US11693996B2
A system and method for construction estimation using aerial images is provided. The system receives at least one aerial image of a building. An estimation engine processes the aerial image at a plurality of angles to automatically identify a plurality (e.g., perimeter and interior) lines in the image corresponding to a plurality of features of a roof the building. The estimation engine allows users to generate two-dimensional and three-dimensional models of the roof by automatically delineating various roof features, and generates a report including information about the roof of the building.
US11693994B2
A system and method for securing data storage devices in an information technology (IT) network storage system is provided. The security system comprises a security control computer and electronic locks, which are mounted in a data center cabinet to slots for holding respective data storage devices. The security protocol implemented by the control computer requires an authorized administrator to execute a lock/unlock command identifying a particular device, and to provide a first part of a combination key. Additionally, an on-site hardware engineer is required to input a second part of the key at a terminal on-site at the data center. Upon verification of the first key, and then the second key, the control computer unlocks or locks the appropriate electronic lock. The control computer also implements a data backup/flushing process prior to allowing removal of an online cache board to avoid data corruption, loss, or system interruption.
US11693982B2
The disclosure is directed to systems and methods for enterprise-wide fine-grained role-based access control to a plurality of organizational assets. In various embodiments exemplary methods include receiving, via an authorization service client API, identification of an asset for fine-grained role-based access control; a definition of an asset type of the asset; a definition of an asset value; receiving, a definition of an organizational role with fine-grained role-based access control to at least one of the asset, the asset type, and the asset value. Furthermore, receiving permissions for fine-grained role-based access by the organizational role to at least one of the asset, the asset type, and the asset value. Furthermore, the exemplary method may comprise providing an authorization service user interface (UI) for enabling fine-grained role-based access control to the asset based on the fine-grained role-based access control database schema.
US11693981B2
Systems and method are provided for data self-protection. The systems and methods may involve installing a sentry on a computer system, the sentry including a file system filter installed on a kernel of that computer system; providing a central sentry platform in communication with the sentry, operating the central sentry platform to send a data self-protection policy to the sentry, the data self-protection policy being encrypted so that it can only be modified by the central sentry platform; operating the file system filter to control access to encrypted data stored on the computer system, by, for each process making a file access request to the encrypted data, the file system filter receiving and handling that file access request according to the data self-protection policy; and, operating the central sentry platform to monitor the sentry and to receive information from the sentry regarding access to the encrypted data.
US11693979B2
An example operation may include one or more of receiving transport data of a multi-party transport process, identifying documents and events that are associated with the multi-party transport process based on the received transport data, dynamically determining read and write permissions for the documents and the events of the multi-party transport process based on predefined roles, and storing an identifier of the multi-party transport process and the dynamically determined read and write permissions in a block on a blockchain.
US11693974B2
Systems and techniques are provided for trust agents. Trust agents may be enabled. A state determination may be received from each of the enabled trust agents. The state determination may indicate either a trusted state or an untrusted state. The received state determinations may be combined to determine a security state. A security measure may be enabled or disabled based on the determined security state.
US11693973B2
A file vulnerability detection method includes: translating a binary file into an intermediate file; analyzing the intermediate file to obtain multiple functions to be tested; establishing function characteristic data of each of the functions to be tested; and comparing correlations between the function characteristic data of each of the functions to be tested and at least one pair of characteristic data with vulnerability of at least one vulnerability function and characteristic data without vulnerability of the at least one vulnerability function in a vulnerability database based on a characteristic model to determine whether each of the functions to be tested corresponding to each function characteristic data has a vulnerability, wherein the characteristic model has information representing multiple back-end binary files generated by multiple back-end platforms, wherein the characteristic data with vulnerability has the vulnerability, and the characteristic data without vulnerability does not have the vulnerability.
US11693967B2
A technological solution for mitigating a cybersecurity risk on a computer that potentially includes a plaintext password. The solution includes searching a computer resource on the computer, analyzing any text, detecting a string of characters in the text that potentially includes a plaintext password, determining a confidence score for the string of characters indicating a likelihood the string of characters includes the plaintext password, and effectuating a remediation action based on the confidence score, wherein the remediation action includes encrypting the string of characters when the confidence score is equal to or greater than a first certainty level.
US11693960B2
A system and a method of obtaining a location of a document on a computer network based on a document property. The method may include: receiving at least one basic marker and an encoding function associated with the document property; generating a search term according to the encoding function, based on the at least one basic marker; providing the search term to at least one search engine and obtaining therefrom one or more search results corresponding, where each search result may include one or more references to locations of documents on the computer network; discovering at least one document having the document property from the one or more search results and obtaining a discovered location of the document on the computer network; and performing at least one rule-based action, according to at least one document property of the discovered document.
US11693958B1
A technique for anomaly detection is disclosed. Event data is converted into a normalized common information model. The resulting data may be stored in an event data store database. Additionally, the resulting data may be stored in a knowledge graph representation in a knowledge graph database. The knowledge graph database efficiently stores event data to generate histograms on demand for common anomaly queries.
US11693954B2
A method for controlling the interoperation of a plurality of software applications and resources includes intercepting communications from a first application to a second application or resource, directing the communication to a context management system, generating a candidate list of contexts for the communication, evaluating the candidate list according to at least one policy defined for these contexts to identify the resultant action and namespace for the communication, and performing the action as defined by the policies within the identified namespace. The method further includes tracking one or more versions of the second application, as well as tracking an evolution of application and/or resource names. The method further includes identifying one or more operations associated with a context on the candidate list, and executing the identified operations prior to a further communication.
US11693944B2
Methods and systems described herein authenticate a user and help secure transaction. A display screen presents images that are difficult for malware to recognize but a person can recognize. In at least one embodiment, a person communicates transaction information using visual images received from the service provider system. In at least one embodiment, a user selects a sequence of visual images as a means of authenticating the user and logging into a financial account or other corporate account. In some embodiments, methods and systems are provided for determining whether to grant access, by generating and displaying visual images on a screen that the user can recognize, and select. In an embodiment, a user presses his or her finger or fingers on a display screen to select images as a method for authenticating and protecting communication from malware. In an embodiment, non-determinism in hardware helps unpredictably vary the image selected, the image location, generate noise in the image, or change the shape or texture of the image. In some embodiments, visual image authentication helps Alice and Bob detect if Eve has launched a man-in-the-middle attack on their key exchange.
US11693941B2
A system and method for providing multi-factor authentication for access through a door, but without the user having to repeat a physical act of providing authentication every time that the door is opened, wherein the first time through the door, multi-factor authentication is provided to the access control system, and wherein each subsequent access through the door, multi-factor authentication is performed automatically and without intervention of the user as long as the user has a wearable device providing at least one factor of the multi-factor authentication, and the user has not removed the wearable device since the multi-factor authentication was last provided to the access control system.
US11693934B2
Techniques are provided for device protection using a configuration lockdown mode. One method comprises receiving a configuration command from a user for a device; determining, responsive to receiving the configuration command, if the device is in a configuration lockdown mode that limits an execution of one or more configuration commands; and performing one or more automated remedial actions in response to determining that the device is in the configuration lockdown mode, such as generating a configuration lockdown alert. A configuration manager associated with the device may (i) determine if a duration of a disabling of the configuration lockdown mode violates one or more duration limits, and/or (ii) determine if the device is in the configuration lockdown mode.
US11693929B2
Provided is an electronic device, an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing system capable of improving convenience in a case where a floating license is used in an electronic device that does not directly communicate with an information processing apparatus providing the floating license. The information processing apparatus includes a storage control unit that controls a storage unit to store a combination of a device unique key and an installation key, the device unique key being a key unique to an electronic device, and the installation key being a key for installing a license to the electronic device; and a license management unit that updates information regarding a status of the license in a case where a combination of the device unique key corresponding to license return information and the installation key corresponding to installation key information in the license return information coincides with a combination stored in the storage unit, the license return information being information including the installation key information corresponding to the installation key and generated by the electronic device.
US11693928B2
A system and method for protecting copyright in content distributed online, in combination with specified business rules. A portion of content presented for upload on a network is analyzed to detect an image associated with a content owner; the image is compared with reference images to identify the content owner; and business rules are applied to control unauthorized uploading of the content. The identifier may be a logo included in the content as a digital graphic, or a non-visual marker. Analysis is advantageously performed on a sample of video frames or a segment of preselected length. If the content is found to be copyrighted, and the attempted upload is unauthorized, uploading may or may not be permitted, and the user may or may not be charged a fee for subsequent access to the content.
US11693917B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for computational model optimization. A plurality of sampled values for a hyperparameter of a computational model may be received, the plurality of sampled values comprising a subset of a plurality of possible values for the hyperparameter, each sampled value associated with a performance metric for the computational model with the sampled value assigned to the hyperparameter. A first candidate value from the plurality of possible values may be determined, the first candidate value having a distance to a first sampled value of the plurality of sampled values that exceeds a threshold distance, wherein the distance is in a space comprising the plurality of possible values. The first candidate value may be assigned to the hyperparameter of the computational model. A first performance metric may be determined for the computational model with the first candidate value assigned to the hyperparameter.
US11693916B2
According to an aspect of an embodiment, operations include receiving a Quadratic Integer Programming (QIP) problem including an objective function and a set of constraints on integer variables associated with the objective function. The operations further include obtaining an approximation of the QIP problem by relaxing the QIP problem and generating an approximate solution by solving the obtained approximation. The operations further include generating a Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) formulation of the QIP problem based on the generated approximate solution and the received QIP problem. The operations further include submitting the generated QUBO formulation to an optimization solver machine and receiving a solution of the submitted QUBO formulation from the optimization solver machine. The operations further include publishing an integral solution of the received QIP problem on a user device based on the received solution.
US11693914B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for presenting web application content. For example, a computer-readable medium may include instructions executable by one or more processors to perform operations including: executing a parent application using a web browser, the parent application being a single page application configured to display a web page element in the web browser; identifying a child application requested by a user action; obtaining, from a server system, child application code of the identified child application, the child application code defining a micro-frontend in a first programming language; transpiling the child application code from the first programming language to a second programming language executable by the web browser, to obtain a transpiled child application code renderable by the web browser; and rendering the transpiled child application code so that the micro-frontend is displayed in the web browser.
US11693913B2
Methods and systems for searching SaaS virtual applications are disclosed. One method includes receiving a set of search terms for a search of a virtual application, the search of the virtual application being executable without having the virtual application open on a computing device. The search request is provided to a source of the virtual application, the request including the set of search terms for the virtual application. At least one response is received from the source of the virtual application based on the set of search terms. A list of search results is provided to the computing device to enable selection of the virtual application from a plurality of other virtual applications accessible via the computing device, the list of search results including the received at least one response.
US11693910B2
The present concepts relate to an improved personalized search engine that can generate personalized rankings of search results in view of individual user's personal preferences and interests. Information about a segment of online content is collected. Certain activities by a user are tracked, including search queries submitted by the user, search results clicked on by the user, and/or web pages browsed by the user. From these activities, the user's preferences relating the segment are inferred using the collected segment information. When the user conducts a search directed to the segment, certain search results that the user is more likely to be interested in, based on the user's preferences, are ranked higher to generate the personalized rankings.
US11693908B2
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes in response to identifying a match between a file and at least one policy, updating details of a container in an object namespace of a file system, where the object namespace of the file system stores object-based representations of files within the file system; creating a symbolic link to the file in the object namespace of the file system; and updating a database to identify the symbolic link and the details of the container.
US11693907B2
In some implementations, systems and methods that are capable of customizing negative media searches using domain-specific search indexes are described. Data indicating a search query associated with a negative media search for an entity and a corpus of documents to be searched are obtained. Content from a particular collection of documents from among the corpus of documents is obtained and processed. Multiple scores for the entity are computed based on processing the content obtained from the collection of documents. The multiple scores are aggregated to compute a priority indicator that represents a likelihood that the collection of documents includes content that is descriptive of derogatory information.
US11693897B2
An electronic device generates a score for each objective in a hierarchy of objectives. Generating the score comprises using a representation of the media content item and a user as inputs to a first machine learning algorithm, to generate a score for a first objective corresponding to a first level in the hierarchy of the objectives and using an output of the first machine learning algorithm, distinct from the score for the first objective, as an input to a second machine learning algorithm to generate a score for a second objective corresponding to a second level in the hierarchy of objectives. The electronic device generates a respective score between the user and the media content item using the score for the first objective and the score for the second objective and provides media content to the user based on the respective scores.
US11693884B2
The present disclosure relates to a system and a method for processing distributed data files. The processor executes instructions to receive a set of instructions from a primary device, wherein the set of instructions comprises verification rules, validators, primary transformers and structure query transformers; generate processed data files by processing the distributed data files. The distributed data files are processed by performing at least one of: executing one of the verification rules, the validators and the primary transformers on the distributed data files; and transforming the distributed data files by executing the structure query transformers. The execution of the structured query transformers comprises steps of generating a dependency graph based upon dependencies between the structure query transformers; and determining a sequence of execution of the structured query transformers based upon the dependency graph; and transfer the processed data files to a data warehouse.
US11693878B2
A dataset formatted in a first format is generated, wherein the dataset formatted in the first format includes at least a plurality of data elements that comprise data. A selection is made of machine learning framework, wherein the machine learning framework operates on datasets formatted in a second format that is different from the first format. The dataset is converted from the first format to the second format and links are generated from the converted dataset formatted in the second format to the plurality of data elements of the dataset formatted in the first format to avoid creating additional copies of the plurality of data elements.
US11693873B2
A user interface for allowing a user to create a chart, the user interface comprising: an entity type selection area for allowing a user to select a type of entity; an explorer for displaying an entity-relationship schema associated with the selected entity type and allowing a user to navigate the schema via one or more relationship paths; a list area for displaying one or more available fields of an entity associated with a relationship path selected from the explorer; and a target area for displaying a list of bindable data targets and allowing a user to assign one or more of the available fields to the bindable data targets to create a chart.
US11693872B2
An apparatus includes a display, a memory, and a hardware processor. The processor accesses a database that includes initial assumptions, current assumptions, values of a life insurance policy over time, transactions, and payments. The processor displays on a first region of the display a baseline curve, a historical performance curve, and an in-force curve. The processor further displays on various other regions of the display a series of points representing the transactions, a current policy value, a first link to download a first file, a second link to display the current assumptions, a third link to download a second file, a fourth link to display the initial assumptions, a fifth link to open an in-force illustrator used to generate an illustration, a sixth link to create or update a new baseline, a seventh link to display the payments, and an eighth link to display the transactions.
US11693866B2
The invention describes a method for determining a storage location of a database object of a specific version, wherein indexes for each version of the database object are stored in a trie having a root node corresponding to the specific version, the method comprising: determining a trie corresponding to the specific version by accessing the root node of the trie corresponding to the specific version; determining an object identifier of the database object by traversing the trie corresponding to the specific version using a secondary key related to the database object as search key; determining the storage location of the database object by traversing the trie corresponding to the specific version using the determined object identifier as search key.
US11693864B2
A system for and a method of using user-entered information to return more meaningful information in response to Internet search queries are disclosed. A method in accordance with the disclosed subject matter comprises managing a database in response to multiple user inputs and displaying search results from the database in response to a search query. The search results include a results list and supplemental data related to the search query. Managing the database includes, among other things, re-ranking elements in the results list, storing information related to relevancies of elements in the results list, blocking a link in the results list, storing links to documents related to the search query, or any combination of these. The supplemental data include descriptions of or indices to one or more concepts related to the search query.
US11693860B2
A first set of subconditions is obtained. Approximate matching of the first set of subconditions against a plurality of sets of subconditions is performed. A second set of subconditions among the plurality of sets of subconditions is accessed, wherein a representation of a subcondition in the first set and/or the second set of subconditions comprises a value having one of a plurality of states, and wherein the plurality of states comprises a state of “don't care”. The first set of subconditions is approximately matched against the second set of subconditions. The first set of subconditions is compared against the second set of subconditions. A matching criterion is determined to be met based on a result of the matching. Information indicating that the second set of subconditions is at least an approximate match for the first set of subconditions is output.
US11693852B1
As described herein, a system, method, and computer program are provided for normalizing a JSON structure. In use, input defining at least one entity type of a target data structure is received. A source JSON structure is identified. The source JSON structure is traversed for a particular JSON data type to map values in the source JSON structure to corresponding entities of the target data structure based on the at least one entity type defined for the target data structure, where each entity of the target data structure is defined using a relative path between nodes of the source JSON structure.
US11693845B2
A system for acquiring time limited data to facilitate integrity verification in real-time applications (RTAs) includes an agent and a collector. The agent is associated with a RTA and is in communication with the collector. The agent defines a plurality of time ordered time frames and during each time frame collects a collection of events from event sources occurring on the RTA. The agent calculates a local integrity check from the collection and a previous integrity check or an initial key, and transmits a global integrity check calculated from local integrity checks to the collector. The collector receives the global integrity check from the agent and stores the received global integrity check in a secure storage. The collector validates the integrity of the global integrity check and the received collections of events.
US11693839B2
A method includes obtaining a query containing at least one field from which data is being queried, obtaining a dataset having a schema-free data exchange format having multiple fields of data at different physical positions in the dataset, and parsing the dataset by obtaining a structural index that maps logical locations of fields to physical locations of the fields of the dataset, accessing the structural index with logical locations of the fields that index to the physical locations, and providing data from the fields based on the physical locations responsive to the query.
US11693836B2
Provided is a computer-implemented method for monitoring and improving data quality of transaction data that may include receiving transaction data associated with a plurality of payment transactions from an acquirer system. The transaction data may include a transaction record associated with each payment transaction of the plurality of payment transactions. Each transaction record may include a plurality of data fields. Each respective data field of the plurality of data fields may be categorized into a respective type of a plurality of types. A data quality score for each respective data field of the plurality of data fields may be determined based on the respective type of the respective data field. A system and computer program product are also provided.
US11693829B2
Facilitating outlier object detection in tiered storage systems is provided herein. A system can comprise a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can comprise determining respective parameters associated with objects of a group of objects of a tiered storage system. The respective parameters can comprise at least one of a size, an access percentage, or a cost. The operations also can comprise using the respective parameters associated with the objects of the group of objects as inputs and performing data clustering on the group of objects, resulting in at least one data cluster. Further, the operations can comprise selecting at least one object from the group of objects as at least one outlier object within the tiered storage system based on the at least one data cluster.
US11693824B2
A recording medium stores a communication program executed by communication devices and causing: a first computer of a first communication device, on a side of providing data, to register first metadata including the data and attribute information; a second computer of a second communication device, on a side of using the data, to register second metadata including a processing service when processing and using the data and attribute information; the first computer to determine whether or not to approve the processing service based on the first and second metadata; and when the determination of whether or not to approve is to approve, a third computer of a third communication device, on a side of processing the data, to execute data processing based on the processing service in a data processing environment that disapproves access from the first and second communication devices to the data and the processing service.
US11693812B2
Systems and method are provided. An illustrative system includes a first compute node having a first processing unit, a first compute node port, and a first peripheral component interconnect bus configured to carry data between the first processing unit and the first compute node port. The system may further include a multi-host network interface controller having a first multi-host port, where the first multi-host port is configured to connect with the first compute node port via a first peripheral component interconnect cable, a network port, where the network port is configured to receive a network interface of a networking cable, and processing circuitry configured to translate and carry data between the first multi-host port and the network port.
US11693811B2
A low voltage drive circuit includes a transmit digital to analog circuit that converts transmit digital data into analog outbound data by: generating a DC component; generating a first oscillation at a first frequency; generating a second oscillation at the first frequency; and outputting the first oscillation or the second oscillation on a bit-by-bit basis in accordance with the transmit digital data to produce an oscillating component, wherein the DC component is combined with the oscillating component to produce the analog outbound data, and wherein the oscillating component and the DC component are combined to produce the analog outbound data. A drive sense circuit drives an analog transmit signal onto a bus, wherein the analog outbound data is represented within the analog transmit signal as variances in loading of the bus at the first frequency and wherein analog inbound data is represented within an analog receive signal as variances in loading of the bus at a second frequency.
US11693810B2
An interface bridge to enable communication between a first integrated circuit die and a second integrated circuit die is disclosed. The two integrated circuit die may be connected via chip-to-chip interconnects. The first integrated circuit die may include programmable logic fabric. The second integrated circuit die may support the first integrated circuit die. The first integrated circuit die and the secondary integrated circuit die may communicate with one another via the chip-to-chip interconnects using an interface bridge. The first and second component integrated circuits may include circuitry to implement the interface bridge, which may provide source-synchronous communication using a data receive clock from the second integrated circuit die to the first integrated circuit die.
US11693793B2
There is provided a method of communication among at least two processes miming on the same computer. The method comprises: generating, by at least one process of the at least two processes, a group key usable for encrypting/decrypting a data unit retrieved from/stored to shared access memory, wherein the generating utilizes, at least, a nonce provided by each of the at least two processes, and wherein the nonces are provided as encrypted integrity-protected data according to, at least, a platform-provided hiding function, wherein each process executes in a protected container, the processes are signed by a single signing authority, and the protected container infrastructure enables use of encrypted, integrity-protected data according to a platform-provided hiding function and a platform-provided revealing function; and verifying, by at least one process of the at least two processes, that a data unit read from shared access memory is successfully decrypted using the group key.
US11693787B2
In an example, a device includes a memory and a processor core coupled to the memory via a memory management unit (MMU). The device also includes a system MMU (SMMU) cross-referencing virtual addresses (VAs) with intermediate physical addresses (IPAs) and IPAs with physical addresses (PAs). The device further includes a physical address table (PAT) cross-referencing IPAs with each other and cross-referencing PAs with each other. The device also includes a peripheral virtualization unit (PVU) cross-referencing IPAs with PAs, and a routing circuit coupled to the memory, the SMMU, the PAT, and the PVU. The routing circuit is configured to receive a request comprising an address and an attribute and to route the request through at least one of the SMMU, the PAT, or the PVU based on the address and the attribute.
US11693785B2
An apparatus and method for tagged memory management. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: execution circuitry to execute instructions and process data, at least one instruction to generate a system memory access request having a first address pointer; and address translation circuitry to determine whether to translate the first address pointer with or without metadata processing, wherein if the first address pointer is to be translated with metadata processing, the address translation circuitry to: perform a lookup in a memory metadata table to identify a memory metadata value, determine a pointer metadata value associated with the first address pointer, and compare the memory metadata value with the pointer metadata value, the comparison to generate a validation of the memory access request or a fault condition, wherein if the comparison results in a validation of the memory access request, then accessing a set of one or more address translation tables to translate the first address pointer to a first physical address and to return the first physical address responsive to the memory access request.
US11693783B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for cache operations. An example apparatus includes a memory device including a plurality of subarrays of memory cells, where the plurality of subarrays includes a first subset of the respective plurality of subarrays and a second subset of the respective plurality of subarrays. The memory device includes sensing circuitry coupled to the first subset, the sensing circuitry including a sense amplifier and a compute component. The first subset is configured as a cache to perform operations on data moved from the second subset. The apparatus also includes a cache controller configured to direct a first movement of a data value from a subarray in the second subset to a subarray in the first subset.
US11693780B2
System and method for prefetching pointer-referenced data. A method embodiment includes: tracking a plurality of load instructions which includes a first load instruction to access a first data that identifies a first memory location; detecting a second load instruction which accesses a second memory location for a second data, the second memory location matching the first memory location identified by the first data; responsive to the detecting, updating a list of pointer load instructions to include information identifying the first load instruction as a pointer load instruction; prefetching a third data for a third load instruction prior to executing the third load instruction; identifying the third load instruction as a pointer load instruction based on information from the list of pointer load instructions and responsively prefetching a fourth data from a fourth memory location, wherein the fourth memory location is identified by the third data.
US11693779B2
A processor may boot a system. The processor may determine a type of operation of data based on an application tag. The processor may analyze at least one specific table for the application tag. The processor may perform an operation associated with the application tag.
US11693778B2
A method includes monitoring one or more metrics for each of a plurality of cache users sharing a cache, and assigning each of the plurality of cache users to one of a plurality of groups based on the monitored one or more metrics.
US11693776B2
A processing unit includes a processor core and an associated cache memory. The cache memory establishes a reservation of a hardware thread of the processor core for a store target address and services a store-conditional request of the processor core by conditionally updating the shared memory with store data based on the whether the hardware thread has a reservation for the store target address. The cache memory receives a hint associated with the store-conditional request indicating an intent of the store-conditional request. The cache memory protects the store target address against access by any conflicting memory access request during a protection window extension following servicing of the store-conditional request. The cache memory establishes a first duration for the protection window extension based on the hint having a first value and establishes a different second duration for the protection window extension based on the hint having a different second value.
US11693770B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system manages a plurality of management tables corresponding to a plurality of first blocks in a nonvolatile memory. Each management table includes a plurality of reference counts corresponding to a plurality of data in a corresponding first block. The memory system copies a set of data included in a copy-source block for garbage collection and corresponding respectively to reference counts belonging to a first reference count range to a first copy-destination block, and copies a set of data included in the copy-source block and corresponding respectively to reference counts belonging to a second reference count range having a lower limit higher than an upper limit of the first reference count range to a second copy-destination block.
US11693767B2
A method includes receiving, by a processing device, an indication that a media management operation performed with respect to a block of a memory sub-system satisfies a performance condition, wherein the block maintains first data stored using a first write mode, in response to receiving the indication, determining, by the processing device, that a cache block of a cache area of the memory sub-system satisfies an endurance condition, wherein the cache block maintains second data stored using a second write mode, and changing, by the processing device, a write mode for the cache block from the second write mode to the first write mode responsive to determining that the cache block satisfies the endurance condition.
US11693764B2
The present application discloses a method, an apparatus, a device and a storage medium for map retrieval test, relating to the fields of intelligent transportation, data retrieval and the like. The specific implementation scheme includes: analyzing historical interaction data of a user and an electronic map, to obtain an analysis result; the analysis result is used for representing the historical interaction data from a plurality of dimensions; associating the historical interaction data with the analysis result used for representing the historical interaction data from the plurality of dimensions, to obtain associated data; generating test data based on the historical interaction data in the associated data and the analysis result representing the historical interaction data from at least one dimension; and testing the electronic map by utilizing the test data, to obtain a test result of the electronic map.
US11693763B2
According to some embodiments, a system, method and non-transitory computer-readable medium are provided to protect a cyber-physical system having a plurality of monitoring nodes comprising: a normal space data source storing, for each of the plurality of monitoring nodes, a series of normal monitoring node values over time that represent normal operation of the cyber-physical system; a situational awareness module including an abnormal data generation platform, wherein the abnormal data generation platform is operative to generate abnormal data to represent abnormal operation of the cyber-physical system using values in the normal space data source and a generative model; a memory for storing program instructions; and a situational awareness processor, coupled to the memory, and in communication with the situational awareness module and operative to execute the program instructions to: receive a data signal, wherein the received data signal is an aggregation of data signals received from one or more of the plurality of monitoring nodes, wherein the data signal includes at least one real-time stream of data source signal values that represent a current operation of the cyber-physical system; determine, via a trained classifier, whether the received data signal is a normal signal or an abnormal signal, wherein the trained classifier is trained with the generated abnormal data and normal data; localize an origin of an anomaly when it is determined the received data signal is the abnormal signal; receive the determination and localization at a resilient estimator module; execute the resilient estimator module to generate a state estimation for the cyber-physical system. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11693756B2
Technologies for managing memory on a compute device are disclosed. The compute device is configured to determine the quality of a user experience of the compute device when a certain combination of applications are running on the compute device and stores an indication of the quality of the user experience that corresponds to that combination of applications. At a later time, such as when a user selects an application to be launched, the compute device may check if the current combination of applications is expected to have an acceptable quality of a user experience. If not, the compute device may kill one or more of the current combination of applications to improve the expected quality of the user experience.
US11693754B2
Embodiments are directed to aggregate GHASH-based message authentication code (MAC) over multiple cachelines with incremental updates. An embodiment of a system includes a controller comprising circuitry, the controller to generate an error correction code for a memory line, the memory line comprising a plurality of first data blocks, generate a metadata block corresponding to the memory line, the metadata block comprising the error correction code for the memory line and at least one metadata bit, generate an aggregate GHASH corresponding to a region of memory comprising a cacheline set comprising at least the memory line, encode the first data blocks and the metadata block, encrypt the aggregate GHASH as an aggregate message authentication code (AMAC), provide the encoded first data blocks and the encoded metadata block for storage on a memory module comprising the memory line, and provide the AMAC for storage on a device separate from the memory module.
US11693745B2
An example memory sub-system includes a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device is configured to detect a power-up state of the memory device following a power loss event; detect a read error with respect to data residing in a block of the memory device, wherein the block is associated with a current voltage offset bin; and perform temporal voltage shift (TVS)-oriented calibration for associating the block with a new voltage offset bin.
US11693744B2
Certain embodiments described herein relate to an improved synthetic full backup image generation system. In some embodiments, one or more components in an information management system can identify a file-server-created backup copy in a particular backup format of a plurality of backup formats, determine structure information associated with the particular backup format, and generate a synthetic full backup copy according to the structure information, where the synthetic full backup copy is also in the particular backup format identical to that of the file-server-created backup copy.
US11693743B2
An intelligent method of selecting a data recovery site upon receiving a data recovery request. The backup system collects historical activity data of the storage system to identify work load of every data recovery site. A predicted activity load for each data recovery site is then generated using the collected data. When a request for data recovery is received, the system first identifies which data recovery site has copies of the files to be recovered. Then it uses the predicted work load for these data recovery sites to determine whether to use a geographically local site or a site that may be remote geographically, but has a lower work load.
US11693741B2
A size associated with a content file is determined to be greater than a threshold size. Contents of the content file split across a plurality of component files are stored. Metadata, for the content file, is updated to reference a plurality of component file metadata structures for the component files. A node of the metadata is configured to track different sizes of portions of the content file stored in different component files of the plurality of component files. File metadata of the content file is split across the plurality of component file metadata structures and each component file metadata structure of the plurality of component file metadata structures specifies a corresponding structure organizing data components for a corresponding portion of the content file.
US11693739B2
Detecting non-callable external component APIs is provided. It is determined whether a first function call stack of a worker thread in a multi-threaded application of the computer matches a second function call stack of the worker thread. In response to determining that the first function call stack matches the second function call stack of the worker thread, an external component application programming interface (API) corresponding to the worker thread is identified from a function call stack of the worker thread. The external component API corresponding to the worker thread is marked as non-callable in an API state map. The worker thread is marked as being in a hang state. The worker thread in the hang state is terminated as a remediation action step to maintain performance.
US11693738B2
A plurality of failure domains are communicatively coupled to each other via a network, and each of the plurality of failure domains is coupled to one or more storage devices. A failure resilient stripe is distributed across the plurality of storage devices, such that two or more blocks of the failure resilient stripe are located in each failure domain.
US11693729B2
There are provided a controller, an electronic system including the same, and an operating method of the controller and the memory system. The controller includes: a randomizing circuit configured to generate random data having a set number of bits; a masking circuit configured to output select random data by extracting some data according to a number of bits on which a partial encoding operation is to be performed, among the random data; an operating circuit configured to output encoded data and a portion of original data, by performing an operation sequentially on the original data and the select random data; and a cyclic redundancy check circuit configured to generate a cyclic redundancy check value by performing a cyclic redundancy check on the encoded data and the portion of original data, and output partially encoded data including the cyclic redundancy check value, the portion of original data, and the encoded data.
US11693722B2
The technology disclosed herein enhances a fault-based communication channel between a virtual machine and a hypervisor. An example method may include: configuring, by a hypervisor, a first memory location to generate one or more faults when accessed by a virtual machine process, wherein the first memory location is mapped to a device and a second memory location is mapped to memory; detecting, by the hypervisor, a fault caused by a first execution of an instruction of the virtual machine process, wherein the instruction comprises a reference to a register comprising the first memory location; responsive to the detecting the fault, the hypervisor performing a computing task for the virtual machine process and updating the register to comprise the second memory location; and initiating, by the hypervisor, a second execution of the instruction of the virtual machine process, wherein the second execution of the instruction accesses the second memory location.
US11693721B2
A system for generating a robustness score for hardware components, nodes, and clusters of nodes in a computing infrastructure is provided. The system includes a memory and at least one processing device coupled to the memory. The processing device is to obtain first telemetry data associated with a selected portion of a computing infrastructure, and the selected portion includes a first node and a first hardware component. The processing device is further to obtain first metadata associated with the selected portion, input one or more telemetry inputs corresponding to the first telemetry data into a machine learning model, input one or more metadata inputs corresponding to the first metadata into the machine learning model, and generate, from the machine learning model, a first robustness score for the first hardware component representing a health state of the first hardware component.
US11693720B1
Deploying schematically enriched document content as Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) is provided. Nouns corresponding to topics in a parent-child topic hierarchy of a table of contents of a document are utilized to generate a REST API for each topic in the parent-child topic hierarchy. A REST resource model is generated that contains each generated REST API corresponding to each topic in the parent-child topic hierarchy of the table of contents of the document. The REST resource model corresponding to the parent-child topic hierarchy of the table of contents of the document is deployed to subscribing client applications via a network.
US11693719B2
A type restriction contextually modifies an existing type descriptor. The type restriction is imposed on a data structure to restrict the values that are assumable by the data structure. The type restriction does not cancel or otherwise override the effect of the existing type descriptor on the data structure. Rather the type restriction may declare that a value of the data structure's type is forbidden for the data structure. Additionally or alternatively, the type restriction may declare that an element count allowable for a data structure's type is forbidden for the data structure. Type restriction allows optionality (where only a singleton value for a data structure is allowed), empty sets (where no value for a data structure is allowed), and multiplicity (where only a limited element count for a data structure) to be injected into a code set independent of data type. Type restriction allows certain optimizations to be performed.
US11693718B2
Implemented is a remote accessibility service that utilizes a plugin for websites to provide people with an enhanced and standardized browsing experience. The remote accessibility service transmits a plugin to a website that is instantiated on a host service, in which the plugin gathers content from the website and parses and stores the content at the remote accessibility service. The gathered content is transitioned into the remote accessibility service's closed system accessibility environment. Thus, content gathered from a series of e-commerce websites, for example, are all transitioned into a standardized format to enhance the accessibility experience for users. Transitioning the content into a single standardized format makes accessibility consistent, memorable, and harmonious for users who are perusing many websites—instead of relying on the proprietary, discordant, and often times clunky accessibility implementations among each website.
US11693716B2
Systems, methods, and devices for offloading network data to a datastore. A system includes a publisher device in a network computing environment. The system includes a subscriber device in the network computing environment. The system includes a datastore independent of the publisher device and the subscriber device, the datastore comprising one or more processors in a processing platform configurable to execute instructions stored in non-transitory computer readable storage media. The instructions includes receiving data from the publisher device. The instructions include storing the data across one or more of a plurality of shared storage devices. The instructions include providing the data to the subscriber device.
US11693710B1
Resource management includes storing, for multiple workload pools of a data intake and query system, a workload pool hierarchy arranged in multiple workload pool layers. After storing a processing request is assigned a selected subset of workload pools in a second layer of the workload pool hierarchy based on a type of processing request. The processing request is then assigned to an individual workload pool in the selected subset to obtain a selected workload pool. Execution of the processing request is initiated on the selected workload pool.
US11693704B2
A foundation framework resource of a first service function is loaded in a software application. A service request for starting the first service function in the software application is received. A page resource required by the first service function is loaded. The first service function is implemented based on the foundation framework resource of the first service function and the page resource.
US11693703B2
A system for providing computer implemented services using information handling systems includes a composed information handling system that provides, at least in part, the computer implemented services and a system control processor manager. The system control processor manager instantiates a utilization monitor in a system control processor of the composed information handling system; and monitors, using the utilization monitor, a use rate of computing resources of the composed information handling system by a client.
US11693692B2
Instruction processing is performed for an instruction. The instruction is configured to perform a plurality of functions, in which a function of the plurality of functions is to be performed in a plurality of processing phases. A processing phase is defined to store up to a select amount of data. The select amount of data is based on the function to be performed. At least one function of the plurality of functions has a different value for the select amount of data than at least one other function. A determination is made as to whether a store into a designated area occurred based on processing a select processing phase of a select function. Based on determining that the store into the designated area occurred, an interrupt is presented, and based on determining that the store into the designated area did not occur, instruction processing is continued.
US11693688B2
Some embodiments provide a novel method for collecting and reporting attributes of data flows associated with machines executing on a plurality of host computers to an analysis appliance and providing visual representations of the data to a user. Some embodiments provide a visual representation of the collected data that allows a user to select a set of machines and flows and initiate recommendation generation based on the selected machines and flows. The recommendation generation, in some embodiments, includes identifying flows for which rules have not been defined and filtering the identified rules to remove flows for which rules should not be defined. Some embodiments use the identified rues to identify services and groups associated with the rules and generate recommendations for rules, groups and services based on the identified flows, groups and services. The recommendations, in some embodiments, are implemented as a single PATCH API.
US11693686B2
Described herein are systems, methods, and software to enhance the management of virtual nodes in a computing environment. In one example, a system is configured to mount storage repositories to a host. Once mounted the system may identify a request to initiate a virtual cluster on the host and may identify permissions associated with the virtual cluster. The system further determines at least one storage repository from the storage repositories for the virtual cluster based on the permissions and initiate execution of the virtual cluster with access to at least one file system corresponding to the at least one storage repository.
US11693680B2
A computer system (10) for providing virtual computers includes a pool facility (38) for storing a pool (40) of suspended virtual computers (42) based on at least one virtual computer template (44). A provision manager (32) provides a series (46) of virtual computers (18) as a result of a series (50) of system logon requests by a user (54). The provision manager (32) includes an update facility (100), a resume facility (102) and a customization facility (104). The update facility (104) is provided for updating one or each at least one virtual computer template (44). The resume facility (102) is provided for resuming virtual computers from the pool (40) of suspended virtual computers (42) provided by the pool facility (38). The customization facility (104) is provided for customizing virtual computers after being resumed from the pool (40) to provide active virtual computers.
US11693676B2
Computer based unitary workspace leveraging multiple file-type toggling for dynamic content creation
A computer implemented method of creating essays on a computer device is provided, comprising: storing, in a memory storage device in the computer device, one or more files; creating, in an essay drafting software application, a first split screen workspace graphical user interface (GUI), wherein the first split screen workspace GUI includes an essay viewing area and a file viewing area; adding the one or more files to the file viewing area of the first split screen workspace GUI; adding one or more text pages to the essay viewing area of the first split screen workspace GUI; entering text to a first of the one or more text pages using a text editor software application; accessing a first file of the one or more files in the file viewing area of the first split screen workspace GUI through a keystroke performed on one or more keys on a keyboard, wherein the keyboard is adapted to operate as a data and command interface with the computer device and the essay drafting software application; and copying information stored in the first file of the one or more files and pasting the copied information into any one of the one or more text pages.
US11693674B2
A computing system includes a virtualization server that runs virtual machine sessions and provides a hosted application with user interface (UI) elements having an ordered hierarchy of graphical control elements when sequenced therethrough. A client computing device accesses the hosted application and receives the ordered hierarchy of graphical control elements and displays the graphical control elements as local virtual UI elements, applies user input to one of the graphical control elements in focus, generates a local virtual UI element graphics overlay for display corresponding to a predicted response to the user input as a next graphical control element in the ordered hierarchy and sends the user input to the virtualization server.
US11693670B2
Providing a distributed processing framework. Initially, the process begins by building a server process plug-in by invoking a code generation module to generate required boilerplate and cross-platform code. Then commencing a server process by loading plug-in code and giving it a thread of control. In addition, client machines discovering the existence of a plug-in code being executed. Further, one or more client applications running on a client server at least issuing commands to the plug-in code, monitoring the events of the plug-in code, update the properties of the plug-in code without information regarding the plug-in interface.
US11693663B2
Methods and apparatus for managing circular queues are disclosed. A pointer designates an index position of a particular queue element and contains an additional pointer state, whereby two pointer values (split indexes) can designate the same index position. Front and rear pointers are respectively managed by dequeue and enqueue logic. The front pointer state and rear pointer state distinguish full and empty queue states when both pointers designate the same index position. Asynchronous dequeue and enqueue operations are supported, no lock is required, and no queue entry is wasted. Hardware and software embodiments for numerous applications are disclosed.
US11693657B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for in- or near-memory processing are described. Strings of bits (e.g., vectors) may be fetched and processed in logic of a memory device without involving a separate processing unit. Operations (e.g., arithmetic operations) may be performed on numbers stored in a bit-serial way during a single sequence of clock cycles. Arithmetic may thus be performed in a single pass as numbers are bits of two or more strings of bits are fetched and without intermediate storage of the numbers. Vectors may be fetched (e.g., identified, transmitted, received) from one or more bit lines. Registers of the memory array may be used to write (e.g., store or temporarily store) results or ancillary bits (e.g., carry bits or carry flags) that facilitate arithmetic operations. Circuitry near, adjacent, or under the memory array may employ XOR or AND (or other) logic to fetch, organize, or operate on the data.
US11693646B2
The present invention relates to a place change driven software update method and apparatus, and a readable storage medium. The method includes: modeling a software architecture SA and an evolution rule set L⇒R through Bigraph; acquiring a software architecture SAt after movement and before evolution of the SA; computing a place ΔP that changes between the SA and the SAt, thereby acquiring a corresponding evolution rule Lj→Rj; and cutting a matching subgraph GL on a link graph SAL and replacing with a link graph RjL to obtain a new SA link graph SAL,e; and merging the new SA place graph and the new SA link graph, thereby implementing update of the software architecture. Compared with the prior art, the present invention may describe place change information and system change information at the same time, and avoid the complexity, risk, unreliability and the like of conversion between different models.
US11693644B2
A high performance (HPC) system is described. The system includes a head node comprising one or more processors to execute a configuration manager to receive a database trigger and transmit configuration updates including configuration input data and a plurality of compute nodes, communicatively coupled to the head node, each compute node comprising one or more processors to execute a client to receive a configuration update, generate a configuration file based on configuration input data included in the configuration update and configure the compute node based on the configuration file.
US11693643B2
The present invention provides a deployment platform that enables solution modules to be created and deployed without writing new code. The solution modules may include existing solutions, solution components, connectors, and the like selected from a solution library. The deployment platform includes a development engine providing functionality for generating deployment information for the solution module. The deployment information may include a blueprint or other information for deploying the solution module to target infrastructure. The deployment platform also includes a deployment engine providing functionality for deploying the solution module to the target infrastructure automatically. During deployment, the deployment engine pushes components of the solution module to the target infrastructure in accordance with the deployment information. During and after deployment, information may be captured and recorded to a distributed ledger to provide end-to-end visibility into the deployed solution over the deployment lifecycle (e.g., including initial deployment, updates/upgrades, and decommissioning).
US11693641B1
A machine learning (ML) based code transformation system that transforms a source programming code developed using a source library for execution on a source platform into remediated code for execution on a target platform is disclosed. Metadata extracted from the source programming code is used to detect the source programming language, source libraries, and the source platform. The metadata also enables modularizing the source programming code based on the functionality and identifying a node from a plurality of nodes in a communication network to execute the various source code modules. A similarity map is generated mapping the source libraries to the target libraries and the source code modules that are incompatible with the target platform are identified and remediated with similar target code modules using the similarity map.
US11693636B2
An approach is presented to enhancing the optimization process in a polyhedral compiler by introducing compile-time versioning, i.e., the production of several versions of optimized code under varying assumptions on its run-time parameters. We illustrate this process by enabling versioning in the polyhedral processor placement pass. We propose an efficient code generation method and validate that versioning can be useful in a polyhedral compiler by performing benchmarking on a small set of deep learning layers defined for dynamically-sized tensors.
US11693632B2
In one embodiment, a device obtains data models and workflow logic for a visual programming environment. The device constructs, based on the data models and workflow logic for the visual programming environment, a metamodel that comprises a knowledge graph. The device makes, using the metamodel, an evaluation of an interaction between a user and the visual programming environment. The device provides, based on the evaluation, visualization data to a user interface of the visual programming environment.
US11693622B1
A system incorporating configurable keywords. The system can detect a keyword in audio data and execute one function for the keyword if a first application is operating, but a second function for the keyword if a second function is operating. Each keyword may be associated with multiple different functions. If a keyword is recognized during keyword detection, a function associated with that keyword is determined based on another application running on the system. Thus detection of a same keyword may result in a different function based on system context.
US11693618B2
A graphical user interface (GUI) includes a first display region including a first Station Selector object and multiple first sub-regions displayed within the first display region. First user input, entered using the first Station Selector object is received, where the first user input identifies a first media station. In response to receiving the first user input, the first sub-regions are automatically populated with first information associated with first media provided by the first media station. At some later time, second user input is received via the same Station Selector object, where the second user input identifies a second media station, and the first information displayed in the first sub-regions is automatically replaced with second information associated with second media presented via the second media station in response to receiving the second user input identifying the second media station.
US11693616B2
User interface techniques provide user vocalists with mechanisms for solo audiovisual capture and for seeding subsequent performances by other users (e.g., joiners). Audiovisual capture may be against a full-length work or seed spanning much or all of a pre-existing audio (or audiovisual) work and in some cases may mix, to seed further contributions of one or more joiners, a user's captured media content for at least some portions of the audio (or audiovisual) work. A short seed or short segment may span less than all (and in some cases, much less than all) of the audio (or audiovisual) work. For example, a verse, chorus, refrain, hook or other limited “chunk” of an audio (or audiovisual) work may constitute a short seed or short segment. Computational techniques are described that allow a system to automatically identify suitable short seeds or short segments. After audiovisual capture against the short seed or short segment, a resulting, solo or group, full-length or short-form performance may be posted, livestreamed, or otherwise disseminated in a social network.
US11693613B2
A printing apparatus includes a communication section configured to perform wireless communication with a first external device using a first communication mode and with a second external device using a second communication mode, a printing section, a storage section configured to store first communication setting information, second communication setting information related, and print setting information, a detector configured to detect a predetermined input, and a controller. The controller determines a predetermined error state, generates, when the detector detects the predetermined input, based on the second communication setting information, symbol image information, and controls the printing section to print the symbol image information. The controller controls the communication section to perform, based on the second communication setting information, to communicate with the second external device and to transmit, when a request from the second external device is received, the first communication setting information and the print setting information.
US11693611B2
A printing system includes: a first printer; a second printer; a server device; and a client device. The first printer is configured to perform: receiving first authentication information; accessing, in response to determining that first authentication performed according to a first authentication method is successful, the server device using first account information; receiving, from the server device, a print job stored in association with user identification information included in the first authentication information; printing an image based on the print job. The second printer is configured to perform: receiving second authentication information including the user identification information; accessing, in response to determining that second authentication performed according to a second authentication method is successful, the server device using second account information; receiving, from the server device, the print job stored in association with the user identification information; and printing the image based on the print job.
US11693607B2
A recording material transport system includes a first transport apparatus including a transport unit that transports a recording material and a notification unit that notifies a user about how to deal with a recording material whose transport has been stopped; and a second transport apparatus including a transport unit that transports a recording material transported from the first transport apparatus and a notification unit that notifies the user about how to deal with a recording material whose transport has been stopped, wherein in a case where a recording material has stopped in both of the first and second transport apparatus, the notification unit of the first transport apparatus notifies the user about how to deal with the recording material in the first transport apparatus, and the notification unit of the second transport apparatus notifies the user about how to deal with the recording material in the second transport apparatus.
US11693583B2
A memory controller controls a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks. The memory controller is configured to: control the memory device to store data in a first area among areas of the memory device using a single level cell method, wherein the data are corresponded to a write booster request which is received from a host, perform a wear leveling operation, based on a size of the data stored in the first area, a program-erase count of each of memory blocks of the first area, and a number of free blocks in the memory device and form a mapping relationship between a logical block address, which is received from the host, and a physical block address corresponding the first area.
US11693575B2
Example implementations relate to virtual persistent volumes. In an example, a manifest of a containerized application to which a virtual persistent volume is allocated is read from a container orchestrator. An application data store profile that matches information of the manifest is identified from among a plurality of application data store profiles that each include storage parameters preconfigured for a respective application type. The virtual persistent volume is modified according to the identified application data store profile.
US11693572B2
Disclosed deduplication techniques at a distributed data storage system guarantee that space reclamation will not affect deduplicated data integrity even without perfect synchronization between components. By understanding certain “behavioral” characteristics and schedule cadences of backup operations that generate backup copies received at the distributed data storage system, data blocks that are not re-written by subsequent backup copies are pro-actively aged, while promoting continued retention of data blocks that are re-written. An expiry scheme operates with block-level granularity. Each unique deduplicated data block is given an expiry timeframe based on the block's arrival time at the distributed data storage system (i.e., when a backup copy supplies the block) and further based on backup frequencies of the various virtual disks referencing a unique system-wide identifier of the block, which is based on the block's hash value. Communications between components are kept to an as-needed basis. Cloud-based and multi-cloud configurations are disclosed.
US11693567B2
A memory performance optimization method, a memory control circuit unit, and a memory storage device are provided. The method includes the following. An idle time of the memory storage device is counted in an active mode. The memory storage device is instructed to enter a first low electricity consumption mode from the active mode in response to the idle time being greater than an idle threshold. A first waiting time of the memory storage device is counted in the first low electricity consumption mode. The memory storage device is instructed to enter a second low electricity consumption mode from the first low electricity consumption mode in response to the first waiting time being greater than a first waiting threshold. Electricity consumption of the second low electricity consumption mode is lower than electricity consumption of the first low electricity consumption mode.
US11693562B2
Systems, methods and apparatus of intelligent bandwidth allocation to different types of operations to access storage media in a data storage device. For example, a data storage device of a vehicle includes: storage media components; a controller configured to store data into and retrieve data from the storage media components according to commands received in the data storage device; 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 bandwidth allocation scheme for controlling access by different types of operations in the data storage device to the storage media components. The controller is configured to schedule the operations of the different types to access the one or more storage media components according to the optimized bandwidth allocation scheme.
US11693556B2
A method comprising displaying, on a touchscreen, a digital electronic document; receiving first input from the touchscreen and determining that the first input comprises a rectangle gesture; receiving second input from the touchscreen and determining that the second input comprises a subdivision gesture that indicates dividing the rectangle; determining that the first input and the second input have been received within a time threshold; in response to determining that the first input and second input have been received within the time threshold, automatically generating a table that comprises a plurality of cells; automatically placing the table in the document at a location that is based on the first input and updating the document that is displayed on the touchscreen to visually show the table; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.
US11693555B1
Pressure value simulation techniques from contact area data detected using a sensor are described. In an implementation, contact area data is received that describes an amount of contact detected at a surface of a touchscreen device, e.g., as a radius. The contact area data is translated into a pressure value defining an amount of pressure. An editing operation is generated to edit a digital image based the amount of pressure defined by the pressure value. The digital image is displayed by a display device as having the applied editing operation.
US11693538B2
A method for activating a mobile device in a network is disclosed wherein the network further comprises at least one display device coupled to a sensor. This method comprises: detecting the mobile device via the sensor coupled to the display device; displaying a virtual device representative of the detected mobile device on the display device such that the position of the virtual device on the display device is linked to the position of the mobile device in the capture field of the sensor; activating the mobile device in the network when a determined action is applied by the user to the mobile device. A display device and a system implementing the method are further disclosed.
US11693534B2
Mechanisms are provided for allowing a user to dynamically manage rich media content in an efficient and effective manner. Tiles including media content, personalized video selections, content pack upgrades, and promotions for featured content are presented to a user. Each tile may include calls to view, purchase, discuss, rate, review, or read about associated content. Tiles may be presented as still images, logos, text, or live video. Multiple tiles may be manipulated using keyboard, mouse, touchpad, and/or touchscreen movements, motions, and gestures. In particular examples, an overlay provided on top of a tile mechanism provides a user with additional navigation and management options.
US11693518B2
The present disclosure relates to a touch driver circuit capable of reducing the distortion of a common voltage modulation signal caused by line resistance. The touch driver circuit may include a touch power integrated circuit configured to generate a reference gamma voltage set to output the reference gamma voltage set through a gamma transmission path during a display period, and generate a touch driving voltage to output the touch driving voltage through the gamma transmission path during a touch period, and a source-readout integrated circuit configured to drive a source driving circuit block using the reference gamma voltage set during the display period, and generate a common voltage modulation signal using the touch driving voltage to drive a readout circuit block using the generated common voltage modulation signal during the touch period.
US11693517B2
The present disclosure relates to a touch power management circuit and a touch driving system comprising the same, and more particularly, relates to a touch power management circuit to generate signals required for a touch driving by using voltage sources different in a pen touch driving period and a finger touch driving period in order to reduce power consumption of a display device and a touch driving system comprising the touch power management circuit.
US11693510B2
A touch panel system includes a touch panel including a drive electrode, a position detection electrode, and a pressing detection electrode, and a controller configured to impart a drive signal to the drive electrode and acquire signal values from each of the position detection electrode and the pressing detection electrode. The controller detects a position of an indicator on the basis of the signal values obtained from the position detection electrode and calculates a magnitude of pressing of the indicator on the basis of signal values in a pressing detection range corresponding to the detected position of the indicator among the signal values obtained from the pressing detection electrode.
US11693492B2
A mouse is provided. The mouse includes a casing, a circuit board, a micro switch base, and a micro switch. The casing includes a button. The circuit board is disposed in the casing. The micro switch base is disposed on the circuit board, and includes a plurality of first openings and a plurality of second openings. The micro switch is fixed on the micro switch base through at least one of the first openings, and electrically connected to the circuit board through the first openings or the second openings.
US11693484B2
A device control method, a device control apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The electronic device includes an ultrasonic emitter and an ultrasonic receiver. The method includes that operating gesture recognition is performed by the electronic device through ultrasonic waves, a recognition result is generated, a motion parameter of the electronic device is obtained, the recognition result is verified based on the motion parameter, and the electronic device is controlled based on a verification result.
US11693481B2
A multimodal haptic device includes a matrix incorporating at least one cell, each cell comprising: at least one thermal element capable of generating a cooling and a heating; at least one vibratory element capable of generating a vibration; and at least one encapsulation layer made of an electrically insulating material; the at least one vibratory element and the at least one thermal element being anchored in at least one part in the at least one encapsulation layer; each cell being adapted to be in contact directly or indirectly with the skin of a person so as to transmit thermal and/or vibratory sensations to that person, the cell having a thickness less than or equal to ten millimetres.
US11693477B2
Disclosed is a head mounted electronic device including a body, a lens clip having at least one opening defined therein, wherein the lens clip is disposed on the body so as to face toward a face of a user, an infrared-ray emissive device disposed on one portion of the body, an infrared-ray imaging device disposed on an opposite portion of the body to one portion thereof, wherein the infrared-ray imaging device acquires a first eyeball image obtained when infrared-ray emitting from the infrared-ray emissive device is reflected from an eyeball of the user, and a processor operatively connected to the infrared-ray emissive device and the infrared-ray imaging device.
US11693471B2
A computer system and the computer-implemented method of extending the battery life of a personal wearable sensing device, the method comprises determining a current location of the sensing device; determining locations of publicly accessible environmental monitors; determining whether the current location is within a proximity limit to a publicly accessible environmental monitor; and receiving information from the publicly accessible environmental monitor when the current location is within the proximity limit to the publicly accessible environmental monitor to save battery life of the sensing device.
US11693469B2
An example electronic apparatus includes a communication circuitry; a power supply; a first processor configured to have a first mode which receives first power from the power supply and connects with a server through the communication circuitry to transmit and receive information, and a second mode which receives no power or second power lower than the first power from the power supply; and a second processor configured to repetitively output a mode switching signal within a preset range of time interval based on the second mode of the first processor, wherein the first processor is switched over to the first mode based on the mode switching signal, is configured to transmit connectivity keeping information to the server through the communication circuitry and is switched over to the second mode.
US11693468B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, based on at least one metric, that an information handling device is experiencing a restricted airflow condition; decreasing, responsive to the detecting, a system power setting of the information handling device during a duration of the restricted airflow condition; and restoring, subsequent to detecting that the information handling device is no longer experiencing the restricted airflow condition; the system power setting. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11693467B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to reducing a power consumption of an electronic device while maintaining some functionality of the electronic device while the electronic device is in a low power mode. The device may be in the low power mode due to a battery level being below a threshold. If the battery level is below the threshold, the electronic device may enter the low power mode. However, before entering the low power mode, some functionality of an application processor may be transferred to a communication controller. Once the functionality is transferred, the application processor may be disabled to reduce power consumption while maintaining functionality of the application processor. The electronic device may also utilize various communication protocols to communicate with a peripheral device. Even though the electronic device may be in the low power mode, the communication controller may be used to cause the peripheral device to perform various actions.
US11693465B2
A method and apparatus for scrambling and descrambling data in a computer system includes transmitting non-scrambled data from a first high speed inter chip (IP) link circuit located on a first chip to a first serializer/deserializer (SERDES) physical (PHY) circuit located on the first chip, the first high speed link IP indicating the data is not scrambled. The received non-scrambled data is scrambled by the first SERDES PHY circuit and transmitted to a second chip. The received scrambled data is descrambled by a second SERDES PHY circuit located on the second chip. The non-scrambled data is transmitted by the second SERDES PHY circuit to a second high speed link IP circuit located on the second chip to a third circuit for further processing or transmission.
US11693461B1
A signal receiving circuit receives a reset configuration signal from an exceptional timing sequence device in a functional module and outputs a trigger signal. A first signal generation circuit generates an idle signal based at least in part on the trigger signal. The idle signal is used to configure a shutdown signal which in turn is used to shut down a first clock signal of the exceptional timing sequence device and a second clock signal in a same clock domain as the first clock signal. A second signal generation circuit generates a reset enable signal based at least in part on the trigger signal. An operational circuit performs an operation based at least in part on the reset enable signal and generates a module-based reset signal based at least in part on an operation result. The module-based reset signal is used to reset the exceptional timing sequence device in the functional module.
US11693457B2
A hinge includes: a base seat that includes a rack extending in a front-back direction; a moving platform that is movable on the base seat along the front-back direction; and a shaft unit that includes a rotating shaft rotatably extending through the moving platform in a left-right direction, a main gear member rotatably extending through the moving platform, co-movable with the moving platform, and meshed with the rack to constitute a rack and pinion system, and a first bevel gear piece fixedly sleeved on the rotating shaft, and meshed with the main gear member such that rotation of the rotating shaft results in collective linear front-back motion of the shaft unit and the moving platform relative to the base seat.
US11693451B2
A digitizer includes a folding area a non-folding area. The digitizer includes a first base layer, a second base layer disposed on the first base layer, a third base layer disposed on the second base layer, a first sensing line disposed between the first base layer and the second base layer, and a second sensing line substantially perpendicular to the first sensing line, disposed between the second base layer and the third base layer, and including a first sub-line portion and a second sub-line portion disposed in the non-folding area, and a third sub-line portion disposed between the first sub-line portion and the second sub-line portion and corresponding to the folding area. The third sub-line portion has a fracture strain greater than a fracture strain of the first sub-line portion and the second sub-line portion.
US11693447B2
A circuit and method are provided for setting a phase relationship between a first signal and a second signal having a known frequency relationship to a master signal but having an unknown phase relationship to each other. One or more phase signals is generated based on the master signal, the phase signals having different phases from each other. One of these phase signals is selected based on the phase of the first signal and a target phase delay between the first signal and second signal. The second signal is generated based on the phase and frequency of the selected phase signal.
US11693446B2
On-chip spread spectrum synchronization between spread spectrum sources is provided. A spread spectrum amplitude of a signal of a spread spectrum reference clock is obtained using one or more delay lines of one or more delay elements in a skitter circuit. A spread width of the spread spectrum amplitude of the signal is determined, using one or more sticky latches in the skitter circuit, based on one or more edges of the signal. A delay line of the one or more delay elements corresponding to a falling edge of the spread width of the signal is identified using combinational circuitry of the skitter circuit. A spread spectrum signal of a spread spectrum slave clock is synchronized with the signal of the spread spectrum reference clock based on the delay line.
US11693432B1
A system and method for autonomously controlling a set of unmanned aerial vehicles is provided. The autonomous ground control system may include a communications module and a fleet configuration module in communication with one or more user interface applications. The autonomous ground control system may receive one or more flight commands and generate fleet configuration instructions and safety information. The autonomous ground control system may provide the fleet configuration instructions to each unmanned aerial vehicle in the set in order to carry out the fleet configuration instructions in real time.
US11693422B2
A sensor apparatus for an autonomously operated commercial vehicle to allow panoramic capture of surroundings of the commercial vehicle, including: radar units mountable in front corner areas of the vehicle; downwardly directed cameras having a fisheye objective, mountable on front upper corner areas of the vehicle; at least one rearwardly directed sensor mounted on a section of the vehicle to allow rearward image capture; and an evaluation module to evaluate image data from the radar units, the downwardly directed cameras and the at least one rearwardly directed sensor to achieve the panoramic capture of the surroundings of the vehicle; in which the radar units and the at least one rearwardly directed sensor capture all points in a surrounding area of the vehicle, and wherein the downwardly directed cameras capture all points in the surrounding area of the vehicle. Also described are a related commercial vehicle, method and computer readable medium.
US11693415B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating cut-in probabilities of agents surrounding a vehicle. One of the methods includes obtaining agent trajectory data for one or more agents in an environment; obtaining vehicle trajectory data of a vehicle in the environment; and processing a network input generated from the agent trajectory data and vehicle trajectory data using a neural network to generate a cut-in output, wherein the cut-in output comprises respective cut-in probabilities for each of a plurality of locations in the environment, wherein the respective cut-in probability for each location that is a current location of one of the one or more agents characterizes a likelihood that the agent in the current location will intersect with a planned future location of the vehicle within a predetermined amount of time.
US11693412B2
An operating method for navigating a device in a dynamic environment is provided. The method includes building a map based on sensor data, localizing a position of the device on the map based on the sensor data, determining a first position of a moving object on the map based on the sensor data, determining a momentum of the moving object, determining a second position of the moving object on the map based on the determined momentum, and changing the position of the device based on the determined second position of the moving object and a position of at least one obstacle.
US11693411B2
A mobile work machine includes a frame, a material loading system having a material receiving area configured to receive material and an actuator configured to control the material loading system to move the material receiving area relative to the frame, and a control system configured to receive an indication of a detected object, determine a location of the object relative to the material loading system, and generate a control signal that controls the mobile work machine based on the determined location.
US11693409B2
Systems and methods are directed to determining autonomous vehicle scenarios based on autonomous vehicle operation data. In one example, a computer-implemented method for determining operating scenarios for an autonomous vehicle includes obtaining, by a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, log data representing autonomous vehicle operations. The method further includes extracting, by the computing system, a plurality of attributes from the log data. The method further includes determining, by the computing system, one or more scenarios based on a combination of the attributes, wherein each scenario includes multiple scenario variations and each scenario variation comprises multiple features. The method further includes providing, by the computing system, the one or more scenarios for generating autonomous vehicle operation analytics.
US11693408B2
Systems and methods for characterizing a driving style of an autonomous vehicle are presented. A system may include one or more sensors configured to collect information concerning driving characteristics; a memory containing computer-readable instructions for evaluating the driving characteristics for a pattern(s) correlatable with a driving style of the autonomous vehicle and for characterizing aspects of driving style based on the one or more patterns; and a processor configured to evaluate the driving characteristics for the one or more patterns correlatable with the driving style, and characterize aspects of the driving style based on the pattern(s). Corresponding methods and non-transitory media are disclosed.
US11693404B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments for providing a trusted autonomy framework for unmanned aerial systems. One embodiment of a method includes receiving a request from an entity to participate in secure data sharing within the trusted autonomy framework for unmanned aerial systems, receiving a type of data that will be shared via the entity, and verifying an identity of the entity, a security infrastructure of the entity, and validating the data to be shared. In some embodiments, in response to verifying, accepting the entity into the trusted autonomy framework for unmanned aerial systems.
US11693401B2
A method includes establishing a first wireless connection between a movable object and a first remote control device, and establishing a second wireless connection between the movable object and at least one second remote control device. The method also includes selecting, based on a determination that the first wireless connection is normal, a first control signal received from the first remote control device to control the movable object. The method further includes selecting, based on a determination that the first wireless connection is abnormal and that the second wireless connection is normal, a second control signal received from the at least one second remote control device to control the movable object.
US11693400B2
To ensure stability of flying by an unmanned aerial vehicle, first acquisition means of an unmanned aerial vehicle control system acquires first information, which is at least one piece of information for operating an unmanned aerial vehicle that is flying or information on a result of detecting an operation of the unmanned aerial vehicle. Second acquisition means acquires second information for operating the unmanned aerial vehicle after switching of control of the unmanned aerial vehicle. Flight control means restricts, in accordance with the first information and the second information, switching to control of the unmanned aerial vehicle based on the second information.
US11693387B2
A facility for automated modelling of the cutting process for a particular material to be cut by a beam cutting tool, such as a waterjet cutting system, from empirical data to predict aspects of the waterjet's effect on the workpiece across a range of material thicknesses, across a range of cutting geometries, and across a range of cutting quality levels, all of which may be broader than, and independent of the actual requirements for a target workpiece, is described.
US11693380B1
The present disclosure provides a distribution method and a distribution system for greenspace irrigation water of a smart city based on an Internet of Things. The method includes obtaining historical monitoring information of a plurality of greenspaces in a target area within a historical time period from the urban monitoring object platform, determining historical growth information of the plurality of greenspaces within the historical time period based on the historical monitoring information of the plurality of greenspaces, determining target irrigation parameters of each greenspace in a first future time period based on the historical growth information, generating an irrigation control instruction for irrigating each greenspace based on target irrigation parameters, and sending the irrigation control instruction to an irrigation object platform through a sensor network platform, an irrigation object platform being configured to irrigate the each greenspace in response to the irrigation control instruction.
US11693378B2
An example device is configured to determine, based on a sky image of a portion of sky over a power distribution network and using a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based image regression model, an estimated global horizontal irradiance (GHI) value and manage or control the power distribution network using the estimated GHI value. The device may also be configured to determine, based on GHI values and aggregate load values for at least a portion of the power distribution network, using a Bayesian Structural Time Series model, an estimated photovoltaic power output value for the at least a portion of the power distribution network. The device may manage or control the power distribution network using the estimated photovoltaic power output value.
US11693369B2
A method for controlling an electronic watch includes a first pointing hand, a first motor configured to move the first pointing hand, a second pointing hand, a second motor configured to move the second pointing hand, a pressure sensor configured to measure pressure, and a mode indication unit configured to indicate a mode, and when detecting start of diving based on a pressure measured by the pressure sensor, control is performed on the first motor and the second motor to indicate with the first pointing hand a water depth estimated from the pressure and indicate with the second pointing hand a time period of diving for which timing is started after detecting the start of diving, and when the water depth is indicated with the first pointing hand, with a plurality of modes with different indication resolutions being provided, the selected mode is indicated on the mode indication unit.
US11693365B2
Provided is a watch component made of silicon and including a front surface, a back surface, and a side surface intersecting with the front surface and the back surface, the watch component including a first recessed portion formed at the front surface side, a second recessed portion formed at the back surface side, and a communicating groove causing one of the first recessed portion and the second recessed portion to communicate with the side surface.
US11693362B2
An image forming apparatus includes two rotators, a driver driving the rotators, a heating device to heat the rotator, a blower blowing air to the heating device, a temperature detector, a recording medium detector, a cover, an open-close detector, and circuitry. The circuitry detects an abnormal state and stops heat generation, determines whether the cover is closed using the open-close detector, controls the blower to blow air when the cover is closed, determines whether the recording medium is in the nip using the recording medium detector, controls the driver to rotate the two rotators when the cover is closed and no recording medium is in the nip, determines whether a temperature detected is equal to or lower than a threshold value before the cover is opened, and controls the blower to decrease an air volume when the temperature detected is equal to or lower than the threshold value.
US11693360B2
An image forming apparatus includes a first exterior cover provided on a front surface of the image forming apparatus so as to be openable and closable, a second exterior cover provided on a side surface of the image forming apparatus, a third exterior cover fixed on a front surface side of the image forming apparatus and above the first exterior cover in a vertical direction, and a fan configured to suck outside air through a gap formed between the first exterior cover and the second exterior cover. In a state where the first exterior cover is closed, the gap formed between the first exterior cover and the second exterior cover is larger than a gap formed between the third exterior cover and the second exterior cover.
US11693354B2
An image forming apparatus includes a housing, a top cover having an opening, a process cartridge attachable to the housing, a toner cartridge attachable to the process cartridge, and an interlocking mechanism. The top cover is pivotally movable between a first position closing the opening and a second position opening the opening. In a state where the toner cartridge is attached to the process cartridge, the toner cartridge is pivotally movable between an attachment/detachment position where the toner cartridge is attachable to and detachable from the process cartridge; and a fixed position where the toner cartridge is fixed to the process cartridge. The interlocking mechanism is configured to pivotally move the toner cartridge to the attachment/detachment position when the top cover is moved to the second position, and to pivotally move the toner cartridge to the fixed position when the top cover is moved to the first position.
US11693348B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit to form an image on a sheet, a conveyance guide unit, and a conveyance unit. The conveyance guide unit conveys the sheet on which the image is to be formed by the image forming unit. The conveyance unit conveys the sheet toward a first conveyance guide unit. The conveyance guide unit includes an urging member, a rotary member to be urged by the urging member and to rotate while abutting the sheet, a holding unit holding the urging member and the rotary member, and the first conveyance guide unit that is detachably attached to the holding unit to guide the sheet. The first conveyance guide unit includes a pressed portion, and the pressed portion is to be pressed by the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit and has strength less than strength of the holding unit.
US11693346B2
An image forming apparatus includes an endless belt to rotate, belt rollers including a tension roller and an adjustment roller extending inside the endless belt, a nip roller extending adjacent the endless belt to form a nip between the nip roller and the endless belt, and a cam shaft that includes a nip forming cam and a tension adjustment cam. The nip forming cam moves the nip roller between a pressed position in which the nip roller is pressed against the endless belt, and a retracted position in which the nip roller is retracted from the endless belt. The tension adjustment cam moves the adjustment roller relative to the tension roller.
US11693341B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a transfer member, a moving portion, a driving portion, a voltage applying portion, a first detecting portion, and a second detecting portion. On the basis of a detection result of the first detecting portion when a first test voltage is applied to the transfer member by the voltage applying portion, the second detecting portion sets a second test voltage. The second detecting portion detects a position of the transfer member on the basis of a detection result of a current value by the first detecting portion acquired when the second test voltage is applied to the transfer member by the voltage applying portion.
US11693340B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a paper feeding part that houses a medium to be fed; a belt-shaped image holding part that holds an image on a surface of the image holding part and rotates; a transfer part disposed to face the image holding part and transfers an image onto a medium from the image holding part in a final transfer region; and a cleaning part that removes a deposit on the surface of the image holding part passed through the final transfer region, in which a downstream side of the paper feeding part in a transport direction of a medium is inclined to be closer than an upstream side of the paper feeding part to the final transfer region, and the image holding part is inclined upward on a downstream side of the final transfer region toward the downstream side in a rotation of the image holding part.
US11693338B2
A cleaning device includes a housing, a cleaning blade, a toner conveyance path, a conveyance screw, and a first flicker. The conveyance screw includes a rotary shaft and a helical vane. The first flicker includes a first base portion and first contact pieces and uses the first contact pieces to press the conveyance screw in a first direction away from a bottom part of the toner conveyance path. The first base portion includes a secured portion and a blade opposed portion. A reinforcement member is stacked on the blade opposed portion.
US11693331B2
A developing roller is located nearer a first end than a second end in a first direction. A first boss extends in a second direction and is movable together with a housing. The first boss bears the weight of a developer cartridge when the first boss is supported by a support surface of a first side plate of a drum unit, and is located away from the developing roller in the first direction and the third direction. A first pressure receiving surface is located farther away from the developing roller than the first boss in the third direction. The pressure receiving member receives a pressing force in the third direction from a pressing member of the first side plate of the drum unit. The first boss is located away from the developing roller in the first direction by a first distance. The first pressure receiving surface is located away from the developing roller in the first direction by the first distance or by a second distance smaller than the first distance.
US11693330B2
A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image contains toner particles containing at least one binder resin; the Mg element in an amount such that the net intensity of x-ray fluorescence from the Mg element in the toner is 0.10 kcps or more and 1.20 kcps or less; and external additives including particles of at least one compound represented by formula (1) and particles of a metal salt of a fatty acid, MTiO3 (1) where M represents at least one selected from the group consisting of Ca, Sr, and Ba.
US11693321B2
A storage container storing a treatment liquid for manufacturing a semiconductor is provided, wherein the occurrence of defects on the semiconductor, such as particles, is suppressed and a fine resist pattern or a fine semiconductor element is manufactured. The storage container includes a storage portion that stores a treatment liquid for manufacturing a semiconductor, and the treatment liquid for manufacturing a semiconductor includes one kind or two or more kinds of metal atoms and a total content of particulate metal is 0.01 to 100 mass ppt with respect to a total mass of the treatment liquid.
US11693319B2
A method of processing a substrate, includes emitting light including vacuum ultraviolet light to a front surface of the substrate, which has a resist film formed thereon from a resist material for EUV lithography, before an exposure process in an interior of a processing container.
US11693311B2
Described are systems and methods for multi-material printing. The systems and methods can utilize a stereolithographic printing device, a moving stage, and a microfluidic device. The microfluidic device can include a plurality of reservoirs, each reservoir housing a different ink for printing, and a microfluidic chip. The microfluidic chip can include a chamber that comprises a plurality of inlets, a printing region, and one or more outlets as well as an elastic membrane.
US11693309B2
Provided is an imprint apparatus advantageous in terms of throughput. An imprint apparatus which brings an imprint material on a mold substrate into contact with a mold and forms a pattern made of the imprint material includes: a mold holding unit which holds the mold; a substrate holding unit which holds the substrate; a detecting unit which detects the occurrence of abnormality in a holding operation in the mold holding unit or the substrate holding unit and a position of the mold or the substrate; and a controller which performs at least one of the determination concerning whether or not a return process in which a state is returned from a state in which the abnormality of the holding operation has occurred to a normal state is possible and the execution of the return process on the basis of a result of the detection of the detecting unit.
US11693295B2
In accordance with some embodiments, a method of forming an auto-focusing device is provided. The method includes forming a cantilever beam member. The cantilever beam member has a ring shape. The method further includes forming a piezoelectric member over the cantilever beam member. The method also includes forming a membrane over the cantilever beam member. The membrane has a first region and a second region. The first region has a planar surface, and the second region is located between the first region and an inner edge of the cantilever beam member and has a plurality of corrugation structures. In addition, the method includes applying a liquid optical medium over the membrane and sealing the liquid optical medium with a protection layer.
US11693287B2
A chip on film for a display device, the chip on film includes: a base substrate; a lead wire disposed on the base substrate; and a driving chip connected to the lead wire, wherein the lead wire includes: a first lead part having a first thickness; and a second lead part disposed between the first lead part and the driving chip and having a second thickness greater than the first thickness, the second lead part being connected to the driving chip. The first lead part and the second lead part include a same material.
US11693285B2
An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a panel, a defect in and/or on the panel and an optical film above the panel. The panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, and a plurality of display units disposed on the first substrate. There is a defect between the first substrate and the second substrate, or on the second substrate. In a top view of the electronic device, an optical film has a first processed area corresponding to the defect, and the first processed area at least partially overlaps at least two display units.
US11693278B2
Provided are a liquid crystal diffraction element which exhibits low scattering and high sharpness of diffracted light, and a method for producing the same. A liquid crystal diffraction element having an alignment film which has a periodic pattern and also having a cholesteric liquid crystal layer, in which: the periodic pattern is imparted to the alignment film as a result of alignment elements having different tilt angles being periodically arranged in the alignment film or the alignment elements being arranged in a manner such that the azimuth direction thereof swings in one in-plane direction; the direction of the molecular axis of a liquid crystal compound changes while continuously rotating and in at least one in-plane direction on at least one main surface among the pair of main surfaces of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer; the molecular axis of the liquid crystal compound is tilted with respect to the main surfaces of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer; and an arrangement direction of bright portion and dark portion derived from the cholesteric liquid crystalline phase observed by a scanning electron microscope in a cross section perpendicular to the main surfaces is tilted with respect to the main surfaces of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer.
US11693264B2
A Faraday rotator and an optical isolator having a high transmittance and a high Verdet constant are provided. The optical isolator includes at least a Faraday rotator that rotates a polarization plane of incident light in a non-reciprocal manner, a polarizer disposed on a light incident side of the Faraday rotator, and an analyzer disposed on a light exit side of the Faraday rotator. The Faraday rotator is made of an oxide containing ytterbium oxide (Yb2O3), and is manufactured by a ceramic manufacturing process, wherein the oxide is allowed to contain an oxide of a metal other than ytterbium, and the proportion of ytterbium in all metal atoms in the oxide is 80% or more.
US11693263B1
A pair of eyeglasses having two-part upper rim portions. One part is made of a flexible material and the other part is made of a rigid material. The flexible portion can be pulled away from the rigid part by a user, allowing a user to interchange lenses without the use of any tools.
US11693254B2
A light field display device including: a display panel including a plurality of subpixels each emitting a light field; and a lenticular lens array on the display panel and including a plurality of lenticular lenses, wherein the plurality of lenticular lenses correspond to a plurality of subpixel groups each including the plurality of subpixels, and wherein a width of each of the plurality of subpixel groups is greater than a width of each of the plurality of lenticular lenses.
US11693253B2
A method for designing a phase-typed diffraction suppressing optical device (12) for a transparent display screen(11) is disclosed, which comprises: acquiring a light field complex amplitude distribution U(x2,y2,d)=A(x2,y2,d)exp(iφ20(x2,y2,d)) on a plane with a distance d from the transparent display screen (12) after a plane wave is transmitted through the screen; and designing the diffraction suppressing optical device (12), so that it has a transmittance function t2 (x2,y2)=exp(iφ21(x2,y2)) and satisfies φ20 (x2,y2,d)+φ21 (x2,y2)=C, where C is a constant. A diffraction suppressing optical device (12) and an under-screen camera apparatus (1) comprising the same are disclosed. The phase-typed diffraction suppressing optical device (12) suppresses the diffraction effect in the under-screen camera apparatus (1) by providing phase modulation, thereby improving the quality of under-screen imaging.
US11693247B2
In some embodiments, an augmented reality system includes at least one waveguide that is configured to receive and redirect light toward a user, and is further configured to allow ambient light from an environment of the user to pass therethrough toward the user. The augmented reality system also includes a first adaptive lens assembly positioned between the at least one waveguide and the environment, a second adaptive lens assembly positioned between the at least one waveguide and the user, and at least one processor operatively coupled to the first and second adaptive lens assemblies. Each lens assembly of the augmented reality system is selectively switchable between at least two different states in which the respective lens assembly is configured to impart at least two different optical powers to light passing therethrough, respectively. The at least one processor is configured to cause the first and second adaptive lens assemblies to synchronously switch between different states in a manner such that the first and second adaptive lens assemblies impart a substantially constant net optical power to ambient light from the environment passing therethrough.
US11693244B2
The disclosure relates to an optical system for an augmented reality apparatus, comprising: an image source; and a polarizing beam splitter. The polarizing beam splitter has a beam splitting side adjacent to the image source and a transmission side facing away from the image source. The polarizing beam splitter is arranged such that light emitted from the image source is able to be non-perpendicularly incident on the beam splitting side and be at least partially reflected. The polarizing beam splitter is configured such that when light is incident on the beam splitting side, a polarized light component, whose polarization is in a first direction, passes through the polarizing beam splitter and is transmitted through the transmission side thereof, and a polarized light component, whose polarization is in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, is reflected from the beam splitting side. The optical system also comprises a polarizer disposed between the image source and the beam splitting side of the polarizing beam splitter, and the polarizer is configured to allow polarized light, whose polarization is in the second direction, to be transmitted therethrough and polarized light, whose polarization is in the first direction to be absorbed.
US11693239B2
Described are various embodiments of a digital display device for use by a user having reduced visual acuity. In one embodiment, the device comprises: a digital display medium comprising an array of pixels and operable to render a pixelated image accordingly; a light field shaping layer defined by an array of light field shaping elements and disposed relative to said digital display so to align each of said light field shaping elements with a corresponding set of said pixels to shape a light field emanating therefrom and thereby at least partially govern a projection thereof from said display medium toward the user; and a hardware processor operable on pixel data for the image such that said processed image is rendered to at least partially compensate for the user's reduced visual acuity.
US11693226B2
Provided is an endoscope that can connect proximal ends of the first signal lines and a signal relay part together without securing an extra length for the first signal lines. An airtight casing is disposed inside an outer tube of an insertion part, an imaging device and first signal lines are accommodated inside the airtight casing, a distal end of the airtight casing is airtightly sealed by a cover glass, and a proximal end of the airtight casing is airtightly sealed by a partition wall part. The airtight casing is constituted of a first tubular body and a second tubular body, and the second tubular body is disposed in a nested shape with respect to the first tubular body. During the connection between the proximal ends of the first signal lines and the terminal part, the second tubular body is advanced toward the first tubular body.
US11693205B2
A plastic lens barrel includes an object-side portion, an image-side portion and a tube-shaped portion. The object-side portion is located close to an object side of the plastic lens barrel. The object-side portion includes an object-side opening and an object-side annular surface. The object-side annular surface surrounds the object-side opening and faces toward the object side. The image-side portion is located close to an image side of the plastic lens barrel and includes an image-side opening. The tube-shaped portion surrounds an optical axis. The tube-shaped portion is connected between the object-side portion and the image-side portion, and configured to define an inner space. The object-side annular surface includes a groove structure area. The groove structure area includes a plurality of groove structures. The groove structures are disposed in at least one of an arranging manner and an extending manner along a sagittal direction away from the optical axis.
US11693203B2
A fiber optic telecommunications device includes a frame and a fiber optic module including a rack mount portion, a center portion, and a main housing portion. The rack mount portion is stationarily coupled to the frame, the center portion is slidably coupled to the rack mount portion along a sliding direction, and the main housing portion is slidably coupled to the center portion along the sliding direction. The main housing portion of the fiber optic module includes fiber optic connection locations for connecting cables to be routed through the frame. The center portion of the fiber optic module includes a radius limiter for guiding cables between the main housing portion and the frame, the center portion also including a latch for unlatching the center portion for slidable movement. Slidable movement of the center portion with respect to the rack mount portion moves the main housing portion with respect to the frame along the sliding direction.
US11693198B2
A fiber plug facilitates optical coupling of a light-guiding fiber to a plug receptacle and includes a plug housing for receiving and locking parts of the fiber plug in position relative to one another. The plug housing has: a fiber inlet and a fiber bearing for the spatially fixed reception of the fiber; optically downstream of the fiber bearing along a beam path, an optical lens for collecting light exiting at an end face of the light-guiding fiber and for collimating the collected light; and a coupling surface with an output of the beam path and with a coupling structure for connection to a receptacle structure that is complementary to the coupling structure. An adjustable optical element is arranged optically downstream of the fiber bearing in the beam path and has a first component of a magnetic coupling consisting of two components and a first component of a kinematic coupling.
US11693195B2
An optical pick and place machine that includes a self-calibrating optical controller for error feedback based optical placement of optical components using active alignment is described. The optical controller can include a loopback mode to generate a baseline value of light generated by a light source and measured by a photodetector within the optical controller. The optical controller can further include an active alignment mode in which the light is coupled from the pick and place machine to the optical device on which the component is placed. The optical coupling of the placed component can be evaluated against the baseline value to ensure that the optical coupling is within specification (e.g., within a prespecified range).
US11693185B2
A light coupling unit for use in an optical connector includes a waveguide alignment member that receives and aligns at least one optical waveguide. The light coupling unit includes a light redirecting member that has an input surface configured to receive input light from the end face of the optical wave guide. A curved reflective surface of the light redirecting member receives light from the input surface propagating along an input axis and redirects the light such that the redirected light propagates along a different redirected axis. An output surface of the light redirecting member receives the redirected light and transmits the redirected light as output light propagating along an output axis and exiting the light redirecting member. A curved intersection of the curved reflective surface and a first plane formed by the input and redirected axes has a radius of curvature. The curved reflective surface has an axis of revolution disposed in the first plane. The axis of revolution forms a first angle with the redirected axis which is non-zero. The waveguide alignment member is configured such that the end face of the optical wave guide is positioned at a location that is not a geometric focus of the curved reflective surface.
US11693183B2
Methods for singulating an optical waveguide material at a contour include directing a first laser beam onto a first side of the optical waveguide material to generate a first group of perforations in the optical waveguide material. A second laser beam is directed onto a second side of the optical waveguide material to generate a second group of perforations in the optical waveguide material. The second side is opposite the first side. The first group of perforations and the second group of perforations define a perforation zone at the contour. A third laser beam is directed at the perforation zone to singulate the optical waveguide material at the perforation zone.
US11693179B2
A wavelength checker includes an optical waveguide chip. A known arrayed-waveguide diffraction grating is formed on the optical waveguide chip. The wavelength checker includes a light conversion unit made of a conversion material that converts infrared light into visible light. The light conversion unit is arranged on an output side of a plurality of first output waveguides of the optical waveguide chip to be capable of receiving light emitted from the plurality of first output waveguides. The light conversion unit is formed on a side surface of a support facing an output end surface of the optical waveguide chip. The support is fixed to a main board.
US11693172B2
A display apparatus includes a light source, a display panel, a light guide member, and an optical member. The light source is configured to generate light. The display panel is configured to display an image. The light guide member includes at least one surface adjacent to the light source. The optical member is between the light guide member and the display panel. The optical member includes a low refractive layer, a first cover layer, and a light conversion layer. The low refractive layer is on a light output surface of the light guide member and includes side surfaces. The first cover layer is on the low refractive layer and surrounds at least a portion of the side surfaces of the low refractive layer. The light conversion layer is on the first cover layer and is configured to covert a wavelength band of incident light.
US11693171B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel, a first light guide, and a second light guide. In the first light guide, a first main surface includes a first plane and first grooves between the first plane and a first side surface, a second main surface includes second grooves orthogonal to the first grooves, and a second plane between the second grooves and the first side surface. In the second light guide, a third main surface includes a third plane and third grooves located between the third plane and a fourth side surface, a fourth main surface includes fourth grooves orthogonal to the third grooves, and a fourth plane located between the fourth grooves and the fourth side surface.
US11693167B2
A system configuration that significantly improves the laser damage threshold of multi-layer dielectric gratings for lasers applications includes three main sections: 1) a laser module, 2) a TM polarization module, and 3) a multi-layer dielectric grating optimized for high efficiency operation with transverse magnetic polarized laser light.
US11693163B2
An optical filter includes an absorption layer which increases a visible light transmittance while having a good near-infrared blocking characteristic, and which is excellent in not only adhesiveness with respect to a layer to be abutted, but also light resistance. The optical filter includes: an absorption layer containing a near-infrared absorbing dye containing a squarylium-based dye and a transparent resin; and an inorganic or organic material in contact with the absorption layer. The squarylium-based dye has a squarylium skeleton and condensed ring structures bonded thereto respectively on both sides thereof, the condensed ring structures each including a benzene ring and a nitrogen atom as an annular atom, each benzene ring having an urethane structure in the second position.
US11693156B2
There is provided a novel, improved optical body, the micro concave-convex structure of which can be protected without the use of a protective film, a film adhesive body, and a method for manufacturing an optical body, the optical body including: an optical film, on one surface of which is formed a first micro concave-convex structure in which an average cycle of concavities and convexities is less than or equal to a visible light wavelength; and a master film that covers the first micro concave-convex structure. The master film is provided with a second micro concave-convex structure formed on a surface that faces the first micro concave-convex structure, the second micro concave-convex structure is made of a cured curing resin, and has a reverse shape of the first micro concave-convex structure, and the optical film and the master film are separable from each other.
US11693148B1
A satellite includes a fast tracking mirror (“mirror”) placed at or near center of mass (CoM) of the satellite along a line of sight between the CoMs of two satellites. The satellite also includes a detector at a distance away from the mirror. The mirror is adjusted to maintain the distance between the mirror and the detector, when a location of the detector changes due to pitch and yaw of the satellite.
US11693145B1
An aerial detection system includes an aerial vehicle unit and a hanging platform mechanically connected to an aerial vehicle by at least one flexible link. An EM sensor and hanging platform circuitry are mounted on the hanging platform. The hanging platform circuitry processes the EM sensor output signals. The aerial vehicle unit is attached the aerial vehicle and includes AVU circuitry which processes signals output by the hanging platform circuitry. The hanging platform circuitry and AVU circuitry are connected by one or more wired and/or wireless signal connections.
US11693143B2
Method and apparatus are provided for detecting objects behind an opaque surface. An exemplary device for detecting objects behind an opaque surface, comprising a housing configured to hold a plurality of components of the device; one or more sensors, coupled to the housing, configured to collect sensor data of an object behind the opaque surface, where the one or more sensors include one or more capacitive sensors attached to an exterior surface of the housing; a controller, residing inside the housing, configured to process the sensor data collected by the one or more sensors; an at least one printed circuit board, residing inside the housing, configured to hold the controller and the plurality of components of the device; and a display configured to convey information about a detected object to a user.
US11693142B2
A touch sensor device includes a touch sensor unit having a sealed, tubular hollow member constituted by an elastically deformable insulator and first and second electrodes extending in a longitudinal direction of the hollow member and apart from each other in which the touch sensor unit is configured such that the first electrode and the second electrode are in contact with each other and electrically connected based on elastic deformation of the hollow member, and a water intrusion detection section is provided at a position located at a lower end portion of the touch sensor unit extending in a vertical direction and, in a case where water has intruded into the hollow member, the first electrode and the second electrode are electrically connected via the intruding water in the water intrusion detection section.
US11693141B2
Systems and methods are provided for determining a formation body wave slowness from an acoustic wave. Waveform data is determined by logging tool measuring the acoustic wave. Wave features are determined from the waveform data and a model is applied to the wave features to determine data-driven scale factors The data-driven scale factors can be used to determine a body wave slowness within a surrounding borehole environment and the body wave slowness can be used to determine formation characteristics of the borehole environment.
US11693139B2
A method and apparatus for seismic analysis include obtaining an initial geophysical model and seismic data for a subsurface region; producing a subsurface image of the subsurface region with the seismic data and the geophysical model; generating a map of one or more geologic features of the subsurface region by automatically interpreting the subsurface image; and iteratively updating the geophysical model, subsurface image, and map of geologic features by: building an updated geophysical model based on the geophysical model of a prior iteration constrained by one or more geologic features from the prior iteration; imaging the seismic data with the updated geophysical model to produce an updated subsurface image; and automatically interpreting the updated subsurface image to generate an updated map of geologic features. The method and apparatus may also include post-stack migration, pre-stack time migration, pre-stack depth migration, reverse-time migration, gradient-based tomography, and/or gradient-based inversion methods.
US11693132B2
A scintillator attachment structure includes an opening formed in a first side wall portion of a housing and a scintillator holder that holds the scintillator and includes a holder portion fitted in the opening. The scintillator holder can be attached to and detached from the housing. While the scintillator holder is attached to the housing, a predetermined angle is formed between the scintillator held by the holder portion protruding from the first side wall portion into the housing and the front surface mirror in the housing.
US11693128B2
A dosimeter includes a housing and a printed circuit board positioned within the housing. A silicon photomultiplier is operably connected to the printed circuit board. A scintillator formed of Ce-activated lithium aluminosilicate glass is positioned on the silicon photomultiplier. An optical coupling is positioned between the scintillator and the silicon photomultiplier, and an optical reflector surrounds the scintillator.
US11693126B2
Techniques for calculating a geospatial position of a point of interest using a portable electronic device. A camera of the portable electronic device may observe the point of interest. An EDM device of the portable electronic device may capture a distance to the point of interest. An angle sensor may detect an orientation of the EDM device. A geospatial position of a GNSS receiver of the portable electronic device may be detected. A geospatial position of the EDM device may be calculated based on the geospatial position of the GNSS receiver. The geospatial position of the point of interest may be calculated based on the geospatial position of the EDM device, the orientation of the EDM device, and the distance to the point of interest.
US11693110B2
Systems and methods for operating radar systems. The methods comprise, by a processor: receiving point cloud information generated by at least one radar device; generating a radar track initializer using the point cloud information; determining whether the radar track initializer includes false information; generating a radar track for a detected object when a determination is made that the radar track initializer does not include false information; and/or using the radar track to control operations of a vehicle.
US11693099B2
Disclosed herein are various embodiments of an adaptive ladar receiver and associated method whereby the active pixels in a photodetector array used for reception of ladar pulse returns can be adaptively controlled based at least in part on where the ladar pulses were targeted. Additional embodiments disclose improved imaging optics for use by the receiver and further adaptive control techniques for selecting which pixels of the photodetector array are used for sensing incident light.
US11693087B2
A pulsed radar level gauge comprising a pulse generator configured to generate a transmit signal (ST) in the form of a pulse train, a propagation device connected to direct the transmit signal (ST) into a tank and return a microwave return signal (SR), a receiver, sampling circuitry configured to provide a time expanded tank signal, and processing circuitry for determining said filling level based on the time expanded tank signal. The gauge further comprises impedance increasing circuitry arranged to ensure that an input impedance of the receiver is at least 2 kΩ and a delay line arranged between said receiver and said propagation device, the delay line configured to introduce a delay greater than said pulse duration, such that said time expanded signal includes a transmitted pulse.
US11693082B2
Determining location of a mobile device includes determining the proximity of the mobile device to a predetermined location. Based on the proximity determination, a locational accuracy criterion is selected and the location of the mobile device is determined according to the selected locational accuracy criterion.
US11693081B2
Provided is a positioning method performed by a user equipment, the positioning method including receiving a first reference signal from a first transmitter and a second reference signal from a second transmitter, extracting a first sample vector based on received data of the first reference signal measured at a plurality of sample times and a second sample vector based on received data of the second reference signal measured at the plurality of sample times, calculating a first phase vector and a second phase vector by performing an inner product operation of a DFT coefficient vector for DFT operation with respect to each of the first and second sample vectors, and calculating a difference between a travel distance of the first reference signal and a travel distance of the second reference signal based on phase information of components included in a conjugate multiplication of the first and second phase vectors.
US11693078B2
A method of operating a multi-coil magnetic resonance imaging system, is disclosed which includes establishing initial circuit values of a drive circuit, loading a tissue model associated with a tissue to be imaged, loading target values for a variable of interest (VOI) associated with operation of two or more coils of a magnetic resonance imaging system, performing a simulation based on the established circuit values and the loaded tissue model, determining output values of the VOI based on the simulation, comparing the simulated output values of the VOI to the loaded target values of the VOI, if the simulated output values are outside of a predetermined envelope about the loaded target values of the VOI, then performing a first optimization until the simulated output values are within the predetermined envelope.
US11693077B2
Methods and systems are provided for identifying radio frequency (RF) interference without an RF room during imaging in a magnetic resonance tomography system. The method includes performing an acquisition, wherein scanning of a k-space along a trajectory takes place and an angle of rotation α exists between a scan start position of a first individual acquisition and a scan start position of a following second individual acquisition. A first image is obtained from the first individual acquisition and a second image is obtained from the second individual acquisition. One of the two images is rotated in respect of the other image about the angle of rotation α. A correlation is determined between the one rotated image and the other image, and a point of interference is identified from the correlation.
US11693074B2
An electric circuit arrangement for energizing a magnet of a magnetic resonance imaging facility includes a first circuit part, a second circuit part and a control facility. In an embodiment, the first circuit part is designed to generate a direct voltage as an DC link voltage from an alternating voltage and the second circuit part is designed as a current source fed by the DC link voltage. The second circuit part includes a down converter controllable by the control facility, a transformer switchable by the control facility and a rectifier. A primary current is generatable from the DC link voltage via the down converter. The primary current is feedable by a switching facility, switched by the control facility into a primary side of the transformer, and a secondary current for energizing the magnet is generatable via the rectifier connected to a secondary side of the transformer.
US11693073B2
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry configured, on a basis of one or both of (A) a parameter related to applying one of inversion and flip pulses and (B) an intensity of a slice selecting gradient magnetic field applied together with the one of the pulses in relation to selecting a slice to which the one of the pulses is applied, to determine one or both of (A) a parameter related to applying the other of the inversion and (B) flip pulses; and an intensity of the slice selecting gradient magnetic field applied together with the other of the pulses in relation to selecting a slice to which the other of the pulses is applied.
US11693068B2
An exchange-coupled film includes a antiferromagnetic layer and a pinned magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic layer stacked together, the antiferromagnetic layer having a structure including an IrMn layer, a first PtMn layer, a PtCr layer, and a second PtMn layer stacked in that order, the IrMn layer being in contact with the pinned magnetic layer. The second PtMn layer preferably has a thickness of more than 0 Å and less than 60 Å, in some cases. The PtCr layer preferably has a thickness of 100 Å or more, in some cases. The antiferromagnetic layer preferably has a total thickness of 200 Å or less, in some cases.
US11693067B2
A magnetic sensor system includes two magnetic sensors that detect components in two directions of an external magnetic field, an additional magnetic field generation section, and a signal processing circuit. The additional magnetic field generation section is capable of generating two additional magnetic fields for use in measuring the sensitivities of the two magnetic sensors. The signal processing circuit includes a sensitivity measurement processing section and a detection signal correction processing section. The sensitivity measurement processing section measures the sensitivities based on data concerning changes in the detection signals of the two magnetic sensors when the additional magnetic field generation section is controlled to generate two additional magnetic fields. The detection signal correction processing section performs processing for reducing change components attributable to the two additional magnetic fields on the detection signals of the two magnetic sensors.
US11693066B2
Signal processing circuit for a Hall sensor and signal processing method. Signal processing circuits for four-phase spinning Hall magnetic field sensors, corresponding methods and corresponding magnetic field sensor apparatuses are provided. In this case, a correction signal (c) is generated on the basis of a first feedback signal (fb1) and a second feedback signal (fb2), wherein the first feedback signal (fb1) is provided with a shorter signal propagation time than the second feedback signal (fb2).
US11693064B2
Systems and methods for eliminating or mitigating T-effects on Hall sensors. A system may comprise a magnet-coil arrangement for providing a relative movement therebetween to obtain a relative position, a Hall sensor for sensing the relative movement, a temperature sensor located in proximity of the Hall sensor for providing temperature sensing, and a controller having two or more channels coupled to Hall sensor and to the temperature sensor and configured to control the relative movement and to provide, based on the temperature sensing, a temperature correction input to the Hall sensor for compensating a temperature effect on the Hall sensor sensing.
US11693055B2
The present disclosure describes novel methods and apparatuses for directly accessing JTAG Tap domains that exist in a scan path of many serially connected JTAG Tap domains. Direct scan access to a selected Tap domain by a JTAG controller is achieved using auxiliary digital or analog terminals associated with the Tap domain and connected to the JTAG controller. During direct scan access, the auxiliary digital or analog terminals serve as serial data input and serial data output paths between the selected Tap domain and the JTAG controller.
US11693052B2
A network of storage units has a data path, which is at least a portion of the network. The network also has a dynamic time-varying or cycle-varying code generation unit and a code comparator unit that together make up an unlock signal generation unit; and a gateway storage unit. If the gateway storage unit does not store an unlock signal or the unlock signal generation unit does not generate and transmit an unlock signal, the gateway storage unit does not insert a data path segment in the data path. If the unlock signal generation unit is operated such that it generates an unlock signal, and it transmits that unlock signal to a gateway storage unit, and the gateway storage unit stores the unlock signal value, then the gateway storage unit inserts a data path segment into the data path.
US11693049B2
A sensor test apparatus capable of efficiently testing a sensor is provided. A sensor test apparatus 30 which tests the pressure sensor 90 includes an application unit 40 including an application device 42 including a socket 445 to which the sensor 90 is electronically connected, a pressure chamber 43 which applies pressure to the sensor 90, and a heat sink 443,462 which applies a thermal stress to the sensor 90, the test unit 35 which tests the sensor 90 via the socket 445, and the conveying robot 33 which conveys the sensor 90 into and out of the application unit 40.
US11693044B2
A body diode is energized by inputting a BD energization pulse signal having a predetermined cycle. At the start of energization of the body diode and immediately before termination thereof, an ON signal of a Von measurement pulse signal is input to a high-temperature semiconductor chip at a timing different from that of an ON signal of the BD energization pulse signal, thereby passing a drain-source current through a MOSFET, and a drain-source voltage is measured. Thereafter, energization of the body diode is terminated. At room temperature before and after the energization of the body diode, the drain-source voltage is measured by inputting the ON signal of the Von measurement pulse signal. A semiconductor chip for which a fluctuation amount of the drain-source voltage at a high temperature and a fluctuation amount of the drain-source voltage at room temperature are within predetermined ranges is determined to be a conforming product.
US11693034B2
An optical fiber winding for measuring current circulating through a conductor. The optical fiber winding includes a first helically wound optical fiber cable and a second helically wound optical fiber cable. The first helically wound optical fiber cable is twisted about its longitudinal axis in a first twist direction, and the second helically wound optical fiber cable is twisted about its longitudinal axis in a second twist direction, the first twist direction being opposite the second twist direction. Each of the first and second helically wound optical fiber cables making contact with one another at multiple locations along their length. Due to the first and second helically wound optical fiber cables making contact with one another and being twisted in opposite directions, counteracting forces exist where the first and second helically wound optical fiber cables contact one another to resist an untwisting.
US11693027B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a conductive particle used for a testing socket electrically connecting a lead of a device to be tested and a pad of a test board by being arranged between the device to be tested and the test board, wherein the conductive particle comprises a plurality of protrusions formed at equal intervals along a circumference.
US11693019B2
Disclosed is an automated liquid-phase immunoassay apparatus used with a cuvette having a plurality of chambers containing a reagent necessary for detection of an analyte in a biological specimen. The apparatus includes a movable cuvette module equipped with the cuvette, an optical reading module for optical assaying of a material resulting from a reaction between the specimen and the reagent, and a dispenser module which is positioned on the cuvette module and which dispenses the specimen and the reagent to the plurality of chambers of the cuvette and washes the specimen and the reagent therefrom.
US11693011B2
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for detecting the presence of neutralizing antibodies in a sample. Unlike conventional assays, the methods provided herein do not require the use of live virus or virus pseudoparticles to identify neutralizing antibodies.
US11693010B2
A method for characterizing or quantifying one or more proteins in visible and/or sub-visible particles formed in a sample by detecting the at least one visible or sub-visible particle in the sample, isolating and capturing the at least one visible or sub-visible particle to identify a presence of a protein, and using a mass spectrometer to characterize the protein.
US11693008B2
Match-paired monoclonal antibodies against major royal jelly protein 4 (MRJP4) are secreted by hybridoma cell lines having microbial deposit numbers of CGMCC No. 17294 and CGMCC No. 17295, which are used in an ELISA kit and a colloidal gold immunoassay strip for detecting the MRJP4. The positive and MRJP4-specific cell lines are obtained by cell fusion using an antigen of MRJP4 recombinant protein and a cross-reaction with other major royal jelly proteins. The MRJP4 recombinant protein is used as an antigen to obtain several positive cell lines by cell fusion and two MRJP4-specific fusion cell lines are obtained by a cross-reaction with other major royal jelly proteins. Primary screening of a matched antibody pair is performed according to antibody pairing for recognizing different epitopes.
US11692990B1
Provided is a coreflood system that comprises a housing including an inlet end and an outlet end, an inlet positioned at the inlet end, and an outlet positioned at the outlet end. The system includes two chambers positioned within the housing between the inlet and the outlet, configured to retain porous media. The two chambers are in series along a fluid flow pathway through the coreflood system. The system includes a partition extending from an inner surface of the housing between the inlet and the outlet, and a pH sensor provide in a sensor mounting location in the housing having access to the fluid flow pathway. Further provided is a method that comprises directing a fluid into a coreflood system, and using a data processing device coupled to the pH sensor to collect hydrogen ion data and determine hydrogen ion concentration and pH within the fluid.
US11692988B2
Food distributed to consumers through a distribution chain may be traced by tagging the food with DNA tags that identify the origin of the food, such as the grower, packer and other points of distribution, and their attributes. This makes it much quicker and easier to trace the food in case of food contamination or adulteration. Preferably these attributes indicate the field, location, crew and machine used to grow and process the food, and the dates of the various steps of food harvesting, processing and distribution. Natural or synthetic DNA pieces may be used to tag items, including food items. Multidigit binary or other types of bar codes may be represented by multiple types of DNA. Each digit of the bar code may be represented by one, two or more unique DNA pieces.
US11692973B2
Methods for determining reservoir characteristics of a well can include receiving a first core from the well; performing an experiment to determine the wave velocity associated with a first direction of the first core, the experiment including: transmitting an ultrasonic wave through the first core in the first direction; receiving the transmitted ultrasonic wave; and determining a directional wave velocity of the first core based on the transmitted ultrasonic wave and the received transmitted ultrasonic wave, wherein the directional wave velocity represents a wave velocity along the first direction; rotating the first core about a longitudinal axis of the first core; and performing the experiment along a second direction of the first core.
US11692967B2
An electrophoretic device for detecting biomarkers in collected bodily fluid and methods of using the same.
US11692963B2
A microfabricated electrochemical gas sensor is disclosed. The sensor includes electrodes produced from conductor layers, a capping layer, microcavities through the conductor layers and the capping layer, a cavity connecting the microcavities, and an electrolyte filling in the space created by the cavity and the microcavities in the substrate. The microcavities allow gases to pass through but retain the electrolyte through surface tension.
US11692962B2
A measuring element is disclosed for an ion-sensitive solid-contact electrode for measuring ion activity in a measurement medium. An ion-sensitive solid-contact electrode having such a measuring element and an electrochemical sensor having such a solid-contact electrode are also disclosed. The measuring element can include an ion-sensitive layer arranged to contact a measurement medium when in operation, and conductive to lithium ions; and a single-phase electrically conductive layer, which includes metallic lithium or a lithium-(0)-alloy. A solid-state electrolyte layer can be arranged between the ion-sensitive layer and the electrically conductive layer.
US11692961B2
The present disclosure relates to a sensor element for a potentiometric sensor, comprising a substrate formed from a metal alloy and an ion-selective enamel layer arranged on the substrate, wherein the metal alloy comprises at least one transition metal and wherein the ion-selective enamel layer contains a proportion of an oxide of the transition metal, and wherein an electrically conductive transition zone is arranged between the substrate and the enamel layer and contains the transition metal in a plurality of different oxidation states.
US11692955B2
A method for determining the degree of cure in forages using a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique. An NMR instrument is used to determine the amount of bound moisture (typically called stem moisture) and free moisture (typically called dew moisture) the degree of which can be used to determine how cured the forage is. This method represents an improvement on the traditional ways of determining how cured a forage is. The traditional ways have been by twisting a bunch of forage in ones hands or using a mechanical method (Hammer of fingernail) to determine if there is too much stem moisture in the stem nodes. The method can be applied using a portable instrument or building the instrument into a forage harvesting machine such as a hay baler.
US11692942B2
Techniques are disclosed for a chemical sensor architecture based on a fabric-based spectrometer. An example apparatus implementing the techniques includes a portable spectrometer device including a first fabric layer and a second fabric layer coupled to the first fabric layer to form a pouch. The second fabric layer includes a fiber fabric spectrometer substrate comprising a fiber material including one or more electronic devices, wherein the pouch is configured to receive a colorimetric substrate and the fiber fabric spectrometer substrate is configured to measure reflectance of a colorimetric substrate disposed in the pouch.
US11692926B2
In one aspect, the present teachings provide a system for performing cytometry that can be operated in three operational modes. In one operational mode, a fluorescence image of a sample is obtained by exciting one or more fluorophore(s) present in the sample by an excitation beam formed as a superposition of a top-hat-shaped beam with a plurality of beams that are radiofrequency shifted relative to one another. In another operational mode, a sample can be illuminated successively over a time interval by a laser beam at a plurality of excitation frequencies in a scanning fashion. The fluorescence emission from the sample can be detected and analyzed, e.g., to generate a fluorescence image of the sample. In yet another operational mode, the system can be operated to illuminate a plurality of locations of a sample concurrently by a single excitation frequency, which can be generated, e.g., by shifting the central frequency of a laser beam by a radiofrequency. For example, a horizontal extent of the sample can be illuminated by a laser beam at a single excitation frequency. The detected fluorescence radiation can be used to analyze the fluorescence content of the sample, e.g., a cell/particle.
US11692924B2
An analysis device includes a controller configured to count a pulse derived from a particles as a plural particles when a light reception level signal includes the pulse having a first extreme value point, a second extreme value point, and a third extreme value point, and the pulse fulfils a condition in which the third extreme value point is present between the first extreme value point and the second extreme value point in a pulse width direction of the pulse, the third extreme value point is present between the first extreme value point and a threshold in a pulse amplitude direction, the first extreme value point and the second extreme value point are each an extreme value point of a waveform projecting in a common direction, and the third extreme value point is an extreme value point of a waveform in a direction opposite to the common direction.
US11692919B2
The present disclosure discloses a reciprocating rock fracture friction-seepage characteristic test device and method. The test device includes an X-axis shear system, a Y-axis stress loading system, a Z-axis stress loading system, a servo oil source system, 5 a pore pressure loading system, and a host. The X-axis shear system includes an X-axis EDC controller, an upper shear box, a lower shear box, an X-axis left hydraulic cylinder, an X-axis right hydraulic cylinder, an X-axis left pressure head, an X-axis right pressure head, an X-axis left pressure sensor, an X-axis right pressure sensor, an X-axis displacement sensor, and an X-axis 10 displacement sensor. The pore pressure loading system includes an air cylinder, a pressure gauge, a pressure reducing valve, a fluid inlet pipeline, a fluid outlet pipeline, and a flowmeter.
US11692917B2
A tensile testing fixture and a tensile testing device with improved specimen tensile stress accuracy are provided. The fixture includes a base, an adjusting mechanism disposed on the base, a floating mechanism disposed on and connected to the adjusting mechanism, a lower head disposed on and connected to the floating mechanism, and an upper head disposed above the lower head. The floating mechanism is configured to transmit a pulling force of the lower head to the adjusting mechanism. The adjusting mechanism is configured to adjust a position of the floating mechanism in a horizontal direction under the pulling force. The floating mechanism is further configured to adjust a position of the lower head in the horizontal direction, causing the lower head and the upper head to be coaxial in a vertical direction.
US11692916B2
A method for mixing fluids in containers may include performing a mixing procedure on a plurality of containers on a container support, at least a portion of the plurality of containers being differently sized. The mixing procedure may include a plurality of mixing phases, wherein in each mixing phase the container support may be subjected to a mixing motion at a single rate for a period of time of about 5 seconds or longer, and wherein the single rate for at least one mixing phase of the plurality of mixing phases may differ from the single rate for at least one other mixing phase of the plurality of mixing phases. The mixing procedure also may include at least one non-mixing phase, wherein the container support may not be subjected to the mixing motion.
US11692915B2
An apparatus and method for producing a coated analytic substrate using a compact and portable automated instrument located in the laboratory setting at the point of use which can consistently produce one or a plurality of coated analytic substrates “on demand” for using the analytic substrate immediately after coating, preferably without a step of rinsing the coated analytic substrate before use. The apparatus preferably uses applicator cartridges having a reservoir containing the coating compositions used to form the coatings. Preferably the cartridges are removable and interchangeable to facilitate the production of individual analytic substrates having different coatings or different coating patterns. These coated analytic substrates have superior specimen adhesion characteristics due to the improved quality of the coatings applied by the coating apparatus and due to the quickness with which the coated analytic substrates can be used in the lab after production.
US11692909B2
A sensor assembly includes a mounting portion arranged to support a sensing device, a thermal shunt portion extending from the mounting portion, and a housing portion. The housing portion extends from the thermal shunt portion and is arranged on a side of the thermal shunt portion opposite the mounting portion to limit temperature of a sensor connector fixed to the housing portion of the sensor assembly. Gas turbine engines having sensor assemblies and methods of making sensor assemblies are also described.
US11692908B2
External loading test apparatus having a test subsystem includes a structure with at least three pillars supporting a platform, the platform being configured to receive a podded electric propulsion motor in a hanging position while allowing operation of said pod, and the test subsystem for applying a force on the pod to simulate full scale external loading. The test subsystem comprises a pod actuator interface, an actuator, and an actuator structure interface.
US11692884B2
A process fluid multivariable measurement system is provided. The multivariable measurement system includes a thermowell configured to couple to a process fluid conduit and extend through a wall of the process fluid conduit. The multivariable measurement system also includes a temperature sensor assembly disposed within the thermowell, the temperature sensor assembly having at least one temperature sensitive element disposed therein. The multivariable measurement system also includes a pressure sensor assembly coupled to the thermowell, the pressure sensor assembly having at least one pressure sensitive element disposed therein. The multivariable measurement system further includes transmitter circuitry, communicatively coupled to the temperature sensor assembly and the pressure sensor assembly, configured to receive a temperature sensor signal from the at least one temperature sensitive element and responsively generate a temperature measurement output based on the temperature sensor signal. The transmitter circuitry is further configured to receive a pressure sensor signal from the at least one pressure sensitive element and responsively generate a pressure measurement output based on the pressure sensor signal.
US11692883B2
A fiber optic temperature probe is disclosed. The fiber optic temperature probe includes a probe shaft containing an optical fiber. An optical temperature sensor element is coupled to the probe shaft and configured to be excited by light from the optical fiber and emit light back to the optical fiber. A thermally conductive plate is coupled to the probe shaft and interfaces with the optical temperature sensor element. Baffling extends from the probe shaft and surrounds the edges of the thermally conductive plate.
US11692880B2
A three-dimensional integrated circuit includes a first layer including at least one sensing element configured to output at least one temperature-dependent voltage; and a second layer disposed vertically with respect to the first layer and coupled to the first layer by at least one via. The second layer includes: a compare circuit configured to generate at least one intermediate voltage in response to comparing the at least one temperature-dependent voltage to a feedback voltage; a control circuit configured to generate at least one control signal in response to the intermediate voltage; and a switching circuit configured to couple a capacitor coupled to a feedback node to one of a first voltage supply and a second voltage supply in response to the at least one control signal to generate an output signal that is based on a temperature sensed by the sensing element.
US11692873B2
A spectrometer with a Schmidt reflector is described. The spectrometer may include a Schmidt corrector and a dispersive element as separate components. Alternatively, the Schmidt corrector and dispersive element may be combined into a single optical component. The spectrometer may further include a field-flattener lens.
US11692872B2
An optical light sensing device includes a detector operable to detect a light wave. The optical light sensing device also includes an integration circuit that includes an operational amplifier that is operable to reduce or cancel dark currents generated at the detector.
US11692868B2
A sensor comprising a whisker shaft and a follicle is provided. The shaft has a root end and a tip end and the shaft tapers from the root end to the tip end so that the root end is wider and the tip end is narrower. The root end is pivotably mounted in the follicle.
US11692866B2
A computer-implemented method and system for Condition Monitoring (CM) for rotating machines. The method and system include continuously receiving samples of the envelope of physical quantity data such as speed, vibration, or current, updating in real-time accumulator variables, computing in real-time spectral features based on the accumulator variables and supplemental variables, and determining a condition based on the real-time spectral features. The spectral features, exemplary as amplitudes at specific frequencies, are computed in real-time by a Goertzel Algorithm. The totality of the accumulator variables is sufficient to determine the condition of the rotating machine and the supplemental variables are temporarily needed for computing the spectral features. The one or more supplemental variables, such as memory addresses, are not based on the received samples of the input data.
US11692854B2
An optical encoder system is disclosed comprising a movable target arranged to provide a varying reflectance dependent on a position of the target within the system. An emitter is positioned on a first side of the target to illuminate the target and a sensor is positioned on the first side of the target to sense a reflectance from the target, wherein the sensed reflectance is dependent on the position of the target within the system. Also disclosed are a target and a sensor module for use in such a system, a device comprising such a system and a method of determining the position of a moving target using such a system.
US11692853B2
A source follower for a capacitive sensor device having a sense node and a shield node is provided. The source follower may include a transistor, and a switch array selectively coupling the transistor between the sense node and the shield node. The switch array may be configured to substantially disable current to the transistor during a first mode of operation, precharge the transistor during a second mode of operation, and enable the transistor to copy a sense node voltage to a shield node voltage during a third mode of operation.
US11692848B2
A map information system includes a map database including map information; and a driving assist level determination device. The map information is associated with an evaluation value indicating a certainty of the map information for each location in an absolute coordinate system. Information indicating that the intervention operation is performed is included in driving environment information indicating a driving environment of a vehicle. The driving assist level determination device is configured to acquire, based on the driving environment information, intervention operation information indicating an intervention operation location where the intervention operation is performed, acquire, based on the map information, the evaluation value for each point or section in a target range, and determine, based on the evaluation value and the intervention operation location, an allowable level for each point or section within the target range.
US11692846B2
Road information of surroundings of an own vehicle is kept as latest version as possible, and road information of distant areas are updated efficiently. A map providing device according to the present invention searches for an update target portion included in a planned travel route, and also searches for an update target portion with an end point of the planned travel route being a starting point.
US11692844B2
A display apparatus for a vehicle includes: a controller configured to create map information; and a display device configured to display the map information created by the controller, wherein the controller controls the display device to display a path guidance texture based on a road shape when guiding a path among the map information.
US11692839B2
A method and an apparatus are disclosed for providing navigation instructions. The method may include receiving, from a user apparatus, a first location and a destination location; calculating a first route from the first location to the destination location; generating, for a predetermined time period, a first set of maneuvering data corresponding to the first route, the first set of maneuvering data comprising playback cues based on a predicted user apparatus location; transmitting the first set of maneuvering data to the user apparatus; receiving, from the user apparatus, a second location; generating, for a subsequent predetermined time period, a second set of maneuvering data, the second set of maneuvering data comprising playback cues based on a further predicted user apparatus location; calculating an update set of maneuvering data based on the first and second set of maneuvering data; and transmitting the update set of maneuvering data to the user apparatus.
US11692833B2
Embodiments provide techniques, including systems and methods, for determining alternate request locations based on a pickup location score (PLoS) of a location associated with transportation request information. A pickup location score may include an objective quantitative measurement of the fitness of a location for a pickup by a provider. For example, embodiments may receive transport request information associated with a requestor computing device including a request location, determine a modified request location based at least on a location score for each of one or more alternate request locations that are within a threshold distance of the request location, and send modified transport request information associated with the modified request location and the first requestor computing device to a provider computing device associated with a matched provider for the transport request information.
US11692826B2
An anchor member supports a frame-shaped member. A first input electrode is located outside the frame-shaped member and separate from the frame-shaped member and fixed to a substrate. A second input electrode includes an electrode portion located outside the frame-shaped member and connected to the frame-shaped member. The second input electrode is displaceable in a prescribed direction. A first reference electrode is inside the frame-shaped member and fixed to the substrate. A second reference electrode includes an electrode portion located inside of the frame-shaped member and connected to the frame-shaped member. The second reference electrode is displaceable in the prescribed direction. In the structural component, the first input electrode and the electrode portion of the second input electrode are located between the frame-shaped member and a weight member in the prescribed direction in plan view in a thickness direction defined with respect to the substrate.
US11692825B2
A MEMS device is provided comprising a mass configured to move along a first axis and a second axis substantially perpendicular to the first axis; a drive structure coupled to the mass and configured to cause the mass to move along the first axis; a sense structure coupled to the mass and configured to detect motion of the mass along the second axis; a stress relief structure coupled to one of the drive structure or the sense structure; and at least one anchor coupled to an underlying substrate of the MEMS device, wherein the stress relief structure is coupled to the at least one anchor and the at least one anchor is disposed outside of the stress relief structure.
US11692824B2
A gyrometer including a first dual-mass gyrometer including a planar substrate, first left and right inertial masses including a first left and right frames, respectively, aligned along a first excitation axis X1 parallel to an excitation direction, and mounted with the ability to slide on the substrate along the first excitation axis X1, and first left and right central masses, respectively, mounted with the ability to slide in the first left and right frames, respectively, parallel to a first detection direction perpendicular to the excitation direction; a first coupling spring interposed between the first left and right frames; a first rocker mounted with the ability to rotate on the substrate about a first rocker pivot, first left and right ends of the first rocker being connected to the first left and right central masses, respectively; second left and right inertial masses aligned along a second axis X2 parallel to the excitation direction, and mounted with the ability to slide on the substrate along the second axis X2.
US11692822B2
Embodiments relate generally to marine geophysical surveying. More particularly, embodiments relate to a wax application system for application of a wax coating to a surface of a streamer. An embodiment may comprise a marine geophysical survey system. The marine geophysical survey system may comprise a streamer and a wax application system operable to receive the streamer on deployment and apply a wax coating to the streamer as the streamer is being deployed from a survey vessel into a body of water.
US11692821B2
An inclination sensor system for a mobile work machine includes a MEMS inclination sensor and a further inclination sensor of a different type and a fusion device. The inclination sensor is configured to output a first inclination signal on the basis of an inclination that exists at the inclination sensor. The further inclination sensor is configured to output a second inclination signal on the basis of the inclination that exists at the further inclination sensor. The fusion device is configured to calculate a corrected inclination signal on the basis of the first and second inclination signals and to output same as the corrected inclination signal.
US11692812B2
A three-dimensional (3D) measurement system, a method of measuring 3D coordinates, and a method of generating dense 3D data is provided. The method of measuring 3D coordinates includes using a first 3D measurement device and a second 3D measurement device in a cooperative manner is provided. The method includes acquiring a first set of 3D coordinates with the first 3D measurement device. The first set of 3D coordinates are transferred to the second 3D measurement device. A second set of 3D coordinates is acquired with the second 3D measurement device. The second set of 3D coordinates are registered to the first set of 3D coordinates in real-time while the second 3D measurement device is acquiring the second set of 3D coordinates.
US11692804B2
A system and method for measuring an inside diameter of a pipe to determine if it exceeds a predetermined value using a plurality of fingers operatively connected to a spring. When in a fully extended position, the distance between opposite fingers is the predetermined value. The fingers are pivotable between a starting position, through the fully extended position, and to a failing position. In the starting position, an outer end of each finger engages an inside surface of the pipe to compress the spring. If the diameter exceeds the predetermined value as the system moves through the pipe, the pipe inside surface will no longer engage the fingers, which releases the spring causing the fingers to pivot to the failing position, where they remain until the system is removed from the pipe and manually reset.
US11692803B2
The present invention is a new multipurpose speed square that is easily utilized by any workman who typically requires a means for measuring, aligning, leveling, etc. The speed square is multi-functional, of simple construction, lightweight and portable. The speed square can be easily carried as an all-in-one tool and thus eliminates the need for additional tools, or the like. The speed square that can be manufactured from substantially any suitable material of engineering choice, is cost effective to produce, manufacture, easily marketed and easily sold.
US11692802B2
A tape dispenser that includes a gripper pad and a tape reel. The tape reel includes a spool around which a tape is wound. The spool is enclosed in a housing that includes an opening through which a free end of the tape is allowed to pass through. The free end of the tape includes a fastener such as a hook. The housing also includes a tape lock and a roller handle. The gripper pad includes at least one suction pad, receiving means for a stake, or both. The tape reel and the gripper pad each include receiving means for a connecting means. The connecting means is a wedge connector, a magnetic connector, or the like, and combinations thereof. The tape reel is allowed to freely rotate while the gripper pad remains affixed onto a surface such as a floor, a lawn or a turf.
US11692789B2
Break barrel airguns are provided with a loading system that uses the cocking action of the break barrel type airgun to load projectiles from a magazine held by a magazine holder into a shuttle system that is positioned by the magazine holder during loader and moved to a position aligned with the barrel during firing. The loading system has a resilient barrier between the magazine holder and the shuttle that reduces the risks of loading errors caused by adhesion between the bolt and a pellet.
US11692788B2
An archery assembly and method are disclosed herein. The archery assembly, in an embodiment, includes a coupler configured to be coupled to a riser of an archery bow. At least part of the coupler is configured to be positioned behind a rear surface of the riser. The archery assembly also includes a device configured to be coupled to the coupler. The coupler and the device are configured to cooperate so that the device is adjustably moveable relative to the coupler, and such movement occurs along a vertical axis.
US11692785B1
A buffer assembly is disclosed. The buffer assembly contains a buffer body, one or more magnets positioned along the buffer body, a hammer, a first spring, a spring guide, and an end cap removably coupled with the spring guide.
US11692782B2
A magazine loader includes a loader housing, including right and left sides, a front and rear connector members, and a bridge member; a loading plunger; a rear loading pusher; a protruding loading structure around a loading aperture in a side of the loader housing, and an unloading protrusion. Also disclosed is a method of using the magazine loader, including positioning magazine loader, positioning round, inserting round, loading round, and unloading round.
US11692769B2
A refrigerator appliance is provided including a cabinet defining a chilled chamber, a door rotatably hinged to the cabinet to provide selective access to the chilled chamber, and a camera assembly mounted to the cabinet for monitoring the chilled chamber. A controller is operably coupled to the camera assembly and is configured to obtain a raw image using the camera assembly, analyze the raw image to identify an anchor object, crop the raw image to generate a reduced image surrounding the anchor object, and analyze the reduced image to identify a food item being added to or removed from the chilled chamber.
US11692767B2
A refrigerator appliance may include a cabinet, a door, a camera module, and a controller. The camera module may be mounted to the cabinet. The controller may be operably coupled to the camera module. The controller may be configured to initiate an operation routine. The operation routine may include initiating an image capture sequence at the camera module. The image capture sequence may include a two-dimensional image captured at the camera module. The operation routine may further include determining an appendage-occupied region within the two-dimensional image and analyzing the appendage-occupied region in response to determining the appendage-occupied region. The operation routine may still further include assigning a confidence score to a user profile stored in the controller based on analyzing the appendage-occupied region, comparing the assigned confidence score to a threshold score, and recording metadata regarding the two-dimensional image based on comparing the assigned confidence score.
US11692752B2
A heat transfer system that includes one or more heat exchangers and one or more variable control pumps that control flow through the one or more heat exchangers. At least one variable control pump is on the source side of the heat exchanger for controlling flow of a first circulation medium and at least one flow controlling mechanical device is on the load side of the heat exchanger for controlling flow of a second circulation medium. Sensors are used for detecting variables of the first circulation medium and the second circulation medium. At least one controller is configured to control at least one parameter of the first circulation medium or the second circulation medium by controlling at least one of the variable control pump or the flow controlling mechanical device using a feed forward control loop calculated from the detected variables to achieve control of the at least one parameter.
US11692745B2
Methods and apparatuses for expelling heat may be provided. For example, an apparatus may comprise a rotating assembly, a support structure, a condenser water tank, and a control system. The apparatus may rotate the rotating assembly such that tanks of the assembly are rotated into and out of the condenser water tank. The rotation may be self-starting and controlled by a control system.
US11692741B2
The present invention provides: a heat generation method that makes the first use of the ionic vacancies that are a by-product of an electrochemical reaction and have conventionally been left unreacted; and a device for implementing the same. The present invention pertains to: a heat generation method characterized by comprising colliding, in an electrochemical reaction that proceeds in an electrolysis cell, ionic vacancies having a positive charge generated at an anode and ionic vacancies having a negative charge generated at a cathode; and a heat generation device characterized by being equipped with an electrolysis cell provided with an anode and a cathode and an electrolyte solution accommodated within the electrolysis cell, and by generating heat by colliding ionic vacancies of opposite signs generated by causing the electrochemical reaction to proceed in the electrolysis cell via the anode and the cathode.
US11692740B2
A double point focusing solar energy collection apparatus of the present invention includes a heat collector, a secondary concentrator, and a bracket. The heat collector includes a primary concentrator and a heat collection tube, in which the primary concentrator has a focus point. The secondary concentrator has a focus point. The bracket supports the primary concentrator, the heat collection tube, and the secondary concentrator. The heat collection tube is located between the primary concentrator and the secondary concentrator and located on the focus points of the secondary concentrator and the primary concentrator. By adding the secondary concentrator, which is a rotating paraboloid reflector or circular Fresnel reflector, it can achieve low light loss and high heat collection efficiency, and erosion of the heat collection tube by sand, rain, and snow can be effectively prevented, thereby extending the lifetime of the heat collection tube effectively.
US11692737B2
A portable skull boiler in accordance with embodiments has a boiler basin optimally sized and configured for effective cleaning of cervid heads, with head positioning means, nose submersion means, and three or more adjustable and removable legs. The basin has one or more lids, and an adjustably positionable heat source. The skull boiler may be disassembled with all components securable in the boiler basin for transport and storage. The basin having a non rectilinear shape that conformingly receives and retains cervid heads thereby minimizing the size and volume of the basin facilitating efficient operation using minimal fuel and water, and easy transport.
US11692736B1
An air conditioner shut-off system includes an overflow conduit that is coupled, at one end, to the drainage system of an air handler unit of the air conditioner system. The opposite end of the overflow conduit is positioned over an overflow container, which is suspended by a harness at the lower end of the harness. The upper end of the harness being operably coupled to the shut off switch throw of a shut off switch, which is provided on or proximate to the air handler unit. If the drainage system becomes obstructed, water will flow into the overflow container through the conduit, and eventually the mass of the water accumulated in the overflow container will produce enough force acting on the shut off switch throw through the harness to flip the shut off switch throw to the OFF position, resulting in the air conditioner system being shut off.
US11692726B2
A controller of an HVAC system is communicatively coupled to a liquid-side sensor and a shutoff switch. The controller stores measurements of a liquid-side property over an initial period of time. The controller detects that the shutoff switch is tripped at a first time stamp corresponding to an end of the initial period of time. The controller accesses the measurements of the liquid-side property. The controller determines, based on the measurements of the liquid-side property, that the liquid-side property has a decreasing trend. In response to determining that the liquid-side property has the decreasing trend, a malfunction of a blower of the system is determined to have caused the shutoff switch to trip.
US11692719B2
An onboard system for winterizing vessels includes an antifreeze storage system. The onboard system includes a control system capable of determining one or more of the one or more system components to be winterized, an antifreeze storage system, and one or more pumps capable of pumping antifreeze from the antifreeze storage system. The antifreeze flows through the determined one or more system components to be winterized.
US11692718B2
The disclosed technology includes an on-demand water heater which uses an electric heat source to heat the water. The on-demand water heater can have a low fluid capacity heating chamber which has an inlet and an outlet, an electric heat source for heating the water, and a controller to control the electric heat source and maintain the temperature of the water at a predetermined temperature setting. The on-demand water heater can be powered by a direct current power source. The on-demand water heater can also utilize a solar thermal system to provide additional heat to the water.
US11692715B2
A cooking apparatus may include a cooking chamber at least partially defining an interior volume and a substantially open upper portion. The cooking chamber may include a side wall at least partially defining a lower portion of the cooking chamber. The cooking apparatus may also include a lid configured to substantially close the upper portion of the cooking chamber. The cooking apparatus may further include a heating module configured to be coupled to, and removed from, at least one of the side wall or the lower portion of the cooking chamber. The heating module may be configured to provide a source of heat for the cooking apparatus, and, in some examples, the heating module may be configured to generate heat using at least one of a flammable gas, charcoal, pellets, or wood.
US11692706B2
The invention provides a thermal cracking system which comprises a reactor, and a feed module or a solid product discharge module. The feed module transports a feed material from the outside environment to the reactor. While being transported, the feed material is heated by the feed module to become molten and fills up the interior of the feed module, thereby preventing air from entering the reactor. The solid product discharge module transports a solid product from the reactor to the outside environment. One end of the solid product discharge module is connected with the reactor. The other end of the solid product discharge module comprises a first opening interfacing with the outside environment. When the solid product is transported to the outside environment, the opening size of the first opening is selected such that the speed at which the solid product is entering the solid product discharge module form the reactor is equal to or greater than that at which the solid product is leaving the solid product discharge module, through the first opening, and into the outside environment. Benefit of the invention includes a higher production efficiency and enhanced safety for a thermal cracking system at industrial scale.
US11692702B2
In accordance with various embodiments, lighting systems features one or more inter-connectable light panels each having multiple light-emitting elements thereon. One or more of the light panels may feature one or more connectors, and associated conductors, for the transmission of power, communication signals, and/or control signals. One or more of the light panels may include sound-absorbing material therebelow and may define one or more apertures and/or cut-out regions that reveal the sound-absorbing material.
US11692695B2
Exemplary embodiments of a rotating light device are provided. In some exemplary embodiments, a light apparatus is provided, having a circular body portion configured to retain one or more batteries, a circular cover portion threadably secured to the circular body portion and having a transparent enclosure, a printed circuit board placed between the circular body portion and circular cover portion containing one or more light-emitting diodes configured to project light from the transparent enclosure, and a tension spring placed between the circular body portion and circular cover portion that provides tension between the circular body portion and circular cover portion, and pushes the circular cover portion away from the circular body portion, wherein rotation of the circular cover portion completes an electrical circuit to turn the one or more light emitting diodes on. In some exemplary embodiments, a holder is provided to hold the light apparatus within the holder.
US11692694B2
An emergency lighting unit includes a housing. The housing includes a base having a first portion and a second portion. A lamp assembly is rotatably connected to the housing and positioned in the lower portion. A cover is provided over the lamp assembly.
US11692685B2
An integrated laminate structure adapted for application in the context of solar technology, wafer technology, cooling channels, greenhouse illumination, window illumination, street lighting, traffic lighting, traffic reflectors or security films, includes a first carrier element such as a piece of plastic or glass, optionally having optically substantially transparent material enabling light transmission therethrough, a second carrier element provided with at least one surface relief pattern including a number of surface relief forms and having at least one predetermined optical function relative to incident light, the second carrier element optionally including optically substantially transparent material enabling light transmission therethrough, the first and second carrier elements being laminated together such that the at least one surface relief pattern has been embedded within the established laminate structure and a number of related cavities have been formed at the interface of the first and second carrier elements. An applicable method of manufacture is presented.
US11692684B2
A filtering assembly for enhancing lighting from a luminaire serves as a lighting filter that includes one or more stackable and interchangeable filter devices. The filter devices are configured to detachably couple to a luminaire, and custom block a portion of the light transmitted from the luminaire. This enables a uniquely shaped transmission of light and/or removing unwanted spills and or glare emanating from the luminaire. The filter devices comprise a body that defines a clear section that allows full passage of light from the underlying luminaire, and an opaque section that allows partial or no passage of light. The filter devices also comprise an outer rim having a friction enhancing material that enables a snug engagement with the perimeter recess forming in the luminaire. The friction enhancing material of the outer rim restricts slippage when stacking multiple filter devices, and with the inside perimeter recess formed in the luminaire.
US11692682B2
A rear light unit of a vehicle is provided. The rear light unit includes an array of first light sources, arranged angularly offset along a first inner circumferential arrangement region, and an array of second light sources, arranged angularly offset at least along a second outer circumferential arrangement region concentric to the first inner circumferential arrangement region of the first light sources. The first and second light sources are made by one or more light-emitting diodes with which a light diffusing body is associated, the first light sources having a diffuser body in the form of a prismatic pinnacle, and the second light sources having a blade-shaped diffuser body along whose median axis emerges orthogonally a septum which enters the first inner circumferential arrangement region of the first light sources according to radial directions inserted between two successive light sources.
US11692672B2
In one embodiment, systems and methods include using a pressure relief shipping adapter to reduce the internal pressure of a container. A pressure relief shipping adapter comprises a body comprising a first portion and a second portion. The first portion comprises a first bore and a set of protrusions. The second portion comprises a second bore, wherein the second bore comprises a radial gap, wherein the radial gap comprises a uniform arc length along the length of the radial gap. A first end and a second end of the radial gap comprise a greater arc length than the radial gap. A pressure relief shipping adapter further comprises a pressure relief valve disposed at a first end of the first bore and an interlocking component comprising a first tab and a second tab, wherein the interlocking component is at least partially contained within the second bore.
US11692670B2
According to aspects, hydrogen fueling systems and methods are provided, including vehicle-to-vehicle communication techniques, hydrogen cooling techniques and/or hydrogen dispenser control techniques that facilitate improving aspects of a hydrogen fueling station.
US11692668B2
A gimbal includes a control device configured to receive an action instruction including a press action instruction and, based on the action instruction, generate a control instruction including a switch control instruction for switching operating modes of the gimbal, a controlling assembly configured to receive the control instruction and generate a performing instruction based on the control instruction for controlling an optical device, and a performing assembly configured to receive and implement the performing instruction. The performing assembly is operably connected to the controlling assembly and supported on a top end of a support arm of the control device. The performing assembly comprises a first rotation member, a second rotation member, and a carrying member connected one to another, and first and second motors for driving the second rotation member and the carrying member to rotate relative to the first and second rotation members, respectively.
US11692661B2
A compact strainer having a small pressure loss which is easily cleaned without inserting and detaching screens in and from a strainer casing. Front and rear end portions of a tubular casing are respectively provided with an inlet and an outlet. A barrier divides in two a linear channel between the inlet and the outlet along a flowing direction and is provided on the outlet side so as to face the inlet. A filter portion surrounding the inlet is constituted by the barrier, a pair of screens laterally opposing each other and arranged at a predetermined interval are provided, and the upper and lower portions of an inner surface of an outer wall of the casing, and upper and lower regions of the outer wall are provided with opening portions with lids which make the inside of the filter portion communicate with the outside.
US11692657B2
A quick connect fluid connector is directly connected to a fluid port of a fluid manifold using a quick connect fluid connector swivel that is configured to permit rotational and/or longitudinal movement of the quick connect fluid connector relative to the fluid port. The relative axial and/or rotational movements provided by the swivel eliminates the need for a fluid hose to be used in the fluid path between the quick connect fluid connector and the fluid port.
US11692653B2
A pre-assembled pipe coupling includes a gasket, a housing surrounding the gasket, and a fastener. The housing has three segments sequentially coupled to each other to define an insertion boundary. A bridge segment has a first mount extending lateral from the wall and having a plurality of first lateral walls defining a first aperture and a second mount having a plurality of second lateral walls defining a second aperture. A first clamp segment has a first hook disposed in the first aperture. A second clamp segment has a second hook disposed in the second aperture. The fastener is disposed through the first fastener aperture and the second fastener aperture. The fastener has an adjusted length at which the first clamp segment grips the gasket, and the second clamp segment grips the gasket to locate the first sealing lip and the second sealing lip within the insertion boundary.
US11692636B2
The present disclosure relates to a hydrostatically adjustable flow control valve. In one embodiment, the valve includes a fixed sleeve that slidably receives a spool. A spring biases the spool relative to the fixed sleeve. A primary orifice is used to deliver fluid to the interior area of the fixed sleeve and spool. A control device is used to selectively vary the rate at which fluid drains from the interior area. Draining the fluid results in the spool being received within the interior of the fixed sleeve. The movement of the spool opens flow ports within the sleeve. This, in turn, allows fluid to exit the valve. Conversely, the control device can be set to prevent fluid drainage. This results in the spool extending from interior of the fixed sleeve, the closure of the flow ports, and the sealing of the valve.
US11692635B2
A pressure relief valve configured to vent a pressurized tank in the event of a fire is provided. The pressure relief valve includes a body, a vent passage, a plug and a latch. The vent passage is disposed through the body. The vent passage can be placed in fluid communication with an internal volume of a tank and with the atmosphere. The plug is moveably mounted in the vent passage. The latch has a blocking member disposed in contact with a control end of the plug in a first configuration and out of contact with the control end in a second configuration. The second configuration allows movement of the plug in the vent passage. One or both of a shape memory alloy wire and a trigger piston is configured to actuate the latch from the first to the second configuration. The shape memory alloy wire is configured to shorten when exposed to a temperature above a threshold temperature. The trigger piston moves, e.g., by a pressurized gas, in a trigger actuation passage to actuate the latch from the first configuration to the second configuration.
US11692631B2
Systems and methods include providing an annular seal stack for an assembly. The seal stack assembly is disposed between a probe and a housing of the assembly and configured to provide a radial seal between the probe and the housing. The seal stack assembly includes a first metallic seal, a second metallic seal, and a wiper assembly disposed between the first metallic seal and the second metallic seal. The wiper assembly includes a first wiper housing component having a tapered inner surface, a second wiper housing component having a tapered inner surface opposite the tapered inner surface of the first wiper housing component, and a wiper disposed between the first wiper housing component and the second wiper housing component.
US11692628B2
A sealing device for a gas-liquid two-phase fluid medium under variable working conditions includes a rotating shaft and a housing, and a chamber formed by the housing is configured to accommodate the gas-liquid two-phase fluid medium. The sealing device further includes a labyrinth sealing mechanism and a fluid dynamic-pressure mechanical sealing mechanism with double end faces, where the labyrinth sealing mechanism and the fluid dynamic-pressure mechanical sealing mechanism with double end faces conduct mutual synergetic effect. Sealing buffer chambers are arranged between the labyrinth sealing mechanism and the fluid dynamic-pressure mechanical sealing mechanism; the fluid dynamic-pressure mechanical sealing mechanism is provided with stationary rings and movable rings, where the stationary rings and the movable rings oppositely abut against with each other.
US11692626B2
Various methods and systems are provided for a shift assembly for a vehicle transmission. In one example, a shift assembly for a transmission includes a first barrel cam including a first cam track; a second barrel cam arranged coaxially with the first barrel cam and including a second cam track; a first motor configured to drive the first barrel cam independent of the second barrel cam; and a second motor configured to drive the second barrel cam independent of the first barrel cam.
US11692625B2
A continuously variable transmission includes a primary pulley, a secondary pulley, a metal belt and a controller. The metal ring includes a ring and a plurality of elements bundled by the ring. The elements have respective receiving portions opening in a radial direction of the metal belt and receive the ring in the receiving portions. Assuming a direction perpendicular to a circumferential direction and a radial direction of the metal belt as a lateral direction L, the controller executes a falling-off countermeasure control of the element when a relative movement of the element in the lateral direction L with respect to the ring is detected or a presence of an action of a force on the element which causes such relative movement is detected.
US11692619B2
A power transmission device includes a first input shaft configured to input power from a first power source, a second input shaft configured to input power from a second power source, a first output shaft configured to transmit power to a first drive wheel, a second output shaft configured to transmit power to a second drive wheel, and a differential gear including, as three rotation elements, a first rotation element to which the second input shaft is connected, a second rotation element to which the second output shaft is connected, and a third rotation element to which the first input shaft and the first output shaft are connected, in which an engagement device configured to selectively connect any two of the three rotation elements is provided.
US11692618B2
A mechanical device includes a worm and two swing units disposed in a housing. Each swing unit has a pivot member and a swing member meshing with the worm. The swing member has an arcuate cam slot that has a first end and a second end. A rail is fixed to the housing above the swing units and the worm. Two sliders are connected to the swing units. Each slider has a slide block engaging the rail, an extension arm, and a protrusion protruding from the extension arm and inserted into the arcuate cam slot to slide between the first and second ends of the arcuate cam slot when the worm drives the swing member to swing.
US11692612B2
A multilinear actuator transmits a force in several directions, and includes complementary actuating strands made of flexible material and provided on a first face with spaced studs, the actuating strands being located opposite each other, the studs meshing with one another, and transverse faces of one stud bear against respective rear and front transverse faces of adjacent studs of the other actuating strand, defining a straight section in which the two actuating strands are rigidly connected, so that the straight section behaves like a rigid bar, said actuating strands including on an outer face, regularly spaced teeth, the actuator including one driving member per actuating strand, meshing with the teeth of the second face of one of said actuating strands to translate said actuating strand, the actuator including a straight section and a straight section in which the actuating strands are meshed, and a curved region located between the straight sections in which the actuating strands are spaced apart.
US11692603B2
A mount bushing includes an outer mounting ring adapted for connection to a mount structure. An outer structural ring is disposed inside of the outer mounting ring. A main elastomeric isolation arrangement is disposed between the outer structural ring and an inner structural insert, wherein the main elastomeric isolation arrangement is supported between the outer structural ring and the inner structural insert by elastomer material. An outer ring isolation layer of elastomer is disposed between the outer mounting ring and the outer structural ring, wherein the outer ring isolation layer is isolated from the main elastomeric isolation arrangement by the outer structural ring. A mounting bolt is inserted through a bore in the inner structural insert.
US11692593B2
The present disclosure describes methods, systems, apparatuses, and devices for facilitating actuating robots and automatic machines. Specifically, the present invention provides a capstan actuator with composite control coil. Further, the disclosed system may allow for multi-jointed robots, or other multiple degrees of freedom machines, to be constructed in a novel manner that allows for a single prime mover to supply motive power to many other degrees of freedom with very good control fidelity.
US11692591B2
A sealing device for a bearing unit, the device having a stationary part provided with: a first metal shield, an elastomer coating, co-molded on the first shield, at least one contacting lip, radially internal, belonging to the elastomer coating. The sealing device having a rotatable part provided with a second metal shield on which the contacting lip makes a sliding contact. The second metal shield is provided with a plurality of flow baffles positioned at least on an axially exposed surface of the shield, shaped as recesses realized through the axially exposed surface and distributed along a radially outer peripheral edge of the shield.
US11692590B2
A slewing bearing for vertical structural support, including a first bearing ring, a second bearing ring and at least one row of rolling elements arranged between the first and second bearing rings. The first or second bearing ring is provided with a gear for receiving the drive of an input torque, and the gear is provided axially thereunder with a lubricant collecting member for keeping the lubricant. A rotary support device is provided for supporting in a vertical structure. The device provides a first member that supports substantially in a vertical direction, a second member that is substantially supported by the first member in the vertical direction, and the slewing bearing acting as a rotary support between the first and second members. The first member is fixedly connected to the first bearing ring and the second member is fixedly connected to the second bearing ring.
US11692587B2
A bearing device includes: a rotary shaft being rotatable around an axis; a bearing pad that supports an outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft; a nozzle that is disposed on an upstream side of the bearing pad in a rotational direction of the rotation shaft and has a supply hole; a pair of side plates that face the outer circumferential surface of the rotation shaft on an upstream side of the nozzle in the rotational direction and are disposed on both sides of the nozzle in the axial direction, the pair of side plates having a discharge hole; and a guide surface that faces the upstream side in the rotation direction and extends in the axial direction over an entire length of the bearing pad in the axial direction, wherein the guide surface is circumferentially positioned between the supply hole and the discharge hole.
US11692584B2
An apparatus for securing a panel to a structure is provided. In one embodiment, the fastener includes a fastener having a fastener head and a threaded tail, and the fastener may be disposed through a structure and an external panel. The apparatus also includes a retainer housing positioned on the fastener head, where the retainer housing is detached from the fastener. A spring engaging the fastener and the retainer housing is also included within the retainer housing.
US11692582B2
A fastener system for securing a component to a structure is provided. The system includes a pin portion and a clip portion. The pin portion has a head and a shaft. The clip portion has a head engagement flange and a retainer flange configured to receive a fastener that extends along a first axis. The clip portion and the pin portion are configured for engagement with one another in an engaged position, and in the engaged position the pin portion shaft extends along a second axis non-parallel to the first axis.
US11692579B2
A metal anchoring fastener fastens millwork onto walls constructed with wall cladding fastened to steel studs. The load typical of a loaded cabinet is borne by the steel stud anchors owing to the mate between the profile of the steel stud anchor and the layers of millwork and wall cladding and steel stud that said anchor penetrates. The pitch of the thread adorning the profile of the steel stud anchor progresses non-linearly along the length of said shaft, the shaft is generally non-linear in profile, and the thread profile is non-uniform along the length of said shaft. The anchor can also support a secondary screw concentrically penetrating the void at the center of the anchor, in order to hang loads from a wall, with or without millwork. Predrilling of the holes can enable installation of these zinc anchors.
US11692572B2
A frame pool is disclosed including a frame assembly and a pool liner, the frame assembly including horizontal frame members and a vertical frame member coupled together via a T-shaped joint. The T-shaped joint may be constructed of plastic to facilitate attachment and detachment to the adjacent frame members and to resist galling and corrosion. The T-shaped joint may also be relatively small to improve the appearance and water containment of the frame pool.
US11692570B2
An inner housing defines a pin retaining receptacle elongated in an X-direction with entry ramps extending parallel to the X-direction. The inner housing is slidably coupled to an outer housing and extends into an interior thereof. Centering protrusions of one housing can engage the other housing to initially retain the pin retaining receptacle of the inner housing in a central position within the interior of the outer housing in the Y-direction prior to insertion of the pin into the pin retaining receptacle. The other housing can be movable against the centering protrusion to permit the pin retaining receptacle of the inner housing to move out of the central position in the Y-direction in response to engagement of the pin against the entry ramps during insertion of the pin into the pin retaining receptacle.
US11692568B2
A fastening device includes a male member having a head portion at a proximal end along a first central axis, an impact retention stem protruding from the head portion along the first central axis towards a distal end, and a tooth portion. A female member, having a first cavity, extends along a second central axis to guidingly receive the impact retention stem, a periphery of the female member having a lip portion extending towards the second central axis and adapted to lockably engage with the tooth portion, and a second cavity, extending perpendicular to and intersecting the second central axis. A locking member is configured to be guidingly received by the second cavity and is adapted to retainingly receive the impact retention stem and provide a biasing force along the first central axis towards the head portion in cooperation with the tooth portion when operably engaged with the lip portion.
US11692562B2
A silencing device and a compressor having the silencing device are disclosed. The silencing device has a housing. An air inlet and an air outlet are provided to the housing. An air flow channel is provided in the housing for allowing air communication between the air inlet and the air outlet. An oil hole is provided in the housing for discharging oil from the housing. An oil guide part is arranged on the outside of the housing and at a position downstream of the oil hole in the moving direction of the oil, such that the oil drips from the housing after flowing from the oil hole to the oil guide part.
US11692561B2
A self-cooling system includes at least one rotating component and a housing configured to enclose the at least one rotating component. The housing includes at least one inlet bore and at least one exhaust bore. The at least one exhaust bore is disposed radially outward from a radial position of the at least one inlet bore with respect to an axis of rotation of the at least one rotating. The at least one inlet bore and the at least one exhaust bore are positioned to establish a pressure differential configured to circulate a fluid into the at least one inlet bore, through the housing, and out the at least one exhaust bore. The system does not have any feature in addition to the at least one rotating component configured to drive the fluid into the at least one inlet bore, through the housing, and out the at least one exhaust bore.
US11692556B2
A seal includes a mating ring that rotates relative to a carbon primary ring at a seal interface. A buffer gas is provided into the seal and passes from the back of the primary ring to the seal interface. The seal can be used as a separation seal or in combination with another seal.
US11692550B2
A scroll device is disclosed having a housing, a motor having a shaft, an orbiting scroll connected to the shaft for moving the orbiting scroll, a fixed scroll mated to the orbiting scroll, an idler shaft for aligning the orbiting scroll and the fixed scroll, an inlet formed in the housing and/or the fixed scroll for receiving a cooling liquid, and a channel formed in the idler shaft for receiving the cooling liquid.
US11692540B2
Disclosed herein is a peristaltic pump for medical applications comprising a motor, a rotor coupled to the motor, a housing in which the rotor is arranged and an opening and closing mechanism comprising a tube pressuring portion, a slider and a pivotable cover coupled to the housing and the slider. The opening and closing mechanism is accentuated by the pivotable cover, which pivotable cover is connected to the tube pressuring portion via elastic elements. The elastic elements are thereby connected via at least one adjustable element so that the tension or pretension in the elastic element can be adjusted to tube types and material, to the viscosity of the pumped fluid and to the amount of fluid that needs to be pumped.
US11692539B2
An air compressor includes: a motor actuating a mechanism to generate compressed air; a tank part in which the compressed air is stored; a pressure detector detecting a pressure value in the tank part; and a controller driving the motor when the pressure value is equal to or smaller than an ON pressure value and to stop drive of the motor when the pressure value is equal to or greater than an OFF pressure value. The controller executes processing for detecting a continuous drive time or a continuous stop time of the motor and changing at least one of the ON pressure value, the OFF pressure value and an output of the motor, and the controller detects a change amount of the pressure value, and to determine an execution cycle of the processing or a change amount of a value in the processing, based on the detected change amount.
US11692538B2
A compressor system includes: a first compressor including a first casing having a cylindrical shape, and a first bundle capable of being inserted into and pulled out from the first casing in an axial direction of the first casing; and a second compressor including a second casing having a cylindrical shape, and a second bundle capable of being inserted into and pulled out from the second casing in an axial direction of the second casing. The first and second compressors are arranged to face each other to cause pullout directions of the respective bundles to be opposite to each other. A maintenance space shareable for insertion and pullout operations of the first bundle and insertion and pullout operations of the second bundle is interposed between the first bundle and the second bundle, and is available for the bundle under the insertion and pullout operations.
US11692537B2
A method of attenuating pressure pulsations, comprises: pumping liquid into a vessel in fluid communication with a flow line by a conduit sealingly passing through a top surface of the vessel, so as to discharge the liquid into the flow line while creating an air-liquid interface in the vessel, by trapping in an upper part of the vessel air that attenuates pressure pulsations caused by the pumping. The method also comprises generating condition for the liquid to drain out of the vessel to allow air to fill at least the upper portion of the vessel.
US11692534B2
An axial piston pump having several pistons has a magnetic encoder (5), which is arranged on a swash plate, and a magnetic field sensor, which is arranged in such a way that it faces towards the magnetic encoder (5). The magnetic encoder (5) has at least two permanent magnets (2, 3) and a plate (4) which consists of a ferromagnetic material. The permanent magnets (2, 3) are arranged on the plate (4) in such a way that they each faces a magnetic pole towards the plate (4), and this pole is at least partially covered by the plate (4) in each case.
US11692513B2
Electric engine to provide thrust to fly an aircraft. Engine includes housing, air inlet, shaft, bladed rotor having a plurality of magnets secured on shaft, stator having plurality of coils positioned so as to interact with plurality of magnets and an exhaust nozzle. Powering coils causes interaction with magnets that results in bladed rotor rotating and pressurizing and accelerating air received via air inlet and expelling via exhaust nozzle to provide thrust. Engine may include generator having stator with coils secured to shaft via bearings and plurality of rotors with magnets secured to shaft to rotate with shaft. Magnets rotating past coils results in electric generation. Second hollow shaft may be mounted to shaft with bearings and generator may be located with hollow shaft. Second bladed rotor may be connected to, and rotate, second shaft. Engine may include ducts external to bladed rotor and fan to route air therein.
US11692512B2
A fan module for an aircraft turbine engine, this module comprising a fan and an electrical machine, such that the electrical machine is coaxially mounted downstream of the fan and comprises a rotor coupled to rotate with the fan and an annular member with generally C-shaped axial cross-section, the opening of which is axially orientated and receives the rotor, this member comprising a radially outer portion forming a stator, and a radially inner portion forming a support for bearings guiding the rotor.
US11692504B2
Methods and systems are provided for a cylinder head. In one example, a system comprises cylinder head having a bore arranged therein. The bore comprises a coupling element therein configured to selectively receive an ignition plug.
US11692503B2
Methods and systems are provided for a cylinder head with an exterior wall including a removable camshaft carrier. In one example, a cylinder head includes a camshaft carrier removably couplable to a mount surface of the cylinder head and adapted to form a portion of an exterior wall of the cylinder head while coupled to the mount surface. The camshaft carrier may include a first section removably couplable to the cylinder head and a second section removably couplable to the first section, with the first section and the second section together shaped to receive a camshaft journal.
US11692500B2
An internal combustion engine system, including an internal combustion engine (ICE), an exhaust aftertreatment system (EATS) located downstream of said ICE. An exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) pump arranged in an exhaust gas recirculation duct extending between the ICE and EATS, wherein the ICE system has a normal operation mode for transporting, by means of the EGR pump, at least a portion of said exhaust gas to upstream of the ICE. The ICE system further includes a heating device arranged upstream of at least one exhaust aftertreatment devices of said EATS and the ICE system has a pre-heat operation mode for transporting, by means of the EGR pump, exhaust gas and/or air through said heating device and then to said at least one of said exhaust aftertreatment devices.
US11692486B2
Methods for manufacturing combustor panels of gas turbine engines and combustor panels are described. The methods include defining a particle deposit near-steady state for at least a portion of a combustor panel, the particle deposit near-steady state representative of a build-up of particles on the at least a portion of the combustor panel during use, generating a template based on the defined particle deposit near-steady state, wherein the template includes one or more augmentation elements based on the representative of build-up of particles, and forming a combustor panel based on the template, wherein the formed combustor panel includes one or more augmentation elements defined in the template.
US11692484B2
A turbofan gas turbine engine includes, in axial flow sequence, a heat exchanger module, a fan assembly, a compressor module, and a turbine module. The fan assembly includes fan blades defining a corresponding fan area (AFAN). The heat exchanger module is in fluid communication with the fan assembly by an inlet duct, and includes radially-extending vanes arranged in a circumferential array with at least one vane including a heat transfer element for heat transfer from a first fluid contained within each element to an airflow passing over a surface of each heat transfer element before entering the fan assembly inlet. Each heat transfer element extends axially along the corresponding vane, with a swept heat transfer element area (AHTE) being the wetted surface area of all heat transfer elements in contact with the airflow. A Fan to Element Area parameter FEA of AHTE/AFAN lies in the range of 47 to 132.
US11692482B2
A roller bearing arrangement for a gas turbine engine. The roller bearing arrangement includes a fan shaft, and a stub shaft connected to the fan shaft. The roller bearing arrangement further includes a plurality of roller bearing elements positioned between a first axial bearing surface created on a radially outer surface of the stub shaft and a second axial bearing surface of a static structure, the roller bearing arrangement further including a first snubber positioned between the radially outer surface of the fan shaft and a radially inner surface of the stub shaft, the first snubber being spaced apart from the radially inner surface of the stub shaft or the radially outer surface of the fan shaft so as to limit a radial movement range of the stub shaft.
US11692481B1
An inertial particle separator (IPS) duct assembly is disclosed having a duct having an inlet section extending downstream from an intake flow opening for receiving airflow to a junction, a scavenge flow section and a core flow section, the scavenge flow section and the core flow section splitting from the inlet section at the junction, the scavenge flow section having a scavenge flow outlet downstream of the junction, the core flow section having a core flow outlet downstream of the junction and fluidly connectable to the air intake of an engine core. A splitter cartridge is removably mounted at the junction, the splitter cartridge including a splitter body extending between a duct wall of the scavenge flow section and a duct wall of the core flow section.
US11692473B2
An engine apparatus is provided that includes an internal combustion engine and a cooling airflow control subsystem The cooling airflow control subsystem includes an airflow regulator having a first component comprising one or more passageways extending through the first component, and a second component comprising one or more passageways extending through the second component, the second component mounted adjacent the first component; and an actuator operably coupled to the airflow regulator to cause relative rotation between the first and second components when actuated so that the airflow regulator can be altered between: (1) a first state in which the first and second passageways are aligned a first extent to allow a first amount of cooling airflow to reach the engine; and (2) a second state in which the first and second passageways are aligned a second extent to allow a second amount of cooling airflow to reach the engine, the first amount being greater than the second amount.
US11692463B2
An oil passage switching valve suitable for a valve timing changing apparatus includes: a valve body, opening or closing an oil passage of operating oil; an urging spring, urging to position the valve body to a position corresponding to the retard position in a pause state; and a switching element, positioning the valve body to a position corresponding to the retard position when a state quantity of the operating oil is in a first range, and switching a position of the valve body in response to the state quantity (pressure or temperature) of the operating oil while resisting an urging force of the urging spring to position the valve body to a position corresponding to the advance position when the state quantity of the operating oil is in a second range greater than the first range.
US11692460B2
In order to alleviate a mismatch problem of thermal deformation, in all directions, of a connecting and installing structure between a CMC turbine outer annular component and a metal intermediate casing, a connector and an anti thermal mismatch connecting device are provided. The rod part of the connector comprises a subtractive hollow section and a cylindrical section. The subtractive hollow section is composed of a central shaft, a plurality of supporting rib plates extending outwards from a peripheral surface of the central shaft and inclined radially relative to the central shaft, and a plurality of outer annular plates arranged around the central shaft, with a circumferential gap between adjacent outer annular plates. The supporting rib plate is connected with the central shaft and the outer annular plate, and the central shaft is connected with the cylindrical section. The anti thermal mismatch connecting device the connector.
US11692458B1
Methods of protecting a metallic substrate from corrosion include introducing an aqueous or powder-form composition including at least one corrosion inhibitor into a crevice that traverses one or more layers covering the metallic substrate to deliver the composition via the crevice into contact with a surface of the metallic substrate. The corrosion inhibitors present in the composition bond to the surface of the metallic substrate, resulting in formation of a film on the surface of the metallic substrate. This film protects the surface of the metallic substrate against corrosion.
US11692445B2
The invention concerns an inter-blade profile (14) for a turbine runner blade, said inter-blade profile (14) comprising a profile (16), and a plug (18), forming a basis of the profile (16) and intended for being inserted into a corresponding hole (21) made in a blade.
US11692442B2
Safety system and method for protecting against a hazard of drill rod failure in a drilled rock bore
The present invention provides a safety system (1) for protecting against a hazard of a drill rod failure in a drilled rock bore (B) above horizontal, and especially a hazard posed by a broken drill rod section (S) lodged within the bore (B). The safety system (1) comprises: a plug member (2) for insertion into a proximal end region (E) of the bore (B) adjacent a rock-face (F), the plug member (2) being configured to be fixed within the proximal end region (E) of the bore (B); and an impact reduction member (5) for reducing an impact of the broken drill rod section (S) striking the plug member (2) within the proximal end region (E) of the bore (B). The impact reduction member (5) is configured to be located within the proximal end region (E) of the bore (B) and to extend within the bore (B) above the plug member (2).
US11692441B2
An object of the disclosure is to determine the remaining saturation of existing fluids in naturally fractured and/or homogeneous reservoirs, considering an unconventional tracer test, using the double tracer test method with pressure monitoring (PDTcMP®), which also integrates unused technical elements, in order to estimate more accurately the value of the remaining oil saturation (ROS) in naturally fractured reservoirs, unlike conventional methods used most commonly in homogeneous media. The disclosure substantially modifies the conventional tracer test, as it uses innovative technical elements, which reduce the uncertainty and/or ambiguity associated with conventional tracer tests, when they are applied in naturally fractured reservoirs.
US11692424B2
Methods and systems for performing injection treatments in subterranean formations stimulated by the ignition of propellants are provided. In some embodiments, the methods comprise: igniting a propellant in one or more secondary boreholes in a subterranean formation to at least partially rupture at least a region of the subterranean formation near the secondary boreholes; introducing a fracturing fluid into a first production well bore in the subterranean formation in or near the ruptured region of the subterranean formation at or above a pressure sufficient to create or enhance at least a primary fracture in the subterranean formation that extends into at least a portion of the ruptured region of the subterranean formation; and introducing a displacement fluid into one or more of the secondary boreholes or an injection well bore in the subterranean formation that comprises one or more fractures penetrating the ruptured region of the subterranean formation.
US11692409B2
A shear ram system includes an upper block coupled to a first arm, the upper block positioned to transition from a first location outside a bore to a second location within the bore, the upper block including an upper blade having a cutout formed at a radially outward end, the cutout having a cutout profile. The shear ram system also includes a lower block coupled to a second arm, the lower block positioned to transition from the first location outside the bore to the second location within the bore, the lower block including a gap control arm including a wear insert arranged axially higher than a lower blade, the gap control arm having an arm profile that substantially conforms to the cutout profile. The wear insert of the gap control arm is configured to engage the cutout when the upper block and the lower block are moved to the second location.
US11692404B2
Systems and methods for damping torsional oscillations of downhole systems are described. The systems include a downhole drilling system disposed at an end of the downhole system in operative connection with a drill bit. A damping system is installed on the downhole drilling system, the damping system having at least one damper element configured to dampen at least one HFTO mode. At least one mode-shape tuning element is arranged on the drilling system. The at least one mode-shape tuning element is configured and positioned on the drilling system to modify at least one of a shape of the HFTO mode, a frequency of the HFTO mode, an excitability of the HFTO mode, and a damping efficiency of the at least one damper element.
US11692391B2
The present disclosure relates to a roller blind idle end assembly for roller blinds comprising a splined bush, a support, a spring, two sealed ball bearings, rotor, metal strap, and an end pin. This assembly reduces friction, wear and the likelihood of failure of the idle end assembly, creating a quiet design and dissipating static electricity.
US11692381B2
A sash limiter assembly for limiting the distance a casement window can be opened. In a jamb mounted version, the limiter is mounted in one constant location on the jamb rather than multiple locations on the sill which results in the opening distance being essentially the same for all window widths and all hinge types. In both the jamb mounted version and a sill mounted version, a hexalobular or other security screw can be used to retain a limiting arm to a stud attached to a bracket, or a stud attached to a slider which slides on a track to inhibit unauthorized removal of the limiter arm.
US11692378B2
Provided is a vehicular door outer handle device including a handle body having a housing recess, a handle cover covering the handle body from the outside, a base member fixed to a vehicle door, and a support arm connected to one end in a longitudinal direction of the handle body and rotatably supported by the base member via a support shaft. A slit through which a harness connected to an electronic component housed in the housing recess is inserted is formed in the one end of the handle body and in the support arm. Although there is provided the slit that facilitates assembly work of the harness, reduction in strength is prevented while avoiding an increase in the number of parts. A handle cover 14 is integrally provided with a first reinforcing portion 55 that is fitted into a slit 51 so as to contact, or to approach and face, both side surfaces of the slit 51.
US11692368B2
A memorial vase cover and ornament kit includes a lid and a rod. The lid is configured to fit on a memorial vase and seal an open top of the memorial vase. The lid has a rod hole through a center of the lid configured to receive a rod. The rod is configured to extend from approximate a bottom of the memorial vase, through the rod hole in the lid positioned on the open top of the memorial vase and upwards above the lid for a set distance to hold a base ornament on the lid. Wherein, the memorial vase cover and ornament kit is configured to cover and seal the open top of the memorial vase and to allow the memorial vase to be decorated with the base ornament.
US11692362B2
An equalizing beam for receiving formwork elements, in particular formwork panels, having an outer beam having a support surface facing upwards when applied and a base surface facing downwards when applied, and at least one inner beam having an additional support surface facing upwards when applied and an additional base surface facing downwards when applied. The equalizing beam further includes at least one immobilizing element. The outer beam has a recess running in its longitudinal direction for receiving the inner beam and the inner beam is movably mounted in the recess of the outer beam. The immobilizing element is provided to secure the position of the inner beam relative to the outer beam. A ceiling formwork system including at least one equalizing beam and at least two supports which are arranged essentially at a right angle to the equalizing beam.
US11692359B2
The present invention provides a system, method, and apparatus for producing a dimensionally stable extruded board product for use in surface coverings. The board product may be a basalt casting powder-based product for use as a substrate for wall or other surface coverings or may be used as a core layer in a modular floor covering unit. The modular floor covering unit comprises multiple layers. The layers are a thin cut stone veneer layer, a core layer with a density similar to that of the thin cut stone veneer layer, and an optional magnetically receptive underlayment layer. Other layers or combinations of layers may also be used.
US11692351B2
A process for preparing roofing granules includes forming kaolin clay into green granules and sintering the green granules at a temperature of at least 900 degrees Celsius to cure the green granules until the crystalline content of the sintered granules is at least ten percent as determined by x-ray diffraction.
US11692332B2
To improve operability and work efficiency while achieving reduction of the number of parts and simplification of circuit structure, in a hydraulic control system equipped with hydraulic actuators whose hydraulic power sources are both the first, second hydraulic pumps. The hydraulic control system is provided with the stick directional switching valve; the main-side, sub-side supply oil passages connecting the hydraulic pumps to the stick directional switching valve; and the stick flow rate control valve which is placed in the sub-side supply oil passage, and controls the supply flow rate from the hydraulic pump when the supply flow rate to the stick cylinder requires the supply flow rates from both the hydraulic pumps, wherein the stick directional switching valve is configured such that the discharge flow rate control is performed in the entire area of the spool stroke, and the supply flow rate control is performed at the first region of the former half of the spool stroke, but not performed at the second region of the latter half of the spool stroke.
US11692331B2
A work vehicle, including: a plurality of control valves configured to selectively convey hydraulic fluid to a hydraulic machine, a plurality of controllers connected to said control valves, a terminal including a display screen displaying graphics associated with said valves, a setting button configured to selectively modify a connection between the control valves and the controllers, and modify graphics based on changes of the connection.
US11692321B2
A salt spreader for distributing a material includes a bucket including a front surface, a rear surface, and first and second side surfaces. The front and rear surfaces tend toward one another at a base of the bucket, and the bucket includes first and second ejection ports in the base. The salt spreader further includes a separator positioned in a center of the bucket parallel to the first and second side surfaces, first and second spinner mounts attached to the base of the bucket under the first and second ejection ports, respectively, first and second spinners rotatably mounted atop of the first and second spinner mounts, respectively, an auger positioned adjacent to the base of the bucket, and first and second covers within the bucket extending downwardly from the first and second side surfaces, respectively, toward the separator.
US11692320B2
A milling machine is provided comprising a frame including a plurality of height-adjustable legs; a rotor; a rotor chamber including a movable front wall, a movable rear wall, and a pair of movable side walls; and a controller. The controller is configured to enable a rotor chamber binding control during on a lowering of the rotor towards a ground surface; automatically raising at least one of the front wall or the rear wall during the lowering of the rotor; and disable the rotor chamber binding.
US11692319B2
A machine for milling pavement such as a rotary mixer or road planer includes a cutting rotor that is vertically adjustable with respect to the frame and that is accommodated in a rotor enclosure. The milling machine may be associated with a visual camera network having one or more cameras located about the milling machine with a field of view toward the rotor enclosure and work surface. An image augmentation system can generate a reference line augmentation to superimpose over one or more visual images obtained by the cameras and display the augmented images on a visual display.
US11692316B2
A scraper assembly for a construction machine includes a housing pivotally coupled to a frame of the construction machine for moving the scraper assembly between a stowed position and a deployed position. The scraper assembly also includes a scraper partially received within the housing. In the deployed position of the scraper assembly, the scraper engages with a machine component to remove material stuck to the machine component. The scraper assembly further includes a biasing device received within housing. The biasing device biases the scraper towards the machine component. Further, the biasing device travels in a substantially linear path for biasing the scraper towards the machine component.
US11692310B2
The present invention includes pleated paper and planar paper coated with a fire suppressive ink, wherein the pleated paper is Kraft paper with a weight of 25 to 50 pounds, with pleat angles of about 88 to 92°, and pleat heights between approximately 3/32 of an inch and ⅛ of an inch, and the planar paper is Kraft paper with a weight of 40 to 60 pounds. The fire suppressive ink is preferably applied with a flexographic printing process and preferably comprises at least one inorganic fusible salt and an organic resin. The inventive pleated paper is an environmentally friendly packaging material with improved protective qualities, which can also shield items from fire, contain fires, and suppress fires to avoid thermal runaway. The inventive paper is particularly useful for packaging and shipping flammable items, such as lithium-ion batteries.
US11692303B2
The pretreatment liquid of the present invention is applicable for a fabric to be used for inkjet textile printing, and the pretreatment liquid contains a block copolymer including a hydrophobic block derived from a hydrophobic resin having an SP value of less than 11 and a hydrophilic block derived from a hydrophilic resin having an SP value of 11 or more, with the difference between the SP values of the hydrophobic resin and the hydrophilic resin of 1.0 or more; and water.
US11692302B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a sizing agent composition that gives a carbon fiber from which a carbon fiber-reinforced composite material having excellent adhesion between a resin and the carbon fiber and having excellent mechanical properties can be formed. The sizing agent composition of the invention is a sizing agent composition comprising (A) a blocked isocyanate, and (B) a compound containing at least one polar group and at least one unsaturated group per molecule. In the invention, the mixing ratio (mass ratio) of the blocked isocyanate (A) and the compound (B) containing at least one polar group and at least one unsaturated group per molecule (A/B) is preferably 95/5 to 5/95. In the invention, the blocked isocyanate (A) is preferably a compound having an aliphatic skeleton.
US11692288B2
A knitted metal fabric of at least two rows of loops, the rows of loops comprising metal chain knitted together to form a knitted metal fabric. The metal chain comprises a plurality of links of metal linked together to form the chain. The knitted metal chain fabric may be made into garments or used in any manner as other fabrics. A method for making the fabric includes providing at least one metal chain of links flexibly linked together, feeding the metal chain into a knitting machine, maintaining an even tension on the chain, knitting the metal chain into a knitted pattern to form a fabric, and weighting the fabric.
US11692287B2
A method for weaving a three-dimensional preform includes the following steps: decomposing and determining performance requirements of different functional locations of the parts; selecting guide sleeves and fibers of each of the functional locations and designing a parameter; selecting guide sleeves and fibers of a transition area and designing a parameter, thereby implementing smooth transition of the transition area; determining a weaving sequence according to layouts of the guide sleeves and winding manners of the fibers in the functional locations and the transition area to generate a fiber iterative instruction for layer-by-layer weaving; arranging guide sleeves according to design requirements of the functional locations and the transition area to generate a guide sleeve array; and driving a weaving mechanism to select different fibers for subarea weaving layer by layer to obtain the three-dimensional preform having a gradient structure.
US11692283B2
An apparatus for growing semiconductor wafers, in particular of silicon carbide, wherein a chamber houses a collection container and a support or susceptor arranged over the container. The support is formed by a frame surrounding an opening accommodating a plurality of arms and a seat. The frame has a first a second surface, opposite to each other, with the first surface of the frame facing the support. The arms are formed by cantilever bars extending from the frame into the opening, having a maximum height smaller than the frame, and having at the top a resting edge. The resting edges of the arms define a resting surface that is at a lower level than the second surface of the frame. The seat has a bottom formed by the resting surface.
US11692272B2
Provided are coated metal, the metal having improved properties due to a novel coating, a coating-forming treatment solution for forming the novel coating, and a method for producing the coated metal that has the novel coating. The coated metal includes metal and a coating formed on the metal. The coating includes Si, P, and O, and at least one selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Ba, Sr, Zn, Al, and Mn. The coating includes a compound having a NASICON-type crystal structure represented by the general formula MIMIV2(MVO4)3.
US11692267B2
Methods for modifying a susceptor having a silicon carbide (SiC) surface comprising exposing the silicon carbide surface (SiC) to an atmospheric plasma are described. The method increases the atomic oxygen content of the silicon carbide (SiC) surface.
US11692266B2
Provided is a SiC chemical vapor deposition apparatus including: a furnace body inside of which a growth space is formed; and a placement table which is positioned in the growth space and has a placement surface on which a SiC wafer is placed, in which the furnace body comprises a first hole which is positioned on an upper portion which faces the placement surface and through which a raw material gas is introduced into the growth space, a second hole which is positioned on a side wall of the furnace body and through which a purge gas flows into the growth space, a third hole which is positioned on the side wall of the furnace body at a lower position than the second hole and discharges the gases in the growth space, and a protrusion which is protrudes towards the growth space from a lower end of the second hole to adjust a flow of the raw material gas.
US11692260B2
A metal-oxide electron-beam evaporation source including a variable temperature control device according to the present invention includes: a crucible configured to store a deposition material which is formed of a metal oxide and over which an electron beam is directly scanned; N heating units provided in an outer portion of the crucible, dividing the crucible into N regions, and provided for N regions, respectively; and a control unit configured to control the N heating units so that a temperature of an upper region of the crucible is maintained to be higher than that of a lower region of the crucible to reduce a temperature difference between a region over which the electron beam is scanned and a region over which the electron beam is not scanned.
US11692259B2
Provided are a hot-dip zinc plated steel material and a method for preparing same, the hot-dip zinc plated steel material comprising: base iron comprising 0.01-1.6 wt % of Si and 1.2-3.1 wt % of Mn; a Zn—Al—Mg alloy plating layer; and an Al-rich layer formed on the interface of the base iron and Zn—Al—Mg alloy plating layer, wherein the rate of occupied surface area of the Al-rich layer is 70% or higher (including 100%).
US11692258B2
Provided is a method for preparing a metal oxide or a metal hydroxide nano thin-film material by a molten salt method, which mainly comprises the following steps: heating a low-melting-point salt to a molten state, adding a substrate into the molten salt before or after melting for reaction; adding a metal source and continuing the reaction for a period of time; removing the substrate, cooling the substrate to a room temperature, cleaning and drying the substrate to obtain the metal oxide or metal hydroxide nano thin-film material; wherein, the mass ratio of the low-melting-point salt to the metal source is 100-1.5:1. The metal oxide and metal hydroxide nano-film materials with various nano-morphologies prepared by the method of the present application have morphologies that can be regulated and controlled by the types and proportions of the low-melting-point salts and metal sources.
US11692255B2
Described herein are 7xxx series aluminum alloys with unexpected properties and novel methods of producing such aluminum alloys. The aluminum alloys exhibit high strength and are highly formable. The alloys are produced by continuous casting and can be hot rolled to a final gauge and/or a final temper. The alloys can be used in automotive, transportation, industrial, and electronics applications, just to name a few.
US11692252B2
Disclosed is a duplex stainless clad steel plate in which a duplex stainless steel plate as a cladding metal is bonded or joined to one or both surfaces of a base steel plate, in which the base steel plate comprises a predetermined chemical composition such that Nb/N is 3.0 or more and Ceq is 0.35 to 0.45, and the duplex stainless steel plate comprises: a predetermined chemical composition such that PI is 33.0 to 38.0; and a microstructure containing a ferrite phase in an area fraction of 35% to 65%, and in the microstructure, an amount of precipitated Cr is 1.00% or less and an amount of precipitated Mo is 0.50% or less.
US11692236B2
The present invention provides a device for peening by coupling a laser shock wave and an ultrasonic shock wave in real time. The device includes a synchronization device, a laser device, two ultrasonic shock devices, a working platform and a control system. An upper casing is supported above a base through second hydraulic cylinders. Two supporting beams are provided under the upper casing through the second hydraulic cylinders. Limiting slide rails are provided under the upper casing through first hydraulic cylinders. The two ultrasonic shock devices are connected through the synchronization device, which is configured to synchronize movement and rotation of the two ultrasonic shock devices. The laser device is configured to generate a laser beam to pass through the upper casing and irradiate a surface of a workpiece. The control system controls the laser device to lag behind the two ultrasonic shock devices to perform laser shock.
US11692234B2
A flat steel product for hot forming may be produced from a steel substrate that includes a steel comprising 0.1-3% by weight Mn and up to 0.01% by weight B, along with a protective coating that is applied to the steel substrate. The protective coating may be based on Al and may contain up to 20% by weight of other alloy elements. Also disclosed are methods for producing such flat steel products, steel components, and methods for producing steel components. Absorption of hydrogen is minimized during heating necessary for hot forming. This is achieved at least in part through an alloy constituent of 0.1-0.5% by weight of at least one alkaline earth or transition metal in the protective coating, wherein an oxide of the alkaline earth or transition metal is formed on an outer surface of the protective coating during hot forming of the flat steel product.
US11692233B2
A vacuum solid solution method for nickel-free high manganese and nitrogen is provided and relates to the technical field of metal material heat treatment. By vacuumizing, heat homogenizing, keeping the temperature in the final temperature range, deoxidation, and rapid cooling treatment, the present method forms a single austenitic structure from the raw materials, and promotes full and uniform dispersion of nitrogen carbide, providing a nickel-free high nitrogen stainless steel with more stable comprehensive performance and wider range of application.
US11692228B2
The present invention relates to gene expression profiles for B-cell lymphoma. More specifically, the present invention relates to gene expression profiles for diagnosis, prognosis or therapy selection for an aggressive B-cell lymphoma.
US11692227B2
A method of screening a skin whitening agent uses the stromal cell-derived factor 1 (SDF1) promoter region, the correlation between the expression amount of the skin pigment and the expression of the SDF1 promoter is observed and thus it is expected to be available in systems for pre-screening pigmentation substances and pigment reduction materials, and the drugs screened by the method is used for treatment of skin pigment-related diseases.
US11692226B2
The invention disclosed herein generally relates to genotyping one or more single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to stratify cancer risk and/or prognosis.
US11692225B2
The present methods are exemplified by a process in which maternal blood containing fetal DNA is diluted to a nominal value of approximately 0.5 genome equivalent of DNA per reaction sample. Digital analysis is then be used to detect aneuploidy, such as the trisomy that causes Down Syndrome. Since aneuploidies do not present a mutational change in sequence, and are merely a change in the number of chromosomes, it has not been possible to detect them in a fetus without resorting to invasive techniques such as amniocentesis or chorionic villi sampling. Digital amplification allows the detection of aneuploidy using massively parallel amplification and detection methods, examining, e.g., 10,000 genome equivalents.
US11692221B2
The present invention provides a method for sequencing a nucleic acid using an immersion reaction protocol. The immersion reaction protocol comprises sequentially immersing a solid support having nucleic acid molecules immobilized thereon in different reaction containers to realize nucleic acid sequencing.
US11692217B2
An affinity reagent, having: (a) a retaining component such as a structured nucleic acid particle; and (b) one or both of (i) one or more label components attached to the retaining component, and (ii) one or more binding components attached to the retaining component.
US11692193B2
Recombinant expression vectors are disclosed that include a control sequence for recombinant expression of proteins of interest; the control sequence combines a mCMV enhancer sequence with a rat EF-1alpha intron sequence. Some of the vectors are useful for tetracycline-inducible expression. Some of the vectors contain a 5′ PiggyBac ITR and a 3′ PiggyBac ITR to promote genomic integration into a host cell chromosome. A method of selecting a stable production cell line for manufacturing a protein of interest is also disclosed. Also disclosed are mammalian host cells comprising the inventive recombinant expression vectors and a method of producing a protein of interest, in vitro, involving the mammalian host cell.
US11692188B2
The technical field of enzyme immobilization, and particularly, an organic-inorganic hybrid nanoflower and a preparation method thereof. The organic-inorganic hybrid nanoflower is a flower-like immobilized enzyme formed by self-assembly of a layered rare earth compound as an inorganic carrier and a biological enzyme as an organic component. The layered rare earth compound is Ln2(OH)5NO3·nH2O, where Ln is one or more of La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, or Y, and n=1.1-2.5. The biological enzyme is one or more of α-amylase, horseradish peroxidase, or laccase. A layered rare earth compound is used as the inorganic carrier for the organic biological enzyme to form the flower-like immobilized enzyme. The immobilized enzyme has better stability and higher catalytic performance when compared with a free enzyme.
US11692184B2
The present disclosure provides RNA-guided endonucleases, nucleic acids encoding same, and compositions comprising same. The present disclosure provides ribonucleoprotein complexes comprising: an RNA-guided endonuclease of the present disclosure; and a guide RNA. The present disclosure provides methods of modifying a target nucleic acid, using an RNA-guided endonuclease of the present disclosure and a guide RNA.
US11692173B2
The present invention provides, in order to prepare matured hepatocytes analogous in various points to primary hepatocytes, a method for preparing hepatocytes or cells that can be differentiated into hepatocytes from pluripotent stem cells, comprising the steps of: (1) culturing the pluripotent stem cells in a medium containing an activator of an activin receptor-like kinase-4,7; (2) culturing the cells obtained in the step (1) in a medium containing a bone morphogenetic factor and a fibroblast growth factor; (3) culturing the cells obtained in the step (2) in a medium containing an activator of a hepatocyte growth factor receptor and an activator of an oncostatin M receptor; and (4) culturing the cells obtained in the step (3) to obtain hepatocytes or cells that can be differentiated into hepatocytes, wherein in at least one of the steps (2), (3) and (4), cells are cultured on a high-density collagen gel membrane.
US11692172B2
Disclosed herein is a formulation comprising an extracellular vesicle (EV), and a therapeutic active agent induced or embedded in the EV. According to preferred embodiments of the present disclosure, the EV is isolated from umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells, and the active agent may be a growth factor, an immune-modulating agent, a small molecule, an siRNA, cDNA or a plant ingredient; for example, curcumin. Also disclosed herein are methods for producing the present formulation, and uses of the present formulation in the treatment of various diseases.
US11692171B2
The present invention relates to a preparation method of a spheroid using human-derived cardiac stem cells and a therapeutic use for ischemic heart disease using the myocardial regeneration effect thereof. The spheroid using the cardiac stem cells provided in the present invention has excellent myocardial differentiation ability and regenerative therapeutic ability as compared to existing cardiac stem cells, and thus may be used for the treatment of ischemic heart disease such as myocardial infarction.
US11692167B2
Disclosures herein are directed to chemically defined animal-derived component free supplements designed for individual cell types that supports the ex vivo growth of cells as well or better than serum, in chemically defined conditions.
US11692158B2
A washing agent portion unit including a) at least one first receiving chamber, b) at least one water-soluble film surrounding this first receiving chamber, and c) at least one first flowable washing agent preparation located in the first receiving chamber, which preparation contains, based on the total weight thereof, i) 40 to 80 wt. % surfactant; ii) 2 to 15 wt. % fatty acid; iii) 0.3 to 8 wt. % of salt of a divalent cation; iv) 8 to 35 wt. % solvent; d) at least one second receiving chamber which is surrounded by a water-soluble film and is filled with a second washing agent preparation which differs from the first flowable washing agent preparation, wherein the first receiving chamber and the second receiving chamber are directly adjacent to one another and separated from one another by a water-soluble film, and washing methods using these washing agent portion units.
US11692157B2
An automotive surface is cleaned by applying an effective amount of a cleaning composition comprising a) at least one hydrocarbon solvent in an amount from about 3 weight percent to about 20 weight percent of the composition, b) at least one thickener/rheology modifier in an amount from about 0.01 weight percent to about 3 weight percent, c) at least one silicone fluid has a viscosity ranging from about 500 to about 20,000 centistokes at 25° C., present in an amount from about 0.1 weight percent to about 3 weight percent, d) at least one wetting agent in an amount from about 0.001 to about 2%, e) at least one hydrophobic additive in an amount from about 0.1 to about 3%, and f) water in an amount from about 60 weight percent to about 85 weight percent to the automotive surface with an application implement.
US11692150B2
The present invention provides a class of halogen-containing synthetic base oils, and preparation method and use thereof. The synthetic base oils have introduced with halogen, especially fluorine, wherein the dipole motion of the halogen groups results in dipole interaction between the dipoles of other components and the base oil molecules of dipole-dipole and dipole-induced halogen (especially fluorine), and the interaction force is stronger and more localized than the dispersion force between the molecules of pure hydrocarbon synthetic oils, and thus the performance of the base oils is directly affected. It solved the problem of oil solubility of pure hydrocarbon synthetic oils, and also improved the properties of oxidation resistance and thermal stability.
US11692140B1
A method of converting a liquid hydrocarbon stream to lower boiling point hydrocarbons may include converting the liquid hydrocarbon stream to an aerosolized hydrocarbon particle stream, and subjecting the aerosolized hydrocarbon particle stream to reaction conditions. Reaction conditions may include a temperature from 25° C. to 1,000° C. and a pressure from 1 bar to 15 bar. The method may further include forming the lower boiling point hydrocarbons in the aerosolized hydrocarbon particle stream and separating the lower boiling point hydrocarbons from the aerosolized hydrocarbon particle stream. The lower boiling point hydrocarbons may comprise at least C2-C4 olefins.
US11692131B2
The present invention relates to heteroleptic carbene complexes comprising at least two different carbene ligands, to a process for preparing the heteroleptic carbene complexes, to the use of the heteroleptic carbene complexes in organic light-emitting diodes, to organic light-emitting diodes comprising at least one inventive heteroleptic carbene complex, to a light-emitting layer comprising at least one inventive heteroleptic carbene complex, to organic light-emitting diodes comprising at least one inventive light-emitting layer, and to devices which comprise at least one inventive organic light-emitting diode.
US11692127B2
A non-aqueous slurry contains a non-aqueous liquid immiscible in water (such as a hydrocarbon based oil) having dispersed therein a crosslinking agent (such as a borate crosslinking agent) and an oil-wetting surface active material. The non-aqueous slurry further contains an organophilic clay. The non-aqueous slurry, when used in an aqueous fracturing fluid, provides crosslinking delay between the crosslinking agent and a hydratable polymer, such as guar or guar derivatives. The aqueous fracturing fluid provides an enhanced fracture network after being pumped into a well.
US11692126B1
A method of pretreating a pipeline or apparatus is carried out by selecting a colloidal particle dispersion having inorganic nanoparticles with an average particle size of from 500 nm or less that exhibit properties of Brownian motion. Surfaces of a pipeline or apparatus are contacted with a treatment composition comprising the colloidal particle dispersion. The colloidal particles of the treatment composition are allowed to adhere the surfaces of the pipeline or apparatus to facilitate a reduction in friction of the surfaces of the pipeline or apparatus and/or lower the pressure drop of fluid flowing over the surfaces of the pipeline or apparatus and/or to reduce the formation of surface deposits on the surfaces of the pipeline or apparatus.
US11692124B2
Compositions suitable for enhanced oil recovery comprising a) a mixture of α-sulfocarbonyl compounds of formulae (1) and (2) in a mixture ratio (1) to (2) of from 1:99 to 99:1 wherein R1, R3 and R5, which may be the same or different at each occurrence, are hydrogen or a linear or branched alkyl chain having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, R2 and R4, which may be the same or different at each occurrence, may be a linear or branched alkyl group having 4 to 24 carbon atoms and in which the alkyl chain may comprise one or more cycloaliphatic groups, and X is H or a metal forming a salt with the sulfonate group, and b) a salt containing aqueous solution.
US11692119B2
Implementations described herein generally relate to a drag reducing agent (DRA) for improving flow of crude oils having high asphaltene content through pipelines. The DRA is a terpolymer having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 6 degrees Celsius or below. The terpolymer is formed by a first monomer, a second monomer, and a third monomer. The first and second monomers are chosen based on the glass transition temperatures of corresponding homopolymers. The glass transition temperature of the homopolymer formed with the first monomer is at least 120 degrees Celsius higher than the glass transition temperature of the homopolymer formed with the second monomer. The DRA comprised of the terpolymer formed with the second monomer produces softer solids and fewer solids due to the low glass transition temperature of the terpolymer. The softer solids are more easily handled by the pump to keep the injection system clear.
US11692114B2
A refrigerant composition comprising carbon dioxide (CO2; R-744) and from 1 to 32 weight % difluoromethane (R-32) based on the total weight of the composition is described. Also described is the use of the refrigerant composition for providing heating and cooling and a refrigeration, air-conditioning or heat pump system comprising the refrigerant composition.
US11692113B2
The present disclosure provides methods for forming sol-gels, sol-gel films and substrates, such as vehicle components, having a sol-gel film disposed thereon. At least one method of forming a sol-gel includes mixing a metal alkoxide, an acid stabilizer, and an organic solvent to form a first mixture having about 10 wt % or less water content based on the total weight of the first mixture. The method includes mixing an organosilane with the first mixture to form a second mixture having about 10 wt % or less water content based on the total weight of the second mixture.
US11692111B1
Embodiments provide methods of disassembling an apparel product. The methods include exposing an adhesive of the apparel product to heat or electromagnetic energy. The adhesive is disposed at least partially disposed between a major component and a minor component of the apparel product. The adhesive includes a shape memory material. The major component forms a base portion of the apparel product and is configured to be supported and worn at least partially over a portion of a wearer. The minor component forms a secondary portion configured to be coupled to the major component with the adhesive. The methods include separating the major component from the minor component adjoined by the adhesive.
US11692105B2
The present disclosure relates to a cathodically depositable aqueous electrodeposition coating material including at least one epoxide-amine adduct (a), at least one pigment and/or at least one filler (b), and at least one crosslinking agent (c), a fraction of at least 25 wt % of the crosslinking agent (c), based on the total weight of the crosslinking agent (c), being formed by at least one tris(alkoxycarbonylamino)-1,3,5-triazine; to a method for coating an electrically conductive substrate by cathodic electrodeposition coating using said electrodeposition coating material; to a substrate coated accordingly; and also to a use of a tris(alkoxycarbonylamino)-1,3,5-triazine in a cathodically depositable electrodeposition coating material for reducing or eliminating the sensitivity to disruption of the electrodeposition coating bath toward impurities present therein through phosphates and/or through other metal salts which have been carried into the electrodeposition coating bath as a result of pretreatment steps ahead of the electrodeposition coating.
US11692094B2
Compositions and methods for amorphous high temperature polyketone polymers incorporating 2H-benzimidazol-2-one with dihalobenzophenone and bis(halobenzoyl)benzene as comonomer units are described herein. The polyketones polymers have advantageous properties, particularly in terms of high glass transition temperatures (Tg), inherently flame resistance, good mechanical properties at elevated temperature, chemical resistance and dimensional stability in wet environment. The polymers are suitable for manufacturing high temperature molded systems and other articles of manufacture via injection molding, extrusion, compression molding, coating, blow molding, thermoforming, rotational molding and additive manufacturing.
US11692090B2
A polymer composition of cross-linked fluoropolymers is provided, that is generated using a fluoropolymer compatibilizer. The cross-linked fluoropolymers have excellent mechanical and dielectric characteristics at high temperatures, making them useful for such applications as insulation for automotive communications cables and PCB laminates.
US11692089B2
A chemical composition for use with polyvinyl chloride that may be used to increase the rate at which the polyvinyl chloride breaks down or disintegrates after being discarded as the surface gradually forms defects, holes, or cracks, including when in a landfill, wherein the chemical composition includes the chemicals PBAT, PCL, EVA, CPE, PLA, PGA, PHA, PHB, PE, PVA, PBS, PPC, and PET.
US11692087B2
The invention relates to a process and an installation to produce a monovinylaromatic polymer (3) comprising post-consumer recycled polystyrene (PCR-PS) wherein the process comprises the steps of mixing the PCR-PS (5) and the monovinylaromatic monomer (7) within a dissolver (9) to dissolve the PCR-PS (5) in the monovinylaromatic monomer (7) so as to produce a polymerization mixture (13); and a step of filtering the polymerization mixture (13) that includes continuously redirecting at least a part of the stream of the filtered polymerization mixture (17) back to the dissolver (9) and mixing it with the polymerization mixture (13) so as to continuously reduce the content of insoluble material in the polymerization mixture (13) contained in the dissolver (9).
US11692084B2
Provided herein is a protective rubber track shoe for an excavator, which includes a first-stage rubber mix and a second-stage rubber mix. The first-stage rubber mix consists of a natural rubber, a chloroprene rubber, a butadiene rubber, a styrene-butadiene rubber, a tire reclaim rubber, a 120-mesh rubber powder, zinc oxide, stearic acid, an anti-aging agent 3100, an anti-aging agent CTU, paraffin wax, an intermediate super abrasion furnace carbon black and an aromatic oil. The second-stage rubber mix consists of the first-stage rubber mix, sulfur, an accelerator CZ and an auxiliary agent.
US11692081B2
Core particles produced in situ or introduced as preformed core particles are coated with a layer of carbon. Non-carbon as well as some carbon-based core materials can be utilized. The resulting carbon coated particles can find applications in rubber products, for instance as reinforcement for tire components.
US11692065B2
Provided are phenazine copolymers and methods of making and using phenazine copolymers. The phenazine copolymers may be made from one or more phenazine precursors and one or more co-monomer precursors, one or more phenazine precursors and one or more cross-linking precursors, or one or more phenazine precursors and both one or more cross-linking precursors and one or more co-monomer precursors. The phenazine copolymers may be used in/on cathodes. The cathodes may be used in a variety of devices, such as, for example, batteries or supercapacitors.
US11692064B2
A conjugated azopolymer and methods for making same. The azopolymer includes a plurality of monomer units containing isoindigo with R1 and R2 substituent groups, wherein R1 can be one or more C1 to 30 hydrocarbons; and R2 can be H or F. The azopolymer can have a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 4 to 20 kDa; a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of 12 to 50 kDa; and a poly dispersity index (PDI) of 2 to 3. The polymer can further have selected maximal wavelengths (λmax) of 481 to 709 nm and electrochemical reduction events of −0.4 to −1.0 V against an Ag/AgCl reference electrode.
US11692059B2
The present invention discloses a ketone-aldehyde modified resin and the preparation process thereof. The ketone-aldehyde modified resin comprises a ketone-aldehyde modified unsaturated polyester, a ketone-aldehyde modified unsaturated alkyd or the combination thereof, and wherein the said resin has ketone-aldehyde moieties. The process of the said resin comprises the steps of: reacting unsaturated polyester-forming and/or unsaturated alkyd resin-forming monomer components with a ketone-aldehyde resin. The present invention also discloses a coating composition comprising the said resin as well as a coated article. The ketone-aldehyde modified resin and the coating composition achieve significantly improved fast drying effect, while other properties are not observably impaired or even improved.
US11692058B2
A method of making polyesters and polyurethanes from biomass-derived polyols. The polyol is biomass-derived and has the structure: wherein dashed bonds are single or double bonds and R is selected from the group consisting of —OH and ═O. Polyurethanes are made by reacting the polyol with a diisocyanate. Polyesters are made by reacting the polyol with a dicarboxylic acid.
US11692057B2
A renewably sourced soil release polyester comprising two or more structural units (a1), one or more structural units (a2) and either one or two terminal structural groups (a3) wherein G1 is one or more (OCnH2n) with n being a number of from 2 to 10, preferably from 2 to 6 and more preferably (OC2H4), (OC3H6), (OC4H8) or (OC6H12), R1 is a C1-30 alkyl, preferably C1-4 alkyl and more preferably methyl, p is, based on a molar average, a number of from 1 to 200, preferably from 2 to 150 and more preferably from 3 to 120, q is, based on a molar average, a number of from 0 to 40, preferably from 0 to 30, more preferably from 0 to 20, and most preferably from 0 to 10, where the (OC3H6)— and (OC2H4)-groups of the terminal group (a3) may be arranged blockwise, alternating, periodically and/or statistically, preferably blockwise and/or statistically, either of the groups (OC3H6)— and (OC2H4)— can be linked to R1— and —O, adjacent structural units (a1) are connected by the structural unit (a2), in the case that only one terminal group (a3) is present in the polymer, the other terminal group is selected from the group consisting of OH, OCH3, and G1OH and both terminal groups may be only linked to a structural unit (a1).
US11692053B2
This invention relates a wax inhibitor for hydrocarbon oils comprising an esterified copolymer having repeating structural units derived from an esterified ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid and α-olefins having at least 18 carbon atoms, whereof at least 3 mol-% of the α-olefins have 30 or more carbon atoms, and wherein the ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid has been esterified with a mixture of alcohols comprising i) 70 to 97 mol-% of a saturated fatty alcohol having 18 to 24 carbon atoms and ii) 3 to 30 mol-% of an unsaturated alcohol having 16 to 24 carbon atoms.
US11692049B2
Additively manufactured thermoset polymers for metal plating and metal plated parts formed therefrom
A thermoset resin for forming parts to be metal plated includes a vat photopolymerization (VPP) thermoset resin and an etchable phase disposed in the VPP thermoset resin. The etchable phase is etched from a surface of a part formed from the VPP thermoset resin such that a plurality of micro-mechanical locking sites is formed on the surface of the part. The etchable phase is at least one of organic particles, organic resins, inorganic particles, and copolymers of the VPP thermoset resin. For example, the etchable phase can be a polybutadiene phase and/or a mineral such as calcium carbonate.
US11692042B2
The instant disclosure provides antibodies that specifically bind to CD73 (e.g., human CD73) and antagonize CD73 function. Also provided are anti-CD73 antibodies that further comprise a TGFβ-binding moiety or a VEGF-binding moiety. The instant disclosure additionally provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising these antibodies, nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, expression vectors and host cells for making these antibodies, and methods of treating a subject using these antibodies.
US11692039B2
The present disclosure relates to multifunctional binding proteins comprising a first and a second antigen binding domains (ABDs) and all or part of an immunoglobulin Fc region or variant thereof, wherein the first ABD binds specifically to human CD123 and the second ABD binds specifically to human NKp46 and wherein all or part of the immunoglobulin Fc region or variant thereof to a human Fc-γ receptor. The disclosure also relates to methods for making said binding proteins, compositions thereof, and their uses, including the treatment or prevention of proliferative disorders, including Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS).
US11692037B2
Postoperative adhesion formation at an invasion site and migration of neutrophils to the site of surgical invasion are suppressed by administering an anti-IL-6 receptor antibody and/or a neutrophil-neutralizing antibody.
US11692036B2
Provided herein are cross-reactive antibodies (or antigen binding fragments thereof) that bind to human CTLA4, activatable antibodies that bind to human CTLA4, nucleic acid molecules encoding the same, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of their therapeutic use (e.g., for treatment of cancer).
US11692034B2
The present invention provides a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) fusion protein comprising from N-terminus to C-terminus: (i) a single-chain variable fragment (scFv) comprising VH and VL, wherein scFv has an activity against CD47, (ii) a transmembrane domain, (iii) at least one co-stimulatory domains, and (iv) an activating domain. In one embodiment, the scFv is derived from a humanized anti-CD47 antibody. The present invention also provides T cells modified to express the CAR of the present invention.
US11692033B2
The present invention relates to an isolated humanized protein binding to human Glycoprotein VI (hGPVI) for treating a GPVI-related condition in a subject in need thereof, wherein said isolated humanized protein is to be administered during at least 2 hours to the subject, preferably during at least 4 to 6 hours.
US11692029B2
The invention provides compositions and methods for treating optic neuropathic disorders.
US11692028B2
The instant disclosure provides methods and compositions for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of Marfan syndrome and related diseases, disorders and conditions. The disclosure further provides pharmaceutical compositions and kits for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of Marfan syndrome and related diseases, disorders and conditions.
US11692022B2
Provided herein are thiosuccinyl-crosslinked hemoglobin analogs useful as blood replacement agents, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same and the methods of use and preparation thereof.
US11692021B2
The present disclosure provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising fibronectin based scaffold domain proteins that bind, for example, proprotein convertase subtilisin kexin-9 (PCSK9).
US11692019B2
The present invention relates to a heterodimeric Fc-fused protein comprising a first Fc region and a second Fc region of an immunoglobulin Fc pair and a physiologically active protein composed of two or more different subunits, wherein one or more subunits of the physiologically active protein are linked separately to one or more ends of the N-terminus or C-terminus of the first Fc region and/or the second Fc region, and CH3 domains of the first Fc region and the second Fc region are mutated so as to promote the heterodimeric Fc formation. Moreover, the present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the heterodimeric Fc-fused protein. The heterodimeric Fc-fused protein according to the present invention has an advantage in that it can retain the activity of a naturally occurring physiologically active protein whose two or more different subunits exhibit physiological activity by forming a protein complex, because the physiologically active protein can be linked to an immunoglobulin heterodimeric Fc such that the naturally occurring form and structure of the fused protein thereof can be maintained. When the heterodimeric Fc-fused protein according to the present invention is used, there is an advantage in that the in vivo half-life of the physiologically active protein contained in the heterodimeric Fc-fused protein can be significantly increased due to the Fc-mediated long half-life such that various physiological activities thereof in vivo can be long-lasting.
US11692018B2
The present disclosure provides T-cell modulatory multimeric polypeptides (T-Cell-MMP) and their epitope conjugates comprising at least one immunomodulatory polypeptide (“MOD”) that may be selected to exhibit reduced binding affinity to a cognate co-immunomodulatory polypeptide (“Co-MOD”). The epitope may be, for example, a cancer-associated epitope, an infectious disease-associated epitope, or a self-epitope. The T-Cell-MMP-epitope conjugates are useful for modulating the activity of a T-cell by delivering immunomodulatory peptides, such as IL-2 or IL-2 variants that exhibit reduced binding affinity for the IL-2R, to T-cells in an epitope selective/specific manner, and accordingly, for treating individuals with a cancer, infectious disease or autoimmune disorder.
US11692017B2
The present invention relates to variants of the general amyloid interaction motif (GAIM) of bacteriophage gene 3 protein (g3p) and fusion proteins thereof. The GAIM variants and fusion proteins of the invention are partially or fully deimmunized and demonstrate superior binding and specificity to a diverse array of amyloid proteins, and exhibit enhanced amyloid remodeling and inhibition of amyloid aggregation. The present invention further relates to nucleic acids, vectors, host cells, and methods of making the GAIM variants and fusion proteins thereof. The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions and methods of increasing bacteriophage infectivity, methods of detecting amyloid aggregates, and methods of diagnosing and/or treating a disease associated with misfolded and/or aggregated amyloid protein.
US11692013B2
The disclosure provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Lepidoptera. Particular embodiments of the disclosure provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.
US11692000B2
Provided are cost-effective methods and systems for producing a low molecular weight reactive lignin from a lignocellulosic biomass. The process is rapid and the reactive lignin is easily separated from carbohydrates and other components of the biomass at low cost. This clean lignin product has a very low molecular weight, good hydroxyl content, and low ash and sulfur, making it valuable to many applications.
US11691998B2
The invention relates to a metallocene complex according to formula (I), (I) wherein R1 and R2 are independently selected from H, an alkyl or an aryl group, wherein R3 is a C1-C10 alkyl group, wherein R′ is selected from H, an alkyl group, an aryl group and wherein different R′ substituents can be connected to form a ring structure and wherein B is a 1,2 phenylene bridging moiety, which can be optionally substituted, wherein Mt is selected from Ti, Zr and Hf, X is an anionic ligand, z is the number of X groups and equals the valence of Mt minus 2. The invention also relates to a catalyst comprising the reaction product of the metallocene complex and a cocatalyst. Further the invention relates to a (co)polymerisation process of olefinic monomers.
US11691995B2
The presently disclosed subject matter relates to nitric oxide-releasing particles for delivering nitric oxide, and their use in biomedical and pharmaceutical applications.
US11691987B2
The present invention provides bicyclic heterocyclyl kinase enzyme inhibitor compounds of formula (I), which are therapeutically useful as kinase inhibitors, particularly IRAK4 inhibitors. wherein A, Y, Z, X1, X2, X3, R1, R3, ‘m’, ‘n’ and ‘p’ have the meanings given in the specification and pharmaceutically acceptable salt or stereoisomer thereof that are useful in the treatment and prevention of diseases or disorder, in particular their use in diseases or disorder mediated by kinase enzyme, particularly IRAK4 enzyme. The present invention also provides pharmaceutical composition comprising at least one of the compounds of compound of formula (I) together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, diluent or excipient therefor.
US11691983B2
Specifically substituted benzofuro- and benzothienoquinolines and their use in electronic devices, especially electroluminescent devices. When used as charge transport material, charge blocker material and/or host material in electroluminescent devices, the specifically substituted benzofuro- and benzothienoquinolines may provide improved efficiency, stability, manufacturability, or spectral characteristics of electroluminescent devices and reduced driving voltage of electroluminescent devices.
US11691982B2
The invention provides novel cytotoxic compounds and cytotoxic conjugates comprising these cytotoxic compounds and cell-binding agents. More specifically, this invention relates to novel thailanstatin A analogs, useful as cytotoxic small molecule toxins in antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs). The present invention further relates to compositions including these cytotoxic compounds and ADCs, and methods for using these toxins and ADCs to treat pathological conditions including cancer.
US11691979B2
The present application discloses compounds having the following formula: or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are defined in the specification, as well as methods of making and using the compounds disclosed herein for treating or ameliorating an IL-17 mediated syndrome, disorder and/or disease.
US11691976B2
Described are coelenterazine analogues, methods for making the analogues, kits comprising the analogues, and methods of using the compounds for the detection of luminescence in luciferase-based assays.
US11691975B2
Provided herein are spirocyclic and fused bicyclic carbamates and pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds. The subject compounds and compositions are useful as modulators of MAGL. Furthermore, the subject compounds and compositions are useful for the treatment of pain.
US11691969B2
The present invention relates to pyridazinones and related compounds having Formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, which are inhibitors of PARP7 and are useful in the treatment of cancer.
US11691963B2
The present disclosure provides 6-heteroaryloxy benzimidazole and azabenzimidazole compounds and compositions thereof useful for inhibiting JAK2.
US11691959B2
A compound of formula (I) wherein X is 0, C=0 or S; Y is N or CH; R2 and R4 are each independently H, —(CH2)pCOOH, —(CH2)pCON(R5)2 or —(CH2)pCOOC1-6alkyl; or R2 and R4 together form a 6-membered phenyl ring fused to the five membered ring; each R1 is independently selected from H, halo (e.g. fluoro or chloro), C6-10aryl, C7-12arylalkyl, C2-12 alkenyl; OC1-12 alkyl, OC2-12 alkenyl or a C1-12 alkyl group; each R5 is H or C1-6 alkyl; each p is 0 to 3; n is 1 to 4; or a salt, ester, solvate, N-oxide, or prodrug thereof, e.g. a salt thereof.
US11691934B2
A synthesis method and a synthesis device of cyclododecene according to the present invention have a high conversion rate of cyclododecatriene which is a reactant and a high selectivity of cyclododecene which is a required product, and even so, have an effect of significantly decreasing a reaction time. In addition, the method and the device have an excellent conversion rate of cyclododecatriene and an excellent selectivity of cyclododecene, while maintaining excellent reactivity without an organic solvent such as ethanol. Therefore, a volume of the reactor relative to an output of cyclododecene may be further decreased. Moreover, the method and the device may minimize costs for facilities and process, are practical, decrease a process time, and are industrially advantageous for mass production as compared with the conventional art.
US11691932B2
A process for the production of an aromatic compound which comprise reacting a mixture comprising ethylene and a furan compound over a zeolitic material having a BEA-type framework structure is described, wherein the zeolitic material having a BEA-type framework structure comprised in the catalyst is obtainable and/or obtained according to an organotemplate-free synthetic process.
US11691930B2
The present disclosure relates to a process for converting one or more methyl halides to acyclic C3-C6 olefins, said process comprising the steps of (a) providing a feedstream comprising one or more methyl halides; (b) providing a catalyst composition; and (c) contacting said feedstream with said catalyst composition under reaction conditions. The process is remarkable in that said reaction conditions include a reaction temperature below 400° C., and in that said catalyst composition comprises one or more molecular sieves with a Si/Al atomic ratio ranging from 2 to 18 and wherein said one or more molecular sieves comprise a plurality of pores, wherein said pores have a shape of an 8-membered ring or less.
US11691929B2
A dry and solid fertiliser in the form of discreet particles is provided. The particles of the dry and solid fertiliser comprise a homogenous mixture of organic and inorganic materials. The inorganic material comprises at least one of the NPKS nutrients. The organic material comprises a carbon-labile substantially sterile product of organic waste.
US11691923B1
Provided are novel high entropy nitrides (HENs) exhibiting excellent physical and chemical properties. Also provided are systems and methods to synthesize bulk HENs by reaction flash sintering. Commercial metal nitride powders can be consolidated into near fully dense single-phase bulk ceramic with a proprietary flash sintering apparatus. A constant DC electrical field of ˜80 V/cm and pressure of ˜15 MPa at room temperature can trigger reaction flash sintering without pre-heating, and the entire process can finish in ˜250 seconds to ˜400 seconds.
US11691920B2
The present invention provides a high alumina fused cast refractory that is easily produced and has low porosity and high corrosion resistance, and a method of producing the same. The high alumina fused cast refractory of the present invention has the following chemical composition: 95.0 mass % to 99.5 mass % Al2O3, 0.20 mass % to 1.50 mass % SiO2, 0.05 mass % to 1.50 mass % B2O3, 0.05 mass % to 1.20 mass % MgO and balance. The method of producing the high alumina fused cast refractory of the present invention includes obtaining a mixture by mixing an Al2O3 source material, a SiO2 source material, a B2O3 source material and an MgO source material, and fusing the mixture.
US11691917B2
Composites made of a cross-linked acrylic polymer and an inorganic aggregate and/or mineral, with the cross-linked acrylic polymer being present at a concentration of 5% to 17%, by weight, are disclosed. Processes of preparing the composites are also disclosed.
US11691912B2
A glass member for a housing of an electronic device may include an aluminosilicate glass substrate defining a first surface of the glass member, the first surface having a first surface roughness, a fused composite coating bonded to a portion of the aluminosilicate glass substrate and defining a second surface of the glass member, the second surface having a second surface roughness greater than the first surface roughness, a first ion-exchanged layer extending into the glass member and through the fused composite coating, and a second ion-exchanged layer extending into the glass member from the first surface. The fused composite coating may include an amorphous glass matrix and a crystalline material dispersed in the amorphous glass matrix.
US11691910B2
A coating provides a high solar heat gain coefficient (SHGC) and a low overall heat transfer coefficient (U-value) to trap and retain solar heat. The coating and coated article are particularly useful for use in architectural transparencies in northern climates. The coating includes a first dielectric layer; a continuous metallic layer formed over at least a portion of the first dielectric layer, the metallic layer having a thickness less than 8 nm; a primer layer formed over at least a portion of the metallic layer; a second dielectric layer formed over at least a portion of the primer layer; and an overcoat formed over at least a portion of the second dielectric layer. When used on a No. 3 surface of a reference IGU, the coating provides a SHGC of greater than or equal to 0.6 and a U-value of less than or equal to 0.35.
US11691900B2
A trap apparatus of condensate water according to the present invention comprises: a neutralizing part including an inlet through which condensate water is introduced, an internal space for containing a neutralizing agent for neutralizing the introduced condensate water, and a condensate water passage through which the condensate water that was neutralized by the neutralizing agent in the internal space is discharged; a discharge part including a storage space for storing the condensate water which is directly or indirectly introduced through the condensate water passage, an outlet which is open in a circular shape so as to discharge the stored condensate water, and a spherical ball capable of closing the outlet by being seated on the outlet, wherein the ball is spaced from the outlet by buoyancy of the condensate water when the condensate water is contained in the storage space above a critical water level, such that the condensate water can be discharged through the outlet, and the condensate water can be neutralized simultaneously with discharging of only the condensate water without exhaust gas.
US11691897B2
An aqueous feed stream having a first total dissolved solids (TDS) level is flowed to a forward osmosis separator. The aqueous feed stream includes seawater. An aqueous draw stream having a second TDS level is flowed to the forward osmosis separator. The second TDS level is greater than the first TDS level. A disposal stream and an injection fluid stream is produced by the forward osmosis separator by allowing water to pass from the aqueous feed stream to the aqueous draw stream through a membrane of the forward osmosis separator based on a difference between the first TDS level and the seconds TDS level. The injection fluid stream is flowed from the osmosis separator to a subterranean formation.
US11691892B2
In an aspect, a Co2Z ferrite has the formula: (Ba1-xSrx)3Co2+yMyFe24-2y-zO41. M is at least one of Mo, Ir, or Ru. The variable x can be 0 to 0.8, or 0.1 to 0.8. The variable y can be 0 to 0.8, or 0.01 to 0.8. The variable z can be −2 to 2. The Co2Z ferrite can have an average grain size of 5 to 100 nanometers, or 30 to 80, or 10 to 40 nanometers as measured using at least one of transmission electron microscopy, field emission scanning electron microscopy, or x-ray diffraction.
US11691887B2
The invention relates to perovskite compounds which have surprisingly good emission properties, particularly photoluminescent emission properties, in the blue region of the visible spectrum. These perovskites contain a mixture of cations or a mixture of halides, or both. The invention also relates to a photoactive material containing the perovskite species of the invention; to an optoelectronic device containing the photoactive material of the invention; to a method of producing blue light; and to the use of the photoactive material of the invention to emit blue light or as a phosphor.
US11691885B2
Provided is a hydrophobic silica powder that can be obtained by the sol-gel process, and that is excellent in charge properties. The hydrophobic silica powder has a hydrophobicity of 50% or more, a saturated water content of 4% or less, and a nitrogen content of 0.05% or more.
US11691877B2
A process plant and a process for production of sulfur from a feedstock gas including from 15% to 100 vol % H2S and a stream of sulfuric acid, the process including a) providing a Claus reaction furnace feed stream with a substoichiometric amount of oxygen, b) directing to a Claus reaction furnace operating at elevated temperature, c) cooling to provide a cooled Claus converter feed gas, d) directing to contact a material catalytically active in the Claus reaction, e) withdrawing a Claus tail gas and elementary sulfur, f) directing a stream comprising said Claus tail gas to a Claus tail gas treatment, wherein sulfuric acid directed to said Claus reaction furnace is in the form of droplets with 90% of the mass of the droplets having a diameter below 500 μm, with the associated benefit of such a process efficiently converting all liquid H2SO4 to gaseous H2SO4 and further to SO2.
US11691876B2
Ozone generating machine (OGM) for generating ozone in a ship, comprising: an ozone generator with at least two electrodes separated by an ozonizing gap and at least a gas inlet for receiving a feed gas containing dioxygen, and a gas outlet for exhausting gas comprising ozone to an ozone circuit of the ship, a main liquid cooling circuit (CWP, CWT), with at least a cooling portion in the ozone generator, to be connected with a cooling circuit of a ship, a liquid-liquid heat exchanger (LLHEX) connected with the main liquid cooling circuit (CWP, CWT), and an electrical closed cabinet (ECB) comprising an electric current converter (ECV), characterized in that the ozone generating machine (OGM) further comprises a closed loop cooling liquid circuit (CLC) comprising a converter liquid cooling portion (CECV) arranged to cool the electric current converter (ECV) and connected with the liquid-liquid heat exchanger (LLHEX).
US11691864B2
A platform for onsite creation of consumable liquids is provided. The platform includes a liquid generating machine, a set of cubes, compatible bottles, and a user interface device. The platform effectively decentralizes the production consumable liquids, such as drinking waters, enhances the consumer's experience with a brand, significantly increases consumers' choices while simplifying the consumption process (buying the water, carrying it, getting rid of/recycling the plastic bottle, etc.). The platform includes customizable liquid generating recipes associated with the cubes that may be provided through a network or local database and a security feature that allows the authorization of users to generate and access controlled liquids.
US11691863B2
A vented funnel having a fluid flow stop configured to provide even fluid flow or to maximize fluid flow. The vented funnel with fluid flow stop may include an inner funnel member and an outer vented funnel member. The outer vented funnel member may have one or more venting portions or configurations configured to provide a mechanism for allowing trapped air within the vented funnel to be expelled.
US11691836B2
Rewinder for producing paper logs, comprising a winding station with a first winding roller, a second winding roller and a third winding roller driven by corresponding electric motors, including a detection system capable to detect a succession of diameters of the log being formed in the winding station and a programmable electronic unit connected to the electric motors. The system compares the measured diameters with a succession of corresponding diameters of predetermined value and to calculate a sequence of differences between these values. The electronic unit determines a parameter (a) related to the trend over time of the values. The electronic unit changes the relative speed of the first and second roll depending on the value of the parameter.
US11691833B2
A sheet conveying device includes a sheet loader, a sheet feeder, an optical sensor, and a rotary member. The sheet loader is configured to load a sheet. The sheet feeder is configured to feed the sheet loaded on the sheet loader. The optical sensor is configured to detect the sheet at a predetermined position on the sheet loader in a width direction of the sheet and at a predetermined position in a sheet conveyance passage in the width direction of the sheet. The rotary member is configured to rotate to a first position when the sheet is not at the predetermined position on the sheet loader and a second position when the sheet is at the predetermined position. The rotary member has a detection target portion configured to be detected by the optical sensor when the rotary member is located at the first or second position.
US11691832B2
A medium transport device includes a feeding unit that can be disposed at a contact position and a retracted position, a first restriction member that rotates between a restriction position and a release position, and a transport guide positioned on a side opposite to the feeding unit with a transport path interposed therebetween. When the first restriction member is positioned at the restriction position, the first restriction member maintains a state in which the feeding unit is positioned at the retracted position by the tip end contacting the feeding unit. When the first restriction member is positioned at the restriction position, the tip end thereof is positioned closer to the mounting portion side than the position of the rotation axis of the first restriction member in the transport direction.
US11691826B2
A method of changing article pitch. The method can comprise receiving a series of articles arranged at a first pitch, engaging the articles of the series of articles sequentially with a gripper wheel, moving the articles along a path of travel with the gripper wheel, and moving the articles relative to one another from the first pitch to a second pitch during the moving the articles along the path of travel with the gripper wheel.
US11691815B2
A roller track includes a base, parallel guides, roller support bars placed into their respective guides, and a plurality of rollers removably disposed between the roller support bars. The roller support bars preferably are removably secured to the base via the respective guides which are affixed to the base. The base also can be provided with connecting elements sidewalls thereof such that a plurality of bases of roller tracks can be connected laterally to accommodate any width of shelf or display planogram. Thus, the roller tracks can be used either separately roller tracks or as a continuous mat (i.e. a plurality of roller tracks affixed to adjacent roller tracks). Additionally, dividers can be removably affixed to each roller track via securing members comprising an upper body portion formed via a living hinge and at least one lower connector that removably connects the securing member to the roller track.
US11691803B2
The invention is directed to a dispensing device comprising a rigid container, a flexible bladder, and a rigid stopper. The container is adapted to contain a product to be dispensed. The flexible bladder is disposed below and in fluid communication with the container. The bladder comprises a top end, a sidewall extending downwardly from the top end and terminates in a spout. The bladder is in a liquid tight engagement with the container and the product contained in the container is adapted to flow into the bladder. The rigid stopper is disposed within the flexible bladder and comprises a top end, and at least one sidewall extending downwardly from the top end, and terminates in an open bottom end. The stopper comprises a plurality of through holes.
US11691802B2
Beverage systems and kits and methods of using the same. A beverage system of the present disclosure includes a container configured to retain a beverage, the container having an outer wall and an internal threaded section above a non-threaded inner wall section; a threaded gasket having a threaded portion and an outer curved profile, the threaded portion configured to engage the internal threaded section of the container when coupled thereto; and a lid having an extension portion extending from a cover portion, the extension portion having a seal positioned thereon, the seal configured to engage the non-threaded inner wall section of the container when coupled thereto.
US11691801B2
A process and apparatus for heating a microwave transparent material or di-polar material. The apparatus includes a vessel that has susceptor material on at least a portion of the vessel walls. Microwaves are generated by a microwave transmitter and introduced into the vessel which can heat both microwave transparent materials and di-polar materials within the vessel.
US11691795B2
A transportation tooling structure, a split electric motor module with the transportation tooling structure, and a transportation method are provided. The transportation tooling structure comprises: a split base plate, a stator support and a rotor support, wherein the lower end of the stator support is fixedly supported on the upper surface of the split base plate, and the upper end of the stator support is fixedly supported on the side of a split stator close to the split base plate; and the upper end of the rotor support is fixedly supported on the side of an end of a split rotor away from the split stator, and the lower end of the rotor support is fixedly supported on the side of the split stator away from the split base plate.
US11691790B2
A storage bag has first and second closure profiles adjacent to an opening of the bag. The first and second closure profiles are each provided with a closure member that extends along the length of the respective closure profile, with the closure member of the first closure profile being configured to engage with the closure member of the second closure profile to form a seal for the opening of the bag. The first closure profile further includes (a) a plurality of gripping ridges that extends from the closure member to the top edge of the first closure profile, and (b) a texture that extends in an area between the closure member and the top edge of the first closure profile, with the texture extending continuously (i) in the area between the closure member and the top edge of the first closure profile, and (ii) between each gripping ridge of the plurality of gripping ridges.
US11691787B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for a multisensory examination jar for botanical specimens. Embodiments of the disclosed jar may have a body portion with an integrated LED array for illuminating the contents of the jar. The jar may have a removable lid with an integrated magnifying lens, and an opening or port to enable a user to smell the contents of the jar. The opening may have a removable plug to establish a substantially air tight seal on the lid of the jar, to trap odors within the jar. The removable plug can be selectively removed to enable the user to smell the contents of the jar. The jar may have an electronics module and power source operable for wireless charging. The jar may also be configured to interface with a charging dock or base for wireless charging of integrated batteries.
US11691769B2
One aspect of the disclosure is a method of packaging a plurality siding panels. The method includes providing a plurality of siding panels, each siding panel having a front face, a rear face, top edge, a bottom edge, and a support member secured to the rear face, placing a first siding panel vertically within a box, the box having a first side, a second side, a top side, and a bottom side, and placing a second siding panel vertically within the box next to the first siding panel.
US11691754B2
A method and power distribution system for operating in a low power consumption mode includes a primary power distribution node defining a primary distribution switch having an output and operable in a first conducting mode and a second non-conducting mode, and wherein operating in the second non-conducting mode includes a leakage current through the power distribution switch, at least one enabled electrical load downstream of the primary power distribution node, the at least one enabled electrical load connectable to the primary power distribution node by way of the primary distribution switch, and a primary power distribution node power source configured to supply power to the output of the primary distribution switch when the primary distribution switch is operating in the second non-conducting mode.
US11691750B1
In an aspect of the present disclosure is an electric aircraft lift motor with air cooling, the motor including a stator connected to the electric aircraft, the stator including: an inner cylindrical surface and an outer cylindrical surface, wherein each of the inner cylindrical surface and the outer cylindrical surface is coaxial about an axis of rotation; and a rotor coaxial within the stator, the rotor including a rotor cylindrical surface, wherein the rotor cylindrical surface and the inner cylindrical surface combine to form an air gap between the rotor cylindrical surface and the inner cylindrical surface; and a first fan connected to an axial end of the rotor and configured to rotate with the rotor, the first fan comprising at least a blade configured to direct air toward the air gap.
US11691749B2
A method to modify an aircraft including: disconnecting a first engine control device from command cables and transmission cables, wherein the first engine control device is in a fuselage section forward of a pressure bulkhead; replacing the engine control device with a jumper connector positioned in the fuselage section, wherein the jumper connector electrically connects the command cables to the transmission cables; installing a second engine control device in the fuselage aft of the pressure bulkhead, wherein the second engine control device is in an engine compartment of the fuselage; connecting the second engine control device to transmission cables at a location at or near the pressure bulkhead; connecting sensor cabling directly to the second engine control device, and connecting the engine control device directly to the engine.
US11691744B1
Provided in this disclosure is a dual-motor propulsion assembly, and corresponding methods of operation, that is configured for use in an electric aircraft. Dual-motor propulsion assembly provides redundant systems by including vertically stack motors, where one motor powers a propulsor of the assembly if the other motor malfunctions or becomes inoperative.
US11691743B2
A propulsion device includes: a duct in which a flow path extending in a direction of an axis; a fan which is provided with a) an outer peripheral ring formed in an annular shape surrounding the axis and installed to be relatively rotatable around the axis with respect to the duct, b) a plurality of fan blades arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction such that each blade is extended from the outer peripheral ring toward the inside of the flow path, and c) an inner peripheral ring formed in an annular shape being connected radially inner end portions of the plurality of fan blades and in which an air flow passage is formed so that air flows therethrough in the direction of the axis; and a motor which drives the fan to rotate around the axis.
US11691741B2
An environmental control system for an aircraft includes a first conduit, a second conduit, and a connector assembly. The connector assembly is coupled to the first conduit and the second conduit for controlling a flow of air. The connector assembly includes a connector, a connector ring, and an orifice plate. The connector includes at least one wall including a ridge defining a receptacle and a connector slot defined within the ridge. The connector ring is attached to the connector and defines a connector ring slot and a covering portion. The connector ring slot aligns with the connector slot and the orifice plate is inserted into through the connector ring slot and the connector slot into the receptacle during installation of the orifice plate. The covering portion covers the connector slot and retains the orifice plate within the receptacle during operation of the environmental control system.
US11691734B2
A wastewater tank arrangement for an aircraft, including a wastewater tank and a drain pipe having a first end and an opposite second end, the drain pipe fastened with its first end to the wastewater tank and having a second end for connection to a service panel in the aircraft structure. Providing a wastewater tank arrangement can effectively compensate tolerances between the wastewater tank and the service panel, and can effectively compensate installation and manufacturing tolerances during the course of the initial installation, in that the wastewater tank arrangement has a tolerance compensation device configured to connect the second end of the drain pipe to the service panel and compensate tolerances between the second end of the drain pipe and the service panel.
US11691726B2
A vertical take-off and landing aircraft is provided. The aircraft comprises a fuselage which has a nose end, a tail end, and a plurality of seats disposed in the interior. A pair of rear wings extend outwardly from opposing sides of the fuselage between a cockpit and the tail end, and a pair of front wings extend outwardly from opposing sides of the fuselage between the cockpit and the nose end. Each of the pair of rear wings and front wings includes an adjustably mounted turbine which comprises a statically mounted fan pod, a duct rotatably connected to the fan pod, and an adjustable nozzle rotatably connected to the duct. The nozzle can be adjusted to a variety of configurations ranging between a vertical position and a horizontal position via the duct. The adjustably mounted turbine enables the aircraft to adjust thrust through vectors ranging between horizontal and vertical.
US11691725B2
One embodiment is an aircraft including first and second fuselages; a wing assembly connecting the first and second fuselages, wherein the first and second fuselages are parallel to one another; first and second forward propulsion systems tiltably attached to forward ends of the first and second fuselages; and first and second aft propulsion systems fixedly attached proximate aft ends of the first and second fuselages.
US11691723B2
A gimbaled rotor assembly for an aircraft. The gimbaled rotor assembly including a static mast; a spherical bearing comprising an inner component and an outer component pivotable relative to each other about a bearing focus, the inner component fixedly coupled to the static mast; a rotor hub rotatably coupled to the outer component, allowing for relative rotation of the rotor hub about a rotor axis and for pivoting together with the outer component about the bearing focus; and a primary hub spring coupling the outer component to the static mast and configured for opposing pivoting of the rotor hub about the bearing focus from a neutral position.
US11691715B2
An aircraft apparatus is disclosed that has a fuselage boom having proximal and distal ends, a wing coupled to a proximal end of the fuselage boom and at least one transparent stabilizer coupled to a distal end of the fuselage boom.
US11691712B2
A window unit for an aircraft includes a wall module having a side wall laterally delimiting an aircraft cabin. The side wall has a window opening and the wall module has retaining portions. A window module has a window frame accommodating at least one windowpane and the window module has fastening portions. A fastening configuration fastens the window module on the side wall in a region of the window opening. The fastening configuration is formed by a respective fastening portion engaging with a respective retaining portion. The retaining portions and the fastening portions are movable into a plug-in position by a plug-in movement of the window module and are movable from the plug-in position into a securing position by a rotary movement of the window module. The wall module and the window module are interconnected by a form-locking connection in the securing position.
US11691709B1
An aircraft with increased crash robustness including a fuselage with a forward end, an opposite rear end, a ventral surface, and a dorsal surface. The aircraft further including a longitudinal axis running from the rear end to the forward end and a dorsoventral axis orthogonal to the longitudinal axis and running from the dorsal surface to the ventral surface. The aircraft also including at least a battery module located within the fuselage comprising a plurality of battery cells, each battery cell includes an axial axis positioned orthogonally to each of the longitudinal axis and the dorsoventral axis, and each battery cell has a plurality of radial axes orthogonal to the axial axis, wherein the plurality of radial axes includes a first radial axis aligned with the longitudinal axis and a second radial axis aligned with the dorsoventral axis.
US11691708B2
A fluid machine includes: a shaft portion; a shroud surrounding the shaft portion and including an inside surface that forms a flow path-forming surface defining a flow path with the shaft portion; a first propeller rotatably provided in the flow path; a second propeller rotatably provided on a downstream side of the first propeller in the flow path; and a motor including a rotor that is fixed to an outer circumferential portion of the second propeller and that is accommodated in the shroud, and a stator that surrounds the rotor via a clearance and that is fixed in the shroud. A portion of the flow path-forming surface on a downstream side of the second propeller decreases in diameter toward the downstream side, and the shroud includes an inlet flow path that is open at a portion between the first propeller and the second propeller of the flow path-forming surface.
US11691706B2
An underwater watercraft including a passenger compartment and an ingress/egress port in which the watercraft has buoyancy and center of gravity adjusted to maintain a generally level or other desired attitude when submerged, and an optionally angled attitude at a water surface for ingress/egress. The attitude is also adjustable via the placement of ballast and optionally including a movable ballast that adjusts the location of the center of gravity as desired. The ingress-egress port optionally includes an entry elevated from a main passenger compartment and including a riser and optionally removable or concealable handrails. The ingress-egress port has an angled orientation in a submerged mode, and an optional orientation generally parallel to the water surface or angled but above the surface in a surface mode.
US11691705B2
An automated system is provided for moving a boat from a storage position in a boat garage to a deployed position in a dock channel. The system can include a boat trolley. The boat trolley can include a frame that couples to and rides on rails of a track that extends between the boat garage and the dock channel. The boat trolley can also include bunker supports for supporting the hull of the boat. A dock lift mechanism can lower the trolley frame into the water, from which the boat can be deployed. Once done using the boat, the user can navigate the boat onto the trolley frame, and the dock lift mechanism used to lift the trolley frame and boat out of the water, and the boat trolley operated to move the boat from the dock to the boat garage for storage.
US11691704B2
A posture control system for a hull, and a marine vessel including the posture control system, allows crew members to fish more comfortably and includes a posture control tab attached to a stern of the hull to control a posture of the hull, a driver to drive the posture control tab, and a controller to control the driver. When it is determined that the hull has changed to a fishing mode, the controller causes the driver to raise the posture control tab to a predetermined position.
US11691701B2
A watercraft has an unsealed hull that is permeable such that, in use, water flows at least partly into an internal volume of the hull. The hull has at least one hull panel having inner and outer panel surfaces. At least one buoyant element is disposed within the internal volume of the hull. A conduit extends within the internal volume of the hull and defines at least one outlet for discharging water therethrough. An inlet connector of the conduit is configured to be connected to an external water source in order to supply water to the conduit. In response to the external water source being connected to the inlet connector, water flows through the conduit, out of the at least one outlet of the conduit, and onto at least a portion of at least one of the inner panel surface and the at least one buoyant element for rinsing thereof.
US11691691B2
Disclosed is a bike trailer having a main frame and a seat structure. The main frame defines an accommodating space for a passenger or load to be transported. The seat structure is transferable between an operational state in which the seat structure forms a seating area for the passenger, and a stowed state in which the seat structure is folded away thereby allowing the transport of loads other than passengers. The seat structure comprises a backrest portion with a seating side for at least partially contacting the back of a passenger. The backrest portion is accommodatable in the bike trailer such that at least the seating side of the backrest portion is protected against contact with loads to be carried when the seat structure is in the stowed state.
US11691672B2
The relates to a method for operating a driver assistance unit of a motor vehicle using a navigation target specification device. A control unit operates by: receiving a target specification signal describing a projection on a trafficable driving surface; establishing the portion of the trafficable driving surface to which the light of the projection is applied as a driving target region; and, based on the received target specification signal, establishing a relative position of the motor vehicle relative to the driving target region. There is also a step of receiving an orientation signal from an orientation detection unit of the navigation target specification device, which describes a spatial target specification orientation of the navigation target specification device in the driving target region, on which basis a navigation target is established. Depending on the established relative position and the established navigation target, there is a step of establishing a movement path to the navigation target, a step of generating a navigation signal describing a controlling of the motor vehicle along the established movement path, and a step of transmitting the generated navigation signal to the driver assistance unit of the motor vehicle.
US11691668B2
A hydraulic steering arrangement includes a supply port arrangement having at least a supply port, a return port arrangement having at least a return port, a working port arrangement having two working ports, a first valve arrangement having a first supply side connected to the supply port arrangement and a first output side connected to the working port arrangement, a second valve arrangement having a second supply side connected to the supply port arrangement and a second output side connected to the working port arrangement, and a steering command device. In a neutral steering angle, the second valve arrangement connects the first output side to the return port arrangement and the first valve arrangement connects the second output side to the return port arrangement.
US11691661B2
A device for a steering system of a motor vehicle for pressing a toothed rack against a drive pinion is specified, the device having a housing and a thrust piece which is mounted displaceably in the housing and which has a circumferential wall which is in contact with the housing, the thrust piece having, on its circumferential wall, at least one depression which runs in a circumferential direction at least in certain portions and which delimits a hollow chamber arranged between thrust piece and housing.
US11691655B2
The present invention relates to a method for automatically planning maintenance in railway, the method comprising the steps of determining maintenance for different assets at different locations comprising determining at least one of a predicted technical condition of an asset and automatically optimizing the planning accordingly. Further, a railway planning system for automatically planning maintenance comprising a determining component for determining maintenance for different assets at different locations comprising a determining component for determining at least one of a predicted technical condition of an asset and an optimization component for automatically optimizing the planning accordingly.
US11691653B2
A running gear for a rail vehicle includes first and second independent wheel assemblies on opposite sides of a longitudinal vertical median plane of the running gear, each having an independent wheel and a bearing assembly for guiding the wheel about a revolution axis fixed relative to the bearing assembly. In a reference position of the running gear, the revolution axes of the first and second wheel assemblies are coaxial and perpendicular to the longitudinal vertical median plane. The running gear further includes one or more steering actuators for moving the bearing assembly of at least one of the two wheel assemblies away from the reference position in a longitudinal direction parallel to the longitudinal vertical median plane, a wheel flange contact detection unit for detecting a contact between a flange of the wheel with a rail, and a controller for controlling the one or more steering actuators.
US11691637B2
Handling input data errors in an autonomous vehicle using predictive inputs, including: determining an error in input data for a model of a plurality of models of an automation system of the autonomous vehicle; generating predicted input data for the model; and generating, based on the predicted input data, output data for the model.
US11691634B1
This application is directed to on-vehicle behavior modeling of vehicles. A vehicle has one or more processors, memory, a plurality of sensors, and a vehicle control system. The vehicle collects training data via the plurality of sensors, and the training data include data for one or more vehicles during a collection period. The vehicle locally applies machine learning to train a vehicle driving behavior model using the collected training data. The vehicle driving behavior model is configured to predict a behavior of one or more vehicles. The vehicle subsequently collecting sensor data from the plurality of sensors and drives the vehicle by applying the vehicle driving behavior model to predict vehicle behavior based on the collected sensor data. The vehicle driving behavior model is configured to predict behavior of an ego vehicle and/or a distinct vehicle that appears near the ego vehicle.
US11691626B2
The present disclosure relates to an overtaking estimating system for estimation of a minimum overtaking speed of a vehicle. The overtaking estimating system determines in view of a host vehicle a remaining distance of an overtaking lane contiguous to a driving lane of the host vehicle. The system further determines a delta distance between the host vehicle and a preceding vehicle positioned in the host vehicle driving lane. Moreover, the system determines a delta time for the host vehicle to reach the preceding vehicle. The system further determines, based on the delta distance, the delta time and a determined host vehicle speed, a speed of the preceding vehicle. Furthermore, the system determines, based on the remaining distance, the delta distance, the preceding vehicle speed, and an overtaking-affecting parameter, a minimum overtaking speed of the host vehicle for overtaking the preceding vehicle in the remaining distance of the overtaking lane.
US11691623B2
Systems and methods for controlling a vehicle are described. A processor of a longitudinal planning system determines a state of the vehicle. The processor determines a state of a leader vehicle. The processor, based on the determined state of the vehicle and the determined state of the leader vehicle, determines a critical distance for the vehicle. The processor compares a distance between the vehicle and the leader vehicle with the critical distance. The processor, based on the comparison, determines whether the vehicle is too close to or too far from the leader vehicle. The processor, based on the determination, applies one or more of overshoot constraints, undershoot constraints, and critical constraints. After applying the one or more of overshoot constraints, undershoot constraints, and critical constraints, the processor determines a target acceleration for the vehicle. The processor controls the vehicle to track the target acceleration for the vehicle.
US11691622B2
An adaptive lane-keeping system for a commercial vehicle, including: an input module for entering sensor data from at least one sensor which is configured to detect the surroundings of the commercial vehicle; an evaluation module for evaluating the sensor data to determine a relative position of the commercial vehicle on a road; a lane-keeping module for controlling a steering system of the commercial vehicle based on a lane-keeping profile that defines a torque to be applied to a steering wheel of the commercial vehicle to support keeping in a lane; and a change module for changing the lane-keeping profile in response to a change in the detected environment. Also described is a related commercial vehicle, method, and computer readable medium.
US11691621B2
A driving support apparatus comprises a controller for performing collision avoidance braking control and lane deviation suppressing control. When a performing condition of the lane deviation suppressing control is satisfied at a timing of the collision avoidance braking control is about to be performed, the controller makes direction determination processing for determining whether or not the own vehicle travels to a direction toward which it will collide with a target object or to a direction toward which it will avoid colliding with the target object. In the direction determination processing, when it is determined the own vehicle travels to a collision direction, the controller stops the lane deviation suppressing control to perform the collision avoidance braking control, and when it is determined the own vehicle travels to a collision avoidance direction, the controller performs cooperative control for making the lane deviation suppressing control cooperate with the collision avoidance braking control.
US11691619B2
An automatic parking system is provided. The automatic parking system includes a camera processor that acquires images around a subject vehicle, converts the acquired images into external images and synthesizes the external images. A sensor processor measured spaced distances between the subject vehicle and surrounding vehicles. A parking space recognizing unit periodically receives the spaced distances and the external images and comparing the consecutive external images with the spaced distances using an image recognition technology to recognize parking areas. A controller calculates a moving path between a current position of the subject vehicle and an optimal parking area and operates the subject vehicle based on the moving path.
US11691618B2
A hybrid vehicle includes an electric motor, an engine including an exhaust gas purifying unit, and an engine clutch disposed between the electric motor and the engine. A method of controlling the hybrid vehicle includes determining a driving environment condition including a first condition related to at least a driving load when a request for operating the exhaust gas purifying unit is received, determining a state of the engine clutch and an operation condition of the exhaust gas purifying unit when the exhaust gas purifying means operates according to the result of determining the driving environment condition, and operating the exhaust gas purifying unit while maintaining the determined state of the engine clutch when the driving environment condition is satisfied.
US11691615B2
A torque reducing process reduces torque of a multiphase rotating electric machine when a magnitude of current in a particular phase of the rotating electric machine remains greater than or equal to a given value. A deactivating process deactivates combustion control in a deactivated cylinder and continues combustion control in the remaining cylinders. A fluctuation torque applying process cyclically fluctuates the torque of the rotating electric machine in a cycle that is an integral multiple of a compression top dead center occurrence cycle when the deactivating process is being executed. A prohibiting process prohibits execution of the deactivating process in a predetermined situation where a rotation speed of a rotary shaft of the rotating electric machine is less than or equal to a given speed.
US11691596B2
A control method of a smart welcome system of a vehicle includes emitting a low-frequency signal of a first power to search for a smart key in a first search area, emitting a high-frequency signal by the smart key, determining that the smart key is within the first search area, carrying out authentication for the smart key, transmitting a wake-up signal to an AVNT smart connection device, and emitting a low-frequency signal of a second power to search for the smart key in a second search area, executing a booting program, transmitting a high-frequency signal by the authenticated smart key, determining that the authenticated smart key is within the second search area, unfolding a side mirror and outputting a welcome sound output signal to a welcome speaker, and outputting a welcome sound simultaneously with unfolding the side mirror.
US11691593B2
An engagement and disengagement device used in a seat belt retractor includes a first rotating member and a second rotating member configured to be coaxial, and a transmission member disposed between the first and second rotating members. The first rotating member defines an engagement portion on a radial inner surface thereof, and the distance from the engagement portion to an axis of rotation gradually increases in a first direction of rotation. The transmission member can rotate between an engagement position and a non-engagement position relative to the first rotating member.
US11691589B2
A driver-side airbag device includes: a mounting plate; a cushion disposed inside the mounting plate and configured to be inflated by gas supplied thereto; a cover surrounding the cushion and having a movable lid to be cut and tilted by an inflation of the cushion; a decoration part disposed on a front surface of the movable lid and to be rotated together with the movable lid; and a connector having one side disposed between the cover and the decoration part and another side coupled to the mounting plate, the connector configured to restrain forward deployment of the cover when the cushion is inflated.
US11691588B2
A vehicle side airbag device including an inflator, a side airbag, and a duct is installed at a side section on a vehicle width direction outer side of a seatback of a vehicle seat configured to restrain an occupant using a three-point seatbelt. The side airbag receives a supply of gas from the inflator in a vehicle side-on collision. As a result, a waist chamber is inflated and deployed from a lower portion of the side section toward a side of a waist of the occupant, and a head chamber is inflated and deployed from an upper face side of the side section toward a side of a head of the occupant. The duct extends along a vertical direction of the side airbag inside the side airbag, and is configured to guide gas from the inflator into the waist chamber and into the head chamber.
US11691579B2
A vehicle shock absorbing structure provided on the vehicle includes a shock absorbing member and a bracket. The shock absorbing member is disposed on a front end of the vehicle so as to extend in a vehicle width direction. The shock absorbing member includes a front end serving as a collision portion. The bracket includes a front end coupled to a rear end of the shock absorbing member. The bracket interposed between the shock absorbing member and a vehicle body. A deformation control member that extends forward and obliquely upward is provided in a coupling portion at which the bracket is coupled to the shock absorbing member. The deformation control member is more fragile than a front portion of the shock absorbing member that in front of the coupling portion and a rear portion of the bracket in rear of the coupling portion.
US11691577B2
A shielded electric wire includes one metal pipe and one electric wire having a conductor and an insulator. An outer diameter of the conductor at 25° C. is set as a, a coefficient of linear expansion of the conductor is set as αa, and a temperature difference between a maximum temperature and 25° C. is set as Δt, an outer diameter a′ of the conductor after thermal expansion is a′=a+αa×a×Δt, and when a wall thickness of the insulator at 25° C. is set as b and a coefficient of linear expansion of the insulator is set as αb, an insulator wall thickness b′ after thermal expansion is b′=b+αb×b×Δt, and an inner diameter c of the one metal pipe is set to satisfy c≥a′+2b′.
US11691575B2
A sandwich-type, composite component having a sprayed backside protective coating is provided. The component includes a first outer layer having an outer surface, a second outer layer and a core positioned between and bonded to the outer layers and having a plurality of cavities. The protective coating is integrally formed from an elastomeric material. The material is sprayed to form the coating and the coating is bonded to the outer surface by curing. The component may be a vehicle interior component such as a vehicle load floor component.
US11691560B2
An image projection apparatus that can be attached to a vehicle and can be effectively utilized for acquisition of road surface condition information, detection of a hidden vehicle, and the like is provided. The image projection apparatus that projects an image includes: an acquisition unit that acquires information related to a vehicle; an image projection unit that projects an image based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit; and imaging means that acquires an image outside the vehicle, the image projection unit projects light in a wavelength band centered on a wavelength of 1.4 μm and the imaging means provides the information related to the vehicle by imaging an image projected based on the light in the wavelength band centered on the wavelength of 1.4 μm.
US11691557B2
A safety cabin for a mobile home or motor home includes walls of the safety cabin including at least one layer of a fibre-reinforced plastic woven fabric and/or non-woven fabric. A layer includes plies arranged consecutively along a transverse direction with different fibre orientations. A layer is provided in the lateral external walls in each of a front region and rear region of the cabin. An intermediate wall at a transition from the front region of the cabin to the rear region of the cabin is arranged transversely to a longitudinal direction of the cabin, with the intermediate wall preferably comprising a layer including three to nine plies. Similarly, the invention relates to a manufacturing method for the safety cabin according to the invention.
US11691554B2
An entrance handrail includes: a base portion rotatably provided with an up-down direction as an axial direction; a rail portion extending from a lower portion of the base portion and holding a slide member to be slidable, the slide member being attached to a sliding door; a first handrail body extending from an upper portion of the base portion, disposed on a vehicle cabin side when the sliding door closes the entrance, and projecting outward of the vehicle such that a passenger can hold the first handrail body when the sliding door opens the entrance; and second handrail body disposed on the vehicle cabin side with respect of the rail portion when the sliding door closes the entrance and disposed inward of the rail portion in a width direction of the entrance such that the passenger can hold the second handrail body when the sliding door opens the entrance.
US11691553B2
A psychosomatic state adjustment support device includes: a storage section that stores a target psychosomatic state for each destination of a moving body; a specification section that specifies a current psychosomatic state of an occupant of the moving body; an acquisition section that acquires a destination of the moving body; a deciding section that decides a vibration pattern based on the target psychosomatic state according to the destination and the current psychosomatic state; and a control section that applies a vibration stimulation to the occupant by causing a vibration applying section provided in a seat on which the occupant is seated to vibrate based on the vibration pattern.
US11691536B2
A power system for a vehicle includes: a high voltage battery; a low voltage DC-DC converter configured to step down a voltage of the high voltage battery and to output the stepped down voltage; a low voltage battery charged by an output current of the low voltage DC-DC converter, where the low voltage battery includes a first cell group including a plurality of battery cells, and a second cell group connected in parallel with the first cell group and including a plurality of battery cells; and a plurality of switches configured to electrically connect or disconnect the first cell group or the second cell group with the low voltage DC-DC converter, electrical loads configured to receive power from at least one of the low voltage DC-DC converter and the low voltage battery; and a controller configured to control opening or closing of the plurality of switches.
US11691532B2
The present invention discloses an on-board integrated charging device and a current distribution calculating method thereof. The on-board integrated charging device comprises a voltage conversion module. The voltage conversion module is provided with an AC terminal connected to an alternating current or an alternating current load, an HV terminal connected to a power battery and an LV terminal connected to a direct current load. When the AC terminal is idle, the LV terminal is powered by the HV terminal, and an input current of the LV terminal is an actual current of the HV terminal. According to the on-board integrated charging device, OBC, DCAC and DCDC functions can be integrated on the same circuit board, a current reporting requirement can be realized through a distribution algorithm, and the volume and weight of the whole device can be reduced.
US11691531B2
A battery system includes a rechargeable energy storage system and a battery controller. The rechargeable energy storage system has a rapid charging mode and a discharging mode. The battery controller is electrically coupled to the rechargeable energy storage system and is configured to store multiple charging tables that contain multiple charge current limit entries, where each charging table corresponds to a unique one of multiple initial state-of-charge values, determine a starting state-of-charge value of the rechargeable energy storage system in response to entering the rapid charging mode, select up to two charging tables in response to the starting state-of-charge value of the rechargeable energy storage system being adjacent to up to two of the initial state-of-charge values, and control a charging current provided to the rechargeable energy storage system based on the charge current limit entries in the up to two charging tables as selected.
US11691529B2
Devices, methods and software for automated electrical connector positioning for electric vehicle (EV) charging are provided. Using, for example, the disclosed automatic charging device, a method for charging an EV includes determining receipt of an EV-side electrical connector to a charging zone of an EV charging environment. The method includes actuating a charger-side electrical connector from an initial position outside of the charging zone to a final position inside of the charging zone. The final position corresponds to the charger-side electrical connector matingly engaged with the EV-side electrical connector.
US11691515B2
An on-board charging management apparatus includes a vehicle-side earth line connected with an external-side earth line of an external power unit; a vehicle-side signal line connected with an external-side signal line of the external power unit; and a detection signal line configured to connect the vehicle-side signal line and the vehicle-side earth line. Presence or absence of a disconnection of the external-side earth line and the vehicle-side earth line is determined based on an electric current value or a voltage value of the detection signal line, when the external power unit is in a connected state. As a consequence, the on-board charging management apparatus can detect a disconnection of the earth line at the time of charging an on-board electric storage device.
US11691510B2
A control apparatus and method using a knob are provided. The control apparatus includes an input unit configured to receive knob operation information, a memory configured to store a program for transmitting a vehicle function control command on the basis of the knob operation information, and a processor configured to execute the program, wherein the processor displays information about the vehicle function control command by using a knob.
US11691508B1
An electric power take-off system for mounting to a truck body to complement an existing power-take-off system powered by an internal combustion engine. The system includes a motor, a battery for providing electrical power to the motor, a fluid reservoir, a pump for pumping fluid through at least one hose from the fluid reservoir to at least one truck function and for return of the fluid to the reservoir. The system also includes a system interlock rendering inoperable the electric power-take-off system when the internal combustion engine is in operation and a motor controller in communication with the motor for controlling the power output of the motor. The system also includes a charging unit for charging of the battery and a data management system operable to collect data.
US11691500B2
A stabilizing arrangement of a cooling system module of a vehicle includes stabilizer pins attached to the vehicle cooling system module. Stabilizer slots are incorporated into a component of the chassis of the vehicle, such as a frame extender. The stabilizer slots may be formed as an upwards opening U-shape. Bushings are attached to the stabilizer pins. The stabilizer pins and bushings extend laterally into and engage with the stabilizer slots. Upon installation, the stabilizer pins and bushings are aligned with the stabilizer slots as the cooling system module is lowered onto the ISO mounts. The stabilizer pins and bushings slide vertically downwards into the stabilizer slots as the cooling system module is lowered into place. The simpler stabilizer pins, bushings, and stabilizer slots thereby take the place of expensive, time consuming, complex, labor intensive, and space consuming stay rod arrangements.
US11691496B2
In a vehicle drive system using a motor for cruising, the connection node of serially-connected first and second batteries is grounded. The operation of an inverter is controlled so that the motor drive voltage is higher than the output voltage of each of the first and second batteries. A battery unit is configured so that third and fourth batteries each in a form of a cartridge are removably loaded, and the loaded third battery is connected in parallel with the first battery and the loaded fourth battery is connected in parallel with the second battery.
US11691478B2
A brake device (100) for braking the movement of at least one movable element (1) relative to a housing (2) of an air outlet, wherein the movable element (1) is an air-flow-directing and/or air-flow-limiting element and/or an actuation element, wherein the brake device (100) has at least one resilient element (4), wherein the resilient element (4) has a main extent direction which is orientated at least substantially perpendicularly to a movement path of the at least one movable element (1). An air outlet, having such a brake device, is also provided.
US11691477B2
The invention relates to a vortex degassing device (1) for a fluid transfer circuit (F1, F2), in particular of a motor vehicle, this device (1) comprising: a first internal chamber (10) connected to a first inlet (11) for a fluid (F1) as well as to a first outlet (12) for a liquid fraction and to a second outlet (13) for a gaseous fraction, a second internal chamber (20) connected to a second inlet (21) for a fluid (F2) as well as to a third outlet (22) for a liquid fraction and to a fourth outlet (23) for a gaseous fraction, the second chamber (20) being located above the first chamber (10) and the second outlet (13) extending through the second chamber (20) to the level of the fourth outlet (23). The invention also relates to a fluid transfer circuit comprising at least one such device (1) as well as a method for using such a device (1).
US11691471B2
A five-link automobile suspension device is configured to support a lower end of a damper with a lower arm, and is capable of reducing sliding friction while ensuring a road clearance. Embodiments include a lower arm connecting a wheel support and a vehicle body, and a damper that has a lower end connected to the lower arm and is disposed to incline upward toward a vehicle-width-direction inner side in a rear view. A wall surface of the lower arm has a damper mounting portion, which supports a pivot of the damper, at a position lower than a straight line connecting a pivot on a wheel side and a pivot on a vehicle-body side of the lower arm. A bottom surface of the lower arm has a bulge formed at a position under the damper mounting portion.
