US11074146B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to method, device and computer program product for managing Redundant Arrays of Independent Drives (RAID). The method comprises obtaining a log parameter associated with a status of a drive extent in the RAID from log pages of the RAID. The method also comprises determining, based on the log parameter, a prediction of a failure of the drive extent within a predetermined time interval. Moreover, the method further comprises in response to a determination that the drive extent is expected to fail, determining a reconstruction sequence of the RAID for a reconstruction of the RAID, such that the drive extent expected to fail within the predetermined time interval has a higher reconstruction priority than other drive extents in the RAID.
US11074143B2
A data management and storage (DMS) cluster of peer DMS nodes manages data backup and disaster recovery using a service level agreement. The backup data can be replicated from a primary compute infrastructure to the secondary compute infrastructure. For example, primary snapshots of virtual machines of the application in the primary compute infrastructure are generated, and provided to the secondary compute infrastructure. If the primary compute infrastructure is lost, the secondary compute infrastructure is initialized to replicate the primary compute infrastructure. Applications that were running in the primary compute infrastructure can failover to run in the secondary compute infrastructure. The replicated backup data is used to facilitate the migration. During a failover, the primary snapshots are deployed in the secondary compute infrastructure as virtual machines.
US11074130B2
Embodiments for reducing rebuild time in a computing storage environment in by a processor. One or more disk drive failures in a Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID)-6 may be rebuilt by holding at least three parity strips per stripe while using one or more of the at least three parity strips according the one or more disk drive failures.
US11074129B2
Example storage systems, storage nodes, and methods provide erasure coding of data shards containing multiple data objects. Storage nodes store data shards having a data shard size and each containing a plurality of data objects, where the sum of the data object sizes is less than the data shard size. Some storage nodes store a parity shard containing parity data for the other data shards.
US11074125B2
An error management system for a data storage device can generate soft-decision log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) using multiple reads of memory locations. 0-to-1 and 1-to-0 bit flip count data provided by multiple reads of reference memory locations can be used to generate probability data that is used to generate possible LLR values for decoding target pages. Possible LLR values are stored in one or more look-up tables.
US11074120B2
A method and system for managing communication connections in a virtualization environment implemented by a cluster of host machines, each of the host machines comprises a hypervisor, at least one user virtual machine (UVM), a connection manager, and an I/O controller. The system includes a virtual disk accessible by all of the I/O controllers and comprising a plurality of storage devices. The system includes a first host machine of the host machines designated as a leader node, wherein the leader node configured to confirm a second one of the host machines is unreachable; and transmit, in response to the confirmation, an update message to other host machines in the cluster. The update message identifies the unreachable host machine and causes the other host machines to block messages from the unreachable host machine and send an acknowledgement of the update message back to the leader node.
US11074115B2
The present invention relates to a complex event processing managing method and apparatus in M2M system. The complex event processing (CEP) managing method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes receiving a CEP request, setting an event processing resource (eventProcessing) responding to the CEP request, and, when an event corresponding to the event processing resource occurs, triggering a corresponding action. In addition, the action is managed by a preset event rule.
US11074099B2
A system and method receiving a request to transfer first data from a first storage space to a second storage space, receiving a write request to write second data to a location during the transfer of the first data, determining from an access data structure that the location is not in use, writing the second data to the second storage space, and updating a location data structure indicating the location of the second data to be in the second storage space.
US11074097B2
Some embodiments provide novel methods for performing services for machines operating in one or more datacenters. For instance, for a group of related guest machines (e.g., a group of tenant machines), some embodiments define two different forwarding planes: (1) a guest forwarding plane and (2) a service forwarding plane. The guest forwarding plane connects to the machines in the group and performs L2 and/or L3 forwarding for these machines. The service forwarding plane (1) connects to the service nodes that perform services on data messages sent to and from these machines, and (2) forwards these data messages to the service nodes. In some embodiments, the guest machines do not connect directly with the service forwarding plane. For instance, in some embodiments, each forwarding plane connects to a machine or service node through a port that receives data messages from, or supplies data messages to, the machine or service node. In such embodiments, the service forwarding plane does not have a port that directly receives data messages from, or supplies data messages to, any guest machine. Instead, in some such embodiments, data associated with a guest machine is routed to a port proxy module executing on the same host computer, and this other module has a service plane port. This port proxy module in some embodiments indirectly can connect more than one guest machine on the same host to the service plane (i.e., can serve as the port proxy module for more than one guest machine on the same host).
US11074096B2
Systems for restarting a virtual machine in a disaster recovery scenario where a network configuration differs between the failed system and the recovery system. A method commences upon identifying a disaster recovery plan for restarting a virtual machine from a first system on a second system (e.g., a recovery system). A configuration for providing network access at the second system through an adapter present in the second system is stored at a location accessible to the second system. Restarting the virtual machine at the second system upon detection of a failure event at the first system.
US11074093B2
The disclosure relates to migration of virtual machines. In an example implementation, migration of a virtual machine (VM) is initiated from a source hypervisor to a destination hypervisor. A destination fibre channel (FC) port associated with the destination hypervisor is assigned to support a virtual initiator port of the VM upon migration, where the destination FC port is assigned using at least error statistics collected for the destination FC port. The VM is migrated from the source hypervisor to the destination hypervisor by supporting the virtual initiator port of the VM on the assigned destination FC port associated with the destination hypervisor.
US11074080B2
A processing pipeline may have first and second execution circuits having different performance or energy consumption characteristics. Instruction supply circuitry may support different instruction supply schemes with different energy consumption or performance characteristics. This can allow a further trade-off between performance and energy efficiency. Architectural state storage can be shared between the execute units to reduce the overhead of switching between the units. In a parallel execution mode, groups of instructions can be executed on both execute units in parallel.
US11074075B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for maintaining separate pending load and store counters are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a system includes at least one execution unit, a memory subsystem, and a pair of counters for each thread of execution. In one embodiment, the system implements a software based approach for managing dependencies between instructions. In one embodiment, the execution unit(s) maintains counters to support the software-based approach for managing dependencies between instructions. The execution unit(s) are configured to execute instructions that are used to manage the dependencies during run-time. In one embodiment, the execution unit(s) execute wait instructions to wait until a given counter is equal to a specified value before continuing to execute the instruction sequence.
US11074074B2
This disclosure relates to various implementations improve operational lifetime for a spatial light modulator device. One or more controllers are able to determine a target duty cycle based on an operating condition for a spatial light modulator device. The spatial light modulator device comprises one or more light modulation components that modulate light. The controllers allocate a refresh time period for encoding spatial light modulator refresh instructions based on the target duty cycle and encode spatial light modulator refresh instructions within the refresh time period. Afterwards, the controllers transmit the spatial light modulator refresh instruction to the spatial light modulator device.
US11074060B2
The disclosure provides an approach for recommending and installing a patch onto a first computing device, comprising: parsing a machine-readable document for a property variable and a possible value of the property variable, wherein the combination of the property variable and the possible value represents a criticality of installing the patch; transmitting a request to the first computing device for a first value of the first computing device, the first value representing a state of the first computing device corresponding to the property variable; receiving the first value; comparing the possible value to the first value; based on the comparing, performing a first determination of the criticality of installing the patch onto the first computing device; and based on the criticality of installing the patch, installing the patch onto the first computing device.
US11074053B2
Various methods and systems for providing a user interface (UI) generation system for processing UI generation data based on a multi-layer architecture and hierarchically interrelated and supervised scene processes are provided. The UI generation system supports generating UIs based on a scene layer, a viewport layer, and a driver layer that each use protocols and data structures to support UI generation, UI fault recovery operations, and distributed UI generation for UI viewing devices. In operation, scene configuration data is communicated to a viewport engine from a scene engine, the viewport engine uses the scene configuration data to construct a scene management data structure that is defined based on hierarchically arranging and supervising different scene processes. The scene management data structure is used to define scene rendering data that is accessed by a driver engine to cause generation of UI display content, locally or remotely based on the scene rendering data.
US11074050B2
The present invention relates to a method for composing an application using a plurality of distributed interaction patterns including services, events, actions and properties. A second semantic model or Thing Recipe is provided as a basis for representing the application. This Thing Recipe provides a concept for orchestration or choreography of interaction patterns distributed across a network. The process from a specification of the Thing Recipe to its deployment is considerable shorter than the implementation and orchestration of web service. The Thing Recipe is not only interpretable but also executable. The semantic approach of the Thing Recipe enables a formal representation capable of a machine-based discovery of the application functionality and, at the same time, a machine interpretation and execution. This means that a Thing Recipe can be directly executed in any device that has an embedded runtime with reasoning capabilities.
US11074044B1
Techniques are disclosed relating to automatically synthesizing user interface (UI) component instances. In disclosed techniques a computer system receives a set of existing UI elements and a set of design rules for the set of existing elements, where design rules in the set of design rules indicate one or more allowed states for respective UI elements in the set of existing UI elements. The one or more allowed states may correspond to one or more visual characteristics. Using the set of existing UI elements, the computer system may then automatically generate a plurality of UI component instances based on the set of design rules, where a respective UI component instance includes a first UI element in a first allowed state. The computer system may then train, using the plurality of UI component instances, a machine learning model operable to automatically generate UI designs.
US11074043B2
Methods, systems and computer program products for providing automated script review utilizing crowdsourced inputs are provided. Aspects include receiving a new script including a script text and a script description. Aspects include comparing the new script to each of a plurality of previously classified scripts to determine a degree of similarity. Each of the previously classified scripts and the new script have an associated set of attributes. Responsive to determining that the degree of similarity is below a predetermined threshold, aspects include mapping the new script to a crowdsourcing platform to identify a similar script. Aspects also include receiving information indicative of one or more features from the crowdsourcing platform. Responsive to inputting the one or more features into an acceptance model, aspects include generating an acceptance recommendation associated with the new script.
US11074041B2
A multiplier for calculating a multiplication of a first fixed point number and a second fixed point number comprises a converter and a restoration circuit. The converter is configured to convert the first fixed point number to a sign, a mantissa, and an exponent. At least one of a bit width of the sign, a bit width of the mantissa, and a bit width of the exponent is dynamically configured based on a position of a layer associated with the first fixed point number in a neural network, a position of a pixel in an input feature map associated with the first fixed point number, and/or a channel associated with the first fixed point number. The restoration circuit is configured to calculate the multiplication based on the sign, the mantissa, the exponent, and the second fixed point number.
US11074040B2
Systems and methods for presenting information and executing a task. In an aspect, when a user gazes at a display of a standby device, location related information is presented. In another aspect, when a user utters a voice command and gazes or gestures at a device, a task is executed. In another aspect, a partial address in a voice input, a gesture, and user information are used to determine a destination in an autonomous vehicle. In another aspect, a partial name in a voice input and a gesture are used to determine a product in a purchase process.
US11074039B2
Managing rendering of a graphical user interface is provided. A system receives data packets comprising an input audio signal. The system determines an application identifier and query. The system provides the query to the application to cause the application to generate a second query for transmission to a third-party server, and identify responses to the query. The system intercepts the responses, and generates a keyword based on the responses. The system selects a digital component using the keyword, executes a deduplication process, and determines to add the digital component to the responses. The system constructs a display output using a graphical user interface template that integrates the plurality of responses generated by the application with the digital component, and provides the display output to the computing device for rendering.
US11074025B2
To provide a thinned display device with a touch sensor and to provide a highly reliable display device. A sensor layer including an electrode of a touch sensor is formed in advance over a support substrate which is different from a substrate which forms a display device so that the sensor layer can be separated, the sensor layer is separated from the support substrate, and the separated sensor layer is attached to one surface of a substrate the other surface of which is provided with a component such as a color filter, with a bonding layer interposed therebetween.
US11074017B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage devices, for data processing. One of the methods includes maintaining, by a storage system, a plurality of storage devices that include at least a first tier storage device and a second tier storage device. The storage system receives a write request of a ledger data, determines whether a type of the ledger data is block data, and, in response to determining that the type of the ledger data is block data, writes the ledger data into the second tier storage device.
US11074004B2
An embodiment of a semiconductor apparatus may include technology to segregate a persistent storage media into two or more segments, and collect telemetry information on a per segment-basis, wherein a segment granularity is smaller than a namespace granularity. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US11073999B2
Migrating data in a tiered storage system. The tiered storage system includes an upper tier with at least one storage device and a lower tier with at least one storage device. Data on a storage device includes one or more extents, and each extent contains one or more grains. I/O activity of grains is recorded during a predefined time interval. For each extent, a mean heat value over grains in the extent during the predefined time interval is calculated from the recorded I/O activity, where a heat value is a numerical indication of frequency of access of a grain, and a spike heat indicator, which measures non-uniformity of heat values of grains in the extent is calculated. Two extents with mean heat values that differ at most by a predefined threshold are identified, and the extent with a greater spike heat indicator is migrated to an upper tier.
US11073995B2
A method and device generates a slab identifier and a hash function identifier in response to a memory allocation request with a request identifier and allocation size from a memory allocation requestor. The slab identifier indicates a memory region associated with a base data size and the hash function identifier indicates a hash function. The method and device provides a bit string including the slab identifier and the hash function identifier to the memory allocation requestor.
US11073993B1
A method begins by a processing module determining a priority access level of an encoded data slice stored on a memory device. The method continues by determining a memory status for the memory device, wherein the memory status includes a plurality of discrete usability levels with a highest usability level representing a maximum amount of usable memory, a second usability level representing a lower usability level than the highest usability level and a lowest usability level representing an unusable level when the usable memory is below a threshold. The method continues with the processing module determining whether to migrate the encoded data slice from the memory device based on the priority access level and the memory status. The method continues with the processing module identifying another memory device. The method continues with the processing module facilitating migration of the encoded data slice to another memory device.
US11073990B2
A data storage device includes a memory used to store device identification information, wherein the data storage device is operable to communication with an electronic device to receive the device identification information sent from the electronic device and to store the device identification information in the memory, and wherein the data storage device is operable to provide a hardware-switching device with the device identification information from the memory. A method for identifying multiple electronic devices includes providing, for each electronic device, a corresponding data storage device communicating with a hardware-switching device and storing device identification information related to each electronic device in the corresponding data storage device. Furthermore, in relation to communication between the data storage device and the hardware-switching device, the hardware-switching device receiving corresponding device identification information, so as to identify a corresponding electronic device based on the device identification information received by the hardware-switching device.
US11073986B2
A memory management unit receives a transaction request to perform an operation with respect to data in memory, the transaction request including control information. The memory management unit identifies, based on the control information, one of a plurality of versions of a given memory data, where the plurality of versions of the given memory data include a first version of the given memory data and a second version of the given memory data that is modified from the first version. The memory management unit accesses the identified version of the given memory data in response to the transaction request.
US11073985B2
An electronic device includes a display configured to display at least one content, a pressure sensor configured to sense a touch input having a pressure value of a specified value or more, a memory, and a processor operatively connected to the display, the pressure sensor, and the memory. When the touch input occurs in a first screen of the display, the processor is configured to determine an input location of the touch input, to verify content displayed at a display location of the first screen corresponding to the input location, to create a widget including information associated with the content, and to output the created widget to a second screen of the display.
US11073984B2
An information display device includes a touch position and processing circuitry. The touch position detector is configured to detect a touched position of a screen. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a plurality of information, display the plurality of acquired information on a plurality of display areas dividing the screen, respectively, display a change icon on one of the plurality of display areas, and sequentially change the plurality of information assigned as changeable information in the one display area where the change icon is displayed, each time the touched position of the screen is detected at a position where the change icon is displayed.
US11073979B2
A method for scrolling through a representation of data that is too large to be presented legibly in its entirety within confines of a display is disclosed. The method includes presenting a section of the representation on the display. A portion of the representation is selected, using the section presented on the display, for scrolling on. The presentation of the section presented on the display is modified to include additional representation based on the portion selected. The additional content is to be presented in a non-linear fashion. Input from a user interface associated with movement through the additional content is received. The movement is to provide non-linear scrolling through the additional content. Apparatus for performing the method is also disclosed.
US11073974B2
An electronic device and an operation method of parameter selection are provided. According to the method, a first parameter adjustment interface is displayed on a touch display. The first parameter adjustment interface includes an inner circular area and a surrounding area surrounding the inner circular area. The surrounding area closest to the touched first position corresponds to a first parameter value. When the object slides from the first position to a second position of the peripheral region, the touch display is switched to a second parameter adjustment interface The selected area of the second parameter adjustment interface displays the first parameter value. When the object slides from the second position to a third position along the peripheral region, the selected area is switched to display a second parameter value corresponding to the third position.
US11073973B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic device may comprise: a first camera arranged on a first surface of a housing of the electronic device; a second camera arranged apart from the first camera on the first surface; a display; and a processor set to process at least a portion of a first inputted image by applying a first image effect and display same on the display, on the basis of a first object area for the first inputted image obtained by using phase difference information of the first inputted image from among the first inputted image obtained from the first camera or a second inputted image obtained from the second camera, and to process at least a portion of the first inputted image by applying a second image effect and displaying same on the display, on the basis of a second object area for the first inputted image obtained by using time difference information between the first inputted image and the second inputted image.
US11073972B2
Disclosed is an exemplary method of providing a visual summarization of a plurality of time-stamped annotated images. The method includes receiving the plurality of time-stamped annotated images. The plurality of time-stamped annotated images includes a plurality of object-based annotations. The method includes receiving an object of interest selection (OOI selection) corresponding to at least a first object-based annotation of the plurality of object-based annotations, thereby designating an object of interest (OOI). The method includes filtering the plurality of time-stamped annotated images, based at least in part on the OOI selection, to a subset of the plurality of time-stamped annotated images, thereby creating an object of interest image group (OOI image group). The method includes generating a visual timeline for concurrently displaying the OOI image group.
US11073968B2
One or more window characteristics of at least one window displayed on a primary display device are displayed at a remote display device. User input is received at the remote display device to modify the one or more window characteristics of the at least one window displayed on the primary display device. The one or more modified window characteristics for the at least one window displayed on the primary display device are transmitted from the remote display device to the primary display device.
US11073964B2
Techniques are disclosed for purchasing, accessing, consuming, and/or providing electronic content using an electronic bookshelf (eBookshelf) system. The eBookshelf system can be used by accessing a touchscreen-based user interface and/or local hardware controls and/or a remote control. A user's personal library of eBooks and/or any other electronic content can be displayed and/or aurally presented. In addition, the vast content of commercial retailers can also be displayed for browsing and purchase/rental. If the user identifies a content selection on the eBookshelf system that he/she wishes to consume, it can be readily transferred from the system to a personal content consuming device. Multiple eBookshelf systems can be attached to one another to extend the length and/or height of the eBookshelf. Accessing the eBookshelf system by a user ID allows multiple users to enjoy a personally customized version of the system.
US11073963B2
There is provided a method for displaying information regarding a user's point of interest. The method includes displaying a UI screen including a first UI region in which the user's point of interest is displayed on a map as a location identifier, and a second UI region in which at least one object for the user's point of interest is displayed. Here, the user's point of interest may include at least one of a point which is previously searched by the user, a point to which the user previously visits, and a point that the user previously registers as the point of interest, and the object may express the information regarding the user's point of interest in relation to the location identifier in detail.
US11073960B2
A method for customizing an application for a user includes receiving user state information about a user of a smart device from one or more sensors associated with the smart device. The user state information is stored using an access control mechanism that only allows access upon express authorization of the user. The stored user state information is retrieved after an application being executed on or through the smart device has been provided with the express authorization from the user. Functionality of the application is adapted based at least in part on the user state information that is retrieved.
US11073955B2
A display device including an input sensor divided into a plurality of first sensing areas and a plurality of second sensing areas, which are alternately disposed, and the plurality of first sensing areas and the plurality of second sensing areas have the same area. Each of the plurality of first sensing areas and the plurality of second sensing areas includes a corresponding crossing area of crossing areas between a plurality of first sensing electrodes and a plurality of second sensing electrodes. Openings of the sensing electrodes disposed on each of the plurality of first sensing areas have a first arrangement, and openings of the sensing electrodes disposed on each of the plurality of second sensing areas have a second arrangement different from the first arrangement.
US11073943B2
An input device is described which comprises a touch-sensitive surface and a force sensor, wherein the force sensor is adapted to detect a force applied to the touch-sensitive surface. The input device further comprises a vibration sensor and a control unit, wherein the control unit is coupled with the force sensor, the touch-sensitive surface and the vibration sensor. The control unit is adapted to validate a force detected by the force sensor as an input in dependence on a touch of the touch-sensitive surface and in dependence on a vibration detected by the vibration sensor. There is further described a motor vehicle which comprises such an input device. A method of detecting an input at an input device is further described.
US11073939B2
One variation of a method for characterizing inputs includes: scanning an array of sense electrodes at a first resolution to generate a first force image; detecting a first force input in the first force image; in response to a first geometry dimension of the first force input exceeding a first threshold, characterizing the first force input as a non-stylus input type; in response to the first geometry dimension of the first force input remaining below the first threshold: scanning the array of sense electrodes at a second resolution; detecting a second force input in a second force image; and, in response to a ratio of a force magnitude of the second force input to a geometry dimension of the second force input exceeding a second threshold, characterizing the first force input as a stylus input type; and outputting a location and a type of the first force input.
US11073930B2
A display device comprises a first power supply line supplying a first potential, a second power supply line supplying a second potential, a third power supply line supplying a touch driving signal, and a display unit including a plurality of sub-pixels. The display unit comprises a plurality of first electrodes respectively provided in the plurality of sub-pixels and electrically connected to the first power supply line, a second electrode provided to be common among the plurality of sub-pixels and electrically connected to the second power supply line, a light emitting layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, a plurality of third electrodes electrically connected to the third power supply line, and a signal control circuit supplying a signal synchronized with a touch driving signal to the second electrode in a period in which a touch driving signal is supplied to the plurality of third electrodes.
US11073927B2
An integrated touchscreen can include light emitting diodes or organic light emitting diodes (LEDs/OLEDs), display chiplets and touch chiplets disposed in a visible area of the integrated touch screen. For example, the LEDs/OLEDs, display chiplets and touch chiplets can be placed on a substrate by a micro-transfer tool. The integrated touchscreen can also include electrodes disposed in the visible area of the integrated touch screen. The electrodes can be capable of providing display functionality via the one or more display chiplets during display operation (e.g., operating as cathode terminals of the LEDs during the display operation) and capable of providing touch functionality via the touch chiplets during touch operation (e.g., touch node electrodes can be formed from groups of the electrodes and sensed). In some examples, the touch node electrodes can be formed and coupled to touch chiplets via the display chiplets.
US11073917B1
The present disclosure provides a reading support system and method which output interactive contents related to a book object in corresponding to a location of an interactive object. The provided reading support system includes a reading support apparatus, and the reading support apparatus shoots an activity surface video including one or more interactive objects disposed on an activity surface, detects a location of an interactive object which is the coordinate in the activity surface video as a result of the video analysis for the activity surface video, detects interactive contents related to the activity surface video and the location of the interactive object, and outputs the interactive contents with respect to the coordinate corresponding to the location of the interactive object of the activity surface video to output the interactive contents so as to overlap the interactive object of the activity surface video.
US11073913B2
In an embodiment a device includes at least one piezoelectric actuator including a plurality of piezoelectric layers and a first reinforcing element and a second reinforcing element, wherein the piezoelectric actuator is arranged between the reinforcing elements, wherein the piezoelectric actuator is configured to alter its expansion in a first direction when an electrical voltage is applied, and wherein the reinforcing elements are configured to deform on account of a change in an expansion of the piezoelectric actuator such that a central region of the respective reinforcing element is moved relative to the piezoelectric actuator in a second direction, the second direction being perpendicular to the first direction.
US11073909B2
A controller for sensing interior motion includes a sensor structure having transmitting conductors and receiving conductors. The controller comprises circuitry to drive and sense signals on interacting pairs of conductors (the transmitting conductor or receiving conductor can act as the drive side, or as the sense side). Signals are processed to analyze changes in measured signal and analyzed to determine interior movement. When the controller is deployed proximate to human skin, movement of muscles, tendons and bones within the skin are reflected in the measured signals.
US11073904B2
Systems and methods disclosed herein are related to an intelligent UI element selection system using eye-gaze technology. In some example aspects, a UI element selection zone may be determined. The selection zone may be defined as an area surrounding a boundary of the UI element. Gaze input may be received and the gaze input may be compared with the selection zone to determine an intent of the user. The gaze input may comprise one or more gaze locations. Each gaze location may be assigned a value according to its proximity to the UI element and/or its relation to the UI element's selection zone. Each UI element may be assigned a threshold. If the aggregated value of gaze input is equal to or greater than the threshold for the UI element, then the UI element may be selected.
US11073897B2
A power management integrated circuit (PMIC) is described for providing system management bus (SMB) isolation, along with memory sub-systems which include such a PMIC and methods of operating such devices. In one embodiment, a PMIC comprises a voltage supply input, power management circuitry, and elements of a SMB. The SMB elements can include an SMB input, an SMB hot swap controller coupled to the SMB input, one or more SMBs, and one or more SMB outputs. When integrated with a memory sub-system, one SMB output can be connected to a memory controller and another SMB output to a microcontroller. During different power states (e.g., normal or low power states), certain outputs can be isolated in order to manage communications on the SMB during the different power states of the memory sub-system using the PMIC.
US11073890B2
An image forming system includes image forming apparatuses connected to a network, a managing device connected to the network and being communicable with the image forming apparatuses, and user terminals communicable with the network. The image forming apparatuses are respectively connected to local area networks in the network. Each image forming apparatus is set to any of a normal mode, a sleep mode with power consumption less than the normal mode and an energy saving mode with power consumption less than the sleep mode. The managing device counts the number of the user terminals connected to the same local area network as the image forming apparatus and, if the counted number is less than a threshold value, transmits an energy saving shift instruction to the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus sets to the energy saving mode, if receiving the energy saving shift instruction from the managing device.
US11073889B2
A computing device and method controls power consumption of a graphics processing unit in the computing device by the GPU determining an allocated power for the USB device connected through a USB port, such as a USB-C port. The GPU issues allocated power information for the external USB device to cause the allocated power to be provided to the USB device and includes issuing allocated power information to a power delivery (PD) controller that is connected to a USB port. In some implementations, the GPU shifts at least a portion of the allocated power from the USB device back to the GPU in response to a usage change event associated with the USB device for improving GPU performance. The usage change event can be a disconnect event of the USB device, a power renegotiation event between the USB device and the GPU, or any other suitable usage change event.
US11073881B2
To make is possible to use a peripheral device that consumes a current exceeding the rated current allocated to each port in a simpler system configuration in an electronic apparatus having a plurality of external interfaces. The electronic apparatus includes: a power source unit configured to supply a current to the external interfaces included in the electronic apparatus; a first power source control unit configured to guarantee a total current supplied for the two or more external interfaces and to perform current supply control for a specific external interface; and a second power source control unit configured to perform current supply control for the other external interfaces other than the specific external interface of the plurality of external interfaces by taking a current output from the first power source control unit as an input, and by the second power source control unit suspending current supply for the other external interfaces, the first power source control unit increases a current that can be supplied for the specific external interface.
US11073876B2
The present techniques are related a dock with a cooling solution. The performance dock includes a thermoelectric device, an alignment mechanism, and an air mover. The alignment mechanism is to align the computing device when docking the computing device, and the thermoelectric device is to cool the computing device when docked, and the air mover is to enable an airflow through the dock to cool the thermoelectric device when the computing device is docked.
US11073858B2
A power supply system for a circuit device includes a power supply unit, a switch unit and a voltage detector. The power supply unit, coupled to the circuit device via a power line, is used for supplying basic power for the circuit device via the power line, wherein the power line is coupled to the circuit device via a plurality of nodes. The switch unit, near to a node among the plurality of nodes, is coupled to the circuit device via the power line. The voltage detector, coupled to the circuit device and the switch unit, is used for detecting a voltage of the node and controlling the switch unit to be closed to allow the circuit device to receive auxiliary power via the switch unit when detecting that the voltage of the node is lower than a first threshold value.
US11073855B2
Various embodiments described herein provide a system that uses a capacitor-based power converter to generate a gate voltage (e.g., boot strap voltage) for a buck converter. According to various embodiments described herein, the capacitor-based power converter includes at least one of a combination of a capacitive voltage divider circuit with a low-dropout (LDO) regulator, or a combination of a capacitive doubler circuit with an LDO regulator, to generate the gate voltage for the buck converter.
US11073854B2
Embodiments described herein present a new LDO design that eliminates the need for the sleep bias circuitry included in other systems. Further, the new LDO design can be biased with a small fraction of the operating current enabling the LDO to wake up substantially faster than previous LDO designs that include separate sleep circuitry. In some cases, the LDO can instantly (or faster than other LDOs) transition from a sleep mode to an operating mode enabling improved operation compared to prior LDOs. Furthermore, the new LDO design maintains a non-breakdown voltage across the transistors reducing the need to enter sleep mode to prevent transistors of the LDO from entering a breakdown region.
US11073847B2
In some embodiments, an apparatus and a system, as well as a method and an article, may operate to receive parameters for a first node of a network, the network including a plurality of segments through which an object is to be routed and a plurality of nodes, including the first node, representative of intersections of two or more segments of the plurality of segments; to generate segment lengths for segments between the first node and neighboring nodes to identify a nearest neighboring node with a shortest segment length relative to the first node; and to repeat operations of receiving parameters, generating segment lengths, and identifying nearest neighboring nodes until a route has been identified between a first endpoint and a second endpoint of the network. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US11073843B2
An agricultural field management system includes a plurality of communication devices arranged on an agricultural field, each of the communication devices including an outputting circuit being configured to output identification information, a signal receiving circuit disposed on a management machine movable in an agricultural field and configured to receive the identification information outputted by the outputting circuit a position detecting circuit disposed on the management machine and configured to detect measurement information based on a signal from a navigation satellite, a first obtaining circuit to obtain the identification information received by the signal receiving circuit, a second obtaining circuit to obtain the measurement information detected by the position detecting circuit of the management machine on the agricultural field, a relating circuit to relate the identification information obtained by the first obtaining circuit to the measurement information obtained by the second obtaining circuit.
US11073836B2
A system and method for collecting and processing sensor data for facilitating and/or enabling autonomous, semi-autonomous, and remote operation of a vehicle, including: collecting surroundings at one or more sensors, and determining properties of the surroundings of the vehicle and/or the behavior of the vehicle based on the surroundings data at a computing system.
US11073833B2
A vehicle control apparatus is configured to have a first state for performing travel control of a host vehicle based on traffic signals that appear in images captured by front cameras and a second state for performing travel control of the host vehicle based on traffic signals that appear in images captured by a front left camera, a front right camera, a rear left camera, or a rear right camera. The vehicle control apparatus is capable of performing travel control of the host vehicle in the first state when the host vehicle progresses straight, and transitioning from the first state to the second state while the host vehicle is turning left or right (during the turning operation).
US11073829B1
A system for detecting transparent elements in a vehicle environment are described. In some examples, this may include accessing an image of a scene captured by an image capture device attached to a vehicle. A reflected image present in the image may be detected. The reflected image may include a portion of the vehicle. It may be determined that the scene includes a transparent element based at least in part on detecting the reflected image present in the image.
US11073828B2
A computer-implemented method of motion planning and an autonomous agent that executes that method are presented. The method includes generating a first set of indices that represent a predicate in a continuous state space, accessing a library of candidate motions, wherein each of the candidate motions has a second set of indices that represent a trajectory in the continuous state space, compressing the first set of indices and the second set of indices to generate a first set of compressed indices and a second set of compressed indices, and determining whether there is an intersection between the first set of indices and the second set of indices. The compressing may be done by partitioning the state space into regions, each region being occupied by the same set of candidate motions. Alternatively, the compressing may be done by applying run-length-encoding to binary vectors generated using a locality preserving, space filling curve such as a Hilbert curve or Z-order curve.
US11073817B2
A cutting condition verification device configured to extract a cutting condition setting mistake in a machining program is provided with a program editing unit for creating or editing the machining program, a cutting condition extraction/storage unit configured to extract a cutting condition from the machining program, a cutting condition reference value calculation unit configured to calculate reference values for determining the normality or abnormality of the cutting condition, based on a description of another machining program executed in the past, a cutting condition determination unit configured to determine the normality or abnormality of the cutting condition, based on the reference values, and a cutting condition deviation command display unit configured to display the cutting condition determined to be abnormal in a table form.
US11073807B2
Method and apparatus for controlling power conditioners in a distributed resource island. In one embodiment, the method comprises comparing, at a power conditioner operating in a de-energized state, an input of the power conditioner to an input threshold, wherein the power conditioner is coupled to an islanded grid; operating the power conditioner, when the input exceeds the input threshold, in a soft-grid mode to generate a touch-safe AC voltage that is coupled to the islanded grid; and activating the power conditioner, based on an impedance of the islanded grid and load demand for the power conditioner, to operate proximate its nominal output voltage.
US11073799B2
Techniques for configuring context-specific user interfaces for use with a portable multifunction device are disclosed. The context-specific user interfaces provide indications of time and, optionally, a variety of additional information. The methods provided herein allow for configuring such user interfaces, e.g., at a first electronic device coupled via wireless communication to a second electronic device. Further disclosed are non-transitory computer-readable storage media, systems, and devices configured to perform the methods described herein.
US11073784B2
An example apparatus may include a supply guide to receive a plurality of print supplies and a lock mechanism to retain the plurality of print supplies and release a print supply of the plurality of print supplies responsive to a determination that an amount of print substance in the print supply is at or below a threshold level.
US11073783B2
A fixing device is drawn from an image forming apparatus in a drawing direction. The fixing device includes a first unit, a second unit coupled with the first unit, and a third unit coupled with the second unit. A fastener releases coupling between at least two of the first unit, the second unit, and the third unit. An exterior cover is disposed at a front of the image forming apparatus in the drawing direction. The exterior cover includes a slot disposed opposite the fastener.
US11073780B2
A management method includes acquiring first and second information about remaining amounts of printing materials of first and second cartridges, and generating data representing a display screen including first and second objects for displaying first and second values determined using the first and second information. Values that the first value can take include a value corresponding to a first state in which the printing material remains in the first cartridge and the printing material remains in a tank and a value corresponding to a second state in which the printing material does not remain in the first cartridge and the printing material remains in the tank. A shape of the first object indicating the value corresponding to the second state of the values that the first value can take is different from any shape that the second object can have in accordance with the second value.
US11073776B2
An image forming apparatus includes a heater, a fixing device, and a controller. The heater includes a heat generator that generates heat when the heater is turned on. The fixing device may fix a developer image on a surface of an image forming medium using the heat from the heat generator. The controller detects a voltage of a power supply for supplying electric power to the heater, and determines an occurrence of an abnormality in the heater if a voltage drop amount at the time the heater is turned on as compared to a case in which the heater is turned off is smaller than a first threshold value.
US11073774B2
A cartridge attachable to an apparatus main body of an image forming apparatus, the apparatus main body having a restricting portion and to which the cartridge is mounted by being moved from a unmounted position to a mounting-completed position in a first direction, the cartridge includes a developer container provided with a supply port, and a shutter movable between an opening position for opening the supply port and a closing position for closing the supply port, having a restricted portion, and configured to be in the closing position when the cartridge is in the unmounted position and be in the opening position when the cartridge is in the mounting-completed position, wherein a movement of the shutter in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction is restricted by an engagement between the restricting portion and the restricted portion when the cartridge is in the mounting-completed position.
US11073771B2
An electrophotographic photoconductor includes a conductive substrate; and a photosensitive layer provided on the conductive substrate and containing a charge generation material, a hole transport material, a first electron transport material, from 3% by mass to 40% by mass of a second electron transport material, a resin binder, and an inorganic oxide filler surface-treated with a silane coupling agent. In a dipole-dipole force component (a Hansen solubility parameter), the first electron transport material and the silane coupling agent have a difference of ΔSPa<2.50; the second electron transport material and the silane coupling agent have a difference of ΔSPb<2.50; and the first electron transport material and the second electron transport material have a difference of 0.30<ΔSPc<1.00. In a London dispersion force component (a Hansen solubility parameter), the resin binder and the silane coupling agent have a difference of ΔSPd<2.00.
US11073768B2
A metrology system may include a controller coupled to a scanning metrology tool that images a sample in motion along a scan direction. The controller may receive an image of a metrology target on the sample from the scanning metrology tool, where the metrology target comprises a first measurement group including cells distributed along a transverse direction orthogonal to the scan direction, and a second measurement group separated from the first measurement group along the scan direction including cells distributed along the transverse direction. The controller may further generate at least a first metrology measurement based on at least one of the cells in the first measurement group, and generate at least a second metrology measurement based on at least one of the cells in the second measurement group.
US11073762B2
Provided are an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition which contains (A) a photoacid generator that generates an acid having a pKa of −1.40 or more upon irradiation with actinic rays or radiation, and (B) a resin having a repeating unit containing an acid-decomposable group, in which an Eth sensitivity of the repeating unit containing an acid-decomposable group is 5.64 or less, and which can provide very excellent roughness performance, exposure latitude, and depth of focus, particularly, in the formation of an ultrafine pattern; a photoacid generator; and an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive film, a pattern forming method, and a method for manufacturing an electronic device, each using the actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition.
US11073760B2
A coloring composition contains a halogenated zinc phthalocyanine pigment A, an isoindoline pigment B, a resin C, and a curable compound D having an ethylenically unsaturated bonding group, in which the resin C includes a resin C1 having a repeating unit derived from a polymerizable compound Cm having a C Log P value of 3.0 or more with the C Log P value being a calculated value of a Log P which is the common logarithm of a partition coefficient P of 1-octanol/water, and having a cyclic structure in a molecule thereof, and the ratio of the mass of the halogenated zinc phthalocyanine pigment A to the mass of the isoindoline pigment B is 55:45 to 85:15 in terms of the mass of the halogenated zinc phthalocyanine pigment A:the mass of the isoindoline pigment B.
US11073752B2
An improved virtual reality system comprising an immersive sound system, sensors, a power source, communications, data processing, and an optical system that delivers photoreceptor density resolution, wide angle, high contrast, binocular vision, continuous depth of field, and stabilized images that are closely synchronized with the vestibulo-ocular reflex, providing a comfortable, fully immersive experience. In one embodiment, a miniaturized array of projectors is arranged to cover the retina with adjoining image segments. Each projector provides full spectrum, amplitude modulated, and controllably divergent beams of light that are subsequently reflected off a compound curved reflector, through additional optics, and along reversible light paths to form images on the retina. In another embodiment, an adaptive optics reflector is comprised of an array of fixed, or independently controllable optical elements, that can alter reflected beam properties such that a virtual object may appear to be nearer to, or further from the viewer.
US11073741B2
A zoom lens includes a plurality of lens units, in which a distance between adjacent lens units changes during zooming, a first aperture stop, and a second aperture stop disposed on an image side of the first aperture stop. An aperture diameter of the first aperture stop determines an F-number of the zoom lens at a wide-angle end. The plurality of lens units includes a negative lens unit having a negative refractive power that is disposed on the image side of the first aperture stop and on an object side of the second aperture. An aperture diameter of the second aperture stop changes during the zooming. The aperture diameter of the second aperture stop at the wide-angle end is larger than the aperture diameter of the second aperture stop at a telephoto end.
US11073737B2
Methods and systems for an all-optical wafer acceptance test may include an optical transceiver on a chip, the optical transceiver comprising first, second, and third grating couplers, an interferometer comprising first and second phase modulators, a splitter, and a plurality of photodiodes. A first input optical signal may be received in the chip via the first grating coupler, where the first input optical signal may be coupled to the interferometer. An output optical signal may be coupled out of the chip via the second grating coupler for a first measurement of the interferometer. A second input optical signal may be coupled to a third grating coupler and a portion of the second input optical signal may be communicated to each of the plurality of photodiodes via the splitter. A voltage may be generated using the photodiodes based on the second input signal that may bias the first phase modulator.
US11073733B2
A display panel including a fan-out wire, an electrostatic discharge device, a signal wire, and a first conductive via structure is provided. The electrostatic discharge device has a first electrode and a second electrode. The first conductive via structure is electrically connected to the fan-out wire, the first electrode of the electrostatic discharge device, and the signal wire.
US11073730B2
It is an object to provide technology enabling an increase in durability against cracking of a curved display panel having a non-rectangular outline shape. A non-rectangular curved display device includes a liquid crystal panel including an array substrate and liquid crystal driving ICs arranged on the array substrate. The liquid crystal panel is curved to have a valley extending in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction between opposite ends of an outline shape, and opposite ends being two ends of each of the liquid crystal driving ICs opposing in the first direction are located, in plan view, to be out of straight lines extending from corner portions in the second direction.
US11073723B2
A backlight unit, and a display device including the backlight unit are provided. The backlight unit includes a light source member including a first substrate; and a plurality of light sources disposed on a surface of the first substrate, and a wavelength conversion member disposed on over of the light source member to overlap the light source member, the wavelength conversion member including a second substrate and a plurality of wavelength conversion patterns disposed on a surface of the second substrate, wherein the plurality of wavelength conversion patterns are disposed to be spaced apart from one another, and each of the plurality of wavelength conversion patterns covers at least one of the plurality of light sources.
US11073722B2
A display device and a direct-type backlight thereof are provided. The direct-type backlight includes a central area and a peripheral area. The central area is configured with a plurality of central area light-emitting elements to provide light to a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel. The density of these central area light-emitting elements in the central area is a first density. The peripheral area is configured with a plurality of peripheral area light-emitting elements to provide light to the LCD panel. The density of the peripheral area light-emitting elements in the peripheral area is a second density. Wherein, the second density is less than the first density.
US11073712B2
Systems and methods for through-display imaging. A display includes an imaging aperture defined through an opaque backing. An optical imaging array is aligned with the aperture. Above the aperture, the display is arranged and/or configured for increased optical transmittance. For example, a region of the display above, or adjacent to, the imaging aperture can be formed with a lower pixel density than other regions of the display, thereby increasing inter-pixel distance (e.g., pitch) and increasing an area through which light can traverse the display to reach the optical imaging array.
US11073709B2
An example liquid crystal display device includes a circuit substrate, an array of conductive mirrors formed on the substrate, a light absorbing material disposed between the conductive mirrors, a transparent plate disposed over the array of conductive mirrors, and liquid crystal material disposed between the conductive mirrors and the transparent plate. The light absorbing material can also be disposed around the peripheral region of the array of the conductive mirrors. In an example display, the light absorbing material is black and/or has a light absorbing efficiency of at least fifty percent.
US11073690B2
A method of generating a surface model of a physical environment includes obtaining an image of the physical environment. The method also includes generating a planar polygon mesh from at least the image. The method further includes extracting a boundary polygon of the planar polygon mesh. Moreover, the method includes generating a convex hull for the boundary polygon of the surface mesh. In addition, the method includes generating a minimal area oriented boundary polygon from the convex hull. The method may also include generating a maximal area oriented internal polygon inside of the boundary polygon of the planar polygon mesh.
US11073689B2
A wearable heads-up display has stored therein two or more distortion models for use in generating distorted source images that when projected by the wearable heads-up display into a target eye space form virtual images are aligned in the target eye space. A method and system for determining the distortion models are disclosed.
US11073684B2
A zoom lens includes in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens unit having a positive refractive power; a second lens unit having a negative refractive power; and a rear lens group which includes at least one lens unit and has a positive refractive power as a whole. Distances between the adjacent lens units change during zooming. The rear lens group includes a lens P1 that has a positive refractive power and moves at image stabilization so as to have a component perpendicular to the optical axis. The shape factor SFP1 of the lens P1, a curvature radius R1P1 of a lens surface of the lens P1 on the object side, and a curvature radius R2P1 of a lens surface of the lens P1 on the image side are appropriately determined.
US11073682B2
An optical-lens-set includes a first lens element of a concave image-side surface near its optical-axis, a sixth lens element of negative refractive power and of a concave image-side surface near its optical-axis to go with a fifth lens element of a concave object-side surface near its optical-axis or with a seventh lens element of negative refractive power. The Abbe number υ1 of the first lens element, the Abbe number υ3 of the third lens element, the Abbe number υ4 of the fourth lens element, the Abbe number υ5 of the fifth lens element, the Abbe number υ6 of the sixth lens element and the Abbe number υ7 of the seventh lens element together satisfy 5≤5υ1−(υ3+υ4+υ5+υ6+υ7).
US11073679B2
An imaging lens in which a positive first lens group, a positive second lens group, and a negative third lens group are arranged in order from the object side. The first lens group includes a positive first lens having a convex object-side surface and a second lens. The second lens group includes third and fourth lenses each having at least one aspheric surface. The third lens group includes a fifth lens, a sixth lens as a double-sided aspheric lens, and a seventh lens having a concave image-side surface near an optical axis. The lenses are not joined to each other, the seventh lens has an aspheric image-side surface whose shape changes from concave to convex as the distance from the optical axis increases, and an F-number is less than 1.8.
US11073678B2
The present disclosure discloses an optical imaging system, the optical imaging system including sequentially, along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens and a fourth lens. The first lens has a positive refractive power or a negative refractive power, an object-side surface of the first lens is a concave surface, and an image-side surface of the first lens is a convex surface; both the second lens and the third lens have positive refractive powers; and the fourth lens has a positive refractive power or a negative refractive power, wherein an abbe number V1 of the first lens and an abbe number V4 of the fourth lens satisfy: |V1−V4|≤30; and the abbe number V1 of the first lens and an abbe number V2 of the second lens satisfy: 20≤|V1−V2|≤50.
US11073669B2
A connection system includes an optical connector assembly; and an optical plug. The connector assembly includes a stack of gel-groove assemblies and a spring assembly mounted within a housing. Each of the gel-groove assemblies includes a first gel block at a first axial end, a second gel block at a second axial end, and a fiber mating region between the first and second gel blocks. The optical plug including sub-modules over-molded over arrays (e.g., ribbons) of the optical fibers. Each sub-module defines notches for receiving latches of the spring assembly when the optical plug is coupled to the first axial end of the optical adapter. Bare optical fibers extend from the plug, pass through the first axial gel block, and enter the fiber mating region when the plug is coupled to the adapter.
US11073667B1
An optoelectronic module may include a housing enclosing at least one optical transmitter or receiver, and a slider configured to move with respect to the housing. The slider may include at least one protrusion configured to engage with a cage sized and shaped to receive the housing, and a retainer configured to engage both the slider and the housing to retain the slider with respect to the housing. The retainer may include a first protrusion sized and shaped to be positioned in a slot defined by the housing, and a second protrusion sized and shaped to abut the slider.
US11073664B2
A fiber optic connector with a pair resilient actuators positioned on an outer portion of an upper body portion of a cable boot assembly, when depressed allow a user to remove the cable boot assembly from a housing, rotate, and change polarity of the ferrules located within a front body secured to the cable boot assembly.
US11073647B2
The invention disclosed herein generally relates to wideband resonant polarizers that require extremely small amounts of matter in their embodiments. These polarizers can be made with dielectric materials such that light and other electromagnetic waves interacting with them suffer essentially no absorptive loss. This new class of polarizers is fashioned with dielectric or semiconductor nano/microwire grids that are mostly empty space if surrounded by air or vacuum. It is fundamentally and practically extremely significant that the wideband spectral expressions presented herein can be generated in these minimal systems. These ultra-sparse polarizers are useful in various spectral regions for numerous useful applications.
US11073643B2
Disclosed are a near-infrared absorbing film including a polymer film, a first near-infrared absorbing layer and a second near-infrared absorbing layer on the polymer film. The first near-infrared absorbing layer may be configured to transmit light in a visible region and to selectively absorb at least one part of light in a near-infrared region. The second near-infrared absorbing layer may be disposed on a surface of the first near-infrared absorbing layer. The first near-infrared absorbing layer may include a dye represented by Chemical Formula 1. The second near-infrared absorbing layer may include a copper complex compound. An optical filter may include the near-infrared absorbing film. An electronic device may include the optical filter. In Chemical Formula 1, R1 to R12 are described in the detailed description.
US11073638B2
An optical image lens assembly includes at least one optical lens element which is made of a plastic material and includes at least one short-wavelength light absorbing agent. The short-wavelength light absorbing agent is homogeneously mixed with the plastic material. The optical lens element including the short-wavelength light absorbing agent has refractive power, and at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the optical lens element including the short-wavelength light absorbing agent is aspheric.
US11073633B2
An NMR system includes a radio frequency (RF) NMR application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chip configured to generate an RF output signal and a rectifier configured to receive the RF output signal and convert the RF output signal to (a) a direct current (DC) pulsed field gradient (PFG) signal or (b) a DC trigger signal for at least one of (i) activating at least one component of an NMR system external to the NMR RF ASIC chip and (ii) synchronizing at least one component of an NMR system external to the NMR RF ASIC chip.
US11073616B2
The disclosed subject matter relates to a laser scanner for scanning a ground from a seaborne or airborne vehicle, comprising a scanning unit for emitting a fan-shaped scan pattern made of laser beams fanned out about a scan axis and for receiving the laser beams reflected off the ground and an evaluation unit connected to the scanning unit for evaluating the laser beams that are received. The laser scanner is characterized by a measuring unit that is designed to measure the height of the vehicle above ground, and an actuation device that can be anchored to the vehicle and that is connected to the measuring unit. The actuation device is designed to rotate the fan-shaped scan pattern of the scanning unit with respect to the vehicle about a first actuation axis that is different from the scan axis, depending on the measured height above the ground.
US11073610B2
Embodiments provide for a portable imager by capturing several radar readings related to an object in an environment over several times from several of Points of View (POV), wherein each radar reading indicates a distance to and reflectivity of the object relative to the imager; capturing several camera images of the environment over the several of times from the several POVs; determining positional shifts of the imager over the several times based on photogrammetrical differences between subsequent camera images of the several camera images; determining, based on accelerometer data, a trajectory that the imager moves in the environment over the several times; determining positions of the imager in the environment over the several times based on the positional shifts and the trajectory; combining the several radar readings based on the positions to produce a synthetic aperture radar image of the object; and outputting the synthetic aperture radar image.
US11073608B2
Radar system that utilizes Multiple Hypothesis Tracker (MHT) to resolve angle ambiguities, from a series of dwells with ambiguous detections over time. The system receives first and second observation, forms radar tracks and ambiguous angle detections using unfolding data at each of the ambiguous angle detections, scores the radar tracks to determine a best hypothesis of tracks, where a hypothesis for the MHT is formed by collecting compatible tracks into the hypothesis and computing probabilities of the hypothesis by using the score of each radar track in said hypothesis, and compares the scores of all the radar tracks originating from the first observation data to determine whether one of the scores of the radar tracks exceeds the scores of all other radar tracks originating from the same first observation data by a predetermined range.
US11073604B2
A LiDAR detection system includes optical sources generating a plurality of output optical signals disposed along a first direction. A modulation circuit applies an output signal from a signal generator to the optical sources to modulate the output optical signals such that the output optical signals are envelope-modulated output optical signals having frequency-modulated modulation envelopes. A scanning device scans the output optical signals into a region over a second direction. A receiver comprising a two-dimensional array of optical detectors receives return optical signals and generates receive signals indicative of the return optical signals. The return optical signals impinge on a mask between the region and the array, the mask comprising a plurality of apertures aligned with a first dimension of the array. The receive signals are generated for a set of detectors in the array disposed along the first dimension of the array and aligned with the mask apertures.
US11073599B2
An apparatus is disclosed for radar interference mitigation using a pseudorandom offset. The apparatus includes an antenna array and a wireless transceiver. The wireless transceiver is coupled to the antenna array and is configured to transmit, via the antenna array, a radar transmit signal based on at least one pseudorandom offset. The wireless transceiver is also configured to receive, via the antenna array, at least a portion of another radar transmit signal from another apparatus. The wireless transceiver is additionally configured to receive, via the antenna array, a radar receive signal that includes a portion of the radar transmit signal that is reflected by an object. At a given time, a frequency of the radar receive signal is different than a frequency of the radar transmit signal based on the at least one pseudorandom offset.
US11073594B2
A position estimating device includes a processor, and a memory storing program instructions that cause the processor to obtain a plurality of position data of a transmitter, the plurality of position data being output from respective positioning devices, calculate a density of the plurality of position data based on the plurality of obtained position data output from the respective positioning devices, the density of the plurality of position data being a value indicating how close positions indicated by the plurality of position data are, and estimate a position of the transmitter based on the plurality of position data output from the respective positioning devices and the calculated density.
US11073593B2
A network access transceiver with a housing, a controller disposed within the housing, a first communication system disposed within the housing and connected to the controller for connecting to the internet, a second communication system disposed within the housing and connected to the controller for connecting to a wireless device, a display connected to the controller, and a terminal disposed on the housing and connectable to a removable power tool battery pack.
US11073581B2
A coil assembly includes: a radio frequency (RF) coil operable to be placed over a portion of a subject; a quarter-wave transformer coupled to the RF coil and configured to transform a characteristic impedance of the RF coil; and a diode placed behind the quarter-wave transformer and away from the RF coil, wherein the diode is operable to: (i) when the diode is forward biased, the diode turns the quarter-wave transformer into an open circuit such that the power amplifier drives the RF coil with sufficient electrical power for the RF coil to transmit an RF pulse into the portion of the subject; and (ii) when the diode is provided zero or reverse bias, the diode turns the quarter-wave transformer into a short circuit such that the RF coil is detuned from a Lamor frequency of nuclei of interest immersed in the main magnet.
US11073580B2
A medical radiofrequency coil may comprise: a base substrate; and a radio coil unit having a first coil element which has a rectangular shape and is formed along an edge of the inner peripheral surface of the base substrate, and a second coil element which is formed at the inner side of the first coil element and has a shape of paired paddles connected to each other. Therefore, the present inventive concept provides a radiofrequency coil, which can minimize an image distortion due to a beam-hardening artifact effect, and a medical imaging device including the same.
US11073568B2
An electronic device includes a deformation amount detecting unit configured to detect a deformation amount of a secondary battery connected to the electronic device; a total charge/discharge amount detecting unit configured to detect a total charge/discharge amount of the secondary battery; a storage unit configured to store reference data representing a relationship between the deformation amount and the total charge/discharge amount; a state determining unit configured to determine a state of the secondary battery, based on the deformation amount detected by the deformation amount detecting unit, the total charge/discharge amount detected by the total charge/discharge amount detecting unit, and the reference data; and a notification control unit configured to perform a notification based on a result of the state of the secondary battery.
US11073560B2
A method includes measuring, by at least one processor, a time at which control circuitry sends an instruction to a switch structured to control transmission of electrical power. The method further includes sensing, by at least one sensor, a change in position of the switch in response to the instruction, and determining, by the at least one processor, a delay between the time at which the control circuitry sends the instruction and a time at which the change in position occurs. The method still further includes recording, by the at least one processor, the delay in a delay measurement queue and taking, by the at least one processor, an action with respect to the switch in response to the delay measurement queue.
US11073559B2
An electrical system comprises at least one high-voltage battery, at least one DC link capacitor and at least two power relays, whereby one power relay is arranged between a positive connector of the high-voltage battery and the DC link capacitor, while the other power relay is arranged between a negative connector of the high-voltage battery and the DC link capacitor, whereby the electrical system has a galvanically isolated DC/DC converter that is connected to a voltage source in the electrical system, whereby the DC/DC converter is configured such that it can transmit electric energy to a high-voltage side with the DC link capacitor in order to pre-charge the DC link capacitor, whereby the electrical system has a diagnostic device to test the power relays, whereby the diagnostic device has switchable voltage sensors.
US11073552B2
Various examples of a circuit and a technique for testing the circuit are disclosed herein. In an example, the circuit includes a data input coupled to a scan multiplexer and a path select multiplexer. The circuit further includes a scan-in input coupled to the scan multiplexer and to receive a value of a scan pattern. The circuit further includes a scan latch to store the value that has an input coupled to the scan multiplexer and an output coupled to the path select multiplexer. The scan multiplexer selects a first signal from the data input and the scan-in input and provides the first signal to the input of the scan latch. The path select multiplexer selects a second signal from the data input and the output of the scan latch and provides the second signal to a data output of the circuit.
US11073547B2
The technology described herein is generally directed to a method of locating a fault in a multi-terminal electrical power transmission scheme, such as implemented in a power transmission scheme where each of six terminals is connected with one of four junctions via a power transmission section and each junction interconnects a plurality of power transmission sections. Aspects of the described technology can be directed to measuring the voltage and current at each terminal, calculating from the measured voltage and current at each terminal corresponding voltage and current phasors, determining from the calculated voltage and current phasors a synchronization difference between the measured voltage and current at a designated terminal and the measured voltage and current at each other terminal, modifying the calculated voltage and current phasors to compensate for each synchronization difference, and determining from the compensated voltage and current phasors the location of the fault.
US11073532B2
A sensor module includes a sensor, a first substrate on which the sensor is mounted, a second substrate coupled to an external connector, conductive members that couple the first substrate and the second substrate, an accommodator that accommodates the first substrate, the second substrate, and a conductive member therein, a lid that closes an opening of the accommodator, a first elastic member in contact with a first main surface of the first substrate and the accommodator, and a second elastic member in contact with a second main surface of the first substrate and the lid. A resonance frequency f1 of the sensor, a resonance frequency f2 of the conductive member, a resonance frequency f3 of the first elastic member, and a resonance frequency f4 of the second elastic member satisfy f2
US11073529B2
A system and method for dispense characterization is disclosed. According to particular embodiments of the dispense characterization system and method, volumes of dispensed liquids can be determined. In more particular embodiments, additional characteristics and combinations of characteristics of a liquid dispensing event can be determined. Examples of additional characteristics that can be determined include the shape of the dispensing event, the velocity of the dispensing event, and the trajectory of the dispensing event. The dispense characterization system and method can be employed in automated biological sample analysis systems, and are particularly suited for monitoring liquid reagent dispensing events that deliver liquid reagents to a surface of a microscope slide holding a biological sample.
US11073525B2
The automatic analyzer includes: a device state managing unit that manages a device state of the automatic analyzer; an abnormality detecting unit that detects abnormality of the automatic analyzer based on information of the device state managed by the device state managing unit and a predetermined reference; an alarm planning unit that plans at least two alarms including an abnormality occurrence alarm and an handling available alarm regarding each of abnormality items detected by the abnormality detecting unit, the abnormality occurrence alarm being planned for notification to a user in a case where the abnormality occurs, and the handling available alarm being planned for notification to the user in a case where the automatic analyzer is in a device state where the automatic analyzer is available for handling the abnormality; and a notifying unit that notifies the alarms planned by the alarm planning unit.
US11073522B2
The structures of very long chain dicarboxylic acids from blood samples may be validated through chemical derivatization of the dicarboxylic functionality with 2-picolylamine before positive ESI mass spectroscopy analysis. Laboratory standards may be used to quantify the concentration of the selected very long chain dicarboxylic acid in a blood sample.
US11073518B2
The present invention relates to a prefabricated microparticle for performing detection, preferably a digital detection and/or quantitation of an analyte. Furthermore, it also relates to a detection and/or quantitation of multiple analytes by prefabricated microparticles. It also relates to a collection of such prefabricated microparticles and to the use of such microparticle(s) and/or of such collection. Furthermore, the present invention also relates to a method of performing a detection and/or quantitation of an analyte in a sample wherein a microparticle or collection of microparticles are used. In one embodiment, in the collection of microparticles, individual microparticles are tailored for the detection of specific analytes and can be distinguished from each other by a specific label indicating the respective analyte for which the individual microparticle is specific.
US11073517B1
A method for preparing a nanohybrid used for ratiometric fluorescence and ratiometric electrochemical sensing simultaneously is provided. Surface-aminated (—NH2) SiO2 nanospheres encapsulating an electroactive material A or B are prepared and conjugated with surface-carboxylated (—COOH) carbon dots (CDs) or gold nanoclusters (AuNCs) to prepare a conjugate, and the conjugate is conjugated with a DNA aptamer terminated with —NH2. Ions or biomolecules are added to two types of DNA-conjugate dispersions, and ratiometric florescence sensing is realized by fitting the linear relationship between ratiometric fluorescent peak intensity ICDs/IAuNCs and a specific ion concentration or a specific biomolecule concentration. A-SiO2@CDs-DNA is attached to the surface of a gold electrode based on a DNA terminal —SH and Au—S bonding; B—SiO2@AuNCs-DNA and ions or biomolecules are added, and ratiometric electrochemical sensing is realized by fitting the linear relationship between the specific ion concentration or the specific biomolecule concentration and the ratiometric current peak intensity IB/IA.
US11073512B2
Provided is a composition comprising an analyte bound covalently or through a first binding pair to a polymer. In this composition, the analyte is less than about 2000 MW; the polymer further comprises more than one signal or first member of a second binding pair; and the analyte is not a member of the first binding pair or the second binding pair. Also provided is an assay for an analyte. The assay comprises: combining a sample suspected of containing the analyte with the above-described composition and a binding agent that binds to the analyte; and detecting the signal or the first member of the second binding pair that is bound to the binding agent. Additionally provided is a multisignal labeling reagent comprising a first polymer covalently bound to (a) a reactive group or a first member of a first binding pair, and (b) more than one digoxigenin molecule.
US11073499B2
A measuring transducer includes a support body, a curved oscillatable measuring tube, an electrodynamic exciter, at least one sensor for registering oscillations of the measuring tube, and an operating circuit. The measuring tube has first and second bending oscillation modes, which are mirror symmetric to a measuring tube transverse plane and have first and second media density dependent eigenfrequencies f1, f3 with f3>f1. The measuring tube has a peak secant with an oscillation node in the second mirror symmetric bending oscillation mode. The operating circuit is adapted to drive the exciter conductor loop with a signal exciting the second mirror symmetric bending oscillation mode. The exciter conductor loop has an ohmic resistance RΩ and a mode dependent mutual induction reactance Rg3 which depends on the position of the exciter. The exciter is so positioned that a dimensionless power factor pc 3 = 4 · R Ω · R g 3 ( R Ω + R g 3 ) 2 has a value of not less than 0.2.
US11073496B2
A reference electrode including a casing through which one face at one side of a liquid junction that leaches an internal liquid is exposed. The casing is provided with an overhang portion that hangs out on the one face side of the liquid junction and prevents separation of the liquid junction from the casing; and an open portion that leaves a space on the one side of the liquid junction open toward a lateral direction along the one face.
US11073494B2
A trace metal analysis detector and method of operating the same to detect metals in various fluid samples using boron doped diamond working electrodes.
US11073491B2
According to various embodiments, there is provided an odor sensor including at least two sensor elements each having a substance adsorbing membrane for adsorbing one or more odor substances included in air; and an electrical signal conversion unit for measuring the electrical characteristics of the substance adsorbing membrane after adsorption of the substance, in which the substance adsorbing membrane has a main skeleton containing an electroconductive polymer and contains a dopant for modifying the main skeleton of the electroconductive polymer, and the at least two sensor elements are respectively provided with substance adsorbing membranes having different proportions of the main skeleton and the dopant. Also provided is an odor measurement system using the sensor.
US11073490B2
A device for measuring analytes in the blood and/or in the interstitial fluid, comprising: at least one sensor (2) configured to be in contact with the blood and/or interstitial fluid; a transducer (15) engaged to said sensor (2) to measure the concentration of said analyte in the blood and/or interstitial fluid; electronic processing means (16) associated to the transducer (15) to generate a signal (S) representative of the concentration value of said analyte in the blood and/or interstitial fluid; and transmitting means (17) associated with the electronic processing means (16) to send the signal to a receiver member (17a) remotely arranged with respect to said electronic processing means (16); said sensor (2) comprising an active electrode (3) having at least a needle (4) insertable into the skin to be in contact with the blood and/or interstitial fluid, and a reference electrode (5) having a contact element (6) with the user's skin; said electrodes (3, 5) defining a respective current passage electrical circuit.
US11073475B2
An optical nitrate sensor features a signal processor or signal processing module configured to: receive signaling containing information about a measurement (M) of UV optical absorbance of nitrate dissolved in water of a UV light that is generated by a UV LED centered at 229 nm and that traverses a confined volume of the water within a prescribed region of a sensor body, and also about a reference sample (R) of a portion of the UV light not traversing the confined volume of the water; and determine corresponding signaling containing information about the concentration of nitrate dissolved in the water, based upon the signaling received.
US11073467B2
A particle detector formed by a body defining a chamber and housing a light source and a photodetector. A reflecting surface is formed by a first reflecting region and a second reflecting region that have a respective curved shape. The curved shapes are chosen from among portions of ellipsoidal, paraboloidal, and spherical surfaces. The first reflecting region faces the light source and the second reflecting region faces the photodetector. The first reflecting region has an own first focus, and the second reflecting region has an own first focus. The first focus of the first reflecting region is arranged in an active volume of the body, designed for detecting particles, and the photodetector is arranged on the first focus of the second reflecting region.
US11073464B2
A method for characterizing wettability of a porous medium is described. A core sample of the porous medium is secured in a core holder, which includes a first end and a second end. A model of the core sample and a pore volume of the core sample are obtained. A wetting phase is displaced from the core sample by supplying a non-wetting phase at one end of the core holder. The non-wetting phase is displaced from the core sample by supplying the wetting phase at one end of the core holder. A saturation profile of the core sample is determined based on cross-sectional images of the core sample. A wettability index value is calculated at least based on a comparison of the saturation profile and the model of the core sample.
US11073462B2
To reduce the complexity and risk associated with activated platelet transfusions, thrombocytopenic patients are transfused with exclusively non-activated platelets. A preferred embodiment is through routine screening of platelet units in the hospital blood bank using dynamic light scattering and selective allocation of platelets, with non-activated platelets being exclusively transfused to thrombocytopenic patients, especially patients with cancers such as hematologic malignancies. Activated platelets typically contain activated factors of the innate immune system called complement, transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ), interleukin 6 (IL-6), CD40 ligand (CD40L) and C-reactive protein (CRP) for example. Some of these activated factors have already been shown to correlate with microparticles and others are expected to correlate: the higher the platelet activation the more microparticles and the higher the concentration of these factors. By transfusing only non-activated platelets, therapeutic outcomes are enhanced.
US11073461B2
A method and apparatus for monitoring particulate concentrations in ambient air use digital in-line holography and automated digital algorithms to classify and determine mass density and other characteristics of particles within a determined mass and size range. An embodiment provides a sampling plate on which particles are deposited at locations which depend on sizes and masses of the particles. A digital in-line hologram of the sampling plate is processed to obtain information about the particles. The method and apparatus have example application to environmental monitoring.
US11073445B2
Disclosed is a brake hose endurance testing apparatus, including: a plurality of first fitting members inserted at one end of the brake hose into a plurality of first fixing brackets; a first mounting block attached to the plurality of first fixing brackets and configured to move up and down; a vertical driving unit configured to drive the first mounting block up and down; a second mounting block attached to a plurality of second fitting members inserted at the opposite end of the brake hose into a plurality of second fixing brackets or attached and fixed to moving brackets; and a horizontal driving unit configured to drive the moving brackets to move left and right, wherein the first and second fitting members of the brake hose are universal fitting members laid out to reflect the interference characteristics between the brake hose and peripheral components.
US11073444B2
A test method includes deriving road grade information or wind load information from test schedule torque outputs generated by a dynamometer operatively arranged with a first vehicle, and controlling an accelerator pedal, an accelerator pedal signal, a fuel injector, a manifold pressure, a motor controller, or a throttle valve associated with the first or a second vehicle according to a speed schedule such that the dynamometer, or another dynamometer, programmed with the road grade information or wind load information and operatively arranged with the first or second vehicle applies a load to the first or second vehicle that reflects the road grade information or wind load information.
US11073442B2
In an exemplary method of monitoring performance of a fluid driven actuator for a valve, pressurized fluid is supplied through an actuator supply line to an inlet port of the actuator during a first time period to operate the actuator. Changes corresponding to a fluid flow condition in the actuator supply line are measured during the first time period, and the measured changes are analyzed to identify a non-compliant condition in at least one of the valve and the actuator. An output communicating the identified non-compliant condition is then generated.
US11073435B2
A three-dimensional grip detection sensor is provided that includes an outer wall. When a first region in the outer wall receives pressing operation, it undergoes first deformation recessed inward from the outer wall, and a second region undergoes second deformation opposite to first deformation and that projects outward from the outer wall. The three-dimensional grip detection sensor further includes a three-dimensional object that receives pressing operation, with a first sensor disposed on an outer wall and a second sensor disposed at a position asymmetric to the first sensor. Each of the first and second sensors includes a piezoelectric film deformed by the pressing operation, first and second electrodes on a first main surface of the piezoelectric film and disposed in parallel with the first electrode, and a reference electrode on a second main surface of the piezoelectric film.
US11073432B2
A force sensor is suitable for an electrohydraulic hitch control system of an agricultural tractor. The force sensor has an outer cylindrical part with a bore and a measuring rod fixed on one side in the bore. A central section of the cylindrical part is provided as force introduction section. Two outer sections of the cylinder part are removed equally far axially from the center of the force introduction section and are provided as abutment sections. The measuring rod is clamped in an area of the force introduction section.
US11073407B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an inertial-measurement unit, an environmental-parameter database, and a computation unit. The inertial-measurement unit is configured to detect inertial information of the electronic device to generate sensor data. The computation unit is configured to perform pose estimation according to the sensor data to obtain a first pose. In response to the electronic device being in a non-moving state, the computation unit performs pose calibration on the first pose according to an environmental parameter in the environmental-parameter database corresponding to a current location at which the electronic device is located.
US11073406B2
The disclosure relates to a method for updating an electronic map. The method includes detecting at least one first object by means of a sensor device of a motor vehicle and assigning a position of the motor vehicle, detected by means of a position detecting device of the motor vehicle, to the detected first object. The method also includes generating a first object data set representing the detected first object and the position assigned to the first object, by means of an evaluation device of the motor vehicle. The method further includes deriving a second object data set, representing a second object external to the vehicle, which is different from the first object detected, from the first object data set. The method also includes updating the electronic map by adding map data corresponding to the second object data set to the map or by removing map data contradicting the second object data set from the map by means of a computing device to improve updating of the electronic map.
US11073398B2
Described herein are techniques for generating and utilizing drivability maps. The techniques including a method comprising receiving a set of vehicle performance records including a first vehicle performance record comprising a vehicle location, a vehicle configuration, and traction control system information. The method further includes determining, from the set of vehicle performance records, a respective Coefficient of Friction (CoF) value for respective road segments including a first CoF value for a first road segment. The method further includes determining, from the set of vehicle performance records and the respective CoF values, a first CoF threshold for a first vehicle configuration. The method further includes generating a drivability map for the first vehicle configuration indicating different levels of drivability for different road segments based on the respective CoF values for respective road segments and the first CoF threshold for the first vehicle configuration.
US11073396B2
The present disclosure provides an integrated positioning method and system. The method comprises: receiving IMU data, and solving for the IMU data in a first Kalman filter to obtain a system state variable of an autonomous vehicle; receiving and buffering measurement data, and regarding the measurement data as current measurement data; performing measurement updating: obtaining the system state variable at a measurement time of current measurement data, and solving in the second Kalman filter to obtain an updated system state variable; if measurement data after the measurement time of the measurement data is already buffered, regarding the already-buffered measurement data after the measurement time as current measurement data, and performing the measurement update. The present disclosure can solve the problem about measurement information disorder caused by inconsistency of time delay in solving between different sensors, and improve real time and accuracy of the positioning.
US11073393B2
A control system includes sensor controllers that are each coupled to a respective set of electrodes of a CVG sensor system via respective sensor channels. A first portion of the sensor controllers provides a sinusoidal forcer signal on the respective sensor channel in response to digital clock and feedback signals to provide oscillation of a resonator of the CVG sensor system. A second portion of the sensor controllers monitors a capacitive pickoff voltage associated with the resonator on the respective sensor channel to generate a digital pickoff signal. A gyroscope controller generates the digital feedback signal in response to the digital pickoff signal from the second portion of the sensor controllers to provide the digital feedback signal and the digital clock signal to the first portion of the sensor controllers and determines a rotation about the CVG sensor system based on the digital feedback signal or the digital pickoff signal.
US11073388B2
A leveling device may include a first level portion having a first leveling vial disposed thereon, and a second level portion having a second leveling vial disposed thereon. The second level portion may be configured to be nested within the first level portion to define a fully nested configuration. The first and second level portions may be separable from each other to define a fully de-nested configuration.
US11073384B2
A method for determining a mixed layer depth (MLD) in a body of water includes receiving a vertical high resolution profile corresponding to the body of water. Additionally, a profile segment corresponding to a portion of the profile between a surface of the body of water and a bottom of a thermocline is selected to be analyzed. Further, a depth within the profile segment corresponding to MLD is identified. For example, the MLD in Gulf of Aden is analyzed using vertical high resolution profiles of both temperature and density. The method produces MLD estimates for more than 95% of the profiles and overcomes major limitations of conventional methods.
US11073378B2
A clearance measurement device is a device for measuring a clearance between an inner peripheral surface of a casing and an outer peripheral surface of a rotary body. This device: emits light having a first wavelength and a second wavelength, respectively, towards the outer peripheral surface of the rotary body; receives the light reflected from the outer peripheral surface via a first filter having a transmission band corresponding to the first wavelength and via a second filter having a transmission band corresponding to the second wavelength; and measures the clearance based on a time difference of the moment to detect the rotary body.
US11073375B2
An electronic device displays an application user interface that includes a representation of a field of view of one or more cameras. The representation of the field of view is updated over time based on changes to current visual data detected by the one or more cameras, and the field of view includes a physical object in a three-dimensional space. While the device is a first distance from the physical object, the device displays a representation of a measurement that corresponds to the physical object, and one or more first scale markers along the representation of the measurement at a first scale. After the device has moved to a second distance from the physical object, the device displays, at a second scale that is different from the first scale, one or more second scale markers along at least a portion of the representation of the measurement.
US11073364B2
A non-lethal weapon that delivers a high voltage electrical stun charge to a living organism at a distance without the use of wires, said weapon comprising at least one power laser and a high-voltage electrical circuit, wherein the power laser creates a beam of coherent light that ionizes the air, thus bringing into existence one or more paths of ion-rich gaseous plasma which conduct an electrical stun charge to the living target, and temporarily incapacitate the target.
US11073362B1
A system, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium that detects trajectories of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) approaching a protected site is described. Airborne defense agents (ADAs) located at a fixed radius from the protected and equidistant from one another detect acoustic signals emitted by an approaching UAV. Circuitry included in each ADA use the detected acoustic signals to determine a direction and a distance of each UAV. A base station having a control center (BS-CC) located in the protected site communicates with the ADAs to aggregate direction and distance data from the ADAs. Using the aggregated direction and distance data, the BS-CC predicts routes towards the protected site of the approaching UAV and alerts the protected site of the predicted route of the approaching UAV.
US11073361B1
A modular ballistic wall system uses a military standard shipping pallet as a floor. A wall frame is rotatably affixed to the pallet. The wall frame receives and supports a plurality of modular ballistic wall panels. The wall frame folds down against the pallet when the system is in a stowed position, e.g., during transport. The wall frame is generally perpendicular to the pallet when the system is in a deployed position. The modular ballistic wall panels can be solid metal ballistic panels, ballistic panels with firing ports, or ballistic glass.
US11073355B1
A compound bow system includes a compound bow with a bow string; a first pulley engaged with the bow string; a cam attachment having a smaller diameter than the first pulley and positioned on a front surface of the first pulley; and a trigger attached to the front surface of the first pulley; the first pulley and cam attachment are connected via the trigger; and the first pulley is so that when the trigger is engaged, the cam attachment holds a force.
US11073354B1
An attachment mechanism is provided for connecting a trunnion shaft to a pivoting platform. The mechanism includes a bracket, a block, a polygonal terminus attached to the trunnion shaft, a pair of bolts and fasteners. The bracket has a center recess and flanking surfaces parallel to the pivoting platform. The block has a cutout notch. The polygonal terminus inserts into a gap formed between the recess and the notch. The pair of bolts extends through the bracket and the terminus, and inserts into the block. The plurality of fasteners attaches the bracket at the facing surfaces to the pivoting platform.
US11073353B2
A firearm having a threaded barrel-receiver connection, with a threaded receiver opening for cooperative engagement with a threaded barrel. The receiver is also compatible with a clamping system for engagement of an unthreaded barrel, so that threaded and unthreaded barrels may be used interchangeably. The threads of the receiver may have a flat crested thread profile for sliding engagement upon installation of an unthreaded barrel.
US11073346B2
A header for an agricultural harvester is disclosed. The header comprises a frame, a cooler assembly support by the frame for cooling a hydraulic system of the header, and a hydraulic system. The cooler assembly includes an air pre-cleaner for receiving air and outputting a flow of air, a rotary fan downstream the air pre-cleaner, and a heat exchanger downstream and in fluid communication with a first air output of the rotary fan. The rotary fan includes an air intake in fluid communication with the air pre-cleaner for receiving the flow of air, a first air output in fluid communication with the air intake, and a second air output in fluid communication with the air intake and spaced from the first air output. The hydraulic system is downstream the heat exchanger and receives an output flow of air from the cooler assembly.
US11073343B2
A metal heat exchanger tube has integral ribs formed on the outside of the tube. The ribs have a rib base, rib flanks, and a rib tip. The rib base protrudes substantially radially from the tube wall. A channel is formed between the ribs, in which channel additional structures spaced apart from each other are arranged. The additional structures divide the channel between the ribs into segments. The additional structures reduce the cross-sectional area in the channel between two ribs through which flow is possible by at least 60% locally and, at least thereby, limit a fluid flow in the channel during operation.
US11073331B2
A refrigerator includes: a cabinet; an upper door; a lower door that is a drawer type door; a draw-out rail that connects the lower door to a storage space in the cabinet and that guides insertion and withdrawal of the lower door in a front-rear direction; an elevation assembly that is located in the lower door, that elevates an object stored in the lower door in a state in which the lower door is withdrawn, and that elevates the object relative to the lower door; and a door restriction device configured to selectively restrict an opening movement of the upper door based on whether the lower door is opened or closed. The door restriction device is configured to restrict the opening movement of the upper door based on the lower door being opened, and to allow the opening movement of the upper door based on the lower door being closed.
US11073329B2
A refrigerator shelf assembly includes a frame having a depth and a first support element extending along the depth and defining a first track open in a lateral direction perpendicular to the depth. The support element further defines a first open area along a first side of the track and extending between an adjacent portion of the track and an exterior of the first support element and a cantilever arm having a free end adjacent the first open area. The cantilever arm is resiliently deformable away from a plane defined along the first side of the track. The assembly further includes an insert slidably received within the track and moveable along the depth of the first track through a fixed range of motion, wherein the insert is disposed over an expanse of the first open area.
US11073328B1
A refrigerator front frame for a refrigerator appliance, including: four profiles comprising two vertical profiles each having a first width and two horizontal profiles at least one of which has a second width, where the first width and the second width are different; and four corner connecting pieces configured to join the four profiles. Each of the four corner connecting pieces includes a horizontal receiving portion configured to receive one of the two horizontal profiles thereover and a vertical receiving portion configured to receive one of the two vertical profiles thereover. The ends of the two vertical profiles abut against sides of the two horizontal profiles or vice versa, such that a joining line between each of the two vertical profiles and each of the two horizontal profiles is either horizontal or vertical, and such that each of the four corner connecting pieces is substantially covered and hidden from view.
US11073319B2
A control system includes processing and memory circuitry, the memory circuitry storing a temperature-based capacity control scheme for a chiller system and the processing circuitry being configured to perform the temperature-based capacity control scheme. The motor temperature-based capacity control scheme is performed as a function of a monitored temperature in a motor configured to drive a compressor of the chiller system, a first temperature threshold corresponding to the monitored temperature, and a second temperature threshold corresponding to the monitored temperature higher than the first temperature threshold.
US11073317B2
A refrigerator includes a first refrigeration cycle unit that is configured to circulate a first refrigerant and that includes a first compressor, a first condenser, a first expansion device, and a first evaporator, a second refrigeration cycle unit that is configured to circulate a second refrigerant and that includes a second compressor, a second condenser, a second expansion device, and a second evaporator, a first valve unit installed at an outlet side of the first compressor, and a first hot gas path configured to extend from the first valve unit to the second evaporator and configured to supply the first refrigerant to the second evaporator.
US11073316B2
Disclosed herein may be an electric compressor. The electric compressor may include: a rear housing having a discharge chamber into which refrigerant is discharged; and an oil separator disposed in the discharge chamber and having a refrigerant inlet hole through which the refrigerant is drawn into the oil separator. The discharge chamber may protrude in a multi-stepped manner outwards from the rear housing such that a volume of the rear housing is increased, and based on the oil separator, an internal space of the discharge chamber may be divided into spaces having different volumes.
US11073315B2
Refrigeration systems with a purge for removing non-condensables from the refrigerant and an acid filter for remove acid from the refrigerant are provided. The acid filter can be operatively connected to the purge. Optionally, the purge can include a separating device for separating non-condensable gases from condensable refrigerant gases and an acid filter is provided to remove acid from the condensable refrigerant gases.
US11073306B2
A lens, a solar cell unit including the lens and a joining method for the solar cell unit, wherein the lens has a main body with a substantially planar base, a receiving surface opposite the base, a side surface area connecting the base and the receiving surface and an optical axis extending perpendicular to the base and at least one bulge is arranged on the main body of the lens at a first height above the base on the side surface area.
US11073292B2
A universal air handler unit includes a blower and evaporator juxtaposed one another within a compact, weather resistant cabinet adapted for outdoor installation. Ports for cool and return air ducts disposed on one side of the cabinet couple directly to the blower and evaporator respectively. Return air drawn by the blower into the cabinet passes across the evaporator core, then through the blower and back out through the adjacent cool air duct. Coolant lines couple to a stand-alone condenser/compressor unit. In a particular embodiment, an adapter enables stacking the condenser/compressor unit atop the cabinet to reduce the overall footprint of the combination. In another embodiment, a manifold adapted to couple to the cool and return air ducts may be installed in various locations, the air handler unit slideably coupling to the manifold during installation, and easily decoupling and reecoupling for transportation and maintenance.
US11073290B2
A circulation pump assembly for a heating and/or cooling system includes an electric drive motor (108) and a connected pump housing (106) in which at least one impeller (118) is situated and which comprises a first inlet (112) and a first outlet (114). The pump housing (106) includes a second inlet (122) which is connected in an inside of the pump housing (106) at a mixing point (130) to the first inlet (112). A regulating valve (134), which is designed for regulating the mixing ratio of two flows mixing at the mixing point (130), as well as a control device, which controls the regulating valve (134) for regulating the mixing ration, are arranged in the pump housing (106). A hydraulic manifold is provided with such a circulation pump assembly.
US11073289B2
A cooking device includes a frame forming a cooking chamber; a door opening and closing the cooking chamber; a burner cover disposed in the cooking chamber; and a burner located in the burner cover, the burner generating a flame, wherein the burner cover is provided with a first hole providing a path through which air flows, and the frame is provided with a second hole communicating with the first hole, the second hole providing a path through which the air flows.
US11073287B2
A method and system are provided or determining a fuel or gas type input into a fuel system or a voltage input into an electrical system of a cooking appliance. For instance, the cooking appliance may be a cooktop appliance or an oven appliance. Particularly, a calibration cycle may be performed in which the heating rate of an object or air at or within the cooking appliance is determined. Based on the determined heating rate, the input may be classified. That is, based on the heating rate, the gas type or input voltage into the cooking appliance may be determined. Further, based on the classified input, the settings of the cooking appliance may be selected for optimal cooking performance.
US11073273B1
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.
US11073264B1
A battery clamp structure of detachable lighting lamp includes at least a battery clamp and a lamp, wherein the battery clamp includes two oppositely installed grips, with one end of each of the grips respectively having a clamp head, and the exterior of a clamp head is configured with a slide groove; in addition, the lamp includes a lighting portion, a switch and a clamp; accordingly, the clamp can be detachably assembled within the slide groove such that the lamp and the clamp head can be fixedly assembled, and, when the lamp is fixed onto the clamp head, the lighting portion faces towards the clamp head thus allowing the lighting portion to cast light at the direction of the clamp head.
US11073261B1
A string light assembly having a plurality of lighting components is described. Each lighting component comprises a first cover, a second cover, and a collar for coupling the first and second covers together. When coupled, the first and second covers form a housing that has an interior space. The interior space is sized and dimensioned to house a pair of electrical wires. The electrical wires connect with a light element such as an LED bulb. The lighting component also includes a lampshade that removably couples with the collar.
US11073259B2
Systems and methods for an intracanopy horticultural lighting fixture. In aspects, a horticultural luminaire has an edgelit lightguide or optical conduit extending from a housing with its major dimension extending along longitudinal axis L, and one or more endcaps coupled to respective lateral edges, endcaps being convex curved about one or more axes transverse the longitudinal axis to prevent catch points. The endcap can be coupled to the housing to hinder separation of the lightguide. In another aspect a horticultural luminaire has an edgelit lightguide generating an output having downwardly directed peaks at about +/−30 degrees from vertical. Light output is preferably batwing shaped and symmetric. Another aspect provides a method for intracanopy lighting having an entirely planar optical conduit, a major extent of the optical conduit disposed along its longitudinal axis (L), and supporting the optical conduit, preferably its entirety, below an upper plant canopy.
US11073258B2
A bare optical fiber manufacturing method includes applying an ultraviolet curable resin applied around an optical fiber; and irradiating the ultraviolet curable resin with ultraviolet light emitted from semiconductor ultraviolet light emitting elements, by use of an ultraviolet irradiation device having plural ultraviolet irradiation units each having plural positions where the ultraviolet light is emitted toward the ultraviolet curable resin, the plural positions being arranged on the same circle, the plural ultraviolet irradiation units being arranged in a traveling direction of the optical fiber such that the optical fiber passes centers of the circles, at least two of the plural ultraviolet irradiation units being differently arranged with respect to circumferential direction angles thereof around an axis that is the traveling direction of the optical fiber.
US11073255B2
A downlight eyebrow includes an elongated L-shaped structure including a first wall and a second wall forming a right angle. The downlight eyebrow may be installed at an upper edge of a vertical structure with the first eyebrow wall extending horizontally away from an upper edge of the structure and the second wall extending vertically downward from the first wall. A reflective material disposed on an interior surface of the second wall provides a primary reflector. A flange that extends from an intermediate point in the eyebrow, downward and away from the second wall, toward the vertical surface may provide a secondary reflector.
US11073246B2
A propane tank seat accessory device provides an upper seating surface to support a user seated thereon on a portable propane tank with a cylindrical body and a protective cage surrounding a valve at the top end thereof. The device has a seat with a lower supporting surface for being supported on an upper edge of the protective cage and which defines the upper seating surface thereon. A sleeve extends downwardly from the lower supporting surface having an exterior diameter receivable within the protective cage of the propane tank in which a bottom end of the sleeve can be engaged upon the top end of the tank body. The sleeve has a valve opening therein for communication of the valve structure therethrough.
US11073244B2
A filling apparatus capable of suppressing radial movement of a connecting pin of a nozzle, and preventing damages and deformations (recesses and so on) from generating on an outer peripheral surface of the connecting pin, and making the filling nozzle compact. The filling apparatus (100) according to the present invention includes: a storage tank for storing hydrogen fuel; a filling nozzle (10) for filling hydrogen from the storage tank through a fuel filling system to an in-vehicle hydrogen filling tank mounted on a vehicle; a rod-shaped member (2: connecting pin) and a main body portion (1) mounted on the filling nozzle (10); a sealing member (3: laminated sealing member) arranged on (a radially outer peripheral portion of the rod-shaped member of) the main body portion (1); a sealing member holding member (4: pressing member) mounted on an end side (on a receptacle 20 side) of the rod-shaped member (2); and a mechanism for protecting an outer peripheral surface of the rod-shaped member (2) from slide on the sealing member holding member (4).
US11073243B2
A low-temperature tank includes a container main body. The container main body includes a metal liner forming a storage space and a wall member formed of carbon fiber reinforced plastic wound on an outer peripheral surface of the metal liner. The metal liner includes a bent portion that extends in two directions intersecting each other on a surface thereof and that is bent to project toward the storage space.
US11073231B2
A telescopic tube assembly includes a telescopic tube subassembly having a first tube and a second tube, a tubular member, a sleeve member, at least one retaining member, an actuating sleeve, and a biasing member for biasing the actuating sleeve to a locked position. When the actuating sleeve is in the locked position, the retaining member is engaged in a cavity of the tubular member to guard against axial movement of the second tube relative to the first tube. When the actuating sleeve is moved to an unlocked position against a biasing force of the basing member, the retaining member is disengaged from the cavity to permit the axial movement of the second tube.
US11073230B2
A pipe saddle includes a saddle body having an interior surface with a generally U-shaped cross-sectional shape defining an interior configured to receive a pipe therein. The saddle body includes a bottom wall portion. A support clip is included on the bottom wall portion of the saddle body. The support clip includes a side wall extending downward. A resiliently deflectable lower arm extends outward from a lower end of the side wall and generally opposing the bottom wall portion. The resiliently deflectable lower arm includes a catch at a free end thereof. The resiliently deflectable lower arm is configured to snap onto a support structure to attach the pipe saddle to the support structure.
US11073227B2
A valve position indicator for a valve includes a spline barrel, indicator flag, and follower. The spline barrel may be generally tubular and may be positionable about a tail stem protector of the valve. The spline barrel may have a helical slot formed therein. The spline barrel may be rotatably coupled to the tail stem protector of a valve. The indicator flag may be coupled to the spline barrel and may extend radially therefrom. The follower may be coupleable to a tail stem of the valve. The follower may extend in a direction perpendicular to the extent of the tail stem. The follower may extend through a slot in the tail stem protector and the helical slot of the spline barrel when the spline barrel is positioned about the tail stem protector.
US11073224B2
A valve assembly may be used with a container for holding a fluid including a liquid and a gas. The valve assembly may have a chamber, inlet, and outlet. The chamber may provide an exhaust route for fluid from the container to the outlet. A check valve including a sealing member with a through hole may move between an open and closed position. In the open position, check valve may provide a main flow route for fluid leaving the internal chamber. The through hole may provide a limited return flow route for gas returning to the internal chamber when the check valve is closed. The valve assembly may include a breather check valve movable between a closed and open position in which it provides fluid communication between the exhaust route and externally of the housing. A filter may communicate with the breather check valve.
US11073222B2
An electromagnetic switch valve for opening or closing an oil or coolant circuit in a motor vehicle, having an electromagnet, which has a coil and a movable armature, wherein the armature is coupled to a valve element, via which a valve seat in the coolant circuit can be sealed, wherein the switch valve is designed to be pressure balanced, and the valve element, pointing in the direction of the valve seat, is designed to be at least approximately hollow-walled.
US11073218B2
A pressure relief device, comprising: a valve body (100) having a central bore, wherein a valve seat (130) is disposed within the central bore of the valve body (100); a plug (200); a spring (500) configured to press the plug (200) into sealing engagement with the valve seat (130); a bumper (300) extending from the plug (200), wherein the bumper (200) extends along a central axis of the spring (500); and a holder (400) configured to lock into the valve body (100), wherein the holder (100) is configured to hold the spring (500) within the valve body (100).
US11073217B2
Herein a sealing valve arrangement (2) for a fluid container is disclosed. The sealing valve arrangement (2) comprising a valve body (4), a flexible sealing valve (8), and a supporting element (14). The flexible sealing valve (8) comprises a sealing surface (10) and is situated in the second longitudinal portion (17) between an intermediate surface (18) and the supporting element (14). A centrally arranged recess (12) of the flexible sealing valve (8) forms a blind hole and the sealing surface (10) abuts against the intermediate surface (18), such that the flexible sealing valve (8) enables a fluid flow thought the through hole (6) only in a direction from the first longitudinal portion (15) to the second longitudinal portion (17) and the channel (16). Further a fuel tank for a hand-held power tool comprising a sealing valve arrangement is disclosed.
US11073215B2
A gas supply system is provided with an automatic valve that is provided in a flow passage and adjusts a flow rate of process gas supplied to a chamber by automatic opening and closing, and a manual valve that is provided downstream of the automatic valve in the flow path and in immediate vicinity of the chamber and adjusts the flow rate of the process gas by manual opening and closing. The manual valve is a direct diaphragm valve having a diaphragm that is placed and separated on and from a seat in conjunction with a stem and a disk along with opening and closing, and includes a stroke adjusting mechanism that adjusts a valve stroke.
US11073213B2
An eccentric butterfly valve includes a valve body formed therein with an internal flow passage extending in a direction of the flow passage axis, a disk-shaped valve member disposed in the internal flow passage and supported by the valve body through valve stems to be rotatable about a rotation axis R, and an annular valve seat portion provided on an inner periphery of the internal flow passage, and the internal flow passage is opened and closed by rotating the valve stem to bring a sealing surface of an outer peripheral edge portion of the valve member into and out of contact with the valve seat portion. The valve member is further provided in one of the principal surfaces with a groove portion extending in a direction across the rotation axis R, and both side walls of the groove portion are formed as convex curved surfaces extending in a convex shape.
US11073210B2
Sealing element for producing an electrically conductive connection between a first machine element and a second machine element, including at least one sealing disc and a support ring, the support ring comprising an axial flange and a radial flange, the sealing disc being formed from an electrically conductive non-woven fabric, and the sealing disc being secured at least in sections along the axial flange by means of a clamping connection between the support ring and the second machine element.
US11073208B2
A hydrostatic traction drive for a mobile working machine includes a first hydraulic machine coupled to a drive machine, a second hydraulic machine arranged with the first hydraulic machine in a hydraulic circuit and coupled to an output, and an electronic control device. A characteristic diagram of a setpoint driving behavior of the mobile working machine is stored in the electronic control device and is parameterized at least in accordance with at least one driving request.
US11073205B2
In at least some implementations, a vehicle shift lever assembly includes a shift lever movable about a first pivot axis within a first shift path having multiple shift positions, and movable about a second pivot axis to a second shift path having at least one shift position, and the second pivot axis is not parallel to the first pivot axis, and a sensor element coupled to the shift lever for movement with the shift lever. The sensor element is oriented in a different position when the shift lever is in each of the shift positions in the first shift path and each of the shift positions of the second shift path.
US11073202B2
The invention relates to an actuator (1) comprising: a body (4), a first element (5) mounted such that it can move rotatably in relation to said body (4), and a second element (6) mounted such that it can move translatably in relation to said body (4), either the first element (5) or the second element (6) being a screw and the other one being a nut, the nut cooperating with the screw such that a rotation of the first element (5) in relation to the body (4) around an axis of rotation (X) causes the translation of the second element (6) in relation to the body (4) parallel to the axis of rotation (X), a cylinder which is stationary in relation to the first element (5), a piston mounted such that it can move translatably inside the cylinder between a first end position and a second end position, and a cam surface which is stationary in relation to the body (4) and against which the piston is supported such that a rotation of the first element (5) in relation to the body (4) causes a translatory back-and-forth movement of the piston between the first end position and the second end position.
US11073196B2
Disclosed herein is a rotation transmitting device which permits the transmission of rotation with a reduced play and which permits the constituents to be aligned easily. The rotation transmitting device has a transmitting member (30) which surrounds a rotating part (12) of a drive shaft (11) and a rotating part (22) of a driven shaft (21). At least either the rotating part (12) of the drive shaft (11) or the rotating part (22) of the driven shaft (21) has an external surface that comes into contact with the internal surface of the transmitting member (30) so that friction arising between the internal surface and the external surface achieves torque transmission and reception to and from the transmitting member (30).
US11073194B2
A planetary gearset (6) has a sun gear (10) connected rotationally fixedly to an input shaft (8), a carrier (15) that carries planetary gears (11) and is connected rotationally fixedly to an output shaft (16), and a ring gear (14) fixedly connected to a housing (4) that encloses the planetary gearset (6). To reduce the noise emission from the planetary gearset with as little structural complexity as possible without reducing its efficiency due to pressure rings that are guided and slide against the planetary gears and the carrier, the sun gear (10), the planetary gears (11) and the ring gear (14) are provided with helical teeth and the input shaft (8) is at least indirectly supported on the housing (4), in both axial directions, by way of a single roller bearing (20).
US11073189B2
A pre-compression type emergency air spring assembly includes an upper cover plate, an air bag, an upper end plate, and a lower end plate. A periphery of the upper end plate is connected with a periphery of the lower end plate through the air bag. A top part of the upper end plate is provided with transverse pre-compression cavities and transverse pre-compression plates arranged at transverse openings of the transverse pre-compression cavities. The transverse pre-compression cavities are internally provided with laminated spring elastomers through the transverse pre-compression plates in a pressing mode. Multiple steel springs are arranged between the upper cover plate and the upper end plate in a pressing mode along a circumferential direction of the laminated spring elastomers. The upper cover plate is arranged on a periphery of the transverse pre-compression cavities in a sleeving mode.
US11073183B2
A selectable clutch includes: input and output members; a pocket plate connected to the output member; struts accommodated in accommodation recess portions of the pocket plate; a notch plate connected to the input member; a selector plate, disposed between the pocket plate and the notch plate; contact portions, movable in an axial direction of the rotational axis, rotating integrally with the selector plate around the rotational axis; and an actuators, fixed so as to be non-rotatable, including a plungers connected with the contact portion via bearings, cases, and coils accommodated in the cases. Further, by the coils being energized and the plungers being sucked in the axial direction, the contact portions are pushed in the axial direction, and by the contact portions being pushed to the input member, the selector plate rotates and the struts rise up.
US11073180B2
A constant velocity joint includes a shaft and an inner race coupled to the shaft. The inner race has a shaft groove formed thereon. A boot assembly engages the shaft and covers the inner race. A pair of grooves is axially formed in the boot assembly. The shaft groove provides communication between the pair of grooves.
US11073179B2
A plunging type constant velocity universal joint includes outer and inner joint members that transmit torque therebetween through intermediation of a ball while allowing angular displacement. The outer joint member is configured to receive an internal component comprising the ball and the inner joint member so that the internal component is slidable in an axial direction. The universal joint also includes a stopper mechanism that has an annular groove, and is configured to restrict axial displacement of the internal component by allowing the ball to interfere with a circlip fitted to the annular groove. The annular groove has a conical surface, which is inclined with respect to an axial direction so that the conical surface and an axial tangent line at a contact point between the ball and the circlip form a wedge angle opened from an opening end portion of the outer joint member toward a far side.
US11073175B2
An apparatus is presented comprising a captive screw comprising an upper portion, an upper middle portion, a central middle portion, a lower middle portion, and a lower portion, the central middle portion comprising a threaded portion, the lower portion comprising a barbed portion, the upper middle portion and the lower middle portion comprising a smooth portion, and the upper portion comprising a grip portion, wherein an outer circumference of the barbed portion is flexible, wherein the captive screw is configured with a first attachment portion and a second attachment portion to attach to a first member of an auxiliary device, and wherein the captive screw is configured to act as a set screw with respect to a second member of an auxiliary device.
US11073159B2
What is provided is a method of manufacturing a centrifugal rotary machine including: a fixing step S1 of fixing a return vane body having a virtual airfoil curved forward in a rotation direction of a rotation shaft as it goes inward in a radial direction and formed by a pressure surface recessed forward in the rotation direction and a negative pressure surface protruding forward in the rotation direction onto a guide flow path; and a cutting step S2 of forming a cut surface by cutting a portion including an inner radial end portion of the return vane body from the pressure surface to the negative pressure surface.
US11073156B2
A system and apparatus for a ceiling fan electronics assembly including a housing with an interior for housing an electrical system for the ceiling fan. The electrical system can provide a supply of power to the ceiling fan as well as interpret electrical instruction signals for controlling the operation of the ceiling fan. The housing can include a partition separating the interior into a vent section and an electronics section.
US11073151B2
This invention relates to an energy generating system and method, particularly to a fluid actuated energy generating system and method employing multifarious mechanisms to produce energy. The system comprises first and second tower structures; means operable to displace fluid in the first tower structure, and means operable in response to fluid displaced from the first tower structure for displacing fluid in the second tower structure. The system also comprises means operable in response to fluid displaced from the second tower structure for generating energy; means for collecting fluid displaced from the second tower structure for return to the second tower structure; and means for receiving, in the first and second tower structures, fluid for maintaining a fluid level for operation of the system.
US11073147B2
A measurement of the pressure of hydraulic fluid in a fluid working machine can be determined from the timing of the movement of valves which selectively seal a working chamber of cyclically varying volume from a fluid gallery. The timing of opening of a low pressure valve, to connect a working chamber to a low pressure fluid gallery, following the closure of a high pressure valve to seal a working chamber can be used to estimate the pressure in the high pressure fluid gallery at the moment of closure of the high pressure valve.
US11073142B2
A vehicle air-conditioner compressor may include a housing having a front housing section and a rear housing section; a shaft rotatably installed in the housing; a lug fixed at a preset position on the shaft; a swash plate coupled with the lug at one side thereof and rotating together with the lug, a piston connected to the swash plate by a shoe and moved reciprocatingly by the swash plate; a cylinder that accommodates the piston therein, and a pressure-sensing chamber coupled with a rod at the other side of the swash plate, that operates the rod using a pressure provided from a high-pressure chamber of the rear housing.
US11073134B2
The disclosure relates to hoisting accessories for wind turbines. The hoisting accessory is configured to be rotatably attached to the rotor hub and is further configured to assume a hoisting configuration and a passive configuration, wherein in the hoisting configuration, a wind turbine blade can be hoisted and mounted substantially vertically to the rotor hub, and wherein in the passive configuration, the rotor hub carrying one or more wind turbine blades can be rotated. The present disclosure also relates to kits including such hoisting accessories and methods of hoisting wind turbine blades.
US11073131B2
A wind turbine is provided. The turbine includes a support having an axis of rotation, a generator, a plurality of blades rotatably mounted on the support about the axis of rotation, the blades being moveable between a retracted position generally parallel with the axis of rotation and a fully deployed position generally perpendicular with the axis of rotation, the blades being connected to the generator such that rotation of the blades in a direction induced by wind causes the generator to produce electricity, and the provision of electricity to the generator rotates the blades, and a controller connected to the generator and configured to deliver a flow of current to the generator that is sufficient to move the blades from the retracted position toward the fully deployed position and insufficient to move the blades all the way to the fully deployed position. The flow of current induces rotation of the blades in the direction induced by wind, which creates a centrifugal force that moves the blades from the retracted position toward the fully deployed position. As the blades move from the retracted position, the blades have increasing exposure to ambient wind to receive additional rotational force from ambient wind, and the additional rotational force being sufficient to, either alone or in combination with the flow of current, move the blades into the fully deployed position.
US11073123B2
In at least some implementations, a method of maintaining an engine speed below a first threshold, includes: (a) determining an engine speed; (b) comparing the engine speed to a second threshold that is less than the first threshold; (c) allowing an engine ignition event to occur during a subsequent engine cycle if the engine speed is less than the second threshold; and (d) skipping at least one subsequent engine ignition event if the engine speed is greater than the second threshold. In at least some implementations, the second threshold is less than the first threshold by a maximum acceleration of the engine after one ignition event so that an ignition event when the engine speed is less than the second threshold does not cause the engine speed to increase above the first threshold.
US11073121B2
A metering system for a fluid atomizer includes a housing, first and second metering members, and at least one solenoid. The housing includes a mixing chamber. The first metering member is operable to control flow of a first fluid to the mixing chamber. The second metering member is arranged coaxial with the first metering member and operable to control flow of a second fluid to the mixing chamber. The at least one solenoid is configured to operate at least one of the first and second metering members.
US11073107B1
A hybrid electric gas turbine engine includes a fan section having a fan, a turbine section having a turbine drivably connected to the fan through a main shaft that extends along a central longitudinal axis, a gas generating core extending along a first axis that is radially offset from the central longitudinal axis, a first electric motor drivably connected to the main shaft, wherein the electric motor is colinear with the main shaft, and an electric compressor extending along a second axis that is radially offset from the central longitudinal axis, the electric compressor in fluid communication with the second turbine section.
US11073106B2
A gas turbine engine includes a gear system that provides a speed reduction between a fan drive turbine and a fan rotor. Aspects of the gear system are provided with some flexibility. The fan drive turbine has a first exit area and rotates at a first speed. A second turbine section has a second exit area and rotates at a second speed, which is faster than said first speed. A performance quantity can be defined for both turbine sections as the products of the respective areas and respective speeds squared. A performance quantity ratio of the performance quantity for the fan drive turbine to the performance quantity for the second turbine section is relatively high.
US11073105B2
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a fan ramp for use in a thrust reverser portion of a nacelle of a gas turbine engine, the fan ramp extending circumferentially about an axial fan ramp centerline. The fan ramp comprises a fan ramp forward edge disposed proximate an aft end of a fan case, the fan case at least partially surrounding a fan section of the gas turbine engine. The fan ramp also includes noise attenuating structure at a forward section of the fan ramp forward of a torque box.
US11073099B2
Methods and systems are provided for regulating evaporative emissions from a fuel system. In one example, a method may comprise spinning an engine unfueled responsive to a hydrocarbon concentration at a fresh air end of a fuel vapor canister increasing above a first threshold. The method may comprise spinning the engine to pull hydrocarbons away until a hydrocarbon concentration at a purge end of the fuel vapor canister, opposite the fresh air end, increases above a second threshold.
US11073092B2
Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine capable of estimating a compression ratio of the internal combustion engine at the time of fuel cut of the internal combustion engine and without being affected by an intake air amount and an intake air temperature. A compression ratio ε is calculated on the basis of a change of in-cylinder pressure P with respect to crank angle θ at timing when an in-cylinder volume change rate dV/dθ/V takes an extreme value or at timing from closing of an intake valve 109 to the start of ignition of the air-fuel mixture in the cylinder.
US11073089B2
A gas turbine engine for an aircraft that includes an engine core, a fan, and a planetary gearbox. The planetary gearbox includes a sun gear, a plurality of planetary gears, a ring gear, a plurality of planetary pins, wherein respectively one planetary pin is arranged in a planetary gear, and an axially frontal support plate and an axially rear support plate, wherein the planetary pins are arranged in openings of the axially frontal support plate and of the axially rear support plate, and are connected to the support plates. At least one of the support plates has an axially protruding first centering collar that engages around the opening for the planetary pin, and that a second centering collar that is connected to the planetary pin or is formed in one piece with the same, engaging around the first centering collar radially outside in a form-fit manner. A planetary gearbox and an attachment arrangement.
US11073085B2
An intercooled cooling system for a gas turbine engine is provided. The intercooled cooling system includes a plurality of cooling stages in fluid communication with an air stream utilized for cooling. A first cooling stage of the plurality of cooling stages is fluidly coupled to a bleed port of a compressor of the gas turbine engine to receive and cool bleed air with the air stream to produce a cool bleed air. The intercooled cooling system also includes a pump fluidly coupled to the first cooling stage to receive the cool bleed air and increase a pressure of the cool bleed air to produce a pressurized cool bleed air. A second cooling stage of the plurality of cooling stages is fluidly coupled to the pump to receive and cool the pressurized cool bleed air to produce an intercooled cooling air, which is provided to the gas turbine engine.
US11073080B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods store energy by liquefying a gas such as air, for example, and then recover the energy by regasifying the liquid and combusting or otherwise reacting the gas with a fuel to drive a heat engine. The process of liquefying the gas may be powered with electric power from the grid, for example, and the heat engine may be used to generate electricity. Hence, in effect these apparatus, systems, and methods may provide for storing electric power from the grid and then subsequently delivering it back to the grid.
US11073076B2
An exhaust manifold for use with an internal combustion engine having a first cylinder and a second cylinder. The exhaust manifold includes a first fluid path having a first inlet in fluid communication with the first cylinder of the internal combustion engine and a first outlet, a second fluid path having a second inlet in fluid communication with the second cylinder of the internal combustion engine and a second outlet, and a valve adjustable between a first configuration, in which the first fluid pathway is in fluid communication with the second fluid path, and a second configuration, in which the first fluid pathway is not in fluid communication with the second fluid pathway.
US11073075B2
An engine device 1 includes: an exhaust manifold 4 disposed on one of left and right sides of a cylinder head 2, and an intake manifold 3 disposed on the other of the left and right sides of the cylinder head 2; and a turbocharger 30 that uses fluid energy of an exhaust gas discharged from the exhaust manifold 4, to compress fresh air to be flowed into the intake manifold 3. The turbocharger 30 is constituted by a two-stage turbocharger including a high-pressure turbocharger 51 coupled to the exhaust manifold 4 and a low-pressure turbocharger 52 coupled to the high-pressure turbocharger 51. The high-pressure turbocharger 51 is disposed on one of left and right lateral sides of the exhaust manifold 4, while the low-pressure turbocharger 52 is disposed above the exhaust manifold 4.
US11073070B2
Methods of operation of liquid and gaseous multi-fuel compression ignition engines that may be operated on a gaseous fuel or a liquid fuel, or a combination of both a gaseous fuel and a liquid fuel at the same time and in some embodiments, in the same combustion event. Various embodiments are disclosed.
US11073066B2
A control device comprising a first exhaust temperature calculation part calculating a temperature of exhaust flowing into a PM trapping device as a first exhaust temperature, a second exhaust temperature calculation part calculating a temperature of exhaust flowing out from the PM trapping device as a second exhaust temperature, a rate of change over time calculation part calculating a rate of change over time of the first exhaust temperature and a rate of change over time of the second exhaust temperature, and a judgment part judging if the PM trapping device is in a removed state removed from the exhaust passage based on a difference between the rate of change over time of the first exhaust temperature and the rate of change over time of the second exhaust temperature.
US11073060B2
A method for optimizing an active regeneration of a diesel particulate filter of a motor vehicle, including the following steps: First, information regarding the planned travel route of the motor vehicle is ascertained; subsequently, a query is made as to whether the remaining travel time is less than the time needed for an upcoming regeneration of the diesel particulate filter, and/or a query is made as to whether the following engine phase of the motor vehicle is an overrun phase; and the active regeneration of the diesel particulate filter is prevented, if the remaining travel time is less than the time needed for an upcoming regeneration of the diesel particulate filter, or if the following engine phase is an overrun phase.
US11073057B2
An after treatment system is disclosed. The after treatment system may include a three-way catalyst (TWC), a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst, and a CO clean-up catalyst (CUC) on an exhaust pipe through which an exhaust gas flows. The CUC may include a zeolite in which Cu and Fe are ion-exchanged and CeO2 in which Pt is supported, wherein a weight ratio of the CeO2 to a total weight of the CUC is 30-70 wt % such that the CUC purifies NH3 at a lean air/fuel ratio and purifies NH3 during a delay time at a rich air/fuel ratio.
US11073047B2
A steam turbine (ST) includes a rotor (11) which is rotatable around an axis (Ar), an inner casing (21) surrounding the rotor (11) from an outer peripheral side, an outer casing (30) surrounding the rotor (11) and the inner casing (21) and defining an exhaust chamber between the inner casing (21) and the outer casing (30), the steam being exhausted to the exhaust chamber (30s), and a flow guide (27) which has a tubular shape and is installed on one end portion of the inner casing 21 in an axial direction (Da) in the exhaust chamber (30s) to guide the steam discharged from the rotor (11). The flow guide (27) has a turning surface (RA) which is connected to an outer peripheral surface (27A) and turns a fluid flowing along the outer peripheral surface (27A) toward the other side in the axial direction (Da).
US11073046B2
A bracket assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a first foot that includes at least one flange fastener opening and a duct flange support surface. A second foot includes at least one body portion fastener opening and a duct body support surface. At least one leg connects the first foot relative to the second foot.
US11073045B2
A turbine module includes a turbine rotor assembly, a turbine case, and a turbine shroud assembly. The turbine rotor assembly is mounted to rotate about a central reference axis. The turbine case is spaced radially outward from the turbine rotor assembly circumferentially around the central reference axis. The turbine shroud assembly includes a plurality of turbine shroud segments mounted to the turbine case. Each turbine shroud segment includes a blade track segment that faces the turbine rotor assembly and a carrier mounted to the turbine case.
US11073042B2
A self-cooling fluid storage container includes a reservoir to store a fluid at a level that allows for an air space above the fluid. The fluid enters the reservoir. A fluid conduit receives the fluid at a fluid input opening to an internal fluid conduit that extends upward towards the air space. A heat exchanger portion extends sufficiently near the air space to provide a thermal exchange with the air space. The heat exchanger receives fluid to provide a cooling of the air space. The internal fluid conduit continues extending downward from the air space to a fluid output opening for distribution to a system that uses the fluid.
US11073039B1
A turbine section of a gas turbine engine includes a vane assembly that redirects hot gases in the turbine section, a turbine shroud that extends around a turbine wheel to keep the hot gases from avoiding interaction with the turbine wheel, and a heat shield that provides parts of the vane assembly and the turbine shroud. The heat shield comprises ceramic matrix composite materials and is formed as a one piece component. The heat shield includes a vane portion that protects other vane assembly parts, a seal segment portion that protects other turbine shroud parts, and a forward turn-up and an aft turn-up. The forward turn-up and the aft turn-up couple the heat shield to other parts of the turbine section.
US11073034B2
A seal assembly extends along an axis and seals an axial (and/or radial) gap between a first component and a second component. The seal assembly includes a seal carrier and a seal element. The seal element extends axially (and/or radially) between a first portion and a second portion. The first portion of the seal element is slidingly arranged within a slot in an axial end (or a radial side) of the seal carrier. The second portion of the seal element is configured to axially (and/or radially) engage the second component.
US11073028B2
An abrasive coating for a substrate of a component in a gas path exposed to a maximum temperature of 1750 degree Fahrenheit, comprising a plurality of grit particles adapted to be placed on a top surface of the substrate; a matrix material bonded to the top surface; the matrix material partially surrounds the grit particles, wherein the grit particles extend above the matrix material relative to the top surface; a film of oxidant resistant coating applied over the plurality of grit particles and the matrix material and a thermal barrier coating material applied over said film of oxidant resistant coating.
US11073026B1
Turbine shroud assembly with multi-piece support for ceramic matrix composite material seal segments
An assembly adapted for use in a gas turbine engine or other engine has a carrier component and a blade track segment. The assembly includes a mounting system for coupling the blade track segment to the carrier component. In an illustrative embodiment, the assembly is a turbine shroud segment for blocking gasses from passing over turbine blades included in the gas turbine engine.
US11073022B2
A turbine blade has a blade tip, a cooling structure with cooling channels which are designed to have cooling fluid passed through them in order to cool the turbine blade during operation, an end section at a lower level than that of the blade tip, and an outer wall section extending up to the blade tip. The cooling structure is formed between the end section and the blade tip. A method produces a cooling structure of this type.
US11073019B2
The present disclosure relates to a metallic shaft for connecting components of a gas turbine engine. Example embodiments include a metallic shaft (400) for connecting components of a gas turbine engine, the shaft (400) having a longitudinal axis (410) and comprising: a first section (401) extending from a first end (403) of the shaft (400) to a joint (405), the first section (401) composed of a material having a first thermal expansion coefficient along the longitudinal axis (410); a second section (402) extending from a second opposing end (404) of the shaft to the joint (405), the second section (402) composed of a material having a second thermal expansion coefficient along the longitudinal axis (410) that is different to the first thermal expansion coefficient.
US11073017B2
The present invention provides a multi-layer barrier assembly or device for post-installation injection of a resin, grout, or other fluid. The barrier device comprises first and second layers defining an intermediate open-matrix layer, and at least one injection conduit member in parallel orientation with respect to the first and second layers and having openings for injecting fluid into the intermediate open-matrix layer. The injection conduit may be located between and in parallel orientation with respect to the first and second layers, along an edge of the first and/or second layers, along an outer face of the first layer (if the first layer is a woven or nonwoven fabric), or at any combination of these locations, to enable fluid to be conveyed into the intermediate open-matrix layer. The invention also provides for use of a gel activator within the barrier device cavity, such as pre-installed on open-matrix structure which used for separating the first and second layers of the barrier device, such that a highly flowable injection fluid can be introduced into the device, and its gelation or hardening will be initiated or accelerated by the presence of the gel activator. This will allow for low power grout pumps to be used and facilitate the sealing of fine cracks in the surrounding concrete.
US11073005B2
A propellant container for a perforating gun includes a lower cap, one or more pieces of propellant positioned within the lower cap, wherein at least one of the one or more pieces of propellant defines one or more through-holes, and an upper cap matable with the lower cap to secure the one or more pieces of propellant within the lower cap. A filler material is present within interstitial spaces between the one or more pieces of propellant.
US11073000B2
Drill hole sequence planning equipment (14) includes a position determining module (18) for determining an initial location of a mobile drill rig (12). A selection module (24) selects a destination location for the drill rig (12). A corridor establishment module (26) establishes a corridor between the initial location of the drill rig (12) and its destination location, the corridor having a selected width. A processing unit (28) is responsive to the modules (18, 24 and 26) for selecting a hole location of each hole within the corridor to be drilled by the drill rig (12) sequentially as it moves from its initial location to its destination location.
US11072999B2
Downhole electrical energy harvesting and communication in systems for well installations having metallic structure carrying electric current, for example CP current. In some instances there is a harvesting module (4) electrically connected to the metallic structure (2) at a first location and to a second location spaced from the first location, the first and second locations being chosen such that, in use, there is a potential difference therebetween due to the electric current flowing in the structure (2); and the harvesting module (4) being arranged to harvest electrical energy from the electric current. In addition or alternatively, there may be communication apparatus (4, 5, 6) for communication by modulation of the current, for example CP current, in the metallic structure (2).
US11072998B2
The disclosed embodiments include downhole tools, multi-lateral intervention systems and methods to deploy a tubular into a lateral borehole of a multi-lateral well. A downhole tool includes a mandrel having an angulated interior profile along a first side of the mandrel. The downhole tool also includes a nose coupled to a second side of the mandrel. The downhole tool further includes a link having an angulated exterior profile along a first side of the link that is rotatably coupled to the first side of the mandrel. The link is rotatable from a first position to a second position, and wherein the nose tilts at an angle relative to the link while the link is at the second position.
US11072993B2
—a subsea pump (30) arranged in fluid connection with the well interior (38, 39) providing a closed system suitable for pressure and flow regulation and establishing a temporary fluid flow between the subsea pump and the well interior, —a fluid source (31) supplying fluid to the subsea pump, wherein the subsea pump has a mode of operation for regulation of the flow and/or pressure between the pump and the well interior to operate equipment arranged in the well, —a safety control system for controlling shut down of a valve arrangement in a subsea position, which safety control system is also arranged in a subsea position and comprises a control unit (60) and an actuation unit (70) for local control and operation of the valve arrangement, —the valve arrangement is operated by the control unit into a valve configuration providing a barrier system between a reservoir in fluid communication with the well interior and the surroundings, —a plurality of sensors (100, 51, 52) arranged for measuring fluid parameters transmitted as signals to the control unit, which also receives other signals from subsea and or topside locations, where the control unit is configured such that when at least one transmitted signal deviates from allowable value the control unit activates the actuation unit for the closing of the valve arrangement. The invention also concerns a method.
US11072991B2
A degradable plug device for a pipe has an outer plug body and an inner plug for preventing fluid flow through the pipe until the inner plug has been removed from the outer plug body. The outer plug body and the inner plug are of a degradable material. The inner plug has a chamber with at least one port to the exterior of the inner plug. The exposed surfaces of the degradable plug have a protective layer thereon. The inner plug is disposable in at least a first position, in which the inner plug prevents the fluid flow through the pipe. The inner plug is adapted to undergo, in use, a degradation initiation operation such that fluid is able to enter the chamber via the at least one port to initiate corrosion or dissolution of the inner plug from inside the chamber.
US11072987B2
A running tool assembly for installing a hanger in a wellhead housing includes a first body configured to support the hanger, a second body coupled to the first body, a piston moveable relative to the second body, wherein the piston includes a first position and a second position spaced from the first position, and a piston chamber formed in the running tool assembly, wherein, when the assembly is coupled to the hanger and the hanger is positioned in the wellhead housing, the piston is configured to actuate from the first position to the second position in response to a pressurization of the piston chamber to engage a locking member disposed about the hanger and thereby lock the hanger to the wellhead housing, the assembly including a passage having a diameter that is equal to or larger in size than a diameter of a passage of the hanger.
US11072981B2
A sampling-by-pushing system includes a setting-by-pushing mechanism and a centralizing device. The setting-by-pushing mechanism is connected with the centralizing device through a connecting pipe, and is configured to be set and sealed in a borehole. The centralizing device includes a base body and a retractable support arm arranged on the base body. The support arm is configured to be in contact with the wall of the borehole so as to position the setting-by-pushing mechanism in the center of the borehole.
US11072970B2
The invention proposes insulating profiles of a polymer material, and methods for producing the insulating profiles, are disclosed.
US11072968B1
An integrated door framing system is provided including a first L-shaped piece and a second L-shaped piece which can be assembled to form a U-shaped body that fits over a wall edge facing a wall opening formed for installing a door or window therewithin. The U-shaped body provides a complete, integrated door frame, casing, and molding assembly using a reduced and easy-to-assemble set of parts.
US11072962B2
A vehicle door assembly may include a vehicle door pivotally arranged on a vehicle body, a drive motor for electromotively adjusting the vehicle door, a transmission element for producing a flux of force between the vehicle door and the vehicle body to adjust the vehicle door relative to the vehicle body, and a control device for controlling the drive motor. The control device may be configured to provide an anti-pinch protection. An acceleration sensor may be arranged on the vehicle door for measuring the acceleration of the vehicle door.
US11072955B2
A hinge is provided which can more reliably prevent malfunction and breakdown and which enables efficiently performing repair and inspection operations. The hinge, provided with a first wing member linked to a first linked object and a second wing member linked to a second linked object, and rotatably linking the second linked object to the first linked object, is provided with a sensor which detects prescribed change in the external environment in the hinge or around the hinge, and a control unit which externally transmits, over a communication network, information on the change in the external environment detected by the sensor, wherein the sensor is configured from at least one of: a rotation speed sensor for detecting the rotation speed of the second wing member relative to the first wing member; a vibration sensor for detecting the amount of vibration; a load sensor for detecting load; an angle sensor for detecting the opening angle of the second wing member relative to the first wing member; a temperature sensor for detecting temperature; and an air pressure sensor for detecting atmospheric pressure.
US11072948B2
A latch assembly for a motor vehicle includes a latch mechanism, a power-operated latch release mechanism, and an over-center spring-biased reset mechanism. The power-operated latch release mechanism is operable during a power release operation to shift the reset mechanism from a first over-center operating state into a second over-center operating state.
US11072947B2
The invention relates to a lock (1) for a motor vehicle, in particular a side door lock, comprising a locking mechanism (7), a triggering lever (6), an actuating lever (2) and a coupling lever (3), wherein the triggering lever (6) can be coupled to the actuating lever (2) by means of the coupling lever (3), and a means for controlling the coupling lever (3), wherein the coupling lever (3) can be guided by means of a control cam (11).
US11072946B1
A gate latch apparatus is disclosed for a residential safety gate. The gate latch apparatus includes a housing having opposable buttons. The buttons are squeezed to unlock opposing slides. The slides are slid to in turn slide a latch out of a latch receiver to permit the residential safety gate to be opened.
US11072944B2
An improved structure of an electronic lock includes an outside-door assembly, a lock middle, an inside-door assembly, and a latch. The outside-door assembly is mounted to an outer side of a door panel. The lock middle is connected to the outside-door assembly. The inside-door assembly is connected to the lock middle and is mounted to an inner side of the door panel. The latch is connected to the latch coupler. With a code entered, an electrically-driven valve of the lock middle causes a guide block and a projection block to extend outward to have an outside handle and the lock middle to synchronously operate for opening the door. Alternatively, a key may be used to open the door. If such a code and a key are both not available, the outside handle and the lock middle do not synchronously operate.
US11072943B2
A folding tent with automatic cornice structure includes a folding tent body including a leg tube and a folding rod assembly that are installed by a leg tube slider and a leg tube top member. The folding tent further includes a cornice assembly including a connection sleeve group that includes a first sliding sleeve, a second sliding sleeve and a third sliding sleeve, and a cornice rod group that includes a cornice rod, a diagonal draw rod and a push rod. The first sliding sleeve is slidably cooperated with the cornice rod and is hingedly cooperated with the push rod. The second sliding sleeve is fixedly cooperated with the push rod, is slidably cooperated with a folding top rod, and is hingedly cooperated with the diagonal draw rod. The third sliding sleeve is fixedly cooperated with the folding top rod, and is hingedly cooperated with a folding diagonal rod.
US11072927B1
A framing assembly has a plurality of modified splines, a plurality of modified panels, and at least one surface attachment member for constructing the frame of a building structure having interior exposed beams. The plurality of splines are rafter splines, extended rafter splines, or wall splines. Each spline has a support member and a pair of flanges abutting a lower portion of the support member. At least one surface attachment member is attachable to a lower portion of each spline as a decorative feature. The panels are modified structural insulated panels (SIPs) coupled to at least one of the splines to form a wall section, a ceiling section, or a roof section. Once assembled, the SIPs outer skin forms a continuous backing for the remaining exterior (or outer) wall or ceiling treatment. The splines not only support the modified SIPs, but also support the roof.
US11072921B1
A modular deck drain system comprising a bottom channel and an upper cover. The bottom channel has a pair of opposed side walls and a bottom surface coupled to the side walls. The bottom channel also has a plurality of stabilizing members coupled to and extending from an external surface of the bottom channel, and at least one modular junction node. The upper cover is configured to couple to the bottom channel. The upper cover has two upper walls, each wall having a top end and a bottom end, and the top end of each wall is coupled to an upper lip. A narrow top opening is formed by the upper lips. The upper cover has at least one cutline.
US11072919B1
An automatic flushing squatting toilet includes a toilet body and a water tank. Flushing mechanisms are disposed inside the toilet body. The flushing mechanisms include installing grooves disposed on an upper wall of the toilet body. An inner wall of each installing groove close to an upper end of each installing groove is fixedly connected with a respective flexible plate. Each installing groove is fixedly connected with a respective piezoelectric plate. A lower wall of each flexible plate is fixedly connected with a respective pressing block. Each pressing block contacts a corresponding piezoelectric plate. Water sucking cavities are disposed inside the toilet body. Each water sucking cavity is fixedly connected with a metal plate. Each water sucking cavity is elastically connected with a respective electromagnetic plate through a respective return spring. Each electromagnetic plate is slidably connected with each water sucking cavity.
US11072916B2
Embodiments of a drain comprise three primary components that can be provided in a preassembled configuration: a drain body, which includes an integral upper flange; a lower clamping collar that forms a lower flange; and a waterproof membrane that is fixedly sandwiched between the upper and lower flanges and extends outwardly therefrom. The drain is further characterized through the use of a plurality of fins that extend into the cylindrical interior of the drain body's throat and act to position and hold a drain cover assembly in place replacing the use of threads that are common in the prior art.
US11072912B2
A protection element for an earth-working implement includes a flat plate having a wearing portion on a side of the flat plate facing a distal end of the earth-working implement. A lower portion of the flat plate forms an attachment portion provided with notches, projecting portions, or a combination thereof configured to engage with the earth-working implement. When the attachment portion is engaged with the earth-working implement, the protection element is configured to project above a plane coinciding with a top surface of at least a portion of the earth-working implement proximal to the protection element such that the portion of the earth-working implement proximal to the protection element is shielded from a flow of loose mass during use of the earth-working implement. The wearing portion is arranged at an upper portion of the flat plate. The attachment portion is arranged at a lower portion of the flat plate.
US11072908B2
The invention relates to a work machine having an operator's cabin comprising at least one window or screen.
US11072903B2
An equipment tower includes a foundation, a cast-in-place concrete plinth extending vertically from the foundation, and a tower portion extending vertically from the plinth. The equipment tower is constructed at a site having a set of tower specific parameters, and at least one dimension of the plinth is selected based on a tower specific parameter. For example, a height of the plinth may be selected to achieve a desired elevation of the topmost surface of the plinth, so that two towers having identical tower segments will have a common equipment height in spite of variations in their respective foundation elevations due to variations in local ground level. Moreover, the cast-in-place plinth may be designed to include a door opening large enough to accommodate equipment to be installed within the tower.
US11072897B1
A platform and method for configuring and erecting a platform of support beams to which decking is applied so that it is suspended from and disposed below a main cable of a bridge. In one embodiment, a plurality of main cable clamps are spaced along and grippingly attached to the main cable. A pair of elongate members are each attached at one end to a respective one of the main cable clamps and at an other end to the respective support beam. In another embodiment, spaced slings are applied to the main cable so that each extends around the main cable. Ends of each of the slings are attached to a respective one of the support beams respectively. One end of a cable is attached to a sling intermediate ends thereof. The cable is extended between the sling and an anchor point and substantially parallel to the main cable there along to restrain the sling from slippage along the length of the main cable.
US11072893B2
Self-propelled construction machine and method for controlling a self-propelled construction machine
The invention relates to a self-propelled construction machine, in particular a road milling machine, which possesses an undercarriage which has front and rear—in the working direction—wheels or travelling gears, a machine frame which is borne by the undercarriage, and a working means. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for controlling a self-propelled construction machine, in particular a road milling machine. The invention is based on the detection of objects O situated in the ground at a time at which the objects O can be readily detected. The construction machine according to the invention possesses a means for generating predictive object signals which are characteristic of the position of objects which lie in a portion of the ground which lies in the working direction A in front of the working region of the working means. Furthermore, the construction machine has a signal processing means which receives the object signals, which means is configured such that during the advance of the construction machine object signals relating to the working means are obtained from the predictive object signals, these signals being characteristic of the position of the objects in a portion of the ground which relates to the working region of the working means.
US11072890B2
Methods of and systems for controlling dosing of drainage aid and optionally defoamer to brown stock of a brown stock washing process are provided. Certain embodiments of the invention provide independent control of drainage aid and/or defoamer to brown stock, which tends to provide improved efficiency in dosing each of the drainage aid and the defoamer.
US11072886B2
The present invention relates to a process for treating pulp comprising a step, wherein the pulp is treated with distilled percarboxylic acid, such as distilled per-carboxylic acid (dPAA), and peroxide, such as hydrogen peroxide.
US11072885B2
Composition, comprising at least components (A) and (B) and optionally at least one of components (C) to (E): (A) polyacrylate obtained in the polymerisation of components (M1) CH2═CR3COO—R1 with (M2) CH2═CR3COO—R2 and optionally (M3) CH2═CR3—X—R4 (B) wax (C) blocked isocyanate (D) organic polysiloxane; (E) melamine resin; wherein R1 is a residue containing from 1 to 8 carbon atoms; R2 is a residue containing from 9 to 40 carbon atoms; R3=H, CH3, C2H5; X=COO, CONH R4=glycidyl or CH2(CH2)n—OR5, wherein n is an integer in the range of from 1-10 and R5 is H or a residue containing from 1 to 6 carbon atoms; and wherein the composition is based on water and/or an organic solvent and is fluorine-free.
US11072875B2
A sewing system for attaching or re-attaching buttons is provided. Embodiments of the sewing system have a single- or multi-strand thread of one to ten woven threads, the threads having a length of at least one inch with one needle pre-attached, terminating in free strands, an opposing end securement, or two needles attached to opposing ends of the thread. The appearance of a professionally sewn button is provided while eliminating the need to make multiple passes through the button holes and fabric.
US11072873B2
An electrospinning device is provided with a container for holding a liquid comprising a polymer melt or a polymer solution, and a nozzle arranged to outlet a stream of the liquid from the container. A collector collects electro spun material during electrospinning so as to form a fibrous structure. The device comprises an optical measurement system that measures a baseline distance between the collector and the optical measurement system for at least one location on a surface of the collector, and also measures a momentary distance between the optical measurement system and a momentary top layer of the fibrous structure during the electrospinning process. A processor calculates a momentary thickness of the fibrous structure. Once a required thickness is reached the electrospinning can be stopped.
US11072868B2
A container such as a barrel or drum is provided for processing of solid material or parts with a liquid. The container is designed with grooves leading to holes or slots in the side that draw liquid into the container due to the rotation of the container when it is immersed in a tank of liquid. The holes or slots have a small dimension in the direction of rotation to minimize the probability of solid material coming out of the container. The fluid flow caused by the rotation serves to increase the rate of solution replacement inside the container as well as to keep the solid material from falling out through the holes or slots. The container disclosed is useful in processes in the plating, etching, leaching, and surface finishing industries.
US11072858B2
An injecting assembly includes a nozzle that is formed with a mixture channel, a mixture opening communicating with the mixture channel, a shaper channel, and a shaper opening communicating with the shaper channel. A mixture of a precursor and a supercritical fluid (SCF) passes through the mixture channel. Waves of the mixture are periodically injected toward a surface of a substrate at the mixture opening. A stream of a shaping fluid flows through the shaper channel and is injected toward the substrate at the shaper opening. The stream of the shaping fluid confines the waves of the mixture. Molecules of the precursor penetrate into the substrate by impact of the wave fronts reaching the surface of the substrate. The molecules of the precursor can react with molecules of a material of the substrate to improve surface properties of the substrate.
US11072857B2
A vanadium silicon nitride film formed as a hard film to a base material satisfies 0.30≤a/b≤1.7 and 0.24≤b≤0.36 when a=vanadium element concentration [at %]/(vanadium element concentration [at %]+silicon element concentration [at %]+nitrogen element concentration [at %]) and b=silicon element concentration [at %]/(vanadium element concentration [at %]+silicon element concentration [at %]+nitrogen element concentration [at %]), and has a hardness of 2300 HV or more.
US11072853B2
The disclosure provides a metal protective layer, sequentially comprising an organic powder coating, a high-gloss organic coating, a ductile periodic variable alloy protective film and a transparent powder coating, wherein the base powder layer is an epoxy resin or pure polyester powder coating; the high-gloss organic coating is an epoxy resin powder coating, a polyester powder coating, or a polybutadiene organic coating; the ductile periodic variable alloy protective film is formed by direct current magnetron sputtering with two targets in a high vacuum environment, and the material of the targets is composed of a Ni—Cr alloy layer and pure Cr; and the transparent powder layer is an acrylic powder coating or a polyester transparent powder coating.
US11072849B2
Provided is a coating material composition which is capable of forming an undercoat layer for metallic vapor deposition, the layer being excellent in terms of adhesion to various bases and appearance. The actinic-ray-curable coating material composition according to the present invention comprises one or more resins A, a (meth)acrylate B, and a silane coupling agent C, wherein the resins A comprise a polymer A1 having a hydroxyl group with a hydroxyl value of 20-200 mg-KOH/g and/or an alkyd resin A2, the proportion of the resins A and that of the (meth)acrylate B are 20-60 mass % and 40-80 mass %, respectively, with respect to the total amount, which is taken as 100 mass %, of the resins A and the (meth)acrylate B, and the amount of the silane coupling agent C is 0.3-15 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the total amount of the resins A and the (meth)acrylate B.
US11072830B2
The present invention relates to methods and systems for assessing the overall risk of a human female subject for developing a breast cancer phenotype. In particular, the present invention relates to combining clinical risk assessment and genetic risk assessment to improve risk analysis.
US11072828B2
The present invention relates to the field of biomarkers. More specifically, the present invention relates to the use of biomarkers to predict post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In one embodiment, a method for predicting PTSD in a subject comprises the steps of (a) measuring the DNA methylation level of a CpG dinucleotide in the 3′ untranslated region of SKA2; (b) identifying the genotype at a SNP within the 3′ UTR of SKA2, and (c) predicting PTSD in the subject using a prediction algorithm.
US11072827B2
Apparatus and techniques for electrokinetic loading of samples of interest into sub-micron-scale reaction chambers are described. Embodiments include an integrated device and related apparatus for analyzing samples in parallel. The integrated device may include at least one reaction chamber formed through a surface of the integrated device and configured to receive a sample of interest, such as a molecule of nucleic acid. The integrated device may further include electrodes patterned adjacent to the reaction chamber that produce one or more electric fields that assist loading the sample into the reaction chamber. The apparatus may further include a sample reservoir having a fluid seal with the surface of the integrated device and configured to hold a suspension containing the samples.
US11072826B2
Methods for non-invasive prenatal paternity testing are disclosed herein. The method uses genetic measurements made on plasma taken from a pregnant mother, along with genetic measurements of the alleged father, and genetic measurements of the mother, to determine whether or not the alleged father is the biological father of the fetus. This is accomplished by way of an informatics based method that can compare the genetic fingerprint of the fetal DNA found in maternal plasma to the genetic fingerprint of the alleged father.
US11072825B2
Method for indicating the progress of amplification of nucleic acids and kit for performing the same
It is disclosed a method for the detection of an amplification of nucleic acids in which substantially use is made of the fact that a pre-defined nucleic acid chain (target sequence) can be multiplied/amplified in the presence of a target sequence-specific activator oligonucleotide. The target sequence-specific activator oligonucleotide causes the separation of re-synthesized complementary primer extension products by means of strand displacement, so that a new primer oligonucleotide can attach to the respective template strand. The thus formed complex of a primer oligonucleotide and a template strand can initiate a new primer extension reaction. The thus formed primer extension products in turn function as templates, so that an exponential amplification reaction results. Amplification is detected by a detection system.
US11072823B2
The present invention concerns preparation of DNA molecules, such as a library, using a stem-loop oligonucleotide. In particular embodiments, the invention employs a single reaction mixture and conditions. In particular, at least part of the inverted palindrome is removed during the preparation of the molecules to facilitate amplification of the molecules. Thus, in specific embodiments, the DNA molecules are suitable for amplification and are not hindered by the presence of the palindrome.
US11072820B2
Methods of, and compositions for, analysis using digital amplification assays with unconventional/inverse changes in photoluminescence to indicate the presence of one or more targets. In an exemplary method, isolated volumes may be formed, only a subset of which contain a target. Each volume may include a probe having a label, a sink having a quencher and configured to hybridize with the probe to quench the label, and a separator configured to hybridize with the probe and/or the sink to block hybridization of the sink with the probe. An amplification reaction may be performed in the volumes to generate an amplicon corresponding to the target. The separator may hybridize with the amplicon, and may be extended or degraded by the amplification reaction. Photoluminescence of the label may be detected from the volumes, and the photoluminescence of target-positive volumes may be less than that of target-negative volumes.
US11072819B2
Methods, compositions, and kits comprising target-specific oligonucleotides (TSOs) are disclosed herein. Methods, compositions, and kits comprising target-specific oligonucleotides (TSOs) can be used to attach adapters and/or linkers to target RNAs. Methods, compositions, and kits comprising target-specific oligonucleotides (TSOs) can be used in reactions, including, but not limited to, ligation reactions, amplification reactions, and sequencing reactions. Additionally, methods, compositions, and kits comprising target-specific oligonucleotides (TSOs) can be used for reducing and/or preventing the formation of secondary structures in target RNAs. These methods, compositions, and kits can also find use in a number of applications, for example, any application that benefits from stabilizing primary RNA structure, such as detecting and quantifying target RNAs in a sample, in the construction of small RNA libraries, in microarray and RT-qPCR applications, etc.
US11072814B2
Disclosed are methods for determining copy number variation (CNV) known or suspected to be associated with a variety of medical conditions. In some embodiments, methods are provided for determining copy number variation (CNV) of fetuses using maternal samples comprising maternal and fetal cell free DNA. In some embodiments, methods are provided for determining CNVs known or suspected to be associated with a variety of medical conditions. Some embodiments disclosed herein provide methods to improve the sensitivity and/or specificity of sequence data analysis by deriving a fragment size parameter, such as a size-weighted coverage or a fraction of fragments in a size range. In some embodiments, the fragment size parameter is adjusted to remove within-sample GC-content bias. In some embodiments, removal of within-sample GC-content bias is based on sequence data corrected for systematic variation common across unaffected training samples. Also disclosed are systems and computer program products for evaluation of CNV of sequences of interest.
US11072813B2
Methods and devices for detection of micro-organisms present or suspected to be present within a mammalian blood sample are provided. A selective lysis is obtained by incubating the sample in a non-ionic detergent under alkaline conditions.
US11072804B2
The present invention relates to a recombinant adeno-associated viral (r AAV) vector comprising neuropeptide Y (NPY) coding sequence and neuropeptide Y2 receptor (NPY2R) coding sequence. The invention further relates to a AAV particle comprising said vector, wherein the vector is encapsulated by adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsid proteins. Also, a pharmaceutical composition comprising said AAV particle, for use in the prevention or treatment of a neurological disorder in mammals, such as epilepsy.
US11072801B2
The present invention relates to nucleic acid regulatory elements that are able to enhance muscle-specific expression of genes, in particular expression in cardiac muscle and/or skeletal muscle, methods employing these regulatory elements and uses of these elements. Expression cassettes and vectors containing these nucleic acid regulatory elements are also disclosed. The present invention is particularly useful for applications using gene therapy, more particularly muscle-directed gene therapy, and for vaccination purposes.
US11072798B2
Methods comprising DNA constructs and polynucleotides of functional transcription factors for improving photosynthetic capacity, biomass and/or grain yield and stress tolerance in various crop and model plants, dicots and monocots with the C3 or C4 photosynthetic pathways are described herein.
US11072793B2
Morpholino oligomers containing modified intersubunit linkages and/or terminal groups are provided for use within dsRNA molecules. The oligomers are oligonucleotide analogs containing predetermined sequences of base-pairing moieties. Also provided are such oligomers conjugated to peptide transporter moieties, where the transporters are preferably composed of arginine subunits, or arginine dimers, alternating with neutral amino acid subunits.
US11072770B2
Reactor for enzymatic hydrolysis of a raw material comprising in sequence: i)—a first heat exchanger adapted to heat the raw material supplied to the reactor to a temperature within a range that favours enzymatic hydrolysis, ii)—a reactor comprising plural in reactor chambers connected in series, separated by closable valves, iii)—a second heat exchanger adapted to heat the reaction mixture to a temperature higher than the temperature range favouring enzymatic hydrolysis, the reactor being formed with inclined tubular reactor chambers assembled to form a reactor with vertical axis, the first reactor chamber being the vertically uppermost chamber of the reactor, while at least one reactor chamber is adapted to be stirred with a through-flowing inert gas.
US11072767B2
A treatment liquid for a semiconductor device is a treatment liquid including water, an organic solvent, and two or more nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclic compounds.
US11072762B2
Disclosed is a cleaning agent for a metal member that may include an amount of about 15 wt % to 30 wt % of an organic acid derived from a monosaccharide, or a salt thereof, an amount of about 0.8 wt % to 1.2 wt % of a chelating agent, an amount of about 0.2 wt % to 0.4 wt % of a surfactant and an amount of about 75 wt % to 85 wt % of a solvent, based on the total weight of the cleaning agent. The acid cleaning agent may be prepared using, as a main material, an organic acid mixture including potassium glucarate, thus exhibiting superior acid cleaning capability and minimizing the generation of offensive odors. The cleaning agent of the present invention may be eco-friendly because the working environment using the same is made comfortable.
US11072758B2
The invention provides a lubricant composition comprising an oil of lubricating viscosity and a protic acid salt of an N-hydrocarbyl-substituted gamma-(γ-) or delta-amino(thio)ester. The invention further relates to a method of lubricating a mechanical device with the lubricant composition.
US11072756B2
An overbased calcium sulfonate grease composition comprising a reduced amount of overbased calcium sulfonate, calcium hydroxyapatite, base oil, one or more converting agents, and one or more complexing acids if a complex grease is desired. The calcium sulfonate grease composition improves thickener yield and expected high temperature utility as demonstrated by dropping point. A method of making the composition comprising the steps of mixing the calcium sulfonate and base oil, adding the calcium carbonate either before or after conversion, adding one or more converting agents, and adding one or more complexing acids. All or a portion of one or more of the complexing acids may be added with or prior to the one or more converting agents.
US11072755B2
Methods are provided for simple and efficient carbonization of cellulosic and/or lignin-containing materials to generate a char suitable for use as a pellet fuel. Cellulosic and/or lignin-containing waste materials can be suspended in water with a catalyst and, optionally, a carbonate and heated to generate a char. This char can be dried and formed into carbonized pellets suitable for use as fuel.
US11072747B2
Apparatus and processes herein provide for converting hydrocarbon feeds to light olefins and other hydrocarbons. The processes and apparatus include, in some embodiments, feeding a hydrocarbon, a first catalyst and a second catalyst to a reactor, wherein the first catalyst has a smaller average particle size and is less dense than the second catalyst. A first portion of the second catalyst may be recovered as a bottoms product from the reactor, and a cracked hydrocarbon effluent, a second portion of the second catalyst, and the first catalyst may be recovered as an overhead product from the reactor. The second portion of the second catalyst may be separated from the overhead product, providing a first stream comprising the first catalyst and the hydrocarbon effluent and a second stream comprising the separated second catalyst, allowing return of the separated second catalyst in the second stream to the reactor.
US11072733B2
Mixed refrigerant for a cryogenic temperature range, and methods for preparing and applying the same
The embodiments of the invention disclose a mixed refrigerant for a cryogenic temperature range, and methods for preparing and applying the same. The mixed refrigerant comprises six types of refrigerants: the first type of refrigerant is argon or nitrogen; the second type of refrigerant is methane or krypton; the third type of refrigerant is tetrafluoromethane; the fourth type of refrigerant is trifluoromethane or fluoromethane; the fifth type of refrigerant is at least one of 2,3,3,3□tetrafluoro-1-propene, hexafluoropropylene, pentafluoropropene, and 1,3,3,3-tetrafluoro-1-propene; and the sixth type of refrigerant is at least one of 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluoropropane, 1,1,2,2,3-pentafluoropropane, monochloro-trifluoropropene, and hexafluoro-2-butene. The mixed refrigerant has the advantages of a low ODP value, a low GWP value and non-flammability, it achieves the beneficial effects of non-toxic, environmental-friendly, convenient and safe, and it is for large-scale industrial production applications.
US11072721B2
An ink jet printing method includes printing an image on a printing medium including a transparent substrate and an ink-receiving layer on one side of the transparent substrate by applying a first ink and a second ink onto the surface of the ink-receiving layer of the printing medium in such a manner that the first ink and the second ink are at least partially superposed one on the other. The first ink is an aqueous ink containing silver particles, and the second ink is an aqueous ink containing a dye. The particle size at 50% in the cumulative volume distribution of the silver particles is larger than the average pore size of the ink-receiving layer.
US11072719B2
The present invention relates to a pigment water dispersion containing pigment-containing water-insoluble crosslinked polymer A particles, a water-soluble basic compound and water, in which a water-insoluble crosslinked polymer A constituting the particles has a carboxy group and a crosslinked structure containing an ester group derived from a water-insoluble crosslinking agent, a saponification value of the water-insoluble crosslinked polymer A is from 170 to 300 mgKOH/g, and the water-soluble basic compound contains a water-soluble amine compound; a process for producing the pigment water dispersion; a water-based ink for ink-jet printing which contains the pigment water dispersion; and an ink-jet printing method using the water-based ink.
US11072715B2
This disclosure relates to a conductive paste comprising a fine silver particle dispersion and a glass frit, wherein the fine silver particle dispersion comprising: (1) 65 to 95.4% by weight of fine silver particles which have average primary particle diameter of 10 to 190 nm and which comprise 25% by number or less of silver particles having primary particle diameter of 100 nm or larger, (2) 4.5 to 34.5% by weight of a solvent, (3) 0.1 to 1.0% by weight of ethyl cellulose having weight average molecular weight of 10,000 to 120,000. Also provided are: a method of manufacturing an electrically conductive thick film comprising steps of: (a) applying said fine silver particle dispersion on a substrate, and (b) heating the applied fine silver particle dispersion at 80 to 1000° C.; and an electrical device comprising a conductive thick film made with the foregoing paste.
US11072713B2
Some variations provide an anti-fouling segmented copolymer composition comprising: (a) one or more first soft segments selected from fluoropolymers; (b) one or more second soft segments selected from polyesters or polyethers; (c) one or more isocyanate species possessing an isocyanate functionality of 2 or greater, or a reacted form thereof; (d) one or more polyol or polyamine chain extenders or crosslinkers, or a reacted form thereof; and (e) a fluid additive selectively disposed in the first soft segments or in the second soft segments. Other variations provide an anti-fouling segmented copolymer precursor composition comprising a fluid additive precursor selectively disposed in the first soft segments or in the second soft segments, wherein the fluid additive precursor includes a protecting group. The anti-fouling segmented copolymer composition may be present in an anti-ice coating, an anti-bug coating, an anti-friction coating, an energy-transfer material, or an energy-storage material, for example.
US11072712B2
A coating composition and a method is used to coat metallic substrates for corrosion resistance. The coating composition includes acid, metal acetate, organosilane and water. The method includes steps of depositing the composition on an aluminum or aluminum alloy substrate and allowing the composition to dry to form a sol-gel coating on the substrate.
US11072698B2
The invention relates to a composition comprising (A) a propylene-based polymer, (B) an elastomer of ethylene and α-olefin comonomer having 4 to 10 carbon atoms and (C) an inorganic filler, wherein (A) the propylene-based polymer has a melt flow index of 60 to 150 dg/min measured according to ASTM D1238 (2.16 kg/230° C.) and wherein (B) the elastomer has a density of 0.840 to 0.865 g/cm3, wherein (B) the elastomer has a melt flow index of 3 to 13 dg/min measured in accordance with ASTM D1238 using a 2.16 kg weight and at a temperature of 190° C., wherein the amount of (B) the elastomer is 2 to 30 wt % based on the total composition, wherein the amount of (C) the inorganic filler is 0.1 to 30 wt % based on the total composition.
US11072695B2
A rubber composition for a studless tire according to an embodiment includes a rubber component containing a natural rubber and a polybutadiene rubber; oil-absorbent polymer particles having a glass transition temperature of −70 to −20° C., formed from a polymer whose molecular weight distribution is less than 3.0, and having an oil absorption of 100 to 1,500 ml/100 g; and an oil. The content of the oil-absorbent polymer particles is 0.5 to 25 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component. As a result, on-ice performance and rolling resistance performance can be improved.
US11072691B2
The present invention aims to provide a method for producing a porous gel-containing liquid that is inexpensive and excellent in homogeneity. The porous gel-containing liquid production method according to the present invention is a method including: a pulverization step of pulverizing a gel of a porous body, wherein the pulverization step is carried out as multi-stage pulverization including a plurality of pulverization stages.
US11072686B2
An integrated process for manufacturing polyethyleneamine compounds selected from the group of polyethyleneamines and hydroxyethylethyleneamines is provided. The process includes in an adduction step, providing a CO2 adduct of a starting compound comprising a —NH—CH2—CH2—NH— moiety or a —NH—CH2—CH2—OH moiety, or HO—CH2—CH2—OH, in a reaction step reacting a hydroxy-functional compound selected from the group of ethanolamines and dihydroxyethane with an amine-functional compound, wherein at least part of the total of hydroxy-functional compounds and amine-functional compounds is provided in the form of a CO2 adduct, to form CO2 adduct of a product polyethyleneamine compound, in an elimination step converting CO2 adduct of product polyethyleneamine compound to the corresponding product polyethylene amine compound, wherein a fraction comprising a recycle compound comprising a —NH—CH2—CH2—NH— moiety or a —NH—CH2—CH2—OH moiety, or HO—CH2—CH2—OH, or CO2 adducts thereof, is provided from the end of the reaction step or the elimination step to the adduction step or to the reaction step, wherein the recycle compound has per molecule on average fewer of the total of —NH—CH2—CH2—NH— moieties and —NH—CH2—CH2—OH moieties than the product polyethyleneamine compound.
US11072667B2
The present invention provides a polyrotaxane having high durability and in particular, high hydrolysis resistance, and a method for producing said polyrotaxane. The present invention provides a polyrotaxane obtained by disposing blocking groups on both ends of a pseudopolyrotaxane so that an annular molecule cannot be displaced, said pseudopolyrotaxane being obtained by forming a clathrate by piercing the opening of the cyclic molecule with a linear molecule, said polyrotaxane being characterized in that the cyclic molecule has a substituent represented by formula I (in formula I, R1 represents a group such as —CH3 and —CH2—CH3, R2 represents H or a group such as —CH3, and n is the apparent degree of polymerization of a polyalkylene oxide chain or a derivative thereof added to the cyclic molecule, the value of n being 1.1 to 10.0).
US11072661B2
Disclosed are agents inhibiting the interaction between CFH and CD11b/18, as well as the use of such agents, in particular for treating inflammatory disorders, such as age-related macular degeneration.
US11072659B2
Anti-PD-1 antibodies are disclosed. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising such antibodies, and uses and methods using the same.
US11072652B2
The present invention is directed to ILT7 binding molecules, e.g., anti-ILT7 antibodies, and methods for treating or preventing conditions and diseases associated with ILT7-expressing cells such as autoimmune diseases.
US11072650B2
Compositions and methods of use are provided for intrabodies that bind and alter the effects of poly-glutamate protein aggregation in poly-glutamate associated diseases, such as in Huntington's disease. Intrabodies are provided that prevent poly-glutamate aggregation, gene dysregulation, and negative effects of Huntington's disease.
US11072635B2
Provided herein are antibacterial compounds, wherein the compounds in some embodiments have broad spectrum bioactivity. In various embodiments, the compounds act by inhibition of bacterial type 1 signal peptidase (SpsB), an essential protein in bacteria. Pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treatment using the compounds described herein are also provided.
US11072634B2
The invention relates to the compound of general formula (I) as novel inhibitors of transglutaminases, to methods for producing the inventive compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions containing said inventive compounds and to their use for the prophylaxis and treatment of diseases associated with transglutaminases.
US11072621B2
The present disclosure relates to a preparation method of a methionine-metal chelate, and the methionine-metal chelate, which is prepared by first reacting Ca(OH)2 and methionine and adding metal chloride salts, can be used as feeds and feed additives.
US11072613B2
Methods that may be used for the manufacture of a class of chemical compounds known as terpenoid indole alkaloids, including tabersonine and catharanthine are provided. Compositions useful for the synthesis of terpenoid indole alkaloids, including tabersonine and catharanthine are also provided. The provided compounds are useful in the manufacture of chemotherapeutic agents.
US11072604B2
The present invention provides a novel compound that can improve the luminous efficiency, stability and life span of the element, an organic electronic element using the same, and an electronic device thereof.
US11072602B2
Novel compounds of the structural formula (I), and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are agonists of G-protein coupled receptor 40 (GPR40) and may be useful in the treatment, prevention and suppression of diseases mediated by the G-protein-coupled receptor 40. The compounds of the present invention may be useful in the treatment of Type 2 diabetes mellitus, and of conditions that are often associated with this disease, including obesity and lipid disorders, such as mixed or diabetic dyslipidemia, hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia, and hypertriglyceridemia.
US11072600B2
The application relates to phthalazine derivatives of formula (I) which are inhibitors of PARP1, PARP2 and/or tubulin and thus useful for the treatment of cancer. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical formulations containing such compounds, as well as combinations of these compounds with at least one additional therapeutic agent.
US11072593B2
This invention relates to a process for the epoxidation of a tetrasubstituted alkene such as terpinolene to the corresponding epoxide such as terpinolene epoxide by reacting the tetrasubstituted alkene with performic acid prepared in situ from formic acid and hydrogen peroxide in the presence of at least one buffering agent. Further, the invention relates to the use of an oxidizing agent comprising hydrogen peroxide and formic acid for the in-situ epoxidation of a tetrasubstituted alkene.
US11072592B2
There are provided, inter alia, methods and compounds for activating a proliferative program in competent adult chondrocytes.
US11072587B2
Novel compositions and methods for the treatment and prevention of malaria are disclosed herein.
US11072583B2
Sulfonyl hydroxamic acid compounds have the following general formula: Ring A and B are aryl, heteroaryl, cycloalkyl, fused aryl or fused alkyl group, and R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are hydrogen, alkoxy, aryloxy, hydroxy, ester, amide, amino, alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, halogen, hydroxy, alkoxy, aryloxy, nitro, cyano, ester, or aldehyde. The compounds are HDAC inhibitors. Processes can be used for preparation of these indole-based sulfonyl hydroxamic acid derivatives.
US11072581B2
The present invention relates to novel N-acyl-diarysulfonamides acting as inhibitors of bacterial aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase. These can be used as medicines or as constituent of medicines for the treatment of bacterial infections.
US11072571B2
A fluidized bed reactor for producing para-xylene and co-producing light olefins from benzene and methanol and/or dimethyl ether, including a first distributor and a second distributor. The first distributor is located at the bottom of the fluidized bed, and the second distributor is located at the downstream of the first distributor along a gas flow direction. Also, a method for producing para-xylene and co-producing light olefins, including the following steps: a material stream A enters a reaction zone of the fluidized bed reactor from the first gas distributor; a material stream B enters the reaction zone of the fluidized bed reactor from the second gas distributor; a reactant contacts a catalyst in the reaction zone to generate a gas phase stream comprising para-xylene and light olefins.
US11072566B2
A coated substrate is provided that comprises: a substrate; and a barrier coating comprising a compound having the formula: Ln2ABO8, where Ln comprises scandium, yttrium, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, or mixtures thereof; A comprises Si, Ti, Ge, Sn, Ce, Hf, Zr, or a combination thereof; and B comprises Mo, W, or a combination thereof. In one embodiment, B comprises Mo. A gas turbine is also provided that comprises the coated substrate described above.
US11072558B2
An article includes: a transparent substrate having a primary surface; and a protective film disposed on the primary surface, such that each of the substrate and the protective film have an optical transmittance of 20% or more in the visible spectrum, and such that the protective film includes at least one of: (1) a hardness of greater than 13 GPa, as measured by a Berkovich nanoindenter, or (2) an effective fracture toughness (Kc) of greater than 2.5 MPa·m1/2, as measured by indentation fracture at a depth of greater than 1 μm.
US11072557B2
A transparent colored glass ceramic, in particular an LAS glass ceramic, suitable for use as a cooking surface is provided. The transparent colored glass ceramic includes high-quartz solid solution (HQ s.s.) as a main crystal phase and exhibits thermal expansion of −1 to +1 ppm/K in the range from 20° C. to 700° C. The glass ceramic has from 3.0 to 3.6 percent by weight of lithium oxide (Li2O) as constituents and either is colored with 0.003 to 0.05 percent by weight of vanadium oxide (V2O5) or is colored with 0.003 to 0.25 percent by weight of molybdenum oxide (MoO3).
US11072556B2
The invention relates to a method for the preparation of a glass ceramic or a glass, which comprise cerium ions and are suitable in particular for the preparation of dental restorations, the fluorescence properties of which largely correspond to those of natural teeth. The invention also relates to a glass ceramic and a glass which can be obtained using the method according to the invention, the use thereof as dental material and in particular for the preparation of dental restorations, as well as a glass-forming composition which is suitable for use in the method according to the invention.
US11072546B2
A process for removing metals and chelators from SAGD liner flowback that can be implemented at the wellhead using temporary tankage and equipment. In the first step, caustic is added to the flowback until the concentration of hydroxyl ion is high enough for the metals (Fe, Ca, Mg) to dissociate from the metal-chelate complexes and precipitate as hydroxides. In the second step, hydrogen peroxide is added and allowed to react until all of the chelator molecules are oxidized and decomposed. Once treated, the flowback can proceed to the CPF.
US11072544B2
A fluid treatment device includes a pipe including an inlet, an outlet, an internal space through which a fluid moves and including a light source part disposed in the internal space and providing a light to the fluid. The light source part includes at least one light source unit having a substrate and a plurality of light sources disposed on the substrate and emitting the light. A ratio of a first distance between two light sources adjacent to each other to a second distance between each light source and an inner circumferential surface of the pipe is 1:1.25 or less when viewed in a longitudinal-section.
US11072541B2
This invention relates generally to a filtration process and apparatus for separating valuable or harmful process liquids from mixtures or slurries that contain such liquids and solid particles. In particular, the invention relates to a filtration process for separating Process Liquid from a feed slurry that comprises a mixture of the Process Liquid and solid particles, the process employing a Sweep Liquid that is less dense than the Process Liquid.
US11072539B2
A water purifier includes a water supply tube into which water is introduced, a filter member purifying water passing through the water supply tube, a water discharge tube supplying water to the outside of the water purifier, a hot water tube branched from the water discharge tube, a hot water module including a hot water tank provided on the hot water tube to accommodate purified water and a heat generation unit heating the water accommodated in the hot water tank, a controller spaced apart from the hot water tank or the heat generation unit to control the heat generation unit, and a water discharge nozzle supplying the water passing through the water discharge tube and the hot water tube to the outside of the water purifier. At least a portion of the hot water tube or the water discharge tube passes through the controller and is heat-exchanged with the controller.
US11072529B2
The present invention relates to a method for the catalytic conversion in vapor phase of disulfide oil into methane and hydrogen sulfide, comprising the step of contacting disulfide oil, eventually in the presence of water, with a supported transition metal catalyst.
US11072522B2
A machine intended for cooling and draining contents of a metal beverage can comprising a refrigerated housing intended to receive a can; a tube projecting into the refrigerated housing and defining a bore. The machine further includes a removable subassembly including a stirrer mounted to slide with respect to the tube to pass through the bore between an upper position in which the stirrer projects above the upper edge of the tube and a position in which the stirrer is set back with respect to the upper edge of the tube; a duct having an outlet orifice and an inlet orifice communicating with the bore; a plug blocking or opening selectively the outlet orifice of the duct.
US11072515B2
An illustrative example elevator system includes at least one elevator car that is moveable along a hoistway. An elevator controller is configured to respond to a communication from a portable device indicating a desire for the at least one elevator car to be placed in a maintenance mode and indicating a location of desired hoistway access. The controller automatically moves the elevator car to a determined positon based on the communication. That position corresponds to the location of the desired hoistway access. The controller performs at least one automated procedure to place the elevator car in the maintenance mode. The controller provides an indication to the portable device that the elevator car is in the determined position and that the automated procedure has been completed.
US11072508B2
A control apparatus of a web processing system that executes predetermined processing onto a web continuously existing along a movement passage, in which the web processing system includes a rotating body that rotates while being in contact with the web, and the control apparatus controls a rotation speed of the rotating body such that a circumferential speed of the rotating body at a contact surface with the web matches a transport speed of the web.
US11072501B2
A finishing system includes a workpiece carrier configured to hold a workpiece, and a plurality of work stations arranged in a row along an axis defining a process line, each of the plurality of work stations configured to receive the workpiece and treat the workpiece. A hoist runway, including fixed and movable rail sections, extends along the plurality of work stations of the process line. A hoist is movable along the hoist runway to traverse the plurality of work stations, the hoist coupled to the workpiece carrier to raise and lower the workpiece carrier and to move the workpiece carrier along the process line. A side transfer mechanism moves the movable rail section, with the hoist situated thereon, in a direction transverse to the axis so that the hoist is movable out of the process line.
US11072493B2
A transport system includes a stocker including a crane overhead track and a suspension crane that transports an article between storages and a delivery port, an overhead-transport-vehicle overhead track outside of a stocker area and alongside the delivery port and a load port of a processing tool and extending to a stocker area, an overhead transport vehicle to transport the article between the delivery port and the load port, and a joint track. A crane runner can enter the overhead-transport-vehicle overhead track from the crane overhead track via the joint track to the stocker area.
US11072474B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a carton (90) for packaging one or more articles (B) and a blank (10) for forming the carton. The carton may have at least one display window (W, DW1, DW2) for presentation of an article therein. The carton comprises a plurality of panels forming walls of a tubular structure including a top wall (16), a first side wall, a base wall, and a second side wall. The carton comprises an end closure structure for partially closing an end of the carton (90). The end closure structure comprises a top end closure flap (30a) hingedly connected to the top wall. At least one side end closure flap is hinged to a corner panel by a first fold line. The corner panel is hinged to one of the first and second side walls by a second fold line.
US11072473B2
A flip-top tube (1), for example for cream, includes a tubular body (2) having a mouth (22), a cap (18) having a tab (70), and a label film (4) which at least partially wraps the tubular body and covers the tab (70) of the cap (18) to form a tamper-evident seal suitable for indicating the first opening of the tube.
US11072468B2
A container with a security lock is provided. The container has a top unit and a bottom unit. A curved compression spring is attached to the bottom unit and surrounds a portion of the circumference of a liner of the bottom unit. The compression spring has two bumps (or knobs) which extend out from openings of the bottom unit and lock into openings of the top unit when the top unit is secured to the bottom unit. When the knobs are pressed in, the top unit may be rotated and removed from the bottom unit.
US11072437B2
An aircraft beacon light is provided for emitting flashes of red light into an environment around an aircraft. The aircraft beacon light includes a support plate having a central portion; a plurality of LEDs, arranged on the support plate around the central portion and facing away from the support plate; an annular light splitting element, having a proximate side arranged over and facing the plurality of LEDs, wherein the proximate side has reflective portions and transmissive portions; and at least one light conditioning element for redirecting light having passed through the transmissive portions of the proximate side of the annular light splitting element.
US11072435B2
A turboprop engine system for an aircraft includes an engine, a propeller, and a gear train coupled to and configured to provide power from the engine to the propeller at a predetermined gear reduction. The engine system also includes a gearbox that houses at least part of the gear train. The gearbox includes a gearbox flow structure and an inlet flow structure that is removably attached to the gearbox. The inlet flow structure and the gearbox flow structure cooperate to define an inlet flow passage to the engine. The inlet flow passage has an upstream end and a downstream end that are cooperatively defined by the inlet flow structure and the gearbox flow structure. The upstream end is configured to receive an airstream that is directed along the inlet flow passage to the downstream end and toward the engine.
US11072429B2
A disclosed gas turbine engine includes a fan section delivering air into a compressor section. An environmental control system includes a higher pressure tap at a higher pressure location in the compressor section, and a lower pressure tap at a lower pressure location. The lower pressure tap communicates to a first passage leading to a downstream outlet, and having a second passage leading into a compressor section of a turbocompressor. The higher pressure tap leads into a turbine section of the turbocompressor such that air in the higher pressure tap drives the turbine section to in turn drive the compressor section of the turbocompressor. A combined outlet of the compressor section and the turbine section of the turbocompressor intermixes and passes downstream to be delivered to an aircraft use.
US11072427B2
A four-suite unit positionable in an aircraft cabin to one side of a longitudinal aisle and including first and second suites positioned longitudinally-aligned and facing each other, a shared passageway positioned between foot ends of the first and second suites, third and fourth suites positioned longitudinally-aligned and to one side of the respective first and second suites, a first passageway positioned between a portion of the first suite and a portion of the third suite for accessing the third suite from the shared passageway, and a second passageway positioned between a portion of the second suite and a portion of the fourth suite for accessing the fourth suite from the shared passageway.
US11072423B1
An aircraft operable to transition between thrust-borne lift in a VTOL orientation and wing-borne lift in a forward flight orientation. The aircraft has a blended wing body and includes an engine, a unitary lift fan system, a forced air bypass system and an exhaust system. The engine has a turboshaft mode and a turbofan mode. The lift fan system includes a ducted fan. In the VTOL orientation of the aircraft, the engine is in the turboshaft mode coupled to the lift fan system such that the engine provides rotational energy to the ducted fan generating the thrust-borne lift. In the forward flight orientation of the aircraft, the engine is in the turbofan mode coupled to the forced air bypass system such that the bypass air combines with the engine exhaust in the exhaust system to provide forward thrust generating the wing-borne lift.
US11072421B2
An automated flying transport vehicle that capitalizes on the strengths and complexities of a fixed and rotary winged aircraft. The air transport vehicle comprises a body aerodynamically designed to generate lift and a plurality of rotors that can generate lift as well as forward thrust from which a fixed wing portion of the air transport vehicle will begin to generate additional lift allowing for a sustained flight.
US11072412B2
A mounting member for a vehicle, the mounting member including a mounting member body having a longitudinal axis, at least one static opening extending through the body transverse to the longitudinal axis, and at least one blind listener bushing, each blind fastener bushing having a bushing body and a blind fastener receptacle extending axially through the bushing body. The bushing body has a bushing cross-sectional shape that interlocks and couples with a static opening cross-sectional shape of a respective one of the at least one static opening so that rotation of the at least one blind fastener bushing is constrained relative to the mounting member body and the static opening cross-sectional shape is maintained upon application of a blind fastener installation torque or blind fastener removal torque being applied to the blind fastener receptacle by a respective blind fastener.
US11072406B2
The present invention involves a system for the release of low relief, self-orienting deployable payloads from a platform such as a submersible vehicle and a mechanism of passive buoyancy compensation of the vehicle. The system secures one or more payloads by a vacuum force without an additional mechanical restraining mechanism and deployment of a payload is accomplished by disengaging the vacuum hold to release the payload for its intended function. Once deployed, the payload may reorient itself to a functional orientation without additional assistance.
US11072404B1
A floating dock is constructed from a plurality of dock units with each unit having an interior at least partially filled of empty and recycled beverage plastic bottles. Each unit also includes a non-skid upper surface and means to interconnect adjacent units together.
US11072402B2
A fender positioning system that enables a boat operator to safely and conveniently deploy boat fenders when needed at reduced cost, comprising a boat fender, one or two motors, and lines connecting the boat, fender, and motor(s).
US11072399B2
A hydrofoil craft includes a deck, a hydrofoil disposed below the deck, a thruster that generates a thrust, and a thrust operator. The deck includes a chest placing portion on which a chest of a vessel operator is placed and a lower-limb placing portion that is disposed at a more rearward position than the chest placing portion and on which a lower limb of the vessel operator is placed, and the deck is arranged such that the vessel operator is able to ride on the deck in a prone position. The thrust operator is operated by the vessel operator to adjust the thrust of the thruster.
US11072397B2
A suspension of axial turret bearing units in a turret bearing comprises a rail support structure mounted on a turret bearing support structure, a circular rail mounted on the rail support structure, a plurality of axial bearing units running on rail, a shaft for each axial bearing unit with the bearing unit attached to the outer end of the shaft, and an inner support structure for supporting the inner end of each shaft. The suspension further comprises an outer shaft suspension close to each bearing unit, comprising a collar with an inner width similar to the width of the shaft and an inner height higher than the height of the shaft, a transitional section connected to the collar, a plate section connected to the transitional section and fastened to a bearing support structure on the turret, wherein the plate section spreads applied loads on the structure.
US11072391B2
A method and tool provide for removal of a rear bicycle wheel of a bicycle having a wheel with an axle mounted cassette of cogs. The tool includes a chain disengagement element movable with respect to an axle mounted cassette, wherein moving the chain disengagement element moves a portion of the chain away from the axle mounted cassette sufficiently to completely disengage the chain from the axle mounted cassette. This allows for easy removal of the wheel.
US11072385B2
Method for the producing of an extruded frame element with battery pack profile for use in a bicycle frame comprising a plurality of frame elements, where the frame elements are interconnected and constitute a structure with such great rigidity that the bicycle frame under ordinary loading does not change its geometrical shape, wherein the at least one frame element is extruded with variable material thicknesses in a given cross sectional profile, and a recess is made in the at least one extruded frame element, as well as a bicycle frame comprising such a frame element, wherein a stable bicycle frame with sufficient strength is achieved, and wherein the bicycle frame becomes as discreet as possible.
US11072384B2
The present disclosure relates to a fixed structure of an identification mark of a bicycle. The fixed structure may include a fixing plate and a cover board. The identification mark may be disposed between the fixing plate and the cover board, and the cover board is fixed on the fixing plate. The cover board may be transparent. By providing a fixing plate and a cover board, setting the cover board to be transparent, disposing the identification mark between the fixed board and the cover board, and fixing the cover board on the fixing board, a user may not only view the identification mark through the cover board, but also prevent the identification mark from being exposed to the wind and the sun to protect the identification mark, and prevent the identification mark from being artificially damaged, solving the technical problem that in the conventional technologies: since the identification mark is stuck on the surface of the body of the bicycle, the identification mark is easy to fall off after being exposed to the wind, the sun, and the rain, and sometimes the identification mark may be vandalized, thereby affecting the user's access of the bicycle sharing service.
US11072383B2
A footrest mount plate attachable to a swingarm mounting location on a motorcycle frame includes an inner surface protrusion that fits closely within the swingarm mounting bore, and an outer surface configured for attaching a footrest assembly.
US11072381B2
A car having: a frame; four wheels, which are mounted on the frame in a rotary manner; a body, which covers the frame; at least one compressed air tank; and at least one gas pusher, which is connected to the compressed air tank, is integral to the frame and has a plurality of nozzles, which face outwards, can be activated in order to generate respective air jets, are arranged parallel to and beside one another, have the same orientation and are sized so as to generate different pneumatic thrusts given the same pressure of the compressed air flowing in; a pressure sensor, which determines a pressure inside the compressed air tank; and a control unit, which activates the plurality of nozzles in a coordinated manner so as to generate, as a whole, a desired pneumatic thrust based on the pressure inside the compressed air tank.
US11072377B2
A fairing assembly for a vehicle and methods for mounting and removing portions of the fairing assembly are provided. The fairing assembly may be easily removed while a user is on the roadside. The fairing assembly may include a fairing, a lock, and a support coupled to a vehicle. The lock may be removably coupled to the support to allow for mounting and removal of the fairing when the lock is in an unlocked configuration. The support may include a plurality of mounting positions. The fairing and lock may be slid between mounting positions in the unlocked configuration. In a locked configuration, the lock may be engaged in a particular mounting position.
US11072371B2
Apparatus and methods for additively manufactured structures with augmented energy absorption properties are presented herein. Three dimensional (3D) additive manufacturing structures may be constructed with spatially dependent features to create crash components. When used in the construction of a transport vehicle, the crash components with spatially dependent additively manufactured features may enhance and augment crash energy absorption. This in turn absorbs and re-distributes more crash energy away from the vehicle's occupant(s), thereby improving the occupants' safety.
US11072368B2
In accordance with an example embodiment, a vehicle includes a moveable member, posture sensing system, bird's-eye camera system, display, and controller. The posture sensing system indicates the moveable member's posture. The bird's-eye camera system provides images of its field of view, including the ground adjacent to the vehicle. The controller receives a posture signal from the posture sensing system, receives images from the camera system, creates a rendered vehicle representation, creates a rendered path projection, and generates a dynamically augmented bird's-eye view then displays it on the display. The moveable member is positioned in the rendered vehicle representation using the posture signal. The rendered path projection includes an outer envelope line projecting the path of an outermost point of the vehicle, determined using the posture signal. The dynamically augmented bird's-eye view is generated using the images, rendered vehicle representation, and rendered path projection.
US11072364B2
One object is to provide a steering device that facilitates disengagement of a speed reducer so that, for example, when the speed reducer fails, the speed reducer can be disengaged to enable steering of a vehicle with a manual operational force alone. This application relates to a steering device provided with a steering mechanism and a speed reducer. The steering mechanism steers tires of a vehicle under a steering force from a steering wheel. The speed reducer is connected to a motor for outputting a steering assistance force corresponding to the steering force. The speed reducer enlarges the steering assistance force and transmits the enlarged steering assistance force to the steering mechanism. The speed reducer is connected to the steering mechanism via a speed reducer arm.
US11072361B2
An assembly includes a motor having a shaft. The assembly includes a first gear operatively coupled to the shaft. The assembly includes a second gear operatively coupled to the shaft. The assembly includes a first magnet supported by the first gear. The assembly includes a second magnet supported by the second gear. The assembly includes a first sensor configured to detect the first magnet. The assembly includes a second sensor configured to detect the second magnet.
US11072360B2
A method can be employed to produce a rack for a steering gear. The rack may include a toothed portion with a toothing, and a shaft portion with a functional portion. Separate segments comprising at least one in each case bar-shaped toothed segment and one shaft segment may be provided, which are aligned on a common longitudinal axis and are connected to one another at a joint. The method may involve providing a shaft raw material piece having a length that is a multiple of a shaft segment length, continuously grinding a part of a circumferential face of the shaft raw material piece across a multiple of the shaft segment length to produce a semi-finished shaft segment product, cutting to length a shaft segment from the semi-finished shaft segment product, providing a toothed segment, and joining the shaft segment to the toothed segment.
US11072359B2
An assembly for a motor vehicle is provided. The assembly comprises a steering wheel assembly comprising a steering wheel hub for coupling to a steering column of the motor vehicle, such that rotation of the hub about a steering axis rotates the steering column, and a steering wheel rim assembly comprising a steering wheel rim extending around a first axis of the steering wheel assembly, wherein the steering wheel rim is movably coupled to the steering wheel hub, such that the steering wheel rim is selectively pivotable relative to the steering wheel hub about a second axis, the second axis having a component in a direction perpendicular to the first axis, and a controller configured to determine a pivot angle of the steering wheel rim and activate or deactivate an ignition system and/or a driver restraint system of the vehicle based on the pivot angle.
US11072357B2
A moving body includes a travel drive section, and a transporting section that is disposed above the travel drive section (a drive housing and a power housing). In the moving body, the transporting section has a substantially rectangular shape and is provided with a vertical bumper at any of corner portions in top view, the vertical bumper extending in a height direction.
US11072353B2
An automatic uncoupling mechanism for couplers comprises a coupler knuckle spindle and a driving unit comprising a cylinder body hinged to a coupler body and a telescopic member; and further comprises a first rotating member, a boss and a boss stopper, wherein the first rotating member comprises a crank hinged to the telescopic member and a rotating part being sheathed on the coupler knuckle spindle. The driving unit unidirectionally drives the telescopic member so that the rotating part drives the coupler knuckle spindle to unidirectionally rotate by the contact of the boss with the boss stopper, realizing coupler uncoupling; and, after the driving unit drives the telescopic member to return to its position, the rotation of the coupler knuckle spindle for achieving coupler coupling is not limited by the rotating part. The present application may reduce the lateral force of the coupler knuckle to the driving unit during the uncoupling process of the coupler, and may cause the spring to drive the coupler knuckle to rotate rapidly and lock the coupler during the coupler coupling process.
US11072350B2
A ceiling module for a vehicle has a pivotally mounted ceiling flap for covering a ceiling opening, and a carrier device for holding one or more electrical components. In order to save space in the vehicle, the carrier device includes a lateral wall with a hinge opening on which the ceiling flap is pivotally mounted.
US11072337B2
In a method for ascertaining the coefficient of friction between a vehicle wheel and the roadway, at least one active vehicle unit influencing the longitudinal dynamics of the vehicle is controlled during the trip in such a manner, that the longitudinal wheel force acting upon at least one vehicle wheel is increased, and/or the contact patch force of the wheel is decreased, while the characteristic of the sum of all of the longitudinal forces acting upon the vehicle remains unchanged.
US11072332B2
A method for a pilot vehicle for influencing a passing maneuver of at least one second vehicle approaching the pilot vehicle, including the steps: detecting surroundings of the pilot vehicle; identifying a passing intention of the at least one second vehicle; detecting at least one third vehicle on a passing trajectory of the at least one second vehicle; ascertaining and selecting at least one passing maneuver of the at least one second vehicle as a function of the at least one detected third vehicle. The method provides for the emission of at least one signal for controlling the at least one selected passing maneuver. Alternatively provided is a method for a second vehicle for influencing a planned passing maneuver of the second vehicle or a method for a third vehicle for influencing a planned passing maneuver of a second vehicle.
US11072331B2
A vehicle control device includes a setting part that sets a target area which is an area used as a target when the host vehicle changes lane, a derivation part that derives a first time period which is a time length required from a start to a termination of a lane change by the host vehicle, and a second time period which is a time length required for a following reference vehicle, traveling at rear of the target area, to catch up with a preceding vehicle traveling in front of the host vehicle, a determination part that determines that the lane change by the host vehicle is possible, in a case at least a condition in which that the first time period is shorter than the second time period is satisfied, and a controller that performs the lane change of the host vehicle.
US11072328B2
A control-target vehicle setting apparatus sets a control-target vehicle that serves as a target for driving assistance control. The control-target vehicle setting apparatus includes a detection signal acquiring unit and a setting control unit. The detection signal acquiring unit acquires a first detection signal that indicates a target by an image and a second detection signal that indicates a target by a reflection point. The setting control unit sets an acquired forward target as the control-target vehicle when the forward target is associated with an integration history that indicates that the forward target has been determined to be a vehicle using the first detection signal and the second detection signal in an integrated manner, even when the forward target is not associated with a movement history that indicates that the forward target has been detected as being a moving object.
US11072326B2
Systems and methods for operating a vehicle. The methods comprise: generating, by a computing device, a vehicle trajectory for the vehicle that is in motion; detecting an object within a given distance from the vehicle; generating, by the computing device, at least one possible object trajectory for the object which was detected; performing, by the computing device, a collision check to determine that there remains time to react safely to worst-case behavior by the object (the collision check being based on the vehicle trajectory and at least one possible object trajectory); and performing operations, by the computing device, to selectively cause the vehicle to perform an emergency maneuver based on results of the collision check.
US11072322B2
A method for operating a drive system of a motor vehicle which is equipped with at least two E-machines, the drive system, as well as to a motor vehicle provided with the drive system.
US11072319B2
A device for braking a vehicle includes an actuator configured to control a brake of the vehicle for braking the vehicle. The device further includes a first battery configured to be electrically connected to the actuator via a first switching device and to supply energy to the actuator. The device further includes a second battery configured to be electrically connected to the actuator via a second switching device and to supply energy to the actuator. The device further includes a controller configured to detect a state of the energy supplied to the actuator by the first battery and switch the second switching device to electrically connect the second battery to the actuator instead of the first battery in order to supply energy to the actuator when the state indicates that a need exists.
US11072315B2
A valve for adjusting a fluid flow includes a valve cartridge with at least one first fluid opening, at least one second fluid opening, a preliminary stage with a first valve seat and a first closing element, and a main stage with a second valve seat and a second closing element. The first valve seat is at a first axial through-opening of the second closing element, which is at least partly in a preliminary stage sleeve. The first valve seat is within the preliminary stage sleeve, and a flow path from the at least one first fluid opening to the preliminary stage leads through at least one inflow opening, which is radially introduced in the preliminary stage sleeve. An axial filter gap formed between an actuation element and the preliminary stage sleeve overlaps the at least one inflow opening at least in some regions and together form a filter.
US11072310B1
One general aspect includes a system to receive a virtual key at a vehicle, the system includes a memory configured to include a plurality of executable instructions and a processor configured to execute the executable instructions, where the executable instructions enable the processor to establish a dummy short-range wireless communications (SRWC) connection with a mobile computing device; establish a standard SRWC connection with the mobile computing device; receive the virtual key from the mobile computing device through the standard SRWC connection; and where the dummy SRWC connection is configured to cause the mobile computing device to cease attempting to establish one or more additional SRWC connections.
US11072309B2
A mobile terminal device is operated by a battery, performs wireless communication with a predetermined associated vehicle, and is available as an electronic key for the vehicle. The mobile terminal device includes a display unit including an electronic paper, and a terminal controller configured to display a predetermined code for unlocking the vehicle on the electronic paper when a remaining amount of the battery is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value.
US11072300B2
A vehicle structure sub-unit includes a cross-member of metal material and two crash-box modules with their front surfaces welded or glued to the rear wall of the cross-member. A reinforcing metal plate is interposed between the front surface of at least one of the two crash-box modules and the rear wall. The rear wall has a depressed flat portion in which the reinforcing plate is received, in such a way that the surface of the reinforcing plate facing the crash-box module is substantially flush with the surface of the rear wall. A depressed portion of the rear wall is located in an offset position, closer to the center of the cross-member, with respect to the crash-box module, in such a way that the reinforcing plate is in contact only with a part of the front surface of the crash-box module, the remaining part of the front surface being in direct contact with the rear wall.
US11072295B2
A vehicle system includes a bicycle lock and a processor. The processor is programmed to receive a bicycle slot reservation message, assign the bicycle slot reservation message to a bicycle slot of an autonomous bus, command the bicycle lock associated with the bicycle slot to an unlocked position, detect a bicycle placed in the bicycle slot, and command the bicycle lock to a locked position.
US11072294B2
A bicycle mount which mounts a bicycle longitudinally over the bed rail of a pickup truck. A carriage of the bicycle mount supports the wheels of the bicycle above it. A pivot arm and hook is used as a primary vertical support for the bicycle, with the pivot arm mounted using slide channels of the carriage to allow both longitudinal and pivoting motion. The hooks is extendable on the pivot arm to support an upper section of the bicycle frame. A mounting system for the carriage is provided allows the carriage to mount into stake pockets of the bed rail, adjustable to accommodate different length bed rails and different stake pocket spacing on different pickup trucks.
US11072293B2
Disclosed is a load carrier foot for supporting a load bar on a vehicle. The load carrier foot comprises a locking mechanism for releasably locking the load bar on the load carrier foot. Furthermore, the locking mechanism is configured to automatically return into a locking state in which the load bar is locked on the load carrier foot.
US11072292B1
A clothing hanging system designed to be used in automobiles with built-in safety features.
US11072291B1
The permit holder for a vehicle sunvisor comprises a visor clip, a placard clip, a first servo motor, a second servo motor, a controller, and a remote control key fob. The permit holder for a vehicle sunvisor may removably couple to a sun visor in a vehicle via the visor clip and may removably couple a parking placard to the sun visor such that the parking placard may be stored in a non-visible position during the operation of the vehicle and displayed in a visible position when the vehicle is parked. Upon receiving an activation signal from the remote control key fob, the controller may cause rotation of the first servo motor and the second servo motor thus moving the parking placard between the non-visible position and the visible position.
US11072286B2
A vehicular interior rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror head having a mirror casing and a transflective reflective element. Individual user input elements of a plurality of user input elements are arranged in a row below the transflective reflective element. At least one of the individual user input elements is a user input element for an imaging system of the vehicle. Each individual display element of a plurality of display elements is associated with a respective user input element of the plurality of user input elements. Each individual display element of the plurality of display elements is selectively activated by activation of its respective user input element. Each individual display element and its respective user input element are located local to one another such that a cognitive relationship between actuation by a user of the respective user input element and activation of the associated individual display element is established.
US11072278B2
A moving-body indoor illumination apparatus is provided. The moving-body indoor illumination apparatus includes a light source, and a holder for holding the light source. The light source is pressed against the holder. The light source includes a spherical housing and a light emitter. The light emitter is disposed within the housing. The housing is provided with a housing-side restricting part that restricts movement of the housing with respect to the holder by contacting with or approaching the holder in a portion different from a portion which is exposed from an opening on an irradiation side of the holder.
US11072276B2
It is described herein a lighting apparatus for a vehicle. The lighting apparatus may comprise a lighting trim ring and a lighting element attached to an outer surface of the lighting trim ring. Also described herein is a lighting apparatus kit for a vehicle which may comprise the lighting trim ring and the lighting element. Also described herein is a method of installing a lighting apparatus onto a vehicle over an existing automotive lighting fixture such as a head light, tail light, fog light, or marker light.
US11072272B2
A travel trailer is provided having a wall therein which is selectively movable along the longitudinal length of the trailer so as to alter the relative dimensions of rooms within the travel trailer without altering the exterior appearance of the travel trailer. In a preferred embodiment of a toy hauler-type travel trailer, the rearward wall separating the garage portion of the trailer from the living quarters is movably mounted at each of its sides upon a motor driven gear. Each such gear is operated in a synchronized manner so as to engage a gear rack on each side of the wall to drive the wall forward or rearward, as desired by the user.
US11072262B2
The present disclosure relates to a portable car seat comprising a backrest part, and a seat part rotating to be positioned at a front side or a rear side of the backrest part, wherein the backrest part includes an aluminum frame.
US11072261B2
The present disclosure refers to a tray table device for a vehicle seat that may have at least a table element and a table support structure connected to the table element. Further, the present disclosure refers to a vehicle seat that may have such a tray table device.
US11072260B2
A rail assembly includes a track assembly with a retaining lip and a carriage assembly that is received within the track assembly. The carriage assembly includes a body portion, an exterior surface of the body portion, and a retaining bracket fastened to the exterior surface. The retaining bracket extends outwardly from the point at which the retaining bracket is fastened to the exterior surface. The retaining bracket defines a notch that receives the retaining lip of the track assembly.
US11072256B2
A battery charging system comprising a battery charger configured to deliver power to a rechargeable battery, wherein the battery charger comprises a wireless data transceiver; and a remote server communicatively coupled to the battery charger through a network via said wireless data transceiver and configured to communicate one or more battery charge parameters or battery charger control commands between the battery charger and a remotely situated portable user device.
US11072246B2
Electrochemical cell diagnostic systems and methods are described. Examples include systems having a signal generator configured to apply a stimulus having a stimulus frequency to at least one electrochemical cell. The stimulus may be configured to excite at least one non-linear mode of the at least one electrochemical cell. Systems may include measurement circuitry configured to detect a response of the at least one electrochemical cell to the stimulus. The response may include a second or greater harmonic component. Systems may include a display device configured to display an indication of an internal state of the at least one electrochemical cell based, at least in part of the second or greater harmonic component of the response.
US11072245B2
A motor control method includes acquiring at least one measured torque angle and two estimated torque angles, obtaining all combinations of two torque angles that are combinable with respect to a set of the at least one measured torque angle and the two estimated torque angles and performing an arithmetic operation to determine an error for each combination, selecting a control mode of the motor from control modes including a sensor mode, a sensorless mode, and a shutdown mode, the selecting being performed by referring to a table representing a relationship between the control modes and reference patterns relating to the calculated error group, and controlling the motor in accordance with the selected control mode.
US11072244B2
A method controls the electrical charging of a group of vehicles which are electrically connected to a power supply system of a power supply system operator, wherein the respective vehicles obtain power for charging a vehicle energy store from the power supply system. A central control system can communicate with the respective vehicles and with a server of the power supply system operator and a number of electrical units via communication signals, wherein the number of electrical units each have a higher response time for an electrical power adjustment in response to communication signals from the central control system and/or a higher time synchronicity with respect to a clock of the central control system in comparison with the vehicles. In response to a received reduction command from the server, the control system transmits one or more first commands which suspend the charging of vehicle energy stores to vehicles in the group, wherein the reduction command stipulates a power amount by which the power consumption of the group of vehicles in the power supply system should be reduced. The control system also determines, at predefined intervals of time, a power value which is composed of the reduction in the total power consumption of the vehicle energy stores and the number of electrical units plus the increase in the total power output of the vehicle energy stores and the number of electrical units. In this case, the control system regulates the power value to the power amount according to the reduction command using one or more second commands which are transmitted to electrical units by the control system and change the power consumption and/or power output of electrical units.
US11072243B2
A vehicle braking device sets a target hydraulic braking force based on the difference between the execution regeneration braking force, which is actually generated regeneration braking force and the requested braking force which is to be applied to the vehicle wheels and includes a hydraulic pressure control portion that raises the target hydraulic braking force by a predetermined value at a timing when the difference between the execution regeneration braking force and the maximum value thereof is equal to or less than a judgement threshold value and a threshold value setting portion that sets the judgement threshold value on the basis of the requested braking force gradient when the liquid amount inside the hydraulic chamber is less than a predetermined amount, and sets the judgement threshold value on the basis of the target hydraulic braking force gradient when the liquid amount is equal to or more than the predetermined amount.
US11072237B2
A UTV portal axle system is disclosed, including a spindle with a housing for housing input and output drive gears coupled by one or more idler gears. The output drive gear is disposed lower than the input drive gear to provide additional ground clearance to the UTV. The king pin axis angle is substantially the same as that of a stock UTV, while maintaining a scrub radius of substantially one inch or less. This is accomplished by the lower control arm ball joint being located within a recess of the output drive gear. This allows the UTV to be properly controlled when driven at high speeds over rough or uneven terrain. The gears may be interchangeable to allow the gear ratio to be adjusted to be more suitable for use at various driving speeds. A method of changing the gear ratio is also disclosed.
US11072227B2
A tonneau cover and a method of attachment are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a self-energizing clamp can be used to retain a tonneau cover onto a side wall of a truck bed, or other vehicle bed. In some embodiments, the clamp can be rotated between a usage position and a storage position in order to prevent the clamp from incidental movement or harm while accessing the truck bed.
US11072220B2
A suspension including a spring interposed between the body (B) of the vehicle and the wheel (W); a regenerative hydraulic shock-absorbing unit comprising a hydraulic shock-absorber arranged parallel to the spring, a motor and pump unit with a volumetric hydraulic machine and an electric machine coupled to the hydraulic machine), and an electronic control unit arranged to control the torque of the electric machine. A hydraulic actuator is arranged in series with the spring. A reservoir and a hydraulic circuit are connected to each other, the hydraulic shock-absorber, the hydraulic machine the hydraulic actuator and the reservoir. The hydraulic circuit includes a valve assembly for controlling the flow of a working fluid between the hydraulic shock-absorber, the hydraulic machine, the hydraulic actuator and the reservoir.
US11072216B2
The present invention provides an independent rear suspension system for low-floor bus for reducing the distance between the floor and ground, offering easy access for passengers and offering a wide space between the wheel arches.
US11072209B2
A pneumatic tire includes a resonator attached to the inner periphery of the tire, the resonator including a tube with an opening, and a cavity connected to the tube. The pneumatic tire further includes s a tread portion and each resonator faces the tread portion, the tread portion includes at least one circumferential longitudinal groove, and the opening is provided to penetrate a circumferential longitudinal groove of the tread portion.
US11072208B2
A pneumatic tire comprises a plurality of protrusion portions extending along a tire side surface of a tire side portion in a direction that intersects a tire circumferential direction and a tire radial direction; the plurality of protrusion portions each including an intermediate portion in an extension direction that includes a highest position of a projection height from the tire side surface, and tip portions on either side of the intermediate portion in the extension direction that include a lowest position of the projection height from the tire side surface; and at least the intermediate portion being only disposed inward of a tire maximum width position in the tire radial direction.
US11072201B2
Flanged inner ring of a rolling bearing forming part of a wheel hub unit of motor vehicles, having at its axially inner end a rolling edge configured to preload axially a radially inner ring after being plastically deformed by orbital forming. The rolling edge is provided with a conical surface of an axially inner portion of the rolling edge. A first parameter is defined as being the ratio between the conicity of the conical surface expressed in degrees and the thickness of the rolling edge expressed in millimeters and assumes values ranging between 0.03 mm−1 and 2 mm−1.
US11072198B1
A modular paper organizer, including a base and a plurality of dividers. The base includes a plurality of receiving units, each including a U-shaped surface defining a receiving slot, a first surface disposed at a first angle to one side of the U-shaped surface, and a second surface disposed at a second angle to an opposing side of the U-shaped surface. The second surface one receiving unit is attached to the first surface of an adjacent receiving unit. Each divider includes a planar body, and first and second engagement legs along the same edge of the planar body. The second engagement is at an acute angle to the first engagement leg and at an obtuse angle to the planar body. Each divider has one leg in a receiving slot, and the other leg resting against one of the first and second surfaces adjacent the receiving slot.
US11072195B2
A printing apparatus includes: a tank configured to contain ink; a print head configured to eject ink supplied from the tank; a supply flow path through which liquid is supplied from the tank to the print head; a collection flow path through which liquid is collected from the print head to the tank; a circulation unit configured to circulate ink inside a circulation flow path including the tank, the supply flow path, the print head, and the collection flow path; and a cooling unit configured to cool the tank by blowing.
US11072194B2
A cleaning device includes: a cleaning unit including a cleaning part and a cleaning housing; and a movement mechanism that is capable of moving the cleaning unit between a cleaning position and a mounting and removing position below the cleaning position. The cleaning housing includes a pair of wall portions and a pair of housing shaft portions. The movement mechanism includes a unit housing portion, a pair of support members, a rotation drive unit, and a positioning portion. The positioning portion is configured to be brought into contact with the cleaning unit at the cleaning position and is configured to position the cleaning unit such that the cleaning part is capable of cleaning the conveyance roller.
US11072191B2
An image forming apparatus includes a printing device to print, on a recording medium, a colorimetric pattern including a plurality of colorimetric patches; an imaging device; a conveyor to convey the recording medium in a conveyance direction; and circuitry. The circuitry causes the printing device to form a plurality of marker patterns on a side of the colorimetric pattern and at predetermined intervals in the conveyance direction so that one of the marker patterns is downstream from a first row of the colorimetric patches in the conveyance direction; causes the conveyor to convey the recording medium to position the colorimetric pattern at a reading position by the imaging device based on a distance between the plurality of marker patterns and the colorimetric pattern in the conveyance direction; and causes the imaging device to read the colorimetric pattern on the recording medium.
US11072190B2
The invention relates to an ink-jet printer including: a support structure including two side walls; a transfer apparatus slidable for advancing the substrate in a direction x, the transfer apparatus comprising a conveyor belt and a stationary support plane; a print device including a print head operating along a direction y, perpendicular to the direction x; retaining means for maintaining the substrate adhering to the conveyor belt; and adjusting means of the transfer apparatus. The support plane includes two side ends which rest on the side walls. The adjusting means of the transfer apparatus include at least one side adjusting assembly positioned between a side wall and the respective side end of the support plane.
US11072189B2
The medium discharging apparatus includes a medium receiving portion that includes a first portion and a second portion that is provided on the first portion and that is configured to be displaced between a retracted position and an advanced position, a moving member configured to move between a first position and a second position, in which the moving member pushes and moves the second portion towards the advanced position as the moving member moves from the first position towards the second position and in which the moving member is moved to the first position as the second portion is displaced to the retracted position, a pushing member that pushes the moving member towards the second position, and a restricting member configured to switch between a restricting state that restricts a movement of the moving member towards the second position, and a non-restricting state that releases the restricting state.
US11072186B2
A printer includes a restrictor that is configured to switch between a restricted state that restricts a scanner unit from pivoting in an opening direction from a closed state in which the scanner unit is closed with respect to the casing, and a free state that allows the scanner unit to pivot in the opening direction from the closed state, and that enters the restricted state when the panel unit is set to a first orientation and enters the free state when the panel unit in the first orientation pivots by a predetermined angle to be in a second orientation.
US11072163B2
There are provided a printing blanket which maintains the accuracy of printing of an image, and also prevents a failure of transfer of an ink from an original printing plate to the printing blanket, a method for manufacturing the printing blanket, and a printing method using the printing blanket. The printing blanket according to the present invention includes an elastic body which deforms in conformity to the shape of a to-be-printed surface. The elastic body includes a printing surface to be pressed against the to-be-printed surface. In the printing surface, an entire region is provided with a plurality of irregularities are formed over the entire surface of the printing surface, and an elevation difference from a highest part of the irregularities to a lowest part thereof falls within the range of 2 to 20 μm.
US11072160B2
The present disclosure relates to a system for forming a three dimensional (3D) part. The system may incorporate a beam delivery subsystem for generating optical signals, and a mask subsystem that receives the optical signals and generates optical images therefrom. A first one of the optical images activates a polymerization species of a photo-sensitive resin in accordance with illuminated areas thereof, to thus cause polymerization of select portions of the photo-sensitive resin to help form a layer of the 3D part. A second one of the optical images causes stimulated emission depletion of subportions of the polymerization species, simultaneously, over various areas of the layer, to enhance resolution of at least one subportion of the select portions of the photo-sensitive resin.
US11072159B2
Systems and methods for manufacturing eyelash prostheses are described.
US11072155B2
A laminating apparatus and method of fabricating a display device are provided. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the laminating apparatus includes a first jig, which is configured to fix a window having curved surfaces, and a second jig, which includes a pressure pad facing the first jig. The pressure pad includes a top surface, which is convex toward the first jig, and depressed portions, which are inwardly depressed from side surfaces, respectively.
US11072153B2
The invention provides a novel composition capable of providing a film or coat exhibiting excellent adhesiveness to a water-impermeable sheet and to an EVA encapsulant layer even without corona discharge treatment. The composition of the invention contains a fluorine-containing polymer and a polyol compound having a hydroxyl value of 10 to 300. The polyol compound is contained in an amount of not less than 0.1 mass % but less than 100 mass % relative to the fluorine-containing polymer.
US11072147B1
A structural member including a lightweight core, one or more skins, and a crosslinking nanolayer interposed therebetween that results in significant mechanical strength in the structure. The core is a polymer of reduced density by way of included voids, such as an open or closed cell foam, honeycomb, or corrugated structure. The core polymer has a lower density and may have a higher softening or melting temperature than the polymer skin materials. The core may be discontinuous at the interface with the skin such that only a small percentage of the core surface is actually in contact with the skin compared to the overall area of the interface. The skin may be a thermoplastic layer that attaches to the core material. The skin may be a composite material including non-thermoplastic reinforcements. The crosslinking nanolayer is covalently bonded to the surface of the core material and provides molecular compatibility with the skin material.
US11072137B2
A method of preparing and using a contact lens is disclosed. In one step, a light-absorbing dye solution, comprising a light-absorbing dye disposed in a solution, is dispensed onto a contact lens. In another step, the light-absorbing dye is reacted with the contact lens so that the contact lens permanently contains the light-absorbing dye. The transmission of light of a certain wavelength through the contact lens is reduced due to the reacted light-absorbing dye permanently contained within the contact lens.
US11072132B2
A method of manufacturing a coated article comprises injecting a feedstock with a polymer resin to provide a resin-injected feedstock, pulling the resin-injected feedstock through a pultrusion die to form a pultrusion substrate having one or more profile surfaces, adhering an adhesive material comprising a thermoplastic polyurethane onto at least a portion the one or more profile surfaces to form one or more adhesive tie layers on the pultrusion substrate, and applying one or more coating materials onto the one or more adhesive tie layers to form one or more coating layers on the one or more adhesive tie layers to provide a coated pultrusion article, wherein an adhesion strength between the one or more coating layers and the one or more adhesive tie layers is higher than a corresponding adhesion strength would be between the one or more coating layers and the pultrusion substrate.
US11072124B2
A three dimensional printing system for manufacturing a three dimensional article includes a movement mechanism, a support tray, a resin vessel, a light engine, a sensor, and a controller. The support tray is mounted to the movement mechanism and has a lower surface for supporting the three dimensional article. The resin vessel includes a transparent sheet defining a lower bound for resin contained therein. The light engine projects pixelated light through the transparent sheet and to a build plane. The controller is configured to (a) receive a start indication for a build process, (b) operate the sensor, (c) determine if polymerized build material is in a flag region from the sensor signal, and (d) if polymerized build material is determined to be in the flag region, halt the build process.
US11072111B2
A three-dimensional (3D) printer includes a tool configured to extrude a material onto a surface to produce a 3D object. The printer also includes a first movement device configured to move the tool in a first direction. The printer also includes a first sensor configured to measure a first electrical parameter of the first movement device as the first movement device moves the tool in the first direction. A distance between the tool and the surface is varied in response to a comparison of the first electrical parameter and a first electrical parameter threshold of the first movement device.
US11072104B2
A screw includes a screw main body, a conveyance portion conveying a raw material, and a passage provided in the screw main body. The passage includes a first passage element, a second passage element, and a third passage element. The screw main body has a plurality of cylindrical bodies arranged in an axial direction of the rotating shaft. At least a portion of the conveyance portion is formed on outer peripheral surfaces of the cylindrical bodies adjacent to each other, and the passage is formed in the cylindrical body so as to cross over between the adjacent cylindrical bodies.
US11072099B2
Some embodiments of a compression mold for forming a rib-and-sheet part includes a mold cavity and a mold insert. A sheet is placed in the mold cavity, and the mold insert is placed on the sheet. A preform assemblage is placed in a gap that is formed between the mold insert and the wall of the mold cavity. A mold core is biased above the preform assemblage, prior to molding operations, via a compression spring.
US11072093B2
A process for producing a carbon sheet molding compound (SMC). An SMC manufacturing line including at least one conveyor line for laying up SMC resins on a carrier film is provided. A chopped carbon fiber which is evenly distributed using dehumidified supply air and using a pressurized air venturi apparatus which is used to debundle and randomize the carbon fibers, onto the resin on the carrier film as the carrier film moves along the conveyor.
US11072087B2
The present invention relates to a wooden material panel, in particular a wood-plastic composite material, including particles of wood and at least one plastic that is functionalized with at least one organic compound. At least one decorative layer is provided on at least one side of the wooden material panel.
US11072086B2
Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for treating wood to give it a desirable color that is durable over time, while at the same time rendering the wood resistant to fungal decay and insect attack. The wood may be pressure treated in a two-step process whereby the wood is first treated with a wood preservation composition, and then treated with a composition comprising pigments, or vice versa. Alternatively, the wood may be simultaneously treated with a composition comprising a wood preservative and a composition comprising pigments.
US11072085B2
The present invention provides a jig for fabricating a concave-convex structure. The jig for fabricating a concave-convex structure is coupled to a multipurpose woodworking device including a woodworking work table for performing a plurality of operations for forming a concave-convex structure and a router mounted on the woodworking work table to perform the operations for forming a concave-convex structure, using a plurality of end mills. Furthermore, the jig for fabricating a concave-convex structure includes at least one of a wood piece support jig supporting or fixing a wood piece to be fabricated, a shaping guide jig allowing for forming shapes corresponding to the operations for forming a concave-convex structure, and a stopper jig maintaining X-axial movement of the router by intervals corresponding to the operations for forming a concave-convex structure. Accordingly, it is possible to easily fabricate circular, round, rectangular, dovetailed, and gallery-shaped grooves and joints.
US11072080B2
Exemplary embodiments relate to unique structures for robotic end-of-arm-tools (EOATs). In particular, exemplary embodiments provide structures allowing a displacement fluid to be discharged from a distal end of a robotic finger. The discharge may be used to displace a target object, such as an object that is adjacent to another blocking object or the side of a container. After the target object is displaced, the EOAT may be better able to maneuver into a gripping posture and may be able to secure a better grasp on the target object.
US11072079B1
It is an objective of the present invention to provide users with a pick-up stick, that can pick up flat objects from the floor that are difficult to grab or reach. In order to accomplish that, the present invention comprises a battery operated, suction powered pick-up stick that is also retractable. According to the present invention, with the push of a button on the handle, the suction may be turned on and turned off. Further, the retractability and the low weight of the present invention enables a user to collapse and carry the pick-up stick in a small purse/pouch. Additionally, the present invention comprises one or more light at the tip of the pick-up stick for easy visibility. The present invention further comprises a tip that bends and flexes so that suction may be initiated from a desired direction and a grab is made efficiently.
US11072068B2
A robot apparatus includes a grasping section that grasps an object, a recognition section that recognizes a graspable part and a handing-over area part of the object, and a grasp planning section that plans a path of the grasping section for handing over the object to a recipient by the handing-over area part. The robot apparatus further includes a grasp control section that controls grasp operation of the object by the grasping section in accordance with the planned path.
US11072062B2
A handheld power tool (1) is provided, including a tool holder (2) for receiving and locking a tool (3) on a working axis (4), and including a power tool housing (6). A striking mechanism (8) includes a striker (10) for applying impacts in the impact direction (9) and an anvil (11) for absorbing the impacts and for transmitting the impacts in the impact direction (9) onto the tool (3) accommodated in the tool holder (2). A collar (18) is fastened to the power tool housing (6) and to the anvil (11). When the anvil (11) abuts a rebound impact damper (13) in the impact direction (9), the elastic collar (18) applies a force acting in the impact direction (9) onto the anvil (11).
US11072058B2
A gas spring-powered fastener driver including a cylinder, a moveable piston positioned within the cylinder, a driver blade attached to the piston and movable therewith between a ready position and a driven position, a lifter operable to move the driver blade from the driven position to the ready position, a transmission for providing torque to the lifter, a first clutch mechanism permitting a transfer of torque to an output shaft of the transmission in a single rotational direction, and a second clutch mechanism limiting an amount of torque transferred to the transmission output shaft and the lifter.
US11072056B2
A grip bar for a hexagonal wrench includes a grip, a middle sleeve, an outer sleeve and a rotary member. The grip has an elongate body, a raised portion, multiple first recesses, a head, an elongate slot and a first threaded portion. The middle sleeve includes a first chamber, a first opening, a shoulder and an end hole. The outer sleeve is mounted to the middle sleeve. The rotary member is rotatably inserted in the end hole of the middle sleeve. The first and second threaded portion are connected to each other. The first recesses and the elongate slot respectively accommodate the first section and the second section of a hexagonal wrench. The grip and the rotary member respectively restricted by the shoulder and cannot slip within the middle sleeve so that the hexagonal wrench is firmly combined with the grip and operated efficiently.
US11072041B2
A method for producing a technical mask includes: providing a technical mask including at least one plate-shaped substrate, the plate-shaped substrate being transparent to at least one laser wavelength; and producing at least one opening in the mask by laser-induced deep etching. In an embodiment, an etching attack takes place at least temporarily on one side during laser-induced deep etching.
US11072034B2
The invention described herein generally pertains to a system and method for collecting one or more welding parameters in real time during creation of one or more welds using a welding sequence. The one or more welding parameters can be associated with a particular welding sequence. Moreover, based on the one or more welding parameters collected, a modeled welding parameter can be generated to increase quality, efficiency, and the like. A collection component collects real time welding parameter data from which a quality manager component creates a modeled welding parameter. The modeled welding parameter can be employed for the welding sequence to monitor or track the welding parameter during a subsequent weld.
US11072022B2
The present invention relates to investment casting moulds comprising a furnace dust, wherein said furnace dust comprises ZrO2 and/or Al2O3. The present invention also relates to investment casting moulds comprising a metal oxide dust comprising ZrO2 and one or more materials selected from alumina, silica and aluminosilicate, and wherein said metal oxide dust has a d50 of 10 μm or less. The invention also relates to compositions for the production of investment casting moulds, the use of dusts in the formation of investment casting moulds, and the use of investment casting moulds of the invention.
US11072021B2
An apparatus and method for bending or shaping orthodontic archwires or other medical devices into a complex, patient individual shape is described. The apparatus comprises of two moveable, compact, manipulators with, in total, at least three revolute joints defining three rotation axes and at least three prismatic joints defining at least three translation axes. Gripping tools are provided on the manipulators. The two manipulators are arranged to allow a relative movement in six degrees of freedom. A reduced complexity embodiment is also described having only one or two revolute joints.
US11072019B2
A pipe enlarging device includes a base, an operation unit and a clamping unit. The clamping unit is received in the base and includes movable front, rear, left and right clamps, multiple resilient members and a front threaded rod. The front, rear, left and right clamps are resiliently movable when the front threaded rod is rotated so as to form an adjustable clamping area between the front, rear, left and right clamps. The clamping area is used to clamp pipes of different sizes. The operation unit includes a top threaded rod with a cone-shaped member which is used to enlarge the inner diameter of the pipes.
US11072016B2
A method for manufacturing a metal element includes performing press processing and punching processing on a band plate-shaped metal element material having a constant cross section by a mold with a main punch in contact with a rear surface of the metal element and a counter punch in contact with the front surface thereof. The main punch or the counter punch has protrusion portions which are in contact with at least a part of the ear portion or the body portion to form a recessed portion, and a bulging portion bulging in the longitudinal direction from the radial direction inner edge of ear portions of the metal element or the radial direction outer edge of a body portion thereof, which is formed by the material extruded from the recessed portion by the protrusion portion.
US11072010B2
The invention relates to method for straightening a workpiece (1) with a longitudinal axis, wherein the workpiece (1) is bent out of a starting position transversely to the longitudinal axis and bent back again. In order to provide advantageous straightening conditions, it is proposed that the workpiece (1), which is held on the end side in mounting heads (6), is bent out by means of the mounting heads (6) in directions changing at least in predetermined angular ranges, and bent back again.
US11072007B2
The present invention relates to a system for manufacturing an electrode for a secondary battery. The system for manufacturing the electrode for the secondary battery comprises a supply roller supplying a collector having a long sheet shape; an electrode active material coating device applying an electrode active material to a surface of the collector supplied by the supply roller to manufacture an unfinished electrode; a rolling roller rolling a surface of the unfinished electrode and adjusting a thickness of the electrode active material to manufacture a finished electrode; and an electrode quality inspection device inspecting quality of the electrode through a surface roughness value of the rolling roller and a surface roughness value of the electrode.
US11072001B2
A vibratory screening apparatus including a support and at least two screen decks arranged one over the other as an assembly. Each screen deck includes a screen frame, a screen and a chamber underlaying the screen surface, an outlet duct for oversized material and an outlet duct for undersized material in communication with the chamber. Mountings are configured for mounting the assembly of the screen decks to the support. A drive support with a motor assembly is configured for vibrating the assembly of screen decks. A feed unit is configured to feed the material to be screened to each screen deck. The feed unit is arranged on the support and configured to be moved between a feed position and a maintenance position. The assembly of the at least two screen decks is resiliently arranged on the support, while the feed unit is non-resiliently arranged on the support.
US11072000B2
Machine, especially a padding machine, for the burying of pipes, in particular arranged in a respective excavation of the ground, quali gas pipelines, oil pipelines, aqueducts, or altri, in particular for la covering of said pipe with a corresponding material, in particular un treated material, preferably screened or frantumato, including a main support framework of the apparatus, in particular which extends according to a respective longitudinal axis of the same machine, a cabin for housing the driver of the machine, such a cabin is in the form of a cabin movable with respect to said main support frame. Said cabin for housing the driver of the machine can be positioned, in corresponding vertical positions, or placed at height levels different from each other, preferably moving vertically, or perpendicularly to said ground.
US11071988B2
A rotatable magnet cradle assembly that can be used to separate swarf from a flow of fluid is provided. The cradle of magnets can be rotated a certain amount about a rotational axis from an operational position to a cleaning position. The magnet cradle may include a tube extending between two brackets, a shaft to which the two brackets are attached, and a magnet bar extending through the tube. In the operational position, the magnet provides a magnetic field that attracts swarf to an outer surface of the tube. Once it is desired to clean the assembly, the shaft is rotated to move the two brackets and tube out of the fluid flow and to a position proximate a discharge location, where the magnet bar can be removed from the tube to release the swarf.
US11071987B2
A system and method directed to the economical recovery of valuable iron constituents from iron blast furnace and steel-making slag fines wherein the slag is obtained and subjected to a series of classification steps which progressively sort the slag fines by various physical characteristics, including magnetism, size, and density, into relatively iron-rich and relatively iron-poor classifications, resulting in the isolation of iron-rich commercial byproduct at one or more of the classification steps.
US11071986B2
An infeed system of a chipper or grinder includes a feed roller, a motor for rotating the roller, a hydraulic cylinder for adjusting an amount of crush force applied by the roller, a sensor, and a controller in data communication with the sensor and the cylinder. In operation, the controller determines whether the material is being effectively moved to the processing portion and whether the amount of crush force is at a maximum or lowest setting. The controller causes the cylinder to: (a) decrease the amount of crush force when the material is being effectively moved to the processing portion and the amount of crush force applied is not at the lowest setting; and (b) increase the amount of crush force when the material is not being effectively moved to the processing portion and the amount of crush force is not at the maximum setting.
US11071984B2
An arrangement including a plurality of carrier elements for a reagent, which is to be introduced into a microfluidic device, in particular a flow cell, via the carrier element, and a holder receiving the plurality of carrier elements. The carrier element is fixed by positive fit in all spatial directions by the holder, keeping at least one region of the carrier element which receives the reagent clear.
US11071982B2
Apparatus, system and method for dispensing a particle-laden fluid from a fluid holding and dispensing micro-feature and/or multiple lysing channel structures. In some implementations, the apparatus includes: a chamber having one or more surfaces that define a volume to receive fluid containing particulate matter, a soluble surface coating on a portion of the one or more surfaces of the chamber, and an outlet port to dispense at least a portion of the fluid from the chamber. In some implementations, the particle-laden fluid may be whole blood, and the soluble surface coating may include reagents and/or dyes that are diffused into the whole blood received within the chamber to generate signals to visualize various cellular components. In some implementations, the apparatus may also include a second soluble surface coating on portions of surfaces of the multiple lysing channel structures.
US11071977B2
A biological sample analysis device that is an easily portable free-standing device for determining the rate of deterioration of biological samples.
US11071967B2
The invention belongs to the field of chemical separation, hydrometallurgy and resource recovery and provides a method for preparing and applying of ion-keeper adsorbent. By adjusting the pH to selective oxidation to achieve the oxidation of ferrous iron into ferric iron. Separates the iron after the hydrothermal reaction; By using of ion imprint “ion keeper” effect and biomass as raw materials, to prepare the adsorbent with internal rules, hierarchical pores and high selectivity. It can be used for deep purification of chromium solution, such as iron, aluminum, vanadium and other impurities in the solution; After the deep purification of chromium solution, then adjusting the pH, adding appropriate hydrating agent, by hydrothermal precipitation treatment of chrome, filtration, acid washing and calcination to obtain chromium oxide crystal. It achieves the purification of chromium, iron, aluminum and chromium. The recycling and comprehensive utilization of waste resources are also realized. The process is simple, the iron, aluminum, vanadium and other impurities are in the selective adsorption. Chromium solution after deep purification can be processed for high purity chromium products to provide technical support.
US11071965B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a flow reactor that can ensure safety even if leakage occurs at the connections of the lines. The flow reactor of the present invention is characterized by including one or more line structures, each of the line structures including a raw material feeding line, a reactor unit to react a raw material fed from the raw material feeding line, and a discharge line to discharge a reaction product produced in the reactor unit, wherein the flow reactor includes a vessel in which part or all of the reactor unit and a fluid are accommodated to be capable of being in contact with each other, wherein each of the line structures includes two or more attachable and detachable connections, and wherein at least one of the attachable and detachable connections is accommodated in the vessel.
US11071952B2
A rotatable filtration apparatus includes a partially submergible, rotatable filter in a shape of a torus having a central axis of rotation, the filter comprising an upper half and a lower half, with the lower half comprising a permeable membrane, the permeable membrane comprising at least one pore configured to pass a filtrate while excluding solids, a rotation motor configured to rotate the filter about the central axis of rotation, an anchor configured to anchor the rotatable filter in a body of liquid, and a pump to extract the filtrate from the filtrate chamber into a filtrate line.
US11071947B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method of regenerating at least one filter medium comprising: providing at least one filter medium, wherein the at least one filter medium comprises: at least one catalyst material; and ammonium bisulfate (ABS) deposits, ammonium sulfate (AS) deposits, or any combination thereof; flowing a flue gas stream transverse to a cross-section of a filter medium, such that the flue gas stream passes through the cross section of the at least one filter medium, wherein the flue gas stream comprises: NOx compounds comprising: Nitric Oxide (NO), and Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2); and increasing an NOx removal efficiency of the at least one filter medium after removal of deposits.
US11071946B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing a nano-catalyst filter, which includes depositing through electrodeposition a catalyst precursor inside a porous filter to which an electrode layer is attached. Using this method, a nano-catalyst can be uniformly deposited inside a porous ceramic filter, and high catalyst efficiency can be obtained only using a small amount of the nano-catalyst.
US11071935B2
Systems and methods for particle leak detection generally include a separation or collection device configured to filter particulate from a stream and a detection device downstream of the separation or collection device. The detection device can be positioned to detect particulate that passes the separation or collection device and can include a probe configured to detect the solid particles. The particle leak detection systems can be configured to be disposed on moveable systems, such as moveable systems in coke oven operations.
US11071927B2
A method of separating free target analyte from protein-bound target analyte is described. Such can include obtaining an aqueous sample containing a target analyte in a free form (free target analyte) and the target analyte in a protein-bound form (protein-bound target analyte), passing the aqueous sample through a size exclusion chromatography matrix with a molecular weight cut off sufficient to allow the free target analyte to permeate into pores of the size exclusion chromatography matrix and exclude the protein-bound target analyte, whereupon the free target analyte adheres to and is immobilized by the size exclusion chromatography matrix and the protein-bound target analyte does not adhere to by the size exclusion chromatography matrix, separating the free target analyte from the protein-bound analyte by removing the protein-bound target analyte from the size exclusion chromatography matrix, and eluting the free target analyte from the size exclusion chromatography matrix with an organic solvent.
US11071923B2
The present application relates to a device for displaying a panel having an outer structure having a display opening; an inner member rotatably mounted within the outer structure; and a plurality of panels rotatably mounted to the inner member, each of the plurality of panels including a first side and an opposite second side. The inner member is rotatable about a first axis with respect to the outer structure to move one of the plurality of panels into registry with the display opening; and each of the plurality of panels is rotatable about a second axis with respect to the inner member to display the first side or the second side through the display opening in the outer structure.
US11071919B2
A game spectating system that leverages game metadata to allow spectators to join or “step into” games being broadcast. Broadcast content may include user interface elements via which spectators can order, purchase, or otherwise obtain demo or full versions of games. Game client software and game data may be obtained and downloaded to the spectator's devices via the spectating system interfaces and broadcast streams. Spectators can order, purchase, or otherwise obtain characters, avatars, and gear for participation in particular games. Using the spectating UI to obtain the game client software, game data, characters, and gear via the broadcast streams, the spectators may join live game sessions of online games, start new game sessions, and/or replay previously recorded game sessions.
US11071911B2
An example of an information processing apparatus repeatedly acquires input positions detected by a pointing device, each position corresponding to a position on a display screen. The information processing apparatus executes a predetermined first process on an object in a virtual game space, at least on a condition that an input position detected when an input to the pointing device is started is within a predetermined area. The information processing apparatus sets a reference position, based on an input position regarding an input to the pointing device. The information processing apparatus executes a movement process for causing the object to move, based on the reference position and on the input position of the input which is continuously performed from start of the input to the pointing device.
US11071909B2
A system and method optimizes game quality by matching players for an online game to one of several virtual games. This matching process may involve filtering the players who wish to play according to various constraint minimizing criteria, packing the players into one or more virtual games to optimize game quality factors of the virtual games, and then instantiating the virtual games to actual online games played by the players. The game packing process may be iterative and may involve adding a new player into a virtual game. Game quality factor (GQF) values prior to and after the placement of the new player in the virtual game may be compared. The comparison of the GQF values may be used, at least in part to determine whether the new player is to remain in the virtual game. Various criteria may be considered in instantiating a virtual game.
US11071905B1
A system, method and apparatus for capturing data from a plurality of users for providing online gameplay based on captured user sensor data. User sensor data is captured from a plurality of sensor capture devices relative to an associated user so as to be transmitted to a gameplay server. The gameplay server executes instructions to generate a user interface on a user's client computing device for providing gameplay on each user client portable computing device utilizing, and pertinent to, the captured sensor data.
US11071902B2
Method and electronic device for identifying golf swings and tracking statistics during a golf round
A system and method for automatically identifying a golf swing without any active participation on the part of the golfer is disclosed. The application program stored on and operating from an electronic device system uses data from a gyroscope and accelerometer to identify the golf swing. The system also automatically keeps statistics about the golfer's round of golf based on the GPS location of the identified swings.
US11071897B2
A method and system for testing and improving a user's visual tracking skills and reaction time to a moving object includes simulating motion of an object by individually illuminating LEDs in longitudinal sequence along individually selectable paths having different positional approaches toward a target. A user activates a switch or interrupts a beam with the intent of terminating the sequence in time coincidence with illumination of a designated LED proximate the target. A microprocessor detects the time difference between illumination of the designated LED and termination of the sequence by the user as measure of the user's visual tracking and reaction time. In one embodiment the user is a baseball batter, the target is a home plate and the selectable paths are simulations of straight and breaking pitches.
US11071887B2
An automated system provides for tracking and evaluation performance of an athlete. An athlete is tracked during performance of a movement, and position data of the performance is applied to an artificial neural network (ANN) trained via a reference data set representing recorded movements. Using the ANN, rank data for the performance is be determined, where the rank data indicates a relationship between the performance of the movement and a subset of the plurality of recorded movements. Based on the rank data, the athlete can be presented with an evaluation of the performance, instructions for subsequent movements and suggestions for improving the athlete's performance.
US11071882B2
A breathing equipment training device and a method for breathing training using a breathing equipment training device. The breathing equipment training device includes a shell and a diaphragm. The shell includes a first opening and a second opening, the first opening configured to be inserted into a breathing opening in a mask to form a connection with the breathing opening of the mask, and the second opening configured to be exposed to ambient air. The diaphragm is positioned in an inner cavity of the shell about the second opening, and configured to impede airflow into the shell through the second opening.
US11071880B2
A self-contained breathing apparatus for providing breathable air in emergency situations is disclosed. The breathing apparatus comprises a cylinder containing a supply of breathable air therein; a manifold adapted to be removably coupled to the cylinder; a release valve provided internally within the cylinder such that the release valve, when depressed, causes the cylinder to release the breathable air into the manifold; a lever arranged on the manifold and coupled with the release valve such that pressing of the lever causes depression of the release valve; a safety pin arranged with the manifold such that the safety pin, in a preset position, prevents pressing of the lever, wherein the safety pin needs to be moved from the preset position to allow pressing of the lever; and a mouthpiece disposed in fluid communication with the manifold to receive the breathable air therefrom.
US11071872B2
An implantable system includes a first leadless pacemaker (LP1) implanted in or on a first chamber of a heart and a second leadless pacemaker (LP2) implanted in or on a second chamber of the heart. The LP1 is configured to time delivery of one or more pacing pulses delivered to the first chamber of the heart based on timing of cardiac activity associated with the second chamber of the heart detected by the LP1 itself. The LP1 is also configured to transmit implant-to-implant (i2i) messages to the LP2. The LP2 is configured to time delivery of one or more pacing pulses delivered to the second chamber of the heart based on timing of cardiac activity associated with the second chamber of the heart as determined based on one or more i2i messages received by the LP2 from the LP1.
US11071868B2
A neurostimulation system includes a programming control circuit and a user interface. The programming control circuit may be configured to generate a plurality of stimulation parameters controlling delivery of neurostimulation pulses according to one or more neurostimulation programs each specifying a pattern of the neurostimulation pulses. The user interface includes a display screen, a user input device, and a neurostimulation program circuit. The neurostimulation program circuit may be configured to allow for construction of one or more pulse trains (PTs) and one or more train groupings (TGs) of the one or more neurostimulation programs, and to allow for scheduling of delivery of the one or more neurostimulation programs, using the display screen and the user input device. Each PT includes one or more pulse blocks each including a plurality of pulses of the neurostimulation pulses. Each TG includes one or more PTs.
US11071861B2
Prophylactic stimulation and abortive electrical stimulation are delivered to a cranial nerve, including, e.g. an occipital or trigeminal nerve to treat symptoms of various conditions, including, e.g. occipital neuralgia or migraines.
US11071857B2
Wireless treatment of arrhythmias. At least some of the example embodiments are methods including: charging a capacitor of a first microchip device abutting heart tissue, the charging by harvesting ambient energy; charging a capacitor of a second microchip device abutting the heart tissue, the charging of the capacitor of the second microchip device by harvesting ambient energy; sending a command wirelessly from a communication device outside the rib cage to the microchip devices; applying electrical energy to the heart tissue by the first microchip device responsive to the command, the electrical energy applied from the capacitor of the first microchip device; and applying electrical energy to the heart tissue by the second microchip device responsive to the command to the second microchip device, the electrical energy applied from the capacitor of the second microchip device.
US11071837B2
A dose release firing system (101) for use in a medicinal inhaler (100). The firing system can include a plunger (103), and a stored energy device (109) configured to drive the plunger from a first position to a second position. The firing system can further include a guideway (121) and a projection (114) dimensioned to be received in the guideway, the guideway or the projection being fixedly coupled to the plunger. At least a portion of the guideway can have a helical shape, including a first portion with a first helix angle, and a second portion with a second helix angle, the second helix angle being less than the first helix angle. The projection and the guideway can be movable with respect to one another to cause the projection to be cammed along the guideway when the stored energy device drives the plunger to move from the first position to the second position.
US11071835B2
Described herein is a dry powder inhaler which includes: a reservoir containing a dry powder formulation and an arrangement for delivering a metered dose of the medicament from the reservoir; a cyclone deagglomerator for breaking up agglomerates of the dry powder medicament; a delivery passageway for directing an inhalation-induced air flow through a mouthpiece, the delivery passageway extending to the metered dose of medicament, and an inhalable β2-agonist having a particle size distribution of d10<1 μm, d50=1-3 μm, d90=3.5-6 μm and NLT 99% 10 μm and a lactose carrier.
US11071830B2
A high-slidability syringe has high safety and sealability over a long period of time. The syringe includes a gasket having a lower sliding resistance to a syringe barrel. The syringe includes: a syringe barrel; a gasket adapted to be press-fitted in the syringe barrel and used in a sliding manner in the syringe barrel; and a piston rod with the gasket attached to a front end thereof. The gasket includes: a gasket main body that is formed of a rigid plastic having resistance to a drug solution to be loaded into the syringe barrel and has a recessed groove formed in a sliding contact surface thereof adapted to slidably contact an inner circumferential surface of the syringe barrel; and a sliding contact ring that is fitted in the recessed groove.
US11071827B2
A syringe includes a barrel and a rotatable element on the barrel; for example at a proximal location along the length of the barrel. The rotatable element rotates at least partially around the barrel. When a handle is associated with the rotatable element, the barrel may rotate as the handle his held substantially stationary or the handle may be rotated while the barrel and any peripheral device secured thereto remain substantially stationary. When handles are associated with a rotatable element that may be removed from a barrel, a barrel that is disassembled from the rotatable element may be replaced with another barrel of the same or a different configuration. Methods of using a syringe with a rotatable element on a barrel thereof are also disclosed.
US11071824B2
Devices and methods are provided for delivering an agent into a patient's body using an injection device that includes a drive module and an injector module coupled to the drive module. The drive module includes a canister and puncture mechanism in a first chamber, a plunger in a second chamber communicating with the first chamber, and an actuator that moves the puncture mechanism to cause a puncture pin thereon to penetrate a septum of the canister and cause the gas within the canister to flow through the first chamber around the canister, and into the second chamber. The injector module includes a piston slidably disposed within an agent chamber and coupled to the distal end of the plunger such that, when the plunger moves from a retracted position to an extended position, the piston is advanced within the agent chamber to deliver an agent therein into a patient's body.
US11071819B2
Disclosed is a valve drive unit that has first and second SMA wires that can be alternatively activated. The valve drive unit further includes a pivoting member pivotably arranged around a pivoting member axis, the pivoting member including a valve driver arranged at a distance from the pivoting member axis. The first and second SMA wires are coupled to the pivoting member such that an activation of the first SMA wire causes the pivoting member to pivot into a first direction and an activation of the second SMA wire causes the pivoting member to pivot into a second direction, the second direction being opposite to the first direction. The valve driver is configured to releasably engage a valve driver coupler of a valve unit, such that, in the engaged state, a pivoting of the pivoting member is transmitted to the valve driver coupler via the valve driver.
US11071801B2
A multilayer medical packaging film includes a first layer and a chlorine dioxide-producing layer. The chlorine dioxide-producing layer includes a polymer composition and a plurality of chlorite ions. The chlorine dioxide-producing layer is substantially free of an energy-activated catalyst and is substantially free of an acid-releasing compound. However, the film is capable of generating chlorine dioxide when exposed to UV light and moisture.
US11071796B2
A sterilization cabinet, comprising a top panel, at least two side panels, and a floor panel forming a part of a chamber of the sterilization cabinet; at least one door connected to at least one of the at least two side panels of the sterilization cabinet; a vent formed in at least one of the two side panels; at least one first filter covering the vent and a filter cover configured to hold the first filter against the vent; a drain positioned in the floor panel, wherein the floor panel has a slope configured to cause condensate within the chamber to flow into the drain and wherein the drain is the only outlet for the condensate along the floor panel; and a second filter covering the drain such that condensate flowing into the drain passes through the second filter.
US11071791B2
An expression cassette for gene silencing and replacement, including, in operable communication, a promoter, an expression attenuator, a nucleotide sequence encoding a gene for a replacement target protein, and an shRNA sequence for knockdown of an endogenous variant of the target protein, wherein the promoter, the expression attenuator, the nucleotide sequence encoding the gene for the replacement target protein, and the shRNA are expressed as a single transcript. Also included are expression vectors and cells. Also included are methods of silencing and replacement of a target gene in a cell in culture by transforming the cells with the expression vectors described herein. Also included are minimal expression cassettes suitable for therapeutic methods.
US11071790B2
Compositions are described for direct protein delivery into multiple cell types in the mammalian inner ear. The compositions are used to deliver protein(s) (such as gene editing factors) editing of genetic mutations associated with deafness or associated disorders thereof. The delivery of genome editing proteins for gene editing and correction of genetic mutations protect or restore hearing from genetic deafness. Methods of treatment include the intracellular delivery of these molecules to a specific therapeutic target.
US11071785B2
The present invention relates to an albumin-free liquid formulation comprising a long-lasting oxyntomodulin conjugate in which an oxyntomodulin peptide comprising a derivative, variant, precursor or fragment of oxyntomodulin is linked to an immunoglobulin Fc region, which can increase the duration of physiological activity of the long-lasting oxyntomodulin conjugate and maintain the in vivo stability thereof for an extended period of time, as compared to native oxyntomodulin, as well as a method for preparing the liquid formulation. The liquid formulation comprises a buffer, a sugar alcohol and a nonionic surfactant and does not contain a human serum albumin and factors that are potentially harmful to the human body, and thus is not susceptible to viral infection. In addition, the oxyntomodulin conjugate of the invention comprises oxyntomodulin linked to an immunoglobulin Fc region, and thus has a large molecular weight, prolonged physiological activity, and excellent storage stability, compared to native oxyntomodulin.
US11071784B2
The present invention relates to a cationic lipid having one or more biodegradable groups located in a lipidic moiety (e.g., a hydrophobic chain) of the cationic lipid. These cationic lipids may be incorporated into a lipid particle for delivering an active agent, such as a nucleic acid. The invention also relates to lipid particles comprising a neutral lipid, a lipid capable of reducing aggregation, a cationic lipid of the present invention, and optionally, a sterol. The lipid particle may further include a therapeutic agent such as a nucleic acid.
US11071783B2
The invention is directed to HIV-1 neutralizing antibodies and methods for their uses.
US11071777B2
Pre-conditioning a vaccine site with a potent recall antigen such as tetanus/diphtheria (Td) toxoid can significantly improve the lymph node homing and efficacy of tumor antigen-specific DC vaccines. Patients given Td had enhanced DC migration bilaterally and significantly improved survival. In mice, Td pre-conditioning also enhanced bilateral DC migration and suppressed tumor growth in a manner dependent on the chemokines CCL3 and CCL21 and Td-activated CD4+ T cells. Interference with any component of this axis markedly reduced Td-mediated DC migration and antitumor responses. Our clinical studies and corroborating investigations in mice suggest that pre-conditioning with a potent recall antigen represents a viable strategy to increase DC homing to lymph nodes and improve antitumor immunotherapy.
US11071767B2
The present invention provides dietary compositions comprising mulberry extract, coffee extract, bean extract, optionally, dietary fibers, and a nutraceutically acceptable carrier. The present invention further provides methods for preventing the increase in postprandial hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia, hyperinsulinemia and diseases and disorders associated therewith, including, endothelial dysfunction, inflammatory conditions, oxidative stress, hyperlipidemia, and consecutive pathologies like insulin resistance, diabetes, visceral obesity, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases.
US11071764B2
The invention discloses synergistic compositions comprising at least one component selected from extract(s) and fraction(s) or mixtures thereof derived from Sphaeranthus indicus in combination with at least one component selected from extract(s), fraction(s), active compound(s) or mixtures thereof derived from Terminalia chebula for improving the liver health. The invention further discloses method of improving the liver health in humans and animals by administering the compositions comprising at least one component selected from extract(s) and fraction(s) or mixtures thereof derived from Sphaeranthus indicus in combination with at least one component selected from extract(s), fraction(s), active compound(s) or mixtures thereof derived from Terminalia chebula.
US11071761B2
A process and apparatus for extracting cannabinoids from cannabis plant material plant material and for transporting low concentrations of cannabinoids in a solution of solvent may include a solvent tank, a hopper, and one or more pumps. A plurality of valves may also be incorporated into the invention. Plant material may be soaked, washed, and/or rinsed with a solvent that extracts essential elements from cannabis plant matter. The process may minimally include filling a hopper with plant mater, moving solvent from a solvent tank to the hopper, and moving solvent back to the solvent tank after an extraction. Repeating this process a plurality of times with new plant material increases the concentration cannabinoids in the solvent tank after each time the process is performed.
US11071757B2
A pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating inflammatory disease comprising snake venom is disclosed. More specifically, the pharmaceutical composition or quasi-drug includes venom of Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus or Naja melanoleuca as an active ingredient. A method for preventing or treating inflammatory disease includes administering the venom of Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus or Naja melanoleuca to a subject. The composition can increase the expression of C-C chemokine receptor type 1 (CCR1) in a mouse where skin ulcer is induced and thus has an excellent effect of treating skin ulcers, and thus can be effectively used for the treatment of skin ulcers, in particular Behcet's disease or Buerger's disease.
US11071748B2
When using a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating malignant hyperthermia, containing NAADP antagonists, of the present invention, malignant hyperthermia can be effectively prevented or treated through the inhibition of an oxygen consumption rate abnormal increase, which is associated with a ryanodine receptor (RYR) of skeletal muscles. In addition, the present invention can be used even after the onset of malignant hyperthermia and can inhibit an oxygen consumption rate abnormal increase even at concentrations lower than those of conventional agents for treating malignant hyperthermia, thereby enabling conventional agents for treating malignant hyperthermia to be replaced, and can be stably used, thereby being effectively usable in relevant industries. Furthermore, when using a skin regenerating composition, containing cADPR or NAADP antagonists, of the present invention, the skin can be protected from skin cell damage caused by UV-B of ultraviolet rays, and the skin regenerating composition has an excellent ability to recover and regenerate damaged skin and has no side effects on the same, thereby being usable in various forms such as a skin external preparation, a pharmaceutical composition, a cosmetic composition, and a food composition.
US11071741B2
Disclosed herein are formulations of pirfenidone or pyridone analog compounds for aerosolization and use of such formulations for aerosol administration of pirfenidone or pyridone analog compounds for the prevention or treatment of various fibrotic and inflammatory diseases, including disease associated with the lung, heart, kidney, liver, eye and central nervous system. In some embodiments, pirfenidone or pyridone analog compound formulations and delivery options described herein allow for efficacious local delivery of pirfenidone or pyridone analog compound. Compositions include all formulations, kits, and device combinations described herein. Methods include inhalation procedures, indications and manufacturing processes for production and use of the compositions described.
US11071724B2
Compositions for treating presbyopia may include active pharmaceutical ingredients of pilocarpine HCl, phenylephrine HCl, pheniramine maleate, and ketorolac tromethamine. Other ingredients may include boric acid, polyethylene glycol, propylene glycol, and BAK (benzalkonium chloride). The pilocarpine HCl may be in a range of 0.1% to 2%. The phenylephrine HCl may be in a range of 0.1% to 1.5%. The pheniramine maleate may be in a range of 0.07% to 0.35%. The ketorolac tromethamine may be in a range of 0.01% to 0.6%. The boric acid may be in a range of 0.5% to 1.5%. The polyethylene glycol may be in a range of 0.1% to 1%. The propylene glycol may be in a range of 0.1% to 1%. The BAK may be in a range of 0.005% to 0.01%. The solvent may be mostly water.
US11071722B2
The invention relates to methods for treating symptoms of PMS and PMDD including muscle ache, bloating, cramping, acne, tender breasts, bloating, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, diminished impulse control, irritability, anxiety, tension, anger, depression, insomnia and/or rapid fluctuations in mood (mood swings). The method comprises administration of a pharmaceutical composition comprising oxaloacetate, oxaloacetate salts, oxaloacetic acid and/or anhydrous enol-oxaloacetate.
US11071718B2
Provided are methods of treating a neurological or psychiatric disorder in a subject in need thereof, comprising: administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of ketamine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in combination with an amount of one or more compounds effective to increase the level of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) in the subject.
US11071711B2
Skin care compositions are provided which contain Thermus thermophilus ferment and silybin and provide anti-aging and reparative effect for skin. The compositions may also include one or more additional substances selected from carnosine, adenosine and CG-EDP3. The substances are dispersed in an aqueous carrier, such as water, to be applied to the skin in a spreadable form.
US11071706B2
The present invention relates to a cosmetic or pharmaceutical composition containing a cell culture medium and, as an active ingredient, albumin, hyaluronic acid or collagen. The composition according to the present invention can be useful as a cosmetic or pharmaceutical composition for alleviating, preventing or treating skin wounds, skin diseases or skin conditions, by increasing the recovery capability of cells.
US11071694B2
Individually packaged topical formulations comprising about 0.25 to about 6% w/w of glycopyrrolate for the treatment of hyperhidrosis, wherein said wipe is contained within a pouch resistant to leakage. The formulations may further comprise ethanol, a buffering agent and water. In addition, the formulations may further comprise a polymer system comprising a hydrophobic polymer in combination with a hydrophilic polymer.
US11071693B2
The present invention relates to an aqueous dental glass ionomer composition for use in the treatment of cavitated carious lesions, which composition comprises a water-soluble, polymerizable polymer comprising acidic groups, which is reactive with the particulate glass in a cement reaction, whereby the polymerizable polymer has a polymer backbone and pendant groups having one or more polymerizable carbon-carbon double bonds. The dental glass ionomer composition is used as a permanent direct restoration.
US11071691B1
A liquid medication storage, dispensing and tracking apparatus is provided having an octagonal housing forming seven separable individual containment compartments. Each compartment is adapted to be filled with a liquid medication dosage for subsequent dispensing. An eighth reminder compartment us provided having a form factor similar in shape and including a visual reminder indicia adapted to provide a reminder to refill liquid medication doses. The seven containment compartments and one reminder compartment are removably connected to allow for cleaning and refilling/reuse. The labeled liquid medication dispenser pre-measures dosages, tracks the status of a medication regime and serves as a reminder as to the date and time of a next dose. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.
US11071685B2
A system for assisting a rescuer in performing cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a patient includes: a proximity sensor configured to be positioned at a location corresponding to a location of a rescuer's hand when delivering compressions to a patient's chest, the proximity sensor configured to produce a signal indicative of the rescuer's hands being released from the patient's chest; a medical device operatively coupled with the proximity sensor and configured to provide resuscitative treatment to the patient; and a controller communicatively coupled with the medical device and the proximity sensor. The controller is configured to: determine, based upon the signal from the proximity sensor, if the rescuer's hands have been released from the patient's chest, and trigger an action by the medical device in response to a determination that the rescuer's hands have been released from the patient's chest.
US11071677B1
A bodyweight unloading locomotive device includes a frame mounted on wheels for locomotive movement. The frame has opposed left and right sides and a harness for supporting a user between the left and right sides. An unloading assembly is carried on each of the left and right sides, wherein the unloading assemblies each includes a sprung arm having a fixed end fixed to the respective left and right side, and an opposed free end. The assemblies further each include a cam assembly mounted on the free end of the sprung arm and a tether routed through the cam assembly and extending to the harness. Each of the unloading assemblies exerts an independent unloading force on the harness with respect to the frame.
US11071676B2
The disclosure demonstrates a collapsible wheeled walker having two side frames supported above a walking surface with attached wheel assemblies. The side frames are interconnected by an X-folder apparatus. The X-folder apparatus has first and second elongate elements rotatably coupled to each other with the bottom ends of the elements rotatably attached to the bottoms of the side frames, and the top ends of the elements having perpendicular support elements that in the deployed open position, engage support brackets formed on the inner sides of the side frames. The support brackets have protrusions extending from bracket support surfaces to engage complementary apertures formed in the perpendicular support elements to provide stability to the wheeled walker.
US11071672B2
A method and wearable system and for enhancing human balance and gait and preventing foot injury through neurological stimulation of the foot and the ankle. Subthreshold stimulation for neurosensory enhancement is provided via electrodes or vibrational actuators, or combination thereof, disposed in or on a wearable a platform, such as an insole, sock shoe, removable shoe insert, or applied without the support of a platform, to the skin surface of an individual. Suprathreshold stimulation for therapeutic purposes, such as improving blood flow, is also provided by the vibrational actuators. The actuators and electrodes are driven by bias signals generated by a bias signal generator that is coupled to a controller. The signal generator under the control of the controller is adapted to generate a non-deterministic random signal, a repetitive pattern or series of patterns. The controller optionally includes a communication port for interfacing with an external computer for purposes of optimizing and programming the controller. The wearable system is powered by a power source.
US11071660B1
Disclosed is an emergency medical mat for safe movement in case of disaster, which has an improved structure that a side reinforcement belt and a floor reinforcement belt are arranged to be overlapped and fixed by backstitch parts so that a bottom surface of the mat is supported by the floor reinforcement belt when persons hold handle parts and lift up the medical mat to carry the mat and the structure prevents deformation of a middle area of the mat to which a deflection load is applied by a patient's weight, thereby preventing a secondary accident of a patient with a serious case during a disaster evacuation. The emergency medical mat for safe movement in case of disaster includes floor reinforcement belts, safe evacuation belts, and a side reinforcement belt.
US11071651B2
A combination hanger arm extension and pump cover device can be used with an instillation unit. The device includes a body portion that has a first end and a second end. A hook extends from the first end, and a tab extends from the body proximate the hook. A panel is disposed proximate the second end. A substantially rectangular sleeve extends at least partially through the body. The sleeve is disposed between the first and second end.
US11071647B2
An imaging probe comprises a camera or endoscope with an external detector array, in which the probe is sized and shaped for surgical placement in an eye to image the eye from an interior of the eye during treatment. The imaging probe and a treatment probe 500 can be coupled together with a fastener or contained within a housing. The imaging probe and the treatment probe 500 can be sized and shaped to enter the eye through an incision in the cornea and image one or more of the ciliary body band or the scleral spur. The treatment probe 500 may comprise a treatment optical fiber or a surgical placement device to deliver an implant. A processor coupled to the detector can be configured with instructions to identify a location of one or more of the ciliary body band, the scleral spur, Schwalbe's line, or Schlemm's canal from the image.
US11071629B2
An interbody spacer for the spine is provided. The interbody spacer includes a cage and bone screws configured to anchor the cage between two vertebrae of the spine. The cage includes a screw plate configured to mate with the cage in a front-loading fashion. The screw plate is interchangeable with another screw plate configured to receive a different number of bone screws. For example, one screw plate adapted for three bone screws is interchangeable with another screw plate adapted for four bone screws and removably connected to the same cage. The screw plate is connectable intraoperatively or pre-assembled. Each screw plate is also provided with an anti-backout mechanism to retain the bone screws and prevent the bone screws from backing out with respect to the screw plate. The anti-backout mechanism includes a cover plate, locking screw or retaining ring.
US11071624B2
An artificial heart valve stent including: a tubular stent body having an inflow side end and an outflow side end, the inflow side end and the outflow side end being opposite to each other; an inflow side skirt surrounding the external wall of the stent body; and an outflow side skirt surrounding the external wall of the stent body. In a spread state, free ends of the inflow side skirt and the outflow side skirt extend toward the inflow side end; and the inflow side skirt cooperates with the outflow side skirt to clamp heart valve tissues. The artificial heart valve stent can be steadily arranged on heart valve tissues, prolong the service life of an artificial heart valve and reduce the risk of another artificial heart valve replacement for the patient.
US11071622B2
Intraocular lens loading devices and methods of use. In some embodiment the devices are used to sequentially splay first and second haptics while loading the intraocular lens into a delivery lumen.
US11071619B2
An artificial sphincter and method closing the artificial sphincter includes a plurality of bodies, a plurality of links, a coupling body, and a coupling assembly. The plurality of bodies each have respective magnets and are arranged from a first terminal body to a second terminal body. The plurality of links respectively resiliently extend and connect between the plurality of bodies. The coupling body has a first end segment and a second end segment respectively connected to a first terminal link and a second terminal link respectively extending from the first and second end segments. The coupling assembly has a clasp configured to close to form a closed loop and a coupling guide configured to be manipulated to thereby orient portions of the clasp to a predetermined orientation for connection in the connected state.
US11071612B1
This document discloses a coupling member for mounting a toothbrush head to an electric toothbrush. The coupling member includes a base having a first end with an opening for receiving a drive shaft of an electric toothbrush. The coupling member also includes a coupling section that extends from a second end of the base. The coupling section comprises a cylindrical sidewall that surrounds a cavity for receiving the drive shaft, and a set of teeth that extend into the cavity from the cylindrical sidewall along a longitudinal axis of the coupling section. This document also discloses a brush head incorporating such a coupling member, and an electric toothbrush to which such a brush head is attached.
US11071593B2
Methods and systems for providing feedback during a medical procedure. The 3D position and orientation of a tracked tool are determined, relative to a site of the medical procedure, based on tracking information received from a tracking system. The 3D position and orientation are mapped to a common coordinate space, to determine the 3D position and orientation relative to a field-of-view (FOV) of an optical camera that is capturing an optical image of the site. Navigational information associated with the 3D position and orientation is determined. A virtual representation of the navigational information overlaid on the FOV and displayed. The displayed virtual representation is updated when the 3D position and orientation of the tracked tool changes or when the FOV changes, in accordance with the change.
US11071591B2
A method of modeling lungs of a patient includes acquiring computed tomography data of a patient's lungs, storing a software application within a memory associated with a computer, the computer having a processor configured to execute the software application, executing the software application to differentiate tissue located within the patient's lung using the acquired CT data, generate a 3-D model of the patient's lungs based on the acquired CT data and the differentiated tissue, apply a material property to each tissue of the differentiated tissue within the generated 3-D model, generate a mesh of the 3-D model of the patient's lungs, calculate a displacement of the patient's lungs in a collapsed state based on the material property applied to the differentiated tissue and the generated mesh of the generated 3-D model, and display a collapsed lung model of the patient's lungs based on the calculated displacement of the patient's lungs.
US11071586B2
A reservoir for supplying a cooling fluid to a medical ablation probe includes a wall defining a chamber therein, an outlet fluid port and an inlet fluid port each in fluid communication with the chamber, cooling fluid disposed within the chamber, and a thermochromic material thermally coupled to the cooling fluid. The thermochromic material is configured to exhibit a first color when the cooling fluid is below a threshold temperature, and a second color when the cooling fluid is above the threshold temperature.
US11071584B2
The instant disclosure relates to electrophysiology catheters for tissue ablation within a cardiac muscle. In particular, the instant disclosure relates to an electrophysiology catheter that conforms to a shape of a pulmonary vein receiving ablation therapy for a cardiac arrhythmia and produces a consistent tissue ablation line along a length and circumference of the pulmonary venous tissue.
