US11580046B2
A firefighting or rescue apparatus includes a frame having a cab defining an interior within which a flash memory device is permanently mounted. The flash memory device is isolated so that it is incapable of receiving any onboard operating data pertaining to the operation and status of the firefighting apparatus. Instead, the device primarily stores data regarding a service manual, maintenance manual, electrical diagrams and/or troubleshooting guide related to the firefighting apparatus. The device is able to be selectively coupled to a portable computing device so that a user working on the firefighting apparatus can access the data without risk of loss or misplacement thereof. A related method also is provided.
US11580045B2
A method includes determining, by one or more processing entities associated with at least one of: one or more low voltage drive circuits (LVDCs) and one or more other LVDCs, an initial data conveyance scheme and an initial communication scheme for each communication of a plurality of communications on one or more lines of a bus. The method further includes determining a desired number of channels for each communication of the plurality of communications based on the initial data conveyance scheme and the initial communication scheme, a desired total number of channels for the plurality of communications based on the desired number of channels, determining whether the desired total number of channels for the plurality of communications exceeds a total number of available channels. If not, allocating the desired number of channels to each communication of the plurality of communications in accordance with the channel allocation mapping.
US11580043B2
The master interface generates copy data by copying the first data, and generates an error detection code based on the copy data. The protocol conversion unit generates the second data by converting the first data from the first protocol to the second protocol. The slave interface detects errors in the copy data based on the error detection code. The slave interface also generates the first verification data by performing a conversion from one of the first protocol or the second protocol to the other for one of the second data or copy data. In addition, the slave interface compares the second verification data with the first verification data, using the other of the second data or copy as the second verification data.
US11580038B2
A high-capacity system memory may be built from both quasi-volatile (QV) memory circuits, logic circuits, and static random-access memory (SRAM) circuits. Using the SRAM circuits as buffers or cache for the QV memory circuits, the system memory may achieve access latency performance of the SRAM circuits and may be used as code memory. The system memory is also capable of direct memory access (DMA) operations and includes an arithmetic logic unit for performing computational memory tasks. The system memory may include one or more embedded processor. In addition, the system memory may be configured for multi-channel memory accesses by multiple host processors over multiple host ports. The system memory may be provided in the dual-in-line memory module (DIMM) format.
US11580037B2
According to examples, an apparatus may include a memory on which is stored machine-readable instructions that may cause a processor to determine, for each of a plurality of members in a group, a respective least privilege level for a resource and determine, based on the determined respective least privilege levels, a privilege level to be assigned to the group for the resource. The instructions may also cause the processor to assign the determined privilege level to the group for the resource and apply the assigned privilege level to the members of the group for the resource.
US11580031B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to hardware for split data translation lookaside buffers. In one embodiment, a processor includes a decode circuit to decode instructions into decoded instructions, an execution circuit to execute the decoded instructions, and a memory circuit comprising a load data translation lookaside buffer circuit and a store data translation lookaside buffer circuit separate and distinct from the load data translation lookaside buffer circuit, wherein the memory circuit sends a memory access request of the instructions to the load data translation lookaside buffer circuit when the memory access request is a load data request and to the store data translation lookaside buffer circuit when the memory access request is a store data request to determine a physical address for a virtual address of the memory access request.
US11580030B2
Devices, systems, and methods are provided that cause a controller to receive a first command to read or write first data from or to a first logical address; and determine a first mapped logical address that the first logical address is mapped to. A first plurality of logical addresses is mapped to the first mapped logical address and includes the first logical address. The controller reads a first data structure at the first mapped logical address. The first data structure includes a pointer to a first intermediate physical address. The controller reads a second data structure at the first intermediate physical address. The second data structure includes a plurality of pointers to target physical addresses. The plurality of pointers includes a pointer to a first target physical address for the first logical address. The controller reads or writes the first data from or to the first target physical address.
US11580018B2
A method of performing a garbage collection operation on a source block includes: performing a plurality of partial page clean operations during a series of host write operations. Each partial clean operation includes: performing a validity check process within a partitioned searching range of the source block to obtain valid page information; and performing a page clean process according to the valid page information and a target clean page number to read valid pages indicated by the valid page information.
US11580008B2
The present disclosure provides techniques for configuring and provisioning a tenant for testing microservices in a multi-tenant instance. Code is committed for a modified microservice, and a configuration is received for a production tenant of the multi-tenant instance. The configuration is updated to include a reference to the updated microservice, and then provided to a provisioner that provisions a test tenant based on the configuration. The microservices for the test tenant are compared with versions in a code version management system and updated, then a reference to the test tenant is provided to a developer to test the modified microservice. The test tenant may be deprovisioned after a predetermined amount of time, by a command of the developer, or other automated method.
US11579997B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and method for performing operations comprising providing to a client device, a messaging application comprising multiple features; accessing a configuration rule that associates a device property rule with a feature; determining at a first point in time, that a property of the client device matches the device property rule associated with the configuration rule; in response to determining that the property of the client device matches the device property rule associated with the configuration rule, enabling the feature on the client device at the first point in time; receiving an updated property of the client device at a second point in time; and in response to determining that the updated property of the client device fails to match the device property rule associated with the configuration rule at the second point in time, disabling the feature on the client device.
US11579996B2
A memory device comprises a memory control unit including a processor configured to control operation of the memory array according to a first memory management protocol for memory access operations, the first memory management protocol including boundary conditions for multiple operating conditions comprising program/erase (P/E) cycles, error management operations, drive writes per day (DWPD), and power consumption; monitor operating conditions of the memory array for the P/E cycles, error management operations, DWPD, and power consumption; determine when a boundary condition for one of the multiple operating conditions is met; and in response to determining that a first boundary condition for a first monitored operating condition is met, change one or more operating conditions of the first memory management protocol to establish a second memory management protocol for the memory access operations, the second memory management protocol including a change boundary condition of a second monitored operating condition.
US11579995B2
An electronic element includes: a module for storing reference data; a module for receiving data from a processor; a module for verifying the received data by comparison by way of reference data; and a module for transmitting an instruction to cut off supply of the processor, the supply cutoff instruction being transmitted after occurrence of a failure event, the failure event being an absence of reception of data or a failure in verifying the data. A system including such an electronic element and a method for monitoring a processor by the electronic element are also described.
US11579989B2
The invention relates to a method for providing a fault-tolerant global time via a time server in a distributed real-time computer system, wherein the time server comprises four components which are connected to one another via a bi-directional communication channel. At a priori defined periodic, internal synchronization times, each of the four components transmits an internal synchronization message, which is simultaneously transmitted to the other three components, from which each internal computer of a component determines a correction term for the tick counter contained in its component and corrects the reading of the local tick counter by this correction term.
US11579985B2
Disclosed herein are systems and method for preventing malware reoccurrence when restoring a computing device using a backup image. In one exemplary aspect, a method may identify, from a plurality of backup images for a computing device, a backup image that was created most recently before the computing device was compromised. The method may mount the backup image as a disk and scanning the disk for malicious software. The method may disable all ports and services on the computing device to prevent unauthorized network connections and service launches. The method may restore data to the computing device from the mounted disk. The method may update software on the computing device and applying latest patches, and reopen the ports and restart the services on the computing device subsequent to updating the software and applying the latest patches.
US11579984B2
Embodiments for a storage classifier that provides recommendations to a backup server for storage targets among a plurality of disparate target storage types. The storage classifier receives metadata (name, type, size), and the Service Level Agreement with information such as: retention time, Recovery Point Objective, and Recovery Time Objective) from the backup software. The backup software itself receives policy recommendations from a data label rules engine based on certain file attributes. The storage classifier receives an initial recommendation for the storage type and location (e.g., on-premises deduplication storage or public-cloud object storage, etc.) from a data classifier. Based on these inputs, the storage classifier provides recommended specific storage targets to the backup software on a file-by-file basis for data stored in a backup operation.
US11579983B2
Techniques for creating and using snapshots may include: receiving a request to create a new snapshot of a source object; determining whether a first generation identifier associated with the source object matches a second generation identifier associated with a base snapshot of the source object; determining whether the source object has been modified since the base snapshot was created; and responsive to determining the first generation identifier matches the second generation identifier and also determining that the source object has not been modified since the base snapshot was created, associating the new snapshot with the base snapshot thereby indicating that the new snapshot and the base snapshot have matching content and denote a same point in time copy of the source object.
US11579979B2
Devices and techniques for a storage backed memory package save trigger are disclosed herein. Data can be received via a first interface. The data is stored in a volatile portion of the memory package. Here, the memory package includes a second interface arranged to connect a host to a controller in the memory package. A reset signal can be received at the memory package via the first interface. The data stored in the volatile portion of the memory package can be saved to a non-volatile portion of the memory package in response to the reset signal.
US11579975B2
Techniques manage a redundant array of independent disks. In such a technique, a response time of a first storage device in the RAID is compared to a first threshold. In response to the response time of the first storage device exceeding the first threshold, the first storage device is configured as a pseudo-degraded storage device, such that the pseudo-degraded storage device is responsive to write requests only.
US11579956B2
Exemplary embodiments may perform feasibility analysis to determine whether it is possible to generate a lookup table that conforms to an error tolerance given a specification of a function or a set of data points that the lookup table attempts to approximate, an indication of breakpoint positions, and a specification of a data type for table values. Where it is determined that it is feasible to generate the lookup table, the lookup table may be automatically programmatically generated. Suggestions of how to modify the breakpoint positions and/or error tolerance may be provided. In addition, a visualization of approximation error and error tolerance, such as a visualization showing a feasibility margin, may be output. New data points may be processed to update table values for an already generated lookup table.
US11579942B2
Disclosed are aspects of virtual graphics processing unit (vGPU) scheduling-aware virtual machine migration. Graphics processing units (GPUs) that are compatible with a current virtual GPU (vGPU) profile for a virtual machine are identified. A scheduling policy matching order for a migration of the virtual machine is determined based on a current vGPU scheduling policy for the virtual machine. A destination GPU is selected based on a vGPU scheduling policy of the destination GPU being identified as a best available vGPU scheduling policy according to the scheduling policy matching order. The virtual machine is migrated to the destination GPU.
US11579940B2
A publish and subscribe architecture can be utilized to manage records, which can be used to accomplish the various functional goals. At least one template having definitions for managing production and consumption of data within an unconfigured group of computing resources is maintained. Records organized by topic collected from multiple disparate previously configured producers are utilized to initiate configuration of the unconfigured group of computing resources. Records within a topic are organized by a corresponding topic sequence. A first portion of the computing resources are configured as consumers based on the at least one template. The consumers to consume records at a pace independent of record production. A second portion of the computing resources are configured as producers based on the at least one template. The producers to produce records at a pace independent of record consumption.
US11579936B2
Disclosed is a system and method for cloud workload provisioning. In one implementation, the present invention provides a system enabling an automated guidance to the user for the workload to be provisioned. The present invention matches the user's workload profile based on a wide variety of historical data set and makes easy for users to choose the cloud provisioning for various kinds of workloads. The system can automatically readjust a workload profile for cloud provisioning. The system can provide a manual selection option for cloud provisioning. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a system and method that derives a workload provision scaling factor mechanism using historic data set. Furthermore, the system and method can automatically or manually readjust the provision scaling factor based on a workload profile for cloud provisioning.
US11579932B2
A system and method for backing up workloads for multiple tenants of a cloud computing system are disclosed. A method of backing up workloads for multiple tenants of a computing system includes triggering an archival process according to an archival policy set by a tenant, and executing the archival process by reading backup data of the tenant stored in a backup storage device of the computer system and transmitting the backup data to an archival store designated in the archival policy, and then deleting or invalidating the backup data stored in the backup storage device.
US11579931B2
In one example, a computer implemented method may include retrieving resource definition data corresponding to an endpoint. The resource definition data includes adapter information and resource type information. Further, an adapter instance may be generated using the adapter information to establish communication with the endpoint. Furthermore, an API response may be obtained, via the adapter instance, from the endpoint by querying the endpoint using an API call. Further, the API response may be parsed. Further, a resource model corresponding to the resource definition data may be populated using the parsed API response. The resource model may include resource information and associated metric information corresponding to a resource type in the resource type information. Furthermore, a resource and/or metric data associated with the resource may be determined using the populated resource model. The resource may be associated with an application being executed in the endpoint.
US11579926B2
A request manager analyzes API calls from a client to a host application for state and performance information. If current utilization of host application processing or memory footprint resources exceed predetermined levels, then the incoming API call is not forwarded to the application. If current utilization of the host application processing and memory resources do not exceed the predetermined levels, then the request manager quantifies the processing or memory resources required to report the requested information and determines whether projected utilization of the host application processing or memory resources inclusive of the resources required to report the requested information exceed predetermined levels. If the predetermined levels are not exceeded, then the request manager forwards the API call to the application for processing.
US11579921B2
Systems and methods for performing parallel computation are disclosed. The system can include: a task manager; and a plurality of cores coupled with the task manager and configured to respectively perform a set of parallel computation tasks based on instructions from the task manager, wherein each of the plurality of cores further comprises: a processing unit configured to generate a first output feature map corresponding to a first computation task among the set of parallel computation tasks; an interface configured to receive one or more instructions from the task manager to collect external output feature maps corresponding to the set of parallel computation tasks from other cores of the plurality of cores; a reduction unit configured to generate a reduced feature map based on the first output feature map and received external output feature maps.
US11579920B2
An apparatus comprises an interrupt distributor to distribute virtual interrupts to one or more physical processors, each virtual interrupt to be handled by one of a plurality of virtual processors mappable to said one or more physical processors; and control circuitry to maintain virtual processor interrupt tracking information corresponding to a given virtual processor. The virtual processor interrupt tracking information includes a pending interrupt record tracking which types of virtual interrupts are pending for the given virtual processor, and separate from the pending interrupt record, a pending interrupt status indication indicating a pending interrupt status for the given virtual processor. The pending interrupt status indicates whether the number of pending virtual interrupts for the given virtual processor is zero.
US11579912B2
A method includes identifying a source virtual machine to be migrated from a source domain to a target domain, extracting file-in-use metadata and shared asset metadata from virtual machine metadata of the source virtual machine, and copying one or more files identified in the file-in-use metadata to a target virtual machine in the target domain. For each of one or more shared assets identified in the shared asset metadata, the method further includes (a) determining whether or not the shared asset already exists in the target domain, (b) responsive to the shared asset already existing in the target domain, updating virtual machine metadata of the target virtual machine to specify the shared asset, and (c) responsive to the shared asset not already existing in the target domain, copying the shared asset to the target domain and updating virtual machine metadata of the target virtual machine to specify the shared asset.
US11579907B2
Embodiments of the present application provide an acceleration management node. The acceleration management node separately receives acceleration device information of all acceleration devices. The acceleration device information includes an algorithm type, an acceleration bandwidth or non-uniform memory access architecture (NUMA). The acceleration management node obtains an invocation request from a client. The acceleration management node queries the acceleration device information to determine, from all the acceleration devices of the at least one acceleration node, a target acceleration device matching the invocation request. The acceleration management node further instructs a target acceleration node to respond to the invocation request.
US11579901B1
Systems and methods provide for execution of different provisioning engines within a resource provider environment. A user may submit a request to provision one or more resources using a particular provisioning engine, which may include a provisioning engine that is non-native to the resource provider environment. A control plane may evaluate and transmit requests to the provisioning engine executing within the resource provider environment. Operations associated with the provisioning engine may be executed and stored within a data store, which may be processed upon completion and made accessible.
US11579899B2
A method and a device for managing a node includes: initiating, by an application program, a first request by calling an interface function, where the first request is used to perform an operation on a feature node in a kernel; searching, based on a keyword of the interface function, a table used for node management for an entry corresponding to the feature node, where the entry includes a node identifier of the feature node and a user handle identifier of the feature node; and performing, by the user program, the operation on the feature node based on the user handle identifier. A program running in user space can be prevented from directly accessing a feature node in kernel space, thereby improving system security.
US11579897B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) for software defined silicon security are disclosed. Example apparatus include a trusted agent determiner to (i) determine respective reputation scores associated with a plurality of agents in a mesh network, the plurality of agents associated with a plurality of semiconductor devices, respective ones of the semiconductor devices including circuitry configurable to provide one or more features, and (ii) select, based on the respective reputation scores, a first agent from the plurality of the agents to transmit a request to activate or deactivate at least one of the one or more features. Example apparatus also include an agent interface to, in response to the request, broadcast an activation or deactivation of the least one of the one or more features to the mesh network to cause the trusted agent determiner to update the reputation score of the first agent.
US11579895B2
An electronic apparatus includes processing unit configured to execute system processing, an object detection unit configured to detect an object present within a predetermined detection range, and an operation control unit configured to control the system processing according to a detection state detected by the object detection unit to make a transition to one of a first operating state and a second operating state in which at least part of the system processing is more limited than that in the first operating state. When a transition from the first operating state to the second operating state is made regardless of the detection state detected by the object detection unit, where the operation control unit prohibits the transition to the first operating state according to the detection state detected by the object detection unit.
US11579894B2
A device includes a plurality of reconfigurable resources, a bus, and a configurator. The bus interconnects the plurality of reconfigurable resources. The configurator is configured to deterministically compute a segmented interconnect configuration for the bus based on operational parameters associated with the device and operational constraints associated with program modules to be executed by the plurality of reconfigurable resources.
US11579891B2
Techniques for improved mobile application architectures and service communication protocols are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a mobile device configured for providing a mobile application including multiple service applications. The service applications may execute asynchronously and in separate containers, providing service orientated architecture (SOA)-like services with respect to other portions of the mobile application, or even external applications. The separation of a monolithic mobile application into separate service applications provide advantages in terms of application performance, development, and maintenance. For example, a subset of all service applications may be started up, and executed on demand to improve device resource utilization efficiency.
US11579887B2
Representative apparatus, method, and system embodiments are disclosed for configurable computing. In a representative embodiment, a system includes an interconnection network, a processor, a host interface, and a configurable circuit cluster. The configurable circuit cluster may include a plurality of configurable circuits arranged in an array; an asynchronous packet network and a synchronous network coupled to each configurable circuit of the array; and a memory interface circuit and a dispatch interface circuit coupled to the asynchronous packet network and to the interconnection network. Each configurable circuit includes instruction or configuration memories for selection of a current data path configuration, a master synchronous network input, and a data path configuration for a next configurable circuit.
US11579884B2
Techniques for performing instruction fetch operations are provided. The techniques include determining instruction addresses for a primary branch prediction path; requesting that a level 0 translation lookaside buffer (“TLB”) caches address translations for the primary branch prediction path; determining either or both of alternate control flow path instruction addresses and lookahead control flow path instruction addresses; and requesting that either the level 0 TLB or an alternative level TLB caches address translations for either or both of the alternate control flow path instruction addresses and the lookahead control flow path instruction addresses.
US11579882B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to extended memory operations are described. Extended memory operations can include operations specified by a single address and operand and may be performed by a computing device that includes a processing unit and a memory resource. The computing device can perform extended memory operations on data streamed through the computing tile without receipt of intervening commands. In an example, a computing device is configured to receive a command to perform an operation that comprises performing an operation on a data with the processing unit of the computing device and determine that an operand corresponding to the operation is stored in the memory resource. The computing device can further perform the operation using the operand stored in the memory resource.
US11579880B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to systems for performing instructions to quickly convert and use matrices (tiles) as one-dimensional vectors. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch an instruction having fields to specify an opcode, locations of a two-dimensional (2D) matrix and a one-dimensional (1D) vector, and a group of elements comprising one of a row, part of a row, multiple rows, a column, part of a column, multiple columns, and a rectangular sub-tile of the specified 2D matrix, and wherein the opcode is to indicate a move of the specified group between the 2D matrix and the 1D vector, decode circuitry to decode the fetched instruction; and execution circuitry, responsive to the decoded instruction, when the opcode specifies a move from 1D, to move contents of the specified 1D vector to the specified group of elements.
US11579868B1
Techniques are described for enabling the automatic refactoring of software application source code to mitigate identified anti-patterns and other software modernization-related issues. A software modernization system analyzes software applications to generate various types of modernization report information, where the report information can include identifications of various types of design and cloud anti-patterns, proposed decompositions of monolithic applications into subunits, refactoring cost information, recommended modernization tools and migration paths, among other such information. A software modernization system further includes a refactoring engine that can automatically refactor source code based on such application analysis information, e.g., to automatically address identified anti-patterns, restructure code for decomposition, etc. A refactoring engine performs refactoring actions based on refactoring templates, machine learning (ML) refactoring models, or other input.
US11579862B2
Systems, methods and computer program products are presented for the automated deployment of a code update to a device. One or more clusters of devices may be connected to a development environment for deployment of one or more code updates through respective development pipelines to the respective clusters of devices. A first cluster of devices receives a module for implementation of an agent for the first cluster of devices and a central queue local to a centralized controller of the development environment. The agent reports at least one status of a respective device to the centralized controller of the development environment, whereby that status may correspond to a code update image pulled onto the respective device. The agent retrieves one or more instruction messages from the centralized controller in response to the reported status of the respective device.
US11579860B2
Disclosed are embodiments of a installed software program that receive a model from a product management system. The model is trained to select one of a plurality of predefined states based on operational parameter values of the installation of the software program. Each of the plurality of predefined states define configuration values of the installation of the software program. The defined configuration values indicate, in some embodiments, updates to operational parameter values of the installation of the software program.
US11579856B2
A multi-chip compatible compiling method includes: extracting common characteristic information of Makefiles; configuring variable attribute information of the Makefiles; obtaining a universal Makefile template for multiple chips according to the common characteristic information and the variable attribute information of the Makefiles; traversing a project to be compiled in the universal Makefile template by a compilation module, recording path information of a dependency file of the project to be compiled, replacing a variable value in the universal Makefile template, and determining automation configuration information of the universal Makefile template; invoking an incremental compilation mechanism of a Make tool according to the automation configuration information of the universal Makefile template to obtain a target Makefile of the project to be compiled; and processing the target Makefile by rule information and pseudo-target tag information in the Makefiles to obtain an executable file generated by compilation.
US11579852B2
System and method of compiling a program having a mixture of host code and device code to enable Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) for device code execution. An exemplary integrated compiler can compile source code programmed to be executed by a host processor (e.g., CPU) and a co-processor (e.g., a GPU) concurrently. The compilation can generate an instrumented executable code which includes: profile instrumentation counters for the device functions; and instructions for the host processor to allocate and initialize device memory for the counters and to retrieve collected profile information from the device memory to generate instrumentation output. The output is fed back to the compiler for compiling the source code a second time to generate optimized executable code for the device functions defined in the source code.
US11579846B2
Described herein are a method and security enhancing device for a bi-directional communications device, comprising: an M-digit display; a processor; a security software application (security App) adapted to be stored in memory and executed by the processor; an N-digit random number generator adapted to periodically generate a new N-digit random number and transmit the same to the processor and the security App, and wherein the processor is further adapted to transmit the N-digit random number to the display to display the N-digit random number; and a wireless communications transceiver and antenna (wireless communications device) adapted to transmit and receive wireless communications to and from, respectively, one or more personal electronic devices that are adapted to wireless communicate using identical communications protocols as the wireless communications transceiver, and wherein the security App is adapted to receive and store the N-bit digit random number that changes periodically, and wherein the security App is adapted to generate an offer to join the meeting message that is transmitted by the wireless communications transceiver to the one or more personal electronic devices, and wherein the security App is adapted to receive a request to join the meeting message from a first personal electronic device, wherein the request to join the meeting message comprises a field within which a currently displayed N-digit random number can be entered into (request to join N-digit random number), and wherein the security App is further adapted to compare the received request to join N-digit random number to the stored N-digit random number, and if they match, then the security App provides a communication to the processor to allow bi-directional communications with the personal electronic device that transmitted the received N-digit random number.
US11579845B2
Provided are a random number generation device and the like capable of calculating a high precision random number using a memory capacity selected irrespective of the precision of the random number. A random number calculation device is configured to generate first random numbers based on given number and specify, for the given number of second random numbers in a target numeric extent, bin range depending on the first random numbers based on frequency information representing cumulative frequency regarding a frequency of numeric extent including respective second random numbers among given numeric extents, the numeric extent being determined in accordance with a desirable precision.
US11579843B2
Methods, Systems, and apparatuses related to performing bit string accumulation within a compute or memory device are described. A logic circuit with processing capability and a register within or near memory, for example, can perform multiple iterations of a recursive operation using several bit strings. Results of the various iterations may be written to the register, and subsequent iterations of the recursive operation using the bit strings may be performed. Results of the iterations of recursive operations may be accumulated within the register. Accumulated results may be written as data to another register or to memory that is external to or separate from the logic circuit.
US11579841B1
A speech-processing system may provide access to one or more skills via spoken commands and/or responses in the form of synthesized speech. The system may be capable of keeping one or more skills active in the background while a user interacts (e.g., provides inputs to and/or receives outputs from) with a skill running in the foreground. A background skill may receive some trigger data, and determine to request the system to return the background skill to the foreground to, for example, request a user input regarding an action previously requested by the user. In some cases, the user may invoke a background skill to continue a previous interaction. The system may return the background skill to the foreground. The resumed skill may continue a previous interaction to, for example, to query the user for instructions, provide an update or alert, or continue a previous output.
US11579839B1
Systems and methods for audio analytics and audio-based accessibility are provided. A user audio profile may be stored in memory for a user. The user audio profile may include a custom prioritization of one or more audio parameters associated with one or more audio modifications. Audio streams associated with a user device of the user may be monitored based on the user audio profile during a current session. The audio parameters may be detected as being present in the monitored audio streams, and the detected audio parameters may be prioritized based on the custom prioritization of the user audio profile. A sound property of at least one of the audio streams may be modified in real-time based on the prioritization of the detected audio parameters by applying the audio modifications of the user audio profile to the at least one audio stream before the at least one audio stream is provided to the user device.
US11579834B2
A portable device and accompanying software provides users with a digital audio workstation with integrated tools take in raw audio data from physical inputs and map the raw data to various virtual outputs. Raw audio data for recording (recording data) is cast in real-time to a remote server. Monitoring data is simultaneously sent to collaborating devices via P2P protocols. The bitrate of the data for P2P transmissions can be adjusted to allow remote multiple users recording simultaneously to hear monitoring data in synchronicity, regardless of the speed of their respective internet connections. Face-to-face collaboration may be facilitated through the streaming of video data as the monitoring data. The low-latency of the P2P monitoring transmissions frees up bandwidth for the real-time streaming of the recording data. Audio recordings are uploaded to a central server, where they may be available to authorized collaborators for editing.
US11579830B2
Embodiments generally enable a mobile device to display a window of a remote desktop on a mobile device with a native layout. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a remote desktop display request from a mobile client device, wherein the remote desktop display request includes display information of the mobile client device. The method further includes generating a copy of a window process of a remote desktop computer. The method further includes generating a virtual display based at least in part on the copy of the window process of the remote desktop computer and on the display information of the mobile client device. The method further includes sending virtual display information to the mobile client device based at least in part on the virtual display.
US11579829B2
An image forming apparatus includes an operation device, one or more memories, and one or more processors that execute a set of instructions to receive a print job from an information processing apparatus, store the received print job in the one or more memories, control the operation device to display a list of print jobs stored in the one or more memories, register a print job included in the list in the image forming apparatus, based on a user instruction received by the operation device, and display an execution button for executing the registered print job in a function selection screen.
US11579828B2
A printing apparatus registers the printing apparatus in a cloud print service, and generates a printer queue storing a print job to be transmitted to the printing apparatus on the cloud print service. If the printing apparatus is associated with a virtual printer on the cloud print service, the printing apparatus acquires information of print jobs managed by the virtual printer from the cloud print service. If an operation for printing the print jobs managed by the virtual printer is received, the printing apparatus gives an instruction for moving a print job that is specified on the basis of at least the acquired information of the print jobs to the printer queue for the printing apparatus provided on the cloud print service, and acquires the moved print job.
US11579827B1
Systems and methods are provided for print review systems. One embodiment is a print review system that includes a memory that stores inspection parameters of print media marked by a printer, an interface that communicates with the printer, and a controller that, in response to the printer initiating processing of a print job, receives an indication via the interface of settings used by the printer in processing the print job, modifies the parameters based on the settings, inspects the print media based on the modified parameters, and reports compliance of the print job with the modified parameters.
US11579824B2
A function executing device may send screen display information to a terminal device via a first wireless interface without executing, via the first wireless interface, communication using specific authentication information, wherein the screen display information is for causing the terminal device to display a function screen. In a case where a first execution instruction for causing the function executing device to execute a first function is inputted to the terminal device after a function screen has been displayed in the terminal device, the function executing device may execute the communication using the specific authentication information with the terminal device via the first wireless interface and execute communication of first function execution information for executing the first function via the first wireless interface with the terminal device.
US11579820B2
In an image forming apparatus, a consumable accommodates printing material and is mounted in a main casing. The consumable includes a consumable memory. A controller performs a restriction process to rewrite the first status information to indicate the used product to prohibit the consumable from being used in other image forming apparatuses in a case where first status information stored in the one of the consumable memory and a main memory indicates the new product. The controller performs an updating process to update the second status information so that the second status information indicates that the consumable can be temporarily used in the another image forming apparatus in a case where the controller receives a contract cancellation instruction. The contract cancellation instruction instructs to cancel an agreement concluded for the image forming apparatus.
US11579817B2
In a printing system, a terminal device generates a plurality of pieces of print job data based on a data format list and transmit the generated print job data to a first multifunction machine, the first multifunction machine stores a plurality of pieces of received print job data, and performs printing based on print job data having the data format supported by the first multifunction machine itself when the first multifunction machine itself receives a print instruction from a user, and the second multifunction machine receives print job data having the data format supported by the second multifunction machine itself from the first multifunction machine when the second multifunction machine itself receives a print instruction from a user and performs printing based on the received print job data.
US11579808B2
In some examples, fabric driven NVMe subsystem zoning may include receiving, from a non-volatile memory express (NVMe) Name Server (NNS), a zoning specification that includes an indication of a host that is to communicate with a given NVMe subsystem of an NVMe storage domain. Based on the zoning specification, the host may be designated as being permitted to connect to the given NVMe subsystem of the NVMe storage domain. An NVMe connect command may be received from the host. Based on the designation and an analysis of the NVMe connect command, a connection may be established between the given NVMe subsystem of the NVMe storage domain and the host.
US11579805B2
Operation of a non-volatile memory (NVM) storage module may comprise receiving a plurality of commands as associated with a plurality of priority-based queues from a host-memory. A received command is evaluated in accordance with a priority associated with the queue storing the command and a size of the command. The evaluated command is split into a plurality of sub-commands, each of the sub-commands having a size determined in accordance with the evaluation. A predetermined number of hardware resources are allocated for each of the evaluated command based on at least the size of each of the sub-commands to thereby enable a processing of the evaluated command based on the allocated resources. Quality of service (QoS) for the evaluated-command may thus be augmented.
US11579801B2
Disclosed are systems and methods by which a storage device may process and return I/O commands to a host in the order in which the host provided the commands, thereby reducing host overhead, including but not limited to the following: receiving a first I/O command and a second I/O command, the first I/O command and the second I/O command being assigned a sequence tag, issuing the first I/O command and the second I/O command to one or more storage channels based on their respective sequence tags, collecting a command completion notice of the first I/O command or the second I/O command when the first I/O command or the second I/O command has been respectively completed; and issuing a command completion notification to a host based on the sequence tag of the associated completed first I/O command or the second I/O command.
US11579798B2
A method for operating a memory system including a memory device and a controller which controls the memory device includes identifying a target command among a plurality of commands queued in a host command queue; comparing an estimated power with a power limit; checking an estimated de-queuing time in the case where the estimated power is larger than or equal to the power limit; dequeuing the target command from the host command queue to a memory command queue in the case where the estimated de-queuing time is smaller than a predetermined threshold value; de-queueing the target command from the memory command queue to the memory device; and performing an operation corresponding to the target command.
US11579791B2
A variety of applications can include systems and/or methods of partial save of memory in an apparatus such as a non-volatile dual in-line memory module. In various embodiments, a set of control registers of a non-volatile dual in-line memory module can be configured to contain an identification of a portion of dynamic random-access memory of the non-volatile dual in-line memory module from which to back up content to non-volatile memory of the non-volatile dual in-line memory module. Registers of the set of control registers may also be allotted to contain an amount of content to transfer from the dynamic random-access memory content to the non-volatile memory. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US11579775B2
A storage system includes a storage device and a host device. The storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device having a first size and a first volatile memory device having a second size smaller than the first size and configured to operate as a cache memory with respect to the nonvolatile memory device. The first volatile memory device is configured to allow a first bus portion access to cache data stored in the first volatile memory device. The host device is configured to generate a cache table corresponding to information in the cache data stored in the first volatile memory device and configured to read the cache data stored in the first volatile memory device via the first bus portion based on the cache table.
US11579772B2
Methods, systems, and devices for retiring pages of a memory device are described. An ordered set of device information pages may be used to store device information. The device information pages may be in non-volatile memory. Each page may include a counter value of the number of accesses to indicate if the page includes valid data. A flag associated with the page may be set when the counter value reaches a threshold, to retire the page. Upon power-up, the device may determine which page to use, based on the flags. The flag may be stored in the page, or may be separate (e.g., fuse elements). If fuse elements are used, the page may store a programming-in-process flag to indicate when programming of the fuse element may not have been completed before power loss, in which case the programming may be restarted after power is restored.
US11579769B1
A graphic device for computer displays (for example, touchscreen style computer displays) with multiple independently operable active areas, each of which can be operated to change a different dimensions. In some embodiments, the dimensions correspond to spatial dimensions in which a selected object in the display can be moved. In some embodiments, the dimensions correspond to spatial dimensions in which the display can be scrolled. In some embodiments, the dimensions correspond to actions performed on real world devices and/or objects (for example, motions of a remote control aerial vehicle, operations of an Internet of Things type video monitor).
US11579766B2
A computing device can receive an interactive advertisement comprising a first content object and a second content object. The computing device can display the first content object corresponding to a collapsed version of the interactive advertisement. The computing device can receive a first action to activate the interactive advertisement. The computing device can provide for display, responsive to receiving the first action, a target object identifying a location on the display screen to which to move the first content object. The computing device can receive a second action to move the first content object towards the target object. The computing device can then provide for display, the second content object corresponding to an expanded version of the interactive ad on the display screen of the computing device.
US11579764B1
A computing device is coupled to a display device, and includes a data monitoring software application program executing on a processor within a data monitoring system. Via the data monitoring software application program, various techniques are performed for generating user interfaces for data monitoring and event response. In a first technique, the data monitoring software application program displays a user interface that includes a first region including a data visualization and a second region including one or more images of a video stream. In a second technique, the data monitoring software application program generates a user interface associated with an event, receive an input corresponding to interaction with a user interface element in the user interface, and initiates an event channel associated with the event in response to the input.
US11579763B2
A system and method for performing image scrolling are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system for image scrolling organizes each set of related images as a series object. The system writes selected images from one of the series objects, from the image cache to the frame buffer, for image scrolling on a display. A garbage collection module performs garbage collection in the image cache. The garbage collection module operates on memory space where a series object is released or can be moved, for reclaiming memory. The image scrolling is smoother than if the garbage collection module were to track and operate on each image as an object.
US11579755B1
Systems and methods are provided for dynamic configuration of interactive controls available on a dashboard. Interactive controls may be dynamically configured by manipulating network resource address information for a network resource that provides a dashboard, for example using query string parameters. For example, a dashboard that displays one type, source, or summary of information can be dynamically configured to allow interactive selection and display of another type, source, or summary of information depending on values passed in the network resource address information for the dashboard network resource.
US11579754B2
A system for presenting a skill-based game, the system includes at least one server to serve a set of matchups of participants of an event, to a plurality of presentation devices, the plurality of presentation devices displaying the set of matchups on a display; to receive over the wide area network data from the presentation devices characterizing a set of user selected winners of the matchups made by the users; update the event data pertinent to participants in the actual events; using the updated data to calculate and assign payoffs to the users based on fixed payoff odds. A related computer-implemented method provides participant matchups to an operator organizing such a skill-based game.
US11579746B2
Embodiments relate to a dynamic image capturing method and apparatus using an arbitrary viewpoint image generation technology, in which an image of background content displayed on a background content display unit or an image of background content implemented in a virtual space through a chroma key screen, having a view matching to a view of seeing a subject at a viewpoint of a camera is generated, and a final image including the image of the background content and a subject area is obtained.
US11579738B2
A circuit board including: a body part including a driving chip; a pad part including a plurality of pads connected to a plurality of lines, wherein the pad part extends in a first direction from the body part; and a line part including a first line of the lines, wherein the first line is electrically connected to the driving chip, the line part extends in the first direction from the body part, and the line part is bendable with respect to a bending line.
US11579736B2
A display device includes a display panel including unit pixel areas and an input sensor including first-line elements and second-line elements defining crossing areas with the first-line elements. First group elements among the first-line elements and the second-line elements are electrically connected to each other to define a first electrode. Second group elements among the first-line elements and the second-line elements are electrically connected to each other to define a second electrode, and the second electrode is insulated from the first electrode while crossing the first electrode. A first angle defined by a first direction and a second direction and a second angle defined in the crossing areas by the first-line elements and the second-line elements to correspond to the first angle are different from each other.
US11579732B2
A touch sensing apparatus is disclosed comprising a panel that defines a touch surface, a plurality of light emitters and detectors arranged along a perimeter of the panel. The light emitters are arranged to emit a respective beam of emitted light that travels above the touch surface, wherein the light detectors are arranged to receive detection light from the emitted light. The plurality of light emitters and detectors are arranged above the touch surface and are connected to a substrate extending in a direction parallel with a normal axis of a plane in which the panel extends. A method of assembling a touch sensing apparatus is also disclosed.
US11579731B2
An assembly for holding and controlling curvature of a glass plate for an optical touch sensitive system is described. The assembly comprising a first frame element extending in a first plane and configured to extend at least partially around a panel; at least one second frame element extending in a second plane and forming a support portion for the plate, and at least one spacing element positioned at least partially between the support portion and the first frame element. The spacing element us configured to control a curvature of the first frame element and wherein the at least one second frame element is configured to engage the plate at the support portion, is attached to the first frame element, and is tiltable, by controlling the curvature of the first frame element with said spacing element, to control a curvature of the plate.
US11579714B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, an electronic pen, a slot in which the electronic pen can be inserted in or detached from, a pen sensing module configured to sense an insertion/detachment of the electronic pen, a pen input module configured to receive an input using the electronic pen, and a processor configured to activate the pen input module while the display maintains an OFF-state when the detachment of the electronic pen is sensed within the OFF-state of the display.
US11579701B2
An electronic device may include touch input components and associated haptic output components. The control circuitry may provide haptic output in response to touch input on the touch input components and may send wireless signals to the external electronic device based on the touch input. The haptic output components may provide local and global haptic output. Local haptic output may be used to guide a user to the location of the electronic device or to provide a button click sensation to the user in response to touch input. Global haptic output may be used to notify the user that the electronic device is aligned towards the external electronic device and is ready to receive user input to control or communicate with the external electronic device. Control circuitry may switch a haptic output component into an inactive mode to inform the user that a touch input component is inactive.
US11579700B2
A display apparatus includes: a display panel; an enclosure enclosing the display panel; a cover member covering a front surface of the display panel; an actuator connected to the cover member and having a function of applying vibration to the cover member; and a viscous body arranged between the display panel and the cover member. The viscous body is bonded to the display panel and the cover member, and, when a periodic stress having a vibration frequency of ½ period per second is applied to the viscous body, a dynamic elastic modulus of the viscous body is equal to or lower than 1×10−3 of Young's modulus of the viscous body.
US11579698B2
Aspects of the technology employ synchronized arrays of low-cost, readily available vibration actuators to emulate and outperform single actuator systems, bringing together sets of actuators to create desired control effects. This approach involves coherent phase switching and modulation of a linear actuator array. A pair of linear resonant actuators (LRAs) may be employed for improved haptic waveform synthesis performance. According to one feature, energy may stored in the mechanical inertia of the LRA via velocity and stiffness of the LRA via displacement and released through modulation of the relative phase of the LRAs. Phase switching and modulation techniques may be used to control more than two LRAs, and in other arrangements than a dual LRA, including, but not limited to architectures that have LRAs arranged in multiple directions in an array spanning, for example, the two dimensions of a plane, or three dimensions of physical space.
US11579693B2
An electronic device, while the electronic device is worn over a predefined portion of the user's body, displays, via a display generation component arranged on the electronic device opposite the predefined portion of the user's body, a graphical representation of an exterior view of a body part that corresponds to the predefined portion of the user's body. The electronic device detects a change in position of the electronic device with respect to the predefined portion of the user's body. The electronic device, in response to detecting the change in the position of the electronic device with respect to the predefined portion of the user's body, modifies the graphical representation of the exterior view of the body part that corresponds to predefined portion of the user's body in accordance with the detected change in position of the electronic device with respect to the predefined portion of the user's body.
US11579692B2
A human-computer interface system having an exoskeleton including a plurality of structural members coupled to one another by at least one articulation configured to apply a force to a body segment of a user, the exoskeleton comprising a body-borne portion and a point-of-use portion; the body-borne portion configured to be operatively coupled to the point-of-use portion; and at least one locomotor module including at least one actuator configured to actuate the at least one articulation, the at least one actuator being in operative communication with the exoskeleton.
US11579685B2
A portable device (e.g., a wireless device such as a cell phone) is provided with a flexible keyboard and a flexible display screen. Such flexible components may be stored in the housing of the portable device when not in use. The flexible display screen and flexible keyboard may be expanded from the housing when the flexible components are utilized by a user. Non-flexible display and input components may be provided on the exterior of the portable device such that the device may be used, in some form, while the flexible components are stored. In one embodiment, a portion of the flexible display (or flexible keyboard) may be utilized when the flexible display (or flexible keyboard) is stored in said first housing.
US11579682B2
A sensing apparatuses includes a sensor, a processing circuit that acquires sensor output information from the sensor, a communication circuit that transmits transmission information corresponding to the sensor output information, and a clocking circuit that generates time information. The communication circuit receives time information for correction before the processing circuit starts acquiring the sensor output information. The clocking circuit corrects the time information based on the time information for correction received by the communication circuit. The processing circuit starts acquiring the sensor output information based on the corrected time information.
US11579680B2
A method for power management based on synthetic machine learning benchmarks, including generating a record of synthetic machine learning benchmarks for synthetic machine learning models that are obtained by changing machine learning network topology parameters, receiving hardware information from a client device executing a machine learning program or preparing to execute a machine learning program, selecting a synthetic machine learning benchmark based on the correlation of the hardware information with the synthetic machine learning models, and determining work schedules based on the selected synthetic machine learning benchmark.
US11579676B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods that control power consumption in a processor are disclosed. One system apparatus, and method includes a processor that operates in at least a first power control mode including a first power amount and a second power control mode including a second power amount lower than the first power amount and a power control device. The power control device is configured to control power consumption in the processor, change a power control mode of the processor to the first power control mode in response to a first excess time period in which the power consumption of the processor exceeds a first reference power for a first period of time, and change the power control mode of the processor to the second power control mode in response to a second period of time in which the power consumption is less than or equal to a second reference power.
US11579670B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and provides an array substrate and a display panel. The array substrate is provided with a via hole and further includes an annular wiring area. The annular wiring area is located around the via hole and is provided with an incision extending toward an outer edge of the annular wiring area along an inner edge of the annular wiring area, and at least a portion of the annular wiring area is bent toward a side away from a display side along the inner edge.
US11579668B2
Example implementations relate to a host device and a method for thermal management of a removable device, such as a pluggable electronic transceiver comprising a plurality of spring fingers that provide multipoint contact conduction cooling of the removable device. The host device includes a host circuit board having a connector, and a thermal management unit having a cooling component and the plurality of spring fingers. The cooling component is coupled to a portion of the host circuit board and includes a partially protruded portion. Each of the plurality of spring fingers includes a first end coupled to the partially protruded portion, and a second end having a dry contact surface to establish a direct thermal interface with a peripheral surface of the removable device to allow waste-heat to transfer from the removable device to the cooling component through each spring finger.
US11579666B2
A control method for controlling terminal state switching includes a terminal obtaining first data of the terminal and second data from a wearable device that is bound to the terminal when receiving an unlocking instruction in a lock screen state. If the first data and the second data meet a preset condition, the terminal performs the operation of unlocking.
US11579663B1
A portable information handling system modular hybrid architecture separates components between rotationally coupled housing portions to minimize cabling, connectors and materials, and to provide improved durability that supports recycling and reuse of the components. For example, a plurality of housing cover configurations couple to housing portions of different dimensions with opposing couples and a common keystone element that, when installed, prevents separation of the opposing couplers. Removal of the keystone element provides ready access to the housing portion interior to recycle processing components, such as a secondary board having an embedded controller and charger and a battery interfaced with the secondary board.
US11579653B2
A docking station and a control method thereof are provided. The docking station includes a first USB interface, a second USB interface, a video signal output terminal, a microcontroller, a first signal multiplexer, a second signal multiplexer, a video signal processor, and a video signal converter. The microcontroller determines whether the first USB interface or the second USB interface is connected to an electronic device. When the first USB interface is connected to the electronic device, the microcontroller sets the first USB interface as an uplink port. The uplink port receives a signal from the electronic device, and selects and outputs a video signal through the signal. The video signal processor is configured to receive and process the video signal. The video signal converter converts the video signal into a video output signal that is capable of being output to the video signal output terminal for playing.
US11579650B2
A method and apparatus for synchronizing a time stamp counter (TSC) associated with a processor core in a computer system includes initializing the TSC associated with the processor core by synchronizing the TSC associated with the processor core with at least one other TSC in a hierarchy of TSCs. One or more processor cores are powered down. Upon powering up of the one or more processor cores, the TSC associated with the processor core is synchronized with the at least one other TSC in the hierarchy of TSCs.
US11579649B1
Apparatus and methods for clock duty cycle correction and deskew are provided. In certain embodiments, a clock distribution circuit includes a clock driver that provides a differential clock signal to a clock slicer over a pair of transmission lines. The clock distribution circuit further includes a resistor-inductor-capacitor (RLC) tuning circuit for providing termination between the pair of transmission lines and a differential input to the clock slicer. The RLC tuning circuit includes a pair of resistor digital-to-analog converters (resistor DACs or RDACs) coupled to the pair of transmission lines and a pair of controllable inductor-capacitor (LC) circuits coupled to the pair of transmission lines.
US11579647B2
A method for reducing and/or managing energy-related stress in an electrical system includes processing electrical measurement data from or derived from energy-related signals captured by at least one intelligent electronic device (IED) in the electrical system to identify and track at least one energy-related transient in the electrical system. An impact of the at least one energy-related transient on equipment in the electrical system is quantified, and one or more transient-related alarms are generated in response to the impact of the at least one energy-related transient being near, within or above a predetermined range of the stress tolerance of the equipment. The transient-related alarms are prioritized based in part on at least one of the stress tolerance of the equipment, the stress associated with one or more transient events, and accumulated energy-related stress on the equipment. One or more actions are taken in the electrical system in response to the transient-related alarms to reduce energy-related stress on the equipment in the electrical system.
US11579642B2
A power detection circuit for detecting powering down of a voltage domain in an integrated circuit is disclosed. The power detection circuit is placed in or near the voltage domain in the integrated circuit to provide power detection on the integrated circuit. The power detection circuit detects powering down of the voltage domain to provide an isolation enable signal to another voltage domain that interfaces with the powering down voltage domain. The isolation enable signal may be used by an isolation cell coupled to the non-powering down voltage domain to prevent corrupted logic being received from the powering down voltage domain.
US11579639B2
The present invention relates to systems and methods for improved building systems management and maintenance. The present invention provides a system for providing an augmented reality-like interface for the management and maintenance of building systems, specifically the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems within a building, including the heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems.
US11579633B1
Methods and systems for automatically deploying an autonomous drone from a vehicle in response to a triggering event or accident so that data associated with the triggering event or accident may be automatically obtained are described. In one embodiment, a method for deploying an autonomous drone in response to a triggering event is described. The method includes providing an autonomous drone in a vehicle. The method also includes detecting a triggering event associated with the vehicle. Upon detection of the triggering event, the method includes automatically deploying the autonomous drone from the vehicle. The method further includes implementing, by the autonomous drone, a plurality of automatic actions, including recording data associated with the vehicle in which the autonomous drone is provided.
US11579632B2
Embodiments described herein include a method of receiving, by a moving assisting vehicle, a calibration assistance request related to a moving ego vehicle that requested assistance in collaborative calibration of a sensor deployed on the moving ego vehicle. The method further includes analyzing the calibration assistance request to extract at least one of a schedule or an assistance route associated with the requested assistance. The method includes communicating with the moving ego vehicle about a desired location relative to the position of the moving ego vehicle for the moving assisting vehicle to be in order to assist the sensor to acquire information of a target present on the moving assisting vehicle. The method includes facilitating to drive the moving assisting vehicle to reach the desired location to achieve the collaborative calibration of the sensor on the moving ego vehicle.
US11579628B2
A method for localizing a vehicle comprises transmitting first position data related to a first position of the vehicle at a first point in time from the vehicle to a server. The server computes second position data related to the first position of the vehicle at the first point in time based on the received first position data. The server transmits the second position data from the server to the vehicle. The vehicle computes third position data related to a second position of the vehicle at a second point in time based on the received second position data. The second point in time is later than the first point in time.
US11579605B2
Systems and methods are provided for influential control over a driver's hand(s) that grip a vehicle's steering wheel. Upon issuing an autonomous control signal to control motive operation of the vehicle, an autonomous control system of the vehicle may further reinforce the application of the autonomous control signal by inducing the driver's hand(s) to grip/increase grip strength on the vehicle's steering wheel or by releasing the grip/decreasing grip strength on the vehicle's steering wheel. Moreover, the increasing/decreasing of the driver's grip may alternatively, or in addition to the reinforcement aspect, induce augmentative or intervening action(s)/behavior(s) by the driver.
US11579604B2
A multirotor aircraft that includes a chassis, three or more vertical rotors, one or more free wings and one or more fixed horizontal rotor. The free wing is attached to the chassis by an axial connection so that the angle of the free wing is changed relative to the chassis according the flow of air over the free wing. The fixed horizontal rotor enables the multirotor aircraft to lower and climb while flying forward at a stable horizontal pitch of the chassis.
US11579603B2
A particle size tracking system for providing predictive maintenance and battery tuning of hydrocyclones arranged in a battery configuration, featuring a control having a signal processor configured to: receive signaling containing information about particle sizes of material flowing in pipes of hydrocyclones arranged in a battery configuration; and determine corresponding signaling containing information to control the operation of each hydrocyclone arranged in the battery configuration, based upon the signaling received. The signal processor may be configured to provide the corresponding signal as control signaling to control the operation of each hydrocyclone arranged in the battery configuration.
US11579602B2
A method of commissioning or maintenance an alarm system is provided. The method including: receiving a fault report including one or more faults from an alarm system; categorizing the one or more faults; prioritizing the one or more faults into a list of highest priority; determining a first root cause of a first fault of the one or more faults in response to at least one of an alarm system configuration of the alarm system, a device mapping of the alarm system, and an event history of the alarm system; providing instructions, via a user interface, regarding how to resolve the first fault in response to the first root cause; and detecting whether the first fault is resolved.
US11579592B2
A component security device may be disposed at an interface between a component and a cyber-physical system. The disclosed component security device may be physically and/or electrically coupled between the component and infrastructure of the cyber-physical system, such as a backplane, bus, and/or the like. The component security device may be configured to monitor the component, and selectively isolate the component from the cyber-physical system. Since the component security device is interposed at the interface of the component, the component security device may be capable of isolating the component regardless of whether the component has been compromised (e.g., regardless of whether the component is capable of complying with system commands).
US11579576B2
Sub-systems of air handling units in infrastructures face unresolved problem of conflict in the rules that activate in a contradictory manner at the same time resulting in sub-optimal performance of the subsystems. The present disclosure provides a system and method for optimizing performance parameters of air handling units in infrastructures. Rule sets having conflicting conditions are identified after verification of rules which are specific to air handling units. Further, frequency of the rule sets having conflicting conditions is determined to generate a ranked list of the rule sets having conflicting conditions. Another ranking procedure is implemented for the rules comprised in the ranked list of the rule sets having conflicting conditions. The system dynamically optimizes one or more parameters specific to the performance criteria based on the ranking of rules.
US11579567B2
A dial includes a ring in the form of an annular plate, a central disc mounted in a concentric and essentially coplanar manner with respect to the ring, the diameter of the central disc being less than the internal diameter of the ring so as to form an annular area between the two, and a transparent part which covers the annular area. Further, the transparent part is fixed to the central disc and to the ring to secure these elements to each other. The dial can be used in a timepiece with a universal time display and makes it possible to mount a twenty-four hour disc underneath the dial, and to view the markings on the twenty-four disc through the transparent part.
US11579564B2
A cartridge includes a frame and a photosensitive drum rotatably supported by the frame. An opening is provided in the cartridge, with toner removed from the photosensitive drum being discharged to outside of the cartridge through the opening. A discharging passageway is provided in fluid communication with the opening and through which toner can move to the opening. A coupling member is provided inside the discharging passageway, with the coupling member including a projection at an end of the coupling member, and the coupling member being movable along the discharging passageway between a first position and a second position.
US11579561B2
A cartridge includes a photosensitive drum, a developing roller, and a casing rotatably supporting the photosensitive drum and the developing roller. The casing includes a groove open to outside of the casing. The casing also includes first and second projected parts that project from the first end portion of the casing in the direction of a rotational axis of the photosensitive drum and away from the photosensitive drum. As seen in the direction of the rotational axis of the photosensitive drum, the rotational axis of the photosensitive drum and the groove are positioned along a line in the extended direction, with the first projected part being positioned on one side of the line and the second projected part being positioned on the other side of the line. A first end of the groove and a second end of the groove are open such that the groove forms a channel in the casing along the extended direction.
US11579560B2
A driving force transmission mechanism is a mechanism for transmitting rotational force of the second rotor having a driving-side coupling to a first rotor having a driven-side coupling. The driving-side coupling includes a body and a plurality of second engaging members engaging with first engaging members of the driven-side coupling, each of the plurality of second engaging members has at an abutting point on an abutting surface of a corresponding first engaging member a first inclined surface inclined so as to be away from a rotation axis of the body from a downstream side toward an upstream side in a rotation direction of the body.
US11579559B2
An image forming apparatus includes a housing, a drum cartridge, a developing cartridge including a developing roller and movable between a contact position and a spaced position, a first spacing member configured to move the developing cartridge between the contact position and the spaced position, a first cam configured to move the first spacing member, and a lock member movable between a lock position at which the photoconductive drum is locked to the housing and a lock releasing position at which the lock of the photoconductive drum with respect to the housing is released. The lock member is configured to move from the lock releasing position to the lock position by being pushed by the first spacing member.
US11579555B2
A cylinder member includes: a cylinder body having a cylindrical shape; a sheet member wound on the cylinder body; a first attachment portion provided at one end portion of the sheet member in a circumferential direction, the first attachment portion being detachably attached to the cylinder body; and a second attachment portion provided at the other end portion of the sheet member in the circumferential direction, the second attachment portion being detachably attached to the cylinder body.
US11579546B2
An imaging system includes a transfer belt that is rotatable, a transfer roller that contacts the transfer belt, and a conductive device that contacts a surface of the transfer roller, to supply a bias to the transfer roller. The transfer roller has a hollow portion.
US11579532B2
In corner sections of first to fourth quadrants whose origin point is a center of an upper surface of a stage, three each of two-dimensional heads are provided. The three each of two-dimensional heads include one first head and two second heads. The stage is driven, while measuring a position of the stage using three first heads that face a two-dimensional grating of a scale plate provided above the stage from the four first heads, and during the driving, difference data of measurement values of the two second heads with respect to the first head in a measurement direction are taken in for head groups to which the three first heads belong, respectively, and using the difference data, grid errors are calibrated.
US11579528B2
An actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition includes a resin whose solubility in an aqueous alkali solution increases by the action of an acid, a compound that generates an acid upon irradiation with actinic rays or radiation, an ester compound, and a fluorine-containing polymer, in which the ester compound has alkali decomposability and has a molecular weight of 50 or more and less than 1,500.
US11579526B2
A chemically-amplified negative resist composition includes: (A) a quencher containing an onium salt shown by the following formula (A-1); (B) a base polymer containing repeating units shown by the following formulae (B1) and (B2); and (C) a photo-acid generator which generates an acid. Thus, the present invention provides: a negative resist composition which can form a favorable profile with high sensitivity and low LWR and CDU in a pattern; and a resist patterning process using the composition.
US11579519B2
A light source device according to the present disclosure includes a first light source section for emitting a first light flux, a second light source section for emitting a second light flux, a third light source section for emitting a third light flux, a first reflecting member, a second reflecting member for reflecting the second light flux, and a polarization combining element. With respect to the polarization combining element, the first light flux and the second light flux are light polarized in a first polarization direction, and the third light flux is light polarized in a second polarization direction, and the first and second reflecting members are disposed so that a distance between the first light flux and second light flux becomes smaller after incidence than before the incidence. The polarization combining element combines the first light flux, the second light flux, and the third light flux with each other.
US11579516B2
A camera includes an image sensor, a heat diffuser, and a heat spreader. The heat spreader includes a heat source coupled to the image sensor, an arm coupled to the heat source and the heat diffuser, and a heat exchange coupled with the heat source and the arm. A system includes a camera and a heat spreader coupled with the camera. The system includes a stabilizer coupled with the heat spreader and an electronics assembly coupled with the stabilizer. A heat controller for an imaging device that includes a flexible arm and a heat source coupled to the flexible arm that absorbs heat from the imaging device. The heat controller includes a heat exchange coupled to the flexible arm that transfers the heat away from the imaging device via the flexible arm.
US11579504B2
A thin film transistor array substrate includes an insulating substrate, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of common electrodes, and a common electrode layer. The insulating substrate defines a plurality of sub-pixel area arranged into a sub-pixel array including a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. The plurality of data lines extend in a direction of the columns in the sub-pixel array. The plurality of common electrodes extend in the direction of the columns in the sub-pixel array. At least two of the plurality of data lines are between adjacent common electrodes of the plurality of common electrodes, and the plurality of common electrodes are applied with a same voltage. The common electrode layer is on the insulating substrate and the common electrodes are connected to different locations of the common electrode layer.
US11579493B2
A display device includes: a display area including a plurality of pixels; a first peripheral area disposed at one side of the display area; and a second peripheral area disposed at the opposite side of the display area, wherein a first column spacer is disposed in the display area, a second column spacer is disposed in the first peripheral area, and a third column spacer is disposed in the second peripheral area. The patterns of an exposure mask utilized in the first peripheral area in which the second column spacer is disposed and the second peripheral area in which the third column spacer is disposed may be different from each other.
US11579482B2
According to an aspect, a display device includes: an array substrate having a display region provided with a plurality of signal lines arranged with spaces in a first direction and a plurality of scanning lines arranged with spaces in a second direction; a counter substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the array substrate and the counter substrate; and a light source disposed so as to cause light to enter a side surface of the array substrate or a side surface of the counter substrate. The counter substrate is provided with a light-blocking layer. In a plan view, the light-blocking layer overlaps either of the signal lines and the scanning lines, and the other of the signal lines and the scanning lines each have a non-overlapping portion that does not overlap the light-blocking layer.
US11579476B2
A display device includes a display panel including a display surface having a Lambertian light emission distribution, and a viewing angle modulator disposed on the display panel. The viewing angle modulator includes a first refractive layer including a diffraction structure on a surface, a refractive index conversion layer disposed on the first refractive layer and including an electro-optical material having a refractive index that changes when a voltage is applied to the electro-optical material, and a second refractive layer disposed on the refractive index conversion layer. The refractive index conversion layer includes a base layer, and an optical structure disposed on the base layer that changes a path of light incident on a surface facing the second refractive layer.
US11579474B2
Provided are a polarization imaging apparatus, a polarization imaging method, a controller and a computer readable storage medium. The polarization imaging apparatus includes an optical rotation device, a lens device, an image sensor, an image processor, and a controller which are sequentially arranged along a ray direction of incident light. The controller is configured to control the optical rotation device to be in a first optical rotation state or a second optical rotation state, control the lens device to be in an in-focus state or an out-of-focus state, and control the image sensor to collect light passing through the optical rotation device and the lens device to obtain multiple images. The image processor is configured to obtain polarized image information according to the multiple images.
US11579473B2
A display device includes a display panel including: a display area at which an image is displayed and a bezel area which is adjacent to the display area, and a pixel including a pixel circuit and a light emitting layer, the pixel circuit defining a stacked structure; a window; and a pattern film between the display panel and the window, the pattern film including: a first film including a first area and a second area which respectively correspond to the display area and the bezel area of the display panel, and a pattern layer on the second film in the second area thereof. The pattern layer of the pattern film includes a same stacked structure as the stacked structure defined by the pixel circuit of the display panel.
US11579470B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include eyewear that has one or more laminates applied to a lens body. In some embodiments, the lens body is constructed from a substantially rigid material having a curved shape. The lens body can have any desired curvature, including, for example, cylindrical, spherical or toroidal. A laminate can include a substantially flexible substrate and one or more functional layers or coatings applied to the substrate. In addition, one or more functional layers or coatings can be applied directly to the lens body. In certain embodiments, a bonding layer bonds a laminate to a convex and/or concave surface of the lens body. Examples of functional layers or coatings that can be applied to a laminate include anti-reflection coatings, interference stacks, hard coatings, flash mirrors, anti-static coatings, anti-fog coatings, other functional layers, or a combination of functional layers.
US11579462B2
There are provided a reflecting module for optical image stabilization (OIS) and a camera module including the same. The reflecting module for OIS includes a housing to which a board is coupled, the housing including an opening, a moving holder disposed in an internal space of the housing, an elastic member fixedly coupled to the housing to support the moving holder so that the moving holder is movable, a reflecting member provided on the movable holder, and a driving part including a plurality of magnets provided on the moving holder, and a plurality of coils provided on the board and respectively opposing the plurality of magnets, wherein the plurality of coils are disposed to oppose the plurality of magnets through the opening.
US11579461B1
Various embodiments include perimeter sheet spring suspension arrangements for cameras. A perimeter sheet spring suspension arrangement may be used to suspend a moveable platform of the camera from a base structure of the camera, and allow a lens group of the camera to move laterally. According to some embodiments, the perimeter sheet spring suspension arrangement may include one or more tabs that may be used as bumpers that cushion lateral movement of the moveable platform.
US11579453B2
There is provided an optical device, including an input aperture, an output aperture, at least first and second light-transmitting substrates each having two major surfaces and edges, an input surface for coupling light waves into the substrate for effecting total internal reflection inside the substrate, and an output surface for coupling light waves out of the substrate, a major surface of the first substrate is attached to a major surface of the second substrate and the input surface of the first substrate is a partially reflecting surface, such that part of the light waves passing through the input aperture is partially reflected by the partially reflecting input surface and coupled into the first substrate and another part passes through the partially reflecting input surface and is coupled by the input surface of the second substrate into the second substrate.
US11579449B2
Systems and methods are provided for facilitating computer vision tasks (e.g., simultaneous location and mapping) and pass-through imaging include a head-mounted display (HMD) that includes a first set of one or more cameras configured for performing computer vision tasks and a second set of one or more cameras configured for capturing image data of an environment for projection to a user of the HMD. The first set of one or more cameras is configured to detect at least a visible spectrum light and at least a particular band of wavelengths of infrared (IR) light. The second set of one or more cameras includes one or more detachable IR filters configured to attenuate IR light, including at least a portion of the particular band of wavelengths of IR light.
US11579442B2
Methods and systems for determining an individual gaze value are disclosed herein. An exemplary method involves: (a) receiving gaze data for a first wearable computing device, wherein the gaze data is indicative of a wearer-view associated with the first wearable computing device, and wherein the first wearable computing device is associated with a first user-account; (b) analyzing the gaze data from the first wearable computing device to detect one or more occurrences of one or more advertisement spaces in the gaze data; (c) based at least in part on the one or more detected advertisement-space occurrences, determining an individual gaze value for the first user-account; and (d) sending a gaze-value indication, wherein the gaze-value indication indicates the individual gaze value for the first user-account.
US11579440B2
Some embodiments may include a method assessing whether a dynamic focus module in a three axis galvanometric scanning system (three-axis GSS) is associated with a focus calibration error. The method may include identifying a reference layer associated with a surface of the work piece and positive and negative offset distances each a difference distance above or below the reference layer, respectively, and selecting a target pattern based on the offset distances, wherein the pattern includes an individual line for each offset distance. The method may include commanding the three-axis GSS to draw the target pattern on the work piece, and then assessing whether the dynamic focus module is associated with the focus calibration error by correlating laser marking artifacts on the work piece to ones of the individual lines of the selected pattern. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.
US11579431B2
A main body of a viewing optic comprising at least one void in the main body.
US11579425B1
An optical assembly includes at least one substrate that provides a first curved surface and a second surface. The optical assembly also includes a beam splitter on the first curved surface, a reflector on the second surface, and an optical retarder disposed between the beam splitter and the reflector. The optical assembly is configured to transmit the first light through the optical assembly at a first optical power. The optical assembly is also configured to transmit second light through peripheral portions of the optical assembly at a second optical power that is less than the first optical power. The first light includes light having a first polarization and wavelengths within a predetermined wavelength range. The second light includes light having wavelengths within the predetermined wavelength range and a second polarization orthogonal to the first polarization, as well as light having wavelengths outside the predetermined wavelength range.
US11579420B2
A wide-angle lens includes a front group, an aperture, a rear group, and an infrared cut filter. The front group includes a first lens and a second lens arranged in order from a side closest to an object to an image side. In the wide-angle lens, an anti-reflection layer having a reflectance of 1.5% or less in a wavelength range from nm to 850 nm is provided on a lens surface of the first lens on the image side to suppress an occurrence of a ghost caused by light passing through a peripheral portion of the lens surface. Therefore, even if a film forming the anti-reflection layer is thinner than an appropriate value at the peripheral portion of the lens surface, the anti-reflection layer appropriately prevents reflection of light in a long wavelength range.
US11579412B2
A photographing lens assembly includes a total of eight lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element and an eighth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The eighth lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. At least one lens element of the photographing lens assembly has at least one lens surface having at least one inflection point.
US11579411B2
An imaging lens and an imaging apparatus capable of acquiring a long-distance object image at high resolution and capable of acquiring a short-distance object image in a wide range while, as a whole, being configured small. In order to achieve the object, an imaging lens according to the present invention is an imaging lens consisting of n (n is a natural number equal to or larger than six) lenses including a first lens having negative refractive power and a second lens having positive refractive power in order from an object side and including an n-th lens having negative refractive power and an n−1-th lens having positive refractive power in order from an image side, the imaging lens satisfying a predetermined conditional expression.
US11579410B2
The present application discloses a camera lens assembly, the camera lens assembly, from an object side to an image side, sequentially including a first lens group and a second lens group, wherein the first lens group includes a first lens and a second lens; the second lens group includes at least a third lens; a filter is provided between the second lens group and the image side; and a radius of curvature of an object side surface of the first lens R1 and a radius of curvature of an image side surface of the first lens R2 satisfy: 0.5
US11579404B2
An imaging lens includes first, second, third, fourth, fifth and six lens elements arranged in order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. Each of the lens element has a thickness along the optical axis. Two of thicknesses of the first to the fourth lens elements along the optical axis are the thickest and the second thickest among the abovementioned six lens elements, respectively.
US11579403B2
A bipod flexure mount couples an optic to a base while isolating the optic from strain to resist wavefront error. The bipod flexure mount has a distal attachment pad to be coupled to the optic and a proximal attachment pad to be coupled to the base. A pair of beams extend between and couple the distal and proximal attachment pads. The distal attachment pad, the proximal attachment pad and the pair of beams are disposed in and define a planar layer with opposite planar surfaces that are substantially parallel. The bipod flexure mount is relatively flexible about four degrees of freedom and is relatively stiff about two degrees of freedom.
US11579390B2
A fiber distribution device includes a swing frame chassis pivotally mounted to a support structure. At least a first optical splitter module is mounted to the swing frame chassis. Pigtails having connectorized ends are carried by the swing frame chassis and have portions that are routed generally vertically on the swing frame chassis. An optical termination field includes fiber optic adapters carried by the swing frame chassis. The fiber optic adapters are configured to receive the connectorized ends of the pigtails.
US11579383B2
A waveguide including a multimode optical fiber joined to a structure for concentrating the guided modes spatially. The concentrating structure exhibits an adiabatic variation in its transverse dimension dpc in the direction of its exit face, and its transverse dimension dpc has a value dpc,in at least equal to a value dfc of the transverse dimension dfc of the core of the multimode optical fiber at the second face thereof.
US11579382B2
A large scale, non-blocking fiber optic cross-connect system consists of multiple stages, including a central multifiber per connection system. The number of ports of this cross-connect system scales to over 10,000, in an incremental, modular, field expandable approach. Two separate arrays of “edge” cross-connect systems using KBS methodology are positioned on opposite sides of a central core cross-connect system, wherein the core system is comprised of switchable blocks of multi-fiber trunk lines, each terminated in a single connector that is reconfigurable by robotic means. The trunk lines between edge cross-connects are controlled by a trunk line management system to provision/deprovision blocks of multiple connections at a time in a “core” cross-connect circuit block between edge cross- connects. The core system is configured to controllably interconnect the physically separate edge cross-connect systems which concurrently direct data along selected paths to and from the central core circuit block.
US11579380B2
A connector includes a body and a cap configured to be threadedly coupled with the body. The body is configured to receive a fiber optic cable therein and to be coupled with a sub-assembly of a fiber optic connector, an inner surface of the body includes an annularly-extending ridge that protrudes radially inward, and the body is configured to be radially compressed on a jacket of the fiber optic cable when the cap is threadedly coupled with the body.
US11579376B2
A cleaning tool includes a tool body and an extension part that extends from the tool body and that includes: a head that presses a cleaning element onto a cleaning target on a pressing surface; an inner guide part through which the head is inserted; and an outer guide part through which the inner guide part is inserted. When cleaning a first optical connector, an outer peripheral portion of the outer guide part guides the head with respect to a ferrule endface of the first optical connector. When cleaning a second optical connector that includes a housing having a different shape from a shape of a housing of the first optical connector, the outer guide part retracts and the inner guide part is exposed toward the second optical connector.
US11579375B2
A unitary optical ferrule is molded to include one or more elements for receiving and securing one or more optical waveguides one or more elements for affecting one or more characteristics of light from the optical waveguide while propagating the light within the ferrule. The optical ferrule also includes one or more first alignment features and one or more second alignment features that, when the ferrule is mated with a mating ferrule, each controls alignment of the ferrule with the mating ferrule along three mechanical degrees of freedom. The surface of the optical ferrule can be divided along the thickness axis into a first section and an opposing second section, wherein the first section of the surface includes the receiving and securing elements, the light affecting elements, and the first alignment features and the second section of the surface includes the second alignment features.
US11579365B2
A waveguide grating. The waveguide grating includes a rib composed of a first material. A first portion of the waveguide has a first layer on the rib, the first layer being composed of a second material; and a second layer on the first layer, the second layer being composed of a third material, the third material having a higher index of refraction than the first material.
US11579361B2
An electro-optical chip includes an optical input port, an optical output port, and an optical waveguide having a first end optically connected to the optical input port and a second end optically connected to the optical output port. The optical waveguide includes one or more segments. Different segments of the optical waveguide extends in either a horizontal direction, a vertical direction, a direction between horizontal and vertical, or a curved direction. The electro-optical chip also includes a plurality of optical microring resonators is positioned along at least one segment of the optical waveguide. Each microring resonator of the plurality of optical microring resonators is optically coupled to a different location along the optical waveguide. The electro-optical chip also includes electronic circuitry for controlling a resonant wavelength of each microring resonator of the plurality of optical microring resonators.
US11579358B2
An optical fiber comprises a glass fiber comprising a core and a cladding, and a coating resin layer, wherein the coating resin layer has a primary resin layer being in contact with the glass fiber and coating the glass fiber, and a secondary resin layer coating the primary resin layer, and the primary resin layer and the secondary resin layer are resin layers containing inorganic oxide particles.
US11579356B2
An integrated optical system includes a wavelength tunable optical source and a photonic integrated circuit (PIC). The PIC includes a set of spatial waveguide switches having an input optically coupled to the wavelength tunable optical source and a plurality of outputs. The PIC also includes an optical emitter having a plurality of inputs, each being coupled to a respective one of the plurality of outputs of the set of spatial waveguide switches, the optical emitter configured to produce at an output an optical beam having a wavelength dependent emission direction that changes as light is switched by the set of spatial waveguide switches such that the optical beam may be steered in two dimensions.
US11579347B2
Provided are semiconductor particles including a Group 12-16 semiconductor including a Group 12 element and a Group 16 element, a Group 13-15 semiconductor including a Group 13 element and a Group 15 element, or a Group 14 semiconductor including a Group 14 element, the semiconductor particles having a plasma frequency of 1.7×1014 rad/s to 4.7×1014 rad/s and a maximum length of 1 nm to 2,000 nm; and a dispersion, a film, an optical filter, a building member, or a radiant cooling device, in all of which the semiconductor particles are used.
US11579341B2
A lens (10) and a camera module (100) and a manufacturing method thereof, wherein the lens (10) comprises an edge-cut lens sheet (114), wherein the edge-cut lens sheet (14) includes at least one chord edge (1141) and at least one circular edge (1142), wherein the chord edge (1141) and the circular edge (1142) are adjacently connected to each other, and wherein the chord edge (1141) and the circular edge (1142) have different curvatures, so that the lens sheet (114) becomes narrow and the width of the lens (10) become narrow, to form an ultra-narrow camera module (100).
US11579328B2
A drive-through scanning system comprises a radiation generating means arranged to generate radiation at two different energy levels and direct it towards a scanning volume, detection means arranged to detect the radiation after it has passed through the scanning volume, and control means arranged to identify a part of a vehicle within the scanning volume, to allocate the part of the vehicle to one of a plurality of categories, and to control the radiation generating means and to select one or more of the energy levels depending on the category to which the part of the vehicle is allocated.
US11579324B2
A method for determining the relative position of a metal object in relation to a user device and to a transmitter antenna of an inductive charging support when charging the user device. The method includes measuring the quality factor of the transmitter antenna, measuring the quality factor of the receiver antenna, and comparing the measured quality factor of the transmitter antenna with a predetermined quality factor threshold of the transmitter antenna and comparing the measured quality factor of the receiver antenna with a predetermined quality factor threshold of the receiver antenna so as to deduce therefrom the relative position of the metal object in relation to the user device and to the transmitter antenna or the absence of an interfering metal object.
US11579319B2
A nuclear radiation detector is disclosed. The detector includes a housing including therein: a scintillator; and a multi-pixel optical sensor positioned, relative to the scintillator, to receive photons emitted by the scintillator in response to interactions with nuclear radiation. The housing isolates the scintillator and the multi-pixel optical sensor from external light. The detector includes one or more processors operably connectable to the multi-pixel optical sensor; and one or more data stores coupled to the processors having instructions stored thereon which cause the processors to perform operations. The operations include: responsive to the multi-pixel optical sensor detecting photons emitted by the scintillator, receiving, from the multi-pixel optical sensor, data signals indicating 1) spatial locations of individual pixels that detected the photons and 2) temporal data indicating when the detections occurred; and generating, from the data signals, a spatially and temporally resolved image of radiation incident on the scintillator.
US11579317B2
The invention refers to a detector based on 3D geometry made from a hydrogenated amorphous silicon substrate. This detector finds application in the detection of ionizing radiation.
US11579314B2
A traffic radar system comprises a first radar transceiver, a second radar transceiver, a speed determining element, and a processing element. The first radar transceiver transmits and receives radar beams and generates a first electronic signal corresponding to the received radar beam. The second radar transceiver transmits and receives radar beams and generates a second electronic signal corresponding to the received radar beam. The speed determining element determines and outputs a speed of the patrol vehicle. The processing element is configured to receive a plurality of digital data samples derived from the first or second electronic signals, receive the speed of the patrol vehicle, process the digital data samples to determine a relative speed of at least one target vehicle in the front zone or the rear zone, and convert the relative speed of the target vehicle to an absolute speed using the speed of the patrol vehicle.
US11579298B2
The present exemplary embodiments provide a hybrid sensor, a Lidar sensor, and a moving object which generate composite data by mapping distance information on an obstacle obtained through the Lidar sensor to image information on an obstacle obtained through an image sensor and predict distance information of composite data based on intensity information of a pixel, to generate precise composite data.
US11579295B2
The invention relates to the ascertaining of the maximum range of a LIDAR sensor (2). According to the invention, there is provision, to this end, for a method of operation for a LIDAR sensor (2) having the following steps: sending a LIDAR signal (4) at a predetermined normal power and receiving a back-scattered component of the LIDAR signal (4) with a predetermined normal sensitivity to ascertain the distance of objects (11, 12, 13, 14) present in the surroundings scanned by the LIDAR sensor (2) in a normal mode, characterized by repeated interruption of the normal mode by a test mode, wherein the test mode comprises the following steps: sending a LIDAR signal (4) at a test power, which is decreased by a predetermined amount in comparison with the predetermined normal power, and/or receiving the back-scattered component of the LIDAR signal (4) with a test sensitivity, which is decreased by a predetermined amount in comparison with the predetermined normal sensitivity, and ascertaining a value for the maximum range of the LIDAR sensor (2) that is available in the normal mode of the LIDAR sensor (2) on the basis of the distance, ascertained in the normal mode, of objects (13, 14) that are no longer detected in the test mode. This provides such an opportunity to ascertain the maximum range of a LIDAR sensor (2) as can be utilized simply, reliably and inexpensively.
US11579286B2
Deep learning to improve or gauge the performance of a surface-penetrating radar (SPR) system for localization or navigation. A vehicle may employ a terrain monitoring system including SPR for obtaining SPR signals as the vehicle travels along a route. An on-board computer including a processor and electronically stored instructions, executable by the processor, may analyze the acquired SPR images and computationally identify subsurface structures therein by using the acquired image as input to a predictor that has been computationally trained to identify subsurface structures in SPR images.
US11579285B2
The present disclosure provides an intelligent roadside unit. The intelligent roadside unit includes: a radar configured to detect an obstacle within a first preset range of the intelligent roadside unit; a camera configured to capture an image of a second preset range of the intelligent roadside unit; a master processor coupled to the radar and the camera, and configured to generate a point cloud image according to information on the obstacle detected by the radar and the image detected by the camera; and a slave processor coupled to the radar and the camera, and configured to generate a point cloud image according to the information on the obstacle detected by the radar and the image detected by the camera, in which the slave processor checks the master processor, and when the original master processor breaks down, it is switched from the master processor to the slave processor.
US11579284B2
A radar system is provided that includes transmission signal generation circuitry, a transmit channel coupled to the transmission generation circuitry to receive a continuous wave test signal, the transmit channel configurable to output a test signal based on the continuous wave signal in which a phase angle of the test signal is changed in discrete steps within a phase angle range, a receive channel coupled to the transmit channel via a feedback loop to receive the test signal, the receive channel including an in-phase (I) channel and a quadrature (Q) channel, a statistics collection module configured to collect energy measurements of the test signal output by the I channel and the test signal output by the Q channel at each phase angle, and a processor configured to estimate phase and gain imbalance of the I channel and the Q channel based on the collected energy measurements.
US11579283B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for determining the position of objects in two-dimensional space having a first dimension and a second dimension, the direction vector of which is orthogonal to the direction vector of the first dimension, containing at least one transmitter (I) having at least one transmitting antenna (3) and an imaging receiver circuit (2) having at least one receiving antenna array (Rx Array) with rows (6) of receiving antennas for scanning the first dimension by means of digital beam shaping, wherein the receiving antenna array has a linear array, a sparse array or an array with an enlarged aperture, and wherein the rows (6) of receiving antennas in the receiving antenna array of the receiver circuit (2) are linearly arranged in the first dimension according to a curve function or according to the contour of a two-dimensional geometric object and are spread out in the second dimension, and to a method using the apparatus.
US11579282B2
A radar system is provided that includes a radar transceiver integrated circuit (IC) configurable to transmit a first frame of chirps, and another radar transceiver IC configurable to transmit a second frame of chirps at a time delay ΔT, wherein ΔT=Tc/K, K≥2 and Tc is an elapsed time from a start of one chirp in the first frame and the second frame and a start of a next chirp in the first frame and the second frame, wherein the radar system is configured to determine a velocity of an object in a field of view of the radar system based on first digital intermediate frequency signals generated responsive to receiving reflected chirps of the first frame and second digital IF signals generated responsive to receiving reflected chirps of the time delayed second frame, wherein the maximum measurable velocity is increased by a factor of K.
US11579277B2
A position detection system includes: a first device that is separate from a moving object, and is provided such that a position of the first device can be specified; and a second device that is mounted on the moving object. One of the first and second devices includes a first signal transmission unit that transmits a first first-signal, the other of the first and second devices includes a first signal reception unit that receives the first first-signal, one of the first and second devices includes a second signal transmission unit that transmits a first second-signal, and the other of the first and second devices includes a second signal reception unit that receives the first second-signal.
US11579271B2
A LIDAR noise removal apparatus and a LIDAR noise removal method thereof are provided. The apparatus includes a LIDAR detection information processor that processes LIDAR detection information received from a LIDAR of a vehicle. A sun position acquirer acquires an azimuth angle and elevation angle of the sun relative to a traveling direction of the vehicle. An ROI selector selects an ROI corresponding to the sun from a front image of the vehicle based on the azimuth angle and elevation angle and compares a brightness of the selected ROI with a threshold value. A noise region selector selects a noise region corresponding to the ROI from the LIDAR detection information based on the azimuth angle and elevation angle when the brightness of the ROI exceeds the threshold value, and a noise remover removes noise points in the selected noise region.
US11579266B2
A lightweight, inexpensive LADAR sensor incorporating 3-D focal plane arrays is adapted specifically for modular manufacture and rapid field configurability and provisioning. The sensor generates, at high speed, 3-D image maps and object data at short to medium ranges. The techniques and structures described may be used to extend the range of long range systems as well, though the focus is on compact, short to medium range ladar sensors suitable for use in multi-sensor television production systems and 3-D graphics capture and moviemaking. 3-D focal plane arrays are used in a variety of physical configurations to provide useful new capabilities.
US11579263B2
Disclosed is a time-of-flight sensing apparatus and method. In one embodiment, a system for time-of-flight (TOF) sensing, comprising: a detector array comprising a plurality of single-photon avalanche detectors (SPADs); and a control circuit comprising at least two digital control arrays coupled to the detector array, a counter array coupled to the at least two digital control arrays, and a logical control unit coupled to the counter array and the at least two digital control arrays, wherein the detector array is configured to receive at least one reflected light pulse from a target, wherein a first digital control array, the counter array, and the logical control unit of the control circuit are configured to receive at least one avalanche pulses from each of the plurality of SPADs to determine a first distance between the detector array and the target in a first TOF mode, and wherein a second digital control array, the counter array, and the logical control unit of the control circuit are configured to receive the at least one avalanche pulse from the each of the plurality of SPADs to determine a second distance between the detector array and the target in a second TOF mode.
US11579262B2
An operating method for a LIDAR system that is operable by pulse sequence encoding and designed with a SPAD-based detector element, in which a down time of the SPAD-based detector element is detected, and in the transmission mode of the LiDAR system, a minimum time interval of transmission pulses of primary light to be transmitted in direct chronological succession is dimensioned in such a way that the minimum time interval at least approximately corresponds to the down time.
US11579259B2
A laser scanner that includes a transmission path and a reception path that is spatially separate from the transmission path, at least in areas. In the laser scanner, the transmission path and the reception path meet on opposite sides of an angularly movable deflection mirror of the laser scanner. An angular position of the deflection mirror in the transmission path defines a scan angle of a laser light of the laser scanner, and the angular position in the reception path compensates for an incidence angle of a reflection of the laser light.
US11579256B2
A light detection and ranging system includes synchronously scanning transmit and receive mirrors that scan a pulsed fanned laser beam in two dimensions. Imaging optics image a receive aperture onto an arrayed receiver that includes a plurality of light sensitive devices. A phase offset may be injected into a scanning trajectory to mitigate effects of interfering light sources.
US11579249B2
A radar detection method may include: transmitting a first radar signal in a field of view and receiving a second radar signal originated from reflections of the first radar signal in the field of view; generating a detection profile by processing the first and second radar signals, the detection profile representing intensities of the second radar signal as a function of positions in the field of view; and analyzing the detection profile to identify targets in the field of view. Analyzing the detection profile may include: using a first mode of analysis, with lower sensitivity, for first cycles, wherein the first mode of analysis is configured to detect a target entering the field of view; using a second mode of analysis, with higher sensitivity, for second cycles following the first cycles, wherein the second mode of analysis is configured to detect stay of the target in the field of view.
US11579247B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a simplified solution for proximity detection of an object in a wireless communication that does not require complex hardware to maintain mutual coupling reference signal. Specifically, in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure, the received signal that may include the mutual coupling signal and target signal may be multiplied by itself to extract the delay information associated with the target signal. The techniques outlined here may provide a greater robustness to variations of mutual coupling induced by phone covers, for example, being added by the user.
US11579244B2
An apparatus is disclosed for multiplexing radar beat signals. In an example aspect, the apparatus includes an antenna array and a wireless transceiver jointly configured to transmit a radar transmit signal and receive two or more radar receive signals. The two or more radar receive signals represent portions of the radar transmit signal that are reflected by an object. The wireless transceiver comprises a radio-frequency integrated circuit with two or more receive chains and a multiplexing circuit. Each one of the two or more receive chains is configured to generate a radar beat signal by downconverting a respective radar receive signal of the two or more radar receive signals using the radar transmit signal. The multiplexing circuit is coupled to the two or more receive chains and is configured to multiplex the two or more radar beat signals together to generate a composite radar beat signal.
US11579243B2
A device for emitting and receiving electromagnetic radiation, in which different antennas are used for the emitting and receiving, a first antenna or first group being used for the transmission in a first polarization form, a second antenna or second group being used for the transmission in a second polarization form, and a third antenna or third group being used for receiving the reflected electromagnetic radiation that was emitted by the first antenna or first group and by the second antenna or second group. The device may be fixed in place on a motor vehicle and used for object detection within the framework of a distance and speed control or a collision avoidance, and the polarimetric information obtained from the different receiving levels during the propagation of the two differently polarized electromagnetic waves via different propagation paths is able to be used for ascertaining a weather-related road condition.
US11579240B2
An instrument (20) determines the attitude of a spacecraft (3) on which it is mounted, by interacting incident light (11) from the Sun with one or more light conditioning elements (12) and thereby forming a diffraction pattern at a photo-sensitive detector (13). The intensity distribution of light on the detector (13) is dependent on the angle of incidence of the light (11). An on-board computer (16) determines a direction vector to the Sun based on the light diffraction pattern detected by the detector (13).
US11579237B2
A method, apparatus and computer readable storage medium are provided for determining the installation positions of radio devices. Signal propagation time parameters are obtained with each signal propagation time parameter associated with an installation position and an observation position. Each signal propagation time parameter represents a respective signal propagation time value of radio signal(s) traveling between the respective installation and observation positions. A signal propagation time parameter is selected for defining a coordinate system. First point coordinates are selected to represent the installation position associated with the selected signal propagation time parameter, and second point coordinates are selected to represent the observation position associated with the selected signal propagation time parameter. For each installation position represented by the first point coordinates, respective point coordinates are determined that represent the respective installation position at least partially based on the signal propagation time parameter and the first and second point coordinates.
US11579234B2
A direction-finding antenna includes at least a first set of radiating elements configured to radiate at least a first wavelength (λ1) and a second set of radiating elements configured to radiate at a second wavelength (λ2) that is shorter than the first wavelength (λ1). The first set of radiating elements defines a first circle having a first radius. The second set of radiating elements defines a second circle having a second radius that is smaller than the first radius of the first circle. The direction-finding antenna further includes a transmission line-based multiplexer configured to selectively couple the first set of radiating elements or the second set of radiating elements to a radio frequency (RF) feed line, or a plurality of switches configured to selectively couple selected radiating elements of the first set of radiating elements or the second set of radiating elements to the RF feed line.
US11579230B2
The invention provides for a magnetic resonance imaging system (100) for acquiring magnetic resonance data (142) from a subject (118) within a measurement zone (108). The magnetic resonance imaging system (100) comprises: a processor (130) for controlling the magnetic resonance imaging system (100) and a memory (136) storing machine executable instructions (150, 152, 154), pulse sequence commands (140) and a dictionary (144). The pulse sequence commands (140) are configured for controlling the magnetic resonance imaging system (100) to acquire the magnetic resonance data (142) of multiple steady state free precession (SSFP) states per repetition time. The pulse sequence commands (140) are further configured for controlling the magnetic resonance imaging system (100) to acquire the magnetic resonance data (142) of the multiple steady state free precession (SSFP) states according to a magnetic resonance fingerprinting protocol. The dictionary (144) comprises a plurality of tissue parameter sets. Each tissue parameter set is assigned with signal evolution data pre-calculated for multiple SSFP states.
US11579227B2
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes sequence controlling circuitry and processing circuitry. The sequence controlling circuitry is configured to execute (i) a first pulse sequence in which a spatially selective Inversion recovery (IR) pulse and a spatially non-selective IR pulse are applied, and subsequently an acquisition is performed and (ii) a second pulse sequence in which the spatially non-selective IR pulse is applied without applying the spatially selective IR pulse, and subsequently an acquisition is performed, while varying the first TI period, with respect to a plurality of first TI periods. The processing circuitry is configured to calculate a second TI period to be used in a third pulse sequence and a fourth pulse sequence, based on data obtained from the first pulse sequence and the second pulse sequence. The sequence controlling circuitry executes (iii) the third pulse sequence in which the spatially selective IR pulse and the spatially non-selective IR pulse are applied, and subsequently an acquisition is performed and (iv) the fourth pulse sequence in which the spatially non-selective IR pulse is applied without applying the spatially selective IR pulse, and subsequently an acquisition is performed. The processing circuitry generates a magnetic resonance image of an imaged region based on data obtained from the third pulse sequence and the fourth pulse sequence.
US11579219B2
A method and apparatus for determining spatial distribution of a complex radio frequency (RF) of both transmit field and receive sensitivity a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. The method includes estimation of the absolute phase of transmit field using a reference transmit coil or array coils with minimal absolute phase. The method and apparatus include estimation of complex receive sensitivity of a transceiver coil using the complex transmit field of the transceiver coil or array coils.
US11579218B2
There is provided a method and system for identifying the location of an obstruction in a pipeline comprising: sensing the magnetic field generated by a pipeline at an initial pressure from a first location along the length of the pipeline to obtain a baseline reading; altering the pressure from a first end until a maximum pressure or minimum pressure is attained; sensing the magnetic field at the maximum or minimum pressure from the first location to obtain a stress reading; and identifying the location of the obstruction as a) being between a second end and the first location when there is a deviation between the stress reading and the baseline reading at the first location or as b) being between the first end and the first location when there is an absence of a deviation between the stress reading and the baseline reading at the first location.
US11579216B1
A multi-color quantitative magnetic nanoparticle imaging method and system based on trapezoidal wave excitation solves the problem that the existing technology cannot implement multi-color quantitative magnetic particle imaging. The method includes: constructing, based on hysteresis effect and hysteresis inertial growth differences of n superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIOs) under trapezoidal wave excitation, an equation set of quality of n SPIOs in a to-be-tested sample formed by any composition of n SPIO standard products; solving the equation set to obtain the quality distribution of the to-be-tested sample at position r; and performing rearrangement, color assignment, and image merging on the quality distribution to implement multi-color quantitative imaging of various particles in magnetic particle imaging (MPI). The method broadens the functions of MPI to realize multi-color quantitative imaging, such that MPI has greater potential for application in the medical field.
US11579214B2
A cable condition monitoring sensor device includes a TMR magnetic field sensor module, a high-pass filtering module, and a signal-amplifying module which are sequentially connected. The TMR magnetic field sensor module measures a magnetic field change signal of a cable, converts the same into a voltage signal, and outputs the voltage signal to the high-pass filtering module. The high-pass filtering module filters out DC bias of the voltage signal, and transmits the filtered voltage signal to the signal-amplifying module. The signal-amplifying module amplifies the filtered voltage signal to obtain an output voltage signal and outputs the output voltage signal. In the present invention, a common mode current to be measured in the cable is extracted by placing the magnetic shielding ring made of ferromagnetic material outside the cable to filter out a differential mode load current in the cable, and the magnitude of the common mode current is determined.
US11579212B2
A magneto-sensitive wire (magneto-sensitive body) made of a Co-based alloy having a composite structure in which crystal grains are dispersed in an amorphous phase. The Co-based alloy is, for example, a Co—Fe—Si—B-based alloy, and the total amount of Si and B is preferably 20 to 25 at % with respect to the Co-based alloy as a whole. Preferably, the average diameter of the crystal grains is 70 nm or less and the area ratio of the crystal grains is 10% or less to the composite structure as a whole. The magneto-sensitive wire has a circular cross section and the wire diameter is about 1 to 100 μm. Such a magneto-sensitive wire can be obtained, for example, through a heat treatment step of heating an amorphous wire composed of a Co-based alloy at a temperature equal to or higher than a crystallization start temperature and lower than a crystallization end temperature.
US11579210B1
A digital compass with two or more multi-axis magnetometers and a processing element to determine a heading and detect any offset error in the heading is described. One electronic device includes first and second magnetometers. The second magnetometer can be disposed at least a specified distance or co-located and offset at least a specified angle from the first magnetometer. A processing device determines a magnetic field at the electronic device using a first output from the first magnetometer, detects an offset error in the magnetic field using a second output from the second magnetometer, and reports the offset error in the magnetic field.
US11579209B2
A three-axis magnetic sensor apparatus is described that is processed together into a single chip, with high performance, low cost, as well as small size. The three-axis magnetic sensor apparatus include a substrate, a two-axis magnetic sensing structure and a single-axis sensing structure. The two-axis sensing magnetic structure consisting of two shielded Wheatstone bridge configurations in conjunction with an annular or semi annular magnetic flux-guiding structure, and the single-axis sensing structure consisting of a push-pull Wheatstone bridge in conjunction with a flux guide that is capable of generating a fringe field whose horizontal component is proportional to the vertical component of an external magnetic field. The two-axis magnetic sensing structure and the single-axis structure are processed together into a single chip, and can be used to measure respectively X, Y and Z components of external magnetic fields.
US11579207B2
A circuit having a digital output for connecting an electrical wire that is connected to an actuator, the digital output having a high level in a first voltage range, a low level in a second voltage range, and a third voltage range that is formed between the first voltage range and the second voltage range. The circuit being configured to output a test voltage, wherein the test voltage differs by a voltage difference from the high level and the low level.
US11579204B2
An electronic device and a method performed in an electronic device for managing the power limit of a battery of a vehicle. The method including obtaining a first State of Health value of the battery at a first time, obtaining a second State of Health value of the battery at a second time, determining a rate of change of State of Health value of the battery, determining a power value by calculating a function that is dependent on the rate of change of State of Health of the battery and adjusting the power limit of the battery to the determined power value for managing the life time of the battery.
US11579201B2
A method and a system for identifying third-order model parameters of a lithium battery based on a likelihood function are provided, which relates to a method for estimating battery model parameters of a lithium battery under different temperatures, different system-on-chips (SOCs), and charge-discharge currents. The method includes the following steps. A third-order battery model of the lithium battery is established. A battery model output voltage Ud and a total battery current I under different temperatures, different SOCs, and charge-discharge currents are collected. The likelihood function is adopted to construct an identification model, and the collected data is substituted into the identification model to calculate the battery model parameters. Identified parameters are substituted into the third-order battery model to obtain a battery terminal voltage to be compared with a measured terminal voltage. The operation method of the disclosure is simple and effective, and can accurately estimate internal resistance parameters of the lithium battery.
US11579198B2
An inverter system includes a converter, an inverter, a first switch SW1 that connects between the converter and an AC power source, a capacitor that smooths a DC power in a DC bus, a resistor Rr connected from a positive voltage side of the DC bus to ground, a second switch SW2 that connects between the resistor Rr and ground, and a controller that controls drive of the inverter system. The controller is configured to: after charging the capacitor, while the first switch SW1 is in an OFF state, turn on the second switch SW2 and obtain a first across voltage ER1 of the resistor Rx; turn on an element, among semiconductor elements of the inverter, that is connected to the negative voltage side of the DC bus, and then obtain a second across voltage ER2 of the resistor Rx; and inspect insulation resistance of a motor based on the across voltages ER1, ER2.
US11579197B2
A system for magnetic field testing comprising a magnetic field generation device configured to generate a magnetic field in a rotor, a plurality of magnetic field measurement devices configured to measure a magnetic field at a predetermined position on the rotor, a drive mechanism configured to rotate the rotor and a test system configured to record the plurality of magnetic field measurements as a function of an angular position of the rotor.
US11579196B1
A remote control device testing environment evaluates operational performance of physical implementations of remote control devices. This operational performance of the physical implementations of the remote control devices allows the integrated circuits of the remote control devices as well as integrated circuit interfaces electrically coupling these integrated circuits to each other to be evaluated. Additionally, the interconnection, such as electrical coupling to provide an example, between these integrated circuits and/or the integrated circuit interfaces can be evaluated which otherwise would not be evaluated by software simulation alone. Moreover, the evaluating of this operational performance of the physical implementations of the remote control devices allows these remote control devices to be in evaluated in a real world environment with exposure to various environmental factors, such as temperature, humidity, and/or electromagnetic interference to provide some examples. Furthermore, the evaluating of this operational performance of the physical implementations of the remote control devices allows interactions between these remote control devices and other electronic devices to be evaluated.
US11579194B1
An integrated circuit (IC) test engine can generate a plurality of single cycle test patterns that target a plurality of static single cycle defects of a fabricated IC chip based on an IC design. The IC test engine can also fault simulate the plurality of single cycle test patterns against a plurality of multicycle defects in the IC design, wherein a given single cycle test pattern of the plurality of single cycle test patterns is sim-shifted to enable detection of a given multicycle fault and/or defect of the plurality of multicycle faults and/or defects.
US11579190B2
A testing holder for a chip unit, a multi site holding frame for plural chip units and a method for testing a die thereof are provided. The proposed multi site holding frame for testing plural chip units simultaneously includes a first holder frame having a plurality of testing holders. Each of the plurality of testing holders includes a holder body containing a specific one of the plural chip units, and a pressure releasing device formed on the holder body to release an insertion pressure when the specific one of the plural chip units is inserted in the holder body.
US11579188B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a monitoring circuit and a semiconductor device, and particularly, to a monitoring circuit including an oscillation circuit configured to generate an oscillation signal having a rising characteristic or a falling characteristic according to a threshold voltage level and a counter configured to count the number of rises or the number of falls of the oscillation signal, and a semiconductor device including the monitoring circuit.
US11579186B2
A burn-in board management system includes a production burn-in apparatus and a burn-in board status computer. The production burn-in apparatus is configured to test a plurality of integrated circuit devices mounted in slots of a burn-in board and comprising a first controller configured to generate a first burn-in board status map, wherein the first controller is further configured to suspend the burn-in board when the first burn-in board status map of the burn-in board demonstrates that more than a threshold percentage of the slots of the burn-in board are determined to be malfunctioned. The burn-in board status computer is communicably connected with the first controller of the production burn-in apparatus and configured to receive the first burn-in board status map.
US11579184B2
An inspection apparatus includes a light sensor that detects light from a semiconductor device to which an electric signal has been input, an optical system that guides light from the semiconductor device to the light sensor, and a control device electrically connected to the light sensor. The control device includes a measurement unit that acquires waveform data obtained by optical measurement for each of a plurality of positions on a defective semiconductor device and waveform data obtained by the optical measurement for each of a plurality of positions on a non-defective semiconductor device, a calculation unit that calculates a degree of correspondence between the waveform data of the defective semiconductor device and the waveform data of the non-defective semiconductor device, and an analysis unit that analyzes a defective part of the defective semiconductor device on the basis of the degree of correspondence for each of the plurality of positions.
US11579180B2
According to one embodiment, an insulation diagnostic system comprising: a peak-value acquisition circuit configured to acquire at least one peak value of a section corresponding to local discharge of a voltage signal acquired by at least one sensor that detects the voltage signal in a non-contact manner; a function acquisition circuit configured to acquire a calculation function for calculating charge amount related to the discharge based on at least two peak values acquired from the voltage signal that is detected by the sensor by applying a test voltage to a rotating electrical machine while the rotating electrical machine is stopped; and a charge-amount calculation circuit configured to calculate the charge amount related to partial discharge of the rotating electrical machine based on the calculation function and the peak value obtained from the voltage signal that is detected by the sensor during operation of the rotating electrical machine.
US11579175B2
A pulse measurement device is provided, including a first signal source, a second signal source, two microwave resonators, two mixers, and a signal processing unit. The first signal source and the second signal source output a first high-frequency signal and a second high-frequency signal, respectively. Each of the microwave resonators generates an electric field according to the first high-frequency signal, and senses a variation in the electric field which is interfered by a pulse to obtain a sensing signal. Each of the mixers is coupled to one of the microwave resonators, to mix the sensing signal and the second high-frequency signal to output a down-converted signal. The signal processing unit respectively demodulates amplitudes of the down-converted signals of the two mixers to obtain amplitude signals.
US11579172B2
A sensor circuit may comprise or otherwise be connected to a transformer. The transformer may comprise a primary winding and a secondary winding. The primary winding may be configurable and/or connectable to sense a current flow in the primary winding. A configurable circuit with an output may be connected to the input of a comparator circuit. The output of the comparator circuit and one or both of the input of the configurable circuit or the output of the configurable circuit may connect across the secondary winding.
US11579165B2
Sensor apparatus and methods for operating the same for measuring acceleration are disclosed. In some embodiments, circuitry inside a sensor digitizes a measured acceleration signal from an accelerometer into a digitized acceleration signal, which is processed by a digital equalization filter within the sensor to provide an equalized acceleration signal. The equalized acceleration signal may have a frequency response that is substantially flat over a frequency range that extends beyond the resonant frequency of a MEMs sensor within the accelerometer of the sensor.
US11579161B2
A mechanism to reduce the amplitude of acceleration experienced by IMUs for tracked objects while maintaining a more accurate estimate of the device orientation. The invention uses parallel mechanisms to maintain the correct orientation of an IMU while allowing for damped translational degrees of freedom to limit the degradation of performance while spatially tracking a body.
US11579160B2
Systems and methods provide for detection and controlled interaction with one or more objects. The system can include an imaging subsystem (20), a tool subsystem (26) containing one or more tools, a stage subsystem (16) and a control system (40). The control system (40) can integrate controls for each of the other subsystems, which controls can be implement desired functions over a variety of process parameters to perform the controlled interaction.
US11579159B2
A sample dispensing mechanism configured to dispense a sample and a reagent to the reaction vessel at a first dispensing position and the reaction cell positioned at a second dispensing position; a second reagent vessel disposed on a track of the sample dispensing mechanism; and a control unit configured to control the sample dispensing mechanism, in which the control unit is configured to, based on information on presence or absence of incubation of an analysis item, control the sample dispensing mechanism to dispense a sample and a reagent to the reaction vessel positioned at the first dispensing position in a case where the incubation is not required by the analysis item, and control the sample dispensing mechanism to dispense a sample to the reaction cell positioned at the second dispensing position in a case where the incubation is required by the analysis item.
US11579158B2
An automatic human urine detection system comprises a control module, a urine collection module, a detection module, an output module and a cleaning module. The control module controls operation of the system and comprises an instruction input unit. The urine collecting module is used for collecting urine to be detected; the detection module comprises a detection probe holder which is used for detecting the urine to be collected and obtains a corresponding detection report according to a detection result; the output module is used for outputting the detection report; and the cleaning module is used for cleaning system components through which the urine flows or is stored in the system. The automatic human urine detection system integrates automatic collection and subsequent automatic detection of human urine, the whole urinalysis process is effectively simplified, the operation process is humanized, and the user experience is good.
US11579157B2
A dashboard interface may be displayed on a lab instrument to provide aggregate status information from a plurality of other interfaces organized into a single interface. The aggregate status information may be viewed by a nearby user of the lab instrument, and selecting portions of the information via a touchscreen display will navigate directly to a subsequent interface that may be used to view additional information or make configuration changes relating to the selected information. The dashboard may be used as a screensaver on a lab instrument when the instrument is not in use, or may be navigated to by an active user of a lab instrument, or both.
US11579155B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems are disclosed for analyzing quality control (QC) strategies that are applied to testing processes an analyte in order to meet an acceptable level of probability of patient harm that could result from incorrect test results. The measure of patient harm takes into account severity of patient harm, as well as its occurrence. Methods include calculating, based on the parameters of the QC strategies and the test apparatus, an expected number of incorrect final results E(Nuf) due to a test system failure. The value of E(Nuf) can be used as part of a calculation of a predicted level of probability patient harm. The ratio of the acceptable level of probability of patient harm to the predicted level of probability patient harm can determine the adequacy of the QC strategies.
US11579154B2
Provided are methods of detecting the presence or amount of a vitamin D metabolite in a sample using mass spectrometry. The methods generally directed to ionizing a vitamin D metabolite in a sample and detecting the amount of the ion to determine the presence or amount of the vitamin D metabolite in the sample. Also provided are methods to detect the presence or amount of two or more vitamin D metabolites in a single assay.
US11579152B2
The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to an assay for hERG channel protein sensitivity to small molecule pharmacological agents. In one embodiment, the invention includes an engineered hERG channel protein. In another embodiment, the invention includes a method of identifying small molecule pharmacological agents that interfere with repolarization of cardiac cells.
US11579151B2
The current invention reports a method for producing an antibody comprising the steps of a) providing a plurality of hybridoma cells each expressing an antibody, b) determining the time dependent amount of said antibody bound to the respective antigen by surface plasmon resonance at different temperatures and different antibody concentrations, c) calculating with the time dependent amount determined in b) based on equations (II) to (XIII) at least the thermodynamic parameters (i) standard association binding entropy (ΔS°‡ass), (ii) standard dissociation binding entropy (ΔS°‡diss), (iii) standard binding entropy (ΔS°), (iv) free standard binding enthalpy (ΔG°), (v) standard dissociation free binding enthalpy (ΔG°‡diss), (vi) standard association free binding enthalpy (ΔG°‡ass), (vii) −TΔS°, (viii) dissociation rate constant kd, (ix) equilibrium binding constant KD, and (x) association rate constant ka, d) selecting a hybridoma cell producing an antibody with at least two of the following: i) a standard association binding entropy of less than 10 J/K*mol, ii) an absolute standard dissociation binding entropy of 100 J/mol*K or more, iii) an absolute standard binding entropy of 100 J/mol*K or more, e) producing an antibody by cultivating said selected cell under conditions suitable for the expression of said antibody and recovering said antibody from the cells or/and the cultivation medium.
US11579150B2
Compositions and methods for analyzing disulfide bonds are provided. An exemplary method includes preparing peptide standards having no disulfide bonds, scrambled disulfide bond peptide standards, and native disulfide bond peptide standards according to the sequence of the region of the protein drug product that includes the disulfide bond, digesting a sample of protein drug product into peptides, separating the protein drug product peptides, analyzing the protein drug product peptides and the peptide standards, identifying scrambled and native disulfide bond peptides by retention time, and quantifying the level of scrambled disulfide bond peptides.
US11579149B2
Bioluminescent biosensors useful for monitoring and/or quantifying, in vitro or in vivo, activity of the Hippo signaling pathway. The biosensors monitor LATS kinase activity or YAP-TEAD interaction. The biosensors may be used in methods for monitoring and/or quantifying in real-time, in vitro or in vivo, activity of the Hippo signaling pathway, wherein the activity may be LATS kinase activity and/or YAP-TEAD interaction. The biosensors may be provided in kits for monitoring and/or quantifying in real-time, in vitro or in vivo, activity of the Hippo signaling pathway, wherein the activity may be LATS kinase activity and/or YAP-TEAD interaction.
US11579141B2
The present invention relates to an in vitro method for identifying a skin wound in an individual as being a non-healing skin wound or healing skin wound, in vitro methods for monitoring the healing of a skin wound in an individual, methods for screening for compounds suitable for modulating skin wound healing, as well as kits related thereto.
US11579139B2
A method for measuring concentrations of blood cell components is provided. The method comprises: obtaining a blood sample from a subject, the blood sample comprising at least one of red blood cells (RBCs), white blood cells (WBCs), and platelets (PLTs); mixing the blood sample with a non-lysing aqueous solution to form a sample mixture comprising a predetermined tonicity; passing the sample mixture through a flow cell; emitting light towards the flow cell; measuring at least one of an amount of light absorbed by the RBCs to obtain an RBC absorption value, an amount of light scattered by WBCs to obtain a WBC scatter value, and an amount of light scattered by PLTs to obtain a PLT scatter value; and determining a concentration of at least one of the RBCs, WBCs, and PLTs present in the sample mixture.
US11579130B2
A hydrogen sensor that efficiently detects hydrogen gas at room temperature comprising a gold decorated reduced graphene oxide/zinc oxide (Au/rGO/ZnO) heterostructured composite, methods for making this sensor and a method for sensitive room temperature detection of hydrogen using the sensor.
US11579128B2
Disclosed herein are delayed reaction threshold temperature indicators and methods of making and activating the same, the delayed reaction threshold temperature indicators including a first substrate, first and second layers, and a housing secured to the substrate. The first layer includes a first reactant and an optional meltable polymer, and the second layer includes a meltable polymer and a second reactant. The meltable polymer is configured to keep the first and second reactants from interacting with each other. When exposed to temperatures at and/or above a desired threshold for a period of time, the meltable polymer melts and allows the first and second reactants to come into contact with each other, thereby producing a visual change in appearance.
US11579127B2
An indicator and method of use thereof, and indicator system and method of use thereof are provided to determine the degree of an oxidative treatment. An indicator is incorporated into the oxidative treatment. The object and the indicator are subjected to the oxidative treatment. A discoloration of the indicator occurs based on an oxidation of the polymer by a process condition of the oxidative treatment oxidizing the polymer. The discoloration of the indicator is measured against a threshold color value to determine the degree of the oxidative treatment.
US11579125B2
Techniques for real-time or substantially real-time peak detection are described. In one embodiment, for example, logic coupled to memory may be configured to receive data from at least one analytical instrument and perform processing or analysis on the received data. Moreover, the logic may be configured to determine, via one or more GPUs or CPUs (or both), one or more peaks based on the processing or the analysis of the received data and generate peak detection data based on the detected one or more peaks in real-time or substantially real-time. Other embodiments are described.
US11579118B2
An inline inspection tool of this disclosure includes at least one sensor arm (50) having a sensor head (30) located at its distal end (51), the sensor head including an arched-shaped pipe contacting portion (33) between its forward and rearward ends (32, 34), the pipe contacting portion having a radius R and a width WC; and at least one triaxial sensor element (31) having at least a portion located directly below the arched-shaped pipe contacting portion and having a width WS, WC
US11579106B2
The disclosure provides a measurement circuit. The measurement circuit includes a control engine. An excitation source is coupled to the control engine. A first set of electrodes and a second set of electrodes are coupled to the excitation source and receive current from the excitation source. The control engine operates the excitation source in a first mode and a second mode. The control engine, in the first mode, measures a parasitic impedance associated with the first and the second set of electrodes, and the control engine, in the second mode, measures an impedance of the first and the second set of electrodes and of an external object.
US11579105B2
An apparatus and a method for state detection, the apparatus for state detection includes one or more charge sensing elements arranged on a terminal, a charge collection circuit connected to the charge sensing element, and a state detection module connected to the charge collection circuit, the charge collection circuit is configured to generate charge and radiate the charge out through the charge sensing element, and collect reflected charge from each of the charge sensing elements to generate an induced charge value of the charge sensing element, and output the induced charge value of each of the charge sensing elements to the state detection module; the state detection module is configured to determine a state of the terminal according to the induced charge value.
US11579104B2
A measurement system is provided for predicting a future status of a refractory lining that is lined over an inner surface of an outer wall of a manufacturing vessel and exposed to an operational cycle during which the refractory lining is exposed to a high-temperature environment for producing a non-metal and the produced non-metal. The system includes one or more laser scanners and a processor. The laser scanners are configured to conduct one or more pre-operational laser scans of the refractory lining prior to the operational cycle to collect data related to pre-operational cycle structural conditions, and one or more post-operational laser scans of the refractory lining after the operational cycle to collect data related to post-operational cycle structural conditions of the refractory lining. The processor is configured to predict future status of the refractory lining after subsequent operational cycles based on the determined exposure impact of the operational cycle.
US11579102B2
An information processing method is performed by a computer for evaluating flammability of a mixed refrigerant material containing a plurality of components. The method includes: calculating, for each of the plurality of components, a second value obtained by multiplying a mixture ratio thereof in the mixed refrigerant material by a first value obtained based on numbers of hydrogen atoms, halogen atoms, and double bonds included in a molecular structure thereof; calculating a total sum of the second value calculated for each of the plurality of components; and classifying the mixed refrigerant material into a predetermined flammability class based on the total sum.
US11579100B2
A method comprises the steps of: (a) Obtaining a measured X-ray spectrum for the coated sample, for determining characteristics for the sample and for a coating material; (b) Determining a simulated X-ray spectrum for the sample based on an initial sample composition; (c) Determining an adapted sample composition that improves a match between the characteristics of the sample and an adapted simulated X ray spectrum; (d) Determining an adapted coating thickness for the coating material based on the adapted sample composition and characteristics of the coating; and (e) Repeating the steps (b) to (d) using the adapted sample composition and the adapted coating thickness of the coating material instead of the initial values, wherein the coating thickness is used for determining an absorption of X-rays.
US11579099B2
This disclosure relates to an apparatus and methods for applying X-ray reflectometry (XRR) in characterizing three dimensional nanostructures supported on a flat substrate with a miniscule sampling area and a thickness in nanometers. In particular, this disclosure is targeted for addressing the difficulties encountered when XRR is applied to samples with intricate nanostructures along all three directions, e.g. arrays of nanostructured poles or shafts. Convergent X-ray with long wavelength, greater than that from a copper anode of 0.154 nm and less than twice of the characteristic dimensions along the film thickness direction, is preferably used with appropriate collimations on both incident and detection arms to enable the XRR for measurements of samples with limited sample area and scattering volumes.
US11579095B2
A remote sampling sensor for determining characteristics of a sample includes measurement optics and an insertion probe. The measurement optics are configured to emit light and detect returned light. The insertion probe includes a chamber, the chamber being configured to permit the sample to enter the chamber, an insertion tip at a distal end of the insertion probe, and a retro-reflective optic adjacent the insertion tip. The retro-reflective optic is configured to return the light from the measurement optics through the chamber to the measurement optics. The insertion probe is configured to be remotely located from the measurement optics.
US11579091B2
A Raman spectrometric imaging method, including: placing a sample on a two-dimensional translation stage; emitting a first light beam by a first optical comb light source; dividing the first light beam into a pump light beam and a depletion light beam to illuminate the sample; guiding the pump light beam to illuminate a region of the sample to excite molecules of the sample in the region; guiding the depletion light beam to the region of the sample to make excited molecules at a periphery of the region to return into a vibrational ground state; emitting a second light beam as a probe light beam by a second optical comb light source to the remaining excited molecules to generate a CARS signal; recording the CARS signal for imaging; moving the two-dimensional translation stage to scan other regions of the sample to form an image of the sample.
US11579088B2
Systems and methods for measuring short wave infrared fluorescence and autofluorescent signals are disclosed. In some embodiments, for example, a method may include exposing a portion of tissue that does not include a fluorescent probe to an excitation source of the tissue, wherein at least a portion of the tissue has an autofluorescence spectrum which includes wavelengths greater than 900 nm, and imaging the tissue with a detector that is sensitive to electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths greater than or equal to 900 nm. In certain other embodiments, a system comprises a fluorescent probe including a fluorescent component attached to a carrier, an excitation source, and a detector that detects a tail portion of the fluorescence of the fluorescent component. Methods associated with such a system are also disclosed.
US11579070B2
A functionalised particle, wherein the particle has a first optical spectral signature in a first structural configuration of the particle and a second optical spectral signature in a second structural configuration of the particle.
US11579065B2
Methods and systems for determining fracture and matrix permeability of a subsurface formation. The system includes two upstream reservoirs and two downstream reservoirs, and a sample cell connecting to the reservoirs with valves. The sample cell has a confining pressure (CF) from a fluid. A horizontal plug sample with sleeve is placed in a measurement cell with the confining fluid (CF). A pressure gauge is connected to the small upstream reservoir, and a pressure gauge is connected to the small downstream reservoir. The results provide two sets of effective-stress-dependent permeability values (including fracture permeability and matrix permeability, respectively) for characterizing the reservoir properties.
US11579062B2
The invention provides an optical particle sensor (1) comprising: at least one light source (2, 2r, 2g, 2b) configured to emit light rays (20), at least one channel (3) intended to receive a fluid transporting at least one particle (30), and to at least partially receive the light rays (20) emitted by the at least one source (2, 2r, 2g, 2b), such that said light rays (20) are partially scattered by the at least one particle (30), at least one photodetector (4) capable of receiving said scattered light rays (20), said sensor (1) being characterised in that the at least one source (2, 2r, 2g, 2b) has an emission face (21) facing one side (D) of the sensor and in that the at least one photodetector (4) has a receiving face (41) facing the same side (D) of the sensor (1), such that the light rays received by the at least one photodetector are light rays (20b) backscattered by the at least one particle (30), for at least 90% of them.
US11579058B2
A bond test apparatus includes a test tool, a stage for mounting a bond for testing, and a drive mechanism comprising a voice coil. The voice coil is coupled to either the stage or to the test tool and is configured to provide relative movement between the stage and the test tool such that the bond applies a test force to the test tool. The bond test apparatus can also include a velocity sensor configured to sense an instantaneous relative velocity between the stage and the test tool, and a controller configured to control the drive mechanism in response to a signal from the velocity sensor. The bond test apparatus can also include a retarding mechanism coupled to the stage or the test tool and configured to apply, in response to relative movement between the stage and the test tool, a retarding force opposing the driving force.
US11579056B2
A universal material tester with two or more consecutively arranges test units has a test tool supporting carriage, which is provided with a removable partition that allows conversion of the test-unit installation socket from a multiple test unit holder into a single test-unit holder, or vice versa. An advantage of the tester is a possibility of expanding dynamic range of measurements by using two or more test units, which are installed in series at one setting and can be used in sequential tests without replacement but with different measurement ranges. This broadens the dynamic measurement ranges and allows revealing material properties otherwise unattainable. The test units may be combined with an imaging device installed in series with the test tools that engage the sample physically.
US11579055B2
Fully automatic true triaxial tunnel and underground project model test system, including a triaxial loading device for loading model test piece, automatic data collection and analysis device, power system and control system; triaxial loading device includes test bench, vertical loading system, horizontal front and back, and left and right loading systems, and the vertical, horizontal front and back, and left and right loading systems apply three-way pressure to model test body; test bench functions for supporting, fixing, and providing counter-force; automatic data collection and analysis device includes micro optical fiber sensor embedded in model test piece, optical fiber monitoring system, micro pressure box and strain brick, and can collect multi-field information.
US11579051B2
An optimized Dipheylthiocarbazone or Dithizone (DTZ) solution was developed with preferred physical and chemical properties to characterize human islets and insulin producing cells differentiated from embryonic stem cells. Application of the newly formulated iDTZ (i stands for islet) over a range of temperatures, time intervals and cell and tissue types found to be robust for identifying these cells. The iDTZ, through high transition zinc binding, concentrated in insulin producing cells could also be used to delineate zinc levels in tissue and liquid samples.
US11579050B2
The system, configured for being on board an aircraft, includes a probe for collecting samples of contrail, a chamber for collecting the samples, a collecting conduit for conducting the samples from the collecting probe the collecting chamber and at least one device for measuring at least one parameter characterizing the samples in the collecting conduit while they are conducted from the collecting probe to the collecting chamber. By virtue of the system, it is not necessary to use a second aircraft that follows the aircraft for collecting samples of contrail.
US11579047B2
A method for monitoring a shock strut may comprise measuring a first shock strut pressure, measuring an ambient temperature, measuring a shock strut stroke, measuring a second shock strut pressure, and determining a servicing condition of the shock strut based upon the first shock strut pressure, the ambient temperature, the shock strut stroke, and the second shock strut pressure, wherein the servicing condition indicates whether it is desirable for the shock strut to be serviced with at least one of a liquid and a gas. The first shock strut pressure and the shock strut stroke may be measured before the takeoff event with a weight of an aircraft supported by the shock strut.
US11579046B2
A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving data comprising two-dimensional data and three-dimensional data of a component of an engine; identifying a feature of the component using the two-dimensional data; determining coordinates of the feature in the two-dimensional data; determining coordinates of the feature in the three-dimensional data using: the determined coordinates of the feature in the two-dimensional data; and a pre-determined transformation between coordinates in two-dimensional data and coordinates in three-dimensional data; and measuring a parameter of the feature of the component using the determined coordinates of the feature in the three-dimensional data.
US11579034B2
A method for manufacturing a pressure detecting unit for a measuring device for measuring a pressure status value of a plant specimen. The method includes mounting a sensor unit for detecting the pressure status value at a carrier substrate, fastening a frame to the carrier substrate, the frame including a fastening surface, a contact surface oriented opposite the fastening surface and an inner surface defining an opening and extending between the fastening surface and the contact surface, the frame being situated at the carrier substrate in such a way that the fastening surface faces the carrier substrate and the inner surface surrounds the sensor unit, and filling the opening of the frame with a filling material for forming an elastic pressure coupling layer. A pressure detecting unit for a measuring device for measuring a pressure status value of a plant specimen is also described.
US11579030B2
A control method for a user interface system may include receiving an input signal, receiving a temperature signal indicative of a temperature, generating a baseline signal based on at least one among the input signal and the temperature signal, calculating an error signal based on a difference of the input signal and the baseline signal, and modifying the baseline signal based on the error signal.
US11579022B2
In described examples, a measurement circuit includes an isolated power supply that generates an output signal in response to an input signal. A signal processing circuit is coupled to the isolated power supply and generates a first signal in response to a sense signal. A load manipulator circuit is coupled to the signal processing circuit and the isolated power supply. The load manipulator circuit receives the first signal. A detect circuit is coupled to the isolated power supply and generates a second signal in response to the input signal.
US11579019B2
A battery-free sensor probe and system for measuring the temperature of food The sensor probe includes a probe portion and a handle. The probe portion has a temperature sensor, a circuit board and a radio frequency identification device. The handle has an antenna connected to radio frequency identification device and the circuit board. The sensor probe harvests energy from a radio frequency transmitter positioned near the sensor probe.
US11579017B2
A method for enhancement of spontaneous Raman scattering (SRS) from gases comprising a multimode blue laser diode which receives feedback from a near concentric bidirectional multipass cavity in such a way as to generate a circulating power of order 100 W for a sample volume of 10 mm3. The feedback, provided via a volume Bragg grating, reduces the laser bandwidth to 4 cm−1. Spectra of spontaneous Raman scattering from ambient atmospheric air, detected collinearly with the pump, were recorded with a limit of detection below 1 part-per-million.
US11579016B2
A single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) has a cathode coupled to a high voltage supply and an anode coupled to a first node. A photodetection circuit includes: a first n-channel transistor having a drain coupled to the first node, a source coupled to ground, and a gate coupled to a third node; a second n-channel transistor having a drain coupled to the first node, a source coupled to ground, and a gate coupled to a second node; and an inverter having an input coupled to the first node and an output coupled to an intermediate node. A current starved inverter has an input coupled to the intermediate node and an output coupled to the second node, a logic gate has inputs coupled to the intermediate node and the second node, and an output coupled to the third node.
US11578999B2
Embodiments are generally directed to systems and apparatuses for tracking usage of an item. For example, an apparatus may be provided for tracking use of a packetized item. The apparatus may include a microprocessor, a power source, and a structural layer to which the microprocessor and power source are coupled. The structural layer may include a container that is configured to hold various items. The container may also include an opening that allows access to the items. The apparatus may further include a cover layer that is configured to cover the opening of the container. The cover layer may include at least one bendable sensor placed over the opening of the container. The microprocessor may be configured to determine, using detected movements in the bendable sensor, whether the container has been opened.
US11578997B1
A magnetic field angle sensor includes a coil configured to generate a magnetic field that induces an eddy current in a rotatable target, a first magnetic field sensing structure positioned proximate to the coil and configured to detect a reflected magnetic field generated by the eddy current induced in the target, a second magnetic field sensing structure positioned proximate to the coil and configured to detect the reflected magnetic field generated by the eddy current induced in the target, wherein the first and second magnetic field sensing structures are configured to detect quadrature components of the reflected magnetic field, and a processing module configured to process the reflected magnetic field detected by the first and second magnetic field sensing structures for determining an angular position of the target.
US11578978B1
An asset tracker deployed in an engineless vehicle and a telematics device coupled to a vehicle both send location updates to a telematics server. The asset tracker sends location updates at a faster rate upon leaving a shipping yard, for example. The telematics server associates the vehicle and engineless vehicles, determines whether they are travelling together, and sends a notification when they are not supposed to be travelling together.
US11578974B2
A road inclination estimating apparatus is configured to acquire power spectrum density of vertical vibration by a frequency analysis based on the detected vertical acceleration of the sprung mass of a vehicle. The apparatus is configured to determine that a first estimation condition is satisfied, when the power spectrum density has two of the acquired peak frequencies, wherein, one of the two of the peak frequencies is within a predetermined first frequency range, and the other one of the two of the peak frequencies is within a predetermined second frequency range.
US11578973B2
A method for automatically notifying an intended person of a service interval of a test and measurement device by using the test and measurement device is described, wherein service data is received by the test and measurement device. The service data is processed internally. A time for maintenance is calculated automatically based on the service data retrieved. Further, a test and measurement device is described.
US11578971B2
A method of testing for thickness loss in a metal wall is disclosed. The method includes mounting a first and a second ultrasonic transducer to the metal such that the transducers are in ultrasonic communication along a beam line and moving the first and second ultrasonic transducers along a scan line. A series of composites of received signal measurements are obtained by, at multiple locations along the scan line, using the first ultrasonic transducer to transmit ultrasonic signals through the metal wall along the beam line at a plurality of transmission angles and obtaining composites of received signal amplitudes by combining signal amplitudes measured by the second ultrasonic transducer. The series of composites are input into a predetermined relationship to obtain a thickness profile indicative of a proportion of remaining wall thickness. The predetermined relationship is experimentally obtained to characterize a given metal wall of nominal thickness.
US11578955B2
An ammunition article comprises a polymer cartridge case formed of a polymer composition comprising a thermoplastic polymer, preferably the polymer composition having a density of less than 1.35 determined in accordance with ASTM D792, the polymer cartridge case having a first end, an opposing second end, and a chamber disposed between the first end and the second end for receiving a propellant; a projectile attached to the first end of the polymer cartridge case; a metal base insert joined to the second end of the polymer cartridge case; and a primer carried by the metal base insert; wherein the metal base insert and the polymer cartridge case remain joined together as a single piece assembly upon loading, firing and removal from a chamber of a firearm for a polymer case temperature of −65° F. (−54° C.) to 165° F. (74° C.).
US11578954B2
An igniter for a gas generator comprises a pole body (14) having at least one connection pin (16, 18), a retaining ring (20) and an insulation ring (22), wherein the insulation ring (22) spaces apart the at least one connection pin (16, 18) from the retaining ring (20) and electrically insulates it relative to the same. The retaining ring (20) consists of a metal and the insulation ring (22) consists of a plastic. In order to produce an igniter (10) for a gas generator at least one connection pin (16, 18), a retaining ring (20) and an insulation ring (22) are provided, the connection pin (16, 18), the insulation ring (22) and the retaining ring (20) are fitted inside one another in such a way that the connection pin (16, 18) is surrounded by the insulation ring (22) and the insulation ring (22) is surrounded by the retaining ring (20), and the retaining ring (20), the insulation ring (22) and the connection pin (16, 18) are compressed in a compression step in which at least the retaining ring (20) is deformed and the retaining ring (20), the insulation ring (22) and the connection pin (16, 18) are connected to one another securely and without play.
US11578946B1
A movable position-limiting quick-release gun light, comprising a light main body, a bottom end of the light main body is fixedly connected with a support plate, and the left and right sides of which are slidable connected to the top of a base, the middle part of the fixing plate is fixedly connected with a tightening seat, the middle part of the right end of which is fixedly connected to the left end of the tightening rod, and the right end of which is rotatably connected with an tightening handle through a rotating shaft, the front and rear parts of the right end of the tightening seat are fixedly connected to the left end of the ejector rod. The structure of the gun light is simple, the maintenance and disassembly are easy, and the use is very convenient.
US11578945B1
Disclosed are implementations of a switch actuator that can be attached to a switch device of a weapon mounted light and used, in conjunction with the switch device, to selectively actuate a light emitter of the weapon mounted light. An example switch actuator comprises: a base configured for attachment to the switch device; an actuator paddle offset from and positioned above the base; and an actuator arm connecting the actuator paddle to the base. The switch actuator is used to forwardly urge the switch device to place the switch device in a momentary ON position, and rotatably urge the switch device to place the switch device in a constant ON or OFF position.
US11578938B1
The present invention relates to a drum magazine, and more particularly, to a drum magazine in which a wheel cover, which is configured to provide an elastic force via a mainspring to a bullet guide unit configured to elastically support a bullet loaded in a drum at a loading hole which is an inlet of the drum, is rotatably disposed at an outer surface of the drum, wherein, at the time of loading, an elastic latch unit is elastically engaged with an inner ring gear of the wheel cover and allows rotation of the wheel cover only in one direction so that a loading space at an entry of the loading hole that is provided due to arbitrary rotation of the wheel cover in the one direction is maintained as it is even when a user removes his or her hand from the magazine, and, after the loading is completed, a latch control unit configured to disengage the elastic latch unit and the inner ring gear is operated so that an elastic restoration force of the mainspring, which is accumulated due to the loading, is transmitted to the bullet guide unit and the loaded bullet is elastically supported at the loading hole.
US11578927B2
A liquid flow path portion of a vapor chamber according to this invention includes a first main flow groove, a second main flow groove and a third main flow groove. A first convex array including a plurality of first convex portions arranged via a first communicating groove is provided between the first main flow groove and the second main flow groove. A second convex array including a plurality of second convex portions arranged via a second communicating groove is provided between the second main flow groove and the third main flow groove. The main flow groove includes a first intersection at which at least a part of the first communicating groove faces each second convex portion and a second intersection at which at least a part of the second communicating groove faces each first convex portion.
US11578925B2
A thermal management system for a test-and-measurement probe that includes a thermally insulated shroud and a fluid inlet conduit. The shroud is configured to enclose a first portion of a probe head of the probe within an interior cavity of the shroud, while permitting a second portion of the probe head to extend out of the shroud. The shroud further includes a fluid outlet passageway configured to permit a heat-transfer fluid to pass from a probe-head end of the interior cavity, through the interior cavity of the shroud, and out of the shroud through an access portion of the shroud. The fluid inlet conduit enters the shroud through the access portion of the shroud, extends through the interior cavity of the shroud, and is configured to introduce the heat-transfer fluid to the probe-head end of the interior cavity.
US11578923B2
A heat exchanger comprising at least one fluid tube configured to extend substantially orthogonally to a wind direction, the fluid tube having a first wall and a second wall, and the fluid tube comprising: a first tube section and a second tube section each extending along the fluid tube, arranged such that each tube section is in fluid communication with a pair of manifolds and configured to contain a cooling fluid, wherein the first tube section is formed by the first wall, the second wall, a first outer wall and a first inner wall and the second tube section is formed by the first wall, the second wall, a second outer wall and a second inner wall, the first inner wall, the second inner wall, the first outer wall and the second outer wall extending substantially parallel along the fluid tube in fluid-tight contact with the first wall and the second wall, wherein the heat exchanger is configured to lead the cooling fluid in a first direction in the first tube section and in a second direction in the second tube section, the first direction being opposite to the second, wherein the cooling fluid is led through the second tube section before entering the first tube section and the first tube section is arranged upstream of the second tube section in relation to the wind direction so that a cooling air flowing in the wind direction cools the cooling fluid with the lowest temperature first, wherein the first inner wall and the second inner wall are spaced apart by at least one common area defined by the first inner wall and the second inner wall, the first inner wall and the second inner wall being arranged at a distance from each other, and the at least one common area being arranged between the first tube section and the second tube section and that the common area comprises at least one slot.
US11578908B2
An appliance cabinet includes a wrapper that has sidewalls and define a machine compartment. An attachment feature is coupled to the wrapper proximate the sidewalls. The attachment feature includes horizontal supports and vertical supports that define a lattice structure of the attachment feature, and a selectively removable side access panel is removably coupled to the sidewalls to define at least one access point to the machine compartment.
US11578907B2
A refrigerator has a temperature-controlled drawer within a fresh food compartment that includes: a temperature sensor within the temperature-controlled drawer and/or the fresh food compartment; a display coupled to the drawer, wherein the display receives an output from the temperature sensor, determines what food type would be best suited for the temperature based on said temperature sensor output, and indicates what type of food it has determined is best for storage therein; at least one light within said drawer, wherein the at least one light changes to a first color, based on the food type indicated by the display, and turns off and on depending on whether the fresh food compartment door is closed or open, respectively.
US11578904B2
An ice maker of a refrigerator includes a tray assembly having an upper tray that defines upper portions of a plurality of ice making chambers. Each of the plurality of ice making chambers is configured to receive water and generate an ice piece. The tray assembly also includes a lower tray that is located vertically below the upper tray, that is configured to rotate relative to the upper tray, and that defines lower portions of the plurality of ice making chambers, wherein at least one of the upper tray or the lower tray comprises a flexible tray made of a flexible material. Additionally, a case is configured to accommodate the flexible tray to restrict a deformation of the flexible tray. A heater that is located between the case and the flexible tray is configured to supply heat to the plurality of ice making chambers through the flexible tray.
US11578899B2
A fluoropropene composition comprising Z-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, E-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, 1,1,3,3,3-pentafluoropropene, 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, and optionally 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluoropropane wherein the 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene being present in an amount of 0.00001 to 1.0%. A method of producing the fluoropropene, methods for using the fluoropropene and the composition formed are also disclosed.
US11578896B2
A refrigeration system, comprising an evaporator, a condenser, a throttling device, a compressor, an economizer and an ejector, these devices together form a closed-loop refrigerant circulation loop, the ejector being connected to the economizer, and the ejector being provided on an exhaust side of the compressor. The structure enables the refrigeration system to realize the dual-stage boost, does not affect the stability of the compressor due to the instability of the airflow of the ejector, and does not affect the oil property of the compressor, thereby ensuring the operation safety of the compressor.
US11578891B2
An adjustment device designed to adjust a flow rate of a fluid flowing in a duct, including a body in which an adjustment valve is mounted, movable in rotation about an adjustment axis, the body having an area upstream of the adjustment axis and a downstream area opposite to the upstream area with respect to the adjustment axis, where the adjustment axis is equipped with connecting means which cooperate with at least one first control member positioned in the downstream area and a second control member positioned in the upstream area.
US11578884B2
An air conditioner unit may include a housing, an outdoor heat exchanger assembly, an indoor heat exchanger assembly, a compressor, and a sterilization light assembly. The housing may define an indoor portion and an outdoor portion. The housing may further define an exhaust outlet downstream from the indoor portion to exhaust air therefrom. The sterilization light assembly may be disposed within the housing to transmit an ultraviolet light emission thereto. The sterilization light assembly may include a support board, an ultraviolet C (UVC) light source, and a lens casing. The UVC light source may be mounted to the support board and configured to emit radiation between 200 to 280 nanometers. The lens casing may be disposed over the support board and seal the UVC light source to prevent moisture from contacting the UVC light source.
US11578877B2
Provided is an air conditioner. The air conditioner comprising a housing having an inlet and an outlet, a fan in the housing to suck in air through the inlet and discharge air through the outlet, and including a plurality of fan blades with an installation space between two fan blades of the plurality of fan blades, a fan driver coupled to an end of the fan by a fastener, to drive the fan, wherein the installation space is positioned to allow the fastener to pass through the installation space to couple the fan driver to the fan, and a stabilizer including a body having at least a portion extending along the fan at a first distance from the fan, and so as to not be over the installation space as the fan rotates, and a modifier extending along the fan at a second distance, which is greater than the first distance, from the fan, and so as to be over the installation space for at least part of a full rotation of the fan as the fan rotates.
US11578871B1
A gas turbine engine with a compressor section, a turbine section, and a combustion section located downstream from the compressor section and upstream from the turbine section, the combustion section including: a dome inlet, a combustor outlet fluidly coupled to the turbine section, a liner and a dome assembly together at least partially defining a combustion chamber extending between the dome inlet and the combustor outlet, a primary fuel injector fluidly coupled to the dome inlet, and a second fuel injector fluidly coupled to the combustion chamber.
US11578866B2
An outer peripheral edge part of the air-fuel mixture permeable member is connected to a portion away outward by a predetermined distance from an inner peripheral edge of the burner frame. Between the burner frame and the air-fuel mixture permeable member a clearance reaching the inner peripheral edge of the burner frame is secured at a position inward of the outer peripheral part of the air-fuel mixture permeable member. Preferably, a bent edge part formed on an inner peripheral edge of the burner frame, in a manner to be bent toward the air-fuel mixture permeable member. The amount of the air-fuel mixture to flow into the clearance is limited to a smaller amount.
US11578856B2
A lighting lamp is provided. The lighting lamp includes a light module and a lens. The lens includes a lens body, provided with a first end and a second end which are opposite to each other and a side wall located between the first end and the second end, in which a light source of the lighting lamp is arranged at the first end, and at least a portion of the side wall is configured as a light emitting component. The lens also includes a light incident component, arranged at the first end of the lens body, in which the light incident component irradiates light emitted by the light source to the second end. The lens includes a light reflecting component, arranged at the second end of the lens body.
US11578852B2
Control instructions are transmitted to receivers by modulating light sources to generate light beams that are modulated with digital data streams for inducing control instructions in the light beams. Each light beam is applied to a pixel shaper element of a pixel shaper assembly to produce a light pixel, each light pixel carrying the control instructions of the light beam, each light pixel having a perimeter defined by the pixel shaper element. The pixel shaper assembly combines the light pixels into an image without significant overlap or voids between the light pixels. The light pixels are directed toward a projector lens for transmission toward the receivers. In a receiver, an optical receiver detects a light pixel. A controller decodes the control instructions received in the detected light pixel and uses the control instructions to control a function of the receiver.
US11578824B2
A crimping tool is described comprising a first crimping member, a second crimping member, at least one intermediate crimping member, a first sliding member and a second sliding member. The free ends of the first crimping member and the second crimping member form an opening of the crimping tool. The first crimping member, the at least one intermediate crimping member, and the second crimping member are sequentially hinged together via connecting devices. The first sliding member is slidably disposed on the free end of the first crimping member. The second sliding member is slidably disposed on the free end of the second crimping member. The first sliding member is adjacent to the second sliding member. The inner sides of the first crimping member, the at least one intermediate crimping member, the second crimping member, the first sliding member, and the second sliding member are formed to be pressed with the workpiece to be crimped. The crimping tool has a simple structure and good crimping performance, so that the workpiece is uniformly stressed and burrs on the workpiece can be reduced.
US11578820B1
One embodiment provides a method and apparatus for suspending air conditioning duct works from a support structure comprising unistrut type support beams which apparatus includes a plurality of support brackets arranged and configured for being slidably interlockable with the interior of the unistrut beam members. The support brackets can be slid inside the interior of the support beam until adjacent a support beam which support beam can be connected to the support bracket. In like manner additional support brackets can be inserted into the interior of the support beam members to be adjustably located next to their respective support rod. In such manner multiple support rods can be used to support a frame member even where the support rods are not symmetrically located along the length of the support beam as the support bracket can be slid/moved inside the support beam until lining up with its respective support rod. Additionally, the entire support framework can be moved relative to the plurality of support rods by sliding the framework relative to the support brackets. In such manner the location of the supporting frame member can be changed without moving the support rods.
US11578817B2
A method for laying a pipeline on the bed of a body of water comprises assembling a pipeline on a laying vessel; launching the pipeline from the laying vessel; identifying a zone of the bed of the body of water that causes stresses greater than a threshold value determined for the pipeline; progressively laying the pipeline on the bed of the body of water by advancing the laying vessel; and making, through controlled plastic deformation, at least one curved section along the pipeline with a curvature concordant with the curvature assumed by the pipeline in proximity to said zone, when the pipeline is at least partly laid on the bed of the body of water and partly suspended with respect to the bed of the body of water in proximity to said zone.
US11578812B2
An adapter is provided for a solenoid of a valve. The adapter provides a radial seal and enables manually bleeding by rotating the solenoid. The adapter includes two primary components with a one-way locking engagement between them that can be manually reversed for service of the adapter and the solenoid.
US11578810B2
A valve control is configured for use with control valves and other flow controls. The valve control leverages a simplified structure to avoid problems with manufacture and reduce costs. This structure includes a support unit that compresses parts of a valve housing together. Inside of the valve housing, the structure incorporates diaphragms that cause a pair of balanced valves to move in response to changes in pressure of fluid in a conduit. For industrial application, the valve control finds use to maintain pressure of natural gas in pipelines downstream from a control valve.
US11578805B2
The invention relates to a hydraulic proof test assembly comprising at least a valve (1) with parallel seats (102). It comprises: a shut-off member (2) with parallel plates (20, 21), connected by connecting means for regulating their separation, to make them go from a first position in which this separation is sufficient to enable the shut-off member (2) to be introduced into said valve (1) to a second position where said separation is greater, this separation making it possible to apply them firmly against said parallel seats (102); a device (3) for inserting said shut-off member (2) into said valve (1) which comprises at least a “U” shaped tool, configured to be introduced into said valve (1), its parallel arms forming guides, while its base forms a support for retaining said shut-off member (2); a “dummy stem” (4).
US11578798B2
A transmission mechanism device of an aspect of the present invention includes a motor, a transmission mechanism including a plurality of gears, a first shaft and a bearing supporting the first shaft and transmitting power of the motor, a housing that accommodates the transmission mechanism and holds the bearing on an inner face, oil that collects in a lower region inside the housing, a catch tank that is disposed inside the housing and opens upward, an oil passage through which the oil passes, and an oil pump provided in the oil passage. The oil passage has a first path connecting the oil pump and the catch tank and a scooping path for scooping the oil by rotation of the gear to guide the scooped oil to the catch tank. The catch tank includes a feed portion for supplying the oil to the gear or the bearing.
US11578792B2
A power train component such as a gearbox includes driving and driven, coaxially arranged cooperating gears which engage each other via teeth. The engaging end surfaces of the teeth are provided with a first chamfer and a second chamfer, in which the chamfer edge is offset from bisecting the tooth. Preferably the offset chamfer edges are provided on both a driving gear (shifter), axially positionable using a shifting fork on a shift drum, and a driven low gear. In one preferred driving gear (shifter) design, the offset chamfer edges are only provided for the side engaged when the shifting fork moves against a spring force. The invention facilitates smoother and less binding movement between the non-engaged and the engaged axial positions, such that the gear can be more easily shifted by the shifting fork in at least one direction.
US11578784B2
A reduction gear configured to decelerate and output rotation of a motor includes two-stage planetary gear mechanisms that are provided side by side in an axial direction of the motor and are each configured of helical gears, and a case made of resin and formed into a cylindrical shape, the case incorporating the two-stage planetary gear mechanisms. At least one of an inner engagement ratio of a sun gear and a pinion gear of the planetary gear mechanism in a first stage and an outer engagement ratio of the pinion gear and a ring gear of the planetary gear mechanism in the first stage is 3.0 or more, and both the inner engagement ratio and the outer engagement ratio are larger than an engagement ratio of the planetary gear mechanism in a second stage.
US11578778B2
A flow suppression device adapted to be connected to a high pressure fluid system includes an outer flow containment member of a porous and flexible construction. The outer flow containment member has an upstream end and a downstream end opposite the upstream end. The upstream end includes an inlet opening adapted to receive a flow stream of pressurized fluid from the high pressure fluid system and the downstream end being substantially closed. The flow suppression device also includes a primary inner flow containment member of a porous and flexible construction contained within the outer flow containment member. The primary inner flow containment member has an upstream end with an inlet opening adjacent the inlet opening of the outer flow containment member and a downstream end opposite the upstream end of the primary inner flow containment member.
US11578777B2
A rod guide assembly for a shock absorber includes a sintered metal rod guide and a seal. The sintered metal rod guide has a seat. The seal is disposed in the seat and secured to the sintered metal rod guide with a plurality of stake holds.
US11578770B2
A guard plate for a disk brake of a vehicle includes a base element having at least one fastening section for arranging the base element in relation to a brake disk of the disk brake and at least one extension element. The at least one extension element may be movable relative to the base element and is configured to be moved and fixed between an initial position and at least one extension position.
US11578766B2
A wet friction disc includes a lubrication groove and a plurality of lands defined by the lubrication groove. The lubrication groove has a plurality of circumferential groove portions that extends in a circumferential direction and has a predetermined groove width in a radial direction, and a plurality of intersecting groove portions that extends in directions intersecting the circumferential direction. At least some of the circumferential groove portions have an arc shape such that an end in the circumferential direction is located adjacent to one of the lands in the circumferential direction and that the groove width is entirely contained within a range in the radial direction spanned by that land.
US11578748B2
This fastener assembly includes a body, an elongated member and a split wedge. The body defines a cavity that converges. An access opening at a small end provides access to the cavity. The member has a circumferential external profile at one end. The split wedge has two or more wedge segments with a flexible hinge connecting each of the wedge segments. Each of the wedge segments has an internal profile. The member is inserted through the access opening into the cavity of the body, the wedge segments of the split wedge are positioned circumferentially around the member and then the split wedge is wedged in the cavity to maintain the external profile of the member engaged with the internal profile of the wedge segments of the split wedge.
US11578742B2
Disclosed is a mounting structure for a galvanometer motor. The mounting structure includes a motor apparatus directly mounted on a platform, wherein at least one connection through hole running vertically from a top portion of a housing and extending to a bottom portion of the housing is molded on the housing, and the housing is provided with a connection post, wherein the connection post runs through the connection through hole and is fixedly connected to the platform. In this way, an additional mount is not needed, such that mounting cost is reduced, and mounting is accurate and reliable.
US11578736B2
A system including a pneumatic actuator having an actuator element, the system further including a compressed-air provision device which is configured to carry out a closed-loop position control of the actuator element by applying compressed air to the pneumatic actuator. The compressed-air provision device is further configured to carry out an assistance procedure in which the actuator element is set in an oscillation movement, pressure values and position values are detected, and, on the basis of the detected pressure values and the detected position values, friction information and/or mass information is determined and/or verified.
US11578728B2
A fan module including a body and a plurality of blades is provided. The body has a rotating axis and the body is telescopic along the rotating axis to have an elongated state and a shortened state. The blades are respectively disposed on the body and rotate along with the body along the rotating axis. At least a portion of each blade is flexible and a bending state of each blade is changed along with the elongated state or the shortened state of the body. An axial size of each blade along the rotating axis when the body is in the elongated state is greater than the axial size of each blade along the rotating axis when the body is in the shortened state.
US11578725B2
A compressor includes a shell assembly, a muffler plate and a compression mechanism. The shell assembly has a suction chamber and a discharge chamber. The muffler plate is disposed within the shell assembly and separates the suction chamber from the discharge chamber. The muffler plate includes a hub having a circumferentially extending inner portion and a circumferentially extending intermediate portion. The circumferentially extending inner portion defines a discharge passage extending therethrough. The circumferentially extending intermediate portion has a slot formed in a surface thereof. The slot extends at least partially around the circumferentially extending intermediate portion. The compression mechanism is disposed within the suction chamber and provides working fluid to the discharge chamber via the discharge passage of muffler plate.
US11578722B2
An inter-stage coupling for a multi-stage vacuum booster pump may include a first coupling face configured to be received by a first adjacent stage of the multi-stage vacuum pump; a second coupling face configured to be received by a second adjacent stage of the multi-stage vacuum pump; and a recirculator comprising a recirculation inlet aperture formed in the first coupling face, a recirculation outlet aperture formed in the first coupling face, and a recirculation conduit having a recirculation valve configured to selectively fluidly couple the recirculation inlet aperture with the recirculation outlet aperture. In this way, the pressure in a stage can be relieved by fluidly coupling the outlet aperture with the inlet aperture in order to recirculate built-up gas from one part of the first stage pump to another part of the first stage pump in order to reduce the strain on the rotor.
US11578720B2
The disclosure relates to a pump assembly for a vehicle having an internal combustion engine with or without transmission or electric motor with transmission or for an oil supply having a double-pipe pump, wherein the two pipes are separated from each other and a second pipe can be connected to a first pipe, wherein the pump has at least one input drive point for an electric machine and also for a drive motor, including, for example, via a gearbox.
US11578719B2
A first communication groove (38) extending from a start point of a discharge port (36) in a direction opposite to rotation direction of vanes (22) is formed. A first end portion (38E) of this groove is connected to the start point of the discharge port (36). When a front-side vane in a rotation direction of a driving shaft (11) is positioned at the start point of the discharge port (36), a second end portion (38S) of the groove is positioned at a rear side in the rotation direction with respect to a rear-side vane coming immediately after the front-side vane, and communicates with a suction port (35). A part of working fluid in a front-side pump chamber (27-1) can therefore be introduced into a rear-side pump chamber (27-2) that communicates with the suction port (35), thereby lessening excessive pressure increase of the front-side pump chamber (27-1) and suppressing pulsation phenomenon.
US11578709B2
The present application relates to a stepwise discrete actuator (10) with two shape memory alloy wires (15, 15′) used in an antagonistic configuration to drive a slider (13) that moves a toothed element (12) through tooth-engaging fingers (131, 132) that are spaced at rest by a distance F that is shorter than the distance T between adjacent teeth by an amount sufficient for a stationary finger lifter (14) to lift that of the slider fingers (131, 132) that does not engage the movable toothed element (12) such that it clears the teeth of the latter.
US11578694B2
Provided is a leading-edge protector for a wind turbine rotor blade, including a curved body shaped for attachment to the rotor blade along at least a section of its leading edge; a plurality of fins, each fin extending radially outward from the curved body and terminating in a blunt outer face; and a plurality of reinforcement bands, wherein a reinforcement band is attached to the blunt outer face of a fin. Also provided is a method of manufacturing such a leading-edge protector.
US11578684B2
Systems and methods for controlling fuel factions delivered to different cylinders are provided. In one example, a controller is configured to, during a single engine cycle and responsive to a first condition, deliver a lower fraction of a first fuel into a donor cylinder in comparison to a fraction of the first fuel being injected into a non-donor cylinder and deliver a higher fraction of a second fuel into the donor cylinder in comparison to a fraction of the second fuel being injected into the non-donor cylinder.
US11578680B2
Insert with sealing groove for engine block and systems, assemblies, components, and methods thereof
An insert for an engine block and systems, assemblies, components, and methods thereof can comprise a ring-shaped body having an inner surface and an outer surface opposite the inner surface. The inner surface can having one or more sealing grooves adapted to receive and retain respective sealing rings. A maximum outer diameter of the ring-shaped body can be defined by the outer surface and can be greater than a height of the ring-shaped body in a longitudinal direction of the ring-shaped body.
US11578676B1
Methods and systems are provided for diagnosing degradation and/or alteration in an evaporative emission control system of a vehicle. In one example, a method may include, during a refueling, monitoring a fuel tank pressure and a fuel fill level, and detecting a presence or an absence of a fuel vapor canister of the EVAP system based on a change in fuel tank pressure with an increase in fuel level.
US11578671B2
An exhaust-gas flap device, including 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. The pivot shaft is rotatable about a pivot axis (A). The pivot shaft has first and second axial end regions and is supported rotatably on the flap pipe by respective first and second bearing assemblies. The pivot shaft is configured, in the first axial end region, for coupling to a drive element of a pivot drive. The pivot shaft is, in at least one of the axial end regions, in contact with vibration-damping material that is supported relative to the flap pipe.
US11578667B2
A system can include a gas turbine and a processing system. The gas turbine can include a compressor coupled to a turbine through a shaft. The processing system can be configured to: automatically transition an operating condition of the system through a plurality of operating states; determine an efficiency of the system at each of a plurality of the operating states; for each of the plurality of operating states: select a future operating state of the system based on the determined efficiency of the current operating state.
US11578665B2
A gas turbine engine includes a nacelle, and a bypass flow path in a bypass duct within the nacelle of the turbofan engine. A fan section includes a fan with fan blades. The fan section drives air along the bypass flow path. A fan shaft drives a fan that has fan blades and the fan rotates about a central longitudinal axis of the turbofan engine. A speed reduction device includes an epicyclic gear system. A turbine section is connected to the fan section through the speed reduction device and the turbine section rotates about the central longitudinal axis. A first fan bearing for supporting rotation of the fan hub is located axially forward of the speed reduction device. A second fan bearing for supporting rotation of the fan hub is located axially aft of the speed reduction device. A first outer race of the first fan bearing is fixed relative to the fan hub.
US11578664B2
An oil collector for a mechanical reduction gear of a turbomachine, in particular for an aircraft, the reduction gear including a body having two opposite lateral faces configured to extend in part around planet gears of the reduction gear, the collector further including an internal oil circulation cavity connected firstly to oil inlets located on the faces, and on the other hand to at least one oil outlet, characterised in that at least one of the faces comprises includes columns and rows of several inlets each having a recess with a progressively increasing cross-section, each recess being delimited by walls, at least some of the walls having a hydrodynamic profile.
US11578660B1
Described herein are embodiments of systems and methods for the removal of a direct drive unit (DDU) housed in an enclosure, such as a direct drive turbine (DDT) connected to a gearbox for driving a driveshaft connected to a pump for use in hydraulic fracturing operations.
US11578656B2
Air filtration assemblies configured to provide instant detection of particles and/or improve particle filtration are disclosed. The assemblies may include an air inlet duct in fluid communication with a compressor of a gas turbine system. The air inlet duct may include an inlet for receiving intake air including intake air particles, and an outlet positioned opposite the inlet. The assembly may also include a plurality of vane filters at the inlet, an array of fabric filters positioned in the air inlet duct, downstream of the vane filters, and a silencer assembly positioned in the air inlet duct, downstream of the fabric filters. Additionally, the assembly may include an electrostatic component positioned in the air inlet duct, downstream of the fabric filters. The electrostatic component may be configured to charge the intake air particles that pass through the vane filters and the fabric filters.
US11578649B2
The disclosure relates to a charging system, which includes a crankshaft chamber, two cylinder chambers, a crankshaft connecting rod mechanism, two pistons, an intake pipe, two draft tubes, and a rotating rod control mechanism. The crankshaft connecting rod mechanism is installed in the crankshaft chamber. Each piston is received in the cylinder chambers and connected with the crankshaft connecting rod mechanism. The intake pipe only communicates with the crankshaft chamber. One end of each draft tube only communicates with the crankshaft chamber and another end only communicates with each cylinder chamber. The check valve is installed in the crankshaft chamber. The rotating rod control mechanism includes a rotating rod and a sealing block fixedly connected and rotating with the rotating rod. The sealing block blocks and seals a joint between the crankshaft chamber and each draft tube.
US11578636B2
Various embodiments include a method of ascertaining the oxygen load of a catalytic converter disposed in an exhaust tract of an internal combustion engine with an exhaust gas sensor is disposed downstream of the catalytic converter comprising: generating a signal using the exhaust gas sensor indicating a proportion of nitrogen oxide and/or ammonia in the exhaust gas; and ascertaining the oxygen load of the catalytic converter at least partly on the basis of the signal from the exhaust gas sensor.
US11578633B2
An aftertreatment system includes an exhaust reductant tank configured to store an exhaust reductant. A filter is fluidically coupled to the exhaust reductant tank. The aftertreatment system includes a hydrocarbon detection device configured to indicate the presence of a hydrocarbon in the exhaust reductant. A catalyst is included in the system and configured to treat the exhaust reductant flowing through the system. The hydrocarbon detection device can include a hydrophobic paper, and can be disposed in the filter.
US11578629B2
A porous composite includes a porous base material, and a porous collection layer. The collection layer is provided on the base material. The collection layer contains praseodymium oxide.
US11578628B2
An apparatus and method for recovering heat and water vapor from a waste gas stream. A waste gas passageway directs waste gas over a plurality of membrane tubes extending across the waste gas passageway. Each of the membrane tubes includes an internal passage separated from the waste gas passageway by a porous membrane. A water supply inlet manifold is connected to each of the plurality of membrane tubes, and configured to introduce water into the internal passages of the membrane tubes. A vacuum source is connected to the water side of the apparatus, and configured to adjust a pressure within the internal passages of the membrane tubes. The water within the internal passages receives heat and water vapor from the waste gas stream across the porous membrane.
US11578622B2
Systems and methods relating to use of external air for inventory control of a closed thermodynamic cycle system or energy storage system, such as a reversible Brayton cycle system, are disclosed. A method may involve, in a closed cycle system operating in a power generation mode, circulating a working fluid may through a closed cycle fluid path. The closed cycle fluid path may include a high pressure leg and a low pressure leg. The method may further involve in response to a demand for increased power generation, compressing and dehumidifying environmental air. And the method may involve injecting the compressed and dehumidified environmental air into the low pressure leg.
US11578611B2
A gas turbine engine has: an annular gaspath extending around a central axis and defined between a first casing and a second casing; and a variable guide vane (VGV) assembly having: variable guide vanes, the variable guide vanes having airfoils extending between first and second stems at respective first and second ends of the airfoils, the variable guide vanes rotatable about respective spanwise axes; a unison ring rotatable about the central axis, the unison ring operatively connected to the variable guide vanes for rotating the variable guide vanes about the respective spanwise axes, and a segmented bushing having bushing segments circumferentially distributed around the central axis, the bushing segments radially supported and axially constrained by the first casing, the unison ring rollingly engaged to the first casing via the bushing segments, the unison ring axially and radially constrained to the first casing via the bushing segments.
US11578610B2
An apparatus and method for reducing edge contact stress concentrations in a press-fit. The apparatus and method of the present disclosure specifically provide for a press-fit collar having a channel circumscribing a collar axis. The channel having an asymmetrical cross-sectional profile in a radial face. The asymmetrical cross-sectional profile being configured to reduce an edge contact pressure.
US11578601B1
A turbine blade for a gas turbine engine has an airfoil including leading and trailing edges joined by spaced-apart pressure and suction sides to provide an external airfoil surface extending from a platform in a spanwise direction to a tip. The external airfoil surface is formed in substantial conformance with multiple cross-sectional profiles of the airfoil defined by a set of Cartesian coordinates set forth in Table 1, the Cartesian coordinates provided by an axial coordinate scaled by a local axial chord, a circumferential coordinate scaled by a local axial chord, and a span location.
US11578598B2
A coal mining method is provided without coal-pillar leaving and without laneway excavation in a full mining area. The coal mining method includes drilling a main shaft, an auxiliary shaft and a return air shaft from a ground to a coal mining layer; by a coal mining machine, forming a first mining face with a first direction as an advance direction; by the coal mining machine, cutting out a first haulageway and a first return airway while cutting the coal wall at the first mining face, and preserving the first haulageway and the first return airway. In this method, the first haulageway and the first return airway are located on two sides of the first mining face, the first haulageway is in communication with both of the main and auxiliary shafts, and the first return airway is in communication with the return air shaft.
US11578593B2
Systems and methods for producing controlled vibrations within a borehole. In one example, the system includes a movement mechanism and a controller. The movement mechanism is configured to enable translational movement of a first surface relative to a second surface to allow the first surface to impact the second surface to produce a plurality of beats. The frequency and amplitude of the beats may be selectively controlled by suppressing or dampening the beats. The controller is configured to selectively control an amplitude or frequency of the beats to encode information therein, where the amplitude of a beat may be selectively controlled by dampening or suppressing the impact of the first surface and the second surface.
US11578592B2
The disclosure provides an acoustic logging device comprising a first tubular member comprising a plurality of grooves disposed on an exterior of the first tubular member. The acoustic logging device further comprises a ring transmitter module disposed around an exterior of the first tubular member, which comprises a piezoelectric (PZT) ring transmitter, a transmitter sleeve, wherein the PZT ring transmitter is disposed within the transmitter sleeve, and a cage, wherein the transmitter sleeve is disposed between the cage and the exterior of the first tubular member, wherein the transmitter sleeve is disposed over the plurality of grooves. The acoustic logging device further comprises a plurality of dual bender transmitters, wherein there is a gap disposed the plurality of dual bender transmitters in the exterior of the first tubular member, wherein there is an array of holes connecting each of the gaps together and providing fluid communication between the gaps.
US11578585B2
A wellbore tool includes a body having a longitudinal axis and an outer circumferential surface. The wellbore tool includes moveable arms, housings, actuators, a temperature sensor, a pressure sensor, and a heat source, such as a microwave source. Each moveable arm is coupled to a respective actuator and a respective housing. Each actuator is configured to move the respective moveable arm. The temperature sensor is configured to measure a temperature of the subterranean formation. The pressure sensor is configured to measure a pressure of the subterranean formation. The microwave source is configured to generate microwave radiation. Methods of analyzing acquired transient temperature and transient pressure data for formation evaluation are also described.
US11578584B2
A method for investigating well integrity, the method including pumping a magnetic fluid into an annulus of the well; magnetizing with a magnet the magnetic fluid while in the annulus of the well; moving a magnetic sensing probe through a casing of the well and recording a magnetic field generated by the magnetic fluid; and processing the recorded magnetic field to determine a distribution of magnetic particles into the magnetic fluid in the annulus.
US11578578B2
An exemplary automated system and method are provided for monitoring and controlling the transfer of water to water tanks or containers during a water transfer process. In one embodiment, the automated system includes a first manifold, a plurality of controllable valves, a plurality of level indicators, a pump, controller(s), storage device, and display. In one implementation, the controller is configured to control the opening/closing of the plurality of controllable valves based, at least in part, on the water levels of the frac water tanks. The controller(s) may include one or more control modes. In other implementations, the system may include a second manifold (or additional manifolds) and the capability to blend water from two or more sources, such as from an impaired water source, using either a single or multiple-manifold configuration. In other implementations, an assembly is provided, such as a skid or trailer mounted assembly, for use in a mobile automated system.
US11578575B2
A method and a system for recovering oil from currently inaccessible oil containing geological units by activating the deep biosphere microbial seed bank. Nutrient and thermal enhancement of microorganisms in oil containing geological units allows for stimulation of inactive and/or dormant microorganisms such that they proliferate and produce gas. The oil viscosity that is decreased by heat, along with the gas pressure produced by activated microbes which allows previously inaccessible oil to flow toward production wells.
US11578569B2
A system and method for controlling production fluid flow between an annular chamber extending between a casing disposed in a downhole bore and production tubing disposed in the casing. An electrically down hole control valve which includes a motor, a position sensor, a gearbox and a linear actuator coupled to the gearbox to convert rotational movement to an axial movement. The control valve further includes a connecting rod coupled to the linear actuator and a valve assembly. The valve assembly includes a gate that can translate in an axial direction to a plurality of continuously variable positions between a fully closed position and a fully open position. A plurality of such control valves can be disposed in respective openings formed in the production tubing, and a passage is formed in each valve for connecting the annular chamber and the production tubing interior. The valves are selectively closed and selectively opened to permit fluid flow to and from the chamber, through the passage, and to and from the interior of the production tubing. Thus, the volume of fluid passing to and from the chamber, through the valve members, and to and from the interior of the production tubing is controlled.
US11578566B2
An inspection tool and associated methods for testing physical and electrical properties of a perforating gun and sending the perforating gun to a wellbore site with at least one of an electrical property and a dimension that has been previously verified. The perforating gun may be received in a perforating gun holder positioned between a first connecting portion and second connecting portion. The first connecting portion may be moved from a first position to a second position at which the at least one of the electrical property and the dimension is measured. Upon verification that the at least one of the electrical property and the dimension is within a predetermined specification, the perforating gun may be sent to the wellbore site.
US11578557B2
A system and method of reverse stage cementing in which flow into a casing string from an annulus between the casing string and wellbore walls is pressure dependent; the flow is blocked after stage completion. The flow enters the casing string through a cementing sub integrally formed in the casing string. A flapper valve is in a sidewall of the cementing sub that opens when pressure in the annulus reaches a threshold value, and remains open until the annulus pressure falls below the threshold value. Flapper valve actuation is controlled by a hinge spring that is calibrated to open and close the flapper valve based on the annulus pressure. Also in the cementing sub is a sleeve that is positioned behind the flapper valve after the reverse stage cementing is completed. Sleeve actuation is timed to allow adequate time for the flapper valve to return to the closed position.
US11578549B2
A single use setting tool and associated method for actuating a tool in a wellbore may include an inner piston having a piston proximal end, a piston distal end, and a piston annular wall that defines a piston cavity. The setting tool may include a gas-generating power charge positioned within the piston cavity. The power charge may extend along a longitudinal axis from a proximal end to a distal end and have at least two different widths along its length. The power charge may further include a tapered portion. The setting tool may further include a piston extension connected to the piston distal end. The inner piston may further include a shear element groove circumferentially extending in an outer surface of the inner piston, for receiving a shear element.
US11578545B2
Methods and systems for removing contaminants, such as water and/or carbon dioxide, from a gas stream, such as a natural gas stream or a flue gas stream. One or more solid-tolerant heat exchangers are employed to chill the gas stream to a temperature at which the contaminants solidify. The solidified contaminants may then be separated and removed from the gas stream. In one or more aspects, the one or more solid-tolerant heat exchangers may include a scraped heat exchanger.
US11578536B2
An apparatus for feeding a tubular object inside a drill hole, a rock drilling rig and a method of supporting mouth openings of drill holes is provided. The apparatus includes a support device for supporting an elongated tube element blank having the potential for several successive tube inserts. A front end of the tube element blank is moved longitudinally inside a drill hole by means of a feeding device. Thereby, the drill hole is provided with a protective section extending a limited longitudinal dimension towards a bottom of the drill hole. The apparatus further includes a separation device for detaching the mentioned tube inserts one by one from the tube element blank.
US11578535B2
A downhole-type device includes an electric machine. The electric machine includes an electrical rotor configured to couple with a device to drive or be driven by the electric machine. An electrical stator surrounds the electric rotor. The electric stator includes a seal configured to isolate stator windings from an outside, downhole environment. An inner surface of the seal and an outer surface of the electric rotor define an annulus exposed to the outside environment. A bearing couples the electric rotor to the electric stator. A lubrication system is fluidically coupled to the downhole-type device. The lubrication system includes a topside pressure pump and a downhole-type distribution manifold configured to be used within a wellbore. The distribution manifold is fluidically connected to the topside pressure pump and the bearing to receive a flow of lubricant from the topside pressure pump.
US11578525B2
A movable barrier operator includes a first side panel having a first opening and a second side panel, opposing the first side panel, where the second side panel has a second opening. The operator further includes a motor having a first side and an opposing second side including a first shaft extending in a first direction and a second shaft of the motor extending in a second opposite direction. The operator further includes a first bearing, the first bearing inserted into the first opening of the first side panel, wherein the first shaft of the motor is inserted through the first bearing and a second bearing, the second bearing inserted into the second opening of the second side panel, wherein the second shaft of the motor is inserted through the second bearing to thereby prevent transfer of vibration from the motor to the second side panel.
US11578514B2
A retractable outside door handle assembly may include a handle unit including a pushing portion and an outside door handle mounted selectively protruded outwardly to a handle housing, an actuator including a drive motor, a worm connected to the drive motor, a worm wheel engaging with the worm, and an operation rod that moves according to rotation of the worm wheel to push the pushing portion, and a door latch lever that is rotatably mounted on the handle housing and rotates during operation of the outside door handle protruded by operation of the actuator.
US11578511B2
An inertial blocking member subassembly of a handle assembly for a vehicle door includes a blocking member pivotally rotatable about an axis of rotation, and the blocking member has a center of gravity offset from the axis of rotation. The blocking member is responsive to an acceleration force acting thereon to rotate about the axis of rotation from an at rest position in which the blocking member does not prevent unlatching of the vehicle door, to an engagement position in which the blocking member prevents unlatching of the vehicle door. In the engagement position, the center of mass is positioned between the axis of rotation and a vector of the acceleration force acting in a direction toward the center of mass and the axis of rotation, and the center of mass, the axis of rotation and the vector of the acceleration force are approximately in line with one another.
US11578505B2
Apparatus for unlocking and locking a lock (1′) enabling access to protected areas. The apparatus comprises a housing (5) with a housing interior (64). A rotational shaft (30) is in operative connection with the housing. A motor (10) extends in the housing interior (64), is in operative rotational connection with shaft (30) and is operative to rotate the shaft (30). A battery cell (9) extends in the housing interior (64) and is in partially surrounding relation of the motor (10). The battery cell is in operative electrical connection with the motor (10). In cross section, the battery cell (9) includes at least two points (34) and (36) such that a line segment (32) joining these two points passes through the motor (10).
US11578504B2
The present invention relates to a security locking system of the type comprising a cylinder (3) provided with a set of pistons (8) that are able to be positioned by elastic means on the impression formed in the edge (7b, 7c) of a control key (7) perpendicularly to the direction in which said key (7) is introduced into the cylinder (3), these pistons (8) being able to take up two positions, namely a position retracted into the cylinder (3) when the key (7) is introduced into the latter and an extended position when the key (7) is withdrawn there from. This system is characterized in that:—the cylinder is made up of a locking block (3) of parallelepipedal shape that is able to be received in a receiving block (5),—it comprises locking means which are activated when the locking block (3) is introduced into the receiving block (5).
US11578502B2
A panel-post connector plate 16 for connecting a fence post 12 to an adjacent fence panel 14. The panel-post connector plate 16 comprises a plate body 84 having a post-receiving aperture 86 for receiving at least part of the fence post 12 therethrough, and a fastener receiving aperture 92 for receiving a fastener to attach the plate body 84 to a panel-body of the adjacent fence panel 14. A header-rail engagement member 94 is at or adjacent to the plate body 84, the header-rail engagement member 94 receivable in the header rail 26 of the adjacent fence panel 14. A temporary rail support device, a gravel-board retaining element, a fence post and a fence are also described.
US11578498B2
Apparatuses and methods for setting posts of columns in to the ground are provided. Expandable metals in response to hydrolysis that tend to fill in spaces and cavities, even over time, which is a useful feature when setting columns into the ground. A hydrolyzing fluid can be supplied, as necessary, to cause the hydrolysis of the expanding metal, or supplied by ground water. Upon hydrolysis, the expanding metal expands around the column to adhere and grip the column securely, while the metal may also expand outwardly to increase cross-sectional bulk lending to a more overall stabilization of a set column. The expandable metal may be provided as a solid sleeve drivable into the ground with a post, as an auger that can be used to turn a column into the ground or, as a rod that can be driven through the interior of a column into the ground.
US11578497B1
A debris containment system includes channel units that are configured to attach to perimeter structural members of the building (e.g., vertical columns and/or horizontal beams) and extend outward from the perimeter of the building. Channel units can be produced in any length or lengths needed for a given application. These channel units are used to lift and support barrier members (e.g., nets, tarps, canvas/fabric, or other barrier members) to create barriers along the perimeter of the building. Importantly, these channel units are generally attached directly or indirectly (e.g., via temporary vertical members) to structures that will remain on the building (e.g., structural columns and beams of the building) as opposed to being used with separate framing structures erected outside of the building perimeter, although in some exemplary embodiments, channel units can be used on structures erected outside of the perimeter of the building.
US11578486B2
A composite construction element or panel system for use in construction of multi-storey structures, either as a prefabricated panelized system or as a modular system. The composite construction element comprises two mass timber subpanels joined at a distance to form a hollow core, through which various building services (e.g. HVAC or electrical systems) and/or insulation may be integrated. When used as a modular system, after assembly, the two subpanels become one structural entity of increased structural capacity while providing a hollow core to provide/deliver desired building services.
US11578485B2
A curtain wall constructed from prefabricated connecting wall elements mounted in rows next to and above each other with the wall elements including a frame of assembled profiles on the inside of the curtain wall and of one or more infill elements on the outside of the curtain wall. The frame contains mullions and transoms in the form of profiles which along the perimeter of the frame have female coupling parts and male coupling parts which allow the adjacent mullions and adjacent transoms in an assembled condition in the curtain wall to engage with their coupling parts to form composite basic profiles, where between two rows of connecting wall elements a horizontal seal has been applied which extends continuously in a horizontal direction over the width of the underlying row.
US11578468B1
A ram-resistant bollard system for prevention of ingress of vehicles onto a sensitive area that will completely stop a 15000 lb. truck, travelling at 30 mph in less than 3.3 ft wherein the bollard system comprises an upright element inserted into a base-plate which is secured onto a foundation structure made from two H-beams each made from a one-piece extruded metal form, wherein the two H-beams are connected to each other via at least one lower connector plate, partially overlapping and connected to the flanges on the lower surface of both H-beams, and wherein the base-plate is positioned above the flanges of the upper surface of the two H-beams, so as to be to be partially overlapping and connected to the top side of both H-beams via a plurality of small rectangular connection plates that are orthogonally positioned between the base-plate and the flanges of the H-beams.
US11578464B2
Present embodiments relate to a tie plate dispenser which selectively changes the orientation of the tie plates being ejected, if needed. An actuator is used to flip the tie plate as it falls from an ejection location of the dispenser.
US11578462B2
A paperboard structure including a paperboard substrate having a first major side and a second major side, a barrier coating layer on the first major side of the paperboard substrate, a top coat on the first major side of the paperboard substrate, wherein the barrier coating layer is positioned between the paperboard substrate and the top coat, and the paperboard structure providing a blocking rate of less than 2 at 50° C. and at 60 psi in a 24-hour period.
US11578460B2
A belt for creping a web in a papermaking process. The belt includes a surface onto which the web is transferred during the papermaking process. A plurality of openings extend through the surface, with the openings being arranged in lines that are offset from lines in the machine direction (MD) and cross-machine direction (CD) of the belt. Paper products, such as absorbent sheets, made from the belt have hollow dome regions and connecting regions between the domes, with the domes being arranged in lines that are offset from lines in the MD and CD of the paper products.
US11578459B1
A cord (50) comprises: an internal strand (TI) comprising internal layer (C1) of Q=1 internal wire (F1), an intermediate layer (C2) of M intermediate wires (F2) wound around the internal layer (C1) with a pitch p2, an external layer (C3) of N external wires (F3) wound around the intermediate layer (C2) with a pitch p3; and L>1 external strands (TE) comprising an internal layer (C1′), an external layer (C3′). The external layer (CE) of the cord is wound around the internal layer (CI) of the cord in a direction of winding of the cord (50). Each external layer (C3, C3′) of each internal and external strand (TI, TE) is wound in the same direction of winding that is the opposite to the direction of winding of the cord (50). The external layer (CE) of the cord (50) is desaturated, and 0.36≤(p3−p2)/p3≤0.57.
US11578443B2
The present disclosure relates to a laundry processing apparatus and, particularly, to a laundry processing apparatus which improves the condensation performance by increasing a contact time and area of cooling water and humid air in a tub. An embodiment of the present disclosure can provide a laundry processing apparatus comprising: a tub in which wash water is stored; a nozzle installed on the upper side of a side part of the tub so as to allow moisture contained in the air staying in the tub to condense, and supplying cooling water; and a guide installed on a rear side surface of the tub to be disposed below the nozzle, and allowing the cooling water supplied from the nozzle to be dispersed in multiple directions and flow downward.
US11578427B2
The present invention relates to designed ankyrin repeat domains with altered surface residues, as well as to proteins comprising such a designed ankyrin repeat domain, nucleic acids encoding such domains or proteins, methods of preparing such proteins, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such proteins or nucleic acids, and the use of such proteins, nucleic acids or pharmaceutical compositions in the treatment of diseases.
US11578424B2
A semiconductor wafer comprises a substrate wafer of monocrystalline silicon and a dopant-containing epitaxial layer of monocrystalline silicon atop the substrate wafer, wherein a non-uniformity of the thickness of the epitaxial layer is not more than 0.5% and a non-uniformity of the specific electrical resistance of the epitaxial layer is not more than 2%.
US11578420B2
Provided is a surface hardening method for surface hardening a sulfuric acid-anodized aluminum alloy oxide layer, which includes: pre-treatment in which various foreign substances, including an oxide film, attached to a surface of an aluminum alloy are removed; sealing treatment in which the aluminum alloy having been subjected to the pre-treatment is immersed in a sealing solution, whereby fine pores formed in a film are sealed; and heat treatment in which the aluminum alloy having been subjected to the sealing treatment is charged to, and thermally treated in, a heat treatment furnace and then naturally cooled. By lowering the withstand voltage of an aluminum alloy oxide layer and increasing the hardness by subjecting the same to sealing treatment and subsequent post-heat treatment, the present invention has the effect of providing an environmentally-friendly and crack-free lightweight material that can replace steel products.
US11578417B2
A nano-twinned crystal film and a method thereof are disclosed. The method of fabricating a nano-twinned crystal film includes utilizing an electrolyte solution including copper salt, acid, and a water or alcohol-soluble organic additive, and performing electrodeposition, under conditions of a current density of 20˜100 mA/cm2, a voltage of 0.2˜1.0V, and a cathode-anode distance of 10˜300 mm, to form the nano-twinned crystal film on a surface at the cathode. The nano-twinned crystal film formed by the method includes a plurality of nano-twinned copper grains and a region of random crystal phases between some of adjacent nano-twinned copper grains, wherein at least some of the nano-twinned copper grains have a pillar cap configuration with a wide top and a narrow bottom.
US11578411B2
This invention presents a novel corrosion inhibitor. In the preferred embodiment, the inventive corrosion inhibitor comprises extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). In one embodiment, the invention presents a novel EPS corrosion inhibitor using waste activated sludge (WAS). In this embodiment, WAS is heated to release EPS from the microbial mixture.
US11578409B2
PECVD methods for depositing a film at a low deposition rate comprising intermittent activation of the plasma are disclosed. The flowable film can be deposited using at least a polysilane precursor and a plasma gas. The deposition rate of the disclosed processes may be less than 500 Å/min.
US11578400B2
The fine metal mask provided in the present disclosure includes at least one mask pattern portion, and at least one protective portion that is disposed on and connected with at least one side edge of the at least one mask pattern portion, wherein a thickness of the at least one protective portion is less than a thickness of the at least one mask pattern portion.
US11578388B2
The invention provides a copper-zinc alloy with low lead content useful in the manufacture of wire used in the manufacture of cages for aquaculture, where said wire suffers the least deterioration due to loss of zinc during exposure to stagnant water, water of little movement or sea waters.
US11578380B2
An ultra-high-strength hot-rolled steel plate and steel strip having good fatigue and reaming properties and a manufacturing method therefor. The weight percentages of the components of the steel plate and the steel strip are: C: 0.07-0.14%, Si: 0.1-0.4%, Mn: 1.55-2.00%, P≤0.015%, S≤0.004%, Al: 0.01-0.05%, N≤0.005%, Cr: 0.15-0.50%, V: 0.1-0.35%, Nb: 0.01%-0.06%, Mo: 0.15-0.50%, Ti≤0.02%, and the balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities. Such components need to meet: 1.0≤[(Cr/52)/(C/4)+(Nb/93+Ti/48+V/51+Mo/96)/(C/12)]≤1.6. The tensile strength of the ultrahigh-strength hot-rolled steel plate and steel strip is ≥780 MPa, the yield strength thereof is ≥660 MPa, the tensile fatigue limit (10 million cycles) FL thereof is ≥570 MPa, or the fatigue limit to tensile strength FL/Rm thereof is ≥0.72. The reaming rate meets: if an original hole is a punched hole, the reaming rate thereof is >85%; and if the original hole is a reamed hole, the reaming rate thereof is >120%.
US11578377B2
A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having excellent iron loss property is produced from a steel slab containing, by mass %, C: 0.002-0.15%, Si: 2.5-6.0%, Mn: 0.01-0.80%, Al: 0.010-0.050% and N: 0.003-0.020%, when: a heating rate between 500-700° C. in decarburization annealing is not less than 80° C./s, a surface roughness Ra of a work roll in final cold rolling is 0.01-3.0 μm, a total content of alkaline earth metals to MgO in annealing separator is 0-5 mass %, an average length L in rolling direction of passed crystal grains is not more than 25 mm, a ratio of crystal grains having a length in rolling direction of not more than 5 mm is 40-90%, and an existence ratio of alkaline earth metal sulfides having a size corresponding to circle of not less than 0.5 μm in a cross section of forsterite film is not more than 0.2/μm per unit length in sheet width direction.
US11578376B2
The present disclosure relates to a steel for pressure vessels used in a hydrogen sulfide atmosphere, and relates to a steel material for pressure vessels having excellent resistance to hydrogen induced cracking (HIC) and a manufacturing method thereof.
US11578372B2
Novel NTRK1 fusion molecules, detection reagents, and uses and kits for evaluating, identifying, assessing and/or treating a subject having a cancer are disclosed.
US11578368B2
The present invention provides a method of assessing type 2 diabetes susceptibility and/or predicting treatment responsiveness in a human subject, the method comprising determining the identity of at least one allele at each of three or more positions of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) selected from the group consisting of: SLC16A11-rs75493593; HNF1A-rs483353044; TCF7L2-rs7903146; CDKN2A/B-rs10811661; CDKAL1-rs7756992; SLC30A8-rs3802177; IGF2BP2-rs4402960; FTO-rs9936385; PPARG-rs1801282; HHEX/IDE-rs1111875; ADCYS-rs11717195; JAZF1-rs849135; WSF1-rs4458523; INS-IGF2-rs149483638; KCNQ1-rs2237897; and KCNJ11-rs5219, and/or an SNP in linkage disequilibrium with any one of said SNPs at r2>0.8. Also provided are a genotyping tool and a type 2 diabetes risk assessment system for use in the method of the invention.
US11578367B2
Methods for predicting the development of sepsis in a subject at risk for developing sepsis are provided. In one method, features in a biomarker profile of the subject are evaluated. The subject is likely to develop sepsis if these features satisfy a particular value set. Methods for predicting the development of a stage of sepsis in a subject at risk for developing a stage of sepsis are provided. In one method, a plurality of features in a biomarker profile of the subject is evaluated. The subject is likely to have the stage of sepsis if these feature values satisfy a particular value set. Methods of diagnosing sepsis in a subject are provided. In one such method, a plurality of features in a biomarker profile of the subject is evaluated. The subject is likely to develop sepsis when the plurality of features satisfies a particular value set.
US11578366B2
The present invention includes a method for analyzing RNA fragments. In one aspect, the present invention includes a method of identifying a subject in need of therapeutic intervention to treat a disease or condition, disease recurrence, or disease progression comprises characterizing the identity of rRNA fragments. The invention also includes diagnosing, identifying or monitoring a disease or condition, and a method for identifying rRNA fragments. The invention also includes diagnosing, identifying or monitoring a glaucoma in a subject in need thereof by characterizing the identity of rRNA or tRNA fragments.
US11578365B2
Provided in the present invention is a chicken whole-genome SNP chip and application thereof. There are a total of 50,000 SNP loci on the chip: including 19,600 SNP loci for white-feather broilers, yellow-feather and partridge chickens having a MAF value greater than 0.05 and uniformly distributed across the genome which were derived from the data of the whole-genome resequencing of main indigenous chicken breeds in China and introduced chicken breeds; 14,000 SNP loci associated with economic traits, and 16,400 SNP loci for making up for the genomic regions that are not covered by the first two types of probes. The 50,000 SNP loci on the chicken whole-genome SNP chip of the present invention have DNA sequences represented by SEQ ID NOs. 1 to 50,000. The SNP loci on the chip are uniformly distributed across the whole genome, and associated with traits such as feed efficiency, meat production rate, lipid metabolism, meat quality, general resistance to diseases, reproduction and the like, and the chip has moderate through-put and low cost, and could be used universally for chicken breeds at indigenous and abroad.
US11578361B2
A gene detection method, a gene detection kit, and a gene detection device, including the following steps: providing a plurality of separation cavities on a kit, using a plunger to separate adjacent separation cavities, and respectively providing a lysate solution, a washing solution and a reaction solution in the separation cavities; when detecting a sample, pushing each plunger to align a plunger hole of the plunger with the separation cavity, thereby making the separation cavities interconnected; then, controlling magnetic beads in the kit to drive the sample to be tested to pass through the separation cavities in sequence by an electromagnetic control method, carrying out a lysing, a washing and a reaction in sequence; and finally, performing a optical detection on a gene in the reaction solution from outside.
US11578359B2
In some aspects, the present disclosure provides methods for enriching amplicons, or amplification products, comprising a concatemer of at least two or more copies of a target polynucleotide. In some embodiments, a method comprises sequencing the amplicons comprising at least two or more copies of a target polynucleotide. In some embodiments, the target polynucleotides comprise sequences resulting from chromosome rearrangement, including but not limited to point mutations, single nucleotide polymorphisms, insertions, deletions, and translocations including fusion genes. In some aspects, the present disclosure provides compositions and reaction mixtures useful in the described methods.
US11578351B2
Methods of detecting biologicals in samples is provided herein. The detection is based on the formation of aggregates. The disclosed compositions include labeling particles and/or aggregating particles. The labeling particles and the aggregating particles may each include a receptor bound to the particle. The receptor can be either directly attached to the particle or indirectly attached to the particle through a linker. One method of detection may be visual and another may include advanced quantification of the formed aggregates.
US11578343B2
Some aspects of this disclosure provide compositions, methods, systems, and kits for controlling the activity of RNA-programmable endonucleases, such as Cas9, or for controlling the activity of proteins comprising a Cas9 variant fused to a functional effector domain, such as a nuclease, nickase, recombinase, deaminase, transcriptional activator, transcriptional repressor, or epigenetic modifying domain. For example, the inventive proteins provided comprise a ligand-dependent intein, the presence of which inhibits one or more activities of the protein (e.g., gRNA binding, enzymatic activity, target DNA binding). The binding of a ligand to the intein results in self-excision of the intein, restoring the activity of the protein.
US11578339B2
The invention provides a transgenic corn event MON95275, plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts (including pollen, seed, and cells, and tissues corresponding to tassel, root, stalk, stem, leaf, cobb, and the like), progeny plants, commodity products comprising detectable amounts of corn event MON95275 DNA. The invention also provides polynucleotides specific for corn event MON95275 and methods for using and detecting corn event MON95275 DNA as well as plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, progeny plants, and commodity products comprising corn event MON95275. The invention also provides methods related to making and using corn event MON95275.
US11578322B2
A system and method for automated single cell capture and processing is described, where the system includes a deck supporting and positioning a set of sample processing elements; a gantry for actuating tools for interactions with the set of sample processing elements supported by the deck; and a base supporting various processing subsystems and a control subsystems in communication with the processing subsystems. The system can automatically execute workflows associated with single cell processing, including mRNA capture, cDNA synthesis, protein-associated assays, and library preparation, for next generation sequencing.
US11578319B2
This invention relates to a method for the purification of nucleic acids, preferably DNA, from biological samples, comprising the steps (a) optional lysis of said sample, (b) optional heat incubation of said sample, (c) enzymatic digestion of non-nucleic acid components in the product of step (a) or (b), (d) heat inactivation of one or more enzyme(s) used in step (c), (e) transfer of the product of step (d) onto a resin capable of retaining non-nucleic acid components, while the nucleic acids pass through the resin, thereby purifying the nucleic acids.
US11578316B2
Compositions and methods are provided comprising acetolactate decarboxylase (ALDC) enzyme variants having higher specific activity. Composition and method are provided where the ALDC variants are used in combination with metal ions to further increase stability and/or activity.
US11578315B2
Variant guinea pig L-asparaginases which are truncated and humanized are described as are fusion proteins containing the L-asparaginase and use of the L-asparaginases in the treatment of cancers such as acute lymphoblastic leukemia and acute myeloid leukemia.
US11578314B2
The present disclosure provides engineered human extracellular DNASE proteins (e.g., variants of DNASE1 (D1), DNASE1-LIKE 1 (D1L1), DNASE1-LIKE 2 (DTL2), DNASE1-LIKE 3 Isoform 1 (DTL3), DNASE1-LIKE 3 Isoform 2 (DTL3-2), DNASE2A (D2A), and DNASE2B (D2B)) that are useful for treating conditions characterized by neutrophil extracellular trap (NET) accumulation and/or release. In accordance with the invention, the DNase variant has advantages for therapy and/or large-scale manufacturing.
US11578308B2
The present invention is directed to a method of preparing an artificial tooth primordium in vitro, comprising the steps: a) providing isolated mesenchymal dental pulp cells; and b) culturing the mesenchymal dental pulp cells under non-adherent conditions to form a cell aggregate representing an artificial tooth primordium; as well as to an artificial tooth primordium derived therefrom.
US11578304B2
Provided is a method of culturing one or more microorganisms. The method includes culturing one or more microorganisms in a medium comprising crude glycerol at a first concentration level, feeding to the media an additional amount of crude glycerol, once the first concentration of glycerol is reduced to a first threshold level, at a concentration sufficient to achieve the first concentration level, monitoring the crude glycerol concentration until the first concentration level of the crude glycerol is reduced to the first threshold level. The steps may be repeated until a desired microorganism cell density is achieved.
US11578298B2
The invention relates to a device designed for the cultivation and radiation-induced killing of living biological cells. The device comprises a flat substrate and a functional layer for creating a wound in biological cells, said functional layer being applied to the flat substrate. The functional layer contains at least one photosensitizer which is designed to convert triplet oxygen into singlet oxygen by the application of electromagnetic radiation. As a result, biological cells on the functional layer can be killed by irradiation of low-intensity electromagnetic radiation. A wound can be introduced into a cell layer at a locally defined point easily, quickly, carefully, and in a flexible and cost-effective manner and thus the healing of the wound can be studied. The invention further relates to uses of the devices and a method for analyzing a migration and/or wound healing behavior of biological cells.
US11578296B2
A closure assembly is provided. The closure assembly includes a cap portion, a tubular neck extending from a top surface of the cap portion, and at least one reinforcing member extending between the top surface of the cap portion and an exterior surface of the tubular neck, wherein the cap portion, the tubular neck and the at least one reinforcing member are a unitary integral piece. The closure assembly design provides stability to the tubular neck and the cap portion when a force is applied to either one or both of the tubular neck and the cap portion.
US11578295B2
Process for the protein stabilization of an oenological liquid, comprising a step of preparation of an oenological liquid (3) containing proteins, a step of application of at least one pulsed electric field to the oenological liquid (3), followed by a step of introducing at least one protease into the oenological liquid (3), a hydrolysis step, in which the protease catalyses the breakage of at least one peptide bond between the amino group and the carboxyl group of the proteins present in the oenological liquid (3), thereby forming compounds (7) containing the amino and/or carboxyl groups; such hydrolysis step transforms the oenological liquid (3) into a stabilised oenological liquid (5).
US11578287B1
This disclosure describes lubricating additives and lubricants including such additives suitable for and/or configured for mixed fleet use and, for instance, additives and lubricants that satisfy performance standards for typical spark ignition passenger car lubricants as well as performance standards for lubricants suitable for typical compression ignition heavy duty engine applications.
US11578285B2
Disclosed are multifunctional compounds represented by structural formula (I): methods of producing compounds represented by structural formula (I) and their use in inhibiting corrosion in corrodible material.
US11578283B2
Use of a viscosity increasing component in a diesel fuel composition, for the purpose of improving the fuel economy of an engine into which the fuel composition is or is intended to be introduced, or of a vehicle powered by such an engine, wherein the viscosity increasing component is a viscosity index (VI) improving additive, wherein the VI improving additive comprises a linear block copolymer, which contains one or more monomer blocks selected from ethylene, propylene, butylene, butadiene, isoprene and styrene monomers and wherein the VI improving additive is used at a concentration of from 0.001% w/w to 0.05% w/w.
US11578282B2
Methods are provided for accurately blending biodiesel into distillate streams to achieve a pre-determined percentage of biodiesel in the distillate, applicable to wild-type distillate streams as well as distillate streams that already contain some percentage of biodiesel.
US11578273B1
A method of upgrading an overflash stream from a vacuum distillation unit comprising the steps of separating the overflash stream from an atmospheric residue stream, the overflash stream comprises an overflash fraction having a T10% between 475 and 530° C. and a T90% between 600 and 700° C.; introducing the reactor feed to a supercritical reactor at a temperature between 380° C. and 500° C. and a pressure between 25 MPa and 30 MPa; maintaining upgrading reactions in the supercritical reactor to upgrade the overflash fraction such that a reactor effluent comprises upgraded hydrocarbons relative to the overflash fraction; reducing a temperature of a reactor effluent in a cooling device to produce a cooled stream; reducing a pressure of the cooled stream in a depressurizing device to produce a discharged stream; and separating the discharged stream in a gas-liquid separator to produce a liquid phase product.
US11578271B1
A method and apparatus for obtaining carbon fiber from carbon fiber waste (e.g., pre-preg and CFP waste). The method and apparatus selects, or is controlled to select, between using an oxygen free pyrolytic process to volatilize the epoxy resin or other matrix in which the fibers are held to liberate the fibers therefrom and, depending upon the type of pre-preg waste, using a reactor environment where the reactor atmosphere has about 1% to about 2% oxygen by volume. The reactor has a counterflow such that the carbon fibers are moved in one direction and the off gasses are moved in the opposite direction. A combination of steam at the reactor outlet and vacuum pressure at the reactor inlet create the counter flow.
US11578265B2
The present subject matter is directed to a luminogen exhibiting aggregation induced emission, wherein T1, T2, and T3 comprise one or more polyynes as a conjugated bridge. The present subject matter is also directed to an AIEgen comprising a hydrophilic pyridium group as a strong electron-withdrawing group; a piperazine group as an electron-donating group; and a α-Cyanostilbene; wherein the AIEgen exhibits aggregation induced emission. The present subject matter is directed to a method of synthesizing an AIEgen and is further directed to a method of labeling comprising incubating a subject having cells with a conjugate formed by conjugating an AIEgen with an antibody; and selectively labeling desired cells by turn-on imaging, wherein labeling occurs when the desired cells are selectively stained by fluorescent emission of the AIEgen upon degradation of the antibody after cellular internalization of the conjugate through endocytosis.
US11578263B2
A method of forming a ceramic-coated proppant, including receiving a proppant or particle and coating the proppant or particle with ceramic to give a ceramic coating on the proppant or particle. A method of hydraulic fracturing a geological formation with the ceramic-coated proppant.
US11578262B2
Proppant particulates like sand are commonly used in hydraulic fracturing operations to maintain one or more fractures in an opened state following the release of hydraulic pressure. Fracturing fluids and methods of hydraulic fracturing may also use proppant particulates composed of fluid coke material (also referred to as fluid coke proppant particulates). In some instances, the fluid coke proppant particulates are characterized by a bulk density of less than about 0.9 grams per cubic centimeter.
US11578257B2
A hydraulic fracking aqueous fluid, including: water; one or more soluble calcium salts; a carbonate ion generating compound; and one or more soluble zinc salts. A method for fracking an underground formation using the hydraulic fracking fluid.
US11578245B2
Provided is: a thermally conductive silicone gel composition which has a high thermal conductivity, and is less likely to flow out and slip off/drop off from a surface on which the gel composition is placed, even when the composition that has not been cured is placed on a sloped surface or in a vertical direction, and has excellent gap-filling ability with respect to a heat dissipation part, etc., and excellent repairability if desired; a thermally conductive member comprising the thermally conductive silicone gel composition; and a heat dissipation structure using the same. The thermally conductive silicone gel composition comprises: (A) an alkenyl group-containing organopolysiloxane; (B) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane; (C) a catalyst for a hydrosilylation reaction; (D) a thermally conductive filler; (E) a silane-coupling agent; and (F) a specific organopolysiloxane having a hydrolyzable silyl group at one end thereof. The gel composition has certain viscosity properties as disclosed herein.
US11578221B2
Described herein are methods and compositions for forming three-dimensional objects via material jetting processes, the methods including the repeated steps of selectively depositing a liquid thermoset material onto a surface from a nozzle of at least one jetting head in a first specified direction and exposing at least a portion of the liquid thermoset material to a source of actinic radiation in order to form a three-dimensional object from the cured thermoset material, wherein the jetting head is configured to eject droplets of the liquid thermoset material from the nozzle at prescribed elevated operating temperatures, and wherein the liquid thermoset material is chosen so as to possessing prescribed viscosity and rheological characteristics.
US11578216B2
An antifouling article including a base material, a diamond-like carbon layer and an antifouling coating layer formed of a surface-treating agent on the diamond-like carbon layer. The surface-treating agent includes a group having a carbon-carbon unsaturated bond, a group having a carbon-nitrogen unsaturated bond, or a leaving group.
US11578208B2
An aromatic polysulfone resin having a repeating unit represented by Formula (I) and a repeating unit represented by Formula (II), in which a ratio (m:n) of a molar content (m) of the repeating unit represented by Formula (I) to a molar content (n) of the repeating unit represented by Formula (II) is 1:2,000 to 1:200. wherein hydrogen atoms of phenylene groups of Formulae (I) and (II) may be each independently substituted with an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a halogen atom.
US11578197B2
Provided is a polymer blend composition comprising linear low density polyethylene, a propylene polymer generally having rubber dispersed therein, and a combination of a propylene copolymer and an ethylene copolymer. In one embodiment, there is provided a polymer blend composition comprising 15 to 75 weight percent of a propylene polymer having from 10-60% crystallinity, 30-50 weight percent of a linear low density polyethylene, and a combination of the propylene copolymer and the ethylene copolymer comprising the remainder of the composition.
US11578194B2
A thickening composition contains xanthan gum having per 100 parts by weight thereof, at least 0.5 parts by weight or more of metal salt bound on the surface of xanthan gum powder. This thickening composition is capable of convenient viscosity development by addition to water-containing objects. Thus, the thickening composition is suitable for use in, for example, food applications for convenient thickening of soft drinks, basting, sauce, dressing, soup, mousse, jelly, or the like, or application for viscosity development by addition of a small amount thereof to meals for patients having difficulty in mastication/swallowing, for example due to eating disorder.
US11578191B2
The present invention relates to the production of cellulose from coffee or cocoa husks. The cellulose extracted can be used to produce paper, card stock, and cardboard. In addition, a composite material also comprising a material that allows the release of aromas is manufactured using said cellulose. Said material is used to manufacture a laminated product for use in primary, secondary and tertiary packaging applications. Said type of article allows printing on the outer surface thereof, is biodegradable and biocompatible.
US11578184B2
A dispersion body having excellent heat ray shielding properties and long-term high temperature stability, and a dispersion liquid for producing the dispersion body, wherein the dispersion liquid contains liquid medium, absorbing fine particles dispersed in the medium, and a phosphite ester compound, the absorbing fine particles are one or more kinds of oxide fine particles selected from tungsten oxide fine particles represented by a general formula WyOz, and the phosphite ester compound is a phosphite ester compound represented by the following predetermined structural formula, and an addition amount of the phosphite ester compound is more than 500 parts by mass and 50000 parts by mass or less with respect to 100 parts by mass of the absorbing fine particles.
US11578175B2
The present disclosure relates to a preparation method of a super absorbent polymer containing a novel cross-linking agent compound. The preparation method of a super absorbent polymer of the present disclosure can provide a super absorbent polymer exhibiting excellent absorption properties and an excellent deodorizing effect by including a cross-linking agent with a novel structure. Therefore, according to the present disclosure, since a separate additive for a deodorizing property is not required, processability and economic efficiency of the manufacturing process can be improved.
US11578174B2
The present invention provides an optical composition from which an optical article having reduced poor appearance such as cloudiness and optical strain during lens base material production can be obtained, and when a photochromic compound is added, a photochromic cured body having excellent photochromism and mechanical strength can also be formed, and a polyrotaxane used therefor. The polyrotaxane has a composite molecular structure formed of an axle molecule and a plurality of cyclic molecules clathrating the axle molecule, satisfying at least one of (X) and (Y). (X): A side chain having a secondary or tertiary hydroxyl group is introduced into at least part of the cyclic molecule of the polyrotaxane. (Y): A side chain having a group represented by -A (A is an organic group, and contains at least one hydroxyl group) is introduced into at least part of the cyclic molecule of the polyrotaxane, and a pKa of the hydroxyl group of the compound represented by H-A is 6 or more and less than 14.
US11578163B2
The invention relates to a block copolymer comprising at least one rigid polyamide block and at least one flexible block, characterized in that the flexible block has an NH2/OH ratio of concentrations of amine chain ends to alcohol chain ends which is within the range from 30 to 150, said concentrations being measured by 1H NMR (TFanh./CD2Cl23). The invention also relates to the use of a flexible block for manufacturing a copolymer containing polyamide blocks and flexible blocks that is both hydrolysis-resistant and CO2-permeable, with a permeability to CO2 of at least 10 000 cm3/m2/24 h/atm for a 25 μm film of said copolymer, characterized in that said flexible block has a ratio of amine chain ends to acid chain ends which is within the range from 30 to 150.
US11578147B2
In a process for producing an olefin polymer, at least one olefin monomer is polymerized in a polymerization reactor to produce a particulate polymer product containing hydrocarbon impurities including unreacted monomer and other C1 to C8 hydrocarbons. The polymer product is contacted with a gas-containing stream in a stripping vessel under conditions effective to strip hydrocarbon impurities from the polymer product and produce a stripped particulate polymer product and a gaseous first effluent stream containing inert gas and hydrocarbon impurities. The stripped particulate polymer product is recovered and the atmosphere adjacent the stripped particulate polymer product is sensed with a photoionization detector configured to ionize C4 to C8 hydrocarbons. The amount of the gas-containing stream supplied to the stripping vessel is then adjusted based upon such sensing.
US11578144B2
Compositions for removing contaminants from plastics processing equipment are described herein. The compositions may include a polymeric carrier component, an oxidizing agent, an abrasive and/or a gas agent. Methods of preparing the compositions described herein and methods of removing contaminants from plastics processing equipment are also described.
US11578142B2
The present invention intends to provide an acid type carboxylated cellulose nanofiber having a high viscosity in a low shear region, or to provide an acid type carboxylated cellulose nanofiber having a very short fiber length, and the acid type carboxylated cellulose nanofiber has a carboxy group at least in part of a constituent unit constituting a cellulose molecular chain, wherein a viscosity of water dispersion with a content from 0.95 to 1.05% by mass is 400 Pa·s or higher at a shear velocity from 0.003 to 0.01 s−1 at 30° C., or an average fiber length is from 50 to 500 nm and a ratio of fibers having a fiber length of 300 nm or shorter is 50% or higher.
US11578141B2
Bispecific antibodies which comprise one antigen-binding region binding to an epitope of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) and one antigen-binding region binding to human CD3, and related antibody-based compositions and molecules, are disclosed. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antibodies and methods for preparing and using the antibodies are also disclosed.
US11578139B1
Disclosed herein are antibodies against ENPP3 and uses thereof, specifically monoclonal antibodies against ENPP3, bispecific antibodies against ENPP3 and CD3, nucleic acids including nucleotide sequences encoding the antibodies, vectors including the nucleic acids, and host cell including the nucleic acids or the vectors. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions and conjugates including the antibodies, and therapeutic methods for using the antibodies.
US11578135B2
The present invention provides multispecific antigen-binding molecules and uses thereof. The multispecific antigen-binding molecules comprise a first antigen-binding domain that specifically binds a target molecule, and a second antigen-binding domain that specifically binds an internalizing effector protein. The multispecific antigen-binding molecules of the present invention can, in some embodiments, be bispecific antibodies that are capable of binding both a target molecule and an internalizing effector protein. In certain embodiments of the invention, the simultaneous binding of the target molecule and the internalizing effector protein by the multispecific antigen-binding molecule of the present invention results in the attenuation of the activity of the target molecule to a greater extent than the binding of the target molecule alone. In other embodiments of the invention, the target molecule is a tumor associated antigen, and the simultaneous binding of the tumor associated antigen and the internalizing effector protein by the multispecific antigen-binding molecule of the present invention causes or facilitates the targeted killing of tumor cells.
US11578129B2
The invention describes anti-cancer therapies comprising using an LRP5 antagonist in combination with an anti-PD1 antibody, each as described herein.
US11578126B2
There is provided a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) comprising a CD19-binding domain which comprises a) a heavy chain variable region (VH) having complementarity determining regions (CDRs) with the following sequences: CDR1—GY-AFSSS (SEQ ID No. 1); CDR2—YPGDED (SEQ ID No. 2) CDR3—SLLYGDYLDY (SEQ ID No. 3); and b) a light chain variable region (VL) having CDRs with the following sequences: CDR1—SASSSVSYMH (SEQ ID No. 4); CDR2—DTSKLAS (SEQ ID No. 5) CDR3—QQWNINPLT (SEQ ID No. 6). There is also provided a cell comprising such a CAR, and the use of such a cell in the treatment of cancer, in particular a B cell malignancy.
US11578123B2
The present invention relates to particularly stable and soluble scFv antibodies and Fab fragments specific for TNF, which comprise specific light chain and heavy chain sequences that are optimized for stability, solubility, in vitro and in vivo binding of TNF, and low immunogenicity. The antibodies are designed for the diagnosis and/or treatment of TNF-mediated disorders. The nucleic acids, vectors and host cells for expression of the recombinant antibodies of the invention, methods for isolating them and the use of the antibodies in medicine are also described.
US11578120B2
Provided herein are antibodies that specifically bind Tau and methods of using the same.
US11578119B2
The present disclosure is directed to leukotoxin-binding antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof. The antibodies and fragments can be used, for example, to detect leukotoxin and/or in methods of treating and preventing Staphylococcus aureus infections.
US11578117B2
Provided herein are, inter alia, antibodies, antigen-binding antibody fragments, cells, polynucleotides, compositions, kits, and methods relating to the detection of HBV protein X (HBx), e.g., in vitro and in vivo. Included are antibodies and fragments thereof that bind HBx, as well as kits, cells, and compositions comprising such antibodies and fragments.
US11578116B2
Described herein are compositions and techniques related to generation and therapeutic application of artificial synapses. Artificial synapses are engineered extracellular vesicles, including exosomes, which incorporate sticky binders on their surface to anchor signaling domains against biological targets, such as receptors. These engineered additives can be organized in genetic vector constructs, expressed in mammalian cells, wherein the sticky binders attach to extracellular vesicles such as exosomes, thereby presenting their joined signaling domains which are rapidly taken up by recipient cells. Artificial synapses adopt the hallmark biophysical and biochemical features of extracellular vesicles, allowing for rapid deployment and scale-up. Importantly, this strategy can allow for kinetically favorable signal generation and signal propagation. This includes, for example, increasing density of agonist presentation to support receptor clustering—an onerous barrier for traditional receptor targeting strategies.
US11578113B2
The invention includes compositions comprising at least one chimeric autoantibody receptor (CAAR) specific for an autoantibody, vectors comprising the same, compositions comprising CAAR vectors packaged in viral particles, and recombinant T cells comprising the CAAR. The invention also includes methods of making a genetically modified T cell expressing a CAAR (CAART) wherein the expressed CAAR comprises a desmoglein extracellular domain.
US11578106B2
Provided are a surfactant adhesive protein comprising an amphiphilic peptide, as a surfactant adhesive protein, at the carbon or amine terminal, a silicone oil and an anticancer composition comprising the surfactant adhesive, where the surfactant adhesive enables homogeneous dispersion of hydrophilic or hydrophobic particles in a hydrophobic or hydrophilic solvent on the basis of strong adhesive strength of the mussel adhesive protein, and the surface adhesive can be favorably used as a surface coating agent requiring antibacterial or antiviral functions as well as a cosmetic product or an ink.
US11578101B2
Unique compounds useful for inhibiting a proteasome in a cell, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of their use are provided herein.
US11578099B2
Compositions and methods are described in which a primary detergent or surfactant in an aqueous solution is removed by the addition of a secondary detergent or surfactant in concentrations that exceed the critical micellar concentration (CMC) of the secondary detergent or surfactant. These compositions and methods are particularly applicable to protein-containing solutions. Typical primary detergents/surfactants include polysorbate 20, polysorbate 80, and Triton X-100. Suitable secondary detergents or surfactants can be ionic, nonionic, or zwitterionic. Typical secondary detergents/surfactants include, but are not limited to, galactoside detergents (e.g. octyl-β-galactoside), glucamide detergents (e.g. MEGA 8, MEGA 9, MEGA 10), cholamide detergents (e.g. CHAPS, CHAPSO, BIGCHAPS), and sulfobetaine detergents (such as sulfobetaine 3-10).
US11578097B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula I: pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and methods of using these compounds to treat or prevent a disease or disorder mediated by FXR and/or TGR5.
US11578093B2
Protected fluorescent reagent compounds and their methods of synthesis are provided. The compounds are useful in various fluorescence-based analytical methods, including the analysis of highly multiplexed optical reactions in large numbers at high densities, such as single molecule real time nucleic acid sequencing reactions. The compounds contain fluorescent dye elements, that allow the compounds to be detected with high sensitivity at desirable wavelengths, binding elements, that allow the compounds to be recognized specifically by target biomolecules, and protective shield elements, that decrease undesirable contacts between the fluorescent dye elements and the bound target biomolecules and that therefore decrease photodamage of the bound target biomolecules by the fluorescent dye elements.
US11578091B2
Methods and systems are described herein for manufacturing oligosaccharides, including maltosyl-isomaltooligosaccharides. The methods involve removing undesired components from fermentation fluids that contain maltosyl-isomaltooligosaccharides.
US11578069B2
The present disclosure provides a compound of Formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as described herein. The present disclosure also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of Formula (I), processes for preparing compounds of Formula (I), therapeutic methods for treating inflammatory disease.
US11578065B2
An organic EL device is provided, including at least an anode, a hole transport layer, a light-emitting layer, an electron transport layer, and a cathode in this order, wherein the hole transport layer contains an arylamine compound represented by the following formula (1), wherein Ar1 to Ar8 and n1 are defined in the specification, and the electron transport layer contains a compound having a benzoazole ring structure represented by the following formula (2), wherein Ar9, Ar10, X, Y1, Z1 and Z2 are defined in the specification.
US11578062B2
The present invention relates to solid forms of (R)-1-(2,2-difluorobenzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-yl)-N-(1-(2,3-dihydroxypropyl)-6-fluoro-2-(1-hydroxy-2-methylpropan-2-yl)-1H-indol-5-yl)cyclopropanecarboxamide (Compound 1) in substantially crystalline form (Form A) or amorphous form, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of treatment therewith.
US11578059B2
The present disclosure relates to compounds and methods which may be useful as inhibitors of KDM1A for the treatment or prevention of diseases. Methods of inhibition of KDM1A, methods of increasing gamma globin gene expression, and methods to induce differentiation in cancer cells in a human or animal subject are also provided for treatment of disease such as acute myelogenous leukemia.
US11578053B2
The present invention relates to a method of synthesizing a compound of formula (I) also referred to as 4-(((2S,4S)-(4-ethoxy-1-(((5-methoxy-7-methyl-1H-indol-4-yl)methyl)piperidin-2-yl))benzoic acid, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and/or intermediates thereof, their use as pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical compositions and the use of intermediates for preparing a compound of formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US11578052B2
Provided herein are compounds and compositions useful in increasing PPARδ activity. The compounds and compositions provided herein are useful for the treatment of PPARδ related diseases (e.g., muscular diseases, vascular disease, demyelinating disease, and metabolic diseases).
US11578051B2
The present invention provides a thiophene carboxamide compound of the following General Formula (I), which is a novel fluorine-substituted biphenyl carboxamide-based compound, and provides a useful compound, as an agricultural and horticultural plant disease control agent, exhibiting an excellent control effect at a low dose. wherein, R, R1, R2, R3, Xm, and Y are each as defined in the specification.
US11578039B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula I, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, as well as compositions comprising such compounds. These compounds and compositions have uses in the treatment of psychiatric or neurological disorders. Compounds of formula I comprise at least one deuterium atom at the α-position and consequently have improved oral bioavailability relative to α-diprotic analogues.
US11578038B2
The embodiments relate to a process for preparing a polythiol composition, which comprises reacting a halogen compound or an alcohol compound with thiourea to prepare a thiouronium salt solution; and adding a basic solution to the thiouronium salt solution to hydrolyze it. The hydrolysis reaction is terminated when the area of peak A in the graph measured by gel permeation chromatography of the reactant in the hydrolysis step under certain conditions is 0.5% to 8% based on the total peak area. A tetrafunctional polythiol composition having high purity can be obtained. Thus, an optical lens having excellent color, transparency, and refractive index can be obtained.
US11578035B2
The present invention provides a crystalline salt of chlorhexidine chloride having a spherical morphology under Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) comprising a chloride anion and a cation selected from the group consisting of calcium, sodium, potassium, magnesium, zinc, strontium or iron, processes for the preparation of the salt, compositions, pharmaceutical compositions and uses thereof in medicine. Also provided are crystalline forms of the salt and fibres comprising the same.
US11578030B2
A method is provided for collecting a compound of formula (III) (in which R31 is a monovalent to trivalent organic group and n31 is an integer of 1 to 3) from a liquid phase component that is formed as a by-product in a method for producing a compound of general formula (I) (in which R11 is a monovalent to trivalent organic group and n 11 is an integer of 1 to 3), wherein the collection method contains steps (1) to (3) or steps (A) and (B), and step (4). Step (1): a step for reacting the liquid phase component with at least one active hydrogen-containing compound in a reactor. Step (2): a step for returning a condensed liquid obtained by cooling gas phase components in the reactor to the reactor. Step (3): a step for discharging gas phase components that are not condensed in the step (2) to the outside of the reactor. Step (A): a step for mixing the liquid phase component, water, and a compound of general formula (III). Step (B): a step for reacting the liquid phase component with water inside the reactor. Step (4): a step for discharging, as a liquid phase component inside the reactor, the reaction liquid containing the compound of general formula (III) to the outside of the reactor. R11NCO)n11 (I) R31NH2)n31 (III)
US11578025B2
The present invention provides continuous flow processes for the preparation of the compound of Formula (2-A), an intermediate used in the preparation of zuclomiphene or a salt thereof.
US11578021B1
A process for alkane chlorination comprising: (a) providing an aqueous solution comprising dissolved alkanes selected from methane, ethane or combinations thereof; (b) providing an 0.005 to 0.050 M aqueous solution of trichloroisocyanuric acid, wherein the trichloroisocyanuric acid in solution forms cyanuric acid and hypochlorous acid; and (c) contacting the aqueous solution comprising dissolved alkanes with the aqueous solution of trichloroisocyanuric acid, wherein a liquid phase reaction between the dissolved alkanes and the hypochlorous acid forms a gaseous product stream comprising at least one of chloromethane and chloroethane.
US11578006B2
A manufacturing method of a ceramic formed body, including: a mixing step in which a raw material for forming a ceramic formed body is dryly mixed, and then, a liquid is added to the obtained dry mixture to wetly mix the mixture; a kneading step in which a mixture obtained in the mixing step is kneaded; an injection step in which supercritical carbon dioxide in the state of supercritical fluid is injected into a kneaded product obtained in the kneading step; and a forming step in which a forming raw material containing the supercritical carbon dioxide obtained in the kneading step and the injection step is extruded to form the ceramic formed body.
US11578005B2
Sintered product having a relative density of greater than 90%, with, to more than 80% of the volume thereof, a stack of flat ceramic platelets, the assembly of the platelets having a mean thickness of less than 3 μm, having a width of greater than 50 mm, and including more than 20% of alumina, as a percentage on the basis of the weight of the product. The width of the product is the largest dimension measured in the plane in which the length of the product is measured, along a direction perpendicular to the direction of the length. The length of the product is the largest dimension thereof in a plane parallel to the general plane in which the platelets extend.
US11578001B2
A coating material for a silicon carbide-based honeycomb structure, the coating material including from 20 to 75% by mass of ceramic powder (A), the ceramic powder (A) including from 55 to 95% by mass of silicon carbide and from 5 to 30% by mass of silicon dioxide as chemical components.
US11577993B2
A thermal insulating glass includes a glass substrate and a thermal insulating layer. The thermal insulating layer includes composite tungsten oxide and a binder. The composite tungsten oxide is represented by formula (1): MxWO3-yAy (1), where M is an alkali metal element or an alkaline earth metal element, W is tungsten, O is oxygen, A is a halogen element, and 0
US11577992B2
A method includes depositing a surface modification layer on sidewalls of a plurality of cavities of a shaped article. The surface modification layer is formed from a glass material including a mobile component. The shaped article is formed from a glass material, a glass ceramic material, or a combination thereof. At least a portion of the mobile component is migrated from the surface modification layer into surface regions of the sidewalls of the shaped article, whereby subsequent to the migration, the surface regions have a reduced annealing point compared to a bulk of the shaped article. The surface modification layer and the surface regions of the sidewalls are reflowed. A surface roughness of the surface modification layer disposed on the sidewalls following the reflowing is less than a surface roughness of the sidewalls prior to the depositing.
US11577984B2
A method for manufacturing an optical fiber preform includes: producing a core preform including a core portion made of transparent glass and a first cladding layer obtained by adding fluorine to the core portion; and forming, on an outer periphery of the first cladding layer, a second cladding layer made of glass having a refractive index higher than that of the first cladding layer. Further, a refractive index profile is formed in the first cladding layer due to a fluorine concentration profile, the refractive index profile being provided at least near a boundary surface with the second cladding layer and having a profile such that a refractive index difference between a refractive index of the first cladding layer and a refractive index of the second cladding layer decreases in accordance with a reduction in a distance from the boundary surface with the second cladding layer.
US11577979B1
The present disclosure relates to processes for treating wastewater such as acid rock drainage. The processes may, for example, comprise subjecting the wastewater to a microbial fuel cell process, neutralizing the acid with a base comprising calcium to produce an aqueous composition comprising calcium ions and subjecting the aqueous composition comprising calcium ions to a biological precipitation process to precipitate the calcium ions as calcium carbonate.
US11577977B2
In one aspect, composite particles are described herein. A composite particle comprises a substrate, composite metallic or metal oxide nanoparticles supported by the substrate and an amphiphilic or hydrophilic component associated with the substrate, wherein the composite metallic or metal oxide nanoparticles comprise iron and at least one additional transition metal.
US11577974B2
Techniques and systems for neutralizing discharge waters from ballast and/or cooling water biocidal treatment and disinfection systems are provided. The systems utilize, inter alia, oxidation reduction potential control to regulate the dechlorination of an electrocatalytically generated biocidal agent to allowable discharge levels in ship buoyancy systems and ship cooling water systems.
US11577970B2
A water treatment system for a poultry chiller including a chiller tank is described herein. The system includes a float holding tank at a downstream section of the chiller tank; a fan at the downstream section of the chiller tank that is configured to blow float formed on a surface of the water in the chiller tank into the float holding tank; and a float removal mechanism at the float holding tank that is configured to remove the float from the float holding tank. Related methods are also described.
US11577969B2
Disclosed are a transition metal precursor for preparation of a lithium transition metal oxide, in which a ratio of tap density of the precursor to average particle diameter D50 of the precursor satisfies the condition represented by Equation 1 below, and a lithium transition metal oxide prepared using the same. 0 < Tap density Average particle diameter D 50 of transition of metal precursor < 3500 ( g / cc · cm ) ( 1 )
US11577968B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for fast molten salt reactor fuel-salt preparation. In one implementation, the method may comprise providing fuel assemblies having fuel pellets, removing the fuel pellets and spent fuel constituents from the fuel assemblies, granulating the removed fuel pellets or process feed to a chlorination process, processing the granular spent fuel salt into chloride salt by ultimate reduction and chlorination of the uranium and associated fuel constituents chloride salt solution, enriching the granular spent fuel salt, chlorinating the enriched granular spent fuel salt to yield molten chloride salt fuel, analyzing, adjusting, and certifying the molten chloride salt fuel for end use in a molten salt reactor, pumping the molten chloride salt fuel and cooling the molten chloride salt fuel, and milling the solidified molten chloride salt fuel to predetermined specifications.
US11577965B2
Provided herein are methods and systems to form calcium carbonate comprising vaterite, comprising dissolving lime in an aqueous base solution under one or more precipitation conditions to produce a precipitation material comprising calcium carbonate and a supernatant solution, wherein the calcium carbonate comprises vaterite.
US11577963B2
Provided is a method of preparing a sparsely pillared organic-inorganic hybrid compound. The method of preparing an organic-inorganic hybrid compound includes: preparing a compound having a gibbsite structure by a method other than a hydrothermal synthesis method, using a trivalent metal cation source, an alkali imparting agent, and a first solvent (S10); and preparing an organic-inorganic hybrid compound by a method other than a hydrothermal synthesis method, using the compound of the gibbsite structure, a divalent metal cation source, dicarboxylic acid, and a second solvent (S20).
US11577962B2
The disclosed method and related systems and devices relate to producing a pigment from microbial biomass. The pigment may be an engineered black pigment. The method may include a thermal processing step where the microbial biomass is charred. The biomass in the charred and pre-charred state can be washed chemically and/or mechanically. In another step the biomass is ground via a grinding of milling process. The grinding/milling may occur at any various points in the process. In some embodiments the biomass has a particle size between 0.01 and 100 microns.
US11577953B2
A method of aseptically distributing fluid to a plurality of vessels includes securing the plurality of vessels relative to a hub and flowing fluid through an input tube into a plenum of the hub such that a substantially equal amount of fluid flows from the plenum into each of the vessels simultaneously. The vessels are positioned in the same plane relative to one another with each vessel having an inflow conduit extending from the hub to the vessel such that an arc segment is formed between the hub and the vessel.
US11577928B2
Sheet processing machine comprising at least one pile formation device, and method for forming piles
In some examples, a sheet processing machine includes an at least one pile formation device. The at least one pile formation device is arranged so as to be displaceable at least in an inward-moving direction. The at least one pile formation device includes a plane. The at least one pile formation device is displaceable at least in a vertical direction relative to at least one lower multiple-up separating tool by means of a lifting device. In a temporary storage position, at least the plane is arranged in a vertical direction beneath a plane of the at least one lower multiple-up separating tool.
US11577923B2
A portable dock plate which includes a planar ramp that has opposing side members, the ramp also has a top end and a bottom end, the top end includes a lip portion. The dock plate has a first wheel assembly and a second wheel assembly. The first wheel assembly includes a wheel, wheel lock linkage, a first locking pin with corresponding first locking pin holes, a lip-lowering apparatus and a lip-raising apparatus. The second wheel assembly has a wheel and a second locking pin with corresponding second locking pin holes. The dock plate also includes opposing handrails which are connected to the opposing side members, each handrail includes a moveable lever-handle for movement and placement of the dock plate.
US11577916B2
An apparatus for transferring a container from a first station to a second station of a container forming line includes a frame, a slide mounted to the frame, and a robotic arm mounted to the slide and movable along the slide between the first station and the second station. The robotic arm includes an end effector operable to remove the container from the first station. The frame is removably coupleable to at least one of the first station and the second station such that the apparatus is transportable to a different container forming line.
US11577913B2
Systems and methods are provided for an apparatus for moving objects along a predetermined path. A system includes plurality of conveying units, each conveying unit being connected to two other conveying units. A particular conveying unit includes a first link unit configured for connection to a first neighbor conveying unit. A second link unit is configured for connection to the first link unit, the second link unit further being configured for connection to a first link unit of a second neighbor conveying unit. A cup is detachably connected to the second link unit.
US11577906B2
A shippable bundled product including a plurality of paper product rolls each individually packaged by a first package material and arranged relative to one another so as to form a bundle. The bundle is packaged by a second package material. The second package material has a shrinkage factor relative to the bundle of less than zero.
US11577902B1
A structural packaging element with locating stem, including at least some of a sheet that extends from a first terminal end to a second terminal end, wherein the sheet is curvilinear along at least a portion of a length of the sheet, wherein the length of the sheet is defined between a terminating proximal end and a terminating distal end, and wherein the sheet includes a body portion and a locating stem portion; wherein the body portion is formed by an end portion of the sheet proximate the terminating distal end attached or coupled to an end portion of the sheet proximate the terminating proximal end, and wherein a deformable hollow is defined within the body portion; and wherein the locating stem portion is formed of a portion of the sheet that extends from the body portion to the terminating proximal end and the terminating distal end.
US11577890B2
An example beverage container lid is provided. The beverage container lid includes a lid body including a first opening formed therein. The beverage container lid includes a latch structure pivotably coupled relative to the lid body. The latch structure includes a first sealing element configured to align with the first opening and open or close the first opening in the lid body during pivoting of the latch structure relative to the lid body. The latch structure includes an engagement assembly configured to releasably engage with the lid body to allow for positioning of the latch structure in three or more operational mode positions.
US11577889B2
A cap for a container, such as a water bottle, includes a spout, a state sensor, and an actuator that moves the spout between an open position and a closed position when the state sensor senses a state change for the cap. When a state change is sensed, for example when the container is tilted by a threshold amount, or when a pressure within the container has increased by a threshold amount, an actuator automatically moves the spout between an open position and a closed position. The control mechanism could also track use data, such as how many times the spout has been open/closed, or how much liquid has traveled through the spout.
US11577888B2
A cap and container assembly includes a container having a base and a side wall extending upward from the base. The base and the side wall define an interior, and the side wall defines an opening leading to the interior. A cap moves with respect to the container between an opened position in which the opening is exposed, and a closed position in which the cap covers the opening. A tab projects outward from the cap and has a bottom surface. A spacer projects from the container side wall at a location beneath the tab when the assembly is in the closed position. The spacer bends inward towards the container in response to application of a sufficient force, to move from a locked position that blocks the bottom surface of the tab, to an unlocked position to expose at least a portion of the bottom surface of the tab.
US11577886B2
A portable drinking vessel assembly removably engages an open end of a bottle neck to enable drinking directly from a bottle while aerating the liquid. The assembly comprises a vessel defined by a side wall, a bottom portion forming a bottom opening, and a top portion forming a top opening. A tapered conduit defined by a wide end and a narrow end integrally joins with the vessel through the wide end, and detachably attaches to the bottle through the narrow end. The liquid is aerated while flowing from narrow end, to wide end, and finally into the vessel. A silicone sleeve having ribs encapsulates a longitudinal portion of the conduit. The ribs engage an inner surface of the bottle neck to create a self-tapping rotatable action in the bottle neck, and a seal against the inner surface of bottle neck. The vessel joins a stand to remain upright.
US11577874B2
Devices, systems and methods for labeling an item in a conveyor line are disclosed. An example labeling station comprises a labeling member with a label holder configured to hold a label to be affixed to the item. The labeling member is configured to move at least the label holder at a matching speed of the conveyor in a matching direction and to affix the label to the item. An example labeling method includes obtaining a multi-dimensional representation of the item, determining a label target position in the representation, and controlling a labeling station to affix the label at the label target position on the item.
US11577866B2
A sealing tool for forming a joint in a seal positioned on overlying courses of strap includes a body, a motor and drive train housed, at least in part, in the body, a power supply and a sealing assembly mounted to the body. The sealing assembly is operably coupled to the motor. The sealing assembly includes at least one jaw having a pair of opposing jaw elements. Each jaw element has two edges for cutting into the seal and the courses of strap and forming a bent tab. The jaw element edges are configured to cut into the seal and the courses of strap material at different distances into a width of the seal and strap material. A method for forming seal and a seal formed by the tool and method are disclosed.
US11577849B2
A nacelle having a fan casing, a cowl that movable between an advanced position and a retracted position that opens an opening between a bypass duct and the outside, deflectors secured to the mobile cowl, wherein, in the advanced position, they are around the fan casing and wherein, in the retracted position, they are across the opening, and a fan ramp with a mounting base and flaps that are able to rotate on the mounting base between a stowed position and a deployed position. For each flap, the fan ramp has a return element that urges the flap) into the deployed position, and the deflectors have a stop in contact with the flap when the mobile cowl passes from the retracted position to the advanced position. Thus, in the advanced position, the flaps are folded back and their bulk is reduced.
US11577846B2
An aircraft power plant comprising a monolithic powertrain block with a composition of individual modules grouped by functionality, further comprising electric motors, high power motor controllers, logical control electronics (drivetrain computer), cooling system, hydraulics system, low voltage power system, and high voltage power source, wherein the engine mounting frame of the airplane is the main structure for mounting all individual modules.
US11577843B2
A system is provided for an aircraft propulsion system. This system includes an inlet lip, a bulkhead and a piccolo tube for a thermal anti-icing system. The inlet lip extends circumferentially about an axial centerline. The bulkhead extends circumferentially about the axial centerline. The bulkhead is configured with the inlet lip to form a cavity axially between the inlet lip and the bulkhead. The piccolo tube extends circumferentially about the axial centerline within the cavity. The piccolo tube is configured with an elliptical cross-sectional geometry.
US11577840B2
An aircraft is disclosed with an aircraft divan that comprises a back rest, an upright side rest extending from the back rest and forming a side of the aircraft divan, and a seat rest having a first seat section connected to the back rest and a second seat section displaceable translationally relative to the first seat section between a first position and a second position, a gap defined between the first seat section and the second seat section in the first position to receive therein legs of a seated occupant between the first and second seat sections, and the first and second seat sections being adjacent one another to close the gap and form an elongated sitting surface in the second position. A method of adjusting such aircraft divan is also provided.
US11577833B2
Disclosed is an unmanned aerial vehicle adapted to be positioned against a substantially vertical wall while hovering in the air, including a body and rotors, an arm end, a first leg end and a second leg end intersected by a front plane and adapted for together contacting the wall at three spaced apart positions, the front plane intersecting a vertical axis of the UAV at an upper side of a first plane spanned by a lateral and longitudinal axis of the UAV, the front plane extending at a first angle of between 45 to 85 degrees to the first plane; wherein the UAV is adapted for tilting upon contact of the first and second leg ends with the wall while the arm end approaches the wall, about the first and second leg ends and towards the wall, until the arm end contacts the wall.
US11577831B2
A tiltrotor aircraft having a propulsion configuration that divorces the engine core power from the thrust fan, using a combined gearbox with a plurality of clutches to couple and decouple one or more rotor systems and one or more thrust fans. The aircraft can be operable for vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) in a helicopter mode, forward flight in a proprotor mode, and high-speed forward flight in an airplane (jet) mode. The propulsion configuration provides shaft horsepower (SHP) to rotors for VTOL flight, while also providing SHP to the thrust fan for high speed flight. Allowing the rotor and the thrust fan to be clutched on and off, sequentially, enables transition from rotor-borne VTOL flight to wing-borne thrust fan flight, and back.
US11577827B2
An unmanned aircraft capable of vertical takeoff, vertical landing, and/or flight in a hovering orientation is presented; its fixed-wing is positively-swept and of low aspect-ratio with suitable airfoils. The unmanned aircraft includes a thruster comprising two contra-rotating motors and propellers forward of the fixed-wing's leading-edge and a rudderless fin aft of the center-of-mass, all of which lie on the aircraft's plane-of-symmetry. Two elevons provide pitch and roll control. The unmanned aircraft can stand upright on its feet. A control system for aircraft with at least one wing is also presented. The control system includes a mount and attached thruster which lie on the plane-of-symmetry forward of the fixed-wing's leading-edge. A hinge axis approximately perpendicular to the aircraft's horizontal plane passes through the mount. The thruster rotates about the hinge axis for aircraft yaw control.
US11577826B2
A vibration attenuator for a rotor of an aircraft has a first ring with an eccentric weight, a coaxial second ring with an eccentric weight, and a central ring coaxial with the first and second rings and located therebetween. A first post extends from the first ring toward the central ring and is received in a first arcuate groove formed on the central ring, whereas a second post extends from the second ring toward the central ring and is received in a second groove formed on the central ring. A motor is configured for driving the central ring in rotation about the axis relative to the motor. The grooves are equal in length, and a center of the first groove is located on an opposite side from a center of the second groove. Rotation of the central ring by the motor causes rotation of the first and second rings.
US11577823B2
A noise reduction apparatus, an aircraft, and a noise reduction method capable of increasing the amount of noise reduction are provided. The noise reduction apparatus 1 includes a porous plate 2 disposed to face a fluid flow, the porous plate 2 including a bend region 5 bent toward an upstream side of the fluid flow. The bend region 5 is provided at the end portion 6 of the porous plate 2, and has a concave R-shape on an upstream side of the fluid flow.
US11577818B2
A system comprising an aerial vehicle or an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) configured to control pitch, roll, and/or yaw via airfoils having resiliently mounted trailing edges opposed by fuselage-house deflecting actuator horns. Embodiments include one or more rudder elements which may be rotatably attached and actuated by an effector member disposed within the fuselage housing and extendible in part to engage the one or more rudder elements.
US11577809B1
A cowling has first and second cowl portions that enclose a powerhead on a marine drive. A latching assembly is for latching the first and second cowl portions together. The latching assembly has a retainer portion fixed to the first cowl portion and a latching portion fixed to the second cowl portion. The latching portion comprises a latch arm and a bell crank, the latch arm and bell crank being rotatable into and between a latched position in which the latch arm is latched to the retainer portion and an unlatched position in which the latch arm is unlatched from the retainer portion. A novel detent mechanism mechanically retains the latch arm and bell crank in the latched position and alternately in the unlatched position. A pair of bolted connections that fix the first and second cowling portions together and are located on opposite sides of the cowling.
US11577804B2
A bicycle derailleur includes a base element, a movable element having a receptacle and movably coupled to the base element, a rotary shaft mounted in the movable element in the receptacle to be rotatable about an axis of rotation, and a chain guide assembly rotatable relative to the movable element about the axis of rotation and which is coupled rotationally conjointly to the rotary shaft. An elastic force store device exerts on the chain guide assembly a preload force which preloads said chain guide assembly in a direction of rotation relative to the movable element. A damping device acts directly or indirectly between the movable element and the chain guide assembly and has a coupling device arranged radially within the first elastic force store device by which the damping device is coupled to a support, which is static in relation to the movable element, and the rotary shaft.
US11577803B2
A derailleur comprises a base member configured to be attached to a human-powered vehicle frame, a movable member movable with respect to the base member, a pulley assembly pivotally attached to the movable member in a first pivotal direction and a second pivotal direction opposite to the first pivotal direction and including a first pulley having a first pulley axis and a second pulley having a second pulley axis, a pulley assembly biasing member configured to bias the pulley assembly with respect to the movable member in the first pivotal direction, a pulley distance (centimeter) being defined between the first pulley axis and the second pulley axis, a biasing return force (newton) being defined by rotational force of the pulley assembly relative to the movable member, and a return value defined by the biasing return force multiplied by the pulley distance. The return value is 136 or larger.
US11577802B2
A motorized bicycle training wheel system for training people to ride a bike without pedaling includes a pair of motorized training wheels each comprising an attachment bracket, a motor, and a wheel. The attachment bracket has an attachment aperture to receive an axle of a bicycle. The motor has a motor housing coupled to a lower portion of the attachment bracket. The wheel is coupled to a drive shaft of the motor. A battery is in operational communication with the motor of each of the pair of motorized training wheels and coupled to a frame of the bicycle. A throttle is in operational communication with the battery and the motor of each of the pair of motorized training wheels and coupled to a handlebar of the bicycle.
US11577800B2
An operating device is provided for a human-powered vehicle. The operating device basically includes a base, a first operating member, a first electric switch, a first load generator and an operating load adjuster. The first operating member is movably arranged with respect to the base. The first electric switch is provided to the base and arranged to be activated by movement of the first operating member. The first load generator is configured to generate an operating load applied to the first operating member. The operating load adjuster is configured to adjust a transition of the operating load from a first load transition to a second load transition different from the first load transition.
US11577799B2
A loading system for a vehicle includes a buggy for transporting cargo and a mounting assembly for loading the buggy onto the vehicle. A buggy frame has an elongated member. The mounting assembly is configured to be connected to the vehicle and has a sliding rail configured to slidingly receive the elongated member of the buggy frame to allow the buggy to slide along the sliding rail. The sliding rail has a first portion and a second portion extending at an angle relative to the first portion such that, when the mounting assembly is connected to the vehicle, the first portion extends generally horizontally and the second portion extends downwardly from the first portion. The second portion is configured to slide the buggy upwards onto the vehicle. The first portion being configured to slide the buggy generally horizontally into a loaded position on the vehicle.
US11577798B2
A locking system is used to safely immobilize electric motorcycles. The system involves a pin-based locking device that can be activated by the user via a key, remote and/or a switch located on the dashboard of the electric motorcycle. The locking device engages the pin with a component that is rotated by the transmission of the electric motorcycle. When activated, the locking device locks the transmission and prevents the motorcycle from being subjected to unwanted driving wheel rotation.
US11577790B2
A storage assembly, including a headache rack to removably connect to a vehicle, at least one storage container removably connected to at least a portion of the headache rack to store at least one first item therein, and a plurality of mounting assemblies, each of the plurality of mounting assemblies including a support beam removably connected to at least a portion of a rear portion of the headache rack, a mounting beam perpendicularly disposed away from the support beam with respect to a first direction to connect to the vehicle, and a stabilizing beam angularly disposed away from the mounting beam toward the support beam with respect to a second direction different from the first direction to prevent the support beam and the headache rack from moving.
US11577786B2
A lightweight cowl crossbar includes: a first cowl crossbeam located on a first side frame disposed at a first side of a vehicle body; a second cowl crossbeam fastened to the first cowl crossbeam and fixed to a second side frame disposed at a second side of the vehicle body; a support leg located on the second cowl crossbeam and configured to be supported by the vehicle body, and a drawing block part located on a region where the first cowl crossbeam and the second cowl crossbeam overlap.
US11577774B2
In an electric power steering device, a motor housing includes an end face part opposite to an output part of a rotating shaft of an electric motor. A power conversion circuit part includes a power conversion switching circuit part, and a second part exclusive of the power conversion switching circuit part. The power conversion switching circuit part includes an upper arm switching element and a lower arm switching element packaged by synthetic resin, and is mounted on a power conversion switching circuit board that is mounted to a power conversion switching circuit part heat dissipation section of the end face part for heat dissipation. A power supply circuit part and the second part of the power conversion circuit part are mounted on a power supply circuit board that is mounted to a power supply circuit part heat dissipation section of the end face part for heat dissipation.
US11577758B2
In one embodiment, when an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) is parked, the ADV can determine, based on criteria, whether to operate in an open-space mode or an on-lane mode. The criteria can include whether the ADV is within a threshold distance and threshold heading relative to a vehicle lane. If the criteria are not satisfied, then the ADV can enter the open-space mode. While in the open-space mode, the ADV can maneuver it is within the threshold distance and the threshold heading relative to the vehicle lane. In response to the criteria being satisfied, the ADV can enter and operate in the on-lane mode for the ADV to resume along the vehicle lane.
US11577752B2
The invention relates to a method for adjusting fully automatic vehicle guidance functions, which are realized by means of a vehicle system of a motor vehicle, during the operation of the motor vehicles in a predefined navigation environment. A stationary infrastructure device that communicates with the motor vehicles is associated with the navigation environment. Function limits of each vehicle guidance function are defined by means of limit operation parameters of the vehicle guidance function. Current traffic situation information describing dynamic objects in the navigation environment is determined by the infrastructure device by means of environment sensors of the navigation environment. The current traffic situation information is used, together with a digital map describing stationary objects and properties of the navigation environment, to determine at least one piece of risk information for each motor vehicle.
US11577744B2
A vehicle system includes a warning device and at least one electronic control unit. The at least one electronic control unit is configured to present a light stimulus to a driver, and determine whether the driver is facing forward, determine whether the driver holds a steering wheel, and cause the warning device to perform a first warning when it is determined that the driver is not facing forward while the light stimulus is being presented. The first warning is either the vibration or the sound. The at least one electronic control unit is configured to perform a second warning when it is determined that the driver does not hold the steering wheel before a predetermined time elapses after the first warning is started. The second warning includes the vibration and the sound.
US11577738B2
A vehicle includes a cabin having a first room and a second room that are capable of accommodating at least one passenger, and configured to isolate one or more passengers accommodated in the first room from one or more passengers accommodated in the second room, a guidance apparatus configured to guide the at least one passenger to be accommodated in either the first room or the second room, and a control apparatus configured to control the guidance apparatus. When a user boards as the at least one passenger, the control apparatus determines which of the first room and the second room the user is to board, based on information regarding the user. The guidance apparatus is configured to guide and board the user to whichever of the first room and the second room determined by the control apparatus.
US11577732B2
Systems and methods for monitoring the lane of an object in an environment of an autonomous vehicle are disclosed. The methods include receiving sensor data corresponding to the object, and assigning an instantaneous probability to each of a plurality of lanes based on the sensor data as a measure of likelihood that the object is in that lane at a current time. The methods also include generating a transition matrix for each of the plurality of lanes that encode one or more probabilities that the object transitioned to that lane from another lane in the environment or from that lane to another lane in the environment at the current time. The methods then include determining an assigned probability associated with each of the plurality of lanes based on the instantaneous probability and the transition matrix as a measure of likelihood of the object occupying that lane at the current time.
US11577731B2
A moving body control apparatus includes a travel control section that controls travel of a moving body based on vicinity information, and a lane change control section that performs a lane change of the moving body from a first lane to a second lane, if the lane change of the moving body from the first lane to the second lane is approved. The travel control section performs first acceleration/deceleration control to accelerate or decelerate the moving body according to a velocity of another moving body travelling in the second lane, if the lane change of the moving body from the first lane to the second lane is denied.
US11577725B2
A system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to control at least one of a steering system or a propulsion system to operate a vehicle at a speed below a speed threshold. The instructions include instructions to determine whether one or more second vehicles a first distance from the vehicle are traveling below the speed threshold. The instructions include instructions to, upon determining the second vehicles are traveling below the speed threshold, continue to control the steering system or the propulsion system. The instructions include instructions to, upon determining the second vehicles are not traveling below the speed threshold, transition control of the steering system or the propulsion system to a human operator of the vehicle.
US11577722B1
A vehicle computing system may implement techniques to predict behavior of objects detected by a vehicle operating in the environment. The techniques may include determining a feature with respect to a detected objects (e.g., likelihood that the detected object will impact operation of the vehicle) and/or a location of the vehicle and determining based on the feature a model to use to predict behavior (e.g., estimated states) of proximate objects (e.g., the detected object). The model may be configured to use one or more algorithms, classifiers, and/or computational resources to predict the behavior. Different models may be used to predict behavior of different objects and/or regions in the environment. Each model may receive sensor data as an input, and output predicted behavior for the detected object. Based on the predicted behavior of the object, a vehicle computing system may control operation of the vehicle.
US11577713B2
A method for controlling a hybrid vehicle including a battery charged with electric power generated by an engine, including a motor as a drive source, and having multiple running modes that can be selected through a mode operation, the running modes including a normal mode configured to perform charging of the battery according to a running state, and a charge mode configured to perform electric power generation by the engine according to a mode operation, the method comprising: setting a range of charge amount that allows for charging of the battery based on the electric power generated; and setting an upper limit of the range of charge amount in the charge mode to be lower than an upper limit of the range of charge amount in the normal mode.
US11577705B2
A communication system for a vehicle comprises a mechanism for sensing a motion status of a vehicle, a control device, plurality of data acquisition sensors, and one or more alerting device activation circuits. The communication system is customizable with the plurality of data acquisition sensors and one or more alerting device activation circuits based upon the needs of the vehicle.
US11577695B2
A movable body comprising a monitoring device configured to monitor a surrounding environment of the movable body through a window member, a heating device configured to heat a portion of the window member within a monitoring area of the monitoring device, an air conditioning device, and a control device, wherein operation modes of the control device include a first mode in which both the heating device and the air conditioning device are driven, and a second mode in which the driving force of the air conditioning device is smaller than that in the first mode, and the control device evaluates the degree of fog on the portion of the window member and determines one of the operation modes based on the result of evaluation.
US11577685B2
An adaptive load-limiting seatbelt assembly for a passenger vehicle includes a rotatable spool drum storing a length of seatbelt fabric and a piezoelectric device including a controller that can dynamically control torque applied to the spool drum resisting pay-out of the seatbelt from the spool drum during a dynamic event such as a vehicle crash.
US11577675B2
A cable system for power distribution including a first connection and a second connection each connected respectively to a first cable and a second cable, the first and second connections to be connected to a battery; said second cable being split into a set of two distinct wires connected to a circuit protector, wherein each of the first cable and the second cable are connected respectively to a third connection and a fourth connection each configured to connect to a first load, wherein each of the first cable and the second cable are additionally connected to a fifth connection and a sixth connection each configured to connect to a second load; and wherein the first cable and the second cable are configured to bypass another circuit protector for a difference power distribution connect to the battery.
US11577671B2
The invention relates to a method for producing an absorbing sound insulation motor vehicle trim element having a four-layered structure made from a first foam layer, a second foam layer, a non-woven foam layer and a non-woven fabric layer. The invention further relates to an absorbing sound insulation motor vehicle trim element.
US11577662B2
A device for securing a display for a vehicle roof having a main slider and an adjustment slider. Each can be coupled to the display and configured for pivoting the display open and closed and for moving it. The device may have a lever arrangement coupled to the main slider and adjustment slider for display open-and closed pivoting and movement. The device also has a locking unit having a locking element coupled to the adjustment slider pivotable relative to the adjustment slider, and which cooperates with a locking pin arranged on the lever arrangement, so that an open position of the locking element in which the locking element is spaced from the locking pin, and a closed position of the locking element in which the locking element retains the locking pin, can be set, and the display can be transferred from a first open-pivoted state into a second closed-pivoted state.
US11577657B2
A vehicular luggage tray apparatus is capable of receiving and storing goods in a main tray and a sub tray, and of receiving and storing the main tray and the sub tray in an unused space in a side wall of a luggage room of a vehicle.
US11577642B2
A turn signal lamp for an outside mirror is disclosed. The turn signal lamp comprises a lens and a light source module coupled to one side of the lens. The light source module includes a printed circuit board (PCB), a PCB assembly including a light emitting diode (LED) disposed on the PCB to output light, and a light source module case configured to accommodate the PCB assembly in an internal space. The light source module case includes a recess formed horizontally along a circumference of a surface of the light source module case. The lens includes a lens protrusion in which a part of the lens protrudes in a shape corresponding to the recess. The lens protrusion is inserted into the recess to come into close contact with a front surface of the recess, so that the light source module and the lens are coupled to each other.
US11577637B2
A truck bed rack includes a first side panel and a second side panel coupleable to a truck bed. A first upper bar, a second upper bar, and a third upper bar may be coupled to a top, inside surface of the first side panel and the second side panel. A first lower bar and a second lower bar may be coupled to a lower, inside surface of the first side panel and the second panel. The upper and lower bars may be adjusted to expose the entire truck bed to receive any type of cargo. The first and second side panels may couple to the truck bed and be self-supporting. The first and second side panels may include support brackets and support members.
US11577635B2
A component for a vehicle may comprise a roller rotatable relative to a base, a sheet coupled to the roller and movable between a retracted state and an extended state, a lock mechanism and a button. The lock mechanism may disengage to allow sheet movement and engage to block sheet movement. The lock mechanism may comprise an arm to engage the teeth on the roller to hold the sheet in the extended state. The button may comprise a latch to prevent engagement. The component may comprise an actuator to move the lock mechanism to block sheet movement and rotate the roller to provide tension in the sheet. The actuator may comprise a motor. The component may comprise a sensor and a controller for the actuator/motor. The component may comprise a cover or retractable table.
US11577634B1
A vehicle interior system of a vehicle includes first and second seating assemblies and a roof positioned vehicle-upward of the first and second seating assemblies. A first head restraint of the first seating assembly is pivotably coupled to the roof and operable to pivot relative to the roof about a first pivot axis between a stowed position and a use position vehicle-downward of the stowed position. A second head restraint of the second seating assembly is coupled to the roof and operable to pivot relative to the roof about a second pivot axis between a stowed position and a use position vehicle-downward of the stowed position. The first pivot axis is not parallel to the second pivot axis.
US11577632B2
A shock mitigation seat 10 includes a plurality of individual shock absorbing members 16 resilient to compression from a shock impact. The shock absorbing members 16 are positioned one adjacent another and such that at a certain stage of compression an individual shock absorbing member 16 resiliently deforms and comes into contact with one or more adjacent individual shock absorbing members 16 which thereby increases resistance to further compression. The seat may be incorporated in a shock mitigation system 50 which has at least one sensor operable to detect a force and to provide a feedback signal indicative of the nature of the force and a memory record the incidence and severity of these forces and provides an indication of cumulative forces absorbed.
US11577619B2
A charging station assembly capable of generating and delivering a conditioned airflow while charging a battery of a vehicle. The temperature and flow rate of this conditioned airflow may be controlled based on the ambient conditions and battery status. The conditioned airflow may be directed toward an outside heat exchanger of a refrigerant system of the vehicle to enhance capacity. The conditioned airflow may also be routed to a battery pack for direct cooling or heating through additional ventilation system. In hot ambient conditions, the charging station provides cool air to facilitate battery cooling. In cold ambient conditions, the charging station provides hot air to facilitate battery heating. This charging station assembly shifts the load from the vehicle refrigerant system to the charging system, thereby improving battery thermal management capability, while eliminating the need for an oversized refrigerant system.
US11577613B2
A system and a method of controlling a solar roof of a vehicle are provided. The system includes a solar cell panel and a controller that controls charging of a main battery and an auxiliary battery using power generated from the solar cell panel. A light amount sensor senses the amount of light collected in the solar cell panel and a temperature sensor measures a surface temperature of the solar cell panel.
US11577610B2
Compact, multi-function rotational controllers or switches that allow an operator of a vehicle to simultaneously view the status of a plurality of related functions, and to easily change or toggle the status of each of the functions. A multi-function controller of the present disclosure may include a rotatable central control dial that is at least partially surrounded by a visual indicator panel that indicates a current status for the functions that are controlled by the multi-function controller. The multi-function controller may include a selected function indicator that indicates which of the plurality of related functions is currently selected, control input hardware that receives operator input, and control circuitry that toggles the state of the selected function responsive to such operator input. The multi-function controller may include an “all functions off” function that allows the operator to simultaneously turn all of the related functions off via a single input action.
US11577609B2
A vehicle dashboard assembly includes a dashboard panel, a display support, a display and a display cover. The dashboard panel has a display receiving space. The display support is coupled to the dashboard panel. The display is removably and reinstallably attached to the display support. The display cover is movably coupled relative to the dashboard panel between a closed position and an open position. The display cover includes a first cover portion for covering a front side of the display and a second cover portion for covering one edge of the display. The first cover portion surrounds a screen of the display while in the closed position to define a display opening for viewing the screen. The first and second cover portions are movable as a unit between the closed and open positions.
US11577608B2
A dashboard cover sheet that comprises of a central rectangular sheet that is made of an absorbent material and the length is configured to cover a full length of a dashboard of a vehicle. A first rectangular strip that is made of an impermeable material, the first rectangular strip is affixed to an upper side of the central rectangular sheet. A second rectangular strip that is made of an impermeable material, the second rectangular strip is affixed to the central rectangular sheet. A first absorbent rope that is attached to the first rectangular strip. And, a second absorbent rope that is attached to the second rectangular strip, the first absorbent rope and the second absorbent rope are configured to be placed between the front window of the vehicle and the edges of the dashboard of the vehicle.
US11577595B2
A vehicle body rear structure of an electric vehicle may include: a high-voltage device arranged in a rear portion of the electric vehicle, wherein the high-voltage device is included in an electric powertrain of the electric vehicle or is electrically connected to the electric powertrain, and the high-voltage device is operable on a voltage over AC 30 or DC 60 volts; a low-voltage device arranged rearward of the high-voltage device at a same height level as the high-voltage device, wherein the low-voltage device is operable at a voltage lower than AC 30 or DC 60 volts; and a crossmember passing between the high-voltage device and the low-voltage device.
US11577594B2
A roof assembly for a vehicle roof having a roof opening may have a movable roof element for optionally closing and at least partially uncovering the roof opening, a strand-shaped sealing profile which is adapted on a sealing side for sealing against the movable roof element and can be fastened to a fastening side on the vehicle roof. The sealing profile may have a sealing tube which is elongated along a longitudinal axis (X) and which surrounds a hollow chamber, and a recess which extends transversely to the longitudinal axis (X) through the sealing tube, such that the fastening side is fluid-connected to a side of the sealing tube facing away from the fastening side.
