US11467346B2
A shutter assembly for a dual polarity fiber optic adapter is provided. The shutter assembly disposed in the dual polarity fiber optic adapter may eliminate dust accumulation and obstruct light beams emission, thus preventing eyes from a user from exposure to the light beams. Furthermore, an extending tab formed in the dual polarity fiber optic adapter may also prevent misplacement of fiber optic connector during installation.
US11467344B2
The present disclosure provides an optical circulator. The optical circulator includes a first integrated module, a second integrated module and a third integrated module which are sequentially connected from front to rear. The first integrated module includes a mating shell, an optical fiber ferrule received in the mating shell and a first birefringence crystal attached to a rear surface of the optical fiber ferrule; the second integrated module comprises a first tube fixed behind the mating shell, a magnetic ring received in the first tube, a Wollaston prism fixed in the magnetic ring, two Faraday rotators respectively provided to both sides of the Wollaston prism, and two collimating lenses respectively provided to both sides of the two Faraday rotators. The third integrated module includes a second tube fixed behind the first tube, a dual fiber pigtail received in the second tube, and a second birefringence crystal attached to a front surface of the dual fiber pigtail. The above-mentioned optical circulator is small in volume and convenient to manufacture.
US11467334B2
The glass-based THz optical waveguides (10) disclosed herein are used to guide optical signals having a THz frequency in the range from 0.1 THz to (10) THz and include a core (20) surrounded by a cladding (30). The core has a diameter D1 in the range from (30) μm to 10 mm and is made of fused silica glass having a refractive index n1. The cladding is made of either a polymer or a glass or glass soot and has a refractive index n2
US11467331B1
An optical device includes a display configured to generate an image light; and a waveguide optically coupled with the display and configured to guide the image light to an exit pupil of the optical device. The waveguide includes an in-coupling element configured to couple the image light into the waveguide, and an out-coupling element configured to decouple the image light out of the waveguide. The out-coupling element includes a grating having a diffraction efficiency gradient along a predetermined direction at a plane of the grating.
US11467322B2
The present embodiment relates to a dual camera module comprising: a first camera module including a first liquid lens and capturing a first image; and a second camera module including a second liquid lens and capturing a second image, wherein a viewing angle of the first camera module is smaller than a viewing angle of the second camera module, at least a part of the viewing angle of the first camera module is included in the viewing angle of the second camera module such that there is an overlapping area between the first image and the second image so as to enable a composite image formed by combining the first image and the second image to be generated, and when the first camera module is focused, a focal length of the first liquid lens is varied according to the distance between the first liquid lens and a subject, and when the second camera module is focused, a focal length of the second liquid lens is varied according to the distance between the second liquid lens and the subject.
US11467319B2
A rainwater guiding device for a meteorological observation balloon for preventing the observer and electronic devices held by the observer from getting wet by rainwater by guiding the rainwater flowing down along the surface of the balloon to the outside of the observer's workspace during the rawinsonde levitation operation for upper atmospheric observation, wherein the rainwater guiding device is composed of a double-cone structure comprising an inner cone closely contacted with the surface of the balloon around the inlet and an outer cone formed on the outside of the inner cone, wherein the inner cone and the outer cone have funnel shapes, each of which has a conical portion at the upper portion as a shape gradually widening in the upward direction, and an extension portion at the lower portion extending vertically downward from a neck portion, which is a neck portion below the conical portion.
US11467317B2
A marker device embodiment may include separate concentrically-oriented receive and transmit antenna elements coupled to an ASIC which includes electronics to receive an input signal at a first frequency from a transmitter, convert the input signal to a power supply to power the electronic circuit, generate, in response to the input signal, an output signal at a second frequency different from the first frequency, and provide the output signal, via the transmit antenna element, to an above-ground receiver for assistance in determining the location of a buried utility.
US11467311B2
A method includes setting a value of a formation parameter for a subsurface formation and creating an initial three-dimensional (3D) model of the subsurface formation based on the formation parameter. The method also includes applying a constrained transformation to one or more inversion variables of the initial 3D model to create a variable-constrained 3D model of the subsurface formation and applying an unconstrained minimization operation to the variable-constrained 3D model to generate a first transformed 3D model. The method also includes inverting the first transformed 3D model to generate a first inverted 3D model of the subsurface formation.
US11467310B2
This proximity sensor includes: a cylindrical housing having an opening at one end in the axial direction; a detection part housed at the other end of the housing and detecting the presence or absence of a detection target contactlessly; a substrate housed in the housing and mounted with a control circuit for controlling the detection part; a detection part shield preventing external noise from entering the detection part and including a first face part adhered to the front surface on the other side of the detection part, and a side face part configured from multiple side pieces connected to the outer periphery of the first face part and bent from the first face part to cover the side surface of the detection part; and a resin provided around the detection part and the detection part shield.
US11467307B2
Seismic data is deblended by performing, for each receiver, a first inversion and a second inversion in a transform domain. The first inversion is formulated to minimize a number of non-zero coefficients of the first inversion result. A sub-domain of the transform domain is defined by vectors of a transform domain basis for which the first inversion has yielded the non-zero coefficients. The second inversion is performed in this sub-domain. The solution of the second inversion is used to extract deblended seismic datasets corresponding to each of the distinct signals, from the seismic data.
US11467297B1
An acoustic array has a frame and multimode transducers positioned along the frame. The multimode transducers are cylindrical and divided into circumferential transducer segments. The transducer segments each have a common ground electrode and an electrode associated with the segment. An elastomeric bushing is between each multimode transducer and the frame. Electrical leads are joined to the electrodes. A proximate plug is provided at one end of the frame, and a distal plug is provided at the other. A connector is positioned in the proximate plug and joined to the electrical leads. An elastomeric hose surrounds the frame and is sealed to the proximate plug and the distal plug. The interior volume is filled with a dielectric fluid.
US11467296B2
This invention is about a detection device based on the piezoelectric property of geological minerals. The device has a vibration detector for compressing geological minerals to generate charges, so as to detect vibration and a physiotherapy jacket for carrying out quantitative physiotherapy on a human body by detecting the amount of charges. The system has the advantages of: being simple in structure, comprising the vibration detector and the physiotherapy jacket, using the piezoelectric property of geological minerals such as quartz and tourmaline, so as to realize detection of environmental vibration indoors, underground or in the field, and improving the safety factor of geological exploration operations.
US11467294B2
Disclosed herein is a radiation detector comprising: a substrate of an intrinsic semiconductor; a semiconductor single crystal in a recess in the substrate, the semiconductor single crystal having a different composition from the intrinsic semiconductor; a first electrical contact in electrical contact with the semiconductor single crystal; a second electrical contact on or in the substrate, and surrounding the first electrical contact or the semiconductor single crystal, wherein the second electrical contact is electrically isolated from the semiconductor single crystal; wherein the radiation detector is configured to absorb radiation particles incident on the semiconductor single crystal and to generate charge carriers.
US11467292B2
A radiation detector includes a printed circuit board and a detector assembly operably connected to the printed circuit board. The detector assembly includes a silicon photomultiplier and an organic scintillator coating applied to a surface of the silicon photomultiplier. A reflective foil covers the organic scintillator coating. A light sealing cover is secured to the printed circuit board such that the silicon photomultiplier and the organic scintillator are encapsulated within the light sealing cover.
US11467275B2
An ultra-wideband-based object identification method and system includes: transmitting, using a transmitter, an ultra wideband signal to an object; receiving, using a receiver, a reflected signal from the object; and determining, using a processor, an identity of the object based on the received reflected signal.
US11467273B2
A method includes recording a first timestamp of a detection of an event with a first array of an array of light sensors or an array of acoustic sensors. The array of light sensors and the array of acoustic sensors are mounted on a same chassis. The method further includes determining a direction of the event, based on the detection with the first array; recording a second timestamp of a detection of the event by a second array of the array of light sensors or the array of audio sensors; determining a distance of the event from the arrays of light and audio sensors, based on the first timestamp and the second timestamp; and controlling a vehicle, based on the event, the vehicle including the chassis.
US11467272B2
In an image compressing ultrasound system, for generating an imaging sample, delays are applied transducer-element-wise to respective time samples. The delayed samples are summed coherently in time, the coherently summed delays being collectively non-focused. An image is sparsified based on imaging samples and, otherwise than merely via said imaging samples, on angles (236) upon which respectively the delays for the generating of the imaging samples are functionally dependent. An image-compressing processor (120) may minimize a first p-norm of a first matrix which is a product of two matrices the content of one representing the image in a compression basis. The minimizing is subject to a constraint that a second p-norm of a difference between a measurement matrix and a product of an image-to-measurement-basis transformation matrix, an image representation dictionary matrix, and the matrix representing the image in the compression basis does not exceed an allowed-error threshold. The measurement matrix is populated either by channel data, or by output of a Hilbert transform applied to the channel data in a time dimension.
US11467269B2
A laser detection and ranging device for detecting an object under a water surface, the laser detection and ranging device having a laser transmitter being configured to modulate a laser beam by a binary pseudo-random coding sequence to obtain a modulated laser beam, and to transmit the modulated laser beam towards the water surface, a laser detector for detecting a reflected laser beam, the reflected laser beam forming a reflected version of the transmitted laser beam, and a processor for detecting the object under the water surface upon the basis of the reflected laser beam.
US11467265B2
In one embodiment, a lidar system includes a light source configured to emit (i) local-oscillator light and (ii) pulses of light, where each emitted pulse of light is coherent with a corresponding portion of the local-oscillator light. The light source includes a seed laser configured to produce seed light and the local-oscillator light. The light source also includes a pulsed optical amplifier configured to amplify temporal portions of the seed light to produce the emitted pulses of light, where each amplified temporal portion of the seed light corresponds to one of the emitted pulses of light. The lidar system also includes a receiver configured to detect the local-oscillator light and a received pulse of light, the received pulse of light including light from one of the emitted pulses of light that is scattered by a target located a distance from the lidar system.
US11467261B2
A distance measuring device that measures a distance to an object. The distance measuring device includes: a light source that emits pulsed light; a reflector that reflects and radiates, as radiation light, the pulsed light emitted from the light source, and reflects object light that is the radiation light reflected by the object and returning; and an imager that captures the object light reflected by the reflector. The pulsed light emitted from the light source is diffused light. The light source and the imager are located to face the reflector. The reflector radiates, as the radiation light, light in a shape with a long axis and a short axis. The imager performs exposure in synchronization with the pulsed light to image the object light.
US11467256B2
A lidar system identifies anomalous optical pulses received by the lidar system. The lidar system includes a light source configured to output a plurality of transmitted pulses of light, each transmitted pulse of light having one or more representative characteristics, a scanner configured to direct the plurality of transmitted pulses of light to a plurality of locations within a field of regard, and a receiver configured to detect a plurality of received pulses of light from the field of regard. The lidar system is configured to identify an anomalous pulse amongst the plurality of received pulses of light based on its having at least one characteristic that does not correspond to the one or more representative characteristics of the plurality of transmitted pulses of light.
US11467236B2
In one embodiment, a biological information monitoring apparatus includes: an antenna assembly including at least one antenna, the antenna assembly being configured to be disposed close to an abject; a signal generator configured to generate a high-frequency signal; a coupling-amount detection circuit configured to detect coupling amount of near-field coupling due to an electric field between the object and the at least one antenna by using the high-frequency signal; and a displacement detection circuit configured to detect a physical displacement of the object based on change in the coupling amount of near-field coupling.
US11467234B2
A magnetic sensor includes at least one MR element and a coil. The coil includes at least one conductor portion. The at least one conductor portion is each located at a position such that a partial magnetic field generated by the conductor portion is applied to one of the at least one MR element, the one corresponding to the conductor portion, and extends along an imaginary curve curving to protrude in a direction away from the corresponding MR element.
US11467233B2
In one aspect, a bridge includes a first magnetoresistance element having a first reference angle, a second magnetoresistance element in series with the first magnetoresistance element and having a second reference angle, a third magnetoresistance element in parallel with the first magnetoresistance element and having the first reference angle and a fourth magnetoresistance element in series with the third magnetoresistance element and having the second reference angle. An output of the bridge has a linear response over a range of horizontal magnetic field intensity values not centered about a zero value and a reference angle indicates an angle the magnetoresistance element is most sensitive to changes in a magnetic field.
US11467232B2
Example implementations are concerned with magnetoresistive sensors and with corresponding fabrication methods for magnetoresistive sensors. One example here relates to a magnetoresistive sensor having a layer stack. The layer stack comprises a reference layer having a reference magnetization, which is fixed and has a first magnetic orientation. The layer stack comprises a magnetically free layer. The magnetically free layer has a magnetically free magnetization. The magnetically free magnetization is variable in the presence of an external magnetic field. The magnetically free magnetization has a second magnetic orientation in a ground state. One of the first or the second magnetic orientation is oriented in-plane and the other is oriented out-of-plane. The layer stack comprises a metal multilayer. In this case, either the metal multilayer is arranged adjacent to the magnetically free layer, or the metal multilayer constitutes the magnetically free layer.
US11467228B2
In described examples, a magnetic sensor includes a waveguide that encapsulates dipolar molecules. A mm-wave electromagnetic field is launched into the waveguide, travels through the dipolar molecules, and is then received after passing through the dipolar molecules. The frequency of the mm-wave electromagnetic signal is swept across a range that includes an intrinsic quantum rotational state transition frequency (Fr) for the dipolar molecules. Absorption peaks in accordance with the Zeeman effect are determined. A strength of a magnetic field affecting the magnetic sensor is proportional to a difference in the frequencies of the absorption peaks.
US11467225B2
A method of determining an absolute angle of a magnetic field includes receiving a first digital measurement value Bx of a first magnetic field component indicating intensity of the magnetic field along a first axis; receiving a second digital measurement value Bz of a second magnetic field component indicating the intensity of the magnetic field along a second axis, orthogonal to the first axis; determining absolute values for the first and second magnetic field components; and determining the angle of the magnetic field with respect to the first or second axis. The angle is determined so that the angle is derivable from the value of arcsin of Bz or of its approximation, when the absolute value of Bz≤ the absolute value of Bx, and derivable from the value of arccos of Bx or of its approximation, when the absolute value of Bz> the absolute value of Bx.
US11467224B2
A power cable measurement system for facilitating measurements of a power cable terminated at an electrical substation and connected to an overhead busbar, including: a first movable structure provided with a first busbar connector, and a measurement equipment connector device configured to be electrically connected to the first busbar connector and to measurement equipment, wherein the first movable structure is configured to be maneuvered between a default lowered position in which the first busbar connector is disconnected from the overhead busbar, and a temporary elevated position in which the first busbar connector is set in electrical connection with the overhead busbar to provide an electrical connection between the overhead busbar and the measurement equipment connector device.
US11467217B2
Provided is a method of calculating a resistance and a capacitance of an energy storage system, including a current application step of applying a predetermined current having a constant value to the energy storage system; a first voltage measurement step of measuring a voltage of the energy storage system while the predetermined current is applied to the energy storage system; a second voltage measurement step of measuring a voltage of the energy storage system after breaking the predetermined current applied to the energy storage system; and a step of calculating a resistance (R) and a capacitance (C) of the energy storage system based on the voltage of the energy storage system measured in the first voltage measurement step, the voltage of the energy storage system measured in the second voltage measurement step, and the predetermined current having the constant value.
US11467214B2
One illustrative method comprises retrieving a set of drive information associated with an operation of an electric drive in a time period from a drive control unit and one or more sensor units. The method further includes obtaining reliability information associated with the electric drive from a server. The reliability information is computed in the server, with the set of drive information and a model corresponding to a drive type of the electric drive. The reliability information includes a probability of occurrence of the abnormal condition in a specified future time period. The method further includes, providing at least one condition indication regarding the abnormal condition to one of a human machine interface and a drive controller based on the probability of occurrence of the abnormal condition.
US11467211B2
A method for detecting error on an input/output (IO) pin of an integrated circuit includes using the input/output pin of the integrated circuit in a first mode by receiving or sending a first value as analog data or digital data. The input/output pin is toggled in a test mode after each instance of using the input/output pin in the first mode. The test mode includes providing a second value disparate from the first value during a set time after using the input/output pin in the first mode, receiving back during the set time a resulting value based on providing the second value, measuring the resulting value, and identifying an error on the input/output pin of the integrated circuit based on the measured resulting value.
US11467209B2
A method for measuring (and controlling) a characteristic performance parameter Γs of a device under test (DUT) having an input port (at the minimum). The method involves connecting the input port of the DUT to a signal generator, subjecting the DUT to a large signal input test signal, and executing a first measurement of the incident wave and reflected wave at a DUT input reference plane. The method further involves subjecting the DUT to a perturbation signal combined with the large signal input test signal, and executing a second measurement of the incident wave and reflected wave at the DUT input reference plane, and determining the characteristic performance parameter from the first measurement and the second measurement.
US11467207B2
A massive testing system of a micro integrated circuit includes: a first test area including a plurality of test pads and a plurality of reading pads, and disposed on scribe lines; a plurality of test controllers disposed on the scribe lines one by one; and a probe configured to contact the first test area to test a plurality of rows of integrated circuit chips; wherein each of the plurality of test controllers is configured to test a respective one of the plurality of rows of integrated circuit chips row by row; wherein the probe merely contacts the first test area once; wherein the plurality of reading pads are configured to read test results of each of the plurality of rows of integrated circuit chips row by row.
US11467206B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for calibrating a battery simulator having an input and an output, wherein a current path with an apparatus for measuring the current strength and with at least one capacitor is provided between the input and output. Furthermore, a voltage path can be provided between the input and output, with an apparatus for measuring the voltage and/or a current transformer, in the secondary current of which the apparatus for measuring the current strength is connected. If a battery simulator is connected to the apparatus it can charge the capacitor and then the capacitor can charge the battery simulator, whilst the current strength and voltage are measured, and on that basis the internal measurement devices of the battery simulator are calibrated.
US11467199B2
A device for capacitive detection of an object with respect to a detection surface, including: at least one capacitive detection electrode, and detection electronics including at least one item of measurement electronic equipment, for: polarizing the at least one detection electrode at an alternating excitation potential (VG), different from a ground potential; measuring a measurement signal relative to an electrode-object capacitance; and the detection electronics also includes, for the measurement electronics, at least two separate calculation modules, operating in parallel, and supplying two independent detection signals for one and the same measurement signal originating from the measurement electronics.
US11467183B2
A test socket for a device under test (DUT) is disclosed in several embodiments. One embodiment shows a test socket base (16) with apertures (30) for insertion of test pin insert blocks (28). The blocks are inserted top—in or bottom—in and are provided with registration bosses 80 and teeth 92 or other means for maintaining registration. Blocks are provided with dielectric constants to achieve different frequency response relative to other pins. To achieve great EMI and cross talk isolation, the socket may be made of aluminum with hard anodize coating to insulate test pins (32) from the housing.
US11467182B1
Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM) system configured with the use of a composite material employing a non-metallic matrix and at least one of diamond particles, fused silica particles, boron carbide particles, silicon carbide particles, aluminum oxide particles, carbon fiber elements, carbon nanotube elements, and doped diamond particles to increase the structural integrity and/or strength of the SPM system, and a fraction of reinforcement ranging from at least 25% to at least 75% with advantageous modification of the Young's modulus, coefficient of thermal expansion, and thermal conductivity.
US11467180B2
A distributed computing system for artificial intelligence in autonomously appreciating a circumstance context of a smart device. Raw context data is detected by sensors associated with the smart device. The raw context data is pre-processed by the smart device and then provided to a cloud based server for further processing. At the cloud based server, various sets of feature data are obtained from the pre-processed context data. The various sets of feature data are compared with corresponding classification parameters to determine a classification of a continuous event and/or a classification of transient event, if any, which occur in the context. The determined classification of the continuous event and the transient event will be used to autonomously configure the smart device or another related smart device to fit the context.
US11467177B2
An acoustic air data system includes first and second acoustic transmitters, an array of acoustic receivers, and control circuitry. The array is positioned to receive first and second acoustic signals. The control circuitry determines time difference of arrival (TDOA) of the first and second acoustic signals. The control circuitry determines, for each of a first and second set of acoustic receiver pairs, a signal velocity of the first and second acoustic signals, respectively, based on a distance between an inner acoustic receiver and an outer acoustic receiver and a corresponding TDOA for each pair of acoustic receivers. The control circuitry estimates one or more of wind angle, speed of sound, Mach number, and true airspeed of the airflow about the exterior of the vehicle based on parameters of a best fit circle.
US11467174B2
The purpose of the present invention is to constantly keep a state in a flow cell steady by filling a detection flow channel with a liquid. The configuration of the present invention for solving the aforementioned problem is as follows. Specifically, the present invention is an automatic analysis apparatus provided with a detection unit including a flow cell that accommodates a liquid serving as an analysis subject; a suction nozzle that is positioned upstream of the flow cell and that sucks the liquid to be introduced into the flow cell; a pump that is positioned downstream of the flow cell and that supplies the liquid to the flow cell; flow channels that connect the flow cell, the suction nozzle, and the pump; a power source; and a power-cutting instructing unit that gives an instruction to cut the power supply at least to the pump. The automatic analysis apparatus is characterized by being provided with a control unit that performs first liquid supply processing when the power-cutting instruction from the power-cutting instructing unit is not received, and that performs second liquid supplying processing when the power-cutting instruction from the power-cutting instructing unit is received, thus supplying the liquid to the flow cell.
US11467170B2
A dose determination program for an erythropoiesis-stimulating agent that is executable by a computer. The program causes the computer to perform: obtaining a predetermined target hemoglobin concentration; obtaining a first concentration and a first dose in a stable state in which a hemoglobin concentration is stable at the first concentration by repeatedly administering the first dose a plurality of times, and calculating a second dose of the erythropoiesis-stimulating agent based on the obtained target hemoglobin concentration, the obtained first concentration, and the obtained first dose, the second dose of the erythropoiesis-stimulating agent being to be administered by a fixed amount.
US11467168B2
Presented herein are compositions and devices comprising otopetrin polypeptides and uses thereof for identifying modulators of proton translocation activity through an otopetrin polypeptide, or functional portion thereof.
US11467144B2
A light emitting and receiving apparatus includes a controller and a calculator. The controller acquires a first detection current from a light-receiving element when supplying a first drive current to a light-emitting element and acquires a second detection current from the light-receiving element when supplying a second drive current to the light-emitting element. The calculator generates a signal indicating deterioration of the light-emitting element when a reference value and an aging value satisfy a deterioration judgment condition, the aging value being a ratio between the first detection current and the second detection current. The detection accuracy of the light emitting and receiving apparatus is thereby improved.
US11467142B2
The invention relates to a standard solution for inverse gas chromatography and/or surface energy analysis; a volumetric container for preparing such a standard solution; a method of preparing such a standard solution for inverse gas chromatography and/or a surface energy analysis and a method of probing a solid sample. The standard solution comprises a series of three or more compounds of increasing carbon chain length of general formula (I): R—X wherein: for the three or more compounds R is a series of alkyl, a series of alkenyl or a series of alkynyl groups of increasing carbon chain length; and for all three or more compounds X is H, OH, CO2H, C(O)H, C(O)CH3, NH2, SH or halogen; and the relationship between carbon chain length and volume of the compounds of increasing carbon chain length of general formula (I) is determined by the following formula.
US11467134B2
A method for simulating an ultrasonic response of a metal part is carried out by an electronic simulating device. The method includes computing a first distribution of ultrasonic waves for the part without defect, in response to an ultrasonic excitation toward said part computing a second distribution of ultrasonic waves for a predefined zone (S3k) of the part, including a defect (20), in response to an ultrasonic excitation toward said zone (S3k), with the computation of elementary distributions, each corresponding to an ultrasonic response received by a receiver located at a border (F) of said zone; and determining a resultant distribution of ultrasonic waves for the part with defect, from the first and second computed distributions, the resultant distribution forming a simulation of an ultrasonic response received from the part including the defect (20), in response to an ultrasonic excitation toward said part.
US11467130B2
A method and apparatus for inspecting a fusion joint is provided. The apparatus includes a processor, an ultrasound (“US”) probe in communication with the processor, and a database comprising classification rules. The processor is configured to generate an initial set of US scanning positions about the fusion joint based on information of at least one of the US probe and the fusion joint; measure, via the US probe, a US pulse-echo spectrum from at least two of the initial US scanning positions; compare each measured US pulse-echo spectrum with one or more known US pulse-echo spectrums; classify each measured US pulse-echo spectrum according to the classification rules; and evaluate an aggregate of measured US pulse-echo spectrums to determine if the fusion joint is defective.
US11467128B2
A defect detection method and apparatus detecting a defect in an object. The method comprises: obtaining ultrasound scan data derived from an ultrasound scan of the object under consideration, the ultrasound scan data being in the form of a set of echo amplitude values representing the amplitude of echoes received from the object during ultrasound scanning at certain spatial and temporal points; processing the ultrasound scan data to remove echo amplitude values received after a predetermined threshold time; generating at least one image from the processed ultrasound scan data; subjecting each generated image to an automated defect recognition process to determine whether there is a defect in the portion of the object represented by the image; issuing a notification indicating whether or not a defect has been found; and, if a defect has been found, storing the result of the automated defect recognition process in a defect database.
US11467127B2
The present invention discloses a visual ultrasonic nondestructive testing device and method for a deep/long-hole pipe. The device is composed of an ultrasonic measurement module, a mechanical motion module, a control module, and a coupling injection and assistance module. The ultrasonic measurement module includes an ultrasonic pulse transmitter/receiver, and the ultrasonic transmitter/receiver includes a high-speed analog/digital (A/D) converter; the mechanical motion module includes a scanning device, a probe and a holding device thereof, and a magnetic drive device. A scanning device can move in two directions, that is, an X-axis on which a magnetic driving wheel steps and a Y-axis on which a module body tests. During the scanning process, on the X-axis, a stepping motor drives a synchronous wheel-belt transmission, so that the magnetic driving wheel is rotated to achieve the purpose of stepping; on the Y-axis, a stepping motor on the module body drives the probe to reciprocate.
US11467119B2
The present disclosure relates to an ion-selective electrode for an electrochemical sensor for determining a measurand representing a concentration of an analyte in a measuring medium, including a probe body made of a first material and a sensor element including a base body made of a second material different from the first material and an ion-selective layer arranged on the base body. The probe body is connected to the base body by way of a liquid-tight joint, where the joint is formed by a receptacle, serving as a first joining partner, and a joining section protruding into the receptacle, serving as a second joining partner.
US11467114B2
An apparatus and a method for measuring pressure, gas and/or humidity, the apparatus having at least one sensor with at least one capacitor comprising at least two electrodes that are arranged in a horizontal direction relative to one another along and on a flexible support material. At least one dielectric layer is arranged between the electrodes and at least one at least partially moisture-permeable and/or moisture-absorbing and/or gas-permeable and/or gas-absorbing moisture layer is arranged at least in some places on a side, facing away from a support material, of at least one electrode and/or the dielectric layer. At least one electrode and/or the dielectric layer are thus arranged transversely between the support material and the moisture layer. A capacitance is at least partially changed by moisture hitting the dielectric layer, and a processing unit measures and/or stores this change, so as to create a capacitive moisture sensor.
US11467101B2
A system (100) for viewing and ascertaining optical characteristics of gemstones, said system including a first and second integrating sphere (150,150a), wherein each integrating sphere (150,150a) is in optical communication with each other and having a spacer portion (116) disposed therebetween, a first light source (118) engaged with the first sphere (150) and for providing light to the interior of the first sphere (150) and a second light source (118a) engaged with the second sphere (150a) and for providing light to the interior of the second sphere (150a); at least one optical image acquisition device (110) in communication with the interior of one of the spheres for acquisition of an optical image of a gemstone disposed in a region between the spheres; a transparent platform (117) for supporting the gemstone between the two integrating spheres (150,150a); and a control module (120) in communication with the optical image acquisition device (110), for controlling the acquisition of optical images of gemstones thereof; wherein said optical image of the gemstone is processed by a processor to ascertain one or more optical characteristics of the gemstone.
US11467099B2
There is provided an inspection apparatus, including: a housing having an upper surface on which an interface part for electrical connection with a probe card is provided; a first frame configured to be movable to a connection position where the first frame covers an upper portion of the interface part and to a retraction position where the first frame is retracted from the upper portion of the interface part; and a second frame configured to support a test head, arranged inside the first frame, and held by the first frame so as to be switchable between a fixed state in which the second frame is fixed to the first frame and a movable state in which the second frame is movable at least in a direction parallel to the interface part at the connection position.
US11467096B1
A system, apparatus, and method for remotely detecting defects in a structure may proceed non-destructively. A mobile sensing platform may place sensors in a desired positioning relative to the structure. The desired position may include a non-contacting relation between the sensors and structure. The mobile sensing platform may project laser beams onto the structure and sense backscattered light via the sensors. Variations in the backscattered light may correspond to motion of the structure, such as vibrations. By calculating the frequency and amplitude of the vibrations, defects in the structure may be detected. By correcting for noise, such as that associated with acceleration of the mobile sensing platform, accuracy and precision of defect detection may be enhanced.
US11467094B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for methods of detecting, sensors (e.g., chromogenic sensor), kits, compositions, and the like that related to or use tunable macroporous polymer. In an aspect, tunable macroporous materials as described herein can be used to determine the presence of a certain type(s) and quantity of liquid in a liquid mixture.
US11467093B2
An electrical polarity adjustable biosensor based on lossy mode resonance includes a first polarity module, a second polarity module, and a plurality of spacers disposed between the first polarity module and the second polarity module. A biomaterial sensing region for injecting an object to be tested is formed between a bioprobe layer of the first polarity module and a second electrode layer of the second polarity module. An electric field is formed between a lossy mode resonance layer of the first polarity module and the second electrode layer, and the electric field acts on a plurality of bioprobes of the bioprobe layer and the object to be tested. The present disclosure further includes a method of using the electrical polarity adjustable biosensor based on lossy mode resonance.
US11467089B2
Arrays of integrated analytical devices and their methods for production are provided. The arrays are useful in the analysis of highly multiplexed optical reactions in large numbers at high densities, including biochemical reactions, such as nucleic acid sequencing reactions. The devices allow the highly sensitive discrimination of optical signals using features such as spectra, amplitude, and time resolution, or combinations thereof. The devices include an integrated diffractive beam shaping element that provides for the spatial separation of light emitted from the optical reactions.
US11467082B2
A method of predicting a corrosion loss of a metal material, the method including: inputting a prediction request point including a use period of the metal material for which a corrosion loss is desired to be predicted and second environmental parameters indicating a use environment of the metal material in the use period; calculating a similarity degree between first environmental parameters in corrosion loss data and the second environmental parameters in the prediction request point; dimensionally reducing the first environmental parameters in the corrosion loss data to a latent variable taking the similarity degree into consideration; and predicting a corrosion loss of the metal material for the prediction request point based on a prediction expression constructed using the latent variable and the similarity degree.
US11467073B2
Disclosed is a method for concentrating extracellular vesicles, comprising preparing a mixture comprising a first fraction and a second fraction by mixing a liquid sample comprising extracellular vesicles, a polysaccharide, and a polyether having an average molecular weight of 20,000 or less, wherein the first fraction comprises a higher concentration of extracellular vesicles than the second fraction, and the first fraction comprises a higher concentration of extracellular vesicles than the liquid sample.
US11467068B2
A microtome, having a sectioning knife and having a specimen head (5) movable relative to the sectioning knife; having an electric drive system (16) for motorized movement of the specimen head (5); having a sensor (21) for detecting the presence of the specimen head (5) at a reference position (z1); and having a control device (18) for controlling the electric drive system (16) and for processing signals of the sensor (21), the control device (18) being configured to control the electric drive system (16) to move the specimen head (5) and to halt the specimen head (5) in reaction to detection of the presence of the specimen head (5) at the reference position (z1).
US11467066B2
A method for determining the preload value of the screw based on thermal error and temperature rise weighting. Firstly, thermal behavior test of the feed shaft under typical working conditions is carried out to obtain the maximum thermal error and the temperature rise at the key measuring points in each preloaded state. Then, a mathematical model of the preload value of the screw and the maximum thermal error is established; meanwhile, another mathematical model of the preload value of the screw and the temperature rise at the key measuring points is also established. Finally, the optimal preload value of the screw is obtained. The thermal error of the feed shaft and the temperature rise of the moving components are comprehensively considered, improving the processing accuracy and accuracy stability of the machine tool, and ensuring the service life of the moving components such as bearings.
US11467046B2
In a stress measurement method, an object to be measured is vibrated at a plurality of oscillation frequencies, and a temperature amplitude of the object to be measured is measured by using a temperature sensor. Parameters of a one-dimensional heat conduction equation described below are identified by performing curve-fitting, on the basis of the one-dimensional heat conduction equation, on a measurement value of the temperature amplitude with respect to frequency characteristics of a temperature change component and a phase component based on a thermoelastic effect. The frequency characteristics are obtained at the plurality of oscillation frequencies. The one-dimensional heat conduction equation indicates a theoretical solution of a temperature amplitude on a surface of a coating film based on heat conduction and the thermoelastic effect of each of a substrate and the coating film. Then, a stress of the object to be measured is obtained based on the identified parameters.
US11467044B2
A system includes a conditioning circuit, resistors connected to pins of the conditioning circuit, and measurement sensors connected to pins of the conditioning circuit. The conditioning circuit is configured to determine resistance values of the resistors and to determine a set of addresses for the measurement sensors based upon a combination of the resistance values of the resistors.
US11467041B2
The present invention provides a thermal sensor integrated IC having a resistor and a converting circuit. The resistor is implemented by at least one metal line, wherein a resistance of the resistor is varied with a temperature of the resistor, the resistor has a first terminal and a second terminal, and one of the first terminal and the second terminal is arranged to provide a voltage signal corresponding to the resistance. The converting circuit is coupled to the resistor, and is configured to convert the voltage signal to an output signal for determining the temperature. In one embodiment, the at least one metal line is made by copper.
US11467038B2
The present invention relates to the time-temperature indicating module which allows the user to trigger the bursting of the starting member with a simple motion and generate a crack so that the spread material interposed inside spreads via the crack. The present invention also relates to the manufacturing method of the time-temperature indicating module that strengthens a sealed section of the time-temperature indicating module using laminating by heat sealing to prevent the spread material from leaking or flowing out.
US11467037B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe rapid temperature measurement by wavelength modulation spectroscopy (WMS) that determines gas temperature from 2ƒ signals from two absorption lines by WMS methodologies even when the gas concentration is sufficiently high to saturate optical absorptions. In sharp contrast to the prior art, rapid temperature measurement by WMS according to aspects of the present disclosure employs both a 2ƒ signal ratio and gas concentration determined from the 2ƒ signal.
US11467029B2
The present disclosure relates to a light exposure monitoring system that includes a central control server; a plurality of indoor light exposure zones and a positioning system configured to communicate with the central control server to determine: a position (P) of an individual within the plurality of indoor light exposure zones, and a distance between a head of the individual and a floor within the plurality of indoor light exposure zones
US11467018B1
A liquid sensor assembly includes a sensor housing defining an interior cavity. The sensor housing has at least one inlet opening for liquid to pass into the cavity and at least one outlet opening for liquid to pass out of the cavity. A liquid sensor is in the cavity for sensing the presence of liquid in the sensor housing. The liquid sensor is between the at least one inlet opening and the at least one outlet opening. The liquid sensor has a sensor opening extending therethrough for the passage of liquid through the liquid sensor.
US11467017B2
An example of an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a current source. The apparatus includes a conductor in electrical communication with the current source and a conductive fluid in a reservoir. The apparatus includes a first sensing rod to extend into the reservoir, wherein the first sensing rod has a first diameter. The apparatus includes a tip disposed at an end of the first sensing rod to interact with a surface of the conductive fluid. The tip has a second diameter over a first portion of the tip adjacent to the first sensing rod. The second diameter is smaller than the first diameter. The apparatus includes a sensor to detect an electrical signal between the conductor and the first sensing rod.
US11467016B2
Provided are a semiconductor device and a sensor system capable of achieving improvement of noise resistance. Thus, an output circuit 106a in the semiconductor device includes: input terminals 207n, 207p; and an output terminal 208; an output amplifier 201 connecting the input terminals 207n, 207p to the output terminal 208; a feedback element 203 returning the output terminal 208 to the input terminal 207n; a switching transistor 204; and a resistance element 206. A drain of the switching transistor 204 is connected to the input terminal 207n. The resistance element 206 is provided between a back gate of the switching transistor 204 and a power source Vdd and has impedance of a predetermined value or more for suppressing noise of a predetermined frequency generated at the input terminal 207n.
US11467014B2
A fluid flow meter system for monitoring fluid flow through a lumen includes a first ultrasonic transducer configured to transmit one or more versions of a transmit (TX) signal through a fluid flowing within the lumen, and a second ultrasonic transducer configured to receive one or more respective receive (RX) signals. The fluid flow meter system includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to sample, at a first frequency, the one or more RX ultrasonic signals and a processor configured to generate a fine resolution signal based on the one or more RX ultrasonic signals. The fine resolution signal is associated with a second sampling rate higher than the first sampling rate. The processor is also configured to compute a cross-correlation signal indicative of cross-correlation between the fine resolution signal and a waveform and determine an estimated fluid flow parameter based on the computed cross-correlation signal.
US11467002B2
A system and method for determining the wind force along the planned trajectory of a projectile are disclosed herein. A drone is flown along the expected path of the trajectory along a set heading. The drone is programmed to maintain the heading. As wind forces act upon the drone during its flight, the drone's electronic stability system provides automatic power and directional control to one or more motors that control the rotors and propellers that keep the drone aloft. By monitoring the changes in motor or drone state information over time in response to wind forces, the wind can be determined at various locations along the flight path. This information can be provided to a ballistics calculator to determine the launch heading of the projectile.
US11467001B2
A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium has stored therein a program for causing a processor to execute a process that includes: adjusting a difference between a first environment map created based on a feature of a given image among captured first time-series images and a second environment map created based on a feature of a given image among second time-series images captured separately from the first time-series images; comparing a position of an image related to a position and orientation calculated based on information on the first environment map with a position of an image related to a position and orientation calculated based on information on the second environment map, and calculating an adjustment value for adjusting a difference between the first environment map and the second environment map based on a result of the comparison.
US11467000B2
Systems and methods are provided for generating a mapping application that displays an initial map with a zoom level that is based on a travel time associated with the location of the user. The mapping application receives a request to present a digital map from a client device. Based on the current geographic location of the client device, the mapping application estimates a distance in which a user of the client device can travel within a particular time period. The mapping application then selects a parameter for a viewport of the digital map based at least on the estimated distance. For example, the viewport parameter may be a zoom level. The mapping application then generates the digital map in accordance with the selected parameter, and displays the digital map via a user interface of the client device.
US11466996B2
A route planning platform can find a path through a road network that has turn complexities. The route planning platform can identify, in the road network, multiple paths from an origin node to a destination node, including at least one path having a turn complexity (e.g., a turn cost, a turn restriction, and/or the like). The route planning platform can compute a respective cost for each respective path from the origin node to the destination node based on a total cost associated with a set of road segments in the respective path, and the cost for the at least one path having the turn complexity can be further based on the turn cost or the turn restriction along the at least one path. The route planning platform can select, among the multiple paths, a shortest path based on the respective cost for each path.
US11466992B2
The present disclosure provides a method, an apparatus, a computing device and a computer readable storage medium for detecting an environmental change, and relates to the field of autonomous driving. The method obtains a global map for an area and a first local map built in real time for a sub-area in the area; and determines an environmental change in the first sub-area by comparing the first local map and the global map and determining a first probability of the environmental change. Techniques of the present disclosure can automatically detect environmental changes that affect the positioning of autonomous driving, thereby facilitating the updating of positioning maps.
US11466984B2
An ECU includes a memory including computer executable instructions for monitoring the condition of a ground engaging tool, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to execute the computer executable instructions, the computer executable instructions when executed by the processor cause the processor to: acquire an image of the ground engaging tool, evaluate the image using an algorithm that compares the acquired image to a database of existing images to determine the damage, the amount of wear, or the absence of the ground engaging tool, and grade the quality of the acquired image.
US11466977B2
Since the fat content of pork is a deciding factor in grading the quality of meat, the use of a noninvasive subcutaneous probe for real-time, in situ monitoring of the fat components is of importance to vendors and other interested parties. Fortunately, in situ, in vivo monitoring of subcutaneous fat can be accomplished with spatially offset Raman spectroscopy (SORS) using a fiber-optic probe. The probe acquires Raman spectra as a function of spatial offset. These spectra are used to determine the relative composition of fat-to-skin. The Raman intensity ratio varies disproportionately depending on the fat content, with variations in slope that are correlated to the thickness of the fat layer. Ordinary least square (OLS) regression using two components indicates that depth-resolved SORS spectra reflect the relative thickness of the fat layer.
US11466974B2
An image capturing apparatus includes: a coordinate value acquisition unit acquiring first coordinate values serving as position information of a moving target; an image capturing unit capturing an image of the target; a direction and distance calculation unit calculating a direction of an optical axis that connects the target and the image capturing unit and a distance between the target and the image capturing unit on the optical axis based on the first coordinate values and second coordinate values serving as position information of the image capturing unit; an attitude control unit controlling an attitude of the image capturing unit based on the calculated direction of the optical axis; and an imaging magnification setting unit setting an imaging magnification of the target in the image capturing unit based on the calculated distance, wherein the image of the target is captured while changing the imaging magnification and the attitude.
US11466973B2
A rotation angle detection apparatus capable of reducing the cost and having a small thickness is provided. The rotation angle detection apparatus includes: a housing; a rotating shaft rotatably disposed in the housing; a first internal gear disposed concentrically with the rotating shaft and fixed to the housing; a second internal gear disposed concentrically with the rotating shaft, and rotatably disposed in the housing, the second internal gear having a number of teeth different from a number of teeth of the first internal gear; an external gear rotatably disposed at a position separated from the rotating shaft in rotating body, the external gear meshing with the first internal gear and the second internal gear; and a detection section that detects a rotation angle of the second internal gear.
US11466969B2
Various aspects of tape measures with one or more of a sensor, a motor, and a clutch, are shown. The sensors described herein detect, through various mechanisms, the position of the retraction system of a tape measure. The measurements by the sensors may be used to control a motor to adjust an amount of tension in the spiral spring of a tape measure. In various embodiments a motor interacts with the retraction system of the tape measure via a clutch, which moderates an amount of force that the motor can communicate to the retraction system.
US11466957B1
A crossbow string drawing assistance system includes a crossbow, a bowstring drawing assistance device and a wire separator assembly, the bowstring drawing assistance device and the wire separator assembly are mounted on different positions of the crossbow, a pull hook of the bowstring drawing assistance device can hook a bowstring of the crossbow, a pull wire is inserted through the two hooks to engage with the wire separator assembly; when the bowstring drawing assistance device continuously packs the pull wire, the pull wire on the wire separator assembly is engaged to force the bowstring to move toward the wire separator assembly until the bowstring is engaged with the engaging member, so as to complete a drawing operation. Therefore, a user can mount and dismount the bowstring drawing assistance device easily according to habit, so as to mount the bowstring drawing assistance device in a comfortable position.
US11466956B2
An attachment for a compound bow that allows for improved carrying of the compound bow when a user has the bow in a non-shooting position. The attachment attaches to the compound bow at the threaded stabilizer receiver. The attachment can be attached to a stabilizer, or alternatively can have an extension that directly threads to the stabilizer receiver of the compound bow. The attachment can clip to a standard receiver, or alternatively can be threaded to an end of the stabilizer. The attachment can be configured such that a counterbalance weight can be attached to the attachment. The attachment is generally in a U shape or similar shape that allows for the arm or hand of a user to be positioned within the attachment.
US11466954B2
A training pistol and method of providing the same having fixedly and adjustably removable base extensions to emulate the feel of a corresponding live fire pistol, a trigger mechanism configured to be fit in a compact pistol to provide a large number and sophistication of sear surfaces and biasing members such as helical springs and lasers into a compact pistol to provide training for an end user such as concealed carry holder or law enforcement personnel.
US11466953B2
An elevating assembly that includes an elevating strut that is manipulated mechanically between a first retracted configuration and a second extended configuration for moving the gun. An internal chamber can be defined within the elevating strut for compressible fluid. A pressure of the compressible fluid within the elevating strut can be tuned and maintained in order to reduce the weight of the gun overcome by the elevating strut during the manipulation.
US11466950B2
An electronic locking system is operable to prevent a firearm from firing. The firearm includes an operating mechanism. The electronic locking system includes a power source configured to store electrical energy used to operate the electronic locking system; and a power generation element configured to generate electrical energy as a result of an operation of the operating mechanism, wherein at least a portion of the electrical energy generated by the power generation element is received by the power source.
US11466942B2
Shell-and-tube equipment includes a tube bundle, an inlet tube-sheet, and an anti-erosion device including an outer tubular element and an inner tubular element. A first tubular end of the outer tubular element is connected the inlet tube-sheet, whereas a second free tubular end of the outer tubular element extends in an inlet channel. The inner tubular element is inserted into the outer tubular element, so as to substantially cover the entire internal surface of the outer tubular element, and into at least a portion of the corresponding tube to a point beyond the joint or the second side of the inlet tube-sheet whichever is further from the outer tubular element. The inner tubular element is joined to the outer tubular element by means of mechanical or hydraulic expansion of at least a first tubular portion of the inner tubular element against the internal surface of the outer tubular element.
US11466940B2
Flow conditioner device (40), for use in a heat exchanger system (10). The flow conditioner device includes a honeycomb structure (42) and a mesh (44). The honeycomb structure is configured for rectifying an incoming gas flow (26), and is formed by walls that border channels extending in a flow direction (X) from inlet apertures at a leading surface, to respective outlet apertures at a trailing surface of the honeycomb structure. The mesh is formed by a plurality of wires that extend along further directions (Y, Z) transverse to the flow direction, and which are mutually spaced to define openings. The mesh is attached directly to the honeycomb structure and abuts the second surface, and cross-sectional areas of the openings defined along the further directions vary as a function of position along at least one of the further directions.
US11466931B2
A vibratory fluidized bed dryer includes a deck with a surface on which a bed of materials is formed, the deck having apertures through which air passes to fluidize the bed of materials on the deck, a source of air coupled to the apertures in the deck to supply air to the bed through the apertures in the deck, and a vibration generator coupled to the deck. The deck has at least two zones, each zone having a different open area percentage, such that the air passing through each zone produces a different superficial velocity.
US11466928B2
A refrigerator includes a lift that moves a container upward and downward. The refrigerator may include: a cabinet having a storage chamber provided therein and an opening; at least one door provided such that a front of the storage chamber provided in the cabinet is opened and closed; a cooling device cooling the storage chamber; the lift provided at a side of the storage chamber to fold downward and unfold upward so as to move the container upward and downward; and an anti-loosening device provided at a side of the lift and allowing the lift to rotate relative to a front end thereof when the lift is removed upward so as to maintain a folded state of the lift.
US11466927B2
A vacuum insulated cabinet structure includes an exterior wrapper with a front edge extending around an opening thereof. A liner includes a front edge extending around an opening of the liner, wherein the liner is disposed inside of the wrapper. A thermal bridge includes an outer coupling portion and an inner coupling portion. In assembly, the outer coupling portion is overmolded to the front edge of the wrapper, and the inner coupling portion is overmolded to the front edge of the liner to form a sealed vacuum cavity (VC) between the wrapper and the liner. The thermal bridge is formed in a mold in which the wrapper and liner are partially disposed to form a unitary composite structure.
US11466914B2
An ice cube tray assembly having an insulating box, a lower chamber and an upper chamber. The insulating box having a base and an upstanding structure, with a cavity. A top surface has an inner and outer perimeter, with the inner perimeter defining the opening of the cavity. The lower chamber includes an upper deck portion and container structure depending therefrom. The upper chamber includes a top wall and an inner container structure depending from the top wall. The upper and lower chambers are positioned in sealing engagement.
US11466910B2
The disclosed technology includes systems and methods of reducing frost accumulation on a heat pump evaporator coil. The disclosed technology can include a heat pump assembly having an evaporator coil, a fan configured to direct air across the evaporator coil, a temperature sensor, and a controller configured to energize the fan to direct air across the evaporator coil when the temperature of the evaporator coil is below a threshold temperature.
US11466903B2
A cooling system includes a compressor configured to pressurize carbon dioxide to form pressurized carbon dioxide, a mixer configured to generate mixed refrigerant in which the pressurized carbon dioxide and solvent in a liquid state, a depressurization apparatus provided downstream from the mixer and configured to depressurize the mixed refrigerant, a separator configured to separate carbon dioxide in a gas state from the mixed refrigerant, a heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between the mixed refrigerant cooled through depressurization and a fluid to be cooled, and a second heat exchanger configured to cool the carbon dioxide or the mixed refrigerant using vaporized carbon dioxide or the mixed refrigerant.
US11466902B2
The present disclosure relates to a novel vapor compression refrigeration system, and the methods of making and using the vapor compression refrigeration system.
US11466900B2
A dual-axis hydraulic joint system includes a vertical shaft, a horizontal shaft, and a hydraulic system. The vertical shaft allows a yaw rotational motion and the horizontal shaft allows a pitch rotational motion, wherein the rotational motion of the vertical shaft and the horizontal shaft is controlled by the hydraulic system. In doing so, the hydraulic system manages a pressure value within a vertical shaft enclosure that holds the vertical shaft, and also manages a pressure value within a horizontal shaft enclosure which holds the horizontal shaft. The pressure value within the vertical shaft enclosure or the horizontal shaft enclosure is either increased or decreased to determine the rotational direction of the vertical shaft or the horizontal shaft. When used for solar panel direction control, the hydraulic system operates according to feedback received from a light-sensor unit, a first encoding unit, and a second encoding unit.
US11466894B1
A mister-fan apparatus includes: a housing having a fan end and a reservoir end; at the fan end, a fan unit; at the reservoir end, a reservoir; a motor; a pump; an inlet conduit from the reservoir to the pump; and an outlet conduit from the pump to the fan unit, collectively configured for, through the use of the inlet and outlet conduits, pumping fluid from the reservoir to the fan unit so that the fan can output mist; a track peripherally surrounding the housing at least partway around; an attaching device having an attaching end and an extension end; a tongue having a track end, and a connection end connected to the extension end; and, within the track, a retaining slider connected to the track end; wherein the attaching end is configured for removably attaching to an external structure for supporting the apparatus. The track may include a pair of ridges, rigidly connected to the housing, that extend initially outwardly from the housing, and later toward each other but only to an extent of leaving a separation serving as a slot.
US11466876B2
Disclosed herein is a humidifier including an improved structure of a water collection tank. The humidifier includes a main body, a water supply tank provided in an upper portion of the main body, a humidifying fabric arranged in an inside of the main body and disposed below the water supply tank to receive water, a fan configured to move air through the humidifying fabric, a water collection tank configured to collect water from the humidifying fabric, a pump configured to pump water from the water collection tank to the water supply tank, and a humidifier lower cover coupleable to and decoupleable from a lower end of the main body. The water collection tank includes a water collection tank top cover provided in an upper portion of the water collection tank, and a water collection tank lower cover configured to be accessible through the lower end of the main body.
US11466872B2
An HVAC system utilizes one or more modular heat pump units installed within an outer wall or corner of a building, and one or more active registers. A central hub, which can be integrated into a modular HVAC unit, receives input from thermostats and sensors in the building and adjusts operation of the modular HVAC units and active registers to distribute conditioned air throughout the building. The system provides convenience and comfort of a traditional split HVAC system with significantly reduced installation and maintenance costs. The modular HVAC unit includes an interchangeable cartridge that contains the active components of a heat pump. Cartridges of different capacities can be installed as required, and are easily swapped out for maintenance, servicing, and replacement. A user can control the system using traditional-style thermostats and with a smart phone, tablet or computer. A cloud server provides backup services and remote access to the system.
US11466870B1
An integrated utility system, comprising: at least one heat pump which includes a compressor for processing water mist from an evaporator and providing the water mist to a condenser; a thermal reservoir configured to contain water and operatively connected to the condenser; a heat management system configured to receive and process excess heat generated between the thermal reservoir and condenser. The heat management system comprises: a plurality of sensors for measuring water pressure, temperature and flow; at least one control valve for controlling movement of a thermal energy from thermal sources; at least one thermal sink; a thermal storage; a plurality of heat exchangers fluidly connected to the thermal sources, to the at least one thermal sinks, to the thermal reservoir and to a plurality of pumps configured to circulate a heat exchange fluid between the thermal sources, thermal reservoir and the at least one thermal sink.
US11466867B2
An oven with an enhanced structure to keep a cooking space clean includes a main body, a cooking chamber formed inside the main body and including a bottom wall, a burner provided at an outer lower part of the cooking chamber to heat up the cooking chamber, a door arranged to open or close the cooking chamber, a bottom plate coupled to the bottom wall of the cooking chamber with a gap from the bottom wall such that the bottom plate is located inside the cooking chamber, and an outlet for heated air formed between one end of the bottom plate facing the door and the bottom wall of the cooking chamber such that heated air generated from the burner is supplied to the door.
US11466866B2
A kitchen hood has a first housing and a second housing that slides into and out of the first housing to adjust a length of the kitchen hood. The first housing has a fan to suction air, an outlet, and an air quality sensor assembly to continuously detect air quality in a kitchen. The second housing has an inlet and suction grill through which air is suctioned, a steam cleaning assembly to automatically steam clean an interior of the kitchen hood, and a height sensing assembly to sense a height of cookware seated on a cooktop surface below the second housing. The kitchen hood may be lengthened or shortened based on the sensed height of the cookware, and a speed of the fan and the height of the kitchen hood may be automatically adjusted based on detections by the air quality sensor assembly.
US11466865B2
The present disclosure relates to a cooking appliance disposed above a household appliance to simultaneously perform a hood function and an oven function. The cooking appliance includes a housing, a base plate configured to be coupled to the housing, a cooking chamber disposed inside the housing, a door coupled to the housing to open and close the cooking chamber, and a deflector spaced apart from a lower end of the door and coupled to a front edge of the base plate to cover the lower end of the door from hot air generated and transferred from a household appliance installed below the base plate.
US11466858B2
A combustor for a gas turbine engine includes a combustor shell, a burner seal, and a burner seal retainer. The combustor shell includes metallic materials and is formed to define an interior combustion space. The burner seal includes ceramic matrix composite materials and is configured to extend through apertures formed in the combustor shell and the heat shield. The burner seal retainer is configured to retain the burner seal to the combustor shell.
US11466849B2
An integrated lighting module may have a driver cap, a heat sink module, a LED light chip, an optical reflector, and a holder. The driver cap may be configured to hold a driver within the driver cap to power the LED light chip. The driver cap may attach to a top of the heat sink module. The heat sink module may be finned at its upper portions, the heat sink module may have a larger diameter than a non-finned bottom portion. The holder may screw upon the bottom portion of the heat sink module with the optical reflector and the LED light chip disposed between the holder and the heat sink module. Trim, such as MR16 sized trim, a lamp, and/or a lens holder, may attach to bottom flanges of the holder. The integrated lighting module may be adjusted without interfering with the trim.
US11466842B2
A light shaping apparatus consisting of two or more components which may be die cast from aluminum, magnesium, or similar materials that are meant to be attached to existing LED venue lighting fixtures. These components are designed so that they can be rotated and adjusted on the fixture circumference/edge. A semi-circular snoot flares out slightly from the outer edge of the fixture to reflect light that would normally be absorbed by a visor. The snoot may include a reflector on its inside surface. The snoot has connection points that mate with the fixture. The snoot also has connection points which allow it to be connected to a semi-circular bowl spaded brow adapted for cutting into the beam of light and block some of light emitted from the fixture. The brow is preferably one piece and has multiple sets of thin shear lines cast into it such that the length of the brow can be modified by breaking off material along the shear lines.
US11466830B1
An LED simulated flame device includes a semi-transparent diffusion cover in a candle flame shape, a light-emitting lamp plate, and a control circuit module. The light-emitting lamp plate includes a PCB substrate, and several LED chips shading between brightness and darkness at random, and the LED chips include an up-lighting LED chip that is located on a top edge of the PCB substrate, emits light upward, and is configured to project light and shadows onto a middle upper portion of the diffusion cover, two mid-lighting LED chips that emit light toward a front surface of the diffusion cover, are configured to project light and shadows onto a middle portion of the diffusion cover, and are located on front and back surfaces of the PCB substrate, and a down-lighting LED chip that corresponds to a bottom portion of the diffusion cover, emits light upward, and is configured to supplement light.
US11466822B1
The present invention relates to the field of lighting, and in particular to a light-emitting lamp string wire, wherein the light-emitting lamp string wire comprises a lamp string wire male connector, a lamp string wire female connector, and bulb power cords and copper wire lamp power cords installed between the lamp string wire male connector and the lamp string wire female connector, wherein the bulb power cords are connected in parallel with several bulbs, and the copper wire lamp power cords are connected in parallel with several LED lamp beads. With the present invention, light-emitting modes of the bulbs and said several LED lamp beads can be synchronous switched and colors thereof can be synchronous changed; a connection way of two strands of power cords effectively avoids a problem of a significant difference in brightness of front and rear lamp beads because the copper wire lamp core wires are too thin and there is a large front and rear voltage drop; and, both power control and solar control are considered. Therefore, the light-emitting lamp string wire is more beautiful, more ornamental, easier to install, and more widely used.
US11466821B2
A lamp module group can include a housing defining a first housing end and a second housing end, the housing defining a first protruding column at the first housing end, the housing defining a cavity with a housing opening to the cavity defined at the second housing end and a column opening to the cavity defined by the first protruding column; an LED lamp board positioned within the cavity, the LED lamp board configured to emit light through the housing opening; a power supply driving module positioned within the cavity between the LED lamp board and the first protruding column, the power supply driving module connected in electrical communication with the LED lamp board; and a concentric terminal extending through the column opening, the concentric terminal connected in electrical communication with the power supply driving module.
US11466810B2
A support stand for supporting a volumetric modular unit above the ground is disclosed. The support stand includes a top portion with a top surface for contacting and supporting an underside of the modular unit above the ground. A bottom portion with a bottom surface supports the top portion at an elevation above the ground against the underside of the modular unit. An elevating portion has a top side connected to the top portion, a bottom side connected to the bottom portion, and an elevating span between the top side and the bottom side. A pad is connected to the bottom portion. The pad has a bottom surface for contacting and supporting the bottom portion against the ground, an inner pad perimeter and an outer pad perimeter. The top surface is parallel with the bottom surface. The underside and weight of the modular unit is supported on the top surface.
US11466806B2
The invention relates to: a device for curing resin-soaked lining sleeves with energy-rich radiation, comprising at least one radiation source for generating energy-rich radiation for curing a lining sleeve, at least one camera for capturing an image sequence of an environment of the device, and at least one input device, in particular provided separately from the device, wherein a capturing region and/or a display region of the camera is/can be adjusted by a user by means of the input device, and wherein an adjustment of the capturing region of the camera occurs via a movement of at least one part of the camera and/or occurs by means of an electronic image-processing device, which is designed and configured to adjust at least one camera parameter in accordance with an adjusted display region; and a use for a device of this type.
US11466802B2
A support ring for a tubular connection is provided that comprises a body comprising a first end and a second end. A circumferential ring lip extends from the first end of the body and positioned perpendicular to the body. A protrusion is positioned on the body between the first end and the second end. The protrusion comprises a top surface and a bottom surface.
US11466799B2
One aspect of the invention provides a composite refrigeration line set including at least one selected from the group consisting of: a suction line and a return line, characterized in that one or more of the suction line and the return line are a composite refrigeration line set tube include: an inner plastic tube; a first adhesive layer positioned about the inner plastic tube; an aluminum layer positioned about the first adhesive layer and coupled to the inner plastic tube via the first adhesive layer; a second adhesive layer positioned about the aluminum layer; and an outer plastic layer positioned about the aluminum layer coupled to the aluminum layer via the second adhesive layer. The inner plastic tube is polyethylene of raised temperature. The outer plastic tube is polyethylene of raised temperature. The aluminum layer comprises AL 3004-O.
US11466797B2
A grommet assembly configured to be disposed within an aperture in a panel having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface is presented herein. The grommet assembly includes a grommet frame configured to contact the first surface of the panel and an elastomeric region extending from the grommet frame and configured to be inserted within the aperture. The elastomeric region defines a plurality of ribs angled such that the ribs are configured to provide an insertion force when the elastomeric region is inserted within the aperture and provide a removal force greater than the insertion force when the elastomeric region is withdrawn from the aperture. A method of manufacturing the grommet assembly is also presented.
US11466785B2
The invention is a water diverter apparatus comprising—a housing (10) having an inlet section (12) and two outlet sections (14), with a separation angle of less than 180° between the outlet sections (14), and—a flow directing member that can be adjusted by rotation about a shaft (18) supported in the housing (10). The apparatus is characterised in that—the flow directing member is a closing member (16) arranged downstream of the shaft (18), the closing member (16) being connected with the shaft (18) via a spacer (17) and having a closing surface arranged transversely to a flow direction, the closing member (16) having a first position adapted to close one of the outlet sections (14), a second position adapted to close the other outlet section (14), and a third position between the first and the second positions, adapted to allow water to flow into both outlet sections (14). The invention is furthermore a method for operating a water diverter apparatus.
US11466782B2
A butterfly valve has a rod connected to a DD motor and disposed along a direction orthogonal to a flow path, and a butterfly valve body that is linked to the rod and that opens and closes the flow path due to the rod being rotated by the DD motor, wherein a linking body center of gravity, which is the center of gravity of a rotating liking body having at least the rod and the butterfly valve body as constituent members, is positioned on an axial line of a rotating shaft of the DD motor.
US11466780B2
A magnetic liquid sealing device is provided. The magnetic liquid sealing device includes a housing, a rotating shaft, a pole shoe, a permanent magnet, and a first sealing ring. The rotating shaft is provided with an annular first stop portion, the pole shoe has a first end face and a second end face opposite to each other in an axial direction of the rotating shaft, and the permanent magnet is fitted over the rotating shaft. The first sealing ring is fitted over the rotating shaft, and includes a first part and a second part. The first part is sealedly fitted with at least one of the first end face and an inner peripheral surface of the housing, and an inner end of the second part is a first free end movably arranged along the axial direction of the rotating shaft.
US11466776B2
A control device (10) for a parking brake device has an electronic device (12) by means of which, in the event of failure of a power supply system of a vehicle equipped with the control device (10) and the parking brake device during a procedure for parking the vehicle, at least one activation signal (14) can be output to a triggering device (16) of the parking brake device, so that the triggering device (16) can be activated by means of the at least one activation signal (14) and the parking brake device can be transferred to a locking mode by means of the activated triggering device (16), such that the vehicle is locked in its current parking position by means of the parking brake device present in its locking mode.
US11466773B2
The disclosure provides a hydraulic control device. The operating/stopping of the second pump is determined based on a value of a difference between a reduced work rate of the first pump when the second pump is operated and a power consumption of the second pump. In a state where the second pump is stopped, the power consumption of the second pump is calculated based on an estimated value of a pressure of oil supplied to the hydraulic operation part and an estimated value of a pressure of oil supplied from the first pump to another hydraulic operation part or a lubrication target operating at a lower pressure than the hydraulic operation part. In a state where the second pump is operated, the power consumption of the second pump is calculated based on an actual rotation speed and an actual torque of the second pump.
US11466757B2
A continuously variable transmission includes a transmission belt including a plurality of elements and a ring and wound around V-grooves of first and second pulleys, each of the plurality of elements including a body portion having a saddle surface and a pair of pillar portions extended from the body portion so as to be located on both sides in a lateral direction of the saddle surface, and the ring being disposed between the pair of pillar portions of each of the plurality of elements. When one of the first and second pulleys has its minimum groove width, at least a part in a thickness direction of the ring wound around the one of the first and second pulleys protrudes radially outward beyond an outermost circumference of a surface of the V-groove of the one of the first and second pulleys.
US11466755B2
A chain guide and tensioning apparatus is disclosed that is configured for engagement (contact) with a driven chain (e.g., in an automotive engine). The chain guide and tensioning apparatus includes a guide body and a guide face overlying the guide body. The guide face defines an inner surface and an opposite outer surface that is configured to guide and tension the driven chain. The guide face includes a plurality of spacers that extend therefrom into engagement (contact) with the guide body so as to define at least one channel that is configured to facilitate air and/or lubricant circulation between the guide body and the guide face to reduce heat and friction generated by engagement of the driven chain with the guide face.
US11466751B2
An anti-vibration device is provided with: an anti-vibration device body, in which an insulator is disposed between a first attachment member and a second attachment member; and a bracket, which has opposing wall portions and to which the anti-vibration device body is fixed by press-fitting via the second attachment member between the wall portions. The second attachment member is provided with interlocking portions that interlock with the wall portions and restrain the anti-vibration device body from moving in the direction opposite the press-fitting direction when the anti-vibration device body is press-fitted to the bracket. Each of the interlocking portions is configured so as to have an arm part extending in the direction opposite the press-fitting direction, and a hook part provided to the extension-direction end of the arm part and caused to interlock with a to-be-interlocked part of one of the wall portions.
US11466743B2
Provided are a bracket for an anti-vibration device, and a method for manufacturing the same, in which increase of weight and peeling of a reinforcing portion are suppressed. A bracket (1) has: a reinforcing portion (20) extending in a surrounding direction of the surrounding portion (10), having ends (21) in both directions of the surrounding direction, and being fixed to an outer surface of the portion (10); and ribs (30) formed on an outer circumference of the portion (10) so as to span the ends (21) of the reinforcing portion (20) in the surrounding direction of the portion (10). The portion (10) and the ribs (30) are made of synthetic resin. A method for manufacturing the bracket (1) includes a step of injecting synthetic resin serving as the portion (10) and the ribs (30) into a mold cavity where a reinforcing member serving as the portion (20) is set.
US11466739B2
A brake caliper arrangement includes a housing, a restoring device, a first brake lining arrangement and a second brake lining arrangement. The first brake lining arrangement and the second brake lining arrangement can be moved relative to one another from a respective starting position with a reduction of an initial spacing which exists between them. The restoring device includes first and second restoring elements. The first restoring element may prestress the first brake lining arrangement into its starting position, while the second restoring element may prestress the second brake lining arrangement into its starting position. The first and/or second restoring elements may be supported, on both sides of a central region of the brake lining arrangement, on the associated brake lining arrangement. The first and/or second restoring elements may be twisted elastically at least in sections in order to generate the prestress.
US11466734B2
A drive device with a drive unit which has an output shaft and is mechanically connected to a driven shaft of the drive device via a clutch. At least one hydraulic channel and one hydraulic cylinder flow-connected to the hydraulic channel are formed in the output shaft, wherein a hydraulic piston coupled to the clutch for operating the same is displaceably arranged in the hydraulic cylinder.
US11466733B2
A coupling is disclosed for connecting rotating components of a generator and a prime mover in a power generation system. The coupling comprises a hub, a coupling flange and an elastomeric component located between the hub and the coupling flange. The elastomeric component is removable radially from the coupling.
US11466730B2
A drive train for an electric machine is provided. The drive train includes a shaft. The shaft has a front end and a rear end and which is supported in a housing via a front bearing and a rear bearing, wherein the front bearing including a front bearing outer ring and a front bearing inner ring, and the rear bearing including a rear bearing outer ring and a rear bearing inner ring). The drive train includes a first cover mounted to the housing and being configured to seal a rear side of the front bearing, wherein the first cover is mounted to the housing by an auxiliary support which connects the first cover to the housing, a second cover mounted to the housing and being configured to seal a front side of the rear bearing, a third cover mounted to the housing and being configured to seal the rear bearing.
US11466723B2
The present invention relates to a unit (10) for a locking device, including: a nut (12) comprising first (18) and second (20) coaxial taps in opposite directions; and a ring (13); said ring including a third tap (38); the first (18) and third (38) taps being capable of engaging with a single first thread (22); said ring including a second thread (40) capable of engaging with the second tap (20) of the nut. A portion (33) of the ring, projecting relative to the second thread (40), includes a through-hole (60); and a surface (16) of the nut includes a visual marking, configured to be opposite the hole (60) when the nut and the ring are in an installation position, and separated from said hole when the nut and the ring are outside said installation position.
US11466720B2
Various embodiments described herein provide a fastener system having straight walled driving surfaces that provides a reliable stick fit feature, while also improving stability of engagement between the system components. A feature of the new system is to allow stick fit engagement of existing standard straight walled drivers in the new system.
US11466719B2
A cap for a temporary fastener comprises a hollow, cup-shaped body and an inwardly tapered neck. The hollow body fits over a workpiece-engaging portion of the temporary fastener, and the neck extends from the hollow body. The tapered neck terminates in a hollow tip that is sized and configured to fit over aligned holes in the joined workpieces and to contact a minimal surface area of the outermost workpiece to reduce surface damage to the workpieces such that any damage will be removed when the holes are countersunk in the normal course of assembly.
US11466716B2
In a first aspect there is disclosed a load coupling (10). The load coupling (10) comprises a first coupling member (12) operatively associated with an actuator. The first coupling member has a first coupling formation (16). The load coupling (10) further comprises a second coupling member (14) adapted for operative coupling with the first coupling member (12). The second coupling member (14) includes an attachment formation (15) operatively adapted to attach the second coupling member (14) to a target component to which force generated by the actuator is to be transferred. The second coupling member (14) defines a second coupling formation (24) operatively associated with the first coupling formation (16) of the first coupling member (12). The first coupling formation (16) has (i) a secure orientation relative to the second coupling formation (24) in which the first coupling member (12) is secured to the second coupling member (14) and (ii) a release orientation relative to the second coupling formation (24) in which the first coupling member (12) is adapted to be removed from the second coupling member (14).
US11466714B2
A fastening arrangement with damping effect, consisting of two structurally identical fastening units each having a central first through opening. Each fastening unit comprises a mounting element and a damping element. The mounting element is disc-shaped with a central second through opening and an identical detent structure extends from a first side of each mounting element. The damping element is disc-shaped with a central third through opening and is arranged at last partially in the central second through opening of the mounting element. Due to this construction the two fastening units can be fastened to one another by means of the mutually facing first sides having the identical detent structure of the respective mounting elements with first component arranged between them.
US11466708B2
An automatic water handling device of an air compressor includes a barrel and a pneumatic cylinder. The barrel has an interior space in which a division board formed with through holes is mounted to define a first chamber in which a desiccant agent is disposed and a second chamber. The barrel has a gas outlet opening connected with a gas accumulation tank. The second chamber has a gas inlet opening to receive compressed air. An electromagnetic valve is in connection with the second chamber and is connected to a timer for activation at predetermined time points by the timer to drive the pneumatic cylinder to open a control valve to drain off water removed from compressed air.
US11466691B2
A fault control protects a pump-motor assembly from monitored faults. The pump-motor assembly includes an electrical motor mechanically coupled to a pump. The fault control determines a speed of the motor. If the speed is determined to be less than a minimum speed, the fault control generates a fault signal to affect the operation of the motor. The fault control can also determine if a phase of the power provided to the motor is missing based on vibrations sensed by a vibration transducer. The fault control can also determine temperature faults based on signals from two thermocouples, including determination of loss of inlet or discharge flow.
US11466686B2
A rotary compressor is provided that may include a roller slidingly coupled to an eccentric portion of a rotational shaft so as to be moved along an inner circumferential surface of a cylinder by the rotational shaft, and a vane slidingly coupled to the cylinder so as to divide the compression space into a plurality of compression chambers. An oil supply groove may be formed on an outer circumferential surface of the eccentric portion or an inner circumferential surface of the roller that faces the outer circumferential surface of the eccentric portion, and a depth of the oil supply groove may decrease as a distance in a circumferential direction from the second oil supply hole increases. Accordingly, an amount of oil supplied between the eccentric portion and the roller may be increased to thereby reduce friction loss.
US11466683B2
A compressor includes a motor, a balance weight and a partition. The motor includes a rotor having a first end surface and a second end surface. The balance weight is disposed on the first end surface or the second end surface. The partition is disposed on the first end surface or the second end surface. The rotor has a through hole extending from the first end surface to the second end surface. The partition divides, from the through hole, at least one of a front region and a rear region. The front region is located in front of a front edge of the balance weight in a rotational direction of the rotor. The rear region is located behind a rear edge of the balance weight in the rotational direction of the rotor.
US11466676B2
A diaphragm pump system that includes a pair of working fluid diaphragm pump assemblies that are each fluidly connected to a working fluid flow. Each working fluid diaphragm pump assembly is operationally associated with a discrete drive arrangement that is fluidly isolated from the working fluid flow that is moved during operation of the pump system. A control arrangement is connected to the discrete drive arrangements and configured to control the cyclic operation of the pair of working fluid diaphragm pump assemblies to mitigate pulsatile effects in the combined working fluid flow when the discharges of the working fluid flows associated with operation of the pair of working fluid diaphragm pump assemblies is combined.
US11466672B2
The object is to provide an actuator that moves in a shearing direction. An actuator comprises an internal actuator including a first stator and a first mover opposed to the first stator, the first mover moving in a direction away from the first stator; a second stator having a fixation wall that is disposed in a direction in which the first stator and the first mover are opposed to each other and that is disposed along a first mover side and away from the first mover, the second stator being fixed with the first stator; and a second mover having a pressing wall inserted between the first mover and the fixation wall.
US11466663B2
A wind turbine (1) comprising a tower (2), a nacelle (3) and a hub (7) is disclosed. The hub (7) comprises a blade canying structure (4) with one or more wind turbine blades (5) connected thereto. Each of the wind turbine blades (5) is connected to the blade canying structure (4) via a hinge (6) at a hinge position of the wind turbine blade (5), each wind turbine blade (5) thereby being arranged to perform pivot movements relative to the blade carrying structure (4) between a minimum pivot angle and a maximum pivot angle. The wind turbine (1) further comprises a stop mechanism arranged to move the wind turbine blades (5) to a safe pivot angle in the case of an emergency, the stop mechanism comprising a release mechanism (8, 12, 14) and at least one wire (9, 10) interconnecting the release mechanism (8, 12, 14) and each of the wind turbine blades (5). Activation of the release mechanism (8, 12, 14) causes an abrupt change in a pulling force applied to the wind turbine blades (5) by the wire(s) (9, 10), the change in pulling force causes the wind turbine blades (5) to move immediately to the safe pivot angle.
US11466660B2
A downwind morphing rotor that exhibits bending loads that will be reduced by aligning the rotor blades with the composite forces. This reduces the net loads on the blades which therefore allow for a reduced blade mass for a given maximum stress. The downwind morphing varies the amount of downstream deflection as a function of wind speed, where the rotor blades are generally fully-aligned to non-azimuthal forces for wind speeds between rated and cut-out conditions, while only the outer segments of the blades are generally aligned between cut-in and rated wind speeds. This alignment for large (MW-scale) rated turbines results in much larger downstream deflections of the blades at high wind speeds as compared to that of a conventional rigid single-piece upwind turbine blade.
US11466649B2
A pumping unit for feeding fuel, preferably diesel fuel, to an internal combustion engine has a pre-feed pump (3), which feeds the fuel to a high-pressure pump (2), is connected to a fuel storage chamber by means of an intake duct (49) and is provided with two gearings (40, 42) engaging with each other and made to rotate by an electric motor (37), a stator (38) of which is housed inside a containing chamber (48) formed in a pump body (32) of the pre-feed pump (3) and hydraulically connected to the intake duct (49).
US11466646B2
A gas fuel supply system for supplying the gas fuel via an opening of an intake supply pipe that is connected to a combustion chamber in an engine operable in each of a gas fuel combustion mode and an oil fuel combustion mode includes: the gas fuel supply valve for regulating an amount of the gas fuel, the gas fuel supply valve having plural gas supply holes, from which the gas fuel is fed in a direction toward the opening when the valve is opened; and an opening regulation valve provided between the gas fuel supply valve and the opening and having an opening hole, an opening area of which can be regulated. The gas fuel supply system is configured that extended axes of all the gas supply holes pass through the fully opened opening hole.
US11466644B2
An inlet duct for use with an engine is presented. The invention includes a duct structure, at least one spike disposed along an interior surface of the duct structure, and an inlet throat formed by one or more apexes disposed along an equal number of spikes. The inlet throat corresponds to the minimum cross-sectional area through which airflow passes as otherwise allowed by the maximal obstruction formed by the apex(es) within the duct structure. Each spike is bounded by a longitudinal ridge and a lateral ridge along an upper end and a base along a lower end. The longitudinal ridge and the lateral ridge intersect at the apex. In preferred embodiments, the longitudinal ridge is at least partially non-linear so as to properly conform to the interior surface of the duct structure. The portion of each spike upstream of the inlet throat functions primarily as a supersonic diffuser. The portion of each spike downstream of the inlet throat functions primarily as a subsonic diffuser. Airflow is isentropically compressed and then expanded within the inlet duct so that greater-than-subsonic flow at an input end is reduced to subsonic flow at an output end.
US11466641B1
In accordance with exemplary embodiments, methods and systems are provided for controlling knocking for an engine of a vehicle having a plurality of different types of fuel injectors and a combustion chamber. In an exemplary embodiment, the system includes one or more sensors of the vehicle and a processor. The one or more sensors are configured to measure an intensity of engine knocking for the engine. The processor is coupled to the one or more sensors, and is configured to at least facilitate adjusting a fuel injection ratio of respective amounts of fuel provided by the plurality of different types of fuel injectors to the combustion chamber, based on the intensity of the engine knocking.
US11466636B1
Methods and systems for monitoring a NOx sensor for a NOx offset value are described. In one example, the NOx offset value may be based on a minimum NOx concentration observed over an entire drive of a vehicle. The NOx offset monitor may be inhibited in response to inferring or detecting a presence of NH3 in an exhaust system.
US11466635B2
Methods and systems of controlling a dual fuel engine with at least two banks of cylinders are provided. The method may include sensing at least one of temperatures of exhaust from the at least two banks and a pressure of an intake manifold of the at least two banks, and adjusting at least one of a gas flow, a charge flow, or an air flow to one of the at least two banks to balance one of exhaust temperatures of the at least two banks and intake manifold pressures of the at least two banks.
US11466631B2
A vehicle system having an internal combustion engine and evaporative emission system including a canister is described, wherein canister includes a chamber having a flexible Metal Organic Framework (MOF) material disposed therein. A controllable device is coupled to the flexible MOF material, and a controller is operatively connected to the controllable device and the purge valve. The controller includes an instruction set that is executable to activate the controllable device and control the purge valve to an open state in response to a command to purge the canister, determine an activation parameter for the controllable device, determine a purge flow, integrate the purge flow to determine a total purge mass, and deactivate the controllable device when the total purge mass is greater than a threshold.
US11466629B2
An exhaust-gas flap device, especially for the exhaust-gas flow of an internal combustion engine, has a flap pipe and a flap plate that is supported, in the interior of the flap pipe, on a pivot shaft that is rotatable about a pivot axis. The exhaust-gas flap device further includes a pivoting drive for the pivot shaft with a drive element. A coupling unit couples the drive element to the pivot shaft for conjoint rotation about the pivot axis. Vibration-damping material is arranged in the region of the coupling unit.
US11466625B2
A method for controlling the fuel injection of a turbine engine using a fuel supply circuit. The supply circuit includes a pilot injection line and a main injection line. During a transition of the supply distribution between the pilot injection line and the main supply line, the method includes the following steps: a) determining at least a minimum value to be maintained for a pressure value; b) determining at least one hydraulic quantity of the supply circuit; c) based on the determined hydraulic quantity of the supply circuit, calculating a calculated fuel supply distribution value corresponding to the minimum value to be maintained; and switching the fuel supply distribution to the calculated fuel distribution value.
US11466624B1
A turbomachine engine can include a fan assembly, a vane assembly, a core engine, a gearbox, and an overall engine efficiency rating. The fan assembly can include a plurality of fan blades. The vane assembly can include a plurality of vanes, and the vanes can, in some instances, be disposed aft of the fan blades. The core engine can include a low-pressure turbine. The gearbox includes an input and an output. The input of the gearbox is coupled to the low-pressure turbine of the core engine and comprises a first rotational speed, the output of the gearbox is coupled to the fan assembly and has a second rotational speed, and a gear ratio of the first rotational speed to the second rotational speed is within a range of 3.2-4.0. The overall engine efficiency rating is within a range of 0.57-8.0.
US11466623B2
An engine comprises a first power input and a second power input, a main load, and a transmission engaged with the first power input, the second power input, and the main load. An epicyclic gear train is engaged with the first power input and the main load. A brake in a drive condition engages with the epicyclic gear train to transfer power from the first power input to the main load. The brake in a start condition disengages from the epicyclic gear train to decouple the first power input from the main load. A start assist motor is engaged with part of the transmission separate from the epicyclic gear train. The start assist motor in the start condition rotates the main load to initiate start up of the engine, and in the drive condition prevents transferring power to the main load.
US11466617B2
A highly efficient gas turbine engine includes the fan of the gas turbine engine driven from a turbine via a gearbox, such that the fan has a lower rotational speed than the driving turbine, thereby providing efficiency gains. The efficient fan system is mated to a core that has low cooling flow requirements and/or high temperature capability, and which may have particularly low mass for a given power.
US11466614B2
A rotary roller motor is disclosed herein. The rotary roller motor is a four-stroke internal combustion engine, wherein the rotor “rolls” around the inside of the engine block. The rotor is a two-part rotor having an inner part with a shaft and an offset circular lobe, and an outer rotor fit around the lobe. Two barriers are provided around the rotor chamber, a compression/power barrier and an exhaust/intake barrier. The combustion chamber has a non-reversing compression barrier and a compression hold barrier regulating the combustion of gas.
US11466608B2
Systems, devices, and methods described herein provide one or more radical chemicals generators (RCGs) and/or mini-chambers (M-Cs) that can be used to provide enhanced radical ignition (ERI) in an internal combustion engine. RCGs as described herein can include quenching systems (QSs) that can be configured to quench a flame of combustion products to produce a jet of partial combustion products containing radical species (RS). The jet of partial combustion products can be injected to a main combustion chamber (MCC) of an engine to induce ERI. ERI can proceed under leaner fuel conditions and lower temperatures compared to those needed for conventional thermally induced, fuel oxidation chain initiation reaction processes.
US11466603B2
A crankcase breather configured to simulate an ignition system coil is provided that comprises a substantially cylindrical canister having a hollow interior, a first aperture provided proximate a top of the canister and a second aperture provided proximate a bottom of the canister, at least one of the first and second apertures opening to the interior and configured to be connected to a breather hose, and one or more output apertures formed in the canister to release gases received through the breather hose. An exterior of the canister is shaped to resemble an ignition system coil.
US11466595B2
A slide element for displacement of a cam segment in an axial direction along a camshaft may include a slide sleeve, which has a longitudinal toothing formed at least sectionally along an inner wall of the slide sleeve and has a latching section formed on the inner wall and serving for interaction with a latching means. The latching section comprises a latching means receiving part, which comprises at least two latching grooves formed adjacently in an axial direction and at least one latching elevation formed between the latching grooves of the latching means receiving part and directed inward. The latching elevation may be partially hardened exclusively in a latching means transfer region.
US11466591B2
A seal system for a gas turbine engine includes a seal runner manufactured of a Molybdenum alloy material that provides a first coefficient of thermal expansion and a seal ring manufactured of a graphitic material that provides a second coefficient of thermal expansion greater than the first coefficient of thermal expansion.
US11466582B2
An apparatus and method for assembling an inducer assembly for inducing a rotation on an airflow passing within a turbine engine. The inducer assembly can provide a volume of fluid from a compressor section to a turbine section of the engine. The inducer assembly can include the combination of separate segments to form an annular inducer.
US11466570B2
A rotor assembly includes: a rotor disc; a plurality of rotor blades fixed to the rotor disc and extending radially outward in a radial direction of the rotor disc; and at least one rolling element configured to roll on a curved surface facing inward in the radial direction of the rotor disc.
US11466555B2
The disclosed embodiments include a method, apparatus, and computer program product configured to performing automated downhole wellbore trajectory control for correcting between an actual wellbore trajectory path and a planned wellbore trajectory path. For example, in one embodiment, a PID controller is configured to obtain real-time data gathered during the drilling operation, determine whether the actual wellbore trajectory path deviates from the planned wellbore trajectory path, and automatically initiate the downhole wellbore trajectory control to change the actual wellbore trajectory path to a modified correction path that is determined using a minimum incremental wellbore energy method.
US11466554B2
Embodiments are directed to managing and improving a drilling and completions process at a hydrocarbon extraction site, and to optimizing resource allocation at a hydrocarbon extraction site/region. In one scenario, a computer system accesses data generated by hardware sensors implemented by drilling and completion equipment at a hydrocarbon extraction site. The computer system formats the sensor data into a form readable by a data mining algorithm, and mines the formatted sensor data to identify characteristics related to the drilling and completion process. The computer system also accesses and integrates historical data related to the drilling and completion equipment at the hydrocarbon extraction site. The computer system then computes drilling and completion performance indicators that identify inefficiencies based on the characteristics identified for the equipment and based on the accessed historical data. Then, a remediation step is performed to resolve the identified inefficiency.
US11466553B2
A sand bypass separator is provided for separating particulate matter from a fluid mixture in a production well and directing the separated particulate matter away from a pump intake. The separator includes an outer tube, an inner tube positioned within the outer tube. The outer tube has a plurality of slots to allow the fluid mixture to enter the separator between the outer tube and the inner tube. As the fluid mixture moves downward, the fluid mixture reaches a downward velocity sufficient to allow the particulate matter in the fluid mixture to continue downward as the fluid is drawn into the inner tube through the pump intake. A bypass that extends from above the pump intake to below the pump intake to collect and direct the separated particulate matter separated below the pump intake may also be included.
US11466548B2
A pump system includes a pump barrel disposed within a housing. A standing valve is disposed at a first end of a pump chamber defined within the pump barrel. A traveling valve is disposed at a second end of the pump chamber. The traveling valve is movable relative to along an axial axis and relative to the housing. A motor stator is disposed inside the housing. produces a rotating electromagnetic field upon receiving electrical power. A motor rotor is rotatably supported within the motor stator and rotates about the axial axis in response to the rotating electromagnetic field. A traveling plug is coupled to the valve body of the traveling body and arranged to move linearly along the axial axis in response to rotation of the motor rotor. The pump system can be disposed in a wellbore to lift fluids up a tubing in the wellbore.
US11466547B2
Permanent magnet motors (PMMs) can develop oscillations during motor startup that can cause damage to electric submersible pump (ESP) components. A system and method are presented for identifying mechanical and/or electrical caused oscillations in a PMM through the analysis of oscillations in current and torque measurements. A control system within a surface motor controller receives current and/or torque measurements from downhole sensors. The control system employs one or more algorithms designed to detect oscillations in the measurements. Upon detecting oscillations that are consistent with oscillations in the motor from mechanical or electrical causes, the control system automatically initiates protective action to prevent damage to the ESP components.
US11466545B2
In one or more examples, a method comprises advancing a tubing string along a primary wellbore toward a junction having a low-side exit to a secondary wellbore, with a guide sub positioned at a leading end of the tubing string. The guide sub has a buoyancy within a well fluid external to the guide sub. The buoyancy of the guide sub is used to bias the guide sub toward a high-side of the primary wellbore while moving the guide sub across the low-side exit to a downstream portion of the primary wellbore. Subsequently, the guide sub is used to guide a fluid or tubular component between the tubing string and the downstream portion of the primary wellbore across the low-side exit.
US11466544B2
Provided, in one aspect, is a lateral locating assembly. The lateral locating assembly may include, in one aspect, a housing, as well as a piston positioned within the housing. The lateral locating assembly according to this aspect may further include a mandrel extending from a distal end of the housing, the mandrel configured to rotate and translate angularly in response to the piston moving from a first position to a second position, and a deflection tip coupled with a distal end of the mandrel, the deflection tip configured to rotate and angularly translate with the mandrel relative to the housing.
US11466532B2
A method of dislodging a tubular string or well equipment connected to the tubular string can include connecting a dislodging tool in the tubular string, so that a flow passage of the dislodging tool extends through the tubular string, deploying a plug into the dislodging tool, applying a pressure differential across the plug, thereby displacing the plug through a seat of the dislodging tool, and dislodging the tubular string or the component in response to the displacing. A dislodging system can include a dislodging tool connected as part of a tubular string, the dislodging tool including a flow passage and a seat configured to sealingly engage a plug deployed into the tubular string, and at least one of a jarring force, load, impact, shock wave, elastic strain release and pressure pulse being generated in the tubular string in response to displacement of the plug through the seat.
US11466527B2
Disclosed is a pipeline pulling tool having an elongate housing. First and second roller wheel sections have at least two freely rotating roller wheels extending out from a sidewall of the housing. An attachment for a tool string is fixed to one of the roller wheel sections. A main section with a retractable propulsion wheel and at least one actuator for actuating the propulsion wheel between an extended position, out from the sidewall of the housing, and a retracted position, inside the housing, is located between the first roller wheel section and the second roller wheel section. A method of actuating a pipeline pulling tool is also disclosed.
US11466510B2
A flexible and oblong blade seal for sealing a gap between a door leaf and an adjacent surface includes A) a flexible outer material and B) a section with the sealing function (the sealing section), in which a barrier of a plurality of substantially parallel metal wires and/or narrow metal strips is embedded in the flexible outer material in such a way, that the wires and/or strips are arranged in parallel to the longitudinal direction of the seal. A method for mounting such seals and a method for producing them.
US11466506B2
A touchless smart storage box is presented for storage of valuable items like documents, jewellery, data discs, currency, hand gun, fire arms. the box conducted the authentication based on facial information of the user. Once the facial information matches the contents of the box are visible on the screen by means of an internal baroscopic camera. a hub motor mechanical is used to open and close the door without any physical interaction. Multiple sensors are embedded onto the smart box to indicate its status of open close and location. Due to tempering action the camera gets triggered to capture the scenario and transmit the same to mobile & web application. Communication protocol enables the box to be operated remotely for all interactions.
US11466504B2
A closure system includes a closure panel assembly and a hinge assembly configured to connect the closure panel assembly to a body. The hinge assembly includes a first hinge and a second hinge configured to be pivotably secured to the body and to the closure panel assembly in parallel, the hinge assembly establishing a four-bar linkage. The closure system includes a hinge cover configured to be fixed to the first hinge and pivotably connected to the closure panel assembly. The closure panel assembly is movable between a closed position and an open position via pivoting of the first hinge and the second hinge. The closure panel assembly at least partially covering an opening in the closed position and at least partially uncovering the opening in the open position. The hinge cover articulated alongside the first hinge and at least partially covers the first hinge in the closed position.
US11466500B2
The invention relates to an arrangement of a drive device on a door that can be arranged such that it is pivotable on a housing of an appliance, particularly a cooling and/or refrigerating appliance, in which the drive device designed to pivot the door in relation to the housing is mounted on the door, said drive device comprising: a hinge comprising at least one first hinge part attached to the door and at least one second hinge part which is attached to the housing; at least one drive motor; at least one transmission element which is coupled to the hinge in an at least indirectly articulated manner and can be at least indirectly driven by means of the drive motor; and a coupling device that can switch between at least one coupling state in which the transmission element is coupled to the drive motor and at least one uncoupling state.
US11466499B2
A manipulator for controlling a locking function and a maneuvering function of an access member rotatably coupled to a frame is disclosed. The manipulator includes an actuator configured to provide a substantially linear first actuating movement in a first direction and a substantially linear second actuating movement in a second direction, opposite to the first direction; a latch bolt functionally coupled to the actuator, the latch bolt arranged to move to an unlocking position in response to movement of the actuator in the first direction and arranged to move to a locking position in response to movement of the actuator in the second direction; and a transmission mechanism functionally coupled to the actuator, the transmission mechanism configured to transmit the first actuating movement in the first direction provided by the actuator to an opening movement of the access member. An access member, a system and a method are also provided.
US11466495B2
Apparatuses, such as shower door frame kits, for installing sliding shower door assemblies are provided. The apparatuses enable secure and convenient installation of the sliding shower door assemblies, while keeping water that may escape a shower area to a minimum. The apparatuses of the present disclosure also provide for efficient installation of the sliding shower door assemblies that can be completed with a single tool and/or in a single step. The apparatuses for installing sliding shower door assemblies may include one or more of a shower door header, a wall jamb, a shower header retainer, a shower door catcher, a roller assembly, a corner bracket, and a shower threshold.
US11466494B2
A structure for preventing a sliding door from swaying includes a rail mounted in a first direction that is a longitudinal direction of a vehicle body, a rail roller unit rollably connected to the rail, a sliding module configured to apply driving power in the first direction to the rail roller unit through a cable, a slider mounted on the rail roller unit, a movement support unit configured to support the sliding door, wherein a first side of the movement support unit is fixed to the sliding door, and a second side of the movement support unit is rollably connected to the slider, and a spindle assembly configured to operate a spindle between the sliding door and the rail to move the sliding door in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
US11466481B2
An outer door panel and an inner door panel are fixed to one another defining a cavity therebetween. A door handle assembly is fixedly attached to the outer door panel, with at least a portion of the door handle assembly overlaying an inboard surface of the outer door panel within the cavity. An inboard portion of the door handle assembly has a connection structure. An upwardly extending bracket within the cavity is fixed to an upper end and a lower end of at least one of the inner door panel or the outer door panel. The upwardly extending bracket is spaced apart from the door handle assembly. A vibration absorbing member has a first end fixed to the connection structure of the door handle assembly and a second end attached to the upwardly extending bracket at a location spaced apart from upper and lower ends of the upwardly extending bracket.
US11466471B2
The present invention relates to a system to provide a smart city platform for urban areas by utilizing module units that contain multiple types of technology and equipment. A smart city platform is created with a multiplicity of module units installed throughout a cityscape. The module units house various equipment, such as various antennas, cables, brackets and other equipment, to enable smart city connectivity and services and may be additionally fitted with service station units to provide extra capabilities and services to communities.
US11466468B2
A method for assembling a modular auditorium and modular auditorium. The method includes providing a plurality of nominal inventory portions. Each nominal inventory portions includes a prefabricated base portion, and a prefabricated tier section for assembly to the base portion. The prefabricated base portion is positioned on a ground surface of a public performance space. The prefabricated tier section is fastened to the prefabricated base portion to form a self supporting modular auditorium structure that does not require lateral support from a building structure other than the ground surface.
US11466458B2
The embodiments are apparatuses, systems and methods of water management and icicle prevention for solar carports, and are designed to catch drips between rows of, and water run-off from, the low side of inclined photovoltaic modules arranged to form the roof of the solar carport or canopy.
US11466453B2
A punch assembly for creating clean holes in a wallboard sheet having at least one surface with a face paper layer. The punch assembly includes a frame having a lower assembly configured to support the wallboard sheet, a plate on an upper frame assembly being reciprocable relative to the at least one surface of the wallboard sheet, at least one stripper bushing connected to the plate, where the at least one stripper bushing including a hole and a piercing edge, and at least one punch configured to move through the hole in the at least one stripper bushing. In operation, the plate is moved against the at least one surface of the wallboard sheet so that the piercing edge of the at least one stripper bushing contacts the face paper layer and at least partially cuts the face paper layer prior to the at least one punch moving through the wallboard sheet to form at least one clean hole in the wallboard sheet.
US11466448B2
A method and apparatus for making a water drainage-promoting wrap for applications such as housewrap and roofing underlayment. A substrate, which may be breathable or non-breathable, is conveyed through a nip between a rotating sleeve and a roll, the sleeve having a plurality of apertures therein. A fluid resin composition is fed into the sleeve and is fed out through the apertures in the sleeve as it rotates and as the substrate moves through the nip, forming spaced-apart spacer elements on a face of the substrate. The spacer elements are then dried or cured.
US11466447B2
A concrete anchor assembly includes an anchor body including a rod portion and a head portion; the head portion extending laterally from said rod portion, the head portion including a threaded bore; and the rod portion including an internally threaded bore, the rod portion including an outside thread.
US11466441B2
There is disclosed a mounting assembly for moveably mounting an item of plumbed equipment to a fixed surface. The assembly comprises a fixed mounting portion and a moveable mounting bracket for receiving the item of plumbed equipment. Moveable fluid connections are provided for moveably connecting the item to a fixed fluid source and/or to a fixed waste port. Space saving bathroom installations are disclosed, and the item can be moveably mounted using linear or rotational movement between its stowed and deployed positions.
US11466440B2
According to the embodiment, a toilet device includes a detector and a controller. The detector is detecting whether or not flush water is at a position lower than a full level and higher than a seal level at a surface of a bowl of a flush toilet. The controller is determining a clog state of the flush toilet based on a detection result of the detector after a flush water supplier is closed. The flush water supplier is located in a flow channel discharging flush water into the bowl. The position of the detection region of the detector at the surface of the bowl is separated from flush water flowing in a vertical direction from a water discharge port of the flow channel toward a bottom portion of the bowl after the flush water supplier is closed.
US11466439B1
An adaptor for connecting a cover to an overflow pipe includes an H-shaped body which is installed in an end portion of the overflow pipe. The lengthwise length of the adaptor is not longer than the outer diameter of the end portion of the overflow pipe. The adaptor includes a first connection portion formed to the center of the adaptor, and two second connection portions respectively formed to two ends of the adaptor. Two lateral sides are formed to two sides of the adaptor. The cover includes a notch communicating with the end portion of the overflow pipe. Multiple protrusions extend from the inner bottom of the cover. The protrusions are engaged with the two lateral sides of the adaptor to connect the cover to the adaptor. Bolt(s) extend through first or second connection portions of the adaptor and are connected to the end section of the overflow pipe.
US11466427B2
A grading machine include a machine body, a grading blade, at least one grading blade sensor configured to sense a position and orientation of the grading blade, a drawbar connecting the grading blade to the machine body, a drawbar centershift cylinder, a user interface, and a control system. The control system is configured to receive an input from the user interface and position and orient the grading blade and the drawbar to one of a plurality of predetermined maintenance positions based on the input.
US11466420B2
A foundation engineering machine and method for producing a trench in the ground include a substantially vertical mast, a diaphragm wall apparatus displaceably supported in a longitudinal direction of the mast for producing the trench, and a bar-shaped holder, at the lower end of which the diaphragm wall apparatus is mounted and with which the diaphragm wall apparatus is linearly displaceable along the mast. An upper first clamping sledge with a first clamp for releasably clamping the bar-shaped holder and a lower second clamping sledge with a second clamp for releasably clamping the bar-shaped holder are movably supported on the mast. The first clamping sledge and the second clamping sledge are movable relative to each other, and the lower second clamping sledge has a connector for mounting an additional lifting device disposed on the ground, with which a force can be applied in the longitudinal direction onto the second sledge.
US11466403B2
A loop structure includes a first element having a first loop, and a second element having a second loop, the first loop interlocking with the second loop. Each of the first and second elements include a plurality of strands, wherein at least a portion of the strands are formed from a flexible material. The strands of the first and second elements are processed in a textile-like manner into one of a braided, woven, knitted, or enmeshed structure defining at least two webs spaced-apart along a longitudinal direction of the first and second elements. The strands are divided into longitudinally extending sections between the webs, the sections forming wings that connect the webs. In the first element, the wings form the first loop, and in the second element, the wings form the second loop.
US11466401B2
A structural reinforcement for an article including a carrier that includes: (i) a mass of polymeric material having an outer surface; and (is) at least one consolidated fibrous insert having an outer surface and including at least one elongated fiber arrangement having a plurality of ordered fibers arranged in a predetermined manner. The fibrous insert is envisioned to adjoin the mass of the polymeric material in a predetermined location for carrying a predetermined load that is subjected upon the predetermined location (thereby effectively providing localized reinforcement to that predetermined location). The fibrous insert and the mass of polymeric material are of compatible materials, structures or both, for allowing the fibrous insert to be at least partially joined to the mass of the polymeric material. Disposed upon at least a portion of the carrier will be a mass of activatable material.
US11466398B2
A laundry treating apparatus includes a cabinet, a drum provided inside the cabinet and formed of a metal material, and an induction module configured to heat the drum, The induction module includes a base housing for accommodating a coil, and a cover housing forming a moving space of heat generated from the coil, jointed to an upper portion of the base housing, the cover housing includes a through portion for discharging the heat by passing through the cover housing up and down, and the cover housing forms a section upwardly inclined toward the through portion to move the heat generated from the coil along the inclined section and discharge the heat to the through portion. It is possible to prevent a temperature of the coil from being excessively increased, and enhance durability and efficiency of the induction module by active discharge of heat generated from the coil.
US11466377B2
The present invention relates to a method and a material for establishing a cathode barrier layer in electrolysis cells for production of aluminum of Hall-Heroult type, the barrier layer can comprise minerals combined with a compound that lowers the melting temperature of the minerals, such as fluorides.
US11466376B1
A method and electrolysis cell for producing lithium metal at a low temperature. The method includes combining (i) acetonitrile and (ii) a cation bis(trihaloalkylsulfonyl)imide, cation bis(trihalosulfonyl)imidic acid, a cation bis(trihaloalkylsulfonyl)amide, or cation bis(trihaloalkylsulfonyl)amidic acid in a weight ratio of (i) to (ii) about 100:1 to about 5:1 to provide a non-aqueous electrolyte composition. A lithium compound selected from the group consisting of LiOH, Li2O and Li2CO3 is dissolved in the electrolyte composition to provide a lithium doped electrolyte composition. Power is applied to the electrolyte composition to form lithium metal on a cathode of an electrolysis cell. The lithium metal separated from the cathode has a purity of at least about 95 wt. %.
US11466362B2
Apparatus for depositing germanium and carbon onto one or more substrates comprises a vacuum chamber, at least first and second magnetron sputtering devices and at least one movable mount for supporting the one or more substrates within the vacuum chamber. The first magnetron sputtering device is configured to sputter germanium towards the at least one mount from a first sputtering target comprising germanium, thereby defining a germanium sputtering zone within the vacuum chamber. The second magnetron sputtering device is configured to sputter carbon towards the at least one mount from a second sputtering target comprising carbon, thereby defining a carbon sputtering zone within the vacuum chamber. The at least one mount and the at least first and second magnetron sputtering devices are arranged such that, when each substrate is moved through the germanium sputtering zone on the at least one movable mount, germanium is deposited on the said substrate, and when each substrate is moved through the carbon sputtering zone on the at least one movable mount, carbon is deposited on the said substrate.
US11466358B2
Forming a porous multilayer material includes forming a multilayer material on a substrate. Forming the multilayer material includes alternately forming a sacrificial layer and a semi-sacrificial layer, where the sacrificial layer includes a first metal and the semi-sacrificial layer includes the first metal and a second metal or metallic alloy. Forming the porous multilayer material further includes removing at least a portion of the first metal from each of the sacrificial and semi-sacrificial layers to yield the porous multilayer material. The porous multilayer material includes a multiplicity of metal-containing layers, each layer having a thickness in a range between about 5 nm and about 100 nm and bonded to an adjacent layer. Each layer includes chromium, niobium, tantalum, vanadium, molybdenum, tungsten, or a combination thereof. A void is defined between each pair of layers, and a density of porous the multilayer material is <1% bulk density.
US11466341B2
Extractant for rare earth extraction from aqueous phosphoric acid solutions and method of extraction
An extractant which makes it possible to extract both light rare earths and heavy rare earths from an aqueous phosphoric acid solution, likely to be present in this solution, and which is characterised in that it comprises: a compound of formula (I) below: wherein R1 and R2, identical or different, are a hydrocarbon group, saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched, in C6 to C12; R3 is a hydrocarbon group, in C1 to C6, or a hydrocarbon group, saturated or unsaturated, monocyclic, in C3 to C8; R4 and R5, identical or different, are a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbonate group, saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched, in C2 to C8; and a surfactant. Applications of this extractant include treatment of aqueous solutions from the leaching of natural phosphates by sulphuric acid and aqueous solutions from the leaching of urban minerals by phosphoric acid, in view of making profitable use of the rare earths present in these solutions.
US11466336B2
Provided is a high-strength steel sheet having excellent burring workability in a low temperature range, which is mainly used for automobile chassis parts such as members, lower arms, wheel disks, etc.; and a manufacturing method therefor.
US11466330B2
The present disclosure provides a transgenic corn comprising event MON87403 that exhibits increased grain yield. The disclosure also provides cells, plant parts, seeds, plants, commodity products related to the event, and DNA molecules that are unique to the event and were created by the insertion of transgenic DNA into the genome of a corn plant. The disclosure further provides methods for detecting the presence of said corn event nucleotide sequences in a sample, probes and primers for use in detecting nucleotide sequences that are diagnostic for the presence of said corn event.
US11466324B2
The present invention provides the use of lipocalin 2 (LCN2) as a biomarker for IL-17 mediated diseases and for monitoring the response of a patient to anti-IL-17 therapy.
US11466323B2
A digital droplet PCR method of analyzing the methylation status of methylation sites of a double-stranded DNA molecule which comprises at least two methylation sites per single strand of the double-stranded DNA molecule is disclosed.
US11466314B2
Chromogenic conjugates for color-based detection of targets are described. The conjugates comprise a chromogenic moiety such as a rhodamine, rhodol or fluorescein. The chromogenic moiety is linked to a peroxidase substrate. The chromogenic conjugates can be used in immunohistochemical analysis and in situ hybridization. The conjugates can be used to detect 1, 2, 3 or more targets in a sample by color.
US11466312B2
The present invention relates to a detection method for detecting a target RNA contained in a sample with high sensitivity by using nicking/extension chain reaction system-based isothermal nucleic acid amplification (NESBA) that uses activity of a cleavage enzyme and a DNA polymerase. The NESBA of the present invention is a new concept isothermal target RNA detection method that realizes higher amplification efficiency than the existing NASBA technology and is deemed to be utilizable as a new concept diagnosis technology that can replace conventional target RNA detection technologies.
US11466307B2
The invention described herein provides reagents (e.g., kits), compositions, and methods for carrying out an unbiased genome-wide strategy to identify the functional targets for all ncRNAs.
US11466306B2
A method comprising (A) fragmenting genomic DNA in a state where the interaction of the genomic DNA and molecules interacting therewith is maintained, and (B) bringing genomic DNA into contact with an exogenous molecule capable of binding to a specific endogenous DNA sequence in the genomic DNA. According to the method, with the use of an endogenous DNA sequence present inside or in the vicinity of a target genomic region in cells to be analyzed, any genomic region can be specifically isolated in a state where the interaction of the genomic region and molecules interacting therewith is maintained, without the need of inserting a recognition sequence of an exogenous DNA-binding molecule into the vicinity of the target genomic region in the cells to be analyzed.
US11466299B2
There is provided SHC/HAC derivatives, amino acid sequences comprising the SHC/HAC derivatives, nucleotide sequences encoding the SHC/HAC derivatives, vectors comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the SHC/HAC derivatives, recombinant host cells comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the SHC/HAC derivatives and applications of the recombinant host cells comprising either SHC/HAC derivatives or WT SHC/HAC enzymes in methods to prepare (−)-Ambrox and SHC/HAC enzymes in methods to prepare (−)-Ambrox.
US11466296B2
This disclosure provides a genetically-modified bacterium from the genus Megasphaera that comprises an exogenous nucleic acid encoding a bifunctional aldehyde/alcohol dehydrogenase that produces butanol as the final product. The disclosure further provides methods for producing butanol using such genetically-modified bacterium.
US11466292B2
The present invention relates to nucleic acid constructs capable of encoding antigenic peptides or polypeptides derived from multiple Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) early proteins, and to immunogenic compositions comprising such nucleic acid constructs and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Such nucleic acid constructs and immunogenic compositions are useful in the treatment of persistent HPV infection and low-grade HPV lesions, particularly infections and lesions of human anogenital epithelial tissue, such as cervical epithelia.
US11466290B2
Described herein are donor vectors and systems for use in in vivo dual recombinase-mediated cassette exchange. Also described are animal models for consistent, rigorous, and facile investigation of transgene expression. Further described are methods of screening for therapeutic drugs using these animal models, and methods of treatment.
US11466285B2
The invention provides glyphosate-tolerant transgenic turfgrass plants, plant material, and propagules that have a specific transformation event. Also provided are assays for detecting the presence of the event.
US11466281B2
The present invention includes systems, methods and compositions for the generation of water-soluble cannabinoids in yeast, and other plant cell suspension cultures as well as novel water-soluble cannabinoid compounds. The present invention also includes compositions of matter that may contain one or more water-soluble cannabinoids.
US11466278B2
The present invention relates to a recombinant E. coli cell harbouring a recombinant plasmid wherein said E. coli cell has a thermo sensitive regulation of an essential E. coli gene.
US11466266B2
The disclosure relates to methods for the screening, identification, and/or application of one or more microorganisms of use in imparting one or more beneficial properties to one or more plants.
US11466265B2
Provided herein are methods for identifying pairs of protein binding partners, mutations of which may inform the discovery of pharmaceutically useful small molecules. The methods disclosed herein may allow for the adaptation of the native protein degradation system to modulate specific disease targets at the protein level, in particular, for targets that have long been considered undruggable.
US11466263B2
A rack for holding samples and various reagents, wherein the rack may be used for loading the samples and reagents prior to using the reagents. The rack accepts complementary reagent holders, each of which contain a set of reagents for carrying out a predetermined processing operation, such as preparing biological samples for amplifying and detecting polynucleotides extracted from the samples.
US11466262B2
Methods and systems for chromatographically purifying a botulinum neurotoxin are provided. These methods and systems allow for efficient purification of a non-complexed form of the botulinum neurotoxin in high purity and yield that can be used as an active ingredient in pharmaceutical preparations.
US11466259B2
The present invention provides engineered galactose oxidase (GOase) enzymes, polypeptides having GOase activity, and polynucleotides encoding these enzymes, as well as vectors and host cells comprising these polynucleotides and polypeptides. Methods for producing GOase enzymes are also provided. The present invention further provides compositions comprising the GOase enzymes and methods of using the engineered GOase enzymes. The present invention finds particular use in the production of pharmaceutical and other compounds.
US11466253B2
Provided herein are methods that relate, in some aspects, to the incubation or culturing, such as to induce stimulation of expansion (proliferation), activation, costimulation and/or survival, of a composition of cells, such as a population of lymphocytes. In some aspects, provided are methods and reagents for the stimulation, e.g., of expansion (proliferation), survival or persistence, activation, costimulation, or other effect, of cell populations that involve binding of agents to a molecule on the surface of the cells, thereby providing one or more signals to the cells. In some cases, the reagents are reagents containing a plurality of binding sites for agents, such as multimerization reagents, and thus the one or more agents are multimerized by reversibly binding to the reagent, e.g., thereby creating a stimulatory reagent (multimerized agent), having stimulatory agents multimerized thereon. In some aspects, the multimerized agent can provide for expansion or proliferation or other stimulation of a population of cells, and then such stimulatory agents can be removed by disruption of the reversible bond. Also provided are compositions, apparatus and methods of use thereof.
US11466244B2
A composition includes at least one carrier containing a polysaccharide, at least one antioxidant and at least one amino acid selected from cysteine, lysine, alanine and arginine. Such a composition can be used for protection of microorganisms during drying, storage and/or reconstitution. A culture powder, a process of making the culture powder, and products containing the culture powder are also disclosed.
US11466238B2
The present invention provides a powdered vinegar that comprises partly neutralized vinegar, i.e. vinegar derived acid that is partly neutralized with e.g. sodium and/or potassium hydroxide, and free vinegar derived acid. The invention also provides a process for producing such a powdered vinegar and the use of this powdered vinegar in a foodstuff or a beverage, e.g. as a preservative. The present process offers the advantage that it yields a stable, free flowing powdered vinegar that can suitably be used as a preservative in e.g. processed meat products. The powdered vinegar has a high content of free acid, is easy to dissolve and acts as an acidulant.
US11466232B2
A composition includes a C10 aliphatic branched chain alcohol ethoxylate; a C12 aliphatic straight chain alcohol ethoxylate, and a reactive builder. The composition effects an increase of at least about 30% in detergency measured as reflectance at 460 nanometers (nm) of a stained fabric at which the composition has been applied when compared to reflectance observed at 460 nm at the stained fabric prior to application of the composition. The stained fabric treated at which the composition has been applied exhibits a reflectance at 460 nm that is greater than the reflectance of the stained fabric at which a substantially similar composition has been applied. The substantially similar composition includes nonyl phenol ethoxylate.
US11466222B2
The present disclosure relates to marine fuel compositions having low sulfur content and processes for making such compositions.
US11466215B2
Systems and methods for recycling waste plastics are provided, including a system for recovering styrene monomer from waste polystyrene. The system includes a mixing, heating and compacting apparatus to receive a supply of waste polystyrene and to output a densified polystyrene containing melt; a pyrolysis reactor configured to receive the densified polystyrene containing melt and a supply of recycled oligomers, pyrolyze the densified polystyrene containing melt and the recycled oligomers, and output a hydrocarbon gas stream and a solids residue stream; a quenching apparatus configured to receive the hydrocarbon gas stream output from the pyrolysis reactor and condense out oligomers for routing upstream to the pyrolysis reactor to be combined as the supply of recycled oligomers with the densified polystyrene containing melt, and to discharge an altered hydrocarbon gas stream for further processing; and a condenser configured to receive the altered hydrocarbon gas stream from the quenching apparatus and condense out styrene to form a styrene monomer oil product.
US11466214B2
A positive dielectric anisotropic liquid crystal composition includes one or more compounds of formula I and one or more compounds of formula II: wherein R1 represents cyclopropyl, cyclobutyl or cyclopentyl, R2, R3 and R4 are as defined in the specification, and a liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal composition has positive dielectric properties, a high charge retention ratio, a low rotary viscosity, a fast response time, and especially a high transmittance, and is suitable for manufacturing a TFT-LCD with a high transmittance and a fast response.
US11466210B2
The present invention relates to a method of inhibiting corrosion of steel in contact with a corrosive solution. The method involves mixing an olive leaf extract titanium nanocomposite with the corrosive solution. The olive leaf extract titanium nanocomposite may be made by reducing TiCl4 with an olive leaf extract, which forms nanoparticles with an average size of 50-100 nm.
US11466207B2
The disclosure is related to a composition for etching, a method for manufacturing the composition, and a method for fabricating a semiconductor using the same. The composition may include a first inorganic acid, at least one of silane inorganic acid salts produced by reaction between a second inorganic acid and a silane compound, and a solvent. The second inorganic acid may be at least one selected from the group consisting of a sulfuric acid, a fuming sulfuric acid, a nitric acid, a phosphoric acid, and a combination thereof.
US11466193B2
A method is provided including: introducing a first diverter material comprising polyvinyl alcohol and a plasticizer into or adjacent to a permeable zone of a subterranean formation; introducing a second diverter material into or adjacent to the permeable zone of the subterranean formation, wherein at least a portion of the first diverter material comprises particles larger than particles of the second diverter material; and allowing the first diverter material and the second diverter material to at least partially divert at least a portion of a treatment fluid to a different portion of the subterranean formation.
US11466191B2
This invention relates to treated geothermal brine compositions containing reduced concentrations of lithium, iron and silica compared to the untreated brines. Exemplary compositions contain concentration of lithium ranges from 0 to 200 mg/kg, concentration of silica ranges from 0 to 30 mg/kg, concentration of iron ranges from 0 to 300 mg/kg. Exemplary compositions also contain reduced concentrations of elements like arsenic, barium, and lead.
US11466190B2
A system and method for maintaining a temperature of a power system using a cooling system that includes an impeller and a phase change material. During normal operation of the cooling system, heat that is generated by the operation of an electronic device(s) of the power system can be transferred primarily by conduction through an upper base plate and fins of a heat sink, and dissipated via forced convection that is generated by the impeller. Additionally, the phase change material is positioned outside of a main heat flux path of the heat sink such that, during normal operation of the cooling system, the phase change material does not provide a heat flux obstruction. In the event of an impeller failure, the phase change material provides at least a temporary cooling source for an extended period of time via the relatively large latent heat capacity of the phase change material.
US11466187B2
The present disclosure provides an adhesive composition including a silicone-based adhesive and cellulose nanocrystals dispersed in the silicone-based adhesive. The present disclosure also provides an article including a substrate and a layer of the adhesive composition adhered to the substrate. Further, the present disclosure provides a method of making an adhesive composition. The method comprises mixing cellulose nanocrystals in a silicone-based adhesive to disperse the cellulose nanocrystals. The present disclosure additionally provides a method of making an article including disposing a layer of the adhesive composition on a substrate. The presence of the cellulose nanocrystals advantageously increases the water uptake capacity of the silicone-based adhesive while maintaining acceptable adhesive performance.
US11466183B2
An adhesive composition which is excellent in adhesion to various hardly adhesive materials such as polyethylene terephthalate, polyethylene, polypropylene, modified polyphenylene ether, polyphenylene sulfide, and a cycloolefin polymer. Further, an adhesive composition containing the following components (A) to (C) may be described Component (A): (Meth) acrylic triblock elastomer having a weight average molecular weight of 80,000 or more, Component (B): (Meth) acrylate monomer having no hydroxyl group and having a phenoxy group, and Component (C): Radical initiator.
US11466181B2
The present disclosure relates to a metal particle-containing composition contains at least one thermosetting resin (R), a hardening agent (H), and at least three types of metal particles (P) different from one another. The metal particles (P) contain a solder alloy particle (P1) containing a tin alloy containing at least one metal (A), wherein the metal (A) is a metal that forms a eutectic crystal with tin at a eutectic temperature of 200° C. or lower, at least one metal particle (P2) containing a metal (B) having a melting point exceeding 420° C. in a bulk, the metal particle (P2) having a melting point higher than a solidus temperature of the solder alloy particle (P1), and at least one metal particle (P3) containing a metal (C) that forms an intermetallic compound with a metal contained in the solder alloy particle (P1).
US11466180B2
The present application relates to a vulcanization label that can be used to label tires. The label comprises a facestock layer, a first primer layer, a second primer layer comprising a zinc oxide, and a reactive adhesive layer. The two primer layers have different compositions. The second primer layer has a coating weight that is greater than 3 gsm. At least a portion of the second primer is in contact with at least a portion of the reactive adhesive layer.
US11466177B2
The present invention relates to an adhesive tape and to a method for jacketing an elongated item, more particularly cable sets. The adhesive tape must cure within the operational dictates for further processing, e.g. within 6 min, and after curing must exhibit the required dimensional stability properties. However, the adhesive compositions must not cure during storage itself, since otherwise they can no longer be used. Nor may the curing temperatures be too high, since otherwise the lead insulation, which is often made of PVC, may suffer damage. The invention proposes a method for jacketing an elongated item such as more particularly leads or cable sets, where a tape which comprises a moisture-curing binder on a carrier is first impregnated with water and immediately thereafter is guided in a helical line around the elongated item or the elongated item is wrapped in an axial direction by the adhesive tape, the elongated item together with the adhesive tape wrapping is brought into the desired disposition, more particularly into the cable set plan, the elongated item is held in this disposition, while the curable adhesive cures. Alternatively proposed is a method for jacketing an elongated item such as more particularly leads or cable sets, where a tape which comprises a moisture-curing binder on a carrier is guided in a helical line around the elongated item or the elongated item is wrapped in an axial direction by the adhesive tape, the elongated item together with the adhesive tape wrapping is brought into the desired disposition, more particularly into the cable set plan, the elongated item is held in this disposition, and the curable adhesive is brought to cure by the supply of moisture.
US11466176B2
Non-asphaltic coatings for roofing materials, roofing materials made therefrom and methods of preparing such coatings and roofing materials utilize a combination of a crude tall oil-based continuous phase material, a resinous hardening agent, and a polymer.
US11466172B2
Provided is an ink-jet recording liquid set including a pretreatment liquid for ink-jet recording and an ink-jet ink, wherein the pretreatment liquid for ink-jet recording includes: composite resin particles in which a polyolefin resin is contained in a polyurethane resin; a coagulant; and water, and the ink-jet ink contains: a pigment; water; and 3-methoxy-1-butanol or 3-methoxy-3-methy-1-butanol.
US11466171B2
Disclosed is a conductive ink composition and a manufacturing method thereof. The composition includes about 50 to about 99 wt % copper nanoparticles and about 1 to about 50 wt % tin. Copper nanoparticles are atomized and suspended in a tin bath, wherein the copper nanoparticles are evenly dispersed within the bath through sonification. The composition is cooled, extracted, and formed into a filament for use as a conductive ink. The ink has a resistivity of about 46.2×E−9 Ω*m to about 742.5×E−9 Ω*m. Once in filament form, the tin-copper mix will be viable for material extrusion, thus allowing for a lower cost, electrically conductive traces to be used in additive manufacturing.
US11466163B2
In a coated article including a laminated coating film configured such that a first base layer 3 containing a lustrous material 11 and a second base layer 4 and a transparent clear layer 5 containing an organic pigment 15 are stacked on each other in this order on a coating target object, the same type of organic ultraviolet absorbing agent 13 having a molecular weight of equal to or greater than 500 is added to the first base layer 3 and the second base layer 4.
US11466160B2
Disclosed is a method for producing a surface-treated carbon black, including a step (step (i)) of mixing a carbon-black-containing aqueous-slurry-solution in which a carbon black is dispersed in water with a dihydrazide compound, and subsequently removing the water. Disclosed is a method for producing a rubber wet masterbatch, including: a step (I) of mixing a carbon-black-containing aqueous-slurry-solution in which a carbon black is dispersed in water, a rubber latex solution, and a dihydrazide compound with each other to produce a carbon-black-containing aqueous-rubber-latex-solution; a step (II) of solidifying the resultant carbon-black-containing aqueous-rubber-latex-solution to produce a carbon-black-containing rubber solidified product; and a step (III) of dehydrating and drying the resultant carbon-black-containing rubber solidified product to produce the rubber wet masterbatch. These producing methods can give a vulcanized rubber low in exothermicity, and a rubber composition restrained from being lowered in scorch property (or having scorch resistance).
US11466157B2
The present invention provides a curing catalyst for an organic polymer or an organopolysiloxane, which has a high safety and a practical curing speed, and improves the adhesion of a cured product to a substrate, and can be produced at low cost. An aspect of the present invention provides a curing catalyst [B] for an organic polymer or an organopolysiloxane, which is used for curing an organic polymer [A1] or an organopolysiloxane [A2] having a reactive hydrolyzable silicon-containing group, wherein the catalyst [B] contains a titanium compound [B1] represented by the following formula and a secondary amine compound or a tertiary amine compound [B2]. (R1—O)nTi-A4-n (In the formula, R1 is a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and A is a carboxylic acid residue, and n is 1 or 2.)
US11466155B2
A filling composition comprises (A) a mineral oil having a kinematic viscosity from 80 cSt to 100 cSt at 40° C.; (B) a styrene-ethylene/propylene diblock copolymer; and (C1) a propylene/ethylene copolymer having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) from 5,000 to 200,000 or (C2) an ethylene/propylene copolymer having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) from 5,000 to 200,000. The filling composition is used as a filling composition in a buffer tube.
US11466152B2
The present technology relates generally to aqueous dispersion or emulsion compositions that include a polymeric binder resin and an ether amine. Specifically, the polymeric binder resin includes acid functional groups, at least a portion of which are neutralized by the ether amine such that the polymeric binder resin is dissolved or dispersed in the water, provided that the polymeric binder resin is not a polyurethane and the ether amine is a compound of formula I: wherein R1 and R2 are independently C1-C4 alkyl or C3-C4 cycloalkyl group; or R1 and R2, together with the nitrogen to which they are attached, form a C4-C5 membered heterocycloalkyl ring; A is a C1-C6 alkylene or C1-C6 cycloalkylene ring; and R3 is C1-C4 alkyl or C3-C4 cycloalkyl group; provided that the compound of formula I contains no more than 10 carbons.
US11466149B2
Pellet-stable olefinic copolymer bimodal rubber is made using parallel reactors, with one reactor synthesizing higher molecular weight (MW) rubber with dual catalysts, with an improved molecular weight split ratio and an improved composition distribution of the moderate and ultra-high MW components, while another reactor synthesizes random isotactic polypropylene copolymer (RCP). The effluents are reactor-blended and result in pellet-stable bimodal rubber (P-SBR), which may be pelletized. When making thermoplastic vulcanizates (TPVs) with P-SBR, the need to granulate rubber bales and subsequently use talc, clay, or other anti-agglomeration agents to prevent granulated rubber crumbs from agglomerating are eliminated. TPVs made with P-SBR have vulcanized rubber particles that are smaller and more uniform in size, resulting in TPVs with higher particle counts and more thermoplastic “ligaments” between the particles, with such ligaments being made stronger by the added RCP. Such thus-produced TPVs have a lower hysteresis and flexural modulus, and better elastic properties.
US11466145B2
A cellulose-fiber-dispersing polyolefin resin composite material, containing a polyolefin resin and a cellulose fiber dispersed in the polyolefin resin, in which the composite material contains the cellulose fiber of 3 mass % or more and less than 70 mass %, and when the composite material is subjected to the abrasion test according to ISO 6722 under the following test conditions, the amount of abrasion after 5,000 reciprocations satisfies the [Formula 1]: (Amount of abrasion [mm] of the cellulose-fiber-dispersing polyolefin resin composite material)<−0.003×(Cellulose effective mass ratio of the cellulose-fiber-dispersing polyolefin resin composite material)+0.3, [Test Conditions for Abrasion Test] Load: 1.7 kg, Needle diameter: φ0.45 mm, Stroke length: 10 mm, Period: 60 reciprocations/min, Test piece: length 38 mm×width 6 mm×thickness 1 mm, Temperature: 23° C.
US11466143B2
This disclosure relates to wear-resistant rubber compositions, such as those, for example, comprising at least one hydroxy-terminated polybutadiene, at least one natural rubber, at least one polymerization accelerant; at least one sulfur; and at least one polybutadiene, wherein the wear-resistant rubber composition may have an effective cross-linking density of at least about 30×10−5 moles/cm3.
US11466138B2
A reusable, fiber containing pulp product is described that is highly suited for use in the manufacture of paper products. The reusable, fiber containing pulp product provides a mixture of fibers and small, dense polymer/particle fragments. The polymer/particle fragments within the reusable, fiber containing pulp product have a size range and density that facilitates efficient removal of the polymer/particle fragments using pressure screens.
US11466136B2
A multifunctional diffusion barrier comprising at least one organic polymer and a 2D graphene or 2D graphene derivative material and a method for preparing the multifunctional barrier. The multifunctional diffusion barrier can be used as a liquid and/or gas barrier, or as structural material, or as sealing material, or as a self-cleaning material or as protective material against UV radiation in aeronautical, automotive, marine or building field. The multifunctional diffusion barrier is suitable in producing parts of aircraft such as a fuel tank, a fuel tank conduit and a gasket.
US11466130B2
A fiber-reinforced polymer composition that comprises a polymer matrix; a thermally conductive filler distributed within the polymer matrix; and a plurality of long fibers distributed within the polymer matrix is provided. The long fibers comprise an electrically conductive material and have a length of about 7 millimeters or more. Further, the composition exhibits an in-plane thermal conductivity of about 1 W/m-K or more as determined in accordance with ASTM E 1461-13 and an electromagnetic shielding effectiveness of about 20 dB or more as determined at a frequency of 1 GHz in accordance with EM 2107A.
US11466126B2
A condensation curable silicone adhesive composition comprising a siloxane-imide base polymer, condensation curable organopolysiloxane crosslinker, a condensation catalyst and an additive is shown and described herein. The composition is curable at relatively room temperatures and shows good heat stability.
US11466122B2
This invention relates to odor control molecules comprised of polyethyleneimine compounds containing N-halamine and derivatives thereof.
US11466112B2
Provided is a carboxylic acid-modified nitrile-based copolymer latex, and more particularly, provided are a carboxylic acid-modified nitrile-based copolymer latex which includes a carboxylic acid-modified nitrile-based copolymer including a monomer-derived repeating unit; and a repeating unit derived from a monomer represented by Chemical Formula 1 below, the monomer-derived repeating unit including a conjugated diene-based monomer-derived repeating unit, an ethylenically unsaturated nitrile-based monomer-derived repeating unit, and an ethylenically unsaturated acid monomer-derived repeating unit (see description of the present invention), a method for preparing a carboxylic acid-modified nitrile-based copolymer latex, a latex composition for dip-forming including the copolymer latex, and an article formed by the composition.
US11466110B2
The present invention relates to a semi-crystalline polyolefinic ionomer and a process for the preparation of a semi-crystalline polyolefinic ionomer.
US11466107B2
A solid catalyst component for the polymerization of olefins CH2═CHR, wherein R is hydrogen or a hydrocarbon radical with 1-12 carbon atoms, made from or containing Mg, Ti, Bi, a halogen and an electron donor.
US11466104B1
Polymerization processes and reactor systems for producing multimodal ethylene polymers are disclosed in which at least one loop reactor and at least one fluidized bed reactor are utilized. Configurations include a loop reactor in series with a fluidized bed reactor and two loop reactors in series with a fluidized bed reactor.
US11466091B2
Methods of treating autoimmune diseases, such as primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), solid organ transplant rejection, graft-related disease, pemphigus vulgaris, systemic sclerosis, and myasthenia gravis using antibody polypeptides that specifically bind human CD40L are provided. The antibody polypeptides do not activate platelets. The methods may comprise at least one administration cycle comprising one dose of the antibody polypeptide. The dose may be administered intravenously at a dose from about 75 mg to about 1500 mg. The method normalizes platelet counts in the human patient.
US11466082B2
Anti-CD33 antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof and anti-CD33/anti-CD3 bispecific antibodies or antigen-binding fragments thereof are described. Also described are nucleic acids encoding the antibodies, compositions comprising the antibodies, methods of producing the antibodies, and methods of using the antibodies for treating or preventing diseases, such as cancer.
US11466061B2
The present invention relates to methods and compositions for treating and/or preventing a disease or disorder associated with abnormally high level of the IFP35 family of proteins, including IFP35 and NMI, methods and compositions for diagnosis, prognosis or treatment monitoring of a disease or disorder associated with abnormally high level of the IFP35 family of proteins, including IFP35 and NMI, and methods and compositions for identifying a modulator of the IFP35 family of proteins, including IFP35 and NMI.
US11466060B2
A plant material comprises a genomic nucleotide sequence encoding a SUSIBA2 or SUSIBA2-like transcription factor under transcriptional control of a promoter active in the plant material. The genomic nucleotide sequence encoding the SUSIBA2 or SUSIBA2-like transcription factor lacks at least a portion of an activation region of a SUSIBA1 or SUSIBA1-like promote represent in an intron of a wild-type version of the genomic nucleotide sequence encoding the SUSIBA2 or SUSIBA2-like transcription factor. The plant material has a controlled production of carbohydrates, in particular starch or starch and fructan. In particular, the plant material can be designed to produce carbohydrates at enhanced levels.
US11466057B2
It has been found that an extracellular polypeptide derived from Akkermansia municiphila is capable of modulating and/or promoting gut mucosal immune system function and/or maintaining and/or restoring metabolic status and/or increasing the physical integrity of the gut mucosal barrier in a mammal. The polypeptide or host cells comprising such polypeptide may be employed to prevent and/or treat a variety of conditions that benefit from an increased physical integrity of the gut mucosal barrier and/or an improved gut mucosal immune system function and metabolic status.
US11466048B2
The disclosure relates to nucleic acids that contain modifications at the 5′-end, 3′-end or 5′-end and 3′-ends, and compounds that can be used to make the modified nucleic acids are disclosed. The modified nucleic acids have improved expression, lower immunogenicity and improved stability compared to unmodified nucleic acids.
US11466043B2
A niobium compound and a method of forming a thin film using the niobium compound, the compound being represented by the following General formula I: wherein, in General formula I, R1, R4, R5, R6, R7, and R8 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a C1-C6 linear or branched alkyl group or a C3-C6 cyclic hydrocarbon group, at least one of R4, R5, R6, R7, and R8 being a C1-C6 linear or branched alkyl group, and R2 and R3 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a C1-C6 linear or branched alkyl group, or a C3-C6 cyclic hydrocarbon group.
US11466038B2
Provided is a plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) process for depositing etch-resistant SiOCN films. These films provide improved growth rate, improved step coverage and excellent etch resistance to wet etchants and post-deposition plasma treatments containing O2 and NH3 co-reactants. This PEALD process relies on one or more precursors reacting in tandem with the plasma exposure to deposit the etch-resistant thin-films of SiOCN. The films display excellent resistance to wet etching with dilute aqueous HF solutions, both after deposition and after post-deposition plasma treatment(s). Accordingly, these films are expected to display excellent stability towards post-deposition fabrication steps utilized during device manufacturing and build.
US11466035B2
A method for manufacturing a silver-carbon composite includes steps as follows. A carbon-containing solution is provided, wherein a carbon-containing material is subjected to a calcination step and is dissolved by a solvent to obtain the carbon-containing solution. The carbon-containing solution includes a plurality of carbon nanodots, and the carbon nanodots are negatively charged. A silver ion-containing solution is provided, wherein the silver ion-containing solution includes a plurality of silver ions. The carbon-containing solution and the silver ion-containing solution are mixed to obtain a mixed solution. The mixed solution is heated, such that at least one of the silver ions is reduced on at least one of the carbon nanodots to obtain the silver-carbon composite.
US11466033B2
The present invention discloses compounds of Formula (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters thereof: which inhibit the Apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 (ASK-1), which associated with autoimmune disorders, neurodegenerative disorders, inflammatory diseases, chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular disease. The present invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the aforementioned compounds for administration to a subject suffering from ASK-1 related disease. The invention also relates to methods of treating an ASK-1 related disease in a subject by administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compounds of the present invention. The present invention specifically relates to methods of treating ASK-1 associated with hepatic steatosis, including non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and non-alcohol steatohepatitis disease (NASH).
US11466022B2
The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (1) which are suitable for use in electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, and to electronic devices which comprise these compounds.
US11466019B2
Compounds of formula (I) that are capable of acting as purine receptor antagonists, pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds, and methods of making the compounds, are disclosed. The compounds and compositions can be used in treating or preventing disorders related to purine receptor hyperfunctioning.
US11466018B2
Disclosed are pyrazole compounds, as well as pharmaceutical compositions and methods of use thereof. One embodiment is a compound having the structure and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs and N-oxides thereof (and solvates and hydrates thereof), wherein A, X, Z, m, p, and R2 are as described herein. In certain embodiments, a compound disclosed herein inhibits the activity of one or more members of the TGF-β superfamily, and can be used to treat disease by blocking such activity.
US11466008B2
Provided herein are co-crystal forms comprising 5-(2,6-dichlorophenyl)-2-(2,4-difluorophenylthio)-6H-pyrimido[1,6-b]pyridazin-6-one (VX-745): and compositions thereof, useful as inhibitors of one or more protein kinases and which exhibit desirable characteristics for the same.
US11466003B2
Provided are a nitrogenous heterocyclic aromatic compound, a preparation method therefor, a pharmaceutical composition thereof, and an application thereof. The nitrogenous heterocyclic aromatic compound can be used for treating and/or preventing various diseases mediated by ALK5.
US11465995B2
Provided are a crystal form of a tricyclic compound and a preparation process thereof. Also provided is an application of the crystal form in preparing a drug for treating a disease related to a sphingosine-1-phosphate subtype 1 (S1P1) receptor.
US11465988B2
The present invention provides a process for the preparation of Tipiracil HCl of Formula (I) and intermediate thereof with improved yields and purities.
US11465982B2
The present invention relates to novel pyridazines of the below formula (I), processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in therapy, particularly in the treatment and/or prevention of diseases and disorders mediated by autotaxin:
US11465973B2
The invention relates to the compounds or its pharmaceutical acceptable polymorphs, solvates, enantiomers, stereoisomers and hydrates thereof. The pharmaceutical compositions comprising an effective amount of compounds of formula I, formula II, formula III, formula IV, formula V, formula VI, formula VII, formula VIII, formula IX, formula X, formula XI and formula XII and, the methods for the treatment of oral infectious diseases may be formulated for oral, buccal, rectal, topical, transdermal, transmucosal, lozenge, spray, intravenous, oral solution, buccal mucosal layer tablet, parenteral administration, syrup, or injection. Such compositions may be used to treatment of oral infectious diseases.
US11465969B2
Provided herein are free base crystalline forms, crystalline salts, and an amorphous salts of omecamtiv mecarbil.
US11465959B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing 4,4′-dihydroxy-[1,1′-biphenyl-3,3′-dicarboxylic acid], the method comprising a step for preparing a compound represented by chemical formula 1 by reacting a compound represented by chemical formula 2 with a base according to reaction formula 1. [reaction formula 1] [chemical formula 1] [chemical formula 2] According to the present invention, because use of additional carbon dioxide is unnecessary during the reaction, internal pressure is lowered during same, the reaction can be carried out at a lower temperature, the yield from the synthesis is notably improved as hardening of the resulting substance is absent, and H4dobpdc can be synthesized in large amounts as an additional process for obtaining pure ligands is unnecessary.
US11465944B2
A method of applying a NOx degrading composition on a concrete element, including providing a concrete element having a surface, and applying a composition including photocatalytic titanium dioxide particles dispersed in a continuous phase on the surface of said concrete element. Also, a concrete element having NOx degrading properties. Also, a concrete element having photocatalytic titanium dioxide particles dispersed thereon.
US11465937B2
A glass-based article may include from about 45 mol. % to about 80 mol. % SiO2; from about 0 mol. % to about 10 mol. % Na2O; less than about 5 mol. % K2O; a non-zero amount of Al2O; and an amorphous phase and a crystalline phase. The article may further in include a stress profile comprising a surface compressive stress (CS) and a maximum central tension (CT). A ratio of Li2O (mol. %) to R2O (mol. %) in the article is from about 0.5 to about 1, where R2O is the sum of Li2O, Na2O, and K2O in the article. CT may be greater than or equal to about 50 MPa and less than about 100 MPa. CS may be greater than 2.0·CT. A depth of compression (DOC) of the stress profile may be greater than or equal to 0.14·t and less than or equal to 0.25·t, where t is the thickness of the article.
US11465932B2
Alkali free fluorophosphate-based glass system that is highly radiation resistance (for example, they remain transparent and do not solarize before, during, and after application of high energy radiation of 105 Rad or (1 kGy) or greater) and hence, reusable and further, when used with Ce provide a mechanism for determining the existence of radiation.
US11465931B2
An ultraviolet light absorbing glass according to the present invention includes 1.6% or more of t-Fe2O3, more than 1.0% of TiO2, and 0.016% or more of CoO. The ultraviolet light absorbing glass has t-Fe2O3/TiO2 of 1.2 or more, and an ultraviolet light transmittance (TUV400) at a sheet thickness of 3.1 mm of 2.0% or less, a ratio of visible light transmittance (TVA)/TUV400 of 10 or more, and a dominant wavelength (λD) of 555 nm or less.
US11465923B2
Disclosed are wastewater treatment systems and methods of treating wastewater. In particular, this disclosure provides a method of lowering the biological oxygen demand, total nitrogen, total suspended solids, and phosphorous within wastewater containing human excrements. In addition to improving the quality of the wastewater on a per Liter basis, this disclosure also provides methods and systems that reduce the absolute quantity of total nitrogen, total suspended solids, and phosphorous released into the environment through effluent. The disclosed methods and systems also provide ways of reintroducing water into the environment.
US11465916B2
Systems for and methods of monitoring and analyzing deposit in an industrial water system are provided. The methods comprise heating a substrate while the substrate contacts industrial water in the industrial water system to form deposit on the substrate. A series of digital images of the substrate while the substrate contacts the industrial water in the industrial water system is created. A region of interest in the series of digital images of the substrate is defined. A deposit feature in the region of interest in the series of digital images of the substrate is identified. The deposit feature in the region of interest in the series of digital images of the substrate is analyzed to determine a deposit trend of the substrate in the industrial water system. Generally, the systems are configured so as to be capable of carrying out one or more of the methods.
US11465909B2
The invention provides a composition of particulate materials. The composition comprises lanthanum chloride in particulate form. The composition also comprises up to about 4% by weight of amorphous silica in particulate form, based on the combined weight of the lanthanum chloride and the amorphous silica. The addition of amorphous silica to desiccated lanthanum chloride forms a fine coating or barrier on the outer surfaces of the individual lanthanum crystals, providing a composition that is significantly more stable and able to resist coalescence of particles than pure desiccated lanthanum chloride.
US11465896B2
A system and method a method may include receiving (i) beverage composition data of a requested beverage, and (ii) a user identifier of a user requesting the beverage. Responsive to receiving an instruction to dispense the requested beverage, the requested beverage may be dispensed. The beverage composition data may be stored in a dispensed beverage record. A verification as to whether or not the dispensed beverage is a qualified beverage pour may be performed. Responsive to determining that the dispensed beverage is a qualified beverage pour, a counter may be increased. Responsive to determining that the counter value crosses a threshold value, a first message may be communicated to a mobile electronic device of the user, otherwise, a second message may be communicated to the mobile electronic device. The first or second message may be displayed on the mobile electronic device.
US11465890B2
Hub lifting and pick-and-place equipment includes a fixed plate. The lower portion of the fixed plate is connected with a vertical plate. One side of the bottom of the vertical plate is fixedly connected with a fixed frame. The bottom of the vertical plate is hinged with a safety plate. The safety plate and the vertical plate are also connected with each other through shielding oil cylinders. A wire holder is mounted on one side of the vertical plate.
US11465881B2
A speed governor assembly and an elevator system. The speed governor assembly includes: a sheave; a centrifugal mechanism mounted on the sheave and rotating together with the sheave; an overspeed protection switch at a first distance from a radial outer side of the centrifugal mechanism; a core ring disposed coaxially with the sheave; and a triggering arm rotating together with the core ring; wherein the centrifugal mechanism engages with the core ring and drives the core ring and the triggering arm to rotate when the sheave reaches a second speed, and the rotation of the triggering arm can contact and trigger the overspeed protection switch.
US11465880B2
Elevator maintenance space projection systems and elevator systems including a projector located within an elevator shaft and arranged to project a display space within the elevator shaft such that the display space includes one or more projected images identifying at least one of a safety volume, a refuge space, and a maintenance location.
US11465878B2
A method of controlling building systems including detecting a status parameter of a door of a building; displaying the status parameter of the door on a device; detecting a status parameter of a door lock, the door lock being operbly connected to the door; and displaying the status parameter of the door and the status parameter of the door lock on a device.
US11465877B2
The invention refers to an elevator system having a plurality of elevator cars, which elevator cars comprise several first cars and at least one second car, which second car differs from the first cars in its size and/or technical configuration, whereby the first cars and the second car run together within one and the same elevator shaft, which elevator system comprises an elevator control comprising a call allocation control having a first part connected to at least one call input device for allocating the first elevator cars and a second part connected to at least one call issuing means for the call allocation of the second car, whereby the first and second part of the call allocation control are configured to work independently of each other.
US11465875B2
A coil feeding device and a graphic machine thereof are provided. The coil feeding device includes a roller mechanism for carrying a coiled material, a base mechanism, and a compression rod mechanism. The roller mechanism includes a shaft penetrating through the shaft hole and a tension structure disposed on the shaft. The tension structure includes a first sleeve, a second sleeve and a tapered fixing member. When the first sleeve and the second sleeve are fixed to each other, the tapered fixing member holds the shaft to achieve mutual fixation of the coiled material and the shaft. By providing the second sleeve, the first sleeve and the tapered fixing member that cooperate with each other, the coiled material and the shaft are fastened to each other quickly, thereby improving production efficiency. Through the base mechanism, the coil feeding device is directly used on existing graphic machine for material processing.
US11465871B2
The present disclosure relates to a tape dispenser for dispensing tape from a tape roll received therein. In one embodiment, the tape dispenser comprises a main body with a mandrel adapted to receive and releasably retain a tape roll, and wherein the mandrel allows rotation of the tape roll about a mandrel axis. It further includes a cutting arm comprising a blade attached to the main body for cutting the tape and positioned at a distance from the mandrel axis. The tape dispenser further includes an attachment unit for temporarily and releasably attaching the tape dispenser to a furniture, wherein the main body is pivotably attached to the attachment unit, and wherein a pivot axis is perpendicular to a mandrel axis.
US11465857B2
A camfeeder system that uses an eccentric disk kicker having a friction surface that contacts surface of a heavy elongated object to smoothly and simultaneously move the elongated object in a transverse direction towards a conveyor and accelerate the elongated object in a lineal direction the conveyor travels. A method of changing a direction a heavy elongated object travels from transverse to lineal using the camfeeder system.
US11465855B2
A powder/granular material spreader that allows easy cleaning of a passage for powder/granular material includes a housing that houses motors, a passage that extends through the housing and provides a passage for the powder/granular material, a roller provided in the passage to feed the powder/granular material and that is driven by one of the motors, and a spinner driven by the motor to spread the powder/granular material. The passage includes an integral first wall that shields the motor from the passage, an integral second wall that shields the motor from the passage, and an opening located at an inlet of the passage. The opening is integral with the first wall and the second wall. The housing includes an integral cover that covers tops and sides of the motors, and fits over an outer surface of the opening. A seal is provided at a location where the opening and the cover are connected with each other.
US11465852B2
A flatwire conveyor belt assembly includes pickets defining a leading link and a trailing link, wherein adjacent pickets are coupled with a cross-rod that extends through openings formed in the leading link and in the trailing link of adjacent pickets. Top plates are coupled to the pickets and define a conveying surface.
US11465846B2
A computer system for optimizing node and edge selections within a digital graph model accesses a digital graph model of a physical warehouse location. The digital graph model comprises information indicating a location of multiple specific items of inventory among shelves in the physical warehouse location. The computer system identifies a set of orders that each comprise one or more items and an order priority. The computer system then maps each item in each order selected from the set or orders to the multiple nodes within the digital graph model. The computer system identifies a ranking node from the multiple nodes. The computer system then traverses one or more edges that extend from the ranking node to identify a shortest path within the digital graph model to fill a digital model of a picking cart above a packing threshold level.
US11465845B2
A method in an automated Surface Mount Device (SMD) warehouse configured to store bins at predetermined positions within said automated Surface Mount Device (SMD) warehouse, the method comprising receiving a bin at a port of said automated Surface Mount Device (SMD) warehouse and scanning an identity tag attached to said bin to obtain a bin ID.
US11465837B2
A storage receptacle can include a storage bin and a pedal mounted to the receptacle. The pedal can rotate downward when pressure is applied in order to pull on a first cable coupled to the pedal. The first cable is connected to a spring, and the spring is connected to a second cable. The second cable connects the spring to a door via an upper pulley of the receptacle. The second cable causes the door to open when the second cable is pulled based on force applied to the pedal. A bottom pulley can be coupled to the pedal via the first cable and configured to translate an upward pull of the first cable to a downward pull of the spring and second cable. The spring controls the motion of the door such that the door does not open too quickly upon a force being applied to the pedal.
US11465834B2
An apparatus to support a proppant container includes a frame to receive and support the proppant container. The frame has a top surface that receives and positions the proppant container in an elevated position. The apparatus also includes a box guide assembly positioned on the top surface a box guide assembly connected to the top surface of the frame for defining a cradle section having four corners. The box guide assembly including a box guide positioned at each of the corners. Each box guide has a corner member extending upwardly from the top surface along a peripheral edge of the frame and a guide member extending adjacent the corner member. The guide member include an inclined face for aligning the proppant container in the cradle section. The box guide assembly guides the proppant container into the cradle section when loaded onto the frame in the elevated position.
US11465833B2
An assembly for saturating or aerating a medium with fluid. At least one hollow cylinder having gates and vents embedded within a grain mass. A target section of grain mass is identified and the gates and vents activated to provide influent flow to the target section in both vertical and horizontal directions.
US11465831B2
A flexible tank has one or more inner layers and one or more outer layers enclosing the inner layers. It has an improved structure to prevent leakage and rupture when making a long multi-modal shipment of large quantities of a liquid, including when the flexible tank is not supported by the end or side walls of a shipping container.
US11465827B2
A container closing device for a beverage can having an opening tab which is disposed on a can lid and pivotable about a pivot reception formed in a lid bottom, the opening tab being provided with a reactive surface on its underside facing the lid bottom for contact with a liquid pouring from the pouring opening, a sealed space being realized in the area of the reactive surface and a closing piece disposed in the lid bottom between a pouring protrusion and the lid bottom so that the reactive surface is disposed at least partially in the sealed space and is sealed against the environment.
US11465823B2
An apparatus including a shell defining a first side and a second side, wherein the shell is formed from a one-piece integral structure, wherein the one-piece integral structure is joined together to form a seam, and wherein the seam is on one of the second side or the first side, a storage compartment, and an opening configured to provide access to the storage compartment.
US11465817B2
A packaging system and method for an article includes a strap having an elongate shape and being made from a flexible material, and container having an opening. The container defines a space. In a packaged configuration, first and second ends of the strap are connected to one another to form a loop, the article is folded in a bundle and disposed within the space in the container, and the loop extends through a portion of the bundle and two slits formed in the container to secure the article into the container.
US11465814B2
The present invention relates to a tube squeezing device for effectively evacuating all the material, paste, or product inside collapsible and flexible tubes. The tube squeezing device comprises a handle and clip end formed from an upper arm and a lower arm for securing the tube body. The clip end includes the upper arm and the lower arm with a slot therebetween. The tube is received in between the slot in order to urge dispensing of the material from the tube by rotating the handle to roll the arms along the tube body to push the material within the tube towards its dispensing end for easy evacuation without any wastage of product and money. The tube squeezing device is adjustable in size to accommodate tubes of different sizes and can be used by children, adults, elderly and others with compromised dexterity and strength.
US11465805B2
The present disclosure concerns a coupling mechanism for detachably attaching two or more utility modules to one another, utility assembles, mobile carriers and other attachable modules and articles.
US11465801B2
A shipping riser is provided and includes an engineered structure. The engineered structure includes a central laminated structure, a pair of middle laminated structures positioned on and secured to opposite sides of the central laminated structure, and a pair of outer laminated structures positioned on and secured to opposite sides of the pair of middle laminated structures.
US11465798B2
Blanks for forming clamshell containers and the resulting clamshell containers are described. The clamshell containers include a tray and a lid that are hingedly connected together. The tray is liquid tight, and typically includes gussets on each corner to prevent leakage. The lid and tray can be locked via at least one locking mechanism, optionally two different locking mechanisms. A first locking mechanism involves a front panel on the tray, with an extension portion that terminates in a hook or tab. The extension portion can fold over the front panel of the lid, and the hook or tabs slide into a slit(s) on the top of the lid. An optional second locking mechanism involves lid detents and tray detents. In some embodiments, in the locked position, the lid detents are underneath the tray detents and the tray detents retain the lid detents in place until a force is applied.
US11465797B2
A collapsible travel bottle comprising a flexible main body comprising an inner space for receiving a liquid therein, the main body including an upper portion, a middle portion, and a lower portion, an opening in the upper portion in communication with the inner space to allow receiving and discharging of the liquid within the flexible main body, a rigid collar coupled to the upper portion proximate the opening, a rigid cap coupled to the rigid collar to restrict receiving and discharging of the liquid within the flexible main body through the opening, the middle portion configured to enable both the top portion and the middle portion to collapse fully into the bottom portion.
US11465784B2
A modular micro-cathode arc thruster for use in satellites. An exemplary satellite has a plurality of stacked modular arc thrusters, each having an external anode, an internal cathode, and an insulator therebetween. The arc thrusters are situated in a housing, wherein the housing has an opening to eject exhausted thrusters. Once an arc thruster is expended, the push rod ejects that arc thruster and the next arc thruster takes its place.
US11465778B2
A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for managing pumps in an aircraft. Flight information about an operation of the pumps in a pump package in the aircraft is received by a computer system. The flight information is received from the aircraft. A number of times that an abnormal switching occurred for the pumps within a window of consecutive flights is determined by the computer system when the abnormal switching is identified from the flight information. A set of actions is performed by the computer system when the abnormal switching occurred a number of times for the pumps within the window of consecutive flights that exceeds a set of thresholds for the abnormal switching that is considered healthy for the pumps.
US11465768B2
Computerized system and method of controlling a refueling device including, when the device is in a non-engaged state: receiving a first roll angle of a tanker, determining a first desired roll angle, and providing a command for controlling a roll element, thereby attempting to achieve or maintain a first roll angle that is substantially the same as the roll angle of the tanker. And, when the device is in an engaged state: receiving a second roll angle of the tanker, determining a second desired roll angle, and providing a command related to the desired roll angle for controlling a yaw element, thereby attempting to achieve or maintain a second roll angle that is substantially the same as the roll angle of the tanker, wherein the roll angle of the device during the engaged state is facilitated due to a degree of freedom between the refueling device body and refueling nozzle.
US11465767B2
An electric power generation controller for use in an aircraft is a controller of an electric power generating apparatus including a manual transmission configured to change speed of rotational power of an aircraft engine, transmit the rotational power to an electric power generator, and switch a gear stage by a friction clutch pressed by an actuator. The electric power generation controller includes a manual transmission control section configured to control the manual transmission. The manual transmission control section includes: a shift command section configured to output a shift signal which switches the gear stage of the manual transmission; and a clutch control section configured to, when switching the gear stage of the manual transmission, control clutch pressure of the actuator such that the friction clutch becomes a half-engaged state.
US11465760B2
A parachute release mechanism includes a housing, a strap hinge pin pivotably mounted to the housing, a cord coupled to the housing, and a cord tensioner coupled to the housing and coupled to the cord, wherein the cord tensioner is configured to impart a desired tension to the cord. The strap hinge pin is pivotable between a secured position and a released position, wherein in the secured position the strap hinge pin is configured to support a suspension strap for a payload and in the released position the suspension strap is enabled to disengage from the strap hinge pin. The cord is configured to retain the strap hinge pin in the secured position.
US11465757B2
Systems to produce cabin supply air for aircraft and related methods are described herein. An example system includes an air conditioning pack including a heat exchanger including a first flow path and a second flow path isolated from the first flow path. The second flow path is to receive cabin exhaust air from a cabin of an aircraft. The cabin exhaust air is to reduce a temperature of the cabin supply air flowing through the first flow path of the heat exchanger. The system also includes a turbine to receive the cabin supply air from the heat exchanger. The turbine is to reduce a temperature and pressure of the cabin supply air. A turbine outlet of the turbine is fluidly coupled to the cabin to provide the cabin supply air to the cabin. The system further includes a fan to direct the cabin exhaust air from the heat exchanger.
US11465754B2
A pressurized air supply unit (1; 1′) for an aircraft, comprising: a load compressor (30; 30′) configured to supply pressurized air (3), the load compressor (30; 30′) having a compressor shaft (23; 23′); and a drive portion (10) configured to supply power via an output shaft (20); the pressurized air supply unit (1; 1) being characterized in that it comprises: a gearbox (50); an electric motor (40), the electric motor (40) being coupled to said compressor shaft (23; 23′) via the gearbox (50); and a coupling system (25) configured to enable the output shaft (20) to drive the compressor shaft (23; 23′) and to prevent the compressor shaft (23; 23′) from driving the output shaft (20), and in that the output shaft (20) and the compressor shaft (23) lie on the same axis.
US11465751B2
Disclosed is an armrest assembly for a vehicle seat such as a pilot seat positioned in an aircraft cockpit. The armrest assembly generally includes a pivoting armrest and an arm pad repositionable relative to the armrest to change the arm pad width. The arm pad includes two functional sides each having a different width dimension. The arm pad is coupled to the armrest such that sequential translational and rotational motion of the arm pad moves one of the first and second sides into a use position atop the armrest and the other of the first and second sides into an out of use position alongside the armrest. The armrest assembly according to the present disclosure is ideal for use in tight quarters within the flight deck, among other installation environments requiring a functional armrest.
US11465747B2
A vehicle includes an interior cabin, a primary structure within the interior cabin, a plurality of securing mounts having first ends directly coupled to the primary structure, and second ends, and an overhead support platform system directly coupled to the second ends of the plurality of securing mounts. The overhead support platform system includes at least one adapter rail having a plurality of commodity mounts. At least one commodity is directly coupled to the overhead support platform system. The commodity is adaptively secured to one or more of the plurality of commodity mounts.
US11465738B2
An aircraft capable of carrying at least 400 pounds of payload, has four rotors systems, each of the rotor systems being independently driven by an electric motor or other torque-producing source. Each of the rotor systems provide sufficient thrust such that the aircraft is capable of controlled vertical takeoff and landing, even if one of the variable pitch rotor is inoperable. An electronic control system is configured to control the rotational speed and pitch of at least one of the rotor systems in each of the first and second rotor pairs. The rotors may be arranged in coaxial stacks or maybe otherwise configured.
US11465735B2
An aircraft wing with a system for optimizing boundary layer control. The aircraft wing includes an enclosing structure, an inner cavity defined within the aircraft wing, and at least one bellows assembly disposed in the inner cavity. The bellows assembly is spaced apart from the inner surfaces of the enclosing structure so as to define a void between the bellows assembly and the inner surfaces. Boundary control inlets are defined in the enclosing structure and a wake-immersed propulsion exhaust duct disposed proximate the trailing edge of the wing.
US11465733B2
A multirotor aircraft with an airframe that extends in a longitudinal direction, and with at least one thrust producing unit for producing thrust in a predetermined thrust direction, wherein the at least one thrust producing unit comprises a shrouding that is associated with at least one rotor assembly comprising at least one electrical engine, wherein the shrouding defines a cylindrical air duct that is axially delimited by an air inlet region and an air outlet region, wherein a cantilever is mounted at a leading edge region of the cylindrical air duct to the shrouding such that the cantilever is arranged inside of the cylindrical air duct and oriented at least essentially in parallel to the longitudinal direction, wherein the shrouding comprises a forward beam which connects the cantilever to the airframe, the forward beam being arranged outside of the cylindrical air duct and comprising a forward flange that is rigidly attached to the airframe, wherein the at least one electrical engine is mounted to the cantilever, and wherein the cylindrical air duct is provided in opened perimeter configuration, the shrouding being at least partly cut-off in the opened perimeter configuration at a trailing edge region of the cylindrical air duct over a predetermined opening angle.
US11465729B2
A method for constructing at least two fleets of aircraft of different families for which each aircraft has a front part comprising windows, a framing of the windows and a windshield front fairing, comprising, for each aircraft, constructing a module composed of the framing of all of the windows allowing outward visibility from the cockpit and of the windshield front fairing whose form is identical and constant for all the aircraft of the fleets and independent of a form of the fuselages thereof, and constructing a section of fuselage of which at least a part of an edge of the fuselage is of a form identical to an edge of the module, such that the module can be assembled directly with the contiguous fuselage section, whatever the aircraft of the fleets.
US11465726B2
A control system for posture control tabs of a marine vessel assists operations of a steering control. The posture control tabs are mounted on a stern of a hull to move up or down to control a posture of the hull. Actuators actuate the respective posture control tabs. When a steering instruction is provided through the steering control, a processor determines the posture control tab to be actuated and controls the actuator corresponding to the posture control tab determined to be actuated so as to change the position of the determined posture control tab.
US11465722B2
A rigging system (1) for a sailboat comprising: a mast (3) that extends substantially vertical from a hull; a boom (5) that extends substantially horizontal from the mast (3); a vang tube (7) extending between the mast and the boom to resist relative force and/or moment of the boom (5) towards the mast (3), wherein the vang tube (7) is substantially arcuate and a convex side of the actuate vang tube (7) faces an intersection (9) of the boom (5) and the mast (3) and wherein the vang tube (7) is located above the boom (5). A connection (301) for transferring a first force from a spar (307) to a mast (3) of a sailboat, the connection comprising: a connection base (303) having a key portion (305) to be received in a keyway (306), wherein the keyway (306) is part of a sail track (107) of the mast (3); a mount (309) to receive the spar (307), wherein the first force (35) from the spar (307) is transmitted through the mount (309) to the connection base (303); and a restraint (311) to resist a first component force (37) acting on the connection base (303), wherein the first component force (37) is a component of the first force (35) transmitted from the spar (307) that is in a direction parallel to the keyway (306).
US11465712B2
A control apparatus for a human-powered vehicle comprises a first controller. The first controller is configured to establish, in response to a user input, a wireless communication channel between a first wireless communicator of a first communication device and a second wireless communicator of a second communication device via a wired communication channel which is established between the first communication device and the second communication device through an electric cable and a first communication port configured to be connected to the electric cable.
US11465710B2
A bicycle rear sprocket assembly comprises a first sprocket and a second sprocket. The first sprocket includes a first torque-transmitting profile disposed around a first sprocket opening. The second sprocket includes a second torque-transmitting profile disposed around a second sprocket opening. The first torque-transmitting profile is configured to engage with the second torque-transmitting profile in the mounted state. The first sprocket includes an axial abutment surface configured to axially abut against the second sprocket for axially positioning the first sprocket and the second sprocket relative to each other in the mounted state. The axial abutment surface is disposed farther from an axial center plane of the bicycle rear hub assembly than the first torque-transmitting profile in the mounted state.
US11465695B2
A vehicle tailgate assembly includes a vehicle body structure, a tailgate, a hinge assembly and a bumper. The vehicle body structure defines a tailgate opening and having a hinge support section. The tailgate is installed to the vehicle body structure for movement between an upright orientation and a horizontal orientation. The hinge assembly has a first portion installed to the hinge support section and a second portion installed to the tailgate. The bumper is installed to the vehicle body structure proximate the hinge support section such that with the tailgate in the upright orientation, the second portion of the hinge assembly contacts the bumper.
US11465694B2
A vehicle body joint structure includes: a frame member made of a metal pipe, extending from a side of a vehicle body to be inclined vertically, and configured to form a front pillar; and a body member made of a plastic composite material, including a dash connection part and a cowl connection part, joined to the frame member, and configured to cover the frame member.
US11465693B2
A structural member for vehicle 1 includes: a hollow member 10 made of metal, the hollow member 10 including cutout forming portions 12 arranged along a member longitudinal direction of the hollow member, the cutout forming portions 12 each having a cutout 13; and reinforcing parts 20 made of FRP, the reinforcing parts 20 bonded to the hollow member 10, the reinforcing parts 20 covering each of the cutouts 13 in each of the cutout forming portions 12, in which a first cutout forming portion 12a having the cutout 13 in the first region R1 and a second cutout forming portion 12b having the cutout 13 in the second region R2 are arranged alternately along the member longitudinal direction of the hollow member 10.
US11465691B2
A hatch door, which comprises a rear spoiler and a side spoiler, which are fixedly connected to a base structure of the hatch door, wherein it is provided according to the invention that the rear spoiler is additionally disposed mechanically reversibly secured with respect to the side spoiler and vice versa by a mechanical connection.
US11465686B2
A structural reinforcement for a vehicle comprising: a) a carrier having a base wall from which a plurality of projections extend, the plurality of projections including at least one first projection and at least one second projection and the at least one first projection having a height greater than a height of the at least one second projection; b) an activatable material which is heat activatable and affixed to the carrier, configured to secure the carrier in a cavity of the vehicle; wherein in event of an impact, the at least one first projection and second projection are configured to deform toward the base wall and/or in a direction of an impact load in response to the impact load; and the at least one first projection is configured to receive the impact load and deform before the at least one second projection receives the impact load and deforms.
US11465670B2
A steering system for a vehicle includes a housing, an input shaft, and a hybrid shaft support. The housing defines an opening. The input shaft is configured to rotate about an input axis. The hybrid shaft support may be disposed at the opening and configured to couple the input shaft to the housing. The hybrid shaft support may also be configured to support the input shaft as the input shaft rotates. The hybrid shaft support further includes a cylindrical member and a flexible seal over-molded onto the cylindrical member.
US11465666B2
A steering system includes: a variable mechanism that reversibly changes a configuration of an operating member between a configuration for automated driving and a configuration for manual driving, the configuration including at least one of a position, an orientation, and a shape; a variable drive source; a receiver that receives an operation of a driver; and a controller that controls the variable drive source to cause the variable mechanism to return the configuration of the operating member to the configuration for manual driving, when the receiver receives the operation of the driver in a period when the configuration of the operating member is being changed.
US11465664B1
A baby wagon with improved ease of use includes a foldable main body frame, wherein the foldable main body frame includes a front main frame, a rear main frame, and a side frame, the baby wagon being configured such that the structure of the frames is simplified while stability and durability of the babe wagon are guaranteed, whereby the baby wagon is easily carried and stored, such that the number of unnecessary frames is reduced, whereby the overall weight of the baby wagon is reduced and production cost is reduced, and therefore product competitiveness is achieved, such that a change in shape of the baby wagon through folding and unfolding of the baby wagon is easily performed, and such that a canopy, a baby seat, and a tray may be conveniently detachably coupled to the foldable main body frame.
US11465654B2
According to some embodiments, an autorack railcar roof assembly comprises a center roof panel, a first intermediate roof panel adjacent one side of the center roof panel, and a second intermediate roof panel adjacent an opposite of the center roof panel from the first intermediate roof panel. The center roof panel comprises a first width. The first and second intermediate roof panels each comprise a second width greater than the first width.
US11465644B2
A driver assistance system plans movement for a motor vehicle, wherein a safe state of the motor vehicle is a state of the motor vehicle in a first time step from which the motor vehicle can be transferred, as a function of a movement capability of the motor vehicle in at least one second time step which follows the first time step, into a further safe state without colliding with a road user. The driver assistance system is configured to determine for at least one future time step starting from a current state of the motor vehicle, at least one possible future state of the motor vehicle and of the road user, and to select safe future states of the motor vehicle from the possible future states of the motor vehicle and of the road user, and to plan a movement for the motor vehicle as a function of the safe future states.
US11465643B2
An obstacle recognition device includes: a first sensor and a second sensor, which are configured to detect an object near a vehicle; a calculation unit configured to calculate, based on first detection data on a first object detected by the first sensor and second detection data on a second object detected by the second sensor, an index value for identifying whether the two objects are the same object; a determination unit configured to determine whether the two objects are the same object by comparing the index value with a threshold value set in advance; and a correction unit configured to calculate, when the determination unit has determined that the two objects are the same object, a detection error between the two sensors based on the two detection data, and generate corrected detection data so as to remove the detection error.
US11465631B2
A personalization system for a vehicle includes an image-capture device configured to capture a plurality of images of one or more occupants in the vehicle and control circuitry configured to estimate a plurality of Z-heights of a plurality of body portions of each of the one or more occupants from a reference position in the vehicle, based on the plurality of images captured from the image-capture device, determine an associative relationship between the plurality of Z-heights of the plurality of body portions of each of the one or more occupants in the vehicle and a plurality of in-vehicle systems, based on defined user-preferences, and control the plurality of in-vehicle systems to direct an output from a corresponding in-vehicle system to a specific body portion of each of the one or more occupants in the vehicle, based on the estimated plurality of Z-heights and the determined associative relationship.
US11465630B2
Systems and methods are provided for generating data indicative of a friction associated with a driving surface, and for using the friction data in association with one or more vehicles. In one example, a computing system can detect a stop associated with a vehicle and initiate a steering action of the vehicle during the stop. The steering action is associated with movement of at least one tire of the vehicle relative to a driving surface. The computing system can obtain operational data associated with the steering action during the stop of the vehicle. The computing system can determine a friction associated with the driving surface based at least in part on the operational data associated with the steering action. The computing system can generate data indicative of the friction associated with the driving surface.
US11465629B2
A recognition processing apparatus includes a video acquisition unit configured to acquire first captured image data of surroundings of a host vehicle captured by a far-infrared camera, an other vehicle detection unit configured to detect another vehicle parked or stopped in the surroundings of the host vehicle, a heat detection unit configured to detect radiated heat associated with an operation of the other vehicle based on a thermal distribution in a region corresponding to the other vehicle in the first captured image data, and a person detection unit configured to, when the radiated heat has been detected, preferentially execute person recognition in a vicinity of the other vehicle to detect a person. The recognition processing apparatus can ascertain the possibility that a person gets out of a detected vehicle and promptly detect such a person.
US11465624B2
A method of cooperatively controlling regenerative braking step by step for a vehicle, such as a rear-wheel-drive environmentally-friendly vehicle, performs a braking mode in accordance with a traveling risk degree determined in advance before initiating braking and changes the selectively performed braking mode by re-determining the traveling risk degree during a braking operation. The method includes: a first step of determining in advance the traveling risk degree before initiating braking; a second step of selectively performing any one of braking modes defined based on the traveling risk degree during braking; a third step of re-determining the traveling risk degree after the second step; and a fourth step of changing the selectively performed braking mode based on the traveling risk degree determined in the third step.
US11465604B2
In a vehicle control method, when drive force which a second electric motor is requested to output increases in a state where an internal combustion engine is stopped, drive force which the second electric motor outputs by using electric power supplied by a battery is limited to a lower level than maximum drive force determined from electric power which can be supplied by the battery to drive an electric-powered vehicle. Then, the drive force which the second electric motor outputs by using the electric power supplied by the battery is increased over time in a period from when the second electric motor outputs the drive force limited to the lower level to when the internal combustion engine is fired up and a first electric motor starts power generation.
US11465601B2
An electronic hydraulic brake device includes: a pedal master to generate hydraulic pressure through pressurization of a pedal and including first and second master chambers; a reservoir including first and second reservoirs to store hydraulic fluid; an electric master to generate hydraulic pressure and including forward and backward chambers; a wheel cylinder to provide a braking force to front and rear wheels; a storage line connecting the pedal master and the reservoir to guide hydraulic fluid; a forward chamber line connecting the first master chamber, the forward chamber, and the wheel cylinder to guide hydraulic fluid; a backward chamber line connecting the second master chamber, the backward chamber, and the wheel cylinder to guide hydraulic fluid; and a connector selectively connecting the forward chamber line and the backward chamber line to guide hydraulic fluid.
US11465594B2
Described is a windshield wiper apparatus that is formed to dispense fluid. The wiper apparatus includes an elongate body member having a length with a sealable channel therein that runs along the length. At least one blade protrudes downward along the length of the elongate body member. Further, a series of holes are formed such they pass from the sealable channel and through the elongate body member proximate the at least one blade. Thus, a fluid passing through the sealable channel is dispensed onto a surface proximate the at least one blade.
US11465591B2
A wiper blade including multiple frame components hingedly connected to one another and at least two joint springs applying elastic force to respective frame components, the wiper blade accommodating a changing curvature of a surface of a windshield.
US11465589B2
An attachment for a wiper arm of a windscreen wiper of a vehicle, having a rod arm, comprises a fluid channel for conducting a fluid and a first dimensionally stable element, wherein a first fluid channel section is formed in the first dimensionally stable element. The attachment also comprises a second dimensionally stable element, wherein a second fluid channel section is formed in the second dimensionally stable element. A wiper arm including the attachment is also disclosed.
US11465573B2
An electric wire fixing structure includes a metal protector that houses a protection target part of an electric wire in an electric wire housing chamber on an inner side and allows the electric wire in the electric wire housing chamber to be led out from an electric wire outlet of the electric wire housing chamber; and a fastening structure that fixes the protector to a metal fastening target. The fastening structure includes a male screw member, a through-hole formed in the protector and through which the male screw member is inserted, and a female screw part provided in the fastening target and in which the male screw member is screwed. At least a part of the protector is abutted against the fastening target when the protector is fixed to the fastening target.
US11465572B2
A clamp and a wire harness capable of being easily installed on a fixation portion are provided. The clamp 41 includes the holder 70, which holds the outer sheath 36 accommodating an electric wire, and the fixed portion 50, which is connected to the holder 70 and fixed to the vehicle body panel P1. The fixed portion 50 includes the insertion groove 60, into which the columnar fastener B1 on the vehicle body panel P1 is inserted. The insertion groove 60 extends through the fixed portion 50 in the X-axis direction. The insertion groove 60 is shaped so as to include the mouth 61 in the plan view seen in the X-axis direction. The mouth 61 opens in the Y-axis direction in this embodiment, which is orthogonal to the X-axis direction.
US11465566B2
The invention was designed to provide a solid, level hang bar utilizing the bicycle's seat post, seat post tube or frame itself which is level adjustable on the bicycle. The rake or angle of the seat post and seat post tube varies and the Bicycle Leveler is adjustable to allow a safe and level carry on a vehicle. The Bicycle Leveler is installed on the bicycle for safe transport and the Level Hang Bar is uniquely removable without tools for safe riding of the bicycle. No other design mounts solidly to the bicycle nor does it have removable level bar feature. The design represents a new methodology for safety in bicycle transport on traditional hang racks.
US11465565B1
A truck and automotive cab storage box is placed in the back seat of the cab of a work truck or other vehicle. The truck and automotive cab storage box has a tray which is connected to an angled cover and a divider separates the tray into two sections. The truck and automotive cab storage box stores items and forces users to stop the vehicle and open the rear doors to access items in or underneath the tray. The angled cover makes it difficult or impractical to store items on top of the truck and automotive cab storage box. The truck and automotive cab storage box makes it difficult or impractical to store items around it.
US11465564B2
A parcel shelf for a vehicle includes a tray disposed between a trunk area and a cabin area of the vehicle and a soundproofing partition extending laterally between two distal portions of the tray such that the tray is partitioned into a forward region and a rearward region. The forward region includes openings and each of these openings is sealed to limit passage of sound from the trunk area into the cabin area through the forward region. The soundproofing partition is configured such that the sound from the trunk area reaching the rearward region is redirected along an extended sound pathway before entering the cabin area. A resulting sound level entering the cabin area is reduced below a defined threshold level.
US11465563B2
A luggage board apparatus for a vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes a front board and a rear board that are separated to be movable in the front-rear direction of the vehicle within a luggage room. The front board and the rear board are operable simultaneously and individually. A position of a parting line at which the front board and the rear board are in contact with each other may be adjusted to a position desired by a user.
US11465559B2
One aspect of the present disclosure is a display processing device including an acquisition unit, a synthesis unit, and a display unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire a plurality of images captured by a plurality of cameras provided at a plurality of different positions on a vehicle, the captured images having an overlapping part in which imaging areas of the cameras partially overlap with each other. The synthesis unit combines the captured images acquired by the acquisition unit at the overlapping part of the captured images. The display unit displays the image synthesized by the synthesis unit on a display device mounted on the vehicle. The synthesis unit changes a position of a synthetic boundary, which is a boundary used when combining the captured images, as time passes.
US11465548B1
A load restraint fastener for use with a plurality of load restraint attachments is described. The load restraint fastener includes a body. The body includes a substantially planar portion having a front face and an opposite rear face. The substantially planar portion defines an opening and includes a first receiving portion having a receiving surface. The first receiving portion also defines a first portion of the opening. The substantially planar portion includes, in addition, a second receiving portion having a receiving surface. The second receiving portion is spaced apart from the first receiving portion and symmetric with the first receiving portion about at least one axis of symmetry. The second receiving portion defines a second portion of the opening. The body also includes a projecting portion having a receiving surface. The projecting portion extends outwardly from the rear face of the substantially planar portion.
US11465541B2
This air pump device is provided with: an electric pump unit including a pump mechanism and a motor; a case; and a vibration-proof member. The pump mechanism and the motor are arranged side by side in the axial direction of the motor. The pump mechanism has an inlet and an outlet at an end in the axial direction on the opposite side of the motor. The case has a first wall and a second wall which are located on opposite sides in the axial direction of the motor and which face the electric pump unit. The vibration-proof member is provided with: a first axial vibration-proof unit interposed between the electric pump unit and the first wall; and a second axial vibration-proof unit interposed between the electric pump unit and the second wall. The first axial vibration-proof unit covers the inlet.
US11465540B2
The present disclosure provides a chair in which attachment strength of a holding member and the chair is enhanced and an attachment state can be stably maintained. A legged chair includes a leg member, a support post connected to the leg member, a metal frame integrated with the support post, the metal frame forming a seated portion, an awakening device configured to awaken a seated person, a battery configured to supply electric power to the awakening device, an ECU that controls the awakening device, and a holding cover configured to hold the battery and the ECU. The holding cover is attached to the highly rigid metal frame.
US11465533B2
A vehicle includes an electric machine, a battery, an accelerator pedal, a battery cooling system, and a controller. The electric machine is configured to propel the vehicle. The battery is configured to provide electrical power to the electric machine. The battery cooling system is configured to cool the battery in a plurality of cooling modes. A transition between cooling modes of the battery cooling system corresponds to either an increase or a decrease in battery power being utilized to cool the battery. The controller is programmed to truncate an acceleration request under certain conditions to prevent an increase in battery power output in order to reduce a rate at which the battery temperature increases and to prevent a transition to a cooling mode that requires an increase in battery power output.
US11465527B2
The present disclosure relates to a charging control system for an electric vehicle including: an input device for receiving inputs of a demanded charge amount of a battery so as to charge the battery by using a charger; a processor configured to compute an expected charge time required to charge the battery and an expected drivable distance on completion of charging based on the demanded charge amount input to the input device; and an output device for displaying the expected charge time and the expected drivable distance computed by the processor.
US11465517B2
A charging connection is provided for charging electric vehicles. The first connector is coupled to an electric charging station with an electric cable. The second connector is coupled to the electric vehicle. The first connector has at least two openings slide onto at least two posts of the second connector. When the first and second connectors are coupled together, an electric potential supplies power from the first connector to the second connector.
US11465515B2
The invention concerns a vehicle comprising an electricity production unit configured for generating an electrical current, a transformer unit and a fuel storage unit, the production unit comprising at least two fuel cell stacks and a single first electrical connection interface for transmitting the electrical current to the transformer unit. The production unit further comprises a single cooling circuit, an air supply circuit and a single gaseous hydrogen supply circuit for supplying gaseous hydrogen, from the fuel storage unit, to each fuel cell stack. The production unit is separate from the fuel storage unit and connected to the fuel storage unit by a single connection interface, the production unit being removable from the vehicle as an integrated unit independently from the fuel storage unit.
US11465514B2
A vehicle onboard power supply system, supplying a consumer with electrical energy, includes a first voltage detection device (55) detecting a voltage level in a line area (51) between an input terminal (34) of a first circuit breaker (26) and a first battery (16), a second voltage detection device (57) detecting the voltage level in a line area (53) between an input terminal (42) of a third circuit breaker (30) and a second battery (18), a third voltage detection device (58) detecting the voltage level in the area of a consumer connection line (12). An overvoltage detection device (62) detects an overvoltage in the area of the consumer connection line based on the voltage level detected by the third voltage detection device and switches the first circuit breaker and the third circuit breaker into open states when overvoltage is detected in the area of the consumer connection line.
US11465510B2
A magnetic suspension bogie, the bogie comprising a upper frame located at the upper portion, two lower frames located at the lower portion, a suspension device and a track sensing device, wherein the upper frame and the lower frames are hinged and connected by means of a connecting device. By means of using a bearing hinge structure to connect the upper frame and the lower frames, it is not necessary to specially provide a separate steering mechanism; thus, a plurality of functions are comprised, while the structure is at the same time simplified. The present invention also relates to is a magnetic suspension train.
US11465506B2
Methods and systems are provided for controlling a high power output direct current to alternating current converter for a vehicle. In one example, a method may include at a vehicle-on event, automatically operating the converter in a first power output mode, and transitioning to a different mode of operation in response to a transition request being received at a controller of the vehicle. In this way, the different mode of operation may be subject to confirmation via an operator of the vehicle, which may improve operational performance of the direct current to alternating current converter.
US11465504B2
A control device controls a display device capable of displaying visual information for a passenger of a moving body, in two or more display regions. The control device causes adjacent target regions of the display regions to change from a display state in which the information is displayed to a display restricted state in which display is restricted, according to a predetermined order, when a predetermined condition is satisfied. The control device determines the target regions and the order, based on a traveling direction of the moving body at the time when the condition is satisfied or a traveling direction of the moving body that is predicted after the time when the condition is satisfied.
US11465501B2
The purpose of the present invention is to improve visibility of a status display unit while simplifying the installation of the status display unit and preventing damage to the status display unit. The present invention comprises: a work vehicle body capable of traveling automatically; a status detection unit that detects the status of the work vehicle body; and status display units that show a status display according to the status of the work vehicle body detected by the status detection unit. At least one pair of status display units are arranged diagonally across the work vehicle body in plan view.
US11465500B2
A display method for a hybrid vehicle includes displaying an engine icon representing the engine, a battery icon representing the battery, and a flow icon representing an energy flow between the engine icon and the battery icon on a display unit in accordance with a driving state of the hybrid vehicle. The display method includes displaying the flow icon in a display mode indicating that there is the energy flow between the engine and the battery when the battery is charged. The display method includes displaying the engine icon in a first display mode when the engine is stopped, displaying the engine icon in a second display mode when the engine is operated at engine rotation speed equal to or lower than reference rotation speed, and displaying the engine icon in a third display mode when the engine rotation speed is higher than the reference rotation speed.
US11465496B2
A power unit of a utility vehicle includes: a power source for travel of the utility vehicle; a continuously variable transmission; a reduced-speed shaft disposed parallel to a drive shaft of the power source and coaxially with a CVT input shaft of the continuously variable transmission; speed-reduction gears that transmit rotational power of the drive shaft to the reduced-speed shaft; and an electricity generator mounted on a shaft assembly including the CVT input shaft and the reduced-speed shaft. The drive shaft, the shaft assembly, the CVT input shaft, and the CVT output shaft extend in a first direction. The electricity generator is aligned with the power source in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and the location of the electricity generator in the first direction overlaps with the location of the power source in the first direction.
US11465495B2
Systems and methods for an electric drive axle are provided. In one example, the electric drive axle may include an electric motor-generator rotationally coupled to a gearbox having a one-way clutch mounted on an output shaft and operable in an engaged configuration and a disengaged configuration, where in the engaged configuration, the one-way clutch transfers rotational energy from the output shaft to an output gear rotationally coupled to a plurality of drive wheels. The gearbox further includes a mode adjustment mechanism including a lock ring rotationally coupled to the output shaft and configured to selectively engage an input gear and the one-way clutch in a plurality of operating modes.
US11465493B2
An apparatus and a method are provided for an alternative fuel system, comprising a plurality of fuel tank assemblies interconnected with fuel lines; the plurality of fuel tank assemblies comprising a CNG fuel tank and a fuel tank shield; wherein a first and second fuel tank assembly is disposed immediately in front of a rear wheel assembly, and a third fuel tank assembly is disposed immediately behind the rear wheel assembly.
US11465491B2
A drive unit has engines and a motor that are adjacent to each other in a longitudinal direction. The engines are provided with an engine oil path and a coolant path for cooling. The motor is provided with a motor cooling oil path for cooling. A first heat exchanger, in which engine oil and motor cooling oil exchange heat, and a second heat exchanger, in which a coolant and the motor cooling oil exchange heat, are provided. A second size in vertical and lateral directions of the motor is smaller than a first size in the vertical and lateral directions of each of the engines. The second heat exchanger is attached to an upper portion of a side circumferential portion of the motor, and the first heat exchanger is attached to a lower portion of the side circumferential portion of the motor.
US11465488B2
A lubricating oil supply structure in an in-wheel motor drive device (10) includes an oil tank (47) provided a lower part of a motor unit (21) and/or a reducer unit (31), configured to store lubricating oil, an oil pump (54) configured to pump up lubricating oil from the oil tank, and an oil pipe (70) fixedly attached in an upper part of the motor unit and/or the reducer unit. The oil pipe (70) includes an inlet (76) through which lubricating oil pumped up from the oil pump (54) flows therein, and at least one outlet (77) provided between one end thereof and the other end thereof, configured to discharge lubricating oil flown in from the inlet (76) downwards.
US11465485B1
A method of assembling a modular hybrid transmission (MHT) is provided including (a) assembling an emotor clutch on a clutch shaft to form a clutch assembly, (b) press-fitting a bushing into a centering plate to form a centering assembly, (c) connecting the centering assembly to a torque converter, (d) assembling the torque converter to the clutch assembly with the bushing on an end of the clutch shaft, and (e) inserting the clutch assembly and the torque converter into a transmission housing while maintaining the centering of the clutch shaft to the transmission housing via the centering assembly connected to the torque converter. The assembled MHT is also provided which eliminates the needle bearing according to the prior art, avoiding the potential for damage during assembly.
US11465484B2
The present invention relates to electric drivetrain kits for converting all-terrain vehicles into hybrid or electric vehicles. In exemplary embodiments, a conversion kit replaces an existing standard single motor and transmission drive system with a dual set-up including a motor for each rear wheel and a split transmission that houses two sets of gear reduction components in a single housing or an all-wheel configuration with two transmission sets (front and rear). Dual output shafts in each transmission set drive the wheels independently to provide the torque needed as required and demanded by each wheel. System electronics send signals to the motors and other components to manage the system and independently control each wheel.
US11465483B2
A variable stiffness vibration damping device includes a first support member, a second support member, a main elastic member, a diaphragm, a partition elastic member, a first communication passage, a coil, a yoke, and a magnetic fluid. The first communication passage is provided in one of the first support member and the second support member such that a first liquid chamber and a second liquid chamber communicate with each other via the first communication passage. The first communication passage includes a first circumferential passage. The coil is wound coaxially with the one of the first support member and the second support member. The yoke is included in the one of the first support member and the second support member and forms a first magnetic gap overlapping at least partially with the first circumferential passage.
US11465465B2
An air ventilation device of a vehicle includes: a housing including an air inlet and an air outlet and a cooling core and a heating core disposed between the air inlet and the air outlet; a rear extending flow path extending to the rear of the vehicle, and having a first end connected to the air outlet of the housing and a second end connected to a back seat air vent disposed to face a back seat space; an air collecting flow path directly connecting the rear extending flow path and the air inlet of the housing; and an opening and closing door structure opening and closing air circulation between the rear extending flow path and the air outlet and air circulation between the air collecting flow path and the air inlet.
US11465463B2
A transportation refrigeration unit (24) to provide a flow of supply air to a selected space includes a compressor to compress a flow of refrigerant and an engine (36) powered by a flow of fuel and operably connected to the compressor to drive the compressor. An evaporator circulates the flow of refrigerant therethrough to cool the supply air and includes a substantially unitary evaporator housing (50) having a supply air inlet opening (52) and a supply air outlet opening (56). An evaporator coil (32) is located in the evaporator housing, the flow of refrigerant circulating across the evaporator coil. An evaporator fan (34) is located in the evaporator housing to urge the supply airflow into the evaporator housing via the supply air inlet opening (52), across the evaporator coil (32) and out of the evaporator housing through the supply air outlet opening (56). The evaporator fan (34) can be located upstream or downstream of the evaporator coil (32).
US11465462B2
An air management system for a vehicle having a first pneumatic circuit and a second pneumatic circuit, in which the first and second pneumatic circuits are pneumatically connected in a neutral position via a cross-flow mechanism. The first pneumatic circuit includes a first leveling valve configured to adjust independently the height of a first side of the vehicle. The second pneumatic circuit includes a second leveling valve configured to adjust independently the height of a second side of the vehicle. The first and second leveling valves are configured to establish pneumatic communication between the first and second pneumatic circuits when the first leveling valve is not independently adjusting the height of the first side of the vehicle and the second leveling valve is not independently adjusting the height of the second side of the vehicle.
US11465461B2
The invention relates to a construction machine, road milling machine, stabiliser, recycler, surface miner, and a to method for controlling a construction machine. The construction machine has a machine frame 2 supported by a chassis 1 and a plurality of hydraulic systems 15, 16, each of which has at least one hydraulic component 18, 22, at least one hydraulic pump 17, 21 for conveying hydraulic fluid for the at least one hydraulic component and at least one hydraulic line 28, 31 for transporting the hydraulic fluid from the at least one hydraulic pump to the at least one hydraulic component. The drive device of the construction machine comprises at least one internal combustion engine 24. A power transmission device 44 is provided for transmitting at least part of the drive power from the internal combustion engine 24 to the hydraulic pumps 17, 21. The construction machine according to the invention is characterised by a hydraulic control device 26, which is assigned to two hydraulic systems 15, 16 of the plurality of hydraulic systems. The hydraulic control device 16 is designed such that, in a special operating mode, at least part of the hydraulic fluid delivered by the hydraulic pump 17 of the one hydraulic system 15 is supplied to the other hydraulic system 16.
US11465458B1
A vehicle hitch insert, assembly, and system are disclosed. As part of the system, a hitch receiver is coupled to a vehicle. A hitch receiver cover is coupled to the hitch receiver and includes a lateral side that defines at least one receiver cover opening with a first diameter. Further, a hitch insert includes a substantially U-shaped main body that is slidably coupled to a lateral side of a hitch receiver cover. The main body includes a first wall defining a plurality of hitch insert openings that partially overlap with one another, with each hitch insert opening having a second diameter, a second wall connected to the first wall at a first joint, and a third wall connected to the second wall at a second joint. In use, a fastener extends through the at least one receiver cover opening and one of the plurality of hitch insert openings.
US11465443B2
A wheel includes a hub and a rim portion surrounding the hub. An outer surface of the rim portion defines a circumference of the wheel. The outer surface of the rim portion has a plurality of bead locks that are spaced from one another.
US11465441B2
Wheel comprising a rim and a wheel center wherein the wheel center comprises several spokes extending in a longitudinal direction from a wheel hub to the rim. At least one spoke comprises an outer wall surrounding a cavity extending in the longitudinal direction of the at least one spoke. The cavity is delimited from the outer wall by an inner surface. The at least one spoke further comprises a reinforcing member extending along the inner surface.
US11465437B2
A speed square is provided including a triangular flat plate having measurement markings indicated on at least one face, a T bar affixed to, and extending along, the length of a first side of the triangular flat plate, and an extension element hingedly connected to an end of second side of the triangular flat plate opposite the T bar. The extension element having measurement markings indicated on at least one face, such that the measurement markings of the triangular flat face continue on the extension element.
US11465433B2
A security device is provided, comprising: a colour shifting element that exhibits different wavelengths of light at different viewing angles, and; an at least partially transparent light control layer covering at least a part of the colour shifting element and comprising a surface relief adapted to modify the angle of light from the colour shifting element, wherein; a first region of the light control layer comprises a first optical characteristic, whereby light at a first viewing angle from the first region of the light control layer is perceived to have a resultant optical effect that is the resultant of the wavelength of light exhibited at that viewing angle due to the combination of the colour shifting element and the surface relief of the light control layer, and the first optical characteristic, and; a second region of the light control layer either: (i) is substantially colourless such that light at the first viewing angle from the second region is perceived to have a resultant optical effect exhibited at that viewing angle due to the combination of the colour shifting element and the surface relief of the light control layer, or; (ii) comprises a second optical characteristic different from the first optical characteristic, whereby light at the first viewing angle from the second region of the light control layer is perceived to have a resultant optical effect that is the resultant of the wavelength of light exhibited at that viewing angle due to the combination of the colour shifting element and the surface relief of the light control layer, and the second optical characteristic. Methods of manufacture thereof are also disclosed.
US11465431B2
The invention relates to a self-adhesive, heat-sensitive recording material, comprising a carrier substrate, a heat-sensitive, color-forming layer that is applied on one side of the carrier substrate and contains at least a non-phenolic color developer in and at least one color former, a siliconized layer on the upper side of the heat-sensitive, color-forming layer that is applied on the carrier substrate, as well as an adhesive layer on the side of the carrier substrate facing away from the heat-sensitive, color-forming layer.
US11465430B2
The present disclosure provides a ribbon cassette, label printer, and installation method thereof. The ribbon cassette includes a cassette housing. A print head clamping groove, a side wall, and a position hole located inside the side wall are disposed on the cassette housing. A ribbon cutting part is formed at a connection between the side wall and the print head clamping groove. A first clamping accommodation part, a second clamping accommodation part, and a third clamping accommodation part are disposed on a surface of the cassette housing. The first clamping accommodation part, the second clamping accommodation part, and the third clamping accommodation part are respectively matched with a first position column, a second position column, and a third position column of a label printer.
US11465429B2
A first cover moves between a first closed position and a first open position. The first cover is located at another end of a housing when the first cover is located at the first closed position. A second cover moves between a second closed position and a second open position. The second cover is located closer to one end than the first cover is at the first closed position and at the second closed position. A first portion of a first conveyance path is formed between the first cover and the second cover at the first closed position and at the second closed position. A second portion of a second conveyance path is formed at a side of the second cover facing the one end at the second closed position. When the first cover opens the first portion, the second cover is located at the second closed position.
US11465426B2
An intermediate transfer member (ITM) (210, 310, 320, 330, 400, 410, 420, 430, 500, 520, 540, 600, 700, 802) configured for receiving ink droplets to form an ink image thereon and for transferring the ink image to a target substrate (226), the TTM (210, 310, 320, 330, 400, 410, 420, 430, 500, 520, 540, 600, 700, 802) includes one or more layers (273, 277, 373, 379, 602, 604, 606, 608, 610, 704, 706, 708, 712) and one or more markers (33, 333, 335, 392, 408, 418, 428, 448, 458, 612, 710, 804, 806) integrated with at least one of the one or more layers (273, 277, 373, 379, 602, 604, 606, 608, 610, 704, 706, 708, 712) at one or more respective marking locations along the ITM (210, 310, 320, 330, 400, 410, 420, 430, 500, 520, 540, 600, 700).
US11465424B2
A printing device includes a printing mechanism, a first member, a second member and a RFID. The printing mechanism is configured to perform printing. The first member has a portion constituting a receiving portion. The receiving portion configured to receive therein a holder. The holder retains therein a consumable goods and is provided with a RFID. The holder is contactable with the portion of the first member when the holder is attached to the receiving portion. The second member is movable relative to the first member. The RFID reader is provided at the second member and is configured to read data stored in the RFID.
US11465419B2
A liquid container includes: a bag that contains a liquid; and a pair of members configured to be reused when the liquid container is reassembled by replacing the bag used. The pair of members are fixed to each other by one or more swaging pins.
US11465413B2
A head unit control device that controls a head unit including a plurality of ejection portions that includes a first ejection portion and a second ejection portion and a determination portion that determines a liquid ejection state of the first and second ejection portion, and includes a reception portion that receives, as one data set, determination result information including first determination information indicating a determination result of the liquid ejection state of the first ejection portion from the determination portion and second determination information indicating a determination result of the liquid ejection state of the second ejection portion from the determination portion, and ejection portion information including information indicating the number of the plurality of ejection portions included in the head unit, from the head unit, and an ejection control portion that controls the plurality of ejection portions based on the one data set received by the reception portion.
US11465410B2
A print head includes: an integrated circuit apparatus that switches whether or not to supply drive signals to a plurality of piezoelectric elements, and includes a first circuit block that switches whether or not to supply the drive signal, a second circuit block that switches whether or not to supply the drive signal, a third circuit block that switches whether or not to supply the drive signal, a fourth circuit block, and a first buffer area, a second buffer area, and a third buffer area in which no circuit element is located, in which the first buffer area is located between the first circuit block and the fourth circuit block, the second buffer area is located between the second circuit block and the fourth circuit block, and the third buffer area is located between the third circuit block and the fourth circuit block.
US11465403B2
A lithographic printing plate precursor is disclosed including a coating comprising a polymerisable compound, an infrared absorbing dye, a photoinitiator including a trihaloalkyl group and a borate compound.
US11465401B2
An ejector device that includes one or more ejectors comprises an ejector layer that spans at least one hollow area. The ejector layer has a first surface and an opposing second surface arranged to receive a viscous material with viscosity between 20 and 50,000 centipoise. The ejector layer includes a radiation absorber material configured to thermally expand without phase transition in response to heating by activation radiation transmitted to the first surface. Thermal expansion of the ejector layer causes displacement of the ejector layer and ejection of the material from the second surface of the ejector layer.
US11465394B2
A plastic film composite for film packaging with an oriented outer film and a sealing film which differs from the outer film, both of which outer film and sealing film are either polyethylene-based or polypropylene-based. The outer film and the sealing film are connected by a polyolefin-based extrusion lamination comprising at least one layer. A film packaging comprising the plastic film lamination and a method for the production of packaging containers uses the plastic film composite.
US11465390B2
A composite component includes a reinforcement bonded to a base component by a bond formed by, or reinforced with, a localized coupling in the base component. The bond may be formed by ultrasonic additive manufacturing. The localized coupling may include a compression of the base component, a weld in the base component, or a heat affected zone of the weld. Where the bond is formed by the localized coupling, the localized coupling encompasses the reinforcement. Where the bond is reinforced with the localized coupling, the localized coupling may encompass the reinforcement, or be arranged at an inside radius of a turn in the reinforcement. The reinforcement results in the composite component having enhanced properties such as lower density, increased strength, stiffness, or energy absorption capabilities.
US11465389B2
A decorative member including: a color developing layer including a light reflective layer and a light absorbing layer provided on the light reflective layer; and a substrate provided on a surface of the color developing layer. The substrate comprises a pattern layer, and the light absorbing layer comprises silicon (Si).
US11465387B2
A sheet forming binder includes a first powder and a second powder having a larger volume average particle size than the first powder. The proportion of the first powder is 10.0% by mass or more relative to the total mass of the first powder and the second powder.
US11465384B2
The present disclosure relates to an outer case for a flexible rechargeable battery, including a first resin layer configured to include a first patterned area, a moisture barrier layer disposed on the first resin layer to include a second patterned area, a second resin layer disposed on the moisture barrier layer to include a third patterned area, and a stress relaxation layer configured to cover the third patterned area.
US11465382B2
The present invention relates to a box forming machine for forming boxes of different shapes and sizes, comprising a forming station including an operating space, demarcated by upper and lower devices and receiving a box during the forming thereof, without horizontal movement of said box; flexible, pressurizable, and heatable glue conduits connected to a plurality of glue application nozzles, configured for being positioned in different positions consistent with the size of the box to be formed, and at least one electrically-operated valve configured for applying said hot glue in respective relative positions of said glue application nozzles with respect to the box, according to operative parameters associated with the dimensions of the box to be formed, including dimensions of upper and lower flaps of said box and at least one working temperature of a hot glue to be applied previously input in a user interface connected to a control device.
US11465378B2
A method for preparing a shoe shell using a twice-opening-mold shoe-making mold comprises steps of preparing rubber for the shoe shell and cutting the rubber for the shoe shell into elongated or square sizes; heating the twice-opening-mold shoe-making mold to required temperatures within 3 hour; and opening the twice-opening-mold shoe-making mold with the bottom mold of the twice-opening-mold shoe-making mold being opened in a direction away from the mold main body of the twice-opening-mold shoe-making mold; putting the rubber for the shoe shell into the twice-opening-mold shoe-making mold; closing the bottom mold towards the mold main body, lifting the mold inner edge of the twice-opening-mold shoe-making mold to be stored into the mold main body until the bottom mold and the mold main body are closed, and performing a heating for 2-8 minutes; separating the bottom mold from the mold main body periodically during heating; reopening the twice-opening-mold shoe-making mold; taking out a semi-finished shoe shell; and trimming the semi-finished shoe shell.
US11465376B2
A method of manufacturing a tire, the method comprising the steps of providing a cured tire subassembly, the subassembly including a first bead and a second bead, a cured carcass layer extending from the first bead to the second bead, and an optional cured innerliner disposed on the carcass layer; and applying an air barrier composition to the cured carcass layer, or to the cured innerliner if present, to form an air barrier layer.
US11465369B2
A novel spring-loaded device utilizes a linear or rotary measuring sensor to measure distance and control heat using a PID loop or other type of control loop feedback program. The power of the heating element is controlled by a program, which takes distance from the target into consideration when determining output power. For example, if the target distance is 10 mm away the algorithm will apply 100% power until reaching 9 mm, at which point it will lower power to 90%. When the distance is 5 mm from the target, the power level will be 50%, and so on and so forth. The closed loop nature of the system will reduce power automatically using pulse width modulation (PWM) of the input power. This will allow modulation of the power to the heating element on the fly.
US11465354B2
Additive manufacturing parts having improved functional properties such as conductivity and absorption are fabricated with a fused filament fabrication process to have a contiguous path of functional nanomaterial embedded within the parts. A first heated filament consisting of a primary polymer material is deposited through a first nozzle and a second heated filament including a secondary polymer material filled with functional nanomaterial is deposited through a second nozzle in one or more layers to form a fabricated additive manufacturing part having at least one void. The second heated filament is embedded within the primary polymer material. A section of the fabricated additive manufacturing part where the secondary polymer material is located is selectively melted and an external isostatic pressure is applied to the fabricated additive manufacturing part to diffuse the secondary polymer material into the void and form a contiguous path of functional nanomaterial within the additive manufacturing parts.
US11465344B2
A method of additively manufacturing an object comprises feeding a feedstock line into a delivery guide. The feedstock line has a length and comprises a continuous flexible line. The continuous flexible line has a peripheral surface. The feedstock line further comprises a covering, releasably coupled to the peripheral surface of the continuous flexible line. The method also comprises removing the covering from the peripheral surface of the continuous flexible line before the continuous flexible line is deposited along a print path and depositing the continuous flexible line along the print path using the delivery guide.
US11465343B2
A method of manufacturing continuous fiber reinforced thermoplastic components includes receiving, by a movable die, spread dry fiber tows. The method also includes receiving, by the movable die and from a polymer extruder fluidically coupled to the movable die, molten polymer. The method also include wetting, by the movable die, the spread fiber tows with the molten polymer. The method also includes maintaining, by the movable die, the wet fiber tows spread as the wet fiber tows exit the die. The method also includes depositing, by the movable die, a layer of the wet fiber tows on a printing surface. The movable die is configured to move along the printing surface to form a thermoplastic component of one or more layers of fiber tows on the printing surface.
US11465339B2
Methods and apparatus comprising a dewetting phase and a polymerization liquid that are immiscible, and can be used for the formation of three-dimensional objects, wherein the method does not require a dead zone. Additionally, methods and apparatus that employ an optically transparent cooling apparatus to mitigate heat generated during the fabrication process, and the use of a mobile phase to provide a shearing interface to reduce interfacial adhesive forces.
US11465337B2
Described is a method of manufacture of 3D objects from composite materials. The method includes the use of an extrusion nozzle configured to extrude the composite material, including a multistrand filament with a thixotropic acrylic matrix material surrounding the multistrand filament. Extruding a 3D object surface segment spanning in the air over at least a segment of a discontinuous work surface and operating concurrently a source of curing energy to pin and enhance the strength of a 3D object surface segment spanning in air. The 3D object extruded surface segment spanning in the air is sufficiently rigid and maintains its shape without the use of a mandrel.
US11465331B2
A film stretching system having the following features: a stretching oven having a plurality of treatment zones through which a plastic foil film can be guided from a feed side to an outlet side through the stretching oven in the drawing-off direction, supply air can be supplied to the respective treatment zone and exhaust air can be discharged therefrom, the ventilation system for the treatment zones is constructed in such a way that exhaust air extracted from the last treatment zone in the drawing-off direction of the plastic foil film is supplied to at least two upstream treatment zones in the drawing-off direction of the plastic foil film, wherein a volume fraction of the exhaust air extracted from the last treatment zone is supplied to only one of the at least two treatment zones and another volume fraction is supplied to only one other of the at least two treatment zones.
US11465323B2
Embodiments provide a method for producing a multilayer film, the method including: (A) a step for continuously coextruding from a T die (3) a molten film (4) of a multilayer film in which a first acrylic resin layer (α1), an aromatic polycarbonate resin layer (β), and a second acrylic resin layer (α2) are directly laminated in the stated order using a coextrusion apparatus; (B) a step for feeding and pressing the molten film of the multilayer film between a first mirror surface body (5) that rotates or revolves and a second mirror surface body (6) that rotates or revolves so that the first acrylic resin layer (α1) is disposed on the first-mirror-surface-body side; and (C) a step for holding the pressed multilayer film against the first mirror surface body and sends the pressed multilayer film to the subsequent third mirror surface body (8) that rotates or revolves, where TR1 (surface temperature of first mirror surface body), TR2 (surface temperature of second mirror surface body), Tα1 (glass transition temperature of first acrylic resin), Tα2 (glass transition temperature of second acrylic resin), and Tβ (glass transition temperature of aromatic polycarbonate resin) satisfy a prescribed relationship.
US11465322B2
A method of determining a solution state of a gas in a plastic melt used in a plastic shaping method includes: (vi) providing the plastic melt together with the gas in a chamber, (vii) altering—in particular reducing—a volume of the chamber to alter a pressure of the plastic melt together with the gas—in particular increased from a first pressure value to a second pressure value, (viii) introducing the plastic melt into a shaping cavity, (ix) computing at least one compression parameter characteristic of the compression behaviour of the plastic melt, in particular a modulus of compression, from the first pressure value and the second pressure value, and (x) determining from the at least one compression parameter whether the gas is substantially completely dissolved in the plastic melt and/or a solubility limit of the gas in the plastic melt is determined from the at least one compression parameter.
US11465320B2
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, provided is a method for manufacturing a bus bar in which a frame including a sensing part and a body part connected to the sensing part is prepared, the frame is inserted into and fixed to an injection molding mold, and an enhanced part enhancing the strength at a position where fatigue is concentrated by an enhancing injection material injected into the injection molding mold is formed in the frame.
US11465318B2
A glove including a cured film of an elastomer containing a (meth)acrylonitrile-derived structural unit, an unsaturated carboxylic acid-derived structural unit and a butadiene-derived structural unit in a polymer main chain, wherein the elastomer contains 20 to 40% by weight of a (meth)acrylonitrile-derived structural unit, 1 to 10% by weight of an unsaturated carboxylic acid-derived structural unit and 50 to 75% by weight of a butadiene-derived structural unit, and has a crosslinked structure of a carboxyl group in the unsaturated carboxylic acid-derived structural unit with an epoxy crosslinker containing an epoxy compound having three or more epoxy groups in one molecule.
US11465304B2
An automated hairstyle processing method, an automated hairstyle processing system, and an automated hair cutting device, the system including a memory unit arranged to store a predefined hairstyle model including hair property representing values and body shape representing values, a sampling unit arranged to sample an actual body shape, of a to be treated subject, involving detecting deviations from a model body shape portion of the predefined hairstyle model, a processing unit arranged to adapt a hair property model of the predefined hairstyle model, when deviations between the actual body shape and the model body shape portion are detected, so as to compensate the actual body shape deviations, the adaptions to the hair property model being local adaptations.
US11465297B2
The present invention disclose a tool-holder (10) comprising a first part (10a) and a second part (10b), wherein a wedge shaped locking mechanism is arranged partly on a first surface of the first part (10a) operable to be joined with further parts of the wedge shaped locking mechanism arranged on a second surface of the second part (10b).
US11465289B2
A control apparatus for a continuum robot including a curved portion that is curved by driving a wire with a driving mechanism includes an image DB/torsional-amount acquisition unit that obtains the torsional amount of the continuum robot and a kinematic operation unit that sets the driving displacement amount of the wire driven by the driving mechanism on the basis of the torsional amount obtained by the image DB/torsional-amount acquisition unit.
US11465285B2
A robot system includes a robot collaboratively acting with a human, a force sensor provided in the robot and detecting a force, a control unit decelerating or stopping an action of the robot based on output from the force sensor, a first temperature sensor detecting a temperature of the force sensor, and an execution unit performing warm-up operation in the robot until output from the first temperature sensor reaches a first target value.
US11465282B2
A method and computing system comprising identifying a plurality of robot configurations for each inspection point of a plurality of inspection points of a problem. A graph may be generated with each feasible robot configuration as a node on the graph. A distance may be calculated between a pair of feasible robot configurations. A shortest complete path connecting each node on the graph may be obtained based upon, at least in part, the distance between the pair of feasible robot configurations.
US11465279B2
A method includes receiving sensor data representative of surfaces in a physical environment containing an interaction point for a robotic device, and determining, based on the sensor data, a height map of the surfaces in the physical environment. The method also includes determining, by inputting the height map and the interaction point into a pre-trained model, one or more candidate positions for a base of the robotic device to allow a manipulator of the robotic device to reach the interaction point. The method additionally includes determining a collision-free trajectory to be followed by the manipulator to reach the interaction point when the base of the robotic device is positioned at a selected candidate position of the one or more candidate positions and, based on determining the collision-free trajectory, causing the base of the robotic device to move to the selected candidate position within the physical environment.
US11465270B2
A fire hydrant wrench includes a wrench-head able to fasten to the pentagonal interface of a fire-hydrant and a handle able to be selectively extended or retracted by a user. The wrench includes a cylindrical rod which may be contained by and telescopes within a tubular handle. A cap on a handle-end of the tubular handle prevents the cylindrical rod from leaving the handle in one direction, while a collar affixed externally to the cylindrical rod prevents it from leaving the handle in the opposite direction. The tool-head containing the wrench is affixed to a tool-end of the cylindrical rod which protrudes from the tubular handle in all positions.
US11465268B2
A power device for an electric tool and system is provided that can power tool bodies of different electric tools. The power device includes a power control unit that receives a control instruction transmitted by the tool control unit and controls the motor according to control instructions. The power device not only improves the utilization rate of general modules, such as a motor and a battery pack, but also improves the expandability of the system, reduces the amount of programs in the power device, and eliminates the need to update the programs in the power device to be adapted to a new working body.
US11465261B1
The disclosed technology includes an abrasive cutting tool having a plurality of segments arranged around a periphery of the cutting tool. The plurality of segments can include a first segment having a first portion having a first concentration of abrasive material, and a second portion having a second concentration of abrasive material. The second concentration can be less than the first concentration. The cutting tool can have a second segment having a third portion having a concentration of abrasive material that can be similar to the concentration of the first portion, and a fourth portion having a concentration of abrasive material that can be similar to the concentration of the second portion. The first portion and the second portion can be reciprocally arranged in relation to the third portion and the fourth portion around the periphery of the cutting tool.
US11465260B2
The invention provides a method for producing a synthetic quartz glass substrate, the method includes arranging spacers to be in contact with outer peripheral side surfaces of a synthetic quartz glass substrate, arranging plate materials to be in contact with the outer peripheral side surfaces of the spacers in a state that the plates are protruded from the surface of the substrate, and sandblasting the surface of the substrate.
US11465256B2
There is provided an apparatus for polishing an object to be polished using a polishing pad having a polishing surface, the apparatus including a polishing table for supporting the polishing pad, the polishing table being configured to be rotatable, a substrate holding unit configured to hold the object to be polished and pressing the object to be polished against the polishing pad, and a polishing-liquid removing unit configured to remove polishing liquid from the polishing surface. The polishing-liquid removing unit includes a rinse unit configured to jet cleaning liquid onto the polishing surface and a sucking unit configured to suck the polishing liquid on the polishing surface onto which the cleaning liquid is jetted. The rinse unit includes a cleaning space surrounded by a sidewall. The sidewall includes an opening section for opening the cleaning space toward a radial direction outer side of the polishing table.
US11465254B2
One object is to provide a polishing machine and a polishing method capable of improving a processing accuracy on the surface of an object. A method of polishing an object is provided. Such a method comprises: a first step of polishing an object by moving the object and a first polishing pad having a smaller dimension than that of the object relative to each other while the first polishing pad is made to contact the object, a second step of polishing the object, after the first step of polishing, by moving the object and a second polishing pad having a larger dimension than that of the object relative to each other while the second polishing pad is made to contact the object, and a step of detecting the state of the surface of the object before the first step of polishing.
US11465247B2
An additively manufactured attritable engine includes a compressor section, a combustion section, a turbine section, and an engine case wall, which surrounds the compressor section, the combustion section, and the turbine section. The engine case wall includes a first cavity embedded in the engine case wall that defines an injector that is in fluid communication with the combustion section. The engine case wall includes a second cavity embedded within the engine case wall and defines a fuel feed passage that is in thermal communication through the exterior surface of the engine case wall.
US11465246B2
A lock and pin for the structural and fluid tight repair of cracks not amenable to high temperature repairs or synthetic material patches. Fluid tight pins and locks seal the crack while one or more locks prevent the crack from growing. These repairs need to endure the remaining life cycle of the machinery part while withstanding all the strain, pressure, heat and expansion and contraction of the part before the crack(s) were formed. Often these cracks evolved due to engineering design flaws that will require even greater strength from these areas than when new.
US11465239B2
A manufacturing method for a joint body having a first metal member and a second metal member joined together by causing a laser oscillation system to irradiate a surface of the second metal member placed on the first metal member with laser light to form a joint portion including a welded portion where the first metal member and the second metal member are joined together includes continuously supplying the second metal member while pressing the second metal member against the first metal member, the second metal member being a hoop material, and causing the laser oscillation system to emit the laser light.
US11465238B2
The invention relates to a gas guide (11, 11a, 11b, 11c) for a laser cutting head (10) having a nozzle (19), having a central flow axis (S), comprising a base part having a pressure chamber (24) concentrically surrounding the flow axis (S), configured for the reception of a gas flow (20a, 20b, 20c), wherein the base part has at least four gas conduits (26a, 26b, 26c), which extend from the pressure chamber (24) in the direction of the flow axis (S), and wherein the cross-sections of the pressure chamber (24) and the gas conduits (26a, 26b, 26c) are dimensioned such that the gas has a maximum flow rate when it exits the gas conduits.
US11465229B2
An apparatus for applying a magnetic pressure to a work piece includes an inductor configured to be disposed in proximity to the work piece and a controller electrically connected to the inductor and configured to control a supply of electrical power in order to output a first voltage over a selected frequency range to determine a frequency that provides a maximum current or a frequency that provides a current within a selected range of the maximum current to the inductor.
US11465220B2
Driving systems for tools used with metal-fabricating presses or other machines, whereby planetary gears are used in the systems, and whereby the driving systems can be constructed for use with particular tooling, such as tapping tools, and complementary systems can be exemplarily configured for use with such driving systems. The driving systems can enable enhanced tool output as compared to conventional driving mechanisms, while also enabling variable disassembly and configuration of the systems relative to the intended machining operations.
US11465213B2
The present disclosure provides a method of designing and manufacturing a hydraulic valve block based on selective laser melting. The method includes providing a machined hydraulic valve block, determining whether the machined hydraulic valve block needs weight reduction, if the machined hydraulic valve block needs weight reduction, taking reduction of the pressure loss of the flow channel as an optimization goal and optimizing the flow channel of the machined hydraulic valve block to obtain an optimized flow channel structure model, taking reduction of the weight of the hydraulic valve block as an optimization goal and optimizing solid portions of the optimized flow channel structure model by using a topology optimization method to obtain a three-dimensional solid structure model of a hydraulic valve block and printing the three-dimensional solid structure model by using selective laser melting to obtain the hydraulic valve block.
US11465212B2
Provided are an electric motor, a laminated iron core, and a manufacturing method. In. an embodiment, the method includes S1: introducing inert gas into an additive manufacturing printing apparatus, pouring silicon steel metal particles into a fanning cylinder of the apparatus, and performing laser scanning on the silicon steel metal particles to gradually melt the silicon steel metal particles into at least one silicon steel metal layer; and S2: continuing to pour silicon steel metal particles into the forming cylinder, and stopping performing laser scanning on the silicon steel metal particles or reducing the laser power executing the laser scanning, such that the silicon steel metal particles do not entirely melt and form an insulating layer. Execution of steps S1 and S2 is alternated until a laminated iron core having a plurality of alternating silicon steel metal layers and insulating layers is formed.
US11465210B2
An additive manufacturing system for printing an article including a build plate having a build surface between an inner radius and an outer radius that may receive powder particles and a recoating assembly that may distribute the powder particles onto the build surface to form a build layer of the article. The recoating assembly includes a support jig having a first end, a second end, and a support wall extending between the first and second ends and a recoater blade coupled to the second end and extending along at least a portion of a length of the support wall. A shape of the recoater blade is such that, when the recoater blade is positioned against the build surface, an angle between the recoater blade and a tangent at each radii of the build plate is substantially constant.
US11465203B2
A plane plate for a pressing tool of a press in which the plane plate for activating a punch of the press is by way of at least one lifting cylinder is displaceable along an axial direction. The plane plate has a link to the at least one lifting cylinder, a centrally disposed receptacle for contacting the punch or a punch holder of the press and at least one at least partially cylindrical guiding face which for contacting a guide column is parallel with the axial direction. The plane plate in at least a first cross section which between the receptacle and the guiding face runs parallel with the axial direction and along a radial direction that runs so as to be perpendicular to the axial direction has at least a first region with a wall thickness and a first centerline, wherein the first centerline runs at least partially at a first angle of at least 10 angular degrees and of at most 80 angular degrees in relation to the radial direction.
US11465195B2
The present disclosure discloses a hot-forging die with the conformal meshy structured cavity surface layer and a preparation method thereof. A large-scale hot-forging die includes a die substrate, and a sandwiched layer, a transition layer and a reinforcement layer are formed on the die substrate in sequence. The reinforcement layer and the transition layer are separated into a plurality of small units by the grooves. All the grooves are interconnected and communicated to form a meshy structure. The transition layer grooves are filled with ordinary soft material; the reinforcement layer grooves are filled with high temperature resistant soft material. The reinforcement layer material and the high temperature resistant soft material of the present disclosure cooperate with each other to obtain a cavity surface layer with properties of both hard and soft, strong and tough, which can fully release the large tensile stress that may occur on the surface of the die cavity during the welding process and under the service conditions of the die, so as to avoid hot cracks during welding process and service process.
US11465194B2
A method for forming heatsink tube includes cutting a base sheet plate into a first molded frame and a second molded frame, applying a flux on an inner face of the first molded frame and the second molded frame, mounting the first molded frame on a heatsink fin module, and mounting the second molded frame on the first molded frame, to assemble the first molded frame, the heatsink fin module, and the second molded frame, and to form a heatsink tube. The first molded frame has a first end faceplate and two first connecting portions. The second molded frame has a second end faceplate and two second connecting portions. Each of the two first connecting portions is formed with a first abutting section, and each of the two second connecting portions is formed with a second abutting section.
US11465191B2
Provided is a forming device including a die, a lower base portion, an upper base portion, a pillar portion, and an electrical heating unit, in which, at a time of electrical heating performed by the electrical heating unit, a magnetic flux density inside the pillar portion is higher than at least one of a magnetic flux density at a center of a lower surface of the lower base portion and a magnetic flux density at a center of an upper surface of the upper base portion.
US11465183B2
Provided is a cleaning apparatus for cleaning a portion where a seating pad contacts or a hole into which a pin is inserted when a workpiece is placed. The cleaning apparatus for cleaning a workpiece having a placing portion and a reference hole, including: a table plate, a seating pad on which the workpiece is placed at the placing portion, a first nozzle that ejects a cleaning fluid, a pin inserted into the reference hole, and a second nozzle that ejects the cleaning fluid toward inside of the reference hole.
US11465180B2
Embodiments of a system and method for sorting and sequencing articles in a processing facility are disclosed. Delivery endpoints are divided and grouped into stop groups. A first sorter sorts items according to stop group and outputs the items to trays. The output trays from the first sorter are loaded to a second sorter in stop group order. The second sorter can then sort the items into output bins in delivery sequence order.
US11465175B2
A haptic actuator includes mechanical links defining a first J-trajectory and mechanical links defining a second J-trajectory as well as a motor coupled to the mechanical links so as to synchronously accelerate a first mass over the first J-trajectory and a second mass over the second J-trajectory. During a first time interval, reactive forces of the first mass accelerating substantially balance reactive forces of the second mass accelerating and during a second time interval reactive forces of the first mass accelerating do not substantially balance reactive forces of the second mass accelerating. This un-balanced condition results in a tap signal being produced.
US11465170B2
A dispensing control system includes a dispensing device and a remote device. The dispensing device includes a dispenser configured to dispense material from a cartridge disposed in the dispensing device, a first receiver configured to receive information related to the cartridge, a transmitter configured to transmit the information related to the cartridge, and an electronic controller configured to cause the transmitter of the dispensing device to transmit the information related to the cartridge. The remote device includes an electronic controller, a receiver and a transmitter, the receiver of the remote device is configured to receive the information related to the cartridge, the controller of the remote device is configured to monitor the information related to the cartridge and to cause the transmitter of the remote device to transmit the information related to the cartridge to a remote server.
US11465158B2
A sorting apparatus is provided for sorting selected magnetically attractable articles from a stream of articles including non-selected magnetically attractable articles. The apparatus may include a conveyor for conveying the stream of articles. The conveyor may include a conveyor belt formed in an endless loop including a discharge end configured to launch the stream of articles off the conveyor. A conveyor guide may be located inside of the endless loop adjacent the discharge end. The conveyor guide may be configured to support the conveyor belt such that the conveyor belt slides on the conveyor guide along a downwardly curved path. An array of magnets may be arranged inside of the endless loop for interacting with the stream of articles as the stream of articles passes off the discharge end.
US11465153B2
The present invention relates to an anti-adhesion crushing tool for crushing damp ores. The anti-adhesion crushing tool can effectively improve the current working environment in attapulgite crushing, and is beneficial to effectively improve the anti-adhesion properties of the attapulgite clay.
US11465141B2
The present application is generally directed to systems, methods, and devices for diagnostics for sensing and/or identifying pathogens, genomic materials, proteins, and/or other small molecules or biomarkers. In some implementations, a small footprint low cost device provides rapid and robust sensing and identification. Such a device may utilize microfluidics, biochemistry, and electronics to detect one or more targets at once in the field and closer to or at the point of care.
US11465130B2
The present invention relates to a metal powder catalyst and its use in the selective catalytic hydrogenation of organic starting materials comprising a carbon-carbon triple bond. The powder catalyst comprises a metal alloy carrier, wherein the metal alloy comprises (i) 55 weight-% (wt-%)-80 wt-%, based on the total weight of the metal alloy, of Co, and (ii) 20 wt-%-40 wt-%, based on the total weight of the metal alloy, of Cr, and (iii) 2 wt-%-10 wt-%, based on the total weight of the metal alloy, of Mo, and wherein the said metal alloy is coated by a metal oxide layer and impregnated with Pd, and is characterized in that the metal oxide layer comprises CeO2.
US11465124B2
A preparation method for covalent organic framework 5 (COF-5) includes: adding 2,3,6,7,10,11-hexahydroxytriphenylene and 1,4-phenylenebisboronic acid to a mixed solution of 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene and 1,4-dioxane to form a mixture in the anhydrous and oxygen-free environment; and the addition ratio of 2,3,6,7,10,11-hexahydroxytriphenylene:1,4-phenylenebisboronic acid:1,3,5-trimethylbenzene:1,4-dioxane is 0.02-0.8 mmol:0.08-1.4 mmol:10-15 mL:10-15 mL; sealing the mixture in an airtight container; and obtaining a uniform dispersion solution after shaking the container for wholly mixing the components; heating the dispersion solution to a temperature ranging from 80-100° C.; reacting for a period of time ranging from 72-120 h; and obtaining a precipitate after the reaction; and washing the precipitate, drying the precipitate in vacuum, and heating the precipitate at a temperature ranging from 200-300° C. for a period of time ranging from 1-3 h with a protective atmosphere to obtain COF-5 crystal.
US11465108B2
Dosing and mixing exhaust gas includes directing exhaust gas towards a periphery of a mixing tube that is configured to direct the exhaust gas to flow around and through the mixing tube to effectively mix and dose exhaust gas within a relatively small area. Some mixing tubes include a slotted region and a non-slotted region. Some mixing tubes include a louvered region and a non-louvered region. Some mixing tubes are offset within a mixing region of a housing.
US11465099B2
The present disclosure relates to a water purification apparatus that comprises a reverse osmosis device, RO-device, producing a purified water flow and to a corresponding method. The proposed method comprises detecting at least one fluid property of purified water in the purified water path and regulating a flow rate of water in the recirculation path to fulfill one or more predetermined criteria of the purified water in the purified water path, based on the at least one detected fluid property. The present disclosure also relates to a computer program and a computer program product implementing the method.
US11465097B2
A dehumidification mechanism for an appliance includes a blower that delivers humid process air along an airflow path. A drum is positioned along the airflow path. A condensing apparatus dehumidifies the humid air to define dehumidified air. A membrane has a plurality of nanopores that define a portion of the airflow path within the condensing apparatus. The humid air is delivered along the membrane having the plurality of nanopores and the nanopores operate through capillary condensation to dehumidify the humid air and separate condensate away from the humid air to define the dehumidified air. The condensate removed by the nanopore membrane is delivered away from the airflow path and to a condensate collection area within the appliance.
US11465096B2
Apparatus and methods are described, including a water trap (28) that includes an inlet portion (40), via which a mixture of gas and water is configured to enter the water trap, and an outlet portion (42), via which the gas is configured to exit the water trap, the inlet portion and the outlet portion being formed separately from one another and being coupled to one another, such as to form a tube (44) that defines a longitudinal axis and that defines an internal hollow volume through which the gas is configured to flow. A membrane filter (46) is disposed in a flat configuration within the tube, between the inlet portion and the outlet portion, such that the membrane filter is substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the tube, the membrane filter being configured to prevent the water from passing therethrough. Other applications are also described.
US11465085B2
An air purifying system may include a main air purifier that has a flat upper surface configured to support at least two cylindrical portable air purifiers. Each of the main and portable air purifiers may have a fan to suction air and a filter to filter suctioned air. The upper surface of the main air purifier may include a seating groove, an elastic member provided in the seating groove, and a seating plate resting on top of the elastic member. When a portable air purifier is seated on the seating groove, the elastic member may be compressed and the seating plate may be lowered such that the portable air purifier may be supported within an inner wall of the seating groove. When the portable air purifier is removed from the seating groove, the elastic member may expand and raise the seating plate back to an initial position.
US11465082B2
A filtration assembly structured to filter reductant includes an outer housing and an inner housing. The inner housing is positioned within the outer housing. The inner housing is structured to contain the reductant and operable between a first state in which the inner housing has a first volume and a second state in which the inner housing has a second volume that is larger than the first volume, the inner housing including an end face. The inner housing is separated from the outer housing by a gap when the inner housing is in the first state. A volume of the gap decreases as the inner housing transitions from the first state to the second state and increases as the inner housing transitions from the second state to the first state.
US11465080B1
The present development is a septic tank or wastewater treatment tank outlet filter cleaning device. More specifically, the device is an outlet filter cleaner for a slotted filter used to reduce solid waste transfer into a septic tank effluent. The device comprises a central shaft with at least one cleaning disc, wherein the cleaning disc comprises a body which is mounted on the shaft and wherein a plurality of fingers protrude from the body, preferably in locations substantially identical to the positions of the openings in the wall of the tube.
US11465060B2
A gaming system runs on a server executing software, and provides a first interactive interface to a first player, enabling the first player to establish a chat session as a chat leader, to invite a plurality of other players to the chat session, to select a game provided by the system from the at least one game server, and to launch the game with the chat leader and the other players in the chat session as players in the game, and provides a second interactive interface to players in the chat session as a result of invitation, the second interactive interface enabling the players in the chat session other than the leader to participate in the chat session, and to play the game selected and launched by the chat leader, who becomes a lead player in the game.
US11465057B1
A system for presenting a skill-based game. The system includes at least one server having a processor configured to execute machine-readable code. The processor is configured to cause the server to create and provide a set of advanced choice game to the plurality of presentation devices of the users, which each present the set of advanced choice games on a respective display. Each game of the set having an assigned fixed odds payout based on winning user selections. The server receives, over the wide area network, data from the presentation devices characterizing a set of user-selected winners of the advanced choice games made by the users. The server update the event data pertinent to participants in the actual events associated with the advanced choice games. The server uses the updated data to calculate and assign payoffs to the users based on the fixed payoff odds.
US11465049B2
The present invention relates to an advertising method and system that when a service of a card game is provided to member customers online by using a deck of playing cards in which an advertisement is converted into a story, provide an inseparable relationship between a game and an advertisement, thereby allowing players participating in the game to enjoy the advertisement contained in the playing cards together with the game in an amusing and interesting manner. According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a system for advertising through a playing card game, in which a plurality of player terminals connects with a game server over a network and plays a game using a deck of playing cards (hereinafter “cards”) created by converting an advertisement into a story.
US11465046B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium including a video game processing program product for causing a server to realize functions to control progress of a video game in response to an operation of a user is provided. The functions include: a motion control function configured to refer to a storing section to cause an object to carry out a motion specified by the user, a series of actions (hereinafter, referred to as a “motion”) being stored in the storing section in advance, the object being to be caused to carry out the series of actions; a stopping function configured to cause the motion, which the object is carrying out, to stop on the way on the basis of an operation of the user; and a proceeding function configured to cause the video game to proceed in a state where the motion of the object is stopped on the way on the basis of the stopping function.
US11465045B1
Techniques implemented by a game-hosting service to place a load balancer between client devices engaged in a game session and servers that maintain state data for the game session. Rather than having a single server maintain state data and host the game session, the load balancer will broadcast action data received from the client devices to the server that is hosting the game session, or “primary server,” and also to a redundant server that is maintaining state data for the game session, or “secondary server.” Thus, if the primary server is unable to continue hosting the session, the secondary server may begin hosting the game session using the state data maintained for the game session. Further, by offloading the network input/output (I/O) tasks of communicating with the client devices from the server to the load balancer, the server can allocate larger amounts of resources to hosting game sessions.
US11465044B2
Provided are methods and systems for providing a game based on a video call and object recognition. A game providing method of an electronic device configured as a computer including displaying game content on a video call screen in response to a video call being established between a user of the electronic device and a counterpart through a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) channel, recognizing an object in a call image as motion data with respect to the game content, and controlling a game element corresponding to the game content using a result of the recognizing may be provided.
US11465043B2
An example of a game system includes an input apparatus, at least a part of which elastically deforms by applying a force to the input apparatus. During the execution of a rhythm game, music is reproduced, and at each of a plurality of timings associated with the music, a user input is evaluated. If the input apparatus deforms at a predetermined timing, a user input at the predetermined timing is evaluated in favor of a user regardless of whether or not the input apparatus deforms from a time before the predetermined timing.
US11465034B2
A protective glove (100) is disclosed, comprising: a wrist section (200) for protecting a wrist of a wearer of the glove (100); a hand section (300) attached to an end of the wrist section (200), the hand section (300) for protecting the hand of a wearer of the glove (100). The hand section (300) comprises a knuckle section (304) for protecting the knuckles of a wearer of the glove (100). The glove (100) further comprises a knuckle compressor (900) is configured to compress the knuckle section (304), and comprises at least one strap (901) extending between a palm side of the hand section (300) and a back side of the hand section (300). The at least one strap (901) is configured to compress the knuckle section (304).
US11465033B2
An article of apparel includes a padding system that dynamically changes configuration in response to an impending impact. The padding system may change from a state that has a high flexibility and offers low protection from impact to a state that has a low flexibility and offers increase protection from impact. The system may use a filament to constrict a plurality of padding elements together in order to increase the overall stiffness of the pad. The filament may be tightened and loosened by a spool. The spool may receive a signal regarding the impending impact from a sensor that is a part of the article of apparel, or a sensor that is separate from it.
US11465030B2
An interactive exercise method includes streaming exercise content to an interactive video system for display via a mirror, the exercise content including a depiction of an instructor performing a repetitive movement. A video stream of a user performing the repetitive movement is received, via a camera of the interactive video system, and the user is detected in the video stream. The user or a body portion thereof is tracked in the video stream as the user performs the repetitive movement. The method also includes generating a measure of a difference between a form of the user performing the repetitive movement and a predetermined form for the repetitive movement. A corrective movement is displayed to the user, via the display and during the display of the instructor performing the repetitive movement, based on the measure, to conform the form of the user to the predetermined form for the repetitive movement.
US11465027B1
An exercise machine storage system for safely storing various objects of an exerciser while the exerciser is performing exercise moves on an exercise machine. The exercise machine storage system generally includes an exercise machine including at least one rail, a carriage, and a pair of end platforms positioned at or near the respective ends of the exercise machine. The carriage is movable along a portion of the at least one rail. A pair of storage receptacles is connected to the exercise machine at or near its respective ends, such as underneath the end platforms. An exerciser may safely secure various objects within one or both of the storage receptacles while performing various exercise moves, with the objects being close enough to the exerciser such that the exerciser may hear any sounds, see any illumination, and/or feel any vibrations emitted by such objects while exercising.
US11465025B2
An intelligent golf swing includes a swing body, a top spotlight device and a lower spotlight device. The swing body includes a middle rod and a lower rod. The lower rod is installed at the bottom end of the middle rod. The lower rod and the middle rod are arranged in a straight line. The top spotlight device is fixedly installed at the top end of the middle rod. The top spotlight device includes a spotlight and a switch. The lower spotlight device is fixedly installed on the lower rod. The lower spotlight device includes a lampwick and a button switch. A light emitted by the lampwick is allowed to be emitted from the bottom end of the lower rod, and the aforementioned light, the swing body, the lower rod and the middle rod are located on the same straight line.
US11465013B2
A system and method for brainwave entrainment therapy that allows for targeted treatment of particular areas of the brain, particular neurological functions, particular neurological states, and combinations of areas, functions, and states. The system and method receive a neurological assessment identifying areas of the brain or neurological functions to be treated, select one or more treatment modalities and frequencies, select a treatment regimen, and apply brainwave entrainment using the modalities, frequencies and regimen while the subject engages in dual-task activities selected to stimulate the areas of the brain, neurological functions, or neurological states to be treated, enhanced, or altered.
US11465010B2
Embodiments are disclosed of an exercise bench. The exercise bench includes a girder coupled to a seat, the girder including a front end and a rear end. A first fitting is coupled to the front end and a second fitting is coupled to the rear end. A front leg is rotatably coupled to the first fitting so that the front leg can rotate about the first fitting between a deployed position and a stored position, and a rear leg is rotatably coupled to the second fitting so that the rear leg can rotate about the second fitting between a deployed position and a stored position. A pair of backrest rails are coupled to a backrest and rotatably coupled to the second fitting, and an angular adjustment mechanism can be used to adjust the angle of the backrest relative to the seat.
US11465000B2
The present invention relates to the field of radiation therapy and methods, software and systems for treatment planning. A target volume of a region of a patient to be treated during a treatment of a patient in a radiation therapy unit is obtained. A first isocenter location procedure is performed including inter alia evaluating potential isocenter locations along normal directions of the surface and respective isodistance surfaces in respective starting voxels in a direction inwards from the surface, and a second isocenter location procedure is performed including inter alia identifying a median axis of the target volume or center point of the target volume, placing isocenters at locations along the median axis, and placing isocenters in the target volume based on a distance to existing isocenters and to the target surface.
US11464996B2
Provided is a swallowable capsule for providing phototherapy to a patient's gastrointestinal (GI) tract, the capsule including a power supply, one or more phototherapeutic light sources, a speed determination unit for calculating speed of movement of the capsule in the GI tract, and a controller unit for activating one or more of the one or more light sources for delivering a therapeutic illumination dose to a target site in the GI tract, based, at least in part, on a determined speed. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
US11464986B2
The present invention relates to a preoperative test method, to an implantation system (20) and to an implantation method for implanting a neuroprosthesis in the area of the pubic bone (31), wherein implantation is ultimately simplified and made more effective directly or indirectly by the subject-matters of the invention.
US11464980B2
A method of controlling a neural stimulus by use of feedback. The neural stimulus is applied to a neural pathway in order to give rise to an evoked action potential on the neural pathway. The stimulus is defined by at least one stimulus parameter. A neural compound action potential response evoked by the stimulus is measured. From the measured evoked response a feedback variable is derived. A feedback loop is completed by using the feedback variable to control the at least one stimulus parameter value. The feedback loop adaptively compensates for changes in a gain of the feedback loop caused by electrode movement relative to the neural pathway.
US11464977B2
Apnea events may be detected based on a primary biomarker, e.g., respiration, in the one or more physiological signals. The apnea events may be characterized as one of an obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) event, a central sleep apnea (CSA) event, or a combination OSA/CSA event based on a secondary biomarker, e.g., a frequency spectrum or a morphology of the respirations in the one or more physiological signals. A first electrical stimulation may be provided to treat OSA in response to a first one or more of the apnea events being characterized as OSA events. A second electrical stimulation may be provided to treat CSA in response to a second one or more of apnea events being characterized as CSA events. A third electrical stimulation may be provided to treat combination OSA/CSA in response to a third one or more of the apnea events being characterized as combination OSA/CSA events.
US11464975B2
Methods and apparatuses to detect configuration commands from waveforms received at a retina prosthesis device for calibrating the device are described. The device can comprise an array of pixel units to receive light to stimulate neuron cells to cause an effect of visual sensation from the light. The pixel units may have configurable parameters for the stimulation to the neuron cells. The configurable parameters may be updated according to the configuration commands detected without requiring micro processor and non-volatile memory in the device. The stimulation may be generated according to the updated configurable parameters to improve the effect of visual sensation from the light including compensation for the physiological and environmental variations and drifts.
US11464971B2
A system for selectively blocking nerve fiber activity in a target nerve is provided. The system includes one or more electrodes. The system further includes an electronic control system electrically attached to each electrode to deliver electrical stimulation to a target nerve to block nerve signal transmission of C-fibers in the target nerve such that the nerve signal transmission of A-fibers in the target nerve providing motor function and/or low-threshold sensory function is not blocked. A method of delivering electrical stimulation to selectively block nerve fiber activity in a target nerve and a kit for performing a procedure to selectively block nerve fiber activity are disclosed.
US11464969B2
A non-invasive method and device for promoting a localized change in a flow of blood through a blood vessel in a limb segment of a body by a series of electrically stimulated contractions of muscle tissue in the limb segment, the method including the steps of: (a) providing a device including: (i) first, second and third electrodes, each adapted to operatively contact the limb segment; (ii) a signal generator, operatively connected to the electrodes, adapted to produce a series of electrical impulses to the limb segment via the electrodes, and (iii) a control unit adapted to control the signal generator to produce the series of electrical impulses; (b) positioning the electrodes on the limb segment, wherein the first electrode is positioned on a lower end of the lower leg, the second electrode is positioned on the lower leg, and the third electrode is positioned on an upper end of the lower leg, whereby the first and third electrodes are disposed on opposite ends of the lower leg, and the second electrode and one of the first and third electrodes are disposed on a same end of the lower leg; (c) effecting a sequence of muscular contractions of the lower leg, by operations including: (i) applying a first electrical impulse between the electrodes on the same end of the lower leg to induce a first muscular contraction of a first portion of the tissue; and (ii) applying at least a second electrical impulse between the first and third electrodes to induce a longitudinal muscular contraction of a second portion of the muscular tissue; and (d) repeating operations (i) and (ii), to repeatedly induce the contractions, to effect the increased flow of blood.
US11464963B1
Systems and methods for packaging an optical sensor assembly. An optical sensor assembly for use in a blood pump assembly comprises a visor affixed to a pump housing of the blood pump assembly. A support jacket is in contact with an inner surface of the visor, and defines a cavity in which an optical sensor is disposed. Silicone gel is introduced into the cavity, where it cures. Silicone gel within the cavity protects the optical sensor, and the support jacket prevents the overflowing of the gel and contamination of the visor.
US11464960B2
A low-profile access port for subcutaneous implantation within a patient. The access port can include a set of receiving cups which can be placed in fluid communication with a catheter. The set of receiving cups can provide a greater skin surface with which to access the port to avoid repeated penetrations at a single locus, such as during consecutive dialysis treatments. The access port can alternatively include needle penetrable arms or elongate chambers that also have a slim, low profile. The access port can include a needle guide to direct subsequent needle access to different insertion points to permit healing at the previous insertion points. The access port can be formed of a modular construction with a first conduit, a second conduit, and an outer shell. The outer shell can include a proximal portion and a distal portion. The access port can include a stem assembly and a locking member.
US11464953B2
Disclosed herein are water-soluble microneedle spicules for scrubs and a non-aqueous cosmetic composition containing the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to water-soluble microneedle spicules for scrubs, which are in the shape of a triangular pyramid or sexangular pyramid and characterized in that at least any one among the interior angles of the pyramid base of the spicules for scrubs is 90 degrees or less; and a non-aqueous cosmetic composition containing the same. 10 110, 120, 130: Separation 14 mixture: Gene Mixture 15 : Test Group : Control Group
US11464946B2
Embodiments hereof relate to methods of delivering a valve prosthesis to an annulus of a native valve of a heart, the native valve having chordae tendineae. A chordae management catheter is positioned within a ventricle of the heart, the chordae management catheter having a displacement component at a distal end thereof. The displacement component has an annular shape and defines a central lumen therethrough. The displacement component is radially expanded to push chordae tendineae within the ventricle radially outward. A valve delivery system is introduced into the ventricle of the heart via a ventricular wall of the heart. The valve delivery system has the valve prosthesis at a distal portion thereof. The valve delivery system is advanced through the central lumen of the radially expanded displacement component towards the annulus of the native valve of the heart. The valve prosthesis is deployed into apposition with the annulus of the native valve.
US11464941B2
A direct stream hydrodynamic catheter system is provided for the removal of thrombus, lesions and the like including provisions for the infusion of drugs, lysing fluids and the like into a blood vessel. Physician controlled powered direct fluid jet streams emanate from a fluid jet emanatory in the form of robust radially directed fluid jet streams to impinge upon and ablate difficult and strong thrombus and lesions within a blood vessel. Effluent aspiration is controlled by an exhaust regulator in the form of a roller pump, but effluent removal can be assistingly influenced by the fluid pressure associated with the radially directed fluid jet streams.
US11464936B2
An auto feed humidification chamber with improved structure, the humidification chamber comprises a shell body, an extending tube, a float, a sealing element and a heated plate; the inside of the shell body is provided with a plurality of passage spacer plates, the extending tube is integrally formed on the inside of the shell body, the extending tube has a plurality of positioning blocks; the float is a hollow container, the central portion of the float has an extending portion, a top end of the extending portion has a plurality of hooks, the sealing element can be disposed on the top end of the extending portion; the heated plate is located below the shell body, and the heated plate is used for sealing the shell body to form a chamber space; wherein the extending portion can be suspended on the extending tube by the plurality hooks and the plurality positioning blocks, the passage spacer plates and the concave portions form at least two complicated gas passages in the chamber space, the outside surface of the float and the wall surface of the shell body form at least two annular gas passages in the chamber space.
US11464923B2
Provided is a system including a plurality of inhalers that each include a processor configured to determine a value of a usage parameter relating to use of the respective first inhaler, encrypt data based on the value, and transmit the encrypted data. At least two of the inhalers include different medicament, such as a rescue medicament and a maintenance medicament. The system includes an external device that includes a processor configured to distinguish between the encrypted data of each respective inhaler, determine respective usage information relating to each of the distinct types of medicament based on the respective encrypted data, and control a user interface (e.g., of the external device) to communicate the usage information related to each inhaler and/or each respective type of medicament.
US11464922B2
According to the invention there is disclosed a dispenser device for dispensing a medicament, the device comprising at least one component having a coating that comes into contact with the medicament during storage or use of the device on at least one surface thereof, the coating comprising a cross-linked non-diamond like carbon layer comprising 50 At % hydrogen or less and having an interface with the underlying surface of the component.
US11464919B2
An atomiser, in particular an inhaler, for atomising a liquid active agent to form an aerosol, having, inter alia, an active agent reservoir, an atomiser nozzle and a pump arrangement, wherein a suction side of the pump arrangement leads into the active agent reservoir and a pressure side of the pump arrangement leads into the atomiser nozzle, and wherein the pump arrangement has a plunger that can be adjusted in a cylinder in the axial direction of the cylinder. A corresponding method is also described.
US11464915B2
A dual chambered syringe includes: an inner barrel defining a first inner chamber, the inner barrel having an apertured stopper at its distal end, the inner barrel being open at its proximal end; a shaft adapted to fit within the inner barrel, the shaft having a distal end which is engageable with the aperture of the stopper; a device for controlling engaging and disengaging of the distal end of the shaft with the aperture of the stopper; an outer barrel concentric with the inner barrel defining a second inner chamber, the outer barrel having a distal end for receiving and dispensing fluids and a proximal end into which the distal end of the inner barrel is insertable into the second inner chamber; the apertured stopper engages the second inner chamber of the outer barrel and selectively prevents or permits the passage of fluids between the outer barrel second chamber and the inner barrel first chamber; the inner barrel having an engageable surface on its outside surface; and, the outer barrel having operatively associated therewith an engaging device for selective engagement and disengagement with the engageable surface on the inner barrel.
US11464910B1
An improved hypodermic syringe including finger-holding surfaces that substantially or completely surround the operator finger and include an interior tapered portion to better engage a finger, which facilitates one-handed use by allowing the same hand that holds the syringe to operate the plunger conveniently to accomplish both the distal (injecting) stroke and the proximal (aspirating) stroke.
US11464901B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure enable a user-wearable infusion pump that may have a limited user interface including no display to be paired with a remote control device that can include a remote consumer electronic device such as a smartphone and/or a dedicated remote controller.
US11464900B2
An insertion mechanism for a drug delivery device including a trocar, a housing, and a manifold in fluid communication with a fluid pathway connector and movable relative to the housing between a first manifold position adjacent to a proximal end of the housing and a second manifold position adjacent to a distal end of the housing. A hub carrying the trocar or hollow delivery needle is removably connected to the manifold, the hub being movable relative to the housing between a first hub position adjacent to the proximal end of the housing and a second hub position adjacent to the distal end of the housing. A power source is configured to generate rotational motion. A motion conversion mechanism operatively connects the power source and the hub, and is configured to convert the rotational motion into linear motion of the hub.
US11464894B2
An air leak detection system for chest tube collection systems includes a light emitting element, such as an LED, and a photodetector that can detect reflected light emission generated by the light emitting element. The air leak detection system can include a securement component, such as a transparent clip or adhesive, so that the air leak detection system is compatible with any conventional chest tube collection system. In certain embodiments, the light emitting element is positioned closer to the bottom portion of the water seal tube than the photodetector. In certain embodiments, the photodetector is positioned closer to a bottom of the water seal chamber than the light emitting element. In certain embodiments, the air leak detection system is part of a chest tube drainage system. A method of detecting an air leak in a chest tube collection system is also disclosed.
US11464893B2
An apparatus includes a blood-flow-management assembly shaped to define a cylindrical aperture. The blood-flow-management assembly includes a blood collector having drainage holes configured to direct blood to a guide surface positioned below the blood collector. The guide surface may further include ribs that manage blood flow along the guide surface.
US11464891B2
Systems and methods for performing Direct Sodium Removal (DSR) therapy are provided in which an implantable device includes a pump coupled to an inlet catheter designed for placement in a patient's peritoneal cavity, an outlet catheter designed to be coupled to the patient's bladder, and is operably coupled to an analyte sensor, the pump programmed to transfer and/or cease transfer of fluid from the patient's peritoneal cavity to the patient's bladder for voiding responsive to a level of analyte detected by the analyte sensor. In addition, the system may include a processor that computes an amount of analyte transferred per pumping session.
US11464888B2
Provided is an implant configured to fit at or near a bone defect to promote bone growth. The implant comprises an oxysterol uniformly disposed in an acellular tissue matrix (ATM). The acellular tissue matrix can be porcine collagen, which in some cases is crosslinked. The implant can contain an acellular porcine crosslinked collagen in an amount of about 5 wt. % to about 25 wt. % of the implant and an oxysterol in an amount of about 5 wt. % to about 90 wt. % of the implant. The oxysterol can be Oxy133 monohydrate or an Oxy133 polymorph. Methods of making and using the implant are further provided.
US11464887B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate methods and a synthetic cell delivery device for treating trauma present relative to the inner surface of a hollow organ such as an esophagus.
US11464868B2
The present invention relates to inhibitors of C5a activity and their use in the treatment of cutaneous, neutrophilic, inflammatory diseases in a subject.
US11464864B2
The present invention relates to a CPT-bound compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, the CPT-bound compound being obtained by binding CPT (or a CPT derivative) and guanidine to a reduced monosaccharide. The CPT-bound compound enhances solubility and cell permeability of the CPT drug, which makes it possible to effectively deliver CPT to target cells. Therefore, a pharmaceutical composition comprising, as an active ingredient, the CPT-bound compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof is expected to be able to effectively treat cancer, in particular, colorectal cancer, even with a low dose of CPT.
US11464859B2
The present application relates to pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treatment of urogenital diseases and bone metastasis in a human, which pharmaceutical composition contains an effective amount of arsenous acid alkaline or earth alkaline metal salt and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable adjuvant. According to the present invention, the alkaline arsenous acid metal salt is sodium meta-arsenita (AsO2Na) or potassium meta-arsenite (AsO2K). The effective amount of arsenous acid alkaline or earth alkaline metal salt is 0.0001-1500 mg/kg, preferably 1-1000 mg/kg, more preferably 1-150 mg/kg, and most preferably 50-100 mg/kg of body weight/day. The administration form of the pharmaceutical compositions of the invention is preferably oral, such as a tablet, capsule, powder and/or solution with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, diluent or excipient.
US11464857B2
Provided herein are formulations of PCSK9-binding polypeptides, such as those comprising evolocumab, that comprise N-acetyl arginine and have reduced viscosities when compared to formulations lacking N-acetyl arginine. Provided herein are also methods of formulating such compositions that are advantageous in that they conserve certain components. Such formulations comprising PCSK9-binding polypeptides can be administered to patients to treat and/or prevent PCSK9-related diseases, conditions, and disorders.
US11464854B2
The methods and compositions described herein relate to methods of immunization or stimulating an immune response, e.g., using agonists of TLR7 and/or TLR8 as antigens. The methods and compositions described herein have particular relevance to use in infants.
US11464846B2
The invention relates to a mutated HPV66 L1 protein (or a variant thereof), a sequence encoding the same, a method for preparing the same, and a virus-like particle comprising the same, wherein the protein (or a variant thereof) and the virus-like particle can induce the generation of neutralizing antibodies against at least two HPV types (e.g. HPV66 and HPV56, or HPV66, HPV56 and HPV53), and therefore can be used to prevent infection by said at least two HPV types, and a disease caused by said infection, such as cervical cancer and condyloma acuminatum. The invention further relates to the use of the protein and the virus-like particle in the manufacture of a pharmaceutical composition or a vaccine for preventing infection by said at least two HPV types, and a disease caused by said infection, such as cervical cancer and condyloma acuminatum.
US11464844B2
Cold spot genes of S. pneumoniae are disclosed that encode surface proteins that are universally conserved among known strains and have exceptionally low incidence of allelic variation. Cold spot polypeptides encoded by the genes that are antigenic on the S. pneumoniae cells on which they are expressed are candidates for immunogenic compositions capable of eliciting antibodies able to react with all or nearly all strains of S. pneumoniae, thus providing an improvement over currently available S. pneumoniae vaccines that protect inoculated individuals against a maximum of about 23 of the 94 or so known serotypes of S. pneumonia.
US11464836B2
The present invention relates to an RNA suitable for treatment or prophylaxis of liver diseases. In particular, the present invention provides an RNA encoding at least one peptide or protein selected from the group consisting of an extracellular matrix protease, CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein alpha (CEBPA), TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL), Hepatocyte Growth Factor (HGF), hepatocyte nuclear factor 4 alpha (HNF4A), fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), opioid growth factor receptor-like 1 (OGFRL1), Relaxin 1 (RLN1), Relaxin 2 (RLN2) and Relaxin 3 (RLN3), or a fragment or a variant of any of these peptides or proteins. The present invention concerns said RNA as well as compositions and kits comprising the RNA. Furthermore, the present invention relates to the RNA, compositions or kits as disclosed herein for use as a medicament, in particular for treatment or prophylaxis of a liver disease. The present invention also provides the use of the RNA, compositions or kits as disclosed herein for increasing the expression of said encoded protein, in particular in gene therapy.
US11464826B2
The present application provides use of an algal proteoglycan extract and a composition comprising the same in treating or preventing tumor, pain, inflammation or diseases mediated by inflammatory factors.
US11464824B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a peptide having an excellent effect in terms of preventing deterioration in cognitive function and improving cognitive function, and provide its usage. The present invention uses the tripeptide represented by Tyr-Leu-Gly as an active ingredient of a composition for improving cognitive function or a composition for promoting brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression in the hippocampus. These compositions include a food composition, a food additive composition, and a pharmaceutical composition.
US11464823B2
An engineered nanoparticle having a curcumin carbon quantum dot and the use thereof for antiviral application are disclosed. A method of preparation of a curcumin carbon nanoparticle is also disclosed, the method comprises heating a curcumin powder at a temperature range from 120 to 210° C. to yield a residue; dissolving the residue with sodium phosphate buffer in a solution; and purifying the solution.
US11464819B2
The present disclosure is directed to cannabinoids infused consumables and non-consumables and methods of producing the cannabinoid infused consumables and non-consumables. The consumables are infused in an overall two-step process, in which cannabinoids from a Cannabis species are first infused into coconut oil, which in turn is used to infuse a food or beverage of choice with cannabinoids to generate the cannabinoids infused consumables. The non-consumables are produced by adding a cannabinoids infused oil to the non-consumables.
