with bullet spalling. By including one or more penetrable, buffer, retaining, or other plate within the encasement, users can further decrease impact and/or other risks associated with the same.
US11353281B1
A back-tension handheld archery release includes a handle and a sear assembly adjustably connected with the handle to lengthen and shorten a head release distance. The sear assembly includes a first sear and a click sear which is adjustable to control a click distance prior to firing a shot. In addition, the degree of rotation of the first and click sears relative to the head is adjustable to control the head speed of the sear assembly when the release is operated to release a bowstring and fire a shot.
US11353276B2
Cooling system of a gun canon tube by using water foggers and a jacket that concentrates this water around the outer surface of the canon tube.
US11353270B1
An apparatus for dissipating thermal energy including a baseplate including a first body having a first groove and a second groove intersecting one another, the first groove and the second groove formed in and only accessible from a first side of the baseplate. The apparatus including a first heat pipe and a second heat pipe arranged and disposed to provide both an overlapping arrangement and a nonoverlapping arrangement within the first groove and the second groove of the baseplate.
US11353268B2
A plate type heat exchanger includes a plate package in which a plurality of heat exchange plates is stacked to form a flow path, through which fluid flows, an end plate coupled to an outside of the plate package, and a socket connected to the plate package by passing through the end plate. The end plate includes a base which is in contact with the outside of the plate package, a socket hole which is formed through the base and into which the socket is inserted, and a ridge that protrudes outward from an edge of the socket hole of the base.
US11353258B2
Provided is a refrigerator including: a main body; a storage compartment provided in the main body, the storage compartment configured to have a shelf arranged therein; and shelf fixing devices provided at opposite sidewalls inside the storage compartment to fix the shelf, wherein the shelf fixing device includes: a shelf support portion configured to support a lower side of the shelf, and move downward as a load the shelf increases; a shelf fixing portion configured to fix the shelf at an upper side of the shelf, and move downward in linkage with the shelf support portion; and a connecting portion configured to connect the shelf support portion to the shelf fixing portion, and adjust a distance between the shelf support portion and the shelf fixing portion according to the load on the shelf such that a fixing force on the shelf is changed.
US11353254B2
A method efficiently changes the state of an object at low cost and in a short time, in which a state change control device changes the state of an object by bringing the object into contact with an ice slurry to cause a temperature change to the object. The device includes an ice slurry contact part that brings the object and the ice slurry into contact with each other at a predetermined relative speed and changes the temperature of the object, and an ice slurry supply part that supplies the ice slurry to the ice slurry contact part.
US11353245B2
A cooling system is designed to operate in two different modes. Generally, in the first mode, when parallel compression is needed, certain valves are controlled to direct gaseous refrigerant from a tank to a compressor in the system and to direct refrigerant from low side heat exchangers towards other compressors. In this manner, a compressor in the system is transitioned to be generally a parallel compressor. In the second mode, when parallel compression is not needed, the valves are controlled to return the refrigerant flow back to normal.
US11353243B1
A gas fueled water heater appliance may include a tank for storage of water, a chamber wall, a gas burner, a gas conduit, a support post, and a guide bracket. The chamber wall may define a combustion chamber and a conduit hole. The gas burner may be positioned adjacent to the tank and within the combustion chamber. The gas conduit may extend from the gas burner and through the conduit hole. The support post may be fixed to the gas burner within the combustion chamber. The guide bracket may be mounted within the combustion chamber and define a mounting point. The guide bracket may be in selective engagement with the support post at the mounting point. The guide bracket may include a pair of lateral arms extending outward from the mounting point toward the chamber wall to guide the support post to the mounting point.
US11353239B2
A ventilation assembly and methods of forming the same includes a ventilation grille having reducing acoustic bodies configured to attenuate sound of the ventilation assembly. Arrangement of the acoustic bodies can form phononic crystal to attenuate sound and can be tuned to desired sound bands to reduce sounds.
US11353237B2
An exhaust fan configured to exhaust air from a building includes a housing, a fan, and a motor for driving the fan. Overlying the fan is one or more dampers that are moveable from a closed position to an open position. Underlying the dampers is at least one pivot arm per damper that is pivotally connected to the fan and which normally assumes a horizontal position spaced from the overlying damper. A mechanical fusible link is connected to the pivot arm and is configured to break in response to a buildup of heat in and around the dampers. Once the fusible link breaks, then the pivot arm is operative to engage and open the overlying damper.
US11353236B2
Provided is a shutter comprising a main body and a shaft bearing. The main body has a substantially circular plate shape, and, in a closed state to close a passage, a front face of the main body is located upstream of a back face thereof in the passage. The shaft bearing is rotatably engaged with a shaft configured to divide the passage into a main passage and a sub-passage in an open state to open the passage, the sub-passage having a cross-sectional area smaller than that of the main passage. The main body includes: a main-passage-side end located in the main passage in the closed state; and a bent portion bent at the main-passage-side end in a direction from the back face side to the front face side. A parallel cross-section of the main body, the cross-section being taken along a parting plane parallel to the shaft, has a circular arc shape bowed toward the back face side from the front face side.
US11353223B2
The facility (1A) includes at least two treatment devices (2) each with an exchange chamber (20) intended to contain a liquid bath in the bottom part and at least one injection line (21). An aeraulic means (4), creates by suction or by blowing, simultaneously and in parallel for each treatment device (2), an incoming gas stream (F) originating from outside the exchange chambers (2) and passes through the discharge opening of the injection line (21) by being introduced into the liquid bath contained in the bottom part of the exchange chamber (20), below the surface (S) of said liquid bath. The exchange chambers (20) communicate hydraulically with one another so that when the aeraulic means (4) are shut down, each exchange chamber (20) is suitable for containing or contains, in the bottom part, an initial volume (Vinitial) of liquid, with an initial liquid level (Hinitial) that is identical in all the exchange chambers (2).
US11353212B2
A burner apparatus and method which provide an increased amount of internal flue recirculation for reducing NOx emissions by ejecting a series of surrounding primary fuel streams and also ejecting on one or more subsequent series of surrounding fuel streams outside of the burner wall toward the burner combustion wherein each succeeding series of surrounding fuel streams must travel a greater distance to the combustion zone and each series of surrounding fuel streams must contact one or more radial impact structures provided on the exterior of the burner wall.
US11353209B2
The present invention relates to an illumination system for a leaf blower, which can be integrated into the original product or configured as an aftermarket product for use with existing leaf blowers. In an example, the illumination system includes at least one light assembly including at least one light source provided in association with a housing member. The housing member is integrated into at least one shoulder strap of a backpack blower such that the at least one light source is directed away from the front surface of the shoulder strap, or positioned between the shoulder straps by attachment members. A blower nozzle mounted illumination system is also provided.
US11353205B1
An anti-shock night light comprises pins, a night light main body, an anti-shock device, and an elastic resetting member. A first end of the anti-shock device is movably connected to an opening to enable the anti-shock device to move in a length direction of the pins, and a second end of the anti-shock device extends away from the night light main body along the length direction so as to enable a part of the pins, which is exposed out of the night light main body, to be contained within the anti-shock device. When plugging the pins into a socket, the anti-shock device abuts the socket and is retracted toward the night light main body to enable the part of the pins to be exposed and plugged into the socket. When the anti-shock device is retracted toward the night light main body, the elastic resetting member generates an elastic resetting force.
US11353197B2
A string hanging device for hanging a continuous ornamental string on a physical object having a portion elevated above the upward reach of a user, is disclosed. The string hanging device includes a tubular member having an arcuately curved interior passageway configured for receiving the ornamental string. The passageway includes an entry port and an exit port. A pole member is included that has a proximal end and a distal end, and a coupler portion disposed at the distal end. A coupler is provided for removably coupling the tubular member to the coupler portion of the distal end of the pole. A hook member includes a coupler for removably coupling the hook member to the coupler portion of the distal end of the pole.
US11353192B1
A light modifying apparatus is provided, which may comprise a curved outer layer comprising a substrate configured to modify light, wherein the curved outer layer may have an arc of length X. A second curved me be disposed on, or in close proximity to the back surface of the outer layer, and wherein the second curved layer may have an arc of length Y wherein length Y is less than length X, and wherein the second curved layer may comprise a substrate comprising one or more surfaces comprising a lenticular lens configuration. An optional third layer may be provided which may comprise a substrate comprising one or more surfaces comprising a lenticular lens configuration.
US11353190B2
A system for electrically connecting at least one light source to a system for supplying electrical power, wherein the connecting system comprises a lead frame able to be electrically connected to a system for supplying electrical power, the lead frame including at least one connecting terminal and at least one connecting means allowing the connecting terminal of the lead frame to be electrically connected to the light source, the connecting terminal and the connecting means being able to electrically connect the light source to the lead frame, thereby allowing the light source to be placed away from the lead frame.
US11353184B2
An LED bulb includes an LED photoelectric module having at least two branches of LED beads with different color temperatures connected in parallel, a control switch connected with one of the branches of LED beads, and an adjustment ring. A total voltage of one branch of LED beads is less than that of each of the other branches of LED beads. The control switch has a ball, the adjustment ring has a magnet, and when the adjustment ring rotates, the magnet draws the ball to roll to switch on or off the control switch. When the control switch is on, the branch of LED beads connected with the control switch is lighted up, and when the control switch is off, the branch of LED beads connected with the control switch is not lighted up.
US11353182B1
A solar disk light has a disk light body, the disk light body including a housing and a lid over the housing, the housing being hollow to contain components of the disk light. The disk light body has solar cells on an outer surface thereof for harvesting solar energy and detecting ambient light, and LEDs for emitting light. The LEDs are adapted to be selectively driven to emit white light or colored light. The wiring and driver electronics configured to deliver electrical power to the LEDs from the battery, and configured to drive some or all of the LEDs to emit white light or colored light depending on a switch setting or signals received from a remote-control transmitter.
US11353181B1
A solar disk light has a disk light body, the disk light body including a housing and a lid over the housing, the housing being hollow to contain components of the disk light. The disk light body has solar cells on an outer surface thereof for harvesting solar energy and detecting ambient light, and LEDs for emitting light. The LEDs are adapted to be selectively driven to emit cool temperature light or warm temperature light. The wiring and driver electronics configured to deliver electrical power to the LEDs from the battery, and configured to drive some or all of the LEDs to emit warm light or cool light depending on a switch setting or signals received from a remote-control transmitter.
US11353178B2
Lighting fixtures that include fixture housings and light-emitting diode (LED) modules configured for tool-less attachment and detachment to the fixture housings are disclosed. Certain LED modules include LED emitters, corresponding electronics for operating the LED emitters, and at least one shaped protrusion. Certain LED modules include safety tethers that are configured to provide mechanical support during the tool-less attachment and detachment. Lighting fixtures include a lens and removable endcaps that secure the lens to the fixture housing. Certain lighting fixtures include a backup battery and a button provided in one of the endcaps for testing the backup battery. Certain lighting fixtures include a cut-out portion in the fixture housing corresponding to the shaped protrusion of the LED module for providing identification of replacement LED modules that may be attached to fixture housings.
US11353177B1
The present disclosure provides smart curtain light strings including a fixing unit, a mounting unit, a light-emitting unit, and a control unit. The fixing unit passes through and is engaged with the mounting unit. The fixing unit includes a first guiding rail and a second guiding rail. Fixing pieces are fixedly connected with a top portion of the second guiding rail by screws. A horizontal plate is fixedly connected to a side of each fixing piece. Fixing plates are mounted on two sides of the first guiding rail. Positioning pieces are threadedly connected to the top portion of the second guiding rail. The mounting unit includes clamping sleeves and clump weights. A stabilizing sleeve passes through an interior of each clamping sleeve. Each stabilizing sleeve is screwed with each clamping sleeve through threads. A package cap is connected to a bottom portion of each stabilizing sleeve through threads.
US11353174B2
A multi-wire light string structure comprises two insulating parts, plural wires and a LED device. The two insulating parts are arranged with a gap. Each wire includes two ends embedded in the two insulating parts and an exposed section in the gap. The ends of the wires are located on a hypothetical plane, two ends of each wire are located on a hypothetical axis, and at least one exposed section is bent to deviate from the corresponding hypothetical axis. The LED device includes a light emitting side and a mounting side. The LED device is located on an upper side of the hypothetical plane, and the mounting side is soldered to at least two of the exposed sections.
US11353169B2
A system and method of assembling a light engine includes determining a desired light output profile for the light engine, selecting a reflector based on the desired light output profile, and selecting one of a first light board and a second light board. The first light board includes a different number of light emitting diodes than the second light board. Each of the first light board and the second light board are capable of providing the desired output light profile when they are coupled with the selected reflector. The method also includes positioning the one of the first light board and the second light board within the housing, adjacent the reflector.
US11353161B2
Some embodiments are directed to a module for depressurisation and storage of a portion of a gas layer coming from at least one cryogenic tank. Some other embodiments are directed to a system using such a module.
US11353159B2
The present specification discloses systems, devices, and methods and uses provide a mounting system which includes rail and a bracket which is selectively secured to the rail. A bracket disclosed herein selectively and/or automatically secures or locks to a rail disclosed herein when positioned on the rail by actuating or triggering a locking mechanism disclosed herein to adopted a locked configuration. In addition, a bracket disclosed herein may be selectively removed from a rail by actuating or triggering a locking mechanism disclosed herein to adopted an unlocked configuration. The disclosed mounting systems, devices, and methods enable a device to be protected from impact and moisture exposure, enable a device to be securely mounted on a base, and/or enable a device to be quickly secured and removed from a base.
US11353147B2
A cap is described for connection to a medical connector, the cap includes a housing having a top wall and sidewall forming a first cavity, and a removable or integrally formed protrusion. The protrusion includes an inner thread on an inner surface, the inner thread being sufficient to interlock with a mating feature of a female needleless connector. The inner surface of the protrusion defines a second cavity. The protrusion includes an outer thread on an outer surface, the outer thread being sufficient to interlock with a mating feature of a male needleless connector. The second cavity configured to define a chamber to contain an absorbent material and disinfectant or antimicrobial agent. The cap may also include a peel seal and/or septum to prevent the disinfectant or the antimicrobial agent from exiting the second cavity. An exterior sidewall surface of the housing may include a plurality of grip members.
US11353143B2
A flexible hose for transporting a fluid, particularly a flexible garden hose for transporting water, includes an inner layer made of a first elastic polymeric material; an outer layer made of a second elastic polymeric material; and a textile reinforcement layer interposed therebetween. The inner and outer layers are reciprocally coupled to form a unitary tubular member, internally to which the textile reinforcement layer is embedded. The elasticity of the unitary tubular member causes it to automatically enlarge under the working pressure given by the liquid flowing therethrough to increase its original diameter and to automatically recover to assume again its original diameter once the working pressure stops. The textile reinforcement layer is susceptible to move from a rest configuration, when there is no working pressure, to a working configuration, when the unitary tubular member enlarges upon under the working pressure.
US11353142B2
A cable binding device includes a first binding member including a first binding part binding a circumference of a first cable and a first fastening part connected to the first binding part. The first fastening part is fastened to a fixing hole formed on a panel. The first fastening part is also protruding to the opposite side of the panel. The cable binding device also includes a second binding member including a second binding part binding a second cable on the opposite side of the panel and a second fastening part connected to the second binding part. The second fastening part is fastened to the first fastening part protruding to the opposite side of the panel.
US11353138B1
Provided are a piston valve core structure with a combination of a rigid ring surface and a flexible base surface, and a method thereof. The structure includes a piston valve core, a flexible base surface, a rigid ring surface and a connecting member; a bottom surface of the piston valve core is planar; a top surface of the flexible base surface fits to the piston valve core, and a bottom surface thereof is a ellipsoidal convex surface; the rigid ring surface is a ring body with a stepped cross-section, and is coaxially arranged under the flexible base surface; a protruding height of the flexible base surface is greater than that of the rigid ring surface; the connecting member is configured to connect respective structures. The piston valve core structure can overcome unbalanced moment on the valve core, has a simple structure, and can be widely promoted and applied.
US11353134B2
An operating structure of a pilot-operated solenoid valve is provided. The pilot-operated solenoid valve includes a valve body having a main valve orifice and a pilot valve orifice to open and close the main valve orifice. The pilot valve orifice communicates with an accommodating chamber of the valve body. The operating structure includes a knob, an adjustment rod, and a water stop nut. The knob is positioned and fitted to an opening of the accommodating chamber. The adjustment rod is hermetically fitted in the accommodating chamber. One end of the adjustment rod is threadedly connected to the knob, and the other end of the adjustment rod is connected to the water stop nut. The adjustment rod is driven to move axially by rotation of the knob for driving the water stop nut to control the opening and closing of the main valve orifice.
US11353133B2
Various embodiments include a device securing an actuating drive on a duct outer face of an HVAC duct against rotation. The actuating drive includes an actuator for driving an actuation connection about an actuation axis. The actuation connection interacts with a flap arranged in the ventilation duct to set a gaseous volumetric flow. The actuating drive includes a housing with a ledge formed on a bottom side of the housing and surrounding the actuation connection coaxially relative to the actuation axis. The housing bottom side lies opposite the duct outer face. The device may include: a fastening part for fastening to the outer face; and a fork-shaped receptacle formed at an end. The receptacle geometrically matches a radial outer face of the housing ledge such that after lateral sliding onto the outer face of the ledge, the receptacle fixes said ledge and thus the actuating drive against rotation.
US11353131B2
A bonnet assembly may be coupled to a valve block. The bonnet assembly may include a bonnet body extending, in an axial length, between a first and second end of the bonnet body. Additionally, the bonnet body may have a sealing surface on the second end. Further, a bonnet retainer nut may be provided with passage axially extending through a first end surface to a second end surface. The bonnet retainer nut may be disposed on the bonnet body such that a portion of the bonnet body is enclosed within the passage of bonnet retainer nut. Furthermore, the bonnet retainer nut may lock the bonnet body.
US11353105B2
A planet carrier of a planetary gearbox has a first contact surface and a second contact surface. The first contact surface and/or the second contact surface are divided by a connecting straight line running through the planet carrier axis of rotation and the planet gear axis of rotation into a first contact surface portion and a second contact surface portion. The first contact surface portion encloses a first angle with the connecting straight line, the second contact surface portion encloses a second angle with the connecting straight line, the first angle and the second angle lie in a plane perpendicular to the planet carrier axis of rotation, and the first angle and the second angle are unequal and at least one of the angles is greater than 90°. The invention further relates to a planetary gearbox having a planet carrier of this kind and at least one planet gear.
US11353093B2
Infinitely variable multi-epicyclic friction transmission system for an electric motor including a main shaft; a motor drum comprising two cylindrically shaped half-drums; a rotor accommodated in a cavity defined by the half-drums, the rotor comprising a rotor carrier driver; a plurality of twin planetary cone assemblies attached to the at least one planetary carrier and disposed circumferentially around the two half-drums, each twin planetary cone assembly comprising: a torque tube and planetary cone-hemisphere structure, each planetary cone-hemisphere structure comprising a planetary cone integral with hemisphere at its apex, wherein the planetary cone-hemisphere structure is configured to roll inside the torque tube via the hemisphere, and wherein the slant height of the planetary cones is parallel to the main shaft; a series of spherical planets and at least one reaction ring disposed around the plurality of planetary cones and configured to slide along the planetary cones to vary a gear ratio.
US11353087B2
A gripping device for retaining a cable includes a base, two opposed gripping arms projecting from the base towards respective end portions along an insertion direction and mutually spaced apart along a transversal direction perpendicular to the insertion direction. The gripping arms include retaining portions configured to receive the cable therebetween and insertion portions configured to allow insertion of the cable towards the retaining portions. The gripping device includes first protrusions projecting from the retaining portions, extending along a first direction angled with respect to the insertion direction and configured to act on the cable to retain the cable between the retaining portions. The gripping device includes second protrusions projecting from the insertion portions and extending along a second direction angled with respect to the insertion direction, where each of the second protrusions being tapered along the insertion direction towards the respective end portion.
US11353086B2
A torsional vibration damper that can reduce collision noise of an inertia body when a rotary member is stopped, and a control device therefore. In the torsional vibration damper, a rotary member is mounted on an output shaft of an engine such that none of rolling masses is situated within a predetermined angle range above a rotational center axis of the rotary member when the engine is stopped. Therefore, when the engine is stopped, the inertia body will not be supported by only one of the rolling masses situated within the predetermined angle range.
US11353083B2
Provided is a method for the production of a nozzle piston for arrangement in a damping space of a damper, which contains a damping fluid, wherein the piston divides the damping space into a first fluid chamber and a second fluid chamber. Also provided is a production method with the method according to the invention for a damper. Also provided is a nozzle piston for arrangement in a damping space of a damper, which contains a damping fluid, wherein the nozzle piston can be obtained by means of ultra-short pulse lasering of the recess from a piston blank. Also provided is a damper having a nozzle piston according to the invention. Also provided is a production plant for the production of a damper having at least one ultra-short pulse laser station for machining a piston blank for the damper by ultra-short pulse lasering.
US11353072B2
A brake lock system for a pumpjack brake apparatus comprises a latch handle lever pivotally mounted at a location on a pumpjack, a countershaft rotatably mounted on the pumpjack, latch handle linkage, and control linkage that transitions movement and force of the latch handle lever to a latch arm with a latch dog for pivoting the latch arm to insert the latch dog in a notch in the pumpjack brake apparatus. The latch handle, latch handle linkage, control linkage, and latch arm have dimensions that provide a mechanical advantage of the latch handle lever over the latch arm.
US11353068B2
A power transmission device includes an electromagnet, a rotor, an armature and a hub. The hub couples the armature to a shaft of a drive-subject device. The hub includes: an outer hub that is coupled to the armature; a boss portion that is coupled to the shaft; an inner side plate-shaped portion that extends from the boss portion toward a radially outer side; and an inner plate that is placed between the outer hub and the inner side plate-shaped portion. The inner side plate-shaped portion and the inner plate are formed integrally in one piece. At least one of the inner side plate-shaped portion and the inner plate is formed by a member that is configured to deform or melt with heat generated by friction between the rotor and the armature when the shaft of the drive-subject device is locked at a time of energizing the electromagnet.
US11353060B2
A roller retainer cage for a roller thrust bearing, including a first cage half with an annular portion, a first flange extending axially from an inner peripheral edge of the annular portion and a second flange extending axially from an outer peripheral edge of the annular portion, a second cage half including an annular portion, a first flange extending axially from an inner peripheral edge of the annular portion and a second flange extending axially from an outer peripheral edge of the annular portion, wherein the first flange of the first cage half is disposed radially-outwardly of the first flange of the second cage half, the second flange of the first cage half is disposed radially-inwardly of the second flange of the second cage half, and the first cage half is comprised of a through-hardened metal.
US11353057B2
A bearing includes a thrust gas bearing attached to a journal bearing and two or more converging-diverging orifices defined in a surface of at least one of the thrust gas bearing and the journal bearing. The converging-diverging orifices supply at least one pressurized gas to an interior of the bearing. Hydrodynamic lifting grooves are provided on the faces of the thrust gas bearing and the journal bearing and provide improved load capacity and sealing capabilities. Control over the ratios of the pressurized gases provides for additional sealing capabilities and reduced leakage. A metal mesh damper provides increased damping of the gas bearing.
US11353056B2
A shaft structure includes a carrier, a first mandrel, and a second mandrel. The carrier has a groove, a receiving space communicated with the groove, and two protruding portions. The two protruding portions protrude from an inner wall of the carrier, and the two protruding portions are located between the receiving space and the groove. The first mandrel has a first gear, a first rotation shaft, and a first connection shaft connected to the first gear and the first rotation shaft. The first gear is located in the receiving space. The second mandrel has a second gear, a second rotation shaft, and a second connection shaft connected to the second gear and the second rotation shaft. The second gear is configured to move in the receiving space and the groove.
US11353053B2
A facade panel screw for the optimized fastening of facade panel elements on a substructure has a head with very large diameter DK, a substantially cylinder cross-sectional shaft, which is at least partially provided with a thread (nominal diameter DS) and a conical tip comprising a tip angle γ. The thread extends continuously from the shaft to the tip. It is characterizing that the tip angle γ is 45°+/−10°, the thread is embodied at least in a two-threaded manner, the head diameter DK is embodied at least twice as large as the nominal diameter DS; and the facade panel screw does not have a drill tip. Such a facade panel screw is used in a fastening arrangement, which comprises a load-bearing component (substructure) and a facade panel. Due to its design, the facade panel screw is able to simplify the fastening of the facade panel and to at least partially correct an inclined positioning in response to the installation.
US11353050B2
A system for holding at least one object to be held in a shaft-type building structure, comprising: a holding device, which in turn comprises at least a first holding device element having a holding portion for holding the holding device on a shaft-type building structure and at least a second holding device element having a second holding portion for holding the holding device on a shaft-type building structure. The at least second holding device element is movably mounted between a first operating position, in which the holding device can be or is held on a shaft-type building structure by means of the second holding device element, and a second operating position, in which the holding device cannot be or is not held on a shaft-type building structure by means of the second holding device element.
US11353049B2
A rivet structure includes a female rivet plate and a male rivet plate. The female rivet plate defines an elongated countersunk hole. A size of the countersunk hole increases from a first side of the female rivet plate to a second side of the female rivet plate. The male rivet plate includes a rivet including a shaft portion and two head portions. The shaft portion extends from the male rivet plate. The two head portions are respectively arranged on opposite sides of the shaft portion on a side of the shaft portion facing away from the male rivet plate. The two head portions extend through the countersunk hole from the first side of the female rivet plate to the second side of the female rivet plate. The two head portions are configured to be stamped by a stamping member to fill in the countersunk hole.
US11353048B2
A working machine includes a fan motor driven with hydraulic fluid, the fan motor including a first port and a second port, a bypass fluid passage connecting the first port of the fan motor and the second port to each other, a flow rate control valve provided on the bypass fluid passage to control a flow rate of the hydraulic fluid flowing in the bypass fluid passage, a drain passage configured to drain the hydraulic fluid upstream of the flow rate control valve, and an unloading valve shiftable between a full-closing position to close the drain passage and a full-opening position to open the drain passage.
US11353045B2
The invention relates to a hydraulic tank (10) for storing a hydraulic liquid, comprising a one-piece tank housing (12) which forms a plastic hollow body and is manufactured by a rotational moulding process, wherein the tank housing (12) comprises at least one connection opening (92, 94, 126) at which is arranged a connection element (100, 110, 132) that is releasably connectable to a hydraulic conduit. In order to enable the hydraulic tank to be more cost-effective to produce, the connection element (100, 110, 132) comprises a plastic body which is manufactured by an injection moulding process and is welded together with the tank housing (12). Furthermore, a method for manufacturing a hydraulic tank (10) is proposed.
US11353041B2
A fan blade includes an arc-shaped body and a connecting portion. The arc-shaped body has a main portion and an end portion connected to the main portion, wherein a width of the end portion is gradually decreased in a direction away from the main portion. The connecting portion is connected to the main portion, and the end portion and the connecting portion are respectively located at two opposite sides of the main portion. A fan structure is also provided.
US11353040B2
A turbocharger assembly can include a housing that includes a bore defined by a bore wall and a pin socket that forms an opening in the bore wall; a bearing that includes a pin opening defined by a pin opening surface; a pin, where the pin includes a longitudinal pin axis and a pin surface; a groove in the pin opening surface or the pin surface, where the groove includes an axial length; wherein, in a positioned state of bearing in the bore and the pin in the pin socket with part of the pin in the pin opening, a clearance exists between the bearing and the bore wall, where the groove is in fluid communication with the clearance to form a supply path for lubricant from the clearance to an interface between the pin surface and the pin opening surface.
US11353038B2
The gas turbine compressor for an aircraft gas turbine engine includes a compressor rotor having a plurality of compressor blades circumferentially distributed around a hub. Each of the compressor blades has an airfoil extending radially outward from the hub to a blade tip. A circumferential row of the compressor blades includes two or more different blade types, at least one modified blade of the two or more different blade types having means for generating different shock patterns between adjacent ones of the two or more different blade types when the gas turbine compressor operates in supersonic flow regimes. The means for generating different shock patterns on the modified blade aerodynamically mistune the two or more different blade types.
US11353037B2
A side channel compressor for compressing a gas includes a housing and at least one impeller arranged in the housing and configured to be driven in rotation about a central axis. In addition, the side channel compressor includes at least one seal assembly arranged in the housing and including at least one sealing device configured to seal at least one gap between the housing and the at least one impeller and be forced radially outward with respect to the central axis in order to keep the at least one gap small. The at least one seal assembly also includes at least one sealing-device-holding device configured to hold the at least one sealing device in an axially secured fashion with respect to the central axis and which includes at least one main holding body.
US11353019B2
Lobe pumps have rings which can be located at least partially in at least one of cover plates and rotors, if not both to provide at least thrust bearings to space the rotors from the cover plates. Some rotors may have voids in ears to make the rotor lighter in weight with the voids potentially capped, symmetrically disposed, arcuately shaped and/or have other desirable features. Some rotors may have ears extending beyond cutouts which may extend beyond hubs, if not beyond hub extensions as well which may receive cover spigots thereabout. Some rings may act as radial bearings as well when located in the cover spigots.
US11353017B2
An intensifier pump includes a piston including at least two selectable piston diameters. Additionally, the intensifier pump includes a plunger that in operation interacts with the piston. The plunger includes a plunger diameter that is smaller than each of the at least two selectable piston diameters.
US11353012B2
An example apparatus to prevent side load in hydraulic override pumps includes a lever rotatably mounted to a support. The apparatus includes a pump cylinder rotatable about a first end of the pump cylinder. The apparatus also includes a pump rod operatively coupled to the lever to move within the pump cylinder based on rotation of the lever. The pump cylinder rotates when the pump rod moves within the pump cylinder.
US11353002B2
A joint bushing that accommodates the dithering and sliding in multi segment wind turbines. The joint bushing includes a self-lubricating liner that is a composite system incorporating woven Polytetrafluoroethylene fibers intermixed with structural reinforcement fibers in a composite matrix. The composite system provides sufficient life without requiring re-lubrication.
US11352996B1
A method for starting an internal combustion engine of a snowmobile is disclosed. The method comprises actuating a start switch of the snowmobile; in response to the start switch being actuated, sensing a temperature; in response to the sensed temperature being above a predetermined temperature, starting the engine using a motor-generator; and in response to the sensed temperature being below the predetermined temperature, starting the engine using a recoil starter.
US11352993B2
A fuel distributor which has a pressure accumulator pipe for receiving pressurized fuel where the pressure accumulator pipe has a forged main body with a longitudinal cavity. At least one connector flange is configured in one piece from the same material on the main body. The connector flange has an injector connector with a connecting duct to the longitudinal cavity. A cup-shaped injector receptacle is joined to the injector connector. The injector receptacle is a single-piece deep-drawn part or a single-piece extruded part or a single-piece turn-milled part, and is connected to the injector connector by way of a fuel-tight join, or by way of brazing technology.
US11352990B2
A fuel supply device of an engine includes a primary pump suctioning fuel to discharge the fuel to a first pipeline, a secondary pump connected in series to the primary pump via the first pipeline, and suctioning the fuel from the primary pump to supply the fuel through a second pipeline to an engine side, a tank storing the fuel and accommodating the secondary pump, an outflow part causing part of the fuel flowing from the first pipeline through the secondary pump to the second pipeline in the tank to flow outward, a third pipeline returning, to a suction side of the primary pump, gas-liquid mixed fuel generated by vaporizing the fuel flowing out from the outflow part, and a preloading part in one of portions of a circulation path formed between the primary pump and the tank by the first pipeline and the third pipeline and preloading the fuel.
US11352985B2
Provided is an evaporated fuel treatment device including a mounting part 90 provided in an intake pipe, and a purge pump 5 including a discharge part 71, a first introduction tube 61, and a second introduction tube 66. A pump body 6 of the purge pump 5 includes a pump tube 7 formed with a pump flow path 70 that extends along an axis O and that guides, to the discharge part 71, fluid to be introduced from the introduction tube 61. A reduced part 73 with a diameter decreasing toward downstream is formed in the flow path 70 on a side downstream of the introduction tube 61, and a connection flow path 78 that connects the introduction tube 66 and the flow path 70 is formed, and in a state where the pump body 6 is removed from the mounting part 90, the flow path 78 communicates with outside.
US11352983B2
A mixing apparatus for producing a fuel/water mixture for an internal combustion engine includes a fuel line, where via the fuel line a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine is suppliable with fuel, a connecting region, a water line which opens into the fuel line in the connecting region where via the water line water is introducible via the connecting region into the fuel line and is mixable with the fuel, and a valve arrangement which is disposed on the water line. The valve arrangement prevents an entry of the fuel from the fuel line into the water line when a pressure of the fuel in fuel line is higher than a pressure of the water in the water line.
US11352977B2
An engine includes a housing and a combustion assembly. The combustion assembly includes an annular bore and a combustion piston assembly disposed within the annular bore. The combustion piston assembly includes a set of pistons, a first sealing ring connected to each piston and a second sealing ring connected to each piston. The second sealing ring is configured to provide selective access between the annular bore and at least one fluid conduit carried by the engine. The engine includes at least one valve configured to move between a first position within the annular bore to allow the combustion piston assembly to travel within the annular bore from a first location proximate to the at least one valve to a second location distal to the at least one valve and a second position within the annular bore to define a combustion chamber.
US11352974B2
Methods and systems are provided for accounting for a difference between an expected amount of fuel scheduled to be delivered and an actual amount of fuel delivered to an engine cylinder during a fueling event. In one example, a method may include scheduling a direct injection to a cylinder based on an estimated expected amount of fuel injected to the cylinder during an immediately previous injection event. The expected amount of fuel injected during the immediately previous injection event may be a function of an average fuel rail pressure during the immediately previous injection event.
US11352973B2
Operating a machine system includes triggering, based on activation of an on-board electronic control system, interrogation of electronically controlled components installed in a machine to read a plurality of electronic trim files each resident on a different one of the electronically controlled components. A data structure on an electronic storage medium in the control system is populated with the electronic trim files each time the control system is activated, such as by turning on an ignition switch. Operating the machine system also includes outputting control signals based on the electronic trim files to run the machine system based on operation of the electronically controlled components responsive to the outputted control signals.
US11352957B2
An accessory system for a gas turbine engine having a driveshaft is provided. The accessory system includes a towershaft coupled to the driveshaft and driven by the driveshaft. The accessory system also includes a shaft including a first shaft bevel gear coupled to a towershaft bevel gear. The shaft is rotatable by the towershaft. The accessory system includes a first accessory drive shaft having a first accessory bevel gear driven by the shaft. The accessory system also includes a second accessory drive shaft having a second accessory bevel gear driven by the shaft.
US11352952B2
The gas turbine engine comprises a gas generator (66), comprised of a compressor section (11), and a power turbine section (65). The power turbine section (65) comprises a power turbine rotor (81) supported by a power turbine shaft (93), which is mechanically uncoupled from the gas generator (66). The power turbine shaft (93) has an axial cavity (511) therein, fluidly coupled to a bearing sump (521) fluidly coupled to the compressor section (11) and housing at least one bearing (106) supporting a shaft of the gas generator (66). An air venting path (527) extends from said axial cavity (511) and leads in a combustion gas flow path (515) downstream of the power turbine rotor (81).
US11352951B2
Systems and methods relating to variable pressure turbines are disclosed. A power generation system may include a closed cycle system configured to generate power, a combustor, and a control system. The closed cycle system may include a working fluid circulating in a closed cycle path. The combustor may provide thermal energy to the working fluid. Further, the control system may be configured to determine to increase an amount of power generated by the closed cycle system, and in response to the determination to increase the amount of power generated by the closed cycle system, cause an increase in pressure of the working fluid in the closed cycle path.
US11352945B1
A crank and linkage assembly for a component of a turbocharger includes a linkage having an end defining a through bore, an inner surface of the through bore defining a linkage groove therein. The crank has a pin whose outer surface defines a pin groove. A generally polygonal retaining ring of elastically deformable wire is installed partially in the linkage groove and partially in the pin groove to retain the linkage on the pin while allowing the linkage to rotate about the pin axis. Vertices of the retaining ring are in the linkage groove, while sides of the retaining ring are in the pin groove. Once the retaining ring is pre-installed in the linkage groove, the assembly can be assembled by a push-to-connect process.
US11352932B2
A method of ageing a component of an exhaust gas after-treatment system including the steps of combusting fuel to subject the component to a continuous thermal ageing and simultaneously target loading at least certain sections of the component with ash. The method can be used on a test bench.
US11352929B2
Catalytic converter for an internal combustion engine and method for operating a catalytic converter
A catalytic converter for an internal combustion engine has a housing (2) and a catalyst element (12) formed in the housing (2). The housing (2) is formed such that exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine can flow through the housing (2). The catalyst element (12) is formed such that fluid can flow around and through it. Additionally, the catalyst element (12) has a plurality of ribs (15) on its surface (14) that faces the exhaust gas.
US11352926B2
Methods and systems are provided for adjusting a regeneration scheme in response to ageing of a first catalyst and a second catalyst. In one example, a method may include determining a first ageing of the first catalyst and a second ageing of the second catalyst and updating factors of the regeneration scheme based on the first ageing and the second ageing.
US11352916B2
A mechanical cam phasing system includes a stator, a cradle rotor, a first locking mechanism having a first locking feature and a second locking feature, a cage, and a second locking mechanism rotationally coupled to the cradle rotor and selectively moveable between a locking state and a phasing state. In the locking state, a clearance is provided between the cradle rotor and the cage to allow the cradle rotor to rotate relative to the cage and lock the first locking feature or the second locking feature. In the phasing state, the clearance between the cradle rotor and the cage is reduced to ensure rotational coupling between the cradle rotor and the cage in at least one direction, which displaces the first locking feature or the second locking feature relative to the cradle rotor and enables the cradle rotor to rotate relative to the stator.
US11352912B2
A steam turbine facility includes a rotor shaft, a high-pressure turbine blade row and an intermediate-pressure turbine blade row disposed on the rotor shaft, a first low-pressure turbine blade row and a second low-pressure turbine blade row disposed on the rotor shaft on both sides of the intermediate-pressure turbine blade row, respectively, and a third low-pressure turbine blade row and a fourth low-pressure turbine blade row disposed on the rotor shaft on both sides of the high-pressure turbine blade row, respectively. The steam turbine facility is configured such that steam having passed through the intermediate-pressure turbine blade row is divided to flow into the first low-pressure turbine blade row, the second low-pressure turbine blade row, the third low-pressure turbine blade row, and the fourth low-pressure turbine blade row.
US11352910B2
A steam turbine, having a steam turbine outer housing; a high-pressure inner housing having first process steam inlet and outlet sections for conducting process steam therethrough from the inlet to the outlet section in a first process steam expansion direction; a low-pressure inner housing having second process steam inlet and outlet sections for conducting process steam therethrough from the second process steam inlet section to the second process steam outlet section in a second process steam expansion direction; and an intermediate superheater, which is arranged downstream of the high-pressure inner housing and upstream of the low-pressure inner housing, wherein the high-pressure and low-pressure inner housings are arranged within the steam turbine outer housing and the high-pressure and the low-pressure inner housings are arranged in such a way that the first steam inlet section of the high-pressure inner housing faces the second steam inlet section of the low-pressure inner housing.
US11352902B2
A gas turbine engine component according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, an external wall including adjacent bounding pedestals that extend from an external wall surface to establish a cooling passage, and including a common pedestal situated between the adjacent bounding pedestals to establish a first branched section and a second branched section of the cooling passage that join together at a merged section of the cooling passage. A method of fabricating a gas turbine engine component is also disclosed.
US11352900B2
Systems and methods for operating an engine of a rotorcraft are described herein. An engine parameter indicative of torque of the engine is obtained. A decrease of the torque of the engine is detected. At least one rotorcraft parameter indicative of at least one command to control the rotorcraft is obtained and evaluated to determine whether one of an autorotation mode and a powered flight mode of the rotorcraft has been commanded. When the powered flight mode of the rotorcraft has been commanded and the decrease of the torque has been detected, a shaft shear of the engine is detected and a signal indicative of the shaft shear is transmitted. When the autorotation mode of the rotorcraft has been commanded and the decrease of the torque has been detected, detection of the shaft shear is disabled during operation in the autorotation mode.
US11352890B2
An article has a metallic substrate having a plurality of recesses. A first coating is at least at the recesses and has: a splatted layer; and a columnar layer atop the splatted layer. A second coating is away from the recesses and has: a columnar layer atop the substrate without an intervening splatted layer.
US11352886B2
A component includes an outer wall that includes an exterior surface, and at least one plenum defined interiorly to the outer wall and configured to receive a cooling fluid therein. The component also includes a coating system disposed on the exterior surface. The coating system has a thickness. The component further includes a plurality of adaptive cooling openings defined in the outer wall. Each of the adaptive cooling openings extends from a first end inflow communication with the at least one plenum, outward through the exterior surface and to a second end covered underneath at least a portion of the thickness of the coating system.
US11352883B2
Examples of techniques for performing a wellbore construction operation in a wellbore are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes: performing a rheology test on a test fluid, the test fluid being representative of a fluid pumped through the wellbore, to generate test fluid data; performing, by the processing device, a data analysis on the test fluid data to generate at least one parameterized correlation; measuring a first property of the fluid to generate measured data; calculating, by the processing device, a second property of the fluid in the wellbore by using the parameterized correlations and the measured data to generate calculated data; and changing a parameter of the wellbore construction operation based at least in part on the calculated data.
US11352875B2
A downhole gauge device for use in a well is described. The downhole gauge device includes one or more electrical systems including at least one measurement means for obtaining measurement data and a data transmitting means configured to transmit measurement data to a receiving station; a first power supply configured to supply a first amount of power to any of the one or more electrical systems; a second power supply configured to supply a second amount of power that is greater than the first amount of power to any of the one or more electrical systems; and means for selectively enabling one or both of the first and second power supply.
US11352874B2
Certain aspects and features relate to a system that efficiently determines optimal actuator set points to satisfy an objective in controlling equipment such as systems for drilling, production, completion or other operations associated with oil or gas production from a wellbore. A platform can receive data and also make use of and communicate with multiple algorithms asynchronously and efficiently to project automatic optimum set points for controllable parameters. Services can provide data over a real-time messaging bus and the data can be captured by an orchestrator that aggregates all data and calls a solver orchestrator to determine optimized parameters for a current state in time to send to control systems or display in a dashboard.
US11352867B2
A method includes alternating between (a) applying an electric current to a subterranean formation and (b) flowing an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) treatment fluid into a wellbore formed in the subterranean formation. The method includes flowing an aqueous salt solution into the wellbore to mobilize hydrocarbons within the subterranean formation after alternating between (a) and (b).
US11352866B1
An enhanced oil recovery method includes: screening out implementation well that meet the requirements of a preset standard; selecting the target interval that can be used for enhanced oil recovery in the implementation well; obtaining the reservoir parameters and perforation parameters of the target interval, so as to divide the target interval into several groups of swallowing and exhaling segments, injecting the infection liquid containing and simmer the well for a period of time; and after the well simmering, the oil-water mixture replaced by the injection fluid is produced from each exhaling segment.
US11352843B2
A drill rig having a drill pipe standbuilding system. The standbuilding system may have one or more offline mouseholes, such as two offline mouseholes, a hoist arranged on a rail system, and an iron roughneck. The rail system may be arranged on the mast, such as above a racking board. The hoist may extend from the rail system, through the racking board, and toward a drill floor of the drill rig. The offline mouseholes, rail system, hoist, and iron roughneck may allow drill pipe stands to be built without interrupting or slowing drilling operations. A method of standbuilding may include arranging a first pipe section in a first mousehole, arranging a second pipe section in a second mousehole, coupling a third pipe section to the second pipe section to form a double stand, and coupling the second pipe section to the first pipe section to form a triple stand.
US11352839B2
A guiding sub-section (2) of a production logging tool (1) comprises a central rigid stem (30) having a first mechanical connector (33) at one end and a second mechanical connector (34) at an another end, and carrying a roller deploying arrangement (31) comprising multiple external articulated arms (35A, 35B, 35C) circumferentially distributed about said body, each articulated arm comprising a roller assembly (32A, 32B, 32C) adapted for contact with a wall (7) of the hydrocarbon well (4) and operable from a retracted configuration into a radially extended configuration. The roller assembly (32A, 32B, 32C) comprises an arm hinge (51) coupling a first arm part and a second arm part of each articulated arm (35A, 35B and 35C) and having an arm hinge axis (AA′) substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis (XX′), a roller bearing (52) secured onto the arm hinge (51) and having a roller axis (BB′) angled with respect to the hinge axis (AA′), and an anti-slippage friction roller (53) received onto the roller bearing (52) in a rotation free manner.
US11352833B2
A barrier assembly for preventing items from falling behind domestic appliances and a method of using the same is provided. The barrier assembly provides one or more mesh nets, each mesh net extending between two pivotable columns. Each pivotal column is mounted to spaced apart surfaces along an upper periphery of an appliance. As a result, each independent mesh net may be pivoted to different angles of incident relative to the upper surface of the appliance so as to close off the space between that portion of the periphery of the appliance and an adjacent wall, preventing item from falling therein.
US11352822B2
The present disclosure provides a system for sealing a compartment. The system includes a door with a seal positioned on a bottom surface of the door. The system also includes one or more hinges coupled to the door. The door rotates from a closed position to an open position via the one or more hinges. A height of the door with respect to a floor surface increases in response to a rotation of the door from the closed position to the open position due to a helical slope of both a first cam surface of the one or more hinges and a second cam surface of the one or more hinges. The seal transitions from a compressed state to a relaxed state in response to the rotation of the door from the closed position to the open position.
US11352821B2
An inverted constant force window balance system has a carrier assembly including a housing with a first and a second housing wall, a coil spring with a free end, and a shoe assembly slidably coupled to the housing. The shoe assembly includes a first and a second shoe face. The housing slides between a first and a second position relative to the shoe assembly. When in the first position, the first and second housing walls are substantially non-coplanar with the first shoe face, and when in the second position, the first housing wall is substantially coplanar with the first shoe face and substantially non-coplanar with the second shoe face. The shoe assembly receives a pivot bar from a window sash and extends a brake upon rotation thereof. The balance system also includes a mounting bracket releasably coupled to the housing and coupled to the free end of the coil spring.
US11352813B2
An adapter and interface permits a standard mortise lock to drive top and bottom latch mechanisms of a multi-point lock system. An actuator permits in situ adjustment of the top and bottom vertical latch projections of adjusting these projections while the door is hung in the door frame. An installation tool assists in the installation of the vertical rods in a door. A connector and carrier secures the vertical rods to the actuator and permits verification of retention of the rods in a multi-point latching system. A latch dogging indicator allows for end-user adjustment between a single-point lock and a multi-point lock system when desired. These different aspects may be employed in combination or separately with other locking systems.
US11352809B2
A fence pulling assembly that includes a mount plate, a support frame, a spindle, a brace post, a press bar, and an actuator. The support frame extends from the mount plate and is connected to the spindle and the brace post. The spindle receives a roll of fencing. The brace post supports the press bar. The press bar is pivotable between a first position and a second position, wherein the distance between the press bar and the spindle is greater in the first position than in the second position. The actuator is configured to move the press bar between the first position and the second position.
US11352803B2
The flowmeter of the present invention is primarily used in swimming pools and is configured to deactivate a swimming pool pump when the drain in the swimming pool is blocked or covered. Swimming pool drains are often blocked or covered by the body of a swimmer. When the drain is blocked or covered, the pump creates substantial suction force that entraps the body of a swimmer against the drain. By deactivating the pump when the drain is blocked or covered, the flowmeter of the present invention serves as a safety vacuum release system that prevents entrapment of a person by the drain of the swimming pool.
US11352796B2
A shading system includes a housing extending along a longitudinal housing direction; a plurality of shading blades extending along a longitudinal blade direction; a coupling system comprising: a first rail; and a second rail. Each of the shading blades is rotatably coupled to the first rail and to the second rail. A coupling element is rotatably coupled to the housing and rotatably coupled to the second rail. An actuator to translate the first rail along the longitudinal housing direction. The coupling element rotates the shading blades by limiting a translation of the second rail. A rain gutter extends along the longitudinal housing direction below the plurality of shading blades.
US11352789B2
The present invention relates to methods of forming voids in concrete elements, and to a void former apparatus and system useful for this application. The void former unit comprises a first void former element comprising a first surface and a first opening in the first surface and a second void former element comprising a second surface and a second opening in the second surface, wherein the first void former element and the second void former element detachably connect to form a passage between the first opening and the second opening, and a void space between the first surface and the second surface surrounding the passage. Multiple void former units can detachably connect to form a void former system comprising a single continuous void space. While exemplified by use in concrete elements, other uses of the void former unit and void former system are envisaged.
US11352788B2
Edge profile 10 for forming a part of a suspended ceiling substructure comprising a plurality of support profiles arranged suspended from a raw ceiling of a building structure and a plurality of base profiles, each of which being attached to at least one of the plurality of support profiles, the edge profile 10 having a U-shaped cross-section with a base portion 11 capable of being fixed to a wall structure, a first leg portion 12 and a second leg portion 13, the first leg portion 12 having an outer section 122 and an inner section 121, wherein the outer section 122 is arranged offset towards the second leg portion 13 relative to the inner section 121.
US11352787B2
A concrete form panel for a concrete formwork includes: a foam body having a concrete-facing surface and an outward-facing surface opposite the concrete-facing surface, the outward-facing surface having a plurality of slots formed therein; and a plurality of structural elements. Each structural element is accommodated in a respective slot, and has apertures formed therein for accommodating ties.
US11352778B2
A metal joint adapted to be fitted into a hole formed in a building component and fixed to the hole with an adhesive includes: a small diameter portion having an elongated shape and an outer diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the hole; and two large diameter portions fixed to the small diameter portion individually at two locations spaced apart from each other in a longitudinal direction of the small diameter portion, each large diameter portion having an outer diameter corresponding to the inner diameter of the hole. Furthermore, irregularities are formed on an outer peripheral surface of the small diameter portion in a section between the two large diameter portions.
US11352776B2
Provided herewith is a system for assembling a temporary structure using a plurality of separate members. A first member has ends at opposite sides of an elongated body portion, with notches on the top and bottom sides of each end. A second member has ends with notches formed on opposite between the ends. These notches enable the first and second members to engage with other such separate members. A third member has a triangular shape that functions as a roof truss with opposing sloped surfaces and an underside. A pair of truss notches is formed at positions corresponding to the notches of the first member, for each engaging with one of the plurality of separate members. The third member also includes feature hooks, formed on the sloped surfaces, for engaging with a fourth member defined by a planar roofing material having a plurality of holes.
US11352775B2
Modular building methods and systems using lightweight modular panels, and specially configured transition panels for transitioning from wall to floor, or from wall to roof. Identically configured standard panels are used for constructing the walls, floor, and roof, with transitions from one structure to the next (e.g., wall to floor, or wall to roof). Each of the variously configured panel types includes channels (e.g., 2 pair of channels) formed through the length of the foam body, where the channels are configured to receive splines (e.g., flanges of an I-beam) therein. In the standard panel, the channels may include pairs of top and bottom channels, with the channels offset towards the respective panel major faces. In the transition panels, the channels may be similarly configured, but positioned differently to make the appropriate transition. The splines are connected to a frame, which acts as a template and transfers loads to a foundation.
US11352770B2
According to embodiments of the present disclosure is a water delivery system that continuously flows and recirculates clean water, diverting only water that has touched a user's hands. No sensing is required to activate the water flow and the actions of the user effectively divert the dirty water to a drain. The water delivery system comprises a clean water outlet, a clean water inlet, a dirty water drain, and a circulation pump. A stream of water continuously flows from the outlet and is received by the water inlet if the stream is uninterrupted. If the stream is disturbed, such as by the hand washing activities of the user, the stream is diverted from the inlet and instead falls into a sink and into the drain.
US11352769B1
In some implementations, the EMV uses a calibration to inform autonomous control over the EMV. To calibrate an EMV, the system first selects a calibration action comprising a control signal for actuating a control surface of the EMV. Then, using a calibration model comprising a machine learning model trained based on one or more previous calibration actions taken by the EMV, the system predicts a response of the control surface to the control signal of the calibration action. After the EMV executes the control signal to perform the calibration action, the EMV system monitors the actual response of the control signal and uses that to update the calibration model based on a comparison between the predicted and monitored states of the control surface.
US11352750B2
The present invention disclosed a shaped object comprising nano cellulose alone or a composition of nano cellulose for inclusion in a paper product and process for preparation thereof. The present invention further disclosed a paper product having the shaped objects incorporated therein. The shaped objects are used as a security feature for identifying and authenticating security documents.
US11352737B2
A clothing treatment apparatus is provided. The clothing treatment apparatus according to an embodiment includes a body including an accommodation space in which clothing is arranged, a spraying unit disposed in the body, and configured to spray at least one of steam and air toward the clothing, and a door disposed at the body to open and close the accommodation space, wherein a handle member is disposed on an upper surface of the body and a lower surface opposite to the upper surface.
US11352736B2
A laundry processing apparatus include a washing unit provided in an installation space of a cabinet, which corresponds to an upper portion of a heat exchanger and has the installation space therein, to spray washing water to a front surface of an evaporator. The washing unit has a nozzle part provided at the upper portion of the heat exchanger in an inclined direction to guide the washing water toward the heat exchanger and a front guide part provided at an opposite side of the nozzle part while being space apart therefrom, with the front surface of the evaporator that is the heat exchanger interposed between the front guide part, guiding the washing water discharged from the nozzle part toward the front surface of the evaporator.
US11352735B2
The present disclosure provides a flushing device and method for an evaporator of dryer, and a dryer. The flushing device comprises an evaporator, a water storage box and a condensate water pan for collecting condensate water, wherein an eccentric bucket is arranged between the water storage box and the evaporator, a supporting structure is arranged at two symmetrical sides of a periphery of the eccentric bucket, the supporting structure enables the eccentric bucket to turn over along with a change in the center of gravity of the eccentric bucket, a pipeline for conveying condensate water to the eccentric bucket is arranged between the eccentric bucket and the condensate water pan, an opening of the eccentric bucket is arranged upwards, and after the eccentric bucket is turned over, the opening of the eccentric bucket is aligned with the evaporator, such that condensate water in the eccentric bucket flushes the evaporator.
US11352734B2
Provided is a circulating and filtering device of a washing machine, including a circulating pump assembly, where the circulating pump assembly includes an intake water cavity and a circulating water cavity that is in communication with the intake water cavity; and a filtering assembly disposed in the intake water cavity and rotatably connected to the circulating pump assembly, where the filtering assembly includes a blade and an inner cavity, where the inner cavity is in communication with the circulating water cavity, so that water in the intake water cavity is filtered by the filtering assembly and enters the circulating water cavity.
US11352731B2
An appliance lid lock mechanism provides a lock pin that may be extended into or withdrawn out of a lock cavity that receives a strike attached to the appliance lid interacting with the lock pin when the lid is closed. The lock pin communicates with the electric actuator on the opposite side of the lock pin from the lock pin's entry into the lock cavity by means of sidebars passing to the side of the lock cavity. The lock bar and sidebars are substantially coplanar with an actuation axis to prevent passage of liquid along these elements between the lock pin and the actuator.
US11352722B2
A system for in-line treatment of at least one thread is provided. The system is configured to be used with a thread consuming device and comprises a treatment unit having a plurality of nozzles arranged at different positions relative the at least one thread, said at least one thread being in motion in use, each nozzle being configured to dispense one or more coating substances onto the at least one thread when activated; and at least one thread engagement device configured to rotate the at least one thread along its longitudinal axis as the at least one thread moves through said treatment unit.
US11352721B2
A circular loom for weaving a weaving core along a weaving axis with at least one shuttle, which comprises a weft thread spool and is movable along a circular orbit path around the weaving core. The orbit path is formed of first track segments arranged one after the other along its circumference and at least one movably arranged or designed guide device is provided, which guides at least one warp thread provided from a warp thread spool on a warp spool device and on which at least a first track segment of the orbit path and at least a second track segment alternatively assignable to the orbit path are arranged and guided, where in the guided absence of the first and second track segment from the orbit path the guided warp thread, crossing the track plane, passes through the orbit path.
US11352715B2
A fabric delivers active ingredients to a surface when the fabric includes a moist-vapor porous combination of fabric materials, and the fabric comprises at least 0.5% by total weight of at least one layer of the fabric of a superabsorbent polymer fiber. The superabsorbent polymer fiber contains an absorbed aqueous reservoir of an aqueous solution carrying the active ingredients. The superabsorbent fiber has a coating on its surface of an aqueous penetrable layer through which a liquid in the absorbed aqueous reservoir can migrate or flow, carrying the active ingredients onto an exposed surface of the superabsorbent polymer fiber, so that the active ingredients on the surface of the superabsorbent polymer can react or interact with an environment in contact with the active ingredients on the superabsorbent polymer fiber surface.
US11352713B2
Disclosed a heat shield structure for a single crystal production furnace, which is provided above a melt crucible of a single crystal production furnace and comprises an outer housing and a heat insulation plate disposed within the outer housing. A bottom outer surface of the outer housing faces an interior of the melt crucible, and an angle formed between a plane in which the heat insulation plate is located and a plane in which a bottom of the outer housing is located is an acute angle and faces an outer surface of single crystal silicon. The heat shield design is changed, a heat absorbing plate is additionally provided for transferring heat absorbed to the single crystal silicon, a heat channel is formed in the heat shield, so that a pulling rate is controlled, which improves radial mass uniformity of the single crystal silicon.
US11352698B2
An atomic layer deposition (ALD) apparatus includes a light source disposed at an upper portion of a section, a wafer supporting part disposed at a lower portion of the section, and a lens pocket between the light source and the wafer supporting part, and including a frame part and a transparent panel, the lens pocket including a pocket space having sides defined by the frame part and a bottom defined by the transparent panel.
US11352696B2
A plasma source has an outer surface, interrupted by an aperture for delivering an atmospheric plasma from the outer surface. A transport mechanism transports a substrate in parallel with the outer surface, closely to the outer surface, so that gas from the atmospheric plasma may form a gas bearing between the outer surface the and the substrate. A first electrode of the plasma source has a first and second surface extending from an edge of the first electrode that runs along the aperture. The first surface defines the outer surface on a first side of the aperture. The distance between the first and second surface increasing with distance from the edge. A second electrode covered at least partly by a dielectric layer is provided with the dielectric layer facing the second surface of the first electrode, substantially in parallel with the second surface of the first electrode, leaving a plasma initiation space on said first side of the aperture, between the surface of the dielectric layer and the second surface of the first electrode. A gas inlet feeds into the plasma initiation space to provide gas flow from the gas inlet to the aperture through the plasma initiation space. Atmospheric plasma initiated in the plasma initiation space flows to the aperture, from which it leaves to react with the surface of the substrate.
US11352694B2
A drawing apparatus includes: a drawing part; a cleaning-gas generator; a first valve between the cleaning-gas generator and the drawing part and adjusting a supply amount of gas to the drawing part; a first pressure gauge measuring a pressure in the drawing part; a compensation-gas introducing part introducing compensation-gas to be supplied between the cleaning-gas generator and the first valve; a second valve between the compensation-gas introducing part and the first valve and adjusting a supply amount of the compensation-gas; and a valve controller controlling the first and second valves, wherein the valve controller controls the first valve to supply the cleaning-gas at a predetermined flow rate to the drawing part and controls the second valve to cause a pressure in the drawing part to be a predetermined pressure when the first pressure gauge detects a pressure reduction due to a reduction in a supply flow rate of the cleaning-gas.
US11352693B1
The present invention relates to utilizing atomic layer deposition (ALD) techniques to deposit a layer of boron compound in a light-weight composite carbon-based foam derived from natural precursors, graphene, or other carbon-based materials, to minimize the effects of radiation in space applications. A method of manufacturing radiation shielding material includes: preparing a carbon-based foam product in a predetermined volume; and doping the carbon-based foam product by depositing a boron or boron-10 aluminum oxide (B/B10—Al—O) compound using ALD in a vacuum chamber on either carbon-based foam or spherical silica particles prior to generating a carbon-based foam; wherein doping the carbon-based foam product includes depositing the boron10-Al—O compound at a thickness of between one and two atomic percent of boron-10 within the carbon-based foam or on the silica particles; or coating a percentage of average foam pores (50% of average foam pore diameter) of the carbon-based foam product with the boron10-Al—O compound.
US11352690B2
A metal oxide film containing a crystal part is provided. Alternatively, a metal oxide film with highly stable physical properties is provided. Alternatively, a metal oxide film with improved electrical characteristics is provided. Alternatively, a metal oxide film with which field-effect mobility can be increased is provided. A metal oxide film including In, M (M is Al, Ga, Y, or Sn), and Zn includes a first crystal part and a second crystal part; the first crystal part has c-axis alignment; the second crystal part has no c-axis alignment; and the existing proportion of the second crystal part is higher than the existing proportion of the first crystal part.
US11352682B2
A surface-treated steel sheet of the present invention includes a base steel sheet and a Ni—Co—Fe alloy-plated layer on at least one surface of the base steel sheet, in which, in the alloy-plated layer, a Ni coating weight is 7.1 to 18.5 g/m2, a Co coating weight is 0.65 to 3.6 g/m2, and a total of the Ni coating weight and the Co coating weight is in a range of 9.0 to 20.0 g/m2. In a surface layer of the alloy-plated layer, a Co concentration is in a range of 20 to 60 atom %, and a Fe concentration is in a range of 5 to 30 atom %. In the alloy-plated layer, a region having a thickness of 2 μm or more, in which a total of a Ni concentration and the Co concentration is 10 atom % or more and the Fe concentration is 5 atom % or more, is present. The base steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, and a ferrite grain size number is 10 or more.
US11352681B2
Methods for producing components for use in high temperature systems that include reacting a fluid reactant and a porous preform that has a pore volume and contains a solid oxide reactant that defines a solid volume of the porous preform. The method includes infiltrating the fluid reactant into the porous preform to react with the solid oxide reactant to produce a oxide/metal composite component, during which a displacing metal replaces a displaceable species of the solid oxide reactant to produce at least one solid oxide reaction product that has a reaction product volume that at least partially fills the pore volume. The oxide/metal composite component includes at least one oxide phase and at least one metal phase. The component is exposed to temperatures greater than 500° C. and the at least one oxide phase and the at least one metal phase exhibit thermal expansion values within 50% of one another.
US11352677B2
A method for producing a soft magnetic material having both high saturation magnetization and low coercive force, including: preparing an alloy having a composition represented by Compositional Formula 1 or 2 and having an amorphous phase, and heating the alloy at a rate of temperature rise of 10° C./sec or more and holding for 0 to 80 seconds at a temperature equal to or higher than the crystallization starting temperature and lower than the temperature at which Fe—B compounds start to form wherein, Compositional Formula 1 is Fe100-x-yBxMy, M represents at least one element selected from Nb, Mo, Ta, W, Ni, Co and Sn, and x and y are in atomic percent (at %) and satisfy the relational expressions of 10≤x≤16 and 0≥y≤8, and Compositional Formula 2 is Fe100-a-b-cBaCubM′c, M′ represents at least one element selected from Nb, Mo, Ta, W, Ni and Co, and a, b and c are in atomic percent (at %) and satisfy the relational expressions 10≤a≤16, 0
US11352675B2
The disclosure relates generally to molecular diagnostic devices configured to amplifying a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) locus and discriminate between two or more allelic variants of the SNP, indicating presence or absence of a target allele. In some embodiments, the molecular diagnostic devices are capable of detecting, at point-of-care, SNPs associated with resistance or susceptibility to antibiotic treatment of organism infections. In other aspects, the disclosure provides methods of treatment for disease or disorders (e.g. organism infections) where treatment is guided by presence or absence of an allele at a SNP locus as determined by such molecular diagnostic devices.
US11352672B2
The present disclosure provides methods and reagents for the diagnosis, prognosis or the monitoring of breast cancer, including various subtypes of breast cancer including, for example, estrogen receptor (ER) negative breast cancer, ER positive breast cancer, triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) and other subtypes of breast cancer.
US11352671B2
Provided herein are methods and compositions for determining the susceptibility of Parkinson's disease patients to optimized drug therapy (ODT) and or deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapy.
US11352669B2
Methods and compositions for digital profiling of nucleic acid sequences present in a sample are provided.
US11352664B2
The invention relates to adaptors for sequencing nucleic acids. The adaptors may be used to generate single stranded constructs of nucleic acid for sequencing purposes. Such constructs may contain both strands from a double stranded deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or ribonucleic acid (RNA) template. The invention also relates to the constructs generated using the adaptors, methods of making the adaptors and constructs, as well as methods of sequencing double stranded nucleic acids.
US11352660B2
This disclosure describes materials and methods for effectively performing serial multiplexed FISH analysis.
US11352648B2
The invention relates to methods and bacterial strains for making terpene and terpenoid products, the bacterial strains having improved carbon pull through the MEP pathway and to a downstream recombinant synthesis pathway.
US11352641B2
Methods and constructs for engineering circular RNA are disclosed. In some embodiments, the methods and constructs comprise a vector for making circular RNA, the vector comprising the following elements operably connected to each other and arranged in the following sequence: a.) a 5′ homology arm, b.) a 3′ group I intron fragment containing a 3′ splice site dinucleotide, c.) optionally, a 5′ spacer sequence, d.) a protein coding or noncoding region, e.) optionally, a 3′ spacer sequence, f) a 5′ Group I intron fragment containing a 5′ splice site dinucleotide, and g.) a 3′ homology arm, the vector allowing production of a circular RNA that is translatable or biologically active inside eukaryotic cells. Methods for purifying the circular RNA produced by the vector and the use of nucleoside modifications in circular RNA produced by the vector are also disclosed.
US11352640B2
Methods and constructs for engineering circular RNA are disclosed. In some embodiments, the methods and constructs comprise a vector for making circular RNA, the vector comprising the following elements operably connected to each other and arranged in the following sequence: a.) a 5′ homology arm, b.) a 3′ group I intron fragment containing a 3′ splice site dinucleotide, c.) optionally, a 5′ spacer sequence, d.) a protein coding or noncoding region, e.) optionally, a 3′ spacer sequence, f.) a 5′ Group I intron fragment containing a 5′ splice site dinucleotide, and g.) a 3′ homology arm, the vector allowing production of a circular RNA that is translatable or biologically active inside eukaryotic cells. Methods for purifying the circular RNA produced by the vector and the use of nucleoside modifications in circular RNA produced by the vector are also disclosed.
US11352639B2
Produced the gene therapy DNA vectors based on the gene therapy DNA vector for treatment of diseases associated with disorders of osteogenesis, formation and regeneration of bone and cartilage tissues, including, in case of bone fractures, increased brittleness of bones, reduction of bones mineralisation, for improvement in osteoinduction of bone implants. The gene therapy DNA vector contains the coding region of the COL1A1, COL1A2, BMP2 or BMP7 therapeutic genes. Methods of producing or use the gene therapy DNA vector carrying therapeutic genes. Escherichia coli strain SCS110-AF/VTvaf17-COL1A1, SCS110-AF/VTvaf17-COL1A2, SCS110-AF/VTvaf17-BMP2 or SCS110-AF/VTvaf17-BMP7 obtains by the method described above carrying gene therapy DNA vector VTvaf17-COL1A1, VTvaf17-COL1A2, VTvaf17-BMP2 or VTvaf17-BMP7. The method of producing the gene therapy DNA vector carrying COL1A1, or COL1A2, or BMP2, or BMP7 therapeutic gene uses on an industrial scale.
US11352635B2
The present invention includes systems, methods and compositions for increasing trichome formation and/or density in cannabinoid producing plants, such as Cannabis and hemp. Additional aspects of the invention further include systems, methods and compositions for increasing cannabinoid and terpene biosynthetic and storage capacity in Cannabis.
US11352634B2
The inventive technology relates to systems and methods for enhanced in vivo production, accumulation and modification of cannabinoids. In one embodiment, the invention may include systems and methods for enhanced in vivo biosynthesis of chemically-modified water-soluble cannabinoids in a whole plant, or a cell suspension culture system.
US11352629B2
Defined multi-conjugate oligonucleotides can have predetermined sizes and compositions. For example, in various embodiment, defined multi-conjugate oligonucleotides can have advantageous properties, for example in the form of defined multi-conjugate siRNA (i.e., including two, three or more siRNA) having enhanced intracellular delivery and/or multi-gene silencing effects. In various embodiment, the defined multi-conjugate oligonucleotides can be synthesized via new synthetic intermediates and methods. The defined multi-conjugate oligonucleotides can be used, for example, in reducing gene expression, biological research, treating or preventing medical conditions, or to produce new or altered phenotypes in cells or organisms.
US11352627B2
This invention relates to an agent that modulates the activity of a micro ribonucleic acid (miRNA), said miRNA being selected from the group consisting of miRNA 429-3p, miRNA 29c-3p, miRNA 29b-3p, miRNA 200a-3p, miRNA 200b-3p, miRNA 200c-3p, miRNA 141-3p, miRNA 15a-5p, miRNA 15b-5p, miRNA 16-5p, miRNA 424-5p, miRNA 497-5p, miRNA 615-3p, miRNA 451a-5p and miRNA 542-5p, for use in the treatment of HER2-dependent cancer.
US11352626B2
Antisense oligonucleotides capable of preventing or reducing exon 73 inclusion into the human COL7A mRNA are characterized in various ways: (a) the oligonucleotide's sequence includes at most two CpG sequences; (b) the oligonucleotide has a length of no more than 24 nucleotides; (c) the oligonucleotide is capable of annealing to the (SRp40/SC35 binding/ESE) element in exon73. These oligonucleotides can usefully be oligoribonucleotides with modified internucleosidic linkages e.g. phosphorothioate linkages.
US11352616B2
Disclosed is a structure for detecting cell-free DNA using a conductive polymer and the use thereof. More particularly, a nanostructure composed of a surface-modified conductive polymer for isolating and detecting cell-free DNA is disclosed. By using the nanostructure, cell-free DNA including circulating tumor DNA, can be effectively detected and isolated.
US11352613B2
The present disclosure provides a library of engineered DNASE proteins (including DNASE1, DNASE1-LIKE 1, DNASE1-LIKE 2, DNASE1-LIKE 3, DNASE2A, DNASE2B) that allows to select drug candidates for developing therapeutics for treating conditions characterized by neutrophil extracellular trap (NET) accumulation and/or release. In accordance with the invention, the selected DNase variant has improved properties, including properties amenable to clinical development, including manufacturing, toxicology, pharmacokinetic, and/or use in therapy.
US11352595B2
An apparatus includes a fermentation tank assembly including a fermentation tank having an opening formed therein and a fermentation tank cover configured to open and close the opening. The apparatus also includes an ingredient receiving portion configured to receive, through the opening of the fermentation tank, fermentation ingredients; a gas extraction flow path connected to the fermentation tank; a gas release valve disposed in the gas extraction flow path and configured to discharge gas from the fermentation tank; and a pressure sensor disposed on at least one of the gas extraction flow path or the fermentation tank cover.
US11352591B2
The present invention relates to compositions such as cleaning compositions comprising a mix of enzymes. The invention further relates, use of compositions comprising such enzymes in cleaning processes.
US11352590B2
An aqueous light duty liquid detergent formulation is provided including a water; an essential oil; a derivative of castor oil having a formula selected from formula I and formula II; an ethoxylated phenol having formula III; an anionic surfactant and a zwitterionic surfactant. Also provided is a method of cleaning an article using the aqueous light duty liquid detergent formulation.
US11352586B2
The present invention relates to a novel compound and its use as a fragrance material.
US11352583B2
Provided is a lubricating oil composition comprising a base oil (A) containing a polyalkylene glycol (A1) and a polyol ester (A2), a phosphorus-based rust inhibitor (B), and an antioxidant (C) containing an amine-based antioxidant (C1). The lubricating oil composition exhibits a strong effect for suppressing sludge sedimentation even when used for an extended period of time in a high-temperature environment, and has excellent demulsibility and rust preventive properties, and therefore, can be suitably used in turbomachinery, compressors, hydraulic equipment, and machine tools.
US11352577B2
Low sulfur fuel oil blend compositions and methods of making such blend compositions to increase the stability and compatibility of LSFO blends having paraffinic resids that are blended with distillates and/or cracked stocks of higher asphaltenes and/or aromatics content. In one or more embodiments, distillates and/or cracked stocks that incrementally reduce the initial aromaticity of the distillate or cracked stock with the highest aromaticity are sequentially blended prior to resid addition. Such incremental reduction and sequential blending have been found to provide a resulting low sulfur fuel oil blend that is both compatible and stable.
US11352576B2
In some examples, a vapor phase product and a liquid phase product can be separated from a heated mixture that can include steam and a hydrocarbon. The liquid phase product can be catalytically cracked in the presence of a fluidized catalyst to produce a catalytically cracked effluent. A bottoms product can be separated from the catalytically cracked effluent. The bottoms product can be hydroprocessed to produce a hydroprocessed product. For example, the bottoms product can be hydroprocessed under pre-treater hydroprocessing conditions to produce a pre-treated bottoms product and the pre-treated bottoms product can be hydroprocessed under bottoms product hydroprocessing conditions to produce the hydroprocessed product. A hydroprocessor heavy product can be separated from the hydroprocessed product. The vapor phase product can be steam cracked to produce a steam cracker effluent. A tar product and an upgraded steam cracker effluent can be separated from the steam cracker effluent.
US11352570B1
Systems and methods to enhance the removal of inorganic contaminants, including metals, from hydrocarbon feedstocks at a refinery. One or more embodiments of such systems and methods may be used to provide a renewable hydrocarbon feedstock having a reduced amount of metal contaminants. The reduction of metal contaminants in the renewable hydrocarbon feedstock mitigates catalyst fouling and/or deactivation during downstream refinery processing of the renewable hydrocarbon feedstock.
US11352566B2
In one embodiment, a method for processing carbonaceous materials that includes introducing a first source of carbonaceous material as a first feedstock into a mixer. Then, a second source of carbonaceous material is introduced as a second feedstock into the mixer. The second feedstock is one of the outputs of the processing of the carbonaceous materials. These carbonaceous materials are mixed into a single feedstock of carbonaceous materials that is customized into a predetermined material composition, and this predetermined mixture is then pyrolyzed in a pyrolyzer to produce a custom carbonaceous output. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US11352554B2
The application discloses compounds, compositions, films and devices comprising the compounds and compositions, and their methods of use for harvesting water.
US11352550B2
A method of enhanced oil recovery for a crude oil production well includes the steps of pyrolyzing rubber materials including the steps of heating the rubber materials to form pyro-vapors, condensing the pyro-vapors to form pyro-gas and pyro-oil where the pyro-oil includes an inhibitor solution including non-polar hydrocarbons and polar hydrocarbons. The inhibitor solution is injected as an injection stream into the crude oil production well to facilitate production of crude oil from the crude oil production well.
US11352547B2
Treatment material for a wellbore operation can be mixed with a metal material coated with a layer that is controllably activated to release the metal material downhole in a wellbore. The wellbore treatment material can be mixed with the metal material prior to being positioned downhole in the wellbore.
US11352546B2
A lost circulation material (LCM) is provided having an alkaline nanosilica dispersion and an ester activator. The alkaline nanosilica dispersion and the ester activator may form a gelled solid after interaction over a contact period. Methods of lost circulation control using the LCM are also provided.
US11352545B2
Loss circulation material (LCM) and method for treating loss circulation in a wellbore in a subterranean formation, including placing the LCM having a solid body with permeable portions or pores into the wellbore to dispose the LCM at the loss circulation zone, and collecting solids onto the LCM at the loss circulation zone to form a barrier. The LCM may be applied at a loss circulation zone in a hydrocarbon reservoir section of the subterranean formation, and upon subsequent hydrocarbon production the collected solids may be dislodged by the produced hydrocarbon to allow for hydrocarbon production through the permeable portions or pores of the disposed LCM.
US11352543B2
Cement compositions for primary cementing of well bores where a liquid mixture of pre-hydrated cementitious particles are combined with cement particles to form a cement composition. The pre-hydrated cementitious particles are encapsulated with the hydration product and are capable of being stored in a liquid for one day or longer
US11352541B2
A sealing composition for sealing an annulus of a wellbore includes from 20 weight percent to 97 weight percent epoxy resin based on the total weight of the composition. The epoxy resin comprising at least one of 2,3-epoxypropyl o-tolyl ether, alkyl glycidyl ethers having from 12 to 14 carbon atoms, or a compound having formula (OC2H3)—CH2—O—R1—O—CH2—(C2H3O), where R1 is a linear or branched hydrocarbyl having from 4 to 24 carbon atoms. The sealing composition also includes from 1 weight percent to 20 weight percent curing agent based on the total weight of the composition. Methods for sealing a wellbore annulus or casing-casing annulus includes introducing a spacer fluid to the wellbore, introducing the sealing composition to the wellbore, displacing the sealing composition into the annulus, and curing the sealing composition.
US11352526B2
A laterally-coiled adhesively-retained low force backer for installation prior to application of a liquid sealant with sufficient surface adhesion to remain in place for such application and curing.
US11352519B2
Provided is a stable aqueous dispersion suitable for application to different substrates and especially to paper substrates for producing a barrier layer against compounds of the saturated and aromatic hydrocarbon type. The aqueous dispersion comprises destructurized starch in a complexed form. Also provided is the use of aqueous dispersion as a coating composition for paper based substrates, as a microencapsulant of fragrances and as a film-forming component for paints.
US11352513B2
A UV curable inkjet ink contains at least one free radical photoinitiator and at least 30 wt % of a mixture including 0 to 45 wt % of a polymerizable oligomer, at least 5 wt % of a polyfunctional propoxylated acrylate and at least 20 wt % of a monofunctional ethoxylated methacrylate according to Formula (I): with n representing an integer of 1 to 4 and R representing an alkyl group; the weight ratio of the polyfunctional propoxylated acrylate over the monofunctional ethoxylated methacrylate is less than 1.60; and all the weight percentages wt % are based on the total weight of the UV curable inkjet ink.
US11352504B2
Metal particle annular structure, insulator-coated metal particle annular structure, and composition
The present disclosure is directed to provide a novel metal particle annular structure capable of functioning as a metamaterial in three dimensions. The metal particle annular structure (C) of the present disclosure includes an insulative support (B) having a particle connecting structure including a plurality of particles connecting to one another, and a plurality of metal particles (A) arranged annularly around the insulative support (B).
US11352500B2
An active material for organic image sensors, where the active material is a squaraine-based active material or a thiophene-based active material. A photoelectric conversion layer containing the active material, which is a squaraine-based active material or a thiophene-based active material. An organic image sensor containing the photoelectric conversion layer containing the active material.
US11352499B2
The invention pertains to a polymer composition possessing improved resistance towards degradation and discolouring phenomena induced by UV radiation, said composition comprising at least one aromatic sulfone polymer; at least one organic UV absorber and at least one basic compound selected from the group consisting of (i) basic oxides and hydroxides of divalent metals and (ii) salts of a weak acid, and to methods for its manufacture and to shaped articles obtained therefrom.
US11352498B2
Provided are amorphous and at least partially crystalline polyetherimide compositions having a comparatively narrow particle size distribution and are particularly suited for additive manufacturing processes. The compositions comprise a population of polyetherimide particulates are characterized as having a zero-shear viscosity sufficiently low so as to achieve a coalescence of at least 0.5, and preferably of about 1.0, as characterized by the Frenkel model at a temperature less than 450° C.
US11352487B2
The present invention relates to thermoplastic molding compounds F containing at least two graft rubbers P-I and P-II which are processed by the co-precipitation of a mixture of the respective emulsions containing P-I and P-II. The present invention further relates to a method for producing such thermoplastic molding compounds F and to molded bodies obtained from a thermoplastic molding compound F according to the invention.
US11352485B2
A polyethylene composition comprises a first polyethylene which is an ethylene copolymer having a weight average molecular weight of from 70,000 to 250,000 and a molecular weight distribution Mw/Mn of <2.3, a second polyethylene which is an ethylene copolymer or homopolymer having a weight average molecular weight of from 50,000 to 200,000 and a molecular weight distribution Mw/Mn of <2.3, and a third polyethylene which is an ethylene copolymer or homopolymer having a weight average molecular weight of from 70,000 to 200,000 and a molecular weight distribution Mw/Mn of <2.3, where the first polyethylene has more short chain branching than the second polyethylene or the third polyethylene. The polyethylene composition has a composition distribution breadth index, CDBI50 obtained from a crystallization elution fractionation (CEF) analysis of <45 weight %. A film made from the polyethylene composition may have a machine direction 1% secant modulus of ≥200 MPa (at a film thickness of about 1 mil), a seal initiation temperature (SIT) of ≤85° C. (at a film thickness of about 2 mil), an area of hot tack window (AHTW) of ≥220 Newtons·C° (at a film thickness of about 2 mil), an oxygen transmission rate (OTR) of ≥600 cm3 per 100 inch2 per day (at a film thickness of about 1 mil), a dart impact strength of ≥400 g/mil, and a machine direction (MD) tear strength of ≥400 g/mil.
US11352480B2
A polymer composition that contains a polyaryletherketone and a plurality of reinforcing fibers is provided. The reinforcing fibers have an aspect ratio of from about 1.5 to about 10, which is defined as the cross-sectional width of the fibers divided by the cross-sectional thickness of the fibers.
US11352479B2
The present invention provides fire-retarded rigid polyurethane foam comprising the reaction product of polyol and isocyanate foam forming components and a dialkyl phosphorus-containing compound, namely a reactive mono-hydroxyl-functional dialkyl phosphinates, as flame retardant, serving as highly efficient reactive flame retardant in said rigid polyurethane foam.
US11352475B2
Organosilicon polymer foams are synthesized using a Carboni-Lindsey reaction of a tetrazine with a siloxane polymer having at least one of alkenyl or alkynyl functional groups. Optionally, the reaction may also comprise a second polymer having at least one of alkenyl or alkynyl functional groups. The organosilicon polymer foams may be crosslinked thermoset foams. The foams may be flexible or rubbery.
US11352474B2
Described are dissolvable, porous solid structures formed using certain vinyl acetate-vinyl alcohol copolymers. The copolymer and the porosity of the structure allow for liquid flow during use such that the structure readily dissolves to provide a desired consumer experience. Also described are processes for making open cell foam and fibrous dissolvable solid structures.
US11352470B2
The present invention achieves higher performance (improvement in, for example, heat resistance, durability, and mechanical characteristics) of polyamide resin by a method which is not dependent on a combination with fibers. According to an embodiment of a polyamide resin member of the present invention, the polyamide resin member contains nano-oriented crystals of polyamide 66, and has a high heatproof temperature (Th≈278° C.) and a high melting point (Tm≈282° C.).
US11352468B2
Perfume microcapsule-containing films, related solutions, and containers including the films (e.g. detergent packets) are disclosed, together with their methods of preparation and use.
US11352456B2
The present invention relates to a polymer comprising moieties derived from ethylene and moieties derived from 1-hexene, wherein the polymer has: (a) a density of ≥910 and ≤930 kg/m3 as determined in accordance with ASTM D1505 (2010); (b) a melt mass-flow rate of ≥0.5 and ≤5.0 g/10 min, as determined in accordance with ASTM D1238 (2013) at a temperature of 190° C. under a load of 2.16 kg; (c) a fraction that is not eluted in analytical temperature rising elution fractionation (a-TREF) at a temperature >30.0° C. of ≥8.0 wt %, with regard to the total weight of the polymer; and (d) a fraction eluted in a-TREF at a temperature >94.0° C. of ≥20.0 wt %, with regard to the total weight of the polymer. Such polymer allows for the production of bi-directionally oriented films having a particularly desirable ability to be stretched at a high stretching ratio, in both the machine direction and in the transverse direction, and particularly to be stretched to a high stretching ratio in the machine direction and the transverse direction combined. Further this polymer allows for production of bi-directionally oriented films within a particularly and desirably broad temperature range in which the stretching can be performed without imparting any deficiencies of hampering the film production processes in continuous film production.
US11352450B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a photopolymerizable composition which can act as a photopolymerization sensitizer that is active against light having a wavelength falling within a wavelength range of from 300 to 500 nm, and which has such a property that coloring of a cured product produced by polymerizing a photopolymerizable composition containing the photopolymerization sensitizer is less. A photopolymerization sensitizer composition characterized by comprising a photopolymerization sensitizer containing an alkoxyanthracene compound represented by the formula (1) and a singlet oxygen quencher; and a photopolymerizable composition containing the photopolymerization sensitizer composition: in the formula (1), n represents an integer of 1 or 2; R represents a C1-12 alkyl group; and X represents a hydrogen atom or a C1-8 alkyl group.
US11352441B2
Provided are novel human copper-zinc superoxide dismutase, also known as superoxide dismutase 1 or SOD1, specific antibodies as well as fragments, derivatives and variants thereof as well as methods related thereto. Assays, kits, and solid supports related to antibodies specific for SOD1 are also disclosed. The antibody, immunoglobulin chain(s), as well as binding fragments, derivatives and variants thereof can be used in pharmaceutical and diagnostic compositions for SOD1 targeted immunotherapy and diagnosis, respectively.
US11352435B2
Anti-CD133 monoclonal antibodies having advantageous properties, products, compositions and kits comprising the monoclonal antibodies, methods (processes) of making the monoclonal antibodies and related compositions, as well as methods of using the monoclonal antibodies in analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic applications.
US11352427B2
The invention relates to an isolated immunoglobulin heavy chain polypeptide and an isolated immunoglobulin light chain polypeptide that bind to a protein encoded by the T Cell Immunoglobulin and Mucin Protein-3 (TIM-3). The invention provides a TIM-3-binding agent that comprises the aforementioned immunoglobulin heavy chain polypeptide and immunoglobulin light chain polypeptide. The invention also provides related vectors, compositions, and methods of using the TIM-3-binding agent to treat a disorder or disease that is responsive to TIM-3 inhibition, such as cancer, an infectious disease, or an autoimmune disease.
US11352426B2
The present disclosure relates to protein molecules that specifically bind to CD3, which may have at least one humanized CD3-binding domain. Such molecules are useful for the treatment of cancer. The protein molecule binding to CD3 may have a second binding domain that binds to another target. In one embodiment, multispecific polypeptide molecules bind both tumor antigen-expressing cells and the CD3 subunit of a T-cell receptor complex on T-cells to induce target-dependent T-cell cytotoxicity, activation, and proliferation. The disclosure also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the CD3-binding poypeptide molecules, nucleic acid molecules encoding these polypeptides and methods of making these molecules.
US11352422B2
Agents that specifically bind to an opioid receptor in a conformationally specific way can be used to induce a conformational change in the receptor. Such agents have therapeutic applications and can be used in X-ray crystallography studies of the receptor. Such agents can also be used to improve drug discovery via compound screening and/or structure-based drug design.
US11352404B2
Fusion molecules of a cytokine or portion thereof and a polypeptide which targets the fusion protein to phosphatidylserine, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods for their use in targeting a cytokine or portion thereof to a pathological site and treating a disease or condition responsive to cytokine treatment are provided.
US11352402B2
The present invention relates to interleukin-4 receptor-binding fusion proteins. More specifically, the invention provides, in part, fusion proteins that include an interleukin-4 or interleukin-13 protein moiety joined to an anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family member protein moiety.
US11352400B2
Fusion peptide comprising: i) an amino acid sequence as defined in SEQ ID No.: 1 or a related homolog having at least 90% identity with SEQ ID No.: 1 and having the ability of the sequence SEQ ID No.: 1 to inhibit the kinase-independent function of PI3Kγ, and ii) a peptide having the ability to penetrate a cell.
US11352399B2
The present invention relates to a fusion polypeptide that inhibits TLR1/2, TLR2/6, TLR7, TLR8 and TLR9 signaling pathways as well as Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) and TLR3, and a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating TLR pathway mediated diseases. The fusion peptide of the present invention has an excellent effect of inhibiting TLR4 and various TLR pathways and can be effectively used in preventing and treating various TLR pathway mediated diseases caused by the signaling pathways, such as autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases and degenerative neurological diseases, by inhibiting the TLR mediated immune responses.
US11352397B2
Described herein are methods and compositions relating to engineered curli fibers, e.g. CsgA polypeptide. In some embodiments, the methods and compositions described herein relate to functionalized biofilms.
US11352396B2
Antimicrobial peptides of general formula X0X1X2C X3X4X5CX6X7X8X9CYX10X11CX12X13 are provided. Also provided are certain formulations containing these peptides and methods of using these peptides for treating skin infections in an animal in need thereof.
US11352390B2
A peptoid compound, a nanometer carrier, a pharmaceutical composition, and use of the pharmaceutical composition in manufacture of a medicament for treatment of a disease related to human epidermal growth factor receptor 1 (EGFR). The peptoid compound includes: cysteine (Cys) subunit, 1,4-butanediamine (Nlys) subunit, piperonylamine subunit, β-alanine subunit and 1-naphthylamine subunit. The peptoid compound has high affinity and targeting effect to the EGFR protein, and high selectivity, and meanwhile has high medicament loading efficiency, no toxicity, and high safety.
US11352387B2
Disclosed are chemical compounds, the compounds for use in a method of treatment, particularly in a method of prophylaxis or treatment for cancer, a process for preparation of the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds. The compounds may, in particular, be useful in the treatment of leukaemia, lymphoma and/or solid tumours in Homo sapiens. The compounds are derivatives of cordycepin (3′-deoxyadenosine) having a 2′ and/or 5′-amino-acid ester phosphoramidate moiety.
US11352386B2
The invention relates to a metallocene complex according to formula (I), wherein R1 is selected from C2-C10 alkyl, preferably C3-C10 alkyl, C6-C20 aryl, C7-C20 aralkyl groups, wherein R2 is selected from H, C1-C10 alkyl, and wherein R3, R4, R5 and R6 are independently selected from H, C1-C10 alkyl, C6-C20 aryl, or C7-C20 aralkyl groups and wherein R3 and R4, R4 and R5, or R5 and R6 can be connected to form a ring structure wherein M is selected from Ti, Zr and Hf, X is an anionic ligand to M. The invention also relates to a catalyst comprising the reaction product of the metallocene complex and a cocatalyst. Further the invention relates to a (co)polymerization process of olefinic monomers.
US11352380B2
The disclosure provides a method of obtaining an isolated phospholipid enriched krill composition. The method includes a) contacting a crude krill composition with an alcohol in an amount sufficient to provide a phospholipid enriched layer and a non-phospholipid enriched layer; b) forming a phospholipid enriched layer and a non-phospholipid enriched layer, wherein the phospholipid enriched layer is above the non-phospholipid enriched layer; c) isolating the phospholipid enriched layer and the non-phospholipid enriched layer; and d) removing the alcohol from the phospholipid enriched layer to provide an isolated phospholipid enriched krill composition.
US11352376B2
A complex of formula (I) wherein M is zirconium or hafnium; each X independently is a sigma ligand; L is a divalent bridge selected from —R′2C—, —R′2C—CR′2—, —R′2Si—, —R′2Si—SiR′2—, —R′2Ge—, wherein each R′ is independently a hydrogen atom or a C1-C20-hydrocarbyl .group optionally containing one or more silicon atoms or heteroatoms of Group 14-16 of the periodic table or fluorine atoms, and optionally two R′ groups taken together can form a ring; R2 and R2′ are each independently a C1-C20 hydrocarbyl group, —OC1-20 hydrocarbyl group or —SC1-20 hydrocarbyl group; R5 is a —OC1-20 hydrocarbyl group or —SC1-20 hydrocarbyl group, said R5 group being optionally substituted by one or more halo groups; R5′ is hydrogen or a C1-20 hydrocarbyl group; —OC1-20 hydrocarbyl group or —SC1-20 hydrocarbyl group; said C1-20 hydrocarbyl group being optionally substituted by one or more halo groups; R6 and R6′ are each independently a C1-20 hydrocarbyl group; —OC1-20 hydrocarbyl group or —SC1-20 hydrocarbyl group; each R1 and R1′ are independently —CH2Rx wherein Rx are each independently H, or a C1-20 hydrocarbyl group, optionally containing heteroatoms.
US11352375B2
A method of forming polymerization auxiliaries for a polymerization process may include combining an antifouling agent with a killer agent to form an auxiliary composition; and contacting the auxiliary composition with an alkylaluminum. An antifouling complex may be produced by combining an antifouling agent with a killer agent to form an auxiliary composition; and contacting the auxiliary composition with an alkylaluminum.
US11352373B2
A process for a continuous production of a boronic acid derivative and an apparatus of performing the process are disclosed.
US11352372B2
The invention relates to 4-(1-hydroxy-3,4-dihydro-1H-benzo[c][1,2]oxaborinin-3-yl)benzimidamide derivatives and their use in treating diseases and conditions of the skin (for example, Netherton syndrome, rosacea atopic dermatitis, psoriasis and itch) caused by abnormally high levels of protease activity (particularly of serine proteases such as kallikreins). In addition, the invention relates to compositions containing the derivatives and processes for their preparation.
US11352366B2
The present invention provides a 2-aminoquinazolinone derivative. The present invention is a compound represented by formula (1) [wherein X1 represents CR or N, X2 represents CR2 or N, X3 represents CR3 or N, Y represents an optionally substituted C6-10 aryl or optionally substituted 6 to 10-membered heteroaryl, Z represents an optionally substituted C6-10 aryl, RA represents a hydrogen atom, halogen, cyano, optionally substituted C1-6 alkyl sulfonyl, optionally substituted C1-6 alkyl, or optionally substituted C1-6 alkoxy, and R1, R2, and R3 independently represent a hydrogen atom, halogen, optionally substituted C1-6 alkyl, or optionally substituted C1-6 alkoxy] or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US11352365B2
The present invention is directed to a compound having Formula (I) and its enantiomer: wherein the definitions of n, R, X, Y and Y3, and Z are provided in the disclosure. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions of the disclosed compounds, as well as their use as opioid-like agonists in the treatment of pain.
US11352364B2
A method for preparing phthalocyanine nanospheres is provided, including: synthesizing an ionic phthalocyanine molecule of formula I according to a following chemical scheme: wherein M is Cu or Zn, X is Br or Cl, R1, R2, R3, and R4 are aromatic substituent groups; dissolving at least one ionic phthalocyanine molecule selected from the formula I in a solvent to form a solution; preparing a two-dimensional layer crystalline material with an opposite charge to the ionic phthalocyanine molecule; adding the two-dimensional layer crystalline material to the solution; heating the solution to evaporate a portion of the solvent to aggregate the ionic phthalocyanine molecule into phthalocyanine nanospheres between a film layer of the two-dimensional layer crystalline material; and separating the phthalocyanine nanospheres from the film layer of the two-dimensional layer crystalline material.
US11352361B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula I that function as inhibitors of RET (rearranged during transfection) kinase enzyme activity: wherein HET, bonds a, b, c and d, X1, X2, X3, X4, R2, and R3 are each as defined herein. The present invention also relates to processes for the preparation of these compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, and to their use in the treatment of proliferative disorders, such as cancer, as well as other diseases or conditions in which RET kinase activity is implicated.
US11352347B2
The disclosure is directed to dantrolene prodrugs, compositions thereof, and methods of their use in the treatment of disease.
US11352337B1
Provided herein are methods for converting CBD to a product mixture comprising Δ8-THC, Δ9-THC, or a combination thereof. The methods provided herein may comprise one or more of (1) a contacting step wherein a starting material comprising CBD, a catalyst comprising a zeolite, and optionally a solvent are added to a reaction vessel, thereby forming a reaction mixture; (2) a conversion step wherein at least a portion of the CBD is converted to THC, thereby forming a product mixture; and (3) optionally, a separation step wherein at least a portion of the catalyst is removed from the product mixture. Advantageously, the methods do not require the use of catalysts or other reagents that are hazardous to human health.
US11352336B2
Disclosed is a cost-effective process for catalytic conversion of simple C6-based sugars (such as glucose and fructose) and industrial-grade sugar syrups derived from starch (such as different grades of High Fructose Corn Syrup) and cellulosic biomass to 5-HydroxyMethylFurfural (5-HMF) in a continuous-flow tubular reactor in bi-phasic media using inexpensive heterogeneous solid catalysts. Commercial and synthesized heterogeneous solid catalysts were used and their activities in terms of sugar conversion and HMF selectivity and yield were compared. Continuous dehydration of fructose, glucose and industrial-grade sugar syrups derived from corn and wood to HMF was achieved and the stability of selected catalysts and feasibility of catalyst recycling and regeneration were demonstrated. The performance of the catalysts and reactor system were examined under different operating conditions including reaction temperature, feeding flow rate, initial feedstock concentration, catalyst loading, presence of extracting organic solvent and phase transfer catalyst and aqueous to organic phase ratio. At the best operating conditions, HMF yield attained 60%, 45% and 53%, from dehydration of fructose, glucose and HFCS-90, respectively.
US11352335B2
The present invention provides an improved process for preparing 5-chloro-2-[(3,4,4-trifluoro-3-buten-1-yl)thio]-thiazole comprising reacting 2-[(3,4,4-trifluoro-3-buten-1-yl)thio]-thiazole with N-chlorosuccinimide (NCS) in the presence of water, the improvement comprising performing the step of reacting the compound of formula (II) with NCS in the presence of a reduced amount of water. The present invention provides an improved process for preparing 5-chloro-2-[(3, 4,4-trifluoro-3-buten-1-yl)thio]-thiazole comprising reacting 2-[(3, 4,4-trifluoro-3-buten-1-yl)thio]-thiazole with N-chlorosuccinimide (NCS) in the presence of water, the improvement comprising performing the step of reacting the compound of formula (II) with an excess molar amount of NCS.
US11352332B2
There is provided herein a compound of formula (I) wherein R1, R2, n, X, Q, L, m, R3 and p are as defined herein, which compounds are useful in the treatment of treatment of diseases characterised by impaired signalling of neurotrophins and/or other trophic factors, such as Alzheimer's disease and the like.
US11352331B2
Disclosed are a crystal of a 4-(naphthalene-1-yl)-4H-1,2,4-triazole compound (1) and a preparation method therefor, also comprised are applications of the crystal in preparing a medicament for treating an abnormal uric acid level-related disease.
US11352327B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of compounds endowed with phosphodiesterase (PDE4) inhibitory activity having formula (I). The invention also relates to the process for the isolation by crystallization of the compound (I) and to its use for the preparation of pharmaceutical compositions for inhalation in combination with suitable carriers or vehicles. The present invention also relates to solvates and crystal forms of a compound of formula (I). The synthesized product is suitable for use in pharmaceutical applications for instance in the treatment of respiratory diseases.
US11352325B2
Reagents comprising MS active, fluorescent molecules with an activated functionality for reaction with amines useful in tagging biomolecules such as N-glycans and uses thereof are taught and described. In particular embodiments, the MS active, fluorescent molecules are of the compound of the Formula III or of the Formula IV where R1, R2 and R3 are defined herein.
US11352323B2
Provided herein are processes for making and methods of using salts of glycopyrronium, including solid forms and forms suitable for use as topicals. Disclosed here are processes for making salts of glycopyrronium, also processes for making compositions comprising salts of glycopyrronium, and methods of treating hyperhidrosis with salts of glycopyrronium as well as with compositions comprising salts of glycopyrronium such as, but not limited to, topical compositions. Disclosed herein are methods of treating hyperhidrosis including administering salts of glycopyrronium to subjects in need thereof.
US11352321B2
Provided herein are compounds, including enantiomerically pure forms thereof, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or co-crystals and prodrugs thereof which have glucagon receptor antagonist or inverse agonist activity. Further, provided herein are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same as well as methods of treating, preventing, delaying the time to onset or reducing the risk for the development or progression of a disease or condition for which one or more glucagon receptor antagonist is indicated, including Type I and II diabetes, insulin resistance and hyperglycemia. Moreover, provided herein are methods of making or manufacturing compounds disclosed herein, including enantiomerically pure forms thereof, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or Co-crystals and prodrugs thereof. Formula I
US11352314B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) that are useful as perfuming ingredients of the fruity type. Formula (I) is in the form of any one of its stereoisomers or of a mixture thereof, wherein R1 represents a C1-3 alkyl or alkenyl group, R2 represents a methyl or ethyl group, R3 represents a C1-4 alkyl or alkenyl group, and the compound (I) has from 8 to 12 carbon atoms.
US11352309B2
Provided is a catalyst including a metal component including a first component that is rhenium and one or more second components selected from the group consisting of silicon, gallium, germanium, and indium and a carrier on which the metal component is supported, the carrier including an oxide of a metal belonging to Group 4 of the periodic table. Also provided is an alcohol production method in which a carbonyl compound is treated using the above catalyst. It is possible to produce an alcohol by a hydrogenation reaction of a carbonyl compound with high selectivity and high efficiency while reducing side reactions.
US11352301B2
The present invention relates to very high workable yet controllable concrete mix design, admixture composition, and process for placing concrete. The mix design relates to particular aggregate/cement ratios and types which are characteristic of ready mix concrete (RMC), which provide high fluidity reminiscent of self-consolidating concrete (SCC), and which provides advantages over both RMC and SCC in terms of ease and speed in placement and finishability at the construction site placement zone, regardless of whether into a horizontal formwork (e.g., for slabs, floors) or into vertical formwork (e.g., for blocks, walls, columns, etc.), without loss of control and without generating high risks of segregation even when small amounts of water are added at the size to facilitate finishing of the concrete surface. An inventive admixture combination which enables this unique design involves two different polycarboxylate comb polymers in combination with two specific viscosity modifying agents, and this combination provides highly workable concrete to be placed in a controlled, efficient manner.
US11352298B2
A cubic boron nitride sintered material includes: more than 80 volume % and less than 100 volume % of cubic boron nitride grains; and more than 0 volume % and less than 20 volume % of a binder phase. The binder phase includes: at least one selected from a group consisting of a simple substance, an alloy, and an intermetallic compound selected from a group consisting of a group 4 element, a group 5 element, a group 6 element in a periodic table, aluminum, silicon, cobalt, and nickel. A dislocation density of the cubic boron nitride grains is more than or equal to 1×1015/m2 and less than or equal to 1×1017/m2.
US11352297B2
The invention provides novel methods and novel additive compositions and use thereof in a wide range of concrete production for improving properties of concrete materials, such as durability and aestheticity. The methods and compositions of the invention may be applied in a variety of cement and concrete components in the infrastructure, construction, pavement and landscaping industries.
US11352293B2
A method of reworking lithium containing ion exchanged glass-based articles is provided. The method includes a reverse ion exchange process that returns the glass-based article to approximately the composition of the glass from which the glass-based article was produced, before being subjected to ion exchange.
US11352284B2
A system for urban organic solid waste pyrolysis-gasification coupled with drying includes a sludge feeding and storage device, a pre-drying device, a cyclone separator, a specific cloth bag for sludge and a flue gas waste heat recovery device sequentially connected. The cyclone separator and a sludge outlet of the specific cloth bag for sludge are connected with a cyclone fluidized bed gasification furnace. The cyclone fluidized bed gasification furnace is connected with a high-temperature separator. The high-temperature separator is connected with a secondary combustion chamber. High-temperature flue gas generated by the secondary combustion chamber serves as a heat source of the pre-drying device. Ash generated by the high-temperature separator and secondary combustion chamber is sent to an ash bin after being cooled by a cold slag conveyor. Through system integration and optimization, the disclosure adopts a two-stage process of pre-drying and pyrolysis-gasification, thus having high process controllability and operability.
US11352277B2
Wastewater treatment systems are disclosed. A wastewater treatment system includes a wastewater conduit disposed in a wastewater treatment vessel, a pump comprising an intake and an outlet connectable to the at least one opening of the wastewater conduit, and an adapter comprising a first end and a second end. The adapter is configured, in a treatment mode, to provide a flow path for wastewater from the wastewater treatment vessel through the adapter and pump to the wastewater conduit. The adapter is further configured to, in a backflush mode, provide a flow path for wastewater through the plurality of nozzles of the wastewater conduit and through the adapter and pump for discharge into the wastewater treatment vessel. Methods of treating wastewater using the system and adapter are disclosed. Methods of retrofitting a wastewater treatment system by providing the adapter are disclosed.
US11352269B2
A conventional media filter such as a gravity sand filter is converted into a membrane filter. The media is removed and replaced by immersed membrane modules. Transmembrane pressure is created by a static head pressure differential, without a suction pump, thereby creating a membrane gravity filter (MGF). Preferred operating parameters include transmembrane pressure of 5-20 kPa, 1-3 backwashes per day, and a flux of 10-20 L/m2/h. The membranes are dosed with chlorine or another oxidant, preferably at 700 minutes*mg/L as Cl2 equivalent per week or less. The small oxidant does is believed to provide a porous biofilm or fouling layer without substantially removing the layer. The media filter may be modified so that backwash wastewater is removed from near the bottom of the tank rather than through backwash troughs above the membrane modules. Membrane integrity testing may be done while the tank is emptied after a backwash.
US11352263B2
A solution and method of creating such for producing silicon nanowires or silicon nano-plates. The solution comprising distilled water, Potassium Hydroxide (KOH), at least one catalyst, Sodium Methyl Siliconate (CH5NaO3Si), Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid (EDTA), which act as a first chelating agent, Sodium Diethyldithiocarbamate (C5H10NS2Na), which acts as a second chelating agent, and Dimethylacrylic Acid, which acts as a buffer that is able to regulate the amount of silicon nanowires or plates formed and to prevent agglomeration. The concentration of the Sodium Diethyldithiocarbamate in the solution is greater than concentration of the EDTA in the solution for forming a plurality of thick and short nanowires, and the concentration of the Sodium Diethyldithiocarbamate in the solution is less than the concentration of the EDTA in the solution for forming a plurality of thin and long nanowires.
US11352250B2
A gas supply marine vessel and a refueling facility are described. The gas supply marine vessel includes a hull with an upper deck having an elongated cargo cavity formed therein. Gas interface modules are disposed in the cavity and extend between hull sides, each module having a plurality of fuel vessel docking stations. A plurality of stacked fuel container assemblies are fluidically coupled to the docking stations. A gantry, is movable along the length of the cavity, straddles the cargo cavity between hull sides. An articulating crane is mounted on the gantry and it utilized to move fuel container assemblies to a fuel container depression formed in the deck of a floating refueling facility. The floating refueling facility includes a concave side to facilitate mooring adjacent a shoreline, the concave side forming angled extensions at corners of the deck with a linkspan extending from each of the angled extensions.
US11352245B2
A beverage discharger may include a dispenser case; a channel body at least partially disposed in the dispenser case, the channel body having a first dispenser channel defined therein that communicates with a beverage discharge channel; a discharge body coupled to the channel body and having a second dispenser channel defined therein that communicates with the first dispenser channel, the discharge body extending vertically in an elongated manner; an ascending and descending body connected to the dispenser case in an ascending and descending manner; a shaft connected to the ascending and descending body to ascend and descend with the ascending and descending body, the shaft having, at a bottom portion, a packing that opens and closes the second dispenser channel; and at least one guide rib formed on an inner face of the discharge body to guide the bottom portion of the shaft.
US11352241B2
A cable tension overload fuse assembly is configured to couple together a structural support cable operatively coupled to a structural support, and a net barrier cable supporting barrier netting. The cable tension overload fuse assembly includes a mechanical fuse and a rescue cable coupled to the structural support cable and the net barrier cable. The mechanical fuse is configured to break upon exertion of a predetermined force to allow the net barrier cable to sag to reduce forces transmitted to the structural support and prevent damage to it, while the rescue cable continues to couple together the structural support cable and the net barrier cable to prevent the net barrier and/or net barrier or net barrier cable from falling completely to the ground without the structural support cable and cable tension overload fuse assembly.
US11352231B2
A controller includes a shaft control unit that controls driving of a shaft drive source such that a standby side roll is rotated, and a unit control unit that presses a pressing roller against an outer peripheral surface of the standby side roll via a sheet of a supply side roll by performing torque control on a unit drive source in a state in which the pressing roller is positioned in an area from a control switching position to the outer peripheral surface of the standby side roll together with performing position control on the unit drive source in a state in which the pressing roller is positioned in an area farther away from the standby side roll than the control switching position away from the outer peripheral surface of the standby side roll by a preset distance while the standby side roll is rotated by the shaft control unit.
US11352225B2
An image forming apparatus includes a stack portion on which a sheet is to be stacked, a regulating portion, a first detection device which includes a rotary variable resistor, a second detection, and a control unit. The regulating portion regulates a position of an edge of the stacked sheet. The first detection device outputs a detection signal based on the rotary variable resistor. The rotary variable resistor rotates in accordance with the sheet edge position regulated by the regulating portion. The second detection device detects presence or absence of the stacked sheet. The control unit calculates a calculated sheet width of the stacked sheet based on the output detection signal. The control unit sets the calculated sheet width after a first predetermined time has elapsed since the second detection device detects that the sheet is stacked on the stack portion as a detected sheet width of the stacked sheet.
US11352222B2
An assembly to distribute flowable particulate material, the assembly including: a conduit to which the material is delivered and to which an airstream is supplied to move the material along the conduit to a delivery downstream destination; material delivery means connected to the conduit for delivery of material to the downstream destination; control means operatively associated with the material delivery means to selectively deliver a pre-determined rate of the material to a separator to engage the airstream to concentrate the material in a portion of the airstream, the separator being positioned within the conduit upstream of the material delivery means; air distribution means in constant fluid communication with the separator and the material delivery means to control airflow to the material delivery means.
US11352219B2
A gripper arm for a gripping device for gripping, holding and guiding in particular bottle-like containers includes a base body, a gripping section as well as at least one actuating roller arranged on the base body and rotatably mounted for interacting with a control cam of the gripping device. The at least one actuating roller is arranged on the base body so as to be replaceable.
US11352203B2
A thief hatch assembly for a storage tank includes a housing and a cover that rests on an upper surface of the housing to seal and maintain a pressure within the storage tank. The thief hatch cover is configured to open at a predetermined set pressure to relieve excess pressure from the storage tank. The thief hatch assembly is attached to the storage tank using blind threaded mounting holes to prevent escape of gases from the storage tank through the mounting holes. In one embodiment, the blind threaded holes are provided in a flange adapter that mounts between the thief hatch housing and the storage tank. In another embodiment, the blind threaded holes are provided in a flange adapter that is welded to the storage tank. In another embodiment, the blind threaded holes are provided in the base of the thief hatch housing. Seals are provided between the mounting surfaces.
US11352200B2
A powder container (10) comprising a pressure vessel (12) for containing a quantity of powder (14) and a quantity of pressurised gas (32), an outlet through which, in use, the powder (14) can flow out of the pressure vessel (12), and an outlet valve (24) for selectively opening and closing the outlet, wherein the container (10) further comprises a data sensing and/or logging means (56, 58, 60, 62, 64) adapted to monitor and/or log various parameters of the powder (14) and/or the pressurised gas (32) and further comprising a control unit (54) adapted record and log the sensor readings either continuously, or at intervals, the control unit (54) comprising a communications module adapted to relay sensor readings, or log files, to a remote monitoring station.
US11352195B2
Heads for an aerosol container are disclosed. The head comprises a handle body having a base configured to be coupled to the aerosol container, an outlet, a flexible tube housed within the handle body. The flexible tube is configured to provide fluid communication between the container exit of the aerosol container and the outlet. And the head further comprises an elastically deformable actuator having a lever arm, and a coupling portion integrally formed with the lever arm and configured to be mounted around the flexible tube, wherein the coupling portion is further configured such that when the lever arm is deformed by a user, the coupling portion actuates on the valve body of the aerosol container. Aerosol containers having such heads and kits for treatments skin lesions are also disclosed.
US11352192B2
The invention relates to a device for pouring fluid (F) stored in a container (20) by inclining the container (20), the device (10) comprising: —a first part (100) comprising at least one collecting orifice (130) for collecting the fluid in the container (20), —a second part (150), which comprises fluid pouring means (160) that can be fluidically connected to the collecting orifice (130), —sealing means (190) separating the first part (100) and the second part (150), configured to seal the container when the device (10) is mounted on the container (20), the device being characterized in that the first part (100) also comprises a gas reservoir (110) and a degassing orifice (120) for evacuating gas from the reservoir (110) to the interior of the container (20).
US11352190B2
A machine for converting a sheet stock material into a relatively less dense dunnage product includes both (a) a helical pre-form assembly having a cylindrical mandrel with a longitudinal axis and a guide member for guiding the sheet stock material from a supply thereof into a helical path along and around the mandrel so as to form a helical pre-form that rotates around the longitudinal axis and advances parallel to the longitudinal axis; and (b) a restriction in the path of the pre-form that slows the advance and rotation of the pre-form past the restriction, the restriction causing the pre-form to retard longitudinal advancement, to twist upon itself, and to permanently deform as it moves past the restriction, thereby longitudinally and helically crumpling the pre-form.
US11352186B2
A shipping package and method of making a shipping package having a flexible inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface. The method includes providing one or more sheets of flexible material, joining the sheet(s) to form an article reservoir for accepting an article to be shipped, one or more expansion chambers, and an article retrieval feature. The expansion chambers can be inflated or otherwise expanded to provide structure to the package and to protect the article in the article reservoir.
US11352183B2
One-way pressure relief valves with wetting fluid reservoirs are disclosed. Valves of the types described herein may be applied to a product package, for example a package containing dry roasted coffee, to allow gas to escape from the package while preventing entry of ambient air into the package. A wetting fluid is provided within the valve to facilitate formation of the seal blocking entry of ambient air through the valve and into the product package. The wetting fluid reservoirs hold wetting fluid to limit or prevent leakage of the wetting fluid from the valve providing benefits such as improved application of the valves to the packages, improved retention of the valves to the packages, and appearance improvements resulting from avoidance of leakage of wetting fluid onto the valve and the package to which the valve is attached.
US11352178B2
A closure (40, 40A, 40B) for use with a container includes a body (54, 54A, 54B) defining a passage (72, 72A, 72B) and a first latch portion (92, 92B). The closure (40, 40A, 40B) has a lid (56, 56A, 56B) defining a deflectable press portion (96, 96A, 96B) that has a connection (100, 100A, 100B) to the closure body (54, 54A, 54B). The lid (56, 56A, 56B) has a cover portion (100, 100A, 100B) including a second latch portion (120, 120A, 120B) for engaging the first latch portion (92, 92B) to releasably hold the cover portion (100, 100A, 100B) in a latched closed position in which the cover portion (100, 100A, 100B) at least partially occludes the passage (72, 72A, 72B). The lid (56, 56A, 56B) has a biased hinge (104, 104A, 104B) connecting the cover portion (100, 100A, 100B) with the press portion (96, 96A, 96B) to accommodate movement of the cover portion (100, 100A, 100B) between the latched closed position and an unlatched open position.
US11352175B2
Safe and sealed closure method for the neck of a bottle, wherein the stopper (1) used and the container (2) to be closed are such that they form one integral part (5) upon closing of the container with the stopper via engagement by entry of a safety strip (6) of said stopper into a part (4) positioned on the container's neck such that the safety strip enters into the part of the container neck in one irreversible way, making the safety strip and the part one integral, non-detachable part or by entry of a safety strip positioned on the container's neck into a part of said stopper such that the safety strip enters into the part of the stopper in one irreversible way, making the safety strip and the part one integral, non-detachable part, wherein said safety strip or said part is attached to a safety seal band (8) of the stopper at an end of the safety seal band, wherein the safety seal band is attached to the whole circumference of the stopper when closed and wherein the safety seal band partially detaches from the stopper upon opening the bottle from opening points keeping the stopper attached to the container.
US11352159B2
Apparatus for extracting stacked articles from cardboard containers includes a store receiving the containers with a bottom closed by a tab; a rest and sliding plane substantially vertical and transversal to the store; a channel in a second unloading position, distant from the first pick-up position, for unloading the articles in the containers; abutting and folding means, lateral to the store near the first pick-up position for abutting and folding about the tab and opening the bottoms of the containers; an abutting plane substantially horizontal and transversal to the rest and sliding plane and lateral to the store between the first pick-up position and the unloading channel, to retain the articles inside the containers once the bottoms are open, and having an opening at the inlet of the unloading channel.
US11352153B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a strapping tool configured to tension metal strap around a load and, after tensioning, attach overlapping portions of the strap to one another by cutting notches into a seal element positioned around the overlapping portions of the strap and into the overlapping portions of the strap themselves.
US11352151B2
A system for transferring a fluid from a first spacecraft to a second spacecraft. The first spacecraft includes a fluid transfer system comprising: a pressurant supply system, a first fluid tank to store a fluid to be transferred, one or more transfer feedlines to provide fluidic connection between the first fluid tank and the second spacecraft, a connector for connecting the first spacecraft to the second spacecraft, an accumulator tank comprising a first portion connected to the pressurant supply system, a second portion configured in fluidic communication with the one or more transfer feedlines, and a flexible separator to separate the first portion and the second portion. The pressurant supply system supplies pressurant gas to the first fluid tank for pressurising the first fluid tank and to supply pressurant gas to the first portion of the accumulator tank for pressurising the first portion of the accumulator tank.
US11352150B2
A spacecraft structure for transporting propellant to be consumed by a thruster includes storing the propellant in the spacecraft in a solid state during at least a portion of a take-off procedure and supplying the propellant to the thruster in a liquid or vaporous state when the spacecraft is in space.
US11352146B2
A gas distribution assembly for providing gas to an actuator for opening an aircraft door and to an aircraft evacuation slide, the assembly comprising a single common gas supply and valve means for controlling distribution of gas from the common supply between the slide and the door actuator based on door opening position.
US11352137B2
Cargo load platform assemblies are especially adapted to provide support for a variety of cargo, such as auxiliary aircraft fuel tanks. According to certain embodiments herein, a load platform is provided which is adapted to being positioned onto a cargo deck of a cargo aircraft. At least one anti-rattle device is operatively associated with the load platform for positionally fixing the load platform to a tie-down ring of the cargo deck of a cargo aircraft. The cargo load platform may support a rigid fuel tank thereon so that auxiliary fuel tankage systems can be provided as may be needed.
US11352124B2
Continuous skin leading edge slats are disclosed. A disclosed example leading edge slat for use with an aircraft includes a single-piece nose skin defining upper and lower external surfaces of the leading edge slat, where the single-piece nose skin is to extend between a fore end and an aft end of the leading edge slat, and a box spar coupled to an inner surface of the single-piece nose skin. The box spar includes lateral walls extending away from the inner surface of the single-piece nose skin. The lateral walls define at least one compartment of the box spar.
US11352119B2
A linking part for an aircraft is disclosed having an elongated section including an internal longitudinal seat and a tenon mounted in the seat. The tenon includes a linking element at a free longitudinal end thereof and configured in a retracted position in which the tenon is fully inserted in the seat and does not create an obstruction, enabling the linking part to be easily moved towards the support element, or a deployed position (P2) in which the free longitudinal end of the tenon is outside the seat and is able to be linked using the linking element to the support element, thereby enabling a link to be made simply and quickly.
US11352118B1
A method for controlling propulsion of at least two marine drives on a marine vessel includes monitoring an engine output indicator for each of the at least two marine drives on the marine vessel and detecting whether the engine output indicator for a subset of those at least two marine drives is below an expected value. If so, then an output restriction is imposed on at least one remaining marine drive not in the subset of marine drives, wherein the output restriction reduces an engine output of the at least one remaining marine drive to a predetermined level.
US11352117B1
Apparatus and associated methods relate to configuring a watercraft propulsion system and control surface to generate a higher rate flow and a lower rate flow governed by the watercraft's yaw slip angle, adjusting the rate difference between the higher rate flow and the lower rate flow based on adjusting the yaw slip angle determined as a function of the control surface position and the propulsion system thrust vector, and directing by the watercraft the higher rate flow to converge with the lower rate flow to create a wave. The propulsion system may be a plurality of independently adjustable propulsion methods permitting propulsion system differential thrust vector adjustment. The control surface may be adjustable 360 degrees in the plane of the watercraft longitudinal axis. The yaw slip angle may be adjusted based on sensor information. Exemplary implementations may increase wave quality and improve maneuverability of a watercraft configured to create waves.
US11352106B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for deploying an unmanned marine vehicle into water, in which the unmanned marine vehicle includes a float and a glider connected by a tether. The apparatus includes a buoyant frame having a first frame arm, and a second frame arm spaced from the first frame arm to define a receiving bay between the first frame arm and the second frame arm, wherein the receiving bay is sized to receive the float. A glider retainer assembly is coupled to the buoyant frame and configured to releasably retain the glider. The apparatus further includes a payload deployment assembly having an attachment plate coupled to and positioned below the buoyant frame, and a payload compartment releasably coupled to the attachment plate by a payload release, wherein the payload compartment defines a receptacle sized to receive a payload coupled to the glider, and the payload compartment has a density greater than water.
US11352100B2
The present invention relates to a container transportation ship. More particularly, the present invention relates to a container transportation ship for transporting containers, characterized in that a loading space in which at least one container is loaded and a loading/unloading space configured such that an external transfer means can directly enter/exit in order to load and unload the container, are delimited on the deck of the container transportation ship; and a crane is provided to move the container in the longitudinal direction of the container transportation ship, in the transverse direction thereof, and in the upward/downward direction thereof for the purpose of loading the container on the external transfer means that has entered the loading/unloading space or unloading the container from the external transfer means.
US11352098B2
A method of assembling a floating wind turbine platform includes forming a base assembly of the floating wind turbine platform in either a cofferdam or a graving dock built in water having a first depth. The base assembly includes a keystone and a plurality of buoyant bottom beams extending radially outward of the keystone, wherein longitudinal axes of each of the plurality of bottom beams are coplanar. The cofferdam or the graving dock is flooded and the assembled base assembly is floated to an assembly area in water having a second depth. A center column and a plurality of outer columns are assembled or formed on the base assembly, a tower is assembled or formed on the center column, and a wind turbine is assembled on the tower, thereby defining the floating wind turbine platform.
US11352092B2
A vehicle including a front module including a front wheel and a rear module selectively moveably connected to the front module, the rear module including a rear wheel. The vehicle further includes an electric motor assembly, a mode selector, at least one extension assembly connected between the front module and the rear module for selectively extending and retracting to provide a selective variation in an overall length of the vehicle; and a vehicle control unit being communicatively connected between the mode selector and the electric motor assembly. The vehicle control unit performs a method for selectively changing the overall vehicle length. The method includes receiving from the mode selector an indication to change the overall length, determining that the front wheel is rotationally locked, and causing an electric motor to drive the rear wheel such that the rear module translates relative to the front module.
US11352088B2
In a vehicle mobile device mounting assembly and its auxiliary structure, the auxiliary structure is used with a vehicle mounting kit and mounted together on a rod-like portion of a bicycle. The vehicle mounting kit includes a fastening band. The auxiliary structure includes a fastening body, a joining portion integrally formed with the fastening body. The fastening body includes multiple fastening portions on its outer edges and a fastening space in the fastening body. Multiple fastening openings communicating with the fastening space are formed between the fastening portions. The auxiliary structure is mounted on the rod-like portion of the bicycle by inserting the fastening band of the vehicle mounting kit through a joining portion.
US11352085B2
A child bike seat includes a seat body having a seat shell for accommodating a child therein and a support structure for supporting the seat shell. The support structure includes two parts, with an edge portion of the seat shell disposed between the two parts of the support structure for holding the seat shell on the support structure. A method of assembling a child bike seat includes providing a frame part, arranging a seat shell for accommodating a child therein on the frame part, mounting a cover part to the frame part such that an edge portion of the seat shell is disposed between the frame part and the cover part.
US11352077B2
One general aspect includes a tethered temperature sensor (300) for use within a vehicle track (100). The tethered temperature sensor (300) includes one or more sensors (308) for measuring temperature located in a high strain and high temperature region (104) of the vehicle track (100). The sensor also includes circuitry (402) configured to control and/or monitor the one or more sensors and located in a low strain and low temperature region (102) of the vehicle track (100). The sensor also includes a housing (406) to contain the circuitry. The sensor also includes an encapsulating material (408) that fills an interior of the housing (406).
US11352068B2
A wheel-well closure system for a motor vehicle has a wheel-arch delimiting a wheel-well and a wheel mounted in the wheel-well, the system comprising: a support structure connected to the wheel-arch; and a cover connected to the support structure and covering the wheel-well; wherein the cover is made of a flexible material and is secured to the wheel arch; wherein the system comprises a continuous annular part secured to the wheel facing the cover and rotating with the wheel about a horizontal axis; and wherein the support structure comprises an arm extending radially in front of the continuous annular part and against the cover, a steering movement of the wheel about a vertical axis causing the continuous annular to push the support structure and stretch the cover outside the wheel-well.
US11352060B2
A method and a device generate haptic feedback for a vehicle driver, the haptic feedback being generated by applying an additional torque, which alternates about an average total steering torque, to a steering grip of a vehicle by way of an actuator. When the present haptic feedback is recognized and/or simultaneously when haptic feedback occurs, the actuator is actuated such that the magnitude of the average total steering torque is increased by a compensation torque.
US11352058B2
A vehicle traveling controller according to the present disclosure performs automatic steering so that a vehicle travels along a target path. The vehicle traveling controller allows a driver to intervene in steering. When the driver intervenes in steering and thereby a traveling position of the vehicle deviates outside from a threshold line set apart from the target path in a lane width direction, the vehicle traveling controller increases a steering reaction force acting on steering operation by the driver.
US11352057B2
A dual path agricultural machine including a control system having a number of input sensors, status sensors, and output sensors, and a controller configured to operate the dual path machine in a stability control mode and a selective rear-steer engagement and actuation mode. In the stability control mode, the controller adjusts an actual drive output of the dual path machine according to data received from the input sensors and feedback received from the output sensors so as to reduce a difference between the actual drive output and a desired drive output. In selective rear-steer engagement and actuation mode, the controller engages rear-steer mechanisms with caster wheels of the dual path machine and actuates the caster wheels via the rear-steer mechanisms if a criterion is satisfied. The controller disengages the rear-steer mechanisms from the caster wheels or does not actuate the caster wheels if the criterion is not satisfied.
US11352054B2
A method of controlling a steer-by-wire steering system for motor vehicles is disclosed for the calculation of a resulting self-aligning torque of a feedback actuator in a manner which is dependent on an operating state (hands-on/hands-off). The method includes determining of a base self-aligning torque for a first operating state, in which there is hand contact by a driver on a steering wheel, determining a hands-off self-aligning torque for a second operating state, in which there is no hand contact by the driver on the steering wheel, determining a self-aligning speed of the steering wheel for the first operating state and for the second operating state, and determining the resulting self-aligning torque on the basis of the base self-aligning torque or the hands-off self-aligning torque, as a result of which the steering wheel rotates at the defined self-aligning speed into the defined position.
US11352053B2
A turning control device includes: a target steering angle calculation unit configured to calculate a target steering angle of a turning mechanism, based on a second steering angle of a steering mechanism; a steering angular displacement calculation unit configured to, when a third steering angle, the third steering angle being either a first steering angle of the turning mechanism or the second steering angle, is in a range from a maximum steering angle that the third steering angle can take to a first threshold steering angle, calculate a steering angular displacement of the third steering angle with the first threshold steering angle used as a reference; a steering angle correction value calculation unit configured to calculate a steering angle correction value according to at least the steering angular displacement; and a corrected target steering angle calculation unit configured to correct the target steering angle with the steering angle correction value.
US11352051B2
A method for operating a steering system for a motor vehicle, wherein the steering system has at least one steering lever and at least one electric motor for shifting the steering lever so as to cause a steering movement in the presence of a steering input, and wherein the electric motor is electrically connected to a current source via cabling. In doing so, it is provided that the electric motor is actuated and an electric current flowing between the current source and the electric motor is measured in order to check an electrical connection between the current source and the electric motor under the condition that there is no steering input present.
US11352050B2
A method is proposed for operating a steering system of a motor vehicle, in particular an electromechanically supported steering system. First, at least one first virtual magnet and one second virtual magnet are provided in the steering system of the motor vehicle. A virtual magnetic force exerted on each other by the multiple virtual magnets is determined. A setpoint force that is to be applied to a lower part of the steering system is estimated and an auxiliary force with which a servo motor of the steering system acts on the lower part of the steering system is determined from the specified virtual magnetic force and the estimated setpoint force.
US11352049B2
A control device (15) is equipped with a steering angle returning torque target value setting unit (30) which calculates a returning control amount target value (MapOut) based on a vehicle speed (Vs) and a turning angle (θb), and with a steering angle returning torque command signal calculation unit (31) which calculates a retuning control amount (RetOut) based on the retuning control amount target value (MapOut). The steering angle returning torque command signal calculation unit (31) is equipped with a rate limiter (36). The rate limiter (36) determines a change in the vehicle speed (Vs) from a vehicle speed sensor (19), and gradually increases or decreases the retuning control amount target value (MapOut) at a certain rate and then outputs the returning control amount (RetOut).
US11352048B2
A rotation detection device includes a rotation detection circuit, a step-up power supply circuit, a step-down power supply circuit, a first power supply path, and a second power supply path. The rotation detection circuit is configured to detect a rotation number of a motor that generates a torque applied to a steering mechanism of a vehicle, based on an electric signal. The electric signal is generated according to a rotation angle of the motor that is acquired through an in-vehicle sensor.
US11352046B2
A lever assembly (20) has a lever (24) mounted to a lever housing (22), a plunger (26), an auto-return housing (28) pivotable relative to the lever housing (22), a trigger mechanism (30) movable relative to the auto-return housing (28), and a yoke member (32) pivotable relative to the auto-return housing (22) independent of the auto-return housing. The trigger mechanism (30) is movable to an extended position in response to movement of the plunger (26) for engaging a cam element (12) of the steering column (10) for auto-return of the lever to a rest position. The yoke member (32) interacts with the plunger (26) when the plunger (26) pivots with the lever (24) to cause the yoke (32) to pivot toward an engaged position, and the yoke (32) interacts with the trigger mechanism (30) when the yoke (32) is pivoted to move the trigger mechanism (30) toward the extended position.
US11352045B2
A steering wheel damper may include a plate fastened to a hub of a steering wheel; one or more posts each having one side fixed to a surface of the plate and the other side extending perpendicular to the surface of the plate; a mass body spaced from the plate, attached to the other side of the post, supported by the posts, and having upper and lower portions configured as magnet bodies having different polarities; and an electromagnet made by winding a coil around a core fixed to the surface of the plate.
US11352044B2
A steering handle for a steering apparatus of a motor vehicle includes an end face which faces a user when the steering handle is in a position of use and a display element arranged on a side of the steering handle which faces away from the end face. A control device carries out a method by which a position of the steering handle is changed based on a driving mode set by a driver assistance device. The control device generates an adjustment signal to change between a position of use of the steering handle and a position of rest of the steering handle. When the steering handle is in a position of rest, a surface of the steering handle which faces away from the user when the steering handle is in the position of use instead faces the user.
US11352036B2
A train activates an emergency brake when a Station Loop Coil (SLC) used for a stop-position determination function to determine whether the train has stopped at a stop target in a terminal becomes unable to be detected (non-detected state) before the train is determined to have stopped at a stop-position by the stop-position determination function after the SLC has been detected. Thus, the train can be prevented from colliding with a car stop disposed at an end of a track as a result of overrunning. In the terminal protection, an emergency brake or a service brake is activated also when a reception duration during which the SLC continues to be detected reaches a predetermined threshold time period, or when a traveling position of the train reaches a disposed position of the SLC but the SLC is not detected.
US11352035B1
The video monitoring system collects a video data stream in real time; the device inspection system collects and uploads an image of each electrical device along a line; the voice communication system realizes a voice call between an inspection staff and a back-end monitoring staff; the environmental monitoring system monitors a temperature, a humidity, and a water intake in the traction substation and each electrical device; the fire alarm system monitors a fire in the traction substation; the sulfur hexafluoride gas monitoring system monitors a sulfur hexafluoride gas leakage in an electrical device; the security prevention system collects alarm information; the power lighting monitoring system collects operation information of a power lighting device; the power monitoring system monitors an input current and voltage and an output current and voltage of the traction substation in real time. The information is transmitted to the railroad dispatching center.
US11352025B2
The present disclosure provides a method and system for controlling an unmanned logistics vehicle. The control method of the unmanned logistics vehicle comprises: when an unmanned logistics vehicle remains at a shipping location/pickup location, when a feature instruction of a user is recognized, the unmanned logistics vehicle is controlled to drive away from the shipping location/pickup location; and the feature instruction comprises at least one of a voice instruction, a limb action instruction, a fingerprint unlocking instruction and a facial expression instruction. The present disclosure increases the safety, efficiency, and intelligence of unmanned logistics vehicle operation, and enhances user experience.
US11352018B2
A method of operating a system for diagnosing software for a vehicle according to the present invention includes: generating a plurality of data sets including a function and an argument related to a diagnosis of target software executed in each of the plurality of cores; sequentially outputting the plurality of data sets to a shared memory; operating the target software according to the data set of the shared memory; and verifying the operation result in a verifying core.
US11352013B1
A vehicle device may execute one or more neural networks (and/or other artificial intelligence), such as based on input from one or more of the cameras and/or other sensors associated with the dash cam, to intelligently detect safety events in real-time. The vehicle device may further pass the input to a backend server for further analysis and the backend server can detect safety events based on the input. The vehicle device may analyze the output of the vehicle device and the output of the backend server to determine whether the output of the vehicle device is correct. If the output of the vehicle device is incorrect, the vehicle device can adjust how the vehicle device identifies safety events.
US11352011B2
An information processing system includes one or more vehicles, and a server communicable with the one or more vehicles. The vehicle acquires an image obtained by imaging a road on which a host vehicle is located. The vehicle or the server determines a degree of difficulty in traveling on the road due to snow cover from the image. The server stores the degree of difficulty in traveling for each of one or more roads, and provides information to a client by using the stored degree of difficulty in traveling for each of one or more roads.
US11352007B2
A brake/drive force control system includes: a requested acceleration calculating section; a powertrain control section calculating a minimum brake/drive force at the time of no fuel cut and a fuel-cut brake/drive force, generating larger one of a requested brake/drive force and the minimum brake/drive force when the requested brake/drive force is larger than the fuel-cut brake/drive force, and generating the fuel-cut brake/drive force when the requested brake/drive force is equal to or smaller than the fuel-cut brake/drive force; a brake control section generating a requested brake force; and a brake/drive force control section calculating the requested brake/drive force from requested acceleration, requesting the powertrain control section for the requested brake/drive force, acquiring the brake/drive force generated by a powertrain, and when the requested brake/drive force is smaller than the acquired brake/drive force, requesting the brake control section for a difference between the requested brake/drive force and the acquired brake/drive force.
US11352002B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for automatically obtaining a profile for a set of accelerator pedal position sensors in a target vehicle. The profile can comprise a correlation of the position of the pedal to an output signal for one or more sensor in the set of sensors. A pedal position sensor signal reader can be used to automatically detect signals from one or more pedal position sensor in the target vehicle's accelerator pedal, while the pedal is released, depressed, and moving between the released and depressed positions. A pedal profile can be automatically generated using the output signals and corresponding pedal positions. Obtained data can be used to program a speed control device for the target vehicle. Correlated output can be used to adjust the speed of the vehicle by sending an emulated signal to the ECM, which may adjust the speed control system.
US11351988B2
A vehicle includes a set of sound sensors coupled to one or more processing systems that process sound data from the set of sound sensors in order to provide assisted driving features or functionality such as an emergency vehicle avoidance.
US11351982B2
Provided are a driving force control method and device for a hybrid vehicle, each capable of effectively absorbing torque fluctuation of an engine while suppressing deterioration in energy efficiency. The driving force control device for a hybrid vehicle comprises a PCM configured to: identify a speed reduction ratio in a driving force transmission mechanism; estimate an average torque output by an engine; estimate a torque fluctuation component of the torque output by the engine; set a countertorque for suppressing the estimated torque fluctuation component; and control an electric motor to output the set countertorque, wherein the PCM is operable, under a condition that the average torque output by the engine and an engine speed are constant, to set the countertorque such that, as the speed reduction ratio becomes smaller, the absolute value of the countertorque becomes larger.
US11351971B2
A system and a method for estimating the coefficient of friction of a hydraulic brake system in a motor vehicle. A system and a method for adjusting the braking torque of a hydraulic brake system in a motor vehicle in order to obtain a desired actual braking torque.
US11351970B2
Disclosed is a hydraulic control apparatus of a brake system including a modulator block having a motor bore, and a motor including a cover that covers an opening of a case accommodating a stator and a rotor and is supported on one side of the modulator block, wherein a vent hole for air flow between the inside and the outside of the motor is formed on the cover and a communication passage for communicating the motor bore and the vent hole is formed in the modulator block.
US11351955B2
The invention relates to a method of folding an airbag (10), especially an airbag (10) to be arranged beneath a vehicle roof (50), comprising an injection orifice (11), a guiding portion (13) arranged adjacent thereto in the longitudinal direction and an inflating portion (12) arranged adjacent to the guiding portion (13) in the longitudinal direction, the method including flatly spreading the airbag (10); laterally folding, especially zigzag folding, at least in portions at least one side part (30; 30′) of the airbag (10) in the direction of the longitudinal axis (L) of the airbag (10); furling the inflating portion (12) at least in portions starting from a trailing edge (26) of the airbag (10) that is maximally spaced from the injection orifice (11) in a first furling direction (AR) in the direction to the injection orifice (11); and forming the guiding portion (13) by laying at least one folding including a first folding bend (14) against the first furling direction (AR) so that the deployment behavior of the airbag (10) is influenced.
US11351952B2
The invention relates to a releasable retaining device (10) for a tether (16) of an airbag, comprising a retainer (12), a slit (14) for receiving the tether (16), a blocking member (18) made from metal which is displaceable between a blocking position in which it maintains the tether (16) blocked in the slit (14) and a release position in which the tether (16) is released, and comprising a pyrotechnical igniter (20) coupled to the blocking member (18) such that, upon activation of the igniter (20), the blocking member is displaced from the blocking position to the release position. Moreover, a housing (32) including a retaining device (10) for an airbag is provided.
US11351951B2
A vehicular airbag device capable of improving reduction of an occupant obstruction value during a diagonal collision. A vehicular airbag device opens an airbag door on an instrument panel. The outer shape of the airbag when fully deployed and expanded is line-symmetrical with respect to a center line of the opening in a vehicle left-right width direction, and a width dimension in the vehicle width direction at a position of a rear edge of the instrument panel in the vehicle longitudinal direction is greater than a width dimension in the vehicle width direction at a position of a center of the opening in the vehicle longitudinal direction which is more forward in the vehicle longitudinal direction than the rear edge position of the instrument panel.
US11351950B2
A vehicle seat for supporting an occupant in a sitting position includes a backrest, and an airbag unit. The airbag unit comprises an inflatable airbag provided in an initially rolled and/or folded airbag package, and an inflator actuable to direct inflating gas into the airbag to inflate the airbag into an inflated configuration. The airbag comprises a pair of inflatable chambers which are physically connected to one another via a connecting interface, and are fluidly isolated from one another. The airbag unit is mounted and configured such that, upon actuation of said inflator to inflate the airbag, the inflatable chambers inflate into respective deployed positions in which they: i) extend forwardly from respective opposing and laterally spaced-apart side regions of said backrest; and ii) extend upwardly, and laterally inwardly across an uppermost region of the seat towards said connecting interface, so as to thereby cooperate to define an inflated shroud around at least an uppermost region of the backrest so as to extend over the sitting position and provide lateral protection to a said occupant of the seat in the sitting position.
US11351949B2
A restraint system (10) for helping to protect an occupant (60) of a vehicle (20) having a seat (50) for the occupant (60) includes a primary airbag (70) having a stored condition within a roof (32) and being inflatable to a deployed condition aligned with the seat (50). A support airbag (76) has a stored condition within the roof (32) and is inflatable to a deployed condition engaging the primary airbag (70).
US11351942B2
A vehicle bumper assembly includes a single-piece sub-frame having at least one step portion. The sub-frame is structured to be mountable on an extended portion of a vehicle frame so that the at least one step portion resides directly above the portion of the vehicle frame.
US11351941B1
A system and method for managing customized vehicle settings across multiple vehicles is disclosed. The system comprises a vehicle customization platform where a user customization profile with information about customized settings can be transferred to a customization management system within each of multiple vehicles that may be driven by a user with the user customization profile. The customized vehicle settings include seat position settings, horsepower settings, mirror position settings, climate settings, and audio system settings. Upon receiving the user customization profile, a customization management system passes customized settings to different vehicle control systems to automatically set the customized settings.
US11351933B2
A vehicle banner assembly for displaying a banner on a vehicle includes a panel is comprised of a magnetic material to magnetically engage a ferromagnetic door of a vehicle. A pair of engagements is each coupled to the panel. Each of the engagements engages an upper edge of the door of the vehicle to retain the panel at a selected location on the door. A banner is coupled to the panel to facilitate the banner to be displayed on the door of the vehicle.
US11351931B2
A driver assist system for a vehicle includes a bracket connectable with a vehicle window. The bracket has a body portion and a camera viewing window in the body portion. A camera in the body portion has a field of view through the camera viewing window. A heat sink contacts the camera and is configured to contact the vehicle window. The heat sink extends about a periphery of the camera viewing window so that heat generated by the camera is transferred through the heat sink to an area of the vehicle window that surrounds the camera's field of view.
US11351923B2
A multi-layer bladder includes: a first bladder layer; a mask including a plurality of apertures; a second bladder layer bonded to the first bladder layer within the apertures in the mask and where the mask is not present between the first and second bladder layers, where the mask is configured to prevent bonding of the second bladder layer to the first bladder layer where the mask is present; and a fluid channel that is located between the first and second bladder layers and that extends to the mask from an outer edge of the multi-layer bladder.
US11351912B2
A vehicle headlight system that can be used together with a vehicle control unit (3) that switches from an autonomous driving mode to a manual driving mode on the basis of external information about a vehicle (1), wherein the system has a headlight (100) mounted on the vehicle (1), and a lamp control unit (4) that controls the headlight (100), the lamp control unit (4): controlling the headlight (100) so as to form a first light distribution pattern (P) when the vehicle control unit (3) is executing the autonomous driving mode; controlling the headlight (100) so as to form a second light distribution pattern (Q) when the vehicle control unit (3) is executing the manual driving mode; and controlling the headlight so as to form a third light distribution pattern (R) that irradiates at an illuminance equal to or greater than the illuminance of the first light distribution pattern (P) and/or irradiates a range equal to or greater than the irradiation region of the first light distribution pattern (P), when transitioning from the autonomous driving mode to the manual driving mode.
US11351907B2
Disclosed is a system for monitoring the water level proximate to a vehicle. The system comprises a control unit and at least one sensor in communication with the control unit. The at least one sensor is configured such that the control unit can determine a pitch of a trailer coupled to the vehicle and the height of a surface of water proximate to the trailer. The system includes a display screen displaying a representation of the trailer including the pitch of the trailer, and a representation of the surface of water proximate to the trailer.
US11351895B2
A vehicle seat including: a seat cushion configured to support buttocks and thighs of a seated occupant; a temperature changing section that is provided at the seat cushion and is switchable between a first state in which the temperature changing section operates so as to warm the seated occupant from a front end portion of the seat cushion, and a second state in which the temperature changing section does not operate so as to warm the seated occupant from the front end portion of the seat cushion and a control section configured to control the temperature changing section so as to alternate repeatedly between the first state and the second state in a state in which an occupant is sitting on the seat cushion.
US11351889B2
A method for controlling a fuel cell vehicle is provided. The method includes setting a target purge degree of an anode gas and a target opening degree of an air pressure control valve and determining whether a fuel cell stack is in a power generation stop state. When the fuel cell stack is in the power generation stop state, when the anode gas is purged from the anode based on the target purge degree and the target opening degree, whether hydrogen in the anode gas will flow backwards to a stack enclosure is determined. When the hydrogen flows backwards, at least one of the target purge degree and the target opening degree to a level at which the backflow of the hydrogen is prevented is modified, and the anode gas from the anode based on the modified target purge degree and the modified target opening degree is purged.
US11351887B2
Provided is a management device that manages a power storage module configured by connecting in series a plurality of parallel cell groups in which a plurality of cells are connected in parallel. In the management device, a voltage detection circuit detects a voltage of each of the plurality of parallel cell groups connected in series. A plurality of equalizing circuits are connected in parallel to the plurality of parallel cell groups, respectively. A controlling circuit controls the plurality of equalizing circuits based on the voltage detected by the voltage detection circuit and executes an equalizing process. The controlling circuit determines whether or not an abnormal cell is included in each of the parallel cell groups based on a voltage change of each of the parallel cell groups during discharging to the equalizing circuit or charging from the equalizing circuit.
US11351884B2
Power to the box systems and methods are provided herein. An example system includes a human machine interface of a vehicle, a power to the box system of the vehicle, and a controller having a processor and a memory, the processor executing instructions stored in the memory to determine actuation of a power to the box system of a vehicle, determine usage parameters of the power to the box system of the vehicle during a period of use extending from the actuation to a terminating event, generate a message that includes information indicative of the usage parameters; and transmit the message to a receiving party.
US11351881B1
The present disclosure relates to a multi-functional multi-ratio OBC/LDC integrated circuit that is capable of bidirectional operation over a broad voltage rage with a high power density and without additional control in a battery charging system for an electric vehicle. As the turns ratio can be used selectively, the G2V and V2G functions can be performed bidirectionally over a broad voltage range without additional control, and the LDC function can be operated by using only a small number of switches, so that the efficiency of the charging control can be increased.
US11351877B2
An electric vehicle charging equipment (EVSE) system is provided. The EVSE system delivers direct current (DC) charging power and is configured for delivering electrical energy to a single electrical vehicle at a same time. The EVSE system comprises a plurality of charging cables with respective charging connectors for connecting to a respective plurality of electrical vehicles. At least one of the plurality of charging cables is liquid cooled and each of the plurality of charging cables comprises at least two DC power lines and at least two signal lines, which are each connected to a respective DC power line within the charging connector. The EVSE system further comprises a DC metering device configured for measuring, via the at least two signal lines, a connector voltage between the at least two DC power lines within the charging connector.
US11351875B2
A multi-input charging system and a multi-input charging method using a motor driving system can promptly compulsorily discharge a high charging voltage formed in a neutral point capacitor forming a neutral point voltage in a charging process and formed in a DC capacitor between an inverter and a battery.
US11351863B2
An apparatus comprising an interface, a memory and a processor. The interface may be configured to receive sensor data samples during operation of a vehicle. The memory may be configured to store the sensor data samples over a number of points in time. The processor may be configured to analyze the sensor data samples stored in the memory to detect a pattern. The processor may be configured to manage an application of brakes of the vehicle in response to the pattern.
US11351857B2
In a sleeve member for a filler pipe, the filler pipe passes through the sleeve member internally and is positioned with an upper end thereof on a fuel supply portion formed on an outside panel forming an outside of an automobile through a through hole formed in an inside panel forming a wheel house of the automobile. The sleeve member includes an attachment portion relative to the outside panel; a main seal portion elastically deformed and pressed against an inner face facing a space formed between the inside panel and the outside panel in such a way so as to surround the through hole by an insertion into the through hole; and an engagement portion which becomes engageable with a hole edge portion of the through hole positioned on an outer-face side of the inside panel by the insertion into the through hole.
US11351856B2
The disclosure provides a work vehicle in which clogging of a filter of an air cleaner with snow can be suppressed. The work vehicle includes: a radiator that cools cooling water for an engine; an air cleaner that cleans air to be fed to the engine; and an inlet hose that has an aspiration port open on a rear side of the radiator and leads the air from the aspiration port to the air cleaner. The radiator includes a shroud having an opening in which a fan of the engine is disposed and the aspiration port is disposed not to overlap with the opening of the shroud in back view.
US11351852B2
The present disclosure discloses a trunnion mount for mounting an engine, in particular a combustion engine, to a chassis, comprising a support element rigidly connected and/or connectable to the engine having a ring portion with an outer bearing surface, which may be arranged concentrically around the crankshaft; a female support having an inner bearing surface for surrounding the bearing surface of the support element, the female support forming the link between the chassis and the engine; and a rubber bearing arranged between the inner bearing surface of the female support and the outer bearing surface of the support element. In one or more examples, the trunnion mount includes a rubber bearing that is directly vulcanized on at least one of the bearing surfaces and/or wherein the ring portion is formed as a separate element from a mounting portion of the support element and connectable thereto via axial screws.
US11351846B2
A lock system for operation of a roll top cover for covering a cargo bed of a vehicle enables a plurality of locking or engagement points. The system includes: one or more lock assemblies configured to operate a plurality of locking mechanisms for reversibly engaging the cargo bed; and an actuator assembly having an actuator operably connected to the lock assemblies for operation thereof between locked and unlocked positions.
US11351842B2
A transport refrigeration system (TRS) includes a first heat transfer circuit including a first compressor, a condenser, a first expansion device, and a cascade heat exchanger. The first compressor, the condenser, the first expansion device, and the cascade heat exchanger are in fluid communication such that a first heat transfer fluid can flow therethrough. The TRS includes a second heat transfer circuit including a second compressor, the cascade heat exchanger, a second expansion device, and an evaporator. The second compressor, the cascade heat exchanger, the second expansion device, and the evaporator are in fluid communication such that a second heat transfer fluid can flow therethrough. The first heat transfer circuit and the second heat transfer circuit are arranged in thermal communication at the cascade heat exchanger such that the first heat transfer fluid and the second heat transfer fluid are in a heat exchange relationship at the cascade heat exchanger.
US11351841B2
There is disclosed a transport refrigeration system comprising an electronically governed engine that drives a refrigeration circuit of the system. The engine control unit is configured to operate the engine in a droop mode of operation, in which the engine speed increases with decreasing engine loads from the refrigeration circuit, so as to maximise the cooling capacity of the system at low engine load conditions.
US11351840B2
Disclosed herein is an air conditioner for a vehicle, which can perform a bleeding function to discharge air to a rear seat floor vent in a rear seat vent mode, and optimize the size of an outlet and the shape of doors to adjust a bleeding amount of a rear seat floor. The air conditioner for a vehicle, which includes an air-conditioning case having an air passageway formed therein, and a heat exchanger for cooling and a heat exchanger for heating which are disposed in the air passageway of the air-conditioning case to exchange heat with air passing the air passageway, includes: a front seat temp door for adjusting the degree of opening between a front seat cold air passageway and a part of a warm air passageway; a first rear seat temp door arranged between the heat exchanger for cooling and the heat exchanger for heating to adjust the degree of opening of another part of the warm air passageway; and a rear seat mode door for adjusting the degree of opening of a rear seat air outlet, wherein the rear seat mode door has a rear seat closing function to close an air flow to a rear seat air outlet, and has a bypass part to bleed some of air.
US11351838B2
A thermal management system for a vehicle may include a cooling apparatus configured to include a radiator, a first water pump, a first valve, and a reservoir tank to circulate a coolant in the coolant line to cool at least one electrical component provided in the coolant line; a battery cooling apparatus including a battery coolant line connected to the coolant line through a second valve, and a second water pump and a battery module which are connected through the battery coolant line; a chiller provided in the battery coolant line between the second valve and the battery module, and connected to a refrigerant line of an air conditioner; and a heating circuit including a heater which is connected to the coolant line and the chiller through first and second connection lines to supply a coolant having a temperature which is increased while passing through the at least one electrical component.
US11351836B2
A stabilizer (1) for a chassis of a vehicle. The stabilizer has a curved stabilizer body (2) that forms a torsion spring, a pendulum support (5, 6) and a connecting element (7, 8). The connecting element (7, 8) connects the stabilizer body (2) and the pendulum support (7, 8) to one another. To reduce the cost and complexity of assembly. The stabilizer is characterized in that a first end (11) of the connecting element (7, 8) is injection-molded onto a pendulum support end (9).
US11351831B2
An electrically powered suspension system includes: an electromagnetic actuator; an information acquisition unit configured to acquire time-series information related to stroke position of the electromagnetic actuator, information on stroke velocity, and an amount of change in stroke of the electromagnetic actuator and information on a stroke direction based on the time-series information; a damping force calculation unit configured to calculate target damping force based on the information on the stroke velocity; and a drive control unit configured to control driving of the electromagnetic actuator using target driving force obtained based on the target damping force. The damping force calculation unit calculates equivalent friction compensation force based on the amount of change in the stroke and the information on the stroke direction, and corrects the target damping force based on the calculated equivalent friction compensation force. The equivalent friction compensation force has elastic force component and dynamic friction force component.
US11351827B2
An automobile suspension part includes an arm member and a reinforcement, wherein: the arm member includes a top wall part, a first ridge line part, a second ridge line part, a first side wall part, and a second side wall part; the top wall part includes a first attachment part at a first end part; the top wall part includes a second attachment part at a second end part; the reinforcement includes a bottom wall part, a third ridge line part, and a flange part; the third ridge line part is sandwiched between the bottom wall part and the flange part; the bottom wall part is joined to the first side wall part and the second side wall part; the third ridge line part is connected to the first side wall part and the second side wall part; the flange part is joined to the top wall part between the first attachment part and the second attachment part; and the flange part is connected to the first side wall part and the second side wall part.
US11351815B2
A bicycle cassette comprises a clampstyle connection for connecting the bicycle cassette to a bicycle hub driver body. The bicycle cassette is attached to a bicycle hub driver body by incorporating a clamp structure into one portion of the cassette, which then rigidly clamps onto the driver body of the bicycle hub. In addition, when combined with a bayonet style attachment structure between two parts of the cassette, it allows for the use of a smaller sprocket on one segment of the cassette. Specifically, it allows a small 9 or 10 tooth sprocket to overhang the cassette driver body on a bicycle hub, by attaching the small cog assembly to a larger cog assembly using a bayonet style attachment.
US11351800B2
There is provided an image recording apparatus including an image recording head; a scanner; a conveyer; and a controller. The controller is configured to execute first and second recording modes in which the controller causes the image recording head to accelerate to first and second velocities, to move at the first and second velocities, and then to decelerate from the first and second velocities, while causing the image recording head to record the image at least during moving at the first and second velocities, respectively. In a case that the controller has determined, based on printing data, that the image is to be recorded during a first velocity changing period, the controller executes the second recording mode. The first velocity changing period includes a first acceleration and deceleration periods in which the image recording head accelerates and decelerates, respectively.
US11351799B2
A recording device includes a recording unit configured to perform recording on a first surface of a medium, a holding unit configured to hold a roll body obtained by rolling the medium, a transport unit configured to transport the medium unwound from the roll body, and a knocking unit configured to knock on a second surface of the medium between the holding unit and the recording unit, the second surface being a surface opposite the first surface. The knocking unit knocks on the second surface by moving between a spaced position for being spaced apart from the second surface and a contact position for making contact with the second surface.
US11351787B2
A curved fluid ejection device may include a plurality of fluid ejection dies overmolded with at least one layer of epoxy mold compound (EMC). Each of the fluid ejection dies and the EMC include a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE). The combination of the CTE of the fluid ejection dies and the CTE of the at least one layer of EMC defines a curve within the curved fluid ejection device.
US11351784B2
A liquid droplet ejection device includes at least one first liquid droplet ejection unit including a first liquid holding unit and a first tip, the first tip to eject the first liquid in the first liquid holding unit as a first liquid droplet onto an object; at least one second liquid droplet ejection unit including a second liquid holding unit and a second tip, the second tip to eject the second liquid in the second liquid holding unit as a second liquid droplet onto the object; an object holding unit to hold the object; and a driving unit to move the first tip and the second tip in a first direction. An inner diameter of the second tip is larger than an inner diameter of the first tip. The first tip and the second tip are arranged along the first direction. The second tip is arranged behind the first tip.
US11351783B2
A liquid ejection head includes a flow channel structure, a supply channel structure, a piezoelectric element, a sealing substrate, and a heater. The flow channel structure defines an ejection channel including an individual channel and a manifold. The individual channel has a nozzle and a pressure chamber in which pressure is applied to liquid for causing the liquid to be ejected from the nozzle. The supply channel structure defines a supply channel configured to allow the liquid to flow therethrough to the ejection channel. The piezoelectric element is positioned on an upper surface of the flow channel structure and facing the pressure chamber via a vibration plate. The sealing substrate is made of a material having a higher thermal conductivity than the supply channel structure. The sealing substrate surrounds the piezoelectric element on the flow channel structure to seal the piezoelectric element. The heater is disposed at the sealing substrate.
US11351776B2
In some examples, a circuit for use with a memory element and a nozzle for outputting fluid, includes a data line, a fire line, and a selector responsive to the data line to select the memory element or the nozzle. The selector is to select the memory element responsive to the data line having a first value, and to select the nozzle responsive to the data line having a second value different from the first value. The fire line is to control activation of the nozzle in response to the nozzle being selected by the selector, and to communicate data of the memory element in response to the memory element being selected by the selector.
US11351774B2
A printing apparatus, which uses a printhead including a circuit configured to inspect an ink discharge status of a selected nozzle using a temperature detection element, causes the printhead to inspect the ink discharge status by changing a threshold value for judging a detection result of the temperature detection element, in order to judge the ink discharge status in a state in which a heater in the selected nozzle is driven by each of a first pulse and a second pulse whose waveform is different from that of the first pulse, obtains first information about a change point where a judgment result obtained by the first pulse changes, and second information about a change point where a judgment result obtained by the second pulse changes, and sets the threshold value, based on the first and second information.
