US11442918B2
The present embodiments relate to systems and methods for using a blockchain to record information related to processes and services in the vehicle industry. The systems and methods may include (1) receiving an indication of vehicle being involved a vehicle collision and a vehicle VIN; (2) accessing, at a memory, a loss history blockchain associated with the vehicle using the VIN as a key; (3) receiving vehicle sensor data generated or collected prior to, during, and/or after the vehicle collision; (4) creating a block to add to the loss history blockchain that includes the vehicle sensor data, or otherwise updating the loss history blockchain with the vehicle sensor data associated with the vehicle collision; (5) analyzing the vehicle sensor data to reconstruct the vehicle collision; and/or (6) updating the loss history blockchain to include and/or indicate the reconstructed vehicle collision by including the created block.
US11442909B2
A data analytics system. The data analytics system includes a communication processor configured to communicate with one or more remote electronic devices, and one or more electronic processors electrically coupled to the communication processor. The one or more electronic processors are configured to receive a first data from the one or more electronic devices, generate a determination including a first confidence level based on the first data, identify additional data which would increase the first confidence level; request the additional data, receive responses including the additional data, and generate a second confidence level of based on the second data.
US11442908B2
The disclosure describes a method for database migration including: identifying, during an uptime of a source database system, one or more increments between a back-up copy of the source database system and the source database system, the source database system comprising: one or more datafiles encoding data objects, and tablespace data encoding table/index data, restoring, in parallel and during the uptime of the source database system, the one or more datafiles from the back-up copy to a target database system that uses a different endian format; in response to determining that a downtime for the source database system has arrived, sequentially performing, during a downtime of the source database system: setting the tablespace data to read only; recovering datafiles on the target database system in accordance with the one or more increments; and setting the tablespace data to read and write; and activating the target database system to go live.
US11442907B2
Techniques and solutions are described for converting data models between formats, such as between a conceptual data model and a physical data model for a database system, or between a conceptual data model and artefacts to be implemented in the database system. The conceptual data model is annotated with annotations that allow the physical data model or database artefacts to be automatically generated from the conceptual data model. The annotations can reflect relationships between entity types in the physical data model, such as inheritance relationships, header/item relationships, or one-to-one cardinality relationships. Annotations can also indicate attributes that should be added to entity types in the conceptual data model, such as attributes for versioning or data governance, that may not be used in the conceptual data model. Annotations can be used to determine how entity types in the conceptual data model will be denormalized in the physical data model.
US11442906B2
In general, various aspects of the present invention provide methods, apparatuses, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for generating and managing custom attributes and corresponding values for domain objects defined within microservices. In accordance with various aspects, a method is provided that comprises: receiving a custom attribute request for a domain object defined in a microservice that comprises a domain object identifier, a custom attribute to add to the domain object, and a value type for the custom attribute; identifying, based on the domain object identifier and the value type, a custom value table for the domain object that comprises placeholder fields; identifying a placeholder field that is available in the custom value table; and storing a record in the attribute schema table for the domain object and the custom attribute comprising mapping data that maps the custom attribute to the placeholder field for the custom value table.
US11442894B2
Methods, non-transitory machine readable media, and computing devices that provide file backup catalogs with improved scalability are disclosed. With this technology, a sequence number is incremented and an entry for a snapshot associated with obtained metadata for the snapshot is generated. The snapshot entry comprises a snapshot identifier for the snapshot and the incremented sequence number. A current version flag is then set in another entry for a file associated with a create event identified in the metadata. The file entry includes a file identifier for the file, a create attribute comprising the incremented sequence number, and a delete attribute. The file and snapshot entries are then inserted into indice(s) in a catalog database. Based on the schema of the indice(s), this technology provides a lightweight, elegant, and highly scalable catalog that more efficiently facilitates full path global file search and restore functionality with reduced resource utilization.
US11442888B2
Disclosed are a serial communication apparatus and a serial communication method. The serial communication apparatus comprises a radio frequency front-end module and a radio frequency device, a first input interface and a second input interface of the radio frequency front-end module being correspondingly connected to output interfaces of a main control module, a first output interface of the radio frequency front-end module being connected to a first input interface of the at least one radio frequency device via a first signal bus, a second output interface of the radio frequency front-end module being connected to a second input interface of the at least one radio frequency device via a second signal bus. The present invention satisfies requirements for convenient and rapid unidirectional communication between various chips of the radio frequency front-end module and inside the chips, reduces communication complexity, and increases transmission efficiency.
US11442886B2
A communication apparatus is disclosed with a communication controller that has a host-side communication interface for communicating with a host and a plurality of slave-side communication interfaces. Each slave-side communication interface has a plurality of electrical pins that are configurable to define a communication port that implements a selected communication protocol thereon. Each pin is in electrical communication with a slave socket having a predetermined layout. Each slave socket is configured to receive a protocol adapter that corresponds to the selected communication protocol and that is configured to facilitate communication between an external slave device and the relevant communication port.
US11442877B2
An electrical circuit device includes a signal bus comprising a plurality of parallel signal paths and a calibration circuit, operatively coupled with the signal bus. The calibration circuit can perform operations including determining a representative duty cycle for a plurality of signals transferred via the plurality of parallel signal paths, the plurality of signals comprising a plurality of duty cycles and comparing the representative duty cycle for the plurality of signals transferred via the plurality of parallel signal paths to a reference value to determine a comparison result. The calibration circuit can perform further operations including adjusting, based on the comparison result, a trim value associated with the plurality of duty cycles of the plurality of signals to compensate for distortion in the plurality of duty cycles and calibrating the plurality of duty cycles of the plurality of signals using the adjusted trim value.
US11442876B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an arbitration circuit with virtual link state machines to virtualize link states associated with multiple communication protocol stacks. The apparatus further includes a physical circuit coupled to the arbitration circuit and to interface with a physical link, where the physical circuit, in response to a retraining of the physical link, is to cause a plurality of the virtual link state machines to synchronize with corresponding virtual link state machines associated with a second side of the physical link, and where at least one of the communication protocol stacks is to remain in a low power state during the retraining and the synchronization. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11442871B2
A remove operation and an add-to-front operation may be currently performed with respect to nodes in an Least Recently Used (LRU) queue. A remove operation for a node may proceed if a lock can be obtained on the node to be removed and a predecessor node. During the remove operation, an add-to-front operation may proceed if a lock can be obtained on a dummy node that precedes the current front node of the LRU queue.
US11442867B2
A request to access data at an address is received from a host system. A tag associated with the address is determined to not be found in first entries in a first content-addressable memory (CAM) or in second entries in a second CAM. Responsive to determining that the tag is not found in the first entries or in the second entries, a particular entry of the first entries that each includes valid data is selected. A determination is made whether the particular entry satisfies a condition indicating that content in the particular entry is to be stored in the second CAM. The content is associated with other data stored in the cache. Responsive to determining that the condition is satisfied, the content of the particular entry is stored in one of the second entries to maintain the data in the cache.
US11442862B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for performing fair prefetching. An embodiment operates by splitting a data vector into a first subrange and a second subrange. The embodiment performs a first chance prefetch operation on the first subrange based on a fixed number of pages, thereby loading a set of pages of the first subrange into a main memory. The embodiment performs the first chance prefetch operation on the second subrange based on the fixed number of pages, thereby loading a first set of pages of the second subrange into the main memory. The embodiment performs a second chance prefetch operation on the second subrange based on the performing the first chance prefetch operation on the second subrange, thereby loading a second set of pages of the second subrange into the main memory. The embodiment then executes the query.
US11442859B2
The embodiments disclosed herein relate to computing a transportation plan for transporting goods from one place to another across a number of shipments and that satisfy multiple shipment orders. The transportation plan may specify a transportation channel that includes one or more segments selected from service provider rate offerings that may include a means of transportation, starting location, destination location, and cost of the segment. An actionable transportation plan may be computed based on current transportation planning data. Alternative plans may be computed for a variety of scenarios in which hypothetical changes are introduced to the transportation planning data. Any combination of an actionable transportation plan and alternative plans may be computed concurrently with computations sharing a common cache of production data.
US11442855B2
A cache memory circuit that evicts cache lines based on which cache lines are storing background data patterns is disclosed. The cache memory circuit can store multiple cache lines and, in response to receiving a request to store a new cache line, can select a particular one of previously stored cache lines. The selection may be performed based on data patterns included in the previously stored cache lines. The cache memory circuit can also perform accesses where the internal storage arrays are not activated in response to determining data in the location specified by the requested address is background data. In systems employing virtual addresses, a translation lookaside buffer can track the location of background data in the cache memory circuit.
US11442853B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device, controller, memory, wireless communication function section, and extension register. The controller controls the nonvolatile semiconductor memory device. The memory is serving as a work area of the controller. The wireless communication module has a wireless communication function. The extension register is provided in the memory. The controller processes a first command to read data from the extension register, and a second command to write data to the extension register. The extension register records, an information specifying the type of the wireless communication function in a specific page, and an address information indicating a region on the extension register to which the wireless communication function is assigned.
US11442848B1
Automated patch compatibility testing systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed. The automated compatibility testing systems, methods, and computer program products disclosed herein enable an entity to check the functionality of applications following patches applied to an original image so that the enterprise can determine how its target computing systems will react to such patches before those patches are actually installed/deployed to the target computing systems. The automated compatibility testing systems, methods, and computer program products disclosed herein helps enterprises ensure that patches do not adversely impact the target computing systems and the operations thereof, and enable the enterprise to operate with minimal disruptions, stay current with patches, and take proactive and informed business decisions in managing the enterprise's computer infrastructure.
US11442844B1
An integrated circuit includes a high-speed interface configured to communicate with a host system for debugging and a debug hub coupled to the high-speed interface. The debug hub is configured to receive a debug command from the host system as memory mapped data. The integrated circuit also includes a plurality of debug cores coupled to the debug hub. Each debug core is coupled to the debug hub by channels. The debug hub is configured to translate the debug command to a data stream and provide the data stream to a target debug core of the plurality of debug cores based on an address specified by the debug command.
US11442841B2
A server includes one or more processors configured to determine relationships between one or more executable files, one or more library files, and one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) of a first application, and compare the determined relationships of the first application to determined relationships between one or more executable files, one or more library files, and one or more APIs of a second application. An indication of a matching status between the first and second applications is provided based on the compare.
US11442839B2
Techniques for runtime metrics based test ordering in a computer system are described herein. An aspect includes determining a first runtime metric associated with a first module based on the execution of a first test case. Another aspect includes determining a second runtime metric associated with a second module based on the execution of a second test case. Another aspect includes comparing the first runtime metric and the second runtime metric. Another aspect includes determining an order of a plurality of test cases based on the comparison of the first runtime metric and the second runtime metric. Another aspect includes executing the plurality of test cases in the determined order.
US11442837B2
Systems and methods for monitoring a robotic process automation (RPA) system are provided. Job execution data for one or more jobs in the RPA system is determined based on logs of the RPA system. The job execution data for the one or more jobs in the RPA system is caused to be displayed in substantially real time.
US11442836B2
A system and method is disclosed for the combined analysis of transaction execution monitoring data and a topology model created from infrastructure monitoring data of computing systems involved in the execution of the monitored transactions. Monitored communication activities of transactions are analyzed to identify intermediate processing nodes between sender and receiver side and to enrich transaction monitoring data with data describing those intermediate processing nodes. The topology model may also be improved by the combined analysis, as functionality and services provided by elements of the topology model may be derived by the involvement of those elements in the execution of monitored transactions. The result of the combined analysis is used by an automated anomaly detection and causality estimation system. The combined analysis may also reveal entities of a monitored environment that are used by transaction executions but which are not monitored.
US11442832B2
Examples described herein relate to a system including a first management system having a primary memory including a free memory, a used memory, and a loosely reserved memory, where the loosely reserved memory comprises cache memory having a reclaimable memory; and a processing resource coupled to the primary memory. The processing resource may monitor an amount of the used memory and an amount of an available memory during runtime of the first management system. Further, the processing resource may enable a synchronized reboot of the first management system if the amount of the used memory is greater than a memory exhaustion first threshold or the amount of the available memory is less than a memory exhaustion second threshold, wherein the memory exhaustion first threshold and the memory exhaustion second threshold are determined based on usage of the reclaimable memory and a number of major page faults.
US11442828B2
A method comprising: prior to performing a planned i-th data movement in a distributed data system comprising a plurality of storage sites, generating (i) a first map of current locations of data item replicas following an immediately-preceding (i−1)-th data movement, (b) a first timestamp associated with a completion of said (i−1)-th data movement, and (c) a second map of expected locations of data item replicas following said i-th data movement; implementing said i-th data movement; generating, upon performing said i-th data movement, a second timestamp associated with a completion of said i-th data movement, wherein said second timestamp is indexed as i; and if a failure occurs with respect to at least one of said storage sites during said i-th data movement, determining a completion status of said i-th data movement, based on a comparison between said indexing of said second map and said indexing of said second timestamp.
US11442820B2
Systems and methods for reconstructing unified data in an electronic storage network are provided which may include the identification and use of metadata stored centrally within the system. The metadata may be generated by a group of storage operation cells during storage operations within the network. The unified metadata is used to reconstruct data throughout the storage operation cells that may be missing, deleted or corrupt.
US11442818B2
Data replication groups may be used to store data in a distributed computing environment. A data replication group may include a set of nodes executing a consensus protocol to maintain data durably. In order to increase efficiency and performance of the data replication group leadership and/or fitness information may be determined for each node of the set of nodes executing the consensus protocol. The fitness information may be based at least in part on information associated with computing resource in the distributed computing environment and one or more constraints on assignment of a role of master node in the data replication group. The master node may be responsible for advancing the data replication group.
US11442812B2
If processing of a first event in response to a stream event is not normally ended due to an occurrence of an exception or a timeout, the processing is executed repeatedly during a predetermined period of time from an occurrence of the first event. Then, after the predetermined period of time passes, an error notification is issued while processing of a second event that has occurred during the predetermined period of time is executed only once.
US11442809B1
User data units are received at a memory controller to be written to a RAID strip in non-volatile memory. A first parity value is calculated for the user data units using a first parity calculation. A second parity value different from the first parity value is also calculated for the plurality of user data units using a second parity calculation. The first parity value is stored in a first parity data unit in the non-volatile memory and the second parity value is stored in a second parity data unit in the non-volatile memory. Recovery from a failure of up to two data units thus enabled by recalculating the value of the failed data units based on one or more of the first parity data unit, the second parity data unit, and the values of other user data units of the plurality of data units.
US11442806B2
A vehicle display apparatus has a display and a control unit. The control unit detects whether or not an error recognizable by users of the vehicle has occurred in an image on the display on the basis of the result of matching between a first error detection code, which is generated on the basis of image data transmitted to a display drive unit, and a second error detection code, which is generated on the basis of the image data received by the display drive unit, to determine whether notification is required or not, and provides notification on deterioration in the reliability of the image on the display by controlling light-emitting elements and sound output units provided on the vehicle display apparatus or by way of a superordinate device.
US11442804B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting anomalies in text content of data objects even when a format of the data and/or data object is unknown. These may include receiving a first data object that corresponds to a first application service and that includes first text content. An anomaly classifier may be trained based on an artificial neural network by using a natural language processing algorithm on respective text content of at least a portion of each of a plurality of data objects corresponding to the first computing service. Each of the plurality of data objects may be labeled as belonging a category. The trained anomaly classifier may identify one or more text character sequences in the first text content of the first data object as anomalous and output identifying information indicating the one or more anomalous text character sequences in the first text content of the first data object.
US11442802B2
A system with an interactive user interface for users to view and interact with sanitized log data received from a plurality of hosts, such as those associated with various services of an organization. The system may receive from hosts log files and/or metadata that have been filtered by agents executing on the respective hosts to remove or anonymize any sensitive or confidential information prior to transmission to the system. In some embodiments the system does further filtering of the sanitized data. Received sanitized data is parsed, indexed, and/or otherwise processed for optimal searching, and stored in a log pipeline. The system causes display of an electronic visualization interface comprising a dynamic electronic search configured to receive an indication of various log search criteria, such as an error or trace identifier, that are used to identify matching log files meeting the provided criteria, such as log files associated with services executed on different hosts.
US11442799B2
A method of retrieving printer error logs from a printer or a multi-function printer with a printer memory buffer and internal non-volatile storage involves receiving a print error. A processor determines if a print error is a fatal error or a non-fatal error. On condition the print error is a non-fatal error, the event log located in the printer memory buffer is printed using the printer or the multi-function printer. On condition the print error is a fatal error, the processor determines if there is enough storage capacity to save the fatal error into the internal non-volatile storage. On condition there is enough storage capacity, the processor saves the event log into the internal non-volatile storage. The user is then instructed to power cycle the printer or the multi-function printer.
US11442797B2
Systems and methods for providing referrer data to an application are provided. One method includes receiving a first set of data packets indicating a command to navigate from a first resource to a second resource. The first set of data packets identifies the first resource and secondary referrer data associated with the first resource or a first content item on the first resource. The method includes rendering the second resource and a second content item provided within the second resource. The method includes receiving a selection of the second content item. The method includes generating a second set of data packets including the secondary referrer data and primary referrer data associated with the second resource or the second content item. The method includes transmitting the second set of data packets to a server, receiving a deeplink generated by the server, and rendering a content interface using the deeplink.
US11442788B2
Example implementations relate to locating cloud system resources. A system can comprise a processor and a non-transitory memory resource storing machine readable instructions to receive a global positioning system (GPS) coordinate for hardware resources positioned at a plurality of geographic locations, tag resources stored at each of the plurality of geographic locations with a corresponding GPS coordinate, and determine a corresponding geographic location of a portion of the tagged resources based on extracted GPS coordinates for the portion of the tagged resources.
US11442786B2
The present disclosure provides a computation method and product thereof. The computation method adopts a fusion method to perform machine learning computations. Technical effects of the present disclosure include fewer computations and less power consumption.
US11442757B2
A simulation method and a simulation system are provided. The simulation system may be divided into an execution model and a processor model based on a JIT emulation engine. The execution model can call the JIT emulation engine to execute instructions, and obtain influence of instructions on a processor architectural status. The processor model may simulate an internal process of a target processor and determine whether to start/end a speculation. The execution model and the processor model may interact through a specific protocol. After the speculation is started, the simulation method may store an application running scene when the speculation is started, and redirect influence of speculation instructions on a memory to a memory snapshot. After the speculation is ended, the simulation method may also restore the application running scene to a status before the speculation is started, and cancel influence of the speculation instructions on the memory.
US11442752B2
A central management interface is provided for a plurality of different storage clusters of different storage domains. An indication of one of the plurality of different storage clusters is received. A native user interface version of the indicated storage cluster is determined. The determined native user interface version is loaded to provide a native management interface of the indicated storage cluster within a user interface context of the central management interface.
US11442750B2
Various embodiments for providing a user interface test and validation system are described herein. An embodiment operates by determining user interface (UI) settings and metadata, and fetching data corresponding to the metadata. A plurality of test procedures corresponding to the UI element are identified. A plurality of states to be present in a rendering of the UI element based on the plurality of test procedures, the metadata, and the data are identified. A rendering of the UI element is validated against the plurality of states. A test report is provided based on the validating.
US11442738B2
An execution method comprises the following operations: —every time an instruction to be protected of a preceding basic block is loaded, constructing a new value of a signature of this preceding basic block from the value of this instruction to be protected and the preceding value of the signature. The method further includes loading an initialization vector contained in a subsequent basic block and calculating, from said loaded initialization vector, a value reached for signing the preceding basic block. The method also includes comparing the constructed value of the signature with the expected value of this signature, and—only if these values do not match, triggering the signaling of a fault during the execution of the machine code.
US11442731B2
A data processor includes an execution unit that executes instructions to perform data processing operations, a register file operable to store data values for use by and produced by the execution unit, and a buffer intermediate between the register file for providing data values from the register file to the execution unit for use when executing an instruction, and to receive output data values from the execution unit for writing to the register file. Instructions to be executed by the execution unit of the data processor have associated buffer eviction priority indications representative of a priority for eviction from the buffer of an output data value that will be generated when executing the instruction. The buffer eviction priority indications are then used when selecting data values to evict from the buffer.
US11442727B2
An electronic device includes a processor, a branch predictor in the processor, and a predictor controller in the processor. The branch predictor includes multiple prediction functional blocks, each prediction functional block configured for generating predictions for control transfer instructions (CTIs) in program code based on respective prediction information, the branch predictor configured to select, from among predictions generated by the prediction functional blocks for each CTI, a selected prediction to be used for that CTI. The predictor controller keeps a record of prediction functional blocks from which the branch predictor previously selected predictions for CTIs. The predictor controller uses information from the record for controlling which prediction functional blocks are used by the branch predictor for generating predictions for CTIs.
US11442725B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for the refactoring of local calls to network calls during software modernization. First and second application components are identified based on analysis of a computing application. A local call from the first application component to a process of the second application component is identified, and an independently deployable microservice is created from the computing application. The independently deployable subunit comprises the second application component having a network endpoint. The independently deployable microservice is deployed such that the process is accessible to the first application component via the network endpoint. The local call is programmatically refactored into a network call from the first application component to the process of the second application component.
US11442722B2
A first data tree and a second data tree may be accessed. The first data tree may include a first set of directory nodes and a first set of file nodes, and the second data tree may include a second set of directory nodes and a second set of file nodes. The first data tree may be converted into a first data tree file, and the second data tree may be converted into a second data tree file. A delta for the first data tree and the second data tree may be generated based on a comparison of the first data tree file and the second data tree file.
US11442710B2
Described herein is a computer implemented method for managing a repository that includes one or more component packages and a repository configuration file listing repository dependencies. Each component package has a package configuration file listing package dependencies. The method including the steps of: parsing the repository configuration file; aliasing a package dependency listed in the repository configuration file with at least two repository dependency aliases; parsing a package configuration file; and linking each repository dependency alias to a package dependency listed in the package configuration file.
US11442708B2
Techniques for compiling source code include generating object code by processing source code corresponding to a portion of a software program. The source code includes an instruction, native to a program language, for a memory location access. Based at least in part on processing the source code, the compiler generates second object code that, when executed by one or more processors, configures the one or more processors to determine to implement the memory location access using first database access transaction operations or to implement the memory location access using second database access transaction operations. The compiler may generate third object code that configures the one or more processors to implement the memory location access using the first database access transaction operations or to implement the memory location access using the second database access transaction operations, based at least in part based on the determining.
US11442707B2
Aspects described herein may be used with local spreadsheet applications, web, and/or cloud-based spreadsheet solutions, to create complex custom software applications. Spreadsheets themselves lack the conceptual framework to be used as a platform tool to build custom or complex software applications. Using the methods and systems described herein using low-code/no-code techniques, a designer can create custom and/or complex software applications using one or more spreadsheets as the underlying blueprints for the software application. The resultant software application may be static/read-only, or may be interactive to allow users to dynamically add, delete, edit, or otherwise amend application data, e.g., via one or more online web pages or via a mobile application. Data transfer may be one-way or bi-directional between the blueprint spreadsheets and the resultant software application, thereby allowing amended data to be transferred from the software application back into spreadsheet form.
US11442704B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content generating, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel low-code/no-code software development framework that enables the creation of software (e.g., applications) through graphical user interfaces and configurations instead of traditional hand-coded programming. A low code (LC) model enables developers of varied experience levels to create applications using a visual user interface in combination with model-driven logic. Similarly, a no-code model enables the development of applications without and coding on the client-side. The disclosed LCNC framework, therefore, reduces the amount of traditional hand coding, enables accelerated delivery of business applications.
US11442703B2
This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for using a domain-specific language (DSL) to express and compile serverless network functions, and optimizing the deployment location for the serverless network functions on network devices. In some examples, the serverless network functions may be expressed entirely in the DSL (e.g., via a text-based editor, a graphics-based editor, etc.), where the DSL is a computer language specialized to a particular domain, such as a network function domain. In additional examples, the serverless network functions may be expressed and compiled using a DSL in combination with a general-purpose language (GSL). Once the serverless network function have been expressed and/or compiled, the techniques of this disclosure further include determining an optimized network component on which the serverless network function is to execute, and deploying the serverless function to the optimized network component.
US11442701B2
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for filtering security controls are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining information pertaining to a software project and a target market of the software project; and identifying, based on the obtained information, at least one security control to be implemented in the software project, from among a plurality of security controls, in order to satisfy at least a threshold level of security defined for the software project, wherein the threshold level of security is based at least in part on one or more security standards related to the target market.
US11442700B2
A system includes an addressable memory array, one or more processing cores, and an accelerator framework coupled to the addressable memory. The accelerator framework includes a Multiply ACcumulate (MAC) hardware accelerator cluster. The MAC hardware accelerator cluster has a binary-to-residual converter, which, in operation, converts binary inputs to a residual number system. Converting a binary input to the residual number system includes a reduction modulo 2m and a reduction modulo 2m−1, where m is a positive integer. A plurality of MAC hardware accelerators perform modulo 2m multiply-and-accumulate operations and modulo 2m−1 multiply-and-accumulate operations using the converted binary input. A residual-to-binary converter generates a binary output based on the output of the MAC hardware accelerators.
US11442698B2
Random number generators include a thermal optical source and detector configured to produce random numbers based on quantum-optical intensity fluctuations. An optical flux is detected, and signals proportional to optical intensity and a delayed optical intensity are combined. The combined signals can be electrical signals or optical signals, and the optical source is selected so as to have low coherence over a predetermined range of delay times. Balanced optical detectors can be used to reduce common mode noise, and in some examples, the optical flux is directed to only one of a pair of balanced detectors.
US11442693B2
A method including, detecting interaction between the user and an audio-object via local tracking, determining an audio-object state modification based on the local tracking, and performing an audio-object interaction based on the audio-object state modification.
US11442690B2
Example systems and techniques disclosed herein facilitate interoperability between different media playback systems referred to herein as a virtual line-in (VLI) media playback system and a native playback system. When a VLI session is created by a VLI sender, a first native playback device can join a VLI group as a VLI receiver. As a VLI receiver, the first native playback device receives audio content and playback commands from the VLI sender to facilitate synchronous playback with other VLI receivers. At the same time, this native playback device can concurrently operate as a native domain group coordinator of a native domain synchrony group. As the native domain group coordinator, the native playback device translates VLI domain audio, control, and timing signals into the native domain and distributes such signals to native domain group members. In this way, the native domain group members can synchronize their playback with the VLI group.
US11442689B2
Examples of dynamic bonding of playback devices are disclosed. A disclosed example first playback device includes a shared device identifier to determine that a second playback device is sharable between a first bonded zone and a second bonded zone, the first bonded zone comprising the first playback device, the second bonded zone comprising a second playback device; a device manager to cause the shared playback device to join the first bonded zone; and an adjuster to change a first audio parameter of the first playback device in accordance with the joining of the shared playback device in the first bonded zone, wherein at least one of the shared device identifier, the device manager, or the adjuster is implemented via a processor.
US11442678B2
System and methods for printing a multi-media document from an image file are provided. The method includes a printing device receiving a data holding image file. A processor of the printing device parses and extracts document data for printing the multi-media document from the data holding image file. The processor processes the document data to receive instruction data for one or more printing operation components of the printing device. The method also includes sending the instruction data to one or more printer operation components of the printing device. Also, the method includes each of the one or more printer operation components performing a printer operation onto a multi-media document.
US11442676B2
In one example, a printing system includes a print engine and a print engine controller operatively connected to the print engine to print, on a single substrate web, graphics for multiple different layouts of corrugated boxes to be lined with the web and machine readable images representing corrugator control information for making the multiple different layouts.
US11442670B2
Systems and methods for bypassing a print dialog box that indicates a print confirmation, a prompt message, or a page preview, by employing a background print applet. The systems and methods may include detecting a print content to be printed by a printer, identifying one or more features of the print content, and determining one or more print settings based on the identified one or more features. The systems and methods may further include initiating the print content to be printed by the printer based on the determined print settings, whereby initiating the print content includes bypassing the print dialog box.
US11442668B2
A service management device includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to acquire respective execution times of programs that implement a service, identify a first volume having a largest influence on a response time of the service based on the respective execution times of the programs, where the first volume being any one of volumes of a storage device, and at least one of the programs writing and reading data to and from the storage device, and set a priority of writing and reading of data to and from the first volume higher than priorities of writing and reading of data to and from a remaining volume of the volumes.
US11442666B2
A storage system has a memory with primary and secondary blocks. Data is stored redundantly in the primary and secondary memory blocks but in a different programming order. For example, data is programmed in the first memory block starting at a first wordline and ending at a last wordline, while data is programmed in the second memory block starting at the last wordline and ending at the first wordline.
US11442664B2
Provided herein may be a memory system and a method of operating the same. The method of operating a memory system may include receiving a first program command, and performing an operation corresponding to the first program command, receiving a second program command while performing the operation corresponding to the first program command, delaying setting of a queue status register for the second program command by a first wait time, receiving a third read command before the first wait time elapses, and setting the queue status register for the third read command before setting the queue status register for the second program command.
US11442660B2
Systems and methods for scheduling storage management tasks over predicted user tasks in a distributed storage system. A method commences upon receiving a set of historical stimulus records that characterize management tasks that are run in the storage system. A corresponding set of historical response records comprising system metrics associated with execution of the system tasks is also received. A learning model is formed from the stimulus records and the response records and formatted to be used as a predictor. A set of forecasted user tasks is input as new stimulus records to the predictor to determine a set of forecasted system metrics that would result from running the forecasted user tasks. Management tasks are selected so as not to impact the forecasted user tasks. Management tasks can be selected based on non-contentions resource usage between historical management task resource usage and predictions of resource usage by the user tasks.
US11442656B2
An indication that one or more program operations have been interrupted as a result of a read operation can be received at a first controller component associated with a memory sub-system. Context data associated with interrupted program operations can be received at the first controller component. A control sequence based on the context data can be generated at the first controller component. The control sequence can indicate how a second controller component associated with the memory sub-system interacts with a memory component of the memory sub-system to perform the read operation and to resume the interrupted program operations. The control sequence can further specify one or more additional operations that are associated with copying data of the interrupted program operations between first and second memory locations of the memory component. The control sequence can be provided to the second controller component.
US11442651B2
Techniques rebuild data in a storage array group. Such techniques involve: in response to determining that a first storage device of a plurality of storage devices comprised in the storage array group is in a non-working state, generating a write record of the first storage device, the write record indicating whether a write operation occurs for each of a plurality of storage areas in the first storage device during the non-working state; in response to determining that the first storage device returns from the non-working state to a working state, determining, based on the write record, whether a target storage area in need of execution of data rebuilding is present in the first storage device; and controlling, based on the determining, the data rebuilding to be executed on the target storage area.
US11442649B2
A method according to one embodiment includes identifying a request to migrate data associated with a volume from a source storage pool to a destination storage pool, identifying volume segment table (VST) entries corresponding to rank extents within the source storage pool containing the data, allocating and synchronizing small VSTs for the identified VST entries within the volume, allocating one or more rank extents within the destination storage pool, transferring the data associated with the volume from the rank extents within the source storage pool containing the data to the one or more rank extents in the one or more ranks of the destination storage pool, updating the small VSTs to correspond to the transferred data in the one or more rank extents in the one or more ranks of the destination storage pool, and freeing the data from the one or more rank extents within the source storage pool.
US11442645B2
A method for storage cluster expansion is provided. The method includes distributing user data throughout a storage cluster as directed by each of a plurality of authorities in the storage cluster. Each of the plurality of authorities has a plurality of wards, and each of the plurality of wards has ownership of a range of the user data. The method includes splitting one of the plurality of authorities, as a parent authority, into at least two child authorities and assigning a first subset of the plurality of wards of the parent authority to one of the at least two child authorities, and a second subset of the plurality of wards of the parent authority to another one of the at least two child authorities.
US11442639B2
Techniques manage stripes in a storage system. In accordance with such techniques, in the storage system including a plurality of storage devices, a device correlation of a storage device in the plurality of storage devices is determined according to a request for creating a stripe in the storage system. The device correlation indicates distribution of a set of stripes created in the storage system between the storage device and other storage devices than the storage device. One storage device is selected from the plurality of storage devices based on the determined device correlation. One extent in the selected storage device is added to the stripe. As such, all extents in the stripe can be distributed as evenly as possible in the plurality of storage devices in the storage system, thus ensuring load balancing of the storage system and more effective management of the stripes in the storage system.
US11442621B2
A computing device detects a press of a global shortcut key simultaneously with a first press and release of a modifier key. In response thereto, an operation is initiated in a non-default display region. The operation might be displaying a user interface element in the non-default display region. The computing device can also detect a second press and release of the modifier key simultaneously with the press of the global shortcut key. In response thereto, the operation can be initiated in a second display region, such as a default display region. The second press and release of the modifier key can be detected within a predetermined period of time following the detection of the first press and release of the modifier key. The operation might be simultaneously initiated in multiple display regions, such as sharing a region that encompasses the non-default display region and one or more other display regions.
US11442619B2
A computing device includes a memory for storing vector graphics including information about graphic objects including locations of the graphic objects, a display for displaying a representation of the vector graphics and a surface or pointing device for detecting an indication of a change in the vector graphics. In response to detecting the indication, the computing device is configured to automatically change a geometry of at least one other graphic object connected to at least one other graphic object at one or more locations of the at least one graphic object, the change includes a change in at least one location of the at least one graphic object, and at least one location of the at least one other graphic object is unchanged, and automatically change at least a portion of the representation, and the display is configured to display at least a portion of the changed representation.
US11442611B2
A display apparatus includes a display, a single physical button and a processor configured to control the display to display a guide user interface (UI), a selection UI and a plurality of menu items, based on a user input received via the single physical button being identified as a short click input, move the selection UI from one menu item among the plurality of menu items to another menu item among the plurality of menu items, based on the user input being identified as a long press input, select the one menu item and execute a control function corresponding to the selected one menu item, and based on an execution of the control function, control the display to display a setting UI indicating a current setting value of the control function.
US11442610B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a virtual item adjustment method performed at a computing device having a touchscreen. The method including: displaying a virtual object presenting interface on the touchscreen, the virtual object presenting interface comprising a first virtual object and a second virtual object, the first virtual object and the second virtual object being two virtual objects respectively controlled by two different user accounts; receiving a slide operation signal on the touchscreen, the slide operation signal having a start position on the second virtual object and an end position on the first virtual object; and adjusting a virtual item of the first virtual object according to a virtual item of the second virtual object. The embodiments of this application implement the function of adjusting a virtual item of a virtual object only through a slide operation. Therefore, the operation simpler and more efficient.
US11442609B1
A graphical user interface for setting speed and direction of video playback may include a timeline representation of video duration. Playback speed and playback direction from a selected point of the video may be determined based on user interaction with the graphical user interface. An extent of the video duration to which the selected playback speed and selected playback direction is applied may be determined based on movement of the timeline representation.
US11442596B1
A mapping system presents geographically relevant images. The images may be relevant to a search entered by the user, directions requested by the user, or any other factor relevant to the user's relationship to the displayed map. Moreover, the images may change in response to user actions or other factors, wherein new images “bubble up” as user context changes. The mapping system may display geographically relevant images by way of an information card presented in response to a user interacting with a point on a digital map. The user may interact with any of the geographically relevant images, causing an indicator of the map location associated with the image to be presented. Alternatively or additionally, a user interaction with a geographically relevant image may cause an interactive panoramic presentation of street-level imagery to be presented.
US11442585B2
A touch display module includes a display panel and a touch sensing layer. The touch sensing layer is embedded in the display panel and includes a plurality of sensing electrode groups. The sensing electrode groups are sequentially arranged along a first axial direction. One of the sensing electrode groups includes a first electrode block, a second electrode block, and a third electrode block spaced apart from each other. The first electrode block is located at a same side of the second electrode block and the third electrode block in the first axial direction and is located between the second electrode block and the third electrode block in a second axial direction perpendicular to the first axial direction.
US11442579B2
A method for accidental touch prediction using machine learning (ML) classification is provided. The method includes determining, by an electronic device, a mutual data index of a sensor data using a first ML model. Further, the method includes recognizing whether the sensor data corresponds to an object touch or a non-object touch based on the mutual data index. Further, the method includes performing, by the electronic device, one of detecting that the electronic device is in a pocket mode and providing an object touch notification on a touch screen of the electronic device in response to determining that the sensor data corresponds to the object touch, and recognizing whether the sensor data corresponds to an accidental touch or a non-accidental touch using at least one second ML model based on touch data in response to determining that the sensor data corresponds to the non-object touch.
US11442577B2
A touch sensitive processing method applicable to a touch panel is provided. The touch panel includes sequentially a third electrode layer, a flexible dielectric layer, and at least one touch electrode layer. The third electrode layer includes multiple parallel third electrodes. The at least one touch electrode layer includes first electrodes in parallel to a first axis and second electrodes in parallel to a second axis. Each of the first electrodes intersects with the second electrodes to form multiple intersections. The touch sensitive processing method comprises: performing self-capacitance detection via the third electrodes to retrieve an approximating event, performing mutual-capacitance detection via the first electrodes and the second electrodes to retrieve a touching event, and reporting the approximating event to a host if the touching event is detected, or reporting the touching event if it is detected.
US11442571B2
A touch surface device, comprising at least: an element comprising a first face forming the touch surface and a second face opposite to the first face; an acoustic wave sensor including at least one portion of piezoelectric material disposed between two electrodes, the portion of piezoelectric material and both electrodes being structured by forming surface wavinesses as wrinkles, the sensor being secured to the second face of the element such that apexes or valleys of the wrinkles are in contact with the second face of the element; an electronic circuit coupled to the electrodes of the sensor and configured to identify, from an electric signal intended to be outputted from the electrodes of the sensor, at least one touch gesture made on the touch surface.
US11442568B2
A sensor device is provided and includes electrodes each including first parts and a second part connected to the first parts, the first parts each extending in a first direction, the second part extending in a second direction different from the first direction; and a lead line including a third part connected to the second part and a fourth part connected to the third part, the third part extending in the first direction, the fourth part extending in a third direction different from the first direction, wherein the electrodes are arranged in the second direction, the second part is located between the lead line and the first parts, and the third part is located between the second part and the fourth part.
US11442566B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a touch unit. The touch unit includes first detection electrode groups arranged along a first direction, second detection electrode groups arranged along a second direction, and bridges including a first bridge. The first direction intersects the second direction. Each of the plurality of first detection electrode groups includes a first detection electrode sub-block and a second detection electrode sub-block that are adjacent to each other along the first direction. The first detection electrode sub-block includes a first main portion, and the second detection electrode sub-block includes a second main portion and a first branching portion. The first branching portion extends toward the first main portion, and the first bridge is configured to electrically connect the first branching portion and the first main portion.
US11442564B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of display devices, and discloses a touch display device and a fabrication method thereof, and terminal equipment. The touch display device includes: a cover plate; a mold frame, including a bottom and an extended part, wherein the bottom and the extended part define a groove; adhesive, located at the end part of the extended part; a touch display module, located in the groove and including a display panel and a touch panel located at the side, facing the cover plate, of the display panel; and a touch flexible printed circuit board, bound to a side edge of the side, facing away from the display panel, of the touch panel and bent to the side, facing away from the touch panel, of the display panel, wherein the touch flexible printed circuit board is provided with a plurality of through holes at the area other than the binding position. The touch display device has the advantage that the size of the border is effectively reduced, thereby providing a feasible technical solution for fabricating full-screen terminals.
US11442563B2
An improved portable media device and methods for operating a media device are disclosed. According to one aspect, the portable media device can also function as a solid-state drive for data storage. The form factor of the portable media device can be hand-held or smaller, such that it is highly portable. The portable media device can use one or more status indicators. The portable media device can also include a peripheral bus connector, a rechargeable battery, and one or more input devices. According to another aspect, the portable media device has the capability to store media device status information in persistent memory before powering down. Thereafter, when the portable media device is again powered up, the stored media player status information can be retrieved and utilized. According to still another aspect, the portable media device can form and/or traverse a media asset playlist in an efficient manner.
US11442558B2
According to various embodiments, there is provided an input device including a height sensor structure configured to provide a height output indicative of whether a gap between the input device and a reference surface is larger than a threshold value; a control circuit configured to control tracking of a movement of the input device in a plane defined by the reference surface, based on the height output; a motion detector configured to provide a detector output indicative of a direction of an at least substantially vertical motion of the input device; and an adjustment circuit configured to adjust the threshold value based on the detector output.
US11442549B1
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that enable more intuitive and efficient selection and positioning of visual effects. In some implementations, a visual effect is selected and a surface of a physical element is identified for application of the visual effect based on tracking one or more positions or gestures of a user's hand.
US11442541B1
A method for color-based calibration for eye-tracking includes presenting a calibration image to an eyebox area via a waveguide of a head mounted display (HMD). An estimated pupil center location of an eye is determined with an eye-tracking system. Next, user input is received in response to the calibration image. The user input includes an indication of a perceived color nonuniformity of the calibration image. The estimated pupil center location is then adjusted based on the user input.
US11442539B2
One implementation involves a device receiving a stream of pixel events output by an event camera. The device derives an input image by accumulating pixel events for multiple event camera pixels. The device generates a gaze characteristic using the derived input image as input to a neural network trained to determine the gaze characteristic. The neural network is configured in multiple stages. The first stage of the neural network is configured to determine an initial gaze characteristic, e.g., an initial pupil center, using reduced resolution input(s). The second stage of the neural network is configured to determine adjustments to the initial gaze characteristic using location-focused input(s), e.g., using only a small input image centered around the initial pupil center. The determinations at each stage are thus efficiently made using relatively compact neural network configurations. The device tracks a gaze of the eye based on the gaze characteristic.
US11442537B2
Methods and apparatus for glint-assisted gaze tracking in a VR/AR head-mounted display (HMD). Images of a user's eyes captured by gaze tracking cameras may be analyzed to detect glints (reflections on the cornea of light sources that illuminate the user's eyes) and the pupil. The glints are matched to particular ones of the light sources. The glint-light source matches are used to determine the cornea center of the eye, and the pupil center is determined. The optical axis of the eye is reconstructed from the cornea center and the pupil center, and the visual axis is then reconstructed from the optical axis and a 3D model of the user's eye. The point of gaze on the display is then determined based on the visual axis and a 3D model of the HMD.
US11442532B2
Methods and systems for filtering content include identifying content for presenting in a rendering space defined by one or more mechanisms of a head mounted display (HMD), wherein the content is interactive, streaming content. A rating score for the content is identified. The content is dynamically adjusted to selectively filter a portion of the content based on a user profile of the user, rating score of the content, and ongoing interactions detected at the content. The adjusted content is formatted for rendering on the HMD. The formatted content is automatically transmitted to the HMD for rendering, in response to the request.
US11442529B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises: a plurality of intellectual property (IP) circuits, each of the plurality of IP circuits including a configuration register to store a dynamic current budget; and a power controller coupled to the plurality of IP circuits, the power controller including a dynamic current sharing control circuit to receive current throttling hint information regarding a workload to be executed on at least some of the plurality of IP circuits and generate the dynamic current budget for each of the plurality of IP circuits based at least in part thereon. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11442513B1
The systems and methods manage thermal states of a device through user configuration of a client application on the device. The systems and methods set thermal thresholds associated with the device. The systems and methods infer the thermal thresholds from information gathered by a client application running on the device. The systems and methods implement a stored policy associated with a violation of one of the thermal thresholds by one of the monitored thermal states.
US11442507B2
A mobile electronic device includes a main framework, a back cover, a door cover, a functional module and a stop element. The back cover covers the main framework and has an expansion window. The door cover covers the expansion window. The functional module is disposed on an inner side of the door cover and electrically connected to a motherboard in the main framework. An operation interface corresponding in position to an outer side of the door cover is disposed on one side of the functional module. One side and the other side of the functional module oppose each other. The stop element is disposed on the inner side of the door cover, abuts against the other side of the functional module, and thus prevents the functional module from retracting under an external force. Therefore, the mobile electronic device is insusceptible to a collision and a fall.
US11442503B2
An electronic device such as a wearable electronic device may have a band. The band may form a stand-alone device or a strap for a wristwatch unit or other device. Electrical components may be mounted on flexible printed circuit substrates. A substrate may be encapsulated by elastomeric polymer material or other material forming the band. The elastomeric polymer material may form cavities that receive the electrical components. Components such as light-emitting diodes may be mounted to the flexible printed circuit substrates so that the light-emitting diodes are located in the cavities. Reflective sidewalls in the cavities may reflect light from the light-emitting diodes outwardly through a thinned portion of the band. Light-diffusing material in the cavities may be formed from clear polymer with light-scattering particles.
US11442492B2
An apparatus and method to protect unauthorized change to a reference clock for a processor. The apparatus comprises: a first oscillator to generate a first clock; a second oscillator to generate a second clock; a third oscillator to generate a third clock; a first counter to count frequency of the first clock with respect to a fourth clock; a second counter to count frequency of the second clock with respect to the fourth clock; a third counter to count frequency of the third clock with respect to the fourth clock; and a circuitry to compare frequencies of the first, second, and third clocks with one another. The oscillators can be embedded in an interposer or package. These oscillators include one or more of: LC oscillator, micro electro-mechanical system (MEMs) based resonator, or ring oscillator.
US11442491B2
A dynamic power monitor for monitoring a power of a block in an integrated circuit is provided. The dynamic power monitor includes an input buffer configured to store first state values corresponding to internal signals of the block according to a first cycle of a clock signal; a power calculator configured to identify first power classification values corresponding to the block according to the first cycle, based on the first state values; and a filter configured to identify a first filtered value of the first power classification values.
US11442490B1
Examples of clock generators with very low duty cycle distortion (DCD) are provided. A clock source and driver generate a main clock signal and a complementary clock signal that are input to a chopper circuit, which also receives complementary chopper control signals from a non-overlapping generator circuit. The chopper circuit is controlled to pass the main clock signal as a first output signal when the chopper circuit is in a first state, and pass the complementary clock signal as a second output signal when the chopper circuit is in a third state. In a second state, which occurs during each of the falling edges of the main clock signal, the chopper circuit holds the previous state, and does not transmit the falling edges of the main clock signal. The rising edges of the main clock signal is used to derive the rising and falling edges of the output signals.
US11442489B2
A joystick has a lever and a housing. The lever is pivotable around a pivot axis. The joystick has a support plate carrying at least one sensor. The sensor has at least one coil generating a magnetic field. An eddy current is induced into the coil. At least one metal flag is movable relative to the coil. The motion of the metal flag coincides with the tilting motion of the lever.
US11442480B2
A power supply circuit in which an increase in a leakage current can be suppressed is provided. In a power supply circuit in which a main LDO unit outputs a first internal voltage during a normal operation and a sub LDO unit outputs a sleep voltage during a sleep operation, the sleep voltage is applied to a drain of a transistor, and an external voltage higher than the sleep voltage is applied to a gate and a back gate thereof.
US11442477B2
An attachable, detachable pressure reducing regulator for use with a primary high-pressure gas source, wherein the high-pressure chamber of said regulator includes a secondary gas IN portal, with a one-way valve, through which the primary container source may be refilled from an external gas source, via the high-pressure chamber of the said regulator, either independently of or concurrently during its use as a pressure reducing regulator.
US11442472B1
A system for automated flight plan reporting for an electric aircraft, the system including a flight controller coupled to the electric aircraft configured to receive a digital datum from a remote device, generate a plan adjustment datum as a function of the digital datum, and transmit the plan adjustment datum to a pilot display, a pilot display coupled to the electric aircraft, wherein the pilot display is configured to receive the plan adjustment datum from the flight controller, display the plan adjustment datum to a user; and receive a confirmation datum from the user.
US11442465B2
A robot cleaner is provided. A robot cleaner includes a cleaner main body, a battery configured to supply a power, a memory configured to store floor material information corresponding to each of a plurality of subspaces configuring a space, and a processor configured to identify a cleaning mode corresponding to each of the plurality of subspaces based on the floor material information corresponding to each of the plurality of subspaces, identify an order of priority of each of the plurality of subspaces based on the identified cleaning mode and a remaining amount of power, and set a movement path of the robot cleaner based on the identified order of priority.
US11442463B1
An autonomous mobile device moves through a physical space using simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) techniques. SLAM processes images from cameras to determine localization and trajectory of the device based on features that are assumed to be stationary. SLAM performance is improved by removing moving features from consideration. A first position of a feature at a first time and data from an inertial sensor are used to determine a predicted position at a second time. The predicted position is compared to a second position of the feature at the second time. This comparison takes into consideration an assumed Gaussian error distribution of how the positions are determined. If the predicted position differs from the second position by less than a threshold value, the feature may be determined to be stationary. The stationary features are then processed using SLAM to determine the localization and trajectory information.
US11442456B2
An apparatus for determining a lane change path of an autonomous vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes a learning device configured to learn lane change paths corresponding to a lane change strategy of the autonomous vehicle, and a controller configured to interwork with the learning device to extract at least two lane change paths corresponding to the lane change strategy among a plurality of lane change paths in a drivable area of the autonomous vehicle and determine a final lane change path based on properties of the extracted lane change paths.
US11442453B2
An information processing apparatus manages operation of an autonomous vehicle that delivers a package. The information processing apparatus includes a control section that before the autonomous vehicle arrives at a basic delivery destination that is an original delivery destination of the package, acquires a location, at a planned delivery time of the package, of a user that receives the package, and where the location is different from the basic delivery destination, transmits an instruction for delivering the package to the location to the autonomous vehicle.
US11442451B2
Systems and methods for generating driving recommendations are disclosed herein. One embodiment divides automatically a roadway into a plurality of lane-level cells; generates a graph network that represents the plurality of lane-level cells; gathers information pertaining to one or more detected road agents; projects onto the graph network the gathered information pertaining to the one or more detected road agents to update a current status of the plurality of lane-level cells; processes the graph network based on the updated current status of the plurality of lane-level cells to predict a future status of the plurality of lane-level cells, the predicted future status including at least occupancy, by a detected road agent, of the respective lane-level cells in the plurality of lane-level cells; and generates a driving recommendation based, at least in part, on the predicted future status of the plurality of lane-level cells.
US11442443B2
An acquisition unit is configured to acquire measurement values of a target device. A likelihood calculation unit is configured to calculate an occurrence likelihood for each of a plurality of phenomena that are liable to occur to the target device based on the measurement values acquired by the acquisition unit. A table storage unit is configured to store a table in which the plurality of phenomena and occurrence causes of abnormalities of the target device are associated to each other. As estimation unit is configured to estimate the occurrence causes based on the occurrence likelihood and the table.
US11442437B2
Systems and methods presented herein provide for multivariable model predictive control of a multistep plant. In one embodiment, a model predictive controller (MPC) includes a model of the multistep plant. The MPC is operable to linearize at least two steps of the multistep plant into cycle steps based on the model, to process an output signal from the multistep plant, and to independently control the cycle steps based on the output signal to optimize an output of the multistep plant.
US11442432B2
Method for data transmission within an industrial communication network, wherein selected datagrams are transmitted within predetermined time intervals, which are synchronized at all network nodes, where a number of network nodes from the respective source network node to the respective target network node is determined for forwarding the selected datagrams in each case, and where the selected datagrams are transmitted during first periodic time intervals having a first protection interval length in the event of a determined number of network nodes corresponding to at least one predefined threshold value and, in contrast thereto, if a determined number lies below the threshold value, then the selected datagrams are transmitted during second periodic time intervals having a second protection interval length, which is shorter than the first protection interval length.
US11442429B2
A system for detection of an anomaly in a discrete manufacturing process (DMP) with human-robot teams executing a task. Receive signals including robot, worker and DMP signals. Predict a sequence of events (SOEs) from DMP signals. Determine whether the predicted SOEs in the DMP signals is inconsistent with a behavior of operation of the DMP described in a DMP model, and if the predicted SOEs from DMP signals is inconsistent with the behavior, then an alarm is to be signaled. Input worker data into a Human Performance (HP) model, to obtain a state of the worker based on previously learned boundaries of human state. The state of the HW is then input into the HRI model and the DMP model to determine a classification of anomaly or no anomaly. Update a Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) model to obtain a control action of a robot or a type of an anomaly alarm.
US11442423B2
Embodiments are directed to providing a user interface (UI) that streamlines and simplifies the process of monitoring critical power-generation module (PGM) parameters after a PGM assembly is shutdown. The UI displays, in real-time, indicators corresponding to one or more post-shutdown PGM parameters. The UI provides indications of whether the post-shutdown PGM parameters meet post-shutdown criteria of the PGM assembly. When a post-shutdown PGM parameter does not meet the post-shutdown criteria, a user alert is provided to the user. A protocol may additionally be provided to the user. In some embodiments, the protocol may enable the user to return the PGM assembly to a condition that satisfies the post-shutdown criteria. The protocol may be a safety protocol and/or an asset protection protocol.
US11442422B1
Some aspects include a schedule development method for a robotic floor-cleaning device that recognizes patterns in user input to automatically devise a work schedule.
US11442421B2
An adapter for connecting an embedded system to a control computer having a standard interface, in particular a network interface, a first subcircuit, and a second subcircuit, the first subcircuit being designed to communicate with the control computer via the standard interface by means of a standard protocol, preferably XCP. The first subcircuit is designed to convert a protocol functionality requested in the standard protocol via the standard interface, out of a set of supported protocol functionalities into the call for one or more elementary functions out of a defined overall set of elementary functions. The first subcircuit is connected to the second subcircuit via an internal interface, wherein the second subcircuit has a programmable computing module which is configured to provide at least one elementary function out of the overall set of elementary functions which can be called up via the internal interface by means of a call.
US11442417B2
A control system comprises a memory storing a sequence of sensor data received from one or more sensors. The control system has a processor which processes the sensor data to compute a sequence of derived sensor data values. An autoencoder receives the sequence of derived sensor data values and computes a forward prediction of the sequence of derived sensor data values, the autoencoder having been trained imposing a relationship on positions of the derived sensor data values encoded in a latent space of the autoencoder. A processor initiates control of an apparatus using the forward prediction.
US11442412B2
An exterior member that is favorably manufactured, a case having the exterior member and a timepiece having the case are provided. The exterior member includes an exterior main body section in which a first resin layer is provided on one side of a sheet member formed of carbon fiber and a cutout recess section from which a portion of the sheet member is exposed is provided in the first resin layer on the one side of the sheet member, and a protection member which covers the cutout recess section of the first resin layer. Accordingly, the exterior member is favorably manufactured with its strength being increased.
US11442411B2
A timepiece, in particular a pocket watch, that includes a case delimited by a middle, the timepiece further including at least one cover covering a device for displaying information, as well as a device for controlling the opening of the at least one cover, this control device including a ring pendant and a command transmission member, the ring pendant arranged such that it is pushed in a rectilinear manner a first time towards the middle into a first abutment position, then such that it is rotated in a first direction into a second abutment position, then such that it is pushed in a rectilinear manner a second time towards the middle so as to cause the cover to open by an action on the command transmission member.
US11442405B2
A drum unit for a cartridge includes a cylindrical photosensitive drum having an axis L1 and a coupling member operatively connected to the photosensitive drum. The coupling member includes a first member having a cylindrical portion, a part of the first member being positioned inside of the photosensitive drum and a part of the first member being positioned outside of the photosensitive drum. The coupling member also includes a second member operatively connected to first member, the second member including a plurality of arm portions that are movable relative to the first member, with at least a part of each of the arm portions being positioned inside of the photosensitive drum and inside of the first member.
US11442396B2
A cleaning blade includes a blade member including a ridgeline portion. The ridgeline portion contains polyrotaxane. A sheet conveyance roller includes a core and a surface layer. The surface layer contains polyrotaxane.
US11442393B2
Described herein is a process for heat transfer printing, the process comprising: electrostatically printing a transparent release composition onto a transfer material to form a release layer disposed on the transfer material; electrostatically printing an electrostatic ink composition on the release layer to form an image layer disposed on the release layer; contacting a thermoplastic film with the image layer; contacting the thermoplastic film with a target substrate under conditions such that the thermoplastic film adheres to the target substrate and the release layer is softened; and separating the target substrate and the transfer material such that the thermoplastic film, image layer and release layer are transferred to the target substrate. A heat transferrable printed image is also described herein.
US11442388B2
In an image forming apparatus, an image processing unit converts image data based on a plurality of conversion conditions corresponding to a plurality of positions in a predetermined direction. A controller controls an image forming unit to form an image based on the image data converted by the image processing unit, and controls the image forming unit to form a plurality of pattern images including first, second and third pattern images. The controller controls a reading unit to read the plurality of pattern images on the sheet, generates correction conditions corresponding to the plurality of positions in the predetermined direction based on a reading result of the reading unit, and generates the plurality of conversion conditions based on the reading result and the correction conditions corresponding to the plurality of positions in the predetermined direction.
US11442386B2
A heating device includes a heating unit that heats a member to be heated, which is transported, as a result of a contact portion of the heating unit being in contact with the member to be heated, a heat pipe that contacts with a portion of the heating unit different from the contact portion in such a manner as to extend in a widthwise direction crossing a transport direction of the member to be heated and that includes a crimped portion formed at a first end of the heat pipe, and a power-supply connection unit that is disposed on a second end side of the heat pipe and that is connected to a wiring line through which power is supplied to the heating unit.
US11442385B2
The heater including a substrate, a first heat generation member, a second heat generation member having a length substantially a same in a longitudinal direction as a length of the first heat generation member, a third heat generation member having a length shorter than lengths of the first heat generation member and the second heat generation member in the longitudinal direction, and a fourth heat generation member having a length shorter than length of the third heat generation member in the longitudinal direction, wherein the first heat generation member, the second heat generation member, the third heat generation member and the fourth heat generation member are arranged on the substrate.
US11442381B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier that carries an image; a developing device that develops a latent image formed on the image carrier into a visible image formed of powder; an intermediate transfer body to which the visible image is transferred from the image carrier and that temporarily transports the visible image; a transfer device that transfers the visible image on the image carrier to the intermediate transfer body; a first cleaning device that cleans the image carrier by collecting powder that remains on the image carrier; a first collection container that receives the powder collected by the first cleaning device; a second cleaning device that cleans the intermediate transfer body by collecting powder that remains on the intermediate transfer body; a second collection container that receives the powder collected by the second cleaning device; a feeding device that supplies a transfer-process bias to the transfer device; and a changing unit that changes the transfer-process bias supplied by the feeding device when a waste powder image is formed on the image carrier, the transfer-process bias being changed so as to adjust amounts of powder in the waste powder image received by the first collection container and the second collection container.
US11442357B2
Provided is a mask blank, including a phase shift film. The phase shift film has a structure where a first layer and a second layer are stacked in this order from a side of the transparent substrate. The first layer is provided in contact with a surface of the transparent substrate. Refractive indexes n1 and n2 of the first layer and the second layer, respectively, at a wavelength of an exposure light of an ArF excimer laser satisfy the relation n1
US11442352B2
The present invention provides a lighting system, including at least one light source, a depolarization element and a light homogenization element. The at least one light source is configured to provide at least one light beam. The depolarization element is disposed on a transmission path of the at least one light beam. The depolarization element includes a first optical element, and the first optical element is provided with a first optical axis. The light homogenization element is configured to allow the at least one light beam to pass to form an illuminating light beam. The incident direction where the at least one light beam is transmitted to the first optical element is not parallel to the first light axis. The depolarization element is located between the at least one light source and the light homogenization element. In addition, projection apparatus is also provided.
US11442348B2
Wavelength conversion element, phosphor wheel, light source device, and projection display apparatus
A wavelength conversion element includes a first phosphor region and a second phosphor region. The second phosphor region is disposed in a thickness direction of the first phosphor region and has a phosphor particle with a particle size different from a particle size of a phosphor particle positioned in the first phosphor region.
US11442343B2
A gimbal load mounting assembly includes a first seating body, a second seating body configured to slidably connect with the first seating body, and a fastener. The first seating body is configured to connect with a gimbal frame and slide in a first direction. The second seating body is configured to mount a load and is slidable on the first seating body in a second direction. The fastener is configured to connect with the first seating body and to lock a mounting location of the first seating body relative to the gimbal frame and a mounting location of the second seating body relative to the first seating body.
US11442342B2
Recording indicators for devices with cameras that provide protection from tampering so that the recording indicators cannot be easily disabled or masked. Recording indicators that are integrated in a device's camera and that emit visible light through the camera lens aperture are described. In addition, modular accessories are described that the user has to attach to the device to enable recording; the presence of the modular attachment indicates to persons in the environment that they may be being recorded.
US11442335B2
A laser light source for producing incoherent laser beams, in particular for speckle-free imaging and/or projection, with at least two different wavelengths, preferably with three different wavelengths, includes: at least two optical devices, in particular at least two optical parametric oscillators, which each have a nonlinear optical medium for respectively producing a signal beam and an idler beam, and a superposition device configured to respectively superpose either the signal beam or the idler beam of each of the at least two optical devices for producing an incoherent laser beam with the at least two different wavelengths. A laser projector for producing an image, in particular a speckle-free image, on a projection surface, can include such a laser light source.
US11442331B2
A mobile communication apparatus, an optical assembly, and an aperture module thereof are provided. The aperture module includes a first liquid crystal (LC) aperture unit and a second LC aperture unit. The first LC aperture unit includes a first LC layer and two first transparent electrode layers disposed on two sides of the first LC layer. At least one of the first transparent electrode layers has a first opening. The second LC aperture unit includes a second LC layer and two second transparent electrode layers disposed on two sides of the second LC layer. At least one of the second transparent electrode layers has a second opening having a central axis overlapped with that of the first opening. The aperture module is configured to control each of the first switch region and the second switch region to be at a light permeable state or a light shield state.
US11442328B2
Provided is an optical device including a first wavelength variable interference filter in which a first reflective film and a second reflective film face each other with a first gap in between; a second wavelength variable interference filter in which a third reflective film and a fourth reflective film face each other with a second gap in between; and a first substrate having a transmissive property, which has a first surface and a second surface which is opposite in direction to the first surface, in which the second reflective film is provided on the first surface of the first substrate, and in which the third reflective film is provided on the second surface of the first substrate.
US11442324B2
The present disclosure includes an effective optical region within a transmittance variable region, and sets the transmittance variable region and the effective optical region so that a shortest distances from a periphery of the transmittance variable region to a periphery of the effective optical region, d1 and d2, are 7.5% or more and 25% or less of a length of the transmittance variable region on a straight line including the shortest distances, L1, in a vertical direction.
US11442299B2
Disclosed are a display module, a display device and a viewing-angle switching method. The display module includes a backlight module, a display panel, a lower polarizer sheet, a viewing-angle switching element and a transparent cover plate; the viewing-angle switching element and the transparent cover plate are arranged between the display panel and the lower polarizer sheet, and the transparent cover plate is arranged on a side of the viewing-angle switching element that is close to the lower polarizer sheet; the backlight module is configured to supply light that meets a preset condition, the viewing-angle switching element is configured to switch viewing-angle modes of the display module; the viewing-angle modes include; a first viewing-angle mode and a second viewing-angle mode; and a viewing-angle range of the first viewing-angle mode is smaller than a viewing angle range of the second viewing-angle mode.
US11442297B2
A structure is provided and includes (i) a substrate having a surface, the surface comprising a ternary or quaternary oxide having a first lattice parameter, the first lattice parameter being a lattice parameter of the ternary or quaternary oxide as it is present at the surface; and (ii) a layer of a perovskite oxide on the ternary or quaternary oxide, the perovskite oxide having a second lattice parameter, the second lattice parameter being a native lattice parameter of the perovskite oxide, wherein the first lattice parameter is larger than the second lattice parameter. A method for forming a perovskite oxide with an a-axis orientation is also provided.
US11442273B2
A display and method for providing an image to an eye of a viewer is provided. The display comprises at least two projector assemblies. Each projector assembly comprises a light-guide optical element (LOE), and an image projector arrangement for generating a partial image and being deployed to introduce the partial image into the LOE for coupling out towards the eye of the viewer. The at least two projector assemblies cooperate to display the image to the eye of the viewer with partial overlap. The display further comprises a controller associated with the image projector arrangements and configured to reduce a pixel intensity of selected pixels in a region of partial overlap between the first and second part of the image so as to enhance a perceived uniformity of the image.
US11442259B2
An optical microscope according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a light source; a first scanner to scan a spot position of a light beam on a sample; an objective lens to focus the light beam deflected by the first scanner and cause the light beam to be made incident on the sample; a spectroscope including a slit on an incident side which an outgoing light emitted from an area on the sample onto which the light beam has been illuminated enters; a detector configured to detect an outgoing light from the spectroscope; and a first relay optical system including a first off-axis parabolic mirror that is arranged in an optical path from the first scanner to the objective lens and reflects the light beam deflected by the first scanner and a second off-axis parabolic mirror that reflects the light beam reflected in the first off-axis parabolic mirror.
US11442258B2
Optical systems and apparatuses configured for enabling substantially simultaneous observation of a plurality of points in an array from a common reference point. Without the optical systems and apparatuses disclosed herein, less than all of the plurality of points can be observed substantially simultaneously from the common reference point.
US11442255B2
Wide angle lens for imaging objects disposed away from the optical axis towards the periphery of the field of view.
US11442251B2
An optical lens assembly and an imaging device including the optical lens assembly are disclosed. The optical lens assembly may include, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens. The first lens may have a negative refractive power; the second lens may have a positive refractive power; the third lens may have a positive refractive power; the fourth lens may have a negative refractive power, an object-side surface thereof is a convex surface and an image-side surface thereof is a concave surface; the fifth lens may have a positive refractive power, and both of an object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof are convex surfaces; and the sixth lens may have a negative refractive power.
US11442246B2
The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The camera optical lens further satisfies following conditions: 1.10≤f1/f≤3.00; and 3.50≤R7/d7≤6.50; where f denotes a focal length of the optical camera lens; f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens; R7 denotes a curvature radius of an object side surface of the fourth lens and d7 denotes an on-axis thickness of the fourth lens. The camera optical lens can achieve a high performance while obtaining a low TTL.
US11442240B2
A lens module of enhanced stability and strength when mounted to an image-capturing device includes a voice coil motor. The voice coil motor includes a casing and a first connection plate connected to the casing. The first connection plate defines at least one first mounting hole. An electronic device using the lens module is also provided.
US11442234B2
A device may be provided comprising at least one optoelectronic component and at least one optical waveguide, which are configured to transfer light between the optoelectronic component and the optical waveguide, wherein the optical waveguide contains at least one first longitudinal portion in which at least one Bragg grating is introduced, which has a grating constant which is variable along the longitudinal extent of said Bragg grating, and the optoelectronic component is arranged at a lateral distance from the optical waveguide. Alternatively or in addition, a method may be provided for transferring light between at least one optoelectronic component and at least one optical waveguide.
US11442233B2
The present disclosure is directed to a lockable optical connector. The connector includes an adapter member, an inner frame member, an outer frame member, an annular compression member, and a lock member. The inner frame member non-rotatably couples to the adapter member. The outer frame member retains the coupling between the inner frame member and the adapter member and physically couples to the adapter member, to provide a first locking mechanism. The annular compression member is disposed proximate the outer frame member and the locking member couples to the external surface of the inner frame member, compressing the annular compression member against the outer frame member to provide a second locking mechanism. A sealing element may be disposed between the outer frame member and the adapter member and a sealing element may be disposed between the outer frame member and the inner frame member to provide a weather-proof and water-tight lockable optical connector.
US11442229B2
An optical waveguide in which a grating coupler is formed, a first pattern region arranged to surround the grating coupler, and a second pattern region arranged to surround the grating coupler are included. The first pattern region and the second pattern region are arranged adjacently. In a periphery of the grating coupler, the first pattern region is formed in a region continuous in a circumferential direction. Similarly, in the periphery of the grating coupler, the second pattern region is formed in a region continuous in the circumferential direction.
US11442225B2
With a wavelength conversion device based on a nonlinear optical effect, when arrayed waveguides including an intended nonlinear waveguide are fabricated, unwanted slab waveguides are inevitably formed. The slab waveguides can cause an erroneous measurement in the selection of a waveguide having desired characteristics from the arrayed waveguides. The erroneous measurement can lead to redoing steps for fabricating the wavelength conversion device and a decrease in the yield and inhibit the evaluation of the characteristics in selection of the waveguide and the subsequent fabrication of the wavelength conversion device from being efficiently performed. A wavelength conversion device according to the present invention includes a plurality of waveguides formed on a substrate, and a plurality of slab waveguides that are arranged substantially in parallel with and spaced apart from the plurality of waveguides, and a guided light attenuator is formed in each of the slab waveguides. The guided light attenuators allow efficient selection of a waveguide having desired optical characteristics from the plurality of waveguides. The light attenuation by the guided light attenuators can be changed in steps for fabricating the wavelength conversion device.
US11442219B2
A lighting system may include a light guide to receive light from a light source; and a reflector plate including a frustrum structure formed on the surface of the reflector plate to receive refracted light from the light guide.
US11442212B2
Disclosed is an optical fiber illumination apparatus configured for ensuring high light efficiency and uniform luminosity when displaying an illumination pattern with flexible optical fibers in fiber optic lighting.
US11442205B2
An optical prism that includes an interlock structure that precisely couples to a complementary structure of a refractive lens. For precision, the interlock structure may be formed at the same time and using the same technique as the optical surface of the prism. The interlock structure provides high accuracy when assembling a folded lens system by precisely aligning the object side optical surface of the lens with the image side optical surface of the prism so that the optical axis is centered in the lens. The prism may have refractive power. A portion of the object side surface may be coated with an opaque material to provide an aperture stop at that surface.
US11442201B2
A flexible display cover substrate is provided, including a transparent polyimide film and a device protective layer. The device protective layer is formed by a hard coating layer disposed on at least one side of the transparent polyimide film, and the hard coating layer is composed of three or more reactive functional group compounds, an initiator, an elastic oligomer, a nano inorganic modified particle, and a fluorescent pigment. The flexible display cover substrate of the invention, after being folded by a radius of curvature of 1 mm, does not cause cracks on the surface of the hard coating layer or break the substrate, and the yellow index YI of the flexible display cover substrate is less than 2.0.
US11442200B2
A low-reflection coated glass sheet of the present invention includes a glass sheet and a low-reflection coating. The low-reflection coating is formed on at least a portion of one principal surface of the glass sheet and contains a binder containing silica as a main component, fine silica particles bound by the binder, and fine titania particles bound by the binder. The low-reflection coating satisfies the following relationships: 30 mass %
US11442194B2
A system for locating an underground utility line using a beacon positioned within a downhole tool. The beacon comprises a magnetic sensor formed from one or more ferrite rods. The rods are arranged such that no rod is orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the beacon housing. The magnetic sensor detects the presence of an underground utility line and sends a signal to an above-ground tracker indicating that a line has been detected. An above-ground locator may be used to determine the position of the line relative the beacon, so that the downhole tool may be steered away from the line.
US11442193B2
A downhole tool may comprise a tool body that is a structural support for the downhole tool, an upper arm attached at one end to the tool body, a pad attached at an opposite end of the upper arm, a lower arm attached at one end to a sliding block and attached to the pad at an opposite end of the lower arm, and a passive arm connected to the lower arm and the tool body. A method may comprise disposing a downhole tool into a borehole, applying a force to a passive arm, applying a second force from the passive arm to the lower arm in response to the force applied to the passive arm, and moving the lower arm and the passive arm in a longitudinal direction along an axis of the downhole tool.
US11442181B2
A gel forming composition for radiation dosimetry, and a high sensitivity and high safety radiation dosimeter using a gel formed from the composition. A gel forming composition for radiation dosimetry comprising a gelator and a compound of Formula (1): (wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an optionally substituted C1-12 alkyl group, etc.; and R2 and R3 are each independently a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted C1-12 alkyl group, an optionally substituted monovalent C6-12 aromatic group, or R2 and R3 form a 4- to 8-membered ring together with a carbon atom to which R2 and R3 are bonded, and the 4-to 8-membered ring may have 0 to 3 nitrogen atoms, oxygen atoms, or sulfur atoms as a ring atom, provided that R2 and R3 are not simultaneously a hydrogen atom).
US11442175B2
A method for determining the position of a receiving device, wherein, by the receiving device, a GNSS signal is received that is formed in accordance with a signal transmitted from a satellite of a global satellite navigation system, wherein code data and phase information of the GNSS signal are determined and a plausibility check is carried out between the code data and phase information to detect whether the GNSS signal is a manipulating signal.
US11442173B2
A time synchronization system an input interface configured to receive pseudorange measurements from a set of antennas of at least one Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiving system that operates the antennas at known positions according to a clock with an unknown time bias to receive signals from satellites in sight of the antennas and an output interface configured to output the determined time bias. The time synchronization system also includes a processor configured to compare the pseudorange measurements of different antennas to produce an antenna-specific clock offset for each of the antennas, correct the pseudorange measurements of the antennas according to the antenna-specific clock offsets of corresponding antennas to produce corrected pseudorange measurements, and determine the time bias of the clock using the corrected pseudorange measurements.
US11442167B2
An autonomous vehicle having a sensor and a sensor having a plurality of light transmitters and a plurality of light receivers that are arranged in a common housing, with the optical axes of the light transmitters and light receivers being arranged in parallel or in fan form in different angle directions having angular intervals, whereby a protected field is formed, and having a control and evaluation unit for monitoring and evaluating the protected field, wherein a camera is connected to the control and evaluation unit, with camera images of the camera being evaluated by the control and evaluation unit.
US11442166B2
A measurement configuration of a remote sensing device for use in implementing a remote sensing measurement campaign is improved. One method includes adjusting a scan geometry configuration of the remote sensing device during the measurement campaign based on measurement data acquired in a previous scan geometry configuration. In another method, the remote sensing device is configured in a scan geometry configuration having a plurality of scan geometries, and following acquisition of a measurement data set by the remote sensing device at a first time interval, one of the scan geometries indicative of an improved or optimal scan geometry at the first time interval is selected. The remote sensing device forms part of a remote sensing system and includes an optical source emitting a probe as a light beam along different lines of sight. The remote sensing device includes or is operatively associated with a receiver for detecting the reflected probe.
US11442163B2
A real-time aircraft bird congestion indicator system for measuring congestion in an airspace between aircraft and birds uses one or more radars to continuously survey an airspace around an airport or aerodrome and continuously generate aircraft tracks and bird tracks in the airspace. A congestion processor connected to the radar(s) receives the aircraft and bird tracks and processes them to periodically generate a congestion indicator that measures the congestion in the airspace. A display processor connected to the congestion processor receives the congestion indicator which is updated periodically by the congestion processor and displays the congestion indicator to a user, generates an alert if the congestion indicator falls outside set operating limits, and/or sends the congestion indicator or alert to another system.
US11442154B2
The invention is a system that enables passive sonar identification of underwater items by making use of lift bags and/or flags, having distinctive sequences of bands of sonar-signal-reflecting materials, wherein the lift items are partially inflated so as to present a predictable orientation with respect to the floor of a body of water and its surface.
US11442150B2
In one embodiment, a lidar system includes a light source configured to emit a pulse of light and a scanner configured to direct the emitted pulse of light into a field of regard of the lidar system. The lidar system also includes a receiver configured to receive a portion of the emitted pulse of light scattered by a target located a distance from the lidar system. The receiver includes a digital micromirror device (DMD) that includes a two-dimensional array of electrically addressable micromirrors, where a portion of the micromirrors are configured to be set to an active-on state to direct the received pulse of light to a detector array. The detector array includes a two-dimensional array of detector elements, where the detector array is configured to detect the received pulse of light and produce an electrical signal corresponding to the received pulse of light.
US11442149B2
A light detection and ranging (“LIDAR”) system includes a coherent light source that generates a frequency modulated optical signal comprising a series of optical chirps. A scanning assembly transmits the series of optical chirps in a scan pattern across a scanning region, and receives a plurality of reflected optical chirps corresponding to the transmitted optical chirps that have reflected off one or more objects located within the scanning region. A photodetector mixes the reflected optical chirps with a local oscillation (LO) reference signal comprising a series of LO reference chirps. An electronic data analysis assembly processes digital data derived from the reflected optical chirps and the LO reference chirps mixed at the photodetector to generate distance data and optionally velocity data associated with each of the reflected optical chirps.
US11442146B2
A side looking occupancy sensor is incorporated in a conventional wall switch mounted into a switch box adjacent to a door. The side-looking proximity sensor preferably is mountable to either side of the doorjamb to make the side-looking proximity sensor face the door opening. During operation, the side-looking sensor monitors the door movement or senses the passage of a person for indication that a person is entering or leaving the space. Entry and exit determination is made based on activation of the side-looking sensor.
US11442140B1
In some examples, a system includes at least three receivers configured to receive a surveillance packet from another vehicle at respective arrival times. The system includes a first receiver configured to receive a surveillance packet from the other vehicle at a first time. The system also includes a second receiver configured to receive the surveillance packet from the other vehicle at a second time. The system further include a third receiver configured to receive the surveillance packet from the other vehicle at a third time. In addition, the system includes processing circuitry configured to determine a location of the ownship vehicle based on the received surveillance packet and the respective arrival times.
US11442138B2
A method is disclosed for estimating a position of a plurality of transmitting nodes. The method comprises installing a telecommunication application in each of the plurality of transmitting nodes; transmitting a plurality of data packets; generating a plurality of transmission quality coefficients using the plurality of data packets; determining a corresponding plurality of transmission scores; estimating a distance between each pair of transmitting nodes, wherein the estimating of the distance between each pair of transmitting nodes is performed using a corresponding transmission score and a lookup table; generating an estimation of a position of the plurality of transmitting nodes using the plurality of estimated distances; providing the generated estimation.
US11442137B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for determining locations of wireless nodes in a network architecture are disclosed herein. In one example, a system includes a first wireless node having a wireless device with one or more processing units and RF circuitry for transmitting and receiving communications in the wireless network architecture including a first RF signal having a first packet. A second wireless node having a wireless device with a transmitter and a receiver enables bi-directional communications with the first wireless node in the wireless network architecture including a second RF signal with a second packet. The one or more processing units of the first wireless node are configured to execute instructions to determine a round trip time estimate of the first and second packets, to determine channel state information (CSI) of the first and second wireless nodes, and to calibrate hardware to determine hardware delays of the first and second wireless nodes.
US11442134B1
A system for location of animals and/or objects in an environment includes a signal processing and signal generation system consisting of electromagnetic tags on animals (or other objects) in an environment (typically a three dimension outdoor natural environment) where the animals or objects are physically present at arbitrary locations, and an electro-magnetic signal generating, signal receiving, and signal processing system that can move through or in relation to the environment. The system can compute the location and identity of the animals or objects based on signals received from their associated tags, including the calculated location of the ID tags, which function as “Reader-Locators.” The calculated location is enhanced by information about the environment provided by maps, satellite photos, GPS, GIS and/or other data specific to the probability of the location of the animals or objects within certain regions of the environment. The system includes a physical and electromagnetic modeling operation that is interactive with the environmental information derived from the actual environment, either historically or in “real-time” as the monitoring process occurs.
US11442133B2
A method for estimating the geographical position of a terminal of interest, among a panel of terminals of a wireless communication system. For each terminal of the panel, a time signature including values measured for each terminal during a predetermined observation period is determined. Values of similarity between the time signatures of the terminals of the panel is calculated, a similarity value calculated for two terminals representing the probability of the terminals being moved together or having been located at the same place during the observation period. Various terminals of the panel are partitioned into different groups depending on the similarity values. The geographical position of the terminal of interest is estimated as a function of the available geolocation data for at least one other terminal of the group to which the terminal of interest belongs.
US11442127B2
The present disclosure provides a method of DDCE-MRF. The method can include: a) introducing two or more contrast agents to a region of interest (ROI) of a subject, the two or more contrast agents having different relaxivities; b) measuring a T1 relaxation time and a T2 relaxation time for locations within the ROI using magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF); c) determining, using equations that relate the different relaxivities, the T1 relaxation time, the T2 relaxation time, and concentrations of the two or more contrast agents, the concentrations of the two or more contrast agents for each of the locations within the ROI; and d) producing an image depicting the ROI based, at least in part, on the concentrations of the two or more contrast agents.
US11442125B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) radio frequency (RF) coil configured to operate in at least one of a transmit mode or a receive mode. A first birdcage coil includes a pair of first-birdcage end rings and at least four first-birdcage rungs circumferentially arranged along the first-birdcage end rings. A second birdcage coil including a pair of second-birdcage end rings and at least four second-birdcage rungs circumferentially arranged along the second-birdcage end rings. The first and second birdcage coils neighbor and are spaced by a first non-zero distance along an axis. The axis is surrounded by the first-birdcage end rings and the second-birdcage end rings, and the first non-zero distance is greater than individual lengths of the first and second birdcage coils along the axis.
US11442116B2
A detection circuit, including a first connecting terminal, an SPI bus, and a security component, is provided. The first connecting terminal is configured to be detachably connected to the main board. The security component is coupled to the first connecting terminal and the SPI bus. The security component forms a first loop with the main board, and is configured to detect a loop state of the first loop. The security component locks the SPI bus when the first loop is being detected by the security component to be disconnected.
US11442112B2
A method for determining at least one aging state of a first plurality of electrical energy store units. The method includes: a) ascertaining the number of balancing operations already carried out between the first plurality of electrical energy store units within a predefined first time interval and/or the total converted energy quantity during a balancing operation between the first plurality of electrical energy store units and/or a first measure of dispersion of a particular state of charge-characterizing parameter of the first plurality of electrical energy store units; b) determining the at least one aging state of the first plurality of electrical energy store units as a function of the number of balancing operations already carried out and/or as a function of the total converted energy quantity during a balancing operation and/or as a function of the first measure of dispersion.
US11442099B2
The present application discloses a testing device of array substrates and a testing method. The testing device of array substrates includes: a machine and testing interfaces, the testing interfaces being disposed on the machine; and testers disposed above the machine. There are at least two sets of testers, and the testers synchronously operate according to a preset scheme.
US11442098B2
Example automatic test equipment (ATE) includes a first test instrument to receive a waveform from a device under test, where the waveform is based on test signals sent from the ATE to the DUT; circuitry to generate digital pulses based on the waveform; and a second test instrument to receive the digital pulses over at least two digital pins and to process the digital pulses to test the DUT.
US11442088B2
Sampling timings at a plurality of measurement points at which waveform data of a power line is sampled are easily synchronized to each other. A measurement device includes: a sampling unit configured to sample a waveform of at least one of a voltage and a current at a measurement point of a power line at a predetermined sampling timing; a processing unit configured to execute processing of the waveform sampled by the sampling unit; a time information acquisition unit configured to acquire time information from a time information provision device that is communicatively connected through a network; and an adjustment unit configured to adjust a processing timing of the processing on the basis of the time information acquired by the time information acquisition unit.
US11442086B2
A detector of microwave radiation includes a signal input and a detector output. An absorber element of ohmic conductivity is coupled to said signal input through a first length of superconductor. A variable impedance element, the impedance of which is configured to change as a function of temperature, is coupled to the detector output through a second length of superconductor. The detector also includes a heating input and a heating element coupled to the heating input through a third length of superconductor. The absorber element, the variable impedance element, and the heating element are coupled to each other through superconductor sections of lengths shorter than any of said first, second, and third lengths of superconductor.
US11442073B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for measuring serotonin in a sample using liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry.
US11442068B2
The invention provides methods, kits and reagents for diagnosing fibromyalgia (FM) in an individual by determining whether the levels of one or more cytokines in the individual are altered, as compared to control levels. The altered level(s) or patterns of expression of the cytokines measured in the affected individual compared to the level from the control is predictive/indicative of FM in the individual.
US11442067B2
The invention relates to peptide mass fingerprinting technique for the proteins such as Human insulin and insulin analogs. The insulin analogues can vary at least by one amino acid, which is elusive to distinguish by currently available analytical methods. The invention further allows sequence confirmation of the peptide wherein the run time of the method is forty minutes. This method could be applied for molecules up to 50 kDa.
US11442065B2
The invention provides that OSTERIX (a.k.a. SP7) is a marker for gastrointestinal stem cells and that OSTERIX is expressed widely and at elevated levels in human gastrointestinal tumors.
US11442063B2
Provided herein are compounds that are broad-spectrum protein kinase binding agents, detectable tracers comprising such compounds, and method of use thereof for the detection of protein kinases.
US11442062B2
A compound is provided which is effectively adsorbed to a substrate surface, such as an immune reaction vessel, has extremely high protein adsorption inhibitory effect that inhibits non-specific adsorption of protein or the like, and has excellent washability to retain the inhibitory effect before and after washing operation of the substrate. Also provided are a protein adsorption inhibitor using the compound, a phosphorylcholine-modified substrate, and a method for inhibiting protein adsorption. The compound is a phosphorylcholine group-containing polyethylene glycol derivative represented by formula (1). The method for inhibiting protein adsorption of the present invention includes the step of forming an adsorbed layer of the derivative on a substrate surface.
US11442060B2
The invention relates to the field of medical diagnostics. Provided are methods and kits for determining the health status of a subject, for early detection of tissue damage, for early diagnosis and monitoring of a disease, and/or for evaluation of treatment effectiveness in a subject using circulating tissue macrophages (CTM) as a mirror of disrupted tissue homeostasis and disease.
US11442058B2
The present invention relates to a use of leucine-zipper protein for diagnosis or treatment of fatty liver. According to the present invention, it could be confirmed that a particular fragment present at the leucine-zipper protein, especially, the N-terminal region thereof, plays an important role in the lipid metabolism in liver tissue by regulating transcriptional activity of Apolipoprotein A4, and therefore, the protein of the present invention or a fragment thereof can be utilized as a target for diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of fatty liver.
US11442046B2
The present invention relates to reagents suitable in the mass spectrometric determination of analyte molecules such as carbohydrates as well as adducts of such reagents and analyte molecules and applications of said reagents and adducts. Further, the present invention relates to methods for the mass spectrometric determination of analyte molecules.
US11442044B2
Embodiments are disclosed for characterizing and quantifying composite laminate structures. The embodiments take a composite laminate of unknown ply stack composition and sequence and determine various information about the individual plies, such as ply stack, orientation, microstructure, and type. The embodiments can distinguish between weave types that may exhibit similar planar stiffness behaviors, but would produce different failure mechanisms. Individual ply information may then be used to derive the laminate bulk properties from externally provided constitutive properties of the fiber and matrix, including extensional stiffness, bending-extension coupling stiffness, bending stiffness, and the like. The laminate bulk properties may then be used to generate a probabilistic failure envelope for the composite laminate. In some embodiments, ply stack type and sequence may also be determined for a curved composite laminate using the disclosed embodiments by adding a rotational stage.
US11442036B2
A sensor element includes an element main body in which a flow portion of a measurement-object gas is disposed, a measurement electrode disposed in the flow portion of a measurement-object gas, a measurement electrode lead having a first portion that is connected to the measurement electrode and that is disposed in the flow portion of a measurement-object gas and a second portion that is connected to the first portion and that is embedded in the element main body, a hermetic layer that is part of the element main body and that surrounds an end region of the second portion including the border with the first portion; and a lead insulating layer that is part of the element main body and that surrounds at least part of the second portion excluding the end region.
US11442031B2
An apparatus for selecting products on the basis of their composition via X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy includes an X-ray source that emits an X-ray beam towards a product sample, and a particle detector for receiving an X-ray beam diffused by the product sample and generating a signal received that can be analysed to determine a chemical composition of the product sample and selecting a type of product corresponding to said chemical composition of the product sample. The apparatus includes a first vacuum chamber located between an output of the apparatus facing the product sample and the X-ray source, and a second vacuum chamber located between the output of the apparatus facing the product sample and the detector. The apparatus also includes an optical module with polycapillary lens located downstream of the X-ray source, which is configured for focusing the X-ray beam and is associated in a vacuum-tight way to the first vacuum chamber.
US11442030B2
An imaging process for industrial equipment is described using gamma-ray or X-ray profiling techniques and tomographic image reconstruction, wherein (a) a radiation emission subsystem with at least one radiation source emits that passes through an industrial equipment to be analyzed by imaging; (b) a radiation detection subsystem with at least one radiation detector detects the energy of the radiation emitted by the radiation emission subsystem that has passed through said industrial equipment; (c) processing and imaging means receive and evaluate the radiation samples detected by the radiation detection subsystem and generate a tomogram of the analyzed region, selecting the radiation samples detected with an energy value within a range of values corresponding to a maximum defined scattering angle of the radiation emitted by the radiation source, and generating a tomographic reconstruction of images of the industrial equipment based on these selected radiation samples.
US11442026B2
Disclosed is a method of making a crack structure on a substrate, the crack structure being usable as a tunnelling junction structure in a nanogap device, including the controlled fracture or release of a patterned layer under built-in stress, thereby forming elements separated by nanogaps or crack-junctions. The width of the crack-defined nanogap is controlled by locally release-etching the film at a notched bridge patterned in the film. The built-in stress contributes to forming the crack and defining of the width of the crack-defined nanogap. Further, by design of the length of the bridge in a range between sub-μπι to >25μαι, the separation between the elements, defined by the width of the crack-defined nanogaps, can be controlled for each individual crack structure from <2 nm to >100 nm. The nanogaps can be used for tunneling devices in combination with nanopores for DNA, RNA or peptides sequencing.
US11442025B1
An interferometer and an imager may include a tunable light source, a beam splitter, a digital imager, and a processor system. The tunable light source may be configured to emit a beam. The beam splitter may be configured to direct the beam toward a sample with a floor surface and a raised surface feature. The digital imager may be configured to receive a reflected beam and to generate an image based on the reflected beam. The reflected beam may be a coherent addition of a first reflection of the beam off a reference plate and a second reflection of the beam off the raised surface feature and third reflection of the beam off the floor surface. The processor system may be coupled to the digital imager and may be configured to determine a distance between the reference surface and the feature surface based on the image. A second digital imager may also be configured to receive a reflected beam and scattered beam to generate a two-dimensional grayscale image of the surface based on these beams and may also be configured to receive fluorescent light generated by the incident light to generate a two-dimensional gray scale an image of the surface based on fluorescent emission.
US11442017B2
An inspection apparatus is provided that comprises an optical target including a solid host material and a fluorescing material embedded in the solid host material. The solid host material has a predetermined phonon energy HOSTPE. The fluorescing material exhibits a select ground energy level and a target excitation (TE) energy level separated from the ground energy level by a first energy gap corresponding to a fluorescence emission wavelength of interest. The fluorescing material has a next lower lying (NLL) energy level relative to the TE energy level. The NLL energy level is spaced a second energy gap FMEG2 below the TE energy level, wherein a ratio of the FMEG2/HOSTPE is three or more.
US11442012B2
An assay device is disclosed comprising a housing and a test portion, electronic circuitry and an optical assembly each a least partially located in the housing. The test portion comprises one or more test zones adapted to receive an analyte and a fluorescent label associated with the analyte, the fluorescent label being excitable by excitation light and adapted to emit emission light upon excitation by excitation light. The electronic circuitry comprises one or more light sources and one or more light detectors. The optical assembly comprises one or more excitation light guides adapted to guide excitation light from the one or more light sources to the one or more test zones, and/or one or more emission light guides adapted to guide emission light from the one or more test zone to the one or more light detectors.
US11442005B2
An extractive gas analyser system includes a supply channel, a measuring channel connected thereto between first and second ends, an analysing unit comprising an optical arrangement for analysing gaseous material in the measuring channel, which optical arrangement comprises first and second optical units arranged respectively at first and second ends of the measuring channel, a barrier arrangement near each end of the measuring channel and comprising a barrier gas inlet and outlet arranged in opposing manner across said measuring channel, each in connection with a gas source and provided with a nozzle opening directed toward the opposing outlet, said barrier arrangement arranged to provide pressurized gas creating a barrier gas curtain between the barrier gas inlet and outlet to force least a part of the gaseous material from the supply channel into the measuring channel and out through the outlet and thereby separate the gaseous material from said optical units.
US11441997B2
The present disclosure relates to quality control for point-of-care medical diagnostic systems. In various embodiments, the system includes an on-board storage containing a synthetic quality control material, a plurality of sub-systems having a plurality of operating parameters and including a material analyzer, a database storing quality control results that include results of the material analyzer analyzing the synthetic quality control material over time, one or more processors, and at least one memory storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to, automatically without user intervention: generate a control chart based on the quality control results, determine that a parameter of the plurality of operating parameters is out-of-tolerance based on the control chart, and adjust at least one of the plurality of sub-systems without user intervention to bring the out-of-tolerance parameter to within tolerance.
US11441982B2
The disclosure provides a variable dip fault slip simulation test method, which relates to the technical field of indoor simulation test of underground engineering. The variable dip fault slip simulation test method of the disclosure adopts a sample device and a loading device, which includes the following steps: Step 1. sample preparation; Step 2. sample assembly; Step 3. loading preparation; Step 4. sample loading. The variable dip fault slip simulation test method of the disclosure can prepare rock like samples with different dip interfaces, simulate the slip failure process of faults with different dip angles, as well as the normal dip slip and reverse dip slip of faults, facilitate the operation of slip simulation test, and collect test data automatically and accurately.
US11441981B2
Disclosed are a testing device and a testing method for adhesive strength of an inner hole coating. A pull rod of the testing device for the adhesive strength of the inner hole coating may apply an axial tension to the inner hole coating via a guide ring and an assisting assembly, and may also apply radial pressure to the inner hole coating via a tapered surface and the assisting assembly. And the press rod may apply a radial tension to the inner hole coating via the pull hook and the assisting assembly. The testing method for the adhesive strength of the inner hole coating adopts the above-mentioned testing device for adhesive strength of an inner hole coating, a tensile adhesive strength test and a shear adhesive strength test may be performed on a same device.
US11441972B2
The invention relates to a receptacle device (6) for receiving a drive axle (4) of a motor vehicle for a test bench (2). In order to achieve a load distribution that is more realistic in comparison to the prior art, according to the invention the receptacle device (6) has at least one external unit (18) for connection to the test bench (2) and at least one inner unit (20), enclosed at least in part by the outer unit (18), wherein the inner unit (20) is translationally fixed relative to the outer unit (18) and is designed to be flexibly rotatable about at least one axis, and wherein the inner unit (20) has a recess (40) suitable for receiving the drive axle (4).
US11441970B2
A measurement apparatus (10) for measuring a wavefront aberration of an imaging optical system (12) includes (i) a measurement wave generating module (24) which generates a measurement wave (26) radiated onto the optical system and which includes an illumination system (30) illuminating a mask plane (14) with an illumination radiation (32), as well as coherence structures (36) arranged in the mask plane, and (ii) a wavefront measurement module (28) which measures the measurement wave after passing through the optical system and determines from the measurement result, with an evaluation device (46), a deviation of the wavefront of the measurement wave from a desired wavefront. The evaluation device (46) determines an influence of an intensity distribution (70) of the illumination radiation in the region of the mask plane on the measurement result and, when determining the deviation of the wavefront, utilizes the influence of the intensity distribution.
US11441968B2
A sealed cooling system includes a coolant tank having a liquid space configured to hold liquid coolant, and a gas space configured to hold gas. A temperature sensor detects the temperature of the liquid coolant. A pressure sensor detects the pressure in the coolant tank. A processor compares the pressure in the coolant tank to predicted pressure in the coolant tank as a function of liquid coolant temperature. The processor determines and outputs a signal indicative of a leak in the sealed cooling system if the pressure in the coolant tank deviates from the predicted pressure in the coolant tank according to predetermined criteria.
US11441959B2
A pressure indicator includes a body, a piston, first and second biasing elements, and a rotatable disc. The piston is disposed at least partially in a bore of the body at a first longitudinal axial position relative to the body when pressure of fluid acting on the base is below a threshold pressure. The first biasing element is disposed between a base of the piston and a shoulder of the body, wherein a force of the first biasing element is overcome by pressure of fluid acting on the base at or above the threshold pressure, thereby allowing the piston to move to a second longitudinal axial position. The rotatable disc has a first rotational position when the piston is in the first axial position. The second biasing element is configured to urge the disc to a second rotational position when the piston is in the second axial position.
US11441954B2
A device, system and method for measuring the temperature at the center of a normal hotspot and the heat escape time in superconducting filament or nanowire toward the substrate. The device includes structured layers; a superconducting filament is implemented as an active layer where an electrical current pulse or single photon radiation generates a hot spot; a sensitive semiconductor layer of germanium serves as a temperature sensor (thermometer); and a thin layer of insulating silicon oxide is intercalated between the superconducting layer and the germanium having a thickness in the range of 2-10 nm and width 5-100 μm. This device provides a direct measurement of the temperature at the center of a hot spot and determination of the heat escape time toward a substrate; and can be used to determine the sensitivity of a superconducting single photon detector device to a next upcoming photon.
US11441951B2
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for highly accurate remote measurement of sea surface skin temperature. Thermal band 8 to 14 micron images of the surface of the ocean taken by a downward looking infrared camera are processed to determine the optimum segments of the image to utilize. The influence of contaminating reflection of the downwelling flux from the sky and other error sources are removed and from the data and/or otherwise corrected for making sea surface temperature accuracy within several tenths of a degree possible.
US11441946B2
A processing apparatus combines a plurality of images based on a plurality of object images formed on an imaging plane of an image sensor by a plurality of lens units and to generate a combined image, and includes at least one processor or circuit that serves as an acquisition task configured to acquire information on a center position of each of the plurality of object images on the imaging plane, information on a correspondence relationship between the center position and positions of the plurality of images in the combined image, and conversion information for converting a first coordinate system in the imaging plane into a second coordinate system in the combined image, the conversion information being generated based on a correction function for correcting the plurality of object images, and a processing task configured to generate the combined image using the conversion information.
US11441943B2
The present invention provides a proximity sensing device, which comprises an ambient light calibration digital-to-analog converter and at least one crosstalk calibration digital-to-analog converters. The proximity sensing device is able to quickly generate calibration parameters for the interference caused by the ambient list and crosstalk caused by different reflection, to calibrate the sensed signals to avoid wrong judgments.
US11441934B2
A multichannel flow tube (300) for a vibratory meter (5), and a method of manufacturing the multichannel flow tube are provided. The multichannel flow tube comprises a tube perimeter wall (304), a first channel division (302b), and a first support structure (308a). The first channel division is enclosed within and coupled to the tube perimeter wall, forming a first channel (306b) and a second channel (306c). The first support structure is coupled to the tube perimeter wall and the first channel division.
US11441933B2
The present application discloses a signal processing circuit (100), coupled to a first transducer (102) and a second transducer (104), wherein there is a distance greater than zero between the first transducer and the second transducer, and a fluid having a flow velocity flows sequentially through the first transducer and the second transducer; the signal processing circuit includes: a first transmitter (106), coupled to the first transducer; a first receiver (108), coupled to the first transducer; a second transmitter (110), coupled to the second transducer; a second receiver (112), coupled to the second transducer; and a control unit (114), coupled to the first transmitter, the first receiver, the second transmitter and the second receiver. The present application further provides a related chip, a flow meter and a method.
US11441929B2
Systems and methods for sensing an amount of a liquid in a container are provided. A conduit is provided that has a length positioned relative to a portion of the container where a level of the liquid in the container changes when liquid is added to the container or liquid is removed from the container. The conduit is in fluid communication with the container to therefore allow an amount of the liquid to enter the conduit that is proportional to the amount of the liquid in the container. An outlet is provided along with a valve. The valve is in fluid communication with the conduit and the outlet, where the valve is selectable to allow the amount of liquid in the conduit to pass to the outlet, the amount of liquid passing to the outlet proportional to the amount of liquid in the container.
US11441923B2
A method for distributing navigation map data to a plurality of work machines which are part of a network of work machines and perform work orders in this network, wherein the navigation map data are needed in the work machines to carry out the work orders, and work orders are planned on the basis of navigation map data, includes detecting work orders for work machines, which work orders exist in the network and were planned on the basis of old navigation map data. The method includes checking the work orders which exist in the network in order to determine whether these work orders can be carried out with new navigation map data, and terminating work orders which cannot be carried out with new navigation map data. The new navigation map data is then installed.
US11441919B2
A navigation system includes a user interface for detecting touch input. The system uses touch input to determine if a driver or passenger is operating the navigation system. If the system determines that the driver is operating the system, then an action is initiated (e.g., the user interface is locked down, a warning is provided). The navigation system allows a passenger in the vehicle to operate the navigation system while the vehicle is in motion. In an aspect, additional or other sensors (e.g., seat sensor, seat belt sensor, infrared sensor) can be used to detect whether a driver or passenger is operating the navigation system while the vehicle is in motion.
US11441912B2
Technologies disclosed herein facilitate identification of a trip route from an origin of a user to a desired destination of the user, wherein the trip route includes multiple transportation modalities, at least one of which is an autonomous vehicle (AV), and dispatching of the AV to a pickup location for the user in connection with providing transportation to the user along a portion of the identified trip route.
US11441910B2
When a self-driving vehicle that transfers an object to a predetermined location is left at the predetermined location without the object in the vehicle, a vehicle control apparatus determines a moving destination among a plurality of standby places, based on the current location of the vehicle, the locations of the plurality of standby places, and vehicle-demand prediction information, and instructs the vehicle to move to the determined moving destination.
US11441907B2
In a locator device, a dead reckoning part calculates a position of a subject vehicle by dead reckoning. A pseudorange smoothing part smooths a pseudorange between a GNSS satellite and a position of the subject vehicle using a carrier wave phase of the GNSS satellite. A GNSS receiver positioning error evaluation part evaluates reliability of the position of the subject vehicle calculated by the multi-GNSS receiver. A GNSS positioning part (Kalman Filter (KF) method) calculates a position of the subject vehicle from a smoothed value of the pseudorange, a positioning augmentation signal, and an orbit of the GNSS satellite. A complex positioning part (KF method) calculates an error in the dead reckoning from the position of the subject vehicle calculated by the GNSS positioning part (KF method), and corrects the position of the subject vehicle calculated by the dead reckoning part based on the error in the dead reckoning.
US11441906B2
A device implementing a system for estimating device location includes at least one processor configured to receive a first and second set of signals, each set corresponding to location data and being received based on a sampling interval. The at least one processor is configured to, for each sampling period defined by the sampling interval, obtain sensor data corresponding to device motion during the sampling period, determine an orientation of the device relative to that of the vehicle based on the sensor data, calculate a non-holonomic constraint based on the orientation of the device relative to that of the vehicle such that the non-holonomic constraint is iteratively updated, and estimate a device state based on the non-holonomic constraint.
US11441905B2
An inertial navigation device that includes a processor that is configured to: assume a vertical velocity and a lateral velocity of a vehicle to be 0, and estimate a roll angle, a pitch angle and an azimuth angle, which are attitude angles of the vehicle, based on angular velocities and accelerations detected by the inertial measurement device, a longitudinal velocity detected by a vehicle velocity sensor, and an initial value of the azimuth angle of the vehicle, and assume the vertical velocity of the vehicle to be 0, and estimate a current position of the vehicle based on the estimated attitude angles, the angular velocities and the accelerations detected by the inertial measurement device, the longitudinal velocity detected by the vehicle velocity sensor, a steering angle detected by a steering angle sensor, and an initial value of a position of the vehicle.
US11441899B2
The present disclosure relates to a tracking system for tracking the position and/or orientation of an object in an environment, the tracking system including: at least one camera mounted to the object; a plurality of spaced apart targets, at least some of said targets viewable by the at least one camera; and, one or more electronic processing devices configured to: determine target position data indicative of the relative spatial position of the targets; receive image data indicative of an image from the at least one camera, said image including at least some of the targets; process the image data to: identify one or more targets in the image; determine pixel array coordinates corresponding to a position of the one or more targets in the image; and, use the processed image data to determine the position and/or orientation of the object by triangulation.
US11441896B2
Provided is an inter-reflection detection apparatus including: an irradiation unit configured to emit light having variable-frequency sinusoidal patterns; an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image of an object irradiated with the light from the irradiation unit; a phase determination unit configured to determine a phase at each position in the image; and a detection unit configured to detect a region in which inter-reflection occurs. The detection unit is configured to determine a phase difference between a phase acquired from an image generated by irradiation of a low-frequency sinusoidal pattern and a phase acquired from an image generated by irradiation of a high-frequency sinusoidal pattern for a plurality of combinations of low-frequency waves and high-frequency waves, and determine that inter-reflection occurs in a region in which the phase difference for any one of the plurality of combinations is equal or more than a threshold.
US11441890B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems, methods and structures that perform linear-grammetry and calibration by simultaneous multilateration using only edge distance estimates via two-way ranging.
US11441889B2
Described herein are an apparatus, system, and method for detecting light. An apparatus can include means for modulating an input beam of light wherein the input beam of light is obtained from an optical coherence tomography arrangement; means for dispersing the modulated beam of light; and means for detecting the dispersed beam of light and converting the detected beam of light into an electrical output signal. An apparatus can include a modulator configured to spatially modulate light; a dispersing element configured to disperse modulated light, and a detector configured to detect dispersed light and convert the detected light into electrical output signals. A method can include spatially modulating a beam of light, dispersing the modulated beam of light, detecting the dispersed beam of light, converting the detecting beam of light into electrical output signals, and providing a three-dimensional image of at least a part of an object.
US11441873B1
Known “good” reference lines are provided for scope leveling using a reference device support platform attached to a rifle such that the reference device support platform first surface is parallel to rifle's horizontal bore center line and perpendicular to rifle's vertical bore center line. An alignment reference device, such as a laser leveling device, is then placed on the reference device support platform. When the alignment reference device is so placed, a horizontal axis of the alignment reference device will be parallel to the rifle's horizontal bore center line and a vertical axis of the alignment reference device will be perpendicular to the rifle's horizontal bore center line. Consequently, when vertical and/or horizontal reference lines are generated by the alignment reference device they are known “good” reference lines to be lined up with the scope's stadia lines.
US11441872B2
A novel and improved rotating stock butt and rotating sight apparatus that applies to a shoulder fired firearm where the firing mechanism and the sight apparatus is elevated above the stock butt when in a horizontal shooting position. This system comprises a cooperation between the rotating stock butt and the rotating sight apparatus that allows the firing mechanism and the barrel of the firearm to be off set to either the right or to the left of the stock butt while the sight of the rotating sight apparatus can be rotated and secured at the top center of the firearm barrel, allowing the shooter minimal head movement in the gun mount.
US11441871B1
A concealment holster assembly, capable of being worn in multiple positions, includes a unitary shell, a belt attachment body, a forward belt loop, and a rearward belt loop. The unitary shell is capable of holstering a firearm and has a front side portion, inside portion, and outside portion. The belt attachment body is couplable to the unitary shell and is of unitary construction and includes a complementary shell portion, a forward flange, and a rearward flange. The forward flange and rearward flanges are angled inward. A forward belt loop and rearward belt loop are couplable to the forward and rearward flanges, respectively, to cause the belt attachment body, when worn on a belt, to flex inward toward a body of a wearer and increase concealment of the concealment holster and a firearm when the firearm is holstered.
US11441868B2
A launching and/or catching toy kit has a football and at least one associated slingshot. The football includes a generally elongated spheroidal body, a support non-movably attached to the body, a tail, and a first and a second elastic band hook oppositely disposed. The slingshot is configured to launch the football from a first user to a second user. The slingshot includes a handle and a pair of prongs connected and/or extending from the handle top. At least one elastic band is connected to each prong. Each of the at least one elastic bands are releasably captured by their respective first or second elastic band hook on the football during launching by the first user. When two slingshots are available, the users can shoot and catch the football between each other allowing for a game of catch.
US11441863B1
A universal firearm tracking system includes a tracking module enclosed in a housing; a cable attached to the housing configured to attach the housing to a firearm; and a hanging tamper-proof warning label connected to a bottom of the housing by a wire. The tracking module includes GPS tracking and RFID Tags.
US11441852B2
Coating compositions are provided that eject droplets of condensed fluid from a surface. The coatings include a nanostructured coating layer and in some embodiments, also include a hydrophobic layer deposited thereon. The coating materials eject droplets from the surface in the presence of non-condensing gases such as air and may be deployed under conditions of supersaturation of the condensed fluid to be ejected. A heat exchanger design utilizing the coating is described herein.
US11441851B2
The invention concerns a device for distribution of a refrigerant fluid in a header of a heat exchanger comprising at least two conduits (12, 13), an external conduit (12) and an internal conduit (13), with the internal conduit accommodated in the external conduit in such a manner as to form a volume (14) for communication between the internal conduit and the external conduit, the external conduit comprising spraying orifices (120) each having an axis (120A) intersecting a principal lengthwise axis (12A) of the external conduit, the internal conduit comprising at least one communication orifice having an axis intersecting a principal lengthwise axis of the internal conduit. According to the invention, the internal conduit (13) comprises a portion (16) of reduced thickness formed by removal of material from an external face of the internal conduit (13), the external face facing toward the external conduit (12).
US11441847B2
An evaporative cooling system having a heat conducting device, the heat conducting device being capable of coupling to a heating element to be cooled and the heat conducting device comprising a first medium; a heat dissipating device having one or more heat dissipating outlets; and an evaporator disposed in the heat dissipating device and arranged in relation to the heat conducting device that is arranged at least partially outside the heat dissipating device. The heat dissipating device comprises a second medium, and the evaporator is configured to receive heat from the heat conducting device to heat the second medium of the heat dissipating device and discharge the heat from the one or more heat dissipating outlets of the heat dissipating device.
US11441840B2
Plant for the production of argon by cryogenic distillation, comprising an argon separation column, means for sending a gas containing argon and oxygen to the argon separation column, means for extracting a fluid enriched in argon at the top of the argon separation column, means for extracting a liquid enriched in oxygen at the bottom of the argon separation column and at least two storage tanks, positioned one above the other, each storage tank being connected to two different intermediate levels of the argon separation column by two pipes, the two storage tanks being contiguous.
US11441835B1
A containment system for a refrigerator includes a storage bin and a support arm. The storage bin is secured to an internal panel of a refrigerator door. The support arm is secured to the interior panel at a position above the storage bin. The support arm is configured to transition between a retracted position that is adjacent to a back surface of the internal panel and an advanced position that is spaced apart from the back surface. The support arm in the advanced position is configured to engage a food container that is positioned in the storage bin such that the food container is disposed between the support arm and the back surface.
US11441825B2
A cooling system includes a dual plate structure having a porous material disposed between the plates such that the porous material is sealed from ambient at a pressure less than ambient. A cooling device is thermally coupled to a mobile device supported by the structure and actively removes heat from the mobile device.
US11441823B2
The invention relates to an adsorption heat pump, having an adsorber device, comprising a solid adsorbent, an evaporator, a condenser or an evaporator/condenser and an operating medium in an operating circuit, wherein the operating circuit has a gaseous half-circuit between the evaporator, the adsorber device and the condenser or the evaporator/condenser and the adsorber device, in which gaseous half-circuit the operating medium is gaseous, and a liquid half-circuit which is configured between the evaporator and the condenser and in which the operating medium is liquid, wherein the liquid half-circuit contains a liquid functional medium which can be mixed with the operating medium and lowers the vapor pressure of the operating medium, with a vapor pressure at 25° C. of below 0.2 mbar. In a method for operating an absorption heat pump with an operating circuit comprising an adsorber, an evaporator and a condenser or an evaporator/condenser and an operating medium which is circulated between the adsorber, the evaporator and the condenser, the operating medium is mixed, when running through the operating circuit, within the liquid half-circuit with a liquid functional medium which lowers the vapor pressure, and the operating medium is separated from the functional medium before the transfer into the gaseous half-circuit of the operating circuit.
US11441820B2
A method of mitigating refrigerant leaks within a refrigeration system that includes: detecting a leak of a refrigerant from a refrigeration system; closing a first valve to inhibit a fluid flow of the refrigerant between an evaporator and a condenser fluidly connected to the evaporator; and operating a compressor to direct another fluid flow of the refrigerant from the evaporator to the compressor.
US11441812B2
An air conditioning indoor unit includes: a main body that includes: a top side; a bottom side; a side part that connects the top side to the bottom side; and an intake surface on the side part; a blow-out panel that covers the bottom side of the main body and that includes a blow-out port; an axial fan inside the main body; a heat exchanger inside the intake surface; and an electric component under the axial fan. The axial fan has an axial direction orthogonal to the top side, and an intake side and a blow-out side when the axial fan is in rotation. The blow-out side is disposed on a lower side of the axial fan and faces the blow-out panel. The heat exchanger surrounds the axial fan.
US11441810B2
A modular fire-rated conduit or duct assembly suitable for applications such as ventilation systems in a multi-floor or multi-room building. According to an embodiment, the modular fire-rated conduit assembly comprises two or more duct or conduit sections, each of the duct sections includes an inner duct liner and an outer casing, and a plurality of casing spacers configured to form a thermal insulating cavity between at least a portion of space between the inner duct liner and the outer casing, and the thermal insulating cavity is configured to receive a thermal material, a first exterior flange connector is attached to one end of each of the inner duct liners, a second exterior flange connector attached to another end of each of the inner duct liners, the first and the second exterior flange connectors are configured to form an assembly junction for coupling respective ends of the duct or conduit sections to form a connected run of the conduit or duct sections, and a joint connection end is formed between the exterior flange connector and the outer casing, and the joint connection end is configured to receive a joint insulating material, and further includes a return configured to receive a connection edge of a joint cover, and the joint cover is configured to encapsulate the joint connection ends of adjacent duct sections modules.
US11441807B2
An air conditioner includes a controller that controls a driving unit of the air conditioner. The controller includes a determination unit that determines necessity of a contaminant reduction operation of the air conditioner based on whether the air conditioner is in a non-cooling operation period, and a setting unit that sets a condensation operation condition for forming condensed water on a surface of an indoor heat exchanger of the air conditioner. The controller performs the contaminant reduction operation of the air conditioner based on a necessity determination result of the determination unit in accordance with the condensation operation condition set by the setting unit.
US11441805B2
Various embodiments of smart thermostats are presented herein. A smart thermostat can include a thermostat housing defining a rounded front aperture and having a sidewall. The smart thermostat can include a capacitive touch strip that senses a plurality of gestures. The smart thermostat can include an electronic display. The electronic display may be caused to display icons arranged in a graphical arc. The smart thermostat may include a reflective cover positioned such that the electronic display is viewed through the reflective cover.
US11441801B2
A humidifier device includes an output device, an atomizer enclosure having a first opening that is operable to be open and closed and a second opening, an atomizer within the atomizer enclosure configured to produce moisture and to output the moisture through the second opening of the atomizer enclosure, a humidity sensor configured to sense humidity levels, and control circuitry configured to control the atomizer and to determine whether the humidity levels sensed by the humidity sensor are indicative of the first opening of the atomizer enclosure being open. The output device is configured to, in response to determining that the humidity levels sensed by the humidity sensor are indicative of the first opening of the atomizer enclosure is open, output an alert indicative of the first opening of the atomizer enclosure being open.
US11441798B1
An apparatus, system, and methods for measuring environmental parameters are disclosed. The apparatus, system and methods can be used for a variety of applications, including HVAC air balancing and building commissioning. The system includes a variety of wireless sensing modules and wearable modules for control. display, and storage. Parameters measured include air and water temperature, pressure. velocity, and flow. Also included are sensors for light intensity, CO concentrations, and CO2 concentrations.
US11441797B1
Embodiments of the current disclosure include air pretreatment devices suitable for pretreatment of air received by air handler units. The air pretreatment devices can include an air intake configured to capture the outside air. A cooling coil system can process changes in the dry bulb and dew point temperatures of the captured outside air. The pretreated air can then be passed via an air outtake to the air handler. The cooling coil system can be coupled to at least a chilled water intake and a chilled water return line. Finally, a single water valve control unit located on either the chilled water intake or chilled water return line can be adjusted to direct a change in the dry bulb temperature and dew point temperature within the cooling coil system.
US11441796B2
In a construction method of an air conditioning system, the respective rooms are provided with air intake sections 9a to 9d, 18a to 18d which spout air sent from blowers 40a to 40d, 41a to 41d, an exhaust section 52 which forms discharged air current directed from the respective rooms toward the return compartment is provided between the respective rooms and the return compartment, and the plurality of blowers 40a to 40d, 41a to 41d and at least one air conditioner are disposed in the return compartment. Air discharged from the plurality of rooms in the building 1 by the air conditioner 30b operated by the return compartment is adjusted in temperature and moisture in the return compartment, and wind is sent into the plurality of rooms in the building 1 by the blowers 40a to 40d, 41a to 41d, and air conditioning in the building 1 can be performed.
US11441795B2
An electric control box (100) for an air conditioner and an air conditioner with the same are provided. The electric control box includes a housing (1); a cooling fin (2) running through the housing (1) and having a part located inside the housing (1) and another part located outside the housing (1); an inner water-guiding part (3) located inside the housing (1) and below the cooling fin (2); an outer water-guiding part (4) located outside the housing (1) and below the inner water-guiding part (3), the inner water-guiding part (3) and the outer water-guiding part (4) defining a water guide passage (a) configured to guide water (b) inside the housing (1) to the outside of the housing (1).
US11441794B2
A gas-side stop valve on the gas refrigerant side and a liquid-side stop valve on the liquid refrigerant side are provided in a package of an outdoor unit. A gas-side filter on the gas refrigerant side is mounted on the indoor unit side relative to the gas-side stop valve and inside the package of the outdoor unit. A liquid-side filter 9 on the liquid refrigerant side is mounted on the indoor unit side relative to the liquid-side stop valve and inside the package of the outdoor unit. As a result, it is not necessary to ensure a place for mounting the gas-side filter and the liquid-side filter at the time of installation on site and the workability can be improved.
US11441792B2
A window air conditioner includes a casing including an outdoor part and an indoor part spaced apart from each other. A receiving groove is formed between the outdoor part and the indoor part. The window air conditioner further includes a first positioning portion provided at a side wall of the receiving groove and a fastening device mounted at the casing. The fastening device includes a plurality of second positioning portions spaced apart from each other in a direction from the indoor part to the outdoor part. The fastening device is configured to switch between a locked state and an unlocked state. In the locked state, the fastening device extends into the receiving groove and one of the plurality of second positioning portions cooperates with the first positioning portion to fix a position of the fastening device. In the unlocked state, the fastening device is outside the receiving groove.
US11441777B2
Combustor assemblies are provided. For example, a combustor assembly includes a combustor liner defining a combustion chamber and an annular combustor dome positioned at a forward end of the combustor liner that defines a plurality of dome apertures. The combustor assembly further includes an annular heat shield positioned between the combustor dome and the combustion chamber, a plurality of adapters positioned forward of the heat shield, and a plurality of collars. The heat shield defines a plurality of heat shield apertures that are aligned with the dome apertures. One adapter is attached to the combustor dome at each dome aperture, and the adapters are. One collar extends through each heat shield aperture to couple the heat shield to the combustor dome. Further, ceramic matrix composite (CMC) heat shields are provided that may include an annular body defining a plurality of heat shield apertures, as well as inner and outer wings.
US11441776B2
Trigger devices for igniting an exothermic reaction is provided. The trigger devices may be flint type trigger devices and electronic type trigger devices. The flint type trigger device has a housing with a spark opening on a rear wall of the housing. A mold mounting assembly is secured to an exterior of the rear wall of the housing. A motor assembly is secured to the inside of the rear wall of the housing. The motor assembly has a flint wheel attached to a shaft of a motor, where the flint wheel is located adjacent the spark opening. A flint assembly is positioned within the housing such that a flint of the flint assembly is in contact with the flint wheel. A controller positioned within the housing is configured to selectively activate the motor to cause the flint wheel to rotate against the flint to create one or more sparks that are ejected from the spark opening.
US11441775B2
A compact heat recovery unit which includes separate and distinct thermal cores housed in their own channels. Each thermal core and its respective channel is moved at intervals. When a thermal core and its channel is inserted into a high temperature fluid flow, the thermal core absorbs the heat. When this heated thermal core and its channel is then later inserted into a low temperature fluid flow, the low temperature fluid is preheated by the heated thermal core. This operation is repeated with at least two independent thermal cores and their respective channels to maintain substantially continual pre-heating of received low temperature fluid. Similarly, the compact heat recovery unit can be used in a cooling application where pre-cooling of received higher temperature fluid is executed.
US11441769B1
The present invention discloses a multifunctional outdoor waterproof wall lamp including a waterproof lamp. The top end of the waterproof lamp is provided with a second connecting hole, and a multifunctional sensor is attached to the top end of the waterproof lamp. With a sensor adjustment switch and a sensor mode switch, usage modes of the device may be adjusted and switched well; with a socket, the device may be formed with an external power socket which is convenient for the surrounding people to use, the applicable scenarios are more diverse and more convenient, the connection between products and the lamp is simple, and the compatibility is strong, which is convenient for replacing waterproof lamps of various types; and with a waterproof cover, a good waterproof function can be realized, and after a product is preset, it can be directly powered on and used without repeated switching, thus realizing individual demand and energy saving, firm product structure, smart product structure, less visible screws and aesthetic appearance, and realizing multifunctional integration of smart lamps and sockets, convenient installation and long service life.
US11441763B2
A lighting apparatus includes a limit switch, a wiring box, a base holder and a light source module. The wiring box is for disposing the limit switch and for receiving a power wire connected to an external power. The base holder having a terminal connector electrically connected to the wiring box. The base holder has an opening for inserting a lever of the limit switch. The light source module is installed into the base holder. The light source module triggers the lever of the limit switch to turn on power supply to the light source module via the power wire and the terminal connector.
US11441759B2
The present disclosure discloses a lighting device and a ceiling light, the lighting device includes: a chassis, at least one lighting module, a drive power supply, and a first mounting component; the lighting module and the drive power supply are arranged on the chassis; the first mounting component is configured to mount the lighting module and the drive power supply on the chassis in a covering mode, the first mounting component includes a main body unit, at least one first accommodating part, and at least one second accommodating part, the first accommodating part and the second accommodating part are both arranged on the main body unit; and one end of the lighting module is electrically connected in the first accommodating part, one end of the drive power supply is connected in the second accommodating part, and the drive power supply supplies power to the lighting module.
US11441748B2
To improve design of a lighting device. A lighting device includes optically transparent glass plates provided on side faces and placed on an optical path of light emitted from a light source, where some or all of the optically transparent glass plates contain an optically transparent battery adapted to drive the light source; and an optically transparent glass plate that contains a transparent conductive film by being provided on a bottom face, wherein the optically transparent battery is placed in contact with a pair of transparent conductive film layers, which are connected to the light source. The pair of transparent conductive film layers are formed in a pair of parallel linear grooves formed in a surface of the optically transparent glass plate on the bottom face, and a tabular positive tab and negative tab of the optically transparent battery fit in respective ones of the pair of grooves.
US11441730B2
An apparatus for cooling a high heat-generating vehicle component includes an air compressor assembly operable in a heat-generating mode, in which the air compressor assembly has a relatively low capability to absorb heat energy from a coolant that has passed through a high heat-generating vehicle component. The coolant may be passed through a heat exchanger submerged in an oil reservoir of the air compressor assembly to facilitate the heat exchange. The air compressor assembly can also be operated in a non-heat-generating mode, in which the air compressor assembly has a relatively higher capability to absorb heat energy from the coolant that has passed through the high heat-generating vehicle component.
US11441729B2
The present invention relates to a device for recovering, separating and purifying oil mist in a minimum quantity lubricant (MQL) grinding process, comprising: an air separating mechanism, which comprises a pipeline and a fan fixedly connected with one end of the pipeline, wherein the fan is used for forming negative pressure in the pipeline, at least one conical filter mesh mechanism is arranged in the pipeline, and a tip of the conical filter mesh mechanism faces one side of an air inlet direction of the pipeline; and a filtering and recovering mechanism, which is connected with the pipeline and comprises a tank body, a filtering mechanism and a recovering mechanism, wherein the tank body is connected with the pipeline by a connecting part, and the filtering mechanism is connected with the recovering mechanism.
US11441719B2
A method of heating an inner pipe of a set of coaxial pipes, wherein the inner pipe is heated by induction using an electromagnetic induction coil (5) surrounding the outer pipe coaxially, the coil passing electrical power at a frequency lower than 100 Hz optimized for maximum energy efficiency of Joule effect heating of the inner pipe. A device (8) is also provided for induction heating an inner pipe of coaxial pipes, the device has a) an induction heater having at least one electromagnetic induction coil (5) coaxially surrounding the outer pipe of the coaxial pipes, and b) a raising device (9) for raising a portion (1-2) of coaxial pipes (1) above the sea bed (13) together with the induction coil(s) (5) surrounding it.
US11441716B2
A resin pipe joint (1, 11) includes a tubular joint body portion (2, 12) defining an internal flow path (P) the internal flow path being configured to allow a fluid to flow therein; and two or more welding end portions (3-3c, 13a, 13b) respectively provided at two or more opening portions (A1-A3) of the internal flow path (P), each of the welding end portions being configured to be welded to an abutting welding end portion of other resin piping member, wherein the internal flow path (P) comprises: one of a branched point (Bp) that branches the internal flow path (P) into two or more portions; a curved point (Cp) that bends the internal flow path (P); and an internal diameter transition point (Tp) that changes an internal diameter of the internal flow path, in mid-way of the internal flow path, and wherein a length (Lh) from the branched point (Bp), the curved point (Cp) or the inner diameter transition point (Tp) to an end face of the welding end portion (3-3c, 13a, 13b) is shorter than half of a straight distance (SD, SD1-SD4) between two points adjacent to each other, the two points being selected from the group consisting of branched points (Bp), curved points (Cp) and inner diameter transition points (Tp) of piping to be formed using the resin pipe joints (1, 11).
US11441715B1
A ratchet clamp with automatic fail safe preferably includes a first clamp half, a second clamp half, a ratchet arm and a locking ratchet device. The first and second clamp halves include a substantially semi-circular shape and a V-shaped cross section. One end of the first clamp half is pivotal secured to one end of the second clamp half. The ratchet arm includes a plurality of teeth. The locking ratchet device includes a ratchet lever and a lock pawl. The ratchet arm extends from an opposing end of the first clamp half. The locking ratchet device extends from an opposing end of the second clamp half. The ratchet arm is inserted into the locking ratchet device. The ratchet lever is lifted to tighten the clamp around flanges of two pipes. The lock pawl is used to lock a position of the ratchet arm relative to the locking ratchet device.
US11441706B2
Woven irrigation tubing comprising a woven, extrusion coated & laminated tube formed of a high density polyethylene (HDPE) outer layer, a low density polyethylene (LDPE) middle layer and a linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) inner layer. The finished tubing is treated for ultraviolet resistance. The tubing is tied off at a distal end with a proximal end connected to a pressurized irrigation source. Watering holes are created in the tubing at spaced intervals and the resulting water streams are directed into parallel plowed furrows. The tubing is completely recyclable. The tubing is formed by manufacturing tape for the woven outer tubing cover, stretching the tape along its length to strengthen it, weaving the outer layer from the tape, flattening the woven outer layer, extrusion coating each surface of the outer layer with LDPE, laminating the LLDPE inner layer to the LDPE, reversing and winding the tubing for storage and distribution.
US11441702B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include a fluidic device comprising a chamber, an inlet port coupled to the chamber and configured to convey fluid to the chamber, and an outlet port coupled to the chamber and configured to convey the fluid from the chamber. The fluidic device may also have a restricting region that (1) is dimensioned to restrict a flow of the fluid through the outlet port when the pressure in the chamber is below a threshold level and (2) is configured to move in a manner that allows a flow rate of the fluid through the outlet port to increase when pressure in the chamber reaches the threshold level.
US11441701B2
A microfluidic valve may include a firing chamber having an orifice, a first portion of a liquid conduit connected to the firing chamber at a first port, a second portion of the liquid conduit connected to the firing chamber at a second port and a thermal resistor. The thermal resistor is to form a bubble within the firing chamber to expel liquid from the firing chamber through the orifice such that a first meniscus forms across the first port and a second meniscus forms across the second port to interrupt liquid flow between the first portion and the second portion of the liquid conduit.
US11441695B1
A safety opening/closing valve for easy checking of an opened/closed state thereof includes: a ball valve part having a rotating shaft part configured to open and close a flow path of the ball valve part by rotating; a housing part having an upper surface and having a plurality of gear teeth vertically formed along the inner circumference of an inner space of the housing part; a rotating part arranged in the housing part such that the rotating part rotates relative to the central axis of the housing part; at least three satellite gear parts mounted rotatably to the upper portion of the rotating part while being in engagement with gear teeth formed at the inner circumference of the housing part; a driving part including a sun gear part provided as a bar shape and inserted through an open central area of a top surface of the housing part.
US11441684B2
A mechanical seal that includes a holder assembly having a fastener-receiving aperture formed therein and having a pair of grooves disposed on either side of the fastener-receiving aperture. A sealing cover element is disposed over the fastener-receiving aperture and has opposed leg portions that seat within the groove.
US11441683B2
A stuffing box assembly for a fluid end of a hydraulic fluid pump includes a stuffing box unit having a plunger bore configured to receive a plunger of the hydraulic fluid pump and a plurality of seals. The plunger bore extends from a first axial end of the stuffing box unit to a second axial end of the stuffing box unit. The plunger bore includes a first portion configured to receive the plurality of seals and a second portion extending between the first portion and the second axial end. The stuffing box assembly further includes a sensor coupled to the stuffing box unit and configured to determine a fluid pressure within the second portion of the stuffing box unit.
US11441678B2
A vehicle parking lock mechanism includes a parking gear, a parking pawl, a lock member, and a support member. The parking pawl is meshed with the parking gear to hinder rotation of the parking gear. The lock member moves the parking pawl closer to the parking gear via a cam mechanism as the lock member is moved toward the locked position, to establish a parking locked state in which rotation of the parking gear is hindered by the parking pawl. The support member is provided with a guide portion guiding movement between a locked position and an unlocked position. The cam mechanism moves the parking pawl closer to the parking gear to be meshed therewith. A stopper is disposed on the lock member, to be engaged with the support member by taking a projecting posture in which the stopper projects toward the support member in the parking locked state.
US11441675B2
The present disclosure provides an inhibitor integrated actuator shift control device capable of controlling a position of a gear shift by improving control performance and durability through position control of a brushless direct current (BLDC) motor by an inductive sensor, forming a metallic uneven portion on an output shaft flange part of a reducer, and detecting a variation amount in induced current due to the metallic uneven portion.
US11441669B2
A hydraulic controlling system including: a cooling and lubricating oil line and a main controlling oil line; an oil-liquid storage; a first pump, wherein an inlet of the first pump is connected to the oil-liquid storage and an outlet of the first pump is connected to the main controlling oil line; a second pump, wherein an inlet of the second pump is connected to the oil-liquid storage and an outlet of the second pump selectively communicates with the cooling and lubricating oil line or the main controlling oil line; and a gearbox-gear-shifting oil line including a gear-shifting-pressure regulating valve, a plurality of gear-shifting-flow-rate controlling valves and a plurality of gear-shifting selector valves. The gear-shifting-flow-rate controlling valves are connected to the main controlling oil line via the gear-shifting-pressure regulating valve. At least some of the gear-shifting-flow-rate controlling valves are connected to a gear-shifting executing piston via the gear-shifting selector valves.
US11441659B2
A thrust washer and a differential containing a thrust washer. The differential has a housing, a spider and one or more spider gears. The thrust washer includes a body having an annular shape and a width configured to approximately match with a width of the one or more spider gears. The thrust washer is further configured to engage with the spider to prevent or reduce the thrust washer from rotating relative to the housing when the thrust washer is installed in the differential.
US11441655B2
A torque sensing assembly of a differential of an axle assembly is shown in the present disclosure. The differential may include a differential housing portion, a drive pinion positioned within the differential housing portion, a ring gear, a carrier, a differential pinion, a first side gear, a second side gear, a first bearing, a first bearing support, and the torque sensing assembly. The first bearing is coupled to the differential housing portion and rotatable with the carrier. The first bearing support is coupled to the differential housing portion and used to support the first bearing. The torque sensing assembly is coupled to the first bearing support and operable to measure a strain thereof resulted from a separation force created between the drive pinion and ring gear.
US11441651B2
A transmission includes an input shaft coupled to a prime mover, a countershaft, main shaft, and an output shaft, with gears between the countershaft and the main shaft. A shift actuator selectively couples the input shaft to the main shaft by rotatably coupling gears between the countershaft and the main shaft. The shift actuator is mounted on an exterior wall of a housing including the countershaft and the main shaft. An integrated actuator housing is operationally coupled to the shift actuator and a linear clutch actuator. The linear clutch actuator is a self-adjusting actuator, and the transmission includes a self-adjusting clutch.
US11441643B2
A gear assembly includes a planetary gear set having a sun gear, planet gears, and a ring gear. The planet gears are respectively rotatably mounted by a bearing on a respective planetary pin. The respective planetary pin is connected to a planetary carrier. Tilting pads arranged radially circumferentially with respect to the planetary pin are provided on sides of the planetary carrier facing the planet gears. The planetary carrier has, on sides facing the planet gears, recesses arranged radially circumferentially with respect to the planetary pin and corresponding to the tilting pads. The recesses are configured to receive at least part of the tilting pads.
US11441640B2
A balanced speed reducer of a dual-ring gear variable-line-speed planetary row includes a dual-ring gear variable-line-speed planetary row, an input end (6), an output end (7), a locking end (8), and auxiliary devices such as bearings. The dual-ring gear planetary row includes a left ring gear (1), a right ring gear (2), and a planet carrier (3). A left planetary gear (4) and a right planetary gear (5) that are connected on each planetary gear shaft have the same rotation speed. The left planetary gear (4) meshes with the left ring gear (1), and the right planetary gear (5) meshes with the right ring gear (2). The number of gear sets is not less than two. A teeth number combination and a number of gear sets are set according to a range specifying parameter and following a principle of matching the teeth number combination with the number of gear sets. A rule for manufacturing and assembling planetary gears is executed. A regulation on gear reference circle radii is executed. By connecting the planetary carrier (3) to the input end (6), connecting one ring gear to the output end (7), and connecting the other ring gear to the locking end (8), a speed reducer that has a corresponding left transmission ratio and right transmission ratio, can be actually assembled and provides balanced operation is formed.
US11441639B2
Vehicles that are relatively heavy and/or configured to transport heavy loads may utilize a powertrain comprising an electric machine capable of operating at high speeds and a multispeed transmission to propel the vehicle. An interface module is configured to modulate torque between the electric machine and the multispeed transmission allowing the electric machine to smoothly match speed as the multispeed transmission shifts between gears. The interface module facilitates efficient, predictable, and reliable modulation of torque between an input and an output of the powertrain of the vehicle.
US11441635B2
A liquid filled bushing assembly includes an inner tubular member (11), an outer tubular member (12) disposed in a coaxial relation to the inner tubular member, and an elastic member (13) interposed between the inner tubular member and the outer tubular member, wherein not only the stiffness of the liquid filled bushing assembly in the lateral directions can be freely selected but also the stiffness of the liquid filled bushing assembly in the rotational direction and/or the axial direction can be freely selected.
US11441629B2
Various residual braking torque indication devices, systems, and methods are described. The devices, systems, and methods can include a sensorized brake pad. An output signal of the sensorized brake pad can be processed to provide an indication of a residual braking torque. The residual braking torque indicator can be calibrated to reference data to provide an actual measurement of the residual braking torque.
US11441627B2
A brake application device (1) for a disc brake (2) of commercial vehicles comprising an actuating spindle (3) with, axially of the actuating spindle (3), a pressure plate (4) arranged on the actuating spindle (3), and the pressure plate (4) having an annular groove (6) radially for receiving a boot (5). A heat shield (7) is at least partially disposed between the pressure plate head (4a) and the boot (5) at a spacing (X). An insulating layer (8) may be present between the heat shield (7) and the pressure plate head (4a). The heat shield (7) may be a metal ring (10) encapsulated in or coated with an elastomer (9a). The heat shield (7) may alternatively be formed of plastic or silicone.
US11441626B2
Provided is an electric linear motion actuator that enables size reduction and cost reduction while increasing the instantaneous output of an electric motor. A control device (2) of the electric linear motion actuator includes: a motor driver (24) configured to control power supplied to a coil (4b) of an electric motor (4); a power storage unit (21) connected to a power supply device (3) and the motor driver (24); a current flow direction restriction unit (20) disposed between the power supply device (3) and the power storage unit (21), which causes current to pass only in a direction in which power is supplied from the power supply device (3); and a step-up unit (19) configured to step up voltage of the power supply device (3) and provide the stepped-up voltage to the power storage unit (21).
US11441623B2
A vehicle braking system includes a controller that receives signals from sensors associated with vehicle disc brakes, which allow detection of a parameter indicative of a degree of noise generated from each disc brake. When noise generation is detected, the controller activates a noise attenuation function of a first type if the vehicle is braking, and of a second type if the vehicle is not braking. The first type involves reducing actuating pressure of a fluid actuator associated with the disc brake for which noise generation is detected. The second type involves temporarily activating, while the vehicle is running and not braking, the fluid actuator associated with the disc brake which is generating noise. The controller also receives signals indicative of vehicle operating parameters which allow conditions to be defined in which priority is given to vehicle safety, and in which the noise attenuation function is excluded.
US11441613B2
The invention is concerned with an oil consumer system having at least one rotating component and at least one oil supply from an oil tank, wherein the oil consumer system has an oil return to a first tank and an oil supply via at least one second tank.
US11441602B2
A bearing structure includes: a shaft provided with a turbine impeller; a pair of rolling bearings accommodated in a bearing hole and each including: an inner ring provided to the shaft; and an outer ring having a damper portion formed on an outer periphery of the outer ring; an opposing surface opposed to, from a turbine impeller side, a lateral surface of the outer ring of the rolling bearing provided on the turbine impeller side; and a first oil supply groove formed in the opposing surface and opposed to at least the damper portion and the lateral surface of the outer ring.
US11441601B1
A rotor bearing system includes an inner bearing component and an outer bearing component. One of the bearing components includes at least three protrusions sized to form a close running proximity to the remaining component. A bearing gap between the inner bearing component and the outer bearing component is sized to exclude the entry of red blood cells between the bearing components during operation of the rotor bearing system and causing the bearing to operate in an elasto-hydrodynamic regime of mixed- or boundary-lubrication.
US11441596B2
The present disclosure provides descriptions of configurations for bonding washers used to facilitate the electrical bonding of metal structures. The bonding washer includes an electrically conductive body and at least one piercing member extending from a bottom surface of the body. An extended member extends from the electrically conductive body in a direction away from the bottom surface of the body.
US11441588B1
An equipment mounting system for mounting equipment to a support structure is described. An equipment mounting system including: (i) a mounting plate having defined therein a plate aperture of a particular shape; (ii) a bolt having a shaft portion including a threaded portion and a non-threaded portion that is of a complementary shape that complements the particular shape of the plate aperture; and (iii) a washer having defined therein a scored aperture that includes multiple radially extending scorings. In an assembled configuration of the mounting plate, the bolt and the washer, the plate aperture of the particular shape aligns with the scoring aperture such that both of the plate aperture and the scoring aperture receive the non-threaded portion of the complementary shape, and the particular shape of the mounting plate engages with the complementary shape of the bolt to prevent rotational displacement of the bolt around the mounting plate.
US11441587B2
A two-piece clip for securing an element to another element includes a first component having a head and a shaft extending from the head along a shaft axis having a point. At least one protrusion is provided on the shaft, having a contact surface facing the head, and the head having a contact surface facing the protrusion. The clip further includes a second component having a support surface facing the contact surface of the head, and a contact surface facing the protrusion. The contact surface of the head is supported on the support surface of the second component.
US11441583B2
A hydraulic thruster system for providing an axial force. In one embodiment, the system comprises a pump, a motor for driving the pump, and a hydraulic thruster comprising: a cylinder comprising a plurality of cylinder pistons; a shaft comprising a plurality of shaft pistons; a plurality of first pressure chambers; and a plurality of second pressure chambers, wherein the plurality of shaft pistons are positioned inside the cylinder, between the cylinder pistons to form the plurality of first and a second pressure chambers, wherein the shaft further comprises a first fluid passage connected to the pump and to the first pressure chambers, and a second fluid passage connected to the pump and to the second pressure chambers, and wherein the pump may pump fluid into the first pressure chambers and suction fluid from the second pressure chambers providing an axial force between the shaft and the cylinder.
US11441581B2
In a hydraulic system, such as for a tractor or other agricultural vehicle, a main supply pump supplies fluid to a steering system through a steering circuit and a second pump supplies fluid to a cooling fan motor. The second pump is connected with the steering circuit to provide a second a source of fluid to the steering system when the main supply pump is unable to meet demand. A prioritization valve regulates the flow of fluid from the second pump to the motor. The second pump acts as a secondary pump for the steering system and drives a cooling fan.
US11441577B2
A multi-stage pump includes a first set of pump stages directing fluid in a first direction from a first end of the multi-stage pump to a diffuser casing disposed at a central portion of the multi-stage pump. A second set of pump stages directs the fluid expelled from the diffuser casing in a second direction, opposite to the first direction, from a second end of the multi-stage pump to the diffuser casing. The diffuser casing receives the fluid from the first set of pump stages and directs the fluid toward the second end of the multi-stage pump and receives the fluid from the second set of pump stages and directs the fluid in a radial direction with respect to a longitudinal axis of the multi-stage pump.
US11441574B2
A blower and method of manufacturing a blower for a heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVACR) unit is disclosed. The blower includes a plurality of blower sections. Each section includes a first shroud, a second shroud spaced from the first shroud in a direction of a longitudinal axis of the blower, and a blade. The blade is formed such that a first end of the blade is joined with the first shroud and a second end of the blade is joined with the second shroud. A band is secured to the plurality of blower sections.
US11441571B2
A sealing system includes: a double mechanical seal having a pump-side sealing mechanism (10, 12) and an atmospheric-side sealing mechanism (11, 13); a pump mechanism (19) driven by a rotational shaft (1); a first medium circulation line (30) for circulating a fluid barrier-and-cooling medium between a first chamber (22a) and a second chamber (22b), the first medium circulation line (30) being coupled to the first chamber (22a) and the second chamber (22b), the fluid barrier-and-cooling medium being different from a fluid handled by the centrifugal pump; a heat exchanger (21) and a shut-off valve (28) attached to the first medium circulation line (30); a second medium circulation line (31) bypassing the shut-off valve (28); and a medium pressurizing pump (45) and an on-off valve (23) attached to the second medium circulation line (31).
US11441567B2
A pump for liquids is provided, comprising a pump chamber in which a bucket wheel is mounted on a bearing so that it can rotate, and an electric motor with a stator and a rotor. The stator has stator laminations and coils, and is coated with plastic in some parts and an electric/electronic activation device. The pump is intended to have a long service life and at the same time require as little installation space as possible. This is achieved by the stator laminations of the stator being at least in part electroplated.
US11441563B2
A rotary piston compressor/pump/blower includes a housing spatially limiting a working chamber, an intake connection for guiding fluid into the working chamber, a pressure connection for guiding the fluid out of the working chamber, and a rotor assembly having a first rotor rotatably arranged in a first working sub-chamber and a second rotor cooperating with the first rotor and rotatably arranged in a second working sub-chamber. The rotary piston compressor/pump/blower also includes a ventilation channel, formed in the housing and connected to the working chamber via a ventilation channel opening, for the temporally limited introducing of air into the working chamber, wherein the ventilation channel opening is open at least in sections, in particular completely open, in a compression phase.
US11441554B2
An actuating device mechanically controls a membrane pump device. The device includes a base body having a mounting face for a membrane pump device and through which a control fluid line passes that extends from a control fluid port to a control fluid opening that opens at the mounting face. A control fluid valve arranged in the control fluid line influences a cross-section of the control fluid line and has an adjustment device that has a fluid actuator arranged on the mounting face. A working fluid valve influences a cross-section of a working fluid line that passes through the base body. The control fluid valve and the working fluid valve are electrically connected to a control device that electrically controls the control fluid valve and the working fluid valve. Moreover, a membrane pump is provided that has an actuating device and a membrane pump device.
US11441549B2
A hydraulic pump (6) comprising: a housing (20) having first and second inlets (100a, 100b) and first and second outlets (102a, 102b); a crankshaft (4) extending within the housing (20) and having axially offset first and second cams (62, 64); first and second groups (30, 32) of piston cylinder assemblies provided in the housing (20), each of the said groups (30, 32) having a plurality of piston cylinder assemblies having a working chamber of cyclically varying volume and being in driving relationship with the crankshaft (4); one or more electronically controllable valves (40) associated with the first and second groups (30, 32); and a controller (70) configured to actively control the opening and/or closing of the said electronically controllable valves (40) on each cycle of working chamber volume to thereby control the net displacement of fluid by the first and second groups (30, 32), wherein at least the first group (30) comprises a first piston cylinder assembly in driving relationship with the first cam (62) and a second piston cylinder assembly in driving relationship with the second cam (64), and wherein the first group is configured to receive working fluid from the first inlet (100a) and to output working fluid to the first outlet (102a) and the second group is configured to receive working fluid from the second inlet (100b) and to output working fluid to the second outlet (102b).
US11441548B2
An actuator includes a strand of shape memory material having a length that is variable between a first length corresponding to an undeformed state and a second length corresponding to a state of lengthwise deformation. The strand is arranged to return to the undeformed state when it is heated to a predetermined temperature. The strand includes a fixed end and a mobile end arranged to move between a first and a second position when the variable length of the SMM strand changes. The actuator further includes a heating wire coiled around the strand for heating the strand, the coiled heating wire forming a circular helix, the uniform slope of which is selected so as to avoid any substantial change of the arc length of the circular helix caused by the strand changing its length.
US11441546B2
Provided is a wind turbine including: a hub, at least one blade fixed to the hub, a nacelle on which the hub is rotatably mounted for rotating about a rotational axis, a tower on which the nacelle is mounted, a plurality of hitting areas which are subject to be hit by a lightning stroke. The nacelle includes an outer cover having a first plurality of portions including a conductive material and a second plurality of portions including a non-conductive material, the first plurality of portions being arranged along at least a path between the plurality of hitting areas and the tower.
US11441539B2
A method of controlling, by inertia emulation, electric power generators provided with rotational inertia and connected to the electricity grid with electric power converters includes the steps of measuring grid frequency and/or frequency over-time variation over a rated frequency value; providing a threshold value for, and comparing, the grid frequency or frequency over-time variation; and converting part of the kinetic energy of the generator rotor into electric power to provide additional supporting power to the variation of the grid frequency, wherein the additional supporting power is calculated as a function of the frequency and/or the frequency over-time variation and of a predetermined variable inertia coefficient, the additional power is supplied until the grid frequency variation is restored, and/or the injected power has fallen below a preset limit value, and the coefficient of inertia is calculated by emulating the inertial behavior of synchronous machines, and as a function of rotation velocity.
US11441538B2
A wind turbine includes a tower, an aerodynamic rotor operable at a variable rotor speed and having a plurality of rotor blades each having an adjustable rotor blade setting angle and a generator for generating an electrical output power. An operating characteristic curve is prespecified for operating the wind turbine. The operating characteristic curve indicates a relationship between the rotor speed and the output power. A controller is provided, which sets the output power in accordance with the operating characteristic curve depending on the rotor speed. The the operating characteristic curve has a starting rotation speed to which the rotor speed increases as soon as the wind turbine starts when a sufficient wind speed is reached. The starting rotation speed is defined depending on a tower natural frequency of the wind turbine and/or depending on a detected turbulence measure of the prevailing wind.
US11441527B2
A starting apparatus for internal combustion engines, having a drive pinion for engagement into a ring gear of the internal combustion engine, an electrical rotary actuator and an electrical linear actuator, the rotary actuator to rotate the drive pinion and the linear actuator to slide a pinion, and the electrical linear actuator having a linear-stroke magnet that has a sliding armature is moved by a retraction winding, within the retraction winding, along a sliding armature axis, having a holding winding by which the sliding armature can be held in a retracted state. The linear actuator also actuates a switching apparatus to activate the electrical rotary actuator into a second actuation stage. A second retraction winding is connected in parallel with the first retraction winding, such that the first retraction winding can be shut off by a normally closed switch while a current path through a second retraction winding is closed.
US11441526B1
Internal combustion engine cranking is carried out including with a limited overlapping of cranking with a starter motor and a starter/generator during at least the initial compression stroke during a cranking cycle.
US11441521B2
A valve for m exhaust gas recirculation Mae in an engine includes a first barrel connectable to a first group of cylinders, a second barrel connectable to a second group of cylinders, and a center barrel between the first and second barrels and connectable to an intake of the engine, A poppet valve with two valve heads mounted on a valve stem is provided to open and close openings between the first and second barrels, with one of the valve beads of the poppet valve opening into the center barrel Vanes are provided in the center barrel to direct flow from the opening by the valve bead that opens into the center barrel toward the outlet opening.
US11441520B2
A method of determining an operational status of an exhaust gas recirculation valve of an internal combustion engine arrangement, the EGR valve being configured to control a flow of combusted exhaust gas from an exhaust manifold to an inlet manifold of the ICE arrangement. The method comprising controlling the EGR valve to transition from a closed position; obtaining a signal indicative of a variation of temperature level of the gas present in the inlet manifold at a duration between a first point in time and a second point in time when the EGR valve assumes the open position; determining, based on the signal indicative of the variation of the temperature level, a velocity value indicative of a maximum increase in change of temperature level during the time period between the first point in time and the second point in time; comparing the velocity value with a predetermined threshold; and determining that the EGR valve is operational when the velocity value is higher than the predetermined threshold.
US11441517B2
A supersonic jet aircraft and a method of operating the same. The supersonic jet aircraft having at least three turbofan engines and an engine management computer. A first engine of the at least three turbofan engines is configured to be de-activatable during flight to move from an operational state in which it provides thrust to an operational state in which it stops providing thrust. Other engines of the at least three turbofan engines are configured to provide sufficient thrust to the supersonic jet aircraft when the first engine is de-activated such that the aircraft can perform a supersonic climb operation and/or a supersonic cruise operation.
US11441516B2
A compressor adapted for use in for a gas turbine engine includes a diffuser and a housing. The diffuser is arranged circumferentially around an axis and includes a fore plate, an aft plate spaced apart axially from the fore plate to define a flow path therebetween, and a plurality of vanes that extend between the fore plate and the aft plate. The housing is arranged circumferentially about the axis and located adjacent the diffuser.
US11441511B2
An engine controller controlling an engine including an occlusion reduction catalyst in an exhaust device includes a fuel injection controller that controls a fuel injection amount of an injector, an EGR controller that controls an EGR device, a sulfur purge determiner that determines whether sulfur purging of the catalyst is to be performed, and a sulfur purge controller that executes sulfur purge control if the sulfur purging is performed. The sulfur purge control involves performing a fuel injection to achieve a rich air-fuel ratio at an inlet of the catalyst and prohibiting the exhaust-gas introduction. The sulfur purge controller executes sulfur-purge standby control when a sulfur-purge standby condition is satisfied, and resumes the sulfur purge control when the condition becomes non-satisfied after starting the sulfur-purge standby control. The sulfur-purge standby control involves performing the fuel injection to nearly achieve a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio and prohibiting the exhaust-gas introduction.
US11441506B2
Disclosed is a method for regulating the duty cycle of a controlled current signal of a conversion module of a voltage converter including a step of measuring, by the microcontroller, the duty cycle of the envelope of the controlled current signal, and when the value of the duty cycle is below a predetermined threshold, a step of controlling, by the microcontroller, the current control module to decrease the amplitude of the control signal and that the duty cycle of the envelope of the controlled current signal thus tends toward a predetermined threshold, or when the value of the duty cycle is higher than the predetermined threshold, a step of controlling, by the microcontroller, the current control module so the current control module increases the amplitude of the controlled current signal and that the duty cycle of the envelope of the controlled current signal thus tends toward the predetermined threshold.
US11441505B2
An injection control device includes a boost controller performing boost control of a boosted voltage generated by a booster circuit until a boosted voltage, which is generated in a boost capacitor, rises to a full-charge threshold when the boosted voltage falls below a charge start threshold. When, for stopping a peak current by a drive unit, a power interruption controller interrupts electric current supplied to the fuel injection valve by the drive unit as interruption control (i) of an application voltage to a fuel injection valve or (ii) of a constant current by the drive unit, a regeneration unit regenerates electric current generated in the fuel injection valve to the boost capacitor of the booster circuit. The boost controller upward-shifts (i.e., raises) the full-charge threshold of the booster circuit.
US11441502B2
A start-up method for heating a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) module in a hybrid propulsion system of a vehicle. An internal combustion engine is in fluid communication with an exhaust aftertreatment system having an exhaust. An SCR module is disposed in the exhaust passage downstream of the engine and an electric motor. The method includes operating the engine in a start-up mode with a torque restriction on the engine, allowing the SCR module to convert NOx emission; supplying a surplus amount of a reducing agent to the exhaust gas at a position between the engine and the SCR module, the surplus amount of the reducing agent being larger than a required amount of reducing agent for converting NOx emission from the engine; heating said SCR module to a working temperature; and terminating the start-up mode.
US11441499B1
Methods and systems are provided for controlling imbalance with an exhaust tuning valve. In one example, a method may include adjusting a first exhaust tuning valve in response to combustion torque imbalance in a first and second group of cylinders. Additionally or alternatively, the position of the second exhaust tuning valve may be adjusted in response to an imbalance generated by the same group of cylinders.
US11441472B2
A control device is configured to direct an opening degree of a throttle valve disposed in an intake passage or an exhaust passage of an engine including a DOC disposed in the exhaust passage and a DPF disposed downstream of the DOC in the exhaust passage. The control device includes: a hysteresis occurring condition determination unit configured to determine whether a hysteresis occurring condition (predetermined time elapses after instructed opening degree of throttle valve becomes equal to or smaller than predetermined opening degree and/or predetermined time elapses after engine output becomes equal to or smaller than predetermined output) is met; and a hysteresis elimination execution unit configured to cause, if it is determined that the hysteresis occurring condition is met, the throttle valve to execute hysteresis elimination that involves temporarily increasing the opening degree of the throttle valve from the instructed opening degree and then returning it to the instructed opening degree.
US11441468B2
A vehicle system includes an engine, a transmission including a torque converter, a clutch configured to selectably couple and decouple the torque converter, and a gearset, a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) exhaust aftertreatment system. An electronic control system may be operatively coupled with the engine, the electronically controllable clutch, and the SCR exhaust aftertreatment system. The electronic control system is configured to evaluate whether an SCR catalyst temperature satisfies at least one minimum temperature criterion, in response to the SCR catalyst temperature satisfying the minimum temperature criterion, permit a neutral at stop operation wherein the electronically controllable clutch is controlled to selectably decouple the torque converter and the one or more gears at least in part in response to the vehicle system being in a stopped state, and in response to the SCR catalyst temperature not satisfying the minimum temperature criterion, prevent the neutral at stop operation.
US11441462B2
Methods and systems are provided for partially regenerating a lean Nox trap in response to an engine shutdown request. In one example, an engine shutdown is delayed so that a low-temperature storing region of the lean Nox trap is regenerated without regenerating a high-temperature storing region of the lean Nox trap.
US11441453B2
An Oldham coupling includes: a driven Oldham flange that is formed at a drive-side rotor; a drive Oldham flange that is formed at a planetary rotor; and an Oldham intermediate that is configured to synchronize rotation of the driven Oldham flange and rotation of the drive Oldham flange. A thrust section is formed at a rotor plate portion which is a portion other than the Oldham coupling. The thrust section is configured to limit tilting of the planetary rotor relative to the driven Oldham flange when the thrust section contacts the planetary rotor in an axial direction. There is satisfied a relationship of θ2>θ1 where: θ1 is a maximum tilt amount of the planetary rotor relative to the driven Oldham flange; and θ2 is a maximum tilt amount of the planetary rotor in a clearance formed at the Oldham coupling.
US11441447B2
A ring-segment surface-side member is included in a ring segment disposed at a position opposite to a turbine blade on a stationary side of a gas turbine, serves as a part of a combustion gas flow path through which combustion gas flows, and is formed of a ceramic matrix composite. The ring-segment surface-side member includes: a surface portion forming the combustion gas flow path; a turned-back portion including a first part extending outward in a radial direction of the gas turbine from the surface portion and a second part extending toward a central line of the surface portion from an end part of the first part; and a protrusion portion extending outward from the turned-back portion in the radial direction of the gas turbine.
US11441446B2
A system for cleaning a gas turbine engine may generally include a wash stand having a base frame and a plurality of fluid injection nozzles configured to be supported by the base frame relative to the gas turbine engine. The nozzles may be configured to inject a cleaning fluid through an inlet of the fan casing of the engine as the fan blades are being rotated in a rotational direction such that the cleaning fluid is directed past the rotating fan blades and into a compressor inlet of the engine. Additionally, each nozzle may be oriented at a positive tangential angle defined relative to the rotational direction of the plurality of fan blades. The system may also include a fluid source in flow communication with the wash stand for supplying the cleaning fluid to the plurality of fluid injection nozzles.
US11441444B2
In combination a wear indicator and a component of a gas turbine engine. The wear indicator is secured to a surface of the component of the gas turbine engine. The wear indicator including: a first component including: a post; and a ribbon wire having a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The first end is operably connected to the post and the ribbon wire is wrapped around the post.
US11441435B2
A turbine for a turbo-machine is proposed in which, at a gas inlet, vanes, extending from a nozzle ring though slots in a shroud, are shaped on one side to as to substantially conform to the profile of the surface of the slot, whereby a close connection can be formed between the vane and the slot to inhibit leakage of gas between the vane and the slot surface.
US11441427B1
A rotor blade includes an airfoil having an airfoil shape. The airfoil shape has a nominal profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in Table I. The Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z are non-dimensional values from 0% to 100% convertible to dimensional distances expressed in a unit of distance by multiplying the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z by a scaling factor of the airfoil in the unit of distance. The X and Y values, when connected by smooth continuing arcs, define airfoil profile sections at each Z value. The airfoil profile sections at Z values are joined smoothly with one another to form a complete airfoil shape.
US11441426B2
Disclosed is a valve assembly with: a valve body defining valve inlet and outlet ports; a manifold connected to the valve outlet port, the manifold includes: a manifold inlet body portion defining: a manifold internal surface forming a manifold channel; and a first manifold external surface defining a manifold inlet opening that opens to the manifold channel, the manifold channel is fluidly coupled to the valve outlet port via the manifold inlet opening; a manifold outlet port, and a manifold outlet conduit extending from the manifold inlet body portion to the manifold outlet port; a manifold exhaust port, and a manifold exhaust conduit extending from the manifold inlet body portion to the manifold exhaust port, the manifold exhaust and outlet conduits are fluidly coupled to each other via the manifold channel, heat fins extend from the manifold exhaust conduit; and a eutectic plug disposed within the manifold exhaust conduit.
US11441423B2
A “Riser Concept” Method and Apparatus includes the bottom-up construction of vertical risers from underground passes through the soil, using a pipe jacking equipment. The pipe jacking equipment vertically push the riser pipe from underground pass upwards through soil formations to waterbody, air intake, terrain surface or like. The method and mechanism can be applied either in traditionally bored tunnel or in tunnel bored by tunnel boring machine.
US11441422B2
A method (and corresponding downhole tool) is provided for downhole fluid analysis of formation fluids. The downhole tool is operated to draw live fluid from the formation through the downhole tool and acquire observed sensor measurements of the live fluid (which includes filtrate contamination) that flows through the downhole tool. The observed sensor measurements are used in an inversion process that solves for a set of input parameter values of a computational model that predicts level of filtrate contamination in the live fluid that flows through the downhole tool. The set of input parameter values includes at least one endpoint value for the observed sensor measurements. The set of input parameter values solved by the inversion process can be stored and output for different applications.
US11441411B2
A method of optimizing drilling and drilling instructions for different segments of a wellbore that includes: calculating mathematical approximations of energy transfer loss between a top drive and a BHA using a neural network and a plurality of drilling records for segments of wellbores that are similar to the segments of the wellbore to be drilled; calculating drilling instructions based on each mathematical approximation; drilling the wellbore using the drilling instructions; monitoring the energy transfer loss; and optimizing the drilling instructions using one of the mathematical approximations to minimize the energy transfer loss. Optimizing the drilling instructions includes using Bayesian optimization techniques.
US11441410B2
A method of separating hydrocarbons from an oil field production stream may include providing a production stream having a gas phase and a liquid phase, the production stream including oil, hydrocarbon gas, carbon dioxide, and water; substantially separating the gas phase from the liquid phase; separating the liquid phase into a stream composed substantially of oil and a stream substantially composed of water, the stream substantially composed of water containing carbon dioxide absorbed therein; pressurizing the water stream containing carbon dioxide absorbed therein; and injecting the pressurized water stream containing carbon dioxide absorbed therein to a downhole injection location; the method may include operating each step at a pressure above 150 psig.
US11441407B2
A well tool includes a perforating gun including multiple shaped charges, a sheath encapsulating the perforating gun and powdered acid in an internal chamber defined by the sheath. The perforating gun is lowered to a depth into a wellbore formed in a subterranean zone. The multiple shaped charges are fired to form multiple perforations in the wellbore at the depth. The multiple perforations provide access to the subterranean zone at the depth. The sheath, which covers at least some of the multiple shaped charges, breaks responsive to at least some of the multiple shaped charges being fired. The powdered acid in the internal chamber is applied to the subterranean zone responsive to the multiple shaped charges being fired. The powdered acid reacts with and weakens the subterranean zone at the depth to ease flow of hydraulic fracturing fluid into the subterranean zone at the depth.
US11441398B2
A well barrier plug and disconnect system for use during drilling operations in wellbore environments. The system comprises of a liner hanger, valve, and a drilling assembly coupled to a liner hanger running tool. The system is used to performing drilling operations in downhole wellbore environments with high risk of uncontrollable losses, cavernous zones, karst formations, or well control issues. In the event the well is on uncontrollable losses or a well control issue occurs, the liner hanger can be set into the downhole wellbore casing and a valve connected below the liner hanger can be closed creating a barrier plug in the well. Further disconnecting the liner hanger running tool from the liner hanger, valve, and drilling assembly allows retrieval of the upper drilling assembly section from the well.
US11441397B2
An apparatus for lining a blast hole comprises a tube of thermoplastic material and a welder for welding the tube, wherein an end of the tube can be welded closed by the welder and the desired length of tube can be dispensed and cut free from the rest of the tube when the closed end is at least part way inside the blast hole. There is also a method of lining a blast hole which comprises welding closed an end of a tube of thermoplastic material; placing the closed end in the blast hole and allowing it to descend into the hole; dispensing a desired length of tube; and cutting free the length of tube from the rest of the tube.
US11441394B1
A system and method of generating electricity. A work string extends into a wellbore. A heat pump unit at a surface location circulates a working fluid through the work string to absorb heat from a formation surrounding the wellbore. A turbine generates a rotation from the working fluid that has absorbed the heat. A generator generates electricity from the rotation of the turbine. The electricity is transmitted to the surface location via an electrical cable.
US11441393B2
This disclosure relates to a method and a system for sequestering carbon-containing materials in underground wells. An example method includes: obtaining a material comprising a carbon-containing liquid; optionally testing the material for compatibility with an underground well; optionally adjusting a property of the material to improve the compatibility; and providing the material for injection into the underground well.
US11441390B2
Systems and methods include a computer-implemented method for performing an advanced control policy for a group of wells. Choke settings are applied to one or more control elements of each well in a group of wells. Rig control settings are applied to the group of wells. The rig control settings define, for each rule in a set of rules: a rule count limiting a number of times a rule is to be executed in a simulation run and a rule frequency identifying a time frequency by which the rule is to be executed during the simulation run. Settings are received for targets and constraints for the group of wells. The simulation run is executed for the group of wells using the choking settings, the rig control settings, and the settings for of the targets and constraints for the group of wells.
US11441389B2
Utilizing a fluid flow rate within a tool to close and open a vent extending through a circumference of the tool. The vent may be positioned above a packer pair that is configured to extend across an annulus. The tool may include a vent, sliding sleeve, adjustable member, and plunger.
US11441386B2
A pressure bleed-off module for an oil well includes: an inlet receiving fluid from an annulus vent of the well; an outlet sending the received fluid to a kill valve of the well; and two paths coupled in parallel between the inlet and the outlet. Each path channels a flow of the received fluid from the inlet to the outlet and includes: a pressure relief valve dividing the path into an inlet side coupled to the inlet and an outlet side coupled to the outlet, opening when the pressure of the fluid in the inlet side exceeds a threshold, and closing when the inlet fluid pressure is below the threshold; pressure gauges measuring the inlet fluid pressure and the pressure of the fluid in the outlet side; a pressure recorder recording the measured inlet and outlet fluid pressures; and a sampling point for draining the fluid in the outlet side.
US11441385B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed toward a choke valve system including a choke valve body and a plurality of choke trims. The plurality of choke trims comprises a plug and cage choke trim, an external sleeve choke trim, and a drilling choke trim, wherein the drilling choke trim is configured to enable a fluid flow rate greater than the plug and cage choke trim and the external sleeve choke trim, and wherein each of the plurality of choke trims is configured to be mutually exclusively secured within the choke valve body.
US11441384B2
This disclosure describes a device and method of sealing perforations on a well casing inside a subterranean well. The device comprises a generally cylindrical sleeve having an open top and a closed bottom; a heater located inside the sleeve, the heater comprising a thermite mixture; an ignition mechanism that ignites the thermite mixture upon actuation; and a string connected to the heater ignition and detachably engages the sleeve. The method comprises lowering a body of meltable plugging material into the well casing near the perforations; lowering the plugging device into the well casing immediately on top of the body of meltable plugging material; melting the meltable plugging material by igniting the thermite thereby transferring heat to the body of meltable plugging material; forcing the molten plugging material into the perforations by pushing the plugging tool further downhole; cooling the plugging tool and the plugging material until the plugging material solidifies; disengaging the tubing string from the sleeve and retrieving the tubing string with the heater; and removing the sleeve and bismuth remaining in the well casing, but not in the perforations.
US11441383B2
Disclosed herein are various embodiments of an Annular Pressure Control Diverter designed to be positioned below the conventional blowout preventer stack, and which will be activated during near balanced drilling operations to seal the annulus between the drill pipe and the production casing. Returned drilling fluid and produced fluids are diverted up the annulus between the production casing and intermediate casing and through a well head located below an all-inclusive BOP stack. The Annular Pressure Control Diverter does not rotate, and some embodiments have an elliptical internal cavity which ensures that the elliptical seals cannot rotate. Doors are provided on each side of the Annular Pressure Control Diverter to permit changing of the seal elements. Door locking mechanisms are provided for operator safety.
US11441375B2
The embodiments include methods and tools to activate downhole apparatuses. In one embodiment, a hydrostatic pressure intensifier includes a housing having at least two different internal cross-sectional surface areas. The housing includes a device mounted on the housing and operable to actuate in response to being subject to a threshold amount of pressure. The housing also includes a first piston housed in a first chamber of the housing, where the first piston has a first cross-sectional area and a first stroke length, and a second piston housed in a second chamber of the housing, where the second piston has a second cross-sectional area and a second stroke length, and where the first cross-sectional area is greater than the second cross-sectional area. The hydrostatic pressure intensifier also includes a fluid flow restrictor that restricts fluid flow through the valve to control an amount of pressure applied by the first piston.
US11441368B2
Techniques for improving a drilling fluid flow rate of a drilling fluid degasser by splitting the flow of the drilling fluid (e.g., drilling mud) are provided. An exemplary apparatus for degassing drilling fluid generally includes a pressure vessel; a vacuum blower in fluid communication with the pressure vessel; a slotted centrifuge tube having a cross-sectional area; a motor configured to power the vacuum blower and rotate the slotted centrifuge tube; an evacuation pump having an impeller connected with a lower end of the slotted centrifuge tube; and an inlet pipe spaced a distance away from the lower end of the slotted centrifuge tube, wherein the distance is based on a relationship between a cross-sectional area of the inlet pipe and the cross-sectional area of the slotted centrifuge tube.
US11441363B2
Systems and methods for installing and removing a downhole electric tool in a well, independent of an upper completion in the well. A connector on the interior of a tubular structure (e.g., production tubing or casing) serves as an electrical socket for the tool. This connector is coupled to electrical cables which run from the connector to the surface. The tool, which is raised and lowered on a wireline, slick line or coiled tubing, is plugged into this connector so the tool can be pulled from the socket using the wireline/slick line/coiled tubing and removed from the well without having to remove the tubular structure or other parts of the completion. A replacement tool can then be lowered into the tubular structure and, when the tool lands on the connector, it engages the connector and couples the tool through the cabling to the surface equipment.
US11441361B2
A casing-tube cutter bit applicable to both-directional rotation and having high excavation performance is provided. A casing-tube cutter bit includes a mounting part constituted by two members facing each other at a predetermined interval, and an excavation part formed continuously with the mounting part and having a leading end at which a plurality of ultrahard chips are disposed at a predetermined interval, the excavation part includes a central part, and first and second tilt parts tilted on both sides of the central part, the first tilt part is formed in a first length at a first tilt angle, the second tilt part is formed in a second length at a second tilt angle, the first tilt angle is equal to the second tilt angle, and the first length is shorter than the second length.
US11441359B2
A forced separation device includes a transmission shaft, a main shaft, an electromagnetic transmission mechanism, a blasting separation mechanism and a pressure-resistant cabin. A pressing cover is fastened to the upper portion of the pressure-resistant cabin. The electromagnetic transmission mechanism is provided with a driving chuck and a driven chuck. The driving chuck is connected with the transmission shaft, the driven chuck is connected with the main shaft, the pressing cover is welded with the transmission shaft, and the driven chuck is welded with the lower portion of the pressure-resistant cabin. The blasting separation mechanism is provided with explosive packages and detonators. A plurality of explosive packages are distributed between the pressing cover and the top surface of the pressure-resistant cabin, and each explosive package is connected with the corresponding detonator respectively. The pressure-resistant cabin is further internally provided with a storage battery.
US11441358B2
A directional drilling system includes a housing and a motor positioned within the housing and operably coupled to a drill bit to rotate the drill bit. The system further includes a primary pad assembly comprising a primary pad and a primary actuator coupled to the primary pad to selectively extend from an exterior of the housing, and a backup pad assembly to back up the primary pad assembly, the backup pad assembly comprising a backup pad and a backup actuator coupled to the backup pad to selectively extend from the exterior of the housing.
US11441337B2
A vehicle latch assembly, including: a pawl pivotally mounted to the vehicle latch assembly; a claw pivotally mounted to the vehicle latch assembly; a switch cam lever; a first switch; a second switch, the switch cam lever has a first cam profile configured to engage the first switch and a second cam profile configured to engage the second switch, the first cam profile engaging the first switch; and wherein the second cam profile engages the second switch when the vehicle latch assembly is in a secondary position.
US11441331B2
Disclosed is a wireless power supply smart door lock, comprising: a wireless power transmission control device mounted on a door frame; the wireless power transmission control device comprises a first main control unit and a wireless power transmission coil, a first wireless power conversion unit, a first communication unit and a door body state detecting unit electrically connected to the first main control unit; the wireless power receiving control device comprises a second main control unit and a wireless power receiving coil, a second wireless power conversion unit, an energy storage unit and a second communication unit electrically connected to the second main control unit; the first main control unit detects the acquired door opening or closing state information and the energy storage unit electric quantity information obtained by the communication interaction in real time according to the door body state detecting unit, and determines whether to trigger the wireless power transmission coil to transmit electric energy to the wireless power receiving coil to charge the energy storage unit. The energy storage unit in the lock body can be charged when the door body is closed, and the energy storage unit is always fully charged to ensure the normal operation of the lock body, which greatly improves the operation convenience of the smart lock.
US11441322B1
A wall lifting assembly includes a bracket which includes a lateral portion forming a right angle with a lower portion and forming a right angle with an upper portion. The lower portion is spaced from the upper portion to define a wall space for insertably receiving a top plate of a framed exterior wall. The bracket has an attachment point integrated and a lifting line can engage the attachment point. In this way the framed exterior wall can be lifted with the lifting line when the bracket is positioned on the framed exterior wall. A plurality of nuts is each of the nuts is coupled to the upper portion of the bracket. A plurality of bolts is each threadable through a respective one of the nuts when the top plate is positioned in the wall space to inhibit the top plate from sliding out of the wall space when the bracket is lifted.
US11441313B2
An enclosure assembly apparatus can include a plurality of elements that can be arranged to facilitate positioning of an enclosure in a work space such as a room or floor of an office building or other building. Embodiments can be configured to facilitate relatively quick and level positioning of such an enclosure. Embodiments of the enclosure assembled via use of at least one embodiment of the enclosure assembly apparatus can be define a room, a meeting space, a privacy booth, a meeting cubicle, or other type of enclosure or work space within the room or floor of a building.
US11441309B1
A wall panel includes a first and second planar skins and a core disposed therebetween. A first and second lateral edge extends between the skins. The second lateral edge comprises a female receiver. The first lateral edge comprises a male extension extending therefrom. The female receiver is formed in the core and has a depth equal to or greater than a length of the male extension. The male extension is formed from the core comprises a first parallel surface extending parallel to and offset from the first planar skin and a second parallel surface extending parallel to and offset from the second planar skin. A first tapered portion comprises a first tapered surface extending at an angle relative to a longitudinal axis from the first parallel surface to a rounded end, and a second tapered surface extending at the angle from the second parallel surface to the rounded end.
US11441303B2
The invention relates to a siphon arrangement (1) comprising a housing (2) with an inlet connection piece (3), an outlet connection piece (4), and a siphon seat (5) arranged between the inlet connection piece (3) and outlet connection piece (4), and a siphon element (6) arranged in the siphon seat (5), said siphon element having a siphon portion (7) and an inlet (8) facing towards the inlet connection piece (3) and an outlet (9) leading to the outlet connection piece (4). Water can be guided from the inlet connection piece (3) via the inlet (8) into the siphon portion (7) and from the outlet (9) to the outlet connection piece (4). The siphon element (6) is movable, in particular pivotable, in the housing (2) from a use position into a maintenance position, and when in the maintenance position can be removed, in particular pulled out, from the housing.
US11441300B2
A drain assembly for connection to a sanitary-appliance, comprising: a drain pipe having a pipe inlet and a pipe outlet and a valve arranged in a valve section of the drain pipe having a sealing face and a valve body, wherein the valve body can be moved away from the sealing face from a closed to an open position by an actuating element. Also included is an overflow pipe, which extends away from the drain tube from a first branch lying upstream of the valve seen in the direction of flow of the water to a second branch lying downstream of the valve seen in the direction of flow and thereby bridges the valve. The valve body is at least partially mounted on an insert element; the drain pipe has an insert receptacle; and the insert element can be inserted into the insert receptacle on the drain pipe.
US11441298B2
A sanitary insert unit that is fittable on the water outlet of a sanitary outlet fitting is provided, with a throughflow-quantity regulator unit which, in at least one annular throughflow channel, has at least one annular flow-restricting body of elastic material, which at least one flow-restricting body, between itself and an adjacent channel wall bearing a control profiling, bounds a control gap, the passage cross section of which is variable by the flow-restricting body deforming under the differential pressure forming during the flow therethrough. A jet regulator is arranged on the outflow side of the throughflow-quantity regulator unit and has a jet splitter which divides the water coming from the throughflow-quantity regulator unit into a multiplicity of individual jets. The jet splitter is designed as a perforated plate, and the projection of at least one of the throughflow channels is arranged in a perforation-free annular zone of the jet splitter.
US11441293B2
An adjustable ride control circuit and method that includes a head valve that controls flow between a boom cylinder head intake and an accumulator, and a rod float valve that controls flow between a boom cylinder rod intake and tank, where the rod float valve is electronically adjustable and proportionally controls flow restriction. A controller controls ride control activation, and adjustment of the head and rod float valves. When ride control is activated, the head valve allows flow between the head intake and the accumulator, and the controller automatically adjusts the rod float valve. When ride control is deactivated, the head valve blocks flow between the head intake and the accumulator, and the rod float valve blocks flow between the rod intake and tank. An enable valve can control positioning of the head valve. A flow selector can select manual or automatic adjustment of the rod float valve.
US11441291B2
This description provides an autonomous or semi-autonomous excavation vehicle that is capable of navigating through a dig site and carrying out an excavation routine using a system of sensors physically mounted to the excavation vehicle. The sensors collects any one or more of spatial, imaging, measurement, and location data representing the status of the excavation vehicle and its surrounding environment. Based on the collected data, the excavation vehicle executes instructions to carry out an excavation routine. The excavation vehicle is also able to carry out numerous other tasks, such as checking the volume of excavated earth in an excavation tool, and helping prepare a digital terrain model of the site as part of a process for creating the excavation routine.
US11441282B2
A portable snow and ice melting apparatus including a hopper with opposite side walls and opposite end walls, the side and end walls extending vertically from a base as to define an internal cavity, a first melting panel and a second melting panel positioned within the internal cavity, the second melting panel rotating between an open position and the closed position, a first heating element heating the first melting panel to an operating temperature and a second heating element heating the second melting panel to the operating temperature, the operating temperature sufficient to melt snow and ice deposited within the hopper.
US11441278B2
A breakaway pole including an elongated pole body extending between a bottom end and an upper end and a base connected to the bottom end of the elongated pole body. The base includes an interior flange having at least one slot. The breakaway pole includes a breakaway clamp mounted on the at least one slot of the interior flange of the base. The breakaway clamp includes a nut and a clamp body. The clamp body has a tapered main body and two lateral breakaway flanges. The lower portion of the tapered main body is positioned within the slot of the interior flange of the base. The two lateral breakaway flanges extend laterally outward from the upper portion of the tapered main body so that the two lateral breakaway flanges contact the interior flange of the base laterally beyond the at least one slot.
US11441277B2
The present disclosure relates to an LED active luminous traffic marking based on light-transmitting concrete and a construction method thereof. The luminous traffic marking includes a light-transmitting concrete layer and a light source layer that are arranged vertically, where the light-transmitting concrete layer includes a concrete base and a plurality of light-guide fibers embedded in the concrete base, the light source layer includes an integrated LED light source board and a packaging protective shell for packaging the integrated LED light source board, the packaging protective shell is a shell with anchoring hollow protrusions, and the packaging protective shell is anchored to the concrete base through the anchoring hollow protrusions. Compared with the prior art, the present disclosure improves the visibility, digitalization and intelligence level of road traffic markings, and has a broad application prospect.
US11441270B2
The invention relates to suction roll, which has in the space within its roll sleeve at least one transmitter, from which transmitter data is wirelessly transmitted to a receiver, which is also present in the space within the roll sleeve, and wherein the suction roll has at least one additional component to transfer data out of and/or into the suction roll.
US11441260B2
The present invention provides a sheet-like material in which a plant-derived raw material of low environmental impact is used. The invention also provides a sheet-like material that ideally has a uniform and refined nap and a sheet-like material that is strong, has excellent shape stability, is lightweight and is very pliable. This sheet-like material is characterized in being made of nonwoven fabric that is made of polyester microfiber containing a 1,2-propanediol-derived component in an amount prescribed in the present application and a polyurethane elastomer resin containing structural monomers prescribed in the present application. This sheet-like material is also made of a base sheet, in which a nonwoven fabric that has microfibers as the main component is laminated and unified with a woven or knitted material, and an elastomer resin, and is characterized in that the woven or knitted material is configured from fibers containing polyester as the main component and that 1-500 ppm of a 1,2-propanediol-derived component are contained in the polyester.
US11441257B2
The present disclosure relates to a clothes dryer capable of reducing pressure loss of air due to a lint removal device. The clothes dryer includes a case, a drum rotatably supported inside the case, an air supply port configured to guide air into the drum, an exhaust port configured to guide air inside the drum to the outside of the drum, an exhaust duct configured to guide air passed through the exhaust port to the air supply port, a connecting duct connecting the exhaust port and the exhaust duct, and a lint removal device configured to remove lint in the air passed through the exhaust port, wherein the lint removal device is disposed inside the exhaust duct and configured to communicate with the connecting duct.
US11441249B2
A method may include knitting a first portion of a knitted component on a first region of a knitting machine, knitting a second portion of the knitted component on a second region of the knitting machine, moving the first portion of the knitted component towards the second portion of the knitted component by moving a first needle bed of the knitting machine relative to a second needle bed of the knitting machine, and knitting at least one course with the knitting machine that connects the first portion of the knitted component to the second portion of the knitted component.
US11441242B2
The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a polyacetal fiber in which whiteness irregularity is improved. One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for manufacturing a polyacetal fiber, wherein the method includes a discharge step, a takeup step, a stretching step, and a winding step, the steps being continuously performed, an oxymethylene copolymer being used as the raw material of the polyacetal fiber, the oxymethylene copolymer having an oxymethylene unit and an oxyethylene unit, the content of the oxyethylene unit being 0.5-7.0 moles to 100 moles of the oxymethylene unit, the roller temperature of a stretching unit used in the stretching step being 130-155° C., and operation parameters of the method being set so as to satisfy a prescribed numerical formula.
US11441234B2
Provided herein are methods of performing liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) of III-V compounds and alloys at low pressures using pulsed nitrogen plasma to form an epitaxial layer e.g. on a substrate. The pulse sequence of plasma (with on and off time scales) enables LPE but avoids crust formation on top of molten metal. The concentration of nitrogen inside the molten metal is controlled to limit spontaneous nucleation.
US11441228B2
A thermal spray powder according to the present disclosure is a thermal spray powder which is used to form a thermal spray film having a characteristic of abradability, the thermal spray powder includes Ni alloy particles, solid lubricant particles, and aluminum flakes, the content of oxygen in the aluminum flakes is within a range of 0.29 mass % to 4.1 mass %, and the coverage of aluminum flakes on the surfaces of the Ni alloy particles is within a range of 60% to 100%.
US11441226B2
Described herein is an improved process for an anticorrosion pretreatment of a metallic surface including steel, galvanized steel, aluminum, magnesium and/or a zinc-magnesium alloy, wherein the metallic surface is brought into contact with an aqueous composition A including a) from 0.01 to 0.5 g/l of a copolymer and the metallic surface is brought into contact with an acidic aqueous composition B including b1) a compound selected from the group consisting of titanium, zirconium and hafnium compounds, wherein the metallic surface is brought into contact i) firstly with the composition A and then with the composition B, ii) firstly with the composition B and then with the composition A and/or iii) simultaneously with the composition A and the composition B. Also described herein is a corresponding aqueous composition A, an aqueous concentrate for producing this composition, a correspondingly coated metallic surface and a method of using a correspondingly coated metallic substrate.
US11441216B2
A method of forming a part from sheet metal alloy is provided, for example, forming a part from aluminium alloy. The method comprises heating (A) the sheet metal alloy to a temperature at which solution heat treatment of the alloy occurs and so as to achieve solution heat treatment. The sheet is cooled (B) at at least the critical cooling rate for the alloy and then placed between dies to form (C) it into or towards the part.
US11441210B2
A zinc-free gold alloy containing by weight between 37% and 38.5% of gold, between 4 and 32% of palladium and/or silver, between 25% and 54% of copper and between 0% and 10% of gallium. A timepiece or piece of jewellery or gemstone jewellery made of this alloy.
US11441201B2
A sucker rod steel, a heat treatment process therefor, and a manufacturing method comprising the heat treatment process are provided. The sucker rod steel comprises, in mass percent, the following chemical elements: C: 0.10˜0.20%, Si: 0.40˜0.80%, Mn: 0.20˜0.60%, Mo: 0.36˜0.46%, Cr: 6.15˜7.10%, Al: 0.015˜0.035%, Nb: 0.02˜0.06%, and N: 0.008˜0.015%, with the balance being Fe and other inevitable impurities. The microstructure of the sucker rod steel is tempered martensite and nanoscale precipitates. The grain size is higher than grade 10, the tensile strength is 920˜1320 Mpa, and the AKU2 impact energy is greater than or equal to 180 J.
US11441198B2
Compositions and methods are described that provide prognostic determination of the severity of influenza infection based on the PDE3A status of an individual. Impaired PDE3A function is associated with severe symptoms on contracting influenza. Specific SNP mutations are identified that are associated with impaired PDE3A function, and primers and kits are provided that permit identification of these SNPs. Such information can also be combined with other patient data.
US11441190B2
Provided are compositions and methods for the identification and treatment of ovarian cancers, such as small cell ovarian cancers, in particular small cell carcinoma of the ovary, hypercalcemic type (SCCOHT), which ovarian cancers are characterized by reduced SMARCA4 gene expression and/or protein function and, as a consequence, are sensitive to growth and/or survival inhibition by one or more compounds that restore SMARCA4 gene expression and/or protein function.
US11441182B2
Disclosed herein is a simple, sensitive, and fully-recyclable fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based multiplex detection platform that overcomes current requirements of complex labeling schemes and complicated data analysis algorithms for employing single-molecule FRET (smFRET) microscopy in multiplexing. While conventional smFRET detection techniques allow for the analysis of one target at a time, the disclosed approach utilizes the gaps between high- and low-FRET signals to provide simultaneous detection and quantification of multiple nucleic acid targets.
US11441176B2
The invention relates to control compositions for a quantitative polymerase chain reaction. More particularly, the invention relates to control compositions for a quantitative polymerase chain reaction having at least one barcode sequence fragment and at least a first and a second primer binding site fragment, and to methods of their use.
US11441174B2
This disclosure provides methods and kits useful in analysis of mixed nucleic acid populations, including for multiplex genotyping of a mixed nucleic acid sample and for detecting differences in copy number of a target polynucleotide and/or a target chromosome (e.g., microdeletions, duplications and aneuploidies). The disclosure also provides methods and systems useful in the diagnosis of genetic abnormalities in a mixed nucleic acid population taken non-invasively from an organism, such as a sample of blood, plasma, serum, urine stool or saliva. The disclosed methods and systems find use in multiple applications, including prenatal testing and cancer diagnostics. The method is based on the hybridisation of amplified fragments obtained from the sample, e.g. using molecular inversion probes (MIP) to an oligonucleotide array and the detection of the alleles based on different signals from the different alleles of the SNP.
US11441172B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for making a hydrogel comprising a cell, cell nucleus, or one or more components derived from a cell or cell nucleus. A method for making a hydrogel may comprise providing a cell or cell nucleus, a first polymer, wherein the first polymer comprises a plurality of first crosslink precursors, each of the plurality of first crosslink precursors comprising an azide group; providing a second polymer, wherein the second polymer comprises a plurality of second crosslink precursors, each of the plurality of second crosslink precursors comprising an alkyne group; and crosslinking the first polymer and the second polymer via a reaction between a first section of the first crosslink precursors and a second section of the second crosslink precursors, thereby providing the hydrogel comprising the cell or cell nucleus.
US11441167B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) as a reporter assay for rapid and simultaneous bacterial identification and phenotype testing for antimicrobial susceptibility (AST). The current invention uses a strategy that has shown the ability for multiplexing and for handling polymicrobial samples for antimicrobial susceptibility testing.
US11441166B2
Devices, systems, and compositions of matter involving enzyme-mediated bioelectrocatalysis are disclosed and described. An enzyme electrode can include an electrode, a bioelectric material coupled to the electrode, the bioelectric material further including a water-permeable polymer matrix, a planar linker covalently coupled to the water-permeable polymer matrix and noncovalently coupled to the electrode, and electrochemically active oxidoreductase enzyme molecules functionally embedded in the water-permeable polymer matrix.
US11441161B2
Provided is a method of producing a mixture of pure feedstock-based native polyphenols from a feedstock. Contaminant polyphenols are first removed from an enzyme solution for converting feedstock to a product to produce a polyphenol reduced enzyme solution. The polyphenol reduced enzyme solution is combined with the feedstock and the feedstock is converted to a product and by-product. Heretofore, there has been no process available to reduce or remove the contaminant phenols introduced to the feedstock by commercial enzyme solutions. This method allows for the removal of contaminant phenols prior to introduction to the processing stream and subsequent harvesting of pure feedstock 6 based native polyphenols. The pure feedstock-based polyphenols are removed from the product or by-product to produce a pure mixture of feedstock-based polyphenols.
US11441158B1
Transgenic resistance to cotton leaf curl disease using small hairpin RNA to induce RNA interference
The present invention relates to the control of pest infestation by inhibiting or reducing the expression of certain genes implicated in cotton leaf curl virus disease (CLCuD), by simultaneously targeting viral RNA involved in viral replication and movement. More specifically, the invention relates to a method for substantially simultaneously targeting the AC1 gene of a begomovirus and (2) the betasatellite and non-coding region. Strategies using small hairpin RNA (shRNA) constructs are described herein to achieve viral-mediated gene silencing, and an exemplary embodiment is disclosed, for targeting the replication-associated protein gene (AC1) and non-coding region found in numerous species and strains of the cotton leaf curl disease begomovirus complex, and a coding and adjacent non-coding region of the associated betasatellites. The constructs of the invention reduce or prevent replication of the disease-associated virus, and reduce or prevent the ability of a virus to suppress the defenses of the host plant. In an embodiment of the invention, a small interfering RNA construct referred to herein as an shRNA is disclosed. Also disclosed are transgenic cotton plants that are resistant to leaf curl virus disease.
US11441155B2
The invention provides transgenic maize event MON 87427 and plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, and commodity products derived from event MON 87427. The invention also provides nucleotides specific for transgenic maize event MON 87427 and plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, and commodity products comprising nucleotides specific for transgenic maize event MON 87427. The invention also provides methods related to transgenic maize event MON 87427 and to the Roundup® Hybridization System (RHS). The invention also provides a Relative Development Scale useful for monitoring and determining reproductive development in maize that reconciles developmental differences across various maize varieties. This is useful for determining the optimal timing of a treatment regimen in which tassel development stage is an important factor, including various methods in making hybrid seed.
US11441154B2
The present invention refers to a method for controlling undesired vegetation at a plant cultivation site, the method comprising the steps of providing, at said site, a plant that comprises at least one nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type or a mutated protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) which is resistant or tolerant to a PPO-inhibiting herbicide by applying to said site an effective amount of said herbicide. The invention further refers to plants comprising wild-type or mutated PPO enzymes, and methods of obtaining such plants.
US11441146B2
The invention relates to the unexpected discovery of a system and methods for precise homology directed repair after CRISPR/Cas9 cleavage. The invention includes a DNA cleavage and repair system comprising a CRISPR/Cas9 system and an oligonucleotide 100% complementary to cleaved DNA to promote homology directed DNA repair. The invention further includes methods for inducing homology directed repair of cleaved DNA and repairing a CRISPR/Cas9 cleavage.
US11441145B2
The present disclosure relates to nucleic acid extraction and purification methods and devices to accomplish the same.
US11441137B2
Provided are compositions and methods that include one or more of: (1) a “CasZ” protein (also referred to as a CasZ polypeptide), a nucleic acid encoding the CasZ protein, and/or a modified host cell comprising the CasZ protein (and/or a nucleic acid encoding the same); (2) a CasZ guide RNA that binds to and provides sequence specificity to the CasZ protein, a nucleic acid encoding the CasZ guide RNA, and/or a modified host cell comprising the CasZ guide RNA (and/or a nucleic acid encoding the same); and (3) a CasZ transactivating noncoding RNA (trancRNA) (referred to herein as a “CasZ trancRNA”), a nucleic acid encoding the CasZ trancRNA, and/or a modified host cell comprising the CasZ trancRNA (and/or a nucleic acid encoding the same).
US11441134B2
The present invention related to lipase variants having lipase activity and having between 60% to less than 100% sequence identity to a parent lipase or a fragment thereof, wherein the variant comprises one or more substitutions selected from H198A/D/E/F/G/I/L/N/Q/S/T/V/Y, F7H/K/R, F51A/I/L/V/Y, T143A/G/S/V, A150G/V, N200H/K/Q/R, I202G/LN, S224C/F/H/I/L/P/Y, L227D/E/K/R, V228P, P229H/K/R, V230H/K/L/R, I255A/G/N/P/S/T/V/Y, P256A/K/N/Q/R/S/T/W, A257F/H/I/L/V/Y, L259F/Y, and W260D/E/F/H/I/L/N/Q/S/T/Y using SEQ ID NO:10 for position numbering or selected from H198A/D/E/F/G/I/L/N/Q/S/T/V/Y, F7H/K/R, F51A/I/L/V/Y, T143A/G/S/V, A150G/V, N200H/K/Q/R, I202G/L/V, S224C/F/H/I/L/P/Y, L227D/E/K/R, V228P, P229H/K/R, V230H/K/L/R, I255A/G/N/P/S/T/V/Y, T256A/K/N/Q/R/S/P/W, A257F/H/I/L/V/Y, L259F/Y, and W260D/E/F/H/I/L/N/Q/S/T/Y using SEQ ID NO:2 for position numbering. Further the invention relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; to compositions comprising the variants as well as methods of producing and using the variants.
US11441117B2
Genetically modified microorganisms useful in fermentation and methods of using such microorganisms are provided. Such microorganisms contain a [GAR+] prion or are modified to contain a [GAR+] prion. Exemplary microorganisms include yeast such as S. cerevisiae. The microorganisms can be further modified to convert xylose and/or arabinose. Methods of fermentation using such microorganisms exhibit improved fermentation efficiency and improved microorganism viability.
US11441113B2
A cell treatment system includes an analysis unit to calculate the area or size of each of cell aggregates existing on the cell culture vessel based on an image; a display device to show the area or size of each of the cell aggregates on a display; a laser irradiator to emit laser toward the cell culture vessel so as to kill cells existing on the cell culture vessel; an input device to receive an operation input designating cells to be killed with irradiation of the laser or cells to survive without the irradiation of the laser among the cells existing on the cell culture vessel, or an operation input designating a position to be irradiated with the laser or a position not to be irradiated with the laser on the cell culture vessel; and a control unit to control a position irradiated with the laser.
US11441100B2
An in-vitro opacified and structured detergent composition includes a surfactant component present in an amount of about 7 to about 50 weight percent actives and including (1) an alcohol ethoxy sulfate having a C8-C20 backbone that is ethoxylated with from about 1 to about 10 moles of ethylene oxide, (2) at least one non-ionic surfactant comprising an alkoxylated alcohol, and (3) at least one anionic surfactant comprising a linear alkylbenzene sulfonate. The detergent composition also includes water present in a total amount of from about 30 to about 90 weight percent, free fatty acids in a total amount from about 1 to 15 weight percent, a magnesium cation in a total amount of from 0.05 to 1 weight percent, and colloidal particles such as encapsulated fragrances. The composition has a yield point value of at least 0.075 Pa at 20° C.
US11441093B2
An aspect of the present invention relates to a lubricant composition containing at least: (A) 50 to 80 mass % of silicone oil represented by formula (1) below, and having a mass-average molecular weight of 900 to 4000, a ratio (C/Si ratio) of carbon to silicon of 3.03 or higher in the structure, and a viscosity index (VI) of 300 or higher; (B) 10 to 49 mass % of hydrocarbon-based lubricant; and (C) 1 to 10 mass % of antioxidant.
US11441089B2
Distillate boiling range and/or diesel boiling range compositions are provided that are formed from crude oils with unexpected combinations of high naphthenes to aromatics weight and/or volume ratio and a low sulfur content. This unexpected combination of properties is characteristic of crude oils that can be fractionated to form distillate/diesel boiling range compositions that can be used as fuels/fuel blending products with reduced or minimized processing. The resulting distillate boiling range fractions and/or diesel boiling range fractions can have an unexpected combination of a high naphthenes to aromatics weight and/or volume ratio, a low but substantial aromatics content, and a low sulfur content. By reducing, minimizing, or avoiding the amount of hydroprocessing needed to meet fuel and/or fuel blending product specifications, the fractions derived from the high naphthenes to aromatics ratio and low sulfur crudes can provide fuels and/or fuel blending products having a reduced or minimized carbon intensity.
US11441087B2
A gas purification device removes a part of ammonia contained in a first gas; recovers a first off-gas containing the removed ammonia, removes hydrogen sulfide and ammonia from a second gas produced by removing the part of ammonia, recovers a second off-gas containing the removed hydrogen sulfide and ammonia, and combusts the first off-gas and the second off-gas. The gas purification device includes: a first combustion chamber in which combustion is performed in a reducing atmosphere; a second combustion chamber in which combustion is performed in a reducing atmosphere downstream of the first combustion chamber; and a third combustion chamber in which combustion is performed in an oxidizing atmosphere downstream of the second combustion chamber. The first off-gas flows into the first combustion chamber and the second off-gas flows into the third combustion chamber.
US11441086B2
For the shipping industry, these fuels provide solutions to long outstanding technical problems that heretofore hindered supply of low sulfur marine fuels in quantities needed to meet worldwide sulfur reduction goals. Marine shipping use of high sulfur bunker oils is reported as largest source of worldwide transportation SOx emissions. When ships on the open seas burn cheap low grade heavy bunker oils high in sulfur, nitrogen and metals, the SOx, NOx, and metal oxides go to the environment. This invention converts essentially all of each barrel of crude feed to a single ultraclean fuel versus conventional refining where crude feed is cut into many pieces, and each piece is sent down a separate market path meeting various different product specifications. When in port, ships can use these fuels to generate and sell electricity to land based electrical grids to offset fuel cost in an environment-friendly manner.
US11441081B2
The present application generally relates to the introduction of a renewable fuel oil as a feedstock into refinery systems or field upgrading equipment. For example, the present application is directed to methods of introducing a liquid thermally produced from biomass into a petroleum conversion unit; for example, a refinery fluid catalytic cracker (FCC), a coker, a field upgrader system, a hydrocracker, and/or hydrotreating unit; for co-processing with petroleum fractions, petroleum fraction reactants, and/or petroleum fraction feedstocks and the products, e.g., fuels, and uses and value of the products resulting therefrom.
US11441079B2
Methods and systems for constructing a refractory wall structure having gas flue spaces are provided. In certain embodiments, a first course of the wall structure may be constructed by installing opposing refractory side wall panels that are separated by a distance which defines a widthwise dimension of the wall structure and an interior wall space therebetween. The side wall panels may include multiple sets of finger forms defining a joint space (e.g., a dovetail joint space), whereby the finger forms protrude inwardly into the interior wall space such that the sets of finger forms of one side panel are oppositely positioned relative to the sets of finger forms of an opposed side wall panel. Thereafter, a series of rigid refractory bridge components may be installed between respective oppositely positioned sets of the finger forms of the opposed wall panels so that a portion of the refractory bridge components is received with the joint space of the finger forms to thereby establish the flue spaces between longitudinally adjacent ones of the bridge components.
US11441075B2
A liquid crystal alignment agent composition for producing a liquid crystal alignment film having enhanced alignment property and stability and a high voltage holding ratio, a method of producing a liquid crystal alignment film using the same, and a liquid crystal alignment film and a liquid crystal display device using the same, are provided.
US11441070B2
A red-emitting phosphor comprising an Eu2+ doped nitridoaluminate phosphor is provided. The red emitting phosphor comprises an emission maximum in the range of 610 to 640 nm of the electromagnetic spectrum.
US11441059B2
To provide a propellant which has sufficient propelling performance and of which a component to be sprayed imposes low environmental burden, a propellant composition and a sprayer. A propellant composition comprising a propellant containing 1-chloro-2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and a pressurizing agent, and a sprayer comprising the propellant composition, a container in which the propellant composition is contained, and a spray unit to spray the propellant composition to the outside of the container.
US11441049B2
Zwitterionic carboxybetaine copolymers and their use in coatings to impart non-fouling and functionality to surfaces, particularly surfaces of blood-contacting medical devices.
US11441045B2
An ink composition for inkjet printing organic light-emitting diodes and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The ink composition includes 0.01-40% of bipolar light emission component, 10-99.9% of solvent, 0.01-5% of surface tension modifier, and 0.01-5% of viscosity modifier by weight. The method of manufacturing the ink composition includes steps of: dispersing the bipolar light emission component in the solvent firstly, and then adding the viscosity modifier and the surface tension modifier under stirring, so as to obtain the ink composition. By using the ink composition, specific hole and electron transport layers provided in the organic light-emitting diode manufactured by inkjet printing may be omitted, thereby simplifying the structure of the organic light-emitting diode. Moreover, the ink composition has suitable viscosity, surface tension, and volatility.
US11441040B2
The present disclosure is drawn to an electronic device housing that can include a heat sensitive coating and a second heat sensitive coating applied to an electronic device housing. The heat sensitive coating or portion thereof can include a thermochromatic colorant having a color-changing activation temperature, and the second heat sensitive coating or portion thereof can include a second thermochromatic colorant having a second color-changing activation temperature. The color-changing activation temperature can be a temperature from 30° C. to about 100° C., and the second color-changing activation temperature can be at least 5° C. greater than the color-changing activation temperature.
US11441037B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing a surface treated filler material product with mono-substituted succinic anhydride(s) and a mixture of aliphatic linear or branched carboxylic acids comprising stearic acid, a surface treated filler material product, a polymer composition, a fiber and/or filament and/or film and/or thread and/or sheet and/or pipe and/or profile and/or mold and/or, injection molds and/or blow mold comprising the surface treated filler material product and/or the polymer composition, an article comprising the surface treated filler material product and/or the polymer composition and/or the fiber and/or filament and/or film and/or thread and/or sheet and/or pipe and/or profile and/or mold and/or injection mold and/or blow mold as well as the use of at least one mono-substituted succinic anhydride and/or salty reaction product(s) thereof in combination with a mixture of aliphatic linear or branched carboxylic acids comprising stearic acid and/or salty reaction product(s) thereof, for improving the flowability of a surface treated filler material product and for improving the dispersion of the calcium carbonate in the polymer matrix of a polymer composition.
US11441031B2
A thermoplastic resin composition contains 10 to 90% by mass of (A) thermoplastic resin; 1 to 20% by mass of (B) laser direct structuring additive; and 0.3 to 7.0% by mass of (D) graphite, a total of the ingredient (A), the ingredient (B) and the ingredient (D) being always kept at 100% by mass or below, and a ratio by mass given by ingredient (B)/ingredient (D) being 1.0 to 20.
US11441026B2
Provided is polymer particle comprising (a) 40% to 85% by weight, based on the dry weight of the polymer particle, a core polymer having Tg of −35° C. or lower; (b) 15% to 50% by weight, based on the dry weight of the polymer particle, an intermediate polymer having Tg that is 20° C. or lower and that is higher than the Tg of the core polymer by 10° C. or more; (c) 5% to 30% by weight, based on the dry weight of the polymer particle, a shell polymer having Tg of 50° C. or higher; wherein the shell polymer comprises polymerized units of all vinyl aromatic monomers in an amount of 1% or less, by weight based on the weight of the shell polymer.
US11441018B2
The present invention is directed to a pneumatic tire comprising a vulcanizable rubber composition, the vulcanization rubber composition comprising: 1) 100 parts by weight of elastomer consisting of 25 to 35 phr of a styrene-butadiene rubber, 25 to 35 phr of a polybutadiene, and 35 to 45 phr of a natural rubber or synthetic polyisoprene, wherein the styrene-butadiene rubber is a functionalized solution polymerized styrene-butadiene elastomer having a glass transition temperature Tg(A) ranging from −30 to −10° C. and having at least one functional group; the natural rubber or synthetic polyisoprene has a Tg(B) ranging from −60 to −70° C.; and the polybutadiene is a cis 1,4 polybutadiene having a Tg(C) ranging from −110 to −90° C., wherein Tg(A)−Tg(B)≥25° C., and Tg(B)−Tg(C)≥25° C.; 2) 60 to 80 phr of a prehydrophobated silica; 3) 1 to 10 phr of carbon black; 4) 1 to 3 phr of rubber processing oil; and 5) 5 to 25 phr of at least one hydrocarbon resin having a Tg≥20° C., wherein the weight ratio of hydrocarbon resin to rubber processing oil is greater than 8.
US11441013B2
The present disclosure relates a method to adjust the amount of elongation required to effect a color change in a polymer stretch film. A first aspect of the invention is a method which method comprises selecting a polyolefin resin having a given density; admixing a given amount of the AIE mechanochromic dye into a melt of the polyolefin resin; making a film of a desired thickness from the polyolefin resin containing the mechanochromic dye; determining the level of elongation needed to effect a color change in the resulting film; and adjusting the density of the polyolefin resin to change the level of elongation needed to effect the color change to the desired level.
US11441012B2
A method of stabilizing radical ethylene copolymerization reactions for approximately 5 to 10 minutes, the method including using a phenolic compound with other comonomers and performing the radical ethylene copolymerization reactions at high pressure. Also, a method of preparing an ethylene copolymer at high pressure in the presence of one or more phenolic compounds, as defined below, and one or more initiators.
US11441002B2
A free standing dispersant film is provided, including: a partially hydrolyzed polyvinyl acetate; a poly(ethylene oxide); a polyalkylene glycol; a plasticizer; a dispersant polymer; optionally, a poly(isobutylene-co-maleic anhydride) copolymer, wherein the poly(isobutylene-co-maleic anhydride) copolymer is at least partially neutralized; and optionally, an optional additive.
US11440996B2
A preparation method of a polyphenylene sulfide resin, and a polyphenylene sulfide resin prepared by the method using a sulfur-containing compound, an alkaline substance and p-dichlorobenzene as raw materials, a fatty acid as a polycondensation aid to carry out a polycondensation reaction. After purification treatment, a primary polyphenylene sulfide is obtained, which then reacts with a terminal-group adjusting agent at a high temperature to generate the polyphenylene sulfide resin resulting in high yield and low cost. The prepared polyphenylene sulfide resin has high reactivity, high melting crystallization temperature and excellent thermal stability. The resulting polyphenylene sulfide resin can be directly used for extrusion and injection molding.
US11440994B2
A dual-cure method for forming a solid polymeric structure is provided. An end-capped, imide-terminated prepolymer is combined with at least one photopolymerizable olefinic monomer, at least one photoinitiator, and a diamine, to form a curable resin composition, which, in a first step, is irradiated under conditions effective to polymerize the at least one olefinic monomer, thus forming a scaffold composed of the prepolymer and the polyolefin with the diamine trapped therein. The irradiated composition is then thermally treated at a temperature effective to cause a transimidization reaction to occur between the prepolymer and the diamine, thereby releasing the end caps of the prepolymer and providing the solid polymeric structure. A curable resin composition comprising an end-capped, imide-terminated prepolymer, at least one photopolymerizable olefinic monomer, at least one photoinitiator, and a diamine, is also provided, as are related methods of use.
US11440989B2
Application of a Mannich base in a flame-retardant polyurethane material is provided. The Mannich base has a structure represented by a formula (I). In the Mannich base, flame-retardant groups, i.e., halogens are introduced at the second, fourth and sixth positions of a phenyl group, and flame-retardant elements, i.e., halogens and nitrogen are introduced into synthesized polyether polyol, giving the synthesized polyether polyol good flame retardance. The amount of active hydrogen in the Mannich base is small so that occurrence of side reactions during the synthesis of the polyether polyol is reduced, and the viscosity of the flame-retardant polyether polyol is lowered. Due to autocatalytic performance of tertiary amido in the flame-retardant polyether polyol, use of a catalyst can be reduced and even avoided during the synthesis. A preparation method of the Mannich base is also provided.
US11440988B2
The present invention provides a reaction mixture comprising a blend of a first isocyanate-based uretdione-containing resin and a second isocyanate-based uretdione-containing resin, a neutralized polyol and a tertiary amine catalyst, and optionally, an additive package selected from the group consisting of flow control additives, pigments (colorants), wetting agents, and solvents, wherein the first isocyanate and the second isocyanate are different. The first isocyanate-based uretdione-containing resin and the second isocyanate-based uretdione-containing resin may be cold blended or hot blended. Coatings, adhesives, castings, composites, and sealants made from hot blended formulations exhibit superior performance over those made from cold blended formulations.
US11440977B2
A latex processing system and method involves mixing a latex and at least one solvent blend in an extruder, in order to remove resin found in the latex and to coagulate the latex to form a coagulum. The at least one solvent blend has a first solvent configured to coagulate the latex, and a second solvent configured to swell the resulting coagulum. In particular, a series of the solvent blends may be used at different locations along a length of the extruder, and may further include distinct blends of the first solvent and the second solvent, introduced at the different locations, and having different ratios of the first solvent and the second solvent.
US11440965B2
Provided is an isolated antibody or antigen binding fragment thereof. The isolated antibody or antigen binding fragment thereof can be used to prepare a medicament for treating tumors.
US11440959B2
The present invention relates to anti-human CD226 agonist antibodies, which can be useful for treating solid tumor cancers.
US11440957B2
The present disclosure is generally directed to compositions that include antibodies, e.g., monoclonal antibodies, antibody fragments, etc., that specifically bind a TMEM106B polypeptide, e.g., a mammalian TMEM106B or human TMEM106B, and use of such compositions in preventing, reducing risk, or treating an individual in need thereof.
US11440953B2
Antibodies that bind human beta-amyloid peptide, methods of detecting, measuring and treating amyloidogenic disorders with said antibodies, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antibodies and methods of manufacture are provided.
US11440948B2
This application relates generally to the production of modified, non-natural α1-α2 domains of NKG2D ligands with attached polypeptides having specific target-binding properties, for example, antibodies or variable fragments of antibodies, that are selectively delivered to Chimeric Antigen Receptors (CARs) comprised of modified, non-natural NKG2D receptors on engineered mammalian cells. The targeting of surface-expressed molecules includes those of virus-infected cells that can then be attacked and ablated by engineered cells of the immunity system expressing CARs cognate to the modified, non-natural α1-α2 domains of NKG2D ligands with attached polypeptides.
US11440943B2
The present invention relates, in part, to chimeric proteins or chimeric protein complexes, such as Fc-based chimeric protein complexes, comprising interferon alpha 1, or a variant thereof, and their use as therapeutic agents.
US11440938B2
This invention relates to a macrostructure that includes an antiparallel coiled-coil structure or a parallel coiled-coil structure.
US11440931B2
Provided are a series of crocins compounds and related pharmacological applications thereof in prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease. The series of crocins compounds are obtained by taking the Chinese herb, namely Gardenia jasminoides Ellis, as a raw material and separating same by means of various methods. The compounds playing a role in preventing oxidative injury caused by hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and excitatory amino acid injury caused by L-glutamic acid are screened out by in-vitro cell experiments. The results show that the crocins compounds have good effect in preventing cell injury caused by H2O2 and L-glutamic acid. The compounds have good effect in preventing and treating Alzheimer's disease due to the fact that significant rise of oxidative stress and excitatory amino acid is a key factor for nerve injury in Alzheimer's disease, and have broad development and application prospect.
US11440922B2
This invention relates to compounds of formula (I) and their use as allosteric modulators of mGluR5 receptor activity, pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, and methods of using the same as agents for the treatment and/or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders associated with glutamate dysfunction, such as schizophrenia or cognitive decline, dementia or cognitive impairment, or other pathologies that can be related directly or indirectly to glutamate dysfunction.
US11440918B2
Disclosed herein are p38α mitogen-activated protein kinase inhibitors, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and therapeutic methods of using the p38α mitogen-activated protein kinase inhibitors.
US11440917B2
The present invention provides synthesis, pharmaceutically acceptable formulations and uses of compounds in accordance with Formula I, or a stereoisomer, tautomer or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. For Formula I compounds X, Y, R1, R2, R3a, R3b, R4a, R4b and R5 are as defined in the specification. The inventive Formula I compounds are inhibitors of eIF4A and find utility in any number of therapeutic applications, including but not limited to treatment of inflammation and various cancers.
US11440901B2
The present disclosure relates to compounds of Formula (1) as useful materials for OLEDs. A is CN, cyanoaryl, or heteroaryl having at least one nitrogen atom as a ring-constituting atom; and D1, D2 and D3 are diarylamino or carbazolyl.
US11440898B2
The application is directed to compounds of formula (I):(I), and formula (IA):(IA) and their salts and solvates, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, n, A1, A2, A3, and Y are as set forth in the specification, as well as to a method for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same, and use thereof for the treatment and/or prevention of conditions associated with the alteration of the activity of β-galactosidase, specially galactosidase beta-1 or GLB 1, including GM 1 gangliosidoses and Morquio syndrome, type B.
US11440895B2
Disclosed herein is a very efficient method to make 5-(alkoxycarbonyl)furan-2-carboxylic acids (ACFC) from feedstocks comprised of furoates. When a feedstock comprised of methyl 5-methylfuran-2-carboxylate (MMFC) is used a product comprised of (5-(methoxycarbonyl)furan-2-carboxylic acid (MCFC) is obtained in high yield.
US11440877B2
The present invention is directed to novel silane disulfide vegetable oils, a method of making the oils, their use in rubber compositions, and their use in tires.
US11440872B2
The present invention relates to a carbonic acid adduct (CAA) comprising carbonic acid, at least one amine, and optionally at least one salt, said adduct being producible by a method comprising the following steps: a) providing a solution (A) comprising dissolved CO2; optionally b) dissolving a base (BA) not corresponding to the amine (AM) in the solution (A) so as to obtain the solution (A1); c) dissolving the at least one amine (AM) in the solution (A) or (A1) so as to obtain the solution (B); d) freezing the solution obtained after completion of step c); and e) storing the solution frozen in step d) at −100 to 0° C. for no longer than 4 days. The content of CO2 in the solution that is subjected to step c) is at least 6 g/l. The invention also relates to a method for producing the carbonic acid adduct (CAA), a pharmaceutical preparation (PP) comprising the carbonic acid adduct (CAA), and methods for the production thereof and use of the carbonic acid adduct (CAA) or the pharmaceutical preparation (PP) in therapy for a range of indications.
US11440866B2
The present disclosure is directed to methods and systems of purifying solvents. The purified solvents can be used, e.g., as pre-wet liquids, solution developers, and cleaners in a multistep semiconductor manufacturing process.
US11440846B2
A solution for forming an insulation coating of grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes an aqueous solution prepared by mixing a phosphate solution and colloidal silica. Chromium is not added to the aqueous solution. The colloidal silica includes silica particles surface-modified by an aluminate or is prepared by adding an aluminate to colloidal silica such as conventional colloidal silica.
US11440840B2
A light irradiation device includes a first reflective portion that is arranged at a concave inner surface formed so as to have a substantially arcuate shape and that permits wire-like member to be inserted into an interior thereof, at least one light-emitting portion that emits light in such fashion as to be directed toward the wire-like member from a direction which is circumferential with respect to the wire-like member, and a second reflective portion that is formed in planar fashion, at least a portion of the second reflective portion is arranged between an end of the first reflective portion and an end of the light-emitting portion in a direction circumferential with respect to the first reflective portion.
US11440836B2
A glass composition with high Young's modulus and low density. The glass composition includes the following components by mole percentage: 52-70% of SiO2, 5-10% of B2O3, 5-15% of Al2O3, 8-20% of CaO and 5-18% of MgO. The glass composition uses common chemical raw materials. By reasonably designing the contents of each component, the glass composition has high Young's modulus, low density, good heat resistance and chemical stability, relatively low high-temperature viscosity, and low raw material cost. The glass composition is easy to eliminate stripes and bubbles during manufacturing, and is suitable for hard disk substrate manufacturing other fields that need high Young's modulus materials.
US11440831B2
A conveying apparatus can comprise one or more support members defining an interior passage and a first plurality of apertures. A first cross-sectional area of the interior passage at a first end portion of a support area can be greater than a second cross-sectional area of the interior passage at a second end portion of the support area. A tube can extend within the interior passage and comprises a second plurality of apertures. Methods are also provided for conveying a ribbon with one or more support members.
US11440826B2
A process for purifying washing waters of a production plant of the cosmetics sector includes subjecting the washing waters to an ultrafiltration treatment that produces an ultrafiltration concentrate and ultrafiltration water, and subjecting ultrafiltration water to a biological treatment with separation of sludges to be disposed of or further treated and treated water to be disposed of or to undergo subsequent treatments.
US11440824B2
An apparatus for inhibiting formation of calcium based crystal, in which formation of calcium based crystals is inhibited by adding an optimal amount of magnesium to raw water having a high concentration of calcium ions and a high variation in calcium ion concentration and an apparatus for water treatment using the same.
US11440823B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing PHA, which is capable of suppressing the cost of overall production equipment including a waste water treatment process in production of PHA using microorganisms. Provided is a method including: a production step of purifying or molding polyhydroxyalkanoic acid biosynthesized in bacterial cells of a microorganism; a discharge step of discharging waste water containing nitrogen-containing impurities from the production step; and a nitrogen removal step of biologically treating the waste water to remove the nitrogen-containing impurities from the waste water. In the method, the residual ratio of the polyhydroxyalkanoic acid in the production step is 99% by weight or less, and the waste water that is biologically treated in the nitrogen removal step contains the polyhydroxyalkanoic acid in addition to the nitrogen-containing impurities.
US11440814B2
A system for receiving, transferring, and storing solar thermal energy. The system includes a concentrating solar energy collector, a transfer conduit, a thermal storage material, and an insulated container. The insulated container contains the thermal storage material, and the transfer conduit is configured to transfer solar energy collected by the solar energy collector to the thermal storage material through a wall of the insulated container.
US11440811B2
Ternary precursor particles used for a lithium-ion battery, the ternary precursor particles having a NixCoyMnz(OH)2, wherein, x+y+z=1, 0
US11440808B2
Systems and methods for producing ammonia are described. In one embodiment, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen are dissolved in a solution. A glutamine synthetase inhibitor and autotrophic diazotroph bacteria are also placed in the solution.
US11440807B2
A method of preparing a positive electrode active material for a secondary battery is provided, which includes preparing a lithium composite transition metal oxide, and mixing the lithium composite transition metal oxide and a metal borate compound and performing a heat treatment to form a coating portion on surfaces of particles of the lithium composite transition metal oxide. The positive electrode active material prepared includes lithium composite transition metal oxide particles, and a coating portion formed on surfaces of the lithium composite transition metal oxide particles, wherein the coating portion includes lithium (Li)-metal borate.
US11440806B2
The present invention refers to a stable sodium and iron silicate solution that has a weight ratio of SiO2 to Na2O from 1.5 to 2.5 and a total percentage of solids, expressed by the sum of SiO2 and Na2O, from 20% to 55%. Said solution also has a soluble iron content, expressed by Fe, from 0.1% to 7%, and a water content from 38% to 79.9%. The present invention also refers to the process for preparing said stable solution of sodium and iron silicate, which comprises the steps of: (a) providing a siliceous material containing iron; (b) submitting said siliceous material containing iron to a hydrothermal treatment with caustic soda under high temperature and controlled pressure; and (c) filtering said reacted solution to separate the reacted portion of the hydrothermal treatment from the unreacted portion. Additionally, the present invention refers to the uses of said stable sodium and iron silicate solution.
US11440788B2
A tap for dispensing a beverage. The tap includes: a tap body defining a beverage outlet and including a closure member seat; a closure member movably disposed within the tap body and including a head movable into sealing engagement with the closure member seat, wherein the head has a streamlined configuration and the closure member seat is intermediate the closure member and the beverage outlet; and an externally operable actuator operationally coupled to the closure member.
US11440787B2
A refrigerator may be provided with a dispenser which includes a nozzle pipe; a light source that radiates ultraviolet light from one end of the nozzle pipe to an inner space of the nozzle pipe, a window that is provided between the one end of the nozzle pipe and the light source, and a liquid supplying hose barb connected to the nozzle pipe via an elbow. Liquid exiting the elbow swirls as ultraviolet light is irradiated onto the liquid.
US11440785B2
A beverage dispensing machine includes a countertop for a conveyor that carries a plurality of cup holders around a track. A front side of the beverage dispenser machine is accessible by an operator to remove cups from the plurality of cup holders. A cup tower has a plurality of cup dispenser tubes that are each configured to hold a respective stack of cups. A cup grabber is movable up and down into and between a raised position in which the cup grabber is positioned to grab a cup from one of the stacks of cups and place a cup into one of the plurality of cup holders.
US11440783B2
A detection system includes a plurality of support posts, cables supported by the support posts, a winding device operable to wind the cable, a lifting and lowering device that is connected to the cable, and is movable in an air when the cable is wound by the winding device, and a detecting device hung by the lifting and lowering device. The detecting device is configured to be moved by the winding device in a region defined by the support posts, and lowered by the lifting and lowering device to detect information concerning an object.
US11440781B2
Described is an apparatus (2) for a self-propelled operating machine (10) comprising a supporting frame (21, 22, 23) designed to be fastened at the rear to an attaching device wherein an operating arm (102) of the machine (10) is provided and designed to be coupled at the front to a tool (3). The frame includes two lateral uprights (21, 22) joined at the top by a transversal plate (23).
US11440775B2
Provided is a door engagement device including: a first member that extends in a vertical direction and is able to come into contact with an engaged part from a door closing direction side; a second member that extends in the vertical direction at a position with a distance from the first member to a door opening side and is able to come into contact with the engaged part from a door opening direction side; a pair of link members that form a parallel link mechanism in cooperation with the first member so as to enable the first member to pivotally move between a predetermined first position and a predetermined second position located closer to the door closing direction side than the first position while keeping the posture of the first member; and a restricting part that releasably restricts the pivotal movement of the first member at the first position.
US11440774B2
An illustrative example embodiment of an elevator rope sway damping assembly includes a plurality of sway dampers having a width and a length. An actuator device selectively causes movement of the sway dampers in a direction transverse to the length between a first position where the sway dampers are spaced apart by a first distance and a second, sway-damping position where the sway dampers are spaced apart by a second, shorter distance. The actuator device provides an indication when the sway dampers are in the first position.
US11440769B2
Elevator systems and methods including an elevator car within an elevator shaft, at least one component subject to inspection, the at least one component having an indicator element thereon, and an inspection system comprising a detector located on the elevator car and arranged to detect the presence of the indicator element in a detection region such that when the indicator element is detected within the detection region, a notification regarding a state of operation of the at least one component is generated.
US11440763B2
According to one embodiment, provided is an automatic document feeder including a conveying unit, a first tray, a storage unit, and a paper discharge guide. The conveying unit is configured to convey paper to the paper discharge tray. The first tray is a paper discharge tray on which paper discharged by the conveying unit is stacked. The storage unit is a groove-shaped hole provided below the first tray. The paper discharge guide is a member for guiding paper having a predetermined size discharged by the conveying unit to the storage unit.
US11440762B2
A card separation apparatus includes a movable tray having a surface onto which a sheet is conveyed after a card has been separated from the sheet, and a card separation unit mounted on the surface for movement with the movable tray, the card separation unit having an opening through which the sheet is conveyed, and a controller configured to send an instruction to the movable tray to be moved at a predetermined timing after a leading edge of the sheet to which the card is attached enters the opening, so as to cause the sheet to be initially separated from the card.
US11440761B1
According to one embodiment, a sheet conveying device includes a tray and a correcting member. On the tray, a sheet bundle in which a plurality of sheets are overlapped is stacked in a thickness direction of the sheet bundle. The correcting member moves relative to the tray in the thickness direction. The correcting member abuts against an upper layer portion of an outer peripheral portion of the sheet bundle on the tray, and presses the upper layer portion from an outside after abutting. The correcting member corrects a position of the upper layer portion in a lateral direction intersecting the thickness direction toward an inside from the outside of the sheet bundle.
US11440759B2
A sheet transport device includes a processor configured to adjust movement of a transport unit that transports a sheet on the basis of a transport load of the sheet.
US11440758B2
A transport device for a sheet-format substrate has at least one first substrate feed device and has at least one second substrate feed device. The at least one second substrate feed device comprises at least one forward stop and at least one singulating device. At least one substrate guiding device is arranged between the at least one first substrate feed device and the at least one second substrate feed device. The at least one substrate guiding device has at least one directing element. The at least one directing element is mounted such that it is movable or is moved in two different directions independently of one another.
US11440757B2
In order to downsize an overall apparatus without setting the swing angle of a swing member to be unnecessarily large, a pickup roller, which is for feeding a document disposed on a feeding tray, is supported by a pickup arm that is swingable about a rotation shaft. Depending on the rotational direction of the rotation axis, the pickup arm swings between a first position, in which the pickup roller is in contact with the document on the feeding tray, and a second position, in which the pickup roller is above and not in contact with the feeding tray. An arm member is rotated by rotation of the rotation axis after the pickup arm swings to the second position.
US11440755B2
An automatic lifting and feeding device includes a main controller, a material thickness detecting device, a material loading mechanism for placing materials and driving the materials to rise and fall, a material taking mechanism for transferring materials and a height detecting mechanism for detecting the height of the materials, wherein, the material thickness detecting device, the material loading mechanism, the material taking mechanism and the height detecting mechanism are respectively connected to the main controller. The height detecting mechanism includes a bracket and the height testing part connected to the bracket, and the detector for detecting the material distance is arranged on the height testing part. The invention also provides an automatic lifting feeding method. The advantage of the invention is that the height does not need to be adjusted manually. The device can automatically detect the height of the material, and achieves high efficiency.
US11440743B2
A motorized drive roller conveyor includes an upstream zone and a downstream zone, with each zone having a drive roller, an idler roller that is driven by the drive roller, and a sensor. The upstream zone and the downstream zone are controlled by a card, which measures a gap between a first item on the conveyor and a second item on the conveyor by beginning a counter when a trailing edge of the first item passes the sensor of the upstream zone and stopping the counter when a leading edge of the second item passes the sensor of the upstream zone to generate a counter value. If the first item is stopped in the downstream zone, the card of the upstream zone causes the drive roller of the upstream zone to advance the second item into the downstream zone for a distance derived from the counter value before stopping the transportation of the second item.
US11440741B2
An automated warehouse has a main path, secondary paths, a main vehicle movable along the main path, one or more auxiliary vehicles movable along the secondary paths, and an access point. On each vehicle a wireless device receiving and sending wireless signals and a control unit associated with safety modules including a safety-certified watchdog timer and a counter are installed. The wireless devices send check signals containing the value of the counter of the respective vehicle to the access point, which sends signals in response to received check signals When a response signal is received from a wireless device, the respective counter is incremented and the associated watchdog timer starts to measure time when the value of the counter differs from the value received via check signals. Each control unit de-energizes the respective vehicle when a time longer than a predetermined time is detected via the watchdog timer.
US11440737B2
A support station includes a frame, at least two support rollers separated transversely by a gap, and a nip angle protector, which includes, for the or each gap, a gap protector placed longitudinally opposite the gap on an upstream side of the gap. The support station can be manufactured by obtaining a profile with a continuous upper edge and a continuous lower part along its entire length, and cutting the space and the slots, by T-punching the profile.
US11440735B2
A flatwire conveyor belt system that can include a flatwire belt with a plurality of flatwire pickets wherein each individual flatwire picket has a plurality of longitudinal members and a first plurality of lateral members extending between and connecting the plurality of longitudinal members. Each of the first plurality of lateral members can have a first lateral member length, and the plurality of longitudinal members and the first plurality of lateral members can define a first flatwire belt portion. A flight with a set of tabs defining a tab distance can be affixed to the flatwire belt, and the tab distance can be substantially similar to the sum of the lateral member lengths of at least a portion of the first plurality of lateral members.
US11440734B2
With a parts supply system in which a plurality of parts boxes is transported by a trolley while the parts boxes are unloaded from the trolley at respectively corresponding part-supply places provided on a parts transport route, progress status of supply of the parts boxes to respective unloading places is determined. Information of RFID tags T1 to T10 respectively applied to a plurality of parts boxes B1 to B10 is read by ID tag reading devices 4A, 4B and 4C respectively mounted on trolleys 21, 22 and 23. Thus, the respective parts boxes B1 to B10 that exist on the trolleys 21, 22 and 23 are identified, and information is generated on the progress status of supply of the respective parts boxes B1 to B10 to the part-supply places. Thus, the progress status of the supply of the parts boxes B1 to B10 to the part-supply places is recognized.
US11440733B2
Provided is a picking assistance system that can improve work efficiency. A picking assistance system includes: a plurality of movable shelves configured to be able to accommodate at least one article; and a control device configured to control the movement of each of the shelves. The control device causes a series of processes of moving a sorting shelf selected from the shelves to a work station selected from a plurality of work station and moving articles from a deposit shelf disposed at the selected work station to the sorting shelf by a picking operation to be executed repeatedly while changing the work station until the sorting shelf accommodates prescribed articles.
US11440725B2
A beverage product has a shot glass having an upper rim with an outside diameter, a quantity of a beverage in the shot glass, a substantially circular peel-off sealing element adhered by adhesive to the upper rim of the shot glass, retaining the beverage in the shot glass, and a shaker lid having a matrix of openings for dispensing salt, pepper or other material, the shaker lid assembled over the upper rim of the shot glass. A user purchasing the product removes the shaker lid, peels off the substantially circular peel-off sealing element, consumes the beverage, places salt, pepper or other material in the emptied shot glass and reattaches the shaker lid, rendering the combination as a salt or pepper shaker.
US11440722B2
Described herein is an apparatus for air-tight storage and preservation of cannabis. In embodiments, the apparatus includes a silicone compressor operable to reduce a volume of air within an interior of a container of the apparatus, a childproof cap, UV tinted glass, and a storage bag that is porous to allow for transmission of gasses therethrough. The silicone compressor includes an input pinhole for injecting inert gases into an interior of the container and an output valve through which internal oxygen can escape as the volume of air is being reduced.
US11440714B2
A lockable and moisture-proof pill box has a storing base having at least one compartment for holding pills, at least one lid pivotally mounted on the storing base, and at least one sealing and pushing member. Each of the at least one lid has a sealing ring and a pushing bar integrally formed as a single part. With the at least one sealing and pushing member mounted between the storing base and the at least one lid, the at least one compartment in the storing base can be airtightly sealed by the sealing ring when being closed, so as to prevent the pills in the at least one compartment from being spilt. Moreover, each of the at least one lid can be automatically opened by push of the pushing bar. Thus, a user can take the pills held in the compartment easily and conveniently.
US11440698B2
A leak proof container and a method of forming the container from a blank. The blank includes a bottom panel, first and second side panels connected to the bottom panel at opposing lateral edges, and first and second end portions located at opposing longitudinal ends of the blank. Each end portion includes an inner end panel connected to the bottom panel, an outer end panel connected to the inner end panel, and first and second corner panels forming gussets connected to a respective one of the first and second side panels and connected to the inner end panel. An adhesive area is located on one side of the blank and comprises at least a portion on each of the outer end panel and the inner end panel. The adhesive area adheres the gussets to the inner end panel and to the outer end panel.
US11440695B2
A method for manufacturing a metal bottle having a mouthpiece in an upper part of a bottomed cylindrical bottle body, including forming a screw part on the mouthpiece and then forming a curl at a tip of the mouthpiece. During formation of the screw part, a height of the first-stage screw thread from a tip side in a complete screw part and a height of the second-stage screw thread from the tip side are substantially equal and a distance between an apex part of the first-stage screw thread and a bottle axis is smaller than a distance between the apex part of the second-stage screw thread and the bottle axis. After formation of the curl, a distance between the apex part of the first-stage screw thread and the bottle axis and a distance between the apex part of the second-stage screw thread and the bottle axis are substantially equal.
US11440693B2
Pet food bags, and methods of making the same, contain a seal that resists air exchange more than conventional bags thereby protecting nutritional ingredients that are susceptible to oxidation.
US11440691B2
Funnels and gas lances are disclosed for use with filling packages with bulk product.
US11440688B2
A method for manufacture and filling with a sterile liquid of a tubular packaging includes: providing a container with liquid therein, providing a tube, filling the tube with the liquid from the container, dividing the tube into tubular segments by successive welding operations, and separating the tubular segments at the welded seams. After each welding operation the tube is displaced over a distance corresponding to a desired length of the tubular segments, or multiple thereof. During each welding operation pressure can be exerted locally on and energy can be supplied to the tube. Exertion of pressure and the supply of energy can be staggered in time. During each welding operation a temperature at the welded seam can be kept constant. During each welding operation a welding parameter can be measured, and the welding operation can be controlled on the basis of the measured value of the welding parameter.
US11440674B2
An energy harvesting system is provided and a corresponding method for harvesting energy from an aircraft cabin pressurization system utilizing the same. According to one aspect, an energy harvesting system includes an aircraft cabin enclosing a high-pressure environment of pressurized air. An air input receives incoming air from a low-pressure environment and an air output expels outgoing air from the high-pressure environment. A turbine receives the pressurized air expelled from the aircraft cabin and utilizes the pressurized air to produce rotational motion on a turbine shaft. An energy harvesting mechanism is coupled to the turbine shaft and utilizes the rotational motion from the turbine shaft to compress the incoming air or to create electrical energy.
US11440667B2
A method for deploying an inflatable slide includes increasing pressure within the inflatable slide, increasing a load in a force releasing member and a dampener, both of which are attached to the inflatable slide, in response to the increasing pressure within the evacuation slide, the load being increased at a slower rate than would occur if the dampener were not present, separating the force releasing member, and inflating the inflatable slide.
US11440654B2
A UAV with vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) function having a plurality of lift propellers; a cabin engaged with a plurality of lift propellers; a water propulsion system engaged with the cabin to push the cabin in a forward direction when the cabin is at least partially immersed in water; at least one water inlet engaged with the water propulsion system; the cabin is a cargo hold or a passenger cabin. The UAV provided by the disclosure can realize vertical takeoff and landing in the water area, and fly, drive and navigate freely in the whole area.
US11440648B2
A liquid inertia vibration eliminator unit for an aircraft having first and second components includes an outer housing coupled to the first component of the aircraft, the outer housing forming an outer housing cavity. The liquid inertia vibration eliminator unit includes a spherical bearing disposed in the outer housing cavity and forming a spherical bearing cavity. A piston is disposed in the spherical bearing cavity and coupled to the second component of the aircraft. Top and bottom fluid chambers are disposed in the spherical bearing cavity on opposite sides of the piston. A tuning passage provides fluid communication between the top and bottom fluid chambers. A tuning fluid moves between the top and bottom fluid chambers via the tuning passage to isolate vibration between the first and second components of the aircraft.
US11440647B2
A landing gear system includes a landing gear collar and a strut assembly supported by the landing gear collar. The strut assembly includes a piston that is adjustable between a fully extended position and a fully compress position. The landing gear system further includes a rotary encoder and a controller. The rotary encoder rotates in response adjusting the piston and to outputs a data value in response to its rotation. The controller is in signal communication with the rotary encoder and determines a stroke of the piston based on the data value output from the rotary encoder.
US11440641B2
The invention relates to an aircraft wing comprising a stationary central wing body as well as at least one mobile leading edge flap intended for being moved relative to the stationary central body between an extended position and a retracted position, the wing comprising a device for moving the mobile leading edge flap, the device being provided with at least one mobile drive rail including a front end connected to the mobile flap. According to the invention, the movement device comprises a linear electric motor including: a primary assembly provided with at least one stationary carriage comprising coils, the primary assembly being rigidly connected to the stationary central body of the wing; and a mobile secondary assembly including a magnetic track arranged on the drive rail.
US11440638B2
A wing (3) for an aircraft (1) including a fixed wing (5), a foldable wing tip portion (9) mounted to the fixed wing (5) via a first hinge (11) rotatable about a first hinge axis (13) between an extended position (15) and a folded position (17), and an actuation unit (19) arranged at the fixed wing (5) and coupled to the foldable wing tip portion (9) via a linkage (21) including a first link element (23) and a second link element (25), wherein the first link element (23) is mounted to a rotatable output (27) of the actuation unit (19) and is rotatably coupled to the second link element (25) via a second hinge (29), and wherein the second link element (25) is rotatably coupled to the foldable wing tip portion (9) via a third hinge (31).
US11440637B2
An actuation unit (15) for actuating a foldable wing tip portion (9) of a wing (3) for an aircraft (1). The actuation unit (15) includes a track (25) configured to be mounted to a fixed wing (5), a carriage (27) configured to engage the track (25) for guided movement along the track (25), and configured to be coupled to a drive unit (31) for driving the carriage (27) along the track (25), and a link (29) configured to be coupled to the carriage (27) and configured to be coupled to a foldable wing tip portion (9).
US11440635B1
An aircraft includes a fuselage, a wing extending out from the fuselage, and a joint coupling the wing to the fuselage. The joint includes a first fitting fixed to the fuselage, a second fitting fixed to the wing, a link assembly pivotably coupled to the first fitting and to the second fitting, and a strap coupled to the link assembly at the first fitting and at the second fitting based on the free play clearance as defined by the manufacturing of the link assembly. The link assembly is configured to support the wing during operation of the aircraft and has a free play clearance defined by a manufacturing of the joint falling within a designed dimensional tolerance of the joint. The strap is further configured to bias the link assembly to restrict movement of the link assembly within the free play clearance during load reversal in the joint.
US11440630B2
Disclosed are a self-righting unmanned ship suitable for adverse sea conditions and a self-righting working mode thereof, belonging to the field of unmanned ship equipment and techniques. The unmanned ship comprises a main hull, a self-righting deck, an equipment and pipeline mast, a propeller, a radar, an air inlet and exhaust system, and a main engine system. Through the design of a watertight deck, the hull of the unmanned ship has a self-righting function, avoiding the possibility of the unmanned ship itself turning over, without installing additional self-righting equipment. Meanwhile, the internal structure and the self-righting working mode of the unmanned ship make it possible for the hull to automatically turn off the main engine and the air inlet and exhaust system when the heeling angle of the hull exceeds a certain angle, making the whole ship watertight.
US11440629B2
A gyroscopic boat roll stabilizer for a boat comprises a gimbal, having a gimbal axis, an enclosure mounted to the gimbal and configured to precess about a gimbal axis, a flywheel assembly rotatably mounted inside the enclosure for generating a torque that is applied to counter a rolling motion of the boat, and a braking system for controlling precession of the enclosure. The braking system is configured to enable precession in the first and second directions of up to at least 45 degrees.
US11440624B2
A vessel for towing another vessel comprises a hull, a tow cable coupled to the hull, a hook having a first leg fixed to a free end of the cable, a second leg including a free end and a hook bottom. The first and second legs form an opening for receiving a rope located at the vessel and launched from another vessel. The first and second legs extend in a main plane. A rope positioning system positions a rope and a hook support for the hook with respect to each other such that the rope extends in transverse direction of the main plane at the opening of the hook when the hook is linked to the hook support. A rope pressing system presses the rope the hook towards the hook bottom when the hook is linked to the hook support, creating a clamping force between the legs and the rope.
US11440621B2
A bicycle electrical front derailleur is provided that basically includes a wireless communication unit, a movable member and an electrical actuation unit. The wireless communication unit is configured to wirelessly receive a control signal. The electrical actuation unit is configured to move the movable member according to the control signal, the electrical actuation unit including an electrical actuator having an output shaft extending downwardly in a state where the bicycle electrical front derailleur is mounted to a bicycle.
US11440618B2
An electric assist system for an electric assist vehicle includes a crankshaft rotatable by human power of a rider applied to a pedal, an electric motor that generates an assist power that assists the human power of the rider, a controller that controls a magnitude of the assist power to be generated by the electric motor, and an acceleration sensor that outputs a signal in accordance with an acceleration in a traveling direction of the electric assist vehicle. The controller changes the magnitude of the assist power to be generated by the electric motor in accordance with a change in the acceleration that is associated with an operation of the rider rotating the pedal.
US11440616B2
A crank extension device for an overhead crank. The device comprises a shell configured to fit over a crank handle, and the shell comprises an aperture for passage of the crank shaft. The device also comprises an extension connected to or integral with the shell, wherein the extension has an extension axis offset from a rotational axis of the crank shaft. Methods of modifying an. overhead crank and for using a crank extension device.
US11440614B2
A motorcycle includes: a front wheel brake that brakes a front wheel that is supported by a front fork; a rear wheel brake; a control unit that controls an ABS modulator connected to the front wheel brake and the rear wheel brake on the basis of front wheel speed and rear wheel speed; and a front wheel rise detection unit that detects whether the front wheel is likely to rise from a road surface, wherein when the front wheel rise detection unit detects that the front wheel is likely to rise, the control unit operates the front wheel brake through the ABS modulator.
US11440602B2
Disclosed is a utility trailer assembly capable of transitioning between a towing position and a utility position. The tow position allows for efficient transportation of the utility trailer assembly to and from various locations. In the utility position, the utility trailer assembly provides access to a plurality of storage and multi-use areas and compartments.
US11440599B2
A fifth wheel hitch assembly for mounting to a towing vehicle and receiving a kingpin of a trailer incorporating a comfort assembly is provided. The fifth wheel hitch assembly may comprise a kingpin receiving assembly attached to a mounting rail via a comfort assembly. The comfort assembly may include one or more pivot bushing assemblies, as well as vertically adjustable, anti-rattle attachment systems. These attachment systems may include a cam assembly and/or a T-pin assembly.
US11440598B2
A platform trailer includes a neck reinforcement structure located in the neck region to provide for a reduced height in the neck region of the trailer to increase the cargo-carrying capacity of the trailer. The height in the neck region of the trailer is less than 30% of the height in the rest of the trailer. A fifth wheel plate includes a main portion secured to both the first and second beams of the trailer. The fifth wheel plate includes a bifurcated tail portion including a first tail portion connected to the first beam and a second tail portion connected to the second beam. A kingpin is connected to the fifth wheel plate and is adapted to be engaged by an associated tractor fifth wheel.
US11440588B2
A chassis for an electrically powered vehicle, including a front wheel suspension and a rear wheel suspension, each having longitudinal control arms arranged on both sides and a torsion spring actively connected to the longitudinal control arms. The chassis includes a battery housing receiving a propulsion battery. A front transverse carrier extends between the respective longitudinal control arms of the front wheel suspension, and a rear transverse carrier extends between the respective longitudinal control arms of the rear wheel suspension. The respective transverse carriers are rigidly connected to the battery housing and couple the longitudinal control arms and the torsion spring.
US11440584B2
An autonomous vehicle includes: a steering device configured to automatically control a steering angle of tires according to a traveling condition, the steering device being provided in an accommodating room that is separated from a passenger compartment by a partition member, and the steering device including a steered shaft, an actuator, and a gear mechanism; and a joint device provided in the accommodating room, the joint device being configured to mechanically connect an input shaft and a member including a rod-shaped body that is inserted from the passenger compartment into the accommodating room through an opening and closing portion formed in the partition member.
US11440576B2
Agricultural vehicle (V) includes an operator's seat (S), a vehicular structure (C), a wheel support arrangement (100), a front bumper assembly (200), a position and draft control mechanism (30), a brake pedal linkage mechanism (500), a steering mechanism (600) and an exhaust device (700). The operator's seat S is configured to be provided in the vehicle (V) at at least one of a first seating position (Sf) corresponding to a first driving position, and a second seating position (Sr) corresponding to a second driving position, where the second seating position (Sr) is opposite to the first seating position (Sf). The vehicular structure (C) is configured to be moved between at least one lowered position in which each final drive housing (FH) is locked to vehicular structure (C) at corresponding first locking positions, and at least one raised position in which each final drive housing (FH) is locked to vehicular structure (C) at corresponding second locking positions.
US11440573B2
The invention relates to a manually movable and stackable trolley having a supporting device, wherein, when two trolleys are stacked, a rear region which is only taken up by the rear trolley and a front region which is only taken up by the trolley in front are produced, wherein the supporting device is assigned an electronic weighing device which is equipped with a first and a second weighing cell. The two weighing cells are arranged such that, in the stacked state, the first weighing cell of the rear, inserted trolley is within the rear region, and the second weighing cell of the inserted trolley is outside the front region, and, conversely, the first weighing cell of the trolley in front is outside the rear region, and the second weighing cell of the trolley in front is within the front region, wherein the first weighing cell is directed downwards from the at least one supporting device and the second weighing cell is directed upwards.
US11440569B2
The invention relates to a coil device for an electromagnetic track brake for a rail vehicle. The coil device has a winding wire, which has a first end and a second end. The coil device is the first end of the winding wire is formed as a first coil connection for establishing an electrically conductive joint connection to a first connection cable and/or the second end of the winding wire is formed as a second coil connection for establishing an electrically conductive joint connection to a second connection cable.
US11440550B2
On a road on which a first lane, a second lane, and a third lane or a road shoulder are adjacent to each other, a vehicle control device executes an automatic lane change from the first lane to the second lane. In the case that a traffic regulating object that regulates passage of traffic in the third lane or on the road shoulder is placed in the third lane or on the road shoulder, and an external environment recognition unit recognizes the traffic regulating object, a lane change control unit restricts the automatic lane change.
US11440544B2
A control method and a control apparatus for a vehicle are provided which allow a subject vehicle to start moving at an appropriate time during automated travel control in which the subject vehicle is controlled to make a stop without depending on a brake operation performed by the driver. The control method includes executing the automated travel control in which the subject vehicle is controlled to make a stop without depending on the braking operation performed by the driver, and when detecting a stop of a preceding vehicle during execution of the automated travel control, presenting start-moving command information for reminding the driver of a start-moving command for the subject vehicle.
US11440537B2
An apparatus for estimating a position in an automated valet parking system includes a front camera processor processing a front image of a vehicle, a surround view monitor (SVM) processor recognizing a short-distance lane and stop line by processing a surround view image of the vehicle, a map data unit storing a high definition map, and a controller downloading a map including an area set as a parking zone from the map data unit when the entry of the vehicle to a parking lot is identified and correcting a position measurement value of the vehicle by performing map matching based on results of the recognition and processing of the front camera processor and SVM processor and the parking lot map of the map data unit when an automated valet parking start position is recognized based on the recognized short-distance lane and stop line.
US11440536B2
For use in all wheel drive vehicles with a rear electronic differential, a device containing a switch for making and breaking an electrical connection in a ground line of a differential harness. When the circuit is broken and the rear electronic differential is not powered, the rear electronic differential does not power the rear axles. A wireless remote control has buttons that when pressed send a wireless signal to a receiver connected to the switch. When the first button in the remote control is pressed, the switch breaks the connection in the ground line. When the second button in the remote control is pressed, the switch completes the connection in the ground line.
US11440535B1
A diagnostic system for a hybrid electric vehicle is provided. The system includes a vehicle controller, a battery management controller, a monitoring circuit, a transistor, a voltage sensor, and an analog-to-digital converter. The vehicle controller sends a first message to the battery management controller indicating an engine crank occurred. The battery management controller sends a second message to the monitoring circuit, and the monitoring circuit induces a transistor to de-energize an electrical relay. The voltage sensor outputs a voltage signal indicative of a voltage being output by the transistor. The analog-to-digital converter outputs a voltage value indicative of the voltage. The battery management controller sets a diagnostic flag to a first non-fault value if the voltage value is less than a threshold voltage value.
US11440534B2
A control device of a vehicle configured to travel on a plurality of travel modes includes an internal combustion engine control unit and a travel mode control unit. When a difference between a rotation speed of an internal combustion at a time when a transition condition is satisfied and a predicted rotation speed is equal to or larger than a threshold value, the internal combustion engine control unit performs rotation speed control such that the rotation speed of the internal combustion engine approaches the predicted rotation speed, and the travel mode control unit shifts a travel mode to a second travel mode after the rotation speed control of the internal combustion engine control unit is completed. The rotation speed control is control in which the rotation speed is changed in a plurality of stages so as to approach the predicted rotation speed.
US11440533B2
A control system for a hybrid vehicle that reduces delay in engagement of a clutch when shifting an operating mode by manipulating the clutch. A controller is configured to adjust a speed of a first motor to a first standby speed at which the speed difference in a first clutch is reduced when an operating mode will be shifted from a single-motor mode to a first mode, and adjust a speed of the first motor to a second standby speed at which a speed difference in the second clutch is reduced when the operating mode will be shifted from the single-motor mode to a second mode.
US11440509B2
The invention relates to a method for removing deposits on a lens (11) of a camera (9) of a motor vehicle (1), in which a contaminant present on the lens (11) is removed as the deposit, wherein a cleaning liquid (13) is applied to the lens by means of a washing device (12) for removing the contaminant, wherein a temperature of the lens (11) is determined and the application of the cleaning liquid (13) to the lens (11) is performed depending on the determined temperature.
US11440508B1
A wiper having a snapping seat, a pair of elastic arms and a pair of connection strips and a scraper is provided in this disclosure. One end of each elastic arm is connected to the snapping seat and the pair of elastic arms are respectively extended from the snapping seat in opposite directions. Two sides of each connection strip are respectively provided with a lower rail and the elastic arm is sheathed in the lower rail. An upper rail is disposed on a side of the scraper, and the upper rail is sheathed in the respective lower rails.
US11440507B2
The invention relates to a geared motor (1) for a motor-vehicle wiping system comprising an electric motor (2) comprising a rotor (20) including magnetic elements, a stator (21) having the electromagnetic excitation windings of the rotor, a rotary shaft (22) rigidly connected to the rotor, a reduction gear (3) linking the rotary shaft (22) and an output shaft of the geared motor, a casing (4) forming a protective envelope for said reduction gear, or the electric motor (2), and in which said reduction gear (3) includes a worm screw and worm wheel gear, the worm screw (30) being rigidly connected to the rotary shaft of the rotor (22), the worm wheel (31) rigidly connected to an output shaft (8) of the geared motor, bearing means (23, 24) for guiding the rotary shaft of the rotor (22) in rotation in relation to the casing (4), and potentially, a determination device for determining the angular position of the rotor including a multi-pole magnet (5) that is rigidly connected to the rotary shaft (22) of the rotor (20).
US11440501B2
The invention relates to an active restraint system (1), comprising a seat belt retractor (3), having a frame (2) and a belt reel (4) with a belt webbing (10) wound thereon and rotatable supported by the frame (2) for allowing winding and unwinding the belt webbing (10). An electric disc motor (28) comprising a rotor (30) and a stator (32) is attached to the belt reel (4). The rotor (30) is directly attached by an attachment (31) to the belt reel (4). The restraint system further comprises a control unit (40) connected to the disc motor (28) and adapted to control the disc motor (28) to drive the belt reel (4) in accordance with a determined belt motion profile.
US11440495B2
A seat assembly having an occupant protection system. The occupant protection system may have a deployable shield. The deployable shield may extend around multiple sides of the seat assembly, may extend at least partially around a front of a seat occupant when deployed, may be deployable along a dynamic deployment path based on a detected position of a seat occupant, or combinations thereof.
US11440492B2
A seat module adapted to be attached to a seat having mechanical parts and electric devices for seat operation in a motor vehicle includes at least one operating cable for activating at least one device, and a cushion suspension module adapted to support a cushion of the seat having a plurality of cushion suspension wires for attaching to the seat and at least one module plates coupled with the cushion suspension wires. An end portion of the operating cable is temporarily stowed on the cushion suspension module in a pre-assembled state where the operating cable is attached to the cushion suspension module, and the end portion of the operating cable is connected to the electric devices and/or mechanical parts of the seat in an assembled state where the cushion suspension module with the attached operating cables is securely mounted to the seat.
US11440487B2
A system and method including a fastener clip, the fastener clip including a first piece made of an elastic first material. The first piece includes a pair of legs joined at a head portion, and one or more pairs of barbs coupled to the pair of legs. The barbs are configured to dig into the blade and to secure the fastener clip to the blade at least based upon the fastener clip being placed over the blade. The fastener clip includes a second piece made of a softer second material. The second piece includes inside and outside portions to the outside and to the inside of the first piece. The outside portions are configured to engage a slot in a chassis.
US11440485B2
It comprises: —a clip holder (4) entirely integral with the trim element (1), comprising: —a proximal portion (5) connected to the trim element (1), and—a distal portion (6) on which is fitted a clip (8) that is shaped so as to secure to a body element (2), the proximal portion (5) and the distal portion (6) being joined by a breakable region (9) that is designed to break in the event of deployment of an airbag (3), and the distal portion (6) being able to move between a rest position in which the breakable region (9) joins the distal portion (6) to the proximal portion (5) and a deployment position in which the distal portion (6) is no longer joined to the proximal portion (5) by virtue of the breakable region (9) breaking, and—a retention element (11) that is designed to retain the distal portion (6) on the trim element (1) when the distal portion (6) is in the deployment position.
US11440482B2
A track assembly includes a track and/or a support assembly. The support assembly may be configured for connection with the track. The support assembly may include a housing, a support member, an actuator, a rod, a latch, and/or an engagement portion. The engagement portion may extend from the latch. The engagement portion may be configured to selectively engage an inner surface of the track. The housing may include a longitudinal axis and/or the actuator may be configured to rotate about the longitudinal axis. The latch may include a first position, a second position, and/or a third position. When the latch is in the third position, the engagement portion may be configured not to engage the track. The engagement portion may be configured to contact the track when the latch is in the first position.
US11440474B2
A vehicle is provided that includes a trailer hitch, a camera oriented to capture images of the trailer hitch, and a controller processing the captured images, detecting a trailer safety chain associated with a trailer, determining a connection state of the trailer safety chain to the vehicle, and generating an output indicative of the determined connection state of the trailer safety chain to the vehicle. The vehicle may determine a change in a scene of the captured image following placement of a trailer coupler onto a vehicle hitch and determine a trailer connection state based on the change in scene.
US11440461B2
A vehicle headlight control device includes: an indicator value acquiring unit configured to acquire an indicator value that represents a brightness of an object detected ahead of an own vehicle; a light distribution control unit configured to control a light distribution of a headlight such that a quantity of light irradiated to the irradiation region where a dimming target object is present is reduced when the dimming target object is detected, the dimming target object being an object of which the indicator value is greater than a reference value; a reference-value varying unit configured to set the reference value to a first reference value when the object is detected within the gaze area and set the reference value to a second reference value that is greater than the first reference value when the object is detected outside of the gaze area.
US11440460B1
A directional headlamp assembly for independently directing light from a pair of headlamps includes a pair of headlamp modules and a controller. Each headlamp module replaces a respective headlamp of a pair of existing headlamps of a vehicle. The headlamp module comprises a first housing, which insertable of into an opening created upon removal of the respective headlamp, so that the first housing is engaged to the vehicle. A bulb is pivotally engaged to a front of the first housing. An actuator is engaged to and positioned in the first housing. The actuator is operationally engaged to the bulb. The controller is mountable within a passenger compartment of the vehicle so that it is accessible to a driver of the vehicle. The controller is independently and operationally engaged to each of the actuators and thus is positioned to selectively actuate each actuator to direct light emitted by an associated bulb.
US11440458B2
A hand operated tool for binding a load. The tool including a hollow tube with interior left hand and right hand threads at opposing ends. Opposing rods with exterior threads on one end and a releasable connection device on the other end that is screwed into each end of the tube. A gear rigidly mounted and encircling the tube allowing a pivotly attached ratcheting U-pawl to engage the gear teeth, the U-pawl attached to and carried by a handle assembly mounted on each side of the gear, the handle protruding perpendicular from the tube. The handle turning the tube in a first rotational direction drawing the rods closer together tightening the bind, the handle turning the tube in a second rotational direction moving the rods farther apart loosening the bind, the rods remaining stationary in rotation during rotation of the tube. A blocking device may be installed to prevent the U-pawl from pivoting into a position to turn the tube in the second rotational direction, that would loosen the bind on the load, the blocking device allowing normal ratcheting and turning of the tube in the first rotational direction tightening the bind on the load. A recessed-pawl partially pivoting independently of the U-pawl and engaging with the gear to prevent the tube from turning in the second-rotational-direction that would loosen the bind on the load when the U-pawl is in a neutral position whereby the U-pawl is not engaged with the gear.
