US11640107B2
The invention provides a wavelength conversion device and a projection device, where the wavelength conversion device includes a substrate, a wavelength conversion layer, and a light-transmitting layer. The wavelength conversion layer is disposed on the substrate and is made of a wavelength conversion material and a bonding material. The wavelength conversion layer has a refractive index of 1.55-1.70. The light-transmitting layer is disposed on the wavelength conversion layer and is made of the bonding material. The wavelength conversion device and the projection device provided by the invention have greater brightness and are less restricted by temperature during operation.
US11640104B2
A light source device includes: a light emitting element; a heat slinger including a first surface in contact with the light emitting element and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a thermoelectric element including a heat absorbing surface in contact with the second surface and a heat radiating surface opposite to the heat absorbing surface, the thermoelectric element producing a temperature difference upon having current flowing in the thermoelectric element; a heat sink in contact with the heat radiating surface; a frame body that is open in a stacking direction of the light emitting element, the heat slinger, the thermoelectric element, and the heat sink, and supports the light emitting element, the heat slinger, the thermoelectric element, and the heat sink in a stacked state; and a sealing member that is filled in the frame body to cover the heat slinger and the thermoelectric element.
US11640102B2
A camera module includes an imaging lens assembly and an image sensor, wherein the image sensor is located on an image side of the imaging lens assembly. The imaging lens assembly has an optical axis and includes a plastic lens barrel and a plurality of plastic lens elements, wherein the plastic lens elements are disposed in the plastic lens barrel. The plastic lens barrel includes an object-side outer surface, a lens barrel minimum opening, an object-side outer inclined surface and a reversing inclined surface. The object-side outer surface is a surface of the plastic lens barrel facing towards an object side being closest to the object side and is annular. The reversing inclined surface expands from the lens barrel minimum opening to the image side, wherein a connecting position of the reversing inclined surface and the object-side outer inclined surface forms the lens barrel minimum opening.
US11640097B2
A total internal reflection display includes a sub-pixel, a reflecting layer, at least one first stereoscopic electrode and a display medium layer. The sub-pixel is defined by a color filter and a black matrix disposed adjacently to the color filter. The reflecting layer is located beneath the sub-pixel. The first stereoscopic electrode is located beneath the black matrix. The width of the first stereoscopic electrode is less than the width of the black matrix. The display medium layer is located between the sub-pixel and the reflecting layer. The height of the first stereoscopic electrode is greater than half of the thickness of the display medium layer.
US11640096B2
“Smart” controllers for windows having controllable optical transitions are described. Controllers with multiple features can sense and adapt to local environmental conditions. Controllers described herein can be integrated with a building management system (BMS) to greatly enhance the BMS's effectiveness at managing local environments in a building. The controllers may have one, two, three or more functions such as powering a smart window, determining the percent transmittance, size, and/or temperature of a smart window, providing wireless communication between the controller and a separate communication node, etc.
US11640091B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer which includes a stripe-like polymer and first liquid crystal molecules having responsiveness to an electric field, a light source and a transparent film which includes second liquid crystal molecules which are not responsive to an electric field. The second liquid crystal molecules have a large inclination angle with respect to the horizontal plane of the transparent film in a first region that is separate from the light source, and have, in a second region positioned between the light source and the first region, a smaller inclination angle than the inclination angle in the first region with respect to the horizontal plane of the transparent film.
US11640087B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposing the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and a sealant which seals the liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a pixel electrode disposed in a display area, a peripheral circuit disposed in a peripheral area surrounding the display area and a shield electrode disposed in a position overlapping the peripheral circuit in plan view. The second substrate includes a common electrode disposed in the display area and opposing the pixel electrode. The shield electrode and the common electrode do not overlap each other in plan view.
US11640084B2
Provided is a horizontal electric field mode reflective or transflective liquid crystal display device that achieves an increased reflectance. The liquid crystal display device sequentially includes: a first substrate; a first alignment layer; a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules horizontally aligned with no voltage applied; a second alignment layer; and a second substrate including a pixel electrode and a common electrode, the liquid crystal display device further including a reflective layer disposed in at least part of a pixel at a position closer to a back surface than the first alignment layer, the liquid crystal layer, the second alignment layer, the pixel electrode, and the common electrode, at least one alignment layer of the first alignment layer or the second alignment layer having an azimuthal anchoring energy value of less than 1×10−4 J/m2.
US11640079B2
A beam splitter configured to split incident light includes a polarization grating having a liquid crystal layer and a reflective sub-aperture beam splitter. The liquid crystal layer is configured to switch between an “on” state and an “off” state in response to an applied voltage. In the “off” state, the polarization grating angularly deviates and polarizes a portion of received incident light passing therethrough. In the “on” state, crystals of the polarization grating align with the incident light, allowing it to pass therethrough unimpeded and unpolarized. The beam splitter includes a plurality of sub-aperture mirrors which are spaced at randomly varying distances from one another, the mirrors being configured to reflect a portion of the incident light.
US11640073B2
Provided are eyeglasses that can be supported so as to fit each of various head shapes of wearers without any gap, are extremely excellent in preventing slippage and falling during exercise, have a good fitting feeling, and do not particularly require an adjustment operation for preventing slippage and falling. The eyeglasses include a frame, end pieces attached to both end portions of the frame, and temples attached to the back ends of the end pieces so as to be swingable in the inward and outward directions, and a temple pad protrudes from the front end of the temple. The temple pad moves inward when the temple swings outward, and the temple pad moves outward when the temple swings inward.
US11640068B2
A display module includes a first display component including a first light-emitting member and a translucent member, and a second display component including a second light-emitting member. The second display component is arranged at a side away from a light-emitting surface of the first display component, and the second display component and the first display component emit light toward a same side. At least a part of the second light-emitting member overlaps with the translucent member in a light-emitting direction of the first light-emitting member and the second light-emitting member. The second light-emitting member is translucent.
US11640056B1
Computer-implemented methods of operating an augmented reality device can involve capturing camera images, processing the camera images, and displaying virtual display images. The camera images can be captured automatically using a camera disposed within an augmented reality device worn by a user. The camera images can be processed automatically using a processor located within the augmented reality device. The virtual display images can be displayed automatically to the user within the augmented reality device while the user is looking through the augmented reality device and simultaneously viewing real objects through the augmented reality device. The virtual display images can be based on the processed camera images. Additional steps can include accepting a first user input, storing camera image(s) on a memory located within the augmented reality device based on the first input, accepting a second user input, and displaying stored image(s) to the user based on the second input.
US11640050B2
A head-up display (HUD) system is provided. The HUD system comprises a microdisplay-based projection system, a diffuser, a relay optical system, and a combiner. The microdisplay-based HUD system includes aberration correction capabilities and may easily and effectively replace a CRT-based HUD system in aircrafts while providing light-weight, multi-color, superior imaging capabilities with a large field-of-view.
US11640044B2
An electronic device includes at least one optical lens assembly. The optical lens assembly includes four lens elements, and the four lens elements are, in order from an outside to an inside, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element. The first lens element has an outside surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has an inside surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The fourth lens element has an inside surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein at least one of an outside surface and the inside surface of the fourth lens element includes at least one critical point in an off-axis region thereof.
US11640039B2
Various embodiments include a welded bracket structure for camera modules and techniques for forming such a welded bracket structure. In some embodiments, the welded bracket structure may include a first bracket and a second bracket that are welded to each other. Some embodiments include a weld joint arrangement comprising one or more weld joints for attaching the first bracket to the second bracket. Furthermore, some embodiments include an epoxy arrangement for a multi-camera system that includes the welded bracket structure and multiple camera modules.
US11640032B1
A holder configured for use with a fiber optic cable connector body is disclosed. The holder includes, as an improvement, an integral stop. The integral stop includes a wall located adjacent a first end portion of the connector holder. The plurality of substantially semicylindrical recesses are located between the first end portion and a second end portion spaced from the first end portion. The wall is located between two adjacent recesses of the plurality of recesses. The wall includes a base oriented along a longitudinal axis. The wall has a first exterior surface, and a second exterior surface spaced from the first exterior surface. The first and second exterior surfaces each extend from the base and are oriented transverse to the longitudinal axis.
US11640031B2
The present disclosure relates to a process by which an optical fiber array is cleaved with a laser-cleaving apparatus. The coating material is stripped or removed from a section of an optical fiber array; a coated or ribbonized section of the optical fiber array is secured in a holder; the holder is aligned inside the laser-cleaving apparatus; the laser cleaves the stripped ends of the fibers in the optical fiber array; the laser-cleaved ends of the optical fibers are then mechanically separated to remove the free ends from the optical fibers in the optical fiber array, leaving a cleaved array of optical fibers. The cleaving process enables the optical fiber array to be cleaved at flexible locations along an optical fiber ribbon or optical fiber cable with no swelling, minimal cleave angle variation across the cores of the optical fibers, a controlled surface roughness of the optical fiber end-faces, and high process yield.
US11640030B2
Disclosed are an optical phased array chip and a method of manufacturing the same. The optical phased array chip includes a plurality of optical switches and a plurality of optical phased arrays implemented on a single integrated circuit, wherein the single integrated circuit includes a silicon substrate, a lower layer formed on an upper portion of the silicon substrate, a silicon layer formed on an upper portion of the lower layer, a first upper layer, a second upper layer and a third upper layer sequentially arranged on the silicon layer, and an electrode that penetrates through the first upper layer while being grounded to the silicon layer and is formed on an upper portion of the first upper layer.
US11640014B2
Various metamaterials are disclosed. An example metamaterial comprises: a first portion with a plurality of nanoparticles; a second portion with a plurality of molecules configured to interlink with the plurality of nanoparticles; and a signal generator configured to provide a signal to the material. The first portion and the second portion of the material are configured to form a hybrid molecule-nanoparticle super-lattice. In some implementations, the first portion of the material is configured to have a mass configured to achieve, at least in part, a designated resonance frequency. The second portion of the material is, in some implementations, configured to have a molecular stiffness configured to achieve, at least in part, the designated resonance frequency. The signal generator is, in some implementations, configured to generate radio frequency (RF) signals.
US11640011B1
A system for remotely monitoring a depletion state of a sacrificial anode. The system includes a light emitter that is configured to emit a light beam and an optical receiver positioned to receive the light beam. A sacrificial anode is located between the light emitter and the optical receiver in a pathway of the light beam, the sacrificial anode being electrically coupled to a metallic structure for the purpose of minimizing corrosion of the metallic structure. Absent a presence of the sacrificial anode in the pathway of the light beam, the optical receiver is configured to receive the light beam, and in response to receiving the light beam, to generate an electrical signal indicative of the depletion state of the sacrificial anode.
US11640009B2
An in-wall feature detection device of mutual capacitive technology comprises a housing, a detection baseplate, and at least one capacitive sensing baseplate. The detection baseplate is disposed in the housing and has a central processing module and a capacitance value conversion module and is electrically connected to at least one display module. The capacitive sensing baseplate is provided with driving modules and receiving modules, the driving and receiving modules are arranged in a crisscross manner and electrically connected to the capacitance value conversion module. The in-wall feature detection device is capable of using an electric field change between the driving and receiving modules to determine whether there is a blocking object in a wall, and further generating a corresponding light signal through the central processing module to display a shape of the blocking object. Thereby determining a position and the shape of the blocking object during construction.
US11640007B2
The present invention discloses a system and method for phased array sound wave advanced geological exploration for a shield tunneling machine. The system includes a phased array sound wave emitting and receiving apparatus, a probe automatic telescopic apparatus, an automatic protection and cleaning apparatus, and a signal processing and imaging system. Sonic probes are installed on a side wall of a main spoke, opposite to a rotation direction, of a cutterhead of the shield tunneling machine, on the basis of automatic detection of a telescopic state and a contact state, sonic array probes are enabled to make contact with a tunnel face by a hydraulic push rod, a focus sound wave is emitted by using a phased array emitting technology, and a reflected wave signal with front geological information reflected from the front of the tunnel face is received. A scanning direction of a sound wave beam is controlled and changed continuously through a host system, on the premise of obtaining a suspected abnormal body position, the suspected position is imaged in detail by using a focusing image till scanning of a whole two-dimensional section is completed, then the cutterhead is rotated to change an arrangement direction of an array to continue scanning of a next two-dimensional section, and finally three-dimensional geological exploration in front of the tunnel face is realized.
US11640003B2
An embodiment method comprises receiving a satellite signal in a tracking channel, generating a set of replicas of a pseudo random noise sequence, comprising a punctual replica and a plurality of replicas that are different in time with respect to the punctual replica over a given time spacing, correlating the received signal with each replica to obtain amplitude correlation values, monitoring the tracking channel to detect a spoofed signal by generating a further plurality of replicas of the pseudo random noise sequence having a respective time spacing greater than the given time spacing, correlating the received signal of the tracking channel with each further replica to obtain further amplitude correlation values, calculating a shape anomaly factor based on the further correlation amplitude values, verifying the shape anomaly factor is greater than a given shape anomaly threshold, and signaling detection of a spoofed signal on the tracking channel.
US11640002B2
A low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite includes a global positioning receiver configured to receive first signaling from a first plurality of non-LEO navigation satellites of a constellation of non-LEO navigation satellites in non-LEO around the earth. An inter-satellite transceiver is configured to send and receive inter-satellite communications with other LEO navigation satellites in a constellation of LEO navigation satellites. At least one processor is configured to execute operational instructions that cause the at least one processor to perform operations that include: determining an orbital position of the LEO satellite based on applying precise point positioning (PPP) correction data to the first signaling, wherein the PPP correction data is received separately from the first signaling; and generating a navigation message based on the orbital position. A navigation signal transmitter is configured to broadcast the navigation message to at least one client device, the navigation message facilitating the at least one client device to determine an enhanced position of the at least one client device based on the navigation message.
US11639992B2
For example, an apparatus may include a radar processor to process radar receive (Rx) data, the radar Rx data based on radar signals received via a plurality of Rx antennas of a Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar antenna; and to generate radar information by applying an Amplitude Phase Estimation (APES) calculation to the radar Rx data.
US11639990B2
A Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) measurement circuit includes an array of single photon detectors configured to detect photons responsive to emission of an optical signal from an emitter, and a pixel processing circuit that is configured to calculate an estimated time of arrival of photons incident on the array of single photon detectors by utilizing a plurality of coarse histogram bins. Respective ones of the plurality of coarse histogram bins are associated with a duration that is greater than one-sixteenth of a pulse width of the optical signal.
US11639989B2
A time-of-flight (ToF) transmitter with self-stabilized optical output phase with minimal overhead is described, where the transmitter may either function as a slave in that the laser pulse phase and width can be controlled by the master ToF receiver, or it can function as a master where the laser control pulse is generated on the same chip or a companion chip. When the ToF transmitter functions as a slave and receives the laser pulse control signal, the techniques of this disclosure can transform the receive path and the pre-driver circuit into part of a delay locked loop (DLL).
US11639988B2
An integrated photonic circulator is described, an application of which may be deployed on a chip-scale light-detection and ranging (LiDAR) device. The photonic circulator includes a micro-ring resonator waveguide, a heating element, first and second bus waveguides, a magneto-optic substrate, a magneto-optic element, a magnetic ring disposed on a photonic substrate, and a silicon substrate. The first and second bus waveguides are coupled to the micro-ring resonator waveguide, and the micro-ring resonator waveguide is affixed onto a first side of the photonic substrate. The magneto-optic element and the magneto-optic substrate are arranged on the micro-ring resonator waveguide, the magnetic ring is affixed to the magneto-optic substrate, the heating element is affixed to the photonic substrate, the photonic substrate is affixed to the silicon substrate, and the magnetic ring is concentric with the micro-ring resonator.
US11639983B2
A radar sensor is described herein. In accordance with one example embodiment the radar sensor includes a transmitter for transmitting an RF signal and a receiver configured to receive a respective back-scattered signal from at least one radar target and to provide a corresponding digital radar signal. The radar sensor further includes a processor configured to convert the digital radar signal into the frequency do-main thus providing respective frequency domain data and to compress the frequency domain data. A communication interface is configured to transmit the compressed frequency domain data via a communication link operably coupled to the communication interface. Furthermore, respective and related radar methods and systems are described.
US11639980B2
The invention relates to a method of MR imaging of an object (10) positioned in an examination volume of a MR device (1). It is an object of the invention to enable fast spiral MR imaging with a defined T2 contrast. The method of the invention comprises the following steps: —generating a number of spin echoes by subjecting the object (10) to one or 5 more shots of an imaging sequence, each shot comprising an RF excitation pulse (21) followed by a number of RF refocusing pulses (22), wherein modulated readout magnetic field gradients (23, 24) are applied in each interval between successive RF refocusing pulses (22), —acquiring MR signal data, wherein each spin echo is recorded along a spiral trajectory (31-33, 41-43) in k-space which winds around the k-space origin with varying radial distance, wherein the trajectory (31, 41) of at least one spin echo has a different rate of variation of the radial distance at least in a central k-space region compared to the trajectories (32, 33, 42, 43) of the other spin echoes, and—reconstructing an MR image from the acquired MR signal data. Moreover, the invention relates to an MR device (1) and to a computer program for an MR device (1).
US11639971B2
A load testing device or the like having a structure in which cooling air does not leak, is provided. A load testing device includes: a resistance unit having a resistor and a resistor holding frame holding the resistor; a cooling unit having a cooling fan; and an insulating frame disposed between the resistance unit and the cooling unit. The insulating frame is coupled with the resistance unit. The insulating frame is coupled with the cooling unit. The insulating frame covers a side surface of a flow path of cooling air from the cooling unit to the resistance unit between the cooling unit and the resistance unit.
US11639962B1
An integrated circuit (IC) can include a plurality of circuit blocks, wherein each circuit block includes design for testability (DFT) circuitry. The DFT circuitry can include a scan interface, wherein each scan interface is uniform with the scan interface of each other circuit block of the plurality of circuit blocks, an embedded deterministic test circuit coupled to the scan interface, wherein the embedded deterministic test circuit couples to circuitry under test, and a scan response analyzer coupled to the scan interface. The scan response analyzer is configured to operate in a selected scan response capture mode selected from a plurality of scan response capture modes. The IC can include a global scan router connected to the scan interfaces of the plurality of circuit blocks. The global scan router is configured to activate a subset of the plurality of circuit blocks in parallel for a scan test.
US11639961B2
A first circuit outputs a third signal having a first level during a period over which first and second signals have the same level, and having a second level during a period over which the first and second signals have different levels. A second circuit outputs a fifth signal having the first level during a period over which a fourth signal having the same level as the third signal has the same level as the first signal, and having the second level during a period over which the first and fourth signals have different levels. A third circuit outputs a sixth signal having a third level during a period over which the second and fifth signals have the same level, and having a fourth level during a period over which the second and fifth signals have different levels.
US11639950B2
A current sensor for detecting a magnitude of a current flowing through a measuring object has a magnetic core having a first magnetic core and a second magnetic core that is arranged magnetically in parallel to the first magnetic core, wherein the first magnetic core has a magnetic permeability that is higher than that of the second magnetic core in a first frequency band, and the first magnetic core has a magnetic permeability that is lower than that of the second magnetic core in a second frequency band, the second frequency band being higher than the first frequency band, and the current sensor detects the magnitude of the current in a frequency band that is constituted by combining the first frequency band and the second frequency band.
US11639946B2
According to one embodiment, a sensor includes a base including a first face including a first face region, and a first structure body fixed to the first face region. The first structure body includes a first support portion fixed to the first face region, a second support portion fixed to the first face region, a first movable portion, and a first fixed electrode fixed to the first face region. The first movable portion is supported by the first and second support portions and apart from the base in a first direction crossing the first face region. The first movable portion includes a first movable electrode facing the first fixed electrode, and a first conductive member. A first current flows the first conductive member along a second direction crossing the first direction. A first gap is provided between the first fixed electrode and the first movable portion.
US11639944B2
Individual health related events (e.g., handwashing events) can be detected based on multiple sensors including motion and audio sensors. Detecting a qualifying handwashing event can include detecting a qualifying scrubbing event based on motion data (e.g., accelerometer data) and a qualifying rinsing event based on audio data. In some examples, power consumption can be reduced by implementing one or more power saving mitigations.
US11639929B2
This invention is directed to His-tag binding compounds and uses thereof in the preparation of genetically targeted detectable molecules and sensors which can specifically bind tag-labeled proteins. This invention further provides a system comprising recombinant cells decorated with various labels and/or synthetic agents, wherein said labels and/or synthetic agents can be reversibly modified or removed from the cells. Also disclosed herein are methods for decorating and/or modifying the cells and methods for using thereof.
US11639920B2
A qualitative and quantitative heavy metal analysis device and, more particularly, a qualitative and quantitative heavy metal analysis device implemented by a rotary platform are provided. The rotary platform device includes a main injection part which is positioned near a rotating shaft of a rotary platform, wherein the main injection part is configured to receive a fluid sample containing heavy metals, a pH adjusting part configured to adjust pH of the fluid sample, a detecting part coated with a chelating agent configured to initiate a color reaction with heavy metals in the fluid sample by spreading the pH-adjusted fluid sample into the detecting part, and a ruler for measuring a spreading distance of the color reaction, wherein the fluid sample moves from the main injection part through the pH adjusting part to the detecting part by a rotation of the rotary platform device.
US11639918B2
A soil moisture indicator contains a water-absorbing material and a color-changing part. A body part is formed and hollow by a material through which water does not pass, and has a water-absorbing opening proximate one end and a transpiration opening positioned near the other end. A display part is connected to the other end of the body part and allows an inner hollow portion to be viewed. An upper-end part that constitutes the end portion of the display part can be removed from and connected to the display part at the end portion on the opposite side to the end portion connected to the body. There is a change in color tone indication between a water-absorbed state and a dry state.
US11639916B2
A composite part (sandwich or monolithic), including a rigid outer surface, to which is integrated an electronic instrumentation circuit, the electronic instrumentation circuit including a piezoelectric transducer, connected to a coil, an electronic control circuit, connected to a coil positioned facing the coil. The coil is printed on an insulating layer, printed directly on the rigid outer surface, the coil is printed on an insulating layer, covering the coil and the transducer, conducting tracks are printed on an insulating layer printed on at least one portion of the coil to be connected to it, the electronic control circuit being attached to the rigid outer surface and being connected to the tracks.
US11639915B2
The current disclosure determines if structural faults exist and extracts geometric features of the structural faults from acoustic emission waveforms, such as crack length and orientation, and can evaluate the structural faults online, during normal operation conditions.
US11639911B2
The present disclosure relates to circuitry for determining a temperature coefficient value of a resistor. The circuitry comprises circuitry for supplying an AC current signal to the resistor, circuitry for measuring a first voltage across the resistor when the AC current signal is supplied; and processing circuitry configured to determine the temperature coefficient value based on the first voltage.
US11639908B2
A cartridge assembly, and method of using the same, is provided. The assembly includes a sample processing card and a substrate attached thereto. The card has an injection port for receiving a test sample; at least one metering chamber; a mixing material source for introducing mixing material(s) to the metering chamber; fluid communication channels fluidly connecting the injection port and the mixing material source to the metering chamber; and at least one output port for delivering the test sample to a sensor (e.g., GMR sensor). The substrate has associated therewith: the sensor for sensing analytes in the test sample; electrical contact portions for an electrical connection with a reader unit; and a memory chip. The assembly further includes a pneumatic interface with port(s) and corresponding communication channel(s) fluidly connected to card. The interface connects with an off-board pneumatic system and enables application of positive and negative pressurized fluid to the card to move the test sample and one or more mixing materials therein and to the sensor.
US11639897B2
Systems and methods for bacterial load sensing devices are disclosed. An example contamination sensing device may comprise a body, a light emitter disposed on the body and configured to emit an excitation wavelength of light toward a surface, a sensor disposed on the body, configured to detect light, and directed toward the surface, and a filter adjuster configured to determine, based on the excitation wavelength of light, a filter configured to remove light outside of an emission wavelength range, wherein the emission wavelength range corresponds to wavelengths of light emitted by contamination upon exposure to the excitation wavelength of light, and adjustably move the filter in front of the sensor.
US11639881B1
A hydrodynamic bearing fault prediction, detection, diagnosis, and response system for combustion ignition engines, machines and/or coupled components of a combustion ignition engine and/or machine; a plurality of transducers, each disposed proximally or about each of the engine/machine components or engine itself; with at least one transducer with capacitance sensing abilities, each of the transducers disposed to react to changes in the dielectric constant of a nanosuspension circulated about the monitored component.
US11639873B2
A system for a high resolution optical spectrum analyzer (OSA) using an efficient multi-pass configuration is disclosed. The system may include an entrance slit to allow inward passage of an optical beam. The system may also include a grating element to diffract the optical beam. The system may further include a retroreflective element to retroreflect the optical beam. The system may also include a mirror to reflect the optical beam. The system may include an exit slit, which in some examples may be adjacent to the entrance slit. The exit slit may allow outward passage of the optical beam for a high resolution optical measurement.
US11639872B1
Systems, methods, and computer readable medium are provided for determining interferometric data and spectral data associated with combustion conditions of a flame in a combustion chamber using a sensor head including a first vacuum cavity, a diaphragm operatively interfaced to an inner portion of the combustion chamber, and an optical sensor interrogator configured on a computing device and coupled to the sensor head via optical fibers. The optical sensor interrogator including an interferometer configured to determine interferometric data associated with the flame based on light transmitted and reflected via a first optical fiber and a spectrometer configured to determine spectral data associated with the flame based on light transmitted via a second optical fiber.
US11639864B2
There is disclosed herein a flow sensor comprising: a first substrate comprising an etched portion; a dielectric layer located on the first substrate, where the dielectric layer comprises at least one dielectric membrane located over the etched portion of the first substrate; a first heating element and a second heating element located on or within the dielectric membrane; and a controller coupled with the first heating element and the second heating element. The first heating element and the second heating element are arranged to intersect one another within or over an area of the dielectric membrane. The controller is configured to: take a measurement from the second heating element; determine a calibration parameter using the measurement from the second heating element; take a measurement from the first heating element; and determine a flow rate through the flow sensor using the determined calibration parameter and the measurement from the first heating element.
US11639857B2
A rating platform can identify a point of interest (POI) among a first plurality of POIs included in a stop cluster. The rating platform can generate a plurality of unweighted user scores for the POI. Respective unweighted user scores, of the plurality of unweighted user scores is associated, can be associated with respective users of a plurality of users. The rating platform can generate a plurality of weighted user scores for the POI based on the plurality of unweighted user scores and respective weights assigned to respective users of the plurality of users. The rating platform can generate a POI score for the POI based on the plurality of weighted user scores. The rating platform can transmit, based on the POI score, an instruction to display, on the client device, information associated with the POI.
US11639855B2
A setting device is configured to: determine whether a target route indicating a segmented route is curved based on map information; calculate an end-to-end distance from coordinates of a terminating end of the target route to coordinates of a terminating end of an arc in a direction of a coordinate axis in which a preceding segmented route extends; cause the entire arc to slide by an amount corresponding to the end-to-end distance in a direction parallel to the coordinate axis and in a direction from a terminating end of the preceding segmented route toward a starting end of the preceding segmented route; set the entire slid arc as a new segmented route; and change the coordinates of the terminating end of the preceding segmented route to the coordinates of a starting end of the slid arc.
US11639840B2
Holsters suitable for securely retaining an item, such as a handgun, to an individual that enables removal of the item with a single hand when the individual is in a sitting position. Such a holster includes at least first and second holster subcomponents that have at least first and second partial cavities, respectively. The first and second holster subcomponents are assemblable to align the first and second partial cavities to define a pocket that is configured so that the first and second holster subcomponents are interlocked together to define the holster when an item is placed in the pocket and the first and second holster subcomponents are simultaneously released from each other in response to the item being removed from the pocket.
US11639839B1
A method for protecting a rifle and stabilizing the rifle when shooting is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method includes providing a strap and connecting a first end of the strap to a backpack. A second end of the strap is connected to a rifle. A length of the strap is adjusted such that when a user pulls the rifle over the shoulder from the backpack and holds the rifle in a shooting position, the strap slides over the user's shoulder from the backpack to the rifle and reduces a weight of the rifle in the user's arms when the rifle is held in the shooting position. In certain embodiments, the length of the strap is adjusted to maintain the rifle substantially level when in the shooting position.
US11639836B2
Embodiments herein describe an archery training device for improving shooting accuracy. The device has a rigid body graspable by one hand, an elastic section for providing resistance, and a string coupled to the elastic section with a loop on the opposite end for receiving an archery release. The device further includes a sight pin on the rigid body for sighting while pulling on the string via an opposite distal hand to the hand grasping the rigid body. The device further includes an adjustable string length and adjustable resistance to match a particular configuration of a bow for a particular sporting enthusiast or hunter.
US11639833B2
A motorized magazine loader for loading cartridges into a magazine includes a powered sorting and lifting wheel rotatable about a horizontal axis of rotation, a vertical gravity fed cartridge chute positioned laterally next to the sorting and lifting wheel, an accumulator portion at a lower end of the chute, and a loading portion comprising a receiver for magazines to be loaded and a pusher mechanism for inserting cartridges into the magazines, all supported and substantially contained by a housing. Control circuitry includes jam mediation system.
US11639832B2
The present disclosure relates to a technical idea of reducing the surface temperature of a material or temperature under a material by emitting heat under a device to the outside by absorbing and emitting long-wavelength infrared light corresponding to the wavelength range of the atmospheric window while minimizing absorption of light of the solar spectrum. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a technology for providing a radiative cooling device having a multilayer structure that is capable of increasing sunlight reflection through differences in the refractive indexes of the device-forming materials while performing selective emission over the wavelength range of the atmospheric window using a radiative cooling device having a multilayer structure composed of polymers and inorganic materials.
US11639831B2
Cooling a first device and second device in a fashion to produce water. The method includes collecting environmental air from an environment. The environmental air is used to cool a first device. Cooling the first device generates first device exhaust air produced from the environmental air. The first device exhaust air is provided to a first device portion of a heat exchanger. At a second device portion of the heat exchanger, thermally coupled to the first device portion of the heat exchanger, second device exhaust air generated by cooling a second device is received. At the heat exchanger, the first device exhaust air is used to cool the second device exhaust air to a dew point, causing condensed water to be created from the second device exhaust air. The condensed water is collected.
US11639827B2
A method of drying transport and/or storage containers for radioactive waste has the first step draining or pumping residual water out of the container holding the nuclear waste. Then gas is evacuated from the interior of the drained or pumped out container interior. Thereafter an inert gas is fed into the drained or pumped out container interior while continuing to evacuate gas from the container interior. During the evacuation and/or infeeding of inert gas a rate of evacuation and/or a rate of infeed of the inert gas is controlled such such that an inert-gas content in the interior of the container is between 50 and 95 vol %.
US11639825B2
A process for drying polymeric granular material (2) comprises the steps of: —introducing into said drying hopper (10) a process gas having a predefined flow rate so as to heat and dry the polymeric granular material, —discharging a portion of the heated polymeric granular material into a transformation unit (100) for the polymeric material; —loading an amount of fresh polymeric granular material (2a) into the drying hopper. The process gas flow rate is regulated by measuring the inlet temperature of the fresh polymeric granular material (2a) and comparing it with a predefined inlet temperature of the fresh polymeric granular material, on the basis of which the predefined process gas flow rate has been calculated. If the measured inlet temperature is different from the predefined inlet temperature, the flow rate of the process gas is regulated on the basis of the measured inlet temperature.
US11639814B2
A new system for and a method of deploying a heat exchanger pipe. A bore hole is drilled from an access ditch location to a terminal ditch location using a piloted drill head powered via an umbilical attached to the piloted drill head. A casing is attached to the piloted drill head and disposed about the umbilical into the bore hole from the access ditch location to the terminal ditch location. At the terminal ditch location, the piloted drill head is removed from the casing and the umbilical and a heat exchanger pipe is attached to the umbilical. The umbilical is withdrawn from within the casing deployed in the bore hole to pull the heat exchanger pipe into the casing. The casing is then withdrawn from the bore hole leaving the heat exchanger pipe in the bore hole.
US11639810B2
An air handler, comprising: a heating and cooling coil to exchange heat with input air to generate conditioned air; an air diffuser to diffuse the conditioned air to generate diffused air; and an air blower to draw the input air into the air handler via an air inlet, pass the input air over the heating and cooling coil, pass the conditioned air through the diffuser, and expel the diffused air through an air outlet as output air, wherein the air diffuser contains one or more baffles to create two or more air passages that operate to control the expansion and reduction of kinetic energy of the conditioned air to generate the diffused air, a first direction represents a direction of a shortest line between the air blower and the outlet, the air diffuser passes air in a second direction displaced from the first direction by a deflection angle.
US11639809B2
Control systems and methods for control of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVACR) systems that include cooling and one or both of heating and heat recovery can include adaptive and balanced modes for each of heating and cooling operations. The adaptive heating and cooling modes each respectively include controlling the HVACR system to achieve a target temperature for the respective heating or cooling process fluid and to unload or stop the compressor when the temperature of a the other of the cooling or heating process fluid exceeds a threshold. The balanced heating and cooling modes respectively include controlling a quantity of flow of the cooling or heating process fluids to meet balanced heating or cooling target temperatures for the respective heating or cooling process fluids and also the other of the cooling or heating process fluid.
US11639807B2
An air conditioning management system is configured to manage a plurality of air conditioners as management targets. The air conditioning management system includes a controller connected to the air conditioners, and a server apparatus connected to the controller. The controller is configured to execute a management program to manage the air conditioners. The server apparatus is configured to provide the controller with an air conditioner data model as a collection of data on the air conditioners to be referred to in the management program. The air conditioner data model is information on the air conditioners to be referred to in the management program. The air conditioner data model is provided for each type of the air conditioners. The air conditioner data model stores information on the air conditioners for each of data items.
US11639799B2
A hot water supply device including an inlet pipe, an outlet pipe, a burner unit, a heat exchanger, an exhaust aperture, a first temperature sensor detecting a measured exhaust temperature of the exhaust gas, a second temperature sensor detecting a water temperature of water entering the inlet pipe, and a processor. The processor is configured to obtain an error between the measured exhaust temperature and an estimated exhaust temperature, and detects that scale clogging has occurred inside the heat exchange tubing based on an index which is generated using the error between the measured exhaust temperature and the estimated exhaust temperature. The estimated exhaust temperature is a first predetermined value that is determined using a numerical equation which has at least the water temperature of water entering the inlet pipe and a scale number of the hot water supply device as variables of the numerical equation.
US11639794B2
A fluid flow fitting with a tubular comprising a void therethrough allowing flow of a fluid, a plurality of fins at least partially transverse to the flow of the fluid extending inward from an inner wall of the tubular, and an outlet cap having an outlet hole centered thereon. An ignition source can be placed proximate the outlet cap and/or outlet hole to ignite the combustible fluid. The fins can cause a swirling motion of the combustible fluid, thereby separating contaminants from the combustible fluid and leading to more efficient and clean combustion.
US11639793B2
A gas furnace according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a mixer for mixing air and a fuel gas, which are introduced through an intake pipe and a manifold, respectively, to form a mixture; a mixing pipe through which the mixture, having passed through the mixer, flows; a burner assembly for producing a combustion gas by burning the mixture having passed through the mixing pipe; a heat exchanger through which the combustion gas flows; an exhaust pipe through which an exhaust gas, as the combustion gas having passed through the heat exchanger, is discharged outside of the gas furnace; and an inducer for inducing a flow of a fluid through the intake pipe, the mixer, the mixing pipe, the burner assembly, the heat exchanger, and the exhaust pipe. In this case, the mixer has a front end connected to the intake pipe, a rear end connected to the mixing pipe, and a side surface connected to the manifold.
US11639781B1
An illumination system configured to be attached to a rear of a vehicle with a tow hitch, and positioned to direct light towards the ground behind the vehicle and the tow hitch. The illumination system including a housing, a socket with differently shaped fingers for attachment to the housing in a proper orientation. An LED light is received in the socket for directing light rays in a first direction, and an inner lens is coupled to the LED, and configured to receive the light rays such that a flat portion of the lens directs some of the light rays substantially along the first direction and an angled portion of the lens directs some of the light rays in a second direction different from the first direction. A protective outer lens surrounds the inner lens, and includes transparent and opaque portions.
US11639779B2
The present disclosure relates to products and methods for modifying the reflection of a light source in a fireplace and other products.
US11639777B2
A lamp comprises a lamp body and a connecting rod assembly. The connecting rod assembly is alternatively connected to a first connecting member or a second connecting member respectively to define a first use state and a second use state. When in the first use state, one or more connecting rods of at least three connecting rods which are connected successively in an axial direction define a lifting rod, and a first end of the lifting rod is connected to the first connecting member. When in the second use state, first ends of the at least three connecting rods are connected to the second connecting member, and second ends of the at least three connecting rods are spaced apart from each other to define a placing plane within which a vertical projection of a center of gravity of the lamp body is located.
US11639766B2
Provided is a patch for a fluid line, a system employing a fluid line, and a method for sealing a fluid line. The fluid line, in one aspect, includes a tubular, and a sleeve of expandable metal positioned about the tubular, the sleeve of expandable metal comprising a metal configured to expand in response to hydrolysis and thereby seal a leaking section of a fluid line.
US11639759B2
Wiring member support device supports a movable section of a wiring member provided across two link members supported to be rotatable about a predetermined axis, the movable section capable of moving in accordance with relative rotation of the link members, the wiring member support device including, two or more support pieces provided with at least one guide hole through which an intermediate position of the movable section of the wiring member in the longitudinal direction passes and which has an inner diameter slightly greater than an outer diameter of the wiring member, the two or more support pieces connected to be detachable from each other at the position of the guide hole in a radial direction of the guide hole. The wiring member support device is fixed to the link member at a position between a fixed position of the wiring member to the link member and the predetermined axis.
US11639750B2
A dynamic damper includes: a mass body that is disposed inside a rotation shaft and extends along a shaft center of the rotation shaft; and an elastic body interposed between the mass body and the rotation shaft. Further, the mass body is allowed to vibrate to a linear motion state, the elastic body includes: first and second contact surfaces, when the gear generates vibration so as to fall from a radial direction of the rotation shaft to an axial direction side of the rotation shaft, compressive stress acts on the elastic body by the mass body vibrating so as to push the first contact surface in response to the vibration, and when the gear generates vibration along the axial direction, compressive stress acts on the elastic body by the mass body coming in the linear motion state and vibrating so as to push the second contact surface.
US11639740B2
A surgical tool including a socket having a housing and an aperture within the housing, the socket configured to receive a ball and a pin at least partially in the aperture. The ball is positioned at least partially in the socket and configured to rotate within the socket, the ball comprising an elongated opening extending through the ball. The pin is coupled to the socket and disposed at least partially in the socket on opposite sides of the socket, the pin including a first longitudinal axis and extending through the elongated opening of the ball between opposite sides of the socket. The ball is configured to partially rotate about the first longitudinal axis of the pin, and partially rotate, about a second axis perpendicular to the first longitudinal axis of the pin, in a plane aligned with the elongated opening.
US11639737B2
A bearing component, such as a bearing roller or a bearing ring, has an exterior surface and includes at least one interior region made of a recycled material which region is spaced from and does not form any part of the exterior surface. The recycled material and the unrecycled material may each include silicon nitride and/or sialon and/or silicon carbide and/or a ceramic material. Also a method of forming the component.
US11639734B2
Fastener embodiments of the invention comprise a freely translatable collet body, which at least partially translates within an auxiliary structure, and further comprise a captive threaded screw for rotationally engaging with the collet body to transform rotational movement into translational movement through substantial arresting of collet body rotation by way of an anti-rotation means. The screw comprises a free-spin feature that functionally, but not physically, decouples a drive tool from the collet body.
US11639732B2
A hanger-rod clip can be configured for use with a strut that at least partially surrounds a hanger rod to provide stiffness to the hanger rod. The hanger-rod clip can include a handle portion and a rod-clamping portion. The rod-clamping portion can be configured to urge the hanger rod into engagement with an internal surface of the strut as the handle portion is moved towards the strut.
US11639731B2
An improved fastener clip for a side curtain airbag is provided. The fastener clip includes a head portion and a body portion having first and second expansion legs. During installation, the fastener clip is manually inserted through aligned openings in an airbag attachment member and a body panel. When a bolt is threaded into the fastener clip, the head portion engages an upper surface of the airbag attachment member and the expansion legs flex laterally outward and engage an underside of the body panel. Spring tabs extend from the head portion and absorb vibrations to provide a secure attachment over the life of the fastener clip.
US11639728B2
A linear actuator system has a rotary spool valve configuration having a spool, a piston, and a cylinder. The spool and piston have return apertures so positioned, configured and angled to direct return flow towards the center of a spool central return port and spool pressure ports to direct pressurized flow into upper or lower chambers. Rotation of the spool synchronizes and aligns ports and apertures to reverse flows and effect upward and downward translation of the cylinder to vibrationally drive an implement to perform work. The positioned and angled apertures direct the fluid to a region demarcated by a total length of 1.5 times the interior diameter of the spool central return port centered about a piston shoulder. A base plug member having a bull-nose tip, baffles and cavities is disposed within the spool central return port to reduce or eliminate cavitation.
US11639726B2
A blower may include a fan, a casing including a discharge port and housing the fan, and a nozzle attachable to the discharge port. The nozzle may include a nozzle tube in which air flows, and a plate member disposed within the nozzle tube. A rear end surface of the plate member may be inclined to a flow direction in which air flows within the nozzle tube.
US11639724B2
Provided is a turbo compressor for compressing a gas such as air and supplying the compressed gas to outside, the turbo compressor including a compression unit including a compression gas inlet for sucking the gas, an impeller for compressing the gas sucked through the compression gas inlet, a compression gas outlet for discharging the gas compressed by the impeller, and a compression gas channel connected from the compression gas inlet to the compression gas outlet, a motor including a rotary shaft having a front end coupled to the impeller, to rotate the impeller, a housing having a motor accommodation space to accommodate the motor, and a cooling gas channel passing through the motor accommodation space and enabling circulation of a cooling gas contained therein, wherein the compression gas channel is spatially separate from the cooling gas channel and thus the gas in the compression gas channel does not permeate into the cooling gas channel. According to the present invention, the motor may be efficiently cooled without pressure loss of the compression unit.
US11639721B2
The present application discloses a manual-automatic integrated self-adaptive pump with an infrared water level detection function, which comprises a pump housing, a water pumping assembly, a base, a vacuum cofferdam, a water outlet pipeline, a volute, an exhaust port, a sensor adjusting mechanism and an infrared liquid level sensing assembly. In this way, the manual-automatic integrated self-adaptive pump with the infrared water level detection function provided by the present application has a compact structure, can be easily installed, has strong adaptability, can realize manual and automatic free switching, can realize more accurate detection of remaining water level, has a longer service life, and can solve the problem of sensing the water level in the field.
US11639719B2
A pump body assembly, fluid machinery, and a heat exchange device. The pump body assembly includes: at least two structure members; a cylinder disposed between the two structure members; and a piston assembly disposed in the cylinder. The piston assembly includes a piston sleeve and a piston slidably disposed in the piston sleeve; an upper end surface of the piston sleeve fits and is limited by a lower end surface of one structure member disposed above the piston sleeve, to prevent the piston sleeve from displacing along a radial direction relative to the one structure member, and effectively solving a problem in prior art that working efficiency of the pump body assembly is affected because the piston sleeve of the pump body assembly is prone to eccentrically rotate.
US11639717B2
The invention is directed to a peristaltic pump (10), comprising: a flexible membrane (1) forming a at least one bladder (2) against a support, wherein each bladder is provided with one input orifice (4) which admits a fluid to the bladder (2) and one outlet orifice (5) which releases the fluid from the bladder (2); and at least one roller bearing (6) is configured to rotate about an axis (7) and to apply a compressive force against the at least one bladder (2). The peristaltic pump may be in fluid communication with a tapered jet (11).
US11639716B2
A peristaltic pump for conveying a fluid guided in a hose includes a hose bed having a counter bearing to accommodate the hose, a support disk rotatable relative to counter bearing, a plurality of squeeze rolls positioned in the peripheral direction on the support disk and a plurality of guide rollers positioned in the peripheral direction on the support disk with a guide groove extending in the peripheral direction on its outer circumference, which forms a first guide plane facing the support disk. In order to be able to provide reliable loading and unloading of different hoses with different properties into the hose bed or from the hose bed, each guide roller has a guide cylinder above the guide groove to guide the hose during loading into the hose bed and/or during unloading from the hose bed.
US11639709B2
Provided is a wind turbine rotor blade with a longitudinal direction, at least one first rotor blade section with a first front side and one second rotor blade section with a second front side and a separation point between the first and second rotor blade sections. The first and second front sides abut against each other at the separation point. The first front side has a plurality of first recesses, and the second front side has a plurality of second recesses. Further provided is a fastening unit, which is designed to fasten the first and second rotor blade sections to each other at the separation point. The fastening unit has a plurality of first inserts made out of metal, which are arranged in the first recesses, and a plurality of second inserts made out of metal, which are arranged in the second recesses. The first inserts each have a first end and a second end. The second inserts each have a first end and a second end. The first ends of the first and second inserts are each arranged at the separation point. The fastening unit has a plurality of clamping units, which are suitable for bracing the first and second inserts against each other, wherein the respective first ends of the first and second inserts abut against each another and are braced against each other in the braced state.
US11639706B1
A flow control member for a vehicle includes a body, a plurality of mounting tabs, and a panel member. The body has an outer surface and an inner surface. An air passage through the body is defined by the inner surface. A plurality of mounting tabs extends outwardly from the outer surface of the body. Each of the mounting tabs is configured to receive a fastener to connect the flow control member to an intake passage of the vehicle. A panel member is disposed in the air passage. The panel member defines a plurality of openings therethrough.
US11639700B2
Airframe integrated scramjet engines are disclosed. Scramjet engines within the scope of this disclosure may be configured to integrate smoothly with an airframe of a hypersonic flight aircraft or vehicle. The scramjet engine may include capture shape of an inlet configured to capture airflow, a combustor configured for combustion of fuel and air, and an exit shape of a nozzle configured for expansion of the combusted fuel and air to provide hypersonic thrust. In some embodiments, the scramjet engine has a fixed geometry and a transitioning cross-sectional shape over its full length. The scramjet engine is configured to be a component of launch vehicle system.
US11639699B2
An engine system is provided, which includes a vehicle-mounted engine having an injector, a spark plug, and a property adjusting device, an accelerator opening sensor, and a controller. The controller performs a combustion control for controlling the injector, the spark plug, and the property adjusting device so that a target torque set based on a present accelerator opening detected by the accelerator opening sensor is outputted in a specific cycle in the future from a present time by a given delay time. In the combustion control, the controller sets a target load of the engine in the specific cycle based on the present accelerator opening, and sets a combustion transition from the present cycle to the specific cycle by selecting beforehand combustion from the present cycle to the specific cycle, from flame propagation combustion and compressed self-ignition combustion, based on the set target load.
US11639691B2
The invention relates to a device for supplying a gaseous fuel to an engine that comprises a gas accumulator for receiving highly pressurized gaseous fuel, a gas buffer for receiving medium pressurized gaseous fuel, a gas supply device for delivering a gaseous fuel into an engine combustion space, a first gas line that connects the gas accumulator to the gas buffer and whose gas flow can be regulated via a first valve, a second gas line that connects the gas accumulator to the gas buffer and whose gas flow can be regulated via a second valve, and a third gas line that connects the gas buffer to the gas supply device. The device is further characterized in that a compressor is arranged in the second gas line to increase a pressure of a gaseous fuel flowing from the gas accumulator to the gas buffer.
US11639690B1
A gas turbine engine includes a first spool of a primary flow path and a second spool of a secondary flow path. The second spool is nonconcentric with the first spool. The second spool includes a boost compressor and a load compressor in fluid communication with an inlet plenum. An inlet duct assembly and an outlet duct assembly place the secondary flow path in communication with the primary flow path. The gas turbine includes a controller operable to vary open areas of variable inlet guide vanes to control a flow division between the boost compressor and the load compressor.
US11639687B2
A method of purging fuel injectors of a gas turbine engine, the fuel injectors fluidly connected to a fuel manifold and having primary and secondary fuel passages fluidly connectable to the fuel manifold, the method includes: selectively fluidly disconnecting one or more of the primary and secondary fuel passages from the fuel manifold; and purging the one or more of the primary and secondary fuel passages by injecting a purging fluid into the one or more of the primary and secondary fuel passages while bypassing the fuel manifold. A fuel injector having two fuel passages, a flow divider valve, and a purging valve is disclosed.
US11639686B2
An assembly is provided for an aircraft propulsion system. This assembly includes a center body, a scarfed inlet structure and an inlet passage. The scarfed inlet structure extends circumferentially about the center body. The inlet passage is radially between and formed by at least the center body and the scarfed inlet structure. A first component of the assembly is configured to rotate about an axis relative to a second component of the assembly between: (A) a first position where a metering portion of the inlet passage has a first area; and (B) a second position where the metering portion has a second area. The first component is one of the center body or the scarfed inlet structure, and the second component is the other one of the center body or the scarfed inlet structure.
US11639681B2
An engine including an engine block having a cylinder defining a front of the engine, a blower housing coupled to the engine block and defining a hot half positioned adjacent the front of the engine and a cool half opposite the hot half, and an electric starter system positioned within the blower housing. The electric starting system includes a starter mount assembly coupled to the blower housing, an electric starter motor retained by the starter mount assembly and positioned in the cool half, and a battery mounted to the blower housing and positioned in the cool half. The battery is electrically coupled to the electric starter motor.
US11639680B2
A urea water supply system includes: a first supply valve for supplying urea water; a second supply valve for supplying urea water; a supply passage for connecting a urea water tank and the first and the second supply valves; and an electronic control unit (ECU). The supply passage branches to have a first supply passage extending from a branch point to the first supply valve and a second supply passage extending from the branch point to the second supply valve, and a volume of the first supply passage is greater than a volume of the second supply passage. The ECU opens the first supply valve while keeping the second supply valve closed, for starting filling of the supply passage with urea water, and thereafter determines completion of filling of urea water into the first supply passage.
US11639674B2
A one-piece cast metallic adaptor for a filtering assembly that provides for direct threading of associated components to the adaptor. The adaptor provides an enclosed flow path for lubricant to flow between an engine lubrication network and a filter housing.
US11639672B2
A valve seat formed within an aluminum engine component includes a valve seat surface machined within the aluminum engine component, a layer of copper alloy material laser clad onto the valve seat surface of the aluminum engine component, the layer of copper alloy material having a thickness of less than 2.0 millimeters, and a layer of copper alloy/tool steel carbide material laser clad onto the layer of copper alloy material, the layer of copper alloy/tool steel carbide material having an average thickness of less than 0.5 millimeters, wherein the layer of copper alloy/tool steel carbide material has an outer surface that is machined to a final valve seat profile.
US11639671B2
An unducted fan turbine engine comprising an engine core including a first airflow, and a nacelle circumscribing at least a portion of the engine core and having an exterior surface defining a second airflow. The nacelle further comprising an internal passage between the exterior surface and the engine core, the internal passage defining a third airflow. The unducted fan turbine engine further comprising a plurality of rotatable fan blades extending radially beyond the exterior surface of the nacelle, and a cowl door located in the nacelle.
US11639666B2
A fluid machine for an aircraft engine has: first and second walls; a gaspath defined between the first wall and the second wall; a rotor having blades rotatable about the central axis; and a stator having: a row of vanes having airfoils including leading edges, trailing edges, pressure sides and suction sides opposed the pressure sides, and depressions defined in the first wall, the depressions extending from a baseline surface of the first wall away from the second wall, a depression of the depressions located circumferentially between a pressure side of the pressure sides and a suction side of the suction sides, the depression axially overlapping the airfoils and located closer to the suction side than to the pressure side, an upstream end of the depression located closer to a leading edge of the leading edges than to a trailing edge of the trailing edges.
US11639660B2
A method for determining a pump card for a well. The method comprising: obtaining a first set of data points, wherein the first set of data points comprise a first set of polished rod position data points of the well and a first set of polished rod load data points of the well; and calculating a first data point of a pump position and a pump load using the first set of data points. The calculating occurs before the well moves through a first complete stroke cycle.
US11639652B2
A powered well string positioner capable of actuation during the vertical reciprocal movement of a well string will increase or decrease the length of the downhole well string length below the wellhead seal upon detection of a string positioning condition within the tubular by a controller. The vertical reciprocal stroke of the power unit of the well is not changed as the downhole length of the well string is varied, and the well string can be adjusted during operation of the well without the need to disassemble the well string.
US11639650B2
An underwater robotic system includes a frame adapted to be deployed in a body of water and having guide rails and at least one movable rail movably coupled to the guide rails. An actuator module is movably coupled to the at least one movable rail. A control panel disposed proximate the frame and has a plurality of controls thereon. The plurality of controls is operable by an actuator on the actuator module. A position of each of the plurality of controls is known such that motion of the actuator module and the at least one movable rail is remotely controllable to actuate any chosen one of the plurality of controls.
US11639635B2
A system includes a top drive system; a drilling riser running tool configured to be deployed by the top drive system; a fluid line configured to run from the top drive system to the drilling riser running tool; and a liquid filing system. The drilling riser running tool includes a tool head module configured to engage and hold a first riser joint at a top end such that with the top drive system above the drilling riser running tool, the first riser joint can be lowered towards a second riser joint being held near a drill floor. The first riser joint includes a central tube and a first auxiliary line. The liquid filling system is configured to provide liquid filling of the first auxiliary line via the fluid line after connection of the first and second riser joints and while the first and second riser joints are being run.
US11639623B2
Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device, such as a notebook computer or laptop, which includes a circuit board coupled to a plurality of electronic components (which includes any type of components, elements, circuitry, etc.). One particular example implementation of the electronic device may include a low profile hinge design that includes a micro-hinge. The micro-hinge can couple a first element to a second element and can include a first attachment that couples to the first element, a second attachment that couples to the second element, and a plurality of linkages that couples the first attachment to the second attachment. The low profile hinge can further include a plurality of micro-hinges and a plurality of support rods.
US11639619B2
A vehicle door handle assembly may include a handle housing disposed inside a door panel; a slider slidably mounted in the handle housing to be movable between a first position and a second position of the handle housing; a handle member pivotally connected to the slider through a connecting arm, and configured of being movable between a rest position and an actuating position with respect to the door panel; and an inertia locking mechanism including a blocking lever pivotally mounted to the handle housing, and a weight mounted on the blocking lever, wherein the inertia locking mechanism may prevent the handle member from moving to the actuating position by an unwanted force caused by the collision/impact of the vehicle.
US11639611B2
Disclosed herein are novel personal pop-up pods designed for a single user. The personal pop-up pods can provide a user with privacy and/or protection from the surrounding elements. The personal pop-up pods are designed such that a user can remain mobile, i.e., able to move from one location to another while using a personal pop-up pod. The personal pop-up pods are designed such that a user can selectively gain access to the area surrounding the pop-up pod by opening windows and other points of access.
US11639608B2
A heating device is well-functioning, easy to install, aesthetically pleasing and convenient to use at the same time. It includes a frame having an upper face, which connects the rear and front faces and which generally has a step-shaped shape having at least two levels, which, in use, are at different respective heights and the highest level of which opens onto the rear face while the other levels are distributed substantially uniformly between a base of the frame and the highest level, such that, in use, a user may access the pool by successively walking on the levels of the step-shaped shape by climbing the levels from the ground to enter the pool and by descending the levels to the ground to leave the pool. The device also includes an air-water heat pump, arranged in an internal volume of the frame, which is defined between the base and the rear.
US11639605B2
The invention relates to a multi-purpose tile system, in particular a floor tile system, including a plurality of multi-purpose tiles, in particular floor tiles, wall tiles, or ceiling tiles. The invention also relates to a tile covering, in particular floor covering, ceiling covering, or wall covering, consisting of mutually coupled tiles according to the invention. The invention further relates to a tile for use in multi-purpose tile system according to the invention.
US11639590B2
A water reservoir system for generating, accumulating, storing, and releasing electrical energy comprises a reservoir wall built in a shallow body of water such as a sea or an ocean with a height exceeding the outside water level by about 10-25 m, thereby defining an interior of the water reservoir. Excess electrical energy from other renewable sources of electricity such as wind, solar power, or supplied by a local power grid is used to operate water pumps to fill the interior of the water reservoir with water during times of peak supply of electricity. Water is drained from the water reservoir to the outside body of water and generates electrical energy by flowing over a plurality of water turbines, thereby generating electricity and supplementing electrical power for the local power grid during times of high demand. Additional interior sources of renewable energy may be used to supplement external sources of electrical power in operating the system of the invention.
US11639585B2
A support layer for supporting an artificial turf assembly. The support layer being formed of a polymeric foam, preferably having a density of between 20 and 70 grams per liter, such as a polyolefin foam; and having an upper side and a lower side, wherein in use the support layer has been placed with the lower side thereof on a base surface and supports, on the upper side thereof, the artificial turf assembly, the support layer including a plurality of through drainage holes extending from the upper side to the lower side for allowing liquid such as rain water to flow via the plurality of drainage holes from the upper side to the lower side, and also including a plurality of channels at the lower side for allowing liquid such as rain water to flow through the channels along the lower side, wherein each of said plurality of drainage holes debouches into one of the plurality of channels. The support layer is further included in an artificial turf system, that includes an artificial turf assembly with the support layer supported on a base surface such as a layer of sand, wherein the support layer forms, at the upper sides thereof, a closed support surface supporting the artificial turf assembly.
US11639576B2
A dispenser box assembly for a laundry appliance that includes a dispenser housing and a lid. The dispenser housing includes one or more housing walls that define a main chamber. The lid is attached to the housing walls and includes an in-lid reservoir. The in-lid reservoir includes an inlet section that is arranged in fluid communication with water inlet ports in the dispenser housing and a diffuser section with an outlet that is arranged in fluid communication with the main chamber. An air port that is open to the atmosphere is arranged in fluid communication with the main chamber such that the main chamber is open to atmospheric pressure and produces a water pressure drop between the water inlet ports and a water outlet port at the bottom of the main chamber.
US11639569B2
Provided is a sewing machine capable of positioning feed dogs with a sufficient distance below the upper surface of a throat plate when the feed dogs are retracted. Feed dogs 3 protrude and retract from a throat plate 1. A horizontal feed drive unit 8 converts the rotation of a drive shaft 7 into a reciprocating motion in the horizontal direction and transmits the horizontal reciprocating motion to the feed dogs 3. A vertical drive unit 9 converts the rotation of the drive shaft 7 into a reciprocating motion in the vertical direction and transmits the vertical reciprocating motion to the feed dogs 3. A vertical position changing part moves turn-back points P at both ends of a forward path and a return path when the feed dogs 3 reciprocate in the horizontal direction below the throat plate 1.
US11639564B1
A yarn is produced by twisting an organic yarn and a synthetic yarn. The organic and synthetic yarns and twisting processes thereof may be selected to produce a twisted yarn with enhanced performance characteristics such as moisture management, abrasion resistance, and refit. The twisted yarn may be knitted into articles of clothing such as socks.
US11639562B2
A thermal-moisture comfortable polyester FDY for summer use and a preparation method thereof are provided. The FDY is made of matting agents dispersed polyester via the steps of spinning melt metering, extruding via the compositional spinneret, cooling, oiling, drawing, heat setting and winding. The woven fabrics manufactured with the FDY possess a wicking height and an evaporation rate of larger than or equal to 135 mm and 0.22 g/h, respectively. The compositional spinneret is simultaneously provided with cruciform orifices and circular orifices, and the length ratio of cruciform orifice to circular orifice is equal to the product of their equivalent diameter ratio and a coefficient K, here equivalent diameter is the ratio of orifice cross-section area to its circumference and K ranges from 0.97 to 1.03, and the oiling involves the oiling agent containing 67.30-85.58 wt % of crown ether.
US11639560B2
A deposit removing device disclosed herein removes a deposit that adheres to an exhaust pipe through which gas is exhausted from a chamber that manufactures a semiconductor crystal. The deposit removing device includes: a valve that opens and closes an exhaust outlet that communicates with the exhaust pipe; a sealing cover and a fixed table configured to store the valve, into which an inert gas is introduceable, and configured to isolate the exhaust outlet from the outside; and an exhaust outlet opening/closing portion that includes a cylinder for driving the valve and a cylinder for driving the sealing cover or the fixed table. The cylinder drives the valve to open and close the exhaust outlet, and the cylinder drives the sealing cover or the fixed table to introduce the atmosphere into the sealing cover.
US11639549B2
The present invention is in the field of processes for producing organic-inorganic laminates by atomic layer deposition. In particular the present invention relates to a process for producing a laminate comprising moving a substrate relative to at least two separate orifices arranged along the relative moving trajectory wherein through at least one orifice an organic compound in the gaseous state is passed towards the surface of the substrate and through at least one other orifice a (semi)metal-containing compound in the gaseous state is passed towards the surface of the substrate and wherein the orifices are mounted on a rotating drum.
US11639547B2
Described herein are articles, systems and methods where a halogen resistant coating is deposited onto a surface of a chamber component using an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process. The halogen resistant coating has an optional amorphous seed layer and a transition metal-containing layer. The halogen resistant coating uniformly covers features of the chamber component, such as those having an aspect ratio of about 3:1 to about 300:1.
US11639546B2
A method of forming a single atomic layer nanoribbon on a substrate by subjecting two or more precursor powders to a moisturized gas flow at a temperature sufficient to deposit the single atomic layer nanoribbon on the substrate via chemical vapor deposition, the single atomic layer nanoribbon having a transition metal dichalcogenide material and the substrate including fluorophlogopite mica, highly oriented pyrolytic graphite, or a combination thereof. Also described are single atomic layer nanoribbons prepared by the method.
US11639545B2
A method of chemical vapor infiltration and deposition includes disposing a porous substrate within a reaction chamber, establishing a sub-atmospheric pressure within the reaction chamber, introducing a hydrocarbon reaction gas into a reaction zone of the reaction chamber to densify the porous substrate, withdrawing unreacted hydrocarbon reaction gas from the reaction chamber, the unreacted hydrocarbon reaction gas comprising hydrocarbon molecules having six or more carbon atoms, removing at least a portion of the hydrocarbon molecules having six or more carbon molecules from the unreacted hydrocarbon reaction gas by causing the portion of the hydrocarbon molecules having six or more carbon atoms to condense, and recirculating at least a portion of the unreacted hydrocarbon reaction gas back into the reaction zone.
US11639544B2
A physical vapor deposition (PVD) chamber and a method of operation thereof are disclosed. Chambers and methods are described that provide a chamber comprising an upper shield with two holes that are positioned to permit alternate sputtering from two targets.
US11639540B2
The present disclosure is directed to a gold recovery process in which activated carbon or another carbon-based material is used to accelerate thiosulfate leaching of gold from a gold-bearing material. In some embodiments, the gold recovery process comprises providing particulate activated carbon or another carbon-based material, providing a precious metal-bearing material, contacting the precious metal-bearing material with the particulate carbon-based material, thiosulfate, an anion exchange resin, and an oxidant to form a slurry comprising a slurried precious metal-bearing material, and leaching a precious metal from the slurried precious metal-bearing material.
US11639535B2
The present invention relates to a steel material used for a line pipe for transporting crude oil or natural gas and the like and, more specifically, to a steel material for a welded steel pipe, having excellent longitudinal uniform elongation for the pipe, a manufacturing method therefor, and a steel pipe using the same.
US11639520B2
The present disclosure describes compositions of matter comprising a ribonucleoprotein complex comprising a nucleic acid-guided nuclease and a guide RNA, and further comprising and a blocking nucleic acid molecule represented by Formula I, wherein Formula I in the 5′-to-3′ direction comprises: A-(B-L)J-C-M-T-D; wherein A is 0-15 nucleotides in length; B is 4-12 nucleotides in length; L is 3-25 nucleotides in length; J is an integer between 1 and 10; C is 4-15 nucleotides in length; M is 1-25 nucleotides in length or is absent, wherein if M is absent then A-(B-L)J-C and T-D are separate nucleic acid strands; T is 17-135 nucleotides in length and comprises at least 50% sequence complementarity to B and C; D is 0-10 nucleotides in length and comprises at least 50% sequence complementarity to A; and wherein the blocking nucleic acid molecule comprises a sequence complementary to a gRNA.
US11639516B2
A method of preparing a hydroxytyrosol sturgeon skin gelatin film with antioxidant activity and Salmonella detection ability includes: (1) mixing a neutral red indicator solution and distilled water at room temperature to obtain a mixture solution, and adding 1 mol/L NaHCO3 solution to the mixture solution until discoloration to obtain an alkaline solution; (2) adding an amount of the alkaline solution obtained in step (1) to a mixture of Sturgeon skin gelatin and distilled water to obtain an alkaline gelatin solution; (3) adding hydroxytyrosol and glycerin and propylene glycol to the alkaline gelatin solution to obtain a hydroxytyrosol gelatin solution, and heating the hydroxytyrosol gelatin solution at 40-70° C.; (4) ultrasonicating the hydroxytyrosol gelatin solution from step (3), placing the hydroxytyrol gelatin solution evenly on a clean plexiglass plate, drying the hydroxytyrol gelatin solution on an ultra-clean worktable to obtain the hydroxytyrosol sturgeon skin gelatin film.
US11639511B2
Described herein are molecules for editing a cell. The molecules described herein generally comprise the following covalently-linked components and a nucleic acid encoding a guide RNA (gRNA) sequence targeting a target region in a cell and a region homologous to the target region comprising a change in sequence relative to the target region.
US11639508B2
Provided herein are engineered TSC2 polypeptides, and nucleic acid sequences encoding them, in which the ability of a serine residue to be phosphorylated is altered. In some aspects, the TSC2 serine residue cannot be phosphorylated (e.g., by substituting the serine residue with an alanine residue). In some aspects, the TSC2 serine acts as if it is constitutively phosphorylated (e.g., by substituting the serine residue with a glutamic acid residue). Also provided herein are engineered immune cells comprising altered TSC2 polypeptides or nucleic acid sequences encoding them, and methods of making and using such engineered immune cells.
US11639507B2
The present invention relates to processes for extracting lipid from vegetative plant parts such as leaves, stems, roots and tubers, and for producing industrial products such as hydrocarbon products from the lipids. Preferred industrial products include alkyl esters which may be blended with petroleum based fuels.
US11639506B2
The present invention relates to materials and methods for the production of ethanol. More particularly, the present invention provides genetically modified strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae having enhanced tolerance for ionic liquid (IL) toxicity. Also provided are methods of using such genetically engineered yeast strains for improved IL-mediated hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass for industrial-scale production of various fuels, chemical feedstocks, and synthetic polymers.
US11639500B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of protein structure and amino acid residue interaction prediction based on saturation suppressor mutagenesis screening of a protein of interest. The method of the instant disclosure can be adapted for multi-protein complexes, and is useful where crystal structure of a protein of interest is not available.
US11639484B2
Perfume compositions having controlled spatio-temporal olfactory profiles are described. The disclosure also relates also to a method of measuring said spatial-temporal olfactory profiles of said compositions.
US11639481B2
An additive composition contains a viscosity index improver and a pour point depressant. A process can be used for preparing the additive composition. The additive composition can be used as a lubricant additive in a lubricating oil formulation, and lubricating oil formulations can contain the additive composition.
US11639473B2
The present technology relates to hydrocarbon fuels comprising renewable content. More particularly, the technology relates to manufacture of renewable diesel for potential use as aviation turbine fuel blendstock.
US11639472B2
Provided in one embodiment is a continuous process for converting waste plastic comprising polyethylene and/or polypropylene into recycle for polyethylene polymerization. The process comprises selecting waste plastics containing polyethylene, polypropylene, or a mixture thereof, and passing the waste plastics through a pyrolysis reactor to thermally crack at least a portion of the polyolefin waste and produce a pyrolyzed effluent. The pyrolyzed effluent is separated into offgas, a pyrolysis oil comprising a naphtha, diesel and heavy fractions, and char. The pyrolysis oil, or at least a fraction, is passed to a filtration/metal oxide treatment, with the treated product passed to a refinery FCC unit. A liquid petroleum gas C3 olefin/paraffin mixture fraction is recovered from the FCC unit, as well as a C4 olefin/paraffin mixture fraction. The liquid petroleum gas C3 olefin/paraffin mixture fraction is passed to a steam cracker for ethylene production.
US11639465B2
A phosphor is specified. The phosphor has the general molecular formula: (MA)a(MB)b(MC)c(MD)d(TA)e(TB)f(TC)g(TD)h(TE)i(TF)j(XA)k(XB)l(XC)m(XD)n:E. In this case, MA is selected from a group of monovalent metals, MB is selected from a group of divalent metals, MC is selected from a group of trivalent metals, MD is selected from a group of tetravalent metals, TA is selected from a group of monovalent metals, TB is selected from a group of divalent metals, TC is selected from a group of trivalent metals, TD is selected from a group of tetravalent metals, TE is selected from a group of pentavalent elements, TF is selected from a group of hexavalent elements, XA is selected from a group of elements which comprises halogens, XB is selected from a group of elements which comprises O, S and combinations thereof, -E=Eu, Ce, Yb and/or Mn, XC═N and XD=C. The following furthermore hold true: a+b+c+d=t; e+f+g+h+i+j=u; k+l+m+n=v; a+2b+3c+4d+e+2f+3g+4h+5i+6j−k−2l−3m−4n=w; 0.8≤t≤1; 3.5≤u≤4; 3.5≤v≤4; (−0.2)≤w≤0.2 and 0≤m<0.875 v and/or v≥l>0.125 v.
US11639460B1
The present application discloses a nanometer self-locking bentonite film-forming agent, a method for preparing the same, and a film-forming drilling fluid.
US11639453B2
An electrically conductive material includes an anionic polymer having a polymer backbone that is bonded to a plurality of terminal catechol moieties and a plurality of terminal sulfonate moieties. It also includes a cationic polymer including poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene).
US11639443B2
The present invention provides a carbon black molded body having different pore structure from conventional carbon black. A carbon black molded body of the present invention includes a peak M of a pore volume being exist in a specified pore diameter in the specified Log differential pore volume distribution; a specified half band width of the peak M; a specified ratio of the half band width/an area-based median diameter; and a specified difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of a Log differential pore volume.
US11639441B2
The present invention relates to an inorganic particulate material suitable for use in polymeric films, compositions such as polymeric films comprising the inorganic particulate materials, methods of making said compositions and the various uses of the inorganic particulate materials and compositions.
US11639433B2
Methods for fabricating rubber-based elastomeric materials are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for fabricating a rubber-based elastomeric glove includes milling diene rubber to form first and second milled diene rubber portions; forming a first mixture by mixing a silica reinforcing component and a first antiozonant wax with the first milled diene rubber portion; forming a second mixture by mixing a second antiozonant wax with the second milled diene rubber portion; mixing the first mixture, the second mixture, and a solvent to form a viscous solution; and dipping a glove mold into the viscous solution for a selected number of dips, and evaporating the solvent from the glove mold between dips to form the rubber-based elastomeric glove, wherein the elastomeric glove has a thickness of at least about 30 mils, and wherein the elastomeric glove exhibits a flexural modulus of less than about 0.06 MPa.
US11639422B2
Skin-contact products with a transpiration function such as medical devices or medicinal products, of which face masks, aspirators, ventilators, breast pumps or wound dressings are examples are described especially a skin-contact product with a transpiration function with an improved microclimate at a patient interface material-skin contact area. In an embodiment a material system is described that comprises a hydrophobic silicone base material and a hydrophilic silicone material that is combined with the hydrophobic base material.
US11639417B2
A process of preparing a compounded hydrostable poly(aliphatic ester-carbonate) includes providing a hydrostable poly(aliphatic ester-carbonate), compounding in an extruder the hydrostable poly(aliphatic ester-carbonate) and 0.05 wt % to 0.60 wt % of a multifunctional epoxide compounding stabilizer, based on the total weight of the compounded hydrostable poly(aliphatic ester-carbonate), under vacuum of 17000 to 85000 Pascals, and a torque of 30% to 75%, to provide the compounded hydrostable poly(aliphatic ester-carbonate). After compounding, at least one of the following apply: the inter-sample variability in molecular weight is less than 5%, wherein inter-sample variability is determined by comparing five 100 mil chips of the compounded hydrostable poly(aliphatic ester-carbonate); the % weight average molecular weight (MW) difference is less than 5% after hydroaging at 85° C. and 85% humidity; or the compounded poly(aliphatic ester-carbonate) has less than 75 ppm of unreacted —COOH end groups measured by 31P NMR.
US11639414B2
A water-based polyurethane resin and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The method for manufacturing the water-based polyurethane includes: a preparation step of a prepolymer, a dilution step of the prepolymer, a water dispersion and chain extension step, and an acrylic synthesis step. The method further includes mixing polyol and polyisocyanate to obtain a prepolymer, and diluting the prepolymer by adding acrylic monomer in the prepolymer. In the water-based polyurethane resin, at least one of the polyhydric alcohol, polyisocyanate, and the acrylic monomer includes a compound with a cyclic structure.
US11639412B2
A compound made by copolymerizing a poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) chain transfer agent, an acrylate salt, and a polyethylene glycol diacrylate. A compound made by copolymerizing a polyethylene glycol, a glycerol ethoxylate, and an aliphatic diisocyanate.
US11639407B2
Provided are a curable composition including a pigment, a resin having a structural unit represented by Formula 1, and a photopolymerization initiator; as well as a cured product obtained by curing the curable composition, a color filter including the cured product, a method for producing the color filter, and a solid-state imaging element or an image display device, each of which including the color filter. R1 to R3 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, X1 represents —COO—, —CONR—, or an arylene group, R4 represents a divalent linking group, L1 represents a group represented by Formula 2 or 3, R5 represents an (n+1)-valent linking group, X2 represents an oxygen atom or —NRA—, RA represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or an aryl group, and n represents an integer of 1 or more.
US11639396B2
Molecules, including antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof that specifically bind to a linker peptide, and methods of producing and using the described antibodies and antigen-binding fragments are presented herein. Also presented herein methods of generating antibodies that specifically bind to an immunorecessive epitope.
US11639394B2
The invention relates to bispecific antigen binding molecules comprising (a) at least one moiety capable of specific binding to OX40, and (b) at least one moiety capable of specific binding to epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM), and to methods of producing these molecules and to methods of using the same.
US11639388B2
Provided in the present application is a humanized and multifunctional CD3 antibody; a heavy chain variable region of the CD3 antibody comprised herein contains the amino acid sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs: 1-3 or a variant sequence thereof; and a light chain variable region thereof contains the amino acid sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs: 26-28 or a variant sequence thereof. Further provided in the present application is a multifunctional antibody comprising (a) a light chain-heavy chain pair that has specificity for tumor cells or microorganisms; and (b) a fusion peptide that comprises a single-chain variable fragment and an Fc fragment having a CH2 domain and/or a CH3 domain, the fusion peptide having specificity for immune cells. The antibodies provided in the present application have improved biological activity, thermal stability and/or acid resistance.
US11639387B2
The invention is directed to a bispecific chimeric antigen receptor, comprising: (a) at least two antigen-specific targeting regions; (b) an extracellular spacer domain; (c) a transmembrane domain; (d) at least one co-stimulatory domain; and (e) an intracellular signaling domain, wherein each antigen-specific targeting region comprises an antigen-specific single chain Fv (scFv) fragment, and binds a different antigen, and wherein the bispecific chimeric antigen receptor is co-expressed with a therapeutic control. The invention also provides methods and uses of the bispecific chimeric antigen receptors.
US11639386B2
CD19×CD3 bi-specific monovalent diabodies, and particularly, CD19×CD3 bi-specific monovalent Fc diabodies, are capable of simultaneous binding to CD19 and CD3, and are used in the treatment of hematologic malignancies.
US11639382B2
Provided is a protein comprising an antibody binding site that binds to a sulfated epitope of a Wnt pathway protein that is not Wnt5A, Wnt11, or Wnt3a. In one embodiment, the Wnt pathway protein is the Dickkopf1 (Dkk1) protein. Further provided is a composition comprising a peptide less than 75 amino acids or amino acid analogs, the peptide consisting of a fragment of a Wnt pathway protein, such as a Dkk1, wherein the fragment is sulfated.
US11639372B1
The present invention is generally directed to chemically synthesized peptides that are charged with zinc ions (herein “zinc-charged peptides”). The chemically synthesized peptides are based on the amino acid sequence of alpha-lactalbumin. The present invention is further directed to a method of preparing these two zinc-charged peptides by charging the chemically synthesized peptides with zinc ions. It is observed that charging these peptides with zinc ions activate the peptide's ability to induce apoptosis in cancer cell lines, as well as increase ATP, reduce Tau protein and inhibit P38 in the brain. The zinc-charged peptides are thus capable of treating cancer and diseases involving tauopathy such as Alzheimer's Disease. The present invention is thus further directed to a method of treating cancer and diseases involving tauopathy such as Alzheimer's Disease using the zinc-charged peptides.
US11639371B2
The present invention provides for a novel peptide and method for treating polyglutamine (polyQ) diseases. Also disclosed are related compositions and kits for therapeutic use in the treatment of polyQ diseases.
US11639368B2
A peptide is described, which consists of 7-17 adjacent amino acids and comprises the hexamer TXEXXE, wherein X, X and X can be any natural or non-natural amino acid, wherein the peptide has no TNF receptor binding activity and is cyclized, for the prevention and treatment of hyperpermeability of epithelial cells and endothelial cells.
US11639359B2
Embodiments of the present invention feature novel Bryoid compositions, methods of making and methods of treating disease.
US11639356B2
Provided are compounds of formula (I): or cosmeceutically acceptable or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Additionally provided are cosmeceutical and/or pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of formula (I), or the cosmeceutically acceptable or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Also provided are therapeutic and/or cosmetic methods using the cosmeceutical and/or pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of formula (I), or the cosmeceutically acceptable or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, for modulating cyclic adenosine monophosphate response element binding (CREB)-binding protein (CBP)/β-catenin mediated signaling in treating skin related diseases, conditions, or disorders mediated by aberrant CBP/β-catenin signaling and cosmetic methods for treating skin conditions mediated by aberrant CBP/β-catenin signaling.
US11639345B2
The present invention provides novel inhibitors of cystathionin gamma synthase (CGS), their use as selective and non-selective herbicides, agricultural and non-agricultural herbicides, herbicides in integrated pest management, herbicides for gardening, clearing waste ground, clearing industrial or constructions sites, clearing railways and railway embankments, pesticide, fungicide, agricultural plant stimulant or antimicrobial agent. Also provided is a method for the control of undesired vegetation or clearing areas from the undesired vegetation comprising applying to the locus of said undesired vegetation, to the undesired plants or to a habitat thereof, a herbicidally effective amount of the compound of the present invention.
US11639340B2
Disclosed are chromane compounds, analogs thereof, and methods of their synthesis and use. The compounds may be synthesized by methods involving reductive annulations of arylidene malonates with unsaturated electrophiles using photoredox/Lewis acid cooperative catalysis. The compounds may be formulated in a pharmaceutical composition for treating one of the aforementioned diseases or disorders.
US11639324B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing monomers via depolymerisation from lignocellulose-containing biomass.
US11639317B2
A fertilizer derived from an organic source and a method of making are provided. The fertilizer of the present invention advantageously has a nitrogen content greater than 4%. The method of making the fertilizer also produces potable water.
US11639309B2
A glass product includes: a first compressive region at a first surface; a second compressive region at a second surface; and a tensile region between the first and second compression regions. A stress profile of the first compressive region includes a first trend line between the first surface and a first transition point, a second trend line between the first transition point and a second transition point, and a third trend line between the second transition point and a point at a first compression depth from the first surface. A depth from the first surface to the first transition point is 10 μm or less, a stress at the first transition point is 200 MPa or greater, a depth from the first surface to the second transition point is 50 μm to 80 μm, and a stress at the second transition point is 40 MPa to 100 MPa.
US11639306B2
The present disclosure relates to a curved glass thermal forming device and method. The curved glass thermal forming device includes a furnace body having a feed port and a discharge port, wherein the furnace body includes a heating segment, a forming segment and a cooling segment, a rotary table capable of rotating and used for circularly conveying glass to the heating segment, the forming segment and the cooling segment in sequence is arranged in the furnace body, a plurality of female dies for carrying glass are arranged on the rotary table so as to cooperate with a male die in the forming segment to perform press fit forming on the glass.
US11639291B2
A method for carbon nanotube purification, preferably including: providing carbon nanotubes; depositing a mask; and/or selectively removing a portion of the mask; and optionally including removing a subset of the carbon nanotubes and/or removing the remaining mask.
US11639288B2
An apparatus for filling containers with a product includes a filling element, a supply line that supplies the product, a switching valve, a control valve, a vessel that is disposed between the switching valve and the control valve, and a volumeter that is disposed between the switching valve and the control valve. The vessel supplies a pre-metered quantity of the product for discharge via the switching valve to the filling element, the quantity having been pre-metered by the volumeter. The supply line provides the product to the vessel at a first flow rate. Discharge of the product through the switching valve and into the filling element occurs at a second flow rate that exceeds the first flow rate, the first and second flow rates being volumetric flow rates.
US11639285B2
An elevator car (100) defining an interior space (1) for accommodating passengers. The elevator car (100) comprises an openable roof (2), horizontal roof guide rails (13a, 13b) arranged on a top side of the elevator car (100), a support structure (4) pivotably mounted to the guide rails (13a, 13b) by a first joint (5a, 5b), and a working platform (6) pivotably and movably mounted to the support structure (4) by a second joint (7a, 7b) arranged at a distance from the first joint (5a, 5b). The working platform (6) is pivotable between a retracted position, in which said working platform is oriented close to the guide rails (13a, 13b) in the top side of the elevator car, and a deployed position, in which the working platform (6) is in the interior space (1), at a distance from the guide rails (13a, 13b). The first joint (5a, 5b) being arranged movable along the guide rails (13a, 13b).
US11639281B2
A roll-dispensed stock container is provided. The roll-dispensed stock container has a recessed cutting track and can be assembled by computer aided manufacturing processes.
US11639276B2
Transfer star-wheel (1) for containers (100) of thermoplastic material, comprising: a rotary carousel (2) bearing a plurality of supporting stations (S) for supporting containers (100) by their neck (100b), in each supporting station (S) being provided a pliers (3) hinged to the rotary carousel (2) at a hinge axis (AA) in such a way that it assumes at least a first configuration in which the pliers (3) is fixed, that means it cannot rotate about its hinge axis (AA), and a second configuration in which the pliers (3) can oscillate about its hinge axis (AA); a cam kinematic motion that is operatively active on each pliers (3) for maintaining it in the first configuration, characterized in that it comprises a reactivating device (8) for each pliers (3), that comprises elastic means (9, 10) operatively active on the pliers (3) to bring it from the second to the first configuration following an accidental event that deactivated the pliers.
US11639275B2
A picking facility includes a first conveyor for transporting a container that includes an opening portion provided on an upper side thereof and can contain an article, and a second conveyor for transporting a target article. The height level of a transport face of the first conveyor is set to be lower than the height level of a transport face of the second conveyor, and a difference between the height level of the transport face of the second conveyor and the height level of the transport face of the first conveyor is determined based on the height of the container.
US11639273B2
A conveyor comprises a first conveyor section and a second conveyor section that is foldable with respect to the first conveyor section. Skirting is movable into and out of a deployed state in which it extends along the second conveyor section. A skirting support is coupled to the skirting and is movable into and out of a deployed state in which it holds the skirting in the deployed state. Actuating device is provided for moving the skirting support. The skirting is deformable or foldable so that it does not have to be removed or fitted when the conveyor is folded or deployed, and is less susceptible to damage.
US11639269B2
Provided is an apparatus for transporting objects and in particular containers and/or liquid containers with a first conveyor device which is arranged at least temporarily below the objects to be conveyed and which conveys the objects, wherein the conveyor device includes a point device, and a feed section which conveys the objects to the point device, and wherein the objects are selectively conveyable along at least a first discharge section and a second discharge section by the point device, wherein the feed section extends substantially rectilinearly and wherein the first discharge section follows the feed section in a rectilinear manner and the second discharge section deviates from the rectilinear course of the feed section, and wherein the apparatus includes a selection tool for selectively conveying the objects onto the first discharge section or the second discharge section.
US11639267B2
Warehouse automation and methods of automatically sorting and sequencing items can be implemented to streamline and expedite order fulfillment and store replenishment processes in a cost-effective manner. Some embodiments described herein include sorting items to a truck-level, inducting items for a first truck into a first portion of a mobile robot field, accumulating the items in the first portion of the mobile robot field until all the items for a first cart of the first truck are in the first portion, moving, by one or more mobile robots, all of the items for the first cart in a sequence that corresponds to a store aisle layout, loading the first cart in the sequence, and moving the loaded first cart into the first truck, which can be accomplished in a particular sequence with other carts for the first truck.
US11639266B2
In various embodiments, a goods to operator workstation is provided. The goods to operator workstation include an upper level. The upper level includes an upper level conveyor and one or more upper level container bays configured to receive and present one of the one or more upper level containers. The goods to operator workstation also includes at least one connector panel extending from the upper level. The goods to operator workstation further includes a lower level coupled to the at least one connector panel. The lower level is configured to receive one or more lower level containers. A gap is defined between the upper level and lower level that is sized to allow the one or more lower containers to be placed on the lower level. A method of operating the goods to operator workstation is also included.
US11639265B1
This disclosure describes a system for associating multiple totes with a single profile so that items placed into any of the multiple totes are identified on a profile item identifier list. For example, if two users located in a materials handling facility are picking items that are to be consolidated or otherwise treated together, each user may select a different tote and move separately through the materials handling facility. As either user picks items and places those items into a corresponding tote, a profile item identifier list is updated to include an item identifier for each picked item.
US11639257B2
A reusable dispensing device for dispensing contents into a container. The device including a body having a chamber configured to receive a capsule and configured to sit on an opening of the container. A portion of the body being movable between an unsealed first position and an engaged second position. Piercing means are configured to pierce the capsule, and sealing means are configured to seal the container in the engaged second position. Movement of the body from the unsealed first position to the engaged second position to seal the container engages the piercing means to pierce the capsule and dispense contents from the capsule into the container.
US11639253B2
A hydration bottle includes a fluid container and a lid assembly configured to be releasably engaged to the fluid container, the lid assembly having a first mouthpiece and a second mouthpiece independently accessible with respect to each other. The lid assembly includes a pivotal mount having two legs extending from a support member to form a generally U-shaped configuration, the support member defining a passage. The passage of the support member of the pivotal mount is configured to receive the first mouthpiece and has a cap fixedly disposed thereof. The second mouthpiece includes a pair of lateral projections on opposed ends thereof, the pair of lateral projections adapted to engage a pair of tapered flaps disposed on a base portion of the lid assembly.
US11639250B2
A closure is configured to mount on a container to close an open mouth formed in the container. The closure includes a lid and an outer layer coupled to the lid.
US11639249B2
A tube container holder that can support a tube container in an orientation in which a discharge port thereof is located downward. The tube container holder includes an attaching portion that is configured to attach the tube container holder to an attachment-target object and a sandwiching portion having a groove portion that is configured such that a sealing portion of a tube container is insertable thereinto and sandwiched.
US11639248B2
There is disclosed a bag having a tubular body with a top open end and a bottom closed end. The tubular body has a larger open diameter at the top open end. The tubular body narrows into a narrower open diameter adjacent to a bottom closed end. The tubular body in a flattened two-fold condition has a pair of side edges extending from a top edge to a bottom edge. The top edge delimits the top open end. The bottom edge delimits the bottom closed end. The pair of side edges are generally parallel to one another in a first portion adjacent to the top edge.
US11639242B2
A packaging for sterile packaging application includes: a single layer nonwoven fabric obtained from a nonwoven, the nonwoven including meltblown polymer fibers having an average fiber diameter between 2 μm to 10 μm and a standard deviation of the fiber diameter of at least 100%. The nonwoven is thermally bonded.
US11639239B2
The system (S) to separate at least two mechanical elements (E1, E2), comprises a holding device comprising a connecting screw integral with a mechanical element (E1) and held by a nut segmented in portions (4n) arranged between the connecting screw and an outer envelope integral with the other mechanical element (E2), the system (S) comprising a force generator generating a thrust force (F) in a longitudinal direction (X-X) and comprising an energy accumulator comprising a sealed chamber with a colloid of a porous matrix and liquid, the chamber deforming in the longitudinal direction (X-X) to adapt to the change from a compressed to a decompressed state in order to generate the force (F), and an activatable actuating element to, either apply a predetermined pressure to the chamber to keep the colloid in the compressed state, or not apply the predetermined pressure to allow the change in state of the colloid.
US11639234B2
A method for aligning a removable sensor on a vehicle includes connecting the removable sensor to a sensor mounting device. The method further includes connecting a connector of an alignment apparatus to either (i) the removable sensor such that a spatial reference component of the alignment apparatus has a known position and orientation relative to a current position and orientation of the removable sensor or (ii) a fixed connection location on the vehicle such that the spatial reference component indicates a desired position and orientation of the removable sensor. In addition the method includes adjusting the current position and orientation of the removable sensor by reference to the alignment apparatus to cause the current position and orientation of the removable sensor to match the desired position and orientation of the removable sensor.
US11639227B2
An inflation assembly for an evacuation system may comprise a manifold defining an interior volume and a plurality of inflators fluidly coupled to the manifold. Each inflator of the plurality of inflators may include a solid gas generating material and an igniter configured to ignite in response to receiving an ignite signal. The solid gas generating material may be configured to generate a gas in response to an ignition of the igniter.
US11639226B2
A device for unlocking a system for closing a container by means of a tie, such as a rope or strap, in particular a tie tensioned between closing eyelets, includes a cutting tool (O) capable of cutting the tie in order to unlock the closing system. It also includes an actuation member linked to the cutting tool, the actuation member being capable of being manipulated manually by a user in order to cause the cutting tool (O) to move into a position for severing the tie.
US11639219B2
A pylon portion includes a first surface that attaches to an upper surface of a spar in a wing, where the pylon portion and a rotor portion protrude aft of the wing. A second surface attaches to a lower surface of the spar in the wing. The pylon portion also includes an intake air vent; a horizontal mounting surface; a rotor controller that is coupled to the horizontal mounting surface; and a heat sink that couples to the horizontal mounting surface and dissipates heat from at least the rotor controller. The rotor portion is moveably coupled to the pylon portion such that one or more rotor blades included in the rotor portion are able to move between: (1) a first position below the wing that is associated with a vertical flight mode and (2) a second position aft of the wing that is associated with a forward flight mode.
US11639216B2
A buoyant aerial vehicle includes: a balloon configured to store a gas; a payload coupled to the balloon; and a propulsion unit coupled to the payload by a tether. The propulsion unit includes: a fuselage having a substantially longitudinal shape, a first end, and a second end; a primary airfoil coupled to the fuselage; a secondary airfoil coupled to the fuselage at one of the first end or the second end; and a thrust generating device disposed at one of the first end or the second end and configured to move the propulsion unit relative to the payload along a propulsion flight path. The movement of the propulsion unit imparts movement of the buoyant aerial vehicle along a vehicle flight path.
US11639213B2
The present disclosure provides a flotation device for ensuring that a container held within the device floats upright in water. The device is a ring with an opening to receive and securely accommodate a container. The ring is comprised of an elastic material to accommodate a variety of sizes of beverage containers and containing a plurality of buoyant inserts such that the ring forms a regular polygon shape. The ring further comprises spacers in between the buoyant inserts for ensuring that the buoyant inserts maintain approximately equidistant spacing, and the floatation device holds its regular polygon shape.
US11639210B2
A bicycle rack is described with a retention arm for securing a wheel of the bicycle to the bicycle rack. The retention arm is provided with a tire chock for contacting the tire of the bicycle. An adjustable tire chock may be positioned on the retention arm to secure different sizes of bicycles with different sizes of wheels on the bicycle rack. The adjustable tire chock may have latching components that can be released by a user with a single hand by applying opposing or rotational forces to the latch components or the tire chock. The latch components may be provided with a biasing mechanism to urge them into a latch or engaged position when aligned with latching features on the retention arm.
US11639200B2
A resin roof is provided with a main roof and a sub-roof. The main roof includes an outer layer fabricated of resin, which structures a roof panel of a vehicle, and an inner layer fabricated of foam resin, which is provided in a predetermined region that excludes a peripheral edge portion of the outer layer. The sub-roof is fabricated of resin and provided at a vehicle body side. In plan view, the sub-roof is provided between a left and right pair of roof side rails of the vehicle. A joining portion at the peripheral edge portion of the outer layer is joined to the sub-roof. Thus, together with the outer layer, the sub-roof structures the roof panel.
US11639199B2
A vehicle body side part structure (10) includes a roof side rail (17) and a quarter pillar (15). The roof side rail extends in a vehicle body forward/rearward direction to form a first hollow structure. In the quarter pillar, a second hollow structure is formed, and an upper end portion is connected so as to cross the roof side rail. In addition, in the quarter pillar, an opening section (71) at which the roof side rail is opened, is closed by a lid part (481) at the upper end portion, in an intersecting part of the roof side rail and the upper end portion of the quarter pillar.
US11639197B2
The present disclosure relates to a rail assembly that includes an outer rail and an inner rail opposite to the outer rail. The rail assembly also includes a cavity formed between the outer rail and the inner rail. The rail assembly further includes a first corner reinforcement coupled to the outer rail and the inner rail in such a way that at least a portion of the first corner reinforcement is located in the cavity. The rail assembly also includes a second corner reinforcement coupled to the outer rail and the inner rail in such a way that at least a portion of the first corner reinforcement is located in the cavity.
US11639190B2
A center load rack and pinion steering mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism comprises a center load steering rack housing mounted to a vehicle frame, with a longitudinal slot through the front surface thereof, the slot being fitted with a bushing of a material that is resistant to damage from heat and bending. A pair of center link mounting bolts secure a center link and a center link pad to the rack wherein the center link pad extends through the bushing such that the upper and lower surfaces of the center link pad engage the upper and lower inner surfaces of the bushing, respectively, to prevent upward and downward movement and twisting of the center link and the center link pad relative to the rack in response to steered wheels of the vehicle contacting rough or uneven terrain while in use to prevent damage to components of the steering mechanism.
US11639180B1
An autonomous vehicle (AV) implements a notification system that provides notifications to user devices in nearby vehicles to alert drivers of the nearby vehicles of the AV's planned behavior. The notifications are delivered wirelessly and output by the user device to the drivers. The planned behaviors of the AV may not be conveyed by existing mechanisms, such as turning signals or hazard lights. The AV or the receiving user device may determine when an AV's planned behavior may impact a particular driver, and provide relevant notifications to the driver.
US11639177B2
Techniques are described for estimating road friction between a road and tires of a vehicle. A method includes receiving, from a temperature sensor on a vehicle, a temperature value that indicates a temperature of an environment in which a vehicle is operated, determining a first range of friction values that quantify a friction between a road and tires of a vehicle based on a function of the temperature value and an extent of precipitation in a region that indicate a hazardous driving condition, obtaining, from the first range of friction values, a value that quantifies the friction between the road and the tires of the vehicle, where the value is obtained based on a driving related behavior of the vehicle, and causing the vehicle to operate on the road based on the value obtained from the first range of friction values.
US11639172B2
A control device includes an electronic control unit configured to expand a first detection range at least in front of a host vehicle during execution of current first steering control, determine whether next first steering control is needed to be implemented and whether a relative direction of a next second object with respect to the host vehicle is the same as a relative direction of a first object with respect to the host vehicle when the second object is detected, and perform relaxation steering control based on a target value smaller in absolute value than a return target value after an end of the current first steering control when the implementation of the next first steering control is determined to be needed and the relative directions with respect to the host vehicle are determined to be the same between the second and the first object.
US11639163B2
A hydrodynamic retarder having a rotor and a stator or a rotor and an oppositely running rotor, which together form a toroidal working chamber to filled with working medium, in order to transmit a torque by means of a hydrodynamic working chamber working medium circuit. An external working medium circuit has a heat exchanger that discharges heat from the working medium. The external working medium circuit is connected by a working medium inlet and a working medium outlet to the working chamber. The working medium inlet and outlet open to the working chamber at a torus outer diameter of the working chamber. A working medium feed line opens into the external working medium circuit. A core ring filling line is connected in working-medium-conducting fashion to the working chamber. The core ring filling line opens into a core ring of the working chamber radially within the torus outer diameter.
US11639144B2
An in-vehicle network system includes a power supply, an upper electronic control unit (ECU), an intermediate ECU configured to communicate with the upper ECU, and a plurality of lower ECUs configured to communicate with the intermediate ECU. The intermediate ECU is configured to receive power supplied from the power supply and supply the power supplied from the power supply to the lower ECUs. The lower ECUs are configured to transition, when the power is supplied from the intermediate ECU, from a power-off state to a standby state to wait for an instruction. The power supply is connected to the intermediate ECU via a power line and is not connected via the same power line to the upper ECU.
US11639129B2
A slide-out unit drive assembly for a vehicle body having an opening formed in an exterior wall and a reciprocable slide-out unit disposed in the opening and slidable between a retracted position and an extended position. Sliding movement of the slide-out unit is controlled by the drive assembly at least partially arranged within the jambs. The drive assembly may include one or more drive cables extending connected to the slide-out. The drive assembly may include drive chain that actuates one or more of the drive cables, or the drive assembly may include a drive nut that actuates one or more of the drive cables, or the drive assembly may include a block and tackle assembly that actuates one or more of the drive cables. Sliding movement of the slide-out unit may be either motor driven or manually powered.
US11639128B2
A fried food cart assembly for preparing fried treats in any location includes a cart that has a hitch which is coupled to the cart. A fryer is positioned in the cart to heat cooking oil for frying a food item. A cold storage unit is positioned in the cart to store perishable food items. A plurality of preparing shelves is each positioned in the cart to facilitate objects to be placed thereon. A point of sale unit is positioned in the cart to conduct financial transactions for patrons purchasing food that is prepared in the cart. An umbrella is positionable in the cart to shield the cart from precipitation and sunlight.
US11639120B2
A child safety seat comprising a base and a body rotatably connected to the base for providing a seating space. The base is rotatably connected to the body via a rotating shaft. The child safety seat further comprises an electrical pivoting structure including a base pivoting member for electrically connecting to a base electrical device in the base, and a body pivoting member for electrically connecting to a body electrical device in the body. The base pivoting member is coupled to the base and has a base conductive part. The body pivoting member is coupled to the body and has a body conductive part. The base conductive part and the body conductive part are rotatably and electrically connected in the rotating shaft. The base electrical device and the body electrical device are electrically connected to each other via electrical connection of the base conductive part and the body conductive part.
US11639118B2
A passenger compartment has a flat floor, a movable component and a positioning system for positioning the movable component on the floor. The positioning system has a lower rail extending along a first direction attached to the floor, a carriage slidably engaging with the lower rail for sliding along the first direction, and an upper rail extending along a second direction not coinciding with the first direction and slidably engaging with the carriage for sliding along the second direction. An interface member is attached to the upper rail and provided with openings for being removably connected to the movable component and making the movable component integral with the upper rail in a movement along the first and second directions. The lower rail has continuous-track electrical contacts extending along the lower rail. The carriage has sliding electrical contacts arranged in contact with the continuous-track electrical contacts for transmitting electrical signals.
US11639108B2
A vehicle display device is configured to be mounted at a housing within a vehicle and to open and close an opening defined at the housing. The vehicle display device includes a first frame configured to be disposed at the opening, a second frame disposed at the first frame and configured to move relative to the first frame, a roller rotatably disposed at the second frame, a third frame disposed at a back surface of the second frame and configured to move relative to the second frame, and a display disposed at a front surface of the first frame and wound around the roller to connect to the third frame. The vehicle display device is configured to open and close at least a portion of the opening, where a size of the opened portion corresponds to a movement distance of the second frame with respect to the first frame.
US11639107B2
A display assembly for a vehicle includes an electronic display and an adjustment mechanism. The electronic display is configured to be mounted to an instrument panel of the vehicle. The electronic display includes multiple screens and at least one hinge disposed between the screens. The electronic display is configured to be folded at the at least one hinge by pivoting at least one of the screens about the at least one hinge to adjust a viewing angle of an occupant in the vehicle relative to the at least one screen. The adjustment mechanism is configured to maintain the at least one screen in any one of a plurality of positions when the electronic display is folded at the at least one hinge by pivoting the at least one screen about the at least one hinge to adjust the at least one screen to the one position.
US11639096B2
A suspension apparatus configured to support a wheel of a vehicle includes an in-wheel motor. The suspension apparatus includes a suspension member extending substantially in a front and rear direction of the vehicle and coupled to a carrier at a plurality of coupling portions spaced apart from each other in an up and down direction. The carrier holds the in-wheel motor. A reference point of an upper one of the plurality of coupling portions is located on an inner side of a reference point of a lower one of the plurality of coupling portions in a widthwise direction of the vehicle.
US11639091B2
A motor vehicle has a housing for an energy store arranged on a bottom side of a floor assembly of the motor vehicle such that the vibrations of the floor assembly are reduced. A damping component id provided as an elastomeric spring, the material properties of which exhibit, under dynamic loading, dynamic hardening, so that the stiffness under dynamic loading starting from a frequency of greater than 0.1 Hz is greater by a dynamic hardening factor, which is greater than 2, than the stiffness which is present under quasi-static loading, such as when fitted for example.
US11639084B2
The present invention relates to a blower unit of an air conditioner for a vehicle, which can effectively prevent water from being introduced into a motor and has a motor housing and a blower wheel improved to smoothly perform cooling of the motor. The blower unit of a two-layered air conditioner for a vehicle, which can divide and inhale indoor air and outdoor air, includes: a scroll case having an upper passageway and a lower passageway; a first blower wheel disposed in the upper passageway; a second blower wheel disposed in the lower passageway and arranged below the first blower wheel; a blower motor for rotating the first blower wheel and the second blower wheel; and a motor housing for covering the blower motor, wherein a hub for guiding air is disposed on the second blower wheel, and the hub of the second blower wheel is partially overlapped with an end portion of the motor housing.
US11639081B2
A device for the height adjustment of a road vehicle interposed between a frame and a suspension of the road vehicle so as to allow the vehicle to shift from a road configuration to a race configuration and vice versa. The device comprises a base body provided with a first end, which can mechanically be connected to the frame of the road vehicle; a first mass, which can be connected to the base body so as to be movable along a sliding axis; a second mass, which is connected to the first mass so as to be movable along the sliding axis as well and is configured to be able to be connected to a suspension of the road vehicle and to change the stroke of the suspension depending on the position of the second movable mass.
US11639080B2
A multi-purpose shock absorber for a vehicle suspension having an absorber body with an outer surface, and a movable piston having a first end disposed within the absorber body and a second end configured to couple with a part of the vehicle. There is a magnet assembly disposed around and external of the movable piston at the second end. The absorber has a sensor assembly having a sensor body coupled with the outer surface. An inner sensor body has a sensor disposed therein configured to detect a linear change in a position of the magnet assembly.
US11639077B2
A tire includes a pair of sidewalls extending from a respective bead area to a tread. The tread is formed with a plurality of tread elements and a radially outer surface. A sensor unit is mounted to the tire and includes a pair of electrical contacts. The tread wear sensor plug includes a cylindrical projection extending through an opening formed in one of the tread elements, a flange, and a wire including proximal ends disposed in the flange and a distal end near a radially outer surface of the projection. An electrical circuit is formed by each proximal end of the wire electrically contacting a respective one of the sensor unit electrical contacts. When the tread element and the cylindrical projection wear down to the distal end of the wire, the wire and the circuit break. A notice is transmitted by the sensor unit when the circuit breaks.
US11639076B2
A tire includes a tread reinforcing layer. The tread reinforcing layer includes a ply reinforcing portion in which belt-shaped plies are wound. The ply reinforcing portion includes a lattice-shaped portion in which a plurality of the first inclined portions and a plurality of the second inclined portions intersect with each other such that side edges of the first inclined portions and side edges of the second inclined portions do not contact with each other so as to have space portions between them. Each of the first inclined portions and the second inclined portions has an angle with respect to a tire circumferential direction continuously decreased from an inner side in a tire axial direction to an outer side in the tire axial direction.
US11639075B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for automated vehicle wheel removal and replacement are provided. One system includes a computer system with applications for scheduling the replacement of tires for the vehicle. An electronically controlled lift device and robotic apparatus is configured for interaction with the computer system. The lift device mechanically adjusts arms for placement on lift points of vehicles. The robotic apparatus detects positioning of lug nut configuration for a wheel, removes lug nuts, and then removes the wheel from the wheel hub with gripping arms. The wheel and tire are then handed off to a separate tire changing machine. When a new tire is replaced the robotic apparatus then mounts the wheel to the original wheel hub, and then secures the lug nuts to the lug nut bolts.
US11639066B2
In some examples, a printing press includes a support element with a circulatingly movable contact surface for contacting a printing substrate. An ink jet print head includes an ejection opening arranged to be directed at the support element. Additionally, the printing press includes a charging device that includes a charging electrode, which is arranged to be directed at the contact surface. The charging device further includes a counter-electrode, and the movable contact surface is at least partially arranged between the charging electrode and the counter-electrode of the charging device. A smallest distance between the charging electrode and the movable contact surface is greater than a smallest distance between the ejection opening of the ink jet print head and the contact surface. For example, the smallest distance between the charging electrode and the contact surface may be at least 50 mm.
US11639059B2
A liquid cartridge includes: a cartridge casing having a liquid storage chamber; a first wall; a second wall; and an air communication passage. The first wall is positioned upward relative to the liquid storage chamber. The second wall is positioned upward relative to the first wall. The air communication passage has a first communication hole in communication with the liquid storage chamber and a communication opening open to an atmosphere. The air communication passage includes: an air chamber defined by the first wall and the second wall and in communication with the liquid storage chamber through the first communication hole; a second communication hole formed in the second wall; and a labyrinth path. The labyrinth path is positioned upward relative to the air chamber, and has one end in communication with the second communication hole and another end in communication with the communication opening.
US11639056B2
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a fluidic ejection controller is described. The fluidic ejection controller includes a firing board to pass electrical control signals for ejecting fluid from a fluidic ejection device. An ejection board of the fluidic ejection controller is electrically coupled to, and selectively removable from, the firing board to pass the electrical control signals to the fluidic ejection device. Electrical pins are disposed on the ejection board in a pattern that matches a pattern of electrical pads on the fluidic ejection device. The electrical pins interface with corresponding electrical pads to pass the electrical control signals from the ejection board to the fluidic ejection device.
US11639052B2
A method of debonding a first layer from a second layer, wherein the first layer is bonded to the second layer by an adhesive located between the first and second layers. The method includes inserting a blade of a cleaving tool between the first and second layers, and exerting a controlled force on the cleaving tool to move the cleaving tool so as to de-bond the first and second layers in a region. The force exerted is controlled to match a de-bonding force calculated for the region, and such that the movement of the cleaving tool stops when the calculated force is less than a force required to move the cleaving tool, and continues when the calculated force is higher than or equal to the force required to move the cleaving tool.
US11639046B2
Provided is a glass film-resin composite, which prevents the breakage of a glass film and enables the production of an elongated glass film. The glass film-resin composite of the present invention includes: an elongated glass film; and a resin tape arranged on at least one surface of the elongated glass film, wherein the resin tape is linearly arranged at least near each of both ends in a widthwise direction of the elongated glass film in one surface of the elongated glass film, and wherein the resin tape includes an adhesive layer, and the adhesive layer is directly arranged on the elongated glass film.
US11639038B2
Systems and methods are provided for processing composite parts. One embodiment is a method for preparing a composite part for assembly. The method includes receiving a mandrel to which a composite part has been molded, and operating a work station to install an indexing feature into a manufacturing excess of the composite part.
US11639037B2
A method for producing a fiber composite component is disclosed. A sensor device having a flexible circuit carrier and/or a sensor module is integrated in the fiber composite component. The method comprises: loading a tool configured to produce the fiber composite component with textile layers and the sensor device; closing the loaded tool and compressing the textile layers and the sensor device; introducing a liquid matrix into the closed tool and impregnating the textile layers to produce the fiber composite component; detecting an acceleration in relation to the closing of the tool and/or the introducing of the liquid matrix, using at least one of the sensor device and the sensor module of the sensor device; and determining a process state and/or a process parameter based on a spectral analysis of the detected acceleration in a frequency domain.
US11639033B2
Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a three-dimensional article, including: a step of producing the article by an additive manufacturing technology, the article including at least two parts that face, at least partially, each other or that have edges facing, at least partially, each other; and a step of finishing of the article. According to the invention, the two parts are produced together with a temporary connection that links the two parts, and the method includes, after the step of finishing, a step of unlinking the temporary connection in order to separate the two parts.
US11639031B2
Methods and materials for volumetric additive manufacturing, including computed axial lithography (“CAL”), using photosensitive resins comprising a photocurable resin prepolymer; a photoinitiator; and (optionally) a curing inhibitor. In various embodiments, such photosensitive polymers comprise (a) one or more monomer (or prepolymer) molecules, which form the backbone of the polymer network of the polymeric material and define its architecture; and (b) a photoinitiator that captures illumination energy and initiates polymerization.
US11639026B2
A headrest assembly includes a lattice matrix having a plurality of three-dimensional (3D) cells. Each 3D cell of includes a node and a plurality of links outwardly extending from the node. The lattice matrix includes a plurality of sections including a first section having a first overall elastic modulus, a second section positioned adjacent to the first section and having a second overall elastic modulus that is higher than the first overall elastic modulus of the first section, and a third section positioned adjacent to the second section and having a third overall elastic modulus that is higher than the second overall elastic modulus of the second section. The lattice matrix is integrally constructed using an additive manufacturing technique, wherein the 3D cells of each section are provided in various patterns and cured to varying degrees to provide the varying overall elastic moduli of each section of the lattice matrix.
US11639025B2
Methods and apparatus for fabricating high-resolution thin-layer metal patterns and 3D Metal structures are provided. The methods and apparatus operate via photo-(stereo)lithography at room temperature. The printed metal patterns, for example silver patterns, exhibit high electrical conductivity, comparable to or better than the conductivity of the silver printed by current laser sintering or thermal annealing at high temperature.
US11639014B2
A method to improve thermal performance of vascular composites by using a two-phase working fluid for isothermalization includes the steps of: manufacturing a vascular composite structure optimized for a design point; manufacturing a thermal back end sized for the application; integrating the vascular composite into a fluid loop; and evacuating and filling the fluid loop with working fluid to an amount resulting in two-phase operation at the design point.
US11639009B2
A dust-proof circular saw includes a base placed on a workpiece, a circular saw main body supported on an upper surface side of the base and equipped with an electric motor, and a saw blade driven by the electric motor extending downwardly from the base. The dust-proof circular saw further includes a cooling fan driven by the electric motor to guide air to the electric motor for cooling the electric motor, as well as to a blower mechanism. The blower mechanism blows the cutting chips away by blowing the air generated by the fan out of the circular saw main body in a user-adjustable direction. The blower mechanism has an air outlet configured to blow out the air, and an orientation change mechanism capable of changing the orientation of the air outlet.
US11639008B2
An apparatus and method for cutting blocks of frozen food into irregular shapes comprises a slicer unit carrying a cutting blade and chutes for feeding logs of frozen food to said blade. The chute extends from a chute inlet to a chute outlet, having a central longitudinal axis extending from the center of the chute inlet to center of chute outlet. The cutting blade is positioned below the chute outlets wherein said elongate blocks of processed food are fed into said chute inlet through the chute to the chute outlet, to said blade, said blade sectioning the blocks into smaller pieces. The chutes are angled greater than 15 degrees and less than 90 degrees from the plane of the cutting blade and the chute is rotated about its longitudinal axis between 0 to 180 degrees from a square orientation to the plane of the blade.
US11639005B2
A robotic finger structure includes a proximal phalanx; a middle phalanx rotatably connected to one end of the proximal phalanx; a distal phalanx rotatably connected to one end of the middle phalanx and defining a distal phalanx opening in a front side thereof and at one end adjacent to the middle phalanx; a connecting rod having opposite ends that are rotatably connected to the proximal phalanx and the distal phalanx, and an actuating assembly to drive the middle phalanx to rotate with respect to the proximal phalanx. The connecting rod includes a first angled segment having a first recess facing a back side of the middle phalanx. When the distal phalanx is flush with the middle phalanx, the first angled segment passes through the distal phalanx opening, and a first end of the distal phalanx opening extends into the first recess.
US11639002B2
The control system is a control system that controls a connection between an autonomous mobile robot and a base station, the control system including: a radio communication unit that communicates with the base station; and a connection control unit that performs control, in a connection of communication performed by the radio communication unit, when a radio wave shielding object which the autonomous mobile robot is able to pass through is on a path along which the autonomous mobile robot is to move, so that the autonomous mobile robot is prompted to connect to a predetermined base station of which a received radio wave intensity at a position on the path in front of the shielding object is affected by the shielding object.
US11638990B2
A carpet tack strip removal tool. The carpet tack strip removal tool provides a device for lifting carpet tack strips from a floor surface while remaining allowing a user to remain in a standing position. The carpet tack strip removal tool includes an elongated shaft having a head at an end. The head includes a pry bar arm for placing between the flooring surface and the tack strip to be lifted, and a fulcrum lever for providing mechanical advantage when a lifting force is applied to a lifting arm. When moved from a setup position to the lifting position, the pry bar arm lifts and removed the carpet tack strip from the floor surface.
US11638974B2
An alignment device for aligning a tube panel with a plurality of pipes system and a method of performing the alignment is provided. The alignment device is used in a panel comprising a plurality of tubes having an inner diameter and an outer diameter. The alignment device includes a cylindrical first portion sized to fit within the tube inner diameter. A tapered second portion is provided opposite the cylindrical first portion, the tapered second end having a first end diameter that is substantially the same size as the outer diameter.
US11638972B2
A method for manufacturing a porous layer of an acoustic attenuation structure, porous layer of an acoustic attenuation structure thus obtained and acoustic attenuation structure comprising the porous layer. A method for manufacturing a porous layer of an acoustic attenuation structure includes a first step of production of a solid layer including at least one structural frame embedded in a resin matrix and having first and second reinforcing strips arranged so as to delimit zones without reinforcing strips and a second step of production of through-holes in the zones without reinforcing strips of the solid layer using a laser beam.
US11638970B2
The present disclosure relates to a laser based system for laser peening a workpiece. The system has a pulse laser configured to generate laser pulses and a controller for controlling operation of the pulse laser. The controller is further configured to control the pulse laser to cause the pulse laser to generate at least one of the laser pulses with a spatio-temporally varying laser fluence over a duration of the at least one of the laser pulses.
US11638963B2
A structure and method for retaining fastening element solder are introduced. The structure includes a fastening element which has a solderable surface and a fastening portion or a hole portion. One end of the hole portion or the fastening portion has a retaining portion. During a soldering heating process, solder flows into or enters the retaining portion to cool down and solidify. The solidified solder is retained in the retaining portion. The fastening element is firmly coupled to a first object because of coordination between the solderable surface and the retaining portion, and the second object is coupled to or removed from the fastening element because of coordination between the fastening portion and the hole portion, so as to couple together and separate the first and second objects repeatedly and quickly.
US11638959B2
A method for forming a component includes estimating a dosing plan for powder of a powder bed fusion (PBF) system needed to form the component. The dosing plan includes powder dosing requirements needed per layer to form the component. The method includes providing the dosing plan to a controller of the PBF system. Further, the method includes regulating the powder being supplied to a build chamber of the PBF system from a supply chamber of the PBF system based on the dosing plan. In addition, the method includes additively manufacturing the component via the PBF system using the powder.
US11638953B2
The present disclosure provides a method for collecting parameters for casting solidification simulation and a gridded design method for a pouring and riser system, comprising calculating thermodynamic parameters of a superalloy; obtaining cooling curves of the superalloy with different thickness; measuring a linear expansion coefficient of the superalloy as a function of temperature; the design method comprising: simulating a solidification process with tubular features of different thickness, and determining a feeding distance of the features of different thickness; establishing a gridded pouring and riser system, dividing the casting into a plurality of modules according to the thickness, and dividing a cell inside each module, and ensuring that a size of the cell is less than the feeding distance with the thickness; simulating filling and solidification of castings and the gridded pouring and riser system, and analyzing simulation results of defects.
US11638951B2
A casting mold is provided with a cavity portion and an overflow portion, and the overflow portion is connected to a gas flow path (suction path). A valve (an on-off valve, a shut-off valve) is provided between the gas flow path and the overflow portion. A heating method for a casting mold includes a step of setting the pressure in the cavity portion to a second pressure by sucking gas in the overflow portion and in the cavity portion while the valve is kept open for a second time period shorter than a first time period during casting. The heating method further includes a step of heating the casting mold by supplying molten metal into the cavity portion set at the second pressure, and solidifying the molten metal.
US11638949B2
In a method for producing a multilayered heat shield, which has a first metal layer and a second metal layer that has an insulating layer arranged between the metal layers, the metal layers are connected at the edge by a flanging. To produce the heat shield, the first metal layer, the insulating layer and the second metal layer are placed into a first pressing tool. This is effected in such a way that an edge portion of the first metal layer protrudes beyond an edge portion of the second metal layer. The insulating layer is set back from the edge portions of the first metal layer and of the second metal layer.
US11638945B2
A machine for bending a casted or stamped component into compliance with dimension and tolerance requirements, includes a base and at least one fixed holding device coupled to the base and configured to hold a corresponding datum of the component. The machine further includes at least one bending device coupled to the base and configured to engage a corresponding bending datum of the component, and a control system configured to control the at least one fixed holding device and the at least one bending device during a manipulation routine. The at least one fixed holding device is configured to hold the component in a predetermined spatial orientation relative to the base. The at least one bending device is configured to plastically deform the component.
US11638937B2
A method for effectively cleaning vias (20034), trenches (20036) or recessed areas on a substrate (20010) using an ultra/mega sonic device (1003, 3003, 16062, 17072), comprising: applying liquid (1032) into a space between a substrate (20010) and an ultra/mega sonic device (1003, 3003, 16062, 17072); setting an ultra/mega sonic power supply at frequency f1 and power P1 to drive said ultra/mega sonic device (1003, 3003, 16062, 17072); after the ratio of total bubbles volume to volume inside vias (20034), trenches (20036) or recessed areas on the substrate (20010) increasing to a first set value, setting said ultra/mega sonic power supply at frequency f2 and power P2 to drive said ultra/mega sonic device (1003, 3003, 16062, 17072); after the ratio of total bubbles volume to volume inside the vias (20034), trenches (20036) or recessed areas reducing to a second set value, setting said ultra/mega sonic power supply at frequency f1 and power P1 again; repeating above steps till the substrate (20010) being cleaned.
US11638931B2
A method of forming an ultrasonic transducer device includes bonding a membrane to seal a transducer cavity with at least a portion of a getter material layer being exposed, the getter material layer comprising a portion of a bilayer stack compatible for use in damascene processing.
US11638930B2
Provided is a powder coating device. The powder coating device performs powder coating by inserting peeled parts at a lower end of a stator into a powder flow tank filled with a powder resin and includes: a surface height measurement part measuring a surface height of the powder resin; a peel height measurement part measuring a height of upper ends of the peeled parts; a swing part swinging the powder resin; an air supply part supplying air toward the powder flow tank via a porous body provided below an open bottom surface of the powder flow tank, and flowing the powder resin; and an adjustment part adjusting at least one of an air flow rate, a swing amount of the powder flow tank, an entry posture and an entry amount of the stator according to measurement results of the surface height measurement part and the peel height measurement part.
US11638925B2
A lotion pump includes a movable portion and a stationary portion. A shifting mechanism is formed on the movable portion and the stationary portion, which shifts the elastic restoring mechanism of the lotion pump between a standby state and a non-standby state as the movable portion rotates or moves up and down. The structure of the lotion pump can prevent the spring from yielding due to compressed for a long time, while can also realize a form of locking at lower position.
US11638911B2
The present disclosure relates to mesoporous metal titanate materials composition. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to a mesoporous metal titanate material composition that is active for multiple reactions, including aromatic alkylation, alkene coupling, alkene cyclization, alkyne oxidation, alcohol dehydrogenation reactions.
US11638910B1
A preparation method of a lanthanum-iron-loaded carbon nanotube film for environmental restoration is provided, it belongs to the technical field of composite materials. The preparation method includes: mixing carbon nanotubes with a lanthanum-iron mixed solution to obtain a suspension, then obtaining a first reaction solution by a constant temperature oscillation reaction; adding alkali liquor into the first reaction solution to obtain a second reaction solution by an oscillation reaction; carrying out a solid-liquid separation on the second reaction solution, adding the obtained solid after drying into an organic solution, and obtaining a third reaction solution by ultrasonic mixing; centrifuging the third reaction solution to obtain a supernatant; obtaining a lanthanum-iron-loaded carbon nanotube film by suction filtration. Compared with powdered adsorbent and single adsorbent, the material prepared by the preparation method has advantages of strong stability, high adsorption efficiency, good regeneration effect, high recycling efficiency, and low production.
US11638899B2
A water harvesting device includes at least a first adsorption column including a first inlet, a first outlet, and a first interior region. A sorbent material is located within the first interior region of the first adsorption column. The sorbent material includes a metal organic framework (MOF) material including a plurality of metal ions or clusters of metal ions coordinated to one or more organic linkers, a plurality of nanofabrics comprising a hydrogel material, or a combination thereof.
US11638894B2
A filter box mounts to an air intake opening of an air handler. The filter box includes an inner shell, insulator, and an outer shell. The inner shell is adapted to confine one or more filters therein. The inner shell defines an airflow channel from a front end opening of the inner shell through the filter(s) to a rear end opening of the inner shell. The outer shell defines a chamber from a front end opening of the outer shell to a rear end opening of the outer shell. The outer shell contains the inner shell in the chamber and the insulator is sandwiched between the outer shell and the inner shell. The inner shell and the outer shell are separated and spaced apart all over by the insulator and the insulator insulates and seals the inner shell from the outer shell.
US11638893B1
An air filter includes an air filter pack includes air filtration media folded along fold lines to define adjacent walls separated by connecting peaks at the fold lines; and a beam defined on both sides of the air filtration media and extending transverse to the fold lines. A frame can enclose the filter pack, and methods for making are also disclosed. The beam can be formed of cured adhesive and reinforces the filter against bending due to upstream air pressure.
US11638886B2
Provided are spacers, ion-exchange devices comprising spacers, and methods of preparing spacers for improved fluid distribution and sealing throughout an ion-exchange device. These spacers can include an internal cavity surrounded by a perimeter of the spacer. The perimeter can have a first opening and a second opening within the perimeter, and the first opening and the second opening can be located on opposite sides of the internal cavity. The spacers can also have a first and second plurality of channels located within the perimeter, wherein each channel of the first and second plurality of channels extends from the internal cavity towards the first opening or the second opening.
US11638884B1
The application relates to a field of object connection and in particular, relates to a basic connecting block and a connecting block group. The basic connecting block includes a connecting block body, wherein at least one protrusion corner is provided on one side of the connecting block body and same number of inward recesses as the protrusion corner are provided on an opposite side of the connecting block body, and wherein a surface contour of the protrusion corner is consistent with that of the inward recess, the protrusion corners are connected with each other and the inward recesses are communicated with each other.
US11638881B2
One aspect of the disclosure relates to a system configured to provide a virtual space, in accordance with one or more implementations. Users of virtual spaces may encounter barriers in a game. During these barriers, users may receive and/or provide assistance to other affiliation members. One aspect of the disclosure relates to allowing affiliations or other groups to utilize in-game items to assist other players in game progress in an online game. This may incent positive player actions towards affiliation members, may enhance engagement between affiliation members, may provide an incentive for users to join an affiliation, and/or have other results. These results may ultimately contribute to enhanced retention, enhanced monetization, enhanced user satisfaction, and/or other enhancements.
US11638876B2
Described herein are computerized methods and systems for enabling remote participation in sporting event decision-making. A current game situation in a sporting event is received by a server from a remote device. The server retrieves plays applicable to the current game situation from a playbook. The server generates a playcall UI comprising the retrieved play categories and plays and transmits the playcall UI to fan computing devices. The server receives a vote for one of the plays from the fan computing devices. The server determines a selected play based on the received votes. The server transmits the selected play to player computing devices associated with players involved in the sporting event, wherein the players execute the selected play. The current game situation is updated at the remote device based upon an outcome of the selected play.
US11638873B2
A method for dynamically modifying audio playback of a video game is provided. The method includes ascertaining a game music data associated with the video game. The game music data may include a plurality of game soundtracks classified according to predetermined criteria. The method may include collecting feedback over a period of time while the user is playing the video game. The method may continue with determining, based on the feedback, one or more replacement soundtracks based on criteria associated with the one or more replacement soundtracks. The method may further include dynamically modifying the game music data while the user is playing the video game by replacing at least one of the plurality of game soundtracks with the one or more replacement soundtracks to obtain modified game music data. The modified game music data may be provided to the user while the user is playing the video game.
US11638871B2
A recorded experience in a virtual worlds system may be played back by one or more servers instantiating a new instance of a scene using one or more processors of the one or more servers and playing back the recorded experience in the new instance by modeling objects of a recorded initial scene state of the recorded experience in the new instance and updating the recorded initial scene state based on subsequent recorded changes over a time period, a recorded experience file includes the recorded initial scene state and the subsequent recorded changes and is stored in one or more memories of the one or more servers. One or more client devices are in communication with the one or more servers to participate in the new instance.
US11638870B2
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include identifying a video game configured to be available to stream from a server within a cloud gaming environment; pre-loading an instance of the video game on the server before receiving a request by a user to stream the video game to a client system; receiving the request by the user to stream the video game; and allocating the pre-loaded instance of the video game to the user for streaming to the client system in response to receiving the request by the user to stream the video game, thereby reducing a latency between the user submitting the request and the video game being ready for the user to stream. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11638869B2
The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that enable a user to be entertained. The information processing device includes: a first providing unit that provides first information for guiding to a destination in a form of dialogues with the user; and a second providing unit that provides second information regarding a present location in the form of dialogues with the user. The information processing device performs a process while switching among an intro mode as a mode at start of a game, a walk mode in which to walk to a final destination, and an arrival mode in which to arrive at the final destination. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an information processing device with which the user advances a game while talking with a virtual character.
US11638868B2
A controller system for surfacing selectable elements on a display of the controller along with game content associated with a video game is described. In an example, a user may provide touch input on the display, and, in response, a game content window that is presenting the game content may scale and/or move to a new position on the display in order to create space on the display for presenting one or more selectable elements outside of the scaled and/or repositioned game content window. The surfaced element(s) may be selectable to cause performance of a game-related action. In this manner, the selectable element(s) do(es) not occlude the game content, and the user may interact with both the game content and the selectable element(s) presented on the display.
US11638867B2
A game device is disclosed herein. The game device is a portable simulated soccer game that provides a substantially rectangular rigid planar surface having indicia of a soccer field disposed thereon. Simulated players are arranged on the field by mating with one of an array of apertures. The game device includes a pair of nets to be placed in a location corresponding with the simulated soccer field. A simulated soccer ball is used by a user to score on an opponent's net. A sleeve is provided having optional attachment features that are used to propel the ball. A user decides the arrangement of simulated players on the field with respect to the ball. The game device provides a game where orientation of simulated players impedes the ability to score points.
US11638866B2
A game table is provided with a generally flat playing surface having opposed playing ends position spaced apart in a length dimension to allow players to participate from each of the playing ends. The playing surface has a length dimension greater than a width dimension of the playing surface. A plurality of holes is formed with a V-shaped pattern oriented in the length dimension. The V-shaped pattern is positioned adjacent each of the playing ends. The V-shaped pattern has a plurality of holes that increase in diameter away from the end hole. A gutter surrounds the playing surface.
US11638863B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, devices, and methods for measuring physical impacts to various surfaces, including athletic equipment such as punching bags, tackling dummies, etc. An example system includes a punching bag and a plurality of force sensors coupled to the punching bag. The force sensors are configured to detect physical impacts on the punching bag.
US11638859B2
A hollow golf club head includes a metallic front body coupled with a composite rear body. The front body includes a strike face and a surrounding frame that extends rearward from a perimeter of the strikeface. The rear body includes a crown member coupled with a sole member. The sole member can have a structural layer formed from a filled thermoplastic material. The crown member can have structural layer and/or a resilient layer. The structural and resilient layers can be formed from fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composite material. The sole member has an opening through which a metallic weight pad at least partially extends. The weight pad is bonded to the structural layer and includes an aperture for attaching a metallic weight.
US11638858B2
Training balls are presented including: a solid sphere defining a first hemisphere and a second hemisphere; a tactile feature positioned along a first surface of the first hemisphere and substantially centered with the first hemisphere; a first grooved feature positioned along a second surface of the second hemisphere, where the first grooved feature includes a first body portion and a first pair of leg portions each extending from each end of the first body portion at a first congruent angle; and a second grooved feature positioned along the second surface of the second hemisphere, where the second grooved feature includes a second body portion and a second pair of leg portions each extending from each end of the second body portion at a second congruent angle.
US11638848B1
A connector for a resistance band for strength training includes: a first connector configured for attachment to an end portion of an elastic, elongate first cable of the resistance band; and a second connector configured for attachment to an end portion of an elastic, elongate second cable of the resistance band and configured to detachably couple to the first connector. Each of the first and second connectors includes a pair of male mating features, and a pair of female mating features configured for removable receipt of the respective pair of male mating features.
US11638837B2
Apparatus for improving image guidance in radiation therapy applications are described. In one aspect, a patient support with integrated radiopaque markers is described. In another aspect, a bite block with integrated sensors, radiopaque markers, or both, is described. The integrated sensors may include a radiation detector, a pH sensor, or both. Radiation detectors that may be used include a dosimeter. As an example, the dosimeter may include a film dosimeter, an ion chamber dosimeter, a diode dosimeter, or other suitable dosimeters and combinations thereof.
US11638831B2
The present invention relates to treatment of a psychiatric condition, for example resistant depression (RD), bipolar disorder (either threshold or sub-threshold) and/or major depressive disorder via application of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation with a drug treatment, in particular application of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation with treatment to modulate the activity of the neurones and induce neuroplasticity and the use of Thyroid hormone treatment to increase quantity or activity of thyroid hormones, for example for treatment of thyroid dysfunction. Patients may be selected for treatment by testing for the presence of normal thyroid function.
US11638821B2
The disclosure describes example of subsensory electrical stimulation for providing therapy for incontinence. An implantable medical device (IMD) includes a memory configured to store a set of therapy parameters for subsensory electrical stimulation of a patient. The delivery of the subsensory electrical stimulation results in a therapeutic effect for incontinence therapy at a stimulation intensity that is in range of approximately 50% to 80% of a stimulation intensity at a sensory threshold, and the patient does not perceive delivery of the subsensory electrical stimulation and perceives delivery of stimulation at the sensory threshold. The IMD also includes therapy delivery circuitry configured to deliver the subsensory electrical stimulation based on the stored set of therapy parameters, including cycling the delivery of the subsensory electrical stimulation between an on-cycle and an off-cycle.
US11638820B2
A neuromodulation system and a method of inducing voluntary movement in a mammal with a spinal injury are disclosed. In an example, a neuromodulation system includes a processor, a signal generator, and at least one electrode. The processor, in cooperation with the signal generator and the at least one electrode are configured to deliver a transcutaneous stimulation to a mammal. The transcutaneous stimulation includes during a first time period, a transcutaneous electrical spinal cord stimulation (“tESCS”) applied to the mammal during physical conditioning of the mammal. The transcutaneous stimulation also includes during a second time period after the first time period, the tESCS applied to the mammal during reduced or no physical conditioning of the mammal. The tESCS applied during the first time period and the second time period is used to establish a functional baseline of the mammal.
US11638819B2
Embodiments described herein relate to signal generators, systems including signal generators, and related methods. A signal generator includes capacitor(s) to store energy used to generate a treatment signal. The signal generator also includes a waveform shaping circuit, a controller, a voltage sense circuit, and a current sense circuit. The waveform shaping circuit is coupled to the capacitor(s) and includes first, second, third, and fourth switches, each of which is configured to be selectively turned ON and OFF, to allow current to pass through the switch when turned ON, and to prevent current from passing through the switch when turned OFF. The controller selectively controls the switches in order to generate the treatment signal. The controller also selectively controls the switches in order to perform certain fault tests, which rely on voltages sensed by the voltage sense circuit and currents sensed by the current sense circuit.
US11638809B2
A transdermal delivery system for delivery of a triptan into a tissue membrane of a subject. The system includes a transdermal microporation apparatus for heating a skin surface and a triptan drug delivery patch. The drug delivery patch comprises a top layer comprising an adhesive, a middle layer comprising the triptan, and a bottom layer. A method for treating a subject comprises identifying a subject having a migraine, using the transdermal microporation apparatus to open a plurality of micropores in the skin of the subject, and applying the triptan drug delivery patch to the subject's skin over the micropores for a period of time effective to deliver the triptan through the micropores in an amount effective to treat the subject's migraine.
US11638803B2
An anesthetic evaporator unit (2) with an anesthetic container (4) for receiving liquid anesthetic, with a gas line (6) with an open-pore, porous line wall (8) for guiding gas and for enriching the gas with anesthetic, and with an anesthetic-guiding wick (10), which extends from an interior space (12) of the anesthetic container (4) to the line wall (8) in order to supply the line wall (8) with anesthetic from the anesthetic container (4). The anesthetic evaporator unit (2) has a heater (14) for heating the gas line (6). A method for controlling the anesthetic evaporator unit (2) is also provided.
US11638785B2
Medication delivery devices are provided having a dose delivery sensing capability. A sensed element is attached to a dose setting member of the device. The sensed element includes surface features radially-spaced from one another. A rotational sensor is attached to an actuator of the device. The rotational sensor includes a movable element that is contactable against the surface features. The rotational sensor is configured to generate a signal in response to the movement of the movable element over the surface features during their rotation. A controller is operatively coupled to the rotational sensor, and in response to receiving the generated signal, the controller is configured to determine a number of the surface features passing the movable element of the rotational sensor during dose delivery. The number can be associated with an amount of dose delivered. Sensing can be provided in a module or integrated in device.
US11638769B1
A device for obtaining and applying a disinfectant agent and method of use are provided. The device includes a pre-processing cascade unit that activates (ionizes) air, with the activated air being supplied by an air pump to an inlet of a sprayer, where the activated air mixes with an initial working fluid (distilled water) to form an activated air-working fluid aerosol mixture that is sprayed by the sprayer into a reactor of cone-shaped volumetric cold plasma that includes divergent discharge electrodes. The device further includes a unit for generating high-voltage pulses of a nanosecond duration that is connected to the discharge electrodes and that causes the electrodes to generate electrical discharges. Upon the mixture coming into contact with the electrical discharges, potent disinfectant agents (such as peroxynitrite and one or more peroxynitrite's precursors or derivatives) are synthesized and expelled from the device.
US11638768B2
An illustrative control system for use with a replaceable ozone generator cartridge for use with an aqueous ozone delivery device, for example, for sanitizing objects, including hands, hands and forearms, feet, other tissue, instruments, or other object sanitizing. One embodiment of the control system calculates and transmits usage data to a memory device of the ozone generator cartridge, and also includes various sensors and drivers for controlling an aqueous ozone concentration. The control system also provides other data logging, error detection, and identity verification of the replaceable ozone generator cartridge.
US11638767B2
Various implementations of the invention are directed toward a sanitizing door handle and/or components of such sanitizing door handle. Some implementations of the invention are directed toward a manual sanitizing door handle while some implementations of the invention are directed toward an auto-sanitizing door handle. According to some implementations of the invention, a sanitizing fluid is dispensed directly onto an exterior surface of the sanitizing door handle in connection with an operation of the door handle to sanitize the door handle. According to some implementations of the invention, a sanitizing fluid is dispensed directly onto a user's hand(s) in connection with an operation of the door handle to sanitize the user's hand(s).
US11638763B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a nanoparticle based platform, and nanoallergens for identifying, evaluating and studying allergen mimotopes as multiple copies of a single mimotope or various combinations on the same particle. The nanoparticle is extremely versatile and allows multivalent binding to IgEs specific to a variety of mimotopes, simulating allergen proteins. Nanoparticles can include various molecular ratios of components. For example, the nanoallergens can include about 0.1-40% mimotope-lipid conjugate and about 60-99.9% lipid. The mimotope-lipid conjugate includes a mimotope, a first linker, and lipid molecule. Nanoallergens can be used in in vitro and in vivo applications to identify a specific patient's sensitivity to a set of epitopes and predict a symptomatic clinical response, identify allergen epitopes through blind screening peptide sequences from allergen protein, and in a clinical application similar to a scratch test.
US11638758B2
The disclosure relates to, among other things, pharmaceutical compositions, such as solid oral dosage forms, comprising itraconazole, methods of making the compositions, and methods of using the same for treating disorders including, but not limited to, fungal infections.
US11638753B2
The invention covers the use of certain classes of lipids including cationic lipids in ex-vivo dendritic cell therapies. The cationic lipids enhance antigen uptake, processing and presentation of the processed antigens by dendritic cells to CD8+ and CD4+ T-cells via the MHC classes I and II presentation pathways respectively. Antigen uptake via cationic lipid by dendritic cells result in significant lowering of the population of the immune suppressive regulatory T cells in the tumors and a significant increase of the tumor targeting cytotoxic T-cells. Loss of regulatory T cells and increase of tumor specific cytotoxic cells are conducive to effective elimination of the tumors.
US11638748B2
The present invention provides vaccine compositions and methods of producing such compositions. Other embodiments of the invention include methods of treating a pathogen infection, methods of vaccinating a subject against a pathogen infection, and methods for treating an antibiotic-resistance bacterial infection in a subject in need thereof. In further embodiments, the invention includes methods of decreasing the level of a pathogen in a subject having a pathogen infection, methods of increasing the surviving rate of a subject having a pathogen infection, methods of reducing the level of pain associated with a pathogen infection, and methods of reducing the level of distress associated with a pathogen infection in a subject in need thereof. Novel scaffold compositions and opsonin-bound or lectin-bound pathogen compositions, and uses thereof, are also provided herein.
US11638736B2
Provided herein are compositions for treating a disorder or a disease associated with or characterized by neuro-inflammation, neuro-apoptosis, or neuro-oxidative damage in a subject, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compositions and pharmaceutically acceptable excipients, and nutraceutical compositions comprising the compositions and nutraceutically acceptable excipients. Provided also herein are methods of treating a disorder or a disease associated with or characterized by neuro-inflammation, neuro-apoptosis, or neuro-oxidative damage in a subject in need thereof, methods of reducing, alleviating, or delaying a sign or a symptom of a disorder characterized by neuro-inflammation, neuro-apoptosis, or neuro-oxidative damage in a subject in need thereof, and methods of regulating inflammation, antioxidant enzymes, and apoptosis in a subject having a disorder or a disease associated with or characterized by neuro-inflammation, neuro-apoptosis, or neuro-oxidative damage.
US11638734B2
A method of extracting a Rhodiola plant comprising the steps of harvesting and drying the plant; extracting the alkaloids from the plant in a solvent; filtering the solvent-Rhodiola plant mixture to remove the solvent and extracted alkaloids from a spent plant matter; drying the spent plant matter; purifying and separating the extracted alkaloids from the solvent; and mixing the purified alkaloids back into the dried spent plant matter. Also, products of the method include vaporizing liquids, medicinal compositions, kief compositions, rolling papers, and filters for tobacco and vaporizing equipment comprising the mixture of the purified alkaloids and the dried spent plant matter produced according to the method. Further disclosed is a Rhodiola plant having approximately 1.3-8.57% total phenolic compounds containing 1-3.5% salidrosides and 0.03-3.6% Rosavins.
US11638732B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a novel composition that is, for example, effective in suppression of deterioration of mental function. The present invention provides a composition for use in suppressing deterioration of mental function, comprising a hop oxidation-reaction product. Conditions of deterioration of mental function include conditions selected from the group consisting of depression-related conditions and anxiety-related conditions. The composition of the present invention can be provided in the form of a food composition, and be ingested by subjects with deterioration of mental function or with a risk of deterioration of mental function. The S-fraction can be used as the hop oxidation-reaction product.
US11638723B2
The invention relates to an in vitro method to generate T cell progenitors, comprising the step of culturing CD34+ cells in a medium containing TNF-alpha and/or an antagonist of the Aryl hydrocarbon/Dioxin receptor, in particular StemRegenin 1 (SR1), in presence of a Notch ligand and optionally a fibronectin fragment.
US11638718B2
Disclose is a method of treating alphavirus infections, particularly in humans, in which pentosan polysulfate is administered to an infected subject. Whilst not effecting the viral load in a subject, the pentosan polysulfate acts to reduce inflammation in tissues, such as the muscles, and in the joints of a subject. In addition, cartilage damage in the joints may be reduced. The reduction in inflammation and/or cartilage damage acts to reduce the severe pain experienced by subjects suffering from alphavirus infections, such as Ross River virus, chikungunya virus and Barmah Forest virus.
US11638716B2
Disclosed are compounds and compositions for the activation or induction of expression of a pattern recognition receptor (e.g., STING, RIG-I, MDA5), and methods of use thereof.
US11638715B2
Described herein are orally-bioavailable nucleoside analogs and pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds. The subject compounds and compositions are useful for the treatment of coronavirus infections, including SARS-CoV-2 infection.
US11638710B2
This invention relates to a fixed-dose dry powder inhalation formulation comprising fluticasone propionate and albuterol sulfate, together with an α-lactose monohydrate carrier. In the formulation, the albuterol sulfate stabilises fluticasone propionate.
US11638707B2
Disclosed are amino triazole compounds of formula (I). These compounds are inhibitors of acidic mammalian chitinase and chitotriosidase. Also disclosed are methods of using the compounds to treat asthma reactions caused by allergens, as well as acute and chronic inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases, dental diseases, neurologic diseases, metabolic diseases, liver diseases, polycystic ovary syndrome, endometriosis, and cancer.
US11638689B2
A topical mixture that produces nitric oxide and a method for using the topical mixture to increase the vasodilation of a bloodstream via transdermal absorption of the nitric oxide. The nitric oxide can then affect subcutaneous tissues. The systemic vasodilation of a mammal may be increased via a topical application of an appropriate nitric oxide producing substance.
US11638687B2
The present invention provides an oil-based cosmetic which is excellent in terms of a matte texture, while being highly stable. An oil-based cosmetic which is characterized by containing the following components (a)-(e). (a) a crosslinked organopolysiloxane (b) an amorphous anhydrous silicic acid (c) an oil-based gelling agent having a sugar skeleton (d) a liquid oil (e) a powder.
US11638681B2
Provided is a white pigment for cosmetics capable of giving a cosmetic that gives a coating film having less stickiness and higher long-lasting properties. A white pigment for cosmetics of the present invention includes a titanium phosphate powder, the titanium phosphate powder includes crystal particles of titanium phosphate, and a ratio (oil absorption value/specific surface area) of an oil absorption value (ml/100 g) to a specific surface area (m2/g) of the crystal particles is 2.0 or more.
US11638680B2
The present disclosure concerns a hair styling composition comprising (a) at least one component comprising fibers, b) at least one polymer comprising an acrylate polymer and c) at least one polymer comprising a polyurethane.
US11638675B2
A medical device providing a combination of thermal and DVT therapies to a patient. The components, arrangement of components, function of the device as a whole, and methods of use of the device are all devised to maximize therapeutic effectiveness. Effectiveness in this context is measured by the ability to provide a controlled application of the recommended thermal treatment including time, temperature, compression, and number of cycles with specified cycle duration.
US11638672B2
A spinal decompression device from which a user suspends himself with his head up, taking advantage of gravity to stretch his spine and relieve tension in his back. Two crosspieces are connected at their middle portions to form an X. Each crosspiece has an arm near the top and a foot at the bottom, all extending horizontally and perpendicularly to the crosspieces. The height of the arms and their distance apart from each other are adjustable to fit each user so that the user may control the amount of his body weight suspended between the arms during treatment, by resting his feet on the ground. The device is collapsible for easier storage. A safety strap may be connected between the lower portions of each cross piece to prevent accidental collapse of the device. Wheels may be attached to the feet to make the device easier to move.
US11638662B2
The present disclosure is directed to a therapeutic sleeve for a medical patient. The sleeve has an interior side and an exterior side. The sleeve can include a fastener on the interior side. A wound care component such as an absorbent pad can be fastened to the interior side of the sleeve. The wound care component can be removed and replaced when it expires. The sleeve can be fabricated from stretch fabric, allowing the sleeve to conform to a patient's arm or leg.
US11638655B2
A method and device to correctly orient an intracranial occlusion device, such as a stent having differential porosity, with respect to desired areas of greater or lesser blood flow (e.g., branch vessels and aneurysms, respectively), said device being particularly adapted for use in treating aneurysms in intracranial or other tortuous vasculature. An intravascular device comprising a delivery catheter having a hub and angular lumen capable of constraining a pusher wire within a packaging catheter to deploy said stent in an orientation wherein the area of least porosity abuts the aneurysm, and area of maximal porosity permits blood flow to a branch or other vessel. A method of using same.
US11638651B2
A spinal implant is provided and includes a body portion defining a longitudinal axis. The body portion includes a distal end portion, a proximal end portion, opposed side surfaces that extend between the distal and proximal end portions, and top and bottom surfaces configured and adapted to engage vertebral bodies. The top and bottom surfaces have a surface roughness between 3-4 μm. A cavity extends through the top and bottom surfaces defining a surface area that is at least 25% of a surface area of the top surface or the bottom surface. First orifices are defined through the top surface and second orifices are defined through the bottom surface. The second orifices are connected to the first orifices by a plurality of channel.
US11638642B2
Embodiments concern an intraocular implantable device operable comprising a disk-shaped body having a symmetry axis and which further comprises a light-transmissive portion and an opaque portion wherein the light-transmissive portion is decentered with respect to the symmetry axis.
US11638639B2
A device for treating disease along a main vessel and at least one branch vessel extending from the main vessel includes a branch member for deployment in the branch vessel, the branch member having a branch lumen; and a main body for deployment in the main vessel. The main body has a generally tubular wall extending generally longitudinally between opposite first and second ends. The wall has an internal surface defining a main lumen and an opposite outer surface. The wall has a recessed portion that is recessed relative to the outer surface of the wall and positioned between the first and second ends of the main body. The main body has an opening formed in the recessed portion of the wall for receiving the branch member therethrough such that the branch lumen is in fluid communication with the main lumen.
US11638638B2
A system for treating an aneurysm includes a first double-walled filling structure having an outer wall and an inner wall. The filling structure is adapted to be filled with a hardenable fluid filling medium so that the outer wall conforms to an inside surface of the aneurysm and the inner wall forms a generally tubular lumen to permit blood flow therethrough. The inner wall comprises a blood contacting layer and a reinforcing layer. The reinforcing layer prevents circumferential creep or elastic expansion of the lumen.
US11638637B2
A method of removing embolic material from a vessel with mechanical and aspiration assistance. The method comprises the steps of providing an aspiration catheter having a central lumen and a distal end, advancing the distal end of the aspiration catheter to obstructive material in a vessel, applying vacuum to the central lumen to draw clot into the central lumen, introducing a thrombus engagement tool into the central lumen, and manually manipulating the tip to engage clot between the tip and an inside wall of the central lumen.
US11638631B2
A process for providing a sterilized dental article, at least a portion of the surface of which exhibiting a contact angle of less than 45°. The process includes the subsequent steps of a) providing a dental article and b) subjecting the initial dental article to a hydrogen peroxide plasma treatment. It is characterized in that the hydrogen peroxide plasma sterilization treatment of step b) is carried out in the presence of a carbon-containing compound, which during treatment is converted to form a carboxylic group attached to the surface of the dental article.
US11638627B2
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to orthodontic kits. In some embodiments, an orthodontic kit comprises a carrier, wherein the carrier is configured to house a plurality of orthodontic appliances, the plurality of orthodontic appliances, and a plurality of support structures, wherein the plurality of support structures includes groups of support structures, wherein each group of support structures connects one of the plurality of orthodontic appliances to the carrier, wherein the orthodontic kit is defined by a computer data file, wherein the computer data file includes data necessary to additively manufacture the orthodontic kit including the carrier, the plurality of orthodontic appliances, and the plurality of support structures.
US11638622B2
A medical system may comprise a display and a processor configured to determine an optimal position for an image capturing instrument to view working ends of a plurality of medical instruments when the plurality of medical instruments and the image capturing instrument are each extending out of a distal end of an entry guide. The processor may also be configured to cause the optimal position to be displayed on the display along with an image captured by the image capturing instrument of the working ends of the plurality of medical instruments.
US11638598B2
A surgical connector useful to link spine rods together. The connector may be used adjacent a pair of mounting screws in one vertebra to limit movement between the screws or may be used to apply a lateral force to a portion of the spine to change curvature. A method of performing spinal surgery is also provided to reinforce a patient's spine.
US11638588B2
A radial artery sheath assembly includes a cuff that is wearable around a patient's wrist and a receiver is integrated into the cuff. The cuff is inflatable to compress an incision in the patient's wrist to achieve homeostasis for stopping bleeding. A ring is removably attachable to the cuff and a radial sheath is extendable through the ring to retain the radial sheath in the incision in the user's wrist when the ring is attached to the cuff. The ring is inflatable for compressing the radial sheath in the ring to inhibit the radial sheath from being removed from the incision. A lock is coupled to the ring and the lock releasably engages the receiver in the cuff for attaching the ring to the cuff.
US11638586B2
An occlusion device intended for blocking perivalvular leak channels that are found following heart valve implantation between the heart valve and the surrounding tissue. The occlusion device has a stent and a covering that is attached to the stent surface. A blocking fabric extends across the lumen of the stent to block blood flow. The stent pattern and wall structure provide for small radius of curvature bends to fill narrow channels that cause the perivalvular leaks.
US11638584B2
Stapling assemblies for use with a surgical stapler are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, the stapling assembly includes a cartridge having a plurality of staples disposed therein and a non-fibrous adjunct formed of at least one fused bioabsorbable polymer and configured to be releasably retained on the cartridge. Adjunct systems for use with a surgical stapler are also provided. Surgical end effectors using the stapling assemblies are also provided. Methods for manufacturing stapling assemblies and using the same are also provided.
US11638578B2
The invention relates to a device and method for blocking air contributing to pneumothorax during a lung biopsy.
US11638565B2
A radiographic imaging apparatus includes: an effective pixel area including a plurality of detection areas, in each of which a first pixel including a photoelectric conversion element and a second pixel including a light-blocking element are provided; a plurality of signal processing units that are provided so as to correspond to the plurality of detection areas and each process, for a corresponding one of the detection areas, an output signal from the first pixel and an output signal from the second pixel provided in the corresponding one of the detection areas; and a correction unit that makes, for each signal processing unit among the plurality of signal processing units, a correction to the output signal from the first pixel processed by the signal processing unit, by using the output signal from the second pixel processed by the signal processing unit.
US11638561B2
A method of monitoring a subject via a photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor configured to detect and/or measure PPG information from the subject includes changing, via a processor, signal analysis frequency of the PPG sensor signals, optical wavelength emission of the PPG sensor, and/or PPG sensor interrogation power at predetermined times. Each predetermined time is associated with measuring at least one different biometric parameter from a plurality of biometric parameters.
US11638554B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for monitoring use of an orthopedic device are at least disclosed. In some embodiments, the system can include an orthopedic device, a housing, and a controller. The orthopedic device can provide support to a limb of an individual. The orthopedic device can include a magnet configured to generate a magnetic field. The housing can attach to the individual, and the housing can support a magnetometer configured to generate a signal responsive to the magnetic field. The controller can determine from the signal whether the individual is using the orthopedic device to provide support to the limb and accordingly output usage indications.
US11638549B2
A nerve integrity monitoring device includes a control module and a physical layer module. The control module is configured to generate a payload request. The payload request (i) requests a data payload from a sensor in a wireless nerve integrity monitoring network, and (ii) indicates whether a stimulation probe device is to generate a stimulation pulse. The physical layer module is configured to (i) wirelessly transmit the payload request to the sensor and the stimulation probe device, or (ii) transmit the payload request to a console interface module. The physical layer module is also configured to, in response to the payload request, (i) receive the data payload from the sensor, and (ii) receive stimulation pulse information from the stimulation probe device. The data payload includes data corresponding to an evoked response of a patient. The evoked response is generated based on the stimulation pulse.
US11638547B2
An exemplary embodiment providing one or more improvements includes apparatus and methods for sensing electrical activity in tissue of a person in a manner which is substantially limits or eliminates interference from noise in a surrounding environment.
US11638546B2
A system is provided for displaying heart graphic information relating to sources and source locations of a heart disorder to assist in evaluation of the heart disorder. A heart graphic display system provides an intra-cardiogram similarity (“ICS”) graphic and a source location (“SL”) graphic. The ICS graphic includes a grid with the x-axis and y-axis representing patient cycles of a patient cardiogram with the intersections of the patient cycle identifiers indicating similarity between the patient cycles. The SL graphic provides a representation of a heart with source locations indicated. The source locations are identified based on similarity of a patient cycle to library cycles of a library cardiogram of a library of cardiograms.
US11638537B2
A wearable respiration monitoring system having a transmitter coil that is adapted to generate and transmit multi-frequency AC magnetic fields, a receiver coil adapted to detect variable strengths in one of the AC magnetic fields and generate AC magnetic field strength signals representing anatomical displacements of a monitored subject, and at least one accelerometer that is configured to detect and monitor anatomical positions and movement of the subject, and generate and transmit accelerometer signals representing same. The wearable monitoring system further includes an electronics module that is adapted to receive the AC magnetic field strength signals and accelerometer signals, and determine at least one respiratory disorder as a function of the AC magnetic field strength signals and at least one anatomical position of the subject as a function of the accelerometer signals.
US11638527B2
The disclosure herein generally relates to the field of determination of cardiopulmonary signals for multi-persons, and, more particularly, to determination of cardiopulmonary signals for multi-persons using in-body signals obtained by ultra-wide band (UWB) radar. The disclosed method determines of cardiopulmonary signals for multi-persons using in-body signals, wherein a UWB radar signals/waves reflected from inside a human body is utilized for efficient determination of cardiopulmonary signals. The disclosed method and system utilize the UWB radar signals to identify a number of persons along with several details about the persons that include a girth of the each identified person and the orientation of the identified person towards the one or more UWB radar. Further a chest wall distance, a breathing rate, a heart wall distance and a heart rate are determined for all the identified persons based on the identified girth and the identified orientation along with the UWB radar signals.
US11638526B2
Diagnosing and treating viral infections. One example is a method of diagnosing absence of severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the method including: isolating a human in a covid-free environment for an isolation period; performing measurements of a core temperature during the isolation period; and if each of the measurements of the core temperature indicate a lack of fever, declaring the human free of SARS-CoV-2. Another example is a method including treating coronavirus in a human by: receiving a core temperature measurement; receiving a test result regarding the SARS-CoV-2 virus; responsive to the human having both fever and the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, submerging the trunk and the legs of the human in water with a surfactant, and the human at least partially submerged for a treatment period of at least three hours; and controlling a temperature of the water during the treatment period.
US11638525B2
An apparatus for dental imaging comprises a light source for generating light, an optics system for focusing the light, and a probe head. The light source, the optics system and the probe head are arranged such that the light passes through the optics system, passes through the probe head, and exits the probe head. The optics system is configured such that chief rays of the light before entering the probe head are divergent to each other, wherein an angle defined by a marginal ray of an outermost beam of the light is complementary to an angle defined by an extreme off-axis chief ray of the light with respect to the optical axis.
US11638515B2
To provide an endoscope that can be easily cleaned by dismounting an elevator after endoscopic examination. The endoscope includes a lever that is rotatably provided at a distal tip of an insertion portion (30), an elevator (80) that can be attached to and detached from the distal tip of the insertion portion (30), and includes a lever connection portion connected to the lever, and an elevator shaft (82) arranged to rotate coaxially with the lever when the lever connection portion and the lever are connected, and an endoscope cap (50) that can be attached to and detached from the distal tip of the insertion portion (30), and includes a bottomed cylindrical cover (52), an elevator support portion (761) that is provided inside the cover (52) and has an inlet through which the elevator shaft (82) enters when mounted to the distal tip of the insertion portion (30), and an elevator pivot portion (764) provided at the inlet.
US11638512B2
A robot cleaner is provided, including a main body forming a robot cleaner exterior, a driver coupled to the main body to move the main body, a cleaning module coupled to the main body to suck dust from a traveling surface, a dust collector removing dust from air suctioned through the cleaning module, and a wet-mop module coupled to the main body to mop the traveling surface, wherein the wet-mop module includes a wet-mop module housing surrounding at least a portion of the main body and accommodating water in an internal space, a wet-mop module wheel disposed in the wet-mop module housing, a mop disposed between the wet-mop module housing and the traveling surface, and a wet-mop pump connected to the wet-mop module wheel to supply water to the mop in response to rotation of the wet-mop module wheel. Mopping may be performed without applying physical force of a person.
US11638511B2
An apparatus for cleaning a floor includes a housing, wheels by which the apparatus is adapted to move; a motive device for moving the apparatus, a steering mechanism, and a cleaning assembly including a cleaning unit and an offset mechanism adapted to move the cleaning unit to or from an offset position projecting beyond one lateral side of the apparatus. In another embodiment, an apparatus for cleaning a floor includes a housing, wheels by which the apparatus is adapted to move, a motive device for moving the apparatus, a steering mechanism, and a cleaning assembly including a cleaning unit and a swing mechanism indirectly linking the cleaning unit to the steering mechanism such that when the apparatus is in an operative mode, the cleaning unit reorients its position in synchronization with the path of travel of the apparatus. Optionally, a lifting device may raise and lower the cleaning assembly.
US11638504B2
The present disclosure provides paper wraps, paper wrapped products, such as rolled bath tissue, paper towel products, or bundles of rolled bath tissue or paper towels, and methods for covering a product or bundled products in a paper wrap. For example, printed paper wraps and their use are described, wherein the printed paper wraps comprise at least one heat-sealable adhesive that may be applied in varying locations, coverage levels, and patterns comprising different seal strengths, which may be sealed using heat and/or pressure external to the products for packaging and protective purposes.
US11638499B2
A beverage brewer spray apparatus includes a lid, dispersal members, and a skirt. The lid has an obverse and converse surfaces. The dispersal members extend from the converse surface of the lid at open proximal ends of the dispersal members. The skirt has a proximal end fixed to and extending outward from the converse surface of the lid. Each dispersal member has a sidewall and a distal end defining an interior of the dispersal member. The sidewall has apertures arranged in a distal section of the sidewall. The lid has through-holes formed between the obverse and converse surfaces, and the dispersal members are fixed to the converse surface such that the through-holes provide fluid communication from the obverse surface of the lid to the apertures through the interiors of the dispersal members. The apertures are configured to direct liquid outward from the dispersal members.
US11638495B2
An oral motor spoon for improving oral motor skills includes a handle attached to a bowl section that forms a forwardly-sloped concave bowl that curves sharply upwardly to a vertical plane adjacent the tip. The underside of the bowl section preferably includes a series of linear, textured ridges running transversely in parallel relation thereacross. The tip of the bowl section is preferably formed into a generally flat exterior edge in a vertical plane, and the upper horizontal edge of the tip is preferably elevated above than the remaining perimeter of the bowl.
US11638492B2
A potted plant turntable including a base and a rotating dish. The rotating dish supports a potted plant which may be rotated with the dish to allow more even exposure of the plant to sunlight. The dish rests on a bearing collar of the base and may be manually rotated or driven by a motor. Drainage holes are spaced from the center of the dish and for many embodiments spaced radially inwardly from an outer edge.
US11638491B2
An assembly for display of a window covering having a display case and a window covering attached to a display board. The a display case adapted to reversibly hold a display board near the top of the display case through a magnetic bond between the display case and the display board. Mounting hardware for the window covering is engaged with the display board. The window covering is engaged with mounting hardware so that the window covering with the mounting hardware, and the display board may be removed from the display case such that a different mounting board with a different set of mounting hardware and a different window covering may be inserted in the display case to demonstrate the appearance and functionality of the window covering.
US11638484B2
A border bench apparatus providing a seating surface that can be interchangeably replaced with a retaining wall section. The border bench comprises a bench section having a seating surface, a first end to engage a lower engagement projection, a second end adapted to engage an upper engagement projection, and a body. In the preferred embodiment, more than one spike passes through the hoes defined in the bench and the wall sections for stabilization. The border bench can include a weighted base, or a broadened base.
US11638482B2
A wall-proximity reclining seating unit includes: a frame having a back member and a pair of arms, the back member extending between the arms; a backrest; a seat; a first footrest; and a reclining mechanism connected between the frame, backrest, seat, and first footrest. The reclining mechanism comprises a series of pivotally interconnected links and is configured to move the seating unit between: (a) an upright position, (b) a TV position, in which the first footrest is extended in front of the seat and is generally horizontally disposed, and the seat and backrest are moved forwardly relative to the frame between about 2.5 and 4 inches; and (c) a fully reclined position, in which the first footrest remains extended in front of the seat, and the seat is moved forward of its position in the TV position between about 4 and 7 inches.
US11638481B2
The application relates to a smart cabinet. The smart cabinet includes a cabinet body, a moving module, a controlling module and an assisting module. The moving module is positioned in the cabinet body; the controlling module is connected to the moving module. The moving module includes a base, a guiding wheel group disposed on the base, a plurality of drivers pivotally connected with the guiding wheel group, and a manipulator disposed on the base. The controlling module includes an input control unit, a guiding rope, and a pulley group. The input control module is electrically connected with the drivers and the manipulator. The pulley group includes a plurality of pulleys defining a movement range for the moving module. The assisting module includes a rope retractor and a sensor electrically coupled to the rope retractor. Two ends of the guiding rope are coupled to the rope retractor.
US11638478B2
A cable management system for a worktop has a cable support and at least one support mechanism comprising a base body, a first lever and a second lever. The base body is elongated between first and second ends along a major axis and includes respective pivot and fixation points for the first and second levers. The first lever is at a proximal end pivotally supported in the first pivot point, comprises at least a first retaining portion for receiving the cable support, and is fixable at the first fixation point. The second lever is at a proximal end pivotally supportable in the second pivot point, comprises at least one second retaining portion for receiving the cable support, and is fixable at the second fixation point.
US11638468B2
Apparatus, system, and method for at least one of icing, heating, and compressing a user's body part
A wearable device for at least one of icing, heating and compressing a user's body part is disclosed. The wearable device comprises an inner part and an outer part. The outer part is arranged with the inner part such that the outer part surrounds the inner part. A compartment is defined by the space between the outer part and the inner part and above the first attaching means. A compression force is provided by the second set of elastic properties compressing at least one of the hot element and the cold element against the user's body part thereby eliminating a second attaching means above the first attaching means within the compartment. At least one handle is in attachment with the outer part. The wearable device further comprises at least one band disposed on the outer part between the outer part upper end and outer part lower end.
US11638467B2
A timepiece component, having a first part and a removable cap, which is able to adopt a fastening configuration in which the removable cap is fastened to the first part, and a free configuration in which the cap is separated from the first part. The first part comprises at least two latching members intended to cooperate with at least two corresponding assembly members of the cap in the fastening configuration. The cap or the first part is elastically deformable from a rest position to a deformed position which allows for positioning and removing for passing from the fastening configuration to the free configuration of the timepiece component and vice versa. The rest position allows stably maintain the fastening configuration of the timepiece component in which the at least two assembly members of the cap are in engagement with the at least two latching members of the first part.
US11638451B2
A water proof moisture management garment and a method of constructing such a garment in accordance with the present invention utilizes at least three layers. An outer layer may comprise a stretch woven textile treated with a durable water repellant finish. The outer layer may be micro-perforated to permit perspiration to evaporate through the micro-perforations. An inner layer may comprise a moisture management textile to facilitate the transport of perspiration away from the skin of a wearer. An intermediate layer may bond the outer layer to the inner layer. The intermediate layer may provide holes to permit the evaporation of perspiration from the inner layer through the micro-perforations of the outer layer.
US11638450B2
The present invention relates to a disposable safety glove system featuring a plurality of layers of inter-nested gloves that are worn simultaneously by a user. The improved disposable glove system of the present invention allows a user to peel away the outermost layer of gloves to reveal a new and sterile set of gloves. The glove system also features a relatively thick wristband to support the plurality of glove layers, a tab that can be used to easily peel off the outermost glove layer once the same has been used and a new pair of gloves is desired, and a numbering system that alerts the user to how many glove layers remain in the glove stack.
US11638446B2
An induction heating assembly for a vapour generating device includes an outer body; an induction coil arranged inward of the outer body; a heating compartment defined inward of the induction coil and arranged to receive, in use, a body comprising a vaporisable substance and an induction heatable susceptor; wherein the separation between the outer body and the induction coil defines an air vent arranged to allow air flow around the induction coil and to the heating compartment.
US11638439B2
The present invention relates to a drinking product of vitamin D-fortified mineral water. The present invention further relates to methods of preparing packaged drinking product of the vitamin D-fortified water with minerals and/or natural mineral water, wherein the method essentially comprises water treatment, re-mineralization, ozonation, vitamin D dosing, and mineralization.
US11638422B1
The present invention relates to formulations of crude degummed corn oil (CDGCO) for use as plant biostimulants, for increasing yield and quality and for offsetting phytotoxic effects of active ingredients in pesticides and plant washes. Such formulations are typically combined with one or more emulsifier and a solvent, and or just an emulsifier or just a solvent, and combined with water and applied to plants as a spray or fog to foliage, or pruning cuts, or a a root zone drench, or to seeds. The invention improves upon existing pesticide formulations by reducing phytotoxicity. The invention provides for affordable plant biostimulant formulations for agriculture for producing better quality and higher yielding crops when subject to environmental stresses.
US11638420B2
A modular hunting blind with individual components configured to be stored in the base with the top and roof serving as a container top to store and ship the modular hunting blind. The components may be readily assembled on site for placement on the ground or on a stand or platform with minimal tools.
US11638412B2
A dispenser for dispensing animal feed. An inlet tube in an upper region receives feed from a container and a dispensing tube intersecting the inlet tube defines an opening along a lower surface through which the feed can pass. A feed drive assembly, comprising radial vanes, rotates within the dispensing tube. Regions between vanes receive and hold feed from the inlet tube. Two switches activate a motor when either is closed, and the motor turns the feed drive assembly. A pivotable arm extends downwardly from the dispenser such that a force applied thereto (by an animal wandering below the dispenser) closes one of the switches to supply power to the motor or to a controller controlling operation of the motor. Rotation of the motor and thereby rotation of the feed drive assembly moves a region holding feed into alignment with the opening causing feed to be dispensed through the opening.
US11638409B1
A novel maize variety designated 1PTAE45 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety 1PTAE45 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 1PTAE45 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety 1PTAE45 or a locus conversion of 1PTAE45 with another maize variety.
US11638408B1
A novel maize variety designated 1PYUV10 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety 1PYUV10 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 1PYUV10 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety 1PYUV10 or a locus conversion of 1PYUV10 with another maize variety.
US11638402B2
A method for receiving, over a computer network, from a plurality of devices installed in an indoor farming module, a plurality of data associated with at least one of: a water level in a watering reservoir, a pH level in an irrigation system, a temperature in the indoor farming module, a humidity level in the indoor farming module, a carbon dioxide level in the indoor farming module, and a power relay status, filtering the received plurality of data on a remote computer based on a filtering field, displaying, in a plurality of panels, the filtered data received from the plurality of devices; configuring a plurality of schedules for the plurality of devices, wherein the plurality of schedules comprise at least one of an irrigation schedule, a lighting schedule, and a data collection schedule, and sending the configured plurality of schedules to one or more controllers of the indoor farming module.
US11638396B2
A mower frame unit is operatively connected with a tractor device and the mower frame is moveable between a generally horizontal first position and a generally vertical second position. The mower frame is moveable from the first position to the second position via a hydraulic cylinder and piston assembly carried by the mower frame to pivot the mower frame about a transverse axis. The mower frame carries a tensioner assembly that is operatively connected to a lock assembly. The tensioner assembly serves at least two purposes. Namely, to tension a belt operatively connected to mower blade and to maintain a portion of the lock assembly in a locked manner when the tensioner assembly is in a state of tension.
US11638395B2
A cutter bar lockout mechanism for a header of an agricultural vehicle. The cutter bar lockout mechanism includes a shaft having a first end that is coupled to a frame of the header, and a second end that is positioned either on, within or adjacent a cutter bar support arm (arm) of the header. An upper stop is either mounted to the shaft or forms part of the shaft and is configured to selectively interact with an upper surface of the arm. A lower stop is either mounted to the shaft or forms part of the shaft and is configured to selectively interact with a lower surface of the arm. The shaft is movable relative to both the frame and the arm between an unlocked position and a locked position.
US11638393B2
An agricultural implement includes a frame and a ground engaging tool assembly having a shank rotatably coupled to the frame and a ground engaging tool coupled to the shank. In addition, the agricultural implement includes a monitoring system having a sensor mounted to one of the frame or the ground engaging tool assembly and directed toward a target. The target is the other of the frame or the ground engaging tool assembly, and the sensor is configured to emit an output signal toward the target and to receive a return signal indicative of a measured position of the ground engaging tool assembly relative to the frame. The monitoring system also includes a controller configured to determine that the ground engaging tool assembly is in a deflected position in response to determining that a difference between the measured position and a working position is greater than a threshold value.
US11641786B2
A phase-change memory cell includes, in at least a first portion, a stack of at least one germanium layer covered by at least one layer made of a first alloy of germanium, antimony, and tellurium In a programmed state, resulting from heating a portion of the stack to a sufficient temperature, portions of layers of germanium and of the first alloy form a second alloy made up of germanium, antimony, and tellurium, where the second alloy has a higher germanium concentration than the first alloy.
US11641782B2
The present disclosure relates to a spin-orbit torque-based switching device and a method of fabricating the same. The spin-orbit torque-based switching device of the present disclosure includes a spin torque generating layer provided with a tungsten-vanadium alloy thin film exhibiting perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) characteristics and a magnetization free layer formed on the spin torque generating layer.
US11641779B2
A method includes forming a plurality of first semiconductor mesa structures at a first semiconductor substrate. The first semiconductor substrate has a first conductivity type. The method further includes forming a plurality of second semiconductor mesa structures at a second semiconductor substrate. The second semiconductor substrate has a second conductivity type. The method further includes providing a glass substrate between the first semiconductor substrate and the second semiconductor substrate. The method includes connecting the first semiconductor substrate to the second semiconductor substrate so that at least a portion of the glass substrate is located laterally between the first semiconductor mesa structures of the plurality of first semiconductor mesa structures and the second semiconductor mesa structures of the plurality of second semiconductor mesa structures.
US11641765B2
A backplane, a display device and a method of manufacturing a backplane are provided. The backplane includes a base substrate; an inorganic layer on the base substrate, the inorganic layer including a plurality of protrusions; a metal layer covering atop of each protrusion and partial side wall near the top, the metal layer covering adjacent protrusions being disconnected; and a light-emitting layer covering the metal layer and the inorganic layer between the adjacent protrusions, the light-emitting layer being disconnected at regions of the protrusions not covered by the metal layer.
US11641762B2
The disclosure provides a display panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a display apparatus. The display panel includes a display substrate, a touch electrode and a plurality of anti-reflection structures, the touch electrode and the anti-reflection structures are arranged on one side of the display substrate; the orthographic projection of each anti-reflection structure on the display substrate correspondingly covers each sub-pixel, and the orthographic projection of the anti-reflection structures on the display substrate and the orthographic projection of the touch electrode on the display substrate do not overlap. The display panel can realize a touch function while realizing the anti-reflection function; meanwhile, the overall thickness of the display panel can be reduced, so that the display panel has good resistance to being folded repeatedly; meanwhile, the anti-reflection function of the display panel can be well compatible with the touch function.
US11641761B2
The present disclosure provides a black matrix and a method for manufacturing the same, and a color filter substrate and a method for manufacturing the same. The method for manufacturing the black matrix includes: providing a substrate; forming a sacrificial layer on the substrate, the sacrificial layer including a plurality of sacrificial patterns; forming a light shielding film layer on the sacrificial layer, wherein the light shielding film layer includes a plurality of first light shielding patterns and a plurality of second light shielding patterns, and each of the second light shielding patterns and an adjacent first light shielding pattern are separated by the sacrificial pattern; removing the sacrificial layer and the second light shielding pattern and forming the black matrix.
US11641754B2
An organic light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer, and at least one of a first layer and a second layer, wherein the first layer is positioned in a path where light generated in the emission layer is transmitted to the outside through the first electrode and the second layer is positioned in a path where the light generated in the emission layer is transmitted to the outside through the second electrode. The first layer and the second layer each include a compound having a certain formula and absorbing external ultraviolet rays to prevent or reduce the ultraviolet (UV) rays from transmitting therethrough.
US11641750B2
An image pickup element includes a photoelectric conversion section including a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer including an organic material, and a second electrode stacked on one another. Between the first electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer, an oxide semiconductor layer and an oxide film are formed from the first electrode side.
US11641747B2
Approaches for integrating FE memory arrays into a processor, and the resulting structures are described. Simultaneous integrations of regions with ferroelectric (FE) cells and regions with standard interconnects are also described. FE cells include FE capacitors that include a FE stack of layers, which is encapsulated with a protection material. The protection material protects the FE stack of layers as structures for regular logic are fabricated in the same die.
US11641746B2
A three-dimensional memory device includes a first alternating stack of first insulating layers and first electrically conductive layers located over a substrate, memory stack structures extending through the first alternating stack, a second alternating stack of second insulating layers and second electrically conductive layers located over the substrate and laterally spaced from the first alternating stack, a contact-level dielectric layer overlying the first alternating stack and the second alternating stack, a planar semiconductor material layer bonded to the contact-level dielectric layer and over an area of the second alternating stack, and field effect transistors located on the planar semiconductor material layer and electrically connected to the first electrically conductive layers.
US11641736B2
The invention provides a memory and a forming method thereof. By connecting two node contact parts filled in two node contact windows at the edge and adjacent to each other, a large-sized combined contact can be formed, so that when preparing the node contact parts, the morphology of the combined contact at the edge position can be effectively ensured, and under the blocking protection of the combined contact with a large width, the rest of the node contact parts can be prevented from being greatly eroded, and the morphology accuracy of the independently arranged node contact parts can be improved, thereby being beneficial to improving the device performance of the formed memory.
US11641735B1
A method of manufacturing a memory structure is provided. The method includes forming a first gate structure, a second gate structure, and a plurality of source/drain regions in a substrate, in which the plurality of source/drain regions are disposed on opposite sides of the first gate structure and the second gate structures; performing a dry etching process to form a trench between the first gate structure and the second gate structure; performing a wet etching process to expand the trench, in which the expanded trench has a hexagonal shaped cross section profile; and forming a bit line contact in the expanded trench.
US11641734B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes forming a capacitor on a substrate. A recess is formed in the capacitor. A drain region is formed in the recess. A word line is formed on the drain region. A gate structure is formed on the drain region, and the gate structure is electrically connected to the word line. A first bit line is formed on the gate structure, such that the first bit line servers as a source region.
US11641733B2
A semiconductor includes a semiconductor substrate and pillar type capacitors. The semiconductor substrate includes first connecting pads and second connecting pads. The second connecting pads are disposed on the first connecting pads respectively, and the pillar type capacitors are disposed on the second connecting pads respectively. A first ends of the pillar type capacitors are connected to the second connecting pads respectively, and a second ends of the pillar type capacitors area at the opposite side of the first ends. The distance between the first end and the second end of each of the pillar type capacitors is from 1 micrometer to 1.8 micrometer. A manufacturing method is also provided.
US11641730B2
Disclosed are semiconductor memory devices and methods of fabricating the same. The semiconductor memory devices may include a capacitor including first and second electrodes and a dielectric layer. The dielectric layer may include a zirconium aluminum oxide layer including a first zirconium region adjacent to the first electrode, a first aluminum region, a second aluminum region adjacent to the second electrode, and a second zirconium region between the first and second aluminum regions. The first and second zirconium regions may include zirconium and oxygen and may be devoid of aluminum. The first and second aluminum regions may include aluminum and oxygen and may be devoid of zirconium. The first aluminum region and the first zirconium region may be spaced apart by a first distance, and the first aluminum region and the second zirconium region may be spaced apart by a second distance shorter than the first distance.
US11641729B2
A method for manufacturing a SRAM cell includes forming a first p-well in a semiconductor substrate; forming a first semiconductor fin extending within the first p-well; forming a first mask layer over the first semiconductor fin; patterning the first mask layer to expose a first channel region of the first semiconductor fin, while leaving a second channel region of the first semiconductor fin covered by the first mask layer; with the patterned first mask layer in place, doping the first channel region of the first semiconductor fin with a first dopant; after doping the first channel region of the first semiconductor fin, removing the first mask layer from the second channel region; and forming a first gate structure extending across the first channel region of the first semiconductor fin and a second gate structure extending across the second channel region of the first semiconductor fin.
US11641723B2
Disclosed herein is an input device including: a cabinet including an upper cabinet section and a lower cabinet section that are combined in an upward-downward direction; at least one fixture fixing the upper cabinet section to the lower cabinet section; and a cover attached to an exterior surface of the cabinet to cover the at least one fixture. The exterior surface of the cabinet has an exposed region adjacent to the cover and not covered by the cover. A step is formed between the exposed region of the exterior surface of the cabinet and an exterior surface of the cover, so that the exterior surface of the cover is recessed with respect to the exposed region of the exterior surface of the cabinet.
US11641716B2
A method for manufacturing a printed circuit board according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a step of forming a resist pattern, and a step of forming a conductive pattern by using the resist pattern. The resist pattern has an acute angle portion in which an outer edge of a resist is bent to form an acute angle in a plan view. In a corner portion of the acute angle portion, an outer-side outer edge of the resist is rounded, and a radius of curvature of the outer-side outer edge is more than or equal to a distance from the outer-side outer edge to another outer edge adjacent thereto in a direction away from a center of curvature of the outer-side outer edge.
US11641706B2
An LED lamp and method are provided for autonomously changing the output brightness and color temperature of a plurality of LED strings to follow a first dimcurve in temporal synchronization with at least one other LED lamp. Synchronization is achieved based on a time of day determined using a clock signal. The output brightness and color temperature can transition from the first dimcurve to a second dimcurve over a predetermined number of scenes. The number of scenes is a function of a difference between the first dimcurve and the second dimcurve in at least one of the output brightness and the color temperature.
US11641702B2
Systems may include a heater including a plurality of heating elements that may include a first heating element configured to generate heat based on a first current, and a second heating element configured to generate heat based on a second current. Systems may further include an electromagnetic (EM) radiation reducing device configured to cancel electromagnetic emissions from the heater. The EM radiation reducing device may include a first EM radiation reduction element positioned adjacent to a first side of the heater, and a second EM radiation reduction element positioned adjacent to a second side of the heater, where the first and second EM radiation reduction elements have geometries configured based, at least in part, on the heater.
US11641699B2
A device having: an article having a flat surface and a lower surface opposed to the flat surface; a cavity formed in the lower surface forming a complete loop surrounding a central portion of the article; a heating element having the same shape as the complete loop in the cavity and positioned to warm a portion of the flat surface adjacent to the heating element when the heating element is activated; a cooling device positioned to cool a portion of the flat surface in the central portion; and a release layer on the flat surface. A device having: an article having an upper surface; a heating element on the upper surface forming a complete loop surrounding a central portion of the article; and an electrically insulating material on the upper surface within the central portion.
US11641691B2
Disclosed in the present disclosure are a method and a device for discontinuous transmission, the method comprising: a terminal device monitors a physical downlink control channel PDCCH in a DRX activation period; if the DRX timer starts and/or times out in the PDCCH monitoring time, then the DRX activation period includes the PDCCH monitoring time, or the DRX activation period does not include the PDCCH monitoring time.
US11641689B2
According to certain embodiments, a target network node for communicating with a user equipment (UE) that was previously in communication with a source network node, comprises an interface operably coupled to processing circuitry. The interface is configured to receive a connection resume request from the user equipment, wherein the connection resume request comprises a resume identification associated with the source network node. The processing circuitry is configured to determine that the UE was previously in communication with the source network node. The interface is further configured to transmit the connection resume request to the source network node, receive a radio resource control (RRC) response from the source network node, and forward the RRC response to the UE.
US11641686B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for refreshing a Global Unique Temporary Identifier GUTI of a user equipment UE. The UE may receive a GUTI from an Access Mobility Function AMF as part of a registration process. After a timer has expired, the UE may receive a new GUTI from the AMF. The timer may be provided by the UE as a request for use by the AMF. Alternatively, the timer may be used by the UE and the UE may request the new GUTI upon expiry of the timer, e.g., using an existing message or a new message, as desired.
US11641681B2
Methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory machine-readable media associated with data transmission are described. Data transmission and remote activity monitoring can include detecting a triggering event and determining an output data type associated with the triggering event, wherein the output data type is a first type for display at a second device or a second type to initiate communication between the first device and one or more second devices. Data transmission can include transmitting the output data to the second device via a device-to-device data link in response to determining the output data type comprises the first type. In response to determining the output data type comprises the second type, data transmission can include initiating a two-way communication path with the second device, the two-way communication path comprising a device-to-device data link or a data link with a base station or access point and transmitting the output data to the second device.
US11641669B2
A terminal apparatus for receiving a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) is provided. The terminal apparatus includes: a radio resource control layer processing unit configured to configure a control resource set based on Radio Resource control (RRC) signaling; a receiver configured to monitor a plurality of PDCCH candidates in the control resource set; and a decoding unit configured to decode a PDCCH candidate of the plurality of PDCCH candidates where the control resource set is configured for a Listen-Before-Talk subband (LBT subband) in a bandwidth part (BWP).
US11641661B2
A method and a User Equipment (UE) for beam operations are provided. The method includes monitoring at least one of a plurality of Control Resource Sets (CORESETs) configured for the UE within an active Bandwidth Part (BWP) of a serving cell in a time slot; and applying a first Quasi Co-Location (QCL) assumption of a first CORESET of a set of one or more of the monitored at least one of the plurality of CORESETs to receive a Downlink (DL) Reference Signal (RS), wherein the first CORESET is associated with a monitored search space configured with a lowest CORESET Identity (ID) among the set of one or more of the monitored at least one of the plurality of CORESETs.
US11641655B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration message indicating that a control resource set for a downlink control channel is associated with a plurality of demodulation reference signal (DMRS) ports. The UE may determine, based at least in part on the configuration message, that a first set of DMRS resource elements in a first symbol of the control resource set correspond to a first DMRS port of the plurality of DMRS ports and a second set of DMRS resource elements in a second symbol of the control resource set correspond to a second DMRS port of the plurality of DMRS ports. The UE may decode the downlink control channel based at least in part on the determining.
US11641652B2
Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a method, performed by a network node, for selection of uplink control information (UCI) transmission format, comprises determining whether to use a coherent transmission; upon determining to use a coherent transmission, selecting a coherent transmission format for UCI transmission. Upon determining not to use a coherent transmission the method further includes determining whether to use an orthogonal sequence: upon determining to use an orthogonal sequence, the method includes selecting a non-coherent transmission format with an orthogonal sequence for UCI transmission; upon determining not to use an orthogonal sequence, the method includes selecting a non-coherent transmission format with a non-orthogonal sequence for UCI transmission. The method further includes using the selected format for UCI transmission. For example, a base station may send the selected format for UCI transmission to a UE, or a UE may select and use the UCI transmission format.
US11641651B2
Various methods of allocating uplink control channels in a communication system are implemented at a resource scheduler or a user equipment (UE). In one method the scheduler reserves resources for a downlink data channel and signals a corresponding downlink data channel grant and also reserves resources for a persistent uplink control channel for a longer duration than the data channel grant. Signaling overhead associated with a grant for this persistent uplink control channel is reduced over a full dynamic grant. A predetermined rule can be used at the scheduler and at the UE to avoid overhead signaling associated with a grant for this persistent control channel. Predetermined rules at the UE and scheduler can also be used to reserve appropriate resources and select appropriate MCS levels for control information and the control information and uplink data can be transported over a common uplink channel when a time overlap occurs between an uplink data channel and the persistent control channel.
US11641650B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus, methods, processing systems, and computer readable mediums for determining timing advances (TAs) for use in sidelink (SL) communications. A method that may be performed by a transceiver (TX) user equipment (UE) includes applying a first TA when transmitting at least a first SL transmission to a receiver (RX) UE and applying a second TA when transmitting at least a second SL transmission to the RX UE.
US11641643B1
An interface matrix arrangement for multi-beam, multi-port antenna is described.
US11641640B2
Techniques for location determination of user equipment (UE) are provided. In an aspect, a position estimation entity (e.g., UE, gNB, LMF, etc.) identifies a pool of UEs for a SL-assisted position estimation procedure of a set of target UEs. SL SRS-Ps are communicated (e.g., transmitted and measured) between the pool of UEs (e.g., for relative SL ranging). UL SRS-Ps are communicated by at least some of the UEs in the pool of UEs. The position estimation entity obtains measurement data for both the SL SRS-P and UL-SRS-P communications. The position estimation entity determines a position estimate for each UE in the set of UEs based on the measurement information.
US11641638B2
This application discloses a communications method and apparatus. An example method includes: receiving, by a RAN node, a first message from an AMF node, where the first message includes specified area related information of a terminal device, and the specified area related information is used to indicate a specified area of the terminal device; and when the RAN node determines, based on the specified area related information and first location information of the terminal device, that the terminal device moves out of the specified area, sending, by the RAN node, the first location information or first indication information to the AMF node or an SMF node, where the first indication information is used to indicate that the terminal device already moves out of the specified area.
US11641637B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique and system thereof that fuses a 5G communication system with Internet of Things (IoT) technology to support a higher data rate than a 4G system. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services, such as smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail, and security and safety related services, on the basis of 5G communication technologies and IoT-related technologies. Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for sending, by a network, a paging message to a terminal in a next generation mobile communication system.
US11641635B2
Coordinated radio fine time measurement is provided via sending, from a client device, a ranging request to a first radio; receiving a first response sent at a first time from the first radio over a first channel; receiving a second response sent at the first time from a second radio over a second channel; and calculating, based on times of flight for the first response and the second response, a location of the client device relative to the first radio and to the second radio. Coordinated radio fine time measurement is also proved via in response to receiving, at an Access Point (AP), a ranging request from a client device and determining to respond using multiple channels: sending, both at a first time, a first response from a first radio over a first channel a second response from a second radio over a different channel.
US11641633B1
A first access point (AP) generates and transmits a first physical layer (PHY) data unit for initiating a joint channel sounding procedure between a group of APs, including the first AP and one or more second APs, and one or more client stations. The first PHY data unit is generated to indicate that the first PHY data unit is of joint channel sounding type. The first AP generates and transmits a second PHY data unit for initiating synchronous data transmissions by the group of APs. The second PHY data unit is generated to indicate that the second PHY data unit is of a joint data transmission type. The synchronous data transmissions initiated by the second PHY data unit are steered using beamforming parameters determined based on the joint sounding procedure. A synchronous data transmission by a second AP is adjusted based on the relative timing offset.
US11641628B2
In a terminal, a selecting unit selects one generation method from a plurality of generation methods for reference signals (sounding reference signals (SRSs)). A radio transmitting unit transmits reference signals (SRSs) generated in accordance with the selected generation method.
US11641627B2
Methods, systems, and devices for user equipment (UE) device-to-device sidelink wireless communications with transmit power adjustments provided through transmit power control requests. A group of UEs may use sidelink groupcast transmissions for communications, and a sidelink groupcast transmitter may increase or decrease transmission power of the groupcast transmissions for more efficient and reliable transmissions. Each UE that receives groupcast transmissions from the sidelink groupcast transmitter may have a different set of wireless resources that may be used to transmit a transmit power control indication to request higher or lower transmit power at the transmitting UE. Alternatively, wireless resources for providing the transmit power indications may be separately provided for TPC-UP indications and for TPC-DOWN indications.
US11641622B2
A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) includes in the UE, having a first subscriber identity module (SIM) and a second SIM, causing the first SIM to camp on a first cell associated with a first technology in standalone mode; selecting a second cell associated with a second technology in standalone mode; and causing the second SIM to camp on the second cell concurrently with the first SIM camping on the first cell.
US11641618B2
A cell access method includes determining a cell type of a first cell as a cell served by a high-speed-railway dedicated network or a cell of an ordinary Long-Term Evolution network. When determining the cell type as the cell served by the dedicated network, a first system message is configured and includes a first information unit indicating a number of equivalent cells, and sent to a terminal for determining, according to the first system message, that the cell type of the first cell is the cell served by the dedicated network. Upon determining a terminal movement state meeting preset access conditions of the cell served by the dedicated network, an access to the first cell is initiated. As such, the accuracy of terminal movement state can be predicted in accordance with the number of equivalent cells to the first cell, and the accuracy of cell access can be further improved.
US11641612B2
An apparatus, a method and a computer program is described comprising: receiving a plurality of synchronisation symbol blocks; classifying the received synchronisation symbol blocks based on delay relative to an expected reception time; and identifying one or more candidate line of sight paths on the basis of the delay relative to the expected reception time.
US11641611B2
Disclosed herein is a method for implementing conditional packet forwarding control rules, performed by User Plane Function (UPF). The method comprises: receiving, from a Control Plane Function (CPF) a packet forwarding control rule comprising one or more rule enforcement conditions; and applying the packet forwarding control rule according to the rule enforcement condition(s).
US11641606B2
A resource configuration method, a mobile terminal, a network-side device, and a medium are provided. The method includes: receiving configuration of at least one target cell resource, where the configuration of the at least one target cell resource includes at least one trigger condition for user equipment UE to use the target cell resource; based on a signal quality measurement quantity of a current serving cell of the UE, evaluating whether the at least one trigger condition is satisfied; and determining that the trigger condition is satisfied, and initiating, based on the configuration of the target cell resource, a communication process associated with the trigger condition.
US11641594B2
Various communication systems may benefit from the appropriate monitoring of communication channels. For example, certain wireless communication systems may benefit from downlink control channel monitoring optimized for discontinuous reception mode and/or narrowband operation. A method can include selecting a search space configuration from a plurality of search space configurations for a user equipment. The method can also include operating the user equipment in the selected search space configuration.
US11641590B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure include, for example, identifying a primary serving cell and a secondary serving cell, wherein the primary serving cell facilitates one of attachment, re-attachment or mobility, or any combination thereof, of a mobile device in association with coordination of a wireless service between the primary serving cell, the secondary serving cell and the mobile device. A latency value associated with a message exchange is determined between the primary and secondary serving cells via a messaging interface, and compared to latency requirements, which correspond to a group of mobile service features. A mobile service feature of the group is associated with the wireless service based on the comparison. The wireless service includes a coordinated exchange of wireless signals between the primary serving cell and the mobile device and between the secondary serving cell and the mobile device based on the mobile service feature. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11641589B2
A computer device may include a memory configured to store instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to classify a plurality of base station sectors into a plurality of context categories based on a context that includes a measure of cell density and a measure of mobility. The processor may be further configured to select a context category from the plurality of context categories; determine a coverage and quality optimization parameter adjustment, a capacity optimization parameter adjustment, and a accessibility optimization parameter adjustment for a subset of the base station sectors classified in the selected context category; and instruct base stations associated with the subset of base station sectors to implement the coverage and quality optimization parameter adjustment, the capacity optimization parameter adjustment, and the accessibility optimization parameter adjustment.
US11641585B2
An outbound roaming system detects that a wireless device has left a home wireless network and, in response, identifies a visited wireless network on which the wireless device is likely to roam or is currently roaming. The outbound roaming system queries the visited wireless network to offer security information for the wireless device. The security information can include a security parameter for the visited wireless network to mitigate a potential cyberattack enabled by the wireless device. In response to receiving an acceptance of the offer and satisfying a condition, the outbound roaming system provides the security information to the visited wireless network. As such, the visited wireless network can dynamically defend against cyberattacks enabled by roaming devices.
US11641583B2
A method is provided for evaluating the usage of a mobile communications device that itself provides access to a resource. In the method, a detected usage of the mobile communications device is compared to a stored usage pattern of an authorized user. When a measure associated with the difference between the detected usage and the stored usage pattern exceeds a threshold, it is concluded that the mobile communications device is being used by an unauthorized user. In response to this conclusion, a restriction is placed on an ability of the mobile communications device to access the resource.
US11641581B2
Example mobile devices disclosed herein include a camera, memory including computer-executable instructions, and a processor to execute the instructions to at least associate a location of the mobile device with picture data obtained with the camera. The processor is also to assign a first data tag to the picture data when the location of the mobile device corresponds to a first area, the first data tag to identify a first security level for the picture data, or assign a second data tag to the picture data when the location of the mobile device does not correspond to the first area, the second data tag to identify a second security level for the picture data. The processor is further to determine whether to permit an application to access the picture data based on whether the first data tag or the second data tag is assigned to the picture data.
US11641578B2
A method and a wireless communication device for providing communication service to devices connected to the wireless communication device. By establishing a starter wireless carrier connection using a starter SIM from a plurality of local SIMs, the wireless communication device establishes one or more logical data connections with one or more SIM banks. Remote-SIMs are selected from the one or more SIM banks and used to establish further wireless carrier connections to allow communication service to be provided to the devices over wireless carrier connections.
US11641571B2
A TCU includes: a wide-area communication section that performs wireless communication with a base station; a short-range communication section that performs wireless communication with an access point; a vehicle-to-vehicle communication section that performs wireless communication with a relay vehicle; and a communication control section that transmits upload data by using any one of the wide-area communication section, the short-range communication section, and the vehicle-to-vehicle communication section, wherein the communication control section transmits the upload data more preferentially by using the short-range communication section or the vehicle-to-vehicle communication section than by using the wide-area communication section when an upload deferment condition is met, and transmits the upload data more preferentially by using the wide-area communication section than by using the short-range communication section and the vehicle-to-vehicle communication section when the upload deferment condition is not met.
US11641565B2
In an aspect, first and second UEs each detect a target associated with a deflection point for a transmission beam from a BS to the respective UE, and each transmit, to the BS, information associated with the target. The BS transmits STRS configuration information to the first and second UEs. The BS multicasts, to the first and second UEs, an STRS on the transmission beam in accordance with the STRS configuration information.
US11641552B2
The present disclosure relates to a bone conduction speaker and its compound vibration device. The compound vibration device comprises a vibration conductive plate and a vibration board, the vibration conductive plate is set to be the first torus, where at least two first rods inside it converge to its center; the vibration board is set as the second torus, where at least two second rods inside it converge to its center. The vibration conductive plate is fixed with the vibration board; the first torus is fixed on a magnetic system, and the second torus comprises a fixed voice coil, which is driven by the magnetic system. The bone conduction speaker in the present disclosure and its compound vibration device adopt the fixed vibration conductive plate and vibration board, making the technique simpler with a lower cost; because the two adjustable parts in the compound vibration device can adjust both low frequency and high frequency area, the frequency response obtained is flatter and the sound is broader.
US11641536B2
A method and system for capturing and annotating measurement data includes communicatively connecting a mobile computing device to one or more measurement devices, and receiving measurement data from the one or more measurement devices. The mobile computing device stores the received measurement data and annotates the stored measurement data with metadata. The metadata includes group identifying information that associates the stored measurement data with other data having similar group identifying information. In at least one embodiment, measurement data is automatically associated with the group identifying information based on the measurement data being captured within a predetermined amount of time of each other or within a predetermined distance of each other as determined by a positioning system. The metadata may include, for example, one or more of a time, a location, a test point, a work order, a task list, a job instruction, a technician identifier, a text note, a voice note, an image, a video, and an image annotation.
US11641528B2
An image capture device may include an image sensor, a processor, and memory. The image sensor may be configured to obtain an image. The processor may be configured to: generate a grid on the image forming tiles; determine a fringing level of each vertex of the vertices; sort all of the tiles based on the fringing level of each tile so that the tiles are sorted in a descending order from the tile with a highest of the fringing levels to the tile with a lowest of the fringing levels; and apply a fringing compensation to a subset of the sorted tiles to obtain a processed image. The memory may be configured to store the processed image.
US11641526B2
A method and a system are described for improving a dynamic range of a CMOS image sensor by pixel-embedded signal amplification. An electromagnetic radiation is incident for a predetermined duration on a pixel array including a plurality of photodiodes. The photodiodes release electrons in form of an input electronic signal and the released input signal is temporarily stored in a storage node. The said input signal is then transferred to a gate of an in-pixel amplifier, which is configured to dynamically alternate between modes of capacitance and switched biasing, using a single in-pixel switch. Then, the in-pixel amplifier is modulated while in capacitance mode for a voltage build-up and this augment gain of the input signal. Thereafter, the in-pixel amplifier alternates to a switched biasing mode for suppression of noise signals. Finally, a resultant electronic signal is generated with a high gain after processing and suppression of the noise signals.
US11641521B2
The present technology relates to an image sensor and an electronic apparatus which enable higher-quality images to be obtained. Provided is an image sensor including a plurality of pixels, each pixel including one on-chip lens, and a plurality of photoelectric conversion layers formed below the on-chip lens. Each of at least two of the plurality of photoelectric conversion layers is split, partially formed, or partially shielded from light with respect to a light-receiving surface. The pixels are phase difference detection pixels for performing AF by phase difference detection or imaging pixels for generating an image. The present technology can be applied to a CMOS image sensor, for example.
US11641515B2
An image capturing mechanism is provided, including a base module, a ball element, and a movable module. The base module has a frame, a substrate movably disposed in the frame, and an image sensor disposed on the substrate. The ball element is disposed between the frame and the substrate, whereby the image sensor and the substrate are movable relative to the frame. The movable module is configured to hold an optical element and is movably connected to the base module.
US11641513B2
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for processing of messages at a media device for analysis purposes. An embodiment operates by transmitting a message request from a media device to a messaging server. In response, the media device receives a message response containing a message and messenger identifier. The media device generates a hash value of an identifier associated with the media device and the messenger identifier. The media device then determines whether the hash value maps into a control group. Finally, the media device processes the message based on whether the hash value maps into the control group.
US11641504B2
Apparatus and methods for premises gateway functions that integrate or unify functions typically distributed across multiple devices within a content-based network. In one embodiment, the out-of-band (OOB) signaling functionality normally provided in each of a set-top-box (STB) and digital video recorder (DVR) are unified into a common OOB (e.g., DOCSIS) capable premises gateway device, thereby obviating OOB tuners and related components from each device. In another variant, the premises gateway is adapted for all-IP operation, such as for use with IP-based computers and IP set-top boxes, etc. Fully unified variants are also disclosed, wherein the DVR and/or STB functions are physically integrated within the premises gateway.
US11641501B2
Techniques are described for dynamic production of linear media channels for delivery to passenger devices disposed on mobile transport craft while the transport craft are in transit. For example, each transport craft has an on-board media system. In accordance with a linear channel schedule, the on-board media system can generate a dynamically produced linear media (DPLM) channel that can be streamed as a continuous media channel to passengers on-board the transport craft. The linear channel schedule defines a sequence of programming time slots, including multiple broadcast programming time slots and multiple pre-positioned programming time slots. Dynamically producing the DPLM channel involves, for each upcoming broadcast programming time slot, obtaining a corresponding broadcast channel for receipt as a stream via an off-board communications network; and for each upcoming pre-positioned programming time slot, obtaining a corresponding pre-positioned content segment for receipt from storage on-board the transport craft.
US11641498B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, embodiments for obtaining video content from a video content server, determining a quality parameter for each of the plurality of adjusted video content, and adjusting the video content to generate the plurality of adjusted video content. Each of the plurality of adjusted video content comprises a different point cloud density according to the quality parameter. Further embodiments can include receiving a request for the video content from a video content application on a communication device, and determining a distance from a viewpoint to a point-cloud object on the video content application of the communication device. Additional embodiments can include selecting an adjusted video content based on the distance from the viewpoint to the point-cloud object and the quality parameter of the adjusted video content, and providing the adjusted video content to the communication device for presentation. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11641488B2
Systems, methods and instrumentalities are disclosed for adaptively selecting an adaptive loop filter (ALF) procedure for a frame based on which temporal layer the frame is in. ALF procedures may vary in computational complexity. One or more frames including the current frame may be in a temporal layer of a coding scheme. The decoder may determine the current frame's temporal layer level within the coding scheme. The decoder may select an ALF procedure based on the current frame's temporal layer level. If the current frame's temporal layer level is higher within the coding scheme than some other temporal layer levels, an ALF procedure that is less computationally complex may be selected for the current frame. Then the decoder may perform the selected ALF procedure on the current frame.
US11641485B2
Techniques and tools for reducing latency in video encoding and decoding by constraining latency due to reordering of video frames, and by indicating the constraint on frame reordering latency with one or more syntax elements that accompany encoded data for the video frames. For example, a real-time communication tool with a video encoder sets a syntax element that indicates a constraint on frame reordering latency, which is consistent with inter-frame dependencies between multiple frames of a video sequence, then outputs the syntax element. A corresponding real-time communication tool with a video decoder receives the syntax element that indicates the constraint on frame reordering latency, determines the constraint on frame reordering latency based on the syntax element, and uses the constraint on frame reordering latency to determine when a reconstructed frame is ready for output (in terms of output order).
US11641484B2
Particular embodiments provide a variable, BitDepth, that may be set at a value based on a number of bits used to represent pixels in pictures of a video. The variable may be used in syntax elements in HEVC, such as the HEVC range extension, but other coding standards may be used. By using the variable, different resolutions for the video may be accommodated during the encoding and decoding process. For example, the number of pixels in the pictures may be represented by 8 bits, 10 bits, 12 bits, or another number of bits depending on the resolution. Using the BitDepth variable in the syntax provides flexibility in the motion estimation and motion compensation process. For example, syntax elements used in the weighted prediction process may take into account different numbers of bits used to represent the pictures.
US11641479B2
In conventional cases that different trees are used between luma and chroma and that luma chroma prediction including multiplication in chroma intra prediction is used, there is a problem in that a processing delay caused by the chroma intra prediction is increased in small blocks. In a case that two different trees are used between luma and chroma, in a case of an 8×8 block in a luma size, 0 is derived without decoding qt_split_cu_flag, and in a case of an 8×4/4×8 block in a luma size, 0 is derived without decoding mtt_split_cu_flag. In a case that the size of a target block is smaller than a prescribed size, a chroma intra mode is derived from any one of DC, leftward prediction, and upward prediction.
US11641475B2
The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for encoding video. The method includes coding one or more first flags in a sequence parameter set (SPS) of a bitstream, and coding at least one second flag in the SPS if one or more coding modes are enabled for a video sequence associated with the SPS. The one or more first flags indicate whether the one or more coding modes are enabled for the video sequence. The at least one second flag indicates whether a multi-level control is activated for the one or more coding modes.
US11641469B2
A video decoder can be configured to receive a syntax element indicating whether chroma scaling matrices are signaled for the video data; in response to determining that chroma scaling matrices are signaled for the video data, determine a chroma scaling matrix for a block of video data; determine a block of chroma transform coefficients for the block of video data; dequantize a first chroma transform coefficient of the block of chroma transform coefficients using a first scaling value from the chroma scaling matrix; dequantize a second chroma transform coefficient of the block of chroma transform coefficients using a second scaling value from the chroma quantization matrix; and determine a chroma residual block for the block of video data based on the first dequantized chroma transform coefficients and the second dequantized chroma transform coefficient.
US11641465B2
Methods and apparatus for loop-filter processing of reconstructed video are disclosed. According to this method, if a loop-filter is disallowed for a target boundary, the target loop filter is disabled at top, bottom, left and right of the target boundary. According to another method, CC-ALF (cross-component adaptive loop filter) shape is changed across a virtual boundary. According to yet another method, CC-ALF and luma ALF handle unavailable samples in a same way.
US11641461B2
Sensors coupled to a vehicle are calibrated using a dynamic scene with sensor targets around a motorized turntable that rotates the vehicle to different orientations. The sensors capture data at each orientation along the rotation. The vehicle's computer identifies representations of the sensor targets within the data captured by the sensors, and calibrates the sensor based on these representations. The motorized turntable may confirm that rotation has stopped to the vehicle to trigger sensor capture, and the vehicle may communicate completion of sensor capture at an orientation to the motorized turntable to trigger further rotation.
US11641458B2
An autostereoscopic device and a method for generating an autostereoscopic image are disclosed. The device includes a substrate, a first image-forming layer disposed on the substrate, a second image-forming layer, a light-transmissive layer positioned between the first image-forming layer and the second image-forming layer, and an addressing unit. The addressing unit is used to substantially simultaneously adjust the first image-forming layer and the second image-forming layer in order to generate an autostereoscopic image. The image-forming layers may be thermally sensitive or they may include capsules containing electrophoretically responsive particles.
US11641450B2
An apparatus for video communication configured to be locally connected to a local processing device executing a video conferencing software for communicating with a remote location, the apparatus being further configured to be locally wirelessly connected to a plurality of local mobile devices each comprising a display and a video camera. The apparatus comprises: receiving means configured to receive a plurality of video signals related to a plurality of participants in a video conference generated by the video cameras of the plurality of local mobile devices, generating means operatively connected to said receiving means and configured to generate an output video communication stream based on said plurality of video signals received from the plurality of local mobile devices, and transmitting means configured to transmit the output video communication stream to said local processing device executing the video conferencing software. The apparatus is configured to receive from the local processing device an output signal representing a content displayed by a display of the processing device when executing the video conferencing software; the apparatus comprises sharing means configured to share with the plurality of local mobile devices the output signal representing a content displayed by the display of the processing device.
US11641448B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus and an information processing method capable of reducing a sense of delay given to a user. The information processing apparatus includes an acquisition section; an encoding section; a context recognition section; a priority data extraction section; and a communication section. The acquisition section acquires data relating to a transmission point. The encoding section encodes the data relating to the transmission point. The context recognition section sets data to be preferentially transmitted from the data relating to the transmission point on the basis of a situation of the transmission point recognized using the data relating to the transmission point. The priority data extraction section extracts the preferentially transmitted data as priority data on the basis of a setting in the context recognition section. The communication section transmits the data encoded by the encoding section and unencoded priority data to an information processing apparatus at a reception point.
US11641443B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire from a storing unit a target image that is obtained by photographing a target and stored in the storing unit and a processing image that is stored in the storing unit so as to be consecutive to the target image and indicates an instruction for processing on the target image, and perform control such that the processing indicated by the processing image is performed on the target image.
US11641442B2
A system and method to facilitating selecting or otherwise providing access to electronic content and services. Access to the content and services may be provided in such as a manner as to facilitate access to higher quality forms of the content. The higher quality forms of the content may be relate to any number of characteristics associated with displaying, transmitting, compressing, securing, and/or otherwise manipulating the content to more suitable forms relative to another form.
US11641441B2
Thermal imaging systems can include an infrared camera module (200), a user interface (208), a processor (222), and a memory. The memory can include instructions to cause the processor (222) to perform a method upon a detected actuation from the user interface (208). The method can include performing a non-uniformity correction (1702) to reduce or eliminate fixed pattern noise from infrared image data from the infrared camera module (200). The method can include capturing infrared images (1704) at a plurality of times and register the captured images via a stabilization process (1706). The registered, non-uniformity corrected images can be used to perform a gas imaging process (1700). A processor (222) can be configured to compare an apparent background temperature in each of a plurality of regions of infrared image data to a target gas temperature. The processor (222) can determine if such regions lack sufficient contrast to reliably observe the target gas.
US11641440B2
Techniques for video content based on multiple capture devices are described and are implementable to enable multiple video capture devices to be utilized for a video feed. Generally, the described implementations enable video content captured by multiple video capture devices to be utilized, such as to integrate different instances of video content into a merged video content stream. In at least one implementation this provides higher quality video attributes to be utilized than is provided by utilizing a single video content source.
US11641436B2
In a case where a standard authentication system is being connected to an image forming device, a cooperation processing unit of the image forming device uses a set value managed by a set value management unit thereby to cooperate with the standard authentication system. In a case where an extension authentication system is being connected to the image forming device, the cooperation processing unit of the image forming device uses a set value managed by a set value management service, which is an extension service that provides a function other than a standard function of the electronic device, thereby to cooperate with the extension authentication system. A program for the cooperation processing unit and a program for the set value management unit are included in firmware of the image forming device. A set value management program for the set value management service is not included in the firmware.
US11641419B2
A method for managing incoming voice calls, the method comprising: receiving audio of a voice call; determining whether the audio of the voice call is computer-generated; and terminating the voice call if it is determined that the audio of the voice call is computer-generated.
US11641417B2
A grip and support accessory for attachment to a mobile phone or other electronic device is provided. The accessory assists a user in maintaining a grip on a handheld device and may also be used as a stand to support the handheld device in a vertical or horizontal viewing orientation for hands-free viewing. The accessory includes a base configured for attachment to the handheld device, a grip movably attached to the base, and an arm operably attached to the base and the grip, where the arm is operable to move the grip from a closed position to multiple extended positions.
US11641416B2
A display device includes a display panel to display an image, and a blood pressure measuring module including a pressure sensor and a pulse wave sensor, wherein the pressure sensor is configured to sense a pressure that is applied to the display panel, the pulse wave sensor includes an optical sensor, and the pulse wave sensor is configured to generate a pulse wave signal using light that is emitted from a pixel of the display panel.
US11641404B1
Methods, systems, and computer program products. A virtual canvas is presented in an active area of an online meeting facility that renders participant-specific online virtual canvas interactions raised by a respective plurality of users' devices. Users can see and hear each other's interactions during an virtual canvas session. Annotations include drawings, content object edits, voice annotations, etc. that correspond to a displayed portion of a content object of a content management system (CMS). Based on the interactions and/or inferences made based on those interactions, the virtual canvas system generates commands to be executed by the content management system. Characteristics of interactions between users can be enriched by drawing information from the content management system and using such information in combination with the interactions themselves. The CMS can recommend teams, and action items, and the CMS can provide hints to participants, so as to facilitate more effective engagement between the participants.
US11641400B2
A system for transmitting and receiving medical vital signs from a “smart” vital sign apparatus over multi-protocol communication channels to and from a remote electronic health record database that may include a plurality of vital sign sources that communicate over a plurality of standard communication channels including: Bluetooth, LoRa, WiFi, cellular, Ethernet or other direct IP paths. The system reduces the volume of data transferred and extends BLE security.
US11641396B1
Systems and methods to remotely store and provide telecast programs are provided. The method includes storing an exclusive first transcoded copy of a program in a first configuration for a first user along with multiple shared transcoded copies in respective multiple configurations. The method includes receiving a request from the first user to view the program, streaming the first transcoded copy, determining based on one or more criteria whether the first transcoded copy is supported, and continuing to stream the first transcoded copy or switching to a second transcoded copy from the multiple transcoded copies based on the criteria.
US11641387B2
Methods and systems are disclosed wherein TCP may approximate Reliable Transport Protocol (RTP) or UDP delivery for real-time video/data conferencing applications that have long RTT connections.
US11641386B2
Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for delivering a multimedia communication to a thin client device are provided. A processor receives multimedia communication data from a telephony device over a network and transfers the multimedia communication data to a switching device. The processor also establishes a connection between a browser, embedded within the thin client device, and a server. The processor delivers and terminates the multimedia communication data to the thin client device using the browser embedded within the thin client device after establishing the connection between the browser and the server.
US11641385B1
Embodiments are directed to verifying performance and operation of live services. Applications operative in a computing environment and directed to a plurality of organizations may be provided such that the applications include data associated with different organizations. Templates that declare template objects may be provided such that the template objects may be directed to verifying features of the applications. Data associated with the organization may be provided based on the template objects. Verification objects may be generated based on the template objects and the provided data. The verification objects may be employed to verify the features of the applications based on verification conditions and the provided data. Reports that include results based on verification conditions and the provided data may be provided.
US11641382B2
Device(s) and computer program products for creating custom music/video messages to facilitate and/or improve social interaction. The created music/video messages include at least portions of: music, video, pictures, slideshows, and/or text. The music/video messages enable feelings or emotions to be communicated by the user of the device to one or more recipient device(s).
US11641380B2
A terminal device 1 collects RTP information related to a call and transmits the RTP information to a CSCF 3. The CSCF 3 collects, from a plurality of SIP packets related to the call, the address of an edge router 2 that has handled the plurality of SIP packets, the address of an SBC 4 that has handled the plurality of SIP packets, and the domain name of an operator's network 5 that has handled the plurality of SIP packets, and stores in a call information list, for each call, the collected information in association with the RTP information transmitted from the terminal device 1. Then, the CSCF 3 identifies a plurality of problem-occurring calls using the RTP information, and determines a faulty portion based on a bias in the quantitative trend of the count of each of the edge router 2 addresses, the count of each of the SBC 4 addresses, and the count of each of the operator's network 5 domains.
US11641373B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for protecting user data privacy against web tracking during browsing sessions may include (i) detecting a user request, including a private domain, for a website in a web browser address bar during a browsing session, (ii) separating, utilizing a browser container, a user browsing state associated with the private domain from other domains during the browsing session, (iii) routing the user website request to one or more servers in a random order to run the browsing session, (iv) performing a browsing state security action that protects against cross-website tracking by discarding user browsing state data collected during the browsing session, and (v) performing a web isolation security action that protects against use of browser fingerprint data for conducting malicious attacks based on the routing of the user website request to the servers in the random order. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11641371B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for monitoring a computer network for threats using OLAP cubes are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of monitoring a computer network for threats includes receiving, from a plurality of computing devices on the network, dataset data, asset data, and temporal data, and storing, in an online analytical processing cube for each computing device of the plurality of computing devices, the dataset data within a dataset dimension, the asset data within an asset dimension, and the temporal data within a temporal dimension. The method further includes searching one or more online analytical processing cubes for correlated data within two or more of the dataset dimension, the asset dimension, and the temporal dimension satisfying an alert metric, and issuing an alert when correlated data satisfies the alert metric.
US11641368B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for automatically predicting a risk score of a user login attempt by receiving a user login attempt and generating a login feature vector associated with the user login attempt. The systems and methods further train a machine learning technique to establish a relationship between the login feature vector and the risk score. The trained machine learning technique is applied to new user login attempts to predict a risk score associated with the login attempt and issue an authentication challenge to the user if the risk score exceeds a predetermined threshold value.
US11641361B2
Methods and systems for granting or denying a client device access to one or more resources in a remote computing environment are described herein. A computing device may receive from an identity provider a token authenticating that a user of a client device is at a first location. The computing device may determine, based on the token, one or more labels for a session associated with the user. Each label of the one or more labels is associated with a corresponding security group. Based on the one or more labels, the user of the client device may be granted access to sensitive data.
US11641360B2
According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a role-based access control (“RBAC”) system can mark all granular roles in a granular role group as non-tested to create a non-tested granular role set. The RBAC system can randomly select a granular role from the non-tested granular role set. The RBAC system can assign both the non-tested granular role set and a tested-keep granular role set to the granular role group. Each granular role in the tested-keep granular role set has been tested an approved for inclusion in the complete granular role set. The RBAC system can determine whether a user assigned to the granular role group has access to a protected function. In response to determining that the user does not have access to the protected function, the RBAC system can mark the granular role for inclusion in the tested-keep granular role set.
US11641344B2
The invention relates to a housing (30) for managing access to an industrial network (10), to which industrial equipment (U1, U2, U3) is connected, the management housing (30) comprising: —a channel (30a) for access to an internet-type data network, said channel (30a) for access to the data network comprising a cut-off unit (33); —a channel (30b) for controlling the channel (30a) for access to the data network, said control channel (30a) comprising a controller (31) configured to control the cut-off unit (33) so as to allow communication between the industrial network and the data network, the cut-off unit comprising a cut-off relay that can be activated by means of a control signal emitted by the controller (31).
US11641342B1
A method including receiving, by a processor associated with a read-only device, an access request to access an initial operating system from a requesting device associated with a virtual private network (VPN) server, the initial operating system being stored on a read-only memory associated with the read-only device; transmitting, by the processor to the requesting device based at least in part on receiving the access request, a request for authentication information associated with the VPN server; and controlling, by the processor, access to the initial operating system by the requesting device based at least in part on a result of a comparison of the authentication information associated with the VPN server with authentication information stored in the read-only memory. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11641329B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for initiating communication between users of a user group based on machine learning techniques. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for automating communication scheduling and communication initiation based on user communication objectives and machine learning techniques. The disclosed framework operates by leveraging available user provided communication parameters, user provided objectives, and various real-time data associated with the users, and using the aforementioned data as inputs for machine learning models, in order to schedule communication between the users, automatically initiate communication between the users, or transmit communication notifications to the users.
US11641328B1
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can receive an indication that a first user is interested in participating in a topic-based messaging session pertaining to a first topic. A second user to match with the first user is identified based on user matching criteria. A topic-based messaging session within which the first user and the second user can exchange messages is generated.
US11641323B1
Examples herein describe an acceleration framework that includes a hybrid congestion control (CC) engine where some components are implemented in software (e.g., a CC algorithm) while other components are implemented in hardware (e.g., measurement and enforcement modules and a flexible processing unit). The hardware components can be designed to provide measurements that can be used by multiple different types of CC algorithms. Depending on which CC algorithms are currently enabled, the hardware components can be programmed to perform measurement, processing, and enforcement tasks, thereby freeing the CPUs in the host to perform other tasks. In this manner, the hybrid CC engine can have the flexibility of a pure software CC algorithm with the advantage of performing many of the operations associated with the CC algorithm in hardware.
US11641321B2
Some embodiments provide a method that processes network data through a network. The method receives a packet destined for a network host associated with a logical datapath set implemented by a set of managed edge switching elements and a set of managed non-edge switching elements in the network. The method determines whether the packet is a known packet. When the packet is a known packet, the method forwards the packet to a managed switching element in the set of managed edge switching elements for forwarding to the network host. When the packet is not a known packet, the method forwards the packet to a managed switching element in the set of managed non-edge switching elements for further processing.
US11641320B2
Example methods and systems for intent-based network virtualization design are disclosed. One example may comprise: obtaining configuration information and traffic information associated with multiple virtualized computing instances, processing the configuration information and traffic information to identify network connectivity intents and mapping the network connectivity intents to a logical network topology template. Based on a switching intent, a first group may be assigned to a logical network domain and the logical network topology template modified to include a logical switching element. Based on a routing intent, the logical network topology template may be modified to include a logical routing element. A logical network may be configured based on the modified logical network topology template to satisfy the switching intent and routing intent.
US11641312B2
Consolidating events to execute objects to extract, transform, and load data from source systems to a structured data store. An event manager process executing on a server runtime utilizes one or more event properties to determine which events can be consolidated to reduce unnecessary processor utilization.
US11641311B2
A backhaul bandwidth adjusting method includes: acquiring the amount of the data to be transmitted of each access device in a first time window, the access device including access user equipment and a wireless backhaul base station; and determining, on the basis of the amount of the data to be transmitted of each access device in the first time window and a wired backhaul bandwidth, an available backhaul bandwidth allocated for each wireless backhaul base station in the next first time window. As such, a wired backhaul base station can allocate to a wireless backhaul base station reasonable bandwidths of an uplink backhaul link and a downlink backhaul link on the basis of the amount of the data to be transmitted of the connected wireless backhaul base station, such that spectrum resources can be used more effectively.
US11641294B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems provide improved throughput on a communication link. An apparatus has a plurality of line drivers, a first wire state encoder configured to receive a first symbol in a sequence of symbols when a 3-wire link is in a first signaling state, and to define a second signaling state for the 3-wire link based on the first symbol and the first signaling state, a second wire state encoder configured to receive a second symbol in the sequence of symbols, and to define a third signaling state for the 3-wire link based on the second symbol and the second signaling state. The first symbol immediately precedes the second symbol in the sequence of symbols. The 3-wire link transitions from the first to the second signaling state, and from the second to the third signaling state in consecutive transmission intervals.
US11641286B2
A method is disclosed. A node in a plurality of nodes can perform an identity set generation process. The node can then determine a leader node. The node may diffuse an identity set from each node of the plurality of nodes to the plurality of nodes. The node can then determine a majority set including identities occurring in at least one half of the identity sets, wherein the leader node diffuses the majority set of the leader node to the plurality of nodes. The node can verify the majority set of the leader node. The node may then update the identity set based on the majority set of the leader node.
US11641279B2
An authentication and encryption computer system is disclosed including processing devices, a network interface, and a data store. The authentication and encryption system is configured to maintain in the data store content common to a plurality of entities and content independently specified by each of the plurality of entities. The system is configured to receive a content request from an application executing on a mobile device, the content request comprising a secure access code corresponding to an entity, and the content request encrypted by the mobile device. An interface, comprising the content common to the plurality of entities, is customized to include content independently specified by the entity, wherein the content independently specified by the entity comprises a token value. A user request for an item presented via the interface is received and the token value is transferred to the entity.
US11641273B1
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for session authentication and random number generation. An example method includes receiving, by decoding circuitry and over a quantum line, a set of qbits generated based on a first set of quantum bases. The example method further includes decoding, by the decoding circuitry and based on a second set of quantum bases, the set of qbits to generate a decoded set of bits. In this example method, the first set of quantum bases is determined without reliance on the second set of quantum bases and the second set of quantum bases is determined without reliance on the first set of quantum bases. The example method further includes generating, by random number generation circuitry, a number comprising the decoded set of bits.
US11641272B2
An apparatus including a processor comprising at least one core to execute instructions of a plurality of virtual machines and a virtual machine monitor; and a cryptographic engine comprising circuitry to protect data associated with the plurality of virtual machines through use of a plurality of private keys and an accessor key, wherein each of the plurality of private keys are to protect a respective virtual machine and the accessor key is to protect management structures of the plurality of virtual machines; and wherein the processor is to provide, to the virtual machine monitor, direct read access to the management structures of the plurality of virtual machines through the accessor key and indirect write access to the management structures of the plurality of virtual machines through a secure software module.
US11641270B2
A tracking device can use a permanent encryption key pair to encrypt a temporary private key that corresponds to a set of diversified temporary public keys. When a community mobile device subsequently detects the tracking device, the central tracking system provides a diversified temporary public key to the community mobile device. The community mobile device uses the diversified temporary public key to encrypt location data representative of a location of the community mobile device, and provides the encrypted location data to the central tracking system. When a user subsequently requests a location of the tracking device from the central tracking system, the central tracking system provides the encrypted temporary private key and the encrypted location data to a device of the user, and the device can decrypt the encrypted temporary private key using the permanent encryption key pair, and decrypt the encrypted location data using the decrypted temporary private key.
US11641268B2
Systems and methods for asynchronous communication are disclosed. For example, a method for asynchronous communication includes encoding, by a transmitter circuit and according to a first clock signal, a bit sequence by converting a one-bit in the bit sequence into a first sequence and a zero-bit in the bit sequence into a second sequence. A length of the first sequence and a length of the second sequence differ by at least three bits. The method also includes communicating, by the transmitter circuit, the first sequence and the second sequence to a receiver circuit that decodes the first sequence and the second sequence according to a second clock signal that is independent of the first clock signal.
US11641258B2
Systems, devices, and methods for low-overhead and low latency multi-beam operation in an advanced wireless communication system. A method of a user equipment (UE) for a multi-beam operation in a wireless communication system includes: receiving, from a base station (BS), a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource configuration; receiving, from the BS, a triggering message instructing the UE to transmit an SRS; receiving, from the BS, a configuration for a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state that includes an identification (ID) indicating the SRS resource configuration; identifying a set of resources to transmit the SRS; and transmitting, to the BS over an uplink channel, the SRS based on the SRS resource configuration with a spatial domain transmission filter. The UE receives a downlink transmission from the BS with a spatial domain receive filter that is determined according to the ID included in the TCI state that is indicated for the downlink transmission.
US11641257B2
The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, a wireless communication method, and a computer-readable medium. According to one embodiment, provided is an electronic device comprising a processing circuit and used for a user equipment side; the processing circuit is configured to control to transmit a non-precoded first uplink reference signal, receive feedback by a base station regarding the first uplink reference signal, and sending, on the basis of said feedback, a pre-coded second uplink reference signal.
US11641253B2
Various embodiments relate to a method performed by a first wireless device for bandwidth negotiation for frame exchange in a TXOP with a second wireless device, including: announcing by the first wireless device a channel puncture scheme indicating whether some 20 MHz channels covering a BSS operating bandwidth are punctured or not; transmitting a frame to the second wireless device indicating a bandwidth for the frame exchange; receiving a frame from the second wireless device indicating a negotiated bandwidth for the frame exchange; and exchanging frames with the second wireless device using the negotiated bandwidth.
US11641247B2
Processing a received optical signal in an optical communication network includes equalizing a received optical signal to provide an equalized signal, demodulating the equalized signal according to an m-ary modulation format to provide a demodulated signal, decoding the demodulated signal according to an inner code to provide an inner-decoded signal, and decoding the inner-decoded signal according to an outer code. Other aspects include other features such as equalizing an optical channel including storing channel characteristics for the optical channel associated with a client, loading the stored channel characteristics during a waiting period between bursts on the channel, and equalizing a received burst from the client using the loaded channel characteristics.
US11641241B2
A method for transmitting data carrying optical information over an optical channel, comprising the steps of providing an optical transmitter consisting of a light source being a Mode-Locked Optical Frequency Comb (MLFC) for generating a frequency comb of multiple carriers, each of which being modulated by a baseband signal; an optical modulator for modulating each and all of the multiple carriers in a modulation bandwidth extending up to the modes' frequency spacing between the multiple carriers; performing all-optical encoding of the modulated carriers by manipulating the optical amplitude and/or phase and/or polarization of all optically modulated carriers; and transmitting, by the optical transmitter, the encoded modulated carriers to an optical receiver, over an optical channel.
US11641239B2
Methods and systems capable of launching signal-carrying transverse electromagnetic waves onto a transmission line in the higher voltage region of the transmission distribution network. Such methods and systems may include a surface wave launcher located in the higher voltage region, a network unit located in a lower voltage region, and an arrester separating the surface wave launcher and the network unit, the arrester preventing voltage from arcing over from the higher voltage region to the lower voltage region where the arrester provides the signal to the surface wave launcher.
US11641229B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which measurements of a number of beams that are transmitted from a first device, measured at a second device are provided in a beam switch metric report from the second device. The beam switch metric report may provide the first device with information that is otherwise unavailable to the first device and that may be used for setting beam management parameters.
US11641228B2
An apparatus is disclosed for implementing a flexible beamforming architecture. In an example aspect, the apparatus comprises an antenna array comprising a first antenna element with a first feed port and a second antenna element with a second feed port. The apparatus also comprises a wireless transceiver with a first dedicated transceiver path coupled to the first feed port and a second dedicated transceiver path coupled to the second feed port. The wireless transceiver also comprises a flexible beamforming network configured to selectively be in a first configuration that couples both the first dedicated transceiver path and the second dedicated transceiver path to a first intermediate transceiver path of the wireless transceiver, and be in a second configuration that connects the first dedicated transceiver path to the first intermediate transceiver path and connects the second dedicated transceiver path to a second intermediate transceiver path of the wireless transceiver.
US11641212B2
One example method includes file specific compression selection. Compression metrics are generated for a chunk of a file. Using a set of training data, the compression metrics are corrected using a correction factor to determine estimated file compression metrics. A compressor is then selected to compress the file based on at least the estimated file compression metrics.
US11641211B2
Provided is a receiver device including a first A/D converter (203), a second A/D converter (204), an amplifier (205) which is provided at a previous stage of the second A/D converter (204), and a digital signal processing unit (207). The digital signal processing unit (207) includes an amplitude comparison unit (211) configured to compare an amplitude of a digital signal output from the first A/D converter (203) and an amplitude of a digital signal output from the second A/D converter (204) to make a determination, and to output a determination result, and a selector (212) configured to select one of the digital signal output from the first A/D converter (203) or the digital signal output from the second A/D converter (204) based on the determination result.
US11641210B1
An N-channel interleaved Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) has a variable delay added to each ADC's input sampling clock. The variable delays are each programmed by a Successive-Approximation-Register (SAR) during calibration to minimize timing skews between channels. In each channel the ADC output is filtered, and a product derivative correlator generates a product derivative factor for correlation to two adjacent ADC channels. A matrix processor arranges the product derivative factors from the product derivative correlators into a matrix that is multiplied by a correlation matrix. The correlation matrix is a constant generated from an N×N shift matrix. The matrix processor outputs a sign-bit vector. Each bit in the sign-bit vector determines when tested SAR bits are set or cleared to adjust a channel's variable delay. Sampling clock and component timing skews are reduced to one LSB among all N channels.
US11641209B2
A time-interleaved analog to digital converter includes capacitor array circuits, at least one successive approximation register circuitry, and at least one noise shaping circuitry. The capacitor array circuits are configured to alternately sample an input signal, in order to generate a sampled input signal. The at least one successive approximation register circuitry is configured to perform an analog to digital conversion according to the sampled input signal and a residue signal, in order to generate at least one digital output. The at least one noise shaping circuitry is configured to utilize at least one first circuit in switched-capacitor circuits to transfer the residue signal from a first capacitor array circuit in the capacitor array circuits, and randomly select at least one second circuit from the switched-capacitor circuits to cooperate with a second capacitor array circuit in the capacitor array circuits to sample the input signal.
US11641204B2
Described herein are switches with asymmetrical anti-series varactor pairs to improve switching performance. The disclosed switches can include asymmetrical varactor pairs to reduce distortions. The asymmetry in the varactor pairs can be associated with geometry of each varactor in the pair. The disclosed switches can stack both symmetrical and asymmetrical varactor pairs. The disclosed switches with asymmetrical anti-series varactor pairs can be configured to improve both H2 and H3 simultaneously.
US11641202B2
A shunt switch. In some embodiments, the shunt switch includes a transistor stack including a first transistor and a capacitor. The transistor stack may have a first end terminal and a second end terminal, the first transistor being connected to the first end terminal, the first end terminal being connected to a switching terminal of the shunt switch. The capacitor may have a first terminal connected to the second end terminal of the transistor stack, and a second terminal connected to a low-impedance node.
US11641201B2
A device includes a first switch and a first diode connected in parallel between a midpoint and a first terminal of the hybrid power device, a second switch and a second diode connected in parallel between the midpoint and a second terminal of the hybrid power device, a third switch coupled between the first terminal and the second terminal, and a third diode connected between the first terminal and the second terminal.
US11641197B2
A method for protecting a system including a driver integrated circuit includes receiving a driver input signal. The method includes driving an output signal externally to the driver integrated circuit. The output signal is driven based on the driver input signal and an indication of a delay between receipt of an edge of the driver input signal and arrival of a corresponding edge of the output signal at an output node coupled to a terminal of the driver integrated circuit.
US11641193B2
A circuit includes cross coupled invertors including a first invertor and a second inventor. The first invertor and the second invertor are cross coupled at a first data node and a second data node. An input unit is coupled between the cross-coupled invertors and a power node. The input unit controls the cross-coupled invertors in response to a first input signal received at a first input terminal of the input unit and a second input signal received at a second input terminal of the input unit. A first transistor is connected between the power node and a supply node. The first transistor connects the power node to the supply node in response to an enable signal changing to a first value. A second transistor is connected between the power node and ground. The second transistor connects the power node to the ground in response to the enable signal changing to a second value.
US11641191B2
In an embodiment a ring oscillator circuit includes a chain of cascade-coupled inverter stages coupled between an oscillator supply voltage node and a reference voltage node, the oscillator supply voltage node configured to provide an oscillator supply voltage, a current generator circuit coupled between the oscillator supply voltage node and a system supply voltage node configured to provide a system supply voltage, the current generator circuit being configured to inject a current into the oscillator supply voltage node and a biasing circuit including a first bias control transistor and a second bias control transistor coupled in series between the reference voltage node and the oscillator supply voltage node, wherein the first bias control transistor is configured to selectively couple the reference voltage node and the oscillator supply voltage node in response to the oscillator control signal being indicative that the ring oscillator circuit is in an inactive operation state.
US11641185B2
A method of making an acoustic wave sensor includes the steps of providing a piezoelectric substrate layer and printing on the substrate layer a sensor layer comprising a first interdigitated acoustic wave transducer, a sensing film, and positioned on an opposing side of the sensing film from the first interdigitated acoustic wave transducer at least one selected from the group consisting of a second interdigitated acoustic wave transducer and a Bragg reflector. An insulation layer can be printed. An antenna can be printed in an antenna layer, and the insulation layer can be interposed between the antenna layer and the sensor layer. An electrical connection can be printed between the antenna and the first interdigitated acoustic wave transducer. An acoustic wave sensor is also disclosed.
US11641177B2
A method for coordinated control of a renewable electrical energy source (RES) and an electrical energy storage (EES) device utilizes a time-dependent forecast of electrical energy production by the RES and a state of charge (SOC) schedule for the EES including at least one SOC target value. A time-varying charge/discharge control signal is configured to ensure that the SOC schedule is satisfied by charging at a rate necessary to meet the SOC target value, while periodically updating the generation of the charge/discharge control signal based upon an updated time-dependent forecast of electrical energy production and/or an updated SOC schedule. A configurable refresh period may be used to limit updates of the time-varying control signal including computation and use of a new basepoint value for aggregated energy supplied from the RES-ESS facility to an electrical grid.
US11641174B2
The present disclosure provides a motor driving device capable of inhibiting unstable driving of a motor even in the occurrence of a sudden fluctuation of a power supply voltage. The motor driving device includes a power supply voltage sudden fluctuation detector, a power supply voltage fluctuation width generator and a current limit value setting unit. The power supply voltage sudden fluctuation detector detects a sudden fluctuation in a direction in which the power supply voltage rises. The power supply voltage fluctuation width generator detects a fluctuation width of the power supply voltage. When the sudden fluctuation is detected by the power supply voltage sudden fluctuation detection unit, a current limit value of the current limit value setting unit is reduced from a normal value and corrected by the correction width corresponding to the fluctuation width of the detected power supply voltage.
US11641173B2
A control apparatus of a rotary electric machine includes a rotor; a stator including a multiphase stator winding provided with conductor portions arranged in a circumferential direction thereof. The rotary electric machine is configured of any one of a first configuration having a first inter-conductor member using a magnetic material; a second configuration having a second inter-conductor member using a non-magnetic material; and a third configuration having no inter-conductor member. The control apparatus includes: a drive circuit with switching elements provided for each phase, supplying power to the multiphase stator winding; and a control unit controlling the drive circuit such that a period where a conduction ratio of the switching elements for one phase in the drive circuit is maintained at a constant value is more than or equal to 120 degrees and less than 180 degrees in electrical angle.
US11641172B2
A method and a device provide load-free determination of load-dependent position assignment parameters of a synchronous machine without using a position sensor. The synchronous machine is controlled via clocked (pulsed) terminal voltages from which, in conjunction with the measured electric current response, the inductance or admittance is calculated or wherein the load-free lowest and the load-free highest differential inductance are known. Based on the load-free lowest and the load-free highest differential inductance and the short-circuit electric current, the magnetic saturation behavior of the absolute inductance and/or of the magnetic anisotropy of the synchronous machine under load is predicted and used in the position sensor-free control operation (i.e., closed-loop control mode without a position sensor) for position assignment.
US11641170B2
A power tool includes a motor, a signal switch, a signal detection circuit, a power-on control switch, a first controller, and a second controller. The signal switch is used to switch a power on/off state of the power tool. The signal detection circuit is configured to output a detection signal according to a connection state of the signal switch. The power-on control switch is connected to the second controller. The first controller is configured to control an on/off state of the power-on control switch. When the signal detection circuit outputs a power-off signal, the first controller controls the power-on control switch to be turned off so that the second controller is de-energized and the motor stops rotating. When the power-on control switch still remains on, the second controller controls the switch elements in the driver circuit to be turned off so that the motor stops rotating.
US11641169B2
Method and apparatus for commutation of drive coils in a linear drive system with independent movers
A motor controller is provided that executes a commutation routine in one of a plurality of operating modes to regulate current provided to drive coils in a linear motion system. The motor controller generated currents for each of the drive coils in a first operating mode to minimize the copper losses in the drive coils, in a second operating mode to maximize the force applied to the mover, in a third operating mode to provide balanced currents between the drive coils, and in a fourth operating mode to provide currents according to a selected operating point that combines characteristics of the first three operating points. The motor controller may also monitor each of the drive coils for saturation and redistribute at least a portion of the current required to control operation of the mover to the other drive coils when one of the drive coils is saturated.
US11641168B2
A parametric resonator can be driven by varying a parameter of a modulated capacitor or other externally powered type device to achieve transduction. Conventionally, externally powered type devices generally require an external power source or a static charge to achieve transduction. By pumping the parameter of the device at a frequency that is about twice the resonance frequency, and an amplitude that is above a threshold, however parametric resonance can be generated and sustained without requiring an external power source or charge to be applied to the device.
US11641165B2
The subject application provides a zero-voltage switching flyback converter comprising: a transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding; a primary switch and a secondary switch for conducting the currents flowing in the primary winding and secondary winding respectively. A timing control method for operating the flyback converter are provided to accomplish zero-voltage switch by turning on the secondary switch twice within one switching power cycle.
US11641152B2
The invention provides a vibration motor having a housing assembly, an elastic connector, a pole plate, a plurality of magnets and a plurality of coils. The coils and the magnets are matched to drive the pole plate to move in at least two directions within the housing assembly. The coils are arranged on the outer side of the pole plate and fixed on the housing assembly so as to be suitable for a small-size vibration motor, then limitation of coil sizes is effectively avoided. Arrangement of the coils is facilitated, and process flows of the vibration motor during specific assembly can be optimized.
US11641148B2
An electrical switch for an electric machine includes body, a stator fixedly secured to the body and a rotor. The actuator includes a first member securable to the rotor and rotatable with it. The actuator also includes a second member, a first electrically conductive member cooperates with the second member. The actuator also includes a second electrically conductive member. The second electrically conductive member is spaced from said first electrically conductive member when said first electrically conductive member is in the first axial position and electrically engaged with said first electrically conductive member when said first electrically conductive member is in the second axial position.
US11641142B2
The present disclosure provides a stator and winding assembly thereof. The stator includes a stator core including a tube wall and a hollow portion and a winding assembly. The winding assembly is disposed in the hollow portion and includes a first winding group and a second winding group. The first winding group includes plural winding units disposed on an inner side of the tube wall and defining an outer layer. The second winding group includes plural winding units disposed on an inner side of the outer layer and defining an inner layer. Any one of the projections of the winding units at the inner layer is partially overlapped with the projections of the two adjacent winding units at the outer layer. A number of turns of the winding units of the first winding group is equal to or greater than that of the winding units of the second winding group.
US11641127B2
A charging system includes an AC-DC converter for connecting to AC mains; a DC-link connected to the AC-DC converter output; and a DC-DC converter having an input coupled to the AC-DC converter output, a control input, and an output. The DC-DC converter includes drive circuitry for controlling the DC-DC converter. A controller has a feedforward input for receiving a signal corresponding to a voltage across the DC-link, a feedback input for receiving a signal corresponding to an output current provided by the DC-DC converter, and an output coupled to the control input of the DC-DC converter. The controller generates a control signal which controls the drive circuitry based upon a positive half cycle and a negative half cycle of ripple voltage at the DC-link, and a ripple current amplitude at the DC-DC converter output during at least one of the positive half cycle or the negative half cycle.
US11641124B2
Provided is an electronic device configured to be charged with an adapter. The electronic device includes an energy storage unit, a charging unit and a switch unit. The charging unit is configured to receive a bus voltage and output a charging voltage to charge the energy storage unit. The switch unit is electrically coupled in parallel to the charging unit. When the electronic device is coupled to the adapter through a bus interface, the electronic device receives the bus voltage from the adapter, receives a communication signal from the adapter, and selectively turns on or off the switch unit according to the communication signal, and when the electronic device operates in a direct charging mode, the switch unit is turned on to form a direct charging path, to charge the energy storage unit by using the bus voltage.
US11641122B2
A pulse charging for a battery includes multi-stage voltage conversion. At first stage, an input voltage from a power supply is divided into a plurality of intermediate voltages. At second stage, one or more of the plurality of intermediate voltage are further down converted to generate one or more portions of a charging pulse to be applied to the battery. The down conversion of the input voltage to the output voltage is accompanied by increase in charging current that is applied to the battery. The higher charging current applied to the battery results in fast charging of the battery. Also, the described multi-stage voltage conversion circuitry has high efficiency which alleviates problem of heat dissipation associated with the voltage conversion for charging of the battery.
US11641103B2
A power semiconductor circuit is provided for clamping the voltage across the circuit when a power semiconductor switch is opened (i.e., turned off). The circuit may include a first surge arrester and a first semiconductor switch coupled in parallel with the power semiconductor switch. The first semiconductor switch is coupled in series with the first surge arrester. A second surge arrester may be coupled to the gate of the first semiconductor switch to control current flow through the first semiconductor switch and the first surge arrester.
US11641101B2
A method includes detecting an initial fault in a system and opening a contactor to isolate a load bus from the system for a window of time. During the window of time, the method includes detecting whether current flows from a generator of the system. If current flows from the generator of the system during the window of time, the method includes isolating the load bus from the generator. If current does not flow from the generator to the system during the window of time, the method includes isolating the load bus from all sources including the generator.
US11641099B2
The present invention generally directed to arc detection circuits or systems that help prevent fire damage to solid state (LED) based light sources by providing an arc detection system that can be used to detect acing in LED based light fixtures. Once the arcing is detected, power can be quickly turned off to the lighting system. One arc detection circuit according to the present invention comprises a high pass filter circuit arranged to accept an electrical signal with an arc current component having one or more arcing events and a direct current (DC) component, wherein the high pass filter passes only the arc current component. An arc detection circuit is included that accepts the arc current component and filters out arcing events below a threshold. Wherein the arc detection circuit provides an arcing signal with arcing events above said threshold. A microcontroller is also included that accepts the arcing signal to generate control signals based on the arcing signal. In some embodiment, the control signals can be used to control a power supply.
US11641098B1
Cooling system for bus bars, in particular cell connectors or module connectors of batteries, comprising a bus bar with a first connection area for a pole of a first battery, a second connection area for a connection of an electrical component, an insulation encasing the bus bar between the connection areas, wherein the bus bar is free of the insulation at least in the two connection areas, characterized in that on a side facing away from the pole of at least one of the connection areas, a gel-shaped heat conducting agent is applied directly to the surface of the bus bar.
US11641091B2
A segmented VCSEL array having a plurality of individually addressable segments, each segment comprising one or more VCSELs. In some cases, at least two of the plurality of individually addressable segments may be driven in combination. The plurality of individually addressable segments, in some embodiments, may be centered around the same central point. An optical element may be used in conjunction with the segmented VCSEL array, and in some cases may be aligned to the central point. The optical element may be configured such that light passing therethrough may be directed according to which of the plurality of individually addressable segments is activated. In some embodiments, the optical element is a grating or diffractive optical element. The grating or diffractive optical element could be patterned with optical segments that each correspond to at least one the plurality of individually addressable segments.
US11641088B2
A phased-array MASER detector for synthetic aperture interferometric three-dimensional imaging. The detector elements, for example 102-106 zero bias Schottky detector diodes with sufficient sensitivity to reliably detect various values of MASER radiation, are arranged in layers offset in three dimensions. The phased-array MASER detector is particularly useful for detecting characteristics in a biological object using low energy (2-10 Watts), coherent MASER radiation. MASER intensity data of an interferometric pattern is collected by the detector array, is deconvolved, and is used to generate three-dimensional energy activity maps for a given time slice or on a time-shifting basis.
US11641083B2
An electrical system for use in a raceway includes a power cable and a junction block. The junction block includes junction block halves configured to form opposing halves of the junction block, a plurality of bus bars arranged within a bus bar cavity, and a hinged connector arranged on a face of a first of the junction block halves. The junction block halves are coupled to define a bus bar cavity within the junction block. Each of the bus bars are electrically coupled to a conductor of the power cable. The hinged connector is arranged opposite a second junction block half such that a portion of the hinged connector is rotatable about an axis that is parallel to a face of the first junction block half. The power cable is coupled to the junction block via the hinged connector.
US11641073B2
A housing of a connector has an end face in a perpendicular direction perpendicular to an up-down direction. A side portion of a guide member is apart from the end face of the housing. The end face of the housing, the side portion of the guide member and supporting portions of the guide member form a receiving portion which guides and receives a protruding block of a mating connector. When the connector is mounted on a substrate, the side portion and the supporting portions are apart from the substrate. Outside the end face of the housing in the perpendicular direction and under the side portion and the supporting portions in the up-down direction, a lower space is formed to communicate with the receiving portion. The guide members 16 is not located in the lower spaces 20 at all.
US11641072B2
This application relates to the field of power supply packaging technologies, and in particular, to a PCB-pinout based packaged module, including a packaged module and a pin exposed outside the packaged module. The packaged module includes a PCB and a power component. The PCB has a first surface and a second surface that are disposed opposite to each other, and the power component is disposed on the first surface or the second surface of the PCB. The power component performs communication connection with a pin located on one side of the first surface or one side of the second surface of the PCB through surface-layer copper of the PCB. The pin located on one side of the first surface or one side of the second surface of the PCB is a surface-layer copper etching pattern that is located on the PCB and that is exposed outside the packaged module.
US11641070B2
An amplifier connector including a housing having a first end with an aperture for receiving a bare cable end into a rib-receiving space between a pair of inner jaw members. The jaw members can be clamped on the cable end by moving a sliding sleeve with a wedge from an unlocked configuration to a locked configuration. A second end of the connector includes electrical contacts coupled with the pair of jaw members.
US11641069B2
A connector includes multiple first terminals, multiple second terminals, and a housing that holds the terminals. The first terminals are arranged side-by-side in a width direction of the housing, and the second terminals are also arranged side-by-side in the width direction. In the housing, the first terminals are arranged side-by-side with the second terminals in a front-rear direction that is perpendicular to the width direction. In a state where first electrical wires are connected to the first terminals and second electrical wires are connected to the second terminals, the first electrical wires are drawn out to one side in the front-rear direction of the housing, and the second electrical wires are drawn out to the other side in the front-rear direction of the housing.
US11641063B2
The present invention relates to a communication technique for fusing a 5G communication system to support a higher data transmission rate than a 4G system, with IoT technology, and a system thereof. This disclosure is based on 5G communication technology and the IoT related technology and can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security, safety-related services, or the like). In addition, the present invention provides an antenna module comprising an antenna and a lens, wherein the antenna comprises a first antenna array which deflects and radiates a radio wave from a vertical plane of the antenna by a predetermined first angle, and the lens can be spaced apart from the antenna by a first determined distance to change the phase of the radio wave radiated from the antenna.
US11641061B2
An electronic device may include a millimeter wave antenna having a ground plane, resonating element, feed, and parasitic element. The resonating element may include first, second, and third layer of traces that are shorted together. The second traces may be interposed between the first and third traces and the third traces may be interposed between the second traces and the parasitic. The third traces may have a width that is less than the widths of the second and third traces. The third traces and the parasitic may define a constrained volume having an associated cavity resonance that lies outside of a frequency band of interest. If desired, the resonating element may include a single layer of conductive traces having a grid of openings that disrupt impedance in a transverse direction, thereby mitigating the trapping of energy within the frequency band of interest between the resonating element and the parasitic.
US11641047B2
A method for manufacturing a cylindrical battery having multiple tabs is provided in which the cylindrical battery includes an electrode assembly, a cylindrical pouch case, an electrode tab protruding to an upper end of the electrode assembly, and an electrode lead welded and electrically connected to the electrode tab, with the electrode tab being plural. The method includes disposing the plurality of electrode tabs on the electrode assembly; winding the electrode assembly into a cylindrical shape; connecting the electrode lead to the plurality of electrode tabs disposed on the upper end of the electrode assembly; inserting the electrode assembly into the cylindrical pouch case to produce a battery cell; connecting, to the cylindrical pouch case, a gas collecting part for collecting gas generated due to charging and discharging of the electrode; and forming a guide part for preventing deformation of the battery cell in the cylindrical pouch case.
US11641043B2
The disclosure provides an electric energy storage device which includes four energy units with a substantially same voltage value. Each energy unit is provided with a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The electric energy storage device comprises a socket with eight independently arranged electrode terminals that are connected with the four energy units. The disclosure also provides an electric tool system using the electric energy storage device. The electric tool is provided with plugs that may be connected with the four energy units in different states, allowing the electric energy storage device to output multiple voltages.
US11641028B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a positive electrode that includes a lithium-manganese oxide as a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode includes SiOx (0≤X<2) in which at least a part of a surface is covered with carbon, or a Li-Al alloy as the negative electrode active material, a low-viscosity electrolytic solution that contains propylene carbonate (PC), ethylene carbonate (EC), and dimethoxy ethane (DME) as an organic solvent in a range of {PC:EC:DME}={0.5 to 1.5:0.5 to 1.5:1 to 31} in terms of a volume ratio, and lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (LiFSI) as a supporting salt in an individual amount of 0.6 to 1.2 (mol/L), and the viscosity of the electrolytic solution is constant at higher than −30° C. to room temperature.
