US11073944B2
A cooking apparatus is provided. The cooking apparatus includes an input panel comprising a plurality of touch buttons, and a processor configured to enter a calibration mode according to a predetermined event, receive a signal corresponding to a test input for a first touch button among the plurality of touch buttons from the input panel in the calibration mode, and adjust a threshold value for identifying whether the first touch button was touched based on the strength of the received signal.
US11073942B2
An electronic device according to an embodiment disclosed in the present specification may comprise a processor, a touch panel for receiving a touch input, a pressure sensor for detecting a pressure value of the touch input, and a controller for transmitting to the processor touch data corresponding to the touch input. The controller responds to the touch input if the pressure value of the touch input is a threshold value or greater, switches an operation mode of the controller from a first mode to a second mode, and can transmit the touch data to the processor in the second mode. Besides this, various embodiments are possible as identified in the specification.
US11073934B2
An electronic device includes an electrostatic conductive layer for providing haptic feedback at an input surface of the electronic device. The electrostatic conductive layer is included in a cover assembly positioned over a display. The cover assembly includes a cover sheet, a touch sensor, and the electrostatic conductive layer. The electrostatic conductive layer is driven by an electric field, which electric field is produced by the touch sensor. When the electrostatic conductive layer is activated, it may provide frictional or other tactile feedback at the input surface.
US11073921B2
An electronic device, more particularly an electronic stylus, for generating analogue strokes, more particularly handwriting, and for digitally storing the analogue strokes, wherein the device includes components of a writing, drawing and/or painting device for creating analogue recordings on a recording medium, more particularly paper, wherein the device also includes electronic components and software for expanding the device into a digital writing and/or input device. The device has at least one localization unit, more particularly a camera, and as a result of the localization unit a localization between the device and a recording medium is created. The device has at least one motion detection unit, as a result of which, the motions of the device and analogue recordings generated therewith are digitally detected on a recording medium. The motion detection unit is designed as a laser tracker.
US11073916B2
A sensing and display apparatus, comprising: a first phenomenon interface configured to operatively interface with a first augmediated-reality space, and a second phenomenon interface configured to operatively interface with a second augmediated-reality space, is implemented as an extramissive spatial imaging digital eye glass.
US11073915B2
Techniques for modifying a garment based on gestures are presented herein. An access module can access a first set of sensor data from a first sensor, and a second set of sensor data from a second sensor. A garment simulation module can generate a three-dimensional (3D) garment model of a garment available for sale draped on an avatar based on the first set of sensor data and the second set of sensor data. A display module can cause a presentation, on a display of a device, of the 3D garment model draped on the avatar. Additionally, the garment simulation module can determine a modification gesture associated with the 3D garment model draped on the avatar based on the first set of sensor data and the second set of sensor data. Furthermore, the garment simulation module can modify the 3D garment model based on the determined modification gesture.
US11073906B1
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of eye tracking for use in various applications, such as virtual reality or augmented reality applications that include head-mounted display devices. An eye tracking subsystem may be provided that includes a plurality of assemblies that each include a light source, such as an LED, a light detector, such as a silicon photodiode, and a polarizer that is configured to prevent light reflected via specular reflection from reaching the light detectors so that only scattered light is detected by the light detectors. Machine learning or other techniques may be used to track or otherwise determine a user's gaze direction, which may be used by one or more components of an HMD device to improve its functionality in various ways.
US11073905B2
A work assistance system includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process including: displaying a data list in which pieces of data are arranged according to a predetermined rule, in a state being viewable by an operator; detecting a direction of a gaze movement of the operator with respect to the displayed data list; and changing a region to be highlighted in the data list, depending on whether the detected direction of the gaze movement is in a predetermined state.
US11073893B2
The invention provides a system capable of remotely controlling electronic apparatus. The system comprises a cloud management platform and an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus comprises a motherboard and a data storage device. The motherboard comprises a standby power circuit. A standby power is supplied to the data storage device via the standby power circuit. The data storage device comprises a data storage unit and a program management unit. The program management unit comprises a microprocessor and a network communication component. Whether the electronic apparatus is in a power-on state or a power-off state, the data storage device can always maintain in a normal operation via the standby power. When the microprocessor of the program management unit receives a specific operation instruction from the cloud control platform, it will execute a corresponding operation program according to the specific operation instruction.
US11073891B2
A distributed power management system is configured determine a node power consumption of a node during a first time interval. The system can determine a node power cap. The system can determine a proportional component power budget for a component of the node based, at least in part, on the node power consumption and a component power consumption. The system can determine a power budget for the component for a second time interval based, at least in part on the proportional component power budget.
US11073887B2
Systems and methods for managing content to improve battery life of client devices. A data processing system receives requests for content items from client devices. The data processing system selects the content items from a set of content items and transmits the content items to the respective client devices. The client devices acquire battery status information related to the displaying or rendering of their respective content item. The data processing system receives the battery status information from the client devices and determines a power consumption value associated with the content items. Based on the power consumption value being greater than a threshold power consumption value, the data processing system modifies a policy for selecting the content items from the set of content items.
US11073885B2
A battery architecture for variable loads and output topologies in an information handling system (IHS) is described. In some embodiments, an IHS may include an embedded controller (EC) and a memory coupled to the EC, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the EC to: determine a characteristic of a battery coupled to the IHS, and select a scalar factor of a buck-boost converter coupled to an output of the battery in response to the characteristic.
US11073884B2
Techniques facilitating voltage management via on-chip sensors are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method can comprise measuring, by a first processor core, power supply information. The computer-implemented method can also comprise measuring, by the first processor core, a value of an electrical current generated by the first processor core. Further, the computer-implemented method can comprise applying, by the first processor core, a mitigation technique at the first processor core in response to a determination that a combination of the power supply noise information and the value of the electrical current indicates a presence of a voltage noise at the first processor core.
US11073883B2
A server apparatus includes a plurality of nodes; a plurality of power supply devices configured to supply power; and a shared memory from and to which reading and writing from each of the plurality of nodes are performed, wherein each of the plurality of nodes includes a processor configured to: store power consumption information of an own node in the memory; read the power consumption information from the memory when an abnormality is detected in some power supply devices among the plurality of power supply devices; and control supply power from a normal power supply device, in which an abnormality is not detected among the plurality of power supply devices, to the own node, based on the read power consumption information.
US11073877B2
An in-vehicle computing apparatus in an intelligent vehicle and an intelligent vehicle, where the in-vehicle computing apparatus includes two stacked mainboards, and a radiator that is disposed between the two mainboards and configured to dissipate heat for the two mainboards, and a sealing plate connected to the radiator and disposed on a side that is of each mainboard and that is away from the radiator, where each sealing plate and the radiator seal a corresponding mainboard between the sealing plate and the radiator.
US11073867B2
A display device includes a display screen having a first and second ends opposite to each other in a length direction of the display screen; a receiving member connected to the first end, a visible area of the display screen includes a display area, as the second end moves forth and back relative to the receiving member in the length direction, the display screen may be gradually retracted to the receiving member or unfolded from the receiving member, so that a size of the display area changes continuously; a sensor assembly that is used for detecting motion condition of the display screen being retracted or unfolded; and a controller that is configured, according to the motion condition of the display screen, to control the display area with a size continuously changed in the display screen to display a screen corresponding to a size of the display area in real time.
US11073865B1
Apparatuses and methods of the present invention improve the ease of use characteristics of handheld computer, such as a tablet, by providing a handheld apparatus that may be married with the computer to enable the computer to be held in an ergonomic position for use. The apparatus may include a base, an electronic retaining portion (ERP) and a contoured handle having a gripping plane that is substantially parallel to a tablet retention plane of the electronic retaining portion in which the computer is retained with its screen in the tablet retention plane. In various embodiments, the apparatus may include the ERP having a tablet retention plane and a contoured handle cooperating with the ERP, the contoured handle having a shape defining a gripping plane substantially parallel to the tablet retention plane, where the ERP is rotatable relative to the handle. The apparatus may be further configured to provide an office and “on-the-go” experience by cooperating with a functionality expandability station that provides access to multiple peripherals such as a keyboard, multi-monitors, USB ports, speakers ports, batteries or other energy sources and re-chargeability of an on-the-go handheld power source, thereby enabling a desktop/laptop main computer experience.
US11073864B2
A display device includes a display panel disposed in a first non-folding region, a second non-folding region, and a folding region located between the first and second non-folding regions. The display device further includes first and second buffer members disposed on one surface of the display panel in the first and second non-folding regions, respectively, and a metal layer disposed in the first non-folding region, the second non-folding region, and the folding region on one surface of the first buffer member and one surface of the second buffer member. The display device further includes a fingerprint sensor disposed on the metal layer. The first and second buffer members are separated with the folding region therebetween. The metal layer includes first, second, and third metal portions located in the first non-folding region, the second non-folding region, and the folding region, respectively. The fingerprint sensor is attached to the third metal portion.
US11073857B1
A power supply switching circuit (100) and methodology are disclosed for connecting the greater of first and second power supplies (VSUP1, VSUP2) to an output voltage node (VOUT) with a comparator (102), active power supply switching circuit (103), gate driver circuit (106), and switching array (SW1-SW5) to generate control signals for a pair of PMOS power switches (MP1, MP2) by remapping first and second voltage supplies (VSUP1, VSUP2) to bias the n-wells of the PMOS power switches while simultaneously driving the gate terminals of the PMOS power switches with the gate driver circuit (106) only in response to a comparator activation signal by generating overlapping phase signals (PHI_1, PHI_2) which controls timing of first and second power supply selection signals so that a ground voltage is supplied as the first power supply selection signal only after the maximum bias voltage is supplied as the second power supply selection signal.
US11073853B2
A power supply includes a voltage regulator, a transistor, a current-to-voltage transform circuit, and a comparator. The voltage regulator receives a control signal, a source voltage, and a control voltage, and outputs a supply voltage according to the control voltage and the control signal. The transistor has a first terminal receiving the source voltage, and a control terminal coupled to the voltage regulator. The current-to-voltage transform circuit has a first terminal coupled to a second terminal of the transistor, a second terminal for receiving a reference voltage. The comparator has a first input terminal for receiving a comparison signal, a second input terminal coupled to the first terminal of the current-to-voltage transform circuit, and an output terminal for outputting the control voltage.
US11073852B2
An electronic load apparatus is provided and adapted to allow an enhanced driving circuit to be disposed between a voltage-dividing circuit and power components to ensure the driving capability of the power components not coupled to a control circuit to thereby adjust a response voltage quickly, shorten a response time period and thus increase overall response speed, suppress transient voltage variation and thus preclude a signal delay otherwise arising from a load circuit, allow the power components series-connected in an electronic load apparatus to be driven quickly, reduce the risk of damaging the power components, and enhance the stability and reliability of the electronic load apparatus.
US11073841B2
The present application provides methods and systems for launching an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). An exemplary system for launching a UAV includes a detector configured to detect acceleration of the UAV in a launch mode. The exemplary system may also include a memory storing instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to cause the system to: obtain a signal configured to notify the UAV to enter the launch mode, determine whether the acceleration of the UAV satisfies a condition corresponding to threshold acceleration in the launch mode, and responsive to the determination that the acceleration of the UAV satisfies the condition, turn on a motor of the UAV.
US11073835B2
Autonomously driven vehicles operate in rain, snow and other adverse weather conditions. An on-board vehicle sensor has a beam with a diameter that is only intermittently blocked by rain, snow, dust or other obscurant particles. This allows an obstacle detection processor is to tell the difference between obstacles, terrain variations and obscurant particles, thereby enabling the vehicle driving control unit to disregard the presence of obscurant particles along the route taken by the vehicle. The sensor may form part of a LADAR or RADAR system or a video camera. The obstacle detection processor may receive time-spaced frames divided into cells or pixels, whereby groups of connected cells or pixels and/or cells or pixels that persist over longer periods of time are interpreted to be obstacles or terrain variations. The system may further including an input for receiving weather-specific configuration parameters to adjust the operation of the obstacle detection processor.
US11073825B2
The present invention provides a method, a program, and a device that can accurately learn a causal relationship in a deterministic system and a system that performs anomaly analysis by using the causal relationship. A causal relationship learning device according to one example embodiment of the present invention includes: a correlation determination unit that determines a correlation between measurement values measured by two sensors; and a low correlation causal relationship estimation unit that, when the correlation is lower than a predetermined reference, determines a causal relationship between the two sensors by estimating one of the measurement values which is a cause from the other of the measurement values which is a result.
US11073823B2
A robot including a movable portion, a controller, and a storage unit that stores maintenance timing information regarding at least one of the movable portion and the controller. The controller performs predetermined notification processing based on a comparison between elapsed time information and the maintenance timing information. The movable portion and the control apparatus are placed in a predetermined work site on which a second robot is installed. The controller corrects the maintenance timing information or the elapsed time information using information received from the second robot.
US11073821B2
A server and a controlling method therefor are provided. The server includes a communicator, a memory, and a processor configured to receive first log information related to a first material generated in a first facility among facilities, the first facility belonging to a first process for manufacturing a product through the communicator, generate an identifier (ID) regarding the first material, generate tracking information on the first material based on the first log information, assign the ID to the tracking information, receive pieces of second log information generated in a second facility among the facilities, the second facility belonging to a second process following the first process through the communicator, identify second log information corresponding to the first material among the pieces of second log information based on the first log information included in the tracking information, and update the tracking information based on the identified second log information.
US11073815B2
To provide a collection device, a collection method, and a collection program capable of making detailed data in the past available for viewing according to demand while reducing the volume of communication data in a usual state. A collection device comprises: an acquisition unit that acquires state data about a machine in a predetermined cycle; a first transmission unit that transmits partial data belonging to the state data and matching a first condition set in advance to a management server; a storage unit that stores state data not having been transmitted from the first transmission unit to the management server; and a second transmission unit that, in response to a first command including designation of a time in the past, transmits state data from the designated time onward stored in the storage unit to the management server.
US11073810B2
Techniques to facilitate programming industrial control systems to operate machinery in an industrial automation environment are disclosed herein. In at least one implementation, a user interface is displayed for a control program editor comprising programming logic associated with at least one machine system. Operational data associated with operating the at least one machine system controlled by an industrial controller executing the programming logic is received. The programming logic and the operational data are processed to determine contextual associations between the programming logic and the operational data. In the user interface for the control program editor, the operational data is displayed in context with the programming logic associated therewith based on the contextual associations.
US11073805B2
A process control system having an external data server that provides process control data to external networks via one or more firewalls implements a cost-effective security mechanism that reduces or eliminates the ability of the external data server to be compromised by viruses or other security attacks. The security mechanism includes a DMZ gateway disposed outside of the process control network that connects to an external data server located within the process control network. A configuration engine is located within the process control network and configures the external data server to publish one or more preset or pre-established data views to the DMZ gateway, which then receives the data/events/alarms as defined by the data views from the control system automatically, without performing read and write requests to the external data server. The DMZ gateway then republishes the data within the data views on an external network to make the process control data within the published data views available to one or more client applications connected to the external network. Because this security mechanism does not support client read, write, or configuration access to the external data server within the control system, this security mechanism limits the opportunity of viruses to use the structure in the DMZ gateway device to access the process control network.
US11073798B2
A bearing (1a) for guiding a timepiece shaft about an axis, notably a guide bearing for a portion of a timepiece resonator shaft, comprising at least one pressing element (13a) arranged in such a way as to constantly exert an action on the shaft, radially or substantially radially with respect to the axis.
US11073797B2
A repeater mechanism includes: an hour part, which is mobile between a resting position and a reading position; an hour spring that returns the hour part towards its reading position; a chain that is hooked to the hour part; a barrel that includes a shaft, a drum, a spring, a pulley that is mobile in rotation relative to the shaft and on which the chain is hooked, and also a ratchet that is integral in rotation with the barrel shaft and coupled to the pulley as long as the hour part exerts a traction force on the chain, and uncoupled from the pulley as soon as this traction force is cancelled out; and a pulley spring that is interposed between the ratchet and the pulley.
US11073796B2
An assembly for holding or supporting a timepiece balance spring, includes a balance spring stud and a stud-holder, the stud-holder includes a base having at least one circular portion, the base including, on the circular portion, a first lug and a second lug each extending radially. One of the two lugs includes an elastic arm extending from the lug, in a direction parallel to that of the base, towards the other lug, the elastic arm forming with the base a housing for housing the balance spring stud therein and the first and second lugs are able to cooperate with a tool to allow the balance spring stud to exert a stress on the elastic arm to deform the latter and permit the assembly or disassembly of the stud.
US11073795B2
The invention relates to pallets for an escapement of a clock movement including a pallet-stone support, pallet-stones mounted on the pallet-stone support, a fork including first and second horns, a safety pin and a rod connecting the pallet-stone support to the fork and to the safety pin, the pallet-stone support, the rod, the safety pin and the fork forming a monolithic body of the pallets, the pallet-stone support, the rod and the safety pin being formed by a main layer of constant thickness, the first and second horns of the fork having a greater height than the constant thickness and being formed by the main layer, and also by an additional layer, the main layer and the additional layer forming the monolithic body of the pallets.
US11073791B2
A cartridge includes a casing and a photosensitive drum rotatably supported by the casing, with the photosensitive drum having a first end and a second end. A coupling member is provided adjacent to the first end of the photosensitive drum, with the coupling member being operatively connected to the photosensitive drum. The coupling member includes (i) a cylindrical portion, (ii) a first projection at least partially positioned inside of the cylindrical portion, (iii) a second projection at least partially positioned inside of the cylindrical portion, (iv) an elastically movable projection at least partially positioned inside of the cylindrical portion, and (v) a wall extending in a direction perpendicular to the rotational axis and positioned between the second end of the photosensitive drum and the first and second projections.
US11073789B2
A drum cleaner in a drum unit removes toner from a photosensitive drum. A waste-toner conveyance pipe has a waste-toner discharge port and conveys toner removed from the photosensitive drum by the drum cleaner. A toner accommodation chamber accommodates toner to be supplied to a developing roller. A waste-toner accommodation chamber accommodates toner removed from the photosensitive drum. A toner cartridge rotatably moves relative to the drum unit between: a first position at which a waste-toner receiving port is separated from the waste-toner discharge port in a state where the toner cartridge is mounted on the drum unit; and a second position at which an internal space of the waste-toner accommodation chamber is in communication with an internal space of the waste-toner conveyance pipe through the waste-toner discharge port and the waste-toner receiving port in a state where the toner cartridge is mounted on the drum unit.
US11073788B2
Provided are an image bearing member, a developer bearing member, and a cleaning member. A fixation layer, including at least one of an organosilicon polymer and inorganic particles, is provided on a surface of the developer borne on the developer bearing member, and a fixation percentage of the fixation layer is 85% or greater. The image bearing member and the developer bearing member are rotationally driven such that, a surface of the image bearing member and a surface of the developer bearing member move in opposite directions from each other at a contact portion where the image bearing member and the developer bearing member are in contact with each other.
US11073787B2
A process cartridge including a photosensitive drum; a developing roller; a rotatable roller having a rotation shaft in a position deviated from an axis of the developing roller; an Oldham coupling member at an end portion of the shaft of the rotatable roller; an urging member for urging the drive receiving portion; a supporting portion supporting the drive receiving portion; an abutting portion receiving the supporting portion urged by the urging member, an elastic sheet positioned to contact at least part of the Oldham coupling member, wherein the abutting portion is positioned outside an outer periphery of the drum on a plane perpendicular to the shaft of the rotatable roller.
US11073781B2
An image forming apparatus that executes an image forming operation for forming a toner image on a recording material and an application operation of applying a metal soap to a surface of an image bearing member by supplying a toner stored in a toner storing unit to the surface of the image bearing member from the developing member. A surficial moving speed of the image bearing member during the application operation is lower than the surficial moving speed of the image bearing member during the image forming operation, and a speed difference between the surficial moving speed of the developing member and the surficial moving speed of the image bearing member during the application operation is larger than that during the image forming operation.
US11073761B2
A semiconductor resist composition includes an organometallic compound represented by Formula I and a solvent: wherein L includes at least one alkylene group in the main chain. A pattern may be formed using the composition. The pattern formed by using the semiconductor resist composition may not collapse while having a high aspect ratio.
US11073759B2
Provided is a complex patterning device. The complex patterning device includes a patterning module, on which a master substrate including a master pattern that contacts and is separated from a target substrate and which forms a plurality of target patterns having a reverse image of the master pattern on the target substrate by applying a pressure onto the target substrate, and a punching module including a punching mold that contacts and is separated from the target substrate, in which the plurality of target patterns are formed, and which divides at least any one of the plurality of target patterns by applying a pressure onto the target substrate.
US11073758B2
An apparatus and method configured to brake and/or dampen an imprint head. The apparatus and method includes a mount attached to a fixed surface, a movable plate movable relative to the mount and configured to hold and move an imprint template or superstrate, at least one electromagnetic actuator with a first electrical terminal and a second electrical terminal, mounted between the movable plate and the mount, wherein an electrical current is applied to the at least one electromagnetic actuator for controlling movement of the moveable plate, an inductance serially connected at the first electrical terminal of the at least one electromagnetic actuator to control the electrical current, and at least one switch serially connectable to the second terminal of the at least one electromagnetic actuator and a terminal of the inductance to switch between a state where the inductance acts upon the at least one electromagnetic actuator or a state where the inductance does not act upon the at least one electromagnetic actuator.
US11073757B2
Methods of manufacturing a pellicle assembly may include forming a sublimable support layer on a first surface of a pellicle membrane, attaching a pellicle frame to a second surface of the pellicle membrane while the sublimable support layer is on the first surface of the pellicle membrane, and sublimating the sublimable support layer while the pellicle frame is attached to the pellicle membrane. In order to manufacture a photomask assembly, a photomask is fixed to the pellicle frame such that the photomask faces the pellicle membrane with the pellicle frame therebetween.
US11073754B2
A projection optical system has a first optical system and a second optical system. The first and second optical systems are disposed in order from a demagnification side toward a magnification side. An intermediate image is formed between a demagnification-side imaging surface and a magnification-side imaging surface. The second optical system is an optical element having a first transmission surface, reflecting surface, and second transmission surface in order from the demagnification side toward the magnification side. The first transmission surface and reflecting surface are located at one side, and the second transmission surface is located at the other side with respect to the optical axis. The reflecting surface has a concavely curved surface shape. The second transmission surface has a convexly curved surface shape protruding toward the magnification side. The optical element has a first member and a second member different in refractive index.
US11073750B2
An image display system includes a set of projectors, a screen, and an auxiliary projector. The set of projectors is used for generating a plurality of light beams and projecting the plurality of light beams to a region of an image plane. The screen faces the set of projectors for providing the image plane in order to generate a three-dimensional image object by the plurality of light beams projected to the region of the image plane. The auxiliary projector is used for generating and projecting at least one additional light beam to the region of the image plane in order to increase perspective information of incident light of the three-dimensional image object on a view point within a visual field.
US11073746B2
An image-capturing assembly includes a circuit board, an optical filter, an image-capturing element between the circuit board and the optical filter, and a holder. The holder includes a fixing portion. The image-capturing element is on the circuit board and electrically connected to the circuit board. The holder is on an external side of the image-capturing element. The fixing portion has an upper surface and a lower surface opposite to each other, and the lower surface is fixed on the circuit board. The optical filter is fixed on the upper surface of the fixing portion.
US11073738B2
Methods and systems for a vertical junction high-speed phase modulator are disclosed and may include a semiconductor device having a semiconductor waveguide including a slab section, a rib section extending above the slab section, and raised ridges extending above the slab section on both sides of the rib section. The semiconductor device has a vertical pn junction with p-doped material and n-doped material arranged vertically with respect to each other in the rib and slab sections. The rib section may be either fully n-doped or p-doped in each cross-section along the semiconductor waveguide. Electrical connection to the p-doped and n-doped material may be enabled by forming contacts on the raised ridges, and electrical connection may be provided to the rib section from one of the contacts via periodically arranged sections of the semiconductor waveguide, where a cross-section of both the rib section and the slab section in the periodically arranged sections may be fully n-doped or fully p-doped.
US11073736B2
A view angle control device includes an electrochromic layer including a first extending section extending in a first direction and a second extending section extending in a second direction that crosses the first direction, light transmission layers defined by the first extending section and the second extending section, a first electrode disposed arranged to overlap the first extending section and contacted with the first extending section, a second electrode arranged to overlap the second extending section and contacted with the second extending section, a third electrode arranged not to overlap the first electrode but to overlap the second extending section and contacted with the second extending section, and a fourth electrode arranged not to overlap the second electrode but to overlap the first extending section and contacted with the first extending section.
US11073735B2
A privacy display comprises a spatial light modulator and a compensated switchable guest-host liquid crystal retarder arranged between first and second polarisers arranged in series with the spatial light modulator. In a privacy mode of operation, on-axis light from the spatial light modulator is directed without loss, whereas off-axis light has reduced luminance. The visibility of the display to off-axis snoopers is reduced by means of luminance reduction over a wide polar field. In a wide angle mode of operation, the switchable liquid crystal retardance is adjusted so that off-axis luminance is substantially unmodified.
US11073734B2
An array substrate includes: a base substrate, a gate line extending in a first direction, a data line extending in a second direction, and a pixel electrode layer, the first direction being substantially perpendicular to the second direction, the gate line and the data line defining a plurality of sub-pixel units, and a plurality of first and second common electrode lines electrically connected to each other and disposed in the same layer as the gate lines. The first common electrode line includes two first common electrode line first portions, and the second common electrode line extends in the second direction. The second common electrode line is located between and electrically connects the two first common electrode line first portions. The second common electrode line is located at a center line of the sub-pixel unit.
US11073731B2
An array substrate, a display panel and a display device are disclosed. The array substrate includes a first data line and a second data line which extend substantially along a first direction and are adjacent to each other, a first gate line and a second gate line that extend substantially along a second direction intersected with the first direction and are adjacent to each other, and at least two sub-pixels which are sequentially arranged in parallel along the first direction; the first gate line and the second gate line are disposed at two sides of the at least two sub-pixels in the first direction, respectively.
US11073727B2
A display for emitting display light comprising: (a) a light source for emitting a source light; and (b) a filter positioned in the path of said source light, said filter comprising at least short, medium and long filters, wherein said short filter is configured to transmit short-primary light from said source light, said short-primary light comprising a violet portion having wavelengths from 400 to 440 nm and at least a second portion having wavelengths above 440 nm such that said short-primary light is perceptually blue, said short-primary light having a short-primary SPD having a short-primary power between 380-780 nm and a blue power between 440-500 nm, wherein said blue power is less than 5% of said short-primary power.
US11073721B2
A display device according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a first substrate to which external light is applied; a first and a second control electrode disposed on the first substrate, the second control electrode being spaced apart from the first control electrode; an insulating film disposed on the first and the second control electrode; a first and a second contact electrode formed on the insulation film, wherein the first contact electrode at least partially overlaps the first control electrode, and the second contact electrode is spaced apart from the first contact electrode and at least partially overlaps the second control electrode; a shuttering operation body moving between the first and the second contact electrode so as to transmit or block light; a second substrate opposite to the first substrate; and a quantum dot film disposed on the first or the second substrate and adjusting the wavelength of light passing through the shuttering operation body.
US11073707B2
A dimmable window apparatus is provided. The dimmable window apparatus includes a window including a first linear polarizing film and a second linear polarizing film, the first linear polarizing film and the second linear polarizing film having respectively a first axis of polarization and a second axis of polarization, the second axis of polarization being electronically-controllable. The apparatus further includes a processor coupled to the second linear polarizing film, and configured to control the second axis of polarization to thereby control the opacity of the window that is defined by the first axis of polarization and the second axis of polarization relative to one another.
US11073702B2
A suspension assembly for a camera lens element includes a support member with a wire attach structure and a moving member coupled to the support member. The moving member includes a plate, flexure arms extending from the plate and coupled to the support member, and a wire attach structure. A bearing supports the plate of the moving member for movement with respect to the support member. A shape memory alloy wire is coupled to and extends between the wire attach structures of the support member and the moving member. The limiter limits a range of movement of the moving member with respect to the support member, and in embodiments includes an opening in one of the moving member plate and the support member, and a stop that includes an engagement portion extending into the opening in the other of the moving member plate and the support member. The opening has a first diameter, and the engagement portion has a second diameter that is less than the first diameter.
US11073696B2
In an optical system of a display device, a second reflection element, a first diffraction element, a first reflection element, and a second diffraction element are disposed along a traveling direction of image light emitted from an image light projecting device. A reflection surface of the first reflection element is a concave surface being a free-curved surface and being recessed in a central portion with respect to a peripheral portion, and an intermediate image is formed between the first reflection element and the second diffraction element. A reflection surface of the second reflection element is a concave surface being a free-curved surface and being recessed in a central portion with respect to a peripheral portion, and an intermediate image is formed between the second reflection element and the first diffraction element. Therefore, an intermediate lens for forming an intermediate image is not provided.
US11073693B2
In some embodiments, a head mounted display is provided, comprising a light guide, at least first and second diffraction gratings, alignment marks A1 and B1 associated with the first diffraction grating, and alignment marks A2 and B2 associated with the second diffraction grating. The first diffraction grating may be disposed on a first surface of the light guide, the first surface facing away from a light input. The second diffraction grating may be disposed on a second surface of the light guide, the second surface facing towards the light input. The second diffraction grating may be adapted to diffract at least some of the light input into the light guide, and the first diffraction grating may be adapted to diffract at least some light transmitted through the light guide back into the light guide.
US11073692B2
The present disclosure provides a display apparatus capable of suppressing screen-door effect without requiring alignment between an optical element and a pixel. A display apparatus (1) includes a CF substrate (13) that determines a color of a sub-pixel corresponding to a color element, for each of a plurality of pixels, and a lenticular lens (14) that widens a full width at half maximum of luminance of emitted light more than a full width at half maximum of luminance of light incident from the CF substrate, in which the lenticular lens has a periodic structure smaller than a periodicity of arrangement of sub-pixels.
US11073691B2
Used are an imaging apparatus for a device for data projection and an optical component and a corresponding device for data projection. The imaging apparatus here comprises a plurality of light-emitting elements (10), arranged in a first direction, and a deflection apparatus (11) for deflecting light beams in a second direction. The optical component can comprise a windshield which is provided with holograms.
US11073671B2
A termination unit includes: a plurality of first optical fibers fusion-connected to a multicore cable; a tray slidable in a first direction, the tray being provided on one end side of the termination unit in the first direction; and a plurality of adapters which are provided in a line on the tray, to which a plurality of second optical fibers are connected from each of one end sides of the adapters, and to which the plurality of first optical fibers are connected from each of the other end sides of the adapters, in which the tray has a cover part for protecting the plurality of adapters, and in which the cover part is rotatable with a shaft that extends along a second direction, and the cover part rotates downward when the tray has slid in a direction toward the one end side from the other end side.
US11073666B1
An optoelectronic module may include a housing enclosing at least one optical transmitter or receiver, a slider configured to move with respect to the housing, and a retainer configured to engage both the slider and the housing to retain the slider with respect to the housing. The slider may include a resilient tab and at least one protrusion configured to engage a cage sized and shaped to receive the housing. The retainer may include a first end portion configured to abut the resilient tab of the slider.
US11073663B2
A fiber optic plug, suitable for multi-core fiber (MCF), is structured to hold satellite cores of the MCF in a precise angular positions so as to attain suitable alignment with satellite cores of a mating connector. The plug includes features to permit a ferrule holding the MCF to move longitudinally relative to the connector's housing, so that a spring may control a mating force to an abutting ferrule of a mating connector. The ferrule may be held by ferrule barrel having splines projecting away from an outer peripheral surface. The splines may slide longitudinally within notches of the connector housing or a strength member attached to the connector housing. The notches and splines have a tight tolerance, so that the satellite cores remain in a desired, set angular position.
US11073662B2
A multi-fiber, fiber optic connector is interchangeable between a male connector and a female connector by including a pin retainer having a releasable retention device configured to lock the pins in place within the retainer. The retention device may be opened, for example, with a release tool, to free the retention pins for removal of the pins. A method for switching a connector between a male connector configuration and a female connector configuration may be possible as a result of the releasable retention configuration.
US11073649B2
Provided is a line illuminating device including: a light-emitting unit including a light-emitting-unit housing and a light emitter that emits light; a light guide including a light-guide body formed in a rod shape and a light-guide flange provided at a first end portion of the light-guide body; and a case including a case body formed in a rod shape, the case body being partially open when viewed in a longitudinal direction of the case body, the case body housing the light-guide body inside, in which the light-guide flange is interposed between a first end in the longitudinal direction of the case body and the light-emitting-unit housing, and a space is formed between an end of the light-guide body and the light emitter.
US11073648B2
A light guide element is adapted to be used in an electronic device including a light emitting unit that has at least one light emitting element. The light guide element includes a base portion and a plurality of light guide bodies. The base portion includes a light entry surface for incidence of light emitted by the light emitting unit and at least one side surface connected to the light entry surface. The light guide bodies are disposed on the at least one side surface. Each of the light guide bodies is formed with at least three light exit surfaces. Each of the light exit surfaces has an extension direction. The extension direction and the at least one side surface of the base portion form therebetween an angle being between 10° and 85°.
US11073644B2
A transparent substrate with a light-shielding layer, including: a transparent substrate including a first main surface and a second main surface; an infrared ray-transmitting layer that is disposed so as to be in contact with the first main surface of the transparent substrate, transmits an infrared ray, and shields a visible light; and a light-shielding layer that is disposed on the infrared ray-transmitting layer, includes an opening that exposes a part of the infrared ray-transmitting layer, and shields the visible light and the infrared ray, in which the light-shielding layer includes an end portion that projects from an end portion of the infrared ray-transmitting layer, that is closest to an outer circumference of the transparent substrate, and is in contact with an end face of the infrared ray-transmitting layer and the transparent substrate.
US11073642B2
A method for manufacturing an optical device comprising providing a plurality of initials bars each having a first side face presented with a first optical component arrangement; positioning the initial bars in a row with their first side faces facing a neighboring one of the initial bars; fixing the initial bars to obtain a bar arrangement; obtaining prism bars by segmenting the bar arrangement by at least one of the steps: conducting a plurality of cuts so that each prism bar comprises a portion of at least two different ones of the initial bars, separating the bar arrangement into sections along cut lines or by creating cut faces at an angle with initial-bar directions; dividing the first optical component arrangement for obtaining a plurality of passive optical components, wherein each prism bar comprises one or more passive optical components comprising a first reflective face each which is of non-planar shape; segmenting prism bars into parts.
US11073635B2
Elemental concentrations in subterranean formations may be determined using neutron spectroscopy. For example, neutrons may be emitted by a downhole tool into the formation and produce gamma rays via inelastic scattering of fast neutrons or capture of slow neutrons. The borehole surrounding a downhole tool may introduce artifacts in the neutron spectroscopy measurement. Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to techniques that reduce artifacts signals in downhole tools that include one or multiple detectors based at least in part on the inelastic and capture measurements.
US11073634B1
A material for constructing a drill collar is selected based on a cost and a minimum thickness for a cross-sectional area of material that satisfies a structural constraint. An interior volume of the drill collar houses one or more downhole nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) components based on its minimum thickness. A central magnet coupled to a booster magnetic element disposed in the interior volume. A first end magnet and a second end magnet are positioned in the interior volume proximate respective axial sides of the booster magnetic element, and an antenna assembly is positioned proximate to the interior volume, between the respective axial sides of the magnetic assembly and about at least a portion of the central magnet.
US11073632B1
A buried utility locator includes an antenna array for receiving magnetic field signals from a buried utility, a receiver operatively coupled to the antenna array for generating a receiver output signal including amplitude and/or phase information of two or more signal components in two or more simultaneously received signals of the frequency suite, a processing element operatively coupled to the receiver for receiving the receiver output signal and generating a first set of data associated with the two or more signal components of the frequency suite, and a non-transitory memory for storing the first set of data.
US11073631B2
A surface-consistent refraction analysis automatically derives near surface corrections during seismic data processing. Residual time lags are evaluated in multiple CMP-offset-azimuth bins by similarity analysis with a pilot trace where a correlation window is centered at the refracted arrival. The similarity analysis may take the form of computerized cross-correlation, or other criteria such as semblance. The residuals are then used to build a system of linear equations that is simultaneously inverted for surface-consistent shot and receiver time shift corrections plus a possible subsurface residual term. The refraction analysis steps are completely automated and require a fraction of the time needed for conventional near surface analysis.
US11073628B2
Timing calibration of a positron emission tomography (PET) imaging device (2) uses a radioactive source (20) comprising a positron-emitting radioisotope having a decay path including emission of two oppositely directed 511 keV gamma rays and a cascade gamma ray at a cascade gamma ray energy. A timestamped radiation detection event data set acquired from the radioactive source by the PET imaging device is processed using energy window filtering (32) and time window filtering (36) to generate a coincidence data set (40, 42, 44) including event pairs (40) each consisting of two coincident 511 keV events and cascade event pairs (42) or triplets (44) each consisting of at least one coincident 511 keV event and a coincident cascade event at the cascade gamma ray energy. A timing calibration (12) is generated using the coincidence data set. The timing calibration comprises offset times for PET detectors of the PET imaging device.
US11073625B2
Detector module designs for radiographic include first and second layers of scintillator rods or pixel arrays oriented in first and second directions. The first and second directions are transversely oriented to define a light sharing region between the first and second layers. Encoding features may be disposed in, on or between the first and second layers, and configured to modulate propagation of optical signals therealong or therebetween.
US11073619B2
Efficient and scalable three-dimensional point cloud segmentation. In an embodiment, a three-dimensional point cloud is segmented by adding points to a spatial hash. For each unseen point, a cluster is generated, the unseen point is added to the cluster and marked as seen, and, for each point that is added to the cluster, the point is set as a reference, a reference threshold metric is computed, all unseen neighbors are identified based on the reference threshold metric, and, for each identified unseen neighbor, the unseen neighbor is marked as seen, a neighbor threshold metric is computed, and the neighbor is added or not added to the cluster based on the neighbor threshold metric. When the cluster reaches a threshold size, it may be added to a cluster list. Objects may be identified based on the cluster list and used to control autonomous system(s).
US11073614B2
A LIDAR sensor for detecting an object within a sampling space, includes a sampling unit that includes a magnetic channel, a guide element, and a movable component that is situated within the magnetic channel and is movable along the guide element under control of a control method that uses a linear drive.
US11073611B2
A novel system that allows for 3D radar detection that simultaneously captures the lateral and depth features of a target is disclosed. This system uses only a single transceiver, a set of delay-lines, and a passive antenna array, all without requiring mechanical rotation. By using the delay lines, a set of beat frequencies corresponding to the target presence can be generated in continuous wave radar systems. Likewise, in pulsed radar systems, the delays also allow the system to determine the 3D aspects of the target(s). Compared to existing solutions, the invention, in embodiments, allows for the implementation of simple, reliable, and power efficient 3D radars.
US11073609B2
A method comprising, ascertaining and communicating, by a parking meter (102), presence of a vehicle in the parking space to a central server (104). Further, a session with a user device (112) of a user of the vehicle is established. Further, a parking validation message from the user device (112) is received. Further, a payment request message is transmitted to the user device (112). Further, the user device (112) transmits the payment request message to the central server (104) over a parking payment session. Further, an authorization status is received from the central server (104), where the authorization status indicates one of an authorized occupancy of the parking space and an unauthorized occupancy of the parking space. Further, a status indicator based on the authorization status is displayed, where the status indicator indicates one of the authorized occupancy of the parking space and the unauthorized occupancy of the parking space.
US11073601B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for positioning a vehicle. The system includes a communication interface configured to receive a point cloud with respect to a scene captured by a sensor equipped on the vehicle. The system further includes a storage configured to store the point cloud and a high definition map. The system also includes a processor. The processor is configured to create a first 3-D representation of the point cloud and create a second 3-D representation of the high definition map with respect to the scene. The processor is further configured to determine pose information of the vehicle by comparing the first 3-D representation and the second 3-D representation. The processor determines a position of the vehicle based on the pose information.
US11073596B1
A method of estimating the position of a wireless transmitter comprising: collecting a plurality of wireless measurements between a transmitter and a receiver; drawing a buffer circle around each measurement, having a radius defined by the timing advance delay measurements; plotting a plurality of buffer circles and identifying intersection points for adjacent measurements only; estimating the position based on the intersection of delay measurements from said plurality of wireless measurements.
US11073592B2
An enhanced Long Range Navigation (eLORAN) system may include an eLORAN controller configured to obtain satellite-derived conductivity data and satellite-derived temperature data for different geographical positions and generate eLORAN correction factors based thereon. The eLORAN system may also include eLORAN transmitter stations. The eLORAN system may also include an eLORAN receiver device that may include an eLORAN receive antenna and an eLORAN receiver coupled to the eLORAN receive antenna and configured to receive the eLORAN correction factors. The eLORAN receiver device may also include a controller coupled to the eLORAN receiver. The controller may be configured to cooperate with the eLORAN transmitter stations to determine an eLORAN receiver position corrected based upon the eLORAN correction factors.
US11073586B2
A magnetic resonance imaging method according to an embodiment includes performing a balanced SSFP sequence, repeatedly applies an excitation RF pulse to a subject at intervals of a repetition time and applies gradient magnetic field pulses balanced such that a time integral becomes zero within each interval of the repetition time, while further applying a spin labeling gradient magnetic field for generating one or more continuous spin labels within each interval of the repetition time.
US11073585B2
A magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) method for determining parameter values in pixels of an examination object can use a magnetic resonance system with, for example, a constant magnetic field strength (e.g. of less than 1.5 tesla or a constant magnetic field strength of less than 0.5 tesla). The MRF method can be adapted for conditions that prevail with such low-field magnetic resonance systems, thus enabling the parameter values to be advantageously determined efficiently while simultaneously maintaining a high degree of quality.
US11073582B2
A magnetic resonance tomography unit and a method for operating the magnetic resonance tomography unit are provided. The magnetic resonance tomography unit includes a transmitter for generating excitation pulses with a wavelength lambda, an antenna for emitting the excitation pulses, a feed line, and a voltage sensor. The voltage sensor is arranged on the feed line at an effective distance corresponding to a multiple of half the wavelength lambda from a feed point on the antenna.
US11073579B1
An NMR rotor comprises a receptacle for inserting a sample container into a homogeneous region of an NMR magnetic field with flux density B, the field vector of which in the homogeneous region extends in the vertical direction along a z-axis. The rotor passes through regions with inhomogeneous magnetic field components and a flux density gradient dB/dz when the sample container is introduced. The rotor includes at least two different materials, one with diamagnetic properties and another with non-diamagnetic properties. The different materials are arranged to be geometrically distributed in the rotor so that the magnetic force on the rotor under the effect of a product t of magnetic flux density B and flux density gradient dB/dz, the magnitude of which exceeds 1400 T2/m, either acts in the same direction as the weight force of the rotor or is smaller in magnitude than the weight force of the rotor.
US11073578B2
A magnetic sensor includes a base material, a plurality of magnets provided at predetermined spacing on the base material, and a plurality of magnetic detection parts respectively provided close to the plurality of magnets. Each of the plurality of magnetic detection parts outputs a signal in accordance with change in the magnetic field accompanying deformation of the base material.
US11073558B2
A circuit having multiple scan modes is disclosed. The circuit includes a first circuit block and a second circuit block. The first circuit block corresponds to a first scan mode of the multiple scan modes, and the first circuit block includes at least one first scan chain for receiving a test signal from an external automatic test equipment. The second circuit block corresponds to a second scan mode of the multiple scan modes, and the second circuit block includes at least one second scan chain for receiving another test signal from the external automatic test equipment. The second scan chain includes at least one specific flip-flop positioned in the first circuit block, and the specific flip-flop is configured to drive the second circuit block.
US11073543B2
A power converter circuit includes a monitoring module that monitors a DC power source, the monitoring module comprising a microcontroller. The power converter circuit also includes a temperature sensor providing temperature data to the microcontroller. In response to an indication from the temperature data of a failure or a problem, the microcontroller changes a parameter of the power converter circuit.
US11073542B2
Circuitry is configured to cause a memory device to perform a predetermined power consumption operation for authentication of the memory device in addition to a normal operation, and determine whether the memory device is an authorized or an unauthorized product, based on a measured current value measured in a period when the memory device performs the power consumption operation and a reference current value that is a current value in the power consumption operation by an authorized product.
US11073539B2
A split core current sensor a core subdivided into a first core section and a second core section, each of which have a first end and a second end. The first core section and the second core section are spaced apart by a gap. The sensor also includes a plurality of coil windings disposed about the core. A first coil winding is disposed proximate to the first end of the first core section; a second coil winding is disposed proximate to the second end of the first core section; a third coil winding is disposed proximate to the first end of the second core section; and a fourth coil winding is disposed proximate to a second end of the second core section. Each of the first core section and the second core section include a central portion disposed between the first and second ends that is free of coil windings.
US11073538B2
An electrical-test apparatus is provided, which includes a plurality of tester interconnect structures cantilevered from a first side of a substrate. A base may be coupled to a second side of the substrate via one or more interconnect layers. The tester interconnect structures may contact corresponding interconnect structures of a device under test (DUT). In an example, the substrate is laterally movable relative to the DUT along a plane of the substrate, upon contact between the tester interconnect structures and the interconnect structures of the DUT.
US11073536B2
An ID chip socket according to an embodiment disclosed herein includes: a contactor configured to be fixed to an upper side of the frame; a socket-conductive part penetrating the contactor in a vertical direction and configured to enable electrical connection in the vertical direction; an ID chip fixed to an upper side of the socket-conductive part and electrically connected to the socket-conductive part; and a cover configured to cover an upper surface of the ID chip and to be fixed to at least one of the contactor and the frame.
US11073535B2
A scanning probe microscope includes a case, an actuator, at least one elastic body, and a probe. The actuator includes a piezoelectric scanner having a cylindrical shape and a sample holder. The piezoelectric scanner is disposed inside the case to be coaxial with the case such that the first end is fixed to the bottom portion. The sample holder is provided at a second end of the piezoelectric scanner. At least one elastic body is disposed so as to be sandwiched between the case and at least one of the piezoelectric scanner and the sample holder.
US11073531B2
A microelectromechanical (MEMS) accelerometer has a proof mass and a fixed electrode. The fixed electrode is located relative to the proof mass such that a capacitance formed by the fixed electrode and the proof mass changes in response to a linear acceleration along a sense axis of the accelerometer. The MEMS accelerometer is exposed to heat sources that produce a z-axis thermal gradient in MEMS accelerometer and an in-plane thermal gradient in the X-Y plane of the MEMS accelerometer. The z-axis thermal gradient is sensed with a plurality of thermistors located relative to anchoring regions of a CMOS layer of the MEMS accelerometer. The configuration of the thermistors within the CMOS layer measures the z-axis thermal gradient while rejecting other lateral thermal gradients. Compensation is performed at the accelerometer based on the z-axis thermal gradient.
US11073523B2
This invention provides for an improved method for differentially diagnosing ACTH-dependent Cushing's syndrome. Current practice for differentially diagnosing ectopic ACTH syndrome and Cushing's Disease measures relative ACTH concentrations from the inferior petrosal venous sinus compared to fluid obtained from a periphery venous sample. This is performed before and after administration of exogenous corticotropin releasing factor, or after administration of metyrapone. This invention uses glucocorticoid receptor antagonists to induce release of endogenous CRH which stimulates ACTH to increase in patients with ectopic ACTH syndrome but not in those with Cushing's Disease.
US11073520B1
Embodiments described herein include detecting an analyte in a low pH sample. Some embodiments include detection of multiple analytes in a sample utilizing a plurality of analyte binders and a control zone containing multiple control zone capture agents. In some embodiments, the multiple control zone capture agents capture a plurality of binders within one control zone.
US11073519B2
In a lateral flow test (LFT) device, the liquid conduit element 20 is formed from a substrate 21, 22 or 24 having at least two layers, including a first layer 21b, 22b or 24b not exceeding 75 μm in thickness formed from a porous material for wicking liquid, and a second layer 21a,22a or 24a of additional thickness formed from a generally non-porous polymer material acting as backing layer. The layered arrangement is incorporated into an LFT device to reduce sample volume requirements.
US11073516B2
The present invention relates to diagnostic devices as well as methods of using these devices for detecting proteins of interest associated with diseases or disorders in mammals. In particular, the proteins of interest may be misfolded proteins associated with certain misfolded-protein disorders in mammals including those mammals suspected of or at risk of having such disorders.
US11073501B2
A system and method for the non-destructive testing of additively manufactured parts. An input mechanism excites with an excitation force (e.g., a vibration) an additive manufacturing build structure, which includes a part on a build platform, to induce a dynamic response in the part. An output mechanism (e.g., a non-contact transducer) senses the induced dynamic response in the part. A processor determines and examines the relationship between the response and excitation to identify an indication of a defect in the part, and communicates an alert if the indication is identified. The processor may compare the phase, magnitude, coherence, or time delay of the relationship to a reference relationship and/or may compare the modal frequency or the modal damping to a reference to identify a deviation greater than a pre-established threshold.
US11073497B2
A machine tool includes: a first calculator configured to calculate a first frequency characteristic based on a first oscillation signal and a measurement signal of a physical quantity measured by a measurement unit when the drive shaft of a servo motor swings in accordance with the first oscillation signal; and a second calculator configured to calculate a second frequency characteristic based on a second oscillation signal and a measurement signal of the physical quantity measured by the measurement unit when the drive shaft of the servo motor swings in accordance with the second oscillation signal.
US11073495B2
A biosensor includes a plurality of electrodes including a working electrode, and a detection layer containing an enzyme for exchanging electrons with the working electrode, a crosslinking agent and an electrically conductive polymer and having a contact area with the working electrode defined by a predetermined area.
US11073492B2
A sensor device includes a first electrode and a second electrode disposed over a substrate, and a sensitive film including a base film which couples the first electrode and the second electrode to each other and contains Cu and a halogen element and PEDOT/PSS which bonds to the base film.
US11073488B2
The fingerprint comprises a three-dimensional map of internal imperfections present in a crystal within the gemstone (5), and may also comprise further information about the gemstone (5). The method comprises scanning the gemstone in an imaging apparatus by recording diffraction and/or extinction images according to a scanning strategy, and generating a fingerprint from the recorded diffraction and/or extinction images. The imaging apparatus comprises a sample holder (4), a sample stage (3), a detector (6), an x-ray source (1), wherein the sample holder (4) is movable relative to the x-ray source (1) and the detector (6). The fingerprint is used for the identification of gemstones, and/or for tracking and/or processing of gemstones in a supply chain.
US11073470B2
Provided herein is a biosensor for conformation and secondary structure analysis, notably for the direct non-invasive qualitative secondary structure analysis of a single selected protein within a complex mixture, as e.g. a body fluid, by vibrational spectroscopic methods. For the analysis it is not required that the selected substance be isolated, concentrated, or pretreated by a special preparative procedure.
US11073469B2
The disclosure relates to a quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy gas detection apparatus and method based on beat effect. Provided is a quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy gas detection apparatus based on beat effect, comprising a photoacoustic signal detection module, a gas chamber, a light source module and a data acquisition module. In the present invention, by detecting the beat signal generated by mixing the piezoelectric signal output from the quartz tuning fork with the demodulation signal of the lock-in amplifier, the electrical parameters of the quartz crystal oscillator and the concentration of the gas to be measured can be obtained accurately in a time period on the order of milliseconds.
US11073468B2
A cell capture system including an array, an inlet manifold, and an outlet manifold. The array includes a plurality of parallel pores, each pore including a chamber and a pore channel, an inlet channel fluidly connected to the chambers of the pores; an outlet channel fluidly connected to the pore channels of the pores. The inlet manifold is fluidly connected to the inlet channel, and the outlet channel is fluidly connected to the outlet channel. A cell removal tool is also disclosed, wherein the cell removal tool is configured to remove a captured cell from a pore chamber.
US11073466B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods capable of identifying, tracking, and sorting particles flowing in a channel, for example, a microfluidic channel having a fluid medium. The channel and the fluid medium can have a similar refractive index such that they appear translucent or transparent when illuminated by electromagnetic radiation. The particles can have a refractive index substantially different from that of the channel and the medium, such that the particles interfere with the electromagnetic radiation. A sensor can be disposed adjacent to the channel to record the electromagnetic radiation. The sensor can be used for identifying, tracking, and sorting the particles.
US11073458B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and corresponding sensor for determining density and/or viscosity of a medium using a vibronic sensor. An oscillatable unit is excited using an electrical excitation signal to execute mechanical oscillations, and the mechanical oscillations of the mechanically oscillatable unit are received and transduced into an electrical, received signal. The excitation signal is produced based on the received signal such that at least one predeterminable phase shift is present between the excitation signal and the received signal, wherein a frequency of the excitation signal is determined from the received signal at the predeterminable phase shift. A damping and/or a variable dependent on the damping are/is determined from the received signal at the predeterminable phase shift. From the damping and/or the variable dependent on the damping and from the frequency of the excitation signal, the density and/or the viscosity of the medium are/is ascertained.
US11073449B2
A smear preparing apparatus includes: a smear unit that prepares a smear slide by smearing a sample on a slide; a buffer solution preparation unit that prepares diluted buffer solution by diluting a highly-concentrated buffer solution; a diluted staining solution preparation unit that prepares diluted staining solution by diluting a highly-concentrated staining solution with the diluted buffer solution; and a stain unit that stains the smear slide prepared by the smear unit with the diluted staining solution.
US11073440B2
An embodiment provides a beam projector module including: a light source configured to output light; a substrate configured to support the light source; an optical device configured to reduce the light in terms of intensity output to a predetermined space; a frame configured to separate the optical device from the light source by a predetermined distance; an optical substrate configured to attach the optical device thereto and to define a sealed space with the substrate and the frame, the sealed space having internal pressure lower than pressure outside the sealed space; a sensor configured to measure a state of the sealed space; and a processor configured to change an operation mode of the light source depending on a measured value of the sensor.
US11073431B2
An optical manufacturing process sensing and status indication system is taught that is able to utilize optical emissions from a manufacturing process to infer the state of the process. In one case, it is able to use these optical emissions to distinguish thermal phenomena on two timescales and to perform feature extraction and classification so that nominal process conditions may be uniquely distinguished from off-nominal process conditions at a given instant in time or over a sequential series of instants in time occurring over the duration of the manufacturing process. In other case, it is able to utilize these optical emissions to derive corresponding spectra and identify features within those spectra so that nominal process conditions may be uniquely distinguished from off-nominal process conditions at a given instant in time or over a sequential series of instants in time occurring over the duration of the manufacturing process.
US11073427B2
A wavefront sensor includes a mask and a sensor utilized to capture a diffraction pattern generated by light incident to the mask. A reference image is captured in response to a plane wavefront incident on the mask, and another measurement image is captured in response to a distorted wavefront incident on the mask. The distorted wavefront is reconstructed based on differences between the reference image and the measurement image.
US11073423B2
A hyperspectral sensing device may include an optical collector configured to collect light and to transfer the collected light to a sensor having spectral resolution sufficient for sensing hyperspectral data. In some examples, the sensor comprises a compact spectrometer. The device further comprises a power supply, an electronics module, and an input/output hub enabling the device to transmit acquired data (e.g., to a remote server). In some examples, a plurality of hyperspectral sensing devices are deployed as a network to acquire data over a relatively large area. Methods are disclosed for performing dark-current calibration and/or radiometric calibration on data obtained by the hyperspectral sensing device, and/or another suitable device. Data obtained by the device may be represented in a functional basis space, enabling computations that utilize all of the hyperspectral data without loss of information.
US11073420B2
An apparatus includes a reflector having one or more reflective faces and an opening. The reflector is selectively movable into and out of an optical path of an alignment beam. When the reflector is located within the optical path of the alignment beam, (i) the one or more reflective faces are configured to reflect a first portion of the alignment beam and (ii) the opening is configured to allow passage of a second portion of the alignment beam through the reflector. The reflector may include a retro-reflector, the retro-reflector may include multiple reflective faces, and the multiple reflective faces may be positioned around the opening.
US11073419B2
A method and system for determining the weight of an object, such as a shipping container, comprises a plurality of portable weighing units. The weighing units are attachable to the ISO corner connectors of the shipping container. The shipping container is lifted and its weight is then supported by the portable weighing units. The portable weighing units are arranged such that the load applied by the weight of the shipping container passes through respective load cells in each weighing unit in the required direction of loading to ensure an accurate reading from each load cell. The system also includes software enabling a customer to book a weighing service and software to facilitate weighing of the shipping container and transmitting weight data for the shipping container to the customer or to a third party.
US11073416B2
A measuring system comprises: a measuring transducer; transmitter electronics; at least one measuring tube; and at least one oscillation exciter. The transmitter electronics delivers a driver signal for the at least one oscillation exciter, and for feeding electrical, excitation power into the at least one oscillation exciter. The driver signal, has a sinusoidal signal component which corresponds to an instantaneous eigenfrequency, and in which the at least one measuring tube can execute, or executes, eigenoscillations about a resting position. The eigenoscillations have an oscillation node and in the region of the wanted, oscillatory length exactly one oscillatory antinode. The driver signal has, a sinusoidal signal component with a signal frequency, which deviates from each instantaneous eigenfrequency of each natural mode of oscillation of the at least one measuring tube, in each case, by more than 1 Hz and/or by more than 1% of said eigenfrequency.
US11073414B2
The present disclosure relates to an optical fiber detection device for detecting a discharge fault of a high-voltage bushing, which includes an optical fiber sensing unit, an optical fiber delay unit, a photoelectric conversion unit, and a signal collecting and processing unit. The optical fiber sensing unit includes sensing optical fibers; the optical fiber delay unit includes delay optical fibers, a light source, and couplers; the photoelectric conversion unit includes a photodetector; the signal collecting and processing unit includes a high-pass filter. The delay optical fibers are connected to the couplers; an output end of the light source is connected to the light-splitting coupler; an input end of the photodetector is connected to the light-splitting coupler, and an output end of the photodetector is connected to the signal collecting and processing unit; and the light-combining coupler is connected to the sensing optical fibers.
US11073412B2
An opto-mechanical resonator including a waveguide formed by a plurality of first strips spaced apart from one another; and two mirrors disposed facing one another, which mirrors are optically reflective over at least part of a guide wavelength range of the waveguide. The waveguide extends between the two mirrors, and forms therewith an optically resonant cavity. At least part of the waveguide is held such that it is suspended over a substrate by at least one deformable mechanical element.
US11073411B2
An apparatus is provided which comprises pressure pass-thru means, which includes: an optic fiber having a first end and a second end; a first connector coupled to the first end; a second connector coupled to the second end; a housing between the first and second ends, wherein the housing covers a portion of the optic fiber, wherein a portion of the optic fiber in the housing is bare; a filing material inside the housing; and a swaged gland fitting on the housing to secure the apparatus to a pressure boundary.
US11073409B2
In an example, a circuit includes a first comparator, a second comparator, a pulse counter, a processor, a first ADC, and a second ADC. The first comparator has a first input coupled to a first node, a second input, and an output. The second comparator has a first input coupled to a second node, a second input, and an output. A first DAC is coupled to the second input of the first comparator. A second DAC is coupled to the second input of the second comparator. The pulse counter has a first input coupled to the output of the first comparator and a second input coupled to the output of the second comparator. The first ADC has an input coupled to the first node and an output coupled to the processor. The second ADC has an input coupled to the second node and an output coupled to the processor.
US11073400B2
A method for receiving autonomous vehicle (AV) map data associated with an AV map of a geographic location and coverage map data associated with a coverage map of the geographic location. The AV map data is associated with an AV lane of a roadway in the geographic location, and the coverage map data is associated with a coverage lane of the roadway in the geographic location. The method includes generating a hybrid map of the geographic location based on the AV map data and the coverage map data and providing hybrid map data associated with the hybrid map for routing of an AV. The hybrid map includes the AV lane linked with the coverage lane of the roadway.
US11073397B2
One example includes a magnetic-inertial global positioning system mounted on a platform. The system includes an inertial system configured to determine an approximate latitude associated with an approximate global position of the global positioning system. The system also includes a magnetometer system configured to determine an ambient magnetic field at the approximate global position. The system further includes a location processor configured to compare the ambient magnetic field with a predetermined magnetic field profile to determine an approximate longitude along the determined approximate latitude to determine the approximate global position of the platform.
US11073383B2
A geometrical error measurement method for a feed drive system includes entering coordinate values of four vertices of a virtual regular tetrahedron, mounting a position indicator to an end of a main shaft of a feed drive system, mounting three center mounts at three respective vertices of the four vertices except for the remaining vertex at which the main shaft is positioned while moving the main shaft of the feed drive system sequentially from one vertex to another according to the entered coordinate values, measuring distances between each of the four vertices indicated by the three center mounts and the position indicator with a double ballbar, and calculating a geometrical error from the measured distances.
US11073376B2
An imaging head 100 includes a laser projector 110, an LED projector 120, a light receiving lens 132, a light receiver 131, and a processor 200. The laser projector 110 emits measurement light to a workpiece W. The LED projector 120 emits uniform observation light to the workpiece W. The light receiving lens 132 converges reflected light of the measurement light and reflected light of the observation light that are reflected back from the workpiece W. The light receiver 131 has a light receiving surface composed of multiple light receiving elements that are two-dimensionally arranged. The laser projector 110, the light receiver 131, and the light receiving lens 132 are arranged so that a plane containing the light receiving surface and a plane containing the principal plane of the light receiving lens 132 will satisfy the Scheimpflug condition relative to a light projection axis of the laser projector 110.
US11073368B2
The present invention comprises a novel device, a ceramic cap that is firmly attached in a manner that prevents relative rotation axial movement or separation between the modified tip of an existing bullet and said cap to allow the modified bullet to shatter the glass of an automotive or truck windshield on contact, thus allowing the bullet to pass through the glass with a reduction of deflection incurred by non-modified bullets while producing larger bullet holes and areas of glass disruption than non-modified rounds and increasing the quantity and size of injury inflicting shrapnel.
US11073356B2
An adjustable archery training bow assembly includes a single resistance element and an adjustment mechanism that can be actuated by a user to vary the tension level in the resistance element for training purposes. The training bow also includes a mount for receiving a mobile device, which allows the user to practice various augmented reality-archery training scenarios. The adjustable archery training bow is used to enhance the user's skills, such as his/her strength, stability, and accuracy to help deliver on-target an arrow fired from a real, non-training bow.
US11073352B1
An external lock apparatus for a gun includes a gun receptacle. The gun receptacle is configured to receive a portion of the gun. An external lock is configured to engage with the portion of the gun when the gun is inserted into the gun receptacle. The external lock has on OPEN position and a LOCKED position. The external lock further includes an interference member. The interference member is configured to engage with the gun such that the gun cannot be removed from the gun receptacle and the gun cannot fire when the portion of the gun is received within the gun receptacle and the external lock is in the LOCKED position. In the alternative, the gun cannot be fired but can be removed from the gun receptacle if the portion of the gun is received within the gun receptacle and external lock is in the OPEN position.
US11073350B2
A firearm is described herein. The firearm comprises a receiver assembly adapted to receive a cartridge, a bolt assembly including a firing device operable to fire the cartridge, a barrel adapted to receive the projectile after the cartridge is fired, and a gas assembly including a gas tube. The receiver assembly includes an upper receiver portion, a lower receiver portion, and an upper receiver cover. The upper receiver portion defines a longitudinal axis, and an indexing slot operable to receive the gas tube. The upper receiver portion includes at least one integrated exterior track extending generally parallel to the longitudinal axis adapted to slidably couple with the upper receiver cover and a plurality of interior tracks extending generally parallel to the longitudinal axis adapted to slidably couple with the bolt assembly. The upper and lower receiver portions are pivotally connected to one another.
US11073337B2
The application is directed to an air-cooled heat exchange system and method. The system may be transported to various locations for on-site operation or, in the alternative, the system may be provided as a permanent installation. The system includes a fluid passageway with two openings interchangeable as a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet of the fluid passageway for fluid to be cooled by the system. The system includes a power source and a blower assembly for generating forced air flow across at least part of the fluid passageway.
US11073333B2
Disclosed is a substrate treating apparatus with a baking unit for heating a substrate to which a treating liquid that generates sublimate through heating is applied to bake a surface of the substrate to form a coat film. The apparatus includes the following elements: a first bake group, a second bake group, a first exhaust pipe that forms a flow path of exhaust gases from the first bake group with its end being in fluid communication with an exhaust gas processor that processes the exhaust gases, a second exhaust pipe that forms a flow path of exhaust gases from the second bake group, and a junction provided at a midstream of the first exhaust pipe and in fluid communication with a downstream side of the second exhaust pipe.
US11073332B2
A system for controlling cooling of a container in a household appliance includes a conducting wire adapted and configured to be placed in windings around the container, a monitor adapted to sense the inductance of the wire, and an indicator to signal to a user that the temperature of the container has reached a predetermined temperature value.
US11073326B2
A door for a domestic refrigeration appliance has a door inner panel and a door outer panel. The inner and outer panels are arranged on a single-piece, multiple-sided door frame. The door frame is open in the peripheral direction of the frame shape, and a separate recessed handle element is arranged in an open peripheral section of the door frame. There is also described a domestic refrigeration appliance with a door.
US11073323B2
An evaporator comprises: an evaporator case having first and second case sheets coupled to each other and bent such that both sides of the evaporator case are open, thereby forming a box shape, a food storing space being formed inside the evaporator case; a cooling tube provided as an empty space between the first and second case sheets, thereby forming a cooling channel through which a refrigerant flows; and a heating tube formed as an empty space between the first and second case sheets so as not to overlap with the cooling tube, thereby forming a heating channel for defrosting, wherein the cooling tube and the heating tube are shaped to protrude to the outside of the evaporator case, and the evaporator case has an inner surface formed to be flat.
US11073313B2
A method of managing a compressor start operation, the method includes controlling a valve disposed upstream of a compressor to lower a saturated suction temperature of a refrigerant to be below an ambient temperature while starting the compressor.
US11073310B2
Thermal control devices adapted to provide improved control and efficiency in temperature cycling are provided herein. Such thermal control device can include a thermoelectric cooler controlled in coordination with another thermal manipulation device to control an opposing face of the thermoelectric cooler and/or a microenvironment. Some such thermal control devices include a first and second thermoelectric cooler separated by a thermal capacitor. The thermal control devices can be configured in a planar configuration with a means for thermally coupling with a planar reaction vessel of a sample analyzer for use in thermal cycling in a polymerase chain reaction of the fluid sample in the reaction vessel. Methods of thermal cycling using such a thermal control devices are also provided.
US11073302B2
This indoor unit of an air conditioner includes an indoor unit main body having an inlet and an outlet; a heat exchanger; and a cross-flow fan configured to blow out air, which has undergone heat exchange by the heat exchanger. The cross-flow fan has a blow-out flow path that is configured such that a cross-sectional area gradually increases downward, with the blow-out flow path guiding blown-out air to the outlet. When a distance in the lower wall from an intersection, where a tangent inscribing a tongue of the cross-flow fan orthogonally intersects the lower wall, to a lower end of the indoor unit main body is referred to as distance L, a ratio (L/D) of the distance L to outer diameter D of an impeller of the cross-flow fan is less than 0.05. At least part of the blow-out flow path is formed to project out of the outlet at least when air conditioning operation is performed.
US11073301B2
A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a heat pump having a housing. The HVAC system also includes an energy recovery ventilator (ERV) or heat recover ventilator (HRV) integrated with the heat pump such that an access panel to the ERV or HRV faces outwardly from the housing of the heat pump, and such that the access panel is accessible at an outer boundary of the housing.
US11073299B2
A plug which fits into the top aperture of an air vent to be mounted on an air flow pipe or flume prevents cement flowing into the vent when a concrete floor is laid. The vent has a peripheral protrusion and a top flange. The plug protrusion snap fits into a in the top of the vent aperture and can be pulled out when the concrete is set. The plug has sides which extend upward an outward from the vent top so the laid concrete floor has a slot communicating with the vent and the vent top is installed below the floor and thus cannot be easily damaged by storing and removal of produce. The vent is inserted into a plate covering a flume where the plate has ribs and protrusions locating the required rebar and end tabs holding the plates end to end.
US11073298B2
Directional environmental control provides nearly immediate comfort. A location associated with a mobile device determines an air terminal that best serves the location. Conditioned air may thus be streamed from the air terminal to the location associated with the mobile device. The conditioned air may be heated or cooled according to a profile associated with a user of the mobile device.
US11073286B2
Various embodiments include a trapped vortex combustor and a method for operating trapped vortex combustor. In one embodiment, the trapped vortex combustor comprises a trapped vortex combustion zone and at least one secondary combustion zone disposed downstream of the trapped vortex combustion zone. The trapped vortex combustion zone is operable to receive and combust a first fuel and a first air and produce a first combustion product flowing toroidally therein. The at least one secondary combustion zone is operable to receive and combust the first combustion product and at least one second injection consisting of fuel and/or air and produce at least one second combustion product therein. The combustor may reduce the residence time of the highest temperature combustion products and achieve the lower NOx emission.
US11073285B2
A combustor of a gas turbine engine including a first forward liner panel. The forward liner panel including a liner panel forward edge, a liner panel aft edge opposite of the liner panel forward edge, and a first liner panel side edge between the liner panel aft edge and the liner panel forward edge. The first liner panel side edge is non-perpendicular to the liner panel forward edge and oriented at an angle about perpendicular to a swirl flow in the combustor.
US11073283B2
A turbulence generating structure for liner cooling enhancement is a liner cooling structure applied to a double-structured side portion formed by a liner and a flow sleeve and includes the liner and a first turbulence generator protruding from a surface space of the liner and including a plurality of ribs arranged in an axial direction, each of the ribs comprising blocks arranged at regular distances in the axial direction and interspaced by cooling holes. The ribs include a first set of adjacent ribs separated by a first passage distance, the first passage distance being repeated in a circumferential direction, and a second set of adjacent ribs separated by a second passage distance, the second passage distance being repeated in the circumferential direction, wherein the first and second sets of adjacent ribs have exactly one rib in common, and the first passage distance is greater than the second passage distance.
US11073272B1
In some embodiments, a lighting assembly including at least one light-emitting device positioned within a housing is disclosed, wherein the housing is designed to allow an ambient environment to pass into the housing and transfer heat from the at least one light-emitting device. The light-emitting area of the light-emitting device may be sealed from the ambient environment. In some embodiments, the housing may include at least one recess, port, or other opening configured to allow a liquid or gas to promote heat transfer from the light-emitting device. In some embodiments, a vehicle, a marine system, or other systems may include at least one lighting assembly as contemplated herein.
US11073269B1
LED lighting systems, mounting configurations, and light fixtures are disclosed for original and retrofit configurations. Some configurations mount the light fixture with a mounting bracket that allows for the removal and replacement of the light fixture in about the same time as a traditional light bulb change. Some configurations provide for fuse removal and replacement without the need to dismount the light fixture from its mounting bracket or without the need to open the housing of the light fixture to access the fuses. Some configurations use a battery backup system and self-check methods with LED light fixtures configured for public transportation applications.
US11073268B1
Provided herein are double-sided panel lights, for example, double-sided LED panel lights. The panel lights have a body with a light emitting portion and a control portion. The light emitting portion has a light board on the front surface and on the back surface, where each light board contains a different light group such as an RGB light group and a two-color light group, and a support frame rotatably connected thereto. Transparent panels may cover the light boards. At least one light blocking plate may be removably attached to the light emitting portion. The control portion has a control module and a power module.
US11073253B2
A light emission device includes a light source that emits an excitation light beam, a light deflector, a wavelength converter that receives and converts the excitation light beam deflected by the light deflector to wavelength-converted light, and a light concentration section that focuses the excitation light beam on the wavelength converter. The light concentration section includes a first optical system disposed between the light source and the light deflector, and a second optical system disposed between the light deflector and the wavelength converter. In the second optical system, a focal length of an Ay-axis is shorter than a focal length of an Ax-axis, where the Ax-axis is defined as an axis that has a lowest beam parameter product of the excitation light beam, and the Ay-axis is defined as an axis orthogonal to the Ax-axis in a cross section perpendicular to a propagation direction of the excitation light beam.
US11073249B2
A bulb-type light source includes a globe transmitting a light and at least one light emitting device filament disposed in the globe. The light emitting device filament includes a substrate including n (n is a natural number equal to or greater than 2) flat portions and n−1 bendable portions disposed between the flat portions, a plurality of light emitting device chips disposed on the flat portions, a fluorescent substance layer covering each light emitting device chip and converting a wavelength of a light from each light emitting device chip, and a connection line disposed on the flat portions and electrically connecting the light emitting device chips adjacent to each other between the adjacent light emitting device chips.
US11073240B2
A pressure vessel has an interior chamber and includes an outer shell, a boss, and an internal liner disposed within the outer shell. The boss includes a port extending between the interior chamber and an exterior of the pressure vessel; and an annular flange extending radially from the port and having an exterior surface and an interior surface. The liner includes an exterior portion adjacent the exterior surface of the flange; an interior portion adjacent the interior surface of the flange; and a vent in the interior portion. A method for forming a pressure vessel includes mounting a boss on a mandrel, flowing a non-metallic polymer around a flange of the boss to form an internal liner of the pressure vessel, forming a vent in an interior portion of the liner; and forming an outer shell surrounding the liner and at least a portion of the flange of the boss.
US11073236B2
A display apparatus includes a display monitor and a height adjustment mechanism. The display monitor has a frame with a height adjustment slot. The height adjustment mechanism includes abase fixed in the frame, a sheet structure disposed in the frame in a laterally slidable manner, a sliding plate, and a support stand passing through the height adjustment slot to be connected to the sliding plate such that the frame could be movable relative to the support stand. The sliding plate is slidably disposed in the base and has an abutting structure abutting under the sheet structure. When the frame is located at a high position, the abutting structure and the sheet structure cover the height adjustment slot. When the frame moves to a low position, the support stand relatively moves upward along the height adjustment slot to make the abutting structure push the sheet structure to slide laterally.
US11073235B2
A resin piping assembly including a base divisional component having first and second half components having respective first and second interfacial surfaces formed along an oil passage, and first and second divisional components which have respective third and fourth interfacial surfaces formed along the oil passage, and which are bonded to the respective first and second half components. Each of the base divisional component, and the first and second divisional components is formed of a resin material, and the first and second interfacial surfaces are spaced apart from each other, and open in respective opposite directions. The base divisional component further includes a cylindrical connecting pipe portion having a connecting passage portion which is a part of the oil passage and which is provided for communication between the first and second passage portions. Also disclosed is a process of forming the resin piping assembly.
US11073232B2
The present invention concerns a multilayered pipe comprising an inner basis layer (1) and an outer layer (2), the inner basis layer (1) and the outer layer (2) comprising polypropylene, and with a reinforcement layer (3, 6) reinforced with mineral fibers and located between the inner basis layer (1) and the outer layer (2), wherein at least one layer of the pipe located between the inner basis layer (1) and the outer layer (2) is a barrier layer (3) comprising polyamide.
US11073228B2
A diaphragm valve having a movable diaphragm (20) configured as a closure element has a valve housing (6) and an actuator (8), the diaphragm (20) being clamped between a flange (18) of the valve housing and a base (10) of the actuator (8) and being provided with a first identification means (32) in which data which are adapted to be read out wirelessly are stored. A further identification means (50, 56) is also fastened to the flange (18) and/or the base (10). The read-out surfaces of the further identification means (50, 56) are substantially at right angles to the read-out surface of the identification means (32) on the diaphragm (20).
US11073226B2
A sanitary water faucet handle has multiple levers, or grasping regions. Each lever includes an associated indicator, identifying whether the particular grasping region is intended for use in turning the faucet's water supply on, or off. The indicator may be in the form of indicia applied to a portion of at least one of the levers, a coloration of at least one of the levers, a variation in the relative length of at least one of the levers, or a variation of the height of at least one of the levers relative to a bottom surface of the handle. The handle is attachable to a conventional water valve, permitting the handle to be retrofitted as a replacement handle in existing faucet systems. A supplemental lever or grasping region may be attachable or releasably attachable to a preexisting lever of a faucet system. A powered faucet lever may be provided that reconfigures itself to automatically present one of two separate sets of grasping regions, depending upon whether the associated faucet is activated or deactivated.
US11073225B2
Valve system with rotary stepping actuator to actuate a valve stem. An actuator drive shaft supported for stepwise rotation imparts rotation to a valve stem nut to axially move a valve stem to open and close valve flow trim. The drive shaft forms peripheral first and second slotted circular drive paths co-axially spaced from each other. Actuation assemblies releasably engage forward or reverse ratchet pawls in a drive shaft slot to incrementally rotate the drive shaft in forward or reverse steps. One or both of the forward and reverse ratchet pawls is one of a plurality of ratchet pawls, such that each forward or reverse step by one of the plurality of ratchet pawls incrementally rotates the drive shaft through a partial forward or reverse step which is a fraction of a predetermined angular increment set by the slot spacing.
US11073221B2
Example electro-pneumatic converters and related methods are disclosed herein. An example electro-pneumatic converter includes an axial passageway defined in a body between a first opening and a second opening. A supply port is formed by the first opening. The supply port is to receive pressurized fluid from a pressure supply source. The electro-pneumatic converter further includes an output port fluidly coupled to the axial passageway and a solenoid including a coil and an armature. The armature is disposed in and movable in the axial passageway. The armature is movable between a first position blocking the pressurized fluid from flowing through the axial passageway between the supply port and the output port and a second position allowing the pressurized fluid to flow through the axial passageway between the supply port and the output port.
US11073220B2
An electromagnetic valve device including armature means (12, 14), which are movable along an axial direction for actuating a valve gate assembly group (28) in reaction to energizing stationary spool means (16), and which are accommodated in an actuator housing (17, 19, 20, 22) preferably as a component unit and/or module in conjunction with the spool means and stationary core means and take up an inserted and/or retracted armature position (FIG. 1) in an unenergized state of the spool means, said valve gate assembly group (28), which is guided in a valve housing (26), being realized at one axial end for a contacting interaction, which cannot endure tensile load, with the armature means (14) and being realized such that a fluid path from a first fluid port (P) of the valve housing to a second fluid port (A) of the valve housing can be opened or blocked depending on an axial position of the valve gate assembly group, said valve housing (26) including at least one axial fluid-conducting channel section (50) on the interior so as to interact with the valve gate assembly group (28) guided therein, in particular at the axial end side opposite to the armature means, said channel section (50) being realized such that the valve gate assembly group (28) blocks the fluid path in the axial position of the valve gate assembly group corresponding to the inserted and/or retracted armature position and said valve gate assembly group (28) opening the fluid path via the flow-conducting channel section (50) in an axial position of the valve gate assembly group, which is moved out of the inserted and/or retracted armature position.
US11073214B2
A duckbill valve includes a flexible and hollow body having a first shape upon being formed by injection molding. The body in the first shape has a first opening at a first end and a second opening at a second end. The body is configured to be inverted into a second shape. The second shape has a first opening at a first end and has a slit at a second end. The slit is defined by lips that are pressed together to form a seal.
US11073211B2
A diaphragm seal with a unique profile at its outer diameter and a high-pressure seal used to at least partially envelope the outer diameter of the diaphragm seal is described. The high-pressure seal may envelope an outer diameter side of the diaphragm seal such that the high-pressure seal creates a barrier between the diaphragm seal and the interface between an upper pump housing portion and a lower pump housing portion in which the diaphragm seal can be installed. The high-pressure seal may provide a “gripping” force on the diaphragm seal so as to inhibit or prevent extrusion of the diaphragm seal in either a radially inner or radially outer direction when installed in a pump housing.
US11073204B2
A bearing adjustment assembly includes a worm engaged with a worm gear. The assembly also includes a worm bearing located proximate an end of the worm. The assembly further includes a compensation mechanism engaging the worm bearing, the compensation mechanism being adjustable to bias the worm bearing to maintain or adjust a gear mesh load between the worm gear and the worm.
US11073200B2
A gearbox is provided for use in a gas turbine engine. The gearbox includes a plurality of gears, a casing surrounding the plurality of gears, and a lubricant re-circulation system. The casing defines a sump positioned beneath the plurality of gears to retain lubricant. The lubricant re-circulation system includes a re-circulation pump, a re-circulation inlet positioned within the sump, and a re-circulation outlet positioned to supply lubricant to the plurality of gears.
US11073195B2
The invention relates to a geared motor comprising: an electric motor crossed, through and through, by a rotor shaft, so as to form two motor output shafts, each output shaft has a pinion; at least two planetary gearboxes with at least one stage, each geared with the pinion of a motor output shaft; two geared motor output shafts, each being coupled directly or indirectly to a planetary gearbox, the two geared motor output shafts being coaxial with each other.
US11073186B2
A coated backing plate for a brake pad and method of manufacturing a brake pad having a coated backing plate, where the coating for the backing plate includes a bond layer. The bond layer includes an inboard surface, an outboard surface, a closed pore network toward the outboard surface that faces the inboard surface of the reinforcement plate, and an open pore network at the inboard surface of the bond layer. The open pore network includes a recessed topology having a plurality of craters configured to interlock a friction material of a friction pad or one or more intermediate layers, such as a transition layer and/or a thermal barrier layer.
US11073184B2
A power transmission device has a back torque transmission cam that brings driving clutch plates 6 and driven clutch plates 7 into press contact with each other. This occurs by moving a second clutch member 4b when a rotational force is input to a first clutch member 4a, via the output shaft 3. A pressure member 5 is located at a non-actuation position. A back torque transmission cam can hold abutment between an interlocking member 9 and weight member 8 by moving the second clutch member 4b in a direction of being brought into proximity to the interlocking member 9.
US11073178B2
An oil-impregnated sintered bearing comprises a bearing hole. In the bearing, sliding surfaces supporting an outer circumferential surface of a shaft and an oil supply surface whose diameter is larger than that of the sliding surfaces are formed on an inner circumferential surface of the bearing hole into which the shaft is inserted. The sliding surfaces and the oil supply surfaces are adjacent to each other in the axial direction of the bearing hole. A height gap “d1” between the sliding surfaces and the oil supply surface is not less than 0.01% and not more than 15% of an inner diameter of the sliding surfaces. A surface opening percentage of the sliding surfaces is not higher than 10%. A surface opening percentage of the oil supply surface is higher than 10%. An average circle-equivalent diameter of opening parts of pores on the sliding surfaces is not larger than 20 μm.
US11073176B2
A fastening element consisting of a cage element with a nut arranged therein that is held by a fastening flange in the cage element. The cage element has a wall element which can be moved in an axial direction and shields the seat area of the cage element against the penetration of adhesive while mounting the fastening element on a component surface.
US11073160B2
Conventional gas turbine engines are generally optimized to operate at nearly a fixed speed with fixed blade geometries for the design operating condition. When the operating condition of the engine changes, the flow incidence angles may not be optimum with the blade geometries resulting in reduced off-design performance. By contrast, according to embodiments of the present invention, articulating the pitch angle of turbine blades in coordination with adjustable nozzle vanes improves performance by maintaining flow incidence angles within the optimum range at all operating conditions of a gas turbine engine. Maintaining flow incidence angles within the optimum range can prevent the likelihood of flow separation in the blade passage and also reduce the thermal stresses developed due to aerothermal loads for variable speed gas turbine applications.
US11073150B2
A method, system, and apparatus for testing mobile pumps and mobile fire pumps. Exemplary embodiments described herein can reduce or eliminate the discharge of water used for testing pumps to the ground or other ambient environments. Further, exemplary embodiments can reduce or eliminate the potential for contamination of water bodies and reduce or eliminate need for large transportable reservoirs as a source of water. Exemplary embodiments can include attachment of hose valves to pump outlets for controlling a flow rate of water as well as water pressure. A hose may further be coupled to each hose valve and looped to a pump inlet, allowing for the recycling of water. Flow meters may further be provided on the looped lines to measure water flow. A low flow capacity water source and discharge may be utilized to provide further control of or adjustment to test system temperature, water flow and pressure.
US11073144B1
A valve assembly having a valve body, a hardened insert, a sealing insert, and a carrier. The hardened insert is cylindrical and comprises a primary sealing surface. The sealing insert is cylindrical and comprises an initial sealing surface. The carrier has an inside surface. The hardened insert and the sealing insert are coupled to the carrier. In a closed configuration of the valve assembly, the valve body contacts the primary sealing surface of the hardened insert and the initial sealing surface of the sealing insert to prevent fluid flow through the valve assembly, and in an open configuration, the valve body is separated from the primary sealing surface of the hardened insert and the initial sealing surface of the sealing insert to allow fluid flow through the valve assembly.
US11073143B2
The invention provides a sound generator having a frame, a vibration system and a magnetic circuit system carried by the frame. The vibration system includes a diaphragm, a coil and an elastic support assembly. The diaphragm includes a first suspension ring fixed with the frame, a first dome at a center of the first suspension ring, and a second dome stacked on the first dome. The first dome includes a main body, a first wall, and a second wall extending perpendicularly from the first wall for connecting to the coil via the first wall. The first wall is connected to a side surface of the coil. The first wall and the second wall are used for elastically suspending the coil below the diaphragm. Thus, the sound generator has improved high frequency performance.
US11073139B2
The power plant disclosed is an engine that derives its usefulness in the pursuit of energy generation by utilizing hydrostatic pressure differentials found or created in various liquids, gases or solutions, such as but not limited to water and air. It is generally provided as a configuration designed to create a pressure differential, and to use the pressure differential to increase the effective head seen via a penstock and turbine system. Pump systems that are employed include venturi systems, jet pump systems and other comparable mixed-pressure vacuum pumps. Multiple power generating systems are interconnected to provide continuous and constant power generation through a penstock and turbine system.
US11073137B2
A bearing assembly for a drivetrain of a wind turbine includes at least one shaft having a circumferential outer surface. The bearing assembly also includes a bearing housing arranged circumferentially around the circumferential outer surface of the shaft. The bearing housing having at least deformation such that the bearing housing and the shaft have a corresponding deformation around a toroidal axis such that interfacing surfaces of the bearing housing and the shaft flex together and remain parallel during operation of the drivetrain, thereby distributing operational loads of the drivetrain. The bearing assembly further includes a bearing housed at least partially within the bearing housing and engaging the circumferential outer surface of the shaft.
US11073136B2
Provided a cooling arrangement for a generator including a stationary armature with an interior cavity bounded by an armature front plate, an armature back plate and a main shaft, which cooling arrangement includes a partition arranged to separate the interior cavity into an outer annular region adjacent to the armature and an inner annular region surrounding the main shaft, and wherein the partition includes a number of heat exchanger units; and a fan assembly arranged in the interior cavity to force hot air from the outer annular region through the heat exchanger units of the partition into the inner annular region and to expel cooled air from the inner annular region of the interior cavity. A wind turbine including such a cooling arrangement for cooling a generator and a method of cooling a generator is also provided.
US11073117B2
The intake manifold includes an intake air introduction port, a surge tank and a plurality of intake pipes. The intake air introduction port is connected to one end side of the surge tank in a direction in which the intake pipes are arranged. The surge tank is provided with a stepped portion over the direction in which the intake pipes are arranged. The stepped portion has an erected wall erected from a surface of the surge tank and connected to the plurality of intake pipes, and a curved wall connecting a tip side of the erected wall and the surface of the surge tank. Further, the surge tank is provided with a concave portion recessed toward the stepped portion at an intermediate portion in the direction in which the intake pipes are arranged.
US11073115B2
An intake duct structure of a motorcycle includes front forks disposed on both of right and left sides of a head pipe of a body frame and a main frame extending obliquely backward and downward from the head pipe, wherein the intake duct structure extends from a front end of the motorcycle toward the head pipe and is formed in such a manner that an interfered area where a rotational orbit of the front forks at a time of steering overlaps the intake duct structure is elastically deformable.
US11073111B2
Systems and method for determining a Reid vapor pressure of a fuel system using a bi-directional pump of the fuel system. The determined Reid vapor pressure is compared to reference Reid vapor pressures to identify the presence of, and size of, a leak in the fuel system.
US11073110B2
A fuel supply system for the active purging of at least one antechamber of a spark-ignition internal combustion engine, using a gaseous fuel, the internal combustion engine comprising at least one main combustion chamber, which is connected to the at least one antechamber at least on the fuel side. An evaporator is disposed upstream from the at least one antechamber.
US11073103B2
An exhaust mixer arrangement for a gas turbine engine comprises an exhaust cone, a lobed exhaust mixer surrounding at least a portion of the exhaust cone and a cover mounted to an outer surface of the exhaust cone. The cover and the outer surface of the exhaust cone define a dead-end cavity for receiving a stiffener ring. A plurality of circumferentially spaced-apart struts interconnect at least a number of lobes of the lobed exhaust mixer to the stiffener ring.
US11073102B2
A structure of a combustion chamber for an engine includes a crown surface of a piston, a cylinder wall surface, a combustion chamber ceiling surface, and an ignition plug which includes an ignition portion. The crown surface of the piston includes: a cavity recessed in the cylinder axis direction; a parallel surface portion which is in parallel to a corresponding region on the combustion chamber ceiling surface at a position above the cylinder axis direction with a gap, when the piston is at a compression top dead center; and an inclined surface portion formed to continue to the parallel surface portion in such a way as to be directed to the ignition plug, when the piston is at a compression top dead center. The parallel surface portion and the corresponding region, in combination, constitute a squish flow generation portion generating a squish flow when the piston is lifted.
US11073095B2
Methods and systems are provided for improving efficiency of an exhaust gas after treatment system of a vehicle. In one example, a first group of engine cylinders is operated with a rich air-fuel ratio continuously while a second group of engine cylinders is operated with a lean air-fuel ratio continuously. The rich and lean exhaust gases from the two groups of engine cylinders may be oxidized within an exhaust gas after treatment system to improve catalyst efficiency.
US11073091B2
A gas turbine engine includes: a compressor, a combustor, and a turbine arranged in sequential flow relationship along a primary flowpath, the turbine being connected in mechanical driving relationship to the compressor, so as to define at least one engine rotor that is rotatable about a centerline axis of the engine; a secondary flowpath connected in flow communication with the primary flowpath; and an air cycle machine including an air cycle rotor carrying an at least one air cycle compressor and at least one air cycle expander, wherein: the air cycle rotor is coupled in mechanical driving relationship with the at least one engine rotor; the air cycle rotor is coupled in fluid flow communication with the secondary flowpath; and the air cycle rotor is coupled in fluid flow communication with at least one heat exchanger.
US11073090B2
Systems and methods for adjusting airflow distortion in a gas turbine engine using a valved airflow passage assembly are provided. A gas turbine engine can include a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in series flow and defining at least in part an engine airflow path. The compressor section can include a compressor. The gas turbine engine can further include a valved airflow passage assembly comprising a valve and a duct, the duct defining an inlet in airflow communication with the engine airflow path at a location downstream of the compressor and an outlet in airflow communication with the engine airflow path at a location upstream of the compressor, the duct comprising an airflow passage extending between the inlet and outlet. The valve can be operable with the airflow passage for controlling an airflow through the airflow passage to adjust airflow distortion.
US11073087B2
A gas turbine engine according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a fan section including a fan rotatable about an engine axis with a plurality of fan blades rotatable about a fan blade axis. A geared architecture is in communication with the fan and driven by a turbine section. The fan rotates at a first speed and the turbine section rotates at a second speed different from the first speed and a fixed area fan nozzle in communication with the fan section.
US11073084B2
The present invention discloses a novel apparatus and methods for providing a flow of cooling air to one or more turbine nozzles or turbine blade outer air seals. The flow of cooling air is provided by an external source and regulated in order to improve turbine nozzle and air seal cooling efficiency and component life.
US11073083B2
An air-inlet duct includes an outer wall, an inner wall, and a splitter. The splitter cooperates with the outer wall to establish a particle separator which separates particles entrained in an inlet flow moving through the air-inlet duct to provide a clean flow of air to a compressor section of a gas turbine engine.
US11073077B2
An electric supercharger includes a housing, a rotary shaft rotatably supported in the housing via a rolling bearing, an impeller, and an electric motor. The electric motor including a cylindrical stator around which a coil is wound. The stator having a stator core and coil ends. The rolling bearing has an inner ring, an outer ring, and a rolling element. The housing has an oil supply portion. The oil supply portion has attached thereto an oil supply member. The oil supply member has a supply passage and an injection hole. The housing has therethrough oil supply holes communicating with the oil supply portion and disposed so as to overlap with the coil ends.
US11073074B1
A work vehicle includes an engine, a compressor used to compress an air toward the engine, a charge air cooler, a sensor, and a control unit. The charge air cooler comprising or coupled to a fan. The fan can rotate in a first direction to remove a heat of the air and to rotate in a second direction reverse to the first direction so as to blow a debris. The control unit is electrically coupled to the engine and to the fan. The control unit predicts whether a temperature of the air exceeds a threshold based on a signal received from the sensor. When the temperature of the air is below the threshold, the fan can rotate in the second direction. When the temperature of the air is equal to or above the threshold, the fan is inhibited from rotating in the second direction.
US11073069B1
A vehicle thermal management system is provided that includes an integrated thermal management (ITM) valve having a coolant outlet flow path that is connected to each of heat exchangers, which include one or more among a coolant inlet connected to an engine coolant outlet of an engine and into which coolant flows, a heater core, an EGR cooler, an oil warmer, and an ATF warmer, and a radiator and through which the coolant is distributed. A water pump is disposed at the front end of an engine coolant inlet of the engine and a coolant branch flow path is branched at the front end of the engine coolant inlet to be connected to any one of the heat exchangers.
US11073059B2
Methods and systems are provided for improving catalyst temperature control while reducing oxygen saturation. Secondary air is injected at a location downstream of the catalyst during selected conditions. A mixing valve position is coordinated with the air injection to improve local turbulence and thereby enhance air and fuel mixing in the exhaust passage, in at least one arrangement.
US11073054B2
Apparatus for collecting and measuring oil drained from a vehicle includes a receptacle and a valve. The receptacle includes a wide upper oil collection portion with an upper receptacle wall configured to collect and contain oil drained from a vehicle, and includes a narrower lower outlet portion having a lower receptacle wall configured to allow the oil to drain from the receptacle via a gravity feed. The receptacle has markings arranged on at least one of the upper receptacle wall or the lower receptacle wall and configured to measure the oil drained and collected from the vehicle. The valve includes an upper valve inlet and coupling portion configured to connect to the narrower lower outlet portion of the receptacle and allow the oil to drain into the valve, includes a valve opening/closing portion configured either to open and allow the oil to drain through the valve or to close and allow oil to collect in the receptacle, and includes a lower valve outlet and coupling portion configured to connect to a tube or oil basin/reservoir to allow the oil to drain from the valve into the tube or oil basin/reservoir.
US11073053B2
A fluid filtration assembly (FFA) includes a housing having a thickness defined between an internal surface and an external surface, the housing receiving a filter and defining an outer annular flow passage between an outer surface of the filter and the internal surface of the housing; an inlet pipe communicates with the FFA and injects a fluid into the housing to impart a centrifugal force; an outlet pipe communicates with the FFA and discharges the fluid from the housing; and a collection area disposed towards an end of the outer annular flow passage collects particulate matter from the fluid; wherein a width of the outer annular flow passage increases towards the collection area.
US11073052B2
A valvetrain for an internal combustion engine has a camshaft rotatable about an axis of rotation, a sliding-block element connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the camshaft and displaceable in the axial direction of the camshaft relative thereto, which sliding-block element has an outer circumferential jacket surface with a shift gate via which a rotational movement of the sliding-block element can be converted into a displacement of the sliding-block element in the axial direction of the camshaft relative thereto, and a shift rod at least partially accommodated in the camshaft and displaceable by the sliding-block element in the axial direction of the camshaft relative thereto and via which shift rod an actuation of a gas exchange valve can be influenced.
US11073049B2
A method of generating syngas as a primary product from renewable feedstock, fossil fuels, or hazardous waste with the use of a cupola. The cupola operates selectably on inductive heat alone, chemically assisted heat, or plasma assisted heat. Additionally, the operation of the cupola is augmented by the use of direct acting carbon or graphite rods that carry electrical current for additional heat generation into the metal bath that is influenced by the inductive element. The method includes the steps of providing a cupola for containing a metal bath; and operating an inductive element to react with the metal bath. Feedstock in the form of a combination of fossil fuel, a hazardous waste, and a hazardous material is supplied to the cupola. A plasma torch operates on the metal bath selectably directly and indirectly. Steam, air, oxygen enriched air, and oxygen are supplied in selectable combinations.
US11073037B2
A blade outer air seal assembly includes a blade outer air seal that has a plurality of segments that extend circumferentially about an axis and are mounted in a support structure via a carrier. At least one of the segments have a first wall circumferentially spaced from a second wall. A base portion extends from the first wall to the second wall. The first and second walls extend at an angle less than 90° from the base portion. The carrier has a flat portion that extends from the first wall to the second wall.
US11073036B2
A gas turbine engine component includes a main body. A cooling passage is within the main body. The cooling passage is defined by a first wall opposite a second wall. The cooling passage has an inlet on the second wall. A protrusion is formed on the first wall arranged across from the inlet.
US11073035B2
A labyrinth seal system having at least two sealing fins arranged axially one behind the other on a rotor of a turbomachine and having a radially facing run-in element for the at least two sealing fins on a stator of the turbomachine, wherein in each case one radial sealing gap exists between the run-in element and the at least two sealing fins, wherein maxima of the radial sealing gaps are arranged offset with respect to one another in a circumferential direction, such that, in the region of the maxima, a passage exists in targeted fashion, for an air flow to the sealing fins that follow downstream, in the event of rubbing against the stator. This may be applied for example in a gas turbine engine.
US11073023B2
Vanes for gas turbine engines are described. The vanes include an airfoil body extending between a first platform and a second platform, the airfoil body having a leading edge, a trailing edge, a pressure side, and a suction side and at least one skin core cavity comprising a first skin core cavity, wherein the first skin core cavity defines a throughflow passage through the vane between the first platform and the second platform, wherein the at least one skin core cavity is defined between an external hot wall of the vane and an internal cold wall of the vane.
US11073021B2
A mistuned airfoil assembly for a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The mistuned airfoil assembly may comprise a hub and airfoils extending radially from the hub. The airfoils may consist of first airfoils and at least one second airfoil. The first airfoils may be formed from a first titanium alloy and the at least one second airfoil may be formed from a second titanium alloy. The first titanium alloy and the second titanium alloy may have different natural frequencies.
US11073007B2
Methods to perform wellbore strengthening, methods to pulse hydraulic fracture a downhole formation, and wellbore strengthening systems are disclosed. A method to perform wellbore strengthening includes deploying an annular isolation device in a wellbore of a well. The method also includes pumping a fluid carrying a loss circulation material through a conveyance into a zone of an annular region of a wellbore. The method further includes activating the annular isolation device to reduce fluid flow in the zone. The method further includes generating a hydraulic pulse to form one or more fractures. The method further includes injecting a loss circulation material into the one or more fractures.
US11073006B2
A method for performing a borehole and/or subsurface formation-related action for a subsurface formation of interest includes: receiving a plurality of sets of fracture data for a subsurface rock; generating a discrete fracture network (DFN) for each set of fracture data; and determining a property of each DFN that corresponds to each set of fracture data. The method also includes: mapping the plurality of sets of fracture data to the corresponding property using artificial intelligence (AI) to provide an AI model; inputting a set of fracture data for the subsurface formation of interest into the AI model; outputting a property of the subsurface formation of interest from the AI model; and performing the borehole and/or subsurface formation-related action for the subsurface formation of interest using the property and equipment configured to perform the borehole and/or subsurface formation-related action.
US11072995B2
A valve apparatus that includes a first containment area having a fluid disposed therein at a first fluid pressure and a second containment area disposed below the first containment area having a fluid disposed therein at a selective fluid pressure where the selective fluid pressure can be increased and decreased, the second containment area in fluid communication with the first containment area. The valve apparatus also includes a valve disposed between the fluid in the second containment area at the selective fluid pressure and the fluid in the first containment area at the first fluid pressure. The valve apparatus includes a third containment area disposed below the second containment area having a fluid disposed therein at a third fluid pressure wherein the third fluid pressure is higher than the first fluid pressure, the second containment area in fluid communication with the third containment area. Furthermore, the valve apparatus includes a second valve disposed between the fluid in the third containment area at the third fluid pressure and the fluid in the second containment area at the selective fluid pressure. A method for passing an object through the valve apparatus from a low pressure area to a high pressure system.
US11072986B2
A resettable pressure activated device, comprises an inner wall, a return spring, a resilient element and an axially movable piston arranged around the inner wall. The piston comprises a radially extending piston area in fluid communication with a central bore within the inner wall such that the piston moves in an activation direction when a bore pressure within the central bore exceeds the pressure around the device by a predetermined release pressure.
US11072985B2
Disclosed is an assembly for disconnecting portions of a downhole tubular string, such as a drill stem or drill string, and removing an upper portion of the tubular string from the lower stuck portion in a well. The disconnect assembly includes a connection between joints of two portions of the tubular string. The assembly includes two tubular members and an inner sleeve having two splines each with different angular pitches or teeth counts. The assembly may include a rotary shouldered threaded connection, wherein the two tubular portions are disconnectable at the rotary shouldered threaded connection in the assembly. The assembly may include a sleeve lock, a selective no-go for landing in a profile, and a selectively deployable unlocking and unblocking tool for activating the assembly. The assembly may include connectable cylindrical members other than downhole tubulars.
US11072984B2
A lockdown sleeve and a running tool that may be used to install the lockdown sleeve within a wellhead in a single trip are provided. The lockdown sleeve, may include two pieces that are rotatably coupled together via threads such that the axial length of the lockdown sleeve can be adjusted by rotation of one portion of the lockdown sleeve relative to the other. The running tool may lower the lockdown sleeve into the wellhead, actuate the lockdown sleeve to lock against an inner wall of the high-pressure wellhead housing and subsequently adjust the length of the lockdown sleeve so that the lockdown sleeve is fully landed on the casing hanger and applying any desired pre-load to the connection.
US11072980B2
A constant-velocity joint can have three pieces: a yoke, a first adaptor, and a second adaptor. Grooves on opposite sides of the yoke can receive forks of the adaptors and be perpendicular to one another. The yoke can have a guide surface within each groove so that a matching following surface on the fork of the adaptor can engage the guide surface to guide the movement of the fork within the groove. The adaptors may pivot within the grooves such that surfaces of flanks of the forks remain engaged or provide a consistent amount of surface contact with flanks of the groove throughout the pivot of the forks. Torque can be transferred through the engaged flanks as the joint is used to convert eccentric rotation to concentric rotation.
US11072978B2
An apparatus (1) for restricting the bending of a tubular member underwater comprises a plurality of interlocking modules each formed from a first half shell component (2) circumferentially displaced from a second half-shell component (3), wherein the first half shell component comprises one or more projections (19) extending from a side edge (18) thereof and the second half shell component comprises one or more grooves (21) in a side edge (18) thereof, the projections and grooves being angled to the side edges of the first and second half shell components, the arrangement being such that when assembled together each of the one of more projections of the first half shell component are inter-engaged with a corresponding groove of the second half shell component to secure the two half shells together.
US11072976B2
Example methods and apparatus can be used to reduce noise in motor assemblies, such as those used in architectural coverings. An example apparatus includes a first driver configured to be coupled to and rotated by an output shaft of a motor, a second driver, and a plurality of vibration-absorbers disposed between the first driver and the second driver. The second driver is configured to be coupled to a rotating member to transfer rotational motion from the first driver to the rotating member via the vibration-absorbers.
US11072972B2
An apparatus includes a transfer ball, a rod, a first bracket, a second bracket, a lock nut, an elastic element, and a threaded collar. The rod is coupled to the transfer ball and extends vertically from the transfer ball. The second bracket is positioned above the first bracket. The rod extends vertically through the first bracket and the second bracket. The lock nut engages to the rod and is positioned above the first bracket and below the second bracket. The elastic element is positioned above the lock nut and below the second bracket. The rod extends vertically through the elastic element. The threaded collar is positioned above the elastic element and below the second bracket. The threaded collar is engaged to the rod. The rod extends through the threaded collar.
US11072950B2
A closure latch assembly for a motor vehicle closure system includes a power release mechanism and an inside handle release mechanism mechanically connected to an inside door handle. The power release mechanism is used to shift the inside handle release mechanism from a normally Disengaged operating state to an Engaged operating state. In the Disengaged state, the inside handle release mechanism is uncoupled from the latch release chain of components to prevent latch release via actuation of the inside door handle. In the Engaged state, the inside handle release mechanism is coupled for the latch release chain of components to permit latch release via actuation of the inside door handle. The power release mechanism only shifts the inside release mechanism from its Disengaged state into its Engaged state in the event of an emergency condition.
US11072945B2
An intelligent door lock system coupled to a door at a dwelling. a door status device is at the dwelling. The door status device is coupled to a drive shaft of a lock device to assist in locking and unlocking a lock of a lock device at the door. The lock device is coupled to the door status device and includes a bolt. An engine, an energy source and a memory are coupled together. A camera is coupled to or part of the intelligent door lock system. The camera is configured to record in response to door lock status.
US11072942B2
A novel canopy frame hub, or bracket, that features insert openings on all four sides to receive attachment pegs of outdoor accessories, such as flags, banners, awnings, racks, garbage bags, drink holders, tables, shelves, gutters, and tents. The frame hub encompass a leg of a traditional canopy frame and may be adjusted vertically to a desired height by sliding the bracket along the frame leg. The hub may then be fixated at the desired height via the twisting of a fixed screw inserted through an opening in one side of the hub.
US11072936B2
A portable device designed specifically to heat the water in a kiddie pool includes multiple safety features for use among children and pets. This device will allow for comfortable play in the kiddie pool during all hours of the day, even in the absence of sunlight. This device will allow for pools to be set up in the shade and still heated to a comfortable temperature. A standard 120-volt power outlet powers the device. Primary components include a double insulated reservoir, a self-priming pump, heating element, inflow and outflow hoses, and multiple safety features. It is lightweight, portable and specifically designed for use in kiddie pools.
US11072934B2
A wind turbine foundation comprising a concrete support slab having a horizontal rebar grid therein, a concrete pedestal integral with the support slab and having vertical post tensioning elements therein and a plurality of concrete ribs on top of and integral with the support slab and integral with the pedestal, the ribs having rebar therein and extend outwardly from the pedestal, the pedestal, slab and ribs are connected to each other to form a monolithic foundation. The foundation design reduces the weight and volume of materials used, reduces cost, and improves heat dissipation conditions during construction by having a small ratio of concrete mass to surface area thus eliminating the risk of thermal cracking due to heat of hydration.
US11072920B2
A flush toilet of the present invention includes a bowl portion for receiving waste and a discharge trap conduit connected to a lower portion of the bowl portion and extending to a discharge opening. The discharge trap conduit includes an ascending conduit ascending rearward from the lower portion of the bowl portion and a descending conduit descending from a downstream end of the ascending conduit to the discharge opening. The descending conduit includes a bottom surface on a rear side of the discharge opening, and a ceiling sloping surface, an upper end of the ceiling sloping surface being formed integrally with a bottom surface of a top portion of the ascending conduit, the ceiling sloping surface being formed on a front side of the discharge trap passage, and the ceiling sloping surface being inclined downward and forward from the upper end to a lower end of the discharge trap passage.
US11072918B2
Toilet flappers having an adjustable length cord are disclosed. For example, a toilet flapper may include a frame with a guide structure. A float is connected to a bottom surface of the frame. A cap is connected to a top surface of the frame. A retractable cord reel is housed between the cap and the frame. During installation of the toilet flapper, a user can grab a hook attached to the end of the cord and pull enough of the cord out of the retractable cord reel and through the guide structure so that the user can attach the hook to, for example, a flush lever. In some embodiments, the toilet flapper includes a locking mechanism that impedes the cord from retracting back into retractable cord reel or from being pulled out of retractable cord reel by the user.
US11072914B2
Disclosed herein is a faucet comprising a faucet housing configured as a tubular member with a cavity and a faucet body that includes a head and a conduit. A water inlet end of the head is connected to the conduit. A first support is received in the cavity and located in a water outlet end of the faucet housing. The head is freely received in the first support and a purified water pipe is embedded detachably into the first support. A mounting seat is configured to function as a water distributor and is detachably engaged with the faucet housing. A valve cartridge is received in the mounting seat and configured to control the shut off of the conduit and the purified water pipe, and to separate the flow path of the tap-water and the flow path the purified water.
US11072909B2
To provide a cab coming-off prevention structure of a working machine capable of preventing a coming-off prevention device from falling off. One end side of a stopper shaft portion 51 of a coming-off prevention device 16 is inserted through a through-hole 37a. The other end side of the stopper shaft portion 51 is inserted through an insertion hole 23b. A stopper main body portion 52 is provided on the other end of the stopper shaft portion 51. A portion of the key member 53 is fitted into a notched portion 51c provided along a direction crossing an axial direction of one end side the stopper shaft portion 51. The other part of the key member 53 protruding from the stopper shaft portion 51 is fixed to the one of the cab 14 and the revolving frame 23. Even if the key member 53 is disconnected from the cab 14 or the revolving frame 23, the coming-off prevention device 16 can be prevented from falling off, without the stopper shaft portion 51 coming off the through-hole 37a, because a portion of the key member 53 is fitted into the notched portion 51c of the stopper shaft portion 51.
US11072904B2
A cover for a utility vault and a method for making such covers. The cover is formed from fiberglass reinforcement layers and a polymer mix matrix. The reinforcement layers include a bottom reinforcement layer, one or more edge reinforcement layers, and a top reinforcement layer. A first portion of the edge reinforcement layer overlaps a portion of the bottom reinforcement layer and a second portion of the edge reinforcement layer overlaps a portion of the top reinforcement layer. The reinforcement layers are formed from fiberglass fabric and may include fiberglass layers whose fibers are oriented quadraxially. The polymer mix impregnates the fabric layers and forms the bulk of the cover. The polymer matrix bonds the reinforcement layers so that forces applied across the top and bottom layers are communicated to the edge reinforcement layer. The polymer matrix includes a thermoset polymer resin and an expanded glass bead filler.
US11072902B2
A form for constructing a foundation for anchoring a pole vault standard to a support structure adjacent to a landing pad includes a first frame and a first plurality of connectors defining a first connecting pattern for coupling to a corresponding connecting pattern of a base of the first pole vault standard. The form is installable in the support structure and operable for use in fixedly connecting the first base of the pole vault standard to the form. A pair of forms may be employed for constructing a pair of foundations for anchoring a pair of pole vault standards to a support structure adjacent to a landing pad.
US11072898B2
A combined energy dissipation scaffolding structure for preventing falling rock hazards for high and steep side slope during highway construction. The combined energy dissipation scaffolding structure mainly comprises five parts: a top surface impact-resistance system closely jointed with the existing slope surface, a top surface support system composed of 3D stereographic steel frame systems, a scaffolding body structure composed of a cross beam and support steel-pipe posts at both sides, a mountain-side anchorage system for anchoring the top surface impact-resistance system and the scaffolding body structure, and an anchoring-type steel-plate concrete composite foundation, wherein a fixed base is welded with the bottom of the steel-pipe post and is driven in the foundation soils using anchor rods. Compared with the traditional shed tunnel structure, the combined energy dissipation scaffolding structure has the advantage that the construction time is greatly reduced, thereby being beneficial to making road unblocked and improving anti-disaster capability.
US11072896B2
Apparatus for blending and applying plural substances including aggregate onto an environmental substrate is shown and described. The apparatus includes optionally a single power plant, plural pumps each fed by a respective hopper, and a blender blending pumped materials together. Dispensing ratios of the two pumps are mutually adjustable. An onboard air compressor delivers compressed air for atomizing blended materials as they are dispensed with the aggregate. Because materials may be curable or hardenable, flushing is enabled. The apparatus may be a free standing wheeled device.
US11072892B2
A vibratory system for a compactor machine, the vibratory system optionally including a key shaft, an input shaft, a first output shaft and a second output shaft. The key shaft can have a first internal helically splined portion and a second internal helically splined portion. The first internal helically splined portion can be oppositely splined with respect to the second internal helically splined portion and arranged axially of the second internal helically splined portion. The input shaft can be configured with an external helically splined portion configured to be complimentary to the first internal helically splined portion of the key shaft. The first output shaft can be configured couple to the input shaft for rotation therewith. The second output shaft can have an external helically splined portion configured to be complimentary to the second internal helically splined portion of the key shaft.
US11072889B2
A covering is particularly suited for use in a machine for producing and/or finishing a paper, cardboard, tissue or pulp web. The covering has a basic structure formed as a part of a flat woven material, which flat woven material is designed as a woven material by interlacing warp threads and weft threads. The portion of the flat woven material has a plurality of sections that are formed integrally with each other, with at least one property of one of the sections differing from the respective property of at least one adjacent section.
US11072877B2
An automatic transferring washer and dryer combination appliance includes a washing unit and drying unit that are coupled to a housing and are positioned in an upper portion and a lower portion of the housing, respectively. A chute extends between the washing unit and the drying unit. A first orifice and a second orifice are positioned in a tub of the washing unit and a drum of the drying unit, respectively. A plurality of first doors and a plurality of second doors, which are coupled to the tub and to the drum, respectively, are positioned to selectively close the first orifice the second orifice, respectively. The first doors and the second doors are positioned to be selectively opened so that the first orifice and the second orifice align with the chute so that the chute is configured for gravitational transfer of washed articles from the tub to the drum.
US11072876B2
A stitch distribution control system for a tufting machine for controlling placement of yarns being fed to the needles of the tufting machine by yarn feed mechanisms to form a desired pattern. A backing material is fed through the tufting machine at an increased stitch rate as the needles are shifted according to calculated pattern steps. A series of loopers or hooks engage and pick loops of yarns from the needles. The yarn feed mechanisms further can be controlled so that selected loops of yarns can be back-robbed so as to be hidden from view in the finished patterned tufted article.
US11072871B2
A preparation apparatus for uniform silicon carbide crystals comprises a circular cylinder, a doping tablet, and a plate to stabilize and control the supply of dopants. The accessory does not participate in the reaction in the growth chamber but maintains its efficacy during growth. Finally, a single semi-insulating silicon carbide crystal with uniform electrical characteristics can be obtained.
US11072866B2
An electroplated article includes a base member that includes one or more base member-metallic elements; and an electroplated layer that is formed directly on the base member. The electroplated layer includes at least a first electroplated layer-metallic element and a second electroplated layer-metallic element that is different from the first electroplated layer-metallic element. The second electroplated layer-metallic element is a metallic element that is identical to at least one of the one or more base member-metallic elements. A ratio of the second electroplated layer-metallic element in the electroplated layer is continuously decreased as being away from the base member in the thickness direction of the electroplated layer. Alloy grains including at least the first and second electroplated layer-metallic elements are distributed in the electroplated layer such that a clear interface is not formed between the base member and the electroplated layer.
US11072861B2
Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet and method for producing grain-oriented electrical steel sheet
A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a steel sheet and an insulation coating, in which the insulation coating contains a first metal phosphate, which is a metal phosphate of one or two more metals selected from Al, Fe, Mg, Mn, Ni, and Zn; a second metal phosphate, which is a metal phosphate of one or two more metals selected from Co, Mo, V, W, and Zr; and colloidal silica, the insulation coating does not contain chromate, and an elution amount of phosphoric acid of the insulation coating as determined by boiling the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet in a boiled pure water for 10 minutes, then measuring an elution amount of phosphoric acid into the pure water, and dividing the amount of phosphoric acid by the area of the insulation coating of the boiled grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is 30 mg/m2 or less.
US11072860B2
Methods and apparatus for use of a fill on demand ampoule are disclosed. The fill on demand ampoule may refill an ampoule with precursor concurrent with the performance of other deposition processes. The fill on demand may keep the level of precursor within the ampoule at a relatively constant level. The level may be calculated to result in an optimum head volume. The fill on demand may also keep the precursor at a temperature near that of an optimum precursor temperature. The fill on demand may occur during parts of the deposition process where the agitation of the precursor due to the filling of the ampoule with the precursor minimally effects the substrate deposition. Substrate throughput may be increased through the use of fill on demand.
US11072855B2
Method for fabricating a crystalline vanadium oxide (VO2) film comprising the steps of: a) depositing an amorphous VO2 film on a substrate by pulsed DC magnetron sputtering using a vanadium target, wherein the substrate is exposed to a sputtering gas comprising an inert process gas and oxygen (O2), and the substrate has a temperature of less than about 50° C.; and b) annealing the deposited amorphous VO2 film to crystallise the amorphous VO2 film into a crystalline VO2 film that exhibits an insulator-metal transition. The disclosed method for fabricating a crystalline VO2 film may be suitable for a broad range of substrates.
US11072845B2
A hot dip metal plating bath roll preventing flaws in a steel sheet due to a bath roll, realizing stable running at a high speed, and improving the productivity of a plated steel sheet, which hot dip metal plating bath roll having vertical grooves each formed on an outer circumferential surface of the roll and including two first curved parts projecting to the outside of the roll and at least one second curved part arranged between the two first curved part and projecting to the inside of the roll and horizontal grooves each formed on an outer circumferential surface of the roll along a barrel length direction of the roll, a pitch P1 (mm) and depth d1 (mm) of the vertical grooves satisfying 1.0≤P1≤10, 0.2≤d1≤5, and d1≤P1/2, a depth d2 (mm) being 60% to 150% of the depth d1 of the vertical grooves, and a width w2 (mm) of the horizontal grooves being 2 times or more of the depth d2 or 2 times or more of a radius of curvature (mm) of curved surfaces forming bottom parts of the horizontal grooves and 0.7 times or less of a pitch P2 (mm), the pitch P2 (mm) of the horizontal grooves being 1.0≤P2≤10.
US11072829B2
The present invention relates to the technical field of organ and tissue transplantation and specifically to methods allowing rejection of transplanted organs and tissues by a transplant patient. The present invention provides methods for non-invasive and ex vivo or in vitro detection of the presence or absence of transplant rejection, i.e. transplant health or rejection. The present methods allow for effective and continuous monitoring of transplant status with a minimal or absent discomfort for a transplant patent.
US11072797B1
Provided herein are compositions and methods for producing milk proteins in plants, which allow for safe, sustainable and humane production of milk proteins for commercial use, such as use in food compositions. The disclosure provides recombinant fusion proteins comprising a milk protein, or fragment thereof and a structured mammalian, avian, plant, or fungal protein, or fragment thereof. The disclosure also provides methods for producing the recombinant fusions proteins, and food compositions comprising the same.
US11072795B2
The present invention relates to antisense oligonucleotides for modulating the activity of glycine decarboxylase (GLDC). In particular, the present invention relates to antisense oligonucleotides capable of inducing exon skipping of RNA. Also claimed are pharmaceutical compositions, kits and methods of treating cancer and inducing exon-skipping using said antisense oligonucleotides. In addition, a method for aiding the categorising or determining prognosis of a cancer or in selecting a therapeutic strategy for a patient with cancer, based on assessing the level of GLDC nucleic acid, protein or activity in a sample derived from the patient is provided.
US11072787B2
The present invention provides histidyl-tRNA synthetase and Fc region conjugate polypeptides (HRS-Fc conjugates), such as HRS-Fc fusion polypeptides, compositions comprising the same, and methods of using such conjugates and compositions for treating or diagnosing a variety of conditions. The HRS-Fc conjugates of the invention have improved controlled release properties, stability, half-life, and other pharmacokinetic and biological properties relative to corresponding, unmodified HRS polypeptides.
US11072782B2
Herein described is a construct for epigenomic modification of genes composed of: (a) a Krüppel-associated box zinc finger protein or homologous, (b) a DNA region capable of binding to the target gene or homologous, (c) a human DNA methyltransferase DNMT3A or homologous and (d) a murine DNA methyltransferase Dnmt3L or homologous, wherein components a), b), c) and d) are linked to each other either directly or via at least one linker. The construct is a designer epigenome modifier that can be used to silence genes coding for a protein in leukocytes that avoids the internalization of HI viruses in immune cells.
US11072779B2
The invention relates to a new method for in vitro expansion of CD4+CD25HighCD127−/LOWfoxP3+Tregs, wherein the process of Treg expansion takes place permanently or temporarily at a temperature below 37° C., optimally at a temperature of 33° C., the isolated Tregs are expanded in SCGM or X-vivo-20 medium supplemented with human serum or with foetal bovine serum, and magnetic beads coated with anti-CD3 and anti-CD28 antibodies at 1:1 (cell:bead) ratio and interleukin-2 are added to the culture.
US11072777B2
Methods for ex vivo expansion of very small embryonic like stem cells in the absence of feeder cells are provided. In some embodiments the methods include providing a plurality of VSELs; and growing the VSELs in a culture medium that includes a histone deacetylase inhibitor, luteinizing hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone, and optionally transforming growth factor beta in an amount that is sufficient to overcome quiescence of the VSELs. Also provided are feeder cell-free cell cultures, ex vivo expanded VSELs, pharmaceutical compositions that include the disclosed ex vivo expanded VSELs, methods for overcoming quiescence in VSELs, methods for re-establishing imprinting in VSELs, method for treating injuries to tissues in subjects, methods for repopulating cell types in subjects, methods for bone marrow transplantation, methods for treating radiation exposure in subjects, and methods that relate to regenerative medicine.
US11072774B2
The present disclosure provides instruments, modules and methods for improved detection of edited cells following nucleic acid-guided nuclease genome editing. The disclosure provides improved automated instruments that perform methods—including high throughput methods—for screening cells that have been subjected to editing and identifying cells that have been properly edited.
US11072764B2
A liquid detergent composition, preferably a liquid manual dishwashing detergent composition, comprising one or more hydroperoxy fatty acid producing enzymes selected from the group consisting of: arachidonate lipoxygenases, alpha-dioxygenases, and mixtures thereof, preferably alpha-dioxygenases, a surfactant system and a liquid carrier (i.e., water). Methods of washing comprising the liquid detergent composition are also provided.
US11072752B1
A paraffin control unit with staged high voltage temperature controlled electric immersion heaters to maintain the paraffin component of the crude oil in the liquid phase. The paraffin control unit removes large volumes of naturally occurring fine sand from the incoming liquids while also removing the crude oil from the influent fluid stream, the natural gas from the influent fluid stream, salt water from the influent fluid stream, all while maintaining the temperature of the crude oil fraction above the cloud point of its paraffin constituent. The removed sand is collected in sand pans and is automatically removed at timed intervals. The automation assures that the accumulating sand is removed from the sand pans as rapidly as it accumulates, thus preventing an over-accumulation of sand. The process fluids flow through a coalescer and a baffle assembly which purify and separate the component phases suitable for custody transfer.
US11072751B1
An integrated process is provided herein having a first reaction zone to lower sulfur and nitrogen content of the initial feedstock to a target level to facilitate processing in a second reaction zone for deep hydrogenation. With the very low heteroatom content, noble metal catalyst materials used in the second reaction zone are protected and maximum saturation of aromatics is achieved. The processes and systems herein are suitable for converting certain heavy fractions, typically considered “low value” feedstocks, into higher value products including gasoline and diesel, and a hydrogen-rich, aromatic-lean heavy fraction suitable as feed for olefin production processes, or as a lubricant base oil.
US11072750B2
The present invention relates to a process for upgrading refinery heavy residues to petrochemicals, comprising the following steps of: (a) separating a hydrocarbon feedstock in a distillation unit into a to overhead stream and a bottom stream (b) feeding said bottom stream to a hydrocracking reaction area (c) separating reaction products, which are generated from said reaction area of step (b) into a stream rich in mono-aromatics and in a stream rich in poly-aromatics (d) feeding said stream rich in mono-aromatics to a gasoline hydrocracker (GHC) unit, (e) feeding said stream rich in poly-aromatics to a ring opening reaction area.
US11072748B2
Improved catalytic reforming processes and systems employ reforming reactors in a more efficient manner and can avoid problems associated with yield loss. Aromatics and isoparaffins are separated prior to passing to a reforming unit. An integrated process for producing gasoline blending components includes: separating a naphtha feedstream into an aromatic-rich stream and an aromatic-lean stream; separating the aromatic-lean stream into an isoparaffin-rich stream and an isoparaffin-lean stream; and catalytically reforming the isoparaffin-lean stream to produce a reformate stream.
US11072743B1
An alumina-silica hydrate fiber for thermal protection in the most hazardous environments experienced by firefighters. The fiber has a combination of heat resistance at temperatures above 1,000° C. and an endothermic behavior when heated. Its endothermic condensation reaction releases up to 12% water upon heating, thereby contributing to the thermal insulating properties. The fibers are extremely soft to the touch and do not irritate the skin. They are also non-respirable in the deep lung, so they can be used safely without risk of inhalation. The fabric is sufficiently lightweight and flexible as well, allowing firefighters to move easily. These properties of alumina-silica hydrate fibers enable their use for apparel.
US11072739B2
Systems and methods include using a fracture fluid downhole for fracturing a formation. The method includes providing an aqueous solution comprising dissolved solids at a certain ionic strength, and adding a proppant to create a fracture fluid. The method continues by adding a polymeric additive and a surfactant to the fracture fluid, wherein the polymeric additive comprises friction reducing capabilities that can be decreased by the ionic strength present in the fracture fluid (i.e., ionic strength originally found in the water). The addition of the polymeric additive and the surfactant to the fracture fluid creates an enhanced fracture fluid, wherein the surfactant increases the performance of the friction reducing capabilities of the polymeric additive in the enhanced fracture fluid, which provides a more efficient fracturing operation. The method concludes by pumping the enhanced fracture fluid downhole for a more efficient fracture of the formation.
US11072736B2
Invert emulsion drilling fluids having a combination of fatty acids derived from waste vegetable oil (WVO) and a fatty amine as a rheology modifier are provided. An invert emulsion drilling fluid may include a water in oil emulsion, an invert emulsifier, a fatty amine having six to thirty carbon atoms, and a fatty acid having six to eighteen carbon atoms. The fatty acid is provided by esterifying a waste vegetable oil to produce a methyl ester of the waste vegetable oil and cleaving an ester group from the methyl ester of the waste vegetable oil. The invert emulsion drilling fluid may be formulated free of organoclay. Methods of drilling a wellbore using an invert emulsion drilling fluid are also provided.
US11072730B2
A composition having excellent adhesiveness to poorly adhesive materials such as polyolefins is provided. The solution is a composition comprising the following (1) to (2): (1) (meth)acrylates containing the following (1-1) to (1-3): (1-1) a (meth)acrylate having a hydroxyl group, (1-2) an alkyl (meth)acrylate, and (1-3) a (meth)acrylate having a cyclic ether skeleton, and (2) an organoboron compound. The content ratio of (1-1), (1-2), and (1-3) is (1-1):(1-2):(1-3)=(10 to 90):(5 to 80):(5 to 80) in mass ratio in 100 parts by mass of (1) (meth)acrylates.
US11072720B2
The present invention provides an aqueous ink of active energy ray curable type for ink jet. The aqueous ink contains resin particles and a photo acid generator. The resin particles include a reactive group-containing resin having at least one reactive group selected from the group consisting of an epoxy group, an oxetanyl group and a vinyl ether group. Further provided are an ink cartridge and an ink jet recording method in which the aqueous ink is used.
US11072714B2
The present disclosure provides a nanotube solution being treated with a molecular additive, a nanotube film having enhanced adhesion property due to the treatment of the molecular additive, and methods for forming the nanotube solution and the nanotube film. The nanotube solution includes a liquid medium, nanotubes in the liquid medium, and a molecular additive in the liquid medium, wherein the molecular additive includes molecules that provide source elements for forming a group IV oxide within the nanotube solution. The molecular additive can introduce silicon (Si) and/or germanium (Ge) in the liquid medium, such that nominal silicon and/or germanium concentrations of the nanotube solution ranges from about 5 ppm to about 60 ppm.
US11072711B2
The invention is directed to electrically conductive particles comprising a metallic core, a dielectric layer encapsulating said metallic core, and a silver containing outer-layer, wherein said metallic core comprises or consists of elemental metal selected from the group consisting of aluminum, copper, iron, nickel, zinc, and alloys, and mixtures thereof, said dielectric layer comprises at least one metal oxide selected from the group consisting of the group consisting of silicon oxide, aluminum oxide, titanium oxide, zirconium oxide, tin oxide, organic polymer, and mixtures thereof, wherein said silver containing layer is a continuous and opaque layer, wherein a silver ion coordinating layer is arranged between said dielectric layer and said silver containing layer and, optionally a further outer surface modification layer in amount of 0 to 3 wt.-%, based on the total weight of the electrically conductive particles. The invention is also directed to a composition and an article comprising the electrically conductive particles as well as to a method for producing said electrically conductive particles.
US11072710B2
The present invention provides a surface-treated silica filler for suppressing an increase in viscosity when added to a resin composition used for applications such as a semiconductor sealing material, and the resin composition containing the surface-treated silica filler. The surface-treated silica filler of the present invention is surface-treated with a basic substance having an acid dissociation constant (pKa) of its conjugate acid of 9.4 or more.
US11072709B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for removing geniposide or genipin or both from a material containing geniposide or genipin or both. The present invention is a method for removing geniposide or genipin or both from a material containing geniposide or genipin or both, the method comprising treating the material containing geniposide or genipin or both using an activated carbon having (a) a methylene blue adsorption ability of 50 ml/g or more; and (b) an iodine adsorption ability of 750 mg/g or more, thereby removing geniposide or genipin or both.
US11072706B2
A thermal interface material that is useful in transferring heat from heat generating electronic devices, such as computer chips, to heat dissipating structures, such as heat spreaders and heat sinks. The thermal interface material comprises at least one silicone oil, at least one catalyst, at least one thermally conductive filler having a larger surface area, a solvent, at least one inhibitor, and at least one crosslinker. The at least one thermally conductive filler reduces the oil leakage of the TIM, and the solvent increases the flow rate of the TIM without negating the reduction of oil leakage realized by the thermally conductive fillers.
US11072684B2
Described as one aspect of the invention are polyester compositions comprising at least one polyester which comprises: (a) a dicarboxylic acid component comprising: (i) about 90 to about 100 mole % of terephthalic acid residues; (ii) about 0 to about 10 mole % of aromatic and/or aliphatic dicarboxylic acid residues having up to 20 carbon atoms; and (b) a glycol component comprising: (i) about 30 to about 42 mole % 2,2,4,4-tetramethyl-1,3-cyclobutanediol residues; and (ii) about 58 to about 70 mole % ethylene glycol residues; wherein the total mole % of the dicarboxylic acid component is 100 mole %, and wherein the total mole % of the glycol component is 100 mole %; wherein the inherent viscosity of the polyester is from 0.50 to 0.70 dL/g as determined in 60/40 (wt/wt) phenol/tetrachloroethane at a concentration of 0.25 g/50 ml at 25° C.; and wherein the L* color values for the polyester is 90 or greater. The polyesters may be manufactured into articles.
US11072683B2
The invention relates to polyesters containing: A) an acid component composed of: a1) 25 to 100 mol % of 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid or its esters or mixtures thereof a2) 0 to 75 mol % of an aliphatic C4-C36-dicarboxylic acid or its esters or mixtures thereof and a3) 1 to 10 mol % of a sulfonate-containing compound, wherein the mol percentages of the components a1) to a3) sum to 100, and B) a diol component composed of: b1) 98 to 100 mol % based on the components a1) to a3) of component A of a C2- to C12-alkanediol or mixtures thereof and b2) 0 to 2 mol % based on the components a1) to a3) of a branching agent comprising at least 3 functional groups; and optionally further components. The invention further relates to the production of the polyesters and the use thereof and to aqueous dispersions and polyester mixtures comprising these polyesters.
US11072680B2
There is provided an oligomeric polyol composition having (a) an oligomeric network containing residues of at least one polyhydroxylated aromatic compound and residues of at least one polyol having at least three hydroxyl groups; and (b) a plurality of peripheral groups having one or more pendant hydroxyl groups bound to the oligomeric network by a plurality of linking units. The residues of the polyol may optionally contain one or more oxygen ether groups, one or more amino ether groups, or both of one or more oxygen ether groups and one or more amino ether groups. Reaction of the oligomeric polyols with isocyanate monomers affords a new class of polyurethanes having superior heat and water resistance. The new polyurethanes exhibit lower peak exotherms, typically less than 250° F. during in-mold polymerization. Articles prepared from polyurethanes incorporating such oligomeric polyol compositions exhibit flexural strengths and moduli in excess of 10,000 psi and 400,000 psi respectively, and outstanding green strength.
US11072671B2
Described herein is a process for making PTFE having a standard specific gravity of less than 2.160 g/cm3 comprising: polymerizing a tetrafluoroethylene monomer in an aqueous medium comprising an emulsifier and an initiator in a reaction vessel and contacting the aqueous medium with a fluorinated polyether. Also described herein are the polymerizable compositions and articles thereof.
US11072670B2
A catalyst composition and a method for preparing an olefin polymer by using the same are provided herein. In some embodiments, a catalyst composition includes a transition metal compound having a compound (A) represented by Chemical Formula 1 and a compound (B) represented by Chemical Formula 2 present in a molar ratio of 1.6:1 to 18. The catalyst composition has high activity in an olefin polymerization reaction and can contribute to a reduction of catalyst cost. The catalyst composition aides in high copolymerizability of olefin monomers, and the produced olefin polymers can exhibit excellent processability and long-term physical properties, suitable for a pipe.
US11072669B2
A process to form an ethylene-based polymer in a reactor system, said process comprising at least the following steps: a) injecting a first initiator mixture into the tubular reactor at location L along the reactor, b) injecting a compressed make-up CTA system at the location L1, at a distance (L−L1) from 145*Dprehehater to 1000*Dpreheater, upstream from L, and wherein Dpreheater=the inner diameter of the pre-heater in meter (m); and wherein L1 is located in the preheater, and c) optionally, injecting one or more additional compressed make-up CTA system(s) into the preheater, at one or more location: LiLi+1, Ln (2≤i and 2≤n), upstream from L1, and each location is, independently, at a distance from 145*Dprehehater to 1000*Dpreheater, and wherein n equals the total number of injection locations of the make-up CTA system(s) injected into the preheater, upstream from L1, and wherein (L−L1) is less than each (L−Li), (L−Li+1), (L−Ln); and d) polymerizing a reaction mixture comprising at least ethylene, the first initiator mixture, and the compressed make-up CTA system of step b), and wherein the process has a log coefficient of variation (log(CoV1)), at L1, that meets the relationships described herein.
US11072657B2
This disclosure provides a method for treating a subject afflicted with a lung cancer, which method comprises administering to the subject therapeutically effective amounts of: (a) an antibody or an antigen-binding portion thereof that specifically binds to a Programmed Death-1 (PD-1) receptor and inhibits PD-1 activity; and (b) an antibody or an antigen-binding portion thereof that specifically binds to a Cytotoxic T-Lymphocyte Antigen-4 (CTLA-4) and inhibits CTLA-4 activity.
US11072654B2
Antibodies that are capable of specifically binding and preventing the activation of TREM-1, a protein expressed on monocytes, macrophages and neutrophils with both good affinity and low viscosity at clinically relevant concentrations are described. Such antibodies find utility in the treatment of individuals with an inflammatory disease, such as rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease.
US11072653B2
The present invention is directed to the anti-LAG-3 antibodies, LAG-3 mAb 1, LAG-3 mAb 2, LAG-3 mAb 4, LAG-3 mAb 5, and LAG-3 mAb 6, and to humanized and chimeric versions of such antibodies. The invention additionally pertains to LAG-3-binding molecules that comprise LAG-3 binding fragments of such anti-LAG-3 antibodies, immunocongugates, and to bispecific molecules, including diabodies, BiTEs, bispecific antibodies, etc., that comprise (i) such LAG-3-binding fragments, and (ii) a domain capable of binding an epitope of a molecule involved in regulating an immune check point present on the surface of an immune cells. The present invention also pertains to methods of detecting LAG-3, as well as methods of using molecules that bind LAG-3 for stimulating immune responses.
US11072633B2
The present invention provides a compound having the structure: for use in combination with an anti-tuberculosis drug for treating a subject infected with M. tuberculosis.
US11072631B2
The present invention relates to methods and novel intermediates useful in the preparation of a compound of formula (A) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, comprising converting the aldehyde of a compound of formula (B) with a reducing agent to prepare a compound of formula (C) and converting the compound of formula (C) with a sulfating reagent to prepare a compound of formula (A). An objective of the present invention is to provide methods of preparing bile acid derivatives and novel intermediates. A use of the methods and intermediates described relates to the synthesis of bile acid derivatives which activate both FXR and TGR5.
US11072629B2
Disclosed are membrane-anchored polynucleotides, and compositions comprising the membrane-anchored polynucleotides. Also disclosed are the processes for the synthesis of these compounds, compositions comprising such compounds, and the use of such compounds and compositions in research and therapeutic applications.
US11072628B2
The present invention relates to novel nucleoside analogues and compositions containing said nucleoside analogues. Moreover, the present invention provides processes for the preparation of the disclosed compounds, as well as methods of using them, for instance as a medicine, in particular for the diagnosis, prevention and/or treatment of parasitic infections, more specifically for use in the diagnosis, prevention and/or treatment of a Trypanosoma infection.
US11072615B2
The present invention provides crystalline forms, solvates and hydrates of 4-amino-2-butoxy-8-(3-(pyrrolidin-1-ylmethyl)benzyl)-7,8-dihydropteridin-6(5H)-one, and methods of making.
US11072612B2
This disclosure features compounds of Formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: in which R1, R2, R3, and R4 are as defined herein. These compounds are modulators of NLRP3, which are useful, e.g., for treating a condition, disease or disorder in which a decrease in NLRP3 activity (e.g., a condition, disease or disorder associated with repressed or impaired NLRP3 signaling) contributes to the pathology and/or symptoms and/or progression of the condition, disease or disorder (e.g., cancer) in a subject (e.g., a human). This disclosure also features compositions as well as other methods of using and making the same.
US11072609B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing halogenated imidazopyridine derivatives of the formula (II) proceeding from compounds of the formula (I) via intermediates of the formula (IVa) or (IVb) in which the radicals Q, Z, R1, R3, R4, Rc, A1 and A2 have the definitions stated. The invention further relates to such halogenated imidazopyridine derivatives, and also intermediates and the reaction products of compounds of the formula (II) to give compounds of the formula (III) in which the specified structural elements have the definitions stated.
US11072608B2
Compounds of formula I(I), wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, and the agrochemically acceptable salts, stereoisomers, enantiomers, tautomers and N-oxides of those compounds, can be used as insecticides and can be prepared in a manner known per se.
US11072601B2
Disclosed are a class of μ-opioid receptor agonists and a preparation method therefor and the use thereof in the field of medicine, belonging to the field of medicinal chemistry. The μ-opioid receptor agonists significantly increase the selectivity for a G protein signaling pathway, and not only can exhibit excellent pharmacodynamic effects, but also significantly improve safety.
US11072596B2
Disclosed are a compound as shown in general formula I, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, an isomer or a mixture thereof, and a solvate, a polymorph, a stable isotope derivative or a prodrug thereof. The compound of the present disclosure has comparatively strong PARP inhibitory activity and can be used for treating diseases associated with PARP, such as cancers and inflammatory diseases.
US11072595B2
This invention is benzothiophene-based estrogen receptor downregulators and their compositions and uses to treat estrogen-related medical disorders.
US11072591B2
The invention relates to a compound of Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and their use in therapy, for example in the treatment of mycobacterial infections or in the treatment of diseases caused by Mycobacterium, such as tuberculosis.
US11072579B2
The present invention relates to a method of treating cataplexy in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of certain carbamate compounds.
US11072577B2
The present invention describes a new crystalline form of triethylenetetramine tetrachloride which has improved room temperature stability over known forms and over the dichloride salt. The new crystalline form is characterised by having peaks in an XRPD spectrum at 22.9, 25.4, 25.8, 26.6, 34.6 and 35.3±0.1°2θ and Raman shifts 943, 1173, 1527 and 1612±5 cm−1. The crystalline form of triethylenetetramine tetrachloride is useful in the treatment of Wilson's disease.
US11072572B2
This invention relates to a process for preparing a calixarene compound by reacting a phenolic compound and an aldehyde in the presence of at least one nitrogen-containing base as a catalyst to form the calixarene compound. The invention also relates to processes for high-yield, high solid-content production of a calixarene compound, with high selectivity toward a high-purity calix[8]arene compound, without carrying out a recrystallization step.
US11072565B2
According to a method set forth herein a plurality of preform plies having first and second preform plies can be associated together to define a preform. The preform can be subject to chemical vapor infiltration (CVI) processing to define a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) structure.
US11072563B2
A fused grain having the following chemical composition in percent by weight in relation to the oxides: ZrO2: 16% to 30%, provided that HfO2<2%, Al2O3: percentage needed to bring the total to 100%, Cr2O3: ≥0.2%, TiO2: ≥0.5%, Cr2O3+TiO2: <7%, other elements: <3%, provided that SiO2+CaO+MgO<1.5%.
US11072561B2
A composition includes: an ethoxylated fatty alcohol having from 8 to 22 carbon atoms and having an ethoxylation level of from 1 to 10 moles of ethylene oxide per mole of fatty alcohol, —an alkanolamine or a morpholine, or its derivatives or mix of them, and a fatty acid. A hydraulic binder includes the composition. A process prevents the formation of a surface film at the surface of hydraulic binders, wherein the composition is added to the dry hydraulic binder. A process for preparing the composition, includes: melting the ethoxylated fatty alcohol and heating it at a temperature above its melting point, adding water to the melted ethoxylated fatty alcohol and mixing, adding fatty acid to the mixture and mixing, adding alkanolamine or morpholine, or its derivative or mix of them to the mixture obtained and mixing, and adding water.
US11072560B2
A method of preparing an optical preform, comprises the steps of: positioning an optical preform comprising silica within a cavity of a furnace; passing an etchant gas into the furnace and at least one of through an open channel defined in the optical preform and around the optical preform; and passing a neutralizing gas into the cavity of the furnace, the neutralizing gas configured to neutralize the etchant gas.
US11072552B2
The “sludge dehydrator” equipment is a machine that permits to remove low turbidity water from sludge or watery pastes of industrial or mining origin, with the following objectives: To optimize ore recovery processes such as flotation by means of an increase of the sludge density; To thicken sludge or watery pastes for optimizing the filtering and drying processes, as well as to dispose of mining tailings; To concentrate and dispose of solids in suspension and to recover and recycle clean or clarified water. The “sludge dehydrator” equipment has been designed on the basis of a rectangular tank provided with the necessary infrastructure for containing inside a series of suction plates being connected to a vacuum system, through which the process of solid-liquid separation is carried out and, on the other hand, to contain the cleaning mechanism—the cleaning car—with its motor system made up by pneumatic or hydraulic components required to clean suction plates the filtering medium and to keep them permanently operative. In accordance with the “sludge dehydrator” feeding and the design of the lower or bottom cone of the rectangular tank will benefit to be derived from the industrial and mining operation.
US11072550B2
A membrane separation process is described. The process comprises pumping of a fluid stream through a membrane module to produce a permeate during a plurality of membrane operating cycles. Each membrane operating cycle comprises a filtration cycle and a relaxation cycle. Concentration polarisation is controlled during the process by controlling duration of filtration cycles and relaxation cycles to relatively short duration to maintain the degree of concentration polarisation below a target.
US11072548B2
Disclosed herein is a composition that includes Lactobacillus plantarum LP28, Pediococcus pentosaceus PP4012, and Lactobacillus fermentum LF26 respectively deposited at the China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center (CGMCC) under accession numbers CGMCC 3346, 5235 and 14166. Also disclosed herein is a method of increasing dissolved oxygen in aquaculture water, including treating the aquaculture water with the composition.
US11072545B2
According to various aspects and embodiments, a system and method for polishing ultrapure water (UPW) is disclosed. The water polishing system includes a source of ultrapure water (UPW), an ultrafiltration (UF) module having an inlet and a permeate outlet, a recirculation conduit communicating the permeate outlet with the inlet and forming a recirculation loop, a recirculation pump disposed along the recirculation conduit upstream from the inlet of the UF module and fluidly coupled to the source of UPW, a supply conduit fluidly coupled to the recirculating conduit and a demand source, the supply conduit positioned downstream from the permeate outlet, and a pressure control valve disposed along the recirculation conduit downstream from the supply conduit and configured to maintain pressure of permeate at a predetermined value.
US11072543B2
A water disinfection chamber includes one or more UVC LEDs. The chamber is constructed of Teflon or employs a Teflon PTFE liner to increase UV reflections through the volume of the chamber. LEDs are positioned in specific locations to both provide maximum UV intensity in the main fluid flow path and an angle to allow enough reflections to fill the chamber with UV light to disinfect the fluid flowing through the chamber. The chamber is scalable in size and in the number of LEDs employed including the number of rings where LEDs are located.
US11072542B2
A water purification system includes a tank which stores permeate during periods of standby during which impurities can migrate across a filtration membrane, resulting in impure water on the downstream side of the membrane. During an initial portion of a water draw immediately following a period of standby, the impure water on the downstream side of the membrane is used as a motive fluid to force the permeate out of the tank for delivery to the faucet. Permeate is provided on a continuous bases directly from the membrane to the faucet after the tank is depleted of permeate. The system includes a control system and a plurality of valves to recycle the impure water used as a motive fluid to the membrane to produce permeate. At the conclusion of a water draw, the tank is filled with permeate and the system enters a period of standby until the next water draw.
US11072538B2
A modular support system includes a central core and operation modules arranged radially around the central core. The operation modules include a first operation module that includes an enclosure structure forming a first interior volume. The enclosure structure has a rear wall. The first operation module further includes a device disposed in the first interior volume, wherein the device is associated with one or more of water treatment, power generation, or communication. The first operation module further includes a first electrical interconnect configured to electrically couple the device to the central core through the rear wall.
US11072528B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a method and system for producing a halogen gas. The method may comprise contacting a solid oxidizing agent with a vapor comprising a halide compound, to produce a gas stream comprising a halogen corresponding to the halide in the halide compound. The halide compound may be an acyl halide, such as an acetyl halide or an oxalyl halide. The oxidizing agent may be any suitable oxidizing agent, and in certain examples, potassium permanganate is used. The method may be performed under a reduced pressure. Also disclosed herein is a system suitable to perform the disclosed method. The system may comprise a reservoir, an oxidizing agent support and a gas stream outlet.
US11072527B2
The method for producing chlorine by oxidation of hydrogen chloride with oxygen in the presence of a catalyst in a fixed-bed reactor, wherein [I] a material containing hydrogen chloride and oxygen is allowed to contact a catalyst in a temperature range of 280 to 370° C., and [II] the material containing hydrogen chloride and oxygen has an oxygen concentration of 45 to 75 vol %.
US11072519B2
The present disclosure is directed to a wine tool for preserving wine in a wine bottle. The wine tool include a body and a grippable portion. The body has an open end, a closed end, and a sidewall extending between the open end and the closed end. The sidewall has an elevated outer peripheral surface and an inner peripheral surface. The grippable portion is positioned about a portion of the body for assisting a user with removal and placement of a cork into a wine bottle.
US11072516B2
Disclosed are a safety apparatus for an escalator and an escalator. The safety apparatus is disposed on the skirt of the escalator, the safety apparatus includes a one-piece profile which comprises a rear wall, an upper portion at an upper end of the rear wall, and a lower portion at a lower end of the rear wall, wherein a plurality of sensor holes are provided on the rear wall, and the safety apparatus further comprises an illumination device, a skirt brush, and a plurality of photoelectric sensors, wherein the illumination device is disposed on the profile and emits illumination light toward the step side, wherein the skirt brush is disposed on the lower portion, and wherein the plurality of photoelectric sensors are mounted to be respectively aligned with the plurality of sensor holes so as to emit and/or receive optical signals through the plurality of sensor holes.
US11072510B2
Example described herein relate to a print shoes. For instance, a print shoe can include a body including a first surface, a first arm extending from the first surface and including a first mounting mechanism to couple to a spring, and a second arm extending from the first surface in a position substantially coplanar with the first arm, where the second arm includes a second mounting mechanism to couple to the spring and dispose the first arm a distance away from the second arm when coupled to the spring.
US11072502B2
An apparatus and method for sorting a plurality of substrates is disclosed. The apparatus includes a sorting unit capable of supporting a plurality of bins, a rotatable support disposed within the sorting unit, the rotatable support rotatable about a rotational axis, a plurality of grippers coupled to the rotatable support on a common radius relative to the rotational axis, the grippers positioned to travel along a path above the bins as the rotatable support rotates, and an air nozzle configured to reorient a sorted substrate relative to a stacked substrate in a bin of the plurality of bins when released by one of the grippers into the bin.
US11072500B2
A rotary indexing transfer machine includes a machine frame; a rotating table, supported on the machine frame to rotate about an indexing axis; at least one workpiece carrying spindle having a hollow shaft for receiving a workpiece and a clamping device for clamping the workpiece inserted in the hollow shaft. The clamping device includes a collet is coupled to the workpiece carrying spindle. The workpiece carrying spindle is mounted on the rotating table, and the hollow shaft and collet are connected for joint rotation about a spindle rotation axis. The machine includes at least one support in fixed position next to the rotating table, at least one machining station with at least one machining unit supported on the support, to allow machining of the workpiece clamped in the collet. The machine includes at least one drive motor mounted on the rotating table, an indexing device mounted on the machine frame, and an indexing component.
US11072497B2
An automatic belt biasing device is provided for biasing a drive belt into frictional contact with rollers of a conveyor. The belt biasing device maintains a drive belt in contact with rollers of a live roller conveyor to provide drive for the rollers to propel items or packages along the conveyor. A spring attached to a pivot arm or pair of scissoring pivot arms adjusts a biasing force applied by guide wheels of the belt biasing device to the drive belt due to changes in drive belt tension. The belt biasing device may be selectively adjustable based on required roller pitch distances. The belt biasing device is pivotably coupled to the roller conveyor allowing the guide wheels to apply equal pressure to the drive belt while allowing the pivot arms to actuate and increase or decrease the biasing force provided by the belt biasing device.
US11072494B2
A storage system comprises a first grid structure of storage cells, each cell being arranged to accommodate a vertical stack of storage bins, the first grid structure having a top level. The system further comprises a first vehicle, arranged to move horizontally at the top level of the first grid structure, and a bin elevator, arranged to convey a bin in a vertical direction between the top level of the grid structure and a delivery station. The first vehicle is further arranged to receive a storage bin from a storage cell at the top level of the first grid structure and to deliver the storage bin to the bin elevator. The bin elevator is arranged to receive a bin from the vehicle at the top level of the first grid structure and to convey the bin to the delivery station. The storage system further comprises one or more additional grid structures of storage cells at a different vertical level than the first grid structure, and additional vehicles that is arranged to move horizontally at the top level of the additional grid structures.
US11072490B2
Packaging assembly for the transport of coffee in the form of roasted beans, comprising: at least one impermeable bag, impermeable at least to oxygen and water vapour; said at least one impermeable bag being flexible and sealable in a watertight manner to prevent the introduction of fluids or gases; at least one unidirectional valve sealingly applied to said at least one impermeable bag which only allows gas to escape from the impermeable bag preventing the entry of gas into the impermeable bag, wherein said at least one unidirectional valve makes it possible to achieve an over-pressure inside the impermeable bag variable from 3 to 60 mbar.
US11072486B2
A method for assembling an insulated bag includes folding a first main panel of a pair of opposing main panels relative to a first side panel of a pair of opposing side panels about a main crease line, the main panels, the side panels, and the main crease line defined in an insulated blank, the insulated blank including an insulation batt, a first sheet, and a second sheet, the insulation batt encapsulated in a blank cavity defined between the first sheet and the second sheet, a blank border extending around a perimeter of the insulated blank, the insulated blank defining a first end and a second end; attaching the first end to the second end; and forming a bottom panel of the insulated bag by folding a portion of the bottom panel relative to the main panel about a bottom crease line.
US11072481B2
A metallic product compartment of a single-use, self-heating container has melted onto one or more of its surfaces and re-solidified a shaped fusible material containing a reaction suppressant. A method of manufacturing includes providing the product container, positioning the fusible material, as a solid, in contact with a metallic wall of the container, heating at least a portion of the metallic wall with an electromagnetic induction heater to at least partially melt a portion of the fusible material, and enabling the melted portion of the fusible material to cool and re-solidify, thereby adhering the fusible material to the metallic wall.
US11072469B1
An insulated container having a canister can be sealed by a lid structure. The lid structure can be a multi-part insulated lid. The lid can include a vent configured to vent air from inside the canister. In addition, the container may be part of a container kit or container system where one or more inner containers, are nested and secured within the insulated container.
US11072465B2
A storage container with a spout is provided that can store a coating material. The storage container can include a container body having a shape, which may be a circular shape, polygonal shape, or a rounded-polygonal shape. The container body includes a side wall having first and second ends. The storage container with a spout can include a first opening with a corresponding lid and the spout providing a second opening with a corresponding cap. The storage container can further include a handle formed with an aperture through a side of the container body.
US11072462B2
A pan includes a base, a sidewall, and a lip. The sidewall extends from and around a first periphery of the base. The base and the sidewall cooperatively define a cavity. The lip extends from and at least partially along a second periphery of an end of the sidewall opposite the base. The lip has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion of the lip is configured to engage a third portion of a second pan when the pan and the second pan are in a nested arrangement such that engagement between the first portion of the lip and the third portion of the second pan forms an air gap between the pan and the second pan when in the nested arrangement.
US11072460B2
A lightweight pallet assembly comprising a hybrid of durable corrugated material and heat-treated wood bonded with industrial strength adhesive. The pallet is constructed of one or more base components, two or more support components and a sleeve component. The sleeve component substantially covers both the one or more base components and the two or more support components to increase strength and durability of the overall pallet assembly. Embodiments of the pallet can be quickly assembled from components that can be easily and economically stored and transported. The lightweight pallet provides savings in assembly, transportation, and storage.
US11072441B2
A three-axis spacecraft including a spacecraft body including first and second opposing radiator/equipment panels, first and second opposing mounting panels, an earth deck and a zenith deck. The zenith deck faces the Earth when the spacecraft is on orbit and the first and second mounting panels face an east and west direction relative to the Earth when the spacecraft is on orbit. The spacecraft further includes a mounting cylinder extending through the spacecraft body and out of the first and second mounting panels.
US11072439B2
A mobile fixture includes a movable base, a support platform, an adaptor interface, at least one sensor, and a controller. The movable base is configured to travel over a floor. The support platform is articulable with respect to the base. The adaptor interface moves with the support platform, and is configured to mechanically interface with an attachment member. The at least one sensor is coupled to the adaptor interface and is configured to detect at least one of a force or movement resulting from an interaction between the adaptor interface and the attachment member. The controller is operably coupled to the movable base, support platform, and at least one sensor, and is configured to control movement of at least one of the movable base or support platform responsive to the at least one of the force or movement detected by the at least one sensor.
US11072431B2
A device for launching an object is described. The device comprises a frame affixed to the launch pad, a push element for pushing an object detached from the launch pad, and a flexible force storing element for turning the push element in relation to the frame. The device has a casing fixed to the frame at a fixing point for holding the object in place against the push element. The device has a lock element for locking the casing in standby position. The frame and the push element are superposed and connected to each other at one edge of the device. The frame and the push element are substantially parallel. Force stored in the force storing element is releasable for displacing the push element at a moment of launch. The force storing element may be at least one spring or elastic band or an extension spring.
US11072430B2
A ring release system is configured to releasably couple a parachute to a payload. The ring release system may comprise a series of release rings affixed to a riser. At least one release ring has an associated retaining ring that surrounds the riser and is affixed to the riser on a back side. The retaining ring prevents stitching securing the release ring from being placed in peel when under stress, improving the reliability of the ring release system.
US11072428B2
In-vehicle entertainment (WE) monitor systems can be reconfigurable and modular to improve heat dissipation characteristics and to enable separate removal or installation of one or more parts within the WE monitor system without affecting the rest of the IVE monitor system. A modular system for providing in-vehicle entertainment to passengers on a commercial passenger vehicle includes a main housing, a peripheral housing, and a display panel that are separately removable or installable. A main printed circuit board (PCB) in the main housing is electrically connected to a secondary PCB in the peripheral housing via the first data cable and the secondary PCB is electrically connected to the display panel via the second data cable in a series configuration.
US11072413B2
A method of generating a pressure wave proximate an airflow surface and altering airflow to promote a localized lowering of skin friction over the airflow surface is described herein. A series of pressure waves may be configured to create a virtual riblet to control turbulent vortices in a boundary layer adjacent to the airflow surface creating a virtual riblet. The pressure waves may be configured to prevent disruption of the flow of air relative to at least one of a step or a gap associated with the airflow surface. The pressure wave generating system may be comprised of at least one of a thermoacoustic material, a piezoelectric material and a semiconductor material, and a microelectric circuit.
US11072409B2
The invention provides a method for operating a marine vessel (1) comprising a plurality of propulsion units (106, 107, 108, 206, 207, 208), each being arranged to deliver thrust to water in which the vessel (1) is floating, the thrust delivery levels of the propulsion units (106, 7, 108, 206, 207, 208) being individually controllable, the method comprising controlling (S2) a first (106, 207) of the propulsion units so as to deliver a thrust in a direction (T106, T207) which has a component in a first direction (F) of the vessel, simultaneously controlling (S2) a second (107, 208) of the propulsion units so as to deliver less thrust than the first propulsion unit (106, 207), and subsequently increasing (S4) the thrust delivered by the 10 second propulsion unit (107, 208) in a direction (T107, T208) which has a component in the first direction (F), the method further comprising simultaneously with increasing the thrust delivered by the second propulsion unit (107, 208) decreasing (S5) the thrust delivered by the first propulsion unit (106, 207).
US11072396B2
A height-adjustable canopy assembly that is capable of creating a desired shaded area without restricting a vehicle occupant's ability to enter, exit, control, and enjoy the vehicle. The canopy assembly includes a frame support that is secured to the vehicle via attachment points disposed between a seat and a rear portion of the vehicle. The frame support couples with a canopy support, which is adapted to span along a longitudinal length of the vehicle. A canopy cover attaches to the canopy support, providing a shaded area on the vehicle. The canopy support is adjustable with respect to the vehicle, in particular via a series of cord and cord locks that allow the occupant to quickly raise and lower the canopy support to change the shaded area to a desired set of dimensions.
US11072395B2
A watercraft includes a vessel body, a marine propulsion device and a guide. The marine propulsion device is attached to the vessel body and includes a water stream generator that propels the vessel body. The guide is provided on the vessel body and extends astern of the vessel body and toward a center of the vessel body in a width direction of the vessel body from a position located sideward of the water stream generator. The guide inwardly directs water flowing on one lateral side of the vessel body such that confluent timing of the water flowing on the one lateral side of the vessel body and water flowing on the other lateral side of the vessel body is caused to occur earlier than when the guide is not provided on the vessel body.
US11072394B2
A rotation calculating system, comprising: a first optical characteristic acquiring device, configured to acquire optical characteristics for at least one feature of a first target device; and a calculating unit, configured to calculate rotation for a first rotating device based on the optical characteristics of the feature of the first target device. The first rotating device is a wheel, and the first target device is the wheel.
US11072392B2
A bicycle operating device comprises a base, a user operated input, a cable actuator and a positioning abutment. The user operated input is movably arranged with respect to the base from a rest position towards an operated position. The cable actuator is movably arranged with respect to the base in response to movement of the user operated input between at least first and second cable holding positions. The positioning abutment is movably supported on the base between at least a first abutment position and a second abutment position. The positioning abutment selectively engages the user operated input to position the user operated input at an adjusted rest position in a state after the user operated input has been moved from the rest position to the operated position. The adjusted rest position is different from the rest position.
US11072387B2
The swing arm for the saddle riding vehicle that supports a wheel in a swingable manner includes a swing arm main body made of a fiber reinforced resin. The swing arm main body is formed to be hollow, and an embedded member of a material different from the fiber reinforced resin is embedded in such a manner as to make solid at least part of the hollow portion of the swing arm main body.
US11072382B2
The disclosed is a vehicle for the autonomous transport of an object to a destination, having a loading bed for receiving the object, a side wall extending longitudinally around the loading bed and bounding a usable area of the loading bed, and a controller, wherein the loading bed is designed to alter the usable area, and the controller is designed to navigate the vehicle to the destination along a route that takes the alteration in the usable area into consideration.
US11072375B2
A control arm includes a wheel side end, a body side end, a first connecting member extending between the wheel side end and the body side end, a second connecting member extending between the wheel side end and the body side end, and having a reduced section portion, and a fracture zone extending through the first and second connecting members in a substantially fore-aft direction of the vehicle, the reduced section portion being within the fracture zone. A thickness of the reduced section portion is tunable to establish a controlled fracturing during a small overlap rigid barrier impact event where: (i) an initial fracture of the first connecting member occurs within the fracture zone, and (ii) a secondary fracture of the second connecting member occurs within the fracture zone at the reduced section portion, to thereby provide a desired rearward trajectory of the wheel assembly during the impact event.
US11072369B2
A cargo transport rear frame includes a pair of posts, an upper cross member, and a rear bolster. The posts are spaced in a width direction, and extend in a height direction. The upper cross member extends along the width between the posts. The rear bolster extends between lower ends of the posts such that the rear bolster is spaced below the upper cross member. The posts, the upper cross member, and the rear bolster bound the rear cargo opening. The rear bolster has a first side facing in a forward direction, and the rear bolster has a second side facing in a rearward direction to be exposed to a rear side of the cargo transport rear frame. The rear bolster comprises a sheet metal stamping including a base surface and a relief embossed in the rearward direction from the base surface to form a loading dock engagement feature.
US11072363B2
A control system for a motor includes: a first processing circuit configured to operate a first drive circuit; a second processing circuit configured to operate a second drive circuit; and a command circuit configured to output a signal relating to a command value for a steered angle of a steered wheel to the first processing circuit and the second processing circuit. The command circuit is configured to execute a detection process, a first notification process, and a second notification process. The first processing circuit is configured to execute a first correction process based on a first result signal to control the steered angle to the command value. The second processing circuit is configured to execute a second correction process based on a second result signal to control the steered angle to the command value.
US11072354B2
An anti-pinch system and a method for a platform screen door and a train are disclosed. The system includes: a platform screen door (PSD) anti-pinch safety host, a three-dimensional laser radar and an alarm, wherein when both the platform screen door and a train door are in a closed state, the three-dimensional laser radar performs a three-dimensional scanning detection on an obstacle in an area between the platform screen door and the train in real time at an end of a platform by using an emitted laser scanning surface, and sends detection information of the obstacle to the PSD anti-pinch safety host; the detection information includes three-dimensional contour information of the obstacle; the PSD anti-pinch safety host is configured to process the detection information and send a processing result to the alarm; and the alarm is configured to send out an alarm according to the processing result.
US11072343B2
The driving assistance device acquires, from an autonomous driving controller that determines an action of a vehicle during autonomous driving of the vehicle, action information indicating a first action that the vehicle is caused to execute. The driving assistance device acquires, from a detector that detects a surrounding situation and a travel state of the vehicle, detection information indicating a detection result. The driving assistance device determines a second action which is executable in place of the first action, based on the detection information. The driving assistance device generates a first image representing the first action and a second image representing the second action. The driving assistance device outputs the first image and the second image to a notification device such that the first image and the second image are displayed within a fixed field of view of a driver of the vehicle.
US11072341B2
A vehicle control apparatus including an operation detector detecting driving instruction, a direction detector detecting actual traveling direction of the vehicle, and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform: determining whether a deviation of the actual traveling direction from target traveling direction according to the driving instruction is greater than or equal to predetermined deviation; switching to the self-drive mode when the deviation is greater than or equal to the predetermined deviation during traveling in the manual drive mode; and controlling the actuator in accordance with the driving instruction, the controlling including controlling the actuator so as to match the actual traveling direction with the target traveling direction after switching to the self-drive mode, and the switching including switching to the manual drive mode when the actual traveling direction is matched with the target traveling direction after switching to the self-drive mode.
US11072334B2
A vehicle control system includes: a vehicle recognition unit configured to recognize a rear lateral vehicle in an area rearward of the host vehicle; a remaining distance acquisition unit configured to acquire a remaining distance from a current position of the host vehicle to a position at which the host vehicle completes a lane change; a lane change availability determination unit configured to determine whether the lane change is available; and a vehicle control unit configured to control, when the lane change availability determination unit determines that the lane change is not available and the remaining distance is shorter than a first determination distance, steering of the host vehicle such that a position of the host vehicle in a vehicle width direction becomes a position closer to the second lane than a position when the remaining distance is longer than or equal to the first determination distance.
US11072333B2
A lane change controller, a system including the same, and a method thereof are provided. The lane change controller includes a processor configured to determine whether it is possible for a vehicle to perform a lane change depending on a road condition, based on information about surrounding circumstances, a storage storing the result of determining whether it is possible to perform the lane change, the result being determined by the processor, and a display device configured to display the result of determining whether it is possible to perform the lane change.
US11072330B2
A method of controlling a vehicle-trailer unit includes recording, with an electronic control unit for a trailer assist system, a plurality of maneuvers of the vehicle-trailer unit as each maneuver is executed in an original direction of travel. The method also includes retrieving the recorded plurality of maneuvers in response to an initiating of a tight spot reversal feature for the trailer assist system. The method further includes instructing vehicle systems to perform the retrieved recorded plurality of maneuvers in the reverse order and direction of travel in which they were recorded.
US11072318B2
A hydraulic unit of an electronic control brake system is disclosed. The hydraulic unit of the electronic control brake system includes a modulator block having a plurality of accommodating bores in which a plurality of valves and pressure sensors coupled to a master cylinder to control braking hydraulic pressure supplied towards vehicle wheels are installed. Passages connecting between the accommodating bores are formed in the modulator block, and the passages are formed to be divided into two layers.
US11072312B2
A rotary vehicle wash component for a vehicle wash facility is provided. The vehicle wash component includes a hub disposed about and rotatable about a center axis. A plurality of media elements extend outwardly from the hub for rotation with the hub. Each of the media elements has a centerline that is positioned offset relative to the center axis such that the centerline does not intersect the center axis. The media elements may be fixed to the hub or they may be pivotable relative to the hub. The media elements may pivot between two offset positions in response to rotation in opposite directions. The media elements may include a plurality of treatment heads secured to the media elements.
US11072305B2
There is provided a passenger seat air bag having a portion which is unfolded to a side toward a center side of a vehicle in which a pressure difference in the portion is suppressed. A passenger seat air bag includes a front unfolding portion which is unfolded in front of the passenger seat, and a side unfolding portion which is in communication with the front unfolding portion and which is unfolded to side, of the passenger seat, nearer to a center of the vehicle. A horizontal tether is provided in the side unfolding portion in an arrangement which is approximately horizontal during unfolding. When unfolding gas is injected from the front to the air bag, because the horizontal tether does not block flow of the unfolding gas, pressure us the side unfolding portion is made uniform.
US11072303B2
In an upper interior structure of a vehicle of the present invention, a deployment guide portion for guiding a curtain airbag toward a cabin side when the curtain airbag is deployed. The deployment guide portion comprises a first guide part and a second guide part. The first guide part is arranged above a top ceiling and on an outward side, in a vehicle width direction, of the curtain airbag, facing an upper end portion of a pillar trim, so as to restrain the curtain airbag from being deployed outwardly in the vehicle width direction. The second guide part is arranged between the first guide part and the top ceiling, extending in a vertical direction, so as to restrain the curtain airbag from being deployed into a gap between the first guide part and the upper end portion of the pillar trim.
US11072299B2
A method for determining an electrical capacitance in an intermediate circuit of an electric drive system. The electric drive system includes at least one first electrical energy source, which feeds the intermediate circuit, a drive unit, which has an inverter and an electrical load, the inverter being electrically connected on the input side with the intermediate circuit and on the output side with the electrical load, and a DC voltage converter, which is electrically connected with the intermediate circuit and measures a voltage in the intermediate circuit by high frequency sampling. The electrical capacitance in the intermediate circuit is determined from the voltage in the intermediate circuit measured by the DC voltage converter. Also described is a motor vehicle, which includes an electric drive system for implementing the method.
US11072298B1
A method and system for controlling the switching power supply in a car audio system. The system includes a circuit that detects when the signal voltage is approaching the power supply voltage rails, that is, circuit anticipates the conditions that cause “clipping” of the signal. In response to detecting the pre-clipping condition, the circuit boosts the power supply. Additionally, the inventive system includes a holding circuit for sustaining the boosted power supply for a predetermined period of time. Thus, the power is boosted as needed and remains on for a period of time thereby preventing frequent, repetitive activation of the power supply.
US11072289B2
A vehicle interior component is disclosed. The component may comprise a base and a support. The component may comprise an actuator to operate a mechanism to move the support between raised and lowered positions. The mechanism may comprise a bladder. The support and the base may provide a cavity when the support is lowered. The support may protrude from the base when the support is raised. The support may be configured for a tilted state. The bladder may expand and/or contract to move the support. The bladder may comprise a first and second air bladder. An outer surface of the support and an outer surface of the base may comprise a substantially continuous surface when the support is in the raised or lowered position. The component may comprise at least one of a console; a floor console; a tunnel console; an armrest; an instrument panel; a door; a door panel.
US11072288B2
A vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror reflective element sub-assembly having a mirror reflective element, a mirror back plate and a heater pad disposed between the mirror reflective element and the mirror back plate. The heater pad is adhered via a pressure sensitive adhesive to the glass substrate of the mirror reflective element, and the mirror back plate is adhered via a pressure sensitive adhesive to the heater pad. The mirror back plate includes first structure that is configured to attach at an actuator. A blind spot indicator element is disposed second structure of the mirror back plate. When the vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly is attached at the vehicle and when a light source of the indicator element is activated, an icon present at an outboard region of said electrochromic mirror reflective element is illuminated and is viewable by the driver of the vehicle.
US11072283B2
A vehicle periphery monitoring device acquires first image information of a vehicle rear side and second image information of vehicle rear lateral sides. Second points at infinity of the second image information are made to approximately coincide with a first point at infinity of the first image information, and the first image information and the second image information are combined, and first composite image information is generated. When sensing a request to change a viewpoint toward a vehicle rear lateral side, second composite image information that is viewed with a virtual viewpoint having been moved toward a vehicle lateral side is generated. Further, when a path changing operation of an operation portion that is used in changing a path is completed, third composite image information that is viewed with a virtual viewpoint having been moved toward the side of the path change is generated.
US11072282B2
The apparatus for controlling a display mirror for a vehicle includes an operation mode determiner for determining an operation mode based on a position of a mirror assembly, the mirror assembly accommodating a display for displaying an image obtained by an imaging device within an inner space formed by a mirror coupled to a surface of a mirror housing; a power supply for supplying a power to the display; and a controller configured to adjust an intensity of the power supplied to the display based on the determined operation mode. The operation mode determiner determines between a first operation mode in which an image reflected by the mirror is visible to a driver and a second operation mode in which the image obtained by the imaging device is displayed on the display. In particular, the display remains turned on in the first operation mode and the second operation mode.
US11072281B2
A camera system (1) for a commercial vehicle has at least one image capture unit (3) for capturing an image, an image reproduction unit (8) for reproducing the captured image at least one functional unit (4.1, 4.2) for performing a vehicle function and at least one control unit (2) for outputting a control signal. The camera system (1) transmits a video signal between the control unit (2) and the image reproduction unit (8) and controls the image capture unit (3) and the functional unit (4.1, 4.2) by a control signal outputted from the control unit (2). The functional interface (6.1) is provided between the image capture unit (3) and the functional unit (4.1, 4.2), via which functional interface (6.1), image capture unit (3) and the functional unit (4.1, 4.2) are coupleable with each other and decoupleable from each other.
US11072275B2
Methods and systems for leveling a headlamp of a vehicle on a ground surface using a portable device may include determining, by a processor and a leveling software application tool of the portable device, a zero reference earth plane of the ground surface on which the vehicle is disposed, setting the zero reference earth plane as a vehicle longitudinal axis of the vehicle with respect to the ground surface, determining a current illumination axis of the headlamp based on a feedback from the headlamp received by the portable device, and generating a calibration level angle based on a comparison of the vehicle longitudinal axis and the current illumination axis.
US11072268B2
There is provided a head-rest of a car sheet which is configured to includes: a skin configured to cover a surface of the head-rest; a foamed material filled in the head-rest covered by the skin; and a stay extending to an outside from the skin in which the foamed material is filled, wherein the head-rest has a gate shape by indenting a center portion of a lower surface of the head-rest, and a groove portion is formed at the indented center portion of the gate shape by making end portions of the skin abut against each other, and members which are softer than the skin are seamed to the respective end portions of the skin which abut against each other in the groove portion.
US11072263B2
A seating system for a vehicle includes a seat back and a seat bottom selectively rotatable between a design position and a stowed position. A latch arrangement has a first cam with first and second surfaces, a support structure with first and second surfaces, and a second cam. The latch arrangement has a first locking position wherein the first surface of the first cam engages the first surface of the support structure so that movement of the seat bottom from the design position to the stowed position is inhibited. The latch arrangement also has a second locking position wherein the second cam engages a portion of the support structure so that movement of the seat bottom from the stowed position to the design position is inhibited.
US11072259B2
A method for continuously managing thermal energy in a motor vehicle includes initializing a continuous thermal energy management control loop within a controller disposed in the motor vehicle, calculating a quantity of stored energy in a thermal management system equipped to the motor vehicle, calculating a quantity of thermal energy waste in the thermal management system, determining if thermal energy is needed within a component of the thermal management system, selectively generating thermal energy, selectively transporting thermal energy to the component of the thermal management system, determining a thermal storage capacity of the thermal management system, determining if a thermal energy deficit exists within the thermal management system, and directing a flow of a thermal energy carrying liquid to a thermal energy reservoir.
US11072257B2
A switch control apparatus capable of effectively controlling a switch during a process of controlling the switch provided in a battery pack. When the switch is shifted from a closed state to an open state, the current caused by the generated counter electromotive force is quickly released, thereby quickly shifting the switch to turn on or off. In addition, since the voltage applied to the control unit falls within the rated voltage range, the stability of the switch control circuit may be enhanced.
US11072252B2
A charging port cover and/or a fuel cap module for a motor vehicle for receiving or attaching at least one interface, which is used for charging and/or refueling a motor vehicle-side energy accumulator. The charging port cover and/or the fuel cap module also serves to fasten and mount at least one device having light sources. The at least one device illuminates both the charging port cover and/or the fuel cap module and a current charge level and/or a current fuel level of the motor vehicle-side energy accumulator. The charging port cover and/or the fuel cap module has a first opening and a second opening adjacent thereto. The first opening and the second opening are oriented such that emitted or deliverable light of the mounted at least one device can emerge from the first opening in a direction of an operator of the motor vehicle and from the second opening in a direction of the at least one interface for charging and/or refueling the motor vehicle-side energy accumulator.
US11072249B2
A fuel gas pump of a fuel cell vehicle is fixed to a stack frame and a fuel cell stack via a first bracket and a second bracket so that a rotation axis of a motor is inclined to a reference line along a front-rear direction. The first bracket is fixed by passing a second fastening member through a first notch. The second bracket is fixed by passing a third fastening member through a second notch of a second arm. The first and second brackets are provided such that, when the fuel gas pump rotates, the third fastening member comes off from the second bracket at a timing different from a timing when the second fastening member comes off from the first bracket.
US11072242B2
An off-prevention circuit has a battery management system and a contactor multi-connected via a plurality of positive electrode terminals and a plurality of negative electrode terminals provided in each of the battery management system and the contactor. Even when any one connection among the connections of the plurality of positive electrode terminals and the plurality of negative electrode terminals is disconnected or opened, it is possible to maintain supply of power supplied from the battery management system to the contactor through another connection of the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal.
US11072241B2
A knob device for vehicle includes a knob unit and a locking unit. The knob unit includes a rotating cover with an open end, a rotary shaft mounted to the open end, and a motor fixed to the rotating cover for driving the rotating cover to vibrate. The locking unit includes a rotary wheel which includes a main body fixed to the rotary shaft and latching teeth formed at a periphery of the main body and distributed in a ring around a central axis of the rotary wheel, a gap being defined between two neighboring teeth, an iron core configured to be inserted into the gap to limit rotation of the rotary wheel, and a solenoid connected to the iron core for driving the iron core to move. The knob device can realize locking of the rotary wheel clockwise and counter-clockwise, meeting requirement of diverse use.
US11072239B2
A vehicle display control device, when a steering wheel is at a steering angle position of a neutral position or the vicinity thereof, if a right hand sensor detects gripping of the steering wheel, turns off light sources of memory buttons and operation buttons that can be operated with a right hand, and if a left hand sensor detects the gripping, turns off a light source of air conditioning related buttons and hides touch buttons of a touch panel display that can be operated with a left hand. The vehicle display control device, if the right hand sensor does not detect the gripping, turns on the light sources of the memory buttons and the operation buttons, and if the left hand sensor does not detect the gripping, turns on the light source of the air conditioning related buttons and displays the touch buttons on the touch panel display.
US11072238B2
A four-wheel drive vehicle in which, when a switching request is made for switching from a non-meshing state to a meshing state, the control device calculates a first rotation speed difference between the drive-power-source-side meshing teeth and the sub-drive-wheel-side meshing teeth, and a second rotation speed difference between the drive-power-source-side meshing teeth and the sub-drive-wheel-side meshing teeth. If at least one of the calculated first and second rotation speed differences is within a predetermined range set in advance, the control device couples the sub-drive wheel corresponding to the rotation speed difference within the predetermined range, to the central axle by the control coupling to switch the dog clutch from the non-meshing state to the meshing state. And, if neither the calculated first nor second rotation speed difference is within the predetermined range, the control device prohibits switching of the dog clutch from the non-meshing state to the meshing state.
US11072232B2
A hybrid drive module, comprising an electric motor (110) and a power electronics module (300) operatively connected to the electric motor (110) whereby the power electronics module is integral to the electric motor (110).
US11072228B2
A sealing structure for a vehicle door seals a gap between a door and body of the vehicle and includes a sealed portion as a gap between the body and a door inner pane. A body weather strip is mounted at a first side of a lateral most portion of the sealed portion along a rim of an opening portion of the body and seals the gap between the body and door. An upper weather strip is mounted at a second side of the lateral most portion of the sealed portion along a roof panel and seals gaps between the roof panel, body, and door. A door weather strip is mounted in the sealed portion between the body and upper weather strips to be spaced apart from the body and upper weather strips, extends along the rim of the opening portion, and seals the gap between the body and door.
US11072225B2
A filter apparatus for a motor vehicle is provided. The filter apparatus includes a delivery device, which is provided in addition to a ventilation system of the motor vehicle and can be operated independently of the ventilation system for drawing in and delivering air from the interior of the motor vehicle. The filter apparatus includes at least one filter element, through which can flow the air drawn in and delivered by the delivery device for filtering the air. The filter apparatus includes at least one outlet for introducing the air filtered by way of the filter element into the interior. The filter apparatus is designed to wirelessly receive at least one signal emitted by a terminal and to activate the delivery device based on the signal.
US11072212B2
A method for detecting a change in position of a wheel unit of a wheel on a motor vehicle, a position of each wheel unit having been identified and stored. Communication between each wheel unit and at least one control device takes place in accordance with a standard allowing the bidirectional exchange of UHF wave signals, each wheel unit performing scanning to intercept the signals sent by a given wheel unit whose signature is established by the wheel unit performing the scanning in accordance with a detected average power value. Current and starting signatures are compared. If the current signature differs by more than an experimentally determined percentage from its starting signature for a given wheel unit, a change in position of one of the two wheels is detected.
US11072207B2
At least a part of a surface of at least one mark provided on a surface of a sidewall portion is provided with a serration portion in which a plurality of ridges is arranged in parallel. Each of the ridges has a triangular or trapezoidal cross section taken perpendicular to a length direction thereof having a first oblique side and a second oblique side, and an angle of the first oblique side with respect to a reference surface is different from an angle of the second oblique side with respect to the reference surface.
US11072200B2
Disclosed is a method of producing a pattern for a decorative panel. The method includes applying a clear gel coat on a mold to form a clear layer. The clear layer is cured and then digitally printed with one or more inks so as to produce a pattern on the clear layer. Also disclosed is a decorative panel including a clear layer, an opaque layer and a pattern digitally printed on the clear layer, between the clear and opaque layers, such that the pattern is visible through the clear layer.
US11072197B2
The present invention relates to [1] a process for producing a printed material, including step 1 of subjecting an image-bearing surface of a printed recording medium 1′ on which characters or images are formed by analog printing to discharge treatment under specific conditions to obtain a printed recording medium 1, and step 2 of further forming characters or images on the image-bearing surface of the printed recording medium 1 by ink-jet printing using a water-based ink to obtain the printed material, [2] an ink-jet printing method including the step of ejecting a water-based ink onto a printed recording medium 1 by an ink-jetting method to form characters or images thereon, in which the printed recording medium 1 has an image-bearing surface on which characters or images are formed by analog printing, and the image-bearing surface is subjected to discharge treatment under the specific conditions, [3] a recording medium for ink-jet printing, including an image-bearing surface on which characters or images are formed by analog printing and which is subjected to discharge treatment, in which a surface free energy of the image-bearing surface after being subjected to the discharge treatment is not less than 30 mN/m, and [4] a printed material including an image-bearing surface on which characters or images are formed by analog printing and then on at least a part of which characters or images are further formed by ink-jet printing using a water-based ink, in which the image-bearing surface after forming the characters or images thereon by the analog printing is subjected to discharge treatment, and a surface free energy of the image-bearing surface after being subjected to the discharge treatment is not less than 30 mN/m.
US11072193B2
A paper compartment in which roll paper can be held has an opening positioned along the second axial end of the roll paper and a wall positioned along the first axial end of the roll paper in the axial direction. The paper loading member can be removably installed in the paper compartment through the opening. The paper loading member has a flange and a roll support member that projects from the flange and is inserted into the paper. When roll paper is held in the paper compartment, the paper loading member is installed in the paper compartment with a first side of the flange contacting the first axial end of the paper, and the roll support member is inserted into the roll paper. When the paper loading member is installed in the paper compartment, the first side of the flange faces the opening.
US11072192B2
A printing unit includes a head unit; a platen unit separately combined with the head unit; a fixed blade provided to the platen unit; a movable blade, which is provided to the head unit and is relatively movable with respect to the fixed blade; a drive mechanism, which includes a drive rack coupled to the movable blade, and moves the movable blade between a standby position being separated from the fixed blade and a cutting position at which the movable blade rides on the fixed blade; an operation lever being movable between a lock position and a releasing position; and a return mechanism configured to move the movable blade from the cutting position toward the standby position side through intermediation of the drive rack in association with the operation lever. The return mechanism includes a lever returning mechanism, under the state in which movable blade is stopped at the cutting position, transmits motive power generated along with an operation of the operation lever from the lock position toward the releasing position to the drive mechanism to move the movable blade toward the standby position and returns the operated operation lever from the releasing position side to the lock position.
US11072182B2
A liquid supplying device includes a tank a tank and a cartridge. The cartridge includes a first storage chamber. The cartridge is formed with a communicating opening in communication with the first storage chamber. The tank has a second storage chamber and a joint having a hollow cylindrical shape. In an attachment state where the communicating opening of the cartridge is connected to the joint, the first storage chamber has a portion positioned above the joint and the second storage chamber is positioned below the joint. At least in the first end portion, the liquid passage has a rectangular shape in a cross section taken along a plane perpendicular to an extending direction of the liquid passage.
US11072181B2
Aspects of a disclosure relates to a liquid discharge device enables previously disabled liquid discharge through a head after a cartridge including a first liquid chamber is replaced and before the liquid level in a second liquid chamber of a tank reaches a predetermined level or higher. Another aspects of the disclosure relates to a liquid discharge device that deactivates an alarm after a cartridge including a first liquid chamber is replaced and before the liquid level in a second liquid reaches a predetermined level or higher.
US11072179B2
A liquid absorbent body according to the present disclosure includes a water absorbent resin and a pulp fiber, in which an evaporation rate of a pure water until elapse of 360 minutes after the pure water is absorbed is 0.0006 g/(cm2·min) or more and 0.0020 g/(cm2·min) or less, when the pure water of 20 mL is absorbed into the liquid absorbent body of 2.57 g, under an environment of 60° C. and 20% RH. It is preferable that the liquid absorbent body is configured to include an aggregate of small pieces in which a fiber base material containing the pulp fiber carries the water absorbent resin.
US11072176B2
A liquid jet head chip capable of exerting a stable ejection performance is provided. The liquid jet head chip is provided with an actuator plate and an electrode. The actuator plate has an obverse surface, a reverse surface, and two or more ejection channels which penetrate the actuator plate in a thickness direction from the obverse surface toward the reverse surface, which are disposed so as to be adjacent to each other at intervals in a first direction perpendicular to the thickness direction, and which are disposed so as to extend in a second direction perpendicular to both of the thickness direction and the first direction. The electrode is disposed on an inner surface of the ejection channel, and includes a first electrode part covering the inner surface of the ejection channel continuously from the obverse surface toward the reverse surface, and a second electrode part covering the inner surface of the ejection channel continuously from the reverse surface toward the obverse surface, and overlapping at least a part of the first electrode part.
US11072173B2
A head module includes a head and a cover. The head includes a nozzle plate and a channel substrate. The nozzle plate includes a nozzle configured to discharge liquid from a discharge surface of the nozzle plate. The channel substrate includes an individual channel communicated with the nozzle. The channel substrate has a surface facing the nozzle plate. The cover covers at least one side of the discharge surface of the nozzle plate of the head. An outer shape of the nozzle plate is smaller than an outer shape of the channel substrate. The cover has a bonded surface bonded to the surface of the channel substrate in an outer area of the nozzle plate with an adhesive. The bonded surface of the cover is closer to the channel substrate than the discharge surface of the nozzle plate is.
US11072170B2
A liquid discharge apparatus includes a recording head configured to discharge a liquid to form a pattern on a recording medium and a reading device configured to read the pattern. The apparatus further includes circuitry configured to form at least two first markers while moving the recording head relative to the recording medium in a head movement direction; form a second marker at one of positions of the at least two first markers, to form a pattern including a reference marker formed with one of the at least two first markers and a measurement marker in which the second marker is overlaid on another of the at least two first markers; and measure a distance between the reference marker and the measurement marker in the head movement direction based on information obtained by the reading device.
US11072167B2
An apparatus that transfers data to a recording head having a plurality of recording elements includes a transfer unit for transferring recording data to which a series of commands is attached in synchronization with a clock. The series of commands includes a stop command for temporarily stopping transfer of the recording data for a predetermined period in accordance with power-distribution timing of the recording elements.
US11072166B2
Systems, methods, software for monitoring usage of a recording medium in an image forming apparatus. In one embodiment, a usage monitor receives a raster image, and identifies thresholds that distinguish different intensity levels reproduced by different drop sizes of the recording material. The usage monitor identifies a set of pixel values for a block of pixels from the raster image, performs a vectorized comparison of the set of pixel values to each of the thresholds to generate sets of comparison bits, determines a number of set bits in each of the sets of comparison bits, and updates a threshold counter for each of the thresholds based on the number of set bits. The usage monitor may then compute drop counts for different drop sizes based on the threshold counter for each of the thresholds.
US11072152B2
A multilayer film, which is used upon being adhered to a fabric, includes an adhesive layer to be a side of the multilayer film to be adhered to the fabric, the adhesive layer including a thermoplastic polyester elastomer and a polymer having a Shore D hardness of less than 80; and a barrier layer bonded to the adhesive layer, the barrier layer including a thermoplastic elastomer.
US11072145B2
The present disclosure can provide an aerogel composite. The aerogel composite comprises at least one base layer having a top surface and a bottom surface, the base layer comprising a reinforced aerogel composition which comprises a reinforcement material and a monolithic aerogel framework, a first facing layer comprising a first facing material attached to the top surface of the base layer, and a second facing layer comprising a second facing material attached to the bottom surface of the base layer. At least a portion of the monolithic aerogel framework of the base layer extends into at least a portion of both the first facing layer and the second facing layer. The first facing material and the second facing material can each comprise or consist essentially of elastic fibers such as spandex, nylon, lycra, elastane, or combinations thereof.
US11072141B1
A case setup apparatus is generally provided. The apparatus is characterized by a robotic arm and a case engaging apparatus carried by the robotic arm. The case engaging apparatus is characterized by a picker arm assembly for picking a case blank from a source of case blanks, and a rack arm assembly for attaching to a picked case blank. The picker arm assembly is fixedly supported within the case engaging apparatus and the rack arm assembly is pivotably supported, relative to the picker arm assembly, within the case engaging apparatus. A flap folding subassembly is provided and translatably supported within the case engaging apparatus for reversible travel parallel to the picker arm assembly. The subassembly includes flap engaging members, a flap engaging member of the flap engaging members being forwardly extendable to disassociate adjacent flaps of a case blank in advance of folding a flap by the flap engaging members.
US11072138B2
A spectacle lens manufacturing system includes resin material filling means which fills a lens mold with a lens material (heat-curable resin material), and at least a portion of the lens mold is formed by a three-dimensional printer. The lens mold includes a front lens mold having a rear surface that defines a front surface of a spectacle lens, a rear lens mold having a front surface that defines a rear surface of the spectacle lens, and a side peripheral lens mold having an inner surface that defines a side periphery of the spectacle lens. The side peripheral lens mold is formed by the three-dimensional printer.
US11072130B2
The invention relates to a hand-guided device (10) for setting a setting element (12) in a component. The device comprises a handle (14) for holding the device, a carriage (34), which can be moved in relation to the handle and which bears a rotatably supported drive shaft (46), at one end of which a holder for the setting element is formed, a force accumulator (44), which is arranged between the handle and the carriage and which serves to store a defined advancing force, with which the force limiter can be loaded by means of a relative motion between the handle and the carriage, and a force limiter (64) for limiting the advancing force stored in the force accumulator. The force accumulator is designed to apply the stored advancing force to the setting element by means of the carriage. The invention further relates to a method for manually setting a setting element by means of said device.
US11072123B2
In one example, an additive manufacturing process includes: making an object slice by slice, including dispensing a first quantity of each of multiple liquid functional agents on to a layer of fusable build material and then irradiating the layer of build material; while making the object, identifying a deviant region in a slice; and dispensing a second quantity different from the first quantity of at least one of the functional agents into a location corresponding to the deviant region.
US11072116B2
Switching devices for a printing mode of a 3D printer are disclosed. In some embodiments, the switching devices includes: a component platform with at least two platform bodies (200); at least two handpiece guiding parts (110); at least two platform guiding parts (210); at least two handpiece transmission mechanisms (120); a handpiece drive mechanism configured to drive the handpiece transmission mechanisms (120) to move synchronously; at least two platform transmission mechanisms (220); and a platform drive mechanism configured to drive the platform transmission mechanisms (220) to move synchronously.
US11072109B2
A device for marking an ophthalmic lens (3), the lens (3) being made of at least one preset material, includes a laser (1) configured to produce permanent engravings on the lens (3) and configured to emit a focused beam of pulsed ultraviolet laser radiation that includes at least one radiation wavelength ranging between 200 nm and 300 nm, has a pulse length ranging between about 0.1 ns and about 5 ns, and has an energy per pulse ranging between about 5 μJ and about 100 μJ. A laser marking process configured to produce permanent engravings on an ophthalmic lens (3) via this device is also described.
US11072107B2
The present invention relates to a method for providing a semi-worked product and a mandrel covered with a long body which is the semi-worked product, in which the semi-worked product is a long body which is formed without a gap by spirally winding at least one sheet of film, at least one sheet of film of the at least one sheet of film is made of at least polytetrafluoroethylene, the long body has a thickness of 5 μm or more and 75 μm or less, and the long body is provided in a state of being in contact with a mandrel.
US11072105B2
A method of producing a blown film with a controlled thickness profile, comprises the steps of: extruding molten plastic through an annular extrusion die; cooling the molten plastic using an annular blower around the extrusion die, positioning one or more sources of supplemental air at one or more desired circumferential positions about the annular extrusion die and adjacent to the extruded molten plastic, the annular blower and the one or more sources of supplemental air being operated to supply cooling air to the molten plastic between the annular extrusion die and the frost line where the molten plastic solidifies; and controlling the one or more sources of supplemental air to form one or more areas of increased thickness along a circumferential thickness profile of the blown film, the one or more areas of increased thickness having a thickness that is greater than an average thickness of the circumferential profile.
US11072077B2
A robot system which includes a robot with a plurality of joints; a voice operation device to which a voice operation command is input by an operator; and a controller which controls an operation of the robot, the controller being configured to change the operation of the robot, in a case where the voice operation device detects a voice with a sound volume which is equal to or higher than a first predetermined sound volume which is preset, during the operation of the robot.
US11072075B2
A system for sensing and controlling eye contact for a robot. The system includes a robotic figure with a movable eye. The system includes a light source positioned in the robotic figure to output light through a light outlet of the eye. A light sensor is included that senses light striking surfaces in a physical space in which the robotic figure is positioned including the output light from the light source. The system includes an image processor processing output of the light sensor to identify a location of a target formed by the output light striking surfaces in the physical space and to identify a location of a face of a human. Further, the system includes a robot controller generating eye movement control signals based on the location of the target and the location of the face to position the eye to provide eye contact with the human observer.
US11072067B2
Robots and robotic systems and methods can employ artificial neural networks (ANNs) to significantly improve performance. The ANNs can operate alternatingly in forward and backward directions in interleaved fashion. The ANNs can employ visible units and hidden units. Various objective functions can be optimized. Robots and robotic systems and methods can execute applications including a plurality of agents in a distributed system, for instance with a number of hosts executing respective agents, at least some of the agents in communications with one another. The hosts can execute agents in response to occurrence of defined events or trigger expressions, and can operate with a maximum latency guarantee and/or data quality guarantee.
US11072066B2
A working device (1) using a parallel link mechanism includes: a parallel link mechanism (10) by which end effectors (4, 5) are supported so as to be changeable in posture; and posture-controlling actuators (11) which actuate the parallel link mechanism (10). In the parallel link mechanism (10), a distal-end-side link hub (13) is connected to a proximal-end-side link hub (12) via three or more link mechanisms (14) so as to be changeable in posture of the distal-end-side link hub (13) relative to the proximal-end-side link hub (12). The end effectors (4, 5) are mounted to the distal-end-side link hub (12), and includes one main end effector (4) which performs a main work on a workpiece (3) and one or multiple sub end effectors (5) which perform an auxiliary work on the workpiece (3).
US11072063B2
A malleable handle for use in conjunction with a cooking device (or integral to the cooking device) may include an outer surface adapted to conform to a user's hand(s) during use. A user may grasp the malleable handle with his/her hand(s) and the pressure from the user's grip may deform the malleable handle thereby creating an ergonomically-shaped handle customized to the user's hand(s).
US11072061B2
A rotary tool includes a motor, a final output shaft, a housing, a detecting mechanism, an interrupting mechanism and a solenoid. The motor includes a motor body and a motor shaft. The final output shaft is configured to be rotationally driven by torque transmitted from the motor shaft. The housing houses the motor and the final output shaft. The detecting mechanism is configured to detect a motion state of the housing. The interrupting mechanism is provided on a transmission path of the torque from the motor shaft to the final output shaft, and configured to interrupt transmission of the torque. The solenoid includes a linearly movable actuation part and is configured to mechanically actuate the interrupting mechanism via the actuation part based on the motion state of the housing detected by the detecting mechanism.
US11072060B2
A tool bit assembly can include a housing comprising a channel at least partially extending into the housing, one or more interacting features in the channel, and a shaft configured to fit within a drill chuck to allow a drill to turn the shaft. The shaft can be at least partially disposed within the channel to rotate and slide relative to the housing. The shaft can include a striking structure configured to interact with the one or more interacting features in the channel to cause the housing to actuate linearly relative to the shaft if the shaft is rotated relative to the housing and the striking structure is positioned to interact with the one or more interacting features.
US11072057B2
A bearing removal tool includes a plurality of hook arms and a connecting disk. Each hook arm has a connecting space for engaging with a peripheral portion of the connecting disk, and there are specific dimensional relationships between the connecting spaces and the connecting disk such that, once the connecting disk is fitted into the connecting spaces of the hook arms, the user only has to move the hook arms laterally for a predetermined distance in order for the hook arms to be restricted by the connecting disk and prevented from separating from the connecting disk. The bearing removal tool, therefore, can be put together more easily and more rapidly than its prior art counterparts.
US11072053B2
The present disclosure provides methods of making a vitreous bond abrasive article and a metal bond abrasive article. The methods include sequential steps. Step a) includes a subprocess including sequentially: i) depositing a layer of loose powder particles in a confined region; and ii) selectively applying heat via conduction or irradiation, to heat treat an area of the layer of loose powder particles. The loose powder particles include abrasive particles and organic compound particles, as well as vitreous bond precursor particles or metal particles. The layer of loose powder particles has substantially uniform thickness. Step b) includes independently carrying out step a) a number of times to generate an abrasive article preform comprising the bonded powder particles and remaining loose powder particles. Step c) includes separating remaining loose powder particles from the abrasive article preform. Step d) includes heating the abrasive article preform to provide the vitreous bond abrasive article comprising the abrasive particles retained in a vitreous bond material, or to provide the metal bond abrasive article. A method of making a metal bond abrasive optionally includes infusing an abrasive article preform with a molten lower melting metal and solidifying the molten lower melting metal to provide the metal bond abrasive article. The present disclosure further provides a vitreous bond abrasive article precursor and a metal bond abrasive article precursor.
US11072051B2
A method of controlling platen rotation includes receiving an electrical energy input at a rotator assembly, using the rotator assembly to increase a rotational kinetic energy of a platen based on the electrical energy input, using the rotator assembly to decrease the rotational kinetic energy of the platen, and generating an electrical energy output of the rotator assembly based on the decreased rotational kinetic energy of the platen.
US11072045B2
A method and structure for compensating tolerances in assembling modules are provided. The method applies to a pressing fixture and a module with a baseline reference plane and an assembly baseline plane. The assembly baseline plane has at least three compensation baseline bumps, having the height greater than the compensation amount. The pressing fixture has a calibration reference plane. The method comprises: adjusting the position of the module or the pressing fixture to make the baseline reference plane parallel to the calibration reference plane; the pressing fixture using the calibration reference plane to press on the compensation baseline bumps, and changing the position of bump top of each compensation baseline bump; removing the pressing fixture from the compensation baseline bumps, and the plurality of the bump tops forming a preliminary baseline plane, and the preliminary baseline plane being parallel to the baseline reference plane.
US11072044B2
A method of braze repair for a superalloy material component. Following a brazing operation on the superalloy material, the component is subjected to an isostatic solution treatment, followed by a rapid cool down to ambient temperature under pressure The conditions of the isostatic solution treatment combined with the cool down at pressure function to both reduce porosity in the component and to solution treat the superalloy material, thereby optimizing superalloy properties without reintroducing porosity in the braze.
US11072035B2
An auxiliary welding heating system includes an induction heating coil disposed adjacent to a welding torch or plasma cutter. The auxiliary welding heating system further includes an induction power supply configured to generate an alternating current and a step-down transformer coupled to the induction power supply. The induction heating coil is coupled to the step-down transformer and is configured to receive the alternating current and induce eddy currents in a welding work piece to heat the welding work piece before an advancing welding arc or plasma cut to a homologous temperature of at least approximately 0.5.
US11072033B2
The present application provides an apparatus for automatically clearing away residual solder paste, comprising: a working platform for bearing a solder paste tub accommodating a solder paste nozzle, the solder paste nozzle having a solder paste nozzle mouth, the working platform having a solder paste through-hole for accommodating the solder paste nozzle mouth; and a gas channel disposed in the working platform, the gas channel comprising a gas inlet and a gas outlet, the gas inlet being configured to be in communication with a cleaning gas source, and the gas outlet being configured to blow gas towards the solder paste nozzle mouth accommodated in the solder paste through-hole, thereby cutting solder paste remaining at the solder paste nozzle mouth.
US11072031B1
An improved chop saw cutting deck is moveably attached to a chop saw base with a hinge mechanism. The axis of the hinge mechanism is perpendicular to the vertical axis of the chop saw's cutting wheel, thereby allowing a change to the angle of inclination between the cutting wheel and materials placed on the cutting deck. For certain material profiles, this alternate inclination angle presents a smaller material surface area to the cutting wheel, and translates to cooler, faster, and more efficient abrasive cutting action. The cutting deck is supported in its inclined position by a deck support means, and may be reconfigured back to a horizontal orientation for effective cutting of various other material profiles. In addition, the preferred location of the hinge axis provides a consistent, lateral line of elevation across the cutting deck, thereby assuring continuous contact of elongated materials with supplemental material supports, such as sawhorses, throughout the cutting deck's range of motion.
US11072028B2
The pneumatic drill has member defining an air input and an air output and a housing defining an internal cylindrical chamber having bearing surfaces having a through axis. A driven shaft is coupled to the tool engaging chuck that defines a plurality of longitudinal slots. The driven shaft is disposed within the chamber and has a longitudinal axis offset from the through axis. A plurality of vanes each being partially formed of graphite that are individually disposed within one of the plurality's of longitudinal slots. Two of the vanes, the housing, and the driven shaft define a moving compression chamber.
US11072024B1
An RF circuit for an electron beam device is formed with successive layers of fusible metal particles applied in layers and translated with respect to an electron beam. Segments of an electron device may be formed which include an open RF cavity at each end of the segment, which can be machined before the segments are brazed together. In one example, the electron beam device may have iron pole pieces assembled into the partially fused device to provide a magnetic circuit and support for subsequent layers of fused particles. The inner surfaces of the RF circuit structure may be smoothed using an etching or machining operation, and the segments may be brazed together to form a completed RF circuit structure with the magnetic pole pieces included in the monolithic structure segments.
US11072020B2
The present invention provides a spring manufacturing machine including a wire guide member configured to guide a wire along a conveying direction to a first base point or a second base point for forming a spring, and a pair of movable assemblies configured to allow the second base point to be located between the first base point and the pair of movable assemblies. Each of the movable assemblies comprises a mounting platform configured to move close to or away from the first base point or the second base point along the conveying direction. Each mounting platform has a recess, and two mounting platforms are adjacent to each other to allow their respective recesses to surround the second base point, so that the movement of the mounting platforms do not to interfere with operation at the second base point.
US11072017B2
A tool carrier for a clinching installation, having a housing having a longitudinal axis (L), in which housing a downholder which is impinged by a first compression spring, an outer die which is impinged by a second compression spring, and an inner die which is rigidly connected to the housing are disposed coaxially within one another so as to be routed out of the housing) by way of the free ends of said downholder and dies, is distinguished in that the first compression spring is disposed so as to be coaxial within the second compression spring.
US11072012B2
The invention relates to a method and a device for incremental forming of a metal workpiece, having at least one spindle, on which the workpiece is clamped, and at least one spindle drive, with which the at least one spindle is set in rotation with the workpiece and/or at least one forming roller is set in rotation relative to the workpiece, wherein the at least one forming roller is advanced radially and/or axially relative to the rotating workpiece by way of at least one actuator. According to the invention, a computer-based controller is provided which records multiple machine parameters via sensors, which parameters comprise at least a rotation speed of the spindle, a position of the forming roller and forming forces and/or an advancement speed of the forming roller, and process parameters and/or workpiece parameters are also recorded by the controller, and the controller creates at least one data set in which the machine parameters are assigned to the process and/or workpiece parameters.
US11072005B2
Apparatus and method for cleaning the inner surface of a pipeline from deposits and for forming a protective coating are disclosed. The apparatus includes a cleaning tool which is caused to move in the interior of the pipeline by a flow of a fluid, the cleaning tool comprising a plurality of guide discs engaging the pipeline surface and mounted along a longitudinal axis of the cleaning tool, an anode positioned inside the cleaning tool, and an impressed current source electrically connected to the anode and the interior of the pipeline, the interior of the pipeline acting as a cathode when current is applied from the current source so that ions flow from the anode, through the fluid, to the interior of the pipeline.
US11071995B2
A lateral applicator kit for a pipe has a first application unit and a second application unit that are configured to apply a primer material or other substance to the exterior and interior lateral surfaces of a pipe, respectively. The first application unit is configured to receive primer through a supply engagement feature, which is in fluid communication with a reservoir cavity internal to the first application unit and further in fluid communication with at least one perforated annular wall of an application receptacle configured to receive, and apply primer to, the exterior lateral surface of a pipe. The second application unit is similarly but inversely configured to apply primer to the interior lateral surface of a pipe by receiving primer into a supply receptacle, which is transferred through at least one spout set into and through an annular distributing container connected annularly around the supply receptacle.
US11071993B2
Methods and systems for filling a muffler body with a fibrous material prior to completing assembly of the muffler body are disclosed.
US11071992B2
A method for treating a substrate with a volatile liquid, crop-preservative formulation includes transporting a predetermined quantity of the formulation from a reservoir to an injection device and applying the predetermined quantity to the substrate. The substrate may thereafter be in proximity to a crop to be treated by the vapor from the formulation. The substrate is most conveniently a portion of a container in which the crop is stored or shipped.
US11071983B2
Apparatus and methods for determining whether a test compound induces cell activity, changes cell activity, prevents cell activity, or inhibits cell activity. An embodiment comprises placing a test compound solution in contact with a cell suspension media containing cells, diffusing the test compound solution into the cell suspension from one or more sides, and detecting activity in the cells with respect to their distance from the side from which the test compound is diffusing. Embodiments may provide an apparatus that allows a side source, a point source, or both, from which a test compound solution diffuses into a cell suspension media and contacts cells. Detecting cell activity may involve detecting activity in a first cell group proximate to the side from which the test compound is diffusing, and detecting activity in a second cell group farther than the first cell group from the side from which the test compound is diffusing.
US11071974B2
Multipart functionalized materials are shown that remove sulfites from beverages and in particular wine. The functionalized materials consist of a solid support material having the ability to link polycarbonyls or polyamines thereto. The polycarbonyls and polyamines remove free and bound sulfites when put in contact with the beverage. The polycarbonyl and polyamine functionalized materials can be used separately or mixed together for accomplishing sulfite removal.
US11071972B2
The present invention relates to a catalyst containing an active cobalt phase, deposited on a support comprising alumina, silica or silica-alumina, said support containing a mixed oxide phase containing cobalt and/or nickel, said catalyst has been prepared by introducing at least one ether organic compound comprising not more than two ether functions and not comprising a hydroxyl group. The invention also relates to the process for the preparation thereof, and to the use thereof in the field of Fischer-Tropsch synthesis processes.
US11071969B1
The present disclosure provides porous carbon-heteroatom-silicon inorganic/organic homogenous copolymeric hybrid materials, methods for their preparation, and uses thereof, e.g., as chromatographic separations materials. The present disclosure also provides methods of preparing porous inorganic/organic homogenous copolymeric hybrid materials, comprising two or more repeat units, comprising (a) preparing a polyoligomeric siloxane (POS) by partial condensation of tetraalkoxysilane, adding a heterocyclic silane, and further reacting the heterocyclic silane with the POS to thereby prepare a porous inorganic/organic homogenous copolymeric hybrid material, comprising a carbon-heteroatom-silicon functionality or (b) partially condensing an organic olefin, an alkenyl functionalized silane, an alkoxysilane, or a heterocyclic silane, or mixtures thereof, adding a heterocyclic silane, and further reacting the heterocyclic silane with the partially condensed polymer to thereby prepare a porous inorganic/organic homogenous copolymeric hybrid material comprising a carbon-heteroatom-silicon functionality.
US11071961B2
To provide a fluidized-bed reaction vessel and a trichlorosilane production method each of which can reduce corrosion and wear of a reaction container inner wall, a fluidized-bed reaction vessel causes metallurgical grade silicon powder and hydrogen chloride gas to react with each other for production of trichlorosilane. The fluidized-bed reaction vessel includes a plurality of ejection nozzles (20) standing on a distributor plate (11) as a bottom surface of a container body. The ejection nozzles (20) each have a gas ejection opening (22a) configured to allow hydrogen chloride gas to be ejected sideways. The plurality of ejection nozzles (20) include a first ejection nozzle (20a) adjacent to an outer wall (10a) of the container body, the first ejection nozzle (20a) having a gas ejection opening (22a) in such a pattern as to prevent hydrogen chloride gas from being ejected toward the outer wall (10a).
US11071960B2
The invention relates to a reaction container for stabilizing the temperature of a liquid mixture substances, the reaction container comprising an upper container part and a lower container part, in which the lower container part has an inner direct means of refrigeration and an outer indirect means of refrigeration in addition to an inner, direct means of heating and an outer, indirect means of heating.
US11071954B2
Provided is a porous membrane that can be manufactured in uncomplicated steps, has high hydrophilicity and water permeability, and exhibits excellent anti-fouling properties when used in a membrane bioreactor method (MBR method). The porous membrane of the present invention is a porous membrane containing polymer (A) and polymer (B), wherein the polymer (A) is a membrane-forming polymer, the polymer (B) is a polymer having a unit (b1) represented by formula (1) and a unit (b2) based on hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylate, and the concentration (mass %) of the unit (b1) is equal to or higher than the concentration (mass %) of the unit (b2) in the porous membrane.
US11071949B2
A system for cleaning feed water of variable quality, the system comprising an inlet for selectively delivering feed water (FW) to one or other of at least two feed chambers (2,4), each feed chamber having a delivery pipe (2i, 4i) for delivering feed water to a reverse osmosis or nanofiltration (8); a pump (6) to deliver the feed water from one of the chambers (2, 4) through its associated delivery pipe (2i, 4i) to the reverse osmosis or nanofiltration (8) to create a concentrated feed stream and a product water stream (PW); return pipes (2R, 4R) for selectively returning the concentrated feed stream to one or other of the at least two feed chambers (2, 4); a product water outlet for removal of the product water (PW); and means for switching the delivery of the concentrated feed stream between the selectable return pipes (2R, 4R) upon detection of a predetermined reduction in the efficiency of the RO or NF process within one or other of the feed chambers (2, 4). The pressure of the concentrated feed stream is reduced to atmospheric pressure prior to its delivery back to the chamber and the feed stream passes through a desaturation unit (20).
US11071938B2
A carbon dioxide capturing apparatus using cold heat of liquefied natural gas (LNG) includes a heat exchanger to cool primary coolant using heat exchange between the primary coolant and the LNG; a chiller connected to the heat exchanger and configured to discharge capturing coolant colder than the primary coolant by performing a heat exchange between the capturing coolant and a cooling material; and a capturing cooler configured to capture carbon dioxide contained in flue gas by performing a heat exchange between the capturing coolant discharged from the chiller and the flue gas. A power generation system includes an LNG storage facility; a power generation facility discharging flue gas; a unit for heat exchange between the LNG and a coolant to regasify the LNG and cool the coolant; and a unit for capturing carbon dioxide contained in the flue gas by heat exchange between the discharged flue gas and the coolant.
US11071936B2
A filter for cleaning air includes: a housing; layers of a filter medium, the layers being arranged in the housing; and separator plates. One separator plate is arranged between each two layers of the filter medium. The separator plates are provided with a perforation. In an embodiment, the separator plates are fluted, corrugated, or folded.
US11071925B2
A multilayer thin film evaporator for steam heating includes a housing. A three-layer evaporation cylindrical core arranged in a nested manner with one layer placed inside the other is configured inside the housing. A limiting plate is configured to fix the three-layer evaporation cylindrical core. A feeding tube, a heating medium inlet tube, and a heating medium outlet tube are sequentially fixed under the limiting plate in a crosswise manner. A rotary rack spindle passing through a center of the three-layer evaporation cylindrical core, a rotary rack fixed on the rotary rack spindle and capable of rotating with the rotary rack spindle, and a motor component connected to a top end of the rotary rack spindle and capable of driving the rotary rack spindle to rotate are further provided.
US11071910B1
A system includes at least one hardware processor in communication with a user computing device associated with a user and a memory storing instructions. When executed by the at least one hardware processor, the instructions cause the at least one hardware processor to perform operations including receiving gaming behavior data associated with the user playing a computer game on the user computing device, the gaming behavior data includes one or more of session-based behavior data, game-selection behavior data, and ancillary gaming behavior data, determining a first trait of the user based on the gaming behavior data, and automatically computing a financial risk factor associated with the user based on the determined first trait.
US11071908B2
Methods for hosting low-latency streaming interactive audio/video (A/V) include executing one or more video games or applications on a server communicatively coupled to a data network. Packet streams are received from a plurality of users and routed to the one or more video games. The packet streams include user control input that are used to compute A/V data in response. The A/V data are received from the video games or applications. Portions of the A/V data are compressed in parallel using processing units resulting in low-latency streaming compressed A/V data. The low-latency streaming compressed A/V data are routed to each of the users over a corresponding data network communication channel. The executing of video games, receiving of packet streams and A/V data, compressing portions of the A/V data and routing the compressed A/V data are performed with a latency such that at least one user has the perception that the controlled video game is responding instantly.
US11071904B2
An automatic playing card shuffler system including an automatic playing card shuffler and deck of modified playing cards. The modifications relate to asymmetrical information on each card face, back and/or side for identifying playing card orientation. The asymmetrical information is discernable by one or more image-capturing and/or sensors associated with the automatic playing card shuffler. Accordingly, the orientation of the playing cards may be monitored by the automatic playing card shuffler. The orientation data can be analyzed by a processor of the automatic playing card shuffler to determine unusual orientation patterns indicative of advantage play or cheats. Another version utilizes two distinct marks to identify important cards and less important cards.
US11071898B2
A ball sports, ball striking, practice and teaching aid which provides a unique two ball, ball striking practice design, that includes a fixed yet displaceable and self resetting ball and a second free to fly ball that is catapulted or tossed by using the energy that is provided by the force of impact between the fixed ball and a ball striking implement, for example a tennis racket or baseball bat, the fixed ball is situated at the uppermost end of a rigid, geniculated, longitudinally governed, displaceable, and self resetting wand, which crowns a rigid, unyielding, upright post that is affixed to a portable base of sufficient mass and weight to hold the upright post firmly in a perpendicular to the base, upright position.
US11071896B2
A construct for a hockey blade that includes a foam core. The foam core includes a first core face, a second core face, and a bottom core edge and a top core edge. Multiple pins are injected into the foam core, and one or more layers of resin preimpregnated tape are wrapped around the foam before forming a hockey blade structure in a heated mold.
US11071890B2
A resistance exercise system having, in certain embodiments, a DC power supply system, a DC motor connected to the DC power supply system, a drive section connected to a drive element, a resistance delivery element connected to the drive element, and an extractable exercise resistance delivery section, a predetermined variable resistance section intermediate the DC power supply system and DC motor, an electrical condition sensor, and a variable resistance section control in communication with the electrical condition sensor and the predetermined variable resistance section. In some embodiments, the resistance exercise system includes a computing facility providing the ability to configure the exercise system to provide predetermined static or variable exercise resistance during exercise, and for example, during a positive or negative exercise stroke. Some embodiments allow users to create and, if desired, display varying and complex resistance exercise routines with or without use of resistance weights.
US11071885B2
A system and method for a container for exercise mats that operates as a massage roller which has a quick and easy to use closure and a carrying system that does not impede the self-myofascial release process and is used for carrying the container.
US11071871B2
An intracardiac system has an intracardiac pacemaker and a cover. The cover at least partially surrounds the pacemaker. An inner surface of the cover, which faces the pacemaker, includes an inner layer with bioresorbable material. There are also described methods for implanting and explanting an intracardiac pacemaker.
US11071870B2
A ventricularly implantable medical device that includes a sensing module that is configured to gather information during a cardiac cycle and to identify a cardiac interval based at least on part on the gathered information. Control circuitry in the implantable medical device is configured to deliver a ventricular pacing therapy to a patient's heart, wherein the ventricular pacing therapy is time dependent, at least in part, on the identified cardiac interval.
US11071867B2
An implantable medical system for intra-body communication, comprising an implantable first device. The first device comprises a plurality of capacitors and a DC blocking capacitor. The first device is configured to discharge the plurality of capacitors via the DC blocking capacitor in an encoded sequence to generate a signal.
US11071865B2
An implantable cardiac rhythm management medical device is configured to switch from a first operating mode to a second, ventricular assist device operating mode for detecting cardiac arrhythmias and controlling delivery of anti-arrhythmia therapy during the ventricular assist device operating mode. The implantable medical device may receive a command from another medical device indicating co-implantation of a ventricular assist device with the implantable medical device in a patient and switch from the first mode of operating to the second mode of operating in response to receiving the command. Switching from the first mode to the second mode may include adjusting at least one control parameter used for controlling an electrical stimulation therapy deliverable by the implantable cardiac rhythm management medical device.
US11071863B2
The techniques described herein are example medical devices, systems, and methods for sensing evoked potentials in a tissue of the patient, and, based on the sensed evoked potentials, adjusting one or more parameters defining the electrical stimulation therapy delivered to the patient. In one example, a system controls delivery of an electrical stimulation therapy from an implantable medical device to a patient according to at least one therapy program, wherein the electrical stimulation therapy is configured to provide pain relief to the patient without substantially resulting in paresthesia perceived by the patient. The system periodically adjusts the electrical stimulation therapy delivered to the patient in response to detected compound action potentials, wherein the adjustment to the electrical stimulation therapy is configured to eliminate action potentials in tissue of the patient evoked by the delivered electrical stimulation, and wherein the controlling and the adjusting are performed via one or more processors.
US11071859B2
An electroporation device with a needle array removably attached thereto, the needle array having a body, a shroud movable with respect to the body between a rest position and one or more actuated positions, and an auto-lock assembly. Where the auto-lock assembly is adjustable between a locked configuration, where the shroud is not movable with respect to the body, and an unlocked configuration, where the shroud is movable with respect to the body, and where biasing the shroud from the rest position to the one or more actuated positions and back to the rest position adjusts the auto-lock from the unlocked configuration to the locked configuration.
US11071858B2
A hermetically sealed filtered feedthrough assembly attachable to an AIMD includes an insulator hermetically sealing a ferrule opening of an electrically conductive ferrule with a gold braze. A co-fired and electrically conductive sintered paste is disposed within and hermetically seals at least one via hole extending in the insulator. At least one capacitor is disposed on the device side. An active electrical connection electrically connects a capacitor active metallization and the sintered paste. A ground electrical connection electrically connects the gold braze to a capacitor ground metallization, wherein at least a portion of the ground electrical connection physically contacts the gold braze. The dielectric of the capacitor may be less than 1000 k. The ferrule may include an integrally formed peninsula portion extending into the ferrule opening spatially aligned with a ground passageway and metallization of an internally grounded feedthrough capacitor. The sintered paste may be of substantially pure platinum.
US11071851B2
A steam therapy equipment including a vessel for heating a mixture of water and organic materials, a compressor to inject pressurized air into the vessel producing pressurized steam. The pressurized steam is conducted into the equipment via one or more valves. The therapy equipment is formed from at least one panel and may include a supporting frame. The therapy equipment includes a temperature sensor to measure the temperature inside the therapy equipment when pressurized steam is admitted via the valves. A patient enters the equipment and is exposed to the pressurized steam, causing dilation of the skin pores of the patient, whereby toxins are removed from the patient. One or more applicators may conduct pressurized steam to specific portions of the body of the patient. The patient may be provided with a portion of the mixture to consume as part of the steam therapy treatment.
US11071848B2
A receiver for securing at least one tube in a patient includes a shell operable in a first position for receiving the tube and a second position for securing the tube, and a compressible member supported by the shell for contacting the tube in the second position. A bridle looped around the patient's septum may also be secured in the second position. A system for securing the tube includes a receiver and an applier. The applier supports the receiver in the first position and transitions the receiver from the first position to the second position after the tube is positioned within the receiver. A method of securing a tube includes positioning the tube in a patient, placing a flexible member around the patient's nasal septum, receiving the tube and flexible member in a shell supported by an applier, and operating the applier to move the shell to a closed position.
US11071844B2
The present invention includes an embolic protection device comprising a catheter having a self-expanding embolic filter that is disposed around the catheter proximal to a distal portion, wherein the embolic filter comprises a frame, and the frame defines an opening of the embolic filter that faces the distal end of the catheter; a deployment mechanism that is disposed around at least a portion of the catheter, wherein the deployment mechanism is longitudinally movable with respect to the catheter, the deployment mechanism is configured to contain the embolic filter in a collapsed configuration, and the embolic filter is configured to self-expand upon the longitudinal retraction of the deployment mechanism; and a wire coupled to the frame for expanding the size or diameter of the embolic filter opening.
US11071842B2
A system for humidifying oxygen for low-flow oxygen therapy includes a volume-adaptable water reservoir that contains, in addition to water, a water-vapor-permeable membrane.
US11071833B2
An attachable needle assembly (2) for use on a medication delivery pen (4), the needle assembly (2) comprising a housing (10) enclosing a spike housing (8) configured to (a) engage the medication delivery pen (4), and (b) pierce a reservoir septum (6) of the medication delivery pen (4), a communication septum (72, 76) of the needle assembly (2) defining a septum chamber (80, 82), the septum chamber (80, 82) being in fluid communication with the spike housing (8), a plurality of needles (18) disposed in the communication septum (72, 76), a selection ring insert (30) that rotates and identifies a needle (24) of the plurality of needles (18), and a selection ring (36) exposes the selected needle (24) and moves the selected needle (24) into fluid communication with the septum chamber (80, 82), wherein when the housing (10) is in a first position, the plurality of needles (18) is not exposed, and when the housing (10) is in a second position, one of the plurality of needles (24) is in fluid communication with the septum chamber (80, 82) and exposed for medicament delivery.
US11071828B2
A colored seal system, method, and apparatus. The colored seal system includes a barrel having a delivery end and an open end. The barrel includes multiple markings. The barrel markings include at least measurements and multiple fill indicators. The colored seal system includes a colored seal slidably positioned within the barrel for moving a delivery agent. The colored seal is visible within at least one of the fill indicators.
US11071825B2
An automatic mixing device, an actuating device having integrated plunger and configured to be removably mounted to the automatic mixing device, and a retractable syringe having the automatic mixing device are provided. The actuating device has an initially compressed spring and a trigger member that is rotatable to initiate spring decompression to drive depression of a mixing plunger seal of the automatic mixing device. Another seal located in an outer chamber of the mixing device is capable of axial movement upon depression of the mixing plunger, from a first position in sealing engagement with one or more apertures in an inner barrel to a second position intermediate the apertures and vents in an outer barrel. This allows depression of the mixing plunger to force a first substance from the outer chamber through the apertures to mix with a second substance in an inner chamber of the inner barrel. The mixed substance in the inner barrel is then delivered by the syringe with subsequent needle retraction.
US11071822B2
A medicament delivery device extends along a longitudinal axis and includes: a generally tubular elongated housing having a proximal and a distal end, where the generally tubular elongated housing is arranged to accommodate a medicament container; a drive unit comprising a drive element and plunger rod operably arranged to act on the medicament container; a tubular element rotatable rotatably arranged in relation to the housing and operably arranged to the plunger rod, where the plunger rod includes at least one holding member and where the tubular element includes at least one arm extending generally transversal to the longitudinal axis of the device, wherein the at least one arm is arranged to engage the at least one holding member on plunger rod to releasable hold the drive unit in an energy accumulated state.
US11071820B2
Infusion device constituted to detect an abnormal condition during bolus injection An infusion device (1) for administering a medical fluid to a patient (4) comprises a pumping mechanism (12) for pumping a medical fluid through an infusion line (3) towards a patient (4), a sensor device (120) for measuring a measurement value indicative of a pressure in the infusion line (3), and a control device (13) being constituted to control the pumping mechanism (12) for injecting a bolus of medical fluid into the infusion line (3). Herein, the control device (13) is constituted to determine, dependent on an injection of a bolus into the infusion line (3), a control parameter taking a change in pressure during injection of the bolus into account and to derive, from the control parameter, the presence of an abnormal condition during the injection of the bolus. In this way an infusion device is provided which in a reliable manner allows for the detection of an abnormal condition during the administration of a bolus.
US11071808B2
Various irrigation fluid containment systems and components are disclosed. In some embodiments, the irrigation fluid containment system comprises a medical kit and/or an irrigation kit. In some embodiments, the irrigation fluid containment system comprises a medical basin and/or an irrigation basin. In some embodiments, the irrigation fluid containment system comprises an irrigation shield. In some embodiments, the irrigation fluid containment system comprises a suction hose.
US11071794B2
The present invention relates to deuterated compounds according to Formula I-A, Formula II-A, Formula II-D, and Formula III-A. These compounds can be used as PET imaging agents for evaluating Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer Disease, and for determining specific serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRIi) activity for treatment of depression. The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising a pharmaceutical acceptable carrier and a compound of Formula I-A, Formulae II-A, Formula II-D, or Formula III-A, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US11071793B2
Provided are imaging agents comprising a compound of Formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and methods of their use.
US11071787B2
The present invention is directed to compositions comprising topiramate and a sulfoalkyl ether cyclodextrin, and methods of making and using the same.
US11071779B2
Some aspects of this disclosure provide engineered exopolysaccharide-associated proteins, engineered bacteria expressing such proteins, and engineered biofilms comprising such proteins. Some aspects of this disclosure provide methods for engineering exopolysaccharide-associated proteins, and for the generation of engineered bacteria and biofilms expressing or comprising such proteins. Some aspects of this disclosure provide compositions and methods useful for the generation of vaccines and the vaccination of subjects, for delivering molecules of interest to a target site, for example, a surface, for purification of molecules of interest, for example, from bioreactors comprising engineered bacteria as provided herein, and for bioremediation applications, such as the cleanup of environmental pollutants.
US11071778B2
The present invention relates to a combination product for use in eliciting an immune response against a tumor in a subject, said product comprising: —an immunogenic composition comprising a non-human antigenic polypeptide as an immunogen, or comprising a nucleic acid encoding said immunogen, and optionally one or more pharmaceutically-acceptable carriers, adjuvants, excipients and/or diluents; and—said non-human antigenic polypeptide, or a nucleic acid encoding said polypeptide; wherein said polypeptide or said nucleic acid is prepared for intratumoral delivery. The invention also provides fusion proteins and protein-protein conjugates that can be used in the medical methods described herein.
US11071776B2
The present invention encompasses the surprising finding that nanoparticle compositions can have beneficial effects on allergy even when prepared without a known specific allergy therapeutic. The present invention provides such nanoparticle compositions. In some embodiments, provided nanoparticles are associated with functional elements that cause the nanoparticles to mimic bacterial cells. The present invention encompasses the surprising finding that provided nanoparticles may be useful for treatment and/or prevention of multiple different allergies in a single patient. The present invention encompasses the recognition that provided empty nanoparticles may be useful as a “pan-allergy” therapeutic and/or vaccine.
US11071773B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US11071766B2
A strawberry plant extract, an extraction method and a novel use thereof are disclosed. The extraction method comprises: darkly incubating a strawberry plant between the anthesis stage and the first harvest stage, harvesting the strawberry plant with the green-white, white or white-red color of the strawberry fruit, and extracting the strawberry plant with ethanol to obtain the strawberry plant extract. The invention further relates to the use of a strawberry plant extract for the manufacture of a composition, wherein the composition is for inhibiting the secretion of cell promoting inflammatory mediators.
US11071762B1
Use of an olive oil milling by-product (Alperujo or Olive Pomace) for the co-processing and co-extraction of natural compounds from medicinal and aromatic plants, fruits and agricultural waste, algae and other microorganisms. Separation and stabilization of fractions containing either hydrophilic or liposoluble compounds. The plants may include Cannabis.
US11071756B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US11071742B2
This invention relates to methods and compositions for use improving cell viability, particularly neural cell viability, and more particularly to methods and compositions for use improving cell viability by reducing reactive oxygen metabolite-mediated oxidative damage in a cell, regulating redox homeostasis in a cell, or reducing mitochondrial dysfunction in a cell. The invention further relates to the administration of the bile acid tauroursodeoxycholic acid (TUDCA) in combination with phenylbutyric Acid (PBA) to improve cell viability, and treat at least one symptom associated with, prevent the time of onset of, or slow the development of a disease related to oxidative stress.
US11071732B2
The inventive subject matter is directed to compositions and methods for sterile and storage stable low-dose atropine formulations with improved stability. Most preferably, the compositions presented herein are substantially preservative free and exhibit less than 0.35% tropic acid from degradation of atropine. Advantageously, contemplated formulations are also substantially free of preservatives.
US11071729B2
The present invention relates to novel compounds, in particular novel pyridinone derivatives according to Formula (I) wherein all radicals are as defined in the application and claims. The compounds according to the invention are positive allosteric modulators of metabotropic receptors—subtype 2 (“mGluR2”) which are useful for the treatment or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders associated with glutamate dysfunction and diseases in which the mGluR2 subtype of metabotropic receptors is involved. In particular, such diseases are central nervous system disorders selected from the group of anxiety, schizophrenia, migraine, depression, and epilepsy. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions and processes to prepare such compounds and compositions, as well as to the use of such compounds for the prevention and treatment of such diseases in which mGluR2 is involved.
US11071727B2
Disclosed are methods and pharmaceutical compositions for treating a cancer in a subject in need thereof, the cancer characterized by proteolytic cleavage by taspase1 of the mixed-lineage leukemia 1 gene product (MLL1), the method comprising administering to the subject a therapeutic agent that inhibits cleavage by taspase1 of MLL1. Suitable therapeutic agents may include agents that inhibit the kinase activity of casein kinase II (CKII). Cancer treated by the disclosed methods and pharmaceutical compositions may include leukemia such as Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) and/or Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) and in particular, leukemia characterized by rearrangements in MLL1.
US11071720B2
The present invention relates to the treatment of mixed lineage leukemia. In particular, the present invention relates to therapies involving the induction of proteolysis of the MLL fusion proteins that result from the chromosomal translocations affecting the MLL gene at 11q23.
US11071717B2
A bandage for delivering an anesthetic through a patient's skin at the site of a hypodermic injection prior to the administration of the hypodermic injection to alleviate pain due to the injection. The bandage has a first layer having a perimeter area adhesive, an anesthetic delivery layer disposed on the first layer inside the perimeter area and containing an anesthetic for delivery into the patient's skin, a first peel-off layer covering the anesthetic delivery layer for keeping the anesthetic delivery layer sterile until the peel-off layer is removed, the first layer being placed on the skin of the patient at the future site of the injection with the anesthetic delivery layer and adhesive being in contact with the skin of the patient thereby to adhere the bandage to the site and allow the anesthetic delivery layer to deliver the anesthetic into the skin, wherein the anesthetic delivery layer comprises a material for accelerating the delivery of the anesthetic into the patient's skin, the anesthetic delivery layer adapted to receive the injection therethrough after the skin has undergone numbing by the anesthetic.
US11071712B2
There is provided in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the invention, a device and a method for controlled extraction of at least one active substance from at least one type of plant matter by application of heat, the device comprising: a heating element adapted to apply heat to an area of the plant matter to extract the substance; and a mechanism adapted for moving the plant matter relative to the heating element. Optionally, the active substance is a restricted substance. There is also provided in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method of monitoring and controlling inhalation of a restricted substance. There is provided in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method of manufacturing a tape of plant matter comprising an active substance.
US11071710B2
Breath freshening formulations comprising licorice extract and menthol are provided. The breath freshening formulations can provide breath freshening in a confectionary product, through the synergy between licorice extract and menthol. Methods of reducing sulfurous compounds over time via a chewy confectionary product are also provided.
US11071709B2
A traditional Chinese medicine plant composition, comprising in parts by weight: 20-60 parts of Astragalus membranacus, 10-30 parts of Radix sileris, 10-30 parts of Rhizoma gastrodiae, 5-20 parts of Calendula officinalis, and 5-15 parts of Albizzia julibrissin. The traditional Chinese medicine plant composition has functions of relieving allergies, anti-Allergy itching, eliminating redness and swelling, and allergy recovery, and is safe and does not cause irritation, can be used in skin care products. The traditional Chinese medicine plant composition is prepared by crushing plant raw materials and then extracting same.
US11071703B2
The invention relates to a cosmetic composition comprising: —one or more anionic surfactants of carboxylate type, chosen from the compounds of formula (I), in a content of greater than or equal to 3% by weight relative to the total weight of the composition, and—one or more anionic surfactants of (C8-C22) acylisethionate type, in a content ranging from 2.5% to 8% by weight relative to the total weight of the composition. This composition is intended for the cosmetic treatment of keratin materials, and in particular for washing the hair. It has excellent foaming power.
US11071692B1
A container comprises a nipple, a cap, a ball, a slide connecting a short tube and a long tube. The ball travels inside the slide. The short tube has a short tube bottom and is used for the lying position. The long tube has a long tube bottom and is used for the sitting position. The slide has a slide bottom. The slide bottom and the short tube bottom are interchangeable. When the ball seals the upper portion of the long tube, opening the short tube for fluid flow at the lying position. When the ball seals the short tube bottom, the short tube is closed opening the long tube for the fluid flow through the long tube at the sitting position. The nipple draws in the fluid from either the short or long tube depending upon the position a user is taking.
US11071689B2
Coated pharmaceutical packages are disclosed. The coated pharmaceutical packages may include a glass body formed from one of a borosilicate glass composition that meets Type 1 criteria according to USP <660> or an alkali aluminosilicate glass having a Class HGA 1 hydrolytic resistance when tested according to the ISO 720-1985 testing standard. A low-friction coating may be positioned on at least a portion of the first surface of the glass body the low-friction coating may include a polymer and a coupling agent disposed between the polymer and the first surface of the glass body. A coefficient of friction of the portion of the coated pharmaceutical package with the low-friction coating is at least 20% less than a coefficient of friction of a surface of an uncoated pharmaceutical package formed from the same glass composition.
US11071686B2
An automatic cardiopulmonary resuscitation device includes a movable chest compressor for repeatedly pressing a patient's chest at a preset depth and cycle, a cardiac output measurement unit for measuring a cardiac output of the patient in accordance with the pressurization of the chest compressor and a processor for changing pressing locations by performing control such that the chest compressor moves according to a preset method.
US11071682B2
Stimulation devices and methods of use are described herein. An example stimulation device configured to stimulate a portion of a body of a user comprises a housing that includes a casing and a covering. The casing includes a nozzle, a motor disposed within the casing configured to generate stimulation patterns, a drive shaft connected to the motor, a sensor configured to detect changes in the rotation of the draft shaft, a controller, and a battery. The covering covers a portion of the casing.
US11071667B2
A hospital bed includes a base, a lifting mechanism, a rotating frame configured to rotate horizontally relative to the base, and a patient support surface pivotally secured to the rotating frame. The patient support surface includes a back section, a seat section, and foot section that articulate relative to each other. The patient support surface translates from a bed configuration to a side-egress chair or stand assist configuration. The foot section includes first, second, and third panels operably connected together and that are configured to move relative to each other in substantially parallel overlapping planes between an extended configuration when the patient support surface is in a bed configuration and a retracted configuration when the patient support surface is in a chair configuration. Contact of the foot section with a floor forces the first, second, and third panels to move to the retracted configuration.
US11071661B2
A first transport apparatus includes a deck for supporting a patient thereon and a lift mechanism supporting the deck. The deck is removable from the lift mechanism for use as a second transport apparatus or part of a second transport apparatus. The first transport apparatus further includes an electrically powered device at the first transport apparatus, and a user input device for wireless control of the electrically powered device, which is operable at or near the first transport apparatus and the second transport apparatus.
US11071655B2
Apparatus and methods are provided for folding discrete items such as diapers at high speeds. Discrete items are conveyed in a machine direction toward a pair of engaging members rotating in the machine direction and first carrying a top side of a leading edge of the discrete item with a first engaging member away from the conveyor, and then carrying a bottom side of the leading edge with a second engaging member back towards the conveyor. The diaper fold is created at a contact point with a folding finger which travels rotationally and straight in a fixed orientation about a travel path into and out of contact with the diaper.
US11071654B2
The present disclosure relates to assembling elastic laminates that may be used to make absorbent article components. Methods herein may include an anvil adapted to rotate about an axis of rotation, wherein first and second spreader mechanisms adjacent the anvil roll are axially and angularly displaced from each other with respect to the axis of rotation. During the assembly process, a substrate may be advanced in a machine direction onto the rotating anvil. The first spreader mechanism stretches a first elastic material in the cross direction, and the second spreader mechanism stretches a second elastic material in the cross direction. The stretched first and second elastic materials advance from the spreader mechanisms and onto the substrate on the anvil roll. The combined and elastic materials may then be ultrasonically bonded together on the anvil to form at least one elastic laminate.
US11071650B2
An exemplary eyewear system includes a user interface and a composite lens. A first layer of the composite lens changes opacity in response to a signal. A second layer of the composite lens is a transparent display. The eyewear system further includes a camera, a processing device, and a memory. The processing device receives input via the user interface and, in response to the received input, sends a signal to the first layer of the composite lens to change the opacity of the first layer to cause the composite lens to be at least partially opaque, activates the camera, enhances video feed captured by the camera to increase the contrast of at least a portion of each of a plurality of frames of the video feed, and displays the enhanced video feed in real time using the second layer of the composite lens.
US11071628B2
A linking member extends from a first linking site of a longitudinal member to a second linking site of the longitudinal member. An anchor driver is configured to anchor portions of the longitudinal member to tissue using tissue anchors. A distal portion is anchorable to a first tissue location while the first linking site is within a catheter. While the distal portion is anchored to the first location, and the second linking site is within the catheter, a second portion is advanceable distally out of the catheter and is anchorable to a second tissue location. While the second portion is anchored to the second location, the second linking site and a third portion are advanceable distally out of the catheter. After the second linking site has been advanced out of the catheter, the third portion is anchorable to a third tissue location. Other embodiments are also described.
US11071620B2
A stent-graft assembly is provided for a variety of medical treatments. The stent-graft assembly includes a stent disposed to and attached between an inner layer of graft material and an outer layer of graft material. One of both of the graft layers includes one or more of a depression, dimple or detent that increases the localized surface area of the graft in one or more portions of the stent otherwise susceptible to graft stretching in the absence of the depression, dimple or detent. There is also described a method of forming dimples in selective locations on one or port graft layers in one or more locations relative to a portion of the stent where a portion of the graft may be susceptible to stretching or tearing during crimping or loading operations.
US11071614B2
A measuring apparatus for measuring an occlusal distance and/or a space of a missing tooth comprises a connecting rod and a measuring head disposed at an upper end of the connecting rod, the measuring head comprises a first measuring ruler and a second measuring ruler perpendicular to the first measuring ruler, a lower end of the second measuring ruler and one end of the first measuring ruler are connected to the connecting rod. The occlusal distance checking can be performed simply and directly by using the first measuring ruler to directly compare whether it can pass through the occlusion gap in the region to be repaired, the gap of the single missing tooth analysis is performed easily and directly by using the second measuring ruler to directly compare whether it can pass the gap in the measuring region to be repaired.
US11071609B2
A scanning object carrier (1), which is provided for installation on a scanner rocker (2) of a scanning device (3) for scanning at least one, in particular dental, object (20), wherein the scanning object carrier (1) includes a base body (4) and at least one fastening device (5) for fastening the base body (4) to the scanner rocker (2) and at least one object fixing device (6) for fixing the object (20) to the scanning object carrier (1), wherein the object fixing device (6) is mounted in a pivotable manner on the base body (4) relative to the base body (4), and wherein the object fixing device (6) is mounted in a pivotable manner on the base body (4) between two end positions (7, 8) by freely following gravity.
US11071598B2
A robotic surgical instrument comprising: a shaft; an articulation at a distal end of the shaft for articulating an end effector, the articulation driveable by pairs of driving elements; and an instrument interface at a proximal end of the shaft, the instrument interface comprising an internal portion which is within the projected profile of the shaft and an external portion which is outside of the projected profile of the shaft, the instrument interface comprising instrument interface elements for driving pairs of driving elements, wherein a first instrument interface element engages a first pair of driving elements in the internal portion.
US11071597B2
A computer-implemented system includes an assistant interface for providing remote medical assistance to aid a patient in performing various aspects of a rehabilitation regimen for a body part comprising a joint, a bone, or a muscle group. The assistant interface is configured to communicate, via a network connection, a telemedicine signal with the patient interface. The telemedicine signal is configured to control the patient interface and/or a treatment apparatus configured to be manipulated by the patient to perform the rehabilitation regimen. The patient interface and the treatment apparatus are at a patient location geographically separate from a location of the assistant interface. The telemedicine signal includes one or more of an audio signal, an audiovisual signal, an interface control signal for controlling a function of the patient interface, and/or an apparatus control signal for changing an operating parameter of the treatment apparatus.
US11071590B2
A surgical system and method for facilitating ad-hoc intraoperative planning of a surgical step to be performed at a target site, the system comprising a digitization device, a navigation system, and a computing device. The digitization device intraoperatively facilitates establishment of one or more local virtual references relative to the target site. The navigation system tracks states of the digitization device. The computing device is coupled to the navigation system and comprises one or more processors and a non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon a computer-aided design (CAD) program. When executed by the one or more processors, the CAD program is configured to generate a virtual reference frame, register the one or more local virtual references within the virtual reference frame, and enable arrangement of different geometrical design objects within the virtual reference frame relative to one or more registered local virtual references to intraoperatively plan the surgical step.
US11071587B2
Exemplary methods and devices can be provided for improving the appearance of dermal melasma. This can be done, e.g., focusing electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength between about 600 nm and 850 nm into a region of the pigmented dermal tissue at a depth between about 150 and 400 microns, using a lens arrangement having a large numerical aperture between about 0.5 and 0.9. The exemplary local dwell time of the focused radiation can be less than a few milliseconds, and a local fluence provided in the focal region can be between about 50 and 500 J/cm2. The focal region can be scanned through the dermal tissue at speeds on the order of a few cm/s. Such parameters can provide sufficient energy absorption by pigmented cells in the dermis to disrupt them while avoiding damage to the overlying tissue and unpigmented dermal tissue.
US11071575B2
Various torque-limiting screwdriver devices, systems, and methods are disclosed. The screwdriver can include a body, a motor that is configured to rotate a screw engaged with the screwdriver, and a processor configured to control operation of the screwdriver. The screwdriver can have torque-limiting functionality, such as by monitoring the amount of torque applied to the screw and reducing or stopping rotation of the screw when certain torque-limiting criteria are met. In some embodiments, the screwdriver can be switched between manual operation by a user, and automated operation by a motor within the screwdriver. In some embodiments, the screwdriver can be attached to a robotic arm.
US11071541B2
A loading unit including a shipping member is provided. The loading unit includes a housing, a staple pushing assembly, a knife assembly, and a staple cartridge. The shipping member is configured to be selectively secured to the housing of the loading unit and prevents advancement of the staple pushing assembly and the knife assembly. The shipping member also retains staples within the staple cartridge.
US11071531B2
A system for performing a surgical procedure includes a bronchoscope, monitoring equipment coupled to the bronchoscope, a tracking system, a positioning assembly, and a biopsy tool. The biopsy tool includes an elongated flexible body extending from a proximal end to a distal end and a biopsy member formed on the distal end of the elongated flexible body. The biopsy member includes a tissue-receiving portion defining an opening including sharpened edges. The sharpened edges are disposed on the interior perimeter of the opening and are capable of cutting tissue. A biopsy tool is also provided.
US11071525B2
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and a method for controlling the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus. The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: a processor for executing by a program: a first calculating function of, based on a first echo signal of first ultrasound transmitted to biological tissue in a subject to be examined, calculating a value relating to elasticity of said biological tissue; and a second calculating function of calculating a value of attenuation of ultrasound in said biological tissue; and a display device on which a first image produced based on a first two-dimensional (2D) color map CM1 is displayed, wherein said color map CM1 defines a display mode according to the value relating to elasticity of said biological tissue and the value of attenuation in said biological tissue.
US11071507B2
A method and system is disclosed for acquiring image data of a subject. The image data can be collected with an imaging system in a selected manner and/or motion. More than one projection may be combined to generate and create a selected view of the subject.
US11071502B2
In a method and apparatus for characterizing an obstacle within an examination object using a medical image data set by the use of a database containing at least one data class, a trained artificial neural network defines and develops relationships between different obstacles, features and medical imaging data sets. A data entry of a data class is assigned by the neural network to the obstacle within the examination object and the obstacle within the examination object is characterized in an electronic output by this data entry.
US11071501B2
Systems and methods for analyzing pathologies utilizing quantitative imaging are presented herein. Advantageously, the systems and methods of the present disclosure utilize a hierarchical analytics framework that identifies and quantify biological properties/analytes from imaging data and then identifies and characterizes one or more pathologies based on the quantified biological properties/analytes. This hierarchical approach of using imaging to examine underlying biology as an intermediary to assessing pathology provides many analytic and processing advantages over systems and methods that are configured to directly determine and characterize pathology from underlying imaging data.
US11071500B2
This disclosure is directed to techniques for identifying false detection of asystole in a cardiac electrogram that include determining whether at least one of a plurality of false asystole detection criteria are satisfied. In some examples, the plurality of false asystole detection criteria includes a first false asystole detection criterion including a reduced amplitude threshold for detecting cardiac depolarizations in the cardiac electrogram, and a second false asystole detection criterion for detecting decaying noise in the cardiac electrogram.
US11071494B2
Multi-modal sensing relating to joint acoustic emission and joint bioimpedance. Custom-design analog electronics and electrodes provide high resolution sensing of bioimpedance, microphones and their front-end electronics for capturing sound signals from the joints, rate sensors for identifying joint motions (linear and rotational), and a processor unit for interpretation of the signals. These components are packed into a wearable form factor, which also encapsulates the hardware required to minimize the negative effects of motion artifacts on the signals.
US11071484B2
A method, system, and computer program product for limiting the amount of electromagnetic frequency emissions from a mobile device in a time of high anxiety. The method may include determining whether a user is awaiting a first notification on a mobile device. The method may also include estimating an anxiety level of the user based on the determining. The method may also include determining whether the anxiety level is above a threshold anxiety level. The method may also include calculating, in response to determining that the anxiety level is above the threshold anxiety level, a ping-pong rate for the mobile device. The method may also include reducing the ping-pong rate.
US11071482B2
A lancet device includes a housing, a removable front cap mounted to the housing, a lancet holding member, a trigger and an arming system comprising a grippable cocking member structured and arranged to place the lancet device in a trigger-set or armed position. A depth adjustment system includes a member that is at least slidable and partially rotatably mounted and that has an axis of rotation arranged substantially parallel to a center axis of the lancet holding member. An ejection system includes an ejector having a portion extending outside a sidewall opening of the housing and being located closer to a front end of the housing than to a rear end of the housing. The sidewall opening of the housing is arranged on an area of the housing located between the trigger and a wall of the housing located opposite the trigger. The ejection system is structured and arranged to at least one of prevent axial movement of the lancet holding member or remove or eject a lancet from the lancet holding member.
US11071478B2
Systems, devices and methods are provided for inserting at least a portion of an in vivo analyte sensor, such as a dermal sensor, for sensing an analyte level in a bodily fluid of a subject. An applicator is positioned against a skin surface and a force is applied to the applicator causing at least a portion of a sharp and an in vivo analyte sensor to be positioned in the body of the subject. In particular, disclosed herein are embodiments of applicators designed to prevent premature sharp withdrawal and/or reduce the likelihood of improper sensor insertion. Also disclosed are embodiments of applicators including sharp modules having an angled sharp which can be configured to create an insertion path for a sensor.
US11071469B2
In a magnetic resonance method and apparatus for determining a characteristic of an organ, a magnetic resonance sequence is executed in order to acquire temporally resolved magnetic resonance data pertaining to the organ. The magnetic resonance sequence includes at least one tagging module, which generates a sub-visual tag of the magnetic resonance data. The characteristic of the organ is determined in a processor using the sub-visual tag.
US11071459B2
Tissue surface tracking of tissue features is disclosed. First surface imaged features are tracked based on the first and second time spaced images at a first wavelength. Second surface imaged features are tracked based on the first and second time spaced tissue surface images at the second wavelength. Tracking metrics are obtained based on the tracking steps. The tracking steps are combined to provide a combined tracking metric. The combined tracking metric is used in a tissue surface navigation application.
US11071452B2
The present disclosure relates to an optical coherence tomography (OCT) including: an OCT device, an OCT calculation method, and an OCT calculation program, enabling correlation between images to be easily performed; more specifically it relates to a case where a functional OCT image such as a motion contrast is acquired by using the OCT; acquiring the functional OCT image through a calculation process of an OCT signal is a time-consuming process, for this reason, a long time elapses until the point that a functional OCT image can be observed after OCT imaging is completed, and thus this causes stress to a subject and an examiner; the present disclosure provides an OCT device, an OCT calculation method, and an OCT calculation program, enabling a functional OCT image to be rapidly acquired and enables an examiner to easily perform diagnosis.
US11071449B2
An ophthalmic surgical system includes an imaging unit configured to generate a fundus image of an eye and a depth imaging system configured to generate a depth-resolved image of the eye. The system further includes a tracking system communicatively coupled to the imaging unit and depth imaging system, the tracking system comprising a processor and memory configured to analyze the fundus image generated by the imaging unit to determine a location of a distal tip of a surgical instrument in the fundus image, analyze the depth-resolved image generated by the depth imaging system to determine a distance between the distal tip of the surgical instrument and a retina of the eye, generate a visual indicator to overlay a portion of the fundus image, the visual indicator indicating the determined distance between the distal tip and the retina, modify the visual indicator to track a change in the location of the distal tip within the fundus image in real-time, and modify the visual indicator to indicate a change in the distance between the distal tip of the surgical instrument and the retina in real-time.
US11071441B2
A first input coupling and a second input coupling are coupled to rotatably drive an output coupling at the same time. In one embodiment, the output coupling rotates a robotic surgery endoscope about a longitudinal axis of the output coupling. A first motor drives the first input coupling while being assisted by a second motor that is driving the second input coupling. A first compensator produces a first motor input based on a position error and in accordance with a position control law, and a second compensator produces a second motor input based on the position error and in accordance with an impedance control law. In another embodiment, the second compensator receives a measured torque of the first motor. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US11071439B2
A bracket is provided that may be configured to attach a structure to a wall inside a wash tub of a dishwasher. The bracket may be arranged to be attached to the structure and may include a first protrusion and at least a second protrusion arranged to attach the bracket and the attached structure to the wall by extending through a respective aperture in the wall. A dishwasher and a method of attaching a structure to a wall inside a wash tub for a dishwasher may also be provided.
US11071420B2
A composting toilet assembly has a composting bin with an agitator, a toilet bowl, and a urine bottle. The agitator has an agitator handle configured to actuate the agitator. The agitator may have a ratchet assembly including a hub, a clutch bearing disposed in the hub, and a pair of brass bushings disposed in the hub. The toilet bowl is disposed on the composting bin. The toilet bowl has a main body with a recess. The recess may have a first portion and a second portion with a partition wall. Each of the first portion and the second portion has an opening. The urine bottle is in fluid communication with the bowl. The urine bottle is configured to receive urine. The urine bottle has a drain, a handle, and a sensor. The sensor may have a light and be configured to detect a predetermined urine level in the urine bottle.
US11071416B2
An apparatus, product monitoring system, and a method of measuring an amount of product on a roller are provided. The method includes receiving a first position distance between a position sensor and an exterior edge of the roller. The method also includes comparing the first position distance with a predetermined position distance. The predetermined position distance defines the distance between the position sensor and the exterior edge of the roller at a specific amount of product left on the roller. The method further includes determining the amount of product left on the roller based on the comparison of the first position distance and the predetermined position distance. The method still further includes causing the transmission of a signal relating to the amount of product left on the roller.
US11071415B2
The present disclosure is in one aspect to a dispenser for rolled sheet materials. The dispenser includes a feed roller that is rotatably mounted to a housing of the dispenser housing, and that is configured to feed a predetermined amount of sheet material from the supply of sheet material through a discharge provided along the housing of the dispenser. The dispenser also has a feed roller drive assembly with a drive motor, and a belt transmission assembly. The belt transmission assembly has a drive belt coupled to the drive motor and to the feed roller such that rotation of the feed roller is driven by operation of the drive motor.
US11071411B2
Methods and systems for forming vacuum insulated containers, such as beverage and food containers, are described. The methods and systems include using a laser to close openings in walls of the container while the container is held at vacuum conditions. The closing of the opening forms the vacuum space within the walls of the container.
US11071408B1
A pair of steel skewer racks can be used with flat skewers straddling them. A slanted base face outbound from the vertical support walls to create a wing for rising heat. The inner edge of the slanted base rises slightly above the grill under the vertical support wall. Heat is directed into the central cooking area and away from the skewer tip and handle exposed to the outside area of the opposing racks. The chef's rack has a horizontal groove with a locking lip to lock a food laden skewer in either an up or a down orientation. Vertical slots provide the skewer to be locked at a 90-degree orientation. At the top of the rear rack are semi-circle grooves. The independent racks can be separated to accommodate any length skewer or nested together.
US11071397B1
A stand assembly is configured to store at least one smart watch band. The stand assembly has a stand base plate, smoothly connected to a stand top plate with a stand neck. A top rack is operably connected to the stand top plate. A stand top plate rounded slot width is less than a top rack rounded slot width creating a stand top plate rounded slot ledge. The stand top plate rounded slot ledge is configured to accommodate a pin of a smartwatch band.
US11071392B2
A structure for connecting a post and a beam of a bunk bed includes a support tube located above the beam. A connection tube is located below the beam. An end portion of the beam is provided with an insertion connection portion connecting the support tube and the connection tube. The insertion connection portion and the support tube have a pair of slanted surfaces disposed opposite to each other. When the support tube and the insertion connection portion are connected by insertion, the slanted surface of the insertion connection portion tightly fits the slanted surface of the support tube. The insertion connection portion and the connection tube have a pair of slanted surfaces disposed opposite to each other. When the connection tube and the insertion connection portion are connected by insertion, the slanted surface of the insertion connection portion tightly fits the slanted surface of the connection tube.
US11071377B2
A height adjustable platform can include a work surface, a lock rod, and can include a brake assembly. The brake assembly can be sized and shaped to receive the lock rod. The brake assembly can be adapted to couple with the work surface. The brake assembly can be adapted to selectively translate with respect to the lock rod. The brake assembly can include a first torsion spring having a first inner portion and can include a second torsion spring having a second inner portion. The first inner portion and the second inner portion can be sized and shaped to receive the lock rod. The first inner portion can selectively engage with the lock rod. The second inner portion can selectively engage with the lock rod. The brake assembly can include a locked configuration, an unlocked configuration, and can include a safety configuration.
US11071375B2
The present disclosure discloses a folding hinge comprising an inner hinge piece and an outer hinge piece. Top edges of two side plates of the outer hinge piece are connected together by a connecting piece, and a slot is defined between the two side plates. A first end of the inner hinge piece extends into the slot and is pivotally connected to the outer hinge piece. The inner hinge piece comprises a through hole. An end portion of an inner surface of each of the two side plates respectively comprises a convex portion. The two convex portions are disposed to correspond to the through hole, and the two convex portions are clamped together through the through hole when the inner hinge piece and the outer hinge piece are unfolded. An inner surface of each of the two side plates is disposed with a plastic plate.
US11071373B2
An implement having a base structure with a core component and a shell component that surrounds the core component. The core component may include a body formed of a rigid material and decorative elements embedded within the body. The shell component may be formed of a substantially transparent material so that the decorative elements of the core are visible through the shell component.
US11071364B1
An armband holder for a personal electronic device is capable of being secured about the arm of a user by means of an adjustable band. Adjacent the elastic holder for an electronic device is an elastic holster configured to removably secure a canister of pepper spray therein.
US11071361B2
Examples described herein include mobility devices that may include a variety of enhanced features. For example, mobility devices are described which may more accurately assess a fall of a user by determining if a user is in proximity to a portion of the mobility device after a fall of the mobility device is detected. Examples of wall mounted chargers for mobility devices are also described. Moreover, examples of mechanisms for detaching and attaching tips to mobility devices (e.g. canes) are described which may facilitate swapping of different tips for different situations.
US11071350B2
The present invention is directed toward an article of footwear having a sole structure effective to increase traction on a support surface. The article of footwear includes a sole structure comprising a first sole structure and a second sole structure. The article of footwear includes a forefoot region, midfoot region, and hindfoot region. The first sole structure is disposed in the forefoot and hindfoot regions. The second sole structure is disposed in the midfoot region. An extension of the second sole structure that extends through the forefoot region is substantially covered by the first sole structure. A plurality of lugs extend downwardly from the bottom surface of the first sole structure. At least one lug extends downwardly from the extension of the second sole structure through the first sole structure. The first sole structure and the second sole structure have different durometers.
