US11119655B2
An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and system for optimizing data defragmentation. The embodiment may include collecting details related to contiguous storage space available on a disk drive. The embodiment may include identifying a type of object storage implementation utilized on the disk drive. The type of object storage implementation is based on how an object is stored within the disk drive. The embodiment may include identifying an important component of the object. The important component of the object is determined by a frequency of access. The embodiment may include identifying a non-important component of the object. The non-important component of the object is determined by a frequency of access. The embodiment may include moving the important component to an outer sector of the disk drive. The embodiment may include moving the non-important component to an inner sector of the disk drive.
US11119649B1
A document management system manages documents. The documents are managed such that the documents may be shared with one or more users during an online sharing session for electronic signing. During the online sharing session, one or more documents are collaboratively reviewed by one or more participants of the online sharing session. The one or more documents are e-signed at least one of the participants of the online sharing session.
US11119641B2
An electronic apparatus that comprises a control unit is disclosed. The control unit displays a user interface for comparably presenting: first brightness that is brightness of an image in which a subject is shot with proper exposure that is based on a first reference value, second brightness that is brightness of an image in which the subject is shot with proper exposure that is based on a second reference value, and third brightness that is brightness of an image in which the subject is shot under current exposure conditions.
US11119639B2
To cause a computer configured to execute, by starting first software to implement, first display processing for displaying a first information display window to function as an extra information superposition device including a processing unit and a storage unit, wherein the processing unit configured to (i) execute second display processing for displaying a second information display window capable of receiving input of extra information to be superposed at least on a part of the first information display window, by starting second software independent from the first software to implement, and (ii) execute third display processing for displaying the extra information in the second information display window, when there is input of extra information to the second information display window made by a user.
US11119637B2
A system and method whereby an user interface editing device is used to create a user interface for a controlling device, the created user interface including user interface elements that are associated with functional operations of a virtual equivalent of an appliance. After the created user interface is transferred to the controlling device, the virtual equivalent of an appliance is caused to be linked to an intended target appliance whereupon activation of those user interface elements of the graphical user interface that were associated with functional operations of the virtual equivalent of an appliance will cause the controlling device to transmit commands to control corresponding functional operations of the intended target appliance.
US11119633B2
The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program which are capable of improving convenience. The information processing device includes a control unit that selects a target position, at which an operation of setting related to a menu item is performed, in one or a plurality of menu pages in which the menu item is displayed, and performs setting processing corresponding to determination of the selection in a case where an instruction for the determination of the selection is given. The present technology is applicable to an imaging device.
US11119622B2
A window expansion method is provided. The method includes detecting an occurrence of an expansion event for expanding a window area, and expanding the window area based on the expansion event. An electronic device is also provided, the electronic device including a display that includes a window area for displaying data and a non-window area, and at least one processor configured to expand the window area based on an expansion event for an expansion of the window area when the expansion event occurs.
US11119615B2
It will be understood by those skilled in the art that there is disclosed in the present application a biometric sensor that may comprise a plurality of a first type of signal traces formed on a first surface of a first layer of a multi-layer laminate package; at least one trace of a second type, formed on a second surface of the first layer or on a first surface of a second layer of the multi-layer laminate package; and connection vias in at least the first layer electrically connecting the signal traces of the first type or the signal traces of the second type to respective circuitry of the respective first or second type contained in an integrated circuit physically and electrically connected to one of the first layer, the second layer or a third layer of the multi-layer laminate package.
US11119612B2
An embedded touch panel and a manufacturing method are provided. Touch drive lines of a touch panel adopt a segmented structure design so that spacings between the touch drive lines and the touch sense lines are changed, and changes of the spacings cause changes of capacitance values between the touch drive lines and the touch sense lines. Through detecting an amount of change of the capacitance value, a magnitude of a user's pressing force is determined to make a further judgment as to whether it is a light press or a heavy press so as to retrieve a corresponding instruction. Only four masks are needed to fabricate the structure of the touch circuit lines. The manufacturing process is relatively simple to reduce the manufacturing cost.
US11119609B2
An electronic device includes: a top panel with an operation surface; a coordinate detector that detects coordinates of operational input performed on the operation surface; a vibrating element that generates vibration on the operation surface; a drive controller that drives the vibrating element with a drive signal that generates natural vibration in an ultrasonic band on the operation surface, the drive controller driving the vibrating element so that intensity of the natural vibration changes depending on a position of the operational input on the operation surface and a degree of temporal change in the position; and a reflector disposed on the operation surface side of the top panel and having a reflective surface that reflects ultrasonic waves radiated from the top panel.
US11119604B2
A display controller controls changing timing of a waveform of each of gate clock signals (GCK1, GCK2) so that a display driving operation is performed after the lapse of a relatively short time from a starting point of time of a horizontal scanning period in odd-numbered horizontal scanning periods (Ho), and that a display driving operation is performed after the lapse of a relatively long time from a starting point of time of a horizontal scanning period in even-numbered horizontal scanning periods (Ho). A touch panel controller outputs a pulse of a touch drive signal (STD) so that a position detection operation on a touch panel is started in a stable period after an end of the display driving operation in each of the odd-numbered horizontal scanning periods (Ho).
US11119602B2
A touch screen display and corresponding devices and methods are disclosed, the touch screen display comprising a touchscreen having a plurality of capacitive sensors and a passive dial having one or more conductive elements, the passive dial mounted within an active area of the touchscreen such that the one or more conductive elements are proximate to the face of the touchscreen and move in conjunction with a rotation of the passive dial. The touch screen display may further include a touchscreen controller to detect an angle of the passive dial using conventional capacitive sensing techniques.
US11119597B2
Provided is a thin touch sensor having excellent flexibility and durability against bending. A thin adhesive layer with a high elastic modulus under the touch sensing electrode pattern serves as a substrate, and a thick adhesive layer with a low elastic modulus on top of the touch sensor layer disperses the stress of the optical film.
US11119592B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel in which a display area to display an image and a non-display area adjacent to the display area are defined, and in which a central area and a peripheral area in a periphery of the central area are defined in the display area, a touch sensor on the display panel, the touch sensor including a touch electrode layer, and a black matrix on the display panel. The black matrix includes a first black matrix in the central area and a second black matrix in the peripheral area. The second black matrix is on layer of the display panel that is higher than the first black matrix.
US11119587B1
An image sensing system control method, comprising: (a) predicting a first velocity of the image sensor; (b) calculating a first time duration between a first frame time and a first polling time after the first frame time, wherein the image sensor captures a first frame at the first frame time and receives a first polling from the control circuit at the first polling time; and (c) calculating a first predicted motion delta of the first time duration according to the first velocity and the first time duration.
US11119575B2
A motion controlled handheld device includes a display having a viewable surface and operable to generate an image and a gesture database maintaining a plurality of gestures. Each gesture is defined by a motion of the device with respect to a first position of the device. The gestures comprise symbol gestures each corresponding to a character from a preexisting character set. The device includes an application database maintaining at least one application and a gesture mapping database comprising a gesture input map for the application. The gesture input map comprises mappings of the symbol gestures to corresponding inputs for the application. The device includes a motion detection module operable to detect motion of the handheld device within three dimensions and to identify components of the motion in relation to the viewable surface. The device also includes a control module operable to load the application, to track movement of the handheld device using the motion detection module, to compare the tracked movement against the symbol gestures to identify a matching symbol gesture, to identify, using the gesture input map, the corresponding input mapped to the matching symbol gesture, and to provide the corresponding input to the application.
US11119567B2
A method of providing immersive reality content includes determining a field of view intersection between a first field of view from a first device and a second field of view from a second device, generating a first immersive reality content based on the field of view intersection and providing the first immersive reality content. An apparatus for providing immersive reality content includes a processor and at least one memory coupled to the processor, the processor being configured to determine a field of view intersection between a first field of view from a first device and a second field of view from a second device, generate a first immersive reality content based on the field of view intersection and provide the first immersive reality content. A computer-readable storage medium, computer program and a non-transitory article of manufacture are also described.
US11119566B2
A system and method for generating motion commands based on detected motion of a user, the system including: a processing circuitry; an orientation sensor; a communication interface; and a housing having the processing circuitry, the orientation sensor, and the communication interface disposed therein, the housing further configured to be securely fastened to a body of a user; wherein the orientation sensor is configured to provide sensor readings indicative of a three-dimensional motion of a user; wherein the processing circuitry is configured to receive the sensor readings from the orientation sensor; determine an initial reference position based on the sensor readings; determine a current user position based on the sensor readings; and determine the motion commands based on an angle between the current user position and the initial reference position; and wherein the communication interface is configured to relay the motion commands to a VR device.
US11119560B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for power saving techniques. The method may include identifying at least one portion of the display, associated with an application, that may be adjusted, wherein the at least one portion of the display is less than an entire area of the application. Furthermore, the method may include, determining one or more parameters for the identified at least one portion of the display. Additionally, the method may include adjusting the identified at least one portion of the display based on the one or more parameters.
US11119558B2
An electronic device is configured to analyze movement data generated by a sensor (e.g., an accelerometer assembly) in the electronic device to determine if the electronic device should be activated from a reduced power state. A control circuit in the electronic device can compare the movement data to a predetermined movement pattern to determine whether the movement should be ignored, or if the movement is consistent with a user shaking the electronic device to activate the electronic device. As a result of this approach, erroneous activation of the electronic device is avoided, thereby preventing the electronic device from needlessly depleting its battery before deployment by the end user.
US11119554B2
A power management integrated circuit (PMIC) modeling system for a power distribution network (PDN) analysis, includes a power supply configured to supply a source current for driving a load, a resistance setting unit configured to monitor a load current being supplied to the load, and generate a current comparison value by comparing a first current value of the load current at a current time with a second current value of the load current at a previous time, and a controller configured to, based on the current comparison value generate a control signal for changing a variable resistance of the resistance setting unit, and control the power supply to change the source current. The resistance setting unit is further configured to, based on the control signal, change a resistance value of the variable resistance.
US11119552B2
A patient communication system having a medical sensing device operable to collect medical data, a network communication module operable to transmit the medical data onto a data network, a controller operable route the first medical sensing data to the network communication module, and a power source operable to provide power to the first medical sensing device, the controller, and the network communication module.
US11119551B2
A system includes a power sourcing equipment (PSE) unit. The PSE unit includes a plurality of network ports. The PSE unit also includes a PSE board coupled to the plurality of network ports and configured to provide power to a plurality of powered devices (PDs) external to the PSE unit via respective network ports. The PSE unit also includes a sensing circuit configured to determine a power consumption parameter for the PSE board. The PSE unit also includes a controller configured to change a power state for at least one of the plurality of network ports based at least in part on the power consumption parameter.
US11119550B2
A USB device and an operation method thereof are provided. The USB device includes a first switch, a second switch, a power converter, and a first USB connector. A first terminal of the first switch is configured to receive a first voltage. The power converter is configured to provide a second voltage, and the second voltage is less than the first voltage. A first terminal of the second switch is coupled to the power converter to receive the second voltage. A first power pin of the first USB connector is coupled to a second terminal of the first switch and a second terminal of the second switch.
US11119542B2
Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that includes a first housing, a second housing, and a hinge. The hinge rotatably couples the first housing to the second housing and includes an off-center lobe that generates a field. The second housing includes a detection engine to detect a strength of the field generated by the off-center lobe and determines a hinge angle (or a position of the first housing relative to the second housing) based on the detected strength of the field generated by the off-center lobe.
US11119539B2
A display, including a supporting layer and a flexible display panel, is provided. The supporting layer has at least two extending sections and at least one bending section, connected therebetween and adapted to be bent along an axis as a rotation axis. The supporting layer has at least one groove at the bending section and at least one indentation at a bottom surface of the groove. An extending direction of the groove is parallel to the axis. An extending direction of the indentation is not parallel to the axis. The supporting layer has a first thickness at each extending section, a second thickness at the groove, and a third thickness at the indentation. The first, second, and third thicknesses are different from one another. The flexible display is disposed on the supporting layer. The groove and the flexible display are respectively located on two opposite sides of the supporting layer.
US11119528B2
An application runs at a first operating frequency if the application is designed for a current version of a system and runs at a second operating frequency if the application is designed for a prior version of the system that operates at a lower frequency than the first operating frequency. The second operating frequency may be higher than the operating frequency of the prior version of the system to account for differences in latency, throughput or other processing characteristics between the two systems. Software readable cycle counters are based on a spoof clock running at the operating frequency of the prior version of the system, rather than the true operating frequency. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US11119524B1
A selectable output current mirror may include a reference leg configured to generate a reference current, an output leg electrically coupled to the reference leg in a manner such that the output leg is configured to generate at an output of the output leg an output current proportional to the reference current, wherein the output leg comprises an output leg transistor, a drain path switch coupled between a first non-gate terminal of the output leg transistor and the output of the output leg, and a series combination of a degeneration resistor and a degeneration path switch coupled between a second non-gate terminal of the output leg transistor and a voltage source to the selectable output current mirror. The selectable output current mirror may also include switch control circuitry configured to selectively enable and disable the output leg from generating the output current by selectively enabling and disabling the drain path switch and the degeneration path switch and glitch mitigation circuitry coupled to the second non-gate terminal of the output leg transistor and configured to maintain the second non-gate terminal of the output leg transistor at a substantially-constant voltage during transitions between disabling of the degeneration path switch and enabling of the degeneration path switch.
US11119518B2
The present disclosure relates to a voltage regulation circuit (100). The voltage regulation circuit (100) comprises a transformer (130) having a primary winding (132) having a first end (132A) and a second end (132B), and a first secondary winding (134) having a first end (134A) and a second end (134B), wherein the first end (132A) of the primary winding (132) is configured to receive an input voltage and the second end (132B) of the primary winding (132) is configured to produce an output voltage, wherein the first end (134A) of the first secondary winding (134) is connected to a neutral node (180), wherein the primary winding (132) produces a primary voltage based on the input voltage, and wherein a secondary voltage of the first secondary winding (134) is out-of-phase to the primary voltage of the primary winding (132); and a first switch (160) configured to connect the second end (134B) of the first secondary winding (134) with the second end (132B) of the primary winding (132), wherein, when the first switch (160) is connected, the output voltage is the secondary voltage.
US11119508B2
A management method for managing an autopilot system fitted to an aircraft, the management method being adapted to manage at least one error in at least one succession of steps serving to generate at least one autopilot setpoint for the aircraft, the autopilot system comprising at least one computer serving to implement a plurality of successions of steps generating different autopilot setpoints for the aircraft. Such a method comprises an identification step serving to identify the at least one error, a calculation step for determining a total number of occurrences of the at least one error, a stop step serving to stop the at least one succession of steps, a reinitialization step for reinitializing the at least one succession of steps, and a relaunch step for relaunching the at least one succession of steps.
US11119500B1
A magnetic marker detection system (1), for detecting, by using sensor units (11) disposed in at least two places separated from each other in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle (5), a magnetic marker (10) disposed in a traveling path, sets, when a magnetic marker has been detected by a front side sensor unit (11), a predetermined period including a predicted point of time of detection of the magnetic marker (10) by a rear side sensor unit (11) and makes, when the rear-side sensor unit (11) has successfully detected the magnetic marker (10) during the predetermined period, a determination that the magnetic marker (10) has been detected.
US11119496B1
Some aspects include a method including: generating, with a processor of the robot, a map of the workspace; segmenting, with the processor of the robot, the map into a plurality of zones; transmitting, with the processor of the robot, the map to an application of a communication device; receiving, with the application, the map; displaying, with the application, the map; receiving, with the application, at least one input for the map; implementing, with the application, the at least one input into the map to generate an updated map of the workspace; transmitting, with the application, the updated map to the processor of the robot; receiving, with the processor of the robot, the updated map; generating, with the processor of the robot, a movement path based on the map or the updated map; and actuating, with the processor of the robot, the robot to traverse the movement path.
US11119495B2
A work area determination system for an autonomous traveling work machine which is controlled autonomously based on self machine position information indicative of a self machine position, the work area determination system including an operation terminal capable of determining a work area. The operation terminal includes a positioning device for acquiring terminal position information indicative of a position of the operation terminal, a work area determination section that determines the work area based on the terminal position information, and a work area information outputting section for outputting work area information which is information relating to the determined work area.
US11119492B2
An autonomous vehicle that automatically responds to an emergency service vehicle. Perception data is captured or received by the autonomous vehicle (AV) cameras, sensors, and microphones. The perception data is used to detect lanes in a road, generate a list of objects, classify one or more of the objects, and determine a state for the classified objects. In response to detecting an emergency service vehicle such as a law enforcement vehicle, a responsive action may be planned by the AV. The responsive action may include sending an acknowledgement signal, notifying passengers of the AV, generating a planned trajectory based on the emergency service vehicle location, an emergency service vehicle detected intention, and other information. A safety check may be performed, and commands may be generated by a control module to navigate the AV along the planned trajectory. The commands may then be executed by a DBW module.
US11119490B1
Systems and methods for modifying operation of an autonomous vehicle in an emergency situation are disclosed. According to aspects, a computing device detects, based on sensor(s), an emergency event associated with the autonomous vehicle. In response to detecting the emergency event, the computing device determines location(s) of emergency vehicle(s) and determines an assistance location for the autonomous vehicle. The computing device transmits the assistance location to the emergency vehicle(s), obtains a current operation of the autonomous vehicle, and determines a vehicle operation modification for the autonomous vehicle. The computing device generates, by a computer processor based on the vehicle operation modification, a set of vehicle control instructions for the autonomous vehicle, and provides the set of vehicle control instructions to the autonomous vehicle, where the autonomous vehicle executes the set of vehicle control instructions to cause the autonomous vehicle to travel to the assistance location.
US11119487B2
A system and method for automated preparation of deliveries in delivery vehicles using automated guided vehicles is described. In an example implementation, the method may determine a future delivery in a set of deliveries assigned to a delivery vehicle, the future delivery including a first item and determine a storage location in the delivery vehicle of the first item. In some implementations, an AGV may, during transit of the delivery vehicle along a route for delivering the set of deliveries, navigate to a point proximate to the storage location of the first item in the delivery vehicle, and retrieve the first item from the storage location in the delivery vehicle. The AGV may then deliver the first item to a delivery point.
US11119470B2
The present invention relates to an industrial robot process cloud system and a working method thereof. The industrial robot process cloud system comprises an industrial robot control system integrated with a human machine interaction layer HMI, a motion planning control layer Motion and a servo loop control layer Servo, and further comprises a cloud server, wherein the cloud server comprises a process expert system. The human machine interaction layer HMI and the motion planning control layer Motion realize data interaction with the cloud server by means of a network, after the human machine interaction layer HMI inputs operation information, the operation information is transmitted to the cloud server, and a specific robot operation program is generated and downloaded into the industrial robot control system by means of the network. The present invention realizes cloud processing performed to process experiences on various operation types of industrial robots, the process expert system is formed, data interaction and real-time evolution learning of the process expert system are realized by means of the network, the user can conveniently call in real time the robot process program which best satisfies actual requirements and the changeover production efficiency is improved.
US11119468B2
A machine tool having a function of automatically correcting a machining program in tool replacement includes: a signal output unit that outputs a signal when a tool is replaced; a machining unit that temporarily machines a workpiece to a predetermined target dimension using the replaced tool; a measurement unit that measures an actual dimension of the temporarily machined workpiece; a detection unit that detects a dimensional difference between the measured actual dimension and the target dimension; and an automatic correction unit that automatically corrects the machining program based on the dimensional difference, wherein the machining unit actually machines the workpiece based on the automatically corrected machining program.
US11119464B2
A machine learning device of a controller observes, as state variables that express a current state of an environment, feeding amount data indicating a feeding amount per unit cycle of a tool and vibration amount data indicating a vibration amount of a cutting part of the tool when the cutting part of the tool passes through the workpiece. In addition, the machine learning device acquires determination data indicating a propriety determination result of the vibration amount of the cutting part of the tool when the cutting part of the tool passes through the workpiece. Then, the machine learning device learns the feeding amount per unit cycle of the tool when the cutting part of the tool passes through the workpiece in association with the vibration amount data, using the state variables and the determination data.
US11119456B2
A production system includes an information processing device that carries out the processes of: (i) generating one or more production condition candidates each of which is a candidate for a production condition under which the product is produced; (ii) determining, using a prediction model, a prediction of a production result of a case in which the product is produced under each of the one or more production condition candidates; and (iii) generates, by evaluating a result of the prediction based on a predetermined evaluation standard, an evaluation of each of the one or more production condition candidates. The information processing device repeats the process (ii) while changing between the one or more production condition candidates, and determines a production condition candidate, the evaluation of which in the process (iii) satisfies a predetermined standard, to be the production condition under which the product is produced.
US11119450B2
An electronic timepiece includes a dial, an indicating hand shaft passing through the dial and to which an hour hand is attached, a planar antenna overlapping a 12-o'clock line, a winding stem overlapping a 3-o'clock line, a battery disposed in a region bordered by a 9-o'clock to 3-o'clock line and including the 6-o'clock position on the dial, and a first motor driving a second hand, a second motor driving a minute hand, and a third motor driving the hour hand. The planar antenna, the winding stem, the battery, the first motor, the second motor, and the third motor do not overlap one another in a plan view, and one of the first, second, and third motor is disposed between the planar antenna and the winding stem.
US11119447B2
A timepiece including a case middle closed by a glass and the following elements positioned in the case middle: a dial, a rigid mounting plate extending under the dial, a module including an electric motor, referred to as the motor module, a printed circuit board, of which at least a first portion is interposed between the mounting plate and the motor module, means for the assembly of the motor module on the mounting plate through the first portion of the printed circuit board.
US11119437B2
In an example, a cleaning station comprises a wiper blade to scrape cleaning fluid across a surface of a component of a print apparatus. A suction pump is to remove a cleaning fluid from a surface of the component of the print apparatus. A sensor is to determine the thickness of cleaning fluid on a surface of the component of the print apparatus. A controller is to vary a suction pressure of the suction pump based on measurements of the sensor.
US11119430B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a control unit, a reading unit, an analysis unit, a storage unit, and a computation unit. The image forming unit forms an image on a sheet. The control unit controls the image forming unit. The reading unit reads the sheet. The analysis unit analyzes a reading result acquired by the image formed on the sheet being read by the reading unit, and outputs an analysis result. The storage unit stores a printing condition used when the image was formed and the analysis result in association with each other. The computation unit computes a control parameter to be used by the control unit in order to control the image forming unit, with reference to the analysis result and the printing condition stored in the storage unit.
US11119429B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a storage portion to which a heating unit configured to heat the sheet stored in the storage portion is detachably attached, a conveyance unit, a detection unit configured to detect attachment of the heating unit to the storage portion, and a control unit configured to control the conveyance unit such that a standby time by which conveyance of the sheet fed from the storage portion is stopped is shorter when the detection unit detects the heating unit than when the detection unit does not detect the heating unit.
US11119420B2
In accordance with some embodiments, a method for processing a semiconductor wafer is provided. The method includes transporting a carrier along with a reticle supported by the carrier in a lithography exposure apparatus. The method also includes regulating particles in the carrier through a magnetic field. In addition, the method includes removing the reticle from the carrier. The method further includes performing, using the reticle, a lithography exposure process to the semiconductor wafer in the lithography exposure apparatus.
US11119419B2
A target for use in the optical measurement of misregistration in the manufacture of semiconductor devices, the target including a first periodic structure formed on a first layer of a semiconductor device and having a first pitch along an axis and a second periodic structure formed on a second layer of the semiconductor device and having a second pitch along the axis, different from the first pitch, the second periodic structure extending beyond the first periodic structure along the axis.
US11119415B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for determining a characteristic of a structure. In one arrangement, the structure is illuminated with first illumination radiation to generate first scattered radiation. A first interference pattern is formed by interference between a portion of the first scattered radiation reaching a sensor and first reference radiation. The structure is also illuminated with second illumination radiation from a different direction. A second interference pattern is formed using second reference radiation. The first and second interference patterns are used to determine the characteristic of the structure. Azimuthal angles of the first and second reference radiations onto the sensor are different.
US11119408B2
A resin comprising a structural unit represented by formula (I0): wherein A1, A2 and A3 each independently represent a C2-C18 divalent hydrocarbon group, R1, R2, R3 and R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a C1-C6 saturated hydrocarbon group, X1 and X2 each independently represent *—O—CO—, —O—CO—O— or —O—, and * represents a binding site to A2 or A3.
US11119406B2
A photo-curable composition having a high polymerization rate and a high polymerization conversion is provided, containing a radical-polymerizable monomer (A), a photopolymerization initiator (B), and a compound (C) serving as a sensitizer and having the following general formula (1), wherein X1 and X2 are selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, alkyl groups, a phenyl group, a naphthyl group, and alkyl groups in which part or all of the hydrogen atoms are substituted with fluorine; where X1 and X2 may be the same or different; and R1 to R10 are independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, halogen atoms, alkyl groups, alkoxy groups, a phenyl group, a naphthyl group, and alkyl groups in which part or all of the hydrogen atoms are substituted with fluorine, wherein R1 to R10 may be the same or different.
US11119404B2
A system for reducing printable defects on a pattern mask is disclosed. The system includes a controller configured to be communicatively coupled to a characterization sub-system, the controller including one or more processors configured to execute program instructions causing the one or more processors to: direct the characterization sub-system to perform inspection of a mask blank; generate a cost function based on a first characteristic and a second characteristic, the first characteristic comprising areas of defect regions exposed by mask patterns, the second characteristic comprising pattern complexity of a design pattern; determine one or more values indicative of a minimum of the cost function via a non-linear optimization procedure; and generate one or more control signals to adjust rotation and translation of the mask blank relative to the design pattern based on the determined one or more values indicative of the minimum of the cost function.
US11119401B2
A method and an apparatus for determining near field images for optical lithography include receiving a thin mask image indicative of a photomask feature, in which the thin mask image is determined without considering a mask topography effect associated with the photomask feature, and determining a near field image from the thin mask image by a processor using an artificial neural network (ANN), in which the ANN uses data of the thin mask image as input. The apparatus includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory is configured to store instructions executed by the processor to perform the method.
US11119381B2
A method for directing light beams includes generating a light beam along a light path. A voltage differential is created by generating a voltage in a first and second linear electrode contacts arranged such that the first and second linear electrical contacts alternate with each other. The light path is altered by passing the light beam through a liquid crystal device coupled to the first and second linear electrical contacts.
US11119378B2
A dimming laminate (10) includes: a dimming substrate (18) in which a dimming function material (16) is provided between two first transparent substrates (12) and (14); and a second transparent substrate (22) that is bonded to one first transparent substrate (12) through an adhesive layer (20). Each of the first transparent substrates (12) and (14) has a different average thermal expansion coefficient at 50-350° C. from that of the second transparent substrate (22). In the dimming laminate (10), a third transparent substrate (26) is bonded to the other first transparent substrate (14) through an adhesive layer (24), and an average thermal expansion coefficient at 50-350° C. is equal between the third transparent substrate (26) and the second transparent substrate (22).
US11119369B1
Disclosed is an array substrate including a first substrate, a first conductive layer, a first passivation layer, a second conductive layer, a second passivation layer, a first electrode layer, a liquid crystal layer, a second electrode layer, and a second substrate in order from bottom to top. The first conductive layer includes a plurality of first traces, the second conductive layer includes a plurality of second traces, and the respective plurality of first traces are connected to the corresponding plurality of second traces through traces of the first electrode layer. Each of the plurality of first traces is provided with a target area and a projection of each of the plurality of second traces on a corresponding connected first trace is located in a corresponding target area to reduce a load of a gate drive circuit and a capacitance between panels.
US11119367B2
Pixel electrodes adjacent to each other along a first axis are supplied with pixel potentials having opposite polarities with respect to a potential of a common electrode. The pixel electrode includes straight parts. Electric fields between the straight parts and the common electrode are applied to negative type liquid crystal material. An electric field between the straight parts of the adjacent pixel electrodes is applied to the negative type liquid crystal material. An opposite substrate includes a second region opposed to a first region between the straight parts of the adjacent pixel electrodes. At least a part of visible light transmitted through the first region is transmitted through the second region. Angles of the straight parts with respect to an axis perpendicular to direction of initial alignment of the liquid crystal material have a size of not less than 15° and not more than 30°.
US11119356B2
The present disclosure provides a flexible backlight, a method for manufacturing the same, and a display device. The flexible backlight includes: a first flexible substrate and a second flexible substrate arranged opposite to each other; a plurality of spacers arranged between the first flexible substrate and the second flexible substrate, for supporting a spacing between the first flexible substrate and the second flexible substrate, and for forming an accommodating chamber between the first flexible substrate and the second flexible substrate; a first electrode and a second electrode for forming an electric field; a gas contained in the accommodating chamber, in which the gas is capable of emitting a non-visible light by the action of the electric field; and a photoexcitation layer arranged on the second flexible substrate, in which the photoexcitation layer can emit a visible light under illumination of the non-visible light and is in contact with the spacer.
US11119346B2
An IPS display panel is disclosed. The panel includes an array substrate and a color filter substrate disposed in parallel and oppositely; and a liquid crystal layer disposed there between; wherein the array substrate includes a base substrate, a pixel electrode, an insulation layer, and a common electrode, the base substrate includes multiple data lines deposed in parallel and at intervals, the base substrate is disposed in parallel with and opposite to the color filter substrate, the pixel electrode is located at a surface of the base substrate facing the color filter substrate, the insulation layer covers a surface of the pixel electrode away from the base substrate, the common electrode is located on a surface of the insulation layer away from the pixel electrode; wherein the color filter substrate includes a first surface facing the array substrate, and providing with multiple touch receiving electrodes corresponding to the data lines.
US11119342B2
An aspect of the disclosure provides an optical device including a microring resonator (MRR).
US11119341B2
A contact lens including an energy harvesting unit is provided. The contact lens includes a sensor that detects biometric information of a user, and a power that transforms a dynamic energy generated by a movement of an eye part of the user into electrical energy and provides the sensor with the electrical energy.
US11119337B1
An ophthalmic device including patterned tabs is disclosed herein. An example ophthalmic device may include a plurality of optical elements formed into a stack and a substrate. A subset of optical elements of the plurality of optical elements may include a tab extending radially outward from an edge perimeter of a respective optical element, and each tab may include an opening formed there through. The substrate may include a plurality of bond pads, where each optical element of the plurality of optical elements is coupled to one of the plurality of bond pads by a conductive material, and the conductive material is disposed within respective openings of the subset of optical elements of the plurality of optical elements.
US11119334B2
Embodiments relate to efficiently viewing data items in a three-dimensional (3D) space. The 3D space includes a curved surface that is concave with respect to a user-controlled viewpoint in the 3D space. The viewpoint is for controlling the direction and location of a rendered view of the 3D space. The data items have respective values associated therewith. The data items are arranged on the surface according to their values so that a user's ease of viewing the data items varies with their values; data items with some values may be arranged to be easier to view by manipulating the view direction than others (e.g., those with lower values). Ease of viewing can stem from how the surface is oriented relative to the viewpoint, the orientation of the curvature of the surface, the orientation of a controlling reference orientation, alignment of the data items on the surface, etc.
US11119317B2
A virtual image display device includes a projection optical system that includes a projection mirror that projects an image display light toward a concavely curved surface of a virtual image presentation plate. The projection mirror has a convexly curved surface on which the image display light is incident and reflected diagonally and is arranged such that a direction orthogonal to both a direction of incidence and a direction of reflection of the image display light on the concavely curved surface and a direction orthogonal to both a direction of incidence and a direction of reflection of the image display light on the convexly curved surface are parallel to each other. The display unit is provided at a focal point of a composite optical system within a meridional plane, the composite optical system being formed by the virtual image presentation plate and the projection optical system.
US11119308B2
A video endoscope including: an elongated shaft having distal and proximal ends; an objective lens arranged in the shaft; and an image sensor arranged proximally to the objective lens; wherein the objective lens includes distal and proximal objective lens assemblies; the image sensor rotates about an axis of the shaft relative to the distal objective lens assembly which is arranged in an outer tube; a torque for rotating the image sensor is transmitted by an inner tube, which is arranged in the outer tube, the inner tube being rotatably fixed and axially slidably connected to a frame receiving the image sensor, the inner tube and the frame each including coupling portions that engage coaxially; one the coupling portions includes cut-outs extending parallel to the axis; and another includes elastic protrusions, the elastic protrusions extending toward and engage in a corresponding cut-out.
US11119302B2
Implementations of the disclosure are directed to predicting structured illumination parameters for a particular point in time, space, and/or temperature using estimates of structured illumination parameters obtained from structured illumination images captured by a structured illumination system. Particular implementations are directed to predicting structured illumination frequency, phase, orientation, and/or modulation order parameters.
US11119291B2
An actuator for adjusting a movable element in a beam path of an optical arrangement, includes the movable element, a carrier, and at least one SMA element, said SMA element being connected to the movable element and being designed so as to be supported on the carrier such that when the extension of the SMA element alters, a directed force effect is produced between said movable element and carrier.
US11119282B2
A connector is disclosed that includes a housing and first and second attachment areas located in the housing and spaced apart from each other along the mating direction of the connector. The second, but not the first, attachment area is designed to move relative to the housing. The connector further includes an optical waveguide that is permanently attached to, and under a first bending force between, the first and second attachment areas. The connector also includes a light coupling unit located in the housing for receiving light from the optical waveguide and transmitting the received light to a mating connector along a direction different than the mating direction of the connector. The mating of the connector to the mating connector causes the optical waveguide to be under a greater second bending force between the first and second attachment areas.
US11119272B2
Electrically tunable hybrid silicon-transparent conductive oxide (Si-TCO) devices, such as dual-electrode micro-ring resonators and micro-disks for large-scale on-chip wavelength division multiplexing optical interconnects.
US11119263B2
A display device component includes an optical waveguide having a surface; a first material formed on a portion of the surface of the optical waveguide; and a second material formed on a portion of the first material. The first material has light scattering properties.
US11119256B2
Many in the space weather community consider our understanding of the buoyancy of the thermosphere and its effects on the orbits of satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to be insufficient during short time frames. Disclosed herein is an approach for making on-demand thermosphere buoyancy measurements using a deployable low mass retroreflector with CubeSat-like dimensions. A CubeSat storing many retroreflectors can dispense one or more of these passive satellites according to a predetermined schedule or on-command, in response to an observed space weather phenomenon like a coronal mass ejection. With measurements of the orbit decay from these passive satellites, a better understanding of the relationship between space weather and orbital decay can be established with relatively low cost.
US11119249B2
A portable weather station, including an lower body portion; an upper body portion disposed on the lower body portion in a spaced apart relationship thereby forming an open channel between the upper body portion and the lower body portion; and a plurality of weather condition sensors wherein a first set of one or more of the plurality of weather condition sensors is mounted on the upper body portion of the portable weather station and a second set of one or more of the plurality of weather condition sensors is mounted on the lower body portion of the portable weather station.
US11119248B2
The present invention is related to a method for estimating the fractured volume in a reservoir domain, said fractured volume generated by injecting a high pressure fluid into the reservoir domain. The high pressure fluid generates new fractures allowing a more effective drainage of porous rocks, generally identified as geological material, containing oil or gas. As a result, the effective reservoir volume increases. According to embodiments of the invention, the method provides a dynamic estimation of the fractured volume taking into account the evolution of the rock and the fractures. In other embodiment, the evolution of the fractured volume is estimated by generating an envelope surrounding the induced fractures allowing a better estimation of the fractured volume.
US11119241B2
A downhole calliper tool is for measuring distance between the calliper tool and an interface in a well, such as a petroleum well or a geothermal well. The downhole calliper tool has an impulse radar system (of the CTBV-type) with at least one impulse radar unit configured for: a) transmitting electromagnetic pulses with the impulse radar unit in a direction away from the downhole calliper tool, and for b) receiving reflections of said electromagnetic pulses with the impulse radar unit, and for c) analyzing said reflections to determine the distance between the impulse system and the interface. The impulse radar system is designed for carrying out at least one distance determination per second, but preferably at least ten distance determinations per second.
US11119222B2
The present invention relates to a system for improving accuracy and safety of UAV navigation, and for generating an optimal protection level and geometry screening, and more particularly to a system that monitors an error and a failure of a GNSS navigation signal, broadcasts error correction information and integrity information to a UAV within a radius of about 20 km to allow the UAV to apply the corresponding information by a ground module, thereby improving the navigation accuracy and safety of the UAV. The ground module receives a GNSS navigation signal, calculates GNSS navigation error information, and generates correction information, and monitors a failure through a simplified failure monitoring algorithm, and the mounted module provides a system and a method for receiving a message that is broadcast by the ground module, and calculating precise and safe navigation information of an UAV by applying the message.
US11119219B1
In one embodiment, a lidar system includes a light source configured to emit an optical signal and a receiver that includes one or more detectors configured to detect a portion of the emitted optical signal scattered by a target located a distance from the lidar system. The lidar system also includes a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) that includes an input optical element configured to receive the portion of the scattered optical signal and couple the portion of the scattered optical signal into an input optical waveguide. The input optical waveguide is one of one or more optical waveguides of the PIC configured to convey the portion of the scattered optical signal to the one or more detectors of the receiver. The lidar system further includes a processor configured to determine the distance from the lidar system to the target.
US11119216B1
Provided is a robot-implemented process to create a coverage plan for a work environment, including obtaining, with a robotic device, raw data values of a work environment pertaining to likelihood of operational success and presence or absence of operational hazards contained within the work environment; determining, with one or more processors, the most efficient coverage plan for the robotic device based on the raw data values; and enacting the coverage plan based on the values from the data.
US11119213B2
An electro-optical system has a laser drive electronic circuit, a laser light source and an optical interferometer, forming a closed loop. The laser drive electronic circuit is arranged to receive a reference frequency as input, and a beat frequency as feedback. The laser drive electronic circuit generates a drive output based on a phase difference between the reference frequency and the beat frequency. The optical interferometer, coupled to the laser light, generates optical energy at the beat frequency.
US11119205B2
A communication device includes: a communication unit that communicates with a plurality of wireless terminals in a communication area; a number-of-terminals acquisition unit that acquires a number of wireless terminals communicating with the communication unit for a predetermined period of time on the basis of information on communication performed between the wireless terminals and the communication unit; a terminal position acquisition unit that acquires positions of the wireless terminals communicating with the communication unit for a predetermined period of time on the basis of the information on the communication performed between the wireless terminals and the communication unit; and a distribution acquisition unit that acquires a distribution of the wireless terminals on the basis of the number of wireless terminals acquired by the number-of-terminals acquisition unit and the positions of the wireless terminals acquired by the terminal position acquisition unit.
US11119204B2
Systems and methods include emitting transmit signals from two or more non-coherent radar systems. A method also includes receiving reflected signals at the two or more non-coherent radar systems based respectively on the transmit signals from each of the two or more non-coherent radar systems being reflected by one or more objects. The non-coherent radar systems exhibit an uncorrelated phase relationship in the reflected signals received at each of the two or more non-coherent radar systems. The reflected signals are processed to obtain a joint metric that is used to identify and estimate an angle to each of the one or more objects.
US11119201B2
There is provided a distance detecting apparatus. An acquisition unit acquires a first image captured from a first point of view and a second image captured from a second point of view that is different from the first point of view A selection unit configured to select a representative pixel from the first image, based on a color of an object. A detection unit configured to detect a position in the second image corresponding to the representative pixel and thereby to detect a distance to the object corresponding to the position of the representative pixel.
US11119199B2
An acoustic wave image generation apparatus for generating a photoacoustic image and a Doppler image is provided with a setting unit that sets a region of interest in the Doppler image, and a receiving-aperture controlling unit that sets receiving apertures of an acoustic wave detection probe for detecting photoacoustic waves to apertures smaller than all receiving apertures that the acoustic wave detection probe has, on the basis of a size of the region of interest, and for setting positions of the receiving apertures on the basis of a position of the set region of interest.
US11119193B2
A system configured to generate images includes one or more narrowband electromagnetic sources configured to emit a first radiation and a second radiation. The system also includes a detector configured to detect first reflected radiation off of an object and second reflected radiation off of the object, where the first reflected radiation results from the first radiation and the second reflected radiation results from the second radiation. The system further includes a processor operatively coupled to the detector and configured to generate an image of the object based at least in part on a first amplitude of the first reflected radiation and a second amplitude of the second reflected radiation. The processor is also configured to determine a depth profile of the object based at least in part on the first reflected radiation and the second reflected radiation detected by the detector.
US11119190B2
An acquiring unit acquires, for each of reflection points detected by a radar device, reflection point information including a horizontal angle, a vertical angle, and a relative speed. A converting unit converts each of the reflection points into three-dimensional coordinates. An extracting unit extracts stationary reflection points from the reflection points. An estimating unit uses a relational expression established among unknown parameters including a traveling direction vector and a moving speed of a moving body, three-dimensional coordinates of each of the stationary reflection points, and a relative speed of the stationary reflection point, to estimate the known parameters. A calculating unit determines an axial misalignment angle from the estimated unknown parameters.
US11119181B2
A method of direction finding (DF) positioning based on a simplified antenna platform format in a wireless communication network is proposed. A receiver receives antenna platform format information of a transmitter having multiple antenna elements. The antenna platform format information comprises an antenna platform format indicator, antenna platform position and orientation information, a number of antenna elements, and switching delay, phase center, and polarization information for each antenna element. The receiver receives a plurality of direction finding sounding signals transmitted from the transmitter via the multiple antenna elements. The receiver performs a DF algorithm based on the plurality of DF sounding signals and the antenna platform format information and thereby estimating a DF solution. Finally, the receiver determines its own location information based on the estimated DF solution.
US11119173B2
Methods, devices, systems and apparatus for dynamic imaging based on echo planar imaging (EPI) sequence are provided. In one aspect, a method includes: obtaining first pre-scanned k-space data by performing a pre-scan for a subject based on a first EPI sequence and pre-scanning parameters, obtaining a pre-scanned image and second pre-scanned k-space data according to the first pre-scanned k-space data, performing a dynamic scan for the subject based on a second EPI sequence and dynamic scanning parameters to generate dynamically-scanned k-space data associated with each of a plurality of dynamic periods in the dynamic scan, and for each of the dynamic periods, generating a residual image according to the dynamically-scanned k-space data of the dynamic period and the second pre-scanned k-space data, and adding the pre-scanned image and the residual image to obtain a dynamic image of the dynamic period.
US11119168B2
According to some aspects, a low-field magnetic resonance imaging system is provided. The low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system comprises a magnetics system having a plurality of magnetics components configured to produce magnetic fields for performing MRI, the magnetics system comprising, a B0 magnet configured to produce a B0 field for the MRI system at a low-field strength of less than 0.2 Tesla (T), a plurality of gradient coils configured to, when operated, generate magnetic fields to provide spatial encoding of magnetic resonance signals, and at least one radio frequency coil configured to, when operated, transmit radio frequency signals to a field of view of the MRI system and to respond to magnetic resonance signals emitted from the field of view, a power system comprising one or more power components configured to provide power to the magnetics system to operate the MRI system to perform image acquisition, and a power connection configured to connect to a single-phase outlet to receive mains electricity and deliver the mains electricity to the power system to provide power needed to operate the MRI system.
US11119166B2
The invention relates to a local coil matrix and to a magnetic resonance scanner for operation by means of a low magnetic field. The local coil matrix according to the invention has a first coil winding and a second coil winding and a first low-noise pre-amplifier and second pre-amplifier, each electrically connected to a coil winding. The first coil winding has a broadband matching in a first frequency range at a Larmor frequency to the first pre-amplifier connected thereto.
US11119155B2
Disclosed herein are voltage driver circuits and methods of operating the same. In some embodiments, a plurality of circuit slices are provided in a voltage driver circuit, each circuit slice has a time constant, and is controlled to switchably connect a driver output to either a high voltage level or a low voltage level, or to disconnect the driver output from both voltage levels. The circuit slices may provide an adjustable output impedance, which may be set to match the impedance of different loads. The circuit slices may also provide adjustable voltages with low power consumption, particularly in high speed applications. The circuit slices may also have programmable capacitors that may be adjusted to provide a programmable time domain behavior of the output voltage waveform, such as a programmable voltage peaking characteristic.
US11119154B1
In some examples, a device includes a built-in self-test for detecting a fault between a first light emitting diode (LED) and a second LED. The device includes a first pair of pads configured to connect to the first LED and a second pair of pads configured to connect to the second LED. The built-in self-test is configured to control a first driver and a second driver to turn on, one-by-one, respective pass switches connected to the first and second pairs of pads. The built-in self-test is configured to then determine the first and second forward voltages across the first and second LEDs. The built-in self-test can determine whether the fault exists between the first and second LEDs based on the forward voltages.
US11119146B1
Examples described herein generally relate to testing of bonded wafers and structures implemented for such testing. In an example method, power is applied to a first pad on a stack of bonded wafers. A wafer of the stack includes a process control monitor (PCM) region that includes structure regions. Each structure region is a device under test region, dummy region, and/or chain interconnect region (CIR). The stack includes a serpentine chain test structure (SCTS) electrically connected between first and second metal features in the wafer in first and second CIRs, respectively, in the PCM region. The SCTS includes segments, one or more of which are disposed between neighboring structure regions in the PCM region that are not the first and second CIRs. A signal is detected from a second pad on the stack. The first and second pads are electrically connected to the first and second metal features, respectively.
US11119144B2
A method for performing a Bode measurement on a device under test having a specified working input range and a specified working output range using a measurement system comprising: receiving at least one input boundary parameter of the working input range and at least one output boundary parameter of the output working range; generating a first stimulus signal using a stimulus signal generator of the measurement system based on the at least one input boundary parameter; feeding the first stimulus signal to an input of the device under test; and measuring an output signal of the device under test using a measurement unit of the measurement system in a measurement range based on the at least one output boundary parameter obtaining a measurement result. Further, a measurement setup is shown.
US11119143B2
A device and method for measuring the internal impedance of an electronic sensor uses configurable gain stages to selectively apply different excitation signals to the sensor under test in order to ensure adequate signal-to-noise ratio to provide accurate measurement of the internal impedance over a broader range of internal impedances than the prior art.
US11119140B1
A fast wideband four noise parameter measurement and extraction method uses randomly distributed source impedance states, which are generated using wideband electro-mechanical tuners, and noise figure data collected in fast frequency sweeps; because of the random nature of source impedances reliable noise parameter values are extracted using selected source admittance states generated by sweeping the frequency by small amounts around a set of center frequencies instead of moving the tuner probe, hereby using the natural tuner phase rotation instead of a (time consuming) mechanical tuner sweep at a fixed center frequency. The core of the method is swapping slow tuner mechanical sweep with fast frequency sweeps, allowed since the 4 noise parameters are benign frequency functions. Multiple noise parameter extractions for all possible cross-combinations of the source impedance states at each measured frequency allows reliable and physically meaningful generation of wideband noise parameters, even for very low noise and potentially unstable DUT's.
US11119136B1
A multi-octave hybrid harmonic load pull tuner comprises a slabline with an adjustable signal coupler (wave-probe) and two multi-carriage slide screw tuners, one in the feedback signal injection loop and one as a pre-matching transformer. The wave-probe controls the static amplitude and phase of the feedback signal and the harmonic tuner in the loop controls the actual amplitude and phase of the re-injected signal at each harmonic frequency separately. De-embedding fast calibration and search routines allow identifying tuner states satisfying instantaneously impedance targets over the entire harmonic spectrum.
US11119135B2
A circuit arrangement for resistance measurement comprises a capacitor coupled between a first potential node and a second potential node, a pair of terminals that comprises a first terminal and a second terminal, the first and second terminals being coupleable to one of the at least one resistor. The circuit arrangement further comprises a set of circuit branches comprising a first circuit branch, a second circuit branch, a third circuit branch and a fourth circuit branch, each comprising a switch switchable between a conductive state and an insulating state. The circuit arrangement further comprises the first terminal being coupled to the first potential node via the first circuit branch and the second circuit branch being connected in parallel. The circuit arrangement further comprises the second terminal being coupled to the second potential node via the third circuit branch and the fourth circuit branch being connected in parallel.
US11119130B2
A computing device for investigating a load is described. The computing device includes a processor and executable instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The computing device requests load driving data corresponding to a load that is driven by an electronic device. The computing device also receives the load driving data from the electronic device. The computing device further obtains load characterization data.
US11119100B2
A portable monitoring strip reader may include one or more light sensors for reading urine monitoring strips. The monitoring strip reader may collect light intensity information and transmit the information to an application on a portable electronic device for analysis. The application may determine concentrations of analytes and diagnose conditions or illnesses where a concentration is too high or too low. In some aspects, the application may use machine learning models such as an anomaly detection model, diagnosis model, and measurement model.
US11119098B2
Embodiments described herein may be useful in the detection of analytes. The systems and methods may allow for a relatively simple and rapid way for detecting analytes such as chemical and/or biological analytes and may be useful in numerous applications including sensing, food manufacturing, medical diagnostics, performance materials, dynamic lenses, water monitoring, environmental monitoring, detection of proteins, detection of DNA, among other applications. For example, the systems and methods described herein may be used for determining the presence of a contaminant such as bacteria (e.g., detecting pathogenic bacteria in food and water samples which helps to prevent widespread infection, illness, and even death). Advantageously, the systems and methods described herein may not have the drawbacks in current detection technologies including, for example, relatively high costs, long enrichment steps and analysis times, and/or the need for extensive user training. Another advantageous feature provided by the systems and methods described herein includes fabrication in a relatively large scale. In some embodiments, the systems and methods may be used in conjunction with a detector including handheld detectors incorporated with, for example, smartphones (e.g., for the on-site detection of analytes such as pathogenic bacteria).
US11119085B2
A method and device for detecting mercury isotopes in an oil-gas source. The device includes at least one enrichment-absorption system for mercury in crude oil/hydrocarbon source rock, an enrichment-absorption system for mercury in natural gas and at least one secondary purification-enrichment system for mercury. The enrichment-absorption system for mercury in crude oil/hydrocarbon source rock includes three air-absorption bottles, a pyrolysis/cracking system, five impact samplers, and a vacuum pump, which are connected in series by pipe lines. The enrichment-absorption system for mercury in natural gas includes five impact samplers connected in series, wherein the first impact sampler is connected to the natural gas outlet from the natural gas well and the last impact sampler is connected to the cumulative gas flow meter.
US11119084B2
The invention provides a method and device for measuring mercury isotopes in natural gas. The method includes the following steps: (1) primary enrichment: subjecting natural gas to a three-stage cascading absorption with an acidic potassium permanganate aqueous solution, and collecting all of the acidic potassium permanganate aqueous solutions in which natural gas is absorbed in step (1); (2) mercury purification and enrichment: reducing the mercury absorbed in the step (1) to mercury vapor with a stannous chloride solution, and then purifying and enriching the mercury vapor by using an acidic potassium permanganate aqueous solution; (3) detecting the acidic potassium permanganate solution in which the mercury vapor is enriched in step (2) to determine the total mercury content therein; and (4) detecting the acidic potassium permanganate solution in which the mercury vapor is enriched in step (2) to determine the composition/content of stable mercury isotopes therein.
US11119080B2
A mini point of care gas chromatographic test strip and method to measure analytes is disclosed. A system for determining the concentration of at least one analyte in a fluid sample having a plurality of analytes includes a base substrate, a first electrode pair disposed over the base substrate, and a first sensing chemistry responsive to at least one analyte in the sample. The first sensing chemistry is in electrical communication with the first electrode pair, and a first chromatographic layer is disposed over the at least one sensing chemistry. At least one analyte of the plurality of analytes moves through the first chromatographic layer at a different rate relative to the movement of other analytes of the plurality of analytes.
US11119079B2
A chromatography analyzer system (10) for analyzing a sample (12) includes a MIR analyzer (34) for spectrally analyzing a sample fraction (12A) while the sample fraction (12A) is flowing in the MIR analyzer (34). The MIR analyzer (34) includes (i) a MIR flow cell (35C) that receives the flowing sample fraction (12A), (ii) a MIR laser source (35A) that directs a MIR beam (35B) in a MIR wavelength range at the sample fraction (12A) in the MIR flow cell (35C), and (iii) a MIR detector (35D) that receives light from the sample fraction (12A) in the MIR flow cell (35C) and generates MIR data of the sample fraction (12A) for a portion of the MIR wavelength range.
US11119069B2
An apparatus includes multiple levels of ion transport channels, with successive levels coupled by elevator channels. Efficient three dimensional packing provides long path lengths in practical volumes for ion mobility separation with high resolving power. Disclosed elevator configurations provide efficient routing of ion transport channels across levels with low ion loss, enabling ion mobility separation over 100 levels or more. Elevator configurations include (i) opposed traveling waves meeting at an elevator entrance, (ii) external elevator with a wrap-around electrode bank, (iii) external elevator with electrode banks on parallel extension plates, or (iv) elevator operating in surfing mode, in various combinations. Manufacture is aided by printed wiring boards, with interchangeable boards. Assembly with motherboard, spacer block(s), and alignment pins provides efficient distribution of electrode excitations and accurate reproducible positioning.
US11119068B2
The present invention provides, in some embodiments, an isotachophoresis (ITP) apparatus, a kit comprising same and method of use thereof for the focusing analytes of interest from large sample volumes.
US11119064B2
An impedance spectroscopy biosensor is provided that is fabricated on a stretchable substrate. The stretchable substrate is integrated with an impedance biosensor that undergoes cyclic strain without cracking. The biosensor is formed by curing an elastomer precursor while on a pre-tensioned membrane that includes a conductive electrode. The resulting elastomeric material is released from the support after curing which releases the pre-tensioned state to produce the biosensor.
US11119053B2
Wireless sensing devices including stable near-field antennas are provided. A spacer layer is attached to a portion of the substrate adjacent to the antenna. The spacer layer has a thickness T, a relative permittivity k, and a figure of merit defined as the ratio of T (in micrometers) by k. The spacer layer has the figure of merit no less than 20 (micrometers).
US11119047B2
The present invention discloses an SERS substrate of a metal-modified semiconductor-based bionic compound eye bowl structure and a construction method, and belongs to the technical field of nano materials. The present invention is based on a multi-time interface self-assembly method. Firstly, a small ball template is constructed by using a gas-liquid interface assembly process. Then, a semiconductor bowl structure array is induced to be formed by the template by using a solid-liquid interface assembly process. Next, a semiconductor bowl is assembled to a surface of a pyramid-shaped cone to form a bionic compound eye structure by using a transfer process. Finally, a surface of the bionic compound eye structure is modified with a layer of uniformly distributed metal particles by a physical deposition method or a chemical deposition method, thereby forming the SERS substrate of the metal-modified semiconductor-based bionic compound eye bowl structure.
US11119039B2
Source light having a range of optical wavelengths is generated. The source light is split into sample light and reference light. The sample light is delivered into a sample, such that it is scattered by the sample, resulting in signal light that exits the sample. The signal light and reference light are combined into an interference light pattern having optical modes. Different subsets of the optical modes of the interference light pattern are respectively detected, and high-bandwidth analog signals respectively corresponding to the different subsets of optical modes of the interference light pattern are output. At least one characteristic is extracted from each of the plurality of high-bandwidth analog signals, and low-bandwidth digital signals respectively comprising the extracted characteristics are output. The sample is analyzed based on the low-bandwidth digital signals.
US11119033B2
A conformation analysis device and analysis method with which discrimination can be achieved even if there is a subtle difference in a conformational structure, a given molecule can be processed in a unified manner, and large-scale computer processing can be performed, and a conformational notation device and notation method with which even in the case where a conformation cannot be uniquely determined if a rule in accordance with the IUPAC Nomenclature is followed, the conformation can be uniquely notated, a given molecule can be processed in a unified manner, and large-scale computer processing can be performed, are provided. In one embodiment of the invention, a processing section receives an input of a chemical structural formula of a compound to be analyzed, puts a predetermined code indicating a dihedral angle to each chemical binding site based on the received chemical structural formula, extracts an encoded conformational notation of interest with respect to a structure capable of uniquely determining a conformation with one conformational notation, and stores the extracted encoded conformational notation in a storage section. Then, the processing section creates a molecular model based on the extracted encoded conformational notation, performs geometry optimization and frequency calculation for the created molecular model, determines a geometry optimized structure and a physical property value of the geometry optimized structure, extracts the encoded conformational notation from the storage section, and performs a homology analysis based on the notation.
US11119031B2
Systems and methods for determining rate of corrosion in pipes and other structures are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method for measuring a rate of corrosion progress in a specimen includes: generating a first initial pulse into the specimen by an ultrasonic transducer, and acquiring a first reflected waveform from the specimen. The first reflected waveform includes a first reflection of the first waveform and a second reflection of the first waveform. The method also includes generating a second initial pulse into the specimen by the ultrasonic transducer. The first initial pulse and the second initial pulse are separated by a time period. The method also includes acquiring a second reflected waveform from the specimen. The second reflected waveform includes a first reflection of the second waveform and a second reflection of the second waveform.
US11119030B2
Disclosed herein are a particle sorting device capable of simply detecting bubbles, foreign substances, or the like in droplets, a method for analyzing particles, a program, and a particle sorting system. The particle sorting device includes a judgment unit, and the judgment unit judges whether or not captured image information including captured droplet image information about a brightness of an image of particle-containing droplets captured after discharge from an orifice has changed with respect to previously-set reference image information including reference droplet image information about a brightness of an image of droplets captured after discharge from the orifice.
US11119027B2
A microbial particle is accurately counted in distinction from a non-microbial particle. A preceding-stage irradiation section 2 irradiates a sample as fluid with ultraviolet light at a preceding stage of a microbial particle counter 1. The ultraviolet light is ultraviolet light having a deep ultraviolet region, the ultraviolet light increasing the fluorescence intensity of a first autofluorescence substance in the microbial particle. The microbial particle counter 1 measures light intensity in a first wavelength range including the fluorescence wavelength of the first autofluorescence substance. In addition, the microbial particle counter 1 measures light intensity in a specific second wavelength range. Further, the microbial particle counter 1 counts the microbial particle in distinction from a non-microbial particle in the fluid based on the measured light intensity in the first wavelength range and the measured light intensity in the specific second wavelength range.
US11119014B2
A method and apparatus for the rapid and reliable preparation of a sample for use in testing for target analytes such as bacteria, viruses, toxins and pathogenic agents in various products. A sample for testing the target analyte is collected from various sources. The method for sample preparation provides for an express process for preparing collected samples for testing. The collected sample may be concentrated by centrifugation, filtration, or other means suitable for sample concentration, homogenized with the addition of a broth and enriched for specified period of time. Immunomagnetic separation of the sample occurs with receptor-coated magnetic microspheres in different test-specific formulations (singleplex or multiplex). An automatic testing system is disclosed which includes a biological testing cassette, in which testing of the sample occurs using liquid crystal diagnostic methodologies.
US11119012B2
An apparatus and method for cleaving a liquid sample are disclosed. The apparatus includes a load lock chamber containing a cleaving module, a cryo-cooler, a vacuum chamber configured to receive the cleaving module from the load lock chamber, and a gate valve between the load lock chamber and the vacuum chamber. The cleaving module is configured to cleave a crystalline sample holder and the liquid sample. The liquid sample includes one or more liquid phase materials and is cleavable by the cleaving module when in the solid phase. The cryo-cooler is configured to cool and/or maintain a temperature of the sample holder and the sample below the melting point of each of the liquid phase materials. The gate valve has at least one opening therein configured to (i) allow the cleaving module to enter and exit the vacuum chamber and/or (ii) permit gaseous communication between the load lock chamber and the vacuum chamber.
US11119010B2
A closed and tamper-evident sealed container, including a fluid transport adapter. The adapter provides for sterile fluid communication between a fluid source outside the container and the container interior when adapter is open. The adapter is adjustable to a closed position wherein the fluid communication ceases. An alternative to the adapter utilizes a sampling attachment that fits into tight engagement with the lid which comprises at least one septum. Coupling the sampling attachment to the lid either causes sharps in the attachment to penetrate the at least one septum or to displace the edges of the septum inward to form a fluid communication with the container interior while the lid remains sealed closed. Other variations include a rotatable sampling attachment, a container with a displaceable bottom wall to act as a syringe and a large volume (e.g., 1500 mL) sealed ampoule which also uses a sampling attachment.
US11119007B2
A vehicle securing apparatus is provided for pulling and securing a test vehicle provided to a vehicle testing device. The column stands on the pedestal. The vehicle securing apparatus includes a column, a traveling and rotating part, and a pedestal. The traveling and rotating part is structured to be coupled with a chain for pulling the test vehicle, and arranged coaxially with the column, and structured to travel vertically and rotate horizontally. The pedestal is structured to be attached to an arbitrary portion of a slide rail of the vehicle testing device.
US11119000B2
The application relates to an apparatus (100) for fatigue testing a wind turbine blade specimen (10), and to a method using such an apparatus (100). The apparatus (100) comprises first and second support assemblies (120, 130) and an actuator (140) for cyclically deflecting the specimen (10) in a first transverse direction. The first and second support assemblies (120, 130) comprise first and second holders (121, 131) for holding first and second ends (12, 14) of the specimen (10), respectively, such that the longitudinal direction (16) of the specimen (10) extends between the first and second holders (121, 131). The first and second support assemblies (120, 130) are arranged such that the first and second holders (121, 131) are rotatable about a second transverse direction perpendicular to the first transverse direction and to the longitudinal direction (16) of the specimen (10). The first support assembly (120) is further arranged such that the first holder (121) is moveable in the longitudinal direction relative to the second holder (131) when the specimen (10) is deflected by the actuator (140) in the first transverse direction.
US11118999B2
Method and investigation device associated therewith, for measuring stresses in an agglomerate structure including a binder and a bonded substance, comprising the steps of providing, at one or more points on said structure, at least one investigation device able to measure at least three deformations of said investigation device that are oriented relative to one another on three axes, detecting the corresponding at least three deformation measurements, and calculating a stress that is proportional to a combination of said at least three deformation measurements at the corresponding point.
US11118998B2
An inspection specifying unit specifies a member position that is a point and a type of damage that is a soundness determination target on the basis of building structure information. An inspection data analysis unit acquires the image data from an inspection data acquisition unit, analyzes the image data, and determines from the image data, whether or not there is damage of the type of damage specified as the inspection target, and the degree of damage in a case where there is the damage. A damage influence degree calculation unit calculates the degree of damage influence for each damage. A soundness determination unit determines the soundness of the entire building on the basis of the degree of damage influence for each damage. A soundness output unit outputs the soundness determined in to a display, a printer, or the like.
US11118997B2
Systems and methods for detecting water leaks using a security and/or automation system includes receiving total water usage data for a home, receiving water usage data for known sources in the home, receiving occupancy data for at least one occupant in the home, and determining a water leak based at least in part on the total water usage data, water usage data for known sources, and occupancy data.
US11118994B2
A precision detection device for a force standard machine includes a first hydraulic cylinder, a pipeline and a force loading device. A liquid medium is disposed in, the first hydraulic cylinder, and a liquid level area of the liquid medium is a known Value. The pipeline is a hollow tubular structure, and a first end of the pipeline is communicated with the liquid medium in the first hydraulic cylinder. The force loading device acts on the liquid medium, in the first hydraulic cylinder to produce a pressure increment or a pressure intensity increment on the, liquid medium. A force value comparison machine and a precision detection method for a force standard machine are also provided.
US11118989B2
A process diaphragm seal includes a seal body, a diaphragm, and a ring member. The seal body includes a flange that surrounds a cavity. The diaphragm includes an active portion that extends over the cavity and a peripheral portion that surrounds the active portion. The ring member clamps the peripheral portion of the diaphragm to an outer wall of the flange through an interference fit between an inner wall of the ring member and the outer wall of the flange. A seal is formed between the peripheral portion of the diaphragm and the outer wall of the flange.
US11118978B2
A temperature measuring device includes at least one first distance sensing unit and a second distance sensing unit for outputting first and second distance sensing signals, respectively; a temperature sensing unit for outputting a temperature sensing signal; a display unit for displaying the temperature measurement value; and a micro processing unit for receiving the first and the second distance sensing signals, and then determining, according to the first and the second distance sensing signals, whether the display unit displays the temperature measurement value calculated according to the temperature sensing signal. As a result, the at least two distance sensing units are used to prevent the temperature measuring device from executing the temperature measurement when the sensing unit of the thermometer obliquely points to a to-be-sensed part of a to-be-measured target to cause a large measurement angle.
US11118976B2
A texture recognition device and a self-luminous display panel. The texture recognition device includes a substrate, an optical sensing layer, and a light-blocking structure. The optical sensing layer and the light-blocking structure are stacked on the substrate. The light-blocking structure includes a plurality of light transmission hole groups, at least one of which includes C2 light transmission holes. C is a positive integer. The optical sensing layer includes multiple optical sensing groups. The multiple optical sensing groups corresponds to the multiple light transmission hole groups respectively. An orthogonal projection of one optical sensing group on the substrate completely covers an orthogonal projection of a corresponding light transmission hole group on the substrate, and an orthogonal projection of a center of the optical sensing group on the substrate coincides with an orthogonal projection of a center of the corresponding light transmission hole group on the substrate.
US11118975B2
Compact optical spectrometers are provided to measure optical spectral composition of light.
US11118974B2
A spectroscopic device is provided. The spectroscopic device includes a plurality of design groups on a substrate. Each design group includes a plurality of collapsed groups separated by bare regions of substrate, wherein the edges of each design group is configured to enhance the pinning of a solvent drying line at the edge of the design group. Each collapsed group comprises at least 2 flexible columnar structures, and each flexible columnar structure comprises a metal cap.
US11118967B2
The present invention relates to a radiation sensor, in particular for use with a vehicle sunload sensor arrangement. Furthermore, the present invention also relates to such a vehicle sensor arrangement and to a method of assembling a vehicle sensor arrangement. A radiation sensor comprises at least one first and one second photodetector, and a radiation shaping element, wherein said radiation shaping element comprises radiation blocking means for forming at least one aperture through which the radiation has limited access to said first and second photodetectors, and wherein said first and second photodetectors are arranged on a substrate and are distanced apart from each other along a sensor axis, and wherein the radiation blocking means is formed by a radiation screen mounted on the substrate to encompass the first and second photodetectors.
US11118960B2
A vibration and noise characteristics measurement device for the measurement of vibration and noise characteristics of structures or objects includes at least one excitation unit for applying excitation for the generation of vibrations on the structure on which vibration and noise characteristics measurements are desired, at least one response sensor for sensing the vibration and/or noise produced by the structure in response to applied excitation, and at least one control unit for controlling excitation unit and/or response sensor.
US11118959B2
A modular off-platter detection assembly for use with a barcode reader includes a housing, a first light source, a first light sensor, and a controller operatively coupled to the first light source and the first light sensor. The housing is configured to be removably mounted to the barcode reader, a frame supporting the barcode reader, or the workstation. The first light source is positioned within the housing and emits a first light along a first lateral edge of a weigh platter. The first light sensor is positioned within the housing, has a first field-of-view along the first lateral edge, and is configured to detect at least a portion of the first light reflected towards the housing. The controller is configured to provide a first alert in response to receipt of a first value from the first light sensor indicating there is an object extending across the first lateral edge.
US11118951B2
Compact ultrasonic flowmeter for measuring flowrate and other fluid related data, comprising: a flow tube with a flow bore for passage of the fluid between an inlet and an outlet; a flowmeter housing associated with the flow tube; a printed circuit board arranged in the flowmeter housing and including a processor for controlling operations of the flowmeter; a meter circuit including two or more ultrasonic transducers provided on the printed circuit board and configured for operating the ultrasonic transducers to transmit and receive ultrasonic wave packets through the fluid; a display mounted on the printed circuit board and configured for displaying a measured flowrate and other fluid related data; and one or more battery packs for powering flowmeter operations including at least the processor and the meter circuit and the display; wherein the processor and the ultrasonic transducers are surface mounted on a lower side of the printed circuit board and the display is mounted on an upper side of the printed circuit board.
US11118950B2
Various embodiments include a flow meter comprising: at least two sensors arranged at a set distance from one another; and a ring-shaped carrier configured to mount the flow meter between two tube segments of a conduit on a flange face of a tube section of the conduit. The at least two sensors are located at a respective free end of an extension extending from the ring-shaped carrier part. The extensions are aligned substantially perpendicularly to a plane defined by the carrier part. The at least two sensors define a signal path. The signal path comprises a component perpendicular to the plane defined by the carrier part.
US11118948B2
A system and method for displaying a placement array of calibration locations, including capturing image data of a target object located in a workspace using an optical sensor communicatively coupled to a processor. Classification data is received from a database, based on the image data of on the target object within the view of the optical sensor. An origin point of the placement array of calibration locations based on the image data is determined. A plurality of calibration positions for the workspace in relation to the origin point is retrieved from the database, where the calibration locations are based on the classification data from the image data. The placement array of calibration locations is displayed on a display communicatively coupled to the processor in an augmented reality depiction of the workspace, where the placement array of calibration locations is oriented in the workspace based on the origin point.
US11118940B2
A displacement sensor includes an induction element and sensor element. The induction element has an electrically conductive measurement track element extending along a measurement path, and two electrically conductive correction track element positioned adjacent to each other relative to the path. The sensor element is movable relative to the induction element along the measurement track element, and has a measurement coil positioned over the measurement track element and two correction coils positioned adjacent to each other relative to the path. A position change of the measurement coil on the path changes an overlap of the measurement coil and the measurement track element along the path such that an induction of the measurement coil is configured with reference to the position of the measurement coil on the measurement path. Each correction coil is positioned over a respective corrective track element such that an overlap of the correction coil over the respective corrective track element is constant.
US11118939B2
A waveguide structure to allow device to determine its orientation are disclosed. The waveguide may be formed of a dielectric core and a cladding. The dielectric core may be formed of a solid dielectric material that conducts radio waves at millimeter wave frequencies and above. The cladding may encapsulate the core, and may include at least two conductive portions. Each conductive portion may be disposed around less than the entire core. The conductive portions allow electrical signals to flow between two devices to determine an orientation of the waveguide.
US11118937B2
Described is a system for adaptive calibration of a sensor of an inertial measurement unit. Following each sensor measurement, the system performs automatic calibration of a multi-axis sensor. A reliability of a current calibration is assessed. If the current calibration is reliable, then bias and scale factor values are updated according to the most recent sensor measurement, resulting in updated bias and scale factor values. If the current calibration is not reliable, then previous bias and scale factor values are used. The system causes automatic calibration of the multi-axis sensor using either the updated or previous bias and scale factor values.
US11118936B1
A method for performing an operation on a flight sensor parameter includes receiving instructions indicating a description of a flight sensor parameter and an operation to be performed on the flight sensor parameter. The method includes generating executable code based on the instructions indicating the description and the operation. The method includes, after generating the executable code, associating the executable code with flight sensor data from one or more sensors. The flight sensor parameter includes a variable of the flight sensor data. The method further includes executing the executable code at a processor using the flight sensor data as an input to generate an output that indicates results of the operation.
US11118927B2
Disclosed is a computer-implemented method for recommending booths-to-visit to a user, comprising the following steps: accessing a user record, wherein the user record includes data indicative of booths which a user corresponding to the user record has visited in an exhibition; determining similarity level between records in a history database and the user record, the records in the history database including data indicative of the booths visited by previous visitors in the exhibition; selecting several of the records according to the determined similarity level; determining the booths in the all of the selected records not yet visited by the user; adding the determined booths to a candidate list; and presenting at least one of the booths in the candidate list to the user.
US11118926B2
Disclosed is a computer-implemented method for recommending booths-to-visit to a user, comprising the following steps: accessing a user record, wherein the user record includes data indicative of booths which a user corresponding to the user record has visited in an exhibition; determining similarity level between records in a history database and the user record, the records in the history database including data indicative of the booths visited by previous visitors in the exhibition; selecting several of the records according to the determined similarity level; identifying shared ones of the selected records; determining the booths in the shared ones of the selected records not yet visited by the user; adding the determined booths to a candidate list; and presenting at least one of the booths in the candidate list to the user.
US11118924B2
A method and a system for predicting traffic conditions of a geographical area are provided. Position information, received from devices of corresponding vehicles that are traversing between road segments of a road network including at least first and second road segments, is located on a directed graph of the road network. Further, first and second times are determined based on the located position information on the directed graph. A traffic time of the first road segment is determined based on an average of time differences of the first and second times of each of the one or more first vehicles after filtering out a time period between the first and second times. The traffic conditions of the road network are predicted based on the determined traffic time of each of the road segments.
US11118918B2
Systems, methods, and technologies are provided for enhanced navigation instruction. In one implementation, a first input is received with respect to a device. The first input is processed to determine a navigation initiation instance with respect to the device. Based on the navigation initiation instance, a navigation destination is identified. Based on the identified navigation destination, a navigation route associated with the device is identified. An alternative route is computed based on a current location of the device and the identified navigation destination. The identified navigation route is compared with the computed alternative route. The alternative route is identified as preferable to the identified navigation route with respect to one or more criteria and above a defined threshold. A degree of familiarity of a user with the alternative route is determined. Notifications are generated based on the determined degree of familiarity. The notifications are provided via interface(s) of the device.
US11118915B2
A position estimation device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is provided for estimating a self-position of a moving object device provided with one or more sensors for observing information related to movement. The position estimation device includes one or more hardware processors configured to: estimate a state amount representing a state of each of the one or more sensors based on an observation value of the corresponding sensor; calculate a confidence degree representing a degree of confidence of the state amount of each of the one or more sensors; select one or more target sensors from among the one or more sensors based on the confidence degree of the state amount of each of the one or more sensors; and estimate the self-position based on the observation value and the state amount of each of the selected one or more target sensors.
US11118912B2
Embodiments described herein relate to a magnetic positioning system and method that allows the position of a receiver to be determined in environments containing conducting material such as concrete. A number of transmitters create modulated magnetic fields which are distorted as they propagate through the conducting materials. A finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulation of the environment is used to generate an accurate model of the fields within the environment. A receiver is used to measure the field strength of each transmitter. The receiver position is determined by evaluating the misfit between the received fields and the values in the FDTD model.
US11118904B2
A method of detecting blocking of a rotor of a motor driving an actuator member with movement in translation between a first abutment and a second abutment, the method comprising the steps of, during an angular movement of the rotor, estimating at least a position (X) of the actuator member relative to the two abutments, a travel direction of the actuator member relative to the two abutments, and also a travel speed (V) of the actuator member; and on the basis at least of the estimated position of the actuator member, of the estimated travel direction of the actuator member, and of the estimated travel speed of the actuator member, detecting blocking of the rotor.
US11118903B2
A multipole illumination system may include an illumination source to generate a source beam, one or more acousto-optic deflectors to diffract the source beam along at least two directions; one or more collection lenses to collect at least some of the diffracted light from the one or more acousto-optic deflectors, and a controller to generate one or more drive signals for the one or more acousto-optic deflectors. For example, the one or more drive signals may cause the one or more acousto-optic deflectors to generate a symmetric distribution of two or more illumination beams formed from light diffracted from the one or more acousto-optic deflectors and collected by the one or more collection lenses, where a distribution of wavelength and intensity of the two or more illumination beams is symmetric in a plane formed by the first and second directions.
US11118902B2
A three-dimensional shape measurement device includes a controller, in which the controller starts a process in which a plurality of different phase pattern images is projected by a projector, whenever the phase pattern image is projected by the projector before a rising time elapses, the rising time being a time until the luminance of light does not temporally change after a light source of the projector applies the light, and measures a three-dimensional shape of a target object onto which the phase pattern image is projected on the basis of a captured image obtained by the camera after the process is performed.
US11118901B2
An image processing system includes a first light projection unit that projects, onto an object, a light pattern for specifying a three-dimensional shape; a second light projection unit that projects, onto the object, substantially uniform light, in which illumination energy is substantially uniform in a cross-sectional direction relative to a light projection direction, at substantially the same angle as in projection performed by the first light projection unit; an image capturing unit that captures images of the object; a generation unit that generates a division image by dividing components of a first captured image, which is captured while light is projected onto the object by the first light projection unit, by components of a second captured image, which is captured while light is projected onto the object by the second light projection unit; and a calculation unit that calculates three-dimensional positions on the object with use of the division image.
US11118898B2
A method for producing a preparation for fiber length measurement includes: a preliminary dispersion process of adding fibers and a dispersion medium with a viscosity of 500 Pa·s to 10,000 Pa·s to a sealable container so as to give a concentration of the fibers of 0.1% by mass or less and shaking the container to prepare a preliminary dispersion liquid; a dispensing process of dispensing part of the preliminary dispersion liquid to another sealable container; a dilution process of adding the dispersion medium to the dispensed preliminary dispersion liquid so as to give a concentration of the fibers of 0.005% by mass or less and shaking the container to prepare a dispersion liquid for measuring fiber length; and a casting process of spreading part of the dispersion liquid for measuring fiber length onto a base having light transparency.
US11118897B2
A probe for an optical measurement system includes a probe body arranged to be adjustably mounted in a measuring machine for optically measuring a test object. A polarizing fiber optically coupled within the probe body transmits a source beam having an instantaneous or sequentially established bandwidth spanning a range of wavelengths to the probe body and also transmits a measurement beam from the probe body toward a detector. An adjustable beam manipulator is provided for angularly redistributing the reference beam along the reference arm.
US11118894B2
In some embodiments, systems, methods, and media for multiple reference arm spectral domain optical coherence tomography are provided which, in some embodiments, includes: a sample arm coupled to a light source; a first reference arm having a first path length; a second reference arm having a longer second path length; a first optical coupler that combines light from the sample arm and the first reference arm; a second coupler that combines light from the sample arm and the second reference arm; and an optical switch comprising: a first input port coupled to the first optical coupler; a second input coupled to the second coupler via an optical waveguide that induces a delay at least equal to an acquisition time of an image sensor; and an output coupled to the image sensor.
US11118889B2
In a method for measuring a gauge (20), the invention provides a standard (30). The standard has a calibrated standard distance (33) between a standard reference plane (31) and a standard detection line (35), being mutually parallel. When the standard is placed with its standard reference plane onto a gauge reference plane (21), the standard is traced with a tracing point (12) of a measuring apparatus (10). Thereby it is possible to reliably measure the distance (43) between the standard detection line (35) and the apparatus reference plane (11), and hence the distance between the gauge reference plane (21) and the apparatus reference plane (11). The invention allows to reliably measure gauges in an affordable, non-complex measuring apparatus, in cases where, in order to reliably measure gauges in the apparatus, such gauges cannot be placed with their gauge reference planes onto the apparatus reference plane.
US11118877B2
The present invention provides a polymer nose for a polymeric ammunition cartridge having a generally cylindrical neck having a projectile aperture at a first end, an outer shoulder surface that extends from the generally cylindrical neck, an outer shoulder angle defined by the outer shoulder surface, an inner shoulder surface on the inside of the polymer nose opposite the outer shoulder surface, an inner shoulder angle defined by the outer shoulder surface, a skirt surface extending from the inner shoulder surface, a skirt angle defined by the skirt surface and a nose junction that extends from the outer shoulder surface to the skirt surface, wherein the nose junction is adapted to mate to a polymer cartridge.
US11118869B1
A multispectral camouflage fabric having a camouflage pattern containing a least a first, second, and third color. Each of the first, second, and third colors contain at least one dye and at least one of the first, second, and third colors contains carbon black. The camouflage pattern has a short wave infrared (SWIR) reflectance pattern and contains first, second, and third reflectance zones. Each reflectance zone has an upper and lower reflectance zone boundary and the difference between the upper and lower first reflectance zone boundaries is approximately 10 percentage points. The difference between the first and second zone and the second and third zone is approximately 10 percentage points. At essentially all wavelengths within the SWIR portion of the spectrum, the first color falls within the first zone boundaries, the second color falls within the second zone boundaries, and the third color falls within the third zone boundaries.
US11118865B2
The invention relates to a disintegrating bullet that breaks apart at set distances in order to better engage targets such as unmanned aerial systems.
US11118863B2
A system for extending range of target engagement is provided. The system comprises a long firearm with a day optic sight attached and a clip-on thermal sight installed forward of the day optic sight. The clip-on thermal sight receives rotation of 90 degrees lengthwise along the firearm, display orientation of view finder changed from horizontal to vertical, and improves, based at least on the rotation and changed orientation, the aspect ratio is favorably altered to increase number of vertical mils available for target engagement. The range and situational awareness are both simultaneously enhanced while maintaining the number of pixels on the target by increasing the sensor resolution.
US11118860B2
Implementations of a shoulder stock assembly for a pistol are provided. The shoulder stock assembly is configured for use in attaching a shoulder stock to a handgun, thereby providing additional stability to a user aiming and firing the handgun. In some implementations, the shoulder stock assembly is also configured to position an optical sight (e.g., a reflex type sight) so that is can be used to aim the handgun. In some implementations, the shoulder stock assembly comprises a chassis configured to be secured to a frame of a handgun and used to position an optical sight over a slide of the handgun, a shoulder stock secured to the chassis by a hinge assembly, a removable backstrap assembly configured to further secure the chassis to the handgun frame, and a charging handle that can be used to manually operate the slide of the handgun or another suitable combination thereof.
US11118856B2
Methods and systems are provided for a firearms suppressor that comprises a self-cleaning function. In one example the firearms suppressor may include a diffusor circumferentially surrounded by a blast chamber and a scrolled sleeve enclosing the inner core of the firearms suppressor. The combination of the said elements may mitigate accumulation of debris within a projectile path of the firearms suppressor and enable extended operation of the firearms suppressor before cleaning is desired.
US11118847B2
A finned heat exchanger tube, including a tube, a plurality of fins, and a plurality of outer casings. The tube includes an elongated hollow body having a wall. The plurality of fins is disposed on the wall of the tube along the longitudinal axis of the tube; the plurality of fins each includes a plurality of hollow protrusions, and corresponding hollow protrusions of the plurality of fins form a plurality of microchannels parallel to the longitudinal axis of the tube. The plurality of outer casings encircles the plurality of fins, respectively.
US11118843B2
A heat pipe includes an intermediate metal layer interposed between outermost metal layers, an inlet passage defined by opposing wall portions of the intermediate metal layer and the outermost metal layers, and a porous body provided at one or both of the wall portions. The porous body includes a first bottomed hole that caves in from one surface of the intermediate metal layer, a second bottomed hole that caves in from the other surface of the intermediate metal layer, and a pore formed by the first bottomed hole that partially communicates with the second bottomed hole. The outermost metal layers, the intermediate metal layer, the inlet passage, and the porous body form an inlet for filling a working fluid into the heat pipe.
US11118838B2
A core arrangement for a heat exchanger includes a first core layer disposed along a first plane and having an inlet and outlet oriented along a first axis within the first plane and a first core stage disposed in fluid communication between the inlet and the outlet. The first core stage includes a first upstream fluid intersection downstream of and adjacent the inlet and having a first inlet continuation and a first bifurcation. The first core stage further includes a first downstream fluid intersection upstream of and adjacent the outlet and having a first outlet continuation and a first recombination. A plurality of first core tubes fluidly connect the first bifurcation to the first recombination. The first core layer further includes a second core stage disposed in fluid communication between the first inlet continuation and the first outlet continuation. The second core stage includes a second upstream fluid intersection downstream of the first inlet continuation and having a second bifurcation, and a second downstream fluid intersection upstream of the first outlet continuation and having a second recombination. A plurality of independent second core tubes fluidly connect the second bifurcation to the second recombination.
US11118837B1
A system for treatment of a first material with at least one hazardous material, the system comprising a manufacturing room configured according to safety standards to hold at least one hazardous material. The manufacturing room is configured for the treatment of the first material using the at least one hazardous material as a solvent. A holding room is not configured according to the safety standards and is separated from the manufacturing room by a wall common to the manufacturing room and the holding room. A vacuum oven is embedded in the wall, and has a rear portion in the manufacturing room and a front portion in the holding room. The front door of the oven is configured to be opened from the holding room for removing the first material from the inner cavity following removal of the at least one hazardous material from the first material and from the inner cavity and no electrical components of the vacuum oven extend into the manufacturing room.
US11118836B2
A reusable drywall air injector is fashioned from durable, rigid material. A pointed tip for piercing drywall extends from a hollow cylinder around which is disposed a helical blade. A hollow hex section is connected between the hollow cylinder and a hollow nipple, the interiors of the cylinder, the hex section and the nipple interconnecting to form a path for compressed air. Embodiments of the injector further fashion the interior of the hollow cylinder with notches adapted to receive a driver head. The injector is inserted into drywall by driving the injector by means of a motorized drill or screwdriver engaging the injector either by deep well socket around the hex section or, in embodiments, by appropriate driver head engaging the cooperating notches in the hollow cylinder. After use, the injector may be removed from drywall for reuse by the same means operated in reverse.
US11118834B2
Method and device for generating gaseous compressed nitrogen by the low-temperature separation of air in a distillation column system, having a pre-column, a high-pressure column and a low-pressure column. The feed air is compressed, purified in a purification apparatus and cooled. A first sub-flow of the cooled feed air is introduced in a predominantly liquid state into the distillation column system. A gaseous fraction from the pre-column in introduced into the liquefaction chamber of a pre-column head condenser with liquid formed therein fed as reflux into the pre-column. A first gaseous nitrogen product fraction is drawn from the high-pressure column, heated, and obtained as first gaseous compressed nitrogen product. At least a part of the second sub-flow is introduced into the evaporation chamber of the pre-column head condenser. A third sub-flow of the cooled feed air is expanded to perform work and subsequently introduced into the liquefaction chamber.
US11118831B2
A vacuum insulated structure includes a first panel and a second panel, wherein the second panel is operably coupled to the first panel to define an insulating space therebetween. An airway system is disposed within the insulating space and includes portions of porous tubing configured to draw air along lengths of the porous tubing from the insulating space during an evacuation procedure. A plurality of connectors interconnect the portions of porous tubing of the airway system to inner walls of the insulating space. The connectors may include support members that extend between the panels within the insulating space to support the vacuum insulated structure under vacuum pressure. Further, first and second panels can include rigidifying structural configurations to combat vacuum bowing during the evacuation procedure.
US11118826B2
Disclosed herein is a refrigerator. The refrigerator includes a main body including a storage compartment. The refrigerator also includes a door configured to open and close the storage compartment. The refrigerator further includes an ice-making compartment disposed in the storage compartment. The refrigerator also includes and a sealing member disposed at the door to apply a sealing force to the ice-making compartment when the door is closed.
US11118822B2
A detection system and method of detection directed towards the detection of refrigerant leaking from a refrigerant circuit in a heating, ventilation, air condition, and refrigeration (HVACR) system. The system including a refrigerant circuit utilizes a mixture of working fluid and an additive. The system also includes a detection device that can detect the additive when external to the refrigerant circuit. A method of detecting leaking refrigerant includes adding a detectable fluid to a refrigerant circuit.
US11118812B1
An automatically flushing water heater maintenance system may be provided, the system including a water heater and a water heater controller. The water heater may include an inlet, an outlet, and a flush outlet having a first control valve in flow communication therewith. The first control valve may be configured to control a flow of water and sediment through the flush outlet out of the water heater. The water heater controller may be configured to communicate with the first control valve by transmitting a first control signal to the first control valve, the first control signal configured to cause the first control valve to open or close as part of an automatic flushing process. As a result of the flushing, the useful life of the water heater may be extended, and/or water heater leakage alleviated. Insurance discounts may be provided based upon using the automatic water heater flushing functionality.
US11118807B2
This door assembly (29) comprises a frame (31), extending along a frame plane (P1) and comprising: at least one frame beam (35) defining a frame axis (X35) along the frame plane, the frame beam comprising a main body (39) elongated along the frame axis and having a substantially constant cross-section (S39) along said frame axis, the main body comprising a beveled portion (55) inclined relative to the frame plane; and a swing door (33), pivotably secured to the frame between an opened position and a closed position, said swing door comprising at least one edge beam (63) comprising a main body (139) elongated along an edge axis (X63) of the edge beam and having a substantially constant cross-section (S139) along said edge axis, the main body comprising a beveled portion (155) which is brought to rest against the beveled portion of the frame beam when the swing door is brought to the closed position, wherein the cross-section (S39) of the main body (39) of the frame beam (35) is identical to the cross-section (S139) of the main body (139) of the edge beam (63).
US11118805B2
An air-conditioning apparatus includes a plurality of devices including at least a compressor, and a controller which stores device information indicating the kinds of the devices. The controller reads out a control parameter and a control program for a device which is indicated by kind by the device information, from an external storage device which stores control parameters and control programs for the devices, and controls the device in accordance with the control program.
US11118800B2
A wicking evaporative humidifier in which cartridge that includes a pad is inserted directly into an air flow through the wall of a duct that distributes conditioned air throughout a structure. A portion of the cartridge may be inserted into a tray filled with water, which may use capillary forces to wick water through the cartridge to the area of the cartridge that is inserted through the duct and within the air flow. Air passing through duct and through and around the cartridge pad evaporates the moisture wicked into the pad and distributes the moisture throughout the structure.
US11118796B2
An outdoor unit for an air conditioner includes: a casing including a bottom plate that defines a bottom surface of the casing; a heat exchanger disposed in the casing; and an installation foot that supports the bottom plate from below. The installation foot includes: a support portion that supports from below an end portion of the bottom plate, a wall portion disposed on an outer side of the end portion of the bottom plate and that extends upward from the support portion, and a mount portion that extends from an upper end of the wall portion. The heat exchanger is mounted on the mount portion. The mount portion has a hole that extends through the mount portion in a height direction of the outdoor unit.
US11118795B2
A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) packaged unit includes a first refrigerant circuit component configured to change a temperature or a pressure of a refrigerant flowing through the first refrigerant circuit component and a second refrigerant circuit component configured to change a temperature or a pressure of the refrigerant flowing through the second refrigerant circuit component. The first and the second refrigerant circuit components are within a common refrigerant circuit that is disposed within a common support structure. The HVAC packaged unit also includes an interconnection conduit having a length formed from aluminum, a first end segment coupled to a first end of the length, and a second end segment coupled to a second end of the length. The first end segment and the second end segment are each formed from copper, and the interconnection conduit extends between the first refrigerant circuit component and the second refrigerant circuit component.
US11118786B2
Provided is a cooking apparatus and a touch sensor assembly of the cooking apparatus, including an outer cover formed of a metal material and forming an exterior of the cooking apparatus; and a touch module mounted on a rear side of the outer cover to be contacted therewith and including a plurality of touch sensors, wherein a touch unit is formed in an opening of a rear side of the outer cover that contacts to the touch sensor and is elastically deformed with ease when touched by a user to transfer the pressure to the touch sensor.
US11118783B2
A candle management device automatically extinguishes a burning candle upon expiration of a user selected time period. The device shields the candle from foreign objects and reduces the risk of undesired combustion. The doors and actuation mechanism used to isolate the candle from the atmosphere and extinguish the candle are contained within the candle management device and are kept from operational interference by outside objects.
US11118777B2
The present disclosure discloses a lighting lamp, and the lighting lamp includes an interface base; a radiator, a lower end of the radiator being connected to the interface base; a side cover, disposed on a side of the radiator and located on an outer periphery of the radiator; a top cover, disposed on an upper end of the radiator; and a light source assembly, including a side light source installed between the radiator and the side cover and a top light source installed between the radiator and the top cover.
US11118769B1
A wall-mounted lighting fixture includes a mounting plate, a canopy and an aiming assembly. The canopy is secured to a mounting plate mounted to a wall. The aiming assembly includes a disk, a tilting assembly, and a light emitting assembly. The canopy defines a circular recess which the disk is positioned flush within. The tilting assembly is coupled to the disk and the light emitting assembly, and includes a pivot joint, for example a hinge, allowing the light emitting assembly to tilt relative to the disk. The disk is rotatably coupled to the canopy allowing the light emitting assembly to rotate relative to the canopy, and therefore the wall. The tilting and rotation allow emitted light from the light emitting assembly to be aimed in two degrees of freedom.
US11118767B1
A holder for setting a bulb in a specified orientation is provided. The holder includes a supporting post, a base including a latch for receiving the supporting post, a flexible portion, a fastener attached to the flexible portion, and a first hinge positioned between the base and the flexible portion. The flexible portion is configured to pivot at the first hinge between (i) a first position where the flexible portion and the base are coplanar and (ii) a second position where the flexible portion and the base are not coplanar and the supporting post is received in the latch.
US11118764B2
A light emitting apparatus includes a light source, a unitary formed heatsink with a plurality of heat dissipating fins, and a walled enclosure that retains a light source and comprises an opening that terminates at a surface substantially perpendicular to the walled enclosure. The light source is coupled to one of the enclosure wall/s and the surface, the opposite side of the heat sink retaining the light source is a side of the apparatus that is mechanically and/or electromechanically coupled to a support structure, at least one adjacent side of the walled enclosure has a plurality of heat dissipating fins, unitarily formed with the heat sink, that extend outwardly beyond the wall's perimeter, at least one fin extends upwardly beyond the light source toward the illuminated space, and at least one through openings enable the flow of free air across at least two fins.
US11118762B1
The present disclosure provides a lamp. The lamp includes a housing with an inner cavity and a lamp base. At least a portion of the lamp base is disposed in the inner cavity. The housing includes a plurality of supporting frames. The supporting frames are movably connected end by end to enclose the inner cavity. Two adjacent supporting frames are detachably connected with each other.
US11118758B1
A linear luminaire is disclosed. The linear luminaire includes a channel, in which a strip of linear lighting is disclosed. The strip of linear lighting may have an individual optic positioned over each LED light engine. A set of louvers is provided. The set of louvers is arranged such that an individual louver is positioned over each one of the LED light engines. The individual louvers are generally cylindrical in shape. The individual louvers are connected by a web or platform that carries engaging structure allowing the set of louvers to snap or slide into the channel. The channel is covered with a channel cover, which has edges that extend out over at least a portion of the channel sidewalls, making it more difficult for dust and other foreign matter to enter the channel. The channel cover may be transparent.
US11118752B2
A flexible cover for a linear lighting channel is described, as are enclosures and luminaires using this kind of flexible cover. The flexible cover has sufficient flexibility to be bent or coiled to a bend radius of 6 inches (15.2 cm) or smaller, and can thus be coiled for shipping and uncoiled for installation. Typically, the cover is made of a polymer that is at least translucent. Covers may be made in various shapes, including lens and prism shapes, and channels may be made with sidewalls that make complementary shapes in order to engage with and retain the covers.
US11118751B2
The present disclosure relates to a lighting device comprising light-emitting elements such as light-emitting diodes arranged on a substrate. The object to provide a lighting device comprising multiple light-emitting elements and light guides, wherein the thermal sensitivity of the lighting device is reduced in a particularly simple manner, is solved in that the lighting device comprises: a lens with a light entry side and a light exit side; light guides, each light guide being arranged in optical contact to at least one of the light-emitting elements and being configured to guide light emitted by the at least one of the light-emitting elements towards the light entry side of the lens; and a transparent stabilizer element being arranged in mechanical contact to the light exit side of the lens, wherein the transparent stabilizer element is configured to define the shape of the light exit side of the lens at least in regions. The invention further refers to a method for producing a lighting device.
US11118750B2
Reliability of an in-vehicle headlight is improved by changing a light distribution pattern without using any mechanical configuration. The in-vehicle headlight includes a laser light source 1, a spatial light modulator 3, a spatial-light-modulator controller, and a projection lens 5. The laser light source 1 emits a laser light beam 10. The spatial light modulator 3 modulates a phase distribution of the laser light beam 10 emitted by the laser light source 1. The spatial-light-modulator controller is provided in a headlight controller 36, and controls the spatial light modulator 3. The spatial-light-modulator controller controls the spatial light modulator 3 so as to modulate the phase distribution of the laser light beam 10, and changes the light distribution pattern projected from the projection lens 5.
US11118743B2
An electrodeless surface-mounted LED string light, a method and an apparatus for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The electrodeless surface-mounted LED string light includes: a first wire and a second wire; a plurality of LED units, wherein each LED units includes two surface-mounted LEDs, and luminous surfaces of the two surface-mounted LEDs are opposite to each other, and the luminous surfaces of the two surface-mounted LEDs are parallel to an axial direction of the first and second wires; and a plurality of encapsulants respectively encapsulating the two surface-mounted LEDs of the plurality of LED units therein.
US11118715B2
A method for isolating and performing work on a segment of a pipe includes delivering an isolation tool to a target location. A first seal member is actuated to form an annular seal around an outer surface of the isolation tool. A second ring body is moved away from a first ring body, elongating an isolation sheet that extends between the first ring body and the second ring body. The isolation sheet defines an annular work space between the outer diameter of the isolation sheet and the inner diameter of the pipe. A second seal member is actuated to form an annular seal around the outer surface of the isolation tool. A pressure within the annular work space is reduced by removing fluids within the annular work space with an ejector device. Work is performed within the annular work space with a tool assembly.
US11118706B2
A collar for use on a water filtration tank adapter. The collar is formed as a ring adapted to thread onto the tank connection end of the adapter and abut the nut portion between the tank connection end and the pipe end of adapter. An o-ring, square in cross-section, is disposed on a top surface of the collar, offset medially towards the center. This top o-ring is adapted to abut the nut portion of the adapter. Another o-ring, square in cross-section, is disposed on the bottom surface, offset medially away from the center. This bottom o-ring is adapted to abut the tank head upon use. Accordingly, a water-tight seal is formed at the tank connection end and tank head, the collar functioning as both a positive stop and as a substitute for pipe tape.
US11118702B2
A valve includes an electrodynamic actuator which has a magnet arrangement for generating a magnetic field and a control element movable relative to the magnet arrangement. The control element includes an energizable coil which is arranged in the magnetic field and is firmly coupled to a coil carrier. The control element is movable between at least two defined positions. There are provided permanent-magnetically interacting holding force which retain the control element in at least one of the defined positions, even when the coil is currentless.
US11118691B2
A fluid regulator includes a housing that includes a flow path extending from an inlet to an outlet. A poppet valve is disposed within the flow path and that selectively allows a flow of fluid from the inlet to the outlet. A regulating interface adjusts a spring tension that is exerted toward the poppet valve. The regulating interface defines a boundary of the flow path and the spring tension defines a regulated flow of fluid through the flow path from the inlet to the outlet. A fluid purge mechanism is positioned within the regulating interface. The fluid purge mechanism adjusts the boundary of the flow path and manipulates the poppet valve to a maximum operating position to define a purging flow of the fluid from the inlet to the outlet.
US11118689B2
A valve comprising a first chamber (111) and a second chamber (112), wherein a movable member (204) is arranged to selectably bring the first and second chambers into and out of fluid communication with one another, the movable member arranged such that when in an open position wherein the first and second chambers are in fluid communication, gas at a first pressure in the first chamber provides a closing force to a first surface area (222) of the movable member to overcome an opening force provided by gas at a second pressure in the second chamber on a second surface area (223) of the movable member whereby the movable member moves to a closed position to isolate the first and second chambers, and further arranged wherein as the movable member moves to the closed position, the second surface area of the movable member exposed within the second chamber is reduced thus reducing the opening force provided by the gas at the second pressure and providing a bias towards the closed position.
US11118686B2
The present invention provides an irrigation boot assembly for securing span pipes. According to a preferred embodiment, an irrigation boot assembly of the present invention may preferably include a center body portion formed as a laterally extending, hollow tube having a first side opening and a second side opening for receiving and securing connected span pipes. According to a further preferred embodiment, the irrigation boot assembly of the present invention preferably further includes securing straps extending around the first and second side openings. According to a further preferred embodiment, the center body portion of the present invention preferably further includes a plurality of bellows which each include a ridge portion extending above the surface of the center body portion.
US11118683B2
A shield device prevents materials from contacting a seal for a shaft extending outwardly from a housing and displacing a mounted component. The shield device includes an annular disk having opposing first and second radial surfaces and outer and inner circumferential edges, the inner edge defining a bore for receiving the shaft. The disk is coupleable with the shaft so as to be disposed between the component and the housing and is spaced axially above the seal such that the first radial surface faces the seal. The disk has an outside diameter greater than the seal outside diameter and overlaps the seal with the disk outer edge being spaced radially outwardly from the seal to provide a barrier about the seal. Preferably, an annular projection extends axially outwardly from the first, lower radial surface and is disposeable within a circular groove of the housing that extends about the seal.
US11118682B2
A seal arrangement includes first and second machine parts rotationally movable and forming a sealing gap. A radial shaft seal ring seals a high pressure side against a low pressure side. A base section held on a sealing holding structure of the first machine part has a sealing head contacting the sealing surface of the second machine part. The sealing surface has a high and low pressure first sealing surface sections. The first sealing surface section extends away from the sealing holding structure forming an acute angle. The sealing head contacts the first sealing section when an operating pressure is applied to the high pressure side, said operating pressure being smaller than a specified limit operating pressure value. The second sealing surface section forms an axial stop for the sealing head when an operating pressure is applied to the high pressure side being at least the limit operating pressure value.
US11118680B1
A hydrostatic drive includes a transmission having a pump and motor disposed on a center section, and a charge pump to provide fluid to a charge gallery. A power take off (PTO) driven by a prime mover includes a clutch assembly, solenoid valve, and PTO drive member driven by a prime mover input. When the solenoid valve is in a first position, fluid flows from the charge gallery to the clutch to connect the input with the PTO drive member, and when the solenoid valve is in a second position, fluid flows from the PTO mechanism to the sump to disengage the PTO drive member from the input. A filter may be disposed on a land on the center section and seated in a filter pocket in the housing. The filter engages with a bottom surface of the filter pocket to maintain a seal against the land.
US11118678B2
This vehicle control device 10 is provided with: a current gear stage selection unit 13 which selects a current gear stage, which is the gear stage of the vehicle in the present travel state; a travel segment determination unit 15 which determines the next travel segment forwards in the direction of travel of the vehicle V; and a shift control unit 17 which, in the case that the current gear stage selection unit 13 has newly selected a target gear stage lower than the current gear stage during travel of the vehicle V in the current gear stage in the current travel segment, if the next travel segment can be traveled in the current gear stage and the amount the vehicle V will lose speed after traveling the current travel segment is less than or equal to a prescribed threshold value, controls shifting of the gear stage such that downshifting from the current gear stage to the target gear stage is suppressed and the current gear stage is maintained. Even in a state in which downshifting is suppressed, if the state of the vehicle the satisfies a prescribed condition, then the shift control unit 17 controls shifting of the gear stage so as to downshift to the target gear stage without suppression of downshifting.
US11118677B2
A transmission control device is used in an automatic transmission device including a transmission gear having friction coupling portions that are changed between a coupled state and an uncoupled state, and configuring transmission stages corresponding to a combination of the coupled state and the uncoupled state, and a hydraulic control device. The device includes: a determination unit determining a change in the transmission stage; and an output unit setting a target value of the hydraulic pressure, and outputting the target value to the hydraulic control device. In a case where one transmission stage is changed to another, the output unit increases the target value to a first value for a first friction coupling portion in the uncoupled state in the one transmission stage, thereafter, to a second value smaller than the first value and maintaining the uncoupled state, and thereafter, to a third value greater than the second value.
US11118675B2
A method for controlling gear shifting, including: acquiring a current gear-shifting parameter of the vehicle (101); according to the current gear-shifting parameter and a preset target rotational speed, determining a gear-shifting inputted rotational speed (102); and when a rotational speed of the vehicle reaches the gear-shifting inputted rotational speed, controlling a shifting fork to start up a gear-shifting operation (103). The method for controlling gear shifting presets the target rotational speed of the gears, and, according to the current gear-shifting parameter of the vehicle that is acquired in real time and the preset target rotational speed, inversely calculates the gear-shifting inputted rotational speed, whereby the gear-shifting inputted rotational speed is an accurate gear-shifting inputted rotational speed that matches with the current condition of the vehicle. When the rotational speed of the vehicle reaches the gear-shifting inputted rotational speed, the shifting fork is controlled to start up a gear-shifting operation, which can realize the accurate gear shifting of the vehicle, which greatly improves the stability of the vehicle when a dual-clutch automatic transmission is performing gear shifting.
US11118660B1
A transmission arrangement for an electric vehicle. The transmission arrangement includes a differential configured to connect a first electric machine to a first and second wheel via a respective first and second driveshaft. The transmission further includes a coupled epicyclic gear configured to connect a second electric machine to the first drive shaft via the coupled epicyclic gear. The transmission arrangement includes a coupled epicyclic gear using a single planet gear which meshes with two sun gears of different size, which can be compared to instead using a stepped planet gear including two planet gear portions of different size.
US11118658B1
There is described an epicyclic gear system and method of a flow control actuator for providing selectable torque and speed ranges. The epicyclic gear system comprises an input shaft, a gear engagement system, and an output shaft. The input shaft is configured to receive an input rotational motion. The gear engagement system is configured to receive a gear ratio command from a clutch mechanism and restrict movement of one or more gears of multiple planetary gears in response to the gear ratio command. The output shaft is configured to provide an output rotational motion based on the input rotational motion at the input shaft. The output rotational motion is different from the input rotational motion in response to restricting movement of one or more gears of the planetary gears.
US11118650B2
A mount to couple a transmission to a vehicle body includes a first body with at least one first body connector, and a second body with at least one coupler connected to the first body and which includes a damping material arranged to damp vibrations between the first body and second body. A retainer is carried by the first body and has a portion that overlaps part of the second body to prevent separation of the second body from the first body in a first state of the retainer. The retainer is broken or removed from the first body in a second state to permit separation of the second body from the first body, and the retainer breaks or is removed from the first body under a force less than the force needed to break or remove the at least one first body connector from the vehicle body.
US11118644B2
The present invention discloses a vibration-damping and noise-reducing brake disc, where the vibration-damping and noise-reducing brake disc includes an intermediate disc having an outer side and a braking ring which surrounds the outer side of the intermediate disc. Two opposite surfaces of the braking ring are frictional surfaces provided with at least one laser scanning strip, where the laser scanning strip is obtained or formed by laser quenching and hardening treatments of the two frictional surfaces by a laser machine, for changing the physical and mechanical properties of the braking ring, such as the surface and inside hardness, residual stress distribution on the frictional surfaces, and the inside micro-structures of the braking ring, so as to suppress the generation of frictional vibration and noise during braking operations. The vibration-damping and noise-reducing brake disc of the present invention has stable coefficients of friction in braking operations, therefore, the occurrence of frictional noise and vibrations of the brake disc can be reduced, and the operational performance of the vehicle with such brake discs can be improved.
US11118642B2
A brake caliper and hub bracket assembly for a disc brake of a vehicle, comprising at least one caliper and at least one hub bracket, the brake caliper comprising a caliper body comprising a first elongated element, or vehicle side elongated element, suitable for directly or indirectly facing said first braking surface of the brake disc by at least a first brake pad, and a second elongated element, or wheel side elongated element, opposed to the vehicle side elongated element and suitable for directly or indirectly facing said second braking surface of the brake disc by at least a second brake pad. The vehicle side elongated element comprises at least a first thrust means seat suitable for receiving a piston for exerting a thrust action on the at least first brake pad. The wheel side elongated element comprises at least a second thrust means seat suitable for receiving a piston for exerting a thrust action on the at least second brake pad. The caliper body comprises at least one side caliper bridge suitable for straddling the brake disc, the caliper side bridge connecting the vehicle side elongated element and the wheel side elongated element. The hub bracket comprises a hub bracket body connected to at least one portion of the caliper body, the hub bracket body comprising at least one coupling surface suitable for coupling to at least one bearing for supporting a wheel hub connectable to the brake disc and to a wheel of the vehicle.
US11118638B2
A reverse input lock clutch has a fitting portion of a spring stopper rotatably fitted in a cylindrical dent formed by being surrounded by an inner diameter portion on an end surface of an output member on a side opposite to a fixed member. A locking portion rotates with the fitting portion while having one end of a first elastic member locked by a holder groove. Adjustment of the rotation position of the lock portion with respect to the output member is made by rotating the fitting portion within a range of a groove length of an adjustment groove with respect to the output member and anchoring an adjustment pin at a desired rotation position to the adjustment pin fixing portion so as to fix the fitting portion on the output member.
US11118637B2
A hydrodynamic clutch having an input side and an output side, the rotational motions of which are coupled to one another with a hydraulic fluid. A method for determining the degree of filling of the hydrodynamic clutch with fluid including steps of periodically sensing a fluid temperature of the hydraulic fluid, determining the thermal output supplied to the clutch on the basis of the temperature, determining a lambda value on the basis of the thermal output and determining the degree of filling on the basis of the lambda value.
US11118623B2
Disclosed herein is a rack bush for vehicle steering apparatus, which includes a bush body having an outer peripheral surface that is in contact with an inner surface of a rack housing and an inner peripheral surface that is in contact with a rack bar, the bush body being configured to guide longitudinal movement of the rack bar, the bush body including a large diameter portion and a small diameter portion, a plurality of slits arranged on the bush body in a circumferential direction thereof, and a damper mounted to the bush body and configured to absorb an impact occurring between the rack bar and the bush body.
US11118619B2
A connection assembly with at least one receiving module for receiving a securing element. The at least one receiving module has a chamber for receiving the respective securing element, the chamber being delimited by an inner wall, and has a first opening as well as a second opening. The two openings delimit a passage channel within the chamber, and the inner wall has at least one latching module to which the securing element is to be latched within the chamber at least temporarily after guiding the securing element along a longitudinal direction of the passage channel into the chamber through the first opening. The latched securing element is to be received completely within the chamber.
US11118617B1
An assembly includes an elongated channel member, a clip and a leg. The clip includes a hook proximate the first end of the clip, a fastener proximate the second end of the clip, and a pivot protrusion disposed between the first and second ends of the clip. The clip is attached to the first end of the elongated channel member. The leg is oriented at a first angle to the elongated channel member and adjacent the first end of the elongated channel member. The leg includes an opening. The hook of the clip is configured for insertion into the opening of the leg. Using the fastener to move the second end of the clip toward a surface of the elongated channel member causes the hook of the clip to rotate about the pivot protrusion, thereby engaging a surface of the leg. A method is described for assembling a structure.
US11118616B2
Disclosed is a vibration isolator for use with a turnlock fastener. The isolator includes a body portion with a generally cylindrical shape and defining a through opening along a central axis. A flange portion is connected to and extends radially outward from the bottom end portion of the body portion such that the body portion extends upward from the flange portion. In some embodiments the isolator is part of an assembly that also includes an annular body defining a central opening, such as a flat or frustoconical annulus. Components of the vibration isolator can be made of an elastomeric material having a durometer of at least 40 A. A method of installing a turnlock fastener is also disclosed.
US11118605B1
An exemplary method generally includes charging hydraulic fluid into or out of a cavity of an accumulator at a controlled flowrate, detecting movement of a machine component from a first position toward a second position, determining an idle time spanning from a start of the charging to detection of the movement of the machine component, and determining a pre-charge of the accumulator based upon the idle time and a flowrate value of the controlled flowrate.
US11118599B2
A fan includes an impeller including a boss serving as a center of rotation and a plurality of blades provided on an outer circumferential surface of the boss, and a structure member installed on an upstream side of the impeller in an airflow direction. The plurality of blades each have a plurality of recesses disposed only on a side of a suction surface of a leading edge. The plurality of recesses each have a rectangular shape having two longitudinal sides. Consequently, it is possible to reduce fluctuations of lift on the plurality of blades and thereby reduce discrete frequency noise.
US11118593B2
A compressor system includes an inlet in which fluid flows, an inlet temperature measuring part configured to measure an inlet temperature (T_in) of the fluid at the inlet, an inlet guide vane (IGV) configured to change opening degree (IGV_position) to control a flow rate of the fluid through the inlet, a compressor to compress the fluid passing through the inlet guide vane, a motor connected to the compressor to drive the compressor, and configured to change rotating speed, a discharge pressure measuring part to measure a discharge pressure (P_disch) of the fluid passed the compressor, an outlet to discharge the compressed fluid, and a check valve installed at the outlet to prevent backflow of the fluid.
US11118588B2
A pump system includes dual centrifugal pumps mounted on a fabricated skid. Both pumps are belt driven by one motor. The pumps are piped with three two-way valves and crossover piping configured such that the pumps can be operated in either series or parallel flow using a single inlet and outlet for the system.
US11118585B2
The present disclosure is directed to a screw compressor system having a compressor housing with a pair of screw rotors rotatably supported within a compression chamber. Lubricant is injected into a compression chamber at a first volume ratio and at a second volume ratio greater than the first volume ratio to increase the sealing and lubrication between the screw rotors and rotor bores in the compressor housing as well as to increase heat transfer from a compressed working fluid in the compression chamber.
US11118583B2
The present invention makes a lap clearance between a fixed scroll and an turning scroll as small as possible to suppress leakage of compressed fluid from a compression chamber in a compression operation, thereby improving a compression efficiency. Provided is a scroll-type fluid machine characterized by comprising: a fixed scroll having a scroll lap portion; and an orbiting scroll that is provided to face the fixed scroll and that has a scroll lap portion turning so as to form a plurality of compression chambers in a clearance relative to the lap portion of the fixed scroll, wherein the lap portion of at least one of the fixed scroll and the turning scroll is provided with, in a predetermined region, a recessed portion on one lateral surface thereof and a protruding portion on the other lateral surface thereof.
US11118576B2
A thermal actuator unit of the present invention includes a first member, a second member, an elastic part which is disposed between the first member and the second member, and a thermal deformation part which is disposed on a side of the first member opposite to a side with the second member and has a shape-memory alloy to be deformed to the side with the second member due to heat.
US11118574B2
A method is provided for installing a jointed rotor blade of a wind turbine. A second section is positioned in a six o'clock position. At least one lifting line is routed through the second section radially inward of an inner surface of the section. A first end of the lifting line is coupled to a first section and a second end of the lifting line is coupled to a power source positioned within at least one of a or a nacelle of the wind turbine. The first section of the jointed rotor blade is lifted toward the second section by driving the lifting line via the power source. The first section and the second section are lined gather at a chordwise joint and coupled at the chordwise joint.
US11118570B2
The present invention relates to a support structure for wind-driven power generators comprising a tubular tower (1) with multiple superposed, post-tensioned annular sections (20) from the crown to the foundation, each being formed by at least two pieces of prefabricated concrete wall (10) defining between them vertical joints (12), each wall piece (10) having two transverse joint faces (13) and two vertical joint faces (14); wherein in the vertical joints (12), the vertical joint faces are arranged facing one another and lack structural connectors between them for the transmission of structural stresses, allowing for an independent structural behavior of the mentioned wall pieces (10), the height of the wall pieces (10) being less than twice their width.
US11118565B2
In a rotating machine having a fluidic rotor, the rotor comprises at least one blade mounted on an arm rotating about a rotor shaft forming a main axis of the rotor, the rotor being kept by a supporting structure in an orientation such that said axis is substantially perpendicular to the direction of flow of the fluid, the blade being mounted so as to pivot about an axis of rotation of the blade parallel to the main axis. The machine comprises means for generating a relative oscillation movement of the blade with respect to the arm at the axis of rotation of the blade, in order in this way to vary the inclination of the blade during the rotation of the rotor. Said means comprise, at the arm end, a mechanism comprising a first rotating element (A; B) known as the drive element and a second rotating element (B; A) known as the driven element, the elements being mounted on mutually parallel axes of rotation and separated by an inter-axis distance, the orientation of the drive element being controlled depending on the orientation of the rotor shaft while the orientation of the driven element determines the orientation of the blade, one of the rotating elements comprising a finger (D) spaced apart from its axis of rotation and the other rotating element comprising a groove (C) which receives the finger and in which the finger can slide. Application notably to wind turbines, to marine turbines and to nautical and aircraft propellers.
US11118554B2
An internal combustion engine according to the present disclosure has an ignition coil and an injector that share a power source, and has a controller that controls energization to the ignition coil and energization to the injector. The controller executes setting processing and correction processing. In the setting processing, the controller sets an energization period of the ignition coil in accordance with an operating condition of the internal combustion engine. In the correction processing, when the energization period of the ignition coil overlaps with an energization period of the injector, the controller corrects the energization period of the ignition coil so as to reduce an overlap period between the energization period of the ignition coil and the energization period of the injector.
US11118550B2
A roller tappet for a high-pressure fuel pump or for a valve drive of an internal combustion engine is provided. The tappet can be guided in a direction of a longitudinal axis thereof in a housing receptacle and can be driven displaceably by a cam shaft of the internal combustion engine. The tappet includes a tappet body which has a guide cylinder, and a cup-shaped sleeve supported axially and radially on the guide cylinder. The sleeve includes a bearing surface for the pump piston or a valve drive element, and the guide cylinder includes a rotatable roller mounted on support flanks, by means of which roller the roller tappet can be supported on the internal combustion engine camshaft. The sleeve has, at its end region facing away from the bearing surface, a ring-shaped shoulder for radial support and an end ring for axial support on the guide cylinder.
US11118547B1
An intake system of an engine is provided. The intake system may include an intake manifold coupled to a first throttle body and a second throttle body, where the intake manifold is formed from an upper shell and a lower shell. The intake system further includes a vacuum port located in the intake manifold and in an air-flow path downstream of the first throttle body and the second throttle body and upstream of a plurality of intake runners of the intake manifold, the vacuum port including a spigot extending through the upper shell of the intake manifold, and a vacuum passage coupling the vacuum port to a vehicle subsystem.
US11118546B2
An intake passage includes: a main intake passage provided with a throttle valve and extending from one side toward the other side along a cylinder bank; and a bypass passage provided with an EGR valve and connected to a part of the main intake passage located toward the other side with respect to the throttle valve. The bypass passage extends from a branch of the main intake passage toward the one side and then turns back and extends toward the other side. The EGR valve is located in a part of the bypass passage extending toward the other side and overlapping with a part extending from the branch to the one side.
US11118540B2
A tank vent tube for a deaerator tank system, comprising a tube body. The tube body can define a vent channel. The tube can include a relief hole defined through the tube body. The tube can include a venturi structure disposed in the vent channel of the tube body at least partially over the relief hole. The venturi structure can be configured to reduce pressure over the relief hole as a function of flow in the vent channel.
US11118534B2
An engine includes an output shaft, a cylinder head, a cylinder block, and a plurality of head bolts. The cylinder block includes three or more cylinder parts, a plurality of connecting portions, a plurality of output shaft supporting parts, and a plurality of head bolt holes. A side wall face of at least one cylinder part includes a first rib. The first rib diagonally extends from the connecting portion toward a head bolt hole base.
US11118533B1
A piston for an internal combustion engine includes a piston having a bowl surface forming a combustion bowl, a rim surface forming an annular rim, and a gallery surface exposed to a backside cooling gallery of the piston. The bowl surface forms a bowl profile varied circumferentially around a piston center axis, and the gallery surface forms a gallery profile that is varied circumferentially around the piston center axis and is congruous with the bowl profile. The gallery surface is concave to the combustion bowl, convex to the backside cooling gallery, and forms no edges exposed within the backside cooling gallery. A wall formed between the combustion bowl and the backside cooling gallery has a heat-dissipation wall thickness defined by the varied bowl profile and the varied gallery profile.
US11118529B2
A drive system for driving a motor vehicle has an internal combustion engine and an operating mode coordination device for determining and controlling the operating mode of the internal combustion engine. The drive system has a function coordination device for coordinating secondary functions of the drive system, the function coordination device being designed for generating, based on the coordination of the secondary functions, an operating mode request for the operating mode coordination device for controlling the operating mode of the internal combustion engine, and transmitting it to the operating mode coordination device. The invention further relates to a motor vehicle having a drive system, and a method for operating a drive system of a motor vehicle.
US11118527B2
A control unit controls a combustion state of an internal combustion engine in accordance with a drive torque requested by a driver. The control unit performs a switching control to switch at least a combustion state between lean-burn combustion and stoichiometric combustion. A monitor unit performs torque monitoring to determine abnormality of a request torque, which is requested to the internal combustion engine, and a generated torque of the internal combustion engine based on the request torque and an estimation torque, which is an estimation value of an actual torque of the internal combustion engine. A combustion state determining unit determines whether the combustion state in the control unit is the lean-burn combustion or the stoichiometric combustion. A computing unit computes the estimation torque in accordance with the combustion state determined by the combustion state determining unit.
US11118526B2
The disclosure provides a combustion abnormality detecting device, a combustion abnormality detecting method, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, a misfire detection accuracy is increased by increasing a piezoelectric detection accuracy. A charge amplifier (210) outputting a voltage signal corresponding to a charge generated by a piezoelectric element (35) in response to a received pressure, a drift component extracting part (230) extracting a drift component of the piezoelectric element (35), a drift correcting part (250) generating a correction signal for removing the drift component based on the extracted drift component and feeding back the correction signal to an input side of the charge amplifier (210), and a misfire detecting part (400) performing misfire detection based on the correction signal are included.
US11118525B2
A fuel injection control device includes an injection valve drive circuit that drives a plurality of injection valves, a booster circuit that generates a boosted voltage supplied to the injection valve drive circuit; and a fuel pump drive circuit that drives a fuel pump for compressing fuel of an internal combustion engine. The fuel pump drive circuit is configured to, when driving the fuel pump, regenerate energy into the booster circuit. The injection valve drive circuit is configured to, during a non-drive period of the injection valves or during a period in which the fuel pump is intermittently driven continuously, perform a non-valve opening energization on at least one of the plurality of injection valves.
US11118523B2
Provided is a fuel injection device and a control unit therefor which enable reliable ignition even in a case where fuel pressure is low immediately after starting an engine. In the control unit for controlling an injector injecting fuel into an internal combustion engine, a plurality of injectors is provided in the internal combustion engine, a static flow rate of a first injector is configured to be smaller than a static flow rate of a second injector. In a case where a fuel pressure of fuel supplied by a pressurizing unit is lower than a set value set lower than a fuel pressure in warming up, an injection ratio of the first injector is controlled to increase according to a difference between a fuel pressure of fuel from the pressurizing unit and a fuel pressure in warming up.
US11118508B2
Provided is a variable capacity turbocharger, including: a drive ring including a main body portion having an annular shape; a first projection portion and a second projection portion, which are formed on the main body portion, and are arranged apart from one another in a circumferential direction of the main body portion so as to sandwich a link plate to which a nozzle vane is mounted; and a cutout portion, which is formed in a portion of the main body portion between the first projection portion and the second projection portion.
US11118504B2
An expanded torque system of an internal combustion engine includes a cylinder having an upper piston bore, a lower piston bore and a lower action chamber. An upper piston is connected to the upper link rod and reciprocally moves in the upper piston bore. A linkage unit has a link block coupled to the upper link rod. A lower piston moves in the lower piston bore and is connected to the link block. A lower link rod is disposed at the lower action chamber and is pivotally coupled between the linkage unit and a lower link rod pivoting handle. A crank shaft is disposed at the lower action chamber and has a main shaft and the lower link rod pivoting handle eccentrically connected to the main shaft. An oil ring with oil outlets is disposed at the top of the lower action chamber and communicates with a main oil duct.
US11118500B2
The invention relates to a turbine comprising a turbine housing defining a volute having a substantially annular outlet opening, a turbine wheel, and an adjusting ring, rotatable about the turbine axis, which is arranged in the turbine housing radially between the volute and the turbine wheel, wherein the adjusting ring comprises a flow channel between a radially outer first peripheral opening and a radially inner second peripheral opening, and wherein the outlet opening is fluidically coupled to the turbine wheel by the flow channel. The outlet opening and the first peripheral opening have a path, variable in the axial direction, so that during a rotation of the adjusting ring, the outlet opening and the first peripheral opening are adjusted relative to each other in such a way that an overflow cross section between the outlet opening and the first peripheral opening is variably changeable.
US11118496B2
A single-piece tubular shell for an exhaust device includes a first peripheral wall portion, a second peripheral wall portion, and a third peripheral wall portion. The first peripheral wall portion at least partially defines a first interior region having a first longitudinal axis extending therethrough. The second peripheral wall portion at least partially defines a second interior region having a second longitudinal axis extending therethrough. The second longitudinal axis is non-coaxially aligned with the first longitudinal axis. The third peripheral wall portion extends between and connects the first peripheral wall portion and the second peripheral wall portion such that the first interior region and the second interior region are in fluid communication. The first peripheral wall portion, the second peripheral wall portion, and the third peripheral wall portion are integrally formed and define an uninterrupted, smooth shell inner surface.
US11118487B1
A camshaft phaser is provided that includes a stator, a rotor having a plurality of vanes that form fluid chambers with the stator, and a timing wheel attached to the rotor. The rotor includes an axial fastening interface with an annular groove for receiving an annular protrusion of the timing wheel.
US11118469B2
An aspect of the present disclosure is directed to a seal assembly. The seal assembly includes a fluid bearing wall including a bearing face defining a fluid opening through the fluid bearing wall. The seal assembly further includes a tilt member is extended from and attached to the fluid bearing wall. The tilt member defines a fluid passage therethrough in fluid communication with the fluid opening at the bearing face of the fluid bearing wall. The seal assembly still further includes a seal body surrounding the tilt member. A cavity is defined between the tilt member and the seal body. The seal assembly further includes a spring member coupled to the seal body and the fluid bearing wall. A passage is defined between the fluid bearing wall and the seal body.
US11118450B2
The invention discloses a method for simulating the discontinuity of the hydraulic fracture wall in fractured reservoirs, comprising the following steps: establish a physical model of the natural fracture; establish a hydraulic fracture propagation calculation equation; establish a natural fracture failure model, calculate the natural fracture aperture, and then calculate the natural fracture permeability, and finally convert the natural fracture permeability into the permeability of the porous medium; couple the hydraulic fracture propagation calculation equation with the permeability of the porous medium through the fracture propagation criterion and the fluid loss to obtain a pore elastic model of the coupled natural fracture considering the influence of the natural fracture; work out the stress and displacement distribution of the hydraulic fracture wall with the pore elastic model of the coupled natural fracture, and analyze the offset and discontinuity of the hydraulic fracture wall according to the displacement.
US11118443B2
Methods and systems for producing hydrocarbons in a subterranean well with a completion system include landing an isolation valve completion within the subterranean well. The isolation valve completion is landed within an observation wellbore and downhole of a junction with a production wellbore. The isolation valve completion includes an isolation valve. A production tubing is delivered into the subterranean well. The production tubing has a downhole end located uphole of the junction with the production wellbore. An annulus defined between an outer diameter surface of the production tubing and an inner diameter surface of the subterranean well is sealed with a production packer that circumscribes the production tubing.
US11118439B2
A process directed toward enhanced oil recovery in an oil-containing formation, the process comprising the steps of removing a water/oil emulsion from an oil-water separator, wherein the water/oil emulsion comprises a stable emulsion, wherein a temperature of the water/oil emulsion is less than 120 deg C., wherein a pressure of the water/oil emulsion is greater than the saturation pressure at the temperature of the water/oil emulsion, wherein the water/oil emulsion comprises an alkali content, and introducing the water/oil emulsion into the oil-containing formation as an enhanced oil recovery stream, wherein the enhanced oil recovery stream is used in enhanced oil recovery.
US11118432B2
An apparatus for controlling fluid flow into a well includes an outer tubular member and an inner tubular member. The outer tubular member includes a screen configured to enable fluid flow therethrough between an exterior and an interior of the outer tubular member. The inner tubular member is configured to be positionable within the outer tubular member. The inner tubular member is a remotely activated flow control device configured to control fluid flow between an exterior and an interior of the inner tubular member.
US11118427B2
A method of determining a risk of corrosion and scale formation of tubing in a wellbore includes receiving, from a plurality of first sensors positioned at a downhole location of a wellbore, first production stream information and receiving, from a plurality of second sensors positioned at an uphole location, second production stream information. The method also includes performing a material balance to determine a first value representing a difference between a first production steam flow rate at the downhole location and a second production stream flow rate at the uphole location. The method also includes determining a second value representing a critical metal ion concentration of the production stream and, based on a result of comparing the first value with a threshold and based on the second value, determining a third value representing a risk of corrosion and scale formation at the tubing disposed within the wellbore.
US11118422B2
Systems and methods for monitoring system health of a well cementing operation are disclosed. A well cementing system includes several fluid pathways and holding/mixing containers. A series of sensors monitors the status of the fluid pathways and the holding/mixing containers. There are redundancies in the fluid pathways, and a preferred order in which the fluid pathways are used. Under normal conditions the fluid for the cementing operation is moved from place to place via the most desired pathway. If the sensors detect a fault, the next-most desired fluid pathway is used. If there are no available fluid pathways, an alarm is issued.
US11118410B2
The invention relates to a device (10) for producing a cavity in a soil from a starting point to a target point along a drilling line for introducing timbering for holding the cavity open having a tunneling head (11), at the outer end of which at least one cutting element (12) for Stripping the soil is provided, wherein the tunneling head (11) has a receiving Chamber (15) which has an opening (16), to which a face conveyor line (17) is connected, and in which at least a first nozzle (21) for discharging a liquid for transporting the stripped soil away from the receiving Chamber is provided, which first nozzle (21) is provided in such a way that the discharge opening thereof is oriented substantially in the direction of the face conveyor line, wherein the advancing drive takes place via an advancing device. It is provided here that at least one second nozzle (23) is provided which is arranged in such a way that the discharge opening thereof is directed substantially onto the soil to be stripped.
US11118409B1
A pressure compensating lubrication system for sealed bearing earth boring bits having a lubricant reservoir fitted with a piston. A spring member is disposed between one end of the reservoir and the piston. The spring member applies pressure through the piston to the lubricant in the reservoir and bearing and absorbs pressure fluctuations in the lubricant generated while drilling.
US11118402B2
A rock drilling machine, rock drilling rig and method of measuring physical features during rock drilling is provided. The rock drilling machine includes one or more sensing devices, which are arranged in connection with a bendable sensing cord. The sensing cord is fed via a feed passage to a flushing passage of a drilling tool.
US11118394B2
A fire door clearance system is disclosed that includes a non-flammable material that is fastened at a first portion thereof on an inner side thereof to any of a door and door frame, and an intumescent material applied to the inner side of the non-flammable material at a second portion thereof.
US11118393B2
Lightweight, glidable shielded components (e.g. doors) may be used in conjunction with accredited enclosures to provide electromagnetic, acoustic and CBR protection.
US11118392B2
An automatic door operator operating on standard 120V/240V AC power utilizes a servomotor for operation, and thus no separate transformer is required for the operator. The servomotor incorporates programming to limit torque, and thus no slip clutch is required in order to allow manual operation of the door. Furthermore, because the servomotor has built-in control logic, no separate digital control logic is required. Because the position of the servomotor is continuously maintained, the relative position of the door with respect to a fully opened or fully closed position is always known, and no separate external signal is required in order to monitor the door position.
US11118389B2
Provided is a retracting device comprising a main arm and a sub-arm wherein appearance can be improved. An arm (5) has a main arm (7) and a sub-arm (8) such that an acceptance portion (25) for accepting a receiving part (reception part) (6) is formed between these. The main arm (7) and the sub-arm (8) are configured so that the main arm (7) and the sub-arm (8) rotate by way of: the acceptance portion (25) being closed in a hold position; the acceptance portion (25) opening by the receiving part (reception part) (6) coming into contact with the main arm (7) in the hold position; and an end portion (21) of the main arm (7) and an end portion (24) of the sub-arm (8) coming into contact while the acceptance portion (25) is opened.
US11118387B2
The present disclosure is directed to a door hinge mechanism for a vehicle. The door hinge mechanism may include a door configured to open and close relative to the frame, and a hinge secured to an interior of the door and an exterior of the frame. The hinge may be configured to open the door by sliding the door away from the frame and pivoting the door relative to the frame.
US11118384B2
The present invention provides a refrigerator, comprising a refrigerator body and a door body. A hinge body is disposed on the refrigerator body. A first hinge shaft and a second hinge shaft are disposed on the hinge body. A first guide groove and a second guide groove are formed in the door body. The first hinge shaft is located in the first guide groove and the second hinge shaft is located in the second guide groove. During opening of the door body, the first guide groove moves relative to the first hinge shaft and the second guide groove moves relative to the second hinge shaft, the first hinge shaft applies an acting force to the first guide groove to drive the end, away from the first guide groove, of the second guide groove to approach the second hinge shaft, so that the door body is displaced in a horizontal direction.
US11118382B2
A door prop device that can be utilized to maintain a door in an open position is described. The door prop has a triangular shaped body with angled sidewalls that extend from a base. A projection extends from the angled sidewalls in a direction away from the base. A passageway extends through the projection. A member is rotatably positioned in the passageway with a first portion of the member extending from the passageway. The first portion has first and second concave surfaces. The first and second concave surfaces are disposed for engaging a hinge pin on a hinge for a door.
US11118363B1
A rooftop fall protection anchor that comprises a plate, an anchor connection coupled with a first side of the plate, and at least one member on a second side of the plate, the member being substantially perpendicular and proximate to the plate's edge, configured to attach to a single framing member. The plate and/or member(s) may have holes to accommodate fasteners. The anchor connection may have at least one opening to attach a connection device of a personal fall arrest system (PFAS). The anchor connection may be coupled to the plate by a post. The fall protection anchor may be part of a system that comprises perpendicular blocking, construction strapping, and roof sheathing, either alone or in combination.
US11118358B2
A masonry veneer support assembly for mounting masonry veneer to supporting wall structure. The support assembly has a first shelf angle, a second shelf angle, and a first shelf angle mounting bracket. Each shelf angle mounting bracket has an upwardly extending back that mounts to the supporting wall structure, and a web extending forwardly away from the wall structure. The web has first and second shelf angle mounting seats formed therein. The first shelf angle mounting seat is upwardly spaced from the second shelf angle mounting seat. A second shelf angle mounting bracket may be spaced apart horizontally from the first shelf angle mounting bracket.
US11118342B1
A wall panel system includes one or more building blocks, each of the one or more building blocks having a front face made of a first calcium silicate board; a back face made of a second calcium silicate board; and a core positioned between the front face and the back face, the core composed of cement/sand and expandable polystyrene foam; the one or more building blocks are used for building construction. In addition to this will produce panels without calcium silicate board just panels with cement/sand and expandable polystyrene.
US11118340B2
An adjustable floor drain apparatus includes a housing configured for positioning adjacent a drain pipe, manhole riser, or other feature, a leveling frame configured to be positioned at least partially above the housing, a grate configured to be positioned at least partially above the leveling frame and secured to the leveling frame, and a leveling member. The leveling member can be configured such that actuating the leveling member adjusts the position of the grate relative to the housing while the leveling member remains fixed relative to the housing. The leveling member can be configured such that actuating the leveling member moves the leveling member relative to the grate and adjusts the position of the grate relative to the housing.
US11118332B2
A handshower assembly includes a docking station with a first portion and a removable second portion. The docking station is configured to mount to a grab bar of a tub or shower and move relative to the grab bar for a user to position a handshower as desired.
US11118327B2
Provided is a work machine with which responsiveness of a hydraulic actuator can be improved when driving the hydraulic actuator through an electric lever-type operation device. A controller 100 further includes: an operation direction determining section 116 configured to determine operation directions of operation devices 2a and 2b; and a standby pressure switching command section 117 configured to output a standby pressure switching command to a first target pilot pressure correction section 112 or a second target pilot pressure correction section 113 which corresponds to a solenoid proportional valve that does not correspond to the operation direction from among first solenoid proportional valves 41a, 42a, 42b, 43a, 43b, and 44a and second solenoid proportional valves 41b, 42c, 42d, 43c, 43d, and 44b. The first target pilot pressure correction section and the second target pilot pressure correction section are configured to switch a first standby pressure α to a second standby pressure β set lower than the first standby pressure in a case in which the standby pressure switching command has been inputted.
US11118326B2
A control device generates an operation signal for controlling a pressure of hydraulic oil on a downstream side of the swing motor in a hydraulic device based on an azimuth direction, a swing speed, and a target stopping azimuth direction of a swing body during braking of a swing motor.
US11118325B2
A subsea trencher for arranging at least partly into the seabed a subsea pipeline, includes at least one cart that separately carries at least one trench tool and is configured to run along the subsea pipeline. trench tool is configured to work the seabed underneath the subsea pipeline. A subsea support frame carries heavy subsea equipment connected to the trench tool for operating the trench too. When the subsea support frame is fixed to the cart, the subsea trencher is configured to load the assembled weight of the cart and subsea support frame onto the subsea pipeline as the subsea trencher runs on the subsea pipeline. When the subsea support frame is separate from the cart, the subsea support frame is configured to be suspended above the seabed or arranged beside the subsea pipeline at a distance from the subsea pipeline as the cart runs along the subsea pipeline.
US11118323B1
Traffic-compatible vented precipitation guarding manhole cover assemblies may include a manhole cover having an exterior manhole cover surface and an interior manhole cover surface. At least one opening may extend through the manhole cover from the interior manhole cover surface to the exterior manhole cover surface. A flexible, resilient extension conduit having elastic recoil memory may extend from the exterior manhole cover surface at the at least one opening.
US11118318B2
Exemplary embodiments of an improved water mat system comprise a plurality of polymeric, closed-cell foam panels, each of the plurality of panels taking any suitable shape and defining a top surface and a bottom surface. A plurality of hinge components are configured and placed to connect the plurality of panels and operable to transition the water mat system between a deployed state and a stored state. When the water mat system is in the deployed state the plurality of panels are positioned in an end-to-end arrangement such that the top surfaces of the panels collectively define a substantially common plane (i.e., the panels are laid out end-to-end). When the water mat system is in the stored state the top surface of a first one of the plurality of panels is juxtaposed to the bottom surface of a second one of the plurality of panels (i.e., the panels are stacked).
US11118308B2
The present disclosure relates to an improved method for treating a lignocellulose biomass in order to dissolve the lignin therein, while the cellulose does not dissolve. The cellulose pulp obtained can be used to produce glucose. In addition the lignin can be isolated for subsequent use in the renewable chemical industry.
US11118300B2
The present disclosure relates to a twin laundry machine, more particularly, to a twin laundry machine configured to control mutual motor operations of one or more laundry machines provided therein not to be overlapped with each other, in case the one or more laundry machines are put into operation to perform washing. The present disclosure also relates to a twin laundry machine of which a motor for driving a drum has an improved heat radiation function, more particularly, to a twin laundry machine which includes a sub-washing machine with a smaller size than a normal washing machine and frequent exposure to high temperature usage environments.
US11118298B2
A washing machine capable of independently driving two rotors using one inverter in a simple configuration without supplying a composite current includes an outer rotor having a plurality of switching magnets arranged at intervals in the circumferential direction, and an inner rotor having a plurality of stationary magnets arranged to be radially arranged at intervals in the circumferential direction. When a magnetizing current is supplied to the coil of the stator, the magnetic pole of the switching magnet is inverted and the number of the poles of the outer rotor is switched.
US11118297B2
A laundry treatment apparatus includes a tub body for receiving water, a tub cover that covers an upper surface of the tub body and that defines an introduction aperture, a drum located inside the tub body for receiving laundry, a door for opening and closing the introduction aperture, a hinge that rotatably couples the door to the tub cover, a fixing unit that releasably couples a portion of the door to the tub cover, and a sealing unit on the door or the introduction aperture that is configured to seal the introduction aperture based on the introduction aperture being closed by the door. A portion of the sealing unit located in a direction in which the fixing unit is provided has a different diameter from a diameter of a portion of the sealing unit that is located in a direction in which the hinge is provided.
US11118294B2
A laundry treatment machine includes: a cabinet which forms an outer shape and has an input port through which laundry is input; a tub which is disposed inside the cabinet and stores washing water; a drum which is rotatably disposed inside the tub; a microphone assembly in which a plurality of microphones for speech recognition are spaced apart; a door which opens and closes the input port, and has an inner front surface, on which the microphone assembly is disposed, to which the microphone assembly is closely attached, that comprises a microphone hole, which communicates with the outside, formed in each portion where the plurality of microphones are disposed, so that it is possible to eliminate a space where the sound leakage occurs between the microphone assembly and the door.
US11118293B2
An apparatus for dye application to textile manufactures, exhaustion of the applied dye, and drying of the textile manufacture. The apparatus, in some implementations, includes a dye applicator that applies dye evenly to a textile manufacture of varying length, one or more steam release conduits for heating the textile manufacture with applied dye to exhaust the dye, and a blower system to dry the textile manufacture after application of the applied dye.
US11118284B2
A vapor phase growth apparatus includes n (n is an integer of 2 or more) reactors; a primary gas supply path supplying a mixed gas to the reactors; n secondary gas supply paths connected to one of the reactors including a main secondary gas supply path and (n−1) auxiliary secondary gas supply paths; a first pressure gauge; a main flow rate controller provided in the main secondary gas supply path; (n−1) auxiliary flow rate controllers provided in the auxiliary secondary gas supply paths; a first control circuit instructing a first flow rate value; and a second control circuit calculating a second flow rate value being 1/n of a sum of a flow rate value measured by the main flow rate controller and flow rate values measured by the auxiliary flow rate controllers, and instructing the second flow rate value to the auxiliary flow rate controllers.
US11118282B2
A method including closing upper and lower ends of a bore with upper and lower closure element, respectively; introducing a cathode into the bore; and flowing an electrolyte through an annular space between a wall of the bore an outer surface of the cathode to provide an inner surface of the bore with a wear-resistant surface by electrolysis.
US11118281B2
Ionic liquid bath plating systems, methods, and plating anodes are provided for depositing metallic layers over turbomachine components and other workpieces. In an embodiment, the method includes placing workpieces in a plurality of cell vessels such that the workpieces are at least partially submerged in plating solution baths, which are retained within the cell vessels when the plating system is filled with a selected non-aqueous plating solution. After plating anodes are positioned adjacent the workpieces in the plating solution baths, the plurality of cell vessels are enclosed with lids such that the plurality of cell vessels contain vessel headspaces above the plating solution baths. A first purge gas is then injected into the plurality of cell vessels to purge the vessel headspaces. The workpieces and the plating anodes are then energized to deposit metallic layers on selected surfaces of the workpieces utilizing an ionic liquid bath plating process.
US11118280B2
This disclosure includes coatings for increasing the physical and/or chemical properties of articles, for example, tubular metal articles such as those found in the oil and gas industry, as well as processes for making such coatings and articles comprising such coatings.
US11118278B2
Implementations of the disclosure may include methods of electroplating features formed on a semiconductor device, such as the trenches and vias formed by single or dual Damascene processes using a cobalt plating bath. The cobalt electroplating bath may contain “additive packages” or “additive systems” that include a combination of additives in certain ratios that facilitate the metal filling of high aspect ratio sub-micrometer features. Implementations of the disclosure provide new cobalt plating bath methods and chemistries and that include alkyl modified imidazoles, imidazolines, and imidazolidines suppressor compounds.
US11118268B2
A surface of an article is modified by aluminizing an initial surface at a first temperature to form a first aluminized layer and a sublayer, removing at least a portion of the first aluminized layer, aluminizing the sublayer at a second temperature to form a second aluminized layer, and finally removing at least a portion of the second aluminized layer to form a processed surface. The second temperature is less than the first temperature and a roughness of the processed surface is less than the roughness of the initial surface.
US11118266B2
The present invention relates to a method for depositing a protection film of a light-emitting element, the method comprising the steps of: depositing a first protection layer on a light-emitting element of a substrate by means of the atomic layer deposition method; and depositing at least one additional protection layer on the first protection layer by means of the plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition method.
US11118263B2
A method of forming a protective coating film for halide plasma resistance includes depositing a seed layer on a surface of an article via an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process, depositing a rare-earth containing oxide layer on the seed layer via an ALD process, and exposing the rare-earth containing oxide layer to fluorine-containing plasma.
US11118254B2
A thermal treatment method for an A356 aluminum alloy cast-spun wheel is provided. The thermal treatment method is characterized by including the steps of: 1) heating an aluminum alloy wheel cast-spun piece to 540-550° C.; 2) preserving the heat of the aluminum alloy wheel cast-spun piece for 275-285 minutes at the temperature of 540-550° C.; 3) quenching the aluminum alloy wheel cast-spun piece in water of 70-90° C. for 180 seconds; 4) heating the aluminum alloy wheel cast-spun piece to 150-160° C.; 5) preserving the heat of the aluminum alloy wheel cast-spun piece for 175-185 minutes at 150-160° C.; and 6) cooling the aluminum alloy wheel cast-spun piece in air to room temperature.
US11118245B2
Novel methods of recovering neodymium and related rare earth elements from permanent magnets of various compositions are described. The methods employ processing steps including converting the magnet material to a higher surface area form such as a powder, treating the mixture with alkaline solutions to form product concentrated in neodymium and rare earth metals. Inexpensive materials such as ammonia, ammonium carbonate, carbon dioxide, water are recycled in a process that uses moderate temperatures, pressures and non-corrosive and environmentally-friendly chemicals.
US11118241B2
In an embodiment, a method of fabricating a working component for magnetic heat exchange comprises arranging at least two articles comprising a magnetocalorically active phase and an elongated form with a long axis having a length 1 and a shortest axis having a length s, wherein 1≥1.5 s, such that the shortest axes of the at least two articles are substantially parallel to one another and securing the at least two articles in a position within the working component such that the shortest axes of the at least two articles are substantially parallel to one another within the working component.
US11118238B2
The invention relates to a nucleic acid construct carrying ATP7B protein, an expression vector and a viral particle comprising the nucleic acid construct, and their use for treatment of Wilson's disease and other conditions caused by a deficiency or dysfunction of ATP7B protein. An AAV vector devised according to the invention significantly reduced urine Cu excretion, and liver Cu content in Wilson's disease mice treated with the vector, while ceruloplasmin activity was significantly restored. On the other hand, the administration of the vector resulted in the normalization of serum transaminases levels and of liver histology, together with a marked reduction of the inflammatory infiltrate.
US11118234B2
Provided herein are methods for detecting tumor mutational burden (TMB) in subjects. In one aspect, the methods include determining observed mutational counts from sequence information obtained from nucleic acids in samples from the subjects and determining a tumor fraction and/or a coverage of the nucleic acids to generate sequencing parameters. The methods also include determining an expected mutational fraction and/or an expected distribution of the expected mutational fraction given the sequencing parameters to generate an expected result, and adjusting the observed mutational count given the expected result to generate an adjusted result, thereby detecting the TMB in the subject. Other aspects are directed to methods of selecting customized therapies for treating cancer in subjects, and methods of treating cancer in subjects. Yet other aspects include related systems and computer readable media used to detect TMB in subjects.
US11118232B2
Described herein are methods for diagnosing melanoma or basal cell carcinoma based on mutations in the DDR2 gene. Further, a distinct subgroup of BRAF-mutated melanomas have somatic mutations in the DDR2 gene as well. Applications of this finding to routine diagnostics include the molecular stratification of melanoma, and the tissue identification of targetable DDR2 kinase mutations in routine formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded sections. Described herein are methods, compositions and kits related to the discovery that DDR2 mutations may be markers for melanoma generally, and BRAF-mediated melanoma in particular, opening up the possibility of dual therapy for melanoma by targeting both DDR2 and BRAF.
US11118231B2
The present invention concerns methods and compositions for identifying a miRNA profile for a particular condition, such as thyroid nodules or thyroid cancer, and using the profile in the diagnosis of a patient for a condition, such as thyroid nodules or thyroid cancer.
US11118228B2
Provided herein is technology for neoplasia screening, and particularly, but not exclusively, to methods, compositions, and related uses for detecting the presence of cancer, in particular, colorectal cancer.
US11118225B2
Next Generation DNA sequencing promises to revolutionize clinical medicine and basic research. However, while this technology has the capacity to generate hundreds of billions of nucleotides of DNA sequence in a single experiment, the error rate of approximately 1% results in hundreds of millions of sequencing mistakes. These scattered errors can be tolerated in some applications but become extremely problematic when “deep sequencing” genetically heterogeneous mixtures, such as tumors or mixed microbial populations. To overcome limitations in sequencing accuracy, a method Duplex Consensus Sequencing (DCS) is provided. This approach greatly reduces errors by independently tagging and sequencing each of the two strands of a DNA duplex. As the two strands are complementary, true mutations are found at the same position in both strands. In contrast, PCR or sequencing errors will result in errors in only one strand. This method uniquely capitalizes on the redundant information stored in double-stranded DNA, thus overcoming technical limitations of prior methods utilizing data from only one of the two strands.
US11118224B2
Provided are compositions and methods for detecting a target DNA (double stranded or single stranded) in a sample. In some embodiments, a subject method includes: (a) contacting the sample with: (i) a type V CRISPR/Cas effector protein (e.g., a Cas12 protein such as Cas12a, Cas12b, Cas12c, Cas12d, Cas12e); (ii) a guide RNA (comprising a region that binds to the type V CRISPR/Cas effector protein, and a guide sequence that hybridizes with the target DNA); and (iii) a detector DNA that is single stranded (i.e., a “single stranded detector DNA”) and does not hybridize with the guide sequence of the guide RNA; and (b) measuring a detectable signal produced by cleavage (by the type V CRISPR/Cas effector protein) of the single stranded detector DNA. Also provided are compositions and methods for cleaving single stranded DNAs (e.g., non-target ssDNAs), e.g., inside of a cell.
US11118213B2
A method of analyzing a tumor sample comprising: (a) acquiring a library comprising a plurality of tumor members from a tumor sample; (b) contacting the library with a bait set to provide selected members; (c) acquiring a read for a subgenomic interval from a tumor member from said library; (d) aligning said read; and (e) assigning a nucleotide value (e.g., calling a mutation) from said read for the preselected nucleotide position, thereby analyzing said tumor sample.
US11118208B2
The present invention relates to methods and compositions for modulating glycosylation profile, such as the galactosylation profile, of recombinant proteins expressed by mammalian host cells during the cell culture process by supplementing cell culture media with a peracetyl galactose.
US11118207B2
The present invention is directed to methods and compositions for adding tails of specific lengths to a substrate polynucleotide. The invention also contemplates methods and compositions for immobilization of tailed substrates to a solid support. The disclosure contemplates that the attenuator molecule is any biomolecule that associates with a tail sequence added to a substrate polynucleotide and controls the addition of a tail sequence to the 3′ end of the substrate polynucleotide. The sequence that is added to the substrate polynucleotide is referred to herein as a tail sequence, or simply a tail, and the process of adding a nucleotide to a substrate polynucleotide is referred to herein as tailing.
US11118203B2
The invention relates, in general, to methods of processing lignocellulosic biomass to fermentable sugars and to methods that rely on hydrothermal pretreatment. Xylose monomer yields comparable to those achieved using two-stage pretreatments can be achieved from soft lignocellulosic biomass feedstocks by pretreating to very low severity in a single-stage pressurized hydrothermal pretreatment, followed by enzymatic hydrolysis to release xylose retained in the solid state. In some embodiments, pretreated biomass is separated into a solid fraction and a liquid fraction, the solid fraction subjected to enzymatic hydrolysis, and the separated liquid fraction subsequently mixed with the hydrolysed solid fraction.
US11118199B2
A method comprising a series of selective extraction techniques for the parallel production of biodiesel and isolation of several valuable co-products including an alkenone hydrocarbon mixture of the kerosene/jet fuel range (primarily C10-, C12-, and C17-hydrocarbons) and fucoxanthin, a high-valued carotenoid, from the marine alkenone-producing microalgae Isochrysis.
US11118198B2
The disclosure relates to a method for fermentation integrated with separation and purification of acetone, butanol, and ethanol (ABE) or butanol alone, comprising the following steps: 1) obtaining ABE by fermentation using an acetone-butanol-producing bacterium or obtaining butanol using a butanol-producing bacterium; 2) using a “vapor-stripping-vapor-permeation” method (briefly VSVP) for online separation and purification of ABE or purifying butanol from the fermentation broth; wherein the VSVP method comprises the following steps: introducing a gas bubble into the fermentation broth comprising active cells for fermentation to vaporize ABE or Butanol; subjecting the gas along with the vaporized ABE or Butanol to a membrane separation unit to pass through the membrane; recovering ABE or Butanol, or subjecting ABE or Butanol to a next separation device. By using the disclosed method, production, separation, and purification efficiency of ABE or butanol are improved with saved energy consumption and without increasing equipment investment.
US11118196B2
Genetically modified cells that are compatible with multiple subjects, e.g., universal donor cells, and methods of generating said genetic modified cells are provided herein. The universal donor cells comprise at least one genetic modification within or near at least one gene that encodes a survival factor, wherein the genetic modification comprises an insertion of a polynucleotide encoding a tolerogenic factor. The universal donor cells may further comprise at least one genetic modification within or near a gene that encodes one or more MHC-I or MHC-II human leukocyte antigens or a component or a transcriptional regulator of a MHC-I or MHC-II complex, wherein said genetic modification comprises an insertion of a polynucleotide encoding a second tolerogenic factor.
US11118194B2
The present disclosure provides modified site-directed modifying polypeptides, and ribonucleoproteins comprising the modified polypeptides. The modified site-directed modifying polypeptides are modified for passive entry into target cells. The modified site-directed modifying polypeptides are useful in a variety of methods for target nucleic acid modification, which methods are also provided.
US11118193B2
The present invention relates to the field of molecular biology and cell biology. More specifically, the present invention relates to a CRISPR-CAS system for a yeast host cell.
US11118187B2
The present application discloses genetically modified yeast cells comprising an active 3-HP fermentation pathway, and the use of these cells to produce 3-HP.
US11118182B2
The invention provides modulators of human cancer and tumor metastasis in particular. More specifically the present disclosure relates to modulators of SKAI1BC, an antisense long non-coding RNA which was found to be an epigenetic suppressor of the metastasis suppressor gene KAI1/CD82, compositions, methods and uses thereof for decreasing metastasis, invasion and possibly also proliferation of cancer cells.
US11118175B2
The present invention provides methods, compositions and kits for using a transposase and a transposon end for generating extensive fragmentation and 5′-tagging of double-stranded target DNA in vitro, then using a DNA polymerase for generating 5′- and 3′-tagged single-stranded DNA fragments without performing a PCR amplification reaction, wherein the first tag on the 5′-ends exhibits the sequence of the transferred transposon end and optionally, an additional arbitrary sequence, and the second tag on the 3′-ends exhibits a different sequence from the sequence exhibited by the first tag. The method is useful for generating 5′- and 3′-tagged DNA fragments for use in a variety of processes, including processes for metagenomic analysis of DNA in environmental samples, copy number variation (CNV) analysis of DNA, and comparative genomic sequencing (CGS), including massively parallel DNA sequencing so-called “next generation sequencing”).
US11118174B2
The invention relates to a composition for stabilizing the total nucleic acids from whole blood, in particular RNA, and to a process for stabilizing the total nucleic acids from whole blood for subsequent isolation and at the same time serves for the disruption of cells so that cellular nucleic acids in the state at contacting the composition, especially at the point of time of blood collection, are released and are maintained stable in respect of quality and concentration and can be isolated subsequently. Therein, the composition is characterized in that it especially prevents the degradation and new synthesis of RNA in whole blood, into which it is mixed. The isolation of RNA by contacting the mixture of the aqueous composition and blood with an adsorption agent can be made directly from the complete mixture of the aqueous composition with blood, i.e. e.g. without precipitation and separation of nucleic acids from the mixture, optionally after a storage, during which the mixture is e.g. transported from the place of blood collection to the place of the analytical process.
US11118173B2
A method of collecting a nucleic acid(s) from a biological sample includes step a) mixing an aluminum oxide support with a water-soluble neutral polymer adsorbed on a surface thereof and a solution containing a nucleic acid(s), thereby adsorbing the nucleic acid(s) to the support; step b) separating the support on which the nucleic acid(s) is/are adsorbed from the solution mixed in step a); and step c) collecting the nucleic acid(s) by adding an eluent to the support on which the nucleic acid(s) is/are adsorbed and which is separated in step b).
US11118164B2
The present invention concerns methods of generating CTLs that are able to target at least one antigen from two or more viruses. The method includes exposing mixtures of peptides for different antigens to the same plurality of PBMCs and, at least in certain aspects, expanding the cells in the presence of IL4 and IL7.
US11118163B2
The present invention relates to methods for the specific separation of target cells from a biological sample, comprising specific binding of the target cells to phase-change hydrogel compositions and separation of respective cell-hydrogel complexes by counter-current centrifugation.
US11118156B2
A method for lysing cells is disclosed. The method includes stirring cells with a magnetic stir element in the presence of a plurality of cell lysis beads at a speed sufficient to lyse the cells. Also disclosed is a device for lysing cells. The device includes a container having a magnetic stir element and a plurality of cell lysis beads disposed therein. The container is dimensioned to allow rotation of the magnetic stir element inside the container.
US11118153B2
The present disclosure provides a flow-through electroporation device configured for use in an automated multi-module cell processing environment and configured to decrease cell processing time and the risk of clogging.
US11118149B2
Bioreactor bags formed from sheet materials are disclosed. The bioreactor bags include an opening which is openable and recloseable in a fluid tight manner for providing an opening for insertion of solid materials into the bag.
US11118143B2
A sporicidal composition has a moderately low pH and includes a glycosidase and the dissocia-tion product of at least one inorganic oxidizing agent. High effective solute concentrations can enhance the efficacy of the composition. The composition can be applied to a surface and allowed to absorb into an endospore, ultimately killing at least some of those bacteria in mature endospore form. Surfaces to be treated include inanimate (hard) surfaces via cleaning and medical devices such as endoscopes, typically via immersion.
US11118140B2
Solid rinse aid compositions, methods of use, and methods of making said composition are disclosed. Rinse aid is provided by a solidification agent, a sheeting agent, a defoamer component, and a polyacrylic acid homopolymer or alkali metal salt thereof forming a solid compositions. Preferred solidification agents include aromatic sulfonates. Preferred sheeting agents include one or more alcohol ethyoxylates. Preferred defoamer components include a polymer compound including one or more ethylene oxide groups. The solid rinse aid compositions are preferably substantially free of sulfate and sulfate-containing compounds.
US11118138B2
The object of the present invention is to provide a composition suitable for cleaning cooked-, baked- and burnt-on soils, which has improved efficacy on proteinaceous soils. Detergent compositions having metal complexes with certain salicylidene ligands solve this problem.
US11118136B2
A wash composition includes a surfactant system, a solvent system, and one or more beneficial compositions. The surfactant system includes a) a linear alkylbenzenesulfonate (LAS), and b) a fatty acid methyl ester ethoxylate (MEE). Optionally, the surfactant system may further include c) an alkyl ether sulfate (AES), and d) a nonionic alcohol ethoxylate (AE). The wash composition may be embodied as a unit dose composition or a heavy-duty liquid. Methods for increasing the effectiveness of fabric cleaning that include using the wash composition are also provided.
US11118135B2
A composition including: (i) a plurality of first particles comprising: about 25% to about 94% by weight a water soluble first carrier; and a perfume; wherein each of the first particles has a mass from about 1 mg to about 1 g; (ii) a plurality of second particles having: about 25% to about 94% by weight a water soluble second carrier; about 5% to about 45% by weight a quaternary ammonium compound formed from a parent fatty acid compound having an Iodine Value from about 18 to about 60; and about 0.5% to about 10% by weight a cationic polymer; wherein each of the second particles has a mass from about 1 mg to about 1 g; wherein the first particles and the second particles are in a package.
US11118132B2
[Problem] To provide: a method for suppressing the coloration of oils and fats during frying; and a coloring inhibitor. [Solution] A method for suppressing the coloration of an oil/fat composition for frying, the method comprising a step for adding a prepared oil to an edible oil or fat, wherein the prepared oil is obtained through (1) a degumming step, (2) a neutralization step which may or may not be performed, (3) a bleaching step which may or may not be performed, and (4) a deodorizing step, in this order, in the process of refining a crude oil obtained from an oil feedstock, and the absorbance difference determined by subtracting the absorbance at a wavelength of 750 nm from the absorbance at a wavelength of 660 nm of the prepared oil obtained from step (3) is at least 0.030 when isooctane is used as the control. A coloring inhibitor characterized by containing said prepared oil.
US11118115B2
Methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) conversion may be performed with a methanol recycling. Methanol may be fed to a first reactor where it may be catalytically converted under dimethyl ether formation conditions in the presence of a first catalyst to form a product mixture comprising dimethyl ether (DME), methanol, and water. The DME may be separated from the methanol and the water and delivered to a second reactor. In the second reactor, the DME may be catalytically converted under MTG conversion conditions in the presence of a second catalyst to form a second product mixture comprising gasoline hydrocarbons and light hydrocarbon gas. The methanol and the water from the first reactor may be separated further to obtain substantially water-free methanol, which may be returned to the first reactor. The separation of methanol from the water may be performed using the light hydrocarbon gas to effect stripping of the methanol.
US11118112B2
Compounds of formula I, (R11O)sSi(CH3)3−s-Sp11-NR12-Sp12-C(OR13)tH3−t I wherein the variable groups are as defined herein are useful as adhesion promotors in polymerizable liquid crystal (LC) material.
US11118106B2
Included are methods and systems for controlling the rheology of a treatment fluid. An example method comprises selecting a cellulose feedstock source to provide a cellulose capable of being processed into a nanocellulose having an average desired aspect ratio, and processing the cellulose with a cellulose processing technique to provide the nanocellulose with the average desired aspect ratio. The method further comprises adding the nanocellulose to the treatment fluid; wherein the nanocellulose alters a rheological property of the treatment fluid to provide an altered treatment fluid, and introducing the altered treatment fluid into a wellbore.
US11118102B2
A mine application method for in-situ nano-microspheres is provided. A water-soluble macromolecule A base fluid, a certain amount of isolation fluid (an isolation fluid slug can be designed according to actual conditions of the mine), and a water-soluble macromolecule B base fluid are pumped into the formulation in sequence; when macromolecules A and B are mixed or contacted with each other, they are assembled under the drive of an extremely strong hydrogen bonding effect and quickly constructed in-situ to form a nano-microscale spherical dispersion. The nano-microspheres have a certain fluidity control ability and excellent fluid flow diversion performance, which significantly improves a fluid absorption profile of the heterogeneous formation, exhibits deep intelligent profile control and flooding, and greatly increases the crude oil recovery rate.
US11118100B2
The present disclosure provides polymeric systems that are able to undergo fast hydration and are useful for maintaining particle dispersions for extended periods of time.
US11118096B2
A composition for dissolving drilling mud including barite particles and a polymer includes an enzyme capable of reacting with the polymer; a chelating agent capable of dissolving the barite particles; and a catalyst capable of promoting a reaction between the chelating agent and the barite particles.
US11118090B2
The present invention pertains to a stabilized hot melt adhesive containing a) one or more hot melt adhesive materials and b) a stabilizer composition. The one or more hot melt adhesive materials a) include a polyolefin, a styrene-isoprene-styrene block co-polymer, a styrene-butadiene-styrene block co-polymer, a polyacrylate, an acryl-copolymer, an ethylene vinyl acetate, a polyamide, a polyester, a polyurethane, a polyimide, a silane terminated polyolefin, a silane terminated poly-ether, and a silane terminated polyurethane. The stabilizer composition includes a component (B), which is a polymeric sterically hindered amine, and a component (C), which is a specific sterically hindered phenol.
US11118084B2
The present invention discloses novel flame retardant aqueous formulations comprising micronized particles of brominated epoxy polymers having a predetermined molecular weight, their use as flame retardant coating of wood-based substrates, their preparation and flame-retarded wood-based substrates prepared by using them.
US11118079B2
A water-based barrier coating composition suitable for use as a barrier coating is disclosed which includes an aqueous polymer composition obtainable by free radical (co)polymerizing an ethylenically unsaturated monomer blend having an optionally substituted styrene, at least one C1-C4-alkyl (meth)acrylate, other ethylenically unsaturated copolymerizable monomers, degraded starch polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), a plasticizer; a composition having C16-C18 alkenyl ketene dimer, optionally as a mixture with rosin, of a gelling agent; and optionally a filler.
US11118074B2
The present invention aims to provide a coating material which has high mechanical stability and is capable of providing a coat which has excellent appearance and exhibits excellent damping properties in a wide temperature range. The present invention relates to a damping-imparting agent including a compound having a sulfosuccinic acid (salt) structure. The present invention also relates to a resin composition for damping materials, including an emulsion prepared by polymerizing a monomer component, the composition further including a component having a sulfosuccinic acid (salt) structure.
US11118070B2
A low-specular-reflectance surface, includes a coating on a surface, wherein the coating includes a plurality of substantially spherical particles having a multimodal particle size distribution, wherein the particles protrude from a top surface of the coating to provide substantially spherical caps. The multimodal particle size distribution has two or more modes, each mode having a peak defining an associated mode particle size, wherein the distribution function includes a first mode having a first peak corresponding to a first particle size and a second mode having a second peak corresponding to a second particle size. A ratio of the second particle size to the first particle size is between 1.7-4.0. A smallest of the mode particle sizes is greater than or equal to 1.0 microns, and a largest of the mode particle sizes is greater than or equal to 3.0 microns.
US11118065B2
A fluorenylaminoketone photoinitiator, a preparation method thereof, and a UV photocurable composition containing same. The photoinitiator has a compound having a structure as shown in general formula (I) or a derivative compound thereof. The fluorenylaminoketone photoinitiator may effectively improve the solubility of traditional photoinitiators and reduce the use of micromolecular active diluents, and may also have high sensitivity and good deep-layer curing. It has very good promotion effect on popularization and application of photocurable compositions, particularly colored ink systems, in the field of photocuring. A UV photocurable composition containing such a fluorenylaminoketone photoinitiator can have an advantage in terms of high sensitivity, no residue after development, good pattern integrity, no or little odor of coating layers after curing, or excellent yellowing resistance.
US11118064B2
A photocurable hardcoat composition includes certain red-shifted ultraviolet light absorbers (UVA) that include a combination of a-hydroxy ketone and bisacylphosphine oxide photoinitiators.
US11118054B2
Provided is an oil gel comprising a chain polyurethane (A) and a paraffin based oil (B), wherein the chain polyurethane (A) is a chain polyurethane (A1) formed by polymerization of a chain diol (x) and a diisocyanate (y), and the paraffin based oil (B) is a paraffin based oil (B1) having a kinetic viscosity at 40° C. of 20 mm2/s or more and 100 mm2/s or less, and the chain polyurethane (A1) is included at a proportion of 10% by mass or more and 50% by mass or less based on the total amount of the chain polyurethane (A1) and the paraffin based oil (B1). Also provided is a pressure proof material for protecting an electronic device.
US11118053B2
A polymer composition comprising at least one polyaryletherketone, at least one polyarylene sulfide, and a plurality of reinforcing fibers is provided. The composition has a melt viscosity of about 250 Pa-s or less as determined in accordance with ISO Test No. 11443:2005 at a shear rate of 1,000 seconds−1 and temperature of about 380° C.
US11118047B2
A glass fiber-reinforced polyolefin resin material, containing: a glass fiber; and a thermoplastic resin, wherein said thermoplastic resin contains: at least, a specific graft-modified polypropylene, wherein, with respect to the graft-modified polypropylene, each specific amounts of the glass fiber and a compound or polymer having an acid anhydride structure are contained, and wherein, in the content of a graft-modification component in the graft-modified polypropylene, the content of a component obtained from the (meth)acrylate containing an epoxy group is 0.5 or more and 10 or less parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of said polypropylene, and a component obtained from the aromatic vinyl compound has a mass equal to or less than said component obtained from the (meth)acrylate; a composition for said resin material; a method of producing the same; and a composite.
US11118045B2
Provided area perfluoroelastomer composition containing a perfluoroelastomer and a compound having a perylene skeleton, in which the compound having a perylene skeleton is a compound other than perylene and 3,4,9,10-perylenetetracarboxylic acid diimide; and a sealing material containing a crosslinked product of the perfluoroelastomer composition.
US11118042B2
The present invention relates to a container, preferably a cooling fluid expansion reservoir prepared from a thermoplastic composition comprising from 95-70 wt. % based on the weight of the thermoplastic composition of a polypropylene composition having a total amount of comonomer of at most 3 wt. % based on the weight of the polypropylene composition and comprising a random propylene copolymer having a comonomer content from 0.2 to 5 wt. % based on the weight of the random propylene copolymer and the random propylene copolymer having a melt flow index of at most 0.7 g/10 min determined in accordance with ISO 1133 (2.16 kg, 230° C.), from 5-30 wt. % based on the weight of the thermoplastic composition of reinforcing fibres, from 0-5 wt. % based on the weight of the thermoplastic composition of additives.
US11118041B2
Described herein are thermoplastic elastomer compositions that comprise 30-60 wt % of a thermoplastic vulcanizate, 5 to 25 wt % of a thermoplastic resin, 5 to 25 wt % of a high density polyethylene, and 5 to 40 wt % of a ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene. The thermoplastic elastomer compositions may be particularly useful in forming laminates, such as slip coat laminates for glass run channels.
US11118040B2
Provided is a polyethylene resin film exhibiting more improved transparency while exhibiting excellent processability and mechanical properties. The polyethylene resin film having a density of 0.910 g/cm3 to 0.930 g/cm3, and a haze of 10% or less at a thickness of 90 μm to 110 μm includes a first polyethylene resin and a second polyethylene resin at a weight ratio of 6:4 to 8:2, wherein the first polyethylene resin has an MFRR (21.6/2.16) value of 27 to 40, and the second polyethylene resin has an MFRR (21.6/2.16) value of 15 to 23, and the MFRR (21.6/2.16) value is obtained by dividing a melt flow rate (MFR21.6) measured at a temperature of 230° C. under a load of 21.6 kg in accordance with ISO 1133 by a melt flow rate (MFR2.16) measured at a temperature of 230° C. under a load of 2.16 kg in accordance with ISO 1133.
US11118036B2
The present invention is directed to a pneumatic tire having a tread comprising a vulcanizable rubber composition comprising, based on 100 parts by weight of elastomer (phr), (A) from about 40 to about 90 phr of a solution polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber having a glass transition temperature (Tg) ranging from −40° C. to 0° C.; (B) from about 60 to about 10 phr of polybutadiene; and (C) from 5 to 50 phr of a hydrocarbon resin having a Tg ranging from −40° C. to 20° C.; (D) optionally, a rubber process oil (E) optionally, a hydrocarbon resin having a Tg ranging above 20° C. wherein the total amount of hydrocarbon resins and oils is less than 65 phr, and the weight ratio of silica to the total of hydrocarbon resins and oils is greater than 2. (F) from 70 to 130 phr of silica.
US11118029B2
Disclosed is modified silica filler material wherein the silica filler material has been surface treated with both an alkyl silane and an alkenyl silane. The modified silica filler material, when included in an elastomeric composition, results in lower compression set and improved mechanical properties including viscosity, tensile strength, modulus and elongation. The filler material can be used at high levels in elastomeric compositions and does not raise the viscosity to unusable levels. The elastomeric composition including the modified filler material finds special use in the formation of gaskets for fuel cells.
US11118022B2
Sizing agent coated carbon fibers obtained by coating carbon fibers with a sizing agent comprising at least one of (A) to (C) in a total amount of 80 mass % or more with respect to the whole sizing agent, the carbon fibers each having a surface layer which has a thickness of 10 nm or larger and has an oxygen content of 4% or higher with respect to all the elements, wherein when the sizing agent coated carbon fibers are subjected three times to a 10-minute ultrasonic treatment in an acetone solvent, then the amount of the remaining sizing agent is 0.1-0.25 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the sizing agent coated carbon fibers. (A) At least one polymer selected from the group consisting of polyimides, polyetherimides, and polysulfones (B) A compound having a terminal unsaturated group and a polar group in the molecule (C) A polyether-type aliphatic epoxy compound and/or a polyol-type aliphatic epoxy compound which each have an epoxy equivalent of 250 g/eq or less and have two or more epoxy groups in the molecule.
US11118021B2
The present disclosure relates to a fiber-reinforced polypropylene composite resin composition with reduced odor for interior parts of vehicles which includes an inorganic deodorant with excellent effects of reducing odors so as to improve indoor air quality, and includes a mixture of a polypropylene polymer, a thermoplastic elastomer, a fiber-shaped filler, a coupling agent, a slip agent and a UV stabilizer. Interior parts of vehicles molded from the fiber-reinforced polypropylene composite resin composition according to the present disclosure deodorize unpleasant gas generated during the production process and have excellent mechanical properties, thus providing pleasant environments for drivers.
US11118019B2
The present invention provides thermoplastic polyurethane particles, which are formed in a continuous matrix phase from a thermoplastic polyurethane resin and have a particle diameter of 200-500 μm. In a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) curve of the thermoplastic polyurethane particles, derived from the analysis of a temperature rise of 10° C./min by DSC, a peak of the cold crystallization temperature (Tcc) is shown at a temperature between the glass transition temperature (Tg) and the melting point (Tm). The thermoplastic polyurethane particles have a compression degree of 10-20%.
US11118012B2
The resin composition of the present invention contains a maleimide compound (A) represented by the following formula (1); and a cyanate compound (B). wherein R each independently represents an unsubstituted or substituted monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, a proportion of R representing a methyl group, among all R, is 50 mol % or more, and n represents an integer of 0 to 2.
US11118005B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a composition containing a polymer or oligomer (A) and an initiator (B), wherein the polymer or oligomer (A) contains no alkyl groups of 5 or more carbon atoms, contains at least one type of structural unit selected from the group consisting of a structural unit containing an aromatic amine structure and a structural unit containing a carbazole structure, and contains, at one or more terminals, a structural unit containing a thienyl group which may have a substituent, and a degree of solubility of the composition is capable of being changed by applying heat, light, or both heat and light.
US11118001B2
An isocyanate composition according to the present invention contains an isocyanate compound of formula (1) and/or (2) (wherein R1 represents a hydrogen or a monovalent organic group, and R2 represents a monovalent organic group), and, relative to the total mass of the isocyanate compound in the composition, 1.0 ppm by mass to 10% by mass of a compound of formula (3): R13—(COO—R14)a (wherein R13 represents an organic group with a valence of a, R14 represents a monovalent organic group, and a represents an integer of 1 or 2), which is different from the isocyanate compound, and/or, 1.0 ppm by mass to 10% by mass of a compound having an UV absorption in an area of decamer or higher isocyanates in a measurement spectrum of gel permeation chromatography.
US11117996B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a self-assembly composition for pattern formation having a wide range of applicable pattern size and being capable of forming a favorable phase-separated structure. The present invention relates to a self-assembly composition for pattern formation, which comprises a block copolymer comprising a polymerization unit (a) having at least one selected from a structure represented by the following formula (103) and a structure represented by the following formula (104), and a polymerization unit (b) having a structure represented by the following formula (105), wherein the content rate of a sugar moiety in the block copolymer is 3% by mass or more and 80% by mass or less based on the total mass of the block copolymer:
US11117989B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of a procatalyst suitable for preparing a catalyst composition for olefin polymerization, said process comprising the steps of: Step A) providing or preparing a Grignard compound; Step B) contacting the Grignard compound with a silane compound to give a first intermediate reaction product being a solid support; Step C) activating said solid support, comprising two sub steps: Step C1) contacting the solid support obtained in step B) with at least one first activating compound and a second activating compound; and Step C2) a second activation step by contacting the activated solid support obtained in step C1) with an activating electron donor; to obtain a second intermediate reaction product; Step D) reacting the second intermediate reaction product obtained in step C) with a halogen-containing Ti-compound, optionally an activator and at least one internal electron donor in several sub steps to obtain said procatalyst. The invention moreover relates to a procatalyst, a catalytic system comprising said procatalyst and to a process to prepare polyolefins using said catalyst system and the polyolefins obtained therewith.
US11117988B2
A macromonomer precursor is provided that includes a polymeric chain derived from farnesene and a single functional terminal end. The functional terminal end may include a hydroxyl group, an amino group, an epoxy group, an isocyanato group, or a carboxylic acid group. The terminal end of the macromonomer precursor may then be reacted with a (meth)acrylate to form a macromonomer having a (meth)acrylate functionalized terminal end that may be (co)polymerized with radically polymerizable monomers, such as alkyl(meth)acrylate monomers. Alternatively, a copolymer may be obtained by first deriving a poly(meth)acrylate from (meth)acrylate monomers having reactive groups that would allow the macromonomer precursors to be grafted onto the poly(meth)acrylate in a second step. The resulting copolymer may be incorporated as an additive in various formulations, such as a lubricant, a hydraulic fluid, a cosmetic composition, and an adhesive composition.
US11117981B2
The present invention relates to a photopolymer composition comprising: a polymer matrix or a precursor thereof including a reaction product of a polyol including a polyrotaxane compound and a compound containing at least one isocyanate group; a photoreactive monomer; and a photoinitiator. The present invention also relates to a hologram recording medium produced from the photopolymer composition, an optical element comprising the hologram recording medium, and a holographic recording method using the photopolymer composition.
US11117974B2
The present invention provides anti-presepsin polyclonal antibodies specifically binding to a peptide comprising an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1. As a result, anti-presepsin polyclonal antibodies which have less variation in measured values between lot-to-lot differences of antibodies compared to S68 antibodies and thus suitable anti-presepsin polyclonal antibodies for presepsin measurement are provided.
US11117970B2
The present invention provides antibodies that bind to the T-cell co-inhibitor ligand programmed death-ligand1 (PD-L1) protein, and methods of use. In various embodiments of the invention, the antibodies are fully human antibodies that bind to PD-L1. In certain embodiments, the present invention provides multi-specific antigen-binding molecules comprising a first binding specificity that binds to PD-L1 and a second binding specificity that binds to a tumor cell antigen, an infected cell-specific antigen, or a T-cell co-inhibitor. In some embodiments, the antibodies of the invention are useful for inhibiting or neutralizing PD-L1 activity, thus providing a means of treating a disease or disorder such as cancer or viral infection.
US11117969B2
This application relates generally to the production of polypeptides having specific antigen-binding properties of Fv domains, for example, insertable variable fragments of antibodies, and modified α1-α2 domains of NKG2D ligands. This application further relates to modified α1-α2 domains of NKG2D ligands attached to polypeptides, in some embodiments antibodies or fragments of antibodies. This application further relates to antigen-binding peptides derived from light and heavy chain antibody variable domains, which contain two linker regions and a split variable domain.
US11117963B2
The invention relates to an antibody which binds to myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG), an antibody fragment thereof, a hybridoma which produces the antibody or the antibody fragment, a nucleic acid containing a nucleotide sequence which encodes the antibody or the antibody fragment, a transformant cell containing a vector containing the nucleic acid, a method for producing the antibody or the antibody fragment, a composition containing the antibody or the antibody fragment and a method for detecting or measuring an antigen that is present in the brain, a method for diagnosing or treating a brain disease, a method for improving the property of an antibody of accumulating in the brain and a method for increasing the amount of an antibody in the brain which use the antibody or the antibody fragment.
US11117952B2
The invention provides polymeric H-NOX proteins for the delivery of oxygen with longer circulation half-lives compared to monomeric H-NOX proteins. Polymeric H-NOX proteins extravasate into and preferentially accumulate in tumor tissue for sustained delivery of oxygen. The invention also provides the use of H-NOX proteins as radiosensitizers for the treatment of brain cancers.
US11117950B2
Provided herein are variant CD80 polypeptides, immunomodulatory proteins comprising variant CD80 polypeptides, and nucleic acids encoding such proteins. The immunomodulatory proteins provide therapeutic utility for a variety of immunological and oncological conditions. Compositions and methods for making and using such proteins are provided.
US11117949B2
Provided herein are variant CD80 polypeptides, immunomodulatory proteins comprising variant CD80 polypeptides, and nucleic acids encoding such proteins. The immunomodulatory proteins provide therapeutic utility for a variety of immunological and oncological conditions. Compositions and methods for making and using such proteins are provided.
US11117947B2
The invention relates to a derivative of a GLP-1 analogue, which analogue comprises a first K residue at a position corresponding to position 27 of GLP-1(7-37) (SEQ ID NO: 1); a second K residue at a position corresponding to position T of GLP-1(7-37), where T is an integer in the range of 7-37 except 18 and 27; and a maximum of ten amino acid changes as compared to GLP-1(7-37); wherein the first K residue is designated K27, and the second K residue is designated KT; which derivative comprises two albumin binding moieties attached to K27 and KT, respectively, via a linker, wherein the albumin binding moiety comprises a protracting moiety selected from HOOC—(CH2)x—CO— and HOOC—C6H4—O—(CH2)y—CO—; in which x is an integer in the range of 6-16, and y is an integer in the range of 3-17; wherein the linker comprises an element of the formula —NH—(CH2)2—(O—(CH2)2)k—O—(CH2)n—CO—, wherein k is an integer in the range of 1-5, and n is an integer in the range of 1-5; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, amide, or ester thereof. The invention also relates to the pharmaceutical use thereof, for example in the treatment and/or prevention of all forms of diabetes and related diseases, as well as to corresponding novel GLP-1 analogues. The derivatives are suitable for oral administration.
US11117945B2
The present disclosure provides variant immunomodulatory polypeptides, and fusion polypeptides comprising the variant immunomodulatory peptides. The present disclosure provides T-cell modulatory multimeric polypeptides, and compositions comprising same, where the T-cell modulatory multimeric polypeptides comprise a variant immunomodulatory polypeptide of the present disclosure. The present disclosure provides nucleic acids comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the T-cell modulatory multimeric polypeptides, and host cells comprising the nucleic acids. The present disclosure provides methods of modulating the activity of a T cell; the methods comprise contacting the T cell with a T-cell modulatory multimeric polypeptide of the present disclosure.
US11117943B2
Novel human interleukin-2 (IL-2) muteins or variants thereof, and nucleic acid molecules and variants thereof are provided. Methods for producing these muteins as well as methods for stimulating the immune system of an animal are also disclosed. In addition, the invention provides recombinant expression vectors comprising the nucleic acid molecules of this invention and host cells into which expression vectors have been introduced. Pharmaceutical compositions are included comprising a therapeutically effective amount of a human IL-2 mutein of the invention and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The IL-2 muteins can be used in pharmaceutical compositions for use in treatment of cancer and in stimulating the immune response.
US11117942B2
Compositions and methods are provided for treating companion animals are provided. An adeno-associated viral vector is provided which includes a nucleic acid molecule comprising a sequence encoding erythropoietin (EPO). In desired embodiments, the subject is a cat or dog.
US11117935B2
Disclosed herein are botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) polypeptides with a modified BoNT/B4 receptor binding domain (B4-HC) having amino acid mutations that modify the binding of the BoNT to the human SytII receptor. Specific mutations and combinations of mutations are disclosed. Isolated modified HCs, polypeptides comprising such modified HCs, chimeric molecules, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of making and using the same are also disclosed. Methods of identifying additional such modified receptor binding domains, are further disclosed.
US11117934B2
Disclosed herein, in certain embodiments, are recombinant myxoma viruses (MYXVs) and nucleic acid constructs encoding the recombinant MYXVs. In some embodiments, the MYXVs are engineered to inactivate or attenuate an activity or expression level of an M153 protein. In some embodiments, the MYXVs are engineered to express one or more transgenes such as a tumor necrosis factor (TNF), interleukin-12 (IL-12), or decorin. Also disclosed herein, in certain embodiments, are methods of using the MYXVs. Some embodiments include providing a MYXV as described herein to a subject in need thereof.
US11117921B2
The present invention provides methods, compositions, mixtures and kits utilizing deoxynucleoside triphosphates comprising a 3′-O position capped by a group comprising methylenedisulfide as a cleavable protecting group and a detectable label reversibly connected to the nucleobase of said deoxynucleoside. Such compounds provide new possibilities for future sequencing technologies, including but not limited to Sequencing by Synthesis.
US11117917B2
Disclosed herein is a modular composition comprising 1) an oligonucleotide; 2) one or more tetraGalNAc ligands of Formula (I), which may be the same or different; optionally, 3) one or more linkers, which may be the same or different; 4) one or more peptides independently selected from Table 3, which may be the same or different; and optionally, 5) one or more targeting ligands, solubilizing agents, pharmacokinetics enhancing agents, lipids, and/or masking agents.
US11117910B2
Provided are an organometallic compound, an organic light-emitting device including the organometallic compound represented by Formula 1, and an organic light-emitting apparatus including the organic light-emitting device. The organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic layer including an emission layer and at least one of the organometallic compound represented by Formula 1.
US11117898B2
Disclosed are a pyrazolo-heteroaryl derivative, a preparation method and medical use thereof. In particular, this invention relates to a new pyrazolo-heteroaryl derivative as shown in the general formula (I), a preparation method thereof and a pharmaceutical composition containing the derivative and the use thereof as a therapeutic agent, in particular as a TLR7 agonist, wherein each substituent in the general formula (I) is defined in the description.
US11117896B2
A process for preparing a diazabicyclooctane compound represented by the following formula (I): wherein A represents RcO—; B represents NH or NC1-6 alkyl; C represents a benzyl group; Rc represents a C1-6 alkyl group; A is substituted with one substituent Fn1, wherein Fn1 represents an azetidine group; the process including: (a) silylating the compound represented by the following formula (IV-c): wherein in the formula (IV-c), OBn represents benzyloxy, and (b) carrying out an intramolecular urea formation reaction.
US11117894B2
Disclosed herein, inter alia, are pyridopyrazines and methods of using the same.
US11117891B2
The present invention provides a compound of Formula II wherein X is selected from the group consisting of CH and N; Q is selected from the group consisting of CH3 and H; R is selected from the group consisting of and; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, compositions, methods to treat liver disease and NASH.
US11117880B2
This disclosure relates generally to the facile and selective mono-perfluoro and poly-fluoroarylation of Meldrum's acid to generate a versatile synthon for highly fluorinated alpha-phenyl acetic acid derivatives which provide straightforward access to fluorinated building blocks. The reaction takes place quickly and all products were isolated without the need for chromatography. An embodiment provides an alternative strategy to access alpha-arylated Meldrum's acids which avoids the need for aryl-Pb(IV) salts or diaryliodonium salts and provides access to the tertiary product which was not previously synthetically accessible. The synthetic versatility and utility of the Meldrum's acid products is demonstrated by subjecting the products to several derivatizations of the Meldrum's acid products as well as photocatalytic hydrodefluorination which provide access to difficult but valuable synthetic targets such as multifluorinated aromatics.
US11117869B2
Provided herein are 8-methyl-8-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-3-yl and pyridin-4-ylmethanyl ester and amide compounds and compositions. Also provided herein are methods of preventing or delaying the onset of myopia in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering the compounds or compositions provided herein to the subject. Also provided herein are methods of reducing or preventing the progression of myopia in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering the compounds or compositions provided herein to the subject.
US11117865B2
Certain embodiments are directed to small molecule selective inhibitors of the BRD4 bromodomain. Compounds described herein can be used to modulate the bronchiolar NFkB-BRD4 axis, which plays a role in acute neutrophilic response to viral molecular patterns. Compounds described herein can be developed as preventive and therapeutic agents for various human diseases and conditions.
US11117858B2
Provided herein are radiolabeled compounds useful for minimally invasive imaging techniques. An exemplary radiolabeled compound provided herein is useful as a radiotracer for position emission tomography imaging of voltage gated sodium channels. Methods for prepared unlabeled and labeled compounds, and diagnostic methods using the compounds are also provided.
US11117855B2
The present invention describes a new crystalline form of triethylenetetramine tetrachloride which has improved room temperature stability over known forms and over the dichloride salt. The new crystalline form is characterised by having peaks in an XRPD spectrum at 22.9, 25.4, 25.8, 26.6, 34.6 and 35.3±0.1°2θ and Raman shifts 943, 1173, 1527 and 1612±5 cm−1. The crystalline form of triethylenetetramine tetrachloride is useful in the treatment of Wilson's disease.
US11117845B2
A catalyst system comprising i) a 2-[(phosphinyl)aminyl] cyclic imine transition metal compound complex and ii) an organoaluminum compound. A process comprising contacting i) ethylene, ii) a catalyst system comprising (a) a 2-[(phosphinyl)aminyl] cyclic imine transition metal compound complex, and (b) an organoaluminum compound, and iii) optionally hydrogen to form an oligomer product.
US11117842B2
Encapsulated seeds, processes for making encapsulated seeds and processes for establishing and improving seed beds and seed bed germination. The encapsulated seeds improve soil productivity through enhancements in soil fertility, soil condition/tilth, and control of soil moisture.
US11117841B2
Provided herein is technology relating to organic fertilizers and particularly, but not exclusively, to organic and/or biodegradable flocculants, methods of preparing organic fertilizers using an organic and/or biodegradable flocculant, and systems for treating water using an organic and/or biodegradable flocculant to prepare an organic fertilizer.
US11117836B2
An ultra-stable structural laminate with fire resistance and a lateral nail pull strength from 44 to 300 pounds of force and an insulation R value from 1 to 40, the ultra-stable structural laminate of a cementious material with a nano-molecular veneer and a foam component catalytically reacted into an expanded closed cell foam having a thickness from ⅛th inch to 8 inches, a density from 1.5 pounds/cubic foot to 3 pounds/cubic foot that self-adheres to the cementitious material forming an ultra-stable structural laminate with fire resistance and a lateral nail pull strength from 44 pounds to 300 pounds of force, an insulation R value from 1 to 40, a resistance to seismic impact for earthquakes over 3.1 on the Richter Scale, a break point from 7 lbs/inch to 100 lbs/inch; and a resistance to wind shear equivalent to a 15 mph downburst.
US11117833B2
This rapid-hardening mortar composition includes: a rapid-hardening admixture; cement; and a fine aggregate, wherein the cement is contained in an amount of 100 parts by mass to 2,000 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the rapid-hardening admixture, the rapid-hardening admixture is a composition that contains: calcium aluminate; inorganic sulfate in an amount of 50 parts by mass to 200 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the calcium aluminate; and a setting modifier in an amount of 0.1 parts by mass to 10 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the calcium aluminate, and an average particle diameter of the calcium aluminate is in a range of 8 μm to 100 μm, and an average particle diameter of the setting modifier is in a range of 5 μm or less.
US11117823B1
Methods and systems are provided for wastewater treatment that yields zero liquid discharge (ZLD). These include pre-treating provided wastewater from any contaminated water source to remove heavy metals, ultra-filtering the pre-treated wastewater to remove suspended and colloidal solids, nano-filtering the ultra-filtered wastewater to yield treated water (with monovalent ions) and a concentrate, treating the concentrate to remove di- and tri-valent elements and other compounds from the concentrate, and to reduce a level of sulfates to a specified level which is above a solubility level of sulfates—to yield returned water, and sludge, mixing the returned water with the provided wastewater before or at the first treatment stage and/or with the pre-treated wastewater before the ultrafiltration, and removing residual water from the sludge to yield removed solids with ZLD. Advantageously, disclosed processes and systems are efficient, cheaper and more sustainable than prior art systems.
US11117797B2
The present invention discloses a MEMS device and an electronics apparatus. The MEMS device comprises: a substrate; a MEMS element placed on the substrate; a cover encapsulating the MEMS element together with the substrate; and a port for the MEMS element to access outside, wherein the port is provided with a filter which has mesh holes and includes electrets to prevent particles from entering into the MEMS element.
US11117793B1
A contactless autofill dispenser includes a housing and a dispense area for receiving a cup. The dispenser includes a supply of consumable product disposed within the housing. The dispenser includes an outlet connected to the supply and extending from the housing into the dispense area for dispensing the consumable product into the cup. The dispenser includes a controller disposed within the housing and connected to the supply, wherein the controller is configured to control dispensing of the consumable product from the outlet. The dispenser includes a time of flight sensor attached to or with a direct line of sight into the dispense area and connected to the controller.
US11117788B1
Provided is a guide rail cleaning device, including: a first cleaning portion including a first cleaning member configured to clean a driving-roller guide rail for a step; a second cleaning portion including a second cleaning member configured to clean a trailing-roller guide rail; and a mounting plate. The mounting plate is removably mounted to a step shaft having a driving roller fixed thereto. The first cleaning portion and the second cleaning portion are mounted to the mounting plate. The first cleaning member is brought into abutment against the driving-roller guide rail. The second cleaning member is brought into abutment against the trailing-roller guide rail. With this, the driving-roller guide rail and the trailing-roller guide rail are simultaneously cleaned through use of the first cleaning member and the second cleaning member.
US11117787B2
An illustrative example embodiment of elevator sheave liner includes a rigid central portion made of a first material and a resilient outer portion made of a second material. The central portion defines a traction surface that is configured to receive an elevator tension member. The outer portion defines an engagement surface that is configured to secure the sheave liner to an elevator sheave.
US11117765B2
An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a paper-feed unit, a developing unit to form an image in a printing medium, an insertion unit including first and second rollers configured to insert the printing medium conveyed from the paper-feed unit into the developing unit, and a guide unit rotatably disposed about a rotation shaft of the first roller and configured to guide the printing medium moving from the paper-feed unit to the insertion unit and selectively press the first roller to the second roller.
US11117757B2
A linear conveyor device is installed on a platform having an upper surface which serves as a predetermined installation surface. The linear conveyor device includes a linear motor stator; a slider which includes a linear motor mover; a straight-line conveyance part formed by linearly connecting a plurality of modules to each other, the modules each including a base frame that has an upper surface having guide rails for guiding the movement of the slider and a lower surface facing the platform; and a base member disposed between the upper surface of the platform and the lower surfaces of the modules at a connecting portion between the modules, and configured to position and support the pair of modules to be connected to each other.
US11117755B2
There is provided an electronic component handler for transporting an electronic component, the handler including a shuttle having a placement surface on which the electronic component is placed and moving from a first position to a second position, and a positioning unit provided in the shuttle and positioning the electronic component by coming into contact with the electronic component placed on the placement surface, in which the positioning unit has a first positioning member and a second positioning member that are driven to move or rotate with respect to the shuttle, when the shuttle is located at the first position, the electronic component is placed on the placement surface, and a distance between the first positioning member and the second positioning member when the shuttle is located at the first position is longer than a distance between the first positioning member and the second positioning member when the shuttle is located at the second position.
US11117743B2
A storage array system including an open undeterministic transport surface, a navigation array disposed in connection with the transport surface, the navigation array includes a distributed feature, a first waypoint at a first position of the distributed feature, a second waypoint displaced from the first waypoint along the distributed feature and offset with respect to the first waypoint in a direction angled to the distributed feature, and a guided bot, arranged to traverse the transport surface, with a non-holonomic steering system, the guided bot having a bot pose determination system employing sensor data detecting the distributed feature, wherein the guided bot includes a controller configured to generate a substantially smooth curved bot traverse path on the transport surface connecting the first and second waypoints with a predetermined optimal trajectory of the guided bot along the traverse path determined based on a bot dynamic model.
US11117738B2
A drinkware flavor applicator comprising a housing with an opening, an internal reservoir, a stop plate, a filter and a seal. Flavoring is stored in the reservoir and/or in the filter. The flavor applicator is placed over the drinking end of a bottle and flavoring stored in the reservoir and/or filter is transferred to the bottle.
US11117735B2
A valve assembly for a dispenser. The valve assembly includes a valve body that extends about a longitudinal axis and defines an outer surface and an inner passageway. A valve stem extends through the inner passageway and includes an outer stem surface, an inner stem surface opposite the outer stem surface, a fin extending radially outward from the outer stem surface, and a first orifice extending from the outer stem surface to the inner stem surface. The fin operatively engages a portion of the inner passageway forming a first seal and providing controlled dispensing through the orifice. A valve seal may be joined to the valve steam. The vale seal may operatively engage a portion of the valve body forming a second seal.
US11117728B2
A blister and package system made of a blister card and an outer package with unique interacting locking mechanisms. The blister card or strip is inserted into the outer package or sleeve and locks immediately without having to further process the outer package or the blister card or strip. The user is able to expose the blisters from the outer package by disengaging the lock. The blister card or strip includes a formable, pliable sheet material, into which one or more individual cavities or blisters are formed. The separated cavities are loaded with product and sealed with one or more layers of puncturable or tearable sheet material, such as aluminum foil. The blister card or strip contains a plastic rivet assembly that forms an interference mechanism. The rivet is trapped by an internally formed panel and stopped by a catch flap included in the outer package.
US11117727B2
A system and method for storing, shipping, preserving and ripening produce. Packaging of respiring produce, particularly avocados, in sealed tray systems. The tray systems include a lower bowl-shaped tray having an upper lip to which a flexible film is adhered. The flexible film has an aperture covered by a breathable membrane. The film permits passage of water vapor to reduce the chance of mold formation during packaging and shipping. The breathable membrane controls gaseous exchange at different temperatures and has pores that open above the threshold temperature. The breathable membrane alters the O2 and CO2 within the tray above the threshold temperature, thus slowing up the ripening process at elevated temperatures.
US11117725B2
The present invention provides a novel packaging material for sterilization which has processing suitability as a packaging material, is compatible with all sterilization processing methods such as those performed under high-temperature conditions, has small variation in shapes and dimensions, and is capable of maintaining an internal sterilized condition. This packaging material for sterilization is configured from at least two layers of laminated non-woven fabrics comprising a non-woven fabric layer (I) formed of continuous long fibers having an average fiber diameter of 5-30 μm and a non-woven fabric layer (II) formed of ultra-fine fibers having an average fiber diameter of 0.1-4 μm.
US11117719B2
A container cap with a body having a lower portion with internal threads for connecting to a container, and an upper portion defining a main opening. The upper cap portion having a first surface defining a partial opening and a stem protruding through the main opening. The lower cap portion having a second surface defining a partial opening. The upper and lower cap portions configured to rotate with respect to one another such that the partial openings align between a closed position and an open position to selectively permit fluid flow therethrough. A method for capping a container.
US11117717B2
A container latching system has an open container with a container lid with extended lip sections. Two slide lock latches are located over the lip sections on opposite sides of the lid. With the lid covering the container, the lip sections overlay the top edges of the container, the slide lock latches overlay a portion of the lip sections, and track slider members in each slide lock latch move along the lip sections to lock and seal the lid to the container.
US11117714B2
A storage container has a lid and a base, a first releasable locking mechanism including a snap-fit coupling between the lid and the base and a second releasable locking mechanism including a hinged coupling between the lid and the base.
US11117709B2
A modular container system has an interior dividable into compartments of variable size and includes a base having a bottom and sidewalls extending from the bottom to define an interior volume. At least one opposing pair of the sidewalls have regions arranged opposite each other, each of the regions including protrusions to form pairs of opposing protrusions, each of the regions further including indents positioned in correspondence with the protrusions. At least one barrier extends between the opposing protrusions to divide the interior volume of the base into a plurality of compartments. The barrier has an elongate body and a tab portion extending from each end of the body. Each tab portion is bendable to orient an underside of each tab portion to face a respective protrusion, a longitudinal end of each said tab portion engaging with a corresponding indent, to form a press-fit coupling.
US11117706B2
A dispensing basket includes a pair of opposed side walls and a back wall that extends between the opposed side walls. A pair of front walls extend from the side walls in a direction towards each other and angled away from the back wall. The pair of front walls form a funnel with an opening between the pair of front walls. A floor extends between lower ends of the side walls, the back wall, and the front walls.
US11117701B2
A container including a body having a base defining a closed end, a finish defining an opposite open end, and a sidewall between the base and finish. The base includes a support surface defining a reference plane and a contoured base recess extending inwardly from the support surface to a maximum base recess height “hbrmax” from the plane. The sidewall includes a concave rib extending circumferentially around the body. A center of the rib is disposed at a rib height “hr” from the plane. The ratio “hbrmax:hr” is between 1:3 and 1:5. The rib includes a radiused transition surface extending from the base to an angled inner surface and having a radius of curvature “r1” of at least 0.10 inches. The angled inner surface has an angle “a” relative to the plane of between 28 and 80 degrees. A method and mold assembly for making the container are also provided.
US11117700B2
Preforms and methods of processing 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) polymers, such as poly(ethylene-2,5-furandicaboxylate (PEF), to produce preforms and articles, such as containers. The present invention also includes preforms with superior processing characteristics and containers, such as PEF beverage bottles, with superior performance properties.
US11117691B2
An automatic packaging machine, comprising an input conveyor belt, a reel holder, containing a reel of single-fold film, a contoured shaped film former, a sealing bar, a collecting device, an output conveyor belt, and a pulling device with at least an upper driving wheel and a lower driving wheel in contact with a layer of single-fold film interposed between said wheels which, rotating in opposite directions, move the single-fold film along the automatic packaging machine; a drive shaft, which transfers a rotational motion to the driving wheels to move the single-fold film along the automatic packaging machine; a lifting actuator, which moves the upper driving wheel away from the lower driving wheel (or vice versa) when sealing the single-fold film, so as to reduce the tension exerted by the driving wheels on the single-fold film during the sealing step and having a lifting actuator actuated by the drive shaft.
US11117687B2
A near space aircraft pod, including a pod body and a covering piece, where a heat dissipation part is disposed on the pod body for dissipating heat inside the pod body; and the covering piece is connected to the outside of the pod body in a movable manner, for covering the heat dissipation part or keeping a pre-designed distance from the heat dissipation part. According to the near space aircraft pod provided in the embodiments, the covering piece can adjust a distance from the heat dissipation part in time or cover the heat dissipation part based on a temperature change. Therefore, a heat dissipation speed of the pod can be effectively controlled, so that temperature inside the pod is kept in a proper range, and it is ensured that electronic devices in the pod operate under a good temperature environment.
US11117673B2
An aircraft includes a compartment assembly having a blowout panel and a packboard configured to stow an evacuation system. The blowout panel may comprise a cover having a bracket mount and a bracket coupled to the bracket mount. The bracket may comprise a mating portion, a flange extending from the mating portion, a curved portion extending from the flange away from the blowout panel, and a lip portion extending from the curved portion opposite the direction of the curved portion. The packboard may comprise a slot configured to receive the bracket.
US11117671B2
An ice-breaking system for an aircraft, comprising a pneumatic ice-breaking device, an air inlet adapted to receive air from the environment outside the aircraft and an air outlet adapted to discharge air into the outside environment, and a motorized valve having an air loading port connected to the air inlet and an air discharge port connected to the air outlet, the valve being configured to supply air to the pneumatic ice-breaking device in a pulsating way. When the aircraft is in motion, the kinetic energy of the air at the air inlet and originating from the relative motion between the air and the aircraft is converted into air pressure at the pneumatic ice-breaking device, and the air outlet is positioned so that when the aircraft is in motion the air pressure at the air outlet is lower than the outside ambient pressure.
US11117666B2
A precision delivery vehicle having a vehicle body assembly, a fixed wing system, a rotor system and a guidance system. The vehicle body assembly can retain a payload. The fixed wing system includes first and second wings coupled to the vehicle body for fixed wing flight. The rotor system includes a mast structure, a rotor hub rotatable about the mast structure and at least two rotor blades coupled to the rotor hub and rotatable with the rotor hub relative to the mast structure. The at least two rotor blades are movable between a collapsed configuration and a deployed configuration. In the collapsed configuration, the precision delivery vehicle is in fixed wing flight. Upon placement of the at least two rotor blades into the deployed configuration, the precision delivery vehicle is placed into rotative flight. The guidance system is structurally configured to direct the precision delivery vehicle to a target.
US11117658B2
A propulsion system for an aerial vehicle or toy aerial vehicle is disclosed. The system comprises a ducted fan or shrouded propeller drive system for driving the vehicle along ground, the ducted fan or shrouded propeller drive system operating in a plane and having a peripheral ground-engagement part or hubless wheel. The system further comprises a ducted fan or shrouded propeller comprising one or more blades rotatable about a ducted fan or shrouded propeller axis for producing thrust, wherein the ducted fan or shrouded propeller is mounted as such that it may tilt or rotate so that during ground travel it may be in the same plane as the hubless wheel and during operation of the ducted fan or shrouded propeller for flight the blades pass through the plane and inside the hubless wheel. In this way, the ducted fan or shrouded propeller blades of the drive system are protected from blade strikes on obstacles and personnel operating around the ducted fan or shrouded propeller drive system are protected from harm from exposed rotors or blades with no duct or shroud surrounding them.
US11117656B2
Systems and methods relate to a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) platform that can include a stator and a rotor magnetically levitated by the stator. The rotor and stator can be annular, such that the rotor rotates about a rotational axis. The stator can include magnets that provide guidance, levitation, and drive forces to drive the rotor, as well as to control operation of rotor blades of the rotor that can be independently rotated to specific pitch angles to control at least one of lift, pitch, roll, or yaw of the VTOL platform. Various controllers can be used to enable independent and redundant control of components of the VTOL platform.
US11117655B2
An exemplary tail rotor includes a first blade assembly configured to rotate in a first direction about an axis of rotation and a second blade assembly configured to rotate in a second direction about the axis of rotation.
US11117654B2
A method of controlling a tail rotor system includes pivoting a swashplate of the tail rotor system about an axis passing through a diameter of the swashplate. Pivoting the swashplate causes a first linkage of a first pair of linkages coupled between the swashplate and a collective crosshead to move in a first direction and a second linkage of the first pair of linkages coupled between the swashplate and the collective crosshead to move in a second direction that is opposite the first direction. The movement of the first and second linkages causes a plane of rotation of a pair of rotors of the tail rotor system to cant relative to a centerline of a mast of the tail rotor system. A tail rotor system is also disclosed.
US11117649B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle with deployable components (UAVDC) is disclosed. The UAVDC may comprise a fuselage, at least one wing, and at least one control surface. In some embodiments, the UAVDC may further comprise a propulsion means and/or a modular payload. The UAVDC may be configured in a plurality of arrangements. For example, in a compact arrangement, the UAVDC may comprise the at least one wing stowed against the fuselage and the at least one control surface stowed against the fuselage. In a deployed arrangement, the UAVDC may comprise the at least one wing deployed from the fuselage and the least one control surface deployed from the fuselage. In an expanded arrangement, the UAVDC may comprise the at least one wing telescoped to increase a wingspan of the deployed arrangement. The UAVDC may also comprise a foldable propeller blade with a locking mechanism. Foldable propeller blades may have a stowed configuration and a deployed configuration, and the foldable propeller blades may pivot about a hinge to move between configurations. A foldable propeller blade in a deployed configuration may experience forward folding motion due to forces acting upon it. A locking mechanism—for example, a ratchet and pawl—may lock a foldable propeller blade into a configuration. In a locked arrangement, a UAVDC may comprise at least one foldable propeller that locks into place to prevent forward folding tendency.
US11117648B2
A linkage mechanism for a flaperon includes a support structure linkage, a droop panel linkage, and a flaperon linkage. The support structure linkage is pivotally attached to a support structure of a wing of an aircraft. The droop panel linkage is pivotally attached a droop panel. The flaperon linkage is pivotally attached to a flaperon. A second end of the droop panel linkage and a second end of the flaperon linkage are pivotally attached to a connecting section of the support structure linkage. The connecting section is spaced apart from the pivot end of the support structure linkage such that the linkage mechanism transfers a pivoting motion from the flaperon into a pivoting motion of the droop panel.
US11117647B2
Aircraft wing assemblies are disclosed herein. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes a trailing edge of a wing of an aircraft. The trailing edge has an elastically deformable skin defining a first surface. The trailing edge has a first end to be fixed to the wing and a second end opposite the first end that is to move relative to the first end. A flap is movably coupled to the second end of the trailing edge. The flap is movable between a stowed position and a deployed position. The trailing edge is to elastically elongate when the flap moves from the stowed position to the deployed position and the trailing edge is to elastically collapse when the flap moves from the deployed position to the stowed position.
US11117640B2
An electrically assisted bicycle assist force calculation method includes obtaining from a pedaling force sensor an instant pedaling force applied to a pedal, obtaining a crank advance angle of a crankshaft from an advance angle sensor having a resolution of less than 90°, and determining an assist force based on at least the instant pedaling force and the crank advance angle.
US11117638B2
A bicycle frame includes an antenna and is formed with the antenna as an integrated part of the frame structure, and the antenna constituting part of the outside of the bicycle frame. In a method of equipping a bicycle frame made from carbon with an antenna, the antenna is interwoven with the carbon structure of the bicycle frame as part of the production of the bicycle frame.
US11117635B2
A system for adjusting the damper force on the suspension system of a bicycle is provided. Sensors are placed on the front shock and rear shock to measure the amplitude of displacement or acceleration in the time domain and generate a zenith position, velocity, force, and work based on the measured values. The system calculates a curve fit approximation curve for the relationships of zenith position versus velocity and uses the approximation curves to generate and display recommended damper settings for the front shock and rear shock. Using the data ensures that the bicycle suspension data is balanced, such that the front shock and rear shock respond similarly to the same event.
US11117630B2
A trailer enclosure which is very easy to load and unload, by providing a trailer platform, with an enclosure which has a closed position and a raised position, and which is raised and lowered by a lift mechanism connected to the enclosure which raises the enclosure to the raised position, and can also lower the enclosure to its closed position.
US11117627B2
This disclosure details overmolded vehicle sheet metal structures that included integrated attachments for achieving part integration. An exemplary sheet metal structure includes a sheet metal panel, a reinforcing structure molded on the sheet metal panel, and an integrally molded attachment structure formed within the reinforcing structure. In some embodiments, the integrally molded attachment structure may include a nut, a bracket, or both. An additional vehicle component may be attached to the sheet metal panel via the integrally molded attachment structure. The sheet metal structure may be formed in a single shot injection molding process.
US11117624B2
An automotive framework member 1 includes a first steel sheet 10, a second steel sheet 20, and a first weld metal part 40 joining an interface between the first steel sheet 10 and the second steel sheet 20, in which tensile strength of the first steel sheet 10 is 1.0 GPa or more and 1.6 GPa or less, tensile strength of the second steel sheet 20 is 1.8 GPa or more and 2.5 GPa or less, the first steel sheet 10 includes a groove part 18, the second steel sheet 20 is overlapped with the groove part 18, and a minimum Vickers hardness of a region within 4 mm of a periphery of the first weld metal part 40 of the second steel sheet 20 is 80% or more of a hardness of an outside of the region of the second steel sheet 20.
US11117621B2
The invention relates to a side wall rear component (14) for a passenger vehicle (13), having at least one outer wall (4) and at least one wall reinforcement (15) reinforcing the outer wall (4) on the inner side (5) thereof. In order to ensure that a front-side end portion of the side wall rear component (14), which shifts on the front side in the event of a rear-end collision, reliably pushes on the inside via a rear-side end portion of a vehicle door (3), which is arranged on a front side with respect to the side wall rear component (14), at least one sliding slope (17) is arranged on a front-side end portion (16) of the wall reinforcement (15), the front-side end of which sliding slope is spaced apart in a transverse direction (Y) of the vehicle further from an outer surface (18), which forms a vehicle outer skin portion, of the outer wall (4) than a rear-side end of the sliding slope (17).
US11117614B2
A method for scaling a stability signal in a steering system is provided and includes computing, by a torque boost module, an assist torque command to cause a motor of the steering system to generate an assist torque. Further, the method includes computing, by a stability compensation module, a stabilized torque command based on an input signal, the stabilized torque command modifying the assist torque command. Further, the method includes computing, by a stability monitoring module, a stability scaling factor to adjust the stabilized torque command based on a duration and severity of an instability detected in the input signal.
US11117612B2
Technical solutions are described for attenuating dither noise in a steering system. An example method includes computing multiple filter parameters, each filter parameter based on a corresponding signal in the steering system. The method further includes determining at least one final filter parameter from the plurality of filter parameters by arbitrating the plurality of filter parameters. The method further includes dynamically configuring a filter using the at least one final filter parameter. Further, the method includes filtering a motor torque command using the filter, a filtered motor torque command being applied to a motor to generate a corresponding amount of torque.
US11117609B2
A steering wheel includes a steering wheel axis, a hub for fastening the steering wheel to a steering shaft rotatable about a steering wheel axis, and a steering wheel rim connected to the hub and at least partially surrounding the hub in the circumferential direction. A mounting projection for fastening an operating unit is formed on the steering wheel rim and includes a coupling element for detachably fastening the operating unit as well as a positioning portion for fixing the operating unit in position.
US11117607B1
A hand truck for moving an irregularly shaped object includes a rack alternately positionable between first and second use positions. In the first use position two support arms extend forwardly from the frame and in the second use position a substantially planar platform extends forwardly from the frame. The rack is adjustably positionable along the length of the frame. In embodiments, the support arms are positionable to vary the width therebetween. In other embodiments, a pivoting mechanism allows the rack to be readily positioned between the first and second use positions.
US11117606B2
A personal shopping cart includes a supporting frame hingedly connected to a base frame; a plurality of wheels; a detachable support assembly including opposing first and second horizontal support members; opposing first and second side members each being sized and configured for selective attachment to and detachment from a corresponding one of the opposing first and second horizontal support members; a support surface secured between the opposing first and second side members; and wherein the side members and the support surface collectively form a receptacle that is sized for receipt of a shopping basket; wherein the receptacle is detached from the opposing first and second horizontal support members; and wherein the base frame and the opposing first and second horizontal support members are structured and disposed to be folded against the supporting frame when the personal shopping cart is stored.
US11117602B2
A wheelbarrow having an adjustable handle. The wheelbarrow has a bucket portion having a pair of sides and an axle accepting portion therein. An axle member is provided for insertion through the axle engagement member. The axle member has a pair of outer peripheral ends spaced on either side of the pair of sides. A pair of handles are pivotally attached to each of the pair of outer peripheral ends for allowing the handle to pivot away from the bucket portion of the wheelbarrow. Each side of the wheelbarrow has surfaces defining a plurality of handle engaging areas such that the handle may selectively be engaged in an area at a first position and selectively disengaged to move the handle to a second position. Each handle has a handle end portion which includes grip portions corresponding to the number of positions for the handles wherein each grip portion is configured at an angle for being substantially parallel to the ground when in a corresponding position in a selected corresponding slot in the wheelbarrow.
US11117599B2
An air flow regulator for a railway vehicle is configured so that the rattling of bars can be prevented without using welding, an affixation member, etc. An intake grill is provided at an intake opening for sucking air from an interior of a railway vehicle. The intake grill includes a frame, bars, and a reinforcement capable of deforming the bars. The frame defines an outer edge of the intake opening. The bars are plate-shaped members spanned between portions of the frame to connect the portions to each other. The reinforcement elastically deforms the bars to generate reaction force therein.
US11117598B2
An auto-rack railroad car including a frame, a plurality of upright posts supported by the frame, a deck, and a plurality of deck connector assemblies connecting the deck to the upright posts, each deck connector assembly including at least one wedge.
US11117597B2
In one embodiment, a system receives a captured image perceiving an environment of an ADV from an image capturing device of the ADV, where the captured image identifies an obstacle in motion near the ADV. The system generates a feasible area surrounding the moving obstacle based on a projection of the moving obstacle. If the ADV is within the feasible area, the system determines an upper bound velocity limit for the ADV. The system generates a trajectory having a trajectory velocity less than the upper bound velocity limit to control the ADV autonomously according to the trajectory such that if the ADV is within the feasible area the ADV is to decelerate.
US11117586B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to estimate whether a fellow passenger is included in occupants of a vehicle, when the fellow passenger is included in the occupants, acquire information relating to a driver of the vehicle and information relating to the fellow passenger, estimate a relationship between the driver and the fellow passenger based on the acquired information, and select a control relating to traveling of the vehicle according to the relationship.
US11117583B2
A brake system for an articulated vehicle is disclosed. The brake system includes a brake assembly coupled to a traction device, the brake assembly being configured to apply a brake-assembly pressure based on one of a hydro-mechanical pressure signal and an electro-mechanical pressure signal. A blocking valve is configured to block the hydro-mechanical pressure signal when closed. A brake controller, is configured to transmit an isolation signal configured to close the blocking valve and transmit an ABS control signal that is based on a commanded ABS brake pressure.
US11117580B2
Disclosed are a method for recognizing whether an Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) system operates abnormally based on information on a turn-on state of a brake lamp of a preceding vehicle, and a vehicle terminal therefor. One or more of a vehicle, a vehicle terminal, and an autonomous vehicle disclosed in the present invention may work in conjunction with Artificial Intelligence (AI), Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), a robot, an Augmented Reality (AR) device, a Virtual Reality (VR) device, a 5G service related device, etc.
US11117579B2
A vehicle speed control device 1 includes a lane detection unit 120 configured to detect a road outside line of a lane on which a host vehicle V is traveling, a target detection unit 121 configured to detect a target that is present outside the road outside line, and a speed control unit 123 configured to control a speed of the host vehicle V such that the host vehicle V passes a lateral side of the target at a speed lower than a speed of the host vehicle V when the target has been detected. After the host vehicle V has passed the lateral side of the target, the speed control unit 123 accelerates the host vehicle V up to the speed when the target has been detected.
US11117577B2
A computer includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to identify an error between a predicted steerable path of a vehicle based on data collected according to a first protocol and a predicted lane path based on data collected according to a second protocol and to identify a path fault when the error exceeds an error threshold for an elapsed time exceeding a time threshold.
US11117570B1
An apparatus including a capture device, an illumination device and a processor. The capture device may be configured to generate pixel data corresponding to an exterior view from a vehicle. The illumination device may be configured to generate light for the exterior view. The processor may be configured to generate video frames from the pixel data, perform computer vision operations on the video frames to detect objects in the video frames and generate a control signal. The objects detected may provide data for a vehicle maneuver. The control signal may adjust characteristics of the light generated by the illumination device. The characteristics of the light may be adjusted in response to the objects detected by the processor. The light from the illumination device may facilitate detection of the objects by the processor.
US11117569B2
A parking system for autonomous driving vehicles optimizes a solution to a parking problem. The ADV detects a parking lot and selects a parking space. The ADV defines constraints for the parking lot, parking space, and kinematic constraints of the ADV, and generates a plurality of potential parking paths to the parking space, taking into account the constraints of the parking lot, parking space, and kinematics of the ADV, but without taking into any obstacles that may be surrounding the ADV. The ADV determines a cost for traversing each of the parking paths. One or more least cost candidate paths are selected from the parking paths, then one or more candidate paths are eliminated based on obstacles surrounding the ADV. Remaining candidates can be analyzed using a quadratic optimization system. A best parking path can be selected from the remaining candidates to navigate the ADV to the parking space.
US11117567B2
The disclosure is directed to solving a full trajectory optimization problem in real-time for a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) such that future driving conditions and energy usage may be fully considered in determining optimal engine energy usage and battery energy usage in real-time during a trip. An electronic control unit of the HEV may be configured to: receive route information for a route to be driven by the HEV; and after receiving the route information, iterating the operations of: measuring a current state of charge (SOC) of the battery; using at least the measured SOC and an initial co-state value stored in a memory, performing a process to iteratively update the co-state value to obtain an updated co-state value; using at least the updated co-state value, computing an updated control value; and applying the updated control value to control a usage of the battery and the internal combustion engine.
US11117549B2
In embodiments, Bluetooth® proximity sensors installed in a vehicle are configured to pair with a user mobile device and estimate distances to the user mobile device based on signal strength of the Bluetooth® emissions of the user mobile device. Each sensor, communicates its distance estimates to a vehicle control system (VCS) of the vehicle, using Bluetooth® communications. In response to the distance acre tying above a predetermined distance departure limit, the VCS causes predetermined departure actions to be performed, for example, locking the doors, turning off headlights, and activating the vehicle's security system. In response to the distance decreasing below a predetermined distance arrival limit, the VCS causes predetermined arrival actions to be performed, for example, unlocking the doors, flashing the headlights, beeping the horn, and deactivating the security system.
US11117546B2
Locating systems and methods for wireless seat belt monitoring in vehicles with removable or reconfigurable seats are provided herein. An example device includes a first transceiver associated with a seat belt buckle, the first transceiver having a processor and memory for storing instructions that include a first unique code identifying the first transceiver and a first orientation value of the seat belt buckle to a vehicle receiver, the first orientation value indicating a location of the seat belt buckle on a seat, the processor executes the instructions to transmit the first unique code and the first orientation value to a vehicle receiver.
US11117542B2
A covering member is attached to a case body, on which an actuator detachably holding the other end portion of a tether having one end portion connected to an airbag is mounted, and covers the actuator. The covering member includes an opposing portion that opposes at least a part of the actuator in an attachment direction D to the case body. The covering member includes a side surface portion that is formed to extend from the opposing portion in the attachment direction D and is locked and held by being pushed into the case body in the attachment direction D.
US11117533B1
The emergency power device for electric vehicles is an electrochemical device. The emergency power device for electric vehicles stores chemical potential energy that readily converts into electricity for use with an electric vehicle. The emergency power device for electric vehicles forms a power reserve used to recharge a device selected from the group consisting of: a) an electric vehicle; b) a personal data device; and, c) the combination of the electric vehicle and the personal data device. The emergency power device for electric vehicles independently replenishes the stored chemical potential energy after consumption. By independent is meant that the emergency power device for electric vehicles does not require an electrical connection to an externally provided energy source such as the national electric grid. The emergency power device for electric vehicles comprises a power circuit and a housing. The housing contains the power circuit.
US11117529B2
A capturing camera has a lens block that includes a lens for focusing light from a vehicle as a subject, an image sensor that captures an image based on light from the vehicle focused by the lens, a filter unit that rotatably supports a polarization filter which limits the light from the vehicle received by the image sensor, a sensor that detects a daytime mode or a night mode, a processor that disposes the polarization filter on a front side of the image sensor in the daytime mode, and disposes a band pass filter on the front side of the image sensor in the night mode, and an illuminator that irradiates the subject with IR light in the night mode. The filter unit switchably supports the polarization filter and the band pass filter that transmits the IR light.
US11117528B2
An attachment unit for a vehicle parts is provided which includes an attachment member disposed on a window of a vehicle. The attachment member has a traversing surface which extends in a direction traversing a surface of the window. The vehicle part is brought into contact with the traversing surface and then positioned relative to or secured to the window. This establishes a mechanical joint of the vehicle part to the window with correct alignment therebetween.
US11117525B2
A apparatus includes a trim panel and a displaceable face pane. The trim panel includes a storage compartment and a guideway having a latching slot and a positioning rack. The displaceable face panel has a trunnion received for sliding movement along the guideway.
US11117515B2
A monitoring system includes: a monitoring device that outputs a warning when detecting abnormality of a monitoring target person in an interior of a vehicle; a housing arranged on a surface on the interior side of a roof of the vehicle; and a release operation unit arranged being exposed to an outer face of the housing, the release operation unit being able to receive an input of a warning release operation. The monitoring device, in a state of outputting the warning, releases the warning when the warning release operation is input to the release operation unit. As a result, the monitoring system can appropriately monitor the monitoring target person in the interior of the vehicle.
US11117510B2
A vehicle light assembly includes a fixed structure, at least one light and an image projector. The fixed structure is configured to be assembled to a vehicle body component of a vehicle. The at least one light is fixed to the fixed structure and is configured to illuminate a first external area that is in the vicinity of the vehicle. The image projector is fixed to the fixed structure and is configured to project an image onto a second external area that is in the vicinity of the first external area.
US11117500B2
Provided is a vehicle seat in which entry of foreign matter from an opening part formed in a cover member is suppressed when stored. The vehicle seat of the present invention includes a seat cushion 11 on which an occupant sits, a leg member 20 that supports the seat cushion 11 and includes a locking device 22 at a lower end, a cover member 30 that covers a front side of the leg member 20, wherein an opening part is formed at a position of the cover member that overlaps with the locking device 22, and an elastically deformable lip part 40 that is attached to the cover member 30 and that covers the opening part. Since the opening part is covered by the lip part, the entry of foreign matter is suppressed.
US11117493B1
A seat raising mechanism and corresponding method allow raising a seat of a vehicle. The seat raising mechanism is configured to be inserted between a seat frame and a floor of a vehicle, and has a shape configured to match a shape of the seat frame, with an upper and lower surface having a substantially flat upper portion and an angled portion angled downward from the upper portion. A pin receiving hole is included in the upper surface of the seat raising mechanism to receive a pin of the seat frame and a threaded bolt attaches the seat raising mechanism to the floor.
US11117490B2
In a vehicle power supply device, a switch unit switches mutual connection among first to fourth batteries. When supplying electric power from the first to fourth batteries to a motor, a switch controller controls the switch unit and forms a backup battery corresponding to at least one of the first to fourth batteries that does not supply electric power to the motor and a serial battery group for supplying electric power that has the remaining batteries, except for the backup battery, connected in series. The switch controller supplies electric power from the serial battery group for supplying electric power to the motor, and, when a predetermined condition is satisfied, sequentially switches between a battery included in the serial battery group for supplying electric power and the backup battery.
US11117481B2
This application is directed to an apparatus for providing electrical charge to a vehicle. The apparatus comprises a driven mass, a generator, a charger, a hardware controller, and a communication circuit. The driven mass rotates in response to a kinetic energy of the vehicle and is coupled to a shaft such that rotation of the driven mass causes the shaft to rotate. The driven mass exists in one of (1) an extended position and (2) a retracted position. The generator generates an electrical output based on a mechanical input coupled to the shaft such that rotation of the shaft causes the mechanical input to rotate. The charger is electrically coupled to the generator and: receives the electrical output, generates a charge output based on the electrical output, and conveys the charge output to the vehicle. The controller controls whether the driven mass is in the extended position or the retracted position in response to a signal received from the communication circuit.
US11117477B2
A device for charging an energy storage device includes a controller to initiate a charging operation for the energy storage device and control, during a first stage of the charging operation, a thermal control system to direct a first volume of the thermal mass along a first flow path to heat the energy storage device to a first desired temperature. The controller controls, during a second stage of the charging operation, the thermal control system to direct a second volume of the thermal mass along a second flow path to cool the energy storage device from the first desired temperature towards a second desired temperature.
US11117476B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of power electronics and provides a power generating system and method for a vehicle. The present disclosure provides an alternative system for charging an energy storage device that is used to drive a vehicle and also to reduce dependency of the vehicle on the energy storage device.
US11117467B2
A method for operating a self-driving motor vehicle includes changing from a self-driving mode into a manual-driving mode, monitoring a footwell of the motor vehicle with a gesture recognition device, and checking whether at least one specified gesture is present.
US11117444B2
The present invention relates to a heat pump system for a vehicle which can enhance heating performance of a plug-in hybrid vehicle by heating engine coolant necessary for heating using a refrigerant cycle. The heat pump system for a vehicle includes: an evaporator disposed inside an air-conditioning case to exchange heat between air and refrigerant; a heater core disposed inside the air-conditioning case to exchange heat between air and coolant; a first coolant line connecting an engine with the heater core so that the coolant is circulated; a first refrigerant circulation loop which circulates a compressor for compressing and discharging the refrigerant, an air-cooled condenser for exchanging heat between the refrigerant and air, a first expansion means for expanding the refrigerant, and the evaporator in a cooling mode; and a second refrigerant circulation loop which circulates the compressor, a water-cooled heat exchanger for exchanging heat between the refrigerant and the coolant, a second expansion means for expanding the refrigerant, and the air-cooled condenser in a heating mode. The water-cooled heat exchanger is disposed in the first coolant line between the engine and the heater core to exchange heat between the refrigerant of high temperature and high pressure passing through the compressor and the coolant of the first coolant line.
US11117442B2
Disclosed herein is an air conditioning system for a vehicle, in which an air conditioning unit having noise inducing unit is arranged at an engine room based on a dash panel and a distribution duct for distributing air to the interior of the vehicle is arranged in the interior of the vehicle based on the dash panel, thereby reducing noise and vibration in the interior of the vehicle, securing visibility and enabling a worker to easily access the air conditioning system for follow-up service because the air conditioning unit causing noise is arranged inside the engine room, and enhancing passengers' convenience by maximizing the interior space of the vehicle in comparison with the conventional air conditioning systems because only the distribution duct is arranged in the interior of the vehicle.
US11117439B2
An electric vehicle includes a chassis, a rigid axle housing, and a suspension system control arm coupling the rigid axle housing to the chassis. The electric vehicle also includes first and second electric motors, each having a rotator and a stator. The stator of the first and second electric motors are rigidly fixed to the rigid axle housing. The electric vehicle also includes a coolant supply system coupled to a radiator and the rigid axle housing to supply coolant from the radiator to a coolant inlet of the rigid axle housing and to supply used coolant from a coolant outlet of the rigid axle housing to the radiator. A first mounting bracket is fixed to the chassis and the coolant supply system. A second mounting bracket is fixed to the rigid axle housing and the coolant supply system, and a third mounting bracket is fixed to the control arm and the coolant supply system.
US11117436B2
A vehicle suspension system includes suspension arms mounted to a vehicle body frame to be pivotable between a low rolling posture and a high rolling posture and an anti-roll bar unit. The anti-roll bar unit includes a main anti-roll bar and a sub anti-roll bar. The sub anti-roll bar extends at least partially parallel with the main anti-roll bar. In the low rolling posture of the suspension arms, the main anti-roll bar and the sub anti-roll bar are not in contact with each other. In the high rolling posture of the suspension bars, the main anti-roll bar and the sub anti-roll bar are in contact with each other to increase stiffness of the anti-roll bar unit.
US11117433B2
A vehicle suspension arrangement includes a mounting bracket, a trailing arm, an air spring assembly configured to bias a second end of the trailing arm from a vehicle frame member, an axle assembly couple to the trailing arm, and a trailing arm connection assembly that includes a connector having a first portion received within an aperture of the mounting bracket, and a second portion extending outwardly from the first portion and including an aperture, a bushing member received within a first end of the trailing arm, a pin member received within the bushing member and including a first aperture, and a first mechanical fastener received within the first aperture of the pin member and within the aperture of the second portion of the first connector, thereby pivotably securing the trailing arm to the mounting bracket.
US11117430B2
A system includes a first object having a coupler to couple the first object to a second object; a first switch disposed on a first portion of the first object; a second switch disposed on a second portion on an exterior of the first object, and electrically and commutatively connected to the first switch to form an electric circuit, the second switch being arranged at a predetermined distance from the coupler; the second object disposed away from the first object and within a distance in relation to the second switch, the second object include a mating portion to couple with the coupler to connect the first object with the second object; and a third object disposed between the first object and the second object, and arranged at a corresponding predetermined distance from the mating portion to contact and close the second switch when the coupler and the mating portion are aligned for coupling the first object and the second object, and when the first object and the second object are moved together.
US11117417B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for producing a decorative panel. The method comprises the following method steps in order to generate an especially realistic perceptive impression of a structuring, even with a lacquer-containing top layer: a) providing a carrier, b) applying a decoration onto at least a partial region of the carrier, c) applying a lacquer-containing top layer onto the decoration, wherein the method is characterized in that d) the lacquer-containing top layer is partially hardened, wherein d1) a partial hardening of the top layer is realized while forming a hardening gradient and wherein the hardening gradient is established in the direction of the thickness of the top layer such that a surface region of the top layer is hardened comparably stronger than a deeper-lying region of the top layer, and wherein e) subsequent to the only partial hardening of the top layer the latter it is provided with a structuring, wherein f) method step e) is realized at least partially by a negative structuring, and g) the lacquer-containing top layer is final hardened after method step e). The invention further relates to a decorative panel.
US11117416B2
The invention relates to a flat bed embossing machine (1) comprising a tool plate (20) with a tool side (36) for receiving at least one embossing tool and with a tool plate rear side (35) which lies opposite the tool side (36), further a base plate (10) with a tool plate side (12) which faces the tool plate rear side (35) and with a base plate rear side (11) which is lies opposite the tool plate side (12), for transmitting an embossing force which is exerted upon the tool plate (20), between the tool plate side (12) and the base plate rear side (11), as well as an induction heating appliance (3) for heating the at least one embossing tool (23). The induction heating appliance (3) comprises an inductor (16), the design of which and its arrangement between the tool plate side (12) and the base plate rear side (11) being such that a magnetic alternating field (19) which on the tool plate side (12) reaches beyond the base plate (19) and is for the inductive heating of an inductively heatable tool plate (20) can be produced beyond of the tool plate side (12) and outside the base plate (10).
US11117412B2
Lithographic printing plate precursors are prepared with a unique aluminum-containing substrate and one or more radiation-sensitive imageable layers. The aluminum-containing substrate is prepared by three separate and sequential anodizing processes to provide an inner aluminum oxide layer having an average dry thickness (Ti) of 500-1,500 nm and a multiplicity of inner pores having an average inner pore diameter (Di) larger than 0 and <15 nm. A formed middle aluminum oxide layer has a dry thickness (Tm) of 60-300 nm and a multiplicity of middle pores of average middle pore diameter (Dm) of 15-60 nm, arranged over the inner aluminum oxide layer. A formed outer aluminum oxide layer comprises a multiplicity of outer pores having an average outer pore diameter (Do) of 5-35 nm and an average dry thickness (To) of 30-150 nm, arranged over the middle aluminum oxide layer. Dm is larger than Do that is larger than Di.
US11117410B2
A paper for inkjet printing may have one side that is provided with an inkjet receiver coating. The inkjet receiver coating may comprise at least pigment and binder. A portion of free or unbound pigment may be less than 10 weight percent of the total amount of pigment in the inkjet receiver coating and/or the inkjet receiver coating may have a surface that is substantially free of pigment.
US11117408B2
The present application discloses a method and a system for multi-object universal intelligent printing, the method includes: collecting a real-time image of an object to be printed, and displaying the real-time image of the object to be printed to the user in real time; moving a print head to a designated position according to a mobile nozzle command input after the user browses the real-time image; obtaining a print pattern input by the user; printing the print pattern onto the object to be printed through the print head. The system includes: a collection module, configured for collecting a real-time image of an object to be printed; a display module, configured for displaying the real-time image of the object to be printed to the user in real time; a nozzle moving module, configured for moving a print head to a designated position according to a mobile nozzle command input after the user browses the real-time image; an obtaining module, configured for obtaining a print pattern input by the user; a spraying module, configured for printing the print pattern onto the object to be printed through a print head.
US11117376B2
A printhead assembly may include a first set of distinct parallel printhead dies in a second set of distinct parallel printhead dies. The first set of distinct parallel printhead dies may have respective major dimensions extending in a longitudinal direction and respective ends that are aligned in a transverse direction. The second set of distinct parallel printhead dies may have respective major dimensions extending in the longitudinal direction and respective ends aligned in the transverse direction. The second set of distinct parallel printhead dies may partially overlap the first set of distinct parallel printhead dies in the transverse direction.
US11117366B1
A retrofit kit that upgrades an existing inkjet printing mechanism by replacing it with a more efficient and advanced light imaging mechanism. The kit includes a control module, a printhead module, and a retrofit printhead. The control module is operable to communicate with the existing command processor in order to receive a digital image. The retrofit printhead includes a means for emitting light onto an emulsion coated screen and is adapted to attach to and be integrated into an existing XY plotting system within the existing printer. The control module interfaces with the existing command processor to control the XY plotting system and the position of the retrofit printhead. The control module also interfaces with the printhead module to communicate and synchronize the amount of light to be emitted at each position; the printhead module thereafter controls the retrofit printhead to emit the determined amount of light at each position.
US11117340B2
A device supports first and second flaps on a box traveling on a conveyor, the conveyor traveling at a speed in a direction. The device includes a cam track having a selected profile. The device includes a drive mechanism, wherein at least a portion of the drive mechanism travels proximate the cam track in the direction at substantially the speed of the conveyor. First and second mounting blocks are pivotally attached to the drive mechanism, including first and second cam followers for engaging the cam track; first and second fingers; and first and second hooks attached to the first and second fingers and configured to engage and hold the first and second flaps on the box. Relative positions of the first and second fingers with respect to the box change as the drive mechanism travels along the cam track.
US11117336B2
A method is provided for managing the temperature of heat sensitive material located near a repair patch being thermally cured on a composite skin using a heating blanket. The method comprises configuring an assembly of thermally conductive cooling blocks to fit within a space between the heating blanket and the heat sensitive material. The assembly of thermally conductive cooling blocks is then installed against the skin within the space, forming a heat sink that conducts a portion of heat out of the composite skin away from the heat sensitive material.
US11117333B2
There is disclosed a composite material lay-up head (20) for applying elongate fibre reinforcement material (14) to a tool (12), the head (20) comprising: at least one elongate tow guide channel (32) for guiding fibre reinforcement material (14) from a tow inlet (33) to a tow outlet (35) of the channel (32); and feed apparatus (36, 38) for feeding fibre reinforcement material through the at least one channel (32); wherein the or each channel (32) is provided with at least one nozzle (60) arranged so that in use a jet of gas can be delivered into the channel (32) so as to inhibit contact between fibre reinforcement material (14) in the channel (32) and the channel (32).
US11117332B2
Composite structure fabrication systems and methods. The systems include a plurality of ply carriers, each of which is configured to support at least one ply segment, and an elongate forming mandrel, which defines an elongate ply forming surface that is shaped to define a surface contour of the composite structure. The systems further include a carrier transfer device, which is configured to selectively convey a selected ply carrier from a ply kitting area to an intermediate location, and a forming machine, which is configured to deform the selected ply carrier and a respective ply segment over a selected portion of the elongate ply forming surface. The forming machine further is configured to separate the selected ply carrier from the respective ply segment and return the selected ply carrier to the carrier transfer device. The methods include methods of operating the systems.
US11117321B2
A method of additive manufacturing of an object may include directing laser energy from a laser to a region for material deposition, extruding material using an extruder at the region of material deposition, sensing temperature within the region of the material deposition, and electronically controlling the laser energy using the temperature so as to sufficiently heat the region for material deposition prior to extruding the material to increase strength of the object. The method may include hardening or freezing extruded material through cooling in real-time.
US11117319B2
A printing machine for fabricating high performance 3D integrated composite structures, where the machine includes a robot having a base portion, a robot arm and an end joint secured to the arm opposite to the base portion, a plurality of sources of extrudable material, and an end-effector mounted to the end joint. The end-effector includes a multiple-extruder module having a first extruder and a second extruder each including a separate nozzle assembly, wherein the first extruder receives one extrudable material and the second extruder receives another extrudable material.
US11117318B2
In an example of a method for 3D printing, a polymeric or polymeric composite build material is applied. Some of the build material is negatively patterned to define a removable build material portion and a remaining build material portion. The negatively patterning includes selectively applying an anti-coalescing polymer solution including a polymer having a pendant reactive functional group, and selectively applying an anti-coalescing crosslinker solution including a multifunctional crosslinker. The pendant reactive functional group and the multifunctional crosslinker react to form an insoluble gel network among the polymeric or polymeric composite build material in the removable build material portion. Based on a 3D object model, a layer of a final 3D object is formed from at least some of the remaining build material portion. The some of the polymeric or polymeric composite build material in the removable build material portion remains physically separated from the layer.
US11117310B2
An additive manufacturing (AM) system includes a carriage that deposits material in a defined pattern and a building platform that receives material deposited from the carriage. The carriage includes a pre-heating assembly with a plurality of pre-heating chambers and a printing block with a plurality of slots for receiving a plurality of printing heads. The carriage is equipped with more pre-heating chambers than head slots.
US11117300B2
A mold clamping device includes a base, a stationary platen fixed to the base and supporting a stationary mold, a movable platen movable on the base and supporting a movable mold, and a mold clamping mechanism for clamping the movable mold against the stationary mold. Tie bars extend from the stationary platen completely through both the movable platen and the mold clamping mechanism. A shaft supporting plate is fixed to the ends of the tie bars and terminates at its lower end portion in two spaced-apart shoes that have flat bottom surfaces in direct sliding contact with the base. The flat bottom surface of each shoe has a larger area than the cross-sectional area of the shaft supporting plate situated vertically above the shoe.
US11117296B2
The invention presents molding tools, in which a position of a molding tool within a base tool or a position of molding cores relative to each other can be set by adjusting a position of base tools by means of controllable adjustment elements.
US11117293B2
Disclosed herein are single-use integral indicators and methods and systems for employing the same. Such indicators and their uses are directed toward identifying and rendering inoperable single-procedure medical devices after their intended—and only—use.
US11117290B2
An arrangement for melting at least one solid precursor product for polymer production includes a housing for receiving the solid precursor product by way of an opening, and a melting device arranged in the housing. The melting device is disposed so that the solid precursor product can be fed thereto to be melted. A preferably switchable discharge device is connected to an opening of the housing and can be connected to an injection unit.
US11117289B2
The present disclosure provides methods for stabilizing a colloidal dispersion during transport for low defect tolerance applications. The methods involve eliminating fluid interfaces within a dispersion, storing the dispersion in an environment of inert gas, and degassing the dispersion. Several bottle closure devices are described which may be ideal for use with these methods, being able to seal a container filled with a dispersion, permit the removal of headspace and rapidly empty the contained dispersion. In one aspect, the device includes a vented cap and semi-permeable membrane, which allows the passage of gas into and out of the container, and a dispenser nozzle integrated with the device to allow a stored dispersion to be dispensed without removing the device from the container. In another aspect, the bottle closure device includes an attachment point for a removable downtube and dispenser nozzle.
US11117286B2
The current invention provides apparatus and a method for use with a drill bit to form a hole in a workpiece, said apparatus including a clamping means to clamp a workpiece in which the hole is to be formed in position with the apparatus, a drill bit holder assembly and drive means for rotating the drill bit and moving the same into the workpiece so as to drill the hole at a required angle and depth into the workpiece. Typically the depth of the hole is set in relation to the thickness of the workpiece which is clamped in position at that time and the apparatus includes a first part which is held by a first hand of the user and movable by the user with respect to a second part which is held by a second hand of the user and the relative movement is translated into movement of the drill bit holder to move the rotating drill bit into the workpiece.
US11117275B2
A low-friction hub assembly for pivotally connecting a pair of scissors or lever-like members employs a pair of cooperative hub members. A first hub member has an exterior threaded surface which threadably engages with an interior threaded surface of the second hub member. Each of the hub members has annular shoulders which engage against opposed annular surfaces of surrounding aligned pivot openings of the scissors. A locking member comprising a pair of opposed pawls engages a serrated surface to lock the subassembly. A throughbore extends through the pivot assembly.
US11117274B2
The invention relates to a novel knife with fire igniting capabilities as part of the knife itself. More specifically, the present invention provides for both a knife, and fire starting capability in one piece, which are both crucial to outdoor survival and useful in general camping and hiking activities. The handle can be hollow to contain a small survival kit, and the grips can be wrapped in paracord for other multiple outdoor survival uses.
US11117271B2
A robotic system is disclosed that includes an articulated arm with an end effector. The robotic system is for use in a robotic environment requiring interaction with persons in the robotic environment, and includes a plurality of lights that are illuminated responsive to known near-future movements of the articulated arm to convey the known near-future movements of the articulated arm to the persons in the robot environment.
US11117266B2
A control device comprising a processor that is configured to execute computer-executable instructions so as to control a robot, wherein the processor is configured to: control a robot with force control on the basis of a force detected by a force detecting device, determine pass/fail of a result of fitting work in which the robot holds an object and fits the object in an object to be fit, control the robot with the force control in the fitting work, and determine the pass/fail on the basis of whether a portion where the force detected by the force detecting device decreases by a first value or more is present in the fitting work.
US11117255B2
A modular autonomous cart assembly for transporting an item being shipped is described with a sensor-equipped mobility base that carries the item(s), a modular cart handle, a sensor-equipped modular mobile cart autonomy control module detachably attached to the modular handle, all sharing a modular common power and data transport bus. The autonomous controller of the modular control module is programmatically adapted operative to establish a secure connection to a wireless mobile courier node, locate the courier node and the cart assembly, receive sensor data from the base and control module sensors, generate steering and propulsion control commands using the locations and sensor data and send them to a controller on the mobility base so that the assembly can autonomously track and follow the current location of the courier node as the courier node moves and while maintaining a predetermined follow distance from the current location of the courier node.
US11117248B2
A pushbutton plier device and a method for converting a plier tool is provided. The pushbutton plier device includes a locking assembly. The locking assembly has a pushbutton and a housing. The pushbutton has a pushbutton body. The pushbutton body has at least one blocking member recess. The housing has a housing body. The housing body is configured to selectively contain a blocking member. The pushbutton plier device has a first plier handle and a second plier handle. The first plier handle has at least one first plier handle aperture. The second plier handle has at least one second plier handle aperture. When the first plier handle, the second plier handle, and the locking assembly are selectively joined together in a predetermined position, the locking assembly, located within the first plier handle aperture and the second plier aperture, secures the first plier handle to the second plier handle.
US11117243B1
A multi-tool for disrupter breech maintenance includes an elongate body having a first axial end and a second axial end. The elongate body encases a storage volume commencing at and accessible from the second axial end. An open-ended rectangular notch in a radial wall of the elongate body has a planar base. A hole extends radially through the elongate body with the hole originating in the notch's planar base and having a longitudinal axis perpendicular to the planar base. A rectangular well in the radial wall of the elongate body is provided adjacent to the rectangular notch. A first hexagonal socket is coupled to the first axial end of the elongate body. A second hexagonal socket is provided for attachment to the second axial end of the elongate body.
US11117236B2
Disclosed is a rotary indexing table (10) having an output flange (12) which is suitable for receiving a workpiece, mounted on a housing (14) of said rotary indexing table (10) for rotation about an axis of rotation (A) and drivingly connected to at least one drive element (24) which engages a driving groove (22) in a cylindrical cam (20) which can be driven by a motor, the cylindrical cam (20) being disposed asymmetrically to the axis of rotation (A) of the output flange (12).
US11117232B2
The invention relates to a downdraft table (1) having a workpiece holder (2) for a workpiece to be held, wherein the workpiece holder (2) is configured in a stationary manner, wherein a suction-extraction device (3) is arranged beneath and/or next to the workpiece holder (2), said suction-extraction device (3) being used to discharge particles and/or gases downward in a waste air flow, wherein the suction-extraction device (3) is arranged around the workpiece holder (2) with respect to the latter and is configured to be rotatable about the workpiece holder (2).
US11117227B2
Clip installation tooling and method for installing clips including a magazine for holding a plurality of clips and clip end of arm tooling for picking up at least one clip at a time. The magazine stops at predetermined intervals for spacing each respective clip into openings on the magazine. The clip end of arm tooling has at least one body connected to a plurality of cylinders each with an inlet/outlet port receiving vacuum/air blow off. The clip end of arm tooling picks up one or more clips from the magazine at a time. The vacuum generation to the port(s) assists in holding the clip(s) and eliminates dropping clip(s) prior to placement for installation of the clip(s). After the clip(s) is/are placed, air blow off through the port(s) insures clip(s) are removed from the clip end of arm tooling and stay in the desired position(s).
US11117225B2
A fixing jig for fixing a steel material includes a nut, a screw shaft screwed to the nut, a handle attached to the screw shaft, and a contact portion relatively rotatably attached to the handle. A plurality of screw holes are formed in an outer peripheral portion of the contact portion. The first extension member includes a long cylindrical portion, an extension side contact portion provided at a tip end portion of the cylindrical portion, and a connecting portion provided at a base end portion of the cylindrical portion and connected to the contact portion. The connecting portion includes a plurality of through holes formed in an outer peripheral portion of the connecting portion, and long engagement holes each extending from each of the plurality of through holes.
US11117220B2
It is disclosed a laser marking apparatus provided with a protection shield, comprising a support frame (T) of a working deck (2) and wherein, around said working deck, a protection shield is arranged which fully encircles the working area of said laser marking head (4) and provided with at least partly perimetrally upright arranged panels with respect to said working deck, wherein said panels (P1-P8) are mounted movable from a lower position, wherein said shield encircles said support frame (T) up to a height completely below or flush with the upper surface of said working deck (2), to an upper extended position wherein said shield encircles the area above said working deck (2) up to a working height of said laser marking head (4).
US11117219B2
There is provided an AM apparatus for an AM process. The AM apparatus has an AM assembly with a build chamber to support part(s) built with a powder, in a build operation. Unused powder accumulates in the build chamber during the build operation. The AM apparatus has a vacuum assembly with duct line(s) in flow communication with the build chamber, and a powder receptacle in flow communication with the duct line(s). The powder receptacle has coupling member(s) allowing the powder receptacle to be reversibly attached to the duct line(s). The vacuum assembly includes a vacuum apparatus coupled to, and in flow communication with, the powder receptacle, via vacuum duct line(s). The vacuum assembly pulls the unused powder from the build chamber to the powder receptacle, and provides an automated removal of the unused powder from the build chamber into the powder receptacle, to avoid manual removal of the unused powder.
US11117216B2
The laser irradiation step includes: removing zinc plating layers respectively disposed on the surfaces of the galvanized steel sheets by the laser irradiation; and melting the surfaces of the galvanized steel sheets of which the zinc plating layers have been removed, and the roller pressurizing step includes pressurizing the galvanized steel sheets by the rollers while the surfaces of the galvanized steel sheets that have been melted are in contact with each other such that the galvanized steel sheets are joined together.
US11117215B2
A method for hard-surfacing metal parts for an aircraft turbofan, the method involving the use of a nozzle outputting a laser beam or an electron beam, which is to heat a sprayed powder for hard-surfacing the metal part, the method including positioning the metal part to be hard-surfaced in an enclosure, the top portion of which has an opening; positioning a mobile cover covering the opening of the top portion, the mobile cover having an opening; positioning the nozzle at the opening of the mobile cover; feeding an inert gas into the enclosure; spraying metal powders and emitting the laser or electron beam for hard-surfacing the metal part; moving the nozzle relative to the enclosure along a path for hard-surfacing the metal part, the movement of the nozzle causing the movement of the mobile cover on the top surface of the enclosure.
US11117214B2
A laser irradiation device includes: a beam generation unit generating a laser beam; a scan mirror unit adjusting a direction of the laser beam transmitted from the beam generation unit; and a rotating mirror reflecting the laser beam of which the direction is adjusted by the scan mirror unit. The rotating mirror is provided to be rotatable so that the direction-adjusted laser beam is irradiated to an object to be processed while forming a linear laser beam on the object.
US11117213B2
An additive manufacturing system for depositing an extrudate onto a substrate comprises a deposition head. The deposition head comprises a stirring tool, rotatable about an axis of rotation AR and comprising a tool distal end and a tool proximal end, axially opposing the tool distal end along the axis of rotation AR. The stirring tool defines a bore, extending from the tool proximal end to the tool distal end. The bore is configured to receive feedstock, biased toward the tool distal end. The deposition head also comprises a die, which is positioned adjacent to the stirring tool, defines a die axis AD1, and comprises a die distal end and a die proximal end, axially opposing the die distal end along the die axis AD1. The die axis AD1 is parallel with the axis of rotation AR of the stirring tool.
US11117208B2
In one aspect, composite preforms are provided for imparting wear resistance to superalloy articles. The composite preforms can be employed for metallurgically bonding alloy wear plates or pads to superalloy articles. A composite preform, in some embodiments, comprises a powder alloy composition comprising 1-30 wt. % nickel, 0.05-2 wt. % iron, 15-25 wt. % chromium, 10-30 wt. % molybdenum, 0-1 wt. % carbon, 1-5 wt. % silicon, 0.05-2 wt. % boron, 0-5 wt. % tungsten, 0-3 wt. % tantalum, 0-0.1 wt % manganese, 0-3 wt. % aluminum, 0-0.1 wt % yttrium and the balance cobalt.
US11117207B2
A wire electrical discharge machine includes a guide pipe arranged in a path along which a wire electrode is fed from a feed roller to a workpiece, and formed with an insertion hole through which the wire electrode is inserted, a compressed air supply device configured to supply compressed air to the insertion hole so that compressed air flows through the insertion hole along a feed direction of the wire electrode, a database configured to store data indicative of a relationship between rigidity information of the wire electrode and pressure information of compressed air, and a controller configured to set pressure of the compressed air supplied to the insertion hole, based on the rigidity information of the wire electrode fed to the workpiece and the data.
US11117205B2
A portable sharpener for chains of chainsaws comprising sharpening means (2) and a coupling device (3). The sharpening means (2) are configured to sharpen the teeth (102) of a chain (101) of a chainsaw. The coupling device (3) supports the sharpening means (2) and is configured to be reversibly constrained to the chainsaw. Furthermore, the coupling device (3) comprises a support structure (4) which has a first plate (4a) adapted to be arranged parallel to a main extension plane of a chain guide bar (100) of the chainsaw and a second plate (4b) configured to abut against the bar (100), in such a way as to be at least partly interposed between the bar and the chain (101). The first and the second plate (4b) are arranged substantially in an L-configuration. The coupling structure further comprises one or more attachment members (5) applied to the first plate (4a) and configured to constrain the support structure (4) to the bar (100) of the chainsaw.
US11117204B2
A power tool (100), such as a chainsaw, comprising means (230) for driving said power tool (100) and a controller (210). The power tool comprises a movement sensor (220) and the controller (210) is configured to receive a signal from said movement sensor (220), determine if said signal is a signal indicating a movement, determine a time wherein no signal indicating a movement is received, determine if said time exceeds a time period, and if so, disable said driving means (230).
US11117200B2
Drills and methods of removing material using drills are disclosed. Drills may include a plurality of lands that extend to a cutting edge, where adjacent lands are separated by flutes comprising a base contour arranged in a generally helical configuration along a centerline axis of a drill body. The drill also includes a plurality of contoured drill points each having a linear portion that extends towards an outer diameter of the drill body, and an arcuate portion that extends from the linear portion and towards a chisel of the drill body. The drill further includes a plurality of gash contours positioned within the plurality of flutes. The gash contours extend from the chisel of the drill body, and the gash contours are oblique to the base contours of the flutes.
US11117197B2
Instrument couplings and related methods are disclosed herein, e.g., for coupling a surgical instrument to a navigation array or other component. The coupling can reduce or eliminate movement between the instrument and the navigation array, improving navigation precision. The coupling can be quick and easy to use, reducing or eliminating the need for extra steps or additional tools to attach or detach the instrument from the coupling. In some embodiments, the single step of inserting an instrument into the coupling can automatically lock the instrument within the coupling in a toggle-free manner.
US11117194B2
An additive manufacturing system includes a platform to support an object to be fabricated, a dispenser to deliver a plurality of layers of a feed material over the platform, a controller configured to store digital data representing a pre-defined pattern, a laser configured to generate a laser beam to impinge an outermost layer of the feed material and coupled to the controller to fuse the feed material in the pre-defined pattern, and a plurality of independently controllable infrared lamps, each infrared lamp directed to a different section of an outermost layer of the feed material.
US11117181B2
A method of manufacturing a laminated iron core includes: inserting a plurality of electrical steel strips in a superposed state to feed rolls including a pair of upper and lower feed rolls that are driven by a drive device to feed the electrical steel strips in a superposed state into a die having a plurality of punching processes in sequence; joining a part or all of the superposed electrical steel strips together before entering the die or at an upstream stage portion of the die after feeding out the electrical steel strips from the pair of upper and lower feed rolls; and punching simultaneously the plurality of electrical steel strips in a superposed state in the die.
US11117177B2
A spinning forming method includes: preparing a plate including a back surface at which a ring-shaped projection is formed along an outer peripheral edge of the plate, a ratio of a thickness at a reference position of the plate to a thickness at a tip end of the projection being 0.7 or less, the reference position being a position where an inclination of a portion of the back surface which portion extends toward the tip end of the projection is 45° or more; rotating the plate; moving a processing tool outward in a radial direction from an inner side of the projection to a position above the projection while pressing the processing tool against a front surface of the plate that is rotating; and locally heating a portion of the plate against which portion the processing tool is pressed.
US11117175B2
A forming operation on a workpiece clamps the workpiece between a first clamping jaw with a first shaping edge, and an adjustable second clamping jaw with a second shaping edge so that a portion projects between the shaping edges and afterwards a bending edge of an adjustable bending bar is guided at a distance past the shaping edges, whereby the portion of the workpiece is angled away in relation to the part of the workpiece that is clamped between the clamping jaws. The bending edge is guided on angling along a straight path of movement of the bending edge, and after the bending edge has passed the shaping edges, the shaping edges are adjusted along an adjustment path which approaches the path of movement of the bending edge.
US11117174B2
The invention relates to a positionable robotic cell for placement at a bending machine. The robotic cell comprises a frame for receiving the robot and a receiving device for a workpiece as well as a positioning device for repositioning the robotic cell. Moreover, a first sensor device is provided for recognizing the position of the robotic cell relative to the manufacturing device. The invention furthermore relates to a production facility with a bending machine and with such a robotic cell as well as a method for operating such a robotic cell at a bending machine.
US11117173B2
An adjusting cylinder quick-action adjustment for a long, rapid stroke movement in an edging stand which includes an edger upright, adjustment system, balancing system and edging roll sets, comprises a piston which acts via edging roll chocks of at least one edging roll for adjustment against the rolling stock. The adjustment of the edging roll can be actuated on each side hydraulically by a fluid. The adjusting cylinder quick-action adjustment is mounted in the edger upright and exerts the force required for the edging process. The adjusting cylinder quick-action adjustment includes on each side of the edging upright at least one double cylinder which has two cylinders coupled to one another and is separately controllable and configured for rapid adjustment and for control adjustment of the edging roll.
