US11651124B2
An anti-warping design method for designing a resin molded article on a programmed computer includes dividing the molded article into a plurality of small elements, calculating sensitivity values for at least part of the elements with respect to warpage of the molded article, and displaying a distribution of the sensitivity values.
US11651119B2
An approach for maintaining pipeline infrastructure based on graphical images is disclosed. The approach receives a plurality of parameters in a pipeline infrastructure by using a plurality of sensors. The approach generates a digital twin of the determined one or more susceptible and/or vulnerable points/areas/joints in the pipeline infrastructure. The approach simulates the determined susceptible areas/points/joints in the pipeline infrastructure for determining one or more damages and/or defects. The approach predicts one or more proactive maintenance actions based on the determined damage and/or defect in the pipeline infrastructure to prevent the users from being near the susceptible area/joints/portions and prioritizing the proactive maintenance actions based on the level and extent of damage and/or defect.
US11651110B2
An Information Handling System (IHS) includes multiple hardware devices, and a baseboard Management Controller (BMC) in communication with multiple hardware devices of the IHS. The BMC includes executable instructions for transmitting a broadcast message to the hardware devices in which the broadcast message has a block of data including a digital signature of the BMC. Each of the hardware devices that receive the broadcast message are configured to transmit a broadcast acknowledgment message to the BMC. Using the block of data, the BMC and hardware devices may perform a mutual consensus procedure with other using a cryptographic hash function of the block of data.
US11651099B2
A remote browsing session is initiated between a remote browser client executing on a client device and a remote browser host executing on a remote browser server. The remote browser host receives from the client device, encrypted remote browser data of remote browser data that affects the remote browser session. The remote browser client does not have access to a decryption key for the encrypted remote browser data. The encrypted remote browser data is decrypted to reveal the remote browser data including data for one or more cookies. The remote browser host is configured with the remote browser data. The remote browser host manages updates to the remote browser data during the remote browsing session including updates to one or more cookies. Periodically, updates to the remote browser data are encrypted and transmitted to the remote browser client for storage.
US11651098B2
Methods and systems are described for generating recommendations based on non-delineated records collected by a data aggregation service during communications between users and content sources. For example, based on collecting records on exchanges between users and content sources that is traditionally neither stored nor identified by either party, a data aggregation service may generate recommendations related to future exchanges of content between the same or different users and/or the same or different content sources.
US11651091B2
A network outage and redundancy module which provides improved security, platform independence and continuity in information between financial hardware and enterprise applications.
US11651085B2
A processor executes an untrusted VMM that manages execution of a guest workload. The processor also populates an entry in a memory ownership table for the guest workload. The memory ownership table is indexed by an original hardware physical address, the entry comprises an expected guest address that corresponds to the original hardware physical address, and the entry is encrypted with a key domain key. In response to receiving a request from the guest workload to access memory using a requested guest address, the processor (a) obtains, from the untrusted VMM, a hardware physical address that corresponds to the requested guest address; (b) uses that physical address as an index to find an entry in the memory ownership table; and (c) verifies whether the expected guest address from the found entry matches the requested guest address. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11651083B2
A system for validating software security analysis findings includes a non-transitory computer readable medium and a processor. The non-transitory computer readable medium stores a source truth dataset including criteria for validating characteristics of findings. The processor receives a finding from a software security analysis tool that performs scan on application code. The processor identifies a characteristic from the finding. The processor selects a criterion from the non-transitory computer readable medium for validating the identified characteristic. The processor determines a validity score for the finding based on whether the selected criterion is met. The processor determines whether the finding is false positive by comparing the validity score to a predetermined validity threshold. If the finding is true positive, a graphical user interface displays the finding.
US11651081B1
A computer-implemented method of securing vulnerabilities in a program, the method including receiving, by a computer, state information generated by an executed application program, training, by the computer, a constraints model based on the state information, generating, by the computer, one or more constraints with the constraints model, each of the one or more constraints describing an execution constraint for executing the application program, wherein the execution constraint enforces an intended operation of the application program, and applying, by the computer, the one or more constraints to the application program.
US11651080B2
Systems and methods for implementing sentiment analysis of computer code are provided. Developers who write source code may include comments or other natural language artifacts in the source code. These artifacts may be illustrative of current or legacy cybersecurity threats. Systems and methods may mine comments, and/or other code artifacts, for the dual purposes of cybersecurity threat detection and mitigation. Advanced code analytics may be leveraged for a deeper understanding of the sentiments expressed by the artifacts. Such sentiment may include negative sentiments expressed in error code selection and/or descriptions. All information retrieved is preferably human identity agnostic in line with personal data regulation compliance.
US11651074B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed herein to accelerate security threat investigation. An example apparatus includes a model trainer to train a security investigation model, a game engine to determine a source security software product and a destination security software product of a security threat object, an actions database to store at least one of the previous security response action, the source security software product, the destination security software product, and the security threat object, an action generator to generate at least one suggested security response action in response to a user security investigation action, wherein the suggested security response action is based on an execution of the security investigation model, and a software product controller to adjust a display of the destination security software product of the security threat object in response to the security response action.
US11651072B2
A system for identifying missing organizational security detection system rules, the system includes at least one processing circuitry configured to provide a known cyber-attack techniques repository including information of known cyber-attack techniques and required SIEM (or any other organizational security detection system such as EDR, firewall, etc.) rules required for protecting against each of the known cyber-attack techniques, the known rules being in a generic SIEM rules format; obtain existing SIEM rules of a SIEM of an organization, the existing SIEM rules being in a vendor-specific language, other than the generic SIEM rules format; translate the existing SIEM rules to the generic SIEM rules format, using a translation system, giving rise to translated SIEM rules; compare the translated SIEM rules to the required SIEM rules to identify missing rules, being the required SIEM rules not included in the translated SIEM rules.
US11651071B2
An apparatus includes an integrated circuit and a plurality of conducting wires disposed on the integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes: (i) a signal generation circuit, which is configured to generate random signal and selection signal based on random or pseudo-random numbers, (ii) a transmitting circuit configured to select at least one from among the plurality of conducting wires based on the selection signal and to output the random signal through the at least one conducting wire, and (iii) a receiving circuit configured to detect an invasive attack on the integrated circuit based on signal received through the at least one conducting wire.
US11651066B2
An apparatus comprises at least one processing device that is configured to control delivery of input-output operations from a host device to a storage system over selected ones of a plurality of paths through a network. The at least one processing device is further configured to generate a plurality of authentication tokens over time utilizing seed information of the host device, and for each of one or more of the input-output operations, to incorporate a particular one of the authentication tokens into the input-output operation, to send the input-output operation to the storage system, and to receive an indication from the storage system, responsive to the input-output operation sent to the storage system, as to whether or not the authentication token incorporated into the input-output operation matches a corresponding authentication token generated by the storage system. The at least one processing device illustratively comprises at least a portion of the host device.
US11651057B2
Account permissions and data accessibility can be modified based on level of confidence for a login attempt to the account. User activity observations corresponding to one or more login attempts to access a user account can be stored. A confidence score associated with a successful login attempt of the user account can be determined. The confidence score is based on the user activity observations. A level of access to an application with functions and data for the user account can be determined. The level of access is based on the confidence score. The level of access is associated with the functions and the data that are executable and accessible subsequent to the successful login attempt.
US11651054B2
Examples described herein include systems and methods for providing a workflow on a user device. A user device can receive image data from a camera of the user device. The device can perform object recognition to recognize an object from the image data, as well as classification of the object. The user device can match the object classification with a backend system. The example method can also include launching a workflow form associated with the matching backend system. The user device can launch a form having these fields available, either within the workflow application or within a dedicated application associated with the relevant backend system. The user device can pre-fill one or more information fields in the workflow form based on the object classification, providing the user with a head start on submitting the form to the appropriate system.
US11651042B2
Provided is a method, performed by an information processing device, of processing information by using an Internet of things (IoT) device, the method including: receiving, from a user, a web search query; fetching context information of at least one IoT device related to the web search query; automatically generating a synthetic web search query including the web search query and the context information of the at least one IoT device; and determining a control to be applied to the at least one IoT device by using a search result regarding the synthetic web search query.
US11651040B2
Databases that reside on a private network behind a firewall may be difficult to access from a cloud platform on the Internet. Techniques disclosed herein allow an Internet system to communicate with multiple different databases behind multiple different firewalls, however. A client-side private computer system, from behind a firewall, transmits a series of database request status inquires to a server system (not behind the firewall). These status inquiries may be sent as HTTP long poll messages. When the server wishes to query a database on the private network, it responds to one of the database request status inquiries. Because the client-side computer initiated communication, the server response is allowed to pass through the firewall when it might otherwise be blocked. Employing such techniques in parallel allows a server to interact with multiple firewalled databases without the difficulties and inconvenience of attempting a VPN connection.
US11651039B1
A method for searching multiple documents on a computer system includes steps for inputting a search query and sending the search query to a system core where the query is passed to a search component for searching the documents. The system core in turn receives results from the search component indicating related documents to the query and passes to a summarization component a specified number of the results. The summarization component processes related documents corresponding to the specified number of results and removes duplicate results to produce a multi-document summary that can have different media formats including text, image, and video formats. The system core receives the summary from the summarization component. The multi-document summary is received from the system core and displayed. The results from the search component are also displayed.
US11651038B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining i) historical location data specifying geographic locations of the user over a period of time that is included in a user profile of the user and ii) predefined geographic location data specifying a predefined geographic location of the user that is included in the user profile of the user; identifying a pair of cross-contaminated geographic regions that both include geographic locations specified by the historical location data of the user profiles for each of a threshold number of users of the plurality of users, and in response, merging the pair of cross-contaminated geographic regions to define a merged geographic region; and merging the merged geographic region with additional geographic regions until a cross-contamination between a resulting merged geographic region created by the merging and other geographic regions is reduced to a specified level of cross-contamination.
US11651033B2
The present disclosure relates generally to techniques for analyzing and improving a bot system, and more particularly to an analytic system integrated with a bot system for monitoring, analyzing, visualizing, diagnosing, and improving the performance of the bot system. For example, an analytic system is integrated with a bot system for monitoring, analyzing, visualizing, and improving the performance of the bot system. The analytic system monitors events occurred in conversations between end users and the bot system, aggregates and analyzes the collected events, and provides information regarding the conversations graphically on a graphic user interface as insights reports at different generalization levels. The insights reports offer developer-oriented analytics to pinpoint issues with skills so a user can address them before they cause problems. The insights let a user track conversation trends over time, identify execution paths, determine the accuracy of their intent resolutions, and access entire conversation transcripts.
US11651026B2
A system and method for automatically preparing personalized video presentations using a dynamic scene replacement engine which uses data points relating to a specific viewer to optimize the content of a video presentation for that specific viewer in order to increase the overall emotional effectiveness of the video presentation. The system and method for automatically preparing personalized video presentations operates to identify stock personalizing video content clips which can replace generic scenes in a raw video presentation to add personalizing material designed to appeal to the particular viewer to the presentation. Through this action, a unique personalized video presentation may be automatically prepared on demand for every particular viewer.
US11651024B2
A method for identifying a component part includes receiving a digital image of an object and textual information about the object and accessing images of component parts and textual information about the component parts. The method further includes applying the digital image to a first classifier trained on the images of the component parts to classify the object as a first of the component parts and applying the textual information about the object to a second classifier trained on the textual information about the component parts to recognize the textual information as information about the first of the component parts or a second of the component parts. The method further includes identifying the object as a component part that is the first of the component parts or the second of the component parts and accessing a data record with information about the component part.
US11651020B2
The methods and systems described herein leveraging acoustic features of a user to generate and present a personalized content to a user. In one example, the method receives a voice query and determines that the query refers to either a first content item or a second content item. The first content item is associated with a first type assigned with a first score and the second content method also determines whether the query is from the second entity type. The method ranks the first and the second content items based on this determination and generates for presentation of the first and the second content items based on the ranking. The method also changes the first or the second scores based on this determination and selects one of the first or the second content item for presentation.
US11651019B2
Method for receiving an input onto a graphical user interface at a client device, capturing an image frame at the client device, the image frame comprising a depiction of an object, identifying the object within the image frame, accessing media content associated with the object within a media repository in response to identifying the object, and causing presentation of the media content within the image frame at the client device.
US11651015B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for presenting information. The method may include: acquiring target release information and a comment information set associated with the target release information; and generating, for comment information in the comment information set, usefulness probabilities and predicted comment scores of the comment information based on the comment information and the target release information. The method may further include: presenting, based on obtained usefulness probability set and predicted comment score set, the comment information in the comment information set.
US11651009B2
A novel system and method for processing location data are disclosed. An exemplary method includes receiving location data from a remote device, associating the location data with a particular subscriber, augmenting the location data in one of a plurality of predetermined ways based on information associated with the particular subscriber to produce augmented location data, and providing the augmented location data to the subscriber. In a more particular embodiment, the step of augmenting the location data includes retrieving a subscriber file associated with the subscriber and performing one or more augmentation processes on the location data based at least in part on the subscriber file. An example system includes both a remote device operative to transmit location data and a central station for performing the methods of the present invention.
US11651003B2
Embodiments are directed to a display engine that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes a graph panel and a visualization panel may be generated. The graph panel may receive graph related inputs or interactions. Graph information based on the graph related inputs or interactions and a data source may be generated. A graph model based on the graph information and the data source may be generated. Elements that correspond to objects in the graph model or relationships in the graph model may be displayed in the graph panel. The graph information and the graph model may be employed to execute a query that provides a data model based on results of the query. The data model may be employed to provide a visualization that is displayed in the display panel.
US11650994B2
In an embodiment, a method monitors a plurality of data streams passing through a router in the connectivity service provider environment, and for each of the data streams, periodically samples packets at the router. The method further generates a stream signature based at least on the payload of the sampled packets. The method further includes, for each generated stream signature, attaching information to the stream signature. Such information may, for example, include time-stamp information for the stream signature, or an identification of the router. The method may further comprise storing the stream signatures corresponding to the data streams in a database. The stored stream signatures may be compared to determine matching stream signatures. Matching signatures may identify data streams that carry identical or similar content.
US11650989B2
Efficient aggregation of time series data is disclosed, including: obtaining a first entry value corresponding to an item, wherein the first entry value comprises a first recorded data point that is associated with a first time interval; generating a compressed block based at least in part on compressing the first entry value with at least a second entry value; storing the compressed block in a document corresponding to the item; determining that the item matches an aggregation search query; decompressing the compressed block from the document corresponding to the item to obtain the first entry value and the second entry value; and generating an aggregation result in response to the aggregation search query based on at least a portion of the first entry value and the second entry value.
US11650980B2
The disclosed subject matter relates to a system and method for providing an automated assistant that retrieves information from a knowledge base in response to a user's natural language question. A user's natural language question voice is transformed into an intermediate representation. From the intermediate representation, a cypher query is generated which may be used to query the database. The query results are provided in response to the user. The transformation into the intermediate representation is database independent while the cypher query is dependent upon the database queried.
US11650976B2
A system and method for managing tables in a storage system is described.
US11650972B1
A method may include receiving, at a computing device, an electronic data structure, the electronic data structure including: a location of a validation source for a payload of the data structure; and the payload, wherein the payload identifies a plurality of elements of a transaction; retrieving, from the validation source, a semantic schema; validating the payload of the data structure according to the semantic schema; and based on a result of the validating indicating the payload complies with the semantic schema, appending an electronic compliance signature to the data structure.
US11650971B2
A method performs large-scale data processing in a distributed and parallel processing environment. The method defines application-independent map and reduce operations, each invoking one or more library functions that automatically handle data partitioning, parallelization of computations, and fault tolerance. A user specifies a map operation, which calls one or more of the application-independent map operators to perform data read and write operations. A user also specifies a reduce operation, which calls one or more of the application-independent reduce operators to perform data read and write operations. The method executes application-independent map worker processes. Each map worker process executes the user-specified map operation to read designated portions of input files and store intermediate data values in intermediate data structures. The method also executes application-independent reduce worker processes. Each reduce worker process executes the user-specified reduce operation to read intermediate data values from the intermediate data structures and produce final output data.
US11650967B2
Among other things, in one aspect, in general, a system for managing data in a data storage system includes a plurality of index nodes each storing a map of entries, each entry of the map including an identifier corresponding to a particular portion of data stored in the data storage system, and metadata indicating a location where the particular portion of data is stored in the data storage system, and one or more supernodes configured to return an identification of an index node that recently submitted a request for a particular identifier associated with at least one of the portions of data.
US11650966B2
A method, system and computer program product for providing support for identification of the problem root cause in a computing system. Knowledge base mapping monitoring programs with respective to one or more technical problem definitions and a predefined system configuration are provided. The technical problems are defined using a predefined data structure. An inquiry relating to the computing system is received from a requester. The inquiry indicates a technical problem statement of the computing system. The received inquiry is parsed for constructing a problem description in accordance with the predefined data structure. A set of monitoring programs of the knowledge base may be identified using the problem description. Using software and/or hardware configuration data of the computing system, the set of monitoring programs may be instantiated in a monitor system. The instantiated programs may be provided to the requester as support for identification of the problem root cause.
US11650961B2
Replica unavailability in a distributed file system can be managed. For example, a processing device can detect that a replica of data in a volume of a distributed file system is unavailable. In response to detecting that the replica is unavailable, the processing device can create a copy of the data in a memory location that is within the distributed file system and external to the volume. The processing device can then execute a write request by modifying both the data in the volume and the copy in the memory location (e.g., to ensure consistency between the two).
US11650959B2
A method for synchronizing a local file system (LFS) and a remote (cloud) file system (RFS) includes the step of storing events indicative of differences between the LFS and the RFS, where the events are associated with file system objects of the LFS and RFS. The method further includes the steps of prioritizing the events, generating file system operations for the events based at least in part on the prioritization of the events, and performing at least some of the file system operations to synchronize the LFS and RFS. Prioritizing the events includes defining a plurality of service classes (e.g., based on type of event, event attribute, etc.), assigning a priority to each of the service classes, and assigning each event to one of said service classes. Systems are also described. The invention allocates limited synchronization resources based on a predefined policy to synchronize important file system objects sooner.
US11650954B2
A processor determines the data to be replicated in the production site. The processor splits the data into a plurality of blocks. The processor determines one or more replication links. The processor determines an order of each one of the plurality of blocks to be sent over the one or more replication links, where the order of each one of the plurality of blocks to be sent over the one or more replication links is determined by a machine learning model.
US11650940B2
A storage device includes a reconfigurable logic circuit, a control logic circuit, and non-volatile memory. The reconfigurable logic circuit is changeable from a first accelerator to a second accelerator during an operation of the storage device. The control logic circuit is configured to receive, from the host, a host command including information about a function required by the host and dynamically reconfigure the reconfigurable logic circuit such that the reconfigurable logic circuit performs the function according to the received host command. The non-volatile memory is connected to the control logic circuit.
US11650935B2
Technologies for secure key provisioning include a computing device having a processor with secure enclave support and a manageability controller. The manageability controller receives a secret key from a network source via a network interface that is isolated from untrusted software of the computing device. The manageability controller authenticates a secure enclave of the computing device and, if successful, securely provisions a session key derived from the secret key to the secure enclave. The manageability controller may provision additional session keys after expiration of the session key. The manageability controller may monitor for revocation of the secret key by the network source. If revoked, the manageability controller does not provision additional session keys to the secure enclave. The manageability controller may also provision the session key to a sensor device protected by the secret key, which is pre-provisioned to the sensor device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11650929B2
A memory system includes: a memory device including a plurality of memory dies including the plurality of planes; and a controller configured to store data in a plurality of stripes each including physical pages of different planes and a plurality of unit regions, the controller comprising: a processor configured to queue write commands in a write queue, and select, among the plurality of stripes, a stripe in which data chunks corresponding to the write commands are to be stored; and a striping engine configured to receive queued orders of the write commands, and output, by referring to a lookup table, addresses of unit regions, in which the data chunks are to be arranged, to the processor, wherein the processor in configured to control the memory device to store the data chunks in the unit regions corresponding to the outputted addresses of the selected stripe.
US11650928B2
A mechanism is described for facilitating optimization of cache associated with graphics processors at computing devices. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes introducing coloring bits to contents of a cache associated with a processor including a graphics processor, wherein the coloring bits to represent a signal identifying one or more caches available for use, while avoiding explicit invalidations and flushes.
US11650920B1
A storage control system maintains a write cache in a non-volatile memory device of primary memory of a storage node. The write cache comprises a cyclic buffer and pointers to manage the write cache and track a tail location and head location of the write cache. The storage control system receives a write request from a host system, which comprises a data item to be written to primary storage. The received data item is written together with an associated metadata item at the head location of the write cache. The items in the write cache are arranged in a cyclic write order from the tail location to the head location. The storage control system sends an acknowledgment to the host system that the data item is successfully written to the primary storage, in response to the received data item and the associated metadata item being stored in the write cache.
US11650919B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving, at a cache memory system, a write request for writing data to a storage system. A data reduction rate may be predicted for the write request. One or more portions of memory within the storage system may be allocated based upon, at least in part, the predicted data reduction rate for the write request. The write request may be flushed from the cache memory system to the allocated one or more portions of memory within the storage system.
US11650912B2
A method may include applying to at least a portion of historical runtimes associated with each of a plurality of tests included in a test suite, a machine learning model trained to identify one or more outlying runtime values. The portion of historical runtimes may include an n quantity of the most recent historical runtimes. An expected runtime for each test may be determined based on the portion of historical runtimes excluding the outlying runtime values. A schedule for executing each test in the test suite may be determined based on the expected runtime of each test. The test suite may be executed in accordance with the schedule. Moreover, the executing of the test suite may be monitored based on the expected runtime of each test. Related systems and computer program products are also provided.
US11650908B1
An analysis system receives a time series. The data values of the time series correspond to a metric describing a characteristic of the computing system that changes over time. The analysis system stores a statistic value that represents the stationarity of the time series. In response to receiving a most recent value, the analysis system assigns the most recent value as the leading value in a window before retrieving the trailing value of the window. The analysis system updates the statistic value to add an influence of the most recent value and remove an influence of the trailing value. If the statistic value is less than a threshold, the analysis system determines that the time series is stationary. In response to determining the time series is stationary, the analysis system assigns an alert to the metric. The analysis system detects an anomaly in the metric based on the assigned alert.
US11650902B2
Disclosed examples to perform instruction-level graphics processing unit (GPU) profiling based on binary instrumentation include: accessing, via a GPU driver executed by a processor, binary code generated by a GPU compiler based on application programming interface (API)-based code provided by an application; accessing, via the GPU driver executed by the processor, instrumented binary code, the instrumented binary code generated by a binary instrumentation module that inserts profiling instructions in the binary code based on an instrumentation schema provided by a profiling application; and providing, via the GPU driver executed by the processor, the instrumented binary code from the GPU driver to a GPU, the instrumented binary code structured to cause the GPU to collect and store profiling data in a memory based on the profiling instructions while executing the instrumented binary code.
US11650890B2
One example method includes capturing IOs, adding the IOs to a journal, adding undo data to the journal for one or more locations, and using the IOs and the undo data to determine when, during a timespan defined by the journal, a backup could have been taken. This determination may involve the use of undo data which indicates what the content of a particular location was prior to the first IO directed to that location during the timespan defined by the journal.
US11650886B2
Techniques are provided for orchestrating operations between a storage environment and a computing environment hosting virtual machines. A virtual machine proxy, associated with a computing environment hosting a virtual machine, is accessed by an orchestrator to identify the virtual machine and properties of the virtual machine. A storage proxy, associated with a storage environment comprising a volume within which snapshots of the virtual machine are to be stored, is accessed by the orchestrator to initialize a backup procedure. The orchestrator utilizes the virtual machine proxy to create a snapshot of the virtual machine. The orchestrator utilizes the storage proxy to back up the snapshot to the volume using the backup procedure.
US11650880B2
A write hole protection method and system for a RAID, and a storage medium. The method comprises: presetting a log area, and after a RAID is degraded, setting the log area to be in an enabled state; when the log area is in the enabled state, determining, before each stripe write operation, whether a data block of a failed member disk of the RAID in a stripe is a check data block; if the data block is not the check data block, determining whether data blocks to be written of the stripe comprise a data block to be written into the failed member disk; if yes, backing up the data block to be written into the failed member disk in the log area; if not, calculating the data block of the failed member disk and backing up the data block in the log area, or backing up the data blocks to be written in the log area; and when the degraded RAID is started after a failure, performing data recovery using the log area. By using the present solution, the write hole issue of the RAID is avoided.
US11650876B2
A chiplet system can include a Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) bus for communication. A controller or primary device coupled to the SPI bus can generate a message with read or write instructions for one or more secondary devices. In an example, the primary device can be configured to read information from a secondary device about whether the secondary device supports parity-protected data communications. The primary device can be configured to selectively send or receive parity-protected data communications depending on a capability of the secondary device to support parity.
US11650874B2
Anomaly detection and self-healing for robotic process automation (RPA) via artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) is disclosed. RPA robots that utilize AI/ML models and computer vision (CV) may interpret and/or interact with most encountered graphical elements via normal learned interactions. However, such RPA robots may occasionally encounter new, unhandled anomalies where graphical elements cannot be identified and/or normal interactions will not work. Such anomalies may be processed by an anomaly handler. The RPA robots may have self-healing functionality that seeks to automatically find information that addresses anomalies.
US11650863B1
In one implementation, systems and methods are provided for processing digital experience information. A computer-implemented system for processing digital experience information may comprise a central data location. The central data location may comprise a connector that may be configured to receive information belonging to a category from an information source; an event backbone that may be configured to route the information received by the connector based on the category; a translator that may be configured to transform the received information into a common data model; and a database that may be configured to store the received information. The event backbone may be further configured to send information to the connector from the event backbone and the database based on one or more criteria.
US11650861B2
Systems and methods for content management wherein a client can submit requests to a first API which the forwards the requests to either an IMDB or a gateway to a distributed cluster-computing framework. Requests to the IMDB are serviced and responses from the IMDB are returned to the client. Requests that are forwarded to the gateway are first modified for the distributed cluster-computing framework, and are then parsed by the gateway and used to instantiate processors that generate corresponding requests to the distributed cluster-computing framework. Responsive data from the distributed cluster-computing framework is used to generate responses to the client requests that are forwarded to the first API which modifies them to appear as if they were generated by the IMDB. These modified responses are returned by the first API to the client.
US11650858B2
A method for maintaining version consistency of resources. The method provides for one or more processors to receive a submitted request to run a job in which the job includes a processing element and a timestamp associated with running the job. Identification of a resource type associated with the processing element is determined, based on a tag included in the job, associated with the processing element. A version of the resource type of the processing element is determined, based on a mapping of the tag associated with the identified resource type and the timestamp of the job. The resource type of the determined version is requested from a resource manager, and responsive to a confirmation of assigning the version of the resource type from the resource manager, the process element of the job is performed on the version of the resource type assigned by the resource manager.
US11650845B2
A processor may identify an action of a first device of the IoT devices. The processor may initiate a transfer from the first device to one or more other devices of the IoT devices. The processor may pause each thread being executed by the first device and the one or more other devices. The processor may transfer a unit from the first device to the one or more other devices.
US11650828B2
A device interoperability system for one or more user devices associated with a user, wherein said one or more user devices comprises a first user device, said device interoperability system comprising a communications module, wherein a first connection is established between said first user device and said communications module; storage associated with said device interoperability system and coupled to said communications module, wherein said storage stores an operating system, one or more programs, and data associated with the user, further wherein said operating system is booted by said first user device via said first connection; and one or more processors to support said device interoperability system.
US11650825B2
An instruction set architecture including instructions for a processor and instructions for a coprocessor may include synchronizing instructions that may be used to begin and end instruction sequences that include coprocessor instructions (coprocessor sequences). If a terminating synchronizing instruction is followed by an initial synchronizing instruction and the pair are detected in the coprocessor concurrently, the coprocessor may suppress execution of the pair of instructions.
US11650818B2
A processor includes an execution unit and a processing logic operatively coupled to the execution unit, the processing logic to: enter a first execution state and transition to a second execution state responsive to executing a control transfer instruction. Responsive to executing a target instruction of the control transfer instruction, the processing logic further transitions to the first execution state responsive to the target instruction being a control transfer termination instruction of a mode identical to a mode of the processing logic following the execution of the control transfer instruction; and raises an execution exception responsive to the target instruction being a control transfer termination instruction of a mode different than the mode of the processing logic following the execution of the control transfer instruction.
US11650816B2
Systems, machines, methods and products for generating a configured software solution using one or more configuration packages. A decision service may be configured to generate decision data based on a configuration package comprising user-generated input, a collection of configurations, and a decision flow template. The user-generated input may be used for selecting an artifact from an artifact library in a configuration database. The collection of configurations may be infused, dynamically, into the decision flow template. The decision flow template may be exposed for user modification. The decision flow template may be integrated into the configuration package in association with at least one configurable decision element and a user configuration selected from the collection of configurations for specifying one or more parameters in the artifact. The artifact and the user configuration may be combined with the decision flow template to generate the configured software solution. receiving input for the at least one configurable decision element.
US11650812B2
Approaches presented herein enable asset identification for collaborative projects in software development. More specifically, a plurality of assets is identified. Content provided by at least one asset of the plurality of assets is determined. A project that is associated with the content provided by the at least one asset is determined. A repository associated with the project to include the at least one asset is updated.
US11650810B1
This disclosure describes techniques implemented partly by a service provider network for containerizing applications. In an example, the techniques may include receiving annotated source code of an application to be containerized, analyzing one or more application component annotations included in the annotated source code to determine an application component that is to be included in a container associated with a containerized version of the application, and analyzing one or more method annotations included in the annotated source code to determine one or more methods of the application component to be included in an application programming interface (API) for the container. The container including the application component may then be built and the API for the container may be generated based at least in part on the one or more methods of the application component.
US11650806B2
A data structure called a product version map is introduced. The product version map contains a catalog of available application versions to be used by the application orchestration services. It can describe the available versions. For each version, there is an image, such as a Docker® container image, that can be used to instantiate the application instance. Furthermore, in some example embodiments, an expiration date can be given, which could be used to enforce upgrades of application instances when their used version expires.
US11650803B2
Systems and methods of cyber hardening software by modifying one or more assembly source files. In some embodiments, the disclosed SME tool transparently and seamlessly integrates into the build process of the assembly source files being modified. For example, upon integration of the disclosed SME tool into the application's development environment, the modifications in the final executable are transparent to the developer and can support other cyber hardening techniques. The SME tool includes a preprocessing tool for identifying attributes (e.g., functions) associated with the assembly source file. The SME tool also includes a transformation tool for making modifications of the assembly source file. In some embodiments, the transformations correspond to applying one or more transformations to the attributes associated with the assembly source file.
US11650801B2
Multiple execution traces of an application are accessed. The multiple execution traces have been collected at a basic block level. Basic blocks in the multiple execution traces are scored. Scores for the basic blocks represent benefits of performing binary slimming at the corresponding basic blocks. Runtime binary slimming is performed of the application based on the scores of the basic blocks.
US11650799B2
Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to the characterization and improvement of software applications. More specifically, some embodiments relate to systems and methods for modeling code behavior and generating new versions of the code based on the code behavior models. In some embodiments, a method of improving a codebase includes recording a run of the existing code, characterizing the code behavior via one or more models, prototyping new code according to a target language and target environment, deploying the new code to the target environment, and comparing the behavior of the new code to the behavior of the existing code. In some implementations, generating new code based on the behavior models includes using one or more machine learning techniques for code generation based on the target language and environment.
US11650798B2
Methods for supporting a development of application source code using input from a first smart glasses of a first user and a second smart glasses of a second user is provided. Methods may include retrieving the application source code from an internal development platform and displaying the application source code on an augmented reality (“AR”) display of the first smart glasses and an AR display of the second smart glasses. Methods may include receiving, from the first smart glasses, a command to edit the application source code and in response, deactivating each input device of the second smart glasses. Methods may include receiving input of one or more edits on the first smart glasses and updating the application source code to include the input. Methods may include displaying the updated application source code on the AR displays and reactivating each input device of the second smart glasses.
US11650794B2
An electronic control apparatus includes a first arithmetic processor and a second arithmetic processor that is communicably connected to the first arithmetic processor. The second arithmetic processor includes a controller configured to (i) shift to a rewriting wait state after outputting a request signal that requests a program rewriting to the first arithmetic processor, and (ii) release the rewriting wait state and shift to a program rewriting process after a predetermined wait time that allows the first arithmetic processor to shift to the program rewriting process elapses after outputting the request signal.
US11650790B2
One example may include a method that includes receiving, at a presentation server, an audio data signal from a mobile device located in a presentation space, identifying a mobile device identification characteristic of the mobile device based on the received audio data signal, determining a mobile device location via a location determination procedure, and playing the audio signal via a loudspeaker.
US11650789B1
An audio podcast distribution system includes a server configured to aggregate and store podcast audio files in a database, and a computing device in communication with the server. The computing device has a processor and a display coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to render an audio playback GUI on the display for playing a given podcast audio file from the database. The audio playback GUI includes a playback control user input, and an audio snippet creation user input. The processor is configured to when the audio snippet creation user input is activated, render an audio snippet creation GUI for generating an audio snippet of the given podcast audio file, and upload the audio snippet of the given podcast audio file to the database.
US11650782B2
The present disclosure discloses a display adjustment method and device for a bar-shaped electronic shelf label. The method according to the present disclosure includes: configuring a mobile terminal to be coupled with a bar-shaped electronic shelf label and obtain status information of display elements displayed on a display interface of the bar-shaped electronic shelf label; changing, by the mobile terminal, the position information of a display element from a first position information to a second position information and generating an element position adjustment instruction; configuring the bar-shaped electronic shelf label to receive the element position adjustment instruction, change the position of the display element from the first position to the second position in response to the element position adjustment instruction, and display the display element on the display interface of the bar-shaped electronic shelf label.
US11650781B2
A method for displaying content displayed on one or more first devices on a second device is provided. The method includes receiving a request to display content currently displayed on a first device on a second device, the request including a gesture made on a screen of the first device, and pairing the first device to the second device. The method further includes transmitting instructions to the second device to display the content currently displayed on the first device, and transmitting the content currently displayed on the first device to the second device for display thereon.
US11650778B2
A method of controlling an information processing apparatus includes displaying an edit screen including an obtained image and a print range frame based on obtained print setting information, accepting an edit operation of arrangement of the image in the edit screen, generating image data based on an edited image, and transmitting the generated image data and the print setting information to the image forming apparatus as a print job. Where the image has been edited such that there is a region where the image is not arranged in the print range frame, combining processing in which a predetermined image is added in the region is performed and whereby image data including the image and predetermined image is generated, and where the image has been edited such that there is no region where the image is not arranged in the print range frame, the combining processing is not performed.
US11650771B2
A control device includes a processor that controls a printing manufacturing process including printing processing and post-processing in plural types of printing manufacture, in which the processor is configured to: according to an occurrence of an event in which the printing processing has ended but printing manufacture to be performed again is required, acquire information about a type of a sheet from printing manufacture information about printing manufacture having a delivery date; predict a time required for each processing of the printing manufacturing process in the printing manufacture; calculate an end time of reprinting manufacture, in which the printing manufacture to be performed again is required, in a case where the reprinting manufacture is incorporated so as to be continuous with other printing manufacture in which the same sheet as the reprinting manufacture is used; and perform control to determine whether or not to incorporate the reprinting manufacture so that the reprinting manufacture is continuous with the other printing manufacture depending on whether or not the end time is in time for the delivery date.
US11650765B2
Systems and methods for persistent operations include a host and a memory system. The memory system, upon receiving a Persistent Write command and associated write data from the host, performs a Persistent Write of the write data to a non-volatile memory in the memory system based on the Persistent Write command. The memory system may also a receive a write identification (WID) associated with the Persistent Write command from the host and provide, upon successful completion of the Persistent Write, a Persistent Write completion indication along with the associated WID to the host.
US11650761B1
Example systems, data storage devices, and methods to provide data protection during concurrent operations for multiple actuator data storage devices are described. The data storage device includes a plurality of actuators configured to actuate a plurality of heads over different subsets of a plurality of disk surfaces. Responsive to receiving a write command for one of the actuators, the coupling state with at least one other of the actuators is determined and execution of write commands is inhibited if the coupling state indicates a possible coupling event. The inhibit of the write commands in the presence of coupling events may prevent off-track writes and protect data.
US11650760B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system checks a first total size indicative of a sum of data lengths specified by first write commands stored in a first submission queue of a host corresponding to a first stream. When the first total size is greater than or equal to a minimum write size, the memory system fetches a set of first write commands stored in the first submission queue, transfers first write data associated with the set of first write commands from a memory of the host to the memory system, and writes the first write data into a first write destination block allocated for the first stream.
US11650756B2
A storage apparatus includes non-volatile memory cells formed on a memory die, each memory cell configured to hold bits of data, and a control circuit formed on the memory die. The control circuit is configured to calculate parity data for data to be stored in the memory cells and program the memory cells to first distributions. The control circuit is also configured to read the memory cells in the first distributions, recover the data from results of reading the memory cells in the first distributions combined with the parity data, and further program the memory cells from the first distributions to second distributions to store the data. In some cases, the recovered data may have a high bit error rate. To handle higher bit error rates, the use of soft bit data is incorporated into an encoded foggy-fine scheme.
US11650754B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data accessing method, a device and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a first accessing request and a second accessing request for a storage device; loading first data associated with the first accessing request from a source device to a pre-allocated buffer area with a size same as a size of a single physical storage block of the storage device; determining a first part of the second data when the first size of second data associated with the second accessing request is greater than or equal to the second size of an available space of the buffer area, a size of the first part being the same as the second size; and providing the first data and the first part to a target device associated with the first accessing request and the second accessing request.
US11650748B1
In a method for offloading data processing into computational storage, a request to offload data computation into computational storage is received. One or more transactions to encapsulate the request are prepared. One or more write requests are generated based on the one or more transactions, and the one or more transactions are stored into one or more journals. A set of transactions is extracted from the one or more journals. A subset of the set of transactions is received at an eBPF subsystem, where the subset corresponds to one or more computation requests. Information from a file is extracted, where the information corresponds to one or more logical block addresses (LBAs). The one or more computation requests are performed on the one or more LBAs using the subset of the set of transactions, and an indication corresponding to the performed computation requests is generated.
US11650746B2
Intelligent write-amplification reduction for data storage devices configured on autonomous vehicles
Systems, methods and apparatus of intelligent write-amplification reduction for data storage devices configured on autonomous vehicles. For example, a data storage device of a vehicle includes: one or more storage media components; a controller configured to store data into and retrieve data from the one or more storage media components according to commands received in the data storage device; an address map configured to map between: logical addresses specified in the commands received in the data storage device, and physical addresses of memory cells in the one or more storage media components; and an artificial neural network configured to receive, as input and as a function of time, operating parameters indicative a data access pattern, and generate, based on the input, a prediction to determine an optimized data placement scheme. The controller is configured to adjust the address map according to the optimized data placement scheme.
US11650745B1
The present embodiments relate to throttling input/output (IO) processing tasks at a centralized node (e.g., a SmartNIC device) and implement multiple routing paths to prevent performance degradation in handling data patterns. For instance, the centralized node can implement a throttling system to assign portions of a number of input/output operations to be performed to a series of extent servers in a cloud infrastructure environment. The present embodiments also can implement multiple paths and/or multiple path groups to route the assigned portions of the I/O operations. For instance, the assigned portions of I/O operations can be routed to the extent servers via a first path of multiple paths. In the event of a failure of the first path, the assigned portions of I/O operations can be re-directed to a second path or another path in the path group.
US11650743B2
Storage drives can be configured to provide a component ID. An update tool on an end user device can be configured to retrieve this component ID in response to receiving a catalog that defines available firmware updates and to use the retrieved component ID to dynamically identify which firmware update applies to a particular storage drive. The firmware update can then be installed on the storage drive. The update tool may also perform a health assessment to dynamically determine whether the storage drive's health is sufficient to proceed with a firmware update.
US11650742B2
A computer system stores metadata that is used to identify physical memory devices that store randomly-accessible data for memory of the computer system. In one approach, access to memory in an address space is maintained by an operating system of the computer system. Stored metadata associates a first address range of the address space with a first memory device, and a second address range of the address space with a second memory device. The operating system manages processes running on the computer system by accessing the stored metadata. This management includes allocating memory based on the stored metadata so that data for a first process is stored in the first memory device, and data for a second process is stored in the second memory device.
US11650738B2
The integrity of a memory is checked by: storing data representative of an operation to be executed in the memory; executing the operation; and erasing the data once the execution is complete.
US11650737B2
A computer-implemented method comprises initializing a plurality of segment lists. Each segment list of the plurality of segment lists corresponds to a respective one of a plurality of disk drives. Each segment list divides storage space of the respective disk drive into a plurality of segments. The method further comprises, for each of the plurality of disk drives, identifying one or more candidate segments from the plurality of segments; calculating a respective segment distance variance for one or more combinations of identified candidate segments. Each combination of identified candidate segments includes one candidate segment for each of the plurality of disk drives. The method further comprises selecting a combination of the one or more combinations of identified candidate segments having the smallest respective segment distance variance; and storing data on the plurality of disk drives according to the selected combination of identified candidate segments.
US11650734B2
A list of a plurality of objects to be displayed, which corresponds to page images to be operated, respectively, is displayed; it is determined which object is selected as an object to be moved among the plurality of displayed objects to be displayed; it is determined which object is selected as a movement destination object among the plurality of displayed objects to be displayed; and allocation page images are displayed in a state where a page image corresponding to the object determined as the object to be moved and a page image corresponding to the object determined as the movement destination object are allocated to a single page.
US11650729B2
Systems and methods for color selection are provided. A user device displays room types on a display, receives a room type selection indicating a particular room type, displays types of feelings, and receives a type of feeling selection indicating a particular type of feeling. The user device accesses a lookup table that associates the room types and types of feelings with paint colors such that each possible combination of room type and type of feeling is associated with a subset of paint colors. The user device determines the associated subset of paint colors in the lookup table for the combination of the particular room type and the particular type of feeling and displays the associated subset of paint colors as recommended paint colors for the combination of the particular room type and the particular type of feeling on the display of the user device.
US11650727B2
A vehicle gesture control system for a host vehicle, the host vehicle including an adaptive cruise control or autonomous drive arrangement, the system including a sensor to detect gestures performed by a driver on the surface of a steering wheel grip in the host vehicle, the steering wheel grip including a circular tube surrounding a steering wheel that rotates about a steering column, and a processor receiving outputs from the sensor and connected to a memory unit storing instructions for the processor to activate a plurality of features of the adaptive cruise control or autonomous drive arrangement in response to a respective plurality of different gestures detected by the sensor, wherein two of the gestures represent “up” and “down” commands and include movement of the driver's thumb in opposite directions, respectively, around a lateral section of the steering wheel grip that faces the driver.
US11650716B2
The present application discloses an operation method of an interactive flat panel, a storage medium, and related equipment. The method comprises displaying a play mode interface of a slide document and an interface of an annotation application, wherein the interface of the annotation application is a transparent layer covering the interface of the slide document. The method further comprises receiving a touch operation on the interface of the annotation application. When the touch operation is of a first type, page-turning of the slide document is performed, and when the touch operation is of a second type, the slide document is annotated on the interface of the annotation application.
US11650704B2
A bonding structure includes a substrate, a first sensing electrode layer, a second sensing electrode layer, an optical film layer, and a protective layer. The substrate has opposite first and second surfaces. A sensing area and a bonding area are defined on the substrate. The first sensing electrode layer is disposed on the first surface. The second sensing electrode layer is disposed on the second surface. The optical film layer covers the first sensing electrode layer and has a first bonding opening located in the bonding area. The protective layer covers the second sensing electrode layer and has a second bonding opening located in the bonding area. The first and second bonding openings respectively expose a part of the first sensing electrode layer and a part of the second sensing electrode layer and are misaligned in a direction perpendicular to the first or second surface.
US11650700B2
A portable information handling system commands a stylus to vibrate to aid in location of the stylus. The stylus vibrates at a frequency selected from a range of plural frequencies based upon a distance between the portable information handling system and stylus so that an audible noise is generated by the stylus with sufficient sound to be heard by a user of the portable information handling system while minimizing stylus power consumption. In one embodiment, a haptic film at the stylus exterior surface and/or a speaker of information handling system generates an ultrasonic sound detectable by a microphone of the information handling system and/or the stylus for determining a distance between the information handling system and the stylus.
US11650697B1
A display device includes driving electrodes and sensing electrodes; analog front-end circuits; a selector connected to the analog front-end circuits to select an output of the analog front-end circuits; an A/D converter generating a sensed value based on output signals of the selector; and a signal processor. Each of the analog front-end circuits includes a charge amplifier differentially amplifying first and second sensing signals provided to first and second input terminals, and outputting first and second differential signals to first and second output terminals; a filter filtering the first and second differential signals to output first and second filtered signals; a demodulator outputting an in-phase signal (I-signal) and a quadrature signal (Q-signal) of the first and second filtered signals; and a complex band-pass filter that filters the I-signal and the Q-signal.
US11650694B2
A sensor device includes a capacitive touch panel including a plurality of electrodes, an input device configured such that a resonance circuit including a first conductor and a second conductor is covered with a non-conductor, and a sensor controller. The first conductor and the second conductor are capacitively coupled to at least one of a plurality of electrodes in the touch panel when the input device is disposed on the touch panel or when the input device disposed on the touch panel is operated. The sensor controller is configured to detect positions of the first conductor and the second conductor on the touch panel by applying a voltage to the plurality of electrodes in the touch panel based on a resonance frequency of the resonance circuit.
US11650693B2
A display device includes a display panel, an input sensor disposed on the display panel and including a plurality of first sensing electrodes and a plurality of second sensing electrodes, and a sensor controller configured to control the input sensor. The sensor controller receives a first signal from the input sensor and transmits a second signal to the input sensor. The first signal received from the input sensor includes down-link signals from first sensing electrodes corresponding to a first input position and a second input position among the plurality of first sensing electrodes and down-link signals from second sensing electrodes corresponding to the first input position and the second input position among the plurality of second sensing electrodes. The first input position corresponding to a first input source, and the second input position corresponding to a second input source, are spaced apart from each other.
US11650692B2
A touch sensing method for a touch panel and an electronic device are provided. The touch sensing method includes: selecting a portion of multiple touch sensing units as to-sense touch sensing units, applying first touch excitation signals to the those to obtain multiple first touch sensing signals, and obtaining multiple differential sensing signals based on multiple first touch sensing signals; selecting a touch sensing unit as a reference touch sensing unit, and applying a touch reference signal to it to obtain a reference sensing signal; selecting a to-sense touch sensing unit as a preprocessing touch sensing unit, and applying a second touch excitation signal to it to obtain a second touch sensing signal; obtaining a capacitance sensing signal from the reference sensing signal and the second touch sensing signal; and acquiring capacitance values of multiple to-sense touch sensing units according to the differential sensing signals and the capacitance sensing signal.
US11650691B1
A touch driving circuit and a touch display device are disclosed. A plurality of channel switches for driving touch electrodes disposed in areas disposed symmetrically to each other may be simultaneously turned on to perform touch sensing in a state in which a plurality of touch lines electrically connected to the plurality of channel switches are short-circuited to each other. Accordingly, touch sensing may be performed using touch data in which a load deviation due to the touch lines according to areas in which the touch electrodes are disposed is reduced, thereby improving the performance of the touch sensing.
US11650682B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a touch display device, a data driving circuit, and a touch sensing method. By sensing multiple data lines simultaneously using gate signals for display as touch driving pulses, it is possible to provide touch sensing without having a separate touch electrode for touch sensing and touch driving pulses. The touch sensing method includes outputting gate signals sequentially having a pulse section including two or more pulses to gate lines, by a gate driving circuit; outputting an image data voltage to data lines, by a source driving circuit; sensing the data lines by combining every N (N is a natural number of 2 or more) data lines or sensing a plurality of reference voltage lines by combining every N reference voltage lines, by a sensing circuit; and determining a touch or a touch coordinate, based on sensing values obtained by sensing of the sensing circuit.
US11650680B2
A touch pad structure includes a base, a guiding component rotatably disposed on the base, a touch pad disposed above the base, and a switch. The guiding component is located between the base and the touch pad. The touch pad has an inner surface facing the base. Here, the switch is disposed on the inner surface, and a guiding structure is disposed on the inner surface. The guiding structure is slidably connected to the guiding component. The touch pad moving toward the base drives the guiding component to rotate relative to the base through the guiding structure, and the touch pad moves along a vertical direction.
US11650677B2
An input detection system includes a detection device including a plurality of drive electrodes and a plurality of detection electrodes arrayed in a detection region, and a drive electrode scan circuit configured to supply a drive signal to the drive electrodes, and an input device including an LC circuit, a first electrode coupled to one end side of the LC circuit, and a second electrode coupled to the other end side of the LC circuit. The drive electrode scan circuit supplies the drive signal to at least equal to or more than one of the drive electrodes and supplies, to the others of the drive electrodes, an opposite phase signal as a drive signal having an opposite phase to a phase of the drive signal.
US11650669B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes: a display; a user interface; and a controller, configured to perform: in response to a user input, synchronizing menu content data set under a current source to other sources, so that the other sources can obtain the same display effect as that under the current source. Unnecessary repeated setting is avoided, and convenience is brought to users in use.
US11650667B2
Haptic feedback remote control systems and methods are provided. A method for providing haptic feedback to a user of a haptic feedback remote control device includes receiving, by a receiving device, an electronic command issued from the haptic feedback remote control device. The receiving device transmits a haptic feedback command to the haptic feedback remote control device. Based on the received haptic feedback command, the haptic feedback remote control activates a haptic feedback device, within the haptic feedback remote control, to provide a haptic feedback effect to a user of the haptic feedback remote control device.
US11650659B2
A system determines which user of multiple users provided input through a single input device. A mechanism captures images of the one or more users. When input is detected, the images may be processed to determine which user provided an input using the input device. The images may be processed to identify each users head and eyes, and determine the focus point for each user's eyes. The user which has eyes focused at the input location is identified as providing the input. When the input mechanism is a touch screen, the user having eyes focused on the touch screen portion which was touched is identified as the source of the input.
US11650658B2
When the speed of head movement exceeds the processing capability of the system, a reduced depiction is displayed. As one example, the resolution may be reduced using coarse pixel shading in order to create a new depiction at the speed of head movement. In accordance with another embodiment, only the region the user is looking at is processed in full resolution and the remainder of the depiction is processed at lower resolution. In still another embodiment, the background depictions may be blurred or grayed out to reduce processing time.
US11650655B2
A loop-powered field device includes a plurality of terminals coupleable to a process communication loop and a loop control module coupled to one of the plurality of terminals and configured to control an amount of current flowing through the loop control module based on a control signal. A field device main processor is operably coupled to the loop control module to receive its operating current (I_Main) from the loop control module and is configured to provide the control signal based on a process variable output. A low power wireless communication module is operably coupled to the loop control module to receive its operating current (I_BLE) from the loop control module. The low power wireless communication module is communicatively coupled to the field device main processor. The low power wireless communication module has an active mode and a sleep mode. The low power wireless communication module is configured to obtain a measurement of operating current (I_BLE) available while the low power wireless communication module is in the sleep mode and modify an active cycle of the low power wireless communication module based on the measurement of operating current (I_BLE).
US11650653B2
Disclosed are examples of apparatuses including memory devices and systems comprising memories sharing a common enable signal, wherein the memories may be put into different power modes. Example methods for setting the different power modes of the memories are disclosed. In some examples, different power modes may be set by issuing memory group-level commands, memory-level commands, or combinations thereof.
US11650650B2
A processing unit includes a plurality of components configured to execute instructions and a controller. The controller is configured to determine a power consumption of the processing unit, determine a waiting status of the processing unit based on waiting statuses of components, and selectively modify an operating state of the processing unit based on the waiting status and the power consumption of the processing unit. In some cases, the operating state is modified in response to a percentage of the components that are waiting for an action to complete being below a threshold percentage and the power consumption of the processing unit being below a power limit. In some cases, the controller identifies a pattern in the power consumption by the processing unit and modifies the operating state of the processing unit to increase the power consumption of the processing unit based on the pattern identified by the controller.
US11650638B2
A dual redundant cooling system for a container is provided. The dual redundant cooling system includes a first cooling unit and a second cooling unit. The first cooling unit is positioned in a first cabinet attached to the container. The first cooling unit includes a first controller operating a first cooling loop to cool an interior of the container. The second cooling unit is positioned in a second cabinet attached to the container and adjacent the first cabinet. The second cooling unit includes a second controller operating a second cooling loop to cool the interior of the container. The first cooling unit and the first cooling loop are separate from the second cooling unit and the second cooling loop. The first controller and the second controller communicate a switch signal between each other so that either the first cooling unit is a primary cooling unit operating the first cooling loop or the second cooling unit is the primary cooling unit operating the second cooling loop. The switch signal switching the primary cooling unit.
US11650636B2
A storage device attachment and detachment structure comprising a holding member configured to hold a storage device with a storage medium, and a pressure member including a biasing portion that has an end portion connected to the holding member, the biasing portion being configured to contact the storage device to press the storage device in a biasing direction toward the holding member, the pressure member being movable to a pressure release position in which the pressure member is separated from the storage device in an opposite direction of the biasing direction to release pressure relative to the storage device.
US11650634B2
An internal component and external interface arrangement for a cylindrical compact computing system is described that includes at least a structural heat sink having triangular shape disposed within a cylindrical volume defined by a cylindrical housing. A computing engine having a generally triangular shape is described having internal components that include a graphics processing unit (GPU) board, a central processing unit (CPU) board, an input/output (I/O) interface board, an interconnect board, and a power supply unit (PSU).
US11650632B2
A hinge apparatus may include a plurality of plates configured to be rigidly coupled to a foldable component, and a plurality of gears mechanically coupling the plurality of plates to one another. The hinge apparatus may be operable to expand such that, when the hinge apparatus transitions from a flat state to a folded state, the plurality of gears are configured to cause the plurality of plates to translate laterally apart from one another at a selected rate.
US11650622B2
The present invention is a lighting device attached to the front of a camera device, such as a smartphone, and connected to the camera device to produce an appropriate lighting environment for the acquisition of good quality animal nose pattern images by taking into consideration such factors and ambient lighting as well as the color of the nose.
US11650606B2
A method for actuating a valve with an electromagnetic valve drive through which electric current is conducted to open or close the valve or to hold the valve in an open or closed position includes receiving an opening signal, determining an adapted opening signal which is adapted to physical limits of the valve or valve drive, and determining a feed-forward signal for feed-forward control of an electric current to drive the electromagnetic valve drive to open the valve in reaction to the adapted opening signal. The method further includes calculating an actuation signal for actuating the valve drive using the feed-forward signal, and outputting the actuation signal.
US11650605B1
A combination valve for pressure building and final-line gas regulation is disclosed. An example valve includes a body defining a first tank port and a second tank port, an outlet port, and a linking chamber fluidly connected to the second tank port. The valve includes a first piston diaphragm at least partially defining a first pressure cavity fluidly connected to the first tank port and a first plug operatively connected to the first piston diaphragm. The first pressure cavity is fluidly connected to the linking chamber when the first plug is in an open position. The valve includes a second piston diaphragm at least partially defining a second pressure cavity fluidly connected to the outlet port and a second plug operatively connected to the second piston diaphragm. The second pressure cavity is fluidly connected to the linking chamber when the second plug is in an open position.
US11650604B2
An aircraft includes an airframe with first and second wings having a fuselage extending therebetween. A propulsion assembly is coupled to the fuselage and includes a counter-rotating coaxial rotor system that is tiltable relative to the fuselage to generate a thrust vector. First and second yaw vanes extend aftwardly from the fuselage. A flight control system is configured to direct the thrust vector of the coaxial rotor system and control movements of the yaw vanes. In a VTOL orientation of the aircraft, differential operation of the yaw vanes and/or differential operations of first and second rotor assemblies of the coaxial rotor system provide yaw authority for the aircraft. In a biplane orientation of the aircraft, collective operation of the yaw vanes provides yaw authority for the aircraft.
US11650599B2
A positioning detection device includes a first obtaining circuit to obtain a satellite signal, a second obtaining circuit to obtain a detection signal of an inertial device, a third obtaining circuit to obtain a traveling state of the vehicle body including straight-traveling and turning of the vehicle body, a first calculator to calculate first positioning information in a satellite navigation system to which the satellite signal is applied, a second calculator to calculate second positioning information in an inertial navigation system to which the detection signal is applied, a third calculator to calculate third positioning information in a hybrid navigation system to which the first positioning information and the second positioning information are applied, and an output circuit to output the third positioning information upon obtaining the straight-traveling and to output the first positioning information and/or the second positioning information upon obtaining the turning.
US11650595B2
A method includes receiving a worksite plan to be executed by at least one machine at a worksite from a computing device of a supervising entity, the controller being located at a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) location with respect to the worksite. The worksite plan may include a boundary of the worksite at which the worksite plan is implemented, at least one task defining the worksite plan, and a selection of at least one machine to perform the task. The method may include receiving a validation signal from a device located at the worksite, the validation indicating that the worksite is ready for implementation of the worksite plan based on at least one parameter of worksite readiness. The method may include selecting a first mode of operation of the machine to perform the task and transmitting first instructions to the machine to perform the task based on the first mode of operation.
US11650592B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving a reference to an object located in an environment of a robot, accessing mapping data that indicates, for each of a plurality of object instances, respective probabilities of the object instance being located at one or more locations in the environment, wherein the respective probabilities are based at least on an amount of time that has passed since a prior observation of the object instance was made, identifying one or more particular object instances that correspond to the referenced object, determining, based at least on the mapping data, the respective probabilities of the one or more particular object instances being located at the one or more locations in the environment, selecting, based at least on the respective probabilities, a particular location in the environment where the referenced object is most likely located, and directing the robot to navigate to the particular location.
US11650565B2
A machine learning device includes: a measured data acquisition unit that acquires a measured data group; a thermal displacement acquisition unit that acquires a thermal displacement actual measured value about a machine element; a storage unit that uses the measured data group acquired by the measured data acquisition unit as input data, uses the thermal displacement actual measured value about the machine element acquired by the thermal displacement acquisition unit as a label, and stores the input data and the label in association with each other as teaching data; and a calculation formula learning unit that performs machine learning based on the measured data group and the thermal displacement actual measured value about the machine element, thereby setting a thermal displacement estimation calculation formula used for calculating the thermal displacement of the machine element based on the measured data group.
US11650552B2
Oscillatory instabilities are ubiquitous of systems, and these usually arise out of low amplitude aperiodic oscillations. These oscillatory instabilities generally affect the performance and the lifespan of systems in an adverse manner. An apparatus and a method are disclosed here to estimate the rms value or the amplitude of limit cycle oscillations for control of the oscillatory instability.
US11650550B2
In some embodiments, a control system, a control method and a storage medium are provided. In the method, first motion information of a machine acquired by a first sensor is received; the first motion information is inputted into a deep learning model to obtain a model output, the deep learning model comprising a convolutional neural network (CNN) and a long short-term memory (LSTM); the deep learning model is trained using the first motion information and second motion information acquired by a second sensor; the first sensor and the second sensor having different ways of detecting information and processing the detected information. The model output is used to control the machine.
US11650542B2
Techniques related to generating holographic images are discussed. Such techniques include application of a machine learning model to the target image to generate data that is used to enable the determination of a phase pattern via an iterative propagation feedback model. The iterative propagation feedback model is used to generate a feedback strength value, which is then used to generate a phase diffraction pattern for presentation at a holographic plane.
US11650541B2
A method of manufacturing a full-color holographic optical element in a full-color holographic optical element manufacturing apparatus including a lens and a holographic recording medium located farther away than a focal length of the lens, the method including: allowing a signal beam including a mixture of laser beams having wavelengths of R (Red), G (Green), and B (Blue) to be incident on the lens; and recording a hologram in such a manner that a reference beam including a mixture of laser beams having wavelengths of R, G, and B is allowed to be incident on the holographic recording medium, wherein the holographic recording medium is configured with a single medium.
US11650540B2
A holographic security or identification device (10) comprises an object, or a flexible substrate (12) configured to be conformable to a desired, curved shape; and a plurality of structures (14) formed on or in the object to have a desired curved configuration, or formed in or associated with the substrate and arranged to adopt a desired curved configuration when the substrate is conformed to a desired shape, wherein the plurality of structures (14) are configured to receive light (20) of a selected at least one wavelength or range of wavelengths and to produce, using the received light, a desired holographic image (22) for security or identification purposes when in the desired configuration.
US11650537B2
An engaging portion 30 is provided which is engageable with a portion-to-be-engaged 11b a displaceable integrally with a developer receiving portion 11 with a mounting operation of a developer supply container 1 to displace 11 in an upward direction U to bring a receiving opening into communication with a discharge opening. An engaging portion 30 includes a first engagement surface 31a extending in the upward direction U as going toward a developer accommodating portion of the developer supply container 1, and a second engagement surface 32a provided at a position closer to the developer accommodating portion than the first engagement surface 31a. When the receiving opening in communication with a shutter opening, a height of an end of the first engagement surface 31a close to the developer accommodating portion is higher than the second engagement surface 32a.
US11650535B2
A toner collection device includes a toner collection container, a toner conveying passage, a side wall, a recessed sensing portion, and a detection sensor. The toner conveying passage includes a first inclined portion provided right under a toner collection port and inclined downward leftward in the left-right direction perpendicular to the up-down direction and a second inclined portion connected to a bottom end part of the first inclined portion and inclined downward frontward in the front-rear direction perpendicular to the up-down and left-right directions, with an end part of the second inclined portion on the left side in contact with the inner wall face of the toner collection container on the left side. The recessed sensing portion has an opening between a top end part of the side wall and the inner wall face of the toner collection container.
US11650533B2
An image forming apparatus includes a first unit, a second unit fixed to the first unit at a portion upstream of the first unit in a conveyance direction in which the sheet is conveyed, and an electric board. In the image forming apparatus, a disposition of the electric board is restricted by the first unit and the second unit.
US11650530B2
A system displays a plurality of display objects respectively corresponding to a plurality of symptoms of an image forming apparatus, receives a selection of one display object from among the plurality of display objects, and displays a screen for receiving, from a user, a value related to a predetermined item to be adjusted to improve a symptom corresponding to the selected display object.
US11650528B2
A resistance heating component is to come into contact with and heat a fixing belt made of a heat resistant material, and is to be provided at a position away from a fixing area between which the resistance heating component and the fixing belt a recording material is held and conveyed, the resistance heating component including: a metal base material having a low heat capacity; and a resistance heating layer laminated on a front surface or a rear surface of the base material with an insulating layer interposed between the base material and the resistance heating layer.
US11650526B1
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of sheet storage receptacles configured to store a sheet. The image forming apparatus also includes a fixing device having a heating belt and a pressure roller configured to heat and fix toner on the sheet conveyed from one of the plurality of sheet storage receptacles. The image forming apparatus also includes a processor and a memory configured to store temperature information associated with each sheet storage receptacle and related to temperature control of the fixing device, acquire type information of a sheet to be printed, in response to a predetermined condition, specify the sheet storage receptacle storing the sheet to be printed, and perform a first heating control that controls a temperature of the fixing device based on the stored temperature information associated with the specified sheet storage receptacle.
US11650517B2
An image forming apparatus comprises a main unit, a main unit memory, a drum cartridge, a toner cartridge, and a controller. The main unit memory stores printer identification information. The drum cartridge comprises a drum memory that stores drum identification information. The toner cartridge comprises a toner memory that stores toner identification information. The controller is configured to store in the main unit memory the drum identification information stored in the drum memory and store in the drum memory the printer identification information stored in the main unit memory, if it determines that the drum cartridge installed in the main unit is new, and store in the main unit memory the toner identification information stored in the toner memory and store in the toner memory the drum identification information stored in the drum memory, if it determines that the toner cartridge installed in the main unit is new.
US11650514B2
An electroconductive roll includes a core member, a rubber base material disposed around the core member, and a surface layer disposed around the rubber base material. The surface area of the surface layer per unit projected area is equal to or greater than 1.255, and is equal to or less than 6.635.
US11650512B2
Some implementations described herein provide a reticle cleaning device and a method of use. The reticle cleaning device includes a support member configured for extension toward a reticle within an extreme ultraviolet lithography tool. The reticle cleaning device also includes a contact surface disposed at an end of the support member and configured to bond to particles contacted by the contact surface. The reticle cleaning device further includes a stress sensor configured to measure an amount of stress applied to the support member at the contact surface. During a cleaning operation in which the contact surface is moving toward the reticle, the stress sensor may provide an indication that the amount of stress applied to the support member satisfies a threshold. Based on satisfying the threshold, movement of the contact surface and/or the support member toward the reticle ceases to avoid damaging the reticle.
US11650505B2
A resist underlayer film for lithography has high solubility in a resist solvent (solvent used in lithography) for expressing good coating film forming property and a smaller selection ratio of dry etching rate as compared with a resist. A resist underlayer film-forming composition containing a novolac resin containing a structure (C) obtained by a reaction of an aromatic ring of an aromatic compound (A) with a hydroxy group-containing aromatic methylol compound (B). The aromatic compound (A) may be a component constituting the structure (C) in the novolac resin. The hydroxy group-containing aromatic methylol compound (B) may be a compound of Formula (1): The hydroxy group-containing aromatic methylol compound (B) may be 2-hydroxybenzyl alcohol, 4-hydroxybenzyl alcohol, or 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxymethyl phenol.
US11650503B2
A hard mask-forming composition which forms a hard mask used in lithography, including: a resin containing an aromatic ring and a polar group; and a compound containing at least one of an oxazine ring fused to an aromatic ring, and a fluorene ring.
US11650497B2
A resist composition which generates an acid upon exposure and whose solubility in a developing solution is changed due to an action of the acid, the resist composition including a base material component whose solubility in a developing solution is changed due to the action of an acid, an acid generator component which generates an acid upon exposure, and an organic acid which contains at least one carboxy group, in which the acid generator component contains a compound represented by formula (b1) in which R2011 to R2031 represent an aryl group, an alkyl group, or an alkenyl group. R2011 to R2031 have a total of four or more substituents containing fluorine atoms, Xn− represent an n-valent anion, and n represents an integer of 1 or greater.
US11650493B2
The present disclosure describes a method of patterning a semiconductor wafer using extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL). The method includes receiving an EUVL mask that includes a substrate having a low temperature expansion material, a reflective multilayer over the substrate, a capping layer over the reflective multilayer, and an absorber layer over the capping layer. The method further includes patterning the absorber layer to form a trench on the EUVL mask, wherein the trench has a first width above a target width. The method further includes treating the EUVL mask with oxygen plasma to reduce the trench to a second width, wherein the second width is below the target width. The method may also include treating the EUVL mask with nitrogen plasma to protect the capping layer, wherein the treating of the EUVL mask with the nitrogen plasma expands the trench to a third width at the target width.
US11650491B2
The present disclosure provides a light source system and a projection device. The light source system includes: a laser light source, a supplementary light source, a wavelength conversion device and an imaging subsystem. The laser light source is configured to emit laser light. The supplementary light source is configured to emit supplementary light. The wavelength conversion device is configured to convert the laser light into excited light and output first light including the excited light and the laser light. The imaging subsystem is configured to form a first light imaging beam, a supplementary light imaging beam, and a mixed light imaging beam; the imaging subsystem includes a light combining device and a reflective assembly, the light combining device is placed at an intersection of the first light imaging beam and the supplementary light imaging beam, and the reflective assembly is placed between the wavelength conversion device and the light combining device.
US11650488B2
A gaze-attracting device is provided having a body which is removably engageable to a camera or smartphone. The body of the device is configured with a recess which will hold food or a toy therein, to attract the gaze of an animal being photograhed such as a dog or cat. Additional gaze attracting for longer gaze time periods is provided by the inclusion of facial indicia of a small animal, such as eyes, ears and a nose, on a front facing surface of the body.
US11650485B1
An attachment of a smartphone for a film camera disclosed herein includes: a camera attachment (31) to be attached to a camera back lid portion; and a smartphone attachment (32) coupled to the camera attachment (31) to hold a smartphone. The camera attachment (31) includes a projection screen (312) on which an image that is photographed is projected through a camera lens. The smartphone attachment (32) includes a correction lens (322) to focus on the image projected on the projection screen and allow a smartphone camera to photograph the image by close photographing. The attachment of a smartphone for a film camera aligns the camera lens, the projection screen, and the correction lens along an optical axis (5) of image capturing of the camera and focuses on an imaging medium of the smartphone to allow the image photographed by the film camera to be digitized and stored.
US11650481B2
An optical element driving mechanism is provided, including a fixed portion, a movable portion, a driving assembly, and a connecting assembly. The fixed portion includes a base and a case. The movable portion is movable relative to the fixed portion and is used for connecting an optical element. The driving assembly is disposed between the fixed portion and the movable portion for moving the movable portion relative to the fixed portion. The connecting assembly is disposed between the fixed portion and the movable portion.
US11650480B2
An optical system is provided. The optical system includes a first optical module and a second optical module. The first optical module includes a movable portion, a fixed portion and a driving assembly. The movable portion is connected to a first optical member, and is movable relative to the fixed portion. The driving assembly is configured to drive the movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion. The second optical module is connected to a second optical member, wherein an optical axis passes through the first optical member and the second optical member.
US11650477B2
Disclosed herein are methods, structures, apparatus and devices for the termination of unused waveguide ports in planar photonic integrated circuits with doped waveguides such that free-carrier absorption therein may advantageously absorb any undesired optical power resulting in a significant reduction of stray light and resulting reflections.
US11650476B2
Apparatus, circuits and methods for reducing mismatch in an electro-optic modulator are described herein. In some embodiments, a described optical includes: a splitter configured for splitting an input optical signal into a first optical signal and a second optical signal; a phase shifter coupled to the splitter; and a combiner coupled to the phase shifter. The phase shifter includes: a first waveguide arm configured for controlling a first phase of the first optical signal to generate a first phase-controlled optical signal, and a second waveguide arm configured for controlling a second phase of the second optical signal to generate a second phase-controlled optical signal. Each of the first and second waveguide arms includes: a plurality of straight segments and a plurality of curved segments. The combiner is configured for combining the first and second phase-controlled optical signals to generate an output optical signal.
US11650475B2
Driving an optical modulator is described. A control circuit generates first and second input voltages based on a target phase modulation between first and second optical waveguide arms of the optical modulator. An offset control circuit generates first and second offset signals. A linear modulator driver receives the first and second offset signals, generates a first output voltage for biasing the first optical waveguide arm using the first offset signal, and generates a second output voltage for biasing the second optical waveguide arm using the second offset signal. Feedback circuitry can feed the first and second output voltages to the offset control circuit, which can generate the first and second offset signals using the first and second output voltages. The output voltages bias the waveguide arms so the optical modulator operates close to the target phase modulation, even in the presence of manufacturing errors.
US11650473B2
An article includes a reflector having a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a third surface; and a first selective light modulator layer external to the first surface of the reflector; wherein the third surface of the reflector is open. A method of making an article is also disclosed.
US11650472B2
A method of forming an electrochromic (EC) device includes forming a solid-state first electrolyte layer, after forming the solid-state first electrolyte layer, laminating the first solid-state first electrolyte layer between a transparent first substrate and a transparent second substrate such that a transparent first electrode is disposed between the first substrate and a first side of the solid-state first electrolyte layer, and a transparent second electrode is disposed between the second substrate and a second side of the solid-state first electrolyte layer, and applying a sealant to seal the solid-state first electrolyte layer between the first and second substrates and to form the EC device.
US11650471B1
A monolithic tandem electrochromic device, comprising a central transparent conductor ion blocking layer, a first electrochromic multilayer stack arranged on a first surface of the central transparent conductor ion blocking layer, and a second electrochromic multilayer stack arranged on a second surface of the central transparent conductor ion blocking layer is described. The central transparent conductor ion blocking layer can comprise ion conductivities between 10−4 and 10−20 S/cm, and electrical resistivity less than 100 Ohm-cm.
US11650466B2
A display device includes a substrate including a display area and a non-display area disposed around the display area; a fan-out unit disposed in the non-display area and including a first pad unit and a first fan-out line electrically connected to the first pad unit; a first signal line disposed on a different layer from the first fan-out line and including a first area overlapping the first fan-out line; a first switching element disposed on the display area and electrically connected to the first signal line and a first pixel electrode; and a color filter overlapping the first area.
US11650456B2
A display device, including a display module and a peep-proof light source module, is provided. The display module is used to provide a display beam. The peep-proof light source module is disposed on a transmission path of the display beam and includes at least one light emitting element, a light guide plate, and optical microstructures. The light emitting element is used to provide a privacy light. The light guide plate has at least one light incident surface. Each optical microstructure has an optical surface facing the light incident surface. At least part of the privacy light is reflected by the optical surface and then exits the light guide plate. The distribution density of the optical microstructures on the light guide plate close to the light incident surface is substantially the same as the distribution density away from the light incident surface and close to the center.
US11650454B2
A backlight module is provided. The backlight module includes a substrate; a plurality of light-emitting elements, disposed on the substrate along a first direction and a second direction; and at least one optical film, including: a first surface, having a plurality of cone structures, top points of the cone structures being arranged to form a plurality of first ridges. In addition, an angle is between the first ridge and the first direction; and a second surface, corresponding to the first surface and toward the substrate, the plurality of light-emitting elements being between the substrate and the second surface.
US11650451B2
A color filter substrate includes: a base substrate; a black matrix arranged on a surface of the base substrate and defining a plurality of first light-transmitting regions a plurality of second light-transmitting regions and a plurality of third light-transmitting regions on the base substrate; a color resist layer including a first color resist, a second color resist and a third color resist arranged in the first light-transmitting regions, the second light-transmitting regions and the third light-transmitting regions respectively, the first color resist covering the black matrix between two adjacent first light-transmitting regions, and the second color resist covering the black matrix between two adjacent second light-transmitting regions; and a common electrode layer.
US11650448B2
Provided are a liquid crystal diffraction element that can make the brightness of light emitted from a light guide plate uniform and a light guide element. The liquid crystal diffraction element includes: an optically-anisotropic layer that is formed of a composition including a liquid crystal compound, in which the optically-anisotropic layer has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which a direction of an optical axis derived from the liquid crystal compound continuously rotates in at least one in-plane direction, and a diffraction efficiency of the optically-anisotropic layer increases from one side to another side in the one in-plane direction.
US11650444B2
According to one embodiment, a display device and an electronic apparatus each include a liquid crystal layer, a first insulating substrate, a pixel electrode, a first transparent electrode disposed between the first insulating substrate and the liquid crystal layer, a second insulating substrate, a first organic insulating film overlapping the pixel electrode, a second organic insulating film disposed between the first organic insulating film and the liquid crystal layer, and a second transparent electrode overlapping the first transparent electrode and disposed between the second insulating substrate and the liquid crystal layer. The first organic insulating film includes a concave portion, and the second transparent electrode is disposed in the concave portion.
US11650443B2
A display device is provided. The display device according to the present disclosure includes: a display panel; a frame positioned behind the display panel; a substrate having an elongated shape and coupled to the frame; an optical assembly mounted on the substrate and configured to provide light to the display panel; and a plurality of holders coupling the substrate to the frame, wherein the plurality of holders includes: a first holder disposed adjacent to a first elongated side of the substrate; and a second holder disposed adjacent to a second elongated side of the substrate opposite the first elongated side and positioned opposite to the first holder, wherein the first holder and the second holder are configured to secure the substrate.
US11650442B1
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a privacy module. The privacy module includes a first polarizing element, a second polarizing element, and a light modulation element. The first polarizing element includes a first light absorbing material. The first polarizing element has a surface, and the surface has a normal direction. The second polarizing element includes a second light absorbing material. The second polarizing element at least partially overlaps the first polarizing element. The light modulation element is disposed between the first polarizing element and the second polarizing element. The first light absorbing material has a first long axis, and the second light absorbing material has a second long axis. The first long axis and second long axis are parallel to the normal direction.
US11650439B2
Embodiments provide for an optical modulator that includes a first silicon region, a polycrystalline silicon region; a gate oxide region joining the first silicon region to a first side of the polycrystalline region; and a second silicon region formed on a second side of the polycrystalline silicon region opposite to the first side, thereby defining an active region of an optical modulator between the first silicon region, the polycrystalline region, the gate oxide region, and the second silicon region. The polycrystalline silicon region may be between 0 and 60 nanometers thick, and may be formed or patterned to the desired thickness. The second silicon region may be epitaxially grown from the polycrystalline silicon region and patterned into a desired cross sectional shape separately from or in combination with the polycrystalline silicon region.
US11650437B1
A varifocal lens device includes a lens unit and a polarization controller. The lens unit has different optical powers for different polarization directions of light. When a light beam is introduced into the varifocal lens device through the polarization controller in a first state, a polarization direction of the light beam is converted by the polarization controller. When the light beam is introduced into the varifocal lens device through the polarization controller in a second state, the polarization direction of the light beam is prevented from being converted by the polarization controller.
US11650425B2
Computer-generated image data is presented on first and second displays of a binocular headset presuming that a user's left and right eyes are located at first and second positions relative to the first and second displays respectively. At least one updated version of the image data is presented, which is rendered presuming that at least one of the user's left and right eyes is located at a position different from the first and second positions respectively in at least one spatial dimension. In response thereto, a user-generated feedback signal is received expressing either: a quality measure of the updated version of the computer-generated image data relative to computer-generated image data presented previously; or a confirmation command. The steps of presenting the updated version of the computer-generated image data and receiving the user-generated feedback signal are repeated until the confirmation command is received. The first and second positions are defined based on the user-generated feedback signal.
US11650423B2
An augmented reality display system. The system can include a first eyepiece waveguide with a first input coupling grating (ICG) region. The first ICG region can receive a set of input beams of light corresponding to an input image having a corresponding field of view (FOV), and can in-couple a first subset of the input beams. The first subset of input beams can correspond to a first sub-portion of the FOV. The system can also include a second eyepiece waveguide with a second ICG region. The second ICG region can receive and in-couple at least a second subset of the input beams. The second subset of the input beams can correspond to a second sub-portion of the FOV. The first and second sub-portions of the FOV can be at least partially different but together include the complete FOV of the input image.
US11650422B2
A method and apparatus for correcting aberrations over the entire field of view of an optical system, in which a first part of the apparatus applies different pre-compensating aberrations individually to different portions of the field of view, such that aberrations caused by a second part of the apparatus cancel the aberrations applied by the first part. The first part of the apparatus is temporally, angularly, or spatially multiplexed and the second part of the apparatus is spatially or angularly multiplexed such that ray bundles corresponding to subsets of contiguous pixels in an image source are each subjected to corresponding pre-compensating aberrations and subsequent aberrations, resulting in a substantially non-aberrated performance over the entire field of view of the optical system.
US11650421B1
A method may include identifying, by one or more processors, an object in a field of view of a wearable display, where the object is identified for a presbyopic compensation. The presbyopic compensation is performed by the one or more processors on image data of the object to generate compensated image data of the object. The one or more processors render an image in response to the compensated image data of the object on a display of the wearable display.
US11650417B2
Apparatus comprises an image processor configured to provide output video images to a head mountable display, HMD, having one or more display elements to display video images to a wearer of the HMD, for display by the one or more display elements in response to input video images, in which each output video image corresponds to a respective input video image; in which: the image processor comprises a detector configured to detect whether an input image brightness at image locations in the input video images exceeds a threshold image brightness; and the image processor is configured to vary a relationship between the display properties at a given image location in a given output video image and the input image display properties at the given image location in the corresponding input video image in response to a detection that image brightness at the given image location in one or more input video images preceding that corresponding input video image exceeded the threshold image brightness.
US11650415B2
The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementation for sensor protection. It is determined whether a cleaning operation needs to be applied to a portion of a sensor assembly deployed on a vehicle and hosting a sensor therein to acquire information of a surrounding through the portion to facilitate autonomous driving. If the cleaning operation is to be applied, at least one type of cleaning is selected to be carried out by one or more devices mounted on the sensor assembly with respect to the portion. For each of the devices, needed control signal is generated for activating the device to perform a cleaning task the device is configured for and sent to the device to clean the certain portion of the sensor assembly in order to prevent degradation in the information acquired by the sensor through the portion.
US11650406B2
A microscopic imaging method of phase contrast (PC) and differential interference contrast (DIC) based on the transport of intensity equation (TIE) includes capturing three intensity images along the optical axis; solving the TIE by deconvolution to obtain the quantitative phase; obtaining the intensity image under the DIC imaging mode according to the DIC imaging principle; and obtaining the corresponding phase image of PC imaging mode according to the PC imaging principle. The method can endow the bright-field microscope with the ability to realize PC and DIC imaging without complex modification of the traditional bright-field microscope. In addition, it has the same imaging performance as the phase contrast microscope and differential interference contrast microscope, which are expensive, complex-structure, and has strict environmental conditions.
US11650404B2
An optical measurement unit for a scanning device, a scanning device, and a method for operating a scanning device, for high throughput sample analysis of biological samples are disclosed. An illumination system is used to emit light of at least two different illumination wavelength ranges, and an imaging system is used to detect light of at least two different detection wavelength ranges, in order to detect electromagnetic radiation within a field of view for determining the positioning of a sample within the field of view.
US11650401B2
A zoom lens consists of, in order from an object side, a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a positive third lens group, a positive fourth lens group, and a positive fifth lens group. During zooming, the first lens group and the fifth lens group are not moved, and the second lens group, the third lens group, and the fourth lens group are moved. The second lens group includes a negative lens closest to the object side. In a case where a focal length of the second lens group is denoted by f2 and a focal length of the negative lens of the second lens group closest to the object side is denoted by f21, the zoom lens satisfies 0.6
US11650392B2
An imaging camera driving module includes a lens unit, a driving mechanism, a sensing mechanism and an image surface. At least a part of the driving mechanism is coupled to the lens unit to drive the lens unit to move in a direction parallel to the optical axis. The sensing mechanism includes sensing magnets fixed to the lens unit and sensing elements not facing the driving mechanism. The sensing elements are disposed on an image side of the imaging lens assembly of the lens unit and corresponding to the sensing magnets. The sensing elements are configured to detect a relative position of the sensing magnets. The image surface is disposed on the image side of the imaging lens assembly, and the optical axis passes through the image surface. The sensing mechanism is configured to detect a tilt of the optical axis with respect to the central axis.
US11650375B2
A ferrule for retaining a plurality of optical fibers includes a front end surface; a rear end surface; a plurality of fiber retaining holes; an accommodation hole; and a void portion. The fiber retaining holes each extend from the front end surface toward the rear end surface along a first direction. The accommodation hole is connected to the plurality of fiber retaining holes. The void portion is provided in a region around the plurality of fiber retaining holes. The fiber retaining holes include constant diameter portions extending from the front end surface along the first direction. The void portion is provided along the constant diameter portions, and is aligned with the constant diameter portions in a plane perpendicular to the first direction. A minimum value of a width in the plane of the void portion differs from an inner diameter of the constant diameter portion.
US11650370B1
The present invention relates to evanescently coupling whispering gallery mode optical resonators having a liquid coupling as well as methods of making and using same. The aforementioned evanescently coupling whispering gallery mode optical resonators having a liquid couplings provide increased tunability and sensing selectivity over current same. The aforementioned. Applicants' method of making evanescent-wave coupled optical resonators can be achieved while having coupling gap dimensions that can be fabricated using standard photolithography. Thus economic, rapid, and mass production of coupled WGM resonators-based lasers, sensors, and signal processors for a broad range of applications can be realized.
US11650359B2
A multicolor static multiview display and method of multicolor static multiview display operation provide a color static multiview image using diffractive gratings to diffractively scatter light from guided light beams having a selectable color and different radial directions. The multicolor static multiview display includes a light guide configured to guide plurality of guided light beams and a multicolor light source configured to provide the guided light beam plurality having the selectable color and the different radial directions. The multicolor static multiview display further includes a plurality of diffraction gratings configured to provide from a portion of the guided light beams directional light beams having a color, intensities, and principal angular directions corresponding to color view pixels of the color static multiview image.
US11650356B2
A high-performance optical absorber is provided having a texturized base layer. The base layer has one or more of a polymer film and a polymer coating. A surface layer is located above and immediately adjacent to the base layer and the surface layer joined to the base layer. The surface layer comprises a plasma-functionalized, non-woven carbon nanotube (CNT) sheet, wherein the base layer texturization comprises one or more of substantially rectangular ridges, substantially triangular ridges, substantially pyramidal ridges, and truncated, substantially pyramidal ridges. The CNT sheet has a thickness greater than or equal to 10×λ, where λ is the wavelength of the incident light. In certain embodiments the base layer has a height above the surface layer greater than or equal to 10×λ, where λ is the wavelength of the incident light.
US11650355B2
A planar lens (100) and a manufacturing method for a planar lens (100) relate to the technical field of lenses, the planar lens (100) being a focusing lens and comprising an acoustic soft material tangible structure (110) and a cover layer (120), the acoustic soft material tangible structure (110) comprises a plurality of combination lenses (130) located in the same plane, each combination lens (130) comprises a circular part (131) and a plurality of concentric annular parts (132) which are continuously arranged around the circular part (131), the thicknesses of each two adjacent annular parts (132) in each combination lens (130) are different, and the thickness of each annular part (132) is related to the focal length of the respective combination lens (130); and the cover layer (120) covers the outer surface of the acoustic soft material tangible structure (110) to form the planar lens (100).
US11650354B2
Disclosed are systems and methods to render data from a 3D environment. The methods and systems of this disclosure utilize inverse ray tracing from a viewing volume to capture energy data from a 3D environment in a single rendering pass providing thereby collecting data more efficiently and accurately.
US11650352B2
A wettable silicone hydrogel contact lens having a low ionoflux and low evaporation is manufactured by curing a silicone hydrogel polymerizable composition in a contact lens mold comprising front and back lens-forming surfaces, where one of the lens-forming surfaces has a higher polarity than the other lens-forming surface.
US11650348B2
A model can be trained for discriminant analysis for substance classification and/or measuring calibration. One method includes interacting at least one sensor with one or more known substances, each sensor element being configured to detect a characteristic of the one or more known substances, generating an sensor response from each sensor element corresponding to each known substance, wherein each known substance corresponds to a known response stored in a database, and training a neural network to provide a discriminant analysis classification model for an unknown substance, the neural network using each sensor response as inputs and one or more substance types as outputs, and the outputs corresponding to the one or more known substances.
US11650335B2
A method for determining position and energy in scintillation detectors includes determining a photoconversion energy and a photoconversion position of particles triggering scintillation events, in an iteration-free manner, calculated from a distribution of scintillation light released by one or more of the scintillation events. The distribution of scintillation light is scanned by a photodetector.
US11650334B2
A method for applying GPS UAV attitude estimation to accelerate computer vision. The UAV has a plurality of GPS receivers mounted at fixed locations on the UAV. The method includes receiving GPS signals from each GPS satellite in view of the UAV, the GPS measurements comprising pseudo-range and carrier phase data representing the distance between each GPS receiver and each GPS satellite. Carrier phase and pseudo-range measurements are determined for each GPS receiver based on the pseudo-range and carrier phase data. The GPS carrier phase and pseudo-range measurements are compared pair-wise for each pair of GPS receiver and satellite. An attitude of the UAV is determined based on the relative distance measurements. A 3D camera pose rotation matrix is determined based on the attitude of the UAV. Computer vision image search computations are performed for analyzing the image data received from the UAV in real time using the 3D camera pose rotation matrix.
US11650321B2
A detection apparatus detects a tilt of a LiDAR apparatus that is mounted to a vehicle. The detection apparatus includes a distance image acquiring unit, a surroundings information acquiring unit, and a detecting unit. The distance image acquiring unit acquires a distance image that is expressed by a detection point group that is detected by the LiDAR apparatus. The surroundings information acquiring unit acquires surroundings information on a periphery of a traveling route of the vehicle. The detecting unit that determines the tilt of the LiDAR apparatus based on the acquired distance image and the acquired surroundings information.
US11650320B2
A system uses range and Doppler velocity measurements from a lidar system and images from a video system to estimate a six degree-of-freedom trajectory of a target and generate a three-dimensional image of the target. The system may refine the three-dimensional image by reducing the stochastic components in the transformation parameters between video frame times.
US11650315B2
A distance measurement device includes an imaging unit which captures a subject image formed by an imaging optical system forming the subject image indicating a subject, an emission unit which emits directional light as light having directivity along an optical axis direction of the imaging optical system, a light receiving unit which receives reflected light of directional light from the subject, a derivation unit which derives a distance to the subject based on a timing at which directional light is emitted by the emission unit and a timing at which reflected light is received by the light receiving unit, and a control unit which performs control such that at least a part of an imaging period by the imaging unit overlaps at least a part of a distance measurement period by the emission unit, the light receiving unit, and the derivation unit.
US11650313B1
A system including a radar receiver, a computer readable medium, and a processor. A data structure containing historical information pertaining to weather conditions for multiple locations may reside in the medium. The processor may be configured to: obtain aircraft data including information of an aircraft position; obtain external data; obtain a portion of the historical information pertaining to a location corresponding to the aircraft position; obtain weather radar data; analyze the weather radar data to determine if windshear exceeds a windshear alert threshold; upon an occurrence of the windshear exceeding the windshear alert threshold, determine whether to issue or suppress a windshear alert based on the aircraft data, the external data, and/or the portion of the historical information; and one of a) output the windshear alert for presentation to a user or b) adjust the windshear alert threshold causing the windshear alert to be suppressed and/or suppress the windshear alert.
US11650306B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include transmitting, by at least one radar device, to at least one transponder located within a physical environment surrounding a user, a frequency-modulated radar signal that has a first type of polarization, and receiving, by the at least one radar device, signals that have a second type of polarization, the second type of polarization being different than the first type of polarization, detecting, by a processing device communicatively coupled to the at least one radar device, a signal that has the second type of polarization and was returned to the at least one radar device from the at least one transponder in response to the frequency-modulated radar signal, and calculating, by the processing device, a distance between the at least one transponder and the at least one radar device. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11650296B2
Designs and implementations of light detection and ranging (LiDAR) systems that project light at a set of different wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) wavelengths based on WDM optical designs to reduce the number of components, complexity of LiDAR optical systems, the weight and cost of LiDAR systems for a wide range of applications.
US11650286B2
A method for separating large and small targets from noise in radar IF signals, according to which a receiver receives, echo signals that are reflected from targets of different size (such as walls or ground), in response to the transmission of chirp FMCW radar signals, modulated (e.g., using Linear Frequency Modulation) in a predetermined modulation speed for a predetermined duration. The echo signals are down-converted by mixing them with the transmitted signal, to obtain received Intermediate Frequency (IF) signal, which is then sampled both in phase (I-channel) and in quadrature phase (Q-channel). The received IF signal passes a Fourier transform, to obtain power spectral components that belong to a relevant frequency domain, associated with an echo signal reflected from a real target, along with corresponding power spectral components that belong to an irrelevant, opposite frequency domain. The noise distribution and level in the relevant frequency domain is calculated by estimating the noise level in the irrelevant frequency domain and targets represented by a set of consequent relevant frequencies are detected by comparing the power spectral component at each relevant frequency to the calculated noise level and identifying power spectral components with likelihood, which is above a predetermined threshold.
US11650276B2
Techniques are described for acquiring MR data comprising first MR data and second MR data of an examination object using an MR control sequence and a magnetic resonance device comprising an amplifier unit and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC).
US11650266B2
Systems and methods for detecting leakage in a cable network system are disclosed. In at least some illustrative embodiments, a system may include a digital tagger operable to generate a digital tag including a chirp signal configured to be placed on a downstream signal path of the cable network system, and a cable network test instrument configured detect the digital tag in wireless signal data received from the cable network system when a point of ingress is presented in the cable network system. The network test instrument may be operable to provide a user-perceptible indication when the digital tag is detected to inform a technician or other user that a flaw in the cable network system is nearby.
US11650256B2
In accordance with at least selected embodiments, the present disclosure or invention is directed to novel or improved testing apparatus for testing lead acid batteries and/or their components, and/or the efficacy of their components, testing tables, testing systems, and/or related methods. In accordance with at least certain embodiments, the present disclosure or invention is directed to novel or improved methods for testing lead acid batteries and/or their components, and/or the efficacy of their components. In accordance with at least certain selected embodiments, the present disclosure or invention is directed to novel or improved systems for testing lead acid batteries and/or their components, and/or the efficacy of their components. In accordance with at least particular selected embodiments, the present disclosure or invention is directed to novel or improved apparatus and methods for testing a lead acid battery or batteries whereby the battery or batteries are subjected to motion typical of that experienced by the battery or batteries in use or in the field.
US11650252B2
A solid state switch (SSS) monitoring system of an electronic device includes a SSS sensing component that is electrically coupled to a solid state switch. The SSS sensing component generates a switch state signal to indicate a corresponding one of an actuated and an unactuated state of the solid state switch. A controller is communicatively coupled to the SSS sensing component. The controller restarts the SSS sensing component in response to determining that the SSS sensing component is in an inoperative state.
US11650250B2
A method of identifying defects in an electronic assembly, comprising, by a processing unit, obtaining a grid of nodes representative of a location of electronic units of an electronic assembly, wherein each node is neighboured by at most eight other nodes, wherein a first plurality of nodes represents failed electronic units according to at least one test criterion, and a second plurality of nodes represents passing electronic units according to the least one first test criterion, based on the grid, determining at least one first and second straight lines, and attempting to connect the first and second straight lines into a new line, wherein if at least one node from the new line belongs to the second plurality of nodes, concluding that an electronic unit represented by the node on the grid is a failed electronic unit, thereby facilitating identification of a failed electronic unit on the substrate.
US11650226B2
The present disclosure relates to a submersible apparatus (1) for testing a submarine high voltage (HV) cable system. The apparatus (1) includes a cable termination (100) including an electrical insulator (101) and a shielding electrode (102) for the electrical connection with a cable end (201). The apparatus (1) additionally includes a cable bend restrictor (300) having a through channel (301), and a termination locking (400) in through communication with the cable bend restrictor (300) and the cable termination (100). According to another aspect, a method for testing a submarine high voltage (HV) cable apparatus using the above testing apparatus (1) is additionally disclosed.
US11650220B2
A physical quantity sensor includes a substrate, a pair of first elements detecting acceleration in a first direction, and a pair of second elements detecting an acceleration in a second direction. The first element portion includes a first movable portion displaceable in the first direction, first and second movable electrode fingers disposed in the first movable portion, first and second fixing electrode fingers disposed to face the first and second movable electrode fingers, and first and second support portions supporting the first and second fixing electrode fingers. The second element includes a second movable portion displaceable in the second direction, third and fourth movable electrode fingers disposed in the second movable portion, third and fourth fixing electrode fingers disposed to face the third and fourth movable electrode fingers, and third and fourth support portions supporting the third and fourth fixing electrode fingers.
US11650206B2
Heritable mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 and other genes in the DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair pathway increase risk of breast, ovarian and other cancers. In response to DNA breaks, the proteins encoded by these genes bind to each other and are transported into the nucleus to form nuclear foci and initiate homologous recombination. Flow cytometry-based functional variant analyses (FVAs) were developed to determine whether variants in BRCA1 or other DSB repair genes disrupted the binding of BRCA1 to its protein partners, the phosphorylation of p53 or the transport of the BRCA1 complex to the nucleus in response to DNA damage. Each of these assays distinguished high-risk BRCA1 mutations from low-risk BRCA1 controls. Mutations in other DSB repair pathway genes produced molecular phenocopies with these assays. FVA assays may represent an adjunct to sequencing for categorizing VUS or may represent a stand-alone measure for assessing breast cancer risk.
US11650190B2
A method for retrieving a corrected spectrum from a measured spectrum (e.g., retrieving a top-of-water spectrum from a measured top-of-atmosphere spectrum) includes creating a scene-specific model of a region of interest and performing a ray-tracing simulation to simulate rays of light that would reach an airborne (or spaceborne) sensor. The region of interest can be an optically complex area such as an inland or coastal body of water. Based on the ray-tracing simulation, a scene-specific correction for unwanted effects (e.g., adjacency effects, variable atmospheric conditions, and/or other suitable effects) is obtained. A corrected spectrum is obtained by correcting the measured spectrum using the scene-specific correction. The ray-tracing simulation may be performed using a graphical processing unit, allowing the scene-specific correction to be performed in real time or near real time.
US11650183B2
The present disclosure provides a system and method for real-time visualization of a material during ultrasonic non-destructive testing. The system includes a graphical user interface (GUI) capable of showing a three-dimensional (3-D) image of a composite laminate constructed of a series of two-dimensional (2-D) cross sections. The GUI is capable of displaying the 3-D image as each additional 2-D cross section is scanned by an ultrasonic testing apparatus in real time or near real time, including probable defect regions that contain a flaw such as a hole, crack, wrinkle, or foreign object within the composite. Furthermore, in one embodiment, the system includes an artificial intelligence capable of highlighting defect areas within the 3-D image in real time or near real time and providing data regarding each defect area, such as the depth, size, and/or type of each defect.
US11650181B2
An apparatus which includes a mounting, a plurality of detectors provided to detect a condition of at least on parameter indicative of presence of one or more materials in a gutter channel and data processing capabilities. A sequence of signals are transmitted and received when the apparatus is in a detection mode, and the data processing analyses the received signals to provide an indication if a material is detected as being present in the channel and, if detected, a type of the material. On the basis of this analysis and identification of material, decision can be made as to whether any remedial action is required to clear the material and/or decide upon an ongoing monitoring and maintenance.
US11650180B2
An electromagnet for a thermography system comprising a first elongated magnetic core spaced apart from a second elongated magnetic core; at least a first shorting bar connecting substantially at a first end of the first elongated magnetic core and a first end of the second elongated magnetic core; and at least a first excitation coil configured to conduct electrical current.
US11650170B2
Method for detecting at least one critical defect in a ceramic rolling element providing the steps of capturing a plurality of two-dimensional digital radiographic images of the ceramic rolling element; digitally filtering each radiographic image; delineating, on the basis of the filtered image, at least one region liable to comprise the critical defect; constructing stereoscopically a virtual model of the ceramic rolling element having the region; comparing the dimensions of the delineated region with a plurality of predetermined threshold values, and, when the dimensions are greater than the threshold values, generating an alarm signal.
US11650165B2
A device, system, and method related to operator guided inspection is disclosed. A portable inspection device (“PID”) is comprised of a housing, display, camera, light array, gyro, location sensor, a non-transitory computer-readable medium, a processor, and a computer-executable instruction set stored on the non-transitory computer-readable medium. The method is comprised of the steps of selecting an inspection task using the PID; capturing an image of the DUT; providing a reference image with reference dimensions; fixing the focal distance on the camera; providing a region of interest (“ROI”) and an alignment region (“AR”) on the display of the PID; adjusting the lighting of the PID to match the illumination on the DUT with the illumination in the reference image; adjusting the distance between the PID and the DUT such that the DUT fits in the ROI; rotating the PID until the ROI and AR merge into a Merged Region; calibrating the Merged Region with the reference image by scaling the pixel-level distances of the Merged Region with the reference dimensions of the reference image; and performing an automated inspection routine on one or more special characteristics of the DUT. The operator guided inspection system (“OGIS”) includes a plurality of PIDs capable of measuring a plurality of DUTs.
US11650162B2
An aspect of the invention provides a method for determining at least one internal quality attribute of an article (102) of agricultural produce. The method includes receiving a plurality of first spectroscopic values obtained from directing low band light in a first wavelength associated to a low band of wavelengths from at least one low band light source (104) at least partly through the article (102) toward at least one detector (120); receiving a plurality of second spectroscopic values obtained from directing high band light in a second wavelength associated to a high band of wavelengths from at least one high band light source (106) at least partly through the article (102) toward the at least one detector (120); determining at least one measured spatial profile associated to the article, the at least one measured spatial profile comprising at least one of a plurality of ratios of respective first spectroscopic values to respective second spectroscopic values, a plurality of ratios of respective second spectroscopic values to respective first spectroscopic values; and determining the at least one internal quality attribute at least partly from a comparison of the at least one measured spatial profile with at least one reference spatial profile associated to a class of articles of agricultural produce.
US11650158B2
A fluorescence scanning microscope includes excitation and de-excitation light sources, which are designed to generate an excitation and a de-excitation light distribution, respectively. An illumination unit combines the light distributions to form a light distribution scanning over multiple illumination target points of a sample in such a way that an intensity maximum of the excitation light distribution and an intensity minimum of the de-excitation light distribution are spatially superimposed on one another. A detector detects fluorescence photons emitted from the respective illumination target point as a function of their arrival times. A processor evaluates the fluorescence photons with respect to the arrival times, generates a first pixel and a second pixel based thereon, assembles the first and second pixels to form first and second sample images, respectively, and, by means of the two sample images, determines a spatial offset between the intensity maximum and the intensity minimum.
US11650157B2
The present invention provides a system for extension of dynamic range and contrast of a video capture under fluorescence imaging conditions using a single detector. For this purpose, the system (100) comprises of a light engine (107) which sequentially switches between a high-intensity fluorescence excitation light mode (107A), a low-intensity fluorescence excitation light mode (107B) and NIR reflectance light (107C). Correspondingly, a detector (103) captures three data streams—High Intensity Fluorescence Data (105A), Low Intensity Fluorescence Data (105B) and NIR Reflectance Data (105D). A scene processing unit (105) then processes the three data streams and generate two additional data streams—a Wide Dynamic Range Fluorescence Data Stream (105C) and an Enhanced Vascular Index Data Stream (105E). The system also uses a Selective Visualization Unit (106) to allow the user to visualize any of five data streams.
US11650149B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for imaging cells. Quantitative phase imaging uses variations in the index of refraction of a sample as a source of endogenous contrast, providing label-free information of sub-cellular structures and allowing for the reconstruction of valuable biophysical parameters, such as cell dry-mass at femtogram scales, mass transport, and sample thickness and fluctuations at nanometer scales. As a result, QPI has become a valuable tool in biology and medicine. However, QPI has suffered from the need for trans-illumination through relatively thin objects in order to gain access to the forward-scattered field, which carries crucial low spatial frequency information of a sample and avoid contributions from multiple scattered light or out-of-focus planes. The disclosed methods and systems can provide for reconstruction of QPI and corresponding analysis for imaging samples of cells in thick samples using an epi-illumination configuration.
US11650145B2
A system and method using remote sensing instrument with hyper spectrum quantitatively measure metal dust elements in lubricating oil, which includes (no limited): Al, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Pb, Mg, Mn, Mo, Ni, Ag, Sn, Ti, V, Zn, B (Boron, for Coolant), Ca (Calcium for water contaminant), and particle size, cone penetration, dropping point, steel mesh oil separation, moisture, PQ concentration, in few seconds. The instrument integrates near-field communication (NFC) Internet of Thing (IoT) Cloud computing, spectral matching and other data processing, and application software forming a system to easily operated and build a model enable self-learning to improve precision through collection accumulation. With the system, the instrument as FIG. 1 can provide comprehensive on-site analysis enable preventive maintenance of mission critical engine and rotating equipment. The characteristics of the system are easy to operate, get result quickly, and self-learning to improve precision.
US11650143B2
Method for compiling equivalent acceleration spectrum of creep under variable temperatures and loads
Disclosed is a method for compiling an equivalent acceleration spectrum of creep under variable temperatures and loads. The method includes following steps: respectively carrying out a material high-temperature tensile test, material high-temperature creep tests and creep tests under two-stage variable temperatures and loads, and calculating values of a parameter p in a creep damage accumulation model under two-stage variable temperatures and loads; based on a nonlinear damage accumulation model under multi-stage variable temperatures and loads, calculating a damage D caused by a multi-stage variable temperatures and loads creep load spectrum by utilizing values of parameter p; based on the principle of consistency of damage D, transforming the multi-stage variable temperatures and loads creep load spectrum into an equivalent acceleration spectrum of a first-order maximum creep load, and finally compiling the equivalent acceleration spectrum of creep under variable temperatures and loads.
US11650115B2
A tension sensor for an electrified fence which includes two contacts and a spring arrangement which, in response to a tension level in a taut wire in the electrified fence keeps the contacts electrically connected to each other when the tension level is below a predetermined value and which breaks such electrical connectivity when the tension level exceeds the predetermined value.
US11650108B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for a pulse switched high side driver for vehicle sensor. An example method may include switching a transistor of a vehicle circuit to connect a first resistor to a vehicle sensor for a first time period in which exhaust gas temperature values of the vehicle are within a first range of exhaust gas temperatures values. The example method may also include switching, by providing a pulse-width modulation (PWM) signal with an on signal value, the transistor to connect a second resistor to a vehicle sensor for a second period of time in which exhaust gas temperature values of the vehicle are within a second range of exhaust gas temperatures values that are greater than the first range of exhaust gas temperature values, wherein the second resistor and vehicle sensor are also included in the vehicle circuit, wherein the second resistor is in parallel with a first resistor and connected between the transistor and the vehicle sensor. The example method may also include switching, by providing a pulse-width modulation (PWM) signal with an off signal value, the transistor to disconnect the second resistor from the vehicle sensor for a third period of time, the third period of time being greater than the second period of time. The example method may also include reading, using an analog to digital converter (ADC) an output of the vehicle sensor during or after the first period of time.
US11650106B2
A temperature probe includes a sheath, a temperature sensitive element, and an insert. The sheath has a sidewall defining an interior space therein. The temperature sensitive element is disposed within the interior space of the sidewall and has an electrical characteristic that varies with temperature. The insert, which is formed of silicon carbide, is operably interposed between the sidewall and the temperature-sensitive element. A method of manufacturing a temperature probe is also provided. A temperature sensing system employing a temperature probe is also provided.
US11650099B2
A sensor system comprises a plurality of sets optical sensors arranged on an integrated circuit, the plurality of sets optical sensors having a respective top surface. The sensor system further comprising an interface between the plurality of optical sensors and a processing device configured to transmit information there between and an array of optical filters having a respective bottom surface and a respective top surface, where the bottom surface of the optical filter array is located proximal to the top surface of the plurality of sets optical sensors and each optical filter of the optical filter array is configured to pass a target wavelength range of light to a set of optical sensors. The processor is configured to receive an output from each optical sensor in a set of optical sensors and determine a corrected filter response for the set of optical sensors using crosstalk from light transmitted through optical filters adjacent to the set of optical sensors.
US11650095B2
A system for identifying plugging within an agricultural implement is provided. The system includes a ground engaging tool configured to be supported by the agricultural implement. A weight sensor is operable to measure a weight of one or both of the ground engaging tool and the agricultural implement. A controller is communicatively coupled to the weight sensor. The controller is configured to receive, from the weight sensor, a signal that corresponds to the weight of one or both of the ground engaging tool and the agricultural implement. The controller is further configured to determine when the ground engaging tool is plugged based at least in part on the signal from the weight sensor.
US11650090B2
Apparatus is provided for estimating a flow rate of a fluent solid material in a generally horizontal pipe having a movable transportation element such as an auger in the pipe for transporting the material along the pipe including distance sensors mounted in the pipe in an upper part of the pipe and arranged to detect the distance of the material in a lower part of the pipe from the sensor. Another sensor is provided to detect the rate of movement of the transportation element for example by detecting the metal of the auger flight. The output from the sensors is fed to a control system for analyzing the output signals from the sensors over time to provide the estimate of flow rate. The sensors can be mounted in a pressurized enclosure to prevent escape of dust though openings for the sensors.
US11650087B2
An ultrasonic meter (28) for measuring a flow-rate of a fluid is described. The ultrasonic meter (28) includes a flow conduit (5) for the fluid. The flow conduit (5) extends along a first axis (6) between a first opening (7) and a second opening (8). The ultrasonic meter (28) also includes one or more pairs of ultrasonic transducers (2, 3). Each pair of ultrasonic transducers (2, 3) is configured to define a corresponding beam path (9) intersecting the flow conduit (5) within a measurement region (12) of the flow conduit (5). The measurement region (12) spans between a first position (z1) and a second position (z2) spaced apart along the first axis (6). One or more portions of the measurement region (12) which are outside of any of the one or more beam paths (9) correspond to non-sampled volumes (12b). The ultrasonic meter (28) also includes one or more protrusions (34) extending along the first axis (6). At least part of each protrusion (34) is arranged to exclude fluid from at least part of one or more non-sampled volumes (12b).
US11650084B2
Computer-implemented systems utilizing sensor networks for sensing temperature and motion environmental parameters, and performing at least operations of electronically establishing, based on pattern recognition criteria, correspondence of a plurality of representative features a plurality of characteristics of an occurrence, where a first instance of the occurrence occurred within a first time period of a plurality of time periods; electronically discovering, based on the correspondence, a second instance of the occurrence in an environment during a second time period of the plurality of time periods; and electronically causing, based on the discovery of the second instance of the occurrence, a change in the environment via an electronically-controlled device.
US11650080B2
Actuators for rotating an optical-path-folding-element with two, first and second, degrees of freedom in an extended rotation range around two respective rotation axes, folded cameras including such actuators and dual-cameras including a folded camera as above together with an upright camera.
US11650077B2
A strict reverse navigation method for optimal estimation of fine alignment is provided. The strict reverse navigation method including: establishing an adaptive control function; performing a forward navigation calculation process; performing a reverse navigation calculation process; and performing the adaptive control for a number of forward and reverse calculations. The strict reverse navigation method shortens an alignment time for the optimal estimation of fine alignment while ensuring an alignment accuracy. The strict reverse navigation method provided effectively solves a problem that an error of an initial value of filtering in an initial stage of the optimal estimation of fine alignment affects convergence speeds of subsequent stages. In the initial stage, a larger number of the forward and reverse navigation calculations are adopted to reduce an error of the initial value as much as possible and increase a convergence speed of the filtering.
US11650073B2
Provided herein is topic modeling involving multiple topic models being combined to create high-dimensional knowledge reference systems, the creation of detailed, multi-scale base maps from large numbers of documents, and analytical operators that integrate reference systems and base maps to enable search, visualization, and analytics on text documents.
US11650067B2
Methods and systems for navigating a vehicle. The system includes an input/output device of the vehicle configured to receive a destination from a user of the vehicle. The system also includes a transceiver of the vehicle configured to receive traffic data and traffic light timing data of traffic lights between a current location of the vehicle and the destination. The system also includes an electronic control unit (ECU) of the vehicle configured to determine one or more routes from the current location to the destination based on the traffic data and the traffic light timing data.
US11650052B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide an imaging device whereby enhanced sensing precision and reduced computational load can both be achieved at the same time even when a plurality of objects as sensing subjects are present. In order to achieve this purpose, the present invention has: a first object detection processing unit having a plurality of imaging units, the first object detection processing unit performing first object detection processing for sensing, by stereo processing, a distance for each of a plurality of image elements in partial region of interest in an image acquired by the imaging units, then extracting a group of the image elements on the basis of the sensed distances and detecting an object; and a second object detection processing unit for performing second object detection processing for detecting the distance of the object by stereo processing for a partial region of another region of interest in the image.
US11650049B2
Methods and systems measure a vehicle body parameter; e.g., a wheel alignment parameter such as ride height. Embodiments include a system having a target attachable to a vehicle body, and an image sensor for viewing the target and capturing image data thereof. A processor processes the image data, determines an initial spatial position of the target based on the processed image data, compares the initial spatial position of the target with a reference position, and prompts a user to align the target to an adjusted spatial position when the initial spatial position differs from the reference position more than a threshold amount. The vehicle body parameter value is determined based on the target's adjusted spatial position. In certain embodiments, the adjusted spatial position differs from the reference position by a position error value, and the processor mathematically corrects the vehicle body parameter value based on the position error value.
US11650044B2
Using the same image sensor to capture both a two-dimensional (2D) image of a three-dimensional (3D) object and 3D depth measurements for the object. A laser point-scans the surface of the object with light spots, which are detected by a pixel array in the image sensor to generate the 3D depth profile of the object using triangulation. Each row of pixels in the pixel array forms an epipolar line of the corresponding laser scan line. Timestamping provides a correspondence between the pixel location of a captured light spot and the respective scan angle of the laser to remove any ambiguity in triangulation. An Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) in the image sensor generates a multi-bit output in the 2D mode and a binary output in the 3D mode to generate timestamps. Strong ambient light is rejected by switching the image sensor to a 3D logarithmic mode from a 3D linear mode.
US11650035B2
A projectile includes a hollow body carrying a payload formed of inert sub-projectiles that can be dispersed on trajectory contained in a cup including a piston closing one of its ends, the body at its rear part with a base housing a pyrotechnic charge separated from the sub-projectiles by the piston, which can translate with respect to the body of the projectile to push the cup and the sub-projectiles axially out of the body. The cup is formed of independent sectors. The piston is secured to the sectors when contained in the body and the cup is secured to the body by a connecting apparatus weakened to break under the force of the piston pushed by the gases generated by the pyrotechnic charge. An ogive is secured to the cup by a securing apparatus that is coaxial with the longitudinal axis of the projectile and locked by the sectors.
US11650031B2
Shaped charge devices, systems, and related methods of use. A housing sheet is configurable to form at least part of a shaped charge enclosure enclosing a shaped charge and biasing an explosion in a desired direction. The housing sheet can include one or more incisions in at least one surface thereof. The housing sheet can have at least one connection mechanism integrally formed therein, and the housing sheet can be configurable to form a plurality of sizes of shaped charge housing portions. The housing sheet can also provide for forming a plurality of dimensions of the shaped charge enclosure.
US11650018B2
A heat exchanger duct includes a wall having ends spaced along a central axis. An inlet manifold is positioned within a downstream portion of the duct at a radially outward location. An outlet manifold is positioned within an upstream portion of the duct at a radially outward location. At least one of the inlet and outlet manifolds extend at least 10 degrees around the circumference of the duct. A central manifold is disposed between the inlet and outlet manifolds, and radially inwardly of the inlet and outlet manifolds. Heat exchanger entrance elements extend radially inward from the inlet manifold to the central manifold, and heat exchanger exit elements extend radially outward from the central manifold to the outlet manifold. A gas turbine engine is also disclosed.
US11650003B2
An appliance includes an outer wrapper and an inner liner placed within the outer wrapper and spaced apart from the outer wrapper to define an insulating space. A trim breaker extends between the inner liner and the outer wrapper to define a structural cabinet. The trim breaker defines a front face of the cabinet. The trim breaker defines a gas conduit disposed within a wall of the structural cabinet proximate the insulating space. The gas conduit is adapted to define selective communication between the insulating space and an exterior of the structural cabinet. An insulating material is disposed within the insulating space, wherein the gas conduit is substantially free of the insulating material.
US11649998B2
A cryocooler includes a cold head, a plurality of compressor main bodies that are connected to the cold head in parallel, a plurality of state detection sensors that are provided to correspond to the plurality of compressor main bodies respectively and each detect a state of a corresponding compressor main body to output a state detection signal, and a compressor control unit that is configured to, in a case where the state detection signal from any one state detection sensor of the plurality of state detection sensors indicates that the corresponding compressor main body is stopped, stop also the other compressor main bodies.
US11649994B2
A thermoelectric device comprising an elongated panel of two foam layers, and having an inserted thermoelectric string is incorporated into a seat cushion, planting pot, and battery thermal manager. Several enhancements to the string and the panel improve its durability, visual appeal, and tactile appeal over the prior art.
US11649989B2
A heat station for a GM or Stirling cycle expander provides a versatile, efficient, and cost effective means of transferring heat from a remote load at cryogenic temperatures that is cooled by a circulating cryogen to the gas in a GM or Stirling cycle expander as the gas flows between a regenerator and a displaced volume. The heat exchanger includes a shell that has external and internal fins that are thermally connected, are aligned parallel to the axis of the shell, and are enclosed in a housing having a single port on the bottom of the housing.
US11649988B2
A temperature control system in an aircraft passenger service unit is disclosed. In embodiments, the system includes a swirl chamber configured to receive an inlet air stream, and a vortex tube configured to receive the inlet air stream from the swirl chamber and separate the inlet air stream into a warmer air stream and a cooler air stream. In embodiments, the system further includes a nozzle configured to direct a temperature-controlled air stream into a passenger space of an aircraft; wherein the nozzle is configured to be selectably adjusted in order to selectively blend the warmer air stream and the cooler air stream in order to generate the temperature-controlled air stream.
US11649983B2
An air diffuser configured to be positioned in a raised floor, in which the air diffuser includes a sleeve having a first end and a second end with an air flow passage extending through the sleeve from the first end to the second end, a diffuser face disposed at the first end of the sleeve and configured to be exposed to an environment in an installed position within the raised floor, a damper disposed at the second end of the sleeve, and a plenum chamber defined within the sleeve between the damper and the diffuser face.
US11649977B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for monitoring and improving air quality in single- and multi-zone indoor spaces. The system for monitoring and improving air quality includes a built structure that includes an indoor space with environmentally-controllable zones, an environmental control system, sensor arrays positioned within the environmentally-controllable zones, and a control circuit configured to monitor air and remediate air within the indoor space. Multiple zones in the indoor space may be bundled together in multiple remediation bundled-areas for remediation by separate air handling systems and/or processes. Additionally, multiple zones may be delineated within the indoor space for sensor installation processes.
US11649968B2
A cooking appliance capable of preventing a user's unintended rotation of a knob assembly includes: a main body including a control panel; a valve positioned inside the main body, and including a valve shaft being pushable and rotatable; and a knob assembly including an inner knob coupled with the valve shaft, and an outer knob being movable with respect to the inner knob in a first direction in which the outer knob approaches the inner knob, wherein, when the outer knob moves by a first push distance in the first direction, the valve shaft and the inner knob are prevented from rotating.
US11649961B2
Emissions of NOX and/or CO are reduced at the stack by systems and methods wherein a primary fuel is thoroughly mixed with a specific range of excess combustion air. The primary fuel-air mixture is then discharged and anchored within a combustion chamber of a burner. Further, the systems and methods provide for dynamically controlling NOX content in emissions from a furnace by adjusting the flow of primary fuel and of a secondary stage fuel, and in some cases controlling the amount or placement of combustion air into the furnace.
US11649955B2
A plant light supplementing lamp is provided. The plant light supplementing lamp includes an electronic ballast, a mounting bracket, a lamp support, lamp holders and a lamp shade; a number of the lamp holders is two, the lamp holders are respectively located at a top and a bottom of the lamp support, limiting plates are provided on a front side of a top of the electronic ballast, an adapter is clamped on an inner side of the limiting plate, sliding grooves are provided in left and right side surfaces of the adapter, and fixing grooves are provided in corners of the left and right side surfaces of the adapter.
US11649947B2
A light emitting device includes: a base; a light emitting element; a light reflective film located on an upper surface of the light emitting element; and a encapsulant. A ratio of a maximum width (Wmax) of the encapsulant with respect to a maximum width of the light emitting element, in a side view, is 2 or more. An outer shape of a part of the encapsulant located within a range of elevation angles that is in a range of 10° to 50° from a center of a mounting region at an upper surface of the base on which the light emitting element is mounted is formed to have a curved surface. A ratio (r/Wmax) of a radius of curvature (r) of the curved surface with respect to the maximum width (Wmax) of the encapsulant, in a side view, is in a range of 0.25 to 0.50.
US11649945B2
A light source device includes a plurality of light emitting parts, a first lens, and an optical lens. Each light emitting part is configured to emit light from the light emitting surface at a first full-width half-maximum and is configured to be individually turned on. The optical lens has a first surface including incident regions and a second surface including emission regions. A minimum distance between the first surface of the optical lens and the first lens is 0.1 mm or more and 1.0 mm or less. A light emitted from each of the light emitting parts enters the optical lens through the first lens, the light being emitted from the first lens at a second full-width half-maximum smaller than the first full-width half-maximum, such that lights emitted from two or more of the light emitting parts are irradiated to two or more corresponding irradiation regions.
US11649931B2
A monolithic pressure regulator may comprise a boding comprising a base wall, an end wall, and a side wall, a cavity within the body, an input port in fluid communication with the cavity, an output port in fluid communication with the cavity, a first vesicle configured to regulate a flow of fluid through the input port into the cavity at a source pressure to exit through the output port at a regulated pressure, wherein the first vesicle comprises a first vesicle wall contiguous with a bulkhead and at least one of the base wall or the end wall.
US11649928B2
Systems and methods for the storage and delivery of fuel, such as methane. In certain aspects, a system is provided with an inner vessel, and outer vessel, and a rope suspension system connecting the two vessels. In certain aspects, the disclosed storage tanks operate at low pressure with long hold times, and have a non-cylindrical shape.
US11649924B2
A clamp apparatus is disclosed that includes a body, first and second actuators, first, second, third and fourth gear sets, first and second movable grippers, and at least one leaf spring. The first gear set is coupled to the first actuator and the second gear set is coupled to the second actuator. The first gear set engages the second gear set. The first and second movable grippers are each operatively coupled to the body. The third gear set is coupled to the first movable gripper and the fourth gear set is coupled to the second movable gripper. The third gear set operatively engages the fourth gear set. The leaf spring engages with the third gear set and the fourth gear set to urge the first movable gripper and the second movable gripper toward a clamped position.
US11649919B2
An insulating cover for assemblies including pipe elements, pipe couplings, elbows, Tees and valves also acts as a vapor barrier. Cover portions are joined along a seam which provides for a continuous seal between both the cover portions and the pipe elements which extend through channels defined in the cover. The seam includes a furrow into which sealant is forced when the cover portions are joined around the assembly. The furrow is defined by an asymmetric tongue and groove joint. Canals in the channels, in communication with the grooves, also receive the sealant to provide the continuous seal.
US11649913B1
Irrigation line couplings are disclosed. The irrigation line couplings may each include a lockable release mechanism that may be positioned in a locked position or a released position. The irrigation line couplings may be incorporated into an irrigation manifold or other type of irrigation component, such as fittings (tees, elbows, etc.), valves, filters, pressure regulators, emitters, and adapters.
US11649910B2
A clamp for supporting an electrical conductor on a structure and providing electrical continuity between the electrical conductor and the structure is provided. The clamp can include a mounting member with a through-hole and a strap, that can be configured to extend around the structure, coupled on one end to a first side of the mounting member and having a free end removably coupled to a second side of the mounting member. The clamp can include a clamping member with a through-hole and a main bolt extending through the through-holes of the mounting member and the clamping member. The main bolt can have a footer configured to contact the structure, which can be movable between a first configuration in which the footer is nested within a pocket of the mounting member and a second configuration in which at least a portion of the footer is positioned outside of the pocket.
US11649904B2
A valve unit has a plate-shaped valve body with a closure section and a connection section. The valve body has a cutout surrounded by a frame. The closure section has a closure tab that, beginning at a first fastening section at the frame, projects into the cutout. The connection section, beginning at a second fastening section at the frame, projects into the cutout and has a contact tab and a fastening point. The first and second fastening sections are arranged opposite each other at the frame along a longitudinal axis of the valve body. A filter head for the valve unit has a valve seat for a seal body of the closure section of the valve body. A fastening pin of the filter head fastens the connection section of the valve unit. A contact region of the filter head contacts a positioning region of the valve unit.
US11649903B2
A modular valve assembly can include a core spool module and a plurality of end connection modules. The end connection modules can be configured to be secured to the core spool module at one or more of a core inlet or a core outlet of the core spool module to provide one or more respective, different flow configurations for the modular valve assembly. The core spool module can include a bonnet portion that is integrally formed with the core inlet and the core outlet and a seat ring configured to provide a seal against flow of process fluid through the modular valve assembly.
US11649900B2
Apparatus and method contemplating a high pressure fluid end assembly having a body defining a body bore and defining a recess in the body intersecting the body bore. A closure is joined to the body and forms a sealing surface. A seal is mounted to the body in the recess and configured to extend from the recess beyond the body bore to seal against the sealing surface formed by the closure.
US11649899B2
Improved flow control assemblies for fluid systems (e.g., industrial and/or commercial systems) are provided. More particularly, the present disclosure provides for advantageous ball valve assemblies for fluid systems. In exemplary embodiments, the present disclosure provides for improved ball valve assemblies and related features, systems and methods of use. Exemplary ball valve assemblies of the present disclosure offer advantages over conventional assemblies including, without limitation, advantages in the sealing mechanisms of the ball valve assemblies, and advantages with the user interfaces of the ball valve assemblies (e.g., advantages with the lockout mechanisms). Improved, convenient and effective systems and methods for utilizing improved ball valve assemblies in fluid systems are provided.
US11649897B1
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for a valve plug apparatus for use with control valves. An example valve plug apparatus disclosed herein an upper plug segment, a middle plug segment, and a lower plug segment, the middle plug segment positioned between the upper plug segment and the lower plug segment, the upper plug segment, the middle plug segment and the lower plug segment defining an overall length of the valve plug, the middle plug segment removably coupled to the upper plug segment and the lower plug segment.
US11649888B2
An isolating decoupler comprising a shaft, a pulley journalled to the shaft on at least one bearing, a one-way clutch engaged with the shaft, a torsion spring engaged between the one-way clutch and the pulley, the shaft comprises an inner race of the at least one bearing, and the torsion spring having an end welded to the one-way clutch and having another end welded to the pulley.
US11649880B2
A gearbox includes a sun gear, a plurality of planetary gears meshed with the sun gear, a rotating frame supporting the planetary gears, and a housing with an internal ring gear meshed with the planetary gears. The planetary gears include a first gear and a second gear coaxially connected to each other along an axial direction and rotating synchronously, the first gear meshed with the sun gear, and the second gear meshed with the internal ring gear of the housing. The rotating frame received in the housing has an upper frame and a lower frame with a central hole, each of the plurality of planetary gears is arranged between the upper frame and the lower frame by a mounting pin, the lower frame is supported by a flange connected to the housing, the sun gear is driven to rotate so as to operate the rotating frame. The gearbox of the present disclosure has low vibration and low noise.
US11649871B2
A bracket of a cylinder device includes: a tubular portion having a C-shaped cross section, holding an outer periphery of the outer shell, and having a slit in a front portion; and a pair of mounting portions and protruding outward in the radial direction from both ends of the tubular portion in the circumferential direction. The tubular portion includes a hole formed to permit insertion of the protrusion, from at least one side portion to the back portion of the tubular portion.
US11649870B2
A vibration isolator includes a first conical disc spring member having a first end and a second end. A first-end spacer in contact with the first spring member first end, and a second-end spacer in contact with the first spring member second end. A second conical disc spring member has a first end and a second end. The second spring member first end is in contact with the first-end spacer. Another second-end spacer is in contact with the second spring member second end. A flexible housing of the isolator defines an interior. The housing is in contact with and extends between the second-end spacer and the other second-end spacer so that the first-end spacer and the first and second spring members are received in the housing interior. The housing includes a plurality of spaced-apart through holes formed therealong between the second-end spacer and the other second-end spacer.
US11649869B2
There are provided a friction material composition containing no copper or having a reduced content of copper that can provide a friction material in which the stability of the friction coefficient after standing in a cold environment, the abrasion resistance, and the low rust fixation properties are excellent, and squeal (particularly low temperature squeal) is suppressed, and a friction material obtained by molding the friction material composition, and a friction member using the friction material. The friction material composition is specifically a friction material composition comprising a bonding material, an organic filler, an inorganic filler, and a fiber substrate, in which the friction material composition comprises no copper, or has a content of copper of less than 0.5% by mass in terms of a copper element even if comprising the copper, and comprises, as the organic filler, cashew particles to which a silicone resin adheres.
US11649863B2
A disc brake (1) for motor vehicles includes at least two brake pads (25, 26), an application unit (4) with a setting spindle (5) arranged axially in the direction of the brake pads (25, 26), and a resetting device (7) for central adjustment of the setting spindle (5) after reaching a degree of wear of the brake pads (25, 26). The resetting device (7) has a housing (8), a sensor (9), a resetting shaft (10), and an adapter (11) with a decentral output (12). In one example, the adapter (11) has a cover (13) and a chain drive (14) for to transmitting an actuating movement from the decentral output (12) to the resetting shaft (10).
US11649859B1
A thin section bearing assembly is for a gantry assembly and includes inner and outer rings each having inner and outer circumferential surfaces and rolling elements grooves and are each sized such that a ratio of the inside diameter to radial thickness is at least thirty (30). A plurality of rolling elements, preferably balls, are disposed between the outer ring groove and the inner ring groove. At least one elastomeric annular damper is disposed between the outer ring and the housing and/or between the inner ring and the rotor and has first and second axially spaced sections. As such, the first section is compressed more than the second section under bending moments in a first angular direction and the second section is compressed more than the first section under moments in a second angular direction. The one or more annular dampers each have a thickness calculated to optimize vibration reduction.
US11649857B2
A two-part ball bearing cage includes two, in particular at least substantially identical, cage parts forming an even-numbered plurality of ball pockets for receiving a corresponding number of balls having a predeterminable ball diameter. Each cage part has an annular body on which substantially evenly distributed webs are disposed in the circumferential direction to form the ball pockets. A distance in the circumferential direction between two webs that are adjacent in the circumferential direction approximately corresponds to the sum of twice the ball diameter and a width of the web in the circumferential direction. A ball bearing having the ball bearing cage and a method for assembly of the ball bearing are also provided.
US11649854B2
A rotation induction device for a vehicle includes: an upper case having a piston rod disposed therethrough; a lower case disposed adjacent to the upper case and having the piston rod disposed therethrough; a center plate disposed between the upper case and the lower case such that the piston rod passes through the center plate, to induce rotation of one or both of the upper case and the lower case; and a friction restraint part formed on one or both of the upper case and the lower case, to restrain friction with the center plate.
US11649853B2
A ball socket assembly, bearing therefor, and method of construction thereof are provided. The ball socket assembly includes a housing with an inner bore extending between a closed first end region and an open second end region. A fiber-reinforced bearing is disposed in the inner bore. The bearing has a lower portion presenting a lower bearing surface having a first radius of curvature and an upper portion presenting an upper bearing surface having a second radius of curvature that is greater than the first radius of curvature. The lower bearing surface and the upper bearing surface surround a ball cavity in which a spherical ball portion of a ball stud is disposed. The housing second end region is plastically deformed radially inwardly to impart a bias on the bearing upper portion that causes the second radius of curvature to be biased substantially equal to the first radius of curvature.
US11649843B2
An assembled product, such as an assembled product, such as a furniture component or a furniture, such as a drawer, a cupboard, bookshelves, a wardrobe, a kitchen fixture, or a box for storing or transporting including at least three panels arranged in three different planes. Also, a set of panels for an assembled product and a method of assembling the product.
US11649835B2
A debris trap for capturing debris flowing in a stream of liquid, the debris trap includes a housing, a fluid inlet channel in connection with a space in the housing, a fluid outlet channel in connection with the space, the fluid outlet channel comprising a fluid outlet port, a float member, a guide element configured to guide movement of the float member when a liquid level in the space changes when in use, a stopper in connection with the fluid outlet port configured to stop the movement of the float member when the liquid level in the space raises, the fluid outlet port which, when the float member is against the stopper, remains partially open and the float member, when brought against the stopper, form a fluid communication path with a reduced area, which restricts the size of the debris capable of flowing through the outlet port.
US11649833B2
In an aspect there is disclosed, a fan arrangement for a duct, the fan arrangement including a housing having an inlet and an outlet adapted to communicate air with the duct and an axially rotatably driven impeller supported within the housing between the inlet and the outlet. The impeller includes a hub carrying a plurality of blades that span in a radial direction outwardly of the hub, the plurality of blades being shaped to urge air between the inlet and the outlet. The plurality of blades may have a tip solidity ratio in the range of about 0.8 to 1.2, and each of the plurality of blades may have a twist angle between a root and a tip thereof in the range of about 15 to 30 degrees and a substantially constant thickness. An impellor, a blade, ventilation system and related methods are also disclosed.
US11649832B2
A fan impeller includes a hub, a shaft, a metal housing and a plurality of blades. The outer periphery of the hub has a curved surface. The shaft is disposed in the hub and connected to the hub. The metal housing has an annular shape and is disposed in the hub. A magnetic ring is disposed at the inner side of the metal housing. The blades are disposed around the outer periphery of the hub. The blades are projected along an extension direction toward the shaft to define projection areas thereof, and the projection area of a top and a bottom of any one of the blades is partially overlapped with other two adjacent blades. A distance between an outer edge of each blade and a rotational axis of the fan decreases proximate the top of the blade and then increases towards the bottom of the blade.
US11649830B2
A method of making an impeller includes building the impeller in a layer by layer process in a build direction along the rotational axis starting from a base of the hub. The plurality of blades includes a plurality of perforated blades that support the shroud during additively manufacturing the impeller. The method can include installing the impeller in a fuel pump, air compressor, or the like, without removing the perforated blades from the impeller.
US11649826B2
A terminal box for a centrifugal pump is releasably connectable to an electronic extension module by a locking element. A pluggable electric interface extends through an opening from an underside of the base plate into the terminal box to electrically connect the pump control for establishing a data link. The locking element is slidable in the cavity and is movable manually from a first position to a second position and by a tool from this second position to this first position. It also has on a first side a resilient latch engaging with either a first recess of the terminal box and holding the locking element in the first position, or a second recess of the terminal box holding the locking element in the second position. Thus the locking element frees the module for plugging-in in the first position, and arrests the module in the second position.
US11649819B2
A system includes a first plurality of pumps connected to draw from a clean fluid supply junction. A second plurality of pumps is operatively connected to a dirty fluid supply. A first valve is connected between the clean fluid supply junction and the dirty fluid supply for supplying clean fluid to the dirty fluid supply. A second valve is connected to feed a dirty fluid to the dirty fluid supply. A controller is operatively connected to the first and second valves and to the first and second pluralities of pumps for controlling downhole concentration and flow rate of proppant from the dirty fluid supply, wherein downhole concentration and flow rate are varied across a continuous spectrum.
US11649810B2
An oil suction pump contains: an oil storage cylinder, a pumping mechanism, and a cap. The pumping mechanism includes a body, a drive rod, a plug, and a pressure relief valve. The cap is disposed on the body and the oil storage cylinder, and the cap includes a connector. The drive rod has a press lever, the cap further includes a first air conduit, a first one-way valve assembly, and a second air conduit. The second air conduit has an inlet segment, an outlet opposite to the inlet segment, and a pump segment defined between the inlet segment and the outlet segment and communicating with the oil storage cylinder. The cap further includes a second one-way valve assembly accommodated in the oil storage cylinder and connected with the pump segment, and the second conduit accommodates a pressure reducing valve.
US11649809B2
A neutralizer suitable for use in an ion engine comprises a halogen gas source and an electrode tube comprising an inlet opening connected to the halogen gas source for supplying a halogen gas provided by the halogen gas source into the electrode tube, a discharge space for generating a plasma from the halogen gas supplied into the electrode tube, and an outlet opening for discharging the plasma generated in the discharge space and free electrons from the electrode tube. An electron emitter is arranged in the discharge space of the electrode tube, which is at least partially made of tungsten, a tungsten alloy or a tungsten composite material containing at least one of iridium, rhenium, ruthenium, rhodium and osmium.
US11649794B1
A method and a system provide direct injection of an improver enriched fuel into an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle. The method comprises providing a fuel with a fuel pump under a first pressure at a fuel inlet of an injector nozzle and providing a fuel improver with an improver pump under a second pressure at an inlet bore of the injector nozzle arranged downstream of the fuel inlet with respect to a nozzle outlet of the injector nozzle. The second pressure is higher than the first pressure at least for a limited time interval prior to injection to enrich the fuel with the fuel improver within the injector nozzle. The method also comprises injecting the improver enriched fuel into the internal combustion engine at the nozzle outlet.
US11649792B2
A snow bike intake, snow bike conversion kit, and/or air intake pod snow bike conversion kit, having: a throttle body coupling; an elbow-shaped intake duct coupled to the throttle body, a pre-filter body cage coupled at a rear thereof to the duct, and a textile cover fitting about the cage. The duct has an interior angle between 40 and 60 degrees. There are a plurality of flat (interior and exterior surface) sensor mounts disposed about and through the duct, including an octagonal ring of sensor mounts circumscribing the duct body. The cage has a flat front opposite the rear that has a larger diameter than a diameter of the rear. The duct has an aspect ratio of exterior angle length to diameter no greater than 3.5:1 and the duct and prefilter combined has an aspect ratio of exterior angle length to diameter no greater than 4.5:1.
US11649791B2
A precleaner for use in an air intake system is described, the precleaner comprises a cyclone which defines a volume, the cyclone comprising an inlet and an outlet. The inlet and the outlet are arranged to generate a vortex within the volume of the cyclone when the air pressure at the outlet is lower than the air pressure at the inlet. The cyclone further comprises an aperture. The precleaner further comprises a blocking member arranged to move and concomitantly occlude the aperture only when the air pressure at the outlet is lower than the air pressure at the inlet. An air intake system comprising the precleaner is also disclosed.
US11649781B2
An injection control device includes: a booster circuit that boosts a battery voltage; a boosting control unit that performs boosting control on the booster circuit; a charge control setting unit that sets a charge prohibition time of the booster circuit for the boosting control unit; and a maximum time specification unit that specifies a maximum valve-closing detection time based on a valve-closing detection time.
US11649776B2
A system and methods for a turbo-boost control system are disclosed for providing a driver of a vehicle with greater control over vehicle performance. The turbo-boost control system instructs an electronic control unit of the vehicle to increase the manifold pressure to a higher level before releasing the pressure through a waste gate so as to provide a greater power output of the engine. The turbo-boost control system includes a control module, a wiring harness, and a signal adjuster. The wiring harness couples the control module with a turbo inlet pressure sensor, a manifold absolute pressure sensor, and an electronic control unit of the vehicle. The control module sends signals to the electronic control unit based on input readings from the turbo inlet pressure sensor and the manifold absolute pressure sensor. The signal adjuster includes a rheostat that enables manual adjustment of the power output of the engine.
US11649772B2
Methods and systems are described for enhanced engine friction generation. The enhanced engine friction generation improves the effectiveness of vehicle braking in deceleration fuel cut-off driving conditions by using engine vacuum and backpressure to temporarily increase engine pumping losses, thereby increasing powertrain drag and increasing deceleration torque to the wheels. The engine vacuum and backpressure may be created by changing the duration of the intake and/or exhaust valves. The system includes a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising adjusting an intake valve time duration or an exhaust valve time duration to increase engine friction to enhance mechanical friction on a drivetrain of a vehicle.
US11649767B2
A turbofan gas turbine engine includes, in axial flow sequence, a heat exchanger module, a fan assembly, a compressor module, a turbine module, and an exhaust module. The fan assembly includes a plurality of fan blades defining a fan diameter (D). The heat exchanger module is in fluid communication with the fan assembly by an inlet duct, and the heat exchanger module includes a plurality of radially-extending hollow vanes arranged in a circumferential array with a channel extending axially between each pair of adjacent hollow vanes. An airflow entering the heat exchanger module is divided between a set of vane airflows through each of the hollow vanes and a set of channel airflows through each of the channels.
US11649765B2
Method for using an air intake of a turbojet engine nacelle comprising at least one elastically deformable portion, at least one connecting member mounted in an annular cavity integrally with the elastically deformable portion, and at least one controllable displacement member, in which method: during a thrust phase of the turbojet engine, the controllable displacement member moves the connecting member into a first position in which the elastically deformable portion of the air intake lip has an aerodynamic profile, and during a thrust reversal phase of the turbojet engine the controllable displacement member moves the connecting member into a second position in which the elastically deformable portion of the air intake lip has an irregular profile so as to allow a release of the reverse air flow from the elastically deformable portion.
US11649764B2
An aircraft comprises a machine body. The machine body encloses a turbofan gas turbine engine and a plurality of ancillary systems. The turbofan gas turbine engine comprises, in axial flow sequence, a heat exchanger module, a fan assembly, a compressor module, a combustor module, a turbine module, and an exhaust module. The machine body comprises a single fluid inlet aperture, with the fluid inlet aperture being configured to allow a fluid cooling flow to enter the machine body and to pass through the heat exchanger module. The heat exchanger module is configured to transfer a waste heat load from the gas turbine engine and the ancillary systems to the fluid cooling flow prior to an entry of the entire fluid cooling flow into the fan module.
US11649750B2
Methods and systems are provided for an exhaust muffler system with multiple inlets of different diameters. In one example, the muffler system may include multiple sets of inlet pipes to a muffler with each set of inlet pipes including pipes of different diameters with valves controlling exhaust flow into the inlet pipes. Exhaust from an engine bank may flow to a distinct set of inlet pipes and a distinct outlet pipe of the muffler via a separate exhaust passage.
US11649748B2
The invention relates to a fluid drain plug (10) for a fluid reservoir (50) with a drain hole (51), the plug having an extension in an axial direction (A) and comprising a body part (16) rotationally insertable into the drain hole (51), the body part having a proximal axial end (15), a distal axial end (17) and a substantially circular cross section with an outer surface (18), wherein the body part comprises a drain channel (92) having an inlet (91) located at the distal axial end and an outlet opening (94) disposed on the outer surface (18), the body part further comprising a bayonet-type connection slot (40) for accommodating a part of a radial projection (52) of a circumferential surface surrounding the drain hole (51), the bayonet-type connection slot being disposed on the outer surface and comprising an entrance (40a) at the distal axial end, a first path (41) and a second path (42), the first path (41) extending from the entrance, in the axial direction (A) and in one circumferential direction (C), to a first path terminal portion (70), wherein the first path terminal portion (70) is adapted to accommodate the radial projection (52), and the second path (42) extending from the first path terminal portion, in the axial direction (A) and in an opposite direction to the one circumferential direction (C), to a second path terminal portion (72), wherein the second path terminal portion (72) is adapted to accommodate the radial projection.
US11649742B2
An attachment structure for a vehicle motor is applied for the purpose of attaching a vehicle motor to in-vehicle equipment. The attachment structure for a vehicle motor is provided with an axial gap motor that includes a rotor and a stator facing each other in the axial direction. The motor is attached to the in-vehicle equipment in a mode in which the axial direction is perpendicular to the vertical direction.
US11649741B2
A hydraulic oil control valve is coaxially disposed with a rotational axis of a valve timing adjustment device. The hydraulic oil control valve includes a sleeve and a spool sliding in an axial direction within the sleeve. The spool has an inner space serving as a drain passage through which the hydraulic oil discharged from a phase shifting portion flows. The spool defines a drain inlet that guides the hydraulic oil discharged from the phase shifting portion into the drain passage. At least one of the sleeve or the spool defines an opening through which the hydraulic oil in the drain passage is discharged from the hydraulic oil control valve. A protrusion is formed between the drain inlet and the opening to extend radially inward beyond the drain inlet.
US11649740B2
A hydraulic oil control valve is coaxially disposed with a rotational axial of a valve timing adjustment device. The hydraulic oil control valve includes a sleeve, a spool slidably moving in an axial direction within the sleeve, and a filter member configured to capture foreign matters contained in the hydraulic oil. The sleeve includes an inner sleeve and an outer sleeve defining therein an axial hole extending in the axial direction. A space between the axial hole and the inner sleeve in a radial direction serves as a hydraulic oil supply passage. The filter member is disposed in the space to overlap with at least one of internal members in the inner sleeve when viewed in the radial direction.
US11649739B2
Valve bridge systems include constraints and guides for managing bridge jump and other uncontrolled valve bridge motion during engine operation. Constraints may include an e-foot collar, an extended portion on the bridge, and a bridge brake pin. Guides may include valve stem tip lead-in chamfers surrounding the valve bridge valve pockets as well as a deflection surface on the bridge extended portion. Methods of configuring valve bridges may include configuring the valve step tip lead-in chamfers based on worst-case positions of the valve bridge defined by one or more or a combination of the constraints provided by the e-foot collar, extended portion and brake pin.
US11649738B2
The invention relates to an assembly for a turbomachine with a longitudinal axis comprising a first annular wall (24), panels (38) being arranged around the longitudinal axis (A) and extending radially opposite said first annular wall (24) so as to form a flow surface for a flow of air, each panel (38) being secured to the first annular wall (24) by at least one fixing member (72) passing through an orifice in the panel (38) and secured to the first annular wall (24) by means of a sleeve and a stud forming a spacer.
US11649734B1
A variable guide vane control system comprises an actuator and a rolling contact joint. The joint includes a drive ring rotatable about a drive axis and at least one roller rotatable about a roller axis parallel to the drive axis and drivingly connectable to a vane. A first flexible member and a second flexible member connect the drive ring and the roller to one another. The first flexible member and the second flexible member are respectively tensioned when the drive ring rotates about the drive axis in a first direction and in a second direction opposite the first direction.
US11649725B2
Downhole tool is provided that includes a body, an intake port for receiving fluid from external the body, a pump, a filtration device, and an exit port. The pump is in fluid communication with the intake port for withdrawing fluid through the intake port. The filtration device has a particulate removing filter, and a flow line extending from the intake port to the filtration device. The filtration device is contained within the body and is in fluid communication with the intake port. The exit port is in fluid communication with the filtration device for ejecting the fluid to external the body.
US11649715B2
A method for determining a corrected axial displacement parameter of a conduit inspection tool, in particular a downhole inspection tool, during transit of the tool axially along a conduit is disclosed. The tool used in the method has an imaging device and may be attached to a control module with a connecting line. The method comprises obtaining successive axially overlapping images of an internal wall of the conduit, determining, from the images, an observed axial displacement parameter of the tool as a function of transit time, identifying, in the images, a plurality of reference points, determining an estimated axial displacement parameter of the tool over an of transit time between successive reference points, and computing the corrected axial displacement parameter of the tool by applying a correction factor to the observed axial velocity of the tool.
US11649714B1
A method for predicting and optimizing an ROP for oil and gas drilling based on Bayesian optimization includes: acquiring raw drilling data according to a preset sampling period, constructing an initial sample data set based on the raw drilling data, constructing an ROP prediction model based on the initial sample data set, and predicting an ROP at a next sample point through a Gaussian process regression based on the ROP prediction model. The present invention realizes rapid analysis of historical drilling data and accurate prediction of an ROP range at a sample point in a feasible domain. The method can obtain an optimized ROP and an optimized engineering parameter through Bayesian optimization, and obtain an engineering parameter corresponding to an optimal ROP. The method has few restrictions on the drilling engineering parameter and the raw formation parameter, improves prediction accuracy, and avoids the problem of blurred parameter value boundaries.
US11649713B2
A rotary drilling rig includes a vertical mast and a rotary head that can vertically move along the mast with respect to a work surface. To move the rotary head along the mast, a hydraulic feed actuator is connected with the rotary head via a wire rope feed system including a hoist rope and a pulldown rope. To maintain the hoist and pulldown ropes in tension and prevent them from dislodging from the respective pulleys of the wire rope system, the hoist and pulldown ropes can be connected to respective hoist and pulldown tensioning actuators. The hoist actuator can be associated with a hoist hydraulic circuit and the pulldown tensioning actuator can be associated with a separate pulldown hydraulic circuit.
US11649708B2
A method for determining interfacial tension of a hydrocarbon in a brine fluid, the method including injecting a first brine fluid into a test cell, the first brine fluid having an initial ionic composition, injecting a hydrocarbon fluid into the test cell, contacting the hydrocarbon fluid with the first brine fluid, forming a droplet, measuring the interfacial tension of the hydrocarbon fluid in contact with the first brine fluid, at least partially displacing the first brine fluid with an inert gas, measuring a ionic composition salinity of the displaced first brine fluid in an ionic chromatograph, and comparing the measured ionic composition salinity to the initial ionic composition.
US11649704B2
Processes and systems for injecting a liquid and gas mixture into a well are disclosed. The processes and systems include injecting a mixture of a liquid and a gas into a well in order to: increase production of a production fluid in the well, decrease the bottom hole pressure, decrease the density of the production fluid, or a combination thereof.
US11649703B2
A perforating apparatus and method are disclosed wherein voids and inclusions may be configured to promote fragmentation of the charge case into pieces of less than a target size. In one example, the charge case of a shaped charge has a plurality of inclusions of a material interspersed with a plurality of voids of the material to promote fragmentation of the charge case. The inclusions and voids may be disposed along the periphery, such as along a mounting flange. In some examples, the voids may be holes of any of a variety of shapes, geometries, and positioning formed in the parent material of the charge case. In other examples, pieces of hardened material may be embedded in the parent material of the charge case to displace the parent material as well as to initiate probable locations of fragmentation.
US11649702B2
A well tool for generating a shaped perforation in a cased wellbore includes a tool body. The told body has at least one wall, a fluid channel, a first perforation device, and a second perforation device. The at least one wall defines an opening and an interior volume. The fluid channel extends from the opening of the at least one wall into the interior volume. The first perforation device is configured to form a perforation tunnel in the cased wellbore disposed in a formation. The second perforation device is coupled to the first perforation device and to the fluid channel. The second perforation device is configured to form the shaped perforation in the formation by flowing fluid received through the fluid channel to the formation through the perforation tunnel.
US11649701B2
A multi-level cross-district surface well pattern deployment method is provided. Firstly, a horizontal well is drilled from a location on a land surface corresponding to a junction H1 of a district rise coal pillar of the first district C1 in a first level and an upper mine field boundary coal pillar. A multilateral well is drilled from a location on the land surface corresponding to a junction H3 of a level coal pillar between the first and second levels, and the district rise coal pillar of the first district C1 in the first level. Liquid nitrogen is injected for permeability improvement after a gas drainage quantity decreases to 20% of an initial quantity. Gas drainage is repeated multiple times until the drainage quantity of coal bed methane through a gas drainage pipe of the horizontal pipe is reached 3 m3/min.
US11649693B2
A method includes receiving, by a processing device and from one or more sensors coupled to a water reservoir storing water received from a separator, fluid information. The fluid information includes a water level of the water reservoir. The separator is fluidically coupled to a wellbore string disposed within a wellbore. The method also includes determining, based on the fluid information, operation mode instructions. The method also includes transmitting, to a controller communicatively coupled to at least one flow regulation device fluidically coupled to the wellbore string, the operation mode instructions. The controller controls, based on the instructions, the at least one flow regulation device to regulate, during a production mode of the wellbore string, a flow of production fluid from the wellbore string to the separator or regulating, during a water injection mode of the wellbore string, a flow of water from the water reservoir into the wellbore string.
US11649678B1
A motor system including: a cylindrical body; a converter configured to convert a two-directional rotation into a one-directional rotation; a rotatable shaft configured to be (a) disposed inside of the cylindrical body, (b) rotatable in both a counterclockwise direction and a clockwise direction, and (c) coupled to a drill bit through the converter; a driving piston configured to be coupled to the rotatable shaft and configured to divide the cylindrical body into a first chamber and a second chamber; and a flow piston configured to change flow direction of the fluid within the cylindrical body to drive the driving piston, wherein the driving piston is configured to be driven by the fluid via a pressure difference to move in a forward direction and in a reverse direction.
US11649673B2
The present invention provides a constant force multiple spring curtain winding system, including a mounting bracket fixedly connected to a wall, and a revolving drum connected to a curtain, wherein one end of the mounting bracket is connected to a rotating rod through a speed change mechanism, a constant force spring mechanism fixedly connected to the revolving drum is arranged on the rotating rod, and the rotating rod is fixedly connected to a constant force elastic piece in the constant force spring mechanism. According to the present invention, a speed of the revolving drum is adjusted by the speed change mechanism, and the rotating rod rotates at a low speed by the speed change mechanism when the revolving drum rotates at a high speed, thus ensuring that the revolving drum rotates for enough turns to meet a height of the curtain, maximizing a width of the curtain and reducing a counterweight of a lower rail of the curtain; and the requirement on the size of the curtain is met by increasing or decreasing the number of the constant force spring mechanisms, and the curtain is capable of staying at any positions. The constant force multiple spring curtain winding system is novel in structure, simple to operate, wide in application and easy to popularize.
US11649670B2
This disclosure includes variable light transmission panels (VLTPs) and their assembly into insulated glass units (IGUs), which can be incorporated into buildings. Disclosed windows provide uniform appearance from outside during the day when a number of such windows are incorporated in a building regardless of their state of light transmission. These disclosures may also be used to make windows which tint to different transmitted colors but during the day still appear to be uniform from outside.
US11649664B2
A window for use on a structure has a first frame, a second frame and a fascia. The structure has a wall having an interior surface, an exterior surface, and an opening extending through the wall from the interior surface to the exterior surface. The opening has an upper edge, a lower edge, a first side, and a second side. The first frame contacts the interior surface of the wall and extends through the opening. The second frame is positioned below the opening and contacts the interior surface of the wall. The fascia is connected to the first frame and contacts the exterior surface of the wall.
US11649657B2
A system and method for securing a locked-out component is provided. One embodiment slides a slidable blade of a lock out controller from a lockout position to a release position, wherein an inside connector between the slidable blade and a piston of a lock out attachment pushes the piston from a hook lock position to a hook extended position so that a hook is extended outward from the lock out attachment; coupling the hook to the locked-out component; and sliding the slidable blade of the lock out controller from the release position to the lockout position, wherein the inside connector coupled between the slidable blade pulls the piston from the hook extended position to the hook lock position, and wherein the hook is retracted substantially back into the interior of the lock out attachment so that the locked-out component that is coupled to the hook cannot be accessed by a tool.
US11649654B2
A tank with a door locking mechanism for use in bioprocessing, and methods of using the door locking mechanism, is provided.
US11649652B2
Access control for an autonomous vehicle through a door in a doorway. A magnet is attached to the autonomous vehicle and a magnetometer is located some distance from the doorway. The magnetometer outputs a magnetometer signal in response to detecting the magnet, which causes the transmitter to transmit a detection signal. A doorway device is fixed about the doorway, and includes a receiver, and a locking mechanism with a locking pin. The doorway device retracts the pin to unlock the door for a predetermined period of time in response to receipt of the detection signal, and extents the pin to lock the door after the predetermined period of time ends.
US11649651B1
This application provides a robotic pool cleaner comprising a cleaning body, a drive and a cleaning roller brush mechanism. The robotic pool cleaner filters liquid and/or contaminants in a pool through the cleaning body. The drive mechanism is connected to the cleaning body. The cleaning body is driven to move in the pool in a working process of the robotic pool cleaner. The drive mechanism comprises a drive wheel with a first outer ring gear, the first outer ring gear is externally engaged with the cleaning roller brush mechanism, so that the cleaning roller brush mechanism is driven by the first outer ring gear to rotate relative to the cleaning body when the drive motor drives the first outer ring gear to rotate. The robotic pool cleaner provided in this application can improve cleaning efficiency and reduce wear of a cleaning roller brush, so that the service life of the cleaning roller brush mechanism is prolonged.
US11649646B2
A floor assembly for a performance space is disclosed. The assembly has a planar resilient floor board supported above a base board on a primary support system comprising a plurality of resilient (preferably elastomeric) supports. A secondary support system comprises a plurality of fixed support members and a plurality of movable support members. Each movable support member is movable in a direction parallel to the plane of the floor board between a first position spaced from a corresponding fixed support member such that the floor board is unsupported by the support members and a second position in contact with the corresponding fixed support member such that the floor board is supported by the support members. In the first position, the floor board is in a sprung configuration and in the second position, the floor board is in an unsprung configuration. The invention therefore provides a performance floor which is switchable between sprung and unsprung configurations.
US11649645B2
A shock absorbing mat/tile comprises a body having a generally planar, major top surface and an opposite bottom surface and a plurality of shock absorbing members depending from the bottom surface. At least one of the shock absorbing members has at least one relief formation formed therein configured to accommodate lateral expansion of the shock absorbing member during axial compression thereof.
US11649637B2
A handrail, in particular for scaffolding structures, for example stairway scaffolding structures, includes at least two handrail segments connected to one another by a connection unit to provide a continuous handrail, wherein at least one handrail securing element for securing the handrail segment to a scaffolding element is secured to at least one of the handrail segments, wherein the connection unit includes two connection elements that can pivot relative to one another about a pivot axis, wherein at least one connection element is/can be connected to one of the handrail segments connected to one another via the connection unit such that it can rotate about an axis of rotation that is not parallel and not orthogonal in relation to the pivot axis.
US11649635B2
Vents are disclosed for covering openings on roofs. The disclosed vents cover openings on metal roofs and prevent moisture and objects from entering the opening while allowing air to pass therethrough. The vents disclosed herein also prevent moisture from entering the building through openings that can be created when the vents are attached to a roof. The vents include a cap, a collar, and a flashing configured to contact the roof. The vents can also include a screen placed between the cap and the collar. The collar can have arms formed on an upper portion thereof to facilitate connection of the collar to the cap. Feet can be formed on a bottom portion of the collar. Once the vent is fully assembled, the feet can be positioned underneath the flashing and can be the main connection point of the vent to a roof. Due to the design of this assembly, fasteners pass through the feet providing a sound and secure attachment to the roof. The feet are then covered from moisture, rain, and/or snow by a flashing, and the flashing is then secured by screws or other fasteners passing through the reinforcement material and through the flashing itself which provides a weatherproof seal.
US11649634B1
This invention is a hip and ridge liner for a roof on a building. It is a waterproof and weather proof barrier that is installed on top of a hip line or a ridge line on a roof. Hip and ridge shingles are then installed on top of the hip and ridge liner. Embodiments of this invention include a plurality of external tabs which function to securely retain the hip and ridge shingles and keep them in place for many years. Other embodiments of this invention include a plurality of internal tabs which function to securely retain the hip and ridge shingles and keep them in place for many years. Other embodiments of this invention include a plurality of shingle retaining clips which function to securely retain the hip and ridge shingles and keep them in place for many years.
US11649630B2
The thermally activated building panel (1) includes a metal plate (2) having a room-facing surface (3) and a building-facing surface (4). A heat-exchanger tube (5) for conveying a cooling or heating medium is in conductive thermal contact with the building-facing surface (4) of the metal plate (2). A textile (9) is arranged on the room-facing surface (3) of the metal plate (2) and has a first surface (10) generally contacting the metal plate (2) and a second surface (11) generally visible from said room. The textile (9) is tensioned between opposed edges (12) of the metal plate (2). The first surface (10) of the textile (9) is metallized by deposition of metal particles on the textile (9).
US11649627B2
A laminated lumber constructed volumetric modular unit constructed at a modular unit factory and shipped assembled to a modular building project site is disclosed. The laminated lumber constructed volumetric modular unit includes a floor structure and ceiling structure interconnected by opposing side wall structures and opposing end wall structures, a plurality of floor trusses disposed within the floor structure, a plurality of ceiling trusses disposed within the ceiling structure, a plurality of wall studs disposed within the opposing side wall structures and opposing end wall structures, one or more rim joists attached to the ceiling structure, and one or more multiple laminated lumbers attached to the floor structure and extending between the opposing end wall structures for carrying the load of the modular unit.
US11649626B2
A hanger for connecting a structural component to a wall that can have sheathing mounted thereon either before or after the hanger is connected to the wall. The hanger includes a channel-shaped portion configured to receive the structural component. An extension portion extends from the channel-shaped portion and is configured to extend through the sheathing to engage the wall at a first location. A connection portion is configured for attachment to the wall at a second location spaced from the first location.
US11649619B2
A faucet device includes a hot water/water mixing valve, a water purification cartridge, a primary side flow path that supplies water to the hot water/water mixing valve and the water purification cartridge, and a secondary side flow path that discharges mixed water flowing out from the hot water/water mixing valve and purified water flowing out from the water purification cartridge to a water discharge port. The primary side flow path and the secondary side flow path are disposed between the hot water/water mixing valve and the water purification cartridge.
US11649618B2
A concrete form for installing a bath filler includes a base having an exposed top surface, a perimeter wall extending along each side of the base and oriented perpendicular to the base, and a rim extending from a top edge of the perimeter wall outwardly from the exposed top surface. The concrete form includes at least one notch disposed along the rim, such that the at least one notch is configured to align with a desired location of the bath filler. The concrete form includes a drill template corresponding with the notches. The drill template includes a plurality of markers configured to indicate drill-hole placement.
US11649616B2
Techniques for managing delivery of water or other fluids have been disclosed. A central server provides real-time data and cost analysis to a client. In addition, fluid delivery techniques provide alerts or automatic schedule suspensions to reduce risk of loss. The techniques reduce or eliminate the impact of air or gas captured with water or other fluid of a fluid delivery system. The techniques allow a preexisting fluid delivery system to be retrofitted to communicate with a central system and one or more sensors of a fluid delivery system.
US11649606B2
A dragline bucket includes a base member defining a first end, a second end, and a third end. The dragline bucket also includes a first side wall, a second side wall, and an end wall extending from the base member proximate to the third end of the base member such that the end wall is connected to each of the first side wall and the second side wall. The end wall includes a first portion connected to the base member such that a first angle is defined between the base member and the first portion. The end wall also includes a second portion extending from the first portion. The second portion is substantially perpendicular to the base member. The end wall further includes a third portion extending from the second portion such that a second angle is defined between the second portion and the first portion.
US11649587B2
A low-weight carpet tile and process for making the same, wherein the carpet tile comprises a facecloth having a plurality of face yarns tufted through a primary backing, an extruded polymer secondary backing layer, and a reinforcing scrim layer partially embedded within the extruded polymer secondary backing layer. The top surface and bottom surface of the carpet tile are defined by the facecloth and the reinforcing scrim layer, respectively. A polymer-based resin is extruded onto the facecloth to form an at least substantially uniform secondary backing layer, and the reinforcing scrim layer is laid onto the extruded polymer secondary backing layer while the extruded polymer secondary backing layer remains above a softening temperature for the resin. The entire multi-layer web is then passed through a nip to embed the reinforcing scrim layer into the extruded polymer secondary layer, and the entire web is chilled.
US11649579B2
A washing machine including a detergent supply device to supply a detergent together with water to a tub. The detergent supply device includes a detergent housing installed within the main body and a detergent accommodation box movably installed within the detergent housing, and the detergent accommodation box is divided into automatic detergent accommodation parts to accommodate a detergent to be supplied automatically and manual detergent accommodation parts to accommodate a detergent to be supplied manually, and the detergent supply device supplies the detergents through an automatic detergent supply method and a manual detergent supply method.
US11649576B2
A needle threading aid has a graspable body with a threading ledge on its upper surface, with a threading aperture formed through the threading ledge, a ridge is formed next to the threading aperture, the ridge has a collapsible wire loop over the threading aperture, the wire loop has a generally angular return bend, the wire loop is passable through the eye of a needle.
US11649564B2
The thermoplastic polyurethane yarn of the present invention is excellent in abrasion resistance and durability because it contains thermoplastic polyurethane and nanosilica particles having hydrophobic functional groups on the surface thereof and is excellent in durability of a fine denier yarn, and can have a yarn in a form of continuous yarn without breaking yarn development during spinning or stretching. In particular, it is excellent in color dispersibility, antifouling property, scratch resistance, moldability, and the like.
US11649560B2
Embodiments generally relate to methods for depositing silicon-phosphorous materials, and more specifically, relate to using silicon-phosphorous compounds in vapor deposition processes (e.g., epitaxy, CVD, or ALD) to deposit silicon-phosphorous materials. In one or more embodiments, a method for forming a silicon-phosphorous material on a substrate is provided and includes exposing the substrate to a deposition gas containing one or more silicon-phosphorous compounds during a deposition process and depositing a film containing the silicon-phosphorous material on the substrate. The silicon-phosphorous compound has the chemical formula [(R3-vHvSi)—(R2-wHwSi)n]xPHyR′z, where each instance of R and each instance of R′ are independently an alkyl or a halogen, n is 0, 1, or 2; v is 0, 1, 2, or 3; w is 0, 1, or 2; x is 1, 2, or 3; y is 0, 1, or 2; z is 0, 1, or 2, and where x+y+z=3.
US11649556B2
A method for removing powder from a component or part produced by metal additive manufacturing systems based on powder beds. The method includes manufacturing a part by additive manufacturing, the part having at least one internal cavity with at least one external opening. The internal cavity is at least partly filled with powder, the powder in the internal cavity having grains agglomerated or connected to each other. The method further including: evacuating gas from the internal cavity; adding liquid electrolyte to the internal cavity, and using an electrochemical process for separating connected powder grains in the cavity.
US11649555B2
An electroplating apparatus includes a plating bath and a substrate in a horizontal direction. The electroplating apparatus further includes a plurality of cathodes on first and second sides of the substrate in a first direction on one surface of the substrate, and an anode above the substrate, the anode being spaced apart from the substrate and configured to be movable in the first direction.
US11649547B2
A method for depositing a film comprising silicon and oxygen onto a substrate includes (a) providing a substrate in a reactor; (b) introducing into the reactor at least one silicon precursor compound selected from the group consisting of Formulae A, B, and C as described herein, (c) purging the reactor with a purge gas; (d) introducing at least one of an oxygen-containing source and a nitrogen-containing source into the reactor; and (e) purging the reactor with the purge gas, wherein the steps b through e are repeated until a desired thickness of resulting silicon-containing film is deposited; and (f) treating the resulting silicon-containing film with R3xSi(NR1R2)4-x wherein R1-3 are the same as aforementioned, preferably methyl or ethyl; and x=1, 2, or 3; and wherein the method is conducted at one or more temperatures ranging from about 20° C. to 300° C.
US11649545B2
A method for manufacturing a transition metal-dichalcogenide thin film is provided. The method for manufacturing a transition metal-dichalcogenide thin film can comprise the steps of: preparing a base substrate within a chamber; preparing a precursor comprising a transition metal; repeatedly carrying out, multiple times, a step of providing the precursor on the base substrate and a step of purging the chamber, thereby forming, on the base substrate, a preliminary thin film in which the precursor is adsorbed; and manufacturing a transition metal-dichalcogenide thin film by heat treating the preliminary thin film in a gas atmosphere comprising a chalcogen element.
US11649542B2
Provided is a multilayer zinc alloy plated steel material comprising a base steel material and multiple plating layers formed on the base steel material, wherein each of the multiple plating layers includes one of a Zn plating layer, a Mg plating layer, and a Zn—Mg alloy plating layer, and the ratio of the weight of Mg contained in the multiple plating layers to the total weight of the multiple plating layers is from 0.13 to 0.24.
US11649537B2
Provided are Ce/Co/Cu permanent magnet alloys containing certain refractory metals, such as Ta and/or Hf, and optionally Fe which represent economically more favorable alternative to Sm-based magnets with respect to both material and processing costs and which retain and/or improve magnetic characteristics useful for GAP MAGNET applications.
US11649535B2
A method of forming a high strength aluminum alloy is disclosed. The method includes solutionizing to a temperature ranging from about 5° C. above a standard solutionizing temperature to about 5° C. below an incipient melting temperature for the aluminum material to form a heated aluminum material, which is then quenched. The aluminum material includes at least one of magnesium and silicon as a secondary component at a concentration of at least 0.2% by weight. The cooled aluminum material is subjected to ECAE processing using one of isothermal conditions and non-isothermal conditions. Isothermal conditions include having a billet and a die at the same temperature from about 80° C. to about 200° C. Non-isothermal conditions include having a billet at a temperature from about 80° C. to about 200° C. and a die at a temperature of at most 100° C. The aluminum material is than aged at a temperature from about 100° C. to about 175° C.
US11649531B2
A steel sheet has a specific chemical composition and has a structure represented by, by area ratio, ferrite: 5 to 60%, and bainite: 40 to 95%. When a region that is surrounded by a grain boundary having a misorientation of 15° or more and has a circle-equivalent diameter of 0.3 μm or more is defined as a crystal grain, the proportion of crystal grains each having an intragranular misorientation of 5 to 14° to all crystal grains is 20 to 100% by area ratio. A precipitate density of Ti(C,N) and Nb(C,N) each having a circle-equivalent diameter of 10 nm or less is 1010 precipitates/mm3 or more. A ratio (Hvs/Hvc) of a hardness at 20 μm in depth from a surface (Hvs) to a hardness of the center of a sheet thickness (Hvc) is 0.85 or more.
US11649527B2
A wear resistant hydraulics system includes a first copper-based alloy having a formula (I), CuaSnbZncMd, where M is a combination of up to six transition metals, metalloids, and/or alkali metals, a is any number between 0.50 and 0.93, b is any number between 0.00 and 0.07, c is any number between 0.00 and 0.40, and d is any number between 0.01 and 0.40, and a second copper-based alloy including at least 50 wt. % of Cu, based on the total weight of the alloy; and at least one compound of formula (II) AxBy, where A is Cu, Sn, or Zn, B is Co, Cr, In, Mn, Mo, Ni, Rb, Sb, Te, or Ti, x is any number between 1 and 53, and y is any number between 1 and 16, the first or second alloy having a bulk modulus KVRH value of about 70 to 304 GPa.
US11649521B2
A hot stamping component and a manufacturing method thereof include: (a) preparing a blank including 0.27 to 0.33 wt % of carbon (C), more than 0 and 0.40 wt % or less of silicon (Si), 1.10 to 1.60 wt % of manganese (Mn), more than 0 and 0.030 wt % or less of phosphorus (P), more than 0 and 0.015 wt % or less of sulfur (S), 0.10 to 0.60 wt % of chromium (Cr), more than 0 and 0.1 wt % or less of titanium (Ti), and 0.0008 to 0.0050 wt % of boron (B); (b) heat-treating the blank; and (c) molding the heat-treated blank and cooling the molded blank. The component and method may stably provide high strength by minimizing hydrogen charging in a hot stamping manufacturing process and preventing hydrogen delayed fracture due to the hydrogen charging.
US11649520B2
A continuous hot-dip galvanizing apparatus has a vertical annealing furnace, one or more hearth rolls, a hot-dip galvanizing apparatus, an alloying line, and humidified gas supply ports. When the steel sheet having a Si content of 0.2 mass % or more is conveyed inside the annealing furnace, the humidified gas supply ports positioned in a latter part of the soaking zone supply the humidified gas to the soaking zone and the at least one dry gas supply port supplies the dry gas to the soaking zone. When the steel sheet having a Si content of less than 0.2 mass % is conveyed inside the annealing furnace, the plurality of the humidified gas supply ports do not supply the humidified gas to the soaking zone and the at least one dry gas supply port supplies the dry gas to the soaking zone.
US11649517B2
The present disclosure relates to a high-strength Fe—Cr—Al—Ni multiplex stainless steel and a manufacturing method therefor. The multiplex stainless steel comprises 35 to 67 wt % of iron (Fe), 13 to 30 wt % of chrome (Cr), 15 to 30 wt % of nickel (Ni), and 5 to 15 wt % of aluminum (Al) and has a multiplex structure in which an austenite phase accounting for high ductility, a ferrite phase accounting for high strength, and an NiAl(B2) phase providing both strength and high-temperature steam oxidation resistance, exist in combination. The multiplex stainless steel can secure necessary fabricability and mechanical strength even if for/in a thin state, can maintain integrity as a structural member in a normal operation condition of a light-water reactor thanks to the formation of a chrome oxide layer thereon, and can form a stable oxide layer including alumina under a high-temperature steam environment, which is plausible in a high-temperature nuclear accident, thereby providing exceptionally improved resistance to serious accidents.
US11649513B2
A diagnostic kit for simultaneously detecting at least seven silent sexually transmitted diseases (SSTDs) having a diagnostic strip which has detection zones with at least eight probes with SEQ ID NOs: 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24; at least 14 primers with SEQ ID NOs: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23; an instruction manual; a nucleotide sequence set for simultaneously detecting at least seven silent sexually transmitted diseases (SSTDs); use of the kit to detect at least the following pathogens: Herpes Virus type 1, Herpes Virus type 2, Chlamydia trachomatis, Ureaplasma urealitycum, Mycoplasma hominis, Mycoplasma genitalium, and Human papillomavirus (HPV); a method for simultaneously detecting at least seven silent sexually transmitted diseases (SSTDs).
US11649511B2
The present invention provides a novel coronavirus duplex detection kit. Specifically, the present invention discloses a kit and method for multiplex detection of novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV nucleic acid, which can simultaneously detect two nucleic acid targets of the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV and possess extremely high sensitivity and specificity, and significantly improve the accuracy of virus identification.
US11649509B2
The present invention relates to the field of anastasis, i.e., the process of reversal of apoptosis. More specifically, the present invention provides methods and compositions useful for studying anastasis. In one embodiment, a tracking construct of the present invention comprises Lyn11-NES-ERT2-DEVD-rtTA-3xFLAG-DEVD-ERT2-NES. In another embodiment, a construct comprises Lyn11-NES-DEVD-rtTA-3xFLAG. In a further embodiment, a construct comprises ERT2-DEVD-rtTA-3XFLAG-DEVD-ERT2.
US11649507B2
Disclosed herein are methods for improving detection and monitoring of human diseases. The methods can be used to provide spatial and/or developmental localization of the source of each differential mutation within the body. The methods can also be used to generate a mutation map of a subject. And the mutation map can be used to monitoring state(s) of health of one or more tissues of a subject.
US11649506B2
The present disclosure relates to methods of monitoring bladder cancer patients and analyzing patient samples for presence of methylated DNA and optionally particular gene mutations. In some embodiments, analysis results are correlated with clinical outcome measures such as risk of bladder cancer recurrence.
US11649502B2
The present invention relates to methods for detecting activation of a brown/beige fat cell or brown/beige adipose tissue (BAT) in a biological sample taken from a mammal to be diagnosed, comprising measuring the amount of miR-92 in said sample. The invention furthermore relates to diagnostic and clinical applications of the methods of the invention.
US11649499B2
This disclosure provides systems and methods for sample processing and data analysis. Sample processing may include nucleic acid sample processing and subsequent sequencing. Some or all of a nucleic acid sample may be sequenced to provide sequence information, which may be stored or otherwise maintained in an electronic storage location. The sequence information may be analyzed with the aid of a computer processor, and the analyzed sequence information may be stored in an electronic storage location that may include a pool or collection of sequence information and analyzed sequence information generated from the nucleic acid sample. Methods and systems of the present disclosure can be used, for example, for the analysis of a nucleic acid sample, for producing one or more libraries, and for producing biomedical reports. Methods and systems of the disclosure can aid in the diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, and prevention of one or more diseases and conditions.
US11649487B2
Methods and compositions for the amplification of nucleic acids and generation of concatemers are disclosed. Amplification methods provided herein may be performed under isothermal conditions. Methods and compositions may include reagents such nucleic acid polymerases and primers.
US11649482B2
The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for performing droplet-based high throughput sequencing upon genomic DNA of single cells (e.g., individual sperm). The instant disclosure provides a droplet that includes: i) a mammalian cell nucleus; and ii) a microbead presenting attached oligonucleotides, where the attached oligonucleotides include a nucleic acid sequence capable of hybridization and capture of genomic DNA and a microbead identification sequence that is common to all oligonucleotides attached to the microbead, where the mammalian cell nucleus is accessible to the microbead-attached oligonucleotides to an extent sufficient to allow for genomic DNA capture and amplification of genomic DNA to occur within the droplet.
US11649466B2
Compositions and methods useful in identifying and counter-selecting maize plants with having enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants under abiotic stress conditions such as salt stress and/or drought are provided herein. The methods use molecular genetic markers to identify, select and/or construct salt stress tolerant and/or drought tolerant maize plants. Also provided are methods to enhance tolerance to salt stress and/or drought in crop plants by transforming crop plants with the Zea mays antiporter/sodium ion transporter or by introducing favorable allelic variants of the Zea mays antiporter/sodium ion transporter gene via gene editing.
US11649465B2
Methods and compositions are provided for increasing the expression of a gene of interest in a plant by co-expressing the gene of interest with a p21 polynucleotide. The gene of interest can be endogenous or heterologous to the plant. Further provided are plants, such as tobacco plants, comprising a heterologous p21 polynucleotide. Co-expression of the p21 polynucleotide with a gene of interest in the plant increases the expression of the gene of interest when compared to a control plant. Accordingly, p21 co-expression can increase the expression of genes of interest encoding proteins such as defense proteins, enzymes, signaling proteins, reporter proteins, antibodies and fragments thereof, growth factors, cell surface receptor molecules, seed storage proteins, and fungicides in a plant.
US11649453B2
Hybrid reverse transcriptases formed from portions of FLVRT and MLVRT are provided.
US11649450B2
The disclosure provides methods of making a protein having a desired non-standard amino acid incorporated at its N-terminus in a cell and methods of screening for an amino acyl tRNA synthetase variant that preferentially selects a non-standard amino acid against its standard amino acid counterpart or undesired non-standard amino acids for incorporation into a protein in a cell.
US11649447B2
The present disclosure relates to compositions, systems, and methods for the production of biomolecules using microorganisms. In particular, the present disclosure provides biomolecule production platforms that include genetically engineered microorganisms with genetic circuits functionally coupled to microcapsules formed from materials that are responsive to culture conditions. The biomolecule production platforms disclosed herein facilitate the efficient and robust production, purification, and/or analysis of any biomolecule-of-interest.
US11649446B2
Compositions, systems, and methods for preparation of polypeptides having multiple iterations of non-standard amino acids are provided. The compositions and method can be used to produce recombinant proteins at a greater yield than the same or similar polypeptides made using conventional compositions, systems, and methods. Accordingly, in some embodiments, the polypeptides are ones that could not be made using conventional methods and reagents, or could not be made a sufficient yield or purity to serve a practical purpose using conventional methods and reagents. Polypeptides made using the disclosed compositions, systems, and methods are also provided.
US11649444B1
The present disclosure provides a Cas12i protein (e.g., non-naturally occurring, engineered) comprising an amino acid sequence having at least about 80% (e.g., at least about any of 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 99.5%, or 100%) identity to the amino acid sequence as set forth in any one of SEQ ID NOs: 1-10 (preferably, SEQ ID NOs: 1-3 and 6, and more preferably, SEQ ID NO: 1). The present disclosure further provides an engineered, non-naturally occurring CRISPR-Cas12i system comprising: (1) any of the Cas12i proteins described herein or a polynucleotide encoding any of the Cas12i proteins described herein; and (2) a CRISPR RNA (crRNA) or a polynucleotide encoding the crRNA, wherein the crRNA comprises: (i) a spacer capable of hybridizing to a target sequence of a target DNA, and (ii) a Direct Repeat (DR) linked to the spacer and capable of guiding the binding of the Cas12i protein to the crRNA to form a CRISPR-Cas12i complex targeting the target sequence.
US11649430B2
A method of promoting fungal spore germination. The method includes the step of contacting a fungal spore with a germination-promoting concentration of an exogenous imizoquin.
US11649421B2
A fermentation apparatus for preserving the aroma of a fermentable beverage is provided. The fermentation apparatus comprises a flow passage fluidly connectable to the headspace located above a fermentable beverage in a fermentation container. A carbon dioxide scrubber in the flow passage receives a headspace fluid mixture comprising at least carbon dioxide gas and an aromatic fluid originating from the fermenting beverage. When the headspace fluid mixture contacts the carbon dioxide scrubber, the carbon dioxide scrubber retains a modified fluid in the flow passage. The modified fluid has a lower carbon dioxide gas concentration and a higher aromatic fluid concentration than the headspace fluid mixture. The flow passage directs the modified fluid back to the headspace to at least partially retain the aromatic fluid in the fermentable beverage in the fermentation container. A method for preserving the aroma of a fermentable beverage is also provided.
US11649411B2
A process for producing a deacidified fluid stream from a fluid stream comprising methanol and at least one acid gas and an apparatus for carrying out the process. The process comprising a) an absorption step in which the fluid stream is contacted with an absorbent in an absorber to obtain an absorbent laden with methanol and acid gases and an least partly deacidified fluid stream; b) a regeneration step in which at least a portion of the laden absorbent obtained from step a) is regenerated in a regenerator to obtain an at least partly regenerated absorbent and a gaseous stream comprising methanol, water and at least one acid gas; c) a recycling step in which at least a substream of the regenerated absorbent from step b) is recycled into the absorption step a); d) a condensation step in which a condensate comprising methanol and water is condensed out of the gaseous stream from step b); e) a distillation step in which at least a portion of the condensate from step d) is guided into a distillation column to obtain a top stream comprising methanol and a bottom stream comprising water; which comprises recycling at least a portion of the bottom stream from step e) into the regenerator.
US11649398B1
A fracturing fluid composition includes an aqueous fluid, a proppant particle, and a date tree fiber. A method of treating a hydrocarbon-bearing formation is also provided. The method includes injecting a fracturing fluid in the hydrocarbon-bearing formation, where the fracturing fluid includes an aqueous fluid, a proppant particle, and a date tree fiber.
US11649392B2
A variety of fluid loss control compositions and methods are provided for controlling fluid loss in a cementing operation. As described herein, polyelectrolyte complex nanoparticles and fluid loss control compositions containing polyelectrolyte complex nanoparticles can be effective for fluid loss control in a variety of cementing operations. Methods of making and methods of using the electrolyte complex nanoparticles and fluid loss control compositions containing polyelectrolyte complex nanoparticles are also provided. The polyelectrolyte complex nanoparticles can include a polycation polymer such as a branched chain polyethylenimine, and a polyanion polymer such as polyacrylic acid or poly(vinylsulfonic) acid. The polyelectrolyte complex nanoparticles can contain additional additives such as metal ions or fluid loss additives such as a cellulose polymer.
US11649380B2
A water-dispersible sheet is described that maintains water dispersibility while providing suppressed time degradation of the tacky adhesiveness of a tacky adhesive layer. The water-dispersible sheet has a paper substrate with a multilayer structure. One layer of the multilayer structure is an inner layer that is not in contact with the tacky adhesive layer. Another layer is a surface layer that is in contact with the tacky adhesive layer. The layers independently include mixed pulps of a wood pulp and a refined pulp with an α-cellulose content of 88 % by weight or more. The weight ratio of the layers and the beating degree of the mixed pulps are set in the specific ranges.
US11649372B2
A coating composition for application to a substrate utilizing a high transfer efficiency applicator. The coating composition includes a carrier and a binder comprising an elastomeric resin in an amount of at least 50 weight %, wherein the elastomeric resin has an Elongation to Break of at least 500% according to DIN 53 504. The coating composition has an Ohnesorge number (Oh) of from about 0.01 to about 12.6. The coating composition has a Reynolds number (Re) of from about 0.02 to about 6,200. The coating composition has a Deborah number (De) of from greater than 0 to about 1730.
US11649370B2
A thermosetting coating composition includes a hydroxyl group-containing resin (A), a blocked polyisocyanate curing agent (B), and an amine compound (C) represented by the formula (1). In the formula (1), R1 to R5 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or an organic group having one or more carbon atoms. The organic group may contain one or more atoms selected from the group consisting of oxygen atoms, nitrogen atoms, sulfur atoms, and halogen atoms.
US11649365B2
An ink contains an anionic compound, water, a photoacid generator, and one or more organic solvents containing at least one organic solvent having a solubility parameter of from 9 to 11.8 (J/cm3)1/2.
US11649362B2
A conductive polymer coating composition including a conductive fibrillated structure and a base polymer, wherein the conductive fibrillated structure includes a fibrillated polymer and a conductive polymer grafted on the fibrillated polymer, and wherein the conductive polymer coating composition has an electrical conductivity from about 10−5 S/cm to about 10+1 S/cm and a thermal conductivity from about 1.1 W/m K to about 3 W/m K.
US11649361B2
Stain-blocking polymers, as well as primers, kits, and methods that include such polymers, wherein the stain-blocking polymer is an emulsion latex polymer including interpolymerized monomers including: at least 1 wt-%, based on the total weight of the interpolymerized monomers, of one or more acrylic acid ester monomers of Formula (I): RO—C(O)—CH═CH2 wherein: R is a branched alkyl group having a tertiary carbon atom, a cycloaliphatic group, or a combination thereof; optionally, one or more (meth)acrylate monomers selected from n-butyl (meth)acrylate, ethylhexyl (meth)acrylate, methyl (meth)acrylate, and combinations thereof; optionally, one or more wet adhesion monomers; and optionally, styrene; and wherein the stain-blocking primer includes at least 10 wt-%, based on the total nonvolatile weight of the primer, of the emulsion latex polymer; an aqueous carrier; and optionally, one or more additives selected from a surfactant, thickener, coalescent, biocide, mildewcide, colorant, and combinations thereof.
US11649348B2
A medicine container which absorbs very little protein over time is manufactured using a resin composition including 50 to 99 wt % of a norbornene-based polymer, and 1 to 50 wt % of a hydrogenated styrene-based thermoplastic elastomer, a content of a low-molecular-weight component having a weight average molecular weight of 1000 or less in the resin composition being 3 wt % or less.
US11649346B2
Disclosed herein are aqueous coating compositions containing an anionically stabilized polymer, one or more derivatized polyamines, and a volatile base. Coating compositions can farther include one or more additional copolymers, which may or may not be anionically stabilized, and/or additional additives, including pigments, defoamers, pigment dispersing agents, thickeners, surfactants, and combinations thereof. By incorporating a derivatized polyamine, such as an alkoxylated polyamine, the setting time of the coating compositions can be decreased. Also provided are coatings formed from the coating compositions described herein, as well as methods of forming these coatings.
US11649345B2
Modelling material which contains (a) at least one radically polymerizable monomer, (b) at least one initiator for the radical polymerization and (c) at least one inert component. The inert component (c) is selected from phthalates, polyethylene glycols (PEG), polypropylene glycols (PPG), PEG-PPG copolymers, glycerol derivatives, ethoxylated or propoxylated glycerol, ethylenediamine tetrakispropoxylates and ethylenediamine tetrakisethoxylates. The material is suitable in particular for the production of models of dental restorations for investment casting processes.
US11649344B2
A thermoplastic polyolefin composition which is capable of being shaped and repeatedly recycled, comprises propylene-based polymers, said composition being modified with 0.01-5 wt % of organic oligomeric silanes selected from partially hydrolyzed alkoxy substituted vinyl, allyl or methacryl silanes, and blends thereof, and 0.0005-0.5 wt % of a compound capable of generating free radicals.
US11649342B2
A monolayer film is provided which contains ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVOH), contamination from dirt and a compatibilizer, that can be used for producing trash bags and the like, as well as a method to successfully recycle fumigation films containing EVOH and contamination from dirt into such a monolayer film.
US11649337B2
A method of recycling a polymer structure includes converting a first polymer structure into feedstock. The first polymer structure comprises particles that are bonded to one another by chemical click bonds to form a first shape. The first polymer structure is converted into feedstock particles by breaking the click bonds. The feedstock particles are formed into a second shape, and the feedstock particles are chemically click-bonded together to form a second polymer structure having a second shape. Breaking the click bonds may include heating the particles. The structures may be formed by causing first particles having dienes to chemically bond to dienophiles of second particles.
US11649315B2
A polyurethane insulation foam composition is disclosed herein. The polyurethane insulation foam comprises: (i) an isocyanate compound; (ii) an isocyanate reactive compound; (iii) water; (iv) a tertiary amine compound; (v) a hydrophilic carboxylic acid compound; (vi) a halogenated olefin compound; and (vii) optionally, other additives.
US11649290B2
The present invention provides molecules, such as ISVDs and Nanobodies, that bind to CTLA4 or human serum albumin. These molecules have been engineered so as to reduce the incidence of binding by pre-existing antibodies in the bodies of a subject administered such a molecule. Methods for increasing immune response, treating cancer and/or treating an infectious disease with such molecules are provided.
US11649284B2
Embodiments of the disclosure concern treatment of cancer utilizing methods and compositions that block CD47 such that tumor associated macrophages (TAMs) are not inhibited by CD47 and are able to phagocytose and kill tumor cells. In specific embodiments, the compositions and their use concern fusions of an entity that binds CD47 and an entity that binds cells having FC receptors, such as the FC receptor on TAMs. Certain embodiments concern gene therapy that produces a fusion of the ectodomain of SIRPa and the constant region of IgG4 at a localized tumor or tumor microenvironment, for example. In specific cases, gene transfer is utilized to deliver SIRPa fusion genes into a tumor and/or tumor microenvironment so that the molecules can be expressed locally to increase efficacy (given that the expression of the molecules will be highest at tumor sites) and decrease potential toxicities.
US11649282B2
Provided are a genetically modified immunocyte expressing a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) comprising an antigen binding domain specifically binding to cancer cells and/or expressing TRAIL, a composition for preventing or treating cancer, the composition comprising the immunocytes, a cell therapeutic agent, a method of providing information for cancer diagnosis, and a method of preparing the genetically modified immunocyte.
US11649277B2
A method of treating skin diseases by administering a pharmaceutical composition including a humanized antibody which binds to vimentin.
US11649276B2
The present invention relates to anti-HIV antibodies. Also disclosed are related methods and compositions. HIV causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in humans characterized by clinical features including wasting syndromes, central nervous system degeneration and profound immunosuppression that results in life-threatening opportunistic infections and malignancies. Since its discovery in 1981, HIV type 1 (HIV-1) has led to the death of at least 25 million people worldwide.
US11649274B2
An object of the invention is to provide a method for producing a mesenchymal stem cell in which differentiation into an adipocyte is suppressed with a simple step, a mesenchymal stem cell, a method for producing a differentiation-induced cell using the method for producing a mesenchymal stem cell described above, a differentiation-induced cell, and an inhibitor of differentiation into an adipocyte. According to the invention, there is provided a method for producing a mesenchymal stem cell, including: a step of culturing a mesenchymal stem cell in a liquid medium in which a recombinant gelatin having an amino acid sequence derived from a partial amino acid sequence of collagen has been dissolved, wherein differentiation into an adipocyte is suppressed.
US11649271B2
Disclosed is to a polypeptide including a mutated Fc region and having functional activity, mediated by the Fc region, that is modified compared with that of a parent polypeptide. The Fc region includes at least one combination of 2 mutations, the combination being selected from among one mutation selected from among a first set of mutations, and at least one mutation selected from among a second set of mutations, and provided that mutation (i) does not take place on the same amino acid as mutation (ii). Also disclosed are use of the polypeptide, compositions including the same, and methods for preparing the polypeptide.
US11649269B2
The present invention relates to novel covalently linked bi-functional fusion proteins comprising insulin and EGF(A) analogues or derivatives thereof, and their pharmaceutical use. Furthermore, the invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such bi-functional compounds, and to the use of such compounds for the treatment or prevention of medical conditions relating to diabetes and dyslipidaemia associated with diabetes.
US11649265B2
The present disclosure is generally directed to an anucleated cell-based platforms for encapsulation and delivery of agricultural compounds. Disclosed herein are compositions for the stable and targeted delivery of agricultural compounds within achromosomal and/or anucleated cells. The present disclosure also provides methods of improving encapsulation and retention of agricultural compounds in achromosomal and/or anucleated cells.
US11649261B2
Crystalline forms of the compound of Formula (I), which modulates the conversion of AMP to adenosine by 5′-nucleotidase, ecto, and compositions containing the compound and methods for preparing the crystalline forms, are described herein. The use of such crystalline form of Formula (I) and compositions for the treatment and/or prevention of a diverse array of diseases, disorders and conditions, including cancer and immune-related disorders, that are mediated by 5′-nucleotidase, ecto is also provided.
US11649260B2
Embodiments of the present application relate to N-acetylgalactosamine-conjugated nucleosides. In particular, the N-acetylgalactosamine is installed on the nucleobase of the nucleosides through a wide variety of linkers. Methods of making N-acetylgalactosamine-conjugated nucleosides are also disclosed herein. N-acetylgalactosamine is a well-defined liver-targeted moiety and N-acetylgalactosamine-conjugated nucleosides may be used in the preparation of targeted delivery of oligonucleotide-based therapeutics.
US11649251B2
The present disclosure provides methods of inhibiting the interaction of menin with MLL1, MLL2 and MLL-fusion oncoproteins. The methods are useful for the treatment of leukemia, solid cancers, diabetes and other diseases dependent on activity of MLL1, MLL2, MLL fusion proteins, and/or menin. Compositions for use in these methods are also provided.
US11649245B2
Provided is a cyclopropylamine compound as lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1) inhibitor, and a use thereof in preparation of drug for treating diseases associated with LSD1. The cyclopropylamine compound is a compound represented by formula (I), an isomer thereof, and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US11649243B2
The application is directed to efficient and economical processes as described in more detail below for the preparation of the beta 3 agonists of the formula of I-7 and intermediate compounds that can be used for making these agonists. The present disclosure relates to a process for making beta-3 agonists and intermediates using ketoreductase (KRED) biocatalyst enzymes and methods of using the biocatalysts.
US11649242B2
The disclosure relates to modulating pyruvate kinase and provides novel chemical compounds useful as activators of PKR, as well as various uses of these compounds. PKR activating compounds are useful in the treatment of diseases and disorders associated with PKR and/or PKM2, such as pyruvate kinase deficiency (PKD), sickle cell disease (SCD), and thalassemia.
US11649241B2
Compounds of Formula I and methods of use as Janus kinase inhibitors are described herein.
US11649239B2
Disclosed in the present invention are a crystal form of a [1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-c]pyrimidine compound and a preparation method thereof. Further disclosed is a use of the crystal form in the preparation of a medicament for treating A2A receptor related diseases.
US11649234B2
The invention can provide compounds, analogs of blebbistatin, effective and selective inhibitors of nonmuscle myosin II relative to cardiac myosin II. Compounds can be used in the method of treating a disease, disorder, or medical condition in a patient, comprising modulating myosin II ATPase, such as treatment of substance abuse relapse disorder, or of renal disease, cancer and metastasis, benign prostate hyperplasia, hemostasis or thrombosis, nerve injury including retinal damage, lung fibrosis, liver fibrosis, arthrofibrosis, wound healing, spinal cord injury, periodontitis, glaucoma and immune-related diseases including multiple sclerosis; or wherein the disease, disorder, or medical condition comprises addiction including abuse of or addiction to anything classified as a Substance-Related or Addictive Disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), such as, but not limited to, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, ethanol, cannabis/marijuana, nicotine, and activities including gambling Compounds are of general formula (I) with substituents as defined herein.
US11649227B2
The disclosure relates to compounds of Formula (I) as allosteric chromenone inhibitors of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) useful in the treatment of diseases or disorders associated with PI3K modulation, Formula (I): or a prodrug, solvate, enantiomer, stereoisomer, tautomer, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, W, X, Y, s, and Ring A are as described herein.
US11649225B2
The present disclosure relates to an organic electroluminescent compound and an organic electroluminescent device comprising the same. The organic electroluminescent device having a low driving voltage and/or a high luminous efficiency and/or a long lifespan can be provided, by comprising an organic electroluminescent compound according to the present disclosure.
US11649203B2
Disclosed are new classes of diphenol compounds, derived from tyrosol or tyrosol analogues, which are useful as monomers for preparation of biocompatible polymers. Also disclosed are biocompatible polymers prepared from these monomeric diphenol compounds, including novel biodegradable and/or bioresorbable polymers of formula These biocompatible polymers or polymer compositions with enhanced bioresorbabilty and processibility are useful in a variety of medical applications, such as in medical devices and controlled-release therapeutic compositions. The invention also provides methods for preparing these monomeric diphenol compounds and biocompatible polymers.
US11649189B2
Described are cementitious reagent materials produced from globally abundant inorganic feedstocks. Also described are methods for the manufacture of such cementitious reagent materials and forming the reagent materials as microspheroidal glassy particles. Also described are apparatuses, systems and methods for the thermochemical production of glassy cementitious reagents with spheroidal morphology. The apparatuses, systems and methods make use of an in-flight melting/quenching technology such that solid particles are flown in suspension, melted in suspension, and then quenched in suspension. The cementitious reagents can be used in concrete to substantially reduce the CO2 emission associated with cement production.
US11649186B2
Vaporizers and systems for vaporizing liquid precursor for forming glass optical fiber preforms are provided. The vaporizer includes an expansion chamber at least partially enclosed by a side wall, the expansion chamber comprising an upper end and a lower end with the side wall disposed between the upper end and the lower end. The vaporizer further includes a closed-loop liquid delivery conduit positioned in the expansion chamber proximate to the upper end of the expansion chamber, wherein the closed-loop liquid delivery conduit comprises a plurality of nozzles oriented to direct a spray of liquid precursor onto an inner surface of the side wall. Further, the vaporizer includes at least one supply conduit positioned proximate the upper end of the expansion chamber and coupled to the closed-loop liquid delivery conduit, and a vapor delivery outlet coupled to the expansion chamber and configured to direct vaporized liquid precursor from the expansion chamber.
US11649182B2
System (100) and method of automatically controlling an active oxidant concentration (e.g. sodium hypochlorite) for a process of producing monochloramine comprising applying metered amounts of an oxidant solution and an amine solution to a defined area (114). An electrochemical measurement device is provided in association with the oxidant solution and prior to the defined area, N comprising at least first and second electrodes and an output terminal. A predetermined voltage potential is applied across the first and second electrodes, wherein an obtained amperometric measurement corresponds to a real-time concentration of the active oxidant in the oxidant solution. A feedback signal is generated based on the obtained measurement via the output terminal to a controller (108), which automatically regulates, in real-time and based at least in part on the control signal, the metered amount of oxidant solution provided to the defined area.
US11649169B2
A method for the preparation of an amorphous silica-alumina composition is provided that advantageously utilizes as a component oxidized disulfide oil, for example derived from a waste refinery stream of disulfide oil. The amorphous silica-alumina is formed from an aqueous mixture of an aluminum source, a silica source, oxidized disulfide oil, an alkali metal source and optionally a structure directing agent, which is heating under conditions and for a time effective to form the amorphous silica-alumina.
US11649167B2
The present invention relates to a method of reproducing at least one single-walled carbon nanotube (3) having predefined electronic properties or a plurality of single-walled carbon nanotube (3) having the same electronic properties. A dispersion (2) is produced for this purpose and carbon nanotubes (3) contained in the dispersion are processed into fragments (6) by energy input. These fragments (6) are applied to and oriented on a carrier (7). The fragments (6) are subsequently extended by chemical vapor deposition and the originally present carbon nanotubes (3) are thus reproduced.
US11649157B2
A magnetic device may include a magnetic structure, a device structure, and an associated circuit. The magnetic structure may include a patterned layer of material having a predetermined magnetic property. The patterned layer may be configured to, e.g., provide a magnetic field, sense a magnetic field, channel or concentrate magnetic flux, shield a component from a magnetic field, or provide magnetically actuated motion, etc. The device structure may be another structure of the device that is physically connected to or arranged relative to the magnetic structure to, e.g., structurally support, enable operation of, or otherwise incorporate the magnetic structure into the magnetic device, etc. The associated circuit may be electrically connected to the magnetic structure to receive, provide, condition or process of signals of the magnetic device.
US11649152B2
A beverage infusion apparatus includes: beverage infusion apparatus comprising: (a) an infusion module for infusing a nitrogen containing gas into a beverage to form a gas infused beverage, wherein: (i) the infusion module comprises a gas draw venturi device for drawing the nitrogen containing gas into the beverage as a result of flow of the beverage through the gas draw venturi device to form the gas infused beverage; (b) a dispensing valve for dispensing the gas infused beverage and constructed to move between an open position and a closed position, wherein: (i) the open position permits dispensing of the gas infused beverage from the beverage infusion apparatus; (ii) the closed position prevents dispensing of the gas infused beverage from the beverage infusion apparatus; and (iii) the dispensing valve is constructed to move between the open position and the closed position by a user of the beverage infusion apparatus; and (c) a pump constructed to move the beverage, under pressure, from a beverage reservoir, through the dispensing valve to the dispensing valve. A method of forming a gas infused beverage at a location of purchase of the gas infused beverage is provided.
US11649146B2
A safety system (2) for a working vehicle (4) comprising a working equipment (6), e.g. a crane or a working tool, the safety system (2) comprises a control unit (8), a controller (10), e.g. a remote controller, configured to control said working equipment (6), and a display unit (12). The control unit is configured to: define a set of three-dimensional safety spaces (14) in relation to the vehicle (4), present at least one safety space (14) from said set of safety spaces on said display unit (12), wherein said at least one safety space being presented overlaid on an image (18) of at least a part of the working vehicle (4) and working equipment (6), receive a first input signal (20) comprising space position parameters representing at least one chosen safety space among the presented safety spaces, and to designate each at least one chosen safety space as an active safety space (14A), and to receive a second input signal (22) comprising a safety space state command either allowing or preventing said working equipment to be moved into said at least one active safety space (14A), and to apply a state command signal (24) to said controller (10) to control said working equipment (6) in dependence of said safety space state command.
US11649133B2
A sheet post-processing apparatus that performs post-processing on a sheet on which an image is formed includes: a punch hole forming portion; and a sheet bundle forming portion that has a conveyance portion, stops a first sheet on a conveyance path, and conveys a second sheet after the first sheet to a position overlapping the first sheet to form a sheet bundle. The sheet post-processing apparatus includes a shift portion to make a shift so that a relative position between the first sheet and the second sheet in a direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction becomes a relative position at which the second sheet does not overlap a punch hole of the first sheet to make the second sheet overlap the first sheet, and forms a sheet bundle in which sheets overlapped with each other are deviated in a width direction.
US11649130B2
A medium transporting apparatus includes a first tray on which a medium discharged with a pair of discharge rollers that discharges a medium is mounted, a guide member that contacts the medium, which is discharge with the pair of discharge rollers, from above, and that guides the medium to the first tray, and a width direction matching member that matches an end portion of the medium, which has been discharged on the first tray, in the width direction that intersects a discharge direction of the medium. The guide member and the width direction matching member move in the width direction in an interlocked manner.
US11649124B2
The invention relates to a device for feeding products in sheets into an insertion device before a digital printer, including a lifting system for a stack of laminar elements, which in turn includes an extraction mechanism for the last board, an insertion system with an advance mechanism, a rotation system for the stack(s), a positioning stop, connected to an advance and reverse mechanism, a squaring and scaling station, able to create a loading and accumulating hopper, and a telescopically-adjustable transportation system, with the capacity to move the previously-scaled sheets until the insertion device is fed.
US11649120B2
A sandbag filling system includes a support frame, a driving unit, a conveyor unit, and a hopper chute. The support frame includes a feed gate and an adjustable mount and is configured to receive a material and guide the material to a conveyor belt. The driving unit is arranged in the support frame and includes a motor connected to a drive shaft. The conveyor unit is arranged in the support frame as well and includes a conveyor belt configured to be moved by the driving unit. The hopper chute is arranged below the feed gate of the support frame and located proximal to the conveyor belt.
US11649115B2
A container carrier system for carrying containers, especially blister packages, and a method of carrying containers. The system includes a body having a longitudinal channel having a central portion and two side portions, the central portion having a greater depth than a depth of channel portions on either side of the central portion. The body further includes roof portions that cover the two side portions. The channel is configured to allow movement of containers only in the longitudinal direction of the channel. The blister packages may carry unit doses of medication.
US11649102B2
A fluid insulation assembly for use with a container that is configured to contain a fluid includes a barrier assembly configured to fluidly isolate a first fluid chamber within an interior of a container, wherein the first fluid chamber is configured to contain a fluid, and an actuation assembly configured to dispense fluid contained within the first fluid chamber. A method for insulating a fluid within a container and dispensing the fluid from the container includes fluidly isolating a first fluid chamber within an interior of a container and moving a barrier assembly disposed within the interior of the container in a first direction for dispensing fluid contained within the first fluid chamber.
US11649100B2
A carrier and related methods of use are provided for packaging irregular-shaped products. The carrier has a footing and a vertical support member partially enclosing at least one irregular-shaped product. The vertical support member has: (1) a pair of sidewalls facing one another and having lower tabs joined to opposite ends of the footing, and (2) a rear wall with edges along the junctures with the sidewalls and a lower edge along the juncture with the footing. A wrap encloses the irregular-shaped product(s) and the carrier. The method includes uniformly aligning the irregular-shaped product(s) in the carrier and securing the carrier and product(s) by enclosing them with a wrap.
US11649098B1
A container thermoformed from a polymeric multilayer sheet includes a cavity for containing food. The sheet includes a polymeric interior layer positioned between (i) a polymeric outer layer of the sheet and (ii) a polymeric inner layer of the sheet that is in opposing face-to-face relation with, and at least partially defines, the cavity of the container. The interior layer includes post-consumer recycled polymeric material. The sheet includes a polymeric barrier layer positioned between the interior layer and inner layer. The barrier layer restricts inward passage of at least some of any gasses originating from the post-consumer recycled polymeric material.
US11649096B1
A smart cap for use with a liquid container and a system therefor is disclosed herein. The components of the smart cap preferably comprise a micro motor, a microcontroller, a wireless transceiver (BTLE), a lithium ion battery, LED indicators, a waterproof rated charging port, a nozzle quick connect, a controllable valve, a touch sensor, a thermal sensor, a physical button, an impeller, and a cap housing.
US11649070B2
Various embodiments of space launch vehicle systems and associated methods of manufacture and use are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the systems include a reusable, horizontal takeoff/horizontal landing (HTHL), ground-assisted single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) spaceplane that is capable of providing frequent deliveries of people and/or cargo to Low Earth Orbit (LEO). In some embodiments, the spaceplane can takeoff with the aid of a rocket-powered sled that, in addition to providing additional thrust for takeoff, can also provide propellant for the spaceplane engines during the takeoff run so that the spaceplane launches with full propellant tanks.
US11649066B2
A flight guidance panel for an aircraft includes a subpanel display, a joystick, rotary encoders, a deflection sensor, and a processor. The subpanel display indicates autopilot modes and flight value goals and has a top-level state and a subpanel control state. The joystick is for user interaction with the subpanel display. The rotary encoder is coupled with the joystick to receive rotation inputs from a user of the joystick. The deflection sensor is coupled with the joystick to detect a deflection input from the user of the joystick. The processor is programmed to: change a state of the subpanel display to the subpanel control state corresponding to a selected subpanel in response to receiving the deflection input while the subpanel display is in the top-level state; and change the flight value goals in response to receiving the rotation inputs while the subpanel display is in the subpanel control state.
US11649058B2
Disclosed is an ice protection system for an aerodynamic surface of an aircraft, a surface having a flow facing side and an inwardly facing side that opposes the flow facing side, the system having: a perforated sheet configured for disposal in the surface; a heating source connected to the perforated sheet; and a suction source disposed to draw ice melted by the heating source through the perforated sheet and heating source.
US11649057B2
A static plate heating arrangement includes a faceplate including a port extending from an exterior surface of the faceplate to an interior surface of the faceplate, a fixed resistance heater in thermal communication with the interior surface and surrounding the port, and a self-regulating heater in thermal communication with the interior surface and surrounding the fixed resistance heater. The fixed resistance heater and the self-regulating heater are electrically connected in series.
US11649046B2
A ganged servo flight control system for an unmanned aerial vehicle is provided. The flight control system may include a swashplate having first, second, and third connection portions; a first control assembly connected to the first connection portion of the swashplate; a second control assembly connected to the second connection portion of the swashplate; and a third control assembly connected to the third connection portion of the swashplate. The first control assembly may include two or more servo-actuators connected to operate in cooperation with each other.
US11649040B2
In one or more embodiments, a method for providing continuously variable feel forces for an aircraft comprises sensing, by each of at least one sensor associated with at least one aircraft control, a force sensor value. The method further comprises determining a net force value by using the force sensor value for each of at least one sensor. Also, the method comprises comparing the net force value to a desired breakout force. In addition, the method comprises determining whether the net force value exceeds the desired breakout force. Additionally, the method comprises determining an adjusted force value by using the desired breakout force and the net force value, when the net force value exceeds the desired breakout force. Also, the method comprises determining an actuator torque command based on the adjusted force value. Further, the method comprises commanding an autopilot actuator with the actuator torque command to apply torque.
US11649035B2
Multiple propulsion units mounted inside an enclosure near openings can be used to control the fluid flow in and out of the openings and also to determine the total fluid flow at any additional uncontrolled openings. By controlling the fluid flow, where such control is available, and by considering the resulting flow at any uncontrolled enclosure openings, it may be possible to achieve a desired thrust vector but have a more favorable weight/shape/efficiency than would be possible without the enclosure and use of coordinated control of fluid flow into or out of some openings. The designed geometry of the enclosure is an important consideration and will have an effect on the overall thrust magnitude and direction. A grouping of propulsion systems can be coordinated to achieve a more general thrust vector and associated moment on a vehicle.
US11649034B2
A flight control surface comprising a main body comprising an upper and lower cover, upper and lower skins and a core member, a prolongation of their length over the length of the core member defining a stepped area. A trailing edge of the control surface comprises a U-shaped profile enclosing the prolongation, the U-shaped profile extending towards the main body in the chordwise direction up to the stepped area and comprising a section that progressively decreases. The trailing edge comprises a first and a second set of rivets located in the prolongation, the first set of rivets joining the upper and lower covers and the second set of rivets joining the U-shaped profile, the upper covers and the lower covers.
US11649033B2
A fuselage for an aircraft includes a pressure deck assembly extending along a roll axis of the fuselage. The pressure deck assembly includes longitudinal beams and a pressure deck. The longitudinal beams extend lengths along the roll axis of the fuselage. The pressure deck extends between the longitudinal beams along the lengths of the longitudinal beams. The pressure deck is compliant along a pitch axis of the fuselage. The fuselage includes a bulkhead extending along a yaw axis of the fuselage. The bulkhead is joined to the pressure deck assembly at a corner joint. The fuselage includes a compression chord extending a length along the pitch axis of the fuselage. The compression chord is joined between the pressure deck assembly and the bulkhead at the corner joint such that the compression chord extends on an outside of the corner joint.
US11649022B1
An improved personal flotation apparatus is presented. The personal flotation apparatus is a form-fitting body swimsuit garment having a plurality of uniformly sized and uniformly spaced cells configured to receive uniformly sized flotation material to enable a wearer to float while wearing the device.
US11649018B2
A pole light and base system that includes a pole light base configured to be secured to a gunwale of a watercraft. In practice, the pole light base might include a pole light tube and a female Universal Serial Bus connector. The pole light tube may have electrical contacts configured to engage respective electrical contacting portions of an all around light pole if an all around light pole is inserted into the pole light tube. In some cases, the system might include the all around light pole and light. The electrical contacts of the tube might include a positive contact electrically coupled to a first wire and a negative contact electrically coupled to a second wire. The first and second wire may be designed to connect directly to a 12 Volt watercraft battery. They may also connect to a boat fuse box that is connected to a battery. Similarly, the female USB connector can be electrically connected to a printed circuit board that includes transforming components capable of transforming 12 Volt power from a watercraft battery into a lower voltage, such as 5 volt, that is made available via the female USB-A connector.
US11649016B2
The men's eight according to the invention has an elongated hull that ends in a pointed bow and a pointed stern. Given a total weight of 938 kg, the waterline is 17,211 mm±5%, preferably ±3% and most preferably ±2%. Given division into 15 segments of equal length and in the case of a total weight of 938 kg, particular values are also presented in table form for the respective cross-sectional area below the waterline WL, the respective circumference below the waterline WL, the respective width at the waterline WL, and the respective width ratio based on the middle segment 7, each having a tolerance of ±5%, preferably ±3% and most preferably ±2%. The women's eight according to the invention is designed with similar lines for a total weight of 858 kg.
US11649015B2
A personal watercraft with cargo-carrying surface and an anchor rail mounted on a surface of the personal watercraft. The anchor rail being adjacent to the cargo-carrying surface and exposed to an environment. The anchor rail can include an outwardly facing surface exposed to the environment, and the anchor rail is secured to the personal watercraft in such a manner that the outwardly facing surface is recessed relative to the cargo-carrying surface to form a recess or that the outwardly facing surface is flush with the cargo-carrying surface.
US11649014B2
A hydrofoil watercraft, in particular, a hydrofoil board is described herein. The hydrofoil board may comprise one or more of a body, a hydrofoil assembly, and/or other components. The body may have one or more of a deck surface configured to support a rider, a bottom surface opposite the deck surface, and/or other surfaces and/or features. The body may comprise a fore portion having a planing surface forming part of the bottom surface. The body may have an aft portion having an aft bottom surface forming part of the bottom surface. The fore portion may be toward a front end of the board. The aft portion may be toward a rear end of the board. An aft cross-sectional thickness between the deck surface and the aft bottom surface may be less than a fore cross-sectional thickness between the deck surface and the planing surface.
US11649012B2
A mooring device including: a strut with a first end and a second end; a first head; a pivot mount; a first suction cup; a rotating mount; a second head; a second suction cup; a rod; and a flotation cover sleeve. The pivot mount allows the first head to pivot about a first head axis and therefore to rotate relative to the strut. The rotating mount allows the suction cup to rotate about a second axis relative to the strut. The flotation cover sleeve having a buoyancy sufficient to render the entire apparatus positively buoyant in water.
US11649009B2
A transmission for a bicycle includes at least four shift elements, one input shaft (1), a first planetary gear set (PS1) which is operatively connected to the input shaft (1), and a second planetary gear set (PS2). A carrier of the first planetary gear set is rotationally fixed to a carrier of the second planetary gear set (PS2).
US11649005B2
A straddle vehicle includes a headlight and a first wind-receiving surface. The headlight emits light forward. The first wind-receiving surface is disposed below and adjacent to the headlight and provided so that it is positioned higher as it approaches rearward.
US11649000B2
A saddled electric vehicle (1) having a battery (100) that is attachable to and detachable from the vehicle (1) includes a vehicle electronic lock (220) which enables the vehicle (1) to be locked and unlocked, a lock control unit (320) which controls the vehicle electronic lock (220), and a sub battery (327) which supplies electric power to the lock control unit (320), in which the lock control unit (320) enables the vehicle to be unlocked in a state in which the battery (100) is removed from the vehicle (1).
US11648998B2
A recreational off-highway vehicle includes side-by-side passenger and driver seats held within a chassis that is approximately 50 inches wide. The seats sit low in the chassis and are covered by a roll cage. Grab handles are positioned on the sides of the passenger seat. Select large round tubing protects the vehicle, while rectangular tubing frames the portions of the vehicle beneath body panels. The vehicle is powered by an engine rearward of the seats that is connected to a transaxle. The engine and transaxle are isolation mounted together with a portion of the air intake assembly. The vehicle is suited for rough terrain travel.
US11648985B2
A prefabricated vehicle may include a body module providing a vehicle body; a platform module having a battery and a driving wheel, and selectively fastened to the body module; a connecting portion that includes a magnetic module provided in any one of the body module and the platform module and an armature provided in a remaining one of the body module and the platform module, the connecting portion being configured such that the magnetic module and the armature face each other when the body module and the platform module are fastened to each other; and a controller connecting the body module and the platform module to each other to be easily replaceable by applying power to the magnetic module to allow the magnetic module and the armature to be connected to each other by a magnetic force.
US11648977B2
A steering column assembly includes a jacket extending longitudinally about a jacket axis, the jacket defining an opening extending radially completely through the jacket. The steering column assembly also includes an end stop assembly disposed in the opening and protruding radially inwardly. The steering column assembly further includes a steering shaft, at least a portion of the steering shaft disposed within the jacket and extending longitudinally about the jacket axis. The steering column assembly yet further includes a stop ring mounted to the steering shaft, the stop ring positioned to contact the end stop assembly at an end of rotational travel position of the steering shaft.
US11648971B2
A foldable golf trolley comprising a chassis; at least one electrically powered rear drive wheel; a wheel support arm mounted to the front of the chassis supporting a front wheel; a stabilizer arm mounted to the rear of the chassis supporting a stabilizer wheel; a main support mounted to the chassis and a handle mounted to the main support; wherein the main support, the wheel support arm and the stabilizer arm are rotatably mounted to the chassis and movable between an operative configuration and a folded configuration; and gears connecting the stabilizer arm and main support, wherein rotation of the main support between the operative configuration and the folded configuration cause rotation of the stabilizer arm between the operative configuration and the folded configuration.
US11648966B2
A universal storage device for a wheel chock used in an auto carrier railcar comprises a grating coupled to a backplate. The grating has a regularly spaced array of horizontal rods, including an intermediate horizontal rod with a missing segment that creates a gap in the array. The backplate has a plurality of tabs extending transverse to the horizontal rods that are wrapped around one or more horizontal rods to couple the grating to the backplate. The wheel chock has multiple rows of teeth for engaging the grating. When installed on the storage device, a first row of teeth engages a first horizontal rod of the grating and a second row of teeth is positioned in the gap in the array of horizontal rods. The storage device further comprises a locking flange rotatable between a locked and an unlocked position. In the locked position, the locking flange engages an upper surface of the wheel chock to secure the wheel chock to the storage device.
US11648961B2
A method of operating an autonomous vehicle includes detecting, based on an input received from a sensor of an autonomous vehicle that is being navigated by an on-board computer system, an occurrence of a driving event, making a determination by the on-board computer system, upon the detecting the occurrence of the driving event, whether or how to alter the path planned by the on-board computer system according to a set of rules, and performing further navigation of the autonomous vehicle based on the determination until the driving event is resolved. The driving event may include a presence of an object in a shoulder area of the road. The driving event may include accumulation of more than a certain number of vehicles behind the autonomous vehicle. The driving event may include a slow vehicle ahead of the autonomous vehicle. The driving event may include a do-not-change-lane zone is within a threshold.
US11648955B2
The disclosed subject matter generally relates to a voice assistant system for a vehicle which can distinguish who is issuing voice commands, and thereby also which sub-system in the vehicle to control according to the voice command. This is obtained by allowing the voice assistant system to receive input signals from an image capturing system configured to detect the user issuing the voice command. The vehicle compartment may be divided into several zones each associated with at least one sub-system, and the input signals from the image capturing system provide information to the control unit of the voice assistant system regarding the present zone of the user issuing the voice commands.
US11648954B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a control method of an unmanned vehicle and an unmanned vehicle, which have excellent safety. The control method of the unmanned vehicle includes: detecting vibration information and running attitude information of the unmanned vehicle; according to the vibration information, the running attitude information and a running status of the unmanned vehicle, determining a condition of the unmanned vehicle, wherein the running status of the unmanned vehicle includes a stop status and a driving status; and when the condition of the unmanned vehicle is abnormal, controlling the unmanned vehicle according to an abnormal condition coping strategy.
US11648948B2
A method determines a quality characteristic, in which the quality characteristic is representative for the procurement of a vehicle-specific friction coefficient of a vehicle and a standardized friction coefficient of a friction coefficient map. The friction coefficient data are received, the friction coefficient data being representative for a friction coefficient measured depending upon the position of a vehicle and a quality characteristic representative for the vehicle. The friction coefficient map is provided, the friction coefficient being representative for standardized friction coefficients of a vehicle fleet of a route network. Depending upon the friction coefficient data and the friction coefficient map, the quality characteristic is determined again and transmitted to the vehicle.
US11648946B2
The present invention discloses an intelligent vehicle platoon lane change performance evaluation method. First, an intelligent vehicle platoon lane change performance test scenario is established; secondly, a three-degree of freedom nonlinear dynamics model is established according to motion characteristics of intelligent vehicles in a platoon lane change process; further, an improved adaptive unscented Kalman filter algorithm is utilized to perform filter estimation on state variables of positions and velocities of platoon vehicles; and finally, based on accurately recursive vehicle motion state parameters, evaluation indexes for platoon lane change performance are proposed and quantified, and an evaluation system for platoon lane change performance is constructed. According to the method proposed in the present invention, the problem of lacking platoon lane change performance quantitative evaluation at present is solved, vehicle motion state parameters can be measured in a high-precision and comprehensive manner, multi-dimensional platoon lane change performance evaluation indexes are quantified and output, and comprehensive, accurate, and reliable scientific quantitative evaluation for platoon lane change performance is achieved.
US11648917B2
A highly reliable vehicle brake system that includes an electric brake and achieves redundancy at low cost is provided. A vehicle brake system (1) is provided to a wheel (Wa) of a vehicle (VB), and includes an electric brake (16a) provided with a motor (80), a driver (60) that drives the motor (80), and a first control device (10) provided with a master controller (30) and a first sub-controller (40) connected to each other. The electric brake (16a) is controllable by both the master controller (30) and the first sub-controller (40).
US11648902B2
A method for monitoring the interior of a vehicle including emitting electromagnetic waves of at least one frequency or at least one frequency band towards at least one seat arranged in the interior of the vehicle by means of an electromagnetic radiator, receiving reflected electromagnetic waves by means of a sensor, detecting a living object on the seat from the received reflected electromagnetic waves by means of a detection device, determining a volume of the detected object from the received reflected electromagnetic waves by means of the detection device, determining a weight characteristic of the detected object on the basis of the determined volume of the object by means of the detection device, outputting a detection signal representing the weight characteristic by way of the detection device, and actuating a safety system to make the interior safe in accordance with the detection signal.
US11648901B1
A seat for a vehicle includes an occupant protection system. The occupant protection system includes an airbag or other barrier that at least partially occludes an opening to a volume under a vehicle seat. The occupant protection system may reduce or prevent lower leg injury and/or retain cargo in the volume during a collision event.
US11648894B2
A cable holder for securing a plurality of vehicle engine cables while simulating a vehicle engine distributor comprises a shaft portion and a cap portion provided at a top of the shaft portion. The cap portion cooperates with the shaft portion to define a central passageway therethrough. At least one opening is provided proximate a bottom of the shaft portion and opening to the central passageway, and a plurality of upper apertures are provided proximate a top of the cap portion and opening to the central passageway. A hollow path is formed between the at least one lower aperture and plurality of upper apertures to channel a plurality of vehicle engine cables through the cable holder.
US11648890B2
A trim component for an interior of a motor vehicle has a film and has a carrier from a thermoplastic plastics material. The film has a relief structure, the carrier has a lattice structure having lattice members, and the carrier is back-molded on a rear side of the film such that the lattice members are connected in a materially integral manner to the rear side of the film.
US11648886B2
An electrically-powered accessory for vehicles includes a vehicle structure. A connector mechanically connects an electrically-powered accessory to vehicle structure. The connector includes a movable lock member that mechanically locks the electrically-powered accessory to the vehicle structure when the movable lock member is in a locked position. The movable lock member causes the electrically-powered accessory to be electrically connected to an electrical power supply of the vehicle when the movable lock member is in the locked position, and electrically disconnects the electrically-powered accessory from the vehicle power supply when the movable lock member is in the unlocked position.
US11648885B2
A bike rack includes a base and a bike rack. The base is connected to a vehicle and the bike rack is foldably connected to the base. The bike rack includes two sets of supports for supporting and securing the bike front wheel and the bike rear wheel. A locking unit is connected to each support and includes a hooking member. By pressing a pressing end of the hooking member, the bike rack is easily folded or expanded relative to the base.
US11648884B1
A mounting assembly for removably securing accessories to a vehicle may include a pair of anchor blocks, each of the pair of anchor blocks including a medial face and a lateral face, wherein the lateral face of each anchor block is configured to engage with a respective tow hook on the vehicle; an elongate tie rod attached to and extending between the medial surfaces of the pair of anchor blocks; and a ratchet body assembly attached to the elongate tie rod. The elongate tie rod may be a telescopic tie rod and, thus, may have an adjustable length.
US11648882B2
A vehicle roof rack includes four frames: a front frame, a back frame, a left frame and a right frame. Both the front frame and the back frame are main frames, and an upper end of each of the main frames is connected with a guard bar unit; a plurality of main connecting blocks are connected between the front frame and the back frame or the plurality of main connecting blocks are connected between the left frame and the right frame; a middle portion of an upper end of the each of the main frames is provided with an upper clamping groove, and two ends of the guard bar unit are connected with fixing seats respectively; each of the fixing seats includes a connecting lug, the connecting lug is provided with a connecting hole, the connecting hole is connected with a fixing assembly.
US11648876B2
A system for visibility enhancement for a motor vehicle assistant system for warning the driver of hazardous situations due to at least one object being located within a critical range defined relative to the motor vehicle includes at least a first sensor means comprising a camera installed in a rear view equipment of the motor vehicle adapted to record at least one image, and an image processing means adapted to receive a first input signal from the first sensor means containing the at least one image and a second input signal containing at least one position profile of the at least one object located within the critical range, and manipulate the at least one image to generate a contrast manipulated image. A corresponding method of visibility enhancement is also described.
US11648863B2
A support driver for a seat and a support assembly including the same that is using a tube and a structure of a mat that is moved by an inflation and a deflation of the tube. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the support driver coupled to a seat frame includes: a support portion coupled to the seat frame; a tube coupled to the support portion; and a mat coupled to the support portion so as to allow the mat to be movable in a direction that is away from the support portion or in a direction that is adjacent to the support portion, with the tube being provided therebetween, in which the tube is configured to push the mat by being inflated according to an operation of a pump that is connected to the tube by a hose.
US11648857B2
Heating and cooling device for a vehicle seat with separating material (2) that forms at least a portion of an air-distribution chamber (1), with an upper-side layer (4) covering the separating material (2) on its upper side, with a lower-side layer (5) of separating material (2) on the underside opposite from the upper-side layer (4) that is essentially airtight whereby the upper-side layer (4) and the lower-side layer (5) are connected together about the outer circumference of the separating materials (2). An air-inlet aperture (6) is provided to the air-distribution chamber (1) and air-outlet apertures (10) are provided in the upper-side layer (4) to remove air from the air-distribution chamber (1). The upper-side layer (4) and the lower-side layer (5) are connected at least about their outer circumference by a box-shaped insert (3).
US11648854B1
A vehicle has a seat movable between an upright position and a reclined position and an automatically adjustable headrest connected to the seat, the automatically adjustable headrest being automatically adjusted for a posture of a head of a user when the user is reclined in the reclined position. The automatically adjustable headrest is automatically adjusted in response to a camera detecting that the user is sleeping or resting either on his or her back or on his or her side, the headrest being adjusted for either a side sleeping posture or a back sleeping posture.
US11648853B2
A seat adjustment system for a vehicle seat is provided. The seat adjustment system includes a seat body; at least one actuating unit, configured to adjust a support of the seat body; a sensing unit, configured to obtain and provide seat information and body shape data of a back of an occupant; and a control unit, configured to control the at least one actuating unit; wherein when one parameter of the seat body changes, the control unit makes a portion of the body shape data of the occupant in a pre-defined range via the at least one actuating unit.
US11648849B2
A system and a method for predicting a battery consumption of an electric vehicle are disclosed. The battery consumption prediction system of the electric vehicle predicts the battery consumption considering an overall state of the electric vehicle and an external environment of the electric vehicle. The battery consumption prediction system of the electric vehicle may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, devices related to 5G services, and the like.
US11648835B2
Methods, systems, devices and apparatuses for a engine compartment ventilation system. The engine compartment ventilation system includes a grille cover. The grille cover is configured to cover an engine compartment of the vehicle. The grille cover has one or more grille shutters. The engine compartment ventilation system includes a sensor. The sensor is configured to measure an ambient temperature of an environment surrounding the vehicle. The engine compartment ventilation system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is coupled to the one or more grille shutters and the sensor. The electronic control unit is configured to control the one or more grille shutters based on the ambient temperature of the environment surrounding the vehicle.
US11648833B2
A support bracket for mounting a power train includes a bracket body including an engaging hole formed to insert an engaging bolt of a power train mount, an insert portion formed adjacent to the engaging hole, and a pocket formed adjacent to the insert portion, and an engaging nut inserted in the insert portion along the insert direction to engage the engaging bolt, and a stopper configured to prevent the engaging nut from separation.
US11648832B2
A truck cap having a cap body with an opening, and a cap door that is movable between open and closed positions with respect to the opening. At least one hinge that attaches to the cap body and the cap door of the truck cap. The hinge includes a first hinge bracket member and a second hinge bracket member. The first hinge bracket member includes a hinge bracket to receive a pivot pin. The second hinge bracket member includes a hinge bracket with an opening sized to receive at least a portion of the pivot pin. The first hinge bracket member and the second hinge bracket member are pivotable with respect to each other about the pivot pin. A longitudinally extending gas prop pivotably attached to the pin extending from the second angled portion of the first hinge bracket member and to the pin of the second hinge bracket member.
US11648810B2
Provided are a vehicle, a vehicle motion state estimation apparatus, and a method for estimating a vehicle motion state capable of highly accurately estimating a state quantity of a bounce motion of a vehicle having a non-linear suspension characteristic. The vehicle motion state estimation apparatus in a vehicle, in which wheels and a vehicle body are coupled via a suspension, includes a bounce motion estimation unit that estimates and outputs a state quantity of a bounce motion of the vehicle based on traveling state information of the vehicle, and a correction value estimation unit that calculates a correction value to correct an output the bounce motion estimation unit. The correction value estimation unit calculates the correction value in consideration of a non-linear characteristic of the suspension.
US11648809B1
A vehicle incorporates a gravity-assist energy harvesting suspension system including one or more gravitational positive displacement pumps. The positive displacement pump has a cylinder and a reciprocating piston inside the cylinder. The piston is adapted for movement along a compression stroke and an opposite extension stroke in response to a gravitational bounce of the vehicle when in motion. A turbine comprising a rotor shaft and attached blades is mounted relative to a distal end of a fluid outlet hose connected to the pump. Fluid discharged through the outlet hose acts on the blades, thereby moving and imparting rotational energy to the rotor shaft. A generator is operatively connected to the turbine, and is adapted for converting the rotational energy generated by the rotor shaft to electrical energy.
US11648806B2
At least one mark formed by a character or a figure and a surface geometry arrangement region disposed adjacent to the mark outside the mark can be formed on a surface of a sidewall portion of a tire. The surface geometry arrangement region can have a plurality of micro projections. The surface geometry arrangement region can include a first region formed in at least a part of the surface geometry arrangement region such that the greater a distance from the mark is, the less a height of the micro projection can be.
US11648802B2
A tyre for a motorcycle includes a tread portion. The tread portion includes a crown longitudinal groove extending in a tyre circumferential direction on a side of a tyre equator, a shoulder longitudinal groove extending in the tyre circumferential direction on a side of a first tread edge, and a middle groove arranged between the crown longitudinal groove and the shoulder longitudinal groove. The middle groove includes a plurality of middle main groove portions arranged in the tyre circumferential direction and each protruding toward the tyre equator or the first tread edge. Each of the middle main groove portions is formed in a bent line shape or in an arc shape. Each of the middle main groove portions includes a shallow bottom portion having a groove depth smaller than a maximum groove depth of the shoulder longitudinal groove and a maximum groove depth of the crown longitudinal groove.
US11648791B2
A calendar has one or more individual pages of the calendar that include portions of the pages that are omitted, removed or removable in order to enable aligned portions of other pages of the calendar to be viewed through the removed portions. The removed portions can be formed as apertures in the page and/or as removed portions of one or more edges of the page, among others to allow the stacked pages to form a coordinated, and optionally customizable, decorative appearance for the calendar.
US11648783B2
A portable label printer for printing content onto a surface of a label is provided. The label has a chip disposed therein. The portable label printer includes a main body, an RFID antenna assembly, a front cover unit, a back cover unit, and a print head module. The front and back cover units are disposed in the main body, and a paper exit port is formed between the front and back cover units. The RFID antenna assembly is disposed in the main body and adjacent to the paper exit port. The print head module is disposed in the main body and under the RFID antenna assembly. The label first passes through the print head module, and then passes through the RFID antenna assembly. When the label passes through the RFID antenna assembly, the RFID antenna assembly performs data reading or data writing on the chip of the label.
US11648781B2
A method for printing a plurality of scan lines with one or more inkjet heads includes receiving at least one scanline; creating, from pixels of said at least one scanline, a plurality of bundles of a predetermined size comprising first bundles and consecutive bundles, said first and consecutive bundles comprising pixels for which nozzles of the one or more inkjet heads have to be fired within a first time period and within a consecutive time period, respectively; and storing said plurality of bundles in a first memory. The method includes transferring said plurality of bundles from first memory to second memory; and repeating until all said pixels are available in the second memory as the first bundles. Nozzles of the one or more inkjet heads are fired in accordance with the first bundles within the first time period and steps repeated for consecutive bundles and associated respective consecutive time periods.
US11648773B2
In example implementations, a printhead die is provided. The printhead die includes a substrate, a chamber layer formed on the substrate, a plurality of printing fluid ejection chambers coupled to opposite sides of the chamber layer and along a length of the chamber layer, and a top hat layer formed on the chamber layer and the plurality of printing fluid ejection chambers. The chamber layer includes a void to store printing fluid. The top hat layer includes an initial unsupported top hat layer portion over the void, wherein the initial unsupported top hat layer portion comprises a first end that is narrower than a second end.
US11648770B2
A control section controls an ejection operation to eject liquid in each of a first state in which the liquid flows from a supply tank to a liquid ejection head in a supply channel, the liquid flows from the liquid ejection head to a collection tank in a collection channel, and the liquid flows from the collection tank to the supply tank in a feedback channel, and a second state in which the liquid flows from the supply tank to the liquid ejection head in the supply channel and the liquid flows from the supply tank to the liquid ejection head and the liquid flows from the collection tank to the liquid ejection head in the collection channel.
US11648769B2
Provided is an ink jet recording method in which an image is formed by applying an ink containing a coloring material and a processing liquid containing a flocculant to a surface of a recording medium by a droplet discharge device to coalescence, wherein an application amount of the processing liquid is changed in accordance with an application amount of the ink for each unit area, and is controlled to be 5 g/m2 or less in all of the unit areas in which the images are formed, and when the image is formed in a plurality of printing passes, an average value of the application amounts of the processing liquid in each printing pass in the unit areas in which the application amount of the processing liquid is 0.8 g/m2 or more is controlled so that a deviation when compared between the printing passes is within ±30%.
US11648767B2
A printing system includes a controller. The controller is configured to: receive first condition information related to an ejection failure in a printer; determine a maintenance manner applicable to the first condition information; cause the printer to perform a maintenance in the determined maintenance manner; receive second condition information related to the ejection failure in the printer after the maintenance is performed; determine whether an ejection performance in the printer has been improved based on the second condition information in response to performing the maintenance; update an evaluation index in accordance with determination of whether the ejection performance in the printer has been improved, the evaluation index corresponding to the determined maintenance manner.
US11648766B1
A method of making a metal foil heater comprising transferring a line image of a heater circuit to cutter and cutting the foil into a metal foil construction before affixing plastic sheets to both sides while attaching wires configured to supply current to the heater.
US11648765B2
A sealing method includes dispensing an adhesive on an edge surface of a first part, performing a first activation for hardening the adhesive to a predetermined hardness, performing a second activation for triggering appearance of adhesion strength of the adhesive, assembling the first part and a second part, and pressing the first part and the second part against each other.
US11648754B2
An interlayer film for laminated glass is disclosed which contains a thermoplastic resin and has a portion where the amount of increase in the thickness is increased in a direction from one end to the other end in the region where the thickness is increased, or has a portion where the amount of increase in the thickness is decreased in a direction from one end to the other end in the region where the thickness is increased, and the ten-point average roughness Rz of the surface at a center position of the portion where the amount of increase in the thickness is increased, or the portion where the amount of increase in the thickness is decreased is 20 μm or more.
US11648747B2
Disclosed is an electronic device that includes a first plate that forms a first surface of the electronic device through which contents are output, a second plate that forms a second surface facing away from the first surface, and a side member that surrounds a space between the first plate and the second plate. The second plate includes a UV curable resin layer including a fine pattern that implements an interference effect and a prism effect of light and a metal nanoparticle layer printed on the fine pattern so as to have a specific orientation. Besides, it may be permissible to prepare various other embodiments speculated through the specification.
US11648740B2
The invention relates to an impregnation mould for manufacturing a turbine engine part, made of composite material, obtained from a preform made of a weave of fibres, said mould having first and second portions provided with respective recesses that define a cavity capable of receiving the preform, in which at least one injection means of the mould allows a resin to be injected in order to impregnate said preform, wherein said at least one injection means has a plurality of tubular injection needles, which are capable of extending from at least one of the first and second recesses to penetrate at least the weave of the preform in order to allow resin to be injected.
US11648737B2
A sonotrode includes multiple layers of a material melted to one another to form a structure. The structure provides a base that has an attachment feature that is configured to operatively secure to an ultrasonic converter. The structure includes a shaft that extends from the base to a terminal end that provides a working surface that is configured to selectively engage a workpiece. The structure has at least one shaft that includes a first shaft that extends from the base to a first terminal end that provides a first working surface that is configured to selectively engage a workpiece. The first shaft is integrally formed with the base from the multiple layers to provide an unbroken, monolithic construction.
US11648728B2
A three-dimensional shaped article producing composition is provided and contains a plurality of particles, a solvent for dispersing the particles, and a binder having a function to temporarily bind the particles to one another in a state where the solvent is removed, wherein a volume-based average particle diameter of the particles is 0.1 μm or more and less than 50 μm, and a content ratio of the binder is 1.5 vol % or more and 10 vol % or less.
US11648725B2
Provided is a method for heating plastic preforms, wherein the plastic parison are transported along a predetermined transport path and are heated during this transport, wherein at least one first heating section with at least one first heating element as well as at least one second heating section with at least one second heating element is arranged along the transport path, by a first temperature measuring device an actual temperature of the plastic preforms is measured in or before a start region of the transport path, and as a function of this actual temperature of the plastic preforms the at least one first heating element is controlled in such a way that the plastic preforms reach a predetermined target temperature after heating by this at least one first heating element.
US11648718B2
An instrument panel unit (2) includes an instrument panel (3) and a decorative sheet (4). The instrument panel (3) includes a sticking portion (3a) and an exposed portion (3b). A plurality of insertion grooves (3c) and insertion holes (3d), into which bent pieces (4a) formed at rear end of the decorative sheet (4) are inserted, are formed alternately on a rear side end of the sticking portion (3a). A groove front-surface (3g) forming the insertion groove (3c) of the instrument panel (3) is formed in a tapered shape such that a width between the groove front-surface and an opposing groove rear-surface (3h) gradually increases upward. The bent piece (4a) of the decorative sheet (4) is thinner than a groove width at an upper part serving as an entrance part of the insertion groove (3c) and thicker than the groove width of a groove bottom-surface (3i) in the insertion groove (3c).
US11648715B2
A mould for forming a collapsible container from an expandable material, the container comprising, at least a base and two pairs of a side walls extending at right angles from opposing sides of the base, the mould comprising: a first mould member and a second mould member movable with respect to each other between an open and a closed moulding position to define a mould cavity; and a plurality of anvils mounted on a rear surface of at least one of the first mould member and/or second mould member, each anvil being movable so as to be extended into the mould cavity so as to form one or more hinges in the expandable material at predetermined locations within the mould cavity; wherein the mould cavity defined by the first mould member and the second mould member is a three-dimensional representation of an inside-out configuration of the assembled container.
US11648713B2
A method for producing a foam-molded product by using a plasticizing cylinder, includes: plasticizing and melting the thermoplastic resin to provide the molten resin in a plasticization zone of the plasticizing cylinder; introducing a pressurized fluid containing the physical foaming agent at a fixed pressure into a starvation zone of the plasticizing cylinder to retain the starvation zone at the fixed pressure; allowing the molten resin to be in the starved state in the starvation zone; bringing the molten resin in contact with the pressurized fluid containing the physical foaming agent at the fixed pressure, in the starvation zone in a state in which the starvation zone is retained at the fixed pressure; and molding the molten resin having been brought in contact with the pressurized fluid containing the physical foaming agent into the foam-molded product.
US11648703B2
A deburring apparatus includes (among other components) a frame and an elongated flat element connected to the frame. Rollers are adapted to support and rotate a vacuum belt around the apparatus. A perforation device is positioned and adapted to make perforations in the vacuum belt as the vacuum belt is rotated by the rollers. Making the perforations in the vacuum belt causes debris to remain in at least one of the perforations. The elongated flat element is positioned to contact the debris in the perforations.
US11648695B2
A shaving razor cartridge with a housing having a bottom surface with a pair of guide members. A blade carrier has a first end with a blade platform with a tab extending from the blade platform to a second end. A blade is mounted to the blade platform. The blade platform is mounted to the bottom surface with the tab being unsupported and positioned between the pair of guides members.
US11648694B2
A shaving razor system with a handle having a first end with a top surface defining recessed surface between a pair of guide surfaces. A shaving razor cartridge is removably mounted to the first end of the handle. The shaving razor cartridge includes a housing and a blade carrier assembly. The blade carrier assembly has a blade carrier with a blade platform at a first end, a tab extending from the blade platform to a second end. The tab has a crest between a pair of angled surfaces of the tab. A blade is mounted to the blade platform. The blade has a cutting edge. The tab flexes between a first position and a second position.
US11648692B2
A personal care product system having a personal care product stand and a handle is provided. The handle can be docked with the personal care product stand when not in use. The position of the handle relative to the personal care product stand is maintained by a docking magnet in the handle and a docking magnet in the personal care product stand. The handle is tilted with respect to a vertical axis and a majority of the handle is unsupported.
US11648678B2
Systems, devices, articles, and methods, described in greater detail herein, including robotic systems which include at least one rangefinder, at least one manipulator, and at least one processor in communication with the at least one rangefinder, and methods of operation of the same. The at least one processor obtains rangefinder pose information which represents, at least, the at least one manipulator in a plurality of poses. The at least one processor obtains manipulator pose information, optimizes a model of mismatch between the rangefinder pose information and the manipulator pose information, wherein the model of mismatch includes a plurality of parameters, and updates at least one processor readable storage device with the plurality of parameters based at least in part on the optimization.
US11648677B2
An automatic wheel changer robot has a includes a drive assembly, a torque gun, a sensor assembly, and a controller. The drive assembly has a mobile base and two wheel-clamping assemblies, each configured to engage a wheel. The controller generates a set of instructions based, at least in part, on information obtained from the sensor assembly. The drive assembly uses the set of instructions to cooperatively remove respective wheels from respective hubs on a vehicle and/or attach respective wheels to respective hubs on a vehicle. The device may have lidar sensors and Mecanum wheels that the controller is programmed to use to move between respective hubs and wheel storage locations install wheels, replace wheels, rotate tires, and perform similar operations.
US11648674B2
A method and system for programming picking and placing of a workpiece is provided. Embodiments may include associating a workpiece with an end effector that is attached to a robot and scanning the workpiece while the workpiece is associated with the end effector. Embodiments may also include determining a pose of the workpiece relative to the robot, based upon, at least in part, the scanning.
US11648673B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing automated safety procedures for a robot. One of the methods includes receiving, by a robotic control system for a robot, a request to execute an automated safety procedure by a safety control subsystem for the robot. Each step of the automated safety procedure is iterated until an end of the automated safety procedure is reached, including if a step requires a new safety configuration, a respective safety configuration for the step is obtained and activated before performing one or more automatic actions for the step.
US11648671B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for tracking location of an inspection robot are disclosed. An example apparatus for tracking inspection data may include an inspection chassis having a plurality of inspection sensors configured to interrogate an inspection surface, a first drive module and a second drive module, both coupled to the inspection chassis. The first and second drive module may each include a passive encoder wheel and a non-contact sensor positioned in proximity to the passive encoder wheel, wherein the non-contact sensor provides a movement value corresponding to the first passive encoder wheel. An inspection position circuit may determine a relative position of the inspection chassis in response to the movement values from the first and second drive modules.
US11648663B2
A soft robotic actuator is disclosed. The actuator includes a first portion with a substantially constant profile and a second portion with a regularly varying profile, and bends in a pressure-dependent fashion as the internal pressure within the actuator is increased or decreased.
US11648659B2
Disclosed is a work support having an extendable support beam for spanning between a pair of leg assemblies. The extendable support beam includes one or more elongated rails having a first end, a second end, an upper edge, a lower edge, a middle portion disposed between the upper edge and the lower edge, where the upper edge and the lower edge each extend away from the middle portion and form a channel having an interior surface and an exterior surface, and a t-track extending longitudinally along the interior surface. The work support includes the extendable support beams and a leg mount disposed between the pair of elongated rails, and a pair of legs pivotally coupled with the leg mount and moveable between a storage position where the pair of legs are secured within a cavity, and a working position.
US11648657B2
A handheld power tool includes an output shaft, a drive unit, a securing ring, and a securing element. The output shaft is configured to be releasably connected to an insert tool of the handheld power tool. The drive unit is configured to transmit a movement to the output shaft. The securing element is configured to secure the securing ring. The securing element has a recess which is provided to surround the securing ring in the radial direction in at least one operating state.
US11648649B2
The tool connector includes a socket having a receiving space and a through hole communicating the receiving space, a sliding member slidably received in the receiving space, a positioning member received in the receiving space, and a hook member. A funnel-shaped opening is formed at an end of the receiving space. The sliding member is connected to the socket with an end via a first elastic member, and the other end is for a tool bit to abut against. The positioning member is selectively inserted into the through hole. An end of the hook member is connected to the sliding member, and the other end has a hook portion for grasp the tool bit. When the positioning member is moved inward and the sliding member is moved toward the funnel-shaped opening, the hook portion is swingable in the funnel-shaped opening to release the tool bit.
US11648639B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a polishing ring assembly suitable for polishing an electrostatic chuck and method of using the same. In one embodiment, the polishing ring assembly has a retaining ring assembly and an electrostatic chuck fixture. The retaining ring assembly includes an inner diameter and a top surface, a plurality of outer drive rings wherein the plurality of outer drive rings are placed on the top surface of the ceramic retaining ring. The electrostatic chuck fixture includes an electrostatic chuck drive plate adjacent to the inner diameter of in the ceramic retaining ring. The electrostatic chuck drive plate has a lock to secure retaining ring assembly with the electrostatic chuck fixture without transferring the weight from one assembly over to the other through the locking mechanism.
US11648638B2
Substrate polishing apparatus and polishing liquid discharge method in substrate polishing apparatus
In a substrate polishing apparatus where a polishing liquid passes through inside a rotary joint, the rotary joint requires maintenance. There is provided a substrate polishing apparatus that includes: a polishing head for holding a substrate; a rotary table that has a surface to which a first opening portion is provided; a polishing liquid discharge mechanism disposed to the rotary table; and a controller configured to control at least the polishing liquid discharge mechanism. The polishing liquid discharge mechanism includes a first cylinder, a first piston, and a driving mechanism that drives the first piston. The first opening portion is communicated with a liquid holding space defined by the first cylinder and the first piston. The controller controls the driving of the first piston by the driving mechanism to increase and decrease a volume of the liquid holding space.
US11648625B2
A method for welding between two metallic plates, including: (a) fitting a solid plate without openings, configured to be transparent at at least one emission wavelength of a laser beam (F) emitted by a laser (L), between the laser (L) and at least one contact zone between the metallic plates to be welded; (a1) inerting of the contact zone via a netural gas, where the neutral gas circulates in channels delimited by the contact zone between the metallic plates and by the solid plate; (a2) exerting pressure on the two metallic plates to apply them against one another in the contact zone to be welded, where the application pressure is exerted by the solid plate directly in contact with one of the two metallic plates to be welded; and (b) emission of a laser beam, through the solid plate, to perform welding of the metallic plates in the contact zone.
US11648623B2
A system for and a method of processing a transparent material, such as glass, using an adjustable laser beam line focus are disclosed. The system for processing a transparent material includes a laser source operable to emit a pulsed laser beam, and an optical assembly (6′) disposed within an optical path of the pulsed laser beam. The optical assembly (6′) is configured to transform the pulsed laser beam into a laser beam focal line having an adjustable length and an adjustable diameter. At least a portion of the laser beam focal line is operable to be positioned within a bulk of the transparent material such that the laser beam focal line produces a material modification along the laser beam focal line. Method of laser processing a transparent material by adjusting at least one of the length of the laser beam focal line and the diameter of the laser beam focal line is also disclosed.
US11648620B2
A method for the joining of ceramic pieces with a hermetically sealed joint comprising brazing a layer of joining material between the two pieces. The ceramic pieces may be aluminum nitride or other ceramics, and the pieces may be brazed with Nickel and an alloying element, under controlled atmosphere. The completed joint will be fully or substantially Nickel with another element in solution. The joint material is adapted to later withstand both the environments within a process chamber during substrate processing, and the oxygenated atmosphere which may be seen within the interior of a heater or electrostatic chuck. Semiconductor processing equipment comprising ceramic and joined with a nickel alloy and adapted to withstand processing chemistries, such as fluorine chemistries, as well as high temperatures.
US11648616B2
A reciprocating saw includes a housing, a motor positioned within the housing, and a shoe coupled to the housing. The shoe is configured to engage a workpiece. The reciprocating saw also includes a proximity sensor configured to detect the workpiece when engaged with the shoe. In response to the proximity sensor detecting formation of a gap between the shoe and the workpiece, the proximity sensor is operable to deactivate the motor.
US11648615B2
A sled assembly configured to push stock along a fence includes a carriage and rollers mounted at spaced apart positions. The rollers engage the fence to guide movement of the carriage therealong and each has a peripheral portion for being received in a fence race. An adjustable roller mount selectively adjusts the position of the roller to align the peripheral portions of the rollers with the width of the race. An adjustable fence assembly includes an outfeed fence movable relative to an infeed fence. An outfeed fence adjustment mechanism includes mounting posts at spaced apart locations along the length of the outfeed fence movable to drive movement of the outfeed fence along an axis transverse to the feed direction.
US11648608B1
A secondary cooling control method for reinforcing surface solidification structure of microalloyed steel continuous casting bloom includes: in situ observing precipitation behavior of secondary phase particles of the microalloyed steel, and determining a concentrated precipitation temperature range; cooling the microalloyed steel at different cooling rates, obtaining a particle size and a volume fraction of the secondary phase particles of the microalloyed steel at different cooling rates; determining an optimal average cooling rate; determining an optimal average cooling rate r; determining an optimal average cooling rate; and determining an optimal average cooling rate range through intersection of the three optimal average cooling rates whereby the continuous casting secondary cooling is optimized. The present invention can enhance the surface solidification structure of continuous casting bloom and reduce surface and subsurface cracks of the microalloyed steel continuous casting bloom.
US11648583B2
The invention is generally related to a method for producing, in a consistent manner, contact lenses each having an intact durable coating thereon, wherein the coating is a hydrogel coating formed by covalently attached a hydrophilic polymeric material having azetidinium groups onto a base coating of a polyanionic polymer on a contact lens at a relatively low temperature (e.g., from about 40° C. to about 60° C.). The coating temperature for forming a durable hydrogel coating on top of the base coating of a contact lens can be significantly lowered by raising, in situ, the pH (to about 9.5 or higher) of a reactive coating solution which contains the hydrophilic polymeric material having azetidinium groups.
US11648540B2
The present disclosure provides a modified catalyst, and preparation method and a method for producing aromatic hydrocarbons by aromatization of olefins using the modified catalyst. The modified catalyst comprises an acidic molecular sieve and an olefin aromatization active metal component, the total acid amount of the catalyst as measured by NH3-TPD method is not higher than 0.35 mmol/g, and ratio of the strong acid to weak acid is within a range of 0.8-1.2.
US11648539B2
Disclosed is a method for preparing a catalyst for a gasoline reaction of dimethyl ether that includes reacting a silica source, an aluminum source, and a structural derivative to synthesize a zeolite sol, mixing an alcohol with an organic template to form an emulsion phase, and adding a zeolite sol to the emulsion phase to perform a reaction.
US11648527B2
To provide a hydrocarbon adsorbent having high hydrocarbon adsorbing properties even after exposed to a high temperature/high humidity reducing atmosphere. A hydrocarbon adsorbent, which includes a FAU type zeolite having a lattice constant of at least 24.29 Å and containing copper. Such a hydrocarbon adsorbent may be used for a method for adsorbing hydrocarbons to be exposed to a high temperature/high humidity environment, and may be used particularly for a method for adsorbing hydrocarbons in an exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine, such as an automobile exhaust gas.
US11648515B2
A gas solution manufacturing device 1 includes a gas supply line 2 configured to supply a gas as a raw material of a gas solution, a liquid supply line 3 configured to supply a liquid as a raw material of the gas solution, a gas solution production unit 4 configured to mix the gas and the liquid together to produce the gas solution, a gas-liquid separation unit 5 configured to perform gas-liquid separation of the produced gas solution into a supplied liquid to be supplied to a use point and a discharged gas to be discharged through an exhaust port, and a gas dissolving unit 6 provided in the liquid supply line 4 and configured to dissolve the discharged gas resulting from the gas-liquid separation in the liquid. The gas dissolving unit 6 is configured with a hollow fiber membrane configured with a gas permeable membrane.
US11648510B2
An apparatus for inerting a space includes a metal-air battery, a feed channel for the introduction of air from an air source to the metal-air battery, and a discharge channel for the discharge of air from the metal-air battery to a volume of the space. A control unit controls an electrochemical reaction of the metal-air battery as a function of a fire situation within the space. A method for inerting a space, an inerting system, an inerting method and an aircraft or spacecraft are also provided.
US11648491B2
A filter device is disclosed. The filter device includes a coalesce and a final separator arranged one after another in a flow direction. The final separator includes final separator material and is arranged radially within the coalesce. The coalesce is configured hollow-cylindrical and includes a coalescer material and an external support structure with an upper coalescer ring and a lower coalescer ring that are connected with one another via axial coalescer ribs. A positioning element is provided on the final separator. A positioning opening is provided in a region of the at least one lower coalescer ring. The positioning opening is configured in a complementary manner to the positioning element and the final separator engages into the positioning opening in a mounted state with the positioning element and thereby aligns the final separator relative to the coalesce.
US11648481B2
Automated detection of events in content can be performed using regions of information associated with various user interface or display elements. Certain elements can be indicative of a type of event, and regions associated with these elements can be analyzed on a per-frame basis. If one of these primary regions shows a state or transition that is indicative of one of these events, one or more secondary regions can be analyzed as well to attempt to verify whether that event occurred, as well as whether that event qualifies for selection for additional use. Selected events can be used for purposes such as to generate highlight montages, training videos, or user profiles. These events may be positioned at different layers of an event hierarchy, where child regions are only analyzed for frames where a parent region is indicative of a type of event.
US11648474B2
In dynamic adjustment of data streamed over a network for display on an output device, display capability information of an output device is requested and received. The display capability information includes information indicating whether the output device is in a horizontal or vertical orientation relative to a user. Two or more data streams configured for display on the output device are formatted such that in a manner consistent with the display capability information and formatted for either vertical or horizontal orientation of the output device. The data streams include a user interface data stream and a separate video data stream. The user interface data and the video data are scaled separately. The streams are delivered to the output device via a network connection by a server to a client device platform used in combination with the output device.
