US11782477B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate including a transmission area, a display area, and a first non-display area between the transmission area and the display area, a display layer including display elements and bypass lines, an encapsulation member that covers the display elements and the bypass lines, a metal layer on the encapsulation member, and including a first hole corresponding to the transmission area, and an optical functional section including a second hole corresponding to the transmission area, wherein a first perpendicular distance from a center line, which passes through a center of the transmission area and is perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate, to an edge of the first hole may be less than a second perpendicular distance from the center line to an edge of the second hole.
US11782476B2
A memory controller conveys a clock signal with command and address signals to a registered clock driver (RCD) on a memory module. A controller-side chip interface on the RCD supports both source-synchronous and filtered clocking for receipt of the command and address signals, the selection between the two clocking schemes dependent upon the noise environment impacting the clock and command/address signals. If the noise is predominantly correlated, then the chip interface is placed in a source-synchronous clocking mode. If the noise is predominantly uncorrelated, then the chip interface is placed in a filtered clocking mode that filters out uncorrelated noise from the clock signal.
US11782468B2
In an example, an apparatus includes an error amplifier, a buffer, a transistor, and a current-mode feedforward ripple canceller (CFFRC). The error amplifier has an amplifier output, a first input, and a second input, the error amplifier second input configured to receive a reference voltage. The buffer has a buffer input and a buffer output, the buffer input coupled to the error amplifier output. The transistor has a gate, a source, and a drain, the gate coupled to the buffer output, the drain coupled to the first input. The transistor is configured to receive an input voltage (VIN) at the source and provide an output voltage at the drain. The CFFRC has a CFFRC input and a CFFRC output, the CFFRC output coupled to the gate, and the CFFRC input configured to receive VIN.
US11782461B1
Provided is a flow rate control device capable of improving accumulated flow rate error. The flow rate control device of the present disclosure includes: a flow rate meter that measures a flow rate of a fluid flowing through a flow path; a flow rate regulating valve that regulates the flow rate of the fluid flowing through the flow path; and a control part that controls an opening degree of the flow rate regulating valve based on a measurement result of the flow rate meter, includes: a closing function that controls the opening degree of the flow rate regulating valve with an instantaneous flow rate value and closes with a set accumulated flow rate value; and an accumulated value prediction function that monitors the current opening degree of the flow rate regulating valve and the instantaneous flow rate value all the time, and starts a closing operation of the flow rate regulating valve at a time point when the accumulated flow rate value reaches an early closing flow rate value.
US11782460B2
A system is provided for tracking, in a distributed water infrastructure, water usage by category. The system may comprise at least one processor configured to receive from at least one sensor associated with the distributed water infrastructure signals indicative of water usage in the distributed water infrastructure. The system may, based on the signals indicative of water usage, construct a plurality of profiles. The system may assign each profile to one of a plurality of water usage categories. The system may collect, from the at least one sensor, signals indicative of water usage for substantially all water delivered through the distributed water infrastructure in a time period. The system may construct a plurality of water usage profiles in the aggregate, encompassing substantially all water delivered through the distributed water infrastructure in the time period. The system may assign each constructed water usage profile to one of the plurality of water usage categories. The system may output, for display, water usage for the time period for each of the plurality of water usage categories.
US11782459B2
A deflection amount calculation device configured to calculate a deflection amount in a reference direction of a component constituting an industrial machine, the deflection amount calculation device including: a deflection amount acquisition unit configured to acquire, as an actual deflection amount, a measured value of a deviation amount at a predetermined position before and after an actual load is applied to a given position of the component; an ideal deflection amount calculation unit configured to, based on an ideal model of the component, calculate an ideal value of the actual deflection amount as an ideal deflection amount; and a self-weight deflection amount calculation unit configured to, based on the actual deflection amount and the ideal deflection amount, calculate a self-weight deflection amount caused by a self-weight of the component.
US11782457B2
Methods and associated systems for autonomous package delivery utilize a UAS/UAV, an infrared positioning senor, and a docking station integrated with a package delivery vehicle. The UAS/UAV accepts a package for delivery from the docking station on the delivery vehicle and uploads the delivery destination. The UAS/UAV autonomously launches from its docked position on the delivery vehicle. The UAS/UAV autonomously flies to the delivery destination by means of GPS navigation. The UAS/UAV is guided in final delivery by means of a human supervised live video feed from the UAS/UAV. The UAS/UAV is assisted in the descent and delivery of the parcel by precision sensors and if necessary by means of remote human control. The UAS/UAV autonomously returns to the delivery vehicle by means of GPS navigation and precision sensors. The UAS/UAV autonomously docks with the delivery vehicle for recharging and preparation for the next delivery sequence.
US11782448B2
A method for obstacle detection and recognition for an intelligent snow sweeping robot is disclosed, comprising: 1) disposing ultrasonic sensors at a front end of the snow sweeping robot to detect distance information from an obstacle ahead; and disposing radar sensors at the front and rear of the snow sweeping robot to detect whether a creature suddenly approaches; 2) processing signals detected by each of the ultrasonic sensors and radar sensors, and calculating a forward distance of the snow sweeping robot; and 3) determining a snow cover extent of a working road, detecting a change of the distance from the obstacles, and recognizing the obstacles for conditions of an ultrasonic ranging variation ratio and a variation of the forward distance of the snow sweeping robot, a change of the signal detected by radar sensors, and a descriptive statistic of the snow cover extent within a specific time period.
US11782440B2
An autonomous vehicle simulation system for analyzing motion planners is disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: receiving map data corresponding to a real world driving environment; obtaining perception data and configuration data including pre-defined parameters and executables defining a specific driving behavior for each of a plurality of simulated dynamic vehicles; generating simulated perception data for each of the plurality of simulated dynamic vehicles based on the map data, the perception data, and the configuration data; receiving vehicle control messages from an autonomous vehicle control system; and simulating the operation and behavior of areal world autonomous vehicle based on the vehicle control messages received from the autonomous vehicle control system.
US11782429B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that automatically adapts a prognostic-surveillance system to account for aging phenomena in a monitored system. During operation, the prognostic-surveillance system is operated in a surveillance mode, wherein a trained inferential model is used to analyze time-series signals from the monitored system to detect incipient anomalies. During the surveillance mode, the system periodically calculates a reward/cost metric associated with updating the trained inferential model. When the reward/cost metric exceeds a threshold, the system swaps the trained inferential model with an updated inferential model, which is trained to account for aging phenomena in the monitored system.
US11782425B2
There is provided a configuration that includes: a main controller configured to, when executing a process recipe including a specific step of executing a sub-recipe, control a process controller to execute the sub-recipe a predetermined number of times to perform a predetermined process to a substrate: and a device management controller configured to collect device data during an execution of the process, recipe and store the device data in a storage part. The device management controller is further configured to: search the storage part; acquire the device data in a designated step among respective steps constituting the sub-recipe for a number of times of execution of the sub-recipe; calculate a first standard deviation of the device data acquired for the number of times of execution; and compare the first standard deviation with a threshold value and generate an alarm when the first standard deviation exceeds the threshold value.
US11782411B2
A system includes a wafer shape metrology sub-system configured to perform one or more shape measurements on post-bonding pairs of wafers. The system includes a controller communicatively coupled to the wafer shape metrology sub-system. The controller receives a set of measured distortion patterns. The controller applies a bonder control model to the measured distortion patterns to determine a set of overlay distortion signatures. The bonder control model is made up of a set of orthogonal wafer signatures that represent the achievable adjustments. The controller determines whether the set of overlay distortion signatures associated with the measured distortion patterns are outside tolerance limits provides one or more feedback adjustments to the bonder tool.
US11782406B2
Methods and apparati for virtualizing building management systems. An apparatus embodiment comprises a first API for accessing on-premise building management systems; coupled to the first API, a virtualization engine configured to receive and deploy commands to the first API; and coupled to the virtualization engine, a second API configured to receive and deploy commands to the virtualization engine.
US11782405B2
An operating device for a machine tool, the operating device comprising at least one spindle or electrospindle, sensor means to measure at least one operating parameter of the operating device and an electronic control unit, which comprises a processing and control unit, data acquisition devices configured to acquire machine data concerning the operation of the machine tool, a memory to store measured values of the operating parameter of the operating device and the machine data, and a communication module, preferably wireless, configured to transmit the measured values and the machine data to a server, which is remotely accessible and comprises a database, and/or to a mobile communication device.
US11782402B2
A device for controlling an operation of a system performing a task is disclosed. The device submits a sequence of control inputs to the system thereby changing states of the system according to the task and receives a feedback signal. The device determines a current control input for controlling the system based on the feedback signal including a current measurement of a current state of the system by solving a polynomial optimization of a polynomial function with a reformulation derived by introducing additional variables reducing a degree of the polynomial function till a target degree subject to constraints on a structure of the additional variables. The device solves a mixed-integer optimization problem to find an optimal solution among all possible encodings of factorizations of the polynomial function that reduces the degree of the polynomial function till the target degree with a minimum number of additional variables.
US11782395B2
A diagnostic device (10) includes an acquirer (101) and a diagnoser (140). The acquirer (101) acquires a plurality of input signals including a target signal to be diagnosed for abnormality. The diagnoser (140) diagnoses, using a first index value relating to the target signal and a second index value relating to the plurality of input signals based on a correlation between the plurality of input signals, whether an abnormality occurs. The first index value indicates a degree of similarity of a waveform of the target signal to a predetermined reference waveform. The second index value is a value that is based on comparison between the target signal and a predetermined pattern and is calculated from values of the plurality of input signals.
US11782382B2
A developer supply container includes a developer accommodating body configured to accommodate developer, with the developer accommodating portion being provided with a gear portion. The developer supply container also includes a developer discharging body in fluid communication with the developer accommodating body, with the developer accommodating body being rotatable about a rotational axis thereof relative to the developer discharging body. A track is provided at each of opposite sides of the developer discharging body, each track including a fixed portion fixed on the discharging body and an elastically deformable portion extending from the fixed portion to a free end portion that is displaceable from the discharging body such that the elastically deformable portion intersects a horizontal plane that is parallel to the rotational axis.
US11782379B2
A rotating device includes: an opening-closing portion supported so as to be openable and closable with respect to a support body; a drive unit provided on the support body; a first rotating body provided on the support body and rotated by a drive force of the drive unit; a driven portion provided in the opening-closing portion; a second rotating body provided in the opening-closing portion, rotated by a transmitted rotational force, and transmitting the rotational force to the driven portion; and an annular body formed in an annular shape, wound around the first rotating body and the second rotating body, maintaining the winding state in both an open state and a closed state of the opening-closing portion, and transmitting the rotational force of the first rotating body to the second rotating body.
US11782370B2
A heating apparatus includes a cylindrical film and a pressing element that rotates with the cylindrical film and forms a nip with the cylindrical film. A medium is conveyed through the nip from an upstream side to a downstream side. The heating apparatus further includes a heater arranged inside the cylindrical film and on which a heating element is disposed. An upstream end of the heater is located downstream of an upstream end of the nip, and a downstream end of the heater is located downstream of a downstream end of the nip.
US11782369B2
A fixing device includes a first fixing member, a second fixing member, a charging portion, and a control portion. The first fixing member makes contact with a toner image on a sheet conveyed along a conveying passage. The second fixing member forms a nip. The charging portion generates an application current. The control portion can perform an application mode, in which the application current is generated, and a standby mode, in which no application current is generated. The control portion performs the application mode during a first period after initial start-up until the passage of a predetermined period and performs the standby mode during a second period after the passage of the first period until the passage of a predetermined period.
US11782365B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a fixing unit, first and second rotating members, and a discharge unit to discharge a recording material to an outside. The fixing unit fixes an image from the image forming unit onto the recording material. The first rotating member comes into contact with and guides the image bearing recording material, and is driven to rotate by conveyance of the recording material. The second rotating member comes into contact with the image bearing recording material more on a downstream side than the first rotating member in a conveyance direction of the recording material, guides the recording material, and is driven to rotate by conveyance of the recording material. The first rotating member does not perform swinging motion by coming into contact with the recording material, and the second rotating member performs swinging motion by coming into contact with the recording material.
US11782360B2
A developer accommodating device includes a frame extending in a longitudinal direction and an opening portion provided on the frame. The frame includes a guide portion to mount the developer accommodating device on a developing unit along a mounting direction crossing the longitudinal direction, a first portion including first and second chambers arranged in parallel in a first direction crossing the longitudinal direction, and a second portion communicating with the first and second chambers with respect to the longitudinal direction and having a volume larger than that of the first portion. The first chamber, in which the opening portion is formed, does not directly communicate with the second chamber with respect to the first direction but communicates with the second chamber via the second portion. As seen in the longitudinal direction, a cross sectional area of the second chamber is equal to or larger than that of the first chamber.
US11782353B2
A method for producing an electrophotographic photosensitive member including: forming a photosensitive layer; and forming a protective layer, wherein the step of forming the photosensitive layer forms a photosensitive layer having an amount of residual solvent of a first solvent in the photosensitive layer of 0.05% to 2.50% and an amount of residual solvent of a second solvent in the photosensitive layer of 0.50% to 2.50%, and the step of forming the protective layer includes step (A) of forming a cured film and step (B) of forming the protective layer having wrinkle shapes, wherein, in step (A), the irradiated coating film is heated at a heating temperature lower than a boiling point of the first solvent and in step (B), the cured film is heated at a heating temperature higher than a boiling point of the first solvent.
US11782338B2
A photomask and a method of manufacturing a photomask are provided. According to an embodiment, a method includes: providing a substrate; depositing a reflective layer over the substrate; depositing a capping layer over the reflective layer; depositing an absorption layer over the capping layer; and treating the reflective layer by a laser beam to form a border region. The borderer region has a reflectivity less than about 0.1%.
US11782335B2
A color wheel module includes a driving assembly, a substrate, a first wavelength conversion layer, and a second wavelength conversion layer. The substrate includes an outer periphery disposed around the central axis and a first surface perpendicular to the central axis, and has a first light conversion region located on the outer periphery and a second light conversion region located on the first surface. The first wavelength conversion layer is disposed on the first light conversion region. The second wavelength conversion layer is disposed on the second light conversion region. The first excitation beam is incident to the first light conversion region along a direction perpendicular to the central axis and is converted into a first color converted beam. The second excitation beam is incident to the second light conversion region along a direction parallel to the central axis and is converted into a second color converted beam.
US11782329B2
The present embodiment relates to a dual camera module comprising: a rigid first substrate having a first image sensor arranged thereon; a rigid second substrate spaced apart from the first substrate and having a second image sensor arranged thereon; a third substrate connected to the first substrate and the second substrate; and a flexible connection unit for connecting the first substrate to the second substrate, wherein the first substrate includes a first side surface, the second substrate includes a second side surface facing the first side surface, and the connection unit connects the first side surface of the first substrate to the second side surface of the second substrate.
US11782326B2
A lighting device with an annular rectangular light that connects to the camera assembly by mechanical linkages. The annular rectangular light can connect to different components of a camera. The annular rectangular light can connect to a matte box or rods of the camera in some embodiments. The mechanical linkages allow positioning of the annular rectangular light such that it surrounds the front of a lens of the camera but does not obstruct a field of view of the lens.
US11782323B2
An optical device includes a first waveguide that includes a plurality of first portions coupled with regions doped with first dopants, and a plurality of second portions coupled with regions doped with second dopants, distinct from the first dopants, the plurality of first portions being interleaved with the plurality of second portions. And the optical device includes a second waveguide located adjacent to the first waveguide for coupling light from the first waveguide to the second waveguide. The second waveguide includes a third portion coupled with a third region doped with the first dopants and a fourth portion coupled with a fourth region doped with the second dopants, wherein the first portion is located adjacent to the third portion and the second portion is located adjacent to the fourth portion.
US11782315B2
A system includes a spatial light modulator comprising a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The spatial light modulator is characterized by a first retardation and a first phase retardation and has a first slow axis for light propagation. A voltage source is configured to apply a drive voltage to the spatial light modulator and the first retardation of the spatial light modulator is a function of the drive voltage. A retarder is positioned external to the spatial light modulator and is characterized by a second retardation and a second phase retardation. The retarder includes a second slow axis for light propagation. The second retardation has a value such that all illumination wavelengths in a set of illumination wavelengths are above or below a phase retardation value of 0.25. The set of illumination wavelengths includes at least one illumination wavelength in each of at least three different color spectrums.
US11782314B2
The embodiments of the invention provide a backlight module, a display panel and a display device. The backlight module includes two sets of lamp bars arranged side by side, a first backlight driving module, a second backlight driving module, a plurality of first transfer circuit boards, a plurality of second transfer circuit boards, a plurality of first connection lines and a plurality of second connection lines. A plurality of first lamp bar units in the first set of lamp bars are coupled to the first transfer circuit board, and in turn coupled to the first backlight driving module through first connection lines. A plurality of second lamp bar units in the second set of lamp bars are coupled to the second transfer circuit board, and coupled to the second backlight driving module through second connection lines. Each first connection line is the same as the corresponding second connection line.
US11782309B2
A high dynamic range display includes a light source, a first display and a second display. The light source is configured to generate a backlight. The first display is aligned with the light source and has multiple first pixels. Each first pixel is configured to selectively pass and block the backlight. The second display is aligned with the first display and has multiple second pixels. A particular pixel is controlled to pass the backlight at a first transmit level. The particular pixel corresponds with an aligned pixel of the first pixels controlled to pass the backlight at a second transmit level and a multiple parallax pixels controlled to pass the backlight. The second transmit level is based on the first transmit level. The second transmit level offsets leakage of the backlight through the second display at the first transmit level to produce a high dynamic range final image.
US11782301B2
A curved screen and a display device are disclosed. The curved screen includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second substrates. The curved screen is bent and concave along the first substrate. The first substrate includes a substrate and a planarization layer disposed on a concave side of the substrate. A plurality of grooves are defined in the planarization layer and arranged at intervals along a direction of a bending edge of the curved screen, and extend in parallel along a direction of a non-bending edge. The depth of each groove before bending is greater than after bending.
US11782298B2
An illuminating device includes an illumination light generator configured to generate illumination pulses of coherent light, and a speckle modulator configured to modulate speckle caused by the coherent light. The illumination pulse generator repeatedly generates a single illumination pulse group including a plurality of illumination pulses as a repetitive illumination pulse group.
US11782293B2
A progressive addition lens contains a plurality of microlenses for providing simultaneous myopic defocus. The microlenses are superimposed on a power variation surface of the lens, which includes a designated distance portion in the upper section of the lens adapted for distance vision and a fitting cross; a designated near portion located in the lower section of the lens, the near portion including a near reference point having a near dioptric power adapted for near vision; and a designated intermediate corridor extending between the designated distance portion and near portions. Microlenses are excluded from all areas of the surface located below a notional line extending from nasal to temporal limits of the lens at a vertical coordinate above the near reference point where the vertical coordinate lies at a distance above the near reference point with the distance being in a range between 1.5 mm and 3 mm.
US11782292B2
An eyewear retention apparatus is configured for use with an eyeglass frame having a pair of temples, each temple having a first extremity configured to attach to a lens holder and a second extremity configured to rest behind an ear of a wearer. The eyewear retention apparatus includes a strap formed of a flexible material and having a length extending between first and second ends, wherein each of the first and second ends includes a first hole extending through the strap. The eyewear retention apparatus also includes first and second fittings, each of the first and second fittings includes an end region having an opening configured to receive a respective one of the second extremity of the pair of temples and a tab having a second hole. The eyewear retention apparatus further includes a fastener extending through the first hole and the second hole.
US11782283B2
A laser system includes a laser source generating a laser beam having ultra-short pulses; a laser delivery assembly optically receiving the laser beam and comprising: a beam splitter configured to split the laser beam between a first beam delivery path and a second beam delivery path; and at least one focusing lens optically coupled to the beam splitter and configured to focus the laser beam from each of the first beam delivery path and the second beam delivery path to a focal point on a predefined plane; wherein the first beam delivery path intersects the predefined plane at a first angle, the second beam delivery path intersects the predefined plane at a second angle, and a first pulse from the first beam delivery path and a second pulse from the second beam delivery path are coincident at the focal point.
US11782280B2
Provided is a glass type electronic device including a binocular lens, a lens frame fixed to the binocular lens and seated on a head of the wearer, an electronic component case fixed to the lens frame, and an optical driving assembly mounted in the electronic component case and emitting light to the binocular lens. The optical driving lens can include an image source panel for generating light corresponding to a content image, an emitting lens group provided to expose an exit surface to an outside of the electronic component case and for adjusting an exit angle and a focal length of the light, and a reflective mirror provided to expose a reflection surface to an outside of the electronic component case and for reflecting the light, emitted from the emitting lens group, to the binocular lens.
US11782271B2
Computer-implemented methods of operating an augmented reality device can involve capturing camera images, processing the camera images, and displaying virtual display images. The camera images can be captured automatically using a camera disposed within an augmented reality device worn by a user. The camera images can be processed automatically using a processor located within the augmented reality device. The virtual display images can be displayed automatically to the user within the augmented reality device while the user is looking through the augmented reality device and simultaneously viewing real objects through the augmented reality device. The virtual display images can be based on the processed camera images. Additional steps can include accepting a first user input, storing camera image(s) on a memory located within the augmented reality device based on the first input, accepting a second user input, and displaying stored image(s) to the user based on the second input.
US11782266B2
A method of dispersion compensation in an optical device is disclosed. The method may include identifying a first hologram grating vector of a grating medium of the optical device. The first hologram grating vector may correspond to a first wavelength of light. The method may include determining a probe hologram grating vector corresponding to a second wavelength of light different from the first wavelength of light. The method may also include determining a dispersion-compensated second hologram grating vector based at least in part on the probe hologram grating vector and the first hologram grating vector. A device for reflecting light is disclosed. The device may include a grating medium and a grating structure within the grating medium. The grating medium may include a dispersion compensated hologram.
US11782256B2
An endoscope imager includes a system-in-package and a specularly reflective surface. The system-in-package includes (a) a camera module having an imaging lens with an optical axis and (b) an illumination unit. The system-in-package includes (a) a camera module having an imaging lens with an optical axis and (b) an illumination unit configured to emit illumination propagating in a direction away from the imaging lens, the direction having a component parallel to the optical axis. The specularly reflective surface faces the imaging lens and forming an oblique angle with the optical axis, to deflect the illumination toward a scene and deflect light from the scene toward the camera module.
US11782255B2
The invention relates to a visualization device (1), in particular a virtual reality (VR) headset or head mounted display (HMD) for transferring images of a microscopy device (100), comprising: a supporting device (2) for arranging the visualization device (1) on the head of a user, at least one mounting device (3) for mounting at least one optical display device (4) about a point of rotation on the supporting device (2), wherein there is at least one drive device (5) via which the at least one optical display device (4) on the at least one mounting device (3) is movable between an operating position (B) and a rest position (R), such that the at least one optical display device (4) can be fixed, in the operating position (B), in the field of view of the user and, in the rest position (R), outside of the field of view of the user, wherein the drive device (5) is attached in a region outside of the point of rotation of the mounting device (3) on the at least one display device (4).
US11782249B2
An optical system, a camera module, and an electronic device are provided. The optical system includes a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, and a third lens group having a positive refractive power which are sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side along an optical axis of the optical system. The first lens group includes a first lens. The second lens group includes a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens. The third lens group includes a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, and an eighth lens. A distance between any two groups of the first lens group, the second lens group, and the third lens group is adjustable such that the optical system is operable to be at a telephoto end, an intermediate, and a wide-angle end.
US11782248B2
An image capturing lens assembly includes seven lens elements, which are, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. The fifth lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The sixth lens element has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The seventh lens element has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, and the image-side surface thereof includes at least one convex shape in an off-axis region thereof.
US11782234B2
A lens moving apparatus, including a bobbin; a first coil mounted at an outer circumference of the bobbin; a first magnet moving the bobbin in a first direction parallel to an optical axis by interaction with the first coil; a housing supporting the first magnet; an upper elastic member disposed at a top surface of the bobbin and at a top surface of the housing; a lower elastic member disposed at a bottom surface of the bobbin and at a bottom surface of the housing; and first and second winding protrusions disposed with being opposite to each other, the first coil being wound on the first and second winding protrusions.
US11782232B2
A camera module according to an embodiment includes an image sensor configured to output a plurality of image frames; a lens assembly disposed on the image sensor, the lens assembly forming an optical path of light incident on the image sensor from outside; a controller configured to generate a control signal to adjust at least one of the optical path of the lens assembly or the position of the image sensor relative to the lens assembly; and an image synthesizer configured to synthesize the plurality of image frames to generate a composite image, wherein the composite image has a higher resolution than the plurality of image frames, and wherein the plurality of image frames are respective image frames generated along respectively different optical paths changed by the lens assembly or respective image frames generated by change in the position of the image sensor relative to the lens assembly.
US11782230B2
A fiber optic cassette may include a cassette body defining a front end, a rear end, and an enclosed interior. Multiple identical apertures are included on the front end of the cassette body, where each aperture is configured to accept a fiber optic adapter. The cassette may further include an optical component located in an enclosed interior of the cassette body and configured to process a signal received from a fiber optic connector coupled to one of the fiber optic adapters, a crimp tube mounted to the front end of the cassette body, and at least one fiber optic cable attached to the crimp tube, extending from the cassette and configured to carry the signal processed by the optical component. The fiber optic cable may include a jacket, a strength member crimped to the crimp tube, and optical fibers extending past the crimp tube into the interior of the cassette body, wherein the mounting structure for mounting the crimp tube to the cassette body is receivable within one of the identical apertures.
US11782222B2
An optical fiber connecting component includes a glass plate having a plurality of first through holes, a resin ferrule fixed to the glass plate and having a plurality of second through holes that are each coaxial with corresponding one of the plurality of first through holes, and a plurality of optical fibers including a glass fiber and a resin coating that covers the glass fiber. The glass fiber exposed from a tip of each of the optical fibers is held in corresponding one of the first through holes and corresponding one of the second through holes, and a material for the resin ferrule has a flexural modulus of 5 GPa or more at 200° C.
US11782219B2
The optical switch 10 comprises a first waveguide 11, a second waveguide 12, and an exchanger 13. The first waveguide 11 comprises a first end E1 and a second end E2. The second waveguide 12 comprises a third end E3 and a fourth end E4, respectively located on the first end E1 side and the second end E2 side as viewed from the center of the first waveguide 11. The exchanger 13 comprises: a first waveguide section 21 configuring a directional coupler together with the first waveguide 11 and including a phase changing material 23; and a second waveguide section 22 configuring a directional coupler together with the second waveguide 12 and including a phase change material 24. The exchanger 13 inputs electromagnetic waves, input from the first end E1 and output from the first waveguide section 21, to the third end E3 side of the second waveguide section 22. The exchanger 13 inputs electromagnetic waves, input from the third end E3 and output from the second waveguide section 22, to the second end E2 side of the first waveguide section 21.
US11782211B2
Process flow with pre-biased mask and wet etching for smooth sidewalls in silicon nitride waveguides
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to process flow to fabricate a waveguide structure with a silicon nitride core having atomic-level smooth sidewalls achieved by wet etching instead of the conventional dry etching process. A mask is pre-biased to account for lateral etching during the wet-etching steps.
US11782196B2
Provided are a cholesteric liquid crystal layer that diffracts specific circularly polarized light in a specific wavelength range by transmission, and a method of forming the cholesteric liquid crystal layer. The cholesteric liquid crystal layer is obtained by immobilizing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase, in which the cholesteric liquid crystal layer has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which a direction of an optical axis derived from a liquid crystal compound changes while continuously rotating in at least one in-plane direction, in a cross-section of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer observed with a scanning electron microscope, bright portions and dark portions derived from the cholesteric liquid crystalline phase are tilted at 80° or more with respect to a main surface of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer.
US11782193B1
A liquid lens structure has an adjustable and continuous range of optical power. The liquid lens structure comprises a substrate layer and a deformable membrane which enclose a volume of liquid. The substrate layer is at least partially transparent in the optical band. The deformable membrane comprises a ground layer, two membrane layers, and two conductive layers. Each of the two conductive layers control electrical voltage applied to one of the membrane layers in reference to the ground layer, wherein each membrane layer deforms in response to applied electrical voltage. The deformation of the two membrane layers adjusts a curvature of the deformable membrane which provides the adjustable continuous range of optical power to the liquid lens structure.
US11782190B2
A lenticular display may be formed with convex curvature. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film with lenticular lenses that extend across the length of the display. The lenticular lenses may be configured to enable stereoscopic viewing of the display. To enable more curvature in the display while ensuring satisfactory stereoscopic display performance, the display may have stereoscopic zones and non-stereoscopic zones. A central stereoscopic zone may be interposed between first and second non-stereoscopic zones. The non-stereoscopic zones may have more curvature than the stereoscopic zone. To prevent crosstalk within the lenticular display, a louver film may be incorporated into the display. The louver film may have a plurality of transparent portions separated by opaque walls. The opaque walls may control the emission angle of light from the display, reducing crosstalk. The louver film may be interposed between the lenticular lens film and the display panel.
US11782188B2
The invention discloses a microwave rain attenuation law based artificial rainfall experimental method with an adjustable link length, including the following steps of: 1) designing and calculating rainfall intensities in different return periods to form an experimental rainfall process, and simulating artificial rainfall by using an artificial rainfall hall; 2) building a corner reflector to dynamically adjust the microwave link length; 3) installing an experimental microwave device, and selecting a microwave link with a specific microwave frequency band as an experimental link; 4) using a self-recording rain gauge to obtain measured data on the experimental link under different rainfall intensities; and 5) according to the measured data, obtaining a whole process of the experimental rainfall intensity change, and analyzing and calculating the microwave rain attenuation law.
US11782185B1
A ballastless track roadbed damage forewarning method considering uncertainty includes the following steps. Step 1: counting roadbed material parameters and precipitation; Step 2: establishing a FLAC-PFC model of a ballastless track roadbed and calibrating mesoscopic parameters of a roadbed surface layer; Step 3: generating a lognormal random field of particle contact friction coefficients and assigning it to particle contact nodes of the roadbed surface layer; Step 4: perform sampling on the precipitation and adjusting a fluid domain of the roadbed surface layer; Step 5: determining a worst spatial correlation distance in the random field; and Step 6: calculating a damage probability pf of the roadbed surface layer under the worst spatial correlation distance; outputting alarm information when pf exceeds an alarm threshold, otherwise, quitting. The method monitors and gives early warning of damage to the roadbed surface layer under dynamic loads, ensuring driving safety.
US11782178B2
The present invention concerns a system for marine seismographic data acquisition, in particular for use in survey design. The invention provides a method for marine seismographic acquisition whereby subsea data and information can be collected using sea floor receivers and suspended receivers simultaneously. This is achieved by aligning the geometries of the two acquisition techniques and utilizing a system of wide-towed seismic sources that produce seismic energy on all the source point locations required to fulfil both acquisition methods.
US11782177B2
System and methods for automated seismic processing are provided. Historical seismic project data associated with one or more historical seismic projects is obtained from a data store. The historical seismic project data is transformed into seismic workflow model data. At least one seismic workflow model is generated using the seismic workflow model data. Responsive to receiving seismic data for a new seismic project, an optimized workflow for processing the received seismic data is determined based on the at least one generated seismic workflow model. Geophysical parameters for processing the seismic data with the optimized workflow are selected. The seismic data for the new seismic project is processed using the optimized workflow and the selected geophysical parameters.
US11782176B2
A method and apparatus for diagnosing and/or calibrating underperforming pixels in detectors in a small pixelated photon counting CT system utilizes a series of tests on image data acquired in-situ as part of a series of calibration scans in the CT system. Tests are performed on the acquired data to determine the existence of underperforming pixels within the detectors such that the information acquired by those pixels can be replaced by alternate data from surrounding pixels (e.g. by interpolation). The underperforming pixels are stored in “bad” pixel tables and may be specific to a type of image (e.g., spectral or counting) and a specific protocol.
US11782169B2
A method of compensating a position of an object by using a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) processor is provided. The method includes generating a compensated position associated with a target satellite at a compensation target time based on a pseudo range between the object and the target satellite at the compensation target time, generating a displacement vector of the object based on the compensated position at the compensation target time and a previous position of the object at a previous time that is prior to the compensation target time, determining a weight for the compensated position associated with the target satellite based on a velocity vector at the compensation target time and the displacement vector, and compensating a predicted position of the object according to the weight and the compensated position.
US11782160B2
An autonomous system for generating and interpreting point clouds of a rail corridor along a survey path while moving on a railroad corridor assessment platform. The system includes two LiDAR sensors configured to scan along scan planes that intersect but not at all points. The LiDAR sensors are housed in autonomously controlled and temperature controlled protective enclosures.
US11782159B2
The LIDAR system is encodes a system output signal with a binary code. Additionally, the LIDAR system identifies an amount of time between the binary code being transmitted from the LIDAR system and returning to the LIDAR system after being reflected by an object located outside of the LIDAR system.
US11782156B2
This invention provides an integrated time-of-flight sensor that delivers distance information to a processor associated with the camera assembly and vison system. The distance is processed with the above-described feedback control, to auto-focus the camera assembly's variable lens during runtime operation based on the particular size/shape object(s) within the field of view. The shortest measured distance is used to set the focus distance of the lens. To correct for calibration or drift errors, a further image-based focus optimization can occur around the measured distance and/or based on the measured temperature. The distance information generated by the time-of-flight sensor can be employed to perform other functions. Other functions include self-triggering of image acquisition, object size dimensioning, detection and analysis of object defects and/or gap detection between objects in the field of view and software-controlled range detection to prevent unintentional reading of (e.g.) IDs on objects outside a defined range (presentation mode).
US11782155B2
A distance measurement device includes a light emitting unit; a light receiving unit; a distance calculation unit that calculates a distance to an object; and a controller that controls the light emitting unit and the light receiving unit to determine whether or not there is interference from another distance measurement device, from a distance calculation result from the distance calculation unit. The controller includes a light emission and exposure period-setting unit that sets a light emission and exposure period of the light emitting unit and the light receiving unit, a distance variation measurement unit that measures a variation of distance values repeatedly obtained in a predetermined duration by the distance calculation unit, and an interference determination unit that compares a distance variation value to a threshold value which is determined in advance, to determine whether or not there is interference.
US11782147B2
An object detection apparatus in a vehicle is provided. The object detection apparatus includes one or more sensors configured to detect at least one object located on at least three rows of seats in the vehicle, the one or more sensors being positioned on a ceiling of the vehicle. The object detection apparatus further includes a circuit configured to determine whether or not the at least one object detected is a living-object. A number of the one or more sensors is less than a number of the at least three rows of seats.
US11782144B2
This application provides an optical device, including an emitting assembly configured to emit an outgoing light signal, a beam splitting assembly configured to pass the outgoing light signal from the emitting assembly to a detection region, receive a reflected light signal from the detection region, and modify a transmission direction of the reflected light signal, a receiving assembly configured to receive the reflected light signal from the beam splitting assembly after the direction modification and generate an electrical signal in response to the reflected light signal. Also disclosed is a method of adjusting an optical device as described herein.
US11782140B2
Provided are methods for Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM)-based sensor for low-level fusion, which can include mitigating a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensor processing path to provide high-confidence, low-level fusion between the camera (passive) and LiDAR (active) imaging. Systems and computer program products are also provided.
US11782136B2
Embodiments discussed herein refer to LiDAR systems to focus on one or more regions of interests within a field of view.
US11782133B2
A light detection and ranging system arranged to scan a scene comprises a light source arranged to output light having a first characteristic. A spatial light modulator is arranged to receive the light from the light source and output spatially-modulated light in accordance with computer-generated holograms represented thereon. A holographic controller is arranged to output a plurality of holograms to the spatial light modulator. Each hologram is arranged to form a corresponding light footprint within the scene. The holographic controller is further arranged to change the position of the light footprint within the scene. A light detector is arranged to receive light having the first characteristic from the scene and output a light response signal. In embodiments, a first plurality of holograms are arranged to provide a first scan within the scene, and the holographic controller is arranged to receive the light response signal in response to the first scan and determine a second plurality of holograms based on a property of the light response signal.
US11782131B2
The present disclosure describes a system and method for coaxial LiDAR scanning. The system includes a first light source configured to provide first light pulses. The system also includes one or more beam steering apparatuses optically coupled to the first light source. Each beam steering apparatus comprises a rotatable concave reflector and a light beam steering device disposed at least partially within the rotatable concave reflector. The combination of the light beam steering device and the rotatable concave reflector, when moving with respect to each other, steers the one or more first light pulses both vertically and horizontally to illuminate an object within a field-of-view; obtain one or more first returning light pulses, the one or more first returning light pulses being generated based on the steered first light pulses illuminating an object within the field-of-view, and redirects the one or more first returning light pulses.
US11782129B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems are provided for detecting overhead obstructions along a path segment. One exemplary method includes receiving three-dimensional data collected by a depth sensing device traveling along a path segment, wherein the three-dimensional data comprises point cloud data positioned above a ground plane of the path segment. The method further includes identifying data points of the point cloud data positioned within a corridor positioned above the ground plane. The method further includes projecting the identified data points onto a plane. The method further includes detecting the overhead obstruction based on a concentration of point cloud data positioned within a plurality of cells of the plane. The method further includes storing the detected overhead obstruction above the path segment within a map database.
US11782125B2
The present invention relates to the field of vehicle correction, and provides a calibration system and a calibration bracket thereof. The calibration bracket includes: a base, a stand assembly and a beam assembly. The stand assembly is fixedly connected to the base. The beam assembly includes a first beam portion, a second beam portion and a connecting portion, the connecting portion being mounted to the stand assembly, one end of the connecting portion being hinged to the first beam portion, and the other end of the connecting portion being hinged to the second beam portion. The first beam portion and the second beam portion can respectively rotate toward each other relative to the connecting portion, so that the beam assembly can be folded. The first beam portion and the second beam portion can also respectively rotate away from each other relative to the connecting portion, so that the beam assembly can be unfolded. In the foregoing structure, the first beam portion and the second beam portion can respectively rotate toward each other relative to the connecting portion, so that the beam assembly is folded, thereby reducing a volume of the calibration bracket to facilitate shipment.
US11782122B2
A detection device includes at least one detection module communicatively coupled with a communication device. The detection module includes a controller circuit communicatively coupled with a first antenna. The first antenna receives first electromagnetic signals from a first plurality of antennae located within an interior of a first vehicle. The first antenna receives second electromagnetic signals from a second plurality of antennae located and within an interior of a second vehicle. The controller circuit determines a position of the communication device within the interior of the first vehicle relative to locations of the first plurality of antennae based on the first electromagnetic signals received by the first antenna. The controller circuit determines a position of the communication device within the interior of the second vehicle relative to locations of the second plurality of antennae based on the second electromagnetic signals received by the first antenna.
US11782121B2
A wireless communications device (100) includes a wireless interface (122) for conducting wireless communications with one or more network nodes (110) of a wireless communications network (102). The wireless communications device (100) further includes a control circuit (118) configured to receive a plurality of reference signals transmitted by the one or more network nodes (110), measure the plurality of reference signals to generate a plurality of positioning measurements, associate the plurality of positioning measurements with beam information, and select a set of positioning measurements with associated beam information for determining a positioning estimate of the wireless communications device (100).
US11782119B2
Procedures are disclosed to enable a wireless device to determine its alignment direction toward a base station or another device in 5G or 6G, using a “phased beam-alignment pulse”, which is a transmitted pulse having phase modulation that varies with angle. For example, the pulse may be transmitted spanning 360 degrees of angle, and may be phase modulated varying from 0 to 360 degrees of phase in the same angular range. A user device can receive the phased beam-alignment pulse and immediately determine, from the phase, the alignment angle toward the transmitter. In another embodiment, the transmitter transmits a uniform, non-directional pulse, and the receiver receives it using an antenna configured to impose an angle-dependent phase shift, thereby indicating the alignment direction. With either method, wireless entities can align their beams rapidly and efficiently, using just one or two resource elements, without complex encoding or time-consuming handshaking.
US11782095B2
An embodiment processing system comprises terminals configured to be connected to cells of a rechargeable battery to receive cell voltages, a digital processing circuit, a serial communication interface and a transmission queue interfacing the digital processing circuit with the serial communication interface for parallel operation. The digital processing circuit synchronously acquires a given number of digital samples of each of the cell voltages and stores them to a memory. The digital processing circuit encodes the digital samples stored to the memory via a data compression module, and stores the encoded data to the transmission queue. For example, the data compression module may generate the encoded data by subtracting a given offset from each digital sample to generate values indicative of the dynamic variation of each sample with respect to the offset, and removing a given number of most significant bits from each value.
US11782092B1
A method for testing a chip comprising: receiving N scan-in chains of test data; using the N scan-in chains of test data to perform tests on the chip; receiving a merged expected test-result and masking-instruction signal on X pins of the chip from the off-chip test equipment, X being less than 2*N; decoding the merged expected test-result and masking-instruction signal to extract N decoded output signals, each of the N decoded output signals corresponding to a respective chain of test results.
US11782089B2
IHSs (Information Handling Systems) may include connectors, such as an XDP connector, that support couplings by diagnostic tools that utilize a debugging interface that is supported by the IHS, such as JTAG interface. These connectors provide a useful debugging mechanism but may be exploited to access protected information and to install malicious software. Detecting when these debugging capabilities have been compromised is very difficult. In embodiments, a remote access controller of the IHS disables the JTAG interface prior to initialization of the IHS processor by maintaining the interface in reset state. The remote access controller does not include instructions necessary for releasing the JTAG interface from this reset state until its firmware has been updated. If the remote access controller detects debugging activity while the JTAG interface is still in a reset state, the remote access controller signals an attempt to conduct an unauthorized debug session.
US11782085B2
A test method for a semiconductor device includes determining a contact failure between a first semiconductor chip and a second semiconductor chip during assembly of a semiconductor package including the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip, using a test circuit embedded in the first semiconductor chip, and after the assembly of the semiconductor package, determining whether the semiconductor package is defective by using the test circuit.
US11782083B2
A relay pogo contact first charged device model test head apparatus for relay-based contact first field induced charged device model testing has a ground plane of conductive material, a coaxial connector whose outer conductor electrically connects to the ground plane, a current-sensing element with one terminal electrically connects to the ground plane and the other terminal electrically connects to the center conductor of the coaxial connector, a switch where the first terminal electrically connects to a center conductor of the coaxial connector, and a probe with one end electrically connected to a second terminal of the switch and the other end exposed to contact external objects.
US11782082B2
An over-the-air (OTA) measurement system for testing a device under test, with a plurality of feed antennas, a test location for the device under test, and a reflector array with a main reflector and a sub-reflector. The plurality of feed antennas face the sub-reflector. The reflector array is located such that a signal path is established between the plurality of feed antennas and the test location via the sub-reflector and the main reflector. The sub-reflector has at least one focal point. The plurality of feed antennas include a first feed antenna and at least one second feed antenna. The first feed antenna is associated with the focal point of the sub-reflector. The at least one second feed antenna is located offset from the focal point of the sub-reflector. Further, a method of testing a device under test over-the-air is described.
US11782075B2
A probe card for a testing apparatus of electronic devices comprises a probe head housing a plurality of contact probes, each contact probe having at least one contact tip adapted to abut onto contact pads of a device under test, as well as a main support and an intermediate support connected to the main support and adapted to realize a spatial transformation of distances between contact pads on its opposite faces as a space transformer, the probe card suitably also comprising at least one connecting element adapted to link the space transformer and the main support, this connecting element having a substantially rod-like body and being equipped with a first end portion comprising at least one terminal section adapted to be engaged in a corresponding housing realized in the space transformer and with a second terminal portion adapted to abut onto an abutment element linked to the main support.
US11782074B2
A probe unit includes: first contact probes each coming into contact with a target electrode on one end side in a longitudinal direction; a second contact probe connected to an external ground; a signal pipe disposed around each first contact probes; a ground member provided around each signal pipe and configured to form an air layer with the signal pipe; a probe holder including a plate-shaped first and second members; a first wiring part provided at least on a front surface of the first member and electrically connected to the second contact probe; a second wiring part provided at least on a front surface of the second member and electrically connected to the second contact probe; a first conductive unit configured to electrically connect the first wiring part and the ground member; and a second conductive unit configured to electrically connect the second wiring part and the ground member.
US11782071B2
An optical-fiber-acceleration-sensor probe is provided, which includes a probe shell having a threaded hole at a bottom thereof and an optical-fiber entry and exit hole on a side thereof; a double-end stud in the probe shell, an end of the double-end stud being connected to the threaded hole; a high damping elastomer sleeved on the double-end stud; a mass block sleeved on the double-end stud and located on the high damping elastomer; an optical fiber interferometer located in the mass block and including a sensing arm and a reference arm, where the sensing arm is wound around the high damping elastomer, and the reference arm is wound around the mass block; high damping vibration absorbers on the mass block; and a nut located at another end of the double-end stud, and on the high damping vibration absorbers, where a washer is between the nut and the high damping vibration absorbers.
US11782065B2
Biomarkers tests which can be used to predict a positive or negative risk of preeclampsia are described. More specifically, a panel of biomarkers including MMP-7 and gpIIbIIIa, described. The test is useful to predict preeclampsia when a biological sample is obtained between the 16th and 22nd week of pregnancy. Prediction later in pregnancy can be achieved by a combination of Siglec-6, Activin A, ALCAM, and/or FCN2.
US11782064B2
The invention, in some aspects, relates to the preparation and use of signaling reporter islands (SiRIs) in single cells. Compositions of the invention that produce SiRIs can be delivered to a cell resulting in the presence of one or more SiRIs in the cell. Methods of the invention include detecting signals generated by elements in the SiRIs in a cell and use of the detected signals to determine and analyze simultaneous physiological processes within the cell, or cells.
US11782062B2
Kits and methods of using the kits for analyzing macromolecules, including peptides, polypeptides, and proteins, employing nucleic acid encoding are disclosed. The sample analysis kits employ nucleic acid encoding and/or nucleic acid recording of a molecular interaction and/or reaction, such as recognition events (e.g., between an antigen and an antibody, between a modified terminal amino acid residue, or between a small molecule or peptide therapeutic and a target, etc.). Additional barcoding reagents, such as those for cycle-specific barcoding (e.g., “clocking”), compartment barcoding, combinatorial barcoding, spatial barcoding, or any combination thereof, may be included in the kits. The sample may comprise macromolecules, including peptides, polypeptides, and proteins, and the recording may generate molecular interaction and/or reaction information, and/or polypeptide sequence information. The kits may be used in high-throughput, multiplexed, and/or automated analysis, and are suitable for analysis of a proteome or subset thereof.
US11782050B2
The present disclosure relates to, inter alia, cell-based assays, recombinant cell lines, and methods for quantifying the potency and efficacy of cannabinoids and/or terpenoids.
US11782045B2
A method for assessing the mass concentration of uranium in a sample of uranium-bearing material by gamma spectrometry, includes a) acquiring (200) an energy spectrum of gamma radiation from the sample using a scintillator detector, the energy spectrum (100) comprising at least a first energy band (110) between 87 keV and 110 keV, and a second energy band (120) between 560 keV and 660 keV, the second energy band comprising at least one energy line (130) at 609 keV from 214Bi, b) calculating (210) an initial mass concentration of uranium (CmU0) using the energy spectrum, c) measuring (220) a parameter representative of the height of the sample and a parameter representative of the density of the sample, d) calculating (230) a corrective coefficient (K), and e) calculating (240) a corrected mass concentration of uranium (CmU) using the initial mass concentration of uranium (CmU0) and the corrective coefficient (K).
US11782044B2
A water quality sampler includes a membrane receptacle and at least 7 sample membranes. The membrane receptacle comprises at least 7 membrane cavities disposed on a top surface of the membrane receptacle. Each membrane cavity is configured to hold a sample membrane and the sample membranes are each removably positioned within the membrane cavities and extend at least 1 cm out from the top surface of the membrane receptacle. A bottom of the membrane receptacle comprises a protruding lip that traces a bottom edge of the membrane receptacle in a downward direction, where the protruding lip encompasses a stacking chamber capable of receiving a top end of a second water quality sampler to allow stacking of multiple water quality samplers.
US11782038B2
A system for the maritime shipping industry to aid enforcement of the Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) exhaust emissions regulations which uses neural networks and a novel sampling process to detect and record compliant operation of a ship regarding the fuel switching aspect of the regulation. The processing load of neural network training can be distributed over multiple identical self-contained, self-powered, self-communicating sensor units on each of the monitored ships.
US11782034B2
A fraction collector control device includes a peak designation part that displays a chromatogram for setting and requires a user to select at least one peak in the chromatogram for setting, a parameter extraction part that extracts, as a parameter, a signal level and/or a slope at a start point and an end point of each peak designated by a user, and a threshold candidate generation part that generates, based on the parameter extracted by the parameter extraction part, a threshold candidate usable as a common threshold for detecting start points of all peaks designated by a user and a common threshold for detecting end points of all peaks designated by a user.
US11782029B2
A device and a system monitor wear of wearable components mounted in a mining equipment. An elongated bolt maintains a wearable component in place on a face of the equipment. A threaded section of the bolt terminates at a proximal end protruding externally through a hole of the equipment. A shank of the bolt terminates at a distal end opposite from the proximal end. The shank extends along a thickness of the wearable component and wears as the wearable component wears when the equipment is in operation. A transducer coupled to the proximal end of the bolt generates a sound wave within the bolt, detects an echo of the sound wave reflected by the distal end of the bolt, and reports to a controller a time delay between the sound wave and the echo. The controller evaluates a wear of the wearable component based on the time delay.
US11782013B2
A sensor device is for detecting metal. The sensor device may have a substrate, an electrode on the substrate, and a biopolymer-metal composite film on the electrode. The biopolymer-metal composite film may include a metal and a biopolymer. The sensor device may further have circuitry coupled to the electrode and configured to apply a sensing signal to the electrode.
US11782010B2
The present invention relates to an electrode for a biosensor for NADH measurement and a manufacturing method therefor. An electrode manufactured by the method according to the present invention enjoys the advantages of stabilizing current flow during an electric polymerization reaction, making the contact angle of the modified material remarkably small to increase the efficiency of surface modification, and being reusable several times. In addition, when applied to a biosensor for NADH measurement, the electrode of the present invention maintains sensitivity and selectivity at a high level without interference and thus easily measures a target of interest even in blood or serum that necessarily requires a pretreatment process due to the existence of a trace amount of a material to be measured. In addition, when applied to a biosensor for NADH measurement, the electrode can measure cell viability in a continuous manner and in real time, which leads to the application thereof to the cell toxicity assay field, and enables the measurement of cell viability in apoptotic cells lacking the mitochondrial function.
US11782005B2
A volatile alkene sensing device includes a gas pathway having a desiccant area located upstream of a sensor, wherein the sensor is disposed in a housing. The sensor includes a conductive region in electrical communication with two electrodes. The conductive region includes nanosized particles of a metal dichalcogenide, a mercaptoimidazolyl metal-ligand complex, and single-walled carbon nanotubes or metallic nanowires.
US11781997B2
A method of qualifying physical components using computed tomography (CT) includes obtaining qualified CT data from a CT scanner for at least one qualified physical component. Qualification data is generated based on the qualified CT data, where the qualification data defines a qualification envelope. Candidate CT data is obtained from the CT scanner for a candidate physical component. Comparison data is then generated based on the candidate CT data and the qualification data, where the comparison data indicates whether the candidate CT data is within the qualification envelope defined by the qualification data. An acceptance signal is generated if the comparison data meets acceptance criteria.
US11781992B2
Disclosed is a test strip for detecting microalbumin in urine, and more particularly a test strip for detecting microalbumin in urine that contains a synthetic albumin indicator, a buffer solution, a surfactant and a polymer (sensitizer) and thus exhibits high sensitivity. The albumin detection test strip has accuracy sufficient to enable clear observation of color change from colorless to blue through the albumin indicator, and improves the detection limit (increases sensitivity) to thereby enable detection of microalbuminuria at a concentration of 20 mg/L or less. The albumin test detection strip contains a surfactant and a polymer in addition to a synthetic albumin indicator, thereby incorporating separate first and second processes into a single process and having effects of reducing costs, improving processing convenience, and increasing solubility and miscibility.
US11781989B2
A method of analysing a sample in the form of a droplet provided on a sample-receiving surface includes providing a light source and a detector in a housing, positioning said sample-receiving surface in or on the housing, and focussing an incident beam of light to a focal point in the vicinity of the sample. Light is detected from the sample resulting from an interaction with the sample, the sample-receiving surface, or the atmosphere surrounding the sample. At least one parameter of the detected light is measured, and the sample-receiving surface is translated relative to the housing such that the focal point is at a different region of the sample, the sample-receiving surface, or the atmosphere surrounding the sample. The step of measuring one or more parameters of the detected light is repeated following the translating step.
US11781983B2
A method, system and storage medium for providing an alarm for indicating that an abnormality is present in a sample analyzer are provided. The method includes: mixing a first aliquot of a blood sample with a diluent agent to prepare a first test sample; mixing a second aliquot of the blood sample with a lytic reagent to prepare a second test sample; detecting electrical impedance signals of the first test sample; detecting at least two types of optical signals of the second test sample; acquiring first platelet detection data based on the electrical impedance signals; acquiring second platelet detection data based on the at least two types of optical signals; acquiring an evaluation result based on a difference between the first platelet detection data and the second platelet detection data; determining whether the evaluation result meets a preset condition to provide an alarm.
US11781978B2
A spectroscopic measurement apparatus includes a pulsed laser light source that emits pulsed laser light, a beam splitter that splits the pulsed laser light into pump light and probe light, a delay circuit that changes a delay time of the pump light with respect to the probe light, a chopper that intensity-modulates the pump light, a wavelength converter that wavelength-converts the probe light into vacuum ultraviolet light, an optical system that guides the pump light and the wavelength-converted probe light to a sample, and a detector that detects the probe light reflected by the sample.
US11781976B2
A method for monitoring air quality is described. The method includes measuring ethane and methane using a mobile sensor platform to provide sensor data. The sensor data includes methane data and ethane data captured at a nonzero mobile sensor platform speed. Methane and ethane peak(s) are identified in the sensor data. Correlation(s) between the methane and ethane peak(s) and/or between the methane peak(s) and at least one amount of 13C are determined. A source for the methane is determined based on the correlation.
US11781975B1
A remote sensor system comprising a laser transmitter that emits a pulse of broadband laser illumination comprising a plurality of wavelengths and a receiver configured to detect laser illumination backscatter. The sensor system further includes a computing system configured to determine a plurality of species number densities along a travel path of the laser illumination. Determining the plurality of species number densities includes determining a first number density of a first species based on a first set of optical transmission values from the backscatter data for a first subset of wavelengths of the plurality of wavelengths and a first attenuation cross-section of the first species. Additional species are determined based on additional sets of optical transmission values from the backscatter data for additional subsets of wavelengths of the plurality of wavelengths and additional cross-sections of additional species.
US11781973B2
A calibration method for calibrating a camera for detecting an analyte in a sample is disclosed. A plurality of different color coordinate systems and a set of test samples are provided. The test samples are applied to test elements that have test fields for producing an optically detectable reaction. Images of the colored test fields are acquired using the camera and color coordinates for the images are generated. The color coordinates that are generated are transformed into a set of measured concentrations by using a set of coding functions. The set of measured concentrations is compared with the known concentrations of the test samples and a best match color coordinate system of the plurality of color coordinate systems is determined. A best match coding function of the plurality of coding functions is also determined.
US11781962B2
Disclosed is a characterization method of closed pores and connectivity of coal measure composite reservoirs, including collecting samples of coal seams and shales reservoirs, carrying out low-field NMR experiments and NMR freeze-thaw experiments on plunger samples and crushed samples with different particle sizes to obtain cumulative pore volume distribution and differential pore size distribution of the crushed samples, comparing crushed samples with plunger samples for optimal crushed particle sizes, and preliminarily determining a distribution range of closed pores; carrying out SAXS experiments on crushed samples to obtain size distribution and volume of total pores of 1-100 nanometers; calculating pore volume of total pores and closed pore volume in composite reservoirs by low-field NMR experiments results; carrying out non-steady overburden permeability experiments and variable factors on plunger samples of coal seams, shales and tight sandstone to characterize the connectivity under influence of pores development and lithologic combinations.
US11781953B2
A solid phase microextraction device is disclosed, including a substrate having at least one planar surface, a sorbent layer disposed on at least a portion of the at least one planar surface, a tapering tip extending from the substrate, a receptacle mount configured for removable attachment to an emplacement of a receiving device, and a clocking feature configured for fixing a radial orientation of the at least one planar surface with respect to the receiving device. A solid phase microextraction device repository is disclosed including a wall surrounding a chamber, a plurality of orifices disposed in the wall configured to receive and retain the device, and a plurality of clocking feature interfaces disposed in the wall. A solid phase microextraction device manipulator is disclosed, including a manipulator shaft, an emplacement configured to removably engage a receptacle mount, an electrically conductive contact disposed at the emplacement, an ejector, and a clocking feature interface.
US11781946B2
Systems, devices, and methods for testing medical devices comprising: a test device configured for testing a medical device; and a user computing device in communication with the test device, where the user computing device comprises a processor having addressable memory, where the processor is configured to: receive an ID of the medical device to be tested; select a profile associated with the received ID of the medical device; select a preset associated with the selected profile; initiate testing of the medical device by the test device; receive one or more parameter values from based on test information results from the test device; determine a test result based on pass criteria from a comparison of the received one or more parameter values to the one or more simulation parameter values of the preset.
US11781939B2
An electrified vehicle powered by a traction battery includes a coolant loop arranged to convey coolant through at least a radiator, a chiller, and the traction battery to transfer heat from the battery. The vehicle also includes a refrigerant loop in fluid communication with the chiller to selectively circulate refrigerant through the chiller to provide supplemental heat transfer from coolant conveyed through the chiller. The vehicle further includes a vision system having at least one camera with a field of view including a vicinity of the radiator and a controller programmed to detect a radiator coolant leak based on image data output from the vision system. The controller is also programmed to cause a bypass of the radiator within the coolant loop to stop conveyance of coolant through the radiator in response to detecting a coolant leak.
US11781931B2
A method for loading an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with one or more items is disclosed. The method includes positioning one or more items in specific positions within one of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and a container configured to be carried by the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle based on a Center of Gravity of each of the one or more items. The method also includes securing the one or more items in the specific positions within the one of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and the container to prevent the one or more items from shifting and changing a combined Center of Gravity of the one or more items combined with the one of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and the container during a flight of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
US11781924B2
An apparatus and method for sensing body temperature and wirelessly communicating measured data to at least one electronic device. The device includes a sensor device having a housing base, a housing cover releasably mountable on the housing base, and components for sensing body temperature and wirelessly communicating the measured temperature, including a temperature sensor, a power supply, a microprocessor, and a transmitter and receiver. The electronic device can include an application that communicates with the sensor device and provides a user interface.
US11781910B2
A hand held spectrometer is used to illuminate the object and measure the one or more spectra. The spectral data of the object can be used to determine one or more attributes of the object. In many embodiments, the spectrometer is coupled to a database of spectral information that can be used to determine the attributes of the object. The spectrometer system may comprise a hand held communication device coupled to a spectrometer, in which the user can input and receive data related to the measured object with the hand held communication device. The embodiments disclosed herein allow many users to share object data with many people, in order to provide many people with actionable intelligence in response to spectral data.
US11781908B2
According to certain embodiments, an electronic device comprises: a housing; an optical sensor module disposed in the housing and including one or more light-emitting elements, and one or more light-receiving elements; a light source driver disposed in the housing and configured to control power supply of the one or more light-emitting elements; and at least one processor disposed in the housing and operatively connected to the optical sensor module and the light source driver, wherein the at least one processor is configured to identify a light source of the one or more light-emitting elements and turn-on/off timings of the one or more light-emitting elements according to a sensor measurement mode or a measurement function when the optical sensor module is driven, configure a control signal of the light source driver in response to the identified turn-on/off timings of the one or more light-emitting elements, based on the control signal, apply an output voltage of the light source driver as power of the one or more light-emitting elements in a turn-on period of the one or more light-emitting elements, and block the power of the one or more light-emitting elements by limiting output of the light source driver in a turn-off period of the one or more light-emitting elements.
US11781904B2
A chip chuck includes front and back slopes obliquely extending toward a bottom surface from front and back edges of a top surface having a chip placement area for supporting a chip under test, and is defined with an imaginary vertical reference line perpendicular to the chip placement area and an imaginary horizontal reference line. The front and back slopes are connected with the chip placement area and each provided with an included acute angle with respect to the imaginary horizontal reference line, thereby avoiding interference with light emitted from the chip. A chip supporting device includes a chip chuck, and an optical sensing module fixed relative thereto and including an optical sensor whose light receiving surface faces toward a back light emitting surface of the chip, thereby enabling optical characteristic inspection of front and back light emitting surfaces of the chip at the same time.
US11781901B2
A vibration sensor includes a support board, a circuit board housing, a metal housing, a pressure-enhancing member and a sensor. The circuit board housing is located on a surface of the support board, and defines a first hollow chamber together with the support board. The metal housing is located on another surface of the support board, and defines a second hollow chamber together with the support board. The pressure-enhancing member is in one of the first and second hollow chambers. The sensor is in the other one of the first and second hollow chambers. The support board has a first through hole and a second through hole. The first through hole is misaligned with the pressure-enhancing member and the sensor. The second through hole is aligned between the pressure-enhancing member and the sensor. The sensor, support board and diaphragm collectively define a third hollow chamber.
US11781892B2
A transducer sensor apparatus can include a sensor, and a multilayer transducer can include a plurality of piezoelectric elements. The sensor can include the multilayer transducer, and the multilayer transducer can improve a signal-to-noise ratio during sensing operations by the sensor by overcoming an external noise source.
US11781890B2
A circuit includes a first communication interface configured to receive first sensor data from a stationary sensor. The first sensor data include a result of a first sensing of a local environment of the stationary sensor performed by the stationary sensor. The circuit may further include a second communication interface configured to receive second sensor data from an unmanned aerial vehicle. The second sensor data include a result of a second sensing of at least a portion of the local environment of the stationary sensor performed by a sensor of the unmanned aerial vehicle. The circuit may further include one or a plurality of processors configured to compare the first sensor data and the second sensor data and to classify the at least one stationary sensor based on a result of the comparison.
US11781889B2
The innovation described herein generally pertains to a system and method related a wireless remote monitoring system for a tank, wherein the wireless monitoring system is incorporated into or coupled to a lid for the tank. The wireless remote monitoring system for the tank can include a cover system that includes a lid mountable on a corresponding tank, the lid comprising a space sized and shaped for receiving the wireless remote monitoring system therein, wherein the wireless remote monitoring system is operatively coupled to a sensor.
US11781884B2
A tire proposal system that proposes a tire of a vehicle to a user includes a processing unit that proposes an appropriate tire that is a tire appropriate for the vehicle based on a mileage and a driving time of each trip of the vehicle. With such processing, the appropriate tire is proposed to the user considering a traveling pattern (usage tendency) of the vehicle, which can be grasped from the mileage and the driving time of the each trip of the vehicle, thereby a tire appropriate for the traveling pattern of the vehicle can be proposed to the user as the appropriate tire.
US11781880B2
A processing device according to one aspect of the present invention includes a vibration detecting unit configured to detect a vibration of a vehicle, an orientation detecting unit configured to detect an orientation of the vehicle, a storing unit configured to store information indicating the orientation of the vehicle, a processing unit configured to set an orientation of a vehicle on a map of a navigation system based on the information indicating the orientation of the vehicle, and a power supply controlling unit configured to control power supplied to the orientation detecting unit and the storing unit based on a detection result of the vibration detecting unit and in response to an accessory power of the vehicle turned OFF.
US11781871B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide systems and methods for providing suggested locations for pick up and destination locations. Pick up locations may include locations where an autonomous vehicle can pick up a passenger, while destination locations may include locations where the vehicle can wait for an additional passenger, stop and wait for a passenger to perform some task and return to the vehicle, or for the vehicle to drop off a passenger. As such, a request for a vehicle may be received from a client computing device. The request may identify a first location. A set of one or more suggested locations may be selected by comparing the predetermined locations to the first location. The set may be provided to the client computing device.
US11781867B2
A gyroscope includes a proof mass, and a first transduction/suspension structure coupled to the proof mass with a laterally flexible first coupling spring from a first coupling direction. A second transduction/suspension structure is coupled to the proof mass with a laterally flexible second coupling spring from a second coupling direction. A third transduction/suspension structure is coupled to the proof mass with a transversally flexible third coupling spring from a third coupling direction. A fourth transduction/suspension structure is coupled to the proof mass with a transversally flexible fourth coupling spring from a fourth coupling direction. Each transduction/suspension structure comprises elongated beams. Piezoelectric transducers are deposited on some elongated beams, and are configured to bend the corresponding elongated beams in the device plane and to measure the bending of the corresponding lateral elongated beams in the device plane.
US11781859B2
An alignment inspection apparatus for the electrode assembly including a laminate, in which a first separator, an internal electrode, a second separator, and an upper electrode are sequentially laminated, includes a camera disposed above a central portion of the electrode assembly to photograph and inspect the electrode assembly and side lights obliquely irradiating light onto each of both ends of the upper electrode. The side lights are symmetrical to each other with respect to the central portion of the electrode assembly.
US11781844B2
An attachment assembly includes a conically tapered missile body interface surface of a missile body attachment interface wedged against a conically tapered missile component interface surface of a missile body attachment interface. The missile body attachment interface also includes an engagement rod for locked engagement by a hook of the missile component attachment interface. Specifically, the missile component attachment interface includes an auto-adjusting assembly having a series of pivoting arms connected to a rotatable engagement drive at a first end thereof and a hook at a second end thereof. The auto-adjusting assembly is moveable between a first position and a second position, and between the second position and a third position. The missile component attachment interface includes a pre-loaded over-center mechanism operably coupled to the auto-adjusting assembly and configured to lock the hook in engagement with the engagement rod in the third position.
US11781835B2
An automated weapon system is comprised of a plurality of weapon subsystems; a targeting subsystem; a sensing subsystem; a decision subsystem; a device selection subsystem; and, trigger activation logic. The plurality of weapon subsystems each capable of firing a munition therefrom towards a respective selected target at a respective firing time. The targeting subsystem has a field of view in a target area and provides for identifying at least one said target in the field of view as a selected target. The sensing subsystem provides sensing of the selected target and tracking of location of the selected target through environment in the target area. The decision subsystem, determines where the selected target is located at a firing time responsive to the sensing subsystem. The device selection subsystem determines which of the plurality of weapon subsystems is the selected weapon subsystem in a best position for having munitions fired therefrom to strike the selected target. The trigger activation logic initiates firing of the munitions from the selected weapon subsystem at the firing time, so that the munition will hit the selected target.
US11781833B2
Switchless sensing is provided to control electronic devices of the type associated with deterrent devices.
US11781832B2
Optical sights for mounting on a firearm are provided, each of the sights having a base defining a barrel end and a rear end; a frame extending upwardly from the base at the barrel end and defining an opening; an optical element received in the opening; and an illumination device operable to display an aiming point on the optical element to generate said aiming point.
US11781830B2
There is provided a protective glove to cover at least a portion of a hand of an archer during the shooting of arrows from a bow, which glove is designed to resist a broken arrow from puncturing through the glove and entering the flesh of the user. In particular, there may be a palm section, made of a first arrow puncturable material that covers the palm of the users hand. There may also be a protective section, located on the glove covering the back of the hand of the user, made of a second material that has a high weight-to-strength value, coupled to the palm section and positioned so that a broken arrow being shot from a bow will have a higher likely hood of hitting the protective section than hitting areas not having the protective section.
US11781829B2
A crossbow may include a main beam, a riser with a U-shaped opening, a pair of bow limbs and a bowstring. The riser may have limb attachment surfaces that are separated such that a minimum distance between them is at least as wide as a user's foot but not greater than about 5 inches. The riser may have a U-shaped opening that is designed to receive a user's foot.
US11781821B2
A heat exchanger arrangement includes walls defining at least two circuit passages for porting a first fluid, a first of the circuit passages defining a first passage length, and a second of the circuit passages defining a second passage length, the second passage length being different from the first passage length, the walls being in thermal communication with a second fluid while isolating the first fluid from the second fluid, at least one of the first circuit passage and the second circuit passage includes a flow control feature configured to decrease an imbalance in flow between the first circuit passage and the second circuit passage compared to if the flow control feature were not present.
US11781809B2
Provided are mixed refrigerant systems and methods and, more particularly, to a mixed refrigerant system and methods that provides greater efficiency and reduced power consumption via control of a liquid level in a cold vapor separator device.
US11781797B2
Provided is a refrigeration appliance that includes a fresh food compartment and a freezer compartment. An opening is provided between the freezer compartment and the fresh food compartment to allow air to flow from the fresh food compartment to the freezer compartment and an air tower located within the fresh food compartment is adapted to deliver air from the freezer compartment to the fresh food compartment.
US11781796B2
A refrigerator having a freezer compartment and a refrigerator compartment, the refrigerator including an icemaker provided at the freezer compartment door configured to open/close the freezer compartment, a dispenser provided at a refrigerator compartment door configured to open/close the refrigerator compartment, and a water tank provided at the refrigerator compartment door, the water tank having an inlet through which water is introduced into the water tank, a first outlet for supplying water to the dispenser, and a second outlet for supplying water to a pump, wherein the pump is configured to pump water from the water tank to the icemaker.
US11781792B2
An air-cooled chiller (100) includes a compressor (12); a cooler (14); a heat recovery heat exchanger (16), wherein the heat recovery heat exchanger is connected between an output of (12b) the compressor and an input header (20) of an air heat exchanger (60). A solenoid valve (30) is located in an input header (20) of the air heat exchanger to divide the input header into a first portion (20a) and a second portion (20b). A controller (32) is configured to control the solenoid valve (30). A second valve (34) is located in the output header (36) to divide the output header into a first portion (36a) and a second portion (36b). There is also provided a method of operating the air-cooled chiller and a method of retrofitting an existing serial-concept air cooled chiller, to provide the present air-cooled chiller.
US11781779B2
A ventilation member of the present disclosure comprises: a support having a through hole that serves as an air passage between inside and outside of a housing upon attaching the support to an opening of the housing; and an air-permeable membrane disposed on the support and closing the through hole. The support comprises: a supporting portion in which the through hole is provided and at which the air-permeable membrane is disposed, and an insertion portion extending from the supporting portion and having an end with a hook, wherein the insertion portion bends in a direction closer to a central axis of the ventilation member while the hook is passing through the opening by being inserted into the opening, and fixes the ventilation member to the opening with the hook engaging the housing after passing through the opening. The ventilation member has a stopper portion with which bending of the insertion portion in the direction is restricted within an elastically deformable range of the insertion portion during the insertion into the opening. A ventilation member of the present disclosure can be reliably fixed to an opening of a housing with the insertion portion, even when the insertion portion is inserted into the opening at an angle.
US11781778B2
The presently disclosed subject matter is directed to a vent register for use with an HVAC system. The register is defined by a housing comprising top and bottom plates that are permanently joined to create an interior compartment. The interior compartment imparts an insulative quality to the register by providing resistance to an increase or decrease in temperature, such as when cooled air is flowing through the system. The interior compartment can be hollow and filled with air, foam, or any insulative material. In use, the register prevents or reduces the incidence of condensation forming on the face of the register during use.
US11781776B2
A control substrate includes a substrate, a power-supply circuit, a communication circuit, a first terminal block that includes a first wiring connector, a second wiring connector, and a third wiring connector, a second terminal block that includes a fourth wiring connector and a fifth wiring connector, a first pattern, a second pattern, a third pattern, a fourth pattern, a fifth pattern, a sixth pattern, a first switch that is provided in the third pattern and is capable of switching connection and disconnection between the second wiring connector and the communication circuit, and a second switch that is provided in the fifth pattern and is capable of switching connection and disconnection between the fourth wiring connector and the communication circuit.
US11781767B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for providing a position sensing component are disclosed herein. An example sensor assembly may comprise: a primary sensing device, a reference sensing device located in proximity to the primary sensing device; and a flue coupled with one of the primary sensing device and the reference sensing device to provide a pathway for a first gas in a first area to access the one of the primary sensing device and the reference sensing device. The one of the primary sensing device and the reference sensing device is coupled to the flue and is configured to determine a first concentration level of the first gas in the first area. The other of the primary sensing device and the reference sensing device is configured to determine a second concentration level of the first gas in a second area.
US11781764B2
An air purifying system having a series of specific filters stacked to facilitate removal of particles from the air. Removable filters include a pre-filter, a HEPA electrostatic filter, an activated carbon filter and a cold catalyst filter. Additional filters or alternate filters may be used, so long as there is no negative impact on the system efficiency and effectiveness.
US11781762B1
A fresh-air cooling system for a building structure having an unvented attic is provided. The system provides airflow pathways that allow outside air to be drawn through, and discharged from, a building having an unvented attic. Dampers with a low thermal conductivity regulate airflow through the building structure. The system allows a whole house fan to cool a building having an unvented attic. The system seals or otherwise alters airflow pathways through the building structure in order to reduce heat transfer between the building and the outside environment when the cooling system is not in use.
US11781761B1
An air moving device has a housing with a primary flow path and a secondary flow path that extends from a secondary inlet of the housing and empties into an inner outlet adjacent the primary flow path. An impeller assembly rotates a blade to cause air to enter the housing and flow along the primary flow path. The flow of air through the primary flow path creates a low pressure region at the inner outlet of the secondary flow path, causing air to flow through the secondary flow path and mix with the air in the primary flow path. The mixture of air flows through a downstream portion of the primary flow path having an expanded width compared to an upstream portion of the primary flow path and exits the housing. Stator vanes may extend longitudinally within the housing to cause columnar air flow. The device may be used for destratification of thermal gradients of air within an enclosure, such as a home or warehouse.
US11781758B2
A climate control system coupled within an opening of a structure, with the opening separating an internal area within the structure and an exterior area external to the structure, the climate control system straddling the opening. The climate control system includes: an interior unit disposed at the opening within the internal area; an exterior unit disposed at the opening in the exterior area; and a connector between the interior unit and the exterior unit that extends through the opening, the connector including: a circulation hose that extends through the opening to connect the exterior unit and the interior unit, and a controls system configured to operate the interior unit and the exterior unit.
US11781757B2
A rack assembly for a cooking appliance includes a rack operable between a stowed position and a deployed position. At least one telescoping actuator is operable between a retracted position and an extended position. At least one connector has a first end coupled to a distal end of the telescoping actuator and a second end coupled to the rack. The rack is adjusted from the stowed position to the deployed position as the telescoping actuator adjusts from the retracted position to the extended position.
US11781749B2
A furnace using biomass pellets as fuel, comprising a housing arranged on a base, wherein the housing is internally provided with a burning chamber, the bottom of which is provided with a burning grate, and the burning chamber is connected with a primary oxygen supply device; the primary oxygen supply device comprises an oxygen supply cylinder that communicates with the outside, and the bottom end of the oxygen supply cylinder is connected with an oxygen supply pipe II configured to blow air over the burning grate, and a plurality of air outlet holes I is defined in the oxygen supply cylinder.
US11781743B2
A retrofit trim lighting device is provided. In example embodiments, the retrofit trim lighting device comprises a bracket comprising an opening; at least one torsion spring secured to the bracket and configured to mount the retrofit trim lighting device within a recessed housing; a retrofit housing comprising at least one light engine; and an engagement element. The engagement element is secured to the retrofit housing through the opening of the bracket such that, when so secured, the retrofit housing and the bracket are rotatable relative to one another.
US11781741B2
A headlight (forehead light) includes a housing (10) for accommodating a light-emitting device, in particular at least one LED, and a further housing (11) for accommodating at least one battery or rechargeable battery (15). The housings (10, 11) are connected to one another by a conductor (16) suitable for voltage and current supply and are secured to a strap. The strap has an elastic and a non-elastic part (12, 13). The conductor (16) is integrated into the non-elastic part (12).
US11781732B2
A lighting fixture with reduced glare is provided. Lighting fixtures described herein use a lens assembly to redirect light away from a housing in order to reduce a unified glaring ratio (UGR) (e.g., when viewed crosswise or endwise). The lens assembly may further provide diffusive properties which result in a more pleasing and soft light over traditional lighting fixtures. In aspects described herein, the UGR of troffer-style lighting fixtures can be improved (e.g., reduced) through lens assemblies having one or more light redirection features configured to particularly redirect light emitted at high v-angles (e.g., light emitted sideways relative to the housing at v-angles greater than 70 degrees). For example, the lens assembly may include an inner prismatic surface of a lens, an inner lens, a louver assembly (e.g., over or under a lens), or a reflector to achieve this light redirection.
US11781731B2
A steerable illumination fixture includes an emitting source and a refractive optical system that steers an emitted beam by relative translation of the emitting source against the optical system. The light emitting source may be placed along an optical axis of one or more lenses to produce an output beam along that axis, or translated in-plane (orthogonal to the optical axis) relative to the lenses to produce a steered beam. The optical system may include refractive lenses or mixing channels and/or one or more baffles with apertures. A round, uniform beam results that retains approximately the same power level and beam width as it is steered. A second lens having a diameter equal to or larger than a first lens may be provided and configured with an effective focal plane of the two lenses located approximately at the plane of the light emitting source.
US11781721B2
The present invention relates to the technical field of vehicle illumination and, in particular, relates to a vehicle lamp optical element assembly, a vehicle lamp comprising the vehicle lamp optical element assembly, and an automobile comprising the vehicle lamp. The vehicle lamp optical element assembly comprises a primary optical element assembly and a secondary optical element assembly, wherein the primary optical element assembly comprises a primary optical element and a first support for supporting the primary optical element, and the secondary optical element assembly comprises a secondary optical element and a second support for supporting the secondary optical element, wherein the first support and the second support are connected in a matching manner so as to enable the primary optical element and the secondary optical element to be relatively fixed. The primary optical element and the secondary optical element are assembled into an integral structure, such that relative positions of the primary optical element and the secondary optical element are directly determined, and direct positioning between the primary optical element and the secondary optical element is realized. The positioning precision and the mounting reliability of the primary optical element and the secondary optical element can be ensured, such that the accuracy and functional stability of a light shape of the vehicle lamp are ensured.
US11781719B2
A lamp for a vehicle includes a first lamp unit that forms a first region of a beam pattern using a plurality of first lamp modules arranged along a width direction of the vehicle; and a second lamp unit that is disposed more outward than the first lamp unit along the width direction of the vehicle and forms a second region of the beam pattern using a plurality of second lamp modules arranged along the width direction of the vehicle.
US11781717B2
A lighting unit (100) for a medical luminaire (150) has a number of groups of LEDs (110, 110′, 110″) that are connected to a common planar printed circuit board (115). Each LED (112, 112′) of at least one of the groups (110, 110′) is associated with a respective optic (122, 122′) by which a respective LED-optic pair (120, 120′) is formed. The respective optics, based on the structure (328), specify a tilt angle (125) of a central light beam axis (124, 124′) of an emitted light beam of the LED optics pair in a tilt direction (627) of the respective LED optics pair. The tilt direction is defined such that the respective light beam axes of the emitted light beams of the LED optics pairs from the at least one group of LEDs are at least partially skewed in pairs with respect to one another.
US11781704B2
A tablet holding assembly for holding a readable medium at various viewing angles. The tablet holding assembly comprises a base portion for placement on a surface and an adjustable portion including a ledge for holding the readable medium. The base portion includes a base knuckle and the adjustable portion includes an adjustable knuckle aligned with the base knuckle. A hinge assembly including at least one pin extends through the base knuckle and the adjustable knuckle to pivotally connect the base portion to the adjustable portion permitting the adjustable portion to be pivoted between viewing angles.
US11781683B2
Couplings for joining pipe elements have segments with attachment members with faces which contact one another when the segments are properly installed on the pipe elements. Each segment has one or more shrouds and recesses positioned along the faces. The shrouds on one segment are received within respective recesses on the other segment. The shrouds block the line of sight toward the central space which the segments surround and which receives the pipe elements. Index markings on the segments show visual inspection points to confirm proper engagement between the segments and the pipe elements.
US11781680B2
A pipe trim assembly for trimming a pipe extending through a wall includes a panel that has a pipe opening extending through the panel for having a pipe extending therethrough. The panel has a plurality of connection openings each extending through the panel. Fasteners can be extended through the connection openings for fastening the panel to an exterior wall of a building through which the pipe extends. A gasket is coupled to the panel and the gasket extends around the pipe opening. Moreover, the gasket surrounds the pipe when the pipe is extended through the pipe opening. A frame is removably attachable to the panel such that the frame covers the plurality of connection openings in the panel to enhance the appearance of the panel.
US11781654B2
Sealing device for a cartridge of a shock absorbing fork, provided with a screen of metallic material and with an elastomer coating, in turn comprising a radially outer portion which forms a static seal on a cartridge housing and at least one radially inner lip which makes a sliding contact on a moving element of the cartridge, wherein an additional lip forms a seal on a surface of the housing, thus sealing a cavity (V) of the elastomer coating.
US11781650B2
An edge seal for sealing an outer surface of a lower electrode assembly configured to support a semiconductor substrate in a plasma processing chamber, the lower electrode assembly including an annular groove defined between a lower member and an upper member of the lower electrode assembly. The edge seal includes an elastomeric band configured to be arranged within the groove, the elastomeric band having an annular upper surface, an annular lower surface, an inner surface, and an outer surface. When the elastomeric band is in an uncompressed state, the outer surface of the elastomeric band is concave. When the upper and lower surfaces are axially compressed at least 1% such that the elastomeric band is in a compressed state, an outward bulging of the outer surface is not greater than a predetermined distance. The predetermined distance corresponds to a maximum outer diameter of the elastomeric band in the uncompressed state.
US11781645B2
A gear shifting device, a transmission, and an all-terrain vehicle are disclosed. The gear shifting device includes: a drive motor having an output shaft fixed with a driving toothed wheel; a transmission drum having a first end fixed with a driven toothed wheel and a second end provided with a gear contactor; a gear sensor having a working surface in contact with the gear contactor; and an electronic control unit electrically coupled to the drive motor. The electronic control unit outputs a drive signal to the drive motor based on a gear shifting instruction, the drive motor rotates based on the drive signal, and the output shaft drives the driving toothed wheel to rotate; the transmission drum and the driven toothed wheel rotate along with rotation of the driving toothed wheel; and the gear contactor rotates to contact one of four contacts corresponding to the gear shifting instruction.
US11781642B2
A power unit includes at least one drive source that outputs rotational power to a drive target other than pumps; a first pump rotationally driven by the rotational power of the drive source; a second pump rotationally driven by the rotational power of the drive source, the second pump being different form the first pump; and a power transmission structure that transmits the rotational power of the drive source to the first and second pumps. The power transmission structure includes transmission components and transmits the rotational power to the first pump through one of the transmission components and to the second pump through another of the transmission components.
US11781630B2
A power split transmission for a work vehicle includes at least one drivable transmission input shaft, a power distribution module, a rotational speed variator having a variator output shaft, a transmission module operatively connected both to the transmission input shaft and the variator output shaft, and a transmission output shaft. The transmission module includes at least two transmission auxiliary shafts each of which includes at least one summation transmission for combining power introduced via the transmission input shaft and the variator output shaft. The transmission module includes at least one power shift stage via which the transmission auxiliary shafts are selectively connected to the transmission output shaft. A continuously variable transmission ratio is produced between the transmission input shaft and transmission output shaft.
US11781628B2
A transmission includes a drive element, a first output element, a primary transmission unit, a reversing unit, and an intermediate gearbox. At least two of the at least nine shifting elements of the primary transmission unit, at least one of the at least two shifting elements of the reversing unit, and at least one of the at least two shifting elements of the intermediate gearbox are activatable in combinations of at least four shifting elements so as to establish at least twenty-eight forward gears between the drive element and the first output element.
US11781622B2
A chain tensioner transmits power of a crankshaft provided in an engine to peripheral auxiliary devices and guides a chain belt that transfers engine oil. The chain tensioner includes a body portion that tensions the chain belt through a pivot, the upper surface of the body portion includes an oil guiding rib that collects the engine oil scattered from the chain belt to the upper part, one surface of the body portion in contact with the upper surface includes a pivot journal, and one surface of the body portion includes a first oil flow path that guides the engine oil to flow down to the pivot journal.
US11781614B2
Described is a system for transmitting a flexural wave acting on one structure to another structure. In one example, a system includes a first structure having a first property and a first end and a second structure having a second property and a second end connected to the first end of the first structure. The first property is different from the second property and may be related to the material and/or geometric properties of the first and second structures. A mechanical resonator is connected to the first structure at a distance from the first end of about a quarter-wavelength of the frequency of a flexural wave acting on the first structure. The mechanical resonator matches a first mechanical impedance of the first structure to a second mechanical impedance of the second structure to allow high transmission of the flexural wave acting on the first structure to the second structure.
US11781613B2
A bush-type hydraulic mount used for mounting a motor module in an electric vehicle is provided. The bush-type hydraulic mount includes an inner pipe, a middle pipe disposed coaxially with the inner pipe, and a main rubber that is vulcanized between the inner pipe and the middle pipe. An outer pipe surrounds the middle pipe. The main rubber includes a front fluid chamber that is recessed from a surface of the main rubber, a rear fluid chamber adjacent to the front fluid chamber and recessed from the surface of the main rubber, and a bridge that separates the front fluid chamber and the rear fluid chamber to allow fluid to flow between the front fluid chamber and the rear fluid chamber and being deformable by external force.
US11781593B2
A non-contact air bearing having electrostatic discharge properties may comprise: a porous media element having a bearing surface; a supply line configured supply an externally pressurize gas or fluid to the porous media; and an electrostatic dissipative porous bearing layer on the bearing surface of the porous media element; wherein the externally pressurized fluid flows through the porous media element and creates a thin film between the electrostatic dissipative layer and a substrate supported by the air bearing.
US11781588B2
A device for providing a lockable modular connection between two parts, the device includes a first element for connecting to one of the parts and a second element for connecting to the other part. The first element includes a rod secured to a ball joint. The second element includes a housing containing the ball joint. The device has an inner space between an inner face of the housing and a peripheral face of the ball joint, and a locking element arranged between the housing and the ball joint. Motifs are arranged on the peripheral face of the ball joint and/or on the inner face of the housing. The locking element consists of a hardened material that fills the entire inner space and with regard to which the motifs form abutments in order to hold the ball joint in a fixed position in the housing.
US11781585B2
A channel fastener for fastening an object to an elongate channel element having an elongate slot flanked by flanges includes an assembly of a rigid washer element, an oblong metal anchoring element and a support for the anchoring element, which support is connected to the washer element and carries the anchoring element. The support includes a head portion coupled to the washer element, a bottom portion supporting the anchoring element from below, and connecting legs, extend along a longitudinal side of the anchoring element from the head portion to the bottom portion. The head portion and the connecting legs of the support form a tapering width from the head portion towards the bottom portion of the support. At least the head portion at the location where it adjoins the legs has an initial width that exceeds the width of the longitudinal slot.
US11781575B1
A spacer clip comprised of a low thermal conductive material is secured to the Z girts of a wall assembly to provide a thermal break between the Z girts and the sheathing members of the wall assembly and to also provide a thermal break between the sheathing members and the insulation members of the wall assembly.
US11781573B2
An example valve assembly includes a housing having an accumulator fluid passage configured to be fluidly coupled to an accumulator, a supply fluid cavity configured to be fluidly coupled to a source of fluid, a reservoir fluid cavity configured to be fluidly coupled to a reservoir of fluid, a head fluid cavity configured to be fluidly coupled to a head-side chamber of a hydraulic actuator, and a rod fluid cavity configured to be fluidly coupled to a rod-side chamber of the hydraulic actuator; a main spool that is axially-movable within the housing; and a balancing spool that is axially-movable within the housing based on an axial position of the main spool.
US11781569B2
A bellows accumulator, consisting of at least two housing parts (4, 6) which form an accumulator housing (2), and having a separating bellows (20), which is movably arranged in the accumulator housing (2) and separates two media spaces (8, 22) from each other and is at least on its one free end fixed to a securing device (24) in the accumulator housing (2), wherein said securing device (24) is welded to the adjacently arranged housing parts (4, 6), is characterized in that the adjacently arranged housing parts (4, 6) comprise at least in part titanium materials, in that the securing device (24) consists of at least two interconnected components (26, 30), at least one (26) of which comprises at least in part titanium materials and is welded to the adjacently arranged housing parts (4, 6), and in that the respective other component (30), consisting of a different metal material, is used for securing the separating bellows (20) to the securing device (24).
US11781567B2
A centrifugal fan is disclosed and includes a housing, a fan wheel, a first throat portion and a second throat portion. The housing includes a lower cover connected to an upper cover through a peripheral wall to form an accommodation space and an outlet. The upper cover includes an inlet communicated with the outlet. The fan wheel is disposed on the lower cover and accommodated in the accommodation space. The fan wheel is rotated along a rotation direction. The first throat portion is disposed adjacent to a lateral end of the outlet and protrudes from the peripheral wall toward the accommodation space. The second throat portion is disposed adjacent to another lateral end of the outlet, and protrudes from the peripheral wall toward the accommodation space. When the fan wheel is rotated along the rotational direction, an airflow is guided from the first throat portion to the second throat portion.
US11781565B2
A fluid compressor device includes an integrated controller of an e-machine. The integrated controller has an arcuate support structure that extends about the axis of rotation of a rotating group. The support structure has a seat that is disposed at a radial area of the arcuate support structure. The integrated controller has an electronics component supported on the seat. The integrated controller includes a retainer clip that is resiliently flexible between a neutral position and a flexed position. The retainer clip is fixed to the support structure and in the flexed position to retain the electronics component on the seat.
US11781556B2
A turbomachine includes a housing having an inlet and an outlet. A shaft is rotationally disposed in the housing. The shaft is rotatable about a longitudinal axis. An impeller is coupled to the shaft between the inlet and the outlet and rotates with the shaft. The impeller includes a single impeller inlet and an impeller outlet, a first set of vanes disposed on a first side of the impeller, and a second set of vanes disposed on a second side of the impeller. A passage is formed through a thickness of the impeller. The passage facilitates transmission of fluid from the first side of the impeller to the second side of the impeller such that fluid is supplied to the first set of vanes and the second set of vanes via the single impeller inlet. Transmission of fluid through the impeller reduces net axial thrust imparted to at least one of the impeller and the shaft.
US11781551B2
A blood pump system includes a pump housing and an impeller for rotating in a pump chamber within the housing. The impeller has a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The system includes a stator having drive coils for applying a torque to the impeller and at least one bearing mechanism for suspending the impeller within the pump chamber. The system includes a position control mechanism for moving the impeller in an axial direction within the pump chamber to adjust a size of a first gap and a size of a second gap, thereby controlling a washout rate at each of the first gap and the second gap. The first gap is defined by a distance between the first side and the housing and the second gap is defined by a distance between the second side and the pump housing.
US11781544B2
A rotor system comprising a driveshaft; at least one motor for providing rotational energy for the driveshaft; an overrunning clutch connected to the motor and disposed around the driveshaft, wherein the overrunning clutch is rotated by the at least one motor; and a pump assembly associated with the at least one motor, the pump assembly comprising a large bore through which the driveshaft passes such that the pump assembly is arranged concentric to the driveshaft, the pump assembly further comprising a gerotor pump comprising inner and outer gerotor pump gears, wherein an inner bore of the gerotor pump engages and is driven by the overrunning clutch; and a cover disposed over the gerotor pump for providing a sump for the gerotor pump.
US11781542B2
A mechanical rod rotator assembly comprising a mechanical rod rotator and an actuating mechanism for a mechanical pumping rod rotator, wherein the mechanism comprises a connecting arm and a guide member that slidably embraces the pumping rod, in order to allow a pivoting lever that is in connection with said connecting arm, to interact with the internal mechanism of the rod rotator to gradually rotate the pumping rod and thus avoid impartial wear caused by the constant up and down reciprocating movement of the same within the well, being in turn that the mechanism of the invention does not require special tools for its assembly and installation.
US11781537B2
A radial piston hydraulic device distributed by pilot operated check valves includes a housing, a plurality of piston assemblies, a main shaft, the rotating shaft, first pilot operated check valves having a same number with the plurality of piston assemblies and one-to-one corresponding to the plurality of piston assemblies, and second pilot operated check valves having a same number with the plurality of piston assemblies and one-to-one corresponding to the plurality of piston assemblies. The housing includes a plurality of piston chambers, a rotating shaft chamber, a high-pressure oil passage, and a low-pressure oil passage. Each of the plurality of piston assemblies is slidable up and down in a corresponding piston chamber of the plurality of piston chambers. The main shaft is rotatably connected to the housing and is connected to the plurality of piston assemblies in a transmission way.
US11781534B2
Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present techniques provide an actuator that comprises segments of shape memory alloy (SMA) actuator wire that can be used to deliver a relatively large output stroke. In particular, two segments of SMA actuator wire may be mechanically coupled together around a corner of a static component of the actuator such that a displacement (e.g. contraction) of one segment causes a displacement (e.g. contraction) of the other segment. In this way, the displacement of each segment combines in an additive manner to generate a large output stroke that is able to move a moveable component of the actuator.
US11781528B2
A method is provided for servicing a jointed rotor blade of a wind turbine. The jointed rotor blade is positioned in a six o'clock position and a blade tip support element is secured to a tip section of the jointed rotor blade. A lift-support element is secured at a mounting location above the blade tip support element. A lifting line is coupled between the lift-support element and the blade tip support element. The tip section is separated from the root section of the jointed rotor blade such that the tip section is suspended above a support surface of the wind turbine via the blade tip support element and the lifting line. The tip section of the jointed rotor blade is serviced.
US11781523B2
A method for assembling a shell section of a wind turbine blade includes providing a support, the support comprising a surface having a primary surface portion configured for supporting a first component and a secondary surface portion configured for supporting a second component. The method also includes arranging a second component on the secondary surface portion such that an outer surface of the second component is facing the secondary surface portion. The method further includes arranging a first component on the primary surface portion such that an outer surface of the first component is facing the primary surface portion, and such that a first primary joint surface of the first component is facing a second joint surface of the second component. Arranging the first component includes applying a force to the first component to force the outer surface of the first component towards the primary surface portion and the first primary joint surface towards the second joint surface.
US11781520B2
An improved method of lifting fluid using the difference between atmospheric or higher boosted pressure and fluid vapor or vacuum pressure applied to a series of chambers with a movable plate that divides each into variable volumes, and comprises one stage of the system. Combinations of pressures in the chambers between the movable plates lift the fluid to a height where the fluid column base pressure equals atmospheric or boosted pressure less friction and mass losses. A vertical array of stages, each lifting fluid from the stage below it, allows fluid to be lifted to any height, limited only by structure or geographic elevation. Further; operating pressures are tapped from the top and bottom of a standpipe filled with static fluid, pressure changes are made when the volumes are zero, and the sum of the volume receiving fluid and volume delivering the fluid are constant, making the system closed. Once raised, the fluid may be released for it's end use and more particularly; through a power generator. Where the fluid is water in an open environment and fed through a turbine, the water may be returned to the system reservoir to be reused in the cycle or if in a closed system the fluid may be returned to a chamber under pressure for reuse.
US11781518B2
This invention regards a hydraulic turbine (1) to operate in pressure circuits, where there is a flow of a fluid, to control the flow and pressure downstream the installation point. Even so, said turbine (1) can generate power for itself based on the difference of pressure and flow, as the remaining power can be used in public power networks or isolated. Its application field comprises sanitation companies, beverage industries, paper and cellulose industries, petrochemical companies or any places, where it is needed to control the flow and pressure in supply networks.
US11781514B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus (1) for pressure control in a fuel feed of an internal combustion engine with a common rail injection, comprising a housing (10) with an opening (15), and an electromagnetic high pressure valve (30), wherein the electromagnetic high pressure valve (30) is at least partially inserted into the opening (15) of the housing (10) at the end, wherein the electromagnetic high pressure valve (30) is connected in a pressure-tight manner in the opening (15) to the housing (10) by a connection (20) and the connection (20) has a first portion (21) and at least one second portion (22), and wherein the first portion (21) and the at least one second portion (22) have different mechanical and/or geometric properties.
US11781513B2
Provided is a discharge valve mechanism capable of improving responsiveness when a discharge valve is opened, and a high-pressure fuel supply pump including the discharge valve mechanism.
US11781510B2
An intake system of an engine is provided, which includes a first passage provided to an engine bay, for leading fresh air to the engine, a second passage branched from the first passage and extending toward a cabin, and an intake noise increasing device provided to the second passage. The intake noise increasing device has a cylindrical bellows part, a vibrating membrane formed integrally with the bellows part to close a first opening of the bellows part, and an outer circumferential case provided to cover an outer circumference of the bellows part and configured to allow the expansion and contraction of the bellows part therein. The second passage has a deriving passage section connected to a part of the outer circumferential case on a first opening side and extending toward the cabin. The deriving passage section is disposed to be lowered while separating from the intake noise increasing device.
US11781506B2
A section for a gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a rotor including a row of blades extending in a radial direction outwardly from a hub. The row of blades deliver flow to a bypass flow path, an intermediate flow path, and a core flow path. A first case surrounds the row of blades to establish the bypass flow path. A first flow splitter divides flow between the bypass flow path and a second duct. A row of guide vanes extends in the radial direction across the bypass flow path. A second flow splitter radially inboard of the first flow splitter divides flow from the second duct between the intermediate flow path and the core flow path. A bypass port interconnects the intermediate and bypass flow paths. A method of operation for a gas turbine engine is also disclosed.
US11781505B2
A gas turbine engine assembly includes, among other things, a fan section including a fan, the fan including a plurality of fan blades, a diameter of the fan having a dimension D that is based on a dimension of the fan blades, a turbine section including a high pressure turbine and a low pressure turbine, the low pressure turbine driving the fan, a nacelle including an inlet portion forward of the fan, a length of the inlet portion having a dimension L, and a dimensional relationship of L/D between 0.30 and 0.40.
US11781497B1
A transport power system is provided. The transport power system includes a prime mover separate from another prime mover used for operating a vehicle, an absolute pressure sensor configured to sense an absolute pressure, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine an altitude of the transport power system based on a first absolute pressure sensed during a start-up sequence of the transport power system prior to running of the prime mover, adjust a power output upper limit for the prime mover based on the determined altitude, and control an operation of the prime mover of the transport power system not to exceed the adjusted power output upper limit.
US11781492B2
A two-gas shaft turbine control system (31) is disclosed. The gas turbine control system comprises a fuel controller (35), which receives a speed error signal, indicating whether the low-pressure turbine wheel (11) of the gas turbine (1) is rotating at the desired target speed. The gas turbine control system (31) further comprises an NGV controller (41), which receives a speed error signal, indicating whether the high-pressure turbine wheel (9) of the gas turbine engine (1) is rotating at the desired target speed. Two cross channel controllers are further provided. On the basis of a gas turbine model, a first cross channel controller (43) provides a fuel control modification signal, which is added to a control signal generated by the fuel controller (35). A second cross channel controller (45) provides an NGV control modification signal. The modification signals are aimed at reducing or canceling the effect of mutual interaction between fuel control and NGV control. A two-shaft gas turbine engine system and a method of operation are further disclosed.
US11781490B2
A gas turbine engine includes a propulsor having a plurality of blades, a compressor section including a first compressor and a second compressor aft of the first compressor. The first compressor includes at least one array of first variable guide vanes that control operation of the first compressor. The second compressor includes at least one array of second variable guide vanes that control operation of the second compressor. A turbine section includes a first turbine and a second turbine. A geared architecture is driven by the second turbine for rotating the propulsor.
US11781488B2
Gearboxes for aircraft gas turbine engines, in particular arrangements for journal bearings such gearboxes, and related methods of operating such gearboxes and gas turbine engines, including a gearbox for an aircraft gas turbine engine, the gearbox including: a sun gear; a plurality of planet gears surrounding and engaged with the sun gear; and a ring gear surrounding and engaged with the plurality of planet gears, each of the plurality of planet gears being rotatably mounted around a pin of a planet gear carrier with a journal bearing having an internal sliding surface on the planet gear and an external sliding surface on the pin.
US11781473B2
A turbine includes: a housing including an accommodating portion accommodating a turbine impeller; a first turbine scroll flow path communicating with the accommodating portion; a second turbine scroll flow path communicating with the accommodating portion and having a volume larger than a volume of the first turbine scroll flow path; a valve seat having a first port and a second port, the first port communicating with the first turbine scroll flow path, the second port communicating with the second turbine scroll flow path and having an opening area smaller than an opening area of the first port; a valve configured to contact the valve seat; and a shaft holding the valve and arranged on a side opposite to the first port with respect to the second port.
US11781472B2
A flap arrangement 10 for a turbine 2 of an exhaust-gas turbocharger 2, is disclosed, in particular for a wastegate valve of the turbine, having a spindle 100 for rotatable mounting of the flap arrangement 10 in a turbine housing 3, a lever arm 200 coupled to the spindle 100, and a flap plate 300 coupled to the lever arm 200. The flap plate 300 has a flexible part 330 in a radially outer region of the flap plate 300, such that by applying a closing force to the flap arrangement 10 when the flap plate 300 is in contact with a flap seat 500 in the turbine housing 3, elastic and/or plastic deformation of the flexible part 330 of the flap plate 300 can be caused to compensate for thermal deformation of the turbine housing 3, exhaust deposits and/or wear.
US11781468B2
A thermostat is provided at a connection portion between a cooling water supply passage and a bypass passage. When the temperature of the cooling water lies in a low temperature range lower than a first reference temperature, the thermostat allows introduction of the cooling water from the cooling water discharge passage into the cooling water supply passage via the bypass passage and also prevents introduction of the cooling water from the radiator into the engine via the cooling water supply passage. When the temperature of the cooling water lies in a high temperature range equal to or higher than a second reference temperature which is higher than the first reference temperature, the thermostat allows introduction of the cooling water from the radiator into the engine via the cooling water supply passage and also prevents introduction of the cooling water from the cooling water discharge passage into the cooling water supply passage via the bypass passage.
US11781459B2
A heating unit for an exhaust-gas system of an internal combustion engine includes a heating-unit housing for conducting an exhaust-gas in a main flow direction. A plurality of heating elements are arranged in the heating-unit housing and are shaped in a meandering manner. Each heating element has a plurality of plate-like heating sections which follow one another in a heating-element longitudinal direction. The heating sections of each heating element are connected to one another via respective connecting sections. Each heating element has two connection regions which are arranged at a distance from one another. In each connection region, the heating elements are electrically conductively connected to a connection region of a further heating element.
US11781457B2
A shield for a diesel exhaust fluid injector is mounted horizontally in an opening in a side wall of an exhaust gas aftertreatment system of an internal combustion engine. The diesel exhaust fluid injector configured to inject diesel exhaust fluid in a direction generally normal to the side wall into a mixer positioned in an exhaust gas stream. The shield may include a first portion extending axially and a second portion extending radially inwardly from the first portion.
US11781452B2
A type II valve train assembly that selectively opens first and second intake valves and first and second exhaust valves is provided. The valve train assembly includes an intake rocker arm assembly and an exhaust rocker arm assembly. The valve train assembly is configurable for operation in any combination of activated and deactivated states of engine braking and cylinder deactivation. The exhaust rocker arm assembly includes a first exhaust rocker arm, a second exhaust rocker arm and an engine brake exhaust rocker arm. A first exhaust HLA is associated with the first exhaust rocker arm. A second exhaust HLA is associated with the second exhaust valve. An exhaust actuation assembly selectively actuates to alter travel of the first and second exhaust HLA's to change a state of cylinder deactivation between activated and deactivated.
US11781447B2
A gas turbine engine assembly may include, among other things, a fan section including a fan, the fan including a plurality of fan blades, a diameter of the fan having a dimension D, each fan blade having a leading edge, and a forward most portion on the leading edges of the fan blades in a first reference plane, a geared architecture, a turbine section including a high pressure turbine and a low pressure turbine, the low pressure turbine driving the fan through the geared architecture, a nacelle surrounding the fan, the nacelle including an inlet portion forward of the fan, a forward edge on the inlet portion in a second reference plane, and a length of the inlet portion having a dimension L between the first reference plane and the second reference plane. A dimensional relationship of L/D may be between 0.30 and 0.40.
US11781441B2
An air cycle machine includes an air inlet connected to an air cycle compressor. Air downstream of the air cycle compressor is connected to be delivered across a first turbine. The air cycle compressor is driven by the first turbine through a shaft. Air downstream of the first turbine is connected to a second turbine. The second turbine is connected to deliver air downstream. The second turbine is connected with a second shaft to drive a fan rotor. The fan rotor delivers a source of air across a primary heat exchanger positioned between the inlet and the air cycle compressor. The air cycle compressor and the first turbine are formed of a metal. The second turbine and the fan rotor are formed of non-metallic materials.
US11781439B2
A component for a gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a body including a cold side surface adjacent to a mate face. A plurality of ridges extends from the cold side surface. A seal member abuts the plurality of ridges to define a plurality of cooling passages. The seal member is configured to move between a first position and a second position relative to the plurality of ridges. Each of the plurality of cooling passages includes a first inlet defined at the first position and a second, different inlet defined at the second position. A method of sealing between adjacent components of a gas turbine engine is also disclosed.
US11781437B2
A component for a turbine engine may be formed by spraying particulate with a nozzle toward a substrate. The particulate may be deposited to form one or more annular layers and a reinforcing structure. The component may be a closed loop annular component having a reinforcing structure of specific dimensions enabled by the methods described.
US11781430B2
A drilling and bolting rig for performing drilling and bolting operations. The drilling and bolting rig includes a magazine for storing a consumable, a feed supporting a drill head for movement relative to a work surface, and a loader configured to retrieve the consumable from the magazine and load the consumable into the drill head. The loader includes an arm operable to engage the consumable. The arm is supported for both rotational and translational movement.
US11781425B2
A datalink tool comprising an MWD-connected assembly disposed to move relative to an LWD-connected assembly. A hardwired electrical connection is provided between the MWD-connected and LWD-connected assemblies. An oil space is provided such that at least part of the hardwired electrical connection is configured to be immersed in a nonconductive oil contained inside the oil space. A compensator sleeve contributes at least in part to isolation of nonconductive oil in the oil space from drilling fluid residing outside the space. In some deployments, the drilling fluid may be conductive. The compensator sleeve is disposed to expand and relax in response to pressure variations in the drilling fluid, thereby attenuating a corresponding effect of the pressure variations in the nonconductive oil inside the oil space.
US11781424B2
A downhole tool system includes a downhole tool that includes a tool body configured to move within a wellbore, a depth detection sub-assembly and configured to generate a signal based on a known depth location of the tool body in the wellbore, an acoustic transmitter sub-assembly including an acoustic pinger configured to generate acoustic pulses, and a measurement and control sub-assembly configured to receive the signal from the depth detection sub-assembly and, based on the signal, activate the acoustic transmitter sub-assembly to initiate the acoustic pulses from the acoustic pinger. The system further includes a control system that includes a fiber optic interrogator communicably coupled to a fiber strand installed in the wellbore and configured to determine a travel time of the tool body along the fiber strand or a particular distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) channel of a plurality of DAS channels based on a detection of at least one disturbance in the fiber strand caused by the acoustic pulses.
US11781421B2
Methods, devices and systems are disclosed for magnetically ranging while drilling with a coiled tubing unit or drill pipe by way of a an electrically conducive but environmentally electrically insulated wire installed through a coiled tubing spool or drill pipe complete with electrically insulative subs in the coiled tubing bottom hole assembly or drill pipe. The method and systems allow for the injection of excitation current into the formation by way of selectively electrifying various drill stem components, thereby facilitating current collection on a target tubular which radially emanates a magnetic field about the target well tubular(s). The method and devices allow for the construction of complex downhole current injection configurations which allow for modification of the bottom hole assembly to maximize target well signal generation in the presence of adverse environmental conditions.
US11781414B2
The present invention relates to a modified MPD vessel which allows the coupling of identical secondary MPD vessels, which can house either sand filter and/or sand cyclonic MPD internals, to the vessel without the need for any vessel or pipework modifications whereby, a plurality of these MPD vessels can be further coupled using identical inlet and outlet configurations. This configuration of MPD vessels allows for improved means for removing produced solids from a hydrocarbon fluid stream and allows for a vastly more flexible system as a whole.
US11781413B2
A method for performing an acid stimulation operation using a downhole tool includes conveying the downhole tool in a borehole that is formed in a subsurface formation. The downhole tool includes a chamber to store stimulation fluid comprising a stimulation acid. The downhole tool includes a fluid injector that is fluidly coupled to an output of the chamber via a flow line of the downhole tool. The method includes coating the flow line with an acid resistant fluid. The method includes injecting, from the fluid injector via the flow line, the stimulation fluid into the subsurface formation that is released through the output of the chamber.
US11781409B2
A formation-fracking system has an gas/fluid accumulator, one or more pumps for pumping a fracking fluid, a fracking string extending to a subterranean formation and defining a fracking channel and a circulation channel, a valve subsystem coupling the pumps to the gas/fluid accumulator and the fracking string, and a bypass valve in fluid communication with the fracking channel and a fracking section. The valve subsystem alternately transitions between a first state for directing fracking fluid from the pumps and the gas/fluid accumulator to the fracking channel to create a kinetic-energy surge, and a second state for directing fracking fluid from the pumps to the gas/fluid accumulator for storing energy therein and for fracturing the formation using the kinetic-energy surge. The bypass valve enables a bypass channel fluidly connecting the fracking channel to the circulation channel in the first state and abruptly disables the bypass channel in the second state.
US11781403B2
A perforation assembly includes a perforation tool and a propulsion unit coupled to the perforation tool, the propulsion unit comprising an impeller and a protective structure disposed around the impeller.
US11781397B2
An inventive lock open device for use with a poppet type check valve is disclosed. The device permits bidirectional flow of fluid or gas by defeating the check valve sealing device which permits hydrostatic testing without the need for check valve disassembly or the need for additional tooling.
US11781386B2
A mud loss treatment drilling tool includes the tool having an upper tooljoint to a lower end of an above drill pipe string, one or more tanks with a through channel for a drilling fluid flow, a lower tooljoint connected to a BHA assembly at least comprising a drill bit; the tank arranged for holding a swellable sealant agent; the swellable sealant agent arranged for mixing with water to swell; the tank provided with an outlet to the through channel for the swellable sealant agent, so as for, when an undesired mud loss is detected, for flushing all or part of the swellable sealant agent into the through channel, so as for a mixture of the swellable agent and the water to start reacting to swell during the time it takes the mixture to reach a fracture extending from a well under drilling by said BHA, so as for continuing to swell and block the fracture to stop the undesired mud loss.
US11781382B2
A drilling mechanism of a coring drilling rig has a central rod, a fluid channel starting module, an outer barrel, an outer barrel unlocking module, a flow diverging module and a drill bit. The central rod penetrates the fluid channel starting module. The outer barrel unlocking module and an inner cavity of the flow diverging module from back to front. The fluid channel starting module is behind the outer barrel and is connected to the outer barrel unlocking module. The flow diverging module is in front of the outer barrel unlocking module, and a hydraulic motor is connected in front of the flow diverging module. The outer barrel has a driving section that is a rotor of the hydraulic motor. The outer wall of the outer barrel is fixedly connected to a centralizer, and the front end of the outer barrel is connected to the drill bit.
US11781365B2
Another implementation of the present disclosure is a refuse vehicle. The refuse vehicle includes a chassis, a body coupled with the chassis, a tailgate, an electric lock, and a fully electric tailgate actuator assembly. The body assembly defines a refuse compartment. The tailgate is coupled with a rear of the body and is transitionable between a first position to limit access to the refuse compartment and a second position to allow access to the refuse compartment. The electric lock is operable between an engaged state and a disengaged state to limit movement of the tailgate out of the first position when the electric lock is in the engaged state. The fully electric tailgate actuator assembly is configured to transition the tailgate between the first position and the second position.
US11781363B2
An optoelectronic safety device for monitoring a machine movement includes a detection device and a control device. The detection device includes a transmitter unit which transmits an optical signal having a sequence of signal pulses, each of which has a different pulse intensity, and a receiver unit which receives the optical signal. The control device includes an evaluation unit which evaluates the optical signal received by the receiver unit, a pulse selection index, and a pulse selection unit which changes the pulse selection index if the pulse intensity of one of the signal pulses is outside of an optimal intensity range. The control device enables the machine movement if an intensity of a received signal is within a permissible intensity range, and outputs a trigger pulse to stop the machine movement if the intensity of the received signal is outside of the permissible intensity range.
US11781351B2
A door-lock device for appliances, such as dishwashers, is provided. The door-lock device includes a support, and a lock wheel rotationally carried by the support around an axis of rotation. The lock wheel includes a hub and a plurality of locking arms that radially protrude from the hub. The hub may include a plurality of retention surfaces, and at least one retention element. The at least one retention element may be elastically pressed into contact with the hub to hold the lock wheel in a plurality of locking positions.
US11781346B2
A latch structure according to an embodiment includes a body, a locking body, a latch head, a plunger, and a latch stopper. The body is disposed inside a door. The locking body moves in response to an external operation. The latch head protrudes from the body to maintain the door in a closed position, and rotates when the locking body is spaced apart at least a predetermined distance. The plunger retracts into the body to prevent the latch head from rotating while the door is being closed. The latch stopper prevents the protruding latch head from retracting into the body when the plunger is maintained within the body.
US11781343B2
A tubular lock assembly has a tubular lock, a cover, and a disassembling unit. The tubular lock has an annular keyhole and a cover screw hole enclosed by the keyhole. The cover is detachably assembled with the tubular lock, and has a covering board segment, a screw rod segment, and a first fitting segment. The covering board segment covers the keyhole. The screw rod segment is detachably screwed in the cover screw hole of the tubular lock. The first fitting segment is formed on the covering board segment. The disassembling unit has a second fitting segment. The second fitting segment corresponds in shape and size with the first fitting segment of the cover, such that the second fitting segment is adapted to engage with the first fitting segment, and the disassembling unit is capable of rotating the cover.
US11781333B2
Skimming devices may use pressurized water from, for example, a return line of a swimming pool or spa. The devices may be adjustable vertically and levelled relative to an upper water surface (waterline) of a pool. They additionally may create “blades” of debris-laden pool water entering their floating heads so as to move debris smoothly and efficiently over wings or foils into associated filters.
US11781318B2
A ceiling panel of which both end portions in a second direction are held on a ceiling base having a long shape extending in a first direction and being provided in parallel spaced in a second direction the ceiling panel includes a panel body, a hooked portion, and a hooking portion. The hooking portion has a folded part formed by being bent into a room side from a tip end portion in an extending direction of an extension portion extending outward in the first direction from the second end portion in the first direction, and by being further folded inward in the first direction, and the hooked portion keeps hooking and holding of the folded part with a second end portion in the first direction of an adjacent ceiling panel to be provided in the first direction being positioned upward further than the first end portion in the first direction.
US11781311B2
A method of setting tile includes constructing a floor panel and a plurality of wall panels and attaching each of the plurality of wall panels to either the floor panel or one of the other wall panels with a waterproof caulk. Each of the wall panels includes a first rigid layer, a second rigid layer attached to the first rigid layer by a thinset mortar, and a waterproofing layer formed of a flexible material and attached to the second rigid layer by the thinset mortar.
US11781310B1
A method of unloading a modular home from a trailer includes extending a plurality of linear actuators coupled to overhanging portions of a modular home positioned on a bed of a trailer until the linear actuators lift the modular home off of the trailer, sending instructions to one or more crawlers to move under the modular home, retracting the linear actuators to lower the modular home such that a lower surface of the modular home rests on a platform positioned on each of the crawlers, sending instructions to the crawlers to move the modular home to an installation location, extending the linear actuators until the linear actuators lift the modular home off of the crawlers, sending instructions to the crawlers to move out from under the modular home, and retracting the linear actuators to lower the modular home to an installed height.
US11781309B2
A bearing clip for joining a truss to a bearing material is disclosed. The bearing clip includes a base portion, a vertical portion, and at least one wing. The base portion includes a back end, sides adjacent to the back end and a bottom surface. The vertical portion extends from the back end of the base portion in a first direction away from the bottom surface. The at least one wing extends from a side of the base portion at an obtuse angle and at least partially in the first direction.
US11781306B2
Fluid stream management systems and methods relating thereto are described. The fluid management system includes: (1) one or more storage chambers; (2) two or more flow condition attribute measuring devices configured to measures certain flow condition attribute values; (3) one or more flow controllers that are communicatively coupled to receive the flow condition attribute values and use them to establish certain cost functions; and (4) one or more flow-modifying devices, each of which is coupled to at least one of the flow controllers, and based upon instruction received from at least one of the flow controllers, the flow-modifying device is capable of modifying flow of fluid through one or more of the flow-modifying devices to minimize a difference between the established cost functions.
US11781291B2
The working machine includes an operator seat, an armrest arranged adjacent to the operator seat, an operation lever arranged in front of the armrest, and a jug dial arranged adjacent to the operation lever. The jog dial is arranged on a position allowing an operator seated on the operator seat to operate the operation lever and the jog dial with an arm placed on the armrest.
US11781290B2
A shovel includes a lower traveling body, an upper turning body turnably mounted on the lower traveling body, a cab provided on the upper turning body, an orientation detector configured to detect the relative relationship between the orientation of the upper turning body and the orientation of the lower traveling body, and an alarm device configured to output an alarm when a backward travel operation is performed while it is detected by the orientation detector that the orientation of the upper turning body and the orientation of the lower traveling body are in a predetermined relationship. The backward travel operation is an operation to cause the lower traveling body to travel in the backward direction of the upper turning body.
US11781281B2
Embodiments described herein relate to construction of subsurface structural elements that are configured to redirect soil forces. For instance, a form may be used to construct a subsurface structural element such that the subsurface structural element redirects soil forces to vertically displace a foundation rather than have the soil forces crack or otherwise damage the foundation.
US11781280B2
A subgrade with local deep excavation and backfilling structure and a rapid construction method thereof are provided. Supporting cast-in-place piles are laid at positions where an underground pipe gallery is located in a subgrade structure, and soil there between are longitudinally excavated to form a line-shaped foundation pit. A bottom of the line-shaped deep foundation pit is reinforced to support the underground pipe gallery, and lateral peripheral regions and top peripheral regions of the underground pipe gallery are backfilled with block geobag reinforced fillers. Geogrids are placed on the top of the underground pipe gallery, then backfilling compaction and reinforcing are performed, and the geogrids are fixedly assembled with anchor bolts. The construction method is simple and easy. By using compacted block geobag reinforced fillers and cement solidified slurry, an overall quality of the subgrade structure after backfilling can be ensured, and construction period and cost can be greatly reduced.
US11781277B1
A dam according to the present disclosure includes a main dam including a first reservoir, and at least one first discharge part configured to discharge water stored in the first reservoir, an auxiliary dam spaced apart from the main dam at a predetermined interval and including a second reservoir configured to store the water discharged from the main dam, and at least one second discharge part configured to discharge the water stored in the second reservoir, and an underground water path being provided separately at a lower side of a bottom surface of the river or stream under a lower side of the second reservoir, and including a third discharge part.
US11781274B2
The present invention relates to a roadblock for temporary installation to block traffic and/or as a security precaution, including: an elongated casing with two opposing longitudinal side walls and an, the two side walls joining, upper wall; and at least one casing support structure located in the elongate casing and connecting to both the side walls; supports for resting on the ground/surface connected to the lower side of the elongate casing and/or the lower side of the casing support structure, and plural stabilisation arms protruding from one of the longitudinal side walls.
US11781247B2
The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for targeting antigenically variable pathogens and diseases. Embodiments of the present disclosure involve of the construction of variable epitope libraries (VELs) containing mutated versions of epitopes derived from antigens associated with various diseases for treating subjects in both therapeutic and prophylactic settings. The present disclosure also provides compositions and methods for the production of VELs based on CTL-derived epitopes of survivin, an oncogenic inhibitor-of-apoptosis. Given the large number of potential epitopes expressed in tumors, and the dynamic nature of the tumor epitope landscape, there is a need to develop compositions and methods for targeting various antigenic epitopes to counteract immune escape.
US11781246B2
In a case where a detector is positioned in a [11-20] direction, and where a first measurement region including a center of a main surface is irradiated with an X ray in a direction within ±15° relative to a [−1-120] direction, a ratio of a maximum intensity of a first intensity profile is more than or equal to 1500. In a case where the detector is positioned in a direction parallel to a [−1100] direction, and where the first measurement region is irradiated with an X ray in a direction within ±6° relative to a [1-100] direction, a ratio of a maximum intensity of a second intensity profile is more than or equal to 1500. An absolute value of a difference between maximum value and minimum value of energy at which the first intensity profile indicates a maximum value is less than or equal to 0.06 keV.
US11781240B2
The invention discloses a method for preparing an indium phosphide crystal by using an indium-phosphorus mixture, belongs to the technical field of semiconductors, and comprises the steps of preparing an indium-phosphorus mixed ball, charging, maintaining the high furnace pressure and the low temperature of the indium-phosphorus mixed ball, melting a covering agent, feeding, synthesizing and crystal growing, which is synthesized by directly melting the proportioned indium-phosphorus mixed ball. Indium powder and phosphorus powder are uniformly mixed and pressed into spherical indium-phosphorus mixed particles, then the mixture of the indium-phosphorus mixed balls and the boron oxide powder is fed into a melt with a boron oxide covering agent, and crystal growth in situ is performed after synthesis. The method has the advantages of short reaction time, high efficiency and raw material saving, which can effectively reduce the risk of contamination of materials, saves procedures and reduces the material preparation cost.
US11781232B2
An aqueous electroplating bath is disclosed. The aqueous trivalent chromium bath comprises:—trivalent chromium cations in an amount of 0.12-0.276 mol/l,—ammonium ions in an amount of 4.0-6.0 mol/l, and—carboxylate ions in an amount of 2.0-7.4 mol/l, and the molar ratio of trivalent chromium cations to the carboxylate ions is 0.016-0.099, and the pH of the aqueous trivalent chromium bath is 2-6.
US11781230B2
The present invention relates to a photo-electrochemical device for production of a gas, liquid or solid using concentrated electromagnetic irradiation. The device comprises a photovoltaic component configured to generate charge carriers from the concentrated electromagnetic irradiation; and an electrochemical component configured to carry out electrolysis of a reactant. The photovoltaic component contacts the electrochemical component at a solid interface to form an integrated photo-electrochemical device; and further includes at least one reactant channel or a plurality of reactant channels extending between the photovoltaic component and the electrochemical component to transfer heat and the reactant from the photovoltaic component to the electrochemical component. The integrated photo-electrochemical device and auxiliary devices (such as concentrator, flow controllers) build a system which can flexibly react to changes in operating condition and guarantee best performance.
US11781228B2
A method for manufacturing a sulfuric acid solution includes supplying a chloride ion-containing sulfuric acid solution as an initial electrolyte in an electrolyzer inside of which is divided into an anode chamber and a cathode chamber by a diaphragm; and subsequently taking out a metal dissolved electrolyte in which a metal constituting the anode is dissolved from the anode chamber while supplying a current to an anode and a cathode disposed in the electrolyzer.
US11781225B2
Methods for reducing scale deposition are provided. An exemplary method for reducing scale in an oilfield facility includes contacting a metallic surface with a production fluid including a film-forming surfactant selected from imidazolines, imidazolidines, amidoamines, isoxazolidines, fatty amines, α,β-unsaturated aldehydes, salts thereof, and combinations thereof, the production fluid including the film-forming surfactant in a concentration of at least about 200 ppm.
US11781217B2
The present invention discloses a transient sensor using molybdenum disulfide and a method of manufacturing the same. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the transient sensor using molybdenum disulfide includes a water-soluble substrate; a water-soluble insulating layer deposited on the water-soluble substrate; an electrode layer formed of any one of molybdenum (Mo) and magnesium (Mg) and formed on the water-soluble insulating layer; and a channel layer formed of molybdenum disulfide and formed on the water-soluble insulating layer to be connected to the electrode layer. In addition, when the transient sensor is inserted into living matter, the transient sensor can be dissolved within a critical time in the living matter.
US11781206B2
Disclosed herein is a composite comprising a metal alloy matrix; where the metal alloy matrix comprises aluminum in an amount greater than 50 atomic percent; a first metal and a second metal; where the first metal is different from the second metal; and where the metal alloy matrix comprises a low temperature melting phase and a high temperature melting phase; where the low temperature melting phase melts at a temperature that is lower than the high temperature melting phase; and a contracting constituent; where the contracting constituent exerts a compressive force on the metal alloy matrix at a temperature between a melting point of the low temperature melting phase and a melting point of the high temperature melting phase or below the melting points of the high and low temperature melting phases.
US11781205B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to the production of bulk amorphous metal (BAM) alloys comprising chromium, manganese, molybdenum, tungsten, silicon, carbon, boron, and the balance of iron to replace tungsten carbide-based welded material. The BAM alloy embodied herein can be applied through PTA welding, HVOF, TWAS, flame spraying, plasma spraying, laser, their combinations, and other coating and welding processes. When used as welded material, the density of the embodiment of around 7 grams per CC, which is less dense than the tungsten carbide customarily used, resulting in even hard faces during welding spread uniformly across the weld, therefore creating a harder and more wear-resistant weld.
US11781201B2
An aluminum alloy material according to an embodiment of the present invention is an aluminum alloy including a grain boundary and a plurality of grains divided by the grain boundary, and having a face-centered cubic crystal structure, and includes a band formed by employing one or more non-metallic elements selected from oxygen (O), carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) in an aluminum matrix. Each of the grains includes a plurality of sub-grains divided by a low-angle grain boundary (LAGB), and a band positioned at the low-angle grain boundary may form a coherent interface with an aluminum matrix. Since a plurality of dislocations already are present in the band, a dislocation cell size is reduced during plastic deformation, which greatly contributes to an improvement in elongation. Such an aluminum alloy material can be subjected to cold rolling at a high reduction rate, and as a result, a plate having significantly improved elongation can be obtained.
US11781200B2
A plated steel including a plated layer on a surface of a steel, in which Expression 1 of 0≤Cr+Ti+Ni+Co+V+Nb+Cu+Mn≤0.25 and Expression 2 of 0≤Sr+Sb+Pb+B+Li+Zr+Mo+W+Ag+P≤0.50 are satisfied, and Expression 3 of I(MgZn2 (41.31°))/IΣ(MgZn2)≤0.265 and Expression 6 of 0.150≤{I(MgZn2 (20.79°))+I(MgZn2 (42.24°))}/IΣ(MgZn2) are further satisfied in an X-ray diffraction pattern of a surface of the plated layer measured using Cu-Kα rays under a condition that an X-ray output is 40 kV and 150 mA.
US11781185B2
Provided herein are fluorescently-labeled nucleotide conjugates for nucleic acid analysis. Also provided are reagents used for forming binding complexes between a fluorescently-labeled nucleotide conjugate and a target nucleic acid sequence in the presence of one or more reagents disclosed herein. Binding complexes can be detected in the presence of the one or more reagents. For example, the one or more reagents may contain a photobleaching reducing agent configured to reduce photobleaching resulting from use of the fluorescently-labeled nucleotide conjugate to form the binding complex in a nucleic acid analysis. Such nucleic acid analysis may be used to identify sites of nucleobase binding or incorporation between the target nucleic acid sequence and one or more nucleotide moieties of the fluorescently-labeled nucleotide conjugate in a nucleic acid sequence reaction.
US11781184B2
The invention relates to methods for pairwise sequencing of a double-stranded polynucleotide template, which permit the sequential determination of nucleotide sequences in two distinct and separate regions on complementary strands of the double-stranded polynucleotide template. The two regions for sequence determination may or may not be complementary to each other.
US11781183B2
Methods of determining the origin of cell free DNA (cfDNA), for detecting death of a cell type or tissue in a subject, for determining a cellular state of a cell as it died, and combinations thereof, are provided. As are computer program products for doing same.
US11781176B2
A method of reducing the abundance of a non-target micro-RNA (miRNA) that is part of a group of miRNAs is provided, including: (a) annealing a complementary region of a blocking nucleic acid to a binding site at a first end of the unwanted miRNA, ligating an adenylated nucleic acid adapter to the group of miRNAs, and performing RT-PCR on group of miRNAs. Kits and compounds for use with the method are also provided.
US11781174B2
Method and system for quantifying target nucleic acids using real-time amplification and internal calibration adjustment. The approach employs a single fixed data point in combination with a single adjustment calibrator amplified on the instrument that is to be calibrated for approximating a complete calibration curve.
US11781172B2
The invention provides for systems, methods, and compositions for targeting nucleic acids. In particular, the invention provides non-naturally occurring or engineered DNA-targeting systems comprising a novel DNA-targeting CRISPR effector protein and at least one targeting nucleic acid component like a guide RNA. Methods for making and using and uses of such systems, methods, and compositions and products from such methods and uses are also disclosed and claimed.
US11781168B2
Described are processes for preparing substituted imidazo[1,2-a]pyrazine compounds of formula (I): by reacting a compound of formula (xi): with carbonyldiimidazole to form the compound of formula (I).
US11781163B2
Provided microorganisms genetically modified to overexpress an imine/enamine deaminase to enhance the production of lysine and lysine derivatives by the microorganism. Also provided a method of generating such microorganism, and methods of producing lysine and lysine derivatives using the genetically modified microorganisms.
US11781162B2
A process for production of biofuels from algae can include cultivating an oil-producing algae by promoting sequential photoautotrophic and heterotrophic growth. The method can further include producing oil by heterotrophic growth of algae wherein the heterotrophic algae growth is achieved by introducing a sugar feed to the oil-producing algae. An algal oil can be extracted from the oil-producing algae, and can be converted to form biodiesel.
US11781149B2
Embodiments disclosed herein provide artificial expression systems comprising multivalent transcription factor complexes for cooperative transcription factor assembly and modulating gene expression. More specifically, engineered synthetic transcription factors are recruited and structurally organized on synthetic gene circuits using molecular clamps, where the strength of intra-complex interactions can be modulated for fine tuning of gene expression as desired.
US11781142B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to methods and compositions for treating pancreatic cancer (e.g., islet cell tumors). In some aspects, adeno-associated virus (AAV) may be used to deliver an interfering RNA that targets thymidylate synthase (TS).
US11781138B2
The present disclosure relates to compositions, such as siRNA molecules and FN3 domains conjugated to the same, as well as methods of making and using the molecules.
US11781133B2
Provided herein is a method for manufacturing a microarray system, for example, 3-dimensional lattice microarray system, for DNA sequence detection and analysis. A solid support, such as a plastic substrate, is contacted with a formulation containing a plurality of nucleic acid probes, a plurality of bifunctional polymer linkers, such as oligothymidine linkers, and a solvent mixture of water and a water-miscible liquid. The bifunctional polymer linkers are attached to the solid support and the water is evaporated. Then the nucleic acid probes are attached to the bifunctional polymer linker.
US11781109B2
The present invention relates to the field of in vitro 3D modeling of neural tissues, particularly of the brain. There is the need of developing cell culture models of neural tissue that reflect physiological aspects of neural tissue. The present invention provides methods of producing bioengineered neuronal organoids (BENOs) which form functional neuronal networks. The present invention also relates to uses and applications of the produced BENOs, e.g., in the fields of drug screening and personalized medicine.
US11781108B2
The present invention provides a method with which it is possible to directly induce nervous system cells efficiently and in a short amount of time. Because the method is easy to scale up and is not affected by the characteristics or background of the somatic cells used as material, the method enables the stable supply of nervous system cells. The nervous system cells obtained by the method are useful in various fields of research and healthcare.
US11781098B2
There is provided a method for the treatment of wood particles for use in the production of alcoholic beverages, comprising the steps of: (a) washing the wood particles with water under agitation at a temperature of at least 60° C.; wherein the wood particles may optionally already be toasted; (b) removing the water from the wood particles; (c) thermally drying the wood particles; (d) toasting the wood particles to obtain wood particles according to the invention; (e) optionally, incubating the wood particles according to the invention with an aroma-bearing liquid, the subsequent removal of any overlying aroma-bearing liquid, and, optionally, the subsequent drying the wood particles according to the invention to obtain aromatised wood particles according to the invention.
US11781092B2
Provided is a composition which has an excellent affinity with the surface of an adhesive agent and can achieve a high etching rate. The composition according to one embodiment comprises: a quaternary alkylammonium fluoride or a hydrate of a quaternary alkylammonium fluoride; and, as an aprotic solvent, (A) an N-substituted amide compound having no active hydrogen on a nitrogen atom, and (B) a dipropylene glycol dimethyl ether, wherein (B) the dipropylene glycol dimethyl ether has the percentage of a structural isomer represented by formula (1) of at least 50 mass % with respect to the total amount of (B) the dipropylene glycol dimethyl ether.
US11781088B2
The presently claimed invention relates to a process for the production and purification of sterols from oil distillates or oil distillation residues, in particular from the latter. Specifically, the presently claimed invention relates to a process for obtaining sterols in a pure form with reduced impurity and improved color.
US11781087B2
A lubricating composition which, when used with a device for clamping an article, such as a chuck, produces excellent lubricating properties whilst remaining strongly adhered to metal parts in a clamping mechanism of the device and showing enhanced chemical and physical resistance to fluids such as cutting fluids.
US11781078B2
Device and process for converting a feedstock of aromatic compounds, in which the feedstock is notably treated using a fractionation train (4-7), a xylenes separating unit (10) and an isomerization unit (11), and in which a pyrolysis unit (13) treats a second hydrocarbon-based feedstock, produces a pyrolysis effluent feeding the feedstock, and produces a pyrolysis gas comprising CO, CO2 and H2; an RWGS reverse water gas shift reaction section (51) treats the pyrolysis gas and produces an RWGS gas enriched in CO and in water; a fermentation reaction section (52) treats the RWGS gas enriched in CO and in water and produces ethanol; and an aromatization reaction section (14) converts the ethanol into a mixture of aromatic and paraffinic compounds feeding the feedstock.
US11781070B2
The present invention relates to mesogen compounds that include first, second, and third mesogens, in which the first and second mesogens are connected by a first linking group (-L1-), and the second and third mesogens are connected by a second linking group (-L2-), as represented by the following Formula (I), and as graphically illustrated by Formula (Ia) of FIG. 1 of the drawing: (Mesogen-1)-L1-(Mesogen-2)-L2-(Mesogen-3) (I) At least one of Mesogen-1, Mesogen-2, or Mesogen-3 include at least four cyclic groups. The linking groups -L1- and -L2- are each free of mesogen properties (are each non-mesogenic) and each independently have an average chain length of at least 20 bonds. The mesogen compounds are optionally polymerizable. The present invention also relates to liquid crystal compositions that include such mesogen compounds, and to optical elements that include such mesogen compounds, such as in one or more mesogen-containing layers.
US11781057B2
A composition for treating a formation includes a surfactant including an amphiphilic block copolymer having a first block and a second block and an acid. The amphiphilic block copolymer is a reaction product of a first monomer and a second monomer via a reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization (RAFT) in a two-step reaction using a chain transfer agent (CTA) and a radical initiator. The surfactant favors adsorption onto a surface of the formation such that a temporary barrier is formed, thereby attenuating a reaction rate between the acid and the formation.
US11781056B2
A slurry composition that includes (A) a solvent, (B) a suspension aid, (D) an alkoxylated fatty amine, (E) an active ingredient, and optionally (C) a polar activator. The slurry composition may be formulated with up to 75 wt. % of the active ingredient (E), based on a total weight of the slurry composition, and remain as a pumpable and stable suspension. A concentrated slurry base is also disclosed which includes the solvent (A), the suspension aid (B), the polar activator (C), and the alkoxylated fatty amine (D), all being present at a higher concentration in the concentrated slurry base than a slurry composition made therefrom. A method of treating a subterranean formation is also disclosed, whereby the slurry composition is mixed with an aqueous fluid to form a treatment fluid, and the treatment fluid is introduced through a wellbore penetrating the subterranean formation.
US11781055B2
Emulsions, treatment fluids and methods for treating subterranean formations are provided, wherein the emulsions comprise water, a water-immiscible liquid, one or more polymers, one or more ethoxylated amine compounds and optionally, one or more organic or inorganic salts. The emulsions are particularly suitable for use in harsh brine conditions.
US11781048B2
A one-component thermosetting epoxy resin adhesive, including a) at least one epoxy resin A of formula (II) wherein substituents R′ and R″ independently of one another are H or CH3 and index s has value of 0-12, fraction of epoxy resin A being from 20-70 wt.-%, based on total weight of one-component thermosetting epoxy resin adhesive; and b) at least one epoxy novolac EN of formula where R2= or CH2, R1=H or methyl and z=0-7, fraction of epoxy novolac EN being from 1-8 wt.-% based on total weight of one-component thermosetting epoxy resin adhesive; and c) at least one latent hardener B for epoxy resins; and d) at least one accelerator C for epoxy resins; and e) at least at least one toughness improver D, fraction of toughness improver D being from 5-40 wt.-%, based on total weight of one-component thermosetting epoxy resin adhesive.
US11781044B2
A method for producing a composite resin particle dispersion includes: performing polymerization A by polymerizing a styrene compound and a vinyl monomer other than the styrene compound to form a styrene-based resin; performing polymerization B by polymerizing a (meth)acrylic acid ester compound in the presence of the styrene-based resin to form intermediate resin particles containing the styrene-based resin and a (meth)acrylic acid ester-based resin; and performing polymerization C by polymerizing a styrene compound and a vinyl monomer other than the styrene compound in the presence of the intermediate resin particles to form composite resin particles. The mass ratio of the styrene-based resin to the (meth)acrylic acid ester-based resin in the composite resin particles is from 80:20 to 20:80. A difference between the lowest glass transition temperature and the highest glass transition temperature in the composite resin particles is 30° C. or more.
US11781042B2
Disclosed is an adhesive sheet having an adhesive layer 2 on at least a part of one side or both sides of a base 1, characterized in that a protective layer 3 is provided on at least a part of the surface of the adhesive layer 2. The adhesive layer 2 is preferably an expandable adhesive layer, and the protective layer 3 is preferably a hot-melt protective layer. The protective layer 3 may contain a functional component such as an antistatic agent, a coloring agent, a hard coating agent, a lubricant, a heat dissipating material, a metal deactivator and an antioxidant. This adhesive sheet can protect an adhesion surface and does not cause blocking and skin disorders even if a release liner is not used, and is also excellent in various functions.
US11781029B2
The invention relates to a heat-sensitive recording material, comprising a carrier substrate and a heat-sensitive colour-forming layer, which contains at least one colour former and at least one phenol-free colour developer, characterised in that the at least one colour developer is the compound of formula (A), Ar(NH—CO—NH—CO—NH—Ar1)n (A), wherein Ar is an unsubstituted or substituted phenyl or naphthyl group, Ar1 is an unsubstituted or substituted phenyl, naphthyl, pyridyl, thiazolyl or benzothiazolyl group, and n is 1 or 2.
US11781018B2
Crumb rubber obtained from recycled tires is subjected to an interlinked substitution process. The process utilizes a reactive component that interferes with sulfur bonds. The resulting treated rubber exhibits properties similar to those of the virgin composite rubber structure prior to being granulated, and is suitable for use in fabricating new tires, engineered rubber articles, and asphalt rubber for use in waterproofing and paving applications.
US11781015B2
A heat-resistant polyamide composition includes a copolyamide and an anhydride-functional polymer. The copolyamide includes the reaction product of at least one lactam and a monomer mixture. The monomer mixture includes at least one C32-C40 dimer acid, and at least one C4-C12-diamine.
US11781011B2
The present invention relates to a thermoplastic composition, comprising: A) aromatic polycarbonate and B) Ba) reinforcing fibers and/or Bb) spherical particles of oxides of metals or metalloids of the 3rd main group, 4th main group and/or 4th transition group. The composition further comprises: C) PMMI copolymer and D) phosphite stabilizer and/or phosphine stabilizer, wherein, furthermore, the proportion of B) is ≥35% by weight to ≤40% by weight and the proportion of C) is >0.1% by weight in each case based on the total weight of the composition. The invention further relates to a layered arrangement comprising a substrate layer and a reflection layer distinct from the substrate layer and at least partially covering the substrate layer, wherein the reflection layer at least partially reflects light in the wavelength range from 380 nm to 750 nm, an illumination apparatus comprising a light source and a reflector, wherein the reflector is arranged such that at least a portion of the light transmitted by the light source is reflected by the reflector, and to a process for producing a molded article.
US11781002B2
A fluorine-containing elastomer composition for a heat dissipation material, including a fluorine-containing elastomer being VdF-based fluoroelastomer having a Mooney viscosity at 121° C. of 10 or lower and an insulating thermal conductive filler. Also disclosed is a sheet obtained by molding the fluorine-containing elastomer composition.
US11780980B2
Inorganic infrared attenuation agent blends have been developed to improve the thermal insulation properties of polymeric foams such as polystyrene low density foams. The inorganic infrared attenuation agent blends can include two or more metal oxides such as silicon dioxide, manganese (IV) oxide, iron (III) oxide, magnesium oxide, bismuth (III) oxide, cobalt oxide, zirconium (IV) oxide, molybdenum (III) oxide, titanium oxide, and calcium oxide. In some preferred embodiments, the inorganic infrared attenuation agent blends can include four or more of these metal oxides.
US11780977B2
A composition having a polymer-film composition having a compound having the structure: wherein: each R is independently selected; each R is a C1-20 alkyl moiety, C2-22 alkenyl moiety, C6-40 cycloalkyl moiety, C6-40 cycloalkylene moiety, C2-20 alkyl glycol ether moiety, C10-C16 linear alkyl alcohol moiety, or Y—OH moiety; each Y is a C2-40 alkylene moiety, C6-40 cycloalkylene moiety, C2-20 alkylene glycol ether, or a C3-40 alkylene lactone; m is an integer ranging from 1 to 100; x is an integer ranging from 2 to 1,000; and the polymer-film composition having an oxidized polymer-film surface.
US11780976B2
To obtain a water-soluble film that is excellent in cold water solubility and is useful as a chemical agent package, provided is a water-soluble film, which is a polyvinyl alcohol water-soluble film including a carboxylic acid-modified polyvinyl alcohol resin (A) as a main component, wherein a lactonization rate of a carboxylic acid modifying group in the carboxylic acid-modified polyvinyl alcohol resin (A) is from 20% to 70%.
US11780969B2
A composition of matter including a crosslinked bottlebrush polymer, wherein the crosslinker units in the composition of matter are soluble with the bottlebrush polymer. In one example, the crosslinked bottlebrush polymer is tailored as a single phase (solvent free) elastomer useful in a capacitive pressure sensing device. A novel embodiment of the present invention further includes demonstration of a universal approach to form solvent-free bottlebrush polymer networks by photo-crosslinking mixtures of well-defined bottlebrush precursors and bis-benzophenone-based additives. This method has been proven effective with a wide variety of different side-chain chemistries.
US11780968B2
Hotmelt silicone compositions are provided including: (A) a resinous alkenyl group-containing organopolysiloxane component, in which the silicon atom-bonded organic groups do not include an epoxy group-containing organic group, wherein the resinous alkenyl group-containing organopolysiloxane component includes (A-1) a resinous alkenyl group-containing organopolysiloxane including at least two alkenyl groups per molecule and free from a (Ar2SiO2/2) unit, and (A-2) a resinous alkenyl group-containing organopolysiloxane including at least two alkenyl groups per molecule and at least one (Ar2SiO2/2) unit; (B) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane having at least two silicon atom-bonded hydrogen atoms per molecule; and (C) a curing catalyst. The resinous alkenyl group-containing organopolysiloxane (A-1) is included in an amount of about 5 mass % or more based on the total mass of all the organopolysiloxane components in the hotmelt silicone composition.
US11780967B2
Oxamide-functional siloxanes are prepared by reacting (A) silanes of the general formula (I) with (B) siloxanes selected from (B1) linear siloxanes of the general formula HO[SiR2O]tH (II) and (B2) cyclic compounds of the general formula (SiR42O)s (III), in the presence of (C) catalysts.
US11780966B2
A polymer article is provided that includes a first silicone component formed from (i) a first siloxane polymer comprising a first plurality of hydride-functional groups and (ii) a second siloxane polymer comprising a first plurality of vinyl-functional groups. The polymer article also includes a second silicone component formed from (i) a third siloxane polymer comprising a second plurality of hydride-functional groups and (ii) a fourth siloxane polymer comprising a second plurality of vinyl-functional groups. Lastly, the polymer includes a contact interface, between the first and second silicone components, comprising chemical crosslinks between the first siloxane polymer and the fourth siloxane polymer. Notably, a tensile strength of the polymer article across the contact interface is substantially equal to a tensile strength of the first silicone component or the second silicone component alone.
US11780964B2
Process for the manufacturing of a polymer with urethane groups, wherein in a first alternative a compound A) with at least two five-membered cyclic monothiocarbonate groups and a compound B) with at least two amino groups, selected from primary or secondary amino groups and optionally a compound C) with at least one functional group that reacts with a group —SH are reacted or wherein in a second alternative a compound A) with at least two five-membered cyclic monothiocarbonate groups or a mixture of a compound A) with a compound A1) with one five-membered cyclic monothiocarbonate group and a compound B) with at least two amino groups, selected from primary or secondary amino groups or a compound B1) with one amino group selected from primary or secondary amino groups or mixtures of compounds B) and B1) and a compound C) with at least two functional groups that react with a group —SH or in case of a carbon-carbon triple bond as functional group that react with a group —SH, a compound C) with at least one carbon-carbon triple bond. are reacted.
US11780963B2
The disclosure provides a multi-arm multi-claw polyethylene glycol derivative suitable for click chemistry reactions of general formula I, wherein R is a polyethylene glycol residue having a linear-chain structure, a Y-type structure or a multi-branched structure, R1, R2 and R3 are linking groups, P is an terminal group of non-azido non-alkynyl group, D is —N3 or —C≡CH, l is selected from an integer of 1 to 20, and m is selected from an integer of 0 to 19.
US11780950B1
The present invention is based, in part, on the discovery that the polymeric materials described herein produce polyurethane copolymers with advantageous optical properties. In particular embodiments, polyurethane copolymers comprise repeating units of isosorbide and a difunctional linker where the difunctional linkers can be diisocyanate, diisothiocyanate, dicarboxylic acid, and other monomers. Some of the advantageous optical properties of these polymeric materials include a refractive index of about 1.5 and an Abbe value of at least about 50. Also described are methods for producing these polyurethane copolymers.
US11780947B2
The present invention provides a photocurable composition for use in stereolithography, the photocurable composition including: a (meth)acrylic monomer (X) that is at least one selected from the group consisting of di(meth)acrylic monomers containing, within one molecule, two aromatic rings and two (meth)acryloyloxy groups, and that has a weight average molecular weight of from 400 to 580; a (meth)acrylic monomer (D) that is at least one selected from the group consisting of (meth)acrylic monomers containing, within one molecule, at least one aromatic ring and one (meth)acryloyloxy group, and that has a weight average molecular weight of from 140 to 350; and a photopolymerization initiator.
US11780946B2
An alternating copolymer including a structural unit (a0-1) represented by general formula (a0-1) and a structural unit (a0-2) represented by general formula (a0-2) in which Rp01 represents a hydrogen atom or the like; Vp01 represents a single bond or a divalent linking group; Rp02 and Rp03 each independently represents a hydrocarbon group which may have a substituent, or Rp02 and Rp03 are mutually bonded to form a ring; Rp04 represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-C5 alkyl group or a C1-C5 halogenated alkyl group; Rp05 represents an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a halogen atom, a halogenated alkyl group, a cyano group or a hydroxy group; Rp06 represents a linear or branched aliphatic hydrocarbon group; and m represents an integer of 0 to 4
US11780945B2
A binder for preparing a positive electrode of a lithium-sulfur secondary battery, a composition including the binder, a positive electrode including the composition and a lithium-sulfur secondary battery including the positive electrode. The binder includes an acrylic polymer, and the acrylic polymer includes a unit formed from a hydroxyphenyl-based monomer or a disulfide-based monomer. The acrylic polymer may include 1 to 20 wt. % of units formed from the hydroxyphenyl-based monomer. The acrylic polymer may include 1 to 20 wt. % of units formed from the disulfide-based monomer. Such a battery has increased long-term stability due to suppression of leaching of the sulfur-based materials by absorption of lithium polysulfides.
US11780938B2
Cationic polymers are provided that comprise monomeric units of Formula (V). (V) Each asterisk (*) indicates an attachment position to another monomeric unit; R is hydrogen or methyl; each R2 is each independently an alkyl, aryl, or a combination thereof; L is a linking group comprising an alkylene group; and +R3 is a cationic nitrogen-containing group free of any N—H bonds. Membranes formed from said cationic polymers, devices including such membranes, and methods of making such cationic polymers are also provided.
US11780919B2
The invention relates to novel bispecific antigen binding molecules, comprising at least two antigen binding domains capable of specific binding to OX40 and a particular antigen binding domain capable of specific binding to Fibroblast Activation Protein (FAP), and to methods of producing these molecules and to methods of using the same.
US11780916B2
Provided herein are a gastric inhibitory polypeptide receptor (GIPR) antibody and its fusion protein with glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), and a pharmaceutical composition thereof. Also provided herein is a method for using the GIPR antibody and its fusion protein with GLP-1 to treat, prevent or improve one or more symptoms of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, type 2 diabetes or obesity.
US11780913B2
The present invention is directed to antigen binding proteins and in particular to IL-1β antigen binding proteins. The present invention further provides compositions comprising the antigen binding proteins, use of the antigen binding proteins and methods for production.
US11780904B2
Among other aspects, the present invention relates to cell culture conditions for producing high molecular weight vWF, in particular, highly multimericWF with a high specific activity and ADAMTS13 with a high specific activity. The cell culture conditions of the present invention can include, for example, a cell culture medium with an increased copper concentration and/or cell culture supernatant with a low ammonium (NH4+) concentration. The present invention also provides methods for cultivating cells in the cell culture conditions to express high molecular weight vWF and rA13 having high specific activities.
US11780898B2
Diagnosis, treatment and prophylaxis of diseases and conditions associated with smooth muscle cell (SMC) dysfunction are provided through the inhibition of IL-11-mediated signalling.
US11780889B2
A new species of circovirus, porcine circovirus type 3 (PCV3), was identified from sows with clinical symptoms normally associated with porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) infection and in aborted fetuses. Molecular and serological analyses suggest PCV3 commonly circulates in U.S. swine. The present disclosure provides immunological compositions and methods related to the production and administration of such compositions.
US11780887B2
A new species of circovirus, porcine circovirus type 3 (PCV3), was identified from sows with clinical symptoms normally associated with porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) infection and in aborted fetuses. Molecular and serological analyses suggest PCV3 commonly circulates in U.S. swine. The present disclosure provides immunological compositions and methods related to the production and administration of such compositions.
US11780884B2
The Rubella Virus Spike construct comprises at least one E1 component and one E2 component, which are linked together. The E1 component consists of the El envelope protein, whose C-terminal transmembrane region and intravirional domain are removed and whose N-terminus comprises the ectodomain of the El envelope protein. The E2 component consists of the E2 envelope protein whose transmembrane regions and intravirional domain removed and whose C-terminus comprising the ectodomain of the E2 envelope protein. The C-terminus of the E2 component is connected to the N-terminus of the E1 component by direct fusion or by means of a linker to form an E1-E2 fusion protein.
US11780880B2
The present disclosure provides a high-activity memory-improving derivative peptide and use thereof in preparation of memory-improving medicaments, health care products or foods, and belongs to the field of biotechnology. According to the present disclosure, proline 3 (Pro3) of a pine nut high-activity memory-improving peptide, WYPGK, is completely substituted with common amino acids to obtain 19 derivative peptides, and the derivative peptides are subjected to molecular docking with mitochondrial deacetylase sirtuin 3 and are screened by binding energy to obtain derivative peptides WYEGK, WYKGK, WYSGK, and WYFGK; solid-phase chemical synthesis is conducted by a peptide synthesizer; the derivative peptides are purified by reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) and prepared by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS). Morris water maze for scopolamine-induced memory impairment model mice demonstrates that the derivative peptides have high memory-improving activity.
US11780877B2
The present invention provides a method of sugar-guided modifying a glycosylated polypeptide. First, a boronic acid group of a probe molecule and a sugar group of the glycosylated polypeptide form a first covalent bond. Next, an alkyne group of a modifying group and an azide group of the probe molecule form a second covalent bond by adding a promoter. As a result, the modifying group can be close to the glycosylated polypeptide. Then, the modifying group can bind to a nucleophilic residue that is near the sugar group, through a nucleophilic addition reaction. The method of the present invention can selectively modify a given site with the guidance of the sugar group.
US11780876B2
A method of preparing a complete protein by the addition of essential amino acids to an incomplete protein can include calculating an amount of each essential amino acid to be added to an incomplete protein and adding the calculated amount of each essential amino acid to the incomplete protein. The calculations can be done using a particular equation, described herein.
US11780875B2
Described herein are steroids of Formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; wherein R1, R2a, R2b, R3, R4, R5a, R5b, R6, and Z are as defined herein. Such compounds are contemplated useful for the prevention and treatment of a variety of CNS-related conditions, for example, treatment of sleep disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia spectrum disorders, convulsive disorders, disorders of memory and/or cognition, movement disorders, personality disorders, autism spectrum disorders, pain, traumatic brain injury, vascular diseases, substance abuse disorders and/or withdrawal syndromes, and tinnitus.
US11780874B2
A nucleoside that is more practical for RNA pharmaceuticals and other applications and use thereof is represented by formula (1) or (2) below, or a salt thereof: (In formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a hydroxyl group in which a hydrogen atom is substituted by an alkyl group or alkenyl group, or a protected group, and in formula (2), X represents a halogen atom. In formula (1) and formula (2), R2 and R3 may be the same or different, and each represents a hydrogen atom etc., R4 represents NHR7 (in which R7 represents a hydrogen atom etc., and B represent represents any of a purine-9-yl group, 2-oxo-pyrimidin-1-yl group, substituted purine-9-yl group or substituted 2-oxo-pyrimidin-1-yl group).
US11780844B2
Compounds and methods of using said compounds, singly or in combination with additional agents, and salts or pharmaceutical compositions of said compounds for the treatment of viral infections are disclosed.
US11780841B2
The present disclosure provides a compound that is useful for the treatment and prophylaxis of rabies. The present disclosure provides a compound represented by formula XXIIF or formula XXIIB: wherein R1, R2A, R2B, R3, and R4 are defined in the specification, a solvent, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, use of such a compound, solvate, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof for the treatment or prophylaxis of rabies and cancer, a pharmaceutical composition comprising such a compound, solvate, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a method for the treatment or prophylaxis of rabies and cancer using the same.
US11780838B1
The pyrrolo[3,2-b]quinoline compounds are antibacterial agents. The emergence of drug-resistant bacteria calls for constant development of new antibacterial agents with the aim of generating medicaments that are potent against drug sensitive and resistant bacteria and are well tolerated. The present compounds are not only new, but have very valuable antimicrobial properties. These compounds showed a broad spectrum of activity against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, as well tuberculosis mycobacteria. They also showed potent activity against drug-resistant bacteria, such as MRSA and VRSA. The molecular target of these compounds was identified as DNA Gyrase B. Based on their pharmacological profiles, the present compounds may find important clinical applications for severe infectious diseases and tuberculosis.
US11780836B2
The present invention relates to processes of preparing PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor (R)-1-((7-cyano-2-(3′-(3-(((R)-3-hydroxypyrrolidin-1-yl)methyl)-1,7-naphthyridin-8-ylamino)-2,2′-dimethylbiphenyl-3-yl)benzo[d]oxazol-5-yl)methyl)pyrrolidine-3-carboxylic acid, or salts thereof, related synthetic intermediates, and salts of the intermediates, where the PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor is useful in the treatment of various diseases including infectious diseases and cancer.
US11780833B2
Compounds are provided herein which are emetine derivatives that can be used as prodrugs which selectively undergo activation to release emetine in specific cellular conditions. In one aspect, a blocking group is incorporated onto the emetine molecule by the derivization of the N2′-position with moieties that can be selectively removed by hydrolysis in the cancer/tumor microenvironment. Such compounds are less cytotoxic than emetine and are substantially inactive in non-cancerous cells. In one aspect, the compounds described herein can be used for the treatment of metastatic and non-metastatic cancers, including, for example, breast cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer, and leukemia.
US11780829B2
A compound of Formula X wherein ring A is absent, or present and selected from a 5-membered or 6-membered, carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring, which is optionally substituted; ring B is absent, or present and selected from a 5-membered or 6-membered, carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring, which is optionally substituted; and at least one of ring A or ring B is present, and the hash line represents ring A fused to ring N—W1—W3 and ring B fused to ring N—W4—W6; W1, W2, W3, W4, W5, and W6 are independently selected from CR1 or N; Z is selected from CRZ or N; and Y is selected from a group consisting of C(R2)2, B(R2)2, Al(R2)2, Si(R2)2, and Ge(R2)2. An optoelectronic device selected from the group consisting of a photovoltaic device, a photodetector device, a photosensitive device, and an OLED, the optoelectronic device including an organic layer that comprises a compound of Formula X. A consumer product that includes the optoelectronic device.
US11780824B2
Provided herein are improved processes and methods for preparing osimertinib or a salt thereof, in particular osimertinib mesylate. The improved process removes the necessity of isolating the unstable aniline intermediate of formula (III) and enables the direct coupling to form the amide product of formula (II): The present invention is suitable for a large-scale production, avoiding the isolation of unstable intermediate, thereby providing osimertinib or a mesylate salt thereof in both high yields and high purity.
US11780822B2
The present disclosure relates to various solid-state forms of N-hydroxy 2-{6-[(6-fluoro-quinolin-2-ylmethyl)-amino]-3-aza-bicyclo[3.1.0]hex-3-yl}pyrimidine-5-carboxamide and methods of making the same. Such forms of N-hydroxy 2-{6-[(6-fluoro-quinolin-2-ylmethyl)-amino]-3-aza-bicyclo[3.1.0]hex-3-yl}pyrimidine-5-carboxamide are useful in preparation of pharmaceutical compositions and dosage forms for the treatment of cancer, immune disorders and inflammation.
US11780815B2
Disclosed herein, inter alia, are compositions and methods for inhibiting DNA2.
US11780812B2
Oxopyridine derivatives useful as aminocarboxymuconate semialdehyde decarboxylase (ACMSD) inhibitors
The present invention is related to a compound represented by the following structural formula: The present invention is also related a method of treating a subject with a disease which can be ameliorated by inhibition of aminocarboxymuconate semialdehyde decarboxylase (ACMSD).
US11780810B2
A preparation method according to the present invention makes it possible to industrially produce large amounts of highly pure optically active tert-butyl 3-methyl-4-oxopiperidine-1-carboxylate in high yield by use of commercially available reagents and solvents. In addition, the use of novel intermediates according to the present invention makes it possible to produce highly pure optically active tert-butyl 3-methyl-4-oxopiperidine-1-carboxylate in high yield.
US11780804B2
Provided herein are processes for purifying TCH in a feed stream, such as an adiponitrile process stream. The processes include a first separating step of separating the adiponitrile process stream to form a first overhead stream comprising low-boiling components and high-boiling components and a first bottoms stream comprising high-boiling components. The processes also include a second separating step of separating the first overhead stream in one or more distillation columns to form a lights stream comprising low-boiling components, a heavies stream comprising high-boiling components, and a TCH stream.
US11780802B2
The application relates to a process for the synthesis of organic sulfonic acid salts of amino acid esters comprising the steps of (i) reacting at least one lactam with at least 3 carbon atoms in the lactam ring with at least one organic sulfonic acid in an aqueous solution, (ii) esterification of the organic sulfonic amino acid salt of step (i) with at least one alcohol with at least 8 carbon atoms comprising at least one hydroxyl group, (iii) optionally removal of water and/or removal of excess alcohol of step (ii). The application also relates to organic sulfonic acid salts of amino acid esters of the general formula (I).
US11780792B2
A method of producing carbon tetrachloride includes providing a chloromethanes stream, combining the chloromethanes stream with chlorine and additional carbon tetrachloride to form a reaction mixture, wherein the reaction mixture includes at least stoichiometric levels of chlorine, introducing electromagnetic radiation to the reaction mixture and subjecting the reaction mixture to suitable reaction conditions to form product carbon tetrachloride, and collecting a product stream including the product carbon tetrachloride.
US11780786B2
Processes for converting a hydrocarbon reactant into an alcohol compound and/or a carbonyl compound are disclosed in which the hydrocarbon reactant and a supported transition metal catalyst—containing molybdenum, tungsten, or vanadium—are irradiated with a light beam at a wavelength in the UV-visible spectrum, optionally in an oxidizing atmosphere, to form a reduced transition metal catalyst, followed by hydrolyzing the reduced transition metal catalyst to form a reaction product containing the alcohol compound and/or the carbonyl compound.
US11780783B2
An accelerator powder for cement and also rapid-setting binder compositions which contain the accelerator powder and the use in mortar or concrete. The accelerator powder includes from 10 to 99.7% by weight of a water-insoluble mineral powder P and from 0.3 to 90% by weight of at least one compound V selected from the group consisting of alkali metal halides and alkaline earth metal halides, alkali metal nitrates and alkaline earth metal nitrates, alkali metal nitrites and alkaline earth metal nitrites, alkali metal thiocyanates and alkaline earth metal thiocyanates and hydroxyalkylamines or salts thereof, and mixtures thereof.
US11780778B2
Provided is a polycrystalline diamond cutter with a substrate and a diamond body in which the diamond body includes bonded diamond particles and discernable diamondene fragments. The polycrystalline diamond cutter is manufactured by a high pressure high temperature method that includes sintering a diamond feed layer in which the diamond feed layer includes diamond particles and diamondene fragments.
US11780763B2
A device for connecting a fiber preform including a plurality of elongate holes extending substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the fiber preform to a pressure supply system, the device including a first surface to be connected to an end face of the fiber preform where the plurality of elongate holes end, a second surface including at least two ports configured to be in fluid connection with the pressure supply system, and a channel system within the device connecting the plurality of elongate holes at the first surface to the at least two ports, wherein a density of the at least two ports at the second surface is smaller than a density of the plurality of corresponding elongate holes at the first surface.
US11780760B2
Systems and methods for automated, sequential processing of a continuous glass ribbon by conveying the glass ribbon in a ribbon travel direction, forming a score line in the glass ribbon, separating a glass sheet from the glass ribbon at the score line while supporting the glass sheet with a transfer device, lowering the glass sheet onto a conveyor, and conveying the glass sheet in a sheet travel direction differing from the ribbon travel direction. By transferring and then conveying the glass sheet in a direction differing from the ribbon travel direction (e.g., a 90 degree turn) immediately after glass sheet separation, the systems and method of the present disclosure are conducive to streamlined production of glass sheets utilizing a unique production floor footprint.
US11780752B2
An ion-exchange resin regeneration system includes: salt water flowing means that flows an aqueous sodium chloride solution or an aqueous potassium chloride solution into a container storing ion-exchange resin; and hard water component crystallizing means that crystallizes and removes hard water components containing metal ions from drained water arising from the ion-exchange resin through which the aqueous sodium chloride solution or the aqueous potassium chloride solution has flowed.
US11780744B2
A seawater distillation system for distilling seawater and brine and removing salt. The seawater distillation system includes an apparatus having at least a vessel, a separation assembly, and at least one mist eliminator. The vessel may be adapted to hold a volume of seawater comprising a volume of salt, wherein vessel is one of externally heated and internally heated to evaporate the volume of seawater to a volume of steam and to precipitate the volume of salt. The separation assembly may be operably engaged with the vessel, wherein the separation assembly is configured to separate the volume of salt from the volume of seawater inside of the vessel. The at least one mist eliminator may be operably engaged with the vessel and positioned vertically above the separation assembly, wherein the at least one mist eliminator is configured to eliminate water droplets and salt from the volume of steam.
US11780739B2
The present invention provides a method for preparing iron oxide magnetic particles and iron oxide magnetic particles prepared thereby, wherein the method includes (a) synthesizing a complex by reacting iron and one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of an aliphatic hydrocarbonate having 4 to 25 carbon atoms and an amine compound, (b) synthesizing an iron oxide crystal nucleus by mixing the complex with a mixture of an unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon-based compound having 4 to 25 carbon atoms and an ether-based compound, and (c) forming a shell by mixing the iron oxide crystal nucleus and an MXn compound with a mixture of an unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon-based compound having 4 to 25 carbon atoms and an ether-based compound, wherein M is a heavy atom element, X is a halogen element, and n is an integer of 1 to 6.
US11780738B2
An aqueous suspension including 5 to 65 wt. % of calcium hydroxide, wherein at least 50 wt. % of the calcium hydroxide is present in the form of nanoparticles, and at least one compound for stabilizing the suspension. The aqueous suspension accelerates the setting of mineral binder compositions without adversely affecting the processing properties of the composition.
US11780733B2
A method for manufacturing porous silicon can include reducing unpurified silica in the presence of a reducing agent to prepare a porous silicon material. A porous silicon material including silicon nanoparticles and clusters of silicon nanoparticles, where the pores are cooperatively defined by the nanoparticles within the clusters.
US11780727B2
A low-stress packaging structure for a MEMS acceleration sensor chip includes a MEMS sensor chip and a chip carrier. Two sides of the bottom of the sensor chip are provided with a first metal layer and a second metal layer respectively. Two sides of a die attach area of the chip carrier are correspondingly provided with a third metal layer and a fourth metal layer. The first metal layer of the sensor chip and the third metal layer of the chip carrier are bonded together. The second metal layer of the sensor chip and the fourth metal layer of the chip carrier are only in contact but not bonded. A groove is arranged between the first metal layer and the second metal layer at the bottom of the sensor chip. A certain gap is defined between the sensor chip and cavity walls of chip carrier.
US11780722B1
An autofill pitcher system is provided that includes a removable pitcher, a dispenser, and a controller. The removable pitcher includes a magnet supported for rotation between a first position and a second position. The controller is configured to open a valve in the dispenser to direct water to the pitcher when a sensor in the dispenser detects the magnet and close the valve when the sensor does not detect the magnet.
US11780713B2
A rope guiding device for guiding a rope on a rope drum, the rope drum being adaptable to rotate about a drum axis to wind the rope around the rope drum or from the rope drum to hoist and lower a load adapted on the rope, includes at least guiding element, and an actuator for generating a rope guiding force, which force affects each guiding element in the direction of the drum axis so that the movement of each guiding element in the direction of the drum axis may be guided by the force.
US11780709B2
The present invention relates to a method and a system of commissioning elevator, and an elevator system. The method includes obtaining at least one operation data of at least one elevator door, comparing the operation data with corresponding criterion operation data, and determining whether a deviation between the operation data and the criterion operation data exceeds a pre-set range, and if so, triggering a control over at least one control end relevant to the operation of the elevator door to make a deviation between the operation data re-obtained and the criterion operation data fall within the pre-set range. The invention will increase the efficiency in elevator commissioning and remove the adverse effects on elevator operation caused by factors such as “Stack Effect”, and thereby ensure good working condition and high security of elevators.
US11780699B2
A dispenser for dispensing sheet product is provided. The dispenser includes a housing with an outlet through which sheet product is dispensed. A knife drum is rotatable with respect to the housing. A knife is movable between a retracted position within the knife drum and an extended position where the knife protrudes outside of the knife drum to cut the sheet product. A cam follower surface is fixed with respect to the housing. A cam follower is attached to the knife and operable to engage the cam follower surface and travel therealong to transition the knife between the retracted position and the extended position. A spring assembly biases the knife drum during rotation toward a predetermined position. The spring assembly comprises a first spring and a second spring. The spring assembly is attached at a single mount position that is fixed with respect to the housing.
US11780698B2
Provided is a medium processing device including a supply portion supplying a medium, a transporter transporting the medium supplied from the supply portion, an contact portion that a tip of the medium transported by the transporter is brought into contact with, a stacker in which the medium brought into contact with the contact portion is stacked, and a processor processing the medium stacked in the stacker, in which the transporter includes a gripper that is configured to move along a transport path of the medium, grips a tip of the medium, and moves.
US11780683B2
A configurable assembly is provided for conveying products along a longitudinal direction; the assembly has a supporting structure and at least two conveyor units; at least one of said units is provided with at least two tracks which receive, in use, respective products and diverge from or converge towards each other along a lateral direction, proceeding longitudinally from an inlet to an outlet; the units are movable with respect to the supporting structure by the action of an actuator device between a working area and at least one storage area, so as to selectively arrange one of said units in the working area.
US11780674B2
An embodiment mobility for delivering articles includes a frame defining a body of the mobility, a chain member coupled to a first side of the frame, wherein the chain member has a closed curve shape along an up-down direction, is movable relative to the frame, and includes a standby section provided at a fixed position with respect to the frame irrespective of a movement of the chain member, wherein the standby section includes a plurality of bent areas, a tray member having a first side coupled to the chain member, the tray member being movable in connection with a movement of the chain member, a wheel coupled to a lower portion of the frame, and a driver configured to provide a driving force to the chain member.
US11780673B2
The present invention relates to an automated storage system, comprising a three-dimensional storage structure and plurality of remotely controlled robot vehicles. The three-dimensional storage structures comprises a plurality of pillars which are positioned with internal distances and in a rectangular arrangement, wherein the rectangular arrangement of the pillars define storage columns for the storage of a plurality of vertically-stacked storage bins, supporting rails arranged in a two-dimensional matrix on the pillars, said supporting rails arranged in a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, the supporting rails defining openings for the storage columns. The remotely controlled robot vehicles comprises a vehicle body, a cavity arranged to receive a storage bin from a storage column, and a plurality of wheels attached to the vehicle body, arranged for traveling along the storage structure in the first and second directions, whereby the robot vehicle can move along the storage structure to position the cavity within the cross-sectional area of the storage column to receive the storage bin into the cavity for further transport along the storage structure.
US11780670B2
A beverage system for producing a coffee or tea beverage that includes a beverage machine that includes: a holder configured to receive and support a portion capsule, and a pump controlled to push water into the capsule to produce the beverage. The portion capsule includes a metal cover attached to a metal base element. The cavity has a plurality of ribs that are radially spaced, vertically oriented, and configured to extend toward a central portion thereof. The ribs are free from extending all the way to a bottom of the cavity. The base element has a side wall with an electrically conductive section and radially spaced and vertically oriented grooves, the grooves being free from extending all the way to a bottom of the base element and are also free from extending all the way to a region of the side wall that is immediately adjacent to the flange.
US11780654B2
A container may include a base having a bottom and a plurality of side walls extending upward from the bottom to define an interior therebetween, and a lid configured to engage with the base in a closed configuration to enclose the interior. The container may also include a connecting portion by which the base and the lid may be connected in an initial state. The base may have an extension portion extending laterally outward from a lateral side of the base and connected to the connecting portion via a folding line about which the connecting portion and the lid may be rotatable with respect to the base between the closed configuration and an open configuration. The lid may also have an extension portion extending laterally outward from a lateral side of the lid and connected to the connecting portion via a tear line. The tear line may be weakened such that the lid may be separable from the connecting portion and the base at the tear line while the connecting portion may remain intact with the base.
US11780645B2
The present disclosure provides a battery box and a vehicle, the battery box comprises an upper box body, a lower box body, a connecting member, a fixing member. The upper box body comprises a first eave portion, the lower box body comprises a second eave portion. The first eave portion is provided with a first connecting hole, the second eave portion is provided with a second connecting hole and a mounting hole. The connecting member passes through the first connecting hole and the second connecting hole to connect the upper box body and the lower box body. The fixing member passes through the mounting hole to make the lower box body mounted to external equipment, compared with the conventional battery box, the lower box body is equivalent to the arrangement of eliminating the third eave portion, it simplifies the structure and reduces the weight, thereby improving the energy density.
US11780639B2
Produce boxes and bags for shipping produce, e.g., bananas, utilize ventilation structures that allow for ventilation therethrough. A method of assembling produce boxes provides for cutouts that serve as ventilation structures in the boxes. When the produce boxes are stacked such as on a shipping pallet, the ventilation structures allow for ventilation of through the stacked boxes. Produce may be packed in a bag, which is closed with a rip cord and inserted into a produce box. The rip cord may be accessed when the box is in a stack such as on a shipping pallet, such that the rip cord may be pulled thereby opening the bag, without removing the box from the stack.
US11780638B2
A method for installing a covering relative to a frame of an architectural structure includes unfolding a package defining a cavity configured to store the covering, with the package including an alignment tool. Furthermore, the method includes positioning the alignment tool relative to the frame such that a first panel of the tool is positioned adjacent to a vertically-extending surface of the frame and a second panel of the tool is positioned adjacent to horizontally-extending surface of the frame. Additionally, the method includes forming mounting holes in one of the vertically-extending surface at first mounting hole locations identified by apertures defined by the first panel or the horizontally-extending surface of the frame at second mounting hole locations identified by apertures defined by the second panel.
US11780629B2
A bag rack and method of using the same is disclosed. The presently disclosed bag rack may include a bag rack that is formed of a base assembly and a hanger assembly on which multiple storage bags may be hung. A method of using the presently disclosed bag rack may include, but is not limited to, the steps of hanging the storage bags on the bag rack, opening the frontmost storage bag, holding open or propping open the storage bag using a bag hooking mechanism, placing the food item(s) or any other types of item(s) into the storage bag, removing the bag hooking mechanism, if used, closing the storage bag, and removing the filled storage bag from the bag rack.
US11780628B1
A pallet wrapping system with a pre-stretch carriage and at least two encoders. The pre-stretch carriage is configured to pre-stretch stretch film and has at least two stretch rollers and a hinged door. The at least two stretch rollers includes a first stretch roller with an outer surface that moves at a first speed and a second stretch roller with an outer surface that moves at a second speed higher than the first speed. The door provides access to the stretch rollers when in an open position and entraps the stretch film between the stretch rollers and the door when in a closed position. The encoders are mounted on the door. Each of the encoders is configured to contact the stretch film on the outer surface of one of the stretch rollers and measure a length of stretch film passing over that stretch roller.
US11780611B2
A universal external port is proposed to add new functionality to or replace existing functionality of an already deployed spacecraft (e.g., a satellite in orbit). The universal external port is mounted on an external surface of the spacecraft and configured to connect to different types of external modules that have different functions, without removing components from the spacecraft other than one or more components of the universal external port. A communication interface onboard the spacecraft is configured to wirelessly receive a software patch from an entity remote from the spacecraft (e.g., from a ground terminal or other spacecraft) to program the spacecraft to change operation of the spacecraft to utilize the external module when the external module is connected to the universal external port.
US11780609B2
Methods and systems are provided for predictive maintenance of a vehicle component. One method involves mapping a current instance of a component of a vehicle to one of plurality of degradation groups of prior lifecycles for other instances of the component based on a relationship between performance measurement data for the current instance and historical performance measurement data associated with that respective degradation group, obtaining contextual data associated with operation of the vehicle, and determining a maintenance recommendation for the current instance of the component based on the contextual data using a predictive maintenance model associated with the mapped degradation group.
US11780607B2
A connector with ambience monitoring capability for charging an electric aircraft. The connector includes a housing, at least a current conductor, at least a ground conductor and at least a control pilot. The housing is configured to mate with an electric aircraft port of the electric aircraft. The at least a current conductor is configured to conduct a current. The at least a ground conductor is configured to conduct to ground. The at least a control pilot is configured to conduct a control signal. The at least a control pilot is further configured to receive a voltage datum of a battery of the electric aircraft, determine, as a function of the voltage datum, an ambient requirement for the battery, and transmit the ambient requirement for implementation. A method, of using a connector with ambience monitoring capability, for charging an electric aircraft is also provided.
US11780605B2
A runway-embedded flash lighting device, including: a body; a ceiling member; a light guide member; and an LED flash light source, wherein the body is configured to be embedded in a runway, the ceiling member is disposed in an upper opening of the body and configured to be exposed to a runway surface when the body is embedded in the runway, the ceiling member includes a flash emission window, the light guide member is disposed in the flash emission window, the LED flash light source is disposed inside the body and configured to emit a flash toward the light guide member, and the light guide member is configured to allow the flash emitted from the LED flash light source to be emitted from the flash emission window to outside the runway-embedded flash lighting device.
US11780601B2
A fuel tank inerting system is provided including an air flow comprising air from a first source having a first temperature and air from a second source having a second temperature. The second temperature is cooler than the first temperature. At least one separating module is configured to separate an inert gas from the air flow.
US11780597B2
A propulsion system for an aircraft comprises a gas turbine engine; a plurality of fuel tanks arranged to contain different fuels to be used to power the gas turbine engine, wherein the fuels have different calorific values; and a fuel manager. The fuel manager is arranged to store information on the fuel contained in each fuel tank and to control fuel input to the gas turbine engine in operation by selection of a specific fuel or fuel combination from one or more of the plurality of fuel tanks based on thrust demand of the gas turbine engine such that a fuel with a lower calorific value is supplied to the gas turbine engine at lower thrust demand.
US11780590B2
The disclosure describes a method for disinfecting an aircraft cabin that includes injecting a non-peroxide disinfectant into an environmental control system of an aircraft and discharging cabin supply air through the environmental control system to discharge the non-peroxide disinfectant into the aircraft cabin. In some instances, the method includes aerosolizing the disinfectant into a plurality of liquid droplets while injecting the disinfectant into the environmental control system. In some instances, the injected disinfectant includes a non-corrosive, non-toxic disinfectant, such that the disinfectant may be discharged into the aircraft cabin in the presence of personnel in the aircraft cabin.
US11780587B2
A seating assembly for a passenger aircraft. The seat system may include at least one passenger seat and a seat back tray assembly mounted onto the back of the passenger seat and movable between a first storage position and a second deployed position. The tray assembly may include (i) a tray having a first and second attachment arm mounted onto the tray for installing the tray onto the back of a seat system; (ii) a sliding mechanism installed on the first and second attachment arms adapted for providing movement between a first forward position and a second aft position to a seated passenger parallel to the first and second attachment arms; and (iii) an alignment mechanism attached to the sliding mechanism for maintaining the tray in a horizontally aligned relationship during the movement. The seat system may further include a PED holder adapted to hold a personal electronic device.
US11780561B2
There is provided a blade angle feedback assembly for a propeller of an aircraft engine. The propeller is rotatable about an axis and has propeller blades rotatable about respective spanwise axes to adjust a blade angle thereof. The blade angle feedback assembly comprises a feedback ring having a plurality of position markers disposed thereon, at least one sensor configured to provide feedback on the blade angle of the propeller blades by detecting a relative movement between the feedback ring and the at least one sensor, and at least one shielding element provided between the feedback ring and the propeller, the at least one shielding element configured to shield the feedback ring from electromagnetism.
US11780555B1
An up-down flapping wingtip is provided for a ground effect vehicle. The wingtip is positionable at an anhedral angle to control the wingtip clearance from ground. Variable wingtip clearance reduces the risk of damage due to collision with the ground or water, thereby permitting more efficient flight at lower altitude with an equivalent safety. The wingtip is positioned by a wingtip flap and an actuator. The wingtip anhedral angle is controlled by a flight control system. A sensor is included for determining whether an object lies in the path of the wingtip. The sensor communicates with the flight control system in order to vary the flapping angle of the wingtip to increase clearance from the ground or water, thus avoiding impact with the object. The wingtip anhedral angle is reduced to increase the wingspan for flight out of ground effect.
US11780552B2
A balloon system, preferably including a balloon and a payload. A balloon, preferably including a plurality of gores, a plurality of load members, and an apex fitting. A method of balloon system operation, preferably including deflating a balloon, and optionally including operating the balloon system in flight and/or landing the balloon system.
US11780550B2
An electric power generator for marine vessels includes a containment enclosure, an internal combustion engine housed in the containment enclosure and including a drive shaft, rotating at a variable rotation speed, an alternator housed in the containment enclosure and configured to receive mechanical power from the internal combustion engine and to convert it into electric power, a second cooling circuit configured to cause sea water to circulate, and an electrical power converter connected to the alternator to receive an input current, having an input frequency, and to convert it into an output current, having an output frequency. The second cooling circuit includes a first heat exchanger configured to allow heat exchange between the sea water and the electrical power converter.
US11780545B2
The present disclosure relates to a system for fresh water supply using a desalination vessel and an autonomous navigation vessel, and more particularly, to a system for fresh water supply using a desalination vessel and an autonomous navigation vessel capable of, in providing fresh water to a plurality of islands using a vessel equipped with a desalination apparatus and an autonomous navigation vessel, setting an optimal fresh water supply route in consideration of the fresh water retention status of islands, location information of islands, and fresh water requirement amount for each route, and based on this, supplying fresh water to each of the islands, thereby minimizing the operation cost of the vessels and stably providing fresh water to the islands requiring fresh water, and the system for fresh water supply using a desalination vessel.
US11780536B2
Disclosed is a marine communication buoy. The marine communication buoy includes s a round seat, side slots and hollow boxes, four side slots are uniformly distributed outside the round seat, and each side slot is connected with the hollow box in a sliding way. The marine communication buoy also includes sealing rings and buckle covers, an outer part of each hollow box is provided with a sealing ring, an outer end of each hollow box is slidably connected with the buckle cover, and an inner side of the buckle cover is in contact with the sealing ring. The marine communication buoy also includes valves and connector pipes, the connector pipe is arranged at an outer side of each buckle cover, and the connector pipe is provided with the valve.
US11780533B2
Disclosed herein are a method and a system for forming an air layer over a portion of an engineered surface, wherein the air layer is formed with a reduced flux and preferentially steering gas away from, or toward, a specific location by way of a hydrophobic surface, a hydrophilic surface, and/or a structured surface. Moreover, disclosed are a method and a system for recovering or separating a portion of the gas or other fluid layer.
US11780532B2
The disclosure relates to an electromechanical rear derailleur for coaxial assembling on a rear wheel axle. The derailleur has a base element, a pivot mechanism, and a movable element having a chain guide assembly. The chain guide assembly is connected to the movable element so as to be rotatable about a rotation axis. A blocking device permits the chain guide assembly to be established relative to the movable element. The blocking device is able to be inserted into the movable element in two different positions.
US11780520B1
A dropper post assembly for supporting a bicycle seat may have an outer tube and an inner tube having a clearance portion and an upper end that includes an inward facing axial stop surface that defines a laterally extending abutment plane. A spring cartridge assembly has a cartridge cross-sectional that is less than 90% of the interior cross-sectional area of the clearance portion. A lower engagement member is disposed toward a lower end of the inner tube and substantially fills a lateral between lower end of the cartridge tube and the inner tube. A post head member has a front fastening aperture, a lowermost part of which lies in a laterally extending post head plane that is disposed axially inboard from the abutment plane.
US11780518B1
A bicycle stand includes a base unit, a first positioning rack, a second positioning rack, and two movable pull shaft units. The base unit includes a base and a support seat that is pivoted relative to the base horizontally. The support seat includes a pedestal and two ears. Each of the two ears has a first end connected with the pedestal and a second end provided with a limit slot. The first positioning rack includes two rods and a link. Each of the two rods is pivotally connected with one of the two ears. A first holding area is defined between the two rods. The second positioning rack is mounted on the first to positioning rack and is distant from the base unit, The second positioning rack forms a second holding area,
US11780508B1
A trailer includes a main body that has a front bulkhead, an opposing rear bulkhead, an exterior wall operably engaged with the front and rear bulkheads, and at least one interior chamber defined collectively by the front bulkhead, the rear bulkhead, and the exterior wall. The at least one interior chamber is adapted to carry a load. The trailer also includes a removable false bulkhead operably engaged with the main body, the false bulkhead is located a distance away from one of the front bulkhead and the rear bulkhead. The main body of the trailer is formed of a first material, and the first false bulkhead of the trailer is made a second different material.
US11780499B2
A working vehicle includes an inertia detector to measure inertia information of a vehicle body, a rear axle supporting a rear wheel, and a transmission case rotatably supporting the rear wheel. The inertia detector overlaps with at least a portion of the transmission case in a plan view and is capable of accurately measuring inertia information when a vehicle body changes attitude.
US11780496B2
A steering suspension of a vehicle includes a suspension upright and a mechanical component consisting of a radially outer ring of a wheel hub unit or of a rolling bearing forming part of a wheel hub unit. The outer ring is provided integral in one piece with a flange and a steering arm, extending radially cantilevered from the outer ring and the flange, with which it is also integral in one piece. On the side opposite to the steering arm the flange is integral in one piece with a pair of axially drilled radial lugs, configured to support, in use, a brake caliper.
US11780492B2
The system (10) is configured to detect high friction in a steering gear used with a vehicle. The system (10) has a speed sensor (17), a steering angle sensor (17, 108), a plurality of vehicle sensors (23, 112) to monitor vehicle parameters and a plurality of steering system sensors (17, 108) to monitor steering system parameters. A repository stores (27, 120) the normal operating values for the vehicle and steering system sensors (17, 108). A correlation block (21, 130) compares the vehicle and steering system values with the values in the repository (27, 120). A trigger block (15) receives signals from the speed and steering angle sensors, and activating the correlation block (21, 130) when the speed and steering angle sensors are in a select range. The correlation block (21, 130) sends a warning signal if the values from the repository (27, 120) and the signal from the speed and steering angle sensors (17, 108) exceed a predetermined value.
US11780490B2
A gearbox assembly for power take off from an electric motor of an electric power assisted steering apparatus comprising a gearbox housing which houses a worm shaft and a gear wheel, is disclosed. The worm shaft incorporates one or more external helical worm teeth. A main bearing assembly supports the worm shaft at an end closest to the motor. A tail bearing assembly supports the worm shaft at an end furthest from the motor, in which at least the tail bearing assembly is free to move relative to the housing through a limited range of motion that enables the worm shaft to move radially away from the axis of the wheel gear. The gearbox assembly further comprises a flexible coupler which connects the worm shaft at the main bearing end to a power take off from the motor so as to transfer torque from the motor to the worm shaft. The flexible coupler comprises a first hub part providing a connection to the worm shaft, a second hub part providing a connection to the power take off from the motor, and a flexible membrane that connects the first hub part to the second hub part. The flexible membrane provides a primary path for the transfer of torque from the first hub part to the second hub part.
US11780484B2
In some implementations, a utility cart includes (a) a cargo hold having a cargo bed; (b) an assembly having a wheel arm having a first catch, a handle arm having a second catch, and a wheel; the wheel arm and handle arm coupled together at an angle and adjacent a pivot point; the wheel rotatably coupled to a distal end of the wheel arm; (c) a locking mechanism and a spring member, the locking mechanism having a first locking pin and a second locking pin; and (d) a plurality of bearing wheels disposed below a bottom surface of the cargo bed.
US11780480B1
In various embodiments, techniques are provided for determining a connection between a rail turnout and another rail turnout or other rail element by a geometry connection process of rail network design software, by reducing the actual complex geometry of the rail turnout to a simplified arc, which at one end is tangent to the geometry of a connecting element at end of the rail turnout and at the other end is tangent to the geometry of a parent base element of the rail turnout. The simplified arc is utilized instead of the actual complex geometry of the rail turnout by a connection computation engine to determine the connection in the model (e.g., by fitting a connection solution using least squares).
US11780470B2
According to one aspect, systems and techniques for lane selection may include receiving a current state of an ego vehicle and a traffic participant vehicle, and a goal position, projecting the ego vehicle and the traffic participant vehicle onto a graph network, where nodes of the graph network may be indicative of discretized space within an operating environment, determining a current node for the ego vehicle within the graph network, and determining a subsequent node for the ego vehicle based on identifying adjacent nodes which may be adjacent to the current node, calculating travel times associated with each of the adjacent nodes, calculating step costs associated with each of the adjacent nodes, calculating heuristic costs associated with each of the adjacent nodes, and predicting a position of the traffic participant vehicle.
US11780469B1
A vehicle recharging system recharges a partially depleted battery of a moving electric vehicle. The system includes a dispatch server receiving a route from the electric vehicle as well as first and second segments along the route where the electric vehicle is to be recharged first and second times. First and second unmanned autonomous recharging vehicles (UARV's) receive from the dispatch server first and second rendezvous locations along the first and second segments of the route. The dispatch server determines an adjusted second rendezvous location for the second UARV in response to determining that the first UARV is delayed and determines if the second UARV still has sufficient range to recharge the electric vehicle when commencing at the adjusted second rendezvous location. The dispatch server transmits the adjusted second rendezvous location to the second UARV to intercept the electric vehicle at the adjusted second rendezvous location.
US11780468B2
A vehicle-behavior prediction device includes: a priority determination section that determines the priority of a host vehicle and a vehicle concerned when the host vehicle and the vehicle concerned pass through a road section; and a vehicle control section that sets the time from when the vehicle concerned stops to when the host vehicle starts action to avoid the vehicle concerned to be shorter in a case where the priority of the host vehicle is low than in a case where the priority of the host vehicle is high.
US11780462B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide for enabling autonomous vehicles to pull over into driveways when picking up or dropping off passengers or goods. For instance, a request for a trip identifying a first location and a second location may be received. The first location may be a location of a client computing device, and the second location may be a starting location or a destination for the trip. A user preference for the trip indicating that a pickup for the trip be in a driveway may be identified. That the first location corresponds with the second location may be identified. Based on the determination that the first location corresponds with the second location, dispatch instructions may be to an autonomous vehicle. The dispatch instructions may identify a polygon for a driveway at the second location in order to cause the autonomous vehicle to pull over into the driveway.
US11780460B2
Determining control operations for an autonomous vehicle may include receiving, by an operational model, an operational model input based on camera data from one or more cameras of an automated vehicle; determining, by the operational model, based on the input, a current environmental state and a predicted environmental state; providing, to a rules module, a differential between the current environmental state and a previously predicted environmental state; and determining, based on the rules module, one or more control operations for the automated vehicle.
US11780456B2
An autonomous driving system configured to perform an autonomous driving of a vehicle includes a trigger input request unit configured to perform a trigger input request for requesting a driver of the vehicle to perform a trigger input for causing the vehicle to pass through a target point if the autonomously driving vehicle approaches the target point set in advance and positioned on a traveling route of the vehicle, a trigger input detection unit configured to detect the driver's trigger input, and a vehicle control unit configured to cause the vehicle to pass through the target point if the trigger input is detected, and causes the vehicle to decelerate and stop without passing through the target point if the trigger input is not detected.
US11780453B2
A method for assignment of vehicle control includes receiving route data indicating a route between a starting location of a vehicle and a destination location, and determining an optimal vehicle configuration for the route based on a target vehicle speed and a hybrid torque split. The method further includes receiving a driver requested torque value and determining a passive pedal torque value based on the route data and vehicle powertrain data. The method further includes selectively assigning control of the vehicle to a vehicle system or to a driver of the vehicle based on the driver requested torque value and the passive pedal torque value.
US11780449B2
Systems and methods for vehicle motion control are provided. The method includes: calculating a correction factor using one of three different sets of operations when the vehicle is performing a limit handling maneuver, wherein the correction factor is calculated using a first set of operations when the vehicle is operating in an understeer state, calculated using a second set of operations when the vehicle is operating in an oversteer state, and calculated using a third set of operations when the vehicle is operating in a neutral steer state; adjusting a desired lateral acceleration and a desired yaw rate by applying the correction factor to account for a reduced level of friction experienced by the vehicle when traveling on a non-ideal friction surface; calculating optimal control actions based on the adjusted desired lateral acceleration and adjusted desired yaw rate; and applying the optimal control actions with vehicle actuators during vehicle operations.
US11780448B2
A vehicle behavior estimation method includes: detecting a speed of a first preceding vehicle traveling in front of a host vehicle in a first lane where the host vehicle is traveling; detecting a speed of an adjacent vehicle traveling in a second lane adjacent to the first lane; calculating a relative speed between the first preceding vehicle and the adjacent vehicle; predicting whether or not an absolute value of the relative speed will be at or below a speed threshold value within a predetermined time from a point time when a decrease in the absolute value of the relative speed starts to be detected; and estimating that the adjacent vehicle is likely to change lanes into the first lane when the absolute value of the relative speed is predicted to be at or below the speed threshold value within the predetermined time.
US11780440B1
A method includes detecting, via a processor of an autonomous vehicle, an upcoming downhill road segment of a route on which the autonomous vehicle is currently travelling. The detection is based on map data, camera data, and/or inertial measurement unit (IMU) data. In response to detecting the upcoming downhill road segment, a descent plan is generated for the autonomous vehicle. The descent plan includes a speed profile and a brake usage plan. The brake usage plan specifies a non-zero amount of retarder usage and an amount of foundation brake usage for a predefined time period. The method also includes autonomously controlling the autonomous vehicle, based on the descent plan, while the autonomous vehicle descends the downhill road segment.
US11780439B2
Controller and control method for improving operability at a time when a brake force that is retained in hill-hold control is reduced. A control section for executing the hill-hold control that retains the brake force on an inclined road surface is provided. The control section cancels retention of the brake force in the case where it is determined on the basis of a detection signal of a first detection mechanism that a first operation section for operating a brake mechanism is operated when the brake force is retained in the hill-hold control.
US11780434B2
Estimating a lane change intention of a vehicle includes capturing a plurality of different lane change indicator signals, transforming the respective lane change indicator signals into respective associated individual probabilities of a lane change using respective assigned transformation functions, weighting these individual probabilities of a lane change, determining a weighted overall probability of a lane change as the average of the weighted individual probabilities of a lane change, and estimating the existence of a lane change intention depending on the overall probability of a lane change, and outputting an associated lane change estimation signal.
US11780430B2
A vehicle control device includes an electronic control unit configured to: enlarge the detection range, when the electronic control unit determines that a current deceleration support control is control for passing the object; set a new target deceleration of the host vehicle when a new object with a possibility of collision with the host vehicle has been detected in the enlarged detection range; determine whether an interval from an ending time of the current deceleration support control to a starting time of the next deceleration support control is less than a threshold value, when the electronic control unit determines that the next deceleration support control is control for passing the new object; and perform one of the inter-vehicle distance control and acceleration support control from the ending time to the starting time, when the electronic control unit determines that the interval is less than the threshold value.
US11780429B2
This document describes target curvature estimation considering vehicle dynamics constraints. Some vehicle dynamics models use several kinematic states to predict the paths of targets identified by an object-tracking system. Rather than rely on predetermined industry measurements as the kinematic inputs to a model, an example system instead estimates some of these states using near real-time data output from a tracking filter. This can include estimating position and velocity states, as well as curvature and centripetal acceleration states. The example system is particularly suited at accurately predicting the curvature and centripetal acceleration states, which greatly improves the accuracy of the object-tracking system, and further improves safety in avoiding a target collision.
US11780425B2
The vehicle control apparatus comprises a sensor to detect a turning movement physical quantity, an acceleration-deceleration device, a control unit, and a device to obtain road shape information representing a shape of a road at a position that is away from a vehicle by a predetermined distance. The unit determines that a first control start condition becomes satisfied when a magnitude of the physical quantity exceeds a first value while the curved road has not been determined to be present based on the road shape information, to perform an acceleration-deceleration control for making the vehicle run at a target speed depending on a curvature of the road. The unit determines that a second control start condition becomes satisfied when the magnitude of the physical quantity exceeds a second value smaller than the first value while the curved road has been determined to be present to perform the acceleration-deceleration control.
US11780424B2
In a vehicle control device, a switching hyperplane generation unit generates a switching hyperplane based on a travel state of a vehicle and cornering stiffness dependent on a travel surface state as a state of a road surface on which the vehicle travels. A deviation computation unit calculates a deviation between a target trajectory and an actual trajectory of the vehicle. A state estimation unit estimates a state to be controlled of the vehicle based on the deviation calculated by the deviation computation unit. A target steering angle and acceleration/deceleration computation unit calculates a target steering angle and a target acceleration/deceleration rate of the vehicle based on the switching hyperplane generated by the switching hyperplane generation unit and an estimated state as the state estimated by the state estimation unit.
US11780423B2
The present disclosure provides a system and method for determining whether to start an engine. The system includes an engine configured to provide driving force for a vehicle through combustion of fuel, a motor configured to provide driving force for the vehicle using electrical energy, an engine clutch connecting the engine and a drive shaft, and a controller configured to control engagement of the engine clutch and starting of the engine. The controller calculates a predicted vehicle speed at the time of engagement of the engine clutch based on the current vehicle speed upon a request for passive run driving of the vehicle. The controller determines whether to start the engine by comparing the predicted vehicle speed with a reference vehicle speed.
US11780419B2
An electromagnetic brake to restrict or prevent movement of a motor in a vehicle brake system, the electromagnetic brake includes: a core; a static plate; a moving plate located between the core and the static plate; a rotor located between the core and the moving plate; one or more legs that extend from the core; and one or more fasteners that connect the one or more legs to the static plate, the core includes a cylindrical portion and a flange that extends around the cylindrical portion, the one or more legs extend from the flange radially around the cylindrical portion.
US11780417B2
An electric brake device is disclosed. The electric brake device includes a reservoir configured to store brake oil; a reaction force cylinder fluidically communicating with the reservoir and configured to change a pedal effort and a pressure of the brake oil in operative connection with a movement of a pedal; a wheel brake mechanism configured to restrain rotation of wheels of a vehicle in connection with the operation of the reaction force cylinder; and a pedal effort adjustment stopper configured to adjust a change in magnitude of the pedal effort according to the movement of the pedal, the pedal effort adjustment stopper comprising a coupling body mounted on at least one side of the reaction force cylinder and one or more pedal effort adjusters connected to the coupling body and movable in a longitudinal direction of the reaction force cylinder.
US11780395B2
An airbag device for a driver's seat is provided with a variant steering wheel, and an airbag module. The variant steering wheel has a module mounting surface and a cover member. When the cover member receives the expansion pressure of a cushion, a cover door opens. The airbag module includes a cloth member that is put on the cushion. A front end side of the cloth member is connected to an inflator, and a rear end is a free end. The airbag module is in a state in which the cushion is in a stored state, the cloth member is put over the cover member side of the cushion, and the cloth member is held between the cover member and the cushion in the stored state.
US11780393B2
A method for operating a safety system of a motor vehicle includes correcting an output signal of a measuring sensor as a function of a current temperature value measured by a temperature sensor. The motor vehicle includes a sensor device with the measuring sensor to detect a collision and the temperature sensor. The method further includes determining an intrinsic heat of the measuring sensor generated by the operation of the measuring sensor and correcting the output signal as a function of the determined intrinsic heat.
US11780388B2
Provided is a grommet that can improve the water-blocking property. A grommet includes an opposing portion 32 that opposes a portion surrounding a mounting hole 12 in a vehicle body panel 11, a first water-blocking portion 33 that extends from the opposing portion 32 and comes in contact with the vehicle body panel 11, and a second water-blocking portion 34 that extends from the opposing portion 32 and comes in contact with the vehicle body panel 11. Each of the first water-blocking portion 33 and the second water-blocking portion 34 is formed in an annular shape that surrounds the mounting hole 12. The second water-blocking portion 34 is provided on the outer circumferential side with respect to the first water-blocking portion 33.
US11780383B2
A fastener includes a mounting base and an insert portion. The mounting base includes an accommodating cavity having an accommodating cavity opening and a mounting slot located above the accommodating cavity having a width that is smaller than a width of the accommodating cavity. The insert portion includes a retaining portion, a neck portion connected to the retaining portion, and a head portion disposed between the retaining portion and the head portion. The head portion is configured to be received within the accommodating cavity by the accommodating cavity opening. The neck portion is configured such that at least a portion of the neck portion is received by the mounting slot when the head portion is received by the accommodating cavity.
US11780365B2
An optical device for displaying a condensing mark includes a light source, and an optical element for condensing light emitted from the light source onto an irradiated surface. A lamp controller acquires a detection signal from a state detection device mounted on the vehicle and configured to detect a behavior of and peripheral environmental information of the vehicle, and light or blink the optical device. The optical device displays a plurality of condensing marks by arranging each of them side by side in at least the travelling direction of the vehicle on a lane orthogonal to a lane on which the vehicle exists, and one of the plurality of condensing marks to be displayed on a display region farthest from the vehicle is different in color from another one of the plurality of condensing marks to be displayed on a display region closest to the vehicle.
US11780362B2
Disclosed are a vehicle lighting device, and an invisible light projection device comprising the vehicle lighting device. The vehicle lighting device comprises a light source, a rotary actuator, a light distribution element and a controller. The light source is mounted on a rotating shaft of the rotary actuator and the controller is adapted to control a light-emitting state of the light source creating different light forms. The vehicle lighting device creates a range of light distribution with less light sources, and has good heat dissipation capability. The invisible light projection device comprises a light source of an invisible light-emitting element, the rotary actuator, and the controller, which is adapted to control the light-emitting state of the invisible light-emitting element at different rotation positions creating light distribution of invisible light. The invisible light projection device can carry out invisible light irradiation on a dark area of vehicle lighting, improving vehicle safety.
US11780357B2
Provided is a vehicle cup holder allowing wireless charging. A vehicle cup holder allowing wireless charging according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a housing having an accommodation space for accommodating objects, including a portable telephone; a support unit coupled to the housing by means of a rotational shaft to allow rotation in the accommodation space, and comprising a wireless transmission module for wirelessly charging the battery of a portable telephone; a sensing unit for sensing input signals from a user or the proximity of a portable telephone; and a driving unit for providing driving power to the rotational shaft so as to allow the position of the support unit to be changed, on the basis of a signal sensed by the sensing unit, to a charging position in which the portable telephone can be charged, or to a standby position in which an object can be accommodated in the accommodation space.
US11780355B1
A seat assembly includes a cushioned component having a lattice matrix. An air bladder assembly is covered by the lattice matrix. The air bladder assembly includes a plurality of air bladders supported on a platform assembly. Each air bladder includes a body portion operable between deflated and inflated conditions. Each air bladder includes a connection stem. A support plate includes a plurality of access apertures disposed therethrough. The air bladder assembly is operably coupled to the support plate. Each air bladder is aligned with at least one access aperture of the plurality of access apertures. A carrier assembly includes a plurality of mounting apertures disposed through an outer surface thereof. The carrier assembly receives the connection stem of each air bladder through at least one mounting aperture of the plurality of mounting apertures. Each air bladder may include a release valve for releasing air therethrough.
US11780351B2
A device for operating a power seat of a vehicle, the device being able to show exact operation directions of a power seat by operation of switches to a user, and enabling the user to recognize the exact selection state and operation direction of desired switches so that the user can more conveniently use the switches by displaying one arrow showing the operation direction of the seat when each of a plurality of touch sensors, which is disposed in each of the switches of a switch module for operating the seat to show operation direction of the seat, senses a touch.
US11780344B2
A management apparatus is configured to adjust an upper limit amount of electric power for charging. The management apparatus may be provided in an electric vehicle or a charging apparatus. The management apparatus may include a dial for adjusting the upper limit amount of electric power, and a user may be able to adjust the upper limit amount of electric power by operating the dial. A user who drives 300 km per week for commute may set the amount of electric power corresponding to 300 km (plus extra travel distance) for the upper limit amount of electric power. The user may connect a battery to the charging apparatus on weekends. When the battery has a capacity to store the amount of electric power corresponding to, for example, 500 km, the management apparatus may stop charging when the battery is charged with the set upper limit amount of electric power.
US11780337B2
The present disclosure relates to a battery system for a hybrid or an electric vehicle. Another aspect of the present disclosure provides a battery assembly designed for easy and quick exchange of battery assemblies enabling a vehicle to resume driving much more quickly than traditional charging permits.
US11780333B2
An improved system for preventing collisions between movers while improving throughput in a linear drive system utilizes a continually variable vehicle length for each mover. A vehicle length is assigned to each mover, where the vehicle length is a minimum track length required by the vehicle to avoid physically contacting a neighboring vehicle along the track. The vehicle length for each mover is then determined for each location along the track based on both the track geometry and the mover geometry. The vehicle length is continually variable along the length of the track allowing movers to be positioned as close together as possible for each location along the track based on both the track geometry and the mover geometry. The continually variable vehicle length provides collision prevention between movers while increasing throughput of movers along segments of the track that do not require the largest spacing between movers.
US11780330B1
A system and method for disabling the travel of a vacuum truck is provided in which a vacuum boom initiates an interlock signal when positioned back into a travel cradle. An additional positional tank bed further includes an interlock signal when the bed is in a secured in a travel position. The vacuum truck is prevented from having its brakes released or prevented from being put into a travel gear if either the truck bed or vacuum boom are not in secure travel positions. The present system and method utilize pneumatic operating signals available from the vehicles power take off and blower mode switch.
US11780327B2
A vehicle canister mounting structure for a vehicle, the vehicle including a frame and an upper structure, such as a cabin, mounted on the frame, includes a primary bracket and a secondary bracket. The primary bracket is fastened to the frame by a primary fastener. The secondary bracket is fastened to the primary bracket by a secondary fastener and is attached to a canister. One of the primary fastener and the secondary fastener is configured to allow fastening to be performed from above the frame. The other of the primary and secondary fasteners is configured to allow fastening to be performed from below the frame.
US11780324B2
A fuel tank for a vehicle includes a main tank comprising a first tank volume defined by an outside wall and an auxiliary tank extending from an aperture provided in the outside wall. The auxiliary tank is formed as a pocket-shaped continuation of the outside wall into the first tank volume bounded by the outside wall. The auxiliary tank forms a second tank volume which is separated from the first tank volume and opens into a filler neck which runs inside the first tank volume and emerges on the outside wall of the main tank.
US11780321B2
The invention relates to a cooling module (22) for a motor vehicle (10), comprising: —at least one heat exchanger (301-303) delimiting a surface, referred to as the working surface, —at least one first tangential-flow turbomachine (28-1) and a second tangential-flow turbomachine (28-2), each of said turbomachines (28-1, 28-2) being capable of creating an air flow in contact with said working surface, each of said turbomachines comprising a rotor rotating about an axis and a volute for housing the rotor, comprising an air guiding portion and an air outlet outside the turbomachine, said turbomachines (28-1, 28-2) being arranged such that the air outlet of the first turbomachine (28-1) is arranged opposite the guiding portion of the second turbomachine (28-2).
US11780320B2
A louver structure is provided that reduces noise propagated to a compartment of a vehicle. The louver structure includes: a cooling fan configured to cool a battery; a back wall configured to separate the cooling fan from a compartment and having an air inlet to communicate with the cooling fan; and a louver member attached to the back wall and covering the air inlet. The louver member is provided with a labyrinth structure.
US11780296B2
A method for operating a cooling system of a motor vehicle for cooling at least one component, a cooling system of a motor vehicle for cooling at least one component, and a motor vehicle having such a cooling system. The cooling system has a coolant circuit and a refrigerant circuit. The coolant circuit serves for cooling the at least one component and the refrigerant circuit and the coolant circuit are coupled thermally to one another via a heat exchanger. The coolant circuit has a conveying device for conveying a coolant in the coolant circuit. A cooling power of the refrigerant circuit can be regulated. The regulation of the cooling power of the refrigerant circuit is realized in a manner dependent on a return temperature of the coolant and/or on a temporal development of the return temperature of the coolant.
US11780286B2
To improve a view of a side area from a cabin, the cabin mounted on a machine body includes a hollow rear pillar located on a rear portion of a side surface of the cabin. The rear pillar includes an interior opening through which an interior of the rear pillar is communicated with an interior of the cabin, and an exterior opening through which the interior of the rear pillar is communicated with an exterior of the cabin.
US11780285B2
A suspension system for a wheel assembly of a vehicle includes a telescopic damper configured to mediate between respective sprung and unsprung portions of the wheel assembly, a rebound spring arranged to moderate wheel travel, and a force-transfer system operative to apply a force to change one or more parameters of the suspension system. The application of the force by the force-transfer system is effective in a first operating mode to change a length of the telescopic damper and in a second operating mode to regulate a wheel rate of the wheel assembly. The force-transfer system is controllable to modify a wheel-travel value at which the wheel rate of the wheel assembly changes in the second mode of suspension operation.
US11780281B2
An independent wheel suspension for a two-track vehicle has a wheel carrier, a vibration damper designed and arranged in the manner of a damper strut, and a leaf spring element, which has, in particular, a fiber composite material or is made from a fiber composite material. The leaf spring element is oriented at least approximately in the transverse direction of the vehicle and is designed to provide a suspension function and, together with the vibration damper, to guide a vehicle wheel fastened to the wheel carrier when the independent wheel suspension is installed in a vehicle for functional usage. The leaf spring element is connected, on the wheel carrier end, to the wheel carrier via two rubber bearings, each having a bearing axis and a central bearing point, so as to be rotatable about the respective bearing axis of each rubber bearing and is designed to be connected, on the vehicle body end, to an axle support in a torsion-resistant manner and/or directly to a vehicle body.
US11780280B1
A passageway is formed through a trailer hitch bar allowing an electrical conductor to be threaded through the hitch bar. At a proximal end of the hitch bar the wires are attached to the first half of an electrical conductor. Within a receptacle, a second half of the connector is located to interconnect with the connections on the first half. Conductors are connected to the connector halves and are coupled to electrical contacts on a draw bar on a towing vehicle which connect to an electrical coupling on the vehicle. The wires within the electrical conductor are now connected to the electrical connections already existing in the vehicle allowing the towed vehicle to respond to activations of brakes, turn signals, hazard warnings, headlights, and also engaging the transmission in reverse to activate a solenoid to release trailer brakes to allow a trailer to be moved in reverse.
US11780278B2
A hitch system comprising a hitch shaft with a forward end configured to rigidly attach to a tow vehicle and a rearward end extending rearwardly toward a trailer frame; a head unit pivotally attached to the rearward end of the hitch shaft at a first pivot point having an upper portion and a lower portion, comprising a hitch ball on the upper portion of the head unit positioned out of vertical alignment with the first pivot point creating a second pivot point between the hitch ball and a trailer attached thereto; and a slot on the lower portion of the head unit, the slot having portions in vertical alignment with the first pivot point and the second pivot point; a first moment arm with a distal end configured for slidable attachment to a first bracket on the trailer frame and a forked proximal end comprising a first tine pivotally connected to the lower portion of the head unit; and a second tine having a knob in a sliding connection with the slot; and a second moment arm with a distal end configured for slidable attachment to a second bracket on the trailer frame and a proximal end pivotally attached to the head unit; wherein the first moment arm is at a first angle relative to the member of trailer and the second moment arm is at a second angle relative to the trailer; wherein the first angle is greater than the second angle; and whereby the effective pivot point of the system is moved forward to reduce sway is disclosed.
US11780271B2
A tread portion 2 can include an inner tread end, an outer tread end, circumferential grooves, and land portions. The circumferential grooves can include an inner shoulder circumferential groove and an outer shoulder circumferential groove. The land portions can include an inner shoulder land portion and an outer shoulder land portion. The inner shoulder land portion can include inner shoulder lateral grooves and inner shoulder sipes. The outer shoulder land portion can include outer shoulder lateral grooves and outer shoulder sipes. Each outer shoulder sipe can have a chamfered portion at each of sipe edges on both sides. The chamfered portion can have a chamfered width that increases from a terminating end side toward the outer shoulder circumferential groove.
US11780268B2
A tyre includes a tread portion being provided with a pair of shoulder circumferential grooves on an outer surface thereof and a tread reinforcing layer disposed in the tread portion. The tread reinforcing layer includes a circumferential belt layer having a plurality of first reinforcing cords oriented along a tyre circumferential direction. The circumferential belt layer includes a pair of axially spaced first circumferential belt plies extending in radially inner regions of the pair of shoulder circumferential grooves. The pair of first circumferential belt plies is arranged apart from one another at a distance L equal to or more than 20 mm in a tyre axial direction.
US11780266B2
A plurality of belt layers 7 are superimposed in a radial direction. The belt layers 7 include a plurality of steel cords 10 arranged in parallel in a row and rubber 11. The steel cords 10 have a 1×4 structure in which four filaments 20 are twisted, and when a center-to-center distance between the steel cords 10 in at least two of the belt layers 7 adjacent in the radial direction is T, and an average diameter of virtual circumscribed circles of the steel cords 10 having the 1×4 structure is D, 1.25≤T/D≤2.25.
US11780262B1
A printmaking placement tool that permits multiple aligned and layered prints comprising a main body, a plurality of paper guides, and a plurality of bores located in a top surface of the main body that are adapted to receive and engage the plurality of a paper guides. In some embodiments, a bottom surface of each of the plurality of paper guides includes an at least one protrusion adapted to be received in the plurality of bores. In further embodiments, the placement tool comprises a main body having a raised outer edge and no paper guides or corresponding bores are utilized.
US11780256B2
An assembly (1) includes a laminate (2) in which tags (21) are laminated, and a support part (3) that supports the laminate (2). The support (part 3) includes a bottom surface part (31) and a folding back part (32) folded back from the bottom surface part (31). A reverse surface (2b) of the laminate (2) protrudes from the folding back part (32), and a part of the reverse surface (2b) is adhered to the folding back part (32) to be supported by the support part (3). A laminate adhesive part (7) to which a part of the reverse surface (2b) and the support part (3) are adhered is disposed in an overlapping region AR1 of the reverse surface (2b) and the folding back part (32) so as to be separated from at least a part of a peripheral edge E of the overlapping region AR1.
US11780255B2
It has been found, that when co-absorbing substances are added to intrinsic laser-absorbing bismuthoxide, the marking performance with a Nd.YAG-laser is improved or at least kept at the same level by reducing the costs. It is suspected, that the co-absorbing additive is not simply adding a contrast to the polymer by carbonizing the surrounding polymer but helping the bismuthoxide to couple the laser radiation and to ease the color change of this additive. This so found effect helps to cheapen the replacement of antimony trioxide and therewith have a safer and more sustainable solution for the current and future technology of laser marking.
US11780248B2
A printing system includes a media transport system configured to pick a sheet of media from a media supply and transport it along a media transport path to a printing module. An image capture system positioned along the media transport path, includes an image capture device positioned to capture a digital image of the sheet of media, and a platen positioned behind the sheet of media, wherein a surface of the platen includes a non-uniform density pattern, and wherein the captured digital image includes at least one edge of the sheet of media and a portion of the platen that extends beyond the edge of the sheet of media. An image analysis system automatically analyzes the captured digital image to detect an edge position of the sheet of media by detecting a platen region that includes the non-uniform density pattern and a media region.
US11780233B2
An inkjet printing apparatus includes a discharge head that discharges ink, and a housing that contains the discharge head, wherein the housing contains a first ink storage member and a second ink storage member that each store ink, and the ink is supplied from each of the first ink storage member and the second ink storage member to the discharge head, wherein the first ink storage member is an ink cartridge not having an ink refilling port for enabling ink refilling by opening a stopper member, and detachable from the inkjet printing apparatus, and wherein the second ink storage member has the ink refilling port.
US11780231B2
An ejection apparatus includes an ejection head, and a recessed portion, a wiper, an installation unit, and a moving unit configured to move the blade and the ejection head relative to each other, wherein the wiper performs a wiping operation for wiping the ejection head to wipe the ejection port after wiping the recessed portion, and wherein in the wiping operation, a first wiping operation is performed in a state where the ejection port surface and the installation unit on which the wiper is installed are at a first distance in a direction perpendicular to the ejection port surface, and a second wiping operation is performed in a state where the ejection port surface and the installation unit on which the wiper is installed are at a second distance in the direction perpendicular to the ejection port surface, the second distance being larger than the first distance.
US11780223B2
An integrated circuit to drive a plurality of fluid actuation devices includes a plurality of contact pads, a plurality of pulldown devices, and control logic. The plurality of contact pads include a first contact pad and a second contact pad. Each of the pulldown devices is electrically coupled to a corresponding contact pad. The control logic enables at least a portion of the pulldown devices in response to both a logic low signal on the first contact pad and a logic low signal on the second contact pad.
US11780210B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure may generally relate to systems, apparatus, and/or processes directed to a manufacturing process flow for packages that include one or more glass layers that include patterning features, such as electrically conductive traces, RDLs, and vias within the packages. In embodiments, a package may include a glass layer with a first side and a second side opposite the first side, where the glass layer is a dielectric layer. The package may include another layer coupled with the first side of the glass layer, and a pattern on the second side of the glass layer to receive a deposited material in at least a portion of the pattern.
US11780208B2
Disclosed herein is a molded article made from two different polyurethane foam laminate materials, which displays both softness and resilience to machine washing. Also disclosed herein is a method of making said foam article.
US11780207B2
The invention relates to a nonwoven fabric sheet comprising at least two adjacent layers of spunbonded nonwoven webs, one of which is an elastic layer in the form of a spunbonded nonwoven web comprising elastic fibers formed from a thermoplastic elastomer polymer material. The invention further relates to a method of manufacturing such nonwoven and the use of such nonwoven.
US11780203B2
A machine for pulling paper off of a roll and crumpling the paper increasing the surface area and bulk of the compressible crumpled paper. The crumpled paper is used as packing material, cushioning packaged parts and filling package voids.
US11780199B2
A method and system are disclosed for forming a can from a re-configurable blank. A blank is also disclosed that may be a paper based blank and may be of multi-layer construction. The method may comprise: (a) supporting the blank in a first orientation; (b) positioning a first portion of an outward facing surface of a blank support device proximate a first portion of the blank while the blank is in the first orientation; (c) while the first portion of the blank is in the first orientation, rotating a second portion of the blank around a second portion of the outward facing surface of the blank support device; and (d) rotating a third portion of the blank from the first orientation, around a third portion of the outward facing surface of the blank support device. A generally tubular side wall may thus be formed for a can.
US11780196B2
A line and method for the production of covered cardboard boxes are disclosed. The line includes a conveyor unit including a belt and a conveyor actuator that drives the belt intermittently in an alternating sequence of movements and stops. A feed unit individually feeds covering blanks from a reservoir to the conveyor unit in a sequence of feed instants. An erecting machine folds box blanks into corresponding boxes. A positioner individually positions the boxes from the erecting machine, in alignment on corresponding covering blanks disposed on the belt of the conveyor unit. A gluer spreads glue on one face of the covering blanks. A covering machine folds the covering blanks into contact with their respective boxes to cover the boxes. A control unit connected to the feed unit adjustably sets a phase displacement of the feed instants relative to the sequence of stops of the belt.
US11780192B2
A pressing arrangement is disclosed, including a pressure vessel, a pressure medium supplying device configured to output a flow of pressure medium, and a pressure medium accumulator. In an embodiment, the pressure medium accumulator is positioned intermediate the pressure vessel and the pressure medium supplying device.
US11780184B2
Methods and apparatus for securing an autoclave bag to a composite fixture are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a flange sealing device including a forward flange at a first end and an aft flange at a second end, and a composite fixture including a forward groove to locate and seal with the forward flange of the flange sealing device to affix an autoclave bag, an aft groove to locate and seal with the aft flange of the flange sealing device to affix the autoclave bag, and an aft locating ring to position the autoclave bag.
US11780175B2
Multiple processes for preparing porous articles are described. The porous articles can be in a wide array of shapes and configurations. The methods include providing a soluble material in particulate form and forming a packed region from the material. The methods also include contacting a flowable polymeric material with the packed region such that the polymeric material is disposed in voids in the packed region. The polymeric material is then at least partially solidified. The soluble material is then removed such as by solvent washing to thereby produce desired porous articles. Also described are systems for performing the various processes.
US11780165B2
A movable raw material processing unit for an additive manufacturing device for manufacturing a solid article comprises a housing comprising a transport device for disengaging the raw material processing unit from the additive manufacturing device. The raw material processing unit comprises a raw material container unit, a build unit and a raw material distribution unit.
US11780153B2
A method of wrapping an article such as a vehicle, the method comprises applying a wrapping film to a vehicle and locating a thermochromics material in, adjacent or proximate an area requiring post-heating, heating the wrapping film to effect a post-heating operation until the thermochromics material changes colour.
US11780139B2
A method is described for producing fibre-reinforced plastic moulded parts, wherein endless fibre strands are fed by a fibre braking device and/or cut fibres via a gravimetric metering device, and a plastic material to be melted, by a volumetric metering device are fed to a single-screw plasticizing unit. Plastic material which is molten and is mixed with fibre material is injected into a moulding tool by an injection stroke of the plasticizing screw. According to the application, the ACTUAL mass flow of the plastic material is calculated from the ACTUAL volume flow of the plastic material and from the ACTUAL mass flow of the fibre material. The ACTUAL mass flow of the plastic material is compared to a TARGET mass flow of the plastic material, and the rotation speed nd of the rotary drive of the metering element of the metering device is adapted.
US11780133B2
A method of manufacturing an article using injection molding includes a step of injecting resin from an injection nozzle having a valve pin via a resin flow path in a first mold (metal mold) into a cavity in the first mold, a step of inserting the valve pin into the resin flow path, extracting the valve pin from the resin flow path, starting to increase a distance between the injection nozzle and the first mold after extracting the valve pin, and a third step of, after starting to increase the distance between the injection nozzle and the first mold, injecting resin from the injection nozzle via a resin flow path in a second mold into a cavity in the second mold.
US11780127B2
A foaming and dyeing integrated production method for a polymer material product includes steps of putting a polymer material preform into a foaming and dyeing kettle, and loading dye into a dyeing circulation module; gasifying CO2 and injecting the CO2 into the foaming and dyeing kettle, stopping pressurization when the CO2 reaches a supercritical state; performing a dyeing circulation process in which the CO2 in the supercritical state enters the dyeing circulation module and dissolves the dye in the dyeing circulation module, when the dyeing process is finished, injecting CO2 and/or N2 pressurized in the fluid pressurization delivery module and heated in the fluid heating module into the foaming and dyeing kettle, stopping pressurization and starting foaming operation when requirements of a foaming process are met; and when the foaming process is finished, taking out a foamed and dyed polymer material product in the foaming and dyeing kettle.
US11780124B2
An apparatus for manufacturing a thermoplastic resin material, including: a mold for molding a base material containing a thermoplastic resin into a predetermined shape; and a transfer mechanism that places the base material in the mold, wherein the transfer mechanism includes a detection mechanism that detects a state of the base material, and a controlling unit that controls operation of the mold and the transfer mechanism.
US11780123B2
This workpiece molding apparatus has a mold member equipped with a pair of metal molds that hold therebetween a workpiece being a laminate of a workpiece body and a surface skin material, and that are capable of holding, through suction, the workpiece body and the surface skin material, said workpiece molding apparatus being provided with: a surface skin material retention part which is disposed laterally to the mold member so as to retain the surface skin material and which forms a level difference between the retaining position of the workpiece body and the retaining position of the surface skin material in a non-bonded area where the surface skin material is not bonded to the workpiece body; and a forward-and-backward moving member which is disposed at the portion where the level difference is formed at the non-bonded area so as to cover an upside of the non-bonded area of the workpiece body.
US11780122B2
A forming assembly configured to form a wick is disclosed. The forming assembly includes an expandable tube and a forming shell assembly. The expandable tube is hydraulically expandable to an expanded configuration. A wick mesh is configured to be wrapped about the expandable tube. The forming shell assembly includes a first forming shell comprising a first recess defined therein and a second forming shell comprising a second recess defined therein. The first recess and the second recess cooperate to define an outer diameter of the wick. The expandable tube and the wick mesh are positionable between the first recess and the second recess. The expandable tube and the forming shell assembly are configured to deform the wick mesh and form the wick based on the expandable tube hydraulically expanding towards the expanded configuration.
US11780113B2
A reduced weight, reduced density gypsum panel that includes high expansion vermiculite with fire resistance capabilities that are at least comparable to (if not better than) commercial fire rated gypsum panels with a much greater gypsum content, weight and density.
US11780110B1
A sawmill for sawing a log segment in two through the core thereof and a method of sawing a log in half through the core thereof. The sawmill includes a log feed conveyor configured for feeding logs to a band saw and a log positioning rig, the band saw being disposed on a movable carriage of a fixed frame, the band saw being configured for sawing a log from a first end of the log to a distal end of the log. The log positioning rig has a reciprocating cradle having a plurality of spaced-apart cradle segments. The reciprocating cradle is pivotally attached to the fixed frame, and is configured for raising or lowering the first end of the log to align the central core of the log along the length of the log with a blade of the band saw.
US11780109B2
The cutting machine for cutting logs of web material, includes a cutting head arranged along the feeding path of the logs. The cutting head includes a coupling for a disc-shaped cutting blade and is designed to impart the disc-shaped cutting blade a rotary motion around the axis thereof and a cyclic movement to cut the logs into single rolls, and to allow the logs to move forward along the feeding path. The machine also includes a store unit for disc-shaped cutting blades associated with the cutting head. A handling member is provided to remove a worn disc-shaped cutting blade from the cutting head and replace the worn disc-shaped cutting blade with a new disc-shaped cutting blade taken from the store unit.
US11780107B1
An apparatus is provided that includes a knife and blade cover. The knife includes a handle and a blade. The handle is attached to the blade. The blade includes a cutting edge, a cheek, and an upper spine. The cheek extends between the cutting edge and the upper spine. The apparatus further includes a blade cover. The blade cover covers opposite sides of the cutting edge of the blade. The blade cover covers at least a portion of the upper spine in a stowed position. The apparatus further includes a biasing device. The biasing device is in operative connection with the knife and the blade cover. The biasing device is operative to bias the blade cover down against the upper spine in the stowed position. The blade is in operative connection with the knife. The blade cover is operative to move relative to the blade in a direction away from the cutting edge when the blade cuts an object to enable the blade to cut the object.
US11780104B2
A blade set for a hair cutting appliance is described. The blade set (26) is arranged to be moved through hair in a moving direction to cut hair, and includes a stationary blade including a support insert and a metal component. The metal component and the support insert are force-fitted to one another. The metal component is at least sectionally deformed to define at least one toothed leading edge having double-walled stationary blade teeth. The metal component forms a first wall that is arranged to serve as a skin-facing wall when in operation, and a second wall that is facing away from the first wall. A guide slot for a movable blade is defined between inwardly facing inner surfaces of the metal component and the support insert and a movable blade having a plurality of movable blade teeth.
US11780083B2
Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media for determining and utilizing human corrections to robot actions. In some implementations, in response to determining a human correction of a robot action, a correction instance is generated that includes sensor data, captured by one or more sensors of the robot, that is relevant to the corrected action. The correction instance can further include determined incorrect parameter(s) utilized in performing the robot action and/or correction information that is based on the human correction. The correction instance can be utilized to generate training example(s) for training one or model(s), such as neural network model(s), corresponding to those used in determining the incorrect parameter(s). In various implementations, the training is based on correction instances from multiple robots. After a revised version of a model is generated, the revised version can thereafter be utilized by one or more of the multiple robots.
US11780075B2
Various storage units that stack with other units, such as in a modular system, are provided. The storage units couple within a modular system via coupling interfaces on the top and/or bottom surfaces that couple the storage units to other units in the modular system. The storage units include a cover and a latch, the cover restricting one or more drawers from being opened. In a specific embodiment, the cover is slidably stored within the housing of the storage unit. The storage unit includes one or more internal storage compartments defined at least in part by the one or more drawers.
US11780067B2
A pneumatic tool includes a drive part configured to be driven by compressed air, a control valve configured to switch the presence or absence of operation of the drive part, and a timer part configured to switch the presence or absence of operation of the control valve after a lapse of a predetermined time. The timer part includes a timer piston configured to move in one direction, a timer piston cylinder configured to support the timer piston such that the timer piston can slide, and an on-off valve part configured to switch the presence or absence of operation of the control valve in conjunction with the timer piston. The on-off valve part includes a shaft portion configured to move in conjunction with the timer piston, and compressed air flowing into the on-off valve part presses the shaft portion in the one direction.
US11780064B2
A socket structure includes a body, a first fitting hole, a second fitting hole, and at least one elastic engaging member. The first fitting hole is disposed at one end of the body. The second fitting hole is disposed at another end of the body. The at least one elastic engaging member is disposed in the first fitting hole and protrudes toward an inner portion of the first fitting hole along a radial direction of the first fitting hole. When a tool is inserted into the first fitting hole, the at least one elastic engaging member is pressed and deformed by the tool and is thus engaged with the tool. The configuration of the at least one elastic engaging member makes it easier to connect a tool to and remove the tool from the socket structure.
US11780063B2
An extension adapter includes a body having a bore. The bore is configured to receive a tool bit. The extension adapter includes a retaining member received within an aperture of the body and a biasing member coupled to the body. The biasing member includes a protrusion received within the aperture to bias the retaining member into a first position in which a portion of the retaining member extends into the bore. The extension adapter includes a collar moveable between an unlocked position and a locked position. The unlocked position is configured to allow the tool bit to be removed from the bore. While the collar is maintained in the locked position, the body is configured to slidably receive the tool bit such that the portion of the retaining member is received in a groove of the tool bit to secure the tool bit to the body.
US11780062B2
The invention provides, in another aspect, an impact tool comprising a housing, a motor having an output shaft defining a first axis, a drive shaft rotatably supported by the housing about a second axis oriented substantially normal to the first axis, a gear coupled for co-rotation with the drive shaft, an impact mechanism coupled between the motor and the drive shaft and operable to impart a striking rotational force to the drive shaft, the impact mechanism including, an anvil rotatably supported by the housing and coupled to the drive shaft, the anvil including a pinion engaged with the drive shaft gear, a hammer coupled to the motor to receive torque from the motor and impart the striking rotational force to the anvil, and a spring washer exerting a preload force on the pinion to maintain the pinion meshed with the drive shaft gear.
US11780053B2
A shot processing apparatus including: a cabinet with a processing chamber formed therein, the processing chamber allowing a workpiece to be conveyed thereinto; a ejecting mechanism ejecting a shot media to a hole of the workpiece; and a conveyance device conveying the workpiece between a preparation position for the workpiece and the cabinet, wherein the conveyance device includes a plate-like rotary table provided to be rotatable about a rotation axis, being provided with a conveyor for moving the workpiece on an upper surface of the rotary table, and allowing the plurality of workpieces to be arranged thereon, the rotary table connects the conveyor to the preparation position and the cabinet at a predetermined rotational position, and the shot processing apparatus has an inspection area for inspecting a state of the hole of the workpiece, between the preparation position and the rotation axis of the rotary table.
US11780050B2
An apparatus of cleaning a polishing pad includes: a first gas nozzle for spraying gas onto the pores of the polishing pad; and a first liquid nozzle for spraying a liquid to the pores of the polishing pad.
US11780049B2
A carrier head for a polishing system includes a housing, a flexible membrane, a first plurality of pressure supply lines, a second plurality of pressure supply lines, and a valve assembly. The flexible membrane defines a multiplicity of independently pressurizable chambers. The valve assembly has a multiplicity of valves with each respective valve of the multiplicity of valves coupled to a respective pressure chamber from the multiplicity of independently pressurizable chambers. Each respective valve is configured to selectively couple the respective pressure chamber to one pressure supply line from a pair of pressure supply lines that include a pressure supply line from the first plurality of pressure supply lines and a pressure supply line from the second plurality of pressure supply lines.
US11780048B2
The present disclosure includes barrier devices for use in an apparatus used to form lapping plates. The barrier devices can contain liquid on the surface of the lapping plate platen. The present disclosure also involves related methods.
US11780041B2
Insect sorting conveyor systems include at least first and second insect conveyor stages. The first and second insect sorting conveyor stages each include an outwardly facing grasping surface forming at least part of a continuous loop having an upper section and a lower section, and an insect diverter positioned adjacent to the lower section. The second insect sorting conveyor stage is disposed below the first insect sorting conveyor stage.
US11780039B2
A magnetic device for magnetically coupling to a ferromagnetic body, comprises a housing having a central bore. A plurality of pole sectors arranged within an envelope of the central bore and forming a workpiece contact interface of the magnetic device, each of the plurality of pole sectors comprising a plurality of spaced-apart pole portions arranged at respective distances, wherein a recess of a plurality of recesses separates each pole portion of the plurality of pole portions, wherein a first sector forms a first pole of the magnetic device and a second sector forms a second pole of the magnetic device. A first permanent magnet. A second permanent being moveable relative to the first permanent magnet. And, an actuator operatively coupled to the at least one second permanent magnet to move the at least one second permanent magnet relative to the at least one first permanent magnet.
US11780038B2
A clamping device and a machining method. The clamping device comprises: a base; a clamping head comprising a blind rivet and a locking member, the blind rivet comprising a middle column segment and enlarged portions at two ends, and the locking member being connected to an upper end of the blind rivet and defining a clamping opening; a lower cavity connected to the base; an upper cavity comprising an annular peripheral wall and a top wall having a central hole, the top wall being clamped between the two enlarged portions, the middle column segment of the blind rivet movably passing through the central hole, and the upper cavity being connected to the lower cavity in a fit manner; an elastic member located in the peripheral wall and supported between the enlarged portion at a lower portion of the blind rivet and the top wall; and a support cylinder movably fitted in the lower cavity, the support cylinder being supported below the elastic member.
US11780037B2
A gripping machine for an article includes a machine frame, first and second drive means associated with the machine frame, a support platform of the article, movable with respect to the machine frame by the first drive means along a direction of displacement, and holding members, arranged about the direction of displacement to delimit therebetween a gripping plane or space of the article, at least one holding member being movable radially by the second drive means between a holding configuration and a release configuration of the article, and vice versa. Electronic control means control the first drive means so that the support platform is located at one or more predefined axial positions and the second drive means so that, in the holding configuration, at least one holding member is moved continuously towards the article to actively clamp the article.
US11780033B2
For material processing of a material, which is in particular for a laser beam to a large extent transparent, asymmetric shaped modifications are created transverse to the propagation direction of the laser beam. Thereby, the laser beam is shaped for forming an elongated focus zone in the material, wherein the focus zone is such that it includes at least one intensity maximum, which is transverse flattened in a flattening direction, or a transverse and/or axial sequence of asymmetric intensity maxima, which are flattened in a sequence direction. After positioning the focus zone in the material, a modification is created and the material and the focus zone are moved relative to each other in the or across to the flattening direction or in the or across to the sequence direction for forming a crack along an induced preferred direction.
US11780032B2
A control device controls a beam vibrating mechanism to vibrate a laser beam in a C-shaped vibration pattern in which a beam spot is moved from a first irradiation position at a front end in a cutting advancing direction to a second irradiation position at a rear side and displaced in an orthogonal direction to the cutting advancing direction, and is moved from the second irradiation position to a third irradiation position at a front end and displaced in the orthogonal direction to the cutting advancing direction, and movement from the first irradiation position to the third irradiation position via the second irradiation position, and movement from the third irradiation position to the first irradiation position via the second irradiation position are repeated. The control device performs control to cut the sheet metal by causing beam spots in the first to third irradiation positions to overlap one another.
US11780029B2
In various embodiments, workpieces are processed, e.g., via welding or cutting, while the shape and/or one or more other parameters of the laser processing beam are altered. The shape and/or one or more other parameters of the laser processing beam may be varied based on one or more characteristics of the workpiece.
US11780028B2
A method for separating a workpiece along a separation line by using ultrashort laser pulses of a laser beam includes splitting the laser beam, using a beam splitter optical unit, into a plurality of partial laser beams. Each partial laser beam is focused by a focusing optical unit onto a surface and/or into a volume of the workpiece so that the partial laser beams are arranged next to one another and spaced apart from one another along the separation line. The method further includes implementing material ablation in the workpiece along the separation line by introducing the ultrashort laser pulses into the workpiece. The partial laser beams are repeatedly moved away from an initial position along the separation line by a deflection value and are subsequently moved back into the initial position. The deflection value is less than or equal to a distance between two adjacent partial laser beams.
US11780027B2
Described herein is a system for processing a workpiece that includes a plurality of lasers that each produces a laser beam pulse. The system also includes a laser control module that sequences temporal characteristics of the laser beam pulses. Additionally, the system includes a laser beam compensation module that shapes a near field intensity profile of at least one of the laser beam pulses and adjusts a path length of at least one of the laser beam pulses. The system also includes at least one laser beam position element that combines the laser beam pulses to produce a combined laser beam pulse at a surface of the workpiece.
US11780024B2
A welding current source for supplying an electric welding current circuit with electric current and electric voltage for carrying out an electric welding process, wherein the welding current source is provided with a power conditioning device for conditioning electric current supplied to the welding current source for suitability in an electric welding process, wherein furthermore on a housing of the welding current source there are provided two pole contact devices, each of which protrude from the housing, and the welding current source is equipped with a cooling device, with which thermal heat loss released by the welding current source can be dissipated. In the case of such a welding current source and despite sufficient cooling of the electrical components, it shall be possible that the housing of the welding current source can be designed to be also smaller than before.
US11780016B2
A removable attachment assembly for an angular drill assembly, which includes a base member and a securement assembly secured to the base member for releasably securing the base member to a housing of the angular drill assembly. The removable attachment assembly further includes a cushion member associated with the base member.
US11780014B2
Exemplary martensitic steel alloys may be particularly suited for additive manufacturing applications. Exemplary atomized alloy powders usable in additive manufacturing may include carbon, nickel, manganese, chromium, and the balance iron and incidental impurities. Exemplary steel alloys can be molybdenum free.
US11780009B2
A method for producing a piston for an internal combustion engine may include producing a piston upper part including a piston top, at least parts of a ring section, and at least part of a cooling channel, producing a piston lower part and closing the part of the cooling channel arranged in the piston upper part via an additive method, and finish-machining the piston. Finish-machining the piston may include producing at least one annular groove in a ring support for receiving a piston ring.
US11779998B2
It provides a reinforcing bar binding machine that allows binding objects such as reinforcing bars to be bound by wires with end portions of the wires directed to the binding object side. The reinforcing bar binding machine (1A) includes: a magazine (2A) in which two wires (W) are housed in a drawable manner; a curl guide unit (5A) that winds the juxtaposed wires (W) around the reinforcing bars (S); a wire feeding unit (3A) that winds the wires (W) around the reinforcing bars (S) with the curl guide unit (5A) in an operation of juxtaposing and feeding the wires (W) and winds the wires (W), which is wound around the reinforcing bars (S), around the reinforcing bars (S); and a binding unit (7A) that twists crossing portions of one end side and the other end side of each of the wires (W) wound around the reinforcing bars (S). The binding unit (7A) includes a bending portion (71) that bends the one end side and the other end side of each of the wires (W), which are wound around the reinforcing bars (S), toward the reinforcing bars (S).
US11779997B2
A reinforcing bar binding machine includes a magazine in which two wires are housed in a drawable manner; a curl guide unit that winds the juxtaposed wires around the reinforcing bars and a wire feeding unit that winds the wires around the reinforcing bars with the curl guide unit in an operation of juxtaposing and feeding the wires so that the wires are wound around the reinforcing bars. In addition, the binding machine includes a binding unit that twists crossing portions of one end side and the other end side of each of the wires wound around the reinforcing bars. The binding unit further includes a bending portion that bends the one end side and the other end side of each of the wires, which are wound around the reinforcing bars, toward the reinforcing bars.
US11779991B2
Tube flaring tool comprising a tube receiving region comprising first and second gripping dies retractable with respect to each other and positionable to cooperatively define an opening for receiving a tube; a first clutch shaft; a support housing having a bore for receiving a second clutch shaft; a clutch plate; a flare forming head operable to flare the free end of the tube; and a biasing member urging the flare forming head axially. The first clutch shaft may have an outer configuration adapted to be engaged by a 12 point or ⅜″ square drive SAE ratchet wrench for creating mechanical advantage to actuate the flare forming head. When the force that the biasing member urges the flare forming head axially is overcome, the clutch plate disengages from the second clutch shaft such that further actuation of the first clutch shaft does not rotate the flare forming head shaft, preventing over-flaring.
US11779990B2
An expansion tool includes a housing and a collar rotatably coupled to the housing. The collar includes a plurality of slots. The expansion tool further includes a plurality of jaws, each jaw having a projection received in a corresponding one of the plurality of slots such that the jaws are coupled for co-rotation with the collar. The expansion tool also includes a mandrel movable relative to the housing between a retracted position and an extended position, the mandrel engageable with the jaws to expand the jaws in response to movement of the mandrel to the extended position, and a drive mechanism including a rotatable cam. Rotation of the cam moves the mandrel between the retracted position and the extended position. The expansion tool further includes a rotation mechanism configured to incrementally rotate the collar.
US11779986B2
A hot-spinning formation method for large-diameter titanium alloy cylindrical parts. A workblank is placed in a resistance furnace to heated to 600-650° C., is maintained at this temperature for 0.5-1 h and is then taken out of the resistance furnace; after the workblank is heated, the inner diameter of the workblank becomes larger; the heated workblank is installed on a mandrel, and spinning is started when a maximum clearance between the workblank and the mandrel is less than 0.5 mm; the mandrel and the spinning rollers do not need to be preheated, and a multi-pass spinning process is adopted, such that the workblank can deform more uniformly. A vertical spinning lathe is used for spinning, the mandrel is easy to change, and the workblank is easy to assemble and disassemble.
US11779967B2
An apparatus includes a wafer stage and a particle removing assembly. The wafer stage includes a cup adjacent to a wafer chuck. The particle removing assembly is configured to remove contaminant particles from the cup. In some embodiments, the particle removing assembly comprises a flexible ejecting member that includes one or more elongated tubes, a front tip, and a cleaning tip adapter configured to attach the front tip to each of the one or more elongated tubes. The front tip includes front openings and lateral openings from which pressurized cleaning material are introduced onto an unreachable area of the cup to remove the contaminant particles from the cup.
US11779965B2
A Conduit Descaling System (CDS) is provided and includes an anchor structure, wherein the anchor structure includes a first anchor end, a second anchor end and a structure center portion and wherein the structure center portion connects the first anchor end with the second anchor end; a descaling chain ring, wherein the descaling chain ring defines a chain ring center cavity and is connected to the structure center portion; and a Forward Descaling Article (FDA), wherein the FDA includes an FDA structure having an FDA structure first end, an FDA structure second end and an FDA structure center portion, wherein the FDA structure center portion includes a plurality of FDA anchor structures distributed along the circumference of the FDA structure center portion, and wherein FDA further includes a plurality of FDA descaling links having a plurality of FDA descaling link cutting teeth.
US11779958B2
An ultrasonic stepping motor device for generating ultra-fine single droplet includes a valve housing, a valve core, and a spring. The valve core and the spring are installed inside the valve housing, and the valve core abuts against a liquid inlet of the valve housing under an elastic force of the spring. The valve housing is connected with a injector through a catheter, and the catheter is driven for linear operation by the inverse piezoelectric effect of piezoelectric ceramics through an ultrasonic linear motor. A right end of the catheter is equipped with a rubber piston, and the rubber piston is arranged in a cavity of the injector and matched with the injector. Since the piezoelectric vibrator driven catheter can produce nano feed length, and the volume of droplets overflowed each time can reach micron level, which can meet the requirements of producing micro droplets.
US11779947B2
The disclosure relates to a pressure cleaning device comprising a pressure generating unit for pressurizing a fluid and for dispensing a pressurized fluid via a hose attachment, preferably via a hand gun or via a cleaning nozzle. The pressure cleaning device can be operated in at least two different operating modes. According to the disclosure, a preferably electric pressure sensor for determining an actual operating pressure and/or a flow rate sensor for determining an actual flow rate and a control device are associated with the pressure generating unit. The control device is designed to control the pressure generating unit in particular, based on a respectively set operating mode in accordance with an actual operating pressure and/or an actual determined flow rate.
US11779946B2
The disclosure discloses a system for quality inspection in the entire process of inkjet printing manufacturing of display devices, which includes a substrate inspection module, a nozzle inspection module, an ink droplet inspection module, a coating thickness inspection module and a control module. Through design and matching of these modules, it is possible to realize a series of operations such as substrate inspection, nozzle inspection, flying ink droplet inspection, liquid coating inspection and cured coating inspection. The invention also discloses a corresponding quality inspection method for the entire inkjet printing manufacturing process for display devices. The invention effectively compensates for the shortcomings of current technology which only inspect a single stage without taking the whole process into consideration, thereby realizing high-precision quality inspection of each stage in the inkjet printing manufacturing process of display devices, and significantly improving the quality and yield of the display device product.
US11779943B1
A nozzle attachment and method for its use is provided. The nozzle attachment can be affixed to a fluid outlet. The nozzle attachment is constructed and arranged to increase the total output flow, flux, of the fluid outlet by using the high velocity directional fluid flow from the outlet to create a pressure differential between the flow and the surrounding medium, thereby causing fluid particles from the surrounding medium to be drawn into the fluid flow. The nozzle attachment comprises a nozzle attachment fixation element, a funnel element, and a frame connector extending between the nozzle attachment fixation element and the funnel element. The nozzle attachment has many applications and uses.
US11779941B2
A sealing valve comprises a sealing valve body (1). The sealing valve body (1) is provided with a cylindrical valve hole (2), and a bottom end of the cylindrical valve hole (2) is provided with a frustum hole (3). The frustum hole (3) is arranged coaxially with the cylindrical valve hole (2), and a small bottom end of the frustum hole (3) is in communication with the bottom end of the cylindrical valve hole (2). The sealing valve is controllable over the opening and closing of a nozzle.
US11779937B1
An improved modular hydrocyclone and method of operating for centrifugal cleaning fluid wherein the hydrocyclone has a plurality of inserts each of different sizes and configurations for selectively and interchangeably inserting into the modular body thereby adjusting capacity and cleaning efficiency of the hydrocyclone without changing out the body. One or more embodiments relate to systems and methods for utilizing a hydrocyclone system with interchangeable components.
US11779933B2
A chip separator configured to disentangle clusters of chips in a collection tank is disclosed. The chip separator includes a horizontal plate having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, a motor assembly coupled to the first surface of the horizontal plate; and a pulverizer operably coupled to the motor assembly and disposed away from the second surface of the horizontal plate by a distance. The pulverizer includes a base plate and a plurality of pulverizer attachments operably coupled to the base plate. The motor assembly is configured to rotate the pulverizer such that the plurality of pulverizer attachments of the pulverizer disentangles clusters of chips disposed in the collection tank.
US11779932B2
The invention relates to a crusher, in particular a rotary impact crusher, cone crusher or jaw crusher, having a crusher unit (10), which has a movable first crusher body (11), in particular a rotor or a crusher jaw, wherein a second crusher body (14), in particular an impact rocker or a crusher jaw, is assigned to the first crusher body (11), wherein a crushing gap (15) is formed between the crusher bodies (11, 14), wherein an overload triggering device (30) is coupled to the first crusher body or to the second crusher body, which overload triggering device has a hydraulic cylinder (20) and which overload triggering device is designed to permit a motion of the coupled crusher body (11, 14) increasing the width of the crushing gap (15), wherein the hydraulic cylinder (20) has a pressure chamber (24), which is delimited by means of a piston (23), and wherein the overload triggering device (30) has a pressure valve (31) which, in its open position, establishes a fluid-conveying connection between the pressure chamber (24) and a low-pressure area and, in the closed valve position, blocks this connection. The productivity and operational safety of such a crusher can then be increased if provision is made that the overload triggering device (30) has a high-pressure valve (40), which, as a result of an overload situation, in its open position establishes a fluid-conveying connection between the pressure chamber (24) of the hydraulic cylinder (20) and a low-pressure area and, after the overload situation has ended, is moved into a closed position to block this connection, and in that the triggering pressure required to open the pressure valve (31) is lower than the triggering pressure required to open the high-pressure valve (40).
US11779931B2
Instruments, systems, and methods for measuring optical density of microbiological samples are provided. In particular, optical density instruments providing improved safety, efficiency, comfort, and convenience are provided. Such optical density instruments include a handheld portion and a base station. The optical density instruments may be used in systems and methods for measuring optical density of biological samples.
US11779923B2
The present invention relates to a microfluidic device, a method for manufacturing a microfluidic device, and a method for provision of double emulsion droplets using a microfluidic device. Furthermore, the present invention relates to an assembly configured to supply pressure to the microfluidic device for provision of double emulsion droplets. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a kit comprising a plurality of microfluidic devices and a plurality of fluids configured for use with the microfluidic device for provision of double emulsion droplets. The microfluidic device comprises a transfer conduit comprising a first transfer conduit part having a first affinity for water; and a collection conduit comprising a first collection conduit part having a second affinity for water being different from the first affinity for water. A well section and a microfluidic section of the microfluidic device are fixedly connected to each other.
US11779918B2
3D nanochannel interleaved devices for molecular manipulation are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming a device includes: forming a pattern on a substrate of alternating mandrels and spacers alongside the mandrels; selectively removing the mandrels from a front portion of the pattern forming gaps between the spacers; selectively removing the spacers from a back portion of the pattern forming gaps between the mandrels; filling i) the gaps between the spacers with a conductor to form first electrodes and ii) the gaps between the mandrels with the conductor to form second electrodes; and etching the mandrels and the spacers in a central portion of the pattern to form a channel (e.g., a nanochannel) between the first electrodes and the second electrodes, wherein the first electrodes and the second electrodes are offset from one another across the channel, i.e., interleaved. A device formed by the method is also provided.
US11779912B2
This invention relates generally to olefin metathesis catalyst compounds, to the preparation of such compounds, compositions comprising such compounds, methods of using such compounds, articles of manufacture comprising such compounds, and the use of such compounds in the metathesis of olefins and olefin compounds. The invention has utility in the fields of catalysts, organic synthesis, polymer chemistry, and industrial and fine chemicals industry.
US11779911B2
In one aspect, the invention provides a method for synthesizing a fatty olefin derivative. The method includes: a) contacting an olefin according to Formula I with a metathesis reaction partner according to Formula IIb in the presence of a metathesis catalyst under conditions sufficient to form a metathesis product according to Formula IIIb: and b) converting the metathesis product to the fatty olefin derivative. Each R1 is independently selected from H, C1-18 alkyl, and C2-18 alkenyl; R2b is C1-8 alkyl; subscript y is an integer ranging from 0 to 17; and subscript z is an integer ranging from 0 to 17. In certain embodiments, the metathesis catalyst is a tungsten catalyst or a molybdenum catalyst. In various embodiments, the fatty olefin derivative is a pheromone. Pheromone compositions and methods of using them are also described.
US11779900B2
The present disclosure relates to hydrocarbon emission control systems. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to substrates coated with hydrocarbon adsorptive coating compositions, air intake systems, and evaporative emission control systems for controlling evaporative emissions of hydrocarbons from motor vehicle engines and fuel systems.
US11779898B2
The present disclosure relates generally to reactor systems that include (a) a housing having an interior surface that may be at least partially reflective, (b) at least one reactor cell disposed within an interior of the housing, the at least one reactor cell including an enclosure and a plasmonic photocatalyst on a catalyst support disposed within the at least one enclosure, where the enclosure is optically transparent and includes at least one inlet for a reactant to enter the at least one cell and at least one outlet for a reformate to exit the at least one cell and (c) at least one light source disposed within the interior of the housing and/or external to the housing. At least one light-management feature and/or at least one thermal-management feature is applied to the reactor cell, reactor system, or a reformer system comprising many reactor systems, in order to improve efficiency.
US11779897B2
An example of a flow cell includes a substrate, a plurality of chambers defined on or in the substrate, and a plurality of depressions defined in the substrate and within a perimeter of each of the plurality of chambers. The depressions are separated by interstitial regions. Primers are attached within each of the plurality of depressions, and a capture site is located within each of the plurality of chambers.
US11779892B2
A novel canister storage system, mixing system, canister assembly, dispensing system, and tracking system. In one or more embodiments, the systems are used for storing, mixing and dispensing fluids. In one application, the fluid includes one or more paint toners.
US11779881B2
A dehumidifying element includes: a layered body in which a plurality of sheets supporting an adsorbent that dehumidifies air are stacked on one another, with gaps provided between adjacent ones of the plurality of sheets, the gaps allowing air to pass therethrough; a casing that holds the layered body; and a cushioning member provided between the casing and the layered body in a stacking direction in which the plurality of sheets are stacked on one another, the cushioning member being configured to expand and contract.
US11779880B2
A gas separation system for controlling a concentration of a first gas species and a second gas species in an outlet gas comprises a splitter unit. The splitter unit comprises a gas membrane system having a gas inlet port. The gas inlet port is in fluid connection with an air intake. A membrane is a selective barrier and allows some things to pass through but stops others.
US11779875B2
A modular oxygen generator includes a tank assembly having a plurality of tanks coupled to one another, a lower pipe assembly disposed on a lower portion of the tank assembly and provided with pipes to supply air to the tank assembly and to discharge nitrogen, and an upper pipe assembly disposed on an upper portion of the tank assembly and provided with pipes to discharge oxygen generated in the tank assembly. The tank assembly includes a plurality of beds each of which is formed of a pair of oxygen collection tanks, an air tank storing air to be supplied to the oxygen collection tanks, and an oxygen tank receiving and storing oxygen from the oxygen collection tanks. The lower pipe assembly includes a manifold having a plurality of channels, and a plurality of first valves coupled to the manifold.
US11779872B2
A pulse valve assembly including a main valve and a pilot valve that selectively actuates the main valve.
US11779865B2
A gravity-fed filtration system interconnection structure comprising a reservoir for receiving ingress fluid, and a second, dispensing reservoir. A carrier or shuttle having a carrier magnet is connected to a sluice gate valve which normally blocks the opening to the second reservoir. A filter cartridge may be received by the reservoir and includes a housing body, and a filter magnet disposed within or fixedly connected to the housing body. The filter magnet and the carrier magnet are interconnected via magnetic communication upon insertion of the filter cartridge into the reservoir recess, to move the carrier and/or sluice gate valve as a result of shear force or rotational force generated between the magnets.
US11779864B2
The invention relates to a high-pressure hydraulic fluid screening element (1) for inserting into a hydraulic line or into a hydraulic connection of a hydraulic device, having an annular main body (2), which is aligned with respect to its axis of rotation (9) in a longitudinal direction (5). The outside diameter of the main body (2) is greater than its axial length. The inner cross section of the main body (2) is covered over by a screening region (3), which is provided with a multiplicity of apertures (4). In this case, the main body (2) and the screening region (3) are produced integrally by the powder injection-molding process.
US11779860B2
The present invention relates to Fc binding proteins comprising one or more domains with Cysteine in the C-terminal helical region. The invention further relates to affinity matrices comprising the Fc binding proteins of the invention. The invention also relates to a use of these Fc binding proteins or affinity matrices for affinity purification of immunoglobulins and to methods of affinity purification using the Fc binding proteins of the invention.
US11779857B2
Provided herein are integrated distillation apparatuses configured as stand-alone fully integrated systems having a reduced footprint. Integrated distillation apparatuses can have a rotary evaporator, a condenser, and an integrated refrigeration system or chiller, as well as an integrated water bath and vacuum pump, all of which can be integrated into a central frame and/or housing assembly. Integrated distillation apparatuses can be configured such that the rotary evaporator is movably attached to a frame structure and configured to be vertically translatable in position, whereas the condenser can be affixed to the structure by an arm extending from the structure and adjacent to the rotary evaporator, and wherein the refrigeration system can be in fluid communication with the condenser.
US11779856B2
A smoke generator includes a casing having a first chamber receiving dry ice, a second chamber receiving water, and a third chamber. The casing includes an outer side having a smoke outlet intercommunicating with the second chamber. The first chamber includes a smoke discharge port intercommunicating with the second chamber. A water pump device in the third compartment includes a water inlet located in the second chamber and a water spraying end located in the first chamber. The water pump device delivers water in the second chamber to the first chamber. The dry ice contacts with the water and gasifies into smoke that enters the second chamber via the smoke discharge port and is then ejected out via the smoke outlet. Water in the first chamber is flowable back to the second chamber. A heater is disposed in the second chamber and can increase the temperature of the water.
US11779846B2
A method for analyzing a virtual object in a virtual environment includes obtaining an image of a first real-world object and transmitting, to a data processing system, the image of the first real-world object. The method includes creating a digital representation of the first real-world object and assigning local attributes to one or more portions of the digital representation corresponding to elements of the first real-world object. The method includes obtaining an image of an updated configuration of the first real-world object and transmitting, to the data processing system, the image of the updated configuration. The method includes creating, by the data processing system, a digital representation, of the updated configuration. The method includes comparing, by the data processing system, the digital representation of the first real-world object and the digital representation of the updated first real-world object to identify rearranged parts and assign local attributes.
US11779837B2
This application discloses a method, an apparatus, and a device for scheduling virtual objects in a virtual environment, which relate to artificial intelligence (AI), and belong to the field of computer technologies. The method includes: obtaining frame data generated by an application program associated with the virtual environment; performing feature extraction on the frame data to obtain a state feature of a target virtual object; performing deduction on the state feature of the target virtual object according to N scheduling policies; invoking a value network prediction model to process the N subsequent state features, to obtain expected returns of executing N scheduling policies; and controlling the target virtual object to execute a scheduling policy having a highest expected return.
US11779828B1
The invention concerns a snowboard binding (1) comprising a snowboard anchor element (2) and a boot anchor element (3); at least one pivot mechanism (4) pivotally coupling the snowboard anchor element (2) and the boot anchor element (3) to allow pivoting of the boot anchor element (3) with respect to the snowboard anchor element (2). It also concerns a snowboard adapted for this binding.
US11779819B2
Embodiments of golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head may include a body portion having a front portion, a rear portion, a toe portion, a heel portion, a top portion, and a bottom portion. The front portion may include a front pocket having a horizontal interior wall. A face portion may be positioned in the front pocket and against the horizontal interior wall. The horizontal interior wall may reinforce the front portion and support the face portion during impact with a golf ball. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.
US11779815B1
A golf club with a multi-piece adjustable and interchangeable modular hosel system comprises a shaft tip connector portion, an upper hosel portion, and optional, intermediate interchangeable hosel adjustment spacer(s). The modular hosel system can be used, for example, with no spacers in place, or one or more risers in each of the hosel adjustability regions. The adjustment spacers can be used to increase the hosel length and shaft axis to head center of gravity offset or intersection. Angled risers can be oriented to adjust the shaft axis relative to club head orientation to fit and adjust specifications including loft and lie angle, alone or in combination. The modular hosel construction provides a quick and efficient means of fitting the putter specification to a large number of golfer requirements and also adjusting the specifications for changing user needs or course conditions.
US11779813B2
A golf ball 2 includes a main body 4 and a paint layer 6 positioned outside the main body 4. The main body 4 includes a spherical core 8, a mid layer 10 positioned outside the core 8, and a cover 12 positioned outside the mid layer 10. An indentation depth, measured when the paint layer 6 in a cross-section along a plane passing through a central point of the golf ball 2 is pressed by a force of 30 mgf in a direction perpendicular to the cross-section, is not less than 300 nm and not greater than 3000 nm. The paint layer 6 preferably has a thickness of not less than 5 μm and not greater than 50 μm.
US11779806B1
Method and apparatus for an improved exercise machine for specifically exercising the wrist and forearm muscles of a user. The exercise machine includes a rectangular shaped framework having left and right side vertical frame members along with upper and lower connecting cross members mounted on a pair of left and right support legs wherein a generally rectangular framework is formed. A rotatable vertically adjustable exercise bar is positioned forwardly on left and right U-shaped brackets so that the rotatable exercise bar is height adjustable using left and right vertical adjustments means. The forwardly extending rotatable exercise bar is disposed in a spaced away manner in front of the machine so as to be comfortably positioned for use by a user standing in front of the machine.
US11779804B2
A pedaling exercise machine according to the present embodiment includes: a pair of right and left pedal portions on which feet of a user are placed; a rotation mechanism that rotates the pedal portions when the feet of the user step on the pedal portions; a seating portion that is disposed on a rear end side of the rotation mechanism separately from the rotation mechanism and on which the user is seated; a fixing member disposed on a front end side of the rotation mechanism; and a belt member that is detachably connected to the seating portion and provided to extend from the fixing member to the seating portion.
US11779803B2
A fitness bike is provided which comprises a support skeleton which comprising a triangular frame which is formed by a connection rod as a transverse rod connecting a front support leg and a rear support leg, an oblique bar of the front support leg, an oblique rod comprising a support box and a connection block of a pedaling device, and a seat column as a vertical rod; a lower end of the oblique bar is fixed on a middle of a horizontal rod of the front support leg, a rear end of the connection rod is fixed at a front side of a middle of a V-shaped rod forming the rear support leg and having an opening facing backward, and a seat support device is mounted on the top of the seat column. The structure of the fitness bike provided is simple, compact, stable, and occupies less space.
