US11086721B2
Resolving software patch issues is provided. Recorded activities performed by users to resolve an issue with a patch applied to an application on a group of client devices are compared. A set of common user activities are identified within the recorded activities performed by the users. A subset of highest ranking common user activities is selected from the set of common user activities. A fix for the issue with the patch is generated based on the subset of highest ranking common user activities. Corrective action based on the fix is taken to resolve the issue with the patch on a client device, the client device experiencing the issue resolved by users on the group of client devices.
US11086708B2
Approaches presented herein enable automated cognitive problem management in a systems environment. A first problem component is identified from a problem ticket. In response to the problem ticket, a logical relationship between the problem component and other related components is generated. While applying an automated fix to the problem component, its related components are measured for any deviation. If a deviation exists, a second problem component is identified and a causality relationship among the first and second components is established. An automated fix is applied to the second problem component and then to the first problem component based on the causality relationship. The causality relationship and order of applying the component fixes is stored for resolving future similar problem tickets.
US11086705B2
A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: performing a first read of one or more pages in a first page region of a first block. In response to determining that the highest RBER experienced during the first read is not in a first predetermined range, a first calibration procedure is performed on the one or more pages. A second read of the one or more pages is performed. In response to determining that the highest RBER experienced during the second read is not in a second predetermined range, a second calibration procedure on the one or more pages is performed, and a third read of the one or more pages is performed. In response to determining that the highest RBER experienced during the third read is not in the second predetermined range, a reliability counter which corresponds to the first page region of the first block is incremented.
US11086703B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to distributed input/output (I/O) virtualization. A number of embodiments include an apparatus comprising a host computing device, a distributed virtualization controller (DVC) disposed on the host computing device, and a virtualized input/output (I/O) device in communication with the DVC.
US11086700B2
A simplified mechanism to deploy and control a multi-segmented application by using application-based manifests that express how application segments of the multi-segment application are to be defined or modified, and how the communication profiles between these segments. These manifests are application specific. Also, in some cases, deployment managers in a software defined datacenter (SDDC) provide these manifests as templates to administrators, who can use these templates to express their intent when they are deploying multi-segment applications in the datacenter. Application-based manifests can also be used to control previously deployed multi-segmented applications in the SDDC. Using such manifests would enable the administrators to be able to manage fine grained micro-segmentation rules based on endpoint and network attributes.
US11086693B2
The system, method, and computer program product described herein provide ways to modify a user interface when a performance of the user interface degrades due to lack of resources including presenting the user interface to a user that includes a first element that requires an allocation of a first amount of resources of a server to perform a function, determining that a performance of the user interface has degraded below a threshold amount, in response to determining that the performance has degraded, identifying a second element that requires an allocation of a second amount of resources of the server to perform the function where the second amount of resources is smaller than the first amount of resources, and replacing the first element with the second element to reduce the required amount of resources that are allocated by the server to the user interface.
US11086683B2
Workload redistribution is provided. Upper and lower thresholds of resource utilization by worker nodes in a worker node group are defined. Hot and cold regions are determined in the worker node group to provide policy-based rescheduling of the worker nodes and redistribution of workload on the worker nodes based on the upper and lower thresholds of resource utilization. Resource utilization data corresponding to the worker nodes in the worker node group are collected at defined time intervals. It is determined whether an average resource utilization of any worker node in the worker node group is greater than the upper threshold of resource utilization based on the collected resource utilization data. In response to determining that the average resource utilization of any worker node in the worker node group is greater than the upper threshold, redistribution of the workload on the worker nodes is triggered.
US11086676B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for allocating computing resources. In one aspect, a method includes receiving intent data specifying one or more computing services to be hosted by a computing network, requested characteristics of computing resources for use in hosting the computing service, and a priority value for each requested characteristic. A budget constraint is identified for each computing service. Available resources data is identified that specifies a set of available computing resources. A resource allocation problem for allocating computing resources for the one or more computing resources is generated based on the intent data, each budget constraint, and the available resources data. At least a portion of the set of computing resources is allocated for the one or more computing services based on results of evaluating the resource allocation problem to meet a particular resource allocation objective.
US11086673B2
An electronic device may include a communication interface and a processor configured to receive scheduling information comprising a first task and a second task that are to be sequentially performed in a first electronic device from the first electronic device through the communication interface and monitor whether signals corresponding to each of the first task and the second task are received within a timeout time of each of the first task and the second task, which may be obtained based on the scheduling information, and the processor may further, based on receiving information on a third task after receiving first information corresponding to the first task from the first electronic device, renew a timeout time of the second task and monitor whether second information corresponding to the second task is received within the renewed timeout time.
US11086668B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an electronic device and a computer program product for processing a task. The method comprises: obtaining a first group of processing results generated from processing, by a first group of processing resources of a first device, a first group of sub-tasks in the task; performing a first AllReduce operation on the first group of processing results to obtain a first AllReduce result; obtaining a second AllReduce result from a second device, the second AllReduce result being obtained by performing a second AllReduce operation on a second group of processing results generated from processing, by a second group of processing resources of the second device, a second group of sub-tasks in the task; and performing a third AllReduce operation on the first AllReduce result and the second AllReduce result to obtain a processing result of the task.
US11086663B2
A method for preloading an application, a storage medium, and a terminal are provided. The method includes the following. An event of preloading an application is detected to be triggered. A target application to be preloaded is determined. An active window stack for preloading is created according to a predetermined rule, and an application interface of the target application is preloaded according to the active window stack for preloading, where the active window stack for preloading has boundary coordinates locating outside a coordinate range of a display screen.
US11086656B2
A method and system determining whether the deployment has been prepared for launch on cloud. The method including receiving, by a server computer, a set of associated image templates to a template repository. The method further including receiving, in the template repository by a processing device of the server computer, a compatible deployable template that is compatible with, and distinct from, the set of associated image templates, wherein the compatible deployable template comprises information for launching the cloud server by starting the plurality of virtual machines from the plurality of virtual machine images together to create a cloud server. The method further including providing the compatible deployable.
US11086648B1
Methods and systems for provisioning computing resource instances among implementation resources based on trust to reduce interference between computing resource instances implemented by the same implementation resources. In an embodiment, a trust rating is determined for a computing resource instance based at least in part on one or more trust factors. The suitability of an implementation resource to implement the given computing resource instance may be evaluated based at least in part on the trust rating of the computing resource instance and a trust rating of the implementation resource. In some embodiments, the trust rating of the implementation resource may be predefined or based on trust ratings of computing resource instances that are currently implemented by the implementation resource. An implementation resource may be selected to implement the computing resource instance based at least in part on its suitability thus determined.
US11086645B1
In implementations of proficiency based tutorial modification, a computing device implements a tutorial system to receive a user modification of a digital image. A difference between the user modification and an application modification of the digital image is determined. The tutorial system generates a proficiency score for an editing tool based on the difference between the user modification and the application modification, and the proficiency score indicates the user's proficiency in using the editing tool. The tutorial system generates a pre-modified input image for a tutorial depicting a modification applied to an input image to be modified in the tutorial using the editing tool based on the proficiency score for the editing tool being greater than a proficiency threshold.
US11086644B1
Interface and mode selection for digital action execution is provided. For example, a system loads a script library embedded in an electronic resource. The system determines a historic level of engagement between a client computing device and one or more digital assistants. The system selects, based on a first property of the client computing device and the historic level of engagement, a type of digital interface. The system generates, based on the type of digital interface, a digital interface with the call-to-action. The system determines, responsive to an instruction to execute the call-to-action, a mode of execution. The system selects a digital assistant and a second client device to execute the call-to-action. The system transmits the call-to-action to the second client device for execution.
US11086639B2
The disclosure relates to a method for processing a user input in a vehicle, in which a suitable subset is selected based on a result of an evaluation of the user input from a superset of personal data records. For each data record of the subset, a frequency value is then determined corresponding to a respective frequency of use. The subset is output to the user adapted to the frequency values. In order to offer a particularly efficient operability, it is provided that the superset is retrieved from a mobile terminal and stored in a memory device of the vehicle before the subset is selected. For adapting the output to the user, the determined frequency values of the data records of the subset are checked for a predetermined selection criterion, at the fulfillment of which the data record with the highest frequency value is determined as a VIP data record and marked and/or preselected upon an output to the user.
US11086636B2
A data storage device waking up from a sleep mode rapidly is disclosed. The data storage device uses a controller to operate a non-volatile memory. The controller has a microprocessor and a volatile memory. The microprocessor loads boot code from the non-volatile memory to a not-always-on area of the volatile memory according to a script loaded on an always-on area of the volatile memory. The microprocessor executes the boot code loaded on the not-always-on area to load an in-system program from the non-volatile memory to the not-always-on area for execution of the in-system program. The script loaded on the always-on area is loaded from the non-volatile memory, and the non-volatile memory is searched to load the script to the always-on area in response to powering on a data storage device containing the non-volatile memory from a power-off state.
US11086634B2
The disclosure provides a data processing device and method. The data processing device may include: a task configuration information storage unit and a task queue configuration unit. The task configuration information storage unit is configured to store configuration information of tasks. The task queue configuration unit is configured to configure a task queue according to the configuration information stored in the task configuration information storage unit. According to the disclosure, a task queue may be configured according to the configuration information.
US11086630B1
A computer system includes a dispatch stage configured to dispatch a plurality of instructions in a program order, and an issue stage configured to issue at least one instruction among the plurality of instructions. The computer system further includes an execution stage configured to execute the at least one instruction to generate a finish report and to determine the at least one instruction is one of an exception-free instruction or an exception instruction. In response to determining the exception-free instruction, a first finish report associated with the exception-free instruction is output to a completion stage. In response to determining the exception instruction, a second finish report associated with the exception instruction is output to an exception unit so as to halt output of the second finish report to the completion stage.
US11086627B2
A system is provided that includes an instruction buffer that stores bytes representative of one or more macroinstructions and instruction length decoder circuitry. The instruction length decoder circuitry includes a non-sequential first multiplexer circuitry having first input lines receiving a first input data representative of a speculative length of a first macroinstruction of the macroinstructions, and first selector that selects from the first input lines via a one-hot selector vector. The instruction length decoder circuitry also includes a first output line communicatively coupled to second selector, wherein the first output line causes the selector to select from a second input data representative of a first location of a first ending byte for the first macroinstruction with respect to a value x. The first multiplexer circuitry and the second selector may output start and end byte locations for the macroinstructions.
US11086625B2
In an embodiment, a processor supports one or more compression assist instructions which may be employed in compression software to improve the performance of the processor when performing compression/decompression. That is, the compression/decompression task may be performed more rapidly and consume less power when the compression assist instructions are employed then when they are not. In some cases, the cost of a more effective, more complex compression algorithm may be reduced to the cost of a less effective, less complex compression algorithm.
US11086624B2
In a processor supporting execution of a plurality of functions of an instruction, an instruction blocking value is set for blocking one or more of the plurality of functions, such that an attempt to execute one of the blocked functions, will result in a program exception and the instruction will not execute, however the same instruction will be able to execute any of the functions that are not blocked functions.
US11086620B2
A system including one or more processors; and at least one memory storing computer code that, when executed by the one or more processors, is configured to cause the system to: receive data representative of first text indicative of a first draft coding script; query a database storing coding technique information corresponding to a plurality of coding techniques, the query comprising a first request including indications of a first coding technique classification of a first coding technique of the first draft coding script; receive, responsive to an identification of the first coding technique classification within the database, indications of one or more authors of corresponding coding techniques; generate a first recommendation comprising an identification of a first expert among the one or more authors; and dynamically display the first recommendation.
US11086616B2
A system for upgrading an application running on a virtual computing instance (VCI) can include a processing resource, a memory resource, and a VCI manager. The VCI manager can be executed by the processing resource and the memory resource and can be configured to cause a first VCI that is running the application to be copied as a second VCI, cause an updated version of the application to be installed on the second VCI, and cause a private network to be generated between the first VCI and the second VCI. The VCI manager can be further configured to cause data to be synchronized between the first VCI to the second VCI via the private network and cause the application running on the first VCI to be deactivated and cause the updated version of the application to be activated on the second VCI.
US11086610B2
Provided are instance upgrade techniques useful for upgrading the software of an instance, such as in a multi-instance architecture. The techniques relate to facilitating efficient upgrades to the software of an instance by pausing workflow automations associated with the instances at non-critical stages before the upgrade begins and resuming the workflow automations after the upgrade is complete. The techniques may also include validation workflows to facilitate the upgrade and restart process.
US11086605B1
A method includes receiving an application, where the application includes an extension and a metadata model. The method also includes instantiating the extension and firing an event. The method also includes upon detecting the event at the instantiated extension, creating metadata associated with the application, collecting the metadata associated with the application, and revising the metadata model based on the collected metadata.
US11086595B2
An electronic device includes a microphone; a display; a touch panel; and a controller. The controller is configured to start accepting, through the microphone, a specific voice command input. The controller is configured to start accepting voice input in response to a text input field being displayed on the display, wherein the accepting voice input includes converting voice inputted through the microphone into text, and inputting the converted text into the text input field. During the accepting voice input, when a predetermined word corresponding to a specific voice command is recognized, the controller is configured to determine whether voice is inputted through the microphone during two intervals of a predetermined duration before and after the predetermined word, respectively.
US11086589B2
Systems and methods for podcast playback in a system including a playback device and a mobile device as a system controller are disclosed. In one embodiment, a playback system comprising a first playback device and a mobile device, the mobile device comprising computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions executable to perform a method comprising capturing user input selecting an alarm function, capturing user input selecting a time for playing an alarm on the first playback device, capturing user input selecting a podcast channel, updating the graphical user interface to reflect the selected podcast channel, capturing user input specifying what order to play podcast episodes from the selected podcast channel, and starting playback of a first podcast episode on the first playback device according to the specified order to play podcast episodes by the previous user input and the selected time for playing an alarm.
US11086577B2
An information processing apparatus includes a transmitter, a receiver, and a registering unit. The transmitter is configured to, when a network to which the information processing apparatus is connected is changed, transmit identification information of a newly connected network to a management apparatus via a wireless communication line. The receiver is configured to receive setting information corresponding to the transmitted identification information from the management apparatus via the wireless communication line. The registering unit is configured to register the setting information received by the receiver as setting information of the information processing apparatus.
US11086566B2
In a storage device having an improved data receiving rate, the storage device includes: a plurality of memory devices each including a plurality of select signal pads; and a memory controller for providing a plurality of select signals representing a selected memory device among the plurality of memory devices through the plurality of select signal pads, wherein some select signals among the plurality of select signals include stack information indicating a number of the plurality of memory devices controlled by the memory controller.
US11086562B2
In a case where updated data using a first logical address as a write destination and existing data using a second logical address as a write destination duplicate with each other, a computer system writes predetermined data instead of updated data to a memory segment associated with a first physical address, and dynamically maps the first logical address to a second physical address. The computer system transmits a write command of the predetermined data or an unmapping command that designates a virtual address that complies with the first physical address, to a storage device that corresponds to the first physical address. The first and second logical addresses are logical addresses that belong to a logical address range which is at least a part of a logical address space. The first physical address is a physical address that belongs to a physical address range which is at least a part of a physical address space, and is a physical address statically mapped to the first logical address.
US11086554B2
A command to duplicate data on a storage system is received from a host system, and in response to receiving the command, data corresponding to the command is retrieved from host memory of the host system. A plurality of write operations are performed on one or more memory devices of the storage system to fulfill the command, wherein performing each one of the plurality of write operations comprises writing the data to the one or more memory devices of the storage system without a subsequent retrieval of the data from the host memory.
US11086552B2
A method for managing backups includes obtaining a plurality of parameters for a data item, filtering the plurality of parameters to obtain a plurality of filtered parameters, evaluating each filtered parameter of the plurality of filtered parameters to obtain a plurality of evaluated parameters, updating a promotion parameter register based on the plurality of evaluated parameters, and processing a backup request using the promotion parameter register, wherein the backup request specifies the data item.
US11086549B2
Just-in-time data migration in a live system is provided. Changes in a subscription that include structure, syntax, semantic, and identifier changes in data corresponding to the subscription are indicted to a new target system. A request to run an operation corresponding to the subscription on the new target system is received from a client device user. It is determined whether the operation needs related subscription data from a legacy system. In response to determining that the operation does need the related subscription data from the legacy system, the related subscription data for the operation is transformed just-in-time to support just-in-time migration of the related subscription data from the legacy system to the new target system. The operation is run on the new target system generating a new identifier for the subscription while referencing the related subscription data being migrated just-in-time from the legacy system.
US11086547B2
Content is captured and archived at an archive center (AC) and, depending upon records management (RM) policy, is managed by the AC or under RM control by a content server (CS). Both the AC and CS may be part of an enterprise content management system. The AC provides a user-friendly interface through which retention zones may be defined, and functionality for applying RM policy. The functionality can be triggered via a specific content property or through a retention zone under RM control. The RM control can be turned on or off from within the AC using the user-friendly interface. Archived content is not moved or duplicated. Rather, metadata and a link to the storage location are sent to the CS which, in turn, creates a content server document that is linked to the archived content. Only a portion of archived content is exposed to the CS through the AC.
US11086543B2
A data to write to a tape in a linear tape file system (LTFS) is received. The data is written to the tape. A forced termination of the write is received. Responsive to receiving the forced termination, a preserve metadata command is issued.
US11086539B2
Consecutive logical block addresses (LBAs) are mapped to consecutive good blocks in a sequence of blocks in a memory device. For each bad block, a mapping process substitutes a next available good block. For a selected LBA, the mapping process determines a number X>1 of bad blocks before, and including, a corresponding block in the sequence, a number Y of bad blocks in the X blocks after the corresponding block in the sequence, and maps the LBA to a block which is X+Y blocks after the corresponding block, or, if the block which is X+Y blocks after the corresponding block is a bad block, to a next good block. The mapping technique can be used for a sequence of blocks in a trimmed die, where a bad block register stores physical block addresses of the trimmed away blocks.
US11086534B2
An embodiment of an apparatus includes a plurality of processing circuits, a plurality of memory circuits, and a memory controller circuit coupled to each memory circuit via a respective communication channel. A particular processing circuit may generate a data stream that includes a plurality of data blocks. The memory controller circuit may receive the plurality of data blocks from the particular processing circuit. The memory controller circuit may distribute the plurality of data blocks among the plurality of memory circuits based on respective utilizations of the plurality of communication channels.
US11086530B2
A system and technique are provided for providing a service address space. The system includes a service co-processor provided with a service address space. The service co-processor is attached to a main processor where the main processor is provided with a main address space. The service co-processor creates and maintains an independent copy of the main address space in the form of the service address space. The service co-processor receives from the main processor a command packet, determines a clock value for initiating a service function designated by the command packet, and updates the service address space until reaching the clock value. The service co-processor then performs the service function at the clock value.
US11086520B2
Provided are a method, system, computer readable storage medium, and switch for configuring a switch to assign partitions in storage devices to compute nodes. A management controller configures the switch to dynamically allocate partitions of at least one of the storage devices to the compute nodes based on a workload at the compute node.
US11086519B2
A method of managing a memory system is described, the memory system having a processor with a client interface, a buffer memory, and a storage memory. A LUN (logical unit) is exposed to the client, the LUN having a memory size, and QoS specification. When the processor receives a command from the client to write data to the LUN, determining if the QoS specification includes deduplication and: if the QoS does not include deduplication, processing the command by storing the data in the storage memory and creating metadata uniquely referencing a storage location of the data that is written; or if the QoS includes deduplication, determine if deduplication is possible while meeting a latency value as specified in the QoS specification and performing deduplication.
US11086515B2
A computer-implemented technique is described herein that receives captured stroke information when a user enters a handwritten note using an input capture device. The technique then analyzes the captured stroke information to produce output analysis information. Based on the output analysis information, the technique modifies the captured stroke information into an actionable form that contains one or more actionable content items, while otherwise preserving the original form of the captured stroke information. The technique then presents the modified stroke information on a canvas display device. The user may subsequently activate one or more actionable content items in the modified stroke information to perform various supplemental tasks that pertain to the handwritten note. In one case, for example, the technique can recognize the presence of entity items and/or list items in the note and then reproduce them in an actionable form.
US11086504B2
Nesting information indicative of a nested arrangement of a set of scrollable areas within an environment is obtained. Focus information indicative of which of the set of scrollable areas is in focus within the environment is obtained. A visualization scheme is applied to each of the set of scrollable areas other than the scrollable area in focus. The visualization scheme adjusts at least one display property of each other scrollable area by each of a function of a relative position of each other scrollable area relative to the scrollable area in focus within the nested arrangement and a function of a relative distance of each other scrollable area from the scrollable area in focus.
US11086502B2
A method and system are provided. The method includes providing an actionable business entity operating model. The method further includes extending the actionable business entity operating model to drive user interface behavior on a user interface device having at least a display device, by extending class and property meta classes of the actionable business entity operating model to include user interface behavior semantics. The extending step includes configuring the user interface behavior semantics to be responsive to an operation state of the actionable business entity operating model.
US11086494B2
An electronic device includes a touch screen display, an input/output interface, a communication circuit, a memory, and a processor, and the processor modifies screen configuration information associated with at least a part of a resolution, a density, and an orientation of a screen output by the electronic device if the electronic device is connected to the external display device through the input/output interface, determines whether a target application to be displayed on the external display device supports resizing of a window that displays an execution screen of the target application, configures a first type of window which is resizable if the target application supports the resizing, configures a second type of window with a fixed size if the target application does not support the resizing, and displays the first type of window or the second type of window on the external display device.
US11086493B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for controlling smart devices are described. In one aspect a method includes receiving image data for an image captured by a camera of a mobile device of a user and determining that the image depicts at least one of a smart device or a physical control for the smart device. In response to determining that that the image depicts a smart device or a physical control for the smart device, identifying one or more user interface controls for controlling the smart device, and generating and presenting, at a display of the mobile device, the one or more user interface controls for controlling the smart device. The method can further include detecting, at the display of the mobile device, user interaction with at least one of the one or more user interface controls, and controlling the smart device based on the detected user interaction.
US11086488B1
An online system provides a user-generated media platform that enables the gamification of content generated on the site. The online system maintains a page of content including content items and a link to a third party system that is external to the online system. When the user selects the link, the user is directed to the third party system with which the user interacts to complete tasks. When the third party system determines one or more conditions are satisfied based on the user interactions with content from the third party system, the third party system updates the page of content maintained by the online system. For example, the third party system provides additional content items to the online system for display via the page of content or unlocks content items stored by the online system for presentation by the page of content.
US11086482B2
A method and device for displaying pages in application program and a computer-readable medium are provided. The method includes: receiving a first preset operation of a user on an application program that is currently running; displaying path information of pages accessed historically by the user in the application program according to the first preset operation, wherein the path information comprise a sequential relationship among the pages.
US11086477B2
A system and method for facilitating automatic execution of user interaction in a virtual space are disclosed. For such facilitations, interactions initiated by users may be monitored and examined. The examination of the user interactions may be made based on various parameters that depend on user interaction levels in the virtual space. Based on results of such examinations, user interactions to be automatically executed in the virtual space while the users are not participating in the virtual space may be determined. In some examples, such determinations may be based on the user interaction levels in the virtual space and/or one or more virtual items and/or real-world currencies spent by the users for the automatic execution of the user interactions.
US11086473B2
System and method for aiding communication for subjects suffering from paralysis of muscles controlled by peripheral nervous system are disclosed. A method for aiding communication for said subjects includes capturing, from a plurality of sensors, sensor data generated based on an interaction of a subject with an interactive UI. The plurality of sensors includes one or more body-parts movement tracking sensors for tracking motion of body-parts of the subject and one or more physiological signal sensors for monitoring physiological signals generated from the subject during the interaction. A plurality of model parameters indicative of characteristics of the subject related to the interaction are determined based on the sensor data. The navigation at the interactive UI is controlled on the plurality of model parameters.
US11086465B2
A touch sensor including a first substrate which extends in a first direction and on which first channels may be formed and stretched, a first conductive liquid injected into the first channels, a second substrate which extends in a second direction which intersects with the first direction and on which second channels may be formed and stretched, and a second conductive liquid injected into the second channels.
US11086463B2
A multi-modal touch controller configured to operate in different modes. In some examples, the multi-modal touch controller can be operated in a first mode corresponding to a guarded self-capacitance scan. In some examples, the multi-modal touch controller can be operated in a second mode corresponding to offset-compensated mutual capacitance scan. In some examples, the multi-modal controller can be operated in a third mode corresponding to a mutual and self-capacitance scan. The multi-modal touch controller can advantageously allow one touch sensing chipset to be used across different types of guarded touch sensor panels and across different modes of operation.
US11086462B2
A touch screen panel includes: a substrate; a touch electrode layer disposed on the substrate; an insulator disposed on the touch electrode layer; an adhesive layer disposed on the touch electrode layer and exposing a portion of the insulator; and a first connector disposed on the portion of the insulator exposed by the adhesive layer. When assembled, the touch screen panel may reduce or prevent impurities, such as moisture and the like, from permeating into a touch sensing sensor, thereby reducing defects of the touch sensing sensor and enhancing durability thereof.
US11086458B2
In one embodiment, a device includes a flexible substrate, a touch sensor made of flexible conductive material disposed on the flexible substrate, and conductive tracks made of flexible conductive material disposed on the flexible substrate. The device also includes an electrical component bonded to the conductive tracks. The conductive tracks electrically couple the electrical component to the touch sensor.
US11086456B2
The present invention provides a touch module placed on a display panel. The display panel includes a display region and a light-transmissive region. The touch module includes: a first insulating layer and multiple first touch sensing wirings. The first insulating layer includes a first region facing the display region and a second region facing the light-transmissive region. The second region includes multiple second sub-regions arranged in an array and a light-transmissive sub-region arranged between any adjacent four second sub-regions. Each of the first touch sensing wirings is formed in a corresponding one of the second sub-regions. The first touch sensing wirings of any two adjacent second sub-regions are electrically connected through a first connection line.
US11086454B2
A touch substrate is provided. The touch layer includes a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes. The plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes are intersected with and insulated from each other. Each of the plurality of first electrodes includes a plurality of first electrode units arranged in a row direction and connected to each other sequentially, and each of the plurality of second electrodes includes a plurality of second electrode units arranged in a column direction and connected to each other sequentially. The plurality of first electrodes are divided into a plurality of first electrode groups arranged in the column direction, each of the plurality of the first electrode groups includes first electrode units. In each of the plurality of the first electrode groups, the first electrode units in a same column are connected to each other sequentially.
US11086453B2
An apparatus includes an ultrasonic transmitter, an ultrasonic receiver, and an acoustic delay gradient layer disposed in an acoustic path between the ultrasonic transmitter and the ultrasonic receiver. The acoustic delay gradient layer is configured to cause a reflection from a platen interface of the transmitted ultrasonic signal to reach the first receiver region at a first time and the reflection from the platen interface of the transmitted ultrasonic signal to reach the second receiver region at a second time that is different from the first time. The apparatus can further include a controller configured to set for a first region or portion of the receiver, a first range gate window (RGW). The controller is also configured to set, for a second region or portion of the receiver, a second RGW, and to establish a first temporal delay between the first RGW and the second RGW.
US11086442B2
A method for responding to a touch operation is provided. The method includes the following. Receive a first touch operation and a second touch operation which act on a touch screen for a preset time period. Determine an operation area where the first touch operation occurs, where the touch screen includes a first operation area and a second operation area, and the operation area where the first touch operation occurs is the first operation area or the second operation area. Determine an operation area where the second touch operation occurs, where the operation area where the second touch operation occurs is the first operation area or the second operation area. Determine whether to respond to at least one of the first touch operation and the second touch operation according to the operation area where the first touch operation occurs and the operation area where the second touch operation occurs.
US11086432B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel which displays an image, a touch panel provided on the display panel and including a sensor area in which a plurality of electrodes for detecting touch operation are provided and a peripheral area provided around the sensor area, a controller which controls the plurality of electrodes, lead lines provided in the peripheral area to connect the electrodes provided in the sensor area to the controller and a conductive layer provided in a region which overlaps at least part of the lead lines.
US11086428B2
A touch circuit includes a touch circuit, a first energy storage circuit, a second energy storage circuit and a resetting circuit. A first end of the first energy storage circuit is connected to a control end of the touch circuit, and a second end thereof is connected to a first voltage input end. A first end of the second energy storage circuit is connected to a first conductive line, and a second end thereof is connected to the control end of the touch circuit. A first end of the touch circuit is connected to the first conductive line, and a second end thereof is connected to a third conductive line. A control end of the resetting circuit is connected to a second conductive line, a first end thereof is connected to the third conductive line, and a second end thereof is connected to a second voltage input end.
US11086411B2
A character input device for character input reflecting a user's situation includes an operation unit that receives an input operation associated with a character input, a detector that detects an operating speed for the input operation, and a predictive suggestion generation unit that outputs predictive suggestions for the character input in accordance with the operating speed.
US11086408B2
A keypad is provided in the present invention. The keypad includes a keypad shell and a keypad circuit board provided within the keypad shell. The keypad shell is provided with at least two subscriber identity module (SIM) card sockets and a first communication module connected to the SIM card sockets and configured to access the Internet. A SIM card switch is provided between the first communication module and the SIM card sockets. Compared to the prior art, the present invention enables, by means of providing the keypad with the at least two SIM card sockets and the first communication module supporting all major operators, the keypad to access the Internet when connected to a mobile terminal, and ensures uninterrupted Internet data access by switching to a SIM card of a different operator when the SIM card of the current operator has weak reception.
US11086397B2
A system for displaying information to an operator of a machine comprises a head tracking system and a projection system. One system for displaying information uses a projection system and a see-through display to present two-dimensional images to an operator. One system uses a projection system and a see-through display to present three-dimensional images to an operator. One system uses a pair of smart glasses to display information to a user based a direction a user is looking.
US11086395B2
An image processing apparatus obtains a plurality of images based on image capturing performed by a plurality of image capturing apparatuses, receives an input corresponding to operation of a first device, receives an input corresponding to operation of a second device different from the first device; and generates, based on the plurality of images obtained, a first virtual viewpoint image corresponding to a first virtual viewpoint determined based on the input corresponding to the operation of the first device, wherein a second virtual viewpoint image corresponding to a second virtual viewpoint determined based on the input received by the second receiving unit is displayed within the first virtual viewpoint image.
US11086394B2
A gaming cabin includes a display device, an adjustable chair, a degree-of-freedom adjusting device, a situation simulator, and a system end. The degree-of-freedom adjusting device is configured to provide three degrees of freedom for the display device along the vertical axis, along the horizontal axis and yaw, as well as provide automatic view-switching and surround sound control. The system end is configured to adjust the resolution of the display device using foveated rendering technique, thereby increasing system efficiency. The situation simulator is configured to provide visual, olfactory, tactile or impact effect during VR applications.
US11086384B2
One embodiment includes hardware logic to: receive first and second communications corresponding to an intellectual property (IP) core and begin a timed session in response to receiving the second communication; determine the firmware has completed processing the second communication before expiration of the timed session and increase a latency state corresponding to a resource in response to determining the firmware has completed processing the second communication before expiration of the timed session; receive a third communication corresponding to the IP core and begin an additional timed session in response to receiving the third communication; determine the firmware failed to complete processing the third communication before expiration of the additional timed session and decrease the latency state corresponding to the resource in response to determining the firmware failed to complete processing the third communication before expiration of the additional timed session.
US11086366B2
The description relates to devices, such as user-serviceable dimensionally-constrained devices. One example can include a first portion and a corresponding second portion. The example can also include a gap reduction assembly positioned along edges of the first portion and the second portion that biases the first and second portions toward one another. The example can also include an alignment assembly that laterally aligns corners of the first portion and the second portion and a locking assembly that locks the aligned corners of the first portion and the second portion against one another.
US11086365B2
The present application provides a protective housing for a display device of a portable equipment, which comprises a surface cover, a surface cover plate, a frame body, a bottom case and a back plate, wherein a lower surface of the surface cover is detachably fixed on the frame body, a waterproof adhesive tape is arranged around the lower surface of the surface cover, the upper surface of the surface cover is fixed on the surface cover plate, a lower end of the frame body is fixed on the bottom case, a lower surface of the bottom case is fixed with an upper surface of the back plate, a corresponding end of the frame body is fixed with an adaption interface, an inner side of the adaption interface is arranged corresponding to a first connector of the display device.
US11086356B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a foldable support device, including: a driving component and a support component connected with the driving component; and a rotating gear and a rack intermeshing with each other and connected with the driving component and the support component. The driving component and the support component are disposed on a non-display surface of a flexible display panel; and the flexible display panel is folded or unfolded with intermeshing rotating and relative moving of the rotating gear and the rack. By setting the rotating gear and the rack, when the flexible display panel is folding, the rotating gear rotates along the rack and drives the support component to move away from the driving component. Sufficient storage space is generated for the flexible display panel while folding to effectively prevent the display failure caused by folding of the flexible display panel.
US11086350B2
An input apparatus includes an operation member supported movably in accordance with a plurality of sections set on a two-dimensional plane, a section detection section configured to detect a section in which the operation member is located, a determination operation detection section configured to detect a determination operation performed using the operation member, and an execution section configured to perform a process corresponding to the section in which the operation member is located on the basis of the section detected by the section detection section and the determination operation detected by the determination operation detection section. The determination operation is movement of the operation member in a determination direction (y1 direction), which is a direction parallel to the two-dimensional plane.
US11086342B1
Techniques and apparatus for selecting a maximum input supply voltage from multiple input power supplies. An example maximum input supply selection circuit includes a parallel array of comparators and selection logic to select the maximum input supply voltage, supply present detectors, comparator settling logic including a warm-up delay timer to provide for comparator settling, and comparator enable logic for disabling all comparators and entering an ultra-low power mode.
US11086340B2
A system for unmanned aerial vehicle alignment including: an image sensor, configured to obtain an image of unmanned aerial vehicles and provide to a processor image data corresponding to the obtained image, the processor, configured to determine from the image data image positions of the unmanned aerial vehicles, determine an average position of the unmanned aerial vehicles relative to a first axis based on the image positions, determine an average line that extends along a second axis through the average position, wherein the first and second axes are perpendicular to each other, determine a target position of one of the unmanned aerial vehicles based on a relationship between its respective image position and a target alignment, and determine an adjustment instruction to direct said one of the unmanned aerial vehicles toward the target position, and provide the adjustment instruction to said one of the unmanned aerial vehicles.
US11086337B2
Disclosed herein are system and method for automatically recharging a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on a moving platform, comprising: a software module identifying the moving platform; a software module estimating a real-time state of the moving platform; a software module controlling automatic landing of the UAV on the moving platform based on the real-time state estimation of the moving platform and data collected from the one or more sensors; a software module controlling automatic connection of the UAV to a charging station of the moving platform with a pre-determined orientation; and a software module controlling automatic taking off of the UAV from the moving platform after charging.
US11086334B2
Systems and methods are provided for crowdsourcing a sparse map for autonomous vehicle navigation. In one implementation, a non-transitory computer-readable medium may include a sparse map for autonomous vehicle navigation along a road segment. The sparse map may include at least one line representation of a road surface feature extending along the road segment, each line representation representing a path along the road segment substantially corresponding with the road surface feature, and wherein the road surface feature is identified through image analysis of a plurality of images acquired as one or more vehicles traverse the road segment and a plurality of landmarks associated with the road segment.
US11086327B2
The present disclosure discloses method and an Electronic Control Unit (ECU) of an autonomous vehicle for determining safe navigation. The ECU determines current location of vehicle based on orientation and location information of vehicle. One or more pre-defined vehicle parameters and surrounding infrastructure data is determined. Traffic density at current route of vehicle is determined based on surrounding infrastructure data and current location of vehicle. The ECU predicts traffic density at one or more alternate routes for predefined time and distance from current location of vehicle, based on traffic information received from surrounding infrastructure data for one or more alternate routes. Thereafter, route is selected based on one or more pre-defined vehicle parameters, traffic density at current route and traffic density at one or more alternate routes for safely navigating vehicle. The present disclosure provides safe navigation route for vehicle based on predicted traffic and accurate location of vehicle.
US11086326B2
The present invention provides a moving object controller and a moving object control method capable of selecting a movement plan based upon detection accuracy of external information. A moving object controller 100 includes a plan generation unit 110 that generates at least one movement plan based upon external information on an external world of a moving object 1 and internal information on an internal part of the moving object; an accuracy estimation unit 120 that estimates detection accuracy of the external information based upon the external information, the internal information, and predetermined past information, among the movement plans generated by the plan generation unit; and a plan selection unit 130 that selects a movement plan of an execution target from among the movement plans generated by the plan generation unit based upon the detection accuracy of the external information estimated by the accuracy estimation unit.
US11086322B2
Described herein are technologies relating to computing a likelihood of an operation-influencing event with respect to an autonomous vehicle at a geographic location. The likelihood of the operation-influencing event is computed based upon a prediction of a value that indicates whether, through a causal process, the operation-influencing event is expected to occur. The causal process is identified by means of a model, which relates spatiotemporal factors and the operation-influencing events.
US11086316B2
Various embodiments include methods, devices, and systems of transporting a payload using a robotic vehicle. Various embodiments may include determining whether a payload is securely held by the robotic vehicle, and taking a corrective action in response to determining that the payload is not securely held by the robotic vehicle.
US11086311B2
Systems and methods of data collection and processing including a plurality of variable groups of industrial sensor inputs, each of the plurality of variable groups of industrial sensor inputs operationally coupled to an industrial environment and a multiplexer including a plurality of sensor channels, wherein each of the plurality of sensor channels is communicatively coupled to at least one of the plurality of variable groups of sensor inputs and including an expert system or a graphical user interface (GUI) to define at least one of intelligent data collection bands or diagnostics for the industrial environment.
US11086310B2
A method includes obtaining measurements associated with a plurality of controlled variables (CVs) and a plurality of manipulated variables (MVs). The method also includes detecting an irregular operating condition of a CV or an MV. The method also includes analyzing case specific operating conditions based on the irregular operating condition. The method further includes removing the irregular operating condition based on analyzing the case specific operating conditions.
US11086300B2
A control method according to the present invention is a control method for a drive mechanism in a drive system which causes a mobile body to move by way of the drive mechanism in accordance with an instruction from a master controller, the method including: an abnormality detection step of detecting an abnormal state in which control by the master controller is not possible; a remaining distance calculation step of calculating a remaining distance until a movement limit position in a current movement direction of the mobile body, when having detected an abnormal state in the abnormality detection step; a limit deceleration calculation step of calculating a limit deceleration in which the mobile body can stop in the remaining distance which was calculated in the remaining distance calculation step; and a limit stop control step of controlling the drive mechanism so as to cause the mobile body to stop at a deceleration of at least the limit deceleration.
US11086297B2
Systems and methods for designing, fabricating, selecting, evaluating and/or improving therapeutic compression garments for patients or individuals using compression garments.
US11086275B2
A wearable device, and a notification system and a notification method thereof are provided. The wearable device includes a rotatable ring, multiple switches, and a communication module. The wearable device obtains a control signal by rotating the rotatable ring to trigger part of the switches, and transmits a mode signal to an electronic apparatus in response to the control signal. After receiving the mode signal, the electronic apparatus switches to a corresponding mode.
US11086274B2
The invention relates to a tool for actuating a push-button corrector equipping a portable object of small dimensions, said actuating tool comprising a body that extends between a rear end defining an area for grasping the actuating tool and a front end defining an area for actuating the actuating tool, the actuating tool further comprising an actuating rod arranged such that it slides in a coaxial manner inside the body, the actuating rod being capable of moving from back to front and from front to back between a retracted rest position wherein it is retracted in a stable manner inside the body of the actuating tool, and a protruding working position wherein it protrudes outside of the cap, the actuating rod remaining in the protruding working position thereof as long as an axial pushing force is exerted thereon, and returns to the retracted rest position thereof as soon as the axial pushing force is released.
US11086273B2
Provided is a drive circuit for a two-coil stepper motor, including: a rotor; a stator including first, second, and third stator magnetic-pole portions; a coil A to be magnetically coupled to the first stator magnetic-pole portion and the third stator magnetic-pole portion; a coil B to be magnetically coupled to the second stator magnetic-pole portion and the third stator magnetic-pole portion; a drive pulse generation circuit configured to output a drive pulse; a detection pulse generation circuit configured to output a detection pulse for detecting counter-electromotive currents generated in the coil A and the coil B; and a rotation detection circuit configured to receive a detection signal generated due to the detection pulse as input to determine whether or not the rotor has rotated.
US11086272B2
An illumination unit emits illumination light to a specimen. An image sensor includes multiple pixels arranged in a two-dimensional manner on a photoelectric surface. The image sensor captures an image of a magnitude distribution of an interference pattern formed due to the illumination light that has interacted with the specimen. A limiter limits at least one from among the spatial frequency of the interference pattern formed on the photoelectric surface and the incident angle of the light input to the photoelectric surface.
US11086270B2
A process cartridge includes a photosensitive drum, a developing roller configured to develop a latent image on the photosensitive drum with toner, and a coupling member having a rotational axis, with the coupling member being operatively connected to the photosensitive drum. The coupling member includes a cylindrical portion having an outer surface and an inner surface that extends about the rotational axis of the coupling member, an arm portion extending from the inner surface of the cylindrical portion, and a projection projecting from the arm portion in a direction toward the rotational axis of the coupling member. The arm portion and the projection are movable relative to the inner surface.
US11086269B2
A process cartridge includes a photoreceptor drum that is disposed in a main body frame, and a charging roller unit that includes a charging roller disposed in parallel with an axial direction of the photoreceptor drum and is a separate body from the main body frame. The charging roller unit includes a protrusion. The main body frame includes a guide into which the protrusion is inserted in a state where the charging roller is spaced apart from the photoreceptor drum, and a positioner that is continuously formed at an end part of the guide on an opposite side to an insertion side of the protrusion and positions the charging roller at a position where the charging roller is in contact with the photoreceptor drum.
US11086268B2
A toner cartridge according to one example embodiment includes a housing having a reservoir for holding toner. A first latch-receiving shelf is positioned on a first longitudinal end of the housing and a second latch-receiving shelf is positioned on a second longitudinal end of the housing. Contact surfaces on top portions of the first and second latch-receiving shelves are positioned to contact corresponding first and second latches in an image forming device. The contact surface of the first latch-receiving shelf is positioned lower than a first rotational axis of a first drive coupler of the toner cartridge and higher than a second drive coupler of the toner cartridge. The contact surface of the second latch-receiving shelf is positioned lower than at least a portion of a first electrical contact of the toner cartridge and higher than at least a portion of a second electrical contact of the toner cartridge.
US11086263B1
A cleaning device includes an accommodating container, a collector, and a remover. The accommodating container has an opening and a receiving port. The collector is in contact with a surface of a cleaned body while rotating, to remove matter on the surface of the cleaned body. The remover has a tip end that is in contact with the surface of the cleaned body to remove the matter. The accommodating container accommodates the collector and the remover. The collector and the remover are exposed to the cleaned body through the opening. The accommodating container receives, through the receiving port, the matter removed from the cleaned body. The accommodating container is supported in such a manner that the accommodating container can rotate to a position where the matter collected in the accommodating container do not leak through the opening, so as to be separated from the cleaned body.
US11086259B2
A developing device develops an electrostatic latent image formed on a photosensitive drum. A bottle rotation sensor detects rotation of a toner bottle that stores toner. A bottle motor drives the toner bottle for rotation to thereby discharge toner from the toner bottle. A hopper-internal toner sensor detects presence/absence of toner stored in a hopper that stores toner discharged from the toner bottle. A replenishment unit replenishes toner stored in the hopper to the developing device. Which of failure of the bottle rotation sensor and rotation failure of the toner bottle has occurred is determined based on a detection result of the bottle rotation sensor and a detection result of the hopper-internal toner sensor.
US11086258B2
An image forming apparatus sets, on an image forming unit, one of a first transfer condition that does not cause an image to be formed on a sheet and a second transfer condition that causes an image to be formed on the sheet. The apparatus generates a first reading result by reading the sheet that has passed through the image forming unit set in the first transfer condition, and generates a second reading result by reading the sheet that has passed through the image forming unit set in the second transfer condition. The apparatus detects toner fogging based on the first reading result and a reading result out of the second reading result, the reading result concerning a non-image region in which no image is formed on a surface of the sheet.
US11086253B2
During a print cycle of a print apparatus, a liquid print agent including a carrier fluid is applied to a photoconductive surface. A proportion of the carrier fluid in the liquid print agent on the photoconductive surface is reduced at a first location by removably collecting a portion of the carrier fluid from the liquid print agent applied to the photoconductive surface. During a non-print cycle of the print apparatus, the removably collected portion of the carrier fluid is added to the photoconductive surface at the first location.
US11086251B2
An image forming apparatus includes a developing device including at least one stirring rotator configured to stir a developer in the developing device, a driver configured to drive the at least one stirring rotator in forward and reverse rotation, a device detector configured to detect whether the developing device is set in the image forming apparatus, and control circuitry configured to execute a warm-up operation. In the warm-up operation, the driver drives the at least one stirring rotator alternately in the reverse rotation and the forward rotation in response to a detection of setting of the developing device in the image forming apparatus by the device detector and a detection of a predetermined condition.
US11086250B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that carries an image, a developing unit that applies a developing voltage to develop an electrostatic latent image formed on the image carrier with a developer, a transfer unit that electrostatically transfers the image onto media of different types, and a development controller that controls a developing operation of the developing unit. The development controller has a first control mode for a first medium, and a second control mode for a second medium having a lower transferability than the first medium. In the first control mode, the developing unit applies the developing voltage according to a first developing condition. In the second control mode, the developing unit applies the developing voltage according to a second developing condition in which a developing property is reduced as compared with the first developing condition.
US11086249B2
An image forming apparatus includes a motor configured to rotationally drive an image bearing roller and a developer bearing roller at a first peripheral velocity ratio and a second peripheral velocity ratio which is larger than the first peripheral velocity ratio. A development contrast formed between a developing bias to the developer bearing roller and a light-part potential formed on the image bearing roller in a case where a development operation is performed at the second peripheral velocity ratio is larger than a development contrast formed between the developing bias to the developer bearing roller and the light-part potential formed on the image bearing roller in a case where the development operation is performed at the first peripheral velocity ratio.
US11086247B2
An assembly for an electrophotographic image forming device according to one example includes a rotatable roll having an electrically conductive shaft. An electrically conductive bracket is positioned adjacent to the roll and in a spaced relationship from the roll along a length of the roll. An electrical contact is positioned to receive an electrical voltage from a power supply of the image forming device. The electrical contact is electrically connected to a first end portion of the shaft of the roll by way of a first electrical path and to a second end portion of the shaft of the roll by way of a second electrical path to transfer the electrical voltage to the roll. The bracket forms a portion of the second electrical path such that the electrical voltage transferring from the electrical contact to the second end portion of the shaft of the roll passes through the bracket.
US11086244B1
A toner including a parent toner particle comprising at least one resin, in combination with an optional colorant, and an optional wax; and a surface additive formulation comprising at least one medium silica surface additive; at least one large cross-linked organic polymeric additive; at least one positive charging surface additive, wherein the at least one positive charging surface additive is (a) a titanium dioxide surface additive; and wherein the parent toner particles further contain a small silica; or (b) a non-titanium dioxide positive charging metal oxide surface additive; and wherein the parent toner particles further optionally contain a small silica; and wherein a total surface area coverage of all of the surface additives combined is 100 to 140 percent of the parent toner particle surface area.
US11086240B2
Disclosed is a metrology sensor system, such as a position sensor. The system comprises an optical collection system configured to collect diffracted or scattered radiation from a metrology mark on a substrate, said collected radiation comprising at least one parameter-sensitive signal and noise signal which is not parameter-sensitive, a processing system operable to process the collected radiation; and a module housing. An optical guide is provided for guiding the at least one parameter-sensitive signal, separated from the noise signal, from the processing system to a detection system outside of the housing. A detector detects the separated at least one parameter-sensitive signal. An obscuration for blocking zeroth order radiation and/or a demagnifying optical system may be provided between the optical guide and the detector.
US11086238B2
A system including: a substrate support configured to hold a substrate; a conductive or semi-conductive element contacting the substrate support and covering at least part of the substrate support; and a charging device configured to apply a positive potential to the conductive or semi-conductive element with respect to the part of the substrate support that is covered by the conductive or semi-conductive element.
US11086232B2
A resonant amplitude grating mark has a periodic structure configured to scatter radiation incident on a surface plane of the alignment mark. The scattering is mainly by excitation of a resonant mode in the periodic structure parallel to the surface plane. The effective refractive indexes and lengths of portions of the periodic structure are configured to provide an optical path length of the unit cell in the direction of periodicity that equals an integer multiple of a wavelength present in the spectrum of the radiation. The effective refractive indexes and lengths of the portions are also configured to provide an optical path length of the second portion in the direction of periodicity that is equal to half of the wavelength present in the spectrum of the radiation.
US11086231B2
A method for describing an array of elements includes the steps of providing an array description system that includes a library of possible alternative designations; and describing the array of elements using at least one of the alternative designations. The library of possible alternative designations includes one or more of the following (i) a line designation, (ii) a column designation, (iii) a square designation, (iv) a rectangle designation, (v) a cross designation, (vi) a diagonal designation, (vii) a complex designation, (viii) a mosaic designation, (ix) an overlap designation, (x) a power designation, (xi) a border designation, (xii) a corner flip designation, (xiii) a mirror image designation, (xiv) a repeat designation, and (xv) a glide designation.
US11086225B2
A method includes providing a plurality of fuel droplets into an EUV source vessel by a fuel droplet generator, in which the fuel droplet generator has a first portion inside the EUV source vessel and a second portion outside the EUV source vessel; generating a plurality of output signals respectively from a plurality of oscillation sensors on the fuel droplet generator; determining whether the output signals are acceptable; and determining whether an unwanted oscillation originates from the first portion of the fuel droplet generator or the second portion of the fuel droplet generator when the output signals is determined as unacceptable.
US11086218B1
In accordance with some aspects of the present disclosure, a maskless interferometric lithography system for fabricating a three-dimensional (3D) photonic crystal using a multiple two-beam-exposures is disclosed. The system can comprise an illumination system comprising an optical arrangement operable to receive radiation from a radiation source and provide three or more tilted two-beam interference pattern exposures to be combined into a three-dimensional pattern; and a substrate operable to be supported by a substrate table, wherein the substrate comprises a photoresist formed on a top surface of the substrate and operable to receive the three-dimensional pattern and wherein means are provided to adjust the position of the substrate in all six mechanical degrees of freedom.
US11086215B2
A reticle and a method for manufacturing a reticle are provided. The method includes forming a reflective multilayer (ML) over a front-side surface of a mask substrate. The method further includes forming a capping layer over the reflective ML. The method further includes forming a sacrificial multilayer over the capping layer. The method further includes forming an opening in the sacrificial multilayer to expose the capping layer. The method further includes forming a first absorption layer over the sacrificial multilayer and covering the capping layer in the opening. The method further includes removing the first absorption layer outside the opening in the sacrificial multilayer to form a first absorption pattern on a portion of the capping layer.
US11086213B2
A method comprising the steps of receiving a mask assembly comprising a mask and a removable EUV transparent pellicle held by a pellicle frame, removing the pellicle frame and EUV transparent pellicle from the mask, using an inspection tool to inspect the mask pattern on the mask, and subsequently attaching to the mask an EUV transparent pellicle held by a pellicle frame. The method may also comprise the following steps: after removing the pellicle frame and EUV transparent pellicle from the mask, attaching to the mask an alternative pellicle frame holding an alternative pellicle formed from a material which is substantially transparent to an inspection beam of the inspection tool; and after using an inspection tool to inspect the mask pattern on the mask, removing the alternative pellicle held by the alternative pellicle frame from the mask in order to attach to the mask the EUV transparent pellicle held by the pellicle frame.
US11086211B2
Masks and methods of forming the same are disclosed. The mask includes a substrate, a phase shift layer, a shading layer and a passivation layer. The phase shift layer is disposed over the substrate. The shading layer is disposed over the phase shift layer. The passivation layer is disposed over and in physical contact with the shading layer.
US11086207B2
One embodiment of the invention disclosed herein provides a system that includes a mirror apparatus with a first surface to which a half-silvered mirror film is applied, where the mirror apparatus transmits a transmitted image from a second surface to the first surface. The system further includes a servo-controlled dimmer that adjusts a level of ambient light associated with the mirror apparatus. The system further includes a motion sensing device that tracks positions of a plurality of points associated with an object; wherein the object is situated on the half-silvered mirror film side of the mirror apparatus. The system further includes a computing device including a memory that stores instructions that, when executed by a processor included in the computing device, cause the processor to control the servo-controlled dimmer to adjust the ambient light such that both the transmitted image and a reflected image is visible on the first surface.
US11086203B2
A floatable mount for a hunting camera provides an apparatus that enables protection of a camera for the duration of the camera's placement outside. The apparatus further protects the camera from damage due to rising water levels. The apparatus has a telescopic pole, allowing the user to extend a camera and place it in a higher, more advantageous position. The apparatus may be placed and secured onto the ground through the use of a foot pressure platform and a corkscrew or straight anchor. The apparatus also employs a flotation device that can keep the camera afloat safely above the water level when flooding occurs, or when the apparatus is placed into a body of water. The combination of these features allows the user to mount their camera safely, without having to worry about the camera falling into, or otherwise becoming damaged from, rising water levels.
US11086202B2
A gimbal control method includes obtaining a working parameter of a gimbal, where the gimbal includes an axial arm and a motor configured to drive the axial arm to rotate to drive a photographing device mounted on the gimbal to move in one or more directions; detecting that the working parameter matches a preset condition that a human force is applied to gimbal; and according to a direction of the human force applied to the gimbal, controlling the motor to drive the axial arm to rotate to a target attitude at which the human force stops to be applied to the gimbal.
US11086200B2
A camera module comprising a polymer composition that includes a polymer matrix containing a liquid crystalline polymer and a mineral filler is provided. The liquid crystalline polymer contains repeating units derived from naphthenic hydroxycarboxylic and/or dicarboxylic acids in an amount of about 10 mol. % or more of the polymer. Further, the polymer composition exhibits a melt viscosity of from about 30 to about 400 Pa-s, as determined at a shear rate of 400 seconds−1 and at a temperature 15° C. higher than the melting temperature of the composition in accordance with ISO Test No. 11443:2005.
US11086196B2
A device and method for assisting a user in photographing a vehicle for documenting a condition of the vehicle. The method includes receiving information regarding the vehicle and displaying a graphic overlay of the vehicle. A video image of the vehicle is captured with a camera and is displayed with the graphical overlay. The video image of the vehicle is aligned with the graphical overlay of the vehicle and the image of the vehicle is stored. The graphical overlay can be oriented on the screen in a manner so that the stored image of the vehicle is captured at a predetermined horizontal angle, vertical height and/or vehicle size. The photograph of the vehicle can be attached to an insurance estimate. Standardizing the horizontal angle, vertical and/or vehicle size of the photographed vehicle promotes consistency and uniformity in the estimating process.
US11086192B2
A single shot autocorrelator for measuring duration of an ultrashort laser pulse in the far field, having a beam splitter to form two beams from an input ultrashort pulse: the reflected beam is firstly reflected by two mirrors mounted on a translation stage for adjusting time delay and subsequently a third mirror, and after focused by a spherical convex lens, enters a naturally grown strontium barium niobate crystal along the crystal z axis; the transmitted beam is firstly focused by a spherical convex lens, and after reflected by two mirrors, enters the crystal along the crystal z axis from opposite direction. The crystal is in the common focal regions of two spherical convex lenses and generates the transverse second harmonic pulse beam that is the autocorrelation signal to be recorded, which is imaged with an optical microscope onto a charge coupled device camera mounted perpendicular to the beams.
US11086191B2
An optical quantum state converter comprises an optical fiber input port configured to receive an optical signal comprising an optical quantum state at a first wavelength from an optical source. An optical combiner having a first input is coupled to the optical fiber input port. An optical pump source having an output that is coupled to a second input of the optical combiner provides an optical pump signal at a pump signal wavelength to a second input of the combiner. A nonlinear optical waveguide having an input that is coupled to an output of the optical combiner converts the optical quantum state at the first wavelength to an optical quantum state at a second wavelength determined by the optical pump signal.
US11086188B2
A multi-section optical modulator and related method are disclosed wherein two waveguide arms traverse a plurality of successive modulating sections. A differential drive signal is applied separately to each waveguide arm of each modulating sections in synchronism with the transmission of light along the waveguide arms, affecting a dual differential driving of each section. By suitably selecting the number of modulating sections and the section length, a high modulation bandwidth and a high modulation efficiency may be achieved simultaneously for a given peak-to-peak voltage swing of the drive signal.
US11086187B2
An optical waveguide modulator with automatic bias control is disclosed. A dither signal is applied to the modulator bias and its signature detected in light tapped from an output of the modulator using a phase sensitive dither detector such as a lock-in amplifier. The detected signal is processed using pre-recorded information defining the direction of the detected signal change relative to a change in the modulator bias, and the bias is adjusted in the direction determined using the information. An IQ bias of a quadrature modulator is controlled by dithering bias settings of two inner modulators at different dither frequencies, and detecting an oscillation at a sum frequency.
US11086154B2
The display device includes: a flexible display panel including a display portion in which scanning lines and signal lines cross each other; a supporting portion for supporting an end portion of the flexible display panel; a signal line driver circuit for outputting a signal to the signal line, which is provided for the supporting portion; and a scanning line driver circuit for outputting a signal to the scanning line, which is provided for a flexible surface of the display panel in a direction which is perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the supporting portion.
US11086141B2
A spectacle lens blank has an optically finished surface and a cylinder edge surface, and a protective film applied on the optically finished surface. The protective film is also arranged on the cylinder edge surface. A method for producing a spectacle lens from a spectacle lens blank having an optically finished surface and a cylinder edge surface, in which a protective film is applied onto the optically finished surface is also disclosed. Procedurally, the protective film is also applied onto the cylinder edge surface. Lastly, a device for producing a spectacle lens from a spectacle lens blank having an optically finished surface and a cylinder edge surface is disclosed, in which a protective film is applied onto the optically finished surface. An application unit for applying the protective film onto the cylinder edge surface is also disclosed.
US11086138B2
A method of autostereoscopic imaging including providing an autostereoscopic illumination unit including a lens field composed of a multiplicity of individual lenses or concave mirrors, and modulating an emission characteristic of the light source such that the individual lenses or the concave mirrors are illuminated only partly by the light source, wherein light from the light source impinges on the individual lenses or concave mirrors such that an emission characteristic of a three-dimensional object is imitated, the lens field extends over a spatial angle range of at least 2 sr relative to the light source or an external observer, the individual lenses or concave mirrors are distributed over the lens field and are at least partially sequentially irradiated, and the light source is formed by one or more lasers and the laser or each of the lasers irradiates/irradiate only one of the individual lenses at a specific point in time.
US11086137B2
We describe a super-resolution optical microscopy technique in which a sample is located on or adjacent to the planar surface of an aplanatic solid immersion lens and placed in a cryogenic environment.
US11086134B2
In a beam splitter assembly 7, a beam splitter 22 is supported at three points by three bent portions 41 of a first spacer 24. Therefore, the beam splitter 22 can be prevented from being affected by the surface accuracy of a holder 21. Further, in the beam splitter assembly 7, the first spacer 24 faces the peripheral edge portion of the beam splitter 22. Each bent portion 41 is configured by bending each outer projection piece. Therefore, the external shape of the first spacer 24 can be prevented from becoming larger than the external shape of the beam splitter 22. And it is possible to suppress that the size of the holder 21 for providing the first spacer 24 becomes large. As a result, the miniaturization of the beam splitter assembly 7 can be realized.
US11086133B2
A source module suitable for an optical coherence tomography system. The source module comprises a source operable to emit a divergent, source output beam either of circular cross-section (e.g. as output by a vertical cavity surface emitting laser) or of elliptical cross-section (e.g. as output by an edge-emitting semiconductor laser or diode). Collimation optics are provided to convert the source output beam into a non-divergent, collimated beam of elliptical cross-section having a major axis and a minor axis. A cylindrical lens is arranged with its plano axis aligned with the major axis of the elliptical collimated beam and its power axis aligned with the minor axis of the elliptical collimated beam so as to form a line focus extending along the major axis of the elliptical collimated beam.
US11086125B2
In a stacked waveguide assembly, the waveguides can comprise color filters, distributed filters, and/or switch materials. Examples of color filters include dyes, tints, or stains. Examples of distributed filters and/or switch materials include dichroic filters, Bragg gratings, electronically switchable glass, and electronically switchable mirrors. Switch materials can be designed or tuned to attenuate light of unwanted colors or wavelengths. The waveguides may each be associated with a particular design wavelength. This can mean that a waveguide that is associated with a design wavelength includes an incoupling optical element is configured to deflect light at the design wavelength to an associated light distributing element and that the associated wavelength selective region is configured to attenuate light not at the design wavelength.
US11086122B2
A microelectromechanical device includes a body of semiconductor material, which forms a cavity, a mobile structure, and an actuation structure. The actuation structure includes at least one first deformable element which faces the cavity and is mechanically coupled to the body and to the mobile structure, and a piezoelectric-actuation system which can be controlled so as to deform the first deformable element and cause a consequent rotation of the mobile structure. The mobile structure includes a supporting region and at least one first pillar region, the first pillar region being mechanically coupled to the first deformable element, the supporting region being set on the first pillar region and overlying at least part of the first deformable element.
US11086116B2
An immersion microscope objective includes: a first lens group that has a positive refractive power and includes a first cemented lens consisting of a planoconvex lens having a plane surface facing an object and a meniscus lens having a concave surface facing the object; a second lens group that includes a first cemented triplet lens; a third lens group that includes a second cemented triplet lens; a fourth lens group that includes a second cemented lens with a meniscus shape having a concave surface facing an image; and a fifth lens group that includes a lens having a concave surface facing the object, wherein the immersion microscope objective has a numerical aperture within a range from 1.35 to 1.5. The first and second cemented triplet lenses each consist of a positive lens, a negative lens, and a positive lens.
US11086114B2
A light-scanning microscope including a scan optics for generating a pupil plane conjugate to the pupil plane of the microscope objective, and a variably adjustable beam deflection unit in the conjugate pupil plane. An intermediate image lies between the microscope objective and the scan optics. The scan optics image a second intermediate image (Zb2) into the first intermediate image via the beam deflection unit, wherein the second intermediate image is spatially curved. The deflection unit is not arranged in a collimated section of the beam path, but is instead arranged in a convergent section. Then, in terms of the optical properties and quality thereof, the scan optics needs rather to correspond merely to an eyepiece instead of a conventional scanner objective.
US11086098B2
The present embodiment relates to a dual camera module comprising: a substrate; a first image sensor disposed on the substrate; a second image sensor disposed on the substrate while being spaced apart from the first image sensor; a housing disposed on the upper side of the substrate; a first bobbin disposed on the upper side of the first image sensor inside the housing; a second bobbin disposed on the upper side of the second image sensor inside the housing; a first coil disposed in the first bobbin; a second coil disposed in the second bobbin; and a first magnet which is disposed between the first coil and the second coil and faces the first coil and the second coil.
US11086088B2
An optoelectronic assembly may include a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) with a top surface and a laser with a top surface and a bottom surface. The optoelectronic assembly may also include a housing configured to cooperate with the PIC to one or both of house and support one or more components. The housing may include a PIC mount including a first surface to interface with the top surface of the PIC, and a laser mount including a second surface to interface with the top or bottom surface of the laser. The first surface and the second surface may be parallel to each other.
US11086075B2
A fiber array unit (FAU) includes a substrate, a cover element, and a plurality of optical fibers each including a splice joint connecting fibers of different mode-field diameters with a recoating material arranged over at least a portion of the fibers overlapping the substrate, wherein stripped portions of the fibers are arranged in grooves between the substrate and the cover element. A method for fabricating a compact FAU includes splicing ends of stripped sections of first and second optical fiber segments of different mode-field diameters, applying a recoating material over at least portions of the stripped sections, positioning portions of stripped sections of the second optical fiber segments in grooves defined in a substrate, and arranging a cover over the grooves. Certain embodiments include stripping recoating material portions of the second optical fiber segments before they are placed in the grooves.
US11086074B1
Methods and techniques are presented to inhibit crystallization in optical waveguide structures, during high temperature annealing or deposition, thus preventing the formation of crystalline grains that scatter and/or absorb light. Dopant atoms or molecules are used to disrupt crystallization. The dopant atoms or molecules are selected to be transparent to the optical signal's wavelength range(s). Optical signals propagating in a waveguide that is fabricated with such techniques will experience reduced propagation loss or insertion loss. The passive dopants can also be used in active devices such as lasers or optical amplifiers that incorporate optically active dopants, as long as the passive dopants are chosen so that they do not interact with the active dopants.
US11086073B2
A guidewire having a fiber optic force sensor with a mirror having encoded reflectance is described. The guidewire has a distal housing supported by a core wire. A distal hypotube connected to the distal housing supports a spring intermediate hypotube proximal and distal portions. An atraumatic head is connected to the distal hypotube portion. An optical fiber having at least one fiber core extends through lumens in the core wire and housing to a distal end of the housing. A mirror supported by the atraumatic head faces proximally but is spaced distally from the fiber core at a distal face of the optical fiber. The mirror is provided with a pattern of reflectance that varies along a radius from a central area of reflectance. Light of a defined power shines from the fiber core to the mirror with a reflected percentage of the defined light power being reflected back to the fiber core. A percentage of the reflected percentage of the defined light power is captured by and travels along the fiber core to a light wave detector connected to a controller. From the percentage of the reflected percentage of the light of the defined power received by the detector, the controller is programmed to calculate whether an axial or lateral force is imparted to the atraumatic head and, if so, the magnitude and vector of those forces.
US11086057B2
An optical wavelength dispersion device is disclosed, which includes a waveguide unit and an adjustable reflecting unit, wherein the waveguide unit has a first substrate, an input unit, a grating, a reflector and a second substrate. The input unit is formed on the first substrate and having a slit for receiving an optical signal, a grating is formed on the first substrate for producing an output beam once the optical signal is dispersed, the reflector is formed on the first substrate for reflecting the output beam, the second substrate is located on the input unit, the grating and the reflector, and forms a waveguide space with the first substrate; the adjustable reflecting unit is located outside of the waveguide unit, and is used for changing emitting angle and adjusting focus of the output beam.
US11086045B2
A system for determining a fingerprint of a structure is provided. The system includes a plurality of granules inserted in a structure having a plurality of fissures, fractures, and cracks (collectively apertures), each granule comprising a membrane, and at least one bubble of compressed gas formed in the membrane, the membrane selectively dissolving in presence of a predetermined fluid and thereby selectively bursting the at least one bubble, thereby generating a concussing vibration, at least at least i) three detection devices for two-dimensional mapping or ii) four detection devices for three-dimensional mapping placed proximate to the structure according to a predetermined placement schedule, and a computing device comprising a processor configured to receive data from the at least three or four detection devices and to determine location of the at least one bubble of each of the plurality of the granules at the time of bursting by triangulating the concussive vibration in order to determine location of the at least one bubble.
US11086044B2
A shale oil analysis method and apparatus for continuously characterizing saturation of adsorbed oil and free oil, comprising: obtain NMR T2 spectrum, NMR porosity, oil saturation and wettability indexes of a core samples, determine a lower limit value for the saturation calculation of the absorbed oil based on the NMR T2 spectrum, the NMR porosity, the oil saturation and wettability indices; determining a lower limit value for the saturation calculation of the free oil according to the bulk relaxation T2 spectrum of the crude oil of the well interval or an adjacent well interval and the NMR T2 spectrum of the core samples; calculating the saturation of the absorbed oil and the free oil, and analyzing the shale oil in the well interval to be analyzed. The solution realizes the quantitative and continuous characterization of the adsorbed oil and the free oil of the shale oil via well logs.
US11086043B2
A method comprises a) positioning a passive magnetic ranging (PMR) tool in a drilling well that is near a target well that includes a ferromagnetic casing, b) measuring with each of the magnetometers a local magnetic anomaly created by the ferromagnetic casing of the target well so as to generate a plurality of magnetometer readings corresponding to the positions of the magnetometers; c) receiving the plurality of magnetometer readings with the controller; and d) using the received measurements to calculate ranging information, the ranging information including the range and direction from the PMR tool to the target well. The PMR tool may include a ranging collar, a longitudinal array of magnetometers extending along the length of the ranging collar, and a controller, the controller operatively connected to the plurality of magnetometers. The PMR tool may further comprise a radial array of magnetometers positioned radially about the ranging collar.
US11086041B2
A weapons and explosives detector that comprises at least one controlled magnetic field sensor (10) connected to at least one antenna (11); where this antenna (11) is configured as one electrode; and where the controlled electrostatic field sensor (10) is configured to detected a disturbance in the electrostatic field (3) generated by at least one antenna (11) connected with that sensor (10); and where at least one antenna (11) is prepared in a pole (1); or on the perimeter of the vehicle's (2) bodywork; or in an individual combat weapon; where each sensor (10) is connected to at least one control device (100).
US11086030B2
A radiation imaging apparatus includes a sensor base, a sensor array that includes a plurality of sensor chips arranged in an array, and in which three or more sensor chips out of the plurality of sensor chips are arranged in one row of the sensor array, a scintillator positioned on a side opposite to the sensor base with respect to the sensor array, a bonding member that bonds the sensor array and the scintillator, and a plurality of bonding sheets that are separated from each other and bond the sensor base and the plurality of sensor chips. Two adjacent sensor chips out of the three or more sensor chips are bonded to the sensor base using separate bonding sheets out of the plurality of bonding sheets.
US11086028B2
A low cost, rapid, flexible radiation detector uses inorganic metal halide precursors and dyes that respond to self-quenching hybrid scintillation. Remote, high-contrast, laser sensing can be used to determine when exposure of the detector to radiation occurs (even temporally).
US11086025B2
Integrated Visual Geo-referencing Target Unit ABSTRACT A georeferencing target unit including: a generally planar top surface including a visual marker structure on the top surface, dimensioned to be observable at a distance by a remote visual capture device; an internal gps tracking unit tracking the current position of the target unit; a microcontroller and storage means for storing gps tracking data; and wireless network interconnection unit for interconnecting wirelessly with an external network for the downloading of stored gps tracking data; a power supply for driving the gps tracking unit, microcontroller, storage and wireless network interconnection unit, a user interface including an activation mechanism for activating the internal gps tracking unit to track the current position of the target unit over an extended time frame and store the tracked gps tracking data in the storage means.
US11086024B1
A receiver device to receive an incoming radio frequency (RF) satellite signal from a satellite vehicle includes a processor and computer-readable storage media. The computer-readable storage media is communicably connected to the processor and has instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to track the incoming RF satellite signal in code phase and carrier frequency, the incoming RF satellite signal having a primary pseudorandom (PRN) code and a secondary PRN code modulated thereon, generate an encoded sequence of dot product values of adjacent integrated in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) components of the incoming RF satellite signal, compare the encoded sequence with expected secondary code chip transitions, determine a secondary code phase for the secondary PRN code based on the comparison, and coherently integrate the secondary code phase with the incoming RF satellite signal to increase an integration interval.
US11086017B2
A LIDAR system that may include a transmitter and a receiver. The LIDAR system may include a transmitter and a receiver that may include an array of neuromorphic pixels and multiple accumulators. Each neuromorphic pixel may include multiple subpixels, an analog adder and a comparator; wherein for each reception period the analog adder is configured to generate an analog adder signal by adding detection signals from subpixels that are expected to receive at least one received light pulse during the reception period; wherein for each reception period the analog adder signal is indifferent to subpixels that are not expected to receive any received light pulses during the reception period; and wherein the comparator is configured to provide pixel output signals by comparing the analog adder signal to a threshold. The multiple accumulators are configured to add multiple pixel output signals from neuromorphic pixels to provide, for each neuromorphic pixel, an accumulated signal that represents radiations sensed by the neuromorphic pixel during the multiple reception periods.
US11086015B2
A system of generating a three-dimensional (3D) scan of an environment includes multiple 3D scanners including a first 3D scanner at respective first and second positions. The system further includes a controller coupled to the 3D scanners. The first 3D scanner acquires a first set of 3D coordinates, the first set of 3D coordinates having a first portion. The second 3D scanner acquires a second set of 3D coordinates, the second set of 3D coordinates having a second portion. The first portion and the second portion are simultaneously transmitted to the controller by the first 3D scanner and the second 3D scanner respectively, while the first set of 3D coordinates and the second set of 3D coordinates are being acquired. The controller registers the first portion and the second portion to each other while the first set of 3D coordinates and the second set of 3D coordinates are being acquired.
US11086010B2
A radar system processes signals in a flexible, adaptive manner to determine range, Doppler (velocity) and angle of objects in an environment. The radar system processes the received signal to achieve different objectives depending on one or more of a selected range resolution, a selected velocity resolution, and a selected angle of arrival resolution, as defined by memory requirements and processing requirements. The system allows improved resolution of range, Doppler and/or angle depending on the memory requirements and processing requirements. The system also adapts to changing environmental conditions including interfering radio signals.
US11086006B2
An each pattern is provided a reception pathway, the method uses the synchronous replies and the asynchronous replies, unsolicited of Fruit type, transmitted by targets present in the aerial environment of the radar and detected over a given number of antenna revolutions. At each detection of a reply the value of its off-aim in bearing and the value of relative power received on each of the pathways are calculated as is its elevation by extrapolation with the synchronous detections close to the same target and associated with the detection. The values obtained over the given number of revolutions are stored, the measured patterns being sampled on the basis of the stored values.
US11086003B2
A passive radar comprises a reception antenna for a signal transmitted by a non-cooperative transmitter, the received signal comprising a static contribution related to propagation of the signal transmitted through a multi-path propagation channel and a dynamic contribution related to propagation of echoes of the transmitted signal from a moving target. The passive radar also comprises a reception chain that includes an analogue-digital converter capable of outputting a digitised signal, a moving target detection unit, a digitised signal processing unit configured to determine an estimation of the static contribution during a calibration phase of the passive radar, a transmission chain that can output an analogue signal representative of the estimation of the static contribution, and a directional coupler configured to output the signal received during the calibration phase of the passive radar to the reception chain.
US11086001B2
The present application provides a position detecting method, device and storage medium for a vehicle ladar, where the method includes: detecting, through a ladar disposed on an autonomous vehicle, detection data of at least one wall of an interior room in which the autonomous vehicle is located, obtaining a point cloud image according to the detection data of the at least one wall, and judging, according to the point cloud image, whether an installation position of the ladar is accurate. According to the technical solution, it is possible to accurately detect whether the installation position of the ladar is accurate, provide a prerequisite for calibration of the installation position of the ladar, and improve detection accuracy of the ladar for obstacles around the autonomous vehicle.
US11085994B2
A radar device including at least three subcircuits, wherein each subcircuit has a cascade input port and a cascade output port and is chained such that the cascade output port of a first subcircuit is connected to the cascade input port of a subsequent subcircuit, the cascade input port of the last subcircuit of the chain is connected to the cascade output port of its preceding subcircuit, and the cascade output port of the last subcircuit of the chain is connectable to an external device, and wherein the at least three subcircuits are configured to conduct a radar computation in a distributed manner such that intermediate results are conveyed towards the last subcircuit of the chain which is configured to combine these results and supply them towards its cascade output port.
US11085989B2
Systems and methods for a low-frequency radio navigation system are described. The system may include a transmitter comprising a base coded modulator configured to generate a base modulation and a data coded modulator configured to generate a data modulation; wherein the transmitter radiates a continuous, constant-power chirped-FM spread spectrum signal, comprising: the base modulation; and the data modulation, wherein the data modulation is orthogonal to the base modulation. The system may also include a receiver comprising a digital signal processor, wherein at least one matched filter coupled to the digital signal processor, the at least one matched filter configured to decode said base modulation and data-encoded modulation and provide a correlation function for received signals received from at least three geographically-spaced transmitters.
US11085986B2
Disclosed herein are a method and an apparatus for removing ghost artifacts of an echo planner image using a neural network. An image processing method according to an embodiment of the inventive concept includes receiving Fourier space data of an echo planar image, and restoring the echo planar image in which ghost artifacts are removed using a neural network. The receiving of the Fourier space data may include dividing the Fourier space data into the odd-numbered Fourier space data and even-numbered Fourier space data, and the restoring of the echo planar image may include obtaining the odd-numbered Fourier space data and even-numbered Fourier space data with the Fourier space interpolated using the neural network and restoring the echo planar image in which the ghost artifacts are removed based on the odd-numbered Fourier space data and even-numbered Fourier space data with the Fourier space interpolated.
US11085985B2
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes a memory for storing machine executable instructions and MRF pulse sequence commands. The MRF pulse sequence commands are configured for controlling the MRI system to acquire MRF magnetic resonance data according to a magnetic resonance fingerprinting protocol. The memory further includes a Fourier transformed magnetic resonance finger printing dictionary. The finger printing dictionary includes entries for at least one intrinsic property.
US11085984B2
During operation, a system may apply an external magnetic field and an RF pulse sequence to a sample. Then, the system may measure at least a component of a magnetization associated with the sample, such as MR signals of one or more types of nuclei in the sample. Moreover, the system may calculate at least a predicted component of the magnetization for voxels associated with the sample based on the measured component of the magnetization, a forward model, the external magnetic field and the RF pulse sequence. Next, the system may solve an inverse problem by iteratively modifying the parameters associated with the voxels in the forward model until a difference between the predicted component of the magnetization and the measured component of the magnetization is less than a predefined value. Note that the calculations may be performed concurrently with the measurements and may not involve performing a Fourier transform.
US11085981B2
According to one embodiment, an MRI apparatus includes sequence control circuitry and processing circuitry. The sequence control circuitry executes a pulse sequence for collecting MR signals in collection timings along a relaxation curve of longitudinal magnetization in synchronization with heartbeats or blood beats. The processing circuitry generate a T1 map representing a distribution of T1 values by using the collected MR signals. The pulse sequence is set so as not to collect any MR signal in at least one heartbeat or blood beat among heartbeats or blood beats included between first and second inversion pulses, and so as to collect an MR signal in a heartbeat or blood beat subsequent to the at least one heartbeat or blood beat in which no MR signal is collected.
US11085980B2
In one aspect, in accordance with one embodiment, a method includes acquiring magnetic resonance (MR) data corresponding to bone tissue in an area of interest of a subject that is heated from the application of localized energy. The acquiring includes applying a three-dimensional (3D) ultra-short echo time (UTE) spiral acquisition sequence. The method also includes detecting, from the acquired magnetic resonance data, a change in MR response signal due to a change in at least one of relaxation rate and magnetization density caused by heating of the bone tissue; and determining, based at least in part on the change in the MR response signal, that the temperature of the bone tissue has changed.
US11085973B2
Systems and methods for detecting leakage in a cable network system are disclosed. In at least some illustrative embodiments, a system may include a digital tagger operable to generate a digital tag including a chirp signal configured to be placed on a downstream signal path of the cable network system, and a cable network test instrument configured detect the digital tag in wireless signal data received from the cable network system when a point of ingress is presented in the cable network system. The network test instrument may be operable to provide a user-perceptible indication when the digital tag is detected to inform a technician or other user that a flaw in the cable network system is nearby.
US11085965B2
A circuit comprises a clock gating device. The clock gating device comprises a multiplexing device and circuitry for generating multiplexer input signals. The selector input of the multiplexing device is coupled to a clock signal. The multiplexing device selects the first input signal to send to an output of the multiplexing device when the selector input is set to “0” and selects the second input signal to send to the output of the multiplexing device outputted when the selector input is set to “1”. The circuitry for generating multiplexer input signals is configured to ensure the timing of the transitions on the output are derived from the timing of the transitions of the clock signal and not by the timing of the transition of the first and second inputs of the multiplexing device.
US11085963B2
The disclosure describes a process and apparatus for accessing devices on a substrate. The substrate may include only full pin JTAG devices (504), only reduced pin JTAG devices (506), or a mixture of both full pin and reduced pin JTAG devices. The access is accomplished using a single interface (502) between the substrate (408) and a JTAG controller (404). The access interface may be a wired interface or a wireless interface and may be used for JTAG based device testing, debugging, programming, or other type of JTAG based operation.
US11085962B2
The disclosure discloses a lookup table-based circuit aging detection sensor, including a control circuit, two voltage controlled oscillators (VCOs), two shaping circuits, a phase comparator, a 3-digit voter, a beat-frequency oscillator, an 8-digit counter, a latch, a lookup table array and a digital-analogue converter. The control circuit respectively connects with the phase comparator, the 3-digit voter, the 8-digit counter, the first and the second VCOs. The first and second VCOs connect with the first and second shaping circuits respectively. The first and second shaping circuits connect with the phase comparator. The phase comparator connects with the 3-digit voter. The 3-digit voter connects with the beat-frequency oscillator. The beat-frequency oscillator respectively connects with the 8-digit counter and the latch. The 8-digit counter connects with the latch. The latch connects with the lookup table array. The lookup table array connects with the digital-analogue converter.
US11085957B2
A system for predicting a triggered lightning strike upon an aircraft, which includes an antenna for collecting an RF signal. The system includes one or more processors and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing data into a database and program code that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the system to receive as input a filtered, amplified form of the RF signal collected by the antenna and a non-filtered, amplified form of the RF signal collected by the antenna. The system determines a difference between the filtered, amplified form of the RF signal and the non-filtered and amplified form of the RF signal. The difference is a static signal. The system determines the triggered lightning strike upon the aircraft based on the static signal.
US11085954B2
A control circuit can be applied to a bias circuit including a first transistor and a second transistor with their gates connected. The first and second transistors are configured to amplify an input reference direct current (DC) current of the bias circuit to obtain a bias DC current. The control circuit includes: a detection circuit configured to compare a first DC voltage with a second DC voltage to obtain a comparison result; the first DC voltage being a drain DC voltage of the first transistor; and the second DC voltage being a drain DC voltage of the second transistor; and an adjustment circuit configured to adjust the first DC voltage and the second DC voltage by using the comparison result, such that the drain DC voltage of the first transistor equals the drain DC voltage of the second transistor when the bias circuit is in operation.
US11085950B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes an interface assembly for a vertical probe contactor. The interface assembly comprises a base board, a mounting board, a depth adjust plate, and an interface apparatus. The depth adjust plate is between the base board and the mounting board, and the interface apparatus is mounted to the mounting board. The interface apparatus is configured to receive the vertical probe contactor through an opening in the base board and a corresponding opening in the depth adjust plate. A thickness of the depth adjust plate defines a vertical distance between a wafer side of the base board and a plurality of probe tips of the vertical probe contactor.
US11085948B2
An electric connection device includes: a probe (11); a probe head (12) that holds the probe (11); and an electrode substrate (13) on which an electrode pad (131) to be connected to a proximal end of the probe (11) is provided. The probe head (12) is provided with a guide pin (14) for alignment of the probe head (12) and the electrode substrate (13), and the electrode substrate (13) is provided with a guide hole group composed of a plurality of guide holes corresponding to the guide pin (14).
US11085940B2
The automatic analyzer includes a sample storage section for accommodating a plurality of samples, a reagent storage section for accommodating a plurality of reagents, an analysis section for carrying out an analysis by reacting the sample with the reagent, a display, a storage section for storing a setting of an operation item to be automatically executed, which is effective only at restarting, and a control section which displays a screen for setting the operation item to be automatically executed upon acceptance of power shutdown operation by an operator during the analysis on the display to accept the setting from the operator, and automatically executes or omits execution of the operation item to be automatically executed, which has been set by the operator in accordance with the setting read from the storage section at the restarting.
US11085939B2
Disclosed herein is a method for quantifying phosphatidylethanol (“PEth”), a direct ethanol biomarker, from a blood sample using gas chromatography mass spectrometry. The method disclosed herein is useful for diagnosing acute and chronic alcohol abuse.
US11085921B2
The present invention relates to a sensor for an electronic tongue or nose for analysing a sample or detecting a target. The sensor comprises a support, on one surface of which a plurality of sensitive areas are located, each sensitive area comprising at least one receptor and being capable of transmitting a measurable signal generated by the interaction of at least one constituent of the sample or one target with at least one receptor. The sensor is characterised in that it comprises at least three sensitive areas that differ from one another in terms of their respective receptor compositions, at least one of the sensitive areas comprising a mixture of at least two different receptors, while the two other sensitive areas each comprise at least one of the two receptors.
US11085920B2
Nanodiamond particles and related devices and methods, such as nanodiamond particles for the detection and/or quantification of analytes, are generally described. In some embodiments, the device comprises a plurality of nanodiamond particles and a species bound to the nanodiamond particles. In certain embodiments, the plurality of nanodiamond particles may be exposed to a sample suspected of containing an analyte. In some cases, the analyte may bind to the species such that the presence of the analyte in the sample may be detected. In some embodiments, the devices, systems, and methods described herein are useful for the detection of an analyte in a sample obtained from a subject for, for example, diagnostic purposes. In some cases, the systems, devices, and methods described herein may be useful for diagnosing, prevent, treating, and/or managing a disease or bodily condition. In an exemplary embodiment, such systems, devices, and methods described herein may be useful for detecting and/or quantifying the presence of a virus (e.g., ebola) in a subject and/or a sample obtained from the subject.
US11085919B2
A method for detecting chemical substances in samples of material that can be taken from a subject, comprising a step of preparing a sample of a substance coming from a donor organism; a step of associating with said sample of a substance a control element suitable for verifying a presence of at least one active agent in the sample of the substance and a step of verifying the presence or absence of the active agent based on a change in state in said control element; the control element comprising at least one living organism having the ability to nourish itself autonomously through temporary organs associated with the living organism itself and able to supply nutritive substances to the latter without taking said nutritive substances from an outside environment.
US11085917B2
The present invention relates generally to the field of making novel antigen binding domains against infectious diseases. The present invention also relates to novel CARs that utilize the novel antigen binding domains as an extracellular element. The present invention also relates to use of the novel antigen binding domains as therapeutic agents.
US11085905B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for monitoring chromatographic fluid flows, such as the flow to and/or from one or more reservoirs used in chromatographic operations, for instance. In many embodiments, the chromatographic operations may include one or more of High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography (UPLC), Ultra Performance Convergence Chromatography (UPC2), and the like. Several embodiments are particularly directed to a chromatographic fluid flow device (CFFD) for monitoring a change in density of a chromatographic fluid in a tube, such as by detecting the presence or absence of gas in the tube with an ultrasonic bubble detector. In various embodiments, the chromatographic fluid may include a solvent, a sample, or waste associated with a chromatographic operation.
US11085902B2
An optical breakdown acoustic transducer can generate high-bandwidth, high amplitude acoustic waves via an optical breakdown process. The optical breakdown acoustic transducer can include a vessel having an interior cavity that is substantially filled with a fluid and a light source that emits light. The light can be directed through an optical element that focuses the light to at least one focal point located within the fluid, thereby causing optical breakdown and generation of an acoustic shockwave. The acoustic shockwave can then be coupled into a medium surrounding the optical breakdown acoustic transducer via an acoustic outlet coupled to the vessel. The acoustic output of the optical breakdown acoustic transducer can be tuned by adjusting the properties of the optical source and/or the shape of the cavity containing the fluid. The optical breakdown acoustic transducer can be used for imaging, sensing, communication, and mechanical disruption.
US11085896B2
A gas sensor includes know types of electrodes such has sensing electrodes, counter electrodes or reference electrodes to sense the presence of a predetermined gas. In addition, at least one diagnostic electrode is carried in the sensor. The diagnostic electrode implements at least one diagnostic function without substantially impairing the gas sensing function. The diagnostic electrode is immersed in sensor electrolyte.
US11085893B2
A capacitive matrix suction sensor measures the matrix suction exhibited by a porous medium surrounding the sensor. The sensor is constructed from a capacitive moisture probe having a sensing body, and a jacket that encases the sensing body. The jacket is made of a hydrophilic, non-conductive, porous (HN-CP) material. In operation, the sensing body is energized, and the voltage produced is read. The matrix suction exhibited by the HN-CP jacket material is then computed based on the voltage, and an indicator of the current value of the matrix suction exhibited by the porous medium is established based on the matrix suction computed for the HN-CP jacket material.
US11085887B2
The disclosed embodiments include a rock sample inspection method. The method may include preparing a sample of formation rock by encapsulating the sample, inserting the sample into a vessel body as part of a test assembly, enclosing the sample within an low compressibility fluid, applying pressure to an interior of the vessel body by tightening a compression screw employing a piston acting on said low compressibility fluid, monitoring the pressure, conducting a test on the sample, and recording results of the test for further analysis.
US11085883B2
The present disclosure relates to a frame for fastening inspection modules for containers. The frame includes a conveyor for the containers and a plurality of rails. The plurality of rails includes a first rail and a second rail arranged on a first side of the conveyor and a third rail and a fourth rail arranged on a second side of the conveyor. Each of the plurality of rails are for the fastening of the inspection modules. The present disclosure further relates to an inspection unit including the frame and at least one of the inspection modules.
US11085879B1
An apparatus configured to fog test eyewear includes an environmentally controlled chamber, a head form disposed within the chamber, a radiator disposed within the chamber, the radiator connected to a liquid cooling system, and a humidifier device configured to deliver a flow of warm moist air towards the frontal portion of the head form and a surface of the eyewear. A camera is disposed within the head form, the camera aligned with a first opening in a frontal portion of the head form and configured to detect a target image within the chamber while the flow of warm moist air is delivered. A processor is configured to calculate a contrast difference between a background of the target image detected by the camera and resolution bars of the target image detected by the camera, plot a contrast ratio from the calculated contrast difference against a known calibration standard and calculate a performance measure of an anti-fog device of the eyewear.
US11085877B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for determining the refractive index of a downhole fluid. Two unalike crystals are provided having faces in contact with fluid in the fluid flow line of a borehole tool. The crystals are chosen to have different refractive indices and/or different angles of incidence, but to provide total internal reflection for light that is directed through the crystals to the crystal/fluid interface. The measured attenuations for each crystal are used in conjunction with the known refractive indices and angles of incidence of said crystals to determine the refractive index of the fluid.
US11085871B2
A system includes at least one earpiece wherein each earpiece comprises an earpiece housing, a light source operatively connected to each earpiece housing and configured to transmit substantially coherent light toward an outer surface of a user's body, a light receiver operatively connected to the earpiece housing proximate to the light source and configured to receive reflected light from the outer surface of the user's body, and one or more processors disposed within the earpiece housing and operatively connected to the light source and light receiver, wherein one or more processors is configured to determine bone vibration measurements from the reflected light. A method of determining bone vibrations includes providing at least one earpiece, transmitting substantially coherent light toward an outer surface of a user's body using the earpiece, receiving reflected light from the outer surface of the user's body using the earpiece, and determining bone vibration measurements using the earpiece.
US11085869B2
Systems for detecting light (e.g., in a flow stream) are described. Light detection systems according to embodiments include two or more photodetector arrays and an optical adjustment component positioned in an optical path between the photodetector arrays. Systems and methods for measuring light emitted by a sample (e.g., in a flow stream) and kits having two or more photodetector arrays and an optical adjustment component are also provided.
US11085866B2
Various embodiments include methods and apparatuses to reduce false-particle counts in a water-based condensation particle counter (CPC). In one embodiment, a cleanroom CPC has three parallel growth tube assemblies. A detector is coupled to an outlet of each of the three parallel growth tube assemblies, and is used to compare the particle concentrations measured from each of the three growth tube assemblies. An algorithm compares the counts from the three detectors and determines when the particles counted are real and when they are false counts. Any real particle event shows up in all three detectors, while false counts will only be detected by one detector. Statistics are used to determine at which particle count levels the measured counts are considered to be real versus false. Other methods and apparatuses are disclosed.
US11085864B2
Systems and methods for uniquely identifying fluid-phase products by endowing them with fingerprints composed of dispersed colloidal particles, and by reading out those fingerprints on demand using Total Holographic Characterization. A library of chemically inert colloidal particles is developed that can be dispersed into soft materials, the stoichiometry of the mixture encoding user-specified information, including information about the host material. Encoded information then can be recovered by high-speed analysis of holographic microscopy images of the dispersed particles. Specifically, holograms of individual colloidal spheres are analyzed with predictions of the theory of light scattering to measure each sphere's radius and refractive index, thereby building up the distribution of particle properties one particle at a time. A complete analysis of a colloidal fingerprint requires several thousand single-particle holograms and can be completed in ten minutes.
US11085861B1
An impactor, system and method for performing real-time measurements of particles in aerosol gases. The impactor comprises a plurality of cascading stages having impaction plates, mass-measurement mechanisms retained on the impaction plates, and a nozzle plate. A signal line associated with each of the plurality of cascading stages is configured to relay signals from the mass-measurement mechanism of the associated stage to a computer-based system configured to receive the transmitted signals from the signal lines, and to correlate changes in the resonant frequencies to particle concentrations in real time.
US11085847B2
A physical quantity measuring device includes a sensor module; a joint attached with the sensor module; a connector configured to be connected to a first or a second cylindrical case and the joint; a circuit substrate attached with an electronic circuit configured to receive a signal detected by the sensor module; and a holder holding the circuit substrate. The holder can be housed in the first cylindrical case in a first posture where a first end is engaged with a first connector and a second end is in contact with a first cover, or in a second cylindrical case in a second posture where the first end is engaged with a second cover and the second end is in contact with a second connector. The holder has an engaging projection engageable with a first engagement groove provided to the first connector and a second engagement groove provided to the second cover.
US11085845B2
Various techniques are provided for correcting error in static pressure data. In one example, a system includes an aircraft component. The aircraft component can include a port disposed within the aircraft component. A static pressure sensor is disposed within the port. The static pressure sensor is configured to provide primary pressure data in response to environmental air pressure. The data provided can include error due to acoustic disturbance. The system can also include an acoustic sensor configured to provide acoustic data in response to the acoustic disturbance. Data from the static pressure sensor and the acoustic sensor can be provided to a processor communicatively coupled to the static pressure sensor and the acoustic sensor. The processor can be configured to determine corrected static pressure data using the provided primary pressure data and the provided acoustic data. Additional systems and similar methods are also provided.
US11085839B2
Provided is a torque sensor which enables the allowable torque and sensitivity of a strain sensor to be independently set, or for which the mechanical strength can be independently set. The torque sensor comprises a first region, a second region, and a plurality of third regions which connect the first and second regions, wherein the torque to be measured is transmitted between the first and second regions through the third regions. A first strain generation part is provided between the first region and the second region, and is equipped with a first resistor. A second strain generation part is provided between the first region and the second region at a location separated from the first strain generation part, and is equipped with a second resistor.
US11085837B2
A force sensor may comprise a sense die comprising a top part and a bottom part. Generally, the top part may comprise a first surface and a second surface, and the bottom part may comprise a first surface for direct contact with a substrate. Typically, the bottom part may be formed by removing a portion of the material of the sense die around the edges of a first face of the sense die. Typically, adhesive may replace the portion of the sense die material removed from the edges of the first face of the sense die. Thus, the adhesive may secure the first surface of the bottom part of the sense die directly to the substrate without serving as an interface between the bottom part of the sense die and the substrate.
US11085835B2
A capacitive sensor includes an upper block; a lower block; a plurality of elastic supports for elastically supporting the upper block and the lower block; upper vertical electrodes formed to have faces perpendicular to the bottom surface of the upper block; lower vertical electrodes formed to have faces perpendicular to the top surface of the lower block and disposed to face the upper vertical electrodes such that at least parts of the lower vertical electrodes overlap with the upper vertical electrodes; and an electronic circuit including the upper vertical electrodes and the lower vertical electrodes as parts of the circuit and outputting a signal corresponding to changes in capacitances between the upper vertical electrodes and the lower vertical electrodes caused by a force or a torque applied to at least one of the upper block and the lower block.
US11085824B2
The disclosure provides a super-resolution fast-scanning coherent Raman scattering imaging method. The method: using pump light and Stokes light; combining the pump light and the Stokes light to obtain combined light; expanding/collimating the combined light; the combined light after the expanding/collimating entering a galvanometer, passing through a group of a scanning lens/a tube lens and being focused on a back focal plane of a microobjective and incidenting into a biological sample, such that the biological sample is excited to emit anti-Stokes light; collecting the excited anti-Stokes light by a detector. This method is characterized by deflecting, at different angles, a single light spot focused on the microobjective through a diffractive optics group including DOE and a dispersive element, into a plurality of 1×N light spots to incident into the biological sample, such that the anti-Stokes light excited from smaller molecules and being condensed and filtered, is collected by the detector.
US11085817B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a device and a method for detecting a light intensity. The device includes a photosensor, an input circuit, an amplification circuit, a feedback circuit, a storage circuit, and an output circuit. The photosensor is coupled to a first voltage signal terminal and a first node. The input circuit provides a first voltage signal to the first node according to an input signal. The amplification circuit provides, to a second node, a second voltage signal from a second voltage signal terminal according to the voltage of the first node. The feedback circuit couples the first node to the second node according to a reset signal. The storage circuit stores a voltage difference between the first node and the second node. The output circuit reads the voltage of the second node according to a read signal.
US11085815B2
An apparatus externally detects the presence of a fault or malfunction in a gas turbine using the sound of air passing through vanes. The apparatus includes a sound sensor configured to sense a sound; a signal converter configured to convert the sensed sound into a digital signal; a data processor configured to perform a sound quality evaluation by analyzing a sound quality of the digital signal; and a display configured to display a result of the sound quality evaluation. The gas turbine includes a compressor housed in a compressor casing in which an inlet guide vane (IGV) assembly and a variable guide vane (VGV) assembly are installed. The sound sensor includes a plurality of microphones are installed outside the compressor casing at positions adjacent to at least one of a vane of the IGV assembly and a vane of the VGV assembly.
US11085812B2
A medication dispensing device may include a plurality of trays, each tray optionally including a load cell configured to measure a mass/weight of a medication contained in the respective tray. Each tray is placeable in a medication accessible position and a medication inaccessible position. The medication dispensing device includes a user interface configured to provide instructions and/or other information with regard to access for each medication. A processor provides instructions to selectively place each tray in the medication accessible position, and to determine, based on any change in the mass of the medication placed in the medication accessible position, whether the appropriate amount of the medication is removed from the tray.
US11085808B2
A method of determining a zero offset of a vibratory meter at a process condition is provided. The method includes measuring a flow rate of a material in the vibratory meter, determining if the measured flow rate is less than a low flow threshold, measuring one or more operational parameters of the vibratory meter, determining if the one or more measured operational parameters of the vibratory meter are within a corresponding range, and if the measured flow rate is less than the low flow threshold and if the one or more measured operational parameters of the vibratory meter are within the corresponding range, then determining a zero offset of the vibratory meter based on the measured flow rate.
US11085806B2
A level sensing apparatus (110) for attachment to a sounding tube to measure levels of content in a tank. The level sensing apparatus includes a housing (16) for enclosing components of the level sensing apparatus (20). These components include a transmitter and an antenna (18) operatively connected to the transmitter for directing electrical or mechanical waves in a direction away from the transmitter. The antenna is adapted to also receive electrical and mechanical waves. The apparatus further includes a sounding tube adaptor (32) sized for attachment to a sounding tube, and a connector assembly operatively attaching the housing to the sounding tube adaptor. The connector assembly enabling the housing to rotate relative to the sounding tube adaptor about a horizontal axis to expose an open end of the sounding tube. In use, the level sensing apparatus allows for pulse radar measurement of liquid levels in the tank. The housing may be rotated relative to the sounding tube to also allow for manual level measurements or sampling of the tank contents.
US11085804B2
A measuring a closed-loop fluid transfer system is provided that includes a measuring adapter having a first end and a second ends, and a chamber located there between and configured to hold a volume of fluid. The measuring adapter includes a first receiving valve assembly located at the first end of the measuring adapter. The first receiving valve assembly includes a receiving valve member, at least a portion of which is separable from a portion of the first receiving valve assembly. This creates an opening that provides fluid communication to the chamber when a force is exerted on the receiving valve member of the first receiving valve assembly. A second valve assembly located at the second end of the measuring adapter includes a valve member. At least a portion of the valve member of the second valve assembly is separable from a portion of the second valve assembly to create an opening that provides fluid communication to the chamber.
US11085792B2
A method for determining an estimated time of arrival (ETA) includes receiving a start location and a destination from a user device via a network. The method also includes obtaining a machine learning model for determining an ETA, which is generated according to a process including: obtaining historical data related to an on-demand service order; determining a high-dimensional sparse feature based on the historical data; and determining a machine learning model based on the high-dimensional sparse feature. The method further includes determining an ETA for a target route based on the machine learning model, the start location, and the destination, and transmitting the determined ETA to the user device via the network.
US11085780B2
A pickup system for picking up a product using a vehicle having an autonomous travelling function includes a communication unit configured to accept a pickup request from a user, a travel control unit configured to cause the vehicle to autonomously travel to a user position specified in the pickup request accepted through the communication unit, and an informing unit configured to inform the user that, when the vehicle arrives at the user position, the arrived vehicle is a vehicle that is to pick up a product in response to the pickup request.
US11085778B2
An approach is provided for generating a dynamic navigation route based on the availability of a shared vehicle, for example, in a geofenced area for one embodiment. The approach involves identifying a navigation route along which a shared vehicle provider operates based, at least in part, on a distance threshold, wherein the navigation route is an optimal route. The approach also involves monitoring the navigation route to detect a change in current availability of the shared vehicle. The approach further involves recomputing the navigation route to include a route segment associated with the shared vehicle based on determining that the detected change indicates that the shared vehicle has become available.
US11085773B2
A GPS positioning unit acquires GPS positioning data of an object positioned based on a signal from a GPS satellite, and an angular velocity sensor acquires an output signal of the object. A sensitivity coefficient calculation unit sequentially derives a temporary sensitivity coefficient of the angular velocity sensor based on the GPS positioning data and the output signal. The sensitivity coefficient calculation unit derives a sensitivity coefficient for correcting the angular velocity output from the angular velocity sensor, by performing statistical processing on the temporary sensitivity coefficient of the angular velocity sensor that has been sequentially derived. A correlation coefficient calculation unit derives a correlation coefficient based on the GPS positioning data and the output signal. The sensitivity coefficient calculation unit changes a forgetting coefficient to be used when the statistical processing is performed, in accordance with the correlation coefficient.
US11085772B2
In accordance with implementations of the subject matter described herein, a new approach for generating indoor navigation is proposed. Generally speaking, a reference signal that includes time series data collected by at least one environment sensor along a reference path from a start point to a destination is obtained. For example, the reference signal may be obtained by environment sensors equipped in a user's mobile device or another movable entity. Then, a movement event by identifying a pattern from the reference signal, the pattern describing measurements of the at least one environment sensor associated with a specific movement is extracted. Next, a navigation instruction is generated to indicate that the movement event occurs during a movement of the at least one environment sensor along the reference path. Further, the navigation instruction may be provided to a person for indoor navigation.
US11085769B2
A gyroscope includes a substrate, a first structure, a second structure and a third structure elastically coupled to the substrate and movable along a first axis. The first and second structure are arranged at opposite sides of the third structure with respect to the first axis A driving system is configured to oscillate the first and second structure along the first axis in phase with one another and in phase opposition with the third structure. The first, second and third structure are provided with respective sets of sensing electrodes, configured to be displaced along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis in response to rotations of the substrate about a third axis perpendicular to the first axis and to the second axis.
US11085768B2
A microelectromechanical z-axis gyroscope which comprises a proof mass system centred around a gyroscope center point. The oscillation of first and second proof mass pairs is synchronized by a substantially circular synchronization element which is centred at the gyroscope center point and comprises four first attachment points. Each proof mass is attached to the nearest first attachment point on the substantially circular synchronization element. The substantially circular synchronization element also comprises two or more second attachment points, and a substantially linear suspender extends tangentially from each second attachment point to an anchor point.
US11085762B2
A level with a clip and removable end cap is provided. The end cap includes an outer member and locking member received within a clip that is affixed inside an end of the level. The locking member is inserted into the outer member pushing a moveable portion of the outer member into an engagement, such as a shearing engagement, that holds the end cap assembly in place relative to the level body. The clip includes a projection that interfaces with an aperture in the level frame.
US11085761B2
A system for determining the surface structure of an object, the system comprising a first assembly including an illumination source, and a binary mask to generate a binary pattern, the binary mask disposed between the illumination source and a defocusing element to modify the binary pattern to provide a continuously modulated fringe pattern to illuminate the surface of the object.
US11085754B2
Metrology targets designs, design methods and measurement methods are provided, which reduce noise and enhance measurement accuracy. Disclosed targets comprise an additional periodic structure which is orthogonal to the measurement direction along which given target structures are periodic. For example, in addition to two or more periodic structures along each measurement direction in imaging or scatterometry targets, a third, orthogonal periodic structure may be introduced, which provides additional information in the orthogonal direction, can be used to reduce noise, enhances accuracy and enables the application of machine learning algorithms to further enhance accuracy. Signals may be analyzed slice-wise with respect to the orthogonal periodic structure, which can be integrated in a process compatible manner in both imaging and scatterometry targets.
US11085749B2
A gauge for cartridges is disclosed. The gauge includes a gauge body defining an opening, a window, and receiving space. The opening and the receiving space share an axis and are in direct communication with each other. The window is in direct communication with the receiving space. The opening and the window are separated by a body portion of the gauge. Each gauge has a receiving space that is sized and shaped to correspond to a predetermined cartridge.
US11085742B2
The present invention provides a subsonic ammunition including a polymeric casing body; a propellant insert positioned in the propellant chamber to reduce the internal volume of the propellant chamber; a propellant disposed and confined within the propellant chamber; a primer insert positioned at the body base and in communication with the propellant chamber; a primer and diffuser disposed in the primer insert in combustible communication with the propellant; and a projectile frictionally fitted in the mouth in combustible communication with the propellant.
US11085740B2
The present invention provides a subsonic ammunition including a polymeric casing body; a propellant insert positioned in the propellant chamber to reduce the internal volume of the propellant chamber; a propellant disposed and confined within the propellant chamber; a primer insert positioned at the body base and in communication with the propellant chamber; a primer and diffuser disposed in the primer insert in combustible communication with the propellant; and a projectile frictionally fitted in the mouth in combustible communication with the propellant.
US11085739B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a stamped metal primer insert for a polymeric ammunition cartridge comprising: a top surface having a stamped flange that extends circumferentially about an outer edge of the top surface; a stamped coupling element that extends from the flange to a coupling tip; a stamped inner coupling element from the coupling tip to a bottom surface, wherein the bottom surface is opposite the top surface; a stamped primer recess in the top surface that extends toward the bottom surface; a primer flash aperture in the primer recess through the bottom surface; and a groove stamped in the primer recess around the primer flash aperture adapted to receive a polymer overmolding.
US11085733B2
The disclosure discloses a quick disassembly and assembly device for a holster and a waist guard, including a detachable quick-disassembly main body and a sliding slot, wherein the quick-disassembly main body is sleeved inside the sliding slot; a first pressing button is mounted on one side of the quick-disassembly main body, and a first clamping slot, which is matched with the first pressing button, is provided on the side of the sliding slot; a second pressing button is disposed on the bottom of the quick-disassembly main body, and a second clamping slot, which is matched with the second pressing button, is provided on the bottom of the sliding slot; and the angle of the rotating gear of the main body can be adjusted by pressing the second pressing button.
US11085729B2
In some embodiments, an archery bow comprises a riser, limbs and a bowstring extending between the limbs. A string stop is supported by the riser. The string stop comprises a first body member, a flexion member supported by the first body member and a bumper supported by the flexion member. At least a portion of the flexion member is oriented nonparallel to a shooting axis defined by the archery bow.
US11085728B2
A crossbow including first and second flexible limbs attached to a center rail. A first cam is mounted to the first bow limb and rotatable around a first axis. A draw string is received in string guide journals and is secured to first and second cams. The draw string unwinds from the string guide journals as it translates from a released configuration to a drawn configuration. Power cables are received in first and second power cable take-up journals on each of the first and second cams. As the crossbow is drawn from the released configuration to the drawn configuration the first and second power cables wrap onto the respective first and second power cable take-up journals and are displaced along the first and second axes away from the first and second planes of rotation of the first and second draw string journals.
US11085717B1
A magazine extension comprises an extension body having an open upper end configured to be slidably coupled with an open bottom end of a magazine tube for an ammunition magazine, a retaining member, and a base plate. The retaining member is removably receivable in a passage defined through a rear wall of the extension body to releasably secure the body to the magazine tube. A portion of the retaining member protrudes out of an upper end of the passage and overlaps a rear wall of the magazine tube to limit sliding movement of the tube relative to the extension body when the tube is coupled with the body and the retaining member is received in the passage. The base plate is configured to be slidably coupled with an open lower end of the extension body and obstruct a lower end of the passage to releasably secure the retaining member in the passage.
US11085715B2
A bolt stop actuator is disclosed. The actuator may include a lift arm, a first leg extending from a point proximate to an end of the lift bar and generally perpendicular therefrom, a second leg extending in the same direction from the lift bar as the first leg, and a projection extending from the lift bar and configured to contact a follower of an empty magazine when the bolt stop actuator is assembled into a firearm. Neither the first leg, nor the second leg, include apertures positioned distal to the lift arm.
US11085711B2
A cooling device having a centrifugal pump directly mounted on a radiator. An annular seal member is disposed between the bottom portion of the case body of the centrifugal pump and the side surface of the tank chamber of the radiator, and the annular seal member is used for preventing the cooling medium leakage via a space between the centrifugal pump and the tank chamber. The cylindrical portion of the case body and the annular seal member are overlapped with each other in the axial direction of the rotation center shaft of the motor that drives the centrifugal pump, in order that the cylindrical portion can receive at least a part of the reaction force of the annular seal member crushed between the case body and the tank chamber, and thereby the bottom portion of the case body of the centrifugal pump is prevented from deformation.
US11085702B2
A pin-shaped first heat radiating fin low in fluid resistance is disposed in a region required to be high in cooling performance, and a second heat radiating fin high in fluid resistance of a shape in which a plurality of columns of grooves which each meander in zigzag at a narrow pitch are arranged side by side is disposed in a region only necessary to be low in cooling performance. Furthermore, the first and second heat radiating fins are installed in parallel to a direction of flow of refrigerant.
US11085700B2
A heat exchanger includes an external casing and a core. The external casing includes a first inlet, a first outlet, a second inlet, and a second outlet. The core includes an array of branched channels connecting the first inlet and first outlet, an inlet header, and an outlet header. The inlet header is integrally formed with and fluidly connected to the first inlet. The outlet header is integrally formed with and fluidly connected to the first outlet. The branched channels and the external casing define a fluidic passage. The array of branched channels includes a first split, a first juncture, a secondary split, a secondary juncture, and a subset of splits and junctures. The first split and first juncture are common to an entirety of the array of branched channels. The subset of splits and junctures route fluid through interconnections between fluidly parallel branched channels.
US11085694B2
This invention describes large microwave/radiofrequency (RF/MW) heating equipments scalable to any size heated with RF/MW heating systems employing multiple magnetrons independent of its wave characteristics arranged in a particular fashion to avoid wave interferences and concentrated heating without turn tables. The invention also explains the various embodiments of the invention like solvent dehydration and solvent recovery using the above mentioned invention.
US11085685B2
A refrigerator includes a compressor configured to circulate a refrigerant, a condenser configured to condense the refrigerant circulated by the compressor, a cooling component configured to cool a storage compartment using the refrigerant condensed by the condenser, and a processor configured to control driving of the cooling component, acquire a load variation of the storage compartment of the refrigerator, the load variation having an effect on a refrigeration cycle, determine a drive value for driving a component forming the refrigeration cycle based on the load variation, drive the cooling component based on the drive value, and acquire the load variation with a lapse of time during at least one cooling period in which the refrigeration cycle cools the storage compartment.
US11085672B2
A self-heating thermal interface material (TIM) may be formed using heating components dispersed within the TIM. The heating components may produce heat when the TIM is compressed. The heating components may be formed from microcapsules and the microcapsules may contain exothermic reactants. The reactants may be isolated from contact within the microcapsule until a compressive force is applied.
US11085658B1
A sensor-based ventilation system includes a sensor, a ventilation device, and a controller. The controller receives a first indication from the sensor related to toilet usage or a humidity level within a room. The controller also sends a first instruction to actuate the ventilation device to initiate or increase ventilation of the room based on the first indication. The controller further receives a second indication from the sensor related to the toilet usage or the humidity level within the room changing after sending the first instruction. controller sends a second instruction to actuate the ventilation device to stop or reduce ventilation of the room based on the second indication.
US11085656B2
An electrode humidifier device having a cartridge and a reconfigurable steam nozzle, connected to the cartridge that may be changeable between a direct and a remote mounting. Fill and drain valves on a manifold may be operated to add or drain water, respectively, in the cartridge. A sensor may indicate a water level in the cartridge. A controller may be connected to the sensor, and the fill and drain valves. A steam output capacity of the cartridge may be maintained at a predetermined magnitude by controlling the level of water with a controller. The cartridge may have one or more handles for easily inserting or removing the cartridge in a housing. The manifold may be installed in the drain pan for easier cartridge replacement. The humidifier device may be directly mounted on an air duct of a heating system or can be installed remotely.
US11085655B2
An air scrubber has an electrically driven fan and a drum having a mat forming a closed circulating band spanning a support of the drum. The mat is electrically rotatably driven about a rotation axis, wherein a lower part of the drum is immersed in a water basin. The mat can be removed from the drum by a movement in the axial direction and pushed back on again by a movement in the axial direction.
US11085653B2
An air conditioner includes a housing, a condenser positioned at a first location within the housing, an evaporator positioned at a second location within the housing, a pump that is positioned between the condenser and the evaporator and circulates a refrigerant between the condenser and the evaporator, and at least two air movers that are positioned so that the pump is between the air movers and the air movers are between the condenser and the evaporator.
US11085649B2
An exhaust hood includes a housing, which is open towards a bottom face to capture cooking by-products from a cooking appliance positioned below the exhaust hood. The housing has a first wall and a second wall opposite to the first wall. The second wall is at least partly inclined inwardly from the bottom face towards a top face of the housing and has an exhaust vent to extract cooking by-products captured by the housing. The exhaust hood has a fresh air fan and the first wall forms a first duct which has openings located in a row along a lower edge of the first wall adjacent to the bottom face and oriented inside the housing. A side wall extension extends from one side wall and forms a lateral skirt that defines a pass-through window having vertically and horizontally extending faces. The side wall extension forms a side wall duct with openings along the vertically and horizontally extending faces that eject vertical and horizontal air streams orthogonal to one another that coalesce to form a vortex which limit cooking by-products from passing through the pass-through window.
US11085648B2
Provided is a door latch including a latch mechanism, secured to an appliance such as a self-cleaning oven, which locks an appliance door to the appliance. The latch mechanism includes a latch bracket mounted to a surface of the appliance. A latch hook is mounted within the latch bracket for reciprocal movement between locking and unlocking positions. The latch hook pivotally engages a receptacle mounted on the door, to lock the door to the appliance. A flexible cable is retained inside a flexible conduit. A first end of the flexible cable is connected to the latch hook for displacing the latch hook into the locking position for pivotal engagement with the receptacle. An electric actuator is connected to a second end of the flexible cable for producing operative movement of the flexible cable within the flexible conduit to displace the latch hook between the locking and unlocking positions.
US11085629B2
A heat dissipation system for a heat source, wherein the heat dissipation system comprises a heat pipe, a heat coupling-in element, and a heat coupling-out element, wherein the heat coupling-out element comprises at least 50% by weight of a thermally conductive thermoplastic composition having an in-plane thermal conductivity of 1 to 50 W/(m*K). Also provided is a luminaire.
US11085627B2
An elongated, slimline structure having a monolithically fabricated heatsink core and heat dissipating fins, coupled to a light source wherein the elongated structure substitutes for a light source retained by a luminaire housing.
US11085624B2
A lighting unit has an input connector which has a first terminal arrangement which connects to a protection circuit to engage a lighting driver in an initial connection of the lighting unit (14) and the lighting driver (12), and a second terminal arrangement which connects to a light source. The second terminal arrangement is adapted to engage the lighting driver later than an engagement of the first terminal arrangement to the light driver. The protection circuit (22) is adapted to operate earlier than an engagement of the light source (20) to the lighting driver (20). The protection circuit prevents current surges from being delivered by the lighting driver at the time of connection of the lighting unit. The protection circuit is only applied temporarily, before direct connection is made between the light source and the lighting driver.
US11085614B2
Example embodiments provide lighting fixture mounting kits for mounting a flat panel lighting fixture to a mounting surface. The lighting fixture mounting kits may comprise a mounting portion (e.g., a mounting plate) and a lighting fixture. The mounting portion may be secured relative to a mounting surface and may comprise mounting catches. The lighting fixture may be secured relative to the mounting portion, and may comprise fixture catches configured to selectably engage the mounting catches. The lighting fixture may be slidable relative to the mounting portion between an engaged configuration in which the fixture catches are engaged with the mounting catches; and a disengaged configuration in which the fixture catches are disengaged from the mounting catches. When in the disengaged configuration, the lighting fixture is pivotable away from the mounting portion to facilitate access to a back portion of the lighting fixture.
US11085611B2
Provided are embodiments of a position-adaptive lighting system comprising a pantilt adjustable housing enclosing a digital imaging system and a lens module operably connected to a computer-based digital control unit, a lamp, and a position indicator detectable by the digital camera system and the computer-based digital control unit. The position-adaptive lighting system can adjustably direct a light beam to provide illumination of an object to which the position indicator is attached. The system is advantageous for providing a directed light to a surgical site and accommodate the movement of the position indicator on a surgeons hand or instrument.
US11085595B2
A tangle-resistant decorative lighting assembly, comprising: a main portion including a plurality of wires and connectors, including first and second connectors and first and second lighted-extension portions extending transversely from the main portion. The first lighted extension portion including: a first connector configured to detachably connect to the first connector of the main portion, a first plurality of wires connected to the first connector, and a first plurality of lamp assemblies connected to the first plurality of wires. The second lighted-extension portion including: a second connector configured to detachably connect to the second connector of the main portion, a second plurality of wires connected to the second connector, and a second plurality of lamp assemblies connected to the second plurality of wires. The first connector of the main portion comprises a lock portion configured to engage with a lock portion of the first connector of the first lighted-extension portion.
US11085594B2
A modular lighting cell includes a light assembly, a housing including a plurality of side walls, and a cover. The housing and the cover enclose the light assembly. The modular lighting cell also includes a connector. The connector and at least one of the side walls are configured such that the connector is removably connectable to the at least one side wall. A modular lighting unit includes a first lighting cell including a first light assembly and a first housing receiving the first light assembly; a second lighting cell including a second light assembly and a second housing receiving the second light assembly; and a connector configured for connecting to the first lighting cell and for connecting to the second lighting cell to connect the first light cell and the second lighting cell to each other.
US11085593B2
A display device includes: a display panel; a backlight that emits light toward a rear face of the display panel; a first optical sheet disposed between the display panel and the backlight; a second optical sheet disposed between the first optical sheet and the backlight; and a supporting member that supports an outer peripheral part of the first optical sheet. The first optical sheet includes a first sheet main body portion, and a first supporting piece that protrudes to a side direction from an outer peripheral part of the first sheet main body portion and is supported by the supporting member. The second optical sheet includes a second sheet main body portion, and a flat portion that is formed into a flat shape in an outer peripheral part of the second sheet main body portion and is disposed so as to correspond to the first supporting piece.
US11085592B1
A LED light tube includes a LED strip with a substrate plate and multiple LED modules. A light passing tube stores the LED strip. The light passing tube has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion has more light passing through than the second portion. A first end cap is attached to a first end of the light passing tube and a second end cap is attached to a second end of the light passing tube. The first end cap and the second end cap each having two pins. A driver is enclosed in one of the end caps for supplying a driving current to the multiple LED modules and controls the multiple LED modules.
US11085574B2
A handheld gimbal includes a handheld structure and a gimbal body operably coupled with the handheld structure. The handheld structure includes a handheld body having at least one functional button, and a gripping structure extending from a bottom portion of the handheld body away from the handheld body. The gimbal body is operably coupled with a side of the handheld body.
US11085568B2
A gooseneck pipe includes a first pipe half having a first radiused centerline curve, and a second pipe half fixed to the first pipe half and having a second radiused centerline curve. The first and second pipe halves define a flow path. Cross-sectional diameters of the first and second pipe halves vary along the flow path. The varying diameters of the first and second pipe halves serve to mitigate pressure losses due in part to Dean vortices or secondary flow patterns in the flow path when a fluid is turned in the gooseneck pipe.
US11085565B2
A flexible joint assembly for a joint between a first duct and a second duct for providing a flow of fluid, such as bleed air in an aviation implementation. The flexible joint includes a bellows supported by a mounting assembly having a first support and a second support, each surrounding a portion of the bellows. A set of flexures provided on a joint ring of the joint assemblies can operably couple the first support and the second support.
US11085562B2
A hydraulic sealing body including a radially inner surface defining a through-cavity and an annular element projecting in a radially inner direction from said radially inner surface is disclosed herein. The annular element includes a first annular abutment surface configured to receive in contact relationship a head portion of a coupling terminal, and a second annular abutment surface, axially opposite to the first, configured to receive in contact relationship an axial end of a hydraulic hose.
US11085560B2
A high pressure hose includes three or more reinforcing layers coaxially layered on one another between an inner surface layer and an outer surface layer coaxially layered on each other. An average braid angle obtained by averaging braid angles of the respective reinforcing layers is greater than or equal to 53.5° and less than or equal to 55.5°. The braid angles increase toward the reinforcing layer at an outermost circumference. Reinforcing wires constituting the reinforcing layer at an innermost circumference have elongation at break of greater than or equal to 3.0% and less than or equal to 4.0% and breaking strength of greater than or equal to 500 N. Reinforcing wires constituting the reinforcing layers other than the reinforcing layer at the innermost circumference have elongation at break of greater than or equal to 2.0% and less than 3.0% and breaking strength of greater than or equal to 500 N.
US11085559B2
Apparatus, flexible pipe body and methods are disclosed. The apparatus comprising at least one connector body comprising a first restraining arm portion and an opposed further restraining arm portion, each extending outwardly away from a common intersecting region of the connector body and comprising a respective locking surface, and at least one support arm portion that extends from the common intersecting region substantially perpendicular to the opposed arm portions and terminates with a flared end portion providing an abutment surface, wherein a distance between the common intersecting region and an abutment surface is less than 60% of said predetermined thickness.
US11085555B2
A multi-component hose and cable support device that provides vertical support to the hoses and cables extending from a tractor to its trailer to prevent such hoses and cables from coming into contact with the tractor, trailer, or any frame components and thereby avoiding damage to such hoses and cables. The present invention comprising first and second elongated support members designed and adapted to be longitudinally coupled to one another via trapezoidal fastener plates and a support member connector plate, a universal head mount, a base mounting assembly having a base mounting member and a vertical base support member, a plurality of anchor fasteners to secure the present invention to the tractor frame, and a plurality of aperture fasteners to connect the various invention components to one another.
US11085552B2
In one aspect, a dialysis fluid cassette includes an inlet fluid line, multiple outlet fluid lines, and a valve including an actuation feature by which the valve can be rotated to fluidly communicate the inlet fluid line with a selected fluid line of the multiple outlet fluid lines.
US11085547B2
A regulating valve has a housing, a first valve body, a second valve body, a third valve body, a fourth valve body, and an actuating shaft. The housing has a first cavity and a second cavity. The first valve body is disposed in the first cavity. The second valve body is disposed in the first cavity, and the first valve body and the second valve body can rotate about a first axis X. The third valve body is disposed in the second cavity. The fourth valve body is disposed in the first cavity, and the third valve body and the fourth valve body can rotate about a second axis Y. The actuating shaft is rotatably disposed in the first cavity, and the actuating shaft can selectively drive one or more of the first valve body, the second valve body, the third valve body, and the fourth valve body to rotate.
US11085546B2
Purge apparatus for use with fluid valves are disclosed. An apparatus includes a stem for a fluid valve. The stem has a first channel extending therethrough to receive a fluid. The apparatus also includes an aperture in fluid communication with the first channel and disposed on an outer surface of the stem or a fluid flow control member coupled to the stem. The aperture is to exhaust the fluid from the first channel toward one or more components of the fluid valve to remove residue.
US11085544B2
Frac pumps have valve bodies. The valve bodies comprise a head and a compressible seal. The head provides a valve surface adapted to engage the valve seat. The compressible seal is carried on the head radially inward of the valve surface and is adapted to engage the valve seat. It is mounted between the head and a valve guide having a plurality of legs. The face of the compressible seal has a slightly curved, convex sealing surface.
US11085542B2
A labyrinth seal including a stator and a non-contacting rotor, and annular elastomeric seals. The confronting surfaces of the stator and rotor define at least one interface passage, including a radially-outermost annular interface passage between an annular, outermost, radially-extending projection of the stator and an annular rearwardly-extending distal projection of the rotor that overlaps the radially-extending projection of the stator, the radially-outermost annular interface passage tapering outwardly and rearwardly at an acute angle relative to an axial reference line. The annular elastomeric seals are stationary with the stator during dynamic operation of the rotor, and are not contacted by a surface of the rotor during dynamic operation. The interface can also have two radially-disposed exclusion chambers, the outer exclusion chamber being defined in part by a radially-inboard projection of the rotor. The stator can have a projection providing a contact avoidance interface position inboard of at least two contaminant-excluding interfaces.
US11085540B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for sealing a high pressure fluid cavity from a low pressure fluid cavity in a rotating machine such as a gas turbine engine. The cavities are at least partially disposed between a rotatable shaft and a sump housing radially displaced from the rotatable shaft. A seal assembly comprises an air riding carbon seal ring and a circumferential ceramic runner. The carbon seal ring is sealingly engaged with the sump housing and has a radially inward facing seal surface. The circumferential ceramic runner is carried by the shaft and has a radially outward facing seal surface extending axially along the shaft. The radially inward facing seal surface of the air riding carbon seal ring sealingly engages the radially outward facing seal surface of the ceramic runner during rotation of the rotatable shaft at a predetermined range of rotational speeds.
US11085536B2
An actuating means for a park lock arrangement, where the actuating means is arranged to switch between a release position and a lock position, where the actuating means includes a lock section provided with a lock section bearing surface adapted to bear against an actuation end of a park pawl in the lock position, where the lock section bearing surface is flat. The advantage of the invention is that a compact and cost-effective actuating means for a park lock arrangement with is provided.
US11085526B2
A shift lever apparatus for a vehicle moves a center point of rotation of a shift knob upward such that a height of the shift knob exposed to a console and an operating stroke of the shift knob are reduced, and a console size is decreased. The shift lever apparatus allows a manipulation direction of the shift knob is the same as an operational direction of a transmission cable, and thus a connection structure of an existing transmission may be maintained.
US11085520B2
A coupling system is configured to axially couple a motor shaft rotating in a motor housing to a gearbox shaft rotating in a gearbox housing. The coupling system has a set screw and a socket. The set screw couples the two housings together. The socket is configured to receive the set screw. The socket being configured to can slide in a first of the motor housing and the gearbox housing in a direction of a second of the motor housing and the gearbox housing under a thrust force of the set screw during tightening thereof, in order to press the socket against the second of the motor housing and the gearbox housing at a mating surface of the second of the motor housing and the gearbox housing, so as to eliminate any play between the second of the motor housing and the gearbox housing at the mating surface.
US11085518B2
An inverted compound harmonic drive including: a wave generator configured to receive rotational input; a flex spline disposed radially within the wave generator that receives energy due to the rotation of the wave generator, the flex spline including a plurality of inner facing splines that include an axial center spline, a first axial end spline being adjacent to and forward of the axial center spline, and a second axial end spline adjacent to and aft of the axial center spline; an output gear meshes with the axial center spline; a first ground gear adjacent to and forward of the output gear that meshes with the first axial end spline; and a second ground gear adjacent to an aft of the output gear that meshes with the second axial end spline.
US11085517B2
A powertrain for a vehicle may include a main shaft; a transmission unit provided to selectively supply power of a motor to the main shaft with different gear ratios; a differential connected to the main shaft; two driveshafts provided to output power in opposed directions from the differential; a rotating ring rotatably mounted on the main shaft through a first clutch; and a second clutch provided to select either a state where the rotating ring is connected to the transmission unit or a state where the rotating ring is connected to a selected driveshaft of the two driveshafts.
US11085516B2
Methods and systems are provided for operating a vehicle that includes a torque vectoring electric machine. In one example, torque output of a torque vectoring electric machine is adjusted to reduce driveline torque disturbances when the torque vectoring electric machine is activated. The torque output is adjusted in response to a speed difference between a wheel speed and a speed of the torque vectoring electric machine.
US11085514B2
A rotary device includes a rotatable member, at least one movable ring, and a supporting member. The supporting member includes a stopping portion. The rotatable member includes a rotary ring and a positioning portion. The movable ring includes an acting portion. The rotary ring and the at least one movable ring are coaxially disposed on the supporting member, and the movable ring is disposed between the rotatable member and the supporting member. The rotary ring and the at least one movable ring is capable of rotating relative to the supporting member. A part of the positioning portion overlaps the movable ring. When the rotary ring rotates relative to the supporting member, the part of the positioning portion pushes the acting portion, to drive the at least one movable ring to rotate until the acting portion is stopped between the positioning portion and the stopping portion.
US11085510B2
A toothed wheel extending along an axis and comprising at least two annular toothed areas and an annular groove located axially between said toothed areas, intended for collecting lubricating oil from said toothed areas, characterized in that said groove is delimited by an axially extending bottom surface and radially extending lateral surfaces, characterized in that the groove has at least one projecting portion extending radially outwards from the bottom surface of the groove.
US11085509B2
A bending meshing type gear device includes a wave generator, an external gear which is bent and deformed by the wave generator, and an internal gear which meshes with the external gear, in which one gear of the external gear and the internal gear is formed of a resin, the other gear of the external gear and the internal gear is formed of a high thermal conductivity material having a thermal conductivity higher than that of the resin and wear resistance higher than that of the resin, and a tooth thickness of the one gear is larger than a tooth thickness of the other gear in a meshing range between the external gear and the internal gear.
US11085508B2
Provided is a driving apparatus that can be miniaturized while maintaining necessary output. A driving apparatus (1) comprises a motor (10), an intermediate gear train (20) including at least one gear that transmits power generated by the motor (10), and an output shaft (30) to output driving power to outside. Furthermore, the driving apparatus (1) comprises a torque limiter (40) provided between the intermediate gear train (20) and the output shaft (30), to enable cutoff of the transmission of the power between the intermediate gear train (20) and the output shaft (30), and a planetary gear mechanism (50) provided between the torque limiter (40) and the output shaft (30). The planetary gear mechanism (50) is disposed in parallel with the motor (10).
US11085502B2
A valve includes a body that has a longitudinal axis. The body includes a conical portion positioned at an end of the body. The conical portion at least partially surrounds the body. The body includes a planar face circumferentially adjacent the conical portion. The planar face is angled with respect to the longitudinal axis of the body.
US11085495B2
A double clutch assembly includes: a center plate, first and second disks, first and second pressure plates, a connecting plate, a cover plate, a pulling cover, first and second diaphragm springs, and a guide plate. In particular, the pulling cover is formed with an engagement recess, an engagement slot is formed at the second diaphragm spring, and the guide plate includes a body, an exterior engagement end protruding toward the second diaphragm spring and inserted into the engagement slot and the engagement recess, an interior engagement end formed at an interior circumference of the body, and a fixing end inserted into an incision slit of the second diaphragm spring.
US11085486B2
Provided is a seal member or a ball joint capable of satisfactorily maintaining sealing performance between a ball portion of a ball shank and a ball receiving portion of a holder for a long time even when the ball shank is used under a condition that the ball shank is pivoted repeatedly with respect to the holder at a large pivot angle and at high speed. The seal member includes: a base portion having an annular ring shape and is to be fixed to the holder; a retaining portion formed on an inner peripheral side of the base portion integrally with the base portion and is recessed into a conical shape toward the holder; and a lip portion formed along an inner peripheral edge of the retaining portion so as to be held in sliding contact with a spherical surface of the ball portion of the ball shank.
US11085485B1
A method of installing a fastener into a surface without defacement of the surface utilizes an annular washer of a viscoelastic material placed about the shank of the fastener such that, upon driving the fastener into the surface via a driving tool, the fastener head clamps against the washer to cause it to viscoelastically expand radially outwardly from the fastener shank until the inner opening of the washer expands to approximately the diametric dimension of the enlarged head of the fastener, whereupon the washer can be removed from the fastener. The interposition of the washer between the driving tool and the surface protects the surface against defacement.
US11085484B2
A mounting assembly for securing fixtures to a mounting structure may include a first fastener, a washer, a mounting bracket, and second fastener. The first fastener may be coupled to the mounting structure through a mounting aperture. The washer may be disposed around shaft of the first fastener between a head of the first fastener and the mounting surface. The mounting bracket may be disposed on top of the first fastener. The second fastener may be disposed through the mounting bracket and coupled to head of the first fastener. The washer may be a sealing washer that dispenses liquid sealant under compressive force to moisture-proof the securement of the first fastener to the mounting surface.
US11085468B2
A hydraulic cylinder is provided with a cylinder tube, a piston unit, and a piston rod. The piston unit has a piston body; packing mounted on the piston body; a holding member mounted on the piston body; and a magnet held by a magnet holding part of the holding member. The magnet holding part has a notch that is open on the outer circumferential surface of the holding member.
US11085467B2
A hydraulic actuator includes a piston and a cylinder. The piston is axially movable within the cylinder. A stroke end damping valve is provided in a hydraulic fluid flow passage of the actuator and adjacent an end of the cylinder. The stroke end damping valve comprises a damping orifice and a valve element for selectively varying the area of the damping orifice and thereby changing the damping provided by the orifice. The valve element projects from a wall of the cylinder into the cylinder and is engageable by the piston as the piston moves towards the end of the cylinder. This reduces the area of the damping orifice and thereby increases the damping effect on the piston towards the end of its stroke in the cylinder.
US11085466B2
An electrohydraulic system for use under water includes an electrohydraulic actuator and a container having an internal space provided for forming a volume which is enclosed from the environment and which is provided for receiving a hydraulic pressurized fluid. A hydraulic cylinder is provided in the internal space of the container, the inside of which is divided into a first cylinder chamber and a second cylinder chamber by a piston to which a first piston rod and a second piston rod are connected. The two active surfaces of the piston are the same or approximately the same size.
US11085460B2
Flow control devices and structures designed and configured to improve the performance of a turbomachine. Exemplary flow control devices may include various flow guiding channels, ribs, diffuser passage-width reductions, and other treatments and may be located on one or both of a shroud and hub side of a machine to redirect, guide, or otherwise influence portions of a turbomachine flow field to thereby improve the performance of the machine.
US11085455B1
A system for displaying the produce for sale and at least one sensor for sensing a parameter associated with the display and generating an output representative of the parameter. An overhead fan located in the space above the display regulates the airflow over the display. A controller is provided for controlling the fan based on the output of the sensor.
US11085453B2
An engine, having a first, second, third and fourth quasi-stage, each with a stator and a downstream rotor, wherein a particular blade/vane solidity in the center section is in the first quasi-stage, at least 1.04 and at most 1.16 for the stator and at least 1.46 and at most 1.67 for the rotor; in the second quasi-stage, at least 1.13 and at most 1.32 for the stator and at least 1.32 and at most 1.61 for the rotor; in the third quasi-stage, at least 1.20 and at most 1.39 for the stator and at least 1.16 and at most 1.41 for the rotor; in the fourth quasi-stage, at least 1.37 and at most 1.63 for the stator and at least 1.15 and at most 1.41 for the rotor.
US11085452B2
A gas compression device comprises a first impeller, a rotary shaft on which the first impeller is mounted, and a plurality of rotating members through which the rotary shaft is inserted so that the plurality of rotating members rotate with the rotary shaft. The rotary shaft includes a flange having a first surface perpendicular to an axial direction and projecting in radial directions of the rotary shaft, a rear surface of the first impeller is in contact with the first surface, and the plurality of rotating members are disposed on an opposite side of the flange from the first impeller.
US11085448B2
An oil circuit for lubrication and cooling of an oil-free compressor with an oil reservoir and a rotary oil pump to drive oil to the compressor element and/or the motor via an oil pipe. The rotary oil pump has a rotor mounted on a rotation shaft, and is driven by the motor of the compressor. The oil circuit is provided with a bypass pipe and a pressure-actuated bypass valve which guide a portion of the oil back to the oil reservoir without this portion of the oil passing through the compressor element and/or the motor during its way back to the oil reservoir. The oil circuit is further provided with an oil cooler in the bypass pipe. The bypass valve is in the oil pipe.
US11085447B2
A screw compressor system for a utility vehicle includes at least one screw compressor and at least one control and/or regulation unit for controlling and regulating the screw compressor. The control and/or regulation unit is designed such that the screw compressor is prevented, for a determined period of time, from re-starting after being stopped.
US11085430B2
A gas leak determining method for a multi-stage compressor including: a first compressing unit that compresses a gas; and a second compressing unit that further compresses the gas compressed by the first compressing unit includes: a step of calculating a proportion of discharge pressure from the second compressing unit to discharge pressure from the first compressing unit or suction pressure into the second compressing unit; and a step of determining that a gas is leaking from the second compressing unit when the proportion becomes equal to or less than a set value.
US11085421B2
A gearbox assembly includes a gearbox housing and a planetary gear system configured within the gearbox housing. The planetary gear system includes a plurality of planet gears, at least one sun gear, at least one ring gear, at least one planetary carrier operatively coupled with the plurality of planet gears, and a plurality of pin shafts. Each of the plurality of planet gears are arranged so as to rotate around one of the plurality of pin shafts. Further, the plurality of planet gears are engaged with the ring gear and configured to rotate about the sun gear. The gearbox assembly also includes a first lubricant path defined from a first location to a second location through the at least one planetary carrier. Moreover, the first lubricant path is located outside of the plurality of pin shafts.
US11085418B2
Provided is a method for transmitting controlling control variables from a windfarm controller to units including at least one wind power installation or at least one energy store. The method include determining first and second controlling control variable components by the windfarm controller, outputting the first controlling control variable component in a first data packet, outputting the second controlling control variable component in a second data packet, receiving the first and second data packets by a first unit, and determining a controlling control variable from the first and second controlling control variable components. The first data packet has a receiver address which is assigned to the first unit and to at least one further unit, and the second data packet has a receiver address which is assigned to at least the first unit. Provided is a windfarm controller, a wind power installation and a windfarm configured to perform the method.
US11085416B2
Pitch control system (1) for at least one rotor blade (17) for a wind turbine comprising a nacelle (16), as well as a hub (15) both place on the top of a tower (18) and at least one rotor blade (17). The system comprises at least one electrical pitch drive system (3) each drive system (3) is connected to a rotor blade (17) and an electrical pitch motor (2). The electrical pitch drive system(s) (3) is/are adapted to communicate with units comprising the motor(s) (2) for pitching the rotor blade (17) it is attached to and in accordance with inputs registered from a first sensor and a second sensor (20). Each electrical pitch drive system (3) comprises a gyroscope (22) adapted to register an angle value of the longitudinal axis of the rotor blade (17) with respect to the gravity. A processor is adapted to calculate the position of the rotor blade (17) based on said values.
US11085414B2
A floating platform for a wave energy converter (WEC), comprising a hollow body, in which energy converting machinery may be positioned, characterised in that the floating platform has an underside facing the water in use, an upper side facing the opposite direction and a first long-side forming a front and a second long-side forming a back, and two short-sides, wherein at least one aligning means is provided, the aligning means is configured to align the front of the floating platform with the wave front, i.e. perpendicular to the direction of the wave, wherein the front of the floating platform is at least 20 m long.
US11085413B2
An opposed-piston engine optionally contains an ignition system that is at least partially contained within the combustion chamber to enhance the combustion efficiency of a fuel-air mixture within the combustion system. More specifically, the ignition system contains at least one spark plug having an elongated center electrical delivery electrode, and, an elongated ground electrode. Accordingly, the elongated electrodes extend from an area adjacent to the inner periphery of the cylinder to a radially central area within the combustion chamber. Yet further, a cooling jacket is incorporated to provide cooling of the spark plug.
US11085412B2
An internal combustion engine includes an engine block, a blower housing configured to direct cooling air to the engine block, an electric starting system, and a crankshaft configured to rotate about a crankshaft axis. The electric starting system includes an electric motor and an energy storage device located within the blower housing. The energy storage device is electrically coupled to the electric motor to power the electric motor. When the starter motor is activated, the electric starting system rotates the crankshaft to rotate the engine for starting.
US11085409B2
A pump includes a cylinder having a working chamber which contains a fluid. A drive system including at least two linear motors which are connected electrically and/or mechanically in parallel moves a piston in the working chamber to bound the working chamber in the cylinder and to pressurize the fluid in the working chamber. A piston rod is connected to the piston and bundles a force applied by the drive system.
US11085400B2
An integrated propulsion system according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, components that include a gas turbine engine, a nacelle assembly and a mounting assembly, the system designed by a process comprising identifying two or more of internal structural loading requirements, external structural mount loading requirements, aerodynamic requirements, and acoustic requirements for the system, and interdependently designing said components to meet said requirements. The nacelle assembly includes a fan nacelle and an aft nacelle, the fan nacelle arranged at least partially about a fan and the engine, and the fan nacelle arranged at least partially about a core cowling to define a bypass flow path.
US11085391B2
Disclosed is a throttle quadrant arrangement utilizing a single throttle lever. The single lever is independently mechanically connected to three Rotary Variable Differential Transformers (RVDTs). Failure points are engineered into the design such that when one of the mechanical jams, the mechanical connection to the other two RVDTs will not be compromised.
US11085387B2
Methods and systems, using a controller (20), for performing de-rate operation of an engine (12) is disclosed. Controller (20) includes a de-rate condition detection unit (204), an operational parameter adjustment unit (206), and a de-rate condition monitoring unit (208). De-rate condition detection unit (204) detects a low fuel condition based on a current delivery pressure level of the engine (12) detected at least one of: in a fuel tank (24) and along an inlet fuel rail (38) connecting the fuel tank (24) to the engine (12). Operational parameter adjustment unit (206) performs the de-rate operation on the engine (12) by adjusting one or more operational parameters related to an engine (12) load based on the detected low fuel condition. De-rate condition monitoring unit (208) monitors the detected low fuel condition for a predetermined time period in response to the operational parameter adjustment performed by operational parameter adjustment unit (206).
US11085381B2
An integrated fuel filter device for a vehicle includes a fuel filter disposed at a fuel feed line between a bombe and an engine, a pump for delivering fuel inside the bombe to the engine via the fuel feed line, a first fuel filling line connected to an inlet of the fuel filter and configured to guide fuel refueled from an outside of the vehicle to the inlet of the fuel filter, a second fuel filling line connected between an outlet of the fuel filter and the bombe and configured to guide the fuel passing through the fuel filter to the bombe, and a variable shut-off valve for controlling a flow of the fuel delivered from the pump to the inlet of the fuel filter and a flow of the fuel delivered from the outlet of the fuel filter to the bombe.
US11085377B2
An assembly including an accessory gearbox mechanically connected to an electricity generator having a support shaft that includes a calibrated breakable section designed to disconnect the electricity generator physically from the accessory gearbox when an incident is detected on the electricity generator, the protection device including an unlocking mechanism provided with a lock that, under the action of an external control unit, releases a cutting tool so as to cut said calibrated breakable section.
US11085370B2
A piston internal combustion engine with generator has two cylinders and cylinder heads and pistons with connecting rods and two crankshafts which are connected by gears with a ratio of 1:−1 (with opposite direction of rotation). The first crankshaft with the gear is mounted parallel to the second crankshaft with the second gear in one engine case such, that the gears engage. The first crankshaft is coupled to the first generator rotor and the second crankshaft is coupled to the second generator rotor or the flywheel. The moment of inertia of the first crankshaft assembly with the first gear and the first generator rotor is equal to the moment of inertia of the second crankshaft assembly with the second gear and the second generator rotor or flywheel. The cylinders with the pistons and are positioned perpendicularly to the plane of symmetry between the crankshafts, with the axes of the pair of cylinders lying in a plane with the both pistons being at the top dead center simultaneously.
US11085369B2
A crankshaft and conrod assembly (100) comprising a crankshaft (110) and a conrod (150), wherein the crankshaft (110) comprises at least one main journal (111) and one crankpin journal (112), where the crankshaft (110) is provided with an oil supply structure for supplying the crankpin journal (112) with lubrication oil and the conrod (150) with an oil pressure, wherein the oil supply structure comprises: an oil supply conduit (113) provided between the main journal and the crankpin journal (112), at least a first and a second oil supply opening (114, 115) provided at the crankpin journal (112), and a connection point (116) where the oil supply conduit (113) connects to the first and second oil supply opening (114, 115).
US11085363B2
An intercooler drain system which drains condensate from an intercooler includes an upper header, a lower header, and a plurality of tubes connecting the upper header and the lower header, the intercooler drain system including: a drain passage allowing the condensate collected in the lower header of the intercooler to be drained; and a valve opening and closing the drain passage. The valve has a specific gravity less than a specific gravity of the condensate, and when the condensate is collected above a predetermined level in the lower header, the valve rises due to buoyancy to open the drain passage.
US11085362B2
A charge air cooler shroud is provided. That charge air cooler shroud includes a main body having an access opening and a removable access panel carried on the main body and covering the access opening. A method is also disclosed for mounting a cooling module to a frame of a motor vehicle.
US11085358B2
Cooling and debris mitigation systems for use with work vehicle powertrains include a pressurized air source, a plurality of impingement outlets positioned proximate the work vehicle powertrain, and a flow network fluidly coupling the pressurized air source to the impingement outlets. A first vortex tube is positioned in the flow network and configured to separate pressurized airflow received from the pressurized air source into a hot stream and a reduced temperature stream. The first vortex tube includes a vortex tube inlet fluidly coupled to the pressurized air source, an exhaust port through which the hot stream is discharged, and a nozzle through which the reduced temperature stream is discharged. The reduced temperature stream impinges upon at least one of the targeted exterior regions of the work vehicle powertrain to provide cooling thereto and reduce debris accumulation thereon.
US11085348B2
A method for controlling a filling of an exhaust-gas component storage-device of a catalytic-converter in the exhaust-gas of an internal-combustion-engine, in which an actual fill level (θmod) of the exhaust-gas component storage-device is ascertained using a first-system model to which signals (λin,meas) of a first-exhaust-gas probe that extends into the exhaust-gas flow upstream from the catalytic-converter and that acquires a concentration of the exhaust-gas component are supplied, if this first exhaust-gas probe is ready for operation. A lambda-target-value (λin,set) for a first control-loop is specified by a lambda-target-value pilot control, and that, if the first exhaust-gas probe is not ready for operation, a replacement signal for the signal of the first exhaust-gas probe is supplied to the system-model, and the replacement signal is used in the lambda-target-value pilot control as an initial-value for the lambda-target-value. Also described is a control device for the method.
US11085346B2
A vehicle exhaust system includes an exhaust component having an inner wall to define an internal cavity that provides an engine exhaust gas flow path from an inlet to an outlet. An injector is configured to spray a fluid into the internal cavity to mix with engine exhaust gas. An inlet baffle is mounted to the exhaust component adjacent the inlet and includes at least one scoop having a scoop length that is greater than a scoop width. The scoop includes a scoop opening that directs engine exhaust gas toward the inner wall of the internal cavity at a location that is upstream of spray injected by the injector.
US11085342B2
A honeycomb filter including: a honeycomb structure having a porous partition wall provided surrounding a plurality of cells; and a plugging portion disposed to seal either one end portion on the inflow or the outflow end face side of the cells, wherein the cell in which the plugging portion is provided at the outflow end face side and the inflow end face side is open is defined as an inflow cell, the cell the plugging portion is provided at the inflow end face side and the outflow end face side is open is defined as an outflow cell, the honeycomb structure further has a trapping layer for the particulate matter on an inner surface side of the partition wall, the trapping layer includes a portion composed of a sintered body of CeO2 particles on at least a surface layer, and the average particle diameter is 1.1 μm or less.
US11085340B2
The disclosure relates to a valve train of an internal combustion engine having variable-lift gas exchange valves, comprising: a carrier shaft, a cam piece arranged on the carrier shaft in a rotationally fixed and axially displaceable manner. The cam piece comprises a cam group of axially adjacent cams of different elevations, and an axial slotted link having axially opposite displacement grooves, each having a displacement region and an outlet region. Actuator pins, by engaging with the displacement grooves, displace the cam piece on the carrier shaft. Each displacement groove axially delimits, partially or completely, the outlet region by only one groove wall, and the one groove wall, at which the actuator pin, which is in engagement with the displacement region, positively accelerates the cam piece into a displacement direction. The width of the displacement grooves is smaller in the outlet region than a diameter of the actuator pins.
US11085327B2
A bearing section for an exhaust turbocharger comprises a receiving opening for receiving a shaft of a rotor assembly of the exhaust turbocharger. The bearing section is designed for positioning bearing elements for supporting the shaft. A lubricant circuit is designed for supplying lubricant to the bearing elements. Lubricant channels are formed in the bearing section. In order to reduce a component temperature of the bearing section, a cooling jacket is provided, through which coolant can flow. The cooling jacket comprises a coolant channel, an inlet channel and an outlet channel. The inlet channel issues at a first opening point into the coolant channel and the outlet channel is connected at a second opening point to the coolant channel in such a way that a flow can pass therethrough. A rib is provided in the coolant channel.
US11085316B2
A gas turbine engine includes a turbine blade extending radially outwardly to a radially outer tip and for rotation about an axis of rotation. A blade outer air seal is positioned radially outwardly of the radially outer tip of the turbine blade. The blade outer air seal has a forward hook at an axially forward location and an aft hook at an axially aft location. An axial direction is defined by a rotational axis of the turbine blade. The blade outer air seal has a central web extending axially between the forward and aft hooks. The forward and aft hooks extend generally radially outward from the central web, and have slots for being received on forward and aft support hooks of a blade outer air seal support.
US11085311B2
A turbocharger has a turbine housing scroll that is meridionally divided into first and second scrolls. A nozzle ring disposed in the turbine nozzle has an array of circumferentially spaced first vanes and an array of circumferentially spaced second vanes. The first vane passages between first vanes are configured to blow exhaust gas onto the turbine blade leading edges. Likewise, the second vane passages are configured to blow exhaust gas on the turbine blade leading edges. The first and second vanes are circumferentially staggered relative to each other such that the turbine blade leading edges receive exhaust gas from the first and second blade passages in interleaved fashion about a circumference of the turbine wheel.
US11085309B2
The present disclosure is directed to an outer drum rotor assembly for a gas turbine engine including a first outer drum and a second outer drum. Each outer drum defines a radially extended flange adjacent to one another. A plurality of outer drum airfoils is extended inward along the radial direction from between the first outer drum and the second outer drum at the flange.
US11085300B1
Prime movers are provided that can include: a fixed member in operational relationship to a rotating member; a reciprocating vane assembly operationally engaged with the rotating member; and a track member about the rotating member and engaging the reciprocating vane assembly. Engines are provided that can include: a stator in operational relationship to a rotor; a reciprocating vane assembly operationally engaged with the rotor; and a track member about the rotor and engaging the reciprocating vane assembly. Processes for powering a prime mover are also provided, the processes can include engaging vanes between a fixed member and rotating member to create compression and expansion zones, the engaging comprising guiding the vanes from a track member about the rotating member.
US11085299B2
Various designs for hydraulic devices are disclosed including hydraulic devices that can include a rotor and a ring are disclosed. The rotor can be disposed for rotation about an axis and can have a plurality of plurality of vanes extending therefrom. The ring can be disposed at least partially around the rotor and the ring, and the rotor can be in communication with a port for ingress or egress of the hydraulic fluid to or from adjacent the rotor. The ring defines a cavity adjacent to and in communication with the port, the cavity allows the hydraulic fluid to be disposed adjacent at least one of the plurality of vanes when the at least one of the plurality of vanes is transiting the port.
US11085296B2
A method for controlling a subsidence area caused by underground mining in an adjoining open-pit mine, applied in an open-pit and underground coordinated mining process. In the method, a ground subsidence area caused by underground mining and production is directly filled and covered with overburden materials such as soil and rock discharged from an adjoining open-pit mine; small and medium fracture zones and large fracture zones caused by mining are timely backfilled, tamped, and levelled according to areas before the ground subsidence area appears, the thickness of the levelled soil layer is kept above 1 m, and the area slope is controlled within 7°. By fully using overburden materials from an adjoining open-pit mine, the method controls a subsidence area caused by underground mining and greatly shortens the discharge distance of the overburden materials from the adjoining open-pit mine, also solves the safety problems such as air leakage and spontaneous combustion of coal caused by fractures in mine subsidence, and brings significant economic and social benefits.
US11085287B2
A method of measuring the viscosity of cement slurry used for a primary cementing of an oil or gas well includes pumping the cement slurry along a conduit to a cementing location, measuring a first pressure loss along a first, horizontal portion of the conduit and a second pressure loss along a second, vertical portion of the conduit, and calculating a viscosity of the cement slurry based at least in part on the first and second pressure losses and a flow rate of the cement slurry.
US11085285B1
A system and method for acquiring and processing single point viscosity measurements in well operations to predict flow curves, e.g., for mud flow, for monitoring and predicting viscosity of fluid flow in order to identify abnormal conditions for taking remedial action.
US11085282B2
A method for hydraulically fracturing a subterranean formation includes sending a first command from a controller to a pump to achieve a first target flow rate for a fracturing fluid being injected into a subterranean formation during a fracturing operation. Monitoring an injection property of the fracturing operation. Determining a rate of change of the pressure over a first time period. Determining, by the controller, a second target flow rate based, at least in part, on the rate of change of the pressure. Sending a second command from the controller to the pump to achieve the second target flow rate for the fracturing fluid.
US11085280B2
The present application provides a horizontal well multi-section multi-stage reciprocating fracturing method and apparatus. The method comprises the steps of: dividing a fracturing tubular column into n fracturing sections; fracturing the first fracturing section to form a first first-stage fracture; fracturing the second fracturing section to form a second first-stage fracture; fracturing the first fracturing section again to form a first second-stage fracture; going on in this way, fracturing the nth fracturing section to form an nth first-stage fracture; fracturing the (n−1)th fracturing section again to form an (n−1)th second-stage fracture; going on in this way, at last, fracturing the nth fracturing section again to form an (n)th-stage fracture. The present method and apparatus can effectively eliminate or reduce the interference of relatively long fractures that has been generated during the horizontal well multi-section fracturing to fractures generated by subsequent fracturing.
US11085278B2
A flow transported obturating tool for actuating a valve in a wellbore includes a housing including a first engagement member and a second engagement member, wherein the first and second engagement members each include an unlocked and a locked position, and a core disposed in the housing, wherein the core is configured to actuate both the first engagement member and the second engagement member between the unlocked and locked positions, wherein, when the first engagement member is in the locked position, the first engagement member is configured to locate the obturating tool at a predetermined axial position in the valve, wherein, when the second engagement member is in the locked position, the second engagement member is configured to shift the valve from an open position to a closed position.
US11085272B2
A downhole power delivery system for use in a well comprising downhole metallic pipe (2) running in a borehole of the well with a downhole sealing plug (31) provided in a bore or annulus at least partly defined by the downhole metallic pipe. The power delivery system comprising below plug apparatus (5) located in the borehole below the plug (31) including a downhole device (53) requiring electrical power and downhole power supply apparatus (6) located in the borehole above the plug (31). The power supply apparatus (6) comprises at least one battery (64) for powering the downhole device and the downhole power supply apparatus (6) and below plug apparatus (5) being arranged for delivering electrical power from the downhole power supply apparatus (6) to the downhole device (53) across the downhole sealing plug (31).
US11085269B2
A stinger is stabbed into a bore opening of a downhole tool to communicate fluid from a fluid line to the downhole tool. The stinger body defines a bore that communicates with the bore opening of the tool when the stinger body is installed in the downhole tool. An external surface of the stinger body can seal and lock inside an inside surface of the tool's bore opening when the stinger body is installed therein. The stinger body has a flow passage connected to the fluid line. A stinger port in the external surface of the stinger body is in communication with the flow passage and positions in fluid communication with a tool port inside the tool's bore opening so fluid can be communicated to the downhole tool.
US11085262B2
A method and apparatus for installing a flexible liner directly into a pipe or borehole without everting the liner. The liner is lowered directly, without eversion, into either a cased borehole with slotted screens, or in an uncased borehole, without the hazard of abrasion of the liner. A removable protective sheath temporarily disposed around the liner avoids damaging penetration of the liner during installation. By the invention, it is possible to include tubing and other measuring and sampling devices attached to the liner that are too stiff to be included on an everting liner. Means and methods for releasably attaching the sheath to the liner, and for anchoring the liner in a borehole, are provided.
US11085258B2
Systems, methods, computer-readable media having computer programs, and electronic interfaces to detect and mitigate drill cuttings build-up in borehole drilling for hydrocarbon wells are provided. Embodiments include determining annular pressure at downhole sensors when pumping a drilling fluid into the borehole. Then one or more measures of a decrease in pressure in the borehole between a first sensor and a second sensor that is attributable to build-up of drill cuttings between the first sensor and the second sensor can be determined. Portions of effective density of the drilling fluid that are attributable to build-up of drill cuttings between the sensors also can be determined. Drill cuttings and fluid flow in an interval of the borehole between the first sensor and the second sensor can be analyzed. Whether drill cuttings limit fluid flow in an interval of the borehole between the first sensor and the second sensor then can be determined.
US11085257B2
Particulate dispenser can include a housing enclosing a receiving space. The housing having a fluid inlet aperture and a particulate input aperture, and a fluid outlet aperture. A hopper can be disposed above the housing and coupled to feed particulate from the hopper to the particulate input aperture. A wheel disposed within in the receiving space having at least one distribution aperture extending from the top surface to the bottom surface. The apertures being disposed at respective positions so that rotation of the wheel alternately aligns the distribution aperture with the particulate input aperture to feed particulate from the particulate input aperture into the distribution aperture and then aligns the distribution aperture with the fluid input aperture and the fluid output aperture to feed the particulate from the distribution aperture into the fluid flowing through the distribution aperture as the wheel rotates.
US11085252B2
An improved multi-bolt and nut torque wrench for installing and removing bolts or nuts from flanged joints or the like which includes a plurality of torque stations having a plurality of high torque wrenches for engaging the heads of the bolts or nuts during a high torque phase of removal or installation; a plurality of low-torque motors operatively engaged with the wrenches for rotating the bolts or nuts during the low torque phase of removal or installation; a source of hydraulic fluid for driving the low-torque motors during the low-torque phase, and driving the high-torque wrenches during the high torque phase; and a mechanism for switching between the two phases depending on the torque needed.
US11085249B2
A swivel assembly for a drilling machine is provided. The swivel assembly includes a positioning member pivotally coupled to a boom member associated with the drilling machine. The swivel assembly also includes a bearing assembly coupled to each of the positioning member and a feed table associated with the drilling machine. The bearing assembly is adapted to rotate about a rotational axis. The swivel assembly further includes at least one actuator operably coupled to the bearing assembly. The bearing assembly is adapted to selectively rotate the feed table relative to the positioning member about the rotational axis based, at least in part, on an actuation of the at least one actuator.
US11085241B2
Provided is an adjustable split thrust ring and a drilling system including the same. The adjustable split thrust ring, in one embodiment, includes a downhole split ring including two or more separate downhole pieces, the two or more separate downhole pieces fitting together to form a substantially circular downhole shoulder surrounding a substantially circular driveshaft. The adjustable split thrust ring further includes an uphole split ring positionable proximate the downhole split ring and including two or more separate uphole pieces, the two or more separate uphole pieces fitting together to form a substantially circular uphole shoulder surrounding the substantially circular driveshaft. In this embodiment, the substantially circular downhole shoulder and the substantially circular uphole shoulder are movable relative to one another to adjust to fit a groove in a driveshaft that they are configured to sit.
US11085240B2
A radial bearing apparatus including a housing with a housing bore defining a radial bearing housing surface, a shaft extending through the housing bore and defining a radial bearing shaft surface, and a radial bearing contact interface between the radial bearing housing surface and the radial bearing shaft surface for bearing a variable side force applied to the shaft. The radial bearing contact interface includes an oblique section in which the radial bearing housing surface and the radial bearing shaft surface are oblique to each other when the side force is zero and progressively increase in contact in an axial direction in response to an increasing magnitude of the side force.
US11085239B2
A bearing assembly having independently rotatable concentric inner and outer tubes. A bearing chamber containing multiple bearings is disposed between the tubes, allowing thrust but not rotation to be transferred between them. The bearing chamber is sealed from the inside of the inner tube. To prevent high pressure fluid from leaking from the inner tube to an exterior of the tool through the bearing chamber, damaging components, a flow path is formed. An annular piston responds to high pressure within the bearing chamber and the inner tube, opening a flow path from the inner tube to the environment.
US11085234B2
A secure in-door parcel receiving apparatus may be installed into an aperture of a barrier such as a garage door in order to receive delivered parcels to the interior of a residence or other location so as to avoid package theft and environmental hazards parcels may be exposed to if left outdoors when delivered. An interior frame is connected to an inside of the barrier within the barrier aperture. An exterior frame is connected to the interior frame and supports a hinged closure. A locking mechanism releasably secures the closure in a closed position, occluding the aperture, until a parcel is to be delivered, whereupon a parcel delivery worker may provide input to a user interface, such as a combination lock, of the locking mechanism in order to disengage the locking mechanism, open the closure, and deliver the parcel through the aperture into the interior location behind the barrier.
US11085229B2
An assembly that is configured to form a seal with a bottom of a closed door panel includes a holder, a threshold cap, and a biasing member. The holder defines a pivot axis and is configured to releasably couple to a substrate of a threshold. The threshold cap includes a sealing wall and a joint portion. The sealing wall is configured to form a seal with the bottom of the closed door. The joint portion is engaged with the holder to pivotally support the threshold cap about the pivot axis. The biasing member biases the sealing wall away from the holder towards a raised position.
US11085227B2
A vehicle opening and closing apparatus that opens and closes an opening and closing body provided on a vehicle includes: an electric motor that drives the opening and closing body; a position detection part that detects a position of the opening and closing body; a measurement part that measures a current value which flows in the electric motor when the opening and closing body arrives at a predetermined position; a counter that counts up a count value based on the current value; and a determination part that stops, for a predetermined period of time, the next and subsequent opening and closing operation of the opening and closing body when the count value exceeds a first threshold value.
US11085217B2
A tailgate opening assembly includes a tailgate that is hingedly coupled to a trailer. The tailgate is positionable between a closed position and an open position. A pair of biasing members is each coupled to the trailer. Each of the biasing members is biased into a compressed position and each of the biasing members is stretchable into a stretched position. A plurality of pulleys is each coupled to a respective one of the biasing members and the trailer. A pair of cables is each of the cables is routed through respective ones of the pulleys and the tailgate such that the tailgate is in mechanical communication with each of the biasing members. Each of the biasing members assists a user with opening and closing the tailgate.
US11085212B2
An exemplary motor vehicle assembly includes a handle concealing assembly rotatable back and forth between a concealing position that blocks access to a door handle and a revealing position that permits access to the door handle. The door handle is separate from the handle concealing assembly. An exemplary method includes, among other things, rotating a handle concealing assembly back and forth between a concealing position that blocks access to a door handle and a revealing position that permits access to the door handle. The door handle is separate from the handle concealing assembly.
US11085211B2
A method of forming a motor vehicle door lock includes arranging a lever, providing an electric drive that pivots the lever to place the motor vehicle door lock in an open state and includes a motor and a wheel gear that is driven by the motor and has a circumferential face, forming at least one damping stop on the wheel gear that protrudes axially from the circumferential face of the wheel gear and extends from the circumferential face toward a stop plane that is spaced from and parallel to an actuating plane in which the wheel gear and the lever are rotatable, providing a housing stop surface that is engageable by the damping stop along the stop plane in a rotational direction of the wheel gear, and forming the damping stop and the wheel gear as a single piece using a two-component injection molding process.
US11085210B2
A door structure for a vehicle, comprising: a latch connected to a cable portion extending from an inner handle and configured to fix a door to a vehicle body; and a bracket attached to a door inner panel, wherein at least a part of the bracket overlaps the latch in a vehicle width direction and is located toward the outside of the vehicle with respect to the latch.
US11085209B2
A surface-mountable locking system is designed to secure an item to a surface via one or more mechanical engagements that are protected from tampering by encompassing the engagements point(s) within cavity-defining surfaces. In one example the mechanical engagement is effected by placing a pin in a box and securing the pin in the box using a bolt and the tampering protection is effected by the surfaces that define the box. In another example, the mechanical engagement is effected by placing a surface-attached anchor within a cavity and securing the anchor relative to the cavity using a bolt and the tampering protection is effected by the surfaces that define the cavity. The securing bolt may be, for example, the bolt of locking mechanism, a threaded bolt to engage a receptacle having complementary threads, or a smooth bolt to engage a receptacle having a shape complementary to that of the bolt.
US11085203B2
Various embodiments that pertain to signal based arrangement of pin tumbler pins are described. A receiver can receive and process a signal. The signal can indicate an arrangement for the pins of the pin tumblers. With a proper signal, the pins can be placed so that the pin tumbler unlocks. Security measures can be put into place to make sure the signal is a valid signal, such as through employment of a hash function set (e.g., two hash functions).
US11085199B2
A ground spike with an attachable mounting bracket. The ground spike has an angled tip adapted to be driven into the ground. The top of the spike has a mounting plate configured to be substantially flat with the ground surface when installed. The mounting plate can be of any suitable size or shape. A plurality of slots are located around the perimeter, and extend towards the center for a distance. An upper post fastening section with an open upper end receives and secures a post, such as a mailbox post. Holes in the sides of the fastening section allow for securely fastening the mounting bracket to the post, such as through screws or similar fastening means. The lower end of the post fastening section includes a second mounting plate, or flanges that extend outward at a right angle. The second mounting plate or flanges comprise a plurality of slots that are configured to align with the slots in the mounting plate attached to the spike. Mechanical fasteners, such as bolts and nuts, are used to fasten the mounting bracket to the spike mounting plate. Preferably, the mechanical fasteners are made of a material that breaks when a threshold level of force is applied to the post secured to the mounting bracket.
US11085194B2
A lifting tool assembly is disclosed, including a crossbar having a long axis spanning between first and second end portions. A first hook member is pivotably suspended from the first end portion and a second hook member is pivotably suspended from the second end portion. The end portions are symmetrically angled relative to the long axis and each hook member includes first and second finger structures.
US11085188B2
A clip for electrically bonding a pair of adjacently-disposed metal panels is disclosed. One embodiment entails such a clip (104) including a first clip member (112) and an oppositely disposed second clip member (116). The surface (114) of the first clip member (112) that faces the second clip member (116) includes at least one grounding projection (128), while the surface (118) of the second clip member (116) that faces the first clip member (112) also includes at least one grounding projection (128). The clip (104) may be installed on a standing seam (102) of a panel assembly (100), with its first clip member (112) engaging one of the metal panels 82″ that define this stand seam (102) and with its second clip member (116) engaging the other of the metal panels 82″ that define this same standing seam (102).
US11085185B2
The present invention relates to the construction industry, and in particular to laboratories, hospitals, food production areas and other places where asepsis is required. Specifically, it relates to a modular construction system based on self-supporting panels, which have post-formed exterior surfaces and are complemented with corner components of similar construction to build hermetic, waterproof and insulating walls that have smooth surfaces. For this, there is a modular system of panels for forming aseptic spaces within an enclosure and a method of installing a clean room wall by means of a modular system of panels to form aseptic spaces inside an enclosure.
US11085175B2
A faucet including a spring spout supporting a spout nest, and a sprayhead releasably coupled to the spout nest. A docking cradle is supported by the spout base and is configured to releasably couple to the spout nest. The faucet may include a capacitive sensor operably coupled to the spring spout by at least one capacitive coupling.
US11085172B2
A storage battery (21) is configured of a plurality of cells (22A) to (22N) series-connected to each other. A battery controller (27) receives power supplied from a lead battery (31). The battery controller (27) executes balancing control that reduces variation in cell voltages (VcA) to (VcN) of the plurality of cells (22A) to (22N). The battery controller (27) executes the balancing control in a time range during which a voltage of the lead battery (31) becomes equal to or more than a predetermined given voltage value (V1) and a charging rate of the storage battery (21) becomes equal to or more than a predetermined given charging rate value (SOC1) after a key switch (16) is switched from an on state to an off state.
US11085170B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of operating a machine comprising an implement and a machine for performing such a method. The implement is configured for motion in at least three degrees of freedom. In response to an input, movement of the implement from first to second positions is constrained to a first motion in a first plane or a second motion in a second plane. Sensor data received from an IMU attached to the implement is indicative of the movement of the implement. A first or second estimation mode is selected based upon a determination that the movement is the first or second motion. The first or second estimation mode is implemented to estimate the trajectory of the implement and the second position based upon the sensor data.
US11085168B2
A hydraulic excavator (1) including a controller (21) having a load computing section (52) configured to compute a load of a work target material on the basis of thrust information about a boom cylinder (16) during the period when a front work implement (12) is performing a transporting operation of a work target material, the controller (21) further including: a velocity limiting value computing section (55) configured to compute a limiting value (Vlim) of a velocity of a boom cylinder (16) on the basis of posture information about the work implement (12) at a time of starting the transporting operation; a velocity command correction section (50) configured to correct a velocity command in such a manner that the velocity of the boom cylinder is equal to the limiting value (Vlim) when the velocity of the boom cylinder exceeds the limiting value and output the corrected velocity command; and a drive signal generation section (51) configured to generate and output a drive signal for the boom cylinder on the basis of the velocity command output from a velocity command correction section.
US11085156B2
A weeding system for a railway weeding vehicle comprising a camera and a spraying unit with several supply modules, a nozzle and a controller module to receive a weed species detection signal and to command the spraying of chemical agent. The weeding system also comprises a weed species identification unit with a communication module, a memory module and a processing module having several parallel processing cores. Each parallel processing core performs a convolution operation between a sub-matrix constructed from nearby pixels of the image and a predefined kernel stored in the memory module to obtain a feature representation sub-matrix of the pixel values of the image. The processing module computes a probability of presence of a weed species from the feature representation matrix and generates a weed species detection signal.
US11085152B2
The present invention describes tunable methods of treating cellulosic materials with a barrier coating comprising at least two polyol and/or saccharide fatty acid ester that provides increased water, oil and grease resistance to such materials without sacrificing the biodegradability thereof. The methods as disclosed provide for adhering of the barrier coating on articles including articles comprising cellulosic materials and articles made by such methods. The materials thus treated display higher hydrophobicity and lipophobicity and may be used in any application where such features are desired.
US11085150B2
The invention provides calendered tissue webs and products produced by passing a tissue web through a calender nip created by a patterned roll having a first pattern and a second pattern thereon and a substantially smooth roll. As the web is transported through the nip it is subjected to variable calender loads that impart variable cross-machine (CD) direction properties to the resulting calendered web. CD properties that may be varied according to the present invention include sheet caliper, sheet bulk and surface smoothness. The variable CD property may be preserved in the web as it is further converted, such as winding about a core, resulting in tissue products having physical properties that vary along at least one dimension of the product.
US11085146B2
The present disclosure provides a pants seam clamping structure for novel handheld garment steamer. The structure comprises an auxiliary steam outlet for ironing pants seams, a pants clamping plate for pressing the garments, and a steam generator and a main steam outlet, both of which are arranged in the handheld garment steamer. The auxiliary steam outlet comprises a vaporization cover, a pants clamping tube connector provided with an inner hole, a sealing plug provided with an inner hole, and a top cover of the garment steamer. The pants clamping plate comprises a rotary shaft bracket, a rotary shaft, a torsion spring used for providing a torsional force, and a pressing plate used for pressing and fixing the garment. The present disclosure provides independent auxiliary steam outlet and steam channel which has good sealing performance and stable structure.
US11085145B2
According to some embodiments, a steam hanger is disclosed. Further, the steam hanger may include a main body which may include a plurality of steam apertures configured to release steam. Further, the main body may include at least one fill spout which may include an opening to a water reservoir. Further, the main body may include a foldable hook attached to a top surface of the main body. Further, the steam hanger may include a heating element located inside the water reservoir to heat the water in the water reservoir to generate the steam. Further, the steam hanger may include an energy storage device electrically coupled with the heating element to provide electrical power to the heating element. Further, the steam hanger may include a plurality of retractable ducts retractably attached to the at least one surface of the main body to convey the steam outward for large sized clothing.
US11085141B2
The present invention relates to a washing machine comprising an outer tub containing water, and an inner tub disposed in the outer tub to accommodate laundry and rotated about a horizontal axis. The washing machine includes: a motor for providing rotational force; an outer shaft that has a first hollow, and rotates the inner tub; an inner shaft disposed in the first hollow and rotated by the motor; a pulsator disposed in the inner tub and coupled with the inner shaft; a planetary gear train for transmitting rotational force of the motor; a carrier mover which has an outer circumferential surface that is spline-coupled to an inner circumferential surface of the outer shaft, and an inner circumferential surface that is screwed with an outer circumferential surface of the clutch carrier; and a stopper restricting movement of the carrier mover, thereby achieving various washing modes with a simple mechanism by rotating the inner tub and the pulsator.
US11085136B2
A bobbin head assembly for a maypole type circular braiding machine contains a spindle unit, a braiding material spool with braiding material and a bobbin head. The bobbin head contains a compensation plate and a torsion spring extending helically around the extended axis of the spindle unit. The torsion spring has a nose bent radially inwards towards the center at each of the two ends of the torsion spring coils. A spring seat is attached on the compensation plate, for receiving the torsion spring with a spring abutment element for fixing the nose of one spring end in a circumferential direction of the torsion spring. A fixing collar adjustably fixes the nose of the other spring end in the opposite circumferential direction at different positions along the circumferential direction. The position of the fixing collar can be secured in the circumferential direction with respect to the bobbin head.
US11085134B2
A fabric cover may be configured to mechanically couple to and cover part of a frame and the fabric cover may have a plurality of layers including a first non-conductive fabric layer, a second non-conductive fabric layer, a piezoresistive core layer between the first non-conductive fabric layer and the second fabric non-conductive layer, and a first conductive layer comprising a plurality of first conductive fiber traces and located between the first non-conductive fabric layer and the second non-conductive fabric layer. A localized impedance of the piezoresistive core layer indicates a mechanical force applied to the fabric cover proximate to such localized impedance.
US11085127B2
A method of growing a doped monocrystalline ingot using a crystal growing system is provided. The crystal growing system includes a growth chamber, a dopant feeding device, and a feed tube. The method includes preparing a melt of semiconductor or solar-grade material in a crucible disposed within the growth chamber, introducing a solid dopant into the feed tube with the dopant feeding device, melting the solid dopant within the feed tube to a form a liquid dopant, introducing the liquid dopant into the melt below a surface of the melt, and growing a monocrystalline ingot from the melt by contacting the melt with a seed crystal and pulling the seed crystal away from the melt.
US11085126B2
A feed assembly supplies polysilicon to a growth chamber for growing a crystal ingot from a melt. An example system includes a housing having support rails for receiving one of a granular tray and a chunk tray and a feed material reservoir positioned above the support rails to selectively feed one of either the granular tray or the chunk tray. A valve mechanism and pulse vibrator are also disclosed.
US11085122B2
An electrode for an ozone generator or chlorine generator includes an electrically conductive substrate, a doped-Si layer disposed over the conductive substrate, and a boron-doped diamond (BDD) layer disposed over the doped-silicon layer. The doped-silicon layer defines a discrete architecture that maintains adhesion throughout a high temperature CVD boron-doped diamond process. Another electrode having a PVD nitrogen-doped diamond (ta-C:N) layer disposed over a conductive substrate is also provided.
US11085116B2
An engine shaft assembly for an engine is provided. The engine shaft assembly includes a shaft and a thermal distribution layer. The thermal distribution layer is provided on the shaft, and is configured to minimize the effect of distortion of the shaft caused by asymmetric cooling on shutdown of the engine.
US11085115B2
A low sludge trivalent chromium based conversion coating bath is provided which forms corrosion resistant coatings on aluminum and aluminum alloys by contact with the bath, which is suitable for use as a rinseable or dry-in place conversion coating for metal, that comprises trivalent chromium cations, fluorometallate anions, guanidinium ions and at least one organic anti-corrosion additive, and other optional components, as well as methods of making and using same, and metals coated using the compositions, the coated aluminum serving as an effective base for paint primers.
US11085109B2
A method of manufacturing a crystalline aluminum-iron-silicon alloy and a crystalline aluminum-iron-silicon alloy part. An aluminum-, iron-, and silicon-containing composite powder is provided that includes an amorphous phase and a first crystalline phase having a hexagonal crystal structure at ambient temperature. The composite powder is heated at a temperature in the range of 850° C. to 950° C. to transform at least a portion of the amorphous phase into the first crystalline phase and to transform the composite powder into a crystalline aluminum-iron-silicon (Al—Fe—Si) alloy. The first crystalline phase is a predominant phase in the crystalline Al—Fe—Si alloy.
US11085108B2
The invention relates to a steel for a tool holder. The steel comprises the following main components (in wt. %): C 0.07-0.13 Si 0.10-0.45 Mn 1.5-3.1 Cr 2.4-3.6 Ni 0.5-2.0 Mo 0.1-0.7 Al 0.001-0.06 S≤0.003 The steel has a bainitic microstructure comprising up to 20 volume % retained austenite and up to 20 volume % martensite.
US11085099B2
A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet has a composition that contains, in terms of mass %, C: 0.10% or more and 0.50% or less, Si: 1.0% or more and 3.0% or less, Mn: 1.0% or more and 2.5% or less, P: 0.05% or less, S: 0.02% or less, Al: 0.01% or more and 1.5% or less, N: 0.005% or less, Cu: 0.05% or more and 0.50% or less, and the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein a proportion of a steel sheet surface covered with oxides mainly composed of Si is 1% or less, a proportion of the steel sheet surface covered with Fe oxides is 40% or less, CuS/CuB is 4.0 or less, and a tensile strength is 1180 MPa or more, when CuS denotes the Cu content in a steel sheet surface layer and CuB denotes the Cu content in a base material.
US11085098B2
Disclosed is a Grade 550 MPa high temperature-resistant pipeline steel, the chemical elements, in mass percentage, being: 0.061%≤C≤0.120%, 1.70%≤Mn≤2.20%, 0.15%≤Mo≤0.39%, 0.15%≤Cu≤0.30%, 0.15%≤Ni≤0.50%, 0.035%≤Nb≤0.080%, 0.005%≤V≤0.054%, 0.005%≤Ti≤0.030%, 0.015%≤Al≤0.040%, 0.005%≤Ca≤0.035%, and the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities. Also disclosed is a manufacturing method of the Grade 550 MPa high temperature-resistant pipeline steel, comprising the steps of: smelting, casting, slab heating, rough rolling, finish rolling, controlled cooling, and air cooling to room temperature. The pipeline steel has an excellent mechanical property under a high temperature.
US11085089B2
The present disclosure provides technologies for target entity detection. One aspect of the present disclosure provides technologies for detection (e.g., early detection) of a disease, disorder, or condition (e.g., cancer). In another aspect, technologies provided herein are useful for selecting and/or monitoring and/or evaluating efficacy of, a treatment administered to a subject in need thereof, e.g., a subject determined to have or susceptible to cancer. In some embodiments, technologies provided herein are useful for development of companion diagnostics, e.g., by measuring tumor burdens and changes in tumor burdens in conjunction with therapeutics.
US11085084B2
Disclosed herein are polynucleotide adaptors and methods of use thereof for identifying and analyzing nucleic acids, including cell-free nucleic acids from a patient sample. Also disclosed herein are methods of using the adaptors to detect, diagnose, or determine prognosis of cancers.
US11085070B2
System, including methods, apparatus, and compositions, for performing amplification assays with an amplification reporter including a first oligomer and a second oligomer capable of base-pairing with one another below a melting temperature of the reporter. The reporter may have a detectable photoluminescence that is affected, such as reduced, by base-pairing of the first and second oligomers with one another. A target, such as a nucleic acid target sequence, may be amplified in at least one volume, such as a plurality of partitions, above the melting temperature, and photoluminescence of the reporter may be detected from the at least one volume below the melting temperature. A property of the target, such as a concentration of the target, may be determined based on the photoluminescence detected.
US11085065B2
The biological functionality of living microbial spores is modified using phenotypic engineering to endow the resulting modified spores with novel functionality that extends the usefulness of the spores for a variety of practical applications including, for example, sterility testing, the release of active compounds, and cell-based biosensing systems. An embodiment entails engineering Bacillus spores to acquire synthetic new functions that enable the modified spores to sense and rapidly transduce specific germination signals in their surroundings. The newly acquired functions allow the spores to perform, for example, as self-reporters of cellular viability, self-indicating components of cell-based biosensors, and in other analytical systems. Also disclosed are methods for testing adequate sterility of a system by using engineered spores.
US11085062B2
A process for modifying glycoproteins is provided. The invention also provides a process for producing glycoprotein-payload conjugates, as well as the conjugates produced thereby.
US11085058B2
This invention is about a process of increased Biogas (9) production, with high methane content, in anaerobic biodigestion plants, with production of electric (11) and thermal energy. The process is based upon biotechnologies, hardware and software specifically developed for this aim. One or more Devices for the Acceleration (4) of autochthon methanogenic bacteria multiplication, originally contained in the Organic Wastes (1), collect a portion of the biological material from the Anaerobic Biodigester (3) and, successively, gives it back at a higher rate, with its methanogenic bacteria population remarkably multiplied. The increase and stabilization of the reproduction and nutrition of these bacterial strains allows the increase of the biogas produced in the Anaerobic Biodigester (3) along with the percentage of methane contained in this very Biogas (9). The process is managed by an automation Expert System (5) which controls the biological, chemical and physical variables and that supervises the Automation and Control System (6) of the plant, providing commands and recipes also for the Compost (7) production system and for the Waste Water Treatment and Slurry Separation (8).
US11085043B2
It is disclosed a method for determining the biological activity of defibrotide, which comprises the steps of: a) bringing into contact defibrotide, mammalian euglobulin and a substrate specific for the plasmin which, by reaction with the plasmin, provides a measurable product; and b) measuring the amount of product formed at successive times, to thereby determine the biological activity of the defibrotide. Liquid defibrotide formulations are also disclosed, preferably water solutions, having a defined biological activity and, in particular, having an activity of 25 to 35 IU/mg of defibrotide, preferably from 27 to 32 IU/mg and, more preferably, from 28 to 32 IU/mg.
US11085037B2
Methods for generating synthetic genomes, for example synthetic genomes having desired properties or viable genomes of reduced size, are disclosed. Also disclosed are synthetic genomes produced by the methods disclosed herein and synthetic cells containing the synthetic genomes disclosed herein.
US11085028B2
A harvesting apparatus adapted to harvest egg fluid from an avian egg is provided. Such an apparatus includes a frame. A harvesting assembly is operably engaged with the frame. The harvesting assembly includes a plurality of nozzles configured to remove egg fluid from an egg. The nozzles are configured to rotate from a vertically off-axis angled position toward a vertical position. A suction assembly is in fluid communication with the nozzles for harvesting egg fluid from an egg. An associated method is also provided.
US11085023B2
Provided is a method for producing an economical bovine serum composition containing many factors useful for cell proliferation. The method includes a step of performing an anticoagulation treatment of bovine whole blood with an anticoagulant, a step of obtaining a buffy coat and a fraction with a heavier specific gravity than that of the buffy coat from the anticoagulated whole blood, and a step of promoting and activating an interaction between the obtained leukocytes and platelets at a given temperature for not less than a given time to cause secretion or release of a humoral factor from the leukocytes and/or platelets and performing a recoagulation treatment of blood components including the humoral factor with a re-coagulating agent.
US11085022B2
Disclosed are an inflammation-targeted neutrophil granulocyte drug delivery system and use thereof, wherein the drug delivery system includes neutrophil granulocytes and a therapeutic substance or a detectable substance loaded into the neutrophil granulocytes or onto the surface of the neutrophil granulocytes in a direct or indirect way. By using the neutrophil granulocytes as a carrier of a drug, the drug is actively targeted to an inflammatory site, thereby increasing the drug concentration at the inflammatory site. Under the stimulation of cytokines, the neutrophil granulocytes arriving at the inflammatory site are abnormally activated, disintegrate rapidly, and die in the way of “Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs)”. This helps to rapidly release the loaded drug to the targeted site, so as to improve the therapeutic effect and reduce the toxic and side effects.
US11085014B2
A method of culturing Haematococcus species for manufacturing of astaxanthin comprising the steps of: providing a substrate, arranging the Haematococcus species on the surface of the substrate, exposing the Haematococcus species arranged on the substrate to high light intensities from the beginning of a culturing process and avoiding a two-step culturing process of the Haematococcus species with a first step which is an initial culturing taking place by exposure of the Haematococcus species to low light energy followed by a second step of subsequent culturing of the Haematococcus species by exposure of the Haematococcus species to higher light energy than applied in the first step to induce astaxanthin formation, and optionally harvesting the cultured Haematococcus species and/or isolating astaxanthin.
US11085009B2
The present invention is an ethyl vanillin and/or vanillin friable shell-core microcapsule composition prepared by combining ethyl vanillin or vanillin with preformed friable shell-core microcapsules for a time sufficient for the ethyl vanillin or vanillin and microencapsulates to interact. Wash off consumer products and a method for depositing ethyl vanillin or vanillin on a surface are also provided.
US11085008B2
A method of making a consumer product providing multiple blooms of fragrance, the multiple blooms being provided for by different populations of microcapsules.
US11085004B2
A lubricant composition for application onto a surface of drive elements includes: a base oil; and a silasesquioxane. In an embodiment, the silasesquioxane has the chemical formula [RSiO3/2]n with: n=6, 8, 10, 12; where R independently of one another=alkyl (C1-C20), cycloalkyl (C3-C20), alkenyl (C2-C20), cycloalkenyl (C5-C20), alkynyl (C2-C20), cycloalkynyl (C5-C20), aryl (C6-C18) or heteroaryl group, oxy, hydroxy, alkoxy (C4-C10), oxirane polymer (degree of polymerization with 4 to 20 repeat units), carboxy, silyl, alkylsilyl, alkoxysilyl, siloxy, alkylsiloxy, alkoxysiloxy, silylalkyl, alkoxysilylalkyl, alkylsilylalkyl, halogen, epoxy (C2-C20), ester, aryl ether, fluoroalkyl, blocked isocyanate, acrylate, methacrylate, mercapto, nitrile, amine, and/or phosphine group, each substituted or unsubstituted.
US11084995B2
A carbonaceous feedstock gasification power generation facility, and a method for regulating a gas for drying gas this carbonaceous feedstock, are disclosed with which it is possible to expand the range of the types of carbonaceous feedstocks that can be used. High-temperature exhaust gas, low-temperature exhaust gas and extreme high-temperature exhaust gas are bled from the furnace respectively at a high-temperature bleed position, a low-temperature bleed position and an extreme high-temperature bleed position. When these exhaust gases are mixed, the flow volume of the extreme high-temperature exhaust gas supplied to at least one of the exhaust gases, that is, the high-temperature exhaust gas or the low-temperature exhaust gas, is adjusted such that the temperature of at least one of these exhaust gases, that is, the high-temperature exhaust gas or the low-temperature exhaust gas, reaches a prescribed temperature.
US11084993B2
Processes herein may be used to thermally crack various hydrocarbon feeds, and may eliminate the refinery altogether while making the crude to chemicals process very flexible in terms of crude. In embodiments herein, crude is progressively separated into at least light and heavy fractions. Depending on the quality of the light and heavy fractions, these are routed to one of three upgrading operations, including a fixed bed hydroconversion unit, a fluidized catalytic conversion unit, or a residue hydrocracking unit that may utilize an ebullated bed reactor. Products from the upgrading operations may be used as feed to a steam cracker.
US11084991B2
A process for conversion of a liquid hydrocarbon feedstock in a moving bed hydroprocessing reactor is provided in which (a) hydrogen gas is dissolved in the liquid feedstock and (b) the mixture is flashed to remove and recover any light components, leaving a hydrogen-enriched feedstock. A homogeneous and/or heterogeneous catalyst is added to the feedstock upstream of the moving bed hydroprocessing rector.
US11084990B2
Low sulfur gasoline blend stock is produced by a hydrodesulfurization process including at least two hydrodesulfurization reactors with hydrogen feeds and two finishing reactors arranged where the first polishing reactor converts both thiophenic compounds and mercaptans to hydrogen sulfide and hydrocarbons and the second polishing reactor uses a catalyst that has much less thiophenic conversion activity but is operated at a higher temperature to more substantially reduce the sulfur content of the gasoline present in the form of mercaptans. As the conversion of thiophenes to hydrogen sulfide is correlated to reducing octane number, using a second polishing reactor that has little activity for thiophene conversion also protects the high-octane species in the gasoline thereby minimizing octane loss while reducing total sulfur content to acceptable levels. The sulfur left in the gasoline is biased toward higher thiophene content and away from mercaptan content.
US11084964B2
The invention provides circular processes using siloxanes as high-temperature heat transfer fluid (HTF), wherein the siloxanes go over from the state of the supercooled liquid into the state of the high-density supercritical fluid by means of heat uptake without a phase transition and energy is then transferred as energy without a phase transition.
US11084955B2
Computing devices may require disassembly to repair or replace a defective or damaged component, or to facilitate recycling at the end of the computing device's service life. While pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) is good at creating secure connections between components within the expected operating conditions of the computing device, PSA resists intentional disassembly of such components. The presently disclosed PSA with thermally conductive release tabs provides a mechanism for effective spot-cooling of the PSA between adhered components. Once the PSA reaches a low temperature threshold, one component may be mechanically separated from another component. This yields potentially faster and easier disassembly of adhered components than prior art techniques.
US11084950B2
A conductive paste is provided for forming conductive traces on substrates. The conductive paste includes a vehicle and conductive material. The vehicle includes a resin, a plasticizer, and a solvent in which the resin is dissolved. After application to a substrate, the conductive paste is cured at ambient temperature by evaporation of the solvent from the paste, to thereby form a conductive trace on the substrate. The conductive trace does not require a curing agent, and attains low resistivity within minutes of application to the substrate.
US11084947B2
Systems and methods of providing a self-healing UV-protective polymer coating include a polymer matrix formed by initiating polymerization of a UV-absorbing-matrix precursor and a UV initiator and a self-healing portion disposed within the polymer matrix. The polymer matrix includes a plurality of active sites therein. The self-healing portion includes a self-healing precursor that is flowable and a self-healing initiator. The self-healing initiator is configured to polymerize the self-healing precursor using a cationic ring opening process.
US11084941B2
Provided are an underfill material capable of realizing low-pressure mounting and voidless mounting, and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device using the same. The underfill material includes a main composition containing an acrylic polymer, an acrylic monomer, and a maleimide compound, and the acrylic polymer is contained in a range of 10 parts by mass or more and 60 parts by mass or less in 100 parts by mass of the main composition, and the maleimide compound is contained in a range of 20 parts by mass or more and 70 parts by mass or less in 100 parts by mass of the main composition. Low-pressure mounting and the voidless mounting can be realized.
US11084939B2
An anti-fogging coating composition comprising (A) a radical-polymerizable monomer having at least three radical-polymerizable carbon-carbon double bonds, (B) a surfactant represented by general formula (1) below and (C) a photopolymerization initiator. In general formula (1) above, R1 represents an unsubstituted alkyl group having 8 to 30 carbon atoms, a fluorine atom-containing alkyl group having 8 to 30 carbon atoms, or an aryl group having at least one unsubstituted alkyl group having 8 to 30 carbon atoms, R2 represents a divalent hydrocarbon group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, and n represents an integer of 1 to 1000.
US11084933B2
The present invention relates to a compound having a novel structure, a photopolymer composition including the compound as a dye, a hologram recording medium produced from the photopolymer composition, an optical element including the hologram recording medium, and a holographic recording method using the hologram recording medium.
US11084932B2
Compounds useful as fluorescent or colored dyes that enable visual detection of biomolecules and other analytes are disclosed. The compounds comprise a phenylethynylnapthalene moiety represented by the following structure (I): including salts thereof, wherein R1a, R1b, R1c, R1d, R1e, R1f, R2a, R2b, R2c, R2d, R2e, R2f, R2g, R2h, R2i, R2j, x and y are as defined herein. Methods associated with preparation and use of such compounds for visually detecting a biomolecule are also provided.
US11084928B2
An adhesive or encapsulant composition, having a siloxane polymer having a molecular weight of from 300 to 150,000 g/mol and having a viscosity of from 1000 to 100,000 mPa-sec at 5 rpm viscometer and at 25° C., and a curing agent that aids in curing the siloxane polymer upon the application of ultraviolet light. The composition is transmissive to visible light with an optical transmissivity of 95% or more in the visible spectrum at a thickness of 1 mm or less, and wherein the siloxane polymer is a material formed without hydrosilylation and has less than 5 mol % of Si—OH groups compared to all groups bound to Si therein, and substantially no Si—H bonds.
US11084927B2
A thermally conductive polysiloxane composition includes (A) a thermally conductive filler, and (B) at least one member selected from the group consisting of an alkoxysilyl group-containing compound and a dimethylpolysiloxane. The component (A) includes at least two thermally conductive fillers having different average particle diameters, and (A-1) indefinite-shaped aluminum nitride particles having an average particle diameter of 30 μm to 150 μm in an amount of at least 20% by mass, based on the mass of a total of the component (A).
US11084921B2
The present invention relates to a thermoplastic resin composition, a method of preparing the same, and an injection-molded article including the same. More particularly, the present invention relates to a thermoplastic resin composition having superior vibration welding properties along with ABS-based resin-specific impact resistance, heat resistance, and the like due to inclusion of an ABS-based graft copolymer including a conjugated diene-based rubber polymer having an average particle diameter of 0.25 to 0.35 μm; a rubber-modified graft copolymer including a diene-based rubber polymer having an average particle diameter of 0.6 to 10 μm and prepared by continuous bulk polymerization; and a matrix resin, and an injection-molded article including the thermoplastic resin composition.
US11084913B2
A matrix resin composition for fiber reinforced composite materials is described. The resin is thermosetting and achieves a glass transition temperature of at least 177° C. (Tg), obtained by curing at room temperature. The matrix resin will streamline composite fabrication processes by eliminating the need for heating during the cure process. The implications of this development are significant in terms of the ease of use and elimination of procedural steps. While the resin system was developed specifically for vacuum bagging, it is expected to be viable for other composite fabrication methods including resin transfer molding (RTM) and vacuum-assisted resin transfer molding (VARTM). The resin system is viable for use with carbon fiber reinforcements to fabricate laminates at least 0.20 inches thick. The resulting laminates have low porosity and mechanical properties equivalent to those prepared with common epoxy matrix resins.
US11084906B2
A class of solvent resistant, flexible copolyimide substrates having high optical transparency (>80% from 400 to 750 nm) that is retained after brief exposure to 300° C., near-zero birefringence (<0.001) and a maximum CTE of approximately 60 ppm/° C. is disclosed. The copolyimides are prepared from alicyclic dianhydrides, aromatic cardo diamines, and aromatic diamines containing free carboxyl groups. The substrates are manufactured from solutions of the copolyimides containing multifunctional epoxides in the form of single layer films, multilayer laminates and glass fiber reinforced composite films. The substrates can be used in the construction of flexible optical displays, and other microelectronic and photovoltaic devices that require their unique combination of properties.
US11084900B2
A polyester single layer film according to an embodiment of the present invention has low haze and low oligomer characteristics, has a more bluish color coordinate, and has a low inorganic metal content. Accordingly, the polyester single layer film may be used as a base film of a heat-resistant protective film and a light-scattering preventive film, as well as an ITO and non-ITO base film (for Ag nanowire, or the like) used in recent touch panels. In addition, since the transmittance at a wavelength of 550 nm is relatively high due to less impurity, the polyester single layer film may be used as a base film of a prism for a backlight unit (BLU) and a diffusion sheet.
US11084894B2
A process for making a poly alpha-olefin (PAO) having a relatively high vinylidene content (or combined vinylidene and tri-substituted vinylene content) and a relatively low vinyl and/or di-substituted vinylene content, as well as a relatively low molecular weight. The process includes: contacting a feed containing a C2-C32 alpha-olefin with a catalyst system comprising activator and a bis-cyclopentadienyl metallocene compound, typically a cyclopentadienyl-benzindenyl group 4 transition metal compound.
US11084886B2
An object of the invention is to provide a material comprising ultrafine cellulose fibers, having good dispersibility of fine particles in an aqueous medium containing ultrafine cellulose fibers. According to the invention, there is provided a material comprising ultrafine cellulose fibers, wherein the content of the ultrafine cellulose fibers is 80% by mass or more, and the haze value of a sample, which has been prepared by adding the material comprising ultrafine cellulose fibers to pure water to a solid concentration of 0.4% by mass, and stirring the mixture with a disperser under conditions of 1500 rpm and 5 minutes, is 20% or less.
US11084876B2
The present invention relates in essence to a compound which decreases or inhibits the binding of mammalian T-cells to mammalian endothelial cells for use in a method of prophylaxis and/or amelioration and/or treatment of clinical adverse events caused by therapy which comprises re-directing of T-cells against target cells in a patient. Methods of treatment of patients having or being at risk of clinical adverse events caused by therapy which comprises re-directing of T-cells against target cells are also contemplated.
US11084862B2
The present invention relates to T cell receptors (TCRs) which bind the HLA-A2 restricted FMNKFIYEI (158-166) peptide epitope derived from α Fetoprotein (AFP). Certain preferred TCRs of the invention demonstrate excellent binding characteristics and specificity profiles for this AFP epitope. T cell receptors of the invention may comprise at least one TCR alpha chain variable domain and/or at least one TCR beta chain variable domain, the alpha chain variable domain which may comprise an amino acid sequence that has at least 90% identity to the sequence of amino acid residues 1-112 of SEQ ID No: 2, and/or the beta chain variable domain which may comprise an amino acid sequence that has at least 90% identity to the sequence of amino acid residues 1-112 of SEQ ID No: 3.
US11084858B2
Variant IL-13 polypeptides are provided, which are engineered to have one or more of the following properties: (a) altered affinity for IL-13Rα2, relative to the native human IL-13 protein; (b) altered affinity for IL-13Rα1 relative to the native human IL-13 protein; (c) a disruption in the binding site for IL-4Rα relative to the native human IL-13 protein.
US11084852B2
The present disclosure describes the use peptides of comprising ubiquitin interacting motifs (UIMs) alone or in combination with other agents to treat conditions such as cancer, atherosclerosis and obesity.
US11084849B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to inteins, split inteins, compositions comprising inteins and methods for use of these.
US11084845B2
Compounds having drug and bio-affecting properties, their pharmaceutical compositions and methods of use are set forth. In particular, betulinic acid derivatives that possess unique antiviral activity are provided as HIV maturation inhibitors, as represented by compounds of Formula I: These compounds are useful for the treatment of HIV and AIDS.
US11084838B2
A compound having a formula: Formula I useful as emitters in OLEDs is disclosed.
US11084837B2
The present invention relates to a chemical deposition raw material for manufacturing an iridium thin film or an iridium compound thin film by a chemical deposition method, including an iridium complex in which cyclopropenyl or a derivative thereof and a carbonyl ligand are coordinated to iridium. The iridium complex that is applied in the present invention enables an iridium thin film to be manufactured even when a reducing gas such as hydrogen is applied. in which R1 to R3, which are substituents of the cyclopropenyl ligand, are each independently hydrogen, or a linear or branched alkyl group with a carbon number of 1 or more and 4 or less.
US11084826B2
The invention concerns novel substituted pyrazolo- and triazolo-pyrimidine compounds of formula (I) having antiviral activity, in particular, having an inhibitory activity on the replication of the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The invention further concerns pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the compounds for use in the treatment of respiratory syncytial virus infection.
US11084816B2
The anionic imide material is obtained by preparing a solution or a suspension of an imide compound, then reducing and drying the same; the anionic material comprises anions of an imide compound, the anions being at least one selected from the following formula I or formula II; in formula I or II: n=1, 2, or 3; R1, R2 are respectively selected from at least one of H, amino, carboxyl, hydroxy, thiol, and pyridyl groups; X1-X4 are respectively an electron withdrawing group, and specifically selected from one of H, F, Cl, Br, CN, and NO2 groups. The anionic material of the present invention has a Curie temperature larger than room temperature and ferromagnetism, and is an organic magnetic material; it may be used for preparing an organic magnetic material and/or an organic magnetic device.
US11084812B2
This application is directed to inhibitors of RAD51 represented by the following structural formula, and methods for their use, such as to treat cancer, autoimmune diseases, immune deficiencies, or neurodegenerative diseases.
US11084801B2
The present disclosure provides compounds and compositions capable of extending lifespan, and methods of use thereof.
US11084800B2
Complement Factor D inhibitors, pharmaceutical compositions, and uses thereof, as well as processes for their manufacture are provided. The compounds provided include Formula I, Formula II, Formula III, Formula IV, and Formula V, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, prodrug, isotopic analog, N-oxide, or isolated isomer thereof, optionally in a pharmaceutically acceptable composition. The inhibitors described herein target Factor D and inhibit or regulate the complement cascade.
US11084791B2
The present invention provides a crystalline form of Lenvatinib Mesylate, processes for the preparation of crystalline form of lenvatinib Mesylate and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. The crystalline form of lenvatinib Mesylate designated as Form VN1 is characterized by powder X-ray diffraction pattern. The present invention further provides a process for the preparation of amorphous form of lenvatinib Mesylate. The amorphous form is characterized by powder X-ray diffraction pattern.
US11084786B2
The invention relates to new compounds with low cytotoxicity for blocking ubiquitination-proteasome system in diseases. Accordingly, these compounds can be used in treatment of treating disorders including, but not limited to, cancers, neurodegenerative diseases, inflammatory disorders and autoimmune disorders and metabolic disorders.
US11084779B2
Here described is a composition comprising a compound of formula I: wherein R1 and R2 is independently selected from a group consisting of C10 to C18 alkyl, C12 to C18 alkenyl, and oleoyl group; R3 and R4 are independently selected from a group consisting of C1 to C6 alkyl, and C2 to C6 alkanol; X is selected from a group consisting of —CH2—, —S—, and —O— or absent; Y is selected from —(CH2)n, —S(CH2)n, —O(CH2)n—, thiophene, —SO2(CH2)n—, and ester; n=1-4; a=1-4; b=1-4; c=1-4; and Z− is a counterion.
US11084778B2
The present invention relates to the use of selective aquaporin inhibitors, e.g., of aquaporin-4 or aquaporin-2, e.g., certain phenylbenzamide compounds, for the prophylaxis, treatment and control of aquaporin-mediated conditions, e.g., diseases of water imbalance, for example edema (particularly edema of the brain and spinal cord, e.g., following trauma or ischemic stroke, as well as the edema associated with glioma, meningitis, acute mountain sickness, epileptic seizures, infections, metabolic disorders, hypoxia, water intoxication, hepatic failure, hepatic encephalopathy, diabetic ketoacidosis, abscess, eclampsia, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and lupus cerebritis, as well as edema consequent to microgravity and/or radiation exposure, as well as edema consequent to invasive central nervous system procedures, e.g., neurosurgery, endovascular clot removal, spinal tap, aneurysm repair, or deep brain stimulation, as well as retinal edema), as well as hyponatremia and excess fluid retention, and diseases such as epilepsy, retinal ischemia and other diseases of the eye associated with abnormalities in intraocular pressure and/or tissue hydration, myocardial ischemia, myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury, myocardial infarction, myocardial hypoxia, congestive heart failure, sepsis, and neuromyelitis optica, as well as migraines, as well as to novel assays for identifying aquaporin inhibitors.
US11084773B1
This invention provides compounds of Formulae (IA), (IB), (IC), (ID), (IE), (IF), (IG), (IH), (IJ), (IK), (IL), (II), (III), (IIIA), and (IIIB); pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates thereof; and compositions thereof. This invention further provides methods for treating a disease, including but not limited to, liver disease or an abnormal liver condition; cancer (such as hepatocellular carcinoma or cholangiocarcinoma); a malignant or benign tumor of the lung, liver, gall bladder, bile duct or digestive tract; an intra- or extra-hepatic bile duct disease; a disorder of lipoprotein; a lipid-and-metabolic disorder; cirrhosis; fibrosis; a disorder of glucose metabolism; a cardiovascular or related vascular disorder; a disease resulting from steatosis, fibrosis, or cirrhosis; a disease associated with increased inflammation (such as hepatic inflammation or pulmonary inflammation); hepatocyte ballooning; a peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-associated disorder; an ATP citrate lyase disorder; an acetyl-coenzyme A carboxylase disorder; obesity; pancreatitis; or renal disease.
US11084767B1
Toluene disproportionation processes utilizing treated UZM-44 zeolites are described. The processes produce effluent streams comprising para-xylene and benzene. The molar ratio of benzene to xylene (Bz/X) in the effluent stream can be in a range of about 1.00 to about 1.14, the molar ratio of para-xylene to xylene (pX/X) in the effluent stream can be in a range of about 0.80 to about 1.0, and the conversion of toluene can be about 20% to about 40%.
US11084764B2
Described herein is a method for producing a zeolite catalyst useful for aromatization of a lower alkane, a zeolite catalyst useful for aromatization of a lower alkane obtainable by said method and a process for aromatization of a lower alkane using the zeolite catalyst.
US11084759B2
Disclosed are a low-shrinkage, high-strength, and large ceramic plate and a manufacturing method thereof. The method comprises the following steps: (1) preparing a ceramic raw material powder; (2) subjecting an acicular wollastonite to surface coating with a silane coupling agent and to pre-dispersion with a fumed silica to obtain a pre-treated acicular wollastonite; and (3) thoroughly mixing the ceramic raw material powder and the pre-treated acicular wollastonite and granulating the resulting mixture, the amount of the pre-treated acicular wollastonite added being 10 wt % to 30 wt % of the ceramic raw material powder, and subjecting the resulting granules to dry pressing and sintering to obtain the large ceramic plate. The acicular wollastonite is incorporated into the manufacturing of the large ceramic plate to take full advantage of the reinforcing effect and low sintering shrinkage characteristics of the acicular wollastonite. The invention reduces sintering shrinkage and increases product strength.
US11084757B2
The present invention relates to an asphalt composition comprising asphalt or an asphalt mixture and to a silicon carbide-containing binder that can be heated by means of microwaves. The silicon carbide is present in the binder in particle form, the equivalent diameter of silicon carbide particles contained in the binder is less than 60 μm. The invention also relates to a method for producing and/or renovating road surfaces or asphalt surfaces comprising at least one asphalt surface layer.
US11084751B2
A method includes contacting a glass sheet with a forming surface to form a shaped glass article. An effective viscosity of the glass sheet during the contacting step is less than a contact viscosity of the glass sheet in contact with the forming surface during the contacting step.
US11084749B2
A glass melter batch inlet and cleaning device and related methods of its operation are disclosed. The glass melter batch inlet and cleaning device includes an outer tubular housing including a side inlet, an inner tubular chopper including a side inlet relief in registration with the side inlet of the outer tubular housing, and at least one actuator extending alongside the outer tubular housing and coupled to the inner tubular chopper to move the chopper with respect to the outer tubular housing.
US11084744B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for mixing a gas-free liquid oxidant with a process liquid to form a homogeneous and gas-free mixture with minimized degassing. The mixing system comprises an injection device, integrating with a pipe through which a process liquid flows, configured and adapted to inject a gas-free liquid oxidant into the process liquid, and a mixer, fluidly connected to the pipe and the injection device, configured and adapted to mix the process liquid and the gas-free liquid oxidant therein to form a homogeneous and gas-free mixture of the process liquid and the gas-free liquid oxidant with minimal degassing. The method comprises the steps of a). injecting the gas-free liquid oxidant into the process liquid, and b). mixing the gas-free liquid oxidant and the process liquid to form the homogeneous and gas-free mixture. The gas-free liquid oxidant is ozone strong water.
US11084735B2
A system for distilling water is disclosed. The system comprises a heat source, and a plurality of open-cycle adsorption stages, each stage comprising a plurality of beds and an evaporator and a condenser between a first bed and a second bed, wherein each bed comprises at least two vapor valves, a plurality of hollow tubes, a plurality of channels adapted for transferring water vapor to and from at least one of the condenser or the evaporator, a thermally conductive water vapor adsorbent, and wherein each vapor valve connects a bed to either the condenser or the evaporator.
US11084729B2
The invention relates to a process for preparing a precipitated silica, to precipitated silicas, and to uses thereof. The process of the invention generally includes reacting a silicate with an acidifying agent, so as to obtain a suspension of precipitated silica; filtering the precipitated silica to obtain a filter cake; subjecting the filter cake to a liquefaction operation to form a second filter cake; and drying the second filter cake. In the process of the invention, at least one polycarboxylic acid is added to the filter cake, during or after the liquefaction operation.
US11084727B2
An ultra dense and ultra low power microhotplates using silica aerogel and method of making the same, comprising creating a sol-gel by impregnation of ethanol with functional colloidal alcogel particles is described. The technique further comprises forming tiny aerogel particles on the wafer and networking the particles together just by exposure to air during spin coating. The novelty of this technique is not limited to the processing of thin film and thick film silica aerogel.
US11084726B2
Provided is a graphene additive, having a viscosity between 1000 and 40000 cps and a grind fineness not greater than 15 μm, and comprising: nano-graphene sheets and a silane coupling agent, wherein a weight ratio of the nano-graphene sheets to the silane coupling agent is 0.1-15:99.9-85, and carbon atoms on a surface of the nano-graphene sheets form chemical bonds Si—O—C with oxygen substituents of the silane coupling agent. The present application further provides a method of preparing the graphene additive.
US11084719B2
A process for generating power using a gas turbine, comprising the steps of: (i) vaporising and pre-heating liquid ammonia to produce pre-heated ammonia gas; (ii) introducing the pre-heated ammonia gas into an ammonia-cracking device suitable for converting ammonia gas into a mixture of hydrogen and nitrogen; (iii) converting the pre-heated ammonia gas into a mixture of hydrogen and nitrogen in the device; (iv) cooling the mixture of hydrogen and nitrogen to give a cooled hydrogen and nitrogen mixture; (v) introducing the cooled hydrogen and nitrogen mixture into a gas turbine; and (vi) combusting the cooled hydrogen and nitrogen mixture in the gas turbine to generate power.
US11084718B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a structure with spatial encoded functionality, the method comprising: providing in a volume (114) a first photosensitive material (116) that is two-photon crosslinking compatible, generating in the volume (114) a framework of crosslinked first photo-sensitive material (116), the generating of the framework comprising exposing the first photosensitive material (116) with a first focused laser beam (118) according to a first pattern for specifically initiating a two-photon crosslinking of the first photosensitive material (116) in accordance with the first pattern, removing from the volume (114) any remaining non-crosslinked portions of the first photosensitive material (116), providing to the volume (114) a second photosensitive material (116) that is two-photon crosslinking compatible, generating in the volume (114) the structure, the generating of the structure comprising exposing the second photosensitive material (116) with a second focused laser beam (118) according to a second pattern for specifically initiating a two-photon crosslinking of predefined surface portions of the framework and the second photosensitive material (116) in accordance with the second pattern, removing from the volume (114) any remaining non-crosslinked portions of the second photosensitive material (116).
US11084715B2
A system includes a semiconductor substrate having a first cavity. The semiconductor substrate forms a pedestal adjacent the first cavity. A device overlays the pedestal and is bonded to the semiconductor substrate by metal within the first cavity. A plurality of second cavities are formed in a surface of the pedestal beneath the device, wherein the second cavities are smaller than the first cavity. In some of these teachings, the second cavities are voids. In some of these teachings, the metal in the first cavity comprises a eutectic mixture. The structure relates to a method of manufacturing in which a layer providing a mask to etch the first cavity is segmented to enable easy removal of the mask-providing layer from the area over the pedestal.
US11084711B2
This invention provides a mat, comprising: an upper surface; a lower surface; a porous structure located between said upper surface and said lower surface, said porous structure including silica gel. The mat according to this invention can be used as, for example, a pillow, seat cushion, back cushion or mattress, or part of a chair seat or chair back.
US11084710B1
A quick disconnect apparatus including a first end configured to interface with a legacy fill and drain valve (FDV) of a satellite to be serviced, a second end configured to interface with a refueling tool, and a middle portion including at least one redundant seal to prevent unwanted fuel transfer during connection of the FDV and refueling tool.
US11084699B2
A pry bar attachment operable to receive to a pry bar to provide a fulcrum point during use of the associated pry bar. The pry bar attachment may comprise a fulcrum coupled to a sleeve, the sleeve operable to receive a pry bar. The pry bar attachment may be an adjustable pry bar attachment having one or more adjustable features, such as fulcrum height, sleeve dimensions, or friction adjustment.
US11084693B2
A crane having at least one jib system, a sensor unit for detecting a deformation of the jib system transversely to a load plane, and to an activatable adjustment unit for influencing the deformation of the jib system transversely to the load plane.
US11084691B2
The present invention relates to a tower crane with a load lifting means mounted on a hoisting cable, driving devices for moving several crane elements and traversing the load lifting means, and a control device for controlling the driving devices such that the load lifting means moves along a traversing path between at least two target points. The control device has a traversing path determining module for determining a desired traversing path between the at least two target points and an automatic traversing control module for automatically traversing the load lifting means along the determined traversing path.
US11084684B2
A restriction device for preventing deformation of restriction plate of reel is disclosed. The restriction device includes a first circular restrictor, a second circular restrictor, a block member and a first push member. A clamping space exists between the first and second circular restrictors mounted on a shaft and is configured to accommodate a reel mounted on the shaft. The second circular restrictor is able to be moved on the shaft in an axial direction, the block member is fixed on the shaft and the first push member is placed between the block member and the second circular restrictor. The first push member is configured to apply a force to push the second circular restrictor toward the first circular restrictor to press a first restriction plate of the reel such that the deformation of the first restriction plate is prevented.
US11084679B2
A paper stacking device includes: a stacker on which paper is stacked; a paper ejector that ejects the paper; an aligning plate that is provided on a side of the paper, and aligns a side end of the paper; a paper floating member that is provided in the aligning plate, and supports, from below, the side end of the paper; and a blower that is provided on the side of the paper across the aligning plate, and blows air, wherein the aligning plate includes a blowing opening through which air from the blower is blown, the paper floating member is switched between: a paper floating position; and a retreat position, when the paper floating member is located in the paper floating position, the blowing opening is opened, and when the paper floating member is located in the retreat position, the blowing opening is shielded.
US11084671B2
A method for automatic loading of trays into a cart, where the cart is adapted to receive trays at different vertical tray levels, comprises detecting the tray levels with a tray level sensor and lifting the cart with a lifting device from a floor to different vertical positions such that the tray levels in the cart will be at the same vertical level as a loading surface of a conveyer arrangement, which transports the trays to the cart on the loading surface. The method also comprises activating tray stoppers to stop the movement of the trays on the loading surface until the cart is at a correct vertical position, and deactivating the tray stoppers to allow the trays to be loaded into the cart when the cart is at a correct vertical position. The cart is lifted and loaded until all tray levels have been filled, and then the cart is again lowered to the floor. An apparatus for automatic loading of trays into a cart according to the method is also provided.
US11084661B2
A system for conveying products in succession along an industrial line, the system including at least one conveyor configured for conveying the products along at least one stretch of the line. Provided on the conveyor are codes to identify a series of distinct areas, for reception of the products. The system also includes one or more devices configured for detecting the codes of the areas of the conveyor when the areas are located in a position, along the line, where the products undergo a given operation; and a control unit configured for processing the codes so as to determine one or more data regarding the products.
US11084658B2
A conveying unit (10) for the suspended transport of transport elements (40) in a conveyor system, in particular a rail-guided (86) conveyor system or a conveyor-chain system, includes a support hook (21) attached to a conveying element (20), in particular a carriage or a conveyor-chain link, a transport element (40), and a suspension hook (41) attached to the transport element, wherein the suspension hook is mounted in a suspended manner in the support hook. The support hook is configured such that the suspension hook can take up two stable positions (61, 62) in the support hook. The suspension hook (41) in a first stable position (61) has been turned through an angle with respect to the suspension hook in a second stable position (62).
US11084650B2
The invention relates to a portion capsule for producing a beverage, having a capsule body with a capsule base and a filling side. A cavity for receiving a pulverulent or liquid beverage substrate is formed between the capsule base and the filling side, and a filter element is arranged between the beverage substrate and the capsule base. The filter element comprises an open-pore felt and/or nonwoven fabric, and the felt and/or nonwoven fabric has a first average pore size in a first region facing the beverage substrate and a second average pore size in a second region facing the capsule base, said first pore size being smaller than the second pore size.
US11084636B2
This application discloses a packing box for a display panel and an accommodating apparatus. The packing box includes: a box body; the display panel including a circuit board and a substrate; and grooves, disposed on the box body, located on both sides of the circuit board, attached to the circuit board and the substrate, and configured to place a desiccant.
US11084630B2
The present invention relates to devices for corking bottles, and more particularly to the corking of glass bottles having necks containing a cork with an upper portion which rises above a rim, and may be used for corking bottles. A device for corking bottles contains a neck with a rim, and a cork, an end portion of the rim having protrusions, providing the ability to raise the cork by rotating same by the upper portion thereof. The neck, rim and upper portion of the cork are rectangular and/or oval in horizontal cross-section. The neck and rim are, on the two wide sides thereof, made in the form of parallel flat common surfaces. The narrow sides of the rim are hook-shaped.
US11084623B1
Trackable nylon pallets and collapsible containers constructed from injection molded, interlocking top and bottom pallet portions having attached, hinged collapsible container sides affixed to the pallet top side. Collapsible side locking assemblies and a container cover provide stability to container side when they are orthogonally disposed to the pallet top side. The cover also provides pallet and collapsible container stacking stability when the collapsed sides are folded inwards and resting on the pallet top side. Each pallet and collapsible container provide real time tracking, identification, and monitoring capabilities from at least one removable communication/sensor box releasably secured between conjoined top and bottom pallet portions. Each trackable pallet and collapsible container provide equipment entry passages between top and bottom portions from all four pallet sides.
US11084622B2
A multi-level rail for a storage structure may comprise an upper horizontal portion configured to support a load and a lower horizontal portion configured to support a row vehicle. An upper support portion extends downward diagonally from the upper horizontal portion toward the lower horizontal portion, and a lower support extends downward diagonally from the lower horizontal portion. This rail is configured to connect to at least one vertical post of the storage structure. Support beams for a railed storage structure are also disclosed with an elongated body having a terminal end portion configured to attach to a vertical column of a storage support structure and an upper support surface configured to support a horizontal support rail. A wing portion is secured to the terminal end portion and configured to attach to the horizontal support rail by extending lateral to the elongated body and above the upper support surface.
US11084602B2
An aircraft system with assisted taxi, take-off and climbing, comprising: a main air vehicle capable of performing autonomously the cruising and landing phases of a flight, an auxiliary air vehicle lighter than the main air vehicle and configured to assist the main air vehicle during the taxing and take-off phases of a flight. Main and auxiliary air vehicles are adapted to be detachably connectable, so that the auxiliary air vehicle can assist the main air vehicle when both are attached to each other during taxing, take-off and climbing. The auxiliary air vehicle is an unmanned air vehicle and it is further configured to fly and land when it is detached from the main air vehicle. Aircraft operations cost and aircraft production cost are reduced, by optimizing the design (sizing) and capabilities of some systems of an aircraft.
US11084592B2
An environmental control system of an aircraft includes a ram air circuit including a ram air shell having at least one heat exchanger positioned therein, a dehumidification system arranged in fluid communication with the ram air circuit, and a compression device arranged in fluid communication with the ram air circuit and the dehumidification system. The compression device includes a compressor, a turbine, and a fan coupled by a shaft, wherein the fan is operable to move ram air through the ram air circuit and the turbine includes a first inlet for receiving a first flow of medium and a second inlet for receiving a second flow of medium.
US11084591B2
An aircraft cabin blower system includes a transmission configured to receive mechanical power from a gas turbine engine in the form of a first transmission input; and an electrical circuit including a first electrical machine, a second electrical machine, and power management system, wherein, when operating in a blower mode, the first electrical receives mechanical power from the gas turbine engine and act as a generator to provide electrical power to the power management system, and the second electrical machine acts as a motor providing mechanical power to the transmission in the form of a second transmission input, the second electrical machine being driven by electrical power from the power management system. The transmission's output drives a cabin blower compressor when operating in the blower mode, a speed of the output of the transmission being determined by a function of a speed of the first and second transmission inputs.
US11084572B2
An electromechanical device for actuating a movable flight control surface having a skin hinged to a structure of an aircraft about a pivot axis, the device including: at least two electric motors for causing the skin to pivot about the pivot axis; a power circuit and a control circuit for powering and controlling each of the motors; and a device for limiting opposing forces exerted by the two electric motors.
US11084561B2
Techniques are provided for an unmanned surface vehicle including a vehicle body and a rigid square-rig wing coupled with the primary vehicle body. The rigid square-rig wing includes a first surface configured to interact with wind to generate a force that propels the primary vehicle body in a direction of travel that is primarily composed of drag, and a second surface configured to interact with the wind to generate a force that propels the primary vehicle body in a direction of travel that is primarily composed of lift. The unmanned surface vehicle further includes a rudder and a control system comprising a controller, the control system configured to determine a rudder position and generate a signal to position the rudder to the rudder position.
US11084557B2
A closing device configured to close an outer shell opening of a surface ship, including several substantially vertically mounted shutter lamellas and a drive device by means of which the shutter lamellas can be actuated such that they move between a closed position and an open position.
US11084552B2
A suspension assembly for a cycle having improved stability includes a steering fork having a first arm and a second arm, each of the first arm and the second arm having a fixed pivot and a shock pivot, the space between the first arm and the second arm defining a wheel opening. A shock link has a shock link fixed pivot and a shock link floating pivot. A shock absorber has a shock gas spring comprising a shock spring body a shock gas piston having a first gas piston area, a spring unit having a spring gas spring comprising a spring body and a spring gas piston having a second gas piston area. A gas pressure inside the shock gas spring is equal to a predetermined pressure for a user's body weight to produce optimal ride conditions for the user's body weight.
US11084551B1
A foldable recumbent tricycle frame is described herein. The tricycle frame generally includes a central region, an anterior tube, a first lateral tube, a second lateral tube, a first posterior tube assembly, and a second posterior tube assembly. The first posterior tube assembly and second posterior tube assembly extend posteriorly relative to the central region. The first posterior tube assembly and second posterior tube assembly each comprise an anterior end, a posterior end, and a pivot joint disposed between the anterior end and posterior end. The posterior end is configured to assemble with a wheel. The pivot joints permit the wheel to fold underneath the tricycle frame into a folded position where a majority of the wheel resides inferior to the anterior tube, and where either a first side or opposing side of the third wheel resides adjacent to the anterior tube.
US11084544B2
Deflector are disposed below, in a vertical direction of a vehicle body, right and left ends of a front bumper to suppress flowing of traveling air from the from side into wheel houses. Splash shields are disposed between a pair of front side frames and a sub-frame to suppress flowing of the air from an engine room into the wheel houses. Ducts are provided at right and left ends of the front bumper. Each of the ducts includes an intake port that takes in the traveling air from the front side, and a discharge port that discharges the traveling air taken in from the intake port into the wheel houses.
US11084542B2
The present invention is related to an aerodynamic side skirt assembly for attaching a panel to a trailer or semi-trailer. The present invention comprise a coupler configured to be attached to a frame rail of the trailer and to a panel, a compressible element preferably with a curved shape used as a damper and a bracket with a preferably flat surface connected to the panel and a rib through the length of the bracket.
US11084524B2
A first microcomputer is configured to identify the cause (a content of the abnormality) of a communication abnormality based on a combination of whether communication through a first communication line is established, whether communication through a second communication line is established, and whether a second clock is normal. Specifically, the first microcomputer separately determines whether the communication abnormality between the first microcomputer and a second microcomputer is simply due to an abnormality in the first communication line and the second communication line, or due to stop of a function of the second microcomputer. The second microcomputer is configured to identify the cause of the communication abnormality based on a combination of whether the communication through the first communication line is established, whether the communication through the second communication line is established, and whether a first clock is normal.
US11084521B2
An electronic control unit includes: a substrate (10); a heat generating component (20) provided on one surface (11) of the substrate and generates heat during operation; a heat conducting component (40) formed of a material having a heat conductivity equal to or higher than a predetermined value and provided on the one surface of the substrate such that at least a part of the heat conducting component is located in a range (R1) of a predetermined distance (L) from the heat generating component; a controller (60) provided on the substrate and controlling the operation of the heat generating component to control the object to be controlled; and a radiator (70) provided adjacent to the one surface of the substrate to radiate heat from the heat generating component and the heat conducting component. A distance (d1, d3) between the heat generating component and the radiator is equal to or shorter than a distance (d2, d4) between the heat conducting component and the radiator.
US11084517B1
A steering wheel cover has an inner core and an outer casing. The inner core has a tubular body portion and a pair of spaced-apart spines. The tubular body portion and spines together define an open-ended hollow channel that can be placed over a vehicle steering wheel via a gap between the spines. The inner core also has a plurality of crush ribs extending inwardly from an inner surface of the body portion. The crush ribs allow the inner core to be easily placed over multiple different sized steering wheels without slipping or otherwise moving on the steering wheel.
US11084516B2
A steering assembly for a hydraulic steering system is disclosed. The steering assembly includes a steering input device and an auxiliary drive assembly. The auxiliary drive assembly includes a lock valve body with one or more fluid passages that facilitates regulation of a fluid flow in response to an input from the steering input device. The lock valve body has a surface and a guide bore. Further, an electric pump is included that has an electric motor with a drive train unit. The electric pump is adapted to be mounted to the surface and the drive train unit is adapted to be positioned through the guide bore and operably coupled to the one or more fluid passages to regulate the fluid flow in the one or more fluid passages.
US11084515B2
A wheelbarrow having a load carrying body supported on a chassis. An electrically powered axle assembly is located at one end of the chassis and has a pair of wheels disposed at opposite sides of the axle assembly. The chassis includes a pair of side plates that extend downwardly to provide legs and a cross member extending between the side plates to maintain them in spaced relationship. A shelf extends between the side plates and is spaced below the underside of the body to provide a cavity to receive a battery. A pair of handles is secured to the side plates, one on each side of the body to transfer loads from the handles in to the chassis and the body is secured to the handles and side plates at a common connection.
US11084514B2
A semipermanent enclosure for a wheelbarrow is used to allow building contractors, installers and the like, some of which already have wheelbarrows, to affix the enclosure to the wheelbarrow in a convenient manner for use as a semi-secure storage box which may be left on site and accessed relatively easily. The enclosure has a plastic body having a dome portion surrounded by a wheelbarrow edge engaging periphery portion. The dome portion rises upwardly from the periphery portion so as to increase storage space there underneath, especially for tools, equipment and the like piled above the edge of the wheelbarrow. The periphery may comprise a forward engagement which locks under the front edge of the wheelbarrow rim and which are secured at a rear thereof using fasteners penetrating the periphery and the adjacent rim of the wheelbarrow. The periphery may be sized and shaped to suit most commercial wheelbarrow rim sizings.
US11084501B2
An automatic driving control plan creator creates a plan of an automatic driving section where a subject vehicle is automatically driven, and a plan of a driving switching preparation section for switching the subject vehicle from automatic driving to manual driving. A driving load calculator predicts, for each point of the driving switching preparation section, a driving load applied to a driver when the driver manually drives the subject vehicle. A driving switching permission determiner extracts, from the driving switching preparation section, a switching-inhibited section that is a section where switching from automatic driving to manual driving is not permitted, on the basis of the predicted driving load at each point. A driving switching preparation section compensator changes a start point of the driving switching preparation section so as to lengthen the driving switching preparation section in accordance with the length of the switching-inhibited section.
US11084499B2
An erroneous operation determination device is configured to determine whether an occupant performs an erroneous operation of misstepping on a first operation pedal instead of a second operation pedal. The erroneous operation determination device includes an electronic control unit configured to acquire operation information relating to an operation content of the first operation pedal by the occupant and determine whether the occupant performs an erroneous operation based on the acquired operation information. The electronic control unit is configured to learn at least one of the operation content of the first operation pedal and an operation content of the second operation pedal and determine whether the occupant performs an erroneous operation based on a result of the learning.
US11084494B2
A method for detecting safety of a driving behavior, an apparatus, a device and a storage medium are provided. The method includes acquiring current driving data of a vehicle during a driving process of the vehicle; determining current driving behavior feature data of the vehicle according to the current driving data of the vehicle; inputting the current driving behavior feature data of the vehicle into a real-time safety detection model and calculating a security score corresponding to current driving behavior of the vehicle; and determining whether the current driving behavior of the vehicle is safe according to the security score corresponding to the current driving behavior of the vehicle. The method can assist an optimization of a vehicle driving system, reduce a safety risk of vehicle driving, and improve a riding experience of the user.
US11084490B2
An apparatus for controlling drive of a vehicle includes an input device, and a control circuit. The control circuit performs a lane keeping control on a driving lane of the vehicle for a first time duration, when receiving a first input for changing a lane from the driver through the input device, performs a line access control such that the vehicle moves toward a line positioned in a direction of a target lane for the changing of the lane, after completing the lane keeping control for the first time duration, when receiving a second input for changing the lane from the driver through the input device after receiving the first input, and performs a lane entrance control toward the target lane when the line access control is completed within a second time duration.
US11084486B2
A method performed by a vehicle system for handling conditions of a road on which a vehicle travels. The vehicle system detect that a first part of the road has a first condition which is different from a second condition of a second part of the road. The vehicle system estimates friction of the first part and evaluates the estimated friction. The vehicle system determines that the vehicle's motion should be adjusted when a result of the evaluation indicates that the estimated friction of the first part of the road affects the vehicle's expected motion, and initiates adjustment of the vehicle's motion on the road as determined.
US11084478B2
A method for operating a hydraulic brake system of a motor vehicle includes generating a force for displacing a brake piston of a wheel brake of the brake system for the actuation thereof via a pressure generator and an electromechanical actuator of the brake system. The method further includes actuating one or more of the pressure generator and the actuator to set a parking brake function and monitoring the operability of the brake system. The method further includes monitoring the actuator for a change of the operating state thereof, and suspending the monitoring for a specifiable period of time depending on a detected change.
US11084466B2
A vehicle snow and ice remover comprises a plurality of modular pieces assembled together to form a pair of vertical supports and a cross piece connecting the pair of vertical supports and a roof clearing device movable along the pair of vertical supports. The plurality of modular pieces include at most two different shapes and each having a maximum outer dimension that is less than or equal to 75% of a height of each of the vertical supports.
US11084445B2
An assembly includes a front console having a panel. The assembly includes a torsion bar fixed relative to the front console. The assembly includes a gear fixed to the torsion bar. The assembly includes a rack including teeth meshed with the gear, the rack extending toward the panel.
US11084436B2
An apparatus and method are provided for transmitting signals in a vehicle to vehicle (V2V)/vehicle to everything (V2X) communication system. The method includes receiving a handover command message from a base station, the handover command message comprising information on a first resource pool, selecting a resource for transmitting data from a second resource pool without sensing the second resource pool, if the handover command message further comprises information on the second resource pool, and transmitting the data based on the resource for transmitting data from the second resource pool.
US11084434B2
A smart door apparatus may include an actuator and a harness. The actuator may be installed at a door rotatably connected with a cabin of the construction machine via a hinge mechanism. The actuator may be configured to operate a locking apparatus of the door by signals of a smart key. The harness may be arranged in an axial direction of the hinge mechanism to supply electricity to the actuator. Thus, only torsion may be applied to the harness regardless of rotation angles of the door to increase a lifespan of the harness.
US11084431B2
A front fascia for a vehicle includes an upper fascia member, a lower fascia member, a connection member, and a temporary connection member. The connection member extends between the upper fascia member and the lower fascia member. The temporary connection member extends between the upper fascia member and the lower fascia member. The temporary connection member is configured to be removable prior to installation of the front fascia to the vehicle.
US11084428B2
A cargo storage system for a vehicle configured to be installed in the rear storage area of the vehicle. The illustrative cargo storage system includes a plurality of upright support brackets and a cargo shelf. The cargo shelf illustratively includes at least one reinforcing rib for strengthening the cargo shelf. The cargo shelf may also include an adjustable sliding panel configured to move relative to the cargo shelf.
US11084425B2
The invention relates to an actuator mechanism for adjusting at least one angular position of a mirror element in an exterior mirror device for a motor vehicle. The actuator mechanism comprises a base element and a mirror element movably coupled with the base element, which comprises a mirror support for supporting a mirror surface. The mirror element is rotatable relative to the base element about at least a first pivoting axis with the aid of a first electric motor provided in the actuator mechanism, which extends in a longitudinal direction that is substantially transverse to a supporting surface of the mirror support. What can be elegantly facilitated by this, for instance also in the case of a relatively small mirror surface that is only a few centimeters wide and/or is only a few centimeters long, is that, as seen from a direction in which during use the mirror surface is being viewed by a driver, such electric motor does not protrude, or hardly protrudes, next to, above and/or below the mirror surface.
US11084423B2
An apparatus for providing an around view comprises: first and second cameras for acquiring first and second image information; and a processor. The processor can generate an around view image including a first area including a subject overlapping area and a second area excluding the subject overlapping area, on the basis of first and second images. The subject overlapping area is disposed between first and second boundary lines in the first and second images. The first boundary line is located in the first area, and the second boundary line adjoins the second area. If it is predicted that a first object will pass through the second boundary line due to the first object approaching within a predetermined distance thereto, the processor can generate an around view image in which the second area is changed so that the second area includes the subject overlapping area.
US11084420B2
A soft top assembly for SUV/UTV vehicles having connected thereto at least one lighting source, such as a fixed light emitting diode lighting device, a rope/flexible light emitting diode lighting device, a solid fiber optic lighting device, to illuminate the interior of the vehicle. The lighting device has at least one water resistant housing that is low profile. The lighting device is also shock resistant. The lighting device has a predetermined ON/OFF feature and at least one power source is provided such as battery powered, powered by replaceable/rechargeable batteries, via connection to the vehicle by a wired harness or electrical contacts, or solar powered.
US11084417B2
A method for the automatic adjustment of an angle of inclination of a vehicle headlight, having the steps: continuous measurement of a rate of rotation of the vehicle headlight; calculation of a change of a gravitational acceleration vector of the vehicle headlight in the coordinate system of the vehicle headlight, using the measured rate of rotation; calculation of an angle of inclination correction using the change of the gravitational acceleration vector; and adjustment of the angle of inclination of the vehicle headlight using the angle of inclination correction.
US11084414B2
A self-propelled module for oversize loads includes two ground movement assemblies with oil-pressure controlled actuation; a transverse rocker arranged between the movement assemblies, which are coupled thereto independently; oil-pressure controlled suspension elements, arranged on corresponding oscillating supports coupled to the transverse rocker; and a load-bearing frame, supported by the oil-pressure controlled suspension elements. The load-bearing frame includes an oil-pressure controlled circuit adapted to serve the ground movement assemblies and the suspension means elements. The module further includes a rotary distribution unit, having a vertical axis, mounted on the load-bearing frame for supplying the ground movement assemblies and the oil-pressure controlled suspension elements, a first part of the rotary distribution unit being fixed to the load-bearing frame, and a second part being free to rotate about the vertical of the resting surface with respect to the load-bearing frame.
US11084412B1
Certain embodiments of the inventive technology may be described as an enclosed, mobile emergency response unit that comprises an enclosure and an underlying support frame on which the enclosure is established, where that enclosure may include a medical compartment that is unsecured when the enclosed, mobile emergency response unit is on operational standby, an onboard equipment compartment that is secured, when the enclosed, mobile emergency response unit is on operational standby, and a ramped, portable equipment compartment that is unsecured when the enclosed, mobile emergency response unit is on operational standby. Embodiments of the inventive technology may further include, e.g., a fire suppression system, a fueled electrical power generator, a compressor, a solar power system, medical equipment, wi-fi provision componentry and/or operational parameter monitors, among other componentry.
US11084409B2
This shaft-support structure for a rotary body is provided with a bearing portion disposed to a base panel and a fulcrum shaft that is disposed to a cup holder and is supported by the bearing portion in a rotatable manner. The bearing portion has slits on the side apart from the base panel. A center cover is disposed at a position facing the slits. The cup holder is configured in such a way that, when a load exceeding a predetermined level is exerted in the direction away from the base panel, the fulcrum shaft moves in a direction in which the fulcrum shaft disengages from the bearing portion through the slits and, therewith, by pressing the center cover from the inside and causing the center cover to move in the direction separating from the bearing portion, the fulcrum shaft disengages from the bearing portion.
US11084408B2
A vehicle includes a vehicle seat including a plurality of actuatable massage elements. The vehicle includes a dedicated physical massage function button located on a dash or a console of the vehicle. The vehicle includes a display configured to present a menu of vehicle configuration options when the dedicated physical massage function button is held for a threshold amount of time. The vehicle includes a memory and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to receive, from a user, a selection of the configuration options for the vehicle seat presented on the display. The processor is configured to receive a signal indicating that the dedicated massage function button is pressed. The processor is configured to activate the plurality of actuatable massage elements according to the selection of configuration options in response to the signal indicating that the dedicated massage function button is pressed.
US11084401B1
A seat for a work vehicle includes a bottom frame fixed to a seat bracket supported to a vehicle body frame, a top frame supported to the bottom frame to be vertically slidable relative thereto, a setting tool for setting the top fame to the bottom fame at a plurality of vertically adjustable position, a seat cushion attached to the bottom frame and a seat back. The seat back consists of an upper seat back attached to the top frame and a lower seat back attached to the bottom frame.
US11084392B2
A modularized extendable battery changing station device and a charging rack are disclosed, which belong to the technical field of electric vehicle battery charging and swapping. The present technical solutions aim to the solve problems of occupying a large area, a low modularity degree and poor extendibility of the existing battery changing station. For this purpose, the battery changing station device provided in the present technical solutions comprises a charging rack and a battery transfer device; the charging rack comprises at least a battery storage module, the battery storage module being able to realize the storage and charging of a battery, and the battery transfer device being able to pass through the battery storage module. The extendable battery changing station device provided in the technical solutions is able to integrate the functions of power battery transfer, storage and charging.
US11084389B2
The invention concerns a cable reel assembly for inductive transfer of energy to an electrical device. The cable reel assembly comprises—a cable reel having an outer surface provided for the storage of a power cable, the cable reel is configured for accommodation of a primary side module comprising a primary coil provided for connection to the power cable, a secondary side module comprising a secondary coil provided for connection to the electrical device, control and communication means for communication between the primary side module and secondary side module and controlling the transfer of energy, the primary and secondary coil are arranged in an operative position to form an inductive coupling for transfer of energy from the primary coil to the secondary coil. The invention also concerns an electrical bicycle, an electrical tool and battery packet cable reel assembly comprising the cable reel assembly.
US11084385B2
In an existing permissible current computation algorithm, an excessive current is caused to flow by controlling the battery having a steep change region in the battery characteristic. On the other hand, when the current is reduced and the output is suppressed, the battery performance cannot be sufficiently utilized. Moreover, with countermeasures to increase the number of data points, the amount of data increases and thus can not be installed in the microcomputer. A battery control device that computes a permissible current of a battery having a battery characteristic non-steep change region having a small battery characteristic change and a battery characteristic steep change region having a battery characteristic change greater than in the battery characteristic non-steep change region, in which in a case where the battery enters the battery characteristic steep change region after a predetermined time from a present state, a battery characteristic value is calculated by using an absolute value of a slope greater than an absolute value of a slope in the present battery characteristic.
US11084379B2
A user interface capable of controlling various functions of a vehicle is disclosed. More particularly, an in-vehicle function control apparatus using a detachable knob and a method of controlling the same are disclosed. A method of controlling a vehicle function using a detachable knob includes an integrated operation unit detecting an attachment position of the detachable knob among a plurality of attachment positions in a vehicle, transmitting information on a result of the operation from the detachable knob to the integrated operation unit when an operation unit provided in the detachable knob is operated, and the integrated operation unit controlling a controlled function corresponding to the attachment position of the detachable knob based on the information on the result. The detachable knob is fixed at any one of the plurality of attachment positions using magnetic force.
US11084369B2
A hybrid transmission module for a work vehicle is provided. The work vehicle has a chassis and a prime mover carried by the chassis, and the hybrid transmission module includes a mounting bracket configured to mount to one or more of the chassis and the prime mover, a transmission assembly mounted to the mounting bracket, and a hydraulic-electric drive assembly including a manifold mounted to the mounting bracket. The manifold mounts a hydraulic pump and an electric machine and is configured to transfer rotational power from the prime mover to the hydraulic pump and the electric machine. The electric machine, at least in part, drives the transmission assembly.
US11084363B2
Curling of a connection part of a second sealing member is avoided, the curling occurring in a case where the second sealing member is brought into elastic contact with a first sealing member. An end part of a third inner wall, which end part is located on a connection-part side, is thinner than the other part of the third inner wall, and at least a tip of the connection part is located on a vehicle-interior side of a vehicle-interior-side side surface of the third inner wall. A first curved wall and a second curved wall are brought into contact with each other in a case where a first end part and a second end part are caused to abut each other.
US11084361B2
A tonneau cover assembly that selectively covers a truck bed of a truck is provided. The tonneau cover assembly includes a cover and a longitudinally extending rail located adjacent a sidewall of the truck bed. The longitudinally extending rail includes an attachment member. The attachment member extends longitudinally along with the rail and at least a portion of the attachment member is located over a portion of the bed. The cover includes a stiffener located adjacent the attachment member of the longitudinally extending rail.
US11084346B2
An amphibious vehicle comprises a buoyant hull, a boat motor affixed to the hull to propel the amphibious vehicle in water, two or more powered wheel assemblies affixed to the hull to propel the amphibious vehicle on land, and two or more selectively rotatable arms affixing each wheel assembly to the hull. One or more of the wheel assemblies are affixed to opposing sides of the hull. Two or more selectively rotatable arms affix each wheel assembly to the hull. The arms affixing each respective wheel assembly are selectively rotatable in unison to move the respective wheel assembly between a lowered position and a raised position.
US11084342B2
A magneto-elastically-based active force sensor, used with a tow coupling between a towed and a towing vehicle or a coupling between a vehicle body and a suspension of the vehicle, which outputs a signal useful for determining forces acting on the coupling. The outputted force information may be provided by processor-enabled embedded software algorithms that take inputs from the force sensor and other sensors, may be used by one or more vehicle systems during operating of the vehicle, such as engine, braking, stability, safety, and informational systems. The force sensor includes directionally-sensitive magnetic field sensing elements inside the sensor, and shielding may be used around the sensors to reduce the influence of external magnetic fields on the sensing elements. The force sensor may be used with different tow and vehicle weight sensing coupling devices installed on different types of automobile cars and trucks.
US11084341B2
A hitch assembly comprising a receiver having an opening for receiving a hitch member, an anti-rattle member secured with respect to the receiver, and a hitch member comprising a hitch body configured to be received by the receiver, and an engagement portion, wherein when the hitch body is received by the receiver, the engagement portion bears against the anti-rattle member causing at least a portion of the anti-rattle member to resiliently deform in a manner that a reaction force from the resilient deformation causes the hitch body to bear against the receiver.
US11084340B2
A hitch assembly adapted to facilitate an articulation of a second frame relative to a first frame of an articulated machine includes a housing, a shaft member, and a pin member. The housing has a cavity, and is adapted to be coupled to the first frame through first fasteners. The shaft member has a through-hole and is received into the cavity, and is rotatable relative to the cavity and the housing to facilitate an oscillation of the second frame relative to the first frame. The pin member is received into the through-hole, and is rotatable relative to the through-hole and the shaft member to facilitate the articulation of the second frame relative to the first frame. The pin member is adapted to be coupled to the second frame through second fasteners.
US11084333B2
A tire includes: a bead core; a bead filler extending to an outer side in the tire-radial direction of the bead core; a carcass ply which is folded back around the bead core; a pad member disposed on an outer side in the tire-width direction of the bead filler; and a first rubber sheet disposed in a state covering a folding end of the carcass ply which is folded back, between the bead filler and the pad member, in which a second rubber sheet covering an electronic component is disposed between the bead filler and the pad member on an outer side in the tire-radial direction of the first rubber sheet.
US11084330B2
A pneumatic tire includes chamfered portions respectively formed on a leading side edge and a trailing side edge of a sipe. The sipe includes a non-chamfered region in which other chamfered portions are not present, in a plan view of a tread portion. At least one of the chamfered portions includes an outer edge profile line not parallel to a ridge line of the sipe. When the chamfered portion including the outer edge profile line not parallel to the ridge line of the sipe is divided into an inner region and an outer region corresponding to half a chamfer length of the chamfered portion in a tire width direction, a projected area of the outer region positioned on a rib outer side is larger than a projected area of the inner region positioned on a rib inner side.
US11084323B2
A wheel disc adapted for use in a fabricated vehicle wheel includes a steel wheel disc defining an axis and includes a center mounting portion, an outer rim connecting flange, a plurality of radially outwardly extending spokes connecting the center mounting portion to the outer rim connecting flange and a ventilation opening provided between each pair of adjacent spokes. A width defined by a center wall of the spoke is tapered inwardly along a substantial portion of a radial length thereof as the center wall of the spoke extends generally from the center mounting portion to the outer rim connecting flange or wherein a width defined by outer walls of the spoke is tapered inwardly along a substantial portion of a radial length thereof as the outer walls of the spoke extends generally from the center mounting portion to the outer rim connecting flange.
US11084322B2
A resealable airtight container system is provided for holding and storing paint that preserves and maintains the paint in a clean, high quality condition for current and subsequent use. Different embodiments of the system include a non-cylindrical container component, a removable container edge-protecting lip component that engages an upper edge of the non-cylindrical container, and a sealing lid component that provides an airtight seal to cover and seal the container. The lip component may be stored in the lid component when not in use. In one embodiment, the system provides a non-cylindrical container that may function both as a painting tool carrier and as a resealable paint container.
US11084320B2
A coating method includes: forming multiple through holes in a coating film including a support sheet and a transfer layer on the support sheet, the multiple through holes passing through only the transfer layer; after the forming of the multiple through holes, disposing the coating film so that the transfer layer faces a surface of a target object; pressing the coating film against the surface of the target object from a side of the support sheet so that the transfer layer is transferred to the surface of the target object; and, after the pressing, peeling off the support sheet from the transfer layer.
US11084319B2
A method is for producing an ornamental design (O) in a clearcoat layer (K). The ornamental design (O) is produced by a selective matting of the clearcoat layer (K) by working the clearcoat layer (K) by a laser. The working of the clearcoat layer may be performed by a UV laser. Additionally, the working of the clearcoat layer K may be performed by electromagnetic waves at a wavelength of about 355 nm. Furthermore, the working of the clearcoat layer K may be performed by a laser operating at a frequency of about 23 500 Hz. Still further, the working of the clearcoat layer (K) may be performed by a laser operating with a pulse duration of about 2 μs. The working of the clearcoat layer (K) may be performed by a laser operating with a line spacing of about 0.03 mm.
US11084315B2
The present invention relates generally to a data carrier and a method for making the data carrier. More particularly, this invention relates to color laser marking of article, especially security documents. The present invention proposes a security document comprising a multilayers assembly instead of a single color component mixture in a layer. The multilayer assembly comprises at least two laser sensitive layer. Each layer comprises at least one coloring agent component. The order arrangement of the multilayers of bleachable coloring agent component is made so that each layer behaves as a wavelength filter configured to selectively transmit longer wavelengths and block or attenuate shorter wavelengths while protecting the underneath coloring agent component from bleaching interference.
US11084308B2
The invention relates to a heat-sensitive recording material, comprising a carrier substrate and at least one heat-sensitive thermal reaction layer, which is applied to at least one side of the carrier substrate and contains at least one fluoran color former, at least one color developer, at least one melting aid, and optionally typical additives, such as lubricants, stabilizers (anti-aging agents), and/or pigments, characterized in that the color developer is dodecyl gallate and the melting aid is an ethylene bis fatty acid amide of formula (I), wherein R1 and R2 are CH3(CH2)mCH2 with m=13 and/or 15. The invention further relates to a method for producing said recording material.
US11084307B2
The invention relates to a compound of the formula (I) Ar(NHSO2Ar1)l(SO2NHAr1)m(NHC(O)NHAr2)n (I), wherein l and m independently of one another are 0, 1, 2, 3, and/or 4 and the sum of l+m is equal to or more than 1, n is 2, 3, 4, or 5, Ar is a benzol group which is substituted (l+m+n) times, Ar1 is an unsubstituted or substituted aromatic group, and Ar2 is an unsubstituted or substituted phenyl group or a benzoyl group. The invention also relates to a heat-sensitive recording material comprising a carrier substrate and a heat-sensitive color-forming layer which contains at least one color former and at least said color developer.
US11084287B2
An object is to remove paper powder from a conveyance path while preventing the paper powder floating in the conveyance path from sticking to an ejection port. The present disclosure is printing apparatus having: a conveyance unit configured to convey a printing medium; a print head having an ejection unit configured to eject a liquid to the printing medium and performing a printing operation; a blower unit configured to blow air from a downstream toward the printing area in the conveyance path during the printing operation; and a cap member switchable between a cap-closed state and a cap-open state, and after the printing operation terminates, the blower unit stops to blow air and the blower unit resumes to blow air after the cap member switches from the cap-open state into the cap-closed state.
US11084279B2
Methods and systems of actively cooling a card while the card is within a card processing machine are described. One or more cooling stations are provided within the card processing machine to actively cool the card prior to performing a processing operation, during a processing operation, and/or after a processing operation on the card in order to reduce a temperature of the surface of the card.
US11084278B2
An object is to provide a screen printing machine capable of one-way printing on multiple boards. Solder collecting device includes collecting plate moving device, collecting plate, and scraper. Second slider of collecting plate moving device is movable in a front-rear direction along a second guide rail, and is also movable in an up-down direction. Collecting plate is placed on second slider. After squeegee passes by the tail end of printing region of mask, collecting plate is disposed so as to be positioned rearward of squeegee and collects the cream solder moved by the rearward movement of squeegee. Scraper is attached to collecting plate to be movable in a left-right direction and collects the cream solder remaining on mask.
US11084267B2
The present invention pertains to a method to produce a laminated textile product, the product comprising a primary carrier sheet with yarns that form a pile on the front surface thereof, and a secondary carrier sheet adhered to the back surface of the primary carrier sheet, the method comprising providing a lick roller having a mass of molten polymer adhesive at its outer circumference, transporting the primary carrier sheet along the lick roller while its back surface is in contact with the outer circumference of the roller at a contact site, thereby transferring a layer of adhesive to the back surface of the primary carrier sheet, and bringing the secondary sheet in contact with the layer of adhesive to adhere the secondary sheet to the back surface of the primary carrier sheet to produce the laminated textile product, wherein downstream of the contact site between the primary carrier sheet and the lick roller, before the secondary sheet is contacted with the layer of adhesive, cobwebbing of the adhesive between the primary carrier sheet and the lick roller is induced.
US11084260B2
A composite sheet material includes a skin sheet and a woven fabric, wherein the skin sheet is formed by impregnating an elastic polymer into a base material consisting of an entangled fiber network, such as a nonwoven fabric, and wherein the composite sheet material has high thermal resistance and high formability suitable for integral molding. The composite sheet material is a composite sheet material including a skin sheet attached with a woven fabric through an adhesive resin layer, wherein the skin sheet is made of an entangled fiber network including ultra-fine fibers with an average single fiber diameter of 0.1 to 8 μm and of an elastic polymer, and wherein the woven fabric includes polyester fibers in which the polyester contains a 1,2-propanediol-derived component at a concentration of 1 to 500 ppm.
US11084258B2
The present disclosure provides a film. In an embodiment, a multilayer film having at least three layers is provided. The multilayer film includes two skin layers, each skin layer composed of a blend of a low density polyethylene and an ethylene-based elastomer having a density less than 0.90 g/cc. The multilayer film also includes a core layer located between the skin layers. The core layer includes a propylene-based plastomer having a density less than 0.90 g/cc. The multilayer film has an onset end temperature from 90° C. to 110° C. and a heat seal strength at 120° C. from 1.5 N/cm to 2.5 N/cm.
US11084257B2
The invention relates to a multi-layered, opaque, biaxially-oriented polyolefin film with a thickness of less than 150 mum and which comprises f. a base layer that contains vacuoles and at least one polymer of at least one olefin, g. an inner intermediate layer that contains at least one polymer of at least one olefin, h. an outer intermediate layer that contains at least one polymer of at least one olefin, i. an inner cover layer which is in contact with the inner intermediate layer and contains 5-70 wt. % of at least one polyethylene and 30-95 wt. % of at least one propylene polymer, and j. an outer cover layer which is in contact with the outer intermediate layer and contains 5-70 wt. % of at least one polyethylene and 30-95% of at least one propylene polymer, each amount indication relating to the weight of the layer in question, and characterised in that said outer intermediate layer has a thickness of 0.5 to 5 mum and contains 4.5 to 30 wt. % of pigments, preferably Tau[Iota]Omicron2, in that the outer cover layer has a thickness of >0 to <2 mum, and in that the film has a gloss on either side of less than 50 gloss units measured according to DIN EN ISO 2813 at an angle of 60 DEG and at a temperature of 25 DEG C.
US11084250B2
According to various embodiments, a display or an electronic device comprising the same comprises: a first layer comprising a first member; a second layer which is formed beneath the first layer, the second layer comprising a second member; and a third layer which is formed between the first layer and the second layer, the third layer comprising an adhesive member. The third layer has a first area which may be formed by using a first adhesive member having a first attribute, and a second which may be formed by using a second adhesive member having a second attribute. In addition, other various embodiments are also possible.
US11084249B2
The invention comprises a fracture film for sealing a peelable membrane to a container comprising a first layer of high density polyethelene, a second layer of polybutene-1/ethylene-vinyl acetate, wherein the second layer is bonded to the first layer, and a third layer of ethylene-acrylic acid, wherein the third layer is bonded to the second layer.
US11084248B2
An adhesive for polyolefin used for an extrusion-formed multilayered structure that includes, at least, a propylene type resin layer and an ethylene type resin layer, the adhesive for polyolefin comprising an olefin resin that has methyl branches at a ratio of 10 to 200 per 1000 carbon atoms on a main chain thereof.
US11084244B2
A tamper-evident food delivery packaging systems, methods of tamper-evident packaging of food for delivery, and apparatus for tamper-evident food packaging operate to form resilient self-fastening perforations through a packaging. A binding apparatus includes an anvil and a flipper plate. A cutter head includes a profile blade and a slot blade. A pusher is pivotably connected between the profile blade and the slot blade. The cutting apparatus moves in a reciprocal motion relative to the anvil while the flipper plate engages a pusher to pivot the pusher during the reciprocal motion.
US11084238B2
A method for controlling the thickness of a continuous elongated element made of elastomeric material, applied according to coils wound on a forming support, includes: advancing a head end of the continuous elongated element toward the forming support; subjecting, during the advancement, the continuous elongated element to a first stretching with a first stretch coefficient before applying on the forming support; and subjecting, during the advancement, the continuous elongated element to a second stretching with a second stretch coefficient during the application on the forming support. During the first stretching, a span of the continuous elongated element adjacent to the head end is stretched with a supplementary stretch coefficient greater than the first stretch coefficient, in a manner so as to confer, also to the span adjacent to the head end, a stretch and a section similar or substantially equivalent to those of the rest of the continuous elongated element.
US11084237B2
A method for locally introducing a light emitter or a plasmonic element into a light guide is provided. The method (300) comprising the acts of: applying (302) a printing head (100) to a surface (204) of the light guide (202, 404), the printing head (100, 200) comprising an insertion portion (102) comprising the light emitter (106) or the plasmonic element and a heating element (108), heating (304) the heating element (108) such that a portion (205) of the surface (204) of the light guide (202, 404) is locally heated, pressing (306) the printing head (100, 200) into the light guide (202, 404) such that at least a portion (208) of the insertion portion (102) is inserted into the light guide (202, 404), introducing (308) the light emitter (106) or the plasmonic element (500) into the light guide (202, 404) via the insertion portion (102). A printing head (100, 200) for locally introducing a light emitter (106) or a plasmonic element (500) into a light guide (202, 404) is also provided. A light guide (202, 404) comprising a light emitter (106) or a plasmonic element (200) introduced into the light guide (202, 404) by use of the method (300) or the printing head (100, 200) is further provided.
US11084233B2
Repair materials made of at least unvulcanized rubber are applied on a repair site of a damaged part of a tire, heating pads are applied on surfaces of the repair materials, wood pieces or other stuffing members differing in size are stuffed inside the tire, in a tire circumferential in tire circumferential direction where the repair materials are applied. The tire circumferential is fastened and pressed from surroundings by bands, and the repair site is heated by the heating pads to vulcanize the unvulcanized rubber of the repair materials, to thereby repair the tire. This repair method provides a low-cost tire repair method capable of maintaining the shape of the tire at the time of pressing and vulcanization, in various kinds of tires.
